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Welcome to the seventy-eigth issue of my weekly news article, 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: Happy Mother's Day.
Literature Links | Group Spotlight | Workshops, Prompts and Challenges
Literature Contests | Resources | Open Admin Positions
Literature Community Relations | Contacting Me
Literature Links [in other languages!]
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Poets-Refuge is a large group catering specifically to poetry. Their aim is to help poets of different types get their work recognized.Click here to learn more about this group's admins!
Quick Links:
Looking for more groups?
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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Weekly:
Bi-Weekly:
Monthly:
Workshops and Challenges:
Other:
Ongoing Challenges[No Deadline]:
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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:
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Regular Lit Articles
General Resources
Writing Resources [General]
Prose Resources
Poetry Resources
Critiquing and Miscellaneous Resources
Publishing Resources
E-Zines/Magazines
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thorns - thorn's DD Suggestion Guidelines
ikazon - lightningmonkey's DD Suggestion Guidelines
BeccaJS - Beccalicious' DD Suggestion Guidelines
Go on and send your literature DD suggestions to them!
#CRLiterature Community Relations Literature Chatroom
Literature CR Update - April 2012
April's Literature Daily Deviations
Literature Forums
Literature Forum
Posting Guidelines - Literature Forum
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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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. ♥
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.
a LITplease Community Liason and will be helping me with gathering information while being fabulous.
another LITplease Community Liason who will be helping gather even more information and continuing to be awesome.
recently hopped on board and became a Community Liason, so go give her a warm welcome, she's rather amazing.
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Note: Happy Mother's Day.
This week's group spotlight is Poets-Refuge!
LITplease's Community Portal
Navigation
Literature Links | Group Spotlight | Workshops, Prompts and Challenges
Literature Contests | Resources | Open Admin Positions
Literature Community Relations | Contacting Me
Literature Links
- Today, May 13th at 6:00 pm EST, hosted by LadyLincoln, there will be a special Ladies of Lit critique Q and A session with CJWilde.
- Results of the Literature Community Fundraiser!
- "Would monthly/seasonal prizes (most likely points) encourage you to use our prompts?" asks FantasyAuthorsGuild
- WritersInk's Write Off - Debrief
- We-Write-To-Escape updates about their contest.
- An update and some input requested from Unabashed-Words.
- Group News from LiteratureforPoints.
- 15-Minutes-of-Fame is reopening, but will take some time to get back up to speed.
- Poem of the Week - #32
- LovingLiterature implments some new rules.
- All About Bunny02: An Interview
- Temporary Folder Closings from ink-slingers.
- Interview with Evanescencesithlord6!
- "What suggestions do you have for the next contest?" asks Love-Literature.
- knownames announcesthe winner of their mini contest.
- #SixWordStories: Monthly Showcase
- Some long awaited results of Write-Original's contest have been announced.
- Poets-Refuge's contest is over.
- LiteraryAbandon blogs about Camp NaNoWriMo.
- WritersInk's Write Off: Rules!
- An apology from Bleeding--Ink's founder.
- The group, FocusOnLit, will be hosting a write-in on May 14th at 7pm EST.
- vespera and sunshinegypsy have started up their own online literary publication, choodaloodaling.
- Voting for Horror-Stories' contest will continue until the end of May.
- Exquisite Corpse Variation 1: Lottery (Results!)
- #SixWordStories Showcase: April 23rd - May 7th
- An update and a slight change to submissions from LaRevolucionEscrita.
- Maurice Sendak Dies at 83
- Naturally-Written has updated their submission guidelines.
- RavensQuill's poll: "It's Children's Book Week. What was your favorite books growing up, and why?"
- neurotype-on-discord is looking for "people who are experienced at networking with writers" to help start up a lit magazine.
- RomanceWriters123 gives a welcome to their newest contributors.
- The Winners of the Aki Saijiki Contest have been announced.
- A personal update from the founder of WrittenLegacy.
- Lots of updates, Monthly Literature Feature and Monthly prose Feature from Love-Literature
- WritersInk's Weekly Round-Up!
- Teenage-Writers posts an update and may cancel their contest.
- Weekly Selection #13 and a hello from JustKeepWriting
- Site Update: New Sta.sh Writer Toolbar
- Announcing the deviantART Creative Grants
Literature Links [in other languages!]
- The votes for MiniSagas' contest have been tallied. [Spanish]
- The results of LiteraturaBR's April contest have been announced. [Portuguese]
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Poets-Refuge is a large group catering specifically to poetry. Their aim is to help poets of different types get their work recognized.Click here to learn more about this group's admins!
Quick Links:
- Gallery
- Group Rules [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.
