Love dA Lit: Issue 76

Welcome to the seventy-sixth issue of my weekly news article, Love dA Lit! Every Sunday this article will aim to promote volunteer opportunities, various resources, prompts, challenges, and workshops, as well as highlighting various contests, and spotlighting a specific group every week. This is by no means a complete list of all the literature going-ons, merely a tool to help you get involved and stay informed.

Note: ATrue's Yearly Literature Community Fundraiser ends in 10 days!

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• Word Wars in #exposelit at 7:30PM EST, today!
• PowerfulWriting apologizes for a lack of activity but will implement changes when summer starts.
• thorns asks "NaPo and ScriptFrenzy participants, are you going to complete it?"
• BeccaJS needs more DD suggestions.
• Writers-and-Editors updates their critic list.
• Live Interview Transcript: ^Beccalicious
• tWR Chat Lit-Game Marathon - Wed. May 9th
• MadWords announces their Critique Contest.
• Group News from LiteratureforPoints.
• Poem of the Week - #30
• A few important updates from Naturally-Written
• The group, wordflight, has a new founder.
• EliteLiterature's Lit of the Week 24! JudgeNotNovels, monstroooo, and ThermadorianGrey
• Writers-Retreat wants ideas for a contest.
• "For the lady writers: do/would you write using a male pen name?" asks raspil.
• thelifeofwords' thought of the month.
• My-Soul-Bleeds-Ink has begun judging their recent contest.
• LadyofGaerdon asks "Do you need an extension on the Lit-Visual Alliance contest deadline?"
• WritersAreArtistsToo's Prompt Contest Winners.
• Judging of Ordinary-Writing's contest has started.
• 15-Minutes-of-Fame is closed to submissions for the moment.
• Some updates and such from LiteratureAnonymous.
• NaPoWriMo2012's NaPo Week Four: Onward to the Finale journal.
• GrammarNaziCritiques is reopening their critique folder and has a minor rule change.
• Metre Maids National Poetry Month
• WordsLovers reminds members about their submission rules.
• The group, Heart-of-Poetry's prompts will be on hold temporarily.
• FocusOnLit wants to know from those participating in their challenge ... how your team is working out. "
• The Spring Winners of LiteratureKingdom's contest are revealed.
• EliteLiterature wants to know "What universal font should be used for the ebook?"
• #SixWordStories Showcase: April 9th - April 23rd
• We-Write-To-Escape posts an update concerning their Face Your Fears contest.
• raspil asks "What do you think of stories where the characters are not named?"
• The group, WritersOfTheMoon, announces a change in their prompts rules.
• LiteratureforPoints' poll: "How good is your vocabulary?"
• Chat Tour Schedule
• The Canary Review is up for the GoodReads Independant Blogger award!
• TheWritersLounge has some upcoming events and mentions a few updates.
• WritersInk's Weekly Round-up

Literature Links [in other languages!]

• Voting for MiniSagas' recent contest has begun. [Spanish]
• Less than 4 days to submit to LiteraturaBR's competition.[Portuguese]

I am still looking for non-English literature groups, I'd like to keep tabs on them too!

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Looking for more groups?

• leoraigarath's Literature Groups List
• Realm-of-Fantasy's list of literature groups[Fantasy, Sci-fi and General]
• My journal has a small list that I've compiled.

If you're still not finding a group you like check out the list of all literature groups on dA: Click here!


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Weekly:

• Heart-of-Poetry's weekly prompt: Prompt #8
• Live-Love-Write's Weekly Writing Prompt: "Sunny Days"[April 27th]
• "Socio-paths in Love", the current weekly theme for RawEm0tion
• Live-Write-Now's Weekly Themes.
• Unseen-Writers' Theme of the Week: Helplessness
• House-of-Playwrights's fourth April weekly prompt is a Duo of Images and a Pair of Openings.
• Week 2.4 Prompt of lit-lash's weekly prompts has begun.
• Progression is FightToWrite's theme of the week.
• "Time and Sorrow" is Morbid-Poets’ weekly prompt.
• Raininginhawaiipoems's weekly prompt is "Inertia".
• Writers-Togethers Wednesday Writing Theme: Beginnings.
• WritersAreArtistsToo's Writing Wednesdays Prompt.

