Please see individual URLs for complete contest and anthology information and submissions guidelines.
Upcoming Anthologies
Deadline: 02/15/10.
Submit to: Diverse Voices Quarterly. E-mail (via DOC, RTF, or WPD attachment) to: submit@diversevoicesquarterly.com.
Theme: Writing from all ages, races, religions, and sexual orientation.
Type: Poetry (5 titles MAX), short stories and essays (3,000 words MAX), and artwork/photography (.jpeg attachments, 2 images MAX).
URL: http://www.diversevoicesquarterly.com/submission-guidelines
Deadline: 02/20/10.
Submit to: Align with Global Harmony: Rainmaker’s Prayers. E-mail (via attachment or pasted-in text) to hazelheron.press@gmail.com. To be published by Hazel Heron Press. Contributors receive a free complimentary copy, a 50 word bio with contact info both in print and on web site and the opportunity of being in print with such notables as Mary Oliver, Barbara Kingsolver, Jose Stevens, etc.
Theme: Co-creation of Spirit, Nature & Humankind.
Type: Short personal essays, 500-1000 words. Environmental topics: Ban the Plastic Bag; Green Teens, Restore a River; Sustainability; The Heart as Sacred Space; Dance as Prayer; Personal Responsibility; Bios of Environmentalists; Sustainable Towns; Living in Harmony with Mother Earth; Indigenous Wisdom & Climate Change; etc.
URL: http://shinanbarclay.vox.com
Deadline: 02/28/10.
Submit to: Quest for Atlantis: Legends of a Lost Continent. E-mail submissions to: atlantis@pillhillpress.com. Please put SUBMISSION - Title of Story in the subject line.
Theme: Stories that celebrate the legend of The Lost Continent of Atlantis.
Type: Short stories (10,000 words MAX).
URL: http://www.pillhillpress.com/atlantis.html
Deadline: 03/01/10.
Submit to: Bombay Gin. Naropa University, Writing and Poetics Department, 2130 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, CO 80302.
Theme: Translations. Must include work in original language and translation.
Type: Poetry and prose (8 pages MAX).
URL: http://www.naropa.edu/bombaygin/sub_guidelines.cfm
Deadline: 03/01/10.
Submit to: Northampton Anthology. E-mail (via attachment) to: nohoanthology@aol.com.
Theme: Historic and modern poetry about Northampton, Massachusetts.
Type: Poetry (3 poems MAX).
URL: http://nohoanthology.blogspot.com
Deadline: 03/01/10.
Submit to: Thema. Gail Howard, Poetry Editor, or Virginia Howard, Prose Editor. Box 8747, Metairie, LA 70011-8747.
Theme: The trip not taken. Be sure to specify theme on cover letter. (NO adult language or sexual material.)
Type: Poetry (3 titles MAX) and short stories (20 pages/5,000 words MAX).
URL: http://members.cox.net/thema/submissions.html
Deadline: 04/01/10.
Submit to: Bitch. Submit via online form: http://bitchmagazine.org/contact/editorial.
Theme: Make-Believe; MUST BE a feminist response to pop culture.
Type: Essays (4,000 words MAX).
URL: http://bitchmagazine.org/guidelines.shtml
Deadline: 04/01/10.
Submit to: Witness. Submit via online form: http://witness.blackmountaininstitute.org/submit/login.php.
Theme: Blurring Borders.
Type: Poetry (5 poems MAX), short stories, and essays.
URL: http://witness.blackmountaininstitute.org/submit
Deadline: 04/15/10.
Submit to: A Whodunit Halloween. E-mail submissions to: whodunit@pillhillpress.com. Please put SUBMISSION - Title of Story in the subject line.
Theme: Halloween mysteries.
Type: Short stories (15,000 words MAX).
URL: http://www.pillhillpress.com/atlantis.html
Deadline: 04/20/10.
Submit to: A Cup of Comfort. Submit via online form: http://www.cupofcomfort.com/memberlogin.
Theme: For Couples.
Type: Personal essays (2,000 words MAX).
URL: http://www.cupofcomfort.com/CallForSubmissions
Deadline: 05/01/10.
Submit to: The First Line. E-mail (via MS Word or WordPerfect attachment) to: submission@thefirstline.com.
Theme: Every story starts out the same: Paul and Miriam Kaufman met the old-fashioned way.
Type: Short stories (3,000 words MAX).
URL: http://www.thefirstline.com
Deadline: 06/01/10.
Submit to: Pockets. Lynn W. Gilliam, Editor. PO Box 340004, Nashville, TN 37203-0004.
Theme: Respect. MUST BE appropriate for 8- to 12-year-old Christians.
Type: Poetry (20 lines MAX), short stories (1,000 words MAX), and essays (1,000 words MAX).
URL: http://pockets.upperroom.org/themes
Deadline: 06/30/10.
Submit to: Cancer Anthology. E-mail to: info@divinetruthpress.com.
