Welcome to the PEIWG Weekly Bulletin! This is published and circulated through the PEIWG mailing list on groupspaces.com. It contains announcements of events in PEI and around Canada that may be of interest to the members of the PEI Writers’ Guild and to PEIWG mailing list subscribers.
If you want to share any announcements, articles, interesting or useful links that you think other subscribers will be interested in, send them to mimrlith@yahoo.com; this weekly is sent out on Sunday or Monday every week, so please do not send announcements that need to be sent out immediately.
∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞
PEI LOCAL
Opportunity to Teach
The Seniors College PEI is looking for individuals interested in teaching writing classes in Summerside beginning fall 2012. Classes usually run eight weeks for one morning or afternoon per week [20-24 hours total]. There are fall, winter, and spring semesters; often a course is offered for one semester, but some are more; the honorarium is $300 per semester.
Last year the college offered life writing, and that was a big success — sadly there was no follow up. What would be great this time is a course in creative writing, as well as a return to life writing. The Seniors College PEI is open to ideas and suggestions.
Interested parties, please contact
Nonie Fraser
Summerside Steering Committee
Seniors College PEI
Email: nefraser@eastlink.ca
∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞
BOOK AWARDS SHOWCASE ISLAND ARTS AND CULTURE
CHARLOTTETOWN, PEI — The 2012 Prince Edward Island Book Awards will celebrate our province’s authors and publishing industry, says Tourism and Culture Minister Robert Henderson.
“Prince Edward Island’s authors tell stories that help define and showcase our province, our communities and ourselves,” said the minister. “These awards not only recognize the quality of Island publications, they raise the profile of Island books and introduce them to new reading audiences.”
Nominations are now being accepted for this year’s awards, in the following categories: poetry, fiction and non-fiction. The deadline for nominations is March 15, 2012.
The Prince Edward Island Book Awards are held every two years and are open to authors, editors and book producers who reside in the province. In addition to a cash award, recipients receive a handcrafted commemorative award.
Applications and more information can be found at http://www.gov.pe.ca/tourism/bookaward.
∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞
Interested writers from the Atlantic Maritimes are invited to write for Stephen Patrick Clare’s new ARTS EAST e-magazine and website.
Assignments may include CD/book reviews, interviews or coverage of music, drama, visual art, mixed media, etc. events.
Ideal for writers and aspiring journalists who are trying to gain experience and have a published on-line byline, media tickets and similar perks as compensation.
Interested writers can e-mail Michelle Brunet or Stephen Clare at novamedia@gmail.com
∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞
PEI MODEL FOREST NETWORK PHOTO CONTEST
(for writers who’re also photo buffs or know photo buffs)
CHARLOTTETOWN, PEI — The Prince Edward Island Model Forest Network, in partnership with the Department of Environment, Energy and Forestry, is holding a special forest-themed photo contest over the fall and winter.
“The members of the Model Forest Network are encouraging people to head outside and capture images that reflect how they perceive and use our public and private forest lands,” said Richard Gill, chair of the Model Forest Network. “Whether enjoying wildlife, walking, hunting, working, snowshoeing or biking, we are looking for images that reflect the importance of Island forests.”
Prince Edward Island’s landscape is renowned for its blend of fields, water and forests. This landscape attracts amateur and professional photographers who want to capture images of what the Island means to them.
While the Island’s beaches, farms and small communities often receive the most attention, forests are often featured for their lush greens in spring and summer, vibrant red, orange and yellow of fall, and the white stillness of winter. Some photographers also try to capture the hundreds of ways people use and connect with forests every day.
The contest is designed to promote awareness and appreciation of all types of forests including urban and rural, and public and private forests. Themes could also include how forests meet various economic, social, recreational, cultural, ecological and aesthetic needs.
“We are interested in Island photographs of almost anything forest-related,” said Mr. Gill.
The contest includes a special outdoor photography workshop that will feature tips and demonstrations on how to improve outdoor photography. It will be held Saturday, October 22, 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the Central Forest District office,170 Beach Grove Road, Charlottetown.
The contest runs from October 22, 2011 to February 29, 2012. Prizes will be offered for the winning photographs. For workshop information, contest rules and for details about prizes, visit http://www.peiforests.ca or contact Greg Ridgway at (902) 368-4800 or at gregmodelforest@gmail.com.
∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞
CALLS FOR SUBMISSION
POETRY IN TRANSIT
The City of Charlottetown, in collaboration with Trius Transit is seeking submissions of poetry revolving around the theme of “How we experience our community.” Selected poems will be printed and installed on the interior advertising panels on buses in Charlottetown, Cornwall and Stratford. Poems will remain on buses for three months, then will be taken down and put on display in participating store fronts.
If you are interested, please check out www.poetrypei.com, and submit your poems there!
∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞
|
|||||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||
∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞
BYWORDS.CA SUBMISSION CALL
DEADLINE: February 15 for the March issue
Bywords.ca considers previously unpublished poetry from emerging and established poets for our online monthly magazine. We consider work by current and former residents, students and workers of Ottawa. We also publish poems by contributors to our predecessor, the Bywords Monthly Magazine. FOR SUBMISSION INFORMATION VISIT www.bywords.ca and click on Guidelines. Amanda Earl, Managing Editor
∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞
Black Canadian Poetry
Black Canadian Poetry is seeking submissions of new and unpublished works of poetry for a national anthology devoted to answering the question, “What is Black Canadian Poetry?” The anthology will establish a poetic tradition of page and stage poetry by people of African descent living in Canada. We are encouraging all English speaking, French speaking, and people of African descent working in foreign dialects and languages to contribute to this project. Since our anthology will be published in English, it is our aim to introduce Black Canadian poets to an international English speaking audience. After this, we hope to find a publisher for the French edition of the anthology in order to introduce English/French speakers and poets of African descent working in foreign dialects and languages in Canada to an international French speaking audience.
Submissions for the anthology should be submitted in English and associated with the following categories: spoken word, dubpoetry, hip-hop, slam, performance and page poetry. We ask that poets translate their work into English before submitting and state clearly that it is a translation from the specific language of the poet.
Poetry contributions welcome from writers that are African, Afro-Caribbean, African-American, Afro-Indigenous, African-Canadian or people living in Canada who identify as Black. Submissions welcome from all provinces and territories. Submissions from emerging, mid-career and established poets are welcome. Each anthologized contributor will receive two copies of the book.
Submissions to Black Canadian Poetry should be no more than three poems, 500 words for one poem, or a combined total of 800 words or less for multiple submissions.
Poetry must be submitted in English or translated to English. In the case that the poem is translated from the French, please state this clearly on the submission.
Submissions should be printed double-spaced with a 12-point font.
Submissions should be new works or previously unpublished works of poetry.
Along with submissions please include:
-name of the poet;
-title of the poem;
-genre of the poem: spoken word, dubpoetry, hip-hop, slam, performance and print;
-province/territory of the poet.
Please remember to include your full name, mailing address, e-mail address, phone number, title of poems, genre, province/territory and name of the poet with each submission.
