Asian Women Writers MENTORSHIP PROGRAM
Asian Women Writers
DEADLINE: November 4, 2022
INFO: Asian Women Writers’ mentorship scheme is an opportunity to develop your writing with leading experts from the publishing industry. We are delighted to be working with literary agents and editors who are involved in publishing some of the most exciting titles both in the UK and USA. Applications are open internationally to Asian women who are writing in English and who are without literary agents.
Through consultations, mentorship or submission assessments, your mentor will help you develop your writing and prepare to submit to literary agents.
There are three types of mentorship you can apply for, depending on where you are in your writing project. Meetings are virtual by default but in-person can be arranged where mutually convenient:
CONSULTATION - A consultation is the opportunity to meet with a mentor to discuss an issue you are experiencing in your writing. Whether you would like to have feedback on a pitch or discuss a specific aspect of your work, such as structure, voice or pacing, a consultation lets you ask questions related to your writing or the publishing process as a whole.
MENTORING - Mentoring is the chance for you and your mentor to work together over 3-4 months to help bring a writing project to completion. You will meet once a month to discuss up to 10,000 words of new writing and plan your next steps.
SUBMISSION ASSESSMENT - Once your novel manuscript or non-fiction proposal is complete and you are ready to submit to (or query) literary agents, a submission assessment will help you make your final edits. Your mentor will meet with you to provide feedback on your synopsis, cover letter and the first three chapters of your novel or proposal.
GUIDELINES:
To apply for the AWW mentorship programme, please email applications@asianwomenwriters.org introducing your writing project and a short introduction to yourself. The subject of the email should be as follows: ‘[MENTOR NAME], [TYPE OF MENTORSHIP], [GENRE]’
Only unpublished and unagented writers are eligible to apply.
Read through the mentor profiles to learn about the interests, areas of specialism and availability of each mentor. In your email include who you think would best suit your text and the type of mentorship that would be most helpful for where you are at the moment.
If you are writing a novel, attach a writing sample of the first 10,000 words of your manuscript and a one-page synopsis.
If you are writing a non-fiction book, attach a sample of your writing and a proposal document of 2000-3000 words that includes an overview of the book as whole and describes your expertise in the subject.
Writing samples should be formatted with double-spacing in 12pt font size in .doc, .docx or .pdf format.
Applications are assessed on a rolling basis and we will be in touch if your writing has been selected. We look forward to reading your work.
asianwomenwriters.org/mentorship/
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WORKSPACE Residency FOR LGBTQ+ WRITERS
Velvet Park
DEADLINE: November 11, 2022 at 11:59pm
APPLICATION FEE: $25
INFO: Velvet Park invites writers to apply for a six-month workspace residency (January – June 2023). Please keep in mind that the studio space is 114 sq ft. – 14’ x 8’, with 12’ ceilings, large 6’ x 6’ window). The studio is located in Crown Heights in Brooklyn.
CHECKLIST:
Poets, submit up to 15 – 20 pages of poetry
Prose, 25 – 30 pages of prose
Screenplay/play script, provide 1 – 2 completed works
additional works accepted via url, to online portfolio or published works
CV/Resume
should reflect your artistic/creative accomplishments
2 references
1 professional reference, who can speak about your work and
1 personal reference, who can speak about you personally, your work ethic, values, and any other pertinent information about you.
provide names and contact; phone/email of these individuals (letters not required).
finalists’ references will be contacted by selection committee to speak about you.
velvetparkmedia.com/writers-residency-2023/
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The Megaphone Prize
Radix Media
DEADLINE: November 15, 2022
SUBMISSION FEE: $20
INFO: The Megaphone Prize is open to personal essay collections from BIPOC authors yet to publish a full-length collection in the genre. Hanif Abdurraqib, author of They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us, will choose the winning manuscript.
PRIZE: The winning author will receive publication, a $1000 prize, 20 author copies, and a dedicated publicity cycle toward the published book.
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR:
The Megaphone Prize is open to writers of color writing in the English language who have not published a full-length book in the genre they’re submitting in. We are looking for work that believes the personal is political, that comes from a place of deep interrogation and critique of one’s self and society at large, that is rebellious at heart, and that seeks to question the status quo. At a time when there is a deep reckoning with political thought in the literary community, we want to identify and highlight emerging writers who are at work on collections they deem urgent and essential.
This year, we are inviting writers to submit book-length personal essay collections. We are looking for creative essays and not polemic or academic manuscripts. However, the personal essay can certainly incorporate criticism or study so long as it’s imperative to the narrative.
We like collections where the essays are bound thematically, where there is a strong intention in their curation—where a single pulsating heart beats through the entire manuscript.
Given the nature of revelation that is tied to the personal essay, we accept and in fact encourage name changes when necessary, especially in sensitive texts.
All entries will be considered for publication. Finalists may be offered publication with Radix Media.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
Open to debut writers of color writing in the English language (not exclusively). Should not have published a full-length collection in the genre of submission. Chapbook publications are okay.
