LITERARY AND PHOTOGRAPHIC CONTEST
Hispanic Culture Review
INFO: Part of the human condition is the guarantee that at some point of our lives we will be confronted by obstacles. These can occur because of innumerable circumstances produced by internal or external factors like literal or metaphorical borders, personal or social catastrophes, challenges created by identity differences, and more. However, the drive to overcome is inherent in people and tenacity is part of the character that makes us human. The processes with which we face obstacles and victory is declared over them hold an individual seal. This year we are looking to publish stories that demonstrate the overcoming of obstacles that have left a personal mark in the life of those who have prevailed over the difficulties they have faced.
Three works will be awarded in the following categories: photography and visual arts, poetry, narrative, and essay and academic investigation.
The selected works will be published in our magazine, and the winners will receive a monetary prize of $100 dollars and a certificate of recognition, and will be notified through email as well as on our Facebook page (Hispanic Culture Review GMU). Prizes will be issued in the Spring of 2019.
GUIDELINES: For a work to be considered, the following specifications must be followed; if the specifications are not followed, the work will be eliminated:
The maximum number of works per author is 2, which must be sent as separate files. Those submitting photography and visual arts works are allowed to send up to 6 works.
Written works must be written in Arial 12pt font.
Academic works and essays must follow the current MLA or APA formatting style.
Maximum length allowed for the texts:
Academic essays and investigations: 3000 words (including footnotes).
Narrative: 2500 words.
Poetry: 50 lines maximum.
Visual Arts: photographs must be in JPEG format and 300 PPI.
Only unedited work will be accepted, which means works that have not been published before or are pending revision in other media. This includes printed and electronic work, as well as those included in literary blogs.
Works written in both English and Spanish will be accepted.
There are no age or nationality restrictions to participate, except in the case that the person has his/her fiscal residence in any of the countries subject to the sanctions of the United States government, since it would be impossible to send the monetary prize to the winner. https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/Pages/Programs.aspx
Selected works will be published in both the print and electronic versions of the HCR magazine. HCR reserves the right to publish the works exclusively in its digital version.
Contact us with questions at hcr@gmu.edu
DEADLINE: Friday, February 1, 2019
hispanicculturereview.submittable.com/submit
CREATIVE WRITING FELLOWSHIP
Luminarts Cultural Foundation
INFO: The Creative Writing Fellowship awards two $7,500 Luminarts Fellowships for excellence in creative writing in the categories of prose and poetry, in fiction and nonfiction.
Applicants submit a two-page written piece (either a stand-alone piece or an excerpt of a larger piece such as a novel or short story). Entries are submitted and reviewed by an initial panel of jurors. Once reviewed, all top entries go to the final juror panel and the winners are selected. Jurors are comprised of professional authors, novelists, and poets, literary contributors, publishers, editors, journalists and media contributors. Click below for complete guidelines and to apply.
GUIDELINES: In order to be eligible to apply for the Luminarts Fellowship applicants must be between the ages of 18 and 30, live within 150 miles of the Chicago Loop, and be enrolled in, or graduated from, a degree program, conservatory, or other professional artist development program.
DEADLINE: Friday, February 8, 2019
https://luminarts.org/creative-writing-opportunities/
FURIOUS FLOWER POETRY PRIZE
Furious Flower Poetry Center
INFO: The Furious Flower Poetry Center is accepting submissions for its annual Prize for Emerging Poets.
PRIZES:
Winning Poet: $1,000
Honorable Mention: $500
SUBMISSION FEE: $15
DEADLINE: February 10, 2019
jmu.edu/furiousflower/index.shtml?fbclid=IwAR3hBqgla-chFoGLLh9fbKuMoTJOTiMGXGnrpSjysVXFx1xokIdyNeybZ5o
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS -- POETRY
Digging Press
INFO: Send up to three poems in a single upload. Your submission should not exceed three pages. Please do not email your submission.
