FundsforWriters - July 13, 2008
Published: Fri, 07/11/08
Volume 8, Issue 28
July 13, 2008
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FUNDS FOR WRITERS
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Editor: C. Hope Clark
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Website: http://www.fundsforwriters.com
Newsletter: ISSN: 1533-1326
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EDITOR'S THOUGHTS
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Read newsletter online at: http://www.fundsforwriters.com/FFW.htm
Read past issues at: http://www.aweber.com/z/article/?fundsforwriters
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GETTING IT RIGHT
Had a great response to last week's editorial "I'm Not Good Enough"
as well as the weekly article.
Hi Hope:
I read with interest the article in FFW called "Increase Your
Success Ratio: The Benefits of Hiring a Professional Editor,"
by Christine Cristiano. As a professional editor and writer,
I'm glad to see the points made and shared. However, the article
doesn't mention a primary resource for writers seeking editors --
the Copyediting list, where hundreds of pros not only gather and
share their knowledge but also list themselves in a freelancer
directory. Among them, writers can find the right editor no matter
what kind of work they do. http://www.copyediting-l.info/ "
Carolyn Haley, DocuMania
Author: Open Your Heart with Gardens
http://www.amazon.com/Open-Your-Heart-Gardens-Mastering/dp/160166012X
Blog at http://www.dreamtimepublishing.com/blog/?author=40
She also said regarding rejection:
"The best writers in the world have plenty of people dissing
their work. The worst writers have huge followings. Incredibly
bad copywriters make big incomes. Great copywriters stay bogged
down in local papers making $0.001 a word. Law of the jungle.
One can only do it and keep honing craft, zeroing in on one's
audience. They're out there, but you have to find them unless
you're lucky and stumble right into them."
Hope's bottom line? You keep trying or you don't. I've learned
that no matter what I write, someone will take issue with it.
Had one negative comment last week. However, I had dozens of
great, positive remarks. So I've decided a new rule in my life.
I'm allowed one negative in everything I write. I'll expect one
negative, because I cannot possibly impress everyone. When I
get that one negative, I'm home free.
However, when I receive a slew of negatives, I need to correct
myself. I don't presume to know it all. I don't expect to be
right all the time. I can't write on target day in and day out.
So when my email backs up with "Oh, no, Hope. This stinks" then
I know it does. Or else I've found a great controversial topic
that grabs attention for a marketing idea. (WINK)
Hope
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WORDS OF SUCCESS
It's not our disadvantages or shortcomings that are ridiculous,
but rather the studious way we try to hide them, and our desire
to act as if they did not exist.
Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837)
Poet
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ARTICLE
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Blogging - From a Different Angle
By Dawn Goldsmith
Blog. It is the new hoola hoop. Everybody's got one. Blogging
began as a way to make your personal voice heard. Open your
own personal space at cost-free websites and say whatever you
want.
Then of course someone figured out how to make money at it.
Set up a site, draw in advertisers, generate traffic by linking
to other sites, forming a network that brings traffic to your
site which features your expert or original voice on a focused
topic.
Any topic, every topic has a blog. Writing, travel, food,
disease, technology, politics.... You name it someone has written
about it. Enough knitting, sewing or quilting blogs started up
to circle the globe several times and a community formed via
these links. Of course everyone has an opinion; some like
Andrew Sullivan have become a brand name and draw more than a
million visitors to his site each month for political analysis
and news from D.C.
Instead of a writer seeking a market, she creates one through
her blog and often the blog morphs into a book deal.
Lifehacker [http://lifehacker.com/software/books/geek-to-live--turn-your-blog-into-a-book-part-i-227707.php] is one excellent example of a niche market turning into a book. In this case the blogger, Gina Trapani, focused on "tech tips, tricks and downloads to get things done." She explains: "It wasn't until I'd posted to Lifehacker 12 times a day every weekday for 9 months that I got a career-changing email from David at LaunchBooks, a literary agent who wanted to know if I was interested in turning Lifehacker into a book."
Six more agents contacted her demonstrating that, as Trapani
says, there are lots of tech-savvy literary folks out there,
watching and waiting and looking for good quality web sites
that will make for a book deal."
And then there's me on the low end of success when you think
of Lifehacker and Andrew Sullivan. My name has not become a
national or international brand; I don't generate a lot of
traffic, but I blog because it motivates me to write and gets
my creative juices moving. I can write about whatever moves me
in my generic "Observations" blog and I focus more on fabric art
and artists in my Subversive Stitch blog.
When I send out queries to markets using the old fashioned
method of contacting editors one at a time, I include a link in
the email back to my blogs as well as to any recent online
articles or essays I've had published. This gives them immediate
access to samples of my writing and tells them that I am
versatile and have a voice, not to mention success.