Theme: Your journey with cancer, the journey of a loved one, or your secondhand experience as caregiver or medical professional.
Type: Personal essays (500 to 1,500 words MAX).
URL: http://divinetruthpress.atwc1.com/submissions/cancer-anthology
Deadline: 08/01/10.
Submit to: Rattle. E-mail (via pasted-in text) to: submissions@rattle.com.
Theme: Masters of Mental Health.
Type: Poetry and essays (5,000 words MAX).
URL: http://www.rattle.com/callsforsubs.html
Deadline: 09/10/10 or until issue is full. Check Web site below.
Submit to: Workers Write! E-mail to: courtroom@workerswritejournal.com, or send a hard copy to: Blue Cubicle Press, PO Box 250382, Plano, TX 75025-0382.
Theme: Tales from the Courtroom.
Type: Short stories (5,000 words MAX).
URL: http://www.workerswritejournal.com
Upcoming Contests
Deadline: 02/12/10.
Submit to: Normal Prize Contest - "Genre," 5245 N. Backer Ave, M/S PB 98, California State University-Fresno, Fresno, CA 93740.
Entry fee: $20. First prize: $1,000 and publication.
Type: Fiction and nonfiction (10,087 words MAX).
URL: http://www.thenormalschool.com/contestguidelines.html
Deadline: 02/15/10.
Submit to: New Women's Voices, Finishing Line Press, P O Box 1626, Georgetown, KY 40324.
Entry fee: $15. First prize: $1,000 and publication for a chapbook-length poetry collection
Type: Poetry (26 pages MAX). Open to women who have never before published a full-length poetry collection.
URL: http://www.finishinglinepress.com/submissionguidelines.htm
Deadline: 02/16/10.
Submit to: Kundiman, PO Box 2565, Staunton, VA 24402-2565.
Entry fee: $25. First prize: $2,000 and book publication.
Type: Poetry (50–70 pages MAX, single spaced).
URL: http://kundiman.org/[CLB]_Brightside/1.Source/prize.html
Deadline: 02/28/10.
Submit to: The American Poetry Journal Book Prize, PO Box 2080, Aptos, CA 95001-2080.
Entry fee: $25. First prize: $1,000, publication, and 20 copies.
Type: Poetry (50 to 65 pages MAX).
URL: http://home.comcast.net/~jpdancingbear/dhpcontests.html
Deadline: 02/28/10.
Submit to: Connecticut River Review Poetry Contest, CPS, PO Box 270554, West Hartford, CT 06127.
Entry fee: $15. First prize: $400 and publication.
Type: Poems (3 titles, 80 lines each MAX).
URL: http://www.ct-poetry-society.org/contests.htm#crrcontest
Deadline: 02/28/10.
Submit to: Omnidawn Chapbook Poetry Prize, Omnidawn Publishing, 3263 Kempton Ave., Oakland, CA 94611, or submit online: http://www.omnidawn.net
Entry fee: $15. First prize: $1,000, publication, and 100 complimentary copies of the chapbook.
Type: Poetry (20 to 30 pages MAX).
URL: http://www.omnidawn.com/contest/chapbook.htm
Deadline: 03/01/10.
Submit to: DRT Press. E-mail to Kay Marner at kay@kaymarner.com.
Theme: Essays written by parents of children with ADD, ADHD and/or other mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders.
Type: Essays (4 pages MAX).
URL: http://www.drtpress.com/anthology.html
Deadline: 03/01/10.
Submit to: 2010 Poetry Chapbook Contest, Plan B Press, PO Box 4067 Alexandria, VA 22303.
Entry fee: $15. First prize: $250 and 50 copies of your book.
Type: Poetry (28 to 32 pages MAX).
URL: http://www.planbpress.com/contestnew.html
Deadline: 03/01/10.
Submit to: 2010 Gulf Coast Prizes in Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction. Send via online form: http://www.gulfcoastmag.org/submissions.
Entry fee: $20. First prize: $1,000 and publication.
Type: Poetry (5 poems, 10 pages MAX) and prose (25 page MAX).
URL: http://www.gulfcoastmag.org/index.php?n=7
Deadline: 03/15/10.
Submit to: Bellday Poetry Prize, Bellday Books, Inc., PO Box 3687, Pittsburgh, PA 15230.
Entry fee: $25. First prize: $2,000 and 25 copies of the book.
Type: Poetry (60 to 90 pages MAX).
URL: http://www.belldaybooks.com/contest.html
Deadline: 03/15/10
Submit to: Noemi Book Award for Poetry, PO Box 1330, Mesilla Park, NM 88047.
Entry fee: $25. First prize: $1,000 and 10 author's copies.
Type: Poetry (48 to 70 pages MAX).
URL: http://noemipress.org/contest.html
Deadline: 03/15/10.
Submit to: The Pinch Fiction Contest or Poetry Contest, Department of English, The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 38152-6176.
Entry fee: $20. First prize: $1,500 (fiction) and $1,000 (poetry) and publication.
