THE CONISTON PRIZE
Radar
INFO: The Coniston Prize is an annual award that recognizes an exceptional group of poems by a woman writing in English.
Submit 3-6 previously unpublished poems in a single document through our submissions manager. You may include a cover letter and brief bio in the comments box. Multiple submissions are acceptable with additional reading fee.
Please remove all identifying information from the poems themselves. All contest submissions will be read anonymously.
This award recognizes an exceptional group of poems. We therefore suggest that you submit poems that are intentionally cohesive in some way, whether connected by subject matter, theme, voice, style, or imagery.
Simultaneous submissions are acceptable, but we cannot refund contest fees if you have to withdraw all or part of your submission. Multiple entries are acceptable with an additional fee.
2020 Judge: Ada Limón
Ada Limón is the author of five books of poetry, including The Carrying, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and was named one of the top 5 poetry books of the year by the Washington Post. Her fourth book Bright Dead Things was named a finalist for the National Book Award, a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She serves on the faculty of Queens University of Charlotte Low Residency M.F.A. program, and the online and summer programs for the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. She also works as a freelance writer in Lexington, Kentucky.
AWARD: The winner receives $1,500 and is featured in Radar's dedicated contest issue, which is released in October of each year. Finalists are also awarded publication.
DEADLINE: September 1, 2020
https://www.radarpoetry.com/contest
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: REANIMATING ANCESTORS
Pleiades
INFO: We are seeking poetry and hybrid texts that exist despite imperialistic attempts at erasure. Does your work juxtapose time, place, and systems of thinking? Do you situate your readers within the multiplicities and nuances of your existence? Do you reanimate what has been widely forgotten? If history, ancestors, and an opposition to losing narratives maneuver your syntax, send us your work.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Please email a submission of up to 5 poems or hybrid texts to pleiadespoetryeditor@gmail.com, with the subject line “Reanimating Ancestors”. We are open to all interpretations of “hybridity,” though we would prefer each piece to be under 1,500 words. Please do not exceed 10 pages in your submission, and please send only one submission. For this folio, we will only consider previously unpublished work. *Note that we cannot print in color, but we are open to publishing any work that utilizes color images on our website.
DEADLINE: September 1, 2020
https://pleiadesmag.com/submit/
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: POETRY
NELLE
INFO: NELLE proudly publishes the best, most exciting, poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and hybird forms written by individuals identifying as women.
Submit up to five poems at a time. Kindly wait until you hear back from us before submitting new work for consideration. All submissions should include a cover letter with a brief biographical statement.
All submissions will be automatically considered for our Three Sisters Awards. A prize of $500.00 will awarded in each category of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.
SUBMISSION FEE: $3
DEADLINE: September 2, 2020
https://nelle.submittable.com/submit
Black Lives Matter Zine
Brushfire Literature & Arts Journal
INFO: This issue of the Brushfire Loose Leaf Zine is dedicated to recognizing and celebrating the black artists and writers who wish to share their experiences, their stories, and their work with the Reno Nevada arts community. All and any forms of creative expression that can be published in either a printed or audio-recorded format are welcome.
For those contributing spoken word poetry or music, please provide a written version of your poems or lyrics. We aim to share both a printed version of your work in the zine, alongside the actual audio recording you submit with it, which will be featured in an audiobook we edit together for the Zine at the end of the project.
Our goal is to make sure the voices of black writers and artists are being heard and prioritized in our community, as well as to help circulate those voices by widely sharing their stories and creative projects with families, local artists, students, and businesses. The BLM Zine and its accompanying audiobook will also be published digitally on the Brushfire website for all to access in the future.
DEADLINE: September 5, 2020
https://brushfire.submittable.com/submit/170292/black-lives-matter-zine
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: "FINDING A WAY"
Ayaskala
INFO: Ayaksala — an indian literary magazine and press passionately creating and curating art around mental health and its multi facets — is accepting submissions for its September issue. Theme is “Finding a way.”
Think about houseplants, your indoor greens. They grow in their own way, albeit less exposed to the outside world. Sometimes, they take over your walls, your desks, the lonely corners of your house. They find a way to bend towards any speck of light they can find. It doesn't matter that they don't have the same liberty as other plants outside, they still find a way to exist and thrive. Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you had to make the best out of what you had? Ever had to find a way through unfamiliar circumstances? Tell us your stories of conquering unknown territories, overcoming predicaments, and triumphing over your demons.
