Jerry Jazz Musician No Fee Fiction Contest

Deadline: September 30th, 2009

Website: http://www.jerryjazzmusician.com/mainHTML.cfm?page=fictioncontest.html

Type: Contest

Entry Fee: No fee

Prize: $100

Looking for: Fiction that is original, previously unpublished work of approximately one - five thousand words.

Accepts: email submissions.

From their site:

Three times a year, Jerry Jazz Musician awards a writer who submits, in our opinion, the best original, previously unpublished work of approximately one - five thousand words. The winner will be announced via a special mailing of our Jerry Jazz Musician newsletter. Publishers, artists, musicians and interested readers are among those who subscribe to the newsletter. Additionally, the work will be published on the home page of Jerry Jazz Musician and featured there for at least four weeks.

The Jerry Jazz Musician reader has interests in music, social history, literature, politics, art, film and theatre, particularly that of the counter-culture of mid-twentieth century America. Your writing should appeal to a reader with these characteristics.

Writer Residency

Soapstone in Oregon is now accepting applications for 1 - 4 week residencies

From their site:

We will be accepting applications postmarked between July 1 and August 1, 2009 for residencies starting November 2009 to November 2010.

Information about our residency program can be found at www.soapstone.org.

Application forms can be downloaded at

www.soapstone.org/apply_pages/index.html.

Be sure to check out the link "Is Soapstone for You?"

Call for Poetry Book Submissions

Tupelo Press Open Submissions Month for Poetry

Deadline: July 31st, 2009

Website: www.tupelopress.org

Type: Poetry Book

Reading Fee: $25

Looking for: Book Length Poetry Collections, 48-90 pages

Accepts: Electronic Submissions

From their site:

Throughout July, Tupelo Press will hold open submissions for book-length poetry collections (48-90 pages). Aware of the current economy, we have reduced our reading fee from $35 to $25. We also now accept electronic submissions, which saves on photocopying and postage, via a special transfer site. This ensures correct formatting and provides automatic receipts and a log-in option to check the status of your manuscript. We will continue to accept submissions by postal mail as well.

Historically Tupelo Press has granted contracts each year to three to five poetry books submitted in July, for example Ted Deppe's ORPHEUS ON THE RED LINE, Karen An-hwei Lee's ARDOR, Mark Halliday's KEEP THIS FOREVER, Ellen Doré Watson's THIS SHARPENING, and Michael Chitwood's SPILL. Tupelo Press editors will read all manuscripts.

In addition to July's open submissions for poetry, fiction and nonfiction manuscripts are welcome year-round. Click here and scroll down to view the complete Submissions Guidelines for fiction and nonfiction.

See the Submissions tab on our website for complete guidelines.

Maternal Spark webzine seeks flash fiction from writing moms

Deadline: Ongoing

Type: Call for Submissions

Website: http://maternalspark.com/wp/?page_id=336

Looking for: Flash Fiction - No more than 500 words from moms or pregnant women only

Accepts: E-mail Submissions

From their site:

Maternal Spark is now accepting Flash Fiction submissions. Pieces should be no more than 500 words and must be a complete story from beginning to end with characters and a plot. Please note that while Maternal Spark is all about Creative Motherhood – your flash fiction can be about whatever topic you like. In fact, I encourage you to write about something other than Motherhood.

Please copy and paste your flash into the body of an email and send it to: heddy.e[at]gmail[dot]com

Include: Name, email address, link to your blog or website and short, 50 word bio.

Use the subject line “Flash Fiction“.

At this time, Maternal Spark is only accepting the writing of Moms. If you are not a mom (or pregnant) – I’m sorry you’ll have to try again later.

You will receive a response to your submission within 60 days. Please don’t worry about technical details too much. I’m really just looking for great stories.

I look forward to reading your work. Submit away!

The New York Songwriters Circle 2009 Songwriting Contest DL 10/1/09

Calling all songwriters!

Deadline: Submissions deadline is October 1st, 2009. All mail in submissions must be postmarked by September 23rd, 2009 to qualify.

Website: http://www.songwriters-circle.com/2009_about.htm

Type: Songwriting Contest

Submission Fee: $30 per one song submission / $50 per three song submission.

