Well I’m getting a lot of email from unhappy writers complaining about reading fees. I’ve heard reading fees called amateurish, ridiculous and just stupid
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London Street Art
We were very lucky recently to get an email from the people over at London Street Art: http://streetartlondon.co.uk/ This is a group and a site who know a whole lot about the London Street Art scene.
$50,000 Awarded for the St. Francis College Literary Prize
Time is running out for mid-career writers to submit their work for one of the richest literary awards in the United State, the St. Francis College Literary Prize. The award offers a $50,000 book prize for authors who have published their 3rd to 5th book.
Sites That Pay Writers to Write
Ok, here is a simple list of sites that we know are paying writers to write. If you know of others, post them in the comments. If
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On the Profession of Letters by Robert Louis Stevenson
The profession of letters has been lately debated in the public prints; and it has been debated, to put the matter mildly, from a point of view that was calculated to surprise
We want your ads!
We are putting out a new request for ads on our site. We have very affordable ad rates for any of our blogs, and we are now opening up some of our other pages for advertising. If you are interested in advertising with our site, please contact me at eds@everywritersresource.com. With Duotrope going to a […]
5 Most Difficult Things for Literary Magazine Editors
It’s late. You’ve been working for 9 hours straight getting all the coding just right to launch your issue. You have to be up at 6:30 for work, and it’s 1:15am. If you could just finish these last few tweaks
What Interests Readers
To interest readers is obviously the prime object in all popular writing. The basis of interest in the news story, the special feature article, and the short story is essentially the same. Whatever the average person likes to hear and see, whatever gives him
Drink Your Poetry?
Lately I’ve seen more and more literary readings, poetry and fiction, arriving in full fledged bars. I’m sure this isn’t a new trend. Places like NYC have been doing this for many years, but it seems like many bar owners in even suburban towns are beginning to host readings on their slow nights.
How to End a Letter by Lewis Carroll
How to End a Letter by Lewis Carroll If doubtful whether to end with ‘yours faithfully’, or ‘yours truly’, or ‘yours most truly’, &c. (there are at least a dozen varieties, before you reach ‘yours affectionately’), refer to your correspondent’s last letter, and make your winding-up at least as friendly as his; in fact, even […]
50 Writing Tips
This is our ever growing list of writing tips. It is a general list of suggestions that we hope will help you in your writing and in the life of writing.
The Jealous Earth by Scott Dominic Carpenter
In 2011 we published Scott Dominic Carpenter’s “The Birthday List” on EWR: Short Stories.
ipad for Writers? Maybe not yet.
The ipad is outstanding, of course. It is an amazing piece of visionary technology. It’s great for entertainment and fun, fun, fun, but as a writer should you dump your laptop and go to the smaller flashier screen?
Submitting Your Story by Charles Raymond Barrett
Submitting Your Story Because literature is an art and you have a leaning toward it, do not therefore consider yourself a genius and so exempt from work. There is no royal road to success, and no one ever yet won a high place in the world of letters who did not earn it by the […]