submit my writing

...made a list and sent it off. I have no expectations, other than to say “I did this!”

I need to pitch my writing if I ever expect anyone to want to read it!

http://www.plainviewpress.net/pages/submissions.html

I need to submit to these folks!

What is wrong with me? Who AM I?

http://www.fundsforwriters.com/grants.htm

2009 RROFIHE TROPHY
http://www.opencity.org/rrofihe.html

$10 ENTRY FEE
For an unpublished short story up to 5,000 words. Winner receives $500 cash, trophy. publication in Open City.
Deadline October 15, 2009.

HOUSTON WRITERS GUILD NOVEL CONTEST
http://www.houstonwritersguild.org/Contests.htm

$12 -$15 ENTRY FEE
Any genre. $500 first prize. Submit first ten pages of your novel, book, screenplay plus a synopsis. English only. Opened
to all unpublished and not under contract novelists and screenwriters anywhere in the world. Deadline July 30, 2009.
http://www.spoonfulsofstoriescontest.com/registration_form/

NO ENTRY FEE
Cheerios® is searching for the next great children’s book author. It could be you! Just enter your original children’s book story by July 15, 2009. Limit 500 words. The Cheerios New Author Contest encourages aspiring authors to write and submit an original story for a book for children ages 3 to 8. Tne (1) Grand Prize of $5,000 cash will be awarded. In addition to the cash prize, the Grand Prize winning story submission will be offered to a reputable Children’s Book Publishing company for possible future publication. Two (2) First Prizes of $1,000 each will be awarded. The $1,000 First Prizes will be awarded as checks made payable to each of the two (2) First Prize winners. You are not eligible to enter and will be disqualified if you are a professional writer, such as a novelist, magazine, blogger or newspaper writer who writes books or articles for pay, or you have authored a work of fiction that has been published or is about to be published in exchange for payment.

CHEERIOS SPOONFULS OF STORIES CHILDREN'S BOOK CONTEST

LUDWIG VOGELSTEIN FOUNDATION
Diana Braunschweig, Exec. Dir.
4001 Inglewood Ave. Suite 101-309
Redondo Beach, CA 90278
-if doesn’t work, try
PO Box 510, Shelter Island, NY 11964-0510

No telephone inquiries. We do not consider performing arts categories but grants in the fine arts (painting, sculpture, printmaking, etc. – NO digital/film/video/photography) and various literary arts (fiction, including playwriting, prose, poetry, and creative nonfiction) and for certain unaffiliated scholarly and/or research projects. These are one-time grants to individuals only. Deadlines are in mid-spring for submissions.

JOHN ANSON KITTREDGE EDUCATIONAL FUND.
c/o Key Trust Company of Maine, P.O. Box 1054, Augusta, ME 04332
Application Address, P.O. Box 382203, Cambridge, MA 02238-2203
Grants awarded to artists in very special circumstances. $1,000 – $10,000. Initial contact by letter stating purpose, amount requested, period of funding, supporting letter.

There is a shadow behind the expectations I have put upon me. Other people tell me to write, publish, share. I’m still so scared. I don’t know what it is going to take for me to get a reality check, a fact check, a sense of belief. I tell myself to wait until you do this, wait until you do that, but I know that life does not happen when you’re waiting. It happens when you’re doing.

I do a lot. When it comes down to it, I am always busy. Maybe that is the problem. Maybe being busy isn’t enough. It never seems like enough though it is so much.

I run a lot. But it might not be enough. Will I get my return from my investment? I think so. I believe so.

I’ve started to write a lot more. Will I get my return from my investment? Only time and patience will tell, I suppose.

“Pressure is nothing more than the shadow of great opportunity.” -Michael Johnson.

The Sun is the main one. I need to add to this list and get some of my pieces ready to send! That’s the problem though I take forever to make my pieces “perfect” and ready to send and then I don’t send them. It’s ridiculous!
http://windpub.com/submitting.htm

Here Are a Few from about.com. The website: http://fictionwriting.about.com/od/thebusinessofwriting/tp/under5000.htm

I will submit to one or two of these by the end of January.

1. American Short Fiction
A quarterly, American Short Fiction strives to discover and publish new fiction in which transformations of language, narrative, and character occur swiftly, deftly, and unexpectedly. They are drawn to evocative language, unique subject matter, and an overall sense of immediacy. Representative authors include Charles Baxter, Susan Steinberg, and Ander Monson. Submit work to: Fiction Editor Stacey Swann, American Short Fiction, P.O. Box 301209, Austin, TX 78703-0021.

2. Five Points: A Journal of Literature and Art
Five Points is out of Georgia State University and has published work by Madison Smartt Bell, Ursula Hegi, and Alice Hoffman. Prefers stories or self-contained novel excerpts in the 7500-word range. Pays $15 per printed page. No simultaneous submissions and does not accept mss from May-August. Mail manuscripts to: Five Points, P.O. Box 3999, Atlanta, Georgia 30302-3999. Estab. 1996, circ. 2,000.

Their website: http://www.webdelsol.com/Five_Points/

3. The Georgia Review
“We seek the very best work whether by Nobel laureates and Pulitzer Prize winners or by little-known (or even previously unpublished) writers.” Pays $40/printed page. Does not read mss from May 15-August 15. Has published work by Guy Davenport, Charlie Smith, and James Tate. Send submissions to: Acting Editor, Stephen Corey, The Georgia Review, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602-9009. Estab. 1947, circ. 5,000.

http://www.uga.edu/garev/submissions.html

The Steps:
1.) Find three great poems and short stories.
2.) Spiff them up and edit them.
3.) Get the addresses together.
4.) Buy envelopes and self addressed envelopes.
5.) Mail them off and let them try to find a home.

I got a letter published in Road & Track once, but that obviously doesn’t count. Somedays I get worried that if I don’t send stuff out, I’ll stop writing. And somedays, I do.