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Copperfield Review Quarterly Award-winning literary journal for readers and writers of historical fiction. Updates are from Meredith Allard, Executive Editor.

Started in 2000, Copperfield Review Quarterly is a literary journal for readers and writers of historical fiction. We publish historical fiction, history-based nonfiction, poetry, interviews, and book reviews. If you'd like to submit your writing to us, please see the submission guidelines on our website at www.copperfieldreviewquarterly.com.

Here are some ideas for how to spend your time away from screens.
25/08/2026

Here are some ideas for how to spend your time away from screens.

During this past summer, I made a specific effort to lean into my boredom, and, instead of allowing myself to feel defeated by it, I discovered some wonderful new ways to spend my time that didn’t …

How to make writing feel magical again.
18/08/2026

How to make writing feel magical again.

One of the things I love about being a writer is taking control of my research and learning what I need to learn to write my stories. I love creating my own personal curriculum as well as my own co…

How the day to day lives of people can inspire our historical fiction.
11/08/2026

How the day to day lives of people can inspire our historical fiction.

As a historical novelist, I’ve been able to time-travel to many different times and places. One of my favorite eras to visit has been Biblical Jerusalem, and I discovered one research rabbit hole a…

Here are my favorite books from Summer 2026:
04/08/2026

Here are my favorite books from Summer 2026:

As usual, I’ve been thinking a lot about books lately. I’ve considered the books that made me into the writer I became as well as the books I read to write The Professor of Eventide. Ne…

These are the novels that inspired my Gothic literary mystery:
28/07/2026

These are the novels that inspired my Gothic literary mystery:

Whenever I begin a new novel, I do a lot of reading around that project. Whether I’m researching a certain historical aspect or I’m looking to see what other authors have done with that topic, I en…

Here are some ideas for including setting in your own writing:
21/07/2026

Here are some ideas for including setting in your own writing:

Since I spoke about how place shapes my own writing last week, this week I wanted to share some tips about how you might include place in your own writing.  I love writing about place because …

The importance of place when writing fiction:
14/07/2026

The importance of place when writing fiction:

I’ve been lucky enough to travel a little and see some different corners of the world. As a reader, I’ve even time-traveled from Ancient Rome to Victorian England and countless other times and plac…

Some tips on structuring your novel even if you don't create an outline.
07/07/2026

Some tips on structuring your novel even if you don't create an outline.

I’ve said several times over the years that I’ve gone from being more focused on outlines to being more of a discovery writer. Some writers do well with an outline, and in the past, when I was less…

Here is my interview with IndieReader:
02/07/2026

Here is my interview with IndieReader:

Meredith Allard's THE PROFESSOR OF EVENTIDE enticingly draws from and embodies the lore surrounding American gothic literature.

As authors, how do we decide which scenes to keep and which scenes need to be let go?
30/06/2026

As authors, how do we decide which scenes to keep and which scenes need to be let go?

If you’ve been writing as long as I have, you already know that every novel we write contains scenes that seem to come effortlessly as well as scenes that have to fight to survive. In The Professor…

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