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YouTube is great for learning, but you don't learn how to do the deed until you quit reading instructions and start doing. Doesn't matter if you're building a doll house, pruning bushes, or writing books. Regardless how many classes, courses, how-to books, and master YouTube videos you watch, it's just unlikely you'll write a bestseller the first time you put pen to paper. 

Because there's a certain amount of hands-on toil needed before you learn how to achieve. 

You may read twenty books a month, but that doesn't make you a writer. Reading good work is a grand start, no doubt about it. Exposure to good stories is always a good thing. But when you sit down on your own and try to spit out beautiful sentences with snappy plot, it doesn't come easily just because you've seen someone else do it. 

You have to get your hands dirty. Over and over again. Throw away the practice projects and keep trying anew. There are a lot of bad books out there. And everyone thinks those bad books belong to someone else. 

Same goes for selling. Study it hard. Watch how others succeed but expect to experience trial and error when you jump in and try yourself. There are no two sales efforts alike, just like no too books are alike. 

I've used a particular logic for a long time: Read ten times more than you write; throw away ten times more writing than you keep. 

Allowing yourself to try and fail is liberating. It allows you to go out there and explode with creativity and allows it to now work, because only in sifting through all that work, through all those words, will you find the right ones to keep. 

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My background: Graduate of United States Navy Mass Communication School. Published by The Atlantic Magazine, ESPN.com, Asia Times, Yahoo.com, Stars and Stripes Newspaper, The Ring Magazine (majority of national and international boxing publications), Navy Times, Christian Science Monitor, Film International, Bleacher Report, UCNlive.com, and Player's Edge. Compiled historical boxing information and fact checked press releases for HBO, Showtime, ESPN, NBC Sports, and FOX Sports television networks. Furnished Hispanic themed articles for print publications Latino Today Magazine, Hispania News, Dos Mundos, La Voz, and Hispaniconline.com. Provided the boxing industries most concise schedule service, utilized by international authorities such as The New York & L.A. Times, and Stats Inc.
 
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Traveling to a Retreat 

By Mary Ellen Chatwin

When I found the announcement for a weekend writing retreat in Scotland in the British online Writing Magazine, I began to think how I could take a writing course in real life, not only online—and also make my dream of visiting Scotland come true. With two months lead time, I sent in the online application to Helen Walters, an English short-story writer now established in a village in the highlands of Scotland.  The answer was positive!  The October workshop would include three nights and all meals with sessions from Friday to Sunday evening, for the equivalent of $345. Each participant sent in a short story under 2,000 words ahead of their arrival, which would be critiqued one-on-one by Helen during the workshop. 

When I wrote my Scottish friend Madge to see if I could visit her the week after the workshop, she invited me for five days following the retreat. Doubly motivated, given that I’d be financing my own trip entirely, I got an early-bird fare for a return flight from where I live (in the country of Georgia) for approximately $400, so my total basic expenses would amount to $745 for a week including the retreat and an authentic visit to Scotland!  

Helen’s home in the Highlands has been turned into a retreat on the Black Isle, and is shared with her husband, crime writer Mike Walters - who was the skilled cook for our group. When I arrived and entered the cozy living room, the other participants were already relaxing, glass in hand. My accent quickly gave me away and one woman exclaimed, “You came all this way?” However, the workshop showed we had all come for most of the same reasons. My own goal was to learn about which markets are likely to buy the kind of short stories I like to write, but I discovered much more.

Helen is an outgoing and encouraging teacher — we spent group sessions sharing how we get story ideas (great fun exercises!); turning ideas into stories; creating characters (just a few are needed in short stories); as well as rhythm, theme and the mood of the narrative. During the planned sessions we faced common challenges like finishing a story (it seems this is a frequent predicament), PoV, flashback and setting. We had plenty of time for writing alone too.

Helen expertly pointed out which markets are more likely to take an interest in our work. For example women’s magazines tend to like upbeat and positive themes, while anthologies might be interested in the “darker” stories some of the participants preferred writing.

