WRITERS’ NEWS
84 NOVEMBER 2019 http://www.writers-online.co.ukAward-winning
poet Emily Berry
is the editor
of The Poetry
Society’s quarterly
magazine The
Poetry Review.
Submissions
of unpublished
poems are
welcome. Send a
maximum of six
for consideration.
Details: email:
poetryreview@
poetrysociety.
org.uk; https://
writ.rs/
thepoetryreviewPoole Poetry
Collective meets
on the first and
third Wednesdays
each month at
the Scout Hall,
Hermitage Road,
Parkstone, at
7.30pm. It’s
open to anyone
interested in
reading, writing
and learning
about poetry.
Website: http://www.
facebook.com/
poolepoetry
collectiveHerne Bay Little
Theatre (amateur)
is hoping to
set up a radio
play recording
club, and is
interested to hear
from writers of
original radio
scripts. Writers
would have their
scripts recorded.
Interested writers,
should contact
info@hernebay
littletheatre.co.ukLucy Kissick has
won the inaugural
Writers & Artists
Working Class
Writers Prize for
her debut novel,
Plutoshine. Lucy is
a PhD student of
Earth Sciences at
Oxford university.‘You can always
edit a bad page.
You can’t edit a
blank page.’
Jodi PicoultFLASHES
Submit to the dark side
GLOBAL HORROR MARKET
Jenny Roche
You are invited to ‘experiment or
deviate from the ordinary... to
fallout of regular categories’ when
writing horror or dark fiction for
The Dark monthly online magazine
which pays Can6¢ a word for
original fiction and 1¢ for reprint
fiction.
Graphic, violent horror is
not wanted for this magazine
and neither are simultaneous or
multiple submissions. Reprints will
be considered if they have beenpublished in the past two years in
an established print magazine, short
story collection or anthology.
Stories should be 2,000-6,000
words, emailed as an attached doc
or rtf document along with a cover
letter which includes a biographical
note. Unless there has been a surge
in submissions you should gain
a response in 24 hours. Email:
[email protected]
Website:
http://thedarkmagazine.com/Playwrights of any age, anywhere
in the world are invited to submit
original comedy scripts of up to
ten minutes length for the 2020
Snowdance 10 Minute Comedy
Festival.
The plays will be performed by
Over Our Heads Players theatre company for five weeks from 31 January 2020 at
the Sixth Street Theatre, Wisconsin. Audiences will vote for their favourites, with
cash prizes for ‘best in show’.
Submissions must be unpublished and free of royalty and copyright restrictions
and not be a musical, adaptation or translation. Your play should have a cast of
1-5 characters, be easily staged and have simple set requirements. It is emphasised
that this is a comedy festival so laughs are perhaps essential.
The closing date for submissions is 1 November.
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://overourheadplayers.org/snowdance-submissions.htmlTen minute comedy plays
Turn blue
An audio journal that specialises
in ‘strange fiction’, Breakroom
Stories aims to ‘evoke the eerie
familiarity between wakefulness
and dream... a forum for odd
or untraditional voices... a
home for stories that make
readers shiver and shake’.
If you are up for the
challenge of writing for this
journal then you may do this
through original fiction, poetry
or drama. Although there are no
word limit restrictions there is
a preference for pieces that can
be read aloud in 15-20 minutes.
Both previously published work
and simultaneous submissions
will be considered although
any story depicting child-aged
characters being harmed will not
be considered. Payment is $10
for one time publication rights.
Submit your work as a doc,
docx, txt, rtf or odt file using
the Submittable link on the
website. You should not send a
audio recording of your piece as
editorial staff will work with you
to develop the best recording
strategy for your story.
The journal will also consider
visual artwork, music and video
footage for use with the stories
recorded. If interested make an
enquiry via the contact page on
the website with artwork, music
or video submission in the
subject line.
Website: http://www.
thebreakroomstories.comTruth Serum Press is inviting submissions of poetry
for Indigomania.
For this project Truth Serum Press is inviting
poems that somehow encompass ‘blue’. The
expression ‘indigomania’ was coined to describe the
Impressionist painters’ obsession with the colour blue.
Submit poems between 70 and 500 words that somehow mention, include or
encompass ‘blue’ and its variants. International submissions are welcomed.
Submissions for the Indigomania project are open until 30 November.
Truth Serum Press is an Australian independent publisher.
Website: https://truthserumpress.net/Listen to
this one
Spice up
your writing
To win mentoring for fiction or
poetry in the Cinnamon Pencil
Mentoring Competition, enter
either ten poems up to fifty lines
each, or two short stories, or the
first 10,000 words of a novel,
plus a synopsis and personal
statement.
The winner will receive a free
place on the Cinnamon Pencil
Mentoring Service and two
runners up will each be offered
50% bursaries.
International entrants are
welcomed.
The entry fee is £12.
The closing date is 30 October.
Website: http://www.
cinnamonpress.com