Weekly Writers Round-Up

 Go forth and publish.....

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Interrobang?! Magazine (http://interrobangzine.com) is a web and print 'zine for the arts based in Providence, RI. Our goal is to provide a formal venue for voices of all kinds, whether it be poetry, fiction, creative essays, photography and fine art, or experimental music and video. We want your stories, your pictures, your music, your oddball esoterica.

Submit online to gmail.com> (replace (at) with (@) with the genre of your piece in the subject line (for example, "POETRY" if you're submitting poetry). Please put your name, address, and preferred email address in the message body so we can contact you to let know that we've received your piece, and for follow-up if your work is accepted. See
http://interrobangzine.com/submissions.html for further details. The deadline for the spring 2010 issue is March 15, but we will be accepting rolling submissions for future issues.

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Glass: A Journal of Poetry (ISSN 1941-4137) seeks poems for its third year of publication.  Full information about Glass, including submission guidelines, can be found at our website: www.glass-poetry.com

Glass is an online poetry journal that appears two times a year (June and December).  We want to see poetry that enacts the artistic and creative purity of glass. We seek to promote new and established poets by publishing their work. We are not bound by any specific aesthetic; our only mission is to present high quality writing. All styles, forms and schools of poetry are welcome, though easy rhymes and “light” verse are less likely to inspire us. All will be judged on the quality of the content of the poem. We like poems that show a careful understanding of language, music, passion and creativity and poems that surprise us.

Previous contributors include Rane Arroyo, Jim Daniels, Louie Crew, Susan Deer Cloud, Dan Nowak, Lisa Fay Coutley, Joseph Hutchison, Glen Sheldon, Adam Houle, Brent Newsom, Kyi May Kaung, Katie Hartsock and Maw Shein Win, among others.

We accept submissions between September 1 and May 31.  Full submission guidelines can be found at http://www.glass-poetry.com.   Please read our submission guidelines carefully.

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Cottonwood, the literary review of the University of Kansas, is seeking submissions in fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction for its next issue. We especially welcome work from new emerging writers. All styles welcome.

Cottonwood has been publishing high-quality literary writing since the 1960s. In the past it has featured such writers as Rita Dove, Robert Kelly, Wanda Coleman, Criz Mazza, and Connie May Fowler. Recent issues have published writers like Jesse Lee Kercheval, Virgil Suarez, Kim Chinquee, and Carol Lee Lorenzo.

Please send prose submissions up to 8,000 words or 3-5 poems to appropriate editor c/o: 

Cottonwood, 

Room 400 

Kansas Union, 

1301 Jayhawk Blvd.

University of Kansas

Lawrence, KS 66045.

For further information, please contact Tom Lorenz, Editor, atku.edu> (replace (at) with @).  Or see our website: http://www2.ku.edu/~englishmfa/magazines.html

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Exot Books, a high-quality chapbook press in New York City,  is publishing an anthology of sonnets in 2010.  Submit as many sonnets as you like to the editor, Mary Meriam, at  gmail.com> (replace (at) with @)
 

The deadline for submissions is June 1, 2010.

Weekly Writers Round-Up

A bit of poetry....

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Umbrella, the "supremely rereadable electronic journal," is now accepting submissions for our spring-summer issue, online May 1, 2010. Both general poetry subs and poems on the theme of "gall" are invited, as is poetry-related prose.

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

On an ongoing basis we also read poems written in repeating forms for our sister publication, Tilt-a-Whirl. Guidelines at the bottom of theUmbrella submit page.

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

Deadline: April 10, 2009

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Poppyseed Kolache seeks poetry for Issue No. 2.  Editor will consider any well written poem, but prefers not to see rhyming poetry, first drafts, erotica, or polemics.  Prefer poems 60 lines or shorter approx.  Prose poetry okay.  Previously published and simultaneous submissions okay with proper notification.  Send up to 5 typed poems (one poem per page) plus SASE to --

MaryAnka Press, P.O. Box 102, Huffman, Texas 77336.  Sample copy of Issue 1 available.  Full guidelines and ordering information can be found at
www.maryanka.com

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Glass: A Journal of Poetry (ISSN 1941-4137) seeks poems for its third year of publication.  Full information about Glass, including submission guidelines, can be found at our website: http:// www.glass-poetry.com

Glass is an online poetry journal that appears two times a year (June and December).  We want to see poetry that enacts the artistic and creative purity of glass. We seek to promote new and established poets by publishing their work. We are not bound by any specific aesthetic; our only mission is to present high quality writing. All styles, forms and schools of poetry are welcome, though easy rhymes and “light” verse are less likely to inspire us. All will be judged on the quality of the content of the poem. We like poems that show a careful understanding of language, music, passion and creativity and poems that surprise us.

