SQ is hot to collect your next entry fee for yet another contest. Sometimes when a magazine runs contest after contest it just feels kind of slutty. I don't think I'm going to send my love stories to them. In fact, I just want to be friends with SQ. I mean, I'd say "hi" if we bump into each other on the street, and perhaps I'd read SQ on the stand at the Barnes & Noble if I had some time to kill between appointments. But that's probably as far as I'd go. Here's the new announcement I got in my email yesterday: StoryQuarterly
announces the SQ Love Story Contest
Open to fiction and nonfiction entries,
the contest offers
a First Prize of $2,500, a Second Prize of $1,500, a Third Prize of $750,
and ten Finalists each will receive $100.
Deadline for entries: March 31, 2008.
For complete details, please click here.
What about you? Should we all break up with SQ together?
4 comments:
Yes.. verrrrrrry cautious to submit to magazines that collect entry fees, but contain stories by famous writers. You just *know* they didn't pay to get in. Why should I?
How popular is it outside of the writer world, anyway?
Also - private editing service available for writers. How much does it cost? How does it compare to other services of this nature? Any conflict of interest?
Per the above comment: Does SQ have a private eding service? Be wary -- wery, wery wary. Those things are notoriously exploitative. If all that's wrong with your writing is just a little editing -- well, you don't need to pay a pay a private editor. And if your writing is so bad that you DO have to pay a private editor, you're too far gone for them to help you.
Look at these guidelines
How is SQ different from Narrative (guidelines above)? They accept mulitple submissions, $10 each. Current issue features work by Jim Harrison, Ted Kooser, Abby Frucht..... did the famous folks part with a Hamilton to get in, or are there mulitple tiers here for the famous?
W,R: Hey.
SQ: [quietly] Hey.
[awkward pause]
W,R: So... I mean... how are you?
SQ: Good, really...
W,R: (overlapping) That's good.
SQ: ... good.
[long pause]
W,R: You know, it just wasn't... (trails off)
SQ: Don't say it.
W,R: But I mean... we...
SQ: Just... it hurts, okay?
W,R: I'm... I... We're not right, you know?
SQ: [quietly] I guess.
W,R: But I'll never forget you...
SQ: I'll never forget you, either...
[silence]
W,R: I've gotta go...
SQ: Yeah, me too.
W,R: You take care of you...
SQ: Yeah...
[both exit]
Q
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