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78 NOVEMBER 2019 http://www.writers-online.co.ukPDR Lindsay-SalmonGLOBAL MAGAZINE MARKET
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antique-collecting.
co.ukThe fi rst
community news
reporters on a
Facebook-funded
scheme started
training for their
diplomas with the
National Council
for the Training of
Journalists, Press
Gazette reported.Essex author
Lorna Cook won
the Romantic
Novelists’
Association’s
(RNA) prestigious
Joan Hessayon
Award for new
writers with her
debut novel The
Forgotten Village.The Telegraph
has revamped its
weekly Saturday
lifestyle magazine
with more content
and new regular
sections.Charlotte
Seligman, formerly
head of news and
entertainment at
ITV’s This Morning,
is OK! magazine’s
new editor.‘It’s also great
to see the end
product of all
your hard work,
because there’s
nothing quite
like being sent a
copy of your fi rst
novel and seeing
it and smelling the
pages.’
Chris Berry, who
has written his fi rst
crime thrillerFLASHES
Narrative focus
Narrative is a well-paying zine
open to submissions all year. The
editorial team publish just about
everything, ‘fiction, poetry, and
nonfiction, including stories,
novels, novel excerpts, novellas,
personal essays, humour,
sketches, memoirs, literary
biographies, commentary,
reportage, interviews, and audio
work.’ They prefer ‘features
of interest to readers who
take pleasure in storytelling and imaginative prose.’ and pride
themselves on supporting new talent and encouraging reading
across generations and around the world.
Read what they have in their extensive digital library, which
is what their archives are called, and understand the types of
writing they prefer. Only work ‘of the highest literary calibre’
will be published.
Short-short stories should be two to five pages, 500-2,000 words.
Prose between 2,000-15,000 words may be short stories, essays,
one-act plays, and other complete short works of nonfiction,
as well as excerpts from longer works of fiction and nonfiction.
Novellas and other long works that are less than book length
should be 15,000 to 40,000 words. Submit only the first 15,000
words with a synopsis. When submitting novels for consideration
for serialisation, send the first chapter and a one-page synopsis.
Poetry submissions, no more than five poems, should be
submitted in a single file. The poems should give ‘a strong sense
of...style and range.’ All poetic forms and genres are welcomed but
not translations.
One-act plays should produce as much impact on the page as in
production. Out of print plays are accepted. Length preferred is
under 15,000 words. Narrative outloud audio prose, may be fiction
or nonfiction ‘but should take a storytelling form in mp3 format.’
Narrative outloud audio poetry submissions must be in mp3 format
and both prose and poetry should be no more than ten minutes
long. Narrative outloud video submissions may be short films and
documentaries of up to fifteen minutes. Submissions must be in
mp4 or mov format.
A fee is charged for unsolicited submissions, except during
the first two weeks of April and at other times, which will be
announced on the website. All work submitted is entered into the
annual Narrative Prize,
which has a $4,000 first
prize.
Follow the detailed
guidelines and submit a
doc, docx, rtf, pdf, txt, odf,
mp3, mp4, mov, or flv file.
Response time ‘varies
from four to twelve weeks’.
Payment varies: from $150
for a Story of the Week;
$400 for the annual Top
Five Stories of the Week;
$1,000 for 15,000 word
manuscripts; $50 per poem
and audio piece; $200 for
the annual Top Five Poems
of the Week.
Website: http://www.
narrativemagazine.comOne of the most coveted awards in
science fiction has been rebranded.
Founded in 1973, the John W
Campbell Award for Best New Writer
was named for the editor of the classic
magazine Astounding (now Analog),
considered by many as the most
influential editor in the SF Golden
Age, from the 1930s to the 1950s.
Controversy has continued to grow
around Campbell and his values, coming
to a head in August when Jeannette Ng
won the Campbell Award at the World
Science Fiction Convention in Dublin.
During her acceptance speech, the
Under the Pendulum Sun author said:
‘I was born in Hong Kong. Right now,
in the most cyberpunk in the city in
the world, protesters struggle with the
masked, anonymous stormtroopers of
an autocratic Empire... I’m sorry to
drag this into our fantastical words,
you’ve given me a microphone and this
is what I felt needed saying. John W
Campbell, for whom this award was
named, was a fascist.’
Nine days later Trevor Quachri,
current editor of Analog, posted:
‘Campbell’s provocative editorials
and opinions on race, slavery, and
other matters often reflected positions
that went beyond just the mores
of his time and are today at odds
with modern values, including those
held by the award’s many nominees,
winners, and supporters.’
As Analog celebrates its 90th year,
making it the second oldest science
fiction magazine in the world, the
Campbell Award has now been
renamed the Astounding Award for
Best New Writer.Campbell canned