Please send 4 copies of your submission with an enclosed SAE to the following address:
BCP Editors
Black Canadian Poetry
PO BOX 1741
Gibsons, BC
V0N 1V0
Please direct comments and questions to
blackcanadianpoetry@gmail.com
For further information please visit
blackcanadianpoetry.com
(e-mail submissions will not be accepted)
Deadlines for submissions is March 1, 2012.
The anthology will be published by Frontenac House Limited in 2013.
Thank-You!
∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞
BIBLIOTHECA FANTASTICA
SUBMISSION PERIOD: Dec. 15 2011 – March 31, 2012
Anthology from Dagan Books is looking for “Stories having to do with lost, rare, weird, or imaginary books, or any aspect of book history or book culture, past, present, future, or uchronic. Any genre. Although the fantastical is not essential per se, stories should evoke a sense of the fantastic, the unknown, the weird, wonder, terror, mystery, pulp, and/or adventure, etc.”
Full details on their site http://daganbooks.com/2011/11/14/new-anthology-bibliotheca-fantastica-opens-for-submissions-dec-15-2011/
∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞
TESSERACTS SIXTEEN
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Feb. 29, 2012
From Edge Publishing, recently released the guidelines for the latest volume in their speculative anthology, which will be edited by Mark Leslie. They’re looking for stories and poems that “focus on art, music, literature and cultural elements which are integral to the story. ” This anthology is only open to Canadians citizens (including ex-pats), landed immigrants (aka permanent residents) and long time residents.
http://www.edgewebsite.com/books/tess16/t16-guidelines.html
∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞
BIFF BAM POP! ANNOUNCES OPEN CALL FOR SHORT
HORROR/THRILLER/SUSPENSE ANTHOLOGY SUBMISSIONS
DEADLINE: 11:59 P.M. APRIL 1, 2012
Now accepting submissions for the inaugural BIFF BAM POP! Short Story Anthology.
Writers must submit their original prose before 11:59pm April 1st, 2012 deadline. A panel of BIFF BAM POP! representatives will review every submission received, and those selected will be published in the Short Story Anthology to be released this Fall.
Submissions can be sent to: biffbampopsubmissions@gmail.com (RTF or Microsoft Word files). Please see the official submission guidelines for complete information about submitting to the BIFF BAM POP! Short Story Anthology.
About BIFF BAM POP! Established in August 2008, Biff Bam Pop! is a website devoted to the world of pop culture, from comic books and video games, to movies, books, and music. For additional information, visit www.biffbampop.com.
For more information, please contact: Andy Burns, Editor-In-Chief, BIFF BAM POP!
647-234-2112/andyburns2112@gmail.com
∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞
VALLUM 9:2 – URBAN LANDSCAPES / HIDDEN CITY
Deadline: 10 April 2012
The cityscape has fascinated people since the flâneurs of Paris and beyond. An explosion of mechanical and other structures surrounds us. But what is unseen, underground or hidden often eludes us. What are some of these hidden aspects of the cityscape or the urban landscape? No electronic submissions. Please mail submissions to: Vallum, P.O. Box 598, Victoria Stn, Montreal, Quebec, H3Z 2Y6, Canada
∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞
The Malahat Review‘s East Coast Issue
Deadline: May 15, 2012
In the fall of 2012, The Malahat Review and The Fiddlehead will celebrate the writing of each other’s regions, with the former publishing an East Coast issue and the latter a West Coast issue. Writers with strong connections to either or both regions are invited to submit to the issue that will best provide their work the most apt and safe harbour.
The Malahat Review invites submissions from East Coast writers (East Coast includes all four Atlantic provinces: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland and Labrador). Submissions of poetry, fiction, personal essay, memoir, cultural criticism, and literary journalism are welcome.
Please see the full guidelines on our website prior to submitting: http://www.malahatreview.ca/east_coast.html
∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞
GEIST EMERGING WRITER OF THE MONTH
An enlightened online space for new writers to test-drive their work.
How it works: Emerging writers are invited to submit short written works online. Geist chooses and publishes one piece each month on a dedicated web page. Geist readers and like-minded people are then invited to comment on the featured work.
Who is eligible?
- Canadian students enrolled in secondary or post-secondary courses and/or writing workshops are eligible.
- The writer should have no more than 2 short works published in established print or online magazines, books or websites. (Blogs, zines and in-house school publications are exempt.)
- For full details: http://www.geist.com/gewm
∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞
COMPETITIONS
13th ANNUAL POSTCARD STORY
COMPETITION
The Writers. Union of Canada is pleased to announce that submissions are being accepted until
February 14, 2012, for the 13th annual POSTCARD STORY COMPETITION. The winning entry will be the best Canadian work of 250 words or fewer in the English language, fiction or nonfiction. Are you up for the challenge? Can you create a dynamic, lean, and efficient piece in only 250 words? You can use humour, poetry, dialogue. anything goes!
PRIZE
$750 for the winning entry.
The winning entry will be published in Write, the magazine of The Writers Union of Canada. The winner agrees that The Writers’ Union of Canada will have non-exclusive publication rights to publish the winning entry in Write, for publicity purposes. Any publication of the author’s story by The Writers. Union of Canada will include an authorship credit and a copyright notice in the name of the author. Copyright of the winning postcard story remains with the writer.
JURY
Clayton Bailey, John Lent, and Nerys Parry will serve as the jury.
ELIGIBILITY
This competition is open to all Canadian citizens and landed immigrants. Original and unpublished in any format (English language) fiction or nonfiction, no more than 250 words.
HOW TO SUBMIT ENTRIES
- · Entries should be typed, double-spaced, in a clear twelve-point font, and the pages numbered on 8.5 x 11 paper, not stapled.
- · Submissions will be accepted in hardcopy only.
- · Include a separate cover letter with title of story, full name, address, phone number, e-mail
address, word count, and number of pages of entry.
- · The author’s name should not appear on the actual entry.
- · Make cheque or money order, $7.50 per submission, payable to The Writers’ Union of Canada. Multiple entries can be submitted together and fees can be added and paid with one cheque or money order.
- · Entries must be postmarked by February 14, 2012 to be eligible.
- · Mail entries to: PCS Competition, The Writers. Union of Canada, 90 Richmond Street East,
Suite 200, Toronto, ON M5C 1P1.
Results will be posted at http://www.writersunion.ca in May 2012. Manuscripts will not be returned.
∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞
OPL CONTEST: YOUNG POETS AND AUTHORS –
ON YOUR MARK! GET SET! WRITE!
DEADLINE: EXTENDED TO FEBRUARY 6TH
The Ottawa Public Library´s 17th annual Awesome Authors Youth Writing Contest is underway. This contest, for aspiring young poets and short story authors, is open to writers between the ages of 9 and 17. They are invited to submit poems and short stories in English and/or French.
Participants can win awesome prizes which will be presented in the Spring. For contest details, visit www.BiblioOttawaLibrary.ca or contact InfoService at 613-580-2950 or InfoService@BiblioOttawaLibrary.ca
∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞
Speculative fiction contest
Speculative fiction contest with $350 prize http://friendsmerrilcontest.com/guidelines/
Entries are invited for the Friends of the Merril Short Story Contest.
First prize: $350 (CDN). Spec Fic (SF/F/H, Magic Realism, etc.) short fiction only (max. 2500 words). Deadline: February 15, 2012. International entries welcomed. Entry fee: $5.
∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞
CANADA WRITES
THE CBC´S NEW ONLINE HOME FOR WRITING
Canada Writes is the CBC´s home for original writing, including the CBC Literary Prizes. This is your chance to get your work read, published and recognized throughout the year.
Canada Writes features:
* fun writing challenges (where you can win prizes)
* online writing workshops
* writing tips, feature articles and interviews with writers from all genres
* original fiction and essays by your favourite Canadian writers
* and the prestigious CBC Literary Prizes (short story, poetry and creative
nonfiction competitions)
Please note that CBC Literary Prizes are now three separate competitions with
different deadlines. Three contests to enter:
- The CBC Literary Prize: Short Story Competition
The CBC Literary Prizes recognize the best in original, unpublished writing by Canadians.
- CBC Poetry Prize.
- CBC Creative Nonfiction Prize. Competition opens March 1; deadline May 1.
- Visit http://www.cbc.ca/books/canadawrites/literaryprizes/ for full contest details
The First Prize winner in each category will win $6,000 from the Canada Council
for the Arts and publication in Air Canada´s enRoute magazine, as well as on
our website. Four runner-ups will also be chosen and receive $1,000 each.
You can read about the other changes to the prizes at
http://www.cbc.ca/books/canadawrites/literaryprizes/index.html
For more details, please check out http://www.cbc.ca/canadawrites
∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞
2012 Unified Literary Contest
Summer Literary Seminars welcomes entries to its 2012 Unified Literary Contest. First place winners in fiction and poetry receive publication in The Warlus Online and Black Warrior Review, as well as an all-expense paid trip to one of their programs in Kenya, Eastern Europe or Montreal. Deadline: February 28, 2012 Entry fee: $15USD. http://sumlitsem.org/contest.html
∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞
SUMMIT STUDIOS SHORT STORY CONTEST
DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 29, 2012
Small Newmarket-based publishing company, Summit Studios, is calling for submissions to their contest to gather new material for four new anthologies that they plan to publish in 2012 and 2013. The contest will be running until February 29, 2012. This is the third such contest they’ve hosted during their eight year tenure. Writers can visit their web site http://www.summitstudios.biz to download Story Contest Guidelines and to familiarize themselves with the types of stories they like to publish. You will find several previously published stories under some of the author profiles in their Writers’ Spotlight section.
For writers who do not win a prize, there is still a good chance they will publish their story if it fits their parameters. Writers maintain copyright to their work, and they pay a minimum $100 honorarium for every story that they publish.
∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞
(*download the Word file to see the image)
ACCENTI MAGAZINE
ANNOUNCES WRITING AND PHOTO CONTESTS
First Prize: $1000
Deadline: February 7, 2012
Tuesday, August 22, 2011 – Accenti Magazine is proud to announce its 7th Annual Writing Contest and 5th Annual Photo Contest. First Prize for each contest is $1000 and publication in Accenti. Second and third place winners receive $250.00 and $100.00 respectively. The deadline is February 7, 2012.
Winning entries will be presented at the Accenti Magazine Awards during the 14th Blue Metropolis Montreal International Literary Festival, April 18-23, 2012. The Accenti Magazine contests are open to all writers and photographers, established and emerging, worldwide.
Accenti‘s writing contest is open to fiction and nonfiction on any topic; and Accenti’s photo contest asks participants to “Capture an Italian Moment” anywhere in the world. Past writing contest winners include Elizabeth Cinello (2011, Toronto) Loretta Di Vita (2010, Montreal), Ivano Stocco (2009, Valencia, Spain), Paul French (2008, Toronto), Maria Francesca LoDico (2007, Montreal) and Sheila Wright (2006, Warkworth, Ontario). Photo winners include Marcel van Balken (2011, Amstelveen,
The Netherlands), Amy Occhipinti (2010, Toronto), Robert T. Norton (2009, Toronto) and Nick Colarusso (2008, Montreal).
About Accenti Magazine
Founded in Montreal in 2003, Accenti aims to bring together readers and writers around the idea of shared cultural experience and heritage, to encourage creative expression and celebrate common cultural values. For more information, please visit www.accenti.ca.
∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞
THE NEW QUARTERLY NICK BLATCHFORD OCCASIONAL VERSE CONTEST
DEADLINE: Postmarked February 28, 2012
$1,000 for one glorious poem written in response to an occasion, personal or public – poems of gratitude or grief, poems that celebrate or berate, poems that make of something an occasion or simply mark one. Another $1,000 in prize money will be distributed as the judges fancy. The best of what we see will be published in The New Quarterly at our usual rates, and posted on our website. For full details, see www.tnq.ca/contests
∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞
Grain Magazine’s 24th Annual Short Grain (with Variations) Writing Contest
Grain Magazine’s 24th Annual Short Grain (with Variations) Writing Contest is accepting entries until April 1, 2012 (postmarked).
Grain awards $4,500 in cash prizes! Winning entries will be published in the pages of Grain! The entry fee is $35 which includes a FREE one-year subscription to Grain Magazine! Our judges are counted among Canada’s finest writers! One entry fee allows you to enter a maximum of two entries in either of two categories: Poetry in any form to a maximum of 100 lines; Short Fiction in any style to a maximum of 2500 words.
Whose company do you want your writing to keep?
Grain is the most exciting literary magazine on the Canadian and international scene…the one that everyone wants to be published in! Recent issues have featured the work of such literary luminaries as Xi Chuan, Tim Lilburn, Guy Maddin, Miriam Toews, Zsuzsi Gartner, and Eleanor Wachtel. And you could join them in the pages of Grain!
Enter Short Grain! Open new doors! (Make new friends!)
Judges are: rob mclennan, Poetry, and Lawrence Hill, Fiction. Three prizes will be awarded in each category: 1st prize = $1,000, 2nd prize = $750, 3rd prize = $500. Consult Grain‘s website,grainmagazine.ca, for complete rules and guidelines.
About our contest judges:
rob mclennan is the author of more than twenty trade books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, including Glengarry (Talonbooks, 2011), kate street (Moira, 2011), and wild horses (University of Alberta Press, 2010) and his second novel, missing persons (The Mercury Press, 2009). He has edited numerous collections for Chaudiere Books, Insomniac Press, Black Moss Press, Broken Jaw Press, and Vehicule Press, and was the writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta in 2008.
