The Knoxville Writers' Guild has voted to sponsor a collection of short pieces, tentatively entitled A Knoxville Christmas 2007. This is a short-fused opportunity to participate in a potentially very rewarding project.

The Christmas Collection will consist of short fiction, nonfiction, personal memoirs, slice-of-life, poetry and just about any other form of short work.

You must be a member of the Writers' Guild to submit a piece for consideration. New and inexperienced writers are WELCOME, so now is the time to join.

Cyn Mobley the editor of the Christmas collection states:

"I'm not looking for simple sentimentality, although that can work. Go beyond that to what some call, "the further truths." Exactly what that means I'll leave up to each writer, although I am pretty certain it means no gore and no vampires. (Which, of course, means that someone is going to be compelled to try to pull that off.)

Your piece should be 250-500 words. Or so. More specifically, it should be as long as it needs to be. Which means you get a lot of latitude on that if I'm really taken by the piece. But NOT 5,000 words. NOT 2,000. Short.

The book will be in print around 15 November and we plan on marketing it aggressively through local outlets, the Internet and at the Emporium Christmas event, among others.

Deadline: 6 October. Midnight. EST.
Email submissions only. Send to: Editor@bushidopress

To join the Guild visit their website at (link...)