Previous contributors include Rane Arroyo, Jim Daniels, Louie Crew, Susan Deer Cloud, Dan Nowak, Lisa Fay Coutley, Joseph Hutchison, Glen Sheldon, Adam Houle, Brent Newsom, Kyi May Kaung, Katie Hartsock and Maw Shein Win, among others.

We accept submissions between September 1 and May 31.  Full submission guidelines can be found at http:// www. glass-poetry . com.   Please read our submission guidelines carefully. 

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 @) 

Writers Round-Up

This week it's all about higher education.  

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SAKURA REVIEW is reading poetry, fiction, and nonfiction submissions for its next print issue.

http://sakurareview.blogspot.com/

About Sakura Review:
Situated in the District of Columbia and run by graduate students in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Maryland, Sakura Review publishes poetry and prose; we are particularly interested in – though not limited to – work that in some way satisfies or reflects our own preoccupation with a city embodied in location temporary; the new surrounded by collections and artifacts; what is documented alongside what is ultimately forgotten.

Submission Guidelines:
The submission deadline for our Spring 2010 issue is February 28th. Any submissions received after the deadline will automatically carry over to our next reading period.

· Only previously unpublished work will be considered. Simultaneous submissions are fine, if noted (but please notify us immediately if the work is accepted elsewhere).

· For prose, please submit only one manuscript at a time. The preferred maximum length is 2,500 words. For poetry, please submit no more than five poems, a maximum of 10 pages, at one time. Include all poems within one document.

· Please submit your work as a Word attachment to (replace (at) with @). Your genre – poetry or prose – and your name should appear in the subject field.

Contributors receive two copies of the issue in which their work appears.

Our first issue is now available for purchase at our website. We encourage you to read it before submitting.

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L I M E S T O N E
A Journal of Literature and Art

Department of English

1215 Patterson Office Tower 

University of Kentucky

Lexington, KY 40506

www.uky.edu/AS/English/Limestone/index.htm

Call for Submissions: We are requesting original and unpublished poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction and visual art.

Limestone: A Journal of Literature and Art
Limestone publishes original and imaginative writing from established and emerging writers and artists from across the nation. Over the last quarter century, we have printed short stories, essays, formal poetry, free verse, photography, and other fine art. We are looking for quality work unrestricted by form. 

Submission Information:
Poetry
Submissions should be limited to five poems or fewer, typed and single-spaced. We will not consider electronic submissions, but will require an electronic version of the work upon acceptance for publication. Simultaneous submissions are accepted with notification.

Fiction
Submissions should be limited to no more than twenty typed, double-spaced pages. We will not consider electronic submissions, but will require an electronic version of the work upon acceptance for publication. Simultaneous submissions are accepted with notification.

Art
Submissions should be 5x7 or smaller on CD or sent via email. Please do not send originals. Simultaneous submissions are accepted with notification.

Submissions must reach us by March 12th, 2010. 

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Booth, Butler University's literary magazine, is putting out a call for submissions. We're looking for fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, literary comics, and quirky lists.

Simultaneous submissions are welcomed as long as we are notified immediately if your work is accepted for publication elsewhere. No multiple submissions, and we do not accept previously published work. Booth reads nine months a year,  from September to May.

Poetry: up to 5 poems

Fiction: up to 7,500 words

Literary Comics: up to 20 pages, JPEG, width: 850-900px, Landscape preferred

Art: JPEG, width: 850-900px, Landscape preferred

Please include with your submission a brief cover letter.  Electronic submissions can be sent to butler.edu> (replace (at) with @)

Hard copy can be submitted to the address below. Please include a SASE for return response. (Manuscripts will not be returned.)

