Open Call for Submissions from Antioch University

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About Two Hawks:

Two Hawks Quarterly is a literary publication brought to you by the Undergraduate Creative Writing program at Antioch University in Los Angeles, CA. We are dedicated to sparking debate and discussion through exposing the world to the most challenging, edgy and lyrical prose, poetry, memoir, and artwork available.

Submission Guidelines:

Currently we are accepting submissions for the Fall 2007 issue. We are looking for well written and compelling works in the following genres:

• Fiction
• Creative Non-Fiction
• Poetry
• Memoir
• Cross Genre

E-mail submissions as follows:

• Do not send file attachments. Instead, send your story in the body of your e-mail.
• Send all submissions to:
• submissionstwohawks@yahoo.com
• In the subject line of your e-mail, include the genre to which you are submitting.
• Example: Attention Editor: Fiction Submission

Chapbook Contest

It's time to gather between 10 to 24 pages of your poetry together and send them, with a $10 entry fee, to the Sheltering Pines Press Third Annual Chapbook Competition. First Prize is $100 and 50 copies of your chapbook. The deadline is October 15, 2007.

12 Writing Tips From George Orwell

Some of George Orwell's 12 writing tips may seem obvious, but all of them are based on sound writer's judgment and experience and well-worth checking out.

Here's Looking At You

Do you occasionally feel as though you're looking at yourself from the outside (and what writer hasn't)??? ReadingWriters's Here's Looking at You contest gives you a chance to turn this to your advantage, to the tune of $100 Grand Prize plus publication. There's no entry fee, and the deadline's not until September 15, 2007. Include yourself in a short story of not more than 700 words, from any point of view EXCEPT 1st person.

Science Fiction / Fantasy Contest

If your writer's bent is toward science fiction and/or fantasy, this contest could be right up your yellow brick road! The deadline for the current Electric Dragon Cafe's quarterly writing contest is 12:00 AM EST, September 10, 2007. They provide a colorful picture to use as a writing prompt, and there's no entry fee. 1st place prize is a $25 gift certificate to either Borders or Barnes and Noble, 2nd place prize is a $10 certificate.

LAwritersgroup.com Workshop for Advanced Writers

The deadline is fast approaching to apply for our Workshop for Advanced Writers!

Clare Elfman, an Emmy-winning writer and successful novelist will be leading our Workshop for Advanced Writers beginning Saturday, September 29. This workshop will take place over the course of 8 weeks and meet every Saturday morning at 10 a.m. in the Brentwood area of Los Angeles. The cost for the workshop is $320 for eight weeks.

If interested in applying, please send a brief writing sample (a chapter of a novel or memoir or a short story or essay from a collection) along with a description of the project you would like to workshop with Ms. Elfman to Sanora Bartels at sanora@lawritersgroup.com. The deadline to apply is August 31st, 2007.

Union County Writer's Club Annual Contest

The Union County Writer's Club is sponsoring a contest that will net winners a little bit of cash (up to $30 for the 1st place short and children's story winner, and $25 for 1st place in poetry and flash fiction). There's a nominal entry fee and the deadline is October 31, 2007.

Story Quarterly Contest & New Online Submissioins

This in from Story Quarterly:

"Story Quarterly announces that our new system for receiving submissions year-round is now online. Also, the SQ Fiction Contest is accepting entries until September 30 and offers a First Prize of $2,500, a Second Prize of $1,500, and a Third Prize of $750. Additionally, ten Finalists will each receive $100."

NOTE: As of 9/5/07, this deadline has been extended to November 30th. Check the website for details and verification.

Tongue and Goove Reading at Hotel Cafe

This just in from Conrad's Readings:

"Tongue & Groove
A monthly offering of short fiction, personal essays, poetry, spoken word and music. This month: featuring: Mary Otis "Yes, Yes, Cherries", Jeremy Deutchman, The Busstop Prophet, Kim Calder, Chloe Webb and musical guest Quincy.

Look, do yourself a favor and come on out to this cultural buffet offered this month. See and hear for yourself because as always it'll be... pound for pound, word for word, and beat for beat, a fine and cool experience.

