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Also on the website is the submission call for the next issue. Get to it!
To be judged by Fence Books editors, with a cash prize of $1000 & Spring 2011 publication by Fence Books. Manuscripts remain anonymous until a winner is selected.
General Terms:
* Poet must be a woman
* Entry form must accompany each submission (go to http://fence.fenceportal.org/contest/mo
* Entry fee of $25 must accompany each submission; make check payable to Fence Magazine, Inc. Fee entitles entrant to a choice of one year subscription to Fence (to begin with the Spring 2010 issue) or a copy of the winning book. Send 8 x 10 SASE with postage good for up to 1 lb., media mail or first class, your choice, if you choose the book. Multiple submissions are acceptable, but each manuscript must be entered under separate cover, with entry form and entry fee
* Please let us know immediately if your manuscript is accepted by another publisher while under our consideration
* No revisions to submitted manuscripts will be considered; the winning manuscript may be revised before publication
* Translations ineligible
Manuscript Requirements:
* between 48 and 80 pages, paginated
* bound with a removable clip and nothing more
* one cover page with title of manuscript only; entry form (pdf) will be used for identification. No other cover letter necessary. Manuscripts submittted without anonymous cover page will be discarded.
* no acknowledgements page
Notification:
* Enclose an SAS-Postcard for confirmation of receipt of manuscript
* Enclose an SASE for notification of winner if you wish; email announcements will be sent out.
* Do not enclose an SASE for return of manuscript; all manuscripts will be recycled at end of contest term
* International entrants will be notified by email; those who choose the winning book must include an IRC
* TELL US IF YOU MOVE. Send new address to: fence.fencebooks@gmail.com.
Deadline:
Envelope must be postmarked on or between November 1st of 2009 and November 30th of 2009.
Mail manuscript, entry form, and entry fee to:
Motherwell Prize,
Fence Books
Science Library 320
University at Albany
1400 Washington Avenue
Albany, NY 12222
Submission Guidelines
We are looking for original works of genre fiction (science fiction/fantasy/mystery/romance) that feature a person of color and/or LGBT as the central character. We are tentatively accepting stories featuring characters with disabilities, but that is subject to the character not magically being healed. Book-length manuscripts must be at least 250 pages, and short stories cannot be over 100 pages. All manuscripts must be double-spaced, in 12-point font (Times New Roman, Courier, etc.) in black text, and must be a Word/OpenOffice-compatible document. We ask that you insert a header with your name and the first two words of the title at the top of each page. Please do not send them as read-only files, as that will make any editing more difficult.
We are also accepting poems in traditional and experimental styles with a maximum of 10 pages. The same formatting rules will apply.
Personal and critical essays are also welcome as long as they are within the aforementioned themes. Poetry, essays and short stories may be subject to inclusion in anthologies depending upon the number of submissions fitting a specific theme.
There will be (approximately) a 6-8 week turnaround time in which submissions will be reviewed and a decision will be made as to whether or not we will be publishing your manuscript. Payment will be dependent upon sales, as each published author will receive a percentage of the sales price.
There is no need to submit a query letter, nor do we require you to have an agent, but we do want a brief synopsis of the plot for longer manuscripts. Please send all submissions to verb.noire@gmail.com.
We will accept works from white authors as long as the central characters are of color and/or LGBT.
We are especially looking for your best young adult and independent reader submissions. Don't be afraid to be different. It doesn't have to be vampires, werewolves, witches, wizards, or about rich spoiled teens. In fact, we'd prefer it if you avoid those tropes unless you're doing something totally new with them. Don't be afraid to create new tropes or utilize ones that have no European connections. We're doing something totally new here, so don't be afraid to branch out and do something totally new in your writing.
Fabulous Essential is the first chapbook of poems from Niina Pollari. Niina's poems jump from the river and walk on land, live in the sky and eat you alive (you'll be grateful for it, promise). ( Read this gem from the chapbook and see what I mean: )
Hate to say I told you so!
$6 (shipping included)
The Birdwisher is a novella about a girl, a pigeon-detective and a murderous mystery. Written after Dashiell Hammet's "Dead Yellow Woman," this debut book from Anna Joy Springer (Blatz, Cypher in the Snow, The Gr'ups, Sister Spit) is beautifully illustrated throughout by Sam McWilliams. Strange, grotesque, noir and rendered in gorgeous inventive prose, The Birdwisher is the first book from Birds of Lace.
