That last photo is up behind the mine, looking toward Shelf Road (Canon City is on the other side of it; it's an old mining road between Cripple Creek and Canon City.)
Now for some links. Always do your due diligence before submitting to a publication. I have not researched these, so am not personally recommending them, just passing the news along.
Accepting Submissions:
Mslexia is looking for submissions for their 65th Issue, with the theme of Earth Songs. This is for one of their prose and poetry issues. Deadline December 9. Pay not specified. Check further below on their page for article submissions information.
Innsmouth Free Press is open for submissions for an all-woman Lovecraft anthology, She Walks in Shadows, from November 15 to December 15. Short stories inspired by Lovecraft and featuring females. Up to 4000 words. Pays $.06/word, Canadian.
Knock Your Socks Off Art & Literature is open for submissions for KYSO Flash Issue 2 through December 15. 751 to 1000 words. Pays $.10/word. They are also looking for poems, parables, and allegories. They want evocative works that balance music and meaning.
Freeze Frame Fiction is open for submissions of flash fiction in any genre through December 15. Pays $10/piece. 1000 words or less.
Sorcerous Signals is open for submissions through December 15. Fantasy. Short stories (up to 10,000 words), poems, and flash fiction (up to 1000 words). Pays $5 for short stories, $2 for flash and poetry.
Inkstained Succubus Press is seeking submissions for their Somewhere Out There anthology. Science fiction. Deadline December 15. 5000-10,000 words. Pays in royalties.
Contests:
Samantha Redstreake Geary brings us another opportunity to blend words with music. Of Mist and Magic asks for your freshly realized fairy tales, set to The Eternal Rest of Ronin. 500 words or less. Prize is publications in the anthology, digital copy of the album, and signed cover art. Deadline December 1.
Phoenix Photo & Fiction is holding a short story contest and a flash fiction contest. Deadline December 14. First prize is $50 CAD for short stories up to 1500 words and $20 CAD for flash fiction up to 300 words. Also see their page for guidelines for their regular submissions.
Of Interest:
For my fellow short story authors out there, here are 22 Common Problems Associated With Short Story Submissions, from Amanda Pillar, editor, posted on Alan Baxter's site.
If you want to use lyrics in your writing, Anne R. Allen has passed along tips to getting the rights in So You Want to Use Song Lyrics in Your Novel? 5 Steps to Getting Rights to Lyrics.
Any of these of interest to you? Did they miss anything in the short story article? Have you ever used lyrics in a story? Anything to share? Publication news? Ever visited an old mine?
May you find your Muse.
10 comments:
Those images are interesting. I see a story brewing in them thar' hills. Thanks for the links!
It really fires the imagination to think of people working in those mines, especially in the winter in that part of your beautiful state.
That's a really interesting old mine. I don't think I've ever seen one quite like it.
When I read the places seeking submissions, I wonder where I would fit in, do I want to try it, etc. Someday.
The mines are enticing. It would be difficult to stay out of one, as curiosity rules over common sense, here.
Nice pictures. My ex hubs is into gold panning. One day, maybe he'll make us rich :)
But can you go in it?
Hey Shannon!
Those aren't mine. They are your pictures and very good they are. I'm sure there was a song about Cripple Creek.
You know me and links.
I have visited a few shafts in my time. Some in British Columbia and a few in the Peak District national park in England.
Thank you, Shannon.
Gary
Thanks for the eye candy, Shannon. Lovely shots, and there's something so intriguing about old mine shafts.
Thanks also for the lovely helping of linky goodness--very helpful!
As always you've given us links to some great information.
Thanks!
Lee
Tossing It Out
SA, good eye! We got out of the canyon just as a storm started.
Susan, you're right. It was significantly cooler there than where I am.
Alex, there are a few around here like that, in Cripple Creek and Victor, and thereabouts.
Susan, I think I'd be more inclined to go in if I didn't have littles with me.
Dolorah, wouldn't that be great?
Andrew, not in a technical tour, but it was obvious others went into it. There were no doors, so it was some manner of processing deal, not a great big walk-in mine.
Gary, I'm willing to be there were a few songs about Cripple Creek, but I don't know them!
Kern, they're fun to visit. Some are massive and in enclosed buildings with elevators and giant gears, whereas a few are like this one, quite small.
Lee, thanks!
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