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Many scriptwriters and comedian started their career by contributing ideas and one liners to topical sketch shows. The BBC have a new one starting in the summer and they will be actively seeking new writing each week. Newsjack takes a comical look at the week's news stories and the pilot will be broadcast on Thursday 4 June at 11pm on BBC Radio 7. The series proper will begin a fortnight later.
If you want to write for Newsjack, here are a few simple guidelines
* Listen to the show. It will be available on iPlayer after broadcast.
* Submit your material for each show on or before noon on Monday each week
* Be funny
For more information click on the title of this post
Photo was taken in Brighton Sealife Centre in 2007 by AtomicShed - featured here under the wonderful creative commons license
I've just heard about Espresso Books. It's a brand new ebook publisher set up by a fellow veteran of the Goldsmiths Creative Writing MA. (If you are thinking of doing a Masters in creative writing yourself feel free to drop me a line, I'd be happy to share my experiences...But I digress, this post is about getting your work out there to the people who really matter - readers).
Anyway, the wonderful thing about being brand new is that Espresso Books are hungry for new manuscripts. AND because they are publishing in digital format only, they pay 40% royalties on all sales.
This is what they have to say:
We publish commercial fiction and popular non-fiction, aimed at the mass market.
We normally want at least 10,000 words per ebook (you’re welcome to query us with something shorter, though). There’s no maximum word limit.
We’re looking for:
- Short story collections (typically totalling around 20,000 words per collection)
- Novellas in any genre
- Full-length novels in any genre
- Children’s fiction
- Popular non-fiction, from 15,000 words upwards
- Poetry collections
(If you’ve got something that doesn’t fit into any of those categories, drop us an email – [email protected] – and we’ll let you know if we’re interested.)
We’re particularly keen to promote new voices, so we accept unsolicited submissions.
Please follow these guidelines when preparing your work for submission:
- Send all work as a .doc, .docx or .rtf attachment. (See our FAQ for help with this.) It doesn’t need to be double-spaced.
- Send us at least the first 5,000 words of your novel/non-fiction book. You may send more – if you have a complete manuscript, send us the whole thing. For a short story collection, please send at least two complete stories. For a poetry collection, please send at least four poems.
- Give us a brief synopsis of your entire novel, or an outline of your non-fiction book.
- Let us know roughly how long the whole book is, in words (e.g. 60,000 words).
- Please include any illustrations or diagrams. We cannot supply these.
We edit all the books we published, though we’ll give you a chance to approve our changes prior to publication. We’ll also produce a cover design for the ebook: let us know if you’d like to supply your own artwork.
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I have family in Brisbane and it sounds tough out there.
A charity anthology of short stories is being compiled for Queensland and here's how you can be part of something special.
Wanted previously unpublished short fiction between 500 – 1000 words with an uplifting or upbeat nature
DEADLINE: Friday, 28th January 11:59pm (Australian Eastern Standard Time)
I've done some research and reckon that's 1.59pm UK time
For more details click on the title of this post and good luck Queensland...
Want to find a home for that well crafted poem - the one that went down so well in workshops? Entering a competition is one option but you could also consider submitting for publication in a literary magazine....such as The View From Here
It has both a print and on-line existance and publishes author interviews, book reviews and original fiction and poetry. Although it is British based, it is edited by an international team and - this is the really interesting bit - ithas a close working relationship with some big names in publishing such as Random House. There's no money in appearing in The View From Here but it's a damn fine writing credential and it could get you noticed.
Read the magazine (click on the title of this post o go to the website), do your research and polish your best work until it shines. This is what The View From Here are looking for in the next six months....
November: “Regret For Dinner”
December: “Empty Rooms”
January 2011: “Absent Light”
February: “Sweet Nothings”
March: “Forget About It”
April: “Fools”
This month a new Irish literary review are accepting submissions for the inaugural issue of A Modest Review, a journal of short fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction.
Short fiction: minimum 1,000 words
Poetry: no restrictions
Creative nonfiction: minimum 1,000 words
Deadline: July 1st 2010
The website doesn't say but I presume they are paying the usual reward for writers: honour and glory but I rather like their mission statement...
At Modesty Press we believe in three things above all else: happiness, good health, and fantastic literature. Our mission is to publish challenging new writing in beautifully designed books at a reasonable price.
We hope to publish in a variety of print formats - novels, novellas, fiction and nonfiction anthologies, as well as a literary review. For the more digitally inclined we plan to offer streamed audio recordings of all publications and podcasts available for free download.
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Thank you for this Bridget. I'll click the link to find out more .... it sounds like a wonderful project.
Yes, it sounds good doesn't it....and I think the organizers want entries from around the world....