Anthology invites submissions

After the success of our first book, Solamente en San Miguel, we are now requesting submissions for a second anthology. The director of the project is writer and professor Mary Katherine Wainwright. We welcome submissions in all genres from anyone who has ever spent time in San Miguel.

All submissions should be about San Miguel. You are welcome to submit a short story, portraits of people you know here, funny or touching incidents, cultural comparisons, historical information, emotional moments—anything that helps readers know more of the real San Miguel.

The Sala plans to publish the book in the spring of 2010. A panel of five literary judges will select works for inclusion and also will select the “Best Of” in the categories of fiction, nonfiction and poetry, to be given special recognition in the anthology.

Submissions will not be accepted if they do not adhere to the following guidelines:

1. The work should be about San Miguel and previously unpublished (except in a local San Miguel publication or a blog.) Any and all genres are acceptable. Midnight December 1, 2009 is the final deadline for submissions.

2. Prose works—3000 words maximum. Poetry—five poems (of reasonable length) maximum.

3. A submission fee of US$16 or 200 pesos should accompany each prose work or each set of five or fewer poems.

4. Submit your manuscript in 12-point Times New Roman font and double spaced. Please note: Do not put your name on the work itself, but do put the title of the work. Then, include on a separate cover sheet all of the following information:

• Title and genre of submission 

• Word count

• Your name

• Email address

• Phone number

• Mailing address for snail mail


• Amount of time you have spent in San Miguel and when. This is for information only and will not be considered in the judging.

• When and what method you used to pay your submission fee.

5. You may email your submission as an attachment to anthologysma@yahoo.com.  If you do not receive an acknowledgement within 48 hours, please re-submit. If you are local, you may deliver a hard copy to Solutions, Recreo 11, Box 314.

6. To pay your submission fee, you may:

• deliver a check to Solutions, Recreo 11, Box 314. Make check, in pesos or dollars, payable to “San Miguel Authors’ Sala.”

• Mail a check to Mary Katherine Wainright, 5802 Bob Bullock Loop, Suite C-1, 84-314, Laredo, TX 78041. Make check payable to “San Miguel Authors’ Sala.”

• Pay online with a credit card or your own PayPal account. To do this, go to www.paypal.com. Click on “Send Money.” Send your money to this email address: arazi.dorit@gmail.com. (Dorit Arazi is the treasurer of the San Miguel Literary Sala.)

Start writing now, so you have plenty of time to rewrite!

The San Miguel Authors’ Sala and the San Miguel Literary Society have now merged into one organization called The San Miguel Literary Sala. The official announcement will come next week when they launch their new website.