FundsforWriters - April 3, 2020 - The Fear of Writing Poorly

Published: Fri, 04/03/20

Volume 20, Issue 14 | APRIL 3, 2020

Message from the Editor

This is one heck of an April Fool's, if you ask me. On April Fool's Day I was granted the ability to see my grandsons, though from a distance. We blew kisses at each other. . . spoke loud enough to be heard by each other about ten feet away. So hard not to hug. First time I've seen them in a month.

Times are scary. Times are wary. Times are very uncertain.

Not sure of the differences taking place in your house, but in mine we have slowed our lifestyle down to a crawl. . . and I like it. But then, I am an introvert of the highest order.

I write, garden, watch shows with my husband. We started watching comedy, y'all. Like. . . never would have ever thought he nor I would do that. . . yet we do it together and find the time to laugh. I think before we didn't take the time to enjoy such things. The laughter is nice.

I cook. . . still sticking to keto. I have been out twice in a month, and after the last time swore never until all this is over. Too scary. The lady at the post office scared me the most. We had to either exchange money or I had to use their machine with a credit card. "Press whether there's anything flammable, etc etc in the package." Me: "Um, I don't want to touch that." Her: "Oh, I'll do it," which she does then hands me a receipt with hands that I saw hadn't been using sanitizer for a couple of customers ahead of me. Hands that had probably pressed that machine button all day long behind hundreds of other people.

I came home. . . sanitized the interior of the car and washed everything I had on, to include shoes. Nope...not going out again. If I have to eat dry cereal or just the eggs from my chickens three meals a day, so be it. Nobody's seeing this face in public for months.

But somebody out there is keeping my lights on and treating sick people. Somebody is stocking grocery shelves and driving ambulances. Somebody is keeping the peace. Those somebodies are super heroes.

I've harped a lot recently on Facebook about people staying home. I'm adamant about it. As long as others are throwing ball with kids at the park, shopping for new cars, crowding Lowe's for flowers just because it's Spring, this virus continues. We have a new growing hotspot area in my state of South Carolina because people thought COVID-19 was just another flu. They attended a race car event, met in restaurants, and held church services. Now they're dropping like flies.

The virus doesn't care how good your reason is for going out.

Taken from a Harvard epidemiologist's essay on social distancing:

"If your son visits his girlfriend, and you later sneak over for coffee with a neighbor, your neighbor is now connected to the infected office worker that your son’s girlfriend’s mother shook hands with."

People. . . stay home. Unless you are providing a serious job service or are down to crumbs in your pantry, don't go out. Just. . . don't. Please.

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EDITOR’S THOUGHTS

THE FEAR OF WRITING POORLY

Just as a good man forgets his deed the moment he has done it, a genuine writer forgets a work as soon as he has completed it and starts to think about the next one; if he thinks about his past work at all, he is more likely to remember its faults than its virtues. Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. ~W. H. Auden

You might be surprised at how often an author fails to go back and revisit their prior works. If I wasn't reading them into the Talking Book Services for the blind at the South Carolina State Library, I probably wouldn't read my work again either. Like the quote above, reading old work opens an author's eyes to the faults rather than the strengths. I cringe at word choices, phrasing, comma choices, and so on, wondering how many people read those spots and scowled.

Every writer does it.

But for some, the thought of those scowls and regrets stops them from publishing in the first place. Yet, for others, they write a first draft, correct the grammar, and publish, neglecting the layers of edits required in between. Then there's the majority who worry where they fall on that spectrum. Are they holding back too much. . . editing over and over seeking perfection that will never occur? Or are they not editing enough, neglecting the necessary polish that takes a manuscript from mediocre to good?

You will never feel complete.

A lot depends on how versed you are in crafting prose, grammar, syntax, flow, character development, plotting, and imagery. Have you studied the particulars of writing? Have you invested in reading the masters of your genre, noting their strengths? If your experience is limited (childhood doesn't count), then there's so much more room for growth. Seek it before publishing.

Nobody is born writing well. Some grasp it sooner than others, but usually, the successful devoured the craft to prepare themselves. They didn't just sit and type a story then publish it. They agonized over the details of grammar, word choice, and so on. They sought mentors.

