Writing Market: The Stinging Fly

This might be of interest to the short story writers in particular. The Stinging Fly is an Irish publication accepting good quality short fiction from new Irish and international writers and they especially like promoting short stories.

Have a look at The Stinging Fly submissions page as they only take work in certain months, and there is also the opportunity to submit a flash fiction story on one day only - it's worth having a look through their requirements.

Over on the Flights of Imagination blog today, I'm featuring tween writer, Cheryl Carpinello, with her great Arthurian legend inspired novels - popular with children and adults!

Rosemary

Writing Market: Chicken Soup for the Soul

I've known about the Chicken Soup for the Soul series of books for a long time but I keep forgetting to try submitting anything! They offer a great opportunity to write non-fiction pieces on a wide variety of subjects and a full list of proposed topics is on their website. For instance, some of the upcoming subjects cover Miracles, Overcoming Challenges, Reboot Your Life, Stories About Cats and Stories About Dogs.

The guidelines are quite explicit: it should be a true, inspirational story about ordinary people doing extraordinary things. They should be written in first person, with a beginning, middle and end, and should create some emotion in the reader - they can be sad, funny, exciting. Maximum length is 1,200 words.

While I'm waiting for my new tween book, The Jigsaw Puzzle, being published by MuseItUp next month, I arranged print copies of my first tween book, Summer of the Eagles (as Ros). Lovely writer friend and former journalist, Sara, designed this lovely new cover for the print version and it's now available from FeedARead. I guessed some of the people at the conference would prefer a print version for this age group (around 10-13 years).

Wishing all my lovely fellow bloggers, friends and readers a Happy Easter weekend.

Rosemary

Writing Market: Fiction and Verse

This is a fairly new online market for short stories and poetry and there is a small payment made according to length. Sounds quite a good home for certain short stories.

Fiction and Verse accept Micro fiction from 100 words, to short stories up to 7500 words, as well as poetry. In addition to publishing an author's biography page on their site, they also provide links to authors' published work and websites. Check out the full details on their website.

Must just mention my daughter's very creative sketchbook which she completed as a fun project at the end of last year - it's now being transported (with others) around American libraries and has been digitised to view online. You can read more about it, with a link to the sketchbook, over on her Through the Looking Glass blog.

Rosemary

Writing Market: CafeLit

If you write short stories that perhaps don't fit the women's magazine market, you might like to try submitting to CafeLit. Stories up to 3000 words are welcome, including flash fiction length, and a collection of the best stories is published each year. It's worth having a look around their website as they sometimes have other projects on the go.

I was delighted that my daughter, Vikki, had a short story published in the Irish literary online journal, The Bohemyth the other day. Her story, 'Pop Goes the Gun', is the second one down. This might be a good market if you're more concerned with getting your name out there in literary publications, rather than trying to earn an income from writing.

Rosemary

Writing Market: What the Dickens? Magazine

I'll mention right away that What the Dickens? magazine is not offering any payment at the moment, so it's up to you if it appeals as a writing market. They have a lovely new website and are currently looking for poetry, flash fiction, or short stories up to 2000 words on the theme of  'The Busker'. The deadline for the relevant issue of the magazine is 15th February.

The website offers several other ways for writers and creative people to get involved and it certainly appears to be doing its bit to promote the creative arts. There is even a Get Listed section which is free.

If you want to find out more, have a look at the What the Dickens? website.

Meanwhile, over on Romancing History, I'm celebrating 200 years of my favourite Jane Austen novel, Pride and Prejudice - it includes a link to a short YouTube video section of that famous 1995 BBC drama starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle.

Rosemary