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It is with some pleasure and pride that I introduce our new facelift. Forbidden Garden ( http://www.forbidden-garden.com/) has a new look. Thanks to the loving toiling of its Managing Editor and design artist D K Wilson – we look a little sleeker and a lot sexier. More importantly she has upgraded the interface. Now the hard part.

I’ll need all of our writers to check their submissions and resubmit if necessary. If you’ve made any submissions for the contests – please resubmit to the link on the home page. There will be revised dates for contest submissions issued soon.

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Spring (Flash) Fling!

There's still time!

Go to Contest Rules for complete rules.

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Chance Encounters

Contact: submissions@torquerepress.com

April 15, 2004

Chance Encounters - An Anthology of Short Erotic Fiction
Submission Deadline -- April 15, 2004

Two strangers meet in a crowded hallway, on a train, or passing on the street. A glance, a touch, a spark of desire; something brings them together and leads to love at first sight, romance, or good old-fashioned lust, and we're lucky enough to catch a glimpse. We're looking for stories that illustrate the heart pounding pleasure of the chance encounter, where getting caught is a bigger concern than exchanging names and phone numbers.

We are primarily looking for homoerotic stories. However, we are not looking for pornography without characterization. While many of the stories in these anthologies will be focused on an adult audience, well-written stories without graphic content will be welcomed. Please visit our site at http://www.torquerepress.com to see a sample of the fiction we publish and exact guidelines.

Along with your story, please submit a word count, contact information, an author's biography and picture (if available). Also include a brief synopsis of the work. Please indicate whether your story has been previously published or has been edited by an author.

We pay a percentage royalty plus contributor's copies.

For email submissions: submissions@torquerepress.com

To mail submissions:

Submissions
c/o Torquere Press
PO Box 4351
Grand Junction, CO 81502

Thank you,

M. Rode
Editor, Torquere Press

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Desdmona's Third Erotic Story Contest

Website: http://www.desdmona.com/
Guidelines: www.desdmona.com/contest.asp
Contact: contest@desdmona.com

Deadline: April 15, 2004
Desdmona.com is now accepting submissions for its third erotic story contest. We've decided to have another flash fiction contest, but this time we want to make it a little bit harder for all you flash experts.

Like our first contest, stories must be 300 words or less. Unlike our first postcard fiction contest, we've decided to have a theme this time. Entries for the The Fishnet Flash Contest should, in some way, make reference to stockings. Nylons, fishnets, pantyhose, wool footies - the type of stocking and how you decide to work it into your story is up to you. You will be judged on your inventiveness.

To be elligible for cash prizes, stories must be received before April 15, 2004. As with our other contests, $200 will be awarded to the first prize story, $100 for second, and $50 for third. Honorable mention prizes of $20 will be awarded at the discretion of desdmona.com and the contest judges.

Imagine what you can do with 300 words and a pair of black silk stockings. And send the results to us!

For complete contest details, see www.desdmona.com/contest.asp.

We look forward to hearing from you.

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Breath & Shadow

Website: Breath and Shadow
Guidelines: Guidelines
Contact: Sharon Wachsler
Journal of Disability Culture and Literature Seeks Submissions!

Who Are We?
Breath & Shadow, a monthly online journal of poetry, fiction, essays, drama, and other writing by people with disabilities, is seeking work. We are currently the only literary journal written and edited entirely by people with disabilities. The response to our first two issues has been overwhelming and gratifying, but we seek always to stretch our boundaries further.

What Do We Publish?
Breath & Shadow considers writing on ANY topic - it does not have to be overtly about disability - as long as the contributor is a person with a disability (defined broadly and encompassing mental, physical, emotional, and sensory disabilities). We seek to present the disability experience in all its diversity - in subject matter, form, and style, as well as in author demographics (although, for funding reasons writers from Maine get first priority, followed by those from other New England states).

What About Erotica?
Although we are not an erotica publication, we will consider work that explores sexuality, sensuality, and related themes. Stories of explicit sexual activity are less likely to be published than pieces in which sexuality is an aspect of the overall work. In other words, Breath & Shadow seeks to engage its readers' intellects.

Pay?
Ranges from $5 to $25.

Where Do I Get More Info?
Please read the current and past issues to gain a sense of our style and content. The main page is at www.abilitymaine.org/breath. Complete writers' guidelines can be found below and at a www.abilitymaine.org/breath/write.html. Questions should be directed to Sharon Wachsler at breathandshadow@aol.com.

Have Any Helpful Hints?
Yes! We receive far more poetry than any other genre. Thus, the competition in that category is extremely strict and we are particularly seeking prose.

