American Literary Review

Thanks for finding the ñ Wayne ( or whoever wrote this). Should be a great time, hope everyone comes out.

You're welcome, from Britta. Although, Wayne is always considerate about the ñ, too.

yall lost me on this one because the first advertisement said that the winners would be published in the Fall 2009 issue but now you are saying that they will be published in the spring 2010 issue is this a misprint or just a hoax. explain this to me.

Apologies for the confusion. We'd originally planned to publish winners in the fall 2009 issue. They will be in the spring 2010 issue.

So can our stories have something to do with a book that is allready published? And can we use their characters as long as we don't rewrite their story and make our own?

Using another book's characters is a little tricky legally and usually depends upon how recent the book is. Many older works are public domain, and there have been a few interesting books (Ahab's Wife, Mary Reilly, Gertrude and Claudius, Wicked) and plays (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead) that constructed new fictions around major and minor ... See Morecharacters in older books / plays. On the other hand, The Wind Done Gone, a counter-novel to Gone With The Wind from the point of view of the African American characters, got successfully sued out of publication by Margaret Mitchell's estate a few years ago. Personally, I'd recommend creating your own world and your own characters -- it's more fun.