ShopDreamUp AI ArtDreamUp
Deviation Actions
Welcome to the one-hundred twenty-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 or project for two weeks. 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.
Group News
Literature Links [in other languages!]
Back to Top
FreeVersePoetry is the self proclaimed "The official un-official hub for all things free verse here on DA! " The group has a weekly prompt, is currently hosting a contest, and will soon have a member of the month feature. Click here to learn a little more about this group's admins.
DannyAnthony is a true champ for putting up with me and my inability to send a few questions concerning his group, FreeVersePoetry. [We are Procrostinator Buddies now].
Can you explain a bit about the group, FreeVersePoetry, and what makes it different from other literature groups on dA?
What do you hope your members get out of joining and being a part of the group?
Will FreeVersePoetry be hosting any future projects, contests and/or events?
If you had to describe FreeVersePoetry in three words, what would they be and why?
Anything else of note that you would like to share?
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!
Back to Top
Weekly:
Bi-Weekly:
Monthly:
Other:
Ongoing Challenges [No Deadline]:
Back to Top
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:
Here is my full list of contests!
Back to Top
Regular Lit Articles
General Resources
Writing Resources [General]
Prose Resources
Poetry Resources
Critiquing and Miscellaneous Resources
Publishing Resources
E-Zines/Magazines
Back to Top
Back to Top
BeccaJS - Beccalicious' DD Suggestion Guidelines
neurotype-on-discord - neurotype's DD Suggestion Guidelines
Nichrysalis - NicSwaner's DD Suggestion Guidelines
JZLobo - JZLobo's DD Suggestion Guidelines [Only Fan Fiction.]
Go on and send your literature DD suggestions to them!
#CRLiterature Community Relations Literature Chatroom
Literature CR Update - May 2013
Literature DD Roundup April 2013
Literature Forums
Literature Forum
Literature Forum Rules
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?
Back to Top
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:
, and my favoritest LITplease Community Liaisons.
for letting me run LITplease’s Community Portal.
who let me know about her group and their prompts.
Back to Top
The bi-weekly group spotlight is FreeVersePoetry!
LITplease's Community Portal
Literature Links | Group Spotlight | Workshops, Prompts and Challenges
Literature Contests | Resources | Open Admin Positions
Literature Community Relations | Contacting Me
LITplease's Community Portal
A Smattering of Lit News
Navigation
Literature Links | Group Spotlight | Workshops, Prompts and Challenges
Literature Contests | Resources | Open Admin Positions
Literature Community Relations | Contacting Me
Literature Links
- Prose enthusiasts and experts wanted!
- Forum Discussion: Which is the latest book you've bought?
- NaPo is over!
- Showcase 005
- Unappreciated Works Feature #4
- Send Nichrysalis spoken word DD suggestions.
- #SixWordStories: Monthly Showcase
- kiwi-damnation wants to know if you are "giving May Mixup Madness a whirl?
- "How did you do on your April projects? " asks thorns
- UFO Publishing - Speculative Humor Market
- Important and exciting things!
- SilverInkblot wants to host a DLD Suggestion Contest.
- Madefire and Literature: Interview with Liam Sharp
- "How often do you suggest DDs and DLDs?" asks doughboycafe.
- Nichrysalis's poll: "Have you ever read your writing aloud to an audience?"
- An Interview with MirachRavaia
Group News
- Winners Of The "Self Portrait" Contest from HumanConditions
- LiterallyUnknown posts a new member feature.
- Title Poem Contest Winners!
- Twitter + Affiliates News from DeviantLITERATURE
- Updates and an interview from build-your-platform
- Fiction-Writers also has a hello from their new contributor.
- KnightsOfRomance will no longer be closing and will be hosting a contest soon.
- A hello from Sacred-Literature's newest contributor.
- A bit of an update from writingmadefun.
- A weekly update from LivingLiterature
- skinnywords gives a congratulations to the winners of their contest.
- Results of the Winter Alliance Contest from Lit-Visual-Alliance
- NaPoWriMo is announing the winners of their contest.
- independent-writer has now fixed their submission difficulties.
