This site features current writing opportunities for authors of all genres, with a preference for Christian publications. The submission opportunites featured on this blogsite have been collected by Sally Clark. The source of the information is listed at the bottom of each post. Please check these websites for additional writing articles and information on submissions in other genres.

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Published by Ideals Children's Books,


a lift-the-flap board book for ages 2-5,

written by Sally Clark

and winner of a 2015
Silver Medal
from Moonbeam Children's Book Awards





You can read Sally's poetry and hear her reading her poems on http://www.ifollowfredericksburg.com with a new poem posted every week.

Browsing Archive: April, 2010

When A Mind Breaks

Posted by Sally Clark on Friday, April 30, 2010, In : Poetry and Prose Anthology 
Call for submissions: Colleen Sell is in the process of gathering narrative essays, creative nonfiction stories, poetry and prose that reveal the effects of mental illness on the lives of people who have neurobiologic disorders and on the lives of their loved ones for a book-length anthology that she will compile, edit, and peddle until she finds a publisher compassionate and astute enough to publish it.
 
 
Maximum submission ...

Continue reading ...
 

SouthWest Writers Quarterly Writing Competition

Posted by Sally Clark on Thursday, April 29, 2010, In : Contest 
Now here’s a challenge. Write a fiction story, 500 words limit. It MUST contain a man or a boy (any age), a dog (any kind), and a pair of scissors. The setting is your choice. Don’t forget--all stories have a beginning, middle and end, and contain conflict.
Postmark deadline: June 30, 2010
All entries $10. Prizes: $150/1st prize; $50/2nd prize; $25/3rd prize.
Mail Entries to:
SWW Quarterly Writing Competition
3721 Morris St. NE, Ste A
Albuquerque, NM 87111
(Print name of category under you...

Continue reading ...
 

Massachusetts State Poetry Society

Posted by Sally Clark on Wednesday, April 28, 2010, In : Contest 
NAOMI CHERKOFSKY MEMORIAL CONTEST

Entry fee - $3 per poem
Deadline:  June 30
Subject and Form:  Poet's Choice
Line Limit:  40 Lines
Prizes:  $50     $30     $20
Poems entered must NOT have been published or won ANY prize.
 

Continue reading ...
 

Word & Sound International, 2010

Posted by Sally Clark on Tuesday, April 27, 2010, In : Contest 

In 2010, there are 8 subjects, any style, any form, including an all-inclusive “other” subject. We hope all poets and writers will have more fun with less to think about. You may enter poems, essays, stories of up to 1,500 words, or stories of more than 1,500 words. Entry fees from $3 - $6; prizes range from $20 - $50. Deadline June 30, 2010.


Subjects for 2010 include: Aging Gracefully (or Not); Death& Dying; Earth, Nature, Seasons; Relationships, Special Days; Spiritual, Uplifting, R...


Continue reading ...
 

New Love Stories Magazine

Posted by Sally Clark on Monday, April 26, 2010, In : Print Magazine 
For women over the age of twenty. It is designed to invoke in the reader a wide range of emotions relating to love and romance. Each issue will contain a well rounded mix of stories of loving female/male relationships that will stimulate the readers’ imagination. Adult women of all ages will relate to and live vicariously through the escapades of the female lead in each story. Also included in each issue will be a topical selection of cartoons and poetry.
 

Continue reading ...
 

Humorous Greeting Card Copywriter

Posted by Sally Clark on Sunday, April 25, 2010, In : Greeting Cards 
Well established greeting card publisher seeks copywriters for on-going freelance assignments for humorous greeting cards. If you’re a writer with a great sense of humor, can match humorous copy to humorous visuals, and you have experience in the publishing industry, we’d love to hear from you. Please include a few short humorous samples or something typical of your style. Contact mailto:job-gbwdj-1649576649@craigslist.org

from: www.writergazette.com
Continue reading ...
 

Cancer Anthology

Posted by Sally Clark on Saturday, April 24, 2010, In : Nonfiction Anthology 

Divine Truth Press is currently acceptoing submission for its Cancer Anthology with an anticipated release date of October 2010 (Cancer Awareness Month)

Details: http://divinetruthpress.atwc1.com/submissions/cancer-anthology/

We want your true stories, essay, or poems about your journey, the journey of a loved one or your secondhand experience as caregiver or medical professional. We want the anger, the despair, the "why me, God?" and the moment you realized, that despite the ravages to your bo...


