Writing Competition and Anthology on Theme of Nighttime Sounds: TallGrass Writers Guild

Anthology on Nighttime Sounds in Nature and other settings seeks poetry, short fiction and nonfiction.

TallGrass Writers Guild in affiliation with Outrider Press seeks poetry, short fiction and nonfiction for its 24th annual anthology--LOON MAGIC and other Night Sounds (please remember the emphasis on SOUNDS).

Prizes: $1,000—$500 each for poetry and prose.

Deadline: April 30, 2019.

BREAKING NEWS: We announce our judge: Diane Williams, author of Performing Seals.
Anthology theme is: all about twilight and night sounds. We interpret themes broadly, and include: Nature's sounds at twilight and night including frogs, crickets, cicadas, all manner of birds including owls, ducks and other water and wading birds; nocturnal animals waking and finding food; and paranormal life at sundown, including vampires.

Also: people leaving work; crowded supermarkets and restaurants at 6 PM; audiences at indoor and outdoor concerts, formal and otherwise; people lining up or leaving movies or sports events; sports bars and cafes with indoor and outdoor seating; sports fans at an outdoor stadium; sounds of evening meal-making at home; children at bedtime; parties; whispered conversations in the dark; people who work the night shift at 24/7 jobs as tech support or sales people at gas stations, donut shops and restaurants. Sensuality OK, but no erotica/soft porn, please. We recommend becoming familiar with past years' anthologies for a sense of the work we publish. Go here and click on the ‘Publishing’ tab. We are especially interested in poetry.

Previously published and simultaneous submissions OK (please indicate on entry form).

Planned publication date: early fall 2019. Entry fee for each group or partial group of 1-4 poems or each prose entry is $19, reduced to $15 each for TWG members.

No limit on number of submissions in either category.

Our KICKOFF READING for LOON MAGIC and Other Night Sounds will be a Featured Event at the 2019 Chicago Tribune’s Printers Row Lit Fest (PRLF). Winners and other selected contributors receive Featured Reader status at PRLF, which drew over 100,000 attendees in 2018, and is the nation’s third-largest event of its kind.

For complete guidelines, go here and click on GUIDELINES

Questions? email:

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