If you have an idea for an article, interview, or profile you'd like to write, please e-mail a query to breathandshadow@aol.com. To send us drama, fiction, or creative nonfiction, follow our submission guidelines at http://www.abilitymaine.org/breath/write.html.

Also, send us material that is not appearing in nondisability and/or ableist culture. We love writing that explores some aspect of the disability experience that is ignored by mainstream media.

Please feel free to forward, post, and distribute this information.

Sincerely,

Sharon Wachsler
Editor, Breath & Shadow
www.abilitymaine.org/breath
breathandshadow@aol.com


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We are always looking for submissions! Please thoroughly read our "Submission Guidelines" below. If you have further questions, you may e-mail the Editor in Chief, Sharon Wachsler, at BreathandShadow@aol.com

Submission Guidelines

Disability
Breath & Shadow accepts work only from people with disabilities. We use the term "disability" broadly to encompass anyone with a physical, mental, emotional, cognitive, or sensory impairment that significantly affects one or more major life functions.

We know that friends, family members, and care providers of people with disabilities also have important things to say about their experience of disability. However, Breath & Shadow is a forum for people with disabilities to speak for ourselves. We hope that our allies will support this endeavor.

Geography
We strongly encourage writers from Maine to submit. Writing from the other New England states is also especially welcome. While we do invite and accept work from writers from all areas of the United States and internationally, authors from Maine and New England get first priority.

Age
We accept writing from people of all ages, from children to seniors. We especially encourage youth to submit their work to Breath & Shadow. Young writers (21 and under) should include their age on their submission so we can judge their contribution appropriately. In some cases, mentoring and/or writing and editing assistance may be available to young writers.

Writing Guidelines

Breath & Shadow needs your writing! Please note: We accept writing on any topic for poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and drama; these pieces do not have to be "about" disability. However nonfiction, academic, and similar articles (profiles, interviews, opinion pieces) do have to relate to disability in some way.

Breath & Shadow seeks writing in the categories listed below. For all forms, please see the sections on "Notes and Tips," "Manuscript Preparation," "How to Send Your Work to Breath & Shadow," and "Timelines, Compensation, and Contracts" for further details.

Poetry: Any style, any subject matter. Traditional forms (couplets, sestinas, villanelles, haiku, sonnets) are welcomed, as are open, contemporary, or nontraditional forms (including rap and slam). Maximum of three poems per submission or up to 200 lines.

Fiction: Any genre, any subject matter, including, but not limited to, "non-genre"/realism, magical realism, fantasy, mystery, science fiction, slipstream, suspense, experimental, and humor. 3000-word maximum.

Creative Nonfiction: Any subject matter, any style. Can include personal essays or memoirs on specific moments or issues in the author's life. A 3000-word maximum is encouraged, although outstanding longer pieces (up to 5000 words) may be considered.

Drama: Any topic or style, from absurdist to realist to whodunit. One-person shows and performance art also accepted. 3000 words maximum, but shorter is better. You may send a ten-minute play, a monologue, or an excerpt from a full-length play. If you are submitting an excerpt, such as a set of scenes from a two-act play, please include material that sets up the segment, such as the cast of characters and set, or a synopsis of action up to that point.

Nonfiction: The nonfiction category is wide open. We are especially seeking

• interviews or profiles of artists or writers with disabilities, leaders in the disability rights movement, or other individuals or organizations relevant to disability culture;

• reviews of books, performances, art installations, or other art and culture venues relating to people with disabilities;

• insightful commentary on trends or issues facing the disability community, including discussions of disability culture and disability studies, or how mainstream/nondisabled culture portrays or affects people with disabilities. A 3000-word maximum is encouraged, although longer pieces (up to 5000 words) will be considered. If you have an idea for a nonfiction article, we encourage you to query us before you write it.

Notes and Tips

• Keep in mind our name and focus: breath and shadow. We're particularly seeking work that speaks to living, beingness, inspiration, imagination, spirit, expiration, endings, movement of time, shadow sides, hiddenness, mystery, darkness, and casting new light on your subject.

• Send us material that is not appearing in nondisability and/or ableist culture. We love poetry, fiction, drama, and creative nonfiction that explores some aspect of the disability experience that is ignored by the mainstream.

• If your work is angry, hilarious, thought-provoking, offbeat, sensuous, revealing, luscious, controversial, poignant, insightful, sexy, quirky, or confounding, we want to see it. We want poetry that engages our emotions, fiction with memorable characters, drama that is surprising, and articles that engage our intellects. For Breath & Shadow, no subjects are taboo; no topic is off-limits (except those discussed below).

• Breath & Shadow will not publish any work that we deem ableist, sexist, racist, classist, ageist, sizeist, heterosexist, transphobic, exploitative of children, or in any other way exploitative, prejudiced, or offensive to specific groups of people, including slurs based on national origin or religion.

