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The Manuscript Market

THIS information as to the present special needs of various
periodicals comes directly from the editors. Particulars
as to conditions of prize offers should be sought from those
offering the prizes. Before submitting manuscripts to any
periodical, writers should examine a copy of the magazine
in question. - MARGARET GORDON, Manuscript Market

Editor.

RAE D. HENKLE COMPANY, INC. - 45 Fourth avenue, New York, is a new firm to enter the general publishing field. Mr. Henkle says: "We have in preparation for early publication several titles, including fiction and non-fiction, and shall gradually expand this list. In fiction we are interested primarily in good, clean material with an American background romance, humor, adventure, or mystery. We are not interested in the erotic or phornographic. And, like every other publisher, we are looking for that young writer who really has something to say and the ability to say it well."

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SHORT STORIES - Garden City, N. Y., is in the market for all classes and all lengths of outdoors action fiction. At the present time Mr. Maule is especially eager for complete novels or long novelettes, containing from 40,000 to 60,000 words, with the scenes laid in the West, the North, the South Seas, or any other good thrilling outdoors background, as well as some mystery stories. He is always glad to see short stories with real plots, not exceeding 5,000 words, dealing with adven

ture, the outdoors, mystery, or sports in any place in the world.

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THE DELL PUBLISHING COMPANY -97 Fifth avenue, New York, will soon publish a magazine of detective fiction, to be called Crime Mysteries, with Alice Strope as editor. The magazine will use stories, of from 3,000 to 8,000 words; novelettes, containing approximately 25,000 words; and serials, containing from 36,000 to 80,000 words. Miss Strope is particularly interested in stories of the action type dealing with criminals and detectives, but she also wants human interest crook stories, humorous crook stories, and psychological crime stories. The crime element is essential, but Miss Strope adds that it is not necessary to have a detective in every story. THE YOUTH'S COMPANION-8 Arlington street, Boston, Mass., will continue to offer lively interest and a lively audience to young writers of particular promise. The Companion's preference is for plausible, possible, stimulating, and respectable stories, and this includes stories of adventure and mystery, as well as stories of home life.

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THE MICHELIN TIRE COMPANY - Milltown, N. J., is planning to issue a dealer's paper, printing, among other things, stories of successful Michelin dealers. The Company is now in the market for such stories, which should be accounts of "how it is done" rather than "how it should be done," and be of human interest. Stories of interest about users of Michelin tires and tubes, or about the products themselves, are also wanted, and pictures are wanted whenever they are obtainable.

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articles, practical suggestions, and photographs which will help the dealer sell radios. Scientific subjects are not wanted, but all material must deal with the radio, preferably with the radio and the home. Manuscripts must not exceed 1,500 words.

THE JUNIOR WORLD-2704 Pine street, St. Louis, Missouri, wants some good adventure or travel short stories and serials suited to boys and girls of from nine to twelve. THE RADIO MAN'S MAGAZINE — 248 West Fifty-third street, New York, wants short radio articles in which women play a big part. CLUES 799 Broadway, New York, at the present time especially wants detective and mystery novelettes, containing between 15,000 and 20,000 words. Such stories must be filled with a maximum amount of action and suspense, but must not contain anything weird or utterly improbable. Short stories should not exceed 5,000 words, and Mr. Happel is particularly desirous to obtain tales containing between 3,000 and 4,000 words.

WEST-Garden City, N. Y., is in the market for Western novels and Western short stories, also short fillers, not exceeding 500 words. The term West includes Western America from Panama to the North Pole. TRUE EXPERIENCES-1926 Broadway, New York, is in the market for short, pungent anecdotes, written in the first person, to be used under the general heading, "What has been your most amusing experience?" Jokes are not wanted; only human interest stories that emphasize the comedy element in lifepersonal adventures and experiences that can be described as comic, droll, amusing, lively, humorous, or mirth-provoking. The main requirements are that the stories must be interesting and evoke a smile, or, preferably, a laugh. Stories should contain from 100 to 500 words, and should be addressed to Life's Little Comedies Department, True Experiences. COLLEGE STORIES Room 410, 250 Park avenue, New York, is in the market for short

stories, novels, and articles stressing the romantic and human interest side of college life. The magazine uses no humor, but it does use verse and poetry that is exceptionally well done and deals with some phase of campus activity.

