CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: LUCILLE CLIFTON TRIBUTE
Mentor & Muse
INFO: In celebration of Lucille Clifton, Mentor & Muse: Essays from Poets to Poets wishes to compile an issue of craft-centric essays that honor Clifton’s work. We seek essays that explore Clifton’s poetic choices—her voice, diction, figurative language, allusions, music, subject, aesthetic, risks, and so on—and explore how her poetry has influenced your own poems and/or subsequent generations’ poems.
We envision—and are open to!—different approaches to the Clifton tribute. For example, one approach is to consider how one of her poems helped you better understand a specific poetic principle. Another approach is to interview someone who apprenticed with Clifton’s poetry, whose own poetic knowledge and inspiration arose from studying Clifton’s language and lines. Another approach is to consider what you learned from workshopping with Clifton, or how you introduce Clifton’s work to your own students. (Surprise us. We are excited to love—and learn from—Clifton further!)
Furthermore, we encourage potential contributors to begin where they are most compelled, with the Clifton poems that act as touchstones, poems that contributors return to again and again for inspiration, solace, and guidance. Please note that while we do not have a formal structure in mind, we seek essays that are more personal and creative than academic; essays that reveal the insights that we, as poets, gain from reading and studying Lucille Clifton; and essays that are geared toward poets who already possess an understanding of basic poetic elements, poets who wish to further their poetic knowledge.
And, because we believe that writers not only learn by reading and enjoying the work of other writers, but also through the application of what we learn, we encourage essayists to include a writing prompt that relates to their Clifton-inspired discussions and considerations.
For a better understanding of the Mentor & Muse project, please browse our featured and archived essays and interviews. Our first five issues contain essays from Jericho Brown, Patricia Clark, Laurie Clements Lambeth, Jennifer Franklin, A. Van Jordan, Claire Kageyama-Ramakrishnan, David Keplinger, Alexandra Lytton Regalado, Sandy Solomon, Adrienne Su, and others, as well as interviews with Sean Hill, Matthew Olzmann, Shara McCallum, and Sarah Rose Nordgren.
To submit to the Clifton tribute, please email the editors. As we cannot cover reprinting costs, please select poems that are within the public domain or poems that can already be accessed online. While we occasionally print longer work, we suggest essays range from 750 to 2,500 words. Please query us with your questions about subject, style, or mode (mentorandmuse.poets@gmail.com).
DEADLINE: November 1, 2019
THE BARRY HANNAH PRIZE FOR FICTION
Yalobusha Review
INFO: We are proud to announce that our 2019 judge is Kiese Laymon, author of the novel Long Division, the essay collection How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America, and Heavy: An American Memoir, winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal and named one of The New York Times best books of the year.
THEME: Food. Food is about nourishment, pleasure, lack. Food bonds us through ritual, forges our connection to the earth, divides us into workers and consumers. Food is temporary; food is life. Submit one prose piece up to 4,000 words that incorporates food into the setting, plot, characters, or themes.
PRIZE: $500
SUBMISSION FEE: $5
DEADLINE: November 1, 2019
https://yr.olemiss.edu/barry-hannah-prize/
SHEARING FELLOWSHIP
Black Mountain Institute
INFO: The Beverly Rogers, Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute, home to The Believer magazine, invites applications for residential fellowships for the 2020-21 academic year. Visiting fellows will join a community of creative writers and scholars in a thriving literary scene in Las Vegas and on the campus of UNLV, supported by individuals and groups that share our commitment to bringing writers and the literary imagination into the heart of public life.
Recent fellows include Hanif Abudrraqib, Lesley Nneka Arimah, Tayari Jones, Walter Kirn, Ahmed Naji, Claire Vaye Watkins, and many others.
For emerging and distinguished writers who have at least one book published by a trade or literary press, this fellowship includes:
a semester-long letter of appointment
a stipend of $20,000 paid over a four-month period
eligibility for health coverage
office space in the BMI offices on the campus of UNLV
free housing (fellows cover some utilities) in a unique and vibrant arts complex in the bustling district of downtown Las Vegas—home to The Writer’s Block, our city’s beloved independent bookstore.
Recognition in BMI’s literature, and on The Believer’s masthead, as a “Shearing Fellow.”
