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The Writer; (IDLM&SP) Int’l Directory of Little Magazines & Small Presses;
(N&SSWM) Novel & Short Story Writer’s Market; (SPR)
Small Press Review;
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Poets & Writers
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Apex Science Fiction and Horror Digest, Jason Sizemore, Editor,
PO Box 2223, Lexington, KY 40588. Phone: 859-312-3974. Email:
for questions:
jason@apexdigest.com.
For submissions: submission@apexdigest.com.
Web site: www.apexdigest.com.
Published 4 times/yr.
Subscription: $20/yr.
Copy: $6.
Back issues: $5.
Publishes fiction, articles, art, interviews and
nonfiction for an international audience.
“Apex Digest straddles the genre world with one foot in
blood and the other in Strontium,” according to the editor.
Dark science fiction, tending toward horror.
Stories to 10,000 words.
No poetry, but accepts
flash fiction. Simultaneous submissions okay. Email
submissions only, in
Word.doc attachment.
Extensive guidelines are available on the
Apex website.
Responds within 14-20 days.
Pays 2.5 cents/word and two contributor’s copies on
publication for FNASR. (IDLM&SP)
AJN, The American Journal of Nursing. Guidelines at:
www.editorialmanager.com/ajn.
Seeks poems and short personal essays on experiences
relating to health and health care for its Art of Nursing and
Reflections departments.
Authors need not be health professionals.
Original perspectives and clear, unsentimental writing
are preferred.
$150 honorarium paid upon publication.
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Creative Nonfiction, Lee Gutkind, Creative Non-fiction
Foundation, 5501 Walnut St., Ste. 202, Pittsburgh, PA
15232-2329. Phone:
412-688-0304. Web
site: www.creativenonfiction.org.
Published quarterly.
$29.95/year. Back issue: $10.
Accepts essays to 5,000 words, with a “focused, sustained
narrative.” Creative non-fiction can best be described as fact-based
articles with settings, dialogue, characterization and narrative
structure. The
editor gravitates toward intimate writing that offers readers
something beyond a good story, but not overly personal.
Reality, research and reflection are important.
Submit hard copy with SASE. Simultaneous submissions
okay.
Response time: five months.
Pays $10/printed page, for “all rights.”
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Ginosko Literary Journal, Robert Paul Cesaretti, Editor, PO Box
246, Fairfax, CA 94978.
Web site:
www.ginoskoliteraryjournal.com.
A downloadable e-zine.
Published semiannually, in summer and winter.
Currently accepting material for printed anthology. Check
downloadable issues on web site for style and tone.
Also looking for artwork/photography to post on web site
and links to exchange.
Send by snail or email, short fiction and poetry, novel
excerpts and creative non-fiction for anthology—length flexible.
Simultaneous and reprints okay.
Response time: up to two months.
Payment in copy.
No info on rights purchased. (SPR)
July Literary Press, 294 Hunters Lane, Williamsville, NY 14221.
Web site:
www.julyliterarypress.com. Guidelines for SASE or by
email:
gayb@buffnet.net or
tkovalesky@ aol.com.
Needs poetry, essays, stories about Christmas, winter
season for proposed anthology.
Read guidelines first.
Electronic submissions will be deleted.
No previously published material except by invitation.
Submission deadline: September 30.
No info on payment or rights purchased, or response time.
(P&W)
Careers and the Disabled, Equal Opportunity Publications, 445
Broadhollow Rd., Ste. 425, Melville, NY 11747.
Phone: 631-421-9421.
Web site:
www.eop.com. Email editor:
jschneider@ eop.com.
Published 3 times/yr. Subscription: $10.00.
Career guidance publication for students and
professionals with disabilities.
Needs role-model profiles and career guidance strategies.
Articles 1,000-1,500 words.
Prefers queries first, by mail or email.
Also accepts unsolicited manuscripts.
Send electronically, disk or hard copy.
Responds within two weeks.
Pays 10 cents/wd., on publication for FNAR.
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Main Street Rag, PO Box 690100, Charlotte, NC 28227-7001.
Web site:
www.mainstreetrag.com.
For guidelines, send SASE to above or visit online.
Seeking short fiction to fill two anthologies: (1) unique
small town characters; (2) eccentric women.
No deadline: when editors have enough to fill and
anthology, they will close submissions.
No info as to payment or rights purchased or response
time. (P&W)
McSweeney’s, 849 Valencia St., San Francisco, CA 94110. Web
site: www.mcsweeneys.net.
Email:
printsubmissions@mcsweeneys.net. Quarterly literary
magazine, $55/yr.
Read guidelines first before submitting.
Several imprints fall under the McSweeney’s brand:
McSweeney’s Internet
Tendency, publishes offbeat, mostly humorous work.
There is a nonfiction magazine called
The Believer,
published monthly, and
Wholphin is a DVD compilation of videos that appear
quarterly. Last is
McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, a literary magazine
publishing fiction and non-fiction.
