May 25, 2018 at 8:24 pm (Artists and Writers, Links, Recommended, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: contests, Fridays, Literary Magazines
Self joined this contest with her friend Morgan Cooke, the inaugural year of the prize, in 2014. The story we did was “Spores.” We did not win, but self has always kept tabs on the contest winners.
2018 contest winners have just been announced.
Here’s the link to the Contest homepage.
You can listen to past winners via the link.
Who knows, maybe one day self will feel bold enough to try again.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
September 14, 2017 at 2:18 pm (Artists and Writers, Filipino Writers, plans, Publishers, short story collections, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: contests, dystopia, fiction, Literary Magazines, rejections, short story, speculative fiction
Got a rejection from Oxford American today. Nevertheless.
Self has decided to submit a short story collection to a contest.
Story # 1: The Departure
The Situation: A mom says good-bye to her son, who’s on his way to a college on the coast. Not five minutes after she waves good-bye and re-enters her house, the world ends. The woman wakes up to find that the roof of her house has cracked wide open, and nothing’s working. She decides to check in with a neighbor across the street, who invites her to share some cake (Did self say yet that she writes dark fiction?)
They each took a chair and faced each other across the kitchen table, the cake between them. The cat was still on Julietta’s lap but seemed to show no interest in food. She simply lay there, as if comatose. Through Mrs. Bautista’s kitchen window, Julietta thought she saw wisps of clouds moving backwards. Far off, somewhere, she imagined a whole bevy of airplanes were getting ready to scramble.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
December 17, 2015 at 2:08 pm (Books, Fan Fiction, Links, Lists, Pianos, Surprises, Traveling, Writing)
Tags: Calyx, concerts, contests, Florence, memories, music, praise, short story, travel
First Margarita Donnelly Prize for Prose. Mary Gaitskill. New York, New York. Carnegie Hall and Dearest Mum (Last night, front row seat, Trio Solisti. They killed Brahms. Absolutely killed it. Three standing ovations. From a New York audience. No joke). Florence & Venice with Niece. “Crackers” in Crab Orchard Review. Fan Fiction (self’s WIP: about Peeta as a prostitute!!!) garners more hits. London-Ireland-York (the last for the first time). Central Park walks. Middlemarch (swoon). Writers Group meet-ups. Twitter Hashtag Games & Folklore Thursday. Victorian Steampunk and Shadowhunters. Believing in dragons. Stay tuned.
Carnegie Center’s Weill Hall, Before the Trio Solisti Concert Last Night
June 3, 2015 at 7:06 am (Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: Asian American Writers, contests, Filipino writers, Literary Magazines, science fiction, short story, writing process
A short piece self wrote about a classroom of the future has been accepted by Juked.
This was the magazine that chose “The Hand” to win first place in their fiction contest, 2007.
Self still remembers when she got the call. She had to sit down. It seems like yesterday.
She never could have imagined that, eight years later, she’d be writing science fiction. She loves writing when she can play with the sound of the words, which is what she was trying to do with her story, “First Life”:
The human organism has proven itself completely willful. Narcissism results in confusion. My present condition.
And the consequences? The consequences of this confusion?
Well, extinction.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
January 26, 2015 at 3:26 pm (Artists and Writers)
Tags: contests, essay, Literary Magazines, Mondays, travel
Flyway Contest judge Cristina Eisenberg has chosen the following essays as winner and runner-up, respectively, of the latest Notes From the Field contest:
Winner: Susanna Clark for “House Blend,” which delves “into the stories of the young men behind 2013’s horrific Boston Marathon bombing”
Runner-Up: Suzanne Menghraj for “Usciolu,” a piece that “tells of the author’s experience on the Mediterranean island of Corsica”
Both pieces will appear in Flyway’s Spring 2015 issue.
Stay tuned.
January 16, 2015 at 4:58 pm (Links, Recommended, Writing)
Tags: contests, Fridays, Literary Magazines, poetry
Announcing The Chattahoochee Review’s Lamar York Prizes for Fiction and Nonfiction!
Judges: David James Poissant and Marcia Aldrich
Prizes: $1,000 @ and a 1-yr subscription to The Chattahoochee Review
Contest Deadline: January 31, 2015
May 24, 2014 at 9:02 pm (Links, Surprises, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: contests, discoveries, literary awards, novellas, Saturdays
Dear blog mistress’s novella, published last year by Vagabondage Press, has been shortlisted for Best Novella of 2013 by the Saboteur Awards!
