Reporters Wanted For Red Bull
Red Bull Reporter has joined forces with Dave TV to offer a very special assignment giving aspiring reporters in all four disciplines the chance to report on each regional heat of the Red Bull X-Fighters Jams Tour and the London Final at Battersea Power Station, and get their work showcased on http://www.redbullreporter.com and on the Dave TV website http://www.joindave.co.uk.

This summer Red Bull X-Fighters Jams will stop in four cities across the UK to give the crowd a taste of what will be going on in London Battersea on August 14th.  The four tour stops are:

•       Newcastle on Saturday 26th June
•       Nottingham on Friday 2nd July
•       Brighton on Saturday 10th July
•       Leeds on Saturday 17th July

So, the search is now on for 8 reporters, who will make up 4 separate
teams – 2 with a photographer and writer, and 2 with a filmmaker and
presenter. The selected applicants will be partnered up with another Red Bull Reporter to cover one of the regional stops of the Red Bull
X-Fighters Jams tour in the UK.

Following the tour, the most creative reports from two of the four teams will be chosen to cover the final at Battersea Power Station on 14th August. The final will take place against the awe-inspiring backdrop of Battersea Power Station to a crowd of 30,000 people – a sensory overload and a coveted gig for aspiring reporters to write about, snap, shoot or present at.

Check out the dedicated assignment page for full information on the
assignment:
http://www.redbullreporter.com/2010/05/red-bull-x-fighters-jams/

Bike Magazine Call For Submissions

US based Bike Monkey Magazine welcomes engaging stories that have a human element on all aspects of cycling. They are interested in seeing something fresh about cycling that really comes from the heart. They pay $0.15/word for 1250-3000 words. Send a query with an outline and/or a sample of your work in the first instance.  Full guidelines are available upon request. View website for more details. http://www.bikemonkey.net

Windows 7 Tutorial Writers Needed

7 Tutorials has one simple mission: provide complete tutorials for Windows 7. They want to offer quality, not quantity.  If you are interested in working with the team, drop them a message at ciprianrusen@gmail.com. Their contributing editors are paid for all articles published on the site.  View website for more information. http://www.7tutorials.com/About

Greetings Card Company Needs Verses

Shade Tree Greetings is creating NEW birthday, anniversary, congratulation, thank you, and friendship cards and they are giving YOU the opportunity to write them. They pay $50.00 for your verse. View website for contact details.
http://www.shadetreegreetings.com/submit-verse.htm

Gumshoe Review Open to Submissions

Gumshoe Review is now open to accept short original fiction. What we’re looking for in stories is a complete mystery in 1,000 words or less. We don’t want character studies or mood pieces. We’d like it to lean towards noir but being a mystery — telling a story is actually more important.

The short stories should be no longer than 1,000 words. Pay will be 5 cents per word to a maximum of $50 (so if the story is longer you still only get $50).

For more information visit:
http://www.gumshoereview.com/php/Review-id.php?id=1852

Dream of Things Seeking Creative Nonfiction

Dream of Things is a book publisher and online retailer. They are dedicated to producing high-quality books of creative nonfiction.  Dream of Things is currently accepting creative nonfiction stories for anthologies on 15 topics.

Dream of Things pays a 15% royalty on hardback books, a 10% royalty on trade paperback books, and a 20-40% royalty on electronic books (depending on the sales channel). For anthologies, Dream of Things purchases one-time rights. Royalties are paid quarterly. Each author’s share of the royalties is prorated based on word count. (Example: If you contribute a 2,000-word story to a 40,000-word book, you will receive 5% of the royalties for that book.) Authors also receive five free copies upon publication, and a 50% discount on additional copies.

To find out about the topics and how to submit visit:
http://dreamofthings.com/guidelines
Freelance Feature Writers Required.

Feature writers are required for a long established business-to-business magazine covering southeast England.

Editorial content is focused on news and intelligence for owners, directors and senior executives of businesses and organisations employing more than 5 people. This is an opportunity for freelance writers / journalists to provide by-lined material for one of the few regional b2b titles that has stayed the course despite three recessions. Subject include any aspect of business. Finance, legal issues, accounting, marketing, HR, exit / acquisitions, investing, pensions, transport, logistics, business motoring, communications, I.T, case studies, company profiles etc. Payment will be based on word-count feature by feature.

Apply via Guardian website: http://jobs.guardian.co.uk/job/985277/feature-writers/

Have you ever written something, sent it out to a publisher and then been horrified when you actually see it in print because of a glaring error? Sometimes, editors miss mistakes too. Whenever you write anything you intend to print, you should proofread it thoroughly yourself, before you send to a publisher.

 The trouble with proofreading your own work is that you see what you expect to see, so you read what you think you wrote, and not necessarily what you did write. If you first and last letters of a word are in the correct order, you may not see typing errors in the middle of the word.

Firstly, use a good spell and grammar check. This will never pick up all of the errors, especially the words that sound the same but have different spellings for different meanings, such as there, their, and they’re. However, the spell check is a good place to start.

