Meet the first dou dou bird prize!  Just started a writing contest on my blog to win some art.  I will be doing it monthly. This bird is 8 inches tall, 2.75 inches wide and he is 7.5 inches in length. Always felt like this bird had a special purpose and here it is, he will launch the monthly writing contest. So this contest is getting started late but I will start next month’s contest on the 1st. Rules & stuff: Anyone can enter! 100 – 1,000...

Call for Submissions for 2012 Anthology Matrices Press is publishing an anthology of works in 2012. We are now accepting submissions of previously unpublished, original works. Deadline for submissions is Jan 31, 2012. Matrices begins in math:  A matrix is an organizational structure in which two or more lines of command, responsibility, or communication may run through the same individual. This math concept can be applied to culture:  A concept...

  InspiraTO Ten-Minute Play Festival   Canada’s largest ten-minute play festival   Deadline: Midnight December 31, 2011   InspiraTO is seeking ten-minute plays (not shorter than 8 minutes and not longer than 10 minutes). This year’s theme is on VISION.  The sense of vision (sight) must be an important element of the play. We accept previously produced plays.  The playwright must own the rights to the play up to the end...

” WOMEN WRITING ABOUT WOMEN FOR WOMEN” Literary Agent, Toni Lopopolo, Offers Workshops Staring November 19 in Santa Barbara (Ventura, CA – October 25, 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....

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS The Down Under Essay Contest Deadline: January 31, 2012 Creative Nonfiction, in association with Tashmadada, seeks new essays for a special “Australia” issue. We’re looking for a variety of perspectives—from locals, expats, tourists, or anyone else—and will consider essays of all forms and focuses as long as Australia’s landscape, people, and/or culture are prominently featured; the stories are true; and submissions are...

(Ventura, CA – October 24, 2011) Toni Lopopolo Literary Management has relocated its office from the East Coast to Santa Barbara. Founded in 1991, Toni Lopopolo Literary Management boasts an impressive 35+ years in the book publishing business. A former executive editor at Macmillan and then St. Martin’s Press, Lopopolo combines her many years in publishing with her unique editing skills to provide a full service literary agency to...