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CALL FOR WRITERS AND READERS

Details: http://www.fieldreport.com

FieldReport new web site that has been called American Idol for writing, has just announced the first
FieldReport Prize for Experiential Writing, a prize of $250,000 to be
awarded December 1st, 2008 for a single true-life story of 2,000 words or
less. As far as we can determine, this is the world's largest prize for a
single piece of writing. In addition to the Grand Prize, a
$25,000 scholarship will go to the best teen submission to TeenReport, which
will go live on 7/28. In order to qualify for the grand prize contest, enter
a true-life story and win one of twenty $1,000 category prizes awarded each

month leading up to the December 1st awards. Enter a story between now and
mid-August to win one of the September 1st monthly prizes. Qualifiers are
chosen by our patent-pending Objective Community Ranking Engine so that
quality, not popularity, pushes the best FieldReports to the top. There is
no entry fee.

to find out more about FieldReport. Write to info@fieldreport.com if you
have any questions or problems. Good luck!

CEZANNE'S CARROT ANNOUNCES FICTION & CREATIVE NONFICTION CONTEST

Traveling Mamas Anthology

Details: http://travelingmamas.com/anthology/

TravelingMamas.com is in search of true uplifting, funny, inspirational, and touching stories with a travel theme for an upcoming anthology series. Possible themes may include family travel, romantic escapes, girlfriend getaways, and solo trips.

We’re looking for stories that inspire us, force us to laugh out loud or make us reach for the tissue box. Bring us into your story by using the five senses. Every story must have a beginning, middle, and end.

Rights:

We are requesting one-time rights. Reprints are acceptable as long as you own the rights.

If your work has been published before we ask that you please send the name of the publication the story appeared and the date it was published with your submission. We will have the right to edit your work.

Submission:

Word count: 300-1000 words.

More than one story may be submitted.

The story can be told in first or third person. You don’t have to be a mom to tell the story.

Deadline is midnight September 1, 2008.

In the body of your email please include your name, address, phone number, and preferred email address. At the bottom of your story please include a brief author bio (no more than 100 words) to be included in the back of the book. If your story is chosen you will be able to revise your bio before publication.

Please send your submissions in the body of an email to

anthology@travelingmamas.com  (no attachments will be opened).

Compensation:

$50 (Payment upon publication)

A Traveling Mamas travel pack that includes one copy of the book your story appears in.

Please be patient. This is a long process. We will let you know as soon we know if your story has been selected. If you don’t hear from us, we may be holding your story for upcoming books.

Thank you for joining our journey. We look forward to reading your stories.

The Traveling Mamas
 

Honey Locust Press announces a call for submissions for a Christian                         Speculative Fiction anthology,

 THE EDGE OF BELIEF

http://www.honeylocustpress.com/Anthology_callout.htm

THE EDGE OF BELIEF will be an anthology of speculative fiction with a Christian focus/worldview. It is open to submissions of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror, as long as the stories abide by the established standards.

Sometimes, the line separating our true beliefs from our fantasies and our imagination is a vague and ill-defined one. This book has stories that explore the area surrounding that fuzzy and indefinite line at THE EDGE OF BELIEF.

Please Note! We have received several stories that have no hint of a religious or spiritual tone. This anthology is about speculative fiction with a Christian spiritual/religious focus. (That's where the word BELIEF fits in.) The story must show that. If not, even though it may be fine spec fic, it won't fit the anthology.

 

Standards

If you are interested in submitting a story for consideration for this anthology, please read the following carefully!

The word count must be between 2,000 and 4,000. (We are aiming for a word count total of about 50,000 for the whole book.)

A "happy ending" is not necessary, but the story does need a satisfactory resolution of some sort.

No onstage sex.

No foul language.

Don't preach at the reader!

No glorification of evil. (We realize that a story may have a denouement where it appears that evil has won,
but individual battles are not the war.)

No gore/violence strictly for shock value (The Editor is the only judge of this, and his word is final.)

No fan-fiction or overly-derivative works (i.e., no Narnia read-alikes, no Star Wars Holy Clones, etc.)

