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Category Archive for ‘Opportunities’

The Freelance Writing Jobs Network

Written by Iain Broome on Mar 01, 2010 | 1 Comments

The Freelance Writing Jobs Network is a great resource for all writers who make a living from their freelance from work or who want to start doing as much: “Welcome to Freelance Writing Jobs, a blog network and community for freelance writers. “Sit back, relax, pour yourself a cuppa whatever gets you through the day, [...]

The Society of Authors

Written by Iain Broome on Feb 03, 2010 | 1 Comments

An essential for all published authors: “The Society of Authors has been serving the interests of professional writers for more than a century. Today it has more than 8,500 members writing in all areas of the profession. Whatever your specialisation, from novelists to doctors, textbook writers to ghost writers, broadcasters to academics, illustrators to translators, [...]

Life123 Writers Community

Written by Iain Broome on Dec 16, 2009 | 0 Comments

A freelance writing community: “Our Web site is a collective of expert content sourced from Experts, Editors, and You. We exist to help people quickly find information on a wide range of life topics. If you have expertise to share, value quality writing, and want to showcase your knowledge we’d like you to contribute to our Web [...]

Silverwood Books

Written by Iain Broome on Dec 15, 2009 | 0 Comments

SilverWood Books offers professional publishing services for individuals and organisation – from manuscript appraisal and prep for submission to agents and mainstream publishers, through to self-publishing packages. We’d be delighted to help you with your next project.

Smashwords

Written by Iain Broome on Dec 01, 2009 | 0 Comments

From the site: ‘Welcome to Smashwords! Smashwords is an ebook publishing and distribution platform for ebook authors, publishers and readers. We offer multi-format, DRM-free ebooks, ready for immediate sampling and purchase, and readable on any e-reading device. ‘At Smashwords, our authors and publishers have complete control over the sampling, pricing and marketing of their written [...]

Poets & Writers

Written by Iain Broome on Nov 26, 2009 | 0 Comments

Poets & Writers is a US-based site with tools for writing, an exhaustive list of literary magazines, contests, and other opportunities, and general information about the US market. Many contests, grants, and awards do not specify US residents only, so this would be relevant to writers in other English-speaking countries.

Sixty Minute Story

Written by Iain Broome on Nov 25, 2009 | 0 Comments

The Sixty Minute Story is a new story form, designed for modern day fast-moving lifestyles – where the story is designed to fit neatly within a single hour of reading – which readers can discover and download straight to their mobile reading device. The website SixtyMinuteStory.com provides information and tips on how writers can publish [...]

floreatbooks

Written by Iain Broome on Nov 16, 2009 | 0 Comments

floreatbooks helps authors design, edit, publish and market their books. We believe in offering writers a route to market that takes the best from both the traditional and self-publishing industries. Our website and blog also contains loads of information and tips on how to get published.

A Blogger’s Books

Written by Iain Broome on Nov 09, 2009 | 1 Comments

The blog provides lists of sites to which writers can submit their work. It also lists helpful writing sites that cater for writers/bloggers and resourceful articles for people in the publishing industry. The posts themselves (about 2-3 a week) deal with the writer’s news, books, releases, and hosts a follow friday (blogs) weekly.

Write This Moment

Written by Iain Broome on Nov 06, 2009 | 0 Comments

WriteThisMoment.com features listings of the latest paying writing jobs and opportunities. The website was established in 2004 and offers a service much valued by its members.

Inner Circle Publishing

Written by Iain Broome on Nov 03, 2009 | 0 Comments

We invite authors of all genres – specialize in poetry, spiritual, but also fiction, non-fiction, biographical as well. in our 10 years we have created writers dreams to be published. We have worldwide distribution via Ingram (the largest) and marketing for all our publications.

Deep Underground Poetry

Written by Iain Broome on Nov 01, 2009 | 0 Comments

From the site: “Deep Underground is all about bringing poetry to a new audience. Sound interesting? Then I’m glad you’re here. Whether you already write poetry or lyrics, or you just want to read other peoples.”

Fictionaut

Written by Iain Broome on Oct 29, 2009 | 0 Comments

Fictionaut is a vibrant literary community that is opening exciting new possibilities for short fiction and poetry. Part self-selecting magazine, part community network, Fictionaut is a way for readers to discover new voices and for writers to share their work, gain recognition, and connect with their audience and each other.

Ficly

Written by Iain Broome on Oct 13, 2009 | 0 Comments

Ficly is a writing website and critique community focusing on creativity. We impose a limit of 1,024 characters because we think constraints are good. They make you choose your words more carefully. They also make it less daunting than starting at a never-ending blank screen in a word processor. All you have to do is [...]

Paragraph Planet

Written by Iain Broome on Oct 05, 2009 | 0 Comments

Paragraph Planet invites submissions of 75 words. This may a short-short story, a description of a moment or an extract from a novel. A different paragraph is featured on the home page every day, and there are also archived submissions and author pages to find out more about the contributors.

Critters

Written by Iain Broome on Oct 01, 2009 | 0 Comments

Critters is an online workshop/critique group for serious Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror writers. It has over 10,000 members and more than 250,000 critiques have run through the system. Any kind of work may be submitted, short stories, screenplays, poetry, etc, and there is a special ‘request for dedicated readers’ option just perfect for getting [...]

Writer’s Planner

Written by Iain Broome on Sep 15, 2009 | 0 Comments

A site for logging what you’ve written, where you’ve sent it, where you plan to send it, and what responses you’ve gotten. Can also set it to send you email reminders to follow up on pieces.

Writers’ Centre Norwich

Written by Iain Broome on Sep 10, 2009 | 0 Comments

Writers’ Centre Norwich is a literature development agency based in Norwich. We are interested in both the artistic and social impact of creative writing, and work with writers, readers and diverse communities on a wide range of ongoing and one off projects and events.  We work locally, regionally, nationally and internationally, and have developed productive [...]

Urbis

Written by Iain Broome on Aug 12, 2009 | 0 Comments

Urbis is a community of creative people that offers sophisticated tools to help advance creativity and expose it to an audience.

Likestarlings

Written by Iain Broome on Aug 04, 2009 | 0 Comments

Likestarlings is a place for talking in poems and pictures. We pair poets with poets and photographers with photographers. Each pair produces a sequence of new works responding in turn to one another. Our palaver blog goes beyond poetry and photography to discuss collaboration in theory and in practice in a wide range of places.