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  • SLS-Kenya Unified Literary Fiction and Poetry Contest

    Deadline: 15 February 2011

    Summer Literary Seminars is announcing its annual Unified (Kenya, Montreal and Lithuania) Literary Contest, held this year in affiliation with The Walrus Magazine. We are thrilled this year to have Jayne Anne Phillips judging the fiction, and Matthew Zapruder judging the poetry.

    Contest winners in the categories of fiction and poetry will have their work prominently featured online in Canada's premiere literary magazine, The Walrus, as well as published in print in a participating literary journal in the United States (TBA). Additionally, they will have the choice of attending (airfare, tuition, and housing included) any one of the SLS 2011 programs – in Montreal, Quebec (June 12 - 25); Vilnius, Lithuania (August); or Nairobi-Lamu, Kenya (December).

    Second-place winners will receive a full tuition waiver for the program of their choice, and third-place winners will receive a 50% tuition discount.

    A number of select contest participants, based on the overall strength of their work, will be offered tuition scholarships, as well, applicable to the SLS 2011 programs. Read the full guidelines below.

    Fiction Judge: Jayne Anne Phillips was born in Buckhannon, West Virginia. She is the author of four novels, Lark and Termite (2008), MotherKind (2000), Shelter (1994) and Machine Dreams (1984), and two collections of widely anthologized stories, Fast Lanes (1987) and Black Tickets (1979). Her novel Lark and Termite was a finalist for the 2009 National Book Award for fiction. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, and a Bunting Fellowship. She has been awarded the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction (1980) and an Academy Award in Literature (1997) by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her work has been translated into twelve languages, and has appeared in Granta, Harper’s, DoubleTake, and The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Fiction. She is currently Professor of English and Director of the MFA Program at Rutgers-Newark, the State University of New Jersey.

    Poetry Judge: Matthew Zapruder's third book of poems Come On All You Ghosts, is out from Copper Canyon in Fall 2010. He is also co-translator from Romanian, along with historian Radu Ioanid, of Secret Weapon: Selected Late Poems of Eugen Jebeleanu. He has received a William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, a May Sarton Award from the Academy of American Arts and Sciences, and a Lannan Literary Fellowship. His poems, essays and translations have appeared in many publications, including Open City, Bomb, Slate, American Poetry Review, Poetry, Tin House, Harvard Review, Paris Review, The New Republic, The Boston Review, The New Yorker, McSweeney's, The Believer and The Los Angeles Times. In Fall 2010 he will be the Holloway Lecturer at the University of California at Berkeley. An editor for Wave Books and a member of the permanent faculty in the low residency MFA program at UC Riverside-Palm Desert, he lives in San Francisco.

    Guidelines:

    • One short story or novel excerpt, maximum twenty-five (25) pages per entry.
    • No more than three (3) poems per entry.
    • Only previously unpublished work can be submitted.
    • Include your complete contact information (address, telephone, email address) on the manuscript. Entries are not judged blind.
    • All entrants will be notified of the winners in the spring by email.
    • Cover letters are not required.
    • Previous First-Place winners may not re-enter.
    • Online entries are preferred, but hard copies are allowed (information below).
    • Deadline: February 15, 2011
    TO ENTER

    Entries can be submitted electronically, to: sls.contest@gmail.com

    Please state whether you are submitting poetry or fiction in the subject line (e.g. SLS Fiction/Poetry Contest)

    NOTE: Please do not send payments to the above email address – we request that if you pay online you use the Paypal button found in the site.

    Entries can be submitted by mail to:

    Summer Literary Seminars International
    Unified Literary Contest (Indicate fiction or poetry)
    English Department
    Concordia University
    1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W.
    Montreal, Quebec H3G 1M8 Canada

    PAYMENT

    A $20 USD reading fee must accompany each entry. Multiple entries are permissible, as long as they are accompanied by separate reading fees.

    Fees can paid paid online, via Paypal, or to the address above, by cheque.
    Click this button to pay the $20 (USD) Contest Fee.

    NOTE: Online submissions and payments are much preferred, but if you would rather submit the hard copy and pay by cheque, please use the above address.

    These are the complete contest guidelines.

    Do not hesitate to contact SLS with any questions, by e-mail: sls@sumlitsem.org, or mike@sumlitsem.org – or by telephone: (514) 848-2424x4632.

  • Ghanaian Writers Invited to Submit to Short Story Contest

    Deadline: 15 September 2010

    All Ghanaian writers are invited to submit a short story to our first ever competition. With an entry fee of GHC 0.00 or US$0.00 or GBP 0.00, if you’ve had a story lying around gathering dust, you can’t afford to miss this opportunity to win US$100.00 if you come in First Place!!!

    YES, THE AUTHOR OF THE WINNING STORY GETS $100!!!!

    Official Fiction Short Story Contest Rules:

    This contest is open to Ghanaians living in Ghana or overseas. We expect a Ghanaian angle in the story either in the setting or in the characterization. Short fiction story must be 2500 words max. (Based on a typical MS Word page, this should amount to 4-5 pages, double space, 12 pt, Times Roman). Please do not submit stories for children. All entries must be in English (duh!)

    All short fiction contest entries will be accepted between Aug 1, 2010 to Sept 15th, 2010….and we mean it. Not Sept 16th, not a week after but on SEPT 15TH. We will not open any email after this date. Entry fee is FREE!!!! You may enter the short fiction contest with only one story. All work must be original, unpublished, and the sole property of the person submitting. First place short fiction story will be published on this website and depending on the total number of entries; a number of honorable mentions will appear on this site. The shortlisted authors will be notified by 20th September 2010 and the winner announced on the 24th September 2010. The winner will be notified by email prior to publication. Please notify us if your short fiction contest entry is no longer eligible for publication. Decision of the judges is final and to allow them to do an uninhibited job, we cannot divulge the names of the judges until the contest is over. However, be assured that those reading your manuscripts love books and have some experience with the business of publishing! How to Enter?

    Send your short fiction contest entry (Word or RTF attachment) to ghanawrites@yahoo.com In the Subject line of your email, be sure to put the Author Last name (you) and the Title of your short fiction contest submission. Please do not put your name anywhere on the actual manuscript; this will allow us to conduct a blind assessment. The only identifier on your manuscript should be your title.

  • Now Open to Submissions: Orange Prize 2011 for Women Writers

    Works of fiction written in English by a woman of any age or nationality and published as a book in the UK are eligible.

    Deadline:
    15 October 2010

    The Orange Prize for Fiction

    The Orange Prize for Fiction celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in women’s writing from throughout the world. The winner receives a cheque for £30,000 and a limited edition bronze known as a ‘Bessie’, created and donated by the artist Grizel Niven. Both are anonymously endowed.

    The Orange Award for New Writers

    Launched in 2005 as part of the 10th anniversary celebrations for the Orange Prize for Fiction, the emphasis of the Orange Award for New Writers is on emerging talent and the evidence of future potential.

    All first works of fiction - including novels, short story collections and novellas, written in English by a woman of any age or nationality and published as a book in the UK - are eligible. First time authors can be entered for both the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Orange Award for New Writers in any one year.

    Deadline for lists of books to be entered: 15 October 2010

    Books published between 1 April 2010 and 31 March 2011 are eligible. Firstly please submit a list of the three books you intend to enter, plus any titles by previous shortlisted or winning authors, by 15 October 2010.

    Closing date for entries

    The final closing date for entries is 29 November 2010.

    Download full terms and conditions

    If you have any queries regarding entry or eligibility, please contact

    Sarah Jones
    orange arrowsarah.jones@booktrust.org.uk
    020 8516 2960
    Orange Award for New Writers

    The Orange Award for New Writers was launched in partnership with the Arts Council in 2005 to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the Orange Prize for Fiction. Since 2005 a bursary of £10,000 has been awarded to six authors to assist them in the development of their careers. Orange and the Arts Council are immensely proud of the achievements of the award and the success of the winning writers.

