PEN Center USA’s Emerging Voices Fellowship aims to provide writers, who lack access, the tools they would need to launch a literary career. The application period is now open to apply for the 2016 Emerging Voices Fellowship. The deadline is August 10, 2015. Over the course of eight months, each Emerging Voices Fellow participates in […]
Hi Everyone! Wanted to invite anyone interested to submit to a fiction summer contest offered by The Masters Review. $2000 cash prize ($200, $100 second / third), publication, and winning stores polished up and sent to our personal literary agency relationships. If you’re not familiar with The Masters Review, we have been around since 2009 […]
We are delighted to present a guest post from our dear friend, Charrise McCrorey. Charrise is a certified business coach and love activist and works with both entrepreneurs and large businesses all over the the world. She also happens to be my (Nicole’s) coach. I asked her to write a blog post for us and she graciously accepted! […]
Join us on Saturday, April 25 What’s stopping you from diving fully into your writing life and practice? In every aspect of life we come up against our own resistances. The Monthly Writers Room is a workshop series dedicated to investigating these blocks in your creative life, while promoting self-inquisitiveness, support, and productivity. The goal is to […]
Lights, Camera, WriteGirl! 4/25/15 6:30 p.m to 9:30pm Linwood Dunn Theater, 1313 Vine Street, Hollywood, CA 90028 Lights, Camera, WriteGirl! is an annual benefit for WriteGirl. The event will include a silent auction and cocktail reception, red carpet for writers, actors, and special guests, and performances of more than 20 scenes and monologues written by […]
USC Engineering School Seeks “The Next MacGyver” – deadline April 17 University of Southern California has launched a global crowdsourcing competition, “The Next MacGyver,” aimed at developing a television show with a female engineer lead who is a role model for girls and young women. USC’s Viterbi School of Engineering is collaborating on the project […]
Welcome to the department of beautiful sentences–the place to come for prose motivation. (Tell us what you’re reading. Send us your favorite sentence by posting it to our Facebook page and it may appear in a future newsletter!) “On those luminous mornings Adela returned from the market, like Pomona emerging from the flames of day, spilling from her basket […]
Upcoming Workshop Registration Deadlines Don’t forget that we’ve instituted registration deadlines for many of our workshops. Here is a list of upcoming deadlines: Art & Poetry Workshop – Starts: 4/11 – Register by 4/3 – this Sat! Only 1 seat left! Writing & Critique 4-Week Workshop – Starts: 4/14 – Register by 4/7 The Monthly Writer’s Room: […]
In our newsletter, we publish interesting links for writers. Here is this week’s links we think you might like. To get these every week, subscribe to our newsletter. On authors’ responses to the era of social media and self-exposure. (The Atlantic)An essay on dreams, cinema, and the human mind. 7 habits of highly effective […]
Accessing poetry through art-making with artist, writer, and therapist, Sarah Eggers We had the opportunity to ask Sarah Eggers, the leader of our upcoming poetry & art workshop, a couple questions to get at the heart of her interdisciplinary practice. What was the take-away, you ask? That she’s super smart and we have a lot to […]