Writing Magazine April 2020

WRITERS’ NEWS

78 APRIL 2020 http://www.writers-online.co.uk

Jenny Roche

GLOBAL LITERARY MARKET

Win $50 for a

short spec fi c story

between 500 and

5,000 words in

Pressfuls Horror and

Fantasy Short Story

Competition. Entry is

free and the closing

date is 31 March.

Website: https://

writ.rs/pressfuls

The Sun newspaper

has taken on

fi fteen trainees

after launching

a programme

in November to

improve its diversity

and fi nd journalists

‘from all walks of

life.’ Five of the

new trainees have

no journalism

experience. Six

are from a BAME

background. Nine

are women.

The National

Archives’ exhibition

With Love: Letters

of Love Loss and

Longing, which

launched on

Valentine’s Day and

runs until 5 July,

includes letters

and documents

relating to love,

including Edward

Vlll’s abdication

document, the

will of Anne Lister,

leaving her estate

to her partner Ann

Walker, and a letter

from Dudley, Earl

of Leicester, to

Elizabeth l where he

writes ‘I humbly kiss

your foot.’

Never grow up. I

don’t mean don’t

become an adult

with responsibility

and the weight of

the world on your

shoulders. I simply

mean if you’re

writing or directing

give yourself enough

time to play. Play the

fool. Goad. Shock.

Laugh. Trip over

something that isn’t

there. Try something.

And never be afraid

to fail. That failure is

useful too. It’s just

another building

block.

Ricky Gervais

FLASHES

Paying more than pennies

Based in California, the

quarterly Threepenny Review

accepts submissions of poetry,

articles, stories and memoir

online or by post and pays $400

per story or article and $200 per

poem or Table Talk item.

Critical articles may be about

books, films, theatre performances,

art exhibitions etc and there is a

formatting guide on the website.

The articles should be in the form

of an essay which is ‘broader than

the specific event it covers and of

interest to people who cannot see

the event,’ which does leave the

field open to essays on international

events. For an idea of articles and

other published content selective

pieces can be read online.

Word limits are 1,200-2,500 words for critical articles, 4,000

words for stories and memoir, 1,000 words for Table Talk pieces

and 100 lines for poetry. All submissions must be doc files and

while poetry may be single or double spaced, everything else

should be double spaced.

Simultaneous submissions and work that has been published

elsewhere is not wanted.

Submit one article, story or memoir only, and group a

maximum of five poems into a single document. Include

your name and contact details on both your work and the

submission form. It is requested you do not submit any further

pieces until you have gained a response, which may take two

days to two months.

If submitting by post include a SAE for a reply and post to:

The Editors, The Threepenny Review, PO Box 9131, CA

94709, USA

For full details and online submission form see the website:

http://www.threepennyreview.com/submissions.html

After Dinner Conversation is a fascinating concept. The

editorial team provide a short story, with accompanying

audio and video podcast discussions, with the aim of

stimulating ‘deeper discussions with friends and family’.

They like work across genres. Each story must be ‘an

accessible example of an abstract ethical or philosophical

idea and is accompanied by suggested discussion questions.’

Read the guidelines carefully as this team want a

specific type of writing and they give three examples to

read at the website. They want thoughtful, well-written,

stories. Fantasy, biography, western, horror, erotica are

all welcome, as long as the story fits their requirements.

They do accept children’s stories but read their example

first. The team accept writing of any genre, and from

any perspective, but it should be interesting as a short

story, with ‘a deeper point for a longer discussion’.

Lengths required are: children’s stories, under 1,500

words, YA, under 3,500 words, and adult stories,

1,500-10,000 but note that shorter stories – 5,000

words and under – are preferred.

Reprints and simultaneous submissions are

accepted but ‘no more than three submissions per

six months’. Submit well edited work in a standard

publishing format, saved as a PDF file, by email: info@

afterdinnerconversation.com

Responses have a ‘two-month backlog’. Payment is 1¢

per word (max $50).

Website: http://www.afterdinnerconversation.com

Stories to make a meal of

One More Chapter launched in 2019 as a

new digital-first division of HarperCollins

that combines HC’s digital imprints Harper

Impulse, Killer reads and Avon under one

banner.

One More Chapter’s mission is to publish

the best commercial fiction and be able to

respond quickly to trends in the market.

Submissions of original, unpublished

commercial fiction are welcomed by the team,

which has Kimberley Young as publisher and

Charlotte Ledger as editorial director.

Details: email: onemorechapter@

harpercollins.co.uk; website: http://www.

harpercollins.co.uk

Jenny Roche

GLOBAL LITERARY MARKET

Paying more than pennies

Jenny Roche

UK FICTION MARKET

A new chapter for

HarperColllins

Poets get ready to emerge

Win €1,000 for the best poem written for children

in the The Caterpillar Poetry Prize 2020.

The international poetry competition from

Irish story and poem magazine for children The

Caterpillar is for a single unpublished poem for

children aged 7-11.

This year’s competition will be judged by

Roger McGough. The winner will receive €1,000

and be published in the summer edition of The

Caterpillar.

Poems may be of any length and on any subject.

The entry fee is €14 per poem.

The closing date is 31 March.

Website: http://www.thecaterpillarmagazine.com