Southern California Writers’ Conference

The Eighth Annual Southern California Writers’ Conference will be held at the Hyatt Regency Newport Beach September 24 – 26, 2010.  Early registration is now open through August 1, with a $50 discount off the full conference and Novel Cram Track.  Manuscripts may also be submitted to Advanced Submission Critique Readers until September 5 for [...]

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Full Moon

One night as Dick lay fast asleep,      Into his drowsy eyes A great still light began to creep      From out the silent skies. It was the lovely moon’s, for when      He raised his dreamy head, Her surge of silver filled the pane      And streamed across his bed. So, for a while, [...]

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Call for Submissions – Glimmer Train

Glimmer Train’s June Fiction Open is accepting fiction submissions between 2,000 and 20,000 words until midnight (PST) on June 30.  This quarterly opportunity is open to all writers and all themes.  Unpublished novel excerpts are considered provided they feel like complete stories.  Multiple submissions are also accepted.  The reading fee for each submission is $20.  [...]

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Summer

Then followed that beautiful season […] the Summer of All-Saints!  Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape Lay as if new-created in all the freshness of childhood. Peace seemed to reign upon earth, and the restless heart of the ocean Was for a moment consoled.  All sounds were in [...]

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Bird by Bird

“I understood immediately the thrill of seeing oneself in print.  It provides some sort of primal verification: you are in print; therefore you exist.  Who knows what this urge is all about, to appear somewhere outside yourself, instead of feeling stuck inside your muddled but stroboscopic mind, peering out like a little undersea animal – a [...]

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“No need to hurry.

No need to sparkle.  No need to be anybody but oneself.” ~ Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

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Call for Submissions – Paradigm

The online quarterly Paradigm is now welcoming quality fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, and photography through July 15 for its third issue of 2010.  Audio or video files of spoken word poetry will also be reviewed and considered for inclusion.  Fiction and nonfiction submissions should not exceed 4,000 words; poetry submissions may include up to three [...]

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A Man Among Lions…and Witches…and Evil Queens…

“Looking glass, what do you see?”  I murmured.  My neck was as white as the swans of Castelfiore and I breathed deeply, to cause the exposed area of my clavicle to lift and promote my breasts.  “Do you see the corrupted heart of a sinner or the soul of a saint in the making?”  “I [...]

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This Week’s Literary Scene

Literary events in and around Orange County this week provide opportunities to experience both new and classic fiction as spectator and participant.  Enjoy!  Pen on Fire  As part of the Pen on Fire speaker series, novelists Aimee Bender (The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, Willful Creatures) and Michael Jaime-Becerra (Every Night is Ladies’ Night, This [...]

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Call for Submissions – Ploughshares

Ploughshares is now welcoming unsolicited submissions of fiction, poetry, and a limited amount of nonfiction from now through January 15, 2011.  There are no specific guidelines for style or subject matter; its editors are interested in any work that reflects literary excellence.  Since 1989, Ploughshares has been based at Emerson College, which hosts one of [...]

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