Cross & Quill—The Christian Writers Newsletter serves an audience of writers, speakers, editors, conference directors, group leaders, researchers, and agents involved in the Christian publishing industry. Please keep that in mind when submitting. Need more nuts and bolts (this is how to write it) articles. Rarely use personal experiences except for Writing Rainbows!

Our purpose is to inform, instruct, encourage, and equip Christians in publishing to produce writing of the highest biblical and professional standards.

OUR NEEDS ARE AS FOLLOWS:

Meet the Pro: Assigned. Our front page features a member of the CWFI Family and their publishing accomplishments.

This Side of the Desk: Written in-house.

Writing Rainbows!: 500 to 600 word devotional thought including Scripture and prayer that comes from your writing experience. Give Bible translation. Immediate need for these right now.

Editor's Soapbox: Assigned. Dave Fessenden, Contributing Editor.

Writers Helping Writers: 200 to 800 words. More instructional and how-to articles, fewer personal experiences. Need articles directed to the veteran as well as the beginning writer.

Writing Internationally: 200 to 800 word articles exploring the unique challenges that come with writing for readers in other cultures such as content, expression, language, money exchange, and other issues. We especially encourage writers outside North America to educate us on these issues and others we have not mentioned here.

Tots, Teens & InBetweens: 200 to 800 word how-to and informational articles on writing for children, teenagers, and young adults. Special need for these right now.

Fabulous Fiction: 200-800 word articles on any aspect of writing fiction. Also profiles of fiction editors or successful fiction writers. Photos of editor or author improves chance of acceptance. Special need for these right now.

The Merry Heart: 200-800 word articles on how to write and market humor.

Editor's RoundTable: 200 to 800 word interviews with editors on current needs of the publication or publishing house. Ask questions that help writers understand the joys, frustrations, and challenges of editorial work. Find out what the editor has often wanted to tell writers to make the editor's and the writer's jobs easier, more productive, and more profitable. Professional quality B&W glossy of editor improves chances of acceptance.

ComputerWise: Assigned. Kay Hall, Contributing Editor.

BusinessWise: 200 to 800 how-to and informational articles on the business side of writing such as tax information, recordkeeping, and other related topics.

MarketWise: 200-800 word articles or fillers on effective ways to market manuscripts.

LegalEase: 200 to 800 words on various legalities in the writing profession: income taxes, contracts (book, agent, self-publisher, POD publisher), copyright, etc.

Connecting Points: 200 to 800 word how-to's and informational articles on leading and attending writers groups. Especially want articles on how to critique various kinds of writing such as nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and others. Also program ideas. We encourage writers international writers to explain the challenges of organizing, finding, and operating writers groups outside North America.

The Conference Circuit: Organizing and operating writers workshops and conferences—successes and learning experiences. 500-600 words.  Also profiles and personal experiences at Christian writers conferences. State availability of photos.

Poetry: 1 to 8 line poems on helpful and inspirational about writers or the craft of writing. Limit 3 per submission.

Fillers: 25 to 100 word helpful hints, newsbreaks, tips, cartoons. Book and other product reviews for and about writers, editors, and publishers, 100 to 300 words. Special need for these right now.

 

Current Needs

Cross & Quill has an immediate need for 200-800 word articles on fiction writing, writing for young readers, and devotionals (Writing Rainbows!). Also fillers to 100 words on almost any writing topic. Submit them online to CQArticles@cwfi-online.org or CQArticles@aol.com. Or mail them to our address below. Honorarium + 3 contributors copies paid on publication based on the need for editing.

Submissions: Prefers complete manuscript. No simultaneous submissions. Please paste your article into an email form. Due to security concerns, we do not download attached files. All email submissions should be addressed to CQArticles@cwfi-online.org or CQArticles@aol.com. Articles submitted to any other address will not be acknowledged.

Rights: Buys first or reprint rights. If manuscript is a reprint, state when and where the piece has been used.

Payment: Honorarium on publication + 3 contributors copies.

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All email submissions go to either CQArticles@cwfi-online.org or CQArticles@aol.com. Submissions to any other address will not be acknowledged.

Postal submissions not accompanied by a Self-Addressed-Stamped-Envelope (SASE) will not be acknowledged or returned.

Editor/ Publisher: Sandy Brooks
c/o Christian Writers Fellowship International
1624 Jefferson Davis Rd.
Clinton, SC 29325-6401
(864) 697-6035 between 9am and 5pm Eastern Time.

Online Addresses:
CWFI@cwfi-online.org
sandybrooks@cwfi-online.org
 

Web Address:
http://www.cwfi-online.org

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