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:
- Heart-of-Poetry's weekly prompt: Prompt #8
- Live-Love-Write's Weekly Writing Prompt: "Sunny Days"[April 27th]
- "Fill in the Blanks", the current weekly theme for RawEm0tion
- Live-Write-Now's Weekly Themes.
- Unseen-Writers' Theme of the Week: Helplessness
- House-of-Playwrights' second May weekly prompt is a Theme/Quote Duo.
- Week 2.5 Prompt of lit-lash's weekly prompts has begun.
- Progression is FightToWrite's theme of the week.
- "Time and Sorrow" is Morbid-Poets’ weekly prompt.
- Raininginhawaiipoems' weekly prompt is "Inertia".
- Writers-Togethers Wednesday Writing Theme: Life, hope, dreams..
- WritersAreArtistsToo's Writing Wednesdays Prompt.
- Weekly Spontaneity from SixWordStories
- LiterarySanctuary's Weekly Prompt.
Bi-Weekly:
- Inspiring-Words' Bi-Weekly Prompts - 40
- Scribblers-Anonymous' prompts: Set 32!
- Bi-Weekly Prompts: May 6th, 2012 from theWrittenRevolution.
- "Write to a song that is moving to you." is Love-4-Dark-Poetry's bi-weekly prompt.
- "Rain", Love-Literature's bi-weekly prompt.
- "Writing your heart out ", FeatheredWords' bi-weekly prompt.
- Letters-To-Myself's Writing Prompt: Letters To a sibling/siblings.
- Surprises, Literary-Perceptions' bi-weekly prompt.
- Unabashed-Words' Prose and Poetry Weekly Prompt.
- "Power" is WritersOfTheMoon's bi-weekly prompt.
Monthly:
- LiterarySanctuary's May Prompt
- "What is my wish?" Lit-WIP's first monthly prompt.
- SixWordStories' Word and Theme Prompts
- ScreamPrompt #25, April 2012 [April 30th]
- The February Monthly Theme of WriterSecretSanta has begun.
- Horror-Stories' May Monthly Theme.
- Creation is Live-Write-Now's current monthly prompt.
- Unseen-Writers' Monthly Challenge: March
- Spring OneWordPrompt's monthly prompt.
Workshops and Challenges:
- InCahootsLiterature and Self-Publishing's Collab Challenge: "Before I'm XXX"
- FocusOnLit's Interview with a Villain Workshop
- "An Argument" TenderPassion's current challenge. [May 31st]
- May Forms Challenge [May 23rd]
- A FreeWriters Marathon[October 31st]
- Literature Lesson 1.04, Literature Lesson 1.03, Literature Lesson 1.02, Literature Lesson 1.01
- Vignettophiles' Comment Swap VII[Every 1st and 15th of the month.]
- Authors-of-Fantasy and FantasyLiterature'sFeedback Pack--April Wrap Up/May Sign Up[Monthly]
Other:
- Exquisite Corpse Variation 2: Tennis[May 26th]
- One word challenge from Calling-All-Poetry
- YouAsTheNarrator's weekly, bi-weekly and monthly prompts.
- "Spring", the current prompt over at Soul-Poets.
- Terza Rima Challenge, hosted by InCahootsLiterature.
- PromptMe's Prompt #5
- Poetic Journey Project hosted by Masters-of-Poetry.
- Naturally-Written's Phrase Prompt #4
- Wordsmiths-Guild's Word Prompt.
- Flash Fiction Lives: Creation 4: 55
- LITplease's Poetry and Fiction Prompts: #15: The Inner Child's Switch [May 15th]
Ongoing Challenges[No Deadline]:
- SixWordStories’ Inspiration Project Take II-- May
- Write 50 Reason's Why You Love Yourself Challenge
- 100 Word Challenge hosted by JustKeepWriting
- A List of Prompts from FeatheredWords.
- full-moon-poetry's 18 themes.
- LITplease's 100 Themes Challenge
- Project Nine Lives
- Writers-Universal's Publicity Project
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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:
- #WeeklyLitContests's Opening Contest (May 25th)
- Navigating deviantART [Tutorials only; written tutorials are accepted; please see link for details] (May 31st)
- Spring Time Revival Contest [Poetry: 250 word limit; Prose: 800 word limit; please see link for details] (June 9th)
- Haiku Contest [Haiku only; please see link for details] (June 12th)
- Fallen Angel (June 16th)
- MJ Tribute Contest (June 19th)
- It's just a Myth-tery (June 20th)
Contests Ending This Week:
- deviantART Related Collaboration Contest [Please see link for details] (May 15th)
- #JohnnyDeppfans4ever's Contest [Poetry only; please see link for details] (May 15th)
- Lit-Visual Alliance Contest [Deadline extended; please see link for details](May 15th)
- Two Sentences [Deadline extended; please see link for details] (May 16th)
- Prompt Contest (May 18th)
- ToothSoup Competition [Australian writers only; please read submission guidelines and off-site link for details] (May 18th)[Off dA Contest]
- ~LadyMacbeth1755's Contest [Poetry and fan-fiction accepted; please see link for details] (May 20th)
- "Before and After" Contest (May 21st)
Contest Extensions:
Please click here for the full list of contests!
