Links from my Good Stuff Folder

After checking my DBP (Donna's Book Pub) folder where I store my "good stuff" to be read --- articles, blog posts, announcements, writing tips, and the like --- I found it chocked full of, how shall I put it, Oh, yeah--amazingly good stuff.

Most of it is too good to keep to myself, so I thought I would share with you all.

Here goes:

NW Christian Writers has some helpful hints on "Preparing your Writer's Notebook."

You can find tons of helpful information and advice on the WOW! Women on Writing blog, "The Muffin," including Cathy C. Hall's May 16 article "The First Page," in which she shares what she learned during a panel's first-page critique session.

If you're a children's writer or illustrator wanting to learn from the tops in the industry, check out the Highlights Foundation's schedule of Upcoming Workshops, which includes "Books that Rise Above."

The fee-based Aesthetica Creative Writing Competition for poetry and short fiction is open for entries.

Poets and Writers blog has posted an interview with "Bill Clegg on Being Both an Agent and an Author."

Write Integrity Press is sponsoring a fee-based "Books of Hope" manuscript contest where "you could win cash and publication," including a three-book contract.

If you're looking for writing prompts to get you started writing, check out The Write Practice.

That's all for now, folks. I'm heading out for lunch with friends at the Boat House in Forest Park. If my camera cooperates I might have some photos to share.

Hope your day is chocked full of good stuff -- but take time to write!

Today in St. Peters, MO: High 60 degrees.

Can you believe it's December already? I can't. This year, Christmas is at my house, so I'll be busy--like everyone else--but I wanted to post some contest listings from Poets and Writers with deadlines this month.

Here's a link to their submission calendar, which lists more than 55 contests for December.

Good luck!
Donna

Small Presses Looking for Submissions

Today's forecast for St. Peters, MO: My weather link is down, so I can't offer an "official" forecast today. But when I was outside earlier it was drizzling.

From the May 26th Poets and Writers newsletter comes an invitation to visit the Poets and Writers Small Press database, which lists 147 small presses looking for submissions.

Among the presses is Cherry Pie Press, whose Midwest Women Poets Series publishes poetry chapbooks of new and established women poets whose lives or poetry ground them in the American Midwest. This chapbook series aims at uncovering the innovative possibilities of a voice that is female, central, and pivotal.