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  • Special call for ghost stories written by women. “An anonymous flesh and blood patron of the arts has offered a $100 prize for a ghost story written by a woman. Here is what she writes: “Ghosts are with us all year round and in this season of mists they call for particular attention. I leave the definition of ‘ghost story’ up to the author and look forward to the many embodiments and disembodiments of this theme. Preferred length 1000 to 3000 words, but stories of any length may be submitted.” One submission per author. NB: “Simultaneous submissions and previously published stories are okay, but please mention that in your submission. The winning story will be offered non-obligatory publication on the Glass Woman Prize page. There is no reading fee.” Deadline: November 18, 2011. (via Duotrope.com)
  • “Diamond Light Source is the UK national synchrotron facility – a 562m particle accelerator nestled in the Oxfordshire countryside. Diamond generates incredibly bright light from infra-red to X-rays and is used by thousands of scientists every year to study all kinds of materials, from artificial hips and samples of the Mary Rose to virus proteins and potential new fuel sources.  To introduce Diamond to a wider audience we are running a short story competition, Light Reading. The rules are simple: we’re inviting you to submit a story of up to 3,000 words inspired by Diamond – the facility, the science and the people.” Cash prizes (£500/£300/£125). There is no entry fee. Deadline: November 30, 2011. NB: Check the guidelines carefully, and see as well the information on a complementary flash fiction competition. (via Pamelyn Casto’s Flash Fiction Flash Newsletter)
  • “The Hadassah-Brandeis Institute is pleased to announce the third annual competition to translate a book on a topic that deals in a significant way with Jews and gender. Applications will be accepted from both authors and/or translators, and are due by November 16, 2011. Decisions will be announced by February 16, 2012.” No application fee. Download guidelines here.
  • Wesleyan University (Conn.) is looking for an Editor/New Media Writer, The University of San Francisco seeks a Copywriter/Feature and News Writer, and The Writers Guild of America, East, Inc. (New York) is advertising for a part-time Online Communications and Web Manager.
  • “The Department of Writing, Literature & Publishing at Emerson College [Mass.] seeks to fill the position of Department Chair, with the appointment at senior rank depending on experience and qualifications. The appointment begins August 15, 2012.”
  • “The English Department at The University of Texas at Austin wishes to appoint a distinguished senior scholar or creative writer to the J.R. Millikan Centennial Professorship in English Literature. All areas of specialization are open. Ph.D. or terminal degree in field preferred. Duties include undergraduate and graduate teaching, research, publication, and service. Salary will be commensurate with achievements.”
  • “The Jackson Center for Creative Writing at Hollins University [Va.] invites applications for an endowed distinguished professorship in creative writing to begin July 2012. This is a one-year, visiting, full-time, renewable position. The distinguished professor will teach a 2-2 load, including mixed-genre advanced seminars in creative writing, focused graduate tutorials, and graduate and undergraduate thesis direction. Additional responsibilities include full participation in the co-curricular and admission activities in support of Hollins’ MFA creative writing program. Qualified candidates should be accomplished fiction writers with several published books.”
  • “The English Department of Butler University in Indianapolis seeks to fill a full-time, tenure-track position in Creative Writing at the rank of Assistant Professor, beginning in Fall 2012. Primary qualifications in prose (fiction and/or nonfiction), with secondary qualifications desirable in one or more of the following: screenwriting, genre fiction, game design and narrative, digital literature and/or publishing, science/health/environmental writing for the public, graphic novel.”
  • Pittsburg State University (Kansas) seeks an Assistant Professor of English. “To teach four courses/semester: fiction writing, craft of fiction, introduction to creative writing, literature, and composition.”
  • West Chester University (Penn.) is advertising for a tenure-track assistant professor (creative writing-fiction). “There is a four course teaching responsibility per semester, with two courses per semester in general education writing.”
  • Princeton University (N.J.) seeks “potential” part-time lecturers in fiction, poetry, screenwriting, and literary translation.
  • Griffith University (Australia) is looking for a Lecturer, Creative Writing and Literary Studies (poetry specialist).
  • “The Department of English at Sam Houston State University [Texas] invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of associate or assistant professor with a primary emphasis in creative writing poetry. A secondary emphasis in creative nonfiction is preferred. An MFA is required.”
  • From Francis Marion University (S.C.): “The Department of English, Modern Languages, and Philosophy is accepting applications for a tenure-track position of Assistant Professor.” What they’re looking for: “Writing specialist with interest in creative non-fiction and business/professional writing. Experience teaching first-year writing required.”
  • “The Department of English at the University of Massachusetts Lowell seeks an energetic and collaborative colleague for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant or Associate Professorship in Creative Writing–Non-Fiction.”

