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November 18, 2015 · 7:18 am

Writing tip Wednesday: “New Writer Award”

Glimmer Train Press: New Writer Award: 1st place $1,500 and publication in Issue 98. Deadline: 11/30.

Glimmer Train

Glimmer Train

  • This category is open only to emerging writers whose fiction has not appeared in any print publication with a circulation over 5000.
  • NOTE: 11 of the last 12 first-place winners have been those authors’ first print publications!
  • The 1st-place winner will be published in Issue 98 and will receive 10 copies of that issue. Second- and 3rd-place win $500/$300, respectively, or, if accepted for publication, $700.
  • Winners and finalists will be announced in the February 1 bulletin, and contacted directly the previous week.
  • Most submissions run 1,500 – 6,000 words, but stories as long as 12,000 words are fine.

Writing Guidelines: http://www.glimmertrain.com/pages/guidelines/short_story_award_for_new_writers_guidelines.php

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November 11, 2015 · 7:11 am

Writing tip Wednesday: “New Millennium Writings”

New Millennium Writings contests

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Details at: http://submit.newmillenniumwritings.org/

To apply online, follow these guidelines:

  • $1,000 Award plus publication for each category – $4,000 total awards.
  • November 15, 2015, Midnight (all U.S. time zones) – Fiction, Nonfiction, Short-Short Fiction, Poetry deadline.
  • Payment is $20 per submission and includes your free copy of the anthology.
  • Pay by credit card, debit card, or echeck with PayPal (following Upload).
  • We accept the following formats: Microsoft Word (.doc), Adobe Acrobat (.pdf), Rich Text Format (.rtf), and Plain Text (.txt). Please note that the Word format (.docx) is not accepted at this time, so if using Word, please save your file in the (.doc) format, also called Word 97-2003 Document under “Save As” options.
  • No restrictions as to style or subject matter. (except for Love Wins essays)
  • Multiple and simultaneous submissions are welcome.
  • Fiction pieces must be 6,000 words or less.
  • Nonfiction(all types welcome) pieces must be 6,000 words or less.
  • Short-Short Fiction must be 1,000 words or less.
  • Each Poetry entry may include three poems, up to five pages total. Poetry Honorable Mentions will be published.
  • Paypal provides contact information with each entry, so cover letters are not necessary. If you wish to include a cover letter, please include it on a separate page in your file. The NMW screening process is blind, so please be sure that no identifying information is displayed anywhere else in the file.
  • Entrant retains copyright of his/her Entry.
  • Mailing addresses outside the U.S./Canada may require additional postage fee to receive anthology.

Additional information: http://submit.newmillenniumwritings.org/

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October 28, 2015 · 7:28 am

Writing tip Wednesday: “Writer’s Digest Poetry Contest”

Source: http://www.writersdigest.com/writers-digest-competitions/poetry-awards?et_mid=793214&rid=239626420

This way to the contest.

This way to the contest.

Deadline: October 30, 2015

Calling all poets! We’re on the look out for poems of all styles–rhyming, free verse, haiku, and more–for the 9th Annual Writer’s Digest Poetry Awards! This is the only Writer’s Digest competition exclusively for poets. Enter any poem 32 lines or less for your chance to win $1,000 in cash.

Prizes

One First Place Winner will receive:

  • $1,000 in cash
  • Their poem published in Writer’s Digest magazine’s July/August 2016 issue
  • A copy of the 2016 Poet’s Market
  • Promotion on writersdigest.com.

The Second Place Winner will receive:

  • $250 in cash
  • Their poem’s title published in Writer’s Digest magazine’s July/August 2016 issue
  • A copy of the 2016 Poet’s Market
  • Promotion on writersdigest.com.

The Third Place Winner will receive:

  • $100 in cash
  • Their poem’s title published in Writer’s Digest magazine’s July/August 2016 issue
  • A copy of the 2016 Poet’s Market
  • Promotion on writersdigest.com.