There is an entry fee of $20. As a small press, charging an entry fee allows us to offset the printing costs of the project. If you are unable to pay the fee at this time, please email meher@radixmedia.org, and your submission fee will be waived. 25 fee waivers are available.
Please submit a manuscript of roughly 30,000-80,000 words. Your manuscript must be a single Word or PDF document. Please include a title page and table of contents page. DO NOT INCLUDE YOUR NAME, EMAIL ADDRESS, PHONE NUMBER, OR ANY IDENTIFYING INFORMATION IN THE MANUSCRIPT. Please do not include a dedication page or publishing acknowledgements at this stage. Manuscripts that do not adhere to these guidelines will be immediately disqualified. Please double-space your manuscripts. The readers and editors make a complete effort to read manuscripts without bias. As the contest genre is nonfiction, we understand that it is impossible to remove all identifying information from the manuscript. And that’s okay! So long as your name doesn’t appear on the title page nor in the header or footer, it’s alright.
You can include illustrations or photographs only if they are integral to the narrative. If not, please do not include them at this stage.
Simultaneous submissions are welcome, but please notify us ASAP if your collection is accepted elsewhere.
Please direct all questions to meher@radixmedia.org
radixmedia.submittable.com/submit?mc_cid=a69f9ae648&mc_eid=9e7c4259dd
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
The Hellebore
DEADLINE: November 15, 2022
SUBMISSION FEE: $0
INFO: The Hellebore is currently seeking submissions. Micro poetry, prose poetry, narrative poetry, flash fiction (under 1500 words), and flash nonfiction (under 1500 words) is welcome.
While we offer quick response times, all of our issues are scheduled in advance. Depending on when writers and artists may submit, work may not be published until months later. If the goal is to be published sooner, submit towards the end of the reading period. Keep in mind, space is limited, which makes the process more selective. To have the best possible chance of publication, follow the guidelines and refer to the tips.
Due to the volume of submissions we received this last round, expect a response between 1-3 months. Notifying folks about the status of their work within a reasonable time frame is important to us so inquire through email if you do not hear from us within the reading period for the issue you submitted to: thehelleborepress [@]gmail [dot] com
PROCESS: Denise Nichole & Rachel Andrews work together to review submissions. After work is selected, contributors may be asked to undergo a brief revision process with Editor in Chief, Denise Nichole to ensure that work is ready for publication. The revision process incorporates reflective questions, feedback, and edits. We offer this service to support our contributors but recognize that this is not standard practice. Rest assured, that is why we do it. It is our hope to offer resources that support writers and poets throughout each stage of their career. Part of that includes developmental editing and mentorship.
Angel Camarena assists with the editing and formatting of each issue. They collaborate with Denise to prepare issues for publication by proofing and organizing individual pieces of writing.
Underrepresented communities are highly encouraged to submit. The Hellebore Press invites perspectives and narratives from: women, BIPOC, neurodiverse, disabled, non-binary, immigrant, international, and LGBTQIA+ identities.
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: “1619 SPEAKS” ANTHOLOGY
Sims Library of Poetry
DEADLINE: Extended to November 15, 2022
INFO: The Sims Library of Poetry has an open submission call for its "1619 Speaks" anthology.
RELEASE DATE: April 2023
GUIDELINES:
Your work must be an homage to an African-American poet of the past
You must identify as African-American
works accepted (1-3 pieces per category):
- poetry
- prose (750 max words),
- visual artformat of submission: .docx (poetry + prose) or .png (visual art)
Please submit to 1619speaks@gmail.com
COMPENSATION: $50 honorarium for all accepted artists
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Firecracker Awards
Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP)
DEADLINE: November 15, 2022
ENTRY FEE: $65 ($55 for CLMP Members) for the first book and $30 ($25 for CLMP Members) for each additional entry.
INFO: The CLMP Firecracker Awards for Independently Published Literature are given annually to celebrate books and magazines that make a significant contribution to our literary culture and the publishers that strive to introduce important voices to readers far and wide. Prizes are awarded in the categories of Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Poetry, Magazine/General Excellence, and Magazine/Best Debut. Each year, CLMP also awards the Lord Nose Award, given to a publisher or editor in recognition of a lifetime of work in literary publishing.
PRIZE: Each winner in the books category will receive $2,000–$1,000 for the press and $1,000 for the author or translator–and each winner in the magazine categories will receive $1,000. In addition, a national publicity campaign spotlights and promotes our winning titles each year. In partnership with the American Booksellers Association, promotional materials—including a press release and shelf talkers featuring the winning titles—are distributed to over 750 independent booksellers across the country. Winners are also promoted in CLMP’s newsletters, on our website, and through a dedicated social media campaign. The publishers of winning titles receive a free one-year membership to CLMP, and magazine winners receive a one-year CLMP Member subscription to Submittable. To read press coverage about the 2022 Firecracker Award winners, visit our Press Center.
Finalists will be announced in spring 2023; the winners will be announced in June 2023.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
Books must be published by an independent publisher during the 2022 calendar year.
Anthologies and self-published titles are not eligible but works in translation and graphic novels are welcome.
English-language submissions from international publishers are eligible.
