2011 Legal Workshops for Writers, Only $20

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California Lawyers for the Arts is pleased to present...

LEGAL & BUSINESS WORKSHOP SERIES FOR WRITERS

All workshops will be held:

Wednesdays, 7:30pm – 9:00pm at

Moving Arts Theatre, 1822 Hyperion Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027

(Free street & free small lot parking available)

JANUARY 12, 2011: COPYRIGHT & IDEA SUBMISSION LAW FOR WRITERS

With Marc S. Williams, Esq.

This workshop will address the basics of copyright and idea submission law for writers. While most examples we will cover come from motion picture cases, the workshop is relevant to all writers. How do you obtain and enforce rights under copyright laws? What are the best practices for protecting your ideas, even if they are not protected under copyright laws? This workshop will clarify questions writers have about their contributions when they are not the final or only writers on a project.

JANUARY 26, 2011: ANATOMY OF A SCREENWRITER DEAL

With Gary G. Goldberger, Esq.

There are many different kinds of screenwriter deals made: film, TV, established writer, new writer, guild, non-guild, etc. This workshop will discuss and analyze the deal points involved in agreements between writers and producers.

FEBRUARY 9, 2011: FROM INSPIRATION TO PUBLICATION

With Cheryl Klein, California Office Director, Poets & Writers

You’ve written something, and everyone in your writing workshop thinks it’s great. Now what? This workshop will provide an overview for writers of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction who are ready for the “next step.” We will discuss finding the right outlet for your work, seeking an agent, querying literary journals and independent presses, and presenting your work at readings and other events.

FEBRUARY 23, 2011: LITERARY PUBLISHING CONTRACTS FOR WRITERS

With Jonathan Kirsch, Esq.

This intensive workshop will show writers what to look for--and look out for--in the "fine print" of the various contracts that book, magazine, and newspaper writers will encounter in author-publisher, author-agent, and writer collaboration agreements.

ADMISSION (Per Workshop): General: $20, C.L.A. Members: $10, C.L.A. Member Senior Citizens & C.L.A. Member Students: $5

REGISTER: Phone: (310) 998-5590

Online: http://www.calawyersforthearts.org

Email: jennie.park@calawyersforthearts.org

(If emailing, include your phone number, mailing address, and workshop date(s))

Wednesday Writers Round Up

This week's round up - some of the deadlines are coming up fast so make it your year end resolution!

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The DuPage Valley Review Solicits Poetry Submissions

http://www.illinoispoets.org/pdf/dvr-contest-2009.pdf

The DuPage Valley Review, a non-profit journal published by Benedictine University’s Procopian Press, is soliciting poetry submissions for its 2010 edition.

• no limit to number of submissions allowed
• no limits on length
• submissions must include full contact information, including street address and e-mail if available
• paper submissions should be mailed to:
Dr. Zubair S. Amir
Dept. of Language and Literature
Benedictine University
5700 College Rd.
Lisle, IL 60532

• electronic submissions also accepted: e-mail to zamir@ben.edu
• inquiries/questions may also be directed to above e-mail address
• deadline for submissions: December 31, 2009

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THE MOM EGG http://www.themomegg.com/themomegg/Submit.html

Currently reading poetry, creative prose, etc. for The Mom Egg 2010 Vol. 8. Submissions deadline: 12/31/09. Publication April 2010.

Theme is Lessons

Mama told me not to come
My momma told me, you better shop around
Mama said there'd be days like this
Mama don't `low...
Mother knows best
Teach Your Children /Teach Your Parents

The theme is "Lessons" -- lessons from mothers to daughters or sons, from children to parents, from society and vice versa, as well as lessons from actual teachers; lessons in life and in love, in peace and in war, in business, in human nature, in morality, in reality, lessons heeded or ignored, from the point of view of the teacher or the taught.

Publishes sharp, articulate, inventive work by mothers about everything and by everyone about mothers and motherhood. Put "Submission 2010 Poetry" in the subject line. Include a 3-4 line bio in email. Submit 3-5 poems. Send submission as .rtf or .txt file attachment. Name the file, "your last name-poetry." Include name on submission. Sim subs ok with notification. No prior publications (except on your own blog is okay). Submit material that has not previously been submitted to The Mom Egg.