Booth

c/o English Department

Butler University

4600 Sunset Avenue

Indianapolis, Indiana 46208

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Vanderbilt University's new national literary magazine, Nashville Review, is currently accepting submissions of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and comics. Contributors are offered up to $100. Work in Issue One will be featured alongside interviews with Maira Kalman and Salvador Plascencia.

For submission guidelines, please visit www.vanderbilt.edu/english/nashvillereview/guidelines

Starter Blocks v. Writer's Block

Last night Nicole and I were guest speakers at the monthly Ventura County Writers Club meeting. It was great to get out and mingle with so many writers! We want to thank Tysa Goodrich, the club's Vice-President, for inviting us out.

When we were first asked to speak, Nicole and I got together and realized that one of the main things LAwritersgroup.com helps writers overcome is the dreaded writer's block, so it was a natural subject for our topic last night.  Then driving home together after the event, we realized we should really share our insights with you! So, here's what we've come up with over the years:

Basically, there are three types of writer's block:  1) the "I can't make myself sit down at the computer"; (2) the "I've sat down and now I'm just staring at the screen / blank page"; and (3) the "I'm full of anxiety and have a fear of judgment."

1. The "I can't make myself sit down at the computer"

• Find a new location to write:  When we step out of our usual environment with a specific purpose, the purpose wins the day.  Instead of staring at the dishes that need to be done, we're fully attentive to the computer screen / blank page.  Why do you think there are so many writers in your local coffee shop?
• If you have a 9-5 job and when you get home, you just feel too bushed or too distracted, stop somewhere on the way home.  Go to the library or the coffee shop or yes, even to that dark bar to write and then go home.
•  Finally, set a dedicated time for writing and stick to it!

2.  The "I've sat down and now I'm just staring at the screen / blank page."

• Here's where writing prompts come in handy.  Start by googling "writers prompts" and you'll come up with 100s.  Even better, you can keep track of your own.  This is a tip that we picked up from David Hunter at The Writer's Den. Look, we're writers, we carry a little notebook around with us everywhere (and if you don't, then start). Maybe, while we're out and about or even at home chopping up some onions for dinner, we come up with a cool character idea or a sudden phrase, pull out the notebook and write it down. And then, instead of keeping it in your notebook, tear out the page and put it in a box on your desk or near your writing area.  Now when you sit down to write, reach in your little writer's box and draw your inspiration.
• Commit to at least 15 minutes of writing. That's it. Just 15 measly minutes. Trust us, you'll go over
• If you're really stuck, review your old work and revise it.  Then get online and come up with at least 3 places to submit.  (Or check into this blog once a week for our Writers Round-up.)

3. "I'm full of anxiety and have a fear of judgment."

•  First of all, we all know where that judgment is coming from and it's not the writer at the next table over.  It's you. Here's where we do something new with that 15 minutes of writing time. Freewrite. Freewrite. Freewrite. That means, set your timer, put pen to paper and keep it going, no stopping, no crossing-out, no revising. If you get stuck, write "I feel stuck" or even better, start the piece with a phrase like "I wish someone had told me..." and when you get stuck, repeat that phrase until you can move on.
•  Write as if no one will ever see it. So what does it matter? And this is when you will discover your writer's voice and it will feel free to speak above a whisper.
• Long term solution? Learn some form of meditation. I've been meditating for over 3 years now. It revolutionized my writing. My husband, also a meditator, who never wrote prior to his practice, has now written 1 and 3/4 (2d nearly finished) screenplays in the last year. I practice and teach Vedic Meditation but there are many options. Meditation stills the inner critic but even more important than that, it drops you to the state of being, the source of thought, and you would be amazed what's milling around just waiting to be pulled to the surface by your writer mind.

 

Most writers have faced writer's block at some point so we'd love to hear from you - did we leave anything out? Let us know what works for you!

Writers Round Up

This week we're featuring poetry & fiction requests - the first two deadlines are coming up quickly (February 15) but note that they may also accept submissions year round for other issues:

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Mandala Journal celebrates diversity by publishing diverse voices, experiences, and aesthetics.
2010 Theme: Cosmopolitanism

Call for submissions: previously unpublished and original poetry,
nonfiction, fiction, and art for its first online issue to be published in
late spring 2010.

