Writing Magazine April 2020

WRITERS’ NEWS

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

FLASHES

GLOBAL LITERARY MARKET

Head for Southampton

PDR Lindsay-Salmon

The Southampton Review is a US literary journal with a

fine reputation, publishing ‘fiction, non-fiction, plays,

screenplays, poetry, literary cartoons, photography and

art’. Its doors are open to writers worldwide whose work

is compelling.

For fiction submit short stories and novel excerpts, no

more than 7,500 words, and flash fiction is welcome.

For poetry submit up to five poems, any style. For

nonfiction submit memoirs, personal essays, and craft

lectures no more than 7,500 words. For plays and

screenplays submit no more than twenty pages set out to

industry standards. Fine art, photography, illustration,

cartoon are always wanted.

Submit through the website, http://www.

thesouthamptonreview.com

If their monthly quota of 1,000 free submissions

has been reached expect to pay a submission fee of $3.

Submissions are open 1 Feb-1 April and 15 Aug-15 Oct.

Response time is ‘reasonable to slow’. Payment is

$100+ for prose, $75 per poem, $200 for art portfolios

and $100 per page for illustrations plus one copy. Online

contributors receive a one-year subscription, for the usual

first rights.

Sharon Reid, editor

of Yours fortnightly,

needs treasured

photos and the

memories of them,

200-250 words,

for Year Book

2021. Published

memories earn

a £10 high street

voucher.

Details: Yours

Magazine,

Media House,

Peterborough

Business Park,

Peterborough PE2

6AA; email: yours@

bauermedia.co.uk;

website: http://www.

yours.co.uk

A website has been

setup as a portal

for events and

commemorations

celebrating the life

and work of writer

and artist Alasdair

Gray, who died on

29 December, 2019.

The ‘cultural

trailblazer’ and

Lanark author

requested no

memorial service

of any kind.

Glasgow Libraries

are hosting a book

of condolence and

an exhibition of his

work is at Glasgow

Print Studio until 29

March.

Website: http://

thealasdair

grayarchive.org

I feel more and

more that comics

are capable of

dealing even with

the most difficult

of subjects – an

ability that has to

do, I think, with

their relative lack

of words. Unlike

a novel, they can

make full use of

silence. Pain may

be seen in a glance

on the faces of

their characters;

foreboding may be

found in the sky

and the trees.

Rachel Cooke,

The Guardian,

reviewing Tian

Veasna’s Year of

the Rabbit

There is a prize pot totalling £1,050

on offer in the Ware Poets Open

Poetry Competition in addition

to a prize of £150 for the winner

of the Ware Sonnet Prize. You

have until 30 April to submit

original unpublished poetry of a

maximum fifty lines on any subject.

Submissions should not have been

placed in any other competition, or

be under consideration or accepted

elsewhere.

Submit poems, max fifty lines,

on separate pages without any

other form of author identification.

Include that information on your

entry form or a separate sheet. If

entering for the Ware Sonnet Prize

include an ‘S’ in the top right hand

corner of your work.

The entry fee is £4, £12 for four,

£3 each subsequent, in the same

submission (cheques to Ware Poets

Competition). Include an additional

amount of £4 if you would like

a copy of Ware Competition

Anthology 2020 with the eventual

winning and shortlisted poems.

Include SAE(s) marked ‘Receipt’

and/or ‘Results’ if you would like to

be notified of these.

Details: The Competition

Secretary, Ware Poets Competition,

21 Trinity Road, Ware SO12 7DB;

website: http://www.poetrypf.co.uk/

comps/ware20.pdf

Ware it’s at

The Aesthetica Creative

Writing Award is open

for entries.

The competition,

now in its fourtenth

year, supports the

work of emerging and

established writers of prose and poetry. There is a £1,000

prize in both categories. The winners and a further sixty

highly commended writers are published in the Aesthetica

Creative Writing Anthology. The poetry winner receives a

year’s membership of The Poetry Society and the prose

winner gets a consultation with Redhammer Management.

Winners also receive a selection of titles from Vintage and

Bloodaxe Books and a year’s subscription to Granta.

Enter poetry up to forty lines and prose fiction up to

2,000 words.

The entry fee is £12 per poem and £18 per short story.

The closing date is 31 August.

Website: http://www.aestheticamagazine.com/creative-

writing-award/

Be seen at your best

Gateway for magical realism

The Gateway Review: a

Journal of Magical Realism is

a literary journal publishing

‘the best contemporary

magical realism, surrealism,

and new fabulism writing’,

including poetry and non-

fiction about writing the genre.

Submissions are open, 15 Jan-15 March, then 15 Aug-

15 Oct, for ‘work which will blend the magical and the

real in some way to lead to some truth about the human

condition, all while being attentive to the possibilities of

the English language.’

Submit stories, 1,000-4,000 words, non-rhyming

poems, up to forty lines, non-fiction, under 1,000 words,

on the craft or importance of magic realism, or reviews.

Response time is one month. Payment is one copy, plus

an ‘Editor’s Choice’ award of $15 for first North American

serial rights.

Website: https://gatewayreview.wordpress.com