{"id":919,"date":"2012-09-20T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=919"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:36:09","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:36:09","slug":"contest-alert-plus-little-french-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=919","title":{"rendered":"Contest Alert, Plus a Little French Humor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, the CONTEST ALERT! Actually, there are two opportunities for you YA writers out there. Firstly, the diversity-friendly publishing company Lee and Low, who pioneered the New Voices picture book award, are now presenting the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leeandlow.com\/p\/new_visions_award.mhtml\" target=\"_blank\">New Visions Award<\/a> for unpublished MG and YA authors! The award is<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\" style=\"color: darkgreen;\"><p>\nfor a middle grade or young adult fantasy, science fiction, or mystery novel by an author of color. The Award winner will receive a cash grant of $1,000 and our standard publication contract, including our basic advance and royalties for a first time author. The deadline this year to submit manuscripts will be <b>October 30, 2012<\/b>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Unpublished authors of color, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leeandlow.com\/p\/new_visions_award.mhtml\" target=\"_blank\">GET OVER THERE<\/a> and submit your manuscripts! <\/p>\n<p>The second opportunity is not so much a contest, but it IS a publication, and it&#8217;s new, and they welcome writing for young readers. Antioch University Los Angeles&#8217;s MFA program has a new literary magazine, <a href=\"http:\/\/lunchticket.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lunch Ticket<\/a>, and they&#8217;re currently accepting submission for their second issue. The call for subs said they&#8217;re ESPECIALLY on the lookout for good writing for young people, so <a href=\"http:\/\/lunchticket.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">GO<\/a>! Submit your short fiction, essays, poetry, etc. And check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/lunchticket.org\/horses-in-the-hood\/\" target=\"_blank\">poem by G. Neri<\/a> in their first issue, posted online. There&#8217;s also an interview with Francesca Lia Block, for you Weetzie Bat fans. (Hat tip to our occasional co-blogger, Jennifer, for finding this one.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-PvTnNeAUl6U\/UFoR2qzcz-I\/AAAAAAAAD_s\/F8IX3RwfSak\/s1600\/OuEstMaman.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"242\" src=\"https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/OuEstMaman.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Lastly, for your amusement, via the Expression Online newsletter comes TERRIFYING FRENCH CHILDREN&#8217;S BOOKS. Jenny Colgan has <a href=\"http:\/\/storify.com\/jennycolgan\/terrifying-french-children-s-books\" target=\"_blank\">blogged about several of them on Storify<\/a> and they are something to behold. Evidently the Roald Dahl aesthetic is quite popular there&#8230;so go, be entertained and\/or disturbed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, the CONTEST ALERT! Actually, there are two opportunities for you YA writers out there. Firstly, the diversity-friendly publishing company Lee and Low, who&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2,51,47,15,10,73],"class_list":["post-919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-af","tag-contest-alert","tag-ethnicity-and-ya-literature","tag-random-notes-and-errata","tag-views","tag-world-o-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7252,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions\/7252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}