Anna Joy Springer is a writer and artist who used to sing in the punk bands Blatz, The Gr'ups and Cypher in the snow. She received her MFA in Artibus Elegantibus from Brown University and is currently Assistant Professor of Writing in UC San Diego's Department of Literature. Her teaching and writing interests include: graphic texts, experimental prose, women in punk rock, feminist ethics, Buddhism, and alternative writing workshop pedagogies. Recent writing is published in Encyclopedia: A-E & F-k. She lives in San Diego with her Llhasa Apso, Ruby. You can writer her at ajspring@ucsd.edu.
Sam McWilliams has a BFA with high distinction from in painting and drawing from CCAC. She works as a tattoo artist in San Francisco. You will most often find her tattooing, drawing, surfing, meditating or bird-watching in Golden Gate Park. For tattooing and illustration contact Sam at samtattoo@gmail.com.
( Read the prologue & see one of the many illustrations from the book here )
108 pgs.
8.5" x 5.5"
Printed on recyled paper with soy-based inks
U.S. Orders: $15 (includes shipping)
Int'l Orders: $18 (includes shipping)
email birdsoflace@gmail.com to send checks/well-concealed cash
*please add $2 to your order if ordering more than one copy
During the month of October, Tarpaulin Sky Press will be reading full-length
manuscripts of poetry, fiction, and cross-genre work. Manuscripts should be
postmarked between October 1 and October 31, 2009. There is no need to query
first; simply mail the manuscript according to the directions below.
Send one copy of your manuscript along with two copies of the title page
(note: the reading process is not "blind"--we ask for two title pages only
so that we may keep one with the manuscript, and the other for
reference/notes, etc). Be sure that your title pages include your name,
address, telephone number, and email address.
Cover letters are read with interest. We like to know who your are, what
you're up to, and where we can read more of your work.
We do accept simultaneous submissions but ask that you let us know
immediately if your manuscript is accepted elsewhere. Individual pieces from
the manuscript may have been previously published in magazines, anthologies,
and short-run chapbooks, but the collection as a whole must be unpublished.
Manuscripts will not be returned. Please do not send us your only copy.
Writers who have not been published in our literary journal should include a
$20 reading fee in the form of a check or a money order made payable to
Tarpaulin Sky Press. Past contributors to Tarpaulin Sky may submit their
manuscript with a $10 reading fee. Current subscribers to Tarpaulin Sky
Press do not need to include a reading fee (you've already done plenty to
support the press--thank you). Everyone submitting a manuscript is welcome
also to choose from any TSky Press trade paperback (sorry, no
chapbooks)--just let us know which title you would like, and enclose with
your submission packet a 9x12, self-addressed, stamped envelope with $2.64
in postage. We will ship the books separately from your notification SASE.
Mail your submission to
Tarpaulin Sky Press
PO Box 189
Grafton, VT 05146
For notification of decisions, include a business-size SASE. If you would
like to receive acknowledgment of the receipt of your manuscript, please
include a stamped, self-addressed postcard. Notification of decisions will
be made in February 2010. Publication of accepted manuscripts will be in
2010 & 2011.
If you are not familiar with our press and the type of books that we
publish, we encourage you to explore our work before submitting, by
purchasing one of our titles.
Summer Literary Seminars is announcing its annual unified (Montreal, Lithuania and Kenya) literary contest, held this year in affiliation with Fence Magazine. We are thrilled this year to have Mary Gaitskill judging the fiction, and Mary Jo Bang judging the poetry.
Contest winners in the categories of fiction and poetry will have their work published in Fence, as well as the participating literary journals in Canada, Lithuania and Kenya. Additionally, they will have the choice of attending (airfare, tuition, and housing included) any one of the SLS-2010 programs – in Montreal, Quebec (June 13 - 27); Vilnius, Lithuania (August 1 - 14); or Nairobi-Lamu, Kenya (December).
Second-place winners will receive a full tuition waiver for the program of their choice, and third-place winners will receive a 50% tuition discount.
A number of select contest participants, based on the overall strength of their work, will be offered tuition scholarships, as well, applicable to the SLS-2010 programs.
Contest Deadline: February 28, 2010.
