_Miscellaneous Press has submissions open for An Equal Task: Celebrating Australian Women’s Writing.

• Submissions must be received by 5pm, Eastern Australian Time, Sunday 18th December 2011.
• Each entry must be the author’s original work, in English, not previously featured in any offline publication.
• Pieces will be considered anonymously.
• Copyright of work remains with the author/artist.

• There is a maximum of three submissions per person.

Non-Fiction

• Non-Fiction including personal essays and memoir.
• 3000 words maximum.

Poetry

• 100 line limit per poem or suite of poems.

Blog Posts

• Blog posts will be considered, providing they adhere to certain criteria:

Artwork

• Black and White or Colour Images will be considered. Please note: within the text the images will be printed as black and white. Only the cover may appear in colour.
• Illustrations will also be considered.
• If selected, we will need the high-resolution image to be provided on CD.

Only Online Submissions Will Be Considered

I will take a look at this later.  I entered two writing competitions this year. Far more of them I miss.  I would need to get better at time managing my writing time to enter this one. 
I have read Stephen King's book 'On Writing' and I love his time planner.  Write in the morning , exercise afternoon and read in the evening is a simplification of the basis of it.  I always think that that would be fine if you were not also doing a million other things to keep the household running and support a family as most women writers do.   If you feel like this then this submission may interest you.
Mind you I think his Mr King's ability to plan is life around his writing and fitness and leave the running of things to others comes down to hard work followed by success and well deserved income to allow him to pay for people to do all those other chores.  I am reminded that the only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary so I had best get writing. My writing work today is to pen a short story about drug abuse and enter a competition with it.

An Equal Task: Celebrating Australian Women’s Writing

Miscellaneous Press new project, An Equal Task: Celebrating Australian Women’s Writing, invites submissions from Australian women who wish to explore the mysteries of this, at times, difficult vocation as we juggle all the other responsibilities of daily life. This collection will not have a formal theme as such, but submissions addressing the above issues will be preferred. Further suggestions include: life, work/play balance, spirituality, ambition, goals and careers. Submissions will be non-fiction and poetry. Click here for further details.
Closing date: 18 December