Writers Wanted April

Bellevue Literary Review Prizes in Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry

Details: http://www.blreview.org/Contest/contest_guidelines.htm

$1000 Goldenberg Prize for Fiction
$1000 Carter V. Cooper Memorial Prize for Nonfiction
$1000 Marica and Jan Vilcek Prize for Poetry

Please note that BLR is unable to accept credit cards payments online at this time. See #12 to pay by check or credit card by phone. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Guidelines:

1.	BLR Prize awards outstanding writing related to themes of health, healing, illness, the mind, and the body. First prize is $1000 (in each genre) and publication in the Spring 2010 issue of the BLR.
2.	Prose limited to 5000 words. Up to 3 poems (maximum 5 pages). Submissions that exceed these limits will be disqualified.
3.	Deadline August 1, 2009. Winners will be announced by December 31, 2009.
4.	Entry fee is $15 per submission. For an additional $5, you will receive a 1 year subscription to the BLR. (Maximum: two submissions per person).
5.	Manuscripts are submitted electronically as a Microsoft Word document. (Save with a *.doc extension). Please combine all poems into one document and use first poem as title.
6.	Do not put your name on the manuscript document. (This will be entered separately on our website.) No cover letter needed.
7.	When entering the title in the website, please prefix with "Contest." (e.g. Contest : The Iliad.) This is extremely important and we appreciate your cooperation!
8.	Work previously published* in print or electronically will not be considered. (Please see footnote below for specific definition of “published.”)
9.	Simultaneous submissions are permitted, but we ask that you notify us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere. (This will avoid potentially awkward situations.) We regret that there can be no refunds or substitutions for withdrawn work.
10.	Students/friends/colleagues/relations of any of the judges are not permitted to enter submissions to that judge's genre.
11.	BLR acquires first-time North American rights. After publication, all rights revert to the author and may be reprinted as long as appropriate acknowledgement to BLR is made. All entries will also be considered for regular publication.
12.	Due to administrative costs, if no entry fee is received, manuscript will be placed with general submissions. Because of a temporary glitch, we are unable to accept credit card purchases over the web (to be fixed soon!) Please send payment by check, or call during business hours to give credit card info. By mail: send check and printout of confirmation email to: Bellevue Literary Review Dept of Medicine, Rm OBV-612 NYU School of Medicine 550 First Avenue New York, NY 10016 By phone: 212-263-3973 We sincerely apologize for the incovenience and appreciate your forbearance.
13.	Submit manuscript here (with Contest in title). Thank you

Prompts and Pieces

Objective: 20-25 original, creative writing prompts and pieces for book intended to stimulate writers of all genres; to be published by traditional publisher.

Submissions: submit an original, creative writing prompt and a 3,000-3,500 word piece in response to the prompt. Prompt and piece may be fiction or nonfiction but may not have been published previously.

Include: short bio, email address, SASE.

Compensation: one free book, upon publication.

Submit to: Prompts and Pieces, P.O. Box 103, Maynard, MA 01754

Deadline: December 31, 2009

Still have a question? Email mdellafera@charter.net

Linda Watskin and Michaeline Della Fera

Call for Stories from Nurses

Kaplan Publishing, the publisher of a broad range of educational and consumer books by and for healthcare providers, is now accepting stories for a new and exciting anthology, Beyond Borders: Nurses’ Stories about Working Abroad.

Kaplan wants nurses from all over the world to reveal what it’s like to practice nursing outside of their hometowns, in places like the United States, Jamaica, France, Indonesia and beyond.

Whether confronted with unfamiliar cultural norms, new medical language, or greater or fewer resources than you would experience at home, your story will open a window into the commonalties and cultural differences in how the art and science of nursing is practiced around the globe.

SUBMISSIONS GUIDELINES.

§ Tell your story. If you are a nurse’s aid, a nurse, or a nurse practitioner please share your unique experience of working somewhere other than your native country. If you have a story of working in a town that is culturally very different from your hometown, we hope you will share this story as well.

§ Tell us how your experience has shaped the person that you are today.

§ Make us laugh, make us cry; allow your words to open a broader world for your readers.

§ All stories must be true and you must you retain the copyright if previously published.

§ Story Length:1,000 – 2,500 words

§ Submit stories in Microsoft Word, 12-point Times New Roman, double-spaced.

§ Each submission should include your name, address, phone number, and email address.

§ Tell a story that has a beginning, middle, and end.

§ Write from your heart about a life-changing or life-defining experience.

§ Multiple submissions are welcome.

§ All manuscripts selected for publication will be subject to editing.

§ Before final acceptance, you will receive an agreement that outlines the terms and conditions of publication.

§ Submission Deadline: May 29, 2009

§ Payment:$100 if published, along with two complimentary copies of the book

o By Email - Beyond Borders@live.com Please put your story title in the subject line. You can type the story into the body of the email, or send as an attachment.

o By Mail - Only a paper copy of the story – no disks or CDs please.

Kaplan Publishing – Beyond Borders

P.O. Box 51

Wever, IA 52658 USA

Due to the volume of submissions we cannot acknowledge receipt or provide status updates.