Prize: Over $25,000 in cash and prizes

From their site:

The New York Songwriters Circle | The 2009 Songwriting Contest: "With over $25,000 in cash and prizes, more opportunities and more great music then ever before we are excited to welcome you to the 2009 Songwriting Contest. With the most recent success of past winners Kate Voegele, Company Of Thieves and Mieka Pauley, we are once again on the search for the best songwriters out there today.

Submissions are now being accepted from songwriters worldwide in all musical genres. Whether submitting online or via mail, click here to submit your music.

All song submissions must be in English.

Our list of judges, prizes and sponsors is constantly growing so keep checking back for the latest updates.

All entrants receive a complimentary 6-month MoB membership to Broadjam.com (a $25 value)

Family Circle Fiction Writing Contest: DL Aug 31

http://www.parents.com/family-life/fitness/stress-relaxation/fiction-contest-winners/?page=12

Deadline: August 31st, 2009

Type: Contest

Reading Fee: None

Prize: One grand prize winner will receive $750, publication in Family Circle, a certificate for one online mediabistro.com course (valued at up to $610), and a one-year mediabistro.com AvantGuild membership ($49 value). Two runners-up will each receive $250 and a one-year
mediabistro.com AvantGuild membership ($49 value), and will have his or her story published on familycircle.com.

Looking for: Short fiction up to 2500 words

Accepts: Snail mail submissions

See the parents.com website for further details on the contest.

Juked fiction and poetry contest: DL Aug 31

http://www.juked.com/prize/

Deadline: August 31, 2009

Type: Contest

Entry Fee: $10 per entry. There is no limit on the number of entries you
may submit.

Prize: First prize for each genre: $500 and publication in our upcoming print issue, Juked #7.

Looking for: Previously unpublished fiction and poetry

Accepts: Simultaneous submissions are fine, but notify us immediately if your work has been accepted elsewhere. Submit by Snail Mail or Email.

From their site:

Fiction: send one story per entry. There is no length requirement.

Poetry: send up to five poems (no more than ten pages total) per entry.

We are currently accepting entries for our 2009 JukedFiction and Poetry Prizes. Winners in each of the genres will receive $500 and publication in print issue #7. Our final judges this year are Dan Chaon (fiction) and Dora Malech (poetry). This year we will also accept electronic submissions to help everyone cut down on costs.

Current and former students of the judges are not eligible to compete.

Include a cover page with your name, address, e-mail, telephone number and the title(s) of your story or poems. Do not put your name anywhere else on the manuscript.

We will notify via e-mail;do not include an SASE.

Results will be announced in October 2009.

See website for more details on how to submit.

Upstreet Mag Call for Submissoins

They're looking for quality submissions with edge - fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction:

UPSTREET: award-winning literary annual’s sixth issue seeks quality submissions with an edge—fiction, poetry, CNF. First five issues feature interviews with Jim Shepard, Lydia Davis, Wally Lamb, Michael Martone, Robin Hemley. Distributed nationally by Ingram, Source Interlink, and by Disticor in Canada.

Website for more information: www.upstreet-mag.org

Deadline: March 1, 2010

Payment: Author Copies

Friday Round-Up: Tweets and posts you may have missed

Here is a list of items we posted on the LAwritersgroup.com Twitter account this week, in case you missed them or don't yet participate in Twitter:

Key:
RT = Re-tweet, which means someone else tweeted something and we re-tweeted it.
@(name) = This is a user name on Twitter. If you click on it, you should be able to visit that person's twitter site and follow them if you so chose.

• Everything You Need to Know About Writing a Novel, in 1000 Words http://viigo.im/0cbC
  

• EventsForWriters: Happening Friday / Saturday Nights at Skylight Books: Skylight Books in Los F.. http://tinyurl.com/nlxklc
  

• We run peer writers groups to create new work & get feedback. New group on Wed July 15 at 7:30pm in WeHo. http://www.LAwritersgroup.com.
  

• EventsForWriters: The Fundamentals of the Fountain Pen Seminar at Vromans: Sat 7/25/09. http://tinyurl.com/lkx3g5
  

• Does flash fiction have formal structure? Find out here: Write Small, Think Big http://viigo.im/0aIr
  

• How to Establish a Connection With an Agent http://viigo.im/0aHq
  

• RT @inkyelbows: Tough Days for Literary Fiction http://ow.ly/gHjm Uplifting post by Darin Strauss
  

• Motes Books Seeks Submissions for Anthology: http://tinyurl.com/m4yzkw
  

• Sweetlit.com Call for Poetry and Creative Non Fiction Submissions: http://tinyurl.com/myzjv3

Sweetlit.com Call for Poetry and Creative Non Fiction Submissions

Website: http://www.sweetlit.com/

Type: Call for Submissions

Reading Fee: None!

