{"id":3954,"date":"2024-01-28T01:09:53","date_gmt":"2024-01-28T06:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=3954"},"modified":"2024-01-28T01:11:09","modified_gmt":"2024-01-28T06:11:09","slug":"pfn-thema-bookmarks","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/event\/pfn-thema-bookmarks\/","title":{"rendered":"PFN &#8211; THEMA Seeking Submissions on the Theme of Bookmarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"583\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<blockquote><p><b><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><i>Be sure to Indicate target theme in cover letter or on first page of manuscript.<\/i><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;\"><b>Short Stories<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">:\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: small;\">All types welcome<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">\u2015<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\">both traditional and experimental<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><b>Send to:<\/b>\u00a0Virginia Howard, editor, Box 8747, Metairie, LA 70011-8747<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><i>Outside the US:<\/i>\u00a0email to Virginia Howard at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:thema@cox.net\">thema@cox.net<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/td>\n<td rowspan=\"2\" width=\"30\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">What we like: a carefully constructed plot; good character delineation; clever plot twists<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">What we don&#8217;t like: bedroom\/bathroom profanity.\u00a0 Why?<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">It&#8217;s boring! Writers should be more creative than to depend on the same tired and dubious language crutches to express surprise, disdain, shock, bemusement, anger, sadness, and other emotions.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Such profanity, used in excess, often serves as a camouflage for a weak plot. If the plot is good, the story can be told much more effectively in nonscatologic language even though a character in the story may be sleazy.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Stories of lasting quality rarely need it.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><b><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Poetry<\/span><\/b>:\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: small;\">All types of poetic form welcome. Submit\u00a0<i>no more than\u00a0<b>three<\/b>\u00a0poems per theme<\/i>, please.\u00a0<b>If more than three poems are submitted, we will read only the first three poems in the stack.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><b>Send to:\u00a0<\/b>Gail Howard, poetry editor, Box 8747, Metairie, LA 70011-8747<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><i>Outside the US:<\/i>\u00a0email to Gail Howard at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:thema@cox.net\">thema@cox.net<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">What we like: poems that are thoughtfully constructed and carefully distilled.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">What we don&#8217;t like: sexually explicit wording. Subtlety is more creative.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p align=\"center\"><i><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><b>THEMA<\/b>\u00a0isn&#8217;t for everyone. To find out why, click\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/themaliterarysociety.com\/not%20for%20everyone.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><i><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><b>New to submitting manuscripts to journals?<\/b><br \/>\nClick\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/themaliterarysociety.com\/Rules%20for%20manuscript%20submission.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>\u00a0to download a PDF file of a few basic guidelines.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>On acceptance for publication, we will pay the following amount: short story, $25; short-short piece (up to 1000 words), $10; poem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The premise (target theme) must be an integral part of the plot, not necessarily the central theme but not merely incidental.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[2],"class_list":["post-3954","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tribe_events_cat-call-for-submission","cat_call-for-submission"],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/3954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/3954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3956,"href":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/3954\/revisions\/3956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3954"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=3954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}