Writers Weekly Round-up

 Something for every genre & specific inspirations this week!

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Folio, a nationally recognized literary journal published out of Washington, D.C., is looking for well-crafted poetry and prose for its Spring 2010 issue. Past issues of Folio have included work by Michael Reid Busk, Billy Collins, William Stafford, and Bruce Weigl, and interviews with Michael Cunningham, Charles Baxter, Amy Bloom, Ann Beattie, and, most recently, Walter Kirn. Submit three to five poems or prose pieces up to 5,000 words (fiction and nonfiction accepted). Submissions must be mailed with a brief bio and SASE by March 5 to:

FOLIO
Department of Literature
American University
Washington, D.C. 20016

Please visit our website
(http://www.american.edu/cas/literature/folio/index.cfm) or see the
attachment for more information. We look forward to reading your work.

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The Village Pariah, a bi-annual literary journal sponsored by the Mark Twain Boyhood Home and Museum, is accepting submissions for its inaugural issue. We are interested in publishing poetry, short fiction, and creative non-fiction inspired by the writings and life of Mark Twain, his hometown of Hannibal, Missouri, the Mississippi River, the Midwest, and small town or rural life in America.
 

Each issue will also include an introductory essay by an established author, poet, artist, songwriter, etc who speaks of Twain’s influence on his or her art or life.
 

Electronic submissions only.
Entries should be emailed as an attachment to
(replace (at) with @)
 

Please include name, contact information, and a short bio along with your submission. Our reading period is now open and entries will be accepted until March 15, 2010.

Visit our website (http://www.marktwainmuseum.org/) for more information. 

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The fiction editor (Metta Sama) at ragazine invites you to submit short stories to ragazine for their upcoming issues. The current reading period is 1 March – 30 April 2010, for work that will appear in the July/August or later issue.

Please read the Fiction Submission Guidelines prior to submitting work:
http://ragazine.cc/submissions/

ragazine is an on-line journal of arts, information, and entertainment. 

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Stymie Magazine, a journal of sport & literature, is seeking submissions for their upcoming 2010 issues (Spring/Summer and Autumn/Winter). Past contributors and those already slated to appear in the near future include: Matt Ferrence, Daniel Orozco, Brian Oliu, Lee Gruenfeld, Ben Loory, Dawn Corrigan and many others.

In terms of what we’re about, our magazine is focused on sport in literature, be it through fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction or essay. We love the sport themed work (i.e. baseball) published at places like Hobart and The Southern Review, and other places like Golf World (in their annual fiction issue). We're partial to the essays of David Foster Wallace. We'd be ecstatic to get an essay on 1986's Double Dribble for the NES.

We are currently reading submissions, our complete guidelines can be found at:
http://www.stymiemag.com/2007/01/guidelines.html

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The long-awaited second installment of Tammy, a print journal of poetry and prose, has arrived! Tammy II has excerpts from Alice Notley’s Eurynome’s Sandals, Jena Osman’s Financial District, Danielle Pafunda’s The Desire Spectrum Is Dead to Me, and Jenny Boully’s Not Merely Because of The Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them. It also features new work from Kiki Petrosino, Joyelle McSweeney, Zach Savich and David Trinidad, among others.  

More importantly, we've started reading for our third issue and we'd love to read your work!

Please send poetry to gmail.com>  and prose to gmail.com>  (replace (at) with @)