Tell us about how you found a way.
Poetry - under 500 words (per piece) / up to 3 poems per monthly submission cycle
Prose - under 1000 words (per piece) / up to 1 prose per monthly submission cycle
Creative Non-Fiction - under 1000 words (per piece) / up to 1 CNF piece per monthly submission cycle
Fiction - under 1000 words (per piece)/ up to 1 fiction piece per monthly submission cycle
Letter - under 1000 words (per piece)/ up to 1 letter per monthly submission cycle
DEADLINE: September 6, 2020
http://ayaskala.com/magazineguideline
The Margins Fellowship
Asian American Writers’ Workshop
INFO: Through the Margins Fellowship, the AAWW offers emerging writers resources that they can take advantage of, such as access to workshops and trainings, publication opportunities, and programming opportunities in our event space. We also want to give artists a chance to develop as curators, armed with the resources of a literary arts institution.
The Margins Fellowship is a year-long program. The 2021 fellowship year will run from January 11 to December 17.
STIPEND: $5,000 honoraria, distributed in three parts over the fellowship year. Fellowship payment will require the completion of an IRS W-9 or W-8BEN form;
RESIDENCY: Fellows are awarded residency time at The Millay Colony—an innovative seven-acre artists retreat space at the former house and gardens of poet Edna St. Vincent Millay in Austerlitz, NY;
WRITING SPACE: 24/7 access to AAWW’s space, when the space reopens. Given that time and space to write are rare in New York, the Margins Fellows will be given keys to the AAWW Reading Room and workspace;
PUBLICATION: Fellows are invited to publish work on our online magazine, The Margins;
MENTORSHIP: In the second half of the fellowship term, fellows are paired with an established writer who will meet with fellows either in-person or virtually at minimum four times during and after the fellowship year. Previous mentors include Hua Hsu, Tina Chang, Monica Youn, Alexander Chee, Meera Nair, and Kaitlyn Greenidge;
CAREER BUILDING: Fellows are offered access to private career meet-ups and meetings with editors, agents, and fellow writers;
AAWW MEMBERSHIP: Free membership to AAWW includes discounts on book sales and free access to general programs;
WRITING WORKSHOP: One free writing workshop organized through AAWW ($200);
GUIDANCE: AAWW Programs Manager will meet with you periodically throughout the fellowship year to discuss your career goals and how AAWW can help you meet them;
FINAL READING: Fellows will take to the stage with their mentors for a final celebratory reading at the culmination of the fellowship year;
HEADSHOTS: We invite a photographer to take professional headshots of our fellows that they can use going forward.
DEADLINE: September 7, 2020
https://aaww.org/fellowships/margins/
SUMMER POETRY CONTEST
Aurora Poetry
INFO: The winning poem will receive $500 and publication in an upcoming issue of Aurora Poetry. Up to two additional poems may be awarded "Honorable Mention" status and $50. Poems will be considered for publication in Aurora Poetry, regardless of whether they place in the contest.
Each poem should be 100 lines or less and must be submitted as .doc, .docx, or .rtf files. Entries may consist of up to three poems. Only poems which have not been previously published in any form are eligible for consideration. Simultaneous submissions are permissible and encouraged, but please notify us immediately if any of the poems you've submitted to us are accepted elsewhere. Multiple entries are permissible, however, each entry require a separate fee. All entry fees are non-refundable. All entries which do not adhere to these guidelines may be subject to disqualification. No further edits will not be allowed to poems once they have been submitted.
The contest winner will be announced on or before October 31, 2020. We reserve the right to extend the contest deadline as necessary, so long as the winners are announced by this date.
SUBMISSION FEE: $15
DEADLINE: September 12, 2020
https://aurorapoetry.submittable.com/submit
SAAG WRITING PRIZE 2020
Southern Alberta Art Gallery
INFO: The Southern Alberta Art Gallery is pleased to announce the 9th annual SAAG Writing Prize. This writing competition encourages and recognizes the work of emerging arts writers in Alberta and BIPOC+ writers within Canada.
