Random market information
Sep. 13th, 2009 12:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
julesjonesI've been so snowed under by real life for the past few months that I've not bothered to look at markets at all. But I've got a bit of spare time this weekend, so I've been poking around. Some items of potential interest to self and/or friends:
Bywater Books writing contest -- $20 entry fee, first prize $1000 and publication, novels about lesbians (*not* a romance-only or erotica publisher, although they'll consider both). Deadline 31 October every year.
From ERA's collection of submission guidelines:
Better Sex erotic fiction contest -- no entry fee but you grant them non-exclusive publication rights, prizes from $100 up, 3000 words.
Sex in the City -- Maxim Jakubowski's new anthology series, each volume themed around a specific city, payment 75 pounds for 5-6000 words, deadline 1 November, snailmail submissions only. Primarily het, will consider bi, gay/lesbian will be a very hard sell. (I would *really* like to write something for this, but doubt I will manage to do so in time.)
Fishnet -- still going, but has recently changed length requirements. Currently paying 5c/word for short stories, any orientation.
Surprise anthology -- short stories, 100 word flash fiction and poetry. I could dig out that drabble I wrote years ago, and try it on them. Deadline 1 December 2009. Note that this is a brand-new publisher -- writer beware, as they ask for information that would be useful to identity thieves.
Bywater Books writing contest -- $20 entry fee, first prize $1000 and publication, novels about lesbians (*not* a romance-only or erotica publisher, although they'll consider both). Deadline 31 October every year.
From ERA's collection of submission guidelines:
Better Sex erotic fiction contest -- no entry fee but you grant them non-exclusive publication rights, prizes from $100 up, 3000 words.
Sex in the City -- Maxim Jakubowski's new anthology series, each volume themed around a specific city, payment 75 pounds for 5-6000 words, deadline 1 November, snailmail submissions only. Primarily het, will consider bi, gay/lesbian will be a very hard sell. (I would *really* like to write something for this, but doubt I will manage to do so in time.)
Fishnet -- still going, but has recently changed length requirements. Currently paying 5c/word for short stories, any orientation.
Surprise anthology -- short stories, 100 word flash fiction and poetry. I could dig out that drabble I wrote years ago, and try it on them. Deadline 1 December 2009. Note that this is a brand-new publisher -- writer beware, as they ask for information that would be useful to identity thieves.