Love dA Lit: Issue 56

Welcome to the fifty-sixth 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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• TheAlt-Lit is back! They are in need of admins to help bring back the magazine.
• Crit Night RIGHT NOW.
• Odyssey Into 2012
• "Do you watch our literature Community Volunteers?" asks thorns.
• Writing-My-Soul clarifies their "From The Mind" folder.
• Know What You Write! (Folder Now Open)
• TheWritersMeow reveals a Christmas Contest
• An update from Slam-It.
• Poem of the Week - #10
• theWrittenRevolution's Featured Member: *pseudometry
• Some weekly announcements from Lit-WIP.
• We-Write-Fantasy's Word War Wrap Up
• PoetryToTheMasses asks "We're coming to the end of your premium membership - do you think we used it well?"
• 52 Week Six Word Story Challenge! - Week 49
• dA-Literature has a new poetry folder
• Odyssey into 2012 Master List Hub compiled by katiekerr. Odyssey Literature I, Odyssey Literature II, Odyssey Literature III, Odyssey Literature IV, Odyssey Literature V, Odyssey Literature VI, Odyssey Literature VII, Odyssey Literature VIII, Odyssey Literature IX
• EliteLiterature's poll: "Lit of the Week 6! Support your fellow members by voting!"
• 15-Minutes-of-Fame's Vision.
• Teenage-Writers has launched their contest
• Faith in Fiction
• We-Write-To-Escape's Submission Limit Has Been Changed and discusses a possible contest.
• Written-Imagination's journal discussing Published Authors, WW, Secret Santa & Updates
• Live-Write-Now is holding a discussion while they judge the entires for their contest.
• Updates and a contest announcement form MidtownMagic
• The group, Poetry-Screams, will be hosting some challenges soon.
• Resources for Aspiring Authors
• Lit Community: To Whom it May Concern
• transliterations' Prompt 11: The Conclusion
• Writers-Of-Our-Time has an updates to their Chirstmas Contest.
• Penpa's Christmas Competition is now open.
• #SixWordStories: Monthly Showcase
• My-Soul-Bleeds-Ink announces a Christmas Contest
• ThePoetryofDA updates their contest.
• Word Wars Chat Tour & December Announcements from We-Write-Fantasy.
• WrittenLegacy's contest is now closed and voting has begun.
• PoetryThatRhymes reminds members to submit to the contest.
• BleedersofInk Presents: "What Would You Do?" Contest
• EliteLiterature's ELC Weekly NewsBlog
• FocusOnLit's poll: "Yes or No. You plan to participate in the Triple Prize Challenge"
• Chat Tour Schedule
• Wordsmiths-Guild is back and looking for suggestions.
• My-Soul-Bleeds-Ink reveals their members Secret Santa's.
• theWrittenRevolution's Anniversary Contest has begun.
• TheWritingObsession updates.
• Open-Mic-Poetry and Beautiful-Literature are going red.
• Written-Love's Member Spotlight - draken230
• Ladies of Lit Chat on December 26th at 7:00 pm EST
• Submission Limit, Updates etc. from We-Write-To-Escape.
• Nonfiction Lovers, don't be sad... a journal from LITplease.
• LiteratureforPoints is looking for some help.
• Splendid Scripts Contest Winners Announced
• "Do you know what you write or write what you know?" asks Writers-Workshop
• JustKeepWriting's Weekly Selections #4
• raspil asks "What do you recall as your first REAL inspiration when it comes to writing?
• The Contest Winners of FantasyAuthorsGuild's contest are announced.
• Open-Mic-Poetry updates their rules.
• Live-Love-Write is looking for Super Group Donations to make their group a super group.
• ThePoetryofDA updates their Affiliates News Journal.
• knownames announces the Winner of the Starry Contest
• NaNoWriMo - The End & the Start of Something New
• Weekly Roundup & News
• HammeredPoetry updates their Contest-prompt #5 update
• theWrittenRevolution'sAnniversary and upcoming events.
• Flash Fiction Lives: Creation 1
• Latest Sta.sh Updates - Your Feedback
• PoetryThatRhymes' contest has begun.
• Some announcements and updates from TheScribblists.
• Beta-Readers' December Member Spotlight
• wordflight updates their contest.
• TheWritersMeow gives congratulations to all those members who participated in NaNoWriMo.
• An apology from Lit-Newsbut will have updates again soon.
• Week Three Results of lit-lash's third weekly prompt.
• A NaNoWriMo Farewell from NaNoWriMo-MLP.
• LadyLincoln is in DIRE need for suggestions for her Ladies of Lit article.
• hq is asking deviants to  "decorate" deviantART's Holiday Headquarters

Literature Links [in other languages!]

