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Topic: HELP! I can't find anthology calls for submissions
| Author | Message |
| Newsy | Posted – 3/22/2008 11:45:02 AM | show profile All the personal essays I see in magazines are excerpted from anthologies. Anyone know how I could find info on upcoming anthology topics? |
| GettingItDown | Posted – 3/22/2008 1:29:24 PM | show profile anthology submissions In the back pages of Poets & Writers magazine there is a Call for Submissions section. People putting together anthologies often list their theme, pay rate, etc. there. Seal Press (for women writers only--at least at this point) publishes a lot of anthologies and has a section for upcoming themes. But I think most anthologies are put together by editors who contact the writers of essays that have already been published--that is, the content has already been published somewhere else. Good luck. If you find more out about this, please post it. |
| Village Gal | Posted – 3/22/2008 2:31:35 PM | show profile I have published many essays, mostly in newspapers, and none were exerpted from anthologies. In fact, it has worked the other way around for me. The above poster is correct about P&W classifieds and Seal Press. I'm under contract right now with an agent who is shopping around my anthology proposal. I have an ad in P&W (current issue) and elsewhere. I already have a bunch of writers who have agreed to contribute once we have the sale. (You need some names to sell the book) and there will be room for a few essays to come in over the transom. But I have to say most of what I have received so far from unknown writers is off the mark. |
| xxxxx | Posted – 3/23/2008 4:53:49 PM | show profile Publishers Lunch? I think you could subscribe to Publishers Lunch (which sends out a weekly list of new book deals) and then contact the editor when you see an anthology has been sold and you would like to offer a contribution. However, every time I've gotten an essay in an anthology, it's been because the editor knew me or knew my work and contacted me (or I was recommended by a fellow writer). I'm afraid that's how these things work a lot of the time. |