My visit to Scotland brought many experiences, ideas and more—it helped me create a much more vibrant relationship with my writing. I realize I don’t have to remain glued to any PoV, setting or style. This experience opened Pandora’s box – I am re-writing a short story with more humor in the twist, and already have two more ideas.  For other writers I recommend looking up retreats offered at reasonable prices, in places you would like to visit. Your sharpened senses will begin to pick out new details for stories around you in the new settings—for me it was the elderly man in the shabby brown tweed coat perusing a shelf in a village second-hand store, one hand in his pocket and the other taking a book. He’s sure to appear in a story himself.

https://www.solusorwritingretreat.co.uk/
email: helen@helenmwalters.co.uk

BIO - Born in San Francisco, with a childhood in Trieste, Italy, Mary Ellen Chatwin graduated from high school and the University of Alabama with a BA in English literature.  From the southern US, Mary Ellen moved to Switzerland with her husband and young children, where she worked as Editorial Assistant for Berlitz travel guides.  She studied social anthropology and received her PhD from the University of Basel for her research on “foodways” - social drinking traditions and social change in the country of Georgia, the country in the former Soviet Union. She has lived in Tbilisi for two decades, where she worked for international organizations in Georgia and neighboring countries in the fields of child protection, environment and social policy.  She has lectured on food anthropology and social science research, and published nonfiction articles in these fields.  Today Mary Ellen works as editor for cultural publications.  She writes fiction, including short stories and poetry.  Her first completed novel for middle grades is in the submission stage, titled Fly the Winds Home. 

COmpetitions

DISQUIET LITERARY PRIZE FOR FICTION, NONFICTION, AND POETRY
http://disquietinternational.org/the-program/contests-scholarships/the-disquiet-prize/
$15 ENTRY FEE. Deadline January 10, 2019. Contest winners in the categories of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction will have their winning work published in North America’s leading publications. Additionally, one grand prize winner will receive a full fellowship (airfare stipend, tuition, and housing included) to the 2019 DISQUIET International Program in Lisbon, Portugal. Runners-up and other outstanding entrants will be considered for financial aid. Only previously unpublished work in English can be submitted. We accept entries from all ages and countries. Prose limited to 25 double-spaced pages. Poetry limited to six poems, up to ten pages total.



NEW ISSUES POETRY PRIZE
https://newissuespoetryprose.submittable.com/submit
$25 ENTRY FEE. Deadline December 30, 2018. Award is $1,000, publication, and a paid reading at Western Michigan University for a first book of poems. Eligibility: Poets writing in English who have not previously published or self-published a full-length collection (40+ pages) of poems.



THE ROSWELL AWARD FOR SCIENCE FICTION
http://www.lightbringerproject.org/science-fiction-contests/
$6 OPTIONAL ENTRY FEE. Deadline January 28, 2019. Four to six finalists will be chosen and their stories read dramatically by celebrity guests in a special performance at LitFest Pasadena on Saturday, May 18, 2019 followed by an awards presentation. First, second, and third place winners will be chosen from the finalists, and all finalists as well as the honorable mentions will receive certificates recognizing their work. First prize $500. Second prize $250. Third prize $100. An additional award for a Women Hold Up Half the Sky Award and the Best Translated Science Fiction Award.  Stories must be original, be 1,500 words maximum and 500 words minimum, have a science fiction theme, and be submitted to TheRoswellAward@gmail.com as an attachment in Microsoft Word document format. 



CALIBRE ESSAY PRIZE
https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/prizes-programs/calibre-prize/current-prize
AU$15 ENTRY FEE. Deadline January 14, 2019. We are seeking essays of between 2,000 and 5,000 words on any subject. We welcome essays of all kinds: personal or political, literary or speculative, traditional or experimental. First Prize: AU$5,000. Second Prize: AU$2,500. Entries must be an original single-authored nonfiction essay of between 2,000 and 5,000 words written in English. 



NARRATIVE FALL STORY CONTEST
https://www.narrativemagazine.com/fall-2018-story-contest
$26 ENTRY FEE. Deadline November 30, 2018. We’re looking for short shorts, short stories, essays, memoirs, photo essays, graphic stories, all forms of literary nonfiction, and excerpts from longer works of both fiction and nonfiction. Entries must be previously unpublished, no longer than 15,000 words, and must not have been previously chosen as a winner, finalist, or honorable mention in another contest. First Prize is $2,500, Second Prize is $1,000, Third Prize is $500, and up to ten finalists will receive $100 each. All entries will be considered for publication.



