CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: AFRO-LATINX ANTHOLOGY
Alan Pelaez
INFO: Editor Alan Pelaez Lopez invites contributions to a multi-genre anthology (Title TBA) of contemporary queer and trans Afro-Latinx writers on memory, care, and futurity published by a notable University Press with a slated publication date of 2021.
This collection of writings will serve as a living archive of contemporary literature by queer and trans Afro-Latinx writers. By “Afro-Latinx,” we mean writers who are Black of Latin American and Caribbean descent. This anthology aims to push the boundaries of how we think, accept, deny, or play with the concept of “Latinx.” The final project will not be a survey of recent literature but a gesture towards an Afro-Latinx aesthetic informed by differently Black experiences. Latin America and the Caribbean, as landscapes, as imagined communities, and as diasporic analytics are continually shapeshifting. Black people in, of, and from Latin America, the Caribbean, and their diasporas are at the heart of this shapeshifting, but the literature of Afro-Latinx writers is— similarly to Black people across the continent— policed, surveilled, and organized by non-Black entities. This anthology seeks to open, nuance and challenge narratives made about us without us. The anthology is not an explanation of what it means to be a queer and/or trans Black person of Latin American and/or Caribbean descent, but a dialogue of how we work with, through, and against memory, care, and futures.
The anthology seeks to answer:
How do queer and/or trans Black writers from Latin America, the Caribbean and their diaspora(s) address memory? How do queer and trans embodiments help us understand and/or question the past, the present, and construct a Black queer and trans future?
How does Blackness remember geographies we are no longer inhabiting, those we never inhabited, and those we may never know?
What are the textures of caring, being cared for, and accepting care as Black queer and/or trans people?
What are the uses of care, love, intimacy, and kinship in queer and/or trans Black spaces?
And, how do our genders, sexualities, sexual performances, and rejections of all three serve as worldbuilding embodiments for the future?
Mediums:
Creative non-fiction (15 pages max)
Fiction (15 pages max)
Poetry (Send 3-5 poems, no more than 7 pages)
Comics (15 pages max—you can send text submission if it’s not inked yet, or send a full first draft)
Plays and choreopoems (15 pages max)
Performance essays / documentation (20 pages max including images—you must have permission to use all images submitted.)
What we are looking for from contributors:
We are looking for new work (or pieces that have not appeared in a full-length collection that you have retained the rights to) that address memory, care and futures. All work must be submitted in English and you must be open to working with an editor. Pieces that utilize other languages are welcome as long as the piece is primarily in English. This anthology will not publish work that considers Blackness as a monolithic experience. All published writings will receive a modest honorarium.
Submissions:
Please include your name, contact info, and a 50-word bio.
DEADLINE: December 1, 2020
http://www.alanpelaez.com/afro-latinx-anthology/
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: “Composite Dreams” ISSUE
Oyster River Pages
INFO: Oyster River Pages publishes fine fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, and visual art online. . Please see the general guidelines below for each genre. (Work that is unfinished, unproofed, or noncompliant with the guidelines gives our editors existential angst.) Simultaneous submissions are fine, but please contact us immediately if your work is picked up elsewhere. We request first serial rights, after which all rights revert to the author or artist. For this special issue only, we will accept previously published work, provided you have the rights to republish it and you provide the original publication in which it appeared.
“Composite Dreams” is the first of an ongoing series of Oyster River Pages’ efforts into implementing inclusion and diversity deeper into our mission as a magazine. The intention of this collection is to publish Black voices only, to be a space exclusively for and filled by Black writers and artists. We kindly ask that if you do not fit this category, to wait until our annual issue to submit your work. Please include a 60-word bio with your submission. To stay in touch with the latest happenings at ORP, subscribe to our mailing list below.
Fiction: Please submit one story up to 4,000 words in .docx format. All work should be double-spaced, and at least font size eleven.
Creative Non-Fiction: Please submit creative nonfiction pieces that are no longer than 4,000 words in .docx format. All work should be double-spaced and at least font size eleven.
Poetry: Please submit up to three poems in .docx format. Each poem should start on its own page. Otherwise, the spacing of the submission will remain as is in publication to preserve the integrity of the poem.
Visual Art: Please submit photography or other visual arts that are saved at 300 dpi or greater. We reserve the right to crop or edit submissions in order to fit in print or on our webpage.
DEADLINE: December 1, 2020
https://www.oysterriverpages.com/submit
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2021 Palm Beach Poetry Festival Fellowships
The Palm Beach Poetry Festival
INFO: The Palm Beach Poetry Festival is pleased to announce it will offer three fellowships that provide full workshop tuition and admission to all festival events for the upcoming 17th Annual Virtual Palm Beach Poetry Festival, January 18-23, 2021. The fellowships are offered to open the festival workshop doors widely to qualified poets and to ensure the festival’s workshops provide enriching experiences through working with poets from a wide variety of cultures.
The three fellowships are the Palm Beach Poetry Festival Langston Hughes Fellowship, the CantoMundo Palm Beach Poetry Festival Fellowship, and the Kundiman Palm Beach Poetry Festival Fellowship.
Each fellowship recipient will be an outstanding poet who will benefit from, and contribute to, participation in the workshop. A writing sample, letter of introduction, and description of need are an integral part of the application and selection process. Fellowships applications are now open. For details, please visit the links below to each for specifics, details and to apply. Applications are now open, and the deadline to apply for these fellowships is December 1, 2020.
CantoMundo nurtures and supports the numerous aesthetic and philosophical approaches of Latinx poetry in the USA, and builds on the aesthetically, culturally, and linguistically diverse work of Latinx poets, who have historically—and with limited economic resources—formed supportive literary spaces. CantoMundo’s first gathering convened in 2010. Use this link to find out more about the CantoMundo /Palm Beach Poetry Festival 2021 Fellowship and to apply.
Kundiman is dedicated to the creation and cultivation of Asian American literature, offering a comprehensive spectrum of arts programming that gives writers opportunities to inscribe their own stories, transforming and enriching the American literary landscape. Use this link to find out more about the Kundiman / Palm Beach Poetry Festival 2021 Fellowship and to apply.
The Palm Beach Poetry Festival – Langston Hughes Fellowship includes the application fee, tuition, and admission to all festival events. The fellow will be an outstanding African American poet who will benefit from and contribute to participation in the workshop. A writing sample, letter of introduction, and description of need are an integral part of the application and selection process. Fellowships are open by application to poets who identify as Black or African American. We are grateful to the administrators of the Langston Hughes Estate who assisted us by granting permission to name this fellowship. You may use this link to apply for the Palm Beach Poetry Festival Langston Hughes 2021 Fellowship.
