3 Days of Free Screenings at LACMA

If you've been wanting to do a little catching up on Latin America Cinema, now's your chance. LACMA's showing 9 films this weekend, August 24 through 26, all totally free. Scroll down below the bio of Katherine Hepburn, (sadly, that tribute to her has already ended), for movie details and showtimes.

Colorado Writers Workshop

We just got an email from the folks over at the Colorado Writers Workshop and they still have a few spots open for the Sept. 19-23 Colorado Writers Workshop at Boulder's Chautauqua, and they asked us to pass the info along to y'all. "This year's fiction event features Janis Hallowell (Annunciation of Francesca Dunn, Pigs & Fishes). Our groups are good, the atmosphere supportive and the lodging is wonderful at Chautauqua's Missions House. For information see www.coloradowritersworkshop.blogspot.com or contact Tara at flanaganatlarge@yahoo.com."

Change the Ending!

Here's a contest that sounds like fun: have you ever read one of those great literary works, rooting all the way for the protagonist to triumph, only to be led to a less-than-cheerful denouement? The Happy Tales Literary Contest will allow you to change that! Take any work with a sad, disturbing, or negative ending, and supply a happy, affirmative, uplifting, humorous ending. There's not much time; the deadline's August 31, 2007, but there's no fee.

2007 Wabash Prize For Poetry

There's plenty of time to polish up your three best poems - the deadline for Sycamore Review's Wabash Poetry Contest isn't until October 15, 2007. First prize is $1000 and publication in the Winter/Spring 2008 issue, and entries of honorable mention may be considered for publication also. There's a $10 reading fee for up to 3 poems, and $3 for each additional poem.

Write what you know?

Some times we get cocky, and write about things that we really have little knowledge of, and beware, someone will notice. Here's a little piece where someone noticed. It reminds me of how nice the windows are in those ivory towers, but the view is always better when you bother to go outside. Enjoy The Worst Op-Ed Ever Written?

Backspace All-Agent Seminar

This one is in NY, and what better excuse to hang out in that fabulous city for a weekend. Plus a day. Or two. Or three.

Backspace All-Agent Seminar: "The Backspace Agent-Author Seminars are TWO intense, one-day, back-to-back programs of panels and workshops designed to educate and assist authors in search of a literary agent to represent their work."

You think your poetry is bad?

It's all relative, so they say. Good poetry, bad poetry, to "I can't believe that's poetry." The deadline is today, so get out your flower pens and dust off your teenage love letters. If you don't make it, at least you can check out all the wannabes that have. Check out the new Slate Bad Poetry Contest, you may already be a winner!