FundsforWriters - February 19, 2021 - The Argument for Contests

Published: Fri, 02/19/21

VOLUME 21, ISSUE 8 | FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Message from Hope

My white board is filling up with the ins and outs of the second Sterling Banks book in my new series. If I did not have it and my notebook and my spreadsheet, I do not know what I'd do in writing a novel anymore.

Some have asked how I put a book together, and at first I could not answer them. So I started paying attention to what I did.

I start with a blank notebook (see below). I scribble ideas and a rough concept for the opening chapter. I then set up a spreadsheet (right) with a guestimate of how many chapters, and dates going out for three to four months so that I can log in my 1,000 words per day. That spreadsheet tallies word count, average word per chapter, and the 25%, 50%, and 75% points of the book.

The white board (upper right) is to list the characters (trust me, you can forget them and misspell them), post red herrings and ideas that need to be brought around, maybe questions to answer.

I have a second spreadsheet with all characters and descriptions and the books they are in (a series bible).

Some will argue with my method, and some will clap for it, but it works for me. Just this morning I reviewed my white board, slapped my forehead and went, "You forgot the guy she found on Facebook." So I'll go back today and weave him into a couple of chapters. That's how I write. A pure pantser at heart, I write the story, keep my notes, then take two steps forward and one step putting the pieces together.

As someone who loves editing, this is the world I enjoy. Hopefully, it works well enough for my readers.

C. Hope Clark
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EDITOR’S THOUGHTS

WHEN YOU'RE DONE WITH YOUR MISSION

One topic I often discuss within FundsforWriters is making time to write, which also means making time to read. When someone says, "when I have more time . . . " I tune them out. I just do. They are saying in that moment that they have no time to read or write, or to listen to me talk about it.

Some of you may find this conversation distasteful. I understand, but this is me and has nothing personal to do with you.

I'd rather have discussions with those who do have the time to read or write. Or rather, make the time to read or write. Time is valuable. Would you strike up a conversation with a nuclear engineer about their work, then tell them you have no interest in what they are doing?

I recently had a boy on a church mission ask to speak to me on Messenger. I looked at his profile and deemed him safe and even nice. Upon opening the discussion, he asked what I wrote. I told him mystery and gave him my website. He said he thought that cool and he loved reading. Then he asked me to attend his church service (virtually). I agreed to pop in and listen, which I did. A week later, he contacted me again, asked how I was (almost a script) again, to invite me to the service. He hadn't had a chance to look at my books when I asked. I told him I sensed he was simply gathering numbers for the service. He admitted he really didn't have time to read, and that he wouldn't be reading until he was done with his mission.

He was seeking a following.
I was seeking a following.
We didn't fit each other's following.

You seek readers willing to read, and hopefully who love the subject, premise, character, setting, or something that you write. But when someone doesn't read, or doesn't read your genre, they are not worth the time to convince. Do not feel insulted. It's nothing personal. It's who they are and how they are wired, and it means they are not your targeted audience. That young man and I disconnected and moved on.

Spend the little time you have on this planet seeking those who are seeking good writers to read. Do not waste your time convincing a Nebraska mechanic that he ought to be painting South Carolina landscapes.

Do not think everyone wants to be on your mission, but when you find those who do, treat them well.

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HOPE'S APPEARANCES

Email: [email protected] to schedule events, online or otherwise. There's starting to be life out there!

February 24, 2021 - Zoom - Scottsdale Society of Women Writers - 8 PM Eastern
March 21, 2021 - Keynote - St. Andrews Women's Club, Chapin, SC - 7 PM Eastern
April, 2021 - TBD - Signing - Edisto Bookstore, Edisto Island, SC 3-5 PM
April, 2021 - TBD - Signing - The Coffee Shelf, Chapin, SC
May 1, 2021 - Signing - Main Street Reads, Summerville, SC - 11 AM

SUCCESS QUOTE

“We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes – understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.”

