RED HEN SHORT FICTION AWARD

Father-Daughter Adventure Travel Anthology, Edited By Wendy Knight

 

Fathers have a profound impact on their daughters, shaping their abilities to

love and ultimately to venture forth, physically and emotionally. Often,

daughters inadvertently and purposefully break down the artificial walls of

masculinity with a purity and power that mothers, wives or girlfriends

cannot. The proposed father-daughter travel anthology will examine

father-daughter relationships in the context of travel, particularly

adventure or international travel. The book is not a compendium of

father-daughter trips, but a collection of stories that weaves together the

thrill of an adventure with the complex and unique issues surrounding the

father-daughter connection-- approval, abandonment, protection, control,

courage, blame and pride. What assumptions about our fathers or daughters are

confirmed or modified when we travel or recreate outdoors? Travel new

territory? Revisit familiar terrain? How do gender roles modulate or amplify

with the adversities that arise in the wild? Do our fathers or daughters

inspire or inhibit our outdoor pursuits? Has fatherhood tamed our sense of

adventure? Intensified our protective instincts? How do we see each other

differently?

Possible themes/issues to explore:

	A father's or daughter's influence on our relationship to the natural world,
	Travel, outdoor recreation
	Impact of a daughter's birth on our approach to travel or the outdoors
	Underlying tensions discovered, ignored, resolved
	Monumental or subtle discoveries during a travel or wilderness experience
	The illness, injury, disappearance or death of a father or daughter
	Gender differences related to pushing physical limits, taking risks, dealing
	with adversity, finding balance, compromising, getting lost
	Communication barriers in father-daughter relationships
	Acceptance

 

Guidelines: 800-7,500 words. Send as a Word document, double-spaced and paginated. Please include your name, address, phone number, email address and short bio. Original and previously published material considered from novice

and experienced authors, women and men of all ages, races and nationalities.

Contact: Send queries or completed MS to: Wendy Knight at Wendymknight@hotmail.com or 4215 Sand Road , Ferrisburgh , Vermont 05456 .

Payment: $150 per essay upon publication, plus two copies of the book.

Book Specifications: 5 1/2 x 7 1/2 paperback. 300 pages. Seal Press, June 2004

Deadline: August 1, 2003

Nonfiction Anthology on Fat

 should be received by August 31, 2003

 Personal Essay Contest Change

Every Writer recently announced its annual Personal Essay Writing
Contest with a $100 grand prize. Due to an overwhelming amount of
entries and interest, Every Writer has raised its cash prize to $200
in the Personal Essay Contest. For complete rules, please visit:
http://www.everywriter.com/announcements.htm

 

Anvil Press seeks stories for "Exact Fare Only II"

Deadline: May 31, 2003

Travel Tales 3 needs stores. Author/anthologist Mitzi Szereto is collecting stories for print publication by Cleis Press.  The anthology will be international in scope. Since this is to be a collection of location-based erotica, please make certain that details of place and culture are accurate. Stories can be about character(s) traveling to a particular location or else take place in a particular location. Let your creativity flow!  Stories can be of any length, but generally no longer than 7,000 words.

Submission requirements:

Stories must be submitted in typewritten hard copy, double-spaced (with a Word for Windows-compatible file available on request). Manuscripts not chosen will be discarded, so do not send your only copy. You should include with your submission an author bio and an e-mail address at which you can always be reached.

For questions and information on where to send your submission, please e-mail:

Payment on publication.

Submission deadline: Oct. 1, 2003.

FOURTEENTH INTERNATIONAL TANKA SPLENDOR

AWARD 2003

Sponsored by AHA Books

Details:

No entry fee

Individual tanka should be in English, written in five lines containing 31 or less syllables, preferably without titles.

The tanka sequence should consist of a title with three or more tanka, each of which contains 31 or less syllables written in five lines.

Deadline: Midnight September 30, 2003

The ADG: ACHIEVE-THE-DREAM Children's Story Writing Contest III is open to all writers 18 years and over. Writers may submit original children's stories from April 1, 2003 to June 30, 2003. Winning manuscripts receive $250, and will be published (picture book style, in print). There is a $10 entry fee, but multiple stories do not require an additional fee. Entries must be original, unpublished and under 1,200 words (although less is welcome).

Details for the contest are at:

AWARDS FIRST PRIZE: $500 GUIDELINES:

All Entries Considered For Publication Include Check or Money Orders made out to Literal Latte Or include Visa/MC/American Express Number & Expiration Date. LITERAL LATTE SHORT SHORTS AWARDS, 61 EAST 8TH STREET, SUITE 240, NYC 10003

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