Monday, August 30, 2010
Naked Man's Rock
In the featured story -- “Rebecca's Revenge” -- Rebecca, a beautiful secretary to an offbeat minister, turns up missing. Suspicions fall on the minister and his wife. The Sheriff can't locate the missing woman. Jack Nickels, a former mob enforcer hiding in the Witness Protection Program, lives next door to Penny. She is a sister to the minister's wife. Jack walks the Greenbrier River Trail every morning, just at the break of dawn. Rebecca materializes in ghostly form before him on Naked Man's Rock in the middle of the Greenbrier River. She is a manipulative ghost and draws Jack into her scheme for revenge. Can a ghost be mistaken? Will she finally reveal who killed her? There are 14 short stories in this book. The majority are regional stories with an Appalachian setting. One story takes place in Alaska and another off the coast of Florida. You will find stories of betrayal, deception, ghosts, love -- both sad and humorous -- murder and suicide. The stories encompass a wide range of human foibles. If you are a B & B traveler, you will love these stories that fit the B & B experience. Read one before you go to bed. The next day, you will have another short story to look forward to reading. These stories are perfect for reading when you are by yourself in an old house. Be sure to lock all the doors, though.
Available in Hardback, Paperback, and Electronically downloadable to your Kindle from Amazon.com
Naked Man's Rock
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Poetry contest: Conceit Magazine
(Information courtesy of R.S. White)
JUANITA TORRENCE-THOMPSON POETRY AWARD(Sponsored as a fundraiser for CONCEIT MAGAZINE)
Juanita Torrence-Thompson is an award-winning POET, and author of 6 books including her latest, BREATH-LIFE. Her expertise has been sought out to judge multiple contests throughout the state of New York and on the national level.
First Prize - $50.00
Second Prize - $30.00
Third Prize – 20.00
Fourth Prize - 1 yr subscription to CONCEIT MAGAZINE
Fifth Prize - 6 mth subscription to CONCEIT MAGAZINE
Sixth Prize - 3 month subscription to CONCEIT MAG.
$7.00 entry fee up to 2 poems
ALL writers welcomed
Previously published poems accepted
POEMS MUST BE ORIGINAL AND IN FREE VERSE – NO CENTOS -- 45 Line Limit
Please send name, address, phone and email addresses for notification of winners.
All poems entered will be considered for publication in Conceit Magazine.
SUBJECT: HURRICANE KATRINA and/or HAITI
DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 15, 2010
Email entries and queries to: <Conceitmagazine2007(at)yahoo.com> (replace (at) with @)
PayPal users pay to <conceitmagazine(at)yahoo.com> (replace (at) with @)
Check website: http://www.myspace.com/conceitmagazine
or
Snail mail entries and reading fees to:
Perry Terrell, Editor
Juanita Torrence-Thompson Poetry Award
P. O. 761495, San Antonio, TX 78245
or
Perry Terrell, Editor
Juanita Torrence-Thompson Poetry Award
P. O. Box 884223, San Francisco, CA 94188-4223
(Make payable to: PERRY TERRELL)
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Call for submissions: The Sharp-Tongued Woman Review
Call for Submissions, Including Reprints: The Sharp-Tongued Woman Review
http://sharp-tonguedwomanrev.blogspot.com/
http://sharp-tonguedwomanrev.submishmash.com/Submit
The Sharp-Tongued Woman Review is a new literary journal striving to
publish the best in fiction, creative nonfiction, scholarly works,
book reviews, and interviews. We accept and encourage work from around
the globe.
Though works are to be topically related to women and stories are to
have female protagonists, both male and female authors are encouraged
to submit.
For creative prose, the editor is looking for strong, distinctive
voices and unique approaches. For analytical pieces, the editor seeks
depth, a maturity of vision, and well-reasoned arguments. Please see
the submission guidelines on the homepage.
Stories submitted for consideration should be on the longer side and
are expected to be fully developed. Short shorts and flash pieces will
be considered if several are submitted together.
The first reading period ends September.1.
The editor will consider previously published work as long as you have
the legal right to republish the material. However, work that is
available on-line cannot be published. Please mention in your cover if
your work has been previously published.
