Love dA Lit: Issue 119

Welcome to the one-hundred nineteenth issue of Love dA Lit! Every Sunday this article will aim to promote volunteer opportunities, various resources, prompts, challenges, and workshops, as well as highlighting various contests, and spotlighting a specific group every week. This is by no means a complete list of all the literature going-ons, merely a tool to help you get involved and stay informed.

Note: Hug your thorny coconut empress, thorns as she has hung up her CR hat in order to acquire more gorgeous Minotaur man-servants! Give her your thanks. Also, it is Poetry Forms Week at projecteducate! All of the project educate articles have their own little nifty section and will remain there for at least a few weeks.

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• PE: Poetry Forms Week!
• Yes You Can!
• The Villanelle
• PE: Poetry Forms- An A-Z
• France's Fancy Fixed Forms: Rondeau and Friends
• Project Educate: Free Verse
• PE - SciFaiku Poetry Form
• Poetic Meter: A Complete Reference Manual
• The Ghazal: An Introduction
• Project Educate: Interview with =Sammur-Amat
• PE: Interview with some dA Haiku Masters
• Why Form?
• Sonnets
• Project Educate: Haiku, Senryu, Tanka, and Renga
• Breaks: Slam and Style
• Beauty in Structure: A How-To of Form Poetry

• Thank you Lady Coconut!
• On March 31st at 7pm EST LadyLincoln will be holding a special critiquing session for Sammur-amat!
• Upcoming Chat Tour Stop!
• Gallery Makeover Project
• #PVSTW Mini-Contest 1: Begin Critiques
• Feature Week: March 10 - ~your-methamphetamine
• minimalit, a new group is Now Open.
• Poets-and-Warriors's Weekly Feature: Prosetry
• The Ladies of Lit: Listing of Lovelies
• Forum Discussion: Do you know your market?
• disrhythmic wants your opinion on Poetry and capital letters...
• Hey, Fuzz... I think you need to see some new poetry. Lookit, I'm supplying you with links
• #SixWordStories: Monthly Showcase
• Valentine Hangover Contest Results
• inknalcohol is " In dire need of someone that understands poetry."
• Fantasy Novels with Honest Titles
• The E-Literature Catalog - World Literature
• Time for some Visual Poetry. Eye candy anyone?
• WritersInkWeekly Round-up
• Forum Discussion: how did you learn to make a good voice?
• Happenings in the Literature Community
• Nichrysalis has a few polls! Are you bothered by people reading your work (such as over your shoulder) as you write?" and Do you have a piece of literature that you want critique on? Comment with a link and I'll throw your piece into the poll."
• Unappreciated Works Feature #2
• Divertir and dA: We Want To Hear From You

Group News

• TheTitlePage is getting ready to host their first contest but needs prizes.
• Supper Camp, NaNoWriM0's latest journal announcing that Camp NaNoWriMo will have events in April and July.
• The Bi-Weekly Winner of SeductiveInkWell's 'Author of the Year' has been announced.
• Critiques and other news from FightToWrite.
• minimalit posts their Submission Guidelines
• TheWritersMeow asks members " Which deviation did you feel exemplified the prompt "The Thing in My Closet" best? Please read the rules before voting."
• Day 67 annnnnd Your Elusive Creative Genius, an announcement and update from Glory-Be-Project.
• A bit of an update from Inspiring-Words.
• A Proposition from Authors-Club about submissions.
• poetry-book's Scratch That: Round 6 has begun and the group could use some temporary help.
• theWrittenRevolution's Friends of the Revolution, March
• ThePoetryofDA updates their Affiliates News journal.
• Glacial Flooding, an update from TheShelfLife
• TheScribblists announces the Feb Contest winners and starts voting for the 'crowd favorite'.
• Stick Around, is Short-Stories's current journal update.
• Freedom-From-Words posts a hello and apology.
• Important group updates from PowerfulWriting.
• Have You Been Hooked? (Group Features), Invitations, and are TheBackOfTheBook's journals.


