Thanks to David LaBounty for sending me this call: "Overtime, a series of one-story chapbooks about the workplace, is going quarterly. We are looking for stories between 5,000 - 12,000 words where work is a central theme. We will consider simultaneous and previously published submissions. (We will also consider serializing novels about the workplace. Please query first.) We pay between $25 and $50, depending on length and rights acquired." For details, click here.
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Arvon (UK) "is glad to announce that an anonymous writer, and past Arvon student, has donated a £350 grant for one person from the voluntary sector to attend a course in 2009. To apply you must currently volunteer either full or part time within a charity." There is no application fee. Deadline: February 28, 2009. More info here.
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And here's another way to save on taking a writing course: Sage Cohen is offering a scholarship for a writer to take her online "Poetry for the People" class (I happen to be a veteran of that course). The next class begins in March, and Sage is taking scholarship applications through Sunday, February 15. There's no application fee. Click here for details and application instructions.
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CV2 (Canada) is looking for poetry for its Spring 2009 issue: "Nothing but the poetry folks, no theme, no critical writing." Deadline: February 10, 2009. And before you know it (February 15, 2009), submissions will be due for "essays with accompanying selection of poetry" for "the green issue," out this summer. More info here, and details on pay rates, etc. here. (via placesforwriters.com)
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Via e-mail from Yona Zeldis McDonough, fiction editor for Lilith magazine (which describes itself as "independent, Jewish and frankly feminist"): "I am always actively seeking fiction submissions (stories and occasionally novel excerpts), and the magazine is receptive to new writers who want to pitch reviews, articles and essays." To learn more about Lilith and the work it publishes, click here.
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Thanks to practicing writer Ken Bielen for reminding me that this is the season to apply for the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowships. This year, applications are open to prose writers. There's no application fee, so far as I see, and the deadline is March 5, 2009. Lots more info here.
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And, of course, a few college and university jobs for your consideration:
Director of Advancement Communications and Executive Editor of the Alumni & Friends Magazine, University of Arkansas-Fort Smith
Assistant Web Designer/Content Editor, Northwestern University-Kellogg School of Management (Illinois)
English Instructor Pool, Santa Rosa Junior College (California)
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