Lit Up! Vol. V

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:lightbulb: Have you heard about these :new: contests?

:thumb283924961: (Ends Feb. 29) The Village Bicycle Project
The Village Bicycle Project

Pet projects. Groups, prompts, contests, news serials. We all have them, whether it be one, or two, or ten if we've got a premium membership and a largesse of time. We start them for various reasons: to make a change for the better, to provide an opportunity that wasn't there before, or simply to make our mark on this wide and diverse community. Of course, it wasn't always like this. When I was first kicking around deviantART, News was still in beta (heck, beta-testing was still in beta) and Groups were nothing more than a glint in the ninja milkman's eye. What few projects there were were run out of the forums, individual journals or dedicated accounts, while the vast majority of contests came directly from the Gallery Directors. But now, thanks to these new features, anyone can be a community volunteer. You might not get the hat or the tacit permission to fling poop or rend innocents with your dinosaur teeth, but you are a community volu
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:lightbulb: Apparently, thorns and inknalcohol's one-shot contest involved :poo:. Which of course meant that :shithitsthefan:.

Operation Thank You Poop! - CLOSEDContest is closed! Thank you for all the wonderful participation! :eager:
If you forgot, you can still send your note to inknalcohol as long as you've already flung poop at the targets.
Give us a couple days to sort out the results and expect a post on Tuesday at the latest.
thorns and inknalcohol
Community Volunteers put in loads of time and effort to support the literature community on deviantART. They promote happenings, host contests and events, and search tirelessly for Daily Deviations to feature. That's just to name a few and there are plenty of other job requirements they fulfill!
They're also volunteers. As in they're not paid for all their excellent work! Not even a dime.
Operation TYP is all about repaying those efforts! We want you to show all your appreciation by leaving a lovely thank you message for our Community Volunteers! But you cannot simply say, 'Thank you!' It's not devious enough! You must giv
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:lightbulb: Better get going on these; time's running out.

AoS Group and Contest Launch Anthropology of Self
Explore your world as it is and all the ways it might have been
:new:DEADLINE EXTENSION. So many of you are still hard at work on your submissions, so there will be a one week extension. Pieces are now due on March 4 at 12 AM PST:new:
Welcome to the launch contest of Anthropology-of-Self. This group’s goal is to craft prompts and contests that help you investigate your world as it truly is and in all the ways it could have been. We hope to create a place where fiction, nonfiction and poetry can all mingle happily together while creating weird, wonderful stories.
For this contest, we ask you to go back to your beginning moments as a writer, that first time you chose to place a pen to paper and change the world around you. Your mission is simple:
Rewrite Your First Ever Story
The Rules
:bulletyellow: Rewrite your first story as you best remember it.
Many of us only remember tidbits o
(Ends Feb. 25) Flash Fiction Contest Winner!:new: The winner of the Flash Fiction contest is Shadocchi with her entry Chocolate Friend. Congratulations! Your deviation earns a spot in our Featured Gallery along with previous contest and prompt winners.

