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WRITERS’ NEWS

86 NOVEMBER 2019 http://www.writers-online.co.uk

Sea Breezes

maritime

magazine,

previously edited

by Hamish Ross

who died earlier

this year, accepts

submissions of

articles, letters and

photographs.

Details:

sbenquiries@

seabreezes.com;

website: http://www.

seabreezes.co.im

Rochdale Literature

and Ideas Festival

is 14-21 October,

with appearances

from John Craven,

Milly Johnson and

Sophie Hannah.

Website: http://

rochdaleliterature

festival.co.uk/

Swanage Railway

Magazine is the

members journal

of Swanage

Railway Trust.

Details: email:

membership@

swanagerailway

trust.org.uk;

website: http://www.

swanagerailway

trust.org.uk

BEER magazine is

CAMRA’s quarterly

publication. It

is edited by Tim

Hampson. He

welcomes letters

and feedback.

Details: email:

hampson.tim@

gmail.com;

website: https://

writ.rs/beer

Lorna Cook

won the RNA’s

Joan Hessayon

Award for new

writers with her

debut novel The

Forgotten Village.

Lorna’s prize is

£1,000. She was

selected from a

shortlist of fi fteen

debut romantic

novelists.

‘Let me live, love,

and say it well in

good sentences.’

Sylvia Plath

FLASHES

Outside the mainstream

GLOBAL LITERARY MARKET

PDR Lindsay-Salmon

C&R Press is a US indie publishing ‘new and

emerging writers whose work might otherwise be

ignored by commercial publishers’. It needs fiction,

non-fiction and poetry which will ‘grow readers’

knowledge and imagination, take them into new lives,

and illuminate truths’.

Currently C&R Press is open for submissions of full-

length manuscripts in every category for their 2020 and

2021 catalogues. Novels, poetry, short story collections,

creative nonfiction, memoir, essay, experimental and

hybrid work are all considered. When submitting novels

and memoir include a synopsis. Twice a year the editorial

team ask for submissions of chapbooks. The winter

submission for chapbooks start in December. Present a

fully edited work, in a standard publishing format, with

a brief bio, full contact details and make it a professional

presentation.

Check out the website, published list and guidelines.

The company also runs an annual competition, with

three $1,000 prizes for ‘a poetry book, a novel or short

story collection, and a creative non-fiction or memoir

book.’ Winners and the short list are usually published.

Response time is very slow, ‘6-18 months to respond,

in some cases faster and in some longer’. Rights and

royalties are discussed with the contract.

Website: http://www.crpress.org

A fertile furrow for poets

New launched US independent Histria (a

revival of a former Academic press of the same

name), based in Las Vegas and Palm Beach,

aims to publish a broad range of fiction and

non-fiction.

Main imprints are:

• Addison & Highsmith – adult fiction,
  including historical fiction, science fiction,
  detective novels, as well as some other genres.


• Histria Kids – books for children and
  young adults.


• Gaudium – non-fiction books, particularly
  contemporary lifestyle, culture, US sports
  and politics, biography and autobiography.
  Gaudium books seek to challenge, inspire, or
  offer a unique point of view.


• Vita Histria – academic books on a wide-
  range of subjects.

In the first instance, even for fiction, send

an email enquiry to [email protected]

with a brief biography, a description of your

book and the intended audience. For fiction

only include 1 or 2 sample chapters.

The Acquisitions Manager will review your

enquiry and may request a full proposal, for

which you should be able to supply a complete

manuscript (for fiction) or (for non-fiction) an

outline or proposed table of contents, thoughts

on marketing considerations, comparable and

competing volumes, and for academic works only,

the names and contact details of two or three

people who could potentially review your material.

Details: Histria Books, 7181 North

Hualapai Way, St East, 130-86, Las Vegas,

NV, USA; guidelines at: https://histriabooks.

com/submission-guidelines/

Know your Histria

GLOBAL BOOK MARKET

Gary Dalkin

The 2019 Plough International Poetry Prize is inviting entries.

There is a first prize of £1,000, a second prize of £500 and a third prize of £250. This

year’s judge is Greta Stoddart.

The competition is run annually by The Plough Arts Centre in Devon. The

International Poetry prize is now in its 16th year.

Enter original, unpublished poems up to 40 lines. Poems may be in any style or form.

The entry fee is £5 per poem.

The closing date is 31 January 2020.

Website: http://www.theploughprize.co.uk