Four Month Residency for Poets

Program Name: Philip Roth Residence in Creative Writing
Amount: 4 month residency/$4000
Application Fee: $0
Income Requirements: none
Geographic Requirements: none
Other Requirements: no more than 20 pages
Contact: Philip Roth Residence in Creative Writing, The Stadler Center for Poetry,
Bucknell Hall, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA 17837, http://www.bucknell.edu/x3756.xml
Application Online: none

$4,000 Travel Money for Food Writers

The IACP Foundation has a travel grant program for professional food writers whose research requires or will benefit from access to the holdings of specific libraries with significant culinary collections in the U.S. Applicants must demonstrate that they are under contract for a magazine or newspaper article. The average stipend is but may vary according to the proposal. Applications reviewed and a committee of library research experts selects the finalists. Contact: The Culinary Trust, 304 W. Liberty St., Ste. 201, Louisville, KY 40202-3068; 502-581-9786, ext. 264; Fax: 502-589-3602; http://theculinarytrust.com/html/grants_for_food_writers.html; Email: kkelty@HQTRS.com
Application: http://theculinarytrust.com/html/applications.html
Income Eligibility: None

Money for Public Policy Authors

The Century Foundation funds research projects on significant economic, social, and political issues. The foundation welcomes research proposals concerning relevant public policy topics. These projects generally should result in analytic, book-length manuscripts containing public policy recommendations. Contact The Century Foundation, 41 East 70th Street, New York, NY 10021; 212-535-4441; Fax: 212-879-9197; http://www.tcf.org/Publications/Submissions.pdf; Email: info@tcf.org
Income Eligibility: None

$500,000 to be Creative!

The MacArthur Fellows Program is intended to encourage people of outstanding talent to pursue their own creative, intellectual, and professional inclinations. In keeping with this purpose, the Foundation awards fellowships directly to individuals rather than through institutions. Recipients may be writers, scientists, artists, social scientists, humanists, teachers, entrepreneurs, or those in other fields, with or without institutional affiliations. Each fellowship comes with a stipend of $500,000 to the recipient, paid out in equal quarterly installments over five years. This is a national and international award. Contact: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, 140 S. Dearborn St., Ste. 1100, Chicago, IL 60603-5285; 312-726-8000; Fax: 312-920-6258; http://www.macfound.org; Email: 4answers@macfound.org or macfellows@macfound.org
Application: http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.913959/k.BB2A/How_to_Apply.htm
Income Eligibility: None

Tips for Writing Children’s Books

So, you have decided to write children’s books. Many people think that this is a very easy market, since young children’s literature tends to be so simple, but that is far from the truth. Rather, you must select each word very carefully because there are so few! Here are more tips on writing books for children.

Read as many children’s books as you can get your hands on. This is vital if you want to writer your own quality stories that children will enjoy. Take note of how other authors use words to describe the pictures in the books for very small children.

Now that you have read all those picture books, try reading them to some little kids. If you have your own, perfect, but if not, don’t let that stop you. You can easily borrow some friend’s kids or volunteer to read to a day care group or in a preschool. Watch to see how the children react to each book.

When you feel prepared, you are ready to go ahead and write your own book. Selecting a topic is key to writing the perfect piece of literature for small children. There is no point in choosing something that will be completely out of their league, so you want to go with common, every day issues that face little kids. These might include welcoming a new sibling into the family, traveling, divorce, starting school or dealing with their mother going back to work. These are all very important things that affect their lives.

Don’t underestimate children. They can spot badly written books a mile away and you won’t have their attention for long unless you write something interesting that captures their imagination. While the pictures and drawings in a picture book are important, so are the words and they are the introduction to reading and writing for many small children.

Think back to when you were small. The feelings that you pull up from those distant memories will help you write the books that you are working on now. Can you remember how it felt to be jealous of your big sister because she had more juice than you? If so, incorporate that into your book, make your primary character feel what you felt. This is the best way to get kids truly involved in your stories, by including emotions that every one of them has felt at some point or another.

Join an online or offline book writer’s group. They can provide invaluable feedback on your writing and it is worth having some constructive criticism when you are writing something so delicate as books for children. Try to find a group that specializes in juvenile literature and remember to give as much as you take.

Once you actually have your manuscript in hand, it is time to revise it. Not once, not twice, but three times. This is very important. You might figure you don’t have much to edit, since it is only a 300 word picture book, but every sentence needs to be as tight as possible. Test the story out on children that you know and see what they think. They are great critics and will tell you the truth straight out.

Finally, you are ready to submit your books. Follow the publisher’s guidelines or you will be rejected right off. And be prepared to be rejected, since even the best writers don’t always get accepted on the first try.

100 Christmas and Children's Tales- $1!!!!!!

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Christmas at Fezziwig's Warehouse - Charles Dickens
The Fir-Tree - Hans Christian Andersen
The Christmas Masquerade - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
The Shepherds and the Angels - Adapted from the Bills
The Telltale Tile - Olive Thorne Miller
Little Girl's Christmas - By Winnifred E. Lincoln
A Christmas Matinee - M.A.L. Lane
Toinette and the Elves - Susan Coolidge
The Voyage of the Wee Red Cap. By Ruth Sawyer Durand
A Story of the Christ-Child (a German Legend for Christmas Eve) - Elizabeth Harrison
Jimmy Scarecrow's Christmas - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Why the Chimes Rang - Raymond McAlden
The Birds'Christmas (founded on fact) - F.E. Mann
The Little Sister's Vacation - Winifred M. Kirkland
Little Wolff's Wooden Shoes - Francois Coppee, adapted and translated by Alma J. Foster
Christmas in the Alley - Olive Thorne Miller
A Christmas Star - Katherine Pyle
The Queerest Christmas - Grace Margaret Gallaher
Old Father Christmas - J.H. Ewing
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
How Christmas Came to the Santa Maria Flats - Elia W. Peattie
The Legend of Babouscka - From the Russian Folk Tale
Christmas in the Barn - F. Arnstein
The Philanthropist's Christmas - James Weber Linn
The First Christmas-Tree - Lucy Wheelock
The First New England Christmas - G.L. Stone and M.G. Fickett
The Cratchits' Christmas Dinner - Charles Dickens
Christmas in Seventeen Seventy-Six - Anne Hollingsworth Wharton
Christmas Under the Snow - Olive Thorne Miller
Mr. Bluff's Experience of Holidays - Oliver Bell Bunce
Master Sandy's Snapdragon - Elbridge S. Brooks
A Christmas Fairy - John Strange Winter
The Greatest of These - Joseph Mills Hanson
Little Gretchen and the Wooden Shoe - Elizabeth Harrison
Big Rattle - Theodore Goodridge Roberts

AND

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Daddy the Superhero
Sharks
The Window in Time
Bad Imaginary Friend
The Rumor with Furry Feet
Fat Wally and the Piggies

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