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Tampa-area writers: Creative Loafing has relaunched its fiction contest. This year's theme: heat.

Details are available from Creative Loafing here, as are lots of clichés: Get it while it's hot, turn up the heat, hot under the collar, etc., etc. Submission deadline is Dec. 22.

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2012 Bombeck Workshop registration opens Dec. 6 at noon

The 2012 Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop at the University of Dayton will kick off with a keynote talk from Alan Zweibel, an original Saturday Night Live writer and author of the 2006 Thurber Prize-winning novel The Other Shulman. Online registration for the workshop, slated April 19-21, opens at noon on Tuesday, Dec. 6. The registration fee is $375, with 35 free scholarships available for University of Dayton students, beginning in mid-January. More information about faculty and se ...
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How writers can use QR codes

Erik Deckers, co-owner and VP of creative services for Professional Blog Service in Indianapolis, has plenty of experience attracting audiences. He has been blogging since 1997, has been a newspaper humor columnist for 17 years, and co-authored Branding Yourself: How to Use Social Media to Invent or Reinvent Yourself and helped write Twitter Marketing For Dummies. On his blog, he recently tackled QR codes, those unsightly blocks popping up everywhere from museum displays to magazin ...
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