We welcome inquiries from donors who may be interested in our efforts to expand the availability of these fellowships and seek to support the festival’s dedication to inclusiveness and enrichment of its workshops and public events. Donors may contribute to the PBPF Diversity Fellowship Fund, established to support these efforts. Interested donors may contact Festival Director, Susan R. Williamson or Founder, Miles Coon.
These fellowships are supported by the generous donations of individuals who wish to remain anonymous. In addition, the festival also offers a limited number of partial scholarships to applicants for whom partial assistance makes attendance possible. Email query must be made after applications are submitted.
DEADLINE: December 1, 2020
https://www.palmbeachpoetryfestival.org/news/2021-palm-beach-poetry-festival-fellowships/
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Honey Literary
INFO: Honey Literary’s first issue will debut in Winter 2020/2021. We publish two issues each year, one in winter, and one in summer. Our first reading period opens September 1st and closes December 1st.
To share your work, please email the respective genre editor and upload your .docx/.pdf files. Include a brief bio with a few sentences about why your work is a good fit for us with our mission statement in mind.
Please send us your work only once per submission period. Simultaneous submissions are cool as long as you promptly notify us if the work is accepted elsewhere.
Honey Literary accepts and encourages simultaneous submissions, but please let us know immediately if a piece is accepted elsewhere. Submit no more than once per submissions period. We only accept unpublished work. Honey Literary retains first publication rights, and upon publication, rights revert back to the author. Please credit Honey Literary as the first publisher if the piece appears elsewhere after publication, which includes, but isn’t limited to other journals, anthologies, chapbooks, and full-length books.
Poetry: Send us three to five unpublished pieces at a time. We’ve got big appetites, so more is more. We want the poems that were too weird for workshop. Give us work that is eclectic and absurd and demands to be read aloud. Send us your jigsaw edges and remixes.
Email submissions to Editor Rita Mookerjee: poetry@honeyliterary.com
Sex, Kink, and the Erotic: Locker room talk is dead; Honey Literary is here for body-positive, kink-friendly content centered around respect and consent. Ideal submissions include but are not limited to confessions, toy/gear reviews, etiquette guides, dirty little secrets, burlesque show recommendations, odes to sideboob, fav strip club snacks, dating app wins (or fails), shibari shoots, erotic vignettes, recaps from the weekend, and that porno script you saved on your old desktop. Honey Literary loves and supports sex workers as well as their art/writing! Show us what’s inside your bedside drawer.
Email submissions to Editor Rita Mookerjee: sex@honeyliterary.com
Essays: Send us essays that use the personal to explore facets of our current world. From natural history, science, politics, international events, food, culture, and art, we want to see how the personal and public intersect in your work.We’re seeking essays that are elastic, capacious, experimental and exploratory. We welcome memoir, nonfiction, research, lyric meditations, and hybrid work about what stirs your curiosity, what raises your hackles. We especially invite emerging writers and student writers to submit their work.
(750-1000 words)
Email submissions to Editor Avni Vyas: essays@honeyliterary.com
Hybrid: Do you have work that blurs, defies, or redefines genre? We welcome excerpts and stand alones that may include, but are not limited to: documentary poetics, notes, mappings, marginalia, lists, altars/shrines, collections, audiovisual pieces, prose poetry, letters, invented forms, collaborations, and scholarly projects that are slightly or largely out of touch with institutions. Send enough work to contextualize your project with respect for our time. For example: a bouquet–not the entire meadow.
Email submissions to Editor Claire Meuschke: hybrid@honeyliterary.com
Comics: We’re looking for eccentric, experimental, excessive, confessional, instructional, genre-nasty comics pieces (10 pages or less) in any form. Single-panel pieces, excerpts from zines, comics stories without words, comics without pictures, one-offs, doodles, interesting trash, and everything in between. We are particularly open to submissions from members of the LGBTQIAAP+ community.
Email submissions to Editor Jessica Q. Stark: comics@honeyliterary.com
Animals: Kingdom: Animalia. Familiars. Daemons. Protectors. Companions. Predators. Prey. This is a space to submit art & writing about animals real or imagined, pre-historic or future, spineless or silky, friend or foe. Share the work you do with animals; show us the bioluminescent creatures in your lagoon; describe the dreams where your lost pets come to visit you. Highlight conservation work in your habitats. Profile the service animal of the year. Recount the folk tales that made you scared of drain serpents. Tell us about the anteater in the forest, the sandhill cranes in the parking lot, the carabao in the rice field, the angler in the deep. We want your venom, oily feathers, plush fur, mythical beasts, and whale songs.
Please submit a maximum of 3 artworks, 3-5 pages for poems, and 10-15 pages for longer pieces.
Email submissions to Editor Christina Giarrusso: animals@honeyliterary.com
Interviews: Honey Literary seeks to conduct interviews that showcase the boundlessness of art and innovation, tapping into the creative’s soul and teasing out the hows and whys of their passions. We want to facilitate interviews that go beyond the typical, robotic back and forth between two parties, but rather a natural, gradual unfurling between people who cherish expression and creation. Whether you’re a singer, writer, visual artist, or culinary chef, Honey Literary wants to know what moves you, what keeps you up at night, who’s in your artistic lineage, and of course, all about your craft.
Email submissions to Editor Zakiya Cowan: interviews@honeyliterary.com
Reviews: Honey Literary is seeking reviews on recently released books, along with art mediums that aren’t typically at the forefront of conversations. From novels, novellas, short story collections, and poetry collections, to graphic novels filled with queer and magical themes (think non-binary werewolves and time travel) and hybrid books, we want to engage with all forms and genres. We’re also seeking a wide variety of reviews, so think about that fashion line that makes their clothing from plastic bottles, or that brand of panties whose goal is to eliminate product waste among people who have periods. Or maybe you want to engage with films and tv shows from independent studios, directed, written, and/or starring BIPOC, queer, and disabled individuals. Or what about restaurants that feature traditional recipes from across an ocean? Reviews are boundless, and whether it’s an in-depth analysis or short and sweet praise, we want to hear it all!
