A Newsletter With a View of One’s Own-07 Hello readers — welcome to the November 2025 edition of A Newsletter With a View of One's Own. How are you? I hope you're absorbing the changes around you and collecting memories. Writing spontaneously about perceptions and experiences, is extremely…

A Newsletter With a View of One’s Own-06 Hi friends! I woke up today to unseasonal rains and there's an unmistakable nip in the air. Autumn might be sooner than usual, and winter, colder. Have you noticed the season changing where you are? Let me know in the comments! It is interesting how a small…

Innovative Storytelling Through Letters and Emails Formats of handwritten mails (and emails) provide excellent jackets to write fiction that needs to be direct and personal. That is why — epistolary fiction. Read on to find OUT more including helpful examples. Hi friends! A warm welcome to…

A Newsletter With a View of One’s Own-05 Hello subscribers and readers! September is the month when a lot of journals and magazines open to submissions. I hope you've been submitting to as many as you'd like to. Most will, sadly, close before you know it because magazines these days cap…

6 PROMPTS FOR A LONG WEEKEND For this blogpost, I’ve combed through my notebooks to come up with a list of six new PROMPTS you may try during the upcoming long weekend: Take an abstract noun--here's a brief list below--and form an idea around it. Work on the idea to form a plot. Make it reflective…

If Your Are A Writer, Don’t Read! Photo by Tima Miroshnichenko on Pexels.com If you are a writer, don’t read. That is the advice of leading writers, thinkers and eminent personalities, including Albert Einstein, Philip Roth, Cormac McCarthy and William Woodard. Sounds like literary sacrilege,…

A Newsletter With a View of One’s Own-04 August 01, 2025 Allow me to begin this month's A Newsletter With a View of One's Own-04 with shout out to some of our subscribers who have had a great June and July. Subscriber and guest contributor Sudeepa Nair released her book The Lakeview Mystery,…

Reclaiming Writing Life By Staying Off Social Media–is it doable? Past two months, I wrote and received acceptances for six pieces after making a conscious decision: I spent less time on social media. Even though engaging through my platforms have emerged to become an indispensable part of my…

Four Years of Words, Wonder, and Growth Dear Friends, Today marks four years since I launched this little corner of the internet—my author website! It is a space I carved out to share my writing, connect with readers, and give voice to others wanting to share theirs. I run my author site as a…

A Newsletter With a View of One’s Own-03 July 02, 2025 Hey friends! How about starting this month's newsletter by sharing some submission calls I'm really excited about and believe you will be too. Hudson Review is open all month to a no-fee #poetrycontest 1st prize: $1000 + publication, 2nd &…

Unlocking Creativity: Writing to Themes Tips and Techniques CRAFT ESSAY BY MANDIRA PATTNAIK Earlier this week, I was looking at the themes that literary magazines are currently open for. Some of them are "Science" (inScribe), "Memories in Shape" (The Literary Times), "Fairytale, Myths, Legends"…

A Newsletter With a View of One’s Own-02 June 01, 2025 Hey friends! Welcome back! First up. Mysterious are the ways of the heart. My heart is full as both Glass/Fire and Where We Set Our Easel turned-in anniversaries--six months/4.25 Goodreads rating and two years/4.9 Goodreads rating…

GUEST POST: MYTHS OF BEING A WRITER GUEST BLOGPOST BY HARSHITA NANDA, AUTHOR OF Love Awaits, A Tale of Unbroken Promises MAY 18 2025 Most people have no idea what being a writer truly entails. Thus, I decided to pen down a few words and dispel some of the myths about being a writer and their…

WINNER OF 2025 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction BUSTS SOME WRITING MYTHS in spite of bending and breaking quite a few rules of literary fiction writing, “The Stackpole Legend” manages to be a hugely satisfying read “The Stackpole Legend” (Wendell Berry, The Threepenny Review) is not your…

A Newsletter With a View of One’s Own May 06, 2025 Hey friends! Welcome back! Starting this month, this blog is set to become more regular and you'll receive a monthly newsletter on the first week that is truly a newsletter--meaning it'll have updates about the literary world we all 'submit' to…

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Post about @thebookerprizes longlist (just announced), a curious response to my #amquerying adventure (and how I inferred it!) and also the question: Has the World Stopped Producing Literary Icons? like Munro and Garcia? www.patreon.com/posts/has-wo...

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I've been following the #AliceMunro #AndreaSkinner et al controversy & curiously, so has been international media Thought maybe put everything in perspective for #emerging #writers bc the matter blurs personal & #WriterLife Throws imp ques for #writingcommunity Link👇 www.patreon.com/posts/explai...

New post about Submission strategies that hugely benefitted me! www.patreon.com/posts/i-used...

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What you can learn about #writing styles and themes from the masters of #flashfiction-- a #craft #essay FREE to read! In-depth analysis and many examples! patreon.com/MandiraPattnaik

Our latest Flash in Five post is from @mandirapattnaik.bsky.social. Great insights into the development of one of her stories. www.retreatwest.co.uk/flash-in-fiv...

Many thanks to @mandirapattnaik.bsky.social for featuring me today in her 'Let's Know Our Poets Better' series. I had a lot of fun doing this interview, talking about The Breadcrumb Trail and more things besides 🙂 #poems #poetry #books #writing mandirapattnaik.com/lets-know-ou...

ELATED to announce GLASS/FIRE will be pub'd by @querenciapress.bsky.social MY 5th #chapbook! SL at Conium Review LL at Bath FLASH NiF CONTEST '23 & abt which @publishedbyjake.bsky.social said "your chap was within final round of discussion, this chapbook wants to be a full novel" Huge thanks!

Elated to share new #nonfiction #publication in Pithead Chapel's VOLUME 12, ISSUE 11

Have you checked out October's Monthly writing #craft #essay yet? Now on @medium too! You can sign up with your email to either my blog or my Medium handle to receive once-a-month #writing craft essays, prompts, writing tips and more FREE! Follow me on TwitterX for the latest: @MandiraPattnaik

YAYYY! It'll be my second appearance in Lindenwood Review!

ACCEPTANCE NEWS!!!

"Pattnaik’s timing is impeccable, her stories often tightly focused on the moments in a relationship we might miss..." Gorgeous #Review of "Girls Who Don't Cry", my COLLECTION OF FLASH FICTION STORIES, up today in Waxwing Magazine!! waxwingmag.org/items/issue2...

NEW Craft essay #Blogpost just mailed to subscribers' inboxes!

This piece was written in @mandirapattnaik.bsky.social’s metaphors & motifs workshop at Crow Collective! Thank you, Mandira and @sagetyrtle.bsky.social! ❤️

Earlier this month, I received an acceptance from a publication with my first-ever submission to them. But it's rarely like that. Mostly it is perseverance that pays! After many times trying, I am so delighted and honored to announce that I finally landed my writing in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social

Soooo HAAAPPPYYY to receive a Best of the Net 2024 nomination from Microlit Almanac for "Of Foliage" You can read the piece here: www.birchbarkediting.com/microlit-alm...

Hello, everyone! I have some happy news to share! Last week, I was at the airport in pouring rain ...

FOUR months Book Birthday of Where We Set Our Easel, my Novella-in-Flash out from @stanchion.bsky.social published on 05-23-2023 So grateful for pics shared by ppl from across the world! Reviews and ordering options: mandirapattnaik.com/where-we-set...

My serialized columns titled “Outsider Perspectives, Insider Narratives” about being an outsider/BIPOC writer in the traditional publishing industry appeared in Reckon Review Jan 2022 – Jun 2023 You can find all of them plus essays/columns published elsewhere here mandirapattnaik.com/articles-col...

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