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JULY LITERARY Press
Details: www.julyliterarypress.com.
Seeking poetry, essays, stories about Christmas, winter season. No previously published except by invitation. Read guidelines first: e-mail gayb@buffnet.net or tkovalesky@aol.com; or SASE to JLP, 294 Hunters Lane, Williamsville, NY 14221. Electronic submissions will be deleted unread.
Submission deadline: September 30.
Black Warrior Review
Details: http://www.bwr.ua.edu
Black Warrior Review seeks poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and art. Stories and poems appearing in Black Warrior Review have been reprinted in the Pushcart Prize series, Best American Short Stories, Best American Poetry, New Stories from the South, and other anthologies. Each issue features a chapbook from a nationally known poet." Welcomes new writers. Circ. 2K. Bi-annual. Pays on publication. Publishes ms 1-6 months after acceptance. Buys first rights. No reprints. Response time varies. Sample copy $10. Subscription $16; $20 outside the U.S. Guidelines online at http://www.bwr.ua.edu/submit.html.
Call For Manuscripts: Subway Essays
Details: www.thesubwaychronicles.com
ARS MEDICA
A Journal of Medicine, the Arts and Humanities is a new literary magazine looking for fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and artwork dealing with illness, the body, healing, and the culture of medicine. For submission/subscription info, see www.ars-medica.ca.
Writers Wanted: The Paris Review
Details:
http://www.theparisreview.org/page.php/prmID/32
The esteemed literary magazine says they are looking for new writers. If you've got great poems and short stories. All submissions must be in English and previously unpublished. Translations are acceptable and should be accompanied by a copy of the original text. Simultaneous submissions are also acceptable as long as we are notified immediately if the manuscript is accepted for publication elsewhere. A cover letter is not necessary, but be sure to include phone and (if possible) email contact information. Please submit only one story manuscript at a time. We suggest to all who submit that they read several issues of The Paris Review to acquaint themselves with material the magazine has published.
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Anthology Seeks Essay from 40-something Women
life, love and change in our 40s
Call for submissions – help create the first anthology about
life, love and change in our 40s
• Are you a 40-something woman?
• Do you have something to say about life in your 40s?
• Do you want to be part of a talented, interesting group of women across the country who are making a difference?
We are publishing an anthology of personal essays, currently called Laugh Lines, by women from a variety of backgrounds. In this book, 40-something women tell it straight about what it means to be in your 40s. They talk openly and honestly about work and family, sex and divorce, new confidences and lingering doubts. This anthology will consist of 25-30 personal essays combined into one print title for publication in Fall 2008.
Brief Synopsis
Turning 40 is a milestone for women. We spent our 20s going to college, and perhaps graduate school, launching our careers and perhaps our marriage. We spent our 30s building our careers, achieving a track record, and perhaps starting a family. What are the 40s all about?
The contributors will answer:
What is a major experience, realization or change that I have gone through in my 40s, and what have I learned from it? (themes include bodies, work, relationships, children, self-image, priorities, parents and following your passion. Other topic ideas welcomed.)
The Details
Deadline
Submissions are open until May 15, 2008, and the final acceptances will be communicated by June 1, 2008. Submissions should be sent to molly_rosen@yahoo.
Audience
The audience is women aged 31-50 who will be inspired by other women’s stories, and will appreciate getting a better understanding of “what’s happening” or “what comes next.”
Project Specifications/
Contributors:
Compensation:
2008 Hollywood Book Festival - Call for Entries
Details:
www.hollywoodbookfestival.com
The 2008 Hollywood Book Festival has issued a call for entries to its annual
program celebrating books
that deserve greater recognition from the film, television, game and multimedia
communities.
Based in the capital of show business, the Hollywood Book Festival aims to (1)
spotlight literature worth of further consideration by the talent-hungry
pipeline of the entertainment industry; and (2) facilitate getting those works
into the proper hands for consideration.
The 2008 Hollywood Book Festival will consider published, self-published and
independent publisher non-fiction, fiction, biography/autobiography, children's
books, teenage, how-to, audio/spoken word, 'zines, comics, e-books, fan fiction,
wild card (anything goes!), unpublished stories and genre-based works.
There is no publication date deadline – books from any year are eligible.
Entry packages should include one copy of the book; any relevant marketing
material; a copy of your official entry form; and the entry fee or receipt from
online payment. Entries should be mailed to:
Hollywood Book Festival
7095 Hollywood Blvd.
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Hollywood, CA 90028
Phone: 323-665-8068
2008 PILGRIMAGE WRITING AWARD--$1000
Details: http://pilgrimagepress.org/award.html
We’ve chosen an intentionally open-ended theme for this issue. Whether your take on the theme is literal/physical, psychological, spiritual, or…?, we’re interested in seeing your personal essays.
Summer: The 1960s
Submit by July 1st; Issue comes out in mid-August
So much of what happens in American culture still seems to be in reaction to things that happened forty years ago. We’re looking for personal essays, poems, maybe a piece of fiction or two about experiences during the 60s or experiences related to lingering memories and myths of the 60s.
