Summer 2022 The VONA Experience
VONA
DEADLINE: March 4, 2022, by 11:59pm PST
ENTRY FEE: $35
INFO: The VONA Experience is a spectacular week of writing workshops, professional development, panels, and community building designed for writers of color (June 27, 2022 - July 3, 2022).
TUITION:
Workshop: $1,000
Residency: $1,200
WORKSHOPS INCLUDE:
Poetry Residency with Adrian Castro - This workshop will be conducted focusing on writing about place. We will examine poems both from workshop participants and other poets that exemplify the use of place. We will also ask where is that place? Where is that physical place, that geographical place, and also where is that mental place? Is that place existent, nostalgic, dreamt, etc.? Participants will bring to the workshop poems with these themes. Feedback will be given based on the Liz Lerhman method, which focuses feedback beginning from the artist place of inspiration and creative space, then from the reader’s/listener’s perspective—i.e. what the reader thought, felt, assimilated while reading the poem. Lastly poets will be encouraged to appropriately render their poems out aloud—from their voice, their perspective, their place.
Adrian Castro is a poet, performer, and interdisciplinary artist. Born in Miami from Caribbean heritage which has provided fertile ground for the rhythmic Afro-Caribbean style in which he writes and performs. He is the author of Cantos to Blood and Honey, Wise Fish, Handling Destiny (all Coffee House Press). He has been published in many literary anthologies. He is the recipient of many awards and fellowships including from the Academy of American Poets and USA Knight Fellowship for Writing. He is also a Doctor of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine practicing in Miami.
Prose Residency with Reyna Grande - The prose residency mainly consists of individual conferences with the instructor. The conferences are designed for the instructor to give intense individual attention to the student’s work (this is not a workshop where students critique each other’s work). The topics of the noontime daily classes will include material on the writing process, on race and creative writing, and on narrative structures and other techniques in fiction and memoir. Students will be asked to do readings and some writing before the residency begins.
Reyna Grande is the author of the bestselling memoir, The Distance Between Us, (2012) and the sequel, A Dream Called Home (2018). Reyna has received an American Book award, the El Premio Aztlán Literary Award, and the International Latino Book Award. She was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Awards and honored with a Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature. Reyna has two forthcoming books in 2022: A Ballad of Love and Glory (March 15), her first historical fiction set during the Mexican-American War, and Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings (June 7), an anthology of essays, poems, and artwork by and about undocumented Americans.
Narrative Journalism/Memoir with Roberto Lovato - This workshop is designed to explore the form and techniques of a genre whose fluid, malleable boundaries, its dynamism, and, especially, its focus on truth conditions and identity make it an ideal instrument for exploration in times of such astonishing uncertainty and confusion: narrative journalism. The filter through which we’ll study the choices made by narrative journalists are some of the defining elements of creative nonfiction, including bodily writing; scene and summary, voice, structure, and character. We will pay close attention to the choices made by writers engaged in the struggle to tell truthful stories in an age of epic, technologically-enabled lying.
Roberto Lovato is the author of Unforgetting (Harper Collins), a “groundbreaking” memoir the New York Times picked as an “Editor’s Choice” Newsweek listed Lovato’s memoir as a “must-read” 2020 book and the Los Angeles Times listed it as one of its 20 Best Books of 2020. Lovato is also an educator, journalist, and writer based at The Writers Grotto in San Francisco, California. A recipient of a reporting grant from the Pulitzer Center, Lovato has reported on numerous issues—violence, terrorism, the drug war, and the refugee crisis—from Mexico, Venezuela, El Salvador, Dominican Republic, Haiti, France, and the United States, among other countries.
Fiction with Mathangi Subramanian - What are the stories you want to tell that are unlike anything that has been told before? What are your fears about creating and sharing original work with our capitalist, white supremacy culture? How does your inner editor work with existing power structures to stifle your voice? In this workshop, we will explore our choices about perspective, tense, character, and setting, while also developing self-care-based revision techniques that allow us to bring our whole selves to the page. Students will receive feedback from the instructor as well as small critique groups within the class.
Mathangi Subramanian is an award winning South Asian American author, educator, mother, and musician. Her novel A People's History of Heaven was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards and was longlisted for the PEN/Faulkner and the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Her middle grades book Dear Mrs. Naidu won the South Asia Book Award and was a finalist for The Hindu-Goodbooks Award. Her essays and op-eds have appeared in The Washington Post, Harper's Bazaar, The San Francisco Chronicle, Ms., and Al Jazeer America, among others. A former public school teacher, Assistant Vice President at Sesame Workshop, and senior policy analyst for the New York City Council, she holds a doctorate in education from Columbia University Teachers College.
Poetry with Cynthia Dewi Oka - This workshop engages with how displacement as a tactic of conquest alienates the displaced across time, place, language, and modes of identity. What does it mean to recover and to speak to/from/as our Othered selves? In this workshop, we will study, generate, and workshop poems through the lens of exile and errantry (in contrast/opposition to empire), as conceptualized by the poet and philosopher Edouard Glissant. Participants will be provided with and required to read Glissant's essay, “Errantry, Exile” from his book Poetics of Relation in preparation.