Bi-Weekly:

• Inspiring-Words' Bi-Weekly Prompts - 40
• Scribblers-Anonymous's prompts: Set 32!
• Bi-Weekly Prompts: April 24, 2012 from theWrittenRevolution.
• "Chilled to the Bone", the bi-weekly prompt from Poets-N-Prose.
• "Write to a song that is moving to you." is Love-4-Dark-Poetry's bi-weekly prompt.
• "Sunday Morning", Love-Literature's bi-weekly prompt.
• "Writing your heart out ", FeatheredWords' bi-weekly prompt.
• dA-lta's current prompt.[March 24th]
• 'Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional.' is Written-Imagination's prompt.
• Letters-To-Myself's Writing Prompt: Letters To a sibling/siblings.
• FFF 7: Triolet Challenge[April 15th]
• Surprises, Literary-Perceptions' bi-weekly prompt.
• Unabashed-Words' Prose and Poetry Weekly Prompt.
• "Plan Gone Wrong" is WritersOfTheMoon's bi-weekly prompt.

Monthly:

• "What is my wish?" Lit-WIP's first monthly prompt.
• SixWordStories' Word and Theme Prompts
• HammeredPoetry's Prompt #7 and 3/4: NaPoWriMo [May 1st]
• ScreamPrompt #25, April 2012 [April 30th]
• The February Monthly Theme of WriterSecretSanta has begun.
• Horror-Stories' March Monthly Theme.
•   Creation is Live-Write-Now's current monthly prompt.
• Unseen-Writers' Monthly Challenge: March
• Spring OneWordPrompt's monthly prompt.
• YouAsTheNarrator's April Prompts

Workshops and Challenges:

• FocusOnLit's April Writing Challenge, Part 2[April 30th]
• Pitch Practice: A Weekly Challenge
• JustKeepWriting's Member-Wide Poetry Collaboration
• "NaPoWriMo" Poetry-Screams' second challenge.
• Beware the Ides of March, TheWritersMeow's current exercise.
• A FreeWriters Marathon[October 31st]
• Literature Lesson 1.04, Literature Lesson 1.03, Literature Lesson 1.02, Literature Lesson 1.01
• Vignettophiles' Comment Swap VII[Every 1st and 15th of the month.]
• Authors-of-Fantasy and FantasyLiterature's Feedback Pack--April Sign-Up

Other:

• "Spring", the current prompt over at Soul-Poets.
• Terza Rima Challenge, hosted by InCahootsLiterature.
• Daily Prompts from NaPoWriMo2012 for NaPoWriMo.
• LITplease's NaPoWriMo and Script Frenzy Daily Prompts
• Writers-Workshop's Create A Form Workshop[April 30th]
• Weekly Spontaneity from SixWordStories
• PromptMe's Prompt #4
• Writers-Retreat's Writing Task
•   Poetic Journey Project hosted by Masters-of-Poetry.
• Naturally-Written's Phrase Prompt #4
• Wordsmiths-Guild's Word Prompt.
• Flash Fiction Lives: Creation 3: The Compressed Epic
• LITplease's Poetry and Fiction Prompts: #15: The Inner Child's Switch [May 15th]

Ongoing Challenges[No Deadline]:

• SixWordStories’ Inspiration Project
• Write 50 Reason's Why You Love Yourself Challenge
• 100 Word Challenge hosted by JustKeepWriting
• A List of Prompts from FeatheredWords.
• full-moon-poetry's 18 themes.
• LITplease's 100 Themes Challenge
• Project Nine Lives
• Writers-Universal's Publicity Project

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These include contests that are purely Literature based and those that have other categories as well, but still accept Literature.

