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Welcome to the ninety-third 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.
Note: As literature is taking over ArtHistoryProject for the month of September, it will have it’s own temporary section! Love dA Lit will be hitting it's 100th article very soon and I am planning a project to help celebrate which means I'm looking for some prize donations!
Art History Project: Literature
Literature Links | Group Spotlight | Workshops, Prompts and Challenges
Literature Contests | Resources | Open Admin Positions
Literature Community Relations | Contacting Me
Group News:
Literature Links [in other languages!]
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No group spotlight this week.
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
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 - July 2012
August's Literature Daily Deviations
Literature Forums
Literature Forum
Posting Guidelines - Literature Forum
Monthly Literature Critique Thread: September
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 helps gather even more information, all while being 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: As literature is taking over ArtHistoryProject for the month of September, it will have it’s own temporary section! Love dA Lit will be hitting it's 100th article very soon and I am planning a project to help celebrate which means I'm looking for some prize donations!
LITplease's Community Portal
Navigation
Art History Project: Literature
Literature Links | Group Spotlight | Workshops, Prompts and Challenges
Literature Contests | Resources | Open Admin Positions
Literature Community Relations | Contacting Me
Art History Project: Literature
- Art History: Week 1 Roundup
- Children's Literature, Morality + Changing Ideals
- The Tales of Beatrix Potter
- History of Children's Literature to the 1900's
- The Bible and its Influence on Literature
- The Visual Novel: Video Games as a Literary Medium
- Journalism from a Staff Reporter's Experience
- Art History: Writing a Pantomime
- An Interview with a Zebra...of sorts
- Six Word Stories and Other Flash Fiction
Literature Links
- BeccaJS asks Why have you stopped faving and commenting on news articles?
- Writers4Life posts a list of publishing information and writing contests
- Titles, Descriptions & Keywords
- TWS Writer Of The Week! - First Edition
- #SixWordStories: Monthly Showcase
- Memnalar wants to know if “You guys interested in another All Hallows Tales contest this year?"
- How to add your unpaid writing or art to a resume.
- TWG's Featured Deviant of the Month - Sept 2012
- EliteLiterature asks “Which do you read more often?"
- Who decides meaning?
- On the Use of Prompts
- WritersInk’s Weekly Round-up
- Writers of the Revolution, September 1
- The Fourth Annual Poetry Screams Contest is coming soon!
- Alliterati Issue 8 is out and Issue 9 is accepting submissions until November 10th.
Group News:
- Shelf-of-Friends’ August Prompt Contest winners have been announced.
- Written-Imagination is turning 1 year and wants to celebrate.
- First-Floor-Poetry’s contest has now ended.
- A Special Note FromAPictureToA1000Words’s admin.
- An update from SPOTLIGHTWRITERS about submissions and a few other things.
- EliteLiterature’s Lit of the Week 39! Darylius, PursuingTheCerberus and ryante
- StoriesAndPoemsClub’s September prose folders update.
- Poetry-is-AWESOME addresses a slight problem in the contest judging.
- writersociety’s September 2012 Point Database
- Updates and more from LOVE-Original-LIT.
- writingmadefun reminds members that is a poetry and song-writing only group and proposes an idea for a contest.
- LiteratureKingdom has a new folder
- The group, WriterArt, has returned and asks members for suggestions.
- An update from FictionWriters101.
- ChasingInk announces their contest results.
- A July and August Double Feature from DeviantLITERATURE.
- Apocalypse-writing has several things to discuss with their members.
- WritersInk’s Write Off - August's Winner
- There are some changes and updates to Love-Literature’s BookClub and Chatroom.
- An update concerning folders from OnlyPoetry.
- Live-Write-Now has a new Writing Discussion: Ideal writing time.
- An apology to members from Poets-N-Prose regarding expired submissions.
- The-Writers-Review is cleaning out their Feedback Folders.
- Discussion Topic 2 from Story-Tellers.
- Writers--club’s Member of the Month ~ August 2012
- RawEm0tion asks “ Which of these options should be the next RawEm0tion theme? “ and also updates their Poetry/Prose RPG: Lvl Up.
- APictureToA1000Words’s Theme of the Month Feature Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
- “Do you want to see character profiles or outlines etc in the gallery?" asks Novels-Only
- YouAsTheNarrator’s Lit Prompt Feature 9-2-12
- Awesome Admins, Feature #1: CelestialMemories
- There will be some changes to LITplease’s poetry prompts.
