CALL FOR SUBMISSION: ‘ODYSSEY’ ISSUE
Lucky Jefferson
DEADLINE: November 7, 2021
INFO: Lucky Jefferson's digital zine Awake seeks to amplify the experiences and perspectives of Black writers in American society.
The fourth issue of Awake is titled Odyssey:
Despite being the first Black captain of your crew, you’ve been overlooked for promotions your entire career in the Space Force. One day, you finally receive your chance at your own expedition to the Outer Ring. After launch, your ship experiences technical difficulties and you find yourself plummeting four thousand kilometers off course.
After awakening, you realize it’s been a few days since you lost connection with Mission Control. You stumble through iridescent foliage to discover a bustling city ahead of your own time. You are soon discovered and greeted by the inhabitants of this world—inhabitants that reflect your culture.
Now you have two options: figure out a way to return home or explore this planet and begin a new life. What are you going to do?
Poems, essays, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, and art should illustrate your decision.
Upon acceptance, submissions will be included on our website and publicized on social media.
Accepted authors will receive $15 for each accepted work.
*Writers looking to be published in upcoming print issues should plan to submit their work to the appropriate form during open calls.*
When submitting:
- Send no more than three poems in a submission. Separate poems by titles or page breaks.
- Essays should be no more than 1500 words.
- Flash Fiction should be no more than 1000 words.
- Send no more than three pieces of art. Artwork that offers social commentary on the lack of diversity in Science Fiction is highly preferred (We love comics and collage pieces!).
- In the cover letter box include: your name, email address, current address, and bio (third-person, 50 words max).
We do not accept translations or work that has been previously published in print or online.
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: ‘ACROSS THE SPECTRUM’ ISSUE
Raising Mothers
DEADLINE: November 15, 2021
SUBMISSION FEE: $3
INFO: Raising Mothers publishes experimental and traditional fiction, flash fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, interviews, book reviews, photo essays, and comic/graphic narratives. Raising Mothers publishes work that centers parenthood from either a parent, or child-centered perspective from BIPOC people exclusively; women, femmes, disabled, nonbinary and LGBTQIA+ parents.
For our “Across the Spectrum” issue, we’re interested in work that celebrates, examines, critiques and/or questions the realities and assumptions of what it means to parent or nurture a neurodiverse child or be a neurodiverse parent. Work that examines these worlds at the intersections of race, class and/or gender identity is strongly encouraged.
We invite all forms--essays, poems, interviews, comics, fiction, etc.--that addresses the breadth and depth of neurodiversity.
www.raisingmothers.com/submissions/
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2022 C.L.R. James Research Fellowship
African American Intellectual History Society
DEADLINE: November 15, 2021 by 11:59pm EST
INFO: The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) is pleased to announce the 2022 C.L.R. James Research Fellowship to support research towards the completion of a dissertation or publication of a book. Named after Afro-Trinidadian theorist C.L.R. James, the research fellowships are intended to promote research in Black intellectual history by graduate students, independent scholars, and faculty members at any rank.
AWARD: Two fellowships of $2000 will be awarded this year to help cover the costs of domestic or international travel necessary to conduct research. In recognition of the ongoing challenges associated with COVID-19 and the difficulties of domestic and international travel, recipients of this year’s awards may use the funds for any research-related expense (i.e. to purchase books or other files needed for research projects). The award will be announced formally at the AAIHS Conference. Membership in AAIHS is required. Current AAIHS board members are not eligible.
Please send the following documents in a single PDF document: short c.v. (no more than 3 pages), 3-5 page project proposal (double-spaced), budget, and arrange to have one letter of recommendation sent to awards@aaihs.org as an email attachment in Microsoft Word or PDF.
Applicants will be notified in March 2022. Funds must be used by December 30, 2022. Recipients will be required to submit a detailed report to the conference chair. Graduate student applicants must have passed their qualifying exams.
