Love dA Lit: Issue 121

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Published: Apr 1, 2013

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Welcome to the one-hundred twenty-first 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: If you haven't noticed April is a busy month for writers with NaPoWriMo, Camp NaNoWriMo, and Script Frenzy! That means lots of news revolving around these events.

LITplease's Community Portal

A Smattering of Lit News

Navigation

Literature Links

NaPoWriMo 2013
Get Ready for Camp!
ScriptFrenzy Is Nearly Here!
Preparing for NaPoWriMo
Grand Opening Wrap Up
Features: Week Two
Customize Your Literature Thumbnails
Undiscovered Weekly: Literature
Weekly Feature: Spoken Word
inknalcohol posts a couple of polls: "NaPo is approaching. How do you prepare for it?" and " What are YOU doing in April?"
Free Cake for ^Neurotype!
Interview with ~apple-fresh
WritersInk's Weekly Round-Up
Forum Discussion: Do you reread?
NaPoWriMo Is Coming
FotoFriday: The ReLaunch!
Reprobates Debate: Capitalization
Setting Up an Account With Lightning Source
Literature Gallery Restructure, The Lit gallery is getting an overhaul, please weigh-in!

Group News

Voting for LiteratureforPoints's Easter contest has begun.
Request Critic Feature and update from Soul-Poets.
The First Love Haiku Contest winners have been announced. Contest hosted by The-Writers-Study
Reminders from poetic-clan.
A Map For April, Expose-Lit journal detailing what is going on this month.
Group Status and Sundry from TheWritersMeow
Welcoming Back Wordspill!
Crowns-of-Sonnets posts a journal about National Poetry Writing Month
Poem-forthe-poemless posts an and update on their features.
Want a sneak peak of NaPoWriMo's plans? Here you go.
EliteLiterature's Lit of the Week 66! `Infinite-Heart, ~saevusWinds and ~Pr0metheusUnb0und
Contest(2) Opinion-Options a journal from poetic-clan about an upcoming contest.
The current founder of knownames is stepping down and names the new founder.
LivingLiterature introduces a A New [group gallery] Category: Allegory
April is poetry month, a journal from skinnywords
Some recent news from StoriesAndPoemsClub.
The Bi-weekly winner for SeductiveInkWell's SIW Author of the Year has been announced.
Word wars is back, with it's own group, WordWars, and posts a few helpful blogs: Chatroom Rules and Word Wars: Instructions, Tips, FAQ
FreeInVerse has an update and a question to ask regarding submissions.
A hey there and update on submissions from WriterArt
Tip-A-Day: brought to you by James. V. Smith, Jr. a journal from How-To-Write-A-Book
Novels-Only asks "How good are you at keeping up with your dA messages?"
Some updates and such from Short-Stories
My-Soul-Bleeds-Ink wants you to Vote for your favourite Kyrielle and let's have a winner!
PoeticalCondition's Member of March
poetry-book reveals the Scratch That! Round 6 Results, announces the starts of Round 7, and welcomes their new temporary admin.
Some new news from Authors-Club.
Calling-All-Poetry posts an update and has some new poems of the week.
FreeVersePoetry posts their Affiliate Contests and Recent Blogs, a journal about NaPoWriMo - April 2013, asks "Will you be participating in NaPoWriMo?, and announced their First contest Winner.
Opinions on Opinions a discussion journal by TheControversy.
Camp NaNoWriMo a journal from NaNoWriM0.
theWrittenRevolution posts some blogs about Script Frenzy 2013 and NaPoWriMo 2013, then a poll: " Not a poet or a playwright? Need an incentive to write in April? Camp NaNoWriMo is going on in April!
The Mini Contest results from PoetryVSTheWorld have been announced as well as the ending of their April Tournament has begun.
#Writers4Life Book Cafe
TheCritiquables posts some group and affiliate updates.
Community News, posted by Lit-WIP
An update about expired submissions from DearWriter.
The group, FreeInVerse, is active again and submissions are open.
Prosepoetry-Elegance posts a group refresher
"What do YOU want? from Writers-Workshop.
15-Minutes-of-Fame will be Back April 1 with some changes
Grab your corset, darling, we're going to a ball. dA-lta invites you.

Literature Links [in other languages!]

GermanWrittings discusses some folder options. [German]
LetraHispana has hit their 500 member milestone and has some contest updates. [Spanish]
NotreForteresseBrule posts some updates from their affiliates [French]
ArteScritta's contest ends on March 31st. [Italian]

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

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Group Spotlight

The group spotlight will return next week!

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:

There is a new Writing Prompt from Live-Love-Write. [March 31st]
Unseen-Writers's Theme of the Week: Cravings
Ecrit-de-la-poesie has started up their weekly prompts again and "Tissue boxes" is this week's prompt.
"Average" is Poem-forthe-poemless' fourteenth weekly prompt.
Weekly Spontaneity: 51 from SixWordStories
"Eggrolls" is wordflight's latest weekly prompt.

Bi-Weekly:

ITU Prompt 4 - January 15th, 2013 [March 15th]
theWrittenRevolution's bi-weekly Prompt: March 18, 2013 [March 31st]
"Death and Chocolate" is PoeticalCondition's Bi-Monthly prompt. [April 8th]
Prompt #8 from Freedom-From-Words
Week five prompts from paper-forests

Monthly:

March Prompt from Wordsmiths-Guild [March 30th]
Letters-To-Myself's February Prompt: Letters About Luck. [March 31st]
Prompt #8: Clover Triplets from Literary-Limits [March 31st]
March Prompt:"Anti-Emotional" from KnightsOfRomance. [March 31st]
SixWordStories' Word and Theme Prompts [April 8th]
ScreamPrompt ##34, April 2013 [April 29th]
Sacred-Literature's monthly prompt is "Write a poem about Night-time."

