Love dA Lit: Issue 44

Welcome to the forty-fourth 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.

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TheSimulacrum is back and reconstructed! The group is "devoted to short verse poetry".
A note on forum prompts from BeccaJS
Cross-Pollinated is looking to fill it's gallery.
"All Hallows Tales" Fiction Contest
On Critique: To do it well
The voting for RawEm0tion's Past, Present, and Future: A Collaboration Project has begun.
The group, writeaway, has now been adopted.
theWrittenRevolution's Featured Member VIII: ~520romeo
  The ever great Lit bird Lit-Twitter will be a bit busier in the coming days and announces that updates will be a bit slower.
52 Week Six Word Story Challenge! - Week 37
Penpa is calling for their members to suggest deviations.
Poetry-To-The-Masses updates their Rules, etc.
An update concerning FictionFridays' prompt.
theWritersFoundation's Contributor's Introduction: TheGreatSpyExperim, AngelOmara, and icemagix2450.
angelStained wants to know "It's better to start writing poetry with:"
NaNoWriMo Tips: How to write 10,000 words a day
Is-Est-Abyssus has a Halloween Contest in the works.
Haiku Club 2011 Double Yang Contest
Mentorship Project: Challenge Three
A Detailed Look: Updates from Literary-Perceptions.
My-Soul-Bleeds-Ink's contest has ended.
An update to PowerfulWriting's About Us & General Rules
The New Team and Rules Reminder from TheWritersMeow.
"What is your favorite subject to write poetry about?" asks Open-Mic-Poetry.
PowerfulWriting's Submission Guidelines have been updated.
HumanConditions' poll: "Please Vote For Our New Lit Member Of The Month (Sorry--We Had To Make A Corrected Poll--Please Vote Again If You've Voted Before)"
It is voting time for the first place winners of PoetryToTheMasses' recently ended contest. [September 20th]
Publishing Opportunity
SPOTLIGHTWRITERS reminds their members to Vote for October's WotM and reveals September's Winner
theWrittenRevolution announces the Summer Haze Contest Winners
Writers-Workshop- A call to get involved!
Open-Mic-Poetry's Classic Poetry of the Month vol 1
Halatia lists some Lit things that are going on!
I Write Like...
Live-Write-Now's Winners for the Weekly Feature
PowerfulWriting's Submissions are Closed
An update from OnlyPoetry.
WritersInk asks "With which of the following tools do you produce your BEST writing?"
Off the top of your head, do you know which one of your horror stories is your favourite?, Horror-Stories wants to know.
"What gives you hope?" asks BleedingHeartsPoetry.
Two days to submit to Writers-Retreat's contest. [September 20th]
thorns asks "Word Wars Chat Tour - Twice a month?"
Voting for wordflight's contest has begun.
Poetry-To-The-Masses makes an update about Suggestions
Would you groove on your very own exceedingly especial Doctrinaire 'Chat' room? asks Doctrinaire.
WorldStory has some changes and updates.
Some Group Announcements from Poets-N-Prose.
Transliterations: Photocopier Contest Results
Authors-of-Fantasy's Weekly Feature--September 11th-September 18th
Is-Est-Abyssus's dead-line for entires is October 31st.
The group, FocusOnLit's Restructure is 90% Complete
YoungPoets' poll: "New theme up! Are you going to try and participate?"
MadWords' Group Flashwrite #1, has begun.
Darkest Corners LIT - October Issue
"What inspires you?" asks Open-Mic-Poetry.
TFP Features #64, #65, & #66
There are less than 10 days left to join in Wordsmiths-Guild's Collaborative Poem.
angelStained's poll: "You are more interested when:"
YoungPoets updates their "Note From the Founder".
Updates from PowerfulWriting
Publishing Opportunity
Changes to the Literature Gallery
Some clarification and questions from BeccaJS.
The Ronin of Words Strikes! [And is looking for allies!]