This year, we are honored to introduce the Aruna D’Souza Arts Writing Prize [BIPOC+ Arts Writing]. The award is named after Aruna D'Souza who will also be a guest juror. D'Souza writes about race in modern and contemporary art, intersectional feminisms, and how museums shape our views of each other and the world. Her most recent book, Whitewalling: Art, Race, and Protest in 3 Acts (Badlands Unlimited), was named one of the best art books of 2018 by the New York Times. She is currently editing two forthcoming volumes, Making It Modern: A Linda Nochlin Reader, and Lorraine O’Grady: Writing in Space 1973-2018, and is co-curator of the upcoming retrospective of Lorraine O’Grady’s work, Both/And, which will open in March 2021 at the Brooklyn Museum.
Applicants are invited to submit to the following categories:
SAAG Arts Writing Prize [Arts Writing]
Long form text, critical essay, and exhibition review.
Alberta-based arts writers are eligible for this category.
SAAG Arts Writing Prize [Poetry & Prose]
Long form text, fiction, non-fiction. poetry, and experimental writing.
Alberta-based arts writers are eligible for this category.
Aruna D’Souza Arts Writing Prize [BIPOC+ Arts Writing]
Open format category of arts writing in any style, long or short form awarded to an author who self-identifies as Black, Indigenous, or as a Person of Colour.
Canadian (citizen or resident) arts writers are eligible for this category.
PRIZES: The prizes for each writing prize category are:
SAAG Arts Writing Prize [Arts Writing]: $250 prize & writing published online in Galleries West
SAAG Arts Writing Prize [Poetry & Prose]: $250 prize & Gushul Writers Cottage residency for a Southern Alberta arts writer for the month of November, 2020
Aruna D’Souza Arts Writing Prize [BIPOC+ Arts Writing]: $1000 prize & writing published online with Canadian Art
All submissions will be included in our SAAG Arts Writing Prize Reader 2020, printed in-house at SAAG in our Publication Studio.
All participants are invited to our Writing Prize Reception | Thursday, October 1, 2020 | 6-8 PM
ELIGIBILITY: At the time of entry, writers must be at least 18 years of age and have fewer than five pieces of writing published in a nationally distributed magazine.. Submissions to [Poetry & Prose] and [Arts Writing] must be from Alberta to be eligible. The Aruna D’Souza Arts Writing Prize [BIPOC+ Arts Writing] is open to all of Canada. Students and emerging writers are encouraged to participate. All applicants are encouraged to include a current CV and short biography. Writing submissions must not have been previously published elsewhere.
DEADLINE: September 13, 2020
https://www.saag.ca/public-engagement-adults/saag-writing-prize-2020
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: ISSUE 6
Sequoyah Cherokee River Journal
INFO: Mysti S. Milwee, Editor/Publisher of Sequoyah Cherokee River Journal is accepting submissions for Issue 6. Seeking Poetry, Prose, Art (Paintings), Ekphrastic Collaborations, Collaborations, Micro Flash Fiction and Art Photography, & Photography.
If you would like your poetry translated into her Native language (Sequoyah Cherokee Syllabus) please let her know. There is a fee of $0.08 cents per word. (she accepta PayPal or Money Order only).
All accepted poetry that is translated will be published in the journal.
Please submit work relating to:
Nature, water, sky, animals, Native American folk, tales or stories.
Send your work(s) up to 5 poems or artworks and bio via email to:
mystiart21@gmail.com
In the subject line please state:
Your name, # of works, and Sequoyah Cherokee River Journal
DEADLINE: September 13, 2020
https://sequoyahcherokeeriverjournal.wordpress.com/
2020 Toi Derricotte & Cornelius Eady Chapbook Prize
Cave Canem
INFO: Launched in 2015, the annual Toi Derricotte & Cornelius Eady Chapbook Prize is dedicated to the discovery of exceptional chapbook-length manuscripts by Black poets, and is presented in collaboration with the O, Miami Poetry Festival and The Betsy – South Beach.
Award: Winner receives $500, publication by Jai-Alai Books in 2021, 10 copies of the chapbook, a residency in early April at The Writer’s Room at The Betsy Hotel in Miami, and a featured reading at the O, Miami Poetry Festival.
Final Judge: Mahogany L. Browne (Judge reserves the right not to select a winner or honorable mentions.)
First Readers: April Freely and Taylor Johnson. Cave Canem uses a blind judging system to arrive at the contest winner and honorable mention(s).
Eligibility: This is not a first-book award. All unpublished, original collections of poems written in English by black writers are eligible. Simultaneous submission to other chapbook awards should be noted: immediate notice upon winning such an award is required. Winner agrees to be present in the continental United States at her or his own expense shortly after the book is published in order to participate in O, Miami 2021.
