Love dA Lit: Issue 12

Welcome to the twelfth issue of my weekly news article, Love dA Lit! Every Sunday this news article will aim to promote volunteer opportunities, various resources, prompts, challenges, and workshops, as well as highlighting various contests, interviewing various members of the literature community 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.

Our News Article Affiliation Sister: Living Literature: Volume VII Be sure to check out Iluvocnj2006's article for some wonderful literature features!

Note: Go send oodles of hugs and thanks to GaioumonBatou for all his hard work as a Literature GM!

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Go send tons of hugs and thank yous to GaioumonBatou for being awesome and his time as a Literature GM!
The Literature GM team has a short survey for you to fill out in order to get a "feel for what people think and what you'd like to see happening in literature over the course of the next few months".
The A,B,C's of Lit is now at O and would like some suggestions!
30 Writers You Should Discover: Volume II
Why We Should Avoid Cliche, a blog by Word-Smiths.
The group, Letters-To-Myself, is putting a out a call for more submissions to their current prompts and asks, Where are your letters to Royalty?
the-haiku-club's 2010 November Haikuthon Winners!
theWrittenRevolution's Featured Member IV: ~Alleyana
52 Week Six Word Story Challenge! - Week 03
Some Announcements (1/22/11) from the group, Soul-Poets.
Bringing it Back!, Writers-Workshop's worshop will not accept submissions after today [the 23rd!]. Hurry and get yours in!
LiteraturaEspanol posts the reults of Exercise 18! [Spanish!]
BleedingHeartsPoetry announces their Contest Results.
TFP Features #5 & #6
Scribblers-Anonymous has some Contest Updates and Staff Openings
Memnalar is hosting a challenge: Bloodsucking Undead....for KIDS!
Would you be interested in a Critique/Chat Night? asks devLIT.
A Quick Message from theWrittenRevolution.
Authors-of-Fantasy updates their Members' "Must Read" List
The group, PoetsandWriters,  updates about their Critique-o-Thon and Other Stuff
Word-Smiths' January Questionnaire
A new Support Base and updates to SixWordStories's submissions!
SongofthePoets some various updates!
The advanced critique folder is now open for business, at TheWritersMeow! Be sure to read the instructions first though! :)
Authors-of-Fantasy's Weekly Feature (January 21-27)
The A, B, C's of Emotions - [Edition C]
Literature Groups List Update - Jan. 20, 2011
wyldhoney's Community-R-Us journal!
The Lit-Seat: Vol I a brand new series of articles interviewing various writers on dA!
TheWritingObsession updates on important things concerning the group.
The A, B, C's of Emotions
Which emotion compels you to write the most? asks RawEm0tion.
TheWritersMeow updates about their chat event!
EditorialSquad has some new staff!
Legends of Literature: Vol I
Word-Smiths is asking their members to vote for the iwnners of their contest!
A Collaborative Writing Concept, hosted by TarienCole.
The group, EditorialSquad,  updates about their changes and news article.
The A,B,C's of Literature: N
transliterations's prompt 1 results.
A goodbye to =Gothic-Nyu and a warm welcome to some new admins over at Lyrics-Community
Literary-Perceptions's Inquiry No. 30
The Ronin of Words Strikes! [And is looking for allies!]





Weekly:
Live-Love-Write's Weekly Writing Prompt: If You Were Invisible
Literary-Perceptions's Prompt: Trust
The-Editorial's weekly prompts.
fiftywordfiction's weekly prompt: New Beginnings! Old Memories!
First Encounter, the current weekly theme for RawEm0tion
devLIT's Weekly Prompt: Sunday Afternoon
In the Family, the weekly writing prompt for LitResources
Poetry-Knights's Weekly Writing Prompt: Invisible
Expound's WeeklyWord: Marriage

Bi-Weekly:
Inked-Page's Bi Weekly Prompt
Inspiring-Words' Bi-Weekly Prompts
Scribblers-Anonymous's prompts: Set 27!
Bi-Weekly Prompt: Happiness at Poetic-Youth
Xpose-it's Bi-Weekly theme of the week: Thankfulness
Letters To...Royalty

Monthly:
simplyprose's January's Prompts and Submissions
DistinctPoetry's Monthly Prompts
Momentum: Wordspill-Central's January prompt
TheWritersMeow's October Exercise
six-words's Issue 21
devLIT's Monthly Challenge: Resolutions
HammeredPoetry's Prompt #3: Subject and Object
Word and Theme Prompts for SixWordStories
LitResources's Prompt for the month of December: Christmas Wishes
Authors-Ink's Monthly Mini Contest: "avoiding a fight"

