Isles Poetry Group Seeking Editor

In 1949, Jerome Brooke was born in Evansville, Indiana. He is currently the editor of the Isles of Myst Review. He has also written a varied collection of poetry books such as Dancer of Luzon (January 1999), Dark Sea of Sulu (January 1999), High Priestess (January 1999), Mirage: Dance of the Sun (January 1999), Our Lady of Silk (January 1999), Parade (January 1999), Hunters of Stone (January 2000), Lance of the Sun (January 2000), and Babylon (January 2001). These poetry books, as well as other books by this author, are available for purchase on Amazon.com.

Currently, he has put out a call for an editor for an eZine produced by The Isles Poetry Group. According to information he has posted about this opportunity, “the position is unpaid, but with income potential.”

If you are interested in applying for the position, or would like more information about it, send an email to jeromevbrooke@yahoo.com .


Thanks to Astarte Immortal for sharing this call.  Reprinted from the Examiner.com.

Submit to Nothing No One Nowhere

Virgogray Press

Nothing No One Nowhere

Nothing No On Nowhere will be published quarterly in print edition and will be edited by Amelia Hoff. Submissions will close on December 1st, 2010 or when the issue is full. These are the general guidelines:

• You may submit up to five pieces of poetry or short prose/flash fiction or up to the total of 5 pages.
• Short stories, fiction, plays, and interviews may be submitted with a length of up to 10 pages.
• Reviews maybe submitted with a length up to 2 pages per review.
• Public Forum/Polemics- This is a segment of the magazine dedicate to allowing the voice of public concern, thought or question to be expressed. Community to world wide, this space is open for your truth.
• Art maybe sent in .jpeg format. Do not send .zip or like format. You may send a minimum of 4 images and up to 10 images. The work you submit may not previously appear in any print or internet media.

Please do not send genre writing: science fiction, fantasy, etc.

If there is a format of writing you wish to submit not included above, you may contact and inquire.

WE DO NOT ACCEPT SIMULTANEOUS SUBMISSIONS.

YOU MAY SUBMIT PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED WORK, however, they must be older than one year from the publication date of the Nothing No One Nowhere issue you wish your work to appear in.

• Please include publishing history in your cover letter.
• Please indicate what type of writing you are submitting (i.e. fiction, short story, public forum, etc.)
• There may be up to a three month waiting period; please consider this when submitting.
• Submissions must be marked: Nothing No One Nowhere Submission or NNN-submission
• Please include your mailing address and a bio spit not to exceed three lines.
• All submissions should be sent by e-mail in the body of the draft to: vgp_sa@yahoo.com .

There is no payment for publication in Nothing No One Nowhere, though we are hoping to provide monetary compensation to our contributors in the future. However, any creator featured in Nothing No One Nowhere will receive one contributors copy.

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All correspondence for Nothing No One Nowhere must be sent to: vgp_sa@yahoo.com .

 

Virgogray (Est. 2004) is an independent publisher operating out of Texas. We specialize in poetry chapbooks and anthologies. Visit us at http://www.facebook.com/virgograypress Please look around, get to know us and if you'd like, submit something for publication.

Ashland Poetry Press Releases Jason Schneiderman's Second Collection STRIKING SURFACE

About the Book:

"Jason Schneiderman has a fabulous, distillate gift for seeing to the heart of inherited paradigms: the Greeks on violence and the gods; the Christian Middle Ages on violence and conquest; the all-too-transhistorical, multicultural Everywhere on violence toward children. Hence the ravishing paradox of Schneiderman's poems, which find their freshest purchase in twice-told tales: the myths of Hyacinth and Echo, the myth of the progressive totalitarian state, the skepticism of the Rabbis, the nostalgia of the skeptical philosophers. STRIKING SURFACE (six of them on the hand alone, says the latest Interrogation Manual) is both beautifully conceived and beautifully written: witty, trenchant, tender, acerbic, and always, immutably, wise"--Linda Gregerson.



