Love dA Lit: Issue 112

Jan 20, 201331 min read

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Published: Jan 20, 2013

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Welcome to the one-hundred twelfth issue of 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: Since they're still awesome(and will always be awesome) give even more love to our new lit seniors: raspil. spoems, vespera, dreamsinstatic, OfOneSoul, FuzzyHoser, MagicalJoey, inknalcohol, and mirz333!

This week’s group spotlight is Heart-of-Poetry!

LITplease's Community Portal

A Smattering of Lit News

Navigation

Literature Links

My Prompt Journal (Lit Community Experiment cont.)
BeccaJS' poll: "Are your deviations really in the right category?"
December Freestyle Challenge - Feature
"alright, so what the hell do you want to see from your friendly neighborhood lit cvs?" asks neurotype-on-discord
Writers of the Revolution, January 20th
Forum Discussion: Learning about the craft vs. Learning the craft
Let's Talk Writing: List of Interviewees
New Readings from #Elocutionists
The DD Team
Lit-Visual Alliance Allied Artwork Feature #7
#SixWordStories: Monthly Showcase
Holiday Prompt Contest Winners!
Forum Discussion: Unofficial Lit Forum Cock-Measuring Party
The Next Big Thing
Forum Discussion: How to write convincing characters?
Juding is underway for CelestialMemories' latest contest.
Lit screens don't work, and dA knows it
#SixWordStories Feature: Nov. 24th - Jan. 14th
WritersInk's Weekly Round-up
Magic of Memories Comp Winners
Interview: Going pro with abstract1106
Poets-and-Warriors' Weekly Feature: Prose
Haiku Game Insanity
DDs: An Introduction
JZLobo's poll: "Looking for [fan-fiction] critique?"
So you want to join the dA lit community? Part II, Part III and Part IV.

Group News

ABNA 2013 an update from LiteraryAbandon regarding the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards.
We Need To Fix Up TWS is The-Writers-Study's newest blog.
Some updates and a request from Story-Corner.
WritersInk's Write Off is Coming.
A belated update from LiteratureKingdom,
TheWritersMeow's poll: " Which deviation did you feel exemplified the Fable prompt best? Please read the rules before voting."
An update from PennyStories
Love-Literature's Interview With An Admin: ~ASortaSadSoliloquy
There is a new folder at AskMeToWriteAPoem and the group also announces the winners of their contest.
Writers--club's Writing Tournament 2013 has begun.
A Feature of Works, Updates and a Welcome from PoeticalCondition, they also post their member of the month.
EliteLiterature's Lit of the Week 56! *Blacksand459, =whatpumpkins and *EmaciatedandEpitaphs
A January update from WriteRoomies.
writingmadefun's Do You Know My Name contest has ended.
The Narrow Road contest winners have been announced. Contest hosted by the-haiku-club.
Heart-of-Poetry updates theiraffiliates news blog.
Critiques, writingclub's newest journal.
Somewhere Over the Rainbow
TheCritiquables has implemented some new rules and has a new poll: "If submissions are based on commenting/critiquing on the "underappreciated works" feature, would you comment? In short, is the system friendly?"
ITU Promotion: Prompts Journal! (CRLiterature) from InspireTheUninspired
"Potential Contest Time!" from LITplease
Bad news regarding the future of the group, OnlyPoetry.
Some Poetic Inspiration, then a little bit more and then some more inspiration from confessional-poetry.
EliteLiterature asks " Do you have your own website/blog?"
Short-Stories has a new featured artist of the week, some updates, issues a reminder about submitting to folders, and posts another update.
An update from LitLoveCommunity.

Literature Links [in other languages!]

'My Valentine, hosted by LetraHispana runs until February 14th [Spanish]
NotreForteresseBrule is hosting a contest, 'Our Fortress is Burning' [French]
Competition: Unfair Play, Ethereal Comics and Books an update from AmiciNeiSogni. [Italian]

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

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This Week's Group Spotlight

Heart-of-Poetry's main focus is poetry, however, "this group is dedicated to all literature -- poetry, prose, novels, etc. Our main purpose is to support, inspire, and encourage aspiring poets and authors." They hold a weekly prompt and are just a very warm and supportive group. Click here to learn a little more about this group's admins.

Oilux, the co-founder of Heart-of-Poetry, was kind enough to let me ask her a few questions regarding the group.

Can you explain a bit about your group, Heart-of-Poetry, and what makes it different from other literature groups on dA?

