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Dec.23.2010
This week, we continue our dialog on writing for the currently hot anthology market. Here's the next installment from editor and writer Anne Witkavitch, who compiled Press Pause Moments: Essays About Life Transitions by Women Writers, from the Press Pause Project.
AA: How did you select and...
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Dec.17.2010
A post or two ago, we discussed writing for anthologies, a current hot market. From now 'til year-end (can't believe we're nearly at the close of 2011), we'll talk a bit more with editor, writer and instructor Anne Witkavitch, who compiled and edited the new anthology Press Pause Moments: Essays...
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Dec.03.2010
Writing for an anthology is like soup in a can - concentrated. I recently had an essay published in the new anthology about women writers, Press Pause Moments: Essays About Life Transitions by Women Writers. I found the writing wanted listing in Poets & Writers Classifieds - a great resource,...
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Oct.07.2010
I have finally received my copies of Chicken Soup for the Soul: Family Matters and have three extra books to give away. Two of my stories are included in this book.
From now until Oct. 19th, when the books go on sale in bookstores, leave a comment here about your funniest family moments, and...
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Oct.06.2010
Just got a copy of “Tough Times – When The Money Doesn’t Love Us” (Black Moss Press), edited by Canadian editor / author / poet John B. Lee. Contributors to the anthology include Margaret Atwood (“To Be Creative Is, In Fact, Canadian”), Dan Gutteridge (“Labor”), Marilyn Gear Pilling (“Minutes of...
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Aug.14.2010
A writer friend and I were drinking coffee yesterday (this being Seattle and summer, it was iced coffee for me) and discussing how 2010 turned into "the year of anthologies."
My stories are definitely appearing in four anthologies this year, including the just published Zero Gravity, and...
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Aug.01.2010
Thumbnail call for submissions: fiction, nonfiction - up to 600 words. That's a firm word count. Poetry up to 20 lines. I'm the editor for non-fiction. The details for submission are on facebook. I've seen some of the graphics going in and they're amazing. My own entry (the editors had the...
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Mar.04.2010
Like a Fat Gold Watch: I am collecting an anthology of poems and more that celebrate Sylvia Plath's life and work, but do not fetishize her suicide and death. Please submit your poems about Sylvia Plath for an anthology to come out in Fall of 2011. All poems must be either a response to her work,...
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Mar.01.2010
It's finally happened. I managed to get two pieces places in the upcoming anthology, Wait a Minute, I Have to Take Off My Bra, about all things breast-related. That would be women's breasts and not man breasts, which is a whole different subject.
I had heard tentatively about this last year, but...
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Nov.25.2009
Remember when I said that my erotica doesn't sell? Well, a lot of it doesn't sell that well, at least, not in proportion to the time it takes me to edit the books/money+effort spent promoting them. But I just got yet another royalty check for Dirty Girls: Erotica for Women and was thrilled to...
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