NEW February issue of WritingRaw.com online

Let the world know about WritingRaw.com and all the good things we do for up-and-coming writers.

Thank you everyone for the show of support these last few weeks. The submissions to WritingRaw.com have been amazing. As you will notice we have changed format again based on some of the suggestions we received. The site has a much sleeker design, better online font, no more "Like" buttons or other outside forces that have slowed the site down in the past. We have gone back to basics… concentrating on the written work and the promotion of it.

Besides fiction, poetry, essays and other various forms of writing, we would also like:

· 500 words or less essays about your struggle to write or published in the traditional sense (put Struggle in the subject line of the email)

· 500 words or less essays about your struggle to write or published in the traditional sense (put Struggle in the subject line of the email)

· Books to Promote between stories, poems and articles (we are closing the Bookstore and placing these book promotions on every page everyone can see them) Send us a jpeg of the cover, a brief synopsis, and ordering information with the actual link (put Promotion in the subject line of the email)

· Artists to highlight monthly: If you are interested, please send 5 jpegs with a short bio - and be sure to include any links you would like to appear (put Art in the subject line)

Send any of these to Weeb at weeb@writingraw.com

Again, thanks to everyone for your show of support - either through submissions or comments. So now it's up to YOU to SPREAD THE WORD: Don't let us die! Let the world know about WritingRaw and all the good and positive things we do for up-and-coming writers.

The Staff of WritingRaw.com
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In the February issue:

FICTION:

· 2061 by J A Williams: What will the world look like after 50 years of Global Warming? And when THE BIG ONE hits the West Coast, what will remain? This is a microcosm of one possible future for mankind… Unless we wake up!

· Burgermen by Alan Zacher: Tom Mayor is being threaten by the manager of a grocery store for quitting and not giving two-weeks notice. For two weeks, the manager terrorizing Tom by phone, and then shows-up at his mom and dad's home at 2 a.m. with a gun.

· Coming of Age at Brighton Beach by Vivian Conejero: In 1970s Brooklyn, a sheltered and shy Latin American teenager ventures to the beach by herself, the year she turns eighteen. By the end of her visit to Brighton Beach, she realizes that she is no longer a child.

· Empath by Sabrina Sumsion: When a woman can feel the emotions of others, she must learn to insulate herself from the outside world. When the violent world comes to her, she fights against the inevitable to save another's life.

· Fishing Story by Billy Rutter: Like most fishing stories, life at times makes it difficult to decipher fact from fiction and is often riddled with disappointment that goes unseen. A masterfully crafted narrative, "My Fishing Story" is about a boy who discovers lower lifeforms and a man in search of a higher power.

· Hackademic by Ian Boulton: Roy teaches investigative journalism to a large group of international students at a London university. News has been his life but to the young people he teaches he is an anachronism, a figure from history. How can he cope when keeping up-to-date has been both his profession and his passion but every day brings fresh evidence that the world is passing him by?

· Population One by David Bridge: In the middle of a desert, in a country far from home, Andrew Finsbury puts the finishing touches to his business, which looks set to make him a millionaire. But will he overcome the prying state bureaucrat who has the power to turn his dream to dust?

· Olde Camden Road by Robert Welsh: Sean Garrity lives a quiet if unfulfilling life in the town where he grew up in rural Pennsylvania. But fate intervenes one evening when he finds himself exploring an allegedly haunted road in a remote part of the county. Olde Camden Road developed a notorious reputation with the locals over the decades as an area rife with paranormal occurrence. Like many, Sean ignored the legends as he grew up and busied himself with everyday things. But tonight he is going to discover the road's deepest secrets and the truth will change him forever -- if he can survive til morning.

· Sidestep by Alessandra Siraco: Childhood was always fun, until you thought of getting older. Mark and his sister Jessie, in the midst of contemplating clouds and forts, wonder what happens when you grow up and need to leave childhood behind--and they wonder why a strange couple is standing on their grandfather's backyard hill.

