Wisdom Crieth Without is proud to sponsor its second annual art contest, in keeping with our continued
mission to promote quality work from around the world. This contest serves as yet a further celebration of traditional art, and the rewards are significant, as well as directly linked to community participation. Below are the contest rules; read them well, and then join the fray!
CONTEST RULES AND GUIDELINES
This week we feature Tchaikovsky’s famous “Sugar Plum Fairy”, as arranged for piano and orchestra by Georgii Cherkin. Cherkin is both an accomplished pianist and inventive composer, and his rendition of this popular segment of The Nutcracker Suite is a testament to his talents.
New stories inspired by books, shows, movies, comics, music, and games people love.
All right, it’s still laughable –especially considering the stereotypically fan-fiction-rich licenses acquired so far.With Kindle Worlds, you can write new stories based on featured Worlds, engage an audience of readers, and earn royalties. Amazon Publishing has secured licenses from Warner Bros. Television Group’s Alloy Entertainment for Gossip Girl, Pretty Little Liars, and The Vampire Diaries, with licenses for more Worlds on the way.
Today’s highlights include:
1. Why publishers should embrace entrepreneurial authors.
2. Why literary criticism matters.
3. Libraries as community hubs.
As I watch’d the ploughman ploughing,
Or the sower sowing in the fields–or the harvester harvesting,
I saw there too, O life and death, your analogies:
(Life, life is the tillage, and Death is the harvest according.)
It’s a big universe out there, and the winners of some of Earth’s most prestigious science fiction/fantasy prizes has been announced. This and more is highlighted below.
1. The winners of the 2012 Nebula Awards have been announced.
2. Penguin Books pays millions to settle lawsuit.
3. The technique of Ancient Greek and Roman Artisans.
Hold it up sternly! See this it sends back! (Who is it? Is it you?)
Outside fair costume–within ashes and filth,
No more a flashing eye–no more a sonorous voice or springy step;
Now some slave’s eye, voice, hands, step,
A drunkard’s breath, unwholesome eater’s face, venerealee’s flesh,
Lungs rotting away piecemeal, stomach sour and cankerous,
Joints rheumatic, bowels clogged with abomination,
