Love dA Lit: Issue 73

Welcome to the seventy-third issue of my weekly news article, 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: Don't forget ATrue's Yearly Literature Community Fundraiser, where she collects points to then give Literature groups a Super Group subscription!

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• BeccaJS addresses the issue of literature and plagiarism.
• Rewrite Your First Ever Story Winners!
• The Future of Storytelling Has Arrived
• apocathary was quoted in the article, The Future of Storytelling Has Arrived, and posts the entirety of his response.
• HaveTales-WillTell, also quoted in The Future of Storytelling Has Arrived article, provides his entire comment.
• LITplease's NaPoWriMo Events in April
• Wordsmiths-Guild's NaPoWriMo Blog 3 - Fables Prompt
• BleedingHeartsPoetry is looking for judges for their current contest.
• Group News and affiliates' news from ThePoetryofDA.
• LITplease's Revitalization has been completed.
• Poets-Refuge asks members "How are we doing as a group?."
• Poem of the Week - #27
• The group, First-Floor-Poetry, has increased the daily submission limit.
• A reminder about submissions from ContemporaryFantasy.
• DeviantLITERATURE's March Feature
• Announcments and updates from Lit-WIP.
• EliteLiterature's Lit of the Week 21! lluviosa, Vocable, & UnspecifiedUnknown!
• Some news and a reminder from ThreeThousandWords.
• Authors-of-Fantasy and FantasyLiterature's April Feedback Pack Pairs
• theWrittenRevolution asks "Which time zone do you inhabit?"
• An apology and update from DailyPoetics.
• A small update from DailyPoetics.
• Word Wars is coming to Written-Imagination, Tuesday, April 10th at 10:00 PM EST.
• Chat Tour Schedule
• Writers-Universal has some new rules.
• An update to Write-Original's current contest.
• The winners of theWrittenRevolution's Anniversary Contest have been revealed.
• FantasyAuthorsGuild is planning on hosting a contest but wants memeber input first.
• First-Floor-Poetry wants to expand and asks members for their assistance.
• The group, Written-Exploration, has a new founder.
• Interview with OhNyIL
• An apology and a short update from SongofthePoets.
• PoetryMagazine is still accepting submissions for their second issue.
• Lit-WIP Author feature
• Interview #6: *raspil
• A few changes and important updates from FightToWrite.
• poetry-book asks members for their opinion: "Poetry Book is going to make an account to release Newsletters/forums/features and open a donation pool. What should we call it?"
• News and updates from Horror-Stories
• An Important Notice from OutstandingWriters concerning submissions.
• A NaPoWriMo - April journal from WriMo-Writers.
• Beta-Readers' poll: "How is your current partnership going? "
• Word-Smiths tackles the subject of Rejection
• Unabashed-Words announces their member of the month.
• thorns wants to know how you are doing with NaPoWriMo/Script Frenzy.
• The Exquisite Corpse Round 5 hosted by Vocable has started.
• LiteratureforPoints asks "Should we offer critique for points?
• Flash Fiction & Compressed Poetry Roundup
• Some  news and an upcoming contest from lacoterie.
• EliteLiterature challenges members to "play Mad Libs! Suggest words to guess the piece of writing. One suggestion per commentor!"
• The March Contest hosted by TheScribblists has ended and they have changed their global submission limit.
• WritersInk's Weekly Round-Up
• formfindsfunction features the previous challenge submissions and announces an upcoming contest.


• An update about EliteLiterature's anthology, Let's Never Meet.
• Voting for wordflight's challenge ends soon.
• An update from Screnzy, about Script Frenzy
• doodlerTM is hosting a mini-contest challenging deviants to send her DLD suggestions. Ends April 9th.
•   Script Frenzy and NaPoWriMo

Literature Links [in other languages!]

• MiniSagas' eight challenge has begun. [Spanish]
• AmiciNeiSogni updates about one of their members magazine. [Italian]
• Voting for LiteraturaBR's challenge ends April 9th. [Portuguese]
• ElClubdelaPalabra extended their contest to April 15th. [Spanish]

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

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Lit-Visual-Alliance born from thorns' Complaint Challenge, this group aims to bring writers and visual artists together.  Though it's a new group, they've all ready grown quite a bit and are currently hosting a contest. Learn more about this group by clicking here!

