23 Short Story Competitions in 2016…
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Month: August 2016
Where to Submit Short Stories: 23 Magazines and Websites That Want Your Work
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
Extract of an article by Kelly Gurnett on The Write Life site: Not sure where to send those great short stories you’ve written? As with writing contests and fellowships, sometimes it can be hard to know where to begin. To help you figure out where…
Marking International Women’s Day III: Bad Girls do some Cool Stuff
How’s this for someone who doesn’t blog for two months? Nothing for ages then three in twenty-four hours! I always was good at rising to occasions, last-minute cramming, skidding into d… Source: Marking International Women’s Day III: Bad Girls do some Cool Stuff
That Beautiful Lighthouse in Petoskey
Field Notes: Podcast Movement 2016
Originally posted on WordPress.com News:
Automatticians, the people who build WordPress.com, participate in events and projects around the world every day. Periodically, they report back on the exciting things they do in the community. This week, we share our experience at the Podcast Movement 2016 conference. People use WordPress.com to share many types of stories,…
Level Up with Blogging U.
Originally posted on WordPress.com News:
Thousands of bloggers have used Blogging U?s step-by-step email courses to get started, grow as writers, create beautiful websites, learn the ins and outs of WordPress.com, push their photography skills, and more. There are ten different courses currently available, for folks of all interests and skill levels. Click any course’s title…
Snapshot: Hollywood Theatre
Originally posted on After the Final Curtain:
Post 3 in the Snapshot Series – Occasionally in my travels I come across a theater that I can’t find a lot of information on, or that I only have a chance to photograph for an hour or two. They’re still beautiful and fascinating, so they definitely have a…
Personalize Your Online Home with a Custom Domain
Originally posted on WordPress.com News:
A domain name is a name used to identify a website on the Internet. Your blog’s domain name is like your mailing address: it lets people know where to find you — and all the cool content you create! At WordPress.com, every site has a web address that ends…
New Domains for You and .me
Originally posted on WordPress.com News:
Today we are adding .me (to .com, .org and .net) as a new option for upgrading to your own, custom domain name on WordPress.com. All of our domain mapping options cost just a couple dollars per month for your domain name and hosting. You don’t have to deal with…
It’s Time: Apply For Early Access to Your Own .blog Domain Name
Originally posted on WordPress.com News:
If you’ve been looking for the perfect address for your blog, it’s about to get even easier. Millions of new .blog domain names (like yourname.blog) will be available this November — and starting today, you can apply to secure your own domain name. Just go to get.blog and apply…
#MECCAcon2016 SCHEDULE/ VENDORS
Originally posted on MECCAcon:
? ? Midwest Ethnic Convention for Comics and Arts – MECCA presents our 3rd annual MECCAcon 2016 #MECCAcon2016 September 17:: 10a-5p:: Detroit Public Library (COMIC BOOK CONVENTION, INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL) 5201 Woodward, Detroit, MI. For tickets, go HERE. ? ? Official Schedule STROHAM HALL (third floor) :: Vendors, Live Art, Workshops/Lectures…
NO FEE Submission Call – Wild Horses: Women on Fire, DEADLINE: Nov 1, 2015
Trish Hopkinson “Wild Horses is an annual print journal published every March to celebrate Women’s History Month exclusively written by women” and proceeds will be donated to RAINN: Rape Abuse Incest National Network. Wild Horses is a project of ELJ Publications and issues include poetry, prose, CNF, memoir, essay, even reviews of books. You can view… Read More NO FEE Submission Call – Wild Horses: Women on Fire, DEADLINE: Nov 1, 2015
NO FEE Submission call and interview – Come As You Are (90s themed) anthology, DEADLINE: August 31, 2016
Trish Hopkinson Original cover art by Ruth Foley Come As You Are is a forthcoming 90s themed anthology edited by E. Kristen Anderson with the help of Samantha Duncan and ELJ Publications. They are seeking submissions of poetry, micro and flash fiction, flash essay (lyric essay especially), and hybrid works of no more than 750 words. I wondered… Read More NO FEE Submission call and interview – Come As You Are (90s themed) anthology, DEADLINE: August 31, 2016
when i am gone
Practicing this exercise will make you more confident in your creative work
Originally posted on Business in Rhyme:
Most of the confidence we develop throughout the years stem from our past experiences – predominantly on how other people perceived us and our work. Not gaining enough recognition, pile of rejection letters and even just a random bad comment can blow away all our creative self-esteem – that…
… bewildered hearts …
Originally posted on Course of Mirrors:
We may reach out in vain towards heavy hearts shrouding broken ideals or stagnant truths that are dark-sealed against any doubt. We may reach out in vain towards wounded hearts that shirk beauty, scorn at tender gestures, treat humour like treason and plot revenge. ? Yet in the death…
Ancestral Wind
Originally posted on Zen and Xel Sha:
A sigh arising from the west, pervades the mountain firs. A haunting voice in ancient tongue speaks whispers on the wind. The rhythmic rise and fall of tone compel me with a tale. Of blood and breed that flow and link a son with Fathers passed. A pinto…
ReBirth: The Pursuit of Porsha 
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