Monday, September 17, 2007

Monday Morning Markets/Jobs/Opportunities

dANDdelion magazine, a semiannual Canada-based literary journal, is looking for submissions for a special issue on "Radical Translation." Deadline: October 1, 2007. Pays: $50 on publication (presumably in Canadian dollars). Accepts submissions via e-mail. More information here. (via placesforwriters)

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This news courtesy of Duotrope.com: The Wild Blue Yonder short fiction contest has been suspended, and the Chick Lit Review is no longer paying its writers.

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Southern Families magazine is looking for freelance articles and reprints. "Most of our articles are informative and humorous and based on daily experience as a parent, grandparent, aunt, etc. Subjects can range from children with special needs to home and garden ideas to craft ideas to family activity ideas...the list goes on." Pays: $15-$40, on publication. See the announcement here.

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The deadline (September 30) is approaching for the 3rd Annual Metcalf Rooke Award for Fiction (one of 260+ competitions included within our Guide to No-Cost Literary Contests and Competitions). Open to "all Canadian writers with an unpublished book length manuscript of short or novel-length fiction," this competition "uphold[s] and celebrate[s] the tradition of small press publishing and independent bookselling in Canada" and "champion[s] the writing of new and up-and-coming Canadian writers." This year's winner will receive a publishing contract with Biblioasis; a $1,500 advance; a leather-bound copy of his/her book; a book launch at the Ottawa International Writers Festival; and a regional book tour. Click here for more information.

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Massachusetts Bay Community College seeks a part-time Assistant Editor for Communications (10-15 hours/week). See the announcement here.

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The Department of English of the College of Staten Island seeks candidates for an anticipated tenure track position as Assistant Professor of English in Creative Writing beginning September 2008. "Required: M.F.A. in Creative Writing and/or a Ph.D. in English; we are looking for a poet with a strong record of teaching and an active publishing agenda: preference will be given to applicants who have published at least one volume of poems. We are interested in receiving applications from poets with a secondary expertise in fiction writing, especially those whose experience and skills would contribute to the teaching of multi-genre classes in a workshop setting." See the announcement here.

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The University of Wyoming is looking for an Assistant Professor of Nonfiction (tenure-track) to join the MFA faculty in fall 2008. See the announcement here.

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Columbia College (Chicago)"invites applications for a full-time tenure track/tenured faculty position beginning with the Fall 2008 semester, teaching fiction to undergraduate and graduate students." See the announcement here.

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