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Monday Markets for Writers

by Erika Dreifus on
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dollar-sign-mdMonday brings the weekly batch of no-fee competitions/contests, paying submission calls, and jobs for those of us who write (especially those of us who write fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction).

  • First things first: If you haven’t seen the May issue of The Practicing Writer yet, you’ll find a slew of no-fee competitions and paying calls for fiction, poetry, and cnf within.

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    Wednesday’s Work-in-Progress: Where to Read (and Publish) Literary Humor?

    by Erika Dreifus on
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    laughingSo, this past week brought a minor milestone to my writing life: my first submission to The New Yorker‘s “Shouts & Murmurs” department.

    I would call the piece that I submitted an example of “literary humor.” I would do so because I can’t quite figure out a better label for it: it’s a short (450-word) piece that essentially brings a 19th-century novel’s character into the present. That’s about all I want to say about it right now.

    I submitted the piece via the magazine’s online submission manager, and quickly received an auto-response acknowledging receipt and stating that I “should receive a reply within three months.”

    In the meantime, I’m trying to build a list of other possible homes for this piece. You know, just in case The New Yorker declines to publish it. (more…)

    Wednesday’s Work-in-Progress: Five Not-So-Easy Pieces

    by Erika Dreifus on
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    Right now I am tracking the publication of five new pieces that should be out in the world this spring. They’re all freelance–by which I mean that I have been or will be paid for all of them–and they’re all nonfiction. And, with the exception of one “quickie,” which seemed to write itself, they were each quite challenging.

    Two have already been published. One (the one that seemed to write itself) looks at stories and poems about writing for the ReadLearnWrite website. The second is a review of Aharon Appelfeld’s Suddenly, Love (trans. Jeffrey M. Green) for the Los Angeles-based Jewish Journal.

    A third should be showing up in the mail any day. And I can let you in on it because someone else already has:

    The final two are the mysteries. I haven’t yet found out exactly when they’ll appear. Suffice to say that I’m quite excited about them (each will mark my first byline with the associated publication). And I look forward to sharing them with you!