Win A Free Vacation

This is your chance to win a FREE vacation valued at over $3,000, yes that is right $3,000! The crazy people at Costa Rican Vacations must’ve taken something that sent them into a spin and we at Costa Rica Pages caught them at the right time!!

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Six Tips For New Authors

Storytelling in one form or another is as old as mankind. The urge to tell a story seems inbuilt in some, a learned skill for others. To tell a story on the written page requires practice and patience. But where to start if you’re a beginner?

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A Year Of Rejection

Another year of rejection, meager words of consolation and, for a lucky few, elation.

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Female foeticide campaign

Chandigarh, May 03 As a part of its campaign against female foeticide, the Rotary Club of Chandigarh announced the results of a poster-making and slogan-writing competition held last week in the city here today.

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Writers Weekly Contest

WritersWeekly.com’s 24-Hour Short Story Contest!

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Bridport Writing Contests

There is still time to enter the 2008 Bridport writing contests. With a prize fund of GBP 5,000 for a short story (up to 5000 words) or a poem (42 lines).

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Poetry and passion

It was written in the galaxy that Marie-Caroline Moir would never be a number cruncher or a desk jockey.

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HLF Creative Writing & Art Contest

Reminder. Attention all elementary and middle school students: your HLF Creative Writing & Art Contest entries are due FRIDAY, May 9th!

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Winners of the 8th Annual Writer’s Digest Short Short Story Contest

Congratulations to Robert Brandt, grand-prize winner of this year’s Writer’s Digest Short Short Story Competition. His story, “The Procedure.”

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Character Creation

Thanks to Jeff Heisler for letting me use this article on Character Creation that he has written. Jeff is a freelance writer and novelist.

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