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  • “The 5th Annual Micro Award is now open for submissions through Dec 31, 2011.  The Micro Award is presented annually for flash fiction not exceeding 1000 words.  Stories of all genres published originally in 2011 are eligible.  Editors may submit two stories; writers may submit one.  The winner of the $500 prize and all other finalists will be announced on Feb 29, 2012.” No entry fee indicated. (via @TaniaHershman)
  • From the current issue of WritersWeekly.com: “We’re out of feature articles! QUERY US! WritersWeekly pays $60 on acceptance for features averaging around 600 words. See our guidelines HERE.”
  • Paid internship opportunity at Smithsonian magazine (Washington): “A six-month, full-time, paid, writing internship is available at Smithsonian magazine in Washington, D.C., beginning January 2012. The job involves writing, blogging and producing multimedia for the magazine’s Web site and writing for the print magazine’s “Around the Mall” department. Candidates should have a proven aptitude for writing and Web-journalism skills. A recent undergraduate or graduate degree is a must.”
  • Don’t forget that the October issue of The Practicing Writer is now online and contains a slew of no-cost competition listings and info on paying submission calls.
  • Harvard University Press (Mass.) is looking for a Publicist.
  • Converse College (S.C.) seeks a Director of Publications.
  • CancerCare, Inc. (New York) is advertising for a Senior Writer/Editor.
  • The University of Warwick (U.K.) has posted announcements for a Professor of Creative Writing and for an Assistant or Associate Professor in Creative Writing.
  • From the University of St. Thomas (Minn.): “The Department of English announces a tenure-track position in creative writing at the assistant professor level, with preparation and a publication record appropriate to the teaching of an introductory multi-genre creative writing course as well as intermediate and upper-level courses in more than one of the major creative genres (fiction, poetry, literary nonfiction).”
  • The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill is advertising for an Assistant Professor in Creative Writing, Creative Non-Fiction/Margaret R. Shuping Fellow. “Entry-level, tenure-track position. Candidates must have established strong literary reputations, at the national and/or international level, in Creative Non-Fiction. Requirements include BA (MFA preferred); substantial, ongoing publication; at least two years college teaching experience; and commitment to teaching undergraduates and mentoring young writers.”
  • From the University of Massachusetts-Boston: “Tenure-track position in poetry-writing, beginning September 1, 2012, at a lively, diverse urban university in a department with over 480 undergraduate majors, over 100 master’s students in literature, composition and creative writing, and an MFA program in creative writing. Responsibilities include teaching poetry and craft workshops, literature classes, and the pedagogy of creative writing, as well the future directorship of the MFA program.”
  • The University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop “seeks a poet of national prominence for a position on its permanent faculty in poetry, at the rank of Associate or Full Professor.”
  • The Harvard University Department of English “is seeking a Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in poetry, with responsibility for teaching two undergraduate writing workshops per semester. Five-year untenured appointment to begin July 1, 2012. Two books (not including chapbooks) plus significant publications & teaching experience expected.”
  • “The Viterbo University [Wisc.] English Department seeks applications for a tenure-track position in creative writing with emphasis in poetry at the rank of assistant professor. Preference will be given to applicants who can also teach modern/contemporary British literature.”
  • From the Rochester Institute of Technology (N.Y.): “Situated within a vibrant technological university, the English Department seeks a teacher, writer, and scholar for a tenure-track position in Creative Writing, with a specialization in fiction and expertise in the practice of Electronic Literature/Digital Arts.”
  • From the University of Notre Dame (Ind.): “We seek a fiction writer, at the assistant professor level, to teach primarily in our well-established undergraduate-and-graduate-level Creative Writing Program. Fiction writers who have published at least one novel or collection of stories with a nationally recognized press are encouraged to apply.”
  • “The English Department at Missouri State University, located in Springfield, Missouri, anticipates an August 2012 opening for an Assistant Professor-Creative Writing (fiction), tenure-track.”
  • From Brooklyn College of The City University of New York: “The Department of English invites applications for a tenure track position in the teaching of the craft of fiction in the undergraduate English program.”

    • Friday Find: October Issue of The Practicing Writer

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    Continued happy holiday wishes to all who are celebrating Rosh Hashanah today!

    Meantime, please allow me to point you to the October issue of The Practicing Writer, replete as always with no-fee contests and paying opportunities for poets, fictionists, and writers of creative nonfiction.

    Enjoy, and have a great weekend. See you back here on Monday.

    Monday Morning Markets/Jobs/Opportunities for Writers

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    (NB: There are so many college teaching opportunities this week that I’ve listed them after the break. Please click through to find them. Thanks!)