Previously published works may not have been published within one year of submission to the publisher, and the author must have all rights to the story, in writing.

The format shall be perfect-bound, 5"x8" trade paperback.

Contributors to receive one complimentary copy of the anthology, upon publication.

There are two options for author compensation:

Outright purchase of all rights for 24 months after publication, at 1 cent per word. With this option, the author can purchase additional copies of the anthology with a 10% discount (minimum purchase of ten copies to get this discount; smaller quantities at standard retail), OR

Author releases all rights to publisher gratis for 24 months after publication, but the author can purchase up to 100 (one hundred) copies of the anthology at 30% off retail. Purchases beyond 100 are at a 35% discount.

The actual retail price will depend upon the page count, but the projected retail price is approximately $10.95 to $11.95, USD.

The publisher reserves the right to decline any story for any reason, without recourse.

The publisher reserves the right to edit as needed to create the desired book.

The publisher reserves the right to ask the author to edit the story as needed.

New deadlin
e! Submissions are now open until September 1, 2008. The publisher reserves the right to cancel the project without recourse, should he determine that there are not enough suitable submissions by October 1, 2008.

New Release Date! The projected release date for THE EDGE OF BELIEF is March 2009.

Submit your story in RTF format, no headers or footers, 12-pt. Arial or Times New Roman, double-spaced, with your name and contact information along with the approximate word count at the top of the page. Submit by email as an attachment to belief@honeylocustpress.com  In your cover email, include your last three publishing credits, if any, as well as your preference for author compensation.

College Student Travel Writing Contest: TransitionsAbroad.com

Details: www.transitionsabroad.com/information/writers/writers.shtml


Transitions Abroad Magazine and TransitionsAbroad.com cohost an annual student writers contest for all currently enrolled undergraduate and
graduate students, students who have graduated within the past year, and students currently on leave from school are eligible. The winning
submission will be awarded $200 and the second place winner will be awarded $100. Both winning pieces will be published in Transitions
Abroad Magazine's Spring Student Guide to Studying, Volunteering, and
Working Overseas and on TransitionsAbroad.com.

The title "Transitions" is meant to suggest the changes in perception.

Deadline:  The Contest begins May 15th, 2008, and all entries must be received by March 1st, 2009

Queer Collection Prose & Poetry Anthology 

 Details: http://www.queercollection.com/index_files/Submissions.htm

Submission Guidelines

What we're looking for:  Creative original prose and poetry by and for a gay, lesbian, bi, transgender, and queer audience.  Fiction, nonfiction, and poetry will be considered.  Some previously published material will be considered including stories, articles, and book excerpts.  Author must hold reprint rights to previously published material.


What we're not looking for:  Pornography or graphic erotica.

 Prose Word Count:  up to 3000 words:  Poetry Word Count:  up to 40 lines

 Authors may submit a combination of up to 5 pieces of prose or poetry for consideration.

Selection Process:  Each submission will be reviewed and considered based on creativity, originality, concept, and style.  Reading will be continuous and submissions will be considered as they arrive.  Not all works will be accepted.  There is NO Entry Fee or Reading Fee.

 

MANUSCRIPTS WILL NOT BE RETURNED.

 

Selected Submissions:  Authors will be notified in January 2009 by mail if their submission is selected for publication.  At that time, a contract will be issued along with further instructions for providing an electronic copy of your work and biography for publication.

 
Publication Date:  The Queer Collection: Prose and Poetry 2009 will have a

0publication date of June 2009. 

Rights:  Authors retain all rights to their work.

 Contract:  A contract will be issued upon acceptance of an authors work.  Books may be ordered at that time at a discount, but it is NOT required that authors purchase books.

 Payment:  Authors whose submissions are selected for publication will receive US$25 as payment for publication.


