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Be sure to wear your mask everywhere until we can meet again. Write while you can, tell your stories you own way. Stay safe.
Be sure to wear your mask everywhere until we can meet again. Write while you can, tell your stories you own way. Stay safe.
Our first session of 2020 is Mon., Jan 13, 7 p.m., BAPA Community Room, 11109 S. Longwood Dr. Bring something you are working on to share with the group for productive critique, or write from the prompt below: I appreciate the thought, but . . . It’s time for us to make some writing resolutions…
The next session of the Longwood Writers Guild creative writing critique group will be Mon., Oct. 14, 7 p.m., BAPA Community Room, 11109 S. Longwood Drive, Chicago, IL 60643. Come join us! Please bring something you are working on to read aloud for critique, or write from the following prompt: I wouldn’t drink out of…
Longwood Writers Guild will meet Mon., Mar. 11, 7 p.m. BAPA Community Room, 11109 S. Longwood Dr., Chicago, 60643 Bring a piece you are working on to share with the group, or write from the prompt: I can’t control the weather, but I can control . . . FYI Outrider Press is accepting submissions for the…
Happy Holidays Writers! The next session of Longwood Writers Guild is Mon., Jan 14, 7 p.m., BAPA Community Room, 11109 S. Longwood Dr. Bring something you are working on to share, or write from the prompt: We’re not even half way through January and . . . . . Take it from there. Have fun…
Come join us for some great stories. Bring your friends. Admission is Free.
The next session of Longwood Writers Guild is Mon., Oct. 15, 7 p.m., BAPA Community Room, 11109 S. Longwood Dr. Please bring something you are working on to share for critique, or write a piece from the prompt: I (he, she) wiped my hands on the cloth then put it into the trash container, making sure…
The next session of Longwood Writers Guild is Mon., Oct. 8, 7 p.m., BAPA Community Room, 11109 S. Longwood Dr. Please bring something you are working on to share for critique, or write a piece from the prompt: I (he, she) wiped my hands on the cloth then put it into the trash container, making…
The next meeting of the Longwood Writers Guild critique group is Mon., Sept. 10, 7 p.m., BAPA Community Room, 11109 S. Longwood Drive, Chicago, 60643 Bring something you are working on or write something from the prompt to read aloud for positive, productive input. Prompt: “Pour me another.” Looking forward to seeing everyone!
A DIGITAL MAGAZINE OF LITERARY & VISUAL ARTS Mission. The mission of variant magazine for literary and visual arts is to offer a high quality, competitive and classic online space for diverse voices, messages and images. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES variant is published online twice a year and invites submissions of poetry, flash fiction, short stories, hybrid literature, creative…
If you ever watched the Actor’s Studio with James Lipton, you saw a version of the Proust Questionnaire. Here is the original list. Using it for your characters in long pieces really helps. 35 Questions Made Famous by Marcel Proust What is your idea of perfect happiness? What is your greatest fear? What is the…
In the writing process come a time when you begin to send things to different magazines, anthologies and contests. We are pleased to announce that one of our own has won the GRAND PRIZE in the Prose category of HOME, the 21st edition of the Black and White series of annual anthologies from Outrider Press in…
Of the dozen categories of fiction writing, the below descriptions are the most up-to-date definitions. Sometimes knowing what others call what you are doing, helps. Good writing. Drama – stories composed in verse or prose, usually for theatrical performance, where conflicts and emotion are expressed through dialogue and action Classic – fiction that has become…