    Orange has now announced new plans for the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction which will focus on promoting the books across a wider range of digital platforms. As part of these plans, Orange confirmed it will be able to support a greater number of first time writers in a year long campaign, which will replace the current Orange Award for New Writers.

  • Call for Submissions from Writers of Color: Mythium Lit Mag

    Call for Submissions from Writers of Color: Mythium Lit Mag

    Our goal is to spotlight colored writers of various ethnic and cultural backgrounds in the fields of poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction; professionally published or seldom seen; international or from around-the-way; writers who 'bask in the glow' or 'lay under rocks' - if you fall under any of these categories, then we are here to let you represent yourself!

    Guidelines:

    • Submissions accepted year round, but know that reading periods are generally closed from 2 to 3 months following submission deadlines.

    • Manuscripts must be typed or printed in proper format on white paper, in English, one side only, double-spaced for prose. Cover letters should be brief.

    • Fiction and creative nonfiction manuscripts must be limited to 5,000 words. Novel and memoir excerpts are acceptable.

    • Poetry submissions will be limited to up to five poems, twenty pages total.

    • Simultaneous submissions are acceptable. Please notify us immediately if something has been accepted elsewhere.

    • Entrants may submit only one submission per category until you have been notified of acceptance or non-acceptance of submitted material.

    • Please note genre of your submission in the cover letter (fiction, poetry or CNF).

    • Please include a SASE for results. Manuscripts will be recycled and will not be returned.

    • Payment is in 1 copy of the issue in which the author's work appears.

    NOTICE

    Submissions are accepted all year round; acceptance deliberations may take 2-4 months. Please send inquiries by way of email if you have questions or concerns.

    Submissions should be sent appropriately via snail mail to:

    ATTN: Poetry Editor
    or ATTN: Fiction/CNF Editor
    Mythium Literary Journal
    1428 N. Forbes Rd
    Lexington, Ky 40511

    ONLY ATTACHED WORD PROCESSING FILES (DOC/TXT/WORD/PAGES/etc.,) WILL BE ACCEPTED! Please, Do not send manuscripts or poems in the body of your email! Poets, please send each individual poem as its own digital file!!! No single file attachments with multiple submissions!

    Mail all electronic poetry submissions to poetry@mythiumlitmag.com

    Mail all electronic fiction/creative non-fiction submissions to fiction@mythiumlitmag.com

    Direct all other questions/non-submissions to editor@mythiumlitmag.com

  • 81 SciFi/ Fantasy Markets that Pay at least $50 per Story

    Assumption: For journals/ magazines paying on a per-word basis, we assumed that a story had 2,000 words on the average. Rates were converted to US$.

    Sites are ranked based on the rates, from highest-paying to lowest-paying market. To visit the site/ see the complete guidelines, please click on the magazine/ journal title.

    1. Tor.com - pays $0.25 per word

    2. Cosmos Magazine - pays a flat rate of $500

    3. Odyssey - pays $.20 per word

    4. Heritage Tales - pays a flat rate of $250

    5. Heliotrope - pays $0.1 per word

    6. Clarkesworld Magazine - pays $0.1 per word

    7. Futurismic - pays a flat rate of $200

    8. Twelfth Planet Novella Series - pays a flat rate of $180

    9. Daily Science Fiction - pays $0.08 per word

    10. Alfred Hitchcock's - pays $0.08 per word

    11. Wrong World - pays $0.075 per word

    12. Futures - pays a flat rate of $130

    13. Realms of Fantasy - pays $0.06 per word

    14. Jim Baen's Universe - pays $0.06 per word

    15. Asimov's Science Fiction - pays $0.06 per word

    16. Grantville Gazette - pays $0.06 per word

    17. Intergalactic Medicine Show - pays $0.06 per word

    18. Analog Science Fiction and Fact - pays $0.06 per word

    19. F & SF - pays $0.06 per word

    20. AE: The Canadian Science Fiction Review - pays $0.059 per word

    21. The Night Land - pays $0.055 per word

    22. Fantasy Magazine - pays $0.05 per word

    23. Universe Annex - pays $0.05 per word

    24. Doorways Magazine - pays $0.05 per word

    25. Redstone Science Fiction - pays $0.05 per word

    26. Nature Futures - pays $0.05 per word

    27. Lightspeed Magazine - pays $0.05 per word

    28. Bull Spec - pays $0.05 per word

    29. Dark Discoveries - pays $0.05 per word

    30. Apex Magazine - pays $0.05 per word

    31. Shock Totem - pays $0.05 per word

    32. vMeme21 - pays $0.05 per word

    33. Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine - pays $0.05 per word

    34. Beneath Ceaseless Skies - pays $0.05 per word

    35. On Spec - pays $0.05 per word

    36. Illusion Presents: Transmitter - pays $0.05 per word

    37. Cemetery Dance - pays $0.05 per word

    38. Wee Ones - pays $0.05 per word

    39. Lenox Avenue - pays $0.05 per word

    40. Dark Cloud Press - pays $0.05 per word

    41. Strange Horizons - pays $0.05 per word

    42. GigaNotoSaurus - pays a flat rate of $100

    43. Heroic Fantasy Quarterly - pays a flat rate of $100

    44. Pseudopod - pays a flat rate of $100

    45. Vulgata - pays a flat rate of $100

    46. Podcastle - pays a flat rate of $100

    47. Tetragon Science Fiction - pays a flat rate of $100

    48. Ennea - pays $0.047 per word

    49. Twelfth Planet Novelette Doubles - pays a flat rate of $90.97

    50. New Ceres Magazine - pays $0.04 per word

    51. Enchanted Conversation, The - pays $0.04 per word

    52. Onirismes - pays a flat rate of $78.56

    53. Abyss & Apex - pays a flat rate of $75

    54. Parabola - pays a flat rate of $75

    55. The Internet Review of Science Fiction - pays a flat rate of $70

    56. Basement Stories - pays $0.03 per word

    57. Damnation Books - pays $0.03 per word

    58. Brain Harvest - pays $0.03 per word

    59. Untied Shoelaces of the Mind - pays $0.03 per word

    60. Vestal Review - pays $0.03 per word

    61. Weird Tales - pays $0.03 per word

    62. Ideomancer - pays $0.03 per word

    63. Spacesuits and Sixguns - pays $0.03 per word

    64. Trabuco Road - pays $0.03 per word

    65. GUD Magazine - pays $0.03 per word

    66. Aberrant Dreams - pays $0.03 per word

    67. Black Gate - pays $0.03 per word

    68. Carnifex Press - pays $0.03 per word

    69. Panverse - pays a flat rate of $60

    70. Big Ole Face Full of Monster - pays $0.025 per word

    71. Icarus - pays a flat rate of $50

    72. Nil Desperandum - pays a flat rate of $50

    73. Flash Fiction Online - pays a flat rate of $50

    74. Wily Writers - pays a flat rate of $50

    75. Hotel Guignol - pays a flat rate of $50

    76. Hub Magazine - pays a flat rate of $50

    77. Edge of Propinquity, The - pays a flat rate of $50

    78. I Love Cats - pays a flat rate of $50

    79. AlienQ - pays a flat rate of $50

    80. TQR Total Quality Reading - pays a flat rate of $50

    81. Chrysalis Reader - pays a flat rate of $50

  • Calling all Young Writers of Color: Submit for the Young Writers Issue of Sable LitMag

    Deadline: 31 October 2010

    Young Writers issue of Sable LitMag.

    We invite young writers of colour from all over the world to submit work from all genres and styles, for our Young Writers issue of Sable, including Fiction, poetry, memoir and essays written by writers between the ages of 16-25.