• Here are some other forms of writing we are not likely to publish:

- Stories of "inspiration" that focus primarily on people "overcoming" their disabilities or showing "courage" simply by existing with their disability.

- Singsongy rhyming "Hallmark-card"-like poems, or sugary poems or stories with obvious "morals."

- Medical articles.

- Stories about cures or miracle treatments.

Timelines, Compensation, and Contracts

• Please remember that we receive more submissions than we can publish. And not every piece of writing — even very good work — will be right for Breath & Shadow. If your work is not accepted the first time, don't give up. Keep writing! And try again.

• We will try to get back to you as soon as possible, however, we ask for your patience. We are busy and disabled, too. Please allow up to three or more months for a response. We regret that we cannot provide feedback or editorial suggestions on work we do not accept.

• Payment is upon publication. The pay scale is $5 - $15 for poetry, $15 - $25 for fiction, and $15 - $25 for nonfiction. In the future, as the journal grows, we hope to be able to pay more. In addition to publication and payment, Breath & Shadow will post links to contributors' work on other sites and to their Web site or e-mail address.

• Once your work has been accepted, we will e-mail you a contract for you to sign and mail back. Breath & Shadow asks for nonexclusive rights for one-time electronic publication and ongoing electronic archival publication.

Manuscript Preparation

• Please edit, spell-check, and proofread your manuscript as thoroughly as possible before you send it. (If this is not your strong point, find a friend to help.) If your work has tremendous promise, great appeal, or showcases an underrepresented viewpoint — especially for new writers and youth — we may be willing to work with you to get your piece up to publishable standards. However, our time and energy is limited, so we cannot promise this for most submissions.

• Please send only finished work — this means final drafts. Do not send first or second drafts. Wait to send your submission until you have worked on it and are sure it is as good as it can be. After you have sent a submission, do not send a revision or a "new, proofread" version of the same submission. We receive hundreds of submissions and we cannot keep track of more than one copy of a given piece. Subsequent copies of the same revision will be deleted. If we want a revision of your work, we will ask you for it.

• Fiction, poetry, and drama submissions do not have to specifically mention or be "about" disability; we believe that the author's experience of disability — her/his "disability sensibility" — will come through in the work, regardless of its subject. This is also true for certain types of creative nonfiction. Obviously, for commentary, reviews, interviews, and the like, the disability angle is central.

• Previously published work is accepted. Indicate the name and date of its first publication and that you are the copyright owner. Simultaneously submitted work is not accepted.

How to Send Your Work to Breath & Shadow

• All submissions should be sent to breathandshadow@aol.com.

• Copy and PASTE your submission into the BODY (message part) of the e-mail. Attachments will NOT be read.

• Send only one submission per e-mail, except in the case of poetry. (For poetry, paste up to 3 poems in the same e-mail; make sure that they each have a title and are obviously separated from each other.)

• In the subject line of your e-mail, write "Submission," then your name, the type of submission (poetry, short story, book review, etc.), and the title of the work. For example: Submission, Joe Writer, humor essay, "Ostomy Etiquette." For poetry submissions simply list the number of poems you are sending, not their titles. Example: Submission, Josephine Poetess, poems, 3.

• In addition to your story, article, or poem, please include the following in your e-mail:

- your name;

- a back-up e-mail address (if you have one);

- your phone number;

- your mailing address;

- if you are 21 or under, tell us your age; and

- a biography of 30-50 words. This is anything you want readers to know about you and may include previous publications, your Web sites, and your e-mail address. If your manuscript does not discuss your disability, please indicate something about your disability in your bio.

• Rules for formatting your submission. If you are sending by AOL, simply format as you normally would, with bold, italics, etc. If you are not an AOL member, we STRONGLY PREFER submissions sent in PLAIN TEXT. To indicate formatting use _underlines_ around words to be italicized and *asterisks* around words to be bolded. Single space your manuscript. Please make sure to use double carriage returns between paragraphs or stanzas. If you have other formatting needs, please include an explanatory note in your e-mail. If you absolutely must send your submission in HTML (if your ISP makes it impossible to send text any other way), we will do our best to slog through the electronic noise.

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Eternally Erotic ... the new planned eBook from
www.eternallyerotic.com
Submissions called for until the end of April.
Check www.logical-lust.com/Submit.html
for guidelines and payment details.

Logical-Lust will be powering a simple website called Eternally Erotic (www.eternallyerotic.com) who's sole purpose will be the sale of secure erotic e-books which will be published by Logical-Lust. The intention is to feature anthologies, author collections, and novels/novellas covering as many aspects and areas of erotica and erotic poetry that will be feasable.