- writingmadefun announces their contest winner.
- Some questions to the members and a feature from InspireTheUninspired.
Literature Links [in other languages!]
- The results of LiteraturaBR’s August literary contest are revealed. [Portuguese]
- Des-lys-de-mots’ co-founder has stepped down. [French]
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This Weeks Group Spotlight
No group spotlight this week.
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. 3
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: "Fingerprint " [September 16th]
- Writingstream's Prompt #4: Incomplete [September 11th]
- Prompt #21: Treasure is Heart-of-Poetry's newest weekly prompt. [September 10th]
- "I'm Writing to You From ____" is the current weekly theme for RawEm0tion
- Writers-Cove's Weekly Theme 6
- One Word Prompt Thursday: Pocket from TheWritingObsession
- Weekly Spontaneity: 24 from SixWordStories
- Unseen-Writers' Theme of the Week: Superheroes
- House-of-Playwrights' fifth July weekly prompt is a Series of Images.
Bi-Weekly:
- Letters-To-Myself's Writing Prompt: Letters To a Teacher. [October 1st]
- Bi-Weekly Prompt: July 29, 2012 from theWrittenRevolution.
- PromptMe's Prompt #8
Monthly:
- ScreamPrompt #28, September 2012[September 30th]
- APictureToA1000Words' September prompt: "Perfection/Imperfection" [September 30th]
- Horror-Stories' September Monthly Theme. [September 30th]
- 'Going Back', Writers-Of-Our-Time's monthly prompt. [September 30th]
- "Culture" is LiterarySanctuary's September monthly prompt. [September 28th]
- lacoterie's August Prompts [September 25th]
- SixWordStories' Word and Theme Prompts
- A Monthly Challenge: June from Unseen-Writers
- LITplease's Poetry and Fiction Prompts #18: True Olympians [August 27th]
Workshops and Challenges:
- Palindromes Narrator Workshop [September 24th]
- A FreeWriters Marathon [October 31st]
- Challenge #4: Autumn Colors
- FFF 10: Sonnet Challenge
- Authors-of-Fantasy and FantasyLiterature's Feedback Pack--September Sign Up [Monthly]
Other:
- Self-Publishing's Prompt #4 [September 30th]
- "What If" prompt from WritersOfTheWorld [September 30th]
- Love-Literature's weekly and monthly prompts.
- YouAsTheNarrator's weekly, bi-weekly and monthly prompts.
- Flash Fiction Lives: Creation 5: Ghosts
- Sweet Melody is Inspiring-Words' current prompt.
Ongoing Challenges[No Deadline]:
- SixWordStories’ Inspiration Project Take III-- September
- Literature Lesson 1.04, Literature Lesson 1.03, Literature Lesson 1.02, Literature Lesson 1.01
- 100 Word Challenge hosted by JustKeepWriting
- A List of Prompts from FeatheredWords.
- full-moon-poetry's 18 themes.
- LITplease's 100 Themes Challenge
- Write 50 Reason's Why You Love Yourself Challenge
- Poetic Journey Project hosted by Masters-of-Poetry.
- 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:
- #My-Soul-Bleeds-Ink's Fall Contest (September 21st)
- #WriterSociety's Contest [Please see link for details] (September 30th)
- Beautiy Contest [1,500 word count] (October 15th)
- Seven Deadly Sins [2,500 word limit for prose; please see link for details] (October 15th)
- Inner Divinity Contest [Poetry only] (October 31st)
- The Toothsoup Prize [Off dA contest; open to Australian citizens only; short stories only; 1,000 to 3,000 word limit; please see link for details] (December 1st)
- Celestial Memories (December 31st)
Contests Ending This Week:
- Royal Families Short Story Contest [Prose only; 3,500 word maximum; please see link for details] (September 9th)
- Write and Revise Contest [Please see link for details] (September 11th)
- #InspireTheUninspired's Contest (September 12th)
- Summer Memories (September 15th)
- LotR Contest: 'Between the Lines' (September 15th)
- Arts for Human Rights Contest [7,700 character limit; please see link for details] (September 15th)
- Sad Love Story (September 15th)
- Sad Love Story (September 15th)
- A "Fat" Female Superhero [Prose only; Please see link for details] (September 17th)
Contest Extensions:
- devART-Writers has extended their contest's deadline to September 15th.