Many of my blogs began as simple exercises aimed as a daily
post, for my own satisfaction or curiosity or need to vent.
More times than I expected, the blog turned into a marketable
piece of writing. Several of my essays sold to Christian Science
Monitor, The Washington Post, Birds and Blooms, and Notre Dame
Magazine began as a blogging exercise for my Observations blog.
[http://www.wordsogold.blogspot.com/ ] Others that I posted to
my Subversive Stitchers blog
[http://www.subversivestitch.blogspot.com/] turned into
assignments for Quilter's World Magazine.
Markets do not like to find the same article posted to a blog,
even one with minimal traffic such as mine. So before marketing
a piece, I remove it or delay posting it to the blog until after
the rights revert back to me.
Blogs certainly are multi-faceted tools for a writer to grow
their business and increase their sales. And then sometimes
the best reason to blog is when a reader happens upon my site
and says, "Wow! What a great blog. I really needed to read
what you wrote...." That aspect of blogging is, as the commercial
says: priceless.
BIO
Dawn Goldsmith
http://www.wordsogold.blogspot.com/
http://www.subversivestitch.blogspot.com/
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COMPETITIONS
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FIRST PERSON IMPRESSIONS
http://impressions.firstpersonarts.org/
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$10 ENTRY FEE
Each day countless stories unfold. Take a real life experience
of your own and tell it in a way that only you can. Craft your
story with words, photos or video. Make the ordinary magical,
or the exotic familiar. Shock us, amaze us or make us pause to
reflect. The only rule is that it's real. All entries must be
new works that have not previously been published, exhibited or
screened in the US. Film - up to 5 minutes. Essay - 1,500 words or
less. Photography - up to 5 images. Single images are welcome;
multiple images must be related, as in a photo essay. The top
three winning entries in each category will be presented at the
First Person Festival of Memoir and Documentary Art at the Painted
Bride Art Center in Philadelphia, PA, November 12-16, 2008.
Deadline August 15, 2008.
$500 - 1st place category winners
$100 - 2nd place category winners
$50 - 3rd place category winners
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OVER THE EDGE COMPETITION
http://overtheedgeliteraryevents.blogspot.com/
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ENTRY FEE 15
The Over The Edge New Writer of The Year 2008 competition is
open to both poets and fiction writers. The winner will receive
a cash prize of 600, a spot as a Featured Reader at an Over
The Edge: Open Reading, and the title Over The Edge New Writer
of The Year 2008. The runner-up will receive a cash prize of
300, while the third-place writer will receive 100. Criteria:
fiction of up to three thousand words, three poems of up to
forty lines, or one poem of up to one hundred lines. To take
part you must be at least sixteen years old by August 1, 2008
and not have a book published or accepted for publication.
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THE 2008 PARADIGM NOVEL CONTEST
http://www.rainfarmpress.com/contests.html
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$20 ENTRY FEE
Deadline: July 31, 2008. The contest winner will receive:
- A cash prize of $500
- Publication and distribution of book through Rain Farm Press
- An interview and excerpt feature in the October issue of Paradigm
- Three (3) free copies of their book
Manuscripts must be previously unpublished. 35,000-word minimum.
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GRANTS
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CONNIE HULL ENDOWMENT FUND
Gregory Lum, Jesuit High School
9000 SW Beaverton-Hillsdale Hwy, Portland, OR 97225
http://www.oasl.info/scholarships/scholarships.html
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Do you have an idea you would like to try out in your school
library to promote literacy and student achievement? Here is
a wonderful opportunity to try out that idea for a parent-child
book club, a student storytelling festival, a visual literacy
activity, or that intriguing collaborative project germinating
in your brain. Oregon Association of School Libraries (OASL)
is offering a unique opportunity for current OASL members to
apply for one of six mini-grants ($250) designed to promote
school library activities. The application is very simple and
the deadline is Saturday, November 8, 2008. You will need to
submit the following:
1.Write a one-page proposal detailing how you would use the
grant to promote literacy and academic achievement in your
school library. Be sure to address the four criteria items.
Your name or your school name must not appear in this document.
2.Complete the Connie Hull Mini-Grant Cover page. Please have
your building administrator sign the form.
3.Write an itemized expense sheet to include individual items
and costs that will be used with these grant funds.
As a grant recipient, you will be expected to share your project
on a panel at the 2009 OASL Fall Conference in Salem.
Selection Criteria:
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WENDOVER, UTAH RESIDENCY
http://www.clui.org/clui_4_1/alm/wendapp.html
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Successful applicants to the paid residence program are given
$250 per week plus partial support for travel to and from the
residency, and for project materials. Residents are encouraged
to stay for a period of three to eight weeks, during which time
they will be expected to produce work that examines, engages, or
reflects the land uses of the surrounding area. The Wendover
Residence Program exists to encourage new and compelling ways
of thinking about the built landscape of the region. It is open
to anyone with interesting ideas, and an ability to see them
through.