New Contests:

• Earth Day [Poetry only; please see link for details] (May 7th)
• Two Sentences [Please see link for details] (May 15th)
• Freaky Friday [Fan-fiction only; 500-1,000 words; please see link for details] (May 25th)
• Legends, Myths, and Fairy Tales (June 15th)
• The Princess Nonomi Fan Art Contest [Fan-fiction only; please see link for details] (August 1st)

Contests Ending This Week:

• #Literature-Den's Contest [Please see link for details] (April 30th)
• Mouthwatering Contest [Eastern poetry only; deadline extended; please see link for details] (April 30th)
• 'Snow ' Contest [Please see link for details] (April 30th)
• The Literary Illustration Challenge [Fan-fiction only; 750 word limit; please see link for details] (April 30th)
• LadyofGaerdon's Rose-Shadow Fan Art/Fiction Contest [Deadline Extended] (May 2nd)
• Home Sweet Home Contest (May 4th)
• #Teenage-Writers's Easter Contest [Deadline Extended; Poetry soft limit--10 line minimum;  Prose soft limit--a couple of paragraphs; please see link for details] (May 6th)
• Horses of the World (May 7th)
• #formfindsfunction's Contest [Fixed-form poetry only; please see link for details] (May 7th)

Contest Extensions:

None this week!

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Regular Lit Articles

• Lit Fortnightly - 25 April 2012
• Lit Up! Vol. V
• Spotlight on Lit, vol 1.2
• The Ladies of Lit: Volume XX
• Writers With a Promise - Issue 14
• Friday Night Features XLV
• PoetryToTheMasses Weekly Feature 61
• The Saturday Spotlight for March 31st, 2012
• DLD to DD April 27, 2012
• Novel Tease Newsletter - Issue 6
• Wonderful critics, wonderful writers 5
• The Acrostics Series: BornBlitzed
• Demonstrably Deviant: Issue IV
• Name Your Droppings vol. 2
• 30 Writers You Should Discover: Volume IX
• The LITplease Favorites Project #135 #136 and #137

General Resources

• theWrittenRevolution's Lit News Journal
• LadyLincoln's Journal
• lovetodeviate's Resource Central [Now moved to apocathary’s journal]
• julietcaesar's List of Useful Writing Blogs
• mode-de-vie's Community Update Journal
• #SixWordStories Community Happenings
• WorldWar-Tori's Literature Resources
• #Critique-It's Resources: Writing
• #Mythologue's Literary Resources
• #FantasyLiterature's Helpful Links

Writing Resources [General]

• Writing Resources for Everyone
• A Quick Guide Index: Writing Tutorials
• Guides and Lessons for Effective Writing
• LaMonaca's Writing Guides
• LitResources' folder for Literature Tutorials
• How to Write Euphonically
• OokamiKasumi's Writing Tips and Tricks
• English 101 Index: A Grammar Series

Prose Resources

• ElaineRose's Writing Lessons
• Ten Tips for Writing
• 10 Tips for Novel Writers
• Style vs. Voice - A Guide
• Grammar and Your Story
• Three Act Structure

Poetry Resources

• The Hard Work of Poetry
• Tips For Editing Poetry
• Haiku Theory Part 1
• Poetic Forms
• Poetry Self-Edit Quick Start Guide and Checklist
• "Poeticks: On Imagery" 1 of 3, "Poeticks: On Imagery" 2 of 3, and "Poeticks: On Imagery" 2 of 3

Critiquing and Miscellaneous Resources

• Search Engines for Serious Writers
• The NonVerbal Thesaurus
• How to Write Without Editing
• Writing Useful Critiques
• Critiquing Fiction
• Prose Critique Basics
• Beta Reading Tutorial
• A Verbose Guide to Critiquing
• Murdering Mary Sue
• Extrasuperfabulous
• Characterization and Names
• Character Development: From Beginning to End
• Rehab for Roleplayers

Publishing Resources

• SadisticIceCream's Publishing Resources List
• leoraigarath's Resources on the Side
• Resources for Aspiring Authors
• On-Writing - Getting Published
• Getting Published the Hard Way
• Tips on Self Publishing
• Writing Exercise-Book Proposal
• How to Get a Literary Agent
• apocathary has created a customised calendar for submissions to Australian journals and competitions. [It can still be useful for others as some listed accept international submissions too.]
• Current 2012 Canadian Magazine Writing Contests
• Divertir Publishing is an independent publisher and they also publish short story collections. Check out their dA: DivertirPublishing
• An Idiot's Guide to Publishing

E-Zines/Magazines

• Harmless [Magazine]
• Steampunk Tales
• G.W. Review
• Fuselit
• The Missing Slate
• SapphireTuesday
• Second Look
• Verandah Literary Journal
• Machine of Death
• Cram Magazine
• Voiceworks
• Shimmer
• dotdotdash Magazine
• Alliterati Magazine

