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New Riverside Writers Anthology
Information and Submission Guidelines for 2010

The Riverside Writers Board have approved publishing a new anthology, and
the Anthology Committee met January 13 to begin planning for it. If you would
like to serve on the committee, you may attend the next meeting Tuesday,
February 16, 7:00 in Borders coffee shop in Central Park or contact Larry.

New Riverside Writers Anthology

Information and Submission Guidelines 1/26/10

The Riverside Writers Board have approved publishing a new anthology, and the Anthology Committee met January 13 to begin planning for it. If you would like to serve on the committee, you may attend the next meeting Tuesday, February 16, 7:00 in Borders coffee shop in Central Park or contact Larry Turner. Members who have paid their 2010 dues may submit to the anthology during the period February 13 to October 2010. Each member may have up to fifteen pages in the anthology, with no more than one work on a page. See the following for more information.

Submission Guidelines:

Submissions can be fiction, poetry, or nonfiction.
Double space prose submissions.
On the piece that is being submitted, include only the title and page number at the top of each page.
Each page should be numbered, if there is more than one page.
The writing must be in good taste. Authors are reminded that the anthology is intended for general audiences.

Submitting your work:

If possible, submit a soft copy to Larry Turner, thanz3000@aol.com. as a Word (.doc) attachment.

o   If you must submit a hard copy, send it to Judith Hill.

With your submission, indicate if the manuscript has been previously published. If it has, and you retain the rights to it, indicate that also. If you need to get permission from the owner of the rights, let us know and start to do so.

When you submit your manuscript, please feel that you are obligated to help with the marketing of the final book, through book signings, readings, etc.

After publication, all rights revert to the author or the previous owner.

NOTE: Contributors should be aware they are authorizing a one-time use of the work, without compensation. Previously published work is welcome, if you own the rights or get permission to reprint. Please be aware that many contests, magazines, and publishers do not accept previously published work. On the other hand, submitting a short selection from a longer work, such as a novel, will not jeopardize publication of the longer work, but may help create a market for it. In order to submit to the anthology, you must be a member who has paid Riverside Writers dues for 2010.

Purposes of the Anthology

The 2005, 2008 and 2011 Anthology Committees express the following purposes:

Attracting new members
Providing a publication opportunity for our members
Giving Riverside Writers visibility in the Fredericksburg community
Sharing our writing with each other
Sharing our writing with friends and family
Keeping us writing more.

The Reviewing Process

The reviewing procedure will be similar to that of our last two anthologies. The reviewers will not know the identity of the author, and the author will not know the identity of the reviewers. An author will submit his or her work to the chair of the reviewing board, who will forward it to two reviewers. If the reviewers agree it should be accepted, it is accepted. If one or the other says it should be accepted with corrections, it will be accepted when the author revises it, taking the suggestions into account. If the author and reviewer cannot agree, the work will come to the full Anthology Committee, whose decision is final.

If the two reviewers disagree, the work will be sent to a third reviewer. If two of the three reviewers agree it should be accepted, or accepted with suggestions, it will be accepted when those two reviewers are satisfied with it. Works that require further consideration will be brought to the full Anthology Committee, whose decision is final. Spelling, punctuation and grammatical corrections must be made, unless the nonstandard usage is deliberate and appropriate.

The reviewer should keep the feelings of the author in mind when making comments. To keep the reviews both independent and anonymous, the reviewer should not discuss the work with anyone else while reviewing it.