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Deadline Extended: ‘Tis the Season extended until October 31st 2011

Posted on 03. Oct, 2011 by Tessa in Blog, Submissions

The entries and enquiries are still coming in, so to allow extra time for submissions, we are extending the deadline.

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And since autumn is here and winter is fast approaching, we’d like to celebrate the change of seasons and entertain our readers (thousands of people in 95 countries) by first publishing the three prize-winning entries on our homepage, along with the author’s links to their websites, blogs, etc. This offers maximum exposure for the winning authors.

Prize details remain the same (please see the submissions page) and additionally, the three winning entries will be included in a forthcoming app and ebook collection, and will be excerpted on this website along with our other authors.

A list of Honored Writers will also be published.

Call for Submissions: Four Open Now

Posted on 17. Jun, 2011 by Tessa in Blog, Submissions

1. SHOWCASE – FREE.

SHOWCASE is open year-round to published and unpublished stories – fiction, memoir or essay – up to 2,500 words.

Accepted stories will be featured in full on our home page, along with links to the author’s website/blog, etc., announced on our FB page (over five million impressions), in our Tweets, and may also be included as a bonus in our free newsletter, LITERARY DELIGHTS, along with your bio.

There is no entry fee to submit, and we do not pay for these stories, but accepted authors will be read by eChook’s thousands of readers in 89 countries (who love short stories). If they enjoy your story, they’ll follow the links to read more. This is how authors today build a platform – one reader at a time.

In addition, SHOWCASE stories will remain available on our website and will be permanently hyperlinked on our SHOWCASE on the home page, eChook’s top landing page.

Please submit HERE.

2. ‘TIS THE SEASON, VOL. 1. (Winter/Halloween/Thanksgiving/Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanza)

FIRST PRIZE $175, SECOND PRIZE $150, THIRD PRIZE $125.

DEADLINE: September 30th, 2011.

Entry fee $18.

All stories submitted to the contest will also be considered for publication in our other collections. Open to unpublished stories (or those published online or in journals with less than 5,000 circulation.)

Please submit HERE

3. MEMOIR, VOL. 2.
(Traditional memoir, or a blend of both fiction and memoir)

FIRST PRIZE $175, SECOND PRIZE $150, THIRD PRIZE $125.

DEADLINE: December 1st, 2011.

Entry fee $18.

All stories submitted to the contest will also be considered for publication in our other collections. Open to unpublished stories (or those published online or in journals with less than 5,000 circulation.)

* Accepted authors will be published in the app and featured on the Authors page on eChook.com, as well as our Facebook page and Twitter feeds. (eChook has thousands of readers in 89 countries, five million impressions on Facebook and an active Twitter feed.) Details include story excerpt, author headshot, and links to author website, blog, Amazon, etc. Authors will also be featured in our email newsletter, LITERARY DELIGHTS. SIgn up for newsletter HERE.

* We will also publish a list of Honored Writers. We will notify all entrants when the list is posted on our Authors page.

Please submit HERE

4. WRITER@WORK – CALL FOR PHOTO SUBMISSIONS

We’re looking for photos of Writer@Work. Whether you write at a desk, in the garden, in your car – wherever, we want to know.

Accepted photos will be published on our website. We don’t send rejection letters so please check the home page.

Deadline: June 30, 2011

How to submit:
Send your photo to editor@echook.com.
By submitting your photo, you grant eChook the right to publish it.

We look forward to seeing them!

Call for Submissions: Dust Off Your Published Stories

Posted on 24. May, 2011 by Tessa in Blog, Submissions

OPEN NOW: Call for Submissions

Have you published fiction, memoir or an essay up to 2,500 words?

Would you like to give it a second lease of life?

Second lives for short stories are an established literary tradition – some even have multiple incarnations – first in a literary journal, then an anthology and even, for the lucky few, adaptations into scripts for one-act plays or video.

We are looking for your favorites – the stories that, when you pick them off the shelf and read them again, you think, blimey, that is good.

Accepted stories will be excerpted on our ‘Authors’ page, along with links to the author’s website/blog, etc., announced on our FB page (over four million impressions) and in our Tweets, and the complete story will be included as a bonus in our free newsletter, LITERARY DELIGHTS, along with your bio.

There is no entry fee to submit, and we do not pay for these digital reprints, but accepted authors will receive a free eBook. In addition, if eChook’s thousands of readers in 84 countries (who love short stories) enjoy your work, they’ll follow the links to your site to read more. This is how authors in today’s social networking world build a platform – one reader at a time.

Please go to our Submissions page to submit and add to the title: ‘PUBLISHED STORY’. Please make note of where and when the piece was published.

DEADLINE: June 15th, 2011

There are currently two competitions open for unpublished stories (or those published online or in journals with less than 5,000 circulation.)

1. ‘Tis the Season, Vol 1. (Halloween/Thanksgiving/Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanza)
DEADLINE: September 30th, 2011. Entry fee $18. CLICK HERE TO PAY. All stories submitted to the contest will also be considered for publication in our other collections.

2. Memoir, Vol 2.
(Traditional memoir, or a blend of both fiction and memoir)
DEADLINE: December 1st, 2011. Entry fee $18. CLICK HERE TO PAY. All stories submitted to the contest will also be considered for publication in our other collections.
Word Count: 750 – 2,500 words.

