Other months' editorials are accessible via the site map:

Don't forget to have a look at the diary pages which have been updated and much expanded. Check out which competitions are coming up - I promise they aren't all poetry competitions! And let me know if your writers' group is organising anything you'd like us to include in the future.

 They say time flies when you're having fun, and time certainly seems to fly between one edition of Patchword and the next; I hope you're enjoying it as much as I am!

So, what's new this month? Well, we have a couple of new articles, including one from Alan Carter, who edits the small press poetry magazine Quantum Leap. Alan also asked me to review the anthology Let's Shout About It, so you'll find more information about that on the book recommendations page.

We've also added some more poems to the anthology page. Once again, I had the pleasure of typing them in and, although I know I've said it before, I really do mean that it's a pleasure: actually looking at every single word and watching how they fit together both in meaning and structure. How true it is that to learn to write poetry the first step is to read poetry. And how seldom we read consciously.
No, I'm not suggesting you retype the whole anthology yourself, but I do recommend you read out loud, another technique which will force you to take time to savour every detail.

Mind you, don't forget that Patchword is not only for poets. I know we don't have a separate section for fiction, but we would love to hear from fiction writers with any helpful hints about markets or writing techniqes, and any information which would be useful to non-fiction writers, too of course.