Monday Morning Markets/Jobs/Opportunities

  • Paying internship opportunities with Tablet Magazine in New York City. Application deadline: December 3, 2010.
  • “Creative Nonfiction is seeking narrative blog posts to reprint in our upcoming Food issue. We’re looking for: interesting, true stories that focus on food, including restaurant reviews; tales of meals gone awry; secrets, tips and kitchen short cuts; confessions from cooks, chefs and/or servers; an examination of the kitchen life; and so on. Narrative, narrative, narrative. Posts that can stand alone, 2000 words max, from 2010. Something from your own blog, from a friend’s blog, from a stranger’s blog.” Pays: “We will contact individual bloggers before publication and pay a flat fee for one-time reprint rights.” Nomination deadline: November 29, 2010.
  • WriterAbroad shares paying markets for personal essays–and samples of her own published work with each.
  • The Terry Pratchett Prize recognizes unpublished novels by authors “resident in the UK, other countries of the British Commonwealth, and the Republic of Ireland.” The competition seeks “stories set on Earth, although it may be an Earth that might have been, or might yet be, one that has gone down a different leg of the famous trousers of time (see the illustration in almost every book about quantum theory). We will be looking for books set at any time, perhaps today, perhaps in the Rome of today but in a world where 2000 years ago the crowd shouted for Jesus Christ to be spared, or where in 1962, John F Kennedy’s game of chicken with the Russians went horribly wrong. It might be one day in the life of an ordinary person. It could be a love story, an old story, a war story, a story set in a world where Leonardo da Vinci turned out to be a lot better at Aeronautics. But it won’t be a story about being in an alternate Earth because the people in an alternate Earth don’t know that they are; after all, you don’t.” No entry fee indicated. Deadline: December 31, 2010. Prize includes an advance payment against royalties and publication by Transworld Publishers, a division of The Random House Group Limited.
  • The December Practicing Writer newsletter is very much in the works! Subscribers should expect their e-copies before month’s end. Not yet a subscriber? Join us! It’s free, and we keep your email address to ourselves.
  • The Cup of Comfort folks are running a “Favorite Holiday Memory Story Contest,” with $100, free books, and online publication to be awarded to the author of the grand prize-winning story. They’re looking for true stores “that detail a cherished holiday memory.” No entry fee. Deadline: December 5. (via KatCop13)
  • Gettysburg College (Pa.) has released the current guidelines/application instructions for its Emerging Writer Lectureship. No application fee. Deadline: January 28, 2011. Details in this pdf.
  • “The Department of English and the BFA program at Stephen F. Austin State University [Texas] seek applications for a tenure-track assistant professor of creative writing, with genre concentrations in literary non-fiction and poetry; secondary preparations or interests may be cross-discipline: creative writing and technology, environmental literature and writing about the environment, multicultural literature, film topics or travel writing.”
  • Two jobs at Northern Michigan University: Assistant Professor of English (Creative Writing-Nonfiction) and Assistant Professor of English (Creative Writing-Fiction).
  • “The Undergraduate College of Rosemont College [Pa.] invites applications for an adjunct instructor to teach Creative Writing Non-Fiction in the Spring 2011 semester.”
  • Savannah College of Art & Design (Ga.) seeks a Writer, UCLA is looking for a Media Relations Coordinator, and the Galloway Family Foundation (D.C.) would like to hire a Writer/Researcher.
  • The Wednesday Web Browser

  • My tbr list grows longer with the addition of Cynthia Ozick’s Foreign Bodies.
  • I met writer Nancy Williams about a dozen years ago when we were classmates in an historical novel workshop at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival. I’m happy to introduce Nancy’s new website, which focuses on her “grand passion”: piano. I am particularly taken with an interview that Nancy conducted with Jennifer Rosner, author of the memoir, If a Tree Falls: A Family’s Quest to Hear and Be Heard.
  • Linda Formichelli shares the top five query mistakes that freelance writers make.
  • See how you feel about this article on a writer’s experience writing student papers for pay. And if you’re really interested (and free at noon today), you can join a live discussion with the author.
  • I may have mentioned that I’ve grown a wee bit weary of all the opinion pieces on creative writing/MFA programs. This article is something an exception (the comments from George Saunders are especially good and smart).
  • Monday Morning Markets/Jobs/Opportunities

