So, hopeful all of us are surviving our Novembers, and occasionally finding some time to sit down and write a bit (or more than a bit in some cases). I just wanted to do a quick post with the website that Varley O’Connor suggested for finding venues for writing:
www.newpages.com
I would also suggest checking out various genre organizations. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America have information about legitimate venues for their genres at:
http://www.sfwa.org/
That’s it for now. I still have Marybeth’s list of places for Creative Non-Fiction venues and I will try to post some of those tonight or tomorrow.
We are going to have people sign up for spots for the Crash Course in Play Writing Workshop. We will have a sign up sheet posted in the Undergraduate Office (where we met). We will hopefully have a more specific itinerary for that Workshop soon.
Next week Club English will have a visitor coming to talk about applying to grad school; I think most of our members are also part of Club English, but just in case…
On October 27th, during the regular meeting time, Professor O’Connor and Professor Seguin will be coming to talk to us about publishing. Both of them are published authors.
We are starting to compile a list of places that accept submissions for various kinds of prose and poetry. Keep looking around, and bring any new venues you find to the meeting. Right now it looks like we will be producing a digital and a hardcopy version of this.
For the next meeting, please bring any new places that accept submissions! We will be doing another writing exercise, and hopefully brain storming about November projects. See you all next Tuesday! Thanks to everyone who keeps showing up!
Coming soon: publication listings and the results of exquiste corpse.
Okay, I hope everyone is excited for our first ever Writing Workshop (10:00 am on the 4th floor of the Library (the Writing Commons) on Saturday, September 19th). Bring food if you can. Bring writing (a short story, a chapter, 5-6 poems), and try to bring copies (around 10 should work). I’ll work on doing this through the department in the future. If you need me to print them send them to me by no later than Friday night; everyone should have my email.
Here are the links that I said I would put up:
Weird Tales – a magazine, which is sponsoring a very specific kind of short story: One minute Weird Tales. Look under latest videos on their home page.
For the next meeting, Tuesday September 22nd at 6:00 in Satterfield 204, bring a Twitter fiction (a short story in under 140 characters). Examples can be found at two of the links above. Takes some time to look around these sites. All except Weird Tales are fairly new venues, they all have their submission guidelines and all of them have very short fiction, so it won’t take too much time.
I am also going to include a link to the writing podcast I listen to. It’s done by three successful authors and while they write genre fiction, I think it could be very useful to everyone. Here is Writing Excuses:
