Writers Wanted 504

Attention Flashers!

Silk Road Review invites submission for first annual Flash Fiction Award.

First Prize is $500. The winning story will be published in Silk Road's summer print issue and featured on website.

Length: 1200 words or less. No submission fee.

All pieces considered for publication.

Please submit through online submission manager.http://www.silkroadreview.org/submissions/
Put "FLASH FICTION CONTEST" for your submission name.

No more than two entries per writer. Thanks!

DEADLINE: MAY 6th, 2011

Judged by SILK ROAD REVIEW editors.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Here Comes the Bride
101 Stories of Love, Laughter and Family

You did it! You found that one special person with whom you want to spend the rest of your life... your soulmate... your best friend. Now it's time to plan for your big day. Your wedding is one of the most special and memorable events in your life. It will bring you warm and wonderful memories for many years to come. And there might also be some humorous and disastrous memories surrounding your big day too.

We want to hear all about everything! We are looking for true stories and poems about your wedding and about being a bride. We'd love to hear from the groom too. From the proposal to the multitude of arrangements to the rehearsal to the big day to the honeymoon and everything in between. Did everything go as planned? Did the best man forget the ring? Was your first dance the most romantic dance ever? Did your mother-in-law ruin your day? Stories can be touching and inspirational or wicked and funny.

Here are some suggested topics but we know you can think of many more:

	The proposal
	The rings
	The perfect dress
	The location of the wedding
	The rehearsal/rehearsal dinner
	The bridal shower/the bachelor party
	The big day
	The honeymoon

If your story is chosen, you will be a published author and your bio will be printed in the book if you so choose. You will also receive a check for $200 and 10 free copies of your book, worth more than $100. You will retain the copyright for your story and you will retain the right to resell it.

Please remember, we do not like "as told to" stories. Please write in the first person about yourself or someone close to you. Do not ghost write a story for someone else. If a story was previously published, we will probably not use it unless it ran in a small circulation venue. Let us know where the story was previously published in the "Comments" section of the submission form.

SUBMISSIONS GO TO http://chickensoup.com
Select the Submit Your Story link on the left tool bar and follow the directions.

The deadline date for story submissions is June 30, 2011.

My Funny Valentine, a humor anthology (no pay)

Details and submission: http://myfunnybooks.biz

Seeking submissions of very funny writing related to Valentine’s Day.
Submissions so far have tended to be columns in the Dave Barry/Erma Bombeck mold, but there’s also out-of-envelope material. We’ll look at essays, light verse, lyrics, jokes and routines: anything that is truly funny and can be printed. We won’t run anything X-rated or violating the usual taboos, but we’ll give it a look.

“My Funny Valentine” will be an attractive low-priced gift paperback, available on all online stores, and on order from any bookstore.

There is no pay but copies because the book is not aimed at profit, but promotion. All contributors will benefit from the promotional efforts of all the others (aided with support from the publishers and editors, such as videos) and the seasonal nature of the book makes it a natural for media attention.

Previous publication is not a problem, as long as you can release the rights. Work will be copyrighted for authors, but no impediment placed to later publication elsewhere. That’s a lot of the concept.

Some excellent material from a surprisingly high level of professional writers and comics has already been accepted, so just dashing something off probably won’t work unless you’re really talented. But don’t let lack of experience keep you from sending in something you think is ready for prime time.
Submissions taken until July 1, 2011.

New Millennium writing awards

$4,000 in Prizes, plus publication in NMW and on the Web at www.NewMillenniumWritings.com

$1,000 for best Fiction; $1,000 for best Poem; $1,000 best Nonfiction; $1,000 best Short-short Story

(Nonfiction includes humor, memoir, creative nonfiction, travel, opinion, essay, interview, features, investigative reporting, etc.)

To Enter, follow these Guidelines, or enter on-line at www.NewMillenniumWritings.com and click on awards and contests or click here www.writingawards.com (shortcut). When entering online, include title page or cover letter in the file with your submission. It's easy.

