Creative Leaps

ABOVE ALL, Happy Writing, JJ Join the CBI Clubhouse - Children's Book Insider's club 7 Things Editors at Children's Book Publishers Wish Writers Knew

ABOVE ALL, Happy Writing, JJ "Some lost their lives in their attempt to find freedom for others that didn't even look like them, but not because they loved the blacks, because they loved right….If you have a person enslaved, you have to be down there with the slave, to hold him or hold her, and that makes you bitter." Maya Aneglou

Above All, Happy Writing, JJ

Above All,  Happy Writing, JJ  "Can an unjust peace be enforced?" Susan Sontag was an American writer, filmmaker, teacher and political activist, who published her first major work, the essay "Notes on Camp" in 1964. The writers role in society is much more than ''getting published". In this series I will share interviews with out spoken writers who  involved themselves  wholly, engaging in activism and politics. "I was not looking for dreams to interpret my life, but rather my life to interpret my dreams."

Above All, Happy Writing, JJ Andrew Blackman, a writer's life. Andrew asks that you please feel free to forward his newsletter to anyone you think would be interested. If you're reading this and are not yet a subscriber, you can sign up for his free monthly emails - no spam, I promise! (and get a free eBook detailing $250,000-worth of short story prizes). Every month he publishes current writing opportunities with live links, (omitted here). So click on his link (Andrew Blackman, a writer's life) and sign up for easy access to his monthly digest of writing prizes and deadlines. Writing opportunities:  Writer's Digest Short Short Story Competition Prize: $3,000 Entry fee: $25 Word limit: 1,500 Deadline: 15 December 2014 Schlafly Beer Micro-Brew Micro-Fiction Contest Prize: $1,500 Entry fee: $10 Word limit: 500 Deadline: 31 December 2014 MR Prize Prize: $1,0 00 Entry fee: $15 Word limit: 8,000 Deadline: 1 January 2015 Jeremy Mo...