Exclusions: Current or former students, colleagues, employees, family members, and close friends of the judge; current or former employees and members of the board of Cave Canem Foundation, Jai-Alai Books or O, Miami; and authors who have published a book or have a book under contract with Jai-Alai Books are ineligible.
If any of the selected authors fall under the above exclusions, they will be disqualified and a replacement chosen from among the finalists. As the poetry community is small and the contest is judged blind, acquaintance with the judge and participation in a workshop taught by the judge are not disqualifying criteria.
ENTRY FEE: $0. Though, donations may be made to Cave Canem here.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Deadline: September 15, 2020 at 11:59 pm EST
Winner Announced: On or before December 31, 2020
https://cavecanempoets.org/prizes/toi-derricotte-cornelius-eady-chapbook-prize/
The Anzaldúa Poetry Prize
Newfound
INFO: The Gloria E. Anzaldúa Poetry Prize is awarded annually, in conjunction with the Anzaldúa Literary Trust, to a poet whose work explores how place shapes identity, imagination, and understanding. Special attention is given to poems that exhibit multiple vectors of thinking: artistic, theoretical, and social, which is to say, political.
The annual poetry prize proudly honors poet, writer, and cultural theorist, Gloria E. Anzaldúa. Anzaldúa’s work highlights how one’s place in the world is at once geographical, geopolitical, psychological, mythological, spiritual, and linguistic. She is well known for her book of prose and poetry, “Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza,” which draws on her experience as a Chicana/Tejana/lesbian/feminist activist—a revolutionary and inspirational work that continues to be so.
Guest Judge: Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
AWARDS: First place is publication, $1,000 prize, and 25 contributor copies. Three finalists will be announced, and all previously unpublished work will be considered for publication as a general submission to the journal.
READING FEE: $15
DEADLINE: September 15, 2020
https://newfound.org/poetry-prize/
GMR Vol. 31.2: Black Voices
Green Mountains Review
INFO: 2020 has been tough. We are wading through the grief and difficulty wrought by a pandemic and the long history of racism, classism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, able-ism, and many other -isms symptomatic of a profoundly unjust society. Recent protests build upon decades of movement building and offer Americans an honest, if uncomfortable, reckoning with our past and a radical way forward that values the sanctity of Black lives of all kinds.
We know that the work of writers and artists is always crucial at these turning points in history. In his posthumous New York Times Op-Ed, Congressman Lewis wrote to us, “You filled me with hope about the next chapter of the great American story when you used your power to make a difference in our society.” And the late, legendary Toni Morrison wrote, “Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.”
So, let us read and write and speak our way forward. Black folks, send us your writings. Send us your tomorrows. Send us your yesterdays. Offer us your accounts of this moment and of the past and your speculations about what the future might hold.
GMR Volume 31.2 will feature Black voices and be edited by Tara Betts, Naomi Jackson, and Keith S. Wilson. The content is yours. The form is open.
GUIDELINES: Please submit a cover letter and include up to 5 poems or up to 25 pages of prose.
DEADLINE: September 15, 2020
https://greenmountainsreview.submittable.com/submit/170216/gmr-vol-31-2-black-voices
Fall 2020 Call for Submission
A Gathering Together
INFO: A Gathering Together is a literary journal that resists the easy and often unsophisticated attempt to say profound things in the moment, without deep contemplation, or in the heat of discursive battle.
We primarily select works that speak to Mekhet--the Kemetic (Ancient Egyptian) term for resonating across time and space. This term is reserved for works that simultaneously transcend and address the moment they speak from, works that will last beyond the creator's last breath and still be relevant, or works that put the writer and reader in conversation with the intellectual thought of Ancestors of all kinds.
Our writers are primarily descendants of Africa and her Diaspora. All writers whose works resonate with the human experience, and thus the Diasporic African experience, are considered. Our back issues are all available online and serve as a good model for the variety of writers and works we've featured.
We welcome submissions of previously unpublished essays, short stories, poetry, reviews, visual art, and film for our Fall 2020 issue. We have extended the current deadline for our fall issue to September 15th.
Artists who want to be featured in our upcoming issues are invited to send us a letter of interest, brief bio, and a sample portfolio. Writers who want to conduct artist interviews are welcome to send us pitches letting us know how the interview and artist would be a good fit for our journal. Features are generally published January-March or July-September.
