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A Great Opportunity to Learn Playwriting

Ron | October 22, 2008

The Manitou Arts Theater (MAT) and Six Women Playwriting Festival are presenting a workshop on writing the 10 minute play on Saturday, November 8.  Get More Info… The Six Women Playwriting Festival (www.sixwomenplayfestival.com) is accepting submissions for the 2009 Festival through December 1. Ron

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PPW Does NaNoWriMo!

Ron | October 21, 2008

As soon as you get your entry in for the Pikes Peak Writers Fiction Contest (Deadline November 1) you could rest on your laurels and say “job well done.” OR You can join a lot of us from Pikes Peak Writers in the annual creative insanity called National Novel Writing Month (www.nanowrimo.org) in which a [...]

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The Untimely Prompt: Apropos of Nothing

Deb Courtney | October 19, 2008

Your prompt for the week is this: “Will a firepit fit in your car?” Have fun writing; I always do.

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The Untimely Prompt: Possessions

Deb Courtney | October 6, 2008

Stuff.  We all have some.  We’d all like more at certain points in our lives.  Some of us are trying hard to get rid of much of it.  Comedians like George Carlin (who is busy pushing the Lightning Button now…RIP, George) have incredibly long and convoluted bits about stuff and how people act towards the [...]

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Why Should I Enter the PPW Fiction Writing Contest?

Ron | October 3, 2008

The deadline to enter the 2009 Pikes Peak Writers Fiction Writing Contest is less than a month away, entries must be postmarked by November 1, 2008. So what? You ask. Why would I want to enter a writing contest? Here are ten great reasons: 1) The VIP judges (who judge the finalists) are editors who [...]

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