FIRST PRIZE $175, SECOND PRIZE $150, THIRD PRIZE $125.
* Accepted authors will be published in the app and featured on the Authors page on eChook.com, as well as our Facebook page and Twitter feeds. (eChook has thousands of readers in 84 countries.) Details include story excerpt, author headshot, and links to author website, blog, Amazon, etc. Authors will also be featured in our email newsletter, LITERARY DELIGHTS. SIgn up for newsletter to the right or CLICK HERE.

* We will also publish a list of Honored Writers. We will notify all entrants when the list is posted on our Authors page.

Excerpt of our first “Dust off Your Published Stories” author, Farah Ghuznavi.

Posted on 04. May, 2011 by Tessa in Blog, Press/Events, Submissions

We apologize to readers for the dead link on our previous post of Farah’s excerpt. Here it is again.

To read an excerpt and Farah’s bio, click HERE.

Have you published fiction, memoir or an essay (up to 2,500 words) in a small literary journal (circulation up to 5,000) or online? Would you like to give it a second lease of life? Submit HERE.

Accepted stories will be excerpted on our ‘Authors’ page, along with links to the author’s website/blog, etc., announced on our FB page and in Tweets, and the complete story will be included as a bonus in our free newsletter, LITERARY DELIGHTS, along with your bio in an AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT.

Part of our mission at eChook is to keep wonderful stories alive by sharing them with eChook’s thousands of readers in 75 countries around the world. If readers enjoy your work, they’ll follow the links to read more.

To receive the whole story, sign up for our newsletter, LITERARY DELIGHTS HERE.

Congratulations to our first “Dust off Your Published Stories” author, Farah Ghuznavi.

Posted on 25. Apr, 2011 by Tessa in Blog, Press/Events, Submissions

To read an excerpt and Farah’s bio, click HERE.

Have you published fiction, memoir or an essay (up to 2,500 words) in a small literary journal (circulation up to 5,000) or online? Would you like to give it a second lease of life? Submit HERE.

Accepted stories will be excerpted on our ‘Authors’ page, along with links to the author’s website/blog, etc., announced on our FB page and in Tweets, and the complete story will be included as a bonus in our free newsletter, LITERARY DELIGHTS, along with your bio in an AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT.

Part of our mission at eChook is to keep wonderful stories alive by sharing them with eChook’s thousands of readers in 75 countries around the world. If readers enjoy your work, they’ll follow the links to read more.

To receive the whole story, sign up for our newsletter, LITERARY DELIGHTS HERE.

Call for Submissions – Dust off Those Published Stories

Posted on 15. Apr, 2011 by Tessa in Blog, Submissions

Have you published fiction, memoir or an essay (up to 2,500 words) in a small literary journal (circulation up to 5,000) or online?

Would you like to give it a second lease of life?

Second lives for short stories are an established literary tradition – some even have multiple incarnations – first in a literary journal, then an anthology and even, for the lucky few, adaptations into scripts for one-act plays or video.

We are looking for your favorites – the stories that, when you pick them off the shelf and read them again, you think, blimey, they are good.

Short stories are an ancient narrative art form with roots in oral story-telling. Typically, in oral traditions, stories are kept alive by being re-told again and again. Part of our mission at eChook is to keep wonderful stories alive by sharing them with eChook’s thousands of readers in 75 countries around the world. If readers enjoy your work, they’ll follow the links to read more.

Accepted stories will be excerpted on our ‘Authors’ page, along with links to the author’s website/blog, etc., announced on our FB page and in Tweets, and the complete story will be included as a bonus in our free newsletter, LITERARY DELIGHTS, along with your bio in an AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT.

For further details and to submit, please CLICK HERE.

DEADLINE: May 15th, 2011

To stay abreast of Calls for Submissions, sign up for our blog HERE.

To sign up for our FREE newsletter, LITERARY DELIGHTS, which includes a classic short story and a writing tip that illuminates technique as employed by the author, news, and FREE STUFF such as free app codes and story critiques, CLICK HERE.

We look forward to reading your work.

How writers can get published and paid: The Jordan Rich Show CBS Boston

Posted on 28. Feb, 2011 by Tessa in Blog, Press/Events, Submissions, Writing Tips

Q & A with Jordan Rich of CBS Boston

Submit now to ‘Stories of Love’ app and earn up to $100. Deadline January 31st, 2011

Posted on 08. Dec, 2010 by Tessa in Blog, Submissions

We are looking for stories about love.

“Love is misunderstood to be an emotion; actually, it is a state of awareness, a way of being in the world, a way of seeing oneself and others.” – Dr. David Hawkins

Love stories aren’t always predictable. There’s romantic love between a couple, of course, but there are many other types, such as love for a family member or friend, love for a place, an animal, a memory, or an idea.

We’re looking for writing with a beginning, middle and end – fiction, non-fiction, memoir or essay. The ending can be happy in the traditional sense, but it doesn’t have to be, as long as the piece ends well in some way. This might be due to the wisdom that comes with the passing of time, or transcendence of another type.

We look forward to reading your work! Please visit Submissions page for full details.

* Submit to the ‘Stories of Love’ app to be entered in a drawing for an iPad 16GB with Wi-Fi. Winner will be announced by February 17th, 2011.

Win an iPad

Posted on 15. Oct, 2010 by Tessa in Blog, Submissions

To celebrate our very first multi-author app, everyone who submits will be entered in a random drawing to win a 16GB iPad with Wi-Fi. The theme is Memoir, stories can be non-fiction, fiction, or a blend of both. Authors selected for inclusion will be paid $100 plus 10 free apps, and a list of Honored Writers will be posted. Please see the ‘Submission’ page for more details. We look forward to reading your work!