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The 10th Annual Writer's Digest Short Short Story Competition is open
Details: WD guidelines They seek fiction that's bold, brilliant ... but brief. Send your best in 1,500 words or less. But don't be too long about it—the deadline is December 1, 2009.
The Grand-Prize winner will receive $3,000
Share Your Story in Cup of Comfort
Calling all Love Birds and Golf Lovers! The submission windows for A Cup of Comfort for Couples and A Cup of Comfort for Golfers are still wide open. They're most interested in well-crafted narrative essays that convey a universal truth in a personal and creative way. Stories can be humorous or serious, but always uplifting or inspiring.
Complete details in the online Call for Submissions and in the Writers Guidelines.
Up And Under: The Quick and Dirty Review
The Quick and Dirty Poets' annual poetry review Up And Under was published for the first time early 2005. We have published four editions of our print journal, with Issue 5 coming in March 2010. Submissions for Up and Under will be accepted again in September 2009. We would like to thank everyone who has contributed to our journal in the past and we hope to see your submissions again in September.
To submit
via snail-mail:
Quick & Dirty Poets, P.O. Box 115, Hainesport, NJ 08036
Please include an SASE to receive a reply.
Submissions should be postmarked no later than December 30th.
via email:
Paste up to five poems in the body of an email;
NO ATTACHMENTS will be accepted.
Mail to
qndpoets@yahoo.com
Please use the subject line "Poetry Sub for Up and Under."
Payment will be 1 contributor's copy. No previously published poems.
Simultaneous Submissions are acceptable with notification.
We endeavor to respond in 2-3 months, and sooner if possible.
Up And Under is available through Maverick Duck Press and will also be available at Quick & Dirty Poets Readings or from this website. Click the publications link on the left to order Up and Under or any of the QND Chapbooks.
2010 Wisconsin People & Ideas / Wisconsin Book Festival Short Story and Poetry Contests!
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Details:
www.wisconsinacad
Wisconsin People & Ideas is the only quarterly magazine in the state that
regularly features Wisconsin writers and Wisconsin fiction, creative nonfiction,
and essays--all in one place! Submissions to our annual contest and membership
in the Wisconsin Academy allow us to continue this proud tradition. Wisconsin
Academy members receive a $5.00 discount on the submission fee!
ABOUT THE SHORT STORY CONTEST
Winners will receive prizes of $500 (first place), $250 (second place), and $100
(third place). Their stories will be published serially, beginning with the
first-prize story, online at wisconsinacademy.org and in the summer 2010 issue
of Wisconsin People & Ideas. The first-place story will be reviewed by a noted
literary agent, and the author will receive a one-week stay at Edenfred, a
creative arts residency in Madison owned by the Terry Family Foundation.
What Makes You Stronger: Real Talk About Breast Cancer
Details:
http://whatmakesyou
We want your true stories about your journey, the journey of a loved one or
your secondhand experience as caregiver or medical professional. We want the
anger, the despair, the "Why me, Lord?" and the moment you realized, that
despite the ravages to your body, the body of the loved one or the person in
your professional care... you gained strength from the experience. Tell us
about it, keep it real, nothing is taboo. The aim is to strengthen those
who've just begun the journey, form a support community by mentorship, for
those desiring it, prayer and daily inspirational thoughts, coping strategies
for the pain, recipes that tempt the appetite and anything else that you wish
to share.
Guidelines:
All essays/stories should be nonfiction narratives, written in the
first-person. Focus on one or a few selected moments; do not send rants or
political speeches. Essays/Stories should be titled. Essays/Stories should be
between 100 – 650 words and poems restricted to 40 lines. No funky fonts,
please. Please include a brief bio (1-3 sentences) at the end of your
submission and forward a headshot (neck and shoulders) to dee@deeswhite.
Submissions are accepted on a rolling basis, but work must be submitted by
October 31, 2009 to be considered for the November issue. Submissions received
after October 31, 2009 will be considered for the January 2010 issue. Writers
chosen for the newsletter will be contacted by November 10, 2009 and notified
via email when the newsletter is available.
