WVU This Week January 11, 2012

WVU This Week January 11, 2012

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"The freedom to create is somehow linked with facility of access to those obscure regions below the conscious mind."

Loren Eiseley (September 3, 1907 – July 9, 1977)

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*** A Birdie Told Me - Writing Markets

by Birdie

Southern Cultures

http://www.southerncultures.org/

Deadlines for New Calls for Submissions:

March 5, 2012: deadline for the 6th Annual Music issue June 1, 2012: deadline for the Remembering the Civil War issue They pay $250 for essay-length pieces and $100 for shorter works.

The Council of Editors of Learned Journals has called Southern Cultures“indispensable to a number of fields” and “a hallmark of what ambitious journals should be attempting in the 21st century.” They occupy a unique position among publications about the South by targeting both academic readers and educated lay readers.

Their primary objective is to capture the full diversity of the region and to do so thoughtfully and thoroughly. Southern Cultures covers all aspects of the region’s mainstream and marginalized cultures—through interviews, essays, articles, personal reminiscences, poetry, fiction, reviews, and surveys on contemporary trends. They are a peer-reviewed quarterly and welcome well-written submissions year-round from authors, scholars, and anyone else with insights into their region. They are not interested in writing that venerates an old (or new) white South or that promotes a Southern nation or that pines for the days of the Confederacy. The "s" in Southern Cultures is meant to recognize a region of many peoples, histories, memories, and interpretations, and they strive to bring their readers the stories of people of all ethnicities and from all walks of life.

Writing for the Southern Cultures Audience

When writing for Southern Cultures, please keep in mind their readers include scholars from many academic disciplines, as well as educated lay readers. They are especially interested in reader-friendly articles and essays that deal with Southern topics in the broadest possible way and that open up a larger discussion on the South. For this reason they strongly recommend that you read Southern Cultures online before you submit your work, and, in particular, reading their most popular online content of the month will be of great help in understanding what works for their audience.

Southern Cultures publishes several types of material. Their full-length essays and articles generally run 15–20 double-spaced manuscript pages (3,750–5,000 words). Under this format, your introduction should offer their non-specialist, non-scholarly readers a context for your topic, but should not survey the relevant historiography in detail. References and concepts familiar to your discipline likely will need a brief explanation at first mention. (Many issues that are often left implicit in full-length articles in strictly academic journals receive a more direct and accessible treatment in Southern Cultures.) Please keep technical jargon to a minimum, as well as endnotes, which they typically try to cap at twenty.

Photo essays also are integral part of their content. They ask that photo essay submissions include 10–25 high-resolution (at least 1.5 MB) black and white images on CD or USB key, along with a short introduction of 200–300 words. (They will also accept submissions of film prints but cannot at this time work directly from negatives.) They select images and copyedit all introductions to accepted photo essays, but please do note your personal preferences among those photographs you have submitted.

Over the last several years Southern Cultures also has published many full-length interviews with notable, interesting, and often famous Southerners. Please do not submit an interview, however, without first discussing it with the Executive Editor.

They also publish shorter features: Upbeat Down South (music), Not Forgotten (personal reminiscences), Beyond Grits and Gravy (food), South Polls (surveys on contemporary trends), Southern Voices (short interviews), and Mason-Dixon Lines (poetry). They do not accept unsolicited manuscripts for South Polls or Mason-Dixon Lines. You may submit writing for the other features, though, which typically run 8–14 pages (2,000–3,500 words).

Lastly, Southern Cultures publishes book reviews of 3–4 pages (750–1,000 words). They do not accept unsolicited book reviews, however. If you would like to review a book for them, please first contact the Deputy Editor.

Submitting a Manuscript

* Please email your Word-compatible (.doc or .rtf) manuscript. Please put "submission to Southern Cultures" in the subject line of your email.

* They ask that you do not submit your work elsewhere while it is under consideration at Southern Cultures.

* Please double space, use 12-point Times New Roman font, and leave wide margins (1½ inches) to allow room for marginalia and copyediting.

* Notes should be numbered sequentially and placed at the end of the article using the endnote function in Microsoft Word. [From the menu bar: Insert > Reference > Footnote > Choose “Endnotes” > In “Number Format” choose 1,2,3…> Click “Insert”]

* The author’s name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, and affiliation should appear on a separate title page preceding the text. Include a brief biographical sketch of approximately 50 words.

* Include suggestions for possible illustrations with your manuscript.

