1) YOU DON’T HAVE A CLUE: MYSTERY FOR TEENS
Editor, Sarah Cortez and Arte Público Press, the world’s largest publisher of U.S. Hispanic voices, will bring together today’s most exciting Latino/a fiction writers in an anthology of original mystery fiction for the YA reader. This volume, tentatively entitled “You Don’t Have A Clue,” will feature all types of mystery short stories. There will be stories guaranteed to pull in the reluctant reader and stories to delight the high school student gearing up for admissions tests. A Teacher’s Guide will facilitate classroom use by teachers and library media specialists.
Join us in creating the first anthology of edgy, fast-paced mystery fiction written by Latino/a authors for high school students.
Nuts and Bolts
Word Count: Up to 6,000
Format: Standard (double-spaced, one-inch margins, numbered pages)
Unpublished: This includes both print and online
Simultaneous Submission: No
Compensation: Yes
Language: English
Deadline: March 31, 2010
Electronic Submission: No
Bio: One paragraph which includes your publishing history and your ethnic heritage
Mail a hard copy of your submission to:
Sarah Cortez P.O. Box 980579 Houston, TX 77098-0579Please include the following info with your submission: mailing address, email address, two contact phone numbers.
Note: your submission will not be returned unless an SASE with sufficient postage is provided. Unreturned copies will be shredded and recycled. You will be notified by email if your submission is accepted or rejected.
If you have any questions, please send an email to cortez.sarah@gmail.com.
I hope you’ll join me in creating a unique volume of excellent fiction for our young people!
Sarah Cortez is the award-winning writer and editor of Windows into My World: Latino Youth Write Their Lives (Arte Público Press, 2007), Hit List: The Best of Latino Mystery (Arte Público Press, 2009), and Indian Country Noir (Akashic Books, forthcoming). Her debut volume of poetry, How to Undress A Cop (Arte Público Press, 2000) contains the poems winning her the PEN Texas Literary Award in Poetry. She lives and works in Houston, Texas as a full-time editor, writer, and teacher of creative writing.
