Argestes,
194 High Holborn St., Gardiner,
ME 04345.
A
print-only journal seeking submissions of poetry and short
stories or personal essays under 1,300 words.
Seeks
new work with density, felicity, and authentic voice.
Send
3-5 poems, or other work with SASE for reply.
No previously published work, please.
No
info on payment, response time or rights purchased. (P&W)
Lunch Hour Stories (www.lunchhourstories.
com), Editor, Nina
Bayer, 22833 Bothell-Everett Hwy, Ste. 110, PMB 1117, Bothell,
WA 98021. Tel: 425-246-3726; 425-424-8859. Email:
editor@lunchhourbooks.com.
One issue every three weeks.
Sample: $2.50; Subscription (16 issues); $22.00. 24 pp.
LHS
publishes excellent literary fiction from writers all over the
world.
Submit one short story
at a time.
The magazine consists of one story, 4K-8K words, per issue,
which is mailed to paid subscribers 16 times per year.
The final issue of the year includes 12 very short
stories (less than 500 words).
Promotes new and emerging writers, particularly from the
Northwest.
Accepts fiction, including multicultural themes.
Simultaneous submissions okay.
Payment $50 plus 10 copies—copyright reverts to author upon
publication, with some limitations for one year.
Response time: 2-4 months. (SPR)
Steel City Review (www.steelcityreview),
an online quarterly.
Interested in publishing stories that explore techy, mechanical,
dry and scientific issues by providing them with juicy plots and
characters engaging enough to chat with.
Seeking stories featuring implements, code, machines, procedures
and expertise; academics and workers, masters and rebels.
Hard,
soft, and
al dente sci-fi.
Also
interested in reading about the true steel city—Pittsburgh,
PA—where the editors live.
Submit or query to: editor@ steelcityreview.
com. For
more information or a peek at the current issue and detailed
submission guidelines, visit the web site listed above. (P&W)
Relate, (www.relatemag.com),
Mary Dohack,
Editor in Chief, 1254 Greenmar Dr., Fenton, MO 63026.
A new magazine targeting fun loving,
motivated and smart girls, ages 15-19.
Christian morals and values should be evident in articles
submitted.
Query for all sections of the
magazine: design, decoration and crafts; beauty and health;
entertainment (which features media and book reviews and
celebrity interviews); Future, which deals with careers, college
and teen entrepreneurs; Faith, which covers personal development
and world religions within a Christian content; and Life,
broadly about boys, situations around the world, advice and
teens’ embarrassing moments.
Include a sample or draft of the
opening paragraph with your detailed query.
Payment ranges from $50 to $700,
depending on the type and length of submission.
No info as to response time or rights purchased.
Short Fiction Anthology,
Main Street Rag Publishing Company,
P.O. Box 690100, Charlotte, NC 28227-7001.
Looking for short fiction
contributors for two anthologies to be published: Fantasy, and
the other involving the beach, ocean, great lake (big water.).
Stories can be up to 10,000 words
in length. Maximum
two stories per submission.
No previously published material (and that includes
stories that have been published online).
Standard manuscript format. Use 12 pt. type, preferably Times Roman.
Mail to address above: no email subs.
Editors prefer to reply via email, but will reply via
mail if SASE included.
Use sufficient postage if you want your manuscript
returned.
Response time, approx. two months.
If accepted, a contract will be provided, which includes
stated payment and rights.
Other details available on the
Submissions Guide- lines page of the web site:
www.mainstreetrag.com
Veil (Journal of Darker Musings);
Hilary Lyon, Editor; Warren
Andrie, Editor, 4729 E. Sunrise, #326, Tucson, AZ 85718.
Poetry journal published annually. 30 pp. Sample: $3.00;
current copy-$5.00.
Publishes thoughtful dark poetry,
sometimes humorous, but always with a gothic edge.
Subjects include forensic science, grieving, horror,
mystery, myth, psychology, and surrealism.
Accepts simultaneous submissions.
Pays one copy upon publication.
Copyrighted, reverts to author. Response time: 3-6
months. (SPR)
C O N T E S T S
Many Mountains Moving Poetry and Flash Fiction Contests;
Send to: MMM (genre) Contest, 549 Rider Ridge Dr., Longmont, CO
80501. Full
guidelines at
http://mmminc.org/html/contests2007.htm.
Prize: $200 in each category, plus
publication in 2008.
All entries will be considered for future publication.
Anonymous judging.
Include name, address, genre, titles in cover letter,
not on ms.
State “poetry” or “fiction” contest on envelope.
Do not mix
poetry and flash fiction together.
Include SASE for results.
Entry fees: $10 for 5 poems (maximum
10 pgs.); $10 for 2 pieces of flash fiction (1,000 maximum words
for each). Make
checks payable to: Many Mountains Moving.
Entrants can pay an additional $5
(added to $10 entry fee), and receive a subscription (a $12
value).
Deadline:
September 30, 2007.