Poetry Judge: Mary Jo Bang is professor of English and director of the Creative Writing Program at Washington University. Her fifth book, "Elegy," won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and she is also the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and Guggenheim Fellowship, among others. Her work has appeared in many journals including The Paris Review, The New Yorker,The New Republic, Denver Quarterly and Harvard Review.
Fiction Judge: Mary Gaitskill is an author of essays, short stories and novels. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Esquire, The Best American Short Stories and The O. Henry Prize Stories (1998). She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002 and a PEN/Faulkner Award nomination for Because They Wanted To in 1998. "Veronica" (2005) was a National Book Award nominee, as well as a National Book Critics Circle finalist. Her story "Secretary" was the basis for the film of the same name.
The complete guidelines for the 2009 contests are as follows:
One short story or novel excerpt, maximum 25 pages per entry.
No more than three poems per entry.
Only previously unpublished work can be submitted.
Entries can be submitted electronically, to: SLS Fiction Poetry Contest: sls.contest@gmail.com
A $15 US reading fee must accompany each entry. Multiple entries are permissible, as long as they are accompanied by separate reading fees.
Fees can paid paid online, via Paypal, or to the address below, by cheque.
Click this button to pay the $15 (USD) Contest Fee.
NOTE: Online submissions and payments are much preferred, but if you would rather submit the hard copy and pay by cheque, the address is below:
Summer Literary Seminars
Literary Contest
English Department
Concordia University
1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W.
Montreal, Quebec H3G 1M8 Canada
Include your complete contact information (address, telephone, email address) on the manuscript. Entries are not judged blind.
All entrants will be notified of the winners in the spring by email.
Cover letters are not required.
Previous First-Place winners may not re-enter.
These are the complete contest guidelines.
Do not hesitate to contact SLS with any questions, by e-mail: sls@sumlitsem.org, or mike@sumlitsem.org – or by telephone: (514) 848-2424x4632.
We wish each and every one of you the best of luck with the contest!
more info: http://www.sumlitsem.org/slscontest.htm
& the First Annual Doomsday Festival & Symposium
is Asking You to Imagine Demise.
We Want Your Apocalypse Poems!
The First Annual Doomsday Festival & Symposium, a festival of
revelatory film, destruction literature, Butoh, and intellectual
disaster, will take place October 23-25 in New York City. In addition to a host of film
screenings, expert discussions, panels, and Butoh performances, Flying
Guillotine Press will curate a poetry reading and publish a limited
edition anthology of Apocalypse poems.
We invite you to submit apocalypse poems for the anthology!
Please email them to flyingguillotinepress@gmail.com by October 5th.
We want to publish as many as possible, but depending on how many
submissions we get we may not.
(If they are previously published, let us know.)
If you would, please distribute this call far and wide. The more voices,
the more cacophonous our end.
See you in hell,
Flying Guillotine Press
(Sommer Browning & Tony Mancus)
What We're Looking For
Every person has a desire to connect with great art, even if they've been told it's not for them, that they lack the education or the socioeconomic background to participate. Art is one of man's finest means of expression and communication. It defies all borders; it follows no mandates; it simply exists because we do. And life's a bitch--we need art to survive.
The mission of The Lumberyard has always been to bring great poetry back into the hands of the people. If you are a poet who is not afraid of breaking traditional molds in the name of this mission, then you are a candidate for The Lumberyard Roark Prize.
So, What Do You Win?
The recipient of The Lumberyard Roark Prize will have a special spring 2010 issue entirely dedicated to her/his poems. The Roark Prize issue will be designed and letterpressed by Firecracker Press, in the same style you've come to expect from us (if you are not familiar with The Lumberyard and the poems we publish, we highly recommend you read the magazine before submitting), and the winner will receive $50 in prize money and ten complimentary copies of the magazine. Winner will be notified no later than Feb. 1, 2010, and results will be emailed to all entrants and available at that time on our website.
How Will the Winner Be Chosen?
The recipient will be chosen through an anonymous, collaborative process. All entries will be reviewed anonymously and a group of finalists chosen by the editorial staff of The Lumberyard. The winner will be selected from that anonymous group of finalists by the staff of Firecracker Press. No biographical information will be known to any of the readers at any point, until the winner has been selected.
for more information and entry form, please visit here
finery #6 now available for yr reading pleasure! Featuring stories, essays, and poems by roxanne carter, kristina marie darling, molly gaudry, adele c. geraghty, rohin guha, marream krollos, jennie macdonald, rhani lee remedes, and kate schapira!