Literature Links [in other languages!]
LiteraturaEspanol's Voting for Exercise #25 has begun. [Spanish]
LetraHispana's anniversary event has been canceled. [Spanish]
LiteraturaBR announces the results of their challenge and has a new challenge for September. [Spanish]

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






Weekly:
lacoterie's Weekly Poetry and Prose Prompts
Live-Love-Write's Weekly Writing Prompt: "Growing Older"
Literary-Perceptions' Prompt: Trust
"Never Have I-", the current weekly theme for RawEm0tion
devLIT's Weekly Prompt: “Write from the perspective of a stalker."
In the Family, the weekly writing prompt for LitResources
Writing Prompt #24 from FictionFridays.
"The wrong place at the wrong time." or "The right place at the right time." is WritersOfTheMoon’s weekly prompt.
Penpa's prompt #8.
Literary-Visions' weekly prompts. [Widget on the right hand-side]
Changes, LovingHowYouWrite's current weekly prompt.
Live-Write-Now's Weekly Theme.
A Character prompt is, WritersAreArtistsToo's weekly prompt.
Unseen-Writers' Theme of the Week: Sloth
[New][Bullet; Pink] Wordsmiths-Guild's prompt.

Bi-Weekly:
[Bullet; Pink] OnlyPoetry's latest set of prompts.
[Bullet; Pink] Inked-Page's Bi Weekly Prompt
[New][Bullet; Pink] Inspiring-Words' Bi-Weekly Prompts - 32
[Bullet; Pink] Scribblers-Anonymous's prompts: Set 31!
[Bullet; Pink] Xpose-it's Bi-Weekly Writing Prompt: "the golden hour".
[New][Bullet; Pink] Letters To...God
[Bullet; Pink] theWrittenRevolution's Bi-Weekly Prompt
[Bullet; Pink] dA-lta's Bi-Weekly Prompts
[New][Bullet; Pink] New Beginnings, YoungPoets' bi-weekly theme.
[Bullet; Pink] "My name is...", TheWritersMeow's newest prompt.
[Bullet; Pink] "Curiosity", the bi-weekly prompt from Poets-N-Prose.
[Bullet; Pink] PowerfulWriting's bi-weekly prompt.
[New][Bullet; Pink] transliterations' Prompt 9: The Beginning!

Monthly:
[Bullet; Pink] Unseen-Writers' Monthly Challenge
[Bullet; Pink] The September Monthly Theme of WriterSecretSanta.
[Bullet; Pink] WritersOfToday's Monthly Prompt
[Bullet; Pink] simplypoetry's March's Prompts and Submissions
[Bullet; Pink] simplyprose's April's prompts and submissions
[Bullet; Pink] Statue: Wordspill-Central's April prompt.
[Bullet; Pink] six-words's Issue 22
[Bullet; Pink] devLIT's Monthly Challenge: Summer Love
[Bullet; Pink] HammeredPoetry's Prompt #4: Etymoetry
[Bullet; Pink] SixWordStories' Word and Theme Prompts and Visual Stories Prompts
[Bullet; Pink] "Time", the monthly prompt at OneWordPrompt.
[Bullet; Pink] WriMo-Writers's Prompt for the Month of September
[New][Bullet; Pink] Living Life from a Writer's Perspective, Live-Write-Now's monthly theme.

Other:
[New][Bullet; Pink] Write a Character into Real Life
[New][Bullet; Pink] Haikai No Renga
[New][Bullet; Pink] The Neverending Poem
[Bullet; Pink] the-haiku-club's September Renga Tree
[Bullet; Pink] Wordsmiths-Guild has started a Collaborative Poem [September 22nd].
[Bullet; Pink] #NeverbeAlone: Project Awareness - Self-Harm II [September]
[Bullet; Pink] Project Heart
[Bullet; Pink] Plot-A-Scene Workshop
[Bullet; Pink] ScreamPrompt #19, September 2011
[Bullet; Pink] theWrittenRevolution's prompts.
[New][Bullet; Pink] Six Word Story Challenge hosted by the groups: theWrittenRevolution, SixWordStories, Live-Love-Write and Literary-Perceptions
[Bullet; Pink] YouAsTheNarrator's Monthly, Bi-weekly, Bi-Weekly Music Prompt, and Crossed Adventures Prompts
[New][Bullet; Pink] LITplease's Poetry, Fiction and Non-Fiction Prompts
[Bullet; Pink] Project Nine Lives





EliteLiterature is an "assembly of elite writers producing work for exhibition." Though a small group, they are dedicated to helping members create new pieces as well as promoting and being "proactive on the proper exhibition" of literature. Learn more about this group by clicking here!

