B.T. Joy is a British poet and short fiction writer living in Glasgow. His poetry and short fiction has appeared in magazines, journals, anthologies and podcasts worldwide including poetry in Yuan Yang, The Meadow, Toasted Cheese, Numinous: Spiritual Poetry, Presence, Paper Wasp, Bottle Rockets, Mu, Frogpond and The Newtowner, among many others. His 2015 collection Teaching Neruda…
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1000 Greatest Poems of All Time
Here is our list of the 1000 Greatest Poems of all time. We need your help to complete it and edit it. Post your suggestions please!
1000 Writing Prompts
So I am writing this post of 1000 writing prompts. It might be a little misleading because I have no where near 1000 prompts.
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 stories an poetry.
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 think in all we’ve had 6 different message boards using 6 different software platforms, and all of them have trouble…
10 Ways to Promote Your Book
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 promote your book it won’t sell. So here are 10 ways to promote your book. 10 Ways to Promote Your…
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
2016 Horror Story Contest (1000 words)!
First place gets the full promo package. Second and third place get lesser but still valuable promotions. No entry fee. We will publish stories along the way.
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 same night as the Horror story contest
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.
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
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 oversight really. So this is our first poetry contest. If you notice we never do anything like a “normal” contest….
Discussion: In a digital age…
In a digital age, when social media and electronic communications trump face-to-face interactions, the presence of the glowing screen looms large in our lives.
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,
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 story can be about anything.