A Technical Copywriter for the KM Team is needed to write new copy and amend existing copy for the customer pages on www.three.co.uk, Planet3 and the contact centre help pages on ASK 3, to cover 6-12 months maternity leave. The position is based either in Glasgow or Maidenhead. Immediate start! View website for details.
Flux is a young-adult fiction imprint (age 13 to 17) publishing novel-length works of fiction (typically not fewer than 35,000 words). Flux are always looking for new work from writers and accept submissions directly from authors (including first-time authors) and from literary agents. View website for full details.
http://www.fluxnow.com/submission_guidelines.php
UK based NarrowBoat – The Inland Waterways Heritage Magazine – is a magazine for inland waterway enthusiasts, with special emphasis on historical and heritage subjects. It is published quarterly by Waterways World Ltd. NarrowBoat publishes news, photographs and illustrated articles on all aspects of the history and heritage of Britain’s inland waterways. The emphasis is on well-researched articles on topics of major importance, accompanied by shorter articles based on new research, detailed interpretation of old photographs, preservation of the inland waterways’ existing heritage, museum and archive development, as well as readers’ views and questions.Payment is made to contributors of news items, feature articles, photographs and drawings published in NarrowBoat. See website for contact details.
http://www.narrowboatmagazine.com/writing.html
Northern Frights Publishing is a micro publisher specializing in quality Genre Fiction. They welcome Horror and Science Fiction especially, but are open to anything of quality. NFP publishes anthologies for short and micro fiction and, beginning in 2010, they will be on the hunt for quality novelists. Payment for short fiction is $0.01US per word up to $50.00, and one contributor copy, paid on publication through Paypal. View website for details.
http://northernfrightspublishing.webs.com/guidelines.htm
The Tony Doyle Bursary for New Writing opens its doors once more to a new generation of writers. The aim of the bursary is to encourage television drama about Ireland by writers new to the medium. This may include writers experienced in other forms of fiction as well as new writers. The Tony Doyle Bursary for New Writing provides a fantastic opportunity for writers new to television. Previous winners of the prestigious £2,000 television writer’s award are Bill Murphy, Brian Dungan, Dominque Maloney, Danny Stack, Abbie Spallen and Martin McSweeney and Martin McNamara. View website for more details.
Yoga Diary is a first-person 250-word story about a pivotal moment in the writer’s yoga experience. If you would like to share your transformational story and submit a Yoga Diary for consideration, please e-mail your 250-word submission. Specify Yoga Diary in the subject line. If chosen, they’ll require a photograph of you to run with the story. See website for details.
Submissions are now being accepted for “The Zombist: Tales from the Undead West”. Stories must have zombies in them and adhere to the “Old West” time period. Submissions must have a 4K-9K word count. View website for more information.
Birder’s World combines well-written articles with superb photography to appeal to everyone from casual birdwatchers to serious birders. They welcome submissions. View website for downloadable guidelines.
Ephemera produces Novelty Buttons, Magnets, and Stickers. They are looking for satirical slogans about pop culture, politics & the president, job attitudes, women’s & men’s issues, coffee, booze, pot, drugs, religion, food, aging, teens, gays & lesbians, sexual come-ons & put-downs. They pay $50 per slogan for the exclusive right to use it on whatever products they produce or license. View website for details.
http://www.ephemera-inc.com/writers-guidelines.asp
If you have a technique, project, or body of work to share, Quilting Arts Magazine would like to hear from you! They are looking for the latest, most creative and/or unusual techniques and applications. They are interested in articles concerning contemporary art quilting, landscape quilting, journal quilting, free-motion stitching, hand embroidery, quilted home décor, textile sketchbook keeping, designing a quilt studio, fabric painting and dyeing, innovative piecing techniques, beading, wearable arts, embellished quilting, mixed media, surface design, and crazy quilting. View website for more information.
http://www.quiltingarts.com/content/submissionsQA.aspx
Canadian title Descant turns ghost hunter and dares to explore the murky connections between life and death, science and superstition, folk beliefs and fictions. They are looking for apparitions of all kinds for a special issue `Ghosts and the Uncanny’. Do you have paranormal poetry? Are you haunted by the past? Do you have a ghost of an idea? Perhaps you’d like to address the role of ghosts in literature and film. They want to document the existence of ghosts, both literal and metaphorical, on their pages. Descant pays a $100 honourarium upon publication. Deadline: March 01, 2010. View website for more details.
UK based Breedon Books is always looking for new authors. They publish local history, motorsport and football titles, although there are always a few that fall outside these areas, and they will look at each submission on its merits. View website for more details.
http://www.breedonbooks.co.uk/author_guide.html
TeacherWriters has immediate work openings for writers and editors. These are exciting positions but they are selective about the writers and editors they accept. Applicants must either be teachers, have a teaching education, or have worked as a teacher to be accepted. Contract Per Project earn $14 to $30/hour. View website for more information.
http://www.teacherwriters.com/job-openings
Electric Spec will consider any story between 250 and 7000 words with a speculative fiction element to it. They prefer science fiction, fantasy, and the macabre, but are willing to push the limits of traditional forms of these genres. They pay a token $20 for each story they publish. They buy first-printing world exclusive rights for four months. Payment will be made shortly after publication using PayPal. View website for more details.
The Chrysalis Reader is a contemporary journal of spiritual discovery published in honor of Swedenborg. Each issue focuses on a meaningful theme that inspires current writings and artwork that address today’s questions on spirituality. Essays, fiction, poetry, and artwork give fresh and diverse perspectives from many traditions, personal experiences, and fields of study. As Swedenborg says, the essence of a thing cannot come into being unless it unites with a means that can express it. Check website for current themes.
http://www.swedenborg.com/page.asp?page_name=ChrysalisWriterGuidelines
Grub Street is an award-winning small, niche independent publisher, publishing only books on cookery and military aviation history. They welcome submissions. View website for details. http://www.grubstreet.co.uk/about-us/
Semaphore is a small title that publishes short stories, poetry and non-fiction on a quarterly basis. They pay a token fee for accepted work. Check out submission guidelines.
http://www.semaphoremagazine.com/submissions.html
VegNews welcomes freelance inquiries and is open to a variety of subjects relating to vegetarianism. Their mission is to inform, make people think, and entertain. They generally pay only for feature-length pieces. View website for details.
http://www.vegnews.com/web/pages/page.do?pageId=13
UK based That’s Life magazine welcomes jokes for their `Your Rude Jokes’ page. They pay you £15 if chosen for publication. Visit the website to send in your joke.
http://www.thatslife.co.uk/your-rude-jokes
US based Redbook is aimed at women between the ages of 25 and 45 who define themselves as smart, capable, and happy with their lives. Many, but not all, readers are going through one of two key life transitions: single to married and married to mom. Each issue is a provocative mix of features geared to entertain and inform them. Writers are advised to read at least the last six issues of the magazine to get a better understanding of appropriate subject matter and treatment. Pays up to $1.50/word. View website for more info.
http://www.redbookmag.com/contact/writersguidelines
