Poetry should come from the heart, says contest winner
INTERVIEW | By The Chapter & Verse Team » Poetry should come from the heart, says a woman who should know.
Lynda Anaya recently won the 2nd Annual Women Inspirational Poetry Contest, organized by Toronto poet Oneal Walters, for her entry Upon a Wing and a Smile.
She beat out two other excellent works by Alison Clarke (who took second spot with Sister Moon) and Kimberlee Edgecomb, who had the third-place poem, Cisterns of Love.
"You cannot go wrong if you write from the heart," said Anaya. "If you spill your emotions upon the page, your words will be believable and others will relate to you based on their own experiences in life. I believe that a true poet's words flow from the heart."
NEWS | By The Chapter & Verse Team » Lynda Anaya has won the 2nd Annual Women Inspirational Poetry Contest, organized by Toronto poet Oneal Walters.
Her entry, titled Upon a Wing and a Smile, beat out two other excellent works by Alison Clarke (who took second spot with Sister Moon) and Kimberlee Edgecomb, who had the third-place poem, Cisterns of Love.
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Cash In On Your Rejected Work
RESOURCES | By Jim Green » Even established authors get the thumbs down from publishers on submission of new work. I should know because despite having 37 traditionally published titles under my belt, I have around a dozen still unpublished.
Here's what I did, and you can do it too if you'd like to cash in on your rejected non-fiction works:
Take the strongest and the best piece of advice from the selected tome
Convert it into a PDF file, and just give it away!
By Farzana Doctor » I’ve been thinking alot about the Canadian publishing industry and how I wish more people would support Canadian writers.
Here is a little tip sheet I created. I wrote an earlier version of this when my novel Stealing Nasreen first came out (and friends and family asked what they could do to help – and it was so heartwarming how they came through for me).
NEWS | By The Chapter & Verse Team » You can bet it will be one of the hottest gifts for Christmas 2009: Amazon's Kindle is finally available to Canadians.
In an announcement on its website, Amazon.com said it will now ship the Kindle 2 to customers in Canada, about a month after making it available to 100 other countries.
The main reason for the delay was reportedly because Amazon had not yet struck a deal with a wireless carrier in Canada to allow it to deliver wireless content to the Kindle. There was no comment from Amazon whether such a deal was now in place.
The popular ebook reader - Amazon's bestselling product - is priced at US$259, but Canadians will have to pay for shipping plus taxes, which will bump up the price to about US$311. Given the current strength of the loonie, it is a good deal with the conversion working out to about C$330.
RESOURCES | By Catherine Johnson » One of the first things writers seeking agency representation should learn is that legitimate agents donot charge author fees. These include agents who charge reading fees simply to read your manuscript; evaluation fees to review your manuscript; agents who require writers to pre-purchase books; or pay some of the publication and/or marketing costs.
There are a host of agent scams preying on authors desperate to see their book in print. One of the absolute best resources on the Internet regarding questionable agent practices can be found on the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) site under the section called "Writer Beware". SFWA is constantly researching and updating the Writer Beware area to help educate authors and avoid the endless writer-related scams.
RESOURCES | By Jennifer A Swanson » So you think you have the Next Great Novel rolling around in your head? Well, why not? Everyone can write. It doesn't take a lot of money (which is a plus in this economy) and it doesn't take a lot of time, right?
Well, let's think about that last one. While it is certainly possible to write a novel in a few weeks, (ever heard of the 30-day challenge), most of us can't sit down and write all day, every day. Instead, we have to fit our writing time into the chaos that is our life. This usually means that we don't write at all or at very odd hours of the morning.
RESOURCES | By Joe Nassise » How exactly does a book get accepted? And what happens after that? These are two important aspects you need to understand if you want to make a living as a novelist.
When I first started out the entire process was a bit of a mystery to me and it is something that comes up time and time again whenever I teach a workshop or make a convention appearance. So I thought I'd give a short primer on the steps from proposal to publication.
RESOURCES | By Cheryl Antao-Xavier » Of all the how-to’s I’ve heard on getting the creative juices flowing, jumpstarting the Muse, the one that stuck in this otherwise transient memory is something a writing teacher at Ryerson insisted upon: “Keep a journal!” he said. Or otherwise don’t come to my class is what he implied.
Every day we had to pen a paragraph, a page, or if really inspired—a full-blown article, about something, anything that we saw, felt, experienced, thought off during the day. There had to be an entry for each day, even if you sat the night before the class and wrote out seven entries.
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