The MOM Egg call for submissions

They are currently seeking submissions for a special online issue of The Mom Egg, a literary journal, to be released in Fall 2009. Deadline for poetry, fiction, creative prose and art for this issue is July 31, 2009. They are also accepting submissions of other material, such as reviews and interviews. Submission guidelines may be found on the website, www.themomegg.com.

The Mom Egg publishes work by mothers about everything, and by everyone about mothers and motherhood.

FC2 innovative fiction book contest

Ronald Sukenick/American Book Review Innovative Fiction Prize, Sponsored by Fiction Collective Two (FC2) and American Book Review:

Website: http://americanbookreview.org/contest.asp

Type: Book Contest

Reading Fee: $25

Prize: The Prize includes $1,000 and publication by FC2, an imprint of the University of Alabama Press. In the unlikely event that no suitable manuscript is found among entries in a given year, FC2 reserves the right not to award a prize.

Deadline: Contest Open from August 15 - November 1.

Looking for: Collection of Short Stories, one or more novellas, or a novel.

Accepts: Submissions by mail only. Submit either TWO hardcopies of the manuscript, or ONE hardcopy and one Word file of the manuscript on a labeled CD.

Want to read more short stories?

Check out Kevin Brockmeier's 50 Favorite Stories, courtesy of Oxford American.

This would be a fun list to save, then slowly search out and read each one. A fabulous summer project!

Wag's Revue Call for submissions for Issue 3

Website: http://www.wagsrevue.com/submit.php

Type: Call for Submissions

Reading Fee: None!

Looking for: Fiction, Poetry, Creative Non-Fictions

Accepts: Electronic submissions encouraged

From their site:

Aspiring to marry the rigors of print with the freedoms of the internet, Wag's Revue is an online quarterly of fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction. Its first issue featured new fiction from Brian Evenson, and interviews with Pulitzer Prize-nominated author Dave Eggers, n+1 co-founder Mark Greif, and author Wells Tower. The second issue, which just hit the net, features an interview with T. C. Boyle, creative micro nonfiction by Stephen Elliot, anagrams of Shakespeare sonnets by K. Silem Mohammad, and much more. Check out both issues at www.wagsrevue.com

Scion Press seeks Vampire Short Fiction and Poetry

For a print anthology, Deadline Aug 28, 2009

• Contact Name : Leslie Ormandy

• Contact E-Mail : ceo[at]scionpress.com

• Deadline Date (if any) : 28-Aug-2009

• Publication Type : Print Anthology

• Website : http://www.scionpress.com

• Genre(s) : creative fiction, horror, science fiction, fantasy

• Details : Scion Press is soliciting submissions for short fiction and poetry about vampires. We ask only that it be original, creative, and fun, and that your prose bring the vampire to life for the reader. We do not want derivative fiction or fan fiction. We want original to you. Length: Stories: under 8000 words, Poems: under 60 lines (and our personal preference is unrhymed). Submission via Snail Mail.
  

• Will consider simultaneous submissions

• Full guidelines at http://www.scionpress.com

• Postmark date: August 28, 2009

• Sign contracts by Sept 30, 2009

• Publication date: May, 2009

Chicken Soup for the Soul is looking for stories

They have many books in development and are looking for your inspirational stories!

Website: Chicken Soup for the Soul:

Type: Call for Submissions

Deadline: Multiple Deadlines, Depending on Book

Details from their site:

We have many Chicken Soup for the Soul books in development and are adding new titles all of the time. We are always looking for new stories and poems and hope you have some for us to consider. Take a look at the list of our future book topics to see if you have a story or poem on a subject we are looking for and then please submit it to us.

Twitter and Book Marketing:

Publishers Weekly has a short but interesting article called A Tweet Treat (#fb) about a new kind of author book promotions called Tweetfests.

Are you on Twitter? If you are an author, or an aspiring author, it might be time to start tweeting! Twitter is basically a blog that limits you to 140 character per post, and people can subscribe to your blog, or they can go to your twitter site and read your tweets. One of the wonderful aspects of twitter is that you can interact with your follower who can reply to your tweets (called @replies), or send you direct messages. Twitter also integrates with your cell phone so you can send and receive tweets as text messages - just be sure that you have an unlimited text plan before you sign up for that option.

How to start a twitter account:

1. Go to Twitter.com

2. Create an account

3. Find some people to follow either by seeing who on your email address book is on twitter by using their Find People Tool, or their search tool. When you follow people, they will usually follow you back.

4. Post some tweets.

That's it!

If you'd like to follow LAwritersgroup.com on twitter, once you've signed up for your own twitter account, go to http://www.twitter.com/lawritersgroup and click on Follow.