Cynthia Dewi Oka is the author of Fire Is Not a Country (2021) and Salvage (2017) from Northwestern University Press, and Nomad of Salt and Hard Water (2016) from Thread Makes Blanket Press. A recipient of the Amy Clampitt Residency, Tupelo Quarterly Poetry Prize, and the Leeway Transformation Award, her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, POETRY, Academy of American Poets, Poetry Society of America, Hyperallergic, Guernica, The Rumpus, ESPNW, and elsewhere. An alumnus of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers, she has taught creative writing at Bryn Mawr College and New Mexico State University, and with arts organizations such as Blue Stoop, Asian Arts Initiative, The Speakeasy Project, Kundiman, and the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival.
Comedy Writing with Zahra Noorbakhsh - Whether it’s in storytelling, stand-up, or essay, dialogue, prose, or a performance, we’re all funny some of the time. But, how do we make it happen on purpose, and often? How do we walk the line between comedy and drama? When do we take criticism and when do we tell critics to shove it? What are the tools and techniques that deliver laughs and how do we innovate in the genre? All attendees will leave with the fundamentals and guidance to master humor. Get ready to play and ready to work!
Zahra Noorbakhsh is a comedian, writer, and performer. Her award-winning podcast, #GoodMuslimBadMuslim was deemed a must-listen by O, the Oprah Magazine, and invited to the Obama Whitehouse to record an episode. She’s a Senior Fellow on Comedy for Social Change with the Pop Culture Collaborative and an Innovations Fellow with The Opportunity Agenda. Her one-woman show, “All Atheists are Muslim” originally directed by W. Kamau Bell, was dubbed a highlight of the International New York City Fringe Theater Festival by the New Yorker. Her comedy special, “On Behalf of All Muslims” debuts this year. Visit ZahraComedy.com.
Playwriting with Lisa Marie Rollins - This workshop’s focus is centered on supporting the development of your new play in progress. Part generative, part workshop, we will spend time with focused exercises to explore and articulate the imagined realm of your play, and time will be spent reading and attending to the worlds created inside your individual scripts. We’ll ask questions about worldmaking for the stage, and spend time discussing place, conflict, character, endings and explore the uses of a non-linear /nontraditional structures to support the needs of your play.
Lisa Marie Rollins is a freelance director, writer and new play developer. She is currently developing her new play LOVE IS ANOTHER COUNTRY. She is a Sundance Institute Theatre Lab Fellow (Directing), a Directors Lab Westmember and an Associate Member of Stage Directors and Choreographers. Lisa Marie recently received the WallaceGerbode Special Award in the Arts commission in which she will be working with Crowded Fire Theater to write and develop a new play to world premiere in Fall 2023. She was an Artistic Associate for Intiman Theater in Seattle (20-21) and is currently a Resident Artist with Crowded Fire Theater.
Political Content in Journalism with Teresa Wiltz - This workshop will focus on exploring race and culture as political content in Journalism. You will spend time revising and refining articles infused that elevate racial and cultural issues. Participants will receive faculty and peer feedback as they prepare a piece to pitch major market outlets like The Guardian, Mother Jones, and Essence.
Teresa Wiltz, is the author of The Real America: The Tangled Roots of Race and Identity. A Senior Editor at POLITICO magazine, Teresa launched The Recast last year, a biweekly newsletter unpacking how race and identity are shaking up politics. As a staff writer on the Chicago Tribune’s metro news desk, she was part of a reporting team that won the Grand Prize, Robert Kennedy Journalism Award for a series on murdered children in Chicago; the team also was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. During a decade at the Post, Teresa wrote for the paper’s acclaimed Style section, with a focus on cultural criticism.
vonavoices.org/summer-2022-workshops-open
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: ‘DIASPORA’ ISSUE
Lampblack Lit
DEADLINE: March 14, 2022
INFO: Lampblack, an organization created by Black writers to support all Black writers, is accepting submissions of previously unpublished poetry, prose, and criticism for their DIASPORA issue.
Submit no more than 5 pages of poetry or 10 pages of prose via email to magazine@lampblacklit.com
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Writers in Residence
Hedgebrook
DEADLINE: March 14, 2022
INFO: Hedgebrook is on Whidbey Island, about thirty-five miles northwest of Seattle. Situated on 48-acres of forest and meadow facing Puget Sound, with a view of Mount Rainier, the retreat hosts writers from all over the world for fully-funded residencies of two to four weeks (travel is not included and is the responsibility of the writer to arrange and pay for). This residency is open to women-identified writers 18 and older.
Central to what we do, our Writer-in-Residence Program supports fully-funded residencies for selected women-identified writers at the retreat each year. Up to 6 writers can be in residence at a time, each housed in a handcrafted cottage. They spend their days in solitude – writing, reading, taking walks in the woods on the property or on nearby Double Bluff beach. In the evenings, “The Gathering” is a social time for residents to connect and share over their freshly prepared meals.
Hedgebrook’s mission is to support visionary women writers whose stories and ideas shape our culture now and for generations to come. Residents must be willing to adhere to a specific set of health and safety protocols we have implemented to keep writers, staff, and surrounding communities safer. We will be following CDC and local government guidelines and recommendations for travel and in-person gathering restrictions.
Residencies for this application cycle, Cycle 1, will take place February - June 2023.
