Event listings and opportunities of interest to writers, publishers, artists and illustrators
There’s still time to submit your short mystery/crime story to the Al Blanchard Award. First prize includes $100 cash, publication in Level Best Books upcoming crime fiction anthology Dead Calm, and FREE admission the New England Crime Bake, Nov. 11-13, Dedham, Massachussetts.
If you want to write for magazines but don’t know how to get started —or if you need some motivation to get you going—this course is for you.
The Third Annual 21st-Century Book Marketing Expo will be held October 15-16, 2011, at the San Diego Marriott Marquis & Marina Hotel in San Diego, California. The event will again serve as a vehicle to educate self-published authors, small publishers, and writers on how to master the changing publishing industry, understand the benefits of print-on-demand, get publicity, and utilize the Internet to get the book in the hands of readers.
The Ojai Writers Conference will present a Master Class for Writers series, to be held during WordFest, the new Ojai literary festival spanning two weekends and nine days, March 19 to 27, 2011.
The Writer magazine short story contest. $10 entry fee.
The 2011 Beach Book Festival has issued a call for entries to its annual awards honoring the hottest reads of the summer season. The Beach Book Festival will consider self-published…
Straylight Magazine is hosting a poetry contest! All forms, styles, and subjects of poetry will be considered.
Ventura resident Marion Witte has captured her true-life story in Little Madhouse on the Prairie, a memoir. At the Ventura County Writers Club February eighth meeting, she’ll discuss how she got Little Madhouse published, how she marketed the book using traditional and new media, and what authors must do to get their book in front of their niche market.
On February 15, 2011, we will have a WPN member teleseminar with Robert Bly. Description: How to Write and Sell Simple Information for Fun and Profit: Your Guide to Writing…
“Learning from Reading Aloud” is the topic at the January 11 meeting of the Ventura County Writers Club.