NARRATIVE 30 BELOW CONTEST
https://www.narrativemagazine.com/30-below-2018
$25 ENTRY FEE. Deadline November 18, 2018. Narrative invites all writers, poets, visual artists, photographers, performers, and filmmakers between eighteen and thirty years old to send us their best work. First Prize is $1,500, Second Prize is $750, Third Prize is $300, and ten finalists will receive $100 each. The prizewinners and finalists will be announced in Narrative. All N30B entries are eligible for the $4,000 Narrative Prize for 2019 and for acceptance as a Story of the Week or Poem of the Week. Works of prose and of poetry, include short stories, all poetic forms, novel excerpts, essays, memoirs, and excerpts from book-length nonfiction. Prose submissions must not exceed 15,000 words. Each poetry submission may contain up to five poems. 



NOWHERE FALL TRAVEL WRITING CONTEST
http://nowheremag.com/contests/
$20 ENTRY FEE. Deadline December 31, 2018. We are looking for young, old, novice and veteran writers to send us stories that possess a powerful sense of place. Stories can be fiction, nonfiction or essay, but please indicate which genre at the top of your manuscript. Entries should be between 800 and 5,000 words, must be in English, and must not have been previously chosen as a winner in another contest. The winner will receive $1,000, with publication in Nowhere granted under First North American Serial Rights (FNASR). Up to ten finalists also will be published. 



THE MOTH’S €10,000 POETRY PRIZE
http://www.themothmagazine.com/a1-page.asp?ID=8466&page=18
€15 ENTRY FEE. Deadline December 31, 2018. Grand prize €10,000. Three runners-up to receive €1,000. For a single, original poem that has not been published in any form (including being self-published or published online). The prize is open to all poets, both established and emerging, and there are no restrictions on nationality or citizenship. 
 

GRANTS / FELLOWSHIPS / CROWDFUNDING

ADINA TALVE-GOODMAN FELLOWSHIP
https://www.one-story.com/index.php?page=fellowship
Deadline November 15, 2018. Together with the Talve-Goodman Family, One Story is happy to announce the Adina Talve-Goodman Fellowship. This educational fellowship will offer a year-long mentorship on the craft of fiction writing with One Story magazine. Our hope is to give a writer outside of the fold a significant boost in their career. The fellow will receive: Free tuition for all One Story online classes and programming offered in 2019. Travel stipend ($2,000) and tuition to attend One Story’s July 2019 week-long summer writers’ conference in Brooklyn, which includes craft lectures, an in-person intensive fiction workshop, and panels with literary agents and publishers. A full manuscript review & consultation with One Story Executive Editor Hannah Tinti (story collection or novel in progress up to 150 pages/35,000 words). This fellowship calls for an early-career writer of fiction who has not yet published a book and is not currently nor has ever been enrolled in an MFA program. 



THE SESAME STREET WRITERS’ ROOM
https://sesamewritersroom.org/
Deadline December 3, 2018. The Sesame Workshop will select between seven and ten emerging writers who will each receive hands-on writing experience guided by Sesame Street veterans and other media industry leaders. The selected fellows will participate in an eight-week program (one three-hour class per week) in New York City and up to two participants will have the opportunity to receive creative development deals and further mentorship. To be eligible to apply writers must be from an underrepresented racial background (defined for this purpose as Asian, Pacific Islander, Black, Hispanic, Native American, Middle Eastern, or multiracial), be aged over 21 and be a United States citizen or permanent resident. 



INDIANA GRANTS
https://www.in.gov/arts/3024.htm
Deadline February 7, 2019. The Individual Advancement Program (IAP) provides support (up to $2,000) to Indiana artists for career development projects. Applicants must plan a project (or phase of a project) that is feasible within the requested budget and completed within the proposed timeline. This year we are accepting applications related to the performing arts, like: Dance, Literary Arts, Music, Theatre, and Performing Folk Arts. 



FINE ARTS WORK CENTER
http://web.fawc.org/apply
Deadline December 2, 2018. Fine Arts Work Center Fellowships are open to writers and visual artists in the emerging stages of their careers. Fellows may be citizens of any country.  Juries of working writers and artists make the admissions decisions. The Work Center awards fellowships to five poets and five fiction writers a year. Location Provincetown, MA. 



TENNESSEE ARTS COMMISSION SEEKING GRANT PANELISTS
http://tnartscommission.org/news/request-annual-grant-review-panelists/
The TN Arts Commission is seeking individuals who are willing to serve as citizen advisory panelists. Civic-minded Tennesseans are encouraged to apply. Made up of individuals with expertise in a variety of areas, including artistic disciplines, community building, education, rural development, nonprofit management, business, and civic engagement, advisory panels are a major component of the annual grant review process. Panelists read, review and evaluate grant applications, and provide expertise that helps the Commission make informed grants-making decisions and valuable technical assistance recommendations to our grant applicants.