The CLUI requires that paid residents create original work or
documentation (photos, text, sketches, models, video, film,
etc.) during or soon after their tenure at Wendover, for
display at the Wendover Exhibit Hall, and, additionally, in
CLUI literature, and possibly (with the artist / researcher's
permission) in traveling exhibits curated by the CLUI. Paid
residents are asked to display work at the Wendover Exhibit
Hall for a period of up to one year following their stay.
No application deadlines.
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THE POWER OF WORDS CONFERENCE
http://www.goddard.edu/powerofwords_info
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The Power of Words calls out to all those who use writing,
storytelling, performance, singing, songwriting, spoken word,
integrated or expressive arts, collaborative arts, archival
arts, or any other form of the written, spoken or sung word
for individual, community and societal growth and change.
We have a limited number of work-study positions, partial
scholarships, and through the Roxanne-Florence Fund, partial
scholarships for people of color. Generally, we cannot award
more than half the registration fee, and recipients are also
responsible for their room and board, travel, and any pre- or
post-conference workshops. If you are interested in applying
for a work-study position or scholarship, please write to
TLAconference@goddard.edu. Location Plainfield, VT.
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FREELANCE MARKETS
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WINE ENTHUSIAST MAGAZINE
(Click Contact Us)
http://www.winemag.com/homepage/index.asp
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Wine Enthusiast Magazine welcomes proposals from freelance
writers on subjects that pertain to wine, fine food and travel.
Full manuscripts on spec are discouraged. Proposals can be
submitted via email or snail mail. A proposal only needs to
be one or two paragraphs, but it should be accompanied by
materials (a resume, curriculum vitae or clips) intended to
convince the editors of the submitter's qualifications to
write that particular piece. Pays up to $1/word.
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CANADIAN NEWCOMER MAGAZINE
http://www.cnmag.ca/editorial_guidelines
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Canadian Newcomer Magazine welcomes freelance submissions of
stories, photos, illustrations, puzzles, quizzes and cartoons.
Pays up to thirty cents/word. Your story must tie in some way
with our themes and/or we must want very badly to publish it.
It should tackle profound topics, propose a new point of view
and create discussion. For the most part, we do not want to see
over-the-top enthusiasm, non-constructive criticism or blind
condemnation of the Canadian system; but within those boundaries,
we welcome opinionated or even revolutionary dialogue. The mission
of the magazine is to connect the regions diverse ethnic
communities in Canada using one voice and language by providing
free information, advice, entertainment and encouragement to new
immigrants.
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NEVADA MAGAZINE
http://www.nevadamagazine.com/Writer's%20Guidelines%202007.pdf
http://nevadamagazine.com/index.php/info/contact/
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For more than 70 years, Nevada Magazine has been telling the
Silver State's story -- in Las Vegas, Reno, Lake Tahoe, and
beyond. In print and online, we highlight urban and rural
travel, dining, living, people, history, events, shows, and
more. Pays up to 40 cents/word.
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JOBS
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FICTION FELLOWSHIP POSITION AVAILABLE STARTING FALL 2009
Location Emory University, Atlanta, GA
http://www.creativewriting.emory.edu/faculty/Fellowshipinfo.html
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Two-year fellowship in fiction in lively undergraduate
English/Creative Writing Program, beginning fall 2009.
Load 2-1, all workshops; $26,000 salary, and health benefits.
Required: MFA or Ph.D in last five years, with Creative
Writing teaching experience. Desirable: record of publication,
with a first book underway; interest in secondary genre,
especially creative nonfiction and screenwriting. Send dossier,
including cover letter discussing teaching experience and
philosophy, CV, two letters of recommendation and a 25-page
writing sample.
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FREELANCE NEWS WRITER
Location New York
http://www.idealist.org/en/job/295648-217
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Gotham Gazette, the award-winning web site on NYC policy and
politics, is seeking a writer to compile our daily email
newsletter, the Eye-Opener, two to three days a week and
write blog posts. This requires reviewing NYC daily papers
and selected weeklies early in the morning, summarizing the
top NYC story of the day and listing other key articles. The
writer must then post the Eye-Opener on our site and send it
out to thousands of subscribers by 8 a.m. Pay: $75 a day.
Requirements: Good news judgment, knowledge of New York City,
attention to accuracy and detail, ability to write clearly and
concisely on deadline. We are seeking someone who can commit to
doing this for a reasonably long term.