Know your craft. Err on the side of overwriting and over-editing than the other way around. Frankly, few people can overwrite or over-edit. They just can't.

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When Writing is Locked Down

By Dan Brotzel

Here in the UK, we are in the first full week of proper lockdown. Schools are closed, there are stringent restrictions on movement and assembly, and the streets are empty. We are seeing the best and the worst of people. Like many, many others, my wife and I are now juggling home-schooling and homeworking, trying to keep our children healthy and happy, worrying about loved ones and wondering if life will ever be the same again.

This not an article about the science or politics around COVID-19. I think and worry about these things, and the terrible stats that grow every day; elsewhere, you can read pretty much nothing else. But at a time like this, you start to value and miss the things you really care about – and a lockdown leaves little time for our writing. What’s to be done?

I very much agree with Hope’s recent piece about the importance of carrying on and using writing to help us stay calm and not give in to panic. As writers, practised in dealing with rejections and long silences and frustrating payment chases, our powers of patience and resilience could be a real asset now.

I can’t really do any sustained creative writing at the moment. But I can still think, still have ideas, still jot things down. Our imaginations aren’t in lockdown! A couple of friends and I have begun writing a story together about a fictional epidemic of kindness. It’s in a shared Google doc, and it’s written as a series of snippets along a timeline, so each of us can just go in and add a paragraph or two when we can. Perhaps nothing will come of it, but the little bursts of creativity are helping to keep us sane.

In my writing group, we were all downcast to think that we wouldn’t be able to meet again for the foreseeable future. But then someone had the bright idea of carrying on by Webex, and we’re trialling our first remote group next week. We’ve all agreed to restrict our reading to 1,000 words, and we are all determined to make it work. It’s good to have things to look forward to.

A friend that I do a regular little editing job for emailed to say that he would be carrying on sending his newsletter, but I could step down if I chose. No way! I emailed back. The more things we can still do as normal, the better! While it’s hard to get stories written because my mind needs a bit more of a run-up, there are odd spaces in the day (early morning or evening, in my case) where you can do a bit of writing – a snatched 40 minutes here and there. I find it easier to write blog posts and articles this way because I can dip in and out of them more easily.

I recently completed a commissioned article called ‘How to write a short story in 10 steps’. And that is exactly how I wrote it – in ten separate steps over a period of several days. After I completed one section, I had a lot of enforced time to really think about the next step – not a way I would normally ever work, but a more thoughtful piece emerged as a result.

What else can we do? Read books and watch films that relate to our work in progress. If you’re writing about post-traumatic stress, find other works that look at the same thing, and see what you can learn. If you’re trying to write a thriller, read (or listen to) some great thrillers, and think about how these books achieve their effects. Whether we like it or not, and in our different ways, we are all living through one of the most powerful writing prompts ever: How will your creativity respond? Keep listening, keep dreaming, keep jotting down ideas. Our imaginations will help us through this.

BIO - Dan Brotzel (@brotzel_fiction) is author of a collection of short stories, Hotel du Jack, and co-author of a new comic novel, Kitten on a Fatberg (Unbound). To order Kitten on a Fatberg for a ten percent discount, quote KITTEN10

COmpetitions

LITERARY TAXIDERMY SHORT STORY COMPETITION
https://literarytaxidermy.com/
$10 ENTRY FEE. Deadline June 4, 2020. A chance to win up to $500 in cash as well as publication in the next Regulus Press Literary Taxidermy Anthology. To enter, you must produce an original story of up to 2,500 words in any genre. The catch: We provide your opening and closing lines chosen from a classic work of literature. You provide the rest. The Literary Taxidermy Short Story Competition is international and open to everyone: professionals, amateurs, students, aspiring writers, non-aspiring writers — even hamsters. No genre requirements. If you have a significant financial hardship that makes paying the entry fee too burdensome, or even if there’s some other reason that would make the fee unreasonable, send us email. We'll consider waiving the fee. There are two contests, each paying the prized. The Huxley Contest and the Morrison Contest, each with different opening and closing lines.

