Love dA Lit: Issue 79

Welcome to the seventy-ninth 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.

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• Chat Tour Schedule
• "How Many Urban Fantasy Works are on your Reading List for the Summer?" asks MidtownMagic.
• Poem of the Week - #33
• YouAsTheNarrator has a new folder for Supporting Characters.
• Group News from LiteratureforPoints.
• What is Fantasy to you?
• A few updates from Love-Literature.
• WritersInk's Write Off - The Shortlist! and their corresponding poll.
• NaNoWriM0 begins their Camp NaNoWriMo - June Countdown.
• The results of TheWritingHaven's contest have been announced.
• EliteLiterature's Lit of the Week 27! gogocherryrose, Vlavisfaults, and That-Writer-Kid
• writingclub will be taking a temporary hiatus until July.
• First-Floor-Poetry lists a few Publication Opportunities.
• Which situation do you enjoy more? asks Novels-Only.
• lacoterie reminds everyone that  "there are Two more weeks to get your Transgressions entries in.
• Love-Literature's poll: "Is there anything you'd like to see the group doing?"
• the-haiku-club has a new folder and asks for some input on a name.
• theWrittenRevolution's Publishing Opportunity no.7 blog.
• SilverInkblot's Passage 14 - The Guardian of Memory
• Group News and Rules from ThePoetryofDA.
• FeatheredWords asks members for some help.
• JustKeepWriting's Weekly Selection #14
• Reminders and Community News from FocusOnLit.
• The judging has begun for WriterArt's contest.
• devART-Writers asks members if they are interested in participating in a contest.
• Updates and the results of 'Changing History' contest from DeviantLITERATURE.
• New submission rules and guidelines from Christ-is-Written.
• The winners of formfindsfunction's contest have been announced.
• Love-4-Dark-Poetry is cleaning up a little.
• The group, Writers-Workshop, has a new founder.
• theWrittenRevolution's poll: "What is your favourite narrative to write in? (Requested by ~redpinkandwhite)"
• WritersInk's Weekly Round Up
• EliteLiterature closes their submissions temporarily.
• Folders and Changes from ink-slingers.
• Writers of the Revolution, May 13th
• A welcome and update from PoetsClub.
• Swag - For my girls
• PoetryMagazine's submissions will close on May 31st.
• Fourm: Groups Quiz
• Results of the Literature Community Fundraiser!

Literature Links [in other languages!]

• MiniSagas announced the winners of their contest. [Spanish]
• Less than 15 days until LiteraturaBR's contest ends. [Portuguese]
• LetraHispana reports author Carlos Fuentes has died. [Spanish]

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

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WeeklyLitContests is barely a month old but has taken off by kickstarting their opening contest, Beginning. The group's premise is to host a contest every week to help "reward and showcase quality literature."Click here to learn more about this group!

Liedy, the founder of WeeklyLitContests, happily let me pester them with a few questions about the group. ♥



How is WeeklyLitContests different from the other literature groups on dA?

Well, first off WeeklyLitContests is a a group solely concerned with literature contests. That is, all our folders are contest specific, and we do not accept deviations outside our "contest paradigm". However, our contests are also different from most contests I've seen throughout this site, in a number of ways:
1. We allow, and in fact encourage people to submit previously made deviations, not intended for our contests specifically.
2. In order to achieve this, the themes are pretty wide compared to most contests, and are up for interpretation.
3.The contests, as the name implies are weekly! And there are always prizes including features, DD suggestions and at least a 150+ points (it depends how much we are able to collect). Unless it is specified we also accept most genres, in trying to involve more people.


What prompted you to create WeeklyLitContests?

Quite simply, to showcase and reward quality literature. Many people put a lot of effort in to their work, and usually it pays off with great deviations. Some get the attention they deserve, some don't. Contests are a great way to discover and reward such excellence, but they are often narrow and far between . Older deviations are tend to be left unnoticed, and newer ones can quickly drown in the vast amount of literature on the site. I wanted to make a group as open as possible in order to bring forth the gems of our community, old and new, while making their creators visible and rewarded. There are some great initiatives out there already such as DailyLitDeviations and lacoterie We would like to be another one.


Do you have any short-term goals for the group? Long-term?