Both print and digital magazines are eligible.
Magazines submitting in the General Excellence category must have published regularly for at least the past two years.
Magazines submitting in the Best Debut category must have launched during the 2020, 2021, or 2022 calendar years.
There is no limit to the number of entries publishers may submit.
2023 FIRECRACKER AWARD JUDGES:
Fiction:
Karen Maeda Allman, former Author Events Co-Coordinator, Elliott Bay Book Company
Kristen Arnett, author of With Teeth, published by Riverhead Books
Vauhini Vara, author of The Immortal King Rao, published by W. W. Norton Company
Creative Nonfiction:
Cinelle Barnes, author of Monsoon Mansion: A Memoir, published by Little A
Daisy Hernández, author of The Kissing Bug, published by Tin House
Emerson Whitney, author of Heaven, published by McSweeney’s
Poetry:
Kemi Alabi, author of Against Heaven, published by Graywolf Press
Jenny Gropp, author of The Hominine Egg, published by Kore Press
Komal Mathew, author of For Daughters Who Walk Out Like Sons, published by Zone 3 Press
Magazine:
S. Tremaine Nelson, Editor and Publisher, Northwest Review
Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn, Editor in Chief, The Rumpus
NaBeela Washington, Founder and Editor in Chief, Lucky Jefferson
clmp.org/about/what-we-believe/
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The Bird in Your Hands Prize
Thin Air Magazine
DEADLINE: November 20, 2022
SUBMISSION FEE: $0
INFO: We are excited to announce the Third annual The Bird in Your Hands Prize: a contest that centers and celebrates BIPOC voices. This is a no-fee contest accepting poetry, fiction, and nonfiction in any form under 500 words.
PRIZE: The winner of the contest will be awarded $500, published in Thin Air Magazine, and interviewed for Thin Air Online. The winner will also be invited to read the winning entry, at the Northern Arizona Book Festival held in April 2023. First and second runners up will also be awarded an honorarium.
This contest is open to new, upcoming, and established BIPOC writers alike. Simultaneous submissions are allowed, and we carry no expectations for the content or tone of submissions. All submitted works must be previously unpublished.
JUDGE: The judge for this year's contest is Samir Talib. Samir Talib got his BA in English in 2002 and his MA in 2005 in the field of English Literature/Renaissance Drama. In 2010, he joined the University of Exeter/UK for a PhD in the field of Renaissance studies. He has been teaching courses in Drama, Poetry and Literary criticism at the University of Basrah since 2005. He is interested in the field of the philosophy of literature, as well as contemporary literary and cultural theory, especially in the field of cultural studies and popular culture.
FORMATTING SPECIFICATIONS:
Please use Times New Roman, 12pt., double-spaced, 1 inch margins for all submissions except poetry, which should remain single-spaced.
Please include page numbers and a word count at the top of your manuscript.
Please do not put your name in your manuscript.
If unique formatting is critical to the submission, you may upload it as is (but please note that we may have to collaborate to translate your formatting onto the physical restraints of our pages).
thinair.submittable.com/submit
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2023 Summer Residencies
Tin House
DEADLINE: November 20, 2022
APPLICATION FEE: $30
INFO: Tin House Residents will be housed in one of two 900 square ft. studio apartments (with separate entrances) situated between the Tin House Workshop and Tin House Books offices in Northwest Portland. These apartments include a full kitchen, bathroom, and a small living room/office with WiFi. There are several coffee shops, restaurants, and grocery stores within walking distance of the apartment, as well as access to public transit.
As our second-floor apartment is only accessible by stairs, we will prioritize our first-floor apartment to those with accessibility needs. If multiple residents require first-floor access, we will do our best to stagger Residency dates.
Please note that while partners and children are welcome to accompany Residents, the studio apartments only feature one queen bed. Cribs/Pack ‘n Play will be made available upon request.
Each Residency comes with a $1,200 stipend.
During their stay, Residents will have the opportunity to meet (virtually) with editors from Tin House Books, as well as participate (when possible) in a series of small salon-style gatherings with members of Portland’s literary community.
2023 SUMMER RESIDENCIES:
Next Book
May
This residency is intended to support published authors working on their next book. Applicants must have already published their debut or be under contract to publish their first book at the time of applying. Former Workshop Faculty may apply.First Book
June
This residency is intended for debut writers who have not yet published a full-length book. Applicants may be under contract but cannot be scheduled to publish their debuts until 2024. Chapbooks and self-published works do not count toward this requirement.Parents Residency
July
This residency is intended to support writers with children 18 years of age or younger.General Residency
August
These residencies are intended for any writer working on a full-length manuscript.
ELIGIBILITY:
We accept applications in the following genres: Fiction (novel/short), Nonfiction, Poetry, and Graphic Narrative, as well as the translation of any of those genres.
When applicable, applicants may be under contract to publish the book they are applying with.
International writers may apply.
Former Residents may not apply.
You must be 21 years of age or older by the start date of the residency you are applying for.
APPLICATIONS:
We ask for one unpublished writing sample. In addition to the writing sample, the application includes several questions about your project.
