Call for submissions: Santa Clara Review

Submit your Fiction, Nonfiction, or Poetry to the Santa Clara Review!

Santa Clara University's literary magazine is now accepting submissions for its Winter and
Spring issues.

This bi-annual publication was established in 1869 and features creative writing, art,
photography, and interviews.

The submission deadline for the next issue is
Wednesday, October 26th
Multiple pieces may be submitted. There is no word count limit. Pieces submitted after
this date will be considered for the spring issue.

Submit online at www.santaclarareview.com

Or mail to:

The Santa Clara Review
Santa Clara University
500 El Camino Real, Box #3212
Santa Clara, CA 95053"

Poetry Cemetery

The next issue of Poetry Cemetery will be it's last, unfortunately, unless they can find someone to take over. In the meantime, they are accepting submissions until November 15, 2008. Send a maximum of 5 poems in the body of your email to poetrycemetery(at)live(dot)com, with "Submissions" in the subject line. They ask that you include titles, even if the title is simply "untitled," to make it easier for them to distinguish where one poem ends and the next begins. Also, please let them know if the poems you're sending have been published elsewhere, and DON'T send them anything that is excessively vulgar, pornographic, or "otherwise offensive to the masses."

Local Poetry Readings

The Valley Contemporary Poets presents:

Tuesday, October 21
Fernando Castro
9:00 pm
open reading sign up 8:30 pm
Cobalt Cafe
22047 Sherman Way in Canoga Park, Canoga Park (just west of Topanga Canyon)
Free – one drink minimum, open reading

Sunday, November 2nd
S.A. Griffin
Dennis Cruz
Rafael Alvarado
3pm
Tarzana Community and Cultural Center
19130 Ventura Blvd
Tarzana, CA 91356

Narrative 30 Below Contest - No Fee!

This is the last week to enter Narrative Magazine's 30 Below Contest for writers and artists, ages 30 and under.

First Prize is $1,500
Second Prize is $750
Third Prize is $300

Ten finalists will be named, and all entries will be considered for publication.

Open to writers, visual artists, photographers, performers, and filmmakers. We are interested in narrative in the many forms it takes: the word and the image, the traditional and the innovative the true and the imaginary.

Entry deadline: October 27.
No fee to enter.

Writer’s Digest - The Anatomy of a Writer's Website

Many writers who find themselves in a place where they need to promote themselves and their work get overwhelmed by the thought of creating their own website. If you find yourself in this position, click on over to Writers Digest. They have an article called The Anatomy of a Writer's Website with tips and lots of resources on how to easily create your own writers website, and what kind of content to include.

Get Ready for NaNoWriMo

Don't forget that November is just around the corner, so if you're looking for motivation to write that novel that's been churning and baking in your loins, then run over to NaNoWriMo.org and log in to solidify your November commitment to write that story. Your goal? 50,000 words by November 30th.

Of Unknown Authorship: The New Anonymous Accepting Submissions ~

The New Anonymous is an annual literary journal that not only publishes all works anonymously, they blindly screen and edit submissions as well. In fact, the entire process is anonymous from beginning to end, thus freeing writers from their own generative forms and creative dispositions, creating, in effect, a safehouse where writers can not only question their creative process, but, in the words of Freud, "Play." You may send as many submissions as you like, (but please: no more than 1 piece of prose/fiction or 7 poems per email) to: thenewanonmediator(at)gmail(dot)com. Do not include your name anywhere in the document. Please go to their website to see the rest of their "very unique" requirements for submission.