– Arianna Huffington

SUccess Story

Hi Hope,

Paul Weidknecht here again with my annual request to run our contest in FundsforWriters. As always, we are appreciative and grateful for your support of our contest every year.

By the way, I don't know if I ever mentioned this or not, but years ago I wrote an email to you thanking you for curating such a complete and varied contest list after I had won a flash fiction contest in the UK (one I would have never found on my own). You asked if you could include this correspondence in a future newsletter and I agreed. As a result of you posting my success story, one of your subscribers spotted it and, being local to the Bethlehem, Pennsylvania area, joined our group!

All the best and stay healthy,
Paul Weidknecht
https://bwgwritersroundtable.com/

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Featured article

The Argument for Contests

By Joan Dempsey

Three years in a row, I applied for a significant award from the Elizabeth George Foundation.

The first two times they said, "sorry, no."

And then one day . . .

I was working in my writing shed, and I'll never forget the sight of my partner jogging across the backyard, waving an envelope that had arrived for me by certified mail. I carefully opened the envelope (which is still pinned to my bulletin board) and read . . .

I'm pleased to tell you that your application made it to the final round and the board's decision was to fund you in the amount of $13,200 . . . you'll find a check for that amount enclosed.

You can imagine my excitement!

That award paid for a month-long research and writing trip to Warsaw, Poland, and a two-week research trip to Washington, D.C.

You know what? I almost didn't apply that third time. I honestly almost didn't apply the second time, either. Applying takes time and energy and entry fees, and rejection is never any fun. I remember thinking that if they didn't approve me the first time, why would they do it a second or third time?

But throughout my writing career, I have pushed myself not only to write, but also to take care of the business of writing, which includes applying again and again for awards and prizes that lend credence to a writer's seriousness of purpose.

My closest writing friends call it "being in the game." We believe that as long as we're submitting, we're still "in the game," we're still "real" writers.

Here's another example.

In late 2017, the year my novel was published, and in early 2018, I submitted my novel to 29 different writing competitions.

And 27 of my submissions were rejected!

But here's what else happened:

I won the Poets & Writers Maureen Egan Writers Exchange Award
I won a Bronze IPPY (Independent Publishers Award)
I was a finalist for the Lambda Literary, Foreword Indies, and Sarton Women's Book Awards

Those two awards and the finalist nods got me the attention of numerous literary agents, landed me on the American Library Association's list of recommended books, and got the attention of Poets & Writers Magazine, which named me one of "5 more writers over 50" to watch. For the Egan award, I got a whirlwind week in New York City's literary community along with a cash stipend and a month's stay at the Jentel artist's retreat. All of that meant more readers bought my novel, too.

I share this to encourage you—persistence is key in this whacky writing business, and you can't win the game if you're not playing in the game!

Here's a good place to start if you want to get in the game: you'll find a great list of writing competitions at the wonderful Funds for Writers website, including a listing for the Chapter One Prize for Novelists, which is a prize I founded this year.

Chapter One Prize

The Chapter One Prize for Novelists is awarded for an outstanding first chapter of an unpublished novel. First prize is $1,000; 2nd is $500; and 3rd is $250. The prize is open to anyone over 18 writing a novel in English in any genre for adult or YA readers.

If you're writing a novel, or know someone who is, consider submitting to the Chapter One Prize. The deadline is March 1, and winners will be announced March 15.

Here's to this whacky and wonderful business of writing!

BIO - Winner of the 2017 Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award from Poets & Writers, and named by Poets & Writers magazine as one of "5 more over 50" writers to watch, Joan Dempsey is the author of the novel, This Is How It Begins, which won the bronze 2018 Independent Publisher Book Award for literary fiction. The novel was also a finalist for a 2018 Lambda Literary Award, 2017 Foreword Indies Book of the Year Award and 2018 Sarton Women's Book Award. Joan received her MFA degree and teaching certificate in creative writing from Antioch University Los Angeles. She is the host of the free online community, the Gutsy Great Novelist Writers Studio, where serious creative writers gather to finish their novels.