STRIKING SURFACE
by Jason Schneiderman
Paperback: 72 pages
Ashland Poetry Press (September, 2010)
ISBN: 978-0912592701



About the Author:



Jason Schneiderman is the author of STRIKING SURFACE (Ashland Poetry Press, 2010) and Sublimation Point (Four Way Books, 2004), a Stahlecker Selection. His poetry and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including American Poetry Review, The Best American Poetry, Poetry London, Grand Street, The Penguin Book of the Sonnet, Story Quarterly, and Tin House. He has received fellowships from Yaddo, The Fine Arts Work Center, and The Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. He was the recipient of the Emily Dickinson Award from the Poetry Society of America in 2004. A graduate of the MFA program at NYU, he is currently completing his doctorate at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.  http://jasonschneiderman.net/

Jason Schneiderman
(photo credit: Star Black)

BOOK LAUNCH

STRIKING SHARK MYSTERY PARTY

3 POETS,  3 NEW POETRY COLLECTIONS, 1 NIGHT ONLY.

Saturday,  September 25, 6-9PM

@ LILLIAN VERNON HOUSE, 58 West 10th Steet, New York City

~Featuring~

Jennifer L. Knox (The Mystery of the Hidden Driveway), Ada Limón (Sharks in the Rivers),

Jason Schneiderman (Striking Surface)

Jason Schneiderman's Striking Surface was reviewed in Publisher's Weekly

« Ashland Poetry Press http://ashlandpoetrypress.wordpress.com/

Schneiderman practices, and sometimes excels at, the kind of art that seems, at first, artless: his sonnets, prose poems, and sparse free verse show a laconic figure whose grave reserve reveals itself in carefully stripped-down language, using only the most common American words. This second collect...

A Midsummer Night's Press: Submission Call for 2 Anthologies Celebrating Queer Jewish Poetry

please spread the word

Friday, September 10, 2010 4:48 PM

From: Lawrence Schimel
To: Roxanne Hoffman

Hola Roxy--

Am doing 2 new anthos via A Midsummer Night's Press.

Thanks for any help in spreading the word.

And shana Tova!
:-)

L.
--
http://amidsummernightspress.typepad.com/amsnp/2010/09/cfs-for-2-anthologies-of-jewish-gay-and-lesbian-poetry.html

A Midsummer Night's Press

announces a call for submissions for 2 anthologies

celebrating queer Jewish poetry

to be published Spring 2011:

FLAMBOYANT: A Celebration of Jewish Gay Poetry
edited by Lawrence Schimel

&

MILK AND HONEY: A Celebration of Jewish Lesbian Poetry 

edited by Julie R. Enszer

Deadline: November 30, 2010.

We are looking for poems that celebrate and question, meditate and intimate, argue and reconcile contemporary queer Jewish identity. What is queer Jewish experience in the twenty-first century? What poetry expresses queer Jewishness today?

Whether you write about interfaith queer parenting, cruising in shul, how it feels to sign a ketubah in a country that won't recognize our same-sex marriages, fetishizing a sheggitz or being fetishized, we want to read about it and share it with others who want to read it as well.

What are our sacred texts for today? If they don't yet exist, write them. What are our queer Jewish blessings, curses and prayers.

While there is a rich tradition of queer Jewish writers who have made an indelible mark on our literature over the years, from Gertrude Stein and Adrienne Rich to Allen Ginsburg and Edward Field, we are looking for work that reflects queer Jewish identity in the new (secular) millennium. As such, we are open either to unpublished work, or work that was published since 2000 (this would include work

originally published in a magazine or anthology before 2000, which was later collected in a book published after 2000).

We welcome voices from across the spectrum of Jewish identity, from observant to merely cultural, and their intersections with gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender identities and experiences.

We are open to all styles of poetry, from formal to free verse.

We welcome queer Jewish voices from outside the US, and are willing to consider translations into English. (It is the translator's responsibility to secure permission to reprint the poem in English.)

Both anthologies are open to previously published work, but it is the poet's responsibility to secure permission to reprint the poem.

We welcome work from Jewish trans poets, so long as the content of the work is relevant to either gay or lesbian experience.

There is no limit to the number of poems which may be submitted, so long as the Jewish and queer content are both relevant.

Submission instructions:

1. Title file with the initials of the anthology and author's last name: F-Surname.doc or MH-Surname.doc
2. Include your name, your mailing address, your email address, and a bio WITHIN the .doc file with your essay, as submissions will be separated from emails to be read.
3. Submit your work by email, as an attachment in .doc or .rtf format, to queerjewishpoetry@gmail.com

Deadline: November 30, 2010.

