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5-7-5 Poetry 
A fun and challenging poem to write. The 5-7-5 only has three lines. The first line has 5 syllables. The second line has 7. The third line has five syllables again. The winner will receive a cash prize. Deadline: In Three Days. Halloween, Oct. 31st.

Halloween Poetry 
Write a poem that somehow captures the fun or horror of this day!  Cash prize to the winner. Deadline: In Three Days. Halloween, Oct. 31st.

Halloween Horror 
Write a horror story for this writing contest.  Cash prize. Deadline: In Three Days. Halloween, Oct. 31st.

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Write a poem that tells a story and follows a rhyme scheme common in children's stories. Cash prize. Deadline:  Nov. 5th.

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FINDING LOCAL GRANTS

Everyone wants a grant. Who wouldn't desire free money to aid a goal? The trouble is grants are not common. And they are no longer lucrative. However, a small grant of $500 to $2,500 might be the shot-in-the-arm you need to research your book, design a book tour, or create a public appearance to jumpstart your book's release.

No two grants are alike, and there isn't one place to find grants. If there was, I'd be out of business. Finding grants is like hunting for the right writing market or researching agents. It takes time and diligence to ferret them out. 

One place people forget to look is at home. Often, arts councils appear in little towns and counties. They aren't big, but they are passionate, and often they have funds to assist local artists. 

Three of the grants listed in this newsletter are geographically specific. One is even limited to writers in Orange County, North Carolina. Many of these councils require a small membership fee, but that membership probably gives you a stronger voice into what the council offers the community. And if they lean to only theatre and crafts, maybe it's time you joined and let them know that the literary arts are important, too. Or you might be pleasantly surprised to find they have small literary grants already. While this one's deadline has expired, little ol' Pitt County, NC has grants of $500 to $1,000. http://www.pittcountyarts.org/artists/grants/regional-artist-project-grants

Then from local, go regional. South Arts has grants for the southeastern United States. http://www.southarts.org/resources/links/ So does the Mid-American Alliance. http://www.arts.texas.gov/jobs-opportunities/regional-touring-grants/ As does Arts Midwest https://www.artsmidwest.org/ and New England Foundation for the Arts http://www.nefa.org/. 

If you aren't sure of where to start looking, contact your state arts commission. They know all the local connections in your state as well as the regional ones. And you can go here to find your state arts commission: https://www.arts.gov/partners/state-regional . 

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featured article

Creative Writing in the Medical/Mental Health Community

By Joy Jones

That writing workshop you do for students may be valuable as a creative expression session for adults in psychiatric hospitals, court-supervision programs or substance abuse clinics. You know how journal writing can relieve stress or how creating one's own story can be greatly gratifying.
 
Mental health professionals know this, too and may welcome having your writing skills put to use for their clients. For years, I have offered paid creative writing workshops in healthcare settings. A typical class begins with a warm-up activity to stimulate ideas. Then the writing exercise is assigned and participants write quietly for 15 minutes. Following that, participants discuss their work. Fees paid for workshops can range from $100 to $500 per session. 
 
Make it happen by contacting the clinical director at a facility. Pitch your creative writing class as a more engaging and entertaining way to reinforce some of the therapeutic insights the program teaches. Better than a one-shot class, however, is an ongoing series.  For that, you will probably need to be funded through a grant. That will require you to partner with the facility to be included in a project they have initiated, or do as I have done and seek your own grants once you've found an interested organization.
  
My entree began with a social worker at a mental hospital asking me to edit the patients' newsletter. That conversation led to the Lens & Pens Creative Expression Project, over two decades of grant-funded groups where patients learned to write and recite poetry plus publish a newsletter.
 
One colleague landed an arts grant providing creative writing workshops for a rehab program. Part of her proposal was to publish a chapbook of the residents' writings. The facility was then allowed to sell the book as a fundraiser, an arrangement that provided a financial win-win for them both.
 
Ongoing funds can be paid in several ways: a grant awarded directly to you, an individual contract with a facility, or under the auspices of an organization that receives a grant and pays you from that program. Most of my grants have come through an Individual Artist grant provided by the D.C. Commission on the Arts & Humanities, which also funded my colleague's program. Many state or county art commissions award grants directly to individual writers and do not require organizational sponsorship. The application requires submitting a form, writing samples, an artistic resume and a budget. My grant covers my teaching fee, stipends to hire guest artists, publication of several editions of a patient newsletter, a poetry chapbook, and office supplies for 12-16 weekly sessions. Grant awards range from $3,000-$8,000. I have also received funding from the DC Department of Behavioral Health (DBH.) Their grant period usually lasts 9-12 months and the awards are around $8,000-$15,000. For the DBH grants, the money was awarded to The Spoken Word, my non-profit arts organization. I also have an individual year-long subcontract to the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency to do workshops with parolees.
 