For SF/Novel/NF, 6,000 words or less. If you are submitting an excerpt, please include a synopsis.
For poetry, six poems, totaling no more than 20 pages.
For GN, 30 pages or less of combined graphics/text.
Translation: Please follow the requirements for the genre in the original language and submit both your translation and the original text.
No reference letters, please.
Applications are read by Tin House Workshop/Books staff and former Workshop attendees. Our admissions board makes selections based on the promise of the project proposal through the lens of our core values.
tinhouse.com/workshop/residencies/
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Rising Writer Prize
Autumn House Press
DEADLINE: November 30, 2022
INFO: The 2023 Rising Writer Prize is for a first full-length book of fiction. The submission period opens October 1, 2022, and closes November 30, 2022 (Eastern Time). The judge for the 2023 Rising Writer Prize is Matt Bell.
GUIDELINES:
Must be the author’s first full-length fiction collection (previous publications of chapbooks and full-length books in other genres are fine)
Novels, novellas, and short story collections are eligible
The winners will receive book publication, a $1,000 honorarium, and a $500 travel/publicity grant to promote their book
All finalists will be considered for publication
Submissions should be approximately 100 – 200 pages (45,000 – 90,000 words)
The reading fee is $25 (We will waive the submission fee for those undergoing financial hardship or living with limited means. Before you reach out to request a waived fee, please read our full statement and instructions here. If the guidelines are not followed, we will not be able to offer a waived fee.)
Do not include your name anywhere on the actual manuscript; if your name appears within the body of the text, please omit it or black it out
You may include a brief bio in the “cover letter” section of Submittable
Do not include an acknowledgments page in the manuscript
Feel free to include a table of contents
Simultaneous submissions are permitted, but please let us know immediately if your book was accepted elsewhere
Friends, family members, and former students of judges or Autumn House editors may not submit to the contest. Students do not include interactions at short-term residencies or fellowships
Former employees of Autumn House, including interns, may not submit to the contest
JUDGE: Matt Bell is the author most recently of the novel Appleseed (a New York Times Notable Book) published by Custom House in July 2021. His craft book Refuse to Be Done, a guide to novel writing, rewriting, and revision, will follow in early 2022 from Soho Press.
He is also the author of the novels Scrapper and In the House upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods, as well as the short story collection A Tree or a Person or a Wall, a non-fiction book about the classic video game Baldur’s Gate II, and several other titles. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Esquire, Tin House, Fairy Tale Review, American Short Fiction, Orion, and many other publications. A native of Michigan, he teaches creative writing at Arizona State University.
autumnhouse.org/submissions/rising-writers-prize/
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Scholars-in-Residence Program Fellowship 2023-24
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
DEADLINE: December 1, 2022
INFO: The Scholars-in-Residence Program offers both long-term and short-term fellowships designed to support and encourage top-quality research and writing on the history, politics, literature, and culture of the peoples of Africa and the African diaspora, as well as to promote and facilitate interdisciplinary exchange among scholars and writers in residence at the Schomburg Center.
Long-term fellowships provide a $35,000 stipend to support postdoctoral scholars and independent researchers who work in residence at the Center for a continuous period of six months. The Scholars-in-Residence Program provides funding for six fellows each year, three of whom are supported by funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Selected fellows can choose to begin their term either in September or in January. Fellows are provided with individual office space and a computer, research assistance, and full access to the unparalleled resources of the Schomburg Center. In addition to pursuing their own research projects, fellows also engage in an ongoing interdisciplinary exchange of ideas, sharing their research with one another in a weekly work-in-progress seminar. While in residence, they are also exposed to the vibrant intellectual life of the Schomburg through its public exhibitions, panels, screenings, and events.
Short-term fellowships are open to postdoctoral scholars, independent researchers, and creative writers (novelists, playwrights, poets) who work in residence at the Center for a continuous period of one to three months. Short-term fellows receive a stipend of $3000 per month. (These short-term fellowships are a recent addition to the Scholars-in-Residence Program, having been offered for the first time in the 2017-18 application cycle; they are funded by an endowment provided by the Ford Foundation and the Newhouse Foundation.)
Both long-term and short-term fellowships are awarded for continuous periods in residence at the Schomburg Center. Fellows are expected to devote their full time to their research and writing. They are expected to work regularly at the Schomburg Center and to participate in the intellectual life of the Scholars-in-Residence Program. Fellows may not be employed during the period in residence, except on sabbaticals from their home institutions. Those selected as Scholars-in-Residence are encouraged to supplement their stipends with funding support from their home institutions or other non-residential fellowships or grants if the requisite approval is received from the Schomburg Center.
ELIGIBILITY: The Scholars-in-Residence Program is intended for scholars and writers requiring extensive, on-site research with collections at the Schomburg Center, the pre-eminent repository for documentation on the history and cultures of peoples of African descent around the globe. Fellows are expected to be in full-time residency at the Center during the award period and to participate in scheduled seminars and colloquia. The Program is intended to support research in African diasporic studies undertaken from a humanistic perspective; projects in the social sciences, science and technology, psychology, education, and religion are eligible if they utilize a humanistic approach and contribute to humanistic knowledge.
