SEVENTH ANNUAL NARRATIVE HIGH SCHOOL WRITING CONTEST
Narrative
DEADLINE: February 4, 2022 by 5pm PST
INFO: Narrative is inviting poetry submissions from all US and international high school students, grades 9–12, to participate in our Seventh Annual Narrative High School Writing Contest! We are eager to hear from as many voices as possible. We’re eager to hear from YOU!
Contributing students in last year’s Sixth Annual Narrative High School Writing Contest covered the globe: indeed, we received submissions from nineteen countries, including South Africa, India, China, Serbia, Poland, Taiwan. Within the United States, we heard from young poets in 39 states and 174 cities—an amazing outpouring of poetry. This year, we urge new students to add their voices to the chorus.
Poetry has been called “the voice that is great within us,” yet there is no one way to write a poem. Particularly during these times of upheaval and reflection, we’re seeking emerging writers who will offer new perspectives that invite each of us to see the world anew.
CONTEST RULES & GUIDELINES:
Who can enter?
Students from the US and internationally, grades 9–12, are eligible to submit to the contest. Winners and finalists will be asked to provide proof of age.
How do I send my work?
Writers will submit work through their English teacher, who will upload the work through the contest Submission Portal. Each teacher may submit the work of no more than ten students (one poem per student, please). Schools may submit a maximum of thirty submissions in total. The contest is free to enter. Teachers may submit their students’ work via our Submission Portal.
When’s the deadline?
The contest opens January 4, 2022, and the submission deadline is February 4, 2022, at 5:00 p.m. Pacific Standard Time. All submissions must be previously unpublished, either in print or online (including on social media and blogs). The contest results, including winners and finalists, will be announced in April.
What is this year’s prompt?
When you hear the phrase “Blind Spots” it conjures the notion of seeing. In our world today, there is much we are asked to see, as humans, that we can’t quite capture. Can you point to a blind spot in your life or in the lives around you? Those obscured places just beyond one’s vision, in the past, present, or future. Blind spots come in all shapes and sizes—and in your poem we look forward to reading how your unique experience and identity sculpt those edges.
Perhaps there’s a memory forgotten or a question left unanswered, a miscommunication with someone you love, a conversation lost in translation. Or, zoom out a bit: what blind spots might you share with your family, your friends, your city, your country, the world?
Can you capture in a poem a moment or story when you or the world around you was blind to something important? What happened that made things a bit more clear? You could turn toward the metaphorical or the literal, the small or the large, the individual or the systemic. Lean into that space of self-questioning and ask others to join you. We each have something to learn, and something to teach. Shine some light on the corners we’ve left in the dark, and tell us what we’re missing.
We invite you to write a poem, 10 to 50 lines long, in response to the prompt: BLIND SPOTS.
How will the winners be chosen, and when will they be announced?
For fairness, all judging of submitted poems will be done with names, grades, and school affiliations removed, and, further, entries will be sorted randomly by Narrative’s team—led by Narrative cofounder/editor and New York Times–bestselling author Carol Edgarian and Narrativepoetry editor and executive editor of Copper Canyon Press Michael Wiegers. Guest judge Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Jericho Brownwill select the ultimate winners and finalists. A first-, second-, and third-place winner, along with several finalists, will be announced in April. Narrativeeditors will mentor winners prior to publication in the magazine. Cash prizes totaling more than $1,000 will be awarded.
What awards will the winners receive?
The winning author will be presented with a $500 award. The second-place winner will receive $200, and the third-place winner will receive $100. Each finalist will receive $50. The schools of winners will also receive special recognition and prizes. The winning works will be published in Narrative, alongside many of today’s great writers. The winners will also have an opportunity to perform their work for our popular Narrative Outloud podcast.
Need help getting inspired?
Check out our Poetry Tutorial Video with Narrative cofounder/editor and bestselling author Carol Edgarian and last year’s guest judge, Salvadoran poet and Narrative Prize winner Javier Zamora. Also be sure to explore our Poetry Guide, made just for you!
narrativemagazine.com/narrative-in-the-schools-program/seventh-annual-contest
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: ISSUE 9 - ‘GIBBERISH’
Lucky Jefferson
DEADLINE: February 13, 2022
INFO: Did you grow up with a name others found difficult to pronounce? Speak a foreign language? Know a word or a phrase that doesn’t translate well to English?
