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.

Wednesday Round Up - Themed Submissions

Hi Readers! We've noticed a trend in themed submissions and thought we'd include them in our Writers Round Up this week.

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The 2010 Stella Kupferberg Memorial Short Story Prize with guest judge Nathan Englander

http://www.symphonyspace.org/shorts/writing_contest

The winning submission, selected by Nathan Englander, will be read as part of the Selected Shorts performance at Symphony Space on April 7, 2010. The story will be recorded for possible later broadcast as part of the public radio series. The winner will receive $1000.

Story requirements

Submit a single short story that addresses the theme, Apartments and Neighbors
Your story must have a title. Make sure your name and contact information appear on the first page of your story. If you are submitting by online, this information needs to appear on the first page of the attached Word document. Include page numbers. Your story must be no more than 3 double-spaced typed pages in length (Times New Roman, 12pt font) and no more than 750 words.

Deadline

All submissions must be received by January 29, 2010. To be specific, online submissions must be submitted by 5pm Eastern Standard Time. Mailed submissions must arrive with the day's mail. (Entries postmarked on January 29 will NOT be accepted.)

Where to submit your story
http://www.symphonyspace.org/shorts/writing_contest

Mail to
CONTEST, Selected Shorts
Symphony Space
2537 Broadway
New York, NY 10025

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Call for Submissions: Poemeleon: A Journal of Poetry http://www.poemeleon.org

We are now accepting submissions for Volume IV Issue 2, the collaborative issue. For this issue, we are looking for works that are collaborative in nature: poem collaborations, call-and-response, or poet/painter (or other medium) pairs/trios, etc. If there are two or more collaborators, and the project involves poetry, we might be interested. In addition to poems, we are looking for relevant essays and interviews that speak to the collaborative process.

Please visit the website for full guidelines. All submissions must come through our electronic submissions form: http://www.poemeleon.org/submission-guidelines2/

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Switched-on Gutenberg, one of the first on-line poetry journals, announces its 15th issue on the theme Gains and Losses. The issue is on-line at http://www.switched-ongutenberg.org

Accepting Submissions of Art and Poetry for Issue 16 on the theme "Assemblage":

--Will be taken from December 1, 2009 to March 1, 2010.
--ONE TO THREE POEMS ONLY, not to exceed 48 lines.
--Must be original (previously published work is okay if credits are included).
--Simultaneous submissions are OK, if you notify us as soon as any work is accepted elsewhere.
--Poetry can be in Text only (TXT or RTF) or in Word (DOC or DOCX) format or included in the body of the e-mail.
--Artwork should be in JPG, GIF, or PNG format.
--Should be e-mailed to editor@switchedongutenberg.org. Please include your name in the subject line.

All submissions should include:

--your name and e-mail address
--a short (three-line) biographical note.
--Address and phone number in case we need to contact you concerning a local reading.

We report on submissions 2 - 3 months after the close of the submission period. We plan to release Issue 16 in late-summer 2010.

For more information, check our web site: http://www.switched-ongutenberg.org

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Daughter/Father Stories Call for Submissions

Seeking Female Writers to to share how your father’s character, personality, and/or actions (in-actions) influenced your development, for the opportunity to be included in an anthology to be published in June 2010.

Details for submission can be found at www.daughterstory.blogspot.co

Deadline is December 15, 2009

No longer than 1200 words, your narrative should be emotionally moving and tangible with descriptive imagery readers can relate to via sight, sound, smell, touch and taste.

Email daughterstory@gmail.com
Include your full name, address, daytime phone number, and e-mail address. Your story MUST be submitted as a .doc attachment, or in the body of the email, double-spaced in 12pt. font, Times New Roman. Any other format will not be read.

In the subject line include your year of birth and a one-word theme for your narrative. Also include a bio—a short paragraph (of about 50 words or less) about you, promoting your latest book, project, etc.