1. No restrictions as to style, content or number of submissions. Enter as often as you like.
2. Winners and selected finalists---including all poetry finalists---will be published in our 2009-10 issue and/or on-line at www.NewMillenniumWritings.com.
3. Send between now and midnight of June 17, 2010. This deadline may be extended once-only.
4. Simultaneous & multiple submissions welcome.
5. Each fiction or nonfiction piece is counted as a separate entry, and should total no more than 6,000 words except Short-short Fiction (no more than 1,000 words). Winners plus selected finalists will be published.
6. Each poetry entry may include up to three poems, not to exceed five pages total per entry. Famed poet and essayist Nikki Giovanni will serve as top poetry judge, and all 20 poetry finalists will be published.
7. Include name, phone, address, email & category on cover page only and upload along with each submission in a single file.
8. Manuscripts not returned. Include email address or SASE for list of winners.
9. Include $17 check payable to NMW with each submission.
10. Enter online at www.writingawards.com or send by U.S. Mail or other carrier to: "NMW" Room EM, PO Box 2463, Knoxville, TN, 37901.

To order a sample issue, add $12.

LaChance

See full details at www.lachancepublishing.com.

LACHANCE Publishing is seeking queries and proposals for book-length projects in the categories of non-fiction adult, young adult and juvenile health and fitness. Accepts proposals from professionals in the health/science fields. Prefers agented projects but will consider projects of merit from qualified individuals without agent representation.

Interrobang?! Magazine

Details: http://interrobangzine.com)

A web and print 'zine for the arts based dually in Providence, RI and New Orleans, LA. Provides a formal venue for voices of all kinds, whether it be poetry, fiction, creative essays, photography, fine art, or experimental music and video. Wants your stories, your pictures, your music, your oddball esoterica. The interrobang symbol is meant to denote surprise, querying excitement or shocked disbelief; our publication seeks art that provokes this reaction, that astonishes,
challenges and compels with its beauty or daring.

Submissions may be sent online at http://interrobangzine.submishmash.com/
Please submit each piece separately so that it may be individually
evaluated. See http://www.interrobangzine.com/about/submit/
for further details. The deadline for the spring/summer 2011 issue is
May 15, 2011, but accepts rolling submissions for future issues throughout the year.

Call For Manuscripts: Subway Essays

Details: www.thesubwaychronicles.com

The Subway Chronicles, an online literary anthology about the New York City subway system, is sending an open call for submissions. We are looking for essays that are thought-provoking, funny, lighthearted, sad, historical or mysterious as long as it is about the subway. Essays up to 3000 words will be accepted.

Please visit our website to get a sense of the work that we've previously published and to read our submission guidelines. www.thesubwaychronicles.com

No fiction or drama, please. We look forward to reading your work!

ARS MEDICA

A Journal of Medicine, the Arts and Humanities is a new literary magazine looking for fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and artwork dealing with illness, the body, healing, and the culture of medicine. For submission/subscription info, see www.ars-medica.ca.

Writers Digest GRAND PRIZE: $3,000 cash and a trip to New York City
to meet with editors or agents

Submit your manuscript for a chance to win a trip for you and a guest to New York, where you’ll spend three days and two nights in the publishing capital of the world. While you’re there, a Writer’s Digest editor will escort you to share your work with four editors or agents. Deadline May 14th.

Writers Wanted: The Paris Review

Details: http://www.theparisreview.org/page.php/prmID/32

The esteemed literary magazine says they are looking for new writers. If you've got great poems and short stories. All submissions must be in English and previously unpublished. Translations are acceptable and should be accompanied by a copy of the original text. Simultaneous submissions are also acceptable as long as we are notified immediately if the manuscript is accepted for publication elsewhere. A cover letter is not necessary, but be sure to include phone and (if possible) email contact information. Please submit only one story manuscript at a time. We suggest to all who submit that they read several issues of The Paris Review to acquaint themselves with material the magazine has published.

Buy The Paris Review Guide to Good Writing

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

CONTEST GUIDELINES
http://www.wagsrevue.com/submit.php
Wag's Revue is currently only accepting submissions for its Summer Contest. Please read the guidelines below carefully before submitting. The editors also strongly suggest that writers read the magazine to gain a sense of it prior to submitting (all issues are free and available online and as downloads).

Wag's Revue invites you to enter its Summer 2010 Contest in fiction, poetry, and essays. Submissions of electronic writing are also encouraged in any of the above genres. First prize receives $1,000 and publication in Wag's Revue; second prize is $500, third is $100, and all submissions are considered for publication. The contest deadline is May 31, and winners will be announced June 21. There is no limit to the number of entries an author may submit, but each entry must be accompanied with its own submission fee of $20.

Submissions of poetry may include multiple poems but should not exceed 10 pages. Fiction and essay submissions should not exceed 10,000 words. All submissions should be previously unpublished. Wag's Revue asks for first serial rights to all published work; all other rights revert to the author upon publication. Please make sure to remove your name and any contact info from the document you upload so that we may judge every entry anonymously. Wag's Revue complies with the CLMP code of ethics.

