Nice article & pictures in the Kamloops CONNECTOR. Congrats to the winners.
Saturday, August 28, 2021
Wednesday, August 11, 2021
writerly news for August 2021
-Prism International is a Vancouver-based magazine open to prose & poetry submissions from people in Canada and around the world. Here are their submissions guidelines. https://prismmagazine.ca/submit/
-10 arts and crafts markets for writers. [There's advertising at the top, but you can move through it to the actual article.] tinyurl.com/4zm7x99k
-Motherwell is a magazine about various aspects of parenting. They are open to submissions. Info here. https://motherwellmag.com/submissions/
-Good Old Days is an American magazine that tells the real stories of the people who lived and grew up in "the Good Old Days" (about 1935–1960). They pay for stories they accept. Guidelines here. https://www.annies-publishing.com/pdfs/GDg15.pdf
-Your book's back cover plays an important role in selling it. Good thoughts here. tinyurl.com/yrpfab9u
-No conflict, no story really. Here are 8 types of conflict well explored with examples. tinyurl.com/32ppsxwm
-Anne Lamott & other authors on writing compelling dialogue. tinyurl.com/whefy4p2
-Andrea Nwabuike is a Nigerian Canadian author writing about the intersections of faith, race, ethnicity, and gender. Info about her and samples of her published work are at aadanma.com.
-Flash fiction is hard to write but fun. Here are examples. Each piece features one person only. Could you write something similar? A good exercise. https://opalpublishing.ca/2021/07/17/involving-one/
-If you're on Twitter, it's fun to occasionally post a Sunday sentence. That's the best sentence you've read during the previous week. Include the source and the hashtag #sundaysentence.