1986
MARCH
P.O. Box 24624, Stn. C Vancouver,
B.C.
VsT
4F,2
fd,saUon of Srttfu*r eotutrtb htrltss New&.tar Please Note: A.G.ll. DAIE CHAI{GE to be held in October. Please send your entries to: iIt The revised dates are: Friday May 2 The Best of B.C. I,lriting Conpetition Saturday May 3. The location remains at 4007 West 12th Avenue t the new offices/gallery of the Vancouver Vancouver, B.C. V6R 2P4 Comnunity Arts Council (VCAC) at 837 Davie Please send gglglq to: Street, Vancouver. This new date coincides The Federation of B.C. Writiers with the opening of EXPO and should work P.O. Box 24624, Stn. C out fine for out-of-town writers who nay be Vancouver, B.C. V5T 4E2 tlta
visiting Vancouver on assignnent. If you need a billet for the A.G.M. please contact 254-ILO2 well in advance.
This yearts A.G.M. features two workshop/ seninars of Friday evening, and Saturday morning prior to the business meeting Saturday afternoon. An agenda with fur-
ther details will be mailed to shortly.
nenbers
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The
First Poetry Call
Carol Brost
trMoral Supporttf
Ann Knight
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ttVowsff
Eileen Kernaghan rrMohen
Deadline for The B.C. Book Prizes is l{ay 15, fgeO.-gooks colfrignted in
1985
are eligible for subnission by author or publisher. The fee is $10 and send three copies to: 1622 hlest 7th Avenue Vancouver,
B.C.
(604) 734-1611
V6J lS5
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Fran Darling ffTaking His Leavefr Zoe Landale rrA
Purity Like
Fernsrr
Marjorie D. Roessler
ttFor The Lateness of Love Longed Forrl
Robert
J.
Wallace
ttMemorytt
i .,
, f: t,
jo-Darott
BEST OF
B.c.
LTIERARY CCHPBIITI0N
t' Ih" Federation is welcoming entries for its 2nd poetry call til1 March 15, and for its 2nd prose call from March 15 to May 15. Renenber that all entries nust be typed, double spaced ot 8 l/2 x lltf white paper, name and address to be on the back page. Poetry: 1 page to a naxinum of 26 lines. Prose: 3 pages to a maximun of 800 words. A11 entrants nust be a resident of B.C. Non-Federation menbers please include a
$5.00 handling fee which may be used toward membership later. Winners will receive an invitation to a gala public reading series
Susan McCaslin
rrTrillium & Unicornfl
Wynne
L. Willians
ttGlinpsestt
Allison
Hopwood
ffTotem lrlonanrl
Winona Baker
ttPotlachtl
R.A. Kawalilak tt0riginsft
Jean Rysstad
ttline-up Booth
at
Queen
in Herring
Charlotte City
phone
Seasonrt
Claude planadin
ttCity
Autumnrt
TIE
Carolyn Zonailo rfEpithalamionil Mona
to get rrplugged through WORDWORKS, newsletter. And,inn if possi61e, we woufO t to -invite you to take part i" it" vari activities of our Federation__thu organization in this p.ouince o represent.s everl writer who has put t h her pen to pl!E. With best regards,
Fertig "For Jean Rhys your Sargasso
0,ril"k-
Sea,,
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letter from Chair was sent to non-members. inv_itingthe them to join the Federation and its DireEt;;;: February
Chairman
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1986
DEAR COLLEAGUE:
fn many ways 19g6 is bound banner y"ut io. g.C. ,iitilr."'Expotog6be a focus on wha! is b"inj -"jone withwill rhe writ.ten word in this prJuincl. National organizations such as the Writer," Canada have scheduled rh"i;t;;"ual U;i;;';; general meetings in Vancouver.