Heart-of-Poetry is an amazing literature group where we accept any kinds of writing, no matter what subject it's on. I like to think that what makes us different from other literature groups is our activity, weekly prompts, and interactive members. It's an amazing group where we try to make everyone feel great about who they are, improve their skills, and even talk to them on a constant basis.

"Support, inspire, encourage." is the group's tagline, what are some of the things you do for your members to support this?

     Support: for every deviation that is accepted, it is read by myself before it is included. Now one comment left here on our group has gotten ignored, and we try to cater to every single person to make sure that they feel supported.
      Inspire: our weekly prompts are meant to inspire as well as the contests that we have. We here are meant to inspire and encourage people to do their best so that they can always be proud of whatever they accomplish.
       Encourage: we never deny a deviation into our group unless they are submitted to the wrong folder, and even then we let them know that they have completed a masterpiece and that it should be shared. There is no such thing as bad poetry, there is simply different idea's about what poetry is.

Will there be any future projects and events can we expect from Heart-of-Poetry?

Hopefully soon, we will have another contest. We have yet to decide on the theme, but there most certainly will be another contest soon. Until then though, we have our weekly prompts that entertain everyone.

In your opinion, what has been the most challenging aspect of running the group? Rewarding?

The most challenging aspect is remembering that every week there should be a new prompt. It's well worth it though when I look at the pieces that people have written for the prompt and seeing how amazing they are indeed. Truly all the work that goes into this group is so amazing because we get to see so many others improve and age as writers.

Anything else of note that you would like to share?

No, but thank you for giving me the chance to answer these questions.

Quick Links:

Gallery
Rules [Located on the left-hand side]
Current Weekly Prompt: #37
List of Past Prompts [Widget on the right-hand side]

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.
League of Lit Groups: Vol. 4

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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Inspiration (Workshops, Prompts and Challenges)

Weekly:

Live-Love-Write's Weekly Writing Prompt is an art prompt. [January 20th]
Prompt 37 from Heart-of-Poetry [January 24th]
TheWritersMeow has a new weekly prompt,"The End of All Things". [January 25th]
"Stress" is Poem-forthe-poemless' fifth weekly prompt.
Weekly Spontaneity: 41 from SixWordStories
Unseen-Writers' Theme of the Week: The Letter 'Y'
Writers-Extrodinaire has a new prompt for this week.
Theme Of The Week #5 from KnightsOfRomance.

Bi-Weekly:

PoetryWeek's bi-weekly prompt is "Serendipity". [January 16th]
ITU Prompt 3 [January 18th]
theWrittenRevolution's Prompt: January 7, 2013[January 20th]
The Bi-Monthly prompt for PoeticalCondition is "Mummification"

Monthly:

My-Soul-Bleeds-Ink's January Forms Challenge: Alliterisen [January 22nd]
SixWordStories' Word and Theme Prompts [January 28th]
ScreamPrompt #31, January 2013 [January 31st]
Letters-To-Myself's January Prompt: Letters to A New You. [February 1st]
January's Theme of the Month from APictureToA1000Words
Prompt: Ace of Suns is Literary-Limits' monthly prompt.
Prose and Poetry Monthly Prompts from lacoterie.
Sacred-Literature's Monthly Prompt

Workshops and Challenges:

Glory Be! Day 14 JANUARY RENGA TREE [January 31st]
Free Verse Workshop hosted by Writers-Workshop
Challenge #6: Winter Woes

Other:

'Snow' is Your-Soul-In-Writing's prompt. [January 20th]
Sharing Presents During The New Year hosted by Fiction-Writers [February 10th]
Love-Literature's weekly and monthly prompts.
Writers-Of-Our-Time's prompt: "Until the very end."

Ongoing Challenges[No Deadline]:

Shelf-of-Friends' Collaboration Project
Writing prompts from dA-Literature
A 50 Theme Challenge from Authors-Academy
100 Word Challenge hosted by JustKeepWriting
A List of Prompts from FeatheredWords.
full-moon-poetry's 18 themes.
LITplease's 100 Themes Challenge
Write 50 Reason's Why You Love Yourself Challenge
Poetic Journey Project hosted by Masters-of-Poetry.
Writers-Universal's Publicity Project

Lit Contests Galore!

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

New Contests:

Contests Ending This Week:

Contest Extensions:

Friday February 1st is the new deadline for theWrittenRevolution's contest

Please click here for the full list of contests!

