Over on the National Young Writers’ Group Facebook page we’re sharing a bit about ourselves and our NYWM goals. Head on over and share your plan for this month. There are already heaps of different goals being discussed, but a running trend seems to be submitting work to various places. Pitching your work well is just as important as the work itself, so read up and improve your chances of getting published.

Here is a super-brief general guide on submitting your work by the Queensland Writers’ Centre. This piece is for all of those wanting to submit their work to literary journals and magazines; The Review Review‘s Five Step Guide to Healthy Submitting. Also from The Review Review, this lengthy (but excellent) piece What Editors Want. There is also an excellent roundup on Arts Hub of the Emerging Writers’ Festival session What Do Editors Want.

Opportunities and Events

Poets! Metre Maids are looking for an LGBTI writer to review collections/magazines, poets and poetry, revisit personal moments or write commentary/analysis of personal discoveries surrounding poetry, sexuality, identity & gender during Pride Week later this month. Contact Amber Beilharz (amber.beilharz AT gmail DOT com).

Submissions closing soon for Going Down Swinging (June 25); Stilts (June 30); Ricochet (July 31); Seizure‘s sport edition (June 30); Visible Ink (July 7); Kill Your Darlings (June 30) and Voiceworks (June 16).

Have you won first place in Australian short story and poetry competition held between June 2012 and June 2013? If so, your piece is elligible to be published in Award Winning Australian Writing. Check the Melbourne Books website for details.

For writers from Queensland aged 18-25 the State Library of Queensland Young Writers Award entries close on 19 July. Full information here.

The Creative Young Stars program is now open for applications for under 25s. It assists people requiring financial assistance to participate in activities, events or training in activities including creative and performing arts or cultural activities. More details can be found on the website.

The Arts Queensland Poetry Awards website has details for their unpublished poetry prize, closing 9 July.

Today’s quote is on the leap to publishing.

Once I had decided to write, to be published, I knew it would happen – Augusten Burroughs

In the poll today tell us what kind of goal you’ve set for NYWM…

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