- The contest winners from Apocalypse-writing's contest have been announced as well as two different features and a welcome to new members.
- Authors-of-Fantasy and FantasyLiterature reveal the Feedback Pack--May Pairs
- A journal entry and poll from How-To-Write-A-Book.
- March Winners (Finally) / Need Help / 1st Project is Write2liveCancerFree's latest journal.
- An update and milestone 1,00 members and a reminder from Authors-Club's journal.
- May Mixup Madness BEGINS!
- Dija Make It? is NaNoWriM0's newest journal.
- Soul-Poets announces the Contest Winners for the Unexpected Love Contest
- My-Soul-Bleeds-Ink has a final update to their poetry form challenge.
- LiteratureforPoints' poll: "CONTEST IDEAS? Is there a specific theme you would like for LFP's next contest?"
- P.B. has a Facebook Group! Come join?, announces the reults of their Scratch That! Round 8 and the Semi-Finalists
- BrokenTales' Favourites
- An apology for the delay on submissions from TheCritiquables
- Love-Literature's Interview With A Member
- A Fresh Start is Writers-Extrodinaire's latest journal.
Literature Links [in other languages!]
- LetraHispana's challenge is now closed. [Spanish]
- NotreForteresseBrule posts a journal update. [French]
- A reminder from ArteScritta that voting is open until April 30th. [Italian]
Back to Top
FreeVersePoetry is the self proclaimed "The official un-official hub for all things free verse here on DA! " The group has a weekly prompt, is currently hosting a contest, and will soon have a member of the month feature. Click here to learn a little more about this group's admins.
DannyAnthony is a true champ for putting up with me and my inability to send a few questions concerning his group, FreeVersePoetry. [We are Procrostinator Buddies now].
Can you explain a bit about the group, FreeVersePoetry, and what makes it different from other literature groups on dA?
Well, FVP is a group dedicated solely to free verse poetry here on DA. In that way, we're a very exclusive group. However, everyone is free to join and submit whatever poems they choose, as long as they meet our one criteria, of course. I like to think that FVP is the “official un-official” hub for all things free verse here on DA. Maybe that's a little lofty thinking, but I like to dream big. What makes us different than other lit groups here on DA? Well, a couple things. For one, as far as I know, we are the only active group here on DA solely dedicated to free verse. Also, unlike a lot of other groups, we frequently share lit community (as a whole, including DD/DLD's) and affiliate news with our watchers/members. Lastly, and I know we aren't really alone on this one, but we also have a solid critique department, with littlemoonboots at the helm.
What do you hope your members get out of joining and being a part of the group?
First and foremost, I hope members feel welcome and valued in our group. We're a group of awesome people first, a place for poets to gather and share their work second. That said, I hope that our members become inspired by others' poems and our prompts. Also, I hope that members receive constructive criticism through our critique department on their work to better their craft. Last but not least, without sounding too corny, I hope our members have fun and make new friends!
Will FreeVersePoetry be hosting any future projects, contests and/or events?
Of course! Contests and prompts are always part of the goings-ons here. It's not a question of if they'll happen, but when they'll happen. That said, we just finished our NaPoWriMo weekly prompts/contests, and I'm currently brainstorming the next set of prompts and contests (perhaps one big one in collaboration with another group....) for the month of May with the rest of the staff. Also, I recently set up a chatroom for the group, so I was hoping on having a chat event this month... Other than that, you'll just have to wait and see what we have in store.
If you had to describe FreeVersePoetry in three words, what would they be and why?
Hmm... interesting question. Making me think eh?
I'd have to say:
Open -– In all senses of the word... Again, we're open to all deviants and all poems, as long as they're free verse.
Caring -- We strive to be a close knit community of friends, no matter how large we grow. One of the ways this notion is manifested is through our critique department, and valuing our member's opinions. See below...
Interactive – I highly encourage input from all members in relation to all facets of the group, from the design of the homepage to prompts. This is a group after all. Everyone has a say in how we're run.
Anything else of note that you would like to share?
In fact, I do. I'm currently looking for 4 new critics, as well as a weekly prompt blogger. If you think you're my man (or lady!) then throw me a note! Literally. Might be easier to fold it into a plane first though...
