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Contest: Unplag Plagiarism Busters Contest

Criteria: Contest Area: Worldwide | Language: English | Age of Eligibility: Age of majority in country of Participant’s citizenship | short story up to 300 words | Imagine that the army of ghosts has suddenly overrun your school/college/university and describe your following actions in a short story. Post it on your Facebook

Timeline.Total Number of Winners: One (1).

Prizes: the winner will receive one Amazon Gift Card which total amount is $150 and which may be used for any Amazon purchase according to the Amazon Gift Card Terms and Conditions. Gift cards are not refundable after purchase (except as required by law).

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Entry is limited to one (1) entry per person per account.

Deadline: 11:59 PM GMT on August 18, 2016

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The publishing industry can look impenetrable to a young writer, but with VerbalEyze it doesn’t have to be. We’re a non-profit that exclusively publishes authors between the ages of 13-22. 

Have a full-length manuscript, graphic novel, or collection of poems/stories story ready for publication? Submit a query. We’ll walk you through the process!

Or would you rather just dip in your toes? Submit a short story to our Young Writer’s Anthology.

Once you submit your manuscript, we’ll guide you through the all the confusing aspects of publishing like the licensing agreement, royalties, the editing process, and even marketing and promotion — and all while maximizing the benefits you receive!

The Puritan, a quarterly online literary publication, is accepting submissions for the spring issue to be published in November 2016. Writers can submit to five categories:

Fiction: Any word length. Open to all topics and genres. Pays $50/story.

Non-Fiction: Any word length. Open to essays, creative non-fiction, memoirs, and other literary styles. Pays $100/article of essay.

Interviews: Any word length. The subject must be working in the literary field, such as an editor, author, or a publisher. Pays $100/interview.

Like, I read this vampire book years and years ago that explained that a surefire way to protect yourself from vampires getting into your house was to spread a ton of seeds on your doorstep–poppy and mustard seeds were particularly recommended for the purpose. Basically, if you suspected someone to be a vampire, all you had to do was drop a sackful of seeds on the ground in front of them.

If they didn’t immediately start counting them, they were not a vampire. However, if they WERE a vampire, they’d be seized with the urge to count all the seeds and they would not budge from that spot until they knew how many seeds there were in total. The point was to keep them there until the sun came up and killed them, because if they hadn’t counted all the seeds by sunrise they wouldn’t be able to leave. Presumably you could just go about the rest of your evening as normal, though no word on whether it’s possible to make them lose count and start over.

Having remembered this piece of lore, I want fewer stories about brooding tortured Edward Cullen-esque vampires. I want to start seeing more stories about math nerd vampires.

Vampire accountants who are an honest company’s best asset and a corrupt company’s bane because they are frighteningly accurate with the accounts and will not hesitate to blow the whistle on a CEO scamming money because fuck you for making the numbers wrong.

Vampire cashiers that don’t need to look at the register screen because they already mentally calculated your total. 10-items-or-less vampires who know goddamn well you have 20 items in that basket and NO, you cannot just slip in with the rest.

Vampire math tutors who are constantly in high demand and have to hold lotteries to see who gets to be tutored by them.

Specific identities:

Books With Asexual Spectrum F/F Romances  (also see Asexual Lesbians/ Asexual Women in Fiction)

Bisexual Women Fiction and Memoirs

Trans Lesbian (Bisexual, etc) Books

Non-Binary (Genderqueer, Genderfluid, Gender-Unspecified, etc) Fiction and Memoirs

Butch lesbian characters

Butch women and female masculinity

Butch/Femme couples (also check out the butch-femme shelf)

Queer Female Authors of Color

Books by Lesbian Writers of Colour

Fiction about queer and lesbian women of color

QPoC YA/NA (Queer People of Color Young Adult/New Adult)

Interracial Lesbian Fiction

Asian Lesbian and Queer Women Fiction

Fiction Novels with Black Lesbian Characters

Chicana/Latina Lesbian Books

Lesbian Jewish Fiction

Lesbian Jewish Sleuths

Queer Islam

Canadian Lesbian Fiction and Memoirs

Italian Lesbian Books

British Lesbian Fiction Books (Also check out UK Lesbian Fiction)

Swedish Lesbian Fiction

Faith-Positive LGBTQIA+ Fiction /  GLBTQ Christian Fiction

General:

Best Lesbian Fiction

Autostraddle's 100 Best Lesbian Fiction & Memoir Books Of All Time

Lesbian Canon

Lesbian novels from before 1990

Best Lesbian Novel Series

Casually Queer Books

Lesbian Fiction in the Kindle Unlimited program

Best Lesbian Books Available On Audible  (see also Lesbian Audiobooks and the Lesbian Audiobooks Facebook group)

Speculative Fiction (SFF and Horror):

