Two Publishing Pros to Offer Fiction Writing Bootcamps throughout Southern California Two literary insiders have teamed up to help budding authors craft novels that will catch the eye of an agent and publisher. Shelly Lowenkopf and Toni Lopopolo began the bootcamps with small groups this past spring in the Santa Barbara/Ventura area. Now they are expanding to a larger area of Southern California, bringing their accumulated knowledge as...

Name the Squirrel Contest – http://www.leafguard.com/name-the-squirrel-contest.php Our LeafGuard Squirrel needs a name and we could use your child’s help to come up with one. Your child could win up to a $1,500 head start toward their college tuition. We are asking children 8 – 13 years old, to tell us what our squirrel’s name should be and to tell us why they have picked that name. Essays should be 150 words or less and...

Introducing the 2012 Bat City Review Art & Writing Collaboration Prize Judge: Tomaz Salamun Award: $1000 for the winning entry and publication in the 2012 issue of Bat City Review. Deadline: November 1, 2011 Cost of Entry: An issue ($8) or subscription ($14) What We’re Looking For: A bold, intoxicating combination of written text with visual art that engages and expands each medium in concert with the other.  Collaborative submissions...

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...

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...