Market Round-Up December 2006© Jodi
M. Webb –
All Rights Reserved
Whenever I’ve spent too much time staring
at the blinking cursor on my computer screen (or a blank sheet of paper if
you’re a traditionalist) I like to end my writer’s block with a quick
paragraph of two using a writer’s prompt. Sometimes writing is so much
easier when you have a definite subject to write about.
Apparently, I’m not the only one who
believes in writer’s prompts. More and more literary magazines are producing
issues with themes. Themes are great for writers—you know longer have to
pour over back issues wondering, "Is this the type of subject the editors
are interested in?"
My first market doesn’t actually have a
theme for each issue. Instead they have a sentence which writers must use
verbatim as the first line of their short story.
The First Line
http://www.thefirstline.com/submission.htm
Apologies to everyone out there with a y
chromosome, but this market is for female writers only. Mslexia is looking
for prose, poetry, autobiographical essays, and flash fiction(under 150
words). Hurry if you want to make the deadline for the issue themed The
Garden—it’s Dec.15.
Mslexia
http://www.mslexia.co.uk/menu/submit.html
Past themes for Thema have been A
Perfect Cup of Coffee, Rage Over a Lost Penny, and Written in
Stone. Makes you curious about their upcoming themes, doesn’t it? In
addition to short stories and poetry, Thema also accepts art tied into the
theme.
Thema
http://members.cox.net/thema/submissions.html
The editors at Meanjin (associated with
the University of Melbourne incidentally) are interested in Love, Sex,
and Desire—this month. They accept all types of writing: poetry, short
stories, reviews, interviews, essays.
Meajin
http://www.meanjin.unimelb.edu.au/contributing.htm
Tip of the Month:
Don’t take a holiday break!
Snowflakes aren’t the only things piling up around my house, acceptance
emails and letters are too. I’d like to say it’s because I’m an excellent
writer but I have a hunch it’s because many writers are taking a holiday
break. December is a month full of parties, shopping, baking, and more.
Because of the time crunch many writers find they send out fewer queries and
instead stick to their regular gigs and a few editors they’ve done work for
in the past. Get your queries into those editors’ empty mailboxes now! Come
Jan.1 the writing resolutions will kick in and those same mailboxes will be
overflowing.
About the author:
Jodi M. Webb spent years writing articles for
dozens of magazines such as Pennsylvania Magazine, American Profile, and
Christian Science Monthly. But recently she’s been discovering a wonderful
new market: business writing. Her new specialty includes catalog copy,
customer newsletters, and writing in the voice of her alter-ego the
Organizer Genie. Like every writer Jodi feels she has a book(or two…or
three) in her but she hasn’t managed to get an agent or publisher to agree
with yet. Stay tuned for updates!
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