Volume 9, Issue 26
June 28, 2009

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THE TIME IS NOW

My son is job hunting. Do you know how depressing an ordeal
that is in this economic environment? I've been supporting
him day in and day out as he hits brick walls. Then I read
a business article that gave me an AHA moment. Gosh how I
adore AHA moments. I feel smart, empowered, eager to share
my revelation.

People seeking jobs, freelance or otherwise, seem to fall
into two categories:

1. Those who are depressed, feeling they have no choice.
They wake up dragging their weary bodies to a job they hate.

2. Those who choose to make strides. They may be slinging
burgers or mopping floors, but they chalk the job up to
a learning experience and weathering the storm. At least
they are working, they think.

Yes, the economy sucks. Publishing actually stinks with agents,
publishers and editors turning into picky eaters. But those
who keep their chins up, continually seek the next opportunity
and remain positive. unsurprisingly find the bright light,
the great chances, the new job that fits.

If you were hiring, which personality would you want?
The positive guy will stand out in a sea of attitude, and
that includes Internet attitude. While you're bashing that
last rejection, criticizing Amazon or Google, or hating
one political party of another online, you're informing
millions of people how you feel.

Even when you're down and out, don't talk so much crossing
these horrible bridges that you burn them down behind you.
Frankly, if you say too much, you burn all those ahead of
you, too.

Be the person seeking the new angles, the next chances,
the unopened opportunities. That's the type of personality
that gets hired.

    Hope

CHAT TIME!!!
Sunday night, June 28, 2009, 7 PM Eastern Time.

www.writerschatroom.com

Create your chat name and skip the password. We made
it easy for you. All writing topics accepted! Hope may
not know the answer, but she'll give you an opinion.

See you there!

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WORDS OF SUCCESS
 
Have you learned lessons only of those who admired you,
and were tender with you, and stood aside for you?
Have you not learned great lessons from those who rejected
you, and braced themselves against you, or disputed the
passage with you?

~ Walt Whitman

 
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SUCCESS OF THE WEEK
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SUCCESS ONE...

Hope, maybe my writing career ain't dead after all....I won
2nd place in that "100 Words or Fewer" fiction contest, the
one I saw on your web site. You ought to enter that contest
next year -- you're way better than I am at fiction.

~Bobby Bryant
 An editor at The State newspaper
 Columbia, SC

SUCCESS TWO...

Hello Hope, I had to write and THANK YOU for your post on the
100 Words or Fewer Writing Contest.  The concept itself was
intriguing, especially for a long-winded writer like me. I
sketched out a few ideas, little snippets of plot that could
be told in a one-scene story. I fell for one idea that I thought
was golden. I wrote it, rewrote it and left it to simmer on my
laptop for weeks.  Then, I pulled it out for polishing once
more before submitting. Good thing. Though it had the shock
value that flash pieces should possess, when I read it again,
it seemed to fall flat. Was it too contrived? 

So, I pulled out my notebook and got to work on the second and
third ideas, writing feverishly, crossing out words, rearranging
sentences, writing it again from scratch and then with only
hours remaining until deadline, hit the "send" button.
 
Well, all the hard work paid off, I won FIRST PLACE!
Thanks again for the dedication you give to us fledgling writers
by seeking out these markets and contests for us!
 
Mary Jo Campbell
mjcwriter@comcast.net
http://writerinspired.wordpress.com/
http://writelikecrazy.wordpress.com/
http://www.capitolcityyoungwriters.com/

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ARTICLE
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 Find Your Next Writing Gig on Twitter
by Julie Bloss Kelsey
 
Twitter, the popular social networking site, is everywhere. 
Time magazine even honored Twitter on its June 15, 2009 cover. 
Posting your activities in 140 character increments and reading
updates from others may appear frivolous, but Twitter is
actually changing the way that writers and publishers do
business. Here are some ways that you can cash in.
 
SUBMIT YOUR WORK TO MICRO-MARKETS

The next generation of writing markets has arrived! Twitter
markets, or "twitterzines", are popping up online looking
for 140 character "nanofiction" (also known as "twiction" or
"picofiction") and poetry. 

Thaumatrope, believed to be the world's first professional,
paying twitterzine, opened its cyber doors in December 2008.
Right now, paying twitterzines offer one to five dollars per
submission, or tweet.  That may not seem like much, but
remember, you are only writing one to four sentences. You
can dabble in nanofiction as a way to flex your brain and
earn a buck or two in the process. 

Some writers have earned much more from writing small. 
Robert Swartwood recently closed a deal with W.W. Norton
to publish an anthology of "hint fiction," which he defines
"a story of 25 words or less that suggests a larger, more
complex story."  (http://www.robertswartwood.com/) Visit his
website later this summer for details on how to contribute
to this anthology; contributors will be "paid $25 and given
a contributor's copy for World and Audio rights."

