Opportunities for Writers

Wanted ghost writer

I have self-published a book - fiction - I wrote based on some real life situations I encountered when I was living in Medway, Kent. I want to publish it again - but would like it to be re-written, so as to make it appear better than what it is now. I have discussed this and I was told that I should look for a ghost writer to help me out. I am hoping I can get someone to help me out. Thanks. Peter Martin.

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Solander (published twice yearly) is one of the magazines published by The Historical Novels Society. Each issue publishes a historical short story for which we pay £150 ($150). If you think you can write a top quality short story where a particular period in history is an integral part of a compelling narrative, please read our guidelines on: www.historicalnovelsociety.org/guidelines.htm

The Melted Rubber Humans are looking for mp3 files of spoken word/ poetry readings (either live or studio) to be incorporated in a series of albums of ambient/ experimental music, looking for poetry which deals with the following topics:
1. God/ the Goddess/ spirituality;
2. sex/ gender/ sexuality;
3. power/ politics/ corruption;
4. love/ want/ need;
5. fear/ despair/ greed.
Poetry with a rich, interesting and/or experimental approach to the use of language and especially those read with voices that reflect the feeling of the poem. The plan is to select lines or verses from poems and to blend them into a sound-collage; a musical equivalent to the art of the Dadaists. The finished albums will be posted at www.virb.com/melted_rubber_humans and will, like their previous three albums, be available for free download. Poems can either be submitted by email or snail mail. Email submissions are limited to one mp3 file with a 2Mb maximum file size and should be sent to shooglemail@googlemail.com with "FAO: Captain Melted" in the subject line. There are no file size limitations for snail mail submissions. These should be sent on CD to Dee Sunshine, 35 Falkland Street (0/1), Glasgow, G12 9QZ, United Kingdom.

There is no deadline as this will be an ongoing project. Further information about The Melted Rubber Humans can be found at www.myspace.com/captainmelted

Hi! I'm looking for aspiring travel writers, journalists and photographers for a relatively new (on-line since 8/2007) adventure / independent travel site. Unfortunately I can't pay you but you can use my site as a place to practice and also as a reference for paying jobs.

If interested, email me at andy.siitonen@farandfurther.com

www.farandfurther.com

Litfest is looking for writers and artists to work on a series of innovative creative writing projects in prisons. We are running six short-term residencies across Lancashire prisons during May 2008 for the Offenders Learning and Skills Council at Lancaster and Morecambe College.

These residencies will work with offenders to produce new writing, audio recordings and artwork to be broadcast on BBC Radio Lancashire and exhibited across the county and online throughout 2008.

We want to recruit writers, and visual and sound artists to take part in an initial training and development programme to both equip them with the skills and understanding to work in prisons, and to develop a model for working collaboratively.

Writers and artists will be selected from this initial programme to work on the residencies. There are bursaries and travel expenses available to attend the training and development sessions and fees for those working on the residencies.

Please apply with a CV, covering letter, including a statement about why you are interested in working with offenders (150 words), your ideas about working collaboratively (150 words), and the following:

WRITERS

6 poems

1000 words prose (if this is from a novel please also include a synopsis of the novel with your submission).

Deadline for submission: 14 March 2008

Interview date: 2 or 4 April 2008

VISUAL/SOUND ARTISTS

Samples of your recent work (on CD or DVD)

Send submissions to catherine.sadler@litfest.org

OR to:

Catherine Sadler

Projects Manager

Litfest

26 Sun Street

Lancaster

LA1 1EW

Waterstone’s Guide to Getting Published

The idea of becoming a writer is one that appeals to countless people. However, while the writing process is simple enough to understand, publishing is a mystery to most. Much is written about how difficult it is to get published, how important it is to have an agent and how some books sell in their hundreds of thousands whilst others struggle to sell in three figures. The classic quote states that everyone has a book in them, but how does one go about getting it published?

To help aspiring writers, Waterstones.com has launched The Waterstone’s Guide to Getting Published. Full of plain, simple advice on everything from the role of an agent to how to approach a publisher, it provides essential tips on alternative routes to the reader via self-publishing and blogging. This is the first activity in The Writer’s Year, a 12-month calendar of events and activities highlighting the role of the author and the special relationship between writers and readers. “We can’t guarantee the Guide will get you a book deal, but it will make the process of trying a lot less scary. Sometimes the difference between getting published can be a matter of just following a few simple rules, so reading our guide could make all the difference,” editor, Greg Eden.

