5 Writerly Things, 7.11.26
Resources to support your writing life
We’re less than a month away from the Jade Ring Contest deadline. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry. Enter early. Enter often!
Thinking about using Substack to share your words and/or connect with potential readers? Here’s a video to help you get started.
One-Act Play Festival performance at Inspiration Studios in West Allis (July 17-19 and 24-26). Seven original plays (two of them from Red Oak writers, Joanne Nelson and Kim Suhr) directed & performed by local talent. Tickets can be purchased here.
In his Substack series, “How to Write a Novel Your Way,” Nick Chiarkas shares gentle, no-nonsense advice for trusting yourself in the novel writing process. If you have tried other writing gurus’ advice only to come up short, this might be just what you need to get that novel written!
Cornerstone Press seeks manuscripts: literary short story and poetry collections and works of creative nonfiction. Fiction and nonfiction manuscripts should be a maximum of 70,000 words. Poetry manuscripts should be a minimum of 10,000 words. Cornerstone Press typically focuses on up-and-coming regional authors, but they are open to all original, well-written, and polished submissions.