Family Circle Fiction Writing Contest: DL Aug 31

http://www.parents.com/family-life/fitness/stress-relaxation/fiction-contest-winners/?page=12

Deadline: August 31st, 2009

Type: Contest

Reading Fee: None

Prize: One grand prize winner will receive $750, publication in Family Circle, a certificate for one online mediabistro.com course (valued at up to $610), and a one-year mediabistro.com AvantGuild membership ($49 value). Two runners-up will each receive $250 and a one-year
mediabistro.com AvantGuild membership ($49 value), and will have his or her story published on familycircle.com.

Looking for: Short fiction up to 2500 words

Accepts: Snail mail submissions

See the parents.com website for further details on the contest.

Juked fiction and poetry contest: DL Aug 31

http://www.juked.com/prize/

Deadline: August 31, 2009

Type: Contest

Entry Fee: $10 per entry. There is no limit on the number of entries you
may submit.

Prize: First prize for each genre: $500 and publication in our upcoming print issue, Juked #7.

Looking for: Previously unpublished fiction and poetry

Accepts: Simultaneous submissions are fine, but notify us immediately if your work has been accepted elsewhere. Submit by Snail Mail or Email.

From their site:

Fiction: send one story per entry. There is no length requirement.

Poetry: send up to five poems (no more than ten pages total) per entry.

We are currently accepting entries for our 2009 JukedFiction and Poetry Prizes. Winners in each of the genres will receive $500 and publication in print issue #7. Our final judges this year are Dan Chaon (fiction) and Dora Malech (poetry). This year we will also accept electronic submissions to help everyone cut down on costs.

Current and former students of the judges are not eligible to compete.

Include a cover page with your name, address, e-mail, telephone number and the title(s) of your story or poems. Do not put your name anywhere else on the manuscript.

We will notify via e-mail;do not include an SASE.

Results will be announced in October 2009.

See website for more details on how to submit.

Upstreet Mag Call for Submissoins

They're looking for quality submissions with edge - fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction:

UPSTREET: award-winning literary annual’s sixth issue seeks quality submissions with an edge—fiction, poetry, CNF. First five issues feature interviews with Jim Shepard, Lydia Davis, Wally Lamb, Michael Martone, Robin Hemley. Distributed nationally by Ingram, Source Interlink, and by Disticor in Canada.

Website for more information: www.upstreet-mag.org

Deadline: March 1, 2010

Payment: Author Copies

Friday Round-Up: Tweets and posts you may have missed

Here is a list of items we posted on the LAwritersgroup.com Twitter account this week, in case you missed them or don't yet participate in Twitter:

Key:
RT = Re-tweet, which means someone else tweeted something and we re-tweeted it.
@(name) = This is a user name on Twitter. If you click on it, you should be able to visit that person's twitter site and follow them if you so chose.

• Everything You Need to Know About Writing a Novel, in 1000 Words http://viigo.im/0cbC
  

• EventsForWriters: Happening Friday / Saturday Nights at Skylight Books: Skylight Books in Los F.. http://tinyurl.com/nlxklc
  

• We run peer writers groups to create new work & get feedback. New group on Wed July 15 at 7:30pm in WeHo. http://www.LAwritersgroup.com.
  

• EventsForWriters: The Fundamentals of the Fountain Pen Seminar at Vromans: Sat 7/25/09. http://tinyurl.com/lkx3g5
  

• Does flash fiction have formal structure? Find out here: Write Small, Think Big http://viigo.im/0aIr
  

• How to Establish a Connection With an Agent http://viigo.im/0aHq
  

• RT @inkyelbows: Tough Days for Literary Fiction http://ow.ly/gHjm Uplifting post by Darin Strauss
  

• Motes Books Seeks Submissions for Anthology: http://tinyurl.com/m4yzkw
  

• Sweetlit.com Call for Poetry and Creative Non Fiction Submissions: http://tinyurl.com/myzjv3

Sweetlit.com Call for Poetry and Creative Non Fiction Submissions

Website: http://www.sweetlit.com/

Type: Call for Submissions

Reading Fee: None!

Deadline: Accepts submissions all year

Prize: N/A

Looking for: Poetry, Creative Non-Fiction, Essays

Accepts: Electronic submissions

From their site:

The editors at Sweet understand that there are good works that get overlooked, and that often our decisions are based not just on quality but also on taste. That said: Sweet publishes emerging and established writers three times a year--September, January, and May.

Sweet seeks only poetry and creative nonfiction and anything in between. (Sorry fiction writers!) We read submissions all-year. Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but please notify us immediately if your work has been taken by another literary journal. (We would like to be the first to congratulate you!)

Friday Round-Up: Tweets and posts you may have missed

Here is a list of items we posted on the LAwritersgroup.com Twitter account this week, in case you missed them or don't yet participate in Twitter:

Key:
RT = Re-tweet, which means someone else tweeted something and we re-tweeted it.
@(name) = This is a user name on Twitter. If you click on it, you should be able to visit that person's twitter site and follow them if you so chose.

• RT @RoseGoddess: RT @delboy7: “It’s never too late to become the person you might have been.”
  
  
• RT @thecreativepenn: 36 - No, Make That 59 - Free eBooks For Authors http://short.to/ho27
  
  
• EventsForWriters: New 8-Week Writers Groups Scheduled: West Hollywood on Wed July 15 and Glasse.. http://tinyurl.com/nut9gb
  
  
• RT @JanuaryMagazine: Blog to Book: An Elegant Execution http://bit.ly/16d6bn from The New Yorker (via @selfpubreview )
  
  
• Amy Tan on creativity, 25 minute video from TED conference. Fun and inspiring! http://chilp.it/?3c53f7

• RT@WritersDigest:How to write a novel from Google's Autocomplete(humorous but also an unusually helpful creative prompt) http://bit.ly/1WwYB
  

• We're all for recycling but as writers, this just makes us sad: Books as planters http://viigo.im/07bt

• EventsForWriters: Vroman's Bookstore Open Mike Night on 8/1: Vroman's Bookstore in Pasadena is .. http://tinyurl.com/nxho3b

Umbrella journal call for poetry and fiction submissions

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

Type: Call for Submissions

Reading Fee: n/a

Deadline: August 10, 2009

Looking for: Fiction, Poetry: Unthemed and themed poetry and prose (see below).

Accepts: Electronic submissions

From their site:

Umbrella, the "supremely rereadable electronic journal," is now reading for our fall issue, online September 1st, 2009.

For fall, we are reading both For the themed section, we are looking for poems that have something to do with school subjects, e.g., history, geography, science, math, languages, Psych 101, whatever and et cetera. Understand, we are not looking for retrospective poems that deal with your school days, but rather poems that encounter the subjects themselves. We welcome your submissions.

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