• LiteraturaBR announces the results of their November Competition and starts their December Competition. [Portuguese]
• The group, ArteScritta is having a contest. [Italian]
• AmiciNeiSogni has an update regarding the group's growth and their theme list. [Italian]

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: "Forging Your Own Happiness"
• "You Don't Know What You Have Until It's Gone", the current weekly theme for RawEm0tion
• devLIT's Weekly Prompt: “Cold"
• In the Family, the weekly writing prompt for LitResources
• Live-Write-Now's Weekly Theme.
• A character prompt is, WritersAreArtistsToo's weekly prompt.
• Unseen-Writers' Theme of the Week: Regret
• Wordsmiths-Guild's various prompts.
• Allusion Confusion, EliteLiterature's weekly theme.
• House-of-Playwrights's second December weekly prompt is a Theme/Quote Combo.
• Prompt Three of lit-lash's weekly prompts has begun.
• "Why do you think people find it necessary to lie to one another?" is Escape-Of-A-Writer's current prompt.
• Snow is FightToWrite's theme of the week.
• Deranged Aquarium Lit-News' weekly prompt.
• Wanton is Raininginhawaiipoems' current prompt.

Bi-Weekly:

• Inspiring-Words' Bi-Weekly Prompts - 35
• Scribblers-Anonymous's prompts: Set 31!
• Xpose-it's Bi-Weekly Writing Prompt: "the golden hour".
• Letters To...A Witch/Wizard or Ghost/Ghoul
• Bi-Weekly Prompts from theWrittenRevolution.
• New Beginnings, YoungPoets' bi-weekly theme.
• "3:00 AM", TheWritersMeow's newest prompt.
• "Curiosity", the bi-weekly prompt from Poets-N-Prose.
• Literary-Perceptions' Prompt: The truth is out there.
• Broken Spirit, Written-Imagination's prompt. [December 11th]
• "Lightning Eyes", We-Write-To-Escape's fortnightly theme.

Monthly:

• LaRevolucionEscrita's Monthly Theme: Generic
• ScreamPrompt #21, December 2011
• Horror-Stories' December Monthly Theme.
• Prompt #10:The chill in my bones. The-Writing-Exchange's monthly prompt.
• Unseen-Writers' Monthly Challenge: November
• The November Monthly Theme of WriterSecretSanta.
• WritersOfToday's Monthly Prompt
• SixWordStories' Word and Theme Prompts
• "Safe", the monthly prompt at OneWordPrompt.
• HammeredPoetry Prompt #4: Etymoetry [November 30th]

Other:

• knownames' Exquisite Corpse
• Apocalypse-writing's Prompt[January 3rd]
• 100 Word Challenge hosted by JustKeepWriting
• Flash Fiction Lives: Creation 1
• Sijo Exquisite Corpse Renga
• Know What You Write Writers-Workshop's current workshop.
• 100 Words Writing Challenge from JustKeepWriting
• Vignettophiles' Comment Swap VII[Every 1st and 15th of the month.]
• full-moon-poetry's 18 themes
• Writers--club's Writing Tournament 2011: First Round [December 15th]
• LITplease's 100 Themes Challenge
• theWrittenRevolution's prompts.
• Six Word Story Challenge hosted by the groups: theWrittenRevolution, SixWordStories, Live-Love-Write and Literary-Perceptions
• LITplease's Poetry and Fiction Prompts
• Project Nine Lives

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:


Heartfelt (December 15th)
Fan Art Contest: Childhood Memories [1,500 word limit; please see link for details] (December 15th)
Mouthwatering Moments Contest [Eastern Poetry only; please see link for details] (December 15th)
Christmas Contest [Poetry only; please see link for details] (December 17th)
Triple Prize Challenge (December 18th)







Regular Lit News Articles

• LitBits - vol.VIII
• The The Ladies of Lit: Volume XVI
• Darkest Corners LIT 15 - Horror Literature
• Writers With a Promise - Issue 11
• Friday Night Features XXVI
• Deviant Dossier: IrrevocableFate
• PoetryToTheMasses Weekly Feature 41
• Saturday Spotlight for December 10th, 2011
• DLD to DD, December 9th, 2011
• Novel Tease Newsletter - Issue 4