• TheGapToothedMadness reports that Issue 1 of The Gap-Toothed Madness is now available.
• Authors-Academy asks for some suggestions and reminds members to vote for their March book.
• Tournament Round II Participants and Writing Tournament Round II are the newest journals from Writers--club.
• EliteLiterature asks "What age were you in your first memory?" and posts their Lit of the Week 63! *reflectionsinwater, *ThePenVsTheSword and *Dreamydeb
• The-Poetry-Cafe posts an Interview with Island-Romance
• Voting for Calling-All-Poetry's contest has begun and ends March 12th
• "The response to the first unappreciated folder was great! How is the perspective from your side?" asks TheCritiquables
• Folders and Things is TheTitlePage's newest journal.
• WritersInk's March Write Off Shortlist and they post two polls: "Which type of literature do you prefer to read on #WritersInk?" and "Which is your favourite entry from the March Write Off? Winner receives a 3-month premium sub!"

Literature Links [in other languages!]

• LetraHispana updates about their contest and are now accepting fanfics. [Spanish]
• NotreForteresseBrule's contest has ended and the update their affiliates journal. [French]

I am still looking for non-English literature groups, I'd like to keep tabs on them too!

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StoriesAndPoemsClub is a general literature group that has been helping bring writers together for just over three years. The group has a very diverse gallery so be sure to give it a quick browse. Click here to learn a little more about this group's admins.

dragonflame15 the founder of StoriesAndPoemsClub kindly answered a few questions about the group.


Can you explain a bit about your group, StoriesAndPoemsClub and what makes it different from other literature groups on dA?

The StoriesAndPoemsClub aims to welcome any writers who need encouragement or just simply want to interact with others who have a passion for writing. We also offer to make a folder for those who have uploaded novels into the group. We include the new novel folders in monthly journals to promote aspiring writers.

When you created the group three years ago, what was your initial goal? Has that changed since then?

My friend AnnaVass and I three years ago were talking about how great it would be to create a group where anyone could join and upload their literature. We hoped that the simple joining rules would make the group seem more friendly and approachable. Initially, we wanted to target those who were unsure of their skills in writing or just needed encouragement through critique. From there it grew targeting both those who need encouragement to any writers on deviantART.

What kind of future projects, contests, and events can we expect from StoriesAndPoemsClub?

Hopefully in the future there’ll be more contests with more prizes thanks to AnotherContestGroup! They are an amazing group who offer a variety of prizes for group competitions. I also had an idea recently to do either weekly or monthly features of the best writings in the different types of literature. For example, for one week it would be poetry then the next week prose, etc.

Anything else of note that you would like to share?

Our group welcomes anyone who would like to join a literature group! We hope that you enjoy being in our simple and friendly group! Also thanks so much for promoting our group!

Quick Links:

• Gallery
• Rules [Widget on the left hand side]
• #StoriesAndPoemsClub's Chatroom

Looking for more groups?

• leoraigarath's Literature Groups List
• Realm-of-Fantasy's list of literature groups[Fantasy, Sci-fi and General]
• My journal has a small list that I've compiled.
• League of Lit Groups: Vol. 4

If you're still not finding a group you like check out the list of all literature groups on dA: Click here!


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Weekly:

• TheWritersMeow has a new weekly prompt,"Somehow I Knew". [March 15th]
• There is a new Writing Prompt from Live-Love-Write. [March 17th]
• Unseen-Writers's Theme of the Week: New Beginnings
• "Literature" is Poem-forthe-poemless' twelfth weekly prompt.
• Weekly Spontaneity: 48 from SixWordStories
• Theme Of The Week #7 from KnightsOfRomance.

