MUSE OR DARK ANGEL: THE WRITING LIFE
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
This is the first announcement—the first call for submissions. BUT, BEFORE THE ANNOUNCEMENT, let me tell everyone that this year—2010—Excalibur Press is not doing a Christmas book. We’ve had two very successful editions of the CHRISTMAS IS A SEASON series—2008 and 2009. We’ll take a rest from our Christmas book this year and launch something new. Excalibur Press will be doing a collection of personal essays titled MUSE OR DARK ANGEL: THE WRITING LIFE. The Press would like a variety of perspectives—published authors, emerging authors, beginning authors, and unpublished would-be authors. We’d like the perspectives of older writers, mid-life writers, and younger writers. We’d like happy, thrilled, delighted, satisfied, disillusioned, downtrodden, downhearted, or can’t-take-it-anymore essays. Each writer should write whatever he or she is inspired to write about the writing life. We all know that some days in the writing life are full of good cheer, hope, and joy; others are dark and dismal. Has the sweet muse rested upon your shoulder this year? If so, write about it. Has the dark angel kept a thumb in the center of your back pressing you down, down, down. Rejections, rejections, rejections! Write about it.
We all know that the writing life is comprised of multiple components. For each of us that includes different elements: reading, teaching, mentoring, editing, freelancing, studying, and, of course, writing. An essay about any one of these or a combination of these might also be of interest to readers. A writer might experience great joy and success in one or more of these elements, but still be receiving a plethora of rejections. A happy/sad season. Alas! So—WRITE ABOUT IT!
Here are the particulars:
--Essays should be no more than 6,500 words (preferably shorter).
--The submission deadline is January 15, 2011. (Postmarked date.)
--More than one submissions is acceptable, but not more than two submissions. If you have multiples, select the best two.
--Mail submissions to:
Excalibur Press
3090 Dauphin Square Connector
Mobile, Alabama 36607
--e-mail address: excaliburpress@msn.com
--web: www.excaliburpress.us or www.thewritinglife.us
Excalibur Press will run a classified ad in POETS & WRITERS in the November/December 2010 issue, so we’re expecting a good number of submissions. Every writer has something to say about the writing life. Start thinking. Start writing. Submit!!