Call for Submissions

Many people fail on diets because they loose motivation or burn out. Obesity in adults and children is becoming a problem we can no longer ignore. Have you been told loosing weight is critical to your health? The news probably came as no surprise, but what are you doing to make the necessary changes in your life? Are you learning new ways to eat? Do you see the triggers and patterns in emotional eating? Have you done more than think about getting off the couch and working out? How important is the support of your family and friends to your success?

Weight loss is a lifestyle change, not simply a matter of reducing calories and fat, so relapse is part of the picture. How have you learned to be kind to yourself when a few pounds or inches creep back? Once that weight is lost, do you love the new you? That beauty was always there but you now share it proudly with the world! Have you been down the road and around theblock so many times that surgical options are the solution for you?

What you've experienced and accomplished could be the motivation and inspiration that helps another person get healthy, feel fit and full of life again.

Visit www.thehealthysoul.com for story guidelines and more information about Chicken Soup for the Soul Health Living Series: Weight Loss.

Parables

Details: http://www.parablesmag.com/guidelines.html

 A new online magazine dedicated to showcasing stellar Christian fiction content, is now accepting submissions for its 2005 line-up.  

                                  OUR GOALS

• To Glorify the Lord Jesus in everything that we publish.

• To provide quality stories that will touch hearts and change lives.

• To provide a place to showcase noteworthy Christian fiction writers.


Please read the Parables Submission Guidelines page carefully and completely.  Look over our genre line-up, and read the information on our about page to learn more about the magazine.  Also, please be sure to follow the Submission Requirements section precisely when submitting your fiction stories. 
 

Fourteenth Annual Editors' Prize in Fiction & Essay and
the Eighth annual Missouri Review
Larry Levis Editors' Prize in Poetry

Details: http://www.missourireview.com/info/contestguidelines.php

$2,000 Fiction | $2,000 Poetry | $2,000 Essay

One winner and three finalists will be chosen in each category.
Winners will be published and finalists announced in the following spring's
issue of The Missouri Review.
Finalists in all categories will receive a minimum of $100, or consideration
for publication at regular rates.

Entry fee: $15 for each entry (checks made payable to The Missouri Review).
Each fee entitles entrant to a one-year subscription to TMR, an extension of
a current subscription, or a gift subscription (a $7 savings from the regular
subscription price). Please indicate your choice and enclose a complete
address for subscriptions.

Deadline: Entries postmarked by 15 October 2004

Send poetry, fiction, and nonfiction that leaves us breathless to
editor@wordsonwalls.net.

Theme for Issue Four: Fool Us Once

Topic: The presidential election. Use your literary voice to express a political opinion.

Interviews, essays, collaborative poems, stories, and mixed genre works appreciated.

Theme for issue five --Give us some Sugar

Issue Five First Prize: Publication plus $75.00.
Issue Five Finalists: Possible publication.

Rocking Chair Reader
Simpler times, treasured memories
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: "Family Gatherings"

Details:www.adamsmedia.com/rocking.html

We invite you to submit your very own slice of Americana for consideration
in this one of a kind anthology series. (Selections begin immediately.)
Theme: "Family Gatherings" will feature 60-70 delightful stories that
revolve around family gatherings in America's small towns and smalltown
homes. From weddings and reunions to rallying around one another for support
and encouragement, "Family Gatherings" offer the perfect opportunity for
family members to bond, share heartfelt stories, and create lasting memories
through work and play.
Stories might take place during bridal or baby showers, birthdays, backyard
barbeques, graduation parties, celebrations, holiday dinners, reunions,
Saturday night card games, Sunday afternoon drives, visits with Grandma and
Grandpa, barn-raising events, harvest day, cookie exchanges, Monday morning
coffee klatches, quilting bees, camping activities, shopping excursions,
preparing for a feast, working together in the fields, attending worship
together, and vacationing, or something as poignant as sitting around the
front porch watching the sun set. We also encourage stories that depict
family support in times of need, as well as recollections of playing and/or
working together for a common cause.
What we're searching for is 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. If your story is
written about a small town, revolves around a family gathering, and brings a
precious memory with it, we're interested! See specific guidelines below.
(Questions and queries welcome.)
Each volume of The Rocking Chair Reader features true stories that
demonstrate life in smalltown America as seen through the eyes of widely
published authors as well as new authors. Stories are 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. "Family Gatherings" is Adams Media's
way of helping us all reconnect with our roots.
Submission Guidelines:
500-1,000 words in length true, upbeat, and positive set in small town America
we have particular interest in stories set between 1900-1955 (or as told
from that timeframe)
each story will reflect small town traditional values please send a cover letter, the name (and state) of the small town your story takes place in, a short 3-4 line bio, and a 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@adamsmedia.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, ten 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, graphic material, or violence. We also do not seek stories
previously published in anthologies (with the occasional exception of small
regional publications).
Everyone has a story that bears repeating. We invite you to share your story
with the world 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.
Deadline: September 10, 2004

