CALLIHOO Newsletter ----------------------------------------------------------------- Vol. 6 No. 14 Editor: Julia West August 25, 1998 ----------------------------------------------------------------- NEWS Catherine Asaro's books =Catch the Lightning= and =The Last Hawk= are both on the ballot for the romance/fiction UTC awards. See the website at http://www.silcom.com/~manatee/awards97v.html for more information. Anyone can vote! (Skim the rest of the categories, too, to see if there are other books you'd like to vote for. Other categories include Fantasy, and Laura Resnick's =A Blonde in Africa= is included under biography and memoir.) DEADLINES Let me know if you need more information on the contests, anthologies or magazines listed below. Hey, folks, this is just a small sampling of all the places you can get those manuscripts bundled off to. Move 'em on out! =World Wide Writers=, British quarterly contest/magazine, deadlines 31 Aug, 31 Oct 1998. [Prizes $200 to $1000 with yearly $5,000 grand prize, 2,000 to 5,000 wds. $10 (œ6) entrance fee. E-mail subs okay. Requires entry form; can be downloaded from www.users. globalnet.co.uk/~writintl/, World Wide Writers Competition, PO Box 3229, Bournemouth BH1 1ZS, United Kingdom. (GLs in Vol. 6, No. 5] UPC Science Fiction Award 1998, deadline 14 September 1998. [SF in Catalan, Spanish, English or French, 70 to 115 pages (25,000 to 40,000 words), first prize of 1,000,000 PTA (abt. $8,000), perhaps a special mention of 250,000 PTA. Winning novella published by the UPC through Ediciones B, in its collection "NOVA ciencia ficcion." Consell Social de la UPC, Edifici NEXUS, Gran Capita 2-4, 08034- Barcelona (SPAIN). (GLs in Vol. 5, No. 30)] =The Alsop Review= Short Story and Poem Contest, deadline 30 Sept 98. [literary e-mag, no entry fee, submission must be E-mail, send to competition@alsopreview.com., no mult. subs.; $100 prize. (GLs in Vol. 6 No. 13)] =Cemetery Sonata= and untitled Civil War ghost anthologies, deadlines 30 September 1998. [Ghost stories and "things that go bump in the night" and Civil War ghost stories or ghost stories relating to that era. 500-6,000 words, 3 cents/wd. Reprints OK. No E-mail subs. Email WZTT67B@Prodigy.com for more information. Jane Hubbard, editor, Chameleon Publishing, 3430 Salem Drive, Rochester Hills, MI 48306. (GLs in Vol. 6, No. 10)] =Writers of the Future=, 4th quarter 1998, deadline 30 September 1998. [$1000 first, $750 2nd, $500 3rd place. L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest, P.O. Box 1630-JBW, Los Angeles, CA 90078. (GLs in Vol. 6, No. 10)] =Star Trek: Strange New Worlds II= contest/anthology, deadline 1 October 1998. [Star Trek stories, non-pro writers over 18, to 7500 wds, 1st prize $1000, 2nd prize $600, 3rd prize $400, all plus 10 cents/wd. for pub. in antho.; hon mention pub in antho for 10 cents/wd. No reprints or E-mail subs. Strange New Worlds II, Star Trek Department, Pocket Books, 1230 6th Avenue, New York, NY 10020. (GLs in Vol. 6, No. 13)] The next reading period for =Tales of the Unanticipated= (issue #20) is tentatively set for 1 September to 1 October 1998. Eighteenth Annual Science Fiction/fantasy Short Story Contest Sponsored by Science Fiction Writers of Earth, deadline 30 October 1998. [SF/F 2,000 - 7,500 wds, $5.00 entry fee 1st subm, $2.00 thereafter, unpublished writers. $200 1st prize, $100 2nd, $50 3rd. SFWoE, P.O. Box 121293, Fort Worth, Texas 76121. (GLs in Vol. 5 No. 34)] =Dark Annie= issue #2 deadline 31 October 1998. [Genre E-zine, to 5,000 wds, 1/2 to 1 cent/wd. on accept. Reprints okay, snailmail or E-mail submissions. E-mail darkannie@aol.com Editors: Eva Harstein and Elizabeth Watts, P.O. Box 566, East Brunswick, New Jersey 08816. (GLs in Vol. 6, No. 10)] =Altair= Issue #3 competition, deadline 1 Nov 1998. [SF/F 2,000 to 10,000 wds, entry fee $5.00 U.S./each, mult. subm. okay, 1st $400, 2nd $200, 3rd $100. E-mail subm. okay to altair@ senet.com.au (pay entry fee by credit card) or mail to Altair Publishing, PO Box 475, Blackwood 5051, South Australia, Australia. (GLs in Vol. 5 No. 32)] =Scaremongers 3=, British horror anthology, deadline 31 December 1998. [non-traditional horror to 6,000 wds, œ15 per 1000 words on pub., E-mail subs fine. Anthony Barker, Editor, 1st Floor, Alpha House, Countesthorpe Road, South Wigston, Leicester LE18 2PJ ENGLAND, E-mail jennie@tanjen.demon.co.uk, Web site: http://www.tanjen.demon.co.uk. (GLs in Vol. 6 No. 12)] MARKET INFORMATION =Adventures of Sword and Sorcery= Randy Dannenfelser, editor of =AS&S=, says, "I'm in desparate need of good stuff to fill the next couple issues. So send in the slush pile reinforcements." [SFRT4, Cat 14, Top 8, 21 Aug 98] =Event Horizon= This isn't really market news, but writers love free books, don't they? The new E-magazine, =Event Horizon=, is holding a sweepstakes to celebrate its launch. "We're holding a huge sweepstakes with tons of great prizes to be won! You can find the sweepstakes through our home page: http://www.e-horizon.com/ eventhorizon Or go directly to it at: http://www.e-horizon.com/eventhorizon/contests/ Either way, be sure you don't miss this event. We'll be running it from now through October 16 -- eight weeks -- but there are four rounds during that period of time, so there are many chances to win. Every two weeks we'll put up a new set of questions to answer and we'll select a new crop of winners: one First Prize winner and four Runners Up. And every correct entry, in any of the four rounds, has a chance to win our Grand Prize, a "Bushel of Books" worth more than $800. So hurry on over and get your entry in!" MORE PRIZES Inkspot and the free market online newsletter Inklings, edited by Debbie Ridpath Ohi, are sponsoring a book prize giveaway. Three copies of the =1999 Writer's Market= (with CD-ROM) will be given away. This market guide is published annually by Writer's Digest Books. Copies will be available in stores by early September. Three names will be randomly drawn to win these books. To enter, send email to giveaway@inkspot.com with your name and email address with "writer's market" in the subject header. By entering, you agree to let Inkspot and Inklings publish your name and email address if you win. Deadline: Aug. 30, 1998. More info about the contest and book (including ordering info) at: http://www.inkspot.com/admin/giveaway.html [From Inklings, 19 Aug 98] ==End of CALLIHOO newsletter for 25 August 1998==