The Watering Hole
INFO: The Watering Hole is accepting application for its 2016 Winter Retreat, which features living room style daily classes/workshops, daily craft talks, two readings, one holistic and interactive workshop, one surprise lecture, group writing challenges, and a genuine community.
APPLICATION PROCESS: Cover Letter (with aesthetics statement) + 3 poems (written in 2016)
APPLICATION FEE: $15
DEADLINE: August 1, 2016
twhpoetry.submittable.com/submit/56795
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: ASIAN AMERICAN LITERARY AWARDS
Asian American Writers’ Workshop
INFO: The Asian American Literary Awards is presented by the Asian American Writers' Workshop and honors works by Asian American writers for excellence in three categories: (1) fiction, (2) poetry, and (3) nonfiction. Past winners of the award include Jhumpa Lahiri, Ha Jin, Susan Choi, Amitav Ghosh, Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, and Arthur Sze, among many others.
To enter a fiction, nonfiction, or poetry book that was published in the year 2015, please click on the link below.
DEADLINE: August 1, 2016, 11:59PM
Elastic Magazine
INFO: Elastic Magazine is accepting submissions for poetry. The theme of the issue is doubles. From doppelgängers to couplets to double-vision, interpret/unravel/resist this theme however you please. All submissions must relate to the theme in some identifiable way. Up to five poems can be submitted.
DEADLINE: August 7, 2016, at 11:59pm EST
Winter Tangerine Review
INFO: Love Letters to Spooks, a WT Flash Spotlight feature, seeks to trouble and interrogate the mortal liminality that Black people in the United States experience. They seek poetry and micro essay submissions that grapple with the absurdity of existence in a body not deemed worthy of life; submissions that interrogate death involving social demise: slander for people such as Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, and erasure for people like Goddess Diamond and Mercedes Successful.
This is a literary space for Black people, curated by Black people. If you are a Black writer, please feel free to send us your work. Please submit up to five poems, and up to two pieces of prose in one file.
DEADLINE: August 14, 2016
wintertangerine.submittable.com/submit/62432
2016 WEEKEND RESIDENCY APPLICATION
Sula’s Room
INFO: Sula’s Room weekend residencies are open to New York based women writers of color. Their mission is to nurture emerging and established women writers working in poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction with quiet space and community.
SUBMISSION FEE: $15
DEADLINE: August 15, 2016
the Shade Journal
INFO: the Shade Journal, an online poetry journal focused on the empowerment of queer people of color (QPOC), is accepting submissions of poetry.
DEADLINE: August 15, 2016
theshadejournal.submittable.com/submit
CULTURESTRIKE CLIMATE & ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE LITERARY FELLOWSHIP
CultureStrike Magazine
INFO: CultureStrike, a migrant-led organization that works with a national network of artists to change public sentiment around migration including climate change and forced displacement, announces its first Climate Justice Literary Fellowship in the Summer/Fall of 2016 for creative literary works based on the theme of climate change and migration.
They are seeking journalists, nonfiction writers, and poets to develop stories and reporting projects related to climate change, environmental justice, and the social and cultural questions surrounding migration and human movement. They seek writers from across the country, in every region, representing diverse communities, with an eye toward exploring regional and local experiences of global warming - including its root causes, environmental consequences on the social and cultural landscape, resilience of indigenous communities and communities of color and potential solutions.
They are offering fellowships to two individuals in either of these two genres:
- Creative fiction or poetry: to produce works of fiction and poetry, or creative works in related genres, that deal with timely migration and environment-related topics in a creative way.
- Journalism or narrative nonfiction: to produce longform narrative journalism in the form of a series of investigative articles, a long investigative narrative, or a related form of storytelling. Priority given to stories with a compelling narrative and news value, as well as stories that make creative use of multimedia or technology components.
AWARDS: Two fellowships of $1000 - $2000 each for a literary project. Additionally, each fellow will receive up to $1500 towards related project expenses, including domestic travel.
They will also provide editorial support and publish both on CultureStrike’s Online Magazine and whenever possible, help place the story in other publications.
IMPORTANT DATES:
- Application Deadline – August 15, 2016
- Awards Announced – October 1, 2016
- Project Deadline– December 28, 2016
Torch Journal
INFO: TORCH, a biannual online journal published by Torch Literary Arts, is seeking submissions of original unpublished poetry by black women writers.. Must submit between three to five poems.
DEADLINE: August 31, 2016
torchliteraryarts.org/#!submit/c1k7l
Graywolf Press
INFO: Graywolf invites poets and translators of poetry—established, emerging, or somewhere in between—to submit their manuscripts. Works must be poetry, but they welcome work that exists in the boundaries of what we think poetry is or could be. Works in translation are encouraged.
Manuscripts must be at least 50 pages long and include a cover letter and a short biographical statement with all relevant publishing history.
ENTRY FEE: $0
DEADLINE: August 31, 2016
graywolfpress.submittable.com/submit
MITCHELL S. JACKSON SCHOLARSHIP FOR WRITERS OF COLOR
NW Injury Law Center
INFO: The NW Injury Law Center is pleased to announce the Mitchell S. Jackson Scholarship for Writers of Color. To apply, applicants are asked to respond to the following prompt as well as submit the necessary information outlined below.
ESSAY QUESTION: In his essay “If Black English Isn’t a Language, Then Tell Me What is” author James Baldwin argues language “is the most vivid and crucial key to identity.” Write a 2-3 page essay answering the following question: How has language helped to shape your identity?
The scholarship is for the Fall semester or quarter of 2016. Only emailed applications will be considered. All of the submissions will be reviewed and the scholarship winner – chosen by Mitchell Jackson – will be announced and paid before the start of the school year.
AWARD: $1,500 scholarship to an incoming college freshman student of color who wishes to pursue a degree in writing.
DEADLINE: September 1, 2016
nwinjurylawcenter.com/mitchell-s-jackson-scholarship
Sustainable Arts Foundation
INFO: Starting with their Fall 2016 Awards, Sustainable Arts Foundation – a non-profit foundation supporting artists and writers with families – is committed to offering half of its awards to applicants of color.
Writers may apply in one of the following categories:
- Fiction
- Creative Nonfiction
- Poetry
- Long Form Journalism
- Playwriting
- Picture Books
- Early and Middle Grade Fiction
- Young Adult Fiction
- Graphic Novel
AWARDS:
- Sustainable Arts Foundation Award: $6,000
- Sustainable Arts Foundation Promise Award: $2,000
DEADLINE: September 2, 2016, 8pm EST
apply.sustainableartsfoundation.org/