    • Interesting residency opportunity (apparently the first of many) in Paris, from VINGT Paris magazine. No application fee. Deadline: October 19, 2011, for a residency that must take place November 20-December 20. (via @parisimperfect)
    • From The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts: “We are currently ONLY open for compressed poetry (no prose poems at this time), and the reading period ends on October 31, 2011. Also, please limit your submission to a SINGLE POEM per reading period.” Pays: $50. (via CRWROPPS-B)
    • Attention, North Carolinians! The deadline for submissions to the 2011 NC State Short Story Contests is October 17. “The contest is open to NC residents (including out-of-state students enrolled in a NC university).  However, you may not be 1) an already published author, or 2) a tenure-track faculty member in the UNC system.” Writers may enter in one of both of the categories: the JAMES HURST Prize for Fiction, with a purse of $500 for longer stories no more than 20 pages or 5000 words/the NCSU SHORTER FICTION PRIZE,  $250 for short-shorts no more than 5 pages or 1200 words. No entry fees. This year’s judge: Ron Rash.
    • Paid internship opportunity with the Nature Publishing Group (New York). Application deadline: October 15, 2011.
    • The Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities is looking for “a talented editor and writer to join our creative team in producing KnowLA, the Digital Encyclopedia of Louisiana History and Culture (www.knowla.org), and Louisiana Cultural Vistas, an award-winning quarterly arts and culture magazine in print for 22 years”; Saint Louis Art Museum seeks a Writer/Editor; and One Day, the alumni magazine for Teach for America (New York) invites applications for an Associate Editor position.

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    Monday Morning Markets/Jobs/Opportunities for Writers

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    • From The Puritan (Canada): “Hurry up! The deadline for the fall issue is Oct. 1, 2011. In typical fashion, we plan to release our next issue at the end of the season it claims to represent. So, we’re opening our pod-bay doors to submissions of fiction, poetry, reviews, recipes, and interviews. Check out our submission guidelines for more information.” Pays: $20-$50 (presumably in Canadian dollars). (via placesforwriters.com)
    • “Graduate and undergraduate students, studying at American colleges and universities, or Americans studying abroad, who aspire to become foreign correspondents, are invited to apply for one of fourteen scholarships or internships to be awarded by the Overseas Press Club Foundation. Winning an OPC Foundation scholarship or internship is more than a cash award. Winners are invited to join the Overseas Press Club family. They are encouraged to network and keep the organization apprised of their career moves. The Foundation pays travel and living expenses for interns in foreign bureaus at such leading news organization as the Associated Press and Reuters, among others, and at foreign English-language media companies like the South China Morning Post and Cambodia Daily. In many cases, winning a prestigious OPC Foundation award has helped launch careers.” Application deadline is December 1, 2011. No application fee indicated.
    • Interested in a post-MFA fellowship? Check out this updated list of opportunities.
    • Practicing Writing is pleased to have a significant U.K. readership, and this opportunity is just for them: “With a title of Beautiful Britain, our family travel writing competition aims to celebrate all that’s great about family adventures in our stunning land. That might include breathtaking adventures in the Lakes, laughing til your sides ache at a family-friendly Edinburgh festival, savouring the splendour of the West Wales coastline, a Devon cream tea or a knees up at a holiday park…or of course plenty more. Wherever you love to find quality family time in Britain – we want to hear about it. We’re looking for entries about family holidays, breaks, days out or adventures.” No entry fee for first submission. Prizes: “There’s a cash prize [£200] for the winning entry, to be chosen by our two judges, family passes courtesy of English Heritage for our winner and runners-up, plus a fabulous weekend in York for up to two adults and two children for our second prize winner.” Deadline: October 1, 2011. (via the Writing-world.com newsletter)
    • From St. Lawrence University (N.Y.): “Fiction or creative non-fiction writers with significant publications and teaching experience are invited to apply for the position of Viebranz Visiting Professor of Creative Writing for the academic year 2012-2013. Publications and teaching experience in a second genre would be preferable. The individual hired will teach two genre-specific courses each semester, at the beginning and advanced level, and be an active participant in the English Department. Departmental activities will include giving a reading as part of the St. Lawrence University Writers Series; serving as a reader on a senior honors thesis, and possibly directing a senior independent project; and leading occasional workshops for senior writing majors, or giving a craft talk on writing. Evidence will be sought of a proven record of innovative pedagogy in creative writing and an enthusiasm for teaching.”
    • From Bowling Green State University (Ohio): “The Creative Writing Program at Bowling Green State University seeks a poet as the College of Arts & Sciences Distinguished Visiting Writer. The successful candidate will be in residence spring 2013; teach one workshop in our BFA program and one workshop in our MFA program; give a public reading and a lecture; and advise theses. “
    • The University of Richmond (Va.) seeks an Alumni Magazine Writer/Editor (there’s a position available for an Editor, too); Northeastern University (Boston) is looking for a Managing Editor; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) is advertising for a Senior Press Officer.