Author Purchased Books Pre-Publication:  Authors are not requiredto purchase books, but may purchase books below cover price.  These books may be resold at any price the author wishes with the author retaining all profits from those personal sales.  Additional ordering instructions will arrive with the author contract. Books ordered before March 31, 2009 receive the following pre-publication discounts: $8 each

 Author Purchased Books Post-Publication:  Authors are not required to purchase books, but may purchase books below cover price after publication as long as supplies last.  These books may be resold at any price the author wishes with the author retaining all profits from those personal sales.  Books ordered after April 1, 2009, receive the followingpost-publication discount: $10 each

 Pre- and Post-Publication prices include shipping charges (to US addresses only).

Submission Guidelines:

 HARD COPIES ON WHITE PAPER ONLY (NO EMAIL SUBMISSIONS).

Cover Page for each work submitted:  

TITLE
BYLINE
WORD COUNT
FULL NAME
ADDRESS
PHONE
EMAIL ADDRESS

NOTE IF PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED INCLUDING DATE AND SOURCE.

Body Format:
Header with Last Name, Title, Page Number
1" margins
12 point Times New Roman or Currier New font
Prose Double Spaced
Poetry spaced as intended for publication

Include your bio (up to 150 words) as the last page of your submission.

 

Mail Submissions to:
 
Gregory A. Kompes, editor
Queer Collection
Fabulist Flash Publishing
PO Box 570368
Las Vegas, NV 89157

 Submission Deadline:  December 31, 2008

A Special Issue of Women's Studies Quarterly

Call for Papers: MOTHER
Guest Editors: Nicole Cooley and Pamela Stone

We have entered a motherhood moment--from celebrity mom baby-bump sightings to recent televised debates between “stay at home moms” and “working moms,” from “welfare mothers” to “Alpha moms,” images of motherhood are circulating in our culture as never before. 

Motherhood demands a new look. As women push motherhood later and later, as a larger share forego it entirely, and as mothering itself takes up a smaller fraction of women’s lives, why is the fascination with all things “mother” at an all-time high? What does it mean to be a mother when motherhood is increasingly decoupled from biology? At a time when women’s reproductive rights are vulnerable and the pro-choice movement on the defensive, why is so much of the discussion about mothering framed in the rhetoric of choice and agency? As the majority of mothers pursue both family and paid employment, the “cultural contradictions” of intensive mothering that sociologist Sharon Hays first identified over a decade ago do indeed seem, to paraphrase writer/journalist Judith Warner, an ever more “[im]perfect madness.” 

This WSQ special issue invites feminist work that speaks to our current historical moment in an effort to try to begin to construct a comprehensive and critical overview of mothers, mothering, and motherhood. We welcome academic papers f
rom a variety of perspectives in all disciplines, from theory, qualitative research, and empirical studies to literary studies. We would also be interested in memoir and first-person essays, fiction, poetry, art, and writing which blurs boundaries and crosses genres in its exploration of mothering.

Topics to be explored include: 

· Discourses around motherhood and how they are shaped by race, ethnicity, immigrant status and sexuality

· Mothers in the workplace: The price of motherhood, “mommy tracking” and “maternal wall,” “opting out”

· The “mommy wars”: Stay-at-home moms vs. working moms

· The paid and unpaid work of mothering and caregiving; the “second shift”

· Motherhood, loss and grief: Infertility, miscarriage, stillbirth and infant and child death

· Motherhood and disability/special needs

· Intensive mothering: Ideologies and practices around co-sleeping, breastfeeding, homeschooling and unschooling, toilet-training, tutoring

· Mothers as consumers: The marketing of motherhood

· Pregnancy: The medicalization of and birthing practices, representations of the mother’s body, assisted reproductive technologies (ART), surrogacy, abortion and reproductive choice

· New models of motherhood: LGBT moms, young moms, single mothers, stepmothers and blended families

· Men as moms: Stay-at-home dads, coparenting, single fathers

· Immigration and motherhood; global labor chains

· Childcare and domestic labor: Practices,0issues and politics

· Motherhood and ecofeminism, explorations of “mother nature”

· Mommy lit as its own brand of chick-lit and the new “dad” books

· Mothers and digital media: The role of mommy blogs, list-servs, message boards and social networking sites

· Adoption: Transnational and domestic, transracial

· Motherhood and public policy: From debates about FMLA to activist groups such as MomsRising

· Mothering older children, mothering adult children, grandmothering

· Motherhood and Third Wave Feminism

· The experiences of women who choose not to mother

· Mothering in comparative, global and transnational contexts

If submitting academic work, please send abstracts by September 30, 2008 to the guest editors Pamela Stone and Nicole Cooley at: WSQMotherIssue@gmail.com.

