Creative Writing

Creative Writing Resource for Budding Authors

This network has been created as a place to share resources, discuss books, get help with novels you're currently working on and generally speak about all things creative.

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Welcome to the Creative Writing Network

Thank you for visiting Creative Writing and I hope this will blossom into a very useful site for Creative Writers. I have found several sites over the past few years which have useful resources and articles but the problem is they're all over the place. I am hoping the forum section of this network will prove to be very useful in categorizing useful information. Hopefully, we will post story extracts and help each other out in our quest to become authors (or continue if we've already made it).

Feel free to start adding your own forum discussions and groups - the sites yours to do as you please (well, within limits obviously).

Any suggestions / requests please get in touch

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Stop by!

Stop by my website to read excerpts, watch book trailers, and to find out more about my current books and works-in-progress. http://www.christiesilvers.com

Posted by Christie Silvers on 24th June 2008 at 6:00pm — No Comments (Add)

Resources for authors

There will never be a shortage of information online. The only issue is sorting through it all and finding out what works best for you. I recommend the Yahoo group, Write It, Publish It, Market It. Other websites include: www.janetelainesmith.com http://paradiseforwriters.blogspot.com http://thebookviews.blogspot.com Other great Yahoo groups include: The Spiritual Pen, Writing and Publishing and Literary Lapse.

Posted by Lacresha Hayes on 10th June 2008 at 8:33pm — No Comments (Add)

6 More Days to Vote! WillowRaven Cover Designs in the Running for Best Cover Art at TAL!

We are down to the wire...Hopefully one of my designs w… Continue

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Cover Critique blog post, "By His Sovereign Grace by Melody Calhoun" needs author/reader feedback.

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Blood

Scarlet and white Scarlet and white. A spray of delicate drops On the harsh snow. No one asked For the artful display. No one admired it either. No, not a single Person paused to look, To appreciate, To understand. Why do people fear me so? I am the elixir of life, And yet I am the symbol of death. What do you fear In a bit of harmless red? If not for me, The cold would sting you, The wind would bite you, The sun would wither you. When I am gone, You are without life, Without warmth, Without h… Continue

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Writing Contests

HUNGER MOUNTAIN CREATIVE NONFICTION PRIZE

www.tui.edu/hungermtn/nonfiction.asp One $1,000.00 prize winner receives publication in the Spring 2009 Issue; two honorable mentions receive $100.00 each. Judge: Nick Flynn Deadline: September 10, 2008 Guidelines: A $15 entry fee, payable to “Hunger Mountain,” includes a copy of the Spring 2009 Issue of Hunger Mountain Submit one work of creative nonfiction, not to exceed 10,000 words Name or address should not appear [...]

First Annual SCR Fiction Prize

Mandatory Entry Form First Prize: $1,000 Second Prize: $200 Third Prize: $100 Guidelines: Send one story of up to 8,000 words with a $10 reading fee payable to Southern California Review. Multiple entries are permitted, but a separate check should be included with each entry. All entrants will receive a complimentary copy of Southern California Review. All stories [...]

2008 PEARL POETRY PRIZE

$1,000 & BOOK PUBLICATION Judge: Gerald Locklin www.pearlmag.com/contests.html GUIDELINES MANUSCRIPTS should include a title page with the author’s name, address, phone number, and e-mail address; an acknowledgment page listing previously published poems; a table of contents, 48–64 pages of original poetry; and an SASE for reply or return of manuscript. Manuscripts should be unbound, typed, pages numbered, and [...]