* Attach a cover letter summarizing the article’s major points.

* See the additional specific guidelines below for preparing your manuscript.

* All submissions are subject to review by the editors and by selected outside experts.

* Authors transfer copyright of accepted work to Southern Cultures. They are pleased to grant authors permission upon their request to reprint their Southern Cultures essays at no cost.

They make all efforts to respond to submissions in a timely fashion; however, authors may feel free to contact the Southern Cultures office if they have not heard from them within six weeks of submitting their manuscript

Copyediting

They copyedit all accepted manuscripts. In copyediting your manuscript they seek to make your prose as clear and effective as possible. The substantive revisions they will ask you to make will be in the interest of best communicating with a broad readership. They hope to offer you as many suggestions as they can to enhance your essay’s readability and accessibility to their audience.

Common problems in the manuscripts they receive include mixed metaphors, inconsistent tenses, and excessive use of the passive voice. They will do their best to reduce wordiness and correct any errors of grammar, syntax, and punctuation. Authors, however, are responsible for ensuring that their text and notes are accurate. They are not responsible for fact-checking a manuscript. All errors they discover, however, they will note, correct, and bring to the author’s attention.

Authors will have an opportunity to review the copyedited version of their manuscript, which will contain queries, stylistic changes, and suggested revisions.

Illustrations

Southern Cultures has access to a wide array of photographic resources and, due to budgeting restrictions, will privilege sources that are available to them gratis or, on occasion, for a nominal fee. If you are aware of archival, institutional, or personal resources particular to your topic, please mention them when you submit your manuscript. They are pleased to collaborate with authors in obtaining these resources; however, the editors make all final artwork decisions based on many considerations, including space, strength and quality of image, content, copyright restrictions, and audience.

* Please provide captions and credit lines for any illustrations you submit.

* They will need written permission from the owner/copyright holder of the image to reproduce any illustrative materials not in the public domain. * Authors submitting graphs, figures, and/or tables with their manuscript are asked to provide hard copies and digital files of all graphs, figures, and/or tables.

Additional Guidelines for Preparing a Manuscript Formatting (miscellaneous)

* Do not use all caps for authors' names in notes.

* To indent paragraphs, use only the tab key—not the space bar, your word processor’s automatic indent feature, or a “style sheet” of any sort.

* Use only one space after periods, colons, semi-colons, and quotation marks at the end of sentences.

* Never use letters for numbers or vice versa; in other words, do not type the lowercase “L” for the number one or the capital letter “O” for zero.

Spelling, punctuation, and other matters of style

* Please spell-check and proofread your text, including endnotes.

* For spelling and word division, follow Webster’s Third International Dictionary or the latest edition of Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary

* For capitalization, hyphenation, use of numbers, punctuation, and other matters of style, follow The Chicago Manual of Style, 16th edition (2010).

* Please capitalize all references to “South” but not to “southern” or “southerner” (as opposed to their own informal capitalization of each of these terms in correspondence,

advertising, and website text).

* Do not capitalize black and white; do capitalize African American, Asian American, American Indian, etc., none of which take a hyphen.

Names

* Give the complete name on first reference to an individual; last name only thereafter.

* Do not use honorifics (Ms., Mrs., Mr., etc.)

* Neither “Jr.” nor “III” are preceded by a comma (Joe Doe Jr.; Joe Doe III)

* Initials indicating first and middle names are separated by a space (W. R. Valentiner).

Endnotes

* Number consecutively from 1, but if you are providing a note to your title (e.g., “This paper was originally presented at a conference . . .”), begin numbering after that note. Place the notes at the end of the manuscript (not at the bottom of the page), using the endnote function in Microsoft Word. Please double space.

* All references must be complete. (Please, no “author will supply information with proof.”)

* Please streamline and consolidate notes as much as possible. There should be no more than one note per paragraph. The primary purpose for endnotes is to provide the source citation for direct quotations in the text. They generally edit out textual material in the notes. If that material is integral to your essay, please incorporate it into the text.

* Once a work has been cited in full, subsequent references to the work should be in short form. Short reference form consists of author’s last name, a logically shortened title of the book (or journal article title), and page number(s) of reference.

* Ibid. refers to a single work cited in the note immediately preceding. Ibid. takes the place of the author’s name, title of the work, and as much of the succeeding material as is identical.

* Do not use p. or pp. to indicate references to page numbers unless the use of the number would be unclear without it.