Candidates who need to work primarily in the New York Public Library's other research libraries – the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, the Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, and the Science, Industry and Business Library – are not eligible for this fellowship, nor are people seeking funding for research leading directly to a degree. (Applications are accepted from current doctoral students, as long as they will defend their dissertation and graduate before starting the fellowship tenure.) Only U.S. citizens, permanent residents and foreign nationals who have been resident in the United States for the three years immediately preceding the application deadline may apply.
APLICATION INSTRUCTIONS:
A complete application must include:
The Schomburg Center Scholars-in-Residence Application.
A 1500-word description of the proposed study.
Curriculum vitae (limit to 3 pages).
Names of references (long-term fellows must submit three recommendation letters; short-term fellows must submit a minimum of two letters). References will receive an e-mail instructing them how to upload their recommendations.
Fill out an application here.
DESCRIPTION OF STUDY:
In no more than 1500 words the applicant should provide a detailed description of the proposed study, including but by no means restricted to the following elements:
A statement of the topic under consideration with specific reference to the major questions, problems, and theses being investigated.
An outline of the plan for carrying out the study or project.
Discussion of the sources in the Schomburg Center and other research units of The New York Public Library that the applicant plans to use for the study and plans for examining them.
Description of research methods.
Applicant's competence in the use of any foreign languages needed to complete the study.
The place of the study in the applicant's overall research and writing program.
The significance of the study for the applicant's field and for the humanities in general.
The final objective and expected outcomes of the project. Plans for publications, lectures, exhibitions, teaching, and other vehicles of dissemination should be detailed. Fellows will be expected to share and discuss their research and writing with other scholars-in-residence in the weekly work-in-progress seminar during their residency.
SELECTION CRITERIA:
Applications for the Scholars-in-Residence Program will be reviewed by a Selection Committee consisting of five external reviewers, a rotating panel of accomplished scholars and writers with expertise across the fields of study covered by the fellowship. The Selection Committee is convened and chaired by the Director of the Scholars-in-Residence Program.
Fellows will be selected on the basis of the following criteria:
Relationship of the project to the resources of the Schomburg Center.
Qualifications of the applicant.
Quality and feasibility of the project plan.
Importance of the proposed project to the applicant's field and to the humanities.
Relationship of the project to the humanities.
Likelihood that the project will be completed successfully.
The provisions for making the results of the project available to scholars and to the public at large.
Applicants selected for the Program will be notified in late March.
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CALL FOR Essay/Memoir/Nonfiction-Hybrid Manuscripts
Split/Lip Press
DEADLINE: December 1, 2022
SUBMISSION FEE: $15
INFO: We are currently looking for previously unpublished essay collections, memoirs, and nonfiction-hybrid full-length book manuscripts. Individually published pieces within the manuscript are absolutely fine (and expected!) but the book should not have been published as a BOOK before. We won't define "full-length" for you (you're the author, after all) but books between 100-200 pages tend to hit our sweet spot. If your book is shorter, keep us in mind for our chapbook reading period!
We're looking for manuscripts that question boundaries (physical, emotional, metaphysical, meta-emotional—you get the gist). Dazzle us with your version(s) of truth! To get an idea of what we love, please check out our current NF/hybrid offerings: Sarah Fawn Montgomery's forthcoming essay collection Halfway from Home, Esteban Rodriguez's essay collection Before the Earth Devours Us, Jeannine Ouellette's memoir-in-essays The Part That Burns, Athena Dixon's essay collection The Incredible Shrinking Woman, Melissa Matthewson's memoir-in-essays Tracing the Desire Line, and Melissa Wiley's essay collection Antlers in Space and Other Common Phenomena. We'd love it if you'd add a copy of any (/all) of our books to your submission, and we'll happily throw in free shipping as a thanks!
Historically under-represented perspectives are WELCOME and ENCOURAGED and HIGHLY SOUGHT—we want to help bring your voice to the world!
OUR MISSION: We publish boundary-breaking fiction, nonfiction, and hybrid books, lifting the transition boards that prevent fluidity and smashing those we cannot pry up. We love work that questions the concept of truth, and work that reinterprets what we think we know. We prize experimentation (physical, emotional, metaphysical, meta-emotional); we welcome the unanswerable. We want to see the dark and the light side of the moon—or we want to see it obliterated. If your book is a wedge in a crack, Split/Lip Press is the hammer helping you split the wall apart.
All books published at Split/Lip Press have been discovered during our open reading periods—we do not solicit manuscripts and do not accept manuscripts sent outside of our reading periods. Every author has the same opportunity to join us! However, Split/Lip Press does not tolerate manuscripts celebrating racist, homophobic, or misogynistic perspectives, and will discard such manuscripts unread. We believe in breaking boundaries at Split/Lip, but we will not assist agendas of hate.
