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Literati! Unbelieveable! Intern offers editor-in-chief a long screw–editor-in-chief reclines–OOPS! DECLINES! We promised you a kuhl trophy for our current contest: In the Bowels of the Bowery, and here it is! ‘Tis an auger, at least seventy five years old, to help the winner of the contest ad a new twist to his/her endings!  Here model/intern [...]

Literati! Rent has been successfully deferred and the Satikushes successfully fed!  We live to blight another day here at the towers that are A Word with You Press! No!  That is not an intern–that is Julie Mark Cohen, the winner of our last contest, asking the editor-in-chief to turn the other cheek.  (Told her I [...]

…is not what the commander of the submarine wants to hear. Literati! Good morning from the towers that are A Word with You Press.  I have been out beheading the rent-dragon so that we can continue our missionary position: Putting Gravitas on a Lo-Carb Diet.  We will post a new contest today or tomorrow, but [...]

Ahh, Literati! Though I miss the copious bribes offered me when i judged these contests myself, I do not miss the wrath of all those who actually submitted bribes only to discover that that they were out-bid by others.  And so now these calamities must fall upon the shoulders of Stefanie Allison, who won our [...]

Literati! It is now down to the finals.  I have selected three entries into The Third Annual Victor Villasenor First Sentence Contest that meet the criteria of engaging a reader to want to see what happens next. I am posting not only their first sentence, but the following paragraph that gives the first sentence context. [...]

Literati! I wish us one and all the best of New Years. I love the word “resolution”.  It is RE SOLUTION.  Means you’ve got the solution; you just need to reapply it. You have all been so patient with the inconsistencies of posting on the site, and I so very much thank you for hanging [...]

…and then this ghost appeared at midnight in the bed chamber of Ebenezer Sully and he said, “Look! These people are workin’ overtime and fightin’ the crowds in Walmart and redefinin’ RoadRage as they struggle toward Christmas and they got no time to write and submit their work to the contest before the deadline.” And [...]

Literati! On to our next contest!  Easy Peasy. (No,that is not the name of the contest) Announcing the Third Annual Victor Villasenor First Sentence Contest sponsored by the literary website A Word with You Press.  (that would be moi) “You can’t underestimate the importance of your first sentence,” says Victor. “Your first sentence is your introduction [...]

Literati! Our contest “Like a Ton of Bricks” has reached it’s weighty conclusion.  Thank you all for participating, and we will announce a new contest very soon. Mike Stang will now be adored by one and reviled by five.  Better him than me.  He had no idea who wrote what, except for the slight outing [...]

Literati!  Almost all our finalists for our contest “Like a Ton of Bricks” have (here it comes!  my favorite word!) SUBMITTED to me! They will remain anonymous because most of their names are too hard to spell.  But I thought I would start to give you an idea as to why I chose the prompt [...]

 Mustang. Mustang who? Must Stang show us how it’s done? Literati. You wimps! This contest either did not inspire, or, more likely, it was too tough for you to attempt!  Only five entrants in the contest!  So I asked our judge, Mike Stang, to show us how it’s done. His entry does not count, though [...]

Literati!  Oh! The Pressure!… …to come up with a new contest prompt! It was on my mind last night and this morning, and then, as I was rolling my cart down cliche’ mart, looking for comfort food, the answer hit me Like a Ton of Bricks! Write about two hundred words (250 max), a conversation [...]