LITILE
running
TpATRE announces
i.rs
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The con ope non-prof resident in Cana imnigrants. First o Award, consists of
I
designed medal; seco
The Federation of B.C. Writersr errr umbrella- organj_zation of writers of all genres, has scheduled Vancouver for Mav. also be workshops and Now in its fifth vear Federation is giowi (pushing roward :dO)
0(IIAWA Annual
Plays nust be unproduced, one_acl slage plays in- English,original iitt maximur playing tirne of 49 miiutes, minimurn of 2: minutes. Mss. must. Ue typeruritten on on( side of the page o with cover page show
a
and authorrs pen nam appearance of the
our most important project . Perhaps the compilation of a b.C. Directory is Writers. The enclosed form plus of a membership fee entitles you to-Le included in the directory. As comprehensi.ve document about the first writers in this ,province, tt i"-"uj".if awaited by schools, libraries and oiher insLitutions, it is 1ikely to result in substantial ?nd increase in income for runf oi ou. members. Your name has been suggest.ed to us because of your pasr affili";i;; wirh us or your reputation as a writer in this conmu_ nity--in nany cases because of both. believe menbership in the-f,uJl..rion We result in many fruitful contacis with will your fe11ow writers for you and invaluable advice for us. We would iL"".o i;;;;-;;
other identification disqualify the entry. Copies of the rules may be obtained from the addiess Address Mss. and att corre"poiJ"n." below. .o, The Director, Canadian playwriting Competition, Ortawa Lirrle Theatie 400 King Edward Avenue
Ottawa, Ontario K1N
2
7M7
fmpgrtant: An entry fee of Sl5 a_j SASE accgmpany each play u"f.y T^u:t ree must be enclosed i_n asubmitrej, seal.: with title of playr pâ&#x201A;Źn name, a:: ==r.:_ofe, real name and address. (Ti,a**s ::author,s llive Nugent for pasqing along the a5.:r= .-:crna_ tion.
LEf,TBR TO
lTE
CHAIR
Jan Drabek, Chairman The Federation of B.C. Writers P.0. Box 24624, Srn. C Vancouver, B.C. Dear Jan,
I I
t
and spends the least of any province in It is not that I dontt share your enthusiasm for a collectivity of writers, such as the Federation of B.C. Writers, but it was my undersLanding that our purpose of joining Logether r{ras to promote B.C. writing and to lobby for greater support and exposure, and not sinply echo the itB.C. spirittr of the times I would be pleased if this letter (lithout editing) could be I'plugged in'r to WORDWORKS so I mighr discover if others Canada on education.
share my views.
Yours sincerely, Eleanor Wachtel
on what basis you might make such a claim__
except, perhaps, the prodigious result of many Vancouver writers tucking their word
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Pauline Holdstock, Sidney
Karen Ballinger-Spoffard, Fort Jane Gilchrist, Cunberland
St.
John
Lisa Hatton, Fraser Valley Anne
Miles,
Gibsons
Dorothy Young, North Vancouver David Williams, Duncan Greg Middleton, Vancouver Violet Henderson, Nanaimo Larry Hnetka, Vancouver
apron-wearing variety) find their way onto the Expo site. I think itrs great that the national writing organizations in Canada__
Pan Humphreys, Burnaby Helen Hurst, Vancouver Inger Kronseth, Argenta Mary LighLburn, Vancouver Desrnond
Lindo, Victoria
J. Arthur Lower, Vancouver
I I
_ Perhaps naively (or sentinentally), I feel that writers should be sensitive to social and political context of rculturalr events. hlriters in B.C. certainly know to what degree the B.C. goverrunent has failed to-support independent creative pursuits in this province--including cutting funding to book publishers of ivorks critilal of the
Johann E. Polberg, North Vancouver Mary Renwick, Nanaimo Leonard Richards, Chilliwack Josephine Selkirk, Prince George James Spalding, Campbell River Panela Tranfield, Vancouver Mildred Tremblay, Nanaimo Christopher Llalmsley, Vancouver Ann Walsh, Williams Lake
******************************************* Okanagan Branch CANADIAN AUITIORS ASSOCIATION
invites you to concern to wri.ters. ft is no coincidence that almost half the food banks in Canada
are in B.C., that B.C. has the second highest 1eve1 of unemployment in Canada,
fiIE
KELOIINA
for
CHALLENGE OF COMMT'NICATION
C.A.A.
rs Annual Conference
JI,NE 20
- 23, 1986
B.C.