    The editor for this issue is Warsan Shire, a 22 year old writer and poet based in London. Her poetry has been translated into Italian and Somali. She has performed internationally in North America, South Africa and all over Europe. Her first collection Teaching mother how to give birth is soon to be published with Flipped Eye. Her work will appear in the forthcoming Black British edition of Wasafiri magazine.

    Deadline for submissions - 31st October 2010.

    SABLE SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

    • Must include a short bio (maximum of 150 words)/ high res photograph.
    • Work submitted must be attached in the email and not in the body of the email.
    • ALL work must be labelled clearly with your full name and the title of work.
    • Work must not exceed the word limit.
    • All work must be in this format or will not be accepted
    • Times new roman font
    • size 12 font
    • double spaced
    • one side of A4 paper
    • Your full name must be on each page of your work (Header or footer)

    Fiction

    Short stories, extracts from a novel or flash fiction.
    Other styles within fiction also welcome.
    Length- 2500 words

    Poetry

    Send up to 15 poems (no more than 15 pages)
    Any style, any length
    Poetry must be 1 1/2 inch spaced

    In Translation

    All veteran and budding translators or writers who produce work in their native language and in English, (fiction or poetry) should send translations and other information including a brief write up on author and translator. For translators, what qualities attracted you to the work? We will give ten pages to each writer featured to publish some of their best pieces along with a photo, biography and any other images that illustrate their work. A sample of your work will also appear on the SABLE website in the future. In Translation submissions should follow the same guidelines for poetry and prose in both their chosen languages of submission and in English.

    Memoirs

    Memoirs of home, family, or country. Childhood memories, coming of age, change of life. Complete pieces or excerpts. Stimulating, exciting, informative, experimental. Any or all of these are welcome within your piece. Length: 3000 words.

    Travel Narratives

    There are no boundaries in terms of place or style. Complete pieces or excerpts. Stimulating, exciting, informative, experimental. Any or all of these are welcome within your piece. Length: 3000 words

    Essays

    We are looking for contributions on historical or contemporary aspects of literature or culture. The work should reflect original thought of work by writers of colour. It can be a piece of deconstruction, post-structuralism, post-modernism, feminism, post-colonialism (or a combination of these and other theoretical frameworks). Length: 3,000 words.

    Expressions

    Expressions is our opinion section - a debatable literary or cultural issue that you wish to voice. As Sable is diasporic in nature, your piece has a better chance of being accepted if it reflects this, or if it is educational and informative of a particular culture or community that a global readership will find instructive and illuminating. Length: 1000 words (flexible).

    Classic Review

    What's in a classic? We're seeking submissions of literary reviews for this review essay section of classic reviews. If you've read a body of work by a non-Western writer that moved you, we are interested in receiving a piece on it. Sable Classic Reviews are opinionated, critical, and to the point. More casual than scholarly, they cite text and summarise plot to convey a sense of the author's purpose and the impact of the work itself. Poetry, fiction and Non-fiction are all
    acceptable. Please make your piece as concise as it is expressive. For completed pieces, we need you to supply titles of books featured, their ISBN's and publisher details. Length : 1000-1500 words.

    Note: Please email if you would like to present something new and exciting within the context of literature and poetry, if you are a photographer or artist who also writes, we welcome your work in the form of comic strips, anime, photo journalism ect.

    All submissions and queries should be sent by email to sableten@gmail.com by 31st October.

  • New Book: Emerging Arab Voices (Saqi Books)

    New Book: Emerging Arab Voices (Saqi Books)

    "This is a well chosen collection of some of the best Arab writers I've come across, with a broad spectrum of themes, well chosen and beautifully rendered into English."—Raja Shehadeh, author of Palestinian Walks

    In November 2009, the International Prize for Arabic Fiction organized a workshop for eight critically acclaimed writers from Egypt, Sudan, Tunisia, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and the United Arab Emirates.

    This bilingual volume brings together the pieces produced during this workshop, showcasing the creativity of a younger generation of Arab writers. A range of styles and themes are explored: from Egyptian social realism to a tale from the deserts of Darfur, a grim Tunisian allegory, family drama in Saudi Arabia, and a story about home and exile in Sana’a.

    Includes a foreword co-written by Inaam Kachachi, an Iraqi born writer whose debut novel The American Granddaughter was shortlisted for the 2008–2009 International Prize for Arabic Fiction, and the Lebanese author Jabbour Douaihy, whose novel June Rain was shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2007–2008.

    About the Editors

    Peter Clark: Peter Clark is a Middle East specialist, a Trustee of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction and a contributing editor of Banipal. He has translated fiction, history, drama and poetry from Arabic since 1980.

    Inaam Karachi: Inaam Kachachi was born in Baghdad in 1952. Her debut novel, 'The American Granddaughter', was shortlisted for the 2008–2009 International Prize for Arabic Fiction.

    Jabbour Douaihy: Jabbour Douaihy was born in 1949 in Lebanon. He is the author of a collection of short stories and two novels. Douaihy’s 'June Rain' was shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2007–2008.

  • VONA 2011 Workshops for Writers of Color (University of California)

    VONA 2011 Workshops for Writers of Color (University of California)

    Deadline: 18 April 2011

    The Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation at the University of California-Berkeley invites applications from unpublished as well as published writers-of-color--anyone dreaming of writing as a serious pursuit.

    The Voices Workshop is a special gathering of writers who spend 1 week working with authors s of color. This workshop honors the literary traditions of heritage and culture and promotes the styles, voices, forms and concerns of writers-of-color and their connections to the literary world. All workshops are intimate gatherings of writers who take their writing seriously and are looking for an experience that will nurture them as writers; heighten their awareness of writing as a political, social and literary tool; and provide a community that supports each writer as they explore issues that require a profound sense of trust and professionalism.

    The Workshops for 2011

    This year, we offer workshops for everyone in: Poetry, Fiction Writing, Memoir, and Political Content in Story, Memoir and Poetry

    For workshop descriptions, go here

    Workshops for Alums in: Fiction, The Poetry Collection, Memoir.

    We also offer two Residencies which are directed to writers who are interested in a one-on-one mentorship and concentrated writing time. The week is spent with the master writer who guides them through rewrites and toward a greater awareness of the writing process and their identities as writers.

    When applying, specify the workshops you'd like to attend in order of preference. The workshops are limited to ten writers chosen on the quality of their work, their commitment to and their enthusiasm for the direction of the Voices mission.

    All participants are encouraged to consider staying on campus in the housing facilities to deepen their experience of exchange.

    Deadline: April 18, 2011

    To be considered for admission to the Voices Writing Workshops please submit the following:

    Poetry: 5 - 10 poems (not to exceed 20 pages)

    Fiction Writing: up to 20 pages of short fiction

    Memoir: up to 20 pages of a non-fiction narrative

    Residency: up to 15 pages of a non-fiction, novel, short fiction or 5-10 poems (not to exceed 20 pages)

    Political Content : up to 15 pages of any genre

    Building a Poetry Collection: Up to 30 pages of poetry

    All applicants should email their application manuscript (as an attachment) to apply apply@voicesatvona.org with your name and the workshop name in the title of the document. (please use .doc or .pdf) and include a page number as the footer.

    For example: Abinaderalummemoir.doc

    Completed Application: Please provide contact information, history, experience, vital statistics and personal essay in response to the questions, including information on scholarships

    The application deadline is April 18, 2011--only completed applications are eligible for review--please contact us regarding late applications.
    When you are accepted

    Participants are notified of their acceptance by May 6 and have ten days to confirm their attendance.

    Send a Deposit of $100.00 within ten days of notification. (Accepted participants will receive an invoice via email.)

