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DOS PASSOS REVIEW accepting fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry submissions NOW-July 31, 2009. Limit 3-5 poems, 3,000 words prose.
Send to: Editor, The Dos Passos Review, Dept.of English, Longwood University, 201 High St., Farmville, VA 23909. sase for reply only.
See Web site for specific guidelines: www.brierycreekpress.org.
www.diversevoicesquarterly.com is a new online literary journal looking for submissions from all walks of life.
Deadline for consideration into the first issue is MAY 1, 2009.
Submission guidelines are:
Poetry: 3-5 poems, 40 lines MAX. Please send in one file, separated by a page break between poems.
Short stories: 3,000 words MAX. You may submit up to two short shorts that add up to 1,000 words. If sending two shorts, please send two separate files.
Personal essays/creative nonfiction: 3,000 words MAX. Send only one essay at a time.
Artwork accepted in .jpg or .png format. Send only two images at a time.
–Simultaneous submissions are accepted but multiple submissions are not.
–We will not read any material previously published online; this includes works published in other online journals or from any message board or blogs.
–While we will read submissions from everyone, the work MUST BE in English.
–Be sure to include your last name and type of submission in the subject line (Example: Kaling – Short Story Submission).
–Include a cover letter, a short bio, and your complete contact information in the body of the e-mail.
–Only attachments are accepted, either as MS Word (.doc or .rtf) or WordPerfect (.wpd) files. Pasted-in submissions WILL BE deleted.
–Send your submissions to: submit@diversevoicesquarterly.com
www.waukeganpl.org/programs/bradcontest.html
Since the inception of television our society has become increasingly more reliant on it with each generation. In this prescient novel, Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury anticipated this trend in which reality programming impacts our daily lives. Fahrenheit 451 is a reaction to a society defendant on television rather than human interaction, literature, or the fine arts. Respond to this theme of social sedation/apathy brought on by the evolution of television by entering the newly revised 25th Annual Ray Bradbury Contest. Categories include responses through writing, visual arts or multimedia. Winners will receive up to $200 in each category for Waukegan residents and $100 for non-residents. Entries will be accepted through March 20, 2009.
Winners: The winning entries will be announced and the entrants presented with awards at the Friends of the Library Annual Dinner, on April 25th, 2009. Winners will be asked to share their work.
Download complete guidelines for contest entry at www.waukeganpl.org/programs/winners/Ray%20Bradbury%20Rules.pdf
An Open Online Poetry Contest judged by the entrants themselves. The Judging is in three rounds. In each round the entrants read 12 poems. It’s a knockout system. In the final round everyone reads the last 12. The judging will take place in the 2 months following closure of the competition.
All profits will be donated to MAG (Mines Advisory Group). MAG is a neutral and impartial humanitarian organisation that clears the remnants of conflict for the benefit of communities worldwide.
Prize fund accumulates @£2.00 per entry (up to £10,000 maximum)
Any subject. Style: Poetry or Prose Poetry. Maximum 42 lines. £6 per entry.
Closing Date: 30th April 2009
Website: www.poeticrepublic.com.
First Leaves: The Santa Rosa Junior College Literary Journal seeks quality poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, photographs and drawings for its Spring 2009 issue. Open to students, staff and faculty of SRJC and all residents of the North Bay (Sonoma, Marin, Napa and Lake counties), First Leaves accepts postal and email submissions.
You may send any of the following:
Poetry: up to 5 poems.
Fiction: 1 short story (up to 4,000 words), or up to 3 short-shorts.
Plays: 1 dramatic piece up to 4,000 words. ?
Creative Nonfiction: 1 piece up to 4,000 words.
Photographs/Drawings: up to 5 prints or digital files. Do not send originals. We require B&W work for the inside of the magazine, but color may be considered for the cover.
Comics: 1 brief graphic story.
Postal submissions should include an SASE (self addressed, stamped envelope) or an email address for reply. Submissions will not be returned. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable if so noted. Please do not include your name on your manuscript. All work (including work submitted by First Leaves staff members) will be judged anonymously. ?Include a 3 X 5 index card with the titles of each piece, along with your name/address/phone/email. Please also include a 30-word autobiographical statement.
Due Date: February 2, 2009 for the Spring 2009 issue. Final decisions will be made in March. The magazine will be constructed in March and April ‘09 and it will be published in May ’09. Mail submissions to
First Leaves c/o Abby Bogomolny
English Department
Santa Rosa Junior College
1501 Mendocino Avenue
Santa Rosa, CA 95401
You may also submit via email to abogomolny@santarosa.edu
We are more interested in a good story well told than in attempts to sound literary or poetic. Send us your best, simplest work. Make us love or hate your characters by what you let them do and say. Get us involved in the plot by moving us skillfully from point A to point B.
This is a fiction contest. Memoirs, biographies, and other nonfiction are not eligible for this competition.
AWW is a resource for creative women. We want to encourage work by, for and about women, but stories about men will not be overlooked. Just be sure that your viewpoint rings true and the experiences you portray are authentic to the character and setting. Be natural.
Do not use special script for emphasis. Read rules for the use of italics and do not use italics for simple emphasis. Do not overuse the exclamation point. Books will be judged on objective standards and demerits will be assigned for: word repetition, incorrect grammar and syntax, incorrect punctuation, improper formatting of paragraphs, weak characterizations, contradictory or illogical plot development, unbelievable or inconsistent setting. It will also be judged subjectively by our editors, as nearly as possible to mimic the experience of a new enthusiastic reader who has picked your book off the shelf and is embarking on the adventure of involvement in the world you have created. What stops, bores, or confuses that reader/editor will stop, bore, and confuse a larger audience.
