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Essays wanted about the New York City subway system
Details:
www.thesubwaychronicles.com.The Subway Chronicles is looking for essays (up to
3000words), non fiction shorts, "Top 5" lists about the New York City subway
system. At this time we are not accepting fiction, poetry or plays. To
submit your essay for consideration, attach a file in text format or copy
into the body of the email to
submissions@thesubwaychronicles.com. Please type "Submission" in
the subject line and include a short bio. Payment for featured essay of the
month is $20.
POETRY SOCIETY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
National Contests
PO Box 1615
Concord, NH 03302-1615
Please note limit is forty lines. Name and address must appear in the upper
right hand corner of the copy on which they appear. NO identification is to
appear anywhere on the second copy.
The Poetry Society of New Hampshire sponsors four National Contests open to all poets, members or not. Judges for the contests are not members of the
Poetry Society of New Hampshire. Prizes are awarded to four places, 1st place, $100, 2nd place, $50, 3rd and 4th places $25 each. Winning poems will be published in our quarterly magazine, The Poets Touchstone, and winning poets will receive one copy of the issue in which their poems appear. Rights revert to the author after publication.
Guidelines
Entries that do not meet the guidelines will not be considered or returned.
Poems must be postmarked by the deadline date.
Subject and form are open.
Length limited to 40 lines.
One poem per page.
Poems must be typed.
Submit two copies of each poem, one with NO identification (no name, no address), the other with the name and address in the upper right corner. #10 SASE for winners list only. Poems will not be returned.
 Poemcrazy
is the poetic analog to Anne Lamott's
Bird
by Bird or Natalie Goldberg's
Writing Down the Bones,
two
classic works on how to forget that you "can't write" and just start the pen
moving. Susan Wooldridge is a swimming instructor in the wide ocean of language, encouraging us to move ever farther from the shore, dive deep, and dance on the
waves. |
A Poetry Handbook This slender guide by
Mary Oliver deserves a place on
the shelves of any budding poet. In clear, accessible prose, Oliver (winner
of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for poetry) arms the
reader with an understanding of the technical aspects of poetry writing. Her
lessons on sound, line (length, meter, breaks), poetic forms, tone, imagery, and revision are illustrated by a handful of
wonderful poems.
What could have been a dry account is infused throughout with Oliver's
passion for her subject, which she describes as "a kind of possible love
affair between something like the heart (that courageous but also shy
factory of emotion) and the learned skills of the conscious mind." One comes
away from this volume feeling both empowered and daunted. Writing poetry is
good, hard work.
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Entry fee is $3 for the first poem, and $2 each for others. Entries limited to 5
poems per poet per contest.
Poems must not be previously published, have won a prize, nor be currently
entered in another contest.
Poems must be postmarked by the deadline date. Deadlines are: August 15th,
November 15th and February 15th, May 15th. Mail poems and check payable to the
Poetry Society of New Hampshire to the
address above.
THE GENOME LITERARY PROJECT:CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Details: http://www.iastate.edu/~ceah/genome_project.html
The Iowa State University Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities, in collaboration with the Center for Integrated Animal Genomics, calls for submissions to an anthology of powerful, original creative writing responding to the field of animal and human genomics.
Deadline: April 1, 2006 (receipt deadline)
Personal Essay Contest
I Found It In My Attic
Details:
http://www.ducts.org/12_05/html/contest_rules.htm
Entry Fee: $10
Prize: 1st, $150, 2nd, $50, 3rd $25
Word Count: Up to 2,000 words.
Winner: Winner will be announced in the Summer 2006 issue.