COmpetitions

CHAPTER ONE PRIZE FOR NOVELISTS
https://gutsygreatnovelist.com/chapter-one-prize/
$20 ENTRY FEE. Deadline March 1, 2021. The Gutsy Great Novelist Chapter One Prize is awarded for an outstanding first chapter of an unpublished novel. First prize is $1,000; 2nd is $500; and 3rd is $250. The prize is open to anyone over 18 writing a novel in English in any genre for adult or YA readers.

BETHLEHEM SHORT STORY CONTEST
https://bwgwritersroundtable.com/short-story-award/
$15 ENTRY FEE. Deadline March 31, 2021. Theme: An Element of Mystery: Sweet, Funny, and Strange Tales of Intrigue. We seek mystery stories (broadly interpreted) of 2,000 words or fewer. First prize: $250 and consideration for inclusion in the BWG print anthology. If it is not accepted for publication in the print anthology, it will be featured in an upcoming edition of the Bethlehem Writers Roundtable. (While there is no guarantee of print publication, all previous contest winners have been accepted to be published in print.) Second prize: $100 and publication in the Bethlehem Writers Roundtable. Third prize: $50 and publication in the Bethlehem Writers Roundtable. Final judge is Charlaine Harris.

THE BERGMAN PRIZE
https://changes.press/The-Bergman-Prize-2
NO ENTRY FEE. Deadline March 1, 2021. The Bergman Prize awards $10,000 and publication to the author of a first or second collection of poetry. The prizewinner receives a generous publishing contract, national distribution through PGW, extensive advertising & publicity, 100 free copies of their book, as well as a two-week summer residency at Castello San Basilio (Southern Italy) in 2021 and a fall book launch at McNally Jackson in New York City.

WATERMAN FUND WILDERNESS ESSAY CONTEST
https://appalachiajournal.submittable.com/submit/181459/annual-waterman-fund-wilderness-themed-essay-contest-for-emerging-writers
NO ENTRY FEE. Deadline March 2, 2021. In 2020 a once-in-a-century global pandemic affected almost all aspects of life, forcing us to change how we relate to the world and one another. In this historical moment, in what ways has your connection to the natural world changed–and in what ways has it remained the same? The winning essay will be awarded $1,500. The runner-up essay will receive $500. Both will be published online and in Appalachia. Essay winners will be selected and announced by mid-summer 2021. For the purposes of this contest, an emerging writer is considered someone who has a solid writing background or interest, but has not yet published a major work of prose on this topic or been featured in national publications.

ANTHOLOGY POETRY AWARD
https://anthology-magazine.com/awards/poetry-prize/
€10 ENTRY FEE. Deadline July 31, 2021. Established to recognise and encourage excellence in the craft of poetry writing and to provide a platform for publication, it is open to original and previously unpublished poems in the English language. Entries are invited from poets of all nationalities, living anywhere in the world. Poems submitted must be on the theme of ‘Freedom’ and should not exceed 40 lines. There is no limit to entries per person. The winner will receive a €500 cash prize and the chance to see their work published in a future issue of Anthology.

PHOEBE FICTION CONTEST
https://phoebe.submittable.com/submit
$7 ENTRY FEE. Deadline March 15, 2021. First prize $500 and publication in phoebe 50.2 (online issue). Limit one submission and 5,000 words. Short fiction only.

PHOEBE NONFICTION CONTEST
https://phoebe.submittable.com/submit
$7 ENTRY FEE. Deadline March 15, 2021. First prize $500 and publication in phoebe 50.2 (online issue). Limit one submission and 5,000 words. Creative nonfiction only.

GREG GRUMMER POETRY PRIZE
https://phoebe.submittable.com/submit
$7 ENTRY FEE. Deadline March 15, 2021. First prize $500 and publication in phoebe 50.2 (digital issue). Limit three to five poems per submission, totaling no more than ten pages.