TENNESSEE FELLOWSHIP GRANTS
http://tnartscommission.org/news/fy19-iaf-applications-available/
Deadline January 28, 2019. The Individual Artist Fellowship (IAF) provides $5,000 awards to outstanding professional artists (i.e. those individuals who by education, experience, or natural talent engage in a particular art form or discipline) who live and work in Tennessee. To qualify, an artist must be financially compensated for his or her work, and this compensation must be a significant source of support for their livelihood. 



OLIN COLLEGE CREATIVE RESIDENCY 2019-2020
https://olincollegesketchmodel.submittable.com/submit/125297/olin-college-creative-residency-2019-20
Deadline December 1, 2018. Seeking individuals or collectives whose work is significantly housed in the arts and humanities and whose interests might intersect in provocative and convivial ways with a small undergraduate college where all students major in engineering. The residency is a one-year opportunity for creative practitioners to carry out independent projects, collaborative engagement with students and faculty, and campus-wide events. Practitioners can come from the fine arts, design and architecture, craft, music, theatrical or dance performance, film, writing, new media, and the many hybrid forms of socially engaged and durational practices in contemporary global culture. The stipend for the year is $75,000. The creative will also have a $10,000 budget for events on campus. 

 

FREELANCE MARKETS

THE BLUEGRASS STANDARD
https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=3061b1eb6c215efe
The Bluegrass Standard (TBS) online magazine is the premier entertainment publication targeting bluegrass music. However, TBS also features gospel, Americana and folk music, the artists, the festivals and the events. TBS craves the story behind and beyond the usual “how did you get started?” story or the “what’s coming up with you?” story. What are or have been the challenges, the personal struggles, the love stories, the breakup stories, the family stories, stories of faith, stories of redemption, stories of rebellion, stories of home and setting. We look for writers willing to connect to the artists and offer them a safe space to share their stories. We also want writers to cover festival and music events in their area, as well as cuisine and setting that connects somehow to these genres of music. If you’re in the Appalachian area, that’s a plus, but we’d love to have writers connected to Austin, Denver, LA, Nashville and Memphis, as well as across to sea to Ireland and the UK. A Bachelor’s degree in writing is not necessary if your experience as a freelance writer and your writing samples prove your skills and ability as a writer. First assignment will be the “test.” TBS pays per feature, which usually runs between 750-950 words.



HIDDEN THINGS: STORIES OF CRIME AND HORROR
https://www.facebook.com/HiddenThingsAntho/posts/566375127134364
Deadline December 15, 2018. Down & Out Books is looking for stories for the forthcoming cross-genre anthology, Hidden Things: Stories of Crime and Horror. The specifics are fairly simple and implied by the title — we’re looking for stories that blend the crime and horror genres in such a way that they could easily be described as either. Stories should be between 3,000 and 5,000 words. Payment is dependent upon the Indiegogo fundraising campaign, but we are aiming at raising sufficient funds to pay 0.06/word. Royalties will also be included for the duration of the anthology’s publication.



HOUSTONIA
https://www.houstoniamag.com/pages/writers-guidelines
Houstonia is unique: A news, entertainment and information source as smart, exciting and vital as the people who call Houston home. Each month we canvass the nation’s fourth largest city in search of the newsmakers and tastemakers, people who are changing the way we eat, play, dress and think. Houstonia is always accepting story pitches for the following departments: Ice House, Elements of Style, Clutch City, Bayougraphy, Space City, H-Town Diary, Open Road, On the Table, and On the Town, as well as for full-length feature stories on news, culture, or lifestyle. 



TIGER OAK MEDIA
https://lakeminnetonkamag.com/node/9894
We hire local writers only because they have the best understanding of the city and its vernacular. Additionally, there are eight monthly community lifestyle publications in our wheelhouse focusing on specific suburbs or regions: Edina, Woodbury, Plymouth, Maple Grove, Lake Minnetonka, St. Louis Park, White Bear Lake and the Southwest Metro (access any of these at the website). Tiger Oak Media also publishes Minnesota Bride magazine twice a year in January and July. Minnesota Meetings + Events magazine four times per year and Minnesota Business magazine monthly. Our magazine purchases exclusive rights. All editorial material is protected by copyright. Tiger Oak Media retains the right to reprint editorial material for promotional use by a Tiger Oak publication, with credit given. 