Payment will be three copies of the anthology per contributor.

About the Editors:

Lawrence Schimel is the author or anthologist of over 100 books, including FOUND TRIBE: JEWISH COMING OUT STORIES, KOSHER MEAT, BEST GAY POETRY 2008, FIRST PERSON QUEER, PoMoSEXUALS: CHALLENGING ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT GENDER AND SEXUALITY, TWO BOYS IN LOVE, THE FUTURE IS QUEER, etc. He has won the Lambda Literary Award (twice), an Independent Publisher Book Award, the Spectrum Award, and other honors. He writes in both English and Spanish, and his work has been translated into 27 languages.

Julie R. Enszer is the author of the poetry collection HANDMADE LOVE (A Midsummer Night's Press, 2010) and the chapbook SISTERHOOD (Seven Kitchens Press, 2010). Her work has appeared in numerous Jewish, feminist and queer publications, including BRIDGES, JEWISH WOMEN'S LITERARY ANNUAL, SINISTER WISDOM, CALYX, WOMEN'S REVIEW OF BOOKS, FEMINIST STUDIES, WASHINGTON BLADE, LAMBDA BOOK REPORT, etc. She is also the founder of the Lesbian Poetry Archive.

About the Publisher:

A Midsummer Night's Press is an independent poetry publisher, publishing primarily in two imprints: 1) Fabula Rasa, dedicated to work inspired by myth and fairy tale, which has published FORTUNE'S LOVER: A BOOK OF TAROT POEMS by Rachel Pollack and FAIRY TALES FOR WRITERS by Lawrence Schimel, and 2) Body Language, devoted to queer poetry, which has published THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED IN OUR OTHER LIFE by Achy Obejas; BANALITIES by Brane Mozetic, translated by Elizabeti Zargi; HANDMADE LOVE by Julie R. Enszer; and MUTE by Raymond Luczak.

http://www.amidsummernightspress.com/

Eighty-eight Stories Campaign Against Domestic Violence And Raise Funds For Abused Mothers And Kids

Wisdom of Our Mothers (Familia Books, 2010) is an anthology of true stories and poetry based on the theme of lessons learned from the authors’ mothers. It is the brain-child of part-time philanthropist Eric Bowen.

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WISDOM OF OUR MOTHERS

Stories and Poems by Daughters and Sons

Edited by Eric Bowen

Trade Paperback, 296 Pages

ISBN 978-1453631010

Familia Books, 2010

$14.95

From the mother who taught her daughter to wire a lamp
to the mother who recruited the President to save her daughter's life,
the memories of daughters and sons of the remarkable wisdom and dedication of their mothers come to vivid life in this anthology of true stories.

