Volume 7, Issue 37  -       September 16, 2007

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Editor: C. Hope Clark

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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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http://www.fundsforwriters.com/smallmarkets.htm

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SPONSOR OF THE WEEK...

TOM HOWARD/JOHN H. REID POETRY CONTEST

Now in its 5th year. $3,500 in prizes, including a top prize
of $1,000. Submit poems in any style or genre. Both published
and unpublished work welcome. Entry fee is $6 for every 25 lines,
payable to Winning Writers. Postmark deadline: September 30.
Judges: John Reid, Dee Konrad. Submit online or mail to Winning
Writers, Attn: Tom Howard Poetry Contest, 351 Pleasant Street,
PMB 222, Northampton, MA 01060. Winning Writers is one of the
"101 Best Web Sites for Writers" (Writer's Digest, 2005-2007).

More information: http://www.winningwriters.com/tompoetry

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LISTS...

Last week, you learned that the lists of famous people meant
little compared to the lists of those who've aided your growth
as a human being. This week, let's get a little more grounded.

List what you expect to write by the end of the week.
List what you expect to submit by the end of the month.
List your goal for the end of the year.

I don't want to hear comments like "Maybe a short story,"
or "I might pick up that old novel I started last summer."
Say it...point blank. What exactly will you accomplish?

People muddle away their lives thinking they have lots of time
for it to eventually gel. I haven't thought that since I was
ten years old. For some reason, I've wanted to use my life
because I always envisioned it as melting. Some may not
understand that reading good books, learning a new recipe or
writing a novel is living life, but to me these items are
part of a long list of desires.

This Southern gal went and lived in Arizona for a couple of
years. I enjoyed it. I remember sitting in my backyard watching
the vastness of the sky, the intense blue of the air and the
purples and oranges of the sunsets. The neon color of my
bougainvillea bushes can't compare to anyplace but the desert.

But then it was time to come home to the South. When I arrived
back in South Carolina, green-starved from too much desert,
I had to touch the trees at my new home - one after the other.
I couldn't get enough of the green. I couldn't get enough
of the gentler side of nature. Even dripping wet from sweat
while pulling up dog fennel and lambs quarter on a weed-
infested lake bank, I enjoy my surroundings.

So when it comes to books, I cannot read enough, and I
have a deep-rooted passion to write one. Sure I could self-
publish, but that isn't what I want. I want an agent to
want to sell it. I want an editor to want to publish it.

My big goal? To publish a mystery series. I'm on book two.
Book one is making the rounds with three agents and one
publisher reading it as we speak. If they don't buy in to
it, that's fine for now. I'm writing the second one. I'll
make them love it...then sell the first one as a prequel.

Put your finger on what you want to do as a writer.
If you don't, nobody else will.

    Hope Clark

SIXTH ANNUAL FUNDSFORWRITERS ESSAY CONTEST - SPONSORED BY NABBW.COM

FundsforWriters and the National Association of Baby Boomer Women
announce the Annual FFW Essay Contest with the theme: Make Us Want
to Be You!  In 750 words or less, either send us a remarkable
promotional plan for your writing project or tell us what you'd
do with your writing career if you had a year to devote to your
passion. As always with a FFW contest, you choose whether to pay
a $5 entry fee or not. The first prize for the entry fee division
is $200. The first prize for the non-entry fee division is $50.
Deadline October 31, 2007. Winners announced December 1, 2007.
Visit our sponsor at www.nabbw.com. 

www.fundsforwriters.com/annualcontest.htm

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People are raving about the new look...and the new opportunities
offered four-five days a week.

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THAT TIME OF YEAR FOR THE WRITER'S DIGEST CONTEST...

Please nominate FundsforWriters.com for Writer’s Digest’s 101
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Email writersdig@fwpubs.com  with "101 Sites" in the subject line.

If you've received anything positive from FundsforWriters,
let Writer's Digest know.

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2. WISE WORDS TO LIVE BY
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The body travels more easily than the mind, and until we
have limbered up our imagination we continue to think as
though we had stayed home. We have not really budged a
step until we take up residence in someone else's point
of view.

John Erskine (1879-1951)
Educator and writer

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3.  ARTICLE
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The Will to Write

By C. Hope Clark

An elderly gentleman blew me away last week. He writes in
a group I visit. As we sat on the front steps of the library
waiting for the biweekly meeting to begin, we talked about
getting published. He heard me talking about querying agents.