Secondly, read the work looking for the common errors you often make. If you are not sure about the meaning of particular words, use a dictionary and a thesaurus. If you commonly make mistakes in comma placement, print out the page and highlight every single comma. Re-read the comma rules one by one and check each highlighted comma on your printed document. If you can’t find a rule that explains why the comma is there, take it out. Although you can miss commas, overuse of commas is the more typical mistake to make.

Read your work aloud. This helps you to catch the awkward or repetitive phrases, as you tend to stumble over these passages as you read aloud.

Check your work for consistency. If you start spelling Summer with a capital, make sure you consistently spell it with a capital throughout the document. Don’t say 2 apples in one paragraph and three oranges in the next.

Finally, put your work aside for at least a couple of hours and reread it again before you send it off to the publisher. You must look at the work as if someone else has written it, not you to be a good proofreader. Assume you have made mistakes and look for them.

I hope this blog on proofreading articles helps. On a private note, I’m sorry I have been very quiet on this website lately – I’ve been sick and just been keeping up with the paying work. I’m getting better now, so hopefully, I’ll be more active on the forum again soon. Take care,

Hayley Hunkin

www.expandingcreationswriters.com

GUD Journal is open to submissions

Gud publishes fiction, nonfiction and poetry.  The magazine is published 

twice a year and is now seeking submissions for the 

Spring 2011 edition.  Check out their guidelines.
http://www.gudmagazine.com/subs/submit.php

 

GoNOMAD Seeking Travel Articles

GoNOMAD prides itself on providing excellent, entertaining, informative and unique 

travel articles and research about destinations, activities and experiences. No 

glossy magazine fluff, no standard guidebook descriptions, no promotional hype; 

just honest, accurate, well-written and detailed articles and destination guides 

that speak to an educated, curious and well-traveled audience.

 

They are currently trying to fill in gaps in their story library and want 

additional features about the following places: 

Countries: Angola, Benin, Gambia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritania, 

Mozambique, and Maldives. Lebanon, Lichtenstein, Luxembourg, 

Ghana, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia.

 

States: Delaware, Indiana, Mississippi, North Dakota, Tennessee, 

West Virginia, Arkansas, DC, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, 

Michigan, Missouri, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Idaho.

 

View website for more information.
http://www.gonomad.com/corp/writerguidelines.html

 

Suite 101. Need More Writers
Suite 101.com needs more writers.  You must be able to write a 

minimum of ten 400 word articles every three months.  You are 

paid for your articles and there seems to be a residual payment 

scheme where you can continue to earn from your articles 

all the time they are online.  For more information visit:
http://www.suite101.com/freelance_writing_jobs

Greeting Card Company Needs Writers
Freedom Greeting Card Co. will consider all material, 

however, our current needs include contemporary humor for 

the Cheers line and contemporary, sophisticated messages 

for Cappuccino and DeCaf lines. Visit the website for more details.
http://www.freedomgreetings.com/about/workingforfreedom.php

I know I have been rather lax in my writing of the blog. I found life just seemed to take over and I didn’t know if I was coming or going.  For my future blog entries I would like to discuss online writing course topics.

Like many of us at Newbie Writers, I am taking the Comprehensive Writing Course  with the Writers Bureau.  It is as the title implies “Comprehensive”. It gives the newbie writer a feel for all types of writing.  I’ve been with the program since April 2009 and truth be told, I haven’t proceeded as far as I would have liked to.  After a year, I have only proceeded as far as Assignment 4. 

Over the next few months, as I proceed with the course, I am going to discuss various topics for the newbie writer, like how to do a market analysis and readers letters.

As I was reading through the module on readers letters and filler markets, I couldn’t help but wonder how many people have actually made a living from writing readers letters? I’d be interested in knowing… is it a worth while market?

Allison

I saw the notice that if the people who volunteered to blog don’t want to anymore……
I have been remiss, I’m sorry Damien. It’s just that I must have had spring fever or something lately. At least it started with a fever and for a little over a week I was puky sick and not even thinking of writing a word. Then, as I began to get better, a million hoer things began to get in the way of my writing. So I guess it’s the best motivator I could have had, when you wrote hey…um if you’re no longer interested in writing a blog, you can be replaced….He didn’t actually say it that way but that is what he meant, and thats okay….I’m blogging Damien … see? {:o)

So what have I learned lately? Well lets see, I have learned that what one site will not take another will. That’s as good as any reason right there to just keep on trying right? If you try enough places and different venues to get your writing noticed, you are sure to have some modecome of success just by sheer persistence. I my self have 1 article with CC and 2 others with AC accepted, and I haven’t even really begun to work on my writing courses yet.

That leads me to another thought, I haven’t written lately either, because I am so busy trying to adjust to my new volunteer position emotionally..I am a Guardian ad Litem. An advocate for battered abused and neglected children. Lately, I have been just a little down because of having to place four children out side their home. Did I write abut it? No.

I am a weird one I think…most writers seem to write at their best when they are down or sad. Not me..I find it difficult to write when I feel blue. So Damiens request that I live up to my blogging responsibilities have helped me climb out of my “I feel blue rut” and I think there will be more writing coming up…..I still have so much too learn..