A big thank you to Nichrysalis who took some time to answer a few questions for me!



[Star!]How is EliteLiterature different from the other literature groups on dA?
EliteLiterature is different from many literature groups in that it provides each member with their own individual folder to submit to. Our gallery is the summation of a collective of writer's galleries, and pieces are being added every day. The idea behind this is that when I founded the group, I wanted to showcase the writer and their work as a whole package, not just selective pieces from selective writers. I feel it works positively for the writers and the viewers, who get a feel for what the writer is about and their style, and gives viewers a chance to explore multiple writer's galleries at once.

Obviously, there is a catch, and like a few other literature groups out there, the group is particular about who is invited and accepted.

[Star!]EliteLiterature was founded just over a month ago, can you tell me about any upcoming projects or goals you have for the group?
Currently, the main goal for the group, as with any other group, is to expand, as EliteLiterature is still in its infancy as a group. I have a few contest ideas in mind, that would be open to the writing community as a whole and not just members. Of course, we are also open to ideas on how to go about featuring more of our member's work.

[Star!]Anything else of note that you would like to share?
The group, however selective it may be, is not just about great writing, I would like to emphasize again that it is about the talented writers who produce such meaningful work and to exhibit their work as whole, and not just tidbits of their creativity.


Quick Links:
[Bullet; Pink] General Info | Applying | Submitting
[Bullet; Pink] Gallery


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 my journal to see the small list I've compiled. Or if you're still not finding a group you like check out the list of all literature groups on dA: Click here!




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:


[Star!]Bump in the Night (September 20th)
[New][Star!]Liagons 2011 Contest [800 word limit, please see link for details] (September 21st)
[New][Star!]Butterfly Apocalypse [Prose only, please see link for details] (September 21st)
[New][Star!]Deja Vu Contest [300 word limit, please see link for details] (September 24th)
[New][Star!]Fists, Flowers, Fire! [50 word limit; poetry only; please see link for details] (September 24th)
[New][Star!]Mini-Contest: From the Outside Looking In [2,000 word limit for prose; 50 line limit for poetry; please see link for details] (September 24th)
[New][Star!]Rainbow Contest (September 25th)





Regular Lit News Articles
[Bullet; Pink] LitBits - vol.VIII
[Bullet; Pink] The Ladies of Lit: Volume XIII
[Bullet; Pink] Darkest Corners LIT 15 - Horror Literature
[Bullet; Pink] Useful Writing Blogs #5: Wordplay
[Bullet; Pink] Writers With a Promise - issue 9
[New][Bullet; Pink] Friday Night Features XIV
[Bullet; Pink] Deviant Dossier: IrrevocableFate
[Bullet; Pink] Wonderful critics, wonderful writers #4
[New][Bullet; Pink] PoetryToTheMasses Weekly Feature 29
[Bullet; Pink] A Little Birdie Told Me...Vol. IV
[New][Bullet; Pink] The Saturday Spotlight
[New][Bullet; Pink] DLD to DD--September 16th, 2011


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] devLIT's Literary 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
[Bullet; Pink] #FantasyLiterature's Helpful Links

Writing Resources
[Bullet; Pink] Writing Resources for Everyone
[Bullet; Pink] Guides and Lessons for Effective Writing
[Bullet; Pink] LaMonaca's Writing Guides
[Bullet; Pink] LitResources' folder for Literature Tutorials
[Bullet; Pink] How to Write Euphonically
[Bullet; Pink] OokamiKasumi's Writing Tips and Tricks
[Bullet; Pink] Ten Tips for Writing
[Bullet; Pink] 10 Tips for Novel Writers
[Bullet; Pink] Three Act Structure
[Bullet; Pink] Style vs. Voice - A Guide
[Bullet; Pink] The Hard Work of Poetry
[Bullet; Pink] Tips For Editing Poetry
[Bullet; Pink] Haiku Theory Part 1
[Bullet; Pink] Poetic Forms

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] Prose Critique Basics
[Bullet; Pink] Beta Reading Tutorial
[Bullet; Pink] A Verbose Guide to Critiquing
[Bullet; Pink] Murdering Mary Sue
[Bullet; Pink] Extrasuperfabulous
[Bullet; Pink] Characterization and Names
[Bullet; Pink] Rehab for Roleplayers

