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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.

RUST CRAFT PUBLISHERS-1000 Washington street, Boston, Mass., have a constant demand for good Greeting Card material, and report that they cannot get enough of general friendship verses, of from four to eight lines, or of general verses for Sweetheart and for Mother, for which, of course, more sentiment is needed. The company can now use material for Easter, Mothers' Day, and Christmas.

THE HERALD TRIBUNE SUNDAY MAGAZINE

New York, is trying, first of all, to present articles which give its readers a clear-cut summary of events they have been reading about in the daily press, written by people who can speak with a certain amount of authority. Its aim is to do the same thing with personalities which are figuring at the moment in local, national, or international affairs. In addition to the element of timeliness, the material should be presented in a graphic way, with considerable attention to episode and

written with some attention to literary style. Mrs. William Brown Meloney, the editor, says

that the Magazine would like to have available to its readers each week one humorous article satirizing some phase of modern life and one serious article in modern essay form dealing with an educational or religious subject. The Magazine is now read widely in colleges, and any subject dealing in a broad way with modern subjects of interest to faculties and students will be carefully considered. Articles dealing with the upbringing and training of children and other matters of general interest to women are wanted. Occasional articles dealing with matters of interest to society will be considered. Material dealing with current sporting events and the outdoors in general is in demand, as are articles describing various adventurous phases of modern life, such as exploration, small boat cruising, the army, the navy, etc. Poetry of a distinctly high order will be published, as well as a small amount of humorous verse.

No fiction is wanted. Articles should contain

from 1,500 to 3,500 words.

FLASHLIGHTS Room 570, 55 West Forty

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second street, New York, the first issue of which will be on sale February 15, is in the market for short clean love stories, or stories of real sentiment.

THE NOMAD-150 Lafayette street, New York, is the new name of Journeys Beautiful, beginning with the January issue. In addition to travel articles, the magazine will now use such adventure stories as may go well in a travel magazine. Mr. Barnitz, the editor, says that what the magazine wants more than anything else is a human document, a manuscript which gives an insight into the manners and customs of the people through the human vein. He prefers first-person narratives, containing from 1,500 to 2,500 words, and adds that while description is, of course, the necessary element in any travel article, it should not be overdone. Good photographs are desirable, and a manuscript is much more likely to be accepted if it is accompanied by pictures combining both scenic and human interest elements.

THE BRIDLE AND GOLFER 330 Penobscot Building, Detroit, Michigan, wants short humorous articles, not exceeding 1,000 words; also feature articles, poetry, short skits, and fiction concerning golf, riding, tennis, or other sports.

THE BLACK MASK-45 West Forty-fifth street, New York, is in the market for well written stories of crime detection, filled with clean virile action, and plausible, but without the gruesome or horrible, the ultra-weird, or the supernatural; also stories of adventure and Western stories with something of the same elements in them. Stories should contain from 4,000 to 20,000 words.

THE BROADCASTING MAGAZINE - 1182 Broadway, New York, wants inspirational articles, short biographies, articles on the home, and non-technical radio material.

SUCCESS-251 Fourth avenue, New York, especially needs just now some high class, wholesome, short stories and serials.

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THE THOMAS Y. CROWELL COMPANY Fourth avenue, New York, publishes long fiction, juveniles, works of reference, textbooks, biographies, and other works of a specialized nature, but does not care especially for collections of short stories or poetry. Just at the present time the Company has no specific needs, but is always glad to consider books of a general nature, as well as fiction, and gives every manuscript a careful and prompt reading, without regard to the name of the author. Care should be taken not to confuse this firm with the Crowell Publishing Company, 250 Park avenue, New York, publishers of the American Magazine, Farm and Fireside, the Mentor, and the Woman's Home Companion. BOYS' LIFE -200 Fifth avenue, New York, is always specially in need of exceptionally good stories, with a special emphasis on the exceptionally good.

THE FUN SHOP-1475 Broadway, New York, is a department of humor syndicated to newspapers, and offers an inexhaustible market for dialogue jokes and anecdotes that are crisp, fresh, "peppy," and cleverly humorous. Humorous verse, of from four to twentyfour lines, and other humor conceits-epigrams (or humorous mottoes), burlesques, satires, and bright sayings of children are always welcome. Contributions will not be returned unless they are accompanied by a selfaddressed, stamped envelope. Maxson Foxhall Judell is the editor of the Fun Shop. NORTH-WEST STORIES-461 Eighth avenue, New York, wants immediately short Western stories, not exceeding 6,000 words, with good woman interest, dashing young heroes, and a real outdoor twang.