Fourth through Tenth Place Winners will receive:

  • $100 off a purchase from the Writer’s Digest Shop
  • Their poem’s title published in Writer’s Digest magazine’s July/August 2016 issue
  • A copy of the 2016 Poet’s Market
  • Promotion on writersdigest.com.

How to Enter

Register online: https://app.wizehive.com/apps/WDPoetry2015

  • Enter online or submit your entry via regular mail. Offline entries must be accompanied by an Entry Form, and the required entry fee (credit card information, check or money order made payable to F+W Media, Inc.). If you are entering more than one poem, you may mail all entries in the same envelope and write one check for the total entry fee. You may enter online even if you are paying with a check. All checks will be cashed within 60 days of the competition final deadline. Entry fees are non-refundable.
  • Your entry must be original, in English, unpublished and unproduced, not accepted by any other publisher or producer at the time of submission. Writer’s Digest retains one-time nonexclusive publication rights to the winning entries to be published in a Writer’s Digest publication. Any piece posted anywhere online is considered published.
  • If you are submitting your entry via regular mail (NOT using the online entry form), the entry must be typed on one side of 8-1/2 x 11 or A4 white paper. Poems may be single or double-spaced. Your name, address, email and phone number must appear in the upper left-hand corner of the first page —otherwise your entry is disqualified. Entries submitted online do not need name, address, email and phone number in the upper left-hand corner of the first page since that information is collected on the form.
  • BE SURE OF YOUR LINE COUNT! Entries exceeding the line limits will be disqualified. Type the exact line count (counting every single line, except the title and contact information) at the top of the manuscript.

Additional information: http://www.writersdigest.com/writers-digest-competitions/poetry-awards?et_mid=793214&rid=239626420

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April 10, 2015 · 7:10 am

Photo finish Friday: “Shameless self-promotion, part2”

After some delays, the 1st Place Check for the Knoxville Writers' Guild Science Fiction and Fantasy writing contest arrived. The 2015 KWG writing contest is now accepting submissions. Go to http://www.knoxvillewritersguild.org/contest.

After some delays, the 1st Place Check for the Knoxville Writers’ Guild Science Fiction and Fantasy writing contest arrived. The 2015 KWG writing contest is now accepting submissions. Go to http://www.knoxvillewritersguild.org/contest.

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March 11, 2015 · 7:11 am

Writing tip Wednesday: “Family matters”

FAMILY MATTERS guidelines

Glimmer Train

Glimmer Train

Glimmer Train is looking for stories about families of all configurations. They say: “It’s fine to draw heavily on real life experiences, but the work must read like fiction and all stories accepted for publication will be presented as fiction.”*

Maximum word count: 12,000. Any shorter lengths are welcome.

Held just twice a year: Open to submissions in MARCH and SEPTEMBER. Next deadline: March 31.

Winners and finalists will be officially announced in the June 1 and December 1 bulletins, respectively, and will be contacted directly one week earlier.

Reading fee: $15 per story. Please, no more than three submissions per contest.

Prizes:

  • 1st place wins $1,500, publication in Glimmer Train Stories, and 20 copies of that issue.
  • 2nd place wins $500 (or, if accepted for publication, $700 and 10 copies).
  • 3rd place wins $300 (or, if accepted for publication, $700 and 10 copies).

Please make your submissions at Glimmer Train’s online submission site: http://www.glimmertrainpress.com/writer/html/index2.asp. We look forward to reading your work!

* Remember that sticking too tightly to “fact” can limit the larger truth that fiction is able to reveal. Give your story the leeway it needs in order to find its own life. And, if your story is closely related to your actual experience, it is wise to change details that would allow the real-life people to say, Hey, that’s me!

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March 1, 2015 · 3:17 pm

Some shameless self-promotion

Booker, McGinley win Writers’ Guild awards

Source: http://www.standardbanner.com/news/booker-mcginley-win-writers-guild-awards/article_87118cd4-bd2b-11e4-ba8a-b37639bc4d99.html

By Gayle Page – Staff Writer

David E. Booker -- lost in the cosmos, as always.

David E. Booker — lost in the cosmos, as always.

