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Barely South Review is now accepting submissions for the September 2012 issue for unpublished poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction and art.

Check out submission guidelines here:  http://barelysouthreview.digitalodu.com/submission-guidelines/

Barely South is also accepting entries to the inaugural Norton Girault Literary prize!  One fiction story will win $1,000 and publication in Barely South Review.  The guest judge this year is Cristina Garcia.  Complete guidelines and entry form can be found here:  http://barelysouthreview.digitalodu.com/the-norton-girault-literary-prize/

Deadline for September 2012 issue submissions is March 31st.  Deadline for entries to the Norton Girault Literary Prize is February 29th, 2012.
Send general questions to: odu.creative.writing@gmail.com

So to Speak: a feminist journal of language and art is now accepting submissions for its Fall 2012 issue. This issue will feature the fiction contest winner, as well as poetry, nonfiction, and art. Submissions will be accepted from January 1- March 15 through the onlinesubmissions manager.

The contest judge for the Fall 2012 Fiction Contest will be Ru Freeman. The winner will receive prize money and publication, and contests finalists will be published in the issue. The contest entry fee of $15 will include a free copy of the Fall 2012 issue for all entrants.

So to Speak, founded in 1993 by an editorial collective of women MFA candidates at George Mason University, has served as a space for feminist writing and art for nearly 18 years. So to Speak publishes poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and visual art that live up to a high standard of language, form, and meaning. We look for work that addresses issues of significance to women’s lives and movements for women’s equality and are especially interested in pieces that explore issues of race, class, and sexuality in relation to gender.

Please visit http://sotospeakjournal.org/ for full submission guidelines

Echolocation is a once-a-year literary publication, run by the English graduate students at the University of Toronto. Echolocation accepts submissions from everyone, and the issue 12 deadline is February 29, 2012.

Submissions guidelines can be found here: http://www.echolocationmag.wordpress.com, and also at http://echolocationmag.submishmash.com/submit.

The magazine is looking for poetry, fiction, drama, creative non-fiction, visual art, and photography from new and established writers & artists; interviews with writers; review essays on recent and forthcoming literary works; and critical essays on any aspect of contemporary writing.  Echolocation pays one contributors’ copy on acceptance. While there are no restrictions on style, the magazine welcomes writing that surprises, that is innovative, risky and unabashedly bends the rules of genres and literary traditions.

The Writers’ Union of Canada (TWUC) is offering the Professional Development Workshop HOW TO BE YOUR OWN PUBLICIST in Toronto, Winnipeg, Calgary, Vancouver, and Victoria, in February and March of 2012. The workshops take place from 9:30 am to 4:30 pm. For those who can’t attend in one of the participating cities, a 3-hour webinar will be offered, distilling the highlights of the workshop.

Authors Elizabeth Ruth and Ann Douglas will present on traditional but innovative book marketing strategies as well as new media opportunities for writers. Kelly Duffin, Executive Director of The Writers’ Union of Canada, will update participants on the latest evolutions in the publishing landscape.

Whether you are an aspiring writer wanting to develop your audience before publication; an emerging writer who needs to stay visible; or long-published and looking for new tips and techniques, this full-day workshop is for you. Participants will leave the workshop having gained the know-how and confidence to creatively promote their own future works, and an expanded, inspired sense of what it means to be a writer in the current publishing context.

The price of this symposium is $89.00 and covers costs, including lunch, $75 for members of The Writers’ Union of Canada. For registration information please go to www.writersunion.ca/registration.pdf. Space is limited so register today.

Versal, the Amsterdam-based English-language international literary and art journal, is accepting submissions for its tenth issue. Its editors are looking for excellent prose, poetry, art and the in between to fill the pages of this exciting anniversary issue.

Submission Deadline is January 15th 2012. Guidelines and (online only) submissions here: http://www.versaljournal.org/guidelines

A US$2 reading fee applies, or pre-order Versal 10 when you submit and we’ll waive the submission fee. For a close look at Versal’s tastes, purchase the current no. 9 or a back issue: http://www.versaljournal.org/order.

The Master of Arts in Children’s Literature Program presents: A talk by one of Canada’s most beloved children’s book writers, Paulette Bourgeois. Paulette Bourgeois is best known for creating Franklin the Turtle, the character who appears in picture books illustrated by Brenda Clark. The books have sold more than 60 million copies and have been translated into 38 languages. An animated television series, merchandise, DVDs and full-feature movies are based on the character.

Thursday, January 26^th, 2012 @ 4:30-5:30PM

The Dodson Room, Room 302, Level 3, Chapman Learning Commons, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, 1961 East Mall, UBC

Free. No registration required. Refreshments served.

Check it out.

Locution is a reading series that happens monthly over the course of the year and we need people to read. There will be a sign-up sheet in the lounge.  Please add your name to a month that works for you. We highly recommend partaking in this exciting tradition.

If you have any questions please email Clare Middleton at middletonclare@yahoo.ca

The second annual print publication of ROAR Magazine, a literary journal focused on supporting fiction, nonfiction, poetry and visual art by women, is seeking submissions.
 
For Issue #2, we’re looking for:
–> fiction (short stories, flash fiction)
–> nonfiction (personal essays, memoir excerpts and profiles)
–> poetry (traditional, experimental)
–> digital visual art

For information about how to submit your work, please visit us at www.roarmagazine.org. We accept submissions on a rolling basis, but priority for the issue will be given to those received by Nov.15, 2011.

We need to raise $7000 that will directly go towards printing 1,000 copies of the book. This is the minimum to print offset, which makes our per unit price competitive and viable for distribution to bookstores and comic shops. If, by some miracle, we reach $8,500, we will be able to print 2,000 copies, doubling our selling power with only $1500 more.

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