A Gathering Together is unable to compensate writers at this time.
DEADLINE: Extended to September 15, 2020
https://www.agatheringtogether.com/how-to-submit/
CHAPBOOK Submissions
Bone & Ink Press
INFO: Bone & Ink Press is now accepting chapbook submissions for publication in 2021. From now until September 15, 2020, we are only accepting submissions from Black writers. After September 15, until the end of the year, we will be open for submissions from everyone. We are not here to police people’s identities, nor do we have time to check up on making sure everyone’s who they say they are, so I’ll reiterate: if you are white, or a non-Black POC, please wait until after September 15 to submit.
GUIDELINES:
Manuscripts should be in standard, 12 pt. font, single-spaced, and no more than thirty pages (excluding front matter).
All works must be primarily in English. You don’t have to live in the US, English doesn’t have to be your first language (and in fact we highly encourage writers from other countries and those writing in English as a second language to submit), and of course you can include words / sections in other languages, but English should be the primary language of the work. (Note: if you’re writing in a vernacular or style other than standard US English, that’s totally cool too! By “English,” we mean any version of it.)
Almost any genre/form is cool with us. We like creative non-fiction, poetry, and fiction. Got a hybrid work? Poetry + lyric essays? A book-length poem? Great! Send them to us! Writing horror, sci-fi, fantasy, or other speculative stuff? Yes, please!
Here’s what we don’t want:
Extreme violence or gore. Horror’s cool, as stated above, and some violence/gore is fine if it’s essential to the work (no matter the genre), but if it reads as violence-for-violence’s-sake, or like splatterporn, we won’t publish it.
Porn/erotica. Again, you can put in as much sex as you want if it fits in the context of the work, but we’re not a porn or erotica press. There are other outlets for that!
Homophobia, transphobia, misogyny, racism, xenophobia, etc. Again, context is important. If the work is about experiencing any of those things, that’s fine, but we don’t want misogynistic rants or anything like that.
Art books/comics. If there are a few illustrations or photographs that are essential to the work, that’s fine, but the manuscript should be primarily text.
Collaborative works are neat, please just make sure that the names of all authors are included in the manuscript and in your submission email.
By submitting, you are certifying that the work is an original creation by you (and any collaborators, if applicable). Found poems (such as erasures, centos, etc.) are great. So are works inspired by other writers (aka “after” poems). But due to an unfortunate uptick in plagiarism in the poetry community in recent years, we’re asking that you cite your sources. Meaning: if you have any found and/or “after” pieces in your manuscript, please include some kind of footnotes or endnotes citing the texts you used to create any found pieces, and the texts which inspired any “after” pieces.
The manuscript must be previously unpublished. This includes self-publishing, or publishing online. Pieces from the work may have appeared elsewhere, but the manuscript as a whole must be previously unpublished.
Simultaneous submissions are fine, please just let us know ASAP if your work is accepted elsewhere.
DEADLINE: September 15, 2020
https://www.boneandinkpress.com/manuscript-submissions
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Points of Contact Anthology
Philippine Collegian
INFO: Contributions are now welcome for the latest literary anthology of the Philippine Collegian, Points of Contact.
The COVID-19 pandemic has hollowed out nearly all communal spaces. Most of us spend our waking hours at home, deprived of intimacy and companionship. The few times we venture outside are now governed by rules of social interaction and calculated navigation that, if violated, could lead to more dangerous consequences than at almost any other time. So, we retreat into isolation and, at the same time, brave bouts of dread and despair over woes that relentlessly fray our nerves and collective bonds.
The pandemic has indeed exacted a toll, both personal and political, with far-reaching repercussions which the Philippine Collegian continues to take stock of in our coronavirus coverage. Still, there remains so much unsaid about the situation that we wish to capture and acknowledge in a way that is not strictly reportorial. We believe that a literary anthology would, to some small measure, contribute to making sense of the one thing everyone has been struggling with amid lockdowns and roiling crises—distance.
This literary anthology hopes to be an examination as it is a challenge. We are interested in works that rethink distance from various perspectives. Distance, in this case, may reference proximity, geography, time, emotion, or the gaps we bridge and the spaces we map out to open up new trajectories.
