SCR Update # 1 - Pam's Call for Submissions
For our inaugural weekly content post, The Sand Canyon Review is proud to introduce a call of submissions from our Short Stories Editor, Pam Donahue. It’s 500 words of her experiences getting students of Crafton Hills College to submit as well as an open call for all of you guys to submit as well!
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As I searched for the Creative Writing classroom it didn’t take me long to realize it was definitely off the beaten path. Symbolic, I thought, because some of the best literature is exactly like that.
Inside the building, it took me a little while to figure out where I was supposed to go. I finally resorted to putting my ear to the door and listening for Aaron’s voice, and then silently slipping into the room. The classroom was more like a large cubbyhole in a building otherwise devoted to the art of firefighting. But there they were … the creative writing students of all ages. My people! Aaron the Teacher greeted me and, after the introductions were made, I told all the interested faces about writing … for the upcoming 2011 edition of the Sand Canyon Review magazine. They asked questions and I answered, finally urging them to please, please, please write their stories and poems, read and reread, edit very carefully, and send in their work!
As I was looking around the room, not knowing most of the students at all, I understood that it’s easy to lose track of the fact that we all have individual and unique lives, with families, friends, and adversaries. But we all have some rich stories to tell, some tragic, some wonderful, some fictional, and some that really happened. Do you have an interesting friend with delicately adjusted sensibilities, a family legend of a hilarious holiday debacle, or think about the quiet yet startling musings of Louis XVI? Whatever lovely or violent, fictional, non-fictional, or flash fictional piece of history, horror, mystery, adventure, romance, comedy, or science fiction that has been incubating in the wrinkles of your grey matter, put it on paper! Read, reread, bug your neighbor to read, edit very carefully, and send it in to The Sand Canyon Review. Your deadline is February 25, 2011, so you need to get started!
If your piece is published, you get to retain all the rights to your work. Attach or enclose your story or poem in an easy-to-read format and send it to:
SCRSubmissions@gmail.com
Also, we need to know a little something about yourself in the way of a 50-word-or-less biography, which will also be published if your piece is chosen. Some ideas for your bios could be: where you live, classes/education/teachers you’ve had, what gives you inspiration, interesting likes/dislikes/themes, or whatever. But please pay attention to the 50-word limit. Anything longer than that will be edited.
Basic Rules:
On each piece submitted, we must have your:
Name
Address
Phone Number
Email
Your 50-word-or-less bio
Poems can be closed or open form (although our emphasis this year will be on closed forms), and no longer than 40 lines in length. Limit: 3 poems.
Short stories are limited to 10 pages (double-spaced, typewritten) or less. Limit: 3 short stories.
So, get going! We look forward to hearing from YOU!
Pam Donahue, Editor
Short Stories
2011 Sand Canyon Review
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