RAYMOND CARVER SHORT STORY CONTEST
https://www.carvezine.com/raymond-carver-contest
$17 ENTRY FEE. Deadline May 15, 2020. The contest opens each year, April 1 - May 15, and prizewinners are published in the annual fall issue in October. Prizes: $2,000, $500, $250, and two $125 (Editor's Choice). Winning stories will be read by three literary agents. Winners announced August 1 and published in fall issue online and in print. Honorable mentions and semi-finalists will be listed online for up to six months. All work submitted will also be considered for non-contest publication. Limit 10,000 words. Literary fiction only.

THE STRINGYBARK TALES WITH A TWIST AWARD
https://www.stringybarkstories.net/
$14 ENTRY FEE. Deadline May 13, 2020. Our competitions are open to all Australian and international authors of all skill levels. Clean the spilt coffee out of your keyboard (or sharpen your goose quill) and start writing a 1,500-word story that will excite the reader. It can be set wherever your fancy takes you. It can involve characters from the past, the future, or today. The only condition? It has to have a twist at the end of the tale! First prize A$350 cash + publication. Second prize A$250 cash + publication. Third prize A$125 cash + publication.

NOEMI PRESS COLLECTION PRIZES
http://www.noemipress.org/contest/
$25 ENTRY FEE. Deadline May 1, 2020. Two prizes of $1,000 each and publication by Noemi Press are given annually for one book-length poetry collection and one book-length work of prose. The editors will judge. Poets at any stage in their career may submit a manuscript of no more than 90 pages. Prose writers at any stage in their career may submit a manuscript (no page limit).

BRIDPORT PRIZE
https://www.bridportprize.org.uk/the-competition/short-story/
£12 ENTRY FEE. Deadline May 31, 2020. First prize: £5,000. The winning story will feature in the Bridport Prize anthology which opens access to other competitions. You will be invited to the awards lunch in Bridport, get a chance to chat with the judges, meet agents, and take part in ongoing publicity. Second prize: £1,000. Your story features in the Bridport Prize anthology, which opens access to other competitions. You will be invited to the awards lunch, have a chance to chat with the judges, meet agents, and take part in ongoing publicity. Third prize: £500. Your story features in the Bridport Prize anthology which opens access to other competitions. You will be invited to the awards lunch, have a chance to chat to the judges, meet agents and take part in ongoing publicity. Ten highly commended receive £100. The prize is open to writers of any nationality writing in English aged 16. Short story: 5,000 words maximum.

WOW! WOMEN ON WRITING Q3 2020 CREATIVE NONFICTION ESSAY CONTEST
https://www.wow-womenonwriting.com/contest.php#EssayContest
$12 ENTRY FEE. Deadline April 30, 2020. Seeking creative nonfiction essays on any topic (200 to 1,000 words) and in any style, from personal essay and memoir to lyric essay and hybrid, and more! The mission of this contest is to reward bravery in real-life storytelling and create an understanding of our world through thoughtful, engaging narratives. Reprints are okay. Limit 300 entries. Prizes consist of 20 winners!

1st Place: $500, publication, interview, gift card good for one item from CreateWriteNow's Store
2nd Place: $300, publication, interview, gift card
3rd Place: $200, publication, interview, gift card
Seven Runners Up receive $25 Amazon Gift Cards, publication, interview, and gift card good for one item from CreateWriteNow's Store
Ten Honorable mentions receive a gift card

WOW! WOMEN ON WRITING SPRING 2020 FLASH FICTION CONTEST
https://www.wow-womenonwriting.com/contest.php
$10 ENTRY FEE. Deadline May 31, 2020. Guest Judge: Literary Agent Quressa Robinson with Nelson Literary Agency. Seeking short fiction of any genre between 250 - 750 words. The mission of this contest is to inspire creativity, communication, and well-rewarded recognition to contestants. Reprints are okay. Open internationally. Limit 300 entries. Prizes include 20 winners.

