Love dA Lit: Issue 20

Welcome to the twentieth issue of my weekly news article, Love dA Lit! Every Sunday this news article will aim to promote volunteer opportunities, various resources, prompts, challenges, and workshops, as well as highlighting various contests, interviewing various members of the literature community 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: It's April so that means it's Script Frenzy and NaPoWriMo [National Poetry Writing Month]!

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The Infamous Critique Contest Winners have finally been announced.
The ABCs of Deviants: namenotrequired
Self-Portraits Mini-Contest Results!
theWrittenRevolution's Featured Member XIV: ~SugarCoveredDreams
Just a bit of April Fun from SixWordStories.
"Reading Week" - Month: March-April has ended for the group, write-to-live.
52 Week Six Word Story Challenge! - Week 13
The Lyricists #1
Musical Maps Contest: CLOSED!
The A, B, C's of Emotions - [Edition M]
The Month of April is Upon Us, and WriMo-Writers lists the various WriMo events going on, such as NaPoWrimo and Script Frenzy!
After a brief hiatus OurOwnAdventure is now back.
the-haiku-club's April Saijiki Contest
WritersInk's Writer Of The Month: *DramiraSK
The group, Prosemonkeys lists some Other Literature Groups You Should Join
The Doorways Contest Winners have been announced.
Pass the Potatoes Feature (Round Four)
The Feedback Pack Pairs - April 2011, hosted by FantasyLiterature and Authors-of-Fantasy have been announced.
WriterSecretSanta Monthly Issue #9; March 2011
For those who are Fools about April
Narrow Roads Contest, hosted by the-haiku-club.
The group, WriterSecretSanta will be hosting a Group Chat on April 10th.
Winners of the Creative Muse contest!
An April update from the group lacoterie.
ContemporaryFantasy announces the upcoming Author Interview for May.
The contest hosted by LitResources is now closed and judging will begin.
Live-Love-Write's Writing Prompt March 28- April 5
The-Free-Pens is calling on it's members to help reviatalize The Writer's Corner.
The Phobias/Fears Contest, hosted by LooseLacesPoetry has begun.
WritersInk's Weekly Round-Up: The Next Installment
Author Event in Liverpool
The Love and Heartbreak Competition Winners have announced.
The Gallery is Fixed over at WritersOfToday, and members are now able to submit.
Affiliates' News from LooseLacesPoetry.
The group, Write-for--ten, will be keeping tabs on the average page and words per minute of their members.
WritersInk's Affiliate Contest Features
WritersOfToday announces their Last to First Contest (Ends September 30th)
60 Days to Donate (BIG NEWS!)
The Ronin of Words Strikes! [And is looking for allies!]


Literature Links [in other languages!]
None this week. Anyone know of some non-English literature groups? I'd like to keep tabs on them too!






Weekly:
"The Zodiac Prompt", is TheWritersMeow's newest prompt.
lacoterie's Weekly Poetry and Prose Prompts
Live-Love-Write's Weekly Writing Prompt: It Just Slipped Out
Literary-Perceptions' Prompt: Trust
fiftywordfiction's weekly prompts: 'the ends the means' and 'phone booths'
"Lottery", the current weekly theme for RawEm0tion
devLIT's Weekly Prompt: include something purple in your work
In the Family, the weekly writing prompt for LitResources
Poetry-Knights's Weekly Writing Prompt: Invisible
Expound's Weekly Word: Grift

Bi-Weekly:
OnlyPoetry's latest set of prompts.
Inked-Page's Bi Weekly Prompt
Inspiring-Words' Bi-Weekly Prompts - 22
Scribblers-Anonymous's prompts: Set 31!
Xpose-it's Bi-Weekly Writing Prompt: Nature
Letters Unsent
theWrittenRevolution's Bi-Weekly Prompt

Monthly:
The April Monthly Theme of WriterSecretSanta.
WritersOfToday's Monthly Prompt
simplypoetry's March's Prompts and Submissions
simplyprose's March's Prompts and Submissions
DistinctPoetry's Monthly Prompts
Phone: Wordspill-Central's January prompt
six-words's Issue 22
devLIT's Monthly Challenge: Luck
HammeredPoetry's Prompt #4: Etymoetry
Word and Theme Prompts for SixWordStories
Authors-Ink's Monthly Mini Contest: "avoiding a fight"
"Disatster", the monthly prompt at OneWordPrompt.

