ABC Writers Network

Every writer who is on the lookout for subjects and sources of material should keep a notebook constantly at hand.

Yesterday I showed you some brief examples as how writers by keeping their eyes and ears open were able to come up with special feature articles. Today I want to look at Personal Experience. What we actually do ourselves, as well as what we see others do, may be turned to good use in writing [...]

This contest is new and offered for the first time.The organizers are looking for a memoir, long short story, a small collection of flash fiction, or other innovative prose for a prose chapbook.
The Prose chapbook, if a collection, should have an original theme binding the pieces together.
Please send manuscripts of 18-28 pages, double-spaced, and a [...]

The second in a four part series on writing the feature article.

“What shall I write about?” is the first question that inexperienced writers ask their peers. In this series of articles I am going to suggest ways of writing feature articles. If approached correctly these types of articles can be very rewarding from a personal, career, and monetary point of view.

The eight of eight small articles on writing a novel. Getting It Published

If you haven’t been entering contests, you’re missing a batch of fun.

The Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award for a first unpublished collection of poems in English