Possibilities abound for what the future has in store. But it is yet hard to find a patch of firm ground at this moment of crisis, when, by our lonesome, we cannot act together with others and mobilize to the degree that we could have before the pandemic. Our distance from one another provides a fertile ground for inaction. Such is precisely the crack that we can see has been exploited to railroad policies, like the Anti-Terrorism Law, that are bound to shrink our spaces for dissent and fracture our communities even more rapidly than has so far been done already.
Now may not be a good time as any to problematize our circumstances as a literary project. But such is the task that writers and artists, in our rather privileged positions, must inevitably confront. We thus very much welcome contributions that do not shy away from rhetoric and polemics, the summons of ideology, the defiance of formal structures. We are on the lookout for pieces that provoke and unsettle.
GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION
1. The call for contributions is open to all Filipino writers and artists with works, in either Filipino or English, under any of the four categories: (a) short fiction, (b) poetry, (c) essay, and (d) graphic literature. Collaborative works are welcome, and so are pieces that blend together or experiment with genres, transgressing their normative boundaries.
2. All original and unpublished contributions to the literary anthology of the Collegian must be sent to phkule@gmail.com, cc: sheilaannabarra@gmail.com and rccornelio@up.edu.ph. The deadline is 20 September 2020, 11:59 p.m.; late entries will not be considered.
3. Only one submission per category will be accepted. But one may submit an entry in at most two categories. Simultaneous submissions are also allowed, but the Collegian must be notified immediately if the piece is slated for publication elsewhere.
4. For the subject heading of the email and the filename of the submission, kindly follow this format: <Kule Lit Antho 2020 surname_genre>, e.g., Kule Lit Antho 2020 Perez_Poetry. Email your submission as an attachment of the .docx file. Should one wish to keep typography or page design intact, as with some poetry or graphic literature pieces, a PNG and/or PDF file of the work must be submitted instead.
5. Entries for the prose categories must be single-spaced, typeface Segoe UI or Roboto, font size 11. Each submission must follow a 1,000-5,000-word count limit.
6. Entries for the poetry category may either be a standalone poem or a suite consisting of at most five (5) poems, in which case a collective title must be provided.
7. For graphic literature:
a. Entries for comics must be in portrait, and within a 6” x 8” size. It must be at least one (1) but not more than four (4) pages long.
b. Entries for photo essays may be up to 15 photos. There will be no limit imposed for aspect ratio, but the file size for each photo must not be beyond 5 mb, and the text must follow a 1,000-word count limit. The raw and edited file must be uploaded in a Google Drive folder. Collaboration of up to three people is allowed.
c. Entries for illustrations may either be in landscape or portrait, and should not be more than 6” x 8” in size. Important elements should be away from the 0.125-inch bleed.
8. Please do not include any author’s name or metadata within the pages of the file attachment. Instead, as an in-line text in the email, include a brief bionote of not more than 250 words, indicating institutional affiliation and professional email address.
9. In submitting an entry, one shall retain ownership of copyright of their work. But the Collegian shall have the right, upon consultation with the author, to edit portions of the work to suit the demands of publication.
10. An acknowledgement of receipt will be sent within a week of the submission. Please give the issue editors a response time of at least three months before inquiring about the status of one’s submission. The final table of contents of the anthology will have been released by the next couple of weeks.
If you have any questions, you may contact us through our email address: phkule@gmail.com, or message us through our social media accounts @phkule.
DEADLINE: September 20, 2020
https://www.facebook.com/phkule/posts/3130951613652431?__tn__=K-R
Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers
New York Public Library
INFO: The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers offers Fellowships to people whose work will benefit directly from access to the research collections at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. Renowned for the extraordinary comprehensiveness of its collections, the Library is one of the world’s preeminent resources for study in anthropology, art, geography, history, languages and literature, philosophy, politics, popular culture, psychology, religion, sociology, sports, and urban studies.
The Cullman Center’s Selection Committee awards fifteen Fellowships a year to outstanding scholars and writers—academics, independent scholars, journalists, creative writers (novelists, playwrights, poets), translators, and visual artists. Foreign nationals conversant in English are welcome to apply. Candidates for the Fellowship will need to work primarily at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building rather than at other divisions of the Library. People seeking funding for research leading directly to a degree are not eligible.
The Cullman Center looks for top-quality writing. It aims to promote dynamic communication about literature and scholarship at the very highest level—within the Center, in public forums throughout the Library, and in the Fellows’ published work.
