HubPages is a vast site, full of many, many different subcommunities of writers and enthusiasts. Some of the strongest communities on our site are comprised of the artistically-inclined: poets, fiction writers, and photographers. To celebrate these amazing artists, we decided to make our next contest all about prose, poetry and photos! Enter the HubPatron of…
Read MoreOn Writing Well: An Interview with Melanie Gideon
Melanie Gideon’s A Slippery Year is one of my personal favorite memoirs. It also stayed on the New York Times’ top ten best-seller list for many weeks, and received rave reviews from NPR, NY Post, San Francisco Chronicle, New Yorker’s Book Bench, Christian Science Monitor, San Francisco Magazine, Elle, Kirkus, Booklist, BookPage and others. I…
Read MoreLast chance to vote for HubPages!
Public voting for South by Southwest (SXSW) ends tomorrow, September 2, at 11:59 a.m. CST. So if you have not voted already, and would like to, please do so. Your vote will help Paul get selected from among over 3,000 other candidates, and will help HubPages get attention at the South by Southwest conference. The…
Read MoreNot too late for vote for our SXSW proposal (just takes a minute)!
Hey everyone, Have you had a chance to vote for Paul’s SXSW (South by Southwest) speaking proposal, entitled Bringing Back the Love When Google Hates You? If not, it’s not too late! Your vote will help Paul get selected from among over 3,000 other candidates, and will help HubPages get media attention, which benefits us…
Read MoreHubPages’ 5th Birthday & The 2011 Hubbie Award Winners
As you may have noticed from the special birthday icon on the top navbar of our site, HubPages is celebrating its fifth birthday. It is strange to think that only five years ago, HubPages was only just getting started- especially when one considers how much the community has grown over the years. Because five is…
Read MoreThree Reasons to Write about Plumbing
This August, the plumbing category is going to be the place to be on HubPages for three reasons thanks to a special sponsorship from Drano: A Plumbing Contest: We will be hosting the Clogs to Coins contest, a special two-week contest in which we encourage you to turn your weekend plumbing tasks into useful Hubs…
Read MoreThe Clogs to Coins HubCamp & Contest
Though our Share and Share a Like contest is still in full swing, I want to let you know that we’ve got a special, two-week contest coming up this August. Sponsored by Drano, the Clogs to Coins contest is going to be focused entirely in our Plumbing category. We encourage you to document your own…
Read MoreHubbie Award Voting & The Importance of Community
In this week’s Online Writing Insider podcast, Robin and I discuss the Importance of Community in writing online (and offline, too!). In line with this podcast theme, I’m happy to announce that voting for the first annual Hubbie Awards is now open! To submit your nominations (votes) for each Hubbie Award, enter the username of…
Read MoreIntroducing the First Ever Hubbie Awards
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again- HubPages would not be anywhere near the amazing site it is without its vibrant community. To celebrate awesome Hubbers as well as our fifth birthday, we are going to host the first ever Hubbie Awards on Friday, August 5th. This coming Wednesday, we will open voting…
Read MoreIntroducing the Share and Share A Like Contest
Guess what? We’ve got a contest next month! The HubPages Share and Share a Like contest is HubPages’ first ever social contest in which we encourage you to write online articles that your social media friends are likely to read, enjoy, and share. In this contest, we’ve opened up most of the voting to the…
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