Also, thank you very much for this feature. It's much appreciated.
Quick Links:
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. 4
If you're still not finding a group you like check out the list of all literature groups on dA: Click here!
Back to Top
Inspiration (Workshops, Prompts and Challenges)
Weekly:
- There is a new Writing Prompt from Live-Love-Write. [May 5th]
- "Home" from Apocalypse-writing. [May 5th]
- "Switching Sides", the latest weekly prompt from TheWritersMeow [May 5th]
- April 29th Prompt from Prompt-Bunnies. [May 7th]
- TheWritersWareHouse's weekly prompt: "infinite". [May 7th]
- OfSweetSerendipity's Prompts #5 [May 11th]
- "Invisible" and "Escape" are Poem-forthe-poemless' seventeenth weekly prompts.
- Unseen-Writers's Theme of the Week: Love
- Weekly Spontaneity: 56 from SixWordStories
- A Weekly Prompt from Writers-Extrodinaire
- skinnywords posts their April Prompt Four
Bi-Weekly:
- "The Prompt Pool" from PoeticalCondition. [May 6th]
- theWrittenRevolution's bi-weekly Prompt: April 29, 2013 [May 12th]
- Sports is Wordspill-Central's third prompt. [May 13th]
- FotoFriday: Flight [May 17th]
- TheMarmaladeTree's Week Six prompts.
- Tragedy is Authors-Academy's new prompt.
Monthly:
- Letters-To-Myself's April Prompt: Dear You. [April 30th]
- Feedback Pack--May Sign Up [May 1st]
- SixWordStories' Word and Theme Prompts [May 6th]
- May - Poetry Forms Challenge [May 25th]
- ScreamPrompt #35, May 2013 [May 31st]
- Crowns-of-Sonnets's May Prompt: Ekphrastic Poetry [May 31st]
- TheMarmaladeTree's monthly 100-Prompt Challenge: May [May 31st]
- Literary-Limits's May prompt is up. [May 31st]
- Sacred-Literature's monthly prompt is "Write a poem about Night-time."
Other:
- Love-Literature's weekly and monthly prompts.
- Poetry Prompts courtesy of CrumpetsHarvey.
- "From the Shadows, You Hear a Voice..." is MidtownMagic's latest prompt.
Ongoing Challenges [No Deadline]:
- The group, LiteratureJunkies has issued a Smell Story Challenge
- Writing prompts from dA-Literature
- A 50 Theme Challenge from Authors-Academy
- A List of Prompts from FeatheredWords.
- full-moon-poetry's 18 themes.
- 100 Poem Topics from Wordsmiths-Guild
- LITplease's 100 Themes Challenge
- Write 50 Reason's Why You Love Yourself Challenge
Back to Top
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 Boneyard [2,500 word maximum] (May 19th)
- Louder Than dA Bomb POETRY SLAM [Please see link for details] (May 31st)
- Transgressions #3: Truth [3,000 to 4,000 words for prose; 60 line limit for poetry] (May 31st)
- My Hero Contest (May 31st)
- blacksockstock's Challenge (May 31st)
- #Literature-Anonymous's Fanfiction Contest (June 2nd)
- Send a haiku to Mars (July 1st) [Off dA Contest]
- Tales of Time - Contest (July 18th)
Contests Ending This Week:
- Shipping Sickness Challenge Contest [Prose only; 500 word minimum; 5,000 word maximum] (May 5th)
- Feedback Needed: Giveaway [Please see link for details] (May 15th)
- Earth Day, Every Day Contest (May 6th)
- ITU Contest: Past and Present [4,000 word limit] (May 10th)
- #writers-central's Poetry Contest [54 word maximum] (May 10th)
- #OfSweetSerendipity's Constructive Comment Contest [Please see link for details] (May 10th)
- =seeinglight's Critique Contest (May 10th)
- #PVSTW Contest 5: Despair (May 11th)
- Underwater Life Contest (May 12th)
Contest Extensions:
- The Pickergill and Audlin's Steampunk Extravaganza contest's deadline has been extended to May 18th.
