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Welcome to the eightieth 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: Go give some love and congratulations to ikazon who has stepped down as Literature CV as he is now working at the product marketing department at deviantART HQ!
Literature Links | Group Spotlight | Workshops, Prompts and Challenges
Literature Contests | Resources | Open Admin Positions
Literature Community Relations | Contacting Me
Literature Links [in other languages!]
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WritersOfTheMoon welcomes all types of writers as well as providing a place for them to form a small well-knit community. This group currently has a bi-weekly prompt and interviews the 'winner' of each prompt. Click here to learn more about this group!
Quick Links:
Looking for more groups?
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:
Bi-Weekly:
Monthly:
Workshops and Challenges:
Other:
Ongoing Challenges[No Deadline]:
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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:
Contests Ending This Week:
Contest Extensions:
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Regular Lit Articles
General Resources
Writing Resources [General]
Prose Resources
Poetry Resources
Critiquing and Miscellaneous Resources
Publishing Resources
E-Zines/Magazines
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thorns - thorn'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 - April 2012
April's Literature Daily Deviations
Literature Forums
Literature Forum
Posting Guidelines - Literature Forum
Monthly Literature Critique Thread: May
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.
recently hopped on board and became a Community Liason, so go give her a warm welcome, she's rather amazing.
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Note: Go give some love and congratulations to ikazon who has stepped down as Literature CV as he is now working at the product marketing department at deviantART HQ!
This week's group spotlight is WritersOfTheMoon!
LITplease's Community Portal
Navigation
Literature Links | Group Spotlight | Workshops, Prompts and Challenges
Literature Contests | Resources | Open Admin Positions
Literature Community Relations | Contacting Me
Literature Links
- Preview images on Lit deviations- what are your thoughts?
- YWP-NaNoWriMo posts someCamp NaNoWriMo strategies
- A small update and inquiry from LiterarySanctuary.
- The group, Love-Literature, is looking for book suggestions for their Book Club and has some new folders.
- Elizabethan-authors' Word of the sennight for this week (27.06.-02.06.)
- PoetryToTheMasses/Poetry-To-The-Masses needs a new twitter hashtag and asks for some input.
- The voting for Horror-Stories' contest ends on the 31st
- A submission limit change from Novels-Only.
- Quite a few announcements and upcoming plans from Teenage-Writers.
- An update and a reminder from Browsing-Literature
- Live-Write-Now's Writing Discussion: Boy or Girl characters?
- Authors-Academy asks members to vote on their book of the month.
- FocusOnLit gives some tips for their Writing Marathon.
- "How often do you write? We're looking to know when you sit down for creative writing - so discount academic work and office work, please!" asks WritersInk
- Shelf-of-Friends announces some changes to their critique folder requirements.
- Some updates and such from FightToWrite.
- WeeklyLitContests' opening contest is closed and they mention a few other updates.
- Poem of the Week - #34
- My-Soul-Bleeds-Ink's poll: "May Forms Challenge Voting - Who Will be Crowned Champion
- WritersInk's Write Off Winner
- A quick reminder about LITplease's contest.
- A reminder about submission deadlines from PoetryMagazine
- YouAsTheNarrator welcomes two new staff members.
- The winners of Apocalypse-writing's contest have been revealed.
- communityrelations asks "As an Artist or a Writer, how do you remedy Artist's Block?
- An apology from DALiteratureContests
- #TenderPassion Wrap Up - Chat Tour
- A bit of an update concerning gallery folders and name changes from TheWritingHaven.
- DailyLitDeviations' poll: "Should DLD feature Comics and/or Animated Flash Stories?
- Some contest and general announcements from We-Write-To-Escape
- An update about Camp NaNoWrimo from WriMo-Writers.
- "Are you reading "The Curious Incident of the Dog at Night-Time" for our book club? " asks Love-Literature
- An update about the contest "Closure" hosted by the group BleedingHeartsPoetry.
- FreeWrittenWords is having some gallery issues.
- Some updates on Write-Now's "After" contest.
- Unabashed-Words has re-organized their gallery and has a few other updates.
- Authors-of-Fantasy's Monthly Feature--May 22nd-June 22nd
- WriterArt's Two Sentence Story Contest winners have been announced.
- NaNoWriM0 blogs that there are less than 10 Days until Camp NaNoWriMo
- HaveTales-WillTell wants to know what is the "Worst way to begin a story:"
- The main folders are closed at ODYSSEYPROJECT
- neurotype-on-discord asks: "When submitting lit, do you get better feedback from group members or watchers?"
- #SixWordStories Showcase: May 7th - May 21st
- An Interview With Diluculi
- The group, Screnzy now has a new founder and co-founders.
- WritersInk's Weekly Round-up.
- Verandah 27 submissions are open.
- Chat Tour Schedule
- Fourm: Groups Quiz
Literature Links [in other languages!]
