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ATTENTION: ARTS WRITERS WANTED SUBMISSION GUIDELINES & QUICK MANIFESTO - Fall, 2004 PAW Print is going into its sixth issue. The deadline for submission is November 23 for the final draft. Make sure you give your rough draft by November 18. Send us your art, theatre or music reviews, society columns, press releases, spotlights on actors, musicians, playwrights, directors, politicians, local firebrands, painters, sculptors, authors, abstract artists, realist painters, singers, craftspeople, folk musicians, jazz musicians, film makers, poets, architects, novelists, performance artists, mimes, galleries, concert halls, theatres, sculpture gardens, coffee houses and bars, museums and concerts, folk fests and jazz fests, play festivals and poetry slams. If you need help developing a story, or getting in touch with a personality, please let us know. We also have tons of other people's press releases, if you need story ideas. Many thanks to those of you who have already contacted us. PAW Print is a new, small, free, monthly newspaper which circulates to 2,000 centers of artistic and cultural importance within the Philadelphia metropolitan statistical area. It focuses on the artistic process and the cultural character of local artists, cultural and artistic institutions whose relevance is invaluable in a region whose residents too often overlook the vitality and rarity of its painters, playwrights, sculptors, musicians, poets, dancers and other creators. Persons whose creative individuality has long been subordinated to the glut of spectator sports, urban/suburban sprawl and society's overriding impetus to subdue the creative spirit with the banality of wage serfdom, get their amnesty in the pages of PAW Print. Philadelphia Writers, which publishes PAW Print, collects authors to compose feature stories about the everyday humans who sustain Art and Culture in Philadelphia. The artist who works a day job or the established master, whose examples inspire Philadelphians, are our subjects. Whether she is a resident playwright, is a wealthy painter or is a graduate student who lives in her parents' basement while putting together her first poetry reading group, the Philadelphia artist is more worthy of news coverage than an overpaid quarterback or politician. The artist, who has seldom gained the help of the mainstream press, today gets his spotlight in our publication. Philadelphia Writers knows that the mainstream press has too often ignored Philadelphia's artists. The press has granted endless coverage to events happening at the Kimmel Center, the Franklin Institute and the Spectrum. We are not looking to revolutionize the mainstream press, because we realize that Philadelphia must take its place among the other cities whose Lincoln Centers and Hollywood Bowls are hives for professional artists and the reporters who swarm there. We are, however, providing a long-awaited alternative to the mainstream press by covering the people at the "sideline" theatres, galleries and music halls that are considered marginal by most media. We also cover the Kimmel Center, but spotlighting it is not our reason for living, don'tchaknow. Submissions ought to be 500 to 1,500 words. Interviews with artists, dramaturgs, musicians, museum or gallery directors, community leaders, politicians, concert hall owners, promoters, stage directors, family members of artists--- anybody, are encouraged because quotes are what separates a feature story from a column. We anticipate that your story will have a minimum of three quotes or will cite the quotes of three persons who have been interviewed. Columns, Op-Ed pieces and Reviews are also encouraged. The newspaper is published every month. Your article will appear in PAW Print and on this website. The deadline for the next print issue is November 23rd. If you are looking for a simple, quick, publishing credit and can write arts features, Philadelphia Writers is an easy laurel to wear. If you are starting your writing career again, or are trying to keep yourself alive, PAW Print is a good newspaper to know. If you are a student, exploring writing as a career, this is an easy and sincere way of developing your hooks. If you are a seasoned journalist, you will find yourself in the company of other outstanding authors while honing your skills. If you are anybody--- anybody at all, who is interested in artists and can write arts features, this is how to help lift Philadelphia out of its sports, game-day malaise and strengthen it as a city of philosophers and geniuses. In addition to your arts reviews, please over your restaurant reviews, your martial arts events features, a cartoon, your lifestyle pieces . . . just get them here! The arts writing is many steps above what is found in the major newspapers. Our intention is to make our writers recognized for their intelligence, skill, hipness and labor. We exist as a business registered with the state of Pennsylvania in order to sell the writer and not to sell advertisements--- the ads that we sell merely keep us breathing. When we began last year, we existed as the publishers of flyers; the writers' stories had been printed on card stock sheets of 8.5" x 11" paper and circulated to the same venues that the magazine would later reach. Soon, PAW Print became the collation of several 11" x 17" sheets of matte paper, folded to create an 8.5" x 11" saddle-stitched, black and white booklet. Today, we are a 24-page, 11" x 13" tabloid, an arts newspaper that is every bit as important as the Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily News and the City Paper for its arts news content. We have never provided a cosmetic characteristic of The Atlantic Monthly, or office space like the Hearst Group. But just wait until you read our magazine. We provide a real publishing credit when you need one. We publish anything from jazz music reviews to arts and crafts features. Getting the idea now? We work to provide a "life" for your story beyond its appearance in PAW Print. Upon the author's request, Philadelphia Writers will act as a "writer's agent." We will suggest your arts features to editors of the mainstream periodicals, such as the Philadelphia Inquirer, The City Paper, The Metro Paper, Philadelphia Style, the suburban papers and other journals which you may also mention. And if "suggest" doesn't work, we'll push a bit. There's no charge to you for this. PAW Print stays alive by selling advertisements and your superb writing has helped to keep the well filled, so, we'll help you keep your career going by nudging the beast. The future publishing rights of each article published in PAW Print are not possessed by this publication, but are reserved exclusively to the authors. The reprinting, reproduction or retransmission of the articles without the prior consent of the authors is strictly prohibited. Philadelphia Writers does not pay for stories. There is no charge either to submit, or, to be published. Send your material via either of the below contact methods. If you want your hardcopies returned to you, please provide SASE. And if you can't write anything now, please send along your story ideas, suggestions, press releases, etc.. A brief description of yourself and/or your career coupled with any story submission is encouraged. We can't resist reading you!
P.W.'s readers need YOU! | Publishers need YOU! | Submit STORIES to: Tel: (267) 252-6842 | Fax: (775) 258-6869 | submissions@philadelphiawriters.com
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