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Call for Submissions (Writers, Poets, Artists, Illustrators) – Rollick Magazine

Call for Submissions (Writers, Poets, Artists, Illustrators) – Rollick Magazine

Rollick Magazine is an independent online magazine, publishing contemporary literature, thought, and art about popular culture, society, and everything on the periphery. We are seeking submissions from contemporary writers, thinkers, poets, artists, and creators on the theme of “Modern Ingenue”. We are set to launch on 30 March 2015, and have opened up submissions in […]

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Ongoing Call for Submissions: Cancello Venice

Ongoing Call for Submissions: Cancello Venice

Cancello Venice is devoted to telling stories, sharing information, and joining people through fiction, essays, interviews, non-fiction, visual art, and photography. We are a skatepark for creatives and thinkers, a place to show our latest moves and form relationships that might spark further projects. We enthusiastically accept submissions for writing and visual art. You do […]

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March 2015 Writing Workshops Schedule

Upcoming Writing Workshops We are very excited about our March 2015 workshop schedule! Our 4-week Write to Health class starts Monday, March 2. This is a prompt-based workshop open to anyone with health concerns or an interest in healing through writing. On Saturday, March 7, Stacy Dacheux will be leading a workshop on Writing the Personal Essay, asking […]

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Lunch Ticket – Submissions & Prizes

Lunch Ticket – Submissions & Prizes

Lunch Ticket is now accepting submissions for its Winter/Spring 2015 issue. Starting February 1, 2015, the following genres are encouraged to apply: Fiction, Flash Fiction, Poetry, Writing for Young People, & Visual Art. The deadline is set for April 30, 2015. Send us your best work! For guidelines and submission manager (please read the guidelines […]

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Writing & Critique Workshop Starts 3/10/15

Writing & Critique Workshop Starts 3/10/15

. 4-week feedback-oriented workshop! Starting Wednesday, March 10! Writing is such an isolating activity!  And yet writing is about community and connection.  I often remind myself that one cannot be a writer without a reader–and one does not have to be a writer all alone. When we view our writing through someone else’s eyes, it takes on […]

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PEN/Fusion Emerging Writers Prize for Global Nonfiction

PEN/Fusion Emerging Writers Prize for Global Nonfiction

We are currently accepting submissions for our new PEN/Fusion Emerging Writers Prize which will recognize a promising young writer under the age of 35 for an unpublished work of nonfiction that addresses a global and/or multicultural issue. Eligible applicants will have the chance to have their work read by distinguished writers John Freeman, Roxane Gay, […]

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The Big Brick Review First Annual Essay Contest

The Big Brick Review First Annual Essay Contest

CARRYING FORWARD THE TORCH of Tiny Lights–A Journal of Personal Narrative, The Big Brick Review is a new nonfiction journal seeking personal essays to build on the narrative of our lives, one brick at a time, finding new insight to old struggles…old insight to new struggles…and all shades-of-gray in between. For 2015, the contest theme […]

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Looking for script for a new feature film

Looking for script for a new feature film

Hello LA Writers Group, Let me introduce myself. My name is Jack Swamy and I live in the San Fransisco Bay Area. I have a passion for filmmaking and always wanted to produce a feature film. I am planning to launch my production company shortly and start the production sometime this year. Since this will […]

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The Significance of Milk and Cookies

. I’ve often sat down at my computer, willing myself to write something and it feels like nothing interesting emerges.  It’s not that I don’t have ideas or something to say, it’s that I end up engaged in this internal debate about whether or not what I’m writing feels significant.   Early last week, one of my […]

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