WVU This Week December 8, 2011

Quote of the Week

""You only learn to be a better writer by actually writing."

Doris Lessing (October 22, 1919)  submitted by Joni Zipp

 

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***  A Birdie Told Me - Writing Markets

 

by Birdie

 

Salem College's 2012 International Literary Awards Guidelines

www.salem.edu/go/cww

Over $4,000 in prizes!

Reynolds Price Short Fiction Award for a single short story up to 5000 words

Judge: Kate Bernheimer

Rita Dove Poetry Award for a poem up to 100 lines (up to two poems per submission, any style)

Judge: Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Penelope Niven Creative Nonfiction Award* for a single piece of creative nonfiction, including personal essay and memoir, up to 5000 words

Judge: Sigrid Nunez

The winner in each genre will receive $1,200. The two honorable mentions in each genre will receive $150.

Competition Rules and Requirements:

·         All entries should be mailed to Amy Knox Brown, Director of the Salem College Center for Women Writers, 601 South Church Street, Winston-Salem, NC 27101.

·         Competitions are open to both women and men who write in English except Salem Academy and College employees and students.

·         All submissions must be unpublished. Postmark deadline: February 3, 2012.

·         Winners will be announced by May 15, 2012.

·         The author’s name and address must not appear on the manuscript.

·         For each entry, you must include all of the following: three clean typed copies of your manuscript (double space all prose entries); one cover sheet per entry with your name, address, telephone number, email, the genre in which you’re submitting (fiction, nonfiction, or poetry), word count (for nonfiction and fiction)/ line count (for poetry), and the title of the work(s); a check/money order for the $15 (in US dollars) reading fee per submission, made out to:

Salem College International Literary Awards (optional SASE for notification of winners).

For further information, visit www.salem.edu/go/cww; or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ; or contact Amy Knox Brown, Director of the Salem College Center for Women Writers, 601 South Church Street,

Winston-Salem, NC 27101. No phone calls, please.

 

***Upcoming MFA Courses

 

MFA Courses are always free to annual, 3-year, and lifetime members.

 

Classes starting December 8 Registration ends December 10

MFA 205  Developing Characters

 

Classes starting December 15 Registration ends December 17

MFA 206  Minor Characters

 

Classes starting December 22 Registration ends December 24

MFA 207  Setting and Character

 

Classes starting December 29 Registration ends December 31

MFA 208  Difficult Characters

 

Classes starting January 5 Registration ends January 7

MFA 209  Point of View Basics

 

Classes starting January 12 Registration ends January 14

MFA 210  The Art of First Person

 

Classes starting January 29 Registration ends January 21

MFA 211  The Art of Third Person

 

Classes starting January 26 Registration ends January 28

MFA 212  What is a Plot?

 

 

***F2K Free Creative Writing Course

 

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***Upcoming WVU Classes

 

Register now for upcoming December & January classes.

 

Classes Starting December 7 Registration ends December 10

B105 Punctuation, facilitated by Janet Smith

F126 Story Structures (and Everything In Between)

N108 Writing Articles Part 1

P100 Rhythmic Words: A Beginner's Guide to Poetic Forms

 

Classes Starting December 14 Registration ends December 17

B109 The Writer's Way to Creativity Part 2, facilitated by Janet Smith

F182 Writing Boosters - Story Starters #2  facilitated by Joni Zipp

F206 Writing the Screenplay – Part 1

N134 Writing and Marketing Magazine Articles

 

Classes Starting December 21 Registration ends December 24

B101 WVU Orientation, facilitated by Melissa Anne

C104 Comedy Workshop: Working With Jokes

F214 Worlds of Wonder

F102 Romance Writing Part C

 

Classes Starting December 28 Registration ends December 31

F212  Heroes and Heroines (Sixteen Master Archetypes)

N104 Writing Short Nonfiction Part 1

N118 Writing for Magazines Part 4, Prerequisite N116

P180 Poetry Triggers - Playing with Sound

 

Classes Starting January 4 Registration ends January 7

B172 Revision: Writing and Rewriting Fiction

F110 Where Creativity Lives

N104 Writing Short Non-Fiction Part 1

P126 Freeing the Poet Within

 

Classes Starting January 11 Registration ends January 14

F192 Writing Boosters - Plot Ideas

F168 Demystifying the Writing Process Part 1

N142 Journal-Keeping

P182 Poetry Triggers-Imagism

 

Classes Starting January 18 Registration ends January 21

B101 WVU Orientation, facilitated by Melissa Anne

B126 Lights, Camera...Wait a Minute, Where Are We?

F146 Let's Make a Scene

F188 Writing Boosters - Plot Limitations

 

Classes Starting January 25 Registration ends January 28

B130 Basics to Create Dynamic Characters

F202 Independent Novel Workshop

F236 Romancing the Plot Doctor

N140 Writing the Memoir

N106 Writing Short Nonfiction Part 2

 

 

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