Bi-Weekly:

• ITU Prompt 4 - January 15th, 2013 [March 15th]
• theWrittenRevolution's bi-weekly Prompt: March 4, 2013 [March 16th]
• Prompt #7 from Freedom-From-Words [March 21st]
• Week five prompts from paper-forests

Monthly:

• ReadandBeRead has a new February Prompt [March 5th]
• SixWordStories' Word and Theme Prompts [March 11th]
• March Prompt from Wordsmiths-Guild [March 30th]
• ScreamPrompt #33, March 2013 [March 31st]
• Letters-To-Myself's February Prompt: Letters About Luck. [March 31st]
• Prompt #8: Clover Triplets from Literary-Limits [March 31st]
• Sacred-Literature's monthly prompt is "Write a poem about Night-time."

Workshops:

None

Other:

• lacoterie's Weekly Challenges and prompts [March 10th, March 17th, and March 31st]
• Inspiring-Words' prompt is "Fantasy Western". [March 19th]
• Poetry Poker Challenge [March 31st]
• PoetryVSTheWorld has opened Sign-ups for April's Writing Tourney [March 31st]
• Another-Poetry-Group is hosting a 10 Minute Poetry Raw Challenge.
• My-Soul-Bleeds-Ink's March - Poetry Forms Challenge
• We-Poets has some various prompts.
• "Energy" is TheCritiquables's prompt.
• "From the Shadows, You Hear a Voice..." is MidtownMagic's latest prompt.
• Love-Literature's weekly and monthly prompts.
• A Valentines Day challenge from Proofreading-Office.

Ongoing Challenges [No Deadline]:

• Shelf-of-Friends' Collaboration Project
• The group, LiteratureJunkies has issued a Smell Story Challenge
• Writing prompts from dA-Literature
• A 50 Theme Challenge from Authors-Academy
• 100 Word Challenge hosted by JustKeepWriting
• A List of Prompts from FeatheredWords.
• full-moon-poetry's 18 themes.
• LITplease's 100 Themes Challenge
• Write 50 Reason's Why You Love Yourself Challenge
• Poetic Journey Project hosted by Masters-of-Poetry.
• Writers-Universal's Publicity Project

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These include contests that are purely Literature based and those that have other categories as well, but still accept Literature.

New Contests:

• Frisco Public Library’s 2013 Flash Fiction Contest (April 21st) [Off dA Contest]
• What gets you up in the morning? (April 27th)
• Tea and Cigarettes Contest (June 10th)

Contests Ending This Week:

• OC Winter Contest (March 10th)
• Ask Me This (March 15th)
• Contest #2 Keyword - Short Story [Prose only] (March 15th)
• Haiga Contest (March 15th)
• Make Me Laugh (March 16th)
• Saint Patrick's Day [Prose only; please see link for details] (March 16th)


• #PVSTW Mini-Contest 1: Begin Critiques (March 21st)
*outsidelogic's Writing Contest [250 word maximum] (March 22nd)

Contest Extensions:

None.

• There is also a group dedicated to listing Literature contests around dA, DALiteratureContests, if you're still looking for more contests!
• Writers-and-Editors has their own list of Literature contests.
• #Love-Literature Loves Contests

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Regular Lit Articles

• The Ladies of Lit: Volume XXIX
• A Symbol View with ^NicSwaner
• Literary Compass - Vol. 6
• Be A Critic Volume 10
• Writing Without Publishing: Exillior speaks
• Fantastic Feature Tuesday #33
• A Call to Conversation (5)--*H-A-Cooke
• Friday Night Features LXXXIX
• Fabulous Friday Feature 22
• Saturday Morning Features - 13
• The Saturday Spotlight for March 9th, 2013
• PoetryToTheMasses Weekly Feature 105
• Sundae Treat- Sammur-amat's Sunday Feature
• 30 Writers Re-Discovery: Volume XIV
• The Favorites Project #183, #184, #185
• Lit. Daily Pick Volume 2: February 2013
• Let's Talk Writing: Issue 15
• DLD to DD March 5th, 2013
• The Hidden Artist: Writer Feature 2
• Communal Karma #2
• Group Therapy : Literature