GUIDELINES
1) 3-5 poems or up to 2500 words of prose, attached as an MSWord .doc w/
³[Genre] Submission: [your name]² as the subject (for example, Poetry
Submission: Gwendolyn Brooks) or art, attached as a .jpg file w/ ³Art
Submission: [your name]² as the subject (for example, Art Submission:
Basquiat)

2) in the body of your email, include: name of your attachment, name of
your work, your contact info., and a brief bio

3) do not include your name on the work in your attachment

4) send your submission to gmail.com> (replace (at) with @)

5) no more than one submission per genre per reading period

Email Deadline: 11:59 p.m., February 15, 2010

Mandala Journal is an online student-run multicultural journal for poets, writers, artists, and thinkers published by the Institute for African American Studies at The University of Georgia. 

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Subject: Call for creative writing submissions for Milk Money, a literary journal
http://www.milkmoneymag.com/

Entry Deadline: Feb. 15, 2009 for the next issue
Milk Money, Volume Seven: Vile Pile

They say print is dead. But who are “they” to say such a thing? The editors of Milk Money Magazine in Cincinnati, Ohio think otherwise, and they can back it up with the very real existence of their mechanical duplicator. It’s not alive – it’s a machine – but the quarterly literary magazines it mass-produces are evidence of a very alive scene for printed works of fiction, prose, and poetry from national and international writers.

Milk Money is accepting submissions for its latest edition, Volume Seven: Vile Pile. They are looking for exceptional works of literary and experimental fiction and poetry. Works should be no more than 5,000 words whether it's fiction or poetry. Please only submit one short story per issue, but feel free to submit several works of poetry. We accept submissions year round, but the deadline for our next issue is February 15th.

If a work has been published outside of the United States or published in an online-only journal, Milk Money will consider it; please specify in the body of your e-mail if this is the case when you are submitting. All other previously published material will not be considered.

Milk Money only accepts work submitted via e-mail at milkmoneymag.com> (replace (at) with @). Please attach your work in the form of .doc, .rtf or .txt files. Any submissions received otherwise cannot be considered for the magazine. Please do not paste the text in the body of your e-mail. A formal cover letter is not necessary. However, we do like to read a little bit about our contributors so please include a short bio in your e-mail.
 
Visit www.milkmoneymag.com for previous issues and more information regarding submissions.

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Submissions Now Open

The Redheaded Stepchild only accepts poems that have been rejected by other magazines. We publish biannually, and we accept submissions in the months of August and February only. We do not accept previously published work. We do, however, accept simultaneous submissions, but please inform us immediately if your work is accepted somewhere else. We are open to a wide variety of poetry and hold no allegiance to any particular style or school. If your poem is currently displayed online on your blog or website or wherever, please do not send it to us before taking it down, at least temporarily.

Submit 3-5 poems that have been rejected elsewhere with the names of the magazines that rejected the poems. We do not want multiple submissions, so please wait for a response to your first submission before you submit again. As is standard after publication, rights revert back to the author, but we request that you credit Redheaded Stepchild in subsequent republications.

We do not accept email attachments; therefore, in the body of your email, please include the following:

· a brief bio

· 3-5 poems

· the publication(s) that rejected the poems

Send your submission to redheadedstepchildmag (at) gmail.com. Change at to @.

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Crab Creek Review Call for Submissions
(www.crabcreekreview.org)

Special Editor's Portfolio edited by Guest Editor, Susan Rich
Theme: Ekphrastic Poetry

We begin with the visual. Ekphrastic poetry is a response in words to a painting, photograph, dance, building, sculpture, Ikea catalogue, child’s drawing, or bumper sticker. An ekphrastic poem begins with inspiration from another piece of art and with the intuitive understanding that art begets art. In a sense, the art object becomes the rough draft of the poem.

We are looking for the best ekphrastic poems, 30-lines (or less) to showcase in an upcoming issue of Crab Creek Review.

For this project, we are accepting email submissions to the email address below. To submit to this special portfolio of ekphrastic poetry, write your name and title of the submission in the subject line and then send your previously unpublished poems in the body of an email to Editor, Susan Rich at:
yahoo.com> (replace (at) with @)

Please send 3-5 poems at the most.
Also, include a short bio and contact info as well.

