WRITERS’ NEWS
104 MARCH 2020 http://www.writers-online.co.ukFLASHES
GLOBAL BOOK MARKET
PDR Lindsay-SalmonA fruitful opportunity
Cherry House Press is a US indie run by authors who
‘understand that journey’, well established as self-published
authors themselves. They publish novels, collections of short
stories and poetry.
It needs submissions of ‘collections of poetry, science
fiction, horror, fantasy, spiritual, new age, inspirational/
motivational and autobiographies’. Novellas and collection
of poems are as welcome as full length novels.
Profits are split 50/50, and Cherry House aim to
promote their authors as widely as possible, with social and
blog posts and an interview on their weekly podcast, while
authors are expected to play a part in editing, book layoutand cover design
Make contact
first by email, with a
synopsis and your first
three chapters as a pdf
or doc file.
Response time is
‘reasonable’. Payment
is 50% of sales.
Details: Cherry House Press, email subs to:
[email protected]; website: https://
cherryhousepress.wordpress.comPrizes are £600,
£300 and £100 in
Ver Poets’ Open
Poetry Competition.
Winning and
selected poems will
be published in an
anthology.
Enter original,
unpublished poems,
up to thirty lines,
by post, sending
two copies of each
poem. The entry
fee is £4, £10 for
three and £3 per
poem thereafter.
The closing date is
30 April. Website:
https://verpoets.
co.uk/poetry-
competitions/A theme park based
on the poetic fairy
tales of Alexander
Pushkin, considered
one of the greatest
Russian writers,
is due to open in
St Petersburg in- It will be
called Lukomorye,
the name of the
imaginary setting of
the fairy tales.
Radio presenter
Sarah Montague,
who presented BBC
Radio 4’s Today
programme with
John Humphreys,
has accepted a
£400,000 settlement
and apology from
the BBC after being
‘treated unequally’
by them for years.Style to be good
must be clear, as is
proved by the fact
that speech which
fails to convey
a plain meaning
will fail to do just
what speech has
to do. It must also
be appropriate,
avoiding both
meanness and
undue elevation;
poetical language is
certainly free from
meanness, but it is
not appropriate to
prose. Clearness is
secured by using the
words (nouns and
verbs alike) that are
current and ordinary.
AristotlePorter House news
Porter House Review is the literary journal of Texas
State University’s MFA programme in Creative
Writing. It is catholic in tastes and celebrates a wide
range of forms and styles.
Submit ‘emotionally affecting, haunting, bizarre,’
fiction, up to 8,000 words, flash, up to 1,000 words,
or in hybrid forms. For flash you can submit up to
three pieces at a time.
Non-fiction, up to 8,000 words, must ‘involve
discovery for the reader and the writer, creating a
dynamic of mutual construction through literary
dialogue. Personal essays, creative nonfiction flash,
memoir, and literary reportage are all welcome’.
Poems should reinvigorate the language of the
everyday and inventive forms and content are
welcome. Submit up to five poems, on separate pages
of a single file.
Response time is ‘slow’. Payment is $25 per accepted
piece for ‘the usual rights’.
Submit through the website:
https://porterhousereview.orgThe 2020 Creative Future Writers Award competition is
open for entries.
The theme of this year’s competition is ‘Tomorrow’.
The Awards are given for writing by unpublished, under-
represented writers in the UK whose opportunities as a
writer are limited for reasons including but not limited
to having physical and/or mental health issues, substance
abuse issues, homelessness, unemployment, age, or coming
from and LGBTQ+ or BMER/Traveller community. All
writers entering the competition are asked to state how
they are under-represented.
Prizes are awarded in poetry and prose categories.
Platinum winners get £75, a Chapter and Verse
mentorship, a TLC manuscript assessment, a Faber
Writing a Novel course or an online masterclass withThe Poetry Society and a consultation with Myriad
Editions (prose) or Out-Spoken Press (poetry). Gold
winners get £50, a TLC manuscript assessment, an
online writing course from Curtis Brown Creative
(prose) or The Poetry School (poetry) and a subscription
to Mslexia. Silver winners get £25, a Free Reads TLC
manuscript assessment via New Writing South and a
copy of Mslexia’s Indie Press Guide.
Writers may enter one piece of work in each category.
Fiction should be up to 2,000 words and poetry not
longer than 42 lines.
Entry is free.
The closing date is 31 May.
Website: http://www.
creativefuture.org.ukThe creative future’s bright
The Outspoken Prize for Poetry 2020 is inviting entries
from UK residents.
Entries are in three categories: poetry on the page (any
style, from traditional to experimental), performance poetry
(audio/video of a live spoken word performance) and
poetry films (not longer than ten minutes, with the poem
either being read by a narrator or featured as subtitles).
Three category winners will be selected, and an overall
Prize for Poetry, worth £700, given to one of the three.
Entrants must be able to attend the award ceremony in
London on 30 April where they will present their poems.
The performance category will be judged as a slam.
To enter, send original, unpublished poems.
The entry fee is £5 per poem.
The closing date is 1 March.
Website: http://www.outspokenldn.comPOETS SPEAK OUT