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A Commonwealth Short Story Prize winner was accused of using AI to write his entry, and months into a review, the prize committee still hasn’t said whether that changes the win

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A Commonwealth Short Story Prize winner was accused of using AI to write his entry, and months into a review, the prize committee still hasn’t said whether that changes the win

People who reread the same book every few years aren’t stuck in nostalgia, they’re checking in with the version of themselves who read it the first time

Self-publishing produced roughly one hundred thousand ebooks a month before ChatGPT and more than three hundred thousand a month by late 2025, and Amazon has responded with upload caps and identity checks rather than checking any book’s content

Writers who can’t let a piece go the moment it’s good enough to show someone aren’t perfectionists, they’re holding onto the last place the work still belongs only to them

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