Eat Our Words: submissions wanted

Organisers are looking for tea, chocolate cake and cheese-inspired poetry, micro sagas and flash fiction to be published, performed and eaten as part of the Speakeasy & Salon at NewcastleGateshead EAT! Festival 2013. 

Email your poems (maximum 10 lines), haikus, micro sagas (max 10 words) and flash fiction (max 100 words) to eatourwordsnewcastle@gmail.co.uk by 12 noon on 31st July 2013. 

If your work is selected, you will need to be available to read at the event on 25th August at 3pm. Maximum two submissions per person.

Further details can be found at http://www.newcastlegateshead.com/eat-festival/food-adventures/the-speakeasy-and-salon/results/the-speakeasy-and-salon-eat-our-words-p712081

Free Submissions Invited by Poems Underwater

Mermaids – half fish and half human – have a long cultural history, from the Wild Man of Orford to Hans Christian Andersen and Walt Disney – even Starbucks Coffee.The project has been looking specifically at the mermaid as a figure anchored in two or more communities with its needs met by neither.

 
But Poems Underwater is a collaborative project seeking to explore the figure of the mermaid from as many different creative viewpoints as possible.

We are looking for submissions of new artworks and writing to join the discussion and to be featured in a Poems Underwater zine and exhibition / poetry reading this September. 

Themes could include (but are not limited to):

• queerness
• migration
• crossing borders
• living in two or more places
• feminism
• waterways
• sea creatures
• hybrids
• new versions of mermaid legends
• not feeling at home
• the environment and eco-consciousness
• disability

Contribute writing

Please send no more than 6 previously unpublished pieces as attachments to poemsunderwater@gmail.com by June 1st 2013.

They welcome short stories, flash fiction, poetry and non-fiction. But please do keep short stories under 2000 words, with poems no longer than 40 lines each.

Contribute artworks

As above – please send these as attachments or (if they’re large files) via WeTransfer or similar to poemsunderwater@gmail.com by June 1st 2013.

We welcome artworks across all media, but please do not submit more than 6 pieces.
There is no entry fee for this project. Selected works will be displayed on this website as they come through, but we will let you know if your work has been chosen for inclusion in the Poems Underwater zine by June 20th.

The Poems Underwater launch event and exhibition will be held in London in September 2013.

If you’d like to clarify anything or ask any questions at all, please get in touch at poemsunderwater@gmail.com

 Website: http://poemsunderwater.wordpress.com/contribute/

Fiction Desk Flash Fiction Winners and New Comp

The Fiction Desk are delighted to announce the winners of their 2013 Flash Fiction Competition. They are:

Gavin Cameron, with 'A Big Leap'
James Collett, with 'The Clever Skeleton'
Damon King, with 'Simmo!'
Paul Lenehan, with 'For Joy'
Matt Plass, with 'Invisible Them'
Ian Shine, with 'Love Stops at Ten Metres'

And the overall winner is:

Tania Hershman, with 'A Call to Arms'
To see the full announcement, visit their blog.

... and The Fiction Desk's new ghost story competition ...


Today they've launched The Fiction Desk Ghost Story Prize.
The top prize is £500, with a second prize of £100; both winners will feature in an upcoming anthology.

Further details about the ghost story competition.