 

Desire in Transition: An anthology by, for and about partners and potential partners of
trans(gender/sexual), intersex, and gender queer people

Partners and potential partners of gender queer people are extremely diverse and rarely visible as a group. We are people of all genders (trans and otherwise), people of all sexual identities (straight, lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, trans-sensual, s/m, vanilla, some of us still searching for terminology and some happy without it), not to mention body sizes and shapes, races, ethnicities, health statuses, physical abilities, economic classes and so on. Part of our invisibility is that there doesn't seem to be a simple name for the one thing we have in common. "Homosexual" might work for similarly gendered trans people in relationships, but not all of us with differently gendered preferences are comfortable with
"heterosexual," and "transsexual" is already taken.

It's time for an anthology to begin to illustrate who we are (in all of our diversity), the issues with
which we struggle, and what we're doing to make the world a better place. We imagine this book as a
beginning of a conversation among lovers of gender variant folks and the varied communities to which we
belong.

So, I'm looking for writing (essays, memoirs, stories, poetry, etc.) on the following topics or others that
you believe would be important for such a book:

Coming out stories (How has your thinking about your sexual identity and relationship changed over time?
Did a partner you were already with, come out as trans? Or, did you find a pattern in the types of
people you were attracted to? What have you come out as? Have you come out more than once, with more than
one sexual identity? How did others react when you told them? What were your hopes and fears in coming
out? How have they come true or not? Did your partner or ex come out to you? And how did you react?)

Relationships (Is there anything special about trans or differently gendered relationships? How have your views on relationships changed with your partners and/or identities? Changes during transition, trans people telling their partners, non-trans partners' transitions, how to be a political ally to your
romantic partner/s, inter-racial relationships,
internet dating, monogamy and polyamory, commitment ceremonies, state-sanctioned marriages, domestic violence…)

Creating Community (Where do we fit, and how have our communities responded? How have our non-trans-identified communities adjusted or changed? Who has come into our lives that we might not
otherwise have met? What barriers have obstructed our efforts to create community, and how have we dealt with them? What has been fun or fabulous about your gender community?)

Organizing for Social Change (What kinds of trans/partners political organizing are we doing? What tips do we have for others? How do we work with and in existing political organizations - queer, people of
color, labor, feminist, fat liberationist and other movements? How has being a partner of a trans person fit with and/or changed and/or enhanced your political analysis?) At present payment is 2 copies upon publication

Submissions should be no more than 15 pages (double spaced) or 3700 words.
Send paper versions to:
Natalie Patrice
643 Hamlin St. NE #6
Washington, DC 20017
or electronic ones to nptucker@yahoo.com

Deadline October 15, 2004

Some people come into our lives and leave quickly, but some stay a while and leave footprints in our souls and we are never, ever thesame. – Unknown

One of the greatest gifts in a person’s life is a long-term friendship. These friendships are to be treasured and valued for their longevity. Friends cannot be bought or bartered. Only a return of like-sentiment
maintains the relationship.

A call for submissions related to the theme of long term friendships.
Story length: 1,500-2,000 words
Point of View: preferably first person
Style: narrative, positive, anecdotal, dramatic, or humorous, but true and well written,
No previously published stories,

After publication, rights revert back to author; may submit multiple stories,
Manuscripts will not be returned without an SASE,
Finalists will be notified after the submission deadline has passed,
Each submission must include:
Story title,
Author's name,
Author's mailing address,
Author's phone number,
Author's email (if available),
Author's bio,
Word count.
Submissions must be typed in 12 point type,
No electronic submissions.
Stories will be edited as necessary.


Submissions should be mailed with SASE to:


Editors
A Measure of Words
94 Wheeler Road
Hollis, NH 03049

Deadline: February 25, 2005

2004 SHORT FICTION COMPETITION

Springfield Writers' Guild 11th Annual Literary Awards

The Jim Stone grand prize memorial awards

#1. Poetry any subject, any form limit 50 lines

#2. Fiction any subject limit 1,500 words

#3. Nonfiction any subject limit 1,500 words

1st place - $100 two honorable mentions all winners receive a certificate

Published prose or poetry

#4. Prose or poetry not self published. Single item or book up to 100 pages

#5. Self-published prose or poetry single item or book up to 100 pages

Unpublished prose unpublished poetry

(limited of 1,000 words per entry) (limit of one single-spaced page)

#6. Short story--any genre

#7 nostalgia/reminiscence

#8. Humor--any subject

#9. Essay or opinion piece

#10. Article--nonfiction, any subject

#11. Rhyming--any subject or style

#12 child's verse--any style 

#13 comic verse--any subject  #14 free verse--any subject 

# 15. Haiku--traditional (5-7-5) nature) or nontraditional

Awards for categories #4 through #15

1st place--$20 2nd place--$10 3rd place--$5

* one honorable mention per category.

