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The Rocking Chair Reader
Simpler times, treasured memories
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
The Rocking Chair Reader will take the reader back to those special moments
that remind us what small town America is all about, and we’d love for you to
be there with us. We invite you to submit your very own slice of Americana for
consideration in this one of a kind anthology.
From Adams Media, the publisher of such bestselling inspirational brands as
Small Miracles and A Cup of Comfort, comes a charming new series – The Rocking
Chair Reader. Reminiscent of a tour through small town America, this anthology
will transport the reader to a simpler place in time where family traditions,
neighborly values, and community pride were top priority, and where home was so
much more than just a place to hang your hat.
Each volume of The Rocking Chair Reader will feature true stories that
demonstrate life in small town America as seen through the eyes of widely
published authors as well as new authors and storytellers. Stories will be told
in first person with one main character, one supporting character, and/or
written in an "as told to" format.
We are all individuals with complex mannerisms and different methods of doing
things, yet we share essential and fundamental characteristics that solidify
who we are and connect us as a nation. American traditions and cultures are a
part of our heritage, and because of that, we at Adams Media decided the
perfect starting point for this series is with a feeling of "Coming Home" and
reconnecting with our roots.
What we’re searching for are personal memories and family stories that come to
life with vivid word-weaving and great storytelling. We want stories that
travel full circle, tell a complete story, and depict inspiration, good times,
and homespun humor with the delightful flavor of the elusive small town
atmosphere we all long to recapture.
Submission deadline is October 15, 2003. We’d love to have your story in the
first issue of The Rocking Chair Reader and selections will begin immediately,
so submit your memories today!
Submission Guidelines:
• 500-1,000 words in length
• upbeat and positive
• set in small town America
• we have particular interest in stories set between 1900-1955 (or as
told from that timeframe)
• we also are interested in stories that have a place or thing forming a
focal point in the story (a piece of furniture, a treasured quilt, a specific
landmark, etc.)
• each story will reflect small town traditional values
• please send a cover letter, short 3-4 line bio, complete address and
phone number where you can be reached, as well as a current email address with
each submission
• email is preferred; no attachments please (copy and paste your
submission into the body of an email) email to
rockingchairreader@yahoo.com
• you may also submit your story to Rocking Chair Reader, Adams Media, 57
Littlefield St., Avon. MA 02322 or by fax to 508-427-6790
Authors will receive byline and bio, copy of the book, plus $50 for each
accepted story, or $250 for the story selected as the lead story. Additionally,
10 stories from various places across the United States will be chosen as stand-
out stories and each will be followed by a special two-page town profile, which
will include historical facts and/or vignettes from local historians. Future
volumes are planned; suggestions welcome.
What we do not want are stories that involve the supernatural, New Age,
miracles, or violence. We also do not seek stories previously published in
anthologies (with the occasional exception of small regional publications).
Theme:
Coming Home, the flagship book in The Rocking Chair Reader, seeks stories of
small town homecoming. Each story must be a true life experience about
returning home and feeling all over again the loyalty, pride, and
protectiveness that seems to permeate close-knit communities, and the sense of
belonging that small towns foster. These nostalgic, feel-good stories should
tell of individuals -- such as students, soldiers, separated families, current
and former residents, and big city professionals -- who return to their roots,
or reconnect with their history, and are reminded of the preciousness of family
traditions, neighborly values, and community pride.
We all have a story that bears repeating. Share your story with the world today
through The Rocking Chair Reader, and help us captivate the heart of America
with a series we are sure will quickly become another Adams Media bestseller.
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Left Alone Anthology
Details: www.cunyba.cuny.edu
Left Alone: Older Women and Men Tell Stories of
Being Dumped (tentative title)
Seeking contributors to an anthology of true stories on being dumped. These
tales may cover the chronology of a long term relationship as well as look at
such issues as despair and loss, aging and being alone, the economics of the
split, divorce, revenge and naming names, sexuality and dating, reactions and
reconfigurations among family and friends, and maybe liberation or at least a
new design for one's future. Perhaps there would be words of advice and
descriptions of ways of surviving and of using pain as an agent for change and
growth.
Journal entries, interviews, group articles, letters as well as analytic essays
in a variety of tones from anger to hilarity are welcomed. The following
questions and quotes are suggestive of the range of emotions
and experience:
--Is the experience of being dumped and this kind of loss worse for
older women than older men?
