Call out for horror and fantasy

Do you write with a scream on the cusp of your lips,your eyes unblinking and a numbing sensation running down your spine? Then this call out is for you...if you dare!

link hereFrom the Point of View of The Observer

Fiction through the eyes of the Observer. What do you see when you don't get involved? What do you see when you can't get involved? What do you see when you won't get involved?
SUBMISSION DEADLINE - April 1, 2012 - Accepting Short Stories, Flash Fiction, Artwork & Photography

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Submission guidelines:Sirens Call Publications is currently taking submissions for our second e-zine to be released in April 2012, focusing primarily on the horror and fantasy genres. All contributors will receive a free PDF copy of the issue that their work is featured in.
We welcome short stories (2000-5000 words), flash fiction (300 - 500 words), artwork, photography and literary reviews. Interviews with both up and coming or established horror and fantasy authors will also be featured. Take advantage of this superb opportunity to gain exposure for your work and email submissions@sirenscallpublications.com with your submissions, or contacting mail@sirenscallpublications.com with any queries.
We ask for one time publication rights only and stories that are previously published elsewhere are accepted provided that you hold the rights to them.

send that manuscript out there!

this is crackling good information if you have a completed manuscript. Get it polished and hit the ground running

.Pan Macmillan Australia. Manuscript Monday

MANUSCRIPT MONDAY

Welcome to Manuscript Monday, a new initiative which is part of Pan Macmillan Australia's manuscript submission process. If you’ve ever dreamed of getting published, and have a story you’d like to pitch, here’s your chance to have it read by a publisher. No more navigating the slush pile! Every Monday we will accept submissions between 10am and 4pm that are sent electronically and comply with the guidelines set out below.

www.panmacmillan.com.au/manuscript_monday.asp

First chapter (double spaced) and synopsis separate word documents labelled

with title of mss, fill out form with genre of mss and send through the website.

Please note there is an underscore in the gap between manuscript and

Monday.

Send on Monday between the hours of 10 a.m – 4 p.m.

Penguin Books Australia. The Monthly Catch

monthly.catch@penguingroup.com

First week of every month. Mss and synopsis max 300 words.

The General Publishing team at Penguin Group (Australia) is keen and excited to read new work from Australian authors, and as such we’ve developed the Monthly Catch. For the first week of every month, we throw our doors open to unsolicited manuscripts. In this time period (the 1^st to the 7^th of every month), please send through submissions based on the guidelines below.

We are only accepting submissions electronically – all hardcopy submissions will be recycled. And we are only accepting submissions in the first week of every month; anything that comes through outside of this time will not be considered.

When you send through your submission, you’ll receive an automatic email acknowledging receipt. All manuscripts are carefully read and assessed, but we can only respond to those who are successful. If we do not contact you within three months of submission, please assume that we have decided not to pursue your manuscript. No further correspondence will be entered into.

We are not currently considering poetry, educational textbooks or plays/scripts. For books for children and young adults, please see the separate submissions instructions below.

Attach your manuscript and a short synopsis (of no more than 300 words) as separate Word documents and send via email tomonthly.catch@au.penguingroup.com.

In the subject line of your email, please state the title of your book, whether your book is fiction or non-fiction, and then genre (eg Heiress in Love: Fiction/Romance or The Address Book: Non-Fiction/Memoir).

Please include in the body of your email the following information:

• Title.
• Brief summary (two or three sentences).
• Brief author bio (two or three sentences).

• Any previous publishing history and/or any writing awards you’ve received.
• Where would your book sit in the marketplace – i.e. what books would you see as comparison titles to yours, what authors are similar to you, who is the intended audience for your book, etc.
• Has this proposal been sent to other publishers?
• Have you previously submitted this, or a similar, proposal to Penguin? If so, please give details.

Allen and Unwin. The Friday Pitch (children & teenagers, fiction, non fiction.)

fridaypitch@allenandunwin.com

Attachment first chapter, short synopsis. Title information sheet in body of

email.

Allen & Unwin know how difficult it can be for writers to get their work in front of publishers, which is why we’ve been running our innovative and pioneering Friday Pitch service for the last 5 years. Through Friday Pitch we have given new and emerging writers a chance to have their work read by our publishers within a reasonable time.

ALL adult submissions – both fiction, non-fiction, children's and young adult – to Allen & Unwin should now come via Friday Pitch. To do this, email us a short synopsis and the first chapter of your work. If we like what we read, and want to read more, we will get back to you within a fortnight.

writing for the Woman's weekly

Here are the guidelines for those writers who aspire to be the next romance Queen.

What we are looking for

For the weekly magazine:
Short stories of 1,000 and 2,000 words
Serials in 3 or 4 parts of 3,300 words each
For Fiction Special (At least 20 stories 10 times a year):
Stories of 1,000 to 8,000 words

Take a break and read what they say about submitting, formatting, posting, and writing. Even if you don't have anything in the cupboard now, it just might get you started on something for later.

Third Sunday Blog submissions

This is the opportunity to submit your work. With a rolling submission process throughout the year on the er~ third sunday in the month you will always have an opportunity
Here is the link to submit and a little of what they want.
If you have a blog ...and who doesn't these digital days then perhaps you should try this out.

(Updated 1/13/2012) The Third Sunday Blog Carnival is an online magazine that features current and past blog posts from various contributors. A new edition of the blog carnival is posted on the third Sunday of each month.

Feel free to submit posts that contain the following:

• Poems
• Short stories, flash fiction, or novel excerpts
• Posts about writing, the writing life, or publishing (posts from book review sites are not eligible)

Pressed, call out

From the editor of Pressed

We're a new literary journal in Queensland, and we're coming up on our submissions deadline (April 21st; ), for a June book launch in Brisbane, and we thought you'd be interested in submitting—seeing how you and your peers are those creative types who get together and . . . create. Please feel free to assemble your minds and send your pieces our way.
pressed
Joel McCaffery Editor/Publisher/Rascal www.pressed-literature.com

Looks like this is a good opportunity. Maybe just the ticket to get in print and pronto.