General Resources

• theWrittenRevolution's Lit News Journal
• LadyLincoln's Journal
• lovetodeviate's Resource Central [Now moved to apocathary’s journal]
• julietcaesar's List of Useful Writing Blogs
• WorldWar-Tori's Literature Resources
• #Critique-It's Resources: Writing
• #FantasyLiterature's Helpful Links
• Tips for the Messy Writer
• Writing Tips, Finding A Muse

Writing Resources [General]

• Writing Resources for Everyone
• Jump Start Your Story
• Guides and Lessons for Effective Writing
• LaMonaca's Writing Guides
• LitResources' folder for Literature Tutorials
• illuminara's Writing Guides
• The Ultimate Writing Guide
• OokamiKasumi's Writing Tips and Tricks
• English 101 Index: A Grammar Series
• The Basics of Comma Usage
• Proofreading Tips #2 Semicolon Conjunctive Adverbs
• How to Write Fan Fiction - Part 1 and Part 2
• How to Write Euphonically
• yWriter5 Word Processor [Off dA Link]

Prose Resources

• ElaineRose's Writing Lessons
• Ten Tips for Writing
• 10 Quick Tips: Prose
• 10 Tips for Novel Writers
• Back-To-Basics Screenwriting With Snappy
• Organizing Your Fantasy/Sci-Fi Novel
• How to Write a Romance
• Style vs. Voice - A Guide
• Grammar and Your Story
• Three Act Structure

Poetry Resources

• The Hard Work of Poetry
• Tips For Editing Poetry
• Haiku Theory Part 1
• Haiku and Eastern Poetry
• Poetic Forms
• "On Writing Love Poetry
• "Poeticks: On Imagery" 1 of 3, "Poeticks: On Imagery" 2 of 3, and "Poeticks: On Imagery" 2 of 3
• Poetry Self-Edit Quick Start Guide and Checklist

Critiquing and Miscellaneous Resources

• Search Engines for Serious Writers
• The NonVerbal Thesaurus
• How to Write Without Editing
• 9 Editing Tips You (Possibly) Haven't Heard Before
• Writing Useful Critiques
• Prose Critique Basics
• Beta Reading Tutorial
• Murdering Mary Sue
• Extrasuperfabulous
• Writer Notes - Characters
• Characterization and Names
• Describing your Characters
• A Writer's Guide: Believable Characters
• A Guide to Character Sheets
• Rehab for Roleplayers

Publishing Resources

• SadisticIceCream's Publishing Resources List
• Writing Opportunities (Publishing)
• leoraigarath's Resources on the Side
• Resources for Aspiring Authors
• On-Writing - Getting Published
• Getting Published the Hard Way
• Tips on Self Publishing
• Writing Exercise-Book Proposal
• How to Get a Literary Agent
• What Makes A Good Editor?
• apocathary has created a customised calendar for submissions to Australian journals and competitions. [It can still be useful for others as some listed accept international submissions too.]
• Divertir Publishing is an independent publisher and they also publish short story collections. Check out their dA: DivertirPublishing
• An Idiot's Guide to Publishing
• An Idiot's Guide to Book Publishing

E-Zines/Magazines

• Harmless [Magazine]
• Steampunk Tales
• G.W. Review
• Fuselit
• The Missing Slate
• Machine of Death
• Cram Magazine
• Voiceworks
• Shimmer
• dotdotdash Magazine
• Alliterati Magazine
• Linear Literary Journal
• Grawlix Poetry E-Zine
• choodaloodaling
• Artsmiths
• Chautauqua Literary Journal
• Pocket Thoughts
• Quantum Fairy Tales
• Asymptote Journal