There is also a group dedicated to Literature contests around dA, DALiteratureContests, if you're still looking for more contests!
There is also a group dedicated to Literature contests around dA, DALiteratureContests, if you're still looking for more contests!
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Resources
Regular Lit Articles
- Lit Fortnightly - 25 April 2012
- The Lit List: Issue 01
- Lit Up! Vol. V
- Spotlight on Lit, vol 1.2
- The Ladies of Lit: Volume XXI
- Writers With a Promise - Issue 14
- Friday Night Features XLVII
- PoetryToTheMasses Weekly Feature 63
- The Saturday Spotlight for March 31st, 2012
- DLD to DD May 11th, 2012
- Novel Tease Newsletter - Issue 6
- Wonderful critics, wonderful writers 5
- The Acrostics Series: BornBlitzed
- Demonstrably Deviant: Issue IV
- Name Your Droppings vol. 2
- 30 Writers You Should Discover: Volume IX
- The Favorites Project Features #141, #142 and #143
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
- mode-de-vie's Community Update Journal
- #SixWordStories Community Happenings
- WorldWar-Tori's Literature Resources
- #Critique-It's Resources: Writing
- #Mythologue's Literary Resources
- #FantasyLiterature's Helpful Links
Writing Resources [General]
- Writing Resources for Everyone
- A Quick Guide Index: Writing Tutorials
- Jump Start Your Story
- Guides and Lessons for Effective Writing
- LaMonaca's Writing Guides
- LitResources' folder for Literature Tutorials
- How to Write Euphonically
- OokamiKasumi's Writing Tips and Tricks
- English 101 Index: A Grammar Series
Prose Resources
- ElaineRose's Writing Lessons
- Ten Tips for Writing
- 10 Tips for Novel Writers
- Style vs. Voice - A Guide
- Grammar and Your Story
- Three Act Structure
Poetry Resources
- The Hard Work of Poetry
- Tips For Editing Poetry
- Haiku Theory Part 1
- Poetic Forms
- Poetry Self-Edit Quick Start Guide and Checklist
- "Poeticks: On Imagery" 1 of 3, "Poeticks: On Imagery" 2 of 3, and "Poeticks: On Imagery" 2 of 3
Critiquing and Miscellaneous Resources
- Search Engines for Serious Writers
- The NonVerbal Thesaurus
- How to Write Without Editing
- Writing Useful Critiques
- Critiquing Fiction
- Prose Critique Basics
- Beta Reading Tutorial
- A Verbose Guide to Critiquing
- Murdering Mary Sue
- Extrasuperfabulous
- Characterization and Names
- Character Development: From Beginning to End
- Rehab for Roleplayers
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
- 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.]
- Current 2012 Canadian Magazine Writing Contests
- Divertir Publishing is an independent publisher and they also publish short story collections. Check out their dA: DivertirPublishing
- An Idiot's Guide to Publishing
E-Zines/Magazines
- Harmless [Magazine]
- Steampunk Tales
- G.W. Review
- Fuselit
- The Missing Slate
- SapphireTuesday
- Second Look
- Verandah Literary Journal
- Machine of Death
- Cram Magazine
- Voiceworks
- Shimmer
- dotdotdash Magazine
- Alliterati Magazine
- Linear Literary Journal
- Grawlix Poetry E-Zine
- choodaloodaling
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Looking to help out the Lit Community?
- One contributor is needed at poetry-book.
- Updated: LiteratureKingdom is looking for a a Co-Founder and contributors.
- Updated: Beta-readers are needed at Beta-Readers!
- A Literature Scout is the current open position over at WritersInk
- ThreeThousandWords is looking for one co-founder and two contributors.
- Christ-is-Written would like some admins to help out.
- A Contributor Position is open over at EliteLiterature.
- 2 Community Liasons and 2 Critics are needed over at LITplease.
- Critics and contributors are the open positions in CritiqueForPoints.
- DALiteratureContests is looking for 5 Contributors.
- Prose critics are urgently needed in the group GrammarNaziCritiques.
- General admins are needed at WritersAreArtistsToo.
- SuperWritersHelp is in need of prose and poetry critics.
- YouAsTheNarrator is looking to fill the following positions: 2 Gallery Moderators, 4 Chatroom Moderators, 4 Promotion Moderators, 2 Gallery Contributors, and Comment Contributors.
- LiteratureforPoints is in need of 2 Moderators and 10 Contributors.
- WriterArt would like one or two new contributors.