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• Two Contributors are needed ot help with submissions for the group, Authors-Academy.
• A Contributor Position is open over at EliteLiterature.
• JustKeepWriting needs a few contributors.
• Updated: LiteratureAnonymous is looking for contributors.
• Updated: 2 Community Liasons and 2  Critics are needed over at LITplease.
• Critics and contributors are the open positions in CritiqueForPoints.
• DALiteratureContests is looking for 5 Contributors.
• Prose critics are urgently needed in the group GrammarNaziCritiques.
• General admins are needed at WritersAreArtistsToo.
• SuperWritersHelp is in need of prose and poetry critics.
• Beta-readers are needed at Beta-Readers!
• Two to Four Contributors are need to help over at FreeWrittenWords.
• Mythologue is looking for someone to take over.
• YouAsTheNarrator is looking to fill the following positions: 2 Gallery Moderators, 4 Chatroom Moderators, 4 Promotion Moderators, 2 Gallery Contributors, and Comment Contributors.
• LiteratureforPoints is in need of 2 Moderators and 10 Contributors.
• WriterArt would like one or two new contributors.
• The group, Written-Imagination, is looking for a variety of staff members.
• A Contibutor position is avaliable at TeenagedLiterature.
• 10 Contributors are wanted  at FightToWrite
• 2 Poetry Administrators are needed at DailyLitDeviations.
• WriMo-Writers would like some more admins to help with behind-the-scenes work.
• Motivators, Workshoppers, and Bloggers are needed at FocusOnLit.
• Wannabe-Novelists is looking for some new admins.
• Adopt-A-Writer is looking mentors and mentees.
• Gallery moderators are wanted at TheWritersMeow.
• LiteratureKingdom is looking for a a Co-Founder.
• Literature Moderator positions available over at Realm-of-Fantasy.
• Open-Mic-Poetry would like some new admins.
• The group, independent-writer, will shut down if it can not find a new founder.
• Contributors are wanted at WritersOfTheMoon.
• A co-founder and other admins are needed over at the group, Letters-of-Love.
• Two admin positions need to be filled at WriterSecretSanta.
• EditorialSquad is in need of various staff.
• Poetry-Screams wants some administrators.
• TenderPassion is in need of a Co-Founder and contributors.
• WA-writersblock is in need of a new founder.
• Contributors are needed at We-Write-To-Escape.
• New admins are wanted at Unconventional-Story.
• Soul-Poets is looking to fill out their Creative and Networking and Public Relation admin teams.
• Critiquers are needed at FantasyAuthorsGuild.
• Scribblers-Anonymous is looking for an affiliates and critics admin.
• LaRevolucionEscrita needs a couple of admins.
• dA-Literature is looking for one admin.
• 2 Afilliates/PR Admins, 2 Pay It Forward Admins, and 4 Critics are open at lacoterie.
• Poets-N-Prose is looking for Contributors, Specialists, and dA members to host Guest (Non-staff) Workshops.
• 6 Contributors are the avaliable positions at TheScribblists
• Members to host workshops and Contributors are needed at Writers-Workshop
• Critics, admins, and people "interested in helping run and set up events and projects" are needed at devLIT.
• Moderator and Contributor positions are open at TheControversy.
• Deviant-Mentor needs Literature Mentors!
• 8 Critiquers, 3 Lit-Pickers, and 1 Affiliate Admin are needed at LitResources.
• 35-prompts-challenge is still in need of a founder.
• A critic and an inspirationalist are needed at Wordsmiths-Guild.
• Two Contributors are wanted at Written-Love.
• The group, Lit-Community's current founder is stepping down and is looking for someone to fill the position.
• Open Positions over at SixWordStories, they need: Project Managers and Contest Managers.

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thorns - thorn's DD Suggestion Guidelines
ikazon - lightningmonkey's DD Suggestion Guidelines
BeccaJS - Beccalicious' DD Suggestion Guidelines
Go on and send your literature DD suggestions to them!

#CRLiterature Community Relations Literature Chatroom
 Literature CR Update - March 2012
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