Find grants by contacting the arts council and the humanities council in your city or county for announcements of upcoming funding opportunities. I subscribe to Funding Alert, a newsletter listing funders soliciting a wide range of proposal requests. Join this free subscription at: http://opgs.dc.gov/service/funding-alert-information.
  
Expanding your literary reach into a clinical setting can improve your cash position. Monetary and mental health – now that's a fine prescription for any writer!   

BIO:
Joy Jones is an author and popular speaker. Visit her at www.JoyJonesOnline.com or learn about the Lens & Pens Creative Expression Project at www.TheSpokenWordOnline.org.  

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COmpetitions

RICHARD WILBUR POETRY AWARD
https://universityofevansvillepress.submittable.com/submit
$25 ENTRY FEE.
$1,000 prize and publication. December 1, 2016. This biennial competition (even-numbered years) is open to all American poets — those with or without previous book-length publication — except previous recipients of the Richard Wilbur Award. Winning manuscripts will reflect the thoughtful humanity and careful metrical craftsmanship of Richard Wilbur’s poetry. Manuscripts of between 50-100 typed pages may be submitted online. Deadline December 1, 2016. 



GEMINI MAGAZINE POETRY OPEN
http://www.gemini-magazine.com/poetryopen.html
$5 ENTRY FEE. 
Grand prize $1,000. Second prize $100. Honorable mentions (four) $25. All finalists published in the March 2017 issue of Gemini. We are open to ANY form of poetry, ANY subject matter, style or length. Poems must be unpublished, but work displayed on personal blogs is eligible. We welcome work from new and established poets.



DON'T TALK TO ME ABOUT LOVE
http://donttalktomeaboutlove.org/contest/
$20 ENTRY FEE. 
First prize $1,000. Three honorable mentions: Guaranteed publication in donttalktomeaboutlove.org. What does LOVE mean to you? We want your poetry exploring love in any of its myriad expressions: romantic, platonic, parental, and much, much more. Entry is one to three poems of up to 75 lines. Deadline January 15, 2017. 



LYRIC MAGAZINE'S COLLEGE POETRY CONTEST
http://www.ala.org/awardsgrants/awards/1/apply
NO ENTRY FEE.
The Lyric College Poetry Contest is open to undergraduates enrolled full time in an American or Canadian college or university. First Prize ~ $500. Second Prize ~ $100. Honorable Mention ~ Year’s subscription and bragging rights. Poems must be original and unpublished, 39 lines or less, written in English in traditional forms, preferably with regular scansion and rhyme. We welcome up to three poems per student. Winners are announced and published in the Winter issue of The Lyric. Deadline December 1, 2016. 
 

GRANTS

SAN FRANCISCO ARTS COMMISSION
http://www.sfartscommission.org/CAE/grants/grant-programs-and-applications/
The FY2016-2017 grant cycle is now open. Applicants can download Guidelines and Application Instructions under each category listed on the website. To apply for a grant, applicants must sign up at sf.culturegrants.org and submit their application through the online system. Emailed or paper applications will not be accepted.



ORANGE COUNTY ARTIST PROJECT GRANT - NORTH CAROLINA
https://artsorange.org/grants/artist-project-grant/
The Orange County Arts Commission offers Spring and Fall Artist Project Grants to aid local artists developing high-quality arts activities in Orange County.  Funds originate from the Orange County Board of County Commissioners. Open to professional artists coordinating arts activities that benefit Orange County citizens. Grants available up to $1,000. Each grant must be matched on a one-to-one basis with cash. Funds awarded during the Fall 2016 cycle will be used in project period: January 1, 2017 – December 31, 2017. Deadline December 6, 2016. 



ARTISTSHARE
http://www.artistshare.com/v4/Home/about
ArtistShare, founded in 2001 as the internet's first crowdfunding platform, connects artists with fans in order to  share the excitement and beauty of the creative process, document the work of today's most exciting creators and allow fans to participate directly by funding and observing the creation of new artistic works.  ArtistShare is the ultimate expression of freedom for a creative artist as well as the ultimate expression of appreciation for a fan of that artist. 



MID-AMERICA ARTS ALLIANCE TOURING GRANTS
http://www.arts.texas.gov/jobs-opportunities/regional-touring-grants/
M-AAA’s Regional Touring Program (RTP) awards grants to qualifying organizations that present public events in their area. These grants are designed to support projects of artistic excellence and merit by underwriting fees of artists who live in the region. Presenters that book an artist listed on a state touring roster may get up to 50 percent of the fee underwritten. Presenters that book an artist that lives in the region (Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas), but is not listed on a touring roster, may get up to 25 percent of the fee underwritten. Presenters located in rural communities may receive an additional 10 percent of the fee underwritten.

NOTE: You connect with an entity to make an appearance, and then the two of you apply to this grant to cover fees.

