WRITING FOR JUSTICE FELLOWSHIP
PEN America
INFO: The PEN America Writing for Justice Fellowship aims to harness the power of writers and writing in bearing witness to the societal consequences of mass incarceration by capturing and sharing the stories of incarcerated individuals, their families, communities, and the wider impact of the criminal justice system. Our goal is to ignite a broad, sustained conversation about the dangers of over-incarceration and the imperative to mobilize behind rational and humane policies. As an organization of writers dedicated to promoting free expression and informed discourse, PEN America is honored to have been entrusted by the Art for Justice Fund to engage the literary community in addressing this pressing societal issue.
PRIZE: $10,000 fellowship
SUBMISSION PERIOD: Now through July 1, 2018
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CAMP: A SPECIAL ISSUE OF THE MARGINS
Asian American Writers’ Workshop
INFO: The first summer camps in the US were founded in the late 19th century out of rising anxieties over the waning masculinity of young white boys in the midst of urban expansion—if they spend all their time inside, how would they become men who can survive in the wild? Summer camp has always been a culturally nationalist project, firmly rooted in the founding mythos of white American masculinity and held on the indigenous land stolen under settler colonialism.
How do Asian American experiences of camp square with its settler colonial history? What does camp mean for Asian Americans? For those who don’t assimilate to the forceful conformity of camp, it can be a site of alienation. For some, immigrant cultural camps and language classes are ways to stay connected to the homeland, and often imagine it in deeply conservative terms. Kumon and SAT prep can be staging grounds for the model minority narrative.
What homes are made when you go to camp? For this special issue of The Margins, we’re looking for essays, fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, graphic work, and hybrid genre work by Asian American writers that trouble, expand, and re-define camp—and in the process might destabilize a relationship to the model minority narrative, to organized religion, and to homeland.
DEADLINE: July 2, 2018
aaww.submittable.com/submit/80ef3b9a-352d-4b10-845e-bb923876a475/camp-a-special-issue-of-the-margins
THE PROVERSE PRIZE FOR UNPUBLISHED NONFICTION, FICTION OR POETRY
Proverse Hong Kong
INFO: This annual international prize, established in 2008, is open to all who are at least eighteen years old, whatever their residence, nationality or citizenship, including new, emerging and established writers.
ENTRY FEE: $50
DEADLINE: July 6, 2018
GENERAL SUBMISSIONS: FICTION
Epiphany Magazine
INFO: General submissions for Epiphany's Fall 2018 issue are now open. We are considering fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and graphic literature.
COMPENSENATION: $150 for fiction, nonfiction, and graphic lit.
SUBMISSION FEE: $3
DEADLINE: July 7, 2018
epiphanymagazine.submittable.com/submit
GENERAL SUBMISSIONS: NONFICTION
Epiphany Magazine
INFO: General submissions for Epiphany's Fall 2018 issue are now open. We are considering fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and graphic literature.
COMPENSENATION: $150 for fiction, nonfiction, and graphic lit.
SUBMISSION FEE: $3
DEADLINE: July 7, 2018
epiphanymagazine.submittable.com/submit/116975/fall-2018-submission-nonfiction
SPRING 2018 STORY CONTEST
Narrative Magazine
INFO: The Spring Contest is open to all fiction and nonfiction writers. We’re looking for short shorts, short stories, essays, memoirs, photo essays, graphic stories, all forms of literary nonfiction, and excerpts from longer works of both fiction and nonfiction. Entries must be previously unpublished, no longer than 15,000 words, and must not have been previously chosen as a winner, finalist, or honorable mention in another contest.
As always, we are looking for works with a strong narrative drive, with characters we can respond to, and with effects of language, situation, and insight that are intense and total. We look for works that have the ambition of enlarging our view of ourselves and the world.
AWARDS:
- First Prize is $2,500
- Second Prize is $1,000
- ·Third Prize is $500
- Up to ten finalists will receive $100 each. All entries will be considered for publication.
- All contest entries are eligible for the $4,000 Narrative Prize and for acceptance as a Story of the Week.
SUBMISSION FEE: $26. And with your entry, you’ll receive three months of complimentary access to Narrative Backstage.