~Contributors~

Aderemi Adegbite

Lily Alex

Liz Allen

Sally Bellerose

B. Lynch Black

L. Michael Black

Sylvia Bright-Green

Rheana Lee Campbell

Iona Carroll

Selene Castrovilla

Vijayalakshmi Chary

Eve Cogdell

JaeLynn Conrad

Flavia Cosma

Althea Gael Coupé

Shirley Anne Cox

Julie Curwin

Lynne Daroff

Carole Davis

Laura Aviella Davis

Mary Dempsey

Liz Dolan

Melissa England

Fred Evans

Deepanjolie Sonya Figg

Sandra Fischer

Virginia Fortner

Michele Graves

Susan Harmon

Jean M. Hendrickson

Roxanne Hoffman

Stephanie Holbrook

Andrea Hernandez Holm

Anne-Marie Hood

Dee Ann E. L. Horvath

Patrick Hurley

Amanda Hyslop

Beverly Jackson

Sally Jadlow

Diane Kolb

Kathy Krisko

Erin Lawlor

Loraine Lawson

James W. Lewis

Christy Lowman

Rose Marks

Tara Masih

Caryl McAdoo

Lyn McConchie

Myrna McKee

Rajendar Menen

Susan E. Méra

Jayne Moraski

Brooke Mullins

Hugh Neeld

Jean Noble

Lucy L. Painter

Sr. Josie Palmeri, MPF

Roberta Filzer Pearl

Perry P. Perkins

Carolyn Piper

Gayle Portnow

Oluwafemi Reis

Pat Richards

Dmae Roberts

Gwen Russell Green

Sheri Ryan

Wanda Ryder

Lynn Veach Sadler

Mark Scheel

Jacqueline Seewald

Virginia Settle

Ryma Shohami

Sheila Sievewright

Sharon Skinner

Serena Spinello

Madeline Steeg

Deborah Straw

Annmarie B. Tait

Laura Tamayo

Nicole A. Tatum

Rita Janice Traub

Dalia van den Boogaard

Sarah Wagner

K. K. Wilder

Lisa K. Winkler

Opposing domestic violence: In honor of those mothers doing their work in the most difficult of circumstances, editor Eric Bowen has pledged to donate one-half of his profits from the sale of this book to shelters for women and their children who are escaping abusive relationships.

About the Editor

Born in Renton, Washington State in 1953, Eric Bowen uses his day job as an accountant to support his family and his various hobbies and social activities, including Toastmasters, the Unitarians, hiking, taekwondo, linguistics, singing, and of course writing. His first book, An American View of Wales, chronicled his decade of volunteering for the Welsh home rule and language restoration movement.

* * * FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE * * *

Aug 25, 2010

Contact:

Patricia Carragon
917 679 5002
pcarragon@gmail.com


EIGHTY-EIGHT STORIES CAMPAIGN AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

Anthology aims to raise funds for abused mothers and children

Bellingham, Washington (July 1, 2010) Wisdom of Our Mothers (Familia Books, 2010) is an anthology of true stories and poetry based on the theme of lessons learned from the authors’ mothers. It is the brain-child of part-time philanthropist Eric Bowen.

Following the publication of Tim Russert’s popular Wisdom of Our Fathers, Bowen saw the need for a companion volume of maternal wisdom. Bowen solicited writers from around the world to contribute their stories of what they had learned from their mothers. Guided by his own mother’s teaching that “one does well by doing good,” Bowen has pledged half his profits from the book to raise funds for shelters for abused mothers and children.

Everyone has a mother, and readers will doubtlessly find stories in this anthology that relate to their own experiences. Yet Bowen’s presentation isn’t sentimental. The mothers profiled in the stories are human. Their virtues are balanced by their flaws, and in some cases, the lessons learned from those flaws form the basis of the story.

The anthology explores maternal wisdom in various categories: emotional, relationship, and practical skills; virtues, humor, and heritage. One chapter delves into “the dark side,” profiling some truly dysfunctional mothers. “From other lands” describes motherhood in cultures outside the American mainstream.

For more information about Wisdom of Our Mothers, please visit http://www.familiabooks.com/ or contact Eric Bowen at 360-384-1028.


About Eric Bowen:

Eric Bowen has worked as an occasional free-lance reporter. Of Welsh descent, he covered the Welsh nationalist movement of the 1990s, summarizing his work in his first book, An American View of Wales. In addition to his writing experience, Bowen brings to his new book a social conscience and multicultural perspective developed in his volunteer work with the United Farm Workers and Amnesty International. These perspectives, coupled with his personal trauma as both an observer and victim of domestic violence in his extended family, are evident in the yeasty, gritty, and multicultural facets of the anthology.

About Familia Books:

Familia Books is Eric Bowen’s publishing enterprise. In addition to Wisdom of Our Mothers, Bowen plans further anthologies including Wisdom of Our Children and Surviving Domestic Violence.

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Bench Press Releases LIGHTLY IN THE GOOD OF DAY Poems by Bob Hart

LIGHTLY IN THE GOOD OF DAY
by Bob Hart
(Bench Press, September 2010)
6x9, perfect bound, 84 pages, $15.00

Publisher/editor Jee Leong Koh, Bench Press and author/poet Bob Hart will launch Lightly in the Good of Day, a new collection of poetry by Bob Hart, this September at the Cornelia Street Cafe in Greenwich Village, New York. This will the second title released by Bench Press, after its inaugural Equal to the Earth, a full-length collection by Jee Leong Koh, released last summer. And a second book for Bob Hart who has a previous small book of poems titled Acrobat. 

Bob Hart,  a beloved and long-time regular at the Friday night open mic at the Cornelia Street Cafe, has been regaling New York audiences with his wistful and lyrical verse for decades.  An observant and thoughtful writer, his poetic confessions at the open mic are more revelatory of the world around him than of himself.   Hart grew up in Harlem, on 145th Street, 142nd Street and 158th Street. He served in the army from 1952 to 1954, and was stationed in Germany during the Korean War.  He now works for a mail sorting company in Midtown West, and lives in Brooklyn, often sporting one of his many colorful trademarks vests. 