The Guide can be found at www.waterstones.com/writersyear

Some (or many) of your members are ready to market their work to agents, editors, or publishers. They will thank you for introducing them to www.getpublishednow.biz, my unique cyber college dedicated to helping writers get published. I’m a former publisher, Time-Life editor, motivational speaker, teacher at UCLA and five-times published author. During my days on the “other side of the desk” I read thousands of query letters and book proposals. I know what works and what doesn’t. For a limited time, I’m offering FREE query letter evaluations, no kidding, they're free. Please visit my site and take a look-see. If you think the information will benefit your members, please spread the word. Molli Nickell, www.getpublishednow.biz. Helping writers get published since 1998

We are at the point of announcing X-Book, a means by which unpublished FICTION of at least 50,000 words may be submitted for DEMOCRATIC SELECTION by the potential reading public to be fully published, publicised, and distributed at no expense to the author. Authors retain rights throughout, the work is protected, and royalties are paid on votes as well as booksales. Full details will be available on www.x-book.org and enquiries placed before official launch will be replied to directly.

www.amazon.co.uk Amazon online bookstore. Why not write a review on a book you have read recently?

Helium membership is free and includes:

	Recognition for your knowledge and creativity
	An audience of millions of readers
	A rich and supportive community of writers
	Opportunities to compete for freelance assignments
	Feedback from a global audience
	Earnings and publishing possibilities

Join the Helium revolution. Become a member today.

www.helium.com

Share your writing on www.FanStory.com and you will receive detailed feedback for everything you post. Start getting feedback in less than 5 minutes!

In the Telling, an anthology of new writing edited by Gail Ashton and Susan Richardson, seeks poems that tell a story - old and new, real and imagined, fairytales, myths, urban legends, about people, places, artefacts - in fresh ways.
Please email up to 4 previously unpublished poems, maximum 50 lines each, in a single attachment to BOTH editors: gailashton@btinternet.com and
suerichardson@sacredwrites.freeserve.co.uk by 31 March 2008
Follow the guidelines at www.cinnamonpress.com/submissions.htm

Call for submissions

www.allaboutlove.net is looking for the world's great love story. A web-based publishing venture, the site will be launched on Valentine’s Day 2008. It will include the best the world has to offer, with a specialist interest in works with an African flavour. There’ll be place for novels, novellas and short stories. . Nothing will be turned away on the basis of setting or nationality.

The site is calling for romantic fiction of all kinds – Euro- or Afrocentric, straight or gay – and offers generous royalties to writers. They will also revive out of print novels that are gathering dust on writers’ shelves, if rights have reverted. The site will be full of features relating to love and relationships that will encourage interaction and draw potential readers. Send enquiries or submissions to info@allaboutlove.net

Call for scripts

Submitted scripts must be unpublished, under 60 minutes, suitable for a non-theatre space (ie simple sets and limited ‘special effects’) and cannot have already formed part of an advertised tour or theatre season. We aim to showcase the best of the new and exciting talent out there so, whatever your level of experience, send us your script! Application forms and full details about the application process are available to download now at www.247theatrefestival.co.uk

The 24:7 Theatre Festival is operated by 24:7 Theatre Arts Network Ltd, a company limited by guarantee.

Address: PO Box 247, Manchester M60 2ZT Tel / Fax: 0845 408 4101

Write a Pilot
is an opportunity for drama screenwriters to win the chance to have their work produced and screened on Channel 4. Inviting exciting, talented writers to submit a treatment for a six-part drama series, an outline for a pilot episode for that series, and a script for a sample scene from that episode.

12 writers will be selected to take part in a packed weekend of industry workshops and masterclasses. They will then be hot-housed in one of three Scottish independent production companies, where mentoring producers and Channel 4 script editors will help them develop their series idea and complete a first draft script. After eight weeks of paid training, each writer will pitch to a selection panel.

Only one idea from each production team will be selected. These three writers, along with their producers, will hotfoot it down to Channel 4's HQ in London to pitch to 4Talent and the Channel's Commissioning Editor for Drama, Sophie Gardiner. One creative team will head home with a £90,000 commission to produce a pilot episode of their drama series, including a fee for the winning writer to complete a final draft script.

Application details at website www.channel4.com/4talent/pilot/ closing date 23 November.

Brand new publisher website seeking new submissions from poets - go to the website for guidelines: www.poetriclegacy.mysite.com

Poetic Legacy, an online poetry ezine, editor Michael Lee Johnson,author of The Lost American: From Exile to Freedom, is now accepting submissions from writers. I am looking for poetry, free verse and metric (but not contrived form); very small flash fiction, and small non-fiction articles that reflect a sincere cause or issue. Be in our initial issue!
E-mail: poetryoldman@hotmail.com

Tin House's Spring theme issue is "OFF THE GRID."