BASIC FORMATTING DETAILS: TNR 12 (or similar), double-spaced (unless you are specifically using special formatting—which we'd love to see), and PLEASE remove your name from the manuscript and file name—our readers want to review your manuscripts without names attached. There is a box on the submission form where, if you choose, you may indicate any information about positionality which may be helpful for the readers to know.
Please note that while we love and welcome work which includes images/diagrams/etc, we are unable to reproduce color images and they would need to appear as black-and-white images within a 6" x 9" printed book, so please keep that in mind when submitting.
HUGS + THANKS: We work closely with our authors on all elements of their book, from design to promotion. We are engaged in the literary community, and as writers ourselves, we know how important it is to have a book that you love that is supported by a press that loves you. We'd love for you to be part of the Split/Lip Press family.
Simultaneous submissions are obviously welcome. Our reading process is a process and we move quickly and efficiently, but we also don't interrupt it prematurely. So if another publisher snags you first, we just ask that you withdraw your submission (and congrats to you!).
We intend to reply to all submissions by February 15, 2023, so please do not query about the status of your manuscript before that date. If you haven't seen anything from us by 2/15/23, check your status in Submittable and double-check your email spam filter because Submittable's messages sometimes get stuck there—we will definitely respond!
splitlippress.submittable.com/submit
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Spring 2023 Mesa Refuge Residency
Mesa Refuge
DEADLINE: December 1, 2022
APPLICATION FEE: $50 (with possibility for fee waiver)
INFO: Mesa Refuge welcomes a diverse group of writers—both emerging and established—who define and/or offer solutions to the pressing issues of our time. Particularly, it is our priority to support writers, activists and artists “working at the edge,” in the areas of the environment, economic equity and social justice.
We welcome writers in all genres, including nonfiction, journalism, fiction, radio, film and others. Applicants will be contacted approximately 8-10 weeks after the application deadline, which is December 1, 2022.
We are a small nonprofit and our application fee of $50 helps underwrite the cost of application review. As an organization committed to equity, however, we do not want the application fee to be a barrier to apply. To request a fee waiver, please email us directly here.
mesarefuge.org/residencies/application/
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CALL FOR NONFICTION ESSAYS
TriQuarterly
SUBMISSION PERIOD: Fall/Winter (November and December 2022)
INFO: Have a great essay in need of a good home? TriQuarterly's Non-Fiction Editor Starr Davis is looking for "reckless and experimental prose from voices of color. Essays that thread personal narrative around larger conversations.
She is most interested in non-academic CNF that isn't afraid to be poetic and confessional. Some topics she is interested in are political vs personal, post-pandemic, transitioning (however you wish to interpret this), and personal essays about women's rights and social injustices.
triquarterly.submittable.com/submit
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Stellium
DEADLINE: Rolling
INFO: Stellium centers Black queer and trans creatives. We still accept work from other Black and QTPOC creatives. We seek those emerging and established (with an emphasis on emerging).
What type of work do you accept?
Fiction - We welcome long- or short-form fiction. If you submit flash fiction (up to 2k words), you can submit up to three pieces of similar length. The sweet spot is around 2k to 5k words but we'll consider all lengths.
Nonfiction - We're seeking creative nonfiction submissions. Please note the following before submitting. We welcome personal essay, memoir, biography, autobiography, the Audre Lorde-invented “biomythography," new journalism or literary journalism, diary entries, and more. No academic papers. The sweet spot is around 1k to 4k words but we'll consider all lengths.
“The stories that only you can tell. Stories about your most closely-held revelations or your brightest lightbulb moments, whether about your own life or about the world at large or both. Those 2000-word-long musings scribbled in your Notes app between shifts? Those clever tweet threads that make you go “dang, Twitter should pay me for this”? Those are great places to start.” - former CNF editor Kim Wong-Shing
See work from Akwaeke Emezi in The Cut and from Brandon Taylor in them.
Prose poetry - We do not accept traditional poetry. Please note the following before submitting. Prose poetry is "not broken into verse lines, [but] demonstrates other traits such as symbols, metaphors, and other figures of speech common to poetry." Write in paragraphs and with a poetic flow, and we'll want to see it. Please submit a maximum of five poems.
“Think poetry without line breaks. Think a really poetic tweet without character limits. Think an expressive, detailed letter or e-mail to the homie. Think run-on sentences, runaway thoughts. Think IDGAF about punctuation all like that but I care about the feels & the mood & the setting & maybe i’mma slide in a slant rhyme or 2 or as many as necessary.” - former prose poetry editor Nefertiti Asanti
See [Kills bugs dead.] and Elliptical by Harryette Mullen.
Art - We accept high-quality scans of any original, visual art.
So how do I submit?
Please use the following format when submitting, otherwise, your entry may be discarded.
Craft an e-mail to submissions (at) stelliumlit.com
In the subject line, clarify your submission as genre: title, your name
example: “Fiction: Fifteen Little Birds, Janelle Doe”
In the body, please share:
your bio (any length) including your name, pronouns, and creative background
social media links or an alternative way to contact you outside of e-mail (to confirm you’re not a plagiarist)
submission summary (at least a sentence, even for art submissions)
answer: has this work been submitted elsewhere?
your submission as a DOCX or PDF attachment, or as a JPG or PNG for art submissions
within the e-mail body is fine but an attachment is preferred
no other file formats are accepted at this time
Do y’all pay?