Friday, Sep 17 at 6:00PM

SON OF PONY Kat Georges, host

The Friday night legendary open mic poetry series

~features~

BOB HART

@ 

The Cornelia Street Cafe

29 Cornelia Street

(Between Bleecker & West 4th) 

New York, NY 10014

212.989.9319

Arrive before 6 pm to sign up.

Cover $7 (includes one house drink)

For more details about Bench Press and Lightly in the Good of Day by Bob Hart please visit: http://www.benchpresspoetry.com/

BENCH PRESS
poetry that exerts pressure at every point, and so achieves a momentary rest

Valery Oisteanu remembers LOUISE BOURGEOIS (1912-2010)

Louise Borgeois

Louise Bourgeois (1912-2010)
by Valery Oisteanu

Sculptures are almost melting, crying of loneliness
Aggressive ecstasy and malicious joy
Gigantic spiders stand still, in a frozen position
The spider-mother had passed into infinity
Mirrors reflecting other mirrors, as a portal
The old doors that were never opened
Her octagonal room a sequence of doors
Move slowly, almost invisible, closing opening
Two dark limbs are chopped off
And lay there on a slab of dark granite
The grand dame of Confessional art
With the dark latex phallus under her arm
Talks to Freud and Lacan, May 31, 2010
Something dark and uneasy about her
Her head appears like a surreal house
No eyes but windows, no face but steps
A garden of phalluses grows under her
She will harvest them on a full moon
Eccentric, sadistic, abstract-geometric
Totemic, Iconic, Ironic
All of that and much more
The Louise we knew, will not return.

Maman, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao.

The Spider is an ode to my mother. She was my best friend. Like a spider, my mother was a weaver. My family was in the business of tapestry restoration, and my mother was in charge of the workshop. Like spiders, my mother was very clever. Spiders are friendly presences that eat mosquitoes. We know that mosquitoes spread diseases and are therefore unwanted. So, spiders are helpful and protective, just like my mother.

– Louise Bourgeois

Louise Joséphine Bourgeois, French-American artist and sculptor, nicknamed the "Spiderwoman" for her spider structures or Maman, died of heart failure on 31 May 2010 at the age of 98. She is credited as the founder of "confessional" art, best known for her disturbing and symbolic sculptures exploring birth, sexuality and death from a woman's point of view.

The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow No. 3: Now Available on LULU.com

The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow No. 3

ISBN 978-0-557-58376-8

Paperback: 232, Price: $15

Red Wheelbarrow Poets,  August 2010

http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/the-rutherford-red-wheelbarrow-no-3/12206587  

Masthead:

Editor: Jim Klein

Managing Editor: Mark Fogarty

Managing Editor: Sondra Singer Beaulieu

Designer: Claudia Serea

Editor Advisor: John Barrale

Editor Advisor: Céline Beaulieu

Editor Advisor: George DeGregorio

Contributors (in alphabetical order):

John Barrale

Céline Beaulieu

Sondra Singer Beaulieu

Marian Calabro

Teresa Carson

George DeGregorio

Gil Fagiani

Jane Fisher

Mark Fogarty

Elissa Gordon

Max Greenberg

Roxanne Hoffman

Pamela Hughes

Josh Humphrey

Gail King

Jim Klein

Melanie Klein

Janet Kolstein

Joel Lewis

Maria Lisella

Pete Loria

Zorida Mohammed

Michael O'Brien

Moira O'Brien

Tony Puma

Gabriella Radujko

Susan Rappaport

Susanna Rich

Dan Saxon

Claudia Serea

Ed Smith

Rosemarie S. Sprouls

Anna Toher

John J. Trause

Miyuki Tsurumaki

David Vincenti

B.J. Ward

Dorinda Wegener

Don Zirilli

Sander Zulauf

~BOOK LAUNCH~

 

William Carlos Williams Poetry Cooperative of Southern Bergen County

Presents

Poetry in Rutherford

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

7:00 PM

~Featuring~

THE RED WHEELBARROW POETS

&

Celebrating the Release of the Third Edition of

THE RUTHERFORD RED WHEELBARROW

Plus the work of

WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS

presented by JOEL LEWIS

&

Open Readings from the floor

This program is held at:

Williams Center for the Performing Arts
One Williams Plaza
Rutherford, NJ 07070
Tel: (201) 939-6969
Fax: (201) 939-0843
http://www.williamscenter.org/ 


Call the Rutherford Public Library at 201.939.8600 for more information.

