Lit Up: November’s Literary Treats
New prompt, news, announcements, highlights
Lovely Lit Up community,
I hope you’ve all been having a splendid time on and off our little literary corner.
Hopefully, November will be extraordinary, for we have prepared literary treats with too much love and care.
Before I start listing the upcoming events, however, allow me to take yet another moment to thank you all (6200 people by the way!), for supporting us with your magnificent writing, and for being such encouraging and supportive readers. I have to say, when you support a writer by clapping for, highlighting, and responding to their tales, you encourage more writing and you show us, the editorial team, that our efforts to provide quality reads are put to good use.
Now, we won’t have a featured writer this month because, in all honesty, I had a hard time picking one. Excuse my indecisiveness but I think, if you read the — longer than usual and for a good reason — list of featured October tales, you’ll understand why — and that’s a great thing.
For November:
1. Our first contest is still open for submissions! Read more about it here:
— Lit Up: Our Big News is Finally Here!
— Crossroads Contest: Opening Submissions
(By the way, this contest is getting a little out of control, the volume of submissions is a whole new thing to us. If you have relevant experience and would like to help us by reviewing a few entries based on given criteria, please respond to this post and tag me.)
2. We have a new prompt for Lit Up on Medium!
If you’ve been with us for a few months, you probably know how it works. If you’re new in our team, welcome, and let me explain:
We often announce monthly prompts. When things are too busy we might stop for a while but we’ll always come back as soon as we have settled everything on our to-do list.
Once the prompt is announced, write your beautiful tales and subtitle them as indicated. Then send us your draft.
When we close submissions, we publish accepted entries and add them to our Prompts tab.
Right after that, I send a newsletter listing your entries for extra promotion.
Sounds good?
Let’s go!
Choose the picture that inspires you the most and write a
55er!
(A 55er is a 10-line piece of fiction. You start with a title (of a length of your choosing) and then you write a line ten words long. Then a line nine words long. Then a line eight words long… down to the final sentence, which is one word long)
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Prompt opens: 11 November 2018
Deadline: 22 November 2018
Entries will be published between 24 and 27 November.
Subtitle your drafts: Lit Up — November’s Prompt: 55er so I can find them easily in our submission list. If you forget your subtitle I might not find your tales in time for publication.
2 entries per writer max.
No entry fee. Participation to our Medium prompts will always be free.
Looking forward to reading them all!
Featured Tales:
Our new poetry editor, Tom Conley, decided to publish with us his latest work, MitcHELL, which is, if you ask me, absolutely brilliant. You can find it in the Tales in Parts tab. A new part will be published every week and I highly recommend you give it a chance. Find the first part here:
PUZZLED
This is a tale I have kept in my heart since I first read it on Medium. Its author, one of my favourite writers here and one of the most beautiful humans I’ve ever met, Chris Drew, accepted my request and sent it to us. I’m so very happy and honoured we get to have it on Lit Up. Please, give it a read, it is truly exquisite:
And now, my favourite moment: listing the best Lit Up reads for the month of October and the very reason why I couldn’t choose a single writer. I mean, take a look:
SHORT TALES
Stephen M. Tomic — The Monster’s Cradle,
Talon Abernathy — A Fatal Meeting, What Are You Supposed to Say?
Kay Bolden — Iniquity
anna breslin — A Bed Story
Alexandro Chen — Odd Ichiko
Dale E. Lehman — The Stones on the Shore
Danna Colman — How Desi Met Tuppy
Nicole des Bouvrie — The Dike
Adrien Carver — Service Call
Blake Gossard — The Watcher and The Widow, A Highly Valued Employee
Miles White — Something A Boy Said
Melina Aster — Dancing Under a Thousand Lights
C. L. Cole — Keys
Andre Kimo Stone Guess — Paradoxical Paradise
A. Jarrell Hayes — Hungry Wanderer
FLASH TALES
Jim Salt — Chasing Snakes and Pig Tails
Allison King — How to Bluff Your Way Out of Boredom
Pamela Edwards — Paper Cut, The Keys of Minor Cruelty
James Banta — The Robot and the Cat
Jen Smat — The Weight
Valerie Hilal — Alma’s Scissors
Dale E. Lehman — Driftwood
M J Christie — You Are My Life
Nicole des Bouvrie — What Do Mermaids Do in Winter?
Steve B Howard — Blood Stains in the Red Dust
hannah miller — Drifting Awake
Heath ዟ — A Moment of Contentment
Bridget Webber — The Hair Pin
Annabelle Strand — You don’t hear the waves crashing, after a while
E.B. Page — David
Trivikram Prasad — First Cook
J Grant — THE SONG I DIDN’T WANT TO SING
Matthew James — The Night Job
POETRY
Joan Evans — Portrait of Maurice
Jef Littlejohn — Sweet Blindness & Bitter Daydreams
Zarina Dara 🥀💃🏻 — Scar
Jk Mansi — Writing from the Scar
Zev — A poem goes in search of a metaphor
Annie Caldwell — Vampire Dreams
Bart Elbey — fornow
Abhishek Negi — A Wicked Man
Pamela Edwards — myst tree spell, small things
Bridget Webber — The Lighthouse Dove, The Melody That Lingers
Mark Starlin — Love Is The Canvas We Painted On
Tomasz W. Wiszniewski — The Smoker
David M. Dulkrazu — Yellow Canary
Austin Cerny — Feathers
Danna Colman — Bad Boys
Catherine Marty — The Gulf of Poets
V. Plut — Corn Song
Unni Nambiar — Chrysalis
Edward Punales — They Weren’t People Anymore
Mateen Manek — All I Have Left of You
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We’re promoting your tales there so feel free to like and share!
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And for those who want to join our creative gang, here’s a link to our submission guidelines
That’s all for today.
Until next time, don’t forget to live, love, and create.
Much love to all of you,
DiAmaya Dawn
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