Literary Journals/Memoir

Thought for the Week: Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. ~ Winston Churchill 

JOURNAL OF THE MONTH

We can subscribe to all sorts of “of the month” clubs: book, fruit, cheese, wine, or even pig. Now we have literary journal of the month. Editors often read literary journals to find new talent. Interested in writing for literary journals but can’t afford to subscribe to more than one? If you live in the USA or Canada, you can sample more than one journal by subscribing to Journal of the Month. For $33, you receive four different journals. You select the frequency – one every month, every other month, or quarterly. Other options are available, up to 24 journals for $170. I’m going to give it a try.

MEMOIR(AND)

http://Memoirjournal.net/submissions

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

The current reading period ends August 16, 2012 at noon Pacific Time.

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

Seeks memoir in prose, poetry, or graphic form. Does not accept previously published work but does accept simultaneous submissions. (A personal blog is not considered previously published.)

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

Plotting Pointers/Slice Magazine

Writer’s Thought for the Week: “…you’re a writer if you look at yourself and see a writer. Everyone else…sees an obsessive-compulsive, anal-retentive insomniac with a pen fetish.” ~ Lisa Shearin

PLOTTING POINTERS

Whether you’re a plotter or pantser, Robyn DeHart has an article with pointers to keep you on track when writing a character driven novel. After all, we must give some thought to what we are writing before we set pen to paper or fingers to keys. DeHart outlines three steps to plotting a character driven novel: theme, premise or character lesson, and character arc.

SLICE
http://www.slicemagazine.org/submit.html

Slice will pay $100 for stories and essays and $50 for poems beginning with issue 12, which launches spring 2013. The theme for that issue is "Obsession." The reading period will run from July 1 - August 31. Slice welcomes submissions for short fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Do not submit anything over 5,000 words.