THE RUTHERFORD RED WHEELBARROW 3

THE RUTHERFORD RED WHEELBARROW 3RD COLLECTION CELEBRATES THE AMERICAN POETIC VOICE   RUTHERFORD, August 20, 2010 — A remarkable collection of 42 poets connected with the Rutherford, NJ poetry revival gives voice to memorable poetry and essays in the third edition of The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow. Published by the Red Wheelbarrow Poets, this third annual edition of the literary journal celebrates the epic in the local and poetic voices in the American grain that so inspired William Carlos Williams, Rutherford's hometown doctor and poet, whose liberation of the voice of the common man (and woman) in poetry was a true revolution in words during the last century. "Dr. Williams was a one-man vortex who continues to inspire the many fine poets who live in Rutherford or come here to take part in its many poetry readings, workshops, symposia, and literary journal," said Jim Klein, editor of the book and leader of the Red Wheelbarrow Poets. "All of the poets in The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow have a deep connection with the town," said Klein. "Either they have participated in the Red Wheelbarrow Poets' weekly poetry workshop, now in its fourth year, or the monthly readings at the Williams Center, sponsored by the William Carlos Williams Poetry Cooperative, or the monthly readings at GainVille Café hosted by the Red Wheelbarrow Poets." "We have scored another coup by publishing two rare and perhaps previously unpublished works by Williams," said managing editor Mark Fogarty. "Jane Fisher, director of the Rutherford Public Library, graciously allowed me to look through the library's Williams Collection, and we came up with a short typed memoir of Paris by the doctor and a handwritten letter and introductory fragment of a poem Williams worked on in the first decade of the 1900s." "Our featured poet this year, Kathy Kuenzle, is a Rutherford native now living in Providence, RI who has made a "return of the native" to Rutherford in the past couple of years," said managing editor Sondra Singer Beaulieu. "Her exciting work comes both from her Rutherford period and her later years in Providence." Kuenzle's poetry has just been issued by the Rutherford-based White Chickens Press in the volume A Dress Full of Holes. Keeping up the Williams theme, the book also features four essays on the poet, adapted from presentations made at the monthly Williams Center readings, as well as a review of a new book of Williams' correspondence with his brother. There is also a memoir of the North Jersey poetry scene by Hoboken poet and critic Joel Lewis. The journal will be launched on Sept. 1 at 7 PM at the Williams Center, at the Williams Poetry Cooperative reading run by poet John J. Trause and Fisher. Copies of it will be available for sale that night, and many of the poets in the journal will read from it during the evening. The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow is also available online at Lulu.com and will be available through Amazon.com before the end of the year.   # # # POETS WEAR PRADA C/O Roxanne Hoffman 533 Bloomfield Street - 2nd Floor Hoboken, NJ 07030 http://pwpbooks.blogspot.com http://www.facebook.com/pages/Poets-Wear-Prada/41483895438 http://twitter.com/pradapoet POETS WEAR PRADA is a small press based in Hoboken, New Jersey devoted to introducing new authors through limited edition, high- quality chaplets, primarily of poetry. New press, great authors, a publisher who is one miracle short of sainthood.-Angelo Verga, Poetry Curator of The Cornelia Street Cafe Poets Wear Prada is a poetry publishing house with excellent poets and affordable books with beautiful covers. Have you had your poetry today?-Meredith Sue Willis, Books for Readers Stylistically, these beautifully designed and produced chaplets bear their own distinctive signature.-Linda Lerner, Small Press Review Proud Member of CLMP http://flordelconcreto.blogspot.com http://twitter.com/flordelconcreto

Hint Fiction Writing Contest - Great Prizes - No Entry Fee

Gotham Writer's Workshop Announces

HINT FICTION WRITING CONTEST 
DEADLINE: October 11, 2010

Great Prizes - No Entry Fee

Gotham Writers' Workshop invites you to enter our Hint Fiction 25-Word Story Writing Contest. Entry is free and easy.