Email submissions to Editor Trinity Jones: reviews@honeyliterary.com
Valentines: Tell us about that one friend you didn’t know you were in love with until you came out. Share the sticky note love letters you’ll never end up giving your roommate’s girlfriend. Or what about those love songs you wrote to your favorite artists? Honey Literary wants your Valentines: your phone notes, email drafts, letters in a box, corner-of-the-page-too-distracted-by-lust-to-pay-attention doodles, and descriptions of the outfits you love but will never wear. Or what about your thoughts on the perfect perfume for that special someone, your late-night car conversations, your platonic epics, your [self-insert] fanfiction, your realizations of being pursued or secretly admired, your sheets of loose leaf stuffed into drawers, your quarantine love stories, or your Tinder conversations with strangers that you’ll never speak to again? Think about those missed connections: the person you ran into three times at the grocery store whose name you didn’t catch. Is your valentine a top 10 list? Is it taped on a bus stop, in the refrain of a pop song, at the bottom of a bowl, or framed at an altar? Give us your cutesy, your sexy, your sultry, and your badass expressions of love and life.
Email submissions to Editor Maria Clara Melo: valentines@honeyliterary.com
DEADLINE: December 1, 2020
https://honeyliterary.com/submit/
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Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets
African Poetry Book Fund
INFO: The Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poetry is awarded annually to an African poet who has not yet published a collection of poetry. The winner receives USD $1000 and book publication through the University of Nebraska Press and Amalion Press in Senegal.
The African Poetry Book Fund Editorial Board, including Kwame Dawes, Chris Abani, Matthew Shenoda, John Keene, Gabeba Baderoon, Phillippaa yaa de Villiers, Aracelis Girmay, and Bernardine Evaristo, will judge.
A winner will be announced in early January, with notifications sent shortly thereafter.
ELIGIBILITY: The Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets will only accept “first book” submissions from African writers who have not published a book-length poetry collection. This includes self-published books if they were sold online, in stores, or at readings. Writers who have edited and published an anthology or a similar collection of other writers’ work remain eligible.
An “African writer” is taken to mean someone who was born in Africa, who is a national or resident of an African country, or whose parents are African.
Only poetry submissions in English can be considered. Work translated from another language to English is accepted, but a percentage of the prize will be awarded to the translator.
No past or present paid employees of the University of Nebraska Press or Amalion Press, or current faculty, students, or employees at the University of Nebraska, are eligible for the prizes.
MANUSCRIPT: Poetry manuscripts should be at least 50 pages long.
The author’s name should not appear on the manuscript. All entries will be read anonymously. Please include a cover page listing only the title of the manuscript (not the author’s name, address, telephone number, or email address). An acknowledgements page listing the publication history of individual poems may be included, if desired. No application forms are necessary. Eligible writers may submit more than one manuscript.
While we have no specific formatting rules, we suggest sending your manuscript in Times New Roman or Arial, 12 point font, single-spaced. We also prefer one poem per page, meaning a new poem does not begin on the same page on which another ends.
ENTRY FEE: $0
DEADLINE: December 1, 2020
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Poetry: Latinx Anthology
The Ice Colony
INFO: The Ice Colony seeks poetry attentive to Latinx Immigrants inspired by true events. Whether they be events that you or your family experienced.
Have you ever felt like an immigrant in your country of birth? In your neighborhood? In your body?
We are interested in poems that speak on one or more of the following:
Struggles with borders both physical and metaphorical.
Migration.
What does it mean to be a foreigner?
Growing up in an immigrant home.
Traditions.
Detention facilities and deportation.
Ancestry- tell us their stories, heartbreaks and joys.
Current political or social climate pertaining to Latinx community.
Give us the tiniest details. Be imaginative. Bring the past, present and future, most importantly let it be authentic and palpable.
General Submission Guidelines:
Open to Latinx Poets Internationally age 18+
Unpublished Poems of any length and form are welcome. Maximum of 5 poems per submission. Submit all poetry in one document, do not submit multiple forms. They will not be accepted.
Submissions must be typed: Times New Roman, 12 pt, 2.0 line spacing.
Please use .doc or docx file formats when submitting
Include all writer contact info, full legal name, email, address and cell phone number, on the first page of the submitted file.
Cover letter:
Confirming Latinx background
Confirming submitted poem(s) are unpublished.
A short bio 250 words or less.
Contact information- full legal name, email, address and cell phone number as well as social media handles.
If your submission is accepted elsewhere, please let us know immediately and withdraw it.
Poems demonstrating racism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or other forms of oppression will not be accepted.
The Ice Colony is currently not a paying market. We are all volunteers: editors, writers, and narrators. For this call, poets may receive a free copy of the anthology (depending on our funding at the time of publication) and will be invited to participate in a virtual live reading in celebration of publication. We also make a collaborative effort to promote your via our website, Twitter and Instagram.
A percentage of the profits from the anthology will go to the organization No more Deaths
DEADLINE: December 1, 2020
https://theicecolony.submittable.com/submit
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: BLACK POETS, WRITERS, VIDEO ARTISTS
TriQuarterly
INFO: TriQuarterly, the literary journal of Northwestern University and of the Litowitz MFA+MA program, welcomes submissions of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, short drama, video essays, and hybrid work from established as well as emerging writers. We also accept interviews and craft essays.
This fall, we are opening free submissions f for our 160th issue. We will be working with guest editors to select and curate work exclusively by Black poets, prose writers, and video artists for summer 2021.
Our general submissions will reopen next year and be extended by two months, from January 1 to May 31, 2021.
DEADLINE: December 1, 2020
https://triquarterly.submittable.com/submit
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Stadler Fellowships
Bucknell University
INFO: Since 1998, the Stadler Fellowships have offered recent MFA graduates in poetry the opportunity to receive professional training in editing and literary arts administration. Beginning in the 2021-22 academic year, the program will be divided into two distinct tracks: a fellowship in literary editing and a fellowship in literary arts administration. Applicants can apply to one or the other. Both fellowships are designed to balance the development of professional skills with time to complete a first book of poems. Fellows serve for 20 hours each week during the academic year. The balance of the fellows’ time is reserved for writing.
STIPEND: The 10-month fellowships provide health insurance and a stipend of at least $33,000.
Stadler Fellowship: Literary Arts Administration
The Stadler Fellow in Literary Arts Administration is a key player in the execution of the Stadler Center's programs and advises the Center's leadership on new and existing initiatives. The literary arts administration fellow contributes to campus and regional outreach efforts, leads a faculty/staff poetry reading group, serves on selection committees for our programs and residencies, and otherwise works to strengthen and enhance our literary community. In June, the fellow serves together with the Stadler Fellow in Literary Editing as a staff poet in the Bucknell Seminar for Undergraduate Poets, the Center's signature summer program that draws some of the nation's most accomplished undergraduate poets.
