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Look for our upcoming series of video Interviews with StarkLight Anthology winners starting later this week, where we will be featuring our winners from StarkLight 3 including Jen M. Duell, Van Fleming, John J. Higgins and more!
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Creativity, as Defined by StarkLight Press
People have been asking me quite a bit lately about creativity. Where do you get yours? What causes it? People have also been asking me: Is this story, artwork, poem, product, “good enough?” In response, I ask them if it is creative. See sentence one. After several evolutions of this discussion a definition of creativity,…
Randy McCharles Gives StarkLight 3 A Grand Introduction
Here is the awesome foreword written for our latest short story Anthology by Randy McCharles, well-known Calgary author and writing retreat guru. Many thanks to Randy for his thoughtful, high-energy and excellently penned words! Congratulations again to all of our winners! Foreword- StarkLight Volume 3 By Randy McCharles “Katrina, she is death.” So begins…
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Short Story Contest Number 4 Opens Today!
You should be. Here it is, for all of our new fans and friends who can’t wait to submit their work for our next fantabulous StarkLight Anthology- the rules and regulations for our new short story contest! Submission Length: 10 000 words maximum, flash fiction accepted. Submission Content: Any subject matter of a speculative,…
John J. Higgins Interviews StarkLight Press Editor
Tune in at 10 p.m. Eastern Time today to hear noted New Jersey Prosecutor John J. Higgins as he talks with our very own Virginia Carraway Stark about life, British Columbia, screenwriting- and of course the many fantastic projects she spearheads at StarkLight Press. John J. Higgins is author of a fascinating set of novels…
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Rolla Writers Association Convenes This Thursday!
Calling all writers, poets, artists, quaffers and creative warriors! Patricia Ann Martin, owner of the fabulous Rolla Pub, is providing her singular venue for a gathering of creative minds. Starting this Thursday, December 11, 2014, at 7 pm, the Rolla Pub will be the gathering place for people who want to share their poetry, short…
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StarkLight Press Interviews Roxann Harvey
In our next StarkLight Press Interview, we discuss Roxann Harvey’s winning entry in StarkLight’s Third Short Story Contest. Roxann Harvey is the Business Administrator for her husbands company, Rocky’s Tours Jamaica. She is a practical Nurse by profession and a self-published Author – very enthusiastic, loving and fun. She is currently pursuing her Bachelor’s Degree…
Thought for the Day
This persistence of writing is the only thing that separates the most famous authors in the world from everyone else, and it is coincidentally also what makes the best human beings. Are we suggesting writers are a superior lifeform? Yes. Congratulations to all our short story submittors, and true encouragement to all our next contestants….
StarkLight Press Interviews Van Fleming
1. What was the first thing that you remember writing? The first thing I remember writing is actually a story that takes place after this one where Markus is a major support character. 2. What is your main inspiration to write? Imagination. Seeing something in real life and spinning it on it’s head. Change the setting, or…
Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff- an Excerpt
Here is an excerpt from Virginia Carraway Stark’s comprehensive series on the histories of the Gods and Goddesses, as read by the author on YouTube. This particular excerpt is from the story of Jinx, a beautiful and enigmatically transparent goddess with whom most of us are familiar… though many would not know it 
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