Posts made in September, 2011

Living Literature Festival: Horatio Alger

Living Literature Festival: January 2012 Horatio Alger Deadline – September 30, 2011 Submit Metropolitan Playhouse presents its 7th Annual Living Literature Festival, devoted to Horatio Alger. WHAT Scheduled for January 16th through January 29th, 2012, the festival is a collection of new plays celebrating the spirit of the artist who made a cultural touchstone of the term “rags to riches”. Horatio Alger became famous in...

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The Writer 2011 Essay/Memoir Contest

The Writer, in collaboration with Gotham Writers’ Workshop, invites writers to enter The Writer 2011 Essay/Memoir Contest with guest judge Lee Gutkind. Write an essay or memoir that catches our eye, touches our heart, or tickles our funny bone, and you could win one of our great prizes! Only original, unpublished works of 1,000 to 1,200 words will be accepted. PRIZES • First Place: $1,000 (USD); enrollment in a 10-week online writing...

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“Point of View-The Key to Modern Fiction” to be Topic for Author and Editor Shelly Lowenkopf at the Central Coast Book and Author Festival, September 18

(Ventura, CA – September 76, 2011) Santa Barbara editor and author, Shelly Lowenkopf, will be a morning speaker at the Central Coast Book and Author Festival, to be held September 18 in San Luis Obispo. He will be speaking at 10:30 a.m. in the History Center of San Luis Obispo, 696 Monterey Street at the corner of Broad. After speaking, he will be available at the Book Festival to sign copies of his 30th book, The Fiction Lover’s...

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Switchback Flash Contest

Switchback is proud to announce the start of our monthly Flash Contest. Each month we will be giving you a prompt and we want you to give us your best work inspired by that prompt. The winning entry as decided by our editors will then be featured on the site. Submissions can be fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or even art, so long as it’s amazing and 500 words or less. The September prompt is: “He knew he should never have come...

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Strickly Shapespeare Poetry and Prose Contest

We are a creative writing community and monthly competition site called, Strictly Shakespeare and have some wonderfully talented members but are always looking to expand and challenge our writers. The competition’s are ongoing but here follows the description for September: Website: http://www.strictlyshakespeare.com Email: feedback@strictlyshakespeare.com Deadline: Midnight, 14th September 2011 Prize: £50.00 worth of prizes are given out...

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