Just as every client seems to have a specific invoice they want you to use, every magazine and book publisher has their own highly particular set of submission guidelines to follow. Some welcome electronic submissions; some still specify 8 1/2 x 11 paper, double spaced type, to be packaged in an envelope marked just so, [...]
Archive for March, 2008
To SASE or not to SASE
Posted in Business, Publishing, tagged literary magazines, Canada, SASE on March 22, 2008 | No Comments »
EAC meeting addresses the power and perils of writing online
Posted in Editing, Webwriting, tagged blogging, Editors Association, meetings on March 12, 2008 | No Comments »
The Editors’ Association BC Branch has just announced their topic for the March monthly meeting and it looks like a good one: Public-Private Boundaries in Online Writing and Publishing. It will be held at the usual bat time and bat channel (7:30 pm, Wednesday, March 19 at the Y-W-C-A downtown) and features superblogger Derek K. [...]
Book Learning
Posted in Publishing, tagged SFU, workshops on March 10, 2008 | No Comments »
A summer tradition in the publishing world is SFU’s Summer Publishing Workshops. As usual they’re offering a range of courses from one-and two-day seminars to the famous immersion workshops.
I myself am a graduate of the two-week Book Publishing Immersion workshop, where participants simulate a publishing house and work from 8 am in the morning to [...]
A Grab Bag of Spring Writing Contests
Posted in Literary, Resources, Writing on March 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Get going, kid
Event Non-Fiction Contest #21
Deadline: April 15, 2008
Booty: $500 plus publication for the top three
Details: http://www.douglas.bc.ca/community/event-magazine/contestdetails.html
Better not procrastinate too long
subTerrain’s Lush Triumphant
Deadline: May 15, 2008
Booty: Prize breakdown undisclosed, but there is $3,000 in prizes between the three categories, and publication
Details: http://www.subterrain.ca/subterrain/contests/Lush%20guidelines.htm
Squamish Arts Council Sea to Sky Literary Contest
Deadline: June 1, 2008
Booty: Undisclosed cash [...]
Freelance writing job sites
Posted in Resources, tagged blogging, jobs, professional associations on March 6, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I’ve decided to start this new blog and website in order to find writing and editing work, but in order to get, you must give. So, for my first post on this new blog, here is a rundown of some of my favourite sites for getting job leads and information on writing for a living:
Freelance [...]