GLOBE 1 HOTOSBox 315, Bloomington, Box 315, Bloomington, Illinois, buys photographs, 5 x 7, or larger, of interesting scenes - not the sort of scenic views which publicity concerns get out animal photographs, and news pictures with pretty girls, if possible. Payment is made at the rate of from $1.50 to $3.00 for each photograph, on acceptance.

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TODAY'S HOUSEWIFE 18 East Eighteenth 18 East Eighteenth street, New York, now uses no fiction, but prints general articles pertaining to the home, a small amount of poetry, and material for such deparments as the Household, From One Housewife to Another, Beauty, Recipes, Mother and Child, and Money Making at Home.

THE EXPERIMENTER PUBLISHING COMPANY, publishers of Science and Invention, Radio News, the Radio Review, and Amazing Stories, has removed to 230 Fifth avenue, New York. The company announces a new weekly magazine, called the Radio Program Weekly, for which it wants fiction stories with a good radio background, providing themes of particular interest to radio "fans," which are not too technical.

THE WILL O' THE WISP Escanaba, Michiigan, is a new ultra-modernistic magazine, using realistic bits of life and modernistic poetry. No payment is made for manuscripts, but a sample copy will be mailed to prospective contributors.

SOUTHERN LIFE MAGAZINE- Biltmore, N. C., is chiefly a sort of booster for local in

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THE STANDARD BIBLE SCHOOL WORKER Box 5, Station N, Cincinnati, Ohio, has been succeeded by an annual which is distributed free, so that it is no longer in the market for manuscripts.

BETTER RADIO AND FLORAL HOME-227 West Main street, Springfield, Ohio, is a combination of the Floral Home Magazine and On the Air and Better Radio, formerly published in Chicago. Felix Anderson is editor of the magazine.

TAVERN TOPICS, formerly published by the Waldorf-Astoria Service Corporation, has been sold to the Nomad Publishing Company, and will be combined with the Nomad -150 Lafayette street, New York, beginning with the March issue.

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Prize Offers and Awards

THE PEOPLE'S POPULAR MONTHLY Des Moines, Iowa, offers a prize of $5,000 for the first American serial rights of the best story, containing from 60,000 to 80,000 words, and ten prizes of $500 each for the first American rights of ten best short stories, containing from 6,000 to 10,000 words. All stories must be clean and wholesome, and authors should bear in mind that the circulation of the magazine is centered in the smaller cities and towns and in the rural districts. The competition will close October 1, and a copy of the magazine will be sent to any author on request.

THE UNIVERSAL PICTURES CORPORATION 730 Fifth avenue, New York, announces the establishment of the Laemmle award, consisting of $5,000 in prizes $2,500, $1,000, $500, $200, and eight awards of $100 each-for the best practical, helpful, and constructive ideas and suggestions for the advancement of the quality and usefulness of moving pictures. There is no limitation as to the number or character of entries, which may have to do with production, mechanical appliances or methods in the studio, or in business procedure, or with stories. The contest is open to writers on newspapers, magazines, and trade journals, and the only requirement is that the idea or suggestion must first have appeared in a newspaper or a magazine. The clipping should be cut out, and sent, with an authentication of the fact that it was written by the contestant, with a letter, to Carl Laemmle, Laemmle Award, by December 31, 1927.

BOY'S LIFE - 200 Fifth avenue, New York, offers prizes of $100, $50, and six prizes of $25 each, in addition to payment at regular rates, for the best stories written by boys under twenty. Stories must not exceed 4,000 words, and the upper right-hand corner of the first page of each manuscript should have

the name of the writer, his address, age, grade in school, and information as to whether or not he is a Troop or Lone Scout, while on the last page must appear a certification by parent, guardian, teacher, or scout-master that the story is original and entirely the work of the contestant. The contest will close September 1.