    Manuscripts to be used in the workshop will be uploaded to the virtual classroom site by May 23, 2011.

    All fees are due by May 31, 2011.

    Indicate if you will be in residence in campus housing, on application, so we may reserve a spot for you.

    Scholarship recipients will be notified of their award amount and balance due. All fees are due by May 31, 2011 and will be made through PayPal.

  • Sable Lit Mag Invites Writers of Color to Submit Works

    Sable Lit Mag Invites Writers of Color to Submit Works

    Deadline: 30 September 2010

    Young Writers issue of Sable LitMag

    Sable invites young writers of colour from all over the world to submit work from all genres and styles, for our Young Writers issue of Sable, including fiction, poetry, memoir and essays written by writers between the ages of 16-25.

    The editor for this issue is Warsan Shire, a 22 year old writer and poet based in London. Her poetry has been translated into Italian and Somali. She has performed internationally in North America, South Africa and all over Europe. Her first collection Teaching mother how to give birth is soon to be published with Flipped Eye. Her work will appear in the forthcoming Black British edition of Wasafiri magazine.

    Deadline for submissions - 30th September 2010.

    SABLE SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

    • Must include a short bio (maximum of 150 words)/ high res photograph.
    • Work submitted must be attached in the email and not in the body of the email.
    • ALL work must be labelled clearly with your full name and the title of work.
    • Work must not exceed the word limit.
    • All work must be in this format or will not be accepted
    • Times new roman font
    • size 12 font
    • double spaced
    • one side of A4 paper
    • Your full name must be on each page of your work (Header or footer)

    Fiction
    Short stories, extracts from a novel or flash fiction.
    Other styles within fiction also welcome.
    Length- 2500 words

    Poetry
    Send up to 15 poems (no more than 15 pages)
    Any style, any length
    Poetry must be 1 1/2 inch spaced

    In Translation
    All veteran and budding translators or writers who produce work in their native language and in English, (fiction or poetry) should send translations and other information including a brief write up on author and translator. For translators, what qualities attracted you to the work? We will give ten pages to each writer featured to publish some of their best pieces along with a photo, biography and any other images that illustrate their work. A sample of your work will also appear on the SABLE website in the future. In Translation submissions should follow the same guidelines for poetry and prose in both their chosen languages of submission and in English.

    Memoirs
    Memoirs of home, family, or country. Childhood memories, coming of age, change of life. Complete pieces or excerpts. Stimulating, exciting, informative, experimental. Any or all of these are welcome within your piece.
    Length: 3000 words.

    Travel Narratives
    There are no boundaries in terms of place or style. Complete pieces or excerpts. Stimulating, exciting, informative, experimental. Any or all of these are welcome within your piece
    Length: 3000 words

    Essays
    They are looking for contributions on historical or contemporary aspects of literature or culture. The work should reflect original thought of work by writers of colour. It can be a piece of deconstruction, post-structuralism, post-modernism, feminism, post-colonialism (or a combination of these and other theoretical frameworks).
    Length: 3,000 words

    Expressions
    Expressions is our opinion section - a debatable literary or cultural issue that you wish to voice. As Sable is diasporic in nature, your piece has a better chance of being accepted if it reflects this, or if it is educational and informative of a particular culture or community that a global readership will find instructive and illuminating. Length: 1000 words (flexible)

    Classic Review
    What's in a classic? We're seeking submissions of literary reviews for this review essay section of classic reviews. If you've read a body of work by a non-Western writer that moved you, we are interested in receiving a piece on it. Sable Classic Reviews are opinionated, critical, and to the point. More casual than scholarly, they cite text and summarise plot to convey a sense of the author's purpose and the impact of the work itself. Poetry, fiction and Non-fiction are all acceptable. Please make your piece as concise as it is expressive. For completed pieces, we need you to supply titles of books featured, their ISBN's and publisher details.
    Length : 1000-1500 words

    Note: Please email if you would like to present something new and exciting within the context of literature and poetry, if you are a photographer or artist who also writes, we welcome your work in the form of comic strips, anime, photo journalism etc.

    All Submissions and queries should be sent by email to sableten@gmail.com by 30th September. Any work sent in later than this date will not be accepted.

  • The Black Caucus ALA Literary Award for Books Written by African-American Authors

    Deadline: 17 December 2010

    The Literary Awards Committee of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA) is now accepting submissions for the annual BCALA Literary Awards. The Committee will present three prizes of $500.00 each for adult books written by African American authors: a First Novelist Award, a Fiction Award and a Nonfiction Award. The First Novelist Award is given to recognize an outstanding work by a first time African American fiction writer. Honor Book citations are also awarded in fiction and nonfiction without any accompanying monetary remuneration. Additionally, an Outstanding Contribution to Publishing citation is provided to an author and/or publishing company for unique books that offer a positive depiction of African Americans.

    First presented at the Second National Conference of African American Librarians in 1994, the BCALA Literary Awards acknowledge outstanding works of fiction and nonfiction for adult audiences by African American authors. Recipients of this award offer outstanding depictions of the cultural, historical or sociopolitical aspects of the Black Diaspora and embody the highest quality of writing style and research methodology, if applicable. Enclosed is a copy of the BCALA Literary Awards Criteria.

    Books from small, large and specialty publishers are welcome for review consideration. Titles forwarded for review must be published between January 2010 and December 2010. Sets or multi-volume works are eligible. New editions of previously published works are eligible only if more than 30% of the total content is new or revised material. Inspirational and self-help books are ineligible.

    Please send one copy of each title submitted to each member of the Literary Awards Committee as soon as possible after receiving this letter. I have enclosed a list of the members of the Committee and their addresses. Supply all available information regarding the submission, including promotional material, author biography and available news articles and reviews. Only finished, published books should be submitted; galleys (bound or unbound) are unacceptable.

    The final submission date to each juror is December 17, 2010. Decisions will be made during the American Library Association’s Midwinter Meeting in San Diego, CA in January 2011.The awards will be presented in New Orleans, LA during ALA’s Annual Conference in June, 2011. Publishers and authors will be advised of the Literary Award Committee’s decision in advance of the conference.

    If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at (919) 560-0114 (email: jwhite@durhamcountync.gov.

    BCALA Literary Awards Criteria

    The Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA) presents three (3) $500.00 awards: one for adult fiction, one for nonfiction and one for a first novelist. These awards acknowledge outstanding achievement in the presentation of the cultural, historical and sociopolitical aspects of the Black Diaspora.

    The Fiction Award recognizes depictions of sensitive and authentic personal experience either within the framework of contemporary literary standards and themes or which explore innovative literary formats.

    The Nonfiction Award honors cultural, historical, political, or social criticism or academic and/or professional research which significantly advances the body of knowledge currently associated with the people and the legacy of the Black Diaspora. (Categories could include the humanities, science and technology, social and behavioral sciences and reference).

    The First Novelist Award acknowledges outstanding achievement in writing and storytelling by a first time fiction writer.

    The Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation recognizes the author and/or the publishing company (for their support and publication of) special and unique books that recognize the outstanding achievements and positive depiction of contributions of the people and legacy of the Black Diaspora.

    Purpose: To encourage the artistic expression of the African American experience via literature and scholarly research including biographical, historical and social history treatments by African Americans.

    Criteria:

    1. Must portray some aspect of the African American experience past, present or future.

    2. Must be written by an African American.

    3. Must be published in the United States in the year preceding presentation of the award.

    4. Must be an original work.

    Joel W. White, Chair
    BCALA Literary Awards Committee
    Email: jwhite@durhamcountync.gov
    Voice: (919) 560-0114 Fax: (919) 560-0137

  • Submission Guidelines (poetry, fiction, non-fiction) for Third World Press: Progressive Black Publishing

    Thank you for your interest in publishing with third world press. Third world press is an African-centered publishing house dedicated to the creation and dissemination of written work of the highest quality.