Lawrence Hill is the author of internationally acclaimed The Book of Negroes, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, the Ontario Library Association’s Evergreen Award and CBC Radio’s Canada Reads. He is also the author of Any Known Blood (William Morrow, New York, 1999 and HarperCollins Canada, 1997) and Some Great Thing(HarperCollins 2009, originally published by Turnstone Press, Winnipeg, 1992). Formerly a reporter with The Globe and Mail and a parliamentary correspondent for The Winnipeg Free Press, he won the National Magazine Award for Best Essay in 2005.
Mike Thompson
Business Administrator
Grain Magazine – the Journal of Eclectic Writing
PO Box 67, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, S7K 3K1
PH: 306.244.2828
∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞
The 2013 KEN KLONSKY Novella Contest
http://www.quattrobooks.ca/submissions/
Quattro Books will publish the two best novella manuscripts by a Canadian author as part of their 2013 Publishing list. The novella manuscript should be completed, neatly typed, and not less than 20 000 words or more than 40 000 words. Note the number of words on the cover. Your name may appear in the manuscript’s header or footer. Please take a look at the type of novellas Quattro publishes; we publish literary fiction and do not publish genre fiction (Science fiction or Romances.) You may send your manuscripts anytime between March 01, 2012 and June 01, 2012. Send your manuscript, along with a $15 reader’s fee and your email address, to: Quattro Books Inc, CSI second floor, 720 Bathurst Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 2R4. Manuscripts will not be returned. Reader’s Fee $15
∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞
ANTHEM ESSAY CONTEST
Entry Deadline: March 20, 2012
Eligibility: 8th, 9th and 10th Graders. No application is required. Contest is open to students worldwide. FIRST PRIZE: $2,000 5 SECOND PRIZES: $500 10 THIRD PRIZES: $200
45 FINALISTS: $50 175 SEMIFINALISTS: $30
http://essaycontest.aynrandnovels.org/Anthem.aspx?theme=blue
∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞
THE FOUR WAY BOOKS INTRO PRIZE IN POETRY
D.A. Powell, judge Submissions accepted January 1 – March 31. For a book-length collection of poetry written in English by a poet who has not previously published a first book of poetry. $1000.00 plus publication and a reading in NYC. Submit online or by mail January 1 – March 31. Include necessary entry form and submission fee of $28.00. For guidelines and entry form: http://www.fourwaybooks.com/contest.php
∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞
CANADIAN STORIES
SHORT STORY, POETRY and BLACK & WHITE LINE ART CONTEST
plus SELF-PUBLISHED BOOK PRIZE
The CANADIAN STORIES literary folk magazine is pleased to offer the 4th Contest for Short Stories, Poetry,
Black & White Art and a Self-Published Book Prize. A total of over $3000 in prize money will be awarded:
CATEGORIES and JUDGES
CREATIVE NON-FICTION Lin Johns (The Pearl Wearmouth Prize) $325
D. Larry Haire (The Sullivan/Haire Prize) $325
TRUE STORIES The James Franklin McDonald Prize $325
The Susanna Voth Wiebe Prize $325
LEST WE FORGET The Jean Scott Parsons Prize $325
FICTION The William Wardill Prize $325
The Bruno Penner Prize $325
POETRY The Alvin Ens Prize $325
BLACK & WHITE LINE ART The Harry Buller Prize (R&R Printing Plus) $325
SELF-PUBLISHED BOOK The Ivan Hervoic Prize (GemSystems)
judged by Mimi Baxter $500
“WILD CARD” The Wild Card Prize (Krown Rust) $100
HONORARY MENTION Any Category **
** A copy of a book by Ruth Latta, or Ed Janzen or an Anthology of CANADIAN STORIES
DEADLINE:
May 1, 2012. Notification approximately June 15, 2012.
COST:
Each entry must include a $20 cheque made out to CANADIAN STORIES. This money is not refundable.
Notification with SASE card. Return of original also with SASE. Material with uncouth language will be returned.
RULES: All entries must follow the author’s guidelines outlined on http://www.canadianstories.net. Poetry is limited to three poems or three pages. Art must be presented on 8 1/2 x 11 inch paper. The subject of the Art should be suitable for publication in CANADIAN STORIES. All entries must be original unpublished typewritten material. Authors retain copyright. Short Stories should be 2000-3000 words. A “Self-Published Book” is herein defined as a book written, produced, printed and marketed by the author of about 100 pages with about 150 copies created within the last 10 years in English. One copy must be sent with each entry which will be given to a charity such as a hospital after the competition. The Wild Card will be attributed to any highly rated submission but which does not fit into any of the above categories. The “Lest We Forget” category pertains to Canadian military stories and memories. Winners will be published in the August 1, 2012 issue of CANADIAN STORIES.
Send entries to: CANADIAN STORIES, Box 232, Fergus, ON NIM 2W8
Mark Envelope: 4th Contest
All entries must specify which category the submitter has selected. Name, address, phone number and E-mail
address (if available) must be provided on a cover sheet. Submitted material to be judged should have no identification
for blind judging. Entries must be written by the author identified. The Contest is open to entries from
any country as long as a Canadian theme is evident in the submission.
Inquiries: Editor of CANADIAN STORIES ejanzen345@sympatico.ca
∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞
| It’s almost a New Year – that means a clean slate and a fresh beginning! To help you prepare for the coming year, here’s a comprehensive list of the Writer’s Digest competitions. Whatever your genre, whatever your skill level…we’ve got a competition for you. So mark your calendars – enter and expose your work to agents, to publishers, to peers and to your future fans! |
|||
Self Published Awards
|
|||
Writer’s Digest Annual Competition
|
||
Poetry Awards
|
||
Short Short Story Competition
|
||
Popular Fiction Competition
|
||
∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞
CONTESTS HOSTED AT WINNING WRITERS & OPEN NOW
All entries that win cash prizes in these contests will be published on WinningWriters.com (over one million page views per year) and announced in the Winning Writers Newsletter, with over 35,000 subscribers.
Tom Howard/John H. Reid Short Story Contest
Postmark Deadline: March 31, 2012
Now in its 20th year. Prizes of $3,000, $1,000, $400 and $250 will be awarded, plus six Most Highly Commended Awards of $150 each. Submit any type of short story, essay or other work of prose, up to 5,000 words. You may submit work that has been published or won prizes elsewhere, as long as you own the online publication rights. $15 entry fee. Submit online or by mail. Early submission encouraged. This contest is sponsored by Tom Howard Books and assisted by Winning Writers. Judges: John H. Reid and Dee C. Konrad. See the complete guidelines and past winners.
Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest (no fee)
Online Submission Deadline: April 1, 2012
Winning Writers invites you to enter the 11th annual Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest. We’ll award $3,600, including a top prize of $1,500. Submit one humor poem online. No length limit. Both published and unpublished poems are welcome. No fee to enter. Final judge: Jendi Reiter. See the complete guidelines and past winners.
Sports Poetry & Prose Contest – New!
Online Submission Deadline: May 31, 2012
New from Winning Writers, our Sports Poetry & Prose Contest will award $5,000 in total prizes, including a $1,500 top prize for poetry and a $1,500 top prize for prose (fiction and nonfiction). Submit an unpublished entry of 1-2 poems or one work of prose on a sports-related theme, up to 6,000 words in all. Fee is $15 per entry. Final judge: Jendi Reiter. Click for the complete guidelines.
Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse
Postmark Deadline: June 30, 2012
Now in its ninth year, this contest seeks poetry in traditional verse forms. Both published and unpublished poems are welcome. Prizes of $3,000, $1,000, $400 and $250 will be awarded, plus six Most Highly Commended Awards of $150 each. The entry fee is $8 for every 25 lines you submit. Submit online or by mail. Early submission encouraged. This contest is sponsored by Tom Howard Books and assisted by Winning Writers. Judges: John H. Reid and Dee C. Konrad. See the complete guidelines and past winners.
Now Open
Tom Howard/John H. Reid Poetry Contest
Postmark Deadline: September 30, 2012
Now in its tenth year, this contest seeks poems in any style, theme or genre. You may submit work that has been published or won prizes elsewhere, as long as you own the online publication rights. Prizes of $3,000, $1,000, $400 and $250 will be awarded, plus six Most Highly Commended Awards of $150 each. New this year, there will also be a special $250 bonus prize for humorous verse. The entry fee is $8 for every 25 lines you submit. Submit online or by mail. Early submission encouraged. This contest is sponsored by Tom Howard Books and assisted by Winning Writers. Judges: John H. Reid and Dee C. Konrad. See the complete guidelines and past winners.
∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞
EVENTS & WORKSHOPS
Upcoming Writescape Workshops
- Write On! January 23 to March 5 A six-week creative writing for course for intermediate writers
- From Query to Byline: Getting Published and Paid February 1 to February 29 A five-week course in magazine writing
- Registration is open for Spring Thaw 2012 at Elmhirst’s Resort March 30 to April 1—or April 3 if you choose the Extend-Your-Pen option
- Visit www.writescape.ca for more information
∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞
PWAC SEMINAR GETTING A GRIP ON YOUR FINANCES
DATE: Saturday, February 25, 2012, 11 – 1 p.m.
LOCATION: Ottawa Public Library Main Branch Auditorium, 120 Metcalfe
COST: SEE BELOW
Ottawa money-minders Sandy Tunwell and Dylan Rose will show you how to keep more of the money you earn and how to make it grow. Sandy Tunwell – owner, founder & managing consultant at accountrain – will present tax-time tips and discuss bookkeeping basics
Dylan Rose – a financial advisor with the Independent Planning Group investment firm – will speak on planning for the future as an independent business operator
Presented by the Ottawa Chapter of the Professional Writers Association of Canada (PWAC)
Free to PWAC Ottawa members. Cost for non-members: $25 general public or $20 for students/members of writers’ organizations. Early-bird discount: Register online and save an extra $5. Send your name and contact information to pwacottawa@gmail.com by February 22nd. Discount will be applied at the door. Visit http://www.pwacottawa.org
∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞
EAC—NCR SEMINAR SERIES 2011-2012
Date: Various dates as noted
Editors’ Association of Canada offers seminars with a hands-on approach to many facets of copy editing and writing. Editors, writers, and communicators can refine their skills, enhance their knowledge base, and improve their communication expertise with seminars taught by industry experts at the highly regarded National Capital Region Branch seminars.
Upcoming workshops:
- Eight-Step Editing: February 8, 2012, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
- Practical Proofreading: February 22, 2012, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
- Getting Work with the Federal Government: April 14, 2012, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
- Electronic Editing: April 23, 2012, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
- Punctuation and Mechanics: May 7, 2012, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
- The Secrets of Syntax: May 8, 2012, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
NOTE: Space is limited. These workshops are open to everyone. EAC members receive a reduced rate.
REGISTRATION: http://www.editors.ca/branches/ncr/seminars
CONTACT: Pat Patterson, Public Relations, EAC-NCR, prncr@editors.ca
∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞
FOLKTALE, MYTH, FAIRY TALE, DREAMS, URBAN LEGEND: CONTEMPORARY FANTASY
DATE: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 7:00 P.M.
LOCATION: Main Branch, Ottawa Public Library, Metcalfe And Laurier
SPEND A MAGICAL EVENING WITH CHARLES DE LINT chatting and discussing the genre of contemporary/urban fantasy.
Charles de Lint is a full-time writer and musician who lives in Ottawa. With 36 novels and 35 books of short fiction published, he is known as a pioneer and master of the contemporary fantasy genre. Under My Skin, the first book of a new young adult series called The Wildlings is due to be published by Penguin Canada in March 2012. Charles also recently released Old Blue Truck – a music CD of his original story songs.
For more information, visit his Web site at www.charlesdelint.com.
∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞
CAA-NCR WORKSHOP WRITING LIVES WITH CHARLOTTE GRAY
DATE: Saturday, February 25, 2012 9:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m.
LOCATION: Algonquin College, Room T230,
Charlotte will cover both her own life as a writer (schedule, approach to research, organisation etc.) and also the challenge of biographical narrative. She invites workshop participants to bring one paragraph or page of whatever they are writing, for class feedback. This is not mandatory.
Charlotte Gray is one of Canada’s best-known writers, and author of eight acclaimed books of literary non-fiction. Her most recent book is Gold Diggers, Striking It Rich in the Klondike. Her previous seven books were all award-winning bestsellers. Born in Sheffield, England, and educated at Oxford University and the London School of Economics, Charlotte currently chairs the board of Canada’s National History Society, which publishes the magazine Canada’s History (formerly The Beaver.) Charlotte is a member of the Order of Canada and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞
VERSeFest, OTTAWA’S SECOND ANNUAL POETRY FESTIVAL
DATES: FEBRUARY 28 THROUGH MARCH 4 2012
Tickets to VERSeFest, Ottawa’s celebration of page and stage poetry, officially went on sale Wednesday. A Festival pass gives the holder a chance to see some of the best poetry in the country and around the world. Headliners for the Feb 28-Mar 4 festival include the “Summit Reading” – a reading by three top poets from Canada, the United States and Mexico – and a Saturday night concert by American spoken word and hip hop recording artist Ursula Rucker.
Ursula Rucker is the queen of Philadelphia spoken word poetry, and is one of the few poets who is also a leading spoken word artist in the music industry; her mesmerizing voice has appeared with an array of recording artists and producers including King Britt, 4 Hero, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Josh Wink and The Roots. Each was drawn to the soft spoken eloquence and undeterred honesty which have become Rucker’s signature. Described as “strong, vulnerable, wounded and raging,” Rucker is part of a growing movement in the hip-hop and urban music divisions that is slowly adapting its aural sensibilities to women, and her powerful poems tackle the issues and challenges faced by women with a clear-eyed, painful lyricism. Rucker will also be leading an exclusive workshop on spoken word poetry on Sunday, March 4th; for information on how to register visit versefest.ca.
