A Personal Invitation to Submit Your Poetry

Dear Poets,

We are seeking submissions to a new, unique anthology that is designed to represent the current state of poetry in, and inspired by, Florida. This anthology, FloriDaDa, will favor the bizarre—which is to say, normal—aspects of life in the Sunshine State. For this to be most successful, we're seeking the best of your work--perhaps unusual, perhaps experimental--related to this subject.

We hope to publish FloriDaDa with Rock Press as a book-length paperback in the fall of 2008. Funds are quite limited for this project, so a waiver of permission fees would be appreciated. Our intention is to promote it at all available venues, such the Miami Book Fair International, the annual A.W.P. conference, and any other situation that allows us to be a public nuisance. We intend for this to be the first volume in an occasional series of collections that will give respected poets a chance to lead the way for writers and readers involved with Florida as a creative crucible.

Why produce such an anthology? It's time for Florida poetry to receive its due, not just as a conspiracy by coincidence but as a distinct state of verse. Not enough readers see Florida for the deep and wildly provocative context it can be. For this reason, we're looking for original work that showcases the best poets in the state--and the best poets affiliated somehow with the state--as you capture whatever makes this sandbar with vegetation into fertile ground for art. We're convinced that poetry is the optimal medium to portray life in a region that strains the credibility of both fiction and nonfiction. We expect our readers will agree with us.

There will be four categories for submissions:

1. Natives (poets actually born here)

2. Transplants (poets who moved here)

3. Passing Through (visitors who have written poetry about Florida)

4. Snow Bards (part-time residents)
 

Please submit your poems in reply to to this email address by midnight, August1, 2008. Here's what we need you to do:

• Send up to 5 poems in a single word document to Floridada@gmail.  
• Put your name and email address on every piece. 
• In the subject heading of the email, state the category you are submitting to, which means either Native, Transplant, Passing Through, or Snow Birds.
• In the body of the email, include a bio of no more than 100 words.
• Please also sign the attached document and send it to: Richard Ryal, P.O. Box 770925, Coral Springs, FL 33077-0925

In signing the attached document, you warrant that you are the sole owner of the rights granted and that your material does not infringe upon the copyrights or other rights of anyone. If you do not control these rights, we ask that you submit another piece to which you possess sole rights.

Your inclusion in "FloriDaDa" will help us bring honor to the community of accomplished poets connected to this state. If at any time you have questions, please don't hesitate to contact us. We'd also appreciate you forwarding this information out to other appropriate poets in the community.

Laura McDermott and Richard Ryal
co-editors
FloriDaDa
Rock Press, Fall 2008

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E-zine Seeks Short Fiction by South Florida Writers

MiamiARTzine.com is currently seeking submissions of unpublished short fiction. Any South Florida writer is encouraged to submit their work. MiamiARTzine.com is presented by the Miami Beach Arts Trust, a nonprofit organization dedicated to raising the awareness of the arts in South Florida and nurturing the voices of those involved in the arts. That said, we cannot pay monetarily, but writers count it as a publication credit and get their work seen by a large group of people as we have more than 4,000 subscribers and get a quarter million hits per month. 

Guidelines:

The submission process is open to residents of South Florida

Stories should be 3,000 words or less

Stories must be sent as an rtf (rich text format) attachment in 12pt. Times New Roman, double-spaced, with one inch margins and the words "Fiction Submission" in the subject line

As MiamiARTzine.com is open to anyone who subscribes or logs on, stories must not have any graphic sex or excessive profanity

Writers should include a brief, 100 word publication history/bio
Writers must include name, address and phone number for contact purposes
Stories must be e-mailed to Mary Damiano, editor, StarrWriter2000@aol.com
Writers will be contacted if their story is chosen for publication.
Writers retain the rights for their story and are free to have it published elsewhere, however, the story will remain available in the MiamiARTzine.com archives

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Mystery Florida 2008, June 6-7, Lido Key Resort, Sarasota. Did you know that Michael Connelly will attend as Keynote Speaker, together with 16 of Florida's most successful, wicked and wild mystery writers. Writers will share the secrets of sidekicks, the writer as "Director", the role of Florida as a character itself, and the simple but necessary ability to use, portray and project Death in one's writing. Friday, June 6th, will be dedicated to publishing and self-publishing.

Go to www.mysteryflorida.com, for all details and registration. This conference is lauded by the writers themselves.

BresslerScoggins Literary Management
Suite 211, 338 N Elm St.
Greensboro, NC

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Attention Authors!

BresslerScoggins Literary Management of Greensboro, North Carolina is now actively seeking novelists looking for representation. We are a comprehensive firm that handles authors at all levels of publication, from representing manuscripts to publishing houses, to marketing and publicity for published books. If you are interested please look at the submission guidelines on our website. All queries should have a cover letter, synopsis, and 50 pages or three chapters of your manuscript.
We look forward to hearing from you!

What we are currently interested in:

- Literary Fiction with strong narrative
- Southern Fiction
- Mystery/thriller
- Fantasy
- Young Adult Fiction
- Intermediate Fiction
- Women's Motivational/Business
- Romance

Contact information:

BresslerScoggins Literary Management
338 N. Elm St.
Suite 308
Greensboro, NC 27401

NC office: 336-792-2960
NY office: 646-688-5042
Toll Free: 888-833-8693

submit@bresslerscoggins.com