Deadline is May 31, 2010

Special Submission Request

We'll get back to our weekly round-up tomorrow but in the meantime wanted to post this special submission request:

Call for Submissions: http://www.drtpress.com/anthology.html

DRT Press is seeking personal essays written by parents of children with ADD, ADHD and/or other mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders for a book about the experience of parenting children with such conditions, for publication (expected) in January 2011.

Essays in this collection will be ones in which parents who care for challenging children can see themselves. Parents/readers will laugh, cry, and find comfort in these stories. Focus should be on the feelings and experiences of the writer/parent, rather than simply a description of the child and the child’s condition, behavior, and treatment. We are looking for honest feelings, lessons learned, epiphanies, commonplace and extraordinary experiences. Although we are not looking for how-tos on the best way to parent a behaviorally challenged child, we would like to see essays that give parents glimpses of what has worked for individual parents.

We are interested in submissions from parents of toddlers, young children, teens, and adult children; those who are in the parenting trenches now, and those looking back on their parenting experiences. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: how your child came to be diagnosed, the experience of dealing with problem behaviors in various contexts and settings, experiences with/feelings about treatment (therapies, medications, alternative treatments), school (and other advocacy) experiences, your child’s social interactions/friends, and the effect of parenting your child on your emotional and physical health, marriage, and other relationships.

Essays chosen will focus on children with mild to moderate conditions, rather than children who are disabled by their conditions. We are not seeking stories about children with autism, unless another emotional or behavior disorder, such as ADD or ADHD, is the primary diagnosis, and “a little something on the autism spectrum” is also present. We are not seeking stories about physical disabilities or severe developmental delays. On the other hand, a child need not have a formal diagnosis. The common denominator in the stories will be kids with behavior problems that present a parenting challenge.

Pieces may be previously unpublished, or if previously published, the author must hold reprint rights. Non-fiction essays only please; no poetry or fiction. Photos may be submitted, but are not required. Authors may choose to use their own first and last names and the names of their minor children, fictional names, or first names only. Likewise, you may indicate your city and state, state only, or provide no information. Please specify such choices in your cover document. Names, photos, or identifying information of adult children will not be used without the individual’s written consent.

Compensation includes 10 copies of the completed book and unlimited discounted copies. Payment may be offered. Contributors will be expected to participate actively marketing and promotions of the book, with strategies and printed materials to be provided and/or approved by DRT Press. Authors of essays selected for publication will be required to sign a release agreement.

The book will be co-edited by author/editor/publisher Adrienne Ehlert Bashista, Publisher, of DRT Press and Kay Marner, a freelance writer who contributes regularly to ADDitude magazine, and blogs for ADDitudeMag.com. For further information about the editors please visit their websites.

Please email submissions to: kay(at)kaymarner.com (replace (at) with @)

Your submission should include:

--a cover letter in the form of a word processing document attachment. In the cover letter please introduce yourself and summarize your essay. Describe your writing and publishing experience. State whether your essay includes real or fictional names and places. State the current age of the child/subject of the essay and your relationship to that individual.

--your author bio of 75 words or less in a separate word processing document attachment

--your essay as a separate word processing document.

Please format both documents using Arial or Times New Roman font size 12, double spaced, page numbers and author/title noted on each page, all 1 inch margins. No word count is specified, but essays will be 1 ½ -4 pages in finished format, and may be edited for length and content.

If you choose to submit one or more photos, we encourage “action” shots or shots that bring the child’s personality to life, that help readers identify with the piece, or that further the story. Photos must be high resolution. Interior photos will be printed in black and white. If attaching a photo, please describe it in your cover letter.

Soft deadline for submissions is March 1, 2010, but deadline may be extended at the editors’ discretion. Check this web page for updates. You will receive an email acknowledging receipt of your submission. Writers may submit more than one essay. Questions are welcome. Please direct questions to kay(at)kaymarner.com. Anthology updates can be found at the editor's personal blog: Kaymarner.com/blog/

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Get your new year rolling....

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Call For Submissions: Your Secret Place

http://silkroad.pacificu.edu/index.html

We are crafting a special issue of Silk Road devoted to secret places. We have no set definition of what that might mean, in part because one person’s hidden space is not another’s – that’s why it’s secret. So we’re wondering: What would surprise us about a previously undisclosed or unnoticed location in your neighborhood, country, house or heart? What shouldn’t we and the rest of the world know (but you are going to tell us anyway)?