Email submissions to themomegg@gmail.com themomegg@gmail.com

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Symposium on Place – Call for Entries

Center: A Journal for the Literary Arts invites submissions for a symposium on the importance of place in creative nonfiction, to appear in its next issue.

We encourage you to consider place from a variety of perspectives. What is its role in the essay? in memoir? in literary journalism? How do concerns about conveying a sense of place affect your own work? In what ways do you see issues of place animating the work of others? How is place specific or general? Must place be physical or is it temporal as well?

Submissions should be between 750 and 1000 words. Email your submission, in a .doc format with "symposium" in the header line, to missouri.edu> Please include a short bio in the body of the e-mail. Inquiries to barberse@missouri.edu.
The deadline for submissions is January 15, 2010.

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The Apple Valley Review, a semiannual online literary journal, will be accepting submissions of short fiction, personal essays, and poetry for its Spring 2010 issue until February 15, 2010.

www.applevalleyreview.com

Submissions are accepted year-round via e-mail. We prefer work that has both mainstream and literary appeal. All work must be original, previously unpublished, and in English. Please do not submit genre fiction, explicit work, or anything particularly violent or depressing. Also, please note that we do not accept simultaneous submissions. All published work is considered for our annual editor's prize.

Send submissions via e-mail to Leah Browning, Editor, at editor@leahbrowning.net.

—Send one prose piece or two to six poems at a time.
—Include the word “fiction,” “poetry,” or “essay” in your subject line.
—Type or paste your submission in the body of the e-mail message. We will not open any unsolicited attachments.

Complete submission guidelines: http://www.leahbrowning.net/Apple/Submit.html

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Online literary website The Whistling Fire is seeking poetry, nonfiction, fiction, excerpts from longer work and experimental pieces under 1500 words. The Whistling Fire acquires one time rights to publish work shared, and the rights are immediately reverted to the artist thereafter. All writing that appears on this site remains the property of the writer.

Conceived in December 2008 as a collective effort of MFA students, The Whistling Fire provides a forum where fresh voices share creative works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. We encourage writers with an eye toward publication to submit their works or works in progress, as we wish to showcase a diverse array of styles and voices. We encourage our readers to comment on posted works in the spirit of constructive criticism. Positive feedback is always welcomed; constructive literary criticism is encouraged. Our aim is to encourage the writing process.

The Whistling Fire publishes new work every Thursday at www.whistlingfire.com. All pieces that you wish to share should be sent to whistlingfire@gmail.com

Wednesday Writers Round Up

One to get you going (December 20, 2009 deadline) and two that allow you to take your time (ongoing).

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SPIRITS ART/LITERARY MAGAZINE

Now Accepting:

· Short Stories of 1,500 Words or Less
· One Act, One Scene Plays
· Photography
· Sketches
· Paintings
· Essays
· Poetry

Submit all work to: spirits@iun.edu

Deadline: December 20, 2009

*Include your full name, email address and a bio of 100 words or less.
*Artwork submissions must not include frames, borders or backdrops.

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Kartika Review is accepting submissions for upcoming issues of our online Asian-American literary magazine.

We accept fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and visual art by Asian-American (west, east, central, south, and southeast Asian) writers and artists.

We are a quarterly journal. We read submissions all year. Simultaneous submissions are okay, but please notify us immediately if your work has been accepted elsewhere.

Full submission guidelines and the email addresses for submitting work are available at our website: http://www.kartikareview.com/submit.html

Kartika Review serves the Asian-American community and those involved with Diasporic Asian-inspired literature. We scout for compelling Asian American creative writing and artwork to present to the public at large. Our editors actively solicit contributions from established virtuosos in our community in hopes their works here will inspire the next generation of virtuosos. We also want to promote emerging writers and artists we foresee to be the future powerhouses of their craft. Ultimately, Kartika strives to create a literary forum that caters to and celebrates the wordsmiths of the Asian Diaspora.