Twitter magazines are a growing market at a time when many
print publications are closing. Swartwood sees a bright
future for short prose.  "Regarding the future of twitterzines,
I think they'll remain popular just as long as Twitter remains
popular. Flash fiction, micro fiction, nanofiction, hint
fiction ... they'll always remain popular."
 
PAYING TWITTER-BASED MARKETS
(Note: @anything means www.twitter.com/anything)

Thaumatrope (@thaumatrope)
http://thaumatrope.greententacles.com/submissions : $1.20
per science fiction/fantasy/horror entry and currently needs
serials

Writing contests, writing jobs, and more can be sent to you
via your Twitter feed.  Some writers, like Hope Clark
(@hopeclark), send tweets whenever they've updated their
newsletters. Others, such as Writers Jobs (@writersjobs),
post links to jobs directly.  
 
GETTING STARTED

Signing up with Twitter is easy.   Navigating your way around
is more challenging. Search for an editor, journal, or writer
whom you like and peek at their follow list to identify
contacts and job leads.  It's a bit like unpeeling an onion
to get through the layers of Twitter, but it is well worth
the effort.
 
BIO
Julie Bloss Kelsey writes magazine articles, poetry, and
children's stories. Her creative nonfiction has appeared in
Motherwords and Chicken Soup for the New Mom's Soul.  You can
find her online at Mama Joules ( http://www.mamajoules.blogspot.com )
and @MamaJoules on Twitter.

 
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COMPETITIONS
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NATIVE INSIGHT COMPETITION
http://www.nativeinsight.org/
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NO ENTRY FEE
We invite all Native individuals or collaborative teams to
submit their 500-1,600 word original written work addressing
one or more of the following questions:
 
1. How can the Native community best participate in the
process of economic renewal? What unique contributions can
we make to help jumpstart the US and international economies?
 
2. Are you confident that economic growth will be restarted
in 2009/2010? Describe your views on how the economic recovery
will take place.
 
3. How must our economy change to fully recover from this
economic crisis? What additional steps do President Obama
and the Congress need to take to make these changes happen?
How can Native Americans step up to help make these necessary
changes and build sustainable economies?

Deadline September 15, 2009. Open to Alaska Natives, Native
Hawaiians and American Indians of all ages. Students are
strongly encouraged to participate. Essays should be comprised
of no less than 500 and no more than 1,600 words. Essays may
be written in your Native language, but must include an
English translation. The authors of the top three Alaska
Native essays and the top three National essays will each
be awarded $10,000 in prize money.

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HOUSTON WRITERS GUILD WRITING CONTEST
http://www.houstonwritersguild.org/Contests.htm
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ENTRY FEE $10 - $20. Deadline July 30, 2009.

Novel Category - First 10 pages of your Novel, Book, or
Screenplay + Synopsis. Contest entries in English only.
Open to all unpublished and not under contract novelists
and screenwriters anywhere in the world. $500 first prize.

Short Story - Any Genre - $50 first place. Limit: 2,500 words.

Personal Essay - Something Personal -- your opinion on any
subject or a character study or a slice of life piece. Limit:
1,500 words. $30 first place.

Poetry - $30 first place. Three poems or six poems.

Lifetime Award Novel - Any genre - $100 first place.
Previously published novelists may enter.

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BACOPA LITERARY CONTEST
http://www.bacopaonline.com/
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MEMBERS FREE. NON-MEMBERS $11 ENTRY FEE.
Contest period July 1 through October 31, 2009. First place
$350. Second place $75. First and Second Place winners and
selected Honorable Mention winners will be published. All
authors whose work is published in Bacopa will receive one
free copy. Fiction--3,300 words. Non-Fiction--3,300 words.
Poetry--50 lines per poem. Poetry--Submit up to three poems
per contest submission.
 

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GRANTS
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NATIONAL GRANT FOR LATINO ARTISTS AND ARTS/CULTURAL ORGANIZATIONS
http://www.nalac.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=section&id=4&Itemid=31
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Deadline for submitting complete applications July 13, 2009.
The NALAC Fund for the Arts supports Latino artists and
community-based Latino arts and cultural organizations in
the United States. An artist fellowship can be used in many
ways by an artist. A fellowship can be used to create a new
project, travel, study, reflect, pay his/her rent, etc.
Basically a fellowship allows the artist to have creative time.
These are 1-year grants ranging from $2,500 to $10,000.

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TRANSNATIONAL CULTURAL REMITTANCES
http://www.nalac.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=section&id=12&Itemid=231
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Through the TCR, NALAC and the Ford Foundation seek to identify
exemplary cultural exchange projects that support grassroots
artistic and cultural practices and strengthen social networks
across national boundaries in migrant communities. Projects
demonstrating an ongoing connection between two or more of the
following countries will be eligible for consideration to
receive a competitive TCR grant in 2009 or 2010:

Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico,
Nicaragua, Panama, United States.

