Cheers,
J. S. Graustein, Editor
Winsome Word guidelines for StoneCroppe Vol. 1
Submission Period: 1 Jan - 30 May 2009
Genres: Any fiction/essay genre under 2000 words or poetry genre under 50 lines
Audience: Middle Grade, Young Adult, Adult
Submission Method:
Paste your manuscript in the body of an email sent to stonecroppe@jsgraustein.com with "exclusive submission" (ONLY, no other words) in the subject line. We do not accept multiple submissions (the same work sent to multiple publications at the same time). Your email should contain: title of submission, genre of submission, audience target, prompt used, your legal name, your pen name (if any), and the text of your submission. We do not require a cover letter or biographical information with your submission. Bios and special formatting instructions will be obtained if your work is accepted.
Number of Submissions:
You may submit one work of poetry and one work of prose PER PROMPT. Each work should be submitted in a separate email.
Terms:
Unfortunately, we do not pay for publishing rights to your piece. StoneCroppe will be sold at a very modest price, with 50% of the net proceeds donated to World Hope International. (The other 50% will go toward costs incurred while producing the volume.) Authors retain copyright to their work, but will be required to sign a waiver prior to publication that grants Winsome Word permission to publish and distribute the work in the collection.
Submissions must be written in response to the prompts given below. We are not looking for a literal treatment of the prompts. We strongly encourage figurative treatment of the prompts, mind-mapping of free associations from the prompts, and other word-play. We also have a passion for humor, compelling imagery, and quirky characters. This will be a PG publication, so we will not accept manuscripts with strong language or explicit sex/violence. There must always be some thread--however thin--of hope, joy, or peace left at the end of any manuscript we accept.
Submission Prompts:
Genesis 31:17-21
So Jacob arose and set his sons and his wives on camels. He drove away all his livestock, all his property that he had gained, the livestock in his possession that he had acquired in Paddan-aram, to go to the land of Canaan to his father Isaac. Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole her father's household gods. And Jacob tricked [stole the heart of] Laban the Aramean, by not telling him that he intended to flee. He fled with all that he had and arose and crossed the Euphrates, and set his face toward the hill country of Gilead.
Proverbs 7:6-9
For at the window of my house
I have looked out through my lattice,
and I have seen among the simple,
I have perceived among the youths,
a young man lacking sense,
passing along the street near her corner,
taking the road to her house
in the twilight, in the evening,
at the time of night and darkness.
Matthew 4:1-3
Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. And the tempter came and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread."
Genres: Any fiction/essay genre under 2000 words or poetry genre under 50 lines
Audience: Middle Grade, Young Adult, Adult
Submission Method:
Paste your manuscript in the body of an email sent to stonecroppe@jsgraustein.com with "exclusive submission" (ONLY, no other words) in the subject line. We do not accept multiple submissions (the same work sent to multiple publications at the same time). Your email should contain: title of submission, genre of submission, audience target, prompt used, your legal name, your pen name (if any), and the text of your submission. We do not require a cover letter or biographical information with your submission. Bios and special formatting instructions will be obtained if your work is accepted.
Number of Submissions:
You may submit one work of poetry and one work of prose PER PROMPT. Each work should be submitted in a separate email.
Terms:
Unfortunately, we do not pay for publishing rights to your piece. StoneCroppe will be sold at a very modest price, with 50% of the net proceeds donated to World Hope International. (The other 50% will go toward costs incurred while producing the volume.) Authors retain copyright to their work, but will be required to sign a waiver prior to publication that grants Winsome Word permission to publish and distribute the work in the collection.
Submissions must be written in response to the prompts given below. We are not looking for a literal treatment of the prompts. We strongly encourage figurative treatment of the prompts, mind-mapping of free associations from the prompts, and other word-play. We also have a passion for humor, compelling imagery, and quirky characters. This will be a PG publication, so we will not accept manuscripts with strong language or explicit sex/violence. There must always be some thread--however thin--of hope, joy, or peace left at the end of any manuscript we accept.
Submission Prompts:
Genesis 31:17-21
So Jacob arose and set his sons and his wives on camels. He drove away all his livestock, all his property that he had gained, the livestock in his possession that he had acquired in Paddan-aram, to go to the land of Canaan to his father Isaac. Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole her father's household gods. And Jacob tricked [stole the heart of] Laban the Aramean, by not telling him that he intended to flee. He fled with all that he had and arose and crossed the Euphrates, and set his face toward the hill country of Gilead.
Proverbs 7:6-9
For at the window of my house
I have looked out through my lattice,
and I have seen among the simple,
I have perceived among the youths,
a young man lacking sense,
passing along the street near her corner,
taking the road to her house
in the twilight, in the evening,
at the time of night and darkness.
Matthew 4:1-3
Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. And the tempter came and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread."
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