List of paying poetry markets from sfpoetry.com
May 14, 2007
[PAY MKT] South Florida Parenting
Writers’ guidelines for South Florida Parenting.
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
Most South Florida Parenting articles are purchased from freelance writers. In a typical issue, readers will find a variety of regular departments: Out & About, Baby Basics, Preteen Power, Family Money, Family Health and more. We also run feature articles of 800-2,000 words on topics of pertinence to South Florida parents. Features require careful research, independent reporting and well-developed interviews with South Florida sources.
Our focus is on our three-county market and we prefer features that use sources and settings in South Florida. Assignments, when given, go almost exclusively to writers who live in southeast Florida. However, we do consider insightful, captivating essays and features from outside our area, particularly those that deal with universal themes and issues. All stories must include clearly identified, real sources. Articles or essays that use only first names, composites or fictional examples will not be considered.
We welcome your submission of material previously published outside South Florida, if offered to us on an exclusive basis in southeast Florida. No submissions or queries that are offered to other publications in southeast Florida will ever be considered. We do not buy work from writers who are published by our competitors. For reprint offers, send either typed manuscripts or clips and let us know where the material appeared.
E-sub only.
$150-$300 for first publication
$30-$50 for reprints, including online rights.
You *must* not submit work to any other publications in South Florida.
(n.b. The wording is weird: do they mean must not submit *this* piece of work or *any* piece of work? … If you’re interested in the market, might behoove you to check …)
April 17, 2007
[WRITING JOBS] Funny media-spoofing writer? This one’s for you!
FUNNY WRITERS WANTED for media spoofing
Archer, this one’s for you! SG, you too. (You could be the EU correspondent!) Kos.
Or …
Have at it, folks.
January 6, 2007
[WR] Annual Erma Bombeck Writing Competition. No fee. Deadline: 18 Feb 2007
* Personal essay that is previously unpublished*, or has only been published since January 1, 2006 (*Essays that have previously appeared on Web sites are considered published.)
* 450 words or fewer (as determined by Microsoft Word word count tool)
* Two categories for entry:
o Humor
o Human Interest
* One Dayton, Ohio-area winner and one National/International winner will be awarded in each category
* Judges will also select several essays for “Honorable Mention”
* Limit one entry (total, not per category) per person
* No entry fee
* No age restrictions (all ages are judged together)
* Entries and/or any accompanying materials will not be returned
* All submissions are final – corrections to and replacements for submitted essays will not be allowed
* Washington-Centerville Public Library reserves the non-exclusive right to publish the winning entries
* Entries must be submitted online, using the official online entry form
* Entries must be submitted by 11:59 PM, EST, February 18, 2007
Samples of the winning entries past are on the site.
NO HARD COPY ENTRIES.
International entries accepted.
First place prizes: $100 and fame! and glory!
Have at it!
November 14, 2006
[PAY MKT] Intergalactic Medicine Show
Submission guidelines for Intergalactic Medicine Show.
We are looking for stories of any length in the genres of science fiction and fantasy.
“Science fiction” includes hard sf, sf adventure, alternate history, near-future, far-future, psi, alien, and any other kind of sf you can think of.
“Fantasy” includes heroic fantasy (based on any culture’s mythology), fairy tales, contemporary fantasy, and “horror” in the sense of supernatural suspense (not gory bloodfests, thanks).
Within these genres, we like to see well-developed milieus and believable, engaging characters. We also look for clear, unaffected writing. Asimov, Niven, Tolkien, Yolen, and Hobb are more likely to be our literary exemplars than James Joyce.
We pay 6 cents a word up to $500. Stories can be longer, but the word rate drops with increasing length to always yield a total of $500.
Buys exclusive rights for one year and nonexclusive rights in perpetuity.
Submission via internet using submission form.
November 13, 2006
[WR] [NO FEE CONTEST] Have a Southwestern mystery? Thinking of writing one? Never had a mystery published?
Rules for the 2007 HILLERMAN MYSTERY COMPETITION sponsored by the Tony Hillerman Writers Conference (THWC) and St. Martin’s Press, LLC.
[PDF file. If you don’t have Adobe Acrobat Reader, download here.]
DEADLINE 01 July 2007
“It is important that you submit your manuscript as early as possible. Our judges are volunteers …”
snippets from the rules
1. Open to any writer, regardless of nationality, who has never been the author of a published mystery (as defined … yadas. note: the definition defines what a mystery is, not what published is) and is not under contract with a publisher for the publication of a mystery.