Continue reading ...
 

Patchwork Path: Mother's Life

Posted by Sally Clark on Friday, April 23, 2010, In : Nonfiction Anthology 
What's Your Favorite Memory About Your Mom?

Everyone has a favorite story to share about their mother. Choice Publishing Group (Choice) is collecting stories about mothers for their new book Patchwork Path: Mother's Life. Choice is looking for original stories and essays from 250 to 2000 words about your mom. Each submission will be reviewed and considered based on creativity, originality, concept, and style. Reading will be continuous and submissions will be considered as they arrive. Not all...

Continue reading ...
 

Society of Southwestern Authors Writing Contest

Posted by Sally Clark on Thursday, April 22, 2010, In : Contest 
http://www.ssa-az.org/contest.html
 
Submit short stories, poems, essays or short stories for children ages 6-12. Prizes: $250/$125/$75/$25 in each category. Top three entries and honorable mentions in each category will be published in The Story Teller. Deadline: June 1.
 
from: http://www.writermag.com/events.aspx?page=info&eventid=30342 
 

Continue reading ...
 

Writer's Digest - Your Story

Posted by Sally Clark on Wednesday, April 21, 2010, In : Contest 
http://writersdigest.com/yourstory
 
Every other month, Writer's Digest presents a creative challenge for fun and prizes. We'll provide a short, open-ended prompt. In turn, you'll submit a short story of 750 words or fewer based on that prompt. You can be funny, poignant, witty, etc.; it is, after all, your story. The winner will receive publication in an upcoming issue of Writer's Digest.

Your Story #26: Bloody Knife in Your Hand
You wake up to find a dead body on the floor—and a bloody...

Continue reading ...
 

Johnson City, TX, Writer's Event

Posted by Sally Clark on Tuesday, April 20, 2010,

Johnson City, Texas, Writer’s Event            

10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 11th, Johnson Settlement Events Center  (two blocks west of the traffic light on U.S. Hwy 290 in Johnson City)  Admission: $25 (includes lunch) Proceeds will benefit the Johnson City Library.


Mike Blakely, Is the moderator for the panel discussion and then book signing. Writes western historical fiction. The Fredericksbug library has 6 of his books: Too Long at the Dance, Comanche D...


Continue reading ...
 

A Love Affair With Shoes Anthology

Posted by Sally Clark on Monday, April 19, 2010, In : Fiction and Nonfiction Anthology 
Call for submission of personal accounts of shoe lovers and their adoration and ultimate obsession with shoes. The upcoming anthology, A Love Affair With Shoes (working title), will explore the journeys of avid shoe lovers through stories and essays written by women. Submit your 1,000-word story (or as close to 1,000 words as you can get) in the “body” of an email. Please no attachments to: PrincessChick@Gmail.com. Each contributor chosen for the anthology will receive $100 (US) upon publ...

Continue reading ...
 

Pockets: Connecting Kids and God

Posted by Sally Clark on Sunday, April 18, 2010, In : Children's 
Deadline: 06/01/10

Theme: (MUST BE appropriate for 8 to 12 year olds Christians) Respect is a value that we may talk about more than we practice. Paul urged the Christians in Rome to “outdo one another in showing honor” (Romans 12:10 nrsv); another translation reads, “be eager to show respect for one another” (tev). Respect for all persons as created and beloved by God is basic to our faith. Yet we live in a time when mean-spirited sarcasm and contempt are more in evidence than respect...

Continue reading ...
 

The Tao of Place

Posted by Sally Clark on Saturday, April 17, 2010, In : Poetry and Prose Anthology 
Colleen Sell is looking for personal stories or poems about the human connection to a specific place for a book length anthology. The “place” might be a home or a certain room or space in a home, or it could be a building, neighborhood, park, body of water, city, region, country, type of landscape (woods, mountains, desert), vacation spot … whatever “place” has special and positive meaning to you.
 
See full details at: http://thewordsinger.com/up-coming-5/
 
Submission length: ...

Continue reading ...
 

Lit Magazine

Posted by Sally Clark on Friday, April 16, 2010, In : Online magazine 
LIT MAGAZINE, a free quarterly online magazine is looking for poetry 30 lines or less, and prose 275 words or less for its Summer 2010 issue. LIT is open to most subjects and styles, excluding extreme violence, pornography, or profanity.