Type: Poetry (1 - 3 poems) and fiction (5,000 words MAX).
URL: http://cassian.memphis.edu/pinch/contest/contest.html
Deadline: 03/15/10.
Submit to: Prairie Schooner Prize Series, Attn: Fiction or Poetry, 201 Andrews Hall, PO Box 880334, Lincoln NE 68588-0334.
Entry fee: $25. First prize: $3,000 and publication.
Type: Prose (150 pages MIN) and poetry (50 pages MIN).
URL: http://prairieschooner.unl.edu/prizes/index.html
Deadline: 03/15/10.
Submit to: The South Carolina Review Poetry Contest, 611 Strode Tower, Box 340522, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-0522.
Entry fee: $20. First prize: $500 and an invitation to read at the Clemson Literary Festival in April.
Type: Poetry (4 titles, 10 pages MAX).
URL: http://www.clemson.edu/caah/cedp/cudp/scr/poetry_contest.pdf
Deadline: 03/15/10.
Submit to: The Tusculum Review Poetry Prize, 60 Shiloh Road, PO Box 5113, Greeneville, TN 37743.
Entry fee: $15. First prize: $1,000 and publication.
Type: Poetry (5 titles, 10 pages MAX).
URL: http://www2.tusculum.edu/tusculumreview/contest
Deadline: 03/31/10.
Submit to: Winning Writers, Attn: Tom Howard Short Story Contest, 351 Pleasant Street, PMB 222, Northampton, MA 01060, or send via online form: https://www.winningwriters.com/contests/tomstory/ts_subonline.php.
Entry fee: $15. First prize: $3,000 and online publication.
Type: Prose (5,000 MAX)
URL: http://www.winningwriters.com/contests/tomstory/ts_guidelines.php
Deadline: 03/31/10.
Submit to: Gemini Magazine Contest. PO Box 1485, Onset, MA 02558, or send via e-mail to: contest@gemini-magazine.com (pay via PayPal).
Entry fee: $4. First prize: $1,000 and publication.
Type: Short stories.
URL: http://www.gemini-magazine.com/contest.html
Deadline: 03/31/10.
Submit to: P53 Open Awards Contest, PO Box 30314, Winston-Salem, NC 27130-0314.
Entry fee: $15. First prize: in each category will receive the Press 53 Open Award (a beautiful, personalized, etched-glass award), publication in the Press 53 Open Awards Anthology, two complimentary copies of the book in which the work appears, and a winner's discount on unlimited additional copies to sell on his or her Web site or at readings.
Type: Poetry (3 poems, 10 pages MAX) and prose (see word count restrictions on Web site).
URL: http://www.press53.com/OpenAwards_2010.html
Deadline: 03/31/10.
Submit to: Four Way Books, PO Box 535 Village Station, New York, New York 10014, or send via online form (preferred): http://www.fourwaybooks.com/2010contest_form.php.
Entry fee: $25. First prize: $1,000 and publication.
Type: Poetry (48-80 pages MAX).
URL: http://www.fourwaybooks.com/contest.php?PHPSESSID=ea76006d2a72d8d7506c8fede4e79d7a
Deadline: 04/01/10.
Submit to: TIFERET Poetry Contest. Send via online form at: http://www.tiferetsubmissions.com.
Entry fee: $5/poem. First prize: $500 and publication.
Type: Poetry (10 poems MAX).
URL: http://tiferetjournal.com/2010/01/01/enter-the-2010-tiferet-poetry-contest-500-first-prize
Deadline: 04/01/10.
Submit to: Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest. Send via online form at: http://www.winningwriters.com/contests/wergle/we_subonline_step1.php.
Entry fee: FREE. First prize: $1,500 and online publication.
Type: Poetry.
URL: http://www.winningwriters.com/contests/wergle/we_guidelines.php
Deadline: 04/02/10.
Submit to: Creative Nonfiction. Attn: End of Life Stories, 5501 Walnut Street, Suite 202, Pittsburgh, PA 15232.
Entry fee: $20. First prize: $1,500.
Type: Essays that explore death, dying, and end of life care (5,000 words MAX).
URL: http://www.creativenonfiction.org/thejournal/submittocnf.htm#EndofLife
Deadline: 04/02/10.
Submit to: Creative Nonfiction. Attn: Animals, 5501 Walnut Street, Suite 202, Pittsburgh, PA 15232.
Entry fee: $20. First prize: $1,000 and publication.
Type: Essays on animals (5,000 words MAX).
URL: http://www.creativenonfiction.org/thejournal/submittocnf.htm#Animals
Deadline: 05/15/10.
Submit to: H.O.W. Journal Short Story Contest, 12 Desbrosses Street, New York, NY 10013.
Entry fee: $20. First prize: $1000 and publication.
Type: Short stories (12,000 words MAX).
URL: http://www.howjournal.com/submit-contests.html
Deadline: 05/18/10.