    A progressive publisher of black and African-centered material for more than forty years, our goal is to be the best provider of material to expand the mind and reach to all backgrounds especially the African American community, and other African communities in the diaspora. Third world press promotes maximum effect of creative expression and cultural enlightenment in all the written genres, including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, young adult and children's books which other wise may not have an outlet.

    POETRY

    Third world press has published poetry works from noted writers including Gwendolyn brooks, sterling plump, Haki R. Madhubuti, and Amiri Baraka. We value and support the talents of poets who wish to contribute to the literary world and showcase their poetics.

    Third world press welcomes the opportunity to review both solicited and unsolicited poetry manuscripts that explore African-centered life and thought. When submitting poetry manuscripts for consideration, please adhere to the following guidelines.

    Poetry manuscripts must be:

    - at least fifty pages to be considered
    - typed and double-spaced
    - do not include more than one poem on a page
    - proofread for typographical and grammatical errors unless otherwise noted
    - send only copies of any related artwork, photographs or layout boards. Keep all originals.
    - send only copies of any other manuscripts-related materials. Keep all originals.

    Please include the following material with the submitted manuscript:

    - the subject of the manuscript, in a one-page synopsis form.
    - reasons why you, the author, are best qualified to write a book and why it needs to be published (what unmet needs in the literary market the book meets.)
    - identify competition for your prospective book, and how your manuscript differs from those already existing.
    - an identified market, and at least a preliminary outline of how your manuscript can be marketed to this segment.

    FICTION

    Third world press welcomes submissions of quality and commercial fiction focusing on African American themes by published and first-time authors. In submitting a fiction manuscript for consideration, your proposal should include:

    - a one page query letter
    - single spaced
    - include
    - contact information
    - genre (mainstream, paranormal, historical, thriller, young adult, children\'s, etc.)
    - working title and length of manuscript (100,000 actual word count maximum)
    - status (complete or incomplete)
    - 1-2 paragraph blurb about plot of book
    - 1-2 paragraphs about the author and marketing the book
    - please remember that we are a publisher of black and african-centered materials, thus your characters should reflect that.
    - a synopsis (8 pages max)
    - double spaced
    - written in present tense
    - detail the manuscript\'s main plot from beginning to end
    - a copy of the first 2 chapters (30 pages max)
    - double spaced - courier new or times new roman 12pts
    - sample chapters will not be returned.
    - requested full manuscripts are returned if proper postage is included.
    - a self-addressed stamped envelope (size 10) for our response.
    - a self-addressed stamped acknowledgement postcard (optional).
    - this card will be returned to you once your proposal has been received
    - a copy of these guidelines

    NON FICTION

    Manuscripts must be:

    - typed and double spaced
    - proofread for typographical errors and grammatical errors
    - complete, including accurate bibliographical references, if applicable

    When sending manuscripts:

    - send copies of original work, artwork, photographs, layout boards, or other manuscript-related materials. Keep all originals.
    Include the following supporting documents:
    - a synopsis (8 pages max)
    - double spaced
    - written in present tense
    - chapter-by-chapter detail of the manuscript's main focus/plot from beginning to end
    - complete table of contents
    - a copy of the first 2 chapters (30 pages max)
    - double spaced
    - courier new or times new roman 12pts
    - sample chapters will not be returned.
    - SASE #10 envelope for manuscript status response.

    Mail all pertinent documents to:

    Assistant to the Publisher
    Third World Press
    P.o. Box 19730
    Chicago, il. 60619

    We only accept submissions during the month of July.

    Failure to adhere to the submission guidelines will result in the immediate elimination of your manuscript.

    Please remember the following:

    - manuscripts submitted for review will not be returned.
    - once your manuscript has been mailed, allow anywhere from four to six months for a written response. We will not accept telephone calls regarding the status or review of a manuscript.
    - please include SASE #10 envelope for manuscript status response.

  • Tu Books: Publisher of Speculative Fiction Books Featuring People of Color

    Submission Guidelines

    TU BOOKS, an imprint of LEE & LOW BOOKS, publishes speculative fiction for children and young adults featuring diverse characters and settings. Our focus is on well-told, exciting, adventurous fantasy, science fiction, and mystery novels featuring people of color set in worlds inspired by non-Western folklore or culture.

    We are looking specifically for stories for both middle grade (ages 8-12) and young adult (ages 12-18) readers. (We are not looking for picture books, chapter books, or short stories at this time. Please do not send submissions in these formats.)

    Manuscript Submissions:

    * Manuscripts should be typed doubled-spaced.
    * Manuscripts should be accompanied by a cover letter that includes a brief biography of the author, including publishing history. The letter should also state if the manuscript is a simultaneous or an exclusive submission.
    * Please include a synopsis and first three chapters of the novel. Do not send the complete manuscript.
    * We're looking for middle grade (ages 8-12) and young adult (ages 12 and up) books. We are not looking for chapter books (ages 6 to 9) at this time.
    * Be sure to include full contact information on the cover letter and first page of the manuscript. Page numbers and your last name/title of the book should appear on subsequent pages.

    Only submissions sent through regular post will be considered. We cannot accept submissions through email or fax.

    We will respond to a submission only if we are interested in the manuscript. We are not able to return manuscripts or give a personal response to each submission, so please do not include a self-addressed stamped envelope or a delivery confirmation postcard, or call or email about the status of your submission. If you do not hear from us within six months, you may assume that your work does not fit our needs.

    PLEASE SEND ALL SUBMISSIONS TO: Submissions Editor, Tu Books, 95 Madison Avenue, Suite 1205, New York, NY 10016. If you require confirmation of delivery, please send the submission with a U.S. Postal Service Return Receipt.

    Resources for Writers:

    For examples of the kinds of novels we're looking for, check out this list of multicultural science fiction and fantasy novels. Note that there is a gamut of historical, contemporary, futuristic, alternate-world, and other kinds of speculative fiction.

    For writers who are writing from a perspective not their own, see Nisi Shawl's excellent article on the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America site about Transracial Writing for the Sincere. )

    For guidance on word counts and other requirements for middle grade and young adult novels, check out Harold Underdown's The Purple Crayon and SCBWI.org, which should lead you to more information. Also keep an eye on the LEE & LOW blog and Tu Editorial Director Stacy Whitman's blog, and the Web sites and blogs we link to, because these experts have great advice for writers.

  • South African Literary Awards (SALA) 2011

    South African Literary Awards (SALA) 2011

    Deadline: 30 June 2011

    Now in its sixth year of existence, the South African Literary Awards will open for the 2011 Call for Submissions on the 8th April and close on the 30th June 2011. Both fiction and non-fiction writers are invited to submit their work for these prestigious accolades. SALA has become one of the major literary awards in South Africa, having honoured over 90 South African authors. The recipients include Prof. Keorapetse Kgositsile, who was crowned the National Poet Laureate, succeeding the late Professor Mazisi Kunene. Others are Miriam Tlali, Professor Lewis Nkosi, Nontando Helen Jabavu, Phyllis Naidoo, Andre Brink, Chris van Wyk, Modikwe Dikobe, Maureen Isaacson, Victor Dlamini, Dr. Wally Serote and many more.

    Founded by the wRite Associates, in partnership with the national Department of Arts and Culture, supported by the National Arts Council, Sowetan Aggrey-Klaaste Nation Building Projects, The SABC and Nutrend Publishers, the main aim of the South African Literary Awards is to celebrate literary excellence in the depiction and sharing of South Africa’s histories, value systems, philosophies and arts as inscribed and preserved in all the languages of South Africa, particularly the official languages. The Awards aim to become the most prestigious and respected literary accolades in South African literature.