- Less than 5 days until LiteraturaBR's contest ends. [Portuguese]
- ArteScritta updates on their April/May contest. [Italian]
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WritersOfTheMoon welcomes all types of writers as well as providing a place for them to form a small well-knit community. This group currently has a bi-weekly prompt and interviews the 'winner' of each prompt. Click here to learn more about this group!
Quick Links:
- Gallery
- Group Rules [Widget on the left hand side.]
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. 1
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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Inspiration (Workshops, Prompts and Challenges)
Weekly:
- Live-Love-Write's Weekly Writing Prompt: "Lost and Found"[May 25th]
- "Dark Truths vs. White Lies ", the current weekly theme for RawEm0tion
- Live-Write-Now's Weekly Themes.
- Unseen-Writers' Theme of the Week: Enlightenment
- House-of-Playwrights' fourth May weekly prompt is a theme and a quote.
- Week 2.6 Prompt of lit-lash's weekly prompts has begun.
- Writers-Togethers Wednesday Writing Theme: Quiet, calm..
- Weekly Spontaneity from SixWordStories
- WritersAreArtistsToo's Writing Wednesdays Prompt.
- LiterarySanctuary's Weekly Prompt.
Bi-Weekly:
- Bi-Weekly Prompts: May 22, 2012 from theWrittenRevolution.
- "Rain", Love-Literature's bi-weekly prompt.
- Letters-To-Myself's Writing Prompt: Letters To a sibling/siblings.
- Unabashed-Words' Prose and Poetry Weekly Prompt.
- "Power" is WritersOfTheMoon's bi-weekly prompt.
Monthly:
- LiterarySanctuary's May Prompt
- "What is my wish?" Lit-WIP's first monthly prompt. [May 26th]
- SixWordStories' Word and Theme Prompts
- ScreamPrompt #26, May 2012 [End of June]
- transliterations' Prompt 12: The Beginning [June 15th]
- Horror-Stories' May Monthly Theme.
- Creation is Live-Write-Now's current monthly prompt.
- MidtownMagic's Monthly Theme: "Confronting the Larger World" [End of June]
Workshops and Challenges:
- Writers-Workshop's Twist it Up Workshop
- FocusOnLit's May Feedback Challenge
- InCahootsLiterature and Self-Publishing's Collab Challenge: "Before I'm XXX"
- FocusOnLit's Interview with a Villain Workshop
- "An Argument" TenderPassion's current challenge. [May 31st]
- A FreeWriters Marathon [October 31st]
- Literature Lesson 1.04, Literature Lesson 1.03, Literature Lesson 1.02, Literature Lesson 1.01
- Authors-of-Fantasy and FantasyLiterature's Feedback Pack--April Wrap Up/May Sign Up [Monthly]
Other:
- One word challenge from Calling-All-Poetry
- YouAsTheNarrator's weekly, bi-weekly and monthly prompts.
- "Spring", the current prompt over at Soul-Poets.
- Terza Rima Challenge, hosted by InCahootsLiterature.
- PromptMe's Prompt #5
- Poetic Journey Project hosted by Masters-of-Poetry.
- Naturally-Written's Phrase Prompt #4
- Wordsmiths-Guild's Word Prompt.
- Flash Fiction Lives: Creation 4: 55
- LITplease's Poetry and Fiction Prompts: #16: Elemental [June 27th]
Ongoing Challenges[No Deadline]:
- SixWordStories’ Inspiration Project Take II-- May
- 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
- Writers-Universal's Publicity Project
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Lit Contests Galore!
These include contests that are purely Literature based and those that have other categories as well, but still accept Literature.
New Contests:
- The Tea and Identity Contest [Must sign-up by May 31st; prose only; 500 word limit; please see link for details] (June 15th)
- Pictures with Words [Rules on the left-hand widget] (June 16th)
- 'Monsters' (June 17th)
- Blasphemous Contest [Please see link for details] (June 19th)
- Modern Fairytales Contest [Prose only; please see link for details] (June 30th)
- ZW Contest [1,500 word limit; please see link for details] (August 31st)
Contests Ending This Week:
- Face Your Fears Contest [5,555 word limit for prose; 55 line limit for poetry; please see link for details] (May 30th)
- #Love-Literature's Prose Contest [Please see link for details] (May 31st)
- Transgressions: Vices and Virtues [Prose: 3,000-4,000 word limit; Poetry: 60 line limit; please see link for details] (May 31st)
- Campfire Chills [2,500 word limit; no fan-fiction; please see link for details] (May 31st)
- Navigating deviantART [Tutorials only; written tutorials are accepted; please see link for details] (May 31st)
- Closure [Poetry only; please see link for details] (June 1st)
- Darkness to Light/Today was your last day contest (June 1st)
- War/Action Contest [Prose only; please see link for details] (June 1st)
- War/Action Contest [Prose Only; please see link for details] (June 1st)
Contest Extensions:
- Authors-Academy has extended their contest again, the new deadline is June 17th.
Please click here for the full list of contests!
There is also a group dedicated to Literature contests around dA, DALiteratureContests, if you're still looking for more contests!
