especially for writers born 1980-1995: IDK Mag

I don’t know anything about this magazine [beyond what’s below] but it may interest some of you as a possible market.

 

New online journal IDK Magazine is open to e-mail submissions of fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, photography, and art through February 1st! MFA students and emerging writers, this is the journal for you—we’re currently looking especially for submissions of creative nonfiction.



IDK Magazine flirts with the unknown. We love Millennials and the people who write about them. We believe in writing our way out of the cultural wasteland; disobeying social norms; satirizing pop culture; sugar-coating the past through the practice of nostalgia; embracing, celebrating, and rejecting Internet culture; placing a bullhorn in front of the mouth of tomorrow; and empowering the collective body of future humanity. (Eat your vegetables, kids.)



We love electric prose and poems that make the hairs on our arms stand pin-straight. Nothing’s better, in our book, than a sentence that can crack our skull open like an egg or a line that forces us to remember its internal rhyme weeks later. We hope you’ll fiddle with form. We hope you’ll hug your strangeness. Play with dissonance; play with assonance. Interrogate dead leaders. Become notorious.



Since IDK’s mission revolves around the Millennial generation, we primarily seek to publish emerging writers born between the years of 1980 and 1995. We don’t want to be ageists, though, so if you fall outside those brackets but are writing about the life and times of Generation Y, send us your work.



For more information, visit IDK’s website at IDKmagazine.com or email the editors at IDKmagazineATgmailDOTcom

IDKmagazine@gmail.com.

 

Elma Schemenauer, author of 75 books published in Canada and the USA, editor of many more, elmams@shaw.ca, http://elmasalmanac.blogspot.ca/, http://www.elma03.com.

 

3 interesting publishers

Ripple Grove Press is a brand new children's picture book publisher looking for writers and illustrators. Prospective authors should submit a cover letter with the story summary, age range for audience, brief bio, contact info, and manuscript (saved as PDF).    


The Career Press publishes books for adult readers seeking practical information to improve themselves in their careers, businesses, and other related topics. Prospective writers can submit a book proposal with sample chapters, though complete manuscript is preferred.


Gryphon House, Inc. publishes teacher and parent resource texts. The acquisition editors prefer a query with proposal that includes the proposed title, purpose of the book, table of contents, introductory material, and 20-40 sample pages.

 

Elma Schemenauer, author of 75 books published in Canada and the USA, editor of many more, elmams@shaw.ca, http://elmasalmanac.blogspot.ca/, http://www.elma03.com.

 

wanted: writers to move to Detroit

A Detroit non-profit organization offers a free house to any qualified writer willing to relocate to that city. A novel approach and could be a nice opportunity for someone. Info at: http://www.examiner.com/article/free-houses-for-detroit-writers-new-non-profit-opens-doors

 

Elma Schemenauer, author of 75 books published in Canada and the USA, editor of many more, elmams@shaw.ca, http://elmasalmanac.blogspot.ca/, http://www.elma03.com.

 

Horse Illustrated opportunity

Horse Illustrated is a monthly magazine covering all aspects of horse ownership. The magazine pays between $200-475 for nonfiction features of 1,000-2,000 words. Potential writers can query or submit the full manuscript on spec.

 

 

Elma Schemenauer, author of 75 books published in Canada and the USA, editor of many more, elmams@shaw.ca, http://elmasalmanac.blogspot.ca/, http://www.elma03.com.

 

3 agents open to submissions

John Weber of Serendipity Literary

Middle grade and young adult stories with universal themes told in unique settings, which show developing and changing relationships between characters. Because of his science/math/computer science background, he is interested in realistic historical fiction using current technology and projecting technology into the future. He is also wants well-researched science fiction, with no fantasy elements where science forms the foundation of progressive societies in the future.

 

Katie Reed of Andrea Hurst & Associates

All areas of YA fiction, particularly: commercial - with a compelling hook and a protagonist who battles real life teen issues, science fiction (soft), and fantasy. Commercial and Literary Adult Fiction in the following genres: Book Club Women's Fiction, Science Fiction (soft), Fantasy, Suspense/Thriller, Contemporary Romance. Nonfiction in the following genres: Memoir/Biography with a strong platform, Self-help, Crafts/How-to, Inspirational, Parenting.

Jordy Albert of The Booker Albert Literary Agency

Middle Grade - contemporary, fantasy, action/adventure, or historical. Young adult - open to pretty much any genre; however, she's looking especially for YA that has a very strong romantic element). New Adult romance and adult romance.

