Bookmark This: DailyLit

Want something to read in a hurry? Check out DailyLit. You can read books and stories by the likes of James Patterson and Edgar Allan Poe — all in short installments. And of course, this being a Web site, you can build a profile and follow other readers, not to mention link into Twitter and get RSS feeds, etc. Oh, yeah, and follow the DailyLit Blog!

Who KNEW reading could be so, well, social?!

Natalie Goldberg Book Signing

Natalie Goldberg Book Signing

Congregation Beth Israel

Wednesday, April 1, 2009, 7 p.m.

Best selling author Natalie Goldberg shares her wisdom on writing and
life in her latest book, Old Friend From Faraway: The Practice of
Writing Memoir.

Goldberg’s ground-breaking book, Writing Down The Bones: Freeing The
Writer Within (1986), cracked open the world of creativity and started
a revolution in the way writing is practiced in America. The book has
sold over one million copies and been translated into fourteen
languages. Since then she has written nine other books, including the
novel Banana Rose.

For more information, call Jennifer Smith, 454-6806.

Kristy’s Magical Discovery

A few resources on grants, residencies, and general funding for writers: Mira’s List, Grants and Awards, Funds for Writers, Writers Market, and Poets & Writers.

Don’t forget that the League office is open to the public. We have plenty of writing space for the using!

Contest: American Short(er) Fiction

American Short Fiction loves short shorts! Its new contest highlights great work in shorter fiction–stories of 1,000 words or less.

First prize receives $500 and publication.

Second prize receives $250 and publication.

Deadline is May 1. Submissions accepted online via the ASF Submission Manager. For more, see the guidelines on the ASF Web site.

The Business of Writing

ResumeRX to the Rescue with Khotan Shahbazi-Harmon

2 pm – 5 pm, Saturdays, April 4 and 18

Writers’ League Office, 611 S. Congress Ave., Ste. 130, Austin

“ResumeRX” is back by popular demand! Khotan Shahbazi-Harmon is expanding “ResumeRX” into an interactive two-part session that will assist anyone writing or revising a resume in search of a new job, including writers and publishing professionals seeking to develop their own platform or pitch their books in the new economy.

Registration is still open! $99 members; $159 nonmebers.

Kristy’s Magical Discovery

Here are a few great resources I happen to love:

http://www.pw.org/toolsforwriters

http://www.everyonewhosanyone.com/

http://www.fictionfactor.com/articles/rights.html

There are WAY too many to list!

As I can’t abide my poor little city being overrun, I am fleeing for the coast (Port Aransas) on Thursday.  Feel free to envy me.

Opinionated: The Art and Craft of Op-Ed Commentary

A Master Class with Journalist, Evelyn C. White

9am – 1pm, Saturday, March 14

Writers’ League of Texas, 611 S. Congress Ave., Suite 130, Austin

Registration is still open!

Commentary is a perfect microcosm for exploring nonfiction writing. Journalist, Evelyn C. White, will lead students in producing a 600- to 700-word op-ed that can be submitted to newspapers following the class. Students are encouraged to bring an idea and a self-addressed, stamped envelope addressed to a newspaper. $99 WLT members; $159 nonmembers.

Don’t miss Evelyn’s other Austin appearances:

• International Women’s Day Lecture at UT, 5 p.m. Wednesday, March 11, Main Building, Room 212 (free)
• Talk on Alice Walker’s life and impact and book signing at BookWoman at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 15

Kristy’s Magical Discovery

This week I’m reading “All the Kings Men”  by Robert Penn Warren. It’s just too fantastic. It’s the kind of book you read slowly so it won’t end. I love it!

We had a critique group formation meeting in the office last night.  Three new groups…congealed…before my very eyes. It was a beautiful birth.