GEf, TOGETIIER SIIARTS PROMOfION
On January 12th, a group of B.C. bookpublishers, librarians, and sellers, writers got together in Nanaino for a very successful meeting. The topic: exploring the possibilities of coordinating promotion among all the groups for 1986 and beyond.
critiquing the entered works. Guest Honour Fredrick Pohl will be one of pros involved. Workshop coordinators Eileen Kernaghan and MarY Choo. The
1. 2.
The workshop was the brainchild of Thora Howell of the Bookstore on Bastion Street' (Nanaino, B.C.) According to Howell: ttlt Itts was a very productive daY. astonishing that we have not done it bef ore.
rules are as follows:
You must be a member You may submit up to
of
V-CON 14.
three poems an (SF fantasY) of u or piece prose a 5000 words.
3. Mss. must be
tt
tYPed and double-sP and phone nun address Include name' for comme sPace of and leave PlentY is a Prelimi this Indicate whether kind what and or final draft, for. you looking are feedback Send two coPies of each entry, wit duplication fee of $3-00. Final date for submission is Marcl 1986 (postnarked)
Participants in the day-long round table included representatives of the booksellingr publishing, writing and library conmunities as well as The National Book Festival, the provincial government, the City of Vancouver, and the loca1 MPts office. The meeting, which was organized by the Association of Book Publishers of 8.C., was held in conjunction with a NBF
4.
workshop.
You will be advised of the tine and l of your workshop. For further informat call Eileen Kernaghan at 433-5810 or
5.
6. Mail your manuscriPts to: V-CON
14 Conmittee
P.0. Box 48478, Bentall Centre Vancouver,
marked
President of the B.C. Booksellers Association Trudy Martin reported that the groups looked at a wide range of events and projects, including regional flyers, a nap of B.C. bookstores, a provincial book industry council and exchange of industry information, the developnent of a B.C. writersr directory which would include promotional
Writing
at 277-3446. **************************************:
TIIE WRITERS OF TIIE FUTURE CONTXST' fo: and amateur writers, continues into The contest calls for original workr
.
science fiction, of short story or nr ette length, with Prizes of $1000' and $500. There are two quar competitions this year' running Janua. to March 31, and APril 1 to June 30. complete rules write 2210 hlilshire B
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associations.
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Santa Monica,
14 SF/FANTASY I{RITING
T{ORKSHOPS
CA.
Fantasy is also eligible. The rule notes that judging is not by Ron Hubb who, by the waY, is now offic deceased--or by his agents, but bY a of professional authors. (Thanks to
1986 Vancouver Science Fiction Convention, V-CON 14' will be held at the Totem Residence, University of British Columbia, llay 23-25, 1986. Guest of honour is Fredrick Pohl, and the theme of the conTransportation and Communicavention is 186 Con. will also be Convention The tion. national Canadian SF convensixth 6, the
The
Westergaard. )
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Ow1 Energy Publications is holdin literary contest for the best West Poem/Limmerick -- $50.00. Winners wi featured in The l{est Coasf [1ma16q, published early autumn. Entries to:
tion.
A11 V-CON 14 Convention 6 registrants are eligible to take part in the Writersr Workshops in prose and poetry. These will be small closed sessions, open only to those who have entered a piece of writing' with two or three professional authors
V7X IAz WorkshoPs
Choo
information, and the annual Sechelt Festival of the Written Arts. At the end of the neeting a task force was set up to take the results back to the individual
V-CON
B.C.
1
Owl Enery Publications R.R. #1 Creekside
Gibsons,
4
B.C.
VON 1V0
TROM OUR BTJRNABY FRIENDS
ALL WRITERS! The Burnaby Arts Council needs articles for its quarterly publication ARTS AND CRAFTS NEI^IS. Submitted manuscripts should have an artsrelated theme, such as writer profiles, book reviews, reports on active community groups and/or festivities as well as general interest stories which would impact on the arts community. ttThe scoPe is only limited by your imagination.rr The Arts & Crafts News was initiated in May, 1983 to fulfill a vital community need: to present a centralized arts information bulletin and public access to available to facilitatet'Dontt miss this opportu$ity to resources. reach a committed and informed readership-over 10,000 citizens to dateltr Call Laura MacMaster at the Burnaby Arts Council (2987322) for more information. CALLING
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ZoLa, Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. V5A 156, is looking for poems and verses for a
Meguido
three-volume anthology and teachers guide.
