OPEN CALL: GO HOME! - AN ASIAN AMERICAN ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY AND PROSE
Asian American Writers’ Workshop
INFO: The Asian American Writers’ Workshop seeks submissions of fiction and nonfiction for Go Home! an anthology to be published by the Feminist Press. The anthology will showcase the incredible variety of responses to the word home – physical homes, mental homes, the longing for homes, the flights from them, the homes one makes in words, in the hearts of others, and in the air.
They request contributors send no more than three pieces of prose under 500 words, or one piece of prose over 500 words in one single file.
DEADLINE: May 1, 2016
aaww.submittable.com/submit/5578
WHITING CREATIVE NONFICTION GRANT
Whiting Foundation
INFO: The Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant will be awarded to as many as three writers in the process of completing a book-length work of nonfiction for a general, not an academic, readership. Its purpose is to give grantees the additional means to do exacting research, to free up the time to bring the writing to the highest possible standard, and to encourage original and ambitious projects.
Whiting welcomes submissions for works of history, cultural or political reportage, biography, memoir, the sciences, philosophy, criticism, food or travel writing, and personal essays, among other categories. Again, the work should be intended for a general reader. Self-help titles and textbooks are not eligible.
Projects must currently be under contract with a publisher in the United States to be eligible, and the contract must have been signed at least two years before applying for the grant (i.e., by May 1, 2014). Authors must be US citizens or residents to qualify.
AWARD: $35,000
DEADLINE: May 1, 2016
whiting.submittable.com/submit/58029ee8-6d84-486b-84bc-ad400e5eb6e9
AMPLIFY(HER)
INFO: AMPLIFY(HER) is looking for art, prose, poetry, short stories, photography and/or mixed medium submissions from undocumented Asian women (including trans and gender non-conforming folks) on how they understand and navigate their intersecting identities in today's societ
AWARD: $100 honorarium (for each selected submission). Two artists selected for the cover or spread will each receive $175 honorarium.
DEADLINE: May 6, 2016
amplifyher.submittable.com/submit
WRITING CONTEST: FICTION, NONFICTION, OR POETRY
Solstice
INFO: Solstice is accepting submissions of fiction, nonfiction and poetry for its annual writing contests.
PRIZE: Winners as well as finalists will be published in our Summer Awards Issue due out in early August.
SUBMISSION FEE: $18.00
DEADLINE: May 7, 2016
http://solsticelitmag.org/contests/
Ox-Bow
INFO: Fall residents are given the time, solitude, and focus often unavailable to so many working artists. Between 25 and 30 artists participate in the residency creating a diverse community of engaged peers and have the opportunity to work in studios not available during the summer session. The fall is an ideal time for writers to apply as there are studios dedicated specifically to them.
The residency provides:
- Studio
- Private room (shared bathrooms and showers)
- Meals (three meals a day)
- A diverse community of engaged artists
- Opportunities to share work
FEES: Ox-Bow will be furthering their commitment to the needs of artists by no longer charging fees for the residency program (including application, room & board, and residency fees). All accepted residents will be fully funded.
IMPORTANT DATES: Two, three, and five week residences will take place during the period of September 4 - October 8, 2016
DEADLINE: May 9, 2016
ox-bow.org/apply-for-a-residency/
Ploughshares
INFO: The Emerging Writer's Contest is open to writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry who have yet to publish or self-publish a book.
PRIZE: The winner in each genre will be awarded $1,000 and publication in the Winter 2016-17 issue of Ploughshares.
SUBMISSION FEE: $24 fee, which is waived if the submitter is a current subscriber. Fee includes a 1-year subscription to Ploughshares (beginning with the Spring 2016 issue and ending with the Winter 2016-17 issue).
DEADLINE: May 15, 2016
pshares.org/submit/emerging-writers-contest/guidelines
ALICE JUDSON HAYES WRITING FELLOWSHIP
Ragdale Foundation
INFO: The Alice Judson Hayes Writing Fellowship is an annual award in memory of Alice Hayes, who created the Ragdale Foundation in what had been her family home. An 18- or 25-day residency, free of charge, and a $500 stipend will be given to a writer who is working on a project designed to bring awareness to a contemporary issue having to do with peace, social justice, education, or the environment.
Projects can be nonfiction or fiction (including journalism, essays, memoir, script-writing, creative nonfiction). No academic writing.
DEADLINE: May 15, 2016
ragdale.org/residency/fellowship/
2016 NOEMI BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION
Noemi Press
INFO: Fiction writers at any stage in their career may submit a manuscript (no page limit). All manuscripts are read blind so they request that applicants strip their manuscript of all identifying material, including title pages, dedications, and acknowledgements; otherwise, the manuscript will not be considered. Contest winners will be announced in summer 2016.
ENTRY FEE: $25
PRIZE: $1,000, plus publication by Noemi Press, and 10 author’s copies.
DEADLINE: Extended to May 15, 2016
We Need Diverse Books
INFO: We Need Diverse Books™ honors the memory of celebrated children’s book author Walter Dean Myers (1937-2014) by establishing a grant in his name. Walter Dean Myers was a lifelong advocate for diversity in youth literature, and a National Book Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. His legacy can be seen in the thousands of lives he touched, including those of readers and authors alike.