2022-2023 CLR James Research Fellowship Committee:
Dr. Benjamin Talton, Temple University (Committee Chair)
Dr. Adam Ewing, Virginia Commonwealth University
Dr. Celeste Henery, The University of Texas at Austin
*All submissions and questions about the 2022 CLR James Research Fellowship should be sent to awards@aaihs.org.
https://www.aaihs.org/aaihs-awards/c-l-r-james-research-fellowship/
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LITERATURE GRANT
Café Royal Cultural Foundation
DEADLINE: November 15, 2021 at 9am EST
INFO: Café Royal Cultural Foundation NYC will award a publishing grant to authors of fiction / creative non-fiction, poetry and playwriting.
Amounts: Up to $10,000.00
Eligibility: Authors in fiction / creative non-fiction, poetry and playwriting. The applicant must be the originator of the written material.
Grants awarded in this category may fund costs associated with continuing the composition of work submitted. Such as:
Course Reduction (if you're a Teacher/Professor)
Salary Replacement
Living Expenses
Research Expenses
Writers applying must be a current resident of New York City and have lived there for a minimum of one year prior to applying.
Please make sure to submit your application with ample time before the start date of your project.
Review Procedures: Funding decisions will be made by the Café Royal Cultural Foundation Selection and Executive Committees. The following criteria will be applied in evaluating grant proposals:
Creativity, originality, ideas and concepts, writing style
Importance of the Project/Cultural Relevance
Promise of future achievements in writing
Application Requirements:
Up to and no more than a 15 page PDF of the work, for the Café Royal Cultural Foundation executive committee to download and read.
A letter of intent from the publisher with a date of planned publication, if no publisher is assigned, Café Royal Cultural Foundation may work with writer to help find a publisher.
A short description of the project.
A short author biography of the person(s) involved.
List of costs that the grant money be used for - must not exceed the amount of $10,000.00
https://caferoyalculturalfoundation.org/literature-page
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30 Below Contest—2021
Narrative
DEADLINE: November 19, 2021 at midnight PST
ENTRY FEE: $26 (includes three months of complimentary access to Narrative Backstage).
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 - $1,500
Second Prize - $750
Third Prize - $300
Ten finalists will receive $100 each.
The prizewinners and finalists will be announced in Narrative.
All N30B entries are eligible for the $4,000 Narrative Prize for 2021 and for acceptance as a Story of the Week or Poem of the Week.
GUIDELINES:
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 stories, graphic-novel excerpts, and comics of no more than thirty pages, in .pdf format.
Photographed: Photo essays of between five and twenty images, previously unpublished (including on sites like Instagram, your personal website, stock photography sites, etc.). Images should be submitted together in low-resolution .pdf 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.
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.
Filmed: Short films and documentaries of up to fifteen minutes. Submissions must be in .mp4 or .mov format.
JUDGING: The contest will be judged by the editors of the magazine. Winners and finalists will be announced to the public by December 18, 2021. All entrants 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!).
www.narrativemagazine.com/30-below-2021
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2021 Illuminating Black Lives: A Writer's Fellowship
Writers Colony at Dairy Hollow
DEADLINE: November 29, 2021
INFO: This fellowship invites writers to explore the African American experience. The work may be in any literary genre: fiction or nonfiction, poetry or prose, or a combination. It may take place now or in the past. It may draw upon the life of the author or probe other lives. There is no expectation of a certain attitude or type of experience. Rather, the successful application will demonstrate insight, honesty, literary merit, and the likelihood of publication.
Two fellowship winners will each receive a two-week residency at the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow to allow the recipients to focus completely on their work. Each writer’s suite has a bedroom, private bathroom, separate writing space, and wireless internet. We provide uninterrupted writing time, a European-style gourmet dinner prepared five nights a week and served in our community dining room, the camaraderie of other professional writers when you want it, and a community kitchen stocked with the basics for breakfast and lunch.