This is a blind submission process. Do not include your name or any identifying information within the attachment. Please do not insert a header or footer containing your name, and do not include your name and contact information at the top of the document. Doing so will disqualify your submission.
Because this is a blind submission process, previously published work is not accepted. This includes work published on personal blogs. Sorry.
Simultaneous submissions are accepted as long as they are indicated as such and the submission is withdrawn from Submittable immediately upon acceptance elsewhere. We ask that you do not make multiple submissions: please wait for a response to your submission before sending new work.
We shall do our best to respond within three months, but in some cases, this period may be longer. If you have not received a response from us within 120 days, please send an email inquiry to editor@diggingthroughthefat.com. Please do not contact our editors directly regarding the status of your submission.
All rights revert to the author upon publication. If your original work is later reprinted elsewhere, we ask that you please note its first publication here.
Note from the Editor: We like experiments and even failures. We relish in the avant-garde. We want to encourage risks and redefine narrative. We are not afraid to publish the cruel, the harsh, and the ugly. We love to laugh and bask in the unexpected joy of reading a well-developed, complex piece of literature. That said, don’t try to Wow us. Show us your awesomeness.
DEADLINE: February 28, 2019
diggingthroughthefat.submittable.com/submit
THE 2019-2020 U.S.-JAPAN CREATIVE ARTISTS FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
Japan-United States Friendship Commission
INFO: The Japan U.S. Friendship Commission offers leading contemporary and traditional artists from the United States the opportunity to spend three to five months in Japan through the U.S.-Japan Creative Artists Program. Artists go as seekers, as cultural visionaries, and as living liaisons to the traditional and contemporary cultural life of Japan. They also go as connectors who share knowledge and bring back knowledge. Their interaction with the Japanese public and the outlook they bring home provide exceptional opportunities to promote cultural understanding between the United States and Japan.
JUSFC and NEA will support and select up to five collaborative projects of U.S.-Japan artists representative of diverse genres and regions of both countries. The 2019-20 program is only for collaborative pairs, and not for individual artists. Alumni of the U.S.-Japan Creative Artists Program are encouraged to apply. Please refer to How to Apply for detailed instructions. This is a special, modified program in 2019-2020.
GRANT AWARD:
Each collaborative team will receive a $25,000 fellowship award and up to $2,500 for one round trip airline ticket between the United States and Japan.
The collaborative team will have one year (July 1, 2019-July 1, 2020) to complete their project. The award may be used for any expenses directly related to the project, including, but not limited to living expenses in Japan, cost of project materials etc.
The artists must complete a collaborative work incorporating the vision of the Olympic and Paralympic games to present in Tokyo during the Games in 2020.
The Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission will collaborate with public and private sector organizations in and around Tokyo to host performances and presentations of the artists’ works.
Exhibition sites will be selected depending on the specific project.
REVIEW CRITERIA & SELECTION PROCESS:
The U.S.-Japan Creative Artists Program is extremely competitive; only up to five artists will be selected for travel to Japan. In 2019-2020 applicants should anticipate a highly rigorous review of their artistry and should have compelling reasons for wanting to create a captivating piece of art, in collaboration with a Japanese colleague, for the Olympic and Paralympic games. Their work must exemplify the best in U.S. and Japanese arts. Generally, this means that only those artists who have demonstrated expertise and established professional recognition (e.g. awards, featured shows, publications, etc.) in their field either regionally or nationally or who have shown truly exceptional promise at the local level are likely to be competitive. Proficiency in the Japanese language is not required.
Applications will be judged on the following criteria:
Clear representation of themes including, diversity and inclusion – “Unity in Diversity”, sustainability, building a better tomorrow, peace and prosperity, and highlighting the unique relationship between Japan and the United States.
