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Writers’ Village Best Writing Award Spring 2012

The Writers’ Village is looking for writers to submit any form of short story up to 3000 words and in any genre for their Spring 2012 Writing Awards.

Entries must be received with payment by midnight (GMT) Saturday 31st March 2012.  The entry fee is £10 (approx $16).

The prizes are: First Prize £400 ($660); Second Prize £100 ($160); Third Prize £50 ($80). Five further shortlisted entrants will gain a free entry for their story in the next round.

For more information, please visit their website.

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The Return of Frankenstein

Frankenstein is a writer’s game wherein a story is composed of sentences contributed by different authors. We play this game a lot in Book Junkies, and everyone has a lot of fun with it.

So, I’ll kick it off with a prompt sentence, then you guys each add a sentence in the comment thread. Each subsequent sentence should feed off the sentence before it in the thread. So, let’s see what monster of a story we can stitch together.

One note though: PG-13 type blog—keep it clever but clean.

Prompt sentence:

Belinda had felt good about the interview until the final question.

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Yvonne Hertzberger Joins Staff of Indies Unlimited

Author Yvonne Hertzberger

We are pleased to announce that author Yvonne Hertzberger is joining the staff of Indies Unlimited as a regular contributing author.

Yvonne is a native of the Netherlands who immigrated to Canada. She calls herself a Jill-of-all-trades. That should come in handy around this joint.

Her many past paid jobs included banking, day care, residential care for challenged children, hairdressing, retail, and customer service. She enjoys gardening, singing, the theater, decorating and socializing with friends and family.

She is a graduate of The University of Waterloo, first with a B.A. in psychology, then and Hon. B.A. Sociology and stopped just shy of an M.A. in Sociology. Again, I see this coming in handy.

For more information, check out Yvonne’s excellent website and/or blog at: http://www.yvonnehertzberger.com

Please join us in extending a warm welcome to the wonderful Yvonne Hertzberger.

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