Elma Schemenauer, author of 75 books published in Canada and the USA, editor of many more,

elmams@shaw.ca, http://elmasalmanac.blogspot.ca/, http://www.elma03.com.

 

adding line spaces between paragraphs in a document

Do you want to quickly add line spaces between paragraphs in a document? Here’s a quick way that works for me.

1.     Click on FIND AND REPLACE.

2.     Where it says FIND WHAT, type ^p.

3.     Where it says REPLACE WITH, type ^p^p.

4.     Make sure your cursor is at the top of your document. Then click REPLACE ALL.

5.     Later you can get rid of extra line spaces if desired by using the same procedure to replace ^p^p with ^p.

 

 

 

Elma Schemenauer, author of 75 books published in Canada and the USA, editor of many more, elmams@shaw.ca, http://elmasalmanac.blogspot.ca/, http://www.elma03.com.

 

writing contest: Deep River Books

Deep River Books is excited to announce the opening of their 2013-2014 Writing Contest. The contest runs from November 1, 2013 - January 15, 2014, and the winner will earn a free, full-service, royalty-based book contract from Carmichael Publishing. Authors can submit either a fiction or non-fiction manuscript for consideration at www.deepriverbooks.com. Winner will be announced March 15, 2014. 

 

 

Elma Schemenauer, author of 75 books published in Canada and the USA, editor of many more, elmams@shaw.ca, http://elmasalmanac.blogspot.ca/, http://www.elma03.com.

 

new prize for non-fiction: Charles Taylor Foundation

One of Canada’s biggest nonfiction prizes, The Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction, has been renamed the RBC Taylor Prize and is adding a new prize for an emerging writer.

The name change signals an integrated approach between [Canadian bank] RBC and the Charles Taylor Foundation, enabling the prize to expand its recognition of excellence to emerging literary non-fiction writers.”

The new C$10,000 Emerging Writer’s Award will be awarded annually to a literary nonfiction writer between the ages of 18 to 35. According to the announcement from prize organizers, the recipient will be chosen by each year’s RBC Taylor Prize winner and will reflect that author’s wish to champion their chosen writer.

 

Elma Schemenauer, author of 75 books published in Canada and the USA, editor of many more, elmams@shaw.ca, http://elmasalmanac.blogspot.ca/, http://www.elma03.com.

 

dialogue tags

Good article here on using dialogue tags when writing conversation: http://theeditorsblog.net/2013/12/04/another-take-on-dialogue-tags

 

Elma Schemenauer, author of 75 books published in Canada and the USA, editor of many more, elmams@shaw.ca, http://elmasalmanac.blogspot.ca/, http://www.elma03.com.

 

opportunity: poetry, fiction, non-fiction: Crazyhorse

Crazyhorse considers submissions of poetry and of fiction and non-fiction: length about 2500 to 8000 words. Guidelines here: http://crazyhorse.cofc.edu/submit/

 

Elma Schemenauer, author of 75 books published in Canada and the USA, editor of many more, elmams@shaw.ca, http://elmasalmanac.blogspot.ca/, http://www.elma03.com.

 

2 literary agents open to submissions

1.    Chelsea Lindman of Sanford J. Greenberger Associates Interested in playful literary fiction, upmarket crime fiction, and forward thinking or boundary-pushing nonfiction. Chelsea also represents a select list of children's book authors. 2. Clelia Gore of Martin Literary Management Clelia is interested in the emerging New Adult genre. She is also interested in young adult and middle grade books. Clelia never wants to let go of her favorite characters, so she particularly loves trilogies and series that can be adapted to the screen. Clelia also has a special spot in her heart for picture books. She especially loves ones that are funny or quirky, ones that feature minority and multicultural characters, and ones parents won't mind reading over and over again to their children.

 

 

Elma Schemenauer, author of 75 books published in Canada and the USA, editor of many more, elmams@shaw.ca, http://elmasalmanac.blogspot.ca/, http://www.elma03.com.

 

facing fear as a writer: Kamilah Aisha Moon

Good article here on facing fear as a writer and as a person. If clicking the link doesn’t work, copy it and paste it into your browser.

http://www.pw.org/content/kamilah_aisha_moon_on_touching_the_masks

 

 

Elma Schemenauer, author of 75 books published in Canada and the USA, editor of many more, elmams@shaw.ca, http://elmasalmanac.blogspot.ca/, http://www.elma03.com.