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Anthology about Mother Loss seek poems
U.S. anthology seeks poetry and prose poems about the loss of a
mother -- from raw grief to the uplifting. Poetry: 100 lines max. Short prose:
750 words max. Send up to 5 submissions and brief bio in a 12-point, double
spaced Word doc. to
motherlosspoetry@gmail.
Payment: Copy. Deadline: December 1, 2009.
Mail: Mother Loss/Details, 8663 River Crossing Blvd.,
Indianapolis, IN 46240.
Call for Submissions for new Anthology
Details:
http://www.press53.
What Doesn’t Kill You… a new anthology coming from Press 53 in Spring 2010 is
looking for stories of struggle—real or imagined, physical or mental.
Contributors will receive a complimentary copy of the anthology plus the
opportunity to buy unlimited copies at a discount.
Contributors will also have one page in the back of the anthology for his or her
bio, photo, and story comments.
We’re looking for eight stories to run alongside the seven we have already
requested from some of today’s top award-winning writers.
Stories can be fiction or nonfiction, from 100-10,000 words.
There is NO reading fee.
Please limit your submission to one story.
Previously published works are acceptable, so long as the author holds all
rights and no previous publication agreement is violated.
DEADLINE: Submissions will be accepted until the New Year rings in at midnight
December 31, 2009.
Send your submission via email attachment to co-editor Murray Dunlap at
murraydunlap@gmail.
If you have any questions, please email Kevin Morgan Watson at kevin@ress53.
Multi Genre Competition
Details: www.cinnamonpress.com
Cinnamon Press competitions offer writers in different genres excellent publication opportunities. One of our competition winning poetry collections, for example, was short-listed for the Forward Prize and anther for the Jerwood Aldeburgh prize, while Cinnamon competition winner, Jane McKie won best first book of the year in the Sundial Scottish Arts Award 2008 for Morocco Rococo, demonstrating the ability of the competitions to allow fine new writing to emerge.
We run each of the competitions twice a year with closing dates of June 30th and November 30th.
2009 Northwest Perspectives Essay Contest
Full Guidelines: Oregon Quarterly
OPEN AND STUDENT CATEGORIES
Oregon Quarterly invites entries to the 2008 Northwest Perspectives Essay
Contest in both student and open categories. Entries should address
ideas that affect the Northwest. The Oregon Quarterly staff
will select finalists and the contest judge will choose the top three winners in
each category. Past judges have been Kim Stafford, Barry Lopez, John Daniel,
Karen Karbo, Brian Doyle, Lauren Kessler, and Craig Lesley.
PRIZES:
Open Category
First place: $750
Second place: $300
Third place: $100
Student Category
First place: $500
Second place: $200
Third place: $75
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Send entries to:
Oregon Quarterly Essay Contest
5228 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-5228
The Other Journal seeks submissions of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction for our upcoming issues
Details:
http://theotherjour
All submissions should be sent via email to submissions@theotherjourn
with "TOJ Submission" written in the subject line. Please indicate the genre of
your submission in the subject line of your email and submit your work as
Microsoft Word or rich text format documents. Submissions that are pasted
directly into the text of an email rather than an attached document may not be
considered.
We accept poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Send up to six poems or one
piece of prose at a time. Fiction submissions may include short stories or
self-contained novel excerpts, and creative nonfiction submissions may include
personal essays or memoirs. Because we are an online journal, we take a special
interest in short prose submissions, especially pieces that are less than 2,500
words. We will consider simultaneous submissions, but please indicate they have
been simultaneously submitted elsewhere and let us know right away if you are
withdrawing them from consideration.
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Editorial statement:
The Other Journal welcomes the submission of critical essays, reviews, creative
writing, and visual or performance art that encounter life through the lens of
theology and culture; we seek pieces that consider the interaction of faith with
contemporary life, art, politics, sexuality, technology, economics, and social
justice. We are particularly interested in works which present creative,
alternative views that may otherwise fall outside the margins of mainstream
narratives. And although we primarily focus on perspectives within the Christian
tradition, we invite dialogue with all who are interested in exploring the
ongoing role of faith and spirituality in the world.