DEADLINE: July 31, 2018
narrativemagazine.com/spring-2018-story-contest
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Fiyah Magazine
INFO: Every journey starts with a single step, and this issue is all about the trip, not the destination. We’re looking for stories of journeys to new worlds, of returning to lost worlds, and journeys of the soul. But, like always, make it weird, make it magical, make it Black.
We are looking for brave works of speculative short fiction by authors from the African continent and diaspora that reject regressive ideas of blackness, respectability politics, and stereotype. Please submit your bravest, blackest, most difficult to sell stories to us. We want to read them.
DEADLINE: July 31, 2018
http://www.fiyahlitmag.com/submissions/
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: FICTION
Apogee
INFO: Apogee is a journal of literature and art that engages with identity politics, including but not limited to: race, gender, sexuality, class, ability, and intersectional identities. We are a biannual print publication featuring fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and visual art. Our goals are twofold: to publish fresh work that interrogates the status quo, and to provide a platform for underrepresented voices, prioritizing artists and writers of color.
Prose should be under 5,000 words, in either .doc or .docx format.
DEADLINE: July 31, 2018
https://apogeejournal.submittable.com/submit
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: CREATIVE NONFICTION
Apogee
INFO: Apogee is a journal of literature and art that engages with identity politics, including but not limited to: race, gender, sexuality, class, ability, and intersectional identities. We are a biannual print publication featuring fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and visual art. Our goals are twofold: to publish fresh work that interrogates the status quo, and to provide a platform for underrepresented voices, prioritizing artists and writers of color.
Prose should be under 5,000 words, in either .doc or .docx format.
DEADLINE: July 31, 2018
https://apogeejournal.submittable.com/submit
2019 PEN AMERICA EMERGING VOICES FELLOWSHIP
INFO: The PEN America Emerging Voices Fellowship (EV) is a literary mentorship that aims to provide new writers who are isolated from the literary establishment with the tools, skills, and knowledge they need to launch a professional writing career.
Emerging Voices is a rigorous national fellowship that is based in Los Angeles, with weekly meetings and an intense reading and writing schedule. If you are not a resident of Los Angeles, and you are awarded the fellowship you will need to relocate for the seven month period, from January to July of 2019. Housing is not provided.
Components of the Emerging Voices Fellowship Include:
- Guidance from a professional mentor.
- Private Author Evenings with writers, agents, and publishers.
- Genre-specific master classes.
- UCLA Extension Writers' Program classes.
- A professional voice instruction class and recording session.
- A submissions workshop.
- A volunteer opportunity.
- Authors photos and professional bio.
- Three public readings in Los Angeles.
- A $1,000 stipend.
People ineligible for the Emerging Voices Fellowship:
- Those who have an M.A., M.F.A., Ph.D., or minor in Creative Writing.
- Students currently enrolled in undergraduate or graduate degree programs.
- Writers who have published one or more books through major publishing houses, university presses, or established presses.
- Current professional magazine and or newspaper feature writers or editors.
- Writers who are widely published in top-tier literary journals and/or magazines.
- Anyone under the age of 21.
Applications Must Include:
- Completed short answers.
- A professional CV or résumé. Please list any writing experience, education, and publishing credits.
- Two current letters of recommendation written by people who are either familiar with your writing, or can attest to your ability to complete a long term project. Letters must include the recommender's current e-mail address and phone number. Recommenders are not notified until the completed application is submitted. It is the applicant's responsibility to ensure that the two letters are uploaded on August 1, 2018, by 11:59 PM Eastern Standard Time. (If you are waiting until the last minute to apply, be sure to notify your recommenders ahead of time so that their letters are ready to upload.)
- A writing sample of up to 20 pages of double-spaced fiction or creative nonfiction, or 10 pages of single-spaced poetry. This sample should be relevant to the project you are proposing in the short answer section of your Emerging Voices Fellowship Application. Writing samples that exceed this page count will be disqualified.
Writing Samples Must:
- Include full name and e-mail address on each page.
- Be typed, double-spaced, paginated in 12-point Times New Roman font.
- Uploaded as an attachment.
- Not be longer than the required page count. (See above.)
Notification:
Finalists will be notified mid-November and will be required to interview in person with the selection committee in Los Angeles. The list of selected fellows will be posted on the PEN America website following interviews.
SUBMISSION FEE: $10
DEADLINE: August 1, 2018
pen.submittable.com/submit/116936/2019-pen-america-emerging-voices-fellowship-application