Call for Submissions: Irish Pages Heaney Special Issue

The Editors of Irish Pages, Chris Agee and Cathal Ó Searcaigh, are currently assembling a special issue entitled "Heaney", in English and Irish, due out in October 2014. There will be a particular focus, of course, on poetry, memoir, reminiscence and literary essays of a non-specialist nature directly relating to the man and his work; but the issue will also include outstanding writing of all creative genres, especially poems, from Ireland and overseas, in a posthumous celebration of the enduring literary imagination in general.

Submissions should be sent by the middle of May by email to editor@irishpages.org, or by post to The Editors, Irish Pages/Duillí Éireann, 129 Ormeau Road, Belfast BT7 1SH.

Full details of the journal and its submission procedure can be found at www.irishpages.org .

FLASH SUBS - STINGING FLY - 22nd JUNE *ONLY*

 
This Saturday - International Flash Fiction Day - is the day to sub your FLASH ONLY to my guest edited issue of The Stinging Fly, which appears spring 2014.

My, some of you are confused, judging by the emails I have been getting. It is quite straightforward. All month you can sub ordinary stories in the ordinary way i.e. by post.

This Saturday, the 22nd June, ONLY, you can sub your flash to stingingflyflash AT gmail.com. You have 24 hours to sub one flash of up to 500 words!!

Send me your zingiest, most beautiful work.

Full guidelines here.

SALT WANTS NOVELS

UK based publisher Salt is actively seeking novel submissions directly from authors. See here for details.

NFFD CALL FOR SUBS - ANTHOLOGY

National Flash-Fiction Day are looking for stories up to 500 words by May 17th for this year's anthology:

This year we are looking for stories which take their place in the larger web of art. So we are looking for pieces which have been inspired by another work - a book, story, poem, painting, photograph, piece of music, or anything else artistic. It can be a direct relationship, or a loose one, an homage or a tangential glance which sparks the muse. We don't mind the connection, we just want to see how other works of art feed into your writing.

Guidelines:

Word count: 500 word maximum.

Deadline: Midnight GMT on Friday 17th May 2013.

Location: Submissions are welcome world-wide, with no restriction.

Submissions: Please paste your stories into the body of an email and send to nffdanthology@gmail.com. Maximum of 2 stories per writer, and please send them in the same email.

Small Print: No simultaneous submisions or previously published work, please. However, work previously posted on your own blog or website is fine.
We will not consider any work which is any way offensive or discriminatory.

There will be a fast turn-around on this anthology, in order to get it out in time for the Day, so you should hear back promptly, but if you have any queries or questions, please contact us through our general email address, rather than the anthology one.

This year's anthology will be edited by Calum Kerr and Holly Howitt. The two editors will read all the submissions and draw up their 'wish list' before wrangling endlessly over which ones make the final cut.