Full papers should be no longer than 22 pages, and will be due by January 1, 2009.

Poetry submissions should be sent to WSQ's poetry editor Kathleen Ossip, at ossipk@aol.com
 by January 1, 2009.

Fiction, essay, and memoir submissions should be sent to WSQ's fiction/nonfiction editor, Susan Daitch, daitch@hunter.cuny.edu
 by January 1, 2009.

Art submissions should be sent to WSQMotherIssue@gmail.com.
by January 1, 2009. Please keep in mind that after art is reviewed and accepted, accepted art must be sent to the journal’s managing editor on a CD that includes all artwork of 300 DPI or greater, saved as 4.25 inches wide or larger. These files should be saved as individual JPEGS or TIFFS

HUNGER MOUNTAIN CREATIVE NONFICTION PRIZE

Details: http://www.tui.edu/hungermtn/nonfiction.asp

Judged by Sue William Silverman, author of Love Sick: One Woman’s Journey Through Sexual Addiction and editor of the journal Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction.


One $1,000.00 prize winner receives publication in the Spring 2008 Issue; two honorable mentions receive $100.00 each.

GUIDELINES
$15 entry fee, payable to "Hunger Mountain" — includes a copy of the Spring 2008 Issue of HUNGER MOUNTAIN.
Submit one work of creative nonfiction, not to exceed 10,000 words. Name or address should not appear anywhere on the manuscript. Story must be original, written in English, and previously unpublished.Entries must be typed, one-side-only. Use a paper clip or send unbound—no staples or binding. Enclose a standard index card with title, name, address, phone number, and email address.

MAIL TO:
CNF Prize
Hunger Mountain
Vermont College/UI&U
36 College Street
Montpelier VT , 05602

WINNERS ANNOUNCED: Spring 2008

DEADLINE: September 10, 2008

The 2008 PRISM international Literary Nonfiction Contest

Entries must be no longer than 25 pages, typed (12 pt font), double-spaced, on letter-sized white paper.
The entrant’s full name, address and the title of the manuscript must appear on a separate cover page. The title of the manuscript should appear on each page of the manuscript, but the author’s name should not. All entrants will receive a one-year subscription to PRISM international. Current subscribers will receive a one-year extension to their subscription.
 

The entry fee is $27 for one manuscript of nonfiction, plus $7 for each additional
manuscript. Canadian residents may use Canadian funds, but entrants outside
Canada must use American funds to cover the international mailing costs of
their subscription. Please make checks payable to PRISM international. Please note
that U.S. money orders will not be accepted. Entries must be original, unpublished material, not under consideration

elsewhere.  PRISM will purchase First North American Serial Rights for all work accepted
for publication.

Please Note: PRISM's writing contests are not open to students and faculty of
the University of British Columbia’s Creative Writing Program (this includes the
UBC Optional-Residency MFA Program). In order to enter, UBC alumni cannot have
taken a UBC Creative Writing Program course during the previous two years.
Works of translation are eligible. Once an entry is received, no revisions will be allowed, and entry fees
become non-refundable. The winner will be notified by January 2009, and published in the
2008 Winter Issue of PRISM.  If you would like to receive a copy of the shortlist, please enclose a
self-addressed stamped envelope with your entry. The shortlist will also be made available
at this website. Please note that manuscripts will not be returned. Preliminary judging by the PRISM international Editorial Board.
Final Judge — T.B.A.

Mail your entry & fee to:

PRISM Non-Fiction Contest
c/o PRISM international
Creative Writing Program, UBC
Buch. E462 - 1866 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z1
Canada
 

 Life Lessons

Essay Contest:Real Simple 

Women's Body Image Anthology SeeksSubmissions

Phat Girls in Search of a Pretty World: Hot Lil’ Fat Chicks Speakin’ Out!

