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Monday Morning Markets/Jobs/Opportunities for Writers
Monday Morning Markets/Jobs/Opportunities
Friday Find: Home Thoughts from Abroad
No, I’m not about to point you to some resource about Robert Browning. But I am about to leave shortly on a long-planned trip out of the country. And I won’t be blogging while I’m gone.
So if you’re looking for something to help with your writing practice while I’m away, I hope that you’ll find enough right here on our home site, erikadreifus.com, to keep you busy. If you haven’t yet taken a look around, here are some of the resources you’ll discover:
- MFA program info, including material on low-residency programs and post-MFA fellowships
- Guidance on writing conferences
- Resources to help you get your work published
- Tips on locating grants, fellowships, and awards
- Job sites for writers
- A collection of interviews with practicing poets, fictionists, and authors of creative nonfiction
- Resources focused on Jewish writing
That should keep you busy for awhile! I’ll look forward to catching up with all of you later in the month!
Monday Morning Markets/Jobs/Opportunities
Let’s try out a different format for these Monday morning posts, shall we? Please let me know what you think. Is this format more user-friendly than what we’ve presented in the past?
- Witness, a literary journal now based at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, has announced revised submission guidelines, including a call for submissions on the theme of “Disaster.” Pays: “$25 for every 1,500 words of prose and $25 per poem, for both print and online work.”
- The Amanda Davis Highwire Fiction Award (McSweeney’s) gives a grant “to aid a young woman writer of 32 years or younger” who embodies the personal strengths of Amanda Davis and who needs some time to finish a book in progress. Deadline: December 1, 2010. No application fee.
- Also from McSweeney’s: The Second Annual Columnist Contest is open to submissions until this Friday, September 10. “Our site is known for printing funny things, but columns need not be comic in nature. They just need to be interesting reading.” No fees. Cash prizes and contracts to the winners.
- Poetry Competition (no entry fee) from the Genomics Policy and Research Forum, requiring a poem (no more than 50 lines) on the theme of “improving the human.” Cash prizes, publication, and an evening of poetry readings based on the winning entries (hosted by the Scottish Poetry Library). Deadline: October 7, 2010.
- Assistant Professor of Creative Writing (fiction), Bucknell University
- Assistant Professor of Creative Writing (poetry), University of Minnesota
- Some nonteaching jobs for writers: Writer/Client Manager at Macalaster College (Minn.), Writer at Boston College, Director of Communications at Rhodes College (Tenn.).