Erika Dreifus’ Guide to Flash Nonfiction Markets « BREVITY’s Nonfiction Blog “Erika Dreifus, the blogger voice behind Practicing Writing, researched and assembled a list of flash nonfiction markets last week. She came up with 26 different markets, including a few which (like Brevity) offer payment to the writers published.” The Annie Dillard Award for Creative [...]
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JRR Tolkien’s Middle-earth gets a complete genealogy | Books | guardian.co.uk “But my devotion to Middle-earth pales before that of Emil Johansson, a photographer and chemical engineering student from Sweden, who has read “every book there is to read about Middle-earth” and who has spent years compiling a family tree of every character – every [...]
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10 Bestselling Books with More Than 80 One-Star Reviews – GalleyCat “We checked negative reviews of ten authors at Amazon–follow the links below to the many one-star reviews received by bestselling authors. Twilight topped the list with 669 one-star reviews.” HT: DW Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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A Daily Email for Aspiring Writers Is Truly Inspired – Culture – GOOD ‘According to Figment vice president Katie Robbins, the idea for the daily email was inspired by the Figment community’s demand for more ways to get inspired. Among Figment’s many services are social networking, feedback exchange opportunities, and writing contests, but users were [...]
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Keep Giving Them You, Until You Is What They Want “This quote comes from Dennis Palumbo, a former screenwriter-turned-psychotherapist, writing about rejection. He says it as a reminder that rejection is often arbitrary and impersonal, so if you take it as a reason to be somebody you’re not you’re making a mistake.” The Business Case [...]
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The Book Bench: Has James Joyce Been Set Free? : The New Yorker “The passage into public domain of Joyce’s major works has been talked up in certain quarters as though it were a bookish version of the destruction of the Death Star, with Stephen Joyce cast as a highbrow Darth Vader suddenly no longer [...]
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Prime Number Magazine First print annual edition is now available. Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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Press Release: Deadline Nearing for SELC Nature Writing Contest Writers and journalists have just over a week to send submissions for SELC’s 17th annual Phillip D. Reed Memorial Award for Outstanding Writing on the Southern Environment. Submissions must be received by Friday, January 13, in our Charlottesville headquarters. >> Contest requirements are below, and more [...]
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Wordnik’s Online Dictionary – No Arbiters, Please – NYTimes.com TRADITIONAL print dictionaries have long enlisted lexicographers to scrutinize new words as they pop up, weighing their merits and eventually accepting some of them. Not Wordnik, the vast online dictionary. No modern-day Samuel Johnson or Noah Webster ponders each prospective entry there. Instead, automatic programs search [...]
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