· The Fairy and the Princess by Katie Alford: A harmless fairy prank goes wrong leaving Alyn in the power of a very angry human court. But that proves not to be the worst event of the day.

· The Raggedies by Tom Sheehan: Young Thornwell didn't have a hint at what "The Book" was, though the other town kids in the group he had enlisted in, these new friends of his, spoke of it with admiration, love, and whatever else was coming at him that he couldn't figure out. It had drawn him in because they seemed to be on fire every time they talked about it, "The Book." In time, the sheriff learned the whole story about "The Book," and the young west trying its best.

· The Staircase by Gibson Culbreth: After a disappointing evening Courtney and Eric find themselves stuck in a stairwell. The unlikely pair try to mend their unraveling lives through cigarettes and screaming.

· Woodland Stalker by Kristopher Miller: Ben Matthews is hunting moose in the frozen wilderness of Canada. When he finds his prey, he finds something else that takes it... something that will hunt Matthews deeper into the woods. What is hunting him is far more ferocious, cunning, and terrifying than any wild animal he's ever seen.

NEW!
Season 3, Episodes 3: Give Me My Robe, Put On My Crown

POETRY:

· Brine by Allegra Freund
· Cottonwood by Scott Lutz
· Do I Have A Right? by Susan M. Bell
· Endless Conception by Matt Panetta
· My Pen by Chris Birrane
· Now Until Forever by Matt Panetta
· On The Road Beyond the Midnight Passion by Matt Panetta
· Pandora's Box by John Ernest Giffard
· That Cezanne Girl by Joseph Grant
· The Infinite Ecstasy by Juliette Beswick Pokletar
· Times Square by Jordan Elizabeth Mierek
· Until He Came by Elaine Rosenberg Miller


ASSORTED:

· Artist of the Month: Jason Denaro

· Humour Is A Funny Thing by John Joyce: Humour is a funny thing don't you think? Everyone has an opinion on humour, and say have a sense of humour and like a good laugh. It even has its own memory since we gladly recall funny situations years later.

· Lost & Found in Ohio by Steve Myers: A search for a lost mother and lost time.

· Sagging Middles: The Intimidating Space between Beginnings and Endings. AND… Plot Outlines: Who Could Ever Remember The Machinations of These Weird Characters? by Milton Trachtenburg: Imagine that two of your favorite characters from fairy tales become a writer and an agent. In a blending of what I imagine to be their personalities with the content that a writer and an agent might discuss, Little Red Writing Hood, a agent of sterling reputation discusses sagging middles with her client---surly, egotistical yet somewhat skillful writer, Big Bad Word Wolf. If there is a lesson to be learned here it may be that every writer can benefit from learning the rules of the writing road...as well as table manners if he happens to revert to his true persona.

· Shylock in the Twenty-First Century by Christopher Nagle: Nearly 67 years after the end of The Holocaust, Jews are still the most widely and vehemently loathed ethnic minority on the planet. The geography and cultural setting for this has changed, but its intensity now threatens the global order. What is to become of these extraordinary people, and the attitude of their neighbors towards them, as this undoubtedly convulsive century unfolds?

· What I Seen by Derek Frazier: In the Piney Woods of East Texas, there is no difference between faith and reason. Perception is reality, even when the subject is a hairy cryptid denied existence by mainstream science and traditional religious beliefs.


7 QUESTION INTERVIEWS:

· Joe Haldeman: SciFi author currently working on the Marsbound series. Current release: Earthbound

· Ed Kovacs: Author of Storm Damage (his current novel) and Unseen Forces

· Margaret Maron: Author of the Sigrid Harald and the Judge Deborah Knott series. Current release: Three-Day Town

· Kyle Mills: New York Times bestselling author of twelve books, including the latest in Robert Ludlum's Covert-One series, The Ares Decision. Current release: The Immortalists

· Jonas Saul: Author of the Sarah Roberts and the Drake Bellamy series. Current release: The Kill

· REPRINTED: 7 Question Interview with Literary Agent: Lucinda Blumenfeld

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