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Call for submissions: Short Story Award For New Writers May 15 – July 15
The Short Story Award for New Writers is open from May 15 – July 15, 2016 and will award $2000 to the winner — the best piece of fiction by an emerging writer. Second and third place prizes will be $200 and $100, respectively, and all three stories w
Read more…Call for submissions: Wicked Ink Books sci-fi/fantasy anthology Deadline: August 31, 2016
Wicked Ink Books (est. 2015), an indie publisher of sci-fi/fantasy anthologies, announced the editors are accepting stories for a new anthology to be published in 2017. The theme is Songs. Writers are challenged to create a spectacular speculative fi
Read more…Call for submissions: TBL F(r)iction Spring Literary Competition, prizes up to $1000, dealine Aug 1, 2016
Tethered By Letters(TBL) is pleased to announce the F(r)iction Spring Literary Competition. There are three submission categories: 1) short stories of any genre ranging from 1,000 to 7,500 words, 2) flash fiction with a word limit of 750 words, and 3
Read more…Call for submissions: EFG Short Story Award £30,000 for UK/Ireland based writers, dealine Sep 29, 2016
2017 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award.
The prize, worth £30,000 to the winner, is an international award, founded in 2010, that is open to any story of up to 6,000 words written in English. Stories need to have been either previously unpublished or
Read more…British Indie Post-Apocalyptic Sci-Fi Film "Afro Punk Girl"
Britain- based filmmakers Annetta Laufer and Shobu Kapoor are raising the bar with their new short film "Afro Punk Girl". Starring actress Danielle V
Read more…So I want to make a science fiction story...
So I want to make a science fiction story involving African Americans or Africans but I don't know how to go about doing it. Any suggestions. Also I'm at the starting point. I don't have any ideas yet but I was hoping if I could get some inspiration
Read more…I have an idea for sci-fi screenplay
Hi My name is Marcellus white I am a writer director looking to collaborate with other writers interested in fantasy sci-fi. My idea has to deal with a paradigm shift of earth has forced the spiritual world to come back and take over earth as a new
Read more…CB’S POV: And The Winner Is… (“Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice”)
Have you ever been to a family reunion—someone else’s family—and somebody says, “You remember the time Pooky went to that place and did that thing?” and everyone else either laughs or shakes their head or crosses themselves and you’re the only one wh
Read more…CB’S POV: Choosing Sides To Save The World (“Captain America: Civil War”)
It’s not too much of a stretch to say that the root causes of the events in Captain America: Civil War are the same as the root cause of that other Civil War, servitude verses self-determination. The United Nations decides that despite saving the wor
Read more…Book Reviews Needed For Newly Released Space Opera
Hi and good day,
Well, I’ve spent the best part of 3 years forging my first novel called The Black Guard: Quest For The Inviolable Man. It’s a military space opera that blends science and fantasy together and it’s currently available on amazon. It was
Read more…Retro Video: ‘Pool Party (“Deadpool”)
What can you say about a movie that’s filled with graphic, gratuitous violence, substance abuse, a constant stream of profanity and inappropriate dialogue, sexual humor on the most juvenile level, and cynical characters who don’t seem to care for any
Read more…Google will pay $15,000 for your TV and movie script.
The submission process starts now and ends July 15th with the lucky grant winners getting their money in the fall. The grant win-ners will keep the rights to their script, but they will also have to explain to Google how they spent the $15,000 to cre
Read more…Fantasy Author looking for reviewers for Siren's Call
I am currently looking for readers intereste
d in reviewing my book, Siren's Call (part 2 is available as well if requested. This book won the 2015 Readers Favorite Silver medal and I am excited to say the last book in the trilogy will come out this y
Read more…Digitally rebuild Soane’s Bank of England, $30,000 in prizes, June 6
Create a digital rendering of the Bank of England for prizes.
See more info here:
http://www.redsharknews.com/post/item/3500-recreating-the-original-bank-of-england-for-hp
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Read more…Identified by 'Brainprints'
In the Future We’ll All Be Identified by Our 'Brainprints'
In the Future We’ll All Be Identified by Our 'Brainprints' Written by SARAH EMERSON CONTRIBUTING EDITOR April 18, 2016 // 03:56 PM EST COPY THIS URL Have you ever encountered an innovation in
Read more…Looking for anyone interested in a PNR(Paranormal Romance) in exchange for an Amazon review
I recently released a Paranormal Romance New Adult novel, that has some thriller, horror and erotic elements. It's New Adult, so the characters are college aged. New Adult gets a bad wrap for a number of reasons, but I do my best to avoid some of the
Read more…From the Caribbean or Caribbean Diaspora? Win funding for your pilot. Deadline May 29, 2016
Website: http://www.caribbeantales.ca/CTI/?page_id=3970
See the attached pdf for details.
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