    Since its inception in 2005, these literary awards have grown in leaps and bounds. To date, the awards boast 8 categories:

    1. National Poet Laureate Prize

    2. Lifetime Achievement Literary Award

    3. Posthumous Literary Award

    4. Nadine Gordimer Short Story Award (for writing in African Languages in the RSA)

    5. k. Sello Duiker Memorial Award

    6. Literary Translators Award

    7. Literary Journalism Award

    8. First-time Published Author Award

    9. Poetry Award

    10. Chairperson’s Award

    “We are very excited about the extension of the Awards criteria to include non-fiction work. Selections are made from published authors whose primary input is in imaginative writing - fiction as well as creative non-fiction, i.e. biographies/ autobiographies, letters, speeches and memoirs. This will go a long way in acknowledging and honouring writers in the non-fiction space who were hitherto not accommodated in SALA”, said Morakabe Raks Seakhoa, the SALA Project Director and Managing Director of the wRite associates.

    Submission can be posted to PO Box 4488, Randburg, 2125 or delivered at 74 Mimosa Road, Randpark Ridge, 2165.

    Download 2011 nomination form >>

    Contact Information:

    For inquiries: info@sala.org.za, or call 011 791 3585 or 011 791 4102

    For submissions: PO Box 4488, Randburg, 2125; or delivered at 74 Mimosa Road, Randpark Ridge, 2165

    Website: http://www.sala.org.za/

  • Kensington Publishing Open to African-American Fiction

    Deadline: open

    Editorial Staff—Kensington and Citadel:

    Selena James, Executive Editor, Dafina Books (African-American fiction and nonfiction, including inspirational, young adult, romance, and pop culture). sjames@kensingtonbooks.com

    Mercedes Fernandez, Assistant Editor, Dafina Books (African-American and multicultural fiction, including young adult, romance and inspirational). mfernandez@kensingtonbooks.com

    Submission Guidelines

    For fiction, send cover letter, first three chapters, and synopsis (no more than five pages). Note that we do not publish science fiction or fantasy.

    We do not publish poetry.

    For non-fiction, send cover letter/query, including the author’s qualifications and connections relevant to the book’s content and marketing, and summary or outline of book’s content.

    All submissions should be double-spaced, paginated, cleanly printed and readable. Do not bind pages together.

    If you need material returned, you must enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope large enough to hold the submission. If we may recycle your pages, you can receive a response by enclosing a letter-size, stamped, self-addressed envelope. MATERIAL WITHOUT RETURN POSTAGE WILL BE DISCARDED.

    You may QUERY ONLY by e-mail. Do not attach manuscripts or proposals to e-mail queries. An editor will respond if he or she is interested in seeing your material based on your query.

    SUBMIT TO ONE EDITOR ONLY. From the list of editors and their areas of interest, determine which editor would be best suited to or most interested in the type of book you are proposing. Address the submission to that editor’s attention.

  • Call for Submissions: Best New Queer African Fiction

    Deadline: 31 December 2010

    We received 30 submissions and have shortlisted 10 beautiful queer African stories. But we want more diversity, so we’re opening up the call again. We’re looking for stories by and about women, black African women in particular. Get writing! Get writers in your networks writing! Distribute the call! Extended call: Best new queer African short fiction

    We respectfully invite African writers to submit a piece of short fiction on a queer African theme for consideration for our anthology.

    Let the African imagination take us beyond the limits of what facts can do.

    The anthology’s host is Gay and Lesbian Memory in Action (GALA), the pioneering, highly regarded South African gay and lesbian archives, based at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

    GALA’s primary work is to collect and present documentary evidence of the queer African experience. Accurate records play a crucial role in social justice for any marginalized group. But what about the role of the imagination?

    Recent human rights violations against queer people in Zimbabwe, Malawi and Uganda represent a failure of the imagination. The arts can provide an antidote or at least an alternative to violent and repressive responses to diversity. GALA intends the anthology to show that there are many ways of being African and to encourage queer artistic expression and appreciation. Queer arts have often been the vanguard of progressive and transgressive culture, opening up or protecting space for freedom of expression for everyone. GALA anticipates that the anthology will challenge and contribute to mainstream discourses on both African artistic production and African sexuality.

    Literary merit and an insightful response to the complexities of African queerness will guide the selection. By publishing world class writers (new and established), the anthology will be pushing open the doors for queer writing and talent. Writers need not identify as queer, but they do need to identify as African. The stories will be selected and edited by Makhosazana Xaba and Karen Martin.

    GALA has a fine publishing record. It has been producing well-received books since 2005, and its recent Black Bull, Ancestors and Me, was granted honour status by the 2010 Stonewall Book Awards. GALA has secured publishing interest in the anthology, which will be distributed across Africa and internationally.

    We would be honoured to consider your unpublished short fiction of between 1,000 and 5,000 words.

    Please send it to queerafricanfiction@gmail.com by 31 December 2010. Provide a covering page with the title of the story, your first name and surname, your email address and a contact telephone number, and a bio of not more than 100 words. All submissions will be acknowledged. The selection will be made by 30 March 2011. With writers’ permissions, all submissions will be archived by GALA and will be accessible to the archives’ many local and international users.

    The call has been widely distributed and the project will be featured in the media, but please spread the word along your own networks.

    For more information email queerafricanfiction@gmail.com. Or find us on Facebook at Best new queer African fiction.

    Makhosazana Xaba has published two books of poetry: these hands (Timbila, 2005) and Tongues of their Mothers (UKZN Press, 2008). Her short stories, essays and poetry have appeared in many anthologies. She regularly writes profiles of women artists, poets, playwrights, film makers and writers for the South African Labour Bulletin and is writing a biography of Noni Jabavu. Her four children’s books for the foundation and intermediate phases were published by Nutrend Publishers. In 2005 she won the Deon Hofmeyr Award for Creative Writing for her then unpublished short story, Running. She holds a Diploma in Journalism (with distinction) from the Werner Lamberz International Institute of Journalism and an MA in Writing (with distinction) from the University of the Witwatersrand.

    Karen Martin is an emerging, recently published writer of short fiction. She is a professional editor and copy editor. She has initiated and developed several projects for Gay and Lesbian Memory in Action, including Balancing Act, a book and exhibition of South African LGBTI youth life stories, and Til the Time of Trial, a booklet featuring the prison letters of LGBTI and HIV/AIDS activist Simon Nkoli. She is the co-editor of Sex and Politics, a collection of essays, memoirs and archival documents about the South African LGBTI rights movement and the anti-apartheid struggle. She is a member of the GALA board of trustees.

  • Call for Submissions for the December 2010 Issue of The Criterion

    Deadline: 1 November 2010

    The Criterion: An International Journal in English, ISSN (0976-8165) invites academic articles, poetry, short fiction, book reviews, interviews with author or critic for its forthcoming issue, Vol. I, Issue. III ( December 2010) Deadline: 1st November 2010. send your submission/s to Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Vishwanath Bite to his E-mail: vishwanathbite@gmail.com. for more details visit Submission page of The Criterion.

    Submission

    We accept only electronic submissions via e-mail as attached documents (Microsoft word only). Authors are requested to enclose their full Bio-data on a separate sheet and should not forget to provide information regarding contact details with their e-mail address.

    Format of the articles

    Authors are requested to follow the MLA style strictly while preparing the articles. Authors are also requested to include the following in the format of their articles:

    1. Full Title with subtitle, if any.

    2. An abstract of the article of about 100-150 words.

    3. Authors should note that the main body of the text should be prepared in such a way that no formatting is needed afterwards. Heading, sub headings and illustrations should be well incorporated within the main body of the article.

    4. There is no word-limit for articles. But ideally those should be around 5000 words, inclusive of notes and references.

