Hill Holler

Chicken Soup for the Soul can always be relied upon to have a number of opportunities up for grabs at any time on a dizzying range of subjects. From their current Possible Books page:

We’re Looking for Stories! We have many Chicken Soup books in development and we’re always looking for new stories. If you have a story, let us know. Take a look at the list of some of our possible books and see if there’s a fit.

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Brain, Child Magazine has a tagline of “the magazine for thinking mothers”. They look for personal essays, features, fiction, reviews and more. I strongly suggest you read the excellent articles on their site not only to get a feel for the type of thing they like, but to enjoy a great read.

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Jane’s a publisher who very kindly shared her article, Answering Seven Questions Can Help Your Book Proposal at our site created by writers, for writers, The Cuckleburr Times. I’m really enjoying working on this! I love nothing more than meeting others that love the writing world in one way or another and helping or learning where I can.

If you’re a writer that’s thinking of sending off your book proposal, please do make sure you read Jane’s article first! The lady knows what she’s talking about and offers sound advice from one who knows. And please remember we’re always glad to see submissions there too!

Have you published a fiction book, are under 40 and American? Bard offers this very large prize plus a one-semester appointment as writer-in-residence at Bard College in New York. Hurry though, the deadline’s only a few days away on July 15 2008.

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