--Why do older men often dump their partners for much younger women?
--What about the 'other' woman or man? And what about heterosexual dumping
versus homosexual dumping?
--Does feminism have much to offer in understanding and dealing with these
situations?
--What is the relationship between the dumped and "dumpee," before, during and
after?
--Are there variations to the ending of the story: permanent alienation,
friendship, or a return to the old or a revised relationship at some point?
--Why use such an awful word as "dumped"? What is the shame related to speaking
your story (some people might want to write under a pseudonym)?
If you are interested, in no more than three pages describe both the content and
form of your contribution, include your age, ethnicity, work and any other
pertinent details.
Send to Nan Bauer-Maglin
nbauer-maglin@gc.cuny.edu or CUNY
Baccalaureate Program, The Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, NY,
NY 10016-4309. I have edited three anthologies, the most recent
being: Women Confronting Retirement: A Nontraditional Guide
(Rutgers University Press, 2003).
Dr. Nan Bauer-Maglin, Academic Director
CUNY Baccalaureate Program
The Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016
212.817.8222/ fax 212.817.1512
Amy Writing Awards
—for articles that present the biblical position in a sensitive, thought-provoking manner - must be published in a mainstream, non-religious publication during 2003. No entry fee.. Awards: $10,000 - $1,000. Full information at
www.amyfound.org/awa.html or The Amy Foundation, PO Box 16091, Lansing MI 48901.Deadline: January 31, 2004
CNW/FFWA 21st Annual Writing Competition.
Nonfiction, Fiction, Children's Writing, and Poetry. Awards: $100, $75, $50. Entry fee: $3-$20 depending on membership and length.
Guidelines and entry form.Deadline: March 15, 2004.
It's Never Too Late--
A guided tour to changing your life after 50
Edited by Joan Chatfield-Taylor
Mid-life crisis or mid-life opportunity? It’s Never Too Late will be a coll
ection of essays by people who made profound changes in their work, personal
life, location or lifestyle after the age of fifty.
The book will focus on the kind of transitions that involve risk, affect
relationships with friends and family, and even reshape personality. For one
person the beckoning new life might mean living off the land in the country, for
another the shift from quiet suburbia to an urban downtown, for yet another, the
long-deferred dream of joining the Peace Corps. Sometimes change is
voluntary, but sometimes it’s involuntary, a response to job loss, death of a spouse,
or divorce.
It’s Never Too Late will be an anthology of approximately twenty-five
first-person essays by men and women who have cut themselves loose from their past.
Each essay should highlight one or more of the steps in the process: the
assessment of one’s past life, the decision to make a change, the nitty-gritty
details of making plans, the moments of fear, and the new life itself. Please note
that the essay should not be a total accounting of the entire experience, only
a telling look at a crucial moment in the process.
The writers may reveal what worked and what didn’t, what surprised them and
what changes they see in themselves. We are interested both in success stories
and in cautionary tales in which loneliness, danger, financial realities or
other unexpected consequences cause the original plan to fail or change.
Submission information: The manuscript should be between 1000 and 5000 words.
Please include your name, address, phone number, e-mail address and a brief
bio or resume. Please mail the completed manuscript, double-spaced, to Joan
Chatfield-Taylor, 2066 Green Street, San Francisco, CA 94123. Original and
previously published material will be considered, and we look forward to receiving
submissions from both men and women.
Contact: For questions or queries, please e-mail <joanct@earthlink.net>
Payment: $150 plus two copies of the book
Publication: Fall 2004, trade paperback, Seal Press, an imprint of Avalon
Publishing
Deadline: December 1, 2003.
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Fish Publishing Short Story Competition
Details: http://www.fishpublishing.com/short_story_competition.htm
First Prize €1,500 (approx £1,000stg, us$1,500)
The best 18 stories will be published in the 2002 anthology, which will be read by literary agents, including Shirley Stewart (London), Merric Davidson (Kent) and Andrew Russel (Ireland).
A further six stories from the short-list will be published in "
The New Writer" magazineSecond Prize is one week at
Anam Cara Writers' RetreatFor more details please go to
How to Enter and History of the PrizeDeadline Nov 30, 2003.
