This just in: Second Star Magazine is accepting submissions for its Fall 2016 issue! We are looking for visual art and fiction (no more than 3000 words) from writers and artists aged 25 and younger. There are no limitations on theme and topic, as long as the content is appropriate. We accept all forms of visual […]
Author Natalie Goldberg will be at the West Hollywood Library in conversation with poet Steven Reigns on Thursday, June 30, 2016 at 7:00pm on the only Los Angeles stop on her current book tour. Flyer: Natalie Goldberg in Conversation with Steven Reigns (Flyer)
Our 4-week Writing & Critique workshop led by the talented and supportive Carmiel Banasky, starts on Wednesday, August 10. Get creative every week, learn new tools and practice them to elevate your prose, and bring work in for feedback. It’s the perfect way to end the summer. Click here to register. Sill Level: All writers […]
Join us as we celebrate 15 years of helping girls write their way to bright futures! Mentees will share their work onstage and we’ll even have an actor or two perform the girls’ work. Join us for a catered lunch, a silent auction and unforgettable performances. You won’t want to miss this! Saturday, June 25 […]
I love Jane Friedman’s blog. Her blog is one of the few that gives practical tips on the craft of writing. Here is another helpful post on crafting suspense: Award-winning author Jane K. Cleland explains how to implement the slow reveal to add suspense to your writing. Source: Writing Suspenseful Fiction: Reveal Answers Slowly | Jane […]
Number one on their list. I can’t tell you how many times I tell that to writers. Via Writer’s Digest: You can doom your debut from the start with these 7 (tongue-in-cheek) strategies for flailing, and failing—or, you can do just the opposite. Source: How Not to Write a Novel: 7 Things That Will Doom […]
We have a brand new look! It’s been a long time since we’ve had a complete redesign so we decided to do it with gusto and implement an entirely new look, complete with a new logo and new colors. We wanted something that better reflected our philosophy of lovingly supporting writers rather than “supporting” writers through tough love. […]
We’ve temporarily reduced the price on our newest email course, the 15-Day Writing Challenge. If you’ve been thinking about signing up but haven’t yet, now is the time to recommit yourself to your daily writing practice. The new prices has been reduced from $55 to $49. Offer good until May 31st, 2016. Click here to register […]
Reading Out Loud is looking for character-driven stories with a sense of place and a strong narrative voice: The stories that work best with our platform are often those with a unique narrator: either a first person narration from a well-defined and compelling character, or a third person narrator with a unique perspective. For example, please […]
