Freedom! A new social networking site for writers, editors, poets, book publishers from Every Writer’s Resource!

Every Writer is a unique place for writers, editors, and poets. This is the first social networking site where you can share your work with everyone! If you post a blog, everyone sees it. If you share a link everyone can see it and vote on it.

Here is a commons story. You start a publication, work on it endlessly, and then go out into the world to promote it. You join facebook, twitter, myspace and other social networking sites to promote your new hard earned publication. What do you find? Endless roadblocks. You spend more time finding “friends” or getting people to follow you than you do working on your site. In a way you are doing more work for the social networking site than you are for your own site. We say no more.

Now you build a writing site, you come to Every Writer and post a link. Everyone on the site sees it. You post blog (your story or poem) everyone sees it. You share it with everyone! No more searching endlessly for a just a handful of viewers. Now, whoever is on our site, you can direct to your site.

You can still have friends. You can still follow people, but Every Writer has 2 unique places our Write area and our links area, everyone can see!

This is what you have been waiting for. No more working to get friends or to convince people to follow you. If you have a great idea, you can share with the world, right now, right here, share it with Every Writer!

Blog

If you write a blog on our site, everyone can see and rate that blog. This is unique to our site. Now you don’t have to be friends to get people to read your work. Instead, you just have to writing something good! Like it should be.

Links

You can share links with everyone on Every writer. All you have to do is post a link. People can vote it up or vote it down.

Forum

Our forum is open to everyone. Now you can post info and discussions, meet new people, everything you’d hoped you could do on other sites, before you found out they were so limited.

A note:

We are just getting started. Right now you are welcome to update your profile pic, but you cannot upload other pictures at this time. You also cannot upload videos. We will introduce these features in the future. This is what it is like to join a new social network at the very beginning!

Many things will change on the site, but come by and enjoy. Right now, the more people who site up for this site, the more people see your work!

Join Every Writer the open community, the freedom you have been looking for!  Click Here

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Many people have asked us about the photos we have posted on some of our pages like EWR: Short Stories. Many of these photos are taken by our editor Richard Edwards. We have had so much positive feedback about the photos we have decided to make them avaliable as art prints to our readers (we are sorry we cannot do this for free). Any photographs you buy will support EWR. Please consider supporting the site by buying some nice wall art that has an interesting story behind it. Click here to support us. This is one way you can support us. Maybe someday we will sell T-shirts, but for now we like seeing more art in the world. All art will be original print runs. There will be more posted in the future. Please check back with the page every once in awhile.

Thank you!

Hello, Creative Nonfiction, in association with the Australian arts company, Tashmadada, is seeking new essays for a special Australia issue. A contest flyer is available (sorry, I couldn’t figure out how to attach it) and a call for submissions is copied below. We hope you’ll share this call with your readers Thanks, Stephen ***** The DOWN UNDER ESSAY CONTEST Deadline: February 29, 2012 Creative Nonfiction, in association with Tashmadada, seeks new essays for a special Australia issue. We’re looking for a variety of perspectives” from locals, expats, tourists, or anyone else”and will consider essays of all forms and focuses as long as Australia’s landscape, people, and/or culture are prominently featured; the stories are true; and submissions are previously unpublished. Essays must be vivid and dramatic. Writing should combine a strong and compelling narrative with a significant element of research or information, and reach for some universal or deeper meaning. We’re looking for well-written prose, rich with detail and a distinctive voice. Essays must be 4,000 words maximum and submitted by February 29, 2012. All submissions will be judged by Lee Gutkind (USA) and Leah Kaminsky (AUS), and The Writers Conversation is sponsoring two cash prizes: $6,500 (AUD) for Best Essay -and- $2,500 (AUD) for Best Essay by an Australian Writer There will be only two contest winners, but all submissions will be considered by the judges for inclusion in Creative Nonfiction #46: Australia, which will be launched at the 2012 Melbourne Writers Festival. For this contest, we are accepting electronic submissions only. To submit, visit: www.creativenonfiction.org

