Legend: (W)
The Writer; (IDLM&SP) Int’l Directory
of Little Magazines & Small Presses;
(N&SSWM) Novel &
Short Story Writer’s Market; (SPR) Small Press Review;
(P&W)
Poets & Writers
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The Writer
The Funny Times,
c/o the Editors, PO Box 18530,
Cleveland Heights, OH 44118. Phone: 216/371-8600; Email:
info@funnytimes.com.
Website: www.funnytimes.com.
Published monthly.
Subscription: $25/yr.
See website for guidelines.
Features funny stories on anything
relating to the general human condition: politics, news,
relationships, food, technology, pets, work, death,
environmental issues, religion, etc.
Articles should be 500-700 words.
Also uses cartoons.
Submit hard copy.
Queries not necessary.
Unsolicited mss. okay.
Purchases FNAR; pays $60 for
articles and $25-$40 for cartoons, on publication.
Response time: several months. (W)
Great Western
Fiction. See
guidelines at:
www.greatwesternfiction.com
Editor's
note: Great Western Fiction has folded since this issue of
Calliope was published.
Isotope,
(a Journal of Literary Nature and
Science Writing), Department of English, Utah State University,
3200 Old Main Hill, Logan, UT 84322.
Phone: 435/797-3697.
Contact: Leslie Brown—
email:
lbrown@cc.usu.edu.
Website:
http://isotope.usu.edu.
Published biannually.
Subscription: $10/yr.
Sample copy: $5.
Interested in lyric and short
narrative essays, short stories, microfiction, prose poems,
poetry and artwork on the complex relationship between human and
non-human worlds.
Uses fiction to 20 pgs; non-fiction
articles to 20 pgs; poetry—1-5 poems, to 10 pgs. Columns and departments: Voice and Portfolio.
Reading period: July 1 and October
15.
Queries not necessary.
Send hard copy only.
Pays $100/piece for fiction and
nonfiction; $50/poem.
Pays cash, copies and a subscription for FNAR.
Response time: 3-6 months. ((IDLM&SP)
Oyez Review,
Dept. of Literature and
Languages, Roosevelt University, 430 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago,
IL 60605-1394.
Attn: Janet Wondra.
Website:
www.roosevelt.edu/oyezreview.
Sample copy: $5.
Published annually by the student staff of the Creative
Writing Program.
Seeks poems,
short fiction, and creative nonfiction.
No simultaneous submissions.
Reading period: August 1-October 1.
Send SASE with submission.
Pays 2 copies upon publication.
Responds within two months
(P&W)
Byline,
PO Box 111, Albion, NY 14111.
Phone: 585/355-8172.
Email:
robbi@bylinemag.com.
Website:
www.bylinemag.com.
Monthly publication for writers.
Subscription: $29/yr.
Accepts fiction (genre, literary,
humor and mainstream) to 2,000 words.
Nonfiction articles on craft and business of writing.
Poetry to 30 lines.
And pieces for columns and departments: End
Piece—humorous or motivational, to 550 words; First Sale—250
words; Great American Bookstores—to 500 words; Only When I
Laugh—writing-related humor from 50-400 words.
Queries preferred for feature
articles only email okay).
Include practical information that can help writers
succeed.
Submit hard copy.
Pays $25 for fiction; $75 for
articles; $10 for poetry; $15-40 for columns/departments, on
publication for FNAR.
Response time: 12-14 weeks.
Highlights for Children,
803 Church St.,
Honesdale, PA 18431.
Website:
www. highlights.com.
A general interest monthly magazine for children ages
3-12.
Uses fiction to 500 words for
beginning readers; to 800 words for readers ages 8-12.
Nonfiction articles to 500 words
for beginning readers; to 800 words for ages 8-12.
Subjects may include people, science, history, sports,
culture and more.
Include sources and photos or
art-reference material with mss.
Seldom buys verse or stories in
rhyme.
Queries not necessary. Submit mss.
with SASE for reply.
Pays on acceptance.
No info on rights purchased (may be
All Rights), or
response time.
**Other
children’s magazine listings can be found on the Society of
Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators website:
www.scbwi.org.
C O N T E S T S
Danahy Fiction Prize,
Tampa Review, 401 West Kennedy Blvd., Tampa, FL 33606. Website:
http://tampareview.ut.edu/tr_prize.html#danahy.
$1,000
prize and
publication in Tampa Review for an unpublished work of short
fiction, 500-5,000 words.
$15 entry fee
includes one-year subscription.
All entries considered for
publication.
Deadline: postmark
November 1, 2008. (P&W).
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Gribble Press Nonfiction Chapbook
Contest;
Iris Gribble-Neal, Gribble Press, PO Box 10307, Spokane, WA
99209-0307. Full guidelines at:
www.greymaredit.com.
Winner receives
$250 and 25 copies of artist-designed, hand-stitched chapbook.
Send 20-30 pgs plus $15 reading
fee, postmarked by October 31, 2008, to above address. (P&W).
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Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling
Scholarship,
Choate, Hall & Stewart, 2 International Pl., Boston, MA 02110.
Website:
http://www.amylowell.com.
$50,000to
travel abroad for a year.
Entry fee:
none
Deadline: October
15
Open to published or unpublished
poets of American birth.
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The Briarcliff Review Contest,
3303 Rebecca St., Sioux City, IA 51104.
Website:
http://www.briarcliff.edu/bcreview.
$1,000 and
publication.
Submit stories in short stories,
creative nonfiction, or poetry categories.
Deadline: Nov.
1
Entry Fee: $20
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The Tampa Review Prize for Poetry.
University of Tampa Press, 401 W. Kennedy Blvd., Tampa, FL
33606. Website:
http://www.tampareview.ut.edu.
$2,000 and
publication
Entry Fee: $25
Deadline:
December 31
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Robert Olen Butler Short Fiction
Prize, 1½ Oakwood
Ct., Tuscaloosa, AL 35401. Website:
http://www.delsolpress.org.
$1,200 and
publication in a Del Sol Press anthology.
Entry fee: $16
Deadline: Nov.
1
Submit published or unpublished
short stories of 2,000 – 8,000 words.
(TW)