Celebrate your culture and language! We want to hear about those “gibberish” experiences and words we’ve never seen or heard before.
Poems, essays, flash fiction, hybrid forms, and art are all welcome. Send us anything that relates to uncommon or foreign words and languages that hold significance to you.
GUIDELINES:
Send no more than 3 poems in a submission. Separate poems by page break.
No more than 1000 words for flash fiction.
Include a short and sweet cover page highlighting: your name, email address, mailing address, and bio (third-person, 50 words max).
No work that has been previously published in print or online.
*If translation is necessary, please email submissions@luckyjefferson.com.
*We will not tolerate any work that promotes harmful stereotypes and perspectives including: racism, bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, islamophobia, xenophobia, antisemitism, ableism.
luckyjefferson.submittable.com/submit
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LITERATURE GRANT
Café Royal Cultural Foundation
DEADLINE: February 14, 2022 at 9:00am EST
INFO: Café Royal Cultural Foundation NYC will award a publishing grant to authors of fiction / creative non-fiction, poetry and playwriting.
GRANT: Up to $10,000.00
ELIGIBILITY: Authors in fiction / creative non-fiction, poetry and playwriting. The applicant must be the originator of the written material.
Grants awarded in this category may fund costs associated with continuing the composition of work submitted. Such as:
Course Reduction (if you're a Teacher/Professor)
Salary Replacement
Living Expenses
Research Expenses
Writers applying must be a current resident of New York City and have lived there for a minimum of one year prior to applying.
Please make sure to submit your application with ample time before the start date of your project.
Applicants can only apply with the same project twice.
REVIEW PROCEDURES: Funding decisions will be made by the Café Royal Cultural Foundation Selection and Executive Committees. The following criteria will be applied in evaluating grant proposals:
Creativity, originality, ideas and concepts, writing style
Importance of the Project/Cultural Relevance
Promise of future achievements in writing
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS:
Up to and no more than a 15 page PDF of the work, for the Café Royal Cultural Foundation executive committee to download and read.
A letter of intent from the publisher with a date of planned publication, if no publisher is assigned, Café Royal Cultural Foundation may work with writer to help find a publisher.
A short description of the project.
A short author biography of the person(s) involved.
List of costs that the grant money be used for - must not exceed the amount of $10,000.00
caferoyalculturalfoundation.org/literature-page
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2022 NEW AMERICAN POETRY PRIZE
New American Press
DEADLINE: February 14, 2022
ENTRY FEE: $20
INFO: Submissions are now open for the 2022 New American Poetry Prize.
The winning manuscript will be published and its author will receive $1,500 and 25 copies. Manuscripts should be at least 48 pages, but there is no maximum length. All forms and styles of poetry are welcome.
We read manuscripts blind, so please exclude identifying information from the manuscript itself. All necessary contact information is included in your Submittable record.
JUDGE: Final judge this year is EDUARDO C. CORRAL, whose debut poetry collection, Slow Lightning (2012), won the Yale Younger Poets Prize, making him the first Latino recipient of the award. His second collection, Guillotine (2020), was praised for his seamless blending of English and Spanish, tender treatment of history, and careful exploration of sexuality, Corral has received numerous honors and awards, including the Discovery/The Nation Award, the J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood Prize, a Whiting Writers’ Award, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. A CantoMundo Fellow, he has held the Olive B. O’Connor Fellowship in Creative Writing at Colgate University and was the Philip Roth Resident in Creative Writing at Bucknell University. In 2016, he won the Holmes National Poetry Prize from Princeton University. Corral teaches in the MFA program at North Carolina State University in Raleigh and is currently a Hodder Fellow at Princeton University.
https://newamericanpress.submittable.com/submit
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KATHRYN A. MORTON PRIZE IN POETRY
Sarabande Book’s
DEADLINE: February 15, 2022
INFO: The Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry includes a $2,000 cash award, publication of a full-length collection of poetry, and a standard royalty contract. Kathryn A. Morton was a published author and devotee of fine literature, especially poetry.
The judge for the 2022 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry is Terrance Hayes!