2023 WiR Genres for Cycle One:
Fiction
Non-Fiction
Playwriting
Poetry
Screenwriting/TV Writing
Songwriting
hedgebrook.org/writers-in-residence
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Falling in Love & Moments with Food
For the Culture Food Mag
DEADLINE: March 14, 2022
INFO: Did you fall in love over the past year? Do you and your (new) love have special moments involving food? For example, our creative director goes on car picnics with her significant other. Our editor in chief likes to meet her favorite suitors in a park for cocktails or a meal. Maybe you and your love pick a day of the week to cook something special together.
Tell us about your love-centered moments in food beyond the walls of a restaurant. How has food played a role in your new love? Is there an ingredient or recipe you've fallen in love with using? What do you and your lover enjoy feeding each other? Do you have an erotic culinary ritual?
To submit your pitch for the story you would like to write, or email us at fortheculturemagazineny@gmail.com.
We're looking for stories that are 300-800 words. For the Culture pays a flat rate of $250 for all articles published.
For the Culture is a biannual printed food magazine that celebrates Black women and femmes in food and wine. The stories in For the Culture are about Black women throughout the diaspora, written by Black women and photographed and illustrated by Black women. It is the first magazine of its kind.
fortheculturefoodmag.com/submit
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Raz-Shumaker Book Prize: SHORT FICTION & POETRY
Prairie Schooner
DEADLINE: March 15, 2022
ENTRY FEE: A $25 processing fee must accompany each submission, payable to Prairie Schooner.
INFO: The Prairie Schooner Raz-Shumaker Book Prize Series welcomes manuscripts from all living writers, including non-US citizens, writing in English. Both unpublished and published writers are welcome to submit manuscripts. However, we will not consider manuscripts that have previously been published, which includes self-publication. Writers may enter both contests (poetry and fiction).
Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but we ask that you notify us immediately if your manuscript is accepted for publication somewhere else. No past or present paid employee of Prairie Schooner or the University of Nebraska Press or current faculty or student at the University of Nebraska will be eligible for the prizes.
PRIZES: Winners will receive $3000 and publication through the University of Nebraska Press.
MANUSCRIPT: We prefer that fiction manuscripts be at least 150 pages long and poetry manuscripts at least 50 pages long. Novels are not considered; we will consider manuscripts comprised either entirely of short stories or one novella along with short stories (please do not send a single novella or a collection of novellas). Manuscripts may contain stories or poems that have been published in journals or in chapbook form; however, if the full-length manuscript includes work from a previously published chapbook, the majority of the manuscript must be additional work not appearing in the chapbook. Prairie Schooner accepts electronic submissions as well as hard copy submissions. Please see below for further formatting guidelines and the link to submit electronically.
HARD COPY SUBMISSIONS: The author’s name should not appear on the manuscript. All entries will be read anonymously. Please include two cover pages: one listing only the title of the manuscript, and the other listing the author’s name, address, telephone number, and email address. An acknowledgements page listing the publication history of individual stories or poems may be included, if desired. No application forms are necessary.
For hard copy submissions, photocopies are acceptable. Please do not bind manuscripts with anything other than a binder clip or rubber band. Please include a self-addressed postage-paid postcard for confirmation of manuscript receipt. Please use a standard postcard—small index cards will not be accepted by the U.S. Postal Service. A stamped, self-addressed business size envelope must accompany the submission for notification of results. No manuscripts will be returned. All manuscripts that do not win will be recycled.
ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS: The author’s name should not appear anywhere on the manuscript. All entries will be read anonymously. An acknowledgements page listing the publication history of individual stories or poems may be included, if desired. No application forms are necessary.
NOTIFICATION: Winners will be announced on this website on or before July 15, 2022. Results will be emailed or mailed shortly thereafter.
prairieschooner.unl.edu/book-prize
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Kimbilio WRITERS Retreat
Kimbilio
DEADLINE: March 15, 2022
APPLICATION FEE: $0
INFO: The eight annual Kimbilio retreat will take place on the SMU Campus in Taos, New Mexico from July 24-30, 2022.
Become a member of a dynamic and engaged community of writers who are committed to excellence in diaspora fiction. Perks include access to Kimbilio programs such as our mentorship series, information exchange forum, and invitation to participate in our summer retreat.
Accepted participants are required to attend the entire retreat, arriving for a 5:30pm dinner meeting on the 24th and departing on the morning of the 30th, no later than noon. Tuition is covered by Kimbilio. Participants are responsible for their own transportation to/from the retreat as well as a fee that partially covers the costs for room and board with the amount varying by size of the chosen accommodation.
The application process consists of:
• An essay of no more than 150 words describing what attending the Kimbilio Summer Retreat means for you or what you hope to gain from the experience.
• A 20-page, double-spaced, 12-point font manuscript of fiction (short story or novel excerpt). If submitting a novel excerpt, you may include a short summary of no more than 200 words. The summary page does not count as part of the 20-page excerpt.
Do NOT include your name or any other identifying information in your essay or manuscript as applications are juried anonymously. [Submittable keeps track of the ownership of all submitted materials. Manuscripts or essays including names will be disqualified from this round of submissions.]
