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Opportunities for Student Publications

Faculty and students who receive calls for submissions from journals, anthologies, and other publications are encouraged to share that information on this page. If you would like to post a call for submissions, please forward the information to Scott Coykendall.

2008 Awards and Competitions 

Modern Love Essay Contest

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From the hippie culture to the AIDS epidemic to the Internet revolution, love has gone from “free” to fraught to Facebook. What is love now, in this age of 24/7 communication, blurred gender roles and new attitudes about sex and dating?

We invite college students nationwide to submit a personal essay of between 1,500 and 2,000 words that illustrates the current state of love and
relationships. The winning author will receive $1,000 and his or her essay will be published in a special “Modern Love” column on May 4, 2008 and on nytimes.com.

The online archive of Modern Love columns can be found on: topics.nytimes.com/top/features/style/fashionandstyle/columns/modernlove/index.html
A book of collected columns—“Modern Love: 50 True and Extraordinary Tales of Desire, Deceit and Devotion”—is available at bookstores and at the nytstore.com.

HOW TO ENTER
E-mail your essay (attached as a Word document AND pasted within the body of the e-mail), name, e-mail address, phone number, college and year of graduation to: essaycontest@nytimes.com
Submission Deadline:
March 31, 2008

Journals Seeking  Submissions

PINDELDYBOZ Stories that defy classification. Seen in Writers Digest as a Literary Spotlight, this booming publication is unique in that the editors work especially hard (every submission, even if rejected, receives a personalized helpful response). This magazine exists in an annual print version as well as an e-zine which publishes stories every one to two weeks.
Circ.: Print: 500-1,000; Web: 13,000 unique visitors/month.
Types of work accepted: Print: fiction and personal essays, to 10,000 words; submit to print@pindeldyboz.com. Web: literary fiction, to 2,000 words; submit to submissions@pindeldyboz.com.
Submission Period: Varies; see Web site.
First-time writers: 80% Response: Up to 2 months for Web; can be significantly longer for print edition.
Contact: www.pindeldyboz.com

GLIMMER TRAIN This highly regarded literary journal is interested in original, unpublished pieces. They do not publish stories for children, poetry or novels. Multiple submissions are okay, but simultaneous submissions are not. When a story is accepted for publication, Glimmer Train will purchase first-publication rights. All Submission should be submitted with their new online submission procedure, see http://www.glimmertrainpress.com/writer/html/index2.asp
Dates: Accepts submissions in January, April, July, and October.
Response: within 12 weeks.
Reading fee: None.
Payment for accepted stories: $700 for first-publication rights.
Other considerations: Open to all writers. Stories should not exceed 12,000 words. Okay to submit up to three stories per reading month.

VERMONT INK - Publishes short stories and poems four times a year in January, April, July and October. It uses well-written, entertaining and basically G-rated stories with 2000-3000 words.
Types of work accepted: adventure, historical, humor, mainstream, mystery/suspense, romance, science fiction and westerns. Poetry should be upbeat or humorous and 4-20 lines.
Pays: 1/4 to 1/2 cent per word plus one copy for short stories and up to $5 plus one copy for poems for one-time rights.
Submissions: Send complete manuscript, cover letter with short bio and SASE. No reply without SASE and correct postage. Electronic submissions should include a cover letter with a short bio, a word count and a brief description of what you are sending. The story or poems should be copied and pasted into the body of an e-mail. Your name and address should be included. A sample copy is available for $4.00. www.vermontink.com
Contact: VERMONT INK, PO Box 3297, Burlington, VT 05408-3297 VermontInk@aol.com

DINER a journal of poetry . Check their website for back issues.
Types of work accepted: Submit up to five poems via snail mail, simultaneous submissions are ok. Please include cover letter and biography. Some poems will be commented on / occasionally with editing suggestions. Email submissions permitted from outside the Unites States and Canada.
Contact: DINER, PO Box 60676, Greendale Station, Worcester, MA 01606-2378. Submissions are read year round.
Editors: Eve Rifkah and Michael Milligan, published by Poetry Oasis. www.spokenword.to/diner

THE FIRST LINE This unique journal can be found on the shelves of bookstores in over 20 states as well as several libraries.
Types of work accepted: Fiction: All stories must be written with the first line provided. The line cannot be altered in any way, unless otherwise noted by the editors. The story should be between 300 and 3,000 words. The sentences can be found on the home page of The First Line's Web site, as well as in the prior issue. Non-Fiction: 500-800 word critical essays about your favorite first line from a literary work. All writers should include a two- to three-sentence biography of themselves that will appear in the magazine should their story run. Multiple submissions are accepted.
Submissions: We prefer you send manuscripts via e-mail to submission@thefirstline.com. We accept stories in MS Word or Word Perfect format (we prefer attachments). Make sure your name and contact information, as well as your bio, are part of the attachment. Stories also can be sent to The First Line's post office box. No manuscripts will be returned without an accompanying SASE with sufficient return postage. Here is the submission schedule for this year's sentences: Spring Issue Deadline: February 1. Summer Issue Deadline: May 1. Fall Issue Deadline: August 1. Winter Issue Deadline: November 1.
Response: Notices are typically sent out within three to four weeks after the issues deadline.
Payment: Pay on publication $20.00 ( U.S.) for fiction and $10.00 ( U.S.) for nonfiction. A copy of the magazine in which your story or nonfiction appears will also be sent to you. You'll receive your money and magazine at the same time.
Contact: The First Line P.O. Box 250382, Plano, Texas 75025-0382

ISOTOPE A journal of Literary Nature and Science Writing . This journal is interested in lyric and short narrative essays, short stories, microfiction, prose poems, poetry, and artwork that engages in and meditates on the varied complex relationship among the human and non-human worlds, with a special interest in moving beyond merely laudatory descriptions of natural beauty and elegies on loss of the same. We are especially interested in work engaging fields, subjects and concerns that move beyond traditional nature writing including urban ecosystems, astronomy, physics, chaos theory, genetic engineering, artificial intelligence, restoration ecology, earth sciences, cartography, sexuality, medicine and the body.
Submissions: from September 1 to November 30. Poetry submissions are limited to 1-5 poems, totaling not more than 10 pages. Submit no more than 20 pages of double-spaced prose (fiction or nonfiction), in a standard font with 1-inch margins. For all submissions, include contact information, a bio and enclose a SASE for reply.
Response: varies with time, staff size and budget. Manuscripts will not be returned; those not accepted will be recycled. Simultaneous submissions are okay, so long as they are identified as such and notification is made immediately if work is taken elsewhere.
Contact: Isotope, Department of English, Utah State University, 3200 Old Main Hill, Logan, Utah 84322-3200 isotope.usu.edu

ZOETROPE: ALL-STORY A quarterly literary publication founded by Francis Ford Coppola in 1997 to explore the intersection of story and art, fiction and film.
Submissions: Before submitting, non-subscribers should read several issues of the magazine to determine if their works fit with All-Story. Electronic versions of the magazine are available to read, in part, at the website; and print versions are available for purchase by single-issue order and subscription. Unsolicited submissions are considered of short stories and one-act plays no longer than 7,000 words. Excerpts from larger works, screenplays, treatments, and poetry will be returned unread. Artwork or design submissions are not accepted. Simultaneous submissions are accepted, and first serial rights and a one-year film option are required. Unsolicited revisions are not accepted and responses will not be sent without a SASE. All-Story will not accept submissions between September 1 and December 31. All-Story does not accept submissions via e-mail.
Contact: Zoetrope: All-Story, Attn: Fiction Editor, 916 Kearny St., San Francisco, CA 94133 all-story.com