Evlydia, the co-founder of Lit-Visual-Alliance, happily let me interview her! [Even on short notice!]


What makes Lit-Visual-Alliance unique?

Unlike many other groups in the literature community, Lit-Visual-Alliance's purpose is not only to introduce new writers with other writers, but also to bridge the gap between writers and visual artists.

Lit-Visual-Alliance's purpose is to encourage literature and visual artists to work together. How does your group foster that encouragement?

At Lit-Visual-Alliance we provide writers and artists with examples of work from the other group, which they may then in turn use as inspiration for their own creation. For example, a writer may submit poem which a visual artist could create a painting of. At the end of each month we are starting to post features of all the work people submitted which was based off of something from the opposite party.

We are also currently holding a contest with this idea in mind. You can read more about it here: Lit-Visual-Alliance.deviantart…

What do you believe is a common misconception visual artists have about writer and vice versa?

I think a major misconception visual artists have is that there isn't good literature on deviantart. We try to counteract this by having a special folder for exceptionally inspiring literature at our group, that way visual artists don't have to sort through what is good and what isn't.

As for misconceptions writers have, I would say that they believe visual artists don't pay much attention to writers. The whole purpose of our group is to change this thinking and build a connection.


Quick Links:

• Submission Guidelines
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Gallery
• Current Contest

Looking for more groups?
leoraigarath's Literature Groups List
Realm-of-Fantasy's list of literature groups[Fantasy, Sci-fi and General]
My journal[recently re-vamped!] has a small list that I've compiled.
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:

• Heart-of-Poetry's weekly prompt: Prompt #7
• Live-Love-Write's Weekly Writing Prompt: "Watermelons"
• "Socio-paths in Love", the current weekly theme for RawEm0tion
• Live-Write-Now's Weekly Themes.
• Unseen-Writers' Theme of the Week: Felines
• House-of-Playwrights's first April weekly prompt is a Series of Themes.
• Week 2.1 Prompt of lit-lash's weekly prompts has begun.
• Progression is FightToWrite's theme of the week.
• "Time and Sorrow" is Morbid-Poets’ weekly prompt.
• Raininginhawaiipoems's weekly prompt is "Inertia".
• Writers-Togethers Wednesday Writing Theme: Beginnings.
• Unabashed-Words' Prose and Poetry Weekly Prompt.

Bi-Weekly:

• Inspiring-Words' Bi-Weekly Prompts - 40
• Scribblers-Anonymous's prompts: Set 32!
• Bi-Weekly Prompts: March 25, 2012 from theWrittenRevolution.
• "Chilled to the Bone", the bi-weekly prompt from Poets-N-Prose.
• "Write to a song that is moving to you." is Love-4-Dark-Poetry's bi-weekly prompt.
• "On the telephone", Love-Literature's bi-weekly prompt.
• theWrittenRevolution's prompts.
• "Writing your heart out ", FeatheredWords' bi-weekly prompt.
• dA-lta's current prompt.[March 24th]
• 'Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional.' is Written-Imagination's prompt.
• Letters-To-Myself's Writing Prompt: Letters To a sibling/siblings.
• FFF 7: Triolet Challenge[April 15th]
• Surprises, Literary-Perceptions' bi-weekly prompt.

Monthly:

• lacoterie's Poetry and Prose Prompts[April 25th]
• SixWordStories' Word and Theme Prompts
• HammeredPoetry's Prompt #7 and 3/4: NaPoWriMo [May 1st]
• ScreamPrompt #25, April 2012 [April 30th]
• The February Monthly Theme of WriterSecretSanta has begun.
• "Personal Ads" Lit-WIP's January prompt.
• ThePoetryofDA's January Prompt
• Horror-Stories' March Monthly Theme.
• Prompt #10:The chill in my bones. The-Writing-Exchange's monthly prompt.
•   Creation is Live-Write-Now's current monthly prompt.
• Unseen-Writers' Monthly Challenge: March
• Spring OneWordPrompt's monthly prompt.

