and is in the market for stories and articles of any subjects that are of interest to live, active boys. Stories may be serious, humorous, practical, or full of adventure, and must be clean and of high moral tone, but not goody-goody. An occasional serial of from four to six chapters is used, and good photographs with accompanying descriptions are wanted. Short, snappy, up-to-date articles and brief paragraphs of a serious nature are also used. The Double Dealer is a new, independent, monthly magazine to be published in New Orleans, beginning January 1. The editor is looking for short stories, verse, and serious essays on current topics. The general tone of the work must be in a free, light-hearted vein. Nothing of an obviously sentimental nature, nor with the old copy-book moral is wanted. Payment is made upon acceptance. Address communications to the Double Dealer, 204 Baronne street, New Orleans, Louisiana. The Rockett Film Corporation is in the market for original screen stories. Complete book manuscripts, short stories with feature possibilities, and extended synopses will be given sympathetic reading, and complete scenarios will be considered if accompanied by extended synopses. While all manuscripts will be considered, it is desired that only experienced writers submit scripts. Mr. Rockett, president of the Corporation, says that any writer familiar with motion pictures will know whether he has a worthwhile idea and whether he has the cleverness to set it forth in a story of a working script, and if he is not sure on both these points, it is useless to offer a script. Mr. Rockett adds that there are not enough well known authors in the world to supply the demand for stories, even if all stories were screenable which they are not. The writer who writes with one eye on the magazine and the other on the movies, he says, is in a fair way to fall between two stools, and this sort of writing, if persisted in, will result in a sort of hybrid literature, neither readable nor screenable. The Rockett Company desires to encourage original writers for the general good of the motion-picture industry, and is prepared to pay for acceptable stories as high prices as those paid for published books and stories. The only subjects barred are religious, social, and political propaganda. Scripts will be read without delay, and should be addressed: Editor, Rockett Film Corporation, 229 Markham Building, Hollywood, Calif. The World Outlook has been absorbed by the Christian Herald, Bible House, New York, and was merged in that publication with the issue for October 30. Herbert Hungerford is no longer the editor of the Boys' Magazine (Smethport, Penn.), having resigned the position to devote all his time to the American News Trade Journal (New York ). The title of Hill's Golden Rule has been changed to the Golden Rule (Chicago ). New Numbers is the title of a new poetry magazine, published at St. Paul, Minn. Hall Alexander is the editor. Strongfort's Monthly (Newark, N. J.) has been temporarily suspended, owing to the difficulty of securing a supply of paper stock. The Theatre World has been merged with the Dramatic Mirror (New York). Motorcraft (San Francisco) has temporarily suspended publication. The title of the Rally, the girl scouts' magazine, has been changed to the American Girl (New York). Tail Spins, an aviation magazine published in Chicago, has temporarily suspended publi cation. THE WRITER has received a letter from Campbell Marvin & Company, 60 East Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, saying that Over Here has not been published in Chicago since March. It is now published at Minneapolis, under the name of the Over Here Digest, but no longer solicits material for publication. Campbell Marvin & Company are holding about 200 pieces of mail from contributors who failed to enclose return postage, and would be glad to have the owners send for them. The Woman's Press (Chicago) is no longer published. The Constitution (Albany, N. Y.), which was started as a weekly last February, has suspended publication. Field and Farm, which has been published in Denver for thirty-five years by Lucius M. Wilcox, has been bought by Senator Arthur Capper and will become one of the Capper Farm papers. Mr. Wilcox will continue with the paper in an editorial capacity, and the paper hereafter will be issued twice a month instead of weekly. Advertising and Selling (New York), the weekly magazine of marketing, has been bought by J. M. Hopkins, until lately general manager of Printer's Ink, and for twelve years with that publication. The following publications have discontinued publication: Oil & Mining Review, the Poultry Review, the Thinkers' World, and the Shoppers' Guide. Novels competing for the £500 prize offer by John Long, Ltd., 12 Norris street, Haymarket, London, S. W., 1, England, must reach the publishers not later than December 31. They must be typewritten on one side of the paper, and must bear the full name and address of the author on the title-page, as well as the word " Competition." The title must be repeated on the opening page of the novel, but the author's name must not appear there. The word "Competition" must also be placed on the left-hand side of the wrapper