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Featured by Every Writer +Every Writer on August 30, 2017 Word Search for Writers (Mondays)2017-08-30T18:36:51+00:00 - 18 Comments

Word Search for Writers (Mondays)

Many respectable news and literary publications have crosswords or word searches, so we thought we could run a weekly Word Search for writers. On Mondays we will run one of these. If you find all…

Contests for writers by Every Writer +Every Writer on August 20, 2017 500 Word Scary Story contest! Over $10,000 in promotions.2017-08-21T07:29:31+00:00 - No Comment

500 Word Scary Story contest! Over $10,000 in promotions.

500 word scary story contest! Welcome to our 2017 500 word horror story contest! We are looking for submissions of horror stories that are scary, and 500 words are less. These stories can be about…

Articles On Writing by Every Writer +Every Writer on August 5, 2017 Exquisite Corpse Game for Writers2017-08-05T20:58:45+00:00 - 27 Comments

Exquisite Corpse Game for Writers

Welcome to our game for writers. It is an Exquisite Corpse. An Exquisite Corpse is a writing or art game where you complete the story, poem or drawing in parts. Each author or artist cannot…

Featured by Every Writer +Every Writer on August 3, 2017 Message Boards for Writers2017-08-03T20:36:55+00:00 - 17 Comments

Message Boards for Writers

A new forum is born. So we have had infinite troubles with our Message Boards for Writers. We had a message board that was a SMF, or something, then BBpress, then on and on. I…

Contests for writers by Every Writer +Every Writer on August 3, 2017 Winners: 50 Word Scary Story Summer Contest!2017-08-08T09:07:36+00:00 - 63 Comments

Winners: 50 Word Scary Story Summer Contest!

50 Word Scary Story Summer Contest! Yes, once again we are doing it! I’ve got a bunch (more than 3 fewer than 10) asking, hey when are you doing another 50 Word Word Scary Story…

Featured by Every Writer +Every Writer on June 23, 2017 1000 Writing Prompts2017-06-23T15:07:30+00:00 - 29 Comments

1000 Writing Prompts

Please! Help! So I am writing this post of 1000 writing prompts. It might be a little misleading because I have no where near 1000 prompts. What I am doing is asking you to help,…

Featured by Every Writer +Every Writer on March 15, 2017 10 Ways to Promote Your Book2017-03-15T11:35:56+00:00 - 2 Comments

We were all so relieved when book publishing became fast and easy. Everyone believe they could realize their dream of publishing their book. We quickly found out, publishing is the easy part. If you don't…

Articles On Writing by Every Writer +Every Writer on February 18, 2017 Writing Gear2017-05-28T22:51:33+00:00 - No Comment

Writing Gear

We are launching a new venture today: Every Writer store front. This is the first time we are offereing merchandise to our readers. We hope you enjoy the products. They are all for writers, and…

Featured by Every Writer +Every Writer on December 24, 2016 Christmas Poem Contest2016-12-28T09:35:58+00:00 - 10 Comments

Christmas Poem Contest

Welcome to our Christmas Poem Haiku contest. We are looking for the best Haiku about Christmas. It can snowmen in it too, but it must be Christmasy. So you know the Haiku form. 5, 7,…

Featured by Every Writer +Every Writer on December 13, 2016 Poetry Discussion: ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas2017-03-04T09:16:42+00:00 - No Comment

Poetry Discussion: ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas

Dear Santa by Richard de Wolfe 'Twas the Night Before Christmas (A Visit from St. Nicholas) by Clement Clarke Moore Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was…

Featured by Every Writer +Every Writer on December 3, 2016 Interview with Kris Kringle2016-12-03T09:54:03+00:00 - 1 Comment

Interview with Kris Kringle

Last week, a few days before Thanksgiving, I was able to sit down in a clean well lighted cafe with Mr. Kris Kringle. We met in Portland, Oregon. Mr. Kringle was kind enough to take…

Featured by Every Writer +Every Writer on October 26, 2016 50 Word Horror Story Contest 20162016-10-26T06:34:35+00:00 - 45 Comments

50 Word Horror Story Contest 2016

The only thing that comes close to winning our Horror Story contest, or the EWR: Horror Story Award is winning our 50 Word Horror Contest. Winner takes home $1000 ad package on our site. That's…

Featured by Every Writer +Every Writer on October 25, 2016 2016 Horror Story Contest (1000 words)!2016-10-25T08:05:08+00:00 - 11 Comments

2016 Horror Story Contest (1000 words)!

Once again welcome to our annual Horror Short Story contest. For about 3 months EWR has been out fishing. We are back. This contest kicks off our heavy publishing cycle. We want your stories. The…

Featured by Every Writer +Every Writer on October 5, 2016 Horror Haiku Contest!2017-05-28T23:33:20+00:00 - 13 Comments

Horror Haiku Contest!

Horror Haiku Contest! Right now we are running 2 major contests, so we’re not going to offer a prize on this one. We will do 2 things for you. The winners will be announced the…

Featured by Every Writer +Every Writer on April 27, 2016 Discussion: A book by its author?2016-04-27T20:08:18+00:00 - 4 Comments

Discussion: A book by its author?

The many faces of writers today have changed from days of old. Now writers are expected to have an audience and a platform before before they even publish a book. Do you think that now…

Featured by Every Writer +Every Writer on April 17, 2016 Second Place 50 Word Contest: Cotton Candy2016-04-17T18:34:44+00:00 - 1 Comment

Second Place 50 Word Contest: Cotton Candy

I taught high school English and composition at The University of Akron. I have two college-aged children and write poetry, short stories and novels. Laura Wrocklage Flesher

Featured by Every Writer +Every Writer on March 30, 2016 Winter Storm Tanka Contest2016-03-30T19:16:42+00:00 - 44 Comments

Winter Storm Tanka Contest

Ok, welcome to our first Winter Storm Tanka Contest. We have a short story contest every season, and I'm starting to feel a little bad that we don't do a contest for poetry. It's an…

Featured by Every Writer +Every Writer on March 21, 2016 Discussion: In a digital age…2016-03-21T19:03:11+00:00 - 26 Comments

Discussion: In a digital age…

This discussion is based on a comment left by Tim Rogers (). Below is his comment: In a digital age, when social media and electronic communications trump face-to-face interactions, the presence of the glowing screen…

Featured by Every Writer +Every Writer on March 8, 2016 Discussion Suggestions Please2016-03-08T20:21:30+00:00 - 6 Comments

Discussion Suggestions Please

Hello everyone out there in readerville. We are looking for suggestions to get some discussions going on our site. Lately we have be putting up poetry discussions, but those discussions haven’t fallen….flat. So we are…

Featured by Every Writer +Every Writer on March 7, 2016 Winter 50 Word Contest2017-05-28T23:38:37+00:00 - 63 Comments

Winter 50 Word Contest

Winter 50 Word Contest Welcome to our Winter 50 Word Contest. We run one of these every once in a while. You know how they go. This is a 50 word story contest, and the…

Featured by Every Writer +Every Writer on February 26, 2016 Should I get a BFA in Creative Writing?2017-05-28T23:41:34+00:00 - 13 Comments

Should I get a BFA in Creative Writing?

Should I get a BFA in Creative Writing? Not a lot of universities and colleges offer a BFA in Creative Writing, but is it a good idea to get a degree like this? Will it…

Featured by Every Writer +Every Writer on February 21, 2016 New Short Story Guidelines over 500 words ok2016-02-21T00:14:57+00:00 - 1 Comment

New Short Story Guidelines over 500 words ok

We accept submissions of short stories year round. We publish between 2-7 short stories per week. Most of the time we publish 2 or 3. We only take submissions of short stories high quality. EWR:…

Featured by Every Writer +Every Writer on February 18, 2016 Art by Cesar Valtierra2017-06-19T10:51:19+00:00 - No Comment

Art by Cesar Valtierra

Lion Lady in Red Skull Prince of Darkness Owl Cesar Valtierra hails from the sun soaked desert of the wild, wild western city of El Paso, Texas. He wields a pencil like an outlaw gunslinger,…

