Poetry

A book of poems by and about women.

Open to all forms.

We are looking for captivating and insightful poetry that reflects all things maiden, mother and crone. The anthology aims to voice and cherish the vast experiences of womanhood and female wisdom. All subjects, light and dark, welcome.

Multiple submissions are accepted but please see full guidelines before submitting.

Simultaneous submissions are not accepted.

Only send work that is original, previously unpublished, and for which you hold copyright.

We pay £3.00 for poems up to 20 lines and £6.00 for poems up to 40 lines. Payment is made upon publication via PayPal.

Submissions will open on 8th March 2012 to celebrate International Women’s Day and  will be accepted on an ongoing basis until late autumn.

The book will launch on International Women’s Day 2013.

Send submissions to subs@chuffedbuffbooks.com

• £500 prize money – Poetry winner
• £500 prize money – Short Fiction winner
• Publication in the Aesthetica Creative Writing Annual
• Complimentary copy of the Aesthetica Creative Writing Annual
• A selection of books from our competition partners
• For more information and to enter please visit: http://www.aestheticamagazine.com/submission_guide.htm

Submissions previously published elsewhere are accepted.

Entry is £10 and allows for the entry of two works into any one category.

Deadline: 31 August 2012

As you probably already know, in a recent act of outstanding idiocy, the new Premier of Queensland withdrew funding for the Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards.

Plenty of people have posted detailed and intelligent responses to this outrage, while I’ve been offline, so I won’t add my indignant restating of their valid critique of his position here.

I’ll just say that the Queensland Literary Awards, a grass-roots response to the canning of the awards, will take place this year. This includes the categories that are dearest to my heart: the emerging author award and the Unaipon Award, both of which, although they won’t come with a well-deserved cheque, WILL include publication by UQP.

I have been one of the judges of the emerging author category for more than ten years. In that time, I have seen the awards change the lives of many authors, both those who have won the award, and those who have been shortlisted. Just this week, I attended a knees-up launch of previously-shortlisted author Nikki McWatters raucous memoir. The support and encouragement this award offers will continue, in one form or another, for as long as we can continue to work together to MAKE it happen.

Please, if you have a manuscript and live in Queensland, demonstrate your commitment to yourself, your work, and the literary arts by entering the emerging author award this year (or, for that matter, any of the other categories!)

You can find details on how to enter at the QLA site, which has been established by Matt Condon and Krissy Kneen.

go here:

We are only accepting submissions electronically – all hardcopy submissions will be recycled. And we are only accepting submissions in the first week of every month; anything that comes through outside of this time will not be considered.

When you send through your submission, you’ll receive an automatic email acknowledging receipt. All manuscripts are carefully read and assessed, but we can only respond to those who are successful. If we do not contact you within three months of submission, please assume that we have decided not to pursue your manuscript. No further correspondence will be entered into.

We are not currently considering poetry, educational textbooks or plays/scripts. For books for children and young adults, please see the separate submissions instructions below.

Attach your manuscript and a short synopsis (of no more than 300 words) as separate Word documents and send via email tomonthly.catch@au.penguingroup.com.

In the subject line of your email, please state the title of your book, whether your book is fiction or non-fiction, and then genre (eg Heiress in Love: Fiction/Romance or The Address Book: Non-Fiction/Memoir).

Please include in the body of your email the following information:

• Title.
• Brief summary (two or three sentences).
• Brief author bio (two or three sentences).

• Any previous publishing history and/or any writing awards you’ve received.
• Where would your book sit in the marketplace – i.e. what books would you see as comparison titles to yours, what authors are similar to you, who is the intended audience for your book, etc.
• Has this proposal been sent to other publishers?
• Have you previously submitted this, or a similar, proposal to Penguin? If so, please give details.

ABR are seeking a substantial non-fiction article with an Asian focus – either a profile of a major Asian literary/cultural figure or a discursive essay with Asian literary/cultural themes.

The Fellowship is worth $5000.

Any Australian writer with a significant publication record (books, creative writing, essays or journalism) is eligible to apply.

Applications close 20 March 2012.
The ABR Fellowships are intended to reward outstanding Australian writers, to enhance ABR through the publication of major works of literary journalism, and to advance the magazine’s commitment to critical debate.

