2017 SUMMER WRITERS WEEK
Hurston / Wright Foundation
INFO: For 20 years, the Hurston/Wright Summer Writers Workshop has offered a safe space for writers in intensive workshop sessions and master classes.Workshops are led by award-winning writers who are influencing today’s literature. The program features critiques, craft talks, writing time and public readings.
Hurston/Wright workshops serve emerging and experienced writers who are starting projects, developing projects or seeking to polish projects. More than a thousand writers have participated in workshops since the first session in 1996. Hosted in the nation’s capital, the program allows writers to explore storytelling in one of the world’s most intriguing and inspiring cities. Hurston/Wright is a community that supports you and your writing life.
- Fiction Workshop led by Tiphanie Yanique
- Nonfiction Workshop led by Sheri Booker
- Poetry Workshop will be led by Kyle Dargan
WORKSHOP DATES: Saturday, August 5 – Friday, August 11, 2017
LOCATION: Howard University in Washington, D.C.
APPLICATION FEE: $30
TUITION: $700 (apply to one workshop only)
DEADLINE: June 1, 2017
hurstonwright.org/portfolio_page/2017-writers-week/
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
TRACK//FOUR
INFO: TRACK//FOUR is open for submissions from writers and artists of color. They accept work from people of color only, as it is a safe space and a place to showcase underrepresented and often repressed voices in the literary and artistic world-- and elsewhere. Although in the future they strive to provide our lovely contributors a monetary sum for their work, they are currently unable to pay contributors. However, as of 2017, they will be nominating written work for Best New Poets, Best of the Net, and the Pushcart Prize.
- Poetry: Send up to five of your best poems. Poems should not share pages and should be single-spaced. Poems of of all forms and subject matter are welcome.
- Prose: Send up to two pieces (e.g. fiction, nonfiction, lyric essay) up to 3000 words each, double spaced.
DEADLINE: June 5, 2017
trackfourjournal.com/submissions.html
CALL FOR SCHOLARLY ESSAYS AND CREATIVE WORKS
Label Me Latina/o
INFO: Label Me Latina/o, an online, refereed international e-journal that focuses on Latino Literary Production in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, invites scholarly essays focusing on these writers for its biannual publication.
Label Me Latina/o also publishes creative literary pieces (poetry and short fiction) whose authors self-define as Latina or Latino regardless of thematic content. Interviews of Latino or Latina authors will also be considered. The Co-Directors will publish creative works and interviews in English, Spanish or Spanglish whereas analytical essays should be written in English or Spanish.
DEADLINE: June 15, 2017
NARRATIVE PRIZE
Narrative Magazine
INFO: The Narrative Prize is awarded annually for the best short story, novel excerpt, poem, one-act play, graphic story, or work of literary nonfiction published by a new or emerging writer in Narrative.
PRIZE: $4,000
DEADLINE: June 15, 2017
narrativemagazine.com/great-stories/narrative-prize
THEMED AUDIO-VISUAL SUBMISSIONS -- POETRY
Up The Stairs Quarterly
INFO: They are seeking themed poetry submissions for their Summer 2017 issue. Submissions for this issue can be previously published. Please note in your cover letter where the work previously appeared.
Submit up to 3 poems in video or audio formats. They are especially seeking poetry from persons with disabilities, writers of color, the LGBTQ+ community, and other marginalized voices. For this issue we are looking for protest/resist poems, poems on immigration, race, gender, and responses to current events.
If you would like to submit via a YouTube video, place up to three links to your work in the cover letter box. If your work is accepted, you will also be asked to provide text of your work.
DEADLINE: June 15th, 2017
upthestaircasequarterly.submittable.com/submit
2018 EMERGING WRITER AWARDS: SCOTTI MERRILL AWARD (FOR POETRY)
Key West Literary Seminar
INFO: The Scotti Merrill Award recognizes and supports a poet who possesses exceptional talent and demonstrate potential for a lasting career.
AWARD: Winners receive full tuition support for our January Seminar and Workshop Program, round-trip airfare, lodging, a $500 honorarium, and the opportunity to appear on stage during the Seminar. The runner-up for will also be offered financial assistance packages.
SUBMISSION FEE: $10
DEADINE: June 30, 2017 (not later than 11:59 pm EDT)
kwls.org/awards/emerging-writer-awards/
THE WINTER TANGERINE AWARDS
Winter Tangerine Review
INFO: The aim of the award is to honor new and emerging poets and prose writers who are creating electric work. Entries will only be accepted from writers who have not yet published a novel or collection of any type.
SUBMISSION FEE: $0
PRIZES:
- All award winners and finalists will be published in the following Winter Tangerine Issue
- The two award winners will receive a box of (gently used) books, (never used) strawberry jam, and a check for $250
- All finalists receive our kudos & $20.
DEADLINE: August 1, 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.