Word Pirates

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Hiya folks,
Are you ready to start fresh? Try out some new prompts and produce some new work? Then come to the Word Pirates meeting this Thursday at my house, 7 p.m.
Also: Marcia is bringing a tasty snack treat. Yay!
As usual, please let me know if you can’t make it.
~ Joy

If so, maybe you should enter this:
WIN $3,000 AND PUBLICATION
Prairie Schooner Book Prize Series
The 2007 Prairie Schooner Book Prize competition will award $3,000 and publication through the University of Nebraska Press to one book of poetry and one book of short fiction. A $1,000 prize will be awarded to a runner-up […]

According to the search results for this page, many people are throwing pirate-themed bashes. So I will help out those who are looking for ideas by telling you the recipe to the Pirate Cupcakes I made for our reading.

Pirate Cupcakes are rum cakes, of course. Originally I was going to make cupcakes from scratch, […]

I just happened upon this. I don’t think many Word Pirates write poetry, but hey, if you do, here’s a somewhat unpublicized contest:
The 2007 Prize For Poetry From The Tor House Foundation

The annual Tor House Prize for Poetry is a living memorial to American poet Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962).
The winner will receive $1,000 for […]

“Machine of Death,” an upcoming anthology of short stories, is looking for submissions. The book will feature stories that, well, sound very fun to write.
“The machine had been invented a few years ago: a machine that could tell, from just a sample of your blood, how you were going to die. It didn’t give you […]

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Hello Word Pirates,
Thanks for helping to make last night a smashing success. The positive feedback has been phenomenal. People are asking when the next one is!
There will be no meeting next week 2/15. (Let’s enjoy some well-deserved rest) The next meeting will be 3/1. Then we’ll hit the ground running with prompts again.
Until we meet […]

The Australian printed an article by Jenny Sinclair, who dislikes writing classes despite being currently enrolled in one right now:
EVERYWHERE I turn, it seems, I see advertisements for writing courses, writing workshops, writing weekends, writing holidays. All of them promise to help participants polish their prose and carve out their characters.
It should be stopped. […]