The Festival’s other headline event, the Summit Reading, brings together 2011 Governor General’s Award winner Phil Hall, newly named American Poet Laureate Philip Levine, and Pura López-Colomé, winner of the Xavier Villurrutia Prize (the Mexican equivalent of the GG.) Diverse in style and background, these three poets represent the best of each of their countries, and hearing them all read together will be an historic event. This reading is presented in partnership with the Embassy of the United States and the Ottawa International Writers Festival. Tickets are on sale at www.versefest.ca or in person at Collected Works Bookstore (1242 Wellington Street) and the Manx Pub (370 Elgin Street).
∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞
AWP ANNUAL CONFERENCE
& BOOK FAIR
*A big conference with 400 events and 1,600 presenters by the Association of Writers & Writing Programs.
WHEN: February 29-March 3, 2012
WHERE: The Hilton Chicago and the Palmer House Hilton, Chicago
PRICE: $40 for students who register early; $140-155 for AWP members; $265 for nonmembers who register on site.
For serious writers of literary fiction, literary nonfiction and poetry. Attendance is 9,000. Faculty includes: Jhumpa Lahiri, Junot Diaz and Joyce Carol Oates. Keynote speaker for 2012 is Margaret Atwood.
Panels for 2012 include:
“A Room With a Review: The Art of Literary Criticism”
“The Business of Publishing Your Novel With an Independent Press”
“What About Blog? How Blogging Can Propel Your Career and Polish Your Craft”
For more information: http://www.awpwriter.org/conference/2012awpconf.php
∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞
TWUC WORKSHOP: HOW TO BE YOUR OWN PUBLICIST!
The Writers’ Union of Canada (TWUC) is offering the Professional Development Workshop HOW TO BE YOUR OWN PUBLICIST in Toronto, Winnipeg , Calgary , Vancouver , and Victoria, in February and March of 2012. The workshops take place from 9:30 am to 4:30 pm. For those who can’t attend in one of the participating cities, a 3-hour webinar will be offered, distilling the highlights of the workshop.
Authors Elizabeth Ruth and Ann Douglas will present on traditional but innovative book marketing strategies as well as new media opportunities for writers. Kelly Duffin, Executive Director of The Writers’ Union of Canada, will update participants on the latest evolutions in the publishing landscape.
The price of this symposium is $89.00 and covers costs, including lunch, $75 for members of The Writers’ Union of Canada.
For registration information please go to http://www.writersunion.ca/registration.pdf . Please circulate this information to writers you think might be interested in coming to this event. Space is limited so register today.
∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞
WORLD HORROR CONVENTION
WHEN: March 29-April 1, 2012 with the Bram Stoker Awards Presentation on March 31.
WHERE: The Radisson Hotel Downtown, Salt Lake City
PRICE: TBA; 2011 cost: $110-150, entry to convention and all programming inclusive
For horror professionals ranging from authors to filmmakers to artists. An opportunity to meet agents, publishers and industry professionals. Attendance 300-400.
Special guests for 2012 faculty are: No.1 New York Times bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon; comic book author and illustrator Mike Mignola; urban fantasy author P.N. Elrod.
For more information: http://www.whc2012.org
∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞
THE SOUTHAMPTON CHILDREN’S LITERATURE CONFERENCE
WHEN: July 11-15, 2012
WHERE: Stony Brook University, Southampton, NY
PRICE: Varies, depending on whether participants attend the conference for college credit and whether they’re commuters or residents. The highest price is $1,495, room and board inclusive.
Runs concurrently with a general writers’ conference, a screenwriters’ conference and a playwriters’ conference all at Stony Brook University. Participants are welcome to attend electives from other conference. Attendance: 5 tracks with 12 participants in each. At least one workshop in each of the main children’s writing disciplines: picture books, chapter books, middle-grade novels, and YA.
Past faculty (2011) included Newberry, Caldecott and Coretta Scott King honoree Andrea Davis Pinkney; New York Times bestselling author Chris Barton; middle-grade author Tor Seidler; young-adult author Patricia McCormick; and NY Times bestselling author and illustrator Peter H. Reynolds.
For more information: http://www.stonybrook.edu/writers/children
∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞
CAA-NCR WRITERS RETREAT
Dates: Friday, April 27, through Sunday, April 29, 2012
Location: The Cove Country Inn, Westport, Ontario
Best-selling Author BARBARA KYLE, Workshop Leader, has taught her “Writers Boot Camp” for the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies, and offers twice-yearly Master Classes that focus on workshopping each participant’s novel-in-progress. Visit www.BarbaraKyle.com
Please reserve your rooms directly with the Inn telling them you are attending the Canadian Authors Association – National Capital Region Writers Retreat. Please mention any special dietary needs. 1-888-268-3466 www.coveinn.com
Registration for the workshops is separate. Workshop fees are $150. for Canadian Authors Association members, $185. for non-members. To obtain a brochure and for more information please e-mail Phyllis Bohonis: phyllis.bohonis@sympatico.ca
∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞
RESOURCES
This section is not intended as an endorsement of the resources listed here. It is simply being passed along for your information. You may wish to do your own due diligence on these potential resources.
Bill C-11 has been re-introduced:
http://www.parl.gc.ca/LegisInfo/BillDetails.aspx?Language=E&Mode=1&billId=5134851
Google “Bill C-ll” for lots more info…
Petition…
http://www.ccer.ca/send-a-letter-to-ottawa-to-stop-the-canadian-dmca/
∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞
ONLINE SITES TO HELP PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS!!
EVENTS AT COLLECTED WORKS
1242 WELLINGTON STREET WEST AT HOLLAND
Check Facebook for full details or visit
http://www.collected-works.com/pages/events.htm
Of special interest: “The Industrious Indies” is an events project Collected Works Bookstore has begun to give independent self published authors a chance to display their books and a place the host author events and network. For more information on the project contact Chris Carroll through Facebook or via email
∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞
From: Crystal Smith Subject: New website to promote local authors
I am writing today to tell you about a new website I have created to help local, independent, and self-published authors promote their books.
It is called bibliospace (http://www.bibliospace.ca/). The site includes a detailed listing for each author’s book, consisting of a book summary of up to 250 words, an author bio of up to 150 words, a link to each author’s website, and any additional author contact information (blog, Twitter, Facebook). In addition to the book listing, there is an alphabetical list of authors and a speakers’ bureau that lists authors by community. The latter page is intended to help book clubs, community groups, libraries, and schools get in touch with authors in their own community for readings and speaking engagements.
I have also added an amazon bookstore with direct links to each author’s books, if they are available on amazon. (There is no charge to submit a book, but I will retain any referral fees from the amazon bookstore. Royalties from all sales go to the author, of course.)
I am a marketing writer and self-published author, so I know something of the effort required to market a book. I am hoping that bibliospace will make it easy for people to find and recommend authors from their own community. The site now has seven authors, including myself, with books in categories ranging from poetry and non-fiction to action and children’s.
I would love it if you could spread the word to the members of your association. If you are interested in submitting any of your works, you just need to send an email, as per the steps outlined on the Submit Your Book page. I appreciate any help you can provide in promoting bibliospace. Crystal Smith www.bibliospace.ca Facebook:bibliospace Twitter: @bibliospace
∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞
Publications
|
||||||
|
∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞
Malahat lite
Guidelines for our 2012 Novella Prize:
http://www.malahatreview.ca/contests/novella_contest/info.html
Do you have ties to or live on the East Coast? Submit to our East Coast issue(deadline May 15, 2012)! Full guidelines: http://www.malahatreview.ca/east_coast.html
∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞
Practical and entertaining, Shut Up & write! demystifies the process of writing
Available at your local bookstore or online through indiebound.org, Amazon.com, Barnesandnoble.com, other on-line booksellers, www.redbirdstudio.com or ask your local library.
Published in print and ebook editions.
http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780976474272
http://www.amazon.com/Shut-Up-Write-Judy-Bridges/dp/0976474271
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/shut-up-and-write-judy-bridges/1029158217
Inspires and instructs. Includes coaching on:
• what it takes to be a writer
• techniques for writing fact and fiction
• bringing real and imagined characters to life • organizing thoughts and material
• mastering point of view
• writing “from the inside”
• the “get and give” of critiques
• how to get happily published
• and much more
What they say:
“… a combination of tough-love coaching and humor that inspires and shows you how to become the writer you want to be”
~ Elfrieda Abbe, Publisher – The Writer magazine
“Encouraging, humorous, straight-talking. Shut Up & Write! is one of the best books I’ve read on writing.”
~ Shauna Singh Baldwin. Author of English Lessons. What the Body Remembers, The Tiger Claw, and We Are Not in Pakistan.
“Shut Up & Write! is one of those rare volumes that truly does it all. In addition to being a practical “how-to” guide, the book provides priceless advice on the care and feeding of the Inner Writer. Laced with wit and common sense, Judy Bridges serves as her own best example of what excellent writing can be.”
~ Marilyn L. Taylor, Poet Laureate, State of Wisconsin
“Judy Bridges is a driving force behind the many writers she has helped. If you want to write, do yourself a favor, buy this book and follow her advice. You will not only write, you will succeed.”
~ John Lehman, Founder of Rosebud Magazine and literary editor of Wisconsin People & Ideas
About the Author:
Judy Bridges is one of the few people who can say, “Shut Up and Write!” in a way that makes you smile. A renowned mentor and coach, she earned her living as a writer before founding Redbird writing center in Milwaukee, WI, where she taught (and learned from) over 6,000 aspiring and accomplished writers of all ages. She shares her wisdom with a no-nonsense, humorous voice that makes writing accessible and reading her book a joy.
∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞
Online Writing Classes
FanStory.com is a writing site founded in 2000.
On this writing community all posts receive feedback from writers and readers. Feedback includes a detailed comment on the posted work and a rating. The site uses a six star ratings scale with “1” being the worst and “6” being the best.
Writers are ranked based on the feedback they receive. Separate rankings are available for Poets, Novelists, Short Works (short stories and essays) and Script Writers (television and other forms of screenplays). Trophies are rewarded to the top five writers in each of the individual rankings at the end of the year.
The site recognizes writing with “Recognized”, “All Time Best” and “Seal of Quality” levels. Each level is more difficult to receive with the final level determined by the Seal of Quality committee. The committee is made up of published authors and stand-out reviewers. They offer feedback to help writers get published.
The site features free writing contests with cash prizes. Site members also have the ability to create their own contests to challenge other writers to write about a specific topic or a specific form of writing (such as writing using specific poetry format).
The welcome page includes featured writing. It also includes writing that has been well received in the past 24 hours.
Each day over 200 stories and poems are posted. Over 7,000 comments are written on the writing posted daily. Writers keep full copyright to their posted work.
∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞
THE BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO EBOOKS
All you need to know about ebooks: how to read them,
the different ebook formats, choosing an ebook reader,
and where to find the best specials and free ebooks.
http://www.EbookIntroduction.com
∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞
50 CITY & STATE MAGAZINE MARKETS
$6.99. Download in PDF Format.
Would you like to work as a freelance writer for regional magazines? Most city and state magazines work with freelancers and typically cover a wide range of topics – including arts, business, dining, entertainment, fashion, finance, health, home and garden,
lifestyle, recreation, sports, and travel.
We searched through our Markets Plus database of publications and compiled this list of more than 50 city magazines and state magazines in USA and Canada that purchase material from freelance writers.
It is not an exhaustive list of all of the regional publications but lists fifty magazines (actually 57!) that publish their writer’s guidelines online.
For further details and to download this list today see: http://goo.gl/XRjjL
∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞
*****BYLINE HAS A NEW COLUMN IN THE THINK TANK *****
If we get enough response, we’ll be launching a Q&A-type regular feature in Byline, complete with cutesy names for the questioners, and answers by our expert and not-so-expert members. (Example for a not-so-expert member to answer: “I got ripped off by one of those so-called publishers. Is it legal to diss them in my Blog? Please say yes.” — signed, $10K Poorer) A suggested name is “Members in the Know”. Still in the Think-Tank stage, we aren’t sure if one member will handle it — rephrase that: we’ve cornered one of our members into thinking about handling it; whether the questions will be fielded as separate articles to members-in-the-know by a coordinator (the cornered member); or whether the idea will see daylight at all. Contact Sherrill Wark, Byline editor, at sherrill_caa@crowecreations.ca with your questions and cutesy names. We need your real name but won’t print it unless you insist. It’s all about Members Helping Members. If we get a good response, it’ll be a go.
****Remember to check out writing-related services offered by our members at our CAA-NCR website http://www.canauthors-ottawa.org/hire-a-member.shtml
∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞
Writers Digest
∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞
Worldwide Freelance Writer
http://www.worldwidefreelance.com
∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞
WritingRaw.com
February Issue
Let the world know about WritingRaw.com and
all the good things we do for up-and-coming writers.
Thank you everyone for the show of support these last few weeks. The submissions to WritingRaw.com have been amazing. As you will notice we have changed format again based on some of the suggestions we received. The site has a much sleeker design, better online font, no more “Like” buttons or other outside forces that have slowed the site down in the past. We have gone back to basics… concentrating on the written work and the promotion of it.
Besides fiction, poetry, essays and other various forms of writing, we would also like:
- 500 words or less essays about your struggle to write or published in the traditional sense (put Struggle in the subject line of the email)
- 500 words or less essays about your struggle to write or published in the traditional sense (put Struggle in the subject line of the email)
- Books to Promote between stories, poems and articles (we are closing the Bookstore and placing these book promotions on every page everyone can see them) Send us a jpeg of the cover, a brief synopsis, and ordering information with the actual link (put Promotion in the subject line of the email)
- Artists to highlight monthly: If you are interested, please send 5 jpegs with a short bio – and be sure to include any links you would like to appear (put Art in the subject line)
Send any of these to Weeb at weeb@writingraw.com
Again, thanks to everyone for your show of support – either through submissions or comments. So now it’s up to YOU to SPREAD THE WORD: Don’t let us die! Let the world know about WritingRaw and all the good and positive things we do for up-and-coming writers.
The Staff of WritingRaw.com
_____
In the February issue:
FICTION:
- 2061 by J A Williams: What will the world look like after 50 years of Global Warming? And when THE BIG ONE hits the West Coast, what will remain? This is a microcosm of one possible future for mankind… Unless we wake up!
- Burgermen by Alan Zacher: Tom Mayor is being threaten by the manager of a grocery store for quitting and not giving two-weeks notice. For two weeks, the manager terrorizing Tom by phone, and then shows-up at his mom and dad’s home at 2 a.m. with a gun.
- Coming of Age at Brighton Beach by Vivian Conejero: In 1970s Brooklyn, a sheltered and shy Latin American teenager ventures to the beach by herself, the year she turns eighteen. By the end of her visit to Brighton Beach, she realizes that she is no longer a child.
- Empath by Sabrina Sumsion: When a woman can feel the emotions of others, she must learn to insulate herself from the outside world. When the violent world comes to her, she fights against the inevitable to save another’s life.
- Fishing Story by Billy Rutter: Like most fishing stories, life at times makes it difficult to decipher fact from fiction and is often riddled with disappointment that goes unseen. A masterfully crafted narrative, “My Fishing Story” is about a boy who discovers lower lifeforms and a man in search of a higher power.
- Hackademic by Ian Boulton: Roy teaches investigative journalism to a large group of international students at a London university. News has been his life but to the young people he teaches he is an anachronism, a figure from history. How can he cope when keeping up-to-date has been both his profession and his passion but every day brings fresh evidence that the world is passing him by?
- Population One by David Bridge: In the middle of a desert, in a country far from home, Andrew Finsbury puts the finishing touches to his business, which looks set to make him a millionaire. But will he overcome the prying state bureaucrat who has the power to turn his dream to dust?
- Olde Camden Road by Robert Welsh: Sean Garrity lives a quiet if unfulfilling life in the town where he grew up in rural Pennsylvania. But fate intervenes one evening when he finds himself exploring an allegedly haunted road in a remote part of the county. Olde Camden Road developed a notorious reputation with the locals over the decades as an area rife with paranormal occurrence. Like many, Sean ignored the legends as he grew up and busied himself with everyday things. But tonight he is going to discover the road’s deepest secrets and the truth will change him forever — if he can survive til morning.
- Sidestep by Alessandra Siraco: Childhood was always fun, until you thought of getting older. Mark and his sister Jessie, in the midst of contemplating clouds and forts, wonder what happens when you grow up and need to leave childhood behind–and they wonder why a strange couple is standing on their grandfather’s backyard hill.
- The Fairy and the Princess by Katie Alford: A harmless fairy prank goes wrong leaving Alyn in the power of a very angry human court. But that proves not to be the worst event of the day.
- The Raggedies by Tom Sheehan: Young Thornwell didn’t have a hint at what “The Book” was, though the other town kids in the group he had enlisted in, these new friends of his, spoke of it with admiration, love, and whatever else was coming at him that he couldn’t figure out. It had drawn him in because they seemed to be on fire every time they talked about it, “The Book.” In time, the sheriff learned the whole story about “The Book,” and the young west trying its best.
- The Staircase by Gibson Culbreth: After a disappointing evening Courtney and Eric find themselves stuck in a stairwell. The unlikely pair try to mend their unraveling lives through cigarettes and screaming.
- Woodland Stalker by Kristopher Miller: Ben Matthews is hunting moose in the frozen wilderness of Canada. When he finds his prey, he finds something else that takes it… something that will hunt Matthews deeper into the woods. What is hunting him is far more ferocious, cunning, and terrifying than any wild animal he’s ever seen.
REALLY BAD SHAKESPEARE
NEW!
Season 3, Episodes 3: Give Me My Robe, Put On My Crown
POETRY:
- Brine by Allegra Freund
- Cottonwood by Scott Lutz
- Do I Have A Right? by Susan M. Bell
- Endless Conception by Matt Panetta
- My Pen by Chris Birrane
- Now Until Forever by Matt Panetta
- On The Road Beyond the Midnight Passion by Matt Panetta
- Pandora’s Box by John Ernest Giffard
- That Cezanne Girl by Joseph Grant
- The Infinite Ecstasy by Juliette Beswick Pokletar
- Times Square by Jordan Elizabeth Mierek
- Until He Came by Elaine Rosenberg Miller
ASSORTED:
- Artist of the Month: Jason Denaro
- Humour Is A Funny Thing by John Joyce: Humour is a funny thing don’t you think? Everyone has an opinion on humour, and say have a sense of humour and like a good laugh. It even has its own memory since we gladly recall funny situations years later.
- Lost & Found in Ohio by Steve Myers: A search for a lost mother and lost time.
- Sagging Middles: The Intimidating Space between Beginnings and Endings. AND… Plot Outlines: Who Could Ever Remember The Machinations of These Weird Characters? by Milton Trachtenburg: Imagine that two of your favorite characters from fairy tales become a writer and an agent. In a blending of what I imagine to be their personalities with the content that a writer and an agent might discuss, Little Red Writing Hood, a agent of sterling reputation discusses sagging middles with her client—surly, egotistical yet somewhat skillful writer, Big Bad Word Wolf. If there is a lesson to be learned here it may be that every writer can benefit from learning the rules of the writing road…as well as table manners if he happens to revert to his true persona.
- Shylock in the Twenty-First Century by Christopher Nagle: Nearly 67 years after the end of The Holocaust, Jews are still the most widely and vehemently loathed ethnic minority on the planet. The geography and cultural setting for this has changed, but its intensity now threatens the global order. What is to become of these extraordinary people, and the attitude of their neighbors towards them, as this undoubtedly convulsive century unfolds?
- What I Seen by Derek Frazier: In the Piney Woods of East Texas, there is no difference between faith and reason. Perception is reality, even when the subject is a hairy cryptid denied existence by mainstream science and traditional religious beliefs.
7 QUESTION INTERVIEWS:
- Joe Haldeman: SciFi author currently working on the Marsbound series. Current release: Earthbound
- Ed Kovacs: Author of Storm Damage (his current novel) and Unseen Forces
- Margaret Maron: Author of the Sigrid Harald and the Judge Deborah Knott series. Current release: Three-Day Town
- Kyle Mills: New York Times bestselling author of twelve books, including the latest in Robert Ludlum’s Covert-One series, The Ares Decision. Current release: The Immortalists
- Jonas Saul: Author of the Sarah Roberts and the Drake Bellamy series. Current release: The Kill
- REPRINTED: 7 Question Interview with Literary Agent: Lucinda Blumenfeld
RIB RAW
BOOK REVIEWS
Give us a look, am sure you will like what you see and read. If you have an interest in being part of WritingRaw.com, please visit the site and do a little exploring. Am sure we have a niche for just about everyone and anything. Thank you.
Weeb
The Writing Pool 