Call for Submissions: The L Magazine Wants Your Short Fiction
Reply to: fiction@thelmagazine.com
Date: 2007-02-01, 2:04PM EST
Following the enormous success of our first two competitions, The L Magazine is proud to announce the third annual Literary Upstart, The Search for Pocket Fiction.
Once again, our panel of literary experts will include professional authors, literary agents and top-notch book editors (including Ben Greenman of the NewYorker, Christine Pride of Random House/Doubleday, Katherine Fausset of the Curtis Brown Agenct, and Gabriel Delahaye of Gawker.com) who will judge our winning entries during a series of readings right here in NYC (think American Idol without all of the sycophantic boobery, or at least without some of it). The winner will receive a cash prize; the three top final entries will be published in The L Magazine.
Submission deadlines are on a rolling basis for the three semifinal readings; the first reading is March 29, with a deadline of March 9.
Submission guidelines:
Entries should be polished little labors of love of no more than 1,500 well-chosen, un-published words. We want to guffaw and to weep, but remember to keep it lively, lovely and short.
Kindly email submissions in the body of an email or as a Word document in a standard, 12-point font to: fiction@thelmagazine.com.
You can also send a hard copy of your story (please include your email address) via post to:
Fiction Editor
The L Magazine
20 Jay Street, Ste. 207
Brooklyn, NY 11201
While curlicues and bubble fonts make us blush, they also make our poor eyes bleed, so please keep it simple and please double space. Participants may submit no more than 2 stories for consideration.
Last, but not least, please remember that the live readings are a major component of this competition, so if you're not living in the NYC area or cannot arrange to be here for a reading or two between March and June, you may wish to reconsider submitting your work...Style and content are up to you.
Happy Writing,
The L Magazine
- Compensation: Winner will receive a cash prize; finalists receive publication in The L Magazine
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1 comment:
Hello Out There -
I read with interest Melissa Wolf's essay ("Executive Director's Desk") in the recent Women's Arts News (February 2007). I especially enjoyed her third paragraph which starts with the sentence: " I have been saying for a very long time, that it is because of the Feminist Art Movement that the Women's Studio Center exists… ."
I had several reactions: first, I was pleased to see that the historical memory of the Women's Movement has not been lost, and second, I registered a small shock that the women forming interest groups today are so much younger than I am, and therefore were not active during the Second Wave.
I am a member of an online network of women - and some men - interested in women's poetry: WOM-PO. WOM-PO and Red Hen Press are publishing a poetry anthology, Letters to the World , made up of members' poems. Poems will be interspersed with short essays/ meditations, one of which I contributed. I cannot quote the entire passage but wish to note that its theme is the encouragement of women poets in the Twentieth Century by the Second Wave of the feminist movement, and the continuing efforts in that area by such organizations as WOM-PO.
So too your Women's Studio Center continues the great work of the feminist artists and critics of the 1960's and 70's.
By the way, there is a vast exhibit of feminist art going on at the Los Angeles Modern Art Museum; it will run through July 16. See you there.
Thank you, Melissa Wolf, who has reminded for helping to keep current the memory of our historical roots.
Joyce Nower
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