Stadler Fellowship: Literary Editing
The Stadler Fellow in Literary Editing serves as a poetry editor for West Branch, Bucknell's nationally-recognized literary journal. The editorial fellow screens poetry submissions, serves on the editorial committee, assists in proofreading, and, optionally, compiles a special poetry feature for the journal. The fellow may also contribute to other Stadler Center editorial projects. In June, the fellow serves together with the Stadler Fellow in Literary Arts Administration as a staff poet in the Bucknell Seminar for Undergraduate Poets.
Since these are residential fellowships, we expect fellows to live in the immediate Lewisburg area; to hold no other professional, academic, or fellowship obligations; and to participate fully in the life of the Bucknell literary community during the fellowship period.
Several recent Stadler Fellows have published books or received other honors subsequent to their fellowships, including Will Schutt (Westerly, Yale Prize for Younger Poets); Jamaal May (Hum, Beatrice Hawley Award, Alice James Books), Carolina Ebeid (You Ask Me to Talk About the Interior, Noemi Press), Justin Boening (Not On the Last Day, But On the Very Last; National Poetry Series, Milkweed ), Chet'la Sebree (Mistress, New Issues Poetry Prize), E.G. Asher (Natality, Noemi Press), and Monica Sok (A Nail the Evening Hangs On, Copper Canyon).
DEADLINE: December 1, 2020
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WNBA Writing Contest
Women’s National Book Association
INFO: The 2020 WNBA Writing Contest is now open for submissions!
Categories
FICTION: 3,000 words maximum.
CREATIVE NONFICTION: 2,500 words maximum. Includes memoir, personal essay and commentary.
FLASH PROSE: 750 words maximum. May submit fiction or creative nonfiction.
POETRY: 3–5 pages maximum
No theme is required in any category.
Winners:
Winners will be announced in March 2021 on the Women's National Book Association's website.
Winners will receive a cash prize and the winning entries will be published in The Bookwoman Newsletter, the national publication of the WNBA, and on the WNBA website.
After winners are announced and awarded, the WNBA will publish an anthology of past winning entries. Every few years, a new anthology will be published.
Basic Guidelines
The WNBA Writing Contest is open to everyone ages 18 years or older writing in English.
International submissions are welcome if the author is able to accept the winning prize in US dollars.
All WNBA members in good standing receive a 25% discount on submission fees.
You may submit more than one entry, but each entry requires a separate fee and entry form.
Simultaneous submissions are acceptable. If your work is accepted elsewhere, please inform Andrea Auten, the contest chair, at contest@wnba-books.org.
Previously published work will be accepted as long as the publisher allows for the work to be reprinted/redistributed. If your work is accepted elsewhere, please inform Andrea Auten, the contest chair, at contest@wnba-books.org.
To qualify for the WNBA member discount, you must be a current member of the Women's National Book Association, which means you have paid for the 2020/2021 membership year that began in June 20.
DEADLINE: December 1, 2020
https://wnba.submittable.com/submit
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: "SOMEWHERE WE ARE HUMAN: AN ANTHOLOGY ON MIGRATION, SURVIVAL, AND NEW BEGINNINGS"
Migrant Anthology
INFO: "Somewhere We Are Human: An Anthology on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings", edited by award winning author of The Distance Between Us, Reyna Grande, and acclaimed poet and author of Nostalgia & Borders, Sonia Guiñansaca. We are seeking bold personal non-fiction essays and poems from migrants, asylum seekers, refugees and displaced people with experience in the United States. We are especially interested in essays and poems from those in the midwest and Border towns. We are centering and giving priority to essays and poems from Indigenous migrants, Black migrants, Asian Pacific Islanders, and Arab communities.
During this time of political unrest, how do we shift the nation’s collective imagination about migrants towards one rooted in humanity and justice? What stories about ourselves and communities need to be told during these times of border militarization, mass detention, and draconian anti-immigrant legislation?
The anthology will be published by HarperCollins in English and Spanish. Contributors will be compensated (a min. of $800)
GUIDELINES:
All attachments should be saved as a Microsoft Word document (.docx)
For Non-Fiction Essays no more than 2,000 words
Poems should be no more than 6 pages in length (1-3 poems)
Written work should be finished pieces (no drafts)
Essays and poems should primarily be written in English.
All submissions should be unpublished pieces
Please number your pages in the order it should be read
One anthology submission per person
Short cover letter describing your interest in participating in this anthology (2-3 paragraphs)
A cover letter, short bio, and written work must be included in order to be considered
Please make no inquiries about the status of your submission. Only those selected will be contacted through email by the end of December
Guiding Questions:
We are seeking bold personal essays, and poems from migrants, asylum seekers, refugees and those deported from across the United States. These are just guiding questions and themes. We understand the topic of migration is broad so we are looking for pieces that touch upon these but not limited to these. There is no monolithic migrant story, we want to hear YOUR STORY, and YOUR EXPERIENCE.
We believe that we existed before the migration. That we had childhoods, and memories of our loved ones and a place we may have called “home”. Tell us those stories. What are stories before migration that you wished were written about.
We believe that our migration story is complicated, nuanced, layered, and intersectional. Scholars and politicians skip over the hard decision and journey of migrating or that many of us were displaced from our home country because of climate change, political turmoil, war, economic inequity-leaving us with no other choice but to “migrate”. Mainstream stories often leave out how some of our family members are detained in the process of coming to the U.S. They fast forward to us as “hard workers” and “taxpayers” and take away our childhoods, teenage years, and coming of age moments. Tell us those stories of our growing up in the United States. As a teenager what was it like to grow up in a mixed status family? What was dating like? If you are queer, how did you understand your queerness in relationship to your migration? What was it like before DACA? What are some stories of growing up undocumented that you wished you could have read? If you came to the U.S later on (after your formative years), what did you learn about yourself? What did you wish people knew about growing up in the South? Tell us these stories. Stories that disrupt the mainstream tokenizing, stories outside the “good” vs “bad immigrant”. Essays and poems that decenter whiteness, and assimilation.
We believe that our migrant communities deserve justice and a world without borders and detention centers. We believe that joy, healing, and freedom of expression is crucial to our existence. We want to read poems and essays touching on this. We want to read about where you are now in life? Tell us about the world you envision. What are some things you have reflected on about your migrant story? What are you un-learning? What is some advice and words you wished you were given about being migrant when you were younger? What are the messages you want recently “arrived” migrants to hear? What do you want to tell yourself 20 years from now? For artists, how has your art played a role in your healing and growth?
PLEASE NOTE: We are not looking for scholarly/academic papers. We will not consider submissions by non-migrant people. We are looking for contributors that are undocumented or formerly undocumented.
