WRITERS’ NEWS
98 MARCH 2020 http://www.writers-online.co.ukInternational
Archetype, an
international
online journal of
LGBTQ+ poetry,
is accepting
submissions of
poems by LGBTQ+
writers for Issue 7
up to 1 March.
Website: https:/
impossiblearche
type.wordpress.
com/The Guardian
has closed its
Cities section,
which focused
on the urban
environment and
climate change,
when the grant
money that
funded it from
the US non-profit
The Rockefeller
Foundation ended
after six years.After leaving
BBC Radio 4’s
Today programme
in September,
John Humphrys
has joined the
Daily Mail as a
columnist. The
Daily Mail carried
extracts from
his memoir A
Day Like This,
accusing the BBC
of ‘institutional
liberal bias’, two
days after his
departure.Former deputy
leader of the
Labour Party
Tom Watson has
signed a deal with
Sphere to publish
his debut novel –
a political thriller
called The House.‘You can’t be
that kid standing
at the top of
the waterslide,
overthinking it.
You have to go
down the chute.
You have to let
people see what
you wrote. It will
never be perfect,
but perfect is
overrated.’
Comic writer and
actress Tina FeyFLASHES
Get activeHelping new writers reach new heights
GLOBAL NON-FICTION MARKET
GLOBAL LITERARY MARKET
Gary DalkinPDR Lindsay-SalmonHaymarket Books is a leading
US publisher currently open to
unagented submissions of proposals
for books that are ‘accessible to
a wide range of progressive and
radical political activists, while
also being useful to an academic
audience’. They are not considering
fiction, poetry or dissertations.
The editorial team advise that
you browse their catalogue at http://www.
haymarketbooks.org to get an idea
of the sort of books they publish,
but Haymarket authors include
Naomi Klein (No Is Not Enough),
Rebecca Solnit (Hope In the Dark),
Noam Chomsky (Optimism OverDespair) and Arundhati Roy (The
Ministry of Utmost Happiness).
Submit a proposal via the
submissions form at https://
haymarketbooks.submittable.
com/submit/143355/general-
submissions-form. If you have
an agent they can submit your
proposal by email to submissions@
haymarketbooks.org. Unagented
subs sent by email will not be
considered.
Your submission must include:
a cover letter explaining your
proposed topic and its relevance
to Haymarket’s audience; a 1-2
page outline and summary of thebook with one or two sample
chapters; a brief annotated list
of existing literature on your
subject; an estimate of when you
would complete the manuscript
if commissioned, and a list of
any relevant publishing credits,
activism or academic experience in
your chosen subject. Haymarket is
unable to reply to all proposals, but
if they are interested expect to get a
reply in about three months.
Details: Haymarket Books, PO
Box 180165, Chicago, IL 60618,
USA; follow the full guidelines
at http://www.haymarketbooks.org/pg/
submissionsTahoma Literary Review is a well-established literary journal with a reputation for helping
new writers into print. Providing both an online and print journal gives writers a greater
opportunity for publication and the editorial team welcome experimental writing.
For fiction submissions, 1,500 to 10,000 words, the editorial team seek stories
‘which offer imaginative premises, unusual or marginalised characters, and high
stakes... characters driven by lifetimes of experience and complex motivations’. For a
small fee writers may obtain feedback on their work.
For nonfiction submissions, between 1,500 and 6,000 words, the team seek ‘the
stuff you never thought would get published anywhere. Send us the thing you have
to take a deep breath over before submitting or running by your critique group. Be
brave.’ They ‘are always interested in hearing different viewpoints from different
sectors of society, and work in different forms, too: we’ll read lyrical essays;
experimental essays; and narrative nonfiction.’
The team ‘believe in brevity so do submit flash nonfiction, just no ‘book reviews,
academic work, or cultural criticism’. For flash fiction or nonfiction, submit one or two
pieces in a single document. The word limit is 1,500 total.
For poetry submissions, submit up to six poems in a single document. There are no
length restrictions for individual poems, but only one poem may be longer than seven
pages. If a poem is ten pages or longer, please submit it as a single poem in a single
submission. The team like ‘poems that show the deeper side of ordinary,’ with ‘new or
explosive word choice.’ They love passionate poems in their message, and welcome ‘free
verse, works that are formal, prose, or long form poems’.
Submit online. No multiple subs or reprints. Simultaneous subs are accepted
with the usual proviso. Prose submissions must be double-spaced and use standard
manuscript format, as doc or pdf files.
Response time is ‘between one and three months’. Payment is $55 for flash
and short poems, $135 for longer prose and poems (from 1,500 to 6,000 words
for nonfiction; 1,500 to 10,000 words for fiction; over seven pages for poetry)
for first North American serial rights.
Website: https://tahomaliteraryreview.comAn unusual mix
Bourbon Penn likes
the odd and unusual.
It needs ‘highly
imaginative stories
with a healthy
dose of the odd...
Odd characters,
odd experiences,
odd realities,’ but especially odd
characters. Avoid stereotypes; they
want fully rounded 3D characters
who surprise us with their honesty,
complexity, and contradictions.
Stories should be mysterious and
make a reader ‘wonder “what the hell
is going on?” and then deliver on
the tease’. Stories which explore ‘big,
philosophical ideas,’ are welcomed
as well as suspenseful plotting. Give
them a fresh voice and exciting prose.
Submissions are open for genre
and/or speculative stories, 2,000-
7,500 words. Slipstream, cross-genre,
magic realism, absurdist, and surreal
stories are all welcomed. Submit in
a standard publishing format, unless
the story requires an unusual format,
in a doc, docx or rtf file, by email:
[email protected]
Response time is ‘between one and
three months’. Payment is 1¢ per
word for first world English rights.
Website: http://www.bourbonpenn.com