Submit to: New Letters Literary Awards, University House, 5101 Rockhill Road,
University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO 64110, or submit online at http://www.newletters.org.
Entry fee: $15. First prize: $1,500.
Type: Poetry (6 poems MAX), essays, and short stories (8,000 words MAX).
URL: http://www.newletters.org/PDFs/2010%20Contest%20Guidelines%20.pdf
Deadline: 05/31/10.
Submit to: River Styx Poetry Contest, 3527 Olive Street, Suite 107, St. Louis, MO 63103-1014.
Entry fee: $20. First prize: $1,500 and publication.
Type: Poetry (3 titles, 14 pages MAX).
URL: http://www.riverstyx.org/contests/index.php
Deadline: 05/31/10.
Submit to: Winning Writers, Attn: War Poetry Contest, 351 Pleasant St., PMB 222, Northampton, MA 01060-3961, or send via online form at: https://www.winningwriters.com/contests/war/wa_subonline.php
Entry fee: $15. First prize: $2,000 and online publication.
Type: Poetry on the theme of war (1 - 3 poems, 500 lines MAX),
URL: http://www.winningwriters.com/contests/war/wa_guidelines.php
Deadline: 06/01/10.
Submit to: Poetry Contest, Boston Review, 35 Medford St., Suite 302, Somerville, MA 02143
Entry fee: $20. First prize: $1,500 and publication.
Type: Poetry (5 poems MAX).
URL: http://bostonreview.net/about/contest/#Thirteenth
Deadline: 06/30/10.
Submit to: Winning Writers, Attn: Margaret Reid Poetry Contest, 351 Pleasant Street, PMB 222, Northampton, MA 01060, or send via online form at: https://www.winningwriters.com/contests/margaret/ma_subonline.php.
Entry fee: $7 (for 25 lines). First prize: $3,000 and online publication.
Type: Poetry.
URL: http://www.winningwriters.com/contests/margaret/ma_guidelines.php
Deadline: 09/30/10.
Submit to: Poetry Editor, The Ohio State University Press, 180 Pressey Hall, 1070 Carmack Road, Columbus OH 43210-1002.
Entry fee: $25. First prize: $3,000.
Type: Poetry (48 pages MAX).
URL: http://www.ohiostatepress.org/Books/Series%20Pages/Poetry.html
Upcoming Conferences and Events
USA
California
2010 San Francisco Writers Conference
Registration deadline: February 9, 2010. Conference dates: February 12 - 14, 2010.
The 7th Annual San Francisco Writers Conference will feature 100 presenters—literary agents, editors from top publishing houses, and bestselling authors including Jacquelyn Mitchard (Deep End of the Ocean), Steve Berry (The Templar Legacy), and Susan Wiggs (Fireside).
Contact: Barbara@SFWriters.org
URL: http://www.SFWriters.org
Southern California Writers' Conference
Registration deadline: February 9, 2010. Conference dates: February 12 - 15, 2010.
Founded and run by working writers, the SCWC has facilitated nearly $4 million in first-time author book and screen deals over 23 years.
Contact: wewrite@writersconference.com
URL: http://www.WritersConference.com
Bay Area Independent Publishers Association 2010 Get Published! Institute
Conference date: March 13, 2010.
Where book publishing is going. Featuring Danny O. Snow - SNCR, Kemble Scott - author/SoMa Literary Review, David Mathison - Be the Media - Book/Speaker.
Contact: Lin A. Lacombe at llacombe@earthlink.net
URL: http://www.baipa.org
White Lotus Poetry Workshop
Conference dates: March 12 - 14, 2010.
Ellen Bass's recent book of poems, The Human Line, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2007 to favorable reviews. She is known for her lively and bold poems about the everyday. Her poems have the elements of quiet joy and true comfort.
Contact: victors75@rattlebrain.com
URL: http://www.esalen.org
First-person Writing That Sells with Adair Lara
Registration deadline: March 18, 2010. Conference dates: March 20-21, 2010.
This is an opportunity to draw on your own life experience and find out how to get your work published. Whether you're just beginning or have already published, you will enjoy this time with the author of best-selling books such as Hold Me Close, Let Me Go, The Granny Diaries, and her newest, Naked, Drunk, and Writing.
Contact: crow@starwae.com
URL: http://www.starwae.com
Travel Writing That Sells
Registration deadline: April 15, 2010. Conference dates: April 17 - 18, 2010.
Spend a lively and supportive weekend learning travel writing from veteran travel editor John Flinn. Whether you’re new to professional writing or have been published, you’ll learn how to turn your travel experiences into magazine and newspaper articles that sell. John edited the award-winning San Francisco Chronicle Travel Section for 14 years and is a winner of a Lowell Thomas Award for Travel Journalist of the Year from the Society of American Travel Writers. His writing has appeared in Outside Magazine, Sunset, VIA, Coastal Living, Climbing, and numerous anthologies, including Travelers’ Tales: Tuscany and Not So Funny When It Happened.