$10 ($7 + $3 shipping):
international orders (outside of the united states) $13:
to send cash/check email birdsoflace@gmail.com
xo
Les Figues Press’ Annual Fundraiser + Benefit Auction.
Emcees: Matias Viegener and Anna Joy Springer
Performances by Bhanu Kapil, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, Christine Wertheim, Laura Steenberge and more!
September, 12, 2009
7:00-10:00 p.m.
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibits
in the middle of Fallen Fruit’s exhibit, UNITED FRUIT.
6522 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA
Tickets: Buy online (www.lesfigues.com) or call: 323-734-4732
$15-$50 in advance
$25-$50 at the door
(Volunteer at this event and attend for free; Email for info.)
It’s time for the Readymade. Ecology! Economy! Artists, writers and independent businesses donate dozens of renamed/recycled/ready-to-go items.
• Marcus Civin makes prints of sentences donated from different sources. (Source #1: Ken Gonzales-Day; Source #2: Kenneth Goldsmith; Source #3: Eileen Myles; Source #4: Yvonne Rainer; Source #5: Kevin Killian & Dodie Bellamy; Source #6: Kara Tanaka)
• Art by Connie Samaras, Stephanie Taylor, Audrey Mandelbaum, Phoebe Gloeckner, Candice Lin, Laura Greene, Fallen Fruit, Alex Forman, Debra DiBlasi, and more!
• A rare chapbook of opening sections from /Madeleine is Sleeping/, with cover paper handmade by author Sarah Shun-lien Bynum.
• A signed broadside of Stuart Dybek’s “Paper Lantern.”
• Cat behavior consultation with scientist (and poet) Jennifer Calkins.
• “The Other Me” — Hand-made perfume by Kim Rosenfield (as debuted at her reading at Small Press Traffic).
• Lynda Barry drawing, draft of cover for /100 Demons/.
• Teeth whitening/bleaching with dentist Dr. Cho.
• NOT AN OBJECT, a conceptual project by Rob Fitterman, “produced” for you, collaboration optional.
• Psychic palm reading by Bhanu Kapil.
• Book packages, bundles of literary/art journals, the old poetics and the new (a chapbook collection).
• Facial with Kenya at Studio 41.
• LA Medusa t-shirt and painting, from Howard’s House of Fine Arts
• Cake baking commission by Charles Flowers.
• Plus more, including surprises from Sawako Nakayasu, Danielle Adair, Laura Vena, Rikki Ducornet, and More!
This fantastically fun event provides direct and critical support for Les Figues Press’ publishing projects.
www.lesfigues.com
{out of nothing}
no. 3 / that there were some ah-ness to things
deadline: 10/01/2009
Please view complete guidelines here:
http://outofnothing.org/809/guideli
[out of nothing] (http://www.outofnothing.org) is an electronic publication featuring new works in image, sound, text and the digital arts, as well as works located at the inter-sections between these media.
In general, [out of nothing] is interested in works that address, in some manner:
* the vacuum
* salvage / remainders
* imaginary spaces possessed of imaginary dimensions
* darkness / lightlessness
* reduced or infinitesimal means
* the exponential
* self-abnegating symbols
* the blank
* obliteration
* the inconsequential
* refusal
* the contentless / general contentlessness
* the generic and / or undifferentiated and / or the contra-original
* adhesive agents in search of clients to bind
* none of the above or below
[out of nothing] is published in online installments, on an irregular but roughly quarterly seasonal basis that nevertheless remains chronically TBD. Each issue is theme-based, and is introduced by a special M.C.; or, emcee. Occasional print anthologies are also envisioned.
send all submissions, inquires, etc to shelling.peanuts@gmail.com
[out of nothing] is edited by Janice Lee, Eric Lindley & Joe Milazzo.
-finery #6, featuring the magnificent work of roxanne carter, kristina marie darling, molly gaudry, adele c. geraghty, rohin guha, marream krollos, jennie macdonald, rhani lee remedes, and kate schapira
-chapbooks from niina pollari, christine nguyen, and the winner of the first annual chapbook prize
-the birdwisher (yes really, soon!) by anna joy springer (an illustrated novella with drawings by sam mcwilliams)
xo
The One-Act Play Contest
Since 1988 the Festival has been scouting out new playwriting talent with its One-Act Play Contest. Past winners include David Lindsay-Abaire who went on to win the Pulitzer for Drama in 2007!
