Punctuation Fun/Market for fiction, poetry, essays

Writer’s Thought for the Week: If you want to change your life, remember that change starts with you. ~ Jeffrey Keller

Best take on punctuation since Eats, Shoots, and Leaves: http://writerunboxed.com/2013/05/02/take-a-punctuation-mark-out-to-lunch/

CONFRONTATION MAGAZINE
Accepts works from new and established writers – from a talented 14-year-old to Nobel prize winners. The current reading period ends May 15, 2013. Publishes fiction, poetry, memoirs and essays. Pays up to $125. U.S.-based writers must submit by snail mail; others may submit by e-mail.

Dashes Demystified/Anthology Call

Writer’s Thought for the Week: One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.  ~ A. A. Milne

Dealing with Dashes 

There’s the em-dash, the hyphen, and parenthetical dashes. Although the dash is more free-wheeling than other punctuation marks, this article in the NY Times aims to time those mad dashes. 

Anthology call: Stepping Up: Stories of Blended Families 

Deadline: January 1, 2013; some decisions being made as stories come in

Pays: $100 plus two copies of the published book

Queries and submissions to samanthawaltz@comcast.net

Looking for first-person essays from people who are or have been part of stepfamilies that are nurturing places, and from those where family members must find ways to rise above the challenges they faced at home. For details see:

http://www.pathsofthought.com/stepping-up-stories/

https://www.facebook.com/notes/stepping-up-stories-of-blended-families/call-for-submissions/340245469397644