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Anna-Marie McLemore’s winning essay for the Victoria A. Hudson Emerging...
I write because we cannot let our languages die with us. By language, I don’t mean a difference in words or inflection. I don’t mean the distance between my family’s Spanish and the English of the...
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Wealth in 140 Charecters at a Time
Reluctantly last year I jumped on the Twitter bandwagon. Fundamentally an introvert, I wasn’t all that thrilled about sharing the minutia of mine or other people’s daily living. Didn’t really want such...
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No Red Pen – Writers, Writing Groups & Critique is Now Available!
No Red Pen – Writers, Writing Groups & Critique is now available via smashwords. Everyone has a story. No one else can tell your story. The process of creating, refining and ultimately releasing...
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Submissions Open for 2013 SFWC Emerging Writer Scholarship
SFWC Scholarship 2013 The Victoria A. Hudson Scholarship will award a registration scholarship (value equal to full registration cost) to one emerging writer of any genre to attend the San Francisco...
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Updated Prize Package for the Emerging Writer Scholarship to attend the SFWC...
This just in – BookBaby, has generously donated a Standard Ebook Publishing package, a $149 value (plus $19 annual fee after the first year) which will be awarded to the winner of the Scholarship in...
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Literary Surfing
When sleepless, I refuse to toss aimlessly and instead get up until my eyes are grinding stones and I’m finally able to sleep. Surfing the web last night I visited Poet&Writers browsing through the...
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One Week Left for Entries Emerging Writer Scholarship to SFWC 2013
Emerging writers, struggling artists of narrative nonfiction, poetry, and fiction you have one week left to send in your entry for the registration scholarship to attend the 2013 San Francisco Writers...
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Quanie Mitchell wins Emerging Writer Scholarship to SFWC13
The quality of the essay in the Victoria A. Hudson Emerging Writer competition is key for finalist selection. Each entrant’s essay is read through in the first round. Essays that are predictable,...
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Author + Community
Coming up in the next few months I’ll introduce several new features here on the site intended for the writer community at large that will highlight emerging and indie authors. I’ll pull over some book...
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Indie Author Stops on the Information Super Highway
Today’s post is about two very useful sites I visit often. Both have useful and interesting topics posted daily that provide insight and information for any emerging writer or indie author. First is...
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Reflection on a Week Immersed with Writers #NVWC13
A week ago I was driving home from St. Helena and the community of writers that is the Napa Valley Writers Conference. I was sorry to leave and eager to return home to my family. The drive went quickly...
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Life’s metric – Straight and Narrow or Hills and Valleys?
Recently I responded to a follow-up from Paul Dorset who interviewed me back in May for his Indie Author Interview series. Paul asked if the writing life had been good to me this year. This got me...
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Jered W. Alexander – Part I
VAH: Jerad, welcome to Three by Five, where emerging writers, authors and other interesting people share a little about their writing, work and lives. First up, please tell us why you write? JWA: I...
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Write What You Know
Today a rare, non-writing related posting. Friday was the ceremony marking my retirement after thirty-three years of service in the United States Army. More than three decades and during much of that...
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Jered W. Alexander – Part II
VAH: Jerad, What got you to the point where you knew you were a writer? JWA: I’m not sure I ever had an “awaking” of sorts. I’ve always written in one capacity or another. Up until the past decade I’ve...
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Annual Emerging Writer Prize
2014 and the 7th annual emerging writer prize! This year the Victoria A. Hudson Emerging Writer Prize goes electronic with online submissions via submittable. The submission manager for entry is here....
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Jered W. Alexander – Part III
Welcome back to Three by Five for the third and final installment of an interview with Jerad Alexander. VAH: Jerad, when the blank page stares back at you, what gets you over writers block? JWA: I...
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Three by Five Introduces Poet Mildred Achoch
Three by Five welcomes Mildred Achoch, a Poet and Screenwriter in Kenya. Mildred Achoch writes poems and screenplays and has two blogs – Kenya Rock Film Festival Journal and Lost in Cyberspace and...
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Editor – Hate my Work!
Want an Editor to hate your work – be boring, stiff and too formal! This is just one of five “recommendations” posted today at Write Nonfiction Now, hosted by Nina Amir. The guest poster is Linda...
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Poet Mildred Achoch – Interview Parts II and III
Three by Five with a Glimpse into the Writing Life of Poet Mildred Achoch Three by Five returns today with a late Part II and in penance for that, combined with Part III. VAH: When did you begin to...
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