The deadline for the summer issue has been extended to May 7, 2010.

"Get Lit Up About Life and Literature" with LIT MAGAZINE at their NEW WEB ADDRESS - litmagazine.weebly.com

Continue reading ...
 

The Connecticut Poetry Awards

Posted by Sally Clark on Thursday, April 15, 2010,

Open to all poets. Submit poems: April 1- May 31, 2010 (postmark)

Prizes of $400, $200, and $100. Send up to 3 unpublished poems, any form, 80 line limit. Include two copies of each poem: one with complete contact information in the upper right hand corner and one with NO contact information.Include SASE for results only (no poems will be returned). Winning poems must be submitted by disc or email following notification.Fee $15 for up to 3 poems. Please make out check to Connecticut Poetry ...


Continue reading ...
 

WRITERS' Journal Short Story Contest

Posted by Sally Clark on Tuesday, April 13, 2010, In : Contest 
Prizes: $350, $125, $75, plus honorable mentions.
Winning entries will be published in future issues of WRITERS' Journal.
Postmark deadline: May 30, 2010
Entry fee: $10
Word limit: 2,000
More details: http://www.writersjournal.com/ShortStoryContest.htm

Continue reading ...
 

Hot Mamas of Reinvention: Can We Talk?

Posted by Sally Clark on Monday, April 12, 2010, In : Nonfiction Anthology 
Colleen Sell is looking for women who have transformed themselves, their careers, or their lives in some fascinating or profound or unusual way to feature in a new book. This self-help/inspirational nonfiction book will profile 20-25 women of varying ages and backgrounds who have changed their lives for the better.  She's interested only in fresh faces.
 
If you are interested in being featured in the book or would like to recommend any other ”hot mamas of reinvention” you think should ...

Continue reading ...
 

The Lookout

Posted by Sally Clark on Sunday, April 11, 2010, In : Christian Print Magazine 
PAY: $.11 - $.17/word

THE LOOKOUT is a 16-page, full-color weekly magazine from Standard Publishing with a circulation of about 60,000. THE LOOKOUT is written and designed to provide Christian adults with true-to-the-Bible teaching and current information that will help them fulfill their desire to mature as individual believers, develop godly homes, and live in the world as faithful witnesses of Christ. In short, we want to help our readers understand and respond to the world from a biblical...
Continue reading ...
 

2010 SouthWest Writers Writing Contest

Posted by Sally Clark on Friday, April 9, 2010, In : Contest 
The SouthWest Writers’ 28th Annual Writing Contest encourages and rewards excellence. Cash prizes are awarded to the top three entries in each of 14 categories. In addition, first-place winners in each category compete for the $1,000 Storyteller Award.
 
The contest is open to all original, unpublished work by English-language writers.

Deadline: Postmarked no later than May 1, 2010
Late entries: Postmarked no later than May 15, 2010 (late fee applies)

Categories to enter include: Mains...


Continue reading ...
 

Prune Juice: A Journal of Senryu and Kyoka

Posted by Sally Clark on Thursday, April 8, 2010, In : Literary Journal 
Prune Juice is seeking submissions of quality senryu and kyoka in English from writers across the globe. Please submit up to twenty senryu/kyoka at a time via email. Poems should appear in the body of the email – no attachments will be read. Please ensure that your submission has ‘PRUNE JUICE SUBMISSION’ clearly written in the email’s title field. Always include your name and a brief biography, even if you have submitted to us previously.
 
Submission period closes: May 1, 2010 for ...

Continue reading ...
 

Thriving Family "Soft Evangelism" Articles

Posted by Sally Clark on Wednesday, April 7, 2010, In : Christian Print Magazine 
Writers,

Evangelism is a tricky business, for sure. Jesus tells us to go and make disciples, yet in today’s world, Christians attempting to share their faith are often met with skepticism and resentment. Still, we know that God seeks the heart of every individual. How can we nudge our non-believing friends toward the waiting arms of the Savior?

For an upcoming issue of Thriving Family, I’m looking for examples of “soft evangelism.” By “soft” evangelism, I mean times when you and you...

Continue reading ...
 

