” WOMEN WRITING ABOUT WOMEN FOR WOMEN” Literary Agent, Toni Lopopolo, Offers Workshops Staring September 22 in Ventura (Ventura, CA – September 12, 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. Martins...

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...

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 Only original, unpublished works of 1,000 to 1,200 words will be accepted.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...

(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...

ConverSextion.com, the leading sexual network for adults to openly talk about sex, dating, and romance in a tasteful manner is having the “Sexiest Story Contest!” The contest starts on Tuesday, September 6th at 12:01 AM CST and ends on Friday, October 7th at 11:59 PM CST.   Prizes: 1st Place- $500.00 CASH! 2nd Place- $100.00 Gift Card to MyTulip.com 3rd Place- $50.00 Gift Card to MyTulip.com Rules: All Stories must be submitted AFTER...

  (PRIZE: Two art prints of your choice and a few stickers. No entry-fee, but donations are always appreciated). CONTEST OPEN BETWEEN: 9/6/2011 – 10/15/2011 Enlighten us. A good philosophy is developed upon using the scientific method. It should be built upon, scrutinized and amended as other ideas are discovered. The rewritable philosophy of Enlightened Romantic Nihilism is a ladder in which rungs are constantly added, subtracted,...