Artists and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in any of
these countries may apply.  Applicants do not have to include
the United States to be considered. Deadline July 24, 2009.
Grants will range from $2,000 to $20,000.

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PENNSYLVANIA FELLOWSHIPS FOR ARTISTS
http://www.midatlanticarts.org/funding/artists_programs/fellowships/PA2010_Guidelines.pdf
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The deadline for 2010 Pennsylvania Fellowship applications is
4:30pm on Monday, August 3, 2009. PCA awards these Fellowships
in fixed amounts of $5,000 or $10,000 to eligible Pennsylvania
artists of exceptional talent to enable them to pursue their
artistic goals.
 

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FREELANCE MARKETS
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SUBTROPICS
http://www.english.ufl.edu/subtropics/submit.html
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Subtropics seeks to publish the best literary fiction, essays,
and poetry being written today, both by established and
emerging authors. We will consider works of fiction of any
length, from short shorts to novellas and self-contained
novel excerpts. We give the same latitude to essays. For
stories and essays, Subtropics pays a flat fee of $1,000
($500 for a short short) for North American first serial
rights. Poets are paid $100 per poem.

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JOURNAL OF EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES
http://www.jems.com/about/Author_Guidelines.html
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A leading voice in emergency medicine and prehospital care.
Our readers consist of EMTs, paramedics, nurses, physicians,
EMS managers, administrators and educators. We seek articles
about the EMS industry of direct relevance to field providers.
We typically pay authors $200--400 for feature articles and
$100--$200 for Case of the Month.

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MOTHER JONES
http://www.motherjones.com/about/writer-guidelines
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MotherJones.com is looking for solidly reported, hard-hitting,
ground-breaking news stories. We're also open to thought-
provoking, timely opinion and analysis pieces on important
current issues. We're interested in just about anything that
will raise our readers' eyebrows, but we focus especially on
these areas: criminal justice, environment, corporate
wrongdoing, poverty, gay/lesbian, political influence, and
international issues. Pays up to $1/word.
 

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JOBS
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PART-TIME PROFESSOR OF WRITING
Location Savannah, GA
https://scadjobs.com/
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Posting 0401297. The Savannah College of Art and Design seeks
candidates for part-time faculty positions in nonfiction writing,
specifically creative nonfiction and/or magazine journalism.
Qualified candidates should have the terminal degree or its
equivalent in nonfiction writing or a related field. Applicants
must have experience in nonfiction writing and an interest in
primarily teaching courses within this specialty.  

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COMMUNITY JOURNALIST
Location Greenville, MS
http://www.journalismjobs.com/Job_Listing.cfm?Media=Newspapers/Wires&JobID=1064223
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The Delta Democrat Times seeks an energetic reporter who does
not mind hard work and is eager to deal with all aspects of
community journalism. Beat includes government, general
assignment and some features.

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ONLINE EDITOR
Location Nacogdoches, Texas
http://www.journalismjobs.com/Job_Listing.cfm?Media=Newspapers/Wires&JobID=1064224
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The Daily Sentinel, an award-winning 8,000 daily circulation
newspaper in Nacogdoches, Texas, is looking for an experienced
city/online editor. Sentinel city/online editor is a hybrid
position that involves heavy news reporting and feature writing
skills, with some editing, and a strong desire to lead the
newsroom's online presence.

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PUBLISHERS/AGENTS
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KIRSTEN NEUHAUS LITERARY AGENCY
http://www.kirstenneuhausliterary.com/
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Kirsten Neuhaus Literary is a full-service boutique agency
specializing in non-fiction, particularly current events,
international affairs, pop cultural studies, and narratives
with strong female voices, as well as up-market, commercial
fiction.

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BARRY GOLDBLATT LITERARY AGENCY
http://www.bgliterary.com/
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While we do not require exclusivity, exclusive submissions
will receive priority review. Seeking children's, YA, genre
fiction, graphic novels, picture books, some adult nonfiction.

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BEAUTIFUL BOOKS
http://beautiful-books.co.uk/submissions.html
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Beautiful Books consists of three imprints - Beautiful Books,
Burning House or Bloody Books. We are no longer accepting
submissions of books for children and do not accept
submissions of the following categories: Science Fiction;
Fantasy; Poetry; Short Stories. Please send all of (but
only) the following: a cover letter, including a brief
biography; a one or two-page synopsis; 30 - 50 pages of
your manuscript, which must include the first chapter (or
10 pages) but, if you wish, can be a selection of excerpts.

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CALL FOR ENTRIES!

Dream Quest One Poetry & Writing Contest

Write a poem, 30 lines or fewer on any subject or write a
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Entry fees:
Poetry Contest: $5 per poem
Writing Contest: $10 per story

Writing Contest
First Prize: $500, 2nd: $250; 3rd: $100

Poetry Contest
First Prize: $250, 2nd: $125; 3rd: $50.

Postmark deadline: July 31, 2009.
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