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Opportunities for writers, artists, poets –
NEW Opportunities!
http://nightwolfpress.yolasite.com/submissions.php
Novel competition and an anthology going. Submission guidelines for ms submission.
Triangulaton
Short Story Anthology – theme ‘Last Contact’ – flash up to 5,000 words, 31 March deadline. See website:
http://parsecink.org/staticpages/index.php/triangulation_11_guidelines
OPPORTUNITIES
1. Notes from the Gean (March 2011) featuring haiku, tanka, haiga, haibun, renga/renku. Writers are invited to submit their work for the June issue.
http://www.geantree.com/indexcover.html
2. Haibun Today (March 2011) featuring Haibun and Tanka Prose and the largest online collection of literary criticism of the haibun and tanka prose forms. Writers are now invited to submit haibun, tanka prose and articles for consideration in the June 2011 issue.
http://www.facebook.com/l/31a98MHsMap6v9MR4qVq06_Hw2w/haibuntoday.com
AND
Romance under a Waning Moon: Call for submissions. This is a poetry and image website focused on the ups and downs of later-in-life romance. This project has just been started and writers are invited to submit already published poems (preferable) or new work to Editor Ray Rasmussen.
http://raysweb.net/fallromance/index_introduction.html
WIN A VIDEO MONTAGE, closes 6th March
Sandie Muncaster is hosting a giveaway on her site:
Video Montage GIVEAWAY
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Montages are professionally done and posted on YouTube where it may be seen by hundreds, thousands or even millions of people. Once its uploaded onto YouTube, embed codes are available to use on your own blogs, social networks, newsletters or even emails. Think about how much more exposure that will create, plus it’s FUN to watch.
Montages may include any information, pictures and link backs you want – music is included.
TattleTott Productions normally charges $45.00 for a video montage, but you can win one FREE. How? Just leave a comment (and contact info) at; http://sandie-lee.blogspot.com
Giveaway ends March 6th and will be done by random drawing.
Enter today. Good Luck!
You can check out my work at; http://www.youtube.com/my_videos?feature=mhumWriters:
OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS:
Basics of Life anthology open till 28th Feb – Austlit http://auslit.net/2010/11/27/australian-literature-anthology-basics-of-life/
Artists/Illustrators/Poets, Short story writers ++ :
Going Down Swinging taking submissions till 28th February – http://goingdownswinging.org.au/submissions/
Poets, Artists and Illustrators:
Haijinx still open for submissions till 1st March! Haiku, haiga, renku, sumi-e and haibun – http://www.haijinx.com/I-1/
Writers:
Peter Cowan 600 Short Story Competition open -http://www.pcwc.org.au/index.php?p=1_10 Closes 1st May 2011.
Useful resources for children’s writers and teachers
A websites well worth visiting –
Two children’s authors sharing how they are doing it and things they have learned en route.
http://childrenspublishing.blogspot.com/2010/10/voice-and-art-of-telling-versus-showing.html
Carol Denbow at http://abookinside.blogspot.com has lots of writing tips and marketing tricks and lots more.
Dream Chaser Magazine regularly features articles and interviews on new children’s writers and illustrators as well as tips and tricks by those who have been published. Latest edition – http://www.magcloud.com/browse/Magazine/92435
Interviews and writing tips and more – http://damesofdialogue.wordpress.com/ – recently featured illustrator, K. Michael Crawford.
GRIEFABET by Karen O. Johnson
Note – a new kind of Alphabet to use with older children, teens and adults in literacy classes! I ust wonder if Karen has realised this potential for her amazing little book herself! 🙂 Folk addressing illiteracy issues in their lives have more that just that they are trying to face, come to turns with, cope with, get past. This alphabet is for them! It is therapeutic whilst it teaches, but in an unobtrusive, non-threatening way!
“GRIEFABET” by Karen O. Johnson, MEd.
“Griefabet” by noted American therapist/counsellor/presenter, Karen O. Johnson is unusual.
The book,of course, is primarily aimed at counseling and therapy settings and there is a workbook that can be purchased to accompany “Griefabet”. But this little book is a great deal more.
A book of warm, witty, affirmations for those who are coping with grief and loss, it has a few happily playful ‘venting’ exercises thrown in for good measure. It is also a free verse poem that celebrates life and the resilience of the human spirit. Finally, it is a work of art – illustrations use the letters of the alphabet in designs that mirror the verse of affirmation opposite. It is a design achievement!
“GRIEFABET” by Karen O. Johnson, http://www.griefabet.com, ISBN 978-0-615-39746-7.