Other:
Un-Valentine Challenge [Ends February 15th]
transliterations's Prompt Excersise No. 2
Writers-Workshop's current workshop: Using Callbacks to End with a Bang! Ends January 29th!
Six Word Story Challenge hosted by the groups: theWrittenRevolution, SixWordStories, Live-Love-Write and Literary-Perceptions
write-to-live’s Winter Prompts.
"Show, don't tell," Workshop hosted by TheBrassGlass.
Project Pep Talk
YouAsTheNarrator's Monthly, Bi-weekly, Bi-Weekly Music Prompt, and Crossed Adventures Prompts
deviantWRITE needs writers and editors for their challenge!
Be A Hero--Couplets
LITplease's Poetry, Fiction and Non-Fiction Prompts
ScreamPrompt #9, January 1, 2011
Project Nine Lives





These include contests that are purely Literature based and those that have other categories as well, but still accept Literature. Here are the contests ending this week:

#supernatural-art's Literature Contest [See link for details] (January 25th)
Pineapple Allergy Contest [See link for details] (January 29th)
One Year Later Contest (January 30th)
Lunar New Year Contest (January 30th)
Winter Contest - "Carol of the Bells" (January 31st)
"I can love myself" Contest (January 31st)
#Midnightanime's Contest (January 31st)
Out Your Window (January 31st)
Contest: An Emotion (January 31st)
The Winter Poetry Contest [Visual Poetry Only, please see link for details] (January 31st)
January Saijiki Contest [Eastern Poetry Only, please see link for details] (January 31st)
New Years Contest (January 31st)
S-C-R-E-A-M Contest (January 31st)





Regular Lit News Articles
[Bullet; Pink] Lit Bits - volume VI
[Bullet; Pink] Living Literature: Volume VII
[Bullet; Pink] The Ladies of Lit: Volume VI
[Bullet; Pink] Lit Fortnightly - 20 November 2010
[Bullet; Pink] Darkest Corners Lit: Issue 9
[Bullet; Pink] The LitLight: Issue 10
[Bullet; Pink] Love Literature: Issue 15
[Bullet; Pink] Fan Art Frenzy - [Volume XVIII]
[Bullet; Pink] Writers' Alert : Issue II
[Bullet; Pink] LitandNews Issue 2
[Bullet; Pink] The Poetry Newsletter - Issue 1
[Bullet; Pink] Useful Writing Blogs #2: A. Victoria Mixon, Editor
[New][Bullet; Pink] Legends of Literature: Vol I
[New][Bullet; Pink] The Lit-Seat: Vol I
[New][Bullet; Pink] Writers With a Promise - issue 2

General Resources
[Bullet; Pink] LadyLincoln's Journal
[Bullet; Pink] lovetodeviate's Resource Central [Now moved to apocathary’s journal]
[Bullet; Pink] mode-de-vie's Community Update Journal
[Bullet; Pink] #SixWordStories Community Happenings
[Bullet; Pink] WorldWar-Tori's Literature Resources
[Bullet; Pink] A List of Useful Writing Blogs

Writing Resources
[Bullet; Pink] Improving Readability in Prose
[Bullet; Pink] 10 Tips for Novel Writers
[Bullet; Pink] The Hard Work of Poetry
[Bullet; Pink] Tips For Editing Poetry
[Bullet; Pink] Guides and Lessons for Effective Writing

Critiquing and Miscelaneous Resources
[Bullet; Pink] The NonVerbal Thesaurus
[Bullet; Pink] How to Write Without Editing
[Bullet; Pink] Critiquing Fiction
[Bullet; Pink] Beta Reading Tutorial

Publishing Resources
[Bullet; Pink] SadisticIceCream's Publishing Resources List
[Bullet; Pink] leoraigarath's Resources on the Side
[Bullet; Pink] Submitting Your Work for Publication
[Bullet; Pink] On-Writing - Getting Published
[Bullet; Pink] Getting Published the Hard Way
[Bullet; Pink]  Tips on Self Publishing
[Bullet; Pink] Writing Exercise-Book Proposal
[Bullet; Pink] How to Get a Literary Agent
[Bullet; Pink] 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.]
[Bullet; Pink] Divertir Publishing is an independent publisher and they also publish short story collections. Check out their dA: DivertirPublishing

E-Zines/Magazines
[Bullet; Pink] Sparkbright Magazine
[Bullet; Pink] Harmless [Magazine]
[Bullet; Pink] One Million Pages Index
[Bullet; Pink] The Literati Review
[Bullet; Pink] Mimesis [Magazine]
[Bullet; Pink] The Clearfield Review
[Bullet; Pink] Barrier Islands Review
[Bullet; Pink] Queer.
[Bullet; Pink] Steampunk Tales
[Bullet; Pink] WalkingBlind [Magazine]
[Bullet; Pink] G.W. Review
[Bullet; Pink] Soundzine
[Bullet; Pink] Fuselit
[Bullet; Pink] The Missing Slate
[Bullet; Pink] SapphireTuesday
[Bullet; Pink] Bright Star (E-zine)
[Bullet; Pink] Title Goes Here





[New][Point Right] Two critics, a reporter and an affiliate admin are needed at Scribblers-Anonymous.

