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Open Submissions of Poetry/Essays for the International Day of Peace

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Day of Peace

The International Day of Peace was started by the United Nations in 1981. Since then, the day “is observed around the world each year on September 21. The Peace Day provides a globally shared date for all humanity to commit to Peace above all differences and to contribute to building a Culture of Peace.”

The local planning committee invites you to write personal essays and/or poems addressing the issue of peace.

The chosen submissions will be entered into a collaborative notebook available on the Day of Peace, September 21, 2019 (10 am to 12 am in Central Park, Bakersfield). The collaboration will then be published online at https://kernpoetry.com

One poem will be selected to be read from the stage. The poem should last no longer than 3 minutes when read aloud. All pieces will be entered into the electronic book.

How to Submit

#1 Format you work

  • 12 pt Times New Roman font
  • 1″ margins, all sides
  • Document file in MS Word

#2  Email your submission

  • Enter “Submission for Day of Peace” in the subject line
  • Send as an attachment
  • Send it to  [email protected]

#3  All submissions should be received by September 18, 2019

Note: Email submissions only. All other submissions will be rejected.

Write NOW – reminder

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Show off your mental gymnastics and writing skills! Write NOW is a new feature for the The Write Way Newsletter – providing members with an opportunity to get published in the newsletter and on the WOK website. Each month’s assignment will be different. The deadline will always be the last day of the month, with publication happening in the next month’s newsletter. These opportunities are open to members and non-members of the Writers of Kern.

Deadline: August 31, 2019  –  50-word story about a “Back to school” memory

Submission guidelines: 
Send your 50-word story and your name as you wish it to appear, in an email with the subject “Back to School” to: [email protected] 

The best of the submissions will appear in the newsletter for September and all submissions will appear on the Writers of Kern Blog.  Stay tuned for next month’s Write NOW assignment and keep those pens and pencils ready!

Results of the July Meeting Survey

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If you attended the July meeting, you may remember completing a survey about the genres you write in (or are interested in writing in) and also the workshop topics that most interest you. Here are the results of the survey.

Genres

Workshop Interests

If you’d rather see these in a document, click here for the .pdf version of these graphs.

Calling all Horror Writers Opportunity Knocking!

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War Monkey Publications, LLC
is pleased to announce open submissions for our upcoming anthology:

FROM THE YONDER

A horror, short-story collection of regional legends and tall-tales from around the World.

We are seeking short story submissions (1000-7500 words) for this anthology. The stories must be based upon a regional/cultural legend or tall tale from any location or culture in the World. “Regional” can be a specific place (Loch Ness) or a larger region (Bigfoot in the Pacific Northwest).
We are seeking stories in the horror genre. Inclusion of elements of other genres is welcome, so long as, overall, the story is an horror story. The subject of the story can be based on any legend, so long as it has a horrific flavor. Ghosts, hauntings, alien abductions, monsters, demons, spirits, witches, etc, all are acceptable, as long as the subject is based on an actual legend or tall tale.

Submissions are open between 1 August and 19 September 2019. 
Submission info will be posted on our website: https://warmonkeypublications.com/submissions

The Submission Deadline is:
Talk Like a Pirate Day, 19 September 2019, at 11:59PM MST
Submit via Email to: [email protected]