1st Place: $400, publication, interview, and $25 Amazon Gift Certificate
2nd Place: $300, publication, interview, and $25 Amazon Gift Certificate
3rd Place: $200, publication, interview and $25 Amazon Gift Certificate
Seven Runners Up receive $25 Amazon Gift Cards, publication and interview
Ten Honorable mentions receive $20 Amazon Gift Card
Top ten stories are published in the WOW! Women On Writing ezine, and contestants are interviewed on WOW's blog, The Muffin.

GRANTS / FELLOWSHIPS / CROWDFUNDING

MASSACHUSETTS COVID-19 RELIEF FUND
https://artsake.massculturalcouncil.org/covid-19-relief-fund/
Grants of $1,000 will be available to Massachusetts individual artists and independent teaching artists/humanists/scientists who have lost income derived from their work as a direct result of COVID-19 related cancellations and closures. Pending Council approval, the program guidelines and online application will be available April 8, 2020, at 10am ET, with an April 22, 2020 deadline.

REGIONAL ARTS COMMISSION ARTIST FELLOWSHIP - ST. LOUIS
https://racstl.org/grant/artists-fellowships/
The Regional Arts Commission’s (RAC) Artist Fellowship serves to foster and invest in the careers of St. Louis artists of all disciplines by providing funds to allow for more time and space to study, reflect, experiment, explore, practice, and create. The goal is to advance the individual artist’s creative journey. This annual Artist Fellowship recognizes artistic excellence and honors the work of seasoned artists, advances the work of mid-career artists, and nurtures the work of developing artists. Ten artists are chosen, with each receiving $20,000. Applications open in the summer.

ASIAN AMERICAN WRITERS' WORKSHOP FELLOWSHIPS - NEW YORK
https://aaww.org/fellowships/
AAWW is proud to offer two fellowships for emerging NYC-based Asian American writers. The Open City Fellowship gives writers the opportunity to write narrative nonfiction on the vibrant immigrant communities of New York City. The Margins Fellowship is an opportunity for four emerging creative writers, aged 30 and under, to establish a home for their writing as they make progress on a book-length work. These are $2,500 and $5,000 grants.

KENTUCKY ARTIST ENRICHMENT GRANT - KENTUCKY
https://www.kfw.org/grants/artist-enrichment/
Artist Enrichment applications are due annually on the first Friday in September. The online applications will be live a month before the due date. The Artist Enrichment (AE) grant provides opportunities for feminist artists and arts organizations to further their artistic development to create art for positive social change. Applicants may request funds for a range of activities including artistic development, artist residencies, the exploration of new areas or techniques, or to build a body of work.

CANADIAN COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS - RESEARCH AND CREATION GRANTS
https://canadacouncil.ca/funding/grants/explore-and-create/research-and-creation
The Research and Creation component of Explore and Create supports the initial stages of the creative process. Canadian artists, artistic groups, and arts organizations can apply to develop and make creative works. Grants provide support for creative research, creation, and project development. You may be eligible for Application Assistance to pay someone to help you with the application process if you are experiencing difficulty and self-identify as an artist who is Deaf, hard of hearing, has a disability or is living with a mental illness, or a First Nations, Inuit or Métis artist facing language, geographic or cultural barriers. This is a rolling deadline. Offers up to $25,000.

MAX'S KANSAS CITY PROJECT - NEW YORK STATE
https://maxskansascity.org/emergency-grants/
Max’s Kansas City Project provides emergency funding and resources to professionals in the creative arts who live in New York state. Individuals who have made their living through their art form, either professionally or personally, and demonstrate a financial need for medical aid, legal aid, or housing. The maximum grant is $1,000.

CARNEGIE FUND FOR WRITERS
https://www.carnegiefundforauthors.org/grant-eligibility
The applicant must be an American author who has published at least one full-length work — fiction or nonfiction — that has been published by a mainstream publisher. Applicants cannot have eligibility determined by a work that they paid to have published. A work may have been published in eBook format only, or in hardcover or softcover format, or in more than one format. An applicant must demonstrate need; the emergency may be because of illness or some other urgent need such as fire, flood, hurricane, etc. Documentation should be included with the application: a doctor’s letter or other proof of the emergency situation.

