CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
The Felt
INFO: The Felt is a project that endeavors to shelter those feelings that were, in Audre Lorde's words, "never meant to survive." In terms of poetics, we're talking about those feelings that are tenderly susceptible and diabolically risk-taking. That cross boundaries of linguistics and genre and as a result might have difficulty being published in other literary journals. That surge in concert with every Black body shot in the street, every trans body under constant threat of violence, every friend's heart and body that weakens and gives up. And in doing so become utterly vital, gain energy and action, find new strength and meaning in community with others.
The Felt seeks submissions of language-based poetics, image-based poetics, and the limitless ether of "etc." Please feel free to read previous issues for an idea of what we are interested in.
DEADLINE: April 7, 2017
LUCIEN STRYK ASIAN TRANSLATION PRIZE
The American Literary Translators Association
INFO: The prize recognizes the importance of Asian translation for international literature and promotes the translation of Asian works into English. Submission will be judged on the literary significance of the translation in recreating the literary artistry of the original.
To be eligible, works must be:
- Book-length translations into English of Asian poetry or source texts from Zen Buddhism
- Book-length translations from Hindi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Thai, Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese and Korean into English
- Published in the previous year (though re-translations or first-time translations of important older works will also be considered)
DEADLINE: April 7, 2017
literarytranslators.org/awards/lucien-stryk-prize
KUNDIMAN MENTORSHIP 2017
Kundiman
INFO: Kundiman is partnering with the Asian American Literary Review and the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center to offer a mentorship program to emerging Asian American writers!
Mentees receive a two month long mentorship, $1000 honorarium, plus travel, lodging, and being a featured reader at the first-ever Asian American Literature Festival. They will also have their exchange published in the Asian American Literary Review.
During a two month long letter writing exchange, mentors and mentees will share work, exchange ideas about writing process, craft and practice, the writing life, Asian American history, and personal reflections about the world around them. The exchange will begin and end with a Skype conversation with mentors. The mentorship will culminate in a reading at the Asian American Literature Festival, July 27–July 29th in Washington, D.C., where mentees will meet with their mentor for lunch and participate in a featured reading.
Any writer who self-identifies as Asian American who has not published a full length book by the date of the festival. Writers must be in the United States at the time of the literary festival.
DEADLINE: April 15, 2017
kundiman.submittable.com/submit
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: SUNDOWN TOWNS ISSUE
FIYAH
INFO: FIYAH is a quarterly speculative fiction magazine that features stories by and about people of the African Diaspora. They are currently accepting submissions for their SUNDOWN TOWNS issue. Their editors expound on what they’re seeking for the theme in this post.
What they want in speculative poetry is verse that struggles, reveals, instructs, comforts, and fights back. They are looking for weird, complex, honest and challenging work with a clear speculative element from black authors. You can check out this post from our Poetry Editor for more on what we’d like to see in your poetry.
FIYAH will publish accepted stories in a quarterly ebook magazine format, as well as archiving them on their website. Thus, FIYAH will claim first world electronic rights, nonexclusive archival rights, and nonexclusive anthology rights to your story. This means that they are buying the rights to publish your story on FIYAH’s website and in electronic issues of our magazine. This also means that you can only publish your story as a reprint after it appears in FIYAH, and it cannot appear anywhere else online or in print prior to submission, or for 180 days after they publish it. After that it can be reprinted online, in a magazine, or in an anthology.
PAYMENT: $50
DEADLINE: April 30, 2017
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: LINEAGE OF MIRRORS
Winter Tangerine
INFO: Lineage of Mirrors seeks to profile poets of color and their influences. Twice a month, they will publish a suite of poems from a writer of color, alongside a statement from the writer on a poem by a poet of color that has influenced their craft. They strive to create a space for poets of color to discuss, analyze, and celebrate the work that changed everything for them. They’re invested in documenting the lines of influence that run through poetry from writers of color. This column will serve as an online archive of contemporary poetry that centers discussions of lineage, craft and the necessary resilience of POC poetic traditions.
AWARD: There is an honorarium for each profiled poet.
DEADLINE: Submissions will be open throughout the year.
wintertangerine.com/lineage-of-mirrors