DEADLINE: December 5, 2020 at 11pm PT
https://www.migrantanthology.com/
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: JANUARY ISSUE
Liminal Transit Review
INFO: We accept work about themes including but not limited to immigration, diaspora, displacement, decolonization, borders, as well as the intersections of these themes with literature, movement, and transit– interpreted as broadly as possible! We want your work about geography, about place and identity, about the connections between literature and identity and place. We want your work about transit and movement– and how that exists in and shapes how we see borders and diaspora and displacement. We love experimental work, and abstract work, and theoretical work. If you have any questions about whether your work fits our themes, go ahead and send it to us, and we’ll let you know.
We accept fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and cross genre work in English. Send us up to five poems or 3000 words of prose (multiple pieces of prose totaling this word count is allowed), or up to ten pages of cross genre work. We also accept flash fiction and flash creative nonfiction. Poetry has no formatting guidelines except font (Garamond or Comic Sans, please!), but please double space your prose in 12-point Garamond or Comic Sans. Cross genre work has no formatting guidelines. All submissions must be submitted as PDF files or Word documents. Please include trigger warnings and content warnings as and when required. Please only submit once per issue unless specifically requested, in only one genre. We do not accept works in translation at the moment.
Simultaneous submissions are allowed but please email us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere.
DEADLINE: December 10, 2020
https://liminaltransitreview.com/submit/
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: “HYBRID IDENTITIES”
Harpy Hybrid Review
INFO: Harpy Hybrid Review exists to celebrate and showcase hybrid works in all their varied forms: poetry, songs, translations, flash/micro fiction, creative nonfiction, videos, collaborations, erasures/found poetry, and visual arts including comics and broadsides. We seek submissions from published and unpublished writers and artists. Our current themed call is on “Hybrid Identities.” All contributions will be fully archived.
We publish original works, and we will also consider materials previously published (from printed journals only; please let us know where so we can give proper acknowledgment). We accept simultaneously submitted materials, but notify us as soon as possible if your work is accepted elsewhere.
We seek to publish a variety of new and established voices. We encourage submissions from underrepresented voices including, but not limited to, women, artists and writers of color, LGBTQ+, those living with poverty, survivors of trauma, and incarcerated poets and writers.
WHAT IS A HYBRID WORK?
Historically, poetry and drama were connected. Lyrical poems were sung or accompanied by music in ancient Greece. In some languages, story and poem share a common word.
In contemporary America and its production of literary journals, genres are often separated, delineated, and categorized for publication according to markets that have little to do with the art itself. This easy ordering of art limits its potential as well as ours—the use of our many talents and possibilities of our work.
Hybrid pieces are pieces that challenge contemporary genre limitations, utilizing any and all of the artist’s/artists’ capabilities as well as encouraging collaboration. This is the work we need in our nuanced, not easily labeled world. A hybrid piece pushes and challenges easy labels. It finds itself not easily categorized. It pushes back on the limitations imposed by definitions or publishing standards. Hybridity allows us, the artists, the freedom to express an idea as it presents itself—in its potentially many varied forms, without fear or restriction. It allows us to embrace our art, shedding expectations and therefore allowing it to become what it was meant to be.
Examples of hybridity in literature include, but are not limited to: prose poetry, lyric essays, ekphrastic poems, songs, broadsides, found poetry, digital literature, comics, and any combination of the expectations of the genres of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and visual art.
DEADLINE: December 15, 2020
http://www.harpyhybridreview.org/submissions/
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2020 Columbia Journal Winter Contest
Columbia Journal
INFO: The editors of Columbia Journal are delighted to officially announce that the 2020 Winter Contest is now open for submissions in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Our judges this year will be Viet Thanh Nguyen (fiction), Jia Tolentino (nonfiction), Roger Reeves (poetry), and Sawako Nakayasu (translation).
AWARD: The four 1st place winners of the Winter Contest will be published in print in Columbia Journal Issue 59 in Spring 2020, and will receive a $500 cash prize. At least two additional runner-ups will be selected and announced for each genre.
JUDGES:
Viet Thanh Nguyen (fiction judge) is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Refugees, Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War, The Sympathizer, and its forthcoming sequel, The Committed (March 2021)
Jia Tolentino (nonfiction judge) is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of the essay collection Trick Mirror.
Roger Reeves’ (poetry judge) work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry, Ploughshares, Tin House, among other publications. Reeves is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize as well as a Whiting Award in Poetry. His first book is King Me, published in 2013, and his second collection of poetry is forthcoming from W.W. Norton.
Sawako Nakayasu (translation judge) is an artist who works with language, translation, and performance. She is the author of /The Ants/, /Mouth: Eats Color/, and /Costume en Face/. Her most recent book, /Some Girls Walk Into the Country They Are From/, was published in October, 2020.
SUBMISSION FEE: $15 for each submission
DEADLINE: December 15, 2020
http://columbiajournal.org/2020-winter-contest-submission-guidelines/
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: “Black Lives Matter” ISSUE
Philadelphia Stories
INFO: Philadelphia Stories is accepting submissions for our winter issue: Black Lives Matter. Like much of the country, our team has been horrified witnessing the debilitating effects the coronavirus is having on the Black community and the police killings of George Floyd, Tony McDade, Breonna Taylor, Rayshard Brooks, and 160 more this year. We hate to admit these tragic circumstances have forced us to reflect on our culpability and to recognize we have not done all we could to support Black writers and visual artists. We’ve been listening to our Black editors and staff, following conversations in the lit community, and paying attention to the response from other publications. Now is our time to act. Today, we renew our commitment and take the first step in a long journey of, not only amplifying, but also supporting and nurturing Black writers and artists.
Please send us your submissions, now and in the future. We want to share your stories of Black life. Tell us how you may be dealing with the pandemic, how the protests have impacted you OR tell us a story about how your community continues to thrive, continues to love. All subjects are welcome. We accept fiction, poetry, nonfiction, art, and hybrid work.
STIPEND: We pay a small stipend, $50, for accepted literary work. We know this is not enough. As an all-volunteer organization, we will continue to strengthen our fundraising efforts. Hopefully, we will be able to pay our writers more soon. We know Black labor is not free, so we will continue to push for fair compensation.
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DEADLINE: December 15, 2020
https://philadelphiastories.org/philadelphia-stories-black-lives-matter/
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
As Loud As It’s Kept Magazine
INFO: As Loud As It’s Kept — a magazine for artists of color — is calling all creatives (visual artists, writers, photographers, and creators who are looking for the opportunity to showcase their craft) to submit work on the theme of “Anniversary!”