- September 21st is the new deadline for My-Soul-Bleeds-Ink's Autumn contest.
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.
- Writers-and-Editors has begun their own list of Literature contests.
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Resources
Regular Lit Articles
- The Lit List: Issue 01
- The Ladies of Lit: Volume XXIV
- Writers With a Promise - Issue 15
- Friday Night Features LXIII
- PoetryToTheMasses Weekly Feature 79
- The Saturday Spotlight for September 1st, 2012
- DLD to DD July 27th, 2012
- Demonstrably Deviant: Issue IX
- 30 Writers You Should Discover: Volume XI
- The Favorites Project #165, #166, #167
- Special Sundaes- Sammur-amat's Sunday Features
- Let's Talk Writing: Issue 10
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
- #FantasyLiterature's Helpful Links
- Tips for the Messy Writer
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 Fan Fiction - P1
- 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
- Prose Critique Basics
- Beta Reading Tutorial
- A Verbose Guide to Critiquing
- Murdering Mary Sue
- Extrasuperfabulous
- Characterization and Names
- Character Development: From Beginning to End
- Describing your Characters
- 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
- An Idiot's Guide to Book Publishing
E-Zines/Magazines
- Harmless [Magazine]
- Steampunk Tales
- G.W. Review
- Fuselit
- The Missing Slate
- Second Look
- Verandah Literary Journal
- Machine of Death
- Cram Magazine
- Voiceworks
- Shimmer
- dotdotdash Magazine
- Alliterati Magazine
- Linear Literary Journal
- Grawlix Poetry E-Zine
- choodaloodaling
- Artsmiths
- Chautauqua Literary Journal
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Looking to help out the Lit Community?
- LOVE-Original-LIT would like some critique and judge admins.
- A Co-founder and general admins are wanted at ThreeThousandWords.
- WreckingHavocOnPaper needs someone to take over the group.
- FictionWriters101 needs a co-founder and contributors.
- 2 Co-founder and 5 Contributor positions are open at InspireTheUninspired
- 2 assistants, prize commissioners, 1 News crew, and critics are APictureToA1000Words’s current admin vacancies.
- General admins are needed to help with submission at Masters-of-Poetry.
- RomanceforEveryone would like a few admins.
- Gallery Mods are needed at WritersInk.
- Beta-readers are needed at Beta-Readers!
- A Founder is needed to take over Writers-Extrodinaire
- ItsAllAboutWriting would like a few contributors.
- Critics/Commenters are wanted in the group, Live-Love-Write.
- A co-founder and general admins are needed to help run lit-lash.
- A Sci-Fi Short Story Folder Manager is needed at FantasyAuthorsGuild.
- Critics are wanted at CritiqueForPoints.
- Two admin positions are available at TeenagedLiterature.
- WritingForEveryone still needs a few contributors.
- General Administrators are wanted at Poetry-is-AWESOME.
- writingmadefun would like another admin to help with the group activities.
- Foreign Language Administrator is the current open position at DailyLitDeviations.
- DesperateWriters is hoping for a few new moderators and a co-founder to help out the group.
- The group, Written-Imagination, is looking for a variety of staff members.
- Soul-Poets are looking to fill their contributor positions.
- 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.
- ThreeThousandWords is looking for one co-founder and two contributors.
- 2 Community Liasons and 2 Critics are needed over at LITplease.
- SuperWritersHelp is in need of prose and poetry critics.
- 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.
- Two admin positions need to be filled at WriterSecretSanta.
- EditorialSquad is in need of various staff.
- Poetry-Screams wants some administrators.
- WA-writersblock is in need of a new founder.
- New admins are wanted at Unconventional-Story.
- 2 Affiliates/PR Admins, 2 Pay It Forward Admins, and 4 Critics are open at lacoterie.
- 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.
- 8 Critiquers, 3 Lit-Pickers, and 1 Affiliate Admin are needed at LitResources.
- 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
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 - July 2012
August's Literature Daily Deviations
Literature Forums
Literature Forum
Posting Guidelines - Literature Forum
Monthly Literature Critique Thread: September
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 helps gather even more information, all while being 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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