Creative writing and theater graduate students from the University of New Orleans get a chance to flex their creative muscles, helping to judge the contest and turning the winning script into a full production.
The grand prize includes:
* $1,500 (raised from $1,000 in previous years)
* Staged reading at the 24th annual Festival (March 24-28, 2010)
* Full production at the 25th anniversary Festival (March 30-April 3, 2011)
* VIP All-Access Pass for 2010 and 2011 Festivals ($1,000 value)
* Publication in Bayou literary magazine
Deadline: November 1, 2009
The Fiction Writing Contest
Last year, the Festival began honoring great unpublished short stories, holding its first annual Fiction Writing Contest; the final round was judged by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Richard Ford. Winner Robin Martin of Brooklyn, New York had two stories place in the top ten and took home the first place prize for her richly textured story, "1969."
Just announced: this year's Fiction Writing Contest judge is novelist and short story writer Jill McCorkle whose work has been chosen four times by the New York Times Book Review for its Notable Books of the Year list. McCorkle is the author of the novels The Cheer Leader, July 7th, Tending to Virginia, Ferris Beach, and Carolina Moon, and the short story collections Crash Diet and Final Vinyl Days.
The grand prize includes:
* $1,500 cash
* Publication in the New Orleans Review
* Domestic airfare and French Quarter hotel accommodations to attend the 2010 Festival in New Orleans
* A public reading at the 2010 Festival
* A VIP All Access Pass ($500 value).
Deadline: November 16, 2009
To enter: If you would like to enter either of our contests, you can do so either by mail or online. Visit www.tennesseewilliams.net/contest for guidelines.
Edited by Richard Labonte for Cleis Press
Were you the kind of scrawny queer kid who ogled Steve Reeves and
never missed a TV wrestling match, or the buff young man who
fantasized about entering strongman contests and cherished his first
weight bench? I’m looking for original, erotic stories or web-only
reprints of up to 7,500 words for an anthology of fiction and memoir
based on muscle and desire. Consider: built Daddies, burly bears, body
worship, bodybuilding, wrestling from backyard and collegiate to motel
and TV pro, mixed martial arts, weightlifting, arm wrestling, colt
model porn fantasies, muscle voyeurism, big guys attracted to the
twinklike … “muscle” in all its forms, big and beefy or lean and wiry,
as a starting point for *authentic*, well-crafted stories by, for or
about men and muscle - writing with a solid narrative arc in which
characters connect emotionally as much as physically.
Deadline is Oct. 1, 2009
Publication date is Spring, 2010; payment is $50-$75, depending on length, plus two copies; submissions in .doc or .rtf format to <cleismuscles@gmail.com>.
Lethe Press’ new imprint for LGBT writers of color, Tincture, has announced a call for a gay Latino fiction anthology, edited by Charles Rice-Gonzalez. The anthology is seeking unpublished fiction (short stories, novel excerpts, short-short stories and flash fiction) by queer Latino writers to take the pulse of contemporary gay Latino literature, stories, experiences and perspectives. It will present a who’s who of queer Latino men writing fiction today. Authors of selected stories will be modestly compensated.
The collection is slated for publication in September 2010 and the submissions are due by January 11, 2010.
Guidelines
* Unpublished short story or novel excerpt of up to 7500 words (No multiple submissions in these categories)
* Unpublished Flash Fiction or short-short stories (up to 3 stories no more than 1000 words per story in these two categories only)
* Non-genre-specific
* Gay centric theme or LGBT characters
* Written primarily in English (Stories translated into English from Spanish are acceptable)
* Thought-provoking and original
Submission procedure
* Submission deadline is 11:59 p.m. EST on January 11, 2010.
* Please submit work to LatinoLethePress@gmail.com.
* Include a brief bio (no more than 200 words) of the author as a cover page. In the top left corner of the cover page, include: submission title, category, author’s name, address, phone, e-mail and (website, if available).
* Submissions should be sent as a Microsoft word or RTF document.
* Format: Single sided, dbl. spaced, 12 pt. font, 1 inch margins.
* Please submit unpublished, publication ready pieces only.
* All submissions will be reviewed by the editor.
