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Hello Writers and Readers

The song of September is really a two part harmony. The sound of summer's light hearted serenade is fast fading and being replaced by the deeper melody of Autumn. The gardener in me watches anxiously to see how many of the green tomatoes in the garden will ripen. Perhaps that bounty will take the form of green tomato chutney, mincemeat or a wonderful meal of fried green tomatoes.

This is an opportunity to look at our body of written work and perhaps take it into another form that is just as exciting but not what we originally planned for it.

Enjoy this season of mellow fruitfulness,

Sandra

Markets:

Anderbo Poetry Prize seeks submissions. Deadline: September 15, 2007. Submission guidelines: http://www.anderbo.com/anderbo1/anderprize2007.html

Raymond Carver Short Story Contest seeks submissions of short fiction. Deadline: September 15, 2007. Submission guidelines: http://www.carvezine.com/contest.htm

Literal Latte Essay Contest seeks submissions. Submission guidelines: http://www.literal-latte.com/contest_new.html#essay

Arc: Canada's National Poetry Magazine seeks submissions for their latest contest. Submission guidelines:http://www.arcpoetry.ca/mag/contests/diana_brebner_prize.php

Canadian Writer's Journal Short Fiction Contest seeks submissions. Submission guidelines:http://www.cwj.ca/04-00fiction.htm

Glimmer Train Short Story Award for New Writers seeks submissions. Submission guidelines: http://www.glimmertrain.com/shorawfornew2.html

Many Mountains Moving Poetry & Flash Fiction Contest seeks submissions. Submission guidelines: http://www.mmminc.org/html/contests2007.htm

Southwest Review seeks submissions for their current poetry competition. Submission guidelines: http://www.southwestreview.org/SubmissionGuidelines.htm

Alligator Juniper annual contest in fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction seeks submissions. Submission guidelines: http://www.prescott.edu/highlights/alligator_juniper/submit.html

Black Warrior Review seeks submissions of poetry and short fiction for their current competition. Submission guidelines:http://webdelsol.com/bwr/contest.html

Boston Review Fifteenth Annual Short-Story Contest seeks submissions. Submission guidelines: http://bostonreview.net/about/contest/

Mid-American Review seeks submissions for their current fiction, poetry, and nonfiction competitions. Submission guidelines: http://www.bgsu.edu/studentlife/organizations/midamericanreview/index2.html

Rosebud seeks submissions for their annual Mary Shelley prize for Imaginative Fiction.
Submission guidelines: http://www.rsbd.net/mary_shelley_award.htm

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Publishing News:

Starbucks has selected LISTENING IS AN ACT OF LOVE - A Celebration of American Lives from the StoryCorps Project, edited by Dave Isay, as their next book selection. They'll begin selling the Penguin Press book and accompanying CD, comprising 50 stories from everyday Americans, on November 8.

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This year's MAN Booker long list has again put a tiny publisher on the map. Myrmidon, based in Newcastle, U.K. and founded only last year by Ed Handyside bought The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng from agent Jane Gregory who, having discovered it on the slush pile, spent two years offering it around before Handyside bought it.

The first printing of 3,600 paperbacks and 400 hardbacks is now all but sold out, and a reprint is in hand. Myrmidon has already made its Frankfurt and London debut.

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This year's Edinburgh International Book Festival saw ticket sales reach a record high, with 54% of events sold out and 80% of tickets sold across 700 events. Despite the bad weather, more than 200,000 people visited the Festival during its 17-day run. Some 650 authors from 40 countries participated, while Norman Mailer and Alice Munro talked and signed from the comfort of their homes in the US/Canada, courtesy of Margaret Atwood's LongPen.

Home News:

At Windshift Press the autumn season is well underway. The new catalogue is at the printer and a calendar of book events and bookfairs is fast taking shape. New authors have signed on and old friends have returned with a second book.

The office is humming with the excitement of this year's Frankfurt Book Fair, the world's largest and most prestigious book trade event. We are boxing books and sending them off with all the good luck we can muster.

Later this month we will publish Mel McIlveen's second historical fiction novel Sinclair's Legacy. Set on the Canadian prairies, India and the UK it traces the life of a Metis military man in a time when acceptance of a person of his background was fraught with many challenges.

In October we will publish That Is How It Is, a collection of short fiction from the Yiddish author Moishe Nadir. Translator Harvey Fink has brought us this second translation of the work of Moishe Nadir's beautifully rhythmic writing.

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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