Submissions are accepted year-round.
“Finding new voices is an important part of what we do,”
says Eli Horowitz, publisher.
Length is open.
Literary fiction and nonfiction, occasional themes.
Response time: 5 months.
Payment: $500. No info on rights purchased. (W)
C O N T E S T S
The RRofihe Trophy, 270 Lafayette St., Ste. 1412, New York, NY
10012. For detailed
guidelines, see web site:
www.opencity.org/rrofihe.html.
The trophy will be awarded for an unpublished story up to
5,000 words.
Winner receives $500, trophy and publication in
Open City Magazine.
Entry fee: $10
Deadline: September 15.
Mail to above address. (P&W)
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Ann Arbor Book Festival, Short Story Contest, 500 S. Main St.,
Ann Arbor, MI 48104.
For detailed guidelines, check
www.aabookfestival.
org.
Cash prize $250, and chance for publication for
winner.
Submit original short stories between May 1 and August 1.
Winner announced by October 1.
Entry fee: $10.
Checks payable to Ann Arbor Book Festival. (P&W)
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AIM Magazine Short Story Contest, PO Box 390, Milton, WA 98354.
Phone: 253-815-9030. Email:
apiladoone@aol.com.
Web site: www.aim magazine.org.
Guidelines available by phone and email, or via web site.
Open to any writer.
Prize offered for best short story that promotes
brotherhood among people and cultures.
Prize: $100.
Fee: None
Deadline: August 15. (W)
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Wilda Hearne Flash Fiction Contest, Southeast Missouri State
University Press, MS 2650 One University Plaza, Cape Girardeau,
MO 63701. Web site:
www6.semo.edu/universitypress/ hearne.
$500 awarded to best short short story, 500 words or
less on any theme, plus publication in
Big Muddy.
Entry fee: 15, includes copy of
Big Muddy, with
winning entry.
Deadline: August 1. (P&W)
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The Danahy Fiction Prize, Tampa Review, The University of Tampa,
401 W. Kennedy Blvd., Tampa, FL 33606.
Web site:
www. tampareview.ut.
edu. Email:
utpress@ut.edu.
See web site for complete guidelines.
Prize of $1,000 plus publication awarded to unpublished
work of short fiction between 500-5,000 words.
Entry fee: $15 per submission.
Deadline: November 1.
All entries considered for future publication. (W)
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American Zoetrope Screenplay Contest, American Zoetrope, 916
Kearny Street, San Francisco, CA 94133.
contests@zoetrope.com,
www.zoetrope.com/contests.
Electronic submissions only. See web site for details.
Prizes: $5,000, consideration for film development and
option.
Deadline: August 1 (early), September 2 (late). (W)
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Bellevue Literary Review Prizes,
info@blreview.org.
www.blreview.org.
Prizes for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry related to
themes of health, healing, illness, the mind and the body.
Entry fee: $15 per submission
Deadline: Aug. 1
Prizes: $1,000 and publication in the
Belleview Literary Review.
Submit mss electronically from the Web site. (W)
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Kate Tufts Discovery Award, Susan Hampson, Awards Coordinator,
Poetic Gallery for the Tufts Poetry Awards, Claremont Graduate
University, 160 E. 10th Street, Harper East B7,
Claremont, CA 91711.
tufts@cgu.edu. Wwwlcgu.edu/tufts.
Prize for an emerging poet showing extraordinary promise.
Deadline: Sept. 15
Prize: $10,000
See web site for guidelines. (W)
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Pavement Saw Press Transcontinental Poetry Award, Pavement Saw
Press, 321 Empire Street, Montpelier, OH 43543.
editor@pavementsaw.org.
www.pavementsaw.org.
Open to previously unpublished, full-length books of poetry.
Deadline: Aug. 15
Entry Fee: $20 per submission
Prizes: $1,000 and publication (W)
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Rattle Poetry Prize,
Rattle, 12411 Ventura Blvd., Studio City, CA 91604.
timgreen@rattle.com.
www.rattle.com. Submit 1-4
unpublished poems per
contest entry. There is no line limit. Poems can be any
length.
Deadline: Aug. 1
Entry fee: $16 per submission
Prizes: First Prize $5,000; 10 honorable mentions, $100.
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CONFERENCES
Wrangling with Writing, Society of Southwest Authors, Tucson,
AZ.
www.ssa-az.org/conference.htm.
Date: September 27-28
Location: Palo Verde Holiday Inn, Tucson, AZ
Cost: $350 (nonmembers); $275 (members) plus $20 per
interview (optional)
Conference is an annual Tucson staple. Thirty authors,
agents, and publishers will present workshops and meet with
participants individually to critique their work and suggest
publishing options. All writing genres and types included from
nonfiction to children’s board books, poetry to novels.