The poems may be on any subject and take any form (including experimental), atrY length, and should explore childrents real interests, feelings and language as seen in Send naterial as soon contemporary life. as possible.
******************************************* SCHOLASTIC-TAB PUBLICATIONS 123 Newkirk Road
Richmond
Hill, Ontario
L4C 3G5
publish material ranging from picture
books
to young adult, from non-fiction and fiction through Lo ptzzLe books. They are always on the lookout for quality nanuscripts. Submissions should be addressed to Fran Buncombe, Editor. (Illustrators should contact Kathryne Cole' Art Director. )
Ginn & Corpany 3711 Victoria Park Avenue Scarborough, Ontario MlW
needs fiction (realistic
2P9
stories, adventure, folk tales, tall tales, sf and fantasy) if possible in a multicultural setting or experience. Also poetry for language arts anthology, ages 9 - 12. Editor is Kathy Doyle.
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SEA-SIDE WOMAN I923-D Fernwood Road Victoria, B.C. V8T 2Y6 is a new magazine compiled ttby women for women of Vancouver Island, the Gulf Islands
and the Sechelt Peninsula.rr Uses propersonal experience, expertise' files, art work. Queries recommended. Pays 25 cents a word. Editor is Blanche Black. (Thanks to Vic, CAA Newsletter.) **)F**********************:B**************** ANIMAX
is an animates production
owned by Meta Communications,
conpany media
a new
corporation based in Vancouver, with offices in Toronto and Los Angeles. Writers are needed for anirnal IV specials and serials.
invites r*riters to subnit scripts of samples of work that may be suitable for programming, with ernphasis on childrenrsrrWe want to read as many subhumour. missions as possible on an ongoing basis' and let people know that we are on a script search. The ideal situation would be to have a team of story and gag writers that together as a unit.tr Scripts could work I CV s should be forwarded to ANIMX at and Suite 162, 1020 Mainland StreeL Vancouver, B.C. V6B 2T4. Enclose SASE. For more information contact Natalie Boucher, Project Dev., (604) 689-3029. Animax
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is a new magazine aimed at the whole family: promotes traditional values, with articles of courage, farnily faith, cooking, nutrition, crisis, budgeting, etc. Address:
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Gage Publishing 164 Commander B1vd.
CANADA
884-167 Lornbard Avenue Winnipeg, Manitoba R3B 0V3
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for kids, R.R. 2, Wiarton, Ontario NOH 2T0 is looking for short stories and articles (500 words or two double-spaced pages) and
BVZZ, newsmagazine
poems for 6-12 year olds. pays $25 per story or article. Illustrators are also needed. (They should query with
photocopied samples of work. ) B\JZZ, published by the Grey Bruce Arts Cou 3 times per year. Editor is Joan lrvin,
****************************************** HEI,P FOR AI.L OF US FROM lUE MANITOBA HIGHLY
RECOMMEIIDED
NEI' WRITERS
Literary Markets Periodical. llrite 4340 Coldfall Road
ner,r magazine for new writers, invj short story, poetry and craft_orier article subnissions. Send to Stan Gorr Editor, Tyro Publishing, Box 102g Sault Ste. Marie, 0ntario, p6A 5N5 ************(****************************
T|RO,
Rictunond, B.C. V7C 1p8. Subscriptions 910/year or glg/two years. Do
I{RIITRSI GUTID NEI{SI,EIIER:
it Yourself Guide to Market Research
POETRY
IN MOTION
Wants published or unpublished
spending a 1ot
poems
illustrative material for use in anthology of sports. Contact G Pennington, Faculty of Education, U.B.
of tine doing it:
Vancouver, Y6R IZ7
1. Canadian Advertising Rates and Data 2. Ulrichts International periodicals
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3. Newsletter Directory 4. Quill and Quire 5. Publishers Weeklv 6. Library Journal ******************************************
More stories wanted, published unpublished, of a holiday thene to adapted to a half-hour film for CBC (srn cast only). Contact:
Directory.
