Northwest Submission Calls, October 14

Declaration Editing & Design is dedicated to supporting literary endeavors, especially those in the Northwest. To show this support, we post a digest of submission call from Northwest literary magazines, journals, and anthologies on the second and forth Wednesdays of each month. This is a free service, meant to connect writers with venues for their work, and not an endorsement of these publications in any way.

This post contains submission calls from the following publications:
Drash: Northwest Mosaic
Four and Twenty

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Drash: Northwest Mosaic

Submissions of poetry, fiction, essays, and photographs with a Jewish, universal, and/or Northwest tilt will be accepted via snailmail by Drash: Northwest Mosaic postmarked by Dec. 15. Review committees see submissions blind. Acceptances and rejections emailed the last week in January. No SASE necessary. All manuscripts recycled. Reprints accepted. Contributors receive two copies of Drash. For submission guidelines, go to www.templebetham.org <http://www.templebetham.org/> , click on Arts and Music. Questions? Email wendy@templebetham.org or write 2632 NE 80th St., Seattle, WA 98115. Visit our booth at the Seattle Book Festival, Oct. 24-25, and hear our panel at the Festival, noon to 1pm on Sunday, Oct. 25.

 

Four and Twenty

Declaration Editing & Design is accepting submissions for the December 2009 issue of Four and Twenty, our short form poetry journal.

The guidelines are simple. All poems must be four lines or fewer in length and contain no more than twenty words (hence, Four and Twenty). All submissions are judged on the ability to create a vivid picture, evoke an emotional response, and use creative wordplay. All poetic forms that fit the journal’s guidelines (such as haiku, senryu, sapphic, and tanaga) are welcome, but authors are not limited to these forms. There is no set theme for the journal. A new issue of the journal is released the third Tuesday of each month.

For a full description of our submission guidelines, including author rights and permissions, please visit www.4and20poetry.com.

 

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To have your magazine, journal, or anthology submission call posted here:
1) Send your announcement in the body of an e-mail (no attachments) to declare@declarationediting.com. Your announcement should be no longer than 300 words. Please do not include images in your e-mail.
2) Include all the basic submission information needed: name of publication, type of literature published, basic contact email or address, deadline, cost, etc. 
3) Make sure there are no errors in your announcement. We post all announcements as-is. They will not be proofread by our staff.

Presently, we post submission calls only for Northwest publications based in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Alaska, or British Columbia.

The deadline to post your announcement in the next round of submission calls is October 26.

All submissions must be received no later than 5:00 PM the Monday before posting.

Gary’s Book Poll: Nonfiction Feast

Everyone loves food, and I assume if you’re reading this you also love books. But have you read any of the more recent books about food? Maybe you should.

Do you have an idea for a book poll? Send it to gary@declarationediting.com.

Featured Literary Journal: The Seattle Review

The Seattle Review
http://depts.washington.edu/seaview/index.html

 The Seattle Review was founded in 1977, and is now published twice a year. It contains fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and visual art from writers and artists all over the world. This well-known, well-established Review is printed in full color, perfect bound.

 
The Seattle Review also sponsors several writing contests. With four editors, the magazine has traditionally also invited a fiction writer to serve as a fiction editor for every issue. Their mission statements says, “Throughout our history and our growth, we have kept our faith in the common and uncommon word. We invite you to share that faith.”

Submissions:

The Seattle Review only accepts submissions between Oct. 1 and May 31st. They do not allow simultaneous submissions, and ask that authors please include a SASE. All submissions should be sent by mail to the following address:

Seattle Review
University of Washington
Box 354330
Seattle, WA 98195-4330

They are not accepting visual art submissions at this time, but are accepting 3-5 poems and prose. Poems should be addressed Attention: Poetry Editor, and prose should be addressed Attention: Guest Fiction Editor or Attention: Nonfiction Editor (as applicable). Full submission details can be found at: http://depts.washington.edu/seaview/submission.html.

 

(Post written by Maureen Inouye)

Announcing the release of The 2009 S4C Spotlight

Announcing the release of The 2009 S4C Spotlight, presented by Declaration Editing & Design. To download your free copy, visit www.declarationS4C.wordpress.com.

During the month of July, writers are challenged by Declaration Editing & Design to tell original serialized stories in nine to twelve installments, with each installment being fewer than five hundred words. We call this challenge The Super-Short Summer Serial Challenge (S4C). S4C participants post story installments to their personal websites or blogs throughout July. Once they have completed the challenge, they can submit their final stories for consideration as one of five serials featured in The S4C Spotlight.

The 2009 S4C Spotlight features the following five stories:

A Tumbler of Sea Glass, by Kay Tracy
Novak’s Last Theory, by Clint Williams
A Grand Summer, by Helen Dring
The Blackout, by Jason L. Huskey
The Last Governess, by Tina Riddle

For more information about The Super-Short Summer Serial Challenge, visit www.declarationS4C.wordpress.com.

Gary’s Book Poll: It’s a Shocker

The thrill of being scared, so scared we look around our empty houses with suspicion and trepidation, is a wonderful consequence of reading horror books. And the classics have been visited time and again, in all media.

Do you have an idea for a book poll? Send it to gary@declarationediting.com.