Workshops and Challenges:

•   Forum Challenge- Grim Children
• Pitch Practice: A Weekly Challenge
• JustKeepWriting's Member-Wide Poetry Collaboration
• "NaPoWriMo" Poetry-Screams' second challenge.
• Beware the Ides of March, TheWritersMeow's current exercise.
• My-Soul-Bleeds-Ink's March Madness Chalenge
• A FreeWriters Marathon[October 31st]
• Literature Lesson 1.04, Literature Lesson 1.03, Literature Lesson 1.02, Literature Lesson 1.01
• Vignettophiles' Comment Swap VII[Every 1st and 15th of the month.]
• Authors-of-Fantasy and FantasyLiterature's Feedback Pack--April Sign-Up

Other:

• Daily Prompts from NaPoWriMo2012 for NaPoWriMo.
• LITplease's NaPoWriMo Daily Prompts
• Writers-Workshop's Create A Form Workshop
• Cat Poetry, a one-day challenge from FreePoetryElite.
• Weekly Spontaneity from SixWordStories
• PromptMe's Prompt #2
• "Have you thanked your Hero lately?", a current prompt from Poemas.
• Writers-Retreat's Writing Task
•   Poetic Journey Project hosted by Masters-of-Poetry.
• Apocalypse-writing's Easter Prompt: Zombie Bunnies[April 8th]
• Naturally-Written's Phrase Prompt #3
• Wordsmiths-Guild's Word Prompt.
• Flash Fiction Lives: Creation 3: The Compressed Epic
• LITplease's Poetry and Fiction Prompts: #9: The Inner Child's Switch
• Prompt Project: Prompt One from Mythologue.
• Writers-Universal's Publicity Project

Ongoing Challenges[No Deadline]:

• SixWordStories’ Inspiration Project
• Your OC's Story in a 6-Word Story
• Write 50 Reason's Why You Love Yourself Challenge
• 100 Word Challenge hosted by JustKeepWriting
• A List of Prompts from FeatheredWords.
• full-moon-poetry's 18 themes.
• LITplease's 100 Themes Challenge
• Project Nine Lives

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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:

• What Future Do You See? (April 17th)
• Lost Loves Contest [Prose - 5,000 word limit; Poetry - 200 word limit; please see link for details] (April 18th)
• Pick Your Poison: A Mini-Contest [Poetry only; specific forms: limerick or clerihew; please see link for details] (April 20th)
• Horses of the World (May 7th)
• Project: Pin Cushion [Prose only; 200 word minimum; please see link for details] (May 11th)
• deviantART Related Collaboration Contest [Please see link for details] (May 15th)
• #Love-Literature's Prose Contest [Please see link for details] (May 31st)

Contests Ending This Week:

• Changing History [Deadline Extended] (April 8th)
• Spring Contest (April 10th)
•   Magical Birthday Contest [Poetry only; 100 word minimum; 2,000 word maximum; please see link for details] (April 11th)
• Valentines Day Contest [Deadline Extended] (April 11th)
• Original Story Contest [Please see link for details] (April 12th)
• Unlikely Friends OC Contest [Deadline Extended] (April 14th)
• Be Inspired Contest (April 15th)
• Noir Contest [Please see link for details] (April 15th)
• OC Paparazzi (April 16th)

Contest Extensions:

• St. Patrick's Day Contest (April 9th)
• MadWords' Critique Contest has been extended until April 15th.

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Regular Lit Articles

• Lit Fortnightly - 28 March 2012
• Lit Up! Vol. V
• Spotlight on Lit, vol 1.2
• The Ladies of Lit: Volume XX
• Writers With a Promise - Issue 13
• Friday Night Features XLII
• PoetryToTheMasses Weekly Feature 58
• The Saturday Spotlight for March 31st, 2012
• DLD to DD, March 9th, 2012
• Novel Tease Newsletter - Issue 6
• Wonderful critics, wonderful writers 5
• The Acrostics Series: BornBlitzed
• Demonstrably Deviant: Issue IV
• Notables: Peris-Productions
• Name Your Droppings vol. 2

