Peavey Submissions 

The Peavey is MWPA’s weekly, members-only newsletter. We welcome your submissions, and please follow the guidelines below. If you have questions, please direct them to peavey@mainewriters.org or call (207) 228-8263.

We love to help publicize your Maine-based literary events and news. Please help us achieve this by following the few simple guidelines below when submitting your events and news.

• EVENTS Please send your event listing pre-formatted* to match the format of the example listing below. Due to the volume of events we receive, we request event listings please be as concise as possible and include a link so interested readers can find more information. Please include the info in the body of your email (rather than as an attached document). Please mirror the format here:

THURSDAY, MAY 25 at 7 PM Jim Krosschell will read from his new essay collection One Man’s Maine at the Jesup Library in Bar Harbor. (*Please paste a link to your event here)   

• NEWS Please send NEWS blurbs of 25- to 100-words, and be sure to include a link that leads to more information.

• NEW BOOK RELEASE The Peavey does not include postings of new book releases. Rather, the MWPA sends out a monthly e-newsletter called Ex Libris Maine, which exclusively profiles recently released books by MWPA members. The newsletter is sent to a large group of recipients, including our entire MWPA membership and numerous literary organizations, bookstores, libraries, and media outlets. Inclusion in Ex Libris Maine is free for individual members submitting their own books.

• SCHEDULE The Peavey is published every Thursday morning. NEWS and EVENT listings must be submitted by the end of Tuesday to be considered. EVENTS are listed roughly two or three weeks in advance and will run in consecutive issues of the Peavey in the weeks proceeding the event—for example, a Peavey sent on the 7th of the month would include events from the 7th to the 14th, and the 14th to the 21st. 

• SEND Please send your news or event info to peavey@mainewriters.org.

• NOTE The Peavey is not able to include listings for fee-based writing workshops hosted by other organizations (unless the MWPA is a partner or collaborator); events such as plays with “suggested donations” may be considered.

(*We will make every effort to run event info that has not been pre-formatted but can neither guarantee it, nor take responsibility for any errors introduced during re-formatting.) 

We love to celebrate the successes of MWPAers, from publications to awards to fellowships and more. If you have news of your own to share, please write a sentence or two and include the particulars in an email and send it to peavey@mainewriters.org, and we'll include it in an upcoming Peavey. Member News does not run every week.

If you have a Maine-based call for submissions you would like us to list, please follow the basic format of the sample below and email it to  peavey@mainewriters.org, and we'll either include it in an upcoming Peavey or on our Calls for Submissions page. Please limit your announcement to 100 words at most. Here is the sample:

GOOSE RIVER PRESS 

Goose River Press is pleased to announce they are seeking selections of fine poetry, essays, and short stories (3,000 words or less—double-spaced) for the 18th annual Goose River Anthology, 2020. Book—to be released in the fall of 2020—will be beautifully produced with full color cover in paperback and a full color dust jacket in hard cover. Authors earn cash royalties. Reading fee is $1.00/page. GRP retains one-time publishing rights only. DEADLINE: MAY 15. 

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