* all winners receive certificates

Entry fees:

categories #1, #2, #3 -- $2.00 per entry with three entries allowed in each category.

categories #4--#15 -- $1.00 per entry with unlimited entries allowed in each category.

no entrant may win more than one award per category, regardless of number of entries.

RULES

1. All entries must be the original work of the contestant. Do not enter the same prose or poetry in more than one category.

2. All manuscripts must be typed on 8 1/2 x 11 paper, standard manuscript form with double-spaced prose and single-spaced poetry. All entries must be titled except the Haiku.

3. Place the category name and number, number of words for prose, in the upper left corner of the first page of each entry. Do not put your name on the entry. Include a cover sheet with the category number and name, your name, address, phone number, the title and the first line of the entry. This is to avoid confusion caused by duplicate titles.

4. Keep all originals; no copies will be returned. No entries/winner will be published.

5. Winners will be announced and awards given at the SWG October 2004 Writers Knapsack Conference on October 23, 2004. Winners not attending will be notified during the first week of November.

6. . MAILING: Include a check for entry fees payable to "Springfield Writers' Gu ild." Mail entries and checks to:

M. J. Becco, Contest Chairman 3025 N. East Av. Springfield, MO 65803 E-MAIL:

7. For a list of the winner, please include a SASE with your entry.

8 . DEADLINES: All entries must be postmarked no later than October 1, 2004. SWG will not be responsible for misdirected or postage-due mail

$2,000 Fiction | $2,000 Poetry | $2,000 Essay

Deadline: Entries postmarked by 15 October 2004

Marianna Litovich

7368 Eden Brook Dr.

Apt. 624

Columbia, MD 21046.

Email ML2@umbc.edu with questions only.

Do not email submissions.
Deadline: None

Details:

U.S. troops returning from the frontlines of the war against terror will be encouraged to write about their experiences through a new National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) program, called "Operation Homecoming."

The program will provide writing workshops led by distinguished authors such as Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down; Tom Clancy, author of The Hunt for Red October; Bobbie Ann Mason, author of In Country; and James McBride, author of The Color of Water.

The program will also include a CD containing interviews and readings by well-known writers who have dealt with war, an online writing tutorial, and an anthology of new wartime writing contributed by the military and their families. Participants will receive regular e-mail communication about the craft of writing for the program’s duration.

The workshops, led by two-person teams of writers, many of whom are veterans themselves, will be hosted by at least eight military installations around the country and overseas. Workshops for the Army will be held at Fort Drum, N.Y., and Fort Richardson, Alaska. The "Operation Homecoming" anthology will collect the stories and reflections of the returning troops in a variety of forms, from fiction, verse and letters to essays, memoirs and personal journals.

They can be sent electronically to

Submissions will be accepted through December 31, 2004.

Soleil Lifestory Network and Denis Ledoux plan to publish a "how to" book on writing memoirs during 2004.

Details: http://www.turningmemories.com/minutes.html

It is designed to complement Turning Memories Into Memoirs, a Handbook for Writing Lifestories. The book will be divided into topics, and we are looking for well-written lifestories to illustrate each topic. Submissions should be double-spaced and no more than five pages of 12-pt. type with one-inch margins. Longer submissions will not be considered. You are free to submit as many stories in as many topics as you wish.

Deadline for submissions is February 1, 2004. Email submissions are preferred; if you send by USPS, we will ask you to supply a disk with the story on it, if we accept it for publication. Please send email submissions to

Call for submissions: The Lost Pages 2004 Halloween Special

Details and complete guidelines:

GUIDELINES: FICTION
●Length: 200-2500 words (two hundred to twenty-five hundred words)
●Previously unpublished works only
●Open to anyone
●Pay/rights: CAN$20 for first World English Rights and nonexclusive anthology option (+ possible royalties)
●Content: must be horror and/or supernatural ● funny, extreme, wry, subtle, over-the-top, creepy, absurd, perverse, cross-genre, traditional, pastiche, quiet, obscene, metafictional, taboo, suspenseful, mythic, sexy, violent, surreal, atmospheric, scary ● anything goes.
●Format: send as an attachment in WordPerfect, .RTF, or MS Word to lostpages@lostpages.net and include the words "Lost Pages Halloween Special" in the subject line, plus your submission title.
●DO NOT paste your submission in the body of the email. Such submissions will not be read.
●In the body of the email, you MUST include a cover letter, with a short bio. Do not summarize the story in any way in the cover letter, beyond stating its title and word count. Emails with an attachment only and no identifying message in the body of the email will be deleted automatically.
●No simultaneous or multiple subs. Response time is usually at most two weeks from receipt (often much faster), and you can submit something else then if your submission is rejected.
●Do not send graphics or images of any kind.
●Deadline: 16 September 2004, 6 a.m.
●For general guidelines:

See August Edition of Writers Wanted