Fantasy & Sci-Fi Featuring Lesbian Characters

Bi WOC SFF

Lesbian and Bisexual Women (etc) Sci Fi / Lesbian Sci-Fi

Lesbian Fantasy

Lesbian & Bi Women Medieval Fantasy

Lesbian and Bi Women Dystopians

F/F Paranormal and Urban Fantasy

Lesbian Steampunk Books

Lesbian Horror

Lesbian Zombie Books

Lesbian Ghost Stories

Lesbian Werewolf Books

Lesbian Vampire Books

Young Adult/Teen/Children’s:

Lesbian Teen Fiction

QPoC YA/NA (Queer People of Color Young Adult/New Adult)

YA LGBT Books - Not “Coming Out”

Lesbian & Bi Women YA SFF

2016 f/f SFF (sci-fi & fantasy) with HEA/HFN

Lesbian Historical YA

Bisexual Fiction in YA

Queer Girl YA with Happy Endings / Best Teen Lesbian Books with Happy Endings

Beyond Heather Has Two Mommies: Picture Books with LGBT Parents

Children’s & teen fiction featuring lesbian mothers

Romance and Erotica:

Best F/F Romance Books / Lesbian Romance

Erotic Lesbian Novels

Lesbian Erotica Collections

Funny Lesbian Romance books

Best Femme/Femme Couples

Lesbian Romantic Suspense

Lesbian May/December Romance

F/F Tearjerkers

Romantic Lesbians In Uniform

F/F Enemies/ Rivals/ Forbidden Love

Lesbian Romance with Characters Who Are Famous

Angsty Lesbian Romance with a Happy Ending

F/F Romance Without The Drama

F/F BDSM

F/F Bondage in Fiction

F/F Spanking Romance

Nonfiction:

Lesbian-Feminist Nonfiction

Lesbian Humor Books

Lesbian Photography

Lesbian Self Help

Lesbian Memoirs

Lesbian history

Books On Femme Idenities

Best Lesbian Poetry

Best Lesbian Graphic Novels

Yuri Manga in English

Specific genres/content:

Lesbian Short Stories

Lesbian Anthologies

Historical Lesbian Fiction

Lesbian Westerns

Lesbian WWII Historical Fiction

Lesbian Pulp Fiction

Lesbian Fairy Tales

Queer Princesses (see also Lesbian Princesses in Fiction)

Lesbian Retellings

Best Lesbian Mysteries

Novels about Lesbian sleuths (Detectives & Mystery Novels)

Lesbian Private Investigators

Lesbian Psychological Suspense Novels

Lesbian New Adult/Contemporary

Lesbian Spy/Military/Cop

Lesbian Spy Novels

Lesbian Police Fiction

Lesbian Doctors

Lesbian Nuns in Fiction and Memoir

Lesbian Pirates

Toxic Lesbian Relationships

Lesbian Books Happy Ending 

Lesbian Feelgood Books

Lesbian Fiction Set In New York City

Lesbian Fiction Set In the American South

Lesbian Fiction Trope: Childhood Friends Reunited

Lesbian Fiction with Sports Theme

Lesbian Christmas Books / F/F Winter Holiday Books

Lesbians In Cold Places

A Lesbian Wilderness

Queer Women Road Trip Books

Lesbian Witch Books

Lesbrarian (Lesbian Librarian) Books

Lesbians and Cats

Sapphistry & Saddlery (Lesbian Horse/Equestrian Books)

Non-YA Lesbian/Bi Lady Fiction Without Explicit Sex Scenes

Pregnant Lesbians and Lesbian Mothers 

Lesbian books on alcoholism and sobriety

Good Lesbian Books’s lists that I haven’t put on Goodreads:

Lesbian Historical Fiction

Lesbian Knights in Fiction

Lesbian Librarians in Fiction and Nonfiction

Lesbians with Physical Disabilities

Lesbian Shapeshifter Fiction

Lesbians in Space: A Reading List

Lesbian Steampunk Stories

Lesbian Time Travel Fiction

Lesbian YA With A Non-Lesbian Main Character

Lesbian YA Historical Fiction

Transgender Young Adult Fiction

Good Lesbian Fantasy Novels 

Lesbian Lawyer Books 

Lesbian First Responder Romances 

Award-winning Graphic Novels 

Award-winning Romance and Erotica (unfinished) 

Award-winning Young Adult Fiction & Nonfiction 

Picture Books For Children With Lesbian Parents

Depression in Lesbian Fiction

Time Travel Lesbian Fiction

Other lists not yet on Goodreads:

50 Books by Lesbian Writers of Colour & 49 More Books by Lesbian Writers of Colour

A complete, cumulative Checklist of lesbian, variant and homosexual fiction, in English or available in English translation, with supplements of related material, for the use of collectors, students and librarians by Marion Zimmer Bradley (1960)

some of you may know about the 30 letters challenge and some of you may not // in this challenge you write thirty letters which all have a subject, example ; “a letter to someone you wish you could talk to”. in the picture above you can find some examples which you can use when creating your own letters. you are free to copy the entirety of it, but you can also change some letters with your own subjects. you do not have to write them in a particular order. there is no time limit on this particular challenge, because it is not a competition. this is about finding out who you are and what you want. it’s about finding out what makes you tick. it’s about finding out what is most important to you in life and maybe you get a little bit of a better person by the end of it. these letters can be used as a coping mechanism. sometimes writing it all out can help. the beauty of this challenge is that it doesn’t matter if you’re great at writing or not, if you’re honest within these letters, you already deserve a medal !!