While there are no formal teaching requirements, this is a “working fellowship.” BMI's visiting fellows will maintain a regular in-office presence, around 10 hours a week, along with 10 hours of service to the community. In addition to the primary goal of furthering one’s own writing during their term in Las Vegas, visiting fellows are expected to engage in a substantial way with BMI’s community, in a way custom-scoped based on their skills and personal interest. Upon acceptance into the program, each fellow will craft a work plan in partnership with BMI’s program manager that is meaningful to all involved parties. Here are some examples of activities a visiting fellow could pursue:
Offer readings, craft talks, and other public presentations to the readers and writers of UNLV and Southern Nevada.
Curate an event or program, leveraging the fellows’ professional and creative networks.
Contribute original work to The Believer (i.e., a column or feature essay, or occasional work such as lists, or entries in “Notes & Apologies.”)
Provide editorial support to The Believer (edit essays, conduct an interview, consult on editorial conversations)
Assist with headlines, blurbs, and occasional Twitter campaigns; offer opinion on drafts and other editorial concerns that arise in the life of a literary institution.
Finalists will be asked to send copies of their books (Applicants must have at least one critically acclaimed book published by a trade press.)
Candidates will be selected by the staff and community members of BMI and The Believer.
DEADLINE: November 1, 2019
https://fellows.blackmountaininstitute.org/apply
Jack Straw Writers Program
Jack Straw Cultural Center
INFO: Jack Straw Cultural Center is now accepting applications for the 24th year of the Jack Straw Writers Program. To date, the program has included more than 250 writers from the Pacific Northwest and beyond who represent a diverse range of literary genres. Each year, an invited curator selects 12 participants.
The purpose of the is to introduce writers to the medium of recorded audio; to develop their presentation skills for both live and recorded readings; to encourage the creation of new literary work; to present the writers and their work in live readings, in an anthology, on the web, and on the radio; and to build community among writers. Participating writers are presented in live readings, in the printed Jack Straw Writers Anthology; and on the web and radio. Each year an invited curator selects the participating writers from a large pool of applicants based foremost on artistic excellence. Among past curators are program co-founder Rebecca Brown, Donna Miscolta, Matt Briggs, Stephanie Kallos, Shawn Wong, Karen Finneyfrock, and Jourdan Imani Keith. Writers receive training in vocal presentation, performance, and microphone technique to prepare them for public readings, interviews, and studio recording. Their recorded readings and interviews with the curator are then used to produce programs for SoundPages, our literary podcast, and for selected radio broadcast.
The Writers Program requires participants to be on-site at Jack Straw Cultural Center for a number of activities, such as an introductory orientation, workshops for microphone/voice technique and live performance, in-studio interview session with the program curator, and live readings. Most of these activities take place between January and June. Additional Writers Program readings will take place around the community throughout the year, including a final reading with all of the writers in November. Work appearing in the Jack Straw Writers Anthology may not be previously published material, and any subsequent publication of this work must acknowledge the Jack Straw Writers Program.
Writers Program applications are evaluated and awarded by an invited curator. The curators change each year. All applicants will be notified of the results in writing. Please allow at least eight weeks after deadline dates for the review and notification process to be completed. The first Writers Program mandatory meeting will take place in January 2019.
The Writers Program receives more than a hundred applicants, from which 12 writers are selected. Curator selections will be based upon the excellence of the work represented in the support materials provided by the applicant.
DEADLINE: November 1, 2019
jackstraw.submittable.com/submit/90532/jack-straw-writers-program
Call for Submissions: The World We Want
YES! Magazine
INFO: As we enter the 2020 election year—a fresh decade and new opportunities for progress toward a better world—editors at YES! decided to get specific about the world we want. As we report on stories of solutions and analyze societal problems at their root causes—capitalist greed, inequality, consumer culture, colonialism and white supremacy—we often need to remind ourselves of the goal: The world we want to see.
This vision of the world we want can guide us in choosing our government, in electing leaders who have the right plans to get us there. This vision can also help us through hard times by giving us hope. How? Because we know that pieces of this better world are being born every day, and examples of it are happening in communities everywhere.
For our Spring 2020 issue on “The World We Want,” we’re going to lay out the YES! vision for the next decade. To accompany that big-picture vision, we’re looking for reported stories that lay out the specifics: reporting on communities that are already solving these problems, and the people who are already building this better world.