ROOM FICTION CONTEST
https://room.submittable.com/submit
ENTRY FEE $35-$55 CAD. Deadline March 16, 2021. Room's contests are open to women (transgender and cisgender), trans men, Two-Spirit, and nonbinary people. Each entry must be original, unpublished, not submitted or accepted elsewhere for publication or previously to Room, and not entered simultaneously in any other contest. First prize $1,000 + publication in Room. Second prize $250 + publication in Room. Honorable mention $50 publication on Room’s website. Limit 3,500 words.

KELP SPRING CHAPBOOK COMPETITION
https://kelpjournal.submittable.com/submit
$14 ENTRY FEE. Deadline March 15, 2021. We are offering $500 and publication on Kelp Books to the winner of our Spring chapbook competition. Please send your best 25-30 pages of poetry. All poets from around the world are welcome to submit. We are particularly interested in nature, oceanic, and surf-related themes. The submission fee comes with a free digital copy of the winning collection. Two runners up will be named, with consideration for publication in Kelp Journal's summer issue.

THE CATERPILLAR POETRY PRIZE 2021
https://www.thecaterpillarmagazine.com/
€14 ENTRY FEE. Deadline March 31, 2021. The Caterpillar Poetry Prize is an annual prize for an unpublished poem written by an adult for children aged 7–11. The prize is €1,000 plus publication in the summer issue of The Caterpillar. The Prize is open to anyone (over 16), as long as the work is original and previously unpublished. The poems can be on any subject.

2021 LIGHTHOUSE POETRY SERIES
http://www.csupoetrycenter.com/lighthouse-poetry-series
$25 ENTRY FEE. Deadline March 31, 2021. The Cleveland State University Poetry Center welcomes submissions for the Lighthouse Poetry Series. The Lighthouse Poetry Series publishes contemporary poetry from poets with any history of publication. The winner will receive $1,000, publication, and a standard royalty contract.

WILD WOMEN STORY CONTEST FROM TULIPTREE REVIEW
http://www.tuliptreepub.com/wild-women-contest.html
$20 ENTRY FEE. Deadline March 8, 2021. Our third annual Wild Women story contest is open! We are looking for stories, written by anyone, whose main character embodies the Wild Woman spirit. Open to fiction, nonfiction, and poetry (as long as it tells a story). First prize is $1,000 and publication in the Spring/Summer issue of TulipTree Review. Additional contributors to the issue receive $50.

THE SELFIES
http://selfiesbookawards.com/
$50 ENTRY FEE. Deadline March 1, 2021. This exciting initiative aims to discover new talent and reward the very best indie-published titles each year. The prize for the winning authors is $1,000 cash plus a $5,000 package of advertising in Publishers Weekly, both in the print magazine and online. In addition, CBE will display the winning titles at five trade shows on the CBE schedule in 2021-22, and feature the titles in an issue of the CBE Library Newsletter, which goes to 30,000 librarians. All shortlisted authors will receive free entrance to the 2021 American Library Association’s Annual Conference, a book display at one trade show on the CBE schedule in 2021-22 and be featured in the CBE Library Newsletter.

GLITTER BOMB AWARD
https://www.limpwristmagazine.com/glitterbombaward
NO ENTRY FEE. Deadline February 28, 2021. The award is for one outstanding poem by a poet of any stage of her/his/their career. The Glitter Bomb Award is a contest with no entry fee that is open to LGBTQ/non-binary poets and their allies. A submission may include three poems with each poem being a max of two pages and a submission being a max of six pages. Submissions are open internationally, to any poet writing in English. The winner will receive a cash prize of $500, publication of his/her/their winning poem in the spring 2021 issue of Limp Wrist, a feature spot in the Wild & Precious Life Series, and a feature spot in Kai Coggin’s Wednesday Night Poetry series. Each finalist will be awarded a cash prize of $50 and have their poems published in the spring 2021 issue of Limp Wrist.