Contact: crow@starwae.com
URL: http://www.starwae.com
California Writers Coalition
Year-round events.
California Writers is a club for, by and of writers – across all genres and level of skill. We educate, we learn, we grow, we support each other.
Contact: cwcsfv@gmail.com
URL: http://www.calwriterssfv.com/home.htm
Lakeshore Writers Workshops
Conference dates: Contact T. Burns Gunther to find out specifics.
Workshops are an outgrowth of the method developed by Pat Schneider, founder of Amherst Writers & Artists. The method is based upon the philosophy that "every person is a writer, and every writer deserves a safe environment in which to experiment, learn, and develop craft."
Contact: T. Burns Gunther at teresa@lakeshorewriters.net.
URL: http://www.lakeshorewriters.net
The 2010 Clarion Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers' Workshop.
Registration deadline: March 1, 2010. Conference dates: June 27 through August 7, 2010.
Established in 1968, the Clarion Writers' Workshop is the oldest workshop of its kind and is widely recognized as a premier proving and training ground for aspiring writers of fantasy and science fiction. Many graduates have become well-known writers, and a large number have won major awards. Instructors are among the most respected writers and editors working in the field today. The six-week workshop is held on the beautiful beachside campus of the University of California, San Diego. The instructors will be Delia Sherman, George R.R. Martin, Dale Bailey, Samuel R. Delany, Jeff VanderMeer, and Ann VanderMeer.
Contact: Hadas Blinder at Clarion@ucsd.edu.
URL: http://www.clarionwest.org
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Act One Writing for Film and Television Seminar, Hollywood, CA
Application Deadline April 1, 2010. Dates: June 21, 2010 - July 3, 2010
Over 100 hours of screenwriting instruction from Hollywood writers and industry professionals who literally step off studio lots to teach. Topics covered include the art of visual storytelling, ethics, the realities of working in Hollywood, writing for a global audience, and the spiritual journey of a Christian writer.
Contact:
info@ActOneProgram.comURL:
www.ActOneProgram.com
Florida
Tallahassee Festival of Books and Writers Conference
Registration deadline: March 12, 2010. Conference dates: March 19 - 21, 2009.
Julianna Baggott, Mike Grunwald, Claudia Hunter-Johnson, Donald Maass, Lisa Rector-Maass, Jeff Shaara, Lucia Robson, Don Yaeger, and more.
URL: http://www.tallahasseewriters.net
Iowa
David R. Collins Writers’ Conference
Registration deadline: June 23, 2010. Conference dates: June 23 - 25, 2010.
This three day conference will offer workshops in creative nonfiction, freelancing, nonfiction, poetry, publishing, and marketing. Cecil Murphey, coauthor of the New York Times best-selling book, 90 Minutes in Heaven, will teach a workshop on fiction and will speak at our author luncheon on June 24.
Contact: mwc@midwestwritingcenter.org
URL: http://www.midwestwritingcenter.org/WhatWeDo/2009%20Conference.htm
Maine
The Remembered Self: A Memoir Workshop
Conference deadline: May 1, 2010. Conference dates: July 16 - 18, 2010.
This workshop is for those who want to begin a memoir or for those who have already begun one and feel overwhelmed or stuck. Learn how to mine stories, align with authentic voice, and shape material into scenes.
Contact: joan@fifthhouselodge.net
URL: http://www.fifthhouselodge.net
Nebraska
The Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in Nebraska City, NE offers 2- to 8-week residencies year-round for writers, visual artists, and music composers. Housing, studio space, $100/week stipend are provided.
Approximately 50 residencies are awarded per year. Two deadlines each year: postmarked March 1 for the following July through December 15; postmarked September 1 for the following January through June 15.
Contact: info@KHNCenterfortheArts.org
URL: http://www.KHNCenterfortheArts.org
Nevada
TMCC Writers' Conference
Registration deadline: April 8, 2010. Conference date: April 17, 2010.
This Reno event provides participants with a casual, intimate atmosphere where they can take in marketing and craft workshops and meet one-on-one with the speaker of their choice. The 2010 slate of speakers includes agent/author Sheree Bykofsky, Ebook publisher Mark Coker, nonfiction agent Ted Weinstein, natural world memoirist Robert Leonard Reid, science fiction author Susan Palwick, and more.
Contact: 775-829-9010
URL: http://wdce.tmcc.edu (click on classroom courses, then conferences)
New Jersey
Velocicon Workshops
Registration deadline: February 4, 2010. Conference date: March 6, 2010.
Enjoy workshops geared toward the sci-fi, fantasy and paranormal writer, as well as experience a full-day program of paranormal professionals. Luncheon keynote speaker Dr Dave Goldberg, astrophysicist, will discuss the science of time travel. Paranormal presenters inlude para investigator tv personality and author Jeff Belenger; New Jersey Ghost Hunters Society; Robert Murch, leading Ouija historian; Aura Photography, and more.Writing workshops taught by a Hugo Award winner and best-selling authors of the genre. Book Fair and Paranormal Fair open to the public at conclusion of conference.