Phat Girls will explore plus size women’s private and public journeys with weight. In this original collection, we will express our diverse experiences and memories of how our weight and self/body image have shaped us as women—from childhood to adulthood.

Phat Girls will illuminate the successes achieved and the challenges met by women negotiating a desire for self-love and acceptance of our selves/bodies within an often “thin obsessed” and “thin accessible” society.

We all have diverse paths and histories, cultures, relationships and ambitions, but one thing most of us do in the morning is look at ourselves in the mirror! Phat Girls is interested in your story—what YOU see, think, hear or imagine when YOU look at your fabulous you. Who do you see looking back and what message(s) does she give you about how to live your life? Who to live your life with or for?

What message(s) does your self-image give you on how to navigate through your community as a female, student, professional, an occupant of public spaces for instance on the public transit, at a restaurant, a social or at a movie theatre? The spaces and roles we occupy in our lives are endless! What messages do we get from society (or from those negative nagging voices in our own minds) about how
we should look and about how to achieve ‘real’ success? How do all of these factor into our perceptions of our bodies?

Every “fat girl” has her own story. There is no one story that rings true for all of us and this is exactly what Phat Girls will capture. It’s a platform for you to tell your story, to share your ups and downs in the hopes that maybe your words might inspire another woman to share her own. Through sharing there is healing and more so empowerment! Phat Girls contributors will reflect the stories of women from different race, class, ability, sexual identity, religious, geographical and education backgrounds.

Your submission to this anthology can take several forms:

Short stories (non-fiction) or “fiction” based on your life stories with fictionalized characters

Monologues (one-person plays)

Reflective Essays (academic and non-academic)

Response Papers (for example, your reaction to a particular ad, conversation, experience with weight discrimination or topic i.e. Fat Suits in Hollywood; Beauty Pageants or “Makeover” TV Shows etc.)

Memory Work (for example, writing a story about the first time you ever thought you were fat; writing a story about a particular body part and what it has meant to you over the years)

Comic Strips

Visual Arts (photographs of paintings, collage art (visual or words) etc.)

Photo essays

Poetry/Spoken Word

Other (Phat Girls is open to receiving your creativesubmissions that are combinations of the above)

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: September 1, 2008.

Please send by mail only. Late submissions will NOT be considered.

MAIL TO: 

Phat Girls Anthology
C/o Jill Andrew
2620 Eglinton Ave East
PO Box 42503
Toronto, ON Canada
M1K 2S0

Contributors 18 years and over are welcome. Submission maximums should be no more than 3,000 words (12 page max.), DOUBLE-SPACED, single-sided, 12 point font. Include a contributor’s bio of 100 words or less. Please remember to save an electronic copy of your submission should it be selected.

Mailed submissions will not be returned unless there is a self-addressed stamped envelope enclosed with your submission. Please ensure you weigh your package beforehand at the post office to ensure you’ve got sufficient return postage.

All visual contributions (pictures, photo essays etc.) must be sent on a disc (high resolution Jpegs only) along with hard copies of each of the visuals. Please include an SASE with adequate postage, otherwise we cannot return this material to you.

Poetry/spoken word contributions please send a maximum of 6 completed prose.

Individual contributors are welcomed to submit multiplesubmissions but do note that in the hopes of having as many diverse voices as possible, likely on 1 submission per chosen contributor will make the final project.

All submissions will be read thorou
ghly. If selected for the Phat Girls anthology, there may be additional editing required. At that point, the *author(s) of the submission will be contacted directly for input. *Multiple authors per submission are permitted but the same word count still applies.

Here are a wealth of general topics and questions to help you start brainstorming your submission(s):

Topics:

Body Image, Size Acceptance and Friendships

Body Image and Intimate Relationships (dating, intimacy with the lights on or…off?)

Weight Discrimination, Body Image or Acceptance in the Health Care System

Perceptions of Health or Illness and Weight

Surviving Illness through our Bodies

Weight Discrimination in Employment

Weight, Body Image and Fashion, Entertainment, Media & Pop Culture (Music, Music Videos, Magazines, Facebook, MySpace, Blogs, Advertising etc.)

