Tayari's Blog: Ah-CHOO!
Posted by TayariJones on October 24, 2006 08:30 PM
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The Writing Life
Hi, all. I am suffering from a pretty menacing cold-type ailment. Much love to my student, Vesper, who provided me with the amazing foaming vitamin C supplement. I have to crash, but I wanted to bring to your attention a neat contest from Kore Press.
Here's a quote from the website:
Deadline: October 31
(Prize is)$1,000 and chapbook publication by Kore Press will be awarded for a previously unpublished short story written by a woman. All women authors writing in English are eligible, regardless of nationality. Margot Livesey will judge. Submit a story of up to 8,000 words, postmarked by October 31, 2006. For complete guidelines, visit our website.
I love the idea of a single story printed up as a chap. If you win, you'll have to send me a copy, signed, sil vous plait.
And before I go back to frantically packing for Tomales Bay, here are some really disturbing stats provided by Kore Press, in answer to the question of why they publish woman writers:
Percentage of women and men writers featured in "general interest" magazines from September to December 2005:
The Atlantic Monthly
77% men,
23% women
Harper's
82% men,
18% women
New York Times's Magazine
71% men,
29% women
The New Yorker
79% men, 21% women
Vanity Fair
72% men, 28% women
On that note, I am taking my sniffling, sneezing, achy, coughing, stuffy-headed self to bed. Let's hope I wake up in time to catch my 7:00 am plane.
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Here is another contest, http://www.nanowrimo.org/, where you get to write a novel in a month. Starts on November 1st.
If it was Airborne that you took, you should start to feel better within the hour.
October 25, 2006 10:42 AM