There is also a group dedicated to listing Literature contests around dA, DALiteratureContests, if you're still looking for more contests!
Writers-and-Editors has their own list of Literature contests.
#Love-Literature Loves Contests

Resources

Regular Lit Articles

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
WorldWar-Tori's Literature Resources
#Critique-It's Resources: Writing
#FantasyLiterature's Helpful Links
Tips for the Messy Writer

Writing Resources [General]

Prose Resources

Poetry Resources

Critiquing and Miscellaneous Resources

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
What Makes A Good Editor?
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.]
Divertir Publishing is an independent publisher and they also publish short story collections. Check out their dA: DivertirPublishing
An Idiot's Guide to Publishing
An Idiot's Guide to Book Publishing

E-Zines/Magazines

Looking to help out the Lit Community?

Poetry, Prose, General, and Organisational Admins are all needed at the group Written-Imagination
1 Blogger and 2 Gallery Moderator positions are open at InspireTheUninspired
One co-founder is wanted to help keep the group running smoothly at Authors-Academy
Two Contributors are wanted at WordsOfPower.
A founder is needed at the group, BleedingHeartsPoetry.
PowerfulWriting would like a few more contributors.
The group, Writing-My-Soul, would like to add one contributor to help with submissions.
devLIT is looking for some extra help around the group.
TheseWordsaremyheart is looking for a founder to take over the group.
Contributors are needed at TheScribblists.
General Administrators are wanted at Poetry-is-AWESOME.
The group, Your-Soul-In-Writing is looking for someone to take over the group.
SuperWritersHelp is in need of prose and poetry critics.
Two Match Makers are Beta-Readers' current open positions.
Calling-All-Poetry would like 2 general admins.
Kakikotoba would like a few contributors to help out with the group.
1 Community Liaison and 2 Critics are needed over at LITplease.
The group, FlashFictionLives is looking for some active members to help run the group.
LOVE-Original-LIT is in need of Prose and Poetry admins as well as a judge for group hosted contests.
Voters and weekly and monthly bloggers are wanted at Letters-To-Myself
One admin position is available at TeenagedLiterature.
RomanceforEveryone would like Bi-Weekly Blog Feature Manager, Bi-Weekly Blog Feature Helpers, Resources Director, Critique Approvers, and some General Administrators.
FictionWriters101 needs a co-founder and contributors.
2 assistants, prize commissioners, 1 News crew, and critics are APictureToA1000Words’s current admin vacancies.
Critics/Commenters are wanted in the group, Live-Love-Write.
A co-founder and general admins are needed to help run lit-lash.
A Sci-Fi Short Story Folder Manager is needed at FantasyAuthorsGuild.
WritingForEveryone still needs a few contributors.
YouAsTheNarrator is looking to fill the following positions: 2 Gallery Moderators, 2 Character Bio Moderators, 4 Chatroom Moderators, 4 Promotion Moderators, 2 Gallery Contributors, and Comment Contributors.
Adopt-A-Writer is looking mentors and mentees.
EditorialSquad is in need of various staff.
New admins are wanted at Unconventional-Story.
2 Affiliates/PR Admins, 2 Pay It Forward Admins, and 4 Critics are open at lacoterie.
Members to host workshops and Contributors are needed at Writers-Workshop
8 Critiquers, 3 Lit-Pickers, and 1 Affiliate Admin are needed at LitResources.
Open Positions over at SixWordStories, they need: Project Managers and Contest Managers.

Literature Community Relations

thorns - thorn's DD Suggestion Guidelines

BeccaJS - Beccalicious' DD Suggestion Guidelines

neurotype-on-discord - neurotype's DD Suggestion Guidelines

Nichrysalis - NicSwaner's DD Suggestion Guidelines

JZLobo - JZLobo's DD Suggestion Guidelines [Only Fan Fiction.]
Go on and send your literature DD suggestions to them!

#CRLiterature Community Relations Literature Chatroom
Literature CR Update - December 2012 / January 2013
December's Literature Daily Deviations

Literature Forums
Literature Forum
Posting Guidelines - Literature Forum

Monthly Literature Critique Thread: January

FAQ #61: What is a Daily Deviation?

FAQ #18: Who selects the Daily Deviation and how is it chosen?

FAQ #873: What do I do when I disapprove of a Daily Deviation feature?

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Contacting Me

Want your group to be spotlighted; your Literature project? See something you don't like? That you like? Want changed or removed? Have a suggestion for the next issue? Then please send me a note! The Literature Community is huge, so I'm always going to miss something or make a mistake, don't be afraid to let me know. ♥

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