Writing is an important skill for any student to develop and will help them in their education, career, and adult life. With the help of writing exercises, you can better work to improve the writing skills of your students and maybe even have fun doing it! Quickies Get major writing impact in a short amount of time with these exercises… Visit the website:...

Everyone has a story. We want yours. We are looking for true stories that astound, enchant, enlighten and startle us. We want to be swept up and away, pulled from our moorings, left shaken and inspired. We want to think, wonder, imagine, believe. Do you have a story that is especially meaningful to you, something hilarious or harrowing that touched you deeply, changed your heart, your soul, your way of seeing the world? It can be the story of...

Burner is that girl. She’s witty, pretty, and doesn’t dumb herself down.  By day, she’s a kindergarten teacher and by night, dances gogo.  She’s the chick you knew in high school who quoted Kirkegaard by heart and kept a copy of Cosmo under her bed.  She’s a muse and amusing, compelling and never complacent.  Burner contributors’ work gets your blood pumping, heart racing, and induces literary, musical, visual...

Vermont Studio Center – Upcoming Fellowship Deadline – Applications due by: June 15th, 2010 VSC awards a number of Fellowships for 4-week residencies throughout the year. Open to all artists and writers. In addition to VSC Fellowships, a variety of special fellowships are also available for full or partial funding. Please visit our website for more information and to download an application:...

Enter to Win! BionicBong, publisher of Things Japanese, a literary magazine on anything to do with Japan, is accepting submissions for its next issue. One Grand prize winner will receive $100 for best submission.* We are accepting haiku, prose poetry, postcard stories, flash fiction, short stories, and non-fiction pieces such as personal funny stories, tributes, reviews, interviews, and rants. Guidelines are simple. Any submission should have a...

Newport Review Bananagrams Writing Contest – $500 in Prizes- Let our word prompts inspire a prize-winning poem or story in a contest inspired by the Bananagrams word game. Newport Review, an established online journal, offers cash prizes and publication. Contest deadline: Sept 1, 2010. Guest judges: John Landry, poetry, Jincy Willett, fiction. Contest details at: http://www.newportreview.org