Saturday, January 30, 2010

LaChance Publishing Seeking Stories

LaChance publishing is a non-fiction publisher that publishes books about health topics and fitness. Their “Voices Of” series of anthologies is seeking 500-3,000 word personal essays on the following topics:

Alzheimer’s Disease
Anorexia/Bulimia
Breast Cancer
Depression
Epilepsy

They are also seeking stories about dogs who’ve made a difference in people’s lives. From the website:

MORE Good Dogs Doing Good

“Following on the success of Good Dogs Doing Good, we’re planning a second volume of uplifting, true stories of dogs that have transformed people’s lives.

What we need: True stories of literary merit that show the real, positive and transformative impact a dog has had in your life or the lives of your family or loved ones. For example, has a dog aided you through an illness or given you new insights on yourself or your life? Good Dogs Doing Good itself is the best reference. Your story should be 500-3,000 words.

What we do NOT need: Stories that focus primarily on a dog’s adorable characteristics.”

There is no information listed on payment.

From another writers’ group blog, available here: http://coffeeandcritique.blogspot.com/

Assisi: An Online Journal of Arts & Letters, published by St. Francis College in Brooklyn, is now accepting submissions (poetry, short stories, non-fiction essays, photography and art work) for our second issue.

To see our inaugural issue, and our submission guidelines, go to www.stfranciscollege.edu/academics/Publications/assisi and follow the link.

If you have questions, or need further information, please contact Dr. Wendy Galgan, Editor, at <wgalgan(at) stfranciscollege .edu>(replace (at) with @). NOTE WELL: This is not the e-mail to which you should send your submissions. Please follow the directions in the submission guidelines.

Assisi holds first rights for publication; we also reserve the right to use your name and the title of your work in press releases and on sections of our website other than the pages of Assisi. Beyond this use, and following publication in Assisi, rights revert to the author/artist providing Assisi is acknowledged in any subsequent publication of the work.

Link to 21 fairly well-paying markets for poetry, from the wonderful website http://www.freelancewritinggigs.com – here’s the link: http://www.freelancewritinggigs.com/2010/01/21-poetry-markets/

Sexology: An Online Literary Journal of Sex Writing is seeking submissions for
its inaugural issue, which we’re hoping will be mid-May 2010.

We are looking for the highest quality fiction, personal essays, and poetry that
explores what sex means in our culture and on a personal level. This is not the
same as erotica, which can be defined as literature or art intending to arouse
sexual feelings. Sex writing may or may not have actual sex in its pages
(although it usually does, and it will often overlap with erotica in that it can
be arousing). Please no pornography (sex for sex’s sake), romance, or
journalistic articles.

Pieces should be no more than 2000 words.

Contributors are paid in gratitude and admiration.

Send submissions in the body of an email and as a Word doc to
<editors(at) sexologylit. com>
(replace (at) with @) Please include a brief bio as well.

CERISE PRESS (www.cerisepress. com): CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR ISSUES 5 and 6 (Fall/Winter 2010 and Spring 2011)
Cerise Press is open to submissions in photography, art, fiction and poetry, including translations in French, Chinese, and Spanish. (For other languages, kindly inquire first.)
We publish 3 issues per year.
Submissions are read year-round. All work accepted will be considered for our future print anthologies. We accept unpublished pieces, and on very rare occasions, previously published ones.
We read and consider each submission with care and integrity. Although it may take up to 2-3 months for us to reach an editorial decision, we’ll do our best to respond promptly to submissions and to general correspondence. After 3 months, please feel free to query.
Submissions
Include a cover letter with a brief biographical note, listing any recent publications you may want to mention, your name and contact information.
Submit 3-5 poems as a .doc or .pdf.
Submit 1 story (1-15 pages) as a .doc or .pdf
Submit 4-6 photographs and/or 2-5 works of art as .jpegs.
Please indicate any additional links/gallery websites for our reference.
Translations should be accompanied with the original texts, brief biographical notes for the author(s) and the translator(s) , and a statement of the author’s or literary agent’s permission and approval.
E-mail submissions to <submissions( at)cerisepress. com> (replace (at) with @). Simultaneous submissions are welcome, but please notify us immediately at <editors(at) cerisepress. com> (replace (at) with @) upon acceptance elsewhere. Please do not send another submission until we have responded to the first one.
Currently, we publish only solicited essays. If you are interested in submitting essays, interviews, or in proposing other projects, write to us at <editors(at) cerisepress. com>
(replace (at) with @).
If you are interested in reviewing or sending a book, please visit our Books for Review page.
We look forward to reading your work!
Editors, <editors(at) cerisepress. com> (replace (at) with @)

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Poetry Motel (publishing since 1984) is currently seeking submissions of poetry,
prose, and performance art for upcoming issues. Submit 1 – 3 pieces to
poetrymotel. org. We also accept submissions sent via regular mail (include a
Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope for our reply) to: Poetry Motel, P.O. Box 103
Duluth MN 55801. We continue to publish work by both new and established
writers.

http://poetrymotel. org/

Call for Submissions: Ohio Childhood Poems
http://ohiochildhoo dpoemsanthology. blogspot. com/

Children are shaped by the places they live and the events they experience. This collection will gather work that documents how poets were shaped or influenced by growing up in one particular Midwest state. On its north coast, Ohio is a Great Lakes state where it shares a border with Canada; on the east and south, it is Appalachian mountains and foothills, forests and rivers; to its west, it flattens into the beginning of the plains, squared with farms. Demographically, Ohio has its rich cosmopolitan centers, its suburbs surrounding its cities, its bounty of small towns, its agricultural diversity from truck farms to family farms. Yet it also has cultural diversity and rich heritages that decorate the quilt that is Ohio. Poems of place and on characters might be especially welcomed for this collection. Name the people, places, brands, businesses, landmarks, institutions, locations that impacted your life as a child and your life as a poet. The collection will be edited by Robert Miltner of Kent State University and published by Pudding House Publications in Columbus, Ohio.

Guidelines:

Poets should have spent at least five years of their childhood in Ohio.

Beginning, emerging and established poets are equally invited.

Submit no more than four poems.

Include author contact information—name, address, phone number, email—on each submission.

Include a short contributor’s note (under 150 words) about your Ohio connection; keep publication comments brief.

No simultaneous submissions.

Previously published poems considered if poet holds copyright and publication information (journal, issue, year, page or website) is provided. No fees will be paid for reprinting.

Rights revert back to author upon publication.

Electronic submissions only.

Send submissions to (ohiochildhood( at)gmail. com) <replace (at) with @>. Put your last name first in the subject line, followed by “submission.” Attach your poem(s) in a word file AND paste the poem(s) in 12 point font in the body of the email.
Only submissions that follow the guidelines will be considered.

Deadline for submissions is EXTENDED to August1, 2010.

For questions, contact editor at <ohiochildhood( at)gmail. com> (replace (at) with @)Put “Question” in the subject line.