Boiling River online journal seeks poems

Deadline: Sept 15, 2009

Website: http://www.boilingriver.com

Type: Call for Submissions

Reading Fee: n/a

Prize: n/a

Looking for: An eclectic mix of poetry--any form, any topic, but it must push its own boundaries.

Accepts: Electronic submissions, see website

InkSpotter Publishing seeks submissions for breast anthology

Deadline: October 31, 2009

Website: http://www.inkspotter.com

Type: Call for Submissions

Reading Fee: n/a

Prize: n/a

Accepts: Email submissions in body of email only NO ATTACHMENTS.

Looking for:

InkSpotter Publishing is looking for submissions for an anthology celebrating the most female of body parts, the breasts. From light-hearted memories of the first buds of puberty to heart wrenching accounts of breast cancer, these stories will run the gamut of experiences and emotions. Send to submissions[at]inkspotter.com. We are NOT looking for salacious material. Please keep your submissions tasteful. Think in terms of what you would want your young
daughter (or niece) to be able to read.

Unpublished submissions are welcome from both women and men. Maximum 3,000 words for both fiction and non-fiction. Poems are also welcome, though a limited number will be used (no specific length requirements, but please, no epics).

Send your submissions in the body of an email (absolutely no attachments) to submissions(at)inkspotter(dot)com with "Submission for Wait a Minute" in the subject line. You may also submit via postal mail to:

InkSpotter Publishing

163 Main Avenue

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Canada B3M 1B3

If you require confirmation of receipt, include either a stamped postcard or
your email address (preferred).

Manuscripts will not be returned. Do not send your only copy.

Writers chosen for the anthology will be entitled to a share of profits.
Part of the proceeds will be donated to a breast cancer charity in Canada.
Finding the right words

Ms. Betty Dobson
Owner/Operator

InkSpotter Publishing

New L.A. writer

I started writing "for real" in January. Although I used an unusual process to get there, I now have a complete screenplay. Two weeks ago I began work on another one, and decided that one of Sanora's workshops might help ease me into my new effort. Grease the creative skids, if you will. Little did I realize how much the exercises would help stimulate the creative process. It's difficult to explain, but the exercises seem to be like watering a plant. In the past, the concept might have been there, but I needed a boost to begin that first sentence and it was always difficult for me to write with clarity. Or FINISH writing something at all! I especially love/hate the "freewrite" exercises. I always knew that "editing-as-you-go" was death, but the thought of surrendering to the freewriting process was terrifying! Don't lift the pen? Don't scratch out? No editing as I go? The truth is it enables the ideas to flow, by definition, unchecked. Don't get me wrong: writing is never (for me) smooth sailing, but I am now able to allow myself to just sit and write and see what happens. And what is happening seems to be pretty cool. Thanks, 'Nora!

Guest Blogger Coming Soon!

Carl Bartels, a Los Angeles cinematographer, is new student to LAwritersgroup.com and is joining our Official LAwritersgroup.com Blog roster! Carl recently joined the Thursday night writers group in Glassell Park and can't wait to share his experience and thoughts about writing. Keep an eye out for his postings!

Consequence Magazine call for submissions

Deadline: October 1st

Website: http://www.consequencemagazine.org/

Type: Call for Submissions

Reading Fee: n/a

Prize: n/a

Looking for: exceptional short fiction, poetry, non-fiction, interviews, and visual art

Accepts: Email submissions, Snail mail submissions, simultaneous submissions, but NOT previously published submissions

From their site:

CONSEQUENCE magazine, the literary, print magazine addressing the culture of war, publishes each spring. We focus on the personal and social consequences of armed conflict worldwide, and welcome multi-cultural perspectives.

Dossier call for submissions for online journal

Deadline: Ongoing

Website: www.dossierjournal.com

Type: Call for Submissions for Online Journal

Reading Fee: n/a

Prize: n/a

Looking for: Flash fiction, non-fiction, and poetry for the "Read" section of its website. Fiction and non-fiction should be under 1000 words.

Accepts: Email submissions

From their site:

Submissions of writing and art are welcome and should be sent to submissions@dossierjournal.com. For art, we strongly suggest that you include a link to your website. There are no guidelines or themes for submissions.

Interobang?! Zine call for poetry, prose submissions

Deadline: Sept. 1st - ooh only 5 days left!

Website: http://interrobangzine.com

Type: Call for Submissions

Reading Fee: N/A

Prize: N/A

Looking for: Poetry, Prose, and Photography Submissions

Accepts: Email Submissions, previous and simultaneous submissions

From their site:

Interrobang?! Zine, (http://interrobangzine.com) a small and independent arts magazine based in Providence, RI seeks poetry, prose and photography submissions for its second print edition, as well as multimedia (art, video, music) for its online edition at http://interrobangzine.com. Simultaneous and previously published submissions welcome. Send up to five poems and/or 3000 words of prose... unlimited multimedia submissions accepted.