GRANTS / FELLOWSHIPS / CROWDFUNDING

SKY ARTS RSL WRITERS AWARD
https://rsliterature.org/award/sky-arts-rsl-writers-awards/
Deadline April 30, 2021. We are delighted to invite applications for a new set of Awards in partnership with Sky Arts to celebrate and nurture British writers of colour at the beginnings of their careers. Five Awards are available, providing each winner with ten free mentoring sessions over the course of 12 months with an RSL Fellow writing in their form, as well as two sessions with Awards Ambassador Bernardine Evaristo. Five RSL Fellows will mentor five emerging writers in nonfiction, screenwriting, fiction, poetry and playwriting.

HEMINGWAY-PFEIFFER WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE
https://hemingway.astate.edu/2020/11/04/hemingway-pfeiffer-museum-announces-2021-writer-in-residence-program/
Deadline February 28, 2021. The Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center in Piggott, Arkansas, is pleased to announce its 2021 writer-in-residence position. The residency will be July 6–August 2, 2021, and includes lodging at a beautiful loft apartment on the downtown square in Piggott over the City Market coffee shop. The writer-in-residence will also have the opportunity to work in the studio where Ernest Hemingway worked on A Farewell to Arms during an extended stay with his wife’s family in 1928. The residency includes a $1000 stipend to help cover food and transportation.

NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS FELLOWSHIP - CREATIVE WRITING
https://www.arts.gov/grants/creative-writing-fellowships/program-description
Deadline March 10, 2021. The National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowships program offers $25,000 grants in prose (fiction and creative nonfiction) and poetry to published creative writers that enable recipients to set aside time for writing, research, travel, and general career advancement. Competition for fellowships is extremely rigorous. We typically receive more than 1,600 applications each year.

STEVEN SCHWARTZBERG GRANTS FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS
https://dramatistsguildfoundation.submittable.com/submit
Writers are the beating heart of theater, whom we rely upon to take us on journeys and inspire us to think. During these unprecedented times, DGF has created the Steven Schwartzberg Grants to provide financial support for mental health and wellness services for writers. To help connect writers to therapists, DGF has partnered with Advekit, an online therapist matching service, to expand access to mental health support that might be out of your reach. Please complete the online form to receive $1,000 toward therapy through Advekit, courtesy of DGF.

COVID EMERGENCY GRANTS FOR DRAMATISTS
https://dramatistsguildfoundation.submittable.com/submit
This grant is for dramatists (playwrights, composers, lyricists, librettists) to apply for emergency financial assistance from the Dramatists Guild Foundation due to COVID-19 related circumstances.

LOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL ARTS GRANTS
https://lmcc.net/resources/artist-residencies/arts-center-residency/
Deadline February 28, 2021. This Open Call will provide short-term, project-based residencies to artists and creative practitioners whose work is concerned with the broader themes of equity and sustainability. These are thematic anchors that applicants may either choose to address explicitly or elaborate on how their practice and projects are relevant. The residency will take place in the open-plan studios at LMCC's Arts Center on Governors Island in two sessions: Session One: May 4 – August 20, 2021, and Session Two: August 30 – December 17, 2021.

JO ANN WALKER POETRY SCHOLARSHIP
https://www.emrys.org/joann-walker-poetry-scholarship
Deadline February 28, 2021. This scholarship awards $500 to any resident of North or South Carolina who would like to attend a poetry workshop to enhance their writing craft. Special consideration is given to particularity original work. The goal of the scholarship is to encourage individuals residing in North and South Carolina to attend regional and national poetry workshops. $500 awarded annually. Winner will be recognized on the Emrys Foundation’s website and social media channels

FREELANCE MARKETS / JOBS

THE DREAD MACHINE
https://www.thedreadmachine.com/submit/submit-anthology/
Deadline February 25, 2021. The Dread Machine seeks submissions for our first annual anthology. Our theme this year is 1986. All submissions must inspire dread. Genre definitions tend to be subjective, so we encourage you to become familiar with the stories we’ve published here to get an idea of what sort of content we’re seeking. All submissions must be original, unpublished, and between 3,000 and 10,000 words. The plot of your story must actively take place in 1986. We aren’t looking for stories that reminisce; avoid framing your story as a “back in the day” narrative. Authors whose stories are accepted for publication will receive payment ($0.08 per word), a free copy of the premium hardcover, and two free copies of the paperback.

