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Category: contenders
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SIWC Countdown: 9 upcoming contests…9 days until SIWC!
The countdown to SIWC 2013 continues. 9 days until SIWC, and their contest is over for this year, so I thought I’d put up info about 9 other interesting contests you might consider for the near future: Lynn Manuel Children’s Fiction Contest : http://www.grasmerepublishing.com/ Creative Nonfiction Contest by carte blanche: http://carte-blanche.org/carte-blanchecnfc-society-creative-nonfiction-contest/ Bliss Carman Poetry Award: http://www.prairiefire.ca/contests/bliss-carman-poetry-award/…
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JOE HILL (Stephen King’s Son) Gets Sucker Punched!
[Source: Writer’s Digest] [Joe Hill] had been sending his short stories to The Atlantic for a while now, and thought he was getting close to breaking in. The rejection letters usually came in big envelopes containing his manuscript, but this one was different. It was small. Like, say, something you’d mail a check in. Hill…
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CONTENDER: Amy Sue Nathan, author of The Glass Wives
Amy Sue Nathan can give us all reasons to put butt in chair, and pen to paper. When she was asked about the process involved in completing her debut novel, The Glass Wives, this is what she had to say: I know it’s cliche, but I maintained a positive attitude (whenever possible) and kept…