Submit online with the genre of your piece in the subject line (for example, POETRY, if you're submitting poetry). Please put your name, address, and preferred email address in the message body so we can contact you to let know that we've received your piece, and for follow-up if your work is accepted. All photography and art should be submitted digitally. There are no constraints for the web, but for those who want to see their work in the print edition must submit line art, sketches, or black-and-white images with the understanding that we do not at present have sufficient funds to go above photostat/newsprint quality. Please note "For Print and Web" or "For Web Only" in your email.We ask that text submissions be submitted in .DOC or .RTF format. Photography and art should be attached as high-quality JPEG or PNGs. Music and video should be submitted in .MP3 and .MPG respectively.

Two New 8-Week Writers Groups Scheduled

We've now scheduled our Fall 2009 writers groups. Both groups are our 8-Week General Writers Groups that are open to writers of all kinds and levels, including (but not limited to!) fiction writers, essayists, non-fiction writers, novelists, and even screenwriters.

• Nicole's Group 8-Week General Writers Group in West Hollywood on Wednesday, September 23rd (this group is good for writers coming from West Hollywood, West Los Angeles, Miracle Mile/Fairfax District and the Southwest and Northwest San Fernando Valley (Encino, Woodland Hills, Reseda, Van Nuys, Sherman Oaks, North Hollywood) and surrounding areas).
  

• Sanora's Group 8-Week General Writers Group in Glassell Park on Thursday October 15th (this group is good for writers who want to join a writers group who are coming from Glendale, Burbank, Los Feliz, East Los Angeles, Atwater Village, the Northeast and Southeast San Fernando Valley and surrounding areas)
  

See http://www.lawritersgroup.com for further details, or read more about how our Los Angeles writers groups work in this previous blog post.

Land of Lincoln issue, Crab Orchard Review call for submissions:

Deadline: Oct. 31, 2009

Website: http://craborchardreview.siuc.edu/guid2.html

Type: Call for submissions for writing from and about Illinois

Reading Fee: n/a

Prize: n/a

Looking for: Original, unpublished poetry, fiction, or literary nonfiction in English or unpublished translations in English

Accepts: Snail Mail Submissions

From their site:

Special Issue: Land of Lincoln ~

Writing from and about Illinois

CRAB ORCHARD REVIEW is seeking work for our Summer/Fall 2010 issue focusing on writing by Illinois writers and writing from writers outside Illinois about the people, places, past and present of Illinois.

All submissions should be original, unpublished poetry, fiction, or literary nonfiction in English or unpublished translations in English (we do run bilingual, facing-page translations whenever possible). Please query before submitting any interview.

For our general submission guidelines, check our Web site at

http://craborchardreview.siuc.edu/guid2.html

Mail submissions to:

CRAB ORCHARD REVIEW

Land of Lincoln issue

Faner 2380, Mail Code 4503

Southern Illinois University Carbondale

1000 Faner Drive

Carbondale, IL 62901

United States of America

The submission period for this issue is August 1, 2009 through October 31, 2009. We will be reading submissions throughout this period and hope to complete the editorial work on the issue by the end of February 2010. Writers whose work is selected will receive $25 (US) per magazine page ($50 minimum for poetry; $100 minimum for prose) and two copies of the issue. Include SASE for reply or for manuscript return.

How to Promote Your Book Online

How to promote your book online on our blog:

Guest blog posts are a great way to promote your book online. The LAwritersgroup.com blog invites guest blog posts on our blog.  This blog is for writers, often they are writers in the Los Angeles area but the blog is not focused specifically on Los Angeles Writers (although we do post the occasional LA specific post).  If you are an author who has published a book and would like to promote your book, whether it is a literary fiction novel, a mystery or horror or suspense genre novel, a book of essays, a young adult novel, a book of poems, or even a non-fiction book, we invite you to send us a guest post.  Our only requirement is that you provide useful content to writers, either a tip about writing, something inspirational or motivating, or what helps you in your creative process.  We prefer and will give priority to tips about writing.  We will include a 2 - 3 sentence bio and a link to your site / book /twitter if you submit them.

Why do this? More online exposure and links to your book!

Why do we do this To provide excellent content to our readers and help you promote your book online!

Here is where you can submit your writing-related guest blog post.

VERY IMPORTANT:

Please note that your blog post MUST BE about a subject of interests to writers, NOT promotional information about your book.  We will credit you and link to and mention your book but the blog must not be about your book.  It can be on a subject related to your book - for example:  If your book is about writing novels while sailing, then you can write some tips for sailors who are also writers.