Sunday the 26th of August

6:00-7:30 pm
The Hotel Café
1623 1/2 N. Cahuenga Blvd.
1/3rd of a block below Hollywood Bl.
Hollywood, Ca 90028
Cost: $5.00"

Quay Seeks Submissions

Quay, A Journal of the Arts is seeking submissions for the next issue, which will be a fiction-only issue, published in print and online in January 2008. Submissions due September 1-October 31. (Our next regular issue will be open to submissions January-February 2008 for the issue published on May 1. Regular issues include fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and dramatic writing.)

The journal site is quayjournal.org and is published three times a year in print and online. For submission guidelines: quayjournal.org/submit.htm

3 Days of Free Screenings at LACMA

If you've been wanting to do a little catching up on Latin America Cinema, now's your chance. LACMA's showing 9 films this weekend, August 24 through 26, all totally free. Scroll down below the bio of Katherine Hepburn, (sadly, that tribute to her has already ended), for movie details and showtimes.

Colorado Writers Workshop

We just got an email from the folks over at the Colorado Writers Workshop and they still have a few spots open for the Sept. 19-23 Colorado Writers Workshop at Boulder's Chautauqua, and they asked us to pass the info along to y'all. "This year's fiction event features Janis Hallowell (Annunciation of Francesca Dunn, Pigs & Fishes). Our groups are good, the atmosphere supportive and the lodging is wonderful at Chautauqua's Missions House. For information see www.coloradowritersworkshop.blogspot.com or contact Tara at flanaganatlarge@yahoo.com."

Change the Ending!

Here's a contest that sounds like fun: have you ever read one of those great literary works, rooting all the way for the protagonist to triumph, only to be led to a less-than-cheerful denouement? The Happy Tales Literary Contest will allow you to change that! Take any work with a sad, disturbing, or negative ending, and supply a happy, affirmative, uplifting, humorous ending. There's not much time; the deadline's August 31, 2007, but there's no fee.

2007 Wabash Prize For Poetry

There's plenty of time to polish up your three best poems - the deadline for Sycamore Review's Wabash Poetry Contest isn't until October 15, 2007. First prize is $1000 and publication in the Winter/Spring 2008 issue, and entries of honorable mention may be considered for publication also. There's a $10 reading fee for up to 3 poems, and $3 for each additional poem.

Write what you know?

Some times we get cocky, and write about things that we really have little knowledge of, and beware, someone will notice. Here's a little piece where someone noticed. It reminds me of how nice the windows are in those ivory towers, but the view is always better when you bother to go outside. Enjoy The Worst Op-Ed Ever Written?

Backspace All-Agent Seminar

This one is in NY, and what better excuse to hang out in that fabulous city for a weekend. Plus a day. Or two. Or three.

Backspace All-Agent Seminar: "The Backspace Agent-Author Seminars are TWO intense, one-day, back-to-back programs of panels and workshops designed to educate and assist authors in search of a literary agent to represent their work."

You think your poetry is bad?

It's all relative, so they say. Good poetry, bad poetry, to "I can't believe that's poetry." The deadline is today, so get out your flower pens and dust off your teenage love letters. If you don't make it, at least you can check out all the wannabes that have. Check out the new Slate Bad Poetry Contest, you may already be a winner!

LookLA Free Movie Screening: Deep Water

This just in from LookLA:

Thrillseekers and film buffs take extra note of this one. Campus Circle invites the members of lookLA to a free film screening of Deep Water. From the producer of the climbing classic Touching the Void, Deep Water follows the voyage of Donald Crowhurst, one of the nine yachtsmen who joined a 1969 "London Times"-sponsored competition to make a highly publicized solo trip around the world. Crowhurst, a former engineer, but hardly the most experienced sailor, attempted this feat in a boat that he designed himself. A few weeks into the voyage it began leaking. Continuing through the vicious waters of Cape Horn appeared to be suicidal, but returning home meant humiliation and financial ruin.

Free screening info. and sign-up: http://www.campuscircle.net/screening/DeepWaterLA/
Official site: http://www.deepwatermovie.co.uk/

Open Mic Reading Event

This just in from the Valley Contemporary Poets:

Tuesday, August 21, 2007, The Valley Contemporary Poets present Mani Suri at
Cobalt Café
22047 Sherman Way in Canoga Park,
(just west of Topanga Canyon)
9pm
Free – one drink minimum
Open Mic

Mani Suri is a veteran of the Poetic License crowd in L.A. Poet Daniel Yaryan said, "Mani is known for crafting images out of thin air and exposing a new perspective on every subject he approaches." He is the author of two chapbooks, Poetry My Wife Hates and the Mistresses I Could Have Had Would Have Loved and Reflection: More Poetry My Wife Hates or the Mistresses I'll Never Have Who Might Have Loved It, and has poems published in several anthologies, online and in print. Mani has read and featured at various venues around Southern California, London's Paddington and Austin's International Poetry Festivals. He co-hosts a weekly reading at the Rapp Saloon in Santa Monica.

