So I figure what I need here is a plan of action.
I seemed to have missed a few of the February Deadlines in my absence from Melbourne, whilst drinking mulled wine in big bad England.
But the Christmas weight is gone, I'm a week away from home, and gagging to rev up my bike again and spend a day at The Victorian Writers' Centre adding to my ever growing submissions list.
March is looking to be a bit more fruitful with the Bristol Short Story Prize deadline on the 31st, The Literary Prescription on the 19th, and am also going to use March to pore over some more copies of Wet Ink to get a feel for the sort of stuff they print. Would like to have submitted to them by the end of March as well as they seem to promote new writing, which is exactly what I happen to be!
The Perth Writers Festival starts on the 28th of Feb, but as I couldn't change my flight to get back sooner, unfortunately this will not be my first festival of the year.
I'm also going to round up some guts and head on down to the launch of the fourth issue of Muse, to get myself a copy and to see what these Melbourne Literary types are all about.
It's from 4-6pm at the Garage Cafe & Bar, 221 Berkeley St. Carlton on the fourth of March, if anyone wants to come help me take off my training wheels.
Narrative Magazine are also taking submissions by the end of March with a $3000 prize for their Winter Short Story comp. Details are here: http://narrativemagazine.com/node/7668
Only thing to consider is the $20US Submission fee.
I think I might drag out an old piece and take some spanners to it, see if I can waste me the money I won on this week, at least that way I'm breaking even.
All of these magazines are really hot on whether you've read their stuff before or now, so if you're thinking of applying leave yourself some time for research as well as preparing your submission.
That's what I'magonnado anyway.
Till Then,
Sophie. Xx
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