ELIGIBILITY:
This contest is open to any poet writing in English. Employees and board members of Sarabande Books, Inc. are not eligible. Individual poems from the manuscript may have been published previously in magazines, chapbooks of less than 48 pages, or anthologies, but the collection as a whole must be unpublished. Translations and previously published collections are not eligible. To avoid conflict of interest, close friends of a judge or current students in a degree-granting program with a judge are not eligible.
MANUSCRIPT REQUIREMENTS:
Manuscript must be ANONYMOUS—the author’s name or address must not appear anywhere on the manuscript (title page should contain the title only)
Must be typed, standard font, 12 pt.
Minimum length 48 pages
Manuscript must be paginated consecutively with a table of contents and acknowledgements page (a list of publications in which poems in the manuscript have appeared)
Must be accompanied by a $29 submission fee
Must be submitted electronically through Submittable
Multiple submissions are permitted if submitted separately, each with a submission fee. Once submitted, manuscripts cannot be altered. Winner will be given the opportunity to make changes before publication. Simultaneous submissions to other publishers are permitted, but please withdraw the submission if accepted elsewhere.
A winner will be selected in September, and all entrants will be notified of the winners and finalists shortly afterward. Sarabande Books considers all finalists for publication.
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2022 CAAPP Book Prize
Center for African American Poetry and Poetics
DEADLINE: February 15, 2022
INFO: The CAAPP Book Prize is a publishing partnership between the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for African American Poetry and Poetics and Autumn House Press with the goal of publishing and promoting a writer of African descent. The prize is awarded annually to a first or second book by a writer of African descent and is open to the full range of writers embodying African and African diasporic experiences. The book can be of any genre that is, or intersects with, poetry, including poetry, hybrid work, speculative prose, and/or translation.
Please submit a manuscript between 48 and 168 pages.
AWARD: The winning manuscript will be published by Autumn House Press and its author will be awarded $3,000.
FINAL JUDGE: Evie Shockley
Evie Shockley is a poet and scholar. Her most recent poetry collections, the new black (Wesleyan, 2011) and semiautomatic (Wesleyan, 2017), both won the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award; the latter was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the LA Times Book Prize. Her poetry has appeared internationally in print and audio formats, in English and in translation. She has received the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, the Stephen Henderson Award, the Holmes National Poetry Prize, and fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and Cave Canem, among others. Shockley is Professor of English at Rutgers University.
caapp.pitt.edu/opportunities/2020-caapp-book-prize
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PIGEON PAGES POETRY CONTEST
Pigeon Pages
DEADLINE: February 15, 2022
ENTRY FEE: $7
INFO: The Pigeon Pages Poetry Contest will be judged by Melissa Lozada-Oliva, author of Dreaming of You.
AWARD:
The winner will receive $250 and publication in Pigeon Pages.
Honorable mentions will receive $50 and publication.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
Original, previously unpublished poems by a single author are eligible for this contest.
$7 entry fee for one poem of 5 pages or less
Only one poem per contest submission, but we welcome writers to submit as many times as they would like. Any entries with more than one poem will not be eligible for contest consideration.
We do accept simultaneous submissions, but please let us know if the submitted piece is accepted elsewhere.
If submitting work entirely in a language other than English, please also include an English translation.
Please do not include personal information on your piece, as submissions will be read blind.
All submissions will be considered for publication in the general journal.
pigeonpagesnyc.com/poetry-contest
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2022 J. Michael Samuel Prize
Lambda Literary
DEADLINE: February 15, 2022
INFO: The J. Michael Samuel Prize honors emerging LGBTQ writers over the age of 50. To be eligible, the winner of the prize must be unpublished and meet our minimum age requirement. The award includes a cash prize of $5,000.
ELIGIBILITY:
In order to be considered for the award, the applicant must:
be 50 years of age or older as of January 1st of the award year;
be unpublished and have no books under contract or forthcoming from a publisher (up to one (1) self-published title is permitted). Writers with bylines for short stories, poetry, and essays are still eligible.;
be of demonstrated ability and show promise for continued growth; and
show meaningful engagement with LGBTQ literary communities.
lambdaliteraryawards.submittable.com/submit/212919/2022-j-michael-samuel-prize
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2022 Furious Flower Poetry Prize
James Madison University
DEADLINE: February 15, 2022
SUBMISSION FEE: $15
INFO: The Furious Flower Poetry Prize for emerging writers is open for submissions. Poets with no more than one published book are invited to submit up to three poems (no more than a total of 6 pages) for consideration.
