BUILDING AN AUTHOR PLATFORM
When: Saturday, January 19, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Where: Downtown Thai Restaurant, 202 W. Fourth St.
Register: http://www.wswriters.org/creative-seminar
Cost: $30 (members) / $40 (non-members) (lunch included)
Dena Harris and Chris Laney will help you build your author brand in a seminar that could be critical to your writing career. Sponsored by the Winston-Salem Writers.
Writing workshop and retreat.
WOMEN, WRITING, AND SOUL-MAKING: A TWO-DAY FEARLESS WRITING RETREAT
This two-day, non-residential writing retreat for women in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Asheville, North Carolina, inspires women writers to explore creativity and give voice to their truth in a safe circle.
Writing workshop from Alice Osborn
Immerse yourself in a weekend of writing without interruption in the mountains of Western Carolina. This is your answer to, “I’ll write when I can find the time!” Empowered women are powerful writers—grab your power so you can dream and accomplish your dreams of writing your story! Together over the course of this weekend, we’ll delve into our stories of defining moments, healing and self discovery.
PAMLICO WRITERS CONFERENCE
When: Saturday, March 2
Where: Washington Civic Center, 116 N. Gladden St.
Information: Marni Graff, bluevirgin.graff@gmail.com
Writing in Our Time is the conference theme. The Saturday conference keynote speaker will be Bland Simpson, Kenan Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing at UNC-Chapel Hill. An author and playwright/composer/lyricist, he is a longtime member of the Tony Award-winning Red Clay Ramblers and is a recipient of the North Carolina Award in Fine Arts (2005), the state’s highest civilian honor. The conference will start with a panel discussion on Publishing in our Time. Three morning and three afternoon writing workshops/lectures will follow, each with timely writing themes. Leading local and area writers will participate in the discussion and host the working sessions. A box lunch will be served before the keynote speech. A Pamlico Writers Competition awards ceremony and reception will be held at 6:30 pm following the conference.
The 2013 Carolina Writers Conference
The Anson County Writers’ Club and South Piedmont Community College are pleased to announce the 2013 presenters: Robert Dunn, Marjorie Hudson and Robert Macomber.
More on the trending of literary magazines: growth and shrinkage.
From Hubpages:
Recently I found a master list of online literary magazines I had printed out in 2005, and I wondered how many of them were still in action.
The Blotter is one of the few literary magazines that still has a print run of 8,000 copies…and that’s every month! They’re reaching for 10,000 so they’re a great place to submit.
Their annual contest is still running. Submit any book-length fiction, including young adult, short story collections, literary novels, commercial novels (like sci-fi, horror, mystery, thrillers, romance, etc.), mainstream, and novellas.
Shelf Unbound is a magazine that is distributed to booksellers nationwide. They accept books from independent, small and self-publishers, which is can still be difficult to find.
Here’s good news on the magazine front from The Guardian newspaper.
The death of journalism has been grossly exaggerated, according to a band of ambitious young New York writers and editors who are shaking up the publishing world
Here’s an interesting blog/lit mag concept called Twenty-Four Hours that’s online. It’s more of a chat about literature and other performance art but many of the posts are interesting enough to check in on now and then.
Sipscard is another unique idea that allows authors of short prose to get their work out to a wide readership. From the publishers:
Sips Card puts short fiction and poetry into local coffee shop venues around the country (and in Scotland). We are a publication run by artists, for artists. Each card contains a QR code, loaded with a short story, or set of poems, from a writer meant to last as long as a cup of coffee. The cards include the issue’s author, story title, and website/e-mail.
The American Reader is a relatively new journal you should keep an eye on.
Check out the grants available from the NYFA administration for artists and writers in NY affected by Sandy.
Not your typical place to submit, I’ll admit, but this is a great place for those short prose bits. Here’s info from their newsletter:
Papirmasse is a subscription that delivers an art print to your mailbox every month. For each issue we choose a new artist to showcase and ask them to design a print for us. On the backside of Papirmasse we publish short stories, essays, graphic novel excerpts, and poems. We then mail these prints to subscribers for the ridiculously low price of $5.00 a month. What can we say? We’re waging a war against blank walls.
Great blog entry from Camille Dungy on one very important aspect of writing.
Writer's Resource/Sunspot Lit 