Browsing Archive: January, 2017
Posted by Sally Clark on Tuesday, January 31, 2017,
Wild Plum Haiku Contest
One haiku
in English per person. Your entry must be original, unpublished, and not
currently under consideration by any publication.
Please
send your entry by e-mail: wildplumcontest@gmail.com with”WPHC 2017” in subject
line. Please include your name and location (city, country).
Deadline: 1 March 2017
Prizes :
diplomas for the winners.
Judge:
Maria Tomczak
The participation
is free and open to public.
R...
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Posted by Sally Clark on Monday, January 30, 2017,
The Sun Magazine Readers Write Column: The First Year
Readers
Write column asks readers to address subjects on which they're the only
authorities. Topics are intentionally broad in order to give room for
expression. Writing style isn't as important as thoughtfulness and sincerity.
We
publish only nonfiction in Readers Write. Feel free to submit your work under
"Name Withheld" if it allows you to be more honest...
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Posted by Sally Clark on Sunday, January 29, 2017,
The Cresset: A review of literature, the arts, and public affairs
We
publish essays, poetry, and reviews, not fiction. The Editor reviews all
manuscripts, and sends a selection of them to members of an Advisory Board,
consisting of faculty members at Valparaiso University.
\Our
writers are scattered across the country, and represent a number of
professions, though college teachers are probably the largest group. We do
accept unsolicited manuscri...
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Posted by Sally Clark on Friday, January 27, 2017,
Boyds Mill Press
Boyds
Mill Press is owned by Highlights for Children. They are an award winning
publisher of children’s books. The best way to get a feeling for what they
publish is by reviewing their catalog. If you are considering submitting a
picture book, review the picture books. If you are considering submitting a
book of poetry, review their poetry selection. Their catalog is organized by
category. I would also encourage you to check...
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Posted by Sally Clark on Thursday, January 26, 2017,
Utmost Christian Writers Annual Poetry Contest
Utmost
Christian Writers Foundation exists to encourage and support poets of Christian
faith by providing them with resources and awards, and to promote the creation
of excellent poetry by Christians.
Deadline: February 28, 2017.
Christian writers are invited to compete for $3,000 in cash prizes, including a
grand prize of $1,000, a second prize of $500, 10 ho...
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Posted by Sally Clark on Thursday, January 26, 2017,
Christian
Writers Group of San Antonio
Take the Indie World by Storm!
Join us
Saturday, February 25, for a one-day workshop that will give you the tools and
insight you need to bring your book through the doors of independent publishing
and put it into the hands of readers!
Our
presenters are 4 accomplished authors from the Writers on the Storm ACFW
chapter. Show up for the Writers on the Storm, an...
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Posted by Sally Clark on Tuesday, January 24, 2017,
Highland Park 2017 Poetry Challenge
Who may
participate: Amateurs, semi-professionals, professionals and students of all
ages are
invited
to submit original poetry in response to the 2017 Poetry Challenge. This year Highland Park Poetry challenges
poets to write a response to one of the following prompts:
(1) Prairie
& Pioneers (in honor of the 150th anniversary of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s birth)
(2) The
Secret ...
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Posted by Sally Clark on Monday, January 23, 2017,
Winding Path Publications
Winding
Path Publications is an independent traditional publishing house based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. We know that extraordinary books
can be made anywhere; it's just a matter of finding the story through the trees.
Winding
Path Publications is currently looking for picture books, middle grade, and
young adult novels. To submit, please fill out the form on the website. We try
our best to review queries in ...
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Posted by Sally Clark on Sunday, January 22, 2017,
Weird Sisters: Lilac City Fairy Tales Volume 3
Please
submit your original polished short fiction, poetry, comics, and creative
non-fiction based on the theme of "Weird Sisters" for inclusion in
our third Lilac City Fairy Tales Anthology, with all proceeds benefiting Spark
Central. Fiction and creative non-fiction should be no longer than 1,200 words
in length, and poets should submit no more than three poems. The deadline for
submissions is ...
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Posted by Sally Clark on Saturday, January 21, 2017,
Saturday Evening Post Limerick Laughs Contest
Wanna
join the fun? Submit your limerick!
