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Volume 7, Issue 35 - September 2, 2007
====================================================== FFW SMALL MARKETS FundsforWriters - Ranked one of
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2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Editor: C. Hope Clark Mailto: Hope@FundsforWriters.com
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IN THIS ISSUE
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1. Editor's Piece of
Mind
2. Wise Words to Live By
3. Article of the Week
4. Grants/Awards/Contests
5. Jobs/Markets
6. Ads and Opportunities
7. FundsforWriters Aids
8. Contact FundsforWriters
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1. EDITOR'S PIECE OF MIND
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OF THE WEEK Want Major-League Publicity for Your Books? Don't miss your chance meet face-to-face with over
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outlets such as ABC's The View, Today Show, Fox News,
Time, Woman's World, O the Oprah magazine and others
at the National Publicity Summit, October 24-27 in NYC.
Get info by going here now: http://www.NationalPublicitySummit.com/info/?10832 ===== HOPE'S HOMERUN WEEK This has been quite the phenomenal week. Met my new
granddaughter Seanna (age one month), heard from Chicken
Soup about acceptance of a story and received replies from
five agents on the novel, one who wants more chapters and
another who wants the entire manuscript. I go off to Las
Vegas to visit the granddaughter and put writing on hold
for a week and suddenly things start popping in my writing
world. That's the way it's supposed to work. You put feelers,
queries and submissions out there and forget about them.
I keep thirteen queries in play plus the agent queries.
Then I walk away and focus on other activities in my life.
That's when mail arrives with good news or emails inform
me that I'll soon be published in one form or another. Think of your job as querying instead of writing. Your job
is to submit queries. When you submit several in a day,
you've done a great job. Then you concentrate on queries for
the next day, then the next. You hone
your querying skills,
polish those letters and synopses. You're a querying fool! Just like a watched pot never boils, studying the mailbox
doesn't produce acceptance letters either. Look forward,
not back. Think what to do next, not wait on something
you've already done. Then when those great invitations come back to you, you
have to make yourself stop what you're doing to fulfill
their request. Darn, you think. I have eight queries to
send out this week. How am I going to find time to write
these two articles? Maybe that's a taste over the top, but sitting around
waiting and moping is a waste - complete waste. Don't do
it. You're holding back your skills when you could be
finding new markets to conquer, new stories
to tell,
new methods to experiment. Always move forward. Submit and face forward. When that
acceptance bites you in the butt, you'll be tickled to
death.
Hope Clark
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2. WISE WORDS TO LIVE BY
======================================================= "To realize a dream, you must have a dream to realize." -- Mark Victor Hansen =======================================================
3. ARTICLE
======================================================= SCHOOL GRANTS by C. Hope Clark Did you know that fall not only means back to school but
also means it's time to write grants affiliated with schools?
That also means it's the time for teachers to request grants
for artists-in-residence for their classes. Now's when the
money gets reserved for those savvy folks who know how to
partner their writing skills with the educational system
whether it's for after school programs or full-fledged
classes in the high schools. Your job is to figure out
how your writing can mesh with that system. What can you do in a school? What's worth a grant? 1. Teaching creative writing.
This is the obvious one. You teach children how to compose
stories using your own experience. This is the most common
use of artist grants. 2. Teaching history.
Your research for a book might be specific enough to aid
a subject. For instance, 2009 in the bicentennial
of Abe
Lincoln's birthday. The Kentucky Arts Council will be
participating in the many activities, events, and celebrations
taking place from February 2008 when the official national
public Bicentennial Commemoration launches, through 2010.
They are particularly looking for those artists who have
knowledge and programs that would work into that celebration.
The same goes for Hispanic History Month, Women's History
Month, Black History Month, and so on. 3. Teaching about careers.
You could teach about the business side of writing. Middle
and high schools might enjoy hearing from an entrepreneur
or freelancer about what it takes to be successful. Work
with students on how books are made. Instruct about how
newspapers run
and publish stories in the blink of an eye
to meet deadlines. 4. Teaching science.