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THE NATIONAL POSTER ART ALLIANCE 65 East Fifty-sixth street, New York, and Voiture 220, La Societe des 40 Hommes et 8 Chevaux, of the American Legion, at Chicago, announce a contest for the 1928 poster of the American Legion, offering prizes of $1,000, $300, and $200. "The poster which will most completely and powerfully express the ideals and purposes of the Legion," says the announcement of Voiture 220, "must and will live for years," and all posters should depict the high place which the American Legion occupies in the life of the community. Designs may be rendered in any medium adaptable for reproduction in lithography. The contest will close August 15, and designs should be sent to the National Poster Art Alliance, from whom further information may be obtained.

THE MARK TWAIN SOCIETY-37 Gray avenue, Webster Groves, Missouri, to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of "Tom Sawyer," is offering a prize of ten dollars for the best letter, not exceeding 300 words, on the subject: "My Opinion of Mark Twain." The contest will close August 1. Cyril Clemens is the president of the Society. THE POETRY SOCIETY-280 Madison avenue, New York, announces prizes of $100, $50, $25, and $15 for the best original poems about "Service," defining the value and character of the factor which is believed to represent the most stupendous of the ideals that have guided mankind throughout the ages.

Two additional prizes of five dollars each will be awarded to the best published poems on the subject of "Service" by past or contemporary poets. No restrictions are imposed as to the form of poems, or to the aspects of the subject. Poets can send as many poems as they wish. The contest will close June 15. THE CIRCLE-110 Morningside Drive, New York, announces the Francis Scott Key contest, offering a prize of $25 and three honorable mentions for the best patriotic songs not exceeding twenty-four lines. A contestant may submit three poems, which must be unsigned, and accompanied by a slip giving the title of the poem, and the name and address of the contestant. The contest will close August 1, and no poems will be returned.

THE BALTIMORE BRANCH OF THE LEAGUE OF AMERICAN PENWOMEN - Academy of Sciences, 105 West Franklin street, Baltimore, Maryland, announces its annual short story contest, offering a prize of $25 for the best story submitted by any woman resident of Maryland. Stories must not exceed 5,000 words, and must be submitted anonymously, accompanied by a sealed envelope, containing name and address and return postage. The contest will close April 15.

THE ECHO 1840 California street, Denver, Colorado, is running a prize contest for all classes of material used in the magazine from December, 1926, to November, 1927. The prizes are as follows: For the best stories, $200 and $100; best pioneer material, $200, $150, and $100; best poems, $50, $35, and $15; and the best cover drawing, $100.

THE NATION has awarded its 1926 annual poetry prize of $100 to Thomas Hornsby Ferril, for his poem, "This Foreman." The second prize of $50 was given to Mary Austin, for "Puye," and the third prize of $25 to Clinch Calkins, for "I Was a Maiden." Hal Saunders White, Pierre Loving, Allen Tate, and Charles Wagner received honorable mention.

The first annual poetry prize of $100 given

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PRIZE OFFERS STILL OPEN:

Prizes in Letters offered by the Columbia University School of Journalism: For the American novel published during the year which shall best present the wholesome atmosphere of American life and the highest standard of American manners and manhood, $1,000; for the original American play, performed in New York, which shall best represent the educational value and power of the stage in raising the standard of good morals, good taste, and good manners, $1,000; for the best book of the year on the history of the United States, $2,000; for the best American biography teaching patriotic and unselfish service to the people, illustrated by an eminent example, $1,000; for the best volume of verse published during the year by an American author, $1,000. Also, Prizes in Journalism, amounting to $3,000 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. Nominations of candidates must be made in writing on or before February 1 of each year, addressed to the Secretary of Columbia University, New York, on forms that may be obtained on application to the Secretary of the University.

Two prizes of $25,000 each offered by the Woman's Home Companion and the John Day Company, Inc., for the two most interesting novels best adapted to serial and book publication, one by a man and one by a woman, competition closing July 1, 1927. Particulars in September WRITER, or from the John Day Company, Inc., 25 West Forty-fifth street, New York.

Hart, Schaffner, and Marx prizes of $1,000, $500, $300, and $200 for the four best studies in the

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