ZOOT CAPRI
Published by the Alberra Alcohol and
Abuse Commission, Zoot Capri
in
poetry, fiction,
Nick Kendall 2OI - 3880 Poinr Grey
Drug
is interested and non_fiction
Road
B.C. V6R 1B4 ********************************x*******: Vancouver,
SPECTIIATIVE FISIION
needs stories of fiction up to 4,000 words. If
TII.{EITIARP
contact:
speculat:
interesl
Bruce Brown, Visions publications P.0. Box I29L, Srn. B Ottawa, Ontario Klp 5R3
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WOMEN'S ARTICLES
Toronto-based nagazine CITY WOMAN is loc ing for articles about well rounded care woments lifestyles for a new colur Contact Editor, Karen Haley, City Woman Comac Publications Ltd. 2300 Younge Street Toronto, Ontario M4P lE4
POETRY CANADA REVIEW
the vital necessity of good connunicati< the provincial c6uncil and RegRepi The largest growth area for the Federatic nas Deen Zone 6 _ Coastal/fsland reflecting _-RegRep Ton Ungeris untirin efforts. I,lell done, Ton! Zane 2 menbe Ann Walsh advises that hlillians Late has a active writers t group. Joan l,leir K-anloops conducted- Th; fefowna Outreaco Workshop. Every spring the South Caribo Arts Council sponsors a Creative Writinl Contest: write to Box LI)Zr-Asncroft, VOi 1A0 after January I for intornation. between
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The
Ros
prinring in less thin "'y""r, is at the printers, an( our in late Decenier or ear11
::..-1::-firsr An updatecl version ?l::19-. January.
120 Sherbrook Street Winnipeg, Manitoba R3C 284
b"
co_authored b, Kernaghan, soli
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P.E.N.
INTERNATIONAL
P.E.N. fnternational is a world_wide organ_ ization of r*riters who believe that litera_
WOMEN
ture, though national in origin, knows no frontiers. Its nenbers aII times use what influence they"frouiE-.t have in favour of good international understanding and they pledge thenselves to do their utmost to dispel race, class and national hatreds.
S.
I\dassinghan-pearce to Woman Magazine 1695 l,/est Broadway Vancouver, B.C. VOI tZg Woman
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The organization stands for free flow of thought within each nation and-between all nations. Canpaigns are organized to free writers imprisoned in variouJ parts the world. Menbership^ dues .." $35 p".of y;;; and the Canadian Centre of international PEN is at the Writerst Cerrire 24 Ryerson Avenue
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Toronto, Ontario M5T 2p3 Tel. (416) 868-6910
T *********************************:f, RES
IGNATION
ANNOT]NCEX,MNT
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********* FEES FOR SERVICE
The hlriters? Union is in the process of drawing up Fee for Servi."-Cuid"tin"" for its menbers, and until tir" ." those become established, the"u.h B.C. lenbers have agreed to accept the folloring nininum fees tor service:
or mre
L
l-_ RESIGNATION
Feb. 1, 1986. DEAR MEI'tsERS,
ft is with great reluctance that I offer mv resignation to the Executive Coun.ii:--i ;; leaving to take a position as an Editor with Alberta Education.
I
will
watch the activities and of The Federation of British Colunbia Writers with great interest and fondness. achievements
Sincerely, Elizaberh Alke
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country, or internationally. -EI will n ask you for money, but oifer They you rough I07.. of the profits (.ontr."is vary wi gach publisher and should be read cdr ful1y).
