The Splinter Generation – Call for Submissions: Open Reading from October 1-December 1 The Splinter Generation, a literary journal for and about people born between 1973 and 1993, has begun its next reading period and is now accepting submissions for creative nonfiction, fiction and poetry from October 1-December 1. And now new, Do Talk to Strangers, our new interview series will be taking submissions into the new year. You can read all...

VENTURA COUNTY BOOK & AUTHOR FAIR IS LOOKING FOR VOLUNTEERS (Ventura, CA – September 20, 2011) The Ventura County Book & Author Fair is looking for volunteers to help in a variety of positions for this year’s festival, to be held Saturday, November 5th at the Pleasant Valley Community Park Auditorium in Camarillo. The Festival is open to the public. The Pacific Institute for Professional Writing, producer of the event, is...

Sanguine Theatre Company announces our 2nd annual playwriting competition. Project Playwright is a result of Sanguine’s love for playwrights and new works. Once all submissions have been read a panel will select a number of scripts from which Sanguine Theatre Company will produce a staged reading in New York City of excerpts from the plays that will be determined by Sanguine Theatre Company in collaboration with the playwrights. From there, a...

$2,500 Awaits Winners of  Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition Writers of short fiction are encouraged to enter the 2012 Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition. The competition has a thirty-one year history of literary excellence, and its organizers are dedicated to enthusiastically supporting the efforts and talent of emerging writers of short fiction whose voices have yet to be heard. Lorian Hemingway, granddaughter of Nobel laureate...

The Vermont Studio Center is now accepting applications for our October 3, 2011 fellowship award deadline and am asking you to share news of these awards with your friends and colleagues. Last year, VSC awarded more than 150 fellowships and made additional grants to hundreds of artists and writers from around the world. Educational Foundation of America Fellowships Three merit-based fellowships available to emerging and mid-career artists and...

  ” WOMEN WRITING ABOUT WOMEN FOR WOMEN” Literary Agent, Toni Lopopolo, Offers Workshops Staring September 22 in Ventura (Ventura, CA – September 12, 2011) Literary agent Toni Lopopolo recently relocated her agency to the Central Coast and will be working with authors and prospective authors to help them craft tightly written fiction that is marketable. Ms Lopopolo held Executive Editor positions with Macmillan and St. Martins...

HELD BY VENTURA COUNTY WRITERS CLUB Contest is open to all writers The September 30th deadline is fast approaching for submissions to the 12th Annual Short Story Contest, presented by the Ventura County Writers Club (VCWC). This contest draws interest from authors around the country as well as internationally. The Ventura County Star newspaper will publish the first place winning entry in a January 2012 Sunday edition and will publish first,...