you don’t have to share any of your written letters if you don’t want to, but you are allowed to post them or share them with anyone you like ( i’d love to read them if you want to share ! ). this is something personal and you have full control over your letters. you want to burn them ? lock them in a safe ? delete them from your computer ? that is okay by me. you want to post them on your blog ? show them to your friends ? share them with me ? maybe even deliver them to the people the letters are for ? that is also totally okay by me. this is about your comfort zone, not anyone else’s. 

there is a great story available on wattpadd ( the dreamer by rose north ) about a girl named morgana who uses this exact challenge to help her make sense of her life and herself. while it is completely fictional, it is a beautiful example of what these letters can help you with !!

under the cut you will find an easy accessible list of the example subjects:

We are closing in on the midpoint of our submission period and just starting to peruse the excellent offerings…You still have til the end of August to send your very own awesomeness our way…

the dancing press chapbook series

The dancing girl press chapbook series was founded in 2004 to publish and promote the work of women writers and artists. Developed initially as a print extension of the online lit zine wicked alice, the dgp series seeks to publish work that bridges the gaps between schools and poetic techniques–work that’s fresh, innovative, and exciting. The press has published over 300 titles by emerging women poets in delectable handmade open-run editions. Our books are available at our website, at select indie bookstores, during Chicago area literary events, and through author readings. Also a purveyor of paper, ephemera, and vintage-inspired arts and crafts, dancing girl press & studio occasionally hosts readings, discussions and workshops related to poetics, publishing, DIY, and book arts. For more info on our mission/origins, read this…

{submission guidelines}

dgp is happy to accept manuscripts from women poets for publication in our annual chapbook series. We plan to publish a varying number of chapbooks per year chosen from the best of the manuscripts we receive.

While we do not offer a monetary prize or payment for those manuscripts chosen to be published in the series, we do offer a payment of 10 copies of the chapbook to the authors chosen. We also offer generous discount (40%) on additional copies the author may wish to purchase to sell themselves at readings and events.

Manuscripts must be between 12 and 32 pages, numbered accordingly, with only one poem per page. Due to logistical reasons, we no longer accept simultaneous submissions. We aim to keep your work no longer than three months. Please feel free to query us after that time has passed.

Submissions are accepted via e-mail as attachments in Microsoft word only. Please include “Chapbook Submission/LAST NAME” in your subject line.

Submissions are currently OPEN. Current submission period: May 1st-August 31st.

Compiling a manuscript can be a strenuous process that makes you sit with your work and analyze your relationship to it. It’s not easy. With the Where Are You Poet manuscript contest in full swing, I have compiled some tips that I keep in mind when working on a new collection: 

• Always put your strong poems first. The first poem plays a strong role in setting a reader’s interest level and whether or not they will keep reading. 

• Cut out any poem that you are unsure of or think is “okay.” My goal when writing is book is for the reader could flip to any page of it and be blown away. 

• Each poem should attempt to say something unique. It’s okay for poems to have similar goals. However, attempt to have them reach their goals in new ways. 

• Be aware of the arch of the collection. Try to create some sort of flow & story. • Edit edit edit. Reread. Send the work to a few people who you respect and know for their honesty and have them give you feedback.

•  Don’t use the same word or metaphor in every poem. • Take note of imagery that you often return to. is it getting redundant? or could it be played up?  • Pay attention to punctuation. Does one poem end each line with a period and another have no punctuation at all? Attempt to make a seamless collection where the focus is on the poems as they exist together, rather than each one separately. Try to be consistent with punctuation. 

• If possible, live in the book for a period of time. Give your thoughts to it. Question what you would like it to say. A book does not have to communicate every single thought you have ever had. There is always room for more books. Think about what makes this collection special. 

The Worcester Journal (est. 2014), a quarterly online literary publication showcasing excellent writing, is open for submissions of prose and poetry written by emerging writers who reside in Central Massachusetts and elsewhere. 

To find the most entertaining, intuitive, and influential writing composed by talented writers, the editors are reviewing fiction, nonfiction, essays, reviews, and poetry.

Linden Avenue Literary Journal is seeking poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction submissions from POC and members of the LBGTQ community. As well, we consider published manuscripts of poetry and fiction for review. 

Additionally, we house a For Ferguson gallery comprised of work concerning social justice, police brutality, and current events. 

Founded in 2012, Linden Avenue was created by a woman of color and is currently staffed by four women of color. Published monthly, we are interested in creative works of a clear, concise, and character driven manner.

Feel free to view our archives for Issue One to Issue Forty-Nine at:

www.lindenavelit.com

Submission guidelines are available at: