February 2025 Newsletter

Welcome to The Write Spot Newsletter about writing events and writerly tips.

Hello,

Gong hei fat choy! Happy Chinese New Year! 2025 is the year of the snake.

Click on 12 Chinese Zodiac Signs to find your animal sign and characteristics. Do a freewrite about your zodiac sign.

WRITERS FORUM

March 11: Matthew Félix
March 18: Christine Walker
April 15 and 22: Rebecca Evans

The Big Brick Review 2025 Essay Contest
Submissions
Contest deadline: March 31, 2025
The Big Brick Review seeks personal essays that build on the narrative of our lives, finding new insight to old struggles . . . old insight to new struggles . . . and all shades-of-gray in between.

One of the judges is someone you might know, Susan Bono, a writing teacher whose collected essays, “What Have We Here: Essays about Keeping House and Finding Home” and is a great example of exemplary personal essays. Available wherever books are sold.

Brevity Blog
“We’re always impressed and sometimes surprised by what arrives in The Brevity Blog inbox. An interesting, informative and inspiring conversation about creative nonfiction writing has developed and continues to flow, thanks to you. Still, we’re often asked, 'What are you looking for on the Blog?' As 2025 arrives, we collectively set about to answer that question.”

A Letter to the Brevity Blog Community—Our Editors’ Wish List

Wordrunner eChapbooks 
Call for anthology submissions is now open with a deadline of February 28, 2025.
Prose collection submissions will be open from May 1 through June 30, 2025.

Just Write!

Marlene

 

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