It’s Picture Prompt Monday. This prompt may be used as a writing warm up or as a writing prompt for a classroom assignment. What’s the best story you can write about this picture? If you’d like to share, you may post the link to your story in a comment to this post or on Twitter [...]
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Literal Latte Fiction Writing Contest Entry Fee: $10.00 Deadline: January 15, 2010 Guidelines: http://www.literal-latte.com/contests/#fiction_awards Literal Latte offers several contests each year. It’s a highly competitive literary magazine that looks for high quality work. It’s also one of the last bastions of snail mail submissions, with no electronic submissions allowed. So in addition to the nominal [...]
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Contest: Esquire Fiction Contest Entry Fee: FREE Deadline: August 1, 2009 Guidelines: http://www.esquire.com/fiction/fiction-contest Esquire magazine has launched a new online site and to celebrate they are hosting a fiction contest. Choose one of three titles as a theme for your story. The titles are: 1) Twenty-Ten 2) An Insurrection 3) Never, Ever Bring This Up [...]
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This has to be the best book on research based strategies for improving student learning and achievement that I’ve read, ever. This book by the well known and well respected Robert Marzano guides the reader through nine categories of teaching strategies. He includes meta-analyses of thousands of research studies showing the effectiveness of each strategy. [...]
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When a person first sets out to write a novel, one of the first revelations is that it’s an entirely different animal than a short story. It’s not just a short story with added details and action. Some basic novel writing tips will guide the writer to success. The way a novel is constructed [...]
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Everyone knows that kids love to play games. You can use math games in the classroom to reinforce multiplication, division, addition, subtraction, decimals, fractions, and just about any skill you teach. Here are five of the students’ favorite games I use in my classroom. Most popular game: Multiplication POW! This game reinforces multiplication math facts. [...]
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Entry Fee: $10 Deadline: February 28, 2009 or after the first 300 entries, whichever comes first, so HURRY! Guidelines: http://www.wow-womenonwriting.com/contest.php This popular contest has now gotten so big that they are limiting the number of entries to 300. If you’re interested in submitting a short story to this contest, enter now, before it closes. The [...]
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I’ve decided to put the writing contests into categories by month. I think that will make searching for a contest simpler. The pages for seasonal and year round contests will stay up, so you can always search those, but I won’t be updating them anymore. Now, to search for a contest, use the categories on [...]
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Whatever your hopes, dreams, goals, and wishes for the new year, I wish you success and all the best. May all your teaching and writing dreams come true.
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