Friends of Acadia Poetry Contest

Posted by Sally Clark on Tuesday, April 6, 2010, In : Contest 
http://www.friendsofacadia.org/events/poetrycompetition.shtml
Deadline: April 30, 2010
NO ENTRY FEE

"Established in 1998, the Friends of Acadia Poetry Prize is presented biannually to promote and recognize distinctive nature poetry....We will accept nature-based poems of 30 lines or fewer. Each author may submit only 3 poems for consideration. Entries must be original, unpublished, and not submitted elsewhere." Winning poems "will be published and awarded cash prizes."
 
from: www.practicingw...

Continue reading ...
 

The Shine Journal Poetry Contest

Posted by Sally Clark on Monday, April 5, 2010, In : Contest 
Free to enter. Prizes: $100 + Pushcart Nomination, $50, $25. Any type, any form, up to 100 lines.
Deadline April 30, 2010. http://www.theshinejournal.com/poetrycontest.htm
Continue reading ...
 

Novel Beginnings First Chapter Contest

Posted by Sally Clark on Saturday, April 3, 2010, In : Contest 
More details: http://www.thewritehelper.com/id74.html
 
The Great American Novel beckons! (Or any other country for that matter!) You accept the challenge. But first things first, you must write the opening chapter. Your objective: to write the best attention-grabbing, heart-stopping, thought-provoking chapter imaginable. So get started, your adoring public awaits!

Free critique available upon request! To request your free critique, write the words "free critique" on your title page.
    ...


Continue reading ...
 

Writecorner Press Short Fiction Awards

Posted by Sally Clark on Friday, April 2, 2010, In : Contest 
Annual Awards for Unpublished Fiction in Any Style, Any Theme. First Place Award, $1,100. Editor's Choice Awards: $100 each. Maximum length: 3,000 words. Stories must be unpublished. Postmark deadline: April 30, 2010.
 
Full details at: http://www.writecorner.com/award_guidelines.asp

Continue reading ...
 

Lucidity Free International Poetry Contest

Posted by Sally Clark on Thursday, April 1, 2010,
Sponsored by Lucidity Poetry Journal
Established 1985
Free contest offers small prizes and possible publication for poems in any form dealing with people and interpersonal relationships.
Authors must be 18+.
Editor Ted Badger calls Lucidity "a national journal of verse that features understandable poetry. We look for poems that have clarity and focus, so the audience can both comprehend and applaud the lines." No email submissions, please.
Unpublished submissions preferr...

Continue reading ...
 
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Browsing Archive: April, 2010

When A Mind Breaks

Posted by Sally Clark on Friday, April 30, 2010, In : Poetry and Prose Anthology 
Call for submissions: Colleen Sell is in the process of gathering narrative essays, creative nonfiction stories, poetry and prose that reveal the effects of mental illness on the lives of people who have neurobiologic disorders and on the lives of their loved ones for a book-length anthology that she will compile, edit, and peddle until she finds a publisher compassionate and astute enough to publish it.
 
 
Maximum submission ...

Continue reading ...
 

SouthWest Writers Quarterly Writing Competition

Posted by Sally Clark on Thursday, April 29, 2010, In : Contest 
Now here’s a challenge. Write a fiction story, 500 words limit. It MUST contain a man or a boy (any age), a dog (any kind), and a pair of scissors. The setting is your choice. Don’t forget--all stories have a beginning, middle and end, and contain conflict.
Postmark deadline: June 30, 2010
All entries $10. Prizes: $150/1st prize; $50/2nd prize; $25/3rd prize.
Mail Entries to:
SWW Quarterly Writing Competition
3721 Morris St. NE, Ste A
Albuquerque, NM 87111
(Print name of category under you...

Continue reading ...
 

Massachusetts State Poetry Society

Posted by Sally Clark on Wednesday, April 28, 2010, In : Contest 
NAOMI CHERKOFSKY MEMORIAL CONTEST

Entry fee - $3 per poem
Deadline:  June 30
Subject and Form:  Poet's Choice
Line Limit:  40 Lines
Prizes:  $50     $30     $20
Poems entered must NOT have been published or won ANY prize.
 
Full details at: http://mastatepoetrysociety.tripod.com/id14.html

Continue reading ...
 

Word & Sound International, 2010

Posted by Sally Clark on Tuesday, April 27, 2010, In : Contest 

In 2010, there are 8 subjects, any style, any form, including an all-inclusive “other” subject. We hope all poets and writers will have more fun with less to think about. You may enter poems, essays, stories of up to 1,500 words, or stories of more than 1,500 words. Entry fees from $3 - $6; prizes range from $20 - $50. Deadline June 30, 2010.