Thank you to everyone who submitted. We enjoyed reading the entries!
LITplease is now going to cool its jets for a while on the contest front, at least until we've completed our Member Revitalization. If you don't know what we're talking about, click the link to find out. You're not going to want to miss it!
Contest Details
The members have spoken and requested the next contest be flash fiction. You also requested there be no theme to limit your creativity. So, this contest is simple to understand: write a piece of flash fiction on any topic you choose!
RULES
1. You must
(Ends Feb. 29)
February Form Fiesta (FFF) 2012 has finished!
FFF has finished for 2012 and I thank all those who wrote pieces for this awesome contest. We are in deliberation for a few days and the winners will be announced by Wednesday March 14th. This is because my computer broke down halfway through my judging process and I have had it at the shop for almost a week. Sorry guys :D. To tide you over, :D  check out all 32 entries in here: http://projectdfc.deviantart.com/gallery/35059192.
THANK YOU GUYS!
Sammy (kiwi-damnation)
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February Form Fiesta is back after 3 years! Excited? Nervous? Have no idea what I'm talking about? Awesome! :D.
Our five forms for February are:
1. Trijan Refrain
2. Epistle
3. Alliterisen
4. Monotetra
5. Senryu
This year’s February Form Fiesta is going to be fantastic. Our five forms showcase very different elements and therefore force each of you to adopt a new
(Ends Feb. 29) Anniversary ContesttheWrittenRevolution is now two years old! As a tribute to how far we've come and to kick-off our future decades as an active and radical center for young writers, we're hosting our BIGGEST CONTEST YET.
At some point in the future, we plan on becoming an independent, not-for-profit online writing website, a place where members can share their written work in an artistic fashion, as well as give and receive critique to help them improve their abilities. An aspect of that organization that we are rather enamoured with is publishing compilations of our members' best pieces.
Here's where it starts: we've decided to put together an eBook of the thirty best entries to this contest.
Maybe you're not that impressed, you're thinking, "It's just an eBook, no big deal." We get that. But this is just the beginning. We have to start somewhere, right?
The Contest
We have prepared five themes and ten vignettes for you to choose from. You may use any of these to
(Ends Mar. 3)
AoS Group and Contest Launch Anthropology of Self
Explore your world as it is and all the ways it might have been
:new:DEADLINE EXTENSION. So many of you are still hard at work on your submissions, so there will be a one week extension. Pieces are now due on March 4 at 12 AM PST:new:
Welcome to the launch contest of Anthropology-of-Self. This group’s goal is to craft prompts and contests that help you investigate your world as it truly is and in all the ways it could have been. We hope to create a place where fiction, nonfiction and poetry can all mingle happily together while creating weird, wonderful stories.
For this contest, we ask you to go back to your beginning moments as a writer, that first time you chose to place a pen to paper and change the world around you. Your mission is simple:
Rewrite Your First Ever Story
The Rules
:bulletyellow: Rewrite your first story as you best remember it.
Many of us only remember tidbits o
(Ends Apr. 25)

:spotlight-left: The following contests are closed. Go read the entries, otherwise Matthew 7:1. :spotlight-right:

Modernising Myths Contest: CLOSED!The transliterations Modernising Myths contest has officially closed! Despite a few hairy moments near the outset, and by hairy I mean positively hirsute, we finished with a heaving sack of modernised myths drawn from Greece to Japan to Easter Island. In fact, said sack wound up being nearly twice the size of our last contest's haul! It may take us a little longer to complete our deliberations with so many wonderful entries to work through, but we're ready to go and aiming to have the results up by March 5th. In the meantime, why not comment on a few of the entries yourself?
Thanks to: Amberlouie, cogongrass, fyoot and ikazon for joining me once again on our descent to the judging underworld, albeit with a few more furies than the previous couple of times, and to Amberlouie, fyoot, Halatia, ikazon, :devmem
Winter 2011 Contest (clickable link)

:camera: Some excellent articles worth checking out.

CritiqueCritique
An Expose-Lit Guide.
Why does everyone want critique? Because they (we!) want to take our writing to a new level. Feedback is the most effective way.
So, you want feedback but you're not sure what's the best way to get about it. Or maybe you want to maximise your chances. There are many avenues to explore....
Looking for Critique?
:bulletgreen: If you're looking for groups, choose those which are active, have a clear purpose, and are well-managed (organized, have rules, etc.)
:bulletgreen: To receive feedback, give feedback: tested and approved. It works for quality comments as well.
:bulletgreen: Contest prizes increasingly include critiques, so take part in them.
:bulletgreen: Keep yourself updated (and watch notable deviants) so that you can participate in activities, forums, chats and more. This allows you to network, to talk to people whose opinion you respect.
:bulletgreen: You may wish to actively seek exposur
Breaking in to Lit!Introduction
Literature has long been considered one of the closest knit communities on deviantART. As a result, some people find it difficult to "break in" to the Lit crowd. There are rumors of elitism, difficulty in getting exposure, and lack-luster appreciation for the incredible work that goes into writing a good piece of prose or a well structured poem.
If you look at a painting you can see amazing detail, great use of color, and the importance of the subject immediately. You know it came from the artist's imagination and that he or she had to spend hours translating that to a canvas. The tangibility of the work is right in front of you. With writing, it is not quite the same. The effort the author puts into the work can only be appreciated if readers put in their own effort to read the work. The gratification is not instant, which is one reason the lit community is so close knit.
Those who do have large followings often also comment and read quite a lot of work h


:idea: Would you consider joining these clubs?

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I recommend ScreamPrompts. Word on the street is it's a solid place to hang out. ;-)