Posted on October 17, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough
Amy Mercer at The Writer Mama calls attention today to an article from Bitch Magazine that calls for women to own their ambition for their writing careers, to stop apologizing for their writing or for being writers, and to stop accepting dismissive excuses for being overlooked. The author of the article, Anna Clark, cites an [...]
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Posted on September 10, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough
The Delmarva Review Seeks New Prose and Poetry Submissions Now Through Dec. 31, 2008 The Delmarva Review, a regional literary review open to all writers, is now calling for submissions of new poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction through Dec. 31, 2008, for the second issue. The editors will consider writers’ “best unpublished work.” The Review [...]
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Posted on July 5, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough
STORYGLOSSIA has re-opened to submissions with new guidelines. Reading during July and August for the September issue. Submission deadline is August 31st. After much consideration I have decided to no longer provide feedback when rejecting stories (although there will surely will be some rare exceptions). Simply put, there are only two reasons a story gets [...]
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Posted on May 18, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough
1) Grammar, spelling, and punctuation are important — not just for the author, for you, too. 2) Here in the 21st century, web sites are no longer “under construction,” or “coming soon.” They either exist or they don’t. They either contain information, or they don’t. It is a poor reflection on the author if his [...]
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Posted on April 28, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough
From ReadingWritingLiving: The Literary Reflections department of Literary Mama is seeking personal essays about writing as a mother, reading as a mother, or developing a career as a professional mother-writer. If any of you have such an essay in your portfolio or an idea brewing along these lines, we welcome your participation. Also, pass along [...]
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Posted on April 14, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough
The hardest part of any career seems to be “breaking in.” We’ve all said it at the start of our job search: “I can’t get a job without experience, but how am I supposed to get experience without a job?” Christina Katz turns the usual advice to writers to “Aim high” on its head, and [...]
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Posted on February 28, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough
Registration is open for the second annual Conversations and Connections Conference: Join us on April 5, 2008 in Washington, DC for a different kind of writer’s conference. The Second Annual Conversations and Connections will help you get the connections and information you need to take your writing — and publishing — to the next level. [...]
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Posted on February 21, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough
And in some cases, I do mean “watch out.” These are all announcements from Publishers Lunch, which can now be seen in full-color html as email dies its sad lingering death. First off, something from the Old Dominion: Peter Neofotis’s CONCORD, VIRGINIA, a Southern gothic novella concerning the residents of a fictional town in the [...]
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Posted on February 8, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough
The crack team of number-crunchers at Virginia Quarterly Review has been at it again! Waldo Jaquith, picking up on Ken Larimer’s idea in Poets & Writers, has determined VQR’s “x-factor” — the percentage of submissions received that are completely inappropriate for the magazine. It turns out that VQR has a surprisingly low x-factor — only [...]
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Posted on December 14, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough
Remember Ralph Barnett, the local author of Spiritual e-Soup? After moving to Chicago, he hit the big-time: his book can now be ordered from Amazon.com. You can even look within the book! The lesson here: Persistence pays.
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Posted on December 6, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough
If you’ve been avoiding Glimmer Train because of their nix on simultaneous submissions, avoid no more. By way of Practicing Writer I have learned that GT now accepts simultaneous subs: As of November 25, 2007, we’ve decided to allow simultaneous submissions. We’ve had a policy for 17 years against simultaneous submissions, but now that we’ve [...]
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Posted on November 21, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough
Great story from Erika at Practicing Writing: Not having received a response regarding a short story submission I mailed out in April, I finally e-mailed the journal’s editor earlier this month (as the guidelines directed me to do) to inquire. And boy, am I glad I did…. Click over the rest of the story, and [...]
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Posted on November 12, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough
Borders will be installing televisions in its stores. A new strategy at Borders will reinforce the message that its stores are not just about books: the company has been installing 37-inch flat-screen televisions to show original programming, advertisements, news and weather. Borders stores haven’t been “just about books” since…pretty much forever. I’m wondering how they’ll [...]
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Posted on October 26, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough
Think other writers are whipping out short stories like Joyce Carol Oates on steroids? Try twelve edits over three years. Of course, for me, it’s more like three edits over twelve years…HT: Practicing Writing When it comes time to submit, beware of Drawer Q.
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Posted on October 3, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough
A new market alert from Practicing Writing: WAHMmagazine. WAHMmagazine is “not just a magazine for WAHMs, we’re also for and about WAHDs, freelancers, telecommuters, veteran work-at-home parents and future work-at-home parents.” Pays: $65-350. Guidelines here.
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