Featured by Every Writer +Every Writer on February 17, 2016 Weekly Writing Exercises2017-06-07T07:59:18+00:00 - No Comment

Weekly Writing Exercises

Welcome to our weekly writing exercises page. We were publishing these as single posts, but we've found putting them all on one page is beneficial and easier for everyone. So each week you can stop…

Featured by Every Writer +Every Writer on February 13, 2016 Writing Contests2016-02-13T00:23:05+00:00 - 2 Comments

Writing Contests

We have a free classifieds section on our site. You can visit the classifieds page here. We wanted to show case some of these classifieds, to let you all know you can find this information…

Featured by Every Writer +Every Writer on February 9, 2016 Call for Art Submissions2017-05-28T23:51:04+00:00 - No Comment

Call for Art Submissions

Lost Highway by Scott Listfield Call for Art Submissions We are looking for art for our site. We are looking for photos, paintings, computer art, anything that we can display on our site with short…

Featured by Every Writer +Every Writer on February 3, 2016 Poetry Discussion: Kubla Khan2017-03-04T09:18:10+00:00 - 2 Comments

Poetry Discussion: Kubla Khan

Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles…

Featured by Every Writer +Every Writer on January 24, 2016 Poetry Discussion: When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer2017-05-28T23:54:51+00:00 - 3 Comments

Poetry Discussion: When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer

When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer By Walt Whitman When I heard the learn’d astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to…

Famous Quotes by Writers by Every Writer +Every Writer on November 28, 2015 Poetry Discussion2015-11-28T06:32:35+00:00 - 2 Comments

Poetry Discussion

I thought we'd try this once, and see the response. Sometimes online this is difficult. This is our poetry discussion. Just write what you think of the poem in the comments. We will do this…

Featured by Every Writer +Every Writer on November 27, 2015 WordTango’s Weekend2017-03-07T21:21:22+00:00 - No Comment

WordTango’s Weekend

Give Yourself a Gift This Season! After you've drafted your novel, there's still one last page to write: the query letter. WordTango's Weekend Query class is two days focused on. the art of the hook and…

Featured by Every Writer +Every Writer on October 12, 2015 Horror Story Contest 2015!2015-10-19T20:11:28+00:00 - 5 Comments

Horror Story Contest 2015!

Welcome to our Horror Story 2015 Contest. Every year we run a horror story, and every year we announce the winners the week of Halloween. This year is different in that if you win our…

Featured by Every Writer +Every Writer on July 7, 2015 Contest: The Summer of 75 Words2017-05-29T00:00:40+00:00 - 22 Comments

Contest: The Summer of 75 Words

The Summer of 75 Words So the 50 word contest was so much fun we decided to run a new Summer 75 word contest. The contest will run from today, June 1st until August 31,…

Featured by Every Writer +Every Writer on March 2, 2015 Writing Habits of Famous Authors2017-05-29T00:06:53+00:00 - No Comment

Writing Habits of Famous Authors

Writing Habits of Famous Authors: Should We Copy Them Out? All writers are different; all of them have their habits and When a writer becomes popular, his readers start learning and looking for interesting facts…

Featured by Every Writer +Every Writer on May 5, 2014 Why do Self-Published Authors Need a Website?2017-05-29T00:42:00+00:00 - 1 Comment

Why do Self-Published Authors Need a Website?

Why do Self-Published Authors Need a Website? Getting your book published with a large publishing house is becoming more and more difficult. Book stores are closing, and less and less money is being made by…

Featured by Every Writer +Every Writer on April 20, 2014 Ways to Sell your Self-Published Book2014-12-19T06:59:46+00:00 - 1 Comment

Ways to Sell your Self-Published Book

Selling books on the internet has become a massive industry, but breaking into the market is very difficult. Here are some tips on how to build and sell your self-published books online. 1. Website Yes,…

Featured by Every Writer +Every Writer on April 16, 2014 50 Word Story Contest Update!2014-04-23T19:19:52+00:00 - 1 Comment

50 Word Story Contest Update!

In order to keep interest high in our contest, we have taken, and will take, some stories and create cards that are for sharing, like the ones below. We ask that you share these on…

Featured by Every Writer +Every Writer on March 20, 2014 Will MFA Writing Programs be the Only Help for Successful Writers?2014-03-20T17:11:08+00:00 - 1 Comment

Will MFA Writing Programs be the Only Help for Successful Writers?