at the top, but nothing else except the publishers' name and address must appear on the wrapper. A Form of Entry will be supplied upon request, and this must be mailed at the same time that the novel is sent, and must contain stamps or money order of sufficient value to pay return postage. Novels must be fully prepaid, and only first novels in English, which have not been published in any form whatsoever, may be submitted. No competitor may submit more than two novels, and novels written in collaboration are ineligible. Novels must not exceed 100,000 words, and the publishers prefer novels of from 70,000 Edwin Franko Goldman, conductor of the Goldman Concert Band, again offers a prize of $250 for the best composition for a band by an American composer. The composition may be in the form of an overture, grand march, suite in three short movements, or a symphonic poem. Besides receiving the prize, the winning composition will be published by one of the foremost publishing houses in America. All manuscripts must be submitted in score form by April 15, 1921. Composers who desire to submit compositions in the prize contest are requested to communicate with Edwin Franko Goldman, 202 Riverside Drive, New York City, in order to secure definite information regarding rules and regulations of the contest. Poetry (Chicago) has awarded the Helen Haire Levinson prize of $200 for a poem or group of poems by a citizen of the United States to Wallace Stevens, of Hartford, Conn., for his group of poems, "Pecksniffiana," published in the October, 1919, number of the magazine. The prize of $100 for a poem or group of poems without distinction of nationality is awarded to Edna St. Vincent Millay, of New York, for her poem, "The Beanstalk," published in the May number. The prize of $100 offered by Mrs. Edgar Speyer for good work by a young poet is awarded to Maurice Lesemann, of Chicagɔ, for his poem, "A Man Walks in the Wind," published in the April number. Prize offers still open: Prizes in Letters offered by the Columbia University School of Journalism: For the best American novel published this year, $1,000; for the best play performed in New York, $1,000; for the best book of the year on United States history, $1,000; for the best American biography, $1,000. Also, Prizes in Journalism, amounting to $3,500 and a $500-medal, and three traveling scholarships having a value of $1,500 each. All offered annually under the terms of the will of Joseph Pulitzer. Particulars in April WRITER. London Bookman prize of $1,000 for the best first novel submitted by December, 1920. Particulars in August WRITER. Prizes of $5,000, $2,500, $1,000, and $500, and twenty prizes of $250 each for the best twenty-four short stories published by the Photoplay Magazine during 1921. Particulars in August WRITER. Hart, Schaffner, & Marx prizes of $1,000, $500, $300. and $200 for the four best studies in the economic field submitted by June 21, 1921. Particulars in August WRITER. Prize of £500 offered by John Long, the London publisher, for a best first novel. success Prize of $500, and five prizes of $100 each, offered by the True Story Magazine for the best stories published between November, 1920, and March, 1921. Particulars in September WRITER. Berkshire Music Colony, Inc. prize of $1,000 for the best trio for piano, violin and 'cello, submitted before August 1, 1921. Particulars in September WRITER. Etude prize offer of two sets of prizes of $15, $10, and $5, to children and young people for the best musical compositions offered before January 1, 1921. Particulars in September WRITER. in 1920. O. Henry Memorial Prizes of $500 and $250 offered by the Society of Arts and Sciences, for the best short stories published in America Particulars in June WRITER. Second Physical Culture six-months' photo prize contest $100 for the best photograph received before May, 1921, and five dollars for the best photograph each month. Particulars in April WRITER. Two prizes, each of $200, offered by the American Historical Association the Justin Winsor prize for a monograph on American history, and the Herbert Baxter Adams prize for a monograph on the history of the Eastern Hemisphere. Particulars in April WRITER. Prize of $2,000 offered by the American Chamber of Commerce in Paris for the two best essays on "Tolerance in Economics, Religion, and Politics." Particulars in February WRITER. Prize of $2,000 for the best essay on "The Control of Foreign Relations of the United States : the Relative Rights, Duties, and Responsibilities of the President, of the Senate and the House, and of the Judiciary, in Theory and in Practice," offered by the American Philosophical Society. Competition to close December 31, 1920. Particulars in July WRITER. The Rose Mary Crawshaw Prize for English Literature, value to £100, offered annually by the British Academy. Particulars in May WRITER. Gratuity prize of £100 for the best reputed story published in 1920 by the London publisher, Herbert Jenkins. Particulars in October WRITER. Annual Hawthornden prize of £100 offered in England for the best work of imaginative literature in English prose or poetry by an author under forty years of age that is published during the previous twelve months. Two prizes offered by Poetry for the best work printed in the magazine in the twelve numbers ending with that for September - $200 for a poem or group of poems by a citizen of the United States, and $100 for a poem or group of poems by any author, without limitation. 