Book Reviewer Wanted
The Friday Book Club is looking for a review to report on a recently published book that they’ve read or give a short synopsis of 5-6 books that will be hitting the stores in the near future. The club meets from 1-2 pm on the first Friday of each month (October – May). Dessert and coffee/tea are served. The reviewer comes once during the season, and each reviewer is paid for their time.
Observation/Shadow
Derek Stearns is a Gifted Facilitator with Goddard Public schools who is looking to set up a short or long-term observation/shadowship for a gifted student looking to pursue a career in publishing. Please contact Derek via email at dstearns@goddardusd.com or via phone at 316-794-4100 (ext 52152).
2024 KWA Anthology
Guidelines:
- Must be a member of KWA.
- No pornographic material (try to make it suitable for ages 10 to 90).
- Must be an unpublished work which you own the rights to (you will retain the rights to
your work even after publication). - Use only the name you wish to have listed as the author.
- Short stories shall be limited to 1 per author and can be no longer than 7,000 words.
Poetry shall be limited to 5 per author and can be no longer than 50 lines per poem. Also
remember that the book is 6 x 9 inches and if you write a line that has fifty words, it will
get split up on the page. So think about how you want your poetry to look – might even
use page set up at 5 1/2 by 8 1/2 when you write it. - Submission rules: Please make sure that it is single spaced, 12 pt. Times New Roman,
paragraph indention 2 spaces. Full justification. If you wish to leave a space between
paragraphs, then please center space with ***. If possible Word works best. (Because
there are so many different writing programs some of them seem to take on their own life
when they are e-mailed. Such as a space between every paragraph, which I then must
determine was it on purpose or not, usually not. This is why the *** helps to know that is
how the author wants it. And some works have an indention of 7 or 8 spaces, which does
not look good in book form.) - E-mail as an attachment (this is very important – will not accept it any other way) to:
Attn – Sonny Collins - Deadline is August 30, 2024 – no exceptions.
Send submission to: prairiemoonpublications@hotmail.com
2025 CALL FOR PAPERS – 52nd Annual Louisville Conference on Literature & Culture
FEB 17-18 – Virtual / FEB 20-22 – In-Person
Featuring Keynote Speakers – Rachel Kushner, Ben Lerner, Jahan Ramazani, and Georgie Medina Marcano
The Louisville Conference on Literature & Culture welcomes critical papers and full panel discussions about literature from the 20th and 21st centuries and its connections to other art forms and academic fields. The conference also welcomes creative submissions, such as literary compositions, videos, or hybrid genres. Additionally, critical-creative submissions exploring poetics, crafts, or writing practices are welcomed.
Confirmed LCLC52 events include The Hero Project of the Century: Tyrone Williams As iZ (Aldon Nielsen, organizer) and The Function of Music in Poetry (Adeena Karasick and Mark Scroggins, organizers). And so much more to come!
VENDORS and EXHIBITORS are welcome. Contact Emily Ravenscraft, Conference Coordinator at lclc@louisville.edu to learn how you can be a part of LCLC52.
Submissions are accepted in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Hebrew, and Italian. Panels involving global literature and culture in other languages are encouraged. We also encourage proposals that bring together people from different universities or organizations, with varying levels of experience in academia, and from various fields of study. Recent society participants include the African American Literature & Culture Society, Charles Olson Society, E.E. Cummings Society, International Harold Pinter Society, International Lawrence Durrell Society, International Virginia Woolf Society, Iris Murdoch Society, T.S. Eliot Society, among others.
Conference registrants may participate in up to two of the following activities: (1) a critical, critical-creative, or group/society panel; (2) a creative session; (3) or as the leader of a seminar. Additionally, registrants may also chair one or more panels, as well as participate in seminars. Submissions are limited to one entry per category.
Deadline for submissions is 11:59 P.M. EST on September 15, 2024.
SUBMISSION PROCESS
Email submissions to lclc@louisville.edu
Please use the Subject line exactly: LCLC52 Submission, [Type of submission]
Example: LCLC52 Submission, Roundtable Session
Submission Components:
Individual Critical / Critical-Creative Submissions
Please send as 2 separate attachments
1) Cover sheet: Name as it is to appear in program with any institutional affiliation, Paper Title, and a biographical statement (250 words).
2) Abstract: be sure to omit all references to the author and the author’s name (250-300 words).
Individual Creative Submissions
Please send as 2 separate attachments
1) Cover Sheet: Name as it is to appear in program with any institutional affiliation, Title of Work Submitted, and a biographical statement (250 words).
2) Writing Sample: suitable for a 15-20 minute presentation.
Full Panels, Roundtables and Societies Sessions (single panels or streams) Submissions:
Sessions are to be designed for a 90-minute time slot. The organizer should submit the following documents:
Please send as 2 separate attachments
1) Cover Sheet: Names and Institutional Affiliations, Titles of Work Submitted, biographical statements.
2) Dependent on the subject of the submission please submit either:
a) Abstract: be sure to omit all references to the author and the author’s name (250-300 words).
b) Writing Sample: suitable for a 15-20 minute presentation
SEMINARS. These 120 minutes sessions typically feature informal conversation moderated by the seminar leader(s) on the topic and or activity. If you wish to propose a seminar for LCLC52, contact LCLC Coordinator Emily Ravenscraft and we will evaluate it in advance of our second CFP which will be circulated in August 2024. See below for the current line-up of for this the current LCLC52 seminars. Each seminar has it’s own process for submission, so please read the descriptions carefully.