    • Via the latest ImageUpdate:  “Thanks to a generous grant from the Davis Foundation, we are offering more scholarships in 2011 than ever before. Full and partial scholarships are available for both Glen West and Glen East, to be awarded based on both need and quality of work. You may apply to any class, even if it’s closed for registration.” No fee to apply for the scholarship, but “if you wish to guarantee a spot in a workshop, even if you do not win a scholarship, you must register for an available workshop and pay the $150 deposit. ” Deadlines: January 15, 2011, for the inaugural East Coast (Pioneer Valley) session, and March 15, 2011, for the West Coast (New Mexico) site. For more info about the scholarships and the workshops, please click here.
    • “Babble.com is looking for a parenting news blogger to join the fastest-growing website for parents, with 4 million uniques and growing. The job involves contributing a minimum of two posts per day to Strollerderby, Babble’s breaking news blog written by the web’s best-informed, wisest, wittiest parents.” (NB: To view the announcement on MediaBistro.com, you may need to register [free of charge] and log in.)
    • Babble.com is also looking for a celebrity parenting blogger. (This announcement is also on MediaBistro.com.)
    • South Carolina Living, the largest-circulation magazine in the Palmetto State,  needs talented freelancers to produce both feature articles and monthly departments.” Download the guidelines for pay rates and sample content. NB: The magazine is also looking for a freelance outdoor columnist.
    • Rutgers University-Newark (N.J.)  “invites applications from distinguished Poets and from distinguished Fiction writers for a (Master’s in Fine Arts) Assistant, Associate, or Professor position (dependent upon qualifications).”
    • Portland State University (Ore.) is advertising for an “Assistant or Associate Professor, Fiction Writing, tenure-track, to begin Fall 2011.”
    • University of Wisconsin-Whitewater  is looking for a “full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor to begin 24 August 2011. Responsible for teaching fiction writing, creative writing, and composition.”
    • The University of Tampa (Fla.) “seeks a candidate for a one-year, renewable term Assistant Professor of English in first-year writing and creative writing (fiction) to begin August 2011.”
    • Baldwin-Wallace College (Ohio) is advertising for an Assistant Professor of English “to teach creative writing (fiction emphasis) along with some other area of specialization in literature.”
    • Dickinson State University (N.D.) has posted an advertisement for a “full-time, tenure-track [assistant professor] position in English teaching Creative Writing and other courses depending on departmental and institutional needs.”
    • From Columbus State University (Ga.): “The Department of English invites MFAs and PhDs to apply for a tenure-track position in creative nonfiction at the assistant professor rank. We seek someone who can teach Creative Writing with creative nonfiction focus and secondary emphasis in journalism.”
    • Utica College (N.Y.) is looking for a “two-year visiting assistant professor starting August 2011 with the possibility of renewal. Applicants should have expertise in creative nonfiction.”
    • From the University of Louisville (Ky.): “Creative Nonfiction writers who have received their terminal degree within the last five years in Creative Writing are invited to apply for the Visiting Scholar in Creative Nonfiction. The purpose of this visiting scholarship is to provide a recent graduate with time to further his or her work, to associate with a distinguished faculty, and to allow him or her to contribute to an active creative writing program. One scholar will be appointed for the academic year 2011-2012. The scholar will give one reading in the Axton reading series and will teach one course each semester. Of the two courses, one will be of the scholar’s design, the other will be an undergraduate creative nonfiction workshop. The scholar will be expected to be in residence in Louisville during this period. This appointment will provide a stipend of $25,000 a year, housing support, and benefits.” Application deadline is January 2, 2011.
    • National University (Calif.) seeks a Writer, Cornell University (N.Y.) is looking for a Writer/Editor, and Southern New Hampshire University invites applications for a Marketing Content Writer.

    Monday Morning Markets/Jobs/Opportunities

  • Dalkey Archive Press is currently accepting applications for paid internships in its Dublin and London offices. “The expectation is that one or both of these internships will become full-time positions within a year.” Applicants must be EU residents or legally permitted to work in the EU, among other requirements.
  • Words and Images has posted its 2011 submission guidelines: “Words and Images is accepting submissions for the 2011 issue. We are pretty eclectic (erratic?) in our tastes, and will therefore consider pretty much anything. Genre fiction, experimental work, Literature (with a capital L): whatever you have that you’d like to throw our way, just so long as it’s unpublished. We are also looking for two dimensional representation of all forms of visual art. For submissions across all genres we would prefer works that in some way highlights this year’s theme: Resurgam, a latin word that means ‘I will rise again’.” Pays: “We pay contributors in one copy, and $20 per poem and/or printed page of prose. We pay visual contributors $30 per piece.” (via Duotrope.com)
  • From the latest WritersMarket.com newsletter: “Songwriter’s Market has a new editor—actually two editors at the moment, and they’re looking for your submissions to the 2012 Songwriter’s Market! Send pitches for articles on the craft and business of songwriting to Adria Haley between now and November 30. E-mail pitches to adria(dot)haley(at)fwmedia(dot)com with the subject line: 2012 Songwriter’s Market Submission. Remember: Start your pitches with your article idea (or ideas). Don’t start off talking about yourself—unless you’re a famous songwriter like Willie Nelson or Lady Gaga.
  • WritersWeekly.com is looking for feature articles (pays: $60) and success stories (pays: $40).
  • Plenty of submission calls (from paying journals) and no-fee contest/competition info in our latest newsletter, which went out to subscribers at the end of last month and is now online for everyone to read.
  • Weber State University (Utah) “invites applications for one tenure-track position [assistant professor] in fiction writing, to begin August of 2011, depending on funding.”
  • “The Department of English at Christopher Newport University [Va.] invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track [assistant professor] faculty position in creative writing, effective August 2011.”
  • “The Department of English at Rollins College [Fla.] invites applications for a one-year visiting assistant professor position, beginning August 2011, to replace faculty on sabbatical leave. The teaching load is three (3) courses per semester for two semesters, including Introduction to Creative Writing (covering fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry) and Advanced Fiction Workshop; one or two courses in composition or literature possible.”
  • The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International (N.Y.) is looking for a Science Writer/Editor, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund (D.C.) seeks a Development Writer, and Earth Island Journal (Calif.) invites applications for Managing Editor position.
  • The Wednesday Web Browser

  • No idea when I’ll actually read it, but Cynthia Ozick’s new novel, Foreign Bodies, is definitely on my tbr list. Check out this Bookforum review. (via Jewish Ideas Daily)
  • National Public Radio wants to know what you think about its books coverage–and how said coverage might be improved.
  • On a related note, this interview with Mark Athitakis features some interesting insights into book reviewing.
  • The American Library Association has added a GLBT youth literature award to its considerable award roster: the Stonewall Children’s and Young Adult Literature Award.
  • I’m still resisting the e-Reader trend, but if you’re more adaptable than I am (and let’s face it, many people are!), you may be interested in this new development: an e-Book club, courtesy of Dzanc Books.
  • How much money can freelancers really make? Kelly James-Enger has investigated.