THE B. F. KEITH-ALBEE VAUDEVILLE EX- THE KEYSTONE FEATURE SERVICE - 801 Fed

eral street, N. S., Pittsburgh, Penn., can use short stories, of from 1,500 to 2,500 words, that have love and human interest in them, and that will "hold" the readers of small town weekly newspapers, and also humorous poems, of from four to twelve lines, that have "punch." Low prices are paid, but payment is made on acceptance.

OUR YOUNG PEOPLE-425 South Fourth street, Minneapolis, Minn., is in need of some good short stories suitable for boys and girls. ACTION STORIES-461 Eighth avenue, New York, has an especial need just now for big, surging sagas of the out-trails, particularly those located in the West.

OVERTURES-76 Elton street, Brooklyn, N. Y., is a new poetry magazine, combined with the Greenwich Village Quill, printing poetry, interviews with famous poets and editors, reviews of books of verse, and important articles on poetry. The magazine does not pay

for contributions, but would like some good critical literary articles.

FILM FUN has been purchased by George T. Delacorte, of the Dell Publishing Company, 461 Eighth avenue, New York.

THE SQUARE DEAL THE SQUARE DEAL

17 West Sixtieth street,

New York, which started publication in September, has temporarily suspended.

A review, for which no name has yet been chosen, to be edited by Ezra Pound, who lives at Rapallo, and to be published three times a year at fifty cents a copy, is announced for publication early in 1927. Mr. Pound says the review intends to print only excellent and genuinely original writing-"preferably magnificent or unspeakable." Manuscripts, for which the magazine will pay as much as it can, should be sent to the American agent, John M. Price, care of the Herald Tribune, New York.

Prize Offers and Awards

THE WOODROW WILSON FOUNDATION 17 East Forty-second street, New York, announces a prize essay contest, offering $50,000, to be divided into two Woodrow Wilson awards of $25,000 each, to be given to the young man and young woman who write the best articles on "What Woodrow Wilson Means to Me." The contest is open to any resident of the United States who has reached his (or her) twentieth birthday, and who has not passed his (or her) thirty-fifth birthday. Articles should not exceed 2,500 words, and must be strictly confined to an exposition of Mr. Wilson's ideals and principles and what they mean to the writer. Manuscripts must be typewritten on one side of the paper, and must be submitted anonymously, with a plain, sealed envelope attached to the manuscript containing the full name and address of the contestant; and an accompanying affidavit

from father, mother, legal guardian, minister, employer, or notary public that the contestant's age is between the prescribed limits. No letter should accompany the manuscript, and no manuscript will be returned, so that no return postage should be sent. The contest will close October 1 and manuscripts should be addressed to the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award.

THE YOUTH'S COMPANION-8 Arlington street, Boston, Mass., offers prizes of $500, $200, and $100 for the best original short stories in English, written by any boy or girl in the world between the ages of fifteen and twenty, inclusive. Stories must be typewritten,

and must bear the author's full name and address in the upper right-hand corner of the first page, and be signed by the author in ink at the foot of the last page. Each story must be certified as original by the parent, teacher,

college instructor, minister, or family physician of the author, and the full name and address of the certifier must be given. Manuscripts bound in decorative binders of any kind or hand illuminated or illustrated in any way will be automatically disqualified. Stories must contain between 1,500 and 4,000 words, and should be sent to the Secretary, Junior Fiction Contest, Youth's Companion, 8 Arlington street, Boston, Mass., on or before April 15. The Youth's Companion will also buy, at its regular fiction rate, any stories, apart from the prize winners, deemed worthy. Each issue of the Companion, beginning with the January 21 issue, will contain one of the competing stories. These stories will be paid for on acceptance, and will remain eligible to win one of the three prizes.

SMALL, MAYNARD, & Co., -41 Mt. Vernon street, Boston, offer $500 in prizes- $350, $100, and $50 for the three best summaries or synopses of Thames Williamson's current story, "The Man Who Cannot Die." Synopses must be typewritten in double space, with the name and address of the author in the upper left-hand corner of the first page, must not exceed 200 words, and must reach the "American Panorama Editor," not later than April 20. LIFE 598 Madison avenue, New York, is conducting an Alibi contest, and publishes each week a different picture, offering a prize of $50 each week to the contestant who furnishes the cleverest and most convincing conclusion to the sentence which starts, "Well, you see, it's this way." Five second prizes of $10 each will be awarded to the five answers next in rank. Answers must be limited to twenty-five words, not including the caption underneath the picture.

THE UNITED STATES INFANTRY ASSOCIATION -Washington, D. C., wants a rousing, individual march-song for the American infantry, and announces, through its official organ, the Infantry Journal, a prize of $1,500 for the best song received by July 1. Full particulars relating to the contest may be obtained from the Infantry Journal.

THE YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS-New Haven, Conn., has awarded the prize for 1926 in the Yale Series of Younger Poets, to "High Passage," by Thomas Hornsby Ferril, and the book was published in December.

