CALLIHOO Newsletter ----------------------------------------------------------------- Vol. 6 No. 10 Editor: Julia West July 28, 1998 ----------------------------------------------------------------- NEWS Don't forget the third "Two Steps Back" (that makes it six steps back now, doesn't it?) mini-retreat to be held this Friday, July 31, at Kelly Almond's house. Starting noonish, it will last 'til everyone runs out of steam in the wee hours of the morning. Bring computers, notepads, ideas, and =food=! Bring a new project, rewrite an old one, polish an almost-done story and get it ready to send off to a publisher. Work on a chapter, a story, or an outline, but be ready to write, write, write! DEADLINES Let me know if you need more information on the contests, anthologies or magazines listed below. =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)] =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)] 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)] ANTHOLOGY =Cemetery Sonata= Jane Hubbard, editor Chameleon Publishing 3430 Salem Drive, Rochester Hills, MI 48306 Deadline: 9/30/98 for year-end publication Needs: ghost stories and "things that go bump in the night." Also, an untitled anthology needs Civil War ghost stories or ghost stories relating to that era. Length: 500 words to as much as 6,000 words or more "depending on the quality of the story." Payment: .03 per word plus copies. One time rights revert to author after publication. Previously published pieces OK with mention of previous publication. "NO UNNECESSARY VIOLENCE please. Haunted houses, graveyards, etc. Make me sleep with the light on!" Please send submissions to above address (no email submissions) in standard ms. format. Email WZTT67B@Prodigy.com for more information. [DarkEcho, 16 July 1998] CONTEST =L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of The Future Contest= [Quarterly SF/F contest, no entry fee, to 17,000 wds, $500, $750 and $1000 prizes, deadlines end of June, September, December & March] An international search for new and amateur writers of new short stories or novelettes of science fiction or fantasy. No entry fee is required Entrants retain all publication rights *All awards are adjudicated by professional writers only. * Prizes every three months: $1000, $750, $500. * Annual grand prize: $4000 additional! Don't Delay! Send Your Entry To: L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of The Future Contest P.O. Box 1630-JBW Los Angeles, CA 90078 CONTEST RULES 1. No entry fee is required, and all rights in the story remain the property of the author. All types of science fiction and fantasy are welcome; every entry is judged on its own merits only. 2. All entries must be original works of science fiction or fantasy in English. Plagiarism will result in disqualification. Submitted works may not have been previously published in professional media. 3. Eligible entries must be works of prose, either short stories (under 10,000 words) or novelettes (under 17,000 words) in length. We regret we cannot consider poetry, or works intended for children. 4. The Contest is open only to those who have not had professionally published a novel or short novel, or more than three short stories, or more than one novelette. 5. Entries must be typewritten and double spaced with numbered pages (computer-printer output O.K.). Each entry must have a cover page with the title of the work, the author's name, address, and telephone number, and an approximate word-count. The manuscript itself should be titled and numbered on every page, but the author's name should be deleted to facilitate fair judging. 6. Manuscripts will be returned after judging. Entries must include a self-addressed return envelope. U.S. return envelopes must be stamped; others may enclose international postal reply coupons. 7. There shall be three cash prizes in each quarter: 1st Prize of $1000, 2nd Prize of $750, and 3rd Prize of $500, in U.S. dollars or the recipient's locally equivalent amount. In addition, there shall be a further cash prize of $4000 to the Grand Prize winner, who will be selected from among the 1st Prize winners of the Contest year. All winners will also receive trophies or certificates. 8. The Contest is ongoing. The quarterly dates are: April 1 - June 30, 1998 July 1 - September 30, 1998 October 1 - December 31, 1998 January 1 - March 31, 1999 Information regarding subsequent contests may be obtained by sending a self-addressed, stamped, business-size envelope to the above address. To be eligible for the quarterly judging, an entry must be postmarked no later than Midnight on the last day of the Quarter. 9. Each entrant may submit only one manuscript per Quarter. Winners in a quarterly judging are ineligible to make further entries in the Contest. 10. All entrants, including winners, retain all rights to their stories. 11. Entries will be judged by a panel of professional authors. Each quarterly judging and the Grand Prize judging may have a different panel. The decisions of the judges are entirely their own, and are final. 12. Entrants in each Quarter will be individually notified of the results by mail, together with the names of those sitting on the panel of judges. This contest is void where prohibited by law. [Author Services (Writers of the Future) website, http://www.authorservicesinc.com/wof_ruls.htm] MARKET GUIDELINES =Dark Annie= [Genre E-zine, to 5,000 wds, 1/2 to 1 cent/wd. on accept. Reprints okay, snailmail or E-mail submissions. Deadline 31 Oct 98] Issue 2 Guidelines Editors: Eva Harstein and Elizabeth Watts Associate Editor: Shikhar Dixit P.O. Box 566, East Brunswick, New Jersey 08816 FICTION: to 5,000-words (Firm). Stories of any genre, sub-genre (such as cyberpunk or gothic) or genre hybrid, of historical significance i.e. surrounding or focusing on a character, era, object, event, or the resurgence of a time period no more recent than 1950 AD. Though stories do not necessarily need to take place in the past (and can even take place in the future,) they must involve at least one of the key elements mentioned above. We will also continue to look at exceptionally crafted stories about Jack the Ripper. Profanity and sex okay if integral to the plot. Avoid excess. Be subtle. Test the horizons. Dazzle us. We buy Universal Online Rights at « to 1 cent/word. Reprints okay. The first page of the manuscript must include your name, address, phone number, and e-mail address. Include SASE for response. Snail mail submissions preferred, but e-mail's okay if sent in MS Word (.DOC), Rich Text Format (.RTF) or Text (.TXT) to darkannie@aol.com. Subject head-ings on e-mail should read accordingly i.e. "Submission", "Query", etc. ART: Looking for one cover-piece and several spot illustrations. Color or B&W okay. Photos, drawings, paintings or combinations thereof acceptable. Send copies only or attached files through e-mail in one of the following formats: .JPG, .GIF, .TIFF, .EPS, or .CPT. Artwork should be no larger than 81/2"x11". PAYMENT: 1/2 to 1 cent per word. $10/piece. Pays on acceptance. DEADLINE: 12 AM Eastern October 31st 1998 regardless of postmark or electronic delay. Last updated 7/24/98 [Downloaded from Dark Annie website at http://members.aol.com/darkannie/gls2.htm] MARKET INFORMATION =Odyssey= Several authors have reported problems with the British magazine =Odyssey=. One, after replacing a submission several times, inquiring several times (they were replied to), and waiting 11 months, finally withdrew her submission. Another writer, after nearly ten months, received an acceptance on a story. Eight months and a rewrite later, she still hasn't received a contract, the story still hasn't come out, and payment was changed from "on acceptance" to "on publication" in mid-stream. Coming to editor Liz Holliday's defense, another writer explained that Liz had been having health problems, but that the magazine's financial backing had been renewed and =it= seemed to be healthy. [SFRT4, Cat 4, Top 6, 13-14, 23-24 Jul 98] =White Knuckles= Editor/publisher John Platt has announced that =White Knuckles= is officially dead. [DarkEcho, 16 July 98] ==End of CALLIHOO newsletter for 28 July 1998==