A couple of expressive gentlemen with local connections have recently won literary awards for their creative writing. David Booker and Mark McGinley achieved first-place recognition from the Knoxville Writers’ Guild through its annual writing contest.

Booker, a Jefferson City native, won a first place for the second chapter of a science fiction/fantasy thriller that he calls a “work in progress.” This was not Booker’s first Writers’ Guild win. He won last year for a short story in the mystery genre.

Booker has written and published several short stories, and he has been a contributor to a few area newspapers, including the Morristown Citizen Tribune.

He earns his living as a writer, currently doing technical writing for Y-12. Earlier, he did technical and promotional consumer writing for Phillips Electronics (formerly Magnavox), and has done some promotional writing for Log Home magazines, as well. For the past three years Booker has served as editor of his neighborhood newsletter, and he continues working on his novel.

About writing Booker says: “It’s what I enjoy doing, even though sometimes I sit frustrated in front of a blank screen.” He is a long-time member of the Knoxville Writers’ Guild, and invites other interested writers to join and enjoy the support of an active, dedicated and diverse writing community.

Mark McGinley, another former resident of Jefferson City who is now Assistant Professor of Theater and Technical Director of Stage Design at Lincoln Memorial University, is also a winner of the Knoxville Writers’ Guild 2014 contest.

McGinley’s writing primarily focuses on his work as a playwright. His winning entry “Still Waters,” is a one-act play set in the Tennessee hills in the 1930’s, with a ragtag cast of characters and a moonshine theme. It hasn’t been performed on stage yet, but whenever that happens, the 32-page script will take actors about 30 minutes to execute.

He has had one play entitled “Sold” performed by a theater workshop group (now disbanded), but McGinley still has plenty of other ideas and plays he hopes to produce. It’s possible that one of his plays will be performed at the Tiger Lily Theater in Knoxville, in April.

McGinley earned his undergraduate degree at Carson-Newman University, and while he lived nearby he worked for the Comedy Barn in Pigeon Forge and doubled as a massage therapist. Today he stays so busy he only has time to concentrate on his primary vocation, which is theater. He received his graduate degree, a masters in theater design and stage combat, from Louisiana Tech.

About writing McGinley says: “It’s hard work until you come up with an idea that burns inside of you until you put it on a page. Then it’s more work, work, work.”

Of course, he would never want to do anything else.
Finishing first earned Booker and McGinley $100 each in prize money. Aspiring writers who might be interested in joining the Knoxville Writers Guild are invited to go online to http://www.knoxvillewritersguild.org and see what they have to offer, or write to them for an informational brochure, at Knoxville Writers’ Guild, P.O. Box 10326, Knoxville TN 37939-032.

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February 18, 2015 · 8:18 am

Writing tip Wednesday: “Glimmer Train contest for New Writers”

SHORT STORY AWARD for NEW WRITERS guidelines

Glimmer Train

Glimmer Train

Open only to writers whose fiction has not appeared, nor is scheduled to appear, in any print publication with a circulation over 5,000. (Entries must not have appeared in any print publication.)

Most entries run from 1,500 – 6,000 words, but any lengths up to 12,000 words are welcome.

Held quarterly. Open to submissions in FEBRUARY, MAY, AUGUST, and NOVEMBER. Next deadline: November 30. *

Winners are announced in the May 1, August 1, November 1, and February 1 bulletins, respectively, and contacted directly one week earlier.

  • This category is open only to emerging writers whose fiction has not appeared in any print publication with a circulation over 5000. (Seven of the last eight 1st place New Writer winners have been those authors’ first print publications.)
  • Second- and 3rd-place winners receive $500/$300, respectively, or, if accepted for publication, $700. Winners and finalists will be announced in the February 1 bulletin, and contacted directly the previous week.
  • Most submissions run 1,500 – 6,000 words, but can be as long as 12,000. Reading fee is $15 per story. Please, no more than three submissions per category.

