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Every Writer Halloween 50 Word Scary Story Contest!

Happy Halloween! Yes, it's August 7, but we have to start now! Welcome to the Every Writer Halloween 50 Word Scary Story Contest. I know we just ended our other…

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.…

Being A Writer in Silicon Valley

When I first arrived in Silicon Valley two years ago, I had very few expectations for this place. My husband, a computer programmer, had dragged me here because “it is the epicenter of the world’s most cutting-edge technology and future-changing companies.”

Book Publisher: Salem-Danvers Village Press

We are a new independent book publisher seeking for new authors. We are a traditional book publisher. We are looking for new content.

Halloween Movie Night

Join us for a Horror Movie night and a chat! We will be chatting in the sidebar and talking about the Brain that wouldn't die!

Winner of the 2016 James Dillingham Young Award

David L. Tamarin is the winner of our 2016 James Dillingham Young Literary Award. Mr. Tamarin won with the following entry:

The 50 Word O’Henry Contest

Announcing James Dillingham Young Award: We love the 50 Word Horror Contest because the stories always turn out so wonderful. They have great plots, creepy character, monsters, things that make you want to read them.

Winners of the Horror Contest 2016

The winners of our 50 Word Horror Story Contest were as follows. We had a lot of great entries, but these stood out to us. These winners will be contacted…

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.

Who Won the Horror Contest Movie…

November 30, 2016 we will be here at 8pm chatting, over there in sidebar-->

Interview with Dr. Frankenstein’s Monster

After a year of searching and many stories, I am able to meet with the man who inspired Halloween in many ways. He is iconic.

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

Winners of the Winter 50 Word Story Contest

And the winner of our 50 Winter Word Contest is......

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.

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.

Haiku Hoopla Contest

On our horror movie night we talked about our Horror Haiku contest. We ran out of time. We would have only had a couple of days for that contest, so…

24 Hours of Horror!

I love movie marathons, and horror movie marathons have to be at the top of my list for favorite things to do on Halloween. This year we got so many horror story

Contest: 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, 2015

50 Word Story Contest Winner: Dianna Craig

Congratulations to Dianna Craig for being the EWR: 2015 50 Word Story Contest Winner. We had 100s of stories posted and emailed, but we enjoyed Lit Up

2015 50 Word Story Contest

Win $1000 in promotions on our site with 50 simple perfect little words...

New Every Writer and Winner

What a great Halloween season we've had this year. I want to thank everyone for coming to our site and submitting your work. Our readers are no kidding, the best on the web. I checked again tonight and we had close to 600 submissions for our Horror Story Contest t

Right Now!: Halloween Movie Night With Every Writer

Another Halloween, another awesome movie and a chat with EWR. Yes, we are doing it again. For the last 10 years we've watched a horror movie with other writers and chatted.

Horror Haiku Contest

So we are running the Halloween Horror Story contest over at EWR: Short Stories. We do this every year, and it leaves a sad place in my heart for horror poetry. We always leave it out. We never worry about poetry at Halloween.

2 Sentences of Horror Game!

This is the 2 Sentences of Horror Challenge game. You have a write a horror story using only 2 sentences. No word limit, just sentences. Please post them in the comments below.

Skillfeed’s Free 1 Month Trial

Skillfeed, an amazing and helpful tutorial site, is giving our readers free access! If you stop by Skillfeed now you can get 30 days for free. Check it out!

Extended: Halloween Horror Contest

Win $1000 in ads on our site for your best horror story!

Ugliest Horror Short Story Promo ever

This year we are running our 1000 word horror short story contest, and I have to say that we kicked it off with the worst looking promo banner ever. It was so ugly it made the contest sad

Every Writer on Issuu

http://issuu.com/everywriter/docs/november_issue21?e=13572465/9430147 We've been reviewing some of the services provided by Issuu, and we are posting a few issues of Every Writer the magazine there. Every Writer is now a quarterly.…

What do Editors Want?

We need your help for an upcoming article here on EWR. We would like to hear from you. We want to know what you look for in submissions. To kick of the process of writing this article, we are asking this poll.