Vanity Presses or Subsidy presses make quantitative judgenents that they print; as long To quote Raynond HuI1 Writerts Guide: ttTher against vanity published the literary world-edi librarians, booksellers and so on. The un fortunate fact is that most vanity published books are bad; and even thoug yours nay be good, it is judged by ;; company it keeps.fr
I
Vanity presses.will have your book typeset have a cover designed off a nunbe ".ri .un copies from a handful to thousands 9l They will charge you between $5,000 an $15,000 up front ani offer you about o tJr" cover price_as your royalty. 4OZ Othe than sending a few iru" .opi"" to book. stores and reviewers and running a small a, sonewhere, that is the extent of thei: involvement. Often the plates fror:n whicl the-book is printed, ." as the bounr ""11 copies are considered the property of thr press and if you want to tiy selling ther on your own, you have to buy them fion thr press.
Poetry Contests are advertised in places like the Writerts Digest. f"-iepfy subm-ission you will receive a letterri y"r, that rivals Publishersr.Clearing House Sweep_ in hyperbolic bafffEgab. rr wilt "t1f:" you notify that you have .n award and a.h"! your poem hls been p.ir,t.a "oi an an_ thology. ft will also ..qu""t innoney so that they__may send you and you. fo*rud ones a copy. What they dontt teil you j_s that everybody wins and everybody gets printed. Yes, folks, this is anotire. uuiity press. nany legirimare iil....y con_ ,lhe1e ..: testsi this is not to imply that a contest is. automatically to be avo:-ded. Just watch out for the ones that want you. ,on"y. Publishing is what youtre doing when leff . yol take your nanuscript t,o a commercial printer such as Henry Ainstrong and have it copied and bound. Again, it"has not subject to outside literaiy appraisal. been you pay the costs bur keep IOOV" oi' profii"] but you must gake caie of trre "ny Jistribution
yourself.
If self/vanity publishing is the way you prefer to have your work published, fine. But remernber, because no editorial evaluation has been made, the book is ineligible if you ever want to use it as a previously published work in a grant application. at it their vay: a granting body can receive an enormous number of applications. If all of these contained unedited works they would be forced to edit not only the pages of your unfinished submission, but three jurors would have to read and evaluate the entire contents of your self-
Look
publishing, and make critical judgenents and recomnendations on your previous work before they could even approach the work you want funded. There is sinply not the tine nor the money to pay for such a process. Their job is to give aid to those who show pronise. If you feel yours does, send it to a professional publisher. Sharon Condie
****r(************************************** To Market, ROMANCE AND
romance and
to l{arket
is a new Canadian fiction publication with market
FICTI0N lfORLD
profiles of authors, publishers, agents, illustrators, articles on writing romances, the romance industry, private lives of top authors ( l ! ), book reviews, and announcements of new releases. The magazine also uses two original short stories per issue, two pages of romance poetry and six full-length novelettes per season by writers across Canada and abroad. Editorial Director Gina Cianfarani will also help to promote new romance authors through free ads, an autograph party, and the new annual Romance and Fiction Book Festival f86. hlrite for detailed editorial guidelines to R&Fl'lM, Editorial Director, information,
Box 53r Station W, Toronto, Ont.
M6M 2M6
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LIFB MAGAZINE Box 82447, Burnaby 8.C., V5C 5P8 uses articles 800 to 1400 words, welldocunented and cbrefully researched,
NATIIRAL
showing efficiency of nutrient supplements and whole eating foods and regular exercise, on health and well being. Also articles 800 - 1000 vords written in frwitty yet endearing stylett showing human aspects of life in specific regions of Canada. Pays $100 for 10O0 - 1400 words on publication. No fringe treatments-parapsychology, meditation, etc.
CANADIAN IIERITAGE pays $500
to $2,000 for
articles on heritage bldgs., archaeology' conmunity history, trends in preservation' etc.
