Calls for Submissions: Straylight Lit Journal and Edgemar Theater One-Acts

- Straylight is in search of great work to publish! This is a call for poetry, fiction and flash fiction.

Straylight, the literary journal of the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, is calling for submissions of fiction for both our print magazine and for publication on our website. Our online edition is also calling for creative non-fiction submissions on the topic "Why write?" and novellette and novella-length fiction submissions for serialization. We will consider any genre, but are looking for high-quality work.

We will accept submissions through April 15, 2011. Please visit http://straylightmag.com/ for more information and submission guidelines. When you're ready to submit, send work either to straylight[at]litspot.net or via postal mail to:

Straylight
University of Wisconsin-Parkside
English Department
900 Wood Road
Kenosha, WI 53141

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The Edgemar Theatre Group is in search of work for Acts on The Edge: Annual One Act Short Play Festival. This is a call for one act plays and 10-minute shorts.

The Edgemar Theatre Group will be accepting submissions for the 2011 Acts on the Edge until December 1, 2010. There is a $5.00 fee to submit to the Edgemar Theatre Group. A $100.00 prize will be awarded to the author of the Audience Favorite Award.

All submissions will be accepted through www.edgemarcenter.org/events. After your $5.00 submission fee is processed, you will receive a confirmation email with all the details of where to submit your script(s). Please visit the aforementioned site for more information and submission guidelines.

Submit Your One-Act Short Play

Deadline: 12/1/2010

2nd Annual One Act Festival

www.edgemarcenter.org

Acts on The Edge: 2nd Annual One Act Short Play Festival

Want to submit a one-act to Acts on The Edge 2011?

Edgemar Theatre Group will be accepting submissions for the 2011 Acts on The Edge from July 17-December 1, 2010. All submissions will be accepted through www.edgemarcenter.org/events. After your $5.00 submission fee is processed you will receive a confirmation email with all the details of where to submit your script(s).

Submission Guidelines

• Only unproduced works will be accepted. Plays that have had staged readings are eligible, it is preferred that this be the World premiere production of the work.
• Legal clearance of ALL materials not in the public domain are the full responsibility of the playwright.
• Length: 15 minutes maximum, no minimum.
• Production criteria include scripts requiring minimal technical support for a 65 seat theatre and cast of characters with an age range of 20-50. Sets should be minimal.
• Submission fee: $5.00 per script.
• Playwrights may make multiple submissions, each under a separate cover. Only one play per author will be chosen.
• Please include a title page with name, address, phone number and e-mail address. Please submit a synopsis and character breakdown.
• Playwright must provide in their submission a letter giving the Edgemar Theatre Group the right to produce the work free of all royalties as part of an evening of new works which will be presented in 2011. Please note in the statement that all material in the play is in the public within your right to provide performance clearance. By submitting permission is also given to pursue publication of all chosen one acts as part of an anthology collection.
• The volume of scripts submitted hampers our ability to comment individually on each work, so we do not offer criticism.

Deadline for submission: December 1, 2010.