25 Famously Successful People Who Started Off Freelancing We all love to hear the stories of the single mom who writes a book in her spare time and sells 10 million copies, or the kid who is discovered walking down the street who becomes an A-list Hollywood star. But for many now-successful people, their path to glory was not nearly as straight. They had to put in their time taking jobs here and there for small money and no recognition,...

The Top 100 Creative Writing Blogs (Updated) Whether a creative writer’s heart sits with prose, poetry, or both, there likely exists an author or aspirant author out there with something to offer his or her work. And that, friends, is why the Internet stands as one of the best possible tools for today’s emerging literati. Thanks to the online input of industry pros and fledgling dreamers, today’s writers enjoy some incredible opportunities to...

| $1,000 Writing Prize | $500 Illustration Prize | Details for the competition are below, and full guidelines and online submission are available here: http://www.indigoinkpress.org/submissions/ The anthology Modern Grimmoire: Contemporary Fairy Tales, Fables & Folklore will be open to submissions from Apr. 1 to Sept. 1, 2012. SUBMIT ONLINE A single award of $1,000 and publication will be given to the best emerging author of an unpublished...

48 iPad Apps That Teachers Love by Staff Writers Apple’s iPad and other tablet computers have certainly been garnering ardent support from the edtech community. Gadget geek teachers love the thousands of apps available to give their courses a multimedia edge, and students love how so many reach out to different learning styles. For the connected classroom, the following stand out as either great supplements to various lessons or essential,...

Enter to Win the backacrehomestead.com Writing Contest! You could win $100 visa gift card! Share with us your knowledge or experiences about homesteading, or growing food, raising live stock, simple living, saving money, etc… and win some money! Please note that any writing contest submission not meeting the criteria below will be disqualified. Rules: Your submission must be on original work. Plagiarism is absolutely not allowed. Quoting other...

The Tuscany Prize for Catholic Fiction is a literary prize to promote writers and great undiscovered stories of Catholic fiction. What is Catholic fiction? Stories infused with the presence of God and faith — subtly, symbolically or deliberately. Flannery O’Connor, Graham Greene or G. K. Chesterton and many others whose writings reflected the thoughts of great writers such as Gerard Manley Hopkins: “The world is charged with the grandeur of...