Love dA Lit: Issue 41

Welcome to the forty-first 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.

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Things that Require Attention
BeccaJS wants to know: TWO literature DDs a day! What are you going to do?
MadWords' Contest #1: Creation is underway!
The group, Wordsmiths-Guild has started a Collaborative Poem .
EliteLiterature is looking for talented and creative writers to join the group.
TWG's 2011 Re-Visioning Contest
nycterent announces the winners of her Birthday Poetry Results
An important update from the group, OutstandingWriters.
A Threefer from Sarah Stanton
Los Diablos Results
The Mentorship Project: Challenge Two, run by theWrittenRevolution has updated the due date.
knownames' poll: If you could write in the style of another poet you admire, who would it be?
The contest hosted by PoetryUK ends today, August 28th 23:59 GMT
TFP Features #58, #59, & #60
theWrittenRevolution will be hosting a Chat Event: Wednesday, August 31st
52 Week Six Word Story Challenge! - Week 34
Affiliate News and Contest Update from MadWords
Extra featureship, an extra feature from the group, Live-Write-Now.
A bit of and update from Doctrinaire
LitResources blog: Welcome to #LitResources.
The contest winners of knownames' previous contest have been announced.
Literary-Perceptions' Birthday Bash Mini-Contest has been extended to September 13th.
You would rather people enjoy: asks angelStained.
Update and Contest Prompt from EditorialSquad.
The group, ink-x, lists pieces that have requested critique.
RawEm0tion - Lit Feature 5
Deja Vu Contest
FantasyLiterature and Authors-of-Fantasy's Feedback Pack--September Sign Up
Authors-of-Fantasy and FantasyLiterature's Feedback Pack--August Wrap-Up
Beta-Readers' poll: If you're unhappy with your partner, or don't currently have one, will you apply for another?
Word Wars Chat Tour. See the schedule here.
Which of these themes would intrigue you enough to enter a Halloween contest? asks Memnalar.
A note and greetings from the group, Is-Est-Abyssus.
Attention Novel Writers
Creative Writing Course - Dialogue
Doctrinaire's poll: "Now that you don't have to await some uppity administrator to 'approve' you ... "How ya LIVIN, bay'?"
theWrittenRevolution's Mentorship Project: Challenge Two
The founder of Calling-All-Poetry will be away for a while but all group duties will still be handled by the remaining admins during this time.
An apology from theWritersFoundation's absence.
Do You Feel that there is "A Lack of Promotion" Within the Literature Community? asks LadyLincoln.
Announcments and updates from devLIT.
Open-Mic-Poetry has a new Critic/helper.
The contest hosted by Horror-Stories is ending in less than a week. [August 31st]
2011 June Haikuthon: Winners
Live-Write-Now's Weekly Feature winners.
Affiliate News and Contest Update from MadWords
Preview Images - Literature Lost in the Shuffle
FocusOnLit's poll: Restructuring Question: Which way would you like to see member submission folders labeled? (the current system will be changed)
The You Poem
Darkness Contest, hosted by wordflight
PoetryMagazine's FAQ has been updated.
Beta-Readers' August Member Spotlight
#SixWordStories Showcase: August 8 - August 22
knownames' Poet of the Month.
Live-Write-Now's Next Weekly Feature
Weeky Roundup & News Update
PoetryMagazine's Magazine is now published.
An update from Doctrinaire.
angelStained wants to know "Writing impresses you most when it:"
Vignettophiles' Comment Swap V.5
New Admin/Last Week's Prompt Feature/New Prompt from WritersAreArtistsToo
theWrittenRevolution's Featured Member XXXIV: ~Jupiter-shines
PowerfulWriting updates their Submission Guidelines with some new rules.
Writers Welcome Wagon Revival
The Ronin of Words Strikes! [And is looking for allies!]


