Global Graffiti seeks pieces about Music

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

“Without music life would be a mistake.” ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Global Graffiti is an online journal dedicated to world literature, arts, and culture. Our first four issues have featured creative pieces and interviews with both well-known and up-and-coming local and international authors, along with cutting-edge scholarly work.
We are excited to announce the theme of our fifth issue: MUSIC. We are interested in receiving submissions that explore the cultural impact of music (of all kinds--popular, experimental, classical, contemporary). We seek scholarly work (academic articles, reviews), creative pieces (poetry, stories, essays, creative nonfiction), music journalism (interviews, essays), and artwork, that creatively explore music’s indelible influence on life and culture throughout history. Some motifs to be considered are lyrical poetry, ancient and modern drama, music as political activism, global music trends, musical genres, and the influence of contemporary technologies on musical distribution and influence.
Please send English-language submissions (foreign language works translated into English also gladly accepted) and your bio/c.v. to globalgraffmag@gmail.com by September 15, 2011. We do not have word count limits because of the digital format, but we do request that you send your work as an attached .doc or .rtf file; otherwise, it is also acceptable to cut and paste your work within your e-mail.

Write a Radio Play for Children - No Fee Contest

This just in...

THE PIG and THE TRACTOR' COMPETITION
OPEN TO ALL Writers!
NO ENTRY FEES
Competition Open June 15th to August 15th, 2011

You're probably a Film, TV or Documentary Writer; a Playwright or maybe even a Novelist, BUT....
Would you be interested in a very different, challenging NEW writing experience?

WRITERS - email for sign up instructions

This fun competition is open to ALL writers to write a short Radio Play Story script for children, ages 3-10. The Winning title is 'The Pig and The Tractor'.  The story is about a pig and a tractor. Use your own ideas and imagination to make this story idea come to life as a RADIO PLAY Script.

One CASH PURCHASE PRIZE to be awarded to the winning writer or writing team for the Winning 10 page Radio Play Script Radio Play Story Templates, instructions, entry forms and competition Rules and Regulations are supplied. Email to request sign up instructions

http://www.audiomoviesclub.com/competition.html
Young Children 3-10 years old

This fun competition is open to ALL writers to write a short Radio Play Story script for children, ages 3-10. The Winning title is 'The Pig and The Tractor'. The story is about a pig and a tractor. Use your own ideas and imagination to make this story idea come to life as a RADIO PLAY Script.

One cash purchase prize to be awarded to the winning writer or writing team for the Winning 10 page Radio Play Script.  Radio Play Story Templates, instructions, entry forms and competition Rules and Regulations are supplied.

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A few books on writing for radio, in case you're interested:
Writing for Radio: How to Write Plays, Features and Short Stories That Get You on Air (Successful writing)
Writing Dialogue for Scripts: Effective dialogue for film, tv, radio and stage (Writing Handbooks)
Radio comedy: how to write it: Including the mathematics of humorHow To Write a Radio Play
How to Write a Radio Serial Drama for Social Development: A Script Writer's Manual.
You Can Write: Techniques for Television, Radio, and the Theater. Gathering and Organizing Material for Fiction, Essays, Feature Articles and Newspaper Editorials.

Why it's important to support your local independent bookstores

It's more important than ever to support your local bookstores, because the possibility that they may go away is quite real.  Here is an article in today's LA Times about two more independent bookstores closing their doors.

We've picked a book for our Book Club!

http://www.meetup.com/West-LA-and-South-Bay-Writers-Book-Club>
We've picked a book for our new Writing Craft Book Club!

Finding your Writer's Voice by Thaisa Frank, Dorothy Wall

If you are not local or can't make our meetings, feel free to read along with us and discuss it online on our Meetup group page.

Miracle Mile / Koreatown Writers Group starts Thurs June 2nd, 2011

Our Koreatown / Miracle Mile writers group starts next Thursday!  Register now to reserve your spot.

Thurs evenings beginning June 2nd
Moderator:  Andrew McFayden-Ketchum
7:30pm - 10:00pm

 Read a detailed description of our writers groups

Register now to reserve your spot

Twelve Places Looking for your Fiction & Poetry

The Postcard press seeks prose of 100 words or less and 10-line poems (needs to fit on a postcard) of theme THAT'S NOT FUNNY.

Deadline: May 31st, 2011

Asymptote is looking for translations of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama, we also take original English-language critical essays and book reviews, essays about relatively unknown authors writing in a language other than english.

Deadline: June 1st

Creative Nonfiction is currently seeking experimental nonfiction for their "Pushing the Boundaries" section

Postmark deadline: June 13, 2011

Insolent Aardvark is reading poetry, fiction, non-fiction submissions for their inaugural issue.

Deadline: June 24th

Blast Furnace is looking for poetry

Deadline: July 15th, 2011

Weave Magazine is looking for literary fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, drama, and visual arts that transfix, transport, and inspire.

Submit via: http://weavemagazine.submishmash.com/Submit

Deadline July 31, 2011

Yeast of Eden, an anthology of stories inspired by beer, is looking for fiction and nonfiction submissions

Deadline: September 1, 2011

Fiction Fix seeks fiction and artwork

for their Fall 2011 issue

Deadline: August 1, 2011

Printer's Devil Review is currently seeking submissions of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and visual art.

Reading period ends August 1

Valparaiso Fiction Review is seeking submissions of original short fiction for its inaugural issue.

Palooka is a print journal, seeking works of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, plays, and graphic stories and essays.

Year-round submissions accepted.

Colorado Review is now reading nonfiction year-round. Submit essays via coloradoreview.submishmash.com

Go forth and submit.

The LA Writers Group blog doesn't publish contests or calls for submissions that charge writers a fee to read their work.

Article on MFA Programs and American Fiction

Another interesting article on the ongoing debate about the worth of MFA programs and their effect on American fiction:  Are MFA programs ruining American fiction? - Writers and Writing - Salon.com