Deadline: Accepts submissions all year

Prize: N/A

Looking for: Poetry, Creative Non-Fiction, Essays

Accepts: Electronic submissions

From their site:

The editors at Sweet understand that there are good works that get overlooked, and that often our decisions are based not just on quality but also on taste. That said: Sweet publishes emerging and established writers three times a year--September, January, and May.

Sweet seeks only poetry and creative nonfiction and anything in between. (Sorry fiction writers!) We read submissions all-year. Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but please notify us immediately if your work has been taken by another literary journal. (We would like to be the first to congratulate you!)

Friday Round-Up: Tweets and posts you may have missed

Here is a list of items we posted on the LAwritersgroup.com Twitter account this week, in case you missed them or don't yet participate in Twitter:

Key:
RT = Re-tweet, which means someone else tweeted something and we re-tweeted it.
@(name) = This is a user name on Twitter. If you click on it, you should be able to visit that person's twitter site and follow them if you so chose.

• RT @RoseGoddess: RT @delboy7: “It’s never too late to become the person you might have been.”
  
  
• RT @thecreativepenn: 36 - No, Make That 59 - Free eBooks For Authors http://short.to/ho27
  
  
• EventsForWriters: New 8-Week Writers Groups Scheduled: West Hollywood on Wed July 15 and Glasse.. http://tinyurl.com/nut9gb
  
  
• RT @JanuaryMagazine: Blog to Book: An Elegant Execution http://bit.ly/16d6bn from The New Yorker (via @selfpubreview )
  
  
• Amy Tan on creativity, 25 minute video from TED conference. Fun and inspiring! http://chilp.it/?3c53f7

• RT@WritersDigest:How to write a novel from Google's Autocomplete(humorous but also an unusually helpful creative prompt) http://bit.ly/1WwYB
  

• We're all for recycling but as writers, this just makes us sad: Books as planters http://viigo.im/07bt

• EventsForWriters: Vroman's Bookstore Open Mike Night on 8/1: Vroman's Bookstore in Pasadena is .. http://tinyurl.com/nxho3b

Umbrella journal call for poetry and fiction submissions

Website: http://www.umbrellajournal.com/submit.html

Type: Call for Submissions

Reading Fee: n/a

Deadline: August 10, 2009

Looking for: Fiction, Poetry: Unthemed and themed poetry and prose (see below).

Accepts: Electronic submissions

From their site:

Umbrella, the "supremely rereadable electronic journal," is now reading for our fall issue, online September 1st, 2009.

For fall, we are reading both For the themed section, we are looking for poems that have something to do with school subjects, e.g., history, geography, science, math, languages, Psych 101, whatever and et cetera. Understand, we are not looking for retrospective poems that deal with your school days, but rather poems that encounter the subjects themselves. We welcome your submissions.

Please see the submit page for complete guidelines and specific needs and preferences.

The MOM Egg call for submissions

They are currently seeking submissions for a special online issue of The Mom Egg, a literary journal, to be released in Fall 2009. Deadline for poetry, fiction, creative prose and art for this issue is July 31, 2009. They are also accepting submissions of other material, such as reviews and interviews. Submission guidelines may be found on the website, www.themomegg.com.

The Mom Egg publishes work by mothers about everything, and by everyone about mothers and motherhood.

FC2 innovative fiction book contest

Ronald Sukenick/American Book Review Innovative Fiction Prize, Sponsored by Fiction Collective Two (FC2) and American Book Review:

Website: http://americanbookreview.org/contest.asp

Type: Book Contest

Reading Fee: $25

Prize: The Prize includes $1,000 and publication by FC2, an imprint of the University of Alabama Press. In the unlikely event that no suitable manuscript is found among entries in a given year, FC2 reserves the right not to award a prize.

Deadline: Contest Open from August 15 - November 1.

Looking for: Collection of Short Stories, one or more novellas, or a novel.

Accepts: Submissions by mail only. Submit either TWO hardcopies of the manuscript, or ONE hardcopy and one Word file of the manuscript on a labeled CD.