Other:
transliterations's Prompt 4: The Beginning [Ends April 18th]
For those who are Fools about April [Challenge, ends May 15th]
Time Line Workshop
theWrittenRevolution's prompts.
The Elusive Allusion Workshop [Ends April 3rd]
History Lesson: Workshop
the-haiku-club's March Renga Tree (Seed #5 is Now Open)
ScreamPrompt #12, April 2011
"Overcoming Hardships", I-Write-to-Express's first prompt.
Six Word Story Challenge hosted by the groups: theWrittenRevolution, SixWordStories, Live-Love-Write and Literary-Perceptions
write-to-live’s Winter Prompts.
YouAsTheNarrator's Monthly, Bi-weekly, Bi-Weekly Music Prompt, and Crossed Adventures Prompts
deviantWRITE needs writers and editors for their challenge!
Be A Hero--Couplets
LITplease's Poetry, Fiction and Non-Fiction Prompts
Project Nine Lives





These include contests that are purely Literature based and those that have other categories as well, but still accept Literature. Here are the contests ending this week:


OC Challenge 11: Mythology(April 5th)
Four Seasons in One Day Contest [Please see link for details] (April 5th)
Fighting Eating Disorders Poetry and Prose Contest (April 9th)
Emotion (April 11th)





Regular Lit News Articles
Lit Bits - volume VI
The Ladies of Lit: Volume VIII
Darkest Corners Lit: Issue 9
Fan Art Frenzy - [Volume XVIII]
Writers' Alert : Issue II
LitandNews Issue 2
The Poetry Newsletter - Issue 1
Useful Writing Blogs #5: Wordplay
Legends of Literature: Vol IV
The Lit-Seat: Issue 5
[Bullet; Pink] Writers With a Promise - issue 4


General Resources
[New][Bullet; Pink] LadyLincoln's Journal
[Bullet; Pink] lovetodeviate's Resource Central [Now moved to apocathary’s journal]
[Bullet; Pink] mode-de-vie's Community Update Journal
[Bullet; Pink] #SixWordStories Community Happenings
[Bullet; Pink] WorldWar-Tori's Literature Resources
[Bullet; Pink] A List of Useful Writing Blogs
[Bullet; Pink] #Critique-It's Resources: Writing
[Bullet; Pink] #Mythologue's Literary Resources

Writing Resources
[Bullet; Pink] Guides and Lessons for Effective Writing
[Bullet; Pink] LaMonaca's Writing Guides
[Bullet; Pink] Improving Readability in Prose
[Bullet; Pink] 10 Tips for Novel Writers
[Bullet; Pink] The Hard Work of Poetry
[Bullet; Pink] Tips For Editing Poetry
[Bullet; Pink] Style vs. Voice - A Guide
[Bullet; Pink] Three Act Structure
[Bullet; Pink] Haiku Theory Part 1

Critiquing and Miscellaneous Resources
[Bullet; Pink] Search Engines for Serious Writers
[Bullet; Pink] The NonVerbal Thesaurus
[Bullet; Pink] How to Write Without Editing
[Bullet; Pink] Critiquing Fiction
[Bullet; Pink] Beta Reading Tutorial
[Bullet; Pink] A Verbose Guide to Critiquing

Publishing Resources
[Bullet; Pink] SadisticIceCream's Publishing Resources List
[Bullet; Pink] leoraigarath's Resources on the Side
[Bullet; Pink] Submitting Your Work for Publication
[Bullet; Pink] On-Writing - Getting Published
[Bullet; Pink] Getting Published the Hard Way
[Bullet; Pink]  Tips on Self Publishing
[Bullet; Pink] Writing Exercise-Book Proposal
[Bullet; Pink] How to Get a Literary Agent
[Bullet; Pink] 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.]
[Bullet; Pink] Divertir Publishing is an independent publisher and they also publish short story collections. Check out their dA: DivertirPublishing