Open Call for Submissions

SunDrop, a new fiction imprint of New Concord Press (EGPG) is preparing to publish two anthologies: in fall 2009 and early winter 2010. These themed anthologies will contain 6 stories each, and be published in trade paperback, e-book, and Kindle formats.

Seasons of Romance: Winter Love (a SunDrop Sunbeam)

In the chill of winter, nothing beats curling up with a great romance! And winter has its advantages too for providing backgrounds and situations that beg for love to bloom. A ski lodge, a cozy cabin, a crackling fire, a snowball fight? Stories can be in any era, any place, and any subgenre (except young adult and erotic romance).

Wander Lust: Erotic Romance in All the Best Places (a SunDrop Scorcher)

Nothing loosens the inhibitions like a trip to a far-away romantic spot. Dig into your deepest, wildest dreams and give us the best and sexiest fantasy trip ever! Any era, any place, anything goes, just be sure to carefully read the submission guidelines.

Visit http://www.newconcordpress.com then scroll down to SunDrop

new anthology : Facing the Change

Details: http://www.facingthechange.org/

We've all heard the scientific facts and predictions about global climate change. But when you hear the experts talking, how do you feel? Are you stunned, frightened, angry, concerned? Do you think about the places you love, and how they may be changed in the future? Have you already observed changes in the world around you? Has global warming affected your hopes and dreams for the future, your beliefs about humanity or the natural world, your faith in progress or in God? To what people, places, and symbols do you turn for strength, hope, and sustenance?

Facing the Change will be a different kind of book about global warming - filled not with bare facts and dire warnings but with human feelings, challenges, and hope, and written not by the experts but by everyday people from all backgrounds, ages, and walks of life - written by you. Anyone with the courage to face the emotional and spiritual dimensions of the climate change crisis is invited to submit a story, essay, or poem. Submissions should express your own personal experiences and reflections about the meanings of global warming, including (but not limited to) topics such asPerceiving the reality of climate change, through direct experience at home or while travelling, or through imagining what may happen in the future to places you loveFacing the feelings - fear, terror, grief, guilt, sadness, anger - all the emotional warning signs whose expression can be appropriate and healthy, but whose repression leads to disempowerment, despair, and paralysisDancing with your sources of life - connecting with those people, places, beings, and activities with whom you nurture love, joy, power, and hope in the face of crisisReflecting on your religious and philosophical foundations - reassessing your own fundamental beliefs, values, guiding symbols, and visions for the futureChoosing to change your life in any arena - work, family, lifestyle, community involvement, cultural activities, political choices - whether your goal is to try to prevent, to accept, or to adapt to climate change

Again, please ground your writing in personal experience, and in consideration of the emotional, spiritual, and philosophical meanings of climate change; no purely scientific expositions, political arguments, or moral polemics, please. Submissions must be typed and legible, with a brief author bio and complete contact information included in the document. (It would also be helpful to know how you learned of the project.) English only, please; speakers of other languages are encouraged to develop similar projects of your own. Sorry, no fees can be paid for use of any work. Submissions accepted through May 1, 2008 (soon after which I will prepare a proposal with which to approach potential publishers). Work may be submitted electronically (Word or plain-text documents only) to submissions(at)facingthechange.org, or in hard copy to the following address:

Facing the Change

c/o Steven Pavlos Holmes

21 Eldridge Rd.

Jamaica Plain, MA 02130

Questions or comments? Suggestions for helping publicize the project? Interested in distributing flyers at meetings, conferences, or events? Able to support the project financially? Contact me at steve@facingthechange.org. Thanks for your interest in Facing the Change!

Short story submissions now open for Avery 5

Details: http://www.averyanthology.org/

Past issues have included stories by Hannah Tinti, Kevin Canty, Ander Monson, Stephen Dixon and many more.

We accept email submissions only, and all we ask is that you send us your strongest fiction, double-spaced, with all of your contact
information on the first page of your story. One story per reading period, please.

Avery cannot accept paper submissions through the snail mail. Please know: if you send us a paper submission, it will not be read. In fact,
it will be recycled. We truly want to read your stories, so please:submit electronically!

Send your submissions as a Word attachment to:
submissions@averyanthology.org

Please write "submission" in the subject line, followed by your
story's title. Otherwise, we might mistake your submission for spam
and might therefore unintentionally delete it.

Call for Submissions - 'Another Time, Another Place'

Mythica Publishing is planning a short story anthology to be published later this year. 'Another Time, Another Place' will comprise approximately 10 - 12 tales which must all be thrillers and should be based in the future, whether it be one year from now or a thousand years ahead of our time. In short as writers you are able to use your imagination to the full and if necessary create a world to house your characters and the events that overtake them. The maximum word count for the anthology is 4,500 words and the closing date for submissions is the 30th May 2009.Anyone who wishes to submit to this exciting new project should send the story and a short (100 word or less bio), in Word.doc format as an attachment (no zip files please), to thriller.editor@mythicapublishing.com to arrive no later than the stated closing date. Royalties will be paid to those selected depending on the final number of authors to be included in the book.Further details will shortly be published on the Mythica website at www.mythicapublishing.com