SDW, Ink's Anthology — A Year in Ink, Vol III

Call for Submissions

Submission Deadline August 1, 2009

We're pleased to announce the publication of our third anthology

A Year in Ink, Vol. III
with special guest editors:
Jennifer Redmond, Prose Editor
Roger Aplon, Poetry Editor

We're looking for San Diego's finest writing—stories, poems, creative nonfiction, essays, flash fiction, excerpts from novels or memoirs. Send us your wild, your imaginative, your most heart-felt—the yet-to-be published work you consider your best.

Submission Criteria:

Eligibility: To showcase our vibrant, dedicated writing community, publication will be limited to residents of San Diego County. Former San Diego Writers, Ink members who currently live outside the area are also invited to submit.

Poetry: Submit up to three poems, single-spaced on plain paper in generic font. Maximum 35 lines per poem.

Prose: Submit fiction, creative nonfiction, and memoir and novel excerpts, double-spaced on plain paper in generic font. Maximum 3,500 words, no more than two entries.

Flash Fiction: Submit a maximum of three pieces, 1000 word maximum per flash.

Reading fee: There is no reading fee for current San Diego Writers, Ink members. If you are a resident of San Diego County and NOT a member, please include a check for $3.00 per entry to SDWI to help support our volunteer-driven effort. One reading fee covers up to three poems or flash fictions or two pieces of prose. SDW, Ink is a nonprofit organization, and we are grateful for your support.

All Entries: Submit four copies (4) of unpublished work. Do NOT place your name on the actual entries. Manuscripts will be recycled. All entries must be postmarked by August 1, 2009. Send a cover letter with your name, address, phone number, e-mail address, and title and genre of each piece, along with a #10 SASE. Submit to:

SDW, Ink/Anthology
710 13th Street
Studio 210
San Diego, CA 92101

A Year in Ink, Vol III Editors

Jennifer Silva Redmond is Editor-in-Chief of Sunbelt Publications, an award-winning small press that celebrates the natural and cultural history of the Californias. Her work is featured in Latinos in Lotusland: An Anthology of Contemporary Southern California Literature (Bilingual Review Press, March 2008) and she has written for publications as diverse as Science of Mind, Cruising World, and Dog Fancy. She is on faculty at the Southern California Writers Conference. Co-founding editor of Sea of Cortez Review (1998-2001), an anthology of writings inspired by Baja California, Ms. Silva Redmond joined Sunbelt in 2000.

Roger Aplon is an internationally acclaimed writer who has published five books of poetry, including Stiletto; By Dawn's Early Light at 120 Miles Per Hour; It's Mother's Day; Barcelona Diary, which is published in English and Catalan; and, most recently, The Man With His Back to the Room. He also published Intimacies, Prose Poems & Stories. Recent chapbooks include After Goya: Disasters of War, Escapades, Improvisations, and Homage to a Widow. His work also appears in numerous journals, anthologies, and other publications, print and electronic. A cofounder and editor of Choice Magazine with Aaron Siskind and John Logan, he served as editor for From These Walls, an anthology published by The Writing Center. Most recently, he was awarded a two-month fellowship (summer 2009) to The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation in New Mexico. www.rogeraplon.com

Order copies of previous San Diego Writers, Ink Anthologies from our Book Store.

A Year in Ink, Vol I, edited by Thomas Larson.

A Year in Ink, Vol II, edited by Sandra Alcosser and Arthur Salm.