AUTHORS LEAGUE FUND
https://authorsleaguefund.org/apply/
The Fund gives open-ended, interest-free, no-strings-attached loans to professional writers and dramatists who find themselves in financial need because of medical or health-related problems, temporary loss of income or other misfortune.

THE PEN WRITERS FUND
http://www.pen.org/writers-emergency-fund
Emergency fund for professional–published or produced–writers with serious financial difficulties. Depending on the situation, the fund gives grants or loans of up to $2,000.

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF JOURNALISTS & AUTHORS WRITERS EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE
http://www.asja.org/for-writers/weaf/
Helping established freelance writers across the country who, because of advanced age, illness, disability, a natural disaster, or an extraordinary professional crisis, are unable to work. Membership in ASJA not required. No grants to beginning freelancers seeking funding for writing projects; no grants to fund works-in-progress of any kind. Maximum grant: $3,500.

FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS EMERGENCY GRANTS
https://www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org/grants/emergency-grants
Emergency Grants is the only active, multi-disciplinary program that offers immediate assistance of this kind to artists living and working anywhere in the United States, for projects occurring in the U.S. and abroad. Each month FCA receives an average of 95 Emergency Grant applications and makes approximately 12-15 grants. Grants range in amount from $500 to $2,500, and the average grant is now $1,600.

FREELANCE MARKETS

CHICKEN SOUP: AGE IS JUST A NUMBER
http://www.chickensoup.com
Deadline May 31, 2020. We are looking for stories about the humorous or serious sides of life after 60. Write your story or poem in the first person. Do not ghostwrite a story for someone else unless you list that person as the author. You will receive a check for $200 and ten free copies of your book, worth more than $100.

VESTAL REVIEW
https://vestalreview.submittable.com/submit/877/print-edition-fiction-500-words-max
$2 SUBMISSION FEE. Deadline April 30, 2020. Vestal Review is a magazine for new flash (short-shorts) fiction, 500 words or fewer. We don't accept reprints. We will pay $20 extra dollars (for a total of $45) for each accepted story to celebrate our 20th anniversary in March of 2020.

SUBTERRAIN MAGAZINE
https://subterrain.submittable.com/submit
subTerrain publishes original fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, essays, and commentary three times a year. Fiction: a maximum of 3,000 words. (Maximum three stories per issue.) Poetry: we no longer accept unsolicited poetry submissions (unless specifically related to one of our theme issues). Poetry should be single-spaced with stanza breaks. (Maximum five poems per issue.) Creative Nonfiction: a maximum of 4,000 words. (Maximum two articles per issue.) Commentary (social or otherwise): a maximum of 4,000 words. (Maximum two articles per issue.) Poetry: $50 per poem. Prose: ten cents per word (to a maximum of $500).

THE INTROSPECTIONIST
http://www.theintrospectionist.com/Home/Submissions
Please read our editorial calendar and include the edition and theme for which your article idea would apply. Please do not submit completed articles; we will return them unread. Every month The Introspectionist chooses a theme and does a deep analysis of that theme. We try to look at a given theme from all angles and examine it in a detail that cannot be met with a single article. Therefore, we are always looking for unique angles on any of our themes. We look for articles that both tell a story and inform. We publish persuasive essays, creative nonfiction, and in-depth informational pieces. We also publish one piece of short fiction and one poem every month, which relate directly to the theme of that issue. Each month we publish articles ranging in length from 100 words up to 5,000 words. Our average article will range in length from 1,000 to 2,000 words. For a department piece (from 100 to 500 words), we pay $25. For a feature article up to 2,000 words, we pay $100. For a feature article up to 5,000 words, we pay $200. Short fiction pieces pay $25. Poems pay $25.

LIGUORIAN
https://www.liguorian.org/submissions-and-rights-and-permissions/
Articles must not exceed 2,200 words. Personal essays should be limited to 1,000. Fiction submissions should be approximately 2,000 words. Style and vocabulary should be popular and readable. Manuscript submissions are paid at a rate of 12-15 cents per published word upon acceptance. Liguorian conveys a consistently joyful message of God’s plentiful redemption. We communicate timely pastoral messages to Catholics on matters of the faith, practices, Christian living, and social justice in order to enhance their conversion to Christ. Liguorian represents the best of the Catholic Tradition.