Full guidelines are available on the ABR website:
https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/programs/copyright-agency-fellowship

For further information please contact ABR Editor Peter Rose on (03) 9429 6700 or via email.

As a nation girt by sea, global travel has always been central to Australia’s identity; from the first Indigenous explorers who migrated to the continent hundreds of thousands of years ago to the passengers of the First Fleet leaving their homeland for a destination beyond the limits of the known world. We are a nation of immigrants, tourists and expats who are more at home than ever in the global village where boundaries and borders start to shift for those who hold more than one identity or passport.

Small World will explore the way we travel now – whether it’s exploring wild, dangerous or weird places, or travelling not as passive tourists but by engaging. This edition will also consider how technology – from planes and television to social media and international banking – has changed our sense of the world.

This edition considers what we can learn from our own travels or flights of fancy and from those who reach our shores from other lands.

Submission guidelines available for download at http://griffithreview.com/contact-us

The Bridport Prize is the richest open writing competition in the English language – with £5000 first prize for a short story (of up to 5000 words); and £5000 first prize for a poem (of up to 42 lines). The category of Flash Fiction attracts £1,000 to be won for the best short, short story of under 250 words.

The Bridport is also known as a tremendous literary stepping-stone – the first step in the careers of writers such as: Kate Atkinson, Tobias Hill, Carol Ann Duffy and Helen Dunmore.

Anyone can enter – so long as the work is previously unpublished. It costs £8 per story, £7 per poem or £6 per flash fiction and the NEW closing date is 31st May 2012

Each year the prize is judged by well known writers – this year we are delighted to announce that Gwyneth Lewis will be judging the poetry, and Patrick Gale, the short stories and flash fiction

The 2011 anthology of winning entries is available for just £12 or £15 overseas (including postage and packing). The 2010 and 2009 anthologies are available in limited numbers for £7 and £5 (£10 and £8 overseas)

Enter online at: www.bridportprize.org.uk

Or download an entry form: www.bridportprize.org.uk/entryform.pdf

Or email for a pdf entry form: frances@bridportprize.org.uk

Or send an SAE for an entry form to be posted to you

The Bridport Prize
PO Box 6910
Dorset
DT6 9BQ
UK

Go Theresa

You can read the story online in Issue 10:04 here …

Griffith REVIEW is pleased to announce a competition open to all residents and citizens of Australia and New Zealand, calling for submissions for The Novella Project, a new publishing initiative supported by the Copyright Agency Ltd.

Submissions will be evaluated by a panel of judges and the winning selections will be featured in late 2012 in Griffith REVIEW’s fourth annual New Fiction Edition.

In addition to publication, winners will receive a share of the prize pool of $30,000 plus a share of royalties from digital sales of each novella sold separately as an eSingle.

More details at Griffith Review website here…

Judged by joanne burns

First prize $300, Commended entries $100.

Winning and shortlisted entries will be published in the small wonder anthology. For more information on this competition go to, The Column

Terms and Conditions of Entry

1.    Maximum length 800 words.

2.    Entries must be typed using 1.5 line spacing and 12 pt font size. The pages must be numbered. The title of the entry and word count must appear on the submitted work.

3.    Prose poems or micro fiction under consideration by another competition or publication or previously published or awarded, at a national level, will not be accepted.

4.    Entries will be judged anonymously. The author’s name must not appear on the manuscript.

5.    The judges’ decision will be final. No correspondence will be entered in to.

6.    Entrants must be over 18 years of age.

7.    Entrants must be either Australian citizens (living anywhere), or permanent residents of Australia.

8.    Entry fee is $7.00. Multiple entries are acceptable.

9.    Entries can only be made electronically, via the Submissions Manager on the Spineless Wonders website www.shortaustralianstories.com.au

10. The closing date is 16 December 2011. Late entries will not be accepted. Entries will be accepted up until midnight.

11. Results will be announced in March, 2012.

12. Spineless Wonders will publish shortlisted and winning stories in small wonder anthology. All published entries, including the winner, may be edited.

To enter, go to Spineless Wonders Submissions Manager

https://spinelesswonders.submishmash.com/Submit

Please note: the entry form has a default cover note section. Simply enter Not Applicable in order to proceed.