E-Zines/Magazines
[Bullet; Pink] Sparkbright Magazine
[Bullet; Pink] Harmless [Magazine]
[Bullet; Pink] One Million Pages Index
[Bullet; Pink] The Literati Review
[Bullet; Pink] Mimesis [Magazine]
[Bullet; Pink] The Clearfield Review
[Bullet; Pink] Barrier Islands Review
[Bullet; Pink] Queer.
[Bullet; Pink] Steampunk Tales
[Bullet; Pink] WalkingBlind [Magazine]
[Bullet; Pink] G.W. Review
[Bullet; Pink] Soundzine
[Bullet; Pink] Fuselit
[Bullet; Pink] The Missing Slate
[Bullet; Pink] SapphireTuesday
[Bullet; Pink] Bright Star (E-zine)
[Bullet; Pink] Title Goes Here
[Bullet; Pink] Second Look





Updated:[Point Right] YouAsTheNarrator is looking to fill the following positions: 2 Gallery Moderators, 1 Character Bio Moderator, 4 Chatroom Moderators, 5 Promotion Moderators, Gallery Contributors and Comment Contributors.

[Point Right] GrammarNaziCritiques is now hiring prose critics.

[Point Right] SuperWritersHelp needs prose critics.

[Point Right] 4 Poetry Administrators, 2 Prose Administrator and 1 General Admin are needed over at DailyLitDeviations.

[Point Right] Critic and Commenter positions are open at Literary-Perceptions.

[Point Right] A founder is needed to take over the group, SongofthePoets.

[Point Right] Some admins are needed over at Writing-My-Soul

[Point Right] A Co-Founder is needed at Animal-Writers.

[Point Right] Ideological Gallery Moderator, Twitter tech, and Literature and Visual Art gallery moderators are needed at TheControversy.

[Point Right] Various staff is needed to help with Gallery Moderation, Literature interviews, Prompt suggestions and postings, Polls, and Blog posts. over at Literary-Visions.

[Point Right] Prompts and Affiliates Admin positions are open at PennedPaper

[Point Right] Deviant-Mentor needs Literature Mentors!

[Point Right] Some greeters are needed for the group, RawEm0tion.

[Point Right] TheAlt-Lit has various positions open. [Widget on left-hand side.]

[Point Right] FantasyLiterature is Looking for Contributors!

[Point Right] Writers-Club is looking for "Helpers" to focus on submissions.

[Point Right] 35-prompts-challenge needs someone to take over the group.

[Point Right] Literature Moderator positions available over at Realm-of-Fantasy.

[Point Right] simplypoetry needs a Co-Admin, 2 Commenter's/Critiquers, and a News Feature Co-ordinator

[Point Right] Open Positions over at SixWordStories, they need: Language
Moderators, Project Managers, Contest Managers, and a Prompt/Ideas Contributor.

[Point Right] A gallery, folder, member, and affiliate admin are needed at TheUnheardVoices [Widget on the right-hand side.]

[Point Right]  Adopt-A-Writer is looking for Support Staff and members to adopt others.

[Point Right] A committed journalist, a committed pr representative, a Discussions Manager, and an editor are needed at GuildofWriters

[Point Right] More Contributers are wanted at Writers-Workshop

[Point Right] Contributors are needed at Authors-of-Fantasy to help out with "group activities and other miscellaneous going-ons".

[Point Right] distinctprose is looking for staff!

[Point Right] Katsa2009's group, TheUnappreciatedArt needs a co-founder to help out!






Authors-of-Fantasy is a group  "dedicated to helping authors of fantasy and science fiction based stories get constructive feedback and share links and articles on the writing process." They have a weekly member feature and each month host a "Feedback Pack" that pairs members up and encourages them to comment and help each other. Learn more about this group by clicking here!


The lovely MidoriiBlue took the time to answer a few questions concerning her group, Authors-of-Fantasy.



[Star!]How is Authors-of-Fantasy different from the other literature groups on dA?
Authors of Fantasy is a group dedicated to authors of an ongoing (mostly novels, novella’s, etc.) storyline related to fantasy or science fiction.  The thing that makes us most different is that each storyline gets its own gallery.  We also do a weekly feature, systematically going through the gallery list so eventually each story gets featured.

In my mind, the main goal of this group is to bring together authors to support each other with comments, critiques, as well as sharing ideas and information.   The set up of this group also allows a large number of fantasy and sci-fi storylines to be cached in one place for readers to enjoy.


[Star!]Every month, Authors-of-Fantasy and it's sister group ,FantasyLiterature, host a "Feedback Pack", can you tell me more about that? And has it been successful?
Feedback Pack is designed to help those of us who write lengthy prose get more of the constructive comments we love.  The average DA commenter may often be intimidated by the large amount of reading involved in short stories and storyline chapters.  Feedback Pack facilitates a greater interaction of deviants by pairing up participants and requiring a minimum of three comments for each.  Deviants can choose to participate on a month-by-month basis.

I think Feedback Pack has been successful.  It may be getting a slow start, but I have had several deviants tell me that they are so happy to participate and there are several that have stayed on for all of the sessions so far.  I really look forward to seeing our “Pack” continue to grow!


[Star!]Your group focuses on Fantasy, what do you think is the hardest thing to write about in this genre? Why?
Writers of all genre’s face challenges, but fantasy definitely has it’s unique hang-ups. The most obvious is the fact that the setting is often in an unknown world, with its own rules and history far from our own.   World building, while it can be a blast, is overall an exhausting process of catching the details that matter and not focusing too much on those that don’t.  Even those writers who use the existing world must create a unique sub-culture that utilizes the fantasy elements.

I would also mention our sci-fi writers in this.  Although it’s not technically fantasy, we still include the genre as it often has similar elements of fabricated (alien) worlds and histories.  I think the sci-fi writer’s biggest challenge is interpreting massively complicated technological elements in a way that makes sense to the average person.  


[Star!]Anything else of note that you would like to share?
I would like to thank you Steph for the honor of being interviewed and for being so supportive in the DA Lit community… You are a gem!

I would also like to thank our new co-founder betwixtthepages for taking on extra duties and helping the group run smoothly!  I couldn’t keep up without her!


Quick Links:
[Bullet; Pink] #Authors-of-Fantasy's Submission and Membership Rules
[Bullet; Pink] Gallery
[Bullet; Pink] Feedback Pack Information
[Bullet; Pink]  #Authors-of-Fantasy's  Weekly Feature--March 27th-April 3rd



If you're looking for some more groups head over to leoraigarath's Literature Groups List or Realm-of-Fantasy's for their list of literature groups[Fantasy, Sci-fi and General], or you could always head over to LITplease's Community Portal to see the small list I've helped compile. Or if you're still not finding a group you like check out the list of all literature groups on dA: Click here!




nycterent - nycterent's DD Suggestion Guidelines
GwenavhyeurAnastasia - GwenavhyeurAnastasia's DD Suggestion Guidelines
Halatia - Halatia's DD Suggestion Guidelines
Go on and send your literature DD suggestions to them! [:eager: by darkmoon3636]

#CRLiterature Community Relations Literature Chatroom
Literature CR Update - January 2011
[New]Literature Daily Deviations - March 2011

Literature Forms
Fantasy Literature Forum
Lit Workshop Forum
Poetry and Prose Forum

February in the Literature Forums


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

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[Bullet; Pink] Want your group to be spotlighted? 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:
for helping out with the interviews, being my residential expert of all things publishing and also being amazing.
for helping keep a lookout for literature groups for me and being fantastic, of course.
for letting me help run LITplease's Community Portal and spamming her inbox with countless notes, all while being wonderful.