WRITERS’ NEWS
92 NOVEMBER 2019 http://www.writers-online.co.ukFLASHES
GLOBAL LITERARY MARKET
Gary DalkinOpen submissions for Open Books
Established in 2007, US independent publisher Open
Books publishes high-quality literary, contemporary,
and historical fiction, nonfiction, and narrative poetry.
Paperback editions are distributed internationally and
its writers include winners of the Pushcart Prize, the
Dundee International Literary Prize, the Nautilus Book
Awards and others. Editor-in-chief David Ross wants the
very best of the new generation of authors from around
the world.
Submit literary fiction and intelligent, cutting edge
contemporary fiction in most genres, though not
romance, horror or paranormal titles unless with a
very original or literary spin. For non-fiction, they
especially want political,
social and ecological
subjects; no self-help,
diet books or pseudo
psychology.
For all submissions
include a cover letter with
your contact information,
an author bio and a basic
author marketing strategy.
For fiction submissions,include a one-page synopsis and the first three chapters
of your manuscript. For non-fiction, include a detailed
outline of your project and a sample of your writing.
Alternatively, you can submit a simple one page enquiry
letter. Send all submissions and enquiries to David Ross
by email: [email protected]
Response time is around four weeks.
Website: http://www.open-bks.comPrizes are £1,000,
£300 and £150 in
both categories
of the Magma
2019/2020 Poetry
Competition, for
poems of 11-50
lines, and up to
ten lines. All six
winning poems
will be published
in Magma. Entry
fee, £5, £4 for the
second, £3.50 each
subsequent.
The closing date is
11 January.
Website: https://
magmapoetry.
com/competition/Gavin Hamilton
edits football
monthly World
Soccer. Contact
him with feedback.
Details: email:
World_Soccer@
timeinc.com;
website: http://www.
worldsoccer.comChris McGine
is acting editor
of Canal Boat
magazine. He
welcomes letters,
with prizes for the
star letter writer.
Details: email:
chris.mcgine@
archant.co.uk;
website: http://www.
canalboat.co.ukHay Festival Europa
28 is a project
highlighting the
contribution of
women in Europe.
It’s running a writing
competition to win
a trip for two people
to Hay Festival
Europa 28 in Croatia
in June 2020.
Submit 100-500
words in any form
on what Europe
means to you by 1
February 2020.
Email: europa28@
hayfestival.com;
website: http://www.
hayfestival.com/
europa28/home‘Anybody can make
history. Only a great
man can write it.’
Oscar WildeShort scripts with strong female characters are invited
from playwrights worldwide for the Nightlight
Children’s Play Festival taking place February 2020 in
Chicago, MA.
The Festival is being run by
Ghostlight Ensemble, a theatre company
aiming to ‘challenge the status quo
through timeless stories, immersive
environments and unconventional
staging’.
Scripts should be a maximum fifteen
minutes and appeal to audiences
of under-twelves. Ethically and
culturally diverse scripts not requiringcomplicated sets or costumes will
be given priority.
Submit your script along with
a cover letter containing your
contact information, a short
bio, and a brief synopsis of your
script with, if applicable, a note
of any of its development and
production history.
Email scripts to Maria
Burnham with ‘Nightlight Script Submission’ play
title and your name in the subject line to: scripts@
ghostlightensemble.com
Website: http://www.ghostlightensemble.comHosking Houses Trust, set up by Sarah Hosking to
provide women writers and artists over forty with ‘a
room of their own’ where they can create free from
domestic constraint, welcomes residency applications
from published women writers.
Residencies consist of accommodation at Church
Cottage in Clifford Chambers near Stratford on Avon
for between one week and three months. To apply
for a Hosking House residency, applicants must be
professional women writers over forty in need of a period
of peace in which to work undisturbed. Writers applying
for a residency must have an agreed legal contract for
publication, broadcast, performance or some kind of
public dissemination so that the work will emerge into
the public domain. Most writers who apply to Hosking
House are agented but it is not strictly necessary.Bursaries of up to £1,000
per month are available.
To apply, send a CV and a
written letter detailing your
aims and circumstances.
Hosking House
commissioned the recently
published Canterbury Press
anthology Kiss and Part,
which features stories by ten
writers who have stayed at
Church Cottage, including
Marina Warner, Salley
Vickers, Maggie Gee and Joan
Bakewell.
Website: http://hoskinghouses.co.ukPlays for children
Room to write