In 10 years from now, here’s what we’d like to see:
The economy:
Equality and fairness are driving forces of the economy. The transformation began with a 2% tax on the super wealthy—people making over $50 million. That alone was enough to fund a guaranteed basic income, universal health care, paid family leave and child care, and free public college. Reparations for slavery and the Native American genocide are being made and paid out, in addition to the guaranteed income system. In this democratic landscape, the business world is filled with worker cooperatives, nonprofits, and B-corporations and financial institutions with charters rooted in social justice. Antitrust laws have broken up conglomerates. The social safety net is strong. States use public banks to put capital back into communities. No matter where you live, the minimum wage is enough to live on. If someone wants a job, they can find one. The just transition to 100% renewables is nearly complete.
The environment:
The environmental commons has grown, and water is a protected public resource. Health of natural watersheds is prioritized over corporate or private interests. Nature and its extended family—the rivers, mountains, wild animals, and flora—have constitutional rights. North America’s Indigenous tribes, who have always been stewards of the continent, have a primary role in environmental governance. The oceans are clean of all plastics because single-use plastics are illegal and we have embraced alternatives that still meet everyone’s access needs. Fracking has ended, as all fossil fuels are kept in the ground. All food is organic. All cars are electric, as is the massive U.S. train system. The science community is responsible for making climate policy. The drawdown and shift to 100% renewables is nearly complete, and agriculture and forestry are managed as carbon sinks.
Democracy:
Corporate and special-interest money is out of politics. Elections are free and fair, and there are several parties to choose from. Democracy at the community level is robust, with broad and diverse representation that mirrors the people represented, and the rate of civic participation is high. Elections are paid for by public funds—not private contributions. The right to vote for every person, regardless of criminal record, age 16 or above is enshrined into federal law, with the Voting Rights Act as strong as ever.
Housing:
Everyone has a home. Cities and states have successfully tackled homelessness by following a housing-first model accompanied by supportive services. Lower-income people are provided with subsidies to ensure that no more than 25% of their income is spent on housing. Suburbs are dense and lively, designed as villages connected to employment and entertainment centers by efficient mass transit. Single-family homes have lost favor to duplexes, triplexes, and low-rise apartments with small footprints. Co-housing, multigenerational living, and other community-centered designs have solved housing affordability for elders and young adults.
Criminal justice:
The prison industrial complex has been dismantled. There are truth and reconciliation and restorative justice programs in every community. There is no such thing as money for bail. Jails are for violent and repeat offenders—including police officers who kill unarmed people. Illegal behavior is held accountable with mental health counseling, restitution, probation, community service, and rehabilitation. There is no such thing as drug offenses or illegal drugs, because there is no prohibition on drugs. People who need treatment for drug overuse get it, and harm reduction strategies form the core of a cultural understanding for how to address addiction.
Race:
The government has apologized for the enslavement, genocide, and oppression of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, and so have corporations and families who have benefitted. Reparations are being paid. Treaties are being honored. Wide-sweeping anti-racist policies have created true racial equity—economic and socio-political. All education is free and non-biased, without white supremacist, patriarchal, or colonialist rewriting of history. Every person has equal opportunity to have basic needs met, including quality air, food, water, shelter, health care, and time for rest and play.
Civil liberties:
The U.S. is a diverse nation, and all residents have civil rights protections across race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, and ability. No one is banned from entering the U.S. There’s a fair path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, and sanctuary for those with legitimate claims of asylum. Rights of U.S. citizens extend to immigrants and refugees who work and make their homes here. The government collaboratively invests in other countries to stabilize and support economies, making humanitarian migration unnecessary.
Gender:
Society is comfortable with nonbinary gender roles. A broader, more inclusive #MeToo movement ushered in an era of equity and balanced power in all areas, from politics to industry to social relationships and home life. Women have many choices for support, no longer dependent on one man or one job. Men are free from archaic notions of masculinity. Workplaces are safe and offer equal opportunity. Reproductive health care, from contraception to abortion, is free and part of holistic, basic medical care. Infant and maternal mortality are at historic lows, and are not different across race and class.
DEADLINE: November 5, 2019
yesmagazine.org/peace-justice/magazine-call-for-submissions-20191011
FAMILY RESIDENCY
SPACE on Ryder Farm
INFO: Now in its sixth year, SPACE on Ryder Farm’s Family Residency, founded in association with The Lilly Awards Foundation (spearheaded by Julia Jordan, Marsha Norman and Pia Scala-Zankel), provides a weeklong residency on the farm for working parents and their children.