* Use Arabic numerals for volume numbers, even if the title page of the work carries a roman numeral.

* Use en-dashes between series of numbers (1860–1865, 12–18).

* Book reviews should not have endnotes.

* Consult The Chicago Manual of Style (chapters 16 and 17), visit The Chicago Manual of Style Citation Quick Guide (refer to humanities style, “N,” guidelines), and/or see below for additional guidance on formatting specific sources in endnotes.

***Upcoming MFA Courses

MFA Courses are always free to annual, 3-year, and lifetime members.

Classes starting January 12 Registration ends January 14

MFA 210 The Art of First Person

Classes starting January 29 Registration ends January 21

MFA 211 The Art of Third Person

Classes starting January 26 Registration ends January 28

MFA 212 What is a Plot?

Classes starting February 2 Registration ends February 4

MFA 213 The Art of Sequencing

Classes starting February 9 Registration ends February 11

MFA 214 Describing and Withholding

Classes starting February 16 Registration ends February 18

MFA 215 Inflection, Tone and Pitch

Classes starting February 23 Registration ends February 25

MFAWS 213 Sequencing Workshop

Classes starting March 1 Registration ends March 4

MFA 216 Voice and Style

Classes starting March 8 Registration ends March 10

MFA 217 Magical Realism, Rules and How to Break Them

Classes starting March 15 Registration ends March 17

MFA 218 Adding Humor to Fiction

Classes starting March 22 Registration ends March 24

MFA 219 The Purpose and Practice of Revision

Classes starting March 29 Registration ends March 31

MFA 220 Editing and Polishing

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***Upcoming WVU Classes

Classes Starting January 11 Registration ends January 14

F192 Writing Boosters - Plot Ideas

B113 Constructive Feedback, facilitated by Melissa Anne

F168 Demystifying the Writing Process Part 1

N142 Journal-Keeping

P182 Poetry Triggers-Imagism

Classes Starting January 18 Registration ends January 21

B101 WVU Orientation, facilitated by Melissa Anne

B126 Lights, Camera...Wait a Minute, Where Are We?

F146 Let's Make a Scene

F188 Writing Boosters - Plot Limitations

Classes Starting January 25 Registration ends January 28

B130 Basics to Create Dynamic Characters

F144 Preparing for the Novel

F236 Romancing the Plot Doctor

N140 Writing the Memoir

Classes Starting February 1 Registration ends February 4

B103 Grammar, facilitated by facilitated by Janet Smith

F300 Crafting Children's Stories

P186 Poetry Triggers - A Chinese Meditation Poem Exercise

N106 Writing Short Nonfiction Part 2

Classes Starting February 8 Registration ends February 11

F140 Short Story Workshop - Linear

F190 Writing Boosters - Recipe #16

N128 Writing from the Heart

P124 Pleasures of Reading Poetry

Classes Starting February 15 Registration ends February 18

B101 WVU Orientation, facilitated by Melissa Anne

F194 Writing Boosters - Characters

N100 Writing for the Web Part 1

F112 Character Development

Classes Starting February 22 Registration ends February 25

N120 News Writing Part 1

F206 Writing the Screenplay Part 2

F246 Writing Historical Fiction

B114 Point of View & Related Topics

Classes Starting February 29 Registration ends March 3

F176 Writing Boosters - Story Starters #1

F108 Creativity in a Box

N132 So You Want to be a Travel Writer

P190 Poetry Triggers - A Library of Poems

Classes Starting March 7 Registration ends March 10

F106 The Elements of Fiction

F148 Other Worlds in Science Fiction and Fantasy

N124 Writing for a Living

N134 Writing & Marketing Magazine Articles

Classes Starting March 14 Registration ends March 18

B152 Let’s Add Emotion

F162 Character Driven Plots – the Big 5

N102 Writing for the Web Part 2, Prerequisite N100

P192 Poetry Triggers – What’s in the Closet?

Classes Starting March 21 Registration ends March 24

B101 WVU Orientation, facilitated by Melissa Anne

F142 Short Story Workshop – Free Form<

N1222 News Writing Part 2

P100 Rhythmic Words: A Beginner’s Guide to Poetic Forms<br>

Classes Starting March 28 Registration ends March 31

B132 Complex and Believable Characters

F130 Mythic Structure Part 1

N108 Writing Articles Part 1

P196 Poetry Triggers - Digging Deeper into Metaphors

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