"With stammering lips and insufficient sounds,
I strive and struggle to deliver right
the music of my nature ..."

Elizabeth Barrett Browning - poet

Hello Writers,

No matter what 'our music' is and how we record it for ourselves and others to experience we must remain true to our own nature. Look at your writing again. Have you tried to emulate someone else and thus lost the essence of who you are?

Spring is a time of new growth and an optimum time to challenge our own growth. Here on the coast spring is well advanced. With luck my tulips will bloom for Easter weekend.

Happy gardening,

Sandra

Markets:

La Belle Lettres is running concurrent prose competions for romance and children's writing. Submission guidelines:http://www.labellelettre.com/2007_writing_contests.htm

Kalliope publishes poetry, short fiction, interviews, reviews, and visual art by women. Submission guidelines:http://opencampus.fccj.org/kalliope/index.html

Praire Fire publishes a wide range of writing including poems, stories, personal essays, and interviews. Submission guidelines: http://www.prairiefire.ca/guidelines.html

The Cream City Review is a literary magazine devoted to publishing fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction by new and established writers. Submission guidelines: http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/English/ccr/about/about.html

Hunger Mountain seeks poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Submission guidelines: http://www.tui.edu/hungermtn/submissions.asp

Ramble Underground seeks submissions of short fiction. Submission guidelines: http://www.rambleunderground.org/

By-Line Magazine seeks material for ongoing monthly compttitons. Ther are a number in April but wathc your deadlines. Submission guidelines: http://www.bylinemag.com/contests.asp

The Burry Man Writers Center seeks submissions of plays and theatre pieces and offers many resources for free-lance work. Submission guidelines: http://www.burryman.com/submissions.html#contests

Cappers seeks free verse and light verse, traditional, nature and inspirational poems for publication. Submission guidelines: http://www.cappers.com/contributors-guidelines

The Pedestal Magazine is open to a wide variety of poetry, ranging from the highly experimental to the traditionally formal. http://www.thepedestalmagazine.com/

Cornerstone accepts a variety of poetic styles (e.g, avant-garde, free verse, haiku, light verse) for publication. Submission guidelines: http://www.cornerstonemag.com/home/guidlin.htm

April discount of 25% to all newsletter subscribers

April is poetry month. It is always difficult to market poetry. Get a head start on the game by purchasing some one-to-one marketing advice for your work. Samples of your poetry will be required but not the whole manuscript. For details including pricing e-mail us at Windshift Press

Publishing News:

THE winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Best Book Award, Caribbean and Canada Region 2007 is Canadian author David Adams Richards' The Friends of Meager Fortune (Cape). The Best First Book of the Year Award for the region went to Montreal-based D Y Bechard for Vandal Love (Anchor, Canada).

Home News:

Windshift Press is busy with the new spring publication schedule. This month we are launching Terra Infirma - A Life Unbalanced by A. J. Mallinson and The Place Where Weeds and Roses Grow by Joan Spencer. Available from the WP on-line store.

This is the season of book fairs and book events. We recently attended the Pacific Festival of the Book [see our blogs for details] and many of our titles are being represented at the London Book Fair, April 16th, 17th.

Remember that April is poetry month and a great time to submit your new poems or try your hand at writing some.

Note: While every effort is made to check the markets suggested in this newsletter, writers must use their own judgment when submitting their work.

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