ProWritingAid (great software) is presenting a free Fantasy Writer’s Week with FREE events for fantasy authors, live sessions with established fantasy authors, workshops, and more. Read about it and sign up here. Runs 22-26 February 2021.
This interview is another of Idaho Writers Update’s monthly series profiling Idaho authors. My Life With an Enigma: Unscrambling the paradoxes of an iron-willed romantic was published in November 2019. It is available at Rediscovered Books Caldwell, most likely shelved with local authors or biographies. The book can also be ordered at Rediscovered Books Boise, …
This is a free online event with recordings provided afterwards. Sessions include: How to create a fantasy world and magical systems World-building 101: Training and Q&A How to write a page-turning YA Fantasy that keeps readers up at night World Anvil walk-through How to organize story ideas and write a Fantasy novel … and much …
These awards — typically from $500 to $5,000 — are awarded annually by the Alexa Rose Foundation and can be used towards expenses like travel, education, workshops, and artistic tools. Apply by March 8, 2021. Read more about it on their website. Need help? There are free online workshops for both new and returning applicants.
“Finding Yourself as an Engaging Character in Memoir” aims to help you write about you. Making the reader want to spend time with the writer as narrator is crucial. This class will tackle our own habitual shyness and uncertainty about how much to reveal and we’ll find out how to distinguish our own self-knowledge from …
The Idaho Creative Writer’s Network (ICAN) invites everyone to join together for a full-day writing retreat. Register ahead of time (or just show up). It’s: Free Online (so no COVID-19 worries and clothing is casual-casual) On January 30, we’ll welcome you at 9:00 am on Facebook, meet back at noon to check our progress, have …
Read more30 January 2021 : Join ICAN for a “Write on Writing Retreat”
The Cabin’s Writers In The Attic is an annual contest for any Idaho writer. The winning submissions are published in the next issue. There’s always a theme; the last one was “Apple” and the one for the current contest is “Rupture”. There’s a modest submission fee ($10/$15) that covers up to three poems or stories. …
This interview is another of Idaho Writers Update’s monthly series profiling Idaho authors.
In our online interview with author Sherry Briscoe, she stresses the importance of authors finding a support system and supporting each other along the way.
Sherry primarily writes mystery thrillers. Recently, she’s begun to switch focus and is developing some women’s fiction projects that include subplots of suspense and romance.
A new addition to our Writers’ organizations in (and near) Idaho page is the local (Utah and southern Idaho) chapter of SCBWI — the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illlustrators. They’re currently meeting via Zoom (online conference, during COVID) with the next meeting scheduled for Tuesday, 19 January 2021 at 6:30 p.m. You can …
Our writing sisters and brothers with Willamette Writers in Oregon conduct this annual contest and it’s open for submissions now through 23:59 on 31 December. Markya Biaggio, author of Parlor Games, said: “When I was discouraged about my first novel I submitted a chapter to the Willamette Writers Kay Snow Contest and won a prize. …