Love dA Lit: Issue 86

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Published: Jul 8, 2012

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Welcome to the eighty-sixth issue of 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.

This weeks group spotlight is ItsAllAboutWriting!

LITplease's Community Portal

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Literature Links

Itti has received Deviousness for the month of July, be sure to give her lots of congratulations!
Flash Fiction Month 2012 - Update
There's room for another lit CV...
What Literature resources on dA have you found really helpful?
Sammur-amat wants to know what is your Favorite Month-long (writing) Event?
Writers of the Revolution, July 7th
Elizabethan-authors' Word of the sennight for this week (08-14.07.2012)
Poem-forthe-poemless has released the Done and Over Contest Results
ATrue asks "Do you enter keywords in your deviation submissions?"
The Face Your Fears Contest Winners have been announced.
DeviantLITERATURE's June Featured
Poem of the Week - #40
The Ladies of Lit Chat Event will be held on July 22nd at 5PM EST
Flash Fiction Month July 2012
Interview with Slowslicksnails
"Do you want Passages back?" asks SilverInkblot
Flash Fiction Month 2012 - Week One Challenges
DailyLitDeviations' poll: "Contest entries are due by August 1st! How is it coming?"
Create Your Own Wrimo Contest: 1st Sign-up!
#SixWordStories: Monthly Showcase
writersociety wants to know: "Which do you write more often?"
Lit-Visual Alliance Allied Artwork Feature #2
Authors-of-Fantasy's Monthly Feature--July 4-August 4
Live-Write-Now is having a Writing discussion on Non-fiction/ true stories.
LivingLiterature begins two discussions: Romance and Comedy/Satire and a Tragedy and Horror.
"How often do you suffer from writer's (or artist's) block?" asks MagpieVon.
RawEm0tion Laureate: *Beyond-the-Pages
#SixWordStories Showcase: June 18th - July 2nd
#WriterSociety: Open for Submissions!
Love-Literature Monthly Literature Feature
ScreamPrompts Will be back in August
Lit Forum Thread :Break down your problems, guys.
Flash Fiction Month: Support
WritersInk's Weekly Round-Up
YouAsTheNarrator Lit Prompt Feature 7-2-12
Dict of the Kalends of July
Project Educate: Feedback!
- How to Give a Critique
- Critiques: 'What to say when you don't know what to say'
- How To Receive Critique
- Feedback Activity: Your Best Feedback
- Using Resources in Your Critiques
- Why some people don't want Critique.
- Why do we Critique?[Interviews]
- Feedback Activity: Comment Chain
- Feedback in the Forums + Chat
Alliterati Open Call
The Seniority Announcement - June 2012 should have some familiar names from our own Literature Community, notably LiliWrites, neurotype-on-discord, CrumpetsHarvey, and [somehow] myself. Make sure to congratulate them!

Group News:

Authors-Club is looking for a new group avatar.
LOVE-Original-LIT has renamed their gallery folders.
write-to-live's Affiliates Of The Week #22
An apology from Poetic-Youth's founder.
Weekly Reminders from Lit-WIP
Some updates and questions to members from writingmadefun
The group, The-Free-Writers further discusses their 2013 Summer Trip/ Meet Up.
EliteLiterature's Lit of the Week 30! tonepainter, riparii and silvicultrix
Authors-of-Fantasy and FantasyLiterature's Feedback Pack--July Pairs
An announcment from LiteratureforPoints
YouAsTheNarrator updates their Mature Folder Guidelines.
writingmadefun issues a thank you.
A minor setback over at PoetryMagazine.
Poets-Refuge asks members if they should implement new folders.
A bit of an update from EliteLiterature.
ThePoetryofDA updates their Group News and Rules
June's Write-Off - The Shortlist!
RomanceforEveryone posts a new journal consisting of several updates and a thank you.
Some news from the group, Authors-Academy.
My-Soul-Bleeds-Ink has a rule update to their Poetry Form Challenge.
ItsAllAboutWriting posts a small update.
An update from Literary-Perceptions about Flash Fiction Month.
Love-Literature's New Updates
Love-Literature's bookclub has begun again: ”The Age of Miracles” by Karen Thompson Walker
Some updates and a question from FightToWrite
FantasyAuthorsGuild's contest is now closed.
knownames asks members to vote on the Equality Contest Entries.

Literature Community Fundraiser [Yearly!]

Literature Links [in other languages!]

LiteraturaEspanol's Excersice 29 closes on the 14th [Spanish]

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

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This Week's Group Spotlight

ItsAllAboutWriting is a laid back group all about writing and is a "place to show off and express yourself with words." Every so often the group also has a prompt on the front page to help inspire their members. Click here to learn a little more about this group's admins!