Deadline: March 1, 2006
Chicken Soup --call for stories
Details: http://www.chickensoup.com/
Can you write an inspiring Chicken Soup story to match these possible themes:
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Adopted Soul
African American Teen's Soul
African American Woman's Soul Alzheimer’s Soul
Beauty Professional's Soul
Cat Lover's Soul II
Catholic Soul
Children with Special Needs
Christmas Treasury
Chocolate Lover's Soul Coffee Lover's Soul
Cowboy's Soul
Fisherman's Soul II Girl's Soul II |
Healthy Living - Anxiety
Healthy Living - Arthritis
Healthy Living - Asthma Healthy Living - Depression
Healthy Living - Diabetes
Healthy Living - Pain Management
Healthy Living - Sleeplessness
Healthy Living - Smoking
Healthy Living - Stress
Healthy Soul Cookbook
Life Lessons for Busy Moms
Life Lessons on Relationships
Menopausal Soul Military Brat's Soul |
Mormon's Soul Mother's of Preschoolers Soul
Scrapbooker's Soul
Sisters' and Brothers' Soul
Soulful Guide to California
Soulful Guide to New York
Soulful Guide to Texas
Soulful Guide to the South
Teenage Soul Daily Inspirations
Teenage Soul, The Real Deal on Friendship
University of Michigan Alumni Soul
Woman's Soul Daily Inspirations Young Horse Lover's Soul |
Black Male Writers
The Black Scribe Consortium is currently seeking submissions from male
African-American, African-Caribbean, African, African-European and African-diaspora
writers for inclusion of their works in anthologies of messages to Black women.
We are interested in all genres: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, essay, short
play, humor, romance, spiritual and original visual art work (black and white
only) - absolutely no erotica.
We are Black male writers focused on creating paths through the barriers that
exist in the industry and psyche of publishing.
Send us your very best - but a maximum of two submissions, please. Because these
are anthologies, there must be a limitation on the length of submissions.
Submissions must not exceed 2000 words, and much shorter submissions will
receive equal consideration. The key thing to remember is that these are
messages of Black male writers to Black women.
We will review e-mail submissions only. Please include the text of your
submission in the body of your e-mail, along with a very brief bio. We will
delete any incoming e-mails with attachments. We are open to reading the works
of unpublished and under-published Black male writers (which describes most of
us). E-mail submissions to
blackscribe@sunbeach.net
Please allow time for our readers to review submissions. We will respond to you
as soon as possible.
Compensation: $100 per accepted submission, upon publication.
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Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction
Details: http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~bhreview/anniedillard.htm
First place winners will be published in Bellingham Review. Second and third place winners and finalists may be considered for publication. 1st Prize $1,000
Deadline:
Submissions must be postmarked between December 1, 2004, and March 15, 2005.
Brick Magazine is seeking non-fiction (no
poetry or fiction) from new and
established writers.
Details: http://www.brickmag.com/submissions.html
Circ. 2500. 2 issues/year. Pays flat fee on publication, depending on length, from $100-$500 CDN. Pays between $100-$250 CDN for reprints.
Tobias Wolff Award For Fiction
Details: http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~bhreview/tobiaswolff.htm
1st Prize $1,000
Deadline:
Submissions must be postmarked between
December 1, 2005, and March 15, 2006.
War Poetry Contest
Details:
http://www.winningwriters.com/annualcontest.htm
Enter the third annual War Poetry Contest sponsored by Winning Writers.
Submit 1-3 original, unpublished poems on the theme of war, up to 500 lines in
all.
$3,000 in prizes, up from $2,250 in 2004
The
submission period for our 2005 contest is November 15, 2005 - May 31, 2006.
Future Washington Anthology
Details:http://www.futurewashington.com/
Imagine the future of Washington DC. Planned Release Date: July 1, 2005
Although Washington needs to be the central character or setting, it need not be both. Stories could be set anywhere, but they need a relationship with Washington as a focus. I'm interested in as many different viewpoints as I can get, examining how changing technology, demographics, geo-political shifts (will this be the Asian Century?), DC's peculiar lack of statehood and its consequences, climatic change...feel free to imagine the future. I do want a futurist cast to the collection though, so I'm asking people to try and imagine "possible" futures.
Deadline:
April,
2005
We hope to have most of the stories in by the end of March.
A Cup of Comfort for Grandparents
Details: www.cupofcomfort.com
Much has been written about the special bond between grandparents and
grandchildren. For this extraordinary collection, we're looking for
exceptionally creative, distinctive, and emotionally powerful “cut-above”
stories about truly remarkable relationships and experiences shared by
grandmothers and/or grandfathers and their grandkids. Stories may be humorous or
heartwarming, insightful or delightful, poignant or amazing, or all of the
above—on any topic specific and/or significant to the grandparent-grandchild
connection—and about grandparents and grandchildren of all ages, ethnicities,
circumstances, and backgrounds. Stories must be original, true, positive, in
English, and 1,000-2,000 words. Payment: One $500 grand prize per book; $100
each, all other published stories. Plus copy of book.