I have a question… University Writing Program Building where the Benches are all empty, for now! In the near future (I would say that many of us know it’s coming even though there are…

Featured by Every Writer +Every Writer on March 17, 2014 Should literary magazines pay?2017-05-29T00:45:41+00:00 - 2 Comments

Should literary magazines pay?

Should literary magazines pay? Warning! This is a rant, walk away now if you are going to be offended or upset about strong opinions being thrown at you in a not so easy to take…

Featured by Every Writer +Every Writer on March 13, 2014 How Much Money Can you Make Self-Publishing?2017-05-29T00:45:49+00:00 - 1 Comment

How Much Money Can you Make Self-Publishing?

How Much Money Can you Make Self-Publishing? I'm not an expert on this, but I have spent a great deal of time reading articles about how much money you can make on your self-published book.…

Featured by Every Writer +Every Writer on December 23, 2013 1000 Greatest Poems of All Time2014-04-09T20:49:27+00:00 - 8 Comments

1000 Greatest Poems of All Time

Here is our list of the 1000 Greatest Poems of All Time. You can't believe the hate mail I get from putting together a list like this. People get a little crazy about their poetry.…

Featured by Every Writer +Every Writer on December 7, 2013 Self Publishing Companies/ Print on Demand Companies2017-05-30T22:03:49+00:00 - 2 Comments

Self Publishing Companies/ Print on Demand Companies

Self Publishing Companies/ Print on Demand Companies It's taken us a long time to write a list of self publishing companies. We have struggled with it. Be very cautious when going this route. There are…

Featured by Every Writer +Every Writer on December 3, 2013 Get Paid to Post!2017-05-29T00:50:57+00:00 - 1 Comment

Get Paid to Post!

Get Paid to Post on Writing Sense We are joining the ranks of literary and writers blogs who pay their contributors for posts! Writing Sense wants to support the community of writers, so we…

Featured by Every Writer +Every Writer on October 27, 2013 NaNoWriMo: How to Prepare for the Writing Marathon2017-05-29T00:51:29+00:00 - No Comment

NaNoWriMo: How to Prepare for the Writing Marathon

NaNoWriMo: How to Prepare for the Writing Marathon You make excuses. You put it off until next weekend. You even go to that new movie you never wanted to see to avoid it. But that…

Articles On Writing by Every Writer +Every Writer on September 2, 2013 Halloween 2013 Contest/Artwork/Movie2017-05-29T00:52:10+00:00 - 4 Comments

Halloween 2013 Contest/Artwork/Movie

Halloween 2013 Contest This is the year of the better Every Writer. Yes, I know, all sites say that, sure, sure, whatever right? Well, we mean it. We have plans to bring you better short…

Featured by Every Writer +Every Writer on September 1, 2013 The O’Henry Awards Why These Awards are Still Important2017-05-30T22:03:42+00:00 - 3 Comments

The O’Henry Awards Why These Awards are Still Important

Awards This is our list of magazines that have had work selected to be honored by the O'Henry Awards. Since 1918 they have been awarding short fiction writers this award. It is a time honored…

Articles On Writing by Every Writer +Every Writer on August 12, 2013 Make Money with your Literary Magazine2017-05-29T00:54:22+00:00 - 7 Comments

Make Money with your Literary Magazine

Ways to Make Money with Your Literary Magazine? There are 4 ways most sites are make money on the internet. They are the same for every site. The only variation on these 4 sources of…

Articles On Writing by Every Writer +Every Writer on July 25, 2013 The Top 13 Horror Movie Monsters of All Time!2013-07-29T19:48:25+00:00 - 1 Comment

The Top 13 Horror Movie Monsters of All Time!

Here are our top 13 movie monsters and their archetypes. When we say archetypes we are talking about the archetypes that are "supposed to have been present in folklore and literature for thousands of years,…