Quick Links:

Gallery
Group and Submission Rules [Widget on right 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. 2

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: "Dangerous Games"[July 6th]
"Synesthesia", the current weekly theme for RawEm0tion
Unseen-Writers' Theme of the Week: Cold
House-of-Playwrights' first July weekly prompt is is a Theme/Quote Duo.
Week 2.99 Prompt of lit-lash's weekly prompts.
Writers-Togethers Wednesday Writing Theme: War, destruction..
Weekly Spontaneity: 15 from SixWordStories
WritersAreArtistsToo's Writing Wednesdays Prompt.
TheWritersMeow's Prompt: "Heartbreak" [July 8th]
One Word Prompt Thursday: Watch from TheWritingObsession
Prompt #13: Fight is Heart-of-Poetry's newest weekly prompt. [July 14th]
Weekly Influence #50 from Escape-Of-A-Writer.
DeviantLITERATURE's Character Conception Challenge Prompt II [July 14th]
Writers-Cove's Weekly Theme 2
Theme of the Week: Write a twelve-word story about yourself from writersociety's

Bi-Weekly:

Bi-Weekly Prompts: June 17, 2012 from theWrittenRevolution.
"Facing your Fears", Love-Literature's bi-weekly prompt.
Letters-To-Myself's Writing Prompt: Letters To Lovers.
"Vanity" is WritersOfTheMoon's bi-weekly prompt.
PromptMe's Prompt #7
A Bi-Weekly Prompt from LOVE-Original-LIT [July 17th]
'Paradise' is We-Write-To-Escape's fortnightly theme. [July 22nd]
SnippetsofReality's Concept Two [July 15th]

Monthly:

Literary-Limits' July Challenge: True Freedom
LiterarySanctuary's July Prompt
SixWordStories' Word and Theme Prompts
ScreamPrompt #26, May 2012 [End of June]
transliterations' Prompt 12: The Beginning [June 20th]
Horror-Stories' July Monthly Theme.
MidtownMagic's Monthly Theme: "Confronting the Larger World" [End of June]
A Monthly Challenge: June from Unseen-Writers
Shelf-of-Friends' Prompt: June 2012

Workshops and Challenges:

Character Conception: Workshop I [July 31st]
Write a Review Challenge
Forum Challenge- Anything goes with four letters...
My-Soul-Bleeds-Ink's July Poetry Forms Challenge: Ballad
Allegoric Literature Challenge (July 11th)
Workshopping with Rasp: Part 3 of 3
RawEm0tion's Challenges: People & Places [July 15th]
A FreeWriters Marathon [October 31st]
Authors-of-Fantasy and FantasyLiterature's Feedback Pack--July Sign Up [Monthly]

Other:

lacoterie's Poetry & Prose Prompt [July 27th]
Literature in Use Project [August]
The Apocalypse Scenario Prompt from Apocalypse-writing [July 15th]
A Writing Challenge from Bleeding--Ink.
10 Prompts from write-to-live
YouAsTheNarrator's weekly, bi-weekly and monthly prompts.
Poetic Journey Project hosted by Masters-of-Poetry.
Flash Fiction Lives: Creation 5: Ghosts
LITplease's Poetry and Fiction Prompts: #17: The Muse [July 27th]
Betrayal or Abandoned are Inspiring-Words' current prompts.

Ongoing Challenges[No Deadline]:

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:

Contests Ending This Week:

Contest Extensions:

None this week.

Please click here for the full list of contests!

There is also a group dedicated to listing Literature contests around dA, DALiteratureContests, if you're still looking for more contests!
Or join WeeklyLitContests, which does exactly as their name implies and holds a contest every week, Monday through Saturday.

Resources

Regular Lit Articles

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
#SixWordStories Community Happenings
WorldWar-Tori's Literature Resources
#Critique-It's Resources: Writing
#Mythologue's Literary Resources
#FantasyLiterature's Helpful Links

Writing Resources [General]

Prose Resources

Poetry Resources

Critiquing and Miscellaneous Resources

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
An Idiot's Guide to Book Publishing

E-Zines/Magazines

Looking to help out the Lit Community?

General Administrators are wanted at Poetry-is-AWESOME.
writingmadefun would like another admin to help with the group activities.
1 Foreign Language Administrator is the current open positions at DailyLitDeviations.
DesperateWriters is hoping for a few new moderators and a co-founder to help out the group.
A co-founder is need to help run lit-lash.
The group, Written-Imagination, is looking for a variety of staff members.
TheShelfLife is looking to be adopted.
Soul-Poets are looking to fill their contributor positions.
Literature-Accepted needs four co-founders.
YouAsTheNarrator is looking to fill the following positions: 2 Gallery Moderators, 2 Character Bio Moderators, 4 Chatroom Moderators, 4 Promotion Moderators, 2 Gallery Contributors, and Comment Contributors.
WeeklyLitContests would like 1 more contributor.
One contributor is needed at poetry-book.
Beta-readers are needed at Beta-Readers!
ThreeThousandWords is looking for one co-founder and two contributors.
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.
SuperWritersHelp is in need of prose and poetry critics.
LiteratureforPoints is in need of 2 Moderators and 10 Contributors.
A Contibutor position is avaliable 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 contributor.
WA-writersblock is in need of a new founder.
Contributors are needed at We-Write-To-Escape.
New admins are wanted at Unconventional-Story.
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 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.
Deviant-Mentor needs Literature Mentors!
8 Critiquers, 3 Lit-Pickers, and 1 Affiliate Admin are needed at LitResources.
A critic and an inspirationalist are needed at Wordsmiths-Guild.
Two Contributors are wanted at Written-Love.
Open Positions over at SixWordStories, they need: Project Managers and Contest Managers.

Literature Community Relations

thorns - thorn's DD Suggestion Guidelines

BeccaJS - Beccalicious' DD Suggestion Guidelines

JZLobo - J-Z-Belexes' DD Suggestion Guidelines [Only Fan Fiction.]
Go on and send your literature DD suggestions to them!

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

Literature Forums
Literature Forum
Posting Guidelines - Literature Forum

Monthly Literature Critique Thread: July

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. ♥

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