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INVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS
Location Atlanta, GA
E-mail: editor@theinsidestory.ws
http://atlanta.craigslist.org/wri/wri/738521392.html
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Busy production company is launching an online media magazine
for African Americans, with a focus on investigative reporting,
news and information. Looking for investigative journalists/
reporters who can develop and write cutting-edge, original stories
that represent our vision. $600 per story. Send 3-5 writing samples
to the email address.
Job Description:
and research
Required Skills-
databases, phone calling inquiries, reference researching, etc.
information related stories
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SC STATE PROOFREADER
Charles F. Reid
Clerk of the House & Director of Personnel
South Carolina House of Representatives
PO Box 11867, Columbia, SC 29211
(803) 734-2403, (803) 734-2925 fax
reidc@scstatehouse.net
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Accepting applications to fill the vacancy as a House of
Representatives proofreader in the State House bill room.
This is a position that requires a detail oriented individual
who will participate in many activities including the
proofreading of legislation, House Journals, Acts, House
Calendars, the Legislative Manual, and the House Prayer book.
The position also requires that the individual participate in
the distribution of the Digest, various versions of the Annual
General Appropriations Bills, and copies of final Acts to
legislators, the judiciary, and other entities. Salary is
commensurate with education and experience, and applicants
must be able to work well with others and interact with the
public. If you know of someone who is interested in applying
for the position as a proofreader have them send their resume.
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PUBLISHERS/AGENTS
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APODIS PUBLISHING
http://www.apodispublishing.com/
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Apodis Publishing is a publisher of science fiction, literary
fiction, slipstream and anything that falls into the category
of bizarre.
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TOP PUBLICATIONS
http://www.toppub.com/Submissions.htm
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Top Publications is a small press located in Dallas Texas that
publishes primarily mainstream fiction. Most of our authors do
not have agents. Being a small press we can't guarantee your book
will be picked up by the major chains or independent bookstores.
Generally the only way for a new author to get their new book in
a store is to have a book signing there. Unless you are willing
to have 50 to 100 signings during your first year, there is
little likelihood that your book will be successful. Therefore
please don't submit your work to us unless you are willing to
make this commitment. TOP gives its authors the opportunity to
get published, but their success will depend mainly on their
own efforts.
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ZUMAYA PUBLICATIONS
http://www.zumayapublications.com/guidelines.php
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Actively seeking quality YA and middle grade chapter books and
GLBT works with broad appeal.
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SPONSORS
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FATE: THE BEGINNING
A Novel
In his first novel "Fate: The Beginning", Ken Davis has done
something no other writer has dared to attempt. He has crafted
a story around science and religion, and mixed in the anticipated
passions of love and romance. Whether you are a hopeless romantic
or science fiction buff, all will enjoy this story.
Eric Miller and Erica Myers will embark on a journey only Fate
can prepare. They have traveled through time and space, just to
meet each other again. But will love be strong enough to bind
them together after? This is one book you owe it to yourself to
read. But be warned, the ending of this story will invoke emotions
of its own.
To get more information visit the book's website at:
http://fate.thebeginning.googlepages.com
Or write the author at ken.davis.writer@comcast.net or
at ken.davis.55@comcast.net to request a signed copy.
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2008 WOMEN OF WORDS AWARD AND POETRY CHAPBOOK CONTEST
Southern Hum Press is seeking to publish the award-winning
poetry chapbook by a woman. Entries need not be Southern-
themed. Entries should be no longer than 32 pages in length.
Simultaneous submissions are allowed as long as we are
notified immediately if manuscript is accepted elsewhere.
The award winner will receive a prize of $250 and 25 copies
of the chapbook. (Additional copies can be purchased by the
author for a 50% discount.) The chapbook will also be available
for purchase on the Southern Hum Press website. More info:
http://southernhumpress.squarespace.com/contests/
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2008 FLORIDA WRITERS' CONFERENCE
http://www.floridawriters.net/2008_FWA_Conference.html
Join the heart of Florida's writing community at the Lake
Mary Marriott, for the biggest and most exciting 3-day event
FWA has ever presented.
"We've reached the tipping point this year," says Chrissy
Jackson, vice president of FWA and chair of the conference.
"A minimum of 300 attendees has drawn the best faculty we've
ever had -- and I just know that faculty is going to drive
attendance even higher."
Fourteen experienced agents, publishers and writing mentors
will be coming from all over the country to offer thirty
information-packed sessions over three days -- in a three-
track plan tailored for full-time pros, serious hobbyists
and determined beginners.
Make your reservation now. Do it before July 31st and you'll
save $50 over the full registration price of $299. (For hotel
reservations, call 1-899 380-7724 and ask for the FWA discount
rate. First come, first serve.)
NOTE: Hope Clark is a speaker/instructor at this year's affair.
She'd love to meet lots of FundsforWriters readers.
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140-A Amicks Ferry Road #4
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