Sunday, August 7, 2022

writerly news for August 8, 2022

Six paying markets for poetry. https://tinyurl.com/4dcphy5a


CONTEMPORARY VERSE 2 is a Canadian quarterly literary journal publishing poetry, critical writing about poetry, etc. Submissions guidelines here. https://contemporaryverse2.ca/submission-guidelines/


HERMINE is a print-only journal of stories under 4000 words. It's published annually in Toronto. Submission guidelines here. https://hermineannual.com/submit/

Planning a book launch? Free how-to download is here. https://tinyurl.com/yc22htvy


What is voice in writing? Good article here including examples. https://www.thebookdesigner.com/voice-in-writing/


FAITH TODAY is a paying Ontario-based magazine aimed at evangelical Christians in Canada. Current needs: "Article proposals made in awareness of our writer's guidelines, in particular ideas for 300 word Canadian-focused 'good news' items for evangelical Christians. Also ideas for features (1000 words) focused for Canadian evangelical Christians." Info. https://www.faithtoday.ca/writers


TOASTED CHEESE is a literary journal "founded in 2001 by a group of American and Canadian women writers." They're open to submissions of a variety of types of writing. Guidelines here. https://tclj.toasted-cheese.com/submission-guidelines/


ONTARIO POETRY SOCIETY runs a variety of poetry contests. Info here. http://www.theontariopoetrysociety.ca/Contests.html


DAILY PAINTWORKS is a "platform for showing and selling your natural media fine art online." Artists can join free for the first month, then $12.95 a month. Info here. https://www.dailypaintworks.com/Account/Fine-Artist-Websites


How long can we make our sentences & still be clear & interesting? I usually limit mine to 25 words. But writing guru Matthew Fox says there's a place for very looooong ones. Here's his article on that, with examples. https://tinyurl.com/ye282mpa


Some of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's looooong sentences are amazing. Example: GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ, "AUTUMN OF THE PATRIARCH." 121 WORDS.

"She had said I'm tired of begging God to overthrow my son, because all this business of living in the presidential palace is like having the lights on all the time, sir, and she had said it with the same naturalness with which on one national holiday she had made her way through the guard of honor with a basket of empty bottles and reached the presidential limousine that was leading the parade of celebration in an uproar of ovations and martial music and storms of flowers and she shoved the basket through the window and shouted to her son that since you'll be passing right by take advantage and return these bottles to the store on the corner, poor mother."

 

Principles of cover design with before and after examples. https://tinyurl.com/2p98h8du


Veteran Christian author & mentor Mary DeMuth recently launched her own literary agency. She's interested mainly in non-fiction Christian books. Info here. https://www.prweb.com/.../veteran.../prweb18788191.htm


Can you write articles about writing? Here are paying markets for that kind of thing. https://tinyurl.com/fwb3frvb


GEIST is a magazine located "north of America" in Vancouver, British Columbia. They pay for submissions they accept, and are open to fiction, non-fiction, poetry, photographs, art, and comics. Submissions guidelines here. https://www.geist.com/writers/submit


Do rejection letters discourage you? Here's an article about some that were sent to authors who later went on to do okay. https://tinyurl.com/yckx3w68

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