The artistic excellence of the applicant’s work and artistic merit of the proposed collaboration;
The extent to which working in Japan is consistent with the applicant’s artistic vision and would contribute to his or her artistry;
The applicant’s potential to contribute to increased cultural understanding and dialogue with Japanese artists and/or the Japanese public;
The availability of resources in Japan that are necessary to the artist’s proposed collaboration;
Ability to live and work in unfamiliar settings under different conditions
With the assistance of the National Endowment for the Arts, the Japan U.S. Friendship Commission will convene a panel to review applications. The panel will include previous recipients of the U.S.- Japan Creative Artists Program award, as well as other arts professionals with expertise in working with the Olympics and Japanese culture.
ELIGIBILITY:
The applicant must be a citizen or permanent resident of the United States and live and work professionally in the United States.
All proposals must be collaborations between a U.S. artist (or group of artists) and a Japanese artist who is a citizen or permanent resident of Japan and living and working professionally in Japan.
The applicant and their Japanese collaborator must be a professional creative artists (contemporary or traditional) working as but not limited to: architects, choreographers, musicians, composers, creative writers, designers, media artists, playwrights, librettists, visual artists and theater artists who work with original material (including puppeteers, and performance artists).
The proposed collaborative artistic project must be a new artistic venture, or something that the collaborative team is in the process of developing, and must have a completion date of July 1, 2020.
The proposed collaborative artistic project must touch on one or more of themes including, but not limited to, diversity and inclusion – “Unity in Diversity”, sustainability, building a better tomorrow, peace and prosperity.
There are additional eligibility requirements for librettists, playwrights, and creative writers (fiction, non-fiction, and poetry) outlined below.
Librettists and playwrights must have had a full-length work professionally produced and/or published in the United States at least once in the last five years.
Creative writer applicants must meet specific publishing requirements. Self- published work will not satisfy this eligibility requirement. In the last 10 years writers must have published at least one of the following:
Twenty poems in five or more literary journals
Five different short stories or essays (of creative non-fiction) in two or more literary journals, anthologies, or publications
A book of poems of more than 48 pages
A novel or a novella
A book of creative non-fiction
Creative writer applicants may use online publications to establish up to fifty percent of their eligibility, provided that such publications have competitive selection processes and stated editorial policies.
The following may not be used to establish eligibility:
Pre-publication material, such as galleys, proofs, and advance reader’s
Work that has appeared in a publication for which you are the editor, publisher, or staff
Collaborative work
Scholarly writing including Instructional writing, Book reviews, Editorials/letters to the editor, Student publications and publications that primarily print work by persons who are affiliated with a particular academic institution, any publication by presses that: require individual writers to pay for part or all of the production costs; require writers to buy or sell copies of the publication; publish work without competitive selection or a stated editorial policy; or publish work without professional editing.
DEADLINE: March 1, 2019
jusfc.gov/creative-artists-programs/
A POETRY EMPHASIS RESIDENCY
National Parks at Gettysburg National Military Park / POETRY FOUNDATION.
INFO: Artists will be expected to have a continuous public and visitor presence throughout their residency. Further, the artist will present, at minimum, one 1-hour public program, workshop, concert or lecture during their residency at Gettysburg National Military Park during their stay.
This can be presented either the park or another venue as deemed by NPAF and NPS. Poet/Artists must provide their own transportation, supplies and equipment for these presentations. We also encourage poet/artists to give more public presentations at the park and in their own community about their residency experience in Gettysburg National Military Park, to further broaden the reach of the program’s purpose and the goals of perpetuating poetry and it's importance.
Other presentations or activities will may be scheduled by arrangement with NPS. The artist will usually present at least one workshop, lecture or concert and the possibility of an arts donation for the NPS National Museum Collection. This can be presented either the park or another venue as deemed appropriate by NPAF and NPS. ALL EVENTS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE AND/OR CANCELLATION.
AiRs run consecutively, starting the 15th of each month, (or after a weekend or federal holiday closest to the 15th) and end on the 12th of the next month (or before a weekend or federal holiday closest to the 12th).
STIPEND: $1,000
IMPORTANT DATES:
Deadline: March 2, 2019
Notification: June 15, 2019
Residency: September 15 – October 16, 2019