IWW-Newsletter, Issue #077

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IWW-Newsletter, Issue #077
September 05, 2018

Hi,

IWW Newsletter - Issue 77- Sept 2018

(Photo: Yelagiri Hills lake)

A very warm welcome to everyone who subscribed to IWW Newsletter. Thank you for subscribing to our newsletter.

1. Word of Success

a) "If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way." —Napoleon Hill

b) "Success is built one brick at a time. These bricks have many names. Some use the name attitude or mindset, others will say bearing, temperament or behaviour"- Kory Livingstone.

2. Editor's Note

The theme for Sept 2018 Short Stories is "Single Parenthood".

Your contributions can be submitted in the submission form to all categories from 15th to 25th of each month. Only the theme based stories will be considered for Short Stories. More details are on the notice board.

We have 2 new writers who joined IWW recently, and they are - Mitalee Dabral, and Suman Siwach. There were many new stories and poems from new writers, but I could not accept them for not following our simple rules.

3. New items published at IWW in August 2018.

Short Stories
(a) The Himalayan Escape and (b) Promises meant to be broken.
These stories can be read on the main page. IWW Short Stories

Poems

(a) A Morning Without You, (b) You too will Fall in Love (c) Poems on Love and Writing (d) Monologue of a Perturbed Soul (e) My Parents (f) Tiny Musings and (g) Lost Love and Other Poems.
These can be read on the main Poems page. IWW Poems

Travelogues
a) Being in Kerala during the time of Red alert. b) Trip to Kotilingeshwara Temple

These can be read on the main Travelogues page. IWW Travelogues

Serial Novels

I am excited to inform you that my new novel "Vanished Girl" the first few chapters of which were published earlier at IWW as a serial novel, is now got published by Romanbooks.co.uk with their Indian reprint Quintus. The book is expected to be in the bookstores by next month. I have just received the author's copy.

Please check it out here. Vanished Girl

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4. Literature News
a) Women writers come to fore in South Asia. https://www.newkerala.com/news/read/42283/women-writers-come-to-fore-in-south-asia.html

b) Author Kiran Desai invited to Prague Writers' Festival. https://www.newkerala.com/news/read/42065/author-kiran-desai-invited-to-prague-writers-festival.html

c) Presidency Varsity likely to offer course on Indian comparative Literature. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/presidency-university-likely-to-offer-course-on-indian-comparative-literature/articleshow/65682215.cms

5. Contests (Copy these links, paste each one of them on your browser and check for details.)

a) http://www.obheal.ie/blog/five-words-poetry-competition/

b) http://www.anisfield-wolf.org/submissions/submission-guidelines/

c) https://writetheworld.com/competitions

d) https://www.shortstoryproject.com/contest/

e) https://magmapoetry.com/magma-2018-19-competition-open-for-entries/

f) https://www2.mmu.ac.uk/writingcompetition/

g) http://www.newguardreview.com/tng-contests

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5. Charity work.
Take a moment to check out Santhi Bhavan- Home for orphaned and abandoned children

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6. Check out these books

a) A Christmas in Scotland Read this travel memoir

b) Cherished - story of a young girl's eagerness to seek the love of her parents. Cherished

c) The Second Choice @ Flipkart

d) Before the Sunset
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Lakshmi Menon
https://www.induswomanwriting.com

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