Global City Review
Deep democracy is an attitude that focuses on the awareness of voices that are both central and marginal. The notion of deep democracy suggests that all voices, states of awareness, and frameworks of reality are important. Allowing oneself to take seriously seemingly unimportant events and feelings can often bring unexpected solutions to both group and inner conflicts as well as political conundrums. Tell us how this approach to living may have played out in your own life or community
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Editorial Guidelines: Published biannually, Global City Review includes stories, poems, memoirs, interviews and essays organized around a broad theme. Upcoming themes are: "Beyond Good and Evil" Fall/Winter 2008, "Nothing Is Simple" Spring/Summer 2009, "Second Chances" Fall/Winter 2009, "Unusual Weather" Spring/Summer 2010, "History Repeats Itself Again" Fall/Winter 2010. "Beyond Good and Evil" deadline is June 15, for other Fall/Winter issues March 1-May 1 and for Spring/Summer issues October 1-December 1. Submit work for any upcoming issue during the reading periods, but note which theme in your cover letter. Length: poetry 5 pages, stories, memoirs, essays and interviews 15. No e-mail submissions. SASE for reply. All submissions, except poetry, must be double-spaced. We regret that manuscripts can't be returned. Payment in copies. Submissions should be sent to: Global City Review, Simon H. Rifkind Center for the Humanities, City College of New York, West 138th St. and Convent Ave., New York, NY 10031.
"Beyond Good and Evil" deadline is June 15
New Letters Awards for Writers
Details:
http://www.newletters.org/awards.asp
| A Story is a Promise offers a fresh new
model for mastering the elusive art of writing dramatic and engaging
stories. In order to illustrate its major principles, the book includes
reviews and analyses of over a dozen popular films, novels, and plays.
Complete with prompts and questions at the end of each chapter, A Story is a
Promise can be used as a workbook to help writers internalize the principle
that underlies all well-told stories: that a story should be a promise and
that a promise should be kept. The inclusion of familiar examples makes this
book accessible and useful to all writers of fiction, plays, and
screenplays.
Bill Johnson has been using the manuscript of A Story is a Promise in his workshops for years. Many editors also use the workbook to teach blossoming writers the craft of storytelling. |
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In his widely read guides How to Write a Damn Good Novel and How to Write a Damn Good Novel II: Advanced Techniques, popular novelist and fiction-writing coach James N. Frey showed tens of thousands of writers how--starting with rounded, living, breathing, dynamic characters--to structure a novel that sustains its tension and development and ends in a satisfying, dramatic climax.
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Now, in The Key, Frey takes his
no-nonsense, "Damn Good" approach and applies it to Joseph Campbell's
insights into the universal structure of myths. Myths, says Frey, are the
basis of all storytelling, and their structures and motifs are just as
powerful for contemporary writers as they were for Homer. Frey begins with
the qualities found in mythic heros--ancient and modern--such as the hero's
special talent, his or her wound, status as an "outlaw," and so on. He then
demonstrates how the hero is initiated--sent on a mission, forced to learn
the new rules, tested, and suffers a symbolic death and rebirth--before he
or she can return home. Using dozens of classical and contemporary novels
and films as models, Frey shows how these motifs and forms work their
powerful magic on the reader's imagination. The Key is designed as a practical step-by-step guide for fiction writers and screen writers who want to shape their own ideas into a mythic story. |
$4,500 total prizes for writers
Next postmark deadline: May 18, 2008.
The $1,500 New Letters Prize for Poetry
for the best group of three to six poems
The $1,500 Dorothy Churchill Cappon Prize for the Essay
for the best essay
The $1,500 Alexander Patterson Cappon Prize for Fiction
for the best short story
GUIDELINES
Submit by regular post or electronically. Simultaneous submissions of
unpublished entries are accepted with proper notification upon acceptance
elsewhere. For electronic entries, go to our website at
http://www.newletters.org/awards.asp
Enclose with each entry:
*$15 for first entry; $10 for every entry after. Entry fee includes a one-year
subscription, renewal, or gift subscription to New Letters. Make checks
payable to New Letters.
*Two cover sheets: the first with complete name, address, e-mail address, phone
number, category, and title(s); and the second with category and title only.
Your personal information should not appear anywhere else on the entry.A
stamped, self-addressed postcard for notification of receipt and entry
number.
*A stamped, self-addressed
envelope for a list of winners. This is optional. Please send only
one envelope if submitting more than one entry.
RULES AND NOTES
All entries will be considered for publication in New Letters. Entries are not
to exceed 8,000 words. Poetry entries may contain up to six poems.
They need not be related. Multiple entries are welcome with appropriate fees.
Manuscripts will not be returned. No substitutions after submissions. No
refunds will be offered for withdrawn material. Current students and employees
of the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and current volunteer members
of the New Letters and BkMk Press staffs, are not eligible.
MAIL ENTRIES TO:
New Letters Awards for Writers
UMKC, University House, Room 105
5101 Rockhill Road
Kansas City, MO 64110-2499
Postmark deadline by May 18, 2008.
Relief: A Quarterly Christian Expression
Details:
http://www.reliefjournal.com
We are currently accepting submissions for Relief: A Quarterly Christian
Expression. This literary journal is designed for authors who want to
write seriously, but struggle to find an outlet for poetry and stories that have
a faithful slant. Our goal is to publish poems and short stories that push
the envelope beyond stereotypically "fluffy" Christian writing, so please feel
free to stand out on the edge.
Cash prizes will be awarded to "Editor's Choice" for each genre.
Submissions will only be accepted through our online submission process.
Questions about Relief? Send inquiries to:
editor@reliefjournal.com
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