Contests: Getting Published, Earning Money, More Venues
We have just launched a new site for unpublished authors called bookhabit.com. It allows writers to upload their work and get paid for downloads. We are also running an international competition for unpublished writers. Enter the 2008 Unpublished Writers Competition at here.
The 2008 Great Blue Heron Writing Workshop (July 1-5) at St. Francis Xavier University invites mid-level writers to engage in small-group sessions in one of four categories: fiction, playwriting, poetry, or magazine writing and creative non-fiction. This workshop offers a supportive atmosphere in which participants learn from established writers.
- Daniel MacIvor - Playwriting
- Bob Bancroft - Magazine Writing & Creative Non-Fiction
- Anne Compton - Poetry
- Michael Crummey - Fiction
- Madeleine Thien - Fiction
Creative Nonfiction is looking for new work about Pittsburgh--the city, its people, its potential--for a project in celebration of the city's 250th anniversary. Pittsburgh in Words will feature 20 classic essays and 5 new pieces to be published online and in print this fall; there will also be a launch event on October 2 in connection with the 412 Festival.
The deadline, March 15, is coming up quickly, but we're looking only for an abstract (summary, overview, outline of what you plan to write about) and a writing sample (published or unpublished, about Pittsburgh or not), plus a cover letter with complete contact information.
Submissions may be sent by email or hard copy. Hard copies may be mailed
to:
Creative Nonfiction Foundation
ATTN: Pittsburgh in Words
5501 Walnut Street #202
Pittsburgh, PA 15232
Complete submission guidelines can be found on Creative Nonfiction's website.
"Lasting Impressions" -- Is there a book that has remained front and center on your bookshelf—or in your mind—even though you read it ages ago? A book that made a lasting impression on you? It might be fiction or non-fiction, something you read as a child or an adult, but it somehow made you think, changed you, taught you something, or otherwise has remained important to you through the years. Write a 600- to 900-word book review that includes the reason this book made a lasting impression on you. Send it as plain text in your e-mail message form to this address. Include a bio of 50 words or less.
- First place - $100 with publication in the May issue of IRB
- Second place - $50 and possible publication
- Third place - $25 and possible publication
Associate Editor Ruth Douillette
Internet Review of Books
548 Vernon Street, Bridgewater, MA 02324
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