Creative Leaps

http://www.writersdigest.com/competitions/short-short-story-competition?et_mid=649302&rid=240485581 Writer's Digest Short Story Competition WD is looking for short stories! Think you can write a winning story in less than 1,500 words? Enter the 14th Annual Writer’s Digest Short Short Story Competition for your chance to win $3,000 in cash, get published in Writer’s Digest  magazine, and a paid trip to our ever-popular Writer’s Digest Conference in New York City! The winning entries will be on display in the  14th Annual Writer’s Digest Competition Collection .  

Thoreau: On Not Finding a Publisher and What Success Really Means “Sitting beside the inert mass of my works, I take up my pen to-night to record what thought or experience I may have had, with as much satisfaction as ever.”

Timeless Advice on Writing From Famous Authors "Something is always born of excess; great art was born of great terrors, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them." Anaïs Nin: Why Emotional Excess is Essential to Writing and Creativity

Writer-in-Residence in Grenada 2014 This just came in via Lisa Allen Agostini's FB page - thanks to her for posting it: Writer-in-Residence programme in Grenada, Spring 2014 October 31, 2013 at 11:46pm This is the official info. I don't have additional info so please contact them rather than me for anything more. DO FEEL FREE TO SHARE THIS AROUND! The Dame Hilda BynoeWriter-in–Residence Programme 2014 at St. George’s University St. George’sUniversity, Grenada, has established a writer-in-residence programme intendedto support a Caribbean writer in completing a work-in-progress, and to expose boththe SGU academic community, and the Grenadian community to the contemporaryCaribbean literary scene. This fifteen-weeks long programme will run for thefirst time in Spring 2014. Start Date:  January26, 2014 End date: May 10, 2014 As part of theprogramme, the writer-in-residence will be required to provide six weeks* ofthe following service to St. George’s University: ...