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from the site:
Literary Upstart 2007 Is Coming! Literary Upstart 2007 Is Coming!
Ladies and gentlemen, writers and lushes, lend us your ears: The L Magazine is proud to announce our third annual Literary Upstart: The Search for Pocket Fiction competition. For those of you unfamiliar with the deal: you send your short stories; we read them; we invite four or five submitters to read at one of our three booze-soaked semifinal readings, in front of a panel of judges (consisting of editors, agents, and other literary types), who will hold forth, American Idol-style, on the stories, and announce a winner, whose story will be published in the L's annual Summer Fiction Issue, and who will return for the final reading to compete for a Cash Prize with the other semi-final winners. I should also mention, in the interests of full disclosure, that the events are hella fun to attend, and usually involve various L Mag staffers getting drunk at yelling at the emcee to "take off [his] shirt!"
This year's panel of judges includes the New Yorker's Ben Greeman; last year's Literary Upstart winner (and current Gawker columnist/pin-up) Gabriel Delahaye; Random House/Doubleday's Christine Pride; the Curtis Brown Agency, LTD's Katherine Fausset; and the L's very own Adam Bonislawski. The first reading will be held March 29 April 12, so get cracking.
And now, here it is, our Call for Submissions:
Stories (please limit yourself to two submissions) should be 1,500 words or fewer, and previously unpublished. Style and content are at your discretion.
Please send your stories as Word attachments, in a standard 12-point font, to fiction@thelmagazine.com. You may also mail them (please include your email address) to:
Fiction Editor
The L Magazine
20 Jay Street, Ste. 207
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Since the live event is such a big part of the competition, please don't submit stories unless you can arrange to be in the NYC area for a reading or two between March and June.
Happy writing, everyone.
from the site:
Literary Upstart 2007 Is Coming! Literary Upstart 2007 Is Coming!
Ladies and gentlemen, writers and lushes, lend us your ears: The L Magazine is proud to announce our third annual Literary Upstart: The Search for Pocket Fiction competition. For those of you unfamiliar with the deal: you send your short stories; we read them; we invite four or five submitters to read at one of our three booze-soaked semifinal readings, in front of a panel of judges (consisting of editors, agents, and other literary types), who will hold forth, American Idol-style, on the stories, and announce a winner, whose story will be published in the L's annual Summer Fiction Issue, and who will return for the final reading to compete for a Cash Prize with the other semi-final winners. I should also mention, in the interests of full disclosure, that the events are hella fun to attend, and usually involve various L Mag staffers getting drunk at yelling at the emcee to "take off [his] shirt!"
This year's panel of judges includes the New Yorker's Ben Greeman; last year's Literary Upstart winner (and current Gawker columnist/pin-up) Gabriel Delahaye; Random House/Doubleday's Christine Pride; the Curtis Brown Agency, LTD's Katherine Fausset; and the L's very own Adam Bonislawski. The first reading will be held March 29 April 12, so get cracking.
And now, here it is, our Call for Submissions:
Stories (please limit yourself to two submissions) should be 1,500 words or fewer, and previously unpublished. Style and content are at your discretion.
Please send your stories as Word attachments, in a standard 12-point font, to fiction@thelmagazine.com. You may also mail them (please include your email address) to:
Fiction Editor
The L Magazine
20 Jay Street, Ste. 207
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Since the live event is such a big part of the competition, please don't submit stories unless you can arrange to be in the NYC area for a reading or two between March and June.
Happy writing, everyone.
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