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World AIDS Day: A Day With Art

Poems, Plays, Short Stories relating to AIDS

Each category will have a first, second and third place winner.

Wining poets and short story writers will be invited to read their work on December 1 at the Santa Fe World AIDS Day: A Day With Art. If winners cannot attend, readers will be appointed. Winning plays will be read by actors. All proceeds from the event will go to support AIDS charities.

Deadline: Emailed or Postmarked by October 15, 2007.

Visit www.LiteraryProjectManagement.com for complete rules. Click on World AIDS Day Writing Contest. Or email begin@18cards.com

This page sponsored by:

BAKELESS LITERARY PUBLICATION PRIZES

Details http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blwc/bakeless/

For a first book of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Houghton
Mifflin will publish winning manuscripts and winning authors will
receive a fellowship to attend the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.
Judges for the competition are Francine Prose, fiction; Philip Levine,
poetry; Edward Hoagland, creative nonfiction. Submissions accepted
October 1, and must be postmarked by November 15. A $10 entry fee is
required.

A Call for Poems & Stories on Complementary & Alternative Medicine

BRINGING CAREGIVERS CLOSER: WHERE THE HUMANITIES, LITERATURE, AND MEDICINE
MEET.

A retreat for medical residents sponsored by The AtlanticCare Regional
Medical Center, Department of Graduate Education to be held in Atlantic City in
December, 2007.

We are looking for poems (Up to 30 lines) and short prose pieces (Fiction &
Creative Non Fiction up to 500 words) on Complementary & Alternative Medicine*
to use as discussion pieces for a medical retreat for residents in internal
medicine and psychiatry, as well as nurses, social workers, administrators,
physician educators, clergy, ethicists, poets, writers and patients, all with
stories and knowledge to share.

This is NOT a request for publication, and there will there no payment of any
kind including copies. Your work, should it be accepted, will become part of
a small anthology of imaginative texts to be read and discussed during the
day for the benefit of the medical residents and other attendees.

*CAM includes but is not limited to:
Chiropractic, Acupuncture, manipulation & massage
Homeopathy, Naturopathy
Aromatherapy, Magnetic Therapy, Pet Therapy
Traditional Chinese & Native American Medicines
Meditation, Yoga, Reiki
and the healing qualities associated with poetry, literature, art, music,
religion & belief systems.

All submissions should be original, unpublished or published (Please include
details), in English and original languages with English translation.

Submit your work attached as a word doc to Peter Murphy at
litmed@murphywriting.com by November 15, 2007.

Travelers' Tales

Details: www.travelerstales.com

Find multiple open calls and specific guidelines of stories of with & wisdom from around the world.

An Investment That Paid Off

Karyn Martin was cautious about launching her freelance career online, but she soon got results:

"I remember the days when I dreamed of being a freelancer," she says. "The word seemed magical to me somehow. Romantic, almost. Now, after having actually been a freelancer for a while, the scales have been lifted from my eyes and I have seen the light. You pay for being able to manipulate your time. You pay by working more, working harder, and - hopefully - working smarter. But what you get in return is priceless. Now I can call the shots about when I work, for whom I work, and how much I make."

One day, Karyn decided she was no longer willing to commute in smog-laden traffic to sit in a cubicle for eight hours, come home, eat, sleep, wake up, and then do it all over again. Going through the same routine, day after day, week after week , only to wake up one day old and tired - wondering how life might have been if she'd had the guts to go it alone.

So she decided to become a freelancer - but how would she find work? She had spent endless hours surfing the 'net, signing up with one freelance site after another. Yet there was an incredible amount of competition. She never seemed to win any bids, and was adamant about not lowering her hourly rate.

"Then I discovered Freelance Work Exchange," she says. "I had heard "don't pay to work!" repeatedly, and I was too poor to risk getting scammed, but I took a chance one day when I was flush and sent twenty bucks to gain access to the Freelance Work Exchange Professional Edition.

"Since then, I've edited a sales letter, a follow-up letter, an 11-page Web site, and a brochure. I'm 'on call' to do pinch-hit proofreading for a medical newsletter editor in Florida while he's on vacation, sick, etc. And I've landed a gig editing a new Canadian magazine coming out this fall. All this from taking a $20 chance on Freelance Work Exchange."

Of course, it helped to send prospects a few previous work samples she'd had the presence of mind to scan and save on disk. Also, since she has been 'in the business' for more than five years, she has a fairly good résumé with some experience to back up the claims, along with a strong list of references.

"For every one of you out there feeling a little discouraged, and especially for those of you on the verge of throwing in the towel, I'm here to tell you this. There may not be a Santa Claus, but there is a place to find work without paying some ridiculous "transaction fee" or never knowing whether or not the projects are 'fresh' - and even the name is easy to remember - Freelance Work Exchange."

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Chicken Soup for the Soul

Details:http://www.chickensoup.com/

Accepting submissions for dozens of different planned and possible titles.

Announcing the third annual
GOOSE RIVER ANTHOLOGY,
2007
*note: reading fee

Details:http://www.gooseriverpress.com/bestof.html

We are seeking selections of fine poetry, essays, and short stories (3,000 words or less). Book will be beautifully produced with full color cover.

EARN CASH ROYALTIES. Author will receive a 10% royalty on all sales that he or she generates.

There is no purchase required and nothing is required of the author for publication. Publication will be fall 2008 (in time for Christmas gifts).

Deadline for submissions is Feb. 28, 2007.

•	Submit a clean-typed copy and if possible a disk (Word file)
•	Reading fee: $1.00 per page
•	SASE for notification and possible return
•	Author's name & address at top right of each page

Submit to:
Goose River Anthology
3400 Friendship Road
Waldoboro, ME 04572-6337
Telephone: (207) 832-6665
Fax: (775)244-8371
E-mail: dbenner@prexar.com

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