Literature Links [in other languages!]
LetraHispana reminds it's members that it's activity deadline is September 5th. [Spanish]

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






Weekly:
lacoterie's Weekly Poetry and Prose Prompts
Live-Love-Write's Weekly Writing Prompt: "Empty Victories"
Literary-Perceptions' Prompt: Trust
"Death-In-Life Experience", the current weekly theme for RawEm0tion
devLIT's Weekly Prompt: “Write from the perspective of a stalker."
In the Family, the weekly writing prompt for LitResources
Writing Prompt #23 from FictionFridays.
"Labyrinths" is WritersOfTheMoon’s weekly prompt.
Penpa's prompt #8.
Literary-Visions' weekly prompts. [Widget on the right hand-side]
Changes, LovingHowYouWrite's current weekly prompt.
Live-Write-Now's Weekly Theme.
[New][Bullet; Pink] A phrase prompt is, WritersAreArtistsToo's weekly prompt.
[Bullet; Pink] Unseen-Writers' Theme of the Week: Industry
[New][Bullet; Pink] Wordsmiths-Guild's prompt.

Bi-Weekly:
[Bullet; Pink] OnlyPoetry's latest set of prompts.
[Bullet; Pink] Inked-Page's Bi Weekly Prompt
[Bullet; Pink] Inspiring-Words' Bi-Weekly Prompts - 30
[Bullet; Pink] Scribblers-Anonymous's prompts: Set 31!
[Bullet; Pink] Xpose-it's Bi-Weekly Writing Prompt: Nature
[Bullet; Pink] Letters to... a Cause
[Bullet; Pink] theWrittenRevolution's Bi-Weekly Prompt
[Bullet; Pink] dA-lta's Bi-Weekly Prompts
[Bullet; Pink] Bad Habit, YoungPoets' bi-weekly theme.
[Bullet; Pink] "My name is...", TheWritersMeow's newest prompt.
[Bullet; Pink] "Curiosity", the bi-weekly prompt from Poets-N-Prose.
[Bullet; Pink] PowerfulWriting's bi-weekly prompt.
[Bullet; Pink] transliterations' Prompt 8: The Beginning!

Monthly:
[Bullet; Pink] The August Monthly Theme of WriterSecretSanta.
[Bullet; Pink] WritersOfToday's Monthly Prompt
[Bullet; Pink] simplypoetry's March's Prompts and Submissions
[Bullet; Pink] simplyprose's April's prompts and submissions
[Bullet; Pink] Statue: Wordspill-Central's April prompt.
[Bullet; Pink] six-words's Issue 22
[Bullet; Pink] devLIT's Monthly Challenge: Summer Love
[Bullet; Pink] HammeredPoetry's Prompt #4: Etymoetry
[New][Bullet; Pink] SixWordStories' Word and Theme Prompts and Visual Stories Prompts
[Bullet; Pink] "Time", the monthly prompt at OneWordPrompt.
[Bullet; Pink] WriMo-Writers's Prompt for the Month of May: Deceit
[Bullet; Pink] The Truthful Liar, Live-Write-Now's monthly theme.

Other:
[New][Bullet; Pink] Bleeding--Ink's Writing Challenge 2 [September 15th]
[New][Bullet; Pink] Wordsmiths-Guild has started a Collaborative Poem [September 22nd].
[Bullet; Pink] #NeverbeAlone: Project Awareness - Self-Harm II [September]
[Bullet; Pink] Project Heart
[Bullet; Pink] Plot-A-Scene Workshop
[Bullet; Pink] ScreamPrompt #18, August 2011
[Bullet; Pink] Synthetic-Truth's Summer of Writing
[Bullet; Pink] theWrittenRevolution's prompts.
[New][Bullet; Pink] Six Word Story Challenge hosted by the groups: theWrittenRevolution, SixWordStories, Live-Love-Write and Literary-Perceptions
[Bullet; Pink] YouAsTheNarrator's Monthly, Bi-weekly, Bi-Weekly Music Prompt, and Crossed Adventures Prompts
[New][Bullet; Pink] LITplease's Poetry, Fiction and Non-Fiction Prompts
[Bullet; Pink] Project Nine Lives





TheShelfLife is a group "dedicated to promoting the published work of deviantART writers." Much like a library TheShelfLife has put together a list of deviants, entitled "The Shelf", who have been published in various ways. Learn more about this group by clicking here!