We do! In the past, we’ve offered $50 for each accepted submission, even for art and poetry. However, we’re still in the running for grants and hope to offer more than that in the future. For now, you can expect our standard minimum payment and, if we’re able to offer more, we will announce it and update the text here. If you’d like to support us, feel free to make a contribution today via our fiscal sponsor, Fractured Atlas.
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Carnegie Fund for Authors
DEADLINE: Rolling
INFO: Carnegie Fund for Authors awards grants to American authors who have been published by a mainstream publisher and who are in need of emergency funds.
ELIGIBILITY: The applicant must be an American author who has published at least one full-length work — fiction or nonfiction — that has been published by a mainstream publisher. Applicants cannot have eligibility determined by a work that they paid to have published. A work may have been published in eBook format only, or in hardcover or softcover format, or in more than one format.
If you believe you qualify for a grant, you should take the next step and register with the site. After you are registered with your email address and a password, you may then proceed to the Online Application section to fill out your application. Be sure to fill out the form completely. We do not want a box number but a street address. We want to know where you live.
An applicant must demonstrate need; the emergency may be because of illness or some other urgent need or emergency such as fire, flood, hurricane, etc. Documentation must be included with the application: a doctor’s letter or other proof of the emergency situation, such as the first two pages of the 1040 (redacted). If you have difficulty attaching documentation, email it to carnegiefundforauithors@gmal.com, and we’ll upload. But applicants who do not supply documentation cannot be considered.
If you have received a grant from Carnegie Fund within the past five calendar years, you cannot apply.
Once you complete your application, please keep in mind that the process can take a while. Before the pandemic, it often took at least six weeks for an application to be processed. We now cannot give out an estimate. Rest assured that we are working as quickly as we can, so please don’t slow us down further with emails. Do not contact us. That does not speed us up; it slows us down. We realize that it can be difficult to be patient, but please do so.
SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS: We cannot accept applications without documentation. Please upload relevant files that can help us understand your need for a grant; you may submit a physician's letter, the first two pages of your 1040 (redacted), or other documentation. Do not send books, CVs, reviews, or manuscripts.
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ROLLING SUBMISSIONS
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: BLACK + BROWN ARTISTS
Emergent Literary
DEADLINE: Rolling
INFO: Emergent Literary is a new journal that welcomes the work of Black and brown makers in all genres, as well as work that reaches across multiple genres or obscures the boundaries between them.
The work must be previously unpublished in print or online.
Before submitting, we ask that you take a look at our mission statement in order to get a sense of the journal.
Please send all submissions to editors@emergentliterary.com with the genre in all caps as the subject line, i.e. POETRY. If your work is multimedia or doesn’t exactly fit into one category, list MULTI as your genre. Feel free to include a short note in the body of the email, and your work as an attachment.
We’re cool with simultaneous submissions, just let us know by email if one or all of your pieces are accepted elsewhere!
We will try our best to get back to you within 6 months. We’re a small team! If you have not received a response by then, you can send us an email, but please wait until then to do so.
Poetry: Please submit three to five poems in a standard font. Please include page breaks between poems and clearly delineated titles.
Fiction, Creative Nonfiction and other narrative work (including reviews) Please submit up to 1500 words, double-spaced in a standard font.
Photography and Visual Art: Please submit up to four images as an attachment to your email with the title(s) of the work(s) as the file names.
Audio and Video: Please submit up to 7 minutes of video or audio, with audio files attached as .mp3 or mp4.
Recipes: Yes, please! If you have accompanying photographs, please attach them to the email.
We warmly welcome mixed/multimedia work!
We look forward to engaging with your work.
emergentliterary.com/submission-guidelines
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ESSAYS ON RADICAL HEALING
That’s No Longer My Ministry
DEADLINE: Rolling
INFO: Hi! We’re journalists, editors and content creators Foram Mehta and Nadia Imafidon. And we’re teaming up to publish a first-of-its-kind anthology that aims to tell a different story about healing. As an extension to the evocative podcast series of the same name, the collection will tell the stories of marginalized folk in their own words about how they’re actively purging years of conditioning and the consequences of never being centered.
These stories acknowledge and move through trauma; they hold space for radical self-liberation and using “No.” as a complete sentence. They remind us: We don't have to hold onto the things that no longer serve us because that's no longer our ministry.
Publication Details
Accepted essays will be edited by us (Foram & Nadia) and curated together for a book that will be available for purchase as an e-book or as a paperback. Print copies of the book and one-hundred percent of proceeds from subsequent sales will be donated to Aakoma Project, an organization that aims to
Compensation
Writers whose essays are accepted for final publication will be credited with a byline in the book and a complimentary paperback copy of the completed anthology.
A note about writing for free: As writers ourselves, we know writers are highly underpaid and undervalued, but we also know the joy of contributing to a collaborative body of work for the sake of storytelling, for the sake of healing together. Everyone on this project (including us) is a non-paid contributor donating their time and work for the benefit of Aakoma Project.
We say this while also acknowledging that we live in a world that operates on money, and spending time to write for free is not a privilege afforded to everyone. That’s also why we’re asking for non-exclusive rights only to contributors’ essays (more details to be provided in the contributor’s agreement).
build the consciousness of youth of color and their
caregivers on the recognition and importance of mental health. They do this by offering free
therapy and workshops to youth and their families, helping to influence systems and services to
receive and address the needs of youth of color and their families.
Pitching Guidelines
We are seeking pitches for non-fiction first-person essays from people of color who hold identities that are marginalized. This includes but is not limited to:
LGBTQIA+
Immigrant/First-generation
Refugee
Indigenous
People with disabilities
When submitting your pitch, please include a brief bio and a link to your portfolio and/or first-person writing samples. We understand that not everyone will have a portfolio, so please send us something to give us an idea of your writing style.
Your pitch should include:
Working title
A summary of your story. (Tell us why you’re the person who needs to tell this story.)
We aim to get back to everyone who submits a pitch, but please allow us some time to respond, as we anticipate a full inbox! We will send contributor agreements to writers whose pitches we accept. Please, do not submit fully written essays.
Submit pitches to nolongermyministry@gmail.com. Editorial Guidelines
After we accept your essay pitch, writers should use the following writing guidelines: ● First-person reflections
○ Use this creative, non-fiction writing guide for reference
● Non-fiction
● English (with creative use of language)
● 8th grade reading level (When in doubt, keep it simple!)
● 1,500-3,00 words recommended
● AP Style (reference guide)
We’re interested in your story, but we acknowledge that your story will likely include other people in it. For that reason, we ask that if you’re mentioning someone by their name that you get their permission to do so or change the name.
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TORCH FRIDAY FEATURE
Torch Literary Arts
DEADLINE: Rolling
ENTRY FEE: $0
INFO: Torch Literary Arts welcomes submissions of original creative work by Black women writers. We are interested in work that challenges and disrupts preconceived notions of what contemporary writing by Black women should be. Your stories and poems are valuable and necessary. Write freely and submit what you are excited to share with the world.
Reading Period
Submissions are accepted for Friday Features only. We accept submissions on a rolling basis.
Simultaneous Submissions
Simultaneous submissions to other journals are welcome as long as they are identified as such and we are notified immediately upon acceptance elsewhere.
Manuscript Submission Guidelines
Include a one (1) page cover letter noting the title(s) of the work(s) submitted.
Upload your text submission as a Word (DOC, DOCX) or portable document format/PDF (PDF).
Typed, double-spaced (poetry may be single-spaced) pages.
Numbered pages.
Margins should be set at no less than 1” and no greater than 1.5”.
Poetry: submit up to five (5) poems totaling no more than eight (8) pages.
Fiction, Hybrid genre: 12-point font. No more than ten (10) pages or 2500 words (whichever is achieved first). Excerpts of longer works are welcome if self-contained.
Drama/Screenwriting: submit one act or a collection of short scenes no longer than ten (10) pages. Excerpts of longer works are welcome if self-contained. Indicate if a performance video or dramatic audio reading will be available with the text submission if selected.
Restrictions
We do not reprint previously published work for TORCH Friday Features.
Submitting Online
We accept submissions via our online submission management system only. Submissions via postal mail or email will be discarded without response.
Notifications and Queries
Please allow up to three months for a decision. Using our online submissions system, you will be able to track the status of your submission.
Publication & Compensation
Publication is online at TorchLiteraryArts.org, unless expressly stated for special publications.
Authors whose work is selected for a Friday Feature will receive a $50 (US) payment for publication.
All rights revert back to the author after publication.
Awards
All work accepted for publication will be considered for nomination for internal and external awards such as The Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, etc.
torchliteraryarts.submittable.com/submit
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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 IMMIGRANT WRITERS
ẹwà
DEADLINE: Rolling
INFO: ẹwà is an independent journal that publishes original work exclusively by immigrant writers — foreign-born and first-generation — living in the United States. We are interested in poetry, fiction, memoir, personal essay, lyric, hybrid forms as well as non-academic cultural criticism.
A few things:
Submissions are accepted year-round, on a rolling basis.
We do not accept previously published material (in print or online).
Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but please notify us right away if your work is accepted anywhere else.
We accept multiple submissions in all genres of writing. We also accept co-/multiple-authored works, but please make sure that appropriate permissions have been granted.
To submit, please send your work in a single document containing no more than six pages of writing to submit@ewajournal.com.
TERMS: ẹwà requests first rights, worldwide, and the right to include the work on the ẹwà website indefinitely. After publication, all rights revert to the author. Copyright always remains with the author. Should your work be republished elsewhere in the future, please credit ẹwà with its first publication. Our terms will be updated as necessary.
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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.
By submitting to Unmute Magazine, you agree to be added to our mailing list. You can unsubscribe at any time.
Please email your submission to Submissions (at) unmutemagazine (dot) com