Rejection/Calls for Submission

Writer’s Thought for the Week: Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations.  ~ Ralph Charell 

REJECTION

The next time you’re having trouble dealing with rejection, read about the story accepted by New Yorker and subsequently rejected by a long list of literary journals and finally by the New Yorker.

A-MINOR PRESS is open for submissions until April 30, 2013.

Seeks 15,000 to 40,000 word novella, flash or short fiction collections and 60 to 120 page mixed-genre or poetry collections. For fiction, they prefer surrealist dreamscapes. Realist fiction is welcome if it's dark and quirky. Their poetry leans toward the “lyrical, eccentric, ambivalent and wildly imaginative.” Pays "industry standard royalties and author's copies."

HENRY HAZLITT CONTEST FOR BUSINESS FICTION
Deadline: April 30, 2013
Prize: $500 and an offer of a publishing contract with a $2,000 advance

No entry fee
You must be an unpublished author and your novel must have a pro-business theme related to business, finance, entrepreneurship or economics.  The novel’s target audience can be any age from middle-grade to adult. The contest is sponsored by Fiscal Press, “an independent publisher of unique and entertaining books related to business, economics, entrepreneurship and finance (BEEF).”

The Writer free info and Iowa Short Fiction Award

Writer's thought for the week: "Write a novel if you must, but think of money as an unlikely accident." ~ Pearl S. Buck

The Writer magazine web site restricts some of its content to magazine subscribers. If you don't subscribe, you can still access a number of articles here: http://www.writermag.com/Articles.aspx?categoryId=FFA92DA8-8F8A-4EE1-A270-0412DAE83EB2     Articles with a "W" in a gold square next to the title are restricted; all others are public access.

IOWA SHORT FICTION AWARD

http://www.uiowapress.org/authors/iowa-short-fiction.htm

Any writer who has not previously published a volume of prose fiction is eligible to enter. Writers are still eligible if they have published a work in a small print run. The manuscript must be a collection of short stories in English of at least 150 word-processed, double-spaced pages. Stories previously published in periodicals are eligible for inclusion. Award-winning manuscripts will be published by the University of Iowa Press under the Press's standard contract.

Links to stories from previous winners are on the web site.

Orion Magazine Open for Submissions June 15

Writer's Thought for the Week: "What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure."  ~  Samuel Johnson

Orion Magazine
hhttp://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/mag/guidelines_for_article_submissions/

Due to the high volume, Orion now only accepts submissions twice yearly, during designated submission windows. The next submission period will be June 15-30, 2011. Manuscripts received during this time will receive a response by September 30, 2011.

Orion welcomes "thoughtful submissions concerning the collision of nature and culture, the commingling of people and place." Orion considers unsolicited essays, narrative nonfiction, interviews, profiles, short fiction, and picture essays. They also consider submissions for their Place Where You Live and Coda departments. Sample articles are available on their web site.

No more than two submissions of no more than 6,000 words each per person. Feature articles range from 1,500 to 6,000 words, departments from 350 to 1,200 words. Lead time is typically six to nine months. Pays $400 to $1,000 for feature pieces, $50 to $450 for shorter texts. They purchase first North American serial rights, as well as exclusive worldwide electronic rights for sixty days and nonexclusive permanent web rights for their electronic archive.