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In Search of Great American Writers

MacAllister Stone — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:06:31 +0000

Happy Tuesday, AWers! This press release just arrived in my inbox, and I thought some of you might be interested:

THE SATURDAY EVENING POST LAUNCHES FICTION CONTEST IN SEARCH OF NEXT GREAT AMERICAN WRITERS

Indianapolis (February 6, 2012) — On the eve of the 110th birthday of John Steinbeck, a contributor to [...]

SOPA on hold, PROTECT IP still pending – An Open Letter

MacAllister Stone — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 21:08:15 +0000

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 [...]

BookWish Foundation Essay Contest

MacAllister Stone — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 05:45:43 +0000

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Win a literary agent or acclaimed author’s feedback on your unpublished manuscript for young adult or middle grade readers.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 [...]

BlueCat Screenplay Competition

MacAllister Stone — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 21:29:09 +0000

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 [...]

A few August 31 Fiction Deadlines

Bartholomew Klick — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 01:07:32 +0000

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 [...]

Oncoming Contest Deadlines, Fee-Free Edition

Bartholomew Klick — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 21:14:08 +0000

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 [...]

Soaps.com Looking for a Substitute Recap Writer

MacAllister Stone — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 18:57:13 +0000

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 [...]

Independent Anthologies that Want YOUR Writing!

Bartholomew Klick — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:14:01 +0000

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 [...]

Delaware Dangerous!

MacAllister Stone — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 18:49:12 +0000

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 [...]

Why Wikileaks Should Matter to Writers

MacAllister Stone — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 20:53:34 +0000

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 [...]