The ever amazing Memnalar agreed to let me ask him a few questions regarding TheShelfLife.


[Star!]How is TheShelfLife different from the other literature groups on dA?
My group has sharks and ice cream and airships and will save you money on your car insurance! No, those are lies. Filthy lies. What TheShelfLife actually does is attempt to promote the published work of writers on deviantART in something resembling a centralized location. As far as I know, it's the only Lit group on dA with that specific mission, although there are groups that serve as the dA portal for independent publishing companies, zines, and other such entities.

[Star!]What was your goal when you began TheShelfLife? Has that changed?
While I was a Lit GM, I started posting interviews in a small series called "Deviants in Print," in which I picked the brains of dA writers who had been published by traditional or nontraditional means. I eventually came to realize that there are quite a few dA folk who have achieved publishing credits, and rather than (or in addition to) trying to interview these people one at a time all by myself, it might be useful to make a group dedicated to promoting them and their work.

The goal hasn't changed, but my outlook on the group has. Since getting started, I'm figuring out that this is quite a bit of work for one person, so I'm looking toward swelling the ranks of Contributors on the site to provide aid in posting blogs promoting dA's published writers.

[Star!]In your opinion, what do you think is the most challenging aspect of getting published?
That's a deceptively simple question, and a lot depends on whether we're talking about traditional publishing (in which you send queries and manuscripts off to a periodical, magazine, publisher, etc.) and nontraditional publishing (self-publishing, print-on-demand, and so forth).

Generally speaking, I think it comes down to educating yourself as to the realities of publishing no matter which avenue you intend to follow. Knowing the markets, learning the ebb and flow of the process, keeping up with trends, and doing your homework as to the do's and don'ts of the business will reap dividends in peace of mind, reputation and (hopefully) actual money.

[Star!]Do you have any advice for those wanting to get their work published?
I would refer them to people who are doing it much more successfully (and explain it much more entertainingly) than I.

Deviants in Print articles:
Todd Keisling news.deviantart.com/article/12…
D.L. Meyer news.deviantart.com/article/12…
E. Kristin Anderson news.deviantart.com/article/13…
Maija Haavisto news.deviantart.com/article/14…

[Star!]Anything else of note that you would like to share?
Only that the vast resources in the dA Literature community cannot be overstated, nor should they be overlooked.

Resource Central: (created by lovetodeviate, now maintained by apocathary) apocathary.deviantart.com/jour…
Publishing Resources List (maintained by SadisticIceCream) sadisticicecream.deviantart.co…
Groups like Adopt-A-Writer, Writers-Workshop, CRLiterature and many more.

But this above all: Participate. Talk to people. Ask questions. Offer commentary on the writing of others, and be an adult when someone comments on yours. Becoming a good writer and getting published are as much a matter of interpersonal communication as they are about attention to the craft. Get good at both.


Quick Links:
[Bullet; Pink] Gallery
[Bullet; Pink] #TheShelfLife's Blog


If you're looking for some more 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!




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:


[Star!]Brotherhood Contest (August 29th)
[Star!]Multi-Theme Contest (August 29th)
[Star!]A Look Ahead (August 29th)
[New][Star!]Short Fiction Contest [Please see link for details](August 30th)
[New][Star!]Fairy Tales Retold (August 30th)
[New][Star!]Rad the Delightfully Bad – A Lit Contest [Prose only 2,000-4,000 words; please see link for details] (August 31st)
[New][Star!]Narrow Roads Contest [Haibun and Haiga poetry forms only, please see link for details] (August 31st)
[New][Star!]Summer [Please see link for details] (August 31st)
[New][Star!]Resident Evil enemies on Holiday Contest (August 31st)
[New][Star!]Fall [Poetry only, please see link for details] (August 31st)
[New][Star!]Different Seasons, Different Tastes (August 31st)
[New][Star!]Beautiful Monster  (August 31st)
[New][Star!]From Song to Short Story I [Minimum 800 words, prose only; please see link for details]  (August 31st)
[New][Star!]#KillingTheMessenger's July-August Contest (August 31st)
[New][Star!]Inner Demon(s) [1,200 word limit, 15 lines, 500 word limit for short stories; please see link for details] (August 31st)
[New][Star!]Poem or Song Lyric Contest (August 31st)
[New][Star!]Memories Long Gone Contest (September 1st)
[New][Star!]Summer Haze Contest (September 1st)
[New][Star!]Creating What You Can’t See (September 1st)
[New][Star!] #I-Write-to-Express' Contest (September 1st)
[New][Star!]SxZ Contest (September 1st)
[New][Star!]Science Fiction Novellas & Novelettes (September 2nd) [Off dA Contest]
[New][Star!]Darkness (September 2nd)





Regular Lit News Articles
[Bullet; Pink] LitBits - vol.VIII
[Bullet; Pink] The Ladies of Lit: Volume XIII
[Bullet; Pink] Darkest Corners LIT 13- Ongoing Series
[Bullet; Pink] Useful Writing Blogs #5: Wordplay
[Bullet; Pink] Writers With a Promise - Issue 8
[New][Bullet; Pink] Friday Night Features XI
[Bullet; Pink] Deviant Dossier: IrrevocableFate
[New][Bullet; Pink] Wonderful critics, wonderful writers #3 and Wonderful critics, wonderful writers #4
[New][Bullet; Pink] PoetryToTheMasses Weekly Feature 26
[Bullet; Pink] A Little Birdie Told Me...Vol. III


General Resources
[New][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] devLIT's Literary Happenings
[Bullet; Pink] WorldWar-Tori's Literature Resources
[Bullet; Pink] A List of Useful Writing Blogs
[Bullet; Pink] #Critique-It's Resources: Writing
[New][Bullet; Pink] #Mythologue's Literary Resources
[Bullet; Pink] #FantasyLiterature's Helpful Links

Writing Resources
[New][Bullet; Pink] Writing Resources for Everyone
[Bullet; Pink] Guides and Lessons for Effective Writing
[Bullet; Pink] LaMonaca's Writing Guides
[Bullet; Pink] LitResources' folder for Literature Tutorials
[Bullet; Pink] How to Write Euphonically
[Bullet; Pink] OokamiKasumi's Writing Tips and Tricks
[New][Bullet; Pink] Ten Tips for Writing
[Bullet; Pink] 10 Tips for Novel Writers
[Bullet; Pink] Three Act Structure
[Bullet; Pink] Style vs. Voice - A Guide
[Bullet; Pink] The Hard Work of Poetry
[Bullet; Pink] Tips For Editing Poetry
[Bullet; Pink] Haiku Theory Part 1
[Bullet; Pink] Poetic Forms

Critiquing and Miscellaneous Resources
[Bullet; Pink] Search Engines for Serious Writers
[Bullet; Pink] The NonVerbal Thesaurus
[Bullet; Pink] How to Write Without Editing
[Bullet; Pink] Critiquing Fiction
[Bullet; Pink] Prose Critique Basics
[Bullet; Pink] Beta Reading Tutorial
[Bullet; Pink] A Verbose Guide to Critiquing
[Bullet; Pink] Murdering Mary Sue
[Bullet; Pink] Characterization and Names
[Bullet; Pink] Rehab for Roleplayers

Publishing Resources
[Bullet; Pink] SadisticIceCream's Publishing Resources List
[Bullet; Pink] leoraigarath's Resources on the Side
[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
[Bullet; Pink] An Idiot's Guide to Publishing