Upon acceptance of your work, you grant The Sharp-Tongued Woman Review
one-time publication rights and archival rights. The copyright to your
work remains your own.
Poetry Reading in Princeton WV
(Information courtesy of R.S. White)
As part of the festivities celebrating the opening of the New Princeton Library on Saturday, August 28, local poets Rob Merritt, Raymond Neely, Salvatore Buttaci, and Kayla Ward will present a poetry reading from 2 to 3 PM. The library's new location is the previous Princeton Post office, 920 Mercer Street.Monday, August 23, 2010
Call for submissions: One Forty Fiction
(Information courtesy of R.S. White)
One Forty Fiction is a website dedicated to stories that stick to a limit of 140 characters (spaces included). Stories told with beginnings, middles, and ends, and characters who want things.
But how to tell such stories in such limited space? How to create love, and want, and derision in 140 characters? How to deliver your heart?
We have no answer for you. We just know that you have 140 characters to make us see, feel, live, & yearn for the world beyond your 140.
Give us all you got. But give it to us wrapped tight, a Big Bang of a universe, a history of life itself, communicated wisely, and with love.
And if you're feeling saucy, don't be afraid to bring the jazz & funk.
Submit as many and as often as you like: http://www.onefortyfiction.com/submit-your-own
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Poetry contest: Naugatuck River Review (SEPT 1 deadline)
(Information courtesy of R.S. White)
Announcing: Naugatuck River Review's 2nd Annual NARRATIVE POETRY CONTESTContest Submission Period: July 1st through September 1st
First prize is $1000 and publication in NRR
Second prize $250 and publication in NRR
Third prize of $100 and publication in NRR
All entrants will receive one issue of Naugatuck River Review.
All poems will be considered for publication. Contest deadline is
September 1st, 2010 at midnight.
Electronic submissions ONLY will be accepted through our Submission Manager.
$20 contest fee per group of 3 poems, payable through PAYPAL or credit card.
GO TO OUR CONTEST PAGE (AFTER JULY FIRST) TO SUBMIT
athttp://naugatuckriverreview.com/contest
Judge for 2nd Annual Contest: Patricia Smith
A National Book Award Finalist, Patricia Smith's fifth book of poetry,
Blood Dazzler (Coffee House Press) chronicles the human, physical and
emotional toll exacted by Hurricane Katrina, a catastrophic natural
event with lasting spiritual and political impact. This
much-anticipated volume is also the focal point of a new dance/theater
collaboration between Patricia and Urban Bush Women dancer Paloma
McGregor.
Patricia is also the author of Teahouse of the Almighty (Coffee House
Press), a National Poetry Series winner, the Best Poetry Book of 2006
on About.com, and a 2007 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and Paterson
Poetry Prize winner; Close to Death (Zoland Books), Big Towns, Big
Talk (Zoland) and Life According to Motown (Tia Chucha). Her poems
have appeared in Poetry, The Paris Review, poemmemoirstory, Harvard
Divinity Bulletin, the Chautauqua Literary Journal, TriQuarterly, and
other journals, and in many groundbreaking anthologies. Her poem "The
Way Pilots Walk" received a Pushcart Prize, and is featured in
Pushcart Prize XXXII: Best of the Small Presses. Recognized as one of
the world's most formidable performers, Patricia has read her work at
venues round the world
All poems will be considered for publication. Contest deadline is
September 1st, 2010.
Electronic submissions ONLY will be accepted through our Submission Manager.
$20 contest fee per group of 3 poems, payable through PAYPAL or credit card.
GO TO OUR CONTEST PAGE (AFTER JULY FIRST) TO SUBMIT
athttp://naugatuckriverreview.com/contest
Naugatuck River Review is dedicated to publishing great narrative
poetry. We are open to many styles of poetry, looking for narrative
that sings, which means the poem has a strong emotional core and the
narrative is compressed. We publish twice a year, Winter and Summer.
The Winter issue is the contest edition.
