Addition to the Adult Writers' List • Soap Stone Creek Literary Journal is a brand new bi-monthly print magazine for children of all ages. The debut issue was in April. Their current needs include short stories and essays (500-1000 words), poetry (up to 20 lines), and photos (no more than 6 per submission). Submission guidelines are on their homepage. Marcella Simmons is the Editor/Publisher. This is currently a no-pay market, but you do receive contributor copies of the magazine. Rights revert to the author after publication. They accept reprints. For a short time, you can view a pdf of the April/May issue here. Addition to the Young Writers' List • Soap Stone Creek Literary Journal (see above) also accepts stories and original artwork by students. See their homepage for submission guidelines. Theme List Updates Ask magazine posted new themes on April 7th. Pockets magazine posted new themes on May 1st. Contests Pockets Annual Fiction Contest is open until August 15th. Stories should be 750–1,000 words and previously unpublished. The winning story receives $500 and publication in the magazine. There is no entry fee. Insight Writing Contest is open until July 31st. It includes short stories and poetry, with categories for both young writers and adults. Prizes range from $50 to $250. The winning entries will be published in Insight. Highlights Online Submissions Highlights magazine is transitioning to an online submission process, using Submittable.com. Currently, this only applies to fiction submissions. If you have a fiction manuscript you wish to submit to Highlights, go to https://highlights.submittable.com/submit. You can then create a password-protected account and submit online. Odyssey Update As of April 1, ODYSSEY and MUSE magazines, part of the Cricket Magazine Group, have merged. The ODYSSEY name has been dropped, and the new publication will continue with the MUSE name. The focus for the combined magazine is science and arts for kids ages 9-14. Johanna Arnone will stay on as the editor. Guide Update The Seventh Day Adventist Church, as a denomination, has been reorganizing their publishing houses. As a result, GUIDE will now be published in Idaho instead of Maryland. Submissions addresses have changed. Send by mail to: Guide Magazine, PO Box 5353, Nampa, ID 83653-5353. Send by e-mail to: guide@pacificpress.com. Randy Fishell is still GUIDE Editor, and Laura Sαmano is Guide Managing Editor. Full submission guidelines are here. Updated Links in the Adult List • Encounter and its guidelines. • New Moon Girls contact information. Updated Links in the Young Writers' List • American Girl submission guidelines. • New Moon Girls contact information. • chixLIT. Website is not currently working, but they are now on Facebook. • Parallel Ink and its guidelines. Reminder The next issue of Writing for Children's Magazines will be published in July. If you want to sign up for the Writing for Children's Magazines Yahoo group, you'll receive a notice of when new issues are posted, plus occasionally receive updates between issues (especially if the information is time-sensitive). Writing for Children's Magazines, May 2015.