I Curse the River Time by Per Petterson

Holiday contest time!

Design your own cover for I Curse the River of Time by Per Patterson for a chance to win a signed copy of the book. (The wonderful AbeBooks is sponsoring the contest.)

The contest will run from Tuesday, Dec. 14 to Tuesday, Dec. 28.

Upload your cover image for the contest through Submishmash, our submissions manager.

Word Riot’s editorial team will judge the covers and announce the winner on Wednesday, Dec. 29.

We will update this post regularly with the contest submissions we receive, so be sure to check back and comment on which contest cover images are your faves.

Word Riot 10th Anniversary Anthology

WE ARE LOOKING FOR NEW STORIES FROM WORD RIOT AUTHORS. PLEASE DO NOT SUBMIT YOUR PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED WORK.

Submissions for the Word Riot 10th anniversary anthology are ONLY open to writers who were previously published in the monthly magazine. The anthology is slated for March 2012 publication. Payment is a copy of the anthology and a stake in the royalties divided equally among authors.

Writers with prose of any kind previously published in the magazine can submit new prose (flash fiction, short stories, or creative nonfiction). The word limit is 6,000. You may submit one piece of new prose for each piece of prose published on the site.

Poets can submit up to six new poems for every poem published on the site.

Writers published in the stretching forms section can submit either new prose or poetry.

When submitting, be sure to include the following in your cover letter:

Name:
Title of previously published Word Riot piece:
URL of previously published Word Riot piece:
Genre of previously published Word Riot piece:

Word Riot 10th Anniversary Anthology – Short Story Contest

Contest start date: September 10, 2010
Contest end date: March 31, 2011
Submission fee: $5

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We want our December book releases, Baby by Paula Bomer and Look! Look! Feathers by Mike Young, to get our marketing best. And for that, we could use a hand.

We’re looking for a couple (unpaid) interns for light blogging (as opposed to heavy lifting), social media outreach, conducting author interviews for the magazine and marketing and promotion efforts for the press.

Send your resume, background info or a link to your current blogging efforts to wr.submissions AT gmail.com with the subject head “My words riot like [INSERT SOMETHING WITTY]“

Midnight Picnic by Nick Antosca

Find out more about Midnight Picnic.

Cover design by Ryan W. Bradley

Here’s what very important literary folk have to say:

“Words like ‘tough’ and ‘honest’ don’t quite do justice to the fiction of Paula Bomer. These stories bleed, yes, but that’s because they brawl. The real housewives of Bomerworld break themselves and break your heart and yet never completely lose their soulful dignity.”
–Sam Lipsyte, author of The Ask

“I love that Paula Bomer writes her characters into difficult situations and does terrible things to them. These stories contain a rare emotional honesty and brutality.”
–Michael Kimball, author of Dear Everybody

“I know I’m reading something really great when I have to stop and put the book down and think for a while before I can pick it up again. This is rare. It also happened at least twice per story in Paula Bomer’s excellent collection, Baby. Buy it, read it, put it down while you admire her skill and charm and honesty, and then pick it back up and continue reading. You might want to leave a page unread, just so it won’t be completely over, at least until she publishes her next collection.”
–Mary Miller, author of Big World.

Monday, June 7 will be “Published For a Day” day on Word Riot. We will post an entry with links to downloadable PDFs of novels and book length short story collections (at least 25k words) that will be available for one day and one day only: 12 a.m. -11:59 p.m. on Monday, June 7.

Rules, Regulations, Bull Shit

1. This is open to writers who have been previously published in Word Riot or any of the following sites (in no apparent order – let me know of any I should have included in the comments):

3:AM Magazine, Anderbo, Collagist, decomP, Dogplotz, Electric Lit, Eyeshot, Hobart, Identity Theory, JMWW, Keyhole, Laminantion Colony, Necessary Fiction, No Colony, NOÖ, NYTyrant, Pank, Pindeldyboz, Monkeybicycle, mudlucious, Opium

2. Upload the PDF to your server. If you don’t have a server, email us the PDF and we will upload it to Word Riot. Email information in the format below to jcorley AT gmail DOT com by 10 p.m. on Sunday, June 6:

Subject: Published For a Day

Novel Title by Author Name
File Link:
Previous Publications: [Must have at least one publication credit from list above]
Summary: [Under 250 words. Make it sexy. You want people to download you.]

3. Any PDFs uploaded to Word Riot will be deleted on June 8. The links will die on June 8, as well.

Readers: Download all you like on June 7. There are no other rules for you.

Participating Writers: TBA

“I don’t have to long for a better thing to tell stories about.” from bryan coffelt on Vimeo.

Mike Young blogs at places. Word Riot Press will publish his short story collection, Look! Look! Feathers later this year.

Kevin Sampsell is the author of A Common Pornography: A Memoir. Word Riot Press published his short story collection, Beautiful Blemish in 2005.

Kevin’s suggestions for disguising the title when reading in public:

• Story ratings
• User profiles
• Threaded comments
• Comment ratings

We hope to continue to improve Word Riot and make it a more interactive experience without overwhelming you with useless bells and whistles.