Thought For The Month

"We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become." - Ursula Le Guin - author

Hello Writers and Readers,

Summer is a great time to catch up on all those books we have been meaning to read. Finding that quiet time to retreat to a hammock in the garden and lose ourselves in a book as the afternoon heat tempers the activities of the world around us is an experience to be long remembered.

Happy reading,

Sandra

Markets:

Packingtown Review seeks submissions for its forthcoming competition. Submission guidelines:http://www.packingtownreview.com/contests

Knockout seeks poetry submissions for its forthcoming competition. Submission guidelines:http://www.knockoutlit.org/contest.htm

Southern California Review seeks fiction submissions. Submission guidelines:http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/mpw/students/SCR_Contests.php

American Literary Review seeks submissions of short fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Submission guidelines:http://www.engl.unt.edu/alr/contests.html

Raving Dove seeks submissions for its Nonfiction Essay Award. Submission guidelines:http://www.ravingdove.org/award

RHINO seeks poetry submissions. Submission guidelines:http://www.rhinopoetry.org/pages/contests.htm

Smartish Pace seeks poetry submissions. Competition deadline: August 15, 2008. Submission guidelines:http://www.smartishpace.com/home/contest.html

Newport Review seeks submissions of flash fiction. Submission guidelines:http://newportreview.org/contests.htm

Moment Magazine seeks submissions for the 2008 Moment-Karma Short Fiction contest. Submission guidelines:http://www.momentmag.com/events/Moment-Karma2008StoryContestGuidelines.html

Hunger Mountain seeks submissions for its Creative Nonfiction Prize. Submission guidelines:http://www.tui.edu/hungermtn/nonfiction.asp

High Desert Journal seeks submissions. Submission guidelines:http://www.highdesertjournal.com/index.html

Open City seeks short fiction submissions. Submission guidelines: http://www.opencity.org/rrofihe

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Publishing News:

"Dead writers are hot this summer," predicted the London Sunday Times. The article continued to relate the ongoing battles among agents over literary estates and the rights to publish modern classics: "No point wasting one's time with new authors. They're unpredictable, demanding. They require lunch. No, what any literary agent worth his salt needs in 2008 is a classic author with form: famous, prolific and deceased within the past 70 years."

Included was a wish list of "literary estates every agent wants,"
including J.R.R. Tolkien, Agatha Christie, Ian Fleming, T.S. Eliot, Roald Dahl, Graham Greene, Enid Blyton and C.S. Lewis.

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San Francisco Dispenses Books to Public Transit Passengers
San Francisco's Bay Area Rapid Transit system recently unveiled its first Library-a-Go-Go machine at the Pittsburg/Bay Point BART station. The book-dispensing machine holds about 400 popular books, which will be available for free to holders of library cards from the Contra Costa County Library. BART riders will be able to check out three books at a time and return them to the Library-a-Go-Go machine.

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In light of the current Olympics ….

Confucius remains popular in China: The book trade news reported that Sentiments on the Analects of Confucius by Yu Dan has topped the non-fiction bestseller list in China for three straight months.

China's top 10 list:

1) Sentiments on the Analects of Confucius by Yu Dan
2) Asking Doctors Isn't as Good as Asking Yourself by Zhongli Baren
3) Currency Wars by Song Hongbing
4) Asking Doctors Isn't as Good as Asking Yourself II by Zhongli Baren
5) Thoughts on the Analects of Confucius by Yu Dan
6) The Wisdom to Not Fall Ill by Ma Yueling
7) Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
8) 50 Ways to Escape Danger in a Disaster by the Anhui Association of Science and Technology
9) Who Are You Working For by Chen Kaiyuan
10) Facts About the Ming Dynasty by Dang Nian Ming Yue

Home News:

Despite the summer heat, preparations for autumn book publications continues as well as attendance at various Vancouver Island summer events.

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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