Winners announced within 60 days. (TW)
Tony Hillerman Mystery Short
Story Contest,
Mystery Short Story Contest, 128 Grant
Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87501. Guidelines at
http://www.hillermanconferernce.com/contest.htm.
Prize: $1,500 plus publication.
2,500-word mystery story set in the West or Southwest and
including at least one Native American or cowboy/cowgirl. Story
critiques are available.
Entry Fee: $10
Deadline:
Sept. 15, 2007. (TW)
Ruskin Art Club Poetry Award,
Red Hen Press, Attn: Poetry Editor, PO Box
3537, Granada Hills, CA 91394.
http://www.redhen.org/ru_poetry.asp.
Entry Fee: $15 per entry
Open to all poets. Submit up to 3
unpublished poems, up to 120 lines each. Include SASE for
notification.
Prizes: $1,000 and publication in
the
Los Angeles Review
Deadline:
Sept. 30, 2007
(TW)
Kate Tufts Discovery
Award, Poetic Gallery for the
Tufts Poetry Awards, Claremont Graduate University, 160 E. 10th
St., Harper East B7, Claremont, CA 91711.
http://www.cgu.edu/tufts.
Entry Fee: None
Award for emerging poet whose work
shows extraordinary promise. Submit five copies of your first
book of poetry.
Prize: $10,000
Deadline:
Sept. 15, 2007
Kingsley Tufts Poetry
Award, Gallery for the Tufts
Poetry Awards, Claremont Graduate University, 160 E. 10th
St., Harper East B7, Claremont, CA 91711.
http://www.cgu.edu/tufts.
Entry Fee: None
Awarded annually for a book “by an
emerging poet, one who is past the very beginning but has not
yet reached the acknowledged pinnacle of his or her career.”
Send 5 copies of book with entry form.
Prize: $100,000
Deadline:
Sept. 15, 2007
NOTES OF INTEREST
In our last issue, we reviewed
Lions Walk Around My Bed, Selected Poems by Elsie
H. Landstrom. The publisher has informed me that the book is a
pre-publication copy and that spiral binding will not be used in
the finished product.
SUMMER READING PICKS
The Big Girls, a Novel by Susanna
Moore, published by Alfred A. Knopf, $24 hardcover, ISBN
978-1-4000-4190-9, 224 pgs.
Written in alternating narratives,
with four distinct voices, this compelling and sometimes
shocking tale is a real page turner.
The story takes place in an upstate New York federal
women’s prison where Dr. Louise Forrest, the new chief of
psychiatry, a woman with demons of her own, finds herself in
unfamiliar territory as she attempts to bond with her patients.
One in particular, Helen Nash, a murderer of her own
children, mentally unstable, suicidal and all but unreachable,
challenges Dr. Forrest’s therapeutic abilities, and sets in
motion the unraveling of a number of
the Doctor’s tightly-woven assumptions.
New England White, a novel by
Stephen L. Carter, published by Alfred A. Knopf, $26.95, ISBN:
978-0-375-41362-9. Release date July 2, 2007.
Stephen L. Carter is the William
Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale, where he has taught
since 1982. He is
the author of seven books of nonfiction.
His first novel,
The Emperor of Ocean Park, was hailed as a riveting page
turner, set against the backdrop of black upper-class America.
Four years in the making, Carter has returned with his
second novel, New England
White, a sweeping family saga set in a New England
university town where the same couple,
Lemaster and Julia Carlyle, has risen to the pinnacle of
achievement. The
Carlyle’s social and political ties go all the way to the White
House. But, a
murder on campus of a prominent black economist threatens to
destroy all they have earned.
This is no ordinary murder mystery.
A rich plot with substantial characters, together with a
nuanced portrayal of the emotional turmoil within the Carlyle
family, adds depth and texture to the story.
Bangkok Haunts, by John Burdett,
published by Alfred A. Knopf, 305 pgs., $24.95.
Hard cover.
ISBN 978-0-307-26318-6.
Release date: June 8, 2007.
From the author of
Bangkok 8 and
Bangkok Tattoo, the
series continues with Sonchai Jitpleecheep—the devout Buddhist
Royal Thai Police detective—who receives a DVD that turns out to
be a snuff film, depicting the demise of a former lover,
Damrong, a woman he was once
obsessively in love with.
Haunted by the gruesome death, he defies his boss and
protector, the corrupt Colonel Vikorn, to pursue the mystery
surrounding the prostitute’s end.
His search takes him into the dark world of pornographic
film making, as well as into the decadent milieu of Bangkok’s
richest and most powerful men.
He discovers that Damrong has a brother, Gamon, a
Buddhist monk, whose relationship with his sister is complex and
unconventional. When Jitpleecheep is kidnapped and taken across
the border into a lawless part of Cambodia (where Damrong was
raised), he discovers that her brother has been ensnared in an
elaborate scheme laid out by Damrong to seek justice. What follows is not for the faint of heart
Raw, erotic, profane, and laced
with anti-Western and American jabs, this fast-paced thriller
ends with a ghastly and ghostly supernatural bang.