NCF Tuesday: Sex! Sex! Sex!, Last Day for Moose Prize, Literary Pick-Up Lines
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News
Winding down from last night’s love high and wine buzz, I thought some positive literary news would keep you moving through the week, well, at least until Wednesday. No bankrupt bookstores and E-reader sales today.
The Author Bio
Are you struggling to decide what to include in your author’s bio? Edan Lepucki debates whether an author should stick with their academic and literary accomplishments or include life experiences in her article “MFA Grads and Former Acrobats: Approaches to the Author Bio”. She includes several “out-of-the-box” author bios.
Including life experiences portrays a more human author as opposed to just presenting the two-dimensional list of education and publication credentials. A sex worker generates more intrigue for me than a graduate from Columbia’s MFA program. It gives aspiring authors encouragement and confidence to know they don’t need an expensive education to write something worth publishing.
What would you include in your author bio?
Big Names at the BookExpo America
This year Julianne Moore acts as Master of Ceremonies for the conference held in New York City this May 23rd-26th. Headliners for the Author’s Breakfast include Charlaine Harris, Jefferey Eugenides and Diane Keaton.
What conferences are you attending this year?
Sex! Sex! Sex!
Need I say more?
Salon.com has created an award for great sex in writing. The winners are listed along with their excerpts from their novels. Don’t be afraid to try these at home. Enjoy!
Any novels, published before 2010, you feel belong on this list?
Contests
Black Lawrence Press: The Big Moose Prize
- Unpublished Novel
- First Place Prize: Publication, $1,000 and 10 copies of your published novel
- Deadline: February 15, 2011
Glimmer Train Literary Journal
- Short Story Award for New Writers
- First Place Prize: $1,200
- Deadline: February 28, 2011
Narrative Magazine
- Fiction and Nonfiction
- First Place Prize: $3,250
- Deadline: March 31, 2011
Writer’s Digest Magazine
- 80th Annual Writing Competition
o Fiction and Nonfiction
o Grand Prize: $3,000
o Deadline: May 2, 2011
- 5-Minute Memoir, “Tales From the Writing Life”
o Personal Essay (600 words or less)
o Prize: Publication in Writer’s Digest magazine
o Deadline: Rolling submissions
American Poetry Talent Search Contest
- Poetry (100 lines or less)
- First Prize: $250
- Deadline: March 31, 2011
Fun
Looking to meet a book lover? Here are a few literary pick-up lines to give a try:
I’ll be a Jane around the house but a Bertha in bed.
Welcome to my apartment — or, as the ladies like to call it, The Joy Luck Club.
How about you and I re-write The Story of O together?
Will you be the Tropic of Cancer to my Delta of Venus?
Hey, baby, the sun is not the only thing that also rises.
Check out more here Pick-Up Lines
Comments
Hottest book I've ever read, hands down, is "Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure," by John Cleland, circa 1749. The grandaddy of all bodice rippers.
Anna- The most recent adult novels with decent sex scenes would be Erica Garcia's Anonymous Rex and Casual Rex. Granted they're dinosaurs dressed up in human polysuits, but the feeling and emotion comes across. I'm going to have to check out Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure. My "To Read" list continues to grow. I need to get on the ball here.