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Deadline: November 25th, 2018 Payment: $0.01 per word Calling all writers, from beginner to expert! Announcing a new call for submissions for an anthology to be published in the first quarter of 2019 (Sometime between January and March). The theme of the anthology is as follows: Moonlit Dreams/Moonlit Nightmares I am looking for short stories that explore the nature of the psyche, the world (or worlds) around us, and that speaks in some way to the theme presented. Stories should be well crafted and flushed out, having elements of a great story that could be told for generations to come. Including such things as romance, intrigue, comedy or drama are all par for the course as far as I’m concerned – the key is to write a story that lingers both in your heart and mind by the time the last page is turned. So here’s the specifics of the call: Submissions: • Submissions will be accepted through email. Please send submissions to [email protected] with the subject line “Anthology Moonlit Dreams/Moonlight Nightmare Submission – Your Name • Word count should be between 1,500 and 10,000 words. No exceptions • All entries must be written in English • Submissions are welcomed from people in all walks of life, including under-represented groups such as women, minorities, LGBTQIA writers. • Submissions will be accepted in .odt, docx, txt or RTF format only. • Submissions will be accepted in standard manuscript format. (See here if you need a refresher) • Please include the following with your submission: ◦ Cover letter with your full contact information including email and mailing address ◦ A short author biography that is written in the third person ◦ A style sheet if necessary (See here if you need a refresher on what that is). ◦ The best way to contact you. Payment: •...

Deadline: November 25th, 2018 Payment: $3 November 2018 "Memoiral" submissions now open, close on the 25th Please consider the following work from my art project, the Anna Pierrepont Series for subject artwork for With Painted Words. I am attaching an images from 2018 from the series that have so far not been published, The project consists of plein air drawings and paintings of figurative public monuments and occasionally their absences, mostly in NYC, that are exhibited standing alone and incorporated into pictorial essays that explores the erasure of public and private memory. Recently, the project has been caught up in the current wave of iconoclasm and the related retaliatory violence that is sweeping the nation. My most recent pictorial essay 'Captain America on the Battlefields of Brooklyn' that has been published in May 2018 in Freezeray freezeraypoetry.com/15, May 2018. ArtIs On published a pictorial essay that I created in the aftermath of Charlottesville on the removal of portrait busts of Robert E. Lee and Thomas Stonewall Jackson from the Hall of Fame for Great Americans on the campus of CUNY-Bronx Community College in January 2018 http://artison.letras.ulisboa.pt/index.php/ao/article/view/141. The blog of Streetlight, a literary magazine out of Charlottesville, solicited my pictorial essay 'Teetering' before the violence of August overwhelmed their community. The essay was significantly revised in collaboration with the editors in Charlottesville in the aftermath of the violence and was finally published in late August 2017 https://streetlightmag.com/2017/08/27/teetering-drawings-by-howard-skrill/ and works from the series are scheduled for two significant thematic exhibitions on public art and political art in 2018 and 2019.  I am an artist/educator in Brooklyn, NY, where I teach art lecture and practice and live with my wife and one of my two adult sons. Thank you for your interest.  Howard Skrill 172 Fifth Ave. Brooklyn, NY, 11217 6462458345 [email protected] #skrillhoward on Instagram howardskrill.blogspot.com Submissions are currently open, the deadline is the 25th November 2018 at 23:59 GMT...