Heads up on a few writing opportunities.

Via Finding Wonderland:

Futuredaze: An Anthology of YA Science Fiction seeks fiction and poetry for teens, young adults and the young at heart. Pays $200/story, $25/poem. Deadline: June 30, 2012.

YA steampunk anthology seeks submissions (via Mindy Hardwick). Deadline: Sept.1, 2012.

Indie publisher Buzz Books seeks YA short stories for a new monthly Mythology High series. 3000-4500 words.

And speaking of Finding Wonderland, don't miss this lovely interview with their own Tanita Davis at The Happy Nappy Bookseller:

A little bonus fact: I wrote Ysabel’s backstory twice because originally she was in orchestra, and my editor said that there were too many YA novels with female characters who played cellos. I had no idea! (I still have no idea!) I was slightly annoyed at the time, since the cello is my Secret Longed-For Instrument (along with the balalaika and the dulcimer), but I’m just as glad now that I changed her focus, and thus changed her entire personality. Also, I got into lamp working and beads and jewelry making just from the research. Pretty much anything that lets me have even a tiny torch to begin with, and ends with jewelry? Is A Good Thing.

Girls who play cellos in YA fiction: the girl from Midnight Hour Encores, the girl in If I Stay... and that's all I've got. You?