Writers Group Starts Wed Sept 23, 2009!

Wondering what we do in our groups?


Upcoming Los Angeles Writers Groups:
Our groups meet once a week from 7:30 - 10:00pm for eight consecutive weeks.

Wednesday, September 23rd in West Hollywood
Thursday August 20th, 2009 in Glassell Park

What can I expect from the group?

Our groups focus on finding new ways to create new and unexpected material through creative writing prompts. Our tagline, Fill Your Notebook (TM) says it all. We are about filling your notebook with new writing so you can go back, pick the pieces you like best, and refine them. You can either bring works-in-progress into the group for feedback or you can wait until the end of group and go through everything you've written. Our peer feedback process is a constructive and guided process. We have rules we follow that keep the feedback process from degenerating into arguments or defensive posturing and everyone participates in the feedback process, whether you bring work in or not.

What kind of work can I bring in for feedback?

You can bring anything in for feedback. Poetry, essays, non-fiction, chapters from your novel, short fiction, memoir, whatever. We've even had people bring in query letters for feedback. We've had people bring in notes for a project. We've had people bring in segments from a one-man show. Anything you're working on that you think feedback from fellow writers would be valuable, bring it on it.

For even more information on how our groups work, visit these links:

How our writing groups work
LAwritersgroup.com

Mid-American Review accepting poetry, fiction submissions

Deadline: Ongoing

Website: http://marsubmissions.bgsu.edu/

Type: Call for Submissions

Reading Fee: n/a

Prize: n/a

Looking for: Poetry, Fiction, Non-Fiction

Accepts: Online submissions or snail mail submissions

From their site:

Mid-American Review is now accepting online submissions for its 30th anniversary
double issue. The journal will continue to accept snail-mail submissions as
well.

The MAR Submissions Manager site can be accessed through the MAR website, www.bgsu.edu/midamericanreview, or it can be accessed directly at marsubmissions.bgsu.edu.

Submissions are accepted year-round, although summer response times can be slower. The anniversary issue will feature a mix of work by former contributors and newcomers to MAR, and we have a special interest in introducing previously unpublished writers to a wide audience.

Traditional submissions will always be gratefully accepted at this address:

Mid-American Review
Department of English
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green OH 43403

Iowa Writers' Workshop No fee short story collection book contest

Website: http://uipress.uiowa.edu/authors/iowa-short-fiction.htm

Deadline: Sept. 30th, 2009

Type: No-Fee Contest

Reading Fee: N/A

Prize: Publication

Looking for: Collections of Short Stories

Accepts: Snail mail submissions only

From their site:

The Iowa Short Fiction Award & the John Simmons Short Fiction Award

Eligibility

Any writer who has not previously published a volume of prose fiction is eligible to enter the competition. Previously entered manuscripts that have been revised may be resubmitted. Writers are still eligible if they have published a volume of poetry or any work in a language other than English or if they have self-published a work in a small print run. Writers are still eligible if they are living abroad or are non-US citizens writing in English. Current University of Iowa students are not eligible.

Manuscript

The manuscript must be a collection of short stories in English of at least 150 word-processed, double-spaced pages. We do not accept e-mail submissions. The manuscript may include a cover page, contents page, etc., but these are not required. The author’s name can be on every page but this is not required. Stories previously published in periodicals are eligible for inclusion. There is no reading fee; please do not send cash, checks, or money orders. Reasonable care is taken, but we are not responsible for manuscripts lost in the mail or for the return of those not accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope. We assume the author retains a copy of the manuscript. Publication Award-winning manuscripts will be published by the University of Iowa Press under the Press’s standard contract.

Submission

Manuscripts should be mailed to: Iowa Short Fiction Award
Iowa Writers’ Workshop
507 North Clinton Street
102 Dey House
Iowa City IA 52242-1000

No application forms are necessary. Entries for the competition should be postmarked between August 1 and September 30; packages must be postmarked by September 30. Announcement of the winners will be made early in the following year. Previous Winners

Potential entrants wishing to read stories by previous winners may order The Iowa Award: The Best Stories from Twenty Years and The Iowa Award: The Best Stories, 1991–2000, both selected by Frank Conroy.