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• Various gallery moderators and some Co-Founders are need at Inspiring-Words.
• FantasyLiterature would like a few more admins to help with upcoming projects.
• TheBackOfTheBook is seeking more admins.
• A founder to run the group Apocalypse-writing is needed.
• One contributor is LiteratureforPoints's current open position.
• TheWritersMeow is seeking 7 different gallery moderators.
• A Contest Creator & Prizes Provider is needed at the group Written-Imagination
• SuperWritersHelp is in need of poetry and prose critics.
• One Contributor is wanted at Sacred-Literature.
• 2 Poetry, 2 Prose and 1 Foreign Language Admin are the open positions at DailyLitDeviations.
• Creative-Writers is looking for an admin to help run the group.
• A Contributor to help out the group, Literary-Perceptions is wanted.
• FictionWriters101 needs a co-founder and 3 contributors.
• SixWordStories has put out a Call for Contributors.
• Critics are wanted in the group, GrammarNaziCritiques
• JustKeepWriting is looking to find someone to post their Weekly Selections feature.
• On-going admin positions are currently available at NaHaiWriMo
• Some admins are wanted to help with the group, WritersOfTheWorld
• A new founder is wanted to take over the group, Painted-From-Words.
• Tutorial and motivational article writes are wanted at writeaway.
• One co-founder is wanted to help keep the group running smoothly at Authors-Academy



• A founder is needed at the group, BleedingHeartsPoetry.
• The group, Writing-My-Soul, would like to add one contributor to help with submissions.
• devLIT is looking for some extra help around the group.
• Contributors are needed at TheScribblists.
• General Administrators are wanted at Poetry-is-AWESOME.
• Two Match Makers are Beta-Readers' current open positions.
• 1 Community Liaison and 2 Critics are needed over at LITplease.
• LOVE-Original-LIT is in need of Prose and Poetry admins as well as a judge for group hosted contests.
• Voters and weekly and monthly bloggers are wanted at Letters-To-Myself
• One admin position is available at TeenagedLiterature.
• RomanceforEveryone would like Bi-Weekly Blog Feature Manager, Bi-Weekly Blog Feature Helpers, Resources Director, Critique Approvers, and some General Administrators.
• 2 assistants, prize commissioners, 1 News crew, and critics are APictureToA1000Words’s current admin vacancies.
• Critics/Commenters are wanted in the group, Live-Love-Write.
• A co-founder and general admins are needed to help run lit-lash.
• EditorialSquad is in need of various staff.
• 2 Affiliates/PR Admins, 2 Pay It Forward Admins, and 4 Critics are open at lacoterie.
• Members to host workshops and Contributors are needed at Writers-Workshop
• 8 Critiquers, 3 Lit-Pickers, and 1 Affiliate Admin are needed at LitResources.

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BeccaJS - Beccalicious' DD Suggestion Guidelines
neurotype-on-discord - neurotype's DD Suggestion Guidelines
Nichrysalis - NicSwaner's DD Suggestion Guidelines
JZLobo - JZLobo's DD Suggestion Guidelines [Only Fan Fiction.]
Go on and send your literature DD suggestions to them!

#CRLiterature Community Relations Literature Chatroom
Literature CR Update - January 2013 / February 2013
February's Literature Daily Deviations

Literature Forums
Literature Forum
Literature Forum Rules

Monthly Literature Critique Thread: March


FAQ #61: What is a Daily Deviation?
FAQ #18: Who selects the Daily Deviation and how is it chosen?
FAQ #873: What do I do when I disapprove of a Daily Deviation feature?

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Want your group to be spotlighted; your Literature project? See something you don't like? That you like? Want changed or removed? Have a suggestion for the next issue? Then please send me a note! The Literature Community is huge, so I'm always going to miss something or make a mistake, don't be afraid to let me know. ♥

Hugs, love and thanks to:
, and my favoritest LITplease Community Liaisons.
for letting me run LITplease’s Community Portal.
who sent me this nifty off-dA flash fiction contest.
for telling me about his group's contest.

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