Best Sex Writing 2005 – an anthology
Here's something that passed my inbox a few times this past week. There's no reason why this can't also be a travel story....
Best Sex Writing 2005 will offer exactly what it says in the title: the best sex writing that has been published during the past year.
The time period to be covered will run from approximately summer 2004 through May 2005. The anthology will be published by Thunder’s Mouth Press (a division of Avalon Publishing, New York) in autumn 2005.
Material to be considered: essays; memoir; newspaper, magazine and journal articles; columns; journalism; blogs; lectures; speeches; interviews; broadcast transcripts; book excerpts and short stories (fiction to be limited to major literary names); etc., etc. Work must have been previously published in English. No unpublished material can be considered. Primary need: non-fiction.
You are free to submit your own work or else nominate the work of another writer. Provide hard copy (photocopies are acceptable), with all publication information (date, publication, copyright holder). If material has been published on the web, provide URL and full title/author information. (Please do not submit or nominate smut/porn writing.)
Rights: One-time, non-exclusive world English-language anthology rights.
Payment: A one-time honorarium will be paid.
Submissions deadline: May 15, 2005.
Contact:
For postal information or to put forth a nomination, email: worddabbler@yahoo.com
About the editor:
Mitzi Szereto is editor of several anthologies, including Wicked: Sexy Tales of Legendary Lovers; Foreign Affairs: Erotic Travel Tales; Erotic Travel Tales 1 & 2. She is author of Erotic Fairy Tales: A Romp Through the Classics and the M. S. Valentine erotic novels.
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Comments
Let's pretend there is a new rule about supporting writers with adequate pay. $1 per word. No more honors, honorariums, or other semantic tricks for travel-writing-slave-wages.
What do you think?
Should writers starve or be supported by their work? How much did you get paid per word?
Comments
I just found this other, similar call for submissions. I hadn't seen it on your site, not sure if you had it or not.
Best,
Joanna
05-03-01: Hot Flashes submission guidelines
It isn't travel (necessarily), but I'm co-editing Hot Flashes--sexy little stories and poems, along with Linda Watanabe McFerrin, so it gets a mention here. Our first volume has nearly sold out, and we're planning to make the Hot Flashes anthology into a series. Submission deadline is March 1, 2005 for the 2005/2006 volume. Details follow. And please mark your calendars: There'll be one more reading, on Friday December 10, at Book Passage in Corte Madera.
We're looking for short (1,200 words or fewer) erotic fiction, nonfiction and poetry. No gratuitous sex, please; we want the erotic framed in a way that is fascinating, entertaining, enlightening, surprising. We want fine writing. Think appetite, humor, action, romance, food, travel, nature, personality, nostalgia, culture and counter-culture, mind, body and so on -- and add your erotic spin.
Please send a hard copy of your submission with a short bio to:
Hot Flashes
484 Lake Park Avenue #29
Oakland, CA 94610
If your work is selected for publication, we'll request soft copy via e-mail. Hot Flashes is published by Left Coast Writers, an organization which supports new and established writers in the production and promotion of their work in a stimulating atmosphere of creativity and community. For information about Left Coast Writers, click here. For additional information about the Hot Flashes anthology, send a note to leftcoastwriters@aol.com