Right as we were planning our upcoming November contest, we heard from Drax, one of the most well-known poets on HubPages. He suggested to Paul Edmondson that we have a poetry contest, and a couple of conversations later, we had put together plans for a poetry, prose, and photos contest! In addition to giving us…
Read MoreAn Interview with Alastar Packer
As the HubPatron of the Arts contest approaches, we want to introduce you to the special Hubbers who will be serving as judges on the poetry, creative writing, and photo gallery panels. Alastar Packer is one of the contest’s five creative writing judges. Check out our exchange as we discuss what attracts him to creative…
Read MoreIntroducing the HubPatron of the Arts Contest
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 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 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…
Read MoreOur April Contest – It’s a Wrap!
Though each contest on HubPages seems to be better than the last, April’s So You Think You Can Write Online proved to be far and away the most impressive competition our site has yet to see. Because there was no limiting category, entrants were free to write on what interested them most, and a plethora…
Read MoreOnline Writing Tips from HubPages Contest Judge Caroline Smith
Caroline Smith is an Assistant Professor of Writing at the George Washington University in Washington, DC where she helps college freshmen polish their writing skills through the First-Wear Writing program, a one-semester intensive writing course. Caroline majored in English at Moravian College and got her MA and PhDat the University of Delaware. She specializes in…
Read MoreAn Interview with Contest Judge Brittany of Pretty Handy Girl
Usefulness is one major element the judges in our upcoming So You Think You Can Write Online contest will be looking for in contest entries. For this reason, we wanted to have some real experts from the realm of useful online writing, and so we turned to Brittany of Pretty Handy Girl – an expert…
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