American Short Fiction - Call for Submissions

American Short Fiction invites you to enter our annual short story contest. First prize receives $1000 and publication, second prize receives $500, and each entry will be considered for publication. This year our judge is Sam Lipsyte, author of Home Land. The contest deadline is December 8 and winners will be announced at the end of March. The entry fee is $20 and includes a free issue with the winning story. Enter online at www.americanshortfiction.org/submissions

You can find our complete guidelines at our website:
www.americanshortfiction.org.

The Breakwater Review - Call for Submissions

The Breakwater Review, a fresh, new online journal of poetry and fiction, is now welcoming submissions for our debut issue! We're looking for dynamic work from new, emerging, and established writers.

Please submit up to 5,000 words of fiction or 5 poems to BreakwaterReview@gmail.com. Entries should be pasted in the body of your email and accompanied by a brief biographical statement. Deadline for submissions is December 15th, 2008.

The Breakwater Review is a project of the MFA program at UMass Boston. For more information or for any questions, contact BreakwaterReview@gmail.com.

Washington Square - Call for Submissions

Washington Square, the student edited and produced journal at New York University’s Graduate Creative Writing Program, is now accepting submissions for its Winter/Spring 2008 and Summer/Fall 2009 issues. Our reading period is August 1 through March 15. We are looking for previously unpublished poems, short stories, and translations of serious literary intent.

For submission guidelines, please visit us on our website.

Red Morning Press - Call for Poetry Submissions

Red Morning Press now has a call for poetry manuscripts. We do not sponsor a contest, and there are no reading fees. Red Morning Press is a member of the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses, and we recently exhibited at the Associated Writing Programs' annual conference. Additional information about the press can be found at www.redmorningpress.com.

Red Morning Press accepts unsolicited poetry manuscripts year-round. We are equally interested in the work of published and unpublished poets.

You may submit your manuscript via E-mail to submissions@redmorningpress.com. Electronic submissions should be in Word format, contain no graphics, and generally follow the applicable guidelines below. Please note that submitting electronically will not necessarily shorten the response time.

Submissions via regular mail should follow all of the below guidelines.

• Submit only one manuscript at a time
• Manuscripts must be at least 48 typed pages long, excluding front matter
• Manuscripts must be your own original work (at this time, we will not accept translations) and not have appeared previously in book form
• Use 8.5 x 11 paper and print on one side only
• Pages should be numbered and bound by a binder clip or staple
• Include a title page with your name, address, phone number and E-mail address, if available
• Include an acknowledgments page listing poems in the manuscript that have been published previously as well as where they were published
• Include self-addressed, stamped business-sized envelope for notification, OR if you want your manuscript returned, please include an appropriately sized envelope and return postage
• There is no reading fee; if you'd like to support Red Morning, feel free to buy a book!

Mail your manuscript to:
Red Morning Press
Attn: Submissions
1140 Connecticut Avenue, Suite 700
Washington, D.C. 20036

We will make our best efforts to respond in under two months. Unfortunately, the editors cannot comment on the majority of returned manuscripts.

American Short Fiction: Call for Submissions

Founded in 1991 by editor Laura Furman, American Short Fiction was first published until 1998 by the University of Texas Press in cooperation with the Texas Center for Writers and with The Sound of Writing broadcast on National Public Radio. During its initial run, the magazine featured short stories by some of the best writers working in the form, including Reynolds Price, Gina Berriault, Louise Erdrich, Dagoberto Gilb, Andrea Barrett, Antonya Nelson, Joyce Carol Oates, Charles Baxter, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Dan Chaon, among many others. American Short Fiction was a two-time finalist for the National Magazine Award in Fiction. Stories originally published in the magazine have been included in major literary anthologies such as The O. Henry Prize Stories, Best American Short Stories, the Graywolf Annual, and the Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses.

Acquired by the independent, nonprofit organization Badgerdog Literary Publishing, American Short Fiction resumed publication with Issue 33 in March of 2006. Four times a year, the magazine's editors select and publish short stories and novel excerpts by established and new writers.

For more information, submission guidelines, and subscription information (you can order online!), please visit our website at http://www.americanshortfiction.org.

The Journal of Creative Work Calls for Submissions, Reviewers and Editorial-Advisory Board Members

Our mission is to give every artist and author a fair consideration to be published. The Journal of Creative Work, a division of Scientific Journals International (SJI), provides an efficient forum for publishing all types of creative works.

SJI has assembled the most prestigious and extensive Editorial and Advisory Board in the world, representing artists and scholars from Princeton, Oxford, Harvard, Cambridge, MIT, Columbia and other leading universities from around the world
(www.scientificjournals.org/editorial_board.htm).

This initiative is driven by an overriding passion to assist artists and authors to cope with the "publish or perish" reality in the
academia. According to several surveys, a large majority of authors and artists cite slow review process and publication delays in the current system as a major obstacle to their publishing objectives. Many have also expressed concerns about the fairness and integrity of the peer review process in traditional scholarly publishing. Some scholars have argued that there is a need to liberate the publication process for broader and fairer access.

Scientific Journals International (SJI) is the first global initiative that intends to accomplish this objective. We sincerely believe that artists and authors who have devoted months or years to a project, should not be shut out of the publication world simply because they did not follow some procedural or stylistic rules or because their work did not fit in. All traditional journals have very rigid stylistic or procedural policies that unduly create artificial barriers and in effect retard innovation and creativity.

Scientific Journals International (SJI) maintains minimal procedural and stylistic rules, and accepts papers that follow any style manual such as APA, MLA, Chicago, etc. A fair peer-reviewed evaluation system is used to select works for publication. SJI maintains a rapid electronic submission, review and publication process. Additionally, we do not set the same limitations on the length of the work as other traditional and online journals do. Our capability for perpetual future accessibility and preservation is also extremely valuable to both authors and readers.

Our submission guidelines can be found at http://www.scientificjournals.org/submission_creative_work.htm. The
Creative work can be any of the following types.

• Poetry: up to 3 poems in one submission (Microsoft Word or pdf format)
• Painting: up to 3 paintings in one submission (pdf format)
• Sculpture: up to 3 sculptures in one submission (pdf format)
• Craft: up to 3 crafts in one submission (pdf format)
• Photography: up to 3 photos in one submission (pdf format)
• Fiction (Microsoft Word or pdf format)
• Creative non-fiction (Microsoft Word or pdf format)
• Creative essay (Microsoft Word or pdf format)
• Critical essay (Microsoft Word or pdf format)
• Play/ Script (Microsoft Word or pdf format)
• Performances of dance, music, play, etc. (Windows Media Video or QuickTime format)
• Music composition (wav or MP3 format; notation in pdf format)
• Digital or multimedia works (films, online games, digital artwork, etc.)

Manuscript submission guidelines for all journals can be found at http://www.scientificjournals.org/submission.htm. Application form for Reviewers and Editorial Advisory Board can be found at http://www.scientificjournals.org/wanted.htm. Current issues can be found at http://www.scientificjournals.org/current_issue.htm.