The Saturday Evening Post will award $25 to the author of the winning limerick about the 1928 cover illustration by Penrhyn Stanlaws above. Limericks must contain five
lines. You may enter as many times as you wish.
To enter,
fill out the entry form on their web site. Entries must be submitted by February 25, 2017. The winning ...
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Posted by Sally Clark on Friday, January 20, 2017,
Big Bend Productions: Love is in the Air
Now
taking submissions for romance anthology of poems, short stories, and artwork.
Deadline: February 23, 2017.
Must be love
and romance related.
Poems
cannot be more than two pages long.
Short
stories can not be longer than 7,500 words.
Authors
do not receive royalties
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Posted by Sally Clark on Thursday, January 19, 2017,
Poetry Society of South Carolina Spring Contest
Deadline: Feb. 15, 2017.
Five
categories for nonmembers to enter including: Charleston, any subject, childhood, love/marriage,
and theater.
Prizes
range from $50 - $200, one prize for each category.
Entry fee
is $5 per poem. All winning poems are published.
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Posted by Sally Clark on Wednesday, January 18, 2017,
Arthur A. Levine Books
Arthur A. Levine Books publishes hardcover
literary fiction and nonfiction for children and teenagers (and discerning
adults). We look for strong writing, beautiful artwork, authentic emotion, and
ideas or perspectives we haven't seen before, and we greatly enjoy working with
debut authors and illustrators. Submit:
Picture Books: Query letter + the full text
Novels: Query letter + the first two chapters
+ s...
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Posted by Sally Clark on Wednesday, January 18, 2017,
The William D. Barney Memorial Chapbook Contest, 2017
From the
Fort Worth Poetry Society, in cooperation with the Poetry Society of Texas.
The
contest will honor deceased Fort Worth poetry William D. Barney, one of the
most distinguished poets fort Worth has produced, a former member of
FWPS, and past president of the Poetry Society of Texas. He won the national
Robert Frost Award in 1961 and was Tex...
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Posted by Sally Clark on Tuesday, January 17, 2017,
Ruminate Magazine: Chewing on Life, Faith, and Art
William Van Dyke Short Story Prize
Ruminate
is an award-winning quarterly literary arts print magazine engaging the
Christian faith. Ruminate publishes poetry, short stories, photography, visual
art reproductions, short fiction, memoir, creative nonfiction, essays, reviews,
and interviews. We accept online submissions year-round. Ruminate also sponsors
four contests each year--our...
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Posted by Sally Clark on Sunday, January 15, 2017,
Missouri State Poetry Society
Winter Contest 2017
Deadline: Postmarked February 13, 2017
Poems may
be 40 or fewer lines. They may be unpublished or previously published if the
poet retains the rights to the poem. Poets may enter each category as many
times as they wish. No poems will be returned.
Categories:
* Rhymed
verse or blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter), any subject, serious or
humorous
* Free
verse, any subject, serious or h...
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Posted by Sally Clark on Sunday, January 15, 2017,
Johnson City, TX, Library 9th Annual
Writers Conference
Johnson
City Library is proud to announce its 9th consecutive annual Writers Conference
sponsored by the Johnson City Library Friends of the Library. This year’s theme
is “Agents, Editors and Authors”. The conference is Wednesday, February 22nd,
at the First United Methodist Church in Johnson City, 105 N. LBJ Dr.
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Posted by Sally Clark on Saturday, January 14, 2017,
Utah State Poetry Society
Postmark deadline: Feb. 1, 2017
Entry
fee: $10 plus $2 per poem for poem no longer than 40 lines
Prizes
range from $10 to $75. 31 categories for nonmembers to enter on a wide variety
of themes and forms.
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Posted by Sally Clark on Friday, January 13, 2017,
Spirit First Poetry Contest
Deadline: January 31, 2017 (received
by)
NO ENTRY
FEE
Spirit
First is pleased to announce its 8th Annual Meditation Poetry Contest. Poetry
submissions may be of any length and any style but must have a theme of
Meditation or Mindfulness. Poems may reflect any discipline, any faith, or
none. Poems must be previously unpublished. Poems not on the themes of
meditation, mindfulness, stillness, or sacre...
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Posted by Sally Clark on Thursday, January 12, 2017,
Poetry Society of Virginia
Prizes -
$20 to $100
22
categories - formal or free verse, sonnets, friends or friendship, farm life,
limericks, heroism, women, nature, birds, for children, bereavement, sestinas,
ekphrastic, & more.
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Posted by Sally Clark on Wednesday, January 11, 2017,
The Found Poetry Review
Give us
your poems made up of lines from newspaper articles, instruction booklets,
dictionaries, toothpaste boxes, biographies, Craigs list posts, speeches, other
poems and any other text-based source. Only found poems will be considered for
publication; we regret we cannot publish “original” poems, regardless of
quality.
With some
exceptions, our editors look for submissions:
*Whose
form demonstrate...
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Posted by Sally Clark on Monday, January 9, 2017,
Tea Time: Writing Our Leaves and Our Lives Workshop
Explore
the tasty partnership of tea, story, poetry and writing—in this special writing
workshop with author Megan Willome. Limit 10 participants. Registration will open on January 4. Class
begins February 6, 2017.
Do you
drink tea—either occasionally, or like your life depends upon it?
Sometimes
life is hard. Sometimes it leaves you on the g...
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Posted by Sally Clark on Sunday, January 8, 2017,
The Emily Stauffer Poetry Prize
Apogee,
the journal at Franklin College in Indiana, runs a national contest (only $5
per packet of 2 poems with a $200 prize), accepting both unpublished or
previously poems.
Maximum
of 2 pages per poem. Each submission is $5, with no limit to the number of
entries. Previous entries will be accepted. The winner will receive $200 and
two copies of the journal. Submissions in ...
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Posted by Sally Clark on Sunday, January 8, 2017,
Anaiah Press: A Mighty Presence
Anaiah
Press is a Christian digital-first publishing house dedicated to presenting
quality faith-based fiction and nonfiction books to the public. Our Christian
beliefs are reflected in the way we conduct business and in our relationships
with our employees and authors. All books published by Anaiah Press are
faith-based. We strive to publish books that convey a Christian message,
explicit or implied, through ...
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Posted by Sally Clark on Friday, January 6, 2017,
Tennessee Mountain Writers Contest for
Adult Writers
Fiction - 3,000 words maximum. Short
story or novel portion (any selected section, for adults or youths). Please
indicate "short story" or "novel excerpt" on the
manuscript.
Children’s Literature - 1,500 words maximum (fiction,
nonfiction, poetry, etc.) written FOR children.
NOTE: Novel portions written for adolescents/young people should be
entered in Fiction category.
Inspirational - 2,000 ...
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Posted by Sally Clark on Friday, January 6, 2017,
The First Line Literary Journal Quarterly Contest
This is a
quarterly contest in which you use the first line prompt they provide to write
your story of 300 to 5,000 words. The editors are open to all genres and try to
pick as eclectic a group of winners as possible. There is no entry fee.
The next deadline is February 1, 2017. The first line of the story must
be: “Eddie
tended to drift into whatever jobs were available that would p...
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Posted by Sally Clark on Thursday, January 5, 2017,
The Sun Magazine Readers Write Column: Accomplishments
Readers
Write column asks readers to address subjects on which they're the only authorities.
Topics are intentionally broad in order to give room for expression. Writing
style isn't as important as thoughtfulness and sincerity.
We
publish only nonfiction in Readers Write. Feel free to submit your work under
"Name Withheld" if it allows you to be more hone...
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Posted by Sally Clark on Tuesday, January 3, 2017,
Silver Birch Press: Me at 17
As we
approach the New Year, thoughts turn to the number 17 — especially as it
relates to that age in our lives. Frank Sinatra sang “when I was 17…” in “It
Was a Very Good Year,” Janis Ian sings about it in “At Seventeen,” Arthur Rimbaud’s poem “Novel,” explores what
happens at 17, and poet Larry Levis wrote “The Poet at Seventeen....