The Other Journal
Mars Hill Graduate School
2501 Elliott Ave
Seattle, WA 98121
Issue #18 - The Celebrity Issue - December 15, 2010
Issue #19 - The Food Issue - March 15, 2010
Call for
Submissions: Shady Side Review
Details:
http://www.shadysid
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Call for Submissions: shady side review is seeking prose under 1,000
words and poetry of any length for Volume 2. shady side review seeks
work that exhibits the gritty side of life: cigarette butts that
litter sidewalks, a half-drunken bottle of whiskey left on the porch,
the empty corridors of a dead mall – work that encompasses the
underbelly of society, whether it be rural or urban. shady side review
publishes both upcoming and previously published writers.
Reverie:
Midwest African American Literature
Reverie is a journal devoted to featuring the best literature and is open to
African Americans with "ties" to the Midwest. The Review Board consists of a
distinguished group of professional writers and instructors. Reverie appears in
print and online. We are a literary journal that publishes poetry, fiction, and
creative non-fiction. We will also accept book reviews as well.
Writer's Guidelines for Reverie:
Submit in standard manuscript format, with a word count not to exceed 50 lines
(poetry) and/or 3,000 words (Fiction/Essay)
reverie.journal@gmail.
*Also, we are interested in original art for the cover--payment will be 2 copies
and a mini gallery on the site.
E-mail: multicultimix@stu.edu
Book Title: Multi-Culti Mixterations, Edited by Judith Bachay and Issac Carter, Graphic Design, Richard McNab.
Mixterations describes the noun which we define as the experience or phenomenon that results from multiple iterations influenced by cultural context. Spanglish is an example of a Multi Cultural mixteration.
We are interested in shorter forms of formal, original and previously unpublished poetry, especially Haiku. Submissions must be no longer than a Sestina.
We look for Haiku that evokes emotion – of all kinds, 5-7-5, written in English but reflecting the cultural experiences of the world community . Editors are exploring the intersection of culture and identity through imagery that makes us laugh, gets us angry, tugs at our hearts, challenges our belief systems and world views, or better, makes us hungry, lonely, or joyful.
Please submit no more than 5 poems within the body of the email; no attached files.
Please include in subject line, name, address and email address of author. If the author is under 21, please list age. The book will be sold on Amazon, and proceeds will be donated to a student fund in the School of Theology and Ministry at St. Thomas University , Miami Gardens, Florida.
Deadline: November 25, 2009
2009Submit to Freshwater
Freshwater, Asnuntuck Community College’s internationally known poetry journal, is accepting submissions for our 2010 issue to be published in May 2010.
Submit no more than 5 poems, with name, address, and e-mail address on each poem, together with a brief biographical note, and a stamped self-addressed envelope for notification only to:
Freshwater
Asnuntuck Community College
170 Elm Street
Enfield, CT 06082
Or submit by e-mail to
freshwater@acc.commnet.
DEADLINE: December 30, 2009
Notification by March 2010or new Spring 2010 Annual Edition
Fourth River Award for Poetry
Fourth River Award for Creative Nonfiction
Details:http://fourthriver.
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We are looking for poetry and creative nonfiction that capture
the places—natural, built and imagined, urban, rural or wild—where humans and
nature converge and collide.
No reading fee is required for submission to Issue 7. Accepted authors receive two contributor's copies of the journal.
Include cover letter with name, address, phone number, email contact, and titles of enclosed work.
All manuscripts must include a SASE for response to be considered.
No e-mail submissions accepted.
Kindly let us know if you are submitting simultaneously, and inform us if your work is accepted elsewhere.
Reading Period (for standard issues): August 1 – February 15
Submission Address
The Fourth River
Chatham University
Woodland Road
Pittsburgh, PA 15232
Contact Us
For more information, contact The Fourth River at
fourthriver@chatham.edu.
Call for Submissions: Anthology
Details:
http://www.drtpress.com/anthology.html.