Short term: As our wonderful team of judges and admins are now in place, we are currently looking to expand our member count. Our group benefits greatly from our members since a greater amount of contest contributions may entail higher quality winning deviations. Our weekly featured winners would get more attention as well. We also, of course, hope that deviants may find WeeklyLitContests an enjoyable place to visit, where friendly and constructive comments/critiques are to be found.

Long term: We hope to successfully generate attention around our winning deviants, perhaps even sniffing out some potential DD's.  We also work against becoming a common name within the literature community, characterized with quality literature and a friendly tone, while in general be seen as a helpful asset to writers out there.


Anything else of note that you would like to share?

Right now we are hosting our opening contest with 500 points in the pot, the theme is fittingly Beginning(s), and it would be wonderful if people would join in.


Quick Links:

• Gallery
• Group Rules [Widget on the left hand side.]
• Opening Contest

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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Weekly:

• Live-Love-Write's Weekly Writing Prompt: "Lost and Found"[May 25th]
• "Immortality", the current weekly theme for RawEm0tion
• Live-Write-Now's Weekly Themes.
• Unseen-Writers' Theme of the Week: Helplessness
• House-of-Playwrights' third May weekly prompt is a poem and photograph.
• Week 2.6 Prompt of lit-lash's weekly prompts has begun.
• Writers-Togethers Wednesday Writing Theme: Quiet, calm..
• Weekly Spontaneity from SixWordStories
• WritersAreArtistsToo's Writing Wednesdays Prompt.
• LiterarySanctuary's Weekly Prompt.

Bi-Weekly:

• Bi-Weekly Prompts: May 6th, 2012 from theWrittenRevolution.
• "Rain", Love-Literature's bi-weekly prompt.
• Letters-To-Myself's Writing Prompt: Letters To a sibling/siblings.
• 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. [May 26th]
• SixWordStories' Word and Theme Prompts
• ScreamPrompt #26, May 2012 [End of June]
• transliterations' Prompt 12: The Beginning [June 15th]
• Horror-Stories' May Monthly Theme.
•   Creation is Live-Write-Now's current monthly prompt.
• MidtownMagic's Monthly Theme: "Confronting the Larger World" [End of June]

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
• Authors-of-Fantasy and FantasyLiterature's Feedback 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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These include contests that are purely Literature based and those that have other categories as well, but still accept Literature.

New Contests:

• War/Action Contest [Prose Only; please see link for details] (June 1st)
• Haunted (June 30th)
• Gaea Project [Please see link for details] (July 18th)

Contests Ending This Week:

• ~LadyMacbeth1755's Contest [Poetry and fan-fiction accepted; please see link for details] (May 20th)
• "Before and After" Contest (May 21st)
• "Eyes" [Poetry only; please see link for details] (May 22nd)
• =RenoxRayneFTW's Contest [Please see link for details] (May 23rd)
• Freaky Friday [Fan-fiction only; 500-1,000 words; please see link for details] (May 25th)

Contest Extensions:

• #Authors-Academy's Contest [Deadline extended; please see link for details] (June 10th)

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Regular Lit Articles

• Lit Fortnightly - 25 April 2012
• The Lit List: Issue 01
• Lit Up! Vol. V
• The Ladies of Lit: Volume XXI
• Writers With a Promise - Issue 14
• Friday Night Features XLVIII
• PoetryToTheMasses Weekly Feature 64
• The Saturday Spotlight for March 31st, 2012
• DLD to DD May 18th, 2012
• Novel Tease Newsletter - Issue 6
• The Acrostics Series: BornBlitzed
• Name Your Droppings vol. 2
• 30 Writers You Should Discover: Volume IX
• The Favorites Project Features #144, #145 and #146

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
• 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
• Organizing Your Fantasy/Sci-Fi Novel
• 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
• Haiku and Eastern Poetry
• 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
• 9 Editing Tips You (Possibly) Haven't Heard Before
• 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
• 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.]
• 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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• Screnzy is looking for a new founder.
• 2 Prose, 1 General, and 1 Foreign Language Administrator are the current open positions at DailyLitDeviations.
• One contributor is needed at poetry-book.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 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.
• 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.
• 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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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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