The Family Residency offers an artist-parent with structured time to create, while their child(ren) participate in nature-focused arts programming under the guidance and expertise of professional theatre educators. All family residents (parents and children) enjoy three communal farm-fresh meals daily. The residency culminates in short, informal sharings of the work accomplished by both parents and children while in residence at SPACE.
SPACE welcomes applications from artist-parents with children who will be 3 to 12 years old at the time of the residency.
If both adults in a two parent/guardian household want to apply for a residency--regardless of whether they are working on the same or distinct projects--both parents/guardians must submit separate applications. Please know that while SPACE has hosted two-parent/guardian households previously, it is possible that only one adult will be accepted. Please refrain from applying if this is a deterrent.
The Family Residency is offered during these two weeks:
July 20th-25th, 2020 (for children 6-12 years old)
August 10th-15th, 2020 (for children 3-5 years old)
If your availability and your child’s age does not correspond to the designated week, we ask that you check back for our 2021 application, which will be posted in Fall 2020. If you would like for more than one child to join you at SPACE but the children fall into two different age categories, please contact residencies@spaceonryderfarm.org to discuss your options.
Family Residencies are fully-subsidized. Residents may need to cover their travel to and from the farm. If you are traveling from New York City, a round-trip off-peak Metro North ticket from Grand Central Terminal to Brewster Terminal is $30.00. Transportation between the Brewster Terminal and farm is provided by the SPACE team. As of 2018, those selected for the Family Residency are able to apply to a travel fund to help offset their travel costs. The allocation of funds is based on a resident’s geographical location and financial circumstances.
Before applying, please review the guidelines below as well as the FAQ page. If you have questions about applying to SPACE, please contact us at residencies@spaceonryderfarm.org.
Semi-finalists will be notified by late December 2019. Finalists will be interviewed in February and March 2020. Final decisions will be made by early April 2020.
DEADLINE: November 6, 2019
https://www.spaceonryderfarm.org/family-residency
Open Call for the "I've Got Love on My Mind: Black Women on Love" Online Issue
Barrelhouse
INFO: We've all heard the saying, "Trust Black women." But for Barrelhouse's special online issue, guest-edited by Tyrese Coleman, we are saying instead "Love Black women." We are saying, "Black women love." We are saying, "Read Black women!"
The theme is "I've Got Love on My Mind." We are looking for poetry, fiction and nonfiction that interprets this theme in any way that speaks to a Black woman's experience or interpretation of love—love for others, the spectrum of how and who we love and why, self-love, romantic love, familial love, a void of love, loving what others do not, loving your culture, your country, not feeling the love. We want work that isn't afraid to be avant-garde, irreverent, snarky, experimental, profane, moving, against expectations, or
all of the above.
SUBMISSION SPECIFICATIONS:
All submissions should be from Black women.
As race and gender are social constructs, the definition of a "Black Woman" for this issue is defined as someone who identifies as a woman and/or has a femme point of view, and who is a descendant of the African diaspora, has spent most of their life within a country that is or has been colonized, and, due to the power structure of white supremacy, self-identifies and is seen by others as Black or of African descent.
Basically, you know who you are.
Also, basically, don't try to Rachel Dolezal us. We will look you up.
WHAT WE'RE NOT LOOKING FOR:
This is an issue about love, not sex. Sex can be a part of your pieces but we are not interested in erotica. The sex should be important to the narrative or poem. We are also not interested in pieces focused heavily on motherhood: being a mother or having a mother. We all love our mamas but Black women are more than mothers.
Length:
Prose between 500 and 3,000 words. This can be 1 piece or 3 flash pieces that add up to no more than 3,000 words together.
Poetry: up to 5 poems
Comics: send us some stuff we'll figure it out. We definitely want to see it!
Simultaneous submissions: are welcome.
Current Barrelhouse submissions in other categories: Since Barrelhouse is currently open for several categories, if you have current work under evaluation, you are still eligible to submit different work to this special online issue.
PAYMENT: We are offering $50 for each contributor.
DEADLINE: November 8, 2019
call for 2020/2021 residencies
SEA Foundation - AiR Tilburg
INFO: SEA Foundation – AiR Tilburg invites applicants for its 2020/2021 residency program, taking place in Tilburg, Netherlands. The residencies are designed for visual artists, curators and writers whose work and life demands both a rigorous engagement as well as an urgency to propel progress in their practice. The SEA Foundation’s individual shaped residency program is limited to 8 participants per year. Duration up to 3 months.
