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140 Character Writing Contest
What can you do with 140 letters, spaces and punctuation marks? How many (or how few) words does it take to tell a story? The creative impulse sometimes tells us to get it all down on the page – to hold nothing back and keep the expression flowing. But the muse can also work in the reverse - carefully sculpting and shaping – finding just the right word or a new way to say the same thing. Each word is a hinge that can alter a sentence.
Gotham Writers’ Workshop is hosting a contest to see what exciting fiction, non fiction or poetry people can create with 140 characters or less. Join in and inspire us.
Poetry for the People
The approach of another gray winter day reminds me that poetry is not an accessory, it is a necessity.
A year ago, I had the opportunity to take a poetry course with Sage Cohen who helped me uncover poetry in unlikely places.
Sage is the author of “Like the Heart, the World” and the forthcoming book “Writing the Life Poetic” from Writers Digest Books.
She is offering a scholarship for her Poetry for the People class which starts March 11. The deadline for the scholarship is February 15th.
I <3 Blogging Design Contest
WordPress is sponsoring a design contest. Deadline is March 31, 2009.
Even if you don’t enter the contest – you can still scratch out some ideas. The theme is “I <3 Blogging!” Is this true for you and how would you express it? How have computers and the internet made your life more creative? How have they made your life less creative?
recycled art contest
Kiwi magazine is sponsoring a recycled art contest.
Getting ready to toss something out - reinvision it as art.
The contest deadline is May 30, 2009.
For inspiration you can visit:
- The Imagination Factory’s Trash Matcher
- “How can I recycle this?”: creative ideas for reusing and recycling random stuff
- Loran Scruggs - more of her imaginative creations like the one above
Kiwi is also making donations to World Vision when you become a subscriber.