Send us your submission (fiction, poetry, nonfiction, a form we can’t anticipate) for consideration by March 1, 2010. If you have images you could include with your submission, tell us in the cover letter.

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The Fiction Project - Call for Submissions

The first ever Art House literary project. Help us build the Brooklyn Art Library's collection.

The Fiction Project is a sister project to The Sketchbook Project. The Fiction Project sets its sights on literature and creating a narrative book that fuses writing with art.

Sign up and receive a 5.5 by 8.5 inch Moleskine Cahier notebook and a randomly selected theme. Create your narrative using words and images and send it back to be a part of the permanent collection at the Brooklyn Art Library.

Each book submitted will be housed at the Brooklyn Art Library in Brooklyn, NY. Please visit http://www.arthousecoop.com/projects/fictionproject For more info or to sign up!

Sign Up to receive a book by: February 15th, 2010

Postmark Deadline: April 14th, 2010

Submit Now! http://www.arthousecoop.com/projects/fictionproject

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Call for Submissions: Essay Anthology by Women in Jewish Interfaith Relationships

A graduate of the MFA in Writing program at Sarah Lawrence College is developing an essay anthology that will feature essays by women who are in (or have been in) an interfaith relationship or marriage, in which one of the partners is Jewish (the contributors may be the Jewish or non-Jewish partner). An amorphous body of this literature is floating around the internet, notably on the website interfaithfamily.com. Sociology books on the topic of Jewish intermarriage abound, as do practical guidebooks for marriage and parenting. But what is often missing from the existing literature are human stories. This collection of personal essays will focus specifically on women’s stories, about the joys and challenges of their relationships, their experiences with child-rearing, how they relate to their communities and families, how they create their own identities in the unique “liminal zone” of the interfaith relationship.

The editor is looking for, first and foremost, great, well-written, vivid personal stories and welcomes published and unpublished authors to submit their essays/stories. The length may be 1,000-2,000 words (but I am open to any reasonable length, shorter or longer). The tone/style should not be polemical or sentimental, just an honest and compelling non-fiction personal narrative. (You may want to take a look at the excellent anthology, Half/Life, edited by Laurel Snyder and published by Soft Skull Press, which features the stories of adults who were raised in Jewish interfaith homes.) Please send submissions as a Word attachment or pasted in an email (not .docx) to interfaithessay@gmail.com mailto:hila.ratzabi@gmail.com. Submissions will be accepted on a rolling basis through May 1st, 2010—earlier is better, though. Include your name, a short bio, and email address. Responses will be sent by September 1st, 2010.

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Call for Submissions: Arroyo Literary Review www.arroyoliteraryreview.com (go to website for submissions guidelines)

Arroyo Literary Review is now accepting submissions of poetry and fiction (7,000 word max). Arroyo looks to publish bold, honest writing from Northern California and beyond. To learn more about Arroyo visit www.arroyoliteraryreview.com. Our reading period for the third issue will end May 30, 2010.

Happy Holidays!

Nicole & I want to wish everyone a wonderful holiday.
We're taking a week off from the blog and will be back January 4, 2010.
Celebrate the New Year in style & safety.


Rock on you wonderful writerly beings!

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

Paid Writer

As some of you may know, along with being a partner and co-founder of LAwritersgroup.com and running writers groups, I also teach Vedic Meditation.

Recently, I was hired to write a couple of articles along with a blog post for a California based website. I did and the blog post appeared yesterday. You can read it here.

I'll let you know when the articles come out.

Wednesday Writers Round-Up

December deadlines that keep you from Christmas shopping! (No need to thank us....)

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Call for Ten-Minute Plays, Fiction, and Poetry
Deadline: December 15th, 2009

Grist: The Journal for Writers is accepting unpublished ten-minute plays (8-12 pages) for their third issue. Note that this is an opportunity for publication only, not production. Grist is also accepting poetry and fiction for the third issue. All submissions are due by December 15th to be considered for the third issue. Please send submissions to the appropriate editor: George Pate, Drama Editor; Joshua Robbins, Poetry Editor; Adam Prince, Fiction Editor at Grist: The Journal for Writers, University of Tennessee, 301 McClung Tower, Knoxville, TN 37996.

