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Written by Mary Anne Donovan
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| October 19, 2004
A WriterOnLine Publication
Dear
Readers,
First, I want to thank you for all of your
emails in response to our first issue. We were truly overwhelmed
by your enthusiasm and kind words, and thankful for your
ideas and suggestions. Please keep your feedback coming! We have what we're pretty sure you'll think
is a fabulous line up of poetry, fiction, and articles
in this issue. First, reading Jodi
Rowland's poetry is like falling into a soft, down-filled
pillow. Then the anguish of a hard life on the farm is
captured in Lisa Marie Middendorf's short story, "1984
Move to the Farm." Grace Tierney makes the most
of the holiday by turning us onto writing for the season
in "Horror
Writing Contests." In her essay "A
Perfect Day for Writers," Mary Anne Hahn shares
the results of a workshop exercise she conducts with writing
students and the results may surprise you! Next. Regina
Allen gives us the scoop on how to assess the value of
writers' conferences in her article, "A
Time to Review: Assessing Conferences." And last
in the article line up is a great piece by Terrie Leigh
Relf on finding your writer's voice: "Is
That Your Voice That I Hear...?" In addition are our regular features including Debi
Staple's News column, Stephanie
Olsen's Paying Markets, and of course, our ever challenging Contest and Puzzle! Several of you wrote to ask about submitting
to Writer Online. We have developed Submission Guidelines
that you can access by clicking here. We are also looking for a Technical Writing
Editor to join our staff. If you have publication and practical
experience in the profession of technical writing, please
email me at editor@writeronline.us There you have it for this issue, hope you
enjoy it. Happy Ghost and Goblin day. Keep those keyboards clicking and ink flowing. Until next issue
Mary Anne Donovan
Chief Editor/WriterOnLine 
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Poetry
by  Jodi
Rowland
Showcase: Two poems, "Sinking in the Sky Water," and "The
Breath of Life," by young poet Jodi Rowland... More Fiction: 1984 Move to
the Farm
by Lisa
Marie Middendorf
I do not recall a life without labor. My arms, my legs have
grown strong to bear the weight of this work, yet my breath
is weightless, finding its own natural rhythm within my busy
footsteps. I no longer think of the things I am missing,
for now I know I am blessed to lack... More
Horror
Writing Contests - or How to Scare
People and Win Prizes for It
by Grace
Tierney
Do you love scary movies? Does your bookcase groan under
the weight of the collected works of Stephen King? Do you
think you can make readers jump at the sight of their own
shadow or begin to wonder if ghosts, vampires, and werewolves
really exist? Then at this spooky time of year you need to
be considering horror writing contests... More
A
Perfect Day for Writers
by Mary
Anne Hahn
In one of the exercises in my "Getting
Started as a Freelance Writer" workshop,
I ask participants to describe what a "perfect
day" would be like for them. The responses
are frequently tender, wistful and unfailingly
vivid... More A
Time to Review: Assessing Conferences
by Regina
Allen
Just as it’s important to
decide how many conferences to attend within
a year, it’s also important to assess
past conferences to see if you want to attend
them again... More
Is
That Your Voice That I Hear…?
Some Thought on the Writer's Voice
by Terrie
Leigh Relf
I remember when I first started taking writing classes
and the discussion would inevitably turn to writers
voice. “You need to develop your voice,” they’d
say, or “here is a writer whose voice isn’t
consistent,” or “this writer has obviously
not developed her voice yet.”... More
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San Francisco Writers Conference Adds Several
Major Authors to its 2005 List of Presenters
The 2005 San Francisco Writers Conference
is offering an extraordinary 3-day program taught by
a faculty of best selling authors, agents, and editors
from the West Coast and New York... More
Judges Select Finalists
for the National Book Awards
Books are highlighted when author and radio
show host Garrison Keillor announced the finalists
for the National Book Awards during a ceremony Wednesday,
Oct. 13, 2004 in St. Paul, Minn. USA... More Smithsonian Plans Cuts
in Publishing
The Smithsonian Institution is dismantling Smithsonian
Books, a widely respected publishing division of the
museum and research complex that dates back 156 years... More EdinbuRgh Named World’s
First City of Literature
The Scots have had Edinburgh named as the world's
first City of Literature by the United Nations' cultural
body Unesco. It’s a decision that will surprise
other cities which claim to know all about literature,
Dublin included... More 9/11 Commission Nominated
for Top US Literary Award
The account by the US government's 9/11 Commission
of the September 11th, 2001 attacks became a surprise
bestseller with more than a million copies sold... More Noble Prize for Literature
Awarded
Elfriede Jelinek, the Austrian novelist and
playwright, has been awarded this year's Nobel Prize
for Literature... More Is Publishing a Kind
of War ?
During this last Buchmesse in Frankfurt, the
largest in the world, it was Arabic all over. It was
a choice that generated a lot of discussion, but the
German Chancellor, Mr. Gerhard Schroeder, called it
a wonderful initiative to host the Arabic countries... More
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It's election time in the USA and the whole world is a watching!
The debates are over. We're down to the wire, and it's
going to be a proverbial fight to the finish!! Enter our
President in 50 Words or Less Contest and see if your candidate
wins!... More
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It was a dark and stormy night…..lions, and tigers,
and bears, oh my!! She lay shivering in her bed as the creaking
got closer, and closer, and….Be one with the spooks
and come into our chamber to try your hand at deciphering
the titles of some of the scariest movies of all times... More |
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