GUIDELINES:
Who Can Participate: Writers, Photographers, Visual Artists, Poets and Graphic Designers, (if you have something that you would like to submit and you aren’t sure if we will accept it, please email us!)
Theme: This issue’s theme is Anniversary! We are looking for submissions with this theme integrally in its story (not just briefly mentioned or as an afterthought). It can be conveyed through Plot, Setting, Dialogue, etc. Anniversaries are usually seen as celebratory, but this isn’t needed to be considered for this issue! An anniversary is a day that recalls a particular event, so let your mind run free
Word Limit: OPEN FOR REVIEW
Submissions will be accepted on a first-come basis, however, if your submission is not chosen to be in this issue, please reply in your email stating that you would like for your piece to be included in the next issue. A new Issue will be published quarterly. There will be a confirmation email sent to those who submit their submissions promptly
ALL SUBMISSIONS WILL BE EDITED!!
DEADLINE: December 20, 2020
https://www.alaikmag.com/submission-guidelines
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Howling Press
INFO: Howling Press is an online magazine publishing company based in the UK that is dedicated to publishing Postmodern, experimental, Political, and Avant-Garde Poetry from around the globe. They are currently accepting digital art, poetry and short prose.
GUIDELINES:
Send a maximum of five poems to be considered for an issue.
Short Prose– no more than 2 pieces, 1,000 words maximum (per piece)
Digital Artwork & Photos – 5 to 8 works at a time, high resolution (300dpi)
Only send unpublished work
Send one submission at a time
We do not consider simultaneous submissions, i.e. work that is being considered elsewhere
Poems and pros should be typed
Please provide your full name, theme, genre, and your Instagram handle with your submission
Please send in your work in docs/JPEG format
DEADLINE: December 21, 2020
https://www.howlingpress.com/press-1
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Inkwell Black
INFO: Inkwell Black - an online publication whose goal is to share and uplift Black lesbian, queer, trans and non-binary voices through poetry - is looking for poetry that utilizes strong, expressive language, imagery, and style. Send us poems with form and function, free verse, and the like. Please note we will not publish derogatory or degrading pieces.
Please send one document with up to three (3) poems, in either .doc or .docx format. Please use 12pt font, 1-inch margins, and number your pages. Include your name and title of work in the header.
All work must be previously unpublished. This includes blogs and other online publications.
Please include a current bio of no more than 100 words written in third person with your social media/website information.
We accept simultaneous submissions. Please notify us immediately if work you submitted has been accepted elsewhere.
Contributors will receive $15 as payment remitted via PayPal.
DEADLINE: December 21, 2020
https://www.inkwellblack.com/submit
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Black and Indigenous Writers
The Soul In Space
INFO: The Soul In Space is open for submissions from Black and Indigenous Creators. They are open to Essays, CNF, Fiction, Poetry, Music, and Visual Art.
GUIDELINES:
It’s asked that all written submissions are in the form of words or pages.
Any font is fine as long as its readable and the size is at least 11pt.
Poetry submissions are asked to be no more than 3 poems.
Prose submissions are asked to be no more than 8 pages, double spaced.
Visual Arts can include video, drawing, painting or digital art submissions.
All work is to be emailed to info@soulin.space
SUBMISSION FEE: $0
DEADLINE: December 31, 2020
https://www.facebook.com/TheSoulinSpace/posts/137130981502807
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2021 Anna Rabinowitz Award
Poetry Society of America
INFO: The Anna Rabinowitz Prize is awarded to poets and their collaborators for venturesome, interdisciplinary work made in the previous year and combining poetry and any other art or discipline.
Work that qualifies includes but is not limited to books that blend visual art and poetry, original performances of dance and poetry (or dance based on poetry ) and of music and poetry (including libretti based on poetry) as well as more eclectic collaborations involving poetry and technology, the sciences or math.
Candidates are required to provide material documenting their projects. These will be key to the judging process. Panels, discussions, and programs focused on dialogue between disciplines rather than the creation of a new work are not eligible.
The finished work should have been produced or published in 2020 but can involve or be based in part on work from any era. And all are welcome to apply singly if the work involving more than one discipline has been accomplished alone.
HONORARIUM: $1,000 to be divided equally between or among the principals if not awarded to a single artist.
The prize is established by the children of Anna Rabinowitz to honor her boundless curiosity, creativity, and artistic accomplishments.
THIS YEAR'S JUDGE: Lillian-Yvonne Bertram is the author of Travesty Generator, (Noemi Press, 2019), How Narrow My Escapes (Diagram/New Michigan Press, 2019), Personal Science (Tupelo Press, 2017), the artist book Grand Dessein (Container, 2017), a slice from the cake made of air (Red Hen Press, 2016), and But a Storm is Blowing from Paradise (Red Hen Press, 2012), chosen by Claudia Rankine as winner of the 2010 Benjamin Saltman Award. Recipient of an NEA Fellowship in Poetry, a Massachusetts Cultural Council Poetry Fellowship, and other awards, they are the current Director of the MFA in Creative Writing at UMass Boston and also direct The Chautauqua Writers' Festival.
ENTRY FEE: $10 (for members and non-members)
DEADLINE: December 31, 2020
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FREE CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR BLACK POETS
Split Lip Magazine
INFO: Split Lip Magazine is a voice-driven literary journal with a pop culture twist. We publish online monthly and in print annually. We accept fiction (flash and short stories), memoir, poetry, art, and photography. Please read our guidelines and submit accordingly. We appreciate you taking time to check us out and look forward to reading your work!
GUIDELINES: Send us your best poem. Yes, 1 poem per submission. We want new, innovative works by fresh voices.
Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but please contact us if the piece is picked up elsewhere.
COMPENSATION: Contributors to web issues will receive $50 (paid via PayPal). Print issue contributor payment is $5 per printed page, minimum of $20, plus 2 contributor copies.
SUBMISSION FEE: In an effort to promote Black voices, free submissions will be open for Black writers and artists in all genres for the rest of the year.
DEADLINE: December 31, 2020
https://splitlip.submittable.com/submit
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
A Public Space
INFO: A Public Space welcomes submissions of fiction, essays, poetry, as well as graphic and hybrid work. For additional information, please see an interview with the editors on our Duotrope page; an overview of A Public Space by the Whiting Literary Magazine Prize [insert link]; and an archive of the magazine's previous issues.