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Call for Writings
Editions Bibliotekos is accepting submissions for war-related stories for their anticpated (third) anthology, Battle Runes: Writings on War. At this point they are interested in good fiction. Details can be found at their blog, www.ebibliotekos.blogspot.com - by clicking on the Guidelines button. Deadline is September 1.
Editions Bibliotekos
www.ebibliotekos.blogspot.com
Friday, August 20, 2010
Small press seeks fiction for electronic chapbooks
Call for Fiction Submissions: Wordrunner Electronic Chapbooks
This small press publishes four collections online annually of
fiction, poetry or memoir, each featuring one author. Submit your
manuscript for the mid-September FICTION e-chapbook by August 28. No
fee to submit. Payment: $65. See
http://www.echapbook.com/submissions.htm
for guidelines and 2010-11 submission and publication schedule.
Stories may be flash or longer, from 600 up to 2,000 words each,
totalling a minimum of approximately 8,000 and a maximum of 14,000
words for the collection.
The stories should belong together for some reason, be it theme,
location or character/s.
At least half of the collection should be previously unpublished. (But
no stories need be previously published.)
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Call for fiction, creative nonfiction and art: Fiction Fix
Call for Submissions: fiction, creative nonfiction, and artwork
Fiction Fix seeks fiction, creative nonfiction, and artwork submissions. The
deadline for issue 8 is Sept. 30th.
Our latest issue and details for submission
are available at
www.fictionfix.net
Wednesday, August 04, 2010
Anthology seeks poems about trailer park experiences
Slated for publication via an independent press in 2011, we are seeking poems that celebrate growing up, living in, leaving, or otherwise responding to the trailer park for an as-yet-untitled anthology. Accepted poets will receive one copy of the book upon publication as payment.
Guidelines:
• Beginning, emerging and established poets are equally invited.
• Send submissions to <parkanthology(at)gmail.com> via attachment
• Submit up to five poems in rtf, doc, or docx format
• Include author contact information—name, address, phone number, email—on
each submission.
• Previously published poems are welcome.
• Deadline for submissions is February 28th, 2011
• For questions, contact editor at <parkanthology(at)gmail.com> (replace (at) with @)
Tuesday, August 03, 2010
Sarah Dooley's book release and launch party
Huntington resident Sarah Dooley's debut middle grade novel, LIVVIE OWEN LIVED HERE, will be released August 17 from Feiwel and Friends/Macmillan. LIVVIE OWEN LIVED HERE is the story of a child with autism trying to find a home for her family after an eviction she thinks is her fault.
A book launch party will be held Saturday, August 28, at Taylor Books in Charleston from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. In addition to a reading and book signing, there will be opportunities to win prizes, including a signed copy of the book.
To learn more about Livvie Owen Lived Here, visit http://www.dooleynotedbooks.com.
Monday, August 02, 2010
Call for nonfiction on food: Creative Nonfiction
ISSUE THEME and CONTEST: Food
postmark deadline September 3, 2010
http://www.creativenonfiction.org/
For an upcoming issue, we're seeking true stories that incorporate or
involve food.
Essays must be vivid and dramatic; they should combine a strong and
compelling narrative with a significant element of research or
information, and reach for some universal or deeper meaning in
personal experiences. We're looking for well-written prose, rich with
detail and a distinctive voice.
Creative Nonfiction editors will award $1000 for Best Essay and $500
for runner-up.
Guidelines: Essays must be: unpublished, 5,000 words or less,
postmarked by September 3, 2010, and clearly marked "Food" on both the
essay and the outside of the envelope.
There is a $20 reading fee (or send a reading fee of $25 to include a
4-issue CNF subscription); multiple entries are welcome ($20/essay) as
are entries from outside the U.S. (though subscription shipping costs
do apply). Please send manuscript, accompanied by a cover letter with
complete contact information (address, phone, and email), SASE and
payment to:
Creative Nonfiction
Attn: Food
5501 Walnut Street, Suite 202
Pittsburgh, PA 15232
Sunday, August 01, 2010
2010 Family Circle Fiction Contest Rules
See the rules and entry information for the 2010 Family Circle Fiction Contest.
http://www.familycircle.com/family-fun/crafts/2010-family-circle-fiction-contest-rules/
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