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
• mode-de-vie's Community Update Journal
• #SixWordStories Community Happenings
• WorldWar-Tori's Literature Resources
• #Critique-It's Resources: Writing
• #Mythologue's Literary Resources
• #FantasyLiterature's Helpful Links

Writing Resources [General]

• Writing Resources for Everyone
• A Quick Guide Index: Writing Tutorials
• 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
• English 101 Index: A Grammar Series

Prose Resources

• ElaineRose's Writing Lessons
• Ten Tips for Writing
• 10 Tips for Novel Writers
• 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
• 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.]
• Current 2012 Canadian Magazine Writing Contests
• 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]
• Steampunk Tales
• G.W. Review
• Fuselit
• The Missing Slate
• SapphireTuesday
• Second Look
• Verandah Literary Journal
• Machine of Death
• Cram Magazine
• Voiceworks
• Shimmer
• dotdotdash Magazine
• Alliterati Magazine

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• Updated: LiteratureforPoints is in need of 2 Moderators and 10 Contributors.
• WriterArt would like one or two new contributors.
• The group, Written-Imagination, is looking for a variety of staff members.
• LiteratureAnonymous is looking for contributors.
• A Contibutor position is avaliable at TeenagedLiterature.
• 10 Contributors are wanted  at FightToWrite
• 2 Poetry Administrators are needed at DailyLitDeviations.
• Mythologue is in need of prompt, contest, Lit Pickers, and Critiquers.
• WriMo-Writers would like some more admins to help with behind-the-scenes work.
• Motivators, Workshoppers, and Bloggers are needed at FocusOnLit.
• Wannabe-Novelists is looking for some new admins.
• Adopt-A-Writer is looking mentors and mentees.
• Gallery moderators are wanted at TheWritersMeow.
• LiteratureKingdom is looking for a a Co-Founder.
• Literature Moderator positions available over at Realm-of-Fantasy.
• Open-Mic-Poetry would like some new admins.
• Beta-readers are needed at Beta-Readers!
• The group, independent-writer, will shut down if it can not find a new founder.
• Contributors are wanted at WritersOfTheMoon.
• A co-founder and other admins are needed over at the group, Letters-of-Love.
• Two admin positions need to be filled at WriterSecretSanta.
• EditorialSquad is in need of various staff.
• Poetry-Screams wants some administrators.
• TenderPassion is in need of a Co-Founder and contributors.
• WA-writersblock is in need of a new founder.
• Contributors are needed at We-Write-To-Escape.
• New admins are wanted at Unconventional-Story.
• Soul-Poets is looking to fill out their Creative and Networking and Public Relation admin teams.
• Critiquers are needed at FantasyAuthorsGuild.
• Scribblers-Anonymous is looking for an affiliates and critics admin.
• LaRevolucionEscrita needs a couple of admins.
• dA-Literature is looking for one admin.
• 2 Afilliates/PR Admins, 2 Pay It Forward Admins, and 4 Critics are open at lacoterie.
• Poets-N-Prose is looking for Contributors, Specialists, and dA members to host Guest (Non-staff) Workshops.
• 6 Contributors are the avaliable positions at TheScribblists
• Members to host workshops and Contributors are needed at Writers-Workshop
• 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.
• 1 Prompt Admin, 1 Community Liason, 2 TFP Appraises and 3 Critics are needed over at LITplease.
• Deviant-Mentor needs Literature Mentors!
• SuperWritersHelp is in need of critics.
• 8 Critiquers, 3 Lit-Pickers, and 1 Affiliate Admin are needed at LitResources.
• 35-prompts-challenge is still in need of a founder.
• A critic and an inspirationalist are needed at Wordsmiths-Guild.
• 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.
• 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.

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thorns - thorn'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!

#CRLiterature Community Relations Literature Chatroom
 Literature CR Update - March 2012
March's Literature Daily Deviations

Literature Forums
Literature Forum
Posting Guidelines - Literature Forum

Monthly Literature Critique Thread: April


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:
for letting me help run LITplease's Community Portal and spamming her inbox with countless notes, all while being wonderful.
a LITplease Community Liason and will be helping me with gathering information while being fabulous.
another LITplease Community Liason who will be helping gather even more information and continuing to be awesome.

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