FREE PODCASTS ON WRITING CRAFT - FICTION AND POETRY
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/podcasts/media/more/writingchallenges
This web site from the UK Warwick Writing Programme has free podcasts on various aspects of writing fiction. The site also includes a link to a poetry podcast series: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/podcasts/media/more/slowpoetry/
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Saturday, May 22, 2010
THE BORDIGHERA POETRY PRIZE
http://www.gioseffi.com/Prize.html
No fee.
Deadline: postmarked by May 31, 2010
Prize: $1,000 plus publication in a bilingual edition by Bordighera.
Winners will be announced by October 30.
This competition seeks the best manuscripts of poetry in English by an American poet of Italian descent, to be translated upon selection by the judges into modern Italian, for the benefit of American poets of Italian ancestry and the preservation of the Italian language. The poet must be a U.S. citizen of Italian descent and surname or maiden surname.
To enter, submit ten sample pages of poetry in English. The final booklength manuscript should not exceed 48 pages to allow for up to 48 additional pages of Italian translation. Your poems may have appeared in magazines, anthologies or chapbooks. The publisher will commission a translator unless the author is qualified to do the translation.
Both the author and translator will share in the royalties per Bordighera's standard contract.
http://www.gioseffi.com/Prize.html
No fee.
Deadline: postmarked by May 31, 2010
Prize: $1,000 plus publication in a bilingual edition by Bordighera.
Winners will be announced by October 30.
This competition seeks the best manuscripts of poetry in English by an American poet of Italian descent, to be translated upon selection by the judges into modern Italian, for the benefit of American poets of Italian ancestry and the preservation of the Italian language. The poet must be a U.S. citizen of Italian descent and surname or maiden surname.
To enter, submit ten sample pages of poetry in English. The final booklength manuscript should not exceed 48 pages to allow for up to 48 additional pages of Italian translation. Your poems may have appeared in magazines, anthologies or chapbooks. The publisher will commission a translator unless the author is qualified to do the translation.
Both the author and translator will share in the royalties per Bordighera's standard contract.
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Hillerman Mystery Competition
2010 HILLERMAN MYSTERY COMPETITION
http://www.wordharvest.com/novel_contest.php
Deadline: June 1, 2010. No e-mail submissions
No entry fee. Limit of one entry per writer.
Prize: publication with St. Martin's press and a $10,000 advance.
The competition is open to any professional or non-professional writer who has never published a mystery novel and who is not under contract with a publisher for publication of a mystery. All submissions must be original, unpublished book-length works (no less than 220 typewritten pages or approximately 60,000 words).
http://www.wordharvest.com/novel_contest.php
Deadline: June 1, 2010. No e-mail submissions
No entry fee. Limit of one entry per writer.
Prize: publication with St. Martin's press and a $10,000 advance.
The competition is open to any professional or non-professional writer who has never published a mystery novel and who is not under contract with a publisher for publication of a mystery. All submissions must be original, unpublished book-length works (no less than 220 typewritten pages or approximately 60,000 words).
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