THE MONA SCHREIBER PRIZE FOR HUMOROUS FICTION AND
NON-FICTION
Announcing the fourth annual competition:
Writers of comedic essays, articles, short stories, poetry, shopping
lists and
other forms are invited to submit. Works up to 750 words in length should
be typed, double-spaced, accompanied by a money order or check for $5 to cover
administrative costs, payable to "The Mona Schreiber Prize." No limit to entries
but each must have a separate fee. Put contact information on the first page.
No SASEs, please. Include e-mail address for notification of winners.
Three winners: 1st: $500, 2nd: $250, 3rd: $100.
Entries should be stapled, are not returned and must be unpublished.
Humor is subjective. Uniqueness is suggested. Weirdness is
encouraged. The Mona Schreiber Prize for Humorous Fiction and
Non-Fiction, 11362 Homedale Street, Los Angeles, CA 90049.
Web site:
The Brad Schreiber Homepage
Storytech Literary Consulting
www.thewritersjourney.com
DEADLINE: DECEMBER 1, 2003
2004 California Anthology
Tebot Bach is now accepting submissions for a new Anthology of California
poetry, to be published in 2004. Submissions are open to all California and
California affiliated poets.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
Submissions not complying with any of the guidelines below will be returned
unread.
Submit up to three poems, 6 pages maximum, any style.
Unpublished work is preferred, but previously published poems will be
accepted.
If you are submitting previously published work, please indicate when and
where the poem was first published. This must appear at the bottom of the page
upon which the poem appears.
Simultaneous submissions will not be accepted.
Name, address, phone number and e-mail address (if available) must appear at
the top right of every page.
Line count (Including title and blank lines) for each poem must appear at the
top of the page.
Include a three-line biography.
Include SASE for reply.
To submit via e-mail:
E-mail submissions are preferred. Do not paste the poems into the body of the
e-mail. Attach your submission to the e-mail in Microsoft Word format. e-mail
to: zelsun@cox.net
To submit via regular mail:
Submission must be typed. Handwritten submissions will not be accepted.
Submissions must be mailed to:
California Anthology
Attention: Paul Suntup
384 Giotto
Irvine, CA 92614
Any correspondence regarding the anthology must be directed to the above
mailing and e-mail address.
DEADLINE: October 1, 2003 (Postmarked)
Chilling Heat Anthology
Details:
http://www.apg-shorts.co.uk/10705.html?*session*id*key*=*session*id*val*In common with the rest of Arora Publishing Group the Short Fiction Department primarily works only with new and novice British writers who live in Britain.
Deadline: MAY 7th, 2004.
CBC Literary Awards
Details: http://www.cbc.ca/literaryawards/
Entries are now open for the
CBC Literary Awards / Radio Canada Prix Littéraires. All entries must fall within one of the following categories: Short story (2000-2500 words) Travel Literature (2000-2500 words) Poetry (1500-2500 words). Entry fee: $20. Prizes: $6000 for first prize in each category, and $4000 for second prize in each category presented at a gala ceremony. Also, publication in enRoute Magazine and produced for broadcast nation-wide on CBC Radio One.Deadline: November 15, 2003
Seal Press Frienship Anthology
According to the collective wisdom about women's friendships, women share everything with one another, aren't afraid to be affectionate with each other, are always there for you even when you get dumped or fired. That's on the bright side. On the not-so-bright side, women become jealous and bitter when a friend gets pregnant, or lands the job, or finds true love, sometimes going so far as to sabotage the friend's successes. The world's vision of what women's friendship should be is, in essence, either Friends or Single White Female.
Such assumptions about women's relationships not only trivialize and demonize them, but ignore their depth, complexity, and diversity. There are many more different kinds of women's friendships than are recognized by mainstream culture, shaped by age differences, life circumstances, differing cultures, sexuality, and more. And even the most mainstream-looking relationship can involve a web of conflicting emotions—loyalty, love, admiration, amusement, companionship, anger, disappointment, guilt, disillusionment, and so on.
Mainstream books about women's relationships are rare apart from those in the psychology or inspirational section of the bookstore. We know we can turn to a number of media outlets—novels, self-help books, Cosmo, movies, Dr. Phil—to give us an angle on our romance problems, but where do women go to discuss problems with friends?