Subjects for 2010 include: Aging Gracefully (or Not); Death& Dying; Earth, Nature, Seasons; Relationships, Special Days; Spiritual, Uplifting, R...


Continue reading ...
 

New Love Stories Magazine

Posted by Sally Clark on Monday, April 26, 2010, In : Print Magazine 
For women over the age of twenty. It is designed to invoke in the reader a wide range of emotions relating to love and romance. Each issue will contain a well rounded mix of stories of loving female/male relationships that will stimulate the readers’ imagination. Adult women of all ages will relate to and live vicariously through the escapades of the female lead in each story. Also included in each issue will be a topical selection of cartoons and poetry.
 
http://www.newlovestories.com/w...

Continue reading ...
 

Humorous Greeting Card Copywriter

Posted by Sally Clark on Sunday, April 25, 2010, In : Greeting Cards 
Well established greeting card publisher seeks copywriters for on-going freelance assignments for humorous greeting cards. If you’re a writer with a great sense of humor, can match humorous copy to humorous visuals, and you have experience in the publishing industry, we’d love to hear from you. Please include a few short humorous samples or something typical of your style. Contact mailto:job-gbwdj-1649576649@craigslist.org

from: www.writergazette.com
Continue reading ...
 

Cancer Anthology

Posted by Sally Clark on Saturday, April 24, 2010, In : Nonfiction Anthology 

Divine Truth Press is currently acceptoing submission for its Cancer Anthology with an anticipated release date of October 2010 (Cancer Awareness Month)

Details: http://divinetruthpress.atwc1.com/submissions/cancer-anthology/

We want your true stories, essay, or poems about your journey, the journey of a loved one or your secondhand experience as caregiver or medical professional. We want the anger, the despair, the "why me, God?" and the moment you realized, that despite the ravages to your bo...


Continue reading ...
 

Patchwork Path: Mother's Life

Posted by Sally Clark on Friday, April 23, 2010, In : Nonfiction Anthology 
What's Your Favorite Memory About Your Mom?

Everyone has a favorite story to share about their mother. Choice Publishing Group (Choice) is collecting stories about mothers for their new book Patchwork Path: Mother's Life. Choice is looking for original stories and essays from 250 to 2000 words about your mom. Each submission will be reviewed and considered based on creativity, originality, concept, and style. Reading will be continuous and submissions will be considered as they arrive. Not all...

Continue reading ...
 

Society of Southwestern Authors Writing Contest

Posted by Sally Clark on Thursday, April 22, 2010, In : Contest 
http://www.ssa-az.org/contest.html
 
Submit short stories, poems, essays or short stories for children ages 6-12. Prizes: $250/$125/$75/$25 in each category. Top three entries and honorable mentions in each category will be published in The Story Teller. Deadline: June 1.
 
from: http://www.writermag.com/events.aspx?page=info&eventid=30342 
 

Continue reading ...
 

Writer's Digest - Your Story

Posted by Sally Clark on Wednesday, April 21, 2010, In : Contest 
http://writersdigest.com/yourstory
 
Every other month, Writer's Digest presents a creative challenge for fun and prizes. We'll provide a short, open-ended prompt. In turn, you'll submit a short story of 750 words or fewer based on that prompt. You can be funny, poignant, witty, etc.; it is, after all, your story. The winner will receive publication in an upcoming issue of Writer's Digest.

Your Story #26: Bloody Knife in Your Hand
You wake up to find a dead body on the floor—and a bloody...

Continue reading ...
 

Johnson City, TX, Writer's Event

Posted by Sally Clark on Tuesday, April 20, 2010,

Johnson City, Texas, Writer’s Event            

10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 11th, Johnson Settlement Events Center  (two blocks west of the traffic light on U.S. Hwy 290 in Johnson City)  Admission: $25 (includes lunch) Proceeds will benefit the Johnson City Library.


Mike Blakely, Is the moderator for the panel discussion and then book signing. Writes western historical fiction. The Fredericksbug library has 6 of his books: Too Long at the Dance, Comanche D...


Continue reading ...
 