Write Susan Spoke Heritage Canada Foundation Box 1358, Stn. B. Ottawa, Ont. KlP 5R4. (Thanks for the above two tips to The Canadian Authors Assoc., Vancouver Branch Newsletter)
****************************************** Church St., Honesdale, Pennsylvania 18431, is looking for short stories for its annual fiction contest. The category this year is mystery. Stories should be aimed at 9 to L2 yeat o1d readers, and should not exceed 900 words. Also needed are stories for HIGHLIGHTS FOR CIIILDREN, 803
readers, nax. 600 words. Three prizes will be awarded. No entry fee $300 is required, but entrants must enclose SASE. A11 entries will be held until the winners have been announced (on or about June 1). Sorry no deadline given. Drop then a query. beginning
******************************************* INKSTONE, P.0. Box
Stn. H, Toronto, Ont. M4C 5H7 is a quarterly of hai.ku. In anticipation of its 10th anniversary, the HAIKU SOCIETY
0F CANADA is being revamped and revitalized. It will be known as HAIKIJ CANADA' and will have two presidents; Dorothy Howard and Andre Duhaine. For info. write D. Howard aL 67 Court St., Aylner, PQ, J9H 4M1 (Thanks to EarLhlink) ********(************************************ have both folded. Oolichan Books have failed to respond to two (at least) query letters. As far as we know they are sti11 in business.
Writerrs Digest Books have just issued the first edition of POEITS MARKEI, a companion volune to WRITER'S MARKET and FICTION WRITERSTS MARKET, with 1300 listings. Cost is $13.95 U.S. plus $2.00 postage/handling from
WR Books
Alliance Road, Cincinnati, OH 45242. Should also be available in loca1 bookstores; or ask your library to order it. 9933
*************************,S***************# A must for childrents r^rriters and illustrators is CANSCAIP NEI{S. An associate menbership
($15/yr) includes
a
subscription to this quarterly bulletin, with up-to-date market news. Address: P.0. Box 280, Stn. L, Toronto, Ont. M6E 422
The
l{rltersr Union of
To celebrate its first anniversary, is offering poets a free list of resources for finding narkets, literary advice and practical encouragement. To obtain a copy of Resources for Poets. send a business sized SASE to
WORDRIGHTS CANADA
$18
Tl'lUC, 24 Ryerson Ave. Toronto,
Wordrights Canada Box 456, Stn.O Toronto, Ont. M4A 2P1.
CRAFIED K)EM: A step-by-step guide to Writing and Appreciation, by Susan Ioannou, is available for $6.95 fron hlordrights Canada, Box 456, Stn. 0
lEE
further infornation vrite Hedia Weavers, P.0. Box L9755, Portland, Oregon 97279.
Toronto, Ont. M4A 2P1.
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publication, etc.
NATIVX WRITERS AND ARTISTS
lTE SEVENIU GENERATION, Canada Council funded, is reviewi.ng subnissions for publication. Indian, Inuit and Metis writers and artists are invited to subnit their work for consideration.
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WANTED
and sanples requested for clean,
concise writing. Subject matter ranging from highly technical to broadcast commer-
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cia1s. Clarity is paramount, occasional plus. Reply in strict confidence to: Magnus Conmunications Design Inc. 1661 Duranleau Street, Granville fsland,
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sis of TWUC nembersr books. Volume 1 is intended for teachers, librarians, educators, and consultants at the elenentary school level; Volunes 2 & 3, for secondary and post-secondary levels will be available in spring of 1986. Volune I is available
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Digest conpetition calls for words), poetry (16 lines), short stories (2000 words), scripts (15 pages). No entry fee. Rules and entry form in the magazine. Send work to Writersr Digest Writing Competitlon 9933 Alliance Road Cincinnati, Ohio, 45242. Deadline May 31, 1986. l,lriters
articles
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CANADIAN STYLE
For $11.95, the secretary of state offers fiIE CANADIAil STYLE, a guide to writing and editing. Published by Dundurn Press, the volume was produced to pronote consistency, clarity, and quality in Canadian writing. ******************************************* I'IANUSCRIPT RIGI{TS
I{HAT RIGIfTS ARE ffiERE?
Speaking of prose writing only, which includes everything fron sinple articles to an elaborate novel, there are far trore rights than the beginning author ever suspects. Universal practice has broken up the area of definable rights-not only in
the literary sense, but in
share the author receives.
geographic
PROPER PROSEDTIRB
tfFirst North Anerican Serial Rightsrf-the right to publish a piece of work for the first tine in a periodical anywhere in North America.
The beginning author need only keep two things:
we have
this, what authors often call rfreprint rightsrr emerge-but they are usual1-y confusing this tern with second, third, and
successive rrNorth Anerican Serial Rightsrtl which can be sold--assumine the auLhor retains these rights-as often as he can find a publisher.