PRIZE: The winner and honorable mention receive $1000 and $500 respectively, and will be invited to read (virtually or in-person) as a part of the Furious Flower Reading Series. The winner, honorable mention, and select finalists will also be published in Obsidian. Winners are announced in late March/early April.
HOW TO SUBMIT:
Visit the submission page and carefully follow all instructions. You will need to:
Pay your $15 non-refundable submission fee
Register your submission
Email an anonymized version of your manuscript to furiousflowerpoetry@gmail.com with contact information in only the body of the message
jmu.edu/furiousflower/poetryprize/index.shtml
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Interdisciplinary Artist Residency Program
Peter Bullough Foundation
DEADLINE: February 22, 2022
INFO: The Peter Bullough Foundation in downtown historic Winchester, Virginia provides residencies to emerging artists and scholars, including those elevating voices and topics relevant to the LGBTQIA2S+ community. Applications are now being accepted for fall 2022 residencies to work in the private studios and enjoy the garden and former homes of Dr. Peter Bullough. The ideal applicant will be self-directed and able to work independently. Each awarded residency period is roughly four weeks and is shared with one to two other artists in residence. Artistic collaborators in groups of two to three may apply in one application. Hosting a community workshop virtually or in-person during the residency is encouraged, but not required.
Disciplines Accepted:
Architecture, literature, film/video arts, interdisciplinary arts, music, music composition, playwriting, screenwriting, poetry, scholars, theatre, and the visual arts.
Fall 2022 Residency Dates:
August 18 - September 13
September 15 - October 11
October 13 - November 8
November 10 - December 6
Selection:
Selection is a multi-step process involving the PBF staff, residency committee, residency alumni, and board. We may request an interview with you to learn more about you and your work. Selections will be announced 30-45 days after the application deadline. The PBF does not discriminate in its programs and activities on the basis of race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, religion, creed, national origin, age, and/or disability.
Accommodations & Support:
The Peter Bullough Foundation is delighted to offer free accommodations for two to three artists at a time in Dr. Bullough’s former home, a renovated 1840’s house with private bedrooms and bathrooms and shared common spaces. Private studios and workspaces are located in an adjacent building that also houses the majority of the late Dr. Bullough’s book and art collections. Private gardens connect the properties and are also available as open-air workspaces.
A $550 stipend is provided to aid in covering supplies, necessities, and food for the month.
Accessibility:
The PBF is not ADA accessible at this time. For more information on accessibility, please check out our FAQ's.
Location:
Winchester, Virginia is a quintessential American small town, with four locally-owned breweries, many small shops, 10 different historic house museums, a kids science museum, and a large regional art museum.
Application Requirements:
Application Form
Resume, CV, or Statement of Qualifications
Two Personal References
Personal Statement and Proposal
Portfolio
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GRANTS FOR ARTISTS & WRITERS WITH CHILDREN
Sustainable Arts Foundation
DEADLINE: February 25, 2022 at 5pm ET
INFO: This year, The Sustainable Arts Foundation will make awards of $5,000 each to twenty artists and writers with children. Additionally, we will name twenty finalists.
Our awards offer unrestricted cash, which recipients can use as they see fit.
Our selection process is focused almost entirely on the strength of the submitted portfolio.
ELIGIBILITY:
To be eligible, the applicant must have at least one child under the age of 18. Parents of older children with a disability or special needsmay also be eligible.
WHO SHOULD APPLY:
Artists and writers with at least one child under the age of 18 and a strong portfolio are welcome to apply.
We are inspired by anyone making creative work while raising a family. Given the intense demand for these awards (we typically receive 2,000-3,000 applications), and the fact that the awards are based on demonstrated excellence in your discipline, we don’t recommend that artists or writers just beginning their creative careers apply to this program.
While we don’t require that applicants have published or exhibited their work, the rigor and critique involved in that process can certainly benefit the portfolio. Portfolios of writing or artwork created in a more personal vein for sharing with friends and family are not suitable.
We invite you to view our list of previous awardees and follow the links to their work to get a feel for their level of craft.
RACIAL EQUITY:
As of Fall 2016, we make at least half our awards to applicants of color. You can read more about this decision on ourwebsite.