Is your child easy to love, but hard to parent? DRT Press is seeking personal
essays written by parents of children with ADD, ADHD and/or other mental,
emotional, and behavioral disorders for a book about the experience of parenting
children with such conditions, for publication (expected) in January 2011.
Compensation includes 10 copies of the completed book and unlimited discounted
copies. Payment may be offered. The book will be co-edited by
author/editor/publisher Adrienne Ehlert Bashista, Publisher, DRT Press and Kay
Marner, a freelance writer who contributes regularly to ADDitude magazine, and
blogs for ADDitudeMag..com. Soft deadline for submissions is
March 1, 2010.
Questions may be directed to kay@aymarner.com
Travelers Tales
Details: http://www.travelerstales.com/guidelines/
Calls for manuscripts for anthologies of nonfiction centered on
topics or locations.
Call for Subs: Umbrella
Details: www.umbrellajournal
Umbrella, the supremely rereadable electronic journal, is now reading for our
winter issue, online December 1st.
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In addition to reading works of a general nature, our theme for the Winter
edition will be popular culture. Movies, TV shows, music, fashions, trends, pop
icons and iconography: intrigue us with poems that recognize the depths beneath
the shallows.
Deadline: November 10, 2010.
THE SUBWAY CHRONICLES
Details: http://www.thesubwaychronicles.com
looking for essays (up to 3000 words), non fiction shorts.To submit your essay for consideration, attach a file in text format or copy into the body of the email. To submit a photo, attach the file in .jpg format. Please type 'Submission' in the subject line. You must have all rights to your original essay.
Call for Submissions: Shakespeare's Monkey
Details:
http://www.shakespe
Submissions of all genres (under 3000 words) will be considered,
however our primary focus is creative writing with emphasis on poetry and short
prose. We are now accepting original poetry submissions for our next issue
“Work” The deadline for submissions is October 31, 2009.
Submissions should not exceed 3000 words. All submissions should be submitted by
email to:
submissions@shakespearesm
Please allow up to eight weeks for notification of acceptance. Payment is $10
and 2 copies of issue in which the work appears as well as a 1-year subscription
to the Revue.
Shakespeare'
Ray Burrell Poetry Award
Details: ValleyWriters
The Ray Burrell Award for Poetry accepts submissions of poetry, any style,
unpublished, in English.
Tom Howard/John H. Reid Short Story
Contest
Details : http://www.winningwriters.com/tomstory.htm
A top prize of $1,000 and publication in an
anthology by Tom Howard Books is given annually for an original short story,
essay, or other work of prose. $2,575 will be awarded in all. Tom Howard will
judge. The reading fee per entry is $10. Early submission is encouraged.
8,000-word limit per entry. No limits on style or theme. You may submit work
that has been published or won prizes elsewhere, as long as you own the
anthology and online publication rights. Unpublished work is also welcome.
Submit your entries online or by mail.
Entries postmarked by March 31.
Fish Publishing Home International Prize for Short Stories
Details: http://www.fishpublishing.com/
Deadline Nov. 30th
Anthology Call
Stories, poems, and articles about relationships with individuals who have
made an impact on your life. Must be non-fiction and based on honest and
introspective stories of life-lessons learned and sometimes humorous reflections
on life and relationships.
Stories about an unique individual whose relationship with that person has changed your life forever. Examples: personal relationships with everyday people like mother, father, sibling, teacher, mentor etc. (non romantic & non sexual)
* We especially like humorous and introspective stories.
Payment: No payment. Author will get one copy of the book
To submit to this anthology: Please copy and paste work in the body of the email. Please do not send attachments. Please write: "TRUE RELATIONSHIPS STORIES" in the title of the email.
Submit your story, poem or article to Submissions@emergingedgepublishing.com
Stories must be between 500 to 2000 words or more.
Poems should reflect on the topic of relationships and be more than 10 lines long.
Articles can be a personal reflection or opinion on relationships. Must be between 500 to 1500 words or more.
For more information on other anthologies please visit
www.emergingedgepublishing.com/submissions
See October edition of Writers Wanted
See December edition of Writers Wanted