Fiction 2010 Short Story Contest: Deadline Extended
Announcement: The Deadline for the 2010 Fiction Contest has been extended until December 15, 2010. Contest Type: Fiction Short Stories (500-3000 words) Prizes: $50 first place prize and publication; First, Second and Third place winners all receive a free Critique by the Editors of Literary Magic. Entry Fee: $5 per story. Deadline: December 15, 2010 Are you an aspiring novelist? Do you have a story to tell but can't break into publishing markets? Then enter the Literary Magic Writing Competition. Write. Get paid. Get critiqued. And get published. Announcing Literary Magic's first ever cash-prize contest. Enter our writing competition for the chance to win $50--and to have your story featured on the LiteraryMagic.com Home ...
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August 16, 2010Poetry 2010 Contest: Deadline Extended
Announcement: The Deadline for the 2010 Poetry Contest has been extended until December 15, 2010. Contest Type: Poetry (5-30 lines) Prizes: $30 first place prize and publication; First, Second and Third place winners all receive a free Critique by the Editors of Literary Magic. Entry Fee: $3 per poem. Deadline: December 15, 2010 Write. Get paid. Get critiqued. And get published. Announcing Literary Magic's first ever cash-prize contest. Enter our writing competition for the chance to win $30--and to have your poem featured on the LiteraryMagic.com Home page. Literary Magic magazine is currently accepting poetry submissions for its 2010 Poetry Contest. Please read the Guidelines below to enter. When you're ready, fill out ...
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August 15, 2010The Enemy
The Enemy By Joan Kaplan Forgive me for not keeping in touch. I know they told you I was wounded in action; did they tell you that I was missing, too, for two days, and then was found, barely breathing but alive? Perhaps it’s best if they didn’t; why worry you needlessly. I was found, although two others in my unit have not been. It’s been weeks and they are still missing and, we all fear, lost to the enemy – not the Iraqis, but the war, the real enemy. ...
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June 23, 2010From Written Word to Moving Image
Literary Magic Editor-in-Chief Rocky Reichman also had the opportunity to interview the co-producers of Patricia Cornwell's The Front, Emmy award-winning Stan Brooks and his partner, Jim Head. The two producers have experience working with successful authors. In one-on-one interviews with each producer, they each gave their advice on what it takes to succeed in the business of film production. Stan Brooks emphasized the importance of a Liberal Arts education, saying that you need an appreciation of music and how that music works in a movie in order to succeed in his business. Indeed, when this author watched The Front for the first time just an hour after these words were ...
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June 23, 2010Fiberglass Dinosaurs
Fiberglass Dinosaurs By Karl Koweski The frozen monstrosities hulk in the Tennessee woods like junkyard Camaros. It’s the prehistoric world as envisioned by Dr. Seuss. red dinosaur blue dinosaur one dinosaur two dinosaurs Fiberglass dinosaurs languish in the mid July heat. Giant toy reptiles consort regardless of Mesozoic period. Deep time is an illusion in the reality of the moment. My family and I stand in the shadow of a forty foot tall Tyrannosaurus Rex shellacked into PBS subjugation. My wife views Dinosaur World as a chance to exercise her legs after a four hour drive. My daughter sees it as another experience to relate to her grade school friends. For me its another wasted fifty dollars, another bead on a vacational string of wasted fifty dollars. My three-year-old son sees a ...
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January 21, 2010Paradise Lost: Milton Hero
By Greg Bauder. Milton is the true hero in Paradise Lost. Milton said his aim to do "things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme" was for one thing to "Justify the ways of God to man." But in saying this, as a man, he was trying to justify the ways of God to himself. That appears to be why Milton, as narrator, is the most powerful and heroic force to be reckoned with in the poem. And while Milton revolutionized poetry by writing his epic in blank verse he also created a type of Monism that was derived from so much erudition, probably from other religions, even Eastern ones, that he ...
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January 5, 2010Can a Monkey be Taught to Type Shakespeare?
Mathematical Linguistics by Jack Reichman, Ph.D. There are some who would believe that given enough time and energy, a monkey could be taught to type, get lucky, and write some memorable prose. These are probably the same people who believe that luck plays the major role in all art. Let’s see if that is really true by doing a thought experiment.
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December 13, 2009Travel The World With Poetry: Travel Writing
By Earl J. Wilcox. I wish I could write on a plane while traveling to a city in the Middle East. Though my stop is Dubai---peaceful oasis hundreds of miles from battle zones in Iraq--if fear and emotion trigger words, traveling to a world ravaged by wars ought to give birth at least to prefixes or shapes like words. Poems refuse to be born. When I fly west for a visit with a sick sister-- a trip without a happy ending---should not I at least find sounds to chart a poem about endings and beginnings, family ties, siblings and stepmothers, memories piling on top of each other, emotions brimming above and beneath surfaces to fill a chapbook. My inability to write while traveling seems a puny ...
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November 29, 2009Pirate Coast: Dead Or Alive? How About Both.
By Heidi Hirner With the kind of money the company pays, they can pick and choose their delivery men. And they picked me because I'm the best captain they know of - there isn't anyone able to match my skills in navigation, and you'd need skills of my order to safely navigate these routes less traveled. And the other reason is because I'm so fast. The fastest. That's why they've given me that strange nickname. They know I can get this ship and my crew to fly. PIRATE COAST ...
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November 11, 2009In Space, No One Can Hear You Scream. The Alpha-Roera Incident
By Terry Voyle “Peeeeeeep,” the intercom in my compartment shrilled. I shook the sleep from my mind and pressed the connect button. “Chief,” it was my control operator Jervis. “What?” I answered, testily. “May-day, from Alpha-Reora 2”, he shouts excitedly. “It’s the distress beacon. “Be right there”, I reply. I dress rather hurriedly. This is the first May-day we’ve had, no-one puts out a beacon unless things are desperate. There’s a code of levels of emergency, ...
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October 24, 2009