Contact: velocicon@yahoo.com
URL: http://www.velocicon.com
New York
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ASJA Annual Writers Conference
Early-bird registration deadline: March 22, 2010. Open until April 21, 2010. Conference dates: April 23 – April 25, 2010.
The 39th Annual ASJA Writers Conference brings together writers from all nonfiction specialties (consumer, trade publications, custom publications, and memoirs), with editors, agents, and other industry professionals to take part in more than 40 great seminars and workshops.
Contact Alexandra Owens at
director@asja.orgURL:
http://www.asja.org/wc
North CarolinaWrite2Ignite! Conference for Christian Writers of Children’s Literature
Registration deadline: February 15, 2010. Conference dates: February 26 - 27, 2010.
Keynote speaker Vonda Skelton, author of the
Bitsy Burroughs Mysteries, will inspire writers to set children’s hearts afire for Christ. Along with hosting other workshops and presenters, the conference also boasts a Teen Track for the younger generation of aspiring writers.
Contact: Jean Hall at
write2ignite@jeanmatthewhall.comURL:
http://www.write2ignite.wordpress.comPennsylvaniaThe Write Stuff
Early-bird deadline: February 25, 2010. Mail-in registration deadline: March 12, 2010. Conference dates: March 25 - 27, 2010.
Our keynote speaker, noted creative writing teacher James N. Frey (
How To Write A Damn Good Novel), will give a 2-day pre-conference workshop, "How to Plot Like the Pros." Conference offers fiction, nonfiction, business of publishing, agents, editors, book fair, flash contest.
Contact:
WriteStuffAdmin@gmail.comURL:
http://www.glvwg.org/conference/index.html or
http://glvwgwritersconference.blogspot.com2010 Pennwriters Annual Writers Conference
Registration deadline: April 25, 2010. Conference dates: May 14 - 16, 2010.
Join us for three days of pitch sessions, workshops, and networking opportunities. Agents/editors: Janet Reid, Jennifer Jackson, Jenny Bent, Alex Glass, Miriam Kriss, Barbara Lalicki, Leis Pederson, and David Pomerico. Keynote speaker: author James Rollins.
Contact:
conference2010@pennwriters.comURL:
http://www.pennwriters.comWashingtonWriting It Real Writers' Conference in Port Townsend
Registration deadline: February 15, 2010. Conference dates: April 23 - 25 2010.
Faculty members Sheila Bender, Meg Files, and Jack Heffron will offer you hands-on lectures, small group in-class writing instruction, manuscript workshops, and writing and publishing consultations.
Contact:
sbender@writingitreal.com or
danavischer@writingitreal.com.
URL:
http://www.writingitreal.com/page.php?p=writers_conference
Various US (and international) locations
Creativity Workshops
We offer workshops in New York, Carmel-by-the-Sea, Crete, Barcelona, and Florence.
Conference dates in 2010: March 12 - 15 (New York), June 18 - 21 (New York), June 26 - July 4 (Crete), July 5 - 13 (Barcelona), July 14 - 22 (Florence), and November 5 - 8 (Carmel).
Workshops on Creative Writing, Drawing, Storytelling and Memoir. Get over creative blocks and the fear of failure.
Contact: admin@creativityworkshops.com
URL: http://www.creativityworkshop.com
Warrior Writer Workshop
Conference dates: Year-round. Check URL below for specifics.
A workshop that focuses on helping writers become professional authors.
Contact: bob@bobmayer.org
URL: http://www.bobmayer.org
Mallorca, Spain
Writing For Our Lives
Registration date: March 31, 2010.
Conference dates: September 25 - October 2, 2010.
Ellen Bass has been teaching at La Serrania for six years. In addition to ample time for writing and sharing, we'll also have the opportunity to visit the local Sunday market, and we'll plan a mid-week sightseeing excursion. This size of the workshop is limited to 13 participants. The earlybird fee for the workshop (which includes accommodations and all meals) is $1500 if you register by March 31, 2010.
Contact: victors75@rattlebrain.com
URL: http://www.ellenbass.com/writing-for-our-lives-la-serrania.php
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Notes from our October - December cycle:
Writer's Relief clients received 189 offers of publication in reputable, national literary magazines in the past 60 days. Way to go! PLUS, the following literary agencies requested complete manuscripts from our clients for the previous cycle: Collins Literary Agency, Donadio & Olson, Inc., Elyse Cheney Agency, Jean V. Naggar, Joy Harris Agency, Literary Group International, Maria Carvainis, McIntosh & Otis, Meredith Bernstein, Steinberg Agency, and Sterling Lord Literistic, Inc.
Client announcements:
Rosalia Scalia's short story "Stumbling Toward Grace" earned her a Maryland State Art Council Grant for $1,000. Whoo-hoo, Rosalia!