To submit: http://www.glimmertrainpress.com/writer/html/index2.asp

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November 12, 2014 · 7:12 am

Writing tip Wednesday: “Glimmer Train contest for New Writers”

SHORT STORY AWARD for NEW WRITERS guidelines

Glimmer Train

Glimmer Train

Open only to writers whose fiction has not appeared, nor is scheduled to appear, in any print publication with a circulation over 5,000. (Entries must not have appeared in any print publication.)

Most entries run from 1,500 – 6,000 words, but any lengths up to 12,000 words are welcome.

Held quarterly. Open to submissions in FEBRUARY, MAY, AUGUST, and NOVEMBER. Next deadline: November 30. *

Winners are announced in the May 1, August 1, November 1, and February 1 bulletins, respectively, and contacted directly one week earlier.

  • This category is open only to emerging writers whose fiction has not appeared in any print publication with a circulation over 5000. (Seven of the last eight 1st place New Writer winners have been those authors’ first print publications.)
  • Second- and 3rd-place winners receive $500/$300, respectively, or, if accepted for publication, $700. Winners and finalists will be announced in the February 1 bulletin, and contacted directly the previous week.
  • Most submissions run 1,500 – 6,000 words, but can be as long as 12,000. Reading fee is $15 per story. Please, no more than three submissions per category.

To submit: http://www.glimmertrainpress.com/writer/html/index2.asp

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November 5, 2014 · 7:05 am

Writing tip Wednesday: “New Millennium Writings”

New Millennium Writings contest

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Details at: http://newmillenniumwritings.com/awards.php

To apply online, follow these guidelines:

  1. No restrictions as to style, content, number of submissions, or nationality. Enter as often as you like.
  2. Send between now and November 17, 2014, Midnight, all U.S. time zones.
  3. Simultaneous & multiple submissions welcome. Previously published material welcome if under 5,000-circulation or if previously published online only.
  4. Each fiction or nonfiction piece is counted as a separate entry, and should total no more than 6,000 words except Short-Short Fiction (no more than 1,000 words).
  5. Each poetry entry may include up to three poems, not to exceed five pages total per entry. All poetry Honorable Mentions will be published.
  6. Save cover sheet or letter with the submission you’ll be uploading and send as one file. Should you forget to include such covers, however, it’s OK, as contact information is automatically forwarded to us when you pay online.
  7. Payment is $20 per submission in order to cover our many expenses and reserve your book. Payment will be by credit card or echeck through PayPal (See Rule 10).
  8. Each entry must be in a separate file (up to 3 poems in one file (See #6)). Many file formats are accepted.
  9. Enter file to upload:
  10. After clicking Upload, allow five seconds, then follow payment instructions to conclude your submission.

$4,000 offered in Literary Grants and Awards, Plus Publication
$1,000 for best Poem
$1,000 for best Fiction
$1,000 for best Nonfiction †
$1,000 for best Short-short Fiction
† Nonfiction includes humor, memoir, creative nonfiction, travel, opinion, essay, interview, features, investigative reporting, etc.

Details at: http://newmillenniumwritings.com/awards.php

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October 22, 2014 · 7:22 am

Writing tip Wednesday: “Glimmer Train, very short fiction contest”

VERY SHORT FICTION guidelines

Details at: http://www.glimmertrain.com/veryshort.html

Glimmer Train

Glimmer Train

Open to all writers, this category welcomes stories that have not appeared in any print publication.

Maximum length: 3,000 words.

Held quarterly. Open to submissions in JANUARY, APRIL, JULY, and OCTOBER.
Next deadline: October 31.

Winners are announced in the April 1, July 1, October 1, and January bulletins, respectively, and contacted directly one week earlier.

Reading fee: $15 per story. Please, no more than three submissions per contest.

Prizes:

  • 1st place wins $1,500, publication in Glimmer Train Stories, and 20 copies of that issue.
  • 2nd place wins $500 (or, if accepted for publication, $700 and 10 copies).
  • 3rd place wins $300 (or, if accepted for publication, $700 and 10 copies).

Only stories sent in online are considered.

To apply, go to https://www.glimmertrainpress.com/writer/html/index2.asp

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