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Writers Digest Poetry Contest
Writers Digest is pleased to announce its only competition exclusively for poets, the Writer's Digest Poetry Awards!Regardless of style—rhyming, free verse, haiku and more—if your poems are 32 lines or fewer, they want them all.Submit your entries by the December 20,...
Elkins Poetry Reading
(This information courtesy of WV Writers 2nd VP, Terry McNemar))Don’t forget! There is a very amazing ensemble of poets reading in Elkins at Main Line Books tonight!At 301 Davis Avenue (owner Vickie Roidt, phone number (304) 636-6770) and featuring Cheryl Denise,...
Funny Mother Stories Contest
It happens to every mom eventually. You're desperate. In a hurry. Frazzled and sleep deprived and pushed to the limit. So you do something stupid. Something that--when you mention it to other moms--prompts them to confess the dumb things they've done.And now those...
Canon & Chorus: Black Poets in Prose requests submissions
Not enough texts examine how language, form and other concepts inform a poetic worldview for the Black poet. Canon & Chorus: Black Poets in Prose is a collection of essays focusing on what we as Black poets write, that which gives us the impetus to write and our...
Kairos Prize for Spiritually Uplifting Screenplays
(This information courtesy of WV Writers member Eric Otto)Final Deadline for the 2nd Annual $50,000 John Templeton Foundation Kairos Prize for Spiritually Uplifting Screenplays is approaching.MOVIEGUIDE® and The John Templeton Foundation have announced the 2nd Annual...
Fickle Muses Accepting Submissions
(Thanks to Rhonda White for this information)Fickle Muses, a new online journal of myth and legend, is now accepting submissions of poetry, fiction, book reviews, essays and illustrations.Debuting January 7, 2007, Fickle Muses will publish a weekly single-author...