CRAFT
https://www.craftliterary.com/submit/
We focus on the craft of writing and how the elements of craft make a good story shine. We feature new and republished fiction, critical pieces on craft, interviews, book annotations, and much more. Our CRAFT Fiction categories are open year-round to any emerging or established author. We accept submissions from international writers. We accept simultaneous submissions but ask that you inform us immediately and withdraw your work if your story is accepted elsewhere. We pay our authors $100 for original flash fiction and $200 for original short fiction.

RENDEZ-VOUS
https://short-edition.com/en/contest/general-submissions-rendez-vous-july-2019-issue/guidelines
Sometimes the monthly Rendez-Vous will be themed; sometimes it won’t. But each collection will be coherent and carefully crafted by our editorial team. Submissions must be short stories and poems of a maximum 8,000 characters, spaces included of children's stories of maximum 7,000 characters, spaces included. We pay $125 for each selected short story and $75 for each poem as an advance payment on the royalties that each author will receive on a yearly basis from the Short Story Dispenser subscriptions.

US DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE - WRITER
https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/564213800
Deadline April 8, 2020. Location Washington DC. Salary $102,663-$133,465 per year. Prepares and/or provides guidance to prospective authors on preparing documents which present controversial concepts on program eligibility; loan and grant processing; housing/community services program issues; environmental and engineering. Prepares new/revised material, analyzing, researching, and evaluating all available sources of information and reference materials in the subject matter field. Writes/edits complex agency regulations, directives, and policy guidance for the Rural Development mission area which may require analyzing authorizing statute, existing government or departmental policies and procedures, or other documentation.

OLIVE OIL TIMES
https://www.oliveoiltimes.com/write/
Olive Oil Times is seeking freelance journalists to write short articles and updates on olive oil-related current events, industry news and feature articles. Excellent writing skills and prior reporting experience necessary. Pays $30-$60 per hour.

INSTRUCTOR WRITER
https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/564299900
Deadline April 6, 2020. Pays $76,721 to $99,741 per year. This position is located at Ft. Rucker, Alabama, home of the United States Army Aviation Center of Excellence. Present graduate-level lectures, seminars, and other instruction to Warrant Officer Staff and Senior resident and nonresident courses. Perform liaison and interacts with faculty of schools, colleges, and universities which deals with with military leadership concepts and application, ethics, performance and motivational counseling, human resource management. Conduct research and coordinate graduate-level student research in the field of military leadership concepts and application, ethics, performance and motivational counseling, human resource management.

WRITER-EDITOR
https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/564452500
Deadline April 8, 2020. Location Nellis AFB, Nevada. Pays $53,694 to $69,803 per year. Writes materials on a variety of subjects such as reports, articles, pamphlets, scripts, or speeches. Edits manuscripts and other written materials prepared by others. Assists subject-matter experts to meet required publication standards.

Publishers/agents

RED ADEPT PUBLISHING
https://redadeptpublishing.com/about-us/
Red Adept Publishing is an independent publisher of genre fiction. Since our first release in 2012, we have published over 100 novels, including four national bestsellers (NYT and USA Today).

HUB CITY PRESS
https://hubcity.submittable.com/submit
Hub City Press publishes books of literary fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, regional nonfiction, nature, and art. We are seeking new and extraordinary voices from the American South. Well-crafted, high-quality works by new and established authors. We are particularly interested in books with a strong sense of place.

CLOCKWISE PRESS
https://www.clockwisepress.com/submissions
Clockwise Press publishes middle-grade, young adult, and children’s books with a focus on diversity and global themes. Please note that we do not publish adult books.

MANSFIELD PRESS
http://mansfieldpress.net/submissions/
Mansfield Press publishes exciting, challenging and adventurous poetry, fiction, and literary nonfiction by Canadian writers at all stages of their careers. That’s Canadian writers and only Canadian writers.