OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS: TARPAULIN SKY LITERARY JOURNAL

During the month of February we will be reading submissions for the next paper edition of Tarpaulin Sky. We hope you'll give it a go, and send your best, as this is the only submission period for the magazine this year.

We're trying something new, too--well, new to us--the online submission manager. So you'll be able to keep tabs on the status of your submission throughout the process.

Also new this year are many of the journal's editors: Blake Butler and Joanna Howard editing Fiction; Laynie Browne and Karla Kelsey editing Poetry; and Sandy Florian and Lily Hoang editing "Other"; presided over by Editor in Chief Colie Collen, with all submissions shepherded through the process by Associate Editors Duncan B. Barlow, Jamey Dunham, and Christine Wertheim, as well as Assistant Editors Michael Tod Edgerton and Brian Mihok.

Please visit our guidelines for all the deets: http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/guidelines.html

The 2011 Fence Modern Poets Series, for a poet writing in English at any stage in his or her career

To be judged by a poet of renown, with a cash prize of $1000 & Fall 2011 publication by Fence Books. Manuscripts remain anonymous until a winner is selected.

General Terms:

* Entry form must accompany each submission
* (click here for printable pdf entry form) 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 self-addressed 8 x 10 envelope 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, typed, 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 that are submitted without this 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; include an IRC if you want the book instead of the subscription.
* TELL US IF YOU MOVE. Send new address to: fence@albany.edu.

Deadline: Envelope must be postmarked on or between February 1st of 2010 and February 28th of 2010.

Mail manuscript, entry form, and entry fee to:
Fence Modern Poets Series, Fence Books, Science Library 320, University at Albany, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY 12222

further info here

San Francisco poets, get your pens—Friends of the San Francisco Public Library and their Poet-in-Residence Jack Hirschman, together with the San Francisco Public Library, are pleased to announce Poets 11 2010. This citywide poetry contest and reading series collects poems from every neighborhood and features poetry readings at branch libraries in each of the City’s 11 districts.

Submissions will be accepted January 1, 2010 through March 1, 2010.

Click here to download a Submission Form.

Local poets are encouraged to submit up to three poems. Poetry is chosen by Hirschman and selected poets are announced at each of the branch events. All types of poetry are accepted. Writings which reflect San Francisco’s diversity of language and culture and those written in languages other than English are highly encouraged.

Selected poets will be presented with a $50 honorarium and their poems will be published in an anthology. Now in its third year, Poets 11 celebrates San Francisco’s rich literary life and thriving poetry community.

Beginning in March, selected poets will take the microphone and share their works in a variety of languages and topics. Eleven events will take place at branch libraries, concluding with a final event featuring all participating poets at the Main Library’s Koret Auditorium on May 8th.

here i am hustling for finery 7 submissions. we've got some awesome ones but i want more more MORE. People, send me your poems, your stories, your myths, your strange rambling essays, your music (there will be a cd of music in this issue) or just soundscapey things or performative readings. send me black and white drawings. the theme is myth-making, interpret it as you like, broadly or acutely. the deadline is january 31st. tell your friends and then tell them to tell their friends. women & queers of all genders, ok? get to it! i know you want to! & i know you can! birdsoflace@gmail.com

Go see the fabulous Niina Pollari of Fabulous Essential fame read this Saturday in NYC! She will have copies of her exciting, brilliant & brightly-colored chapbook for you.

