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Brand new magazine * is seeking poetry, short stories, and creative nonfiction for their first issue (published July/August 2008). No strict guidelines; keep to reasonable lengths. Submit work in body to [email protected].

FreeFall Magazine (AB) seeks poetry, prose, and non-fiction for their next issue. Theme: Open. Encourages new, emerging, and experienced Canadian writers, but is also open to international submissions. Payment: One copy. Deadline: June 30, 2008. More details...

Raven Poetry: Online Poetry Journal is seeking poetry submissions for its Summer issue. No religious or rhyming. Send up to 5 poems or flash fiction (50 words max.) plus a bio in the body of an email to [email protected]. Deadline: June 25, 2008. More details...

Online literary arts magazine IN MY BED Magazine seeks fiction and poetry submissions for their sophomore issue. Theme: Foreplay. Deadline: June 7, 2008. More details...

UBC print journal Lake (BC) invites submissions of personal essay, lyric essay, narrative essay, and memoir for their Creative Non-fiction Contest. Prize: $250 plus publication in Issue #3. Theme: Pines. Length: 2500 words max. Entry fee: $20 (includes subscription). Deadline: June 1, 2008. More details...

Cahoots Magazine (SK) seeks submissions for upcoming themed issues: Spirit (June 1, 2008), Plugged in (September 1, 2008) and World (November 15, 2008). Accepts poetry, lifewriting, plays, fiction, nonfiction and queries for short and longer features. More details...

Entries of unpublished rhyming poems (30 lines max) are now being accepted for this Ontario Poetry Society contest. Open to Canadian poets. First prize: $100; additional prizes available. Entry fee: $5; additional poems $2 each. Deadline: June 30, 2008. More details...

The Bridport Prize (UK) is accepting poems and short stories for its annual contest. First prize in each category: £5000; additional prizes available. Open to international entrants. Poems: 42 lines max. Fiction: 5000 words max. Entry fee: US$12 or €10 per poem or story. Deadline: June 30, 2008. More details...

The Puritan: Ottawa's Literary Prose Journal is seeking submissions for Number 7: Summer 2008, due for release in late July. Accepts flash fiction, fiction, and creative non-fiction on any subject matter. Length: 300-7500 words. Deadline: June 17, 2008. More details...

Multicultural adoptions have become so prevalent that an entire genre has emerged, for kids and parents alike. “One of the most frequent requests we have,” says Nicole Harvey of the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, “is by adoptive parents of Asian kids looking for ways to orient their children to their birth culture.” She likes especially the complex and popular Cooper’s Lesson by Sun Ying Shin.

On our own PaperTigers, the genre is explored in a review of Three Names of Me and an interview with Cynthia Kadohata, Newbery award winner and an adoptive parent herself. Franki at A Year of Reading, also an adoptive parent, reviews Caroline Marsden’s When Heaven Fell. Scroll down for her interview with Rose Kent, author of Kimchi and Calamari, additionally reviewed and interviewed at PaperTigers. Cynthia Letich Smith’s blog Cynsations has a great list of books on multicultural adoption.

You don’t have to be an adoptee or adoptive parent to appreciate these books, of course. As our world becomes smaller and families more diverse, we all need inspiration and information from this vital field of children’s literature.