Welcome to Writing Raw
Writing Raw is a literary ezine dedicated to new and emerging writers of the following categories:
Our goal at Writing Raw is simple - to serve the literary community with the opportunity to have their work online and out in the world. In this world of disappearing literary magazines, Writing Raw is providing the blank pages for writers to fill.
To view someone's writing, just click on the link and a pdf version of the piece will open in your browser. Read it, comment on it... but, most important - ENJOY IT.
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Covering all forms of writing from all over the world!
February 2010
New material on the 1st & 15th of every month
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Profiled 7 Question Author Interviews
Profiled 7 Question Literary Agent Interview
Featured Poets
Featured Author
Online Novellas
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SHAME
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Limelight Classic Productions in conjunction with Roger Harvey:
Write Beside the Sea
April 17 - 18, 2010
'Write beside the Sea' is an exciting course for new and aspiring writers. The two day course will be held at Fort House, Old Hartley, Northumberland, on Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th April 2010. For further details tel: 0781 2480557 or email info@limelightclassics.com
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For detailed information concerning the Keynote speakers (Lorenzo Carcaterra, #1 New York Times bestselling author and Neil S. Nyren, Senior Vice President, Publisher and Editor in Chief of G.P. Putnam's Sons), Literary agents, Authors, Editors, and other Publishing professionals, please visit there website by CLICKING HERE.
Backspace 2010 Writers Conference
Radisson Martinique - New York City
May 27 - Agent-Author Seminar
May 28 & 29 - 2010 Backspace Writers Conference
Early Registration Discount through Feb. 1 - save up to $120
REGISTER for one event, or both!
Akron Manuscript Club
founded 1929
For all writers and poets, published and unpublished
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Wordspinners of the Akron Manuscript Club is an anthology containing the accumulated works of the members of the Akron Manuscript Club. It is now available through the above online book sellers and local bookstores. The writings span many areas from high fantasy to intimate thoughts. The concepts of the authors are revealed in the form of short stories, poems, and prose. The writers hope the works held within these pages provide both enjoyment as well as thought provoking concepts to the reader. To visit their site, CLICK HERE.
The Pen & Ink Club is a group of writers who started meeting in Kiltimagh in 2008, initiated with assistance from the IRD, Kiltimagh. Meetings are normally held on the second and fourth Tuesday of the month at 7.30pm in The Town Hall, Kiltimagh. Members meet to share and discuss their work, in order to gain encouragement and help one another to progress in their endeavours. The group will publish some of their efforts periodically, both in printed form and on their website.
The Writing Studio is the leading independent training initiative in Africa - empowering writers and filmmakers, and fostering the growth of the film and television industries, theater, journalism and publishers in South Africa. The Writing Studio offers workshops in Creative Writing and Scriptwriting (also through correspondence). For more information, please visit their site by CLICKING HERE.
The Rhode Island Writers' Circle, a nonprofit, charitable center for emerging and professional writers since 1993, has invited Randall Albers, Chair of the Fiction Writing Department at Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois, to be the final judge for their national flash fiction contest. Dr. Albers long and distinguished career as an author and professor of creative writing is well known throughout the academic and professional community. Submissions should be sent to The Writers' Circle, 1087 Warwick Avenue, Warwick, Rhode Island, 02888. The contest is open now through June 10, 2010. First prize is $500 dollars with publication in The Writers' Circle Anthology and on their web site. Additional awards will also include Artistic Merit Nominees. All entrants will be considered for publication. Submissions should be 1000 words or less. For contest rules and guidelines go to the web page at www.riwriterscircle.com. Winners will be announced in the national press August 2010.
For more information call 401-461-6691 or e-mail thewriterscircle@aol.com.
Karen Campbell's
After The Fire
will be published in soft cover in February, published by
Hodder & Stoughton.
Writers' Week unveiled details of an exciting €30,000 prize fund for their many writing competitions. With over sixteen choices of competitions to choose from novel, poetry, short story, play, journalism, storytelling and children's there is an opportunity for everyone to net a prize. Most notable of the competitions is the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award with a prize of €15,000 for a work of fiction making it the most valuable in the Irish literary calendar. Other writing competitions include The Bryan MacMahon Short Story, Duais Foras Na Gaeilge, the Eamon Keane Play and the Kerry County Council Writing for Youth. Writers' Week is taking place from Wednesday 2nd June to Sunday 6th June 2010.
Full details of the 2010 Literary Workshops and Competitions
can be found on www.writersweek.ie or CLICK HERE to read the Press Release
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Tyneside Poets 2010 Events
Old George Pub, Cloth Market, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1
WRITERS' WORKSHOPS
Writers wanting to advance knowledge and craftsmanship in the art of writing to forward poetry readings, publication and appreciation of literature. CLICK HERE to view a schedule of the workshops and contact information.
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