Hunger Mountain, Young Adult & Children's--Submission Call

Calling Children’s Authors and Illustrators

2011 Submissions Needs for Hunger Mountain Young Adult and Children’s page.

The Hunger Mountain Children’s and YA page is now going to be rolling content, updating the site with new work every few weeks. We will still have themed issues. The next two issues themes are below.
*Also interested in sneak-peaks into new books coming out, deleted chapters from books, short stories, etc.* Hunger Mountain buys first world serial rights and upon publication, the rights revert back to the contributor. For sneak-peaks, publisher and rights department approval is needed.

May-Sept 2011

The Varying Shades of Shadows

We would love to see pieces that play with light and darkness (figuratively and literally), a fabulous piece with an unreliable narrator (or on the delicate balance of writing an unreliable narrator), or pieces where secondary characters are shaded so well that they not only support the main character but truly help flesh out the work. 

*Please note, I am looking to do more with illustrators and will be debuting a Inside the Illustrator’s Studio column—taking an inside look via photos at a WIP by an illustrator. We are featuring Don Tate in the column premiere.

Sept-December 2011

The Art (and Insanity) of Creativity

We will be looking for pieces to address: tapping in to your inner artist, what we do artistically outside of our writing/illustrating to keep creative, the joys and pitfalls of leading a creative life, can writing be taught?, the elusiveness of artistry, hitting the creative wall and breaking through, the sacrifices (time, sleep, television) we make to get the work done, etc. 

Along with our features, each issue we would like to include one or two essays for our regular columns:


The Flipside—two authors various take on one issue.
This Writer’s Life—essays on and about the writer’s life.
INKlings—essays on and about the illustrator’s life and/or techniques.
In Response—an essay adding to or commenting on the conversation from the prior HM issue.
The Toolbox—craft based essays on a variety of topics.
What My Last Book Taught Me—A short essay on what the author’s last book taught them.
New Work—fiction, poetry, short stories, opening chapters of WIP, etc. 

If you are a published author or have met me in person, you may email content or pitches for essays/articles to me at bahegedus at gmail.com. If you are a yet-to-be published writer, please submit using the Hunger Mountain online submissions manager. See here for details: http://www.hungermtn.org/submit/

Please feel free to share these submission needs with local SCWBIs and/or other writer organizations in your area. Thank you!

Visit the Hunger Mountain Young Adult and Children's Literature Archives.

