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 […]
Welcome to the department of beautiful sentences–the place to come for prose motivation. (Tell us what you’re reading. Send us your favorite sentences by posting it to our Facebook page and it may appear in a future newsletter!) “I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing.” –From “The Habit of Being” by Flannery […]
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. How not to raise a narcissist in 9 easy steps! (in other words: encourage your kids or niblings […]
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 Writing & Critique 4-Week Workshop – Starts: 4/14 – Register by 4/7 The Monthly Writer’s Room: The Path to Self-Accountability – Starts: 4/25 – Register by 4/22
Escarp http://www.escarp.org/submit.php escarp , a selective, Twitter-based review of brief poetry and prose, seeks submissions of super-short (under 140-character) fiction, non-fiction and poetry. We accept submissions through direct message on Twitter, so you’ll need an account. Follow us and we’ll promptly follow you back. Then submit via DM (see website for submission guidelines and to read […]