Seaside Stories - Submission Guidelines

Seaside Stories (working title) will be a free ebook distributed through Amazon Kindle and Smashwords (and via Smashwords, through Barnes & Noble, Sony, Apple iPlayer, Kobo, and Diesel).

No-one earns any money - the aim is solely promotional.

Wanted: stories and poetry with a seaside theme. Any genre is ok. Poetry should be no longer than 40 lines. Stories should be no longer than 1500 words. But this is a guideline only - query if you have something which you think would be perfect but is outside of these word counts.

Submissions Deadline: June 1st, 2012.

How to submit: Submissions are open to all members of Riverside Writers, who are invited to send up to three pieces each, or more if they are smallish pieces. Ask if unsure. Participants might want to include a small biography of up to 500 words (no photos).

Send by email to riversidewriters@aol.com. Please do not send attachments. All attachments will be deleted. All text should be in the body of the email. Please type SEASIDE STORIES in the subject line.

The ebook will be edited and formatted for digital publishing by Adele Cosgrove-Bray. It will appear on her Amazon pages (USA and UK) and website. All participants will be able to add it to their own webpages too, if they choose to.

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Adele Cosgrove-Bray said…

Please note: If you are NOT a member of Riverside Writers, then this anthology isn't open to you.

8 January 2012 at 12:20

A Cure for Aging?

"All that we profess to do is but this, - to find out the secrets of the human frame; to know why the parts ossify and the blood stagnates, and to apply continual preventatives to the effort of time. This is not magic; it is the art of medicine rightly understood. In our order we hold most noble -, first, that knowledge which elevates the intellect; secondly, that which preserves the body. But the mere art (extracted from the juices and simples) which recruits the animal vigour and arrests the progress of decay, or that more noble secret which I will only hint to thee at present, by which heat or calorific, as ye call it, being, as Heraclitus wisely taught, the primordial principle of life, can be made its perpectual renovator...." Zanoni, book IV, chapter II, by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, first published in 1842. Oroboros keyring - Spooky Cute Designs The idea of being able to achieve an immortal life is probably as old as human life itself. Folklore and myt...

Remembering Richie Tattoo Artist's Studio

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Do you keep a diary? Why did you start it, and, if you started one then stopped, why was that? What sort of things do (or did) you write about? I ask as, as a long-time diarist myself, there is an interesting piece in The Guardian today which talks about one woman's diary habit, which she began at the age of fourteen. I started a diary around that age too, but destroyed it after my mother accused me of using cocaine. A stern scene followed, with both parents perched ram-rod straight in their armchairs, while I was subjected to a heated inquisition. Where had I bought it, and who from? Didn't I know such things led to death and doom? I struggled to decipher their bewildering accusations, until Mum blurted out, "I read it in your diary!" To find my diary, Mum would first have had to rummage through my dressing table, obviously when I wasn't around to protest. Her intrusion on my privacy was assumed by both parents to be acceptable, and now, with this handwritten c...

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