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Mar 10, Creative Writing Contests and Competitions

Creative writing contests and competitions with big cash prizes like the ones below can provide a real step up for writers. Writing competitions can jumpstart a career.

Mar 10, Creating Fictional Characters: Creative Writing Tips

Creating Fictional Characters: Strengthen your creative writing by building characters readers will either admire or dislike

Mar 10, Character Motivation: Improve Your Creative Writing by Understanding Why Your Characters Act as They Do

Character Motivation: To improve your creative writing, allow readers to understand why your characters act as they do

Mar 10, Space and Punctuate Dialogue Correctly: Creative Writing Success Tips

Creative Writing Success Tips: How to Punctuate Dialogue Correctly. Creative writers: Learn these few rules of punctuation to write dialogue with clarity.

Mar 9, Review of Scribendi Freelance Copy Editing for Creative Writers

24/7 Freelance Copy Editing for Students, Creative Writers, and Business--Review tested and cost effective option

Mar 9, Passive Verbs: Avoid Them and Breathe New Life Into Your Fiction

Passive Verbs: How to avoid them and use

Mar 8, March 8th Book Giveaway: the weight of dew by Daniela Elza

Daniela Elza has lived on three continents, crossed numerous geographic, cultural and semantic borders. She was born in Bulgaria, and grew up in Nigeria. After earning her Masters in English Philology from Sofia University, she taught in England for a year, then acquired her second Masters (in Linguistics) at Ohio University. In 1999, she immigrated to Canada and has since lived in Vancouver with her husband and their two children.

Elza's work has been published in more than fifty literary and peer-reviewed publications. Her poems have been anthologized in Rocksalt (Mother Tongue Publishing, 2008), Verse Map of Vancouver (Anvil Press, 2009), Van Gogh's Ear (The French Connection Press, Paris), Close to Quitting Time (Ascent Aspirations Publishing, 2011), Fields of Green (Hampton Press, 2009), Poetic Inquiry (Sense Publishers, 2009), 4 poets (Mother Tongue Publishing, 2009),The Wild Weathers(Leaf Press, 2012) and are forthcoming in Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here (PM Press), The Art of Poetic Inquiry (Backalong Books, 2012), A Heart of Wisdom(Peter Lang Publishing, 2012), Enpipeline Anthology (Creek Press, 2012) andThe Pacific Poetry Project: An Anthology of Three Cities (Ooligan Press, 2013).

Her interests lie in the gaps, rubs, and bridges between poetry, language, and philosophy. She dwells in the spaces that call us to attention, to an embodied awareness of the poetry that is our lives–poetry as a way of knowing. In this process she not only finds the boundary between philosophy and poetry blurs, but that writing becomes a way of being, a vehicle for transforming consciousness, a place we loosen our grip on the world to invite a more intimate connection with it.

In 2011 Daniela Elza received her doctorate in Philosophy of Education from Simon Fraser University and launched her first eBook, The Book of It (now also available in print). the weight of dew (Mother Tongue Publishing, 2012) is her first full length poetry collection

To enter to your name in the draw for Daniela Elza's collection of poetry, please visit Getting 2 Know Daniela Elza

Mar 4, Publishing Scams

Publishing Scams: What You Should Know about Vanity Presses

Mar 4, Free Audiobook

Free Audiobook Offer. For anyone serious about writing fiction, these free audio downloads are some of the best audio books
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Mar 4, Mentor

First of all I would like to say thank you for taking the time to read this email. I am writing a novel and I would like to bounce ideas off someone or