- The group, Written-Imagination, is looking for a variety of staff members.
- A Contibutor position is avaliable at TeenagedLiterature.
- 10 Contributors are wanted at FightToWrite
- WriMo-Writers would like some more admins to help with behind-the-scenes work.
- Motivators, Workshoppers, and Bloggers are needed at FocusOnLit.
- Wannabe-Novelists is looking for some new admins.
- Adopt-A-Writer is looking mentors and mentees.
- Gallery moderators are wanted at TheWritersMeow.
- Literature Moderator positions available over at Realm-of-Fantasy.
- Contributors are wanted at WritersOfTheMoon.
- A co-founder and other admins are needed over at the group, Letters-of-Love.
- Two admin positions need to be filled at WriterSecretSanta.
- EditorialSquad is in need of various staff.
- Poetry-Screams wants some administrators.
- TenderPassion is in need of a Co-Founder and contributors.
- WA-writersblock is in need of a new founder.
- Contributors are needed at We-Write-To-Escape.
- New admins are wanted at Unconventional-Story.
- Soul-Poets is looking to fill out their Creative and Networking and Public Relation admin teams.
- Critiquers are needed at FantasyAuthorsGuild.
- Scribblers-Anonymous is looking for an affiliates and critics admin.
- LaRevolucionEscrita needs a couple of admins.
- dA-Literature is looking for one admin.
- 2 Afilliates/PR Admins, 2 Pay It Forward Admins, and 4 Critics are open at lacoterie.
- Poets-N-Prose is looking for Contributors, Specialists, and dA members to host Guest (Non-staff) Workshops.
- 6 Contributors are the avaliable positions at TheScribblists
- Members to host workshops and Contributors are needed at Writers-Workshop
- Critics, admins, and people "interested in helping run and set up events and projects" are needed at devLIT.
- Moderator and Contributor positions are open at TheControversy.
- Deviant-Mentor needs Literature Mentors!
- 8 Critiquers, 3 Lit-Pickers, and 1 Affiliate Admin are needed at LitResources.
- 35-prompts-challenge is still in need of a founder.
- A critic and an inspirationalist are needed at Wordsmiths-Guild.
- Two Contributors are wanted at Written-Love.
- The group, Lit-Community's current founder is stepping down and is looking for someone to fill the position.
- Open Positions over at SixWordStories, they need: Project Managers and Contest Managers.
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Literature Community Relations
thorns - thorn's DD Suggestion Guidelines
ikazon - lightningmonkey's DD Suggestion Guidelines
BeccaJS - Beccalicious' DD Suggestion Guidelines
Go on and send your literature DD suggestions to them!
#CRLiterature Community Relations Literature Chatroom
Literature CR Update - April 2012
April's Literature Daily Deviations
Literature Forums
Literature Forum
Posting Guidelines - Literature Forum
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. ♥
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.
a LITplease Community Liason and will be helping me with gathering information while being fabulous.
another LITplease Community Liason who will be helping gather even more information and continuing to be awesome.
recently hopped on board and became a Community Liason, so go give her a warm welcome, she's rather amazing.
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Renewal
It has been a rough few years for myself and my family. It is strange to think that for once in my adult life that I am legitimately doing well, not pretending or being close but not quite there. Things are almost infinitely better than 6 months ago and, if I'm honest, it feels like that was years ago. DA has always been a home and as I've slowly gotten better I find myself missing it and all the friends I've made more and more. I know I do not elaborate much on my personal life, but perhaps now that so much is behind me I can allow myself to discuss it more. In truth, I'm not even sure where to begin, but updating on what happened in the la
Birthdays and Change
I wanted to thank all the lovelies who wished me happy birthday recently, I read all your comments and it made me extremely happy. ♥ It was nice to hop on and see that I was thought of, I truly appreciate it beyond words.
However, I know have been very absent for a few months now. Things have not be going well in my life for the majority of the year (and if I'm honest the last 2 years) now and I have had to put DA on the back burner. I still find myself coming to the site, reading comments/replies, looking at deviations, but currently I am overwhelmed by everything that I can't bring myself to do much else.
I find myself now on the pr
Love DA Lit: Issue 292
Welcome to the two-hundred ninety-second issue of Love DA Lit! Every Sunday this article aims to promote volunteer opportunities, various resources, prompts, challenges, workshops, and contests. 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.
Navigation
Literature Links | Workshops, Prompts and Challenges
Literature Contests | Resources
Literature Community Relations | Contact Me
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Welcome to the two-hundred ninety-first issue of Love DA Lit! Every Sunday this article aims to promote volunteer opportunities, various resources, prompts, challenges, workshops, and contests. 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.
Navigation
Literature Links | Workshops, Prompts and Challenges
Literature Contests | Resources
Literature Community Relations | Contact Me
Literature Links
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