A few FREE Kindle ebooks left!

My father, Steve Burt, still has a few free Kindle ebooks left to give away:

A Christmas Dozen

FreeK Camp

FreeK Show

Send your name and email address to pasStev@aol.com

Sorcerous Press seeks adult and YA manuscripts

Sorcerous Press pays royalties. They want:

• Sword and Sorcery
• Epic Fantasy
• Military Fantasy
• New Weird
• Weird Western
• Dark Fantasy
• Steampunk

For details, go HERE: http://www.sorcerouspress.com/

C4WE genre-writing contest for Young Adult Fiction

Awards are $15, $25, $50 plus publication; $15 entry; 1,500-2,000 words; deadline is May 1, 2012; $10 additional for critique; details HERE:

http://janiewrites.com/writing-contests/c4we-writing-contest/

publisher seeking book-length manuscripts

Homebound, an imprint of Hiraeth Press, is now accepting submissions of book-length manuscripts in the following genres:

– fiction

– YA

– short story collections

– epic/narrative verse

– travel writing

– biography/memoir

– journals

– essay collections

http://homebound.hiraethpress.com/submissions/

Young Adult (YA) Short Story Contest

Writer’s Digest Young Adult (YA) short story contest; deadline is Oct. 1, 2011; $20 entry fee; 4,000 words max; details HERE:

http://www.writersdigest.com/competitions/wd-young-adult-fiction-competition?et_mid=512432&rid=3067753

Paying market for teen and YA work

Cicada is a bimonthly mag for YAs and teens. Buys short stories, poems and essays; pays up to $.25/word; guidelines HERE:

http://www.cobblestonepub.com/guides_CIC.html

Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award

Deadline 2/6/2011; books can be unpublished or self-published novels; 2 categories – fiction and YA; word count should be 50,000-150,000; winner gets $15,000 advance and $ for travel to Grand Prize event in June; details HERE:

http://www.amazon.com/b?node=332264011

All Genres Writing Competition

Variety of categories, including nonfiction, fiction, romance, screenplays, poetry, children’s books, young adult; no word count limit on anything but screenplay (which is 120 pages); $25 entry for early birds; $15 for each additional entry; total of $10,000 in prizes; open internationally but everything must be in English. For details about how to enter, prizes, etc., go HERE:

www.allgenreswritingcontest.com

FREE contest for book-length middle grade or YA fiction

Submit first 150-200 words; April 14, 2010 deadline; Info & entry HERE:

http://www.guidetoliteraryagents.com/blog/Dear+Lucky+Agent+Contest+Middle+Grade+And+Young+Adult+With+Agent+Regina+Brooks.aspx

Writer’s digest self-published book awards

May 3, 2010 deadline; More than $17,000 in prizes; tons of categories – (poetry, YA, nonfiction, reference, life stories, inspirational, genre fiction, etc. etc.)

Info & entry HERE:

http://www.writersdigest.com/selfpublished