A Cullman Center Fellow receives a stipend of up to $75,000, the use of an office with a computer, and full access to the Library’s physical and electronic resources. Fellows work at the Center for the duration of the Fellowship term, which runs from September through May. Each Fellow gives a talk over lunch on his or her current work-in-progress to the other Fellows and to a wide range of invited guests, and may be asked to take part in other programs at The New York Public Library.
DEADLINE: September 25, 2020
Miller Williams Poetry Prize
The University of Arkansas Press
INFO: Every year, the University of Arkansas Press accepts submissions for the Miller Williams Poetry Series and from the books selected awards the $5,000 Miller Williams Poetry Prize in the following summer. For almost a quarter century the press has made this series the cornerstone of its work as a publisher of some of the country’s best new poetry. The series and prize are named for and operated to honor the cofounder and longtime director of the press, Miller Williams.
Series editor Patricia Smith serves as the judge for the Miller Williams Poetry Prize. With the help of screeners, she awards to three authors publication in the series. This is the most significant award the press can offer: the opportunity for the author’s work to be published with all the dedication and expertise we have to offer. We provide professional copyediting by expert poetry editors, design and production by veteran designers who specialize in the typesetting of verse, and production managed by a house with a history of printing first-rate books. We believe this offers the poet the best possible opportunity to connect with his or her audience in print. This prize goes to all three books selected for the series. Three of the books are announced as finalists for the Miller Williams Poetry Prize. One is further chosen as the winner of the prize and receives $5,000 in cash in addition to publication.
DEADLINE: September 30, 2020
https://www.uapress.com/millerwilliamspoetryseries/
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: CITIZENSHIP AND ITS DISCONTENTS
Anomaly
INFO: When we talk about immigrants, we tend to focus on those who come here seeking greater opportunity, higher education, and the American Dream. But, what about those for whom America was not their first choice, who ended up here because of war, persecution, colonization, adoption, migration, and displacement? If you have ever felt excluded, unwanted, or like you didn’t belong, if your Americanness has ever been challenged or denied, if you don’t fit neatly into a box on the Census… we want to hear from you.
Refugees, Dreamers, transnational adoptees, third culture kids, parachute kids, deportees, citizens of US territories overseas, descendants of enslaved people: Tell us your stories for a special folio of Anomaly.
Send up to 4,000 words of essay, memoir, creative nonfiction, poetry, or hybrid narrative, to citizenshipfolio@gmail.com.
Guest editor: Grace Loh Prasad
Email: citizenshipfolio@gmail.com
Twitter: @GraceLP
DEADLINE: September 30, 2020
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Meliora
Lucky Jefferson
INFO: After four enthralling issues, we are turning a new leaf and ending our first arc of collective poems and flash fiction with our upcoming fifth issue, Meliora! Submissions for this winter 2020 issue should bend the rules and challenge form; submissions should speak to the raw, healing nature of owning one’s truth, new beginnings, or the concept of ever better.
What does Meliora mean to you?
For this celebratory issue, we are interested in unpublished experimental, visual/concrete, and hybrid poetry; we tend to adore shorter poems (less than 18 lines in length).
DEADLINES / SUBMISSION FEES:
Early Bird Submissions (free): August 1 – September 30
Last Call Submissions ($3): October 1 – October 25
https://luckyjefferson.com/submit/
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: (RE)FORMATION ISSUE
Yellow Arrow Journal
INFO: Yellow Arrow Journal is a biannual publication of creative nonfiction, poetry, book reviews, and cover art by writers/artists that identify as women.
Interested in submitting to this issue? Do you have creative nonfiction, poetry, a book review, or cover art you would like to share? See below for Submissions Guidelines and sign-up to our newsletter to receive updates about the Journal and Yellow Arrow Publishing.
If selected, you will receive $10.00USD and a PDF of the journal issue.
We receive many wonderful submissions but have limited room in each issue. Please do not be discouraged if your submission is not accepted or you miss the deadline—there will be more opportunities available to you in the future.
SUBMISSIONS GUIDELINES
Accepted submissions include creative nonfiction and poetry by authors that identify as women (book review and cover art guidelines follow below).
Submissions must relate to the theme of (Re)Formation, as interpreted by the author, using the following guiding questions (these will change for each theme):
What does it take to shape or form something? Ourselves? How do we sustain what we form? Why is it meaningful?
