Fables and nursery rhymes.
It’s that time again. Approximately every fortnight, a catchall market-conference-author appearance-publishapalooza listing, this one somewhat abbreviated as I’m working on a fiction piece under deadline (wish me luck). Hope you all will find something beneficial in this partly fantasy-based list, with dashes of mystery, paranormal, and even academics among the fables and fairy tales.
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Deadline March 1!
Got any bright bits of poetry or prose concerned with the lighter months of the year, approximately April through June? If so, you might like to consider sending them to this call for submissions for Beltane 2016 courtesy of Three Drops from a Cauldron. They note interest in: “Any myth, fairytale, or bit of folklore with a green, golden and growing feel – or even bright beauty with a dark side too: Persephone, Blodeuwedd.” Submit up to 6 poems, or three flash fiction pieces, or one prose poem (750 words or fewer), with a short third-person bio. Full guidelines are available at the link. Good luck!
- Like your mysteries with flares of the paranormal? If you answered yes, then you might enjoy C. Hope Clark’s Edisto-based series of thriller novels, “flawed heroine” and all. And, what’s more, you might learn from some of Clark’s upcoming writing workshops. Most are in the southern United States, particularly South Carolina, where Clark hails from, but if you’re nearby, you might like to visit. In addition to running a successful Web site, Ms. Clark offers free and paid e-newsletters. The free Funds for Writers newsletter lists some of the upcoming dates for Clark’s appearances, which I have excerpted some of here (many more are available on her Web site):
Mar 3 – McCormick County Library, SC – Character Development – 6:30 PM
Mar 10 – Calhoun County Library, SC – Character Development – 6:30 PM
Mar 14 -21 – Edisto Beach, SC. Signing at Edisto Bookstore
Mar 24 – Anderson County Library, SC – Character Development – 6:30 PM
Apr 14 – Calhoun County Library, SC – Successful Editing – 6:30 PM
Apr 28 – Anderson County Library, SC – Successful Editing – 6:30 PM
May 5 – McCormick County Library, SC – Getting Published – 6:30 PM
May 24 – Darlington Library, SC – Getting Published – 6:30 PM
Jun 23-25 – Midwest Writers Center Conference – Davenport, IA
Aug 18-21 -Killer Nashville Conference, Franklin, TN
- Due March 30. Enchanted Conversation: A Fairy Tale Magazine is also looking for your fantastic(al), folkloric, fabulistic fiction; this time, the theme is “rain,” and it must appear as more than just a singular word in the story. The guidelines are fierce, so your fiction should follow and buttress that. If you want to get a good idea of what they’re seeking, read their site (for instance, their soaring Valentine’s Day edition) and/or purchase or borrow their books from the library or a friend, such as Beyond the Glass Slipper (by EC’s own Dr. Kate Wolford) or Krampusnacht: Twelve Nights of Krampus, to name but a couple.
- Due March 31. For those academics among us, or those who still practice the art outside academe, the Writing Between the Lines Symposium invites proposal papers (abstracts) of 300 words or fewer on the intersection of the theory and the practice of creative writing. They note: “We invite papers which examine the lively dynamic between praxis and critical appraisal; explore the nature of creative writing as a research methodology; investigate its position within pedagogy and evaluate how it may be developed in order to elevate approaches to high quality research.” I first read about this call for 20-minute presentations on the Rhys Tranter blog. The proposals must be submitted electronically, and the symposium itself is in Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom.
As always, I’m wishing you a fulfilling week of writing/blogging, art-making, and living!
Leigh's Wordsmithery 
Good luck with your fiction piece!
Thanks, Ali!
Thanks for these Leigh and good luck with your piece! You might want to check out The Ghastling magazine – current submissions open today – it’s one of those I’d really like to get something published in!
Thanks so much, Andrea! I don’t recall hearing of or reading this magazine. I’ll definitely check it out in the coming days. Shimmer is another great one, too, that I’d love to be published in. Are you familiar with it?
The Ghastling is quite new, reminiscent of a Victorian penny dreadful – more on the paranormal side. I hadn’t heard of Shimmer but I will check it out!
That sounds very neat. I do enjoy the paranormal. If I’m not mistaken, Shimmer (I’ve read only about 2-3 stories so far, but was impressed) tends toward dark fantasy; plus, the writing was top-notch, so I could def. see them publishing you if you have something in that vein.
Goodluck!
Thanks, Joe! Hope all is well with you this fine first week of March.