Tracy DeBrincat invites you to "Judge Her Book By Its Cover." Her prize-winning short story collection Moon Is Cotton & She Laugh All Night has been newly published by Subito Press/University of Colorado. For a limited time, you can choose from among various cover art designs. Visit http://www.mooniscotton.com to vote for and purchase the one you like best!
Keith Buie has secured representation for Resistance, his moody contemporary novel about a disenchanted pharmacist, with McIntosh & Otis. A chapter excerpt from this novel is a finalist for publication in an anthology edited by best-selling author Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club, Choke). Keith's work has also appeared or is forthcoming in The MacGuffin, Metal Scratches, Quiddity International Literary Journal, Rio Grande Review, and Willard & Maple. Go Keith!
Jill Dearman (author of BANG The Keys, published by Penguin) will be holding Jan/Feb classes in the New York area. Visit http://www.jilldearman.com/blog.html for more.
Lori Kagan was nominated for The Pushcart Prize!
Jeffrey Kingman was recently a finalist in the 2009 Cutthroat Magazine contest.
A blog post on James Harmon's blog was a finalist for 3QuarksDaily's Political Post of the Year.
Carolyn Light Bell is currently teaching a course in Creative Writing to high school seniors at Breck School in Minneapolis.
Lisa Alexander was nominated for and won UCLA's James Kirkwood Prize in Creative Writing (first place!).
Anthony J. Mohr's essay, "The Doberman Dates," has been accepted by Chicken Soup for the Soul (True Love).
The World's Smallest Bible, by Dennis Must, has been accepted for publication by Red Hen Press, Los Angeles, CA. Also, his novel, Hush Now, Don't Explain, was a finalist in both the recent William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition and the Michigan Literary Fiction Award, University of Michigan Press.
Eli Langner was one of three finalists for the Creekwalker Poetry Prize. Check it out: http://creekwalker.com/poetry/EliLangner.html.
Finishing Line Press poet Susanna Rich (Television Daddy and The Drive Home) and Emmy-Award winning documentarist Craig Lindvahl have been nominated for 2009 Mid-America Emmy Awards in the category "Writer/Program" for the film Cobb Field: A Day at the Ballpark. A winner of multiple Emmy Awards, Lindvahl found Susanna's poem "Squeeze Play" in Spitball: The Baseball Literary Magazine and commissioned her to write and voice-over poetry for Cobb Field. For details, link to http://www.emmymid-america.org and check out section 46A. For the film, link to http://www.callanfilms.com. Susanna's Web site is http://www.susannarich.com.
Doris Ferleger, Ph.D, was recently named the Poet Laureate of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, in a competition judged by Tony Hoagland. Her book, Big Silences in a Year of Rain, was published by FootHills Publishing.
Stephanie K. Cohen announces the launch of her site http://www.stephaniekaplancohen.com. Visit to learn more about In My Mother's House (published by Woodley Press), her memoir about Long Beach, Long Island. She recently signed a contract with Plainview Press for a book of poems.
Poet Donnell McGee has just launched a new Web site: http://www.donnellemcgee.com.
Joanne Weck has signed with The Joy Harris Agency for her novel, Sweet William and Rosemary. She also wishes to announce that her story, "A Bracelet of Glass Beads" was accepted in the North Atlantic Review. Find out more about Joanne's books and writings at: http://www.joanneweck.com.
Big congrats to Suellen Wedmore, who was one of only three poets to place in the New Millennium Writings Obama Inaguration Contest.
Bang The Keys, by Jill Dearman ($11.53, writing how-to, Alpha). Jill Dearman is the rising writing guru of the modern era who has already helped legions of published, but pressured authors as well as searching yet serious new inksters to apply a method to their artistic madness. There is no problem a writer faces that she cannot empathize with and throw an armful of clever and penetrating exercises at. If you’re game to write yourself out of a corner, and re-invent your writing life, she just might be able to solve her most challenging mystery yet … you! Four elegant steps, for when you’re ready to dance with your muse, instead of singing the blues: • B is for Begin with your strongest idea. • A is for Arrange your material into a concrete form. • N is for nurture your project with love, so that others may love it too. • G is for complete it, and let it GO out into the world to live independently. CLICK HERE TO BUY.
Dorothy Brooks' chapbook,
Interstices, was released by Finishing Line Press. It is available now for orders at
http://www.finishinglinepress.com. Just click on "New Releases and Forthcoming Titles" and look for the title. The books are listed alphabetically by author's last name. The cost is $14 plus shipping.
