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Come take advantage of this opportunity to learn some fundamentals of playwriting, particularly the concept of adaptation. Ms. Battlo’s own plays (like Shakespeare’s) draw from history, philosophy, literature, and personal writings; she will demonstrate how to create...

WritersWeekly.com is accepting entrants for a 24-Hour short story contest entitled A Break Out into Spring.Start time for the Spring 24-Hour Short Story Contest will be 12:00 p.m. (noon) central time on Saturday, April 29, 2006.Participation is limited to 500...

The 2006 Virginia Book Festival will run Wednesday, March 22 through Sunday, March 26. This is a free event.

An informal group called Morgantown Association of Poets (M.A.P.) has recently been formed to promote poetry and spoken word events in Morgantown, WV.M.A.P. acts as an umbrella organization, a "one-stop-shop" for all the poetry and related-arts events in town. It...

Join the Academy of American Poets now through April 30, 2006, at the Associate level or above and receive How to Eat a Poem, a new anthology from the Academy and the American Poetry & Literacy Project. With a foreword by U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser, the...

The Pelléas Long Poem Contest is open to writers in North America and abroad. The entry fee includes a discounted one-year subscription to The Modern Review. Winners will be published in their first anniversary issue in September 2006.Electronic submissions are not...