Wish you all a Very Happy Year in 2019.

A very warm welcome to everyone who subscribed to IWW Newsletter. Thank you for subscribing to our newsletter.

1. Word of Success

a) "One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself." - Leonardo da Vinci.

b) "The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is." - Ben Stein

2. Editor's Note

The theme for the first month of 2019 - Jan 2019 - Short Stories is "Love Marriage - life after 5 years".

Your contributions can be submitted in the SUBMISSION FORM to all categories from 15th to 25th of each month. Only the theme based stories will be considered for Short Stories. More details are on the notice board.

We have 7 new writers who joined IWW recently, and they are - Aruva, Karthika G S, Preeth Ganapathy, Anupama Kadwad, Shree, Swati Sanguri, and Rohini Kottu. There were more stories and poems from new writers, but I could not accept them for not following our simple rules.

3. New items published at IWW in Dec 2018.

Short Stories - Theme - Surprise
(a) Turn of Events

This story can be read on the main page. IWW Short Stories

Poems

(a) Shame and Other Poems(b) Who Won?(c)It's My Time to Shine(d) Sorrow and Hope(e) Some Days and other Poems(f) The Sacrifice(g) The Grave(h) Desire(i) My Best Friend(j) Come December
These poems can be read on the main Poems page. IWW Poems

Book Review
Vanished Girl
This can be read on the main Book Review page. IWW Book Reviews

Travelogues
Melkote Temple Visit
This can be read on the main Travelogues page. IWW Travelogues

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4. Literature News
a) Amitav Ghosh wins the Jnanpith Award, 2018 https://literaturenews.in/awards/amitav-ghosh-wins-the-jnanpith-award-2018/

b) '10 most distinguished novels' longlisted

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/books/features/10-most-distinguished-novels-longlisted-by-a-literature-prize/articleshow/65686592.cms

5. Contests (Copy these links, paste each one of them on your browser and check for details.)

a) A number of short story contests for 2019 -https://calendarforwriters.com/events/categories/competition-for-writers/

b) An extensive list of writing contests https://www.dystopianstories.com/writing-competitions-contests/========================================================== ========================================================

5. Charity work.
Take a moment to check out Bosco

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6. Check out these books

a) A CHRISTMAS IN SCOTLAND - A travel memoir

b) CHERISHED

c) THE SECOND CHOICE

d) BEFORE THE SUNSET

e) VANISHED GIRL

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