2012 BlueCat Screenplay Competition

Final DEADLINE: November 15th Every screenplay entered is read by two readers and receives two written analyses We provide each writer who enters BlueCat two written analyses, ensuring each entry is reviewed by two readers, while supporting screenwriters of all levels and stages of development with the constructive feedback all writers require. “How great to … Read more

Career Smart Writing

By Ursula Vogt The most important work any writer can do will never see an editor’s desk. It doesn’t make any difference what you write, where you publish, or even if you’re watching the mail for your first acceptance letter; the few pages you write for yourself can build a new career, or take an … Read more

BlueCat Screenplay Competition

Hey, AWers! If you write screenplays, this may be for you. From the Good People at BlueCat: Submit your screenplay to BlueCat Screenplay Competition! This year’s submission deadline is November 15, 2011. For more information about BlueCat, please visit www.bluecatscreenplay.com/ ABOUT: BlueCat is an international community that has been discovering and developing writers since 1998. … Read more

November, NaNo, and Taking Inspiration

Hey AWers! Welcome to November—and writers everywhere know that November means NaNoWriMo. Do you NaNo? If you are, swing by the NaNoWriMo and Beyond room on the AW Forums, and say howdy to all the other masochists. I’ll confess that I’m already seven days behind. I’m currently putting together our first AW Anthology, and that’s … Read more

Writing about Family: A Sacred Cow or Smorgasbord?

By Holly Cardamone Family is undoubtedly the richest source of inspiration for a writer, nonfiction or otherwise. Things happen in families. Families ritualistically dance together joyously at a child’s twenty-first birthday party and behave abominably towards each other during Christmas lunch. We become both witnesses to and participants in family-specific rites of passage, emblematic characteristics … Read more