General Resources

• LadyLincoln's Journal
• lovetodeviate's Resource Central [Now moved to apocathary’s journal]
• julietcaesar's List of Useful Writing Blogs
• mode-de-vie's Community Update Journal
• #SixWordStories Community Happenings
• devLIT's Literary Happenings
• WorldWar-Tori's Literature Resources
• #Critique-It's Resources: Writing
• #Mythologue's Literary Resources
• #FantasyLiterature's Helpful Links

Writing Resources

• Writing Resources for Everyone
• Guides and Lessons for Effective Writing
• LaMonaca's Writing Guides
• LitResources' folder for Literature Tutorials
• How to Write Euphonically
• OokamiKasumi's Writing Tips and Tricks
• Ten Tips for Writing
• ElaineRose's Writing Lessons
• 10 Tips for Novel Writers
• Three Act Structure
• Style vs. Voice - A Guide
• The Hard Work of Poetry
• Tips For Editing Poetry
• Haiku Theory Part 1
• Poetic Forms
• Poetry Self-Edit Quick Start Guide and Checklist
• "Poeticks: On Imagery" 1 of 3, "Poeticks: On Imagery" 2 of 3, and "Poeticks: On Imagery" 2 of 3

Critiquing and Miscellaneous Resources

• Search Engines for Serious Writers
• The NonVerbal Thesaurus
• How to Write Without Editing
• Critiquing Fiction
• Prose Critique Basics
• Beta Reading Tutorial
• A Verbose Guide to Critiquing
• Murdering Mary Sue
• Extrasuperfabulous
• Characterization and Names
• Character Development: From Beginning to End
• Rehab for Roleplayers

Publishing Resources

• SadisticIceCream's Publishing Resources List
• 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
• 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

E-Zines/Magazines

• Harmless [Magazine]
• Queer.
• Steampunk Tales
• G.W. Review
• Soundzine
• Fuselit
• The Missing Slate
• SapphireTuesday
• Title Goes Here
• Second Look
• Verandah Literary Journal
• Chameleon Dream
• Machine of Death
• Cram Magazine
• Voiceworks
• Shimmer

TheAlt-Lit needs a Co-Founder, General Assistant, Gallery Moderator, 2 Collectors, an Interviewer, Eastern Styles Poetry Collector, LGBT Columnist, and a Reviewer..

6 Contributors are the avaliable positions at TheScribblists

LiteratureforPoints is in need of a chat moderator and contributors.

Updated: Members to host workshops and Contributors are needed at Writers-Workshop

Updated: 2 Temporary Freelancer positions are open at EliteLiterature.

Critics, admins, and people "interested in helping run and set up events and projects" are needed at devLIT.

Moderator and Contributor positions are open at TheControversy.

A new literature group, Poetry-Screams wants some administrators.

Admins, Critics, and Commentors are open for applications over at Live-Love-Write.

Two Moderators, Critiquers are needed at FantasyAuthorsGuild.

PowerfulWriting is in need of contributors.

1 Prompt Admin, 1 Community Liason, 2 TFP Appraises and 3 Critics are needed over at LITplease.

Deviant-Mentor needs Literature Mentors!

WA-writersblock is looking for someone to take over the group.

Poets-N-Prose is looking for some admins.

SuperWritersHelp is in need of critics.

2 Afilliates/PR Admins, 2 Pay It Forward Admins, and 4 Critics are open at lacoterie.

1 Prose Administrator is needed at DailyLitDeviations.

Literature Moderator positions available over at Realm-of-Fantasy.

8 Critiquers, 3 Lit-Pickers, and 1 Affiliate Admin are needed at LitResources.

35-prompts-challenge is still in need of a founder.

100ThemeWriters is in need of admins

A critic and an inspirationalist are needed at Wordsmiths-Guild.

Beta-readers are needed at Beta-Readers!

Two Contributors are wanted at Written-Love.

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

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

Open Positions over at SixWordStories, they need: Project Managers and Contest Managers.

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.

Scribblers-Anonymous is still looking for a reporter.

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

Some greeters are needed for the group, RawEm0tion.






Halatia - Halatia's DD Suggestion Guidelines
ikazon - lightningmonkey's DD Suggestion Guidelines
BeccaJS - Beccalicious' DD Suggestion Guidelines
Go on and send your literature DD suggestions to them!

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