Eligibility requirements include:
- Applicants must identify as diverse.
- Applicants must be unpublished as illustrators and/or authors. This includes both trade publishing and self-publishing. If the applicant has a book deal for an as yet unpublished book, the applicant is considered published for purposes of this grant. Essays, short stories, and articles do not render an applicant ineligible.
- Applicant must be working toward a career as a children’s author and/or illustrator. This includes but is not limited to: Picture Books, Early Reader Books, Chapter Books, Middle Grade Books,Young Adult, Graphic Novels, Non-Fiction, and Poetry.
AWARD: $2,000 to five winners individually.
DEADLINE: May 15, 2016
weneeddiversebooks.org/walter-grant-submission-guidelines/
2016 FARAFINA TRUST CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP
INFO: Organized by its creative director, award-winning writer Chimamanda Adichie, Farafina Trust will be holding a creative writing workshop in Lagos, Nigeria from June 21 – July 1, 2016. The Caine-Prize winning writer Binyavanga Wainaina, Aslak Sira Myhre and others will teach the workshop alongside Adichie.
The workshop will take the form of a class and participants will be assigned a wide range of reading and writing exercises. The aim of the workshop is to improve the craft of published and unpublished writers and encourage them by bringing different perspectives to the art of storytelling.
DEADLINE: May 20, 2016
farafinabooks.wordpress.com/2016/04/08/2016-farafina-trust-creative-writing-workshop/
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS – LATINO ANTHOLOGY
INFO: Editors Sara Campos and Leticia Del Toro are seeking poetry, fiction, and essays by and about Latinos in the San Francisco Bay Area for Canto a San Francisco – An Anthology of Latino Writing.
This anthology aims to showcase stories and impressions of beloved characters, barrios, movimientos, coastal hangouts, quinceañeras, street fights, business negocios, victories and sorrows. They welcome triunfos, tragedias and everything in between as long as your work involves Latino characters who are rooted in the locales of the greater San Francisco Bay Area.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Fiction (up to 4000 words), poetry (up to 5 poems), and prose (up to 3000 words). Spanish submissions welcome in poetry. Please submit a cover letter, specify the title of your piece, the genre, and any writing credits. Submit in rtf. doc., or pdf.
Please send any inquiries and submissions to cantosf2016@gmail.com
DEADLINE: May 31, 2016
INFO: For it’s inaugural workshop, DC Comics will select a small pool of professional writers and expose them to their top writers, editorial teaching staff and executives, all with the ultimate goal of earning them a position on a DC comic book.
The first part of the 2016–2017 DC Comics Writers Workshop will run October 2016–January 2017 as an online real-time interactive seminar, every Wednesday evening from 7 pm–9 pm ET. Full participation is mandatory. Each seminar will teach a new skill essential for surviving and excelling in this highly competitive field. Participants will also write and revise two scripts during the workshop.
Following the initial thirteen-week Workshop, a smaller hand-selected group of those Workshop participants will be invited to our offices in Burbank for an intensive writing experience, featuring guest speakers currently working in comic books, including a mix of editors, writers, artists and the Talent Development staff. Each participant will be required to complete a new spec script under the same tight deadlines our current writers experience. How participants perform during this exercise will determine whether they will be chosen for a possible position on a DC comic book series.
Upon completion of the Master Class program, the Talent Development group will help the successful participants to obtain a position on a DC comic in the current line-up.
DC will only consider writers with current or past professional credits.
DEADLINE: May 31, 2016
dccomicstalentworkshop.com/writers-workshop/
OUT OF THE BINDERS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM
Bindercon
INFO: Bindercon, a conference and community for women and gender non‑conforming writers, seeks to increase diversity by offering free admission to up to 25 promising writers who might not otherwise be able to attend due to financial hardship. Diversity includes but is not limited to: age; racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds; sexual orientation; gender identity; marital and parental status; disability.
The scholarships include free attendance to all the events on Saturday, October 29, and Sunday, October 30, networking opportunities to meet agents and editors, and a ticket to the VIP party, but do not include airfare and/or accommodations, or food (Some meals may be provided as part of the conference programming.). Additionally, they are thrilled to offer stipends to select applicants: parents who require financial assistance with childcare and out of town attendees in need of travel assistance. Please indicate if you would like to be considered for any of these stipends.
All your answers are confidential and will only be seen by Out of the Binders scholarship committee members. Anonymous demographic information may be shared with funders for future conferences.
DEADLINE: May 31, 2016
nyc.bindercon.com/apply-scholarship/
SMALL AXE LITERARY COMPETITION
INFO: The Small Axe Literary Competition encourages the production and publication of Caribbean fiction and poetry. The competition focuses on poetry and short stories from emerging writers whose work centers on regional and diasporic Caribbean themes and concerns. This competition is part of the Small Axe Project's ongoing commitment to Caribbean cultural production and our mission to provide a forum for innovative critical and creative explorations of Caribbean reality.
The competition consists of two categories: poetry and short fiction. Two winners are chosen from each category by a distinguished panel of judges.