Acceptances are on a rolling basis so the sooner your application is received the better your chances.
kimbiliofiction.com
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CALL FOR EVENT PROPOSALS
OutWrite
DEADLINE: March 15, 2022
INFO: OutWrite, Washington, D.C's annual free LGBTQ Literary Festival, is accepting event submissions for the 2022 festival, which will be August 5-7, 2022. We're seeking readings, panels, and workshops exploring and celebrating all aspects of the LGBTQ+ identity and literary space!
PLEASE NOTE:
We encourage diverse panels and readings.
Submit your event with as full a lineup of readers or panelists as you can. We cannot feature readings with one individual author.
The event coordinator refers to the person who submits the event idea.
We don't know yet if the 2022 festival will be in-person, hybrid, or 100% virtual, but we'll keep you updated as the situation changes.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd0PO3HkLktEEjDoh4InKyARihb9giCTyK19A65COce7UQyWg/viewform
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: ‘VOZ’ ISSUE
Alebrijes Review
DEADLINE: March 15, 2022
INFO: Alebrijes Review's third issue, VOZ, will be published both online and in print! We're seeking original poetry, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, visual art, photography, and hybrid work created by Latino artists.
The theme of VOZ primarily serves to emphasize that we are seeking work showcasing unique, impactful, or personal voices. We accept submissions of work on any subject, however please do not submit graphic sexual or violent material, and know that we do not tolerate plagiarism.
We accept pieces in English, Spanish, and Ingléspañol/Spanglish. (If you would like to submit a piece in a different language, please email your submission as an attachment to alebrijesmag@gmail.com.)
We aim to publish the issue April 2022. If accepted, we ask that you credit us as the original publisher if your piece appears elsewhere, but you will retain all rights to your work.
Please reach out to us as alebrijesmag@gmail.com if you have any questions!
alebrijesreview.com/submissions
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: POETRY & PROSE
Hayden’s Ferry Review
DEADLINE: March 15, 2022
READING FEE: $3 (The fee is waived for Black writers).
INFO: Hayden's Ferry Review is the international literary journal out of Arizona State University.
GUIDELINES:
Please send one submission per genre at a time, and wait for a response before you submit additional work.
Withdraw your submission using Submittable. if you are only withdrawing a section of your work (for example: 2/5 poems), add a note to your submission.
Please limit your prose submissions to under 20 pages, and your poetry submissions to 6 or less poems.
All prose should be double-spaced.
Contributors receive one copy of the issue in which they appear. Additional copies may be purchased for $6 each up to 5 copies.
Simultaneous submissions are welcome. If your work is accepted elsewhere, please notify the editors immediately.
We do not accept previously published material.
We do not consider book-length works.
Submitters are strongly encouraged to read the journal before submitting: to subscribe, visit http://hfr.clas.asu.edu/store.
We are always open to submissions of visual art.
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PRISMATIC ARTIVIST RESIDENCY FOR BIPOC GROUPS IN NORTH & SOUTH CAROLINA
Cypress Fund
DEADLINE: March 22, 2022
INFO: According to M.K. Asante, “[an] artivist (artist+activist) uses [their] artistic talents to fight and struggle against injustice and oppression—by any medium necessary”. Artivists and Artivist organizations/collectives are working at the intersection of art and liberation. We recognize that power of supporting Artivists throughout the Carolinas as they work to advance movement building in our core issues areas.
Cypress Fund has committed to providing 7 North and/or South Carolina-Based Organizations/Collectives whose work can be considered “artivism” with a two-year residency under our fund. The artivists will be working on projects that engage with our 6 core issue areas, Abolition and Ending the Carceral State, Indigenous Resurgence, Gender Justice and Reproductive Justice and/or Black Liberation and Economic Justice.
The two-year residency includes:
50K General Capacity Grant over 2 years
1-2 Planning and Skills-Building Retreats
Organizational Support from dedicated Cypress Fund staff member
Bi-Monthly Check-Ins
Bi-Monthly Cohort Meetings
ELIGIBILITY:
To be eligible an organization or project must be:
BIPOC-led Organizations and/or Collectives with at least a 2-year history (Cypress Fund does not fund individuals at this time.)
Based in North Carolina or South Carolina. The leadership of the organization must be living in North or South Carolina.
Working within Cypress Fund's identified funding priorities which are Abolition and Ending the Carceral State, Indigenous Resurgence, Gender Justice and Reproductive Justice and/or Black Liberation and Economic Justice.
Political artists, radical storytellers, cultural organizers or social justice creatives of any artistic medium
All applicants will be notified of a decision by April 18, 2022.
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Issue 4 “Freedom”!
Spoken Black Girl Magazine
DEADLINE: March 25, 2022
INFO: In Spoken Black Girl Issue 4 “Freedom” we are looking for new poetry, essays, articles, short stories, novel excerpts, hybrid forms, interviews, art, illustrations, and photography around the topic of “Freedom”.
Submissions are open to Black women, women of color, femme-identifying folks, nonbinary folks LGBTQIA+, and queer writers of color. We are looking for real-life stories, and images that speak for themselves and show a unique perspective on freedom. What do we do when we’re free? How do you express your freedom? Some suggested topics are; reproductive justice, freedom of religion/spirituality, freedom to break barriers, economic freedom, interviews about domestic violence, Black and brown infant mortality rates, freedom from stereotypes and constructs, freedom to express sexuality, sensuality & erotic freedom, sexual orientation, and gender identity. How is our freedom limited? How can we seek true freedom?
