January 2008 Archives
Shameless Magazine is seeking submissions for an anthology for teen girls to be published by Tightrope Books in Spring 2009. Women and trans-identified adults are invited to submit creative non-fiction essays 500-2000 words about how their teen experiences (positive and negative) shaped their lives as as writers. Appreciates a mix of smart, sassy, honest and inclusive writing. Deadline: April 18, 2008. More details...
Tickled By Thunder (BC) invites entries for their annual Short Story Contest. First prize: $150. Theme is open. Length: 2000 words max. Entry fee: $10 (subscribers: first entry free; $5 for each additional story). Deadline: February 15, 2008. Fiction or short stories may be selected for the Year's Best Fiction, an annual collection published as a chapbook. More details...
The Alaska Writers' Guild welcomes entries for the Ralph Williams Prize for Speculative Fiction. First prize: US$5,000; additional prize available. All non-winning entries receive 2 critiques. Categories: Science fiction, Fantasy, Humor/Horror, and Young Adult. Length: 25 pages max. Entry fee: US$50. Deadline: April 15, 2008. Awards presented awarded at Alaska Speculative Fiction Conference October 1-5, 2008. More details...
Rubicon Press (AB) invites entries for it second annual winter Chapbook Competition. First prize: $100 plus publication of manuscript and 20 author copies. Submission: 30 pages max., cohesive collection. Entry fee: $20. Deadline: February 29, 2008. More details...
Erotic online journal Black Heart Magazine is looking for tales of forbidden love for an upcoming "Lolita" issue. Submit fiction and non-fiction 1000 words max. Deadline: February 29, 2008. More details...
Scholastic Education (ON) is accepting short stories for Grade 6 readers. Stories should be at a reasonable high reading level and include literary devices such as flashbacks, time change, figurative languages, foreshadowing, different perspectives, symbolism, subplots, dear reader (acknowledging the reader device). Also alliteration, allusion, hyperbole, irony, metaphor, onomatopoeia, oxymoron, personification, rhetorical question, simile, understatement. Length: 3000 words max. No pets, witchcraft, or demons. Send questions to Laura Smith at lsmith@scholastic.ca. Send submissions to: Laura Smith, Scholastic Canada, 175 Hillmount Road, 3rd Floor, Markham, ON, L6C 1Z7. (via Saskatchewan Writers' Guild)
Small feminist publisher Second Story Press (ON) is currently accepting unsolicited manuscripts of special interest to women. Accepts fiction, non-fiction and children’s books. More details...
US print journal Dislocate invites entires for their first Dislocated Poetry Contest. Theme: Dislocation. First prize: US$500 and publication in Issue #4. All entrants considered for publication. Length: 5 pages max. Entry fee: US$10 (includes one copy). Deadline: January 31, 2008. More details...
Faber & Faber (UK) seeks unsolicited poetry submissions. More details...
The Write Helper (US) invites memoir, essay, articles, and prose entries for their Dead of Winter Nonfiction Contest. First prize: US$70; additional prizes available. Length:2000 words max. Entry fee: US$5 (include additional $5 for thorough critique). Deadline: January 31, 2008. More details...
Entries are invited for the Okanagan Short Story Contest. Story length: 1000-4000 words. First prize: $500; three winning stories published in chapbook form and excerpts read on CBC Radio One. Entry fee: $12. Deadline: March 10, 2008. More details...
Radical Sheep Productions (ON) is soliciting ideas for new youth-targeted television series. Categories: preschool, ages 6-9, 9-12, 12-17. Single-page queries only. Compensation commensurate with experience. More details...
Oysters and Chocolate (US) invites entries for the O&C Erotic Poetry Contest. Poetry must be erotic in nature, between 3 and 50 lines, original and previously unpublished. First prize: US$100. Entry fee: US$10 reading fee. Deadline: February 15, 2008. More details...
Raven Poetry: Online Poetry Journal is seeking poetry submissions for its spring issue. Send up to 5 poems plus a bio in the body of an email to ravenpoetryzine@yahoo.ca. Deadline: not indicated. More details...
Room Magazine (BC) is looking for an Art Editor to join their Vancouver-based volunteer editorial collective. Main responsibility: solicit art for cover and inside pages. Also has the opportunity to read manuscripts and edit an issue of their own. Volunteer position. Commitment of approx. 4 hours per week. Deadline: January 31, 2008. Send resume and expression of interest to Lisa: lisa@roommagazine.com.
The Malahat Review invites entries for the 2008 Novella Prize. Enter a single work of fiction, 10000-20000 words. No restrictions as to genre, subject matter, or aesthetic approach. First prize: $500 plus $40 per printed page upon publication. Deadline: February 1, 2008. More details...
Ricepaper (BC) seeks poetry, fiction, non-fiction and drama by Asian Canadians. Also publishes articles (query first). Payment: modest honorarium. More details...
Quarterly fiction magazine Storyteller Magazine (ON) seeks general fiction: humour, adventure, mystery, drama, suspense, horror, SF and fantasy. Stories: 2000-6000 words. Payment: ½¢ per published word for original stories. Deadline: February 7, 2008. More details...
Online journal Blue Skies seeks poetry submissions. Publishes emerging and established poets. Especially appreciates writing by Canadians. Submit 3 poems plus brief bio. More details...
Nimbus Publishing seeks fiction and non-fiction for their second Christmas anthology, New Christmas Stories from the Maritimes (working title), to be published in Fall 2008. 1500 words max. Deadline: February 29, 2008. Send cover letter with contact info and bio and submissions as Word attachments to: editorial@nimbus.ca.
The Vancouver Public Library seeks applicants for their fourth writer-in-residence. Term: August 11-December 12, 2008. Open to Canadian citizens with at least one critically well-received title published professionally (complete work of fiction, short stories, poetry, drama or literary non-fiction). Remuneration:
-$4000/month (contract position). Deadline: January 18, 2008. For full details, contact Barbara Edwards at programs@vpl.ca.
Solo Collective (BC) invites entries for the 5th Annual Emerging Writers Competition. Open to all playwrights in Canada. Winning monologues will receive feedback, a two-hour workshop with dramaturg and a professional actor, and a public reading. Submissions should be double-spaced with pages numbered and include a title page with contact info. Send to: Solo Collective, 344 West 16th Ave., Vancouver, BC, V5Y 1Y9. Entry fee: $20 plus $5 membership fee (cheques payable to Solo Collective Theatre Society). Deadline: February 11, 2008.
ilivegreen, a Toronto-based site that is creating an online community of environmentally active individuals, seeks "Open Letters". Writers with an interest or background in environmental issues are invited to submit a 500-1000 word open letter. Letters should be informal (not essays) and evoke an epistle (reminiscent of old-fashioned snail mail letters). Writers are encouraged to mix personal and political views. All work must begin with Dear ______ (one reader). Send submissions to: editor@ilivegreen.info.
The Strong Words reading series, which showcases three writers on the first Monday of every month at the Gladstone Hotel in Toronto, is currently booking its spring readers. Writers, poets and activists who are interested in reading are invited to submit a brief bio, a literary CV and writing sample (4-7 pages) to moezsurani@yahoo.com. More details...
Sorrowland Press seeks poetry and short stories for its ninth issue of Dance to Death. Themes: death, anxiety, and drugs. Appreciates work that is concise, original, dark, humorous, and sensitive. English and French submissions welcome. More details...
