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Writing Contests are Important: How To Tell the Good Ones from the Scams

Writing Contests are Important: How To Tell the Good Ones from the Scams

Winning writing contests can build your self-esteem and raise your profile.  By C. Hope Clark, Founder of Funds for Writers. Writing contests sound simple enough. You enter and hope you win. Winners, however, take contests more earnestly, using them as a serious tool in their career. Contests represent opportunity, measure, and hope. FundsforWriters.com treats writing […]

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Why You Should be Writing Short Fiction

Why You Should be Writing Short Fiction

  by Anne R. Allen Update: I’m so pleased this post has had thousands of hits over the last year and is energizing so many writers to take up short fiction. But I fear a number of readers don’t read the whole piece and assume I’m telling newbie writers to self-publish their first efforts at […]

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