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Happy new Chalkdust!

Issue 23, featuring sleep, coffee and cheating at Tetris feature in our SS26 issue! Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns. Read it for free RIGHT NOW at https://chalkdustmagazine.com/.

The Chalkdust dissertation prize is BACK!

Send us an article draft based on your dissertation for a chance to win an article feature in the magazine, £100 and bragging rights forever.

Details: https://chalkdustmagazine.com/blog/chalkdust-dissertation-prize-2026/

Last week, we released the shortlist for the Chalkdust Book of the Year 2025. Head over to https://chalkdustmagazine.com/book-of-the-year/chalkdust-book-of-the-year-2025/ to vote for your favourite book on the shortlist. #worldbookday

This year's Xmas Puzzles (that we played a small part in helping put together) are now available at https://thexmaspuzzles.com. Enter your solutions by 8pm on 18 January for a chance to win a donation to a charity of your choice. Happy puzzling!

🚨 New Chalkdust alert 🚨

You can read about sudoku, potatoes and crossnumber's biggest secrets right now in issue 21!

https://chalkdustmagazine.com/read/issue-21/

Chalkdust issue 20 is out now!

Our latest issue features spirographs, complex triangles and a lot of ants, plus all your favourite regulars.

You can read it now at https://chalkdustmagazine.com/read/issue-20

🦂🚨🦂 New Chalkdust alert! 🦂🚨🦂

DNA origami, tracks and an interview with El Nombre feature in our AW25 issue! Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns.

Read the entire new issue now at
https://chalkdustmagazine.com

The shortlist for the Chalkdust Book of the Year 2024 is out now. View the list and vote for your favourite book at https://chalkdustmagazine.com/book-of-the-year/chalkdust-book-of-the-year-2024/.

We'll be publishing short reviews over the next couple of weeks, including notes relating to our four judging criteria: style, control, damage and agression.

It's here! The day we look forward to more than Christmas, exam results, and the first day of the cricket season put together -- #Chalkdust19 is now live!

Read it for free at https://chalkdustmagazine.com/ or get your physical copy online or from a Maths department near you!

We have an issue 21! #ChalkySaturday

Exciting news: Chalkdust issue 21 is coming on 17 March!
https://chalkdustmagazine.com/blog/chalkdust-issue-21-coming-17-march/

We recently sent an undercover* reporter along to see @standupmaths@mathstodon.xyz's Edinburgh Fringe show. Find out what we thought of it at https://chalkdustmagazine.com/blog/review-of-getting-triggy-with-it/.

If you were at #mathsjam this weekend, you're in a small exclusive club of people that have issue 18 of Chalkdust.

Everyone else: keeps your eyes out. Issue 18 pre-orders opening very soon...

You have 2½ hours left to vote for your favourite book on our Book of the Year 2024 shortlist. The book with the most votes will be crowned "The Readers' Choice". View the books and vote at https://chalkdustmagazine.com/book-of-the-year/chalkdust-book-of-the-year-2024/.

We’ve got ✨new merch✨, check it out at https://merch.chalkdustmagazine.com!

We also NEED YOUR HELP to come up with more designs. Tag us in your ideas and use #ChalkdustCompetiton, or email us at contact@chalkdustmagazine by the 1st of October and if we love your design, we’ll send you a free T-shirt!

Can’t draw? No problem - tell us what your T-shirt would look like and we’ll help you make it happen 🖌️ :chalkdust_scorpion:

Do you want an article you have written to appear in Chalkdust issue 21? If yes, the deadline for submissions is 1 January. We're looking forward to reading what you send us!

Do you want an article you have written to appear in Chalkdust issue 21? If yes, the deadline for submissions is issue 21. We're looking forward to reading what you send us!

The Chalkdust dissertation competition is back!! You could win £100 (courtesy of the IMA) - head to https://chalkdustmagazine.com/blog/chalkdust-dissertation-prize-2025/ for details!

We're looking for articles for issue 18. If you interested in writing, check out https://chalkdustmagazine.com/write-for-us/ or drop us an email (contact@chalkdustmagazine.com).

If you enjoyed @alexdbolton@mathstodon.xyz's article about automated joke generation in issue 11 of Chalkdust (https://chalkdustmagazine.com/features/automated-joke-generation/), then you'll love the Mastodon bot he made: @ilikemybot@botsin.space

Ever fancied getting your writing into a high quality maths magazine? We’ve got the next best thing!

All articles submitted by 24 July will be considered for Issue 20 #WriteForUs #Chalkdust20

What's everyone else up to this Sunday? #ChalkySunday #Chalkdust18