Whether fiction or nonfiction, you can teach about a
scientific subject you've become expert at. I have a plant
science degree and write mysteries about agriculture. That
would work well in a middle-school science class showing
what I know and how I worked it into something other than
a garden or laboratory. Come up with a project that kids might enjoy and pitch to
your local schools. You can also make headway in schools
through the PTOs which are quite strong and influential in
most areas. To find such grants, peruse these sites: http://www.nasaa-arts.org - Locate your state arts agency and look
for AIE, Artist in Education, or Artist in Residence grants. http://www.schoolgrants.org - A great site for grant writing
in and for the educational system. http://foundationcenter.org/efw/ - The Foundation Center has
specific grant newsletters. This is the page for those grants
involved with education. Sign up for the newsletter at the
top. Read on down the page and see what's been funded before
and what might be open calls for submission. http://www.ptotoday.com/ - PTO Today is the publication for
PTOs. They occasionally list grants as well as information on
how to work with PTOs. But the best way to land
such a paying opportunity is to
sit down over coffee with a teacher or two, principal or
two, school board member or two. Like any writing gig,
knowing or getting to know someone often gets your foot
in the door. BIO
C. Hope Clark believes in writers infusing their knowledge
in schools. Connecting with kids about creative writing is
a marvelous contribution to society since smart writing is
rapidly becoming a dying art.
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4. Grants/Awards/Contests
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SILVER QUILL SOCIETY SHORT FICTION CONTEST
http://www.storyteller1.upcsites.org/page/page/3773128.htm
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$5 ENTRY FEE
Deadline September 25, 2007. Maximum 3,000 words. Open genre.
Prizes:
1st place $50.
2nd place $25.
3rd place $15.
1st Honorable Mention $10.
===== REUBEN ROSE MEMORIAL POETRY COMPETITION
http://www.poetry-voices.8m.com/competition.htm
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ENTRY FEE 15 NIS per poem; US$5.00 per poem; or
3 pounds UK (?) per poem; or 4 Euros (?) per poem. Prizes: First Prize US$300; Second Prize US$150; Third
Prize US$100; Fourth Prize US$50; Honorable Mentions.
A public reading of the poems is held in Israel at a special
evening devoted to poetry. The evening will be in Israel in
December of the year of the competition. The judge
opens the
evening with a short lecture and readings. This is followed
by the poets of the winning and commended poems reading their
poems. However, overseas poets are not reimbursed for any
costs involved if they themselves wish to be present at such
an evening. Deadline October 7, 2007. ===== ON THE PREMISES
http://www.onthepremises.com/
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NO ENTRY FEE
Stories published in On The Premises are winning entries
in contests that are held every four months. Each contest
challenges writers to produce a great story based on a broad
premise that our editors supply as part of the contest.