Fellowship applications must be accompanied by a writing sample and a non-refundable $35 application fee. Writers proposing more than one project must submit a separate application and fee for each one. The submission period opens on Monday, September 6, 2021. Deadline is midnight on Monday, November 29, 2021. The winner will be announced no later than December 29, 2021. Residency must be completed by December 31, 2022. Exceptions will be made if COVID-19 makes a residency inadvisable. For an application form, visit https://www.writerscolony.org/fellowships.
https://www.writerscolony.org/fellowships
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Fall 2021 Story Contest
Narrative
DEADLINE: November 30, 2021
SUBMISSION FEE: $27 (includes three months of complimentary access to Narrative Backstage)
INFO: Our Fall 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 - $2,500
Second Prize - $1,000
Third Prize - $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.
JUDGING: The contest will be judged by the editors of the magazine. Winners and finalists will be announced to the public by December 31, 2021. 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.
www.narrativemagazine.com/fall-2021-story-contest
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ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program
American Literary Translators Association
DEADLINE: November 30, 2021 at 11:59pm PT
INFO: The American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) is a non-profit organization that supports and promotes literary translation and translators. They are currently accepting applications for emerging BIPOC translators working from any language into English (open to translators who identify as Black, Indigenous and/or a Person of Color).
The ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program is designed to establish and facilitate a close working relationship between an experienced translator and an emerging translator on a project selected by the emerging translator. The mentorship duration is nine months. The emerging translator is expected to choose a project that can be completed in that time, and they will only be advised on that particular project. ALTA's Emerging Translator Mentorship Program was founded by former ALTA board member Allison M. Charette.
All mentors and mentees meet via video conference at the beginning of their mentorship in February, and continue their work through individual meetings during the rest of the mentorship year, either in person, over Skype, or by phone. A minimum of six meetings is expected for the course of the year. The mentorship will conclude with a presentation of the mentee’s work in a reading at the annual ALTA conference in the fall.
ALTA's mentees also have the option to take part in our "First Look" program, which allows participating publishers to be the first to read excerpts of the translations mentees have worked on throughout their mentorship, for possible publication. The $1500 travel stipend covers ALTA conference registration, as well as travel to the conference location and on-site accommodations. Please note that each of our program funders may have different stipulations regarding travel funding.
The program is open to emerging translators at no cost to them. An emerging translator is someone who has published no more than one full-length work of translation. This mentorship is open to translators who identify as Black, Indigenous and/or a Person of Color. Preference will be given to those who don't have an MA, an MFA, or some other equivalent type of training, such as a mentorship from the National Centre for Writing’s Emerging Translator Mentorships(UK). Though English is the target language, the emerging translator need not live in the United States. The selected mentee’s proposed project will be worked on based on availability (applicants are not expected to secure rights for their proposal).
This program is distinct from the ALTA Travel Fellowships. Previous years' Fellows are welcome to apply for the Mentorship. Applicants may apply to both programs in the same year, but only may only receive one award.
For more information, please see our website for details, as well as introductions to former mentees and their accomplishments.
Please use this form to apply to the non-language-specific BIPOC mentorship with Katrina Dodson (open to translators who identify as Black, Indigenous and/or a Person of Color).
Applications must be submitted online through our submission platform, and must include:
CV
A project proposal of no more than 1000 words. Projects must be reasonably expected to be completed within the scope of the nine-month mentorship. Proposals should include information about the original author and importance of the source text, as well as how the emerging translator would benefit from mentorship.
A sample translation of 8-10 pages (double-spaced if prose), along with the corresponding source text IN ONE DOCUMENT.
This mentorship is being offered by ALTA in partnership with anonymous individual donors.
TIMELINE:
Late January, 2022: Selected mentees notified
Early February, 2022: Selected mentees announced
Early February, 2022: Mentorship program begins with a virtual meeting
November 2-5, 2022: Mentorship program ends with a reading at ALTA45 in Tucson, AZ
ABOUT THE MENTOR:
Katrina Dodson is the translator of The Complete Stories, by Clarice Lispector, winner of the PEN Translation Prize and other awards. She is currently adapting her Lispector translation journal into a book and translating the 1928 Brazilian modernist classic Macunaíma: The Hero With No Character by Mário de Andrade (New Directions, forthcoming 2022). Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review, The Believer, McSweeney’s, and elsewhere. Dodson holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley and teaches translation at Columbia University.