Visual art, fiber art, drawing & painting, sculpture, media art, design, curating, art critique, art theory, artistic research, architecture, sound artists, performance artists.
For whom
Professional artists, curators and art writers
Regardless of gender or region
Established, mid-career or emerging practice
Minimum age: 25 at the start of the residency
Duo’s/collectives may apply as well
Residents may be accompanied by a partner
We expect you to master the English language sufficiently to be able to converse and collaborate with fellow participants and staff.
DEADLINE: November 15, 2019
culture360.asef.org/opportunities/sea-foundation-air-tilburg-call-20202021-residencies/
30 Below Contest—2019
Narrative Magazine
INFO: NARRATIVE invites all writers, poets, visual artists, photographers, performers, and filmmakers between eighteen and thirty years old to send us their best work. We’re looking for the traditional and the innovative, the true and the imaginary. We’re looking to encourage and promote the best young authors and artists working today.
Awards:
First Prize is $1,500
Second Prize is $750, Third Prize is $300
Ten finalists will receive $100 each
We accept submissions in the following media:
Written: Works of prose and of poetry, including short stories, all poetic forms, novel excerpts, essays, memoirs, and excerpts from book-length nonfiction. Prose submissions must not exceed 15,000 words. Each poetry submission may contain up to five poems. The poems should all be contained in a single file. All submissions should be double-spaced (excluding poetry, which should be single-spaced), with 12-point type, at least one-inch margins, and sequentially numbered pages. Please provide your name, address, telephone number, and email address at the top of the first page. Submit your document as a .doc, .docx, .pdf, or .rtf file. You may enter as many times as you wish, but we encourage you to be selective and to send your best work. All entries will be considered for publication.
Drawn: Graphic-novel excerpts and comics of no more than thirty pages, in .pdf format. Please include your full name in the file name.
Photographed: Photo essays of between five and twenty images, previously unpublished (including on sites like Flickr, your personal website, stock photography sites, etc.). Images should be submitted in a low-resolution .pdf or .jpg format; however, upon acceptance, images will need to be provided that have a resolution of at least 300 dpi, in a .tif, .jpg, or raw format that can be reproduced at 2,048 pixels wide. Captions or text should be included, either with the file containing the images or as a separate document in a .doc or .pdf format, with numbered captions corresponding to the similarly numbered photographs. Please provide your name, address, telephone number, and email address on the first page of the essay.
Spoken: Original works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry in audio theater, including performance, radio journalism, and stories and poems read aloud. Submissions may run up to ten minutes, in .mp3 format, with a bit rate of at least 128 kbit/s. Please include your full name in the file name.
Filmed: Short films and documentaries of up to fifteen minutes. Submissions must be in .mp4 or .mov format. Please include your full name in the file name.
Judging: The contest will be judged by the editors of the magazine. Winners and finalists will be announced to the public by January 10, 2020. All writers who enter will be notified by email of the judges’ decisions, which will be final. The judges reserve the option to declare ties and to designate and award only as many winners and/or finalists as are appropriate to the quality of contest entries and of work represented in the magazine.
Entries must be previously unpublished, though we do accept works that have appeared in college publications. Entries cannot have been the winner, finalist, or honorable mention in another contest. We accept online entries only. We do accept simultaneous submissions, but if your entry is accepted elsewhere, please let us know as soon as possible (and accept our congratulations!).
ENTRY FEE: There is a $25 fee for each entry. And with your entry, you’ll receive three months of complimentary access to Narrative Backstage.
DEADLINE: November 17, 2019, at midnight, PST
Fall 2019 Story Contest
Narrative Magazine
INFO: The 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.
Narrative winners and finalists have gone on to win Whiting Awards, the Pulitzer Prize, the Pushcart Prize, and the Atlantic prize, and have appeared in collections such as The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, and many others. View the recent awards won by Narrative authors.
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.
We welcome and look forward to reading your pages.
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.
SUBMSSION FEE: There is a $27 fee for each entry. With your entry, you’ll receive three months of complimentary access to Narrative Backstage.
All contest entries are eligible for the $4,000 Narrative Prize and for acceptance as a Story of the Week.