For this competition, Gotham welcomes the expertise of Robert Swartwood, editor of Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories of 25 Words or Fewer (to be published in November by W.W. Norton). Mr. Swartwood will select the winner from the finalists in this competition.

What is Hint Fiction? Here's Swartwood's definition:

Hint Fiction (n): a story of 25 words or fewer that suggests a larger, more complex story.

GREAT PRIZES

Submit your unpublished 25-word story to our competition and you could win:

•10-week writing workshop ($420 value)
•$100 USD
•One-year subscription to The Writer
•Publication of your winning entry in Gotham's Winter 2011 course catalog
•Bragging rights

ENTRY IS FREE & EASY

To enter, just complete the online entry form. Limit one entry per person.

What are you waiting for? Enter today!

Reprinted from Gotham Writers' Workshop's 08/10/2010 GothamGRAM.



Just in case you have difficulty opening the link for the online entry form here it is to cut and past:
http://www.writingclasses.com/ContestPages/hintfiction.php

Call For Submissions: Thanksgiving Mystery Anthology

Deadline: September 30
Call For Submissions: Thanksgiving Mystery Anthology

We are in the process of creating an anthology of short stories to be released on November 1st as a Thanksgiving release.

This anthology is designed to be a humorous mystery anthology. Only mysteries with a definite humor angle to them will be accepted or considered. What we’re looking for are stories geared around the most popular Thanksgiving dishes: turkey, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, pumpkin pie, etc.. As long as it’s a regularly-featured food at Thanksgiving, we’re open to how you work it in. Please note that it is unlikely we will publish multiple stories of the same food (i.e.: no two stories where pumpkin pie is featured).

As this is a short story anthology, submissions need to be between 3500-5000 words in length. We may be willing to accept longer works depending on the content. Previously published material is ok for submission providing that all electronic rights have reverted to the author. Stories that have been published previously need to be notated as such, along with the information as to where it first appeared.

The intention is to release each short story as its own release under our existing Fingerprints short story line, but there will also be an all-in-one edition at a lower price than purchasing the stories individually to encourage readers to pick up the entire anthology.

Editor-In-Chief Jay Hartman will serve as Editor for this anthology.

Deadline for submissions is September 30th, 2010. Email submissions ONLY, and they MUST be in DOC format, Times New Roman, 12pt. Submissions received that are not in this format will be deleted. Please include the word “Thanksgiving” in your subject line. All stories should be sent to submissions at untreedreads dot com. Submissions sent to other email addresses will not be recognized.

If an insufficient amount of usable entries are received, this anthology may be withdrawn, and such withdrawal will be announced no later than September 15th.

Please repost/cross-promote this Call with fellow authors/blogs/lists, etc..

Questions regarding this Call should be directed to Editor-In-Chief Jay Hartman at jhartman at untreedreads dot com.

Submission Guidelines for the Pain/Pleasure Anthology

Deadline: October 1, 2010
Theme: Pain/Pleasure

Editor Jane Callan is looking for stories of 5,000 word length (you can go slightly over but you won’t be paid more) about the concept of the twin emotions of pain and pleasure. The submissions must be full (the story complete) and emailed to jane at gmail dot com by October 1, 2010 as an MS Word Attachment with the subject line: "Pain/Pleasure Anthology Submission."

The submission can be, generally, anything with a strong erotic content. There is no limitation on genre. I definitely want a lot of variety such as m/m, femdom, diversity in characters. The work can have been published on your website but it cannot have been sold in publication.

Payment is $500 for each contracted submission with .25% royalty in exchange for world digital, audio and print rights. 

Jane Callan is a long time romance reader whose passion is, you guessed it, reading. She's currently loving contemporary authors like Sarah Mayberry and Kristan Higgins but her first love will always be the historical. Some of her old time favorites are Amanda Quick and Johanna Lindsey and some of the new favorites are Sherry Thomas, Joanna Bourne and Claudia Dain. You can reach Jane by emailing her: jane at dearauthor dot com. You can follow Jane on twitter: @jane_l.

Reposted from http://dearauthor.com/wordpress/2010/06/26/submission-guidelines-for-the-painpleasure-anthology/