Here is an example:  http://lawritersgroup.blogspot.com/2010/06/your-hyphenate-brain-how-fiction.html

After you're done, subscribe to our blog so you know when your guest post has been published.

Ginosko Literary Journal call for submissions

Looking for poetry, short-fiction, creative non-fiction & more:

Deadline: N/A

Website: http://www.ginoskoliteraryjournal.com , http://www.ginoskoliteraryjournal.com/submissions.htm

Type: Call for Submissions

Reading Fee: None

Prize: None

Looking for: Accepting short fiction & poetry, audio recordings, creative non-fiction, interviews, social justice concerns for the 9th issue of the literary journal ginosko, the summer issue.

Accepts: Email and Snail Mail Submissions

From their site:

Call for Submissions: Ginosko Literary Journal

Editorial lead time 1-2 months; accept simultaneous submissions and reprints; length flexible, accept excerpts.

Receives postal submissions & email—prefer email submissions as attachments in
Microsoft Works Word Processor or Rich Text Format. Copyright reverts
to author.Publishing as semiannual ezine, winter & summer. Selecting material
from ezine for printed anthology.

Check downloadable issues on website for style & tone:
http://www.ginoskoliteraryjournal.com/

Also looking for artwork, photography, to post on website and links to exchange.

Ginosko (ghin-océ-koe)
To perceive, understand, realize, come to know; knowledge that has an inception, a progress, an attainment . The recognition of truth by experience.

Member CLMP. Listed in Best of the Web 2008.

Theatre Company looking for One Acts

www.abovethecurvetheatre.com

"We are Above the Curve Theatre Company, a four-year-old, non-profit organization looking forward to putting up our Fourth Annual One Act Festival, comprised of original pieces. We generally shoot for one acts which are approximately ten minutes in length. We do not discriminate but we do like plays which have more female roles than male. Please do not hesitate to send us any type of one-act with any number of male or female characters.

You can email them to abovethecurvetheatre[at]gmail.com and we will read them and get back to you.

To learn more about us, you can visit www.abovethecurvetheatre.com

The festival is in November this year (either the first two or second two weekends of the month).

Thank you all very much for your contributions!

-Above the Curve"

via Craigslist.

Creative Screenwriting Cyberspace Open Competition

Write up to 3 brief scenes. Win a quick $3,000.

From their site: http://screenwritingexpo.com/writingtournament.2009.html:

Enter for just $12 by Sept. 16.

First Round Is Over The Weekend Of Sept. 18-21

The Premise For The First Scene Will Be Posted Here
And Also Be Emailed To Entrants Sept. 18 at 5 PM -- Details Below

The Prizes:

Grand Prize Is $3,000, plus...
Industry Recognition As The Top Creative Writer On A Deadline
Second Prize $500; Third Prize $250; See the full official prize list here
TO ENTER: click here to go to the Rules and Release page.
Read the Rules and Release and enter at the bottom of that page.

See their site for more information.

Writers Market Call for Article Submissions:

Writers Market is looking for articles for their Poet's Market and Writer's Market books.

Deadline: Sept. 1st, 2009

Website: WritersMarket.com

Type: Call for article pitches

Reading Fee: n/a

Prize: n/a

Looking for: Articls on writing for the Writers Market book and the Poets Market book.

Accepts: E-mail queries

From the editor:

"You know those great informational articles in the front of Writer's Market and Poet's Market? Well, I'm currently accepting pitches for the 2011 editions until September 1, 2009.

If you've got a great article idea (or ideas), send your pitch to robert.brewer@fwmedia.com with the subject line '2011 Writer's Market Query' for Writer's Market or '2011 Poet's Market Query' for Poet's Market.

I do NOT want fiction or poetry. I want article ideas that will help writers get their fiction, poetry, and nonfiction published, sold, promoted, marketed, etc. If you're unsure, pick up a copy of Poet's Market or Writer's Market to read what gets published in the front of the book."

Doug Fir Fiction Award

Every Story Begins Somewhere

At The Bear Deluxe Magazine, the Pacific Northwest’s leading environmental arts publication, many short fiction stories and their authors find their first recognition through the Doug Fir Fiction Award. Now in its third year, this annual contest celebrates writing related to the natural world, sense of place or environmental issues.

Deadline: September 8, 2009 (postmark)

Prize: $1,000 and publication

Judge: Jon Raymond, The Half-Life, Livability, (Bloomsbury), and the movies Old Joy, Wendy and Lucy

Word limit: 5,000

$15 reading fee

Mail formatted submissions and entry fee (check or money order in U.S. dollars) to Orlo/The Bear Deluxe Magazine, P.O. Box 10342, Portland, Oregon 97296 USA

Publication reach: 44,000

Open to all writers in English

Complete submission guidelines: www.orlo.org