KEYS FOR KIDS
https://www.keysforkids.org/WritersGuidelines
Tell a contemporary story with a spiritual application, written from the third-person point of view. Avoid Pollyanna-type children—make them normal, ordinary kids, not goody-goodies. Include an illustration of the lesson being taught—some everyday happening or object that illustrates a biblical truth. Avoid fairy tale endings. Keep in mind an age range of six to 12 but remember that Keys for Kids is often used in family devotions. Try to keep your story simple. The story should be around 350 words and no longer than 375 words. Pays $30. Please note that they keep all rights.



INSIDE COLUMBIA
https://insidecolumbia.net/writers-guidelines/
Inside Columbia magazine has been committed to covering topics concerning “living, working and having fun in Columbia, Mo.” Every issue features stories on local entertainment, fashion, food, wine and weddings. We keep up on the business community, home design trends and health news. We profile people who are making a difference in our town and we go in-depth to offer new perspectives on topics affecting our community. Articles may be of any length, up to 4,000 words for an in-depth feature. The topic should be of interest to local readers, using Columbia/Boone County sources when possible.



ALL ABOUT BEER MAGAZINE
http://allaboutbeer.com/writer-guidelines/
All About Beer Magazine is a consumer-oriented magazine that entertains and educates the beer-loving community about the breadth and variety of beers, the history and culture surrounding beer appreciation, the methods and traditions of beer making, and the political and social environment that affects the pursuit of beer pleasure. Features word count: 2,000-2,500 words, as assigned. Short News Items 750-1,000 words. Travel Features up to 1,200 words. It is rare that AABM accepts unsolicited manuscripts; instead, the author should contact Editor Daniel Hartis (hartis@allaboutbeer.com) with a story idea and short outline.

 

Publishers/agents

ALBERT WHITMAN & COMPANY
https://www.albertwhitman.com/submission-guidelines-for-unrepresented-authors/
Albert Whitman & Company currently has an open submissions policy. We will read and review un-agented manuscripts and proposals for picture books, middle-grade fiction, and young adult novels. 



BANCROFT PRESS
https://bancroftpress.com/submission-guidelines-2/
We publish trade fiction and nonfiction, and we publish what we like. Virtually every genre is represented by one of our fine authors; this is owed to their individual ability to tell a good story. From classic literature to political memoirs, from illustrated picture books to gripping suspense thrillers – the key is in the quality.



KOEHLER BOOKS
http://www.koehlerbooks.com/publishizer-authors/
Koehler Books has published the works of more than 400 authors from throughout the United States and five continents.  We are an Indie publisher known for collaboration, coaching and mentoring debut writers, award-winning creative development, and stellar distribution through Ingram. We assist writers with marketing and publicity, working with them and professional publicists and marketing professionals to best position their books by audience and genre. We also have been working with Publishizer and its authors since 2017. In our opinion, Publishizer is the best crowdsourcing solution for book authors that we have encountered in nearly ten years of book publishing. They match authors and publishers objectively, professionally and, most important, ethically. We have found the quality of the fundraising presentations and the author manuscripts to be polished and professional. For those reasons we welcome and encourage submissions of completed manuscripts from Publishizer authors.



AK PRESS
https://www.akpress.org/pub-submissions.html
As an anarchist collective, we're primarily interested in works that reflect the rich traditions within anarchism (theory, history, art, culture, economics, labor) and related movements—both historically and contemporarily. We make an effort to provide materials of use to activists, academics, and individuals in pursuit of intellectual self-defense and revolutionary social/economic change. Further, we welcome the opportunity to work with authors from diverse backgrounds. We do not actively publish fiction or poetry.



WORLD CASTLE PUBLISHING
http://www.worldcastlepublishing.com/submission-guidelines.html
Closed to manuscripts until January 1, 2019, but that's not too far away! Seeking Mystery, Suspense, Thriller, Horror, Paranormal, Action, Adventure, Western, Romance, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Middle-Grade: Target audience is 8 - 14 years, Teen: Target audience is 12 - 16 years, and Young Adult: Target audience is 15 - 19 years.



SHADOW MOUNTAIN PUBLISHING
http://shadowmountain.com/submission-guidelines/
Shadow Mountain is passionate about clean content and empowering values. We publish general fiction and nonfiction for all ages, all genres. We have a strong interest in middle grade fantasy and clean romance. We also publish a limited number of manuscripts in specialized genres including children’s picture books, family and parenting, and self-help. In addition, we are not interested in the following genres: business and finance, family histories/personal journals, religion, or poetry. 

 

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