All accepted submissions will receive $75 in compensation.
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WORDS OF WONDER: A FELLOWSHIP FOR CHILDREN’S AUTHORS
The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow
DEADLINE: March 28, 2022
APPLICATION FEE: $35
INFO: The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow is pleased to offer a fellowship for writers working on a picture book for children that tells an engaging, relatable story. The successful application will demonstrate originality, creativity, and the likelihood of publication. Prior publication is not a requirement.
AWARD: Two fellowship winners will receive a two-week residency to allow the recipients to focus completely on their work. A $400 stipend will be provided to each to cover travel costs and incidentals. 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 other meals.
Writers proposing more than one project must submit a separate application and fee for each one. The submission period opens on Friday, December 17, 2021. Deadline is midnight CST on Monday, March 28, 2022. The winners will be announced no later than April 22, 2022. Residencies must be completed by December 31, 2023. Exceptions will be made if COVID-19 makes a residency inadvisable.
https://www.writerscolony.org/fellowships
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: BIPOC-ONLY ISSUE
Salt Hill Journal
DEADLINE: March 28, 2022
INFO: For their upcoming edition, Salt Hill Journal is accepting fiction, nonfiction, and poetry only from BIPOC writers.
GUIDELINES:
Fiction/Nonfiction: Please do not submit works of more than 30 pages, double-spaced. We accept multiple flash pieces, so long as their combined length does not exceed 30 pages
Poetry: Please submit no more than five poems at a time.
https://salthill.submittable.com/submit
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: ‘UPSPRING’ ISSUE
Yellow Arrow Journal
DEADLINE: March 31, 2022
INFO: Yellow Arrow Journal, a biannual publication of creative nonfiction, poetry, and cover art by writers/artists that identify as women, is excited to announce submissions are now OPEN for the spring 2022 (Vol. VII, No. 1) issue on UpSpring.
Accepted submissions include creative nonfiction, poetry, and cover art by authors/artists that identify as women. Submissions must relate to the theme of UpSpring as interpreted by the author. Find the guidelines at .
COMPENSATION: If selected, you will receive $10.00 USD and a PDF of the journal issue. Note that payments are through PayPal; while we try to accommodate those that do not have a PayPal account, this is not always possible, especially for people outside of the U.S. Thank you for understanding.
yellowarrowpublishing.com/submissions
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: ‘BIRTH/MARK: TRANSRACIAL ADOPTEES’ ISSUE
Raising Mothers
DEADLINE: March 31, 2022
INFO: 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 their next issue, Raising Mothers is seeking writers who are also Transracial Adoptees. Share your experience of being a child of color growing up and moving away from the gaze of whiteness. How has it shaped you? How has it informed your parenting? Have you decided against parenting because of it? Have you searched for your birth family?
They invite all forms--essays, poems, interviews, comics, etc.--from diasporic transracial adoptees (Black, Asian, Latine(x), Indigenous, and other persons of color) to add nuance to the collective narrative. Being a parent is not a requirement.
Select featured works will receive honoraria.
raisingmothers.com/submissions/#tab-92941
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2022 A Public Space Writing Fellowships
A Public Space
DEADLINE: March 31, 2022, at 11:59pm ET
APPLICATION FEE: $0
INFO: The aim of the 2022 A Public Space Writing Fellowships is to seek out and support writers who embrace risk in their work and their own singular vision. Writers who have not yet contracted to publish a book are invited to apply.
Three fellowships will be awarded. During the six-month fellowship, fellows will receive:
Editorial support from A Public Space editors to prepare a piece for publication in the magazine;
A $1,000 honorarium;
The opportunity to meet virtually with members of the publishing community, including agents, editors, and published writers;
The opportunity to participate in a public reading and conversation with A Public Space editors and contributors.
Eligibility: Only writers who have not yet published or been contracted to write a book-length work are eligible. International applicants are encouraged to apply, but we are only able to consider submissions in English. Only one submission per person is allowed. Please do not submit a piece you have previously submitted to A Public Space, either through the Fellowship category, the General Submissions category, or an Open Call. A Public Space reserves the right to invite submissions.
TIMELINE:
Submissions for the Fellowships close on March 31, 2022.
Successful applicants will be informed no later than May 17, 2022.
The fellowship period will be June 1, 2022 – November 30, 2022.
GUIDELINES:
Please submit the following:
A cover letter containing a one-paragraph biographical statement; one paragraph that is a favorite of yours from a book you've read, be it recently or long ago; and a brief statement telling us why this particular passage is meaningful to you.
One previously unpublished prose piece with a limit of 8,000 words. If selected, the piece submitted is the piece that will be published in the magazine.
We accept simultaneous submissions, but please note that if your piece is accepted elsewhere, you will be required to withdraw your entire application; replacement submissions will not be accepted once the deadline has passed.
apublicspace.org/news/detail/the-2022-a-public-space-writing-fellowships
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Winter 2022 Story Contest
Narrative Magazine
DEADLINE: March 31, 2022, at midnight, Pacific daylight time.
SUBMISSION FEE: $27 fee for each entry. And with your entry, you’ll receive three months of complimentary access to Narrative Backstage.