We will Build a Website for Your Book

Have you written a book and want to promote it? A website is key to being successful on the internet. Connecting to your readers, creating a mailing list, connecting your…

Call for Submissions The Exiles Club Fort Worth

The Exiles Club of Fort Worth is accepting submissions for the Fall 2014 Issue of The Lost Country. We are looking for poems under 150 lines, short stories under 5000…

One Mailing List to Rule them all

So in the past we have created mailing lists for our Book Publishers, Literary Magazines, Poetry, Short Stories and for Writing Sense. You might be on one of those mailing…

Looking for the Next Cover of Every Writer!

We need your art! We've been looking around our site, and it's a little light on the artwork lately. We want to begin to publish art and feature artists on…

Some more 50 Word Stories for your to share.

Share these please, and let people know that they can win close to $1000 in ads on our site. This is perfect if you have a literary magazine or a book you are trying to promote. The following are finalists in our contest, enjoy....

50 Word Story Contest

It's that time of year again....Right around this time every year, right when we all hope it will get warm again, we at EWR kinda get a little goofy and come up with a contest.

10 Adventures for Writers

Now, especially after a long, cold winter, we think writers might be looking for a way to get out, have some fun, have an adventure. We have come up with 10 ideas that are simple and fun. We think they will help you get out, inspire, and give you time to write.

MFA Writers Vs NYC Writers, What?

Can you sleep soundly at night if you haven't written all the words you wanted to write today? That really should be the only question that means anything. The genre is writing. The pay off is immortality, boom lets go.

Write on Amtrak!

Yep, you might have heard that Amtrak, the best and most outstanding passanger railway in the United States is giving free rides out to writers!

Ebooks and Big Publishing Houses: A Blip on the Book Publishing Radar

The Self-Published Ebook Explosion was unthinkable just a few years ago. In 2007 when the first Kindle hit the market readers were unsure about paying $399

My First Literary Venture by Mark Twain

by Mark Twain I was a very smart child at the age of thirteen—an unusually smart child, I thought at the time. It was then that I did my first…

New Every Writer the Magazine

Wow, this issue took a long time to put together. I wanted to do an issue all on the Short Story, and I wanted to high-light the stories we loved…

A Cruise for Writers?

Is it a good idea for writers to sooth that desire with a cruise? Will going on a cruise give you chance to write? Is it a way to get some work done?

Happy Holidays!

Get Every Writer December 2013 FREE just for doing nothing! You don't have to sign up. We are giving this one away, Merry Christmas...

Publishing Consultant (Get Your Work Published)

Have you been trying to publish your work? Have been rejected by editors? Maybe you just don't know where to start? Most of the time people are rejected from magazines…

Guest Bloggers

Ok, for some time now I've been getting request for guest bloggers. People have been emailing and asking if they could write a post for Writing Sense. Crazy right? I…

Call for Horror Editors

We are looking for editors of horror magazines! We want to do a roundtable of horror on Halloween Night. Every year we do a movie and a chat with fans,…

Links for Screenwriters

You might have been redirected here from our old listing. We have redone this list and made it up to date. We also moved it from another page. This is our list of resources

Should I Start a Paid or Free Blog?

Once you have decided to go with a blog, you have to decide if you want to go with a free blog like Tumblr or a paid hosting site. There are 3 questions you have to answer before you decide free blog or paid blog.

How to Submit a Poem or Short Story Without Email or Snail Mail?

EWR has a new submissions system. It answers the age old question of how to Submit a poem or short story without using email or snail mail. People really do keep asking.

The Controlling Purpose by Mervin James Curl

What, then, is the controlling purpose?

We want your ads!

We are putting out a new request for ads on our site. We have very affordable ad rates for any of our blogs, and we are now opening up some…

Drink Your Poetry?

Lately I’ve seen more and more literary readings, poetry and fiction, arriving in full fledged bars. I’m sure this isn’t a new trend. Places like NYC have been doing this for many years, but it seems like many bar owners in even suburban towns are beginning to host readings on their slow nights.