Read the instructions carefully and submit accordingly. Inattention to detail can result in disqualification. The editors of AWW are themselves contest entrants (and occasional winners) and are well acquainted with the frustrations of getting it wrong and kicking oneself for having gotten it wrong. Please, read. For questions, email us at: awomanswrite@yahoo.com.
Important: Contestants should be 18 or older. Submitting your entry certifies that you are eligible, and that all work submitted is your own. Entry fees are non-refundable and are payable through PayPal. Judge’s decisions are final. For complete rules, consult the website: www.awomanswrite.com.
Reading fee is $25.00 for all submissions. If you want a critique of your work, you must pay an additional $50.00 fee (total of $75.00).
Good Read Competition Prize
One award of $500.00 will be awarded to the book judged best by our editors.
POSTMARK DEADLINE OCTOBER 31, 2008
3 AWARDS: Novel, Short Fiction, Poetry // $3,000 in awards
Important change: A fourth award, the $3,000 PORTFOLIO AWARD, offered from 2003-2007, HAS BEEN SUSPENDED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. OTHER SOURCES WHICH LIST THE PORTFOLIO AWARD ARE NOT CORRECT (UNAVOIDABLE, NOT THEIR ERROR) SINCE THEY WERE PUBLISHED BEFORE WE SUSPENDED THE AWARD (SOME SOURCES MUST GATHER INFORMATION AND PRINT 2-3 YEARS IN ADVANCE).
RESULTS LETTERS by May, 2009
by e-mail if you include e-mail address, or by snail-mail if you include a SASE
WEBSITE www.danaawards.com
E-MAIL danaawards@pipeline.com
Questions only. No e-mail submissions.
IMPORTANT: ALL WORK MUST BE UNPUBLISHED WHEN SUBMITTED TO US AND NOT PROMISED FOR PUBLICATION, EITHER IN PRINT OR ONLINE.
POEMS OR STORIES ALREADY PUBLISHED INDIVIDUALLY ARE NOT ELIGIBLE, EVEN IF SENT FROM PART OF A LARGER BOOK WHICH HAS NOT BEEN PUBLISHED.
MAY SIMULTANEOUSLY SUBMIT since we publish only in very rare years when we have an agreement with a literary journal. If your work is accepted elsewhere meantime, you can still win our monetary awards.
IMPORTANT: FOR ALL AWARDS, THE TERM MANUSCRIPT DOES NOT MEAN A FULL BOOK.: We mean first 50 pages for a Novel ms., 1 short story for a Short Fiction ms., and 5 poems for a Poetry ms.
OUR 3 AWARDS
DANA AWARD FOR THE NOVEL is $1,000
for the first 50 pages ONLY of a novel either completed or in progress (in-progress submissions should be as polished as possible). All types of novels accepted (NO MEMOIRS). No novels for or by persons under 16. Typed, double-spaced only.
DANA AWARD FOR SHORT FICTION is $1,000
for the best short fiction (NO MEMOIRS). No stories for or by persons under 16. Typed, double-spaced only.
DANA AWARD FOR POETRY is $1,000
for the best group of 5 poems, judged on the overall excellence of all 5. 5 poems per entry. No light verse or verse for or by persons under 16. Poems may be thematically related but need not be. Poems longer than 100 lines are discouraged. Typed, single-spaced preferred.
READING FEES
$15 per 5 poems
$15 per short story
$25 per novel entry
MAKE CHECKS PAYABLE TO: “DANA AWARDS”
From outside U.S., send INTERNATIONAL money orders, traveler’s checks, or bank checks (all must be formally stamped by the issuing bank as “U.S. funds” AND must be drawn on U.S. banks only).
COVER SHEET: Include SEPARATE COVER SHEET with name, address, phone number, e-mail address, title(s) of work(s) submitted. NO AUTHOR’S NAME ON MANUSCRIPT.
SASE FOR RESULTS ONLY. NO MSS. RETURNED.
MAIL SUBMISSIONS TO:
MARY ELIZABETH PARKER, CHAIR
DANA AWARDS
200 FOSSEWAY DRIVE
GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA USA 27455
FOR QUESTIONS ONLY, E-MAIL AT THIS ADDRESS danaawards@pipeline.com
mnartists.org seeks new short-short fiction for the summer round of this literary competition and publication series for Minnesota writers. Submission deadline is June 30, 2008.
CALL FOR MINNESOTA WRITERS
The deadline for submissions for the second round in this short fiction contest is JUNE 30, 2008.
mnartists.org is launching miniStories, a quarterly short-short fiction competition coordinated by Electric Arc Radio’s Geoff Herbach (author of The Miracle Letters of T. Rimburg,Three Rivers Press). This new literary series showcases previously unpublished short stories by Minnesota writers which are selected by authors, editors, and publishing industry veterans from across the country. Winning stories are then published on mnartists.org and in the e-magazine access+ENGAGE. One grand-prize winning author will be selected from each quarter’s miniStories winners by series coordinator Geoff Herbach to receive a paid commission for a longer-form short story which will be published on mnartists.org.
There are readings at the Ritz Theater in Minneapolis at the end of each quarter’s contest cycle, at which miniStories winners and judges will read their fiction. An anthology collecting the inaugural year’s miniStories winning fiction will be published in April 2009 and available for sale at area bookstores.
