Web tools for writers/Memoir prose and poems

Writer’s Thought for the Week: I have touched with a sense of art some people – they felt the love and the life. Can you offer me anything to compare to that joy for an artist?  ~ Mary Cassatt

WEB TOOLS FOR WRITERS

When you’re in the mood for some targeted Web browsing, The Writer’s Toolkit lists a variety websites for writers. The links are grouped according to forums, resources, writing references, conferences and webinars, and more.

MEMOIR(AND)

http://Memoirjournal.net/submissions

http://www.memoirjournal.net/downloads/submission-guidelines.pdf

Publishes memoirs in both prose and poetry form.

Prizes: $500/$250//$100 and publication.

Reading period is open through noon Pacific time, February 16, 2013. If using snail mail, must be postmarked by that date.

No entry fee. One entry per author per submission period.

Southern Lit/Crime Writing

Writer’s Thought for the Week: The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you the knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ~  Elizabeth Hardwick

The ReviewReview Has a list of 6 literary magazines from the southern USA, but material need not be southern.

ROOM, “Canada’s oldest journal by and about women,” is working on an issue with “crime” as the theme. “Sin, wrongdoing, injurious acts, murder, deceit, contraband. Poison, theft, larceny, lust, fraud, family and foreclosure.”

Deadline: January 31, 2013.

You may submit fiction and creative nonfiction up to 3500 words, or up to five poems. Pays $50 for up to 2 pages, $60 for 3 pages, $80 for 4 pages, $100 for 5 pages, $120 for 6+ pages for First North American Serial Rights. 

Random House Update/Poetry Seminar and Contest

Writer’s Thought for the Week: A study from Britain's National Literacy Trust says that literate people are more likely to be happy.

Random House Publishing Group announced this week that it will "decentralize" trade paperback publishing. Individual publishers and imprints will manage their own trade paperbacks and publish books through their full life cycle: hardcover, eBook, and paperback. Jane von Mehren, trade paperbacks publisher, is leaving the company after more than eight years. She leaves behind an impressive track record in a broad range of categories. She edited Jamie Ford's Hotel On the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, a book I highly recommend if you have not already read it.

The International Writing Program’s virtual poetry seminar will be offered free to 15 selected applicants. January 28, 2013 is the deadline to submit your application. The online 7-week course begins in February. The course will be conducted in English, but international writers are encouraged to apply.

Spirit First Poetry Contest
Deadline: January 31, 2013

1st/2nd/3rd prizes: $175/$125/$75

Limit of three poems per author
No entry fee

Spirit First’s 4th annual meditation poetry contest seeks previously unpublished poetry of any length and any style but must have a theme of meditation, mindfulness, stillness, or silence.

Book Marketing/Poetry Anthology

Writer’s Thought for the Week: A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.  ~ John Barrymore 

Book Marketing: If you have a book to market or writing a book is one of your 2013 goals, here are 21 book marketing tips courtesy of BookMarketingBuzzBlog.

LEAF PRESS Poetry Anthology

Deadline: January 30, 2013

Pays: $50 CAD plus one copy

Takes reprints

Seeks poems for an anthology about the newly born, the almost born, the journey in-between. “We are interested in thresholds and liminal states; in moments that transcend global cultures. We welcome poems from all the continents, asking only that they be accompanied by a translation to English. We may be able to help, in some instances, with translations.”