Carol Smallwood, MLS
Editor, Mt. Pleasant, MI
smallwood@tm.net
Seeking Submissions for 3 Anthologies
1.
The Published Librarian: Successful Professional and Personal
Writing, American Library Association publisher--practicing
librarians from Canada and U.S. sought
Foreword: Bob Blanchard, Adult Services Librarian, Des Plaines Public
Library. Contributor to Illinois Library Association Reporter;
Thinking Outside the Book: Essays for Innovative Librarians
(McFarland, 2008)
Introductory Note: Wayne Jones, Head of Central Technical Services,
Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Ed., Ontario Library
Association, Access; Ed., E-Journals Access and Management
(Routledge, 2008)
Contributors must have enough publication credits for practical,
concise, how-to articles to help the reader. No previously published,
simultaneously submitted, co-authored material. Two articles sharing
the range of your publishing experiences: 1900-2100 words total; for
example, one article could be 1000 words, another 900-1100 words on
another topic. Librarians with ethnic backgrounds serving diverse
cultures are encouraged. Contributor's sign an ALA Writer Agreement
before publication. Compensation: a complimentary copy, discount on
additional copies
Editor Carol Smallwood, MLS, has written, co-authored, edited 19
books such as Educators as Writers for Scarecrow, Libraries
Unlimited, Peter Lang, and others. Her work has appeared in English
Journal, Clackamas Literary Review, The Detroit News, Poesia, and
several others including anthologies. Pudding House Publications
published her chapbook, 2008; Words and Images of Belonging co-edited
with Aurorean editor is with an agent; a recent book is
http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-3575-3
Possible topics: book promotion, online publishing, where to send
reviews, research skills for historical novels, using editing a
library newsletter to edit books, diversity in publication, ideas
from students for YA books, using tools like BIP to locate publishers
for your books, storytellers turned picture book authors,
interviewing, networking, using a technology edge, promoting your
books at conferences. Using issues librarians face such as censorship
in poetry, essays, memoir, short stories, columns.
Deadline September 30, 2008
Please submit 3-4 topics with proposals with a 65-70 word bio
beginning with your library of employment, highlighting your
publications. Place LIBRARIANS/your name on the subject line to:
smallwood@tm.net
2.
Women Writing on Today's American Family
publisher being sought-U.S. women writers needed
Foreword: Robbi Hess, Journalist, co-author, Complete Idiot's Guide
to 30,000 Baby Names (Penguin Books); Editor, Byline Magazine
Afterword: Suzanne Bunkers, Professor of English, Minnesota State
University, editor of Diaries of Girls and Women: a Midwestern
American Sampler (University of Wisconsin Press)
This is a book about writing and publishing about family by women
with family publication credits. Possible subjects: markets; why
women write about family; using life experience; networking; unique
issues women must overcome; formal education; queries and proposals;
conference participation; self-publishing; teaching tips; family in
creative nonfiction, poetry, short stories, novels. Contributors have
already covered: blogs, using family history, managing time, privacy
issues.
Practical, concise, how-to articles with bullets/headings have proven
the most helpful to readers. Please avoid writing about "me" and
concentrate on what will help the reader. A question and answer
format for interviews may be used.
Two articles each 950-1050 words; minimum 1900, maximum 2100 words
total. No previously published or simultaneously submitted material
or co-authors.
Deadline: September 30, 2008
Contributors receive a complimentary copy and contributor's discount
on additional copies. It is common for compilation of an anthology to
take upwards of a year, but I will be in touch with updates on
securing a publisher.
Please send 3-4 topics with descriptions for feedback/65-70 word bio.
Place FAMILY and your name on the subject line to: smallwood@tm.net
3.
The Poet in Us: Tips on Writing by and for Today's Women
Foreword by Robin Merrill, Maine Poets Society President 2006-2007.
M.F.A. Stonecoast. With hundreds of poems published, some from her
chapbook Laundry & Stories (Moon Pie Press) were featured on Garrison
Keillor's "Writers' Almanac." http://www.robinmerrill.com
Afterword by the editors of Iris Magazine, an award-winning
publication of 27 years celebrating and empowering young women
through provocative articles, essays, and fiction pieces that are
uplifting, inclusive, and literate.
http://womenscenter.virginia.edu/coreprograms/iris.html
Markets for women, why women write, time management, using life
experience, women's magazines, critique groups, networking, blogs,
unique issues women must overcome, lesbian and bisexual writing,
formal education, queries and proposals, conference participation,
family scheduling, feminist writing, self-publishing, teaching tips,
are just a few areas women poets are interested.
Practical, concise, how-to articles with bullets/headings have proven
the most helpful. Please avoid writing about "me" and concentrate on
what will most help the reader. A question and answer format for
interviews may be used.
Step 1: send your proposed topics before writing articles to avoid
duplication; proposed topics must be accompanied by a 65-70 word bio
with your present position, location, relevant publications, career
highlights for the contributor page; please use POETS/your name on
the subject line to brackett-vincent@encirclepub.com.
Step 2:(if your topics are approved): deadline for submissions (by
e-mail only) is September 30, 2008. Again, please use POETS in the
subject line; send to Cynthia at brackett-vincent@encirclepub.com in
a Word document (.doc format only) using 12-point font.
Article specifics: word total for 1-2 articles based on your
experience: 1,900 minimum; maximum 2,100. Two articles preferred. If
submitting two articles, please break them up fairly evenly in word
count.
No previously published or simultaneously submitted material.
Contributors must be reside in the U.S. Books such as this can
typically take up to a year to compile. Contributors receive a
complimentary copy and contributor's discount on additional copies.
Co-editor Cynthia Brackett-Vincent is publisher/editor of the
esteemed Aurorean poetry journal; poetry instructor; award-winning
poet; author of The 95 Poems chapbook (2005) and contributor to
Educators as Writers: Publishing for Personal and Professional
Development. In 2007, her poems received a citation, honorable
mention and second place in the National Federation of State Poetry
Societies, New England Writers and Maine Poets Society competitions.
View Cynthia at http://www.encirclepub.com/poetry/aurorean/editor
Co-editor, Carol Smallwood has written, co-authored, and edited 19
books such as Educators as Writers for Scarecrow, Libraries
Unlimited. An award-winning writer, her work has appeared in English
Journal, Clackamas Literary Review, Iris, and several others
including anthologies; chapbook, Pudding House 2008; Educators as
Writers, Peter Lang 2006;
and http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-3575-3
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