Film Independent 2007 Sloan Producers Lab Grant

This just in from Film Independent:
2007 Producers Lab and $25,000 Sloan Producers Grant

Film Independent is accepting submissions for its annual Producers Lab—an intensive program designed to help independent producers learn how to think strategically about their projects and come up with an organized plan for getting their films made.

The new Sloan Producers Grant gives a selected producer admission to the Producers Lab, a $25,000 development grant, and year-round support from Film Independent. To be eligible for the Sloan Grant, the applicant must be attached as producer to the script with which they are applying and the screenplay should have a scientific, mathematical, and/or technological theme and storyline or have a leading character who is a scientist, engineer, or mathematician.

Late deadline: August 24, 2007 (postmarked)
Sloan Grant deadline: August 28, 2007 (postmarked

13 Helpful Ideas to Steer Your Poems to Publication

Jeffrey Levine, Editor-in-Chief of Tupelo Press, author of two poetry books and winner of many poetry contests, is kind enough to share a baker's dozen of tips and guidelines to help make your poetry the best it can be.

Find Paying Markets

This is a super-handy website for writers looking for places to submit work.
www.duotrope.com

Warner Brothers Television Drama Writers Workshop

For those aspiring television writers:

"The 2007 Warner Bros. Television Drama Writers Workshop runs October 24 – January 30, 2008, meeting on the Warner Bros. lot in Los Angeles, California every Wednesday from 7pm to 10pm. Full participation is mandatory.

The Workshop is open for submissions July 1 - August 15, 2007. Submissions must be postmarked by August 15, 2007 to be eligible. Writers may submit as many scripts as they choose to one or both programs (please see the Comedy Workshop submission guidelines)."

Briar Cliff Review's Twelfth Annual Fiction, Poetry and Creative Nonfiction Contest

You have plenty of time to polish up your work for this contest ~ the deadline's not until November 1, 2007. First place is $1000 plus publication, and there's a $15 entry fee per story/creative nonfiction piece, or 3 poems. They also accept submissions separate from the contest.

Alligator Juniper National Writing Contest

A $10 entry fee gets you a chance at a $500 first prize for your fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and/or black and white fine arts photography. Make sure your entry is postmarked by October 1, 2007 for the Summer 2008 issue. Go to the Alligator Juniper website for complete contest guidelines.

Third Annual InnermoonLit Award for Best Short-Short Story

The deadline for this no-fee contest is September 1st, 2007 at 11:59 PM. The award for the winner is $100, 2nd place award is $50. Go to the InnermoonLit website for complete contest guidelines.

Critiquing Poetry

It's hard to be objective about your own work. Gwyneth Box has compiled these guidelines to help tighten up and strengthen your poetry before you submit it.

Love Poem Contest

There's no entry fee for this contest, the deadline's not until September 30, 2007, and the prize is $100 cash. So what's the catch? The submission must be a love poem, either serious or humorous, fictional or not, and the first letter of each line must spell out a word.

Interview with Literary Agent

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett has a great online interview series and recently spoke with New York literary agent Dorian Karchmar. The interview contains excellent insider information on how agents work, what it takes to get your work read. Take a listen to the interview here: Writers on Writing: Dorian Karchmar

Trying to Find an Agent?

Avoid the common pitfalls of finding an agent. Pay attention to these tips offered by writer and editor Natalie R. Collins and you're sure to make your path to getting published easier to follow.

"The Editor's Prize" Best Poem Contest

August 31, 2007 is the submission deadline for the Margie Review's Best Poem Contest. Grand Prize is $1000 and publication in Margie Volume 6. Margie will publish all 12 finalist poems. Submit an entry fee of $15 for 3 unpublished poems, each up to 60 lines in length. Additional poems may be submitted for $5 each.