• Alamo, Kobbie…Flying For Food (YA Fiction) (Spring 2010)
• Anderson, E. Kristin…Topography (poem) (Spring 2010)
• Anderson, E. Kristin…Grief at Lake Travis (poem) (Spring 2010)
• Anderson, E. Kristin…On a Hot Texas Sunday in Autumn (poem) (Spring 2010)
• Anderson, E. Kristin…The Pendulum and Its Shortcomings (poem) (Spring 2010)
• Anderson, Jessica Lee…Finding Bigfoot (MG Novel Excerpt) (Spring 2010)
• Angelella, J. R.…Alpha House (YA Fiction) (Summer 2009)
• Appelt, Kathi…Blurring the Lines (Winter 2009)
• Atkins, Jeannine…Scrap by Scrap: Turning History into Poems (Spring 2010)
• Auseon, Andrew…The Kid Stays in the Pictures(Summer 2009)
• Babich, Mordena…Beautiful Beast (MG fiction) (Summer 2009)
• Barton, Chris…I’ve Gotta (Not Just) Be Me (Spring 2010)
• Bauer, Marion Dane…Anything Is Possible. Everything Is Possible (Winter 2009)
• Bazzett, Michael…Marley Barbeau (MG Novel Excerpt) (Spring 2010)
• Brooks, Regina…Play by the Rules? (Winter 2009)
• Brosnan, Rosemary…Missing Norma (Winter 2009)
• Chikamatsu, Annie Donwerth…The Clearing (YA Flash Fiction) (Summer 2009)
• Clarke, Pauline…Jumping Rope (Poetry) (Summer 2009)
• Clarke, Pauline…Matching Game (Poetry) (Summer 2009)
• Clarke, Pauline…Darn (Poetry) (Summer 2009)
• Cupala, Holly…Tell Me a Secret (YA Novel Sneak Peek) (Spring 2010)
• Davis, Tanita…Reflected Faces (Spring 2010)
• Demas, Stefanie…Something From You (YA Fiction) (Spring 2010)
• Dionne, Erin…Contemporary Cinderella: Inner Changes and Transformation Make a Modern Princess (Winter 2009)
• Doering, Jennifer…Ping Pong Is Better Than Poetry Because… (poetry) (Summer 2009)
• Doering, Jennifer…Does Future Sound Like Future? (Poetry) (Summer 2009)
• Fagan, Deva…Proactive Princess: Re-Imagining the Fairy Tale (Winter 2009)
• Fink, Mark…The Summer I Got a Life (Winter 2009)
• Hegamin, Tonya Cherie…Over the Edge (MG fiction) (Summer 2009)
• Hegamin, Tonya Cherie …Baby Boxer (Poetry) (Winter 2009)
• Hegamin, Tonya Cherie…Vicarious Traumatization (Poetry) (Winter 2009)
• Hertenstein, Jane…Cloud of Witnesses (YA Novel Excerpt) (Spring 2010)
• Jahn-Clough, Lisa…So You Want to Write about Sex? (Winter 2009)
• Jones, Carrie…Hunting Bigfoot: Why I Write Fantasy (Summer 2009)
• Knowles, Jo…Helping Inmates Find Their Truth: Using Writing Prompts to Explore Personal Journeys (Spring 2010)
• Lewis, J. Patrick…Can Children’s Poetry Matter? (Winter 2009)
• Lurie, April…Organically Grown Thrillers (Spring 2010)
• Mazer, Anne…My Mother, the Writer (Winter 2009)
• Millward, Carol Larese…Star in the Middle (YA excerpt) (Winter 2009)
• Neri, G.…Wahoo! The Incredible Adventures of Chief Wahoo McDaniel: Wrestling Superstar (Summer 2009)
• Neri, G.…Creating The Book: How To Hook Urban (non)Readers (Summer 2009)
• Neri, G.…The Run (YA)(Winter 2009)
• Nuzum, K.A.…Damn it, Jim. I’m a Writer, Not a Paleontologist (Summer 2009)
• Nye, Naomi Shihab…Maximum Security (a poem) (Spring 2010)
• Paterson, Katherine…Fellow Travelers (Summer 2009)
• Patron, Susan…A Lucky Break (Summer 2009)
• Perkins, Mitali…Teens Do Judge a Book by the Cover (Spring 2010)
• Potter, Alicia…A Pretty Fortune? Publishers Make Over Their Lists With Timely “Cosme-Readers”: Humor (Summer 2009)
• Sorenson, Margo…Dark Corridor (YA Novel Excerpt) (Summer 2009)
• Spanos, Cheryl…Bones in the Cellar (YA/MG) (Spring 2010)
• Wiles, Deborah…Speaking Through the Veil (Winter 2009)
• Stein, David Ezra…The Making of Pouch (Winter 2009)
• Teplick, Anne…The Quieter We Become, the More We Are Able to Hear: Writing with Teens in a Psychiatric Hospital (Spring 2010)
• Williams-Garcia, Rita…Warning: Characters May Appear as They Are or Why I Write “Realistic” Fiction (Summer 2009)
• Wingate, Shoshanna…Dear Henry (YA novel excerpt) (Winter 2009)
• Wong, Janet S.…The Poet’s Process (Summer 2009)
• Wynne-Jones, Tim…The Uninvited (YA Novel Excerpt) (Summer 2009)
• Zarr, Sara…Hold On Loosely (Summer 2009)

Interviews

• Bransford, Nathan…Nathan Bransford, Literary Agent with Curtis Brown Ltd., in conversation with Hunger Mountain YA/Children’s Lit editor Bethany Hegedus (Spring 2010)
• Corcoran, Jill…Literary Agent Jill Corcoran in conversation with Hunger Mountain YA/Children’s Lit editor Bethany Hegedus (Summer 2009)
• LaReau, Kara…Flying Solo: Editor of Bluebird in conversation with Hunger Mountain YA/Children’s Lit editor Bethany Hegedus (Summer 2009)
• McGhee, Holly and Emily Van Beek of Pippin Properties…in conversation with Hunger Mountain editor Bethany Hegedus (Winter 2009)
• McVeigh, Mark…Literary Agent Mark McVeigh in conversation with Hunger Mountain YA/Children’s Lit editor Kekla Magoon (Summer 2009)
• Smith, Cynthia Leitich…New York Times Bestselling Author of Eternal in conversation with Hunger Mountain editor Bethany Hegedus (Winter 2009)

Thank you and I look forward to your submissions!