44 Prize of $1,000 for a new air for the Yale song, Bright College Years," offered by the Yale class of 1899. Particulars in April WRITER. Monthly prizes offered by the Photo-Era (Boston) for photographs, in an advanced competition and a beginner's competition. Weekly prizes offered by the original short stories by women, published each day. Particulars in May WRITER. WRITERS OF THE DAY. Edna Clare Bryner, author of the story, The Life of Five Points," in the September Dial, was born in Tylersburg, Penn., and spent her childhood in the lumbering region described in the story. She was educated in the public schools of Pennsylvania and at Vassar College. After her graduation from college she entered the teaching field as principal of a consolidated school in the eastern sand country of North Carolina, miles from a railroad. The following year she exchanged the excitement of teaching fourteen subjects for a one-subject position in a city high school, and ended her teaching career by instituting in a state college for women a course in the study and writing of the short story. During the summer she did statistical work for the United States government in Washington, and some reform school work. She spent a year in eugenic study with a state hospital for the insane, which brought her back again into the educational field, this time as a member of the staff of the Division of Education of the Sage Foundation, in which capacity she co-operated in carrying on school and industry surveys and other educational research, in connection with which she published reports and articles. Her last "job" was directing a housing survey of selected blocks in New York city. Miss Bryner has always had a leaning toward fiction, having contributed to school and college magazines, and during the last year she has turned definitely to writing as a profession. She had a whimsical sketch, "A Feminist Baby," in the Dial for last February. 46 Charles M. Horton, whose story, Miguel Arrieta," appeared in Scribner's for October, was working as an engineer in Pittsburgh when it occurred to him that he ought to try for a Rhodes scholarship, and thinking competition would n't be as strong in western and southwestern institutions as in, say, Massachusetts, he entered the University of New Mexico. He did not win the scholarship, however, and obtained work riding, as he says, "with one Gonzales to learn the route, the language, and the sewing-machine game." It was his work as sewing-machine salesman that gave him the basis for the story in Scribner's. Mr. Horton is the author of a novel, "Bred of the Desert," published in 1915 by Harper & Bros.; has edited two technical journals; and has sold short stories to the Ladies' Home Journal, the Delineator, Smith's, the Popular Magazine, and, recently, a 60,000-word serial to the American Boy. He has also sold five articles to Collier's, of which only two have been printed. L. M. Hussey, who had a story, "The Family," in the September Century, and a novelette, "The Ashes of Illusion," in the September Smart Set, was born in Philadelphia, and was educated in medicine and chemistry. He devotes half of his day to writing, and the other half to scientific work. His first short story appeared in the Smart Set about four years ago, and since then Mr. was Margery Land May, whose novelette, "Her Promise," appeared in Breezy Stories for September, began writing when she eighteen, her first story, "The Good Woman," being published in the Parisienne. This story attracted the attention of H. L. Mencken of the Smart Set and he asked to see some of the writer's work, accepting half a dozen or more of her sketches. One of them, entitled Confessions," and beginning, "I hate my husband," created a riot in Mrs. May's home town, and she wrote an article on these experiences, called "Being a Writer in a Small Town" which, she says, has made her forever famous or infamous in a large portion of Louisiana and West Texas. Since that time she has had contributions in Town Topics, the Smart Set, the Green Book, the New York Morning Telegraph, the People's Home Journal, Smith's, the Woman's Weekly, the Club-Fellow, Young's Magazine, Chat, Live Stories, Snappy Stories, the Parisienne, and the Chicago Ledger, and she has had photoplays, By Right of Purchase," "The Beauty Market," and "Treasures on Earth," taken from published novelettes. Sidney Waldo, whose story, "Accessories After the Fact," was printed in Romance for September, began his first serious attempt to write short stories early this year. His first story, "Footprints in Water," was printed in the Detective Story Magazine for March 30, and in April Romance accepted a story, called "Fancies," which owing to the suspension of Romance will probably not appear for some time. He has also had a story accepted by Munsey's Magazine. Mr. Waldo has always wanted to write, but has never been able to find the time until recently. He was graduated from Harvard University in 1906, and