Gemini Link Now Active

Thanks to Laura for bringing a broken link to my attention.

The link to the Gemini Magazine short story contest is now working.

Short Story Contest Accepting Entries

David Bright, editor of the online GeminiMagazine has announced the third annual Gemini Magazine Short Story Contest. The Grand Prize is $1,000. Second place wins $100 and there will also be three honorable mentions.

Content, style, genre and length are unrestricted. The five finalists will be published online in the June 2012 issue of Gemini.

The entry [...]

Presidential Researcher Speaks to HS Village Writers Jan. 23

Arkansas author Carla Killough McClafferty will share how she researched her book about George Washington with the Hot Springs Village Writers’ Club on Monday, January 23, at the Home Plate Café, 5110 North Highway 7, in Hot Springs Village.

The Many Faces of George Washington

McClafferty describes her book, The Many Faces of George Washington: Remaking a [...]

County Coroner Opens 2012 for WhoDunits

Washington County Coroner Roger Morris will be the featured speaker at the January 14 meeting of the WhoDunits reading group at noon at Restaurant On The Corner in Fayetteville, 3582 N. Hwy 112

Business to be addressed at this meeting will include the payment of dues and the election of officers.  Those nominated for 2012 are: [...]

Military Writers of America Honor Arkansas Author Elizabeth Foster

Elizabeth Carroll Foster

Author Elizabeth Carroll Foster, Arkansas native and member of the Hot Springs Village Writers’ Club, was honored by the Military Writers of America in their Dispatches publication as Author of the Month for December for her memoir, Follow Me: The Life and Adventures of a Military Family.

The National Association of Professional Women, [...]

Sign up now for 2012 MWG Conference

Registration for the Missouri Writers’ Guild’s 2012 Write Time! Write Place! Write Now! Conference in Chesterfield, Missouri is open. Conference dates: April 20—22, 2012. If you’re planning to go, you can save money by registering before the end of December.

Early Bird registration ends on December 31. After that, rates will go up $25.

Early Bird Rates
Missouri [...]

Contest Deadlines

Oklahoma Writers’ Federation, Inc. (OWFI)
The 2012 OWFI conference (May 3-5) is almost half a year away, but the deadline for contest entries is February 1, 2012. Check the website for rules and detailed category information.

Gemini Magazine
The deadline for the Third Annual Gemini Magazine Short Story Contest is March 31, 2012. Take a shot at the [...]

The Steampunk Genre

The fiction genre “steampunk” is a new one on [...]

Mary Larmoyeux Featured Speaker at HS Village

Author Mary Larmoyeux featured speaker for November 28 meeting of Hot Springs Village Writers’ [...]

White County NaNo in Full Swing for 2011

The White County NaNo writing group is again at work, racing the clock to produce novels in thirty days. NaNo refers to National Novel Writing Month.

NaNoWriMo was founded by Chris Baty in July 1999. Twenty other people participated that year, all from the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2010, 200,000 writers took part from all over [...]