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When
out.
Finally, for the benefit of beginners, if you are offering second seriat rights, tle simple practice is to use a tttear sheettt, putting your name and address on the copy of your material, indicating where it has been published and at what tine, and now offering second, third or other serial rights. (A tear-sheet is sinply a copy of the story or article taken fron the original magazine).
Thus, an author lrEty sell rfFirst North American Serial Rightsrr on a story to the Saturday Evening Post. When it is published there, and if he retains all rights' he may now sel1 ttSecond North Anerican Serial Rightsrr to, let us say, The Country Following this, he night sell Guide. ttThird North American Serial Rightsrt to Pilgrin Publishing (the youth paper group). Though it does not often happen, he could wind up selling fifteenth North American serial rights to a weekly newspaper syndicate in Canada. And so forth!
I
in
offering a manuscript, he states clearly that he is offering rrFirst North Anerican Serial Rightsrr. If the editor wishes to buy anything else, he vi1l make that clear. b) If the property in question is a book, he will be asked to sign a contract in which all other rights are clearly spelled
a)
From
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BEGINNERS
It would aPpear that the beginning writer: a) is not aware of all of these nany rights; b) .oifu""" rrserial rightstr with the old practice of a long story running in nany installments-in weekly papers ' newspapers, over the iadio, etc. (This has no application whatsoever to the selling of first North Anerican Serial Rights - which is sinply a periodicals right to publish a work for the first tine). Logicallyr lou can se1l ffFirst Broadcast Rilhtstt as sinply as nagazine or rrserialrr rights. When you negotiate a book contract, all nanner of rights will be included in the clause, even first and subsequent serial rights, and how nuch of
terms.
Thus
I{T1!
MTILTIPLE RIGIils
The whole purpose of selling specific rights is to benefit both author and publisher. The publisher who nay pay $1,000 for a short story naturally wants to offer it ahead of a small publ-ication who The wise author does not only pays $100. attempt to frbleedtr an article for what it is worth; he sells it selectively so that readers of several papers do not have the feeling they are reading the same story over and over again. 0n the other hand, of
0n a worthwhile literary property, nany other rights remain. Magazines like Readerrs Digest nay reprint, or condense The auLhor may wish to and reprint. incorporate the material in a book. He may wish to sell it to radio. If it is a short story, it could well be sold as a radio drana and as a IY p1ay. And so it goes. 11
course, he wants to retain all rights that are honestly his.
Beginners are often confused by
a singualar exception to all this. Nornally, no author will subnit a manuscript to nore that one publisher simultaneously. (What if two big ones both wanted to buy it?)
hlritersr Digest
Books and available in most public libraries) for nultiple subnission outlets, and submit only to those periodicals which accept such subniisions.
subnit
speci-
However-and please keep
ness of
rraudience
in nind the busioverlaptr-r"trt of the
denoninational publications (trsunday School paperstr) will accept trsimultaneous subnissi-ons.rr This is based on the fact that Lutherans are not likely to be reading
Catholic and Baptist papers; so the editors, whose budgets are snall, do not heir work to nany whose reading J.hus, a writer of
a quality short story nay average $50 a piece fron four denoninational papers for a total $200-and this gives greater incentive to produce a good story for a collective amount that well could be the equivalent of what larger circulatlon nagazine would pay for exclusive rights. Study ttWriters Marketsrr (published by
Federation of British Colunbia Writers, P.O. Box 24624, Station C, Vancouver, B.C. V5T 4E2.
uscri
HNO BUYS?
It should not be necessary to state this, but realize clearly that nagazine editors are like any_-other people; they prefer originals to frsecond handfr ware. Sone do not buy Second North Anerlcan SerLal Rights at all, so do not subnit without studying
narkt outlets.
Radio, dramatic, foreign and all other such rights are very nuch the property of the author, however, and these are worth keeping.
*************#*************************** This issue has been put together by Elfreida Read vith help fron T. Carolan, J. Drabek and M. Maclean.