Showing posts with label writing contest. Show all posts
Showing posts with label writing contest. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 8, 2025

Insecure Writer’s Support Group and Reedsy Creative Writing Prompts


It’s time for another group posting of the Insecure Writer’s Support Group! Time to release our fears to the world – or offer encouragement to those who are feeling neurotic. If you’d like to join us, click on the tab above and sign up. We post the first Wednesday of every month. I encourage everyone to visit at least a dozen new blogs and leave a comment. Your words might be the encouragement someone needs.

The awesome co-hosts for the January 8 posting of the IWSG are Rebecca Douglass, Beth Camp, Liza @ Middle Passages, and Natalie @ Literary Rambles!

January 8 question - Describe someone you admired when you were a child. Did your opinion of that person change when you grew up?

Looking forward to your answers.

Reedsy Creative Writing Prompts Takeover!


The IWSG is taking over Reedsy’s Creative Writing Prompts this week. There is $250.00 at stake!

For our takeover, we’ve created five prompts to kickstart your post-holiday reflection and creativity. We can’t wait to read what you come up with! As a bonus prize, the winner of this contest will be given the opportunity to be featured as a guest on the IWSG blog; share their take on a subject about writing, and introduce their books in print or any works in progress.!

Prompts:
1. Center your story around someone who receives a gift or message that changes their life forever.
2. Create a character who is spending their first holiday alone.
3. Set your story in a place where everything should be familiar to your character(s) but isn’t.
4. Write about an unexpected guest who changes the traditional get-together.
5. Write a story that includes the line “I should have known better.”

Contest ends in a couple days, so hop on over to Reedsy’s Creative Writing Prompts now!


Did your admiration change? Entering Reedsy’s contest? Who is ready for a shiny new year and new goals?

Wednesday, January 2, 2019

IWSG Anthology Contest Winners and #IWSGPit

It’s time for another group posting of the Insecure Writer’s Support Group! Time to release our fears to the world – or offer encouragement to those who are feeling neurotic. If you’d like to join us, click on the tab above and sign up. We post the first Wednesday of every month. I encourage everyone to visit at least a dozen new blogs and leave a comment. Your words might be the encouragement someone needs.

The awesome co-hosts today are Patricia Lynne, Lisa Buie-Collard, Kim Lajevardi, and Fundy Blue!


Today’s optional question - What are your favorite and least favorite questions people ask you about your writing?


The #IWSGPit Twitter pitch is once a year now – and the next one is on January 15!.
Hundreds of agents and publishers will be checking the hashtag that day.
For rules and list of genre hashtags, visit the #IWSGPit page.
The IWSG Admins will be monitoring the feed. Get those Twitter pitches ready – you have two weeks!


The WEP Challenges for the year:
(Ignore the listing in the newsletter.)




IWSG Anthology Contest Winners

The big moment everyone has been waiting for – the announcement of the IWSG winners. Here are the stories and authors that have been selected for our fourth anthology:

Oddly Suited by LG Keltner
Sea of Sorrows by AV Brown
Behind the Catcher’s Mask by Jennifer Lane
A Diver’s Ball by Angela Brown
Fearless Heart by Deborah Solice
The Dark Charade by CD Gallant-King
The Cog Prince by Elizabeth Mueller
Flower of Ronda by Myles Christensen
Remedy by Chelsea Ballard
Charleston Masquerade by Carrie-Anne Brownian

The top story has the honors of being included in the title. LG Keltner’s story came out on top! The official title of our next anthology – Masquerade: Oddly Suited. Congratulations, LG. (She was also in the top spot for our first anthology, Parallels: Felix Was Here.)

The IWSG Admins spent many hours reading the entries and fourteen were sent to our special judges. We certainly wish to thank them for taking time away from their own work to read the entries:

Elizabeth S. Craig, author
Kelly Van Sant, agent at Red Sofa Literary Agency
Elana Johnson, author
DL Hammons, Write Club founder
S.A. Larsen, author
Kristin Smith, author
Gwen Gardner, author and previous IWSG anthology winner

Look for Masquerade: Oddly Suited late spring!


Are you ready for #IWSGPit? What genre should we tackle next for the IWSG Anthology Contest? (We’ve had science fiction, fantasy, mystery/crime/thriller, and young adult.)