IT GETS EVEN BETTER: STORIES OF QUEER POSSIBILITY
https://speculativelyqueer.moksha.io/publication/it-gets-even-better/guidelines
Deadline February 27, 2021. We've set the upper limit at 15,000 words to allow for flexibility, but most acceptances are likely to be under 7,000 words. There is no minimum. Pays eight cents per word (USD), plus a pro-rata share of 50 percent of royalties. An anthology of queer speculative fiction on the theme of positive queer possibility.

CHICKEN SOUP: COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS
https://www.chickensoup.com/story-submissions/possible-book-topics
Deadline February 28, 2021. Please share your stories about handling challenges in your life, finding the silver linings, and counting your blessings, whether the challenges you are facing are COVID-19 related or other kinds. Stories can be serious or funny, but definitely should be inspirational and heartwarming. Submit up to 1,200 words. Pays $200 and ten copies.

THE WILD HUNT ANTHOLOGY
http://aanpress.com/submissions.html
Deadline February 28, 2021. Theme: Upon a Twice Time. This book is the follow-up anthology to Upon a Once Time (2020), and will follow the same theme of seeking 1,000-3,000 word stories mashing up two fairy tales and a genre of the author's choice. We pay up to eight cents per word for the stories we publish. All of our books are limited editions of between 100 and 125 copies and we prefer to print physical books over creating ebooks.

PSEUDOPOD
https://pseudopod.org/submissions/
PseudoPod is a genre magazine in audio form. We’re looking for horror: dark, weird fiction. We run the spectrum from grim realism or crime drama, to magic-realism, to blatantly supernatural dark fantasy. We publish highly literary stories reminiscent of Poe or Lovecraft as well as vulgar shock-value pulp fiction. We don’t split hairs about genre definitions, and we do not observe any taboos about what kind of content can appear in our stories. We pay the pro rate of eight cents per word for original fiction, $100 flat rate for short story reprints, and $20 flat rate for flash fiction reprints (stories below 1,500 words). We want short stories between about 1,500 and 6,000 words. The sweet spot is around 4,500 words, which is close to 30 minutes of story.

BOOKFOX
https://www.pw.org/job_listing/freelance_writer_for_the_craft_of_fiction
Bookfox is seeking a freelance writer to write articles helping fiction writers. Payment is roughly $500 per post, depending on length and research. Posts range from 4,000 words to 6,000 words. This is a freelance position, but could turn into a full time position if we are a good match.

Publishers/agents

THE GOOD LITERARY AGENCY
https://www.thegoodliteraryagency.org/submissions/
We will always be looking for great literary fiction and particularly for fiction that changes how we think. And likewise beautiful general/reading group fiction where we can just lose ourselves in the characters and stories. But right now we are particularly looking for genre fiction: crime and thriller, contemporary love stories, family sagas, science fiction and fantasy, historical romance. Overall, we aren't don't see as much nonfiction as fiction, so we're definitely interested in any submissions that are bold, challenging and utterly unique. We will consider proposals for books dealing with the big-hitting nonfiction subjects like history, science, economics and politics as well as more popular subjects like self-help, lifestyle, pop culture, technology and travel. We are also always interested in biography and memoir.

RUBIN PFEFFER CONTENT, LLC
https://www.rpcontent.com/
Rubin Pfeffer Content, LLC is a literary agency exclusively representing children’s and young adult literature, as well as content that will serve educational publishers and digital developers. Working closely with authors and illustrators, RPC is devoted to producing long-lasting children’s literature: work that exemplifies outstanding writing, innovative creativity, and artistic excellence.