Since her 1930 appearance in The Secret of the Old Clock, amateur sleuth Nancy Drew has inspired generations of girls — including this one — with her moxie, intelligence, determination, but most of all independence. After 86 years, Nancy Drew is as popular as ever — with avid fans around the world.
Let’s celebrate this female icon and role model with the NANCY DREW ANTHOLOGY: A Collection of Poetry, Prose, Art & Photography Featuring Everyone’s Favorite Female Sleuth.
WHAT: Poetry, prose, paintings, drawings, photographs, and other work inspired by Nancy Drew.
TYPES OF WRITTEN MATERIAL:
- Poems (up to three — either original work or found/erasure poetry based on a Nancy Drew book)
- Short stories (up to 2,000 words)
- Essays (up to 1,500 words)
- Creative nonfiction (up to 2,000 words)
- Short plays or screenplays (approximately five typed pages)
- Other literary forms (up to 2,000 words)
TYPES OF VISUAL MATERIAL (send jpg files of approximately 1MB):
- Photographs
- Collage
- Paintings
- Drawings
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Sunday, May 22, 2016
ESTIMATED RELEASE DATE: Summer 2016
HOW TO SUBMIT: Please email written entries as MSWord attachments (title the file with your last name, e.g., Smith.docx or Jones.doc) and visual entries as jpg attachments to SBPSUBMISSIONS@gmail.com, along with your name, mailing address, email address, and one-paragraph bio written in the third person. (If submitting a found poem or erasure poem, provide the title, edition, and publication date of the Nancy Drew book. If the erasure is taken from one page, please also provide scan of original erasure.) For all submissions, write NANCY in email subject line.
PAYMENT: Each contributor will receive a copy of the Silver Birch Press NANCY DREW ANTHOLOGY.
NOTE: The submissions will appear exclusively in a printed edition and will not appear on our blog.
SHOUT OUT: A heartfelt thank you to Jennifer Finstrom, whose poem “Nancy Drew’s Guide to Life” in our ME, IN FICTION Series and the subsequent enthusiastic feedback we received about it from readers, inspired this collection.
Cover art by Elizabeth Stark, used by permission.
IMPORTANT NOTE: NANCY DREW is a registered mark of Simon & Schuster, Inc. This book and the contents thereof are not endorsed by, sponsored by or affiliated with Carolyn Keene, the author of the NANCY DREW series or its publisher Simon & Schuster, Inc.
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Great prompt and anthology to submit to in April! Accepting poetry, prose, short plays, and artwork until April 30.
Are you accepting previously published work as long as the author has rights?
Yes, we are accepting previously published work.
I have written my own short ND tale. Consists of 3 passages tied together, but I have received a number of thumbs-ups! It’s good reading and very intriguing – it’ll leave you hanging. I’ve even made a page for it here on Facebook, you could view it there. I would like to submit it for your project. It’s 8 pages but a quick read.
Please submit the story, following instructions in the guidelines. Thanks.
Are you allowed to submit multiple entries (a photo, an essay, and a poem, for example)?
Yes, we are accepting multiple entries — one per category.
Categories as in visual and written materials (2 submissions), or categories as in poems, essays, CNF, screenplays, other written, photos, collage, paintings, and drawings (10 submissions)?
Let us know what you have in mind. Theoretically if you have one submission in each of the 10 categories, you can send them in.