Deadline Extended for the Missouri Review Editors’ Prize, Cash and Publication Opportunity

The deadline for the 29th Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize competition has been extended to OCTOBER 15, just ONE WEEK from today! We remain open for submissions in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. First-place winners in each category receive $5000, feature publication in our spring issue, and are honored at a gala reading and reception in Columbia, Missouri. Contest finalists are often published in the magazine also, or, in the case of poetry, as part of our Poem of the Week online feature. All entrants are considered for publication.

This opportunity is open to writers at all levels. We pride ourselves on focusing on the quality of the writing first and foremost—our allegiance is to finding and supporting strong work. Past winners have ranged from established writers with long records of publication to beginning writers who have never published before. In fact, for our fiction prize winner in 2018, the prizewinning story was her first published piece. This is why we are particularly excited to get the word out to Motown Writers Network. I’ve attached a flyer promoting the contest. We would love it if you would pass the word along via e-mail and social media, as well as posting the flyer somewhere your community is sure to see it.

We accept submissions online or by mail. The new postmark deadline is October 15. Winners will be announced in January of 2020.

You can find out more about the contest through our website.

This year we are offering two contest entry options. At the standard level ($25 to enter), entrants receive a year-long digital subscription to the Missouri Review ($24 value) as well as the third offering from TMR Books, Jason Brown’s collection of linked stories, A Faithful but Melancholy Account of Several Barbarities Lately Committed ($14.95 value). At the all-access level ($30 to enter), entrants receive the same year-long digital subscription and Brown’s collection, plus full access to our entire ten-year archive of value-added digital issues, complete with print and audio versions of the magazine.

Thanks very much for sharing news of this opportunity with your community. We look forward to reading your writers’ submissions!

All best,

Bailey Boyd, contest editor

The Missouri Review

357 McReynolds Hall

University of Missouri

Columbia, MO 65211

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NILES — The Southwest Michigan Writers’ Conference returns to Niles this fall with a full schedule of skills-based sessions for aspiring authors. The event will take place from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 26 at the Niles District Library.

The free event, which is sponsored by libraries in Berrien, Cass, and Van Buren counties, includes advice and instruction on many aspects of writing, such as researching a historic fiction novel, character development, comic book writing and more. Presenters include Barbara Belford, Marie LaPres (Erica Emelander), Barry Chessick, Carla Suson, Kirsten Jensen, Angela Sisk and Kate Collins.

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VBDL: Southwest Michigan Writers’ Conference 2019

The Southwest Michigan Writers’ Conference returns to Niles this fall with a full schedule of skills-based sessions for aspiring authors. The event is Saturday, October 26, 9:00am to 5:00pm, at Niles District Library.

The free event sponsored by libraries in Berrien, Cass and Van Buren counties, includes advice and instruction on many aspects of writing, such as researching a historic fiction novel, character development, comic book writing, and more. Presenters include Barbara Belford, Marie LaPres (Erica Emelander), Barry Chessick, Carla Suson, Kirsten Jensen, Angela Sisk and Kate Collins.

Businesses, groups, and organizations that wish to reserve space at the event can contact Andrea Burns at Niles District Library, (269) 683-8545.

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Hosting Local Author Events in Non-Traditional Venues #motownwriters

Author Marketing Experts, Inc.by Penny Sansevieri

Reading Time: 5 minutesHosting local author events in non-traditional venues is a really strategic way to get out in front of your community and build some buzz with your local media.

This is an especially valuable strategy as the holidays approach, because anyone serving your local market is trying to come up with unique opportunities to entertain and pull in shoppers, so the value of the collaboration is much higher this time of year as well – use this to your advantage!

If you’re hungry for an event and getting discouraged by the lack of bookstore opportunities in today’s current market, a non-traditional venue may be the perfect place for your next (or first!) author event.

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Hello So glad you decided to open up this fantastic opportunity to join us as we celebrate our 5 year anniversary of the Women who Write Author and Vendor Expo. Book clubs, avid readers, writers, authors and creatives grab your girls and families and come out for an exciting day of books and great storytelling. Also, If you are a young writer, comic book creator, screenwriter or just looking for resources to help guide you on your writing journey please be in the space on Oct 5th. So come out and meet our writing vendors as they will be available to share their editing, marketing and other services with you. Author and Vendor spaces available: Deadline September 20th. Sponsorship and advertising opportunities available.  Deadline:  September 27th Email Linda at hasunetwork@gmail.com. Attendees come early as authors will be introducing themselves and sharing about their books the first hour. About Hook a Sista Up… Hook a Sista Up is our membership based platform the connects, supports and promote women entrepreneurs.  We are always seeking new members.   Please visit our website and subscribe. http://www.hasucollaborative.com Come ready to support our authors and purchase some great books. So see you and your friends Saturday Oct 5th at the Salvation Army Kroc Center Linda October 2019 05 Sign up today, this event will sell out! REGISTER

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3 Tips for Writing Children #motownwriters

86Elizabeth Spann Craig 

by Lucia Tang with @Reedsy

Let’s start with a note of clarification. This is a post for writing child characters, not for literal children hoping to write their own books. Still, any precocious, under-12 authors who happen to read it are more than welcome to weigh in with their expertise!

Actually, fiction as a whole could probably benefit from a little more young blood in its authorial ranks. When well-intentioned adults try to craft young characters, the result can easily tip into uncanny valley or ring jarringly false.

Have you ever read an otherwise great book filled with questionably written children? Maybe the main character’s 6-year-old babbled with a toddler’s slapdash grammar, or a 2-year-old did nothing but make oracular pronouncements, like a chubby-cheeked foreshadowing machine. Either way, it probably took you out of the story.

Don’t put your readers in that position. The children you write shouldn’t trample over their delicate suspension of disbelief — they should make the world you’ve built feel richer and more real. Follow these 3 tips, and you’ll be able to bring realistic, compelling young characters to life.

read more https://elizabethspanncraig.com/writing-tips-2/3-tips-for-writing-children/

Book Promotion Ideas for Finding and Pitching Book Clubs

Author Marketing Experts, Inc.by Penny Sansevieri

When a lot of authors start brainstorming book promotion ideas, they find themselves thinking about professional reviews or securing interviews with big media outlets, and they think this is the way to sell more books.

That’s because most authors either don’t realize, or lose sight of the fact, that 95% of books are bought based on personal recommendations.

That’s staggering, isn’t it? It also means you’re better off focusing more on creative book promotion ideas that get books in real readers’ hands – and less on the idea of what could happen with a long-shot magazine feature.

So with real readers in mind, I think it’s time for more authors to get savvy about putting themselves out there

read more: https://www.amarketingexpert.com/book-promotion-ideas-for-finding-and-pitching-book-clubs/