Write Every Day, Not "Some Day"!
Seedpod Publishing is a “micro-publishing cooperative” — which sounds to me like a collection of authors and publishing people banding together to distribute literary fiction, digitally. They publish books and help with promotion and distribution – all digital and Digital Rights Management free, so your readers can read your book wherever they want, not linked [...]
Inspired by a postcard-length short story by science fiction master Arthur C. Clarke, Postcard Shorts accepts stories that are, well, postcard length. (That translates to about 250 words) Pretty much anything goes, as long as it’s not completely devoid of merit (in the Editor’s opinion). The Editor’s decision is final. The copyright for anything you [...]
Six Sentences is a place to publish just that: six sentence stories. It has been one of Writer’s Digest’s 101 Best Sites For Writers and publishes a new six-sentence story every day. It’s a great (non-paying) market for flash fiction writers. It offers readers the chance to vote the story “good”, or “spectacular” (a ratings [...]
Ploughshares literary magazine was founded in 1971 at Emerson College. This years Emerging Fiction Writers Contest is open for submissions from Jan 16 -Mar 15 2011 Ploughshares Eligibility We define an “emerging writer” as someone who has no book, has won no major awards, and who has published fiction in less than five national publications. [...]
This one is less a true ‘market’ and more a community writing opportunity. Fiction Fridays at Write Anything The excellent folks at Write Anything (a multi-author writing blog) put together a challenge every Friday. You write, you post it at your own blog and you post a link at their site. Simple! Upcoming themes include: [...]
EverydayFiction.com sends short fiction to readers via email every day of the year. I was really excited when I read about this, because what are writers without readers? It’s all very well for someone to slap up a website and hope readers come, but this one has a built-in distribution system and it has over [...]
What to do with your stories once you’ve written and polished them? Submit, of course! Here’s this week’s market: The Portland Review The Portland Review has been publishing exceptional short prose and poetry since 1956. The most recent issue featured poetry by Ursula LeGuin. They read submissions from Sept-March update: Reading period has been extended [...]
Step-by-step instructions on how to write every day, not "some day". Lessons, workbooks and timesheets included!
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