GUIDELINES: Please submit up to five (5) poems in one document. Only one submission at a time is allowed; additional submissions will be returned unread. Only previously unpublished work will be considered. Simultaneous submissions are allowed, but if a poem is accepted elsewhere, we ask that you withdraw your submission from the system or, if you've submitted multiple poems, that you add a note to your submission letting us know which poem(s) you are withdrawing. Translations are welcome, but it is the translator's responsibility to secure rights to the work before it is submitted. Reading an issue or two of the magazine before submitting is strongly recommended.
Please note we cannot accept revisions to pieces once they've been submitted.
We will make every effort to respond to your submissions within four months, though at times it may be longer. If it has been more than four months and you have not yet received a response, we will be happy to reply to a query regarding the status of your submission.
Writers whose work is published in the magazine will receive an honorarium.
DEADLINE: December 31, 2020
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WINTER WRITERS RESIDENCY
Hortus Arboretum and Botanical Gardens
INFO: The Hortus Residency is open to established and emerging fiction and non-fiction writers and poets exploring the themes of nature and/or the human connection with nature.
Hortus Arboretum & Botanical Garden is an accredited botanical garden and arboretum located in the lower Hudson Valley.
It was established by two artists turned gardeners.This residency was formed to provide opportunities for writers whose work focuses on nature. The Winter residency will allow writers to have access to the botanical garden if they would like to have that as part of their residency experience.
For the Submission: Writers should submit 40 pages of a novel, or 5 poems. Please include a cover letter with how the residency would help you.
Housing: The Barnette is a small house situated in the hamlet of Stone Ridge located in the lower Catskill mountains of New York state. The Barnette is situated in a rural region on the edge of the Hortus gardens, surrounded by woods and overlooking NY state protected wetlands. The Barnett is a GREEN HOUSE with solar panels, heat on demand, a woodstove, 1-large bedroom, modern bathroom, air conditioning, and an outside deck. It has easy access to the Hortus Arboretum & Botanical Garden. The Barnette has Hi-Speed Internet. Smoking is not permitted on the property.
Meals: Residents make and provide their own meals. The Barnette has a fully stocked kitchen.
There are several local places to eat as well several good food markets within 10 minutes drive from the property.
Travel: The residency participant is responsible for all travel expenses. A car is necessary due to the rural location.
Stipend: At this time, Hortus does not offer any stipends but does provide comfortable accommodations and unlimited access to the gardens during the residency.
Duration: One week
DEADLINE: December 31, 2020
https://www.hortusgardens.org/opportunities.php
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: AWAKE
Lucky Jefferson
INFO: Lucky Jefferson's digital zine Awake seeks to amplify the experiences and perspectives of Black writers in American society.
The second issue of our digital zine will explore Black culture through cuisine. Send us your most savory and decadent poems, essays, flash fiction, and art on foods that inspired your identity and exude blackness.
Upon acceptance, submissions will be included on our website and publicized on social media.
When submitting:
Send no more than three poems in a submission. Poems should be separated by titles or page breaks.
If sharing an essay, include an essay with no more than 1500 words.
Send no more than three pieces of art. Artwork that offers social commentary on the Black experience is highly preferred (We love comics and collage pieces!).
Include a cover page highlighting your name, email address, current address, and bio (third-person, 50 words max).
We do not accept translations or work that has been previously published in print or online.
DEADLINE: DEcember 31, 2020
https://luckyjefferson.submittable.com/submit/167135/lucky-jefferson-awake-zine-submission
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Translations of Poems, Drama, etc.
Circumference
INFO: Circumference was founded in 2003 by Jennifer Kronovet and Stefania Heim as a journal for poetry in translation. We believe translation continues to be a vital part of public and artistic discourse.
We’re interested in new translations of poetry and drama, particularly (but not exclusively) from contemporary authors. We’re expanding to include interviews and dialogues between artists and thinkers of all stripes: conversations where disagreement tends to enrich debate, rather than suspend it. We’re on the hunt for profiles and long-form writing that sheds light on literary and artistic praxis around the world.
We publish all poems in their original languages alongside their translations. We pay you for your work.
GUIDELINES: Please upload up to 5 poems by the same author, and a brief explanatory note to contextualize the work, with the title “Poems: [Author’s name, original language].” If you're submitting drama or another genre, please adjust title accordingly.
Please also upload the original texts and confirmation of permission to publish your translations, given by the author, publisher, and/or estate.
We only accept work that has not been previously published in English. Simultaneous submissions are welcome, but please do let us know if your work will appear elsewhere. We’ll do our best to get back to you within four months.
DEADLINE: January 2, 2021
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Literary Portfolio Submissions
P+B In Print
INFO: P+B Publications is an independent publisher, seeking the best new work by women and non-binary authors. In the spirit of Pen + Brush, we believe fervently that our publishing program exists to act as forceful means of dispelling the misconception that too few women produce consistently high-level literary fiction and poetry.
We publish with the following goals:
All work we publish is of a high quality
We never pre-filter submissions based on publishing experience, education, or background
We are looking to work with strong new voices and we are committed to publishing them.
Pen + Brush publishes poetry and short and long literary fiction. We publish short stories and poems in our literary magazine Pen + Brush In Print, which is distributed in print and electronically.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: P+B In Print No. 5
We are currently accepting submissions for our P+B In Print, No. 5 literary magazine, to be released in 2021. This issue will feature a guest editor, Novella Ford, whose theme is inspired by the recent HBO series created by Misha Green, Lovecraft Country episode “I Am.” We are seeking submissions that explore a question Hippolyta, a mother of a gifted artist, a science nerd and a widowed business owner, asks after unexpected travel through space and time; each experience revealing herself to herself, in order to name herself. At the end of the journey, she joyously proclaimed “How can I fit everything that I am now, into this place?” A clarion call for anyone who has experienced a shift in their persona, creative practice, principles, and/or actions.
For some, the quarantine due to COVID 19 has provided a time to sit with oneself and operate in solitude. For others, quarantine, global uprisings against police brutality, a protracted U.S. election season, and more, gave way to a dizzying cocktail of financial insecurity, anxiety, and stretching to meet the needs of many. You may not have made it completely to the other side, but you know more about what you are capable of than when the year 2020 started. What happens in the aftermath when we awaken to ourselves; when we cannot unknow what has been revealed? How do we make room for our glorious revelations in seemingly fixed spaces?
For P+B In Print, No. 5, we are looking for a variety of work led by the imagination, that is also revelatory and worthy of the journey. How the theme is approached is up to you. We are excited by different writing styles, genres, and subgenres.
