Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
(704 Terry Ave) (206) 622-9250

Please join us to celebrate the publication of Beyond Forgetting. Reading from the anthology will be Tess Gallagher, poet and author of the Foreword, Holly Hughes, editor, and contributors Jane Alynn, Lana Hechtman Ayers, Joanne Clarkson, Nancy Dahlberg, John Davis, Alice Derry, Arthur Ginsberg, Joseph Green, Esther Altshul Helfgott, Denise Calvetti Michaels and Kay Mullen. Admission is free. Tickets are distributed on a space-available basis at the Information Desk at the Frye one hour before the event. The book will be available for purchase. For directions: www.fryemuseum.org <http://www.fryemuseum.org>

$500 and public-radio broadcast feature for 500 (or fewer) words! Quiddity international literary journal and public-radio program is pleased to announce the Teresa A. White Literary Award.  The 2009 award is affectionately referred to as the “buck-a-word” contest.
First Prize: $500 and publication in the Spring/Summer 2010 print issue of Quiddity as well as public-radio broadcast (via WUIS, NPR member and PRI affiliate)

Honorable mentions may also be offered publication and broadcast.
Contest begins March 1, 2009, and ends August 1, 2009 (postmark deadline).
Submit one work of prose totaling no more than 500 words (title included) as well as $12 payable to Quiddity.
U.S. submissions should include both an email address and a self-addressed, business-size (#10), stamped envelope (SASE). International submissions should include an email address to which an electronic reply may be sent.

Work should be previously unpublished; simultaneous submissions with immediate notification are okay, but the contest awards only for FNASR, so works accepted elsewhere will be withdrawn from consideration, and please note: the entry fee will not be returned.

All entries must be typed and must include a cover letter with author’s name and contact information (address, telephone, and email address) as well as the title and word count of the work submitted. The author’s name or any identifying information should not appear on the manu
script itself.
Entries that do not meet the guidelines will not be considered, and entry fees are not refundable.
All contest submissions will be considered for regular inclusion in the journal.
Winners will be announced by September 1, 2009.
Mail entries to

2009 Teresa A. White Literary Award

Quiddity

1500 North Fifth Street

Springfield, Illinois 62702

U.S.A.

damselfly press, an online literary journal for women is pleased to announce the publication of our seventh issue and call for submissions for the eighth issue. We are seeking electronic submissions of original fiction, poetry, and non fiction by female writers only slated for online publication in July.

The deadline to submit for the eighth issue is June 15th.

These are the e-mails per genre e ditor:

Fiction- <jennifer(at)damselflypress.net> (replace (at) with @)

Poetry- <lesley(at)damselflypress.net> (replace (at) with @)

Non fiction- <nonfiction(at)damselflypress.net>  (replace (at) with @)

Visit the damselfly press website

http://damselflypress.net

to read the latest issue and learn more about the journal.

$1,000, first place; $300, second place; $200, third place.

The first-place entry, along with the finalist judge’s comments, will be published in The Writer magazine. All three winning entries will be posted on The Writer Web site, www.WriterMag.com.

Finalist judge

Shelby Hearon

Entry fee

$10 per entry, payable to The Writer. Entry fees are nonrefundable. Payments must be in U.S. funds drawn from a U.S. bank.

Deadline

Postmarked by May 31, 2009.

Rules

1. Submit two (2) copies of your short story. Entries must be submitted with an official entry form, available below.Place the title only (not your name) on each page of the story.

2. All entries must be original and previously unpublished in a book, nationally distributed periodical or Web-based magazine. Entries must be in English and submitted by the author, who must be at least 18 years old at the time of entry.

3. Entries should not exceed 2,000 words. No graphic language, sex or violence.

4. Entries must be double-spaced in standard 10- to 12-point type, and each page must be consecutively numbered. Please paperclip pages together; do not staple or enclose in covers or binders.

5. A $10 nonrefundable entry fee, payable to The Writer, must accompany each entry. Please do not send cash in the mail. Submitted entries are final and will not be returned, so be
sure to keep a copy for your records. We are unable to acknowledge entries.

6. You may submit more than one entry, but each entry must be accompanied by a $10 entry fee. No simultaneous submissions are allowed.

7. Winners will be notified by Sept. 1, 2009.

8. Family members and employees of The Writer and its affiliates are not eligible to enter the contest.

How to submit

Download the entry form at

http://www.writermag.com

Short stories, nonfiction

https://narrativemagazine.com/node/56338/

Do you have a story about money success, embarrassing moment, exhilaration, laugh-out-loud funny misstep with the green stuff?  I’d love to hear from you! I am interviewing women about their money stories for an arts-based project which I hope will lead to a book of women’s money stories, workshops, and performances. You can contact Mary Alice Long, PhD at maryalice@maryalicelong.com or 206-200-4542. http://maryalicelong.com

I just read the article on finding one’s voice.  Good article.  Thanks for the poetry links.  I just started reading Boland and Hirschs’ book on the Sonnet.  I read that Rattle is seeking sonnet submissions by August, so I figure I might have time to craft some.

Regarding the topic at hand, I write in the voice of my teen Asperger students when I write social guides for them.  Sometimes it drives them
crazy the first time I have them read what I’ve written and they realize
they’re reading in the first person.  These social guides are similar in
intent to the “social stories” I write with pictures for preschoolers or
for developmentally delayed teens.  (The purpose is for mental rehearsal
of thoughts/ behaviors we want to facilitate.)

Gotta go.
Happy Spring. -Mary Ellen

It’s a treat to learn from Abigail Thomas. If you have comments about her ideas please let us know here.