[New][Point Right] SongofthePoets is looking for two reporters.

[Point Right] devLIT is looking for admins to help keep the group running!

[Point Right] 35-prompts-challenge needs someone to take over the group.

[Point Right] Literature Moderator postions avaliable over at Realm-of-Fantasy.

[Point Right] Lyrics-Community need two admins to take control of the group.

[Point Right] Poetry-Knights is seeking members and contributors to get things going!

[Point Right] simplypoetry needs a Co-Admin, Commenters/Critiquers, and a News Feature Co-ordinator

[Point Right] Open Positions over at SixWordStories, they need: Language Moderators, Project Manager, Contest Manager, and a Prompt/Ideas Contributor.

[Point Right] LITplease needs admin and appraisers to help run The Favorites Project.

[Point Right] Open Staff Positions in Live-Love-Write: Two Critics.

[Point Right] WriMo-Writers is looking for "Hosts & Helpers" for the various WriMo's. More information can be found on their Join page.

[Point Right] writeaway will be closing down, unless they can find somone who is willing to take over.

[Point Right] A gallery, folder, member, and affilaite admin are needed at TheUnheardVoices [Widget on the right-hand side.]

[Point Right]  Adopt-A-Writer is looking for Support Staff and members to adopt others.

[Point Right] SuperWritersHelp needs some prose and poetry critics.

[Point Right] A committed journalist, a committed pr representative, a Discussions Manager, and an editor are needed at GuildofWriters

[Point Right] LitResources is looking for new staff.

[Point Right] TheAlt-Lit needs an Administrative Assistant, as well as various other positions. [Widget on left-hand side.]

[Point Right] More Contributers are wanted at Writers-Workshop

[Point Right] Authors-Ink needs group critics and a general admin!

[Point Right] Contributors and Head Reviewers are needed over at The-Writers-Review

[Point Right] Contributors are needed at Authors-of-Fantasy to help out with "group activities and other miscellaneous going-ons".

[Point Right] FantasyLiterature is Looking for Contributors.

[Point Right] Prosemonkeys is looking for a co-founder, contest manager, and a members manager.

[Point Right] suggestdds is looking for contributors!

[Point Right] Various staff is needed to help moderate galleries, provide input on future projects, perform interviews and provide more literature for their weekly features over at Literary-Visions.

[Point Right] distinctprose is looking for staff!

[Point Right] Experienced writers with an interest to helping members improve are needed over at ScribeSanctuary.

[Point Right] Writers-Club is looking for "Helpers" to focus on submissions.

[Point Right] Katsa2009's group, TheUnappreciatedArt needs a co-founder to help out!

[Point Right] YouAsTheNarrator is looking to fill the following positions: Gallery Cleaners, Gallery Commentors, Group Reporters, Chatroom Moderators and Group Advertisers




This week isn't a group, or even a club, it's a little blue bird that you've probably seen just about everywhere! Lit-Twitter was founded by :deIscariot-Priest: for those who are "tired of going through journals and news articles to find out what's happening in DevArt literature?" Over 800 people are already following Blue Thunder, are you? [Make sure to remind this little bird how amazing he is!]


Quick Links:
[Bullet; Pink] DevLit Twitter!
[Bullet; Pink] Twitter users on DA
[Bullet; Pink] Do you have a twitter?



^{If you're looking for some groups head over to leoraigarath's Literature Groups List or Realm-of-Fantasy's for their list of literature groups[Fantasy, Sci-fi and General], or you could always head over to my journal to see the small list I've compiled. Or if you're still not finding a group you like check out the list of all literature groups on dA: Click here!}




nycterent - nycterent's DD Suggestion Guidelines
GwenavhyeurAnastasia - GwenavhyeurAnastasia's DD Suggestion Guidelines
Halatia - Halatia's DD Suggestion Guidelines
Go on and send your literature DD suggestions to them! [:eager: by darkmoon3636]

#CRLiterature Community Relations Literature Chatroom
Literature CR Update - December 2010
Literature Daily Deviations - December 2010

Literature Forms
Fantasy Literature Forum
Lit Workshop Forum
Poetry and Prose Forum

[Note] FAQ #61: What is a Daily Deviation?
[Note] FAQ #18: Who selects the Daily Deviation and how is it chosen?
[Note] FAQ #873: What do I do when I disapprove of a Daily Deviation feature?

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[Bullet; Pink] Want your group to be spotlighted? 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 or comment on my Love dA Lit Journal! 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. ♥

Hugs, love and thanks to:
who will be checking this article over for mistakes, being generally wonderful and putting up with my silliness.
for helping out with the interviews, being my residential expert of all things publishing and also being amazing.
for helping keep a lookout for literature groups for me and being fantastic, of course.