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The Weekly Poet, a new literary blog, is now reading unsolicited submissions of between 3 and 10 poems. We intend to publish weekly. If accepted your poems will be featured on our front page for one week along with an extended bio and interview. http://www.weeklypoet.com/

The poems we intend to feature will be "well rounded," which means we pay equal attention to aesthetics as we do meaning. They should be tight. They should sound smooth when read aloud and demonstrate a good understanding of sonics. And they should have a profound theme or meaning which is arrived at through the combined effort of form and diction. Aside from that, we will consider any type of poem, so long as it does not go over 1 page in Microsoft Word in 12-pt Times New Roman with standard margins.

Feel free to submit between 3 and 10 previously unpublished poems to benjaminckrause@gmail.com, attached in a Word document with one poem per page. Cover letter is not required. Please include a bio of up to 100 words, including your publication history (list no more than 5 publications) if applicable and anything interesting about you. Please also put your name in the subject field of your email, along with the words "Submission" and "The Weekly Poet." Simultaneous submissions are fine and dandy; just notify us if a poem you have submitted is accepted elsewhere. No more than one submission per month please. We endeavor to reply to everyone, but if you do not follow these simple guidelines we need not show you that courtesy.

And One More...

MARY Magazine is in search of great work to publish!

Last-minute call for poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, and art for our Winter Issue. Here’s a little about the publication:

MARY Magazine is the online arts journal sponsored by Saint Mary's College of California's MFA in Creative Writing program. Since 2002, MARY has published contemporary poetry, prose, and new media arts from a diverse group of established artists, including Peter Orner, Brian Doyle, Gillian Conoley, Bruce Smith, Elizabeth Robinson, Nora Pierce, Rebecca Curtis, Brian Glaser, Carol Snow, Maria Hummel, as well as talented emerging writers. MARY Magazine has conducted interviews with award-winning writers such as Michael Palmer, Pico Ayer, Andrew Sean Greer, Nick Flynn, Phil Jenks, Cristina Garcia, Susan Steinberg, Michael Pollen, John D'Agata, Jo Ann Beard, Mary Roach, Forrest Gander, and Chris Abani.

There is no fee to submit to MARY. Writers selected for standard publication are awarded $50. Those who are chosen for our NouVeau section, which is dedicated to emerging writers who have not yet been published, are not paid. Please visit www.maryjournal.org for more information and submission guidelines. When you’re ready to submit, send work to mary@stmarys-ca.edu. The deadline for the Winter issue is December 1st, 2009.

Wednesday Writers Round Up

Kicking off our weekly list of places that want your writing! We have provided a link to each call for submissions where you can get all the nitty-gritty details.

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Call for Submissions for CRAB ORCHARD REVIEW

THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS NOVEMBER 20, 2009. THIS IS A POSTMARK DEADLINE, SO THERE IS NO NEED TO EXPRESS MAIL, OVERNIGHT, OR FAX ANY SUBMISSION. CRAB ORCHARD REVIEW DOES NOT CONSIDER ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS AT ANY TIME, SO PLEASE DO NOT EMAIL YOUR SUBMISSION. THANK YOU.

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. Especially interested in work about the distinctive neighborhoods and cities of Illinois, and its political, social, musical, cultural and sports history.

The submission period for this issue is August 1, 2009 through November 20, 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.

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Call for Submissions: The Survivor's Review

The Survivorʼs Review, a not-for-profit online journal encouraging the creative expression of cancer survivors, is seeking stories, essays and poems by those who are intimately familiar with the cancer journey. If you have written a piece that explores the heart of what it means to be a cancer survivor or caregiver, please consider submitting your work to us.

Submissions accepted at: www.survivorsreview.org

Our word count is flexible, but most of our features range from 100 to 1,000 words. Please visit our site and contact us with any questions.

Submissions received by December 1, 2009 will be considered for publication in our next issue.

Question: Who is a cancer survivor?

Answer: Anyone living with a history of cancer from the moment of diagnosis through the remainder of life.

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Online Journal Seeks Current Events Poetry

THE NEW VERSE NEWS covers the news of the day with poems on issues, large and small, international and local. It relies on the submission of poems (especially those of a politically progressive bent) by writers from all over the world.

The editors update the website every day or two with the best work received. What's best? A genuinely poetic take on a very current and specific news story or event.

See the website at http://www.newversenews.com for guidelines and for examples of the kinds of poems THE NEW VERSE NEWS publishes. Then paste your submission and a brief bio in the text of an email (no attachments, please) to nvneditor@yahoo.com. Write "Verse News Submission" in the subject line of your email.