Deadline: April 1, 2005
Window Seat Press Seeking Off-beat Tales of International Bus Travel for Anthology
Details: wheredowegetoff@windowseatpress.com
Looking for off-beat, funny, inspirational or tragic international bus travel stories of 750 to 4,000 words for a bus travel story anthology. Whether you're in Kathmandu or Cozumel, The bus is where it all happens. It's where you meet the people, hear the language and taste the culture for the price of a fare. Whether you glimpsed fear in the eyes of Rwandan refugees or played poker with Laotian nuns, we want to read your bus story. Make it funny, serious or off-beat, but make it true to the experience we've all shared from our seats on the bus. We pay one $500 editor’s choice per book plus $100 and two book copies for each published story. Multiple story submissions accepted. To submit, send your story in the body of an email with subject line "Where Do We Get Off?" to: wheredowegetoff@windowseatpress.com or send a self-addressed stamped envelope with each submission to: Where Do We Get Off?, Window Seat Press, 1519 Connecticut Avenue, NW, #301, Washington, DC 20036. All submission must include story title along with author's name, address and phone number. For more information visit www.windowseatpress.com.
Deadline Extended Until April 30, 2005
2006 Creative Nonfiction Competition
The Baltimore Review
Details:
www.baltimorereview.org
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Submit entries between January 1st - April 1st.
Prizes:
First Place: $250 + publication in The Baltimore Review
Second Place: $100
Third Place: $50
Judges:
The Editors of The Baltimore Review
Rules:
Submit one essay per entry fee. Essays must be original and unpublished
elsewhere. All styles and forms are
accepted. Maximum word count: 6,000 words.
All essays submitted to the contest will also be considered for publication in
The Baltimore Review. Simultaneous submissions are fine, but alert us if your
essay has been accepted elsewhere; entry fees are not refundable. Send
SASE for a list of winners. Submissions should be postmarked by deadline.
Format:
Essays must be double-spaced, with name, address, phone number and email
appearing on the first page. Please staple pages together.
Entry Fee:
$10 entry fee for each essay OR-- pay $15 for contest entry fee as well as a
one-year subscription to The Baltimore Review. Make checks payable to The
Baltimore Review. Entry fee includes a copy of the issue in which the First
Place Winner's story will be published.
Mail to:
The Baltimore Review/2006 Creative Nonfiction Competition
PO Box 36418, Towson MD 21286
Anthology Seeks Submissions
July Literary Press seeks poems, essays, and stories for an anthology to be published in 2006. No previously published, except by invitation. Guidelines – 2006 Anthology
July Literary Press seeks stories, essays and poems for a projected anthology. The central theme is "Celebrations." However, all well crafted stories essays & poems will be considered.
All submissions must be typed on white 8 ½ x 11" paper. Stories and essays must be double-spaced, poems single-spaced. Include name, address, phone number, email address and word count in the upper left corner of the first page. Please, no staples.
No previously published.
No electronic submissions.
Stories – 5,000 words maximum
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Essays – 1,500 words maximum
Poems - 50 lines maximum
Stories & essays should be sent to:
July Literary Press
294 Hunters Lane
Williamsville, NY 14221
Poems to:
July Literary Press
274 North Street
East Aurora NY 14052-1334
SASE for response only. MANUSCRIPTS WILL NOT BE RETURNED.
Entrants chosen for the anthology will receive one free copy plus the opportunity to purchase additional copies at a discount.
July Literary Press does not accept material that is pornographic, profane, sexist, racist or violent.
Check out July Literary Press’ website: www.julyliterarypress.com
For questions , e-mail gayb@buffnet.net or SASE to JLP, 294 Hunters Lane, Williamsville, NY 14221. Electronic submissions will be deleted unread.
Deadline – March 31, 2006
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