has since been engaged in busi The prize of $100 offered by Mrs. Edgar Speyer for good work by a young poet is awarded to Maurice Lesemann, of Chicagɔ, for his poem, "A Man Walks in the Wind," published in the April number. Prize offers still open: Prizes in Letters offered by the Columbia University School of Journalism: For the best American novel published this year, $1,000; for the best play performed in New York, $1,000; for the best book of the year on United States history, $1,000; for the best American biography, $1,000. Also, Prizes in Journalism, amounting to $3,500 and a $500-medal, and three traveling scholarships having a value of $1,500 each. All offered annually under the terms of the will of Joseph Pulitzer. Particulars in April WRITER. London Bookman prize of $1,000 for the best first novel submitted by December, 1920. Particulars in August WRITER. Prizes of $5,000, $2,500, $1,000, and $500, and twenty prizes of $250 each for the best twenty-four short stories published by the Photoplay Magazine during 1921. Particulars in August WRITER. Hart, Schaffner, & Marx prizes of $1,000, $500, $300, and $200 for the four best studies in the economic field submitted by June 21, 1921. Particulars in August WRITER. Prize of £500 offered by John Long, the London publisher, for a best first novel. Prize of $500, and five prizes of $100 each, offered by the True Story Magazine for the best success stories published between November, 1920, and March, 1921. Particulars in September WRITER. Berkshire Music Colony, Inc. prize of $1,000 for the best trio for piano, violin and 'cello, submitted before August 1, 1921. Particulars in September WRITER. Etude prize offer of two sets of prizes of $15, $10, and $5, to children and young people for the best musical compositions offered before January 1, 1921. Particulars in September WRITER. contest O. Henry Memorial Prizes of $500 and $250 offered by the Society of Arts and Sciences, for the best short stories published in America in 1920. Particulars in June WRiter. Second Physical Culture six-months' photo prize - $100 for the best photograph received before May, 1921, and five dollars for the best photograph each month. Particulars in April WRITER. Two prizes, each of $200, offered by the American Historical Association the Justin Winsor prize for a monograph on American history, and the Herbert Baxter Adams prize for a monograph on the history of the Eastern Hemisphere. Particulars in April WRITER. Prize of $2,000 offered by the American Chamber of Commerce in Paris for the two best essays on "Tolerance in Economics, Religion, and Politics." Particulars in February WRITER. Prize of $2,000 for the best essay on "The Control of Foreign Relations of the United States: the Relative Rights, Duties, and Responsibilities of the President, of the Senate and the House, and of the Judiciary, in Theory and in Practice," offered by the American Philosophical Society. Competition to close December 31, 1920. Particulars in July WRITER. The Rose Mary Crawshaw Prize for English Literature, value to £100, offered annually by the British Academy. Particulars in May WRITER. Gratuity prize of £100 for the best reputed story published in 1920 by the London publisher, Herbert Jenkins. Particulars in October WRITER. Annual Hawthornden prize of £100 offered in England for the best work of imaginative literature in English prose or poetry by an author under forty years of age that is published during the previous twelve months. Two prizes offered by Poetry for the best work printed in the magazine in the twelve numbers ending with that for September $200 for a poem or group of poems by a citizen of the United States, and $100 for a poem or group of poems by any author, without limitation. Prize of $1,000 for a new air for the Yale song, Bright College Years," offered by the Yale class of 1899. Particulars in April WRITER. Monthly prizes offered by the Photo-Era (Boston) for photographs, in an advanced competition and a beginner's competition. Weekly prizes offered by the Boston Post for original short stories by women, published each day. Particulars in May WRITER. Prizes of two dollars and one dollar offered monthly by Everygirl's Magazine, formerly Wohelo, (New York) for stories, short poems, and essays, written by Camp Fire girls. Particulars in October WRITER. The Boston Evening Record is paying one dollar each week day for a poem written by a Record reader. WRITERS OF THE DAY. Edna Clare Bryner, author of the story, "The Life of Five Points," in the September Dial, was born in Tylersburg, Penn., and spent her childhood in the lumbering region described in the story. She was educated in the public schools of Pennsylvania and at Vassar College. After her graduation from college she entered the teaching field as principal of a consolidated school in the eastern sand country of North Carolina, miles from a railroad. The following year she exchanged the excitement of teaching fourteen subjects for a one-subject position in a city high school, and ended her teaching career by instituting in a state college for women a course in the study and writing of the short story. During the summer she did statistical work for the United States government |