Thought for the Month

"Only the heart knows how to what is precious." - Fyodor Dostoyevsky - author

Hello Readers and Writers,

In the heat of an early September afternoon as I am harvesting my green beans, my mind roams ahead to the months to come. In the coming autumn, I will continue to harvest my thoughts in the hopes that a whole piece of writing will appear. What plans are you fermenting?

Wishing you all much food for thought,

Sandra

Markets:

High Desert Journal is a literary and visual art magazine seeks submissions. Submission guidelines:http://www.highdesertjournal.com/index.html

Open City seeks submissions for the 2008 RRofihe Trophy for an unpublished short story up to 5,000 words. Submission guidelines:http://www.opencity.org/rrofihe

SubtleTea seeks submissions for its forthcoming competition. Submission guidelines:http://www.subtletea.com/subtleteawritingcontest2.htm

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

Toasted Cheese Literary Journal seeks submissions. Submission guidelines:http://www.toasted-cheese.com/tclj/contest.htm

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

Red Hen Press seeks submissions an unpublished poem. Submission guidelines:http://www.redhen.org/ru_poetry.asp

Black Warrior Review seeks submissions. Submission guidelines: http://webdelsol.com/bwr/submit.html

Harpur Palate is accepting poems in any style. Submission guidelines:http://harpurpalate.binghamton.edu/miltkessler.html

Mississippi Review seeks submissions. Submission guidelines:http://www.mississippireview.com/contest.html

Cutthroat seeks submissions. Submission guidelines:http://www.cutthroatmag.com/contest.html

Indiana Review seeks submissions. Submission guidelines:http://indianareview.org/general/guidelines.html

The Canadian book industry's Libris Awards were handed out at a recent reception to honour the winners. Winners included - Fiction Book of the Year: Elizabeth Hay for Late Nights on Air (McClelland & Stewart), winner of the 2007 Scotiabank Giller Prize; Author of the Year: Lawrence Hill (HarperCollins) for his novel The Book of Negroes, which also won the Commonwealth Prize; and Non-Fiction Book of the Year: Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine (Random House).

Penguin Group Canada was named Publisher of the Year, and Cormorant Books won Small Press of the Year. Anne Collins of Random House was named Editor of the Year. 2007's Bookseller of the Year was Munro Books of Victoria, BC. Melanie Watt's book Scaredy Squirrel won Children's Book of the Year as well as Best Childen's Illustrator.

Forthcoming fiction from Canadian authors that attracted attention included new novels from previous Giller winners Margaret Atwood, David Bergen, and Austen Clarke, as well as new work from Giller-shortlisted favourites such as Miriam Toews, Joseph Boyden, Michael Winter, and Nancy Huston. Two Canadians, Heather O'Neill and Nancy Huston, were on the Orange Prize shortlist (won by Rose Tremain) in London, England so the recent news that Rawi Hage had won the Irish IMPAC Award added to the general sense that Canadian authors are finding their way on the international literary stage.

On the non-fiction front, Farley Mowat's memoir Otherwise, being billed as the author's final book, drew interest, as did Nancy Huston's The Confabulating Species, and two biographies of Canadian media moguls Izzy Aspler and Ted Rogers written by Peter C Newman. This year's Massey Lecturer, Margaret Atwood, will probe the impact of debt on human relations in Payback.

Home News:

We are busy as usual at Windshift Press with our Fall/Winter publishing schedule, autumn book events and thinking about our annual trip to the Frankfurt Book fair.

It gives us great pleasure to advertise the following publishing opportunity. I hope that many of you will take advantage of it.

ARTS ANGELS SHORT STORIES 2009

Arts Angels will be publishing a book of short stories in the spring of 2009. We are looking for ten other authors to join Eliza Hemingway, one other invited writer and one invited poet in a book of fictional stories. Send in a story of no less than 3,000 and no more than 5,000 words.

Arts Angels will select the best story and the winner will receive $100 prize money; the second best $50. Submission is free. The selection will be made after the New Year. Writers have until December 31st to submit their fiction and poetry.

For more information:

E-mail: artsangels@shaw.ca
Phone-toll free North America: 1-866-605-2604
Local phone: 250-416-0363
Mail story submissions to:
Arts Angels Publishing
PO Box 544, Chemainus, BC, V0R 1K0, Canada

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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