Thought for the Month

" Let knowledge grow from more to more

But more of reverence in us dwell;

That mind and soul, according well,

May make one music as before."

- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Hello Authors and Readers,

"The world is too much with us," poet William Wordsworth complained over two hundred years ago. "Getting and spending, we lay waste to our powers." In this current global experience, his words seem even more apt now as then.

Now more than ever writers have something to say.

Keep writing,

Sandra

Markets:

The Ledge 2009 Fiction Awards Competition seeks submissions. Submission guidelines:http://www.theledgemagazine.com/Fiction_Awards_Contest.htm

Opium5's 500-Word Memoir Contest seeks submissions. Submission guidelines:http://www.opiummagazine.com/contest.aspx

The Heartland Review seeks submissions for the 2009 Joy Bale Boone Poetry Prize. Submission guidelines: http://www.elizabethtown.kctcs.edu/pubs/heartland/poetcont.html

Fence Magazine seeks submissions. Submission guidelines:http://www.fenceportal.org/

The P53 Open Awards Contest seeks submissions of Flash Fiction, Short Short Stories, Poetry, Genre Fiction, Short Fiction, and Creative Nonfiction. Submission guidelines:http://www.press53.com/OpenAwards_2009.html

The Bellingham ReviewT seeks submissions in various genres. Submission guidelines:http://www.wwu.edu/bhreview/contests.shtml

The New South seeks submissions: Submission guidelines: http://www.review.gsu.edu/contest_ns.html

The Southeast Review seeks submissions. Submission guidelines:http://southeastreview.org/contests.php

The Colorado Review seeks submissions for The NELLIGAN Prize for short fiction. Submission guideliens:http://coloradoreview.colostate.edu/nell/sub.htm

Gulf Coast seeks submissions. Submission guieliens:http://www.gulfcoastmag.org/

So to Speak is currently offering afiction, nonfiction, poetry and an art contest. Submission guidelines:http://www.gmu.edu/org/sts/contests.htm

The Indiana Review seeks submissions. Submission guideliens: http://indianareview.org/general/prize.html

Narrative Magazine seeks submissions. Submission guidelines: http://narrativemagazine.com/

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Publishing News:

Another American Loss

John Updike, novelist, man of letters and erudite chronicler of sex, divorce, and life’s adventures,died last week.

Harold Pinter, playwright who could find the ominous in the everyday, is dead at the age of 78.

Also a loss to the creative world - Andrew Wyeth, austere American artist with a hold on the popular imagination, died at 91.

Something to Think About

With the death of David Foster Wallace, the author of “Infinite Jest,” who took his own life on Sept. 12, the world of contemporary American fiction lost its most intellectually ambitious writer. Like his peers Richard Powers and William T. Vollmann, Wallace wrote big, brainy novels that were encyclopedically packed with information and animated by arcane ideas. In nonfiction essays, he tackled a daunting range of highbrow topics, including lexicography, poststructuralist literary theory and the science, ethics and epistemology of lobster pain. He wrote a book on the history and philosophy of the mathematics of infinity.

And Now for Something from the UK

Julian Barnes, novelist and member of the generation of English writers that includes Ian McEwan, Martin Amis, and Salman Rushdie, is the Francophile son of teachers of French. Best known for the novel Flaubert's Parrot, he would expect to be called Flaubertian, for he seems so in his artistic taste, temperament, and general outlook. He is in his early sixties, childless by choice (he tells us), and recently made a widower upon the death of his wife, Pat Kavanagh, a well-known London literary agent. Nothing To Be Frightened Of, though not intended as an autobiography, is nonetheless a highly autobiographical book.

Nothing To Be Frightened Of
by Julian Barnes
Knopf, 256 pp., $24.95

Home News:

Our Spring/Summer publishing schedule is in full swing. The next two months also bring a myriad of bookfairs and events that we will be attending with individual authors.

We appreciate hearing your news especially when you have won a contest that was included in one of our newsletters.

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