Wag's Revue is currently only accepting submissions for its Summer Contest. Please read the guidelines below carefully before submitting. The editors also strongly suggest that writers read the magazine to gain a sense of it prior to submitting (all issues are free and available online and as downloads).

Wag's Revue invites you to enter its Summer 2010 Contest in fiction, poetry, and essays. Submissions of electronic writing are also encouraged in any of the above genres. First prize receives $1,000 and publication in Wag's Revue; second prize is $500, third is $100, and all submissions are considered for publication. The contest deadline is May 31, and winners will be announced June 21. There is no limit to the number of entries an author may submit, but each entry must be accompanied with its own submission fee of $20.

Submissions of poetry may include multiple poems but should not exceed 10 pages. Fiction and essay submissions should not exceed 10,000 words. All submissions should be previously unpublished. Wag's Revue asks for first serial rights to all published work; all other rights revert to the author upon publication. Please make sure to remove your name and any contact info from the document you upload so that we may judge every entry anonymously. Wag's Revue complies with the CLMP code of ethics.

The Hollywood Book Festival has issued a call for entries to its annual program celebrating books
that deserve greater recognition from the film, television, game and multimedia communities.

Based in the capital of show business, the Hollywood Book Festival aims to (1) spotlight literature worth of further consideration by the talent-hungry pipeline of the entertainment industry; and (2) facilitate getting those works into the proper hands for consideration.

The 2Hollywood Book Festival will consider published, self-published and independent publisher non-fiction, fiction, biography/autobiography, children's books, teenage, how-to, audio/spoken word, 'zines, comics, e-books, fan fiction, wild card (anything goes!), unpublished stories and genre-based works. There is no publication date deadline – books from any year are eligible.

Details: http://sonorareview.com/contest/

$1000 and publication in Sonora Review will be given for the first annual Concentrated Nonfiction Contest. The inaugural contest will be judged by Ander Monson. Submit a work of unpublished nonfiction, up to 1,000 words, by June 1st. Entry fee is $15, which includes a copy of the Summer 2010 issue of Sonora Review. Include a cover letter with full name, title of work, mailing and email address. The author's name should not appear anywhere on the manuscript. No previous published work will be accepted.

By "concentrated nonfiction" we mean a short essay of any variety under 1000 words, not limited to any specific type of essay. In fact, we encourage creativity that projects the malleability of the form. We also are willing to publish multimedia essays as long as the main force of the essay is through language (and it is short).

Submit Online Through Submishmash
http://sonorareview.submishmash.com/Submit

Simply click on the type of contest you'd like to submit to, register, pay, and we're all good to go.

Send Submissions To:

Sonora Review. Contest

Department of English, University of Arizona

$4,500 total prizes for writers
Next postmark deadline: May 18, 2010.

The $1,500 New Letters Prize for Poetry
for the best group of three to six poems

The $1,500 Dorothy Churchill Cappon Prize for the Essay
for the best essay

The $1,500 Alexander Patterson Cappon Prize for Fiction
for the best short story

GUIDELINES

Submit by regular post or electronically. Simultaneous submissions of unpublished entries are accepted with proper notification upon acceptance elsewhere. For electronic entries, go to our website at
http://www.newletters.org/awards.asp

Enclose with each entry:
*$15 for first entry; $10 for every entry after. Entry fee includes a one-year subscription, renewal, or gift subscription to New Letters. Make checks payable to New Letters.

*Two cover sheets: the first with complete name, address, e-mail address, phone number, category, and title(s); and the second with category and title only. Your personal information should not appear anywhere else on the entry.A stamped, self-addressed postcard for notification of receipt and entry
number.

*A stamped, self-addressed envelope for a list of winners. This is optional. Please send only one envelope if submitting more than one entry.

RULES AND NOTES
All entries will be considered for publication in New Letters. Entries are not to exceed 8,000 words. Poetry entries may contain up to six poems. They need not be related. Multiple entries are welcome with appropriate fees. Manuscripts will not be returned. No substitutions after submissions. No refunds will be offered for withdrawn material. Current students and employees of the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and current volunteer members of the New Letters and BkMk Press staffs, are not eligible.

MAIL ENTRIES TO:
New Letters Awards for Writers
UMKC, University House, Room 105
5101 Rockhill Road
Kansas City, MO 64110-2499

Postmark deadline by May 18, 2010.