Happy Sunday everyone! I hope everyone has had a great week so far and are well rested for a new week to begin. Don't forget to join us for the CSR discussion tomorrow (August 29th) to discuss Treading Water by Headstall. Before I get into the wrap up for this week, I wanted to announce that the 2017 Anthology Themes have been decided. A huge thank you to all the members who sent in suggestions and to all the authors who helped narrow down and select the upcoming years themes. A reminder that we'll have two anthologies, Spring & Fall, and that both anthologies will include two themes for the authors to choose from. The themes for the 2017 anthologies are:

 

 

 

Featured Story: About Carl

 

We feature one or two story reviews each month to held drive readers to a story that they might not find otherwise. This week we featured About Carl by Diogenes. Timothy M provided us this great review and based on the comments, About Carl has been added to a few to be read lists. Don't forget, if there's a story that you'd like to give some recognition to by way of a story review, just send Renee a PM.

 

Premium, Advertising, Software Updates, Oh My!

 

There's going to be a few changes coming in the very near future, and on Wednesday, Myr joined us in the blog to discuss some of them. Myr talked about becoming a Premium Member, the new forum software that is coming soon, some advertising opportunities for our great authors, and we also put out a Premium Stories call. Make sure to check this blog out if any of this catches your interest.

 

Weekly Prompts
Unfortunately, Renee had a busy end of the week, and simply forgot to do this weeks prompts (bad Renee). But don't worry, they will be back next week! If you still wish to do a prompt response for this week, I encourage everyone to take a look in the Writing Prompts forum and pick a previous prompt. (There's a few that have had no response).

 

Anthology Announcements:

 

***NOTE: All Deadlines are for submission to the Anthology Proof Team

• 2016 Fall Anthology: Blindsided / The Forgotten - Due October 28th, 2016
• All Pre-2016 Anthology Themes - Due December 14, 2016
• 2017 Spring Anthology: Jagged Edges / Unintended Consequences - Due April 28th, 2016
  

Premium Updates:

 

Dreams of Humanity

 

The Harvest

 

Signature Updates:

 

 

 

The Lilydale Leopards

 

 

 

 

The Secret Life Of Billy Chase

 

Promising Updates:

 

 

 

 

 

Verse