Please contact ALTA's Program Manager Kelsi Vanada with any questions: kelsi@literarytranslators.org.
https://alta.submittable.com/submit
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Honey Literary
DEADLINE: December 1, 2021
INFO: Honey Literary’s third issue will be out February 2022! We publish two issues each year, one in winter, and one in summer. This reading period (for our third issue) closes December 1, 2021.
To share your work, please email the respective genre editor and upload your .docx or image files (please direct any file format questions to Editor in chief, Dorothy Chan @ editor@honeyliterary.com and she would be happy to help). Include a brief bio with a few sentences about why your work is a good fit for us with our mission statement in mind. If you’re submitting the same packet to multiple categories, please let us know as well.
Please send us your work only once per submission period. Simultaneous submissions are cool as long as you promptly notify us if the work is accepted elsewhere.
Honey Literary accepts and encourages simultaneous submissions, but please let us know immediately if a piece is accepted elsewhere. Submit no more than once per submissions period. We only accept unpublished work. Honey Literary retains first publication rights, and upon publication, rights revert back to the author. Please credit Honey Literary as the first publisher if the piece appears elsewhere after publication, which includes, but isn’t limited to other journals, anthologies, chapbooks, and full-length books.
CATEGORIES:
Poetry: Send us three to five unpublished pieces at a time. We’ve got big appetites, so more is more. We want the poems that were too weird for workshop. Give us work that is eclectic and absurd and demands to be read aloud. Send us your jigsaw edges and remixes. Email submissions to Editor Rita Mookerjee: poetry@honeyliterary.com
Sex, Kink, and the Erotic: Locker room talk is dead; Honey Literary is here for body-positive, kink-friendly content centered around respect and consent. Ideal submissions include but are not limited to confessions, toy/gear reviews, etiquette guides, dirty little secrets, burlesque show recommendations, odes to sideboob, fav strip club snacks, dating app wins (or fails), shibari shoots, erotic vignettes, recaps from the weekend, and that porno script you saved on your old desktop. Honey Literary loves and supports sex workers as well as their art/writing! Show us what’s inside your bedside drawer. Note from the editors: Please be sure to look up the difference between “erotic” and “erotica” before submitting. Email submissions to Editor Rita Mookerjee: sex@honeyliterary.com
Essays: Send us essays that use the personal to explore facets of our current world. From natural history, science, politics, international events, food, culture, and art, we want to see how the personal and public intersect in your work.We’re seeking essays that are elastic, capacious, experimental and exploratory. We welcome memoir, nonfiction, research, lyric meditations, and hybrid work about what stirs your curiosity, what raises your hackles. We especially invite emerging writers and student writers to submit their work. (750-1000 words). Email submissions to Editor Avni Vyas: essays@honeyliterary.com
Hybrid: Do you have work that blurs, defies, or redefines genre? We welcome excerpts and stand alones that may include, but are not limited to: documentary poetics, notes, mappings, marginalia, lists, altars/shrines, collections, audiovisual pieces, prose poetry, letters, invented forms, collaborations, and scholarly projects that are slightly or largely out of touch with institutions. Send enough work to contextualize your project with respect for our time. For example: a bouquet–not the entire meadow. Email submissions to Editor Claire Meuschke: hybrid@honeyliterary.com
Comics: We’re looking for eccentric, experimental, excessive, confessional, instructional, genre-nasty comics pieces (10 pages or less) in any form. Single-panel pieces, excerpts from zines, comics stories without words, comics without pictures, one-offs, doodles, interesting trash, and everything in between. We are particularly open to submissions from members of the LGBTQIAAP+ community. Email submissions to Editor Jessica Q. Stark: comics@honeyliterary.com
