Love dA Lit: Issue 127

May 12, 201328 min read

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Published: May 12, 2013

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Welcome to the one-hundred twenty-seventh 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 or project for two weeks. 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: Happy Mother's Day.

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Group News

Some news and updates from LivingLiterature
ThePoetryofDA has updated their Group News and Rules journal.
An update from Critical-Fame-Poetry.
Teenage-Writers has an "Exciting Project Idea For Writers And Artists"
PoetryVSTheWorld now has a prose folder and voting for their contest has begun.
"You may have noticed" is an update from Another-Poetry-Group
What's in a Nom, is House-of-Playwrights's latest journal.
TheWritersWareHouse wants to know "Which deviation demonstrates the 'Infinite' Prompt Best?"
Live-Love-Write's poetry contest is currently in the judging phase.
Updates from Heart-of-Poetry
The-Creative-Writer is looking for prizes for their contest.
NaPoWriMo is looking for a bit of feedback about the group.
A simple, quick and easy question from Authors-Club.
Apocalypse-writing posts a variety of journals: What would be your Apocalypse Soundtrack?, Affiliate Updates, and an informative journal about Critique/Constructive Comments
A general apology from ItsAllAboutWriting's founder.
A call for donations from Calling-All-Poetry.
The fold settings at Painted-From-Words's have been adjusted.
The group, Fiction-Writers, has a new contributor and starts up a discussion.
Kakikotoba's Promotional advertisements for your writing needs
EliteLiterature's poll: " In your opinion, are mind-altering agents (such as drugs) conducive to being creative?"

Literature Links [in other languages!]

NotreForteresseBrule's INTERVIEW XIV - ANKERSTILTE. [French]
LetraHispana's challenge is now closed. [Spanish]
A reminder from ArteScritta that voting is open until April 30th. [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

No group spotlight this week, instead tell me your favorite group on dA!

Looking for more groups?

leoraigarath's Literature Groups List
FanaticalPublishing lists a wide variety of literature groups.
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:

"Home" from Apocalypse-writing. [May 12th]
May 6th Prompt from Prompt-Bunnies. [May 12th]
"I Start My Day", the latest weekly prompt from TheWritersMeow [May 13th]
TheWritersWareHouse's weekly prompt is a deviation. [May 15th]
OfSweetSerendipity's Prompts #5 [May 19th]
There is a new Writing Prompt from Live-Love-Write. [May 19th]
Prompt #7 from TheSpokenTruth [May 19th]
Unseen-Writers's Theme of the Week: Butterfly
Two member suggested prompts are Poem-forthe-poemless' eighteenth weekly prompts.
Weekly Spontaneity: 57 from SixWordStories
A Weekly Prompt from Writers-Extrodinaire
skinnywords posts their April Prompt Four

Bi-Weekly:

theWrittenRevolution's bi-weekly Prompt: April 29, 2013 [May 12th]
Sports is Wordspill-Central's third prompt. [May 13th]
FotoFriday: Flight [May 17th]
"The Prompt Pool" from PoeticalCondition. [May 20th]
TheMarmaladeTree's Week Six prompts.
Tragedy is Authors-Academy's new prompt.

Monthly:

Letters-To-Myself's April Prompt: Dear You. [April 30th]
Feedback Pack--May Sign Up [May 1st]
SixWordStories' Word and Theme Prompts [May 20th]
May - Poetry Forms Challenge [May 25th]
ScreamPrompt #35, May 2013 [May 31st]
Crowns-of-Sonnets's May Prompt: Ekphrastic Poetry [May 31st]
TheMarmaladeTree's monthly 100-Prompt Challenge: May [May 31st]
Literary-Limits's May prompt is up. [May 31st]
Sacred-Literature's monthly prompt is "Write a poem about Night-time."

Other:

Love-Literature's weekly and monthly prompts.
Poetry Prompts courtesy of CrumpetsHarvey.
Another-Poetry-Group is hosting a 10 Minute Poetry Raw Challenge.
"Energy" is TheCritiquables's prompt.
"From the Shadows, You Hear a Voice..." is MidtownMagic's latest prompt.

Ongoing Challenges [No Deadline]:

The group, LiteratureJunkies has issued a Smell Story Challenge
Writing prompts from dA-Literature
A 50 Theme Challenge from Authors-Academy
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

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:

"If You Had to Walk in my Shoes" [Poetry Only] (June 1st)
Romanticize Daily Life [Poetry Only] (June 1st)
Fairytale Contest [5 page limit; please see link for details] (June 8th)
#Heart-of-Poetry's Contest [10 word maximum; please see link for details] (June 30th)
In Cahoots Collaboration Contest (September 1st) [Off dA Contest]
#Fiction-Writers's Contest (Deadline Unspecified)

Contests Ending This Week:

Contest Extensions:

LiteratureJunkies's contest now has a deadline: Character Contest (May 30th)
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
Happenings in the Literature Community
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?
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?

Contributors are needed over at LivingLiterature.
Writers--club is looking for critics.
A Contest Creator & Prizes Provider is needed at the group Written-Imagination
Story Scouts and general helpers are LiteraryCompass's current open positions.
FantasyLiterature would like another to help with upcoming projects.
RomanceforEveryone would like Bi-Weekly Blog Feature Manager, Bi-Weekly Blog Feature Helpers, Resources Director, Critique Approvers, and some General Administrators.
A new, active founder to take over fortheblueskies is wanted or the group will close.
Write2liveCancerFree would like some help.
FreeVersePoetry is hiring two critics.
knownames is looking for a blogger.
A founder is needed to take over FlashFictionLives or it will be shut down.
Contributors to help keep things running smoothly in LiterallyUnknown's backroom are wanted.
Poem-forthe-poemless is looking for someone to critique their weekly prompt submissions.
SixWordStories has put out a Call for Project Managers.
PoeticalCondition is hiring critics.
Various gallery moderators and some Co-Founders are need at Inspiring-Words.
One contributor is LiteratureforPoints's current open position.
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 another a co-founder.
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
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.
devLIT is looking for some extra help around the group.
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.
2 assistants, prize commissioners, 1 News crew, and critics are APictureToA1000Words’s current admin vacancies.
2 Affiliates/PR Admins, 2 Pay It Forward Admins, and 4 Critics are open at lacoterie.

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 - May 2013
Literature DD Roundup April 2013

Literature Forums
Literature Forum
Literature Forum Rules

Monthly Literature Critique Thread: May

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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