Students in grades 7 and 8 might be interested to hear about this opportunity: A place for your poetry to be published!

Space is a digital literary magazine devoted to publishing students’ original work. This next issue of space is specifically dedicated to poetry.

Participating is SUPER easy.  

• Write some poetry! Post it somewhere digital and public — on your blog, on your MySpace page, or your Tumblr account.
• If you have a Twitter account, send your poetry (via link or a tiny tweet!) to the official Space Twitter account at @space_issue4. Be sure to include your first name, grade, and city/country where you live.
• If you DON’T have a Twitter account, post your poetry on your blog, and alert your teacher (in case s/he missed it in his/her reader), who will send the link and the details to the Space zine.

DEADLINE: MAY 24, 2009

Those of you who enjoyed our podcast Daily Language Activity (DLA) today and are looking for more info – this post is about where you can find it.

Grammar Girl, a.k.a. Mignon Fogarty, writes at QuickandDirty.com. She also has a podcast, downloadable from the website or using iTunes. And, as if that’s not enough, you can follow her on Twitter, or buy her book on Amazon! I’m happy to see she has such an online presence!

Here is the direct link — including references — to the episode we listened to today, which focused on word choice: What To Call People With Disabilities. (Note: this episode was actually written by Bonnie Trenga, author of The Curious Case of the Misplaced Modifier. She blogs at The Sentence Sleuth.)

Happy Writing!

Image: Define Sentence by Trevor Coultart