How do we know when reformation is necessary? Why is it necessary sometimes? What can we gain through such a transformation?
Can a personal (re)formation become a community act? How? Why might this be necessary at times?
Formation – an act of giving form or shape to something
Reformation – an act or process of reforming something
Creative nonfiction (1 submission per author per issue) must be between 500 and 5,000 words (if interested in submitting full-length manuscripts, please visit Publish With Us for further information).
Poetry (up to 2 poems per author per issue, grouped into a single document) may be any length (if interested in submitting chapbooks, please visit Publish With Us for further information).
Submissions do not need to be in English but must include an English translation (note that it may not be possible to accept foreign nonfiction submissions due to editing concerns).
No previously published work will be accepted at this time—this includes all printed and online material; if a submission is published elsewhere in the interim, email submissions@yellowarrowpublishing.com immediately.
DEADLINE: September 30, 2020
https://www.yellowarrowpublishing.com/submissions
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Chopsticks Alley Pinoy
INFO: Chopsticks Alley Pinoy, in the spirit of kapwa (roughly translated as “being together”), is seeking submissions from our fellow Filipinx Americans.
In particular, we are interested in the notion of identity. What does it mean to be Filipinx American? You might or might not call the islands home. You might easily or uneasily call the United States home. We want to know what it feels, looks, and means to be Pin@y in the States. We want to know the layers of identity and how they intersect with our connection to the Philippines. We want to share the nuances of being in-between and the conflicts of choosing what is lost and losing what you don’t even know. Bring us your stories, long or short, prose or poetry.
A few guiding questions:
-How do you accept, perform, and/or deny your Filipinx identity?
-How does being Filipinx juxtapose your other identities and roles, e.g. LGBTQ+, being a mother, first/second/third generation?
-What does the Philippines stand for to you?
-How has (de)colonization changed your identity and/or understandings of self?
-Are there ways that stereotypes affect your life?
We are seeking fiction, poetry, and nonfiction submissions to share with our readers. Send submissions or questions/comments/inquiries to pinoychopsticksalley@gmail.com.
We cannot offer compensation but will provide feedback on all pieces submitted. Our co-Editor, Asela Lee Kemper, has a background in editing and reviewing poetry at various literary magazines including Marías at Sampaguitas with a BFA in Creative Writing. Co-Editor, Giannina Ong, brings previous experience with reviewing and editing nonfiction at her university literary magazine as well as a B.A. in English.
DEADLINE: September 30, 2020
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Rigorous
INFO: Rigorous is an online journal highlighting the works of authors, artists, critics, and educators of color. We take our name from an accusation commonly leveled at authors of color—that our works are not as rigorous as works created by white authors. We add our voices; we continue to prove otherwise.
We publish fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, visual art, sound art, audiovisual art and movies, cartoons, and any other artistic creations by people of color. We accept all genres, and have a particular affinity for science fiction, superheroes, and other “geek” genres. We enjoy work geared toward the Young Adult market, but we note that Rigorous will sometimes have content that is “Not Safe For Work.”
We seek essays on the personal experiences of people of color and interviews with interesting people of color. We seek critical analysis of art by people of color. We are especially interested in stories about and by educators of color, and the experience of teaching the works of people of color.
Rigorous is edited by Rosalyn Spencer and Kenyatta JP Garcia. Its next issue will be released around the end of October. If you’d like to submit, please do so through Submittable. If you are a white ally working on these issues, please consider our friends at Unlikely Stories and horse less press.
All submissions are handled through Submittable. Please submit up to 10 files, with a maximum of 3000 words.
Please include a cover letter with a brief bio (up to 100 words).
DEADLINE: October 5, 2020
https://rigorous.submittable.com/submit
CALL FOR AUDIO SUBMISSIONS: HEARD/WORD
Galleyway
INFO: HEARD/WORD is Galleyway's new audio series highlighting compelling voices in poetry and prose. We invite you to share recordings of original poems and short fiction. Selected work will be showcased on our blog and social media platforms. Submissions should include:
MP3 recording of you reading your poetry (no longer than 3 minutes) or short fiction (no longer than 5 minutes)
Text version of the piece
A headshot
A brief bio
Social media handles and link to website
Please send submissions to camille@galleyway.com
DEADLINE: Ongoing
https://galleyway.com/blog/2020/3/31/call-for-audio-submissions