Animals: Kingdom: Animalia. Familiars. Daemons. Protectors. Companions. Predators. Prey. This is a space to submit art & writing about animals real or imagined, pre-historic or future, spineless or silky, friend or foe. Share the work you do with animals; show us the bioluminescent creatures in your lagoon; describe the dreams where your lost pets come to visit you. Highlight conservation work in your habitats. Profile the service animal of the year. Recount the folk tales that made you scared of drain serpents. Tell us about the anteater in the forest, the sandhill cranes in the parking lot, the carabao in the rice field, the angler in the deep. We want your venom, oily feathers, plush fur, mythical beasts, and whale songs. Please submit a maximum of 3 artworks, 3-5 pages for poems, and 10-15 pages for longer pieces. Email submissions to Editor Christina Giarrusso: animals@honeyliterary.com
Interviews: Honey Literary seeks to conduct interviews that showcase the boundlessness of art and innovation, tapping into the creative’s soul and teasing out the hows and whys of their passions. We want to facilitate interviews that go beyond the typical, robotic back and forth between two parties, but rather a natural, gradual unfurling between people who cherish expression and creation. Whether you’re a singer, writer, visual artist, or culinary chef, Honey Literary wants to know what moves you, what keeps you up at night, who’s in your artistic lineage, and of course, all about your craft. Email submissions to Editor Zakiya Cowan: interviews@honeyliterary.com
Rants & Raves: Send us what you are excited about. Rants & Raves is looking for critical & contextual works on books, just as we did before, but also we are expanding on that option! We are in search of pieces that meditate on works that bring out particular passions for you! Is there a single poem that you would like to blare through a megaphone at all the strangers & loved ones in your community if given a chance? Is there a single song that you can’t get out your head & wish you could talk about with every car that speeds by? Is there a train that you hear daily & absolutely wish didn’t wake you up everyday? Is there a bird you witness in flight that transports you elsewhere? This is where those individual moments that move you shine. We’re looking for (800 words or less) insights into moments that particularly move you. Is there one instance of an Allen Iverson crossover that you’re still hung up on? Which frame in the Rihanna “Work” video do you still have as a gif in your notes app? What about that one daffodil creeping into sprout on your sidewalk cracks? We’re open for you! Email submissions to Editor Nabila Lovelace: rantsandraves@honeyliterary.com
Valentines: Tell us about that one friend you didn’t know you were in love with until you came out. Share the sticky note love letters you’ll never end up giving your roommate’s girlfriend. Or what about those love songs you wrote to your favorite artists? Honey Literary wants your Valentines: your phone notes, email drafts, letters in a box, corner-of-the-page-too-distracted-by-lust-to-pay-attention doodles, and descriptions of the outfits you love but will never wear. Or what about your thoughts on the perfect perfume for that special someone, your late-night car conversations, your platonic epics, your [self-insert] fanfiction, your realizations of being pursued or secretly admired, your sheets of loose leaf stuffed into drawers, your quarantine love stories, or your Tinder conversations with strangers that you’ll never speak to again? Think about those missed connections: the person you ran into three times at the grocery store whose name you didn’t catch. Is your valentine a top 10 list? Is it taped on a bus stop, in the refrain of a pop song, at the bottom of a bowl, or framed at an altar? Give us your cutesy, your sexy, your sultry, and your badass expressions of love and life. Email submissions to Editor Maria Clara Melo: valentines@honeyliterary.com
https://honeyliterary.com/submit/
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Obsidian
DEADLINE: December 1, 2021
INFO: Obsidian supports—through publication and critical inquiry—the contemporary poetry, fiction, drama/performance, visual and media art of Africans globally.
This special issue of Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, Gender Queer/ Genre Queer Playground, seeks work that moves between the face of terror and isolation; joy as possibility, necessity, and form. Recess—inspired by the visual artist Ellen Gallagher’s 2001 painted sculpture “Preserve,” (10 x 12 x 32 feet) described in Art in Review as “an expansive, all-white structure of straight wooden dowels designed to resemble a children’s jungle gym, … decorat[ed] … with cut-out pieces of flat rubber … based on Ms. Gallagher’s usual lexicon of google eyes, lips and wavy hair.” Catch—Gallagher’s minimalist structure, modeled in the context of the “playground,” allows for multiple points of entry, the viewer able to play through a raced, gendered, queer site. Blacktop. Blackness. Kickball. Tetherball. Double-Dutch. Tag. You’re It.