- LiteratureJunkies's contest now has a deadline: Character Contest (May 30th)
- mirz333's Valentine's Contest has been extended until May 31st
Menagerie of Literature Contests: Updated 5/27 Literature Contests and Contests That Accept Literature!
New Contests: 3
Last Updated: May 27th
Last Time Posted: May 27th
Don't forget this exists, I hit the "notify your watchers" around every 3 months so you don't have any excuse. Now you can get straight to work on those contest entries.
Deadlines:
January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December | Critique Contests | Unspecified
Space saving is fun.
January
February
March
April
May
<
Here is my 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!
- Writers-and-Editors has their own list of Literature contests.
- #Love-Literature Loves Contests
Back to Top
Resources
Regular Lit Articles
- The Ladies of Lit: Volume XXX
- Literary Compass - Vol. 8
- dAuthors Volume I : Reaping of the Wicked
- The Indie Pen Dance - Issue 2 - Ronald Ray
- A Call to Conversation (13)--~PoetBoi
- Be A Critic Volume 13
- Fantastic Feature Tuesday #40
- Friday Night Features XCVII
- Fabulous Friday Feature 29
- The Saturday Spotlight for May 4th, 2013
- PoetryToTheMasses Weekly Feature 112
- Sundae Treat- Sammur-amat's Sunday Feature
- DLD to DD March 12th, 2013
- 30 Writers You Should Discover: Volume XV
- Lit Daily Pick Volume 4: April 2013
- Let's Talk Writing: Issue 16
- Communal Karma #2
- Group Therapy : Literature
- The E-Literature Catalog - Science Fiction
General Resources
- theWrittenRevolution's Lit News Journal
- LadyLincoln's Journal
- #PoeticalCondition's Community Update III
- #FreeVersePoetry's Community Updates
- Happenings in the Literature Community
- lovetodeviate's Resource Central [Now moved to apocathary’s journal]
- julietcaesar's List of Useful Writing Blogs
- WorldWar-Tori's Literature Resources
- #Critique-It's Resources: Writing
- #FantasyLiterature's Helpful Links
- Tips for the Messy Writer
- Writing Tips, Finding A Muse
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
- illuminara's Writing Guides
- The Ultimate Writing Guide
- OokamiKasumi's Writing Tips and Tricks
- English 101 Index: A Grammar Series
- The Basics of Comma Usage
- Proofreading Tips #2 Semicolon Conjunctive Adverbs
- How to Write Fan Fiction - Part 1 and Part 2
- How to Write Euphonically
- Writing Tutorial: Dialogue
- yWriter5 Word Processor [Off dA Link]
Prose Resources
- ElaineRose's Writing Lessons
- Ten Tips for Writing
- 10 Quick Tips: Prose
- 10 Tips for Novel Writers
- Back-To-Basics Screenwriting With Snappy
- Organizing Your Fantasy/Sci-Fi Novel
- How to Write a Romance
- 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
- "On Writing Love Poetry
- "Poeticks: On Imagery" 1 of 3, "Poeticks: On Imagery" 2 of 3, and "Poeticks: On Imagery" 2 of 3
- Poetry Self-Edit Quick Start Guide and Checklist
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
- Prose Critique Basics
- Beta Reading Tutorial
- Murdering Mary Sue
- Extrasuperfabulous
- Writer Notes - Characters
- Characterization and Names
- Describing your Characters
- A Writer's Guide: Believable Characters
- A Guide to Character Sheets
- Rehab for Roleplayers
Publishing Resources
- SadisticIceCream's Publishing Resources List
- Writing Opportunities (Publishing)
- 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?
- 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
- Harmless Magazine
- G.W. Review
- Fuselit
- The Missing Slate / themissingslate
- Machine of Death
- Cram Magazine
- Voiceworks
- Shimmer
- Alliterati Magazine
- Linear Literary Journal
- choodaloodaling
- Artsmiths
- Chautauqua Literary Journal
- Pocket Thoughts
- Quantum Fairy Tales
- Asymptote Journal
Back to Top
Looking to help out the Lit Community?