"I've never submitted anything before," he said.

I stood there not knowing what to say. "You haven't?"
I wanted to make sure I heard him right. He said he didn't
know where to send anything. With Ms. FundsforWriters standing
right in front of him, he smiled and said he didn't know
where to start. I sensed he didn't want to try all that hard.

Folks write me with the widest array of comments on why they
aren't published...

1. I need to quit work to have time enough to write and submit.
2. I don't know where to start submitting my fiction.
3. What if they don't like what I wrote?
4. I don't know how to write a query letter.
5. I don't know where to begin.

COME ON!

Here are my answers. Excuse the sarcasm.

1. Quit work? If you have to quit work to START writing,
and since it takes quite a while to hone your writing skills,
who is supposed to pay the bills while you're getting your
writing legs under you? Name me a freelance or entrepreneurial
job that you start green and immediately make money? That's
because there isn't one.

You just write...no matter what you do. If you do not find
the time to write, you don't really want to write. You may
want to be a writer, but you don't understand what it means
to want to write.

2. Don't know where to submit? Um, the bookstore is right
down the street. Not only can you find magazines, newspapers
and publishers via other books, but you find "how-to-write"
books. And what is FundsforWriters...chopped liver?

3. What if they don't like what I wrote? Does everyone like
your taste in clothes? Your makeup? Your car? Yet you
go out in public, show your style in clothes (or whatever)
and don't flinch a bit. What are you going to do...walk
outside naked? No. You make a selection and venture into
the world, knowing that someone will dislike how you look.

So how in the world do you expect everyone to like your
writing? I don't read fantasy and struggle with sci-fi.
It just means I won't buy one of those books. It doesn't
mean that all sci-fi and fantasy writers should self-
destruct at my whim. Someone won't like your writing - period.

4. I don't know how to write a query letter. Turn around
and go BACK to that bookstore and look up how to do it.
Also, there's such a device now called the I-N-T-E-R-N-E-T.
Plug in a query, hit search, and dog-gone-it if you won't
find a dozen examples instantly on how to pen your query.

5. I don't know where to begin. You didn't know how to
eat solid food once upon a time but you learned. You also
figured out how to drive, brush your teeth, read, change
the oil in your car, cook pork chops and clean the lint
out of the dryer.

Necessity is the mother of invention.

If you have a need to write, you'll invent solutions to
your writing obstacles. It's really that simple.

BIO
Hope Clark dares herself to write...to submit. She hates
to lose a dare. www.fundsforwriters.com

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4. Grants/Awards/Contests
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MIZZMOUSE POETRY CONTEST NO. 3
http://www.mizzmouse.com/poetrycontest.shtml
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ENTRY FEE ?1
This contest is open for entries from 1 July 2007 and poems
should be received by no later than 31 October 2007. The
winner will be announced on the website in early November
2007. There is a prize of ?50 (or Euro equivalent) for the
winning poem. Open to all! Poems should not exceed 20 lines,
should be in English and on any subject, and be in traditional
form, i.e. should rhyme and scan.

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PAPERJOURNEY PRESS
http://www.thepaperjourney.com/distantkarma/index.php
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$10 ENTRY FEE
$200 first prize + $100 second prize + $25 third prize
Deadline for Entry: October 1, 2007. Winners will be
contacted October 31, 2007. THEME: What is Karma? The Golden
Rule? The ripple effect? We are looking for short-short story
submissions that inform the soul but don't preach--they could
be dark, funny, both or neither--surprise us.

The choice is; after all, yours. We will look for off-beat,
somewhat quirky stories with no more than 750 words--give or
take a few gnarled verbs and curling adjectives.

The Paper Journey Press wants original, fresh stories. That
means no previously published works will be considered except
those electronically published via the internet.

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PENNSYLVANIA POETRY SOCIETY
http://www.geocities.com/paperlesspoets/2007-ferguson-contest.pdf
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$1 ENTRY FEE
$75 First Prize
$25 Second Prize
$15 Third Prize
$10 Fourth Prize
Plus... 3 Honorable Mentions, 3 Citations.
Deadline: November 15, 2007. Theme: Our Environment.

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DALLAS POETS COMMUNITY 2ND ANNUAL CHAPBOOK COMPETITION
http://www.dallaspoets.org/
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$15 ENTRY FEE
Winner receives $200 and 30 copies. Submit 20-24 pages of poetry,
contents page, table of contents, acknowledgements, 2 cover pages
(1 with contact info). No manuscripts will be returned. The
chapbook will be saddle-stitch bound on white paper with a
glossy cover. Deadline November 1, 2007.

