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Meet Suparto Brata

August 28, 2010
By Brahmanto Anindito
Meet Suparto Brata

I met this extraordinary person few weeks ago. Born on the February 27th, 1932, R.M. Suparto Brata is a man of letters. Often, he writes novels and short stories in Javanese. It makes him known as a Javanese literary writer. This is not a popular option in Indonesia, because mostly people don’t buy books...
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Write for Ears Opportunity in PodCastle

August 19, 2010
By Brahmanto Anindito
Write for Ears Opportunity in PodCastle

PodCastle is looking for fantasy stories. PodCastle opens to all the sub-genres of fantasy, from magical realism to urban fantasy to slipstream to high fantasy, and everything in between. Fantastical or non-real content should be meaningful to the story.
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Re-appreciate Jaipong Dance

August 12, 2010
By Rie Yanti
Re-appreciate Jaipong Dance

When I was a child, I desired to learn pendet, a dance from Bali. I liked the dancers’ eyes. They open wide and wild. It is very different with a dance from my region, jaipong. This dance looks bored, old-fashioned, hick, and the dancers...
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Lomba Mengarang Femina

August 5, 2010
By Ihsan Maulana
Lomba Mengarang Femina

Untuk kesekian kalinya, Femina menyelenggarakan sayembara menulis fiksi. Sebagaimana biasa, Femina menyelenggarakannya untuk dua genre sekaligus: Cerpen (cerita pendek) dan cerber (cerita bersambung). Bagi Anda yang memiliki stok cerita...
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Breaking News

July 31, 2010
By Brahmanto Anindito
Breaking News

Microsite novel Pemuja Oksigen sudah bisa diakses secara online. Di microsite itu, Anda bisa mencari tahu segala hal tentang novel terbitan 2010 ini. Anda juga dapat membaca (memainkan) novelet...
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Intelligent? Creative? Or Innovative?

July 26, 2010
By Brahmanto Anindito
Intelligent? Creative? Or Innovative?

What do you prefer between the three? Intelligent people can absorb information and knowledge from any source. Creative people can see a new way of perceiving or reconfiguring data....
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25 USD for Published Fiction or Nonfiction and 10 USD for Poem

July 20, 2010
By Brahmanto Anindito
25 USD for Published Fiction or Nonfiction and 10 USD for Poem

This offer comes from Damazine.com. Damazine is an online literary journal published out of Damascus, Syria, from where it takes its name. It is an online literary journal publishing...
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Giving Names to Fictional Characters

July 12, 2010
By Rie Yanti
Giving Names to Fictional Characters

If you are going to have a baby, I bet you are busy to think about its name. Simply because a name is a prayer, an image. Wrong in...
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Brand Names in Fiction, Is It Okay?

July 5, 2010
By Brahmanto Anindito
Brand Names in Fiction, Is It Okay?

Is it all right to we write the trademarks or brand names in our purely art, work of fiction? Won’t the reader think that it is suspiciously a kind...
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