- A new, active founder to take over fortheblueskies is wanted or the group will close.
- Write2liveCancerFree would like some help.
- FreeVersePoetry is hiring critics and a blogger.
- knownames is looking for a blogger.
- A founder is needed to take over FlashFictionLives or it will be shut down.
- Contributors to help keep things running smoothly in LiterallyUnknown's backroom are wanted.
- Poem-forthe-poemless is looking for someone to critique their weekly prompt submissions.
- SixWordStories has put out a Call for Project Managers.
- PoeticalCondition is hiring critics.
- Story Scouts and general helpers are LiteraryCompass's current open positions.
- Various gallery moderators and some Co-Founders are need at Inspiring-Words.
- FantasyLiterature would like a few more admins to help with upcoming projects.
- TheBackOfTheBook is seeking more admins.
- One contributor is LiteratureforPoints's current open position.
- TheWritersMeow is seeking 5 different gallery moderators.
- A Contest Creator & Prizes Provider is needed at the group Written-Imagination
- SuperWritersHelp is in need of poetry and prose critics.
- One Contributor is wanted at Sacred-Literature.
- 2 Poetry, 2 Prose and 1 Foreign Language Admin are the open positions at DailyLitDeviations.
- Creative-Writers is looking for an admin to help run the group.
- A Contributor to help out the group, Literary-Perceptions is wanted.
- FictionWriters101 needs another a co-founder.
- Critics are wanted in the group, GrammarNaziCritiques
- JustKeepWriting is looking to find someone to post their Weekly Selections feature.
- On-going admin positions are currently available at NaHaiWriMo
- Some admins are wanted to help with the group, WritersOfTheWorld
- A new founder is wanted to take over the group, Painted-From-Words.
- Tutorial and motivational article writes are wanted at writeaway.
- One co-founder is wanted to help keep the group running smoothly at Authors-Academy
- A founder is needed at the group, BleedingHeartsPoetry.
- The group, Writing-My-Soul, would like to add one contributor to help with submissions.
- devLIT is looking for some extra help around the group.
- Contributors are needed at TheScribblists.
- Two Match Makers are Beta-Readers' current open positions.
- 1 Community Liaison and 2 Critics are needed over at LITplease.
- LOVE-Original-LIT is in need of Prose and Poetry admins as well as a judge for group hosted contests.
- One admin position is available at TeenagedLiterature.
- RomanceforEveryone would like Bi-Weekly Blog Feature Manager, Bi-Weekly Blog Feature Helpers, Resources Director, Critique Approvers, and some General Administrators.
- 2 assistants, prize commissioners, 1 News crew, and critics are APictureToA1000Words’s current admin vacancies.
- 2 Affiliates/PR Admins, 2 Pay It Forward Admins, and 4 Critics are open at lacoterie.
Back to Top
Literature Community Relations
BeccaJS - Beccalicious' DD Suggestion Guidelines
neurotype-on-discord - neurotype's DD Suggestion Guidelines
Nichrysalis - NicSwaner's DD Suggestion Guidelines
JZLobo - JZLobo's DD Suggestion Guidelines [Only Fan Fiction.]
Go on and send your literature DD suggestions to them!
#CRLiterature Community Relations Literature Chatroom
Literature CR Update - May 2013
Literature DD Roundup April 2013
Literature Forums
Literature Forum
Literature Forum Rules
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?
Back to Top
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:
, and my favoritest LITplease Community Liaisons.
for letting me run LITplease’s Community Portal.
who let me know about her group and their prompts.
Back to Top
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.
Navigation
Literature Links | Workshops, Prompts and Challenges
Literature Contests | Resources
Literature Community Relations | Contact Me
Literature Links
:new: Community Exercising!
:new: Litland News
:new: Screenwriting 101: Intro and Screenwriting 101: Formatting!
:new: Screenwriting Software Resources
:new:
Featured in Groups
© 2013 - 2024 HugQueen
Comments15
Join the community to add your comment. Already a deviant? Log In
goodness, do you ever sleep? you are the eternal fountain of lit news and dA love.