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HAMILTON WRITERS GUILD FICTION CONTEST
http://www.hamiltonwritersguild.org/contest2007.htm
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$10 ENTRY FEE
Deadline October 26, 2007. Limit 2,000 words. Prizes: $125
1st Prize; $75 2nd Prize; $50 3rd Prize.

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THE WITH WORDS INTERNATIONAL ONLINE HAIKU COMPETITION 2008
http://www.withwords.org.uk/comp.html
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ENTRY FEES
?2 per haiku     
?5 for 3 haiku     
?10 for 10 haiku

Here at With Words we believe in acting locally and thinking
globally, so half of any profits from this competition will
go towards literacy work with children in developing countries,
and half will go to supporting With Words literacy projects in
the UK. Deadline May 31, 2008. 1st Prize: ?200. 2nd Prize: ?50.

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THE ELDERS TRIBUNE CONTEST
http://www.elderstribune.com/seniors-write-and-win-100
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NO ENTRY FEE
Author of winning article must be 65 years of age or older to
win. Anyone else can participate for fun. The article must be
original and 500 words or more. Any topic acceptable.
Deadline September 30, 2007. Win a $100 Amazon.com gift
certificate.

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The MuseItUp Annual Writing Contest
http://museitupclub.tripod.com/id46.html
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The MuseItUp Club is hosting its annual fiction writing
contest. Registration Deadline: October 6, 2007.
Deadline for contest submissions: November 15, 2007.
Winners will be announced and published in the MuseItUp
website and other affiliated sites on January 8, 2008.
Winners will be notified beforehand. Prizes given via Paypal.
No more than 2,000 word count. All entrants will receive
the PDF guidelines along with the theme of the contest
once their registration has been made. The catch: your
ending NEEDS to throw us for a loop, something we weren’t
expecting. Give us that WOW factor, pull us into the story
thinking it’s going one way then surprise us at the end.

FIRST PRIZE: $100
SECOND PRIZE: $50
THIRD PRIZE: $25

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5. Jobs/Markets
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PART-TIME EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
John Henry, President
121 Castle Hill Court
Locust Grove, VA 22508
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Work at home.
The Virginia Writers Club is seeking a part-time executive
director to address the daily operations of the club, and
to engage in fund-raising in coordination with the newly
appointed fund-raising committee. This is a job with great
potential for an able incumbent --and high visibility in the
writing community. Much of the work can be performed from home,
yet the director will be in contact with writers, editors and
publishers throughout Virginia and beyond. The stipend will
begin at $100 per month, but will be reviewed at the end of
four months and adjusted according to the extent and success
of the fund-raising efforts. We are seeking a good writer, a
self-starter with access to the Internet and good comfort level
with electronic communication. Fund-raising experience and
grant-writing expertise are desirable, although not required.
Send your resume.

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BOOK LOVER'S HAVEN
http://www.chistell.com/
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The Book Lover's Haven pays $50 for one-time rights for poems
published in the newsletter.  Poets interested in submitting
a poem to the newsletter, email me at:  soulfar@aol.com. 

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CITIZEN 32
http://citizen32live.moonfruit.com/
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Citizen 32 accepts submissions of poetry, prose, short fiction,
art, photographs and reviews. Each issue of the magazine has a
theme which is publicised on our website, and contributors are
reminded that their work should address those themes. We prefer
all written work to be emailed to editor@citizen32.co.uk with a
landmail address and a short biography. If you need to post
contributions, they should be sent with full contact details
and address to: Citizen 32, 49, Ferndown Road, Brooklands,
Manchester M23 9AW. Should your work be accepted we will send a
PDF of the page so you can check the layout. Payment will be made
upon publication. The rates are: ?20 per poem, ?65 per short story
and ?18 per 100 words for a review.

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NOSSA MORTE
http://nossamorte.com/Guidelines.html
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Horror, thriller stories of 500-5,000 words. Especially looking
for darker stories. New writers welcome. Pays $20 minimum
and $40 maximum.

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CHICK LIT REVIEW
http://chicklitreview.org/submissions.aspx
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As avid readers, The Chic Lit Review, enjoys reading good
quality short stories from both established and new authors. 
CLR publishes entertaining short stories about young women. 
As chic lit, our audience are women in their 20s and 30s who
want light-hearted reads. 2,500-word limit. CRL believes in
paying writers for their work.  We pay $50 for all short
stories.

