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http://newportreview.org/?contests.html
The 2009 Flash Fiction Contest is open for entries as of June 1, 2009. Stories will be considered from June through the postmark deadline of September 1, 2009. This year’s guest judge will be fiction writer Hester Kaplan, author of The Edge of Marriage and Kinship Theory. We are looking for works that are short in length but linger long in memory: small stories that pack a big emotional punch and make creative use of language. Please note that this year, we are accepting slightly longer stories, up to a maximum of 1,000 words.
Deadline: Postmarked by September 1, 2009
Word Count: Short-short stories up to 1,000 words
Entry fee: $7 per story, 3 for $20

Mail manuscripts w/check or money order (made out to Newport Review) to: Newport Review Flash Fiction Contest, P.O. Box 65, Warren, RI 02885

Manuscripts should include writer’s name and complete contact information, including email and phone. Winners will be notified and posted on our blog and web site. Include a business-size SASE if you wish individual notification of contest results.

Writers may submit a total of six entries. The contest is open to all writers, published and unpublished, except writers who have close personal affiliations with Newport Review, its editorial staff or advisory board. Past contest winners and those who have been published in the print edition of Newport Review are eligible to enter.
First Prize: $150 and publication
Second Prize: $100 and publication
Third Prize: $50 and publication
Honorable Mention: Publication and Newport Review bumper sticker
Other stories may also be considered for publication.

This week’s article is an essay from Linda C. Wisniewski’s essay collection Off Kilter: A Woman’s Journey to Peace with Scoliosis, Her Mother and Her Polish Heritage. Please let us know how the details and images in the story affect you and how you take some inspiration for your own writing, especially writing about childhood events.

A note from Stacey Krone-Battat at www.kiwipublishing.com:

As we are receiving many beautiful writer blog subscriptions, and a portion have been directed from the Writing it Real writing blog, you are among the first we are contacting to notify your writers that we have extended the writing contest deadline by 15 days.  Thin Threads® – Real Stories of Life Changing Moments will be posting the extension tomorrow and the contest will be extended from June 30th to July 15th. We hope to receive many more compelling and emotionally evocative pieces of writing from your wonderful audience!   www.thinthreads.com <http://www.thinthreads.com>

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You’ll be moved with every essay she’s posted! Her essays are a must read!

Another novel in letters–to add to my previous favorite The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters.

It’s a pleasure to overhear a writer in her correspondence and that’s just what we get to do with Guernsey‘s main characer Juliet. The world comes alive for her  she goes to live on an island in the English Channel to learn about the way the residents survived during WWII.

A two bedroom, one bath apartment (can sleep four) on Water Street downtown is available for reasonable rent that week. Email stevehartman@hotmail.com for rental details.

This week’s article offers some insight into how one might go about collecting essays into a memoir.  Let us know what you are doing on that score and how Linda’s experience resonates with your own.

BIRTH PARENT ANTHOLOGY

http://www.catalystbookpress.com/Guidelines.html

Catalyst Book Press is seeking literary essays telling personal stories of adoption, open adoption, birth parent connections, the adoption triad, and unification with children after closed adoption for an anthology for and about birth parents. Authors of accepted essays will receive $50 for their stories and one copy of the publication.

Submissions can be sent by August 15, 2009 to co-editors Ann and Amanda Angel, 15255 Turnberry Dr., Brookfield, WI 53005. For more information, please email Ann at <alangel78(at)gmail.com> (replace (at) with @).
If you wish your manuscript returned, please include an SASE.

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MISCARRIAGE ANTHOLOGY

http://www.catalystbookpress.com/Guidelines.html

Catalyst Book Press is seeking literary essays telling personal stories of miscarriage, in particular emotional and spiritual ramifications of miscarriage or the transformations that occurred in people’s lives as a result of undergoing or observing a miscarriage. We are looking for essays that reflect a diversity of experiences and outcomes. Authors of accepted essays will receive $50 for their stories and one copy of the publication.

Submissions can be sent by August 15, 2009 to editor Jay Gibson at <jaygibson(at)catalystbookpress.com> (replace (at) with @) or care of Catalyst Book Press, 709 Masson Ave. Apt. A, San Bruno CA 94066. If you wish your manuscript returned, please include an SASE.