DEADLINE: November 30, 2019, at midnight, PST
Magazine Submissions
Latino Book Review
INFO: Latino Book Review is proud to announce the call for submissions for our print magazine 2020 issue. Our latest issue is set to be published in January 2020 and will include some of the best work by Latino writers and artists in the U.S. and around the world. This issue will include an interview with the world-renowned author Isabel Allende.
We are currently seeking to publish original work by authors and artists in the following areas:
Poetry (3 poems)
Fiction (Around 2000 words)
Nonfiction (Around 2000 words)
Visual arts (6 piece portfolio)
Essays (Related to culture, literature or arts - Around 2000 words)
Research (Related to culture, literature or arts - 2000-3000 words)
Works can be submitted to info@latinobookreview.com with an email titled "magazine submission". Written works should be attached in a Word document along with a 100 word bio and a high resolution image of the author or visual artist. Visual works of art can be attached in a high resolution PDF or JPEG format.
There is no monetary compensation for publications nor submission fees.
DEADLINE: November 30, 2019
latinobookreview.com/latino-book-review-magazine-8203call-for-submissions--latino-book-review.html
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Boom California
INFO: Boom California embraces work in many different formats, although we normally publish the short and long-form essays, which are refereed through a double-blind peer review process. We invite written, photographic, artistic, and multimedia submissions in all formats and lengths, with essays from 800 to approximately 8,000 words.
Topics of particular interest to Boom California include:
Immigration
Race
Inequality
Social Justice
Gender
Queer Studies
Labor
Latinx Population and Culture
Asian American Population and Culture
African American Population and Culture
Poverty
Social Movements
Within and across these topics, our goal is to highlight California within broader global contexts, exploring them through various underexplored cultural modalities, including but not limited to expressions in history, religion, food, the environment, crime, music, film, media, and elsewhere.
Boom California accepts the following types of content:
Scholarly essays – short form (800–2,000 words) and long form (5,000-10,000 words)
Reviews – critical engagement with significant books, media, exhibits, events, etc. (1,000–2,000 words)
Interviews – engaging leading figures in California culture or history
Portraits – portraits of contemporary and historical artists, writers, activists, and cultural producers (2,000 words)
Postcards – creative non-fiction stories grounded in a particular place (2,000 words)
Photo/art essays – generally between 8 and 12 images with an introduction, making a contribution to the distinct visual representation of California
If you would like to pitch an article or idea, please email boom@ucpress.edu with a short 100-word proposal. Articles that are under consideration by another publication or that have been published elsewhere will not be considered, although we will consider excerpts from recent and forthcoming books on California culture.
DEADLINE: December 1, 2019
https://boomcalifornia.com/submissions/
Writer and Artist in Residence
Black Mountain Press
INFO: Apply Now for a Free Working Vacation to Beautiful Asheville, NC. The Black Mountain Press is pleased to announce its new writer/artist in residence program. The residence takes place in our previous location which was a converted child care center. There is plenty of room to stretch out in this house with large fenced yard, minutes away from hiking trails, trout streams, biking trails and more on the Blue Ridge and Smoky Mountains, and about 10-15 minutes from downtown Asheville. 1 and 1/2 bathrooms, working office space with wifi, exhibition or reading space, kitchen, and bedroom provided. The selected writers/artists will spend up to 6 weeks this Asheville location and be expected to provide one reading or exhibit at the end of the residency. Image of the residency space is here: http://www.floodgallery.org/images/flood.jpg and interiors on our blog: http://theblackmountainpress.com/blog/erika-brumett-our-first-writer-in-residence/
Hurry! Applications start now (Dates are flexible) Please indicate what dates you are interested in.
·Nov. 17th -Dec 30th 2019
Jan 2-Feb 15th 2020
Feb 17-March 30th 2020
Apri 2-May 15th 2020
May 17-June June 30th 2020
Residencies include access in our former work space: a private home near the Blue Ridge Mountains in Swannanoa, NC, with opportunity and location to demonstrate or read your work.
Writers/Artists are responsible for their own transportation to and from the location and personal supplies and food.
Artists are required to exhibit or participate in one reading at the Flood Fine Art Center in Black Mountain, NC
All utilities and wifi and included in this residency.
Writers please submit up to 3 published poems, short stories, or 1 novel excerpt for considerations.
Artists/Musicians/Photographers/Filmmakers please supply 2-3 images, videos, or musical pieces for consideration.
SUBMISSION FEE: $44
DEADLINE: Not specified.
thehalcyone.submittable.com/submit/144654/writer-and-artist-in-residence