A Question of Style ~ When To Use "That"

WritersDigest.com answers a few basic questions about writing style.

Writing Poetry ~ Helpful Guidelines

John Hewett, at Writer's Resource Center, compiled this list of suggestions which may help you to make your poems stronger and more memorable.

Anything You Say: Tips For Writing Effective Dialogue

Stephen D. Rogers, graduate of the Framingham Police Department's Citizen Police Academy and member of Mystery Writer's of America, Private Eye Writers of America and the Short Mystery Fiction Society, shares some informative guidelines and suggestions on writing dialogue for detective stories and mystery thrillers. Brush up on your Miranda rights and check them out.

Philip Levine Prize in Poetry

If you are not now, nor have never been a faculty member or student at Cal State University, Fresno, and have 48 to 80 pages of previously unpublished poetry that you can have in a binder clip and ready to be postmarked by September 20, 2007, gather those pages together along with a $25 entry fee and send them off to the Philip Levine Prize in Poetry for a chance to win $1500, publication and distribution by Anhinga Press, and 25 author copies.

Essay Contest: Make Us Want To Be You!!

The National Association of Baby Boomer Women and Funds For Writers is sponsoring the FFW annual essay contest with the theme: Make us want to be you. In 750 words or less, send them a remarkable promotional plan for your writing project, or tell them what you'd do with your writing career if you had a year to devote to your passion. You may choose whether or not to pay an entry fee. First prize with a $5 entry fee is $200, for no entry fee the first prize is $50. Deadline is October 31, 2007 and winners will be announced December 1, 2007.

Where Have You Been and What Was It Like?

TravelGlitter online ezine is looking for fun writers that are passionate about the places they visit. Their newsletter follows the same format every day: One city, one theme, and five things to do. If you've been somewhere you love enough to write between 300 to 500 words about, you may be able to gain $10 from your submission.

Abacot Journal Accepting Submissions of Prose Only

The Abacot Journal is looking for your best strange stories under 2,000 words for its inaugural issue.Weird is good, funny is good, dark is good. The deadline for the first issue, which will be online in January, 2008, is December 1, 2007. Check out their website for submission guidelines.