Writing Prompt: Ghost

In preparation for Halloween the prompt this week is to write a ghost story. We don’t want traditional ghost stories here. We don’t want you to retell the ghost story that your cousin told you around the campfire in ninth grade. Your ghost story must include five of the following ten words: Marriage, lake, cellphone,…

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Dancing With Bear: Open to Manuscripts

Dancing with Bear is a print and e-book publisher that publishes exclusively Christian manuscripts. They publish books for adults but they also have a children’s line.  They are currently open to submissions in all categories and are eager to receive quality work. Dancing with Bear is run by an author. They know what it is…

The Pros and Cons of NaNoWriMo

T.S. Eliot claims in “The Wasteland” that “April is the cruelest month.”  As a Red Sox fan, I put October (namely, play-offs season) ahead of April.  As a writer, I think that November can top them all. Welcome to my rundown of the pros and cons of the month affectionately known as NaNoWriMo.  It is…

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Writing Prompt: Absurd Superpower

As a child I often imagined myself or my characters with superpowers ranging from invisibility to wings. Now that I am an adult I like to play with superpowers that are more unusual, perhaps even deeply impractical. Today’s writing prompt is to write for fifteen minutes about a human being that has a strange ability….

Page & Spine: Open To Submissions

Page & Spine is an online literary journal that focuses on publishing the work of emerging authors. They accept poems, limericks, micro flash fiction (under 150 words), flash fiction (up to 1,000 words), short stories, articles, essays, and poems. Page & Spine pays their writers. Authors of short stories are paid a minimum of twenty…

Inspirational Quote of The Week

Scott Manfredo is one of our many readers who submitted a quote. Even though my work has been published in many places I still identify with what Scott Manfredo wrote. I write to survive, not to make a living. I write for the love of it, first and foremost. All writers regardless of publication status…

Writing Prompt: New Space

In 2010 I wrote for an entire month in a museum. Not in a coffee shop or a comfy chair at home, but in an awkward crowded busy museum. Sometimes I wrote standing up. Other times I found an awkward bench to sit on. No matter where I was, art surrounded me. So did a…

Absey & Company (Book Publisher): Open To Submissions

Updated DEC 10, 2019. They are no longer in business. Strangely one of their few working web pages is their submission page. Do not submit to them Absey & Company is currently looking for full length manuscripts to publish. Absey & Company has published many award winning books in the last decade. They are an…

5 Literary Markets for the Triple Threat

If you’re a writer looking to be published by a literary journal, there are many publications that will give your non-fiction, fiction, and poetry consideration. For example, Glimmer Train and Ploughshares. But what if you do more than write? What if you are also an illustrator and photographer? Let’s say you took a photo or…

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ABDO: A Children’s Book Publisher

Update April 14th, 2022: They appear to be closed to all submissions for an undisclosed amount of time. ABDO is an established publisher of children’s books. They publish a great deal of educational books for children. Currently they are  looking for fiction manuscripts. These must contain educational content and should be focused on children between…

Writing Prompts: To Be or Not To Be

“To be or not be” is the world’s most famous soliloquy. It is act 3, scene 1 in Hamlet, and it is among the many lines from Shakespeare that are still commonly spoofed in current culture. At the end of this article I have included the entire text of the soliloquy. Today’s prompt is a…

Interview with Roberta DeCaprio

Roberta DeCaprio is a freelance writer and established author of Romance novels. She has written numerous books, all released by various small presses. You can visit her website to learn more or buy a book: www.robertadecaprio.com/. To read more of her thoughts on writing and life visit her blog. Emily Harstone: When did you start…