    5. All portions of the articles should be double-line spaced.

    6. Author should be careful regarding grammatical and typological errors.

    7. All essays submitted must be in English for review. Quotations in languages other than English must be accompanied by translations.

    Simultaneous submissions are permitted provided the authors inform the editor as soon as the content is accepted elsewhere.

    Fiction and Poetry

    Our mission is to publish the finest in speculative and imaginative fiction and poetry, with special attention to character-driven stories that examine the depths and heights of emotion and motivation from a broad variety of cultural and social perspectives. We want to publish powerful stories with emotion that resonates in our minds and hearts long after the first reading and makes us want to read them again and again. We look for the unique: stories that stand out in a genre that pushes the envelope of unusual. We take special delight in detailed world-building, and we enjoy reading about the realms and inhabitants of your imagination.

    We have no subject/topic preference, beyond a requirement that the work have a speculative element.

    We are happy to read high fantasy, magic realism, hard science fiction, sword and sorcery, and genrebending stories that don’t quite seem to fit elsewhere.

    We will read your genre short stories at lengths of up to 10,000 words.

    We are always interested in good flash fiction (1,500 words or less). If your story is on the borderline of flash length, consider trimming those extra words and making your shortshort story even tighter and stronger.

    Please note:

    You may submit up to three poems at one time.

    Please paste your poetry into the body of your submission email.

    Let us know if you’d be happy with a standard rejection form or if you want a personalized rejection submission will be held much longer.

    Remember that personalized rejections mean your

    Copyright:

    We allow our authors flexible rights to republish and reproduce and distribute their published contents with third parties anywhere in any format on the following conditions:

    1. The authors will inform the Editor-in-Chief about the intended republication or reproduction by third parties by sending a signed letter.

    2. The authors will acknowledge credits to The Criterion as the first publisher and include the URL (the original link location) in their works.

    Deadlines for submission:

    April Issue: 1st March

    August Issue: 1st July

    December Issue: 1st November

    Send your contribution/s to

    vishwanathbite@gmail.com

  • Science Fiction and Fantasy Translation Awards

    Purpose

    These Awards reward the translation of science fiction, fantasy and related fiction from other languages into English. They exist both to promote the fiction of non-English-speaking authors and to highlight the valuable work done by translators.

    Jury

    The award Jury shall consist of five persons selected by the Board of Directors for their knowledge of and standing in the field.

    The Jury shall be assisted by an Award Administrator appointed by the Board.

    Awards

    Two awards will be presented: one for long form literature (40,000 words and above) and the other for short forms.

    The awards will consist of a trophy and a cash prize [value to be determined]. A copy of the trophy and an equal share of the cash prize will be given to both the author and the translator. In the case of multiple authors or translators, or a tie, multiple trophies will be awarded but the size of the cash prize will not be increased.

    In addition to the winners in each category the jury will provide a short list of honorable mentions in each category, which shall be no more than 10 works, and no less than 3. No prizes other than publicity will be given for these works.

    Determination of the winners and short lists, subject to the award rules, will be the sole responsibility of the current year’s Jury.

    Eligibility

    Works will be eligible in the calendar year in which the English language versions are published.

    All forms of science fiction, fantasy and related literature are eligible, including work written for children and work published online. The work may be published anywhere in the world. Illustrated works such as graphic novels, comics and children’s picture books are eligible, but the Jury will generally consider only the text as art does not necessarily require translation and could therefore give an illustrated work an unfair advantage. (Exceptions to this may occur – for example if art has been altered for culture-specific reasons as part of the translation.)

    Works may be suggested for consideration by the Board, the Jury, the Advisory Group or any member of the public.

    The Award Administrator will keep a list of works considered by each year’s jury. A work which is not considered in its normal year of eligibility, for whatever reason, may be considered in the following year if it is suggested. Works may not normally be eligible in more than two years. However, if a work is not made known to any Jury until more than two years after publication it may be considered by special dispensation of the Board .

    The Jury may choose to consider works from the previous year’s short lists as potential winners. This would normally be done if there is a shortage of high quality candidates, or if the previous year was known to have produced more than one outstanding candidate.
    Timeline

    The current intention is to present the awards at the Eaton Conference which takes place at UC Riverside in California in the spring. The first set of awards will be for works published in the calendar year 2010.

  • Marlene Van Niekerk's "Agaat" Longlisted for 2011 Best Translated Book Award

    Marlene Van Niekerk's "Agaat" Longlisted for 2011 Best Translated Book Award

    Announcement of shortlist: 24 March 2011
    Announcement of winner: 29 April 2011

    The 25-title fiction longlist for the 2011 Best Translated Book Awards was announced this morning at Three Percent—a resource for international literature at the University of Rochester. According to award co-founder Chad W. Post, this year’s longlist is a “testament to the number of high-quality works in translation that are making their way to American readers, thanks to a number of talented translators and exciting publishing houses.”

    Featuring authors from 19 countries writing in 12 languages, the list highlights established authors alongside newcomers. Agaat by South African writer Marlene Van Niekerk made it to the longlist.

    “Not only is this a collection of the year’s most important and compelling books in translation, it’s a list of high quality books that deserve readers’ attention,” said fiction judge Monica Carter. “These books represent a global perspective that that, due to the dedication and talent of the translators, can open up the world to readers of English. The Best Translated Book Awards serve the world literature community of writers, translators, and readers in a way that no other award can.”

    Founded in 2007 with the goal of bringing additional attention to international works of literature, the Best Translated Book Awards are one of the only awards in the country honoring original works in translation. Selection criteria include the quality of the work itself, along with the quality of the translation. All original translations (not retranslations or reprints) published between December 1, 2009, and November 30, 2010, were eligible.

    This year’s set of judges consists of Monica Carter (Salonica), Scott Esposito (Conversational Reading and Center for the Art of Translation), Susan Harris (Words Without Borders), Annie Janusch (Translation Review), Matthew Jakubowski (writer & critic), Brandon Kennedy (bookseller/cataloger), Bill Marx (PRI’s The World: World Books), Michael Orthofer (Complete Review), and Jeff Waxman (Seminary Co-op and The Front Table).

    The award itself has grown greatly over the past few years. Beginning as an online-only event, the Best Translated Book Awards now feature an awards ceremony and a $5,000 cash prize—awarded to each winning author and translator, thanks to the support of Amazon.com.

    The 10-title fiction shortlist will be announced on Thursday, March 24th, concurrent with the announcement of the finalists for the poetry award. Winners will be announced on April 29th in New York City, as part of the PEN World Voices Festival.

    More details about the awards ceremony will be made available in coming weeks. In the meantime, Three Percent will highlight a book a day from the fiction longlist, with pieces written by translators, reviewers, and editors about the individual qualities of each title, and “why it should win.”

