This list is a look at the top 10 Highest Paying Literary Prizes in the United States. If you won any of these prizes it would change your career forever and most-likely your life.
$250 I Want it to Be Summer Poetry Contest!
Yes! Do you want to win $250 for 1 poem, and have it published on our site? Do you want $25o to go on a summer picnic or go to the zoo or take swimming lessons? Great! We are giving away $250 for the best poem we receive starting today April 4th 2013
London Street Art
We were very lucky recently to get an email from the people over at London Street Art: http://streetartlondon.co.uk/ This is a group and a site who know a whole lot about the London Street Art scene.
Sites That Pay Writers to Write
Ok, here is a simple list of sites that we know are paying writers to write. If you know of others, post them in the comments. If
5 Most Difficult Things for Literary Magazine Editors
It’s late. You’ve been working for 9 hours straight getting all the coding just right to launch your issue. You have to be up at 6:30 for work, and it’s 1:15am. If you could just finish these last few tweaks
What Interests Readers
To interest readers is obviously the prime object in all popular writing. The basis of interest in the news story, the special feature article, and the short story is essentially the same. Whatever the average person likes to hear and see, whatever gives him
50 Writing Tips
This is our ever growing list of writing tips. It is a general list of suggestions that we hope will help you in your writing and in the life of writing.
ipad for Writers? Maybe not yet.
The ipad is outstanding, of course. It is an amazing piece of visionary technology. It’s great for entertainment and fun, fun, fun, but as a writer should you dump your laptop and go to the smaller flashier screen?
Art by Nate Howard
Nate Howard has traveled the world as a photojournalist. The photographs he sent to us were from, Russia, Mexico, Iraq, and Kosovo. Photography taken all around the world does not always have a lot of similarities
Christmas Crackers by W.F. Dawson (1902)
One of the popular institutions inseparable from the festivities of Christmastide has long been the “cracker.” The satisfaction which young people especially experience in pulling the opposite ends
Art by William R. “Dooby” Tomkins Jr.
William R. “Dooby” Tomkins Jr. earned his degree as a bachelor of fine arts with a concentration in painting and drawing at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in May 2005. While at UTC William became very interested in the postmodern painting practice of image appropriation. William is also very interested in mass media imagery…
Art by James Sholes
Yawn James Sholes is an artist and teacher from Ohio. James has worked in education for 10 years teaching almost all levels of students including university students at Firelands College. James has been an artist all his life. You can contact the artist at jamessholes (at) yahoo (dot) com.
Great Gift and Option for Self Publishing
Blurb is a company that recently came across our radar, and I have to say I like what I see. They offer self-publishing and on demand printing for anyone looking. Now if you just want to put together a very nice looking photo book of all your memories, I’m very sure the writer in your life would love it…
Inspiration for Writers 11 Cool Sites
The following is a list of 11 writing sites that will bring you inspiration in your writing. They are prompt sites, or sites with exercises, or just very cool stuff to play with.
Art by Christopher Woods
Christopher Woods is a writer, teacher and photographer who lives in Texas. His books include a prose collection, UNDER A RIVERBED SKY, and a book of stage monologues for actors, HEART SPEAK.