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Tattoo Highway, an online journal of prose, poetry and art, is now reading
for TH/20: "Detours."

Deadline, Jan. 10, 2010.

GENERAL GUIDELINES: Our tastes are eclectic. We like fresh, vivid language,
and we like stories and poems that are actually about something -- that
acknowledge a world beyond the writer's own psyche. If they have an edge, if
they provoke us to think or make us laugh, so much the better. We strongly
suggest reading a previous issue or two before submitting.

While we particularly welcome poetry and short "screen-reader-friendly" prose or cross-genre pieces work. We encourage hypertext and new media (Flash .swf) submissions, also photographs and original graphics. All readings are "blind" (authors' names and other identifiers are removed). Writers may submit up to 5 poems, prosepoems or flash fictions (500 words max), or 2 longer prose pieces. While we prefer to see work that has not been previously published, we do consider work that has appeared in small-circulation print journals. Simultaneous submissions are fine, but please let us know promptly if you place a piece elsewhere.

As always, we're featuring our contest: "A Picture Worth 500 Words." Details on website.

HOW TO SUBMIT: Email submissions to submissions@tattoohighway.org, as Rich Text Format (RTF) attachments or as plain text in the body of your message, and with TH20 in the subject line. For hypertext and Flash submissions, provide us with an URL where we may view the work online. Send graphics in .jpg format.

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Porter Gulch Review invites submissions of poems, short stories, screenplays, paintings, drawings, photographs or anything else that can be transferred to paper.

Written works must be less than 5,000 words each. Up to four poems or two short stories. Typed, single-spaced, one copy only and no staples. Include a cover letter with your address, phone, email, titles of submissions and a 2-3 sentence playful bio. Include a disk with files of literary or art works and mark on the disk your name and names of pieces included. Any originals of artworks should have your contact information on the back. Mail in 9X12 envelope to Porter Gulch Review, Cabrillo College, 6500 Soquel Drove, Aptos CA 95003. Email all files including bio to pgr@cabrillo.edu. Deadline: December 1, 2009.

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Call for poems: MisFit

MisFit: A Journal of Long and Short Poetry, is now accepting submissions for its inaugural issue, April 2010. Email your long (60+ lines) poems or your short (7 or less lines) in the body of your email, with the subject line "MisFit (long OR short) Name" to editor.stringbeanpress@gmail.com

Previously published poems will be considered!

The journal will come out in POD format in April. Contributors get one copy.

L.A. Review Call for Submissions

The Los Angeles Review, a twice-yearly literary journal published by Red Hen Press, invites our members to submit work during their reading period for their Spring 2010 issue.

Many magazines solicit work primarily from academic programs or from writers in their immediate regions, but The Los Angeles Review takes pride in reaching out to writers wherever they may be working, and actively encourages submissions from writers who may not be well-served by other publications.

Submissions are open until December 1. Full guidelines are available here.

TheDoubleAgent.com is Looking for Writers to Write about Writing

While currently based in Australia, the Double Agent is currently looking for writers for the LA edition of the Double Agent, so they contacted us. While this gig is no pay, and we generally don't advocate no pay gigs, this seems like a decent website, and might be an opportunity for writers who are looking to develop clips. Here's what the editor had to say:

I'm currently looking for writers who can write about writing. Over the coming months, I want to turn The Double Agent into a kind of creative hub, where artists blog about art, actors about acting, and writers about writing. I'm looking for writers who are confident in sharing their knowledge and experience with other writers, and they don't have to be ten-times-published authors, they can be college students who are just starting to find their voice, poets who have never been published before, or high school English teachers (although a couple of ten-times-published authors would be nice).

Content wise, I'd only be looking for a 500 - 1,500 word piece once every three weeks, and, as long as the theme is writing, it can be about anything - matters of style, inspirations, or the time that you got ripped off by Author House. The bonus is that, as The Double Agent grows, the contributing writers will be put in touch with a network of creatives from around the world, get to bounce ideas off once another, and, last but not least, I give fantastic references that often use the word 'atomic'.

Contact Simon at thedoubleagentadmin@gmail.com for more information.