Which are going to be handed out Saturday a week from today!
In a very cool town which just so happens to be Oxford, England!
And the par-tay will be in the cooler part of Oxford, which self understands is the northern part, in a place called JERICHO TAVERN!
And self really didn’t think she could make it, but suddenly she got a message from her friend Jenny Lewis who teaches at Oxford, who said, “Everyone here’s been talking about it.”
So then self has been kinda stunned, and part of her wants to go into full-on Pity Party Mode (Self has nothing to wear! She’s been re-cycling the same three pairs of jeans for a month!) but another part wants to say: GET UP, WOMAN! JUST — GET UP!
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
May 15, 2014 at 8:56 am (Artists and Writers, Women Writers)
Tags: contests, deadlines, discoveries, inspirations, Literary Magazines, poetry
This is your last chance to submit to a poetry portfolio guest-edited by Alicia Ostriker that will be featured in Prairie Schooner’s Winter 2014. The portfolio will deal with the theme of Women and the Global Imagination. Submissions close May 15th. Send up to five pages of unpublished poetry to schooner.special.subs@gmail.com if you’d like your work to be considered. Once you’ve submitted, head on over to the Prairie Schooner archives to read “Normal Light,” an Ostriker poem published in the Winter 2003 issue of Prairie Schooner.
Which reminds self that one of the poets at the Tyrone Guthrie Center had said Philip Larkin was one of her favorite poets, and he has a poem about Toads.
Self googled, and here it is, dear blog readers:
TOADS
by Philip Larkin
Why should I let the work
Squat on my life?
Can’t I use my wit as a pitchfork
And drive the brute off?
Six days of the week it toils
With its sickening poison —
Just for paying a few bills!
That’s out of proportion.
Lots of folk live on their wits:
Lecturers, lispers,
Losers, loblolly men, louts —
They don’t end as paupers;
Lots of folk live up lanes
With fires in a bucket,
Eat windfalls and tinned sardines —
They seem to like it.
Their nippers have got bare feet,
Their unspeakable wives
Are skinny as whippets — and yet
No one actually_starves_.
Ah, were I courageous enough
To shout, Stuff your pension!
But I know, all too well, that’s the stuff
That dreams are made on:
For something officially toad-like
Squats in me, too;
Its hunkers are heavy as hard luck,
And cold as snow,
And will never allow me to blarney
My way of getting
The fame and the girl and the money
All at one sitting.
I don’t say, one bodies the other.
One’s spiritual truth;
But I do say it’s hard to lose either,
When you have both.
Stay tuned.
March 6, 2014 at 11:01 pm (Artists and Writers, Food and Drink, Links, Recommended)
Tags: art, Asian American Writers, contests, deadlines, exhibits, Literary Magazines, poetry
The EATING CULTURES submission deadline is coming up very soon (this Sunday, Mar. 9!); self only found out about it today, via an e-mail from Karen Llagas. Thanks much, Karen!
The Asian American Women Writers Association (aawaa.net) is accepting submissions for a multidisciplinary arts exhibition exploring Asian Pacific American (APA) food and foodways (See deadline above)
Artists are invited to submit works that examine the idea, literally and metaphorically, of food and feeding (or the lack thereof) in creating and negotiating personal, gender and cultural representations in both the APA community and U.S. mainstream culture.
Eligibility: Artists working in literary and visual arts, film & video, sculpture, installation and multimedia arts of Asian Pacific American descent
Venue: SOMArts Cultural Center, Main Gallery, San Francisco
Juror: Dr. Margo L. Machida, Professor of Art History and Asian American Studies at University of Connecticut
For more information, e-mail: exhibitions.aawaa@gmail.com or call: (212) 433-0229
The deadline for Bellingham Review’s Annual Literary Contest is approaching: BEFORE Mar. 15, 2014. Here’s some additional information:
Three $1,000 prizes and publication in Bellingham Review are awarded for works of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Finalists will be considered for publication. The 49th Parallel Poetry Award is given for poetry; Kathleen Flenniken will judge. The Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction is given for a short story; Shawn Wong will judge. The Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction is given for an essay; Joy Castro will judge. Before Mar. 15, 2014, submit prose up to 6,000 words or up to three poems with a $20 entry fee ($10 for each additional entry); this includes a subscription. Visit the website for complete guidelines.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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