Janet Reid, Literary Agent

I'm barricaded under my duvet today, recovering from being nice to more than one person in a week at the Writers Digest conference on Fr...

Tweet by David Kedson is hilarious. To celebrate publication, let's have a contest. The usual rules apply: 1. Write a story usin...

As usual, you guyz were in amazon form on this contest! No surprise there of course, each contest seems to get better and better. Sadly, o...

Well I think this week needs a writing contest! How about we do one with blog reader Susan Pogorzelski's The Last Letter (which got a ...

You guyz really come up with some good stuff on short notice. Here are the ones that made me laugh, or made me go "awwww." Th...

I haven't been a total slacker this weekend; there's a new post up at QueryShark. But I'm also trying to catch up on all the th...

I posted the preliminary results yesterday here Herewith the final results:   --> Semi-finalists Melanie Sue Bowles PAH 9...

Wow! Y'all exceeded yourselves WILDLY this time. From the great prompt words, to the entries, you just knocked my sox right off. Her...

At long last, the day of the contest has arrived! Contest #100! The prize is pretty spiffy if I do say so myself. A copy of Vargic'...

Argh! Sorry for the long delay in cation contest results! I was felled by a brutal headache yesterday, brought on by staring into the comput...

sorry guyz, massive headache.

What are these two fine felines thinking? 20 words or fewer! One entry per person (or per cat!) Post your answer in the comment...

Yesterday's caption contest provided some welcome comic relief to the week. Is anyone else just slogging along right now? I can't q...

Enter your caption for this photo in the comments section below. Of course there's a prize! Figure the contest will close around ...

and we still need one more prompt word. Aeriel surveillance commencing! got a word in your sights? Please, bombs away in the comment...

What do you think of twitter pitch type contests?   The current one is #revpit where you submit to three editors a query letter and fi...

Honestly, I wasn't expecting anything in the comments section other than some form of ha ha but of course, as usual, you surprised me w...

Honest to godiva, you guyz scare me. Throw a bunch of writerly types an April Fools Day joke contest, and what do they do? They write...

I think we need a contest! The usual rules apply: 1. Write a story using 100 characters or fewer. 2. Use all these words in the story: ...