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MAKE/SHIFT MAGAZINE
http://www.makeshiftmag.com/submissions.htm
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Make/shift pays two cents/word plus two copies. Make/shift
is seeking submissions for its third issue (spring/summer 2008).

• investigative journalism
• photojournalism
• critical essays
• personal essays
• profiles of feminists activists, artists, projects, thinkers
• fiction and poetry
• art and photography
• book, magazine, film, art, and event reviews
• hybrid pieces

We are also seeking content for the following features:

• Everyday Actions: scenes of feminist action in everyday
life (200 to 400 words)
• Documents: documents of feminist discourse in progress
(doodle-covered meeting minutes, e-mail exchanges, notes
on recent actions, and the like)
• Make/Plans: listings for our international calendar of
events (submit info for events occurring between March and
September 2008)

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WEAVINGS
E-mail: info@rawimagemagazine.com
http://www.upperroom.org/weavings/writers_guidelines.asp
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Articles, stories, sermons, book reviews, and reports pay
11 cents/word and up. Poetry: $75 and up. Articles should
be 1,250 to 2,500 words in length. Sermons and meditations
on scripture may vary in length from 500 to 2,500 words.
Weavings readers may be assumed to share a real interest
in the spiritual life, while differing significantly in
their knowledge and experience of Christian tradition.

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RAW IMAGE
http://atlanta.craigslist.org/wri/408765579.html
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RawImage is an upscale fashion, lifestyle and entertainment
magazine focused on chronicling rising stars, celebrating
legends, and profiling the most influential players and style
makers of today. Our editorials will cover the best in the
worlds of music, art, beauty, business, culture, dining, fashion,
interior design, fitness, jewelry, nightlife, health, philanthropy,
economics, politics, real estate, sports, travel, technology and
entertainment. Looking for dynamic freelance writers. Submit a
resume and sample writing to be considered.

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FIRST WIVES WORLD
http://jobs.freelanceswitch.com/jobs/313
http://www.firstwivesworld.com/
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A vibrant world for a new generation of women going through
all stages of divorce. We’re hard at work building a community
just for you, chock full of resources, tips, and all the social
networking features to connect you to other “First Wives” who do
get it, because they're going through it too. New announcement -
bloggers needed - compensation is $500 per month. Bloggers must
submit between three and five 250-word entries each week. Entries
are submitted via email. Our full-time blog staff reviews, edits,
and formats all entries. Bloggers should also be prepared to
comment on other entries, and to respond to comments on their
own posts. Bloggers may blog under their real names, or may
utilize a pseudonym.

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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.

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NORTHWEST OHIO WRITERS' CONFERENCE

Looking for a friendly, affordable, easy-to-reach writers’
conference in the Great Lakes area?

Register today for the Northwest Ohio Writers’ Conference!
Sat., Oct. 13, 2007, 9 to 5 at the Franciscan Center of Lourdes
College in Sylvania, OH (just west of Toledo… a comfortable
drive from Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, Detroit, Ann Arbor,
and Fort Wayne…a short flight from Chicago).

Featured speaker:  mystery novelist Les Roberts.
Workshops by experienced writers and editors.
Casual critiques available in The Two-Minute Slush.
Full day:  $99    Half day:  $49    Lunch: $10.

Visit www.nwowc.com for more details or to register.
Sponsors: The Northwest Ohio Writers’ Forum and the
Department of Language and Literature at Lourdes College

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WRITING AND PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP

Prepare now to earn more money in 2008! Did you see my feature
article in the July issue of Equine Wellness? It’s about how to
take pet photos. You can write this type of article too. This
workshop is an easy self-study package written for writers, by
a writer.

For only $15, you’ll learn to earn up to 40% more. Good photos
are your key to new markets, eye-catching promotions, and
illustrating your own cards and books. Buy by November 1, 2007
and receive two bonus gifts.

1. A free consultation on any writing or photo project
2. Free shipping thru 12/31/07 on any item in the online boutique 

Check it out at http://www.pennyspensandpics.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
the ebook of your choice.

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...AND MORE
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8. CONTACT FUNDSFORWRITERS
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C. Hope Clark
Hope@FundsforWriters.com

140-A Amicks Ferry Road #4
Chapin, SC 29036

http://www.fundsforwriters.com
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Copyright 2000-2007, C. Hope Clark

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