Opportunities
Constantly updated news listings here will keep you abreast of creative writing contests and workshops open to people in our area. The links on the right side of this page take you directly to the sites of other literary organizations in the Carolinas.


Pamper your inner poet

The Spartanburg Writing Project at the University of South Carolina Upstate hold its fourth annual Pamper Your Inner Poet Writing Marathon on Saturday, October 17 from 9:00 a.m. to 12 noon on the USC Upstate campus. This event is being held as part of theCelebration of National Day of Writing, held on October 20, which explores and celebrate the integral role writing has in each of our lives.

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Have your poetry read aloud
Cinnaminta is a free online service which enables you to request your poems, original writing, celebrations, acts of remembrance, prayers, messages or anything else to be read out aloud in places around the world which are special for you but which you cannot easily visit. Cinnaminta allows you to choose a reader or offer to be a reader for someone else and enables a multi-media recording of the reading to be shared, free, with friends and family or, if appropriate, the whole world.
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Polishing Your Picture Book One-Day Conference
Are you interested in writing for children? The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators Carolinas chapter is hosting a one-day conference to be held in Beaufort SC on May 2! So far, attendees are coming from NC, SC, GA, and even Ohio. There are still a few slots available for the body of the conference and for editor critiques.
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2008 Chapbook Contest
Submit your chapbook manuscripts for the 4th annual Chapbook Contest! Submissions for the USC's South Carolina Poetry Initiative Chapbook Contest are being accepted now through September 30th, 2008.
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Submissions for Christmas Anthology

 

Excalibur Press, a new press run by Linda Busby Parker, is taking well-written Christmas story submissions (fiction or non-fiction) for a new annual anthology, Christmas Is A Season: 2008.

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Poets Summit Meeting
The S.. Poetry Initiative announces the 2008 Poets Summit on Sept. 20 in Columbia, featuring Naomi Shahib Nye.
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MUSC seeks poetry submissions for new building
South Carolina's Poet Laureate, Marjory Wentworth, and a committee of faculty and staff at the Medical University of South Carolina have been engaged to acquire work by SC poets for public spaces in a new MUSC medical facility Accepted poems will be included in a chapbook that will be available to patients and staff. Selected lines, phrases and poems will be displayed in select areas of the building. Deadline June 15, 2008 and $200 for accepted poems.
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Words of Love - Deadline March 30
The deadline is March 30, 2008 for the Asheville Writers Workshop's "Words of Love" writing contest.
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Asheville Writers Workshop offers classes

The following classes for beginning and experienced writers are offered by The Writers' Workshop. Registration is in advance since class size is limited, either online ( www.twwoa.org ), or by mail: The Writers' Workshop, 387 Beaucatcher Rd., Asheville, NC, 28805.

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Scholarship offered to women in the arts
The Emrys Foundation is seeking applicants for its Alice Conger Patterson
Scholarship.  This award encourages South Carolina women to pursue
continuing education in the arts.  Women 35 years of age or older, who are
South Carolina residents and U.S. citizens, are eligible.  Applications are
accepted from individuals only:  groups, organizations, and businesses may
not apply. 
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