Fat Representation in the media (film, TV, print etc.)

Size and Consumerism

Cosmetic Surgery, Body Modification and “Beauty”

Beauty and Ageing

Body Image and Race, Body Image and Ability, Disability, Body Image and Sexuality (sexual identity, sexual orientation etc.)

Size & Gender, Gender Roles; Size, Weight and “Performing” Gender through our Fat Bodies

Body Image, Compulsory Heterosexuality and the Construction of the ‘Feminine’ and the ‘Masculine’ “Ideal”

Multi-racial views on Body Image
, Beauty and the Desire for (or rejection of) a ‘Western’ “Mainstream” standard of beauty

Body Image, Fat Phobia and Acceptance in the Everyday World

Fat bodies, Tight Spaces

Fat Activism (performance groups, advertisement campaigns, community activism, zines etc.)

Body Image & the Arts (visual arts, exhibitions, photography, literary work etc.)

“What I absolutely LOVE about my body…”

Memories of Body Image or Fat Issues in the Home and How These Have Informed Your Sense of Self Today (meal times, family traditions, experiences with childhood abuse or neglect, sibling rivalries etc.)

Body Image & Poverty

Globalization & The Female Body

Psychic & Physical Trauma(s) (i.e. emotional, physical, sexual abuse etc.) and Eating Problems

Fat Bodies and Violence Against Women

Body Image, Fatness and Weight Issues in Public Spaces (i.e. experiences in theatres, public transit, restaurants, malls, fitting rooms etc.)

What’s in a Name? Body Image? Body Consciousness? Eating Disorders or Eating Problems? What’s relevant to you?

Weight and Accessibility

Body Image, Fat Acceptance and Education (size discrimination in schools, assumptions made about you because of size/weight etc.)

Weight preoccupation and Food

Smokes, Alcohol, Drugs and Our Waistlines

Eating Problems (under eating, overeating, control/loss of control etc.)

Feeling “outside of” or void of a/your body

Weight & Fitness

Body Image & Sports

Fat & Feminism

Fat is Beautiful

FAT & FABULOUS

A Historical Look at Fat when Fat was “in”

Being Fat Across Borders: What are the beauty ideals around the globe?

Other topics related to your experience(s) as a “phat girl” speakin’ out!

Questions:

How or has your weight (or your perception of your weight) altered moments in your life that otherwise should have been pure joy and satisfaction (i.e. dreading taking pictures, saying no to outings because you didn’t know what to wear etc.)

How do you resist the “beauty myth” on a daily basis? Or do you?

How do friends, family or intimate partners ‘react’ to your fat body?

How do we as ‘fat’ women construct our sense of self and of community? How are we inspired to love ourselves despite the fact that the world is so thin obsessed? Share your secrets!

What is…a “good” body?

Have you ever had an experience with fat on fat discrimination?

What does being a “fat girl” mean to you? What does the term “fat” mean to you? When did you first realize that you were fat? When did you first realize what “beauty” was?

Have you ever found yourself
playing into ‘fat stereotypes’ in order to ‘survive’ or to ‘save face’?

What part of your body do you absolutely love and why?

Which parts do you absolutely detest and why?

What don’t you see when you look in the mirror?

How or has your sexuality (or sexual identity) been influenced by your fat body?

How has your body influenced (negatively and/or positively) your career, career choices (or lack thereof), access to opportunities etc.

Are you a sexy woman? What makes you a sexy woman? And if not, should you want to be, how might you get there?

About the editor:

Jill Andrew CYW, BA (Hons.), BEd, MA (Sept ’08) is an award-winning national columnist with the Metro Toronto Daily Newspaper and still enjoys livening things up as a teacher, women’s/youth advocate, performer, entrepreneur, events host and public speaker throughout the city. Jill is the founder and producer of Curvy Catwalk— Canada ’s first and only annual “plus size” fashion fundraiser increasing body image/eating problems awareness and funds for Sheena’s Place & NEDIC (National Eating Disorder Information Centre). 

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