A Love Affair With Shoes Anthology

Posted by Sally Clark on Monday, April 19, 2010, In : Fiction and Nonfiction Anthology 
Call for submission of personal accounts of shoe lovers and their adoration and ultimate obsession with shoes. The upcoming anthology, A Love Affair With Shoes (working title), will explore the journeys of avid shoe lovers through stories and essays written by women. Submit your 1,000-word story (or as close to 1,000 words as you can get) in the “body” of an email. Please no attachments to: PrincessChick@Gmail.com. Each contributor chosen for the anthology will receive $100 (US) upon publ...

Continue reading ...
 

Pockets: Connecting Kids and God

Posted by Sally Clark on Sunday, April 18, 2010, In : Children's 
Deadline: 06/01/10

Theme: (MUST BE appropriate for 8 to 12 year olds Christians) Respect is a value that we may talk about more than we practice. Paul urged the Christians in Rome to “outdo one another in showing honor” (Romans 12:10 nrsv); another translation reads, “be eager to show respect for one another” (tev). Respect for all persons as created and beloved by God is basic to our faith. Yet we live in a time when mean-spirited sarcasm and contempt are more in evidence than respect...

Continue reading ...
 

The Tao of Place

Posted by Sally Clark on Saturday, April 17, 2010, In : Poetry and Prose Anthology 
Colleen Sell is looking for personal stories or poems about the human connection to a specific place for a book length anthology. The “place” might be a home or a certain room or space in a home, or it could be a building, neighborhood, park, body of water, city, region, country, type of landscape (woods, mountains, desert), vacation spot … whatever “place” has special and positive meaning to you.
 
See full details at: http://thewordsinger.com/up-coming-5/
 
Submission length: ...

Continue reading ...
 

Lit Magazine

Posted by Sally Clark on Friday, April 16, 2010, In : Online magazine 
LIT MAGAZINE, a free quarterly online magazine is looking for poetry 30 lines or less, and prose 275 words or less for its Summer 2010 issue. LIT is open to most subjects and styles, excluding extreme violence, pornography, or profanity.

The deadline for the summer issue has been extended to May 7, 2010.

"Get Lit Up About Life and Literature" with LIT MAGAZINE at their NEW WEB ADDRESS - litmagazine.weebly.com

Continue reading ...
 

The Connecticut Poetry Awards

Posted by Sally Clark on Thursday, April 15, 2010,

Open to all poets. Submit poems: April 1- May 31, 2010 (postmark)

Prizes of $400, $200, and $100. Send up to 3 unpublished poems, any form, 80 line limit. Include two copies of each poem: one with complete contact information in the upper right hand corner and one with NO contact information.Include SASE for results only (no poems will be returned). Winning poems must be submitted by disc or email following notification.Fee $15 for up to 3 poems. Please make out check to Connecticut Poetry ...


Continue reading ...
 

WRITERS' Journal Short Story Contest

Posted by Sally Clark on Tuesday, April 13, 2010, In : Contest 
Prizes: $350, $125, $75, plus honorable mentions.
Winning entries will be published in future issues of WRITERS' Journal.
Postmark deadline: May 30, 2010
Entry fee: $10
Word limit: 2,000
More details: http://www.writersjournal.com/ShortStoryContest.htm

Continue reading ...
 

Hot Mamas of Reinvention: Can We Talk?

Posted by Sally Clark on Monday, April 12, 2010, In : Nonfiction Anthology 
Colleen Sell is looking for women who have transformed themselves, their careers, or their lives in some fascinating or profound or unusual way to feature in a new book. This self-help/inspirational nonfiction book will profile 20-25 women of varying ages and backgrounds who have changed their lives for the better.  She's interested only in fresh faces.
 
If you are interested in being featured in the book or would like to recommend any other ”hot mamas of reinvention” you think should ...

Continue reading ...
 

The Lookout

Posted by Sally Clark on Sunday, April 11, 2010, In : Christian Print Magazine 
PAY: $.11 - $.17/word

THE LOOKOUT is a 16-page, full-color weekly magazine from Standard Publishing with a circulation of about 60,000. THE LOOKOUT is written and designed to provide Christian adults with true-to-the-Bible teaching and current information that will help them fulfill their desire to mature as individual believers, develop godly homes, and live in the world as faithful witnesses of Christ. In short, we want to help our readers understand and respond to the world from a biblical...
Continue reading ...
 