First prize is currently US $130. We hope that this level of
reimbursement: •
Proves enticing to relatively unknown but skilled writers;
• Is not enticing enough to make writers who have already
won prestigious fiction awards want to enter. Deadline September 30, 2007. First prize ($130); second prize
($90); third prize ($50); honorable mention ($20). Theme: DISGUISED
One or more characters central to the story are using some
kind of physical disguise to pretend to be somebody or
something they're not. Who or what are the character(s)
disguised as? Why are the character(s) disguised? Is the
disguise maintained throughout the story, or abandoned at
some point? Why? Your challenge: In at least 1,000 but no more than 5,000
words, write a creative, compelling, and well-crafted story
based
on the given premise that answers (directly or through
implication) the above questions. ===== COUNTRY WOMAN FRUIT RECIPE CONTEST
http://www.countrywomanmagazine.com/2007/AS07/contest.asp
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NO ENTRY FEE
Send recipes that squeeze every drop of goodness from peaches,
plums and nectarines. Recipes must be postmarked by our contest
deadline, December 1, 2007. That way, we’ll have the pick of
the crop to share with readers in our August/ September 2008
issue, when summer fruits are abundant. The Grand Prize is
$500 cash. The second-prize winner will receive $300, and
third prize is $200. Each of the five runners-up will receive
a $30 free merchandise
certificate from Country Store. ===== COUNTRY WOMAN FISH RECIPE CONTEST
http://www.countrywomanmagazine.com/2007/JJ07/contest.asp
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Whether it’s pan-fried, poached, grilled, steamed, boiled,
broiled or blackened, pass along your catch of the day. The
deadline for entering this contest is October 1, 2007. Winners
will be featured in the June/July 2008 issue. The Grand Prize
is $500 cash. The second-prize winner will receive $300, and
third prize is $200. Each of the five runners-up will receive
a $30 free merchandise certificate from Country Store. ===== CEZANNE'S CARROT
http://www.cezannescarrot.org
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Theme: “The Return of the Light”
We’re now accepting contest submissions in three categories:
-Flash fiction (100 to 1,000 words), entry fee $5 per story
-Short fiction (1,001 to 3,000 words), entry fee $10 per story
-Creative nonfiction (100 to 3,000 words), $10 per story.
The winner in each category will receive $100 and be published
in the 2007 Winter Solstice edition of Cezanne’s Carrot. The
deadline for contest submissions is November 21, 2007. ===== INLAND EMPIRE CALIFORNIA WRITERS CLUB CONTEST
http://www.angelfire.com/amiga/iecwc/contest.html
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$10 ENTRY FEE
Prizes ~ 1st, 2nd and 3rd place ~ $100, $50, $25 prizes
will be awarded
in each of the Short Story, Poetry and
Non-Fiction Categories. Short Story and Non-Fiction are not
to exceed 2,500 words. Poetry is not to exceed 100 lines
(including stanza breaks), title is not to be included in
the word or line count. Deadline September 29, 2007.
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5. Jobs/Markets
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THE BEAR DELUXE
http://www.orlo.org./orlo.html
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Features are typically timely, have an overarching perspective
or appeal and include strong elements of reporting. Word range:
750-4,000 words. Departments Portrait of an Artist: Profile of
artist or arts group with unique or
new environmental focus.
750-1,500 words. Front of the book: eclectic mix of shorter
stories, including news updates, shorter interviews, found
writing, lists and odd tidbits. 100-1,000 words. Reporter?s
Notebook: less formal news reporting with individual perspective.
800 words. Back of the Book: creative opinion, first-person
pieces. 750 words. Interviews: feature reviews with creatives
outside of traditional environmental circles. 1,500-4,000 words.
Short interviews with more insider types: 750-1,500 words.
Reviews: New titles, lost classics, films, videos, products,
theater, fast food and pop corn. Almost anything goes. 100-
1,000 words. Found writing: interesting tidbits from the past
and present. 100-1,000 words. Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Other
The
Bear Deluxe has an open submission policy for fiction, essays,
poetry and other forms. Pays five cents/word. ===== BUSHDUCKS
http://www.bushducks.com/tripreps/submit.htm
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Are you an adventurous, independent traveler? Have you been
somewhere off the beaten track lately? Somewhere memorable that
you would like to share with fellow global wanderers and travelers?
Bushducks welcomes and encourages independent submissions for the
Adventure Reports section of Bushducks Global Adventures website.
You will be paid US$25 flat fee for one-time electronic rights.
This includes payment for the article and any photos. We pay via
Paypal, within 15 days of publication.