One manuscript entry per writer.
2. Must be at least 60K wds, written in the English language. yadas.
The story’s primary setting is the Southwestern United States, including at least one of the following states: AZ, CO, NV, NM, OK, TX, UT.
5. Prize $10K advance against future royalties.
[via Miss Snark, who snitched it from Sarah]
November 7, 2006
[WR] [NO FEE CONTEST] Stolpman Vineyards needs haiku. Prize: $250 AND! a case of wine! Deadline 01 Dec 2006
1st Ever Stolpman Vineyards Haiku Contest for Poetry inspired wine label.
2 winners (one for red wine; one for white wine) will receive $250 plus 1 case of wine each and name recognition on the label.
Needed: One haiku on the subject of wine. G-rated only which will be used for (red wine and white wine labels), named “Poetry in Red” and “Poetry in White”.
Deadline Friday, 01 Dec 2006. One submission per entrant.
For more details check the Stolpman Vineyards Web site.
Be advised, the Stolpman Vineyards winery is in the bucolic village of Lompoc, CA. (Vineyards are in Ballard Canyon, Santa Barbara County. The tasting room is in Solvang.) Not sure what sort of shipping arrangements they can make for your prize case of wine if you live a ways away, but maybe that’s putting the wine cart before the dappled grey.
First you must enter, else you can’t win.
[via Erika Dreifus’ Practicing Writer blog]
November 6, 2006
[WR] [PAY MKT] Common Ties
“Common Ties accepts personal stories from people all over the world. Before submitting to CommonTies@gmail.com we encourage you to read our writers guidelines.
[excerpt]
2. Story type.
Common Ties publishes personal stories, whether told in the 1st person about yourself or in the 3rd about others. For examples please visit the “Lives” column in the New York Times Magazine or listen to the sound clips on storycorps.net or from This American Life. Personal stories can involve breaking news if you were a part of that story – for instance, stories from 9/11. When writing about others please state explicitly in your submission to us that you have obtained permission from those in the story to publish, and if you cannot please do not use their real names.
3. Pay.
Common Ties pays for the stories it publishes. Our payment guideline is $200 per story, but this is only a guideline. You may suggest a higher or lower amount depending on what you think is an acceptable level given the quality of the story and your past publishing experience. We expect that $200 will be the typical payment, with some lower and, in extraordinary circumstances, others as high as $1,000.
[...]
5. Rights.
Writers retain the rights to the stories they publish on Common Ties, allowing them to re-publish these stories elsewhere in the future.
October 18, 2006
[WR] Search for the next great [USAn] crime writer — a "no fee" contest
DEADLINE: November 27, 2006
Do you have a killer book idea? Then this is your chance to make crime pay. Court TV is offering you a chance to win a book deal with Regan (an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers).”
Over 18yo. Legal resident of the fifty states or DC. Not under exclusive book publishing contract. Not employee, immediate family, sharing household of employee of Courtroom Television Network LLC, Regan books, “their respective parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, divisions, trustees, franchisees, participating vendors, distributors, and advertising and promotion agencies (collectively, with the Sponsor, the “Contest Entities”)” and yadda and so forth.
Submit between now and November 27, 2006 a 1500-3000 word synopsis and sample chapter(s) of 5K-10K wds.
First round judging will separate out ten semi-finalists. Second round judging (by crime writing panel) will select five finalists. Final round judging will be via votes for one of the five finalists placed by visitors to CourtTV Web site.
Winner gets $1000 and “and an opportunity to sign an exclusive book publishing deal (‘Publishing Deal’) with Regan Books, a division of HarperCollins Publishers (‘Regan Books’), at an approximate market value (‘AMV’) of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000).”
If you do win, your book is probably good enough to deserve a publishing contract with more than a $1000 advance.
August 2, 2006
[WRITING] [CONTEST] … and for the Californian writers amongst us
California is one of two states chosen for the Poets & Writers Writers Exchange for 2007 — which means we probably won’t be chosen again for a quarter century!
The 2007 California Writers Exchange is funded through a major grant from the James Irvine Foundation.
Deadline for submission is August 31, 2006.
Writers must be California residents for at least two years and have never published a book or have published no more than one full-length book. Self-published books don’t count.
A poet and a fiction writer will be chosen and each will receive a $500 honorarium and travel/lodging to NYC in May 2007 to “meet with editors, agents, publishers and writers” and to give a public reading.