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Another good entry with some very original and cheeky(!) takes on the subject. The winner was KeithD's The Wild Hunt which took the opposite angle with a much darker tale.
Our Monday Chat session will kick off at the usual time of 7.30 pm UK time where all Writer members are welcome to join in the usual chin-wags.
If you've just joined the site here's a great opportunity to meet some of the regular members and the site moderators. We'll be chatting on Monday, 8th March at 7.30 p.m. Everyone welcome.
We had a superb entry to this monthly poetry Challenge with 79 entries posted to the site! Quite a mammoth task for our judge who had to select just one winner from her short list.
Our Chat sessions are starting to take off with numbers on the up! To try and cope with the many different topics flying through the ether, we've created some new rooms for specific subjects!
Don't miss this one! We'll be sharing book marketing and writing gig tips. Meet in the Chat room, Monday, 15th February at 7.30 p.m. UK time.
Just click the Chat tab at the top of the site.
Writelink's latest Challenge is NOT about Native Americans! It would be spelt BEAR if that was the case! Instead we want your central character to find him/herself completely naked in a situation that calls for some<
Quite a lot of discussion on the site at the moment about markets so we're making where to sell content the subject of our latest Chat session.
These have been a bit spasmodic lately due to me teaching the local young farmers to morris dance! Quite a challenging experience given I'm barely off stabilisers myself!
Right folks we all need to put our backs into this. Greg Mcqueen has come up with a great idea to help the victims of the appalling catastrophe caused by the earthquake in Haiti last week.
Like it or not, if we want our work to be read we need to acquire some marketing skills.
Secrets, gossip, scandal, rumour! Whispers can signify any of these. No doubt you'll have a few more ideas you can use to come up with a poem good enough to take the top prize in our Monthly Challenge.
Not one, but three Challenges finished at the end of December! Check our results page for full judges' reports
If you have never met our site moderators this is your big opportunity! Our Monday Chats resume after the festive break with the chance to meet some of our site stalwarts who keep a friendly eye on activities.
Afraid so folks and if the media and self help gurus are to be believed, it is time to take stock of what we have achieved during the past year and set ourselves some goals for the coming one!
Have a very happy Christmas and prosperous New Year!
Please keep in touch during the holidays by posting to the blogs and forums. We'd love to know how you are faring with the seasonal excesses!
Some very good news! We now have the notification system working for the Arena and the Challenges!
You know that you need a break from tinsel, sticky tape and steamy kitchens so join us for a bit of light relief in the Chat room where we're holding a Rhyme Race!
This year's Christmas Chillers festive ghost story contest was won by Steven Wade with The Stolen Child. Second was The Distant Snow Covered Trees by Mike Owen and third was Heaven Sent by Toni Mannell.
More established members are also very welcome so please come along and join in the fun, the more the merrier!
The new Writelinkers magazine is out and so far very well received! Our editors will be in the Chat Room on Monday, 7th December, they'd love to hear your comments.
They were a little later than expected, but results of our very first song writing contest are now out!
As you will see from our adjudicator's report, we had some excellent entries for our monthly Challenge contest. Down My Way called for snapshot articles on the locality where you lived or knew very well.
Don't worry, it doesn't involve anything that might get you locked up!
With the festive season fast approaching our latest monthly Arena Challenge is setting you the task of coming up with a fire side tale in rhyme!
The very first Writelinkers magazine is now well on target for Christmas publication. Come and join us in the Chat room for an up date on progress.
If you haven't heard the big news, we're launching a quarterly ezine full of stories, poems, articles, puzzles etc all written by YOU!
Here's your chance to pick the brains of the judges who officiated at our last round of Arena Challenges!
Part two of Challenges results report. Rainbow Warriors and Kidlit.
Our competition judges have been triply busy this month as we've the results of not one, but THREE Arena Challenges.
If you are wondering how and what to submit to a publisher here's your chance to get it straight from the horse's mouth!