CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
The Spectacle
INFO: The Spectacle is currently open to poetry, fiction, and nonfiction submissions from traditionally underrepresented voices, including but not limited to LGBTQ+ writers, writers of color, indigenous writers, people with disabilities, and women.
DEADLINE: May 15, 2017
thespectacle.submittable.com/submit
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Sixteen Rivers Press
INFO: For a new anthology, Sixteen Rivers Press is seeking unpublished poems that respond to the cultural, moral, and political rifts that now divide our country: poems of resistance and resilience, witness and vision, that embody what it means to be a citizen in a time when our democracy is threatened.
Poets are encouraged to interpret this call broadly. They welcome voices raised in passion and in praise, whether lyrical, philosophical, visionary, or personal. Because they hope to create a wide-ranging conversation among the poems, this anthology will combine submitted contemporary work with previously published poems from other periods of unrest and upheaval.
DEADLINE: May 15, 2017
sixteenrivers.org/call-for-submissions-our-new-anthology/
EMERGING WRITER’S CONTEST
Ploughshares
INFO: The Emerging Writer's Contest is open to writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry who have yet to publish or self-publish a book.
The 2017 contest judges are Garth Greenwell (fiction), Meghan Daum (nonfiction), and Natalie Diaz (poetry).
Fiction and Nonfiction: Under 6,000 words
Poetry: 3-5 pages
AWARD: The winner in each genre will be awarded $2,000 and will be published in the Winter 2017-18 issue of Ploughshares.
SUBMISSION FEE: $24, which is waived if the submitter is a current subscriber.
DEADLINE: May 15, 2017 at noon EST. The winners will be announced in mid-September, 2017.
pshares.org/submit/emerging-writers-contest/guidelines
POETRY OPEN COMPETITION
Prick of the Spindle
INFO: Prick of the Spindle announces its 4th Poetry Open Competition.
Judging the competition is Mg Roberts. Born in Subic Bay, Philippines, Mg is the author of the poetry collections Anemal Uter Meck (Black Radish Books, 2017) and not so, sea (Durga Press, 2014). She is a Kundiman Fellow, Kelsey Street Press member, VONA/Voices Alum, and sits on the Board of Small Press Traffic. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Drunken Boat, Cream City Review, the Stanford Journal of Asian American Studies, Dusie, Bombay Gin, Web Conjunctions, Elderly, and elsewhere. She co-edited the anthology, Nests and Strangers: On Asian Women Poets (Kelsey Street Press), along with Timothy Yu, and is currently co-editing Responses, New Writing, Flesh with Ronaldo Wilson and Bhanu Kapil, an anthology on the urgency of avant-garde writing written for and by writers of color. She lives in Oakland with her three daughters, two hens, one puppy, and geologist husband.
AWARD: The Grand Prize winner; first, second, and third prize recipients; and honorable mentions will be published in an e-Book edition.
SUBMISSION FEE: $5 per submission. Up to two poems per submission.
DEADLINE: May 15, 2017. Winners will be announced by June 1, 2017.
posprint.submittable.com/submit/79821/poetry-open-competition-no-4
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.