George Clinton Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution announced two essay contests: • The annual American History Essay Contest for students in grades 5-8; • The Patriots of the American Revolution DAR High School Essay Contest for students in grades 9-12. Both are open to any student in the stated grades. […]
La Jolla author Zoe Ghahremani never stops writing. She’ll lead a workshop during the San Diego Writers Festival on Saturday, Oct. 8. She will lead a workshop during the San Diego Writers Festival this weekend. La Jolla resident and author Zoe Ghahremani has found success in knowing her worth, and she hopes to impart the […]
Click here to view original web page at Local High School Seniors invited to participate in inaugural essay writing contestThe Newnan Times-Herald Hometown Novel Writers Association and the Town of Sharpsburg invite all Coweta County high school seniors to participate in their first Essay Writing Contest. The guidelines for entering the contest are: Be in […]
Click here to view original web page at The Women’s Prize for Fiction launches competition for unpublished authors If you’ve been wanting to put pen to paper for years, or have a novel in your head waiting to be told, now is the moment to get going… Now in its third year, The Women’s Prize […]
Click here to view original web page at I Answer Self-Care Writing Prompts Photo by Cathryn Lavery from Unsplash The opinions expressed in this article are the writer’s own and do not reflect the views of Her Campus. Today, I am embracing my inner Buzzfeed writer and choosing to answer self-care journal prompts. Will I […]
Click here to view original web page at Student wins Phi Beta Kappa award for undergraduate writing Junior Safyque xRichardson, a double major in creative writing and psychology, won the 2022 John D. Wilson Prize for her essay “Reduction to the Black Body: Brutality in The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.” Photo by […]
Click here to view original web page at Thomas C. Foster on the Seven Deadly Sins of Writing “You cannot let worry win.” The following first appeared in Lit Hub’s The Craft of Writing newsletter— sign up here . If you hang around the writing racket long enough, you will see every sort of writing […]
Click here to view original web page at Travel writing is still dominated by male voices. Alice got to have an adventure, so why can’t we all? Of all genres, travel writing has remained predominantly male – and aimed at men Women are underrepresented in travel writing (Photo: Westend61/Kike Arnaiz/Getty) I always longed for adventure, […]
Click here to view original web page at From the Stacks: Puzzles, writing meet in creative bookHave you ever wondered about the process that leads to the end result of what you read? You don’t get to see what comes before: the blank page starting to fill with thoughts, words assembling into sentences, phrases snipped, […]
Click here to view original web page at John Updike On Death, Writing And the Last Words John Updike’s (March 18, 1932–January 27, 2009) memoirs consist of six discontinuous chapters in lieu of an autobiography, written soon after someone informed him of a “repulsive” plan to write his biography, “to take my life, my lode […]