 

FREELANCE MARKETS

AOPA PILOT
https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/publications/writers-guidelines
AOPA Pilot is the nation’s leading general aviation publication. In general, articles for AOPA Pilot should be written in the third person. Four categories pay freelancers: Never Again (lessons learned from flights and incidents), Postcards (destinations), Pilots (personality profiles), Features (everything else). 



YOUNG RIDER
http://www.youngrider.com/writers-guidelines.aspx
We don’t use much freelance work, most of it is done in-house by the editor, who also designs the magazine and shoots most of the photographs. We sometimes buy 800-1,000 word “horsey interest” type stories. Stories or events that will interest kids ALL over the country that the editor is not able to personally. We need four to five good color pictures with stories like this. The pictures must be color and tack sharp. The pay is about $200 for those types of stories. We do buy short stories (approximately 800-1,000 words) for about $150. They have to be “realistic” stories and not too sugary sweet. We only use four to five of these a year. 



WORKING MOTHER
http://www.workingmother.com/home/working-mother-magazine-writers-guidelines
We do assign features to freelancers. Feature pitches should specifically relate to the working mom, whether geared to her work, family, personal well-being or a mixture of these. Features are also assigned to fit our initiative packages (100 Best Companies, Best Companies for Multicultural Women, NAFE 50 Top Companies for Executive Women and 50 Best Law Firms for Women). We like tightly focused pieces that celebrate working moms while sensibly solving or illuminating a problem unique to our readers and/or their children and family. We assign features at about 1,000 to 2,000 words. Online we do assign short features to freelancers. Again, pitches should be related to the working mom's work, family or lifestyle. We assign at around 500–1,000 words, tip-driven, essay or listicle.



FLASH FICTION ONLINE
http://flashfictiononline.com/main/submission-guidelines/
We publish stories from 500 to 1,000 words in length. They’re very short, but they are still stories. That means the best ones have strong, interesting characters, plots, and (to some extent, at least) settings. We welcome submissions from writers of every race, religion, nationality, gender, and sexual orientation. Pays $60 per story. 

 

JOBS

PUBLIC AFFAIRS SPECIALIST
https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/453938300/
Location Phoenix, Arizona with the Bureau of Land Management. Functions as a public affairs specialist in the Office of Communications, developing a variety of communication products and activities highlighting BLM’s management of public lands, for internal and external audiences. 



WRITER
https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/206459306
In Baltimore, MD, you will serve as a writer and editor responsible for developing and maintaining training and content solutions/materials used by customer service representatives (CSRs) at the contact centers to respond to inquiries in a manner that is complete, accurate, and consistent to ensure quality interactions across multiple access channels. 



FREELANCE WRITER
https://www.velvetjobs.com/li/featuredjob/media/guest/475712
PIX11 News is looking for a highly motivated freelance writer who can attract the attention of viewers with compelling storytelling in a highly competitive news market. You must get to the heart of a complicated story and make it easy for viewers to digest. Location New York. 



FREELANCE WRITER
https://www.velvetjobs.com/li/featuredjob/media/guest/387904
Thrillist.com is hiring a freelance writer to contribute bar, restaurant, nightlife, and event articles for its new Louisville, Kentucky edition on an ongoing basis. Thrillist provides an opportunity to create exciting content that both local and visiting readers will find entertaining and informative, as well as share with friends on social media. 
 

Publishers/agents

GLASS LITERARY MANAGEMENT
http://www.glassliterary.com/about
Literary agent Rick Pascocello seeks nonfiction, including memoir, biography, history, narrative, business, sports, and popular culture, along with mainstream and literary fiction. 



REGAL HOFFMANN AND ASSOCIATES
http://rhaliterary.com/submissions/
Our primary areas of interest include literary fiction, thrillers, narrative non-fiction (history, biography, science, et cetera), memoir, and some category non-fiction. We're keenly aware of and lament the underrepresentation of minorities in the publishing industry and strongly encourage submissions from writers of all cultural and ethnic backgrounds. We do not consider romance, poetry, or screenplays. Our children's book agents look after all categories, with an emphasis on YA and middle-grade fiction.



ARTHUR LEVINE BOOKS
http://www.arthuralevinebooks.com/submission.asp
Arthur A. Levine Books publishes hardcover literary fiction and nonfiction for children and teenagers (and discerning adults). We look for strong writing, beautiful artwork, authentic emotion, and ideas or perspectives we haven't seen before, and we greatly enjoy working with debut authors and illustrators. Submit:

Picture Books: Query letter + the full text
Novels: Query letter + the first two chapters + synopsis
Other: Query letter + 10-page sample + synopsis/proposal
Illustration: Three sample illustrations and/or links to online portfolios



HOLIDAY HOUSE
http://www.holidayhouse.com/holiday_house.php
Holiday House is a publisher of children's books only. We specialize in quality hardcovers, from picture books to young adult, both fiction and nonfiction. We publish children's books for ages four and up. We do not publish mass-market books, including, but not limited to, pop-ups, activity books, sticker books, coloring books, or licensed books.
 

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