2010 SouthWest Writers Writing Contest

Posted by Sally Clark on Friday, April 9, 2010, In : Contest 
The SouthWest Writers’ 28th Annual Writing Contest encourages and rewards excellence. Cash prizes are awarded to the top three entries in each of 14 categories. In addition, first-place winners in each category compete for the $1,000 Storyteller Award.
 
The contest is open to all original, unpublished work by English-language writers.

Deadline: Postmarked no later than May 1, 2010
Late entries: Postmarked no later than May 15, 2010 (late fee applies)

Categories to enter include: Mains...


Continue reading ...
 

Prune Juice: A Journal of Senryu and Kyoka

Posted by Sally Clark on Thursday, April 8, 2010, In : Literary Journal 
Prune Juice is seeking submissions of quality senryu and kyoka in English from writers across the globe. Please submit up to twenty senryu/kyoka at a time via email. Poems should appear in the body of the email – no attachments will be read. Please ensure that your submission has ‘PRUNE JUICE SUBMISSION’ clearly written in the email’s title field. Always include your name and a brief biography, even if you have submitted to us previously.
 
Submission period closes: May 1, 2010 for ...

Continue reading ...
 

Thriving Family "Soft Evangelism" Articles

Posted by Sally Clark on Wednesday, April 7, 2010, In : Christian Print Magazine 
Writers,

Evangelism is a tricky business, for sure. Jesus tells us to go and make disciples, yet in today’s world, Christians attempting to share their faith are often met with skepticism and resentment. Still, we know that God seeks the heart of every individual. How can we nudge our non-believing friends toward the waiting arms of the Savior?

For an upcoming issue of Thriving Family, I’m looking for examples of “soft evangelism.” By “soft” evangelism, I mean times when you and you...

Continue reading ...
 

Friends of Acadia Poetry Contest

Posted by Sally Clark on Tuesday, April 6, 2010, In : Contest 
http://www.friendsofacadia.org/events/poetrycompetition.shtml
Deadline: April 30, 2010
NO ENTRY FEE

"Established in 1998, the Friends of Acadia Poetry Prize is presented biannually to promote and recognize distinctive nature poetry....We will accept nature-based poems of 30 lines or fewer. Each author may submit only 3 poems for consideration. Entries must be original, unpublished, and not submitted elsewhere." Winning poems "will be published and awarded cash prizes."
 
from: www.practicingw...

Continue reading ...
 

The Shine Journal Poetry Contest

Posted by Sally Clark on Monday, April 5, 2010, In : Contest 
Free to enter. Prizes: $100 + Pushcart Nomination, $50, $25. Any type, any form, up to 100 lines.
Deadline April 30, 2010. http://www.theshinejournal.com/poetrycontest.htm
Continue reading ...
 

Novel Beginnings First Chapter Contest

Posted by Sally Clark on Saturday, April 3, 2010, In : Contest 
More details: http://www.thewritehelper.com/id74.html
 
The Great American Novel beckons! (Or any other country for that matter!) You accept the challenge. But first things first, you must write the opening chapter. Your objective: to write the best attention-grabbing, heart-stopping, thought-provoking chapter imaginable. So get started, your adoring public awaits!

Free critique available upon request! To request your free critique, write the words "free critique" on your title page.
    ...


Continue reading ...
 

Writecorner Press Short Fiction Awards

Posted by Sally Clark on Friday, April 2, 2010, In : Contest 
Annual Awards for Unpublished Fiction in Any Style, Any Theme. First Place Award, $1,100. Editor's Choice Awards: $100 each. Maximum length: 3,000 words. Stories must be unpublished. Postmark deadline: April 30, 2010.
 
Full details at: http://www.writecorner.com/award_guidelines.asp

Continue reading ...
 

Lucidity Free International Poetry Contest

Posted by Sally Clark on Thursday, April 1, 2010,
Sponsored by Lucidity Poetry Journal
Established 1985
Free contest offers small prizes and possible publication for poems in any form dealing with people and interpersonal relationships.
Authors must be 18+.
Editor Ted Badger calls Lucidity "a national journal of verse that features understandable poetry. We look for poems that have clarity and focus, so the audience can both comprehend and applaud the lines." No email submissions, please.
Unpublished submissions preferr...

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Sally Clark Like finding shells on the beach, I love doing market research! And what I find, I love to share! I write in a variety of genres including children's, Christian, poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, so these post follow along those lines. Check out my web site: www.sallyclark.info, for more about me.
 

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