INFO: Narrative’s Winter 2022 Story 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 as human beings, 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
Ten finalists will receive $100 each
All entries will be considered for publication.
All contest entries are eligible for the $4,000 Narrative Prize for 2022 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 April 30, 2022. All writers who enter will be notified by email of the judges’ decisions. The judges reserve the option to declare a tie in the selection of winners and to award only as many winners and finalists as are appropriate to the quality of work represented in the magazine.
narrativemagazine.com/winter-2022-story-contest
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The Thousand Miles Project
Coverfly
DEADLINE: March 31, 2022
ENTRY FEE: $0
INFO: The Thousand Miles Project is open to writers who are passionate about telling Asian and Pacific Islander stories. They’re accepting Features, TV Pilots, Shorts, Web Series, Short Stories, Book/Manuscripts, Stage Plays, Graphic Novels, and Articles
We at The Thousand Miles Project are committed to h elping emerging writers tell their stories and jumpstart lasting writing careers in the entertainment industry. In partnership with Universal Content Productions (UCP) and writer/producer Soo Hugh (The Terror, Pachinko), the program will provide up to 20 writers/writing teams the opportunity to learn about television writing and the industry through panels and lectures with writers, development execs, managers, and agents in a two-day intensive virtual workshop.
After the workshop, participants will be invited to apply for a 24-week development lab by submitting a series idea for further development. Television project proposals in any genre are welcome. We are interested in narratives told through the lenses of any Asian and Pacific Islander community (all Asian or Pacific Islander countries or cultures). From those proposals, up to 3 writers/writing teams will be selected to join the development lab with Soo Hugh, her team and UCP to write a pilot script and potentially develop their project further with UCP. The lab writers will meet on a bi-weekly basis, with additional monthly meetings with Soo and her team.
BENEFITS:
Workshop Participants - Up to 20 writers/writing teams will be invited to free virtual workshops to learn about television development and career strategies from writers, showrunners, managers, agents, and studio execs.
Virtual Workshop dates will be June 11, 2022 and June 18, 2022.
Development Lab Writers - Workshop participants will be invited to apply for the development lab by submitting additional materials by August 1, 2022, which are currently contemplated to include:
Short answers to a series of questions regarding their series concept
An artistic statement of intent about themselves (750 words or less)
Up to 3 writers/writing teams who participated in the workshops and submitted series development ideas will be selected to participate in a 24-week paid development lab. With guidance from Soo and her team, plus peer-to-peer feedback, writers will write a pilot. Selected writers are expected to fully participate by giving support and feedback to each other in the lab.
Writers/writing teams from the lab may be invited to further develop their project with UCP after the development lab is completed.
If UCP chooses not to further develop a project from the lab, UCP will give the rights to the applicable script back to the writer/writing team (and UCP will no longer continue to own it). Further details, and an agreement, will be provided to writers/writing teams selected to participate in the lab.
ELIGIBILITY:
Applicants must be at least 18 years old at the time of their application.
Applicants can be from any country or background.
Applicants must have a strong proficiency in English.
Applicant’s participation in the 2-day workshop (and lab, if applicable) must not violate any other obligations applicant may have at law, pursuant to contract, or otherwise.
To participate in the development lab, applicants must be legally authorized to live, work and participate in the lab in the United States.
Applicants must be available to participate in the 2-day workshop and lab (if applicable): Workshop is currently scheduled for June 11, 2022 and June 18, 2022, for approximately 8 hours each day with hours based on the Pacific Time Zone. Confirmed dates and time will be provided.
If selected for the development lab, applicant must execute a standard writer agreement, and other required documentation, in order to participate.
Writing teams can be no more than 2 writers. Each writer must submit a separate application.
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Island Voices: Caribbean Contemporary Classics Short Story Prize
Hachette UK / Hodder Education
DEADLINE: March 31, 2022
INFO: A new writing competition from Hachette UK and Hodder Education, publishers of Caribbean Contemporary Classics collection including titles such as Aunt Jen and Escape to Last Man Peak.
Island Voices: Caribbean Contemporary Classics Short Story Prize aims to discover and showcase unpublished writers from the Caribbean, or of Caribbean descent. The winning shortlist will be published in an anthology and the overall winner will receive a £1000 cash prize.
There have been many great and enduring works of literature by Caribbean authors over the last century. The Caribbean Contemporary Classics collection celebrates these deep and vibrant stories, overflowing with life and acute observations about society. The series has been given a new look and feel for 2021 onwards and includes titles from some much-loved and well-established Caribbean writers. Trevor Rhone, Curdella Forbes, Sam Selvon, Jean D’Costa, Michael Anthony, V S Reid and Paulette Ramsay are well-known Caribbean authors who have contributed to the development, recognition and identity of people of Caribbean descent around the world.
The competition will open from 15th March 2021 and the deadline for entry is 31st March 2022. The shortlist and overall winner will be selected by a panel of industry professionals and external judges and announced on 1st June 2022.
The judging panel consists of, Sharmaine Lovegrove, Publisher Dialogue Books; Mala Morton- Gittens, Curriculum Specialist; Phillipa Beckford, Retired Senior Lecturer, Shortwood Teachers College and Dr Janet Williams, Acting Head of Department, Shortwood Teachers College.