We invite LGBQTIA+++++ of the African Diaspora to come play with us across practices. Please send original short stories, poetry, drama, hybrid genre, creative/critical interventions, interviews, multimedia visual and digital art, as well as music and experimental soundscapes.
https://obsidianlit.org/open-calls/
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Writing as Activism Fellowship
NYC Literary Action Coalition
DEADLINE: December 3, 2021
INFO: The NYC Literary Action Coalition’s Writing as Activism Fellowship reimagines the role of writers in New York City, offering tools and support to produce literary work that centers activism on community and social justice issues.
The fellowship will offer a six-month immersive workshop experience for six New York City-based writer-activists committed to uplifting the voices of those most marginalized in the city, including those who identify as LGBTQ+, Black, Latinx, Asian American, disabled, low-income, and at any intersection of these and other experiences. The program will culminate with individual and collective work brought to the public and the launch of a cohort of writers ready to mobilize their creativity in activist spaces.
Each fellow will be awarded a $2,000 honorarium.
https://pen.submittable.com/submit/207805/2022-writing-as-activism-fellowship
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Open Call: Eyebeam Center for the Future of Journalism
Eyebeam Center
DEADLINE: Rolling
INFO: The Eyebeam Center for the Future of Journalism (ECFJ) is a grant-making program that supports artists producing innovative and revelatory journalistic work for major media outlets.
The funds distributed to artists will assist with research, travel, and other expenses many media outlets struggle to cover, allowing stories that are often out of reach in today’s climate to be produced. And, in an effort to be responsive to an ever-fluctuating news cycle, artists will be able to apply to ECFJ for support of their work on a rolling basis. Artists with longer-term, research-intensive projects are also encouraged to apply. Grant support will range from $500 to $5,000.
All applicants must read the ECFJ Open Call page before applying: https://eyebeam.org/ecfj
Eligibility:
Individuals and collectives can apply. Collectives must have work samples that reflect a history of working together.
International applicants are welcome.
Applicants must have an existing commission letter from an editor.
Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
At this stage of the program, all applications must be in English.
Criteria
ECFJ is a grant-making program that financially supports artists producing innovative journalistic work for major media outlets. Artists applying must have demonstrated track record of working with major media outlets.
Artists creating work with a focus on the following issues are encouraged to apply:
Data privacy
2018/2020 elections
Role of technology in society
Political influence campaigns
Interrogating harmful technologies
Countering disinformation
Artificial Intelligence
Each applicant must provide:
300-word project description
Assignment letter from editor
A reference contact or letter of support
Two samples of past work
Detailed budget of expenses (travel costs, per diem and research costs are acceptable)
At this time, final pieces must be in English.
All applications should be in alignment with Eyebeam’s core values of:
Openness: All the work here is driven by an open-source ethos.
Invention: We build on old ideas to generate new possibilities.
Justice: Technology by artists is a move towards equity and democracy.
Equity and Inclusion: Eyebeam aims to create a hub for conversation and practice-sharing that is aware and responsive to systemic inequities in technology and invests in the meaningful inclusion of historically marginalized groups and voices. Eyebeam is committed to and values diversity in its organization and programs as defined by gender, race, ethnicity, disability-status, age, sexual orientation, immigrant status, and socioeconomic status. With a history rooted in innovation and collaboration Eyebeam’s programs are grounded in artist-community dialogue. Eyebeam supports the meaningful access to technology for everyone.
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CALL FOR MENTORS
Latinx in Publishing
DEADLINE: Rolling
INFO: The Latinx in Publishing Writers Mentorship Program is a volunteer-based initiative that offers the opportunity for unpublished and/or unagented writers who identify as Latinx (mentees) to strengthen their craft, gain first-hand industry knowledge, and expand their professional connections through work with experienced published authors (mentors).
QUALIFICATIONS TO BE A MENTOR
Must identify as Latinx (does not include individuals of Spanish origin)
Must have published at least one book prior to February 2020
Must be located in the U.S. during the course of the program
Must be available to dedicate at least one hour per month for a minimum of ten months
ABOUT THE WRITING MENTORSHIP PROGRAM
The next cycle of the program runs from February 2022 through October 2022.
Applications for 2022 mentees will open in September, 2021. Applications for mentors are open on a rolling basis.
Mentees must complete a sign-up survey and submit 5-10 pages of sample writing.
Mentors must complete a sign-up survey and review mentor guidelines.
We match individuals based on category and time- commitment preferences. The sign-up survey will help us make the best matches between mentor and mentee.
Please be aware that not everyone who applies will be matched.
Participants will be notified of their mentor-mentee match and provided with contact information by January 2022.
Mentors and mentees will connect for one hour per month over a minimum of ten months.
The program will close in October 2022, but if the mentor and mentee would like to continue their mentor relationship, it is entirely at their discretion.
Please be aware that the Latinx in Publishing Writers Mentorship Program is a volunteer-based initiative. Latinx in Publishing will not be held responsible for mediating any relations between mentors and mentees once the program ends.
https://latinxinpublishing.com/mentorship
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Unmute Magazine
DEADLINE: Rolling
INFO: Unmute Magazine, is a digital mag that aims to lift the voices of BIPOC creatives who’ve been historically marginalized.
They are accepting the following submissions (must be arts-related):
Album/EP or concert review (600-800 words).
A review of your own music or art including a discussion of the inspiration behind it (600-800 words).
Art-related how-to article (600-800 words).
Interviews (an introductory paragraph and five written questions).
Reflections / Essays (up to 1,500 words).
Song or poem including a discussion of the inspiration behind it (may submit up to four for review).
Photograph(s), illustrations, art (JPEG or PNG format).
Have your own idea? Please pitch it to us!
Please submit the following with your piece:
A third-person bio of up to 100 words.
(Optional) Photo as JPEG or PNG format for your bio.
(Optional) Up to 3 links to social media (i.e. Spotify, Soundcloud, website, Instagram, etc).
Submission Rules:
Written works and bio must be submitted in Word or Pages format
By submitting you agree to be considered for publication in Unmute Magazine.
Work must be original.
Unmute Magazine retains standard first publication rights for submissions. All rights immediately revert to the creator upon publication.
It may take several weeks for a response, but your submission will be read. If accepted, you will be notified.
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Please email your submission to Submissions (at) unmutemagazine (dot) com
https://unmutemagazine.com/submissions/
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Latin American Literature Today
DEADLINE: N/A
INFO: Latin American Literature Today (LALT) welcomes submissions of translated texts (Spanish-English, Brazilian Portuguese-English) of contemporary Latin American prose, verse, interviews, essays, and book reviews throughout the year.
Furthermore, the journal is committed to foregrounding the work of translators, so we encourage and welcome contributions such as translator’s notes, essays on the art of translation, translation reviews, interviews to translators, as well as translation “previews” from forthcoming book publications.
All translation submissions and questions should be directed to Denise Kripper, our Translation Editor, at translation.lalt@gmail.com. Submissions will be reviewed by the entire LALT editorial team.
LENGTH OF SUBMISSIONS: Creative prose (fiction and non-fiction) should have a maximum length of 5,000 words; poems should be limited to 3 to 5 poems; articles and interviews should have a maximum length of 2,000 to 2,200 words, unless otherwise directed by the editor; book reviews should have a maximum length of 1,200 words.
Please check our general style guide for questions related to text formatting.
LITERARY SUBMISSIONS: Translators should send the original and the translation in two separate .doc files and should also send a cover letter for consideration. Please do not send either PDFs of either texts or scanned photocopies of original texts.
For consideration, write an email with “translation submission” in the subject field.
Every effort will be made to acknowledge receipt of your submission in a timely fashion, but, given the high volume of inquiries that we receive, please allow a minimum of eight weeks for evaluation and a response concerning acceptance. Please do not query after you have submitted your work.
Once the text has been submitted, it cannot be modified by the author. We recommend that all LALT collaborators ensure they are submitting the final version of their collaboration to avoid editing problems after submission. Once accepted, and before publication, we will provide a final proof for your approval.