R.M. Hora's story, “Sita's Eyes,” is part of the anthology
Ask Me About My Divorce (Seal Press). The book is a spicy, fun, riveting collection of essays by women from all walks of life. With the unifying thread “I got divorced, and the world came into view,” the words within will make readers laugh, cry, nod their heads, and feel inspired to do what they need to for themselves. These aren't stories from women tiptoeing around a difficult subject—they're about the ways divorce can be, in fact, a new lease on life. For more information or to purchase the book, visit
http://www.sealpress.com/book.php?isbn=1580052762
Naomi Ruth Lowinsky has won the
New Millennium Writings Obama Inauguration Contest, taking the $1,000 grand prize. Read an article about the contest
here. Also, Naomi's memoir about being a poet,
The Sister from Below: When the Muse Gets Her Way, has been published by Fisher King Press. Read more about it (or order your copy) here:
http://www.fisherkingpress.com/order.html
Lucille Lang Day's
The Curvature of Blue: Poems was released this spring by Cervena Barva Press. For more information and orders, visit
http://www.thelostbookshelf.com. "In Lucille Lang Day's poems, stunning transformations of language cross the placenta barrier between the worlds of science and human emotion. She thinks and feels in color, enabling us to inhabit the complexity of the universe—as experienced at breakfast with a lover, in the wild with caribou, or in meditations on acts of historical horror—all made radiant by her lyric gifts and wisdom." —Teresa Cader
Donna L. Emerson’s book of poetry,
Body Rhymes, is now available from
Finishing Line Press. The book is available for purchase through
Amazon or directly from the publisher. Donna and her editors always appreciate readers who post reviews! "Donna Emerson is a poet who speaks eloquently and elegantly about the body, focusing on sexuality as well as on love and loss. Writing with a righteous anger yet with a tenderness toward the world, she conveys a sense that the words and actions of one person can make a difference, can be redemptive." —Susan Terris, author of
Contrariwise
Dick Bentley's poetry book,
A General Theory of Desire, is available through Patchwork Farm Press. "It's the poet's voice - inquisitive, edgy at times, tender - that gathers these poems together; a voice both innocent and lacerating," says Clare Rossini. Visit Dick's home page:
http://www.dickbentley.com/. Or buy your copy
here.
Who Sleeps Beneath the Rocks? The Mystery of Canyonlands and the Origin of Human Life, and its sequel (bound in the same volume),
Hide in Plain Sight, are loosely based on the popular SyFy channel program,
Star Gate SG-1. This fast-moving science fiction novel is set in the Four Corners region of the American southwest and in California. The Sense of Wonder Press, J.R.Rock & Co. published this novel in November 2008. Visit the Web site of
John E. Lankford or order
here.
Double Out and Back, a novel by
Lisa Lipkind Leibow. Not every woman who rides the fertility treatment roller coaster winds up like Octomom. Who will find friends, family, and fertility? Three women’s lives are intricately intertwined, as Amelia Schwartz and Summer Curtis struggle with the complex dynamics of intrafamily embryo adoption, and Chandy Markum strives to make her patients’ dreams a reality. They must confront the painful reality that, no matter what technology humans devise to manipulate reproduction, prolong life, and construct family units, they have not yet mastered control over their beginnings and endings. Are you up to it? Buy it
here from Red Rose Publishing.
A Dreamer’s Guide To Cities and Streams (San Francisco Bay Press), by
Joan Gelfand. “Passages of ethereal beauty lift Joan Gelfand’s
A Dreamer’s Guide to Cities and Streams into the realm of the extraordinary. 'Transported' alone has more poetry in it than most volumes of contemporary poetry. Here, in few short lines we find evocation of all the senses, including the sixth, jumped into being by suggestions of beginning, danger, discovery, alarm, assurance, judgment, mission, death, and eternity—an archetypal transport to the holy realm of dreaming.” Robert Arthur, Publisher. Included poems appear in:
Lady Jane,
Miscellany,
Kalliope,
Poetica, and national anthologies. Buy it
here from Amazon. Joan also announces that her story "Better Days" was accepted by
The MacGuffin.
Fred Yannantuono announces the release of his book
A Boilermaker for the Lady by
NYQ books. "Fred Yannantuono can tackle the whimsical, the lyrical, the musical, the hypothetical, the critical, the empirical, and the fantastical at the same time and make it all seem sensible. In 35 years as an editor, I've never read a poet with a greater control of form or range of subject matter or voice. He is just plain fun to read." —Tom O’Grady, Founding Editor of
The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review
Mary Carol Moran's
Equivocal Blessings is now available for pre-order from
http://negativecapabilitypress.org. "With
Equivocal Blessings, we are in the hands of a contemplative, a quester, who views the world with empathy, affection, and a touch of humor. Written in a range of voices and styles, the book includes a villanelle inspired by Salvador Dali, a persona poem spoken by Coleridge's daughter, and a free verse poem with a contemporary speaker who lives with an 'Alabama Dog' who drags her kill to the dining room, a 'room where a vegetarian eats side by side / with a river dog...' There's nothing equivocal about the blessing that is this book." —Beth Ann Fennelly, author of
Unmentionables.
Suellen Wedmore's chapbook
On Marriage and Other Parallel Universes was recently published by Finishing Line Press. Maxine Kumin says of the book “Wedmore’s deeply felt and skillfully controlled poems exhibit an elegiac grace.” The book is available on
Amazon.com and at
Finishinglinepress.com.