ELIGIBILITY: This competition is open to those who are Caribbean or of Caribbean descent. Entrants must be aged 18 or over and must not have an agent or have had any short story or book previously published by a publisher or self-published in whole or in part in any format or be under a contract to have their work published.
To enter, please submit a short story, of any topic, genre or style, between 2000- 5000 words and an introduction to your writing. Simply email your submission to islandvoices@hoddereducation.co.uk
hoddereducation.co.uk/media/Documents/International/Caribbean/CCC.pdf
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The 2022 Pinch Literary Awards in FICTION
The Pinch Journal
DEADLINE: March 31, 2022
ENTRY FEE: $20
INFO: The 2022 Pinch Literary Awards in fiction is now open. All entries are considered for publication. First, second, and third place winners will be selected from each category. The first place winners will be published in the Spring issue following announcement. Second and third place winners will be given high-priority consideration for publication, but because of space, cannot be guaranteed. Due to the high volume of submissions, any prize winners will be ineligible for contest participation for three years.
PRIZE: $2,000
JUDGE: SJ Sindu is a Tamil diaspora author of two literary novels, two hybrid chapbooks, and a forthcoming graphic novel. Her first novel, Marriage of a Thousand Lies, won the Publishing Triangle Edmund White Award and was a Stonewall Honor Book and a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. Sindu’s second novel, Blue-Skinned Gods, will be published in November 2021 by Soho Press, and her graphic novel, Shakti, is forthcoming from Harper Collins. Sindu's hybrid fiction and nonfiction chapbook, I Once Met You But You Were Dead, won the Turnbuckle Chapbook contest and was published by Split/Lip Press, and her hybrid nonfiction and poetry chapbook, Dominant Genes, won the Black River Chapbook Competition and will be published in February 2022 by Black Lawrence Press. A 2013 Lambda Literary Fellow, Sindu holds an MA in English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a PhD in English and Creative Writing from Florida State University. Sindu teaches at the University of Toronto Scarborough
CONTEST RULES: Only unpublished work will be considered. Simultaneous submissions are welcome, but notify us immediately if work is accepted elsewhere. No refunds will be issued. Manuscripts will not be returned. Manuscripts can be a maximum of 5000 words. You may submit entries online via the link below. Emailed entries will not be considered.
INELIGIBLE:
No translations will be considered.
Current students and faculty of The University of Memphis, as well as volunteer staff members for The Pinch, are not eligible.
ENCLOSE THE FOLLOWING WITH EACH ENTRY:
1. $20 submission fee for each entry.
2. The following information entered into the cover letter box: name, address, phone number, and email address. The AUTHOR'S CONTACT INFORMATION SHOULD NOT APPEAR ON THE MANUSCRIPT itself. Entries that do not adhere to this policy will be DISCARDED UNREAD. Please notify us if your address or email changes.
3. Please do not title your entry "Contest," "Pinch Contest," "Entry," or anything similar. It makes it hard to find the piece that we loved and want to send up as a finalist. Please title your entry as the title of your work.
Also, please share with us in your cover letter how you learned about the Pinch Literary Awards.
pinchjournal.com/2021-pinch-literary-awards
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2022 Page Prize in Nonfiction
The Pinch Journal
DEADLINE: March 31, 2022
ENTRY FEE: $10
INFO: The Pinch Journal is accepting nonfiction entries of up to 1,000 words for its annual Page Prize. All entries are considered for publication. The first place winners will be published in the Spring issue following announcement. Second and third place winners will be given high-priority consideration for publication, but because of space, cannot be guaranteed. Due to the high volume of submissions, any first-place prize winners are ineligible for contest participation for the three years following their win.
JUDGE: Jess Zimmerman is an editor at Quirk Books and a freelance writer of essays, fiction, and prose poetry. She was previously the editor-in-chief of Electric Literature, the founding editor of Archipelago, and a contributing editor for The Establishment. She’s the coauthor of Basic Witches (Quirk, 2017) and the author of Women and Other Monsters (Beacon, 2021). She’s also been an opinion columnist (at the Guardian) a journalist (at FactCheck.org), and a news writer (at Grist). She’s interested in puzzles, monsters, feelings, gender, nonlinear stories, cocktails, witches, magical realism, bears, dogs, unexamined assumptions, industrial music, immersive theater, smashing patriarchy, some but not all robots, Shakespeare's histories, and funny science fiction from the '70s and '80s. She lives in Brooklyn where she spends most of her time aging, feeling bad about aging, or frequently both.
CONTEST RULES: All Page Prize entries may not exceed 1,000 words, but can be less. Brevity is key. Any submission over this word limit will be automatically disqualified. Only unpublished work will be considered. Simultaneous submissions are welcome, but notify us if work is accepted elsewhere. No refunds will be issued. Manuscripts will not be returned. You may submit entries online via the link below. Emailed entries will not be considered.
INELIGIBLE:
No translations will be considered.
Current students, and faculty of The University of Memphis are not eligible. Alumni of the University of Memphis are eligible once they've been out of school or graduated for more than five years.
All current staff and volunteer readers of The Pinch are ineligible. Staff members and volunteers who have not been part of the journal for at least five years are eligible.
Any entry over 1,000 words or that violates the blind reading policy will be ineligible.
