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September 23, 2006 | Banned Books Week
September 23-30, 2006
Celebrate your freedom to read by reading a banned book this week!
According the American Library Association, the 10 most challenged books of the 21st Century (2000-2005) are:
- Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
- "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier
- Alice series by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
- "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck
- "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
- "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers
- "It's Perfectly Normal" by Robie Harris
- Scary Stories series by Alvin Schwartz
- Captain Underpants series by Dav Pilkey
- "Forever" by Judy Blume
Posted by The Editors at 11:45 AM in Community
September 22, 2006 | Change to Submission Periods
Starting with Toasted Cheese 7:1 (March 2007), submission periods will close one month earlier than they do at present, i.e. two months prior to the publication date. This change will allow us to read submissions one month earlier and give us some much-needed extra time to set up each issue.
The switch will be effective November 1, 2006. Submissions received to October 31, 2006 will be eligible for TC 6:4 (December 2006); submissions received from November 1 to December 31, 2006* will be eligible for TC 7:1 (March 2007).
We will continue to short-list at the end of each month. Final notifications will be sent one month prior to publication. Full details here.
(*The shortened submission period will be for this one issue only, as we make the transition.)
Posted by The Editors at 02:10 PM in Literary Journal
September 20, 2006 | Three Cheers and a Tiger!
Three Cheers and a Tiger is a 48-hour short story contest. The fall contest is for science fiction and fantasy stories. All entries must be composed within the contest time frame.
This fall Three Cheers opens Friday, September 22 at 5 pm ET and closes Sunday, September 24 at 5 pm ET.
The topic and word count will be announced Friday at 5 pm ET at Just the Place for a Snark.
Posted by The Editors at 09:59 PM in Contests
September 15, 2006 | Summer Camp
In September's Absolute Blank article, TC Host Jim Walke (jaywalke) writes about his experience at the West Virginia Writers' Workshop this summer.
Posted by The Editors at 11:13 PM in Articles
September 03, 2006 | TC on MySpace
Are you on MySpace? Toasted Cheese now has a MySpace page and we'd be happy to add you as a friend!
Posted by The Editors at 02:06 PM in Community
September 01, 2006 | The September issue of TC is up!
Toasted Cheese 6:3 is now online.
Thank you to all who submitted and congratulations to this issue's authors.
As always, we encourage you to contact authors of work you enjoy and let them know--you'll make their day!
Once again, a reminder that all regular submissions published this year are eligible for nomination for the Pushcart Prize. We will also be nominating for the storySouth Million Writers Award again in 2007.
Posted by The Editors at 11:59 AM in Literary Journal