The Zodiac Review

LAUNCH SUCCESS – Thanks primarily to this extraordinarily effective site, our fledgling literary magazine, The Zodiac Review, has really taken off. With the Winter Issue, going live in just a few days, we’ll consider ourselves promoted from fledgling to “newly-established.” Within two months’ time…again, with the help of EWR…we received over 300 stories and prose poems from 6 of the 7 continents. We invite you to take a look at our current issue, and then visit us soon to treat yourself to the really fine writing in our next issue…hybrid stories and prose poetry that straddle the fence between “pure” literary fiction and genre fiction. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS – We continue our quest for excellent short fiction, including flash length (100-1000 w.), short story (1000-3000 w.) and prose poetry (100-1000 w.). GUIDELINES – Please visit our site. CONTESTS DISCONTINUED – Sorry, we have decided to no longer conduct contests. Every Writer’s Resources is THE link to the literary world. We thank you.

Contact The Zodiac Review: submit@thezodiacreview.com

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Upcoming Contests

Now is the time many literary magazines gear up for their contest closing. Here are few you should know.

The Missouri Review’s 5th Annual Audio Contest

Deadline: March 15, 2012

The Missouri Review is running an Audio contest with you reading your work. There are 3 categories: Poetry, Prose, Audio Documentary. Each category offers a top prize of $1000. See site for details: http://www.missourireview.com/audiovisual/submissions/

Narrative Magazine’s Winter Short Story Contest

Deadline: March 12, 2012

Narrative Magazine is running a Winter Short Story Contest. You could win up to $4000.

http://www.narrativemagazine.com/node/163488

Carve Magazine’s Esoteric Awards

Deadline: January 15, 2012

Carve is extending its search for special, rare, or unusual interest stories. The theme this year is LGBT. Winner gets $250. You can find details here: http://www.carvezine.com/contest.htm

The Kenyon Review’s Short Fiction Contest

Deadline: February 29 2012

The site will START taking submissions on February 1, 2012. See site for details: http://www.kenyonreview.org/contests/short-fiction/

Ploughshares’ Emerging Writer’s Contest

Deadline: April 2, 2012

Ploughshares is running a new writer’s contest in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Each genre carries a $1000 prize. See site for details: https://www.pshares.org/submit/Emerging-Writers-Contest.cfm

The Malahat Review Novella/Long Poem Contest

Deadline: February 1, 2012

The magazine is offering $1500 and $1000 for prizes. Take a look at the site for details: http://malahatreview.ca/contests/novella_contest/info.html

Please send 3 to 5 poems, a bio, and links to your sites to be published with your work. We have a very quick turn around time on poetry right now. Please send your best work. We want to publish a poem everyday, but we will only publish the best work!

Send your poems to eds@everywritersresource.com. We are looking forward to reading your work.

You could win a manuscript critique from:

• Laura Langlie, literary agent for Meg Cabot

• Nancy Gallt, literary agent for Jeanne DuPrau

• Brenda Bowen, literary agent and editor of Karen Hesse’s Newbery Medal winner Out of the Dust

• Ann M. Martin, winner of the Newbery Honor for A Corner of the Universe

• Francisco X. Stork, winner of the Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award for The Last Summer of the Death Warriors

• Cynthia Voigt, winner of the Newbery Medal for Dicey’s Song and the Newbery Honor for A Solitary Blue

All that separates you from this prize is a 500-word essay about a short story in Book Wish Foundation’s new anthology, What You Wish For.  Essays are due Feb. 1, 2012 and winners will be announced around Mar.  1, 2012.  If you win, you will have six months to submit the first 50  pages of your manuscript for critique (which means you can enter the  contest even if you haven’t finished, or started, your manuscript).  You can even enter multiple times, with essays about more than one of the  contest stories, for a chance to win up to six critiques.

If you  dream of being a published author, this is an opportunity you should not miss.  To enter, follow the instructions at http://bookwish.org/contest.