WRITERS’ NEWS
86 APRIL 2020 http://www.writers-online.co.ukWoman’s Weekly
women’s magazine
lifestyle director
Geoffrey Palmer
invites reader input.
His remit includes
recipes, craft
makes, puzzles and
books.
Details: 161 Marsh
Wall, London
E14 9AP; tel: 020
3148 500; email:
WomansWeekly
PostBag@
ti-media.com;
website: http://www.
womansweekly.
comYouWriteOn,
the manuscript
development
community led
by Bloomsbury
and Orion, which
offered critiques
from publishers
themselves for
the highest rated
stories, has closed.
The website, http://www.
youwriteon.com,
remains online as
an archive.Kitty Flanagan has
won the inaugural
$5,000 Booktopia
Favourite Australian
Book award, for
her book 488 Rules
for Life. The award,
which replaces
Booktopia’s annual
Australia’s Favourite
Author poll, was
determined by an
online public vote.
Kitty beat Rachael
Johns’ Just One
Wish and the young
adult edition of
Heather Morris’s
The Tattooist of
Auschwitz. She
sold 99,500 copies
between October
and December 2019.‘I frequently don’t
fi nish books. I used
to feel obliged, but
now I think life is
too short. If they
haven’t grabbed
me by page 100
they are off the
pile. I feel it’s mean
to name them,
though.’
Jojo MoyesFLASHES
Take a trip back in timeGLOBAL HISTORY MARKET
Jenny RocheBased in North America and published six times a year, History Magazine aims to publish
articles that are more interesting than academic. ‘We prefer that our articles be wrapped
around a particular phenomenon, achievement or occasion... we like it when an item or
custom that’s now part of our lives is taken and the story of how it came to be is told.’
Articles should not be first person narratives and should generally be focused on an era
between the fall of the Roman Empire and the end of the 1950s. Check out the website
for examples of articles used.
At the moment the magazine is only accepting queries so rather than submitting a
completed piece email a brief descriptive proposal of your idea along with a proposed
word count of a preferred 2,000 words. There is also a preference for the inclusion of
suggested section headings and a list of reading recommendations. A research sources list
is not required but it is suggested you keep hold of such a list in case it is later requested.
You may include as many images as you think necessary so long as these are copyright free
or you have written permission from the copyright holder to use them.
Payment rates for first world and electronic rights is 8¢ per word and $7 for any image
which is used. Writers from America and Canada are paid in their own currency and
writers from other countries may be paid in their currency by negotiation.
Send your query with ‘History Magazine Query’ in the subject line to: edward@
moorshead.com
Website: http://www.history-magazine.com/anotes.htmlCHRONIC
CONDITIONS
The Barbellion Prize is a literary new prize dedicated to
work that furthers ill and disabled voices in writing will
be awarded in 2021
The awarded work may be in any genre: fiction,
memoir, biography, poetry, critical non-fiction. It may
be traditionally or self-published. It is named in honour
of the diarist WNP Barbellion, who wrote about living
with multiple sclerosis before his death in 1919, and
will be awarded for an author’s presentation of life with
a long-term chronic illness or disability. Authors who
are not ill may enter works that articulate life with
illness but authors who suffer from illness or disability
will take priority in the expression of their experience
and selection for the prize. The prize money is £600.
Entered works should be published this year. The
closing date is 31 October.
Website: http://www.thebarbellionprize.comPOEMS IN PRINT
The Rialto Open Pamphlet Competition 2020 is
inviting entries.
Enter 18-24 pages of original poetry. Individual poems
may have been published in magazines and anthologies
but not in a pamphlet or collection.
The winner’s poetry pamphlet will be published by
The Rialto and they will be given a launch event andup to £200 in travel expenses. The winner and three
runners up will have a poem published in The Rialto,
and the shortlisted poets will have a poem published
online. The competition judge is poet Will Harris.
Entry is £24 per pamphlet.
The closing date is 15 May.
Website: http://www.therialto.co.ukThe Rialto Nature and Place Poetry Competition 2020 is
open for entries.
There is a £1,000 first prize in the contest for poems
that deal with any aspect of nature.
Poetry journal The Rialto works with the RSPB, Birdlife
International and the Cambridge Conservation Initiative
to present its prize for poems that explore nature.
There is a first prize of £1,000, a second prize of £500
and a third prize of £250. There is an additional prize of a
personal tour of East Anglia with celebrated nature writer
Mark Cocker. The judge is Pascale Petit.
Enter original, unpublished poems up to 40 lines.
The entry fee for the first poem is £7, and £4 for
subsequent poems. Up to six poems may be entered in
one batch.
The closing date is 1 May 2020.
Website: http://www.therialto.co.ukNature poets take flight