NELLIGAN PRIZE FOR SHORT FICTION
Deadline: March 14
Award: $2,000 and publication
Fee: $15 ($17 to submit online)
Colorado Review is now accepting submissions for the 2013 Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction. This year’s final judge is Jim Shepard. The prize is given annually for the best short story under 50 pages.
DORIS BETTS FICTION PRIZE
Deadline: February 15
Award: $250 and publication
The Doris Betts Fiction Prize awards $250 and publication in the North Carolina Literary Review to the author of the winning short story. Up to ten finalists will also be considered for publication. The contest is open to writers with North Carolina connections (who live or have lived in NC), members of the North Carolina Writers’ Network, or subscribers to the NCLR. The competition is for unpublished short stories up to 6,000 words. One entry per writer. No novel excerpts. No simultaneous submissions.
This is a very short essay about one author’s experience marketing her book after a traditional publisher picked it up. Although she’s a children’s book author, the core of her experience is pretty common.
Most important lesson:
Publishing is a business and books are products. Help buyers understand why they should purchase your product over someone else’s.
Here’s a very in-depth article from Writer’s Digest that helps you plan out a novel’s structure, character development, and other key points.
I find some of the recommendations too detailed. There’s a point at which authors have to stop worrying about minor details and allow the story to flow. There are two important things to remember when you start writing a novel:
1. You can’t fix it in your head. No matter what issue you’re wrestling with, you won’t be able to truly work with it until you have it on the page. Manipulating it in your mind doesn’t give you the same hold on the work. Put the material on the page where it remains fixed. Then you can adapt, adjust and revise.
2. Creativity is not logic. Writers need both skills to create a novel…and each skill is used at different times. Don’t allow the critical (logical) judge to ruin the flow state. Don’t allow the illogical creative flow ruin your revision process.
Here’s a listing of calls for submissions from The Review Review.
About Fjords: Fjords is an arts and literary review for the 21st century reader edited by John Gosslee. The twice yearly magazine features new art and literature alongside translations and reviews. Fjords is the first journal to publish some of its authors in a strictly audio format.
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Straight from the land down under comes the spring 2012 edition of Meanjin, a literary journal founded in Brisbane in 1940 by journalist and editor Clem Christesen. For more than 70 years, the journal, now an imprint of Melbourne University Publishing, has delved into the Australian cultural and literary scene,
Revival is the literary journal of the Limerick Writers’ Centre.
It is published four time a year. Submissions, poetry and short fiction,
extracts (500 words), reviews or criticism pieces.
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RATTAPALLAX ONLINE MAGAZINE is a new chapter in Rattapallax Press’ 10 year history. It is the natural path to a magazine that has been since the very beginning committed to poetry in various forms, medias and languages. Rattapallax was the first literary magazine to include a CD with every issue, with audio files, interviews and music in connection to poetry, expanding the reading experience. Later, it started to include video content as well in DVD.
Writers League of Texas “Agents & Editors” Conference, June 21-23, Austin, TX
Features many literary agents, editors and authors.
Words in 3 Dimensions Writers Conference, May 24-26, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Features sessions, authors, agents and editors.
PennWriters Conference, May 17-19, Pittsburgh, PA
This event, the state’s largest conference, will have multiple literary agents in attendance taking pitches.
Kentucky Writers Conference, April 19, Bowling Green, KY
This is a free one-day writers conference with sessions on how to get published. It precedes the Southern Kentucky Book Fest (April 20).
San Francisco Writers Conference, Feb. 15-18, San Francisco, CA
This event features approximately 20 agents as well as many successful authors. WD editor Chuck Sambuchino is teaching a special intensive on blogging & Twitter on Feb. 18.
Another database stuffed with information about literary magazines. From Literary Magazines Online!
Writer's Resource/Sunspot Lit 