    The 2011 BTBA Fiction Longlist:

    Agaat by Marlene Van Niekerk, translated from the Afrikaans by Michiel Heyns (Tin House)

    To the End of the Land by David Grossman, translated from the Hebrew by Jessica Cohen (Knopf)

    Touch by Adania Shibli, translated from the Arabic by Paula Haydar (Clockroot)

    The Literary Conference by César Aira, translated from the Spanish by Katherine Silver (New Directions)

    The Golden Age by Michal Ajvaz, translated from the Czech by Andrew Oakland (Dalkey Archive)
    The Rest Is Jungle & Other Stories by Mario Benedetti, translated from the Spanish by Harry Morales (Host Publications)

    A Life on Paper by Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud, translated from the French by Edward Gauvin (Small Beer)

    A Jew Must Die by Jacques Chessex, translated from the French by Donald Wilson (Bitter Lemon)

    A Splendid Conspiracy by Albert Cossery, translated from the French by Alyson Waters (New Directions)

    The Jokers by Albert Cossery, translated from the French by Anna Moschovakis (New York Review Books)

    Eline Vere by Louis Couperus, translated from the Dutch by Ina Rilke (Archipelago)

    Visitation by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky (New Directions)

    The Blindness of the Heart by Julia Franck, translated from the German by Anthea Bell (Grove)

    Hocus Bogus by Romain Gary (writing as Émile Ajar), translated from the French by David Bellos (Yale University Press)
    The True Deceiver by Tove Jansson, translated from the Swedish by Thomas Teal (New York Review Books)

    The Clash of Images by Abdelfattah Kilito, translated from the French by Robyn Creswell (New Directions)

    Bad Nature, or With Elvis in Mexico by Javier Marías, translated from the Spanish by Esther Allen (New Directions)

    Cyclops by Ranko Marinković, translated from the Croatian by Vlada Stojiljković, edited by Ellen Elias-Bursać (Yale University Press)

    Hygiene and the Assassin by Amélie Nothomb, translated from the French by Alison Anderson (Europa Editions)

    I Curse the River of Time by Per Petterson, translated from the Norwegian by Charlotte Barslund and the author (Graywolf Press)
    A Thousand Peaceful Cities by Jerzy Pilch, translated from the Polish by David Frick (Open Letter)

    The Black Minutes by Martín Solares, translated from the Spanish by Aura Estrada and John Pluecker (Grove/Black Cat)

    On Elegance While Sleeping by Emilio Lascano Tegui, translated from the Spanish by Idra Novey (Dalkey Archive)

    Microscripts by Robert Walser, translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky (New Directions)

    Georg Letham: Physician and Murderer by Ernst Weiss, translated from the German by Joel Rotenberg (Archipelago)

  • Call for Submissions: Saraba Literary Magazine Issue 8 (Nigeria/ Africa-wide)

    Deadline: 1 March 2011

    The Fashion Issue

    To interrogate fashion and what is fashionable, we are publishing #8 of Saraba. As usual, our concerns are beyond the superficial details of everyday life. We are asking previously unasked questions, contemplating questions about art and life that may remain unasked were we silent.

    There is so much to write about ‘Fashion’ that it is impossible to make a list. So we ask you to draw the line yourself.

    Send us work that interrogates fashion in ways that we wouldn’t have contemplated – let this be as much about dress as it is about life.

    See an example in Suzanne Ushie’s “The Serious Guide to Becoming a Seriously Unfashionable Writer.”

    We’ll accept entries until 1st of March 2011. If you’ll feel better, let us into your head before you submit.

    Please use our Submission Manager.

    Guidelines:

    Entries are received only for the e-magazine and chapbooks. Our site is improved continually to represent and reflect the best of emerging writing from Nigeria, Africa and the world. Interested contributors should read the following guidelines carefully.

    Saraba’s staff is a small number of committed and enthusiastic but busy professionals. As such, entries that do not conform to these guidelines would not be considered. Our goal is to give emerging writers a voice and confidence, to give them the opportunity of having their works published.

    For the magazine, we would, from the June Issue, publish content in two ‘portfolios.’ The first portfolio would be theme-based. Please see our themes for the year. We would publish, also, content of a general literary nature, but this portfolio would be smaller in size than the first.

    Please send your work in an attachment in any of our three major categories: Fiction, Poetry and Non-Fiction. Send no more than one work at a time, and wait for our response before you send another. Word count for fiction works is 5,000, except otherwise announced. We’d accept no more than 3 poems at a time. For Non-fiction, we expect a broad range of new creative writing, including short memoirs, interviews, reviews, creative non-fiction, creative journalism, etc. Word count for this is 2,500.

    We are also open to digital art including photographs, illustrations, paintings and so forth. Please send in high resolution jpeg files (not larger than 4 MB).

    Please send alongside a bio of not more than 50 words (in third person).

    Unsolicited poetry would not be considered for the chapbooks. If interested, please send a query and we would reply accordingly. Poems submitted would be generally considered for the magazine, on either of the portfolios.

    Although we strive to highlight the talent and hard work of contributors, please note that we cannot afford to pay contributors.

    Our new Submission Manager is helpful, cutting out all the email uncertainty. Please submit here: http://saraba.submishmash.com/

  • Saraba Literary Magazine: Issue 8 and Call for Submissions (Nigeria/ Africa-wide)

    Saraba Literary Magazine: Issue 8 and Call for Submissions (Nigeria/ Africa-wide)

    Saraba, an electronic literary magazine, currently based in Ile-Ife, Nigeria is in its 8th Issue. In these issues, we have exlpored themes as diverse as Family, City Life, Economy, Niger Delta,
    Religion/God,Technology, and Fashion.

    Our goal, from the onset, has been to encourage young emerging writers - although our contributors have ranged from unknown writers to well-known ones. We are proud to assert that our contributors are mainly young writers, whose writing are previously unknown, and whose talent and promise are overt in their works.

    We have published writers mostly from Nigeria. But in addition, our contributors are writers resident in London, Paris, South Africa, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Kenya, India, USA, Zimbabwe, Russia, Cameroun, Australia, and so forth.

    Our 8th Issue, which is our most recent, was released on 15th April 2011. It is our proudest effort till date. In the Issue, we explore the knotty issue of fashion, and state that "... we failed in securing a unanimous perspective for fashion; how we succeeded in multiplying the richness, the effusiveness, the feverishness and sometimes agonizing details of fashion."

    Writers in the issue include Yemi Soneye, Donald Molosi, Michael Lee Johnson, Chitzi Ogbumagba, Emmanuel Uweru Okoh Luso Mnthali, Lauren Henley, Victor Olusanya, Yolanda Mabuto Sokari Ekine, Damilola Ajayi, Tola Odejayi, Emmanuel Iduma Karen Chandler, and Kesiena Eboh.

    The issue can be downloaded from http://sarabamag.com/featured/issue-8-fashion/

    Our Issue and Chapbooks are published on www.sarabamag.com and can be downloaded free. We call on literary enthusiasts and the general reading public to explore the wide talent on offer. More importantly, we encourage readers to subscribe to the magazine. From our next issue, only subscribers would have access to the full content of the magazine. Subscription is free.

    Submissions

    Entries are received only for the e-magazine and chapbooks. Our site is improved continually to represent and reflect the best of emerging writing from Nigeria, Africa and the world. Interested contributors should read the following guidelines carefully.

    Saraba’s staff is a small number of committed and enthusiastic but busy professionals. As such, entries that do not conform to these guidelines would not be considered. Our goal is to give emerging writers a voice and confidence, to give them the opportunity of having their works published.

    For the magazine, we would, from the June Issue, publish content in two ‘portfolios.’ The first portfolio would be theme-based. Please see our themes for the year. We would publish, also, content of a general literary nature, but this portfolio would be smaller in size than the first.

    Please send your work in an attachment in any of our three major categories: Fiction, Poetry and Non-Fiction. Send no more than one work at a time, and wait for our response before you send another. Word count for fiction works is 5,000, except otherwise announced. We’d accept no more than 3 poems at a time. For Non-fiction, we expect a broad range of new creative writing, including short memoirs, interviews, reviews, creative non-fiction, creative journalism, etc. Word count for this is 2,500.

    We are also open to digital art including photographs, illustrations, paintings and so forth. Please send in high resolution jpeg files (not larger than 4 MB).

    Please send alongside a bio of not more than 50 words (in third person).

    Unsolicited poetry would not be considered for the chapbooks. If interested, please send a query and we would reply accordingly. Poems submitted would be generally considered for the magazine, on either of the portfolios.

    Although we strive to highlight the talent and hard work of contributors, please note that we cannot afford to pay contributors.

    Contact Information:

    For inquiries: publishers@sarabamag.com

    For submissions: http://saraba.submishmash.com/

    Website: http://sarabamag.com

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