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Posted by Sally Clark on Tuesday, January 3, 2017,
Dream Quest One Poetry & Writing Contest
The Dream
Quest One Poetry & Writing Contest is open to anyone who loves arranging
words into the beautiful literary art of poetry or writing a story that is
worth telling everyone! Write a poem, 30 lines or fewer on any subject or write
a short story, 5 pages maximum length on any theme for a chance to win cash
prizes. Writing Prizes: $500, $250, $100. Poetry Prizes: $250, $125, $50. Entry
fees: $5 per poe...
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Posted by Sally Clark on Monday, January 2, 2017,
Snapshot Press Haiku Calendar Competition
Entries should be
emailed or postmarked by January 31, 2017.
Prizes -
£360/US $600 total prize money.
12 haiku
will be selected as monthly winners and will be published prominently in The
Haiku Calendar 2018. The prize money will be divided equally between the 12
winners. 40 additional haiku will be selected as runners-up and these will also
be published in the calendar. Ent...
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Posted by Sally Clark on Monday, January 2, 2017,
Providence
Providence publishes widely on matters
intersecting Christian faith and theology with national security and foreign
policy, international relations, political theory, defense, war, terrorism,
global economy, energy, etc. Website: We prefer to publish 500-1,000 words but
are willing to publish longer pieces so long as they are highly readable. Print
journal: Book Reviews: 800-1,200; Essays: 1,500-3,000; Lead features:
3,250-4,000. Website pay...
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Posted by Sally Clark on Monday, January 2, 2017,
2018 Young Explorer’s Adventure Anthology
http://dreamingrobotpress.com/young-explorers-adventure-guide-submissions
We’re
looking for stories that:
Have a main character that a middle grade
reader (ages 8-12) can identify with;
Show a diverse set of real characters;
Are well written, fun to read and encourage
a love of reading science fiction;
Tell of adventure, space, science. Give us rockets, robots and alien encounters,
and we’re pretty happy. Steampunk...
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Posted by Sally Clark on Monday, January 2, 2017,
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Stories about Dogs
http://chickensoup.com
We are working on and collecting stories and poems for
another wonderful book about our dogs. The focus of this book will be on
rescued dogs that were adopted from shelters or rescue organizations and who
luckily found their forever homes. Whether adopted as puppies or adopted as
older dogs in the last few years of their lives, what amazing stories of
survival our dogs could tell us. We love these heartwarming and i...
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Posted by Sally Clark on Monday, January 2, 2017,
Noctua Review: Southern Connecticut State University’s graduate
literary journal
Noctua
Review is accepting previously unpublished short fiction, poetry, and artwork between October 1st, 2016 and January 31st, 2017. Any submissions received outside
our reading period will go unread. We do not consider non-fiction or
translations at the present time.
Please
include a short, third-person bio along with your submission.
Simultaneous
s...
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Posted by Sally Clark on Monday, January 2, 2017,
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Stories about Cats
We are working on and collecting stories and poems for
another wonderful book about our cats. The focus of this book will be on
rescued cats that were adopted from shelters or rescue organizations and who luckily
found their forever homes. Whether adopted as kittens or adopted as older cats
in the last few years of their lives, what amazing stories of survival our cats
could tell us. We love these heartwarming and i...
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Posted by Sally Clark on Monday, January 2, 2017,
San Pedro River Review Literary
Journal
Submission period: January
1st to January
31st, 2017
Theme:
"Back Roads & Byways".
We look
for the intersections of lives and landscapes as they occur along, astride, or
in some vicinity to literal back roads and byways. We leave geographical and
topological definitions of such roads and their regions up to potential
submitters, as we would delineations between cities and towns that fall under
their purvie...
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Posted by Sally Clark on Monday, January 2, 2017,
Wordrunner Echapbooks: Breaking Barriers
"The
next echapbook (our 30th!) will be a themed collection by multiple authors. Submissions open
December 1, 2016, and close January 30, 2017. We are looking for original
fiction, memoir, and poetry about breaking barriers or pushing against
boundaries." NB: "Work should not have been previously published with
this exception: If you are submitting poems, at least one submission to the
anthology issue should...
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Like finding shells on the beach, I love doing market research! And what I find, I love to share! I write in a variety of genres including children's, Christian, poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, so these post follow along those lines. Check out my web site: www.sallyclark.info, for more about me.