Aligned with P+B’s vision to provide a platform to showcase the work of female and non-binary artists and writers to a broader audience with the ultimate goal of effecting real change within the marketplace, we are pleased to offer an honorarium ($150 - $500) for all submissions accepted for publication. *Please note these honorariums are made possible by generous grants and donations received during this publication period, amounts may vary for subsequent publications.
We are only accepting previously unpublished work.
Fiction/Non Fiction (under 3500 words) - up to $500
We are accepting one submission per author. Excerpts from book-length projects are fine, but we will be looking for the excerpt to stand strong on its own. Short stories, essays, autobiographical/memoir, literary fiction, and creative nonfiction are all welcomed. Humor, satire, and the political also have a place here.
Poetry (under 2 pages typed) - $150 for two published poems
We are accepting up to four submissions per author.
Each submission should include a short bio, not to exceed 75 words. This will not impact the assessment of the work. We want to know a little bit about you!
About Guest Curator, Novella Ford:
Novella Ford is the Associate Director of Public Programs and Exhibitions at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a research division of The New York Public Library. She created the inaugural Schomburg Center Literary Festival in 2019 and has organized hundreds of public programs at the intersection of scholarship and popular culture. She connects diverse audiences to the archives and engages history through dialogue, performance, literature, and visual arts.
DEADLINE: January 4, 2021
http://www.penandbrush.org/explore/literary
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2021 Chapbook Competition
The Frost Place
INFO: The Frost Place, a nonprofit center for poetry and the arts at Robert Frost’s old homestead in Franconia, NH, in partnership with Bull City Press, invites submissions to The Ninth Annual Frost Place Chapbook Competition Sponsored by Bull City Press.
The winner’s chapbook will be published by Bull City Press in Summer 2021. The winner will receive 10 complimentary copies (from a print run of 300), and a $250 prize. The winner will also receive a full scholarship to attend the Poetry Seminar at The Frost Place, August 2021, including room and board (valued at approximately $1,550, Pending COVID-19), and will give a featured reading from the chapbook at the Seminar.
Additionally, the chapbook fellow will have the option to spend one week living and writing in The Frost Place House-Museum in September 2021 (peak fall foliage season in the White Mountains) at a time agreed upon by the fellow and the Frost Place.
ELIGIBILITY: The Frost Place Chapbook Competition Sponsored by Bull City Press is open to any poet writing in English. Simultaneous submissions are permissible, but entrants are asked to notify the competition administrators through the competition website immediately if a manuscript becomes committed elsewhere.
Please do not submit to this competition if you are close enough to the final judge, Tiana Clark, that her integrity, or the integrity of Bull City Press and The Frost Place, would be called into question should you be selected as the winner. You may query us if you have questions regarding this matter. Please query by email to frost@frostplace.org.
SUBMISSION FEE: $28
DEADLINE: January 5, 2021
https://frostplace.org/chapbook-competition/
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ONGOING
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Latin American Literature Today
INFO: Latin American Literature Today (LALT) welcomes throughout the year submissions of translated texts (Spanish-English, Brazilian Portuguese-English) of contemporary Latin American prose, verse, interviews, essays, and book reviews.
Furthermore, the journal is committed to foregrounding the work of translators, so we encourage and welcome contributions such as translator’s notes, essays on the art of translation, translation reviews, interviews to translators, as well as translation “previews” from forthcoming book publications.
All translation submissions and questions should be directed to Denise Kripper, our Translation Editor, to translation.lalt@gmail.com. Submissions will be reviewed by the entire LALT editorial committee.
LENGTH OF SUBMISSIONS:
Creative prose (fiction and non-fiction) should have a maximum length of 5000 words
Poems should be limited to 3 to 5 poems
Articles and interviews should have a maximum length of 2,000 to 2,200 words, unless otherwise directed by the editor;
Book reviews should have a maximum length of 1,200 words
DEADLINE: Rolling Submissions
http://www.latinamericanliteraturetoday.org/en/submission-guidelines-translators
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
VIDA Review
INFO: The VIDA Review is an online literary magazine publishing original fiction, nonfiction, poetry, reviews, and interviews.
We are exclusively interested in work by those often marginalized in literary spaces, including Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC); cis and trans women, agender, gender non-conforming, genderqueer, nonbinary, and two-spirit people; LGBQIA people; people with disabilities; and people living at the intersections of these identities.
All pieces should be original, and previously unpublished in any format in English.
Please send one submission at a time, and please submit only once every 6 months.
We are open to simultaneous submissions, so long as you label them as such and promptly let us know if your work has been accepted elsewhere.
Please note that all submissions should be accompanied by a cover letter and brief third-person biography statement, and that (unless otherwise stated) we ask for First North American Rights to publish writing. Following publication, all rights revert back to the writer; we only ask that you credit the VIDA Review as the place your work first appeared.
GUIDELINES:
Up to six poems at a time, each on separate pages
Single-space
Combine into one document (.doc, .docx, or .pdf)
Include contact information on first page of submission
Provide a cover letter in the "Cover Letter" section and a brief third-person biography
PAYMENT: Payment for those accepted will range between $15-$20. We recognize that this is a token amount of money but hope to increase this amount in the future. Payment will be made via PayPal within 2 months of publication.
DEADLINE: Rolling Submissions
https://thevidareview.submittable.com/submit
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Hyphen Magazine
INFO: Narrative, experimental, lyrical or prose poetry, free verse, eastern or western poetic forms, or works meant as spoken word are all welcome as poetry. We tend to prefer poems that take risks and/or surprise us, but due consideration will be given to all submissions. We expect to see a poet’s best demonstrations of craft, and poems need not be about Asian American themes.
Send only your best, previously unpublished work. Asian American themes are not essential. We are much more interested in work that incorporates identity than in work that is about identity.
Send 5-6 poems per submission in a single document.
Simultaneous submissions (when you send the same submission to us and other publications) are okay as long as you let us know and notify us immediately when a piece has been accepted elsewhere.
Multiple submissions are not okay (when you send more than one submission to us in the same genre). If you send more than six poems, only the six poems will be considered; the others will not be read. Please wait to hear back before submitting again.
Submitting to more than one genre at a time is okay (but please send them separately to the appropriate email addresses).
Please note:
Poetry features are published monthly. 1-3 poems by a single poet will be published each month, though exceptions are possible.
Submissions are considered on a rolling basis, and is dependent upon space availability.
Reading period can be up to six months. If you have not heard back after six months, feel free to contact the editor.
We are able to pay writers $25 per piece upon publication.
DEADLINE: Rolling
https://hyphenmag.submittable.com/submit/77191/fiction-poetry