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.

Prize of $7,500 offered by the Frederick A. Stokes Company and the Forum for the best American biographical novel, contest closing March 1, 1927. Particulars in May WRITER.

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.

Prize of $10,000 offered by the Atlantic Monthly for the most interesting novel submitted before February 15, 1927. Particulars in June Writer.

Prize of $2,000 offered by Little, Brown, & Co., for the best book for boys and girls of ten years old or more, manuscript to contain at least 40,000 words, contest closing March 1, 1927. Particulars in June WRITER.

Prize of $25,000 offered by McClure's, the Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, and the Cosmopolitan Productions, for serial rights, book rights, and motion-picture rights for a novel, containing from 80,000 to 110,000 words, contest closing March 31, 1927. Open to any writer who has not had more

than three novels published in book form. Particulars in June WRITER.

Hart, Schaffner, and Marx prizes of $1,000, $500, $300, and $200 for the four best studies in the economic field submitted by June 1, 1927. Particulars in October WRITER.

Prizes of $1,000, $500, $250, $100, and three prizes of $50 each, offered by the Penn Publishing Company, for original play manuscripts suitable for amateurs, contest closing March 1. Particulars in December WRITER.

Prize offer of $500 for the best setting to "America, the Beautiful," offered by the Past Presidents Assembly for the National Federation of Music Clubs, contest closing March 1. Particulars in December WRITER.

Four national contests in play-writing conducted by the Drama League of America and Longmans, Green, & Company, closing May 1. Particulars in December WRITER.

Prize of $1,000 offered by the World's Work for the best article based on theories advanced by William T. Foster and Waddill Catchings in the series of economic articles now running in the magazine, contest closing March 31. Particulars in December WRITER.

Prizes of $300 and $100 offered by the Pasadena Center of the Drama League of America for a full evening play and a one-act play, contest closing March 1. Particulars in December WRITER.

Prizes of $100, $50, and $25 offered by the Atlantic Monthly to students using the Atlantic Monthly in courses during the 1926-1927 terms, contest closing March 31. Particulars in December WRITER.

Annual prizes offered by the Scholastic to students in junior and senior high schools for the best work in poetry, essays, short stories, drama, and art, con

test closing March 20. Particulars in December WRITER.

Prize of $25 offered by the Tanager for the best poem submitted by April 1. Particulars in December WRITER.

Monthly definition contests conducted by the Forum, payment being made at the rate of five dollars each for all printed. Particulars in June WRITER.

Prizes of $10 each for the best sonnet and the best short story, and a prize of $5 for the next best short story published in the Oracle during the next ten months. Particulars in the August WRITER.

Prize of $1,000, offered by the Chamber of Commerce, Hot Springs, Arkansas, for the best scenario for a historical pageant depicting the history of Hot Springs. Particulars in October WRITER.

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Prize of $1,000 offered by C. C. Birchard through the Chautauqua Institution for a choral work religious cantata contest closing April 1, 1927. Particulars in November WRITER.

Witter Bynner Undergraduate poetry prize of $150 for the best poems printed in Palms during 1927, open to undergraduates in any American university or college. Particulars in November WRITER.

Prizes of the Poetry Society of South Carolina: Southern prize of $100; Caroline Sinkler prize of $50; Society's prize of $25; Harmon prize of $25; Skylark prize of $10; and the Ellen M. Carroll prize of $15 all offered annually. Particulars from the Poetry Society of South Carolina, 62 Broad street, Charleston, S. C., or in July WRITER.

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Annual prizes awarded by Poetry (232 East Erie street, Chicago, Ill.) in November of each year: Helen Haire Levinson prize of $200, John Reed Memorial prize of $100, and the Young Poets' prize of $100, for poems published in the magazine during the current year.

News and Notes

Elihu Root has given the prize of $25,000, awarded him by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation in recognition of his services in the interest of "peace through justice," to Foreign Affairs, as the nucleus of an endowment fund.

Warrington Dawson, special assistant of the American Embassy in Paris, has received one of the medals which the Forty Immortals of the French Academy give each year for works written in French by foreigners and adjudged “remarkable in form, style, and idea." Mr. Dawson is the first American to receive this medal, which was given for his war story, "The Gift of Paul Clermont."

Dr. Henry Osborn Taylor has been elected president of the American Historical Association.

John G. Neihardt has removed to St. Louis, where he will take charge of the weekly book page of the Post-Dispatch.

Harold Bell Wright has completely equipped the new Sisters' Home of St. Mary's hospital at Tucson, Arizona.

Ernest McCullough is the new editor of the Building Age and National Builder, and not of the American Architect, as wrongly stated in the January WRITER.

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