E-Zines/Magazines
[Bullet; Pink] Harmless [Magazine]
[Bullet; Pink] Queer.
[Bullet; Pink] Steampunk Tales
[Bullet; Pink] G.W. Review
[Bullet; Pink] Soundzine
[Bullet; Pink] Fuselit
[Bullet; Pink] The Missing Slate
[Bullet; Pink] SapphireTuesday
[Bullet; Pink] Title Goes Here
[Bullet; Pink] Second Look
[Bullet; Pink] Verandah Literary Journal
[Bullet; Pink] Chameleon Dream
[Bullet; Pink] Machine of Death
[Bullet; Pink] Cram Magazine
[Bullet; Pink] Voiceworks
[Bullet; Pink] Shimmer





[New][Point Right] ShortStackStories is looking for someone to help run the group.

Updated: [Point Right] DailyLitDeviations is in desperate need of General Admins.

[Point Right] Applications for administartors are open for YoungPoets.

[Point Right] Two Contributors are wanted at Written-Love.

[Point Right] The group, Lit-Community's current founder is stepping down and is looking for someone to fill the position.

[Point Right] Poets-N-Prose is looking for volunteers to host a workshop

[Point Right] A Poetry Co-Admin is needed at WritersAreArtistsToo.

[Point Right] Community Liasons, TFP Appraises and Critics are needed over at LITplease.

[Point Right] Literature Moderator positions available over at Realm-of-Fantasy.

[Point Right] Deviant-Mentor needs Literature Mentors!

[Point Right] Two Contributors are needed in the group, OutstandingWriters.

[Point Right] Applications for two contributors, or co-founders, are wanted at PPPLit.

[Point Right] A Co-Founder or Founder is needed at writeaway.

[Point Right] Mythologue is in need of 5 Language moderators[French, Italian, Spanish, German, and English] and critic admins.

[Point Right] Open Positions over at SixWordStories, they need: Project Managers and Contest Managers.

[Point Right] 10 Critiquers, 5 Lit-Pickers, 2 Affiliate Admins, and 1 Contest Admin are needed at LitResources.

[Point Right] Poetry-101 has open admin positions.

[Point Right] Critics and Commentors are open for applications over at Live-Love-Write.

[Point Right] Critics, admins, and a team to help keep members "motivated, inspired and more involved" are needed at devLIT

[Point Right] A Contest admin is needed for the group Lit-WIP.

[Point Right] 2 Moderator Positions are open at HuesOfReality.

[Point Right] GrammarNaziCritiques is looking for poetry critics.

[Point Right] YouAsTheNarrator is looking to fill the following positions: 2 Gallery Moderators, 1 Character Bio Moderator, 4 Chatroom Moderators, 4 Promotion Moderators, 2 Gallery Contributors, and Comment Contributors.

[Point Right] Critiquers are needed at FantasyAuthorsGuild.

[Point Right] SuperWritersHelp is in need of more poetry critics.

[Point Right] 2 Afilliates/PR Admins, 3 Pay It Forward Admins, and 4 Critics are open at lacoterie.

[Point Right] Scribblers-Anonymous is still looking for a reporter.

[Point Right] Members to host workshops are wanted at Writers-Workshop

[Point Right] Various staff is needed to help with Gallery Moderation, Literature interviews, Prompt suggestions and postings, Polls, and Blog posts. over at Literary-Visions.

[Point Right] Prompts and Affiliates Admin positions are open at PennedPaper

[Point Right] Some greeters are needed for the group, RawEm0tion.

[Point Right] TheAlt-Lit has various positions open. [Widget on left-hand side.]

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





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

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[Note] FAQ #18: Who selects the Daily Deviation and how is it chosen?
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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! 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:
for letting me help run LITplease's Community Portal and spamming her inbox with countless notes, all while being wonderful.
for helping keep a lookout for literature groups for me and being fantastic, of course.
who is the newest LITplease Community Liason and will be helping me with gathering information while being fabulous.