The editors of LALT reserve the right to accept or reject any work received and to make any editorial changes they deem necessary, not including changes to content.
COVER LETTER: In the cover letter, please explain the importance and relevance of the translated text. Translators must acquire rights to publish the original and the translation and must stipulate that these rights have been acquired in the cover letter. Please also include a bio of the translator and author in English of no more than 100 words each and send high-resolution pictures of both translator and author.
NAME OF DOCUMENT SENT TO LALT: The name of the 3 (three) Word documents should be formatted in the following order. 1) Title of the original work, name of author between parentheses, underscore, name of translator. 2) Title of the translated work, name of author between parentheses, underscore, name of translator. 3) “Cover letter”, underscore, name of translator.
For example:
El fondo del cielo (Rodrigo Fresán)_Will Vanderhyden
The Bottom of the Sky (Rodrigo Fresán)_Will Vanderhyden
Cover letter_Will Vanderhyden
SIMULTANEOUS SUBMISSIONS: Submissions for any issue of LALT should not have been previously published. Simultaneous submissions are allowed as long as the translator withdraws the submission from LALT as soon as it is accepted elsewhere.
OTHER TRANSLATION SUBMISSIONS: For translation-related essays, interviews, book reviews, etc. please send an email with “translation contribution” in the subject field. These should follow our general publication guidelines, so make sure you check those before submitting a text for consideration.
COLLABORATION: We are excited about the opportunity to further collaborate with translators, so if you have an idea you want to pitch to us, be sure to send us an email with “translation pitch” in the subject field.
We are also looking for good Spanish-English translators who are willing to translate content submitted in Spanish. This may include essays, interviews, book reviews, and fiction and poetry. If you are interested in collaborating, please email with “translation collaboration” in the subject field.
OTHER INQUIRIES may be sent to the LALT editorial team by email with “translation inquiry” in the subject field.
www.latinamericanliteraturetoday.org/en/guidelines-translators
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CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS
Yeehoo Press
DEADLINE: N/A
INFO: Yeehoo Press is dedicated to publishing fun, enchanting, and socially responsible children’s books for audiences around the world. Our books are published and sold in simultaneous English and Simplified Chinese editions. Yeehoo Press has offices in Los Angeles, San Diego, California, and Shanghai, China. We are a boutique press publishing 10 to 15 books per year, so we give each book on our list specific focus and a dedicated promotional push.
Yeehoo Press currently has an open submissions policy. We’re looking for fictional and non-fiction picture books, both text-only and author-illustrator projects, aimed at ages 3-8.
We’re particularly interested in:
A clever combination of fiction and non-fiction
Natural science titles focusing on sea creatures, microorganisms, ecosystems, etc.
Underrepresented voices with universal messages, especially those with Asian heritage.
Hands-on experiences, such as problem-solving, cooperation, etc.
Stories modeling critical thinking, such as analytical thinking, open-mindedness, etc.
Stories exploring self-identification and identity
Intergenerational family stories
Stories highlighting international and multicultural foods and cooking
Neurodiverse characters who are the heroes of their own stories
Books about environmental conservation and stewardship
Thank you for your interest in submitting your work to Yeehoo Press. Please familiarize yourself with the submission guidelines below to ensure that we are the right match for you and your work. Due to an overwhelming number of submissions we receive each week, please note that if you have not heard from us in six months, we are not interested at this time. No exclusive submissions are required as you may submit your work to other publishers at the same time.
For All Submissions:
Send all submissions via email.
Attach text-only manuscripts as Microsoft Word attachments. File sizes cannot be larger than 2MB.
Send art sample, dummy and other materials via a link.
For Picture Books:
Original fiction and non-fiction titles for children ages 0 to 8.
Up to 1000 words (not including art notes and/or back matters).
Include a query letter in the body of the email.
Your query letter should include the following:
Synopsis, pitch, age range.
A bio that describes your occupation, publishing history, social media presence, whether or not you are represented by an agent, and any other information relevant to your submission.
Please include titles of up to three comparable books published over the last ten years. Such books should have an audience close to your book in the marketplace.