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Newsletters in general provide some great reading, both from the selected links to Writing.Com members' items and from the informative help and advice given in the editorials. The Contest Newsletter is your portal to understanding the mechanics involved with the contests. Even though some of the links may have become invalid, previous editions of each newsletter still provide useful tips and advice that you might have forgotten. Take a search through them whenever you get a chance. You might find the exact information or incentive you need to go forward with an idea you've had or write an entry you've been thinking about.
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ACTIVITYING
Activities come in all shapes and sizes. Some are "one size fits all" and some are more specifically directed. To host an activity begins with a reason for it and a place where others can share in it.
An activity can be public or private. It can be a group-members-only project or it can include group and non-group members. Or...it doesn't even have to have a group item involved at all, but can consist of a host and public participants.
There are a lot of reasons for having a contest and just as many reasons (or more) for having an activity:
 As a means for giving and receiving support
Just for fun and enjoyment
To offer writing instruction and advice
To offer support and information for becoming published
To share hobbies and interests
Writing.Com related, such as assisting with upgraded memberships
To offer information on a specific topic or a general topic
To help celebrate holidays and other special events
To bring members to gether from a certain town, city, state or country
For spiritual purposes
For political purposes
To create compilations such as a gathering of recipes, quotations or tips about a certain topic
To share a specific genre or style of writing
For specific members to get together (Newbies, Preferreds, etc.)
For those with a certain occupation or career to get together
For bringing together various levels of school students (college, high school, elementary, etc.)
As with contests, activities can be as elaborate as you would like or as low-keyed and simple as you want. Some activities have their own identifying sigs, host their own contests and put together various other activities within the main one. Some contests simply focus on the specific reason for which it was created.
Featured in this edition are activities that fit some of the categories mentioned above. How many other categories for having an activity can you add to the list? 
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Thank you to Puditat Kymkim and Anonymous for their persuasive comments to continue including quickly-expiring contests (but clearly marking them as such).
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 "Invalid Item" is a competition for all cases, all genres, and all stories and poems that are 25K and under, with a rating of 18+ or under. THANK YOU to everyone who entered this past round. I always enjoy reading the entries.
CONGRATULATIONS to the following ROUND 12 WINNERS:
GRAND PRIZE POEM
GRAND PRIZE FICTION
Honorable Mention Poem
Honorable Mention Fiction
Round 13 ends Sept. 28.
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I realize that this time of year is especially busy, and I've included quite a few projects, but I hope you find at least one that you'll be able to participate in. Till next time, enjoy sorting through the items listed here!
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ACTIVITIES
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AUCTIONS
Deadline: Weekly
RAFFLES
Deadline: Sept. 10
Deadline: Sept. 24 and Oct. 14
CONTESTS
Deadline: Weekly
Deadline: 15 entries or Sept. 30
Deadline: Sept. 13
Deadline: September 15
Begins Sept. 15. Ends Oct. 15
Deadline: Sept. 26
Deadline: September 30
Deadline: Oct. 10
Deadline: Nov. 1
Deadline: Not stated
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 Thank you to everyone who sent in comments! I truly appreciate it.
I have enjoyed the newsletter, but who wouldn't? The thing I really liked this time was the Deadlines in Red for each item listed in plain sight. I have printed this and put it on my wall for quick reference. Perhaps you have always done this and I am just now noticing. Anyway, thanks for that. I also have a suggestion, which I guess might be too much work, but I would like to see a quick listing of what each contest involved. Call me lazy, but it takes time to go to each bitem just to find you are not interested and then have to reload everything. Examples would be:
***Rix Haiku/Photography Contest
Take a picture & write a haiku to describe it.
***Said Contest
Make a list of words that writers can use in
place of said and arrange them by subjects.
While many do put the gist of their contest in the tag line, lots do not. AND, I notice THAT I AM ONE OF THE VIOLATORS!! Anyway, keep up the good work and may your subscriptions increase a thousand times!
Rixfarmgirl 
Thanks, Rix! Yep, the deadlines have been in red for quite a while. I didn't have time to do it for this edition, but I'll try and keep in mind your suggestion of capsulizing the contests. It's a good suggestion if time permits.
I love a contest that challenges me by limiting what I can use in my poetry (ie-how many lines, syllables, words, only specific words, imagery, etc.). It forces me to be extremely creative. It opens my mind (no more writer's block! Yeah)-
BabyFace-18
Indeed, BabyFace18, contests that have limiting aspects to them are challenging and are great for writer's block.
Whoa, what a perfect newsletter. You got everything in here! I loved your intro: The Mechanics of Contests. That's great, Gailey, it sums up everything quite nicely.
billwilcox
Okay, W.D., so ya noticed that.   The intro had nothing at all to do with contests...but...in an indirect way it did since it advertised Writing.Com's birthday and the official celebration has contests. (Okay...that was after-the-fact, huh?!?!)  *sigh*
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