DISCIPLINES:
Writers may apply in one of the following categories:
Creative Nonfiction
Early and Middle Grade Readers
Fiction
Graphic Novel/Graphic Memoir
Illustrated Children's Books
Illustrated Children's Books (Text Only)
Poetry
Young Adult Fiction
Visual artists may apply in one of the following categories:
Book Arts
Ceramics
Drawing
Fiber Arts and Textiles
Illustration
Installation
Jewelry
Mixed Media
Painting
Photography
Printmaking
Sculpture
Wearable Textiles
CRITERIA:
We are looking for excellent work. The portfolio is the primary factor we consider in evaluating each application.
apply.sustainableartsfoundation.org
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2022 Starshine and Clay Fellowship
Cave Canem / EcoTheo Collective
DEADLINE: February 28, 2022 by 11:59pm EST
ENTRY FEE: $0
INFO: Cave Canem and EcoTheo Collective are pleased to announce the 2022 Starshine and Clay Fellowship, an initiative providing financial and development support to emerging Black poets, and fundraising opportunities for Cave Canem. Named in honor of Cave Canem elder Lucille Clifton (“won’t you celebrate with me”), the Starshine and Clay Fellowship was developed to speak to the mentorship Clifton offered Cave Canem fellows during her tenure as faculty at the Cave Canem Retreat.
AWARD: Four recipients will each receive $500, $500 for a LOGOS reading, a $500 travel stipend and free lodging to attend the Wonder in Wyoming conference, a one-on-one consultation with the final judge, and master classes and other opportunities provided by Cave Canem. Poets will also have their work published in the Summer 2022 issue of EcoTheo Review, with proceeds of the sale going to Cave Canem.
JUDGE: Airea D. Matthews
ELIGIBILITY: All adult Black writers who have not had a full-length book published by or currently under contract with a professional press. Authors of chapbooks and self-published books with a maximum print run of 500 may apply.
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, EcoTheo, or LOGOS Poetry Collective. If any of the selected poets fall under the above exclusions, they will be disqualified and a replacement will be chosen from among the finalists. As the poetry community is small and the contest is judged without knowledge of the submitter’s identity, acquaintance with the judge or participation in a workshop taught by the judge are not disqualifying criteria.
GUIDELINES:
8-12 pages of unpublished poems. A poem may be multiple pages, but no more than one poem per page is permitted.
The fellowship welcomes poets writing from a variety of themes and perspectives, and poets writing on ecological, spiritual, and/or theological concerns are particularly encouraged to apply.
Submit manuscripts online via Submittable. Hard copy submissions will not be considered. One manuscript per poet allowed.
Author’s name should not appear on any pages within the uploaded document.
Upload manuscript as a .doc or .pdf document.
Manuscripts not adhering to submission guidelines will not be considered.
Post-submission revisions or corrections are not permitted.
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Call For Submissions
DVAN/Texas Tech University Press
DEADLINE: February 28, 2022
INFO: DVAN and Texas Tech University Press’ book series is open for submissions from early career and emerging poets. For this reading cycle, we will be reviewing poetry in English, from the Vietnamese-American and broader Southeast Asian community. Manuscripts will be given full consideration by TTUP and writers and academics from the DVAN network.
REQUIREMENTS:
Full book length manuscript (60-90 poems)
Manuscript must not yet be published
Please include an author bio with your submission
We are looking for any and all kinds of stories and modes of expression. There is no singular story from the Diaspora and Asian-American community. We are looking for originality of voice, acuity of subject, emotional resonance, as well as themes and perspectives that have not often been centered in contemporary literature. As a nonprofit University Press, TTUP is unburdened by the commercial concerns of major publishers.
Please submit your manuscript to wearedvan@gmail.com.
dvan.org/2021/12/dvan-texas-tech-university-press-call-for-submissions/
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MY TIME: A FELLOWSHIP FOR PARENT WRITERS
The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow
DEADLINE: February 28, 2022
APPLICATION FEE: $35
INFO: The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow is pleased to announce the 2022 My Time fellowship funded by the Sustainable Arts Foundation. Writers who are also parents of dependent children under the age of 18 are invited to apply. Work may be any literary genre: fiction or nonfiction, poetry or prose, script or screenplay. The successful application will demonstrate literary merit and the likelihood of publication. Prