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Friday Find: Writing Competitions for College Students

by Erika Dreifus on
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It’s always terrific for me to bring my writing practice into my day job, and I recently had another opportunity to do so, when I contributed a handout on writing contests, internships, and similar opportunities for college students to a conference on honors education at our University. After the event, one of the conference attendees asked if she might post the handout on the Web for students to access more easily. I said yes, and then I thought I’d share the information with all of you (especially the teachers and students who read this blog) as well.

Sharing the PDF link directly doesn’t seem to be working, so here are the quick and easy directions:

1) Go to this page.
2) Scroll down the page to “Writing-related Competitions, Internships, Fellowships, and Other Awards.” Download the PDF.

That’s it! Enjoy, and have a great weekend.

Paying Essay Markets–E-book Giveaways!

by Erika Dreifus on
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I don’t know about you, but it seems to me that almost every day I’m reading about yet another magazine going out of business and/or a new set of media job layoffs. I thought it might be time for some good news–and some giveaways.

Here’s the news: This week I completed the latest semiannual update of our popular Directory of Paying Essay Markets. Although I did, sadly, have to remove a few listings, I also managed to add quite a few. So this e-directory now profiles more than 150 print, online, and anthology markets that publish their guidelines–AND PAY RATES–online. (You can read a preview with sample listings here.)

Moreover, to cheer us all up and inject a dose of financial optimism into the lives of the practicing essayists reading this blog, I’ll be giving away THREE copies of the new edition. Here’s how it will happen:

THREE Practicing Writing readers will win complimentary copies of our just-revised and updated Directory of Paying Essay Markets. Here are the giveaway rules:

1) To enter, please comment on THIS post (click on “comments” below). You might (but are not required to) share with us the essay market you would most love to crack, the one you’re proudest of appearing in, or the one you simply most enjoy reading.
2) Post your comment by 5 p.m. (Eastern time) Monday, November 17. One entry per person, please. Please note that comments on this blog are moderated and therefore will not appear instantly.
3) Three winners will be chosen with the help of a random number generator (or by asking my favorite human random number generator–my five-year-old niece) and announced on Tuesday morning, November 18.
4) NOTE: If you wish to be contacted by e-mail if you win, please include your e-mail address in your comment (example to help avoid having your address “harvested”: writer(at)yahoo(dot)com). Otherwise, you must check back on Tuesday to see if you won. Unclaimed prizes are forfeited after 48 hours.

Good luck!

The Wednesday Web Browser: A Crop of Congratulations

by Erika Dreifus on
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What a Wednesday! Here’s raising a virtual glass to the following Practicing Writer pals!

Congratulations to Tayari Jones, one of eight writers recently awarded a United States Artists Foundation grant.

And congratulations to Deonne Kahler, the new Editor-in-Chief of Ozone Park.

And on a happily related note, kudos to Lisa Romeo, a contributor to the debut issue of the aforementioned Ozone Park, who read from her work at Monday’s launch party.

Tom Kealey’s Creative Writing MFA Handbook (2008 edition)

by Erika Dreifus on
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This is pretty exciting. A revised and updated edition of Tom Kealey’s Creative Writing MFA Handbook is now available. And get this: It includes a contribution from me.

That’s right. The new version incorporates an essay penned by yours truly on “Choosing a Low-Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing” (see pp. 37-45) as part of a chapter on “What to Look for in a Creative Writing Program.”

And this edition features a lot of other new content. Check it out!

(And a public thank-you to Tom for asking me to pitch in.)