Do you think you can write concisely and precisely? Develop your writing skills by  participating in our Summarize This! Twitter contest. We are giving you a chance to prove it! Summarize This! is a weekly contest that requires you to tweet a summary of our featured topic. How it Works Every Friday at 11 AM, we will announce the topic of the week. Entrants must write a 140-character-or-less tweet, mention @Scribendi_Inc, and summarize the topic...

Enchanted Conversation: A Fairy Tale Magazine is holding monthly contests for poetry and stories based on classic fairy tales. Submission windows open at 12 a.m., on the first day of the month, and close at 11:59 p.m. on the second day of each month, Eastern Standard Time. Two prizes of $25 each, US dollars only, will be awarded in the form of electronic gift certificates, each month. Unpaid honorable mention is also possible, if the writer is...

Today is May 7, 2012 and it will go down in my mind as the day The Definitely on Purpose Project was born. Have you ever experienced a defining moment in your life that was beyond coincidence or happenstance? A moment so serendipitous you just knew it occurred by design not chance; destiny not fluke; intention not accident.  There are two types of people: those who will tell you they have had numerous divine moments and those who say they have...

Online Writing Workshops Expanded by Lopopolo Literary Management Writers fine-tune their books with this weekly live interactive workshop  Harnessing the power of the internet to bring writing workshops to authors around the country, Lopopolo Literary Management offers fiction and nonfiction writers the ability to participate in weekly online classes, beginning in June. “When I first opened my agency, I noticed that most of the...

Today’s writers benefit from an incredible assortment of digital tools from which they can draw inspiration and productivity. Although some writers prefer to stick to old-fashioned pen and paper or even typewriters, there’s a vast population of others that are happy to take advantage of all the new tools out there. Some of the brightest of these tools can be found on the Apple iPad, and we’ve highlighted 32 of them here. Whether you’re looking...

We would like to invite writers to take part in our Best Article Contest.  The task in this competition is to write an article that fits in one of the following topics: Entertainment Technology Culture Science History The article must be at least 500 words long, be based on good research, include photos etc. Once submitted, it will be reviewed by our staff and – if it meets our standards – published on Red Sky’s new website. The...