It's high time for a readable, provocative anthology on this subject. I could have often used an inside look at how others coped with destructive friendships as well as what productive, mutually supportive friendship looks like, offering insight with a sense of humor. If you agree, let's make it happen. Please consider contributing to this anthology by independent women writers and artists that illuminates the unexplored territory of real friendships between real women.
I am looking for sharp, honest, insightful pieces that explore deeper aspects of friendship between women. Personal narratives should go beyond anecdote to follow the development of a friendship, or a developing insight into friendship. Negative aspects of friendship should be recounted as honestly as the positive, though the ultimate tone of the book will be neither blindly celebratory nor bitter, but moving and funny and engaging. While not a guide book, it will be a volume women will want to share because it will hold up a magnifying glass to often noticed but not often talked-about aspects of our relationships to each other. (Think of it as a friendship version of Mothers Who Think, the fabulous collection of essays on motherhood edited by Kate Moses.)
Writers may contribute personal essays, memoirs, personal histories, and commentaries. I would also welcome analytical pieces that have a personal angle, pop-culture critiques, and possibly even pieces with a scientific angle. One-page comics will also be considered. Please query if interested.
The possible topics and angles are endless, but here are some general ideas to begin with:
 | Long-distance friendships: How did it come to be? How do you stay close in spite of the distance? What are some of the unique pleasures and challenges? |
| Age differences. How do the years between you factor in to how you relate to each other? Have you watched a child grow up, only to become friends with her when she becomes a woman? Have you stood by while a friend hits menopause? |
| Friends and illness. How have your women friends responded to your chronic or terminal illness? How has a friend's illness changed your friendship? How has mental illness affected your friendship? |
| Childhood friends. How did they shape who you are now? Are you still friends with your best friend from childhood? What is it like? |
| Mentors: Women who inspire and teach; how did your relationship develop? How has that person influenced who you are now? |
| Single White Female/Fatal Attraction friends: Have you ever befriended someone who turned out to be destructive to you and/or herself? How did you cope? |
| Friends and family, friends as family. Are your friends your main support group? Do you have a friend or group of friends that takes the place of traditional nuclear family? How and why did this come to be, and how does the relationship work? |
| Friends in media and pop culture. Critiques are welcome. How do girlfriends in the media compare to real-life friendships? What constitutes women's friendships on film, TV, and in novels? What are the most realistic and satisfying portrayals of women's friendships? |
| Cross-cultural friendships, within the US or internationally. How have differing cultural backgrounds created richness and/or tension between you and your friend? |
| Relative importance of women friends in your life: Do you have difficulty maintaining close friendships with women? Why? What are some of the differences between having women friends and men friends? |
| Best friends: The concept can be both exhilarating and restricting. What does it mean to be a best friend? How did the term come into use in your relationship? Has it caused problems? Can women be best friends for life? Our best friend is supposed to outlast everyone in our life, and we expect to rely on her unconditional love and always-forgiving nature. But is this a realistic expectation? Where do such expectations come from, and, what happens when expectations between friends aren't met? |
| Jealousy and competition. How did it manifest in your friendship? How did you cope with it; or did it turn a friendship sour? |
| Partnership, marriage, and children. How did these change your friendship? |
| In what ways have your friendships changed over time? What did you need from your friends when you were younger, versus what you need as you get older? How have your relationships survived life changes? |
| Breakup stories. Why did you decide to let the friendship go? How did you do it? What were some of the difficulties, and what was the impact of losing that friendship on your life? |
| Casual friends, fleeting friendships, friendships made while traveling, work/career friendships, etc. |
Deadline: 14 October 2003,
for fall 2004 publication
Length: 1,200 to 6,000 words, negotiable
Fee: $100 plus two copies of the book
Send query or completed manuscript as a Word document to karen@zukazuka.com, along with a bio. If you must submit a hard copy, please send c/o Leslie Miller at Seal Press, 300 Queen Anne Ave. N., #375, Seattle, WA, 98109.
Women of all ages and nationalities encouraged to submit
The 2004 Raymond Carver Short Story Award
Details: http://www.carvezine.com/contest.htm
Carve Zine is now accepting entries for the The 2004 Raymond Carver Short Story Award. Prizes (in US): $2000, $1000, and $300. Entry fee: $15 (US). Max. 8500 words. Electronic submissions preferred. All submissions considered for publicationDeadline: February 1, 2004
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Angel Anthology
Guidelines:
http://www.juliebonnheath.com/anthology_submissions.htmSeeking stories of angelic intervention or assistance
Payment: $25.00 per story and a free book.