Paper Darts Magazine Call for Submissions

Fiction, Poetry, Plays & More

Website: http://www.paperdarts.org

Editor/Contact Name : Jamie Millard

Contact E-Mail : jamie[at]paperdarts.org

Deadline Date (if any) : n/a

Publication Type : Literary Arts Magazine

Website URL : Paper Darts Magazine

Genre(s) : Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Music, Video, Comics, Playwriting, Art.

What they're looking for in their own words:

Paper Darts is a Minneapolis based literary arts magazine looking to publish all types of genres from all types of people. We like unique, creative, sometimes disturbing types of work.

Sparklesoup seeks short fiction and inspirational manuscripts

Website: www.sparklesoup.com

Editor/Contact Name : Kailin Gow

Contact E-Mail : sparklesoup[at]aol.com

Deadline Date (if any) :n/a

Publication Type : Print and/or Electronic Book Publisher

What they seek in their own words:

1) Non-fiction - how-to, career, health, nutrition, diet, parenting, education, business, technology, inspirational, studying/school tips, beauty, fashion, biography of famous person, politics, science, home life.

2) Fiction - older tweens, teens, young adult, romance, mystery, chick lit, fantasy/adventure, science fiction, christian fiction.

Our books are distributed in the U.S., Canada, Asia, Europe, and South America, and recommended by Parents, Teachers, Schools, and Women's Groups. Because we have this core audience, we do not publish anything containing obscene scenes, lewd acts, degradation, anything that is beyond a PG-13 rating.
Details : Sparklesoup is expanding with new lines of books.

We are currently seeking shorter books (between 7,500 words to 40,000 words) based on 250 words per page for publication for our new Sparklesoup Sparkfire (romance books) and Sparklesoup SparkleLife (inspirational books) line (only as ebooks.) Longer length books (35,000 to 80,000) are currently sought in the fiction to non-fiction areas for print. Manuscripts must be completely written and edited.

Send an email inquiry with the following information in the body of the email to sparklesoup@aol.com.

1) 500 words synopsis
2) Why should this manuscript be published?
3) Number of pages and words of the manuscript
4) Author's bio, been published before, has an agent or rep?
5) 1st sample paragraph of manuscript

Please do not send manuscript. If there is interest, based on the inquiry, there will be a follow-up email asking for more material. If your manuscript is accepted for publication, please do not provide a cover for the book. We have a team of cover artists that will provide a cover for the book.

{out of nothing} call for submissions

Deadline: Oct. 1, 2009

Website: http://www.outofnothing.org (as a note, the website is a work of art in itself)

Type: Call for submissions

Reading Fee: n/a

Prize: n/a

Looking for:

Accepts: Electronic submissions, see http://www.outofnothing.org/809/guidelines-text.html

From their site:

call for submissions
{out of nothing}
no. 3 / that there were some ah-ness to things

Please view complete guidelines here:
http://outofnothing.org/809/

[out of nothing] (http://www.outofnothing.org) is an electronic
publication featuring new works in image, sound, text and the digital
arts, as well as works located at the inter-sections between these
media.

In general, [out of nothing] is interested in works that address, in
some manner:
* the vacuum
* salvage / remainders
* imaginary spaces possessed of imaginary dimensions
* darkness / lightlessness
* reduced or infinitesimal means
* the exponential
* self-abnegating symbols
* the blank
* obliteration
* the inconsequential
* refusal
* the contentless / general contentlessness
* the generic and / or undifferentiated and / or the contra-original
* adhesive agents in search of clients to bind
* none of the above or below

[out of nothing] is published in online installments, on an irregular but roughly quarterly seasonal basis that nevertheless remains chronically TBD. Each issue is theme-based, and is introduced by a special M.C.; or, emcee. Occasional print anthologies are also envisioned.

[out of nothing] is edited by Janice Lee, Eric Lindley & Joe Milazzo.