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Learn to Navigate If You Want to Gaze at the Stars by Mark Cantrell

Author Mark Cantrell

REMEMBER the days of innocence. That was such a carefree time, when the words poured forth untroubled by matters of craft and technique.

The learning needed was steep. The fertile mind of the new writer, however, was too star-struck by the first emergence of the creative cosmos to notice the incline rising rocky underfoot.

Too engrossed to consider where a turn might lead to a grassier path, the emergent writer follows their star oblivious to the hazards ahead. Continue reading “Learn to Navigate If You Want to Gaze at the Stars by Mark Cantrell”

Amazon’s Breakthrough Novel Award

Amazon Breakthrough Novel AwardDo you have an unpublished or self-published novel you know Amazon.com readers will love? Enter your novel in the 2012 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award for a chance to win one of two $15,000 publishing contracts with Penguin USA and distribution of your novel on Amazon.com.

On January 23, submissions are accepted for the First Round: Amazon editors will review a 300-word pitch of each entry. The top 1,000 entries in each category (2,000 total entries) will move on to the second round.  See the web site below for more details.

For more information, go to https://www.createspace.com/abna

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The New Letters Literary Awards

New Letters MagazineNew Letters Magazine is now accepting submissions for their 2012 Literary Awards.  These awards include the $1,500 New Letters Prize for Poetry for the best 2012 group of three to six poems; the $1,500 Dorothy Churchill Cappon Prize for the Essay for the 2012 best essay; and the $1,500 Alexander Patterson Cappon Prize for Fiction for the best 2012 short story.

Entry fees are $15 for first entry; $10 for every entry after. Entry fee includes the cost of a one-year subscription, renewal, or gift subscription to New Letters, shipped to any address within the United States.  Enter by May 18, 2012.

For more information, go to http://www.newletters.org/awards.asp

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Southwestern Law School’s Legal Fiction Contest

Southwestern Law SchoolSouthwestern Law School is accepting submissions of original short works of fiction, and winning entries will be published in a future issue of the Journal of Legal Education.

The contest is open to lawyers and non-lawyers, academics and non-academics – anyone setting a fictitious story in a legal setting (law school, law firm, courtroom, legislature, judge’s chambers, etc.) or focusing on a law-related character (lawyer, law professor, judicial clerk, etc.).  All submissions must be original and previously unpublished works of short fiction related to law school or the practice of law. Submissions must be no more than 5,000 words (approximately 20 double-spaced pages).

There is no entry fee and no monetary prize; the winning stories will be published in the Journal of Legal Education: The Fiction Issue in early 2013. Additionally, the winning entries and ten runner-up entries will be posted on the JLE website. Authors will retain copyright ownership.

Submissions must be received by 6:00 p.m., Pacific Daylight Time, Thursday, March 15, 2012.

For more information, go to http://www.swlaw.edu/jleweb/fictioncontestrules

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