We're looking for fiction, poetry, and non-fiction by or about people or institutions that function (or don't function) out of the bounds of "normal" society.

Our reading period for unsolicited work is September 1 through May 31 (postmark dates). Any unsolicited submissions received outside this period will be returned unread.
www.tinhouse.com/mag/mag_submit.htm

Brand new Edinburgh-based creative writing magazine. Set up by a quintet of Edinburgh poets, it aims to provide a platform for emerging writers from all over the globe to showcase their work. 'Read This' takes the form of a monthly print magazine and is supported by a website, which can be viewed at www.readthismagazine.co.uk

Dog Versus Sandwich is a regular blog-based webzine publishing stories online. We are dedicated to the fantastic, absurd, surreal, obtuse, bizarre, fandangled, hyperbolic, the experimental, the mental, and also stories in which a dog eats a sandwich (or vice versa). Pay $50 (Australian dollars) for short stories, and $10 for flash fiction or poetry.
http://dogvsandwich.wordpress.com/2007/10/10/submission-guidelines

On The Premises
Aims to promote newer and/or relatively unknown writers who can write what we feel are
creative, compelling stories told in effective, uncluttered, and evocative prose. Entrants pay no fees, and winners receive cash prizes in addition to exposure through publication.

First prize is currently US$130

www.onthepremises.com

The Measure: an email magazine of poetry and prose
http://hometown.aol.co.uk/jumpcatrod/myhomepage/writing.html
Basic principles
1. The magazine will publish poetry, fiction, reviews and essays. It will be sent by email, as an MS Word file attachment with minimal formatting (virus checked), to all subscribers. Anyone wishing to subscribe should notify Rod Riesco by email at measuremag@aol.com.
2. There is no charge to subscribers, and no payment to contributors (except for the pleasure of having their work read by an interested group of subscribers). Contributors will automatically be placed on the list of subscribers.
3. Submissions of up to 3 poems or 1 prose piece at a time may be sent by email to: measuremag@aol.com at any time.
4. Previously published work will be considered, but earlier publication must be fully acknowledged.
5. Writers should submit brief (3 lines) biographical details.
6. Frequency of distribution is expected to be twice per year initially. It may vary depending on the amount of suitable material received.
7. Selection will be according to the personal taste, interests and prejudices of the editor, Rod Riesco.
8. A hard copy version of the magazine, or extracts from it, may be printed subsequently, subject to permission from the contributors concerned.
9. Copyright in work selected for The Measure will remain with the authors; the magazine will acquire single publication rights for the issue in which the work is published.
10. Anyone wishing to terminate their subscription should notify this to measuremag@aol.com at any time.

Vulgata Magazine are looking for well written fiction - specifically works that involve a strong fusion or form and content. Upon publication, we pay a $100 (Canadian) honorarium for first electronic publishing rights and the right to archive your story. We are also looking for poetry that evokes the mysterious, the beautiful, the haunted, the sorrowful, the wonderful. We pay between $20-50 (Canadian) upon publication and ask for the right to archive your poem.
www.vulgatamagazine.org/submissions.html

Exciting New Venture from Leaf Books in collaboration with www.CHnet.com

Mostly Life – The Cybernauts Guide to the Mirthverse It’s still a website. www.mostlylife.com .

For funny things, including writing, animation, video, sound, cartoons, interactive thingies and anything else that comes our way. Winners and runners-up from the Spoof and Humour competition will have the opportunity to have their writing showcased here and even the possibility of a regular column. We are also looking for submissions and found material in the form of writing, animations, videos, music, audio files, cartoons of all sorts, games and interactive material. Please send submissions to stuff@mostlylife.com

Now, the big news here is that the prototype edition should hopefully go live within the next few weeks – it’ll give you a grand idea of what precisely it is that we’re looking for, and the theory is also that it might make you laugh. Quite a lot. So do keep an eye open.

Please do not...

	Send a link to your work. Please select the exact items you wish to submit.
	Submit more than once per issue. This does not increase your chances of getting published. In fact, it may decrease them.
	Write 'Aesthetica Submission' in the subject line. You need to be more specific than that.
	Expect to be published because you have submitted.

Further notes

	It is essential that opinion pieces - reviews, articles, columns, essays, etc. - consist of a well-formulated and well-researched argument. The topic of the piece is entirely up to the writer - they consider opinion pieces in an entirely objective manner.
	Aesthetica is unable to pay contributors for submissions, however a complimentary copy of the magazine will be provided.

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