First,
a reminder: The Dzanc Write-a-Thon is a chance to take a day or two
for both yourself (how frequently does your planned writing day get
bumped for something else) and to help others. The helping others
aspect comes from the fact that Dzanc earmarks the money raised during
the Write-a-Thon for both our Dzanc Writer in Residence Programs and the Dzanc Prize.
We regularly receive interest in starting up new DWIRPs in various
areas of the country in great need of such projects, but simply cannot
fund each one on our own. We are looking to expand this wonderful
program and need the resources to do so. The Write-a-Thon can greatly
help us with this.
As noted above, this year we've moved the Write-a-Thon away from the in between Thanksgiving and Christmas time period as we always got about a dozen emails letting us know that it was a bad time of the year. So, we are bringing it to the beginning of September. Like last year, the Write-a-Thon dates will spread over more than just one day, in case somebody really wants to participate but is busy on one or two of the days, they can still plan on writing on one of the other days--we'll have a prompt, and for those of you planning on writing all four days, we'll have slight deviations to that prompt if you so desire.
We'll be setting up a special page on our website as we've done the last two years, making it easy for authors that want to participate, and those that wish to sponsor an author, to do so. To get things started though, if you are an author that would like to participate, please send an email to info@dzancbooks.org simply stating that you would. We'll be taking this initial blast of sign-ups to get the web page started.
The Write-a-Thon will be September 2 through September 5 (getting in both weekday and weekend dates).
As always--we'll ask that writers participating:
a) promote the event and try to find sponsors for your efforts
b) send us the writing that is done on the day(s) of the Write-a-Thon. While we'll only include it in the special pdf sent to participants and sponsors if you want us to, we do occasionally get asked by a sponsor if somebody actually wrote during that day when they don't see your work in the pdf.
The writer whose sponsors donate the most will receive a full run of the Dzanc titles from 2010: Raffel, Parker, BotW 2010, Svoboda and Lopez (which will be sent when it is published).
Anybody wishing to sponsor may obviously do so--you do not need to know the author in question--once our web page is set up, we'll put up another post. It's as simple as clicking on their name on that page to support the effort through them.
If you have any questions, please send them my way and I'll get back to you as quickly as possible.
As noted above, this year we've moved the Write-a-Thon away from the in between Thanksgiving and Christmas time period as we always got about a dozen emails letting us know that it was a bad time of the year. So, we are bringing it to the beginning of September. Like last year, the Write-a-Thon dates will spread over more than just one day, in case somebody really wants to participate but is busy on one or two of the days, they can still plan on writing on one of the other days--we'll have a prompt, and for those of you planning on writing all four days, we'll have slight deviations to that prompt if you so desire.
We'll be setting up a special page on our website as we've done the last two years, making it easy for authors that want to participate, and those that wish to sponsor an author, to do so. To get things started though, if you are an author that would like to participate, please send an email to info@dzancbooks.org simply stating that you would. We'll be taking this initial blast of sign-ups to get the web page started.
The Write-a-Thon will be September 2 through September 5 (getting in both weekday and weekend dates).
As always--we'll ask that writers participating:
a) promote the event and try to find sponsors for your efforts
b) send us the writing that is done on the day(s) of the Write-a-Thon. While we'll only include it in the special pdf sent to participants and sponsors if you want us to, we do occasionally get asked by a sponsor if somebody actually wrote during that day when they don't see your work in the pdf.
The writer whose sponsors donate the most will receive a full run of the Dzanc titles from 2010: Raffel, Parker, BotW 2010, Svoboda and Lopez (which will be sent when it is published).
Anybody wishing to sponsor may obviously do so--you do not need to know the author in question--once our web page is set up, we'll put up another post. It's as simple as clicking on their name on that page to support the effort through them.
If you have any questions, please send them my way and I'll get back to you as quickly as possible.
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