The Writing Pool

Welcome to The Writing Pool™!

The Writing Pool is committed to helping writers all over the world improve their writing. Our primary service began with a Weekly newsletter: The Weekly Writing Post™, which was originally the PEIWG Weekly, published for the PEI Writers’ Guild in 2009. In 2013, the PEIWG decided that it wanted a newsletter that was exclusively for…

Writer Advice

Writer Advice offers four contests per year with tiered fees, optional feedback, cash prizes, and publication. Details for the Latest Contest are at https://writeradvice.com/latest-contest-information/. “Just a quick note to say THANK YOU for this feedback. It’s such a refreshing experience to have some exchange — as most submissions disappear into the either like rogue satellites.”…

F(r)iction Contests

Our Spring 2021 Contest Submittable forms will open in January. Deadline: April 29, 2021Results: Announced September 8, 2021Prizes: Win $1,600 in Prizes!Guest Judges: Stephen Graham Jones, Damhnait Monaghan, Emma Bolden, and Hannah GriecoCategories: Short Story, Flash Fiction, Poetry, Creative Nonfiction For full Submission Guidelines, please read the information on our Submittable page carefully. And please visit our formatting guidelines page to properly format your workfor submission.

Black Warrior Review

Black Warrior Review stands in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, Black writers, and all efforts to end a culture of white supremacy. We greatly value the work of our Black contributors and are always seeking an even higher volume of work from Black writers. We also recognize that words of solidarity and support…

F(r)fiction 2020 Contests

F(r)iction’s Fall 2020 Contests are now open! Deadline: October 30, 2020Results: Announced March 8, 2021Prizes: Win $1,600 in Prizes!Guest Judges: Lev Grossman, Benjamin Woodard, and Rachel MenniesCategories: Short Story, Flash Fiction, Poetry For full Submission Guidelines, please read the information on our Submittable page carefully. And please visit our formatting guidelines page to properly format your workfor submission. An insider tip for you all: We seek…

Stories That Need to Be Told: The Contest

DEADLINE: AUGUST 15, 2019 CONTEST RULES & SUBMISSION GUIDELINES CategoryThere is only one category: the Story. There is truth in any story, and the reason you choose to tell a particular story may be the most important story of all. But, before we get too philosophical, here’s the point: submissions should tell a story. It doesn’t matter if you consider it…

Get Grammar: On comparatives and superlatives

This is a grammar rule some people seem to forget: we never use double comparatives or double superlatives. A comparative is used to compare two things, and adjectives and adverbs can be modified to reflect the comparison by adding an ‘-r’ or ‘-er’ to the end: clear = clearer; dry = drier; wide = wider….

Get Grammar: On the use of regards, regard, regarding

Get Grammar: On the use of regards, regard, regarding The correct form is “in regard to” or “with regard to”–both without the ‘s’. For expediency, we replace 3 words with 1 and prefer to say “regarding (something)”. We can give or send our “regards” to someone, hence the greeting “Best regards” or the movie “Give…

TWO NEW BOOKS FROM GUERNICA EDITIONS

Absurdity, Woe Is Me, Glory Be (One Hundred Poems Hovering Between the Absurd and the Existential) (Guernica Editions, 2017), by J. J. Steinfeld J. J. Steinfeld: Essays on His Works (Guernica Editions, 2017), Edited by Sandra Singer

TWP Weekly Writing Post™ 2017 Oct 22 Edition

Welcome to The Writing Pool’s Weekly Writing PostTM! We provide you with a free weekly newsletter filled with notices about contests, events, conferences, and other information that might be useful or of great interest to writers of all leanings. Meanwhile, calls for submission to literary publications as well as information about publishers can be…