Deadline: December 31, 2003.
THE ART OF THE ONE-ACT:
AN ANTHOLOGY
Details:
http://www.wmich.edu/~newissue/Art_of_the_One-act_Submit.htmlNew Issues Poetry & Prose
and Western Michigan University announcea call for submissions of previously unpublished one-act plays
Deadline: January 31, 2004
Anthology of Fragmentary Writing
Details: http://www.odresher.addr.com/press/frag-anth-sub.htm
Impassio Press seeks writings in fragment form, especially personal writing (though fiction is welcome too), for an anthology of fragmentary writing to be compiled and edited by Impassio's founder and publisher, Olivia Dresher. Fragments from diaries and notebooks, letters, vignettes, aphorisms, etc., are sought. We're also looking for unconventional essays (written in fragment form) on the subject of fragmentary writing. We seek original and insightful works that express an intimate connection with the fragmented form itself. The purpose of the anthology is to show the range, depth, and possibilities of fragmentary writing as a literary genre.
Submissions Deadline: December 31, 2003
France, A Love Story
Women Write About the French Experience
For many women, a love of France and all things French started when we were school girls tackling one of the most seductive of tongues. Drawn to what we believed was the world’s most exalted culture, we made trips or moved there, approaching every aspect of the culture with the devotion of pilgrims to a shrine. We learned much along the way. Women who love France often seem united by an almost mystical bond. This anthology will gather the essays by women who have stories to tell about their firsthand experiences in a country that has had an outsized influence on the world—historically, politically, artistically, gastronomically, and culturally.
Send your finest nonfiction writing (previously published work is acceptable). Whether traditional or creative personal essays, I’m looking for more than memoir and travelogue, though these both may lend stories appeal. I’m looking for the strong narrative arc—stories that build toward that satisfying dénouement—something changed, learned, seen more clearly. Strong character development is helpful. A good sense of humor is desirable, though tragic accounts are welcome. Stories may be rooted in some aspect of traveling there, the joy and/or difficulty of living in France, an insightful moment of culture shock, the agony and ecstasy of immersion, loves lost or gained with French men or women. I’m looking for substance, but style is encouraged.
Some possible topics to jog your imagination:
• Gastronomy magnifique – (think M.F.K. Fisher)
• L’Age de raison (coming of age stories)
• The French paradox (usually refers to their diet, but can refer to Americans’ eternal love-hate relationship with France)
• Toujours l’amour – comic, tragic, unrequited or otherwise, it makes a good story
• Au pair memories
• City of Light – Paris, the moveable feast, exerts its own timelessness and magic
• Going provincial – many of M.F.K. Fisher’s best stories take place in the provinces
• Welcome to my humble chateau – have you experienced setting up home there?
• Maybe you worked there once and learned something about the French work ethic.
• The dream vs. the reality—did it match up?
• Manners and cultural nuances—navigating an unfamiliar realm
• Fashion and style—learning to look the part
• Making friends and other interactions with the locals
• France at different ages—how it has changed or not over the years
Camille Cusumano, an editor at VIA Magazine in San Francisco, is the author of one novel, The Last Cannoli (Legas, NY, 2000) and several cookbooks, including Rodale’s Basic Natural Foods Cookbook, The New Foods (Henry Holt), and America Loves Salads (Literary Guild). Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Islands Magazine, Country Living, and other publications. Her short story, A dying tiger moaned for drink, was a finalist in the 2003 Katharine Ann Porter Prize for fiction.
Submission information: The manuscript should be between 1000 and 5000 words. Please include your name, address, phone number, e-mail address and a brief bio or resume. Please mail the completed manuscript, double-spaced, to Camille Cusumano, 1270 D Storey Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94129. Original and previously published material will be considered.
 | Contact: For questions or queries, please e-mail Camille_cusumano@csaa.com |
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| Deadline: December 1, 2003. |
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| Payment: $100 plus two copies of the book |
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| Publication: Spring 2004, trade paperback, Seal Press, an imprint of Avalon Publishing |
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