In Print

Everyone has a story to tell.  As writer’s we often hide the truth in our novels, plays, and poems.  But sometimes reality makes the best story.  Below are two opportunities to tell the truth and be heard.  Welcome to the wonderful world of creative nonfiction!

Glamour Magazine announces its 6th essay contest.  There is no fee to enter the contest.  The essay selected will appear in Glamour and the author will win $5,000 plus a meeting with a top literary agent.  Submissions must be between 2,500-3,500 words and postmarked by December 31st, 2008.  Go to glamour.com for more details.

The international journal of literary nonfiction, The Truth About the Fact , is calling for submissions.  Writing pieces should be between 1,000-5,000 words.  Essays, memoirs, commentaries, and narrative nonfiction poems will all be considered.  The deadline is Decembert 31st, 2008.  For more details, visit thetruthaboutthefact.com .

Are you a writer?
Are you a graphic artist?
Do you want your work published?
Well here’s your chance!
The Book By Authors: North Long Beach Anthology deadline has been pushed
back from October 15, 2008 to March 1, 2009.

The purpose of this book is to highlight the great points and people of North Long Beach through creative writing and visual art. The book will contain 50 short stories and 50 matching pieces of art about living, working and playing in North Long Beach.

Their goal is to reach as many people as they can, from all walks of life. If you live there, great! Write a story inspired by your experiences in this part of Long Beach. If you don’t live in North Long Beach, take a trip there and let yourself and your imagination wander.

Pieces can be fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Once created it will appear in bookstores all over Long Beach, Southern California and on www.amazon.com.

To make a submission just go to www.BookByAuthors.org and download a
submission form and mail it in with your submission or fill it out online.

Attention women writers!

Damselfly Press is currently seeking your dynamic, powerful, and bold work.

Their mission?

“…to promote exceptional writing by women whose voices have not yet been heard. We welcome work from female writers of all backgrounds and experiences. We accept fiction, poetry, and nonfiction that is honest and daring, and explores the relationship between dualities. Joy, pain. Boldness, vulnerability. Sacred, profane. Be passionate about your writing, and explore the truth that lies within. There is truth even in fiction; make us believe what you have to say.”

Girl, you know you’ve got it in you!

For submission information, visit:  damselflypress.net/submissions .

Fiction and non-fiction writers: don’t be discouraged just because Seneca Review focuses primarily on poetry. They have been known to publish other pieces that hold poetic qualities since 1997, when they began publishing the “lyric essay .”

Their guidelines claim that they do not to publish fiction. But the ever expanding definitions of poetry can always stretch wide enough to include various forms of writing.

If you don’t find that your writing has enough poetic elements to qualify, take a piece of flash fiction or memoir and play with lines and breaks until you find that what you have before you is, indeed, poetry.

Seneca Review’s reading period is from September 1st to May 1st. And the editors promise to respond within 12 weeks.

For more information, visit: Seneca Review Submission Guidlines

Nobody cares, they say.

Thank goodness, I say.

Finally, a literary journal that will not snub its nose at your unpublished, nobody name.  In fact, they don’t even want to know your name.  Your submission will be entirely anonymous when reviewed.

Ah, a level playing field.

But here’s the catch, it will also be published anonymously.  So much for the beautiful by-line of which you dream.

So what if your friends don’t believe that you really wrote that genius piece published in the first edition of The New Anonymous?  You know that you wrote it.

Check out submission guidelines at:

http://www.buckbeeawriter.com/newanonymous

Get your writing published and travel to a foreign country? As if seeing your writing in print wasn’t enough!

Summer Literary Seminars (www.sumlitsem.org) is announcing its annual 2009 unified literary contest, held this year in affiliation with Fence Magazine (www.fenceportal.org).

Fiction and poetry contest winners will have their work published in Fence, as well as the participating literary journals in Canada, Russia, Kenya, Italy, and Lithuania. Additionally, they will have the choice of attending (airfare, tuition, and housing included) any one of the SLS-09 programs - in Vasto, Abruzzo, Italy (May 15-30); Vilnius-Nida, Lithuania (July 20-August 4); 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-09 programs.

Contest Deadline: February 28, 2009.

There is a $15 reading fee.

See website for complete guidelines for the 2009 contests.

Muse India is currently accepting submissions for their bi-monthly, online literary journal. They welcome pieces of work by Indian and non-Indian authors alike. However, their interest is primarily writings that focus on India (in English or in translation).

In order to submit a piece of work, you must be a member (membership is free).

Poems should be mailed to Editor-poetry@museindia.com.

Short fiction should be mailed to Editor-fiction@museindia.com.

Articles and other general submissions should be mailed to Editor-articles@museindia.com (keep in mind that they will avoid highly academic articles).

Muse India aims to publish writing by both amateur and professional authors.

For more information, visit www.museindia.com.