Adventure Reports can be
of varying length, however preference is given to submissions of
1,000 to 3,000 words, with a selection of relevant photos to
complement your memorable adventure. ===== THE OLD SCHOOLHOUSE MAGAZINE
http://www.thehomeschoolmagazine.com/writersguidelines.php
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As the largest, highest-quality homeschooling magazine on the
market, TOS is always looking to expand its coverage with fresh
content addressing and exploring all facets of home-based
education. We are interested in articles and stories that
educate, inspire and encourage our family of readers. Areas
of particular interest include articles and anecdotes about
vital
aspects of homeschooling and family life: living in God's
strength, involving fathers, encouraging mothers, joyful
parenting, creative homemaking, improving organization, raising
children and getting it all done. ===== DARK RECESSES
http://darkrecesses.com/SubInfo.htm
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We are looking for horror/dark fiction pieces between 500-
5,000 words. We have raised our pay rate to 3 cents/word
with a $150 cap. ===== CADET QUEST
https://calvinistcadets.gospelcom.net/CadetWeb/pages/WritersGuide2.html
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Cadet Quest is a Christian-oriented magazine for boys ages
9–14. It is published
by the Calvinist Cadet Corps — a
ministry of over 650 boys’ clubs throughout churches in the
United States and Canada. Cadet Quest … is looking for
fiction stories; articles about sports, camping, athletes,
or nature; craft and hobby projects; cartoons; puzzles; and
illustrations. Manuscripts five cents/ word and up (first
rights with no major editing). Cartoons $5 and up for single
gags; $15 and up for full-page panels. ===== CAHOOTS
http://www.cahootsmagazine.com/submit-your-work/
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What’s going on in your life, your community, your world,
your head? What are women doing? What are we creating? We
want to listen to the music, see the art, read the
writing.
We want to hear about women’s triumphs, failures, ways of
expression, ways of coping. We want to hear about what
pisses you off, what builds you up. We want to hear about
what makes you laugh, cry, or cry laughing. We can currently
pay a small honorarium of $100, 2 contributor’s copies,
a subscription to Cahoots magazine, and a full bio in print
and on our website per feature piece we print.
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6. ADVERTISING FOR WRITERS
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ANSWERS.COM CREATIVE WRITING CHALLENGE What do “gazpacho” and “horripilation” have in common? They're
both on the list of words to use in the latest Answers.com
Creative Writing
Challenge. Now accepting original submissions for not one, but two Answers.com
Creative Writing Challenges — one for participants over 18 years of
age and one for students in grades 6-12. Deadline: October 1. New
challenges posted throughout the year. No entry fee. Prizes include gift certificates and link love on
Answers.com. Need more information? Visit http://www.answers.com/main/writing_challenge.jsp. ===== 2007 WOW WRITERS CONFERENCE Tampa Quorum Hotel - Tampa FL
September 14 & 15 "Working together to become better writers"
Appearing: Raleigh Pinskey, Tim Dorsey, Linnea Sinclair,
Heather H. Howard, Marilyn Merredith, John Strelecky,
Rita Milios, David Rosenberg, Rebecca Buckley,
Mundania Press, Ellora's Cave, Cerridwen Press
-and many more- www.wizardsofwords.org ===== ARE YOU LIVING AN "AUTHENTIC" LIFE? You'll discover who you really are when you start journaling
with the help of The Authentic Self: Journaling Your Joys,
Griefs and Everything in Between (ISBN 978-0-6151-5562-3;
paperback, 212 pages). Get your signed copy before September 3 at 32% off. Shipping
is free in the US. You even get to choose 2 bonus gifts! => http://TheAuthenticSelfBook.com <=
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17th ANNUAL SOUTH CAROLINA WRITERS WORKSHOP CONFERENCE October
26 - 28, 2007
The Hilton Myrtle Beach Resort, Myrtle Beach, SC
70+ Workshops - Critiques - Carrie McCray Literary Contest
9 Literary Agents - 9 Editors - Many Poets & Authors
Website: www.myscww.org email: conference@myscww.org
C. Hope Clark is a workshop presenter. She'd love to see you there.
Tell her you are a FundsforWriters reader, and she'll send you
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