SUMMER'S EARLY: SHALLA CHATS with Editor and former Book Publisher, Seamus Cashman is here!

SHALLA CHATS with Seamus Cashman

“Advice to Writers: from an Editor/former Book Publisher”

by Shalla DeGuzman

First of all, who’s Seamus?

Seamus Cashman was born in Conna, Co Cork in 1943. His latest poetry collection, That Morning Will Come is due from Salmon Publishing in June 2007. Previous collections are Carnival (Monarchline, Dublin, 1987); and Clowns & Acrobats (Wolfhound Press, Dublin, 2000). He has edited, with Bridie Quinn, The Wolfhound Book of Irish Poems for Young People, (Wolfhound Press, 1975; still in print today).

In 2004 the O’Brien Press published his award winning Something Beginning with P: New Poems from Irish Poets, for young readers. He also edited and translated, with Sean Gaffney, Proverbs & Sayings of Ireland (Wolfhound Press, 1974; still in print today). He established Wolfhound Press in 1974 and it became a leading literary and cultural publishing house, and he was publisher there until 2001.

He now writes, gives poetry and creative writing workshops, and advises writers and publishers. He lives in Portmarnock, Co Dublin.

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SHALLA CHATS with Editor Alice Andrews Coming April 4, 2007

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Coming April 4, 2007

SHALLA CHATS with Alice Andrews

“Biofiction Introduced”

by

Shalla DeGuzman

First of all, who’s Alice?



Alice teaches psychology with an evolutionary lens at the

State University of New York at New Paltz, and is the editor/publisher of Entelechy: Mind & Culture, an evolutionarily-informed interdisciplinary online journal. She is also the author of Trine Erotic, a novel that explores evolutionary psychology and other behavioral science themes.

Alice is currently working on a book (based on her essay with the same title, published at

Metanexus) called An Evolutionary Mind

(to be published as part of Imprint Academic's series: "Societas: Essays in Political and Cultural Criticism"), and plans to begin writing another novel soon.

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www.shalladeguzman.com

What does Entelechy publish?

Heard of BIOFICTION?

Biofiction is not a neologism. (See below for its other uses and meanings.)

In the sense that I am using it, however, it is new; it refers to fiction or creative nonfiction that uses biological, neurological, psychological and/or evolutionary language and/or lenses. That is, a work of biofiction might explicitly deal with biological and /or evolutionary ideas, or it might incorporate biolanguage (see below). It may also do both, as my writing often, but not always, does.

For a while I used the term evolutionary fiction when writing about my own fiction and that of some others; but I soon realized that that term was too limiting (though I still use it in specific instances). At the same time that I felt evolutionary fiction was too restrictive, I was engaged in thinking about literature from a Darwinian and cognitive perspective and doing so primarily through a list called biopoets.

-Alice Andrews, editor, Entelechy: Mind & Culture

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WRITING COMPETITIONS

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Dark Tales Short Story Competition

As well as accepting open submissions throughout the year we also hold a regular competition for short stories of up to 3000 words. Top prize is £100 sterling, second £30 and third £10, and all of these stories - plus the best shortlisted ones, which earn their authors £5 - are published in the magazine. Entries, as with general submissions, are invited from anywhere in the universe..

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CNW/FFWA Annual Florida State Writing Competition. Nonfiction (Previously Published and Unpublished); Fiction (Short Story and Novel Chapter); Children's Literature; Poetry. Awards: $100, $75, $50. Entry fee: $3–$20. Deadline: March 15, 2007.

Info: Click for Guidelines and Entry form or send SASE to CNW/FFWA Contest, PO Box A, Nort Stratford NH 03590.

12th Annual Jane Cunningham Croly/GFWC Print Journalism Contest for Excellence in Covering Issues of Concern to Women. Award: $1000. Entry fee: $50. Must enter three articles published during calendar year 2006 that meet contest criteria. Deadline: March 15, 2007.

Info: www.gfwc.org/contests.jsp?pageId=gfwc_org_57; mkriem@gfwc.org; (202) 347-3168; General Federation of Women's Clubs, 1734 N Street NW, Washington DC 20036.

Robert Frost Poetry Festival (RFPF) Poetry Competition, unpublished only, 30 lines maximum. Awards: $150, $75, $50. Entry fee: $10. Postmark deadline: March 20, 2007.

Info: Robert Frost Poetry & Haiku Contests, Heritage House Museum, 410 Caroline Street, Key West FL 33040; http://www.heritagehousemuseum.org/ or www.robertfrostpoetryfestival.org.

RFPF Haiku Contest, must contain a sasonal or nature image. Awards: $75, $50, $25. Entry fee: $10. Postmark deadline: March 20, 2007. Info: Robert Frost Poetry & Haiku Contests, Heritage House Museum, 410 Caroline Street, Key West FL 33040; http://www.heritagehousemuseum.org/ or http://www.robertfrostpoetryfestival.org/.

Check out the Short Fiction Prize by Ontario Review

Here are Guidelines for the 2007 Cooper Prize: $1,000 plus publication

Submissions accepted from May 1 to September 1, 2007.

Submissions limited to one story of not more than twenty-five double-spaced typewritten pages.

Mail submissions to: The Cooper Fiction PrizeOntario Review9 Honey Brook DrivePrinceton, NJ 08540.

Include self-addressed, stamped envelope for return of manuscript or notification.

An entry fee of $15, which includes a 1-year subscription to Ontario Review, is also required.

Please make out a check or money order (U.S. funds only) to Ontario Review.