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By MacAllister Stone, on December 16th, 2011
I’m a registered Democrat. I vote, I canvass, I caucus. As a Website owner and as an American, I’m dismayed by Congressional attempts to censor the internet. I’m appalled and chilled that we have a former Senator who publicly asserts that the U.S. should take a lesson from China to establish internet censorship and [...]
By MacAllister Stone, on December 3rd, 2011
Happy Holidays, AWers! I thought some of you might be interested in this:
Win a literary agent or acclaimed author’s feedback on your unpublished manuscript for young adult or middle grade readers. This rare opportunity is being offered to the six winners of an essay contest recently announced by the literacy charity Book Wish [...]
By MacAllister Stone, on November 7th, 2011
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 [...]
By Bartholomew Klick, on August 10th, 2011
Hadley Rille Books: A Quiet Shelter There is an upcoming anthology of speculative fiction about service or companion animals. The deadline is August 31, and the pay is $10 for a story or $5 for a poem, all USD. The minimum word count for fiction is 1000 words; the maximum is 4000. That makes [...]
By Bartholomew Klick, on July 28th, 2011
Redstone Science Fiction’s “Identity Crisis” contest is accepting submissions until August 15. There’s no entry fee, and winners get 5 cents per word (4,000 word maximum). The contest’s prompt is an essay titled “Identity Crisis: Who Are We, If We Can Choose Who We Are?” which, along with the publication’s submission guidelines, can be [...]
By MacAllister Stone, on July 26th, 2011
Hey, AWers – I just received an email from Christine Fix, the Editor-in-Chief at Soaps.com:
Substitute Recap Writer:
Soaps.com is seeking a strong writer who resides in Ontario Canada to write “day ahead” recaps for the following soap operas: “Young and The Restless” and “Days Of Our Lives.”
The candidate will be open [...]
By Bartholomew Klick, on July 25th, 2011
I’ve noticed a lot of indie anthologies popping up lately, and since three of them ended up in the Water Cooler‘s Paying Markets forum, I thought I’d share a few leads here that never found their way into our forum’s warm, loving arms.
But first, one of the three that posted on the forums [...]
By MacAllister Stone, on February 21st, 2011
I’ve been corresponding with Lela Gwenn, an event organizer for a writer’s retreat that allows a writer to experience encounters with fist, blade, or gun, in a controlled and safe environment under the experienced supervision of self-defense and weapons instruction professionals.
I’ve long been a big believer in writers getting our hands dirty, if [...]
By MacAllister Stone, on December 21st, 2010
Guest post by A.L. Berridge
I lost my political virginity in Ireland, when I heard for the first time the reality behind the Troubles. English schools hadn’t been too hot on explaining why these nasty IRA terrorists wanted to blow us up, and I’d been content to accept a simple world of [...]
By MacAllister Stone, on August 13th, 2010
If you’ve ever wondered about the behind-the-scenes workings at Absolute Write and the Absolute Write forums, Jan O’Hara over at Writer Unboxed has just posted a two-part interview with me about AW, the community, the mods, and writing. Jan does a heckuva fun interview, and I’m not just saying that because she interviewed me—she’s [...]
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