There is also a group dedicated to Literature contests around dA, DALiteratureContests, if you're still looking for more contests!
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Resources
Regular Lit Articles
- Lit Fortnightly - 25 April 2012
- The Lit List: Issue 01
- Lit Up! Vol. V
- The Ladies of Lit: Volume XXI
- Writers With a Promise - Issue 14
- Friday Night Features XLIX
- PoetryToTheMasses Weekly Feature 65
- The Saturday Spotlight for May 26th, 2012
- DLD to DD May 25, 2012
- Novel Tease Newsletter - Issue 6
- The Acrostics Series: BornBlitzed
- Name Your Droppings vol. 2
- Demonstrably Deviant: Issue V
- 30 Writers You Should Discover: Volume IX
- The Favorites Project #147, #148 and #149
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
- Jump Start Your Story
- 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
- Organizing Your Fantasy/Sci-Fi Novel
- 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
- 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
- 9 Editing Tips You (Possibly) Haven't Heard Before
- Writing Useful Critiques
- 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
- 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.]
- 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
- Linear Literary Journal
- Grawlix Poetry E-Zine
- choodaloodaling
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Looking to help out the Lit Community?
- DeviantLITERATURE has an open co-founder and contributor position!
- WeeklyLitContests would like 1 more contributor.
- 2 Prose, 1 General, and 1 Foreign Language Administrator are the current open positions at DailyLitDeviations.
- One contributor is needed at poetry-book.
- Beta-readers are needed at Beta-Readers!
- A Literature Scout is the current open position over at WritersInk
- ThreeThousandWords is looking for one co-founder and two contributors.
- A Contributor Position is open over at EliteLiterature.
- 2 Community Liasons and 2 Critics are needed over at LITplease.
- Critics and contributors are the open positions in CritiqueForPoints.
- DALiteratureContests is looking for 5 Contributors.
- Prose critics are urgently needed in the group GrammarNaziCritiques.
- General admins are needed at WritersAreArtistsToo.
- SuperWritersHelp is in need of prose and poetry critics.
- YouAsTheNarrator is looking to fill the following positions: 2 Gallery Moderators, 4 Chatroom Moderators, 4 Promotion Moderators, 2 Gallery Contributors, and Comment Contributors.
- LiteratureforPoints is in need of 2 Moderators and 10 Contributors.
- The group, Written-Imagination, is looking for a variety of staff members.
- A Contributor position is available at TeenagedLiterature.
- 10 Contributors are wanted at FightToWrite
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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 available 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.
- Deviant-Mentor needs Literature Mentors!
- 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.
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Literature Community Relations
thorns - thorn'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 - April 2012
April's Literature Daily Deviations
Literature Forums
Literature Forum
Posting Guidelines - Literature Forum
Monthly Literature Critique Thread: May
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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Contacting Me
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.
recently hopped on board and became a Community Liason, so go give her a warm welcome, she's rather amazing.
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Checking In
It's been quite a while since my last journal entry, about five years. I hope whoever is reading this knows I've never forgotten anyone and I think of all the friends I made here with such love and joy. I'm not sure how many people still linger on DA, but I hope that if you somehow stumble back to my page you know that I love you and wish you well. There is simply too much to go over for the span of five years, so I'll keep it short and sweet. I love you and I missed you. I don't write quite as much as I used to, but I've started dabbling more often again and was thinking of posting once more. I'm terribly out of practice, but it's something that's always been cathartic so it doesn't matter too much to me how "good" it is. Sometimes you just have to get the feelings out. Anyways, I hope you are having a wonderfully lovely day, my lovelies. How about some questions! What's your current favorite song? A video game you can't stop playing? TV show or movie you wish everyone else would
Renewal
It has been a rough few years for myself and my family. It is strange to think that for once in my adult life that I am legitimately doing well, not pretending or being close but not quite there. Things are almost infinitely better than 6 months ago and, if I'm honest, it feels like that was years ago. DA has always been a home and as I've slowly gotten better I find myself missing it and all the friends I've made more and more. I know I do not elaborate much on my personal life, but perhaps now that so much is behind me I can allow myself to discuss it more. In truth, I'm not even sure where to begin, but updating on what happened in the la
Birthdays and Change
I wanted to thank all the lovelies who wished me happy birthday recently, I read all your comments and it made me extremely happy. ♥ It was nice to hop on and see that I was thought of, I truly appreciate it beyond words.
However, I know have been very absent for a few months now. Things have not be going well in my life for the majority of the year (and if I'm honest the last 2 years) now and I have had to put DA on the back burner. I still find myself coming to the site, reading comments/replies, looking at deviations, but currently I am overwhelmed by everything that I can't bring myself to do much else.
I find myself now on the pr
Love DA Lit: Issue 292
Welcome to the two-hundred ninety-second issue of Love DA Lit! Every Sunday this article aims to promote volunteer opportunities, various resources, prompts, challenges, workshops, and contests. 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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Aww, I just now saw this. That Bolin icon is just not fair.