Publishing Resources
[New][Bullet; Pink] SadisticIceCream's Publishing Resources List
[Bullet; Pink] leoraigarath's Resources on the Side
[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
[Bullet; Pink] An Idiot's Guide to Publishing

E-Zines/Magazines
[Bullet; Pink] Harmless [Magazine]
[Bullet; Pink] Queer.
[Bullet; Pink] Steampunk Tales
[Bullet; Pink] G.W. Review
[Bullet; Pink] Soundzine
[Bullet; Pink] Fuselit
[Bullet; Pink] The Missing Slate
[Bullet; Pink] SapphireTuesday
[Bullet; Pink] Title Goes Here
[Bullet; Pink] Second Look
[Bullet; Pink] Verandah Literary Journal
[Bullet; Pink] Chameleon Dream
[Bullet; Pink] Machine of Death
[Bullet; Pink] Cram Magazine
[Bullet; Pink] Voiceworks
[Bullet; Pink] Shimmer





[New][Point Right] writingclub is looking for a founder and some other admins to help run the group.

[New][Point Right] 35-prompts-challenge is still in need of a founder.

[New][Point Right] Writers--club is Adding Staff and Looking For New Critics

[New][Point Right] Contributor positions are open at theWritersFoundation.

[New][Point Right] TheWritersMeow is looking for more admins.

[New][Point Right] dA-Literature is looking for some more admins.

Updated:[Point Right] One more admin is needed in the group, OutstandingWriters.

Updated:[Point Right] Members to host workshops and contributors are wanted at Writers-Workshop

[Point Right] 100ThemeWriters is in need of admins

[Point Right] A critic and an inspirationalist are needed at Wordsmiths-Guild.

[Point Right] Beta-readers are needed at Beta-Readers!

[Point Right] Applications for administartors are open for YoungPoets.

[Point Right] Two Contributors are wanted at Written-Love.

[Point Right] The group, Lit-Community's current founder is stepping down and is looking for someone to fill the position.

[Point Right] Poets-N-Prose is looking for volunteers to host a workshop

[Point Right] A Poetry Co-Admin is needed at WritersAreArtistsToo.

[Point Right] Community Liasons, TFP Appraises and Critics are needed over at LITplease.

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

[Point Right] Deviant-Mentor needs Literature Mentors!

[Point Right] Applications for two contributors, or co-founders, are wanted at PPPLit.

[Point Right] Mythologue is in need of 5 Language moderators[French, Italian, Spanish, German, and English] and critic admins.

[Point Right] Open Positions over at SixWordStories, they need: Project Managers and Contest Managers.

[Point Right] 10 Critiquers, 5 Lit-Pickers, 2 Affiliate Admins, and 1 Contest Admin are needed at LitResources.

[Point Right] Poetry-101 has open admin positions.

[Point Right] Critics and Commentors are open for applications over at Live-Love-Write.

[Point Right] Critics, admins, and a team to help keep members "motivated, inspired and more involved" are needed at devLIT

[Point Right] A Contest admin is needed for the group Lit-WIP.

[Point Right] 2 Moderator Positions are open at HuesOfReality.

[Point Right] GrammarNaziCritiques is looking for poetry critics.

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

[Point Right] Critiquers are needed at FantasyAuthorsGuild.

[Point Right] SuperWritersHelp is in need of more poetry critics.

[Point Right] 2 Afilliates/PR Admins, 3 Pay It Forward Admins, and 4 Critics are open at lacoterie.

[Point Right] Scribblers-Anonymous is still looking for a reporter.

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

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

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





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

#CRLiterature Community Relations Literature Chatroom
Literature CR Update - May 2011
August's Literature Daily Deviations

Literature Forums
Literature Forum
Posting Guidelines - Literature Forum

March in the Literature Forums
Monthly Literature Critique Thread: September


[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 letting me help run LITplease's Community Portal and spamming her inbox with countless notes, all while being wonderful.
for helping keep a lookout for literature groups for me and being fantastic, of course.
who is the newest LITplease Community Liason and will be helping me with gathering information while being fabulous.