Saturday January 16th
8pm
SpaceSpace (390 Seneca Ave., corner of Seneca & Stanhope)
Free beer!

xo

RADAR Productions, in collaboration with Inconvenient Press,
announces the first Eli Coppola* Memorial Poetry Chapbook Contest.
The contest is open to anyone who has not published a full-length collection of
poetry in the past five years (not including self-published works.)
To submit:
Cover sheet with name, address, phone and e-mail
3 copies of 18-24 pages of poetry (manuscripts will not be returned)
$10 entry fee with check or money order made out to RADAR Productions
* to offset judges’ honoraria
NO NAME OR OTHER INFORMATION ON ACTUAL MANUSCRIPT
Mail application materials to:
RADAR Productions
c/o Elizabeth Pickens, Administrative Coordinator
909 Hampshire St. Suite 4
San Francisco, CA 94110
POSTMARK DEADLINE: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2010
Prize: Invitation to read in San Francisco’s RADAR Reading Series and 25 author
copies of a professionally-designed chapbook of your work
Questions? Please email us at info@radarproductions.org

Open call for an OW Press chapbook



Announcing open submissions for an OW Press fiction chapbook to be published in late Summer/early Fall 2010. This book will be organized by OW Press and printed by Tainted Coffee (the printer for Zygote in My Coffee).

What we want: Prose. Give us a story collection, or give us something altogether unique. We are open to plays on form and structure. Our editorial tastes lean toward the character-driven, quirky, perhaps even dark fiction (read a lot of OWC fiction and Zygote in My Coffee to get a feel for what we are after). Genre fiction will be accepted has long as it isn’t “hard” genre (meaning most readers would instantly recognize the genre based solely off of the book cover; dragons, spaceships, and naked-torso men – though, if you can make any of the three objects work in a story that otherwise adheres to the previously mentioned tastes, go for it).

Submission dates: November 1st-December 31st

Publishing date: Late Summer/early Fall 2010

Submission type: Doc, RTF or .pdf, sent via email to: prose@outsiderwriters.org. Include “OW Press Chap Submission” somewhere in the subject line. Manuscripts should be double-spaced, with a simple serif-font (Times is just fine). If specific font styles and/or layout designs are important to your work, be sure to send you manuscript as a .pdf WITH THE FONTS EMBEDDED.

Winner announced date: January 1010. The winner will be announced via email from news@outsiderwriters.org. After you submit, you will receive an email inviting you to subscribe to the OW Newsletter. Please accept this invite so that you can be notified of the winning manuscript (if you are absolutely against subscribing to our periodic newsletter, please say so in your email). Also, be sure the news@outsiderwriters.org email address is whitelisted so that correspondence will not be pushed to your SPAM folder.

Terms: We aren’t concerned with first serial North American world exclusive super binding terms, or any such derivatives. If any part of your submission has been published/posted previously, let us know. Previous publications won’t factor into our final decisions, but we still want to know.

Payment: 20 contributor’s copies and all the promotional muscle OW Press/OWC and Tainted Coffee (the Zygote in My Coffee press) can muster.

Length: between 14,000 and 20,000 words (a little more or less is fine)

About you: Give us some personal details. Basically, we aren’t just looking for a great bunch of stories; we are looking for a great person to represent those stories. What’s your favorite beer/drug/cigar/book? What music is playing right now (inside or outside your head)? What other author’s book release are you most eagerly awaiting

Also, let us know how well you’ve plugged yourself into the literary community. Are you a blog contributor? Do you know some authors who may blurb your book? Are you able to set up readings and promote your book? This information will not necessarily influence our decision (the work itself is the most important factor), but passion can be contagious; knowing how excited you are about your work (and fiction writing in general) makes us excited.

http://www.outsiderwriters.org

WomenArts is compiling a list of feminist arts bloggers for their website. They are looking for women who write reviews of other people’s work or who write commentary on arts issues from a feminist perspective. They are especially interested in finding more women of color and more women who write about arts events and issues outside the U.S. If you are interested in being included in the list, please send your full name, a link to your blog and a short description of the topics you cover to Deborah Steinberg at info@WomenArts.org. www.womenarts.org

submit to keyhole magazine! Guidelines here: http://www.keyholemagazine.com/submissions

Submit to Twelve Stories

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

We accept short stories up to 1,500 words, year round.
Please paste your submission, along with
a brief biographical statement,
into the body of an E-mail
with the subject line formatted as follows:

Submission, Last Name, Story Title

Simultaneous submissions are welcome.
Please notify us as soon as your work
has been accepted elsewhere.

Send submissions to twelvestories@gmail.com

http://www.readtwelvestories.com

The Birdwisher & copies of Finery #5 and #6 are all available at San Francisco's Needles & Pens (on 16th between Guerrero & Dolores). If you want to help put The Birdwisher in a bookstore in yr town do let me know!

CANDOR magazine is accepting submissions for its second issue.

Mission:

To create a space where women can spar with text and culture.


Write

Fiction (up to 3000 words)

Essays (about 3000 words)

Reviews (500-1000 words)

To

candormagazine@gmail.com


The theme for the second issue is CAMP.

1. An affectation or appreciation of manners and tastes commonly thought to be artificial, vulgar, or banal.

2. Banality, vulgarity, or artificiality when deliberately affected or when appreciated for its humor

Please have any submissions to us by February 28th.

We would like to invite you to contribute to the next issue of qunst.mag!

Qunst.mag is an e-zine created by members of Bildwechsel and the
contributing artists.
You can download the back issues no. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 of qunst.mag at
www.qunst.net.

Qunst.mag's aim is to provide a platform for queer feminist artists
working in various media.
If you are interested to find out more about Bildwechsel please visit
the website: www.ilovebildwechsel.org


We would be very happy if you wanted to contribute to qunst.mag!

The theme of the next issue is going to be 'movement'.
Please send your illustrations, pictures, photographs, text, collages, etc.

The entry deadline for the upcoming zine is January 15th, 2010.


The format of the zine is 424x150mm, the trimmed size is 420x148mm.
You can download the template at:
www.qunst.net/wp-content/plugins/download-monitor/download.php?id=vorlage.zip

Please feel free to do your own layout, but remember that your name
(e-mail, website etc.) should be placed in the lower left side!!!


You can e-mail your contribution to e-mail@qunst.net or send it to the
address below.
If you send it by e-mail, please send a laid out picture file ( .jpg,
.tiff, .psd) with a resolution of 300dpi.

The legal stuff: If you send a contribution you give us the right to use
it for the magazine. The imprint will say something like: All materials
published are copyright of contributers. All rights reserved. No
material can be reproduced in part or whole without the written consent
of the contributers.

If you have any questions please send me an e-mail to: e-mail@qunst.net

Finery wants your stories, poems, essays, text monsters and monster texts for our 7th issue. The theme this time around is "myth-making": interpret as you like, the broader & stranger the better! Though we always love a good straight forward myth, too.

Email up to ten pages as an .rtf attachment to birdsoflace@gmail.com by January 31st, 2010. Submissions accepted from self-identified women and queers of all genders.

check out excerpts from past issue here and here.

Please re-post/pass along!

niina pollari's fabulous chapbook of poems fabulous essential is now stocked at needles and pens, on 16th street between dolores and guerrero in san francisco. they also have copies of finery 6 in stock.

& don't forget to check out/submit to:

INITIATION, the first issue of PRAYERS FOR CHILDREN (a new online journal/gallery curated by Brother Bramm, Jody Jock, Greg Kaplowitz and Gina Abelkop) is now up for your viewing pleasure! With work by Zee Boudreaux, Roxanne Carter, Juliet Cook, Brian Dini, Mark Oliver Farley, David King, Finley Kipp, Scooter Laforge, Ashley Lande, Matt Lifson, Zachari Logan, Leslie Lowe, Daniel McKernan, Rhani Remedes, Heather Renee Russ, Brenden Shucart, Mica Sigourney, Max Steele, Chad Stose, and Jack X Taylor.

Also on the website is the submission call for the next issue. Get to it!

The 2011 Motherwell Prize, for a first or second full-length collection of poems by a woman writing in English

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/motherwell.html for printable pdf entry form)
* 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

Verb Noire is an exciting new e-press focusing on works by and about underrepresented groups in genre fiction. Read their submission guidelines below or check them out online here.

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)