By popular request — including from members of the Nancy Drew Sleuths fan club — we have extended the submissions deadline to Sunday, 5/22/16 for our NANCY DREW ANTHOLOGY.
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 at least 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. (Note: If you don’t have MSWord, send the submission in the body of your email.)
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 image 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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Should those who have already submitted be concerned about the 2 deadline extensions? (As in, did you not receive enough submissions or are you rejecting all that you have already received?)
We received enough submissions at the first deadline (4/30/16). As listed in the post, we extended the deadline the first time (to 5/15/16) because many members of the Nancy Drew fan club had been unaware of the anthology — so we extended for them. We also needed to address their concerns regarding the “unauthorized” nature of the anthology. We interacted with attorneys at Simon & Schuster to determine what we needed to do to make the company comfortable with the anthology. Simon & Schuster had three requests, 1) that we include the words “Silver Birch Press” on the cover so readers knew the anthology came from our press, not Simon & Schuster, 2) that we use original artwork on the cover, and 3) that we include a disclaimer on the copyright page that states, in effect, that the anthology is not a publication of Simon & Schuster. We have complied with all these requests. We extended the deadline again (to 5/22/16) because we learned late on 5/14 that our Duotrope listing had been dropped because the writers’ listing site had designated the anthology as “unauthorized fan fiction.” When we explained to Duotrope our interactions with Simon & Schuster and the fact that the company is fine with us publishing the anthology, Duotrope reinstated our listing. We needed to give Duotrope users the opportunity to submit, so extended the deadline for another week. I hope this answers your question.