Workshops:

None

Other:

Poetry Poker Challenge [March 31st]
PoetryVSTheWorld has opened Sign-ups for April's Writing Tourney [March 31st]
lacoterie's Weekly Challenges and prompts [March 31st]
TheMarmaladeTree's monthly 100-Prompt Challenge: April [April 31st]
Love-Literature's weekly and monthly prompts.
prompt 2.5 from skinnywords
Another-Poetry-Group is hosting a 10 Minute Poetry Raw Challenge.
My-Soul-Bleeds-Ink's March - Poetry Forms Challenge
We-Poets has some various prompts.
"Energy" is TheCritiquables's prompt.
"From the Shadows, You Hear a Voice..." is MidtownMagic's latest prompt.
A Valentines Day challenge from Proofreading-Office.

Ongoing Challenges [No Deadline]:

Shelf-of-Friends' Collaboration Project
The group, LiteratureJunkies has issued a Smell Story Challenge
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.
100 Poem Topics from Wordsmiths-Guild
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:

Title Poem Contest [Please see link for details] (April 10th)
"Awakening or Asleepening" [1,500 word minimum; 3,000 word maximum] (April 22nd)
"The Best of You" [Poetry only] (April 27th)
Brevity Is the Soul of Lit Contest [Poetry only] (April 31st)
"Claymation" (May 1st)
Earth Day, Every Day Contest (May 6th)
Underwater Life Contest (May 12th)
#GrimGloomTale "Hidden in the forest" Contest (May 24th)
Albi's 3-n-1 MegaContest [Please see link for details] (June 15th)
#Writers-Of-Our-Time's Poetry Contest (Deadline Unspecified)

Contests Ending This Week:

Unexpected Love Contest [Poetry only] (March 31st)
Twisted Valentines Contest II (March 31st)
SixWordStories Contest [Six word stories only] (March 31st)
Prompt Contest (March 31st)
#LiteratureforPoints March 2013 Contest [500-2000 word limit for prose; 10-20 line word limit for poetry] (March 31st)
'First Love' Haiku [Haiku only; please see link for details] (March 31st)
#Project Comment's Contest [Please see link for details] (March 31st)
Mea Culpa (April 1st)
A ghost in love [Please see link for details] (April 1st)
The Naked Truth [3,500 word max for prose; 30 line limit for poetry] (April 1st)
Greek Mythology Contest [Poetry only] (April 1st)
Leap of Faith Contest [250 word minimum; 1,000 word maximum] (April 2nd)
#How-To-Write-A-Book's April Holiday Contest (April 5th)

Contest Extensions:

mirz333's Valentine's Contest has been extended until May 31st

Menagerie of Literature Contests: Updated 5/27

Literature Contests and Contests That Accept Literature!

New Contests: 3
Last Updated: May 27th
Last Time Posted: May 27th
Don't forget this exists, I hit the "notify your watchers" around every 3 months so you don't have any excuse.

Now you can get straight to work on those contest entries.

January
February
March
April
May

Here is my 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
#PoeticalCondition's Community Update III
#FreeVersePoetry's Community Updates
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 Tips, Finding A Muse

Writing Resources [General]

Prose Resources

Poetry Resources

Critiquing and Miscellaneous Resources

Publishing Resources

SadisticIceCream's Publishing Resources List
Writing Opportunities (Publishing)
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?

FightToWrite needs a founder.
PoeticalCondition is hiring critics.
2 Critics and 2 Bloggers are the current open positions at FreeVersePoetry
Contributors wanted at LiterallyUnknown
Story Scouts and general helpers are LiteraryCompass's current open positions.
Various gallery moderators and some Co-Founders are need at Inspiring-Words.
FantasyLiterature would like a few more admins to help with upcoming projects.
TheBackOfTheBook is seeking more admins.
A founder to run the group Apocalypse-writing is needed.
One contributor is LiteratureforPoints's current open position.
TheWritersMeow is seeking 7 different gallery moderators.
A Contest Creator & Prizes Provider is needed at the group Written-Imagination
SuperWritersHelp is in need of poetry and prose critics.
One Contributor is wanted at Sacred-Literature.
2 Poetry, 2 Prose and 1 Foreign Language Admin are the open positions at DailyLitDeviations.
Creative-Writers is looking for an admin to help run the group.
A Contributor to help out the group, Literary-Perceptions is wanted.
FictionWriters101 needs a co-founder and 3 contributors.
SixWordStories has put out a Call for Contributors.
Critics are wanted in the group, GrammarNaziCritiques
JustKeepWriting is looking to find someone to post their Weekly Selections feature.
On-going admin positions are currently available at NaHaiWriMo
Some admins are wanted to help with the group, WritersOfTheWorld
A new founder is wanted to take over the group, Painted-From-Words.
Tutorial and motivational article writes are wanted at writeaway.
One co-founder is wanted to help keep the group running smoothly at Authors-Academy
A founder is needed at the group, BleedingHeartsPoetry.
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.
Contributors are needed at TheScribblists.
General Administrators are wanted at Poetry-is-AWESOME.
Two Match Makers are Beta-Readers' current open positions.
1 Community Liaison and 2 Critics are needed over at LITplease.
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.
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.
EditorialSquad is in need of various staff.
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.

Literature Community Relations

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 - January 2013 / February 2013
February's Literature Daily Deviations

Literature Forums
Literature Forum
Literature Forum Rules

Monthly Literature Critique Thread: March

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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