For more information, go to the web site:
http://www.gristjournal.com

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A Little Girl Called Pauline, a print journal excited about the possibility of an experimental and diverse poetic landscape, is seeking submissions for its first issue. Poetry is our activism.

Our deadline for submissions for the first issue is December 15, but poems received after that date will be considered for later issues. Please visit our abysmal website if you are so inclined (http://alittlegirlcalledpauline.webs.com/) to witness our slow fertilization process.

Submissions of 3-5 poems (preferably as an attachment) should be sent to
alittlegirlcalledpauline@gmail.com

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The Mom Egg, an annual journal, seeks flash fiction, prose, poetry and art for its Spring 2010 issue, which will be a print issue on the theme of "Lessons". The Mom Egg publishes work by mothers about everything, and by everyone about mothers and motherhood. Details on the site ("Submit"); you can also download a special online issue free ("Current Issue") and see samples from back issues. Deadline Dec. 31, 2009. http://themomegg.com

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Fifth Wednesday Journal is accepting submissions for the Spring 2010 issue. Submissions for this issue will close on December 31, 2009. We publish poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction, and black and white photography.

All work must be submitted with our online submissions manager. Please visit the website for complete guidelines and instructions. www.fifthwednesdayjournal.org

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Bayonet, a print DIY art and literature magazine, is looking for submissions for its first issue. Poetry, flash fiction, and short non-fiction attached in .doc format will be considered, as well as any type of visual art in a jpg or pdf format.

Please e-mail the co-editor, Charlotte at charlotte845@gmail.com

Include a short cover letter and contact information (e-mail and mailing address). please put in the subject line "bayonet submission". Deadline for submissions is January 1, 2010. Thank you!

Writing Prompts

Last night was my second to last session of writers group for the year. One of the prompts I provided for the writers was to write in the P.O.V. of a place using "I am..." as a nudge into the piece. I gave them about 5 minutes since it was the first piece of the night and a bit of a warm up after the holidays. I wrote along and thought I'd share today. My place was Portland, Maine, a place I have visited ...

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I am dark water, November rain, statues of poets long-dead and longer forgotten. I am red and white towers, green and black mussels swimming in saffron. I'm Saturday afternoon happy hour lobster, $4 for 6 inches. I'm the slow roll of dockside walkway. I am men that smell of brine and their cracked hands and chapped lips. I'm hand-painted storefront, chipped and peeling each winter, re-coated and blister bright in May. I'm haunted brownstones, brick and board barrooms; glass-front, corner cafes where the squash soup was made this morning and the coffee is fresh because it never stops pouring. I'm fog and spray and lighthouses that keep ghosts and look for survivors. I'm the literature of Longfellow and the cry of a foghorn, long & low. I'm blue-collar, white-washed and live on salt water taffy and the meat of the sea drenched in butter.

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.

Yeats

I'm currently reading about Yeats in order to more fully wrap him into a poem that has been evolving for a few years. It's a short piece, but I know that it is leading me to a deeper understanding of the poet (both Yeats and the poet inside myself).

Yeats had a belief in the higher self - the divinity in each of us and I find the more I read about him and his wife, Georgie, the closer I get to a Truth that has been wiggling its way to the surface of my consciousness. Prior to this, Yeats was never a favorite, but I have read his work and stood at his grave and now I am viewing the world from his shoulders by studying A Vision.

Its funny how you read someone and because of the place/time you are in your own life, you may or may not resonate with the work and then years later you pick them up again and are completely blown away by the absolute synergy of a moment meeting knowledge.

Hike & Write

Yesterday included a hike up the hill behind Brand Library. The trail is found along side the road that runs right behind the library building. It's a well-marked, narrow trail that begins as a switchback going along the hill but then for the most part heads straight up - no mamby-pamby, winding back and forth in a leisurely climb (like some trails in Griffith Park). If you want a challenge going both up and making your careful trek down (wear shoes with deep treads), Brand Library trail is highly recommended. What does this have to do with writing, you ask.

I find my mind is so busy with right brain, problem solving thinking that the editor shuts up for a whole hour and I come off the hill with a fresh perspective and new ideas practically popping out through my fingers.

Oh, and the view at the top - spectacular.

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.

A little light reading

We don't usually share other blogs here but this made us laugh out loud.