PRIZES:
- First Prize: $750
- Second Prize: $500
DEADLINE: May 31, 2016
storage.smallaxe.net/literary-competition/
GHASSAN KANFANI WRITING SCHOLARSHIP
INFO: Named after Ghassan Kanafani, a Palestinian novelist and iconic national hero, the scholarship aims to provide a space to re-engage the Palestinian narrative and explore the complexity of identity by those living outside of Palestine.
The scholarship is open to Palestinian-American youth (at least one parent must be from historic Palestine, though they might not necessarily have been born there), must be a US resident (this includes those who are studying here in the US), and must be between the ages of 18-25 years old.
The writing submission should describe your experience around identity, the shataat, or anything regarding your relationship to Palestine and being Palestinian. They accept any form of writing--poetry, short story, fiction/non-fiction. Word limit of 3,000 words; no minimum word limit. Feel free to include photos, art, or other multimedia to supplement your writing piece.
Do not include your name on your submission piece.
PRIZE:
- Top 3 submissions win scholarship prizes of $500, $250, and $250
- Top 20 pieces to be published in online anthology
DEADLINE: June 1, 2016
2016 DRIFTLESS UNSOLICITED NOVELLA CONTEST
Brain Mill Publishing
INFO: The 2016 Driftless Unsolicited Novella contest seeks 20,000-40,000 word novellas, with a strong preference for submissions from authors of color, LGBTQ+ writers, and women. Novellas may be in any genre, including commercial genres such as romance, suspense, young adult, or science fiction (and others), or they may be uncategorized literary or mainstream fiction.
International submissions are welcome but must be submitted in English.
PRIZE: Two winning novellas will receive a $250.00 cash prize, a publication contract, and royalties for the novella with Brain Mill Press. The cash prize is not an advance against royalties. Royalties commence with the internationally distributed release.
The winning novellas will be professionally edited and produced, and covered with original winning art from the Driftless Unsolicited Art Contest. Novellas will be published in print and digital formats in the spring of 2017. Authors will be nationally promoted and their novellas submitted for industry review and appropriate prizes. Up to three finalists for each publication
SUBMISSION FEE: $25.00
DEADLINE: June 1, 2016
2016 MY TIME FELLOWSHIP FOR WRITERS WITH CHILDREN
The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow
INFO: A two-week residency is being offered by The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow writers with children under 18 living with them. This Fellowship is designed to support parents who are also writers.
The Fellowship entitles the recipient to a two-week stay at the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow, in beautiful and charming Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Each resident has a private suite with writing space, private bath, and wireless Internet. The residency provides uninterrupted writing time, with a European gourmet dinner prepared five nights a week and served in our community dining room. Residents also share the camaraderie of other writers and artists when they want it, and a community kitchen stocked with the basics for breakfast and lunch. My Time includes the two-week residency and provides a stipend of $1,500 to help pay for child care or travel expenses or to make up for time lost at work.
My Time is not limited to a specific genre. Writers can work in poetry, memoir, fiction, nonfiction or young adult. Please include in the application package information about your family and how this fellowship will help you progress as a writer. No more than one page, please.
DEADLINE: June 1, 2016
writerscolony.org/fellowships-1/
ISLAMICATE SCIENCE FICTION SHORT STORY CONTEST
The Islam and Science Fiction Project
INFO: The Islam and Science Fiction project seeks submissions for a short story writing contest centered around Science Fiction with Muslim characters or Islamic cultures.
Islamicate refers to the cultural output of predominantly Islamic culture or polity. While the culture has its foundation and inspiration from the religion of Islam, it need not be produced by someone who is Muslim. The term Islamicate is similar to the term West as it encompasses a whole range of cultures, ethnicities and schools of thought with shared historical experience.
The contest is open to all people regardless of their religious affiliation or lack there of. A person of any religion, nationality, ethnicity race, gender, sexual orientation can submit. A collection of the best stories from the submissions will be released as an epub and available to download for free.
The top three stories will be receive a prize and publication. Submissions that are not given a prize may also be published.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
- The stories (8,0000 words or less) must be either set in a predominantly Muslim culture AND/OR have Muslim protagonist(s).
- Short stories in almost any variant of Science Fiction (space opera, time-travel, apocalyptic, reimaging classic themes, techno-thrillers, bio-punk, science mystery, alternate history, steampunk, utopian, dystopian etc) is encouraged.
- No reprints, simultaneous submissions, or multiple submissions.
- Submission are limited to one per person.
- Submission are only accepted in English.
PRIZES:
- First Prize: $200
- Second Prize: $150
- Third Prize: $100
Submit your short story to islam.scifi@gmail.com with the subject line Short Story Contest
DEADLINE: June 8, 2016
islamscifi.com/islamicate-science-fiction-short-story-competition/
Shade Mountain Press
INFO: Shade Mountain Press is seeking novel manuscripts (70,000 words or more) by African American women writers. Submissions can be any topic and style (preferably literary rather than genre).
They do not publish children’s or young adult literature.
READING PERIOD: Through July 1, 2016
shademountainpress.com/contact.php