To begin with will be the 'Eternally Erotic Anthologies,' a series of genre specific anthologies of around twenty stories per book, each story between 2,500 and 4,000 words long. This call is for the for first of these, entitled simply; 'Eternally Erotic.'

Guidelines; I seek powerfully sensual short stories of between 2,500 and 4,000 words. Original, unpublished works only, please. NO EXCEPTIONS as the e-book will be advertised as having content that cannot be/has not been seen anywhere else. I also want to make it clear that for this particular anthology I don't need any BDSM, noir or otherwise extreme, or poetry. Make your stories strong in the senses and erotic in the experiences.

Submissions must ONLY be in the form of a RTF (rich text file) and attached to an email that contains your full authors bio and a declaration that the material is original, unpublished, and that you own the copyright. Send your email, entitled 'Eternally Erotic,' to submissions@logical-lust.com. Any deviation from this will result in the submission being ignored or deleted. The deadline for submissions is 30th April 2004. The aim is to have this first e-book on sale by the end of June 2004.

Payment; For this first anthology it will be in the form of royalties from each sale and up to 5 downloadable copies of the e-book.

Rights; Logical-Lust will retain first publishing rights, which will be exclusive for a period of one year from date of publishing. After this period of time each author is then free to grant secondary publishing rights with the condition that the anthology is cited as the primary source of the material.

Once published, the e-books will remain on sale with no maximum time period set. It will be sold through both eternallyerotic.com and logical-lust.com, and other sources that may become available, or viable.

I make myself open to any enquires about anything to do with the above. Simply email me at captivatex@aol.com if you have any questions at all.

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Writing about sex...

like most things is a matter

of the right detail. Avoid

getting lost in lists

of parts, in colors

and secretions. From such a mess

the best you can hope for

is laughter. Though that's not

disaster. Sex is a kind

of comedy, where lovers must,

in the final act, discover

just how their wires

cross, where the action

tangles. Next there is the sense

of sound: how the vowels round

in the mouth, how the breath

quickens, how the lines build

the push and rush, the pause, the sweet

anticipation. This is harder

than you'd think, and more prone

to error. It may be better

to skirt the central matter

and dwell in the tenderness

of suggestion. A marriage

is built in bed, but must the bed

be mentioned? Better the kitchen:

the running water, the melting butter,

the softening onion giving itself

to the stew.

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Have any thoughts on something you've seen in the newsletter? Send 'em to me at katy@katyterrega.com

J. O'Bryan writes...

I was reading the last issue and realized I'd never wrote to say all the wonderful tips I've gotten from here & sex-writer.com (gotta figure out a way to afford another subscription)...

Looking in my "author stuff" txt file, I found these credits, thanks in part to Katy...

"Elsa's Fist" published under pen name "J. O'Bryan".
Published by Kinkygurl.com.
http://www.kinkygurl.com/nuke/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=42

"Getting to Perfect" published under the pen name "J. O'Bryan".
Published by Kinkygurl.com.
http://www.kinkygurl.com/nuke/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=46

"Darkly" published under the pen name "Jamie Kane".
Published by Abby's Realm.
http://www.abbys-realm.com/

"Silk Bed" published under the pen name "Jamie Kane".
Published by Abby's Realm.
http://www.abbys-realm.com/

"Electrical Tape" published under the pen name "J. O'Bryan".
Published by Kinkygurl.com

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One of our readers wrote...

Alien Skin has accepted a piece of SF flash fiction called Never Changes, due for the May issue.

www.emphasisonmoms.com now runs a bi monthly column of mine dealing with the media.

Editor's note: I somehow managed to lose the contact info for the aforementioned reader, so if you want your name in the newsletter next issue, just email me at katy@katyterrega.com

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Congrats! If you sent me your Goings On and I missed it, just let me know and I'll get it out asap. And if I didn't use your name with your Goings On it's because I wasn't sure you wanted it printed. Let me know if you'd like me to do so...

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Check out my column at http://www.absolutewrite.com/ on - what else?! - writing porn. This week I wrote an essay called "Writer's Block? Bah!" where I talk about how I don't believe in writer's block. You can see it here - http://www.absolutewrite.com/specialty_writing/porn_101.htm

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Send me your questions! I'll answer the most common ones here, and if I don't know the answer, I'll do my best to find a pro who does. (Of course, failing that, I'll ask y'all for help...)

Send Me Your Articles And Ideas!

I'm looking for essays and articles that will inspire and/or instruct other porn and erotica writers. These could include: success stories, how to break into certain markets, unique views on the genre, etc.

For full guidelines see Guidelines