SEMINAR I
Translation Chapbook Workshop and Reading
Organized by Dr. Mark Mattes & Dr. Clare Sullivan
Participants will take part in a bookbinding workshop led by Dr. Mattes of Louisville-based Hot Brown Press and create chapbooks of their translations. All tools and materials will be provided. Then, in a subsequent panel, chapbook contributors will share their work and participate in a group discussion led by LCLC committee member Dr. Clare Sullivan.
To be considered, please submit 1) Cover sheet and 2) Sample of original, unpublished translations into English from any language. Limit your selection to 150 words – excerpts are fine. Include the source text with your submission and a brief citation.
SEMINAR II
Poetry, Games, and Magic
Organized by Dr. Brandon Harwood & Dr. Robert Eric Shoemaker
This seminar explores the interplay between poetry, magic, and games. What similarities, practical and theoretical, may be drawn from these fields? How can the poetics of play, or the magic circle of the video game, inform our understanding and practice of each? What do today’s multimedia games and poetries say about or to ancient rituals, sociocultural stratification, or morality and purity rules? What openings do we see in language and culture to bend rules in order to break open systems?
To be considered, please submit 1) Cover sheet and 2) Abstract touching two of these fields: game studies, poetry/poetics, and the magical/occult.
SEMINAR III
Pandemic Studies
Organized by Martha Greenwald
Participants will pursue the imaginative structures, disputed narratives, cross-pollinating conspiracies, and contested discourses used to make sense of COVID-19 as well as other past, contemporaneous, or future pandemics. As we accept that life now is increasingly lived with the COVID-19 virus as a normalized and never-ending event, Narrative frameworks and genres of the pandemic experience have shifted and need now additional study. We seek surprising, ambitious, theoretically-rich, and provocative response.
To be considered, please submit 1) Cover sheet and 2) Abstract. Contributions that introduce fiction or generic hybridity are welcome.
PRICING:
Deadline for early bird pricing is January 31, 2025. Ticket
| Ticket Type | Price Before Deadline | Price After Deadline |
| Virtual Presenter | $200 | $230 |
| Presenter: Tenured, Tenure-Track | $165 | $195 |
| Presenter: Retired, Adjunct, or non-Tenure-Track | $125 | $140 |
| Graduate Student Registration | $100 | $115 |
| Chair (non-presenter) | $60 | $70 |
| Guest | $25 (daily) | $25 (daily) |
Focusing on stories that make our communities our homes, we would love to hear the stories of our neighbors and their multi-generational farm, the local high-schooler who volunteers at the local non-profit, the remodel of the community church that was originally built in 1867 and the congregation that made it happen, etc.
Yep, that’s right. RC1 has secured our first publishing partnership. Bushel & Peck Books is looking for a debut author from within the RC1 community to help fill their middle grade list. This means a guaranteed book deal is coming for at least one of our users. And if we can prove that our community can do this at a high level, it will be the first of many opportunities we create for each other.
David Knupp with Homestead of Crestview is starting a regular writing workshop for his residents and would like help with the program. davidknupp@yahoo.com
This year, Pipeline Media Group was very proud to partner with author Lee Matthew Goldberg and editor Zoe Quinton to launch a new publishing company: Fringe Press.
Currently open to submissions for novels and short stories across all genres of fiction “somewhere beyond the boundaries of mainstream.” Think of the type of story a Big 5 publisher would never want in a billion years and a trillion parallel universes – we want that.
View guidelines and criteria (including requests for a special anthology!)and, Query Us.
Call For Entries! Enter by February 28, 2024 to be a part of the 2024 awards program
We are getting close to the February deadline date and encourage you to enter this year’s Short Story Awards now if you haven’t already. The Next Generation Short Story Awards will honor and award
1 Winner and 3 Finalists in each of the 25+ categories and 3 Grand Prize Winners from all entries submitted this awards year. Awards given to the Winners and Finalists of the 2024 Next Generation Short Story Awards are:
Grand Prize Winners:
1st Place: $500 cash prize, 1st Place Grand Prize Winner trophy, gold medal, an invitation to attend the NGIBA awards gala, story and author bio published in the Anthology, and a complimentary copy of the Anthology.
2nd Place: $300 cash prize, gold medal, an invitation to attend the NGIBA awards gala, story and author bio published in the Anthology, and a complimentary copy of the Anthology.
3rd Place: $200 cash prize, gold medal, an invitation to attend the NGIBA awards gala, story and author bio published in the Anthology, and a complimentary copy of the Anthology.
Winners:Winners of each of the 25+ categories will receive: $75 cash prize, gold medal, story and author bio published in the Anthology, and a complimentary copy of the Anthology.
Finalists:Author name and title of story mentioned in the Anthology, Anthology available to purchase at half price.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:
We Want Your Regency Romances!
A new series from The Wild Rose Press celebrating the holiday season of ages past.
- Any length submission is accepted.
- Must be a Historical Romance, specifically Medieval, Edwardian, Regency, Victorian, or Georgian.
- Must be a true Christmas time story. Other winter holiday celebrations where the season is the main core of the story are also welcome.
Script Categories
- Drama Feature Screenplay
- Comedy Feature Screenplay
- Horror Award
- Sci-Fi Award
- Short Screenplay
- Drama Teleplay
- Comedy Teleplay
- Scripted Digital Series
- Playwriting
- Fiction Podcast