ENCLOSE THE FOLLOWING WITH EACH ENTRY:
1. Entry Fee: $10
2. The following information entered into the cover letter box: name, address, phone number, and email address. The AUTHOR'S CONTACT INFORMATION SHOULD NOT APPEAR ON THE MANUSCRIPT itself or in the TITLE. Entries that do not adhere to this policy will be DISCARDED UNREAD. Please notify us if your address or email changes.
3. Please do not title your entry "Contest", "Pinch Contest", "CNF Essay," or anything similar to these. Please title your entry as the title of your essay.
Also, please share with us in your cover letter how you learned about the Pinch Literary Awards.
pinchjournal.com/2021-pinch-literary-awards
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Wild Futures—2023/2024 Award Cycle
Creative Capital
DEADLINE: April 1, 2022
INFO: Creative Capital provides grants to support the creation of groundbreaking art by innovative and adventurous artists across the country. Our transformative giving approach is built on the principle that artists need funding as well as networks and professional services in order to build long-term sustainable projects and careers. Awardees have access to direct project funding up to $50,000, artist services, and a community of fellow awardees and other professionals who may provide additional support for the project. We encourage a spirit of mutual generosity among our awardees and seek to foster exchange through our retreats, workshops, and online, regional, national, and international gatherings. Over the course of a funded project, we partner with each artist to help define critical moments of development and determine how to best meet their goals.
ELIGIBILITY:
US citizen, permanent legal resident, or O-1 visa holder
At least 25 years old
Working artist(s) with at least 5 years of professional artistic practice
Applicant may not be a full-time student
May not apply to the Warhol Foundation Arts Writers grant program in the same year
May not have previously received a Creative Capital Award
May not be an applicant or collaborator on more than one proposed project per year
Projects are not eligible if the main purpose is:
Promotional
To fund ongoing operations of an existing business
The curation or documentation of existing work
2023 AWARD CYCLE TIMELINE
March 1 to April 1, 2022 at 4pm ET: Letter of Inquiries (LOI) accepted
July 2022: Notification of advancement to Round II
September 2022: Notification of advancement to Round III
January 2023: Public announcement of 2023 Creative Capital Awards
CATEGORIES:
Performing Arts: including dance, theatre, music, jazz, sound, non-traditional opera, multimedia performance, and socially engaged and/or sustainable performance-based practices
Technology: including digital art, gaming, interdisciplinary arts, AR, VR, or XR, bio art, AI, data visualization, net art, new genres, and socially engaged and/or sustainable technology-based practices
Literature: including fiction, poetry, nonfiction, genre-defying literary work, and socially engaged and/or sustainable text-based practices
creative-capital.org/about-the-creative-capital-award/#wildfutures
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The Orison Prizes in Poetry & Fiction
Orison Books
DEADLINE: April 1, 2022
ENTRY FEE: $25
INFO: Each year Orison Books accept submissions of full-length poetry (50-100 pp.) and fiction (30,000 word minimum) manuscripts for The Orison Prizes in Poetry and Fiction, judged by different prominent writers each year in an anonymous judging process.
PRIZE: The winning entry in each genre will be awarded publication and a $1,500 cash prize, in addition to a standard royalties contract. Finalists will be selected by the editorial staff at Orison Books, and the winners will be selected from among the finalist manuscripts by the judges.
In the event that a judge in either genre does not select a winner from among the finalists, the Editor will select a winner. The editors also reserve the right to select no finalists, in which case all entry fees will be refunded to the entrants. All finalist manuscripts will be considered for publication under a standard royalties contract. Contest results will be announced by September 15, 2022. Winners will receive payment by October 15, 2022.
JUDGES:
Poetry: Rajiv Mohabir
Fiction: Tania James
GUIDELINES:
Original English work only; no translations.
Do not include your name anywhere in your manuscript file or file name, but only in your Duosuma cover letter.
Individual poems and stories or excerpts may have been previously published in periodicals and/or chapbooks, but the manuscript as a whole must not have been published in book form, whether digital or in print. Self-published manuscripts are considered previously published and are not eligible.
Please include any publication acknowledgments in your cover letter, listing any periodicals where individual pieces from your manuscript first appeared. Acknowledgments should not appear in the manuscript file.
Poetry manuscripts must be 50-100 pages of poems (each poem beginning on a new page). Fiction manuscripts must have a minimum word count of 30,000.
Fiction manuscripts may consist of short stories, a novel, a novella, flash/micro fiction, or any combination of forms, as long as the manuscript meets the 30,000 word minimum.
Existing Orison Books authors are not eligible for The Orison Prizes.
Simultaneous submissions are accepted; please notify us immediately should a manuscript be accepted for publication elsewhere.
Multiple manuscripts may be submitted; each manuscript must be accompanied by a separate entry fee.
Orison Books is committed to running ethical and transparent contests. Current or former students of the judge or the lead genre editor(s), or anyone with a close personal relationship with that judge or lead editor(s), are not eligible to submit in the category in question. Judges also never see author names until after they have made their selections.
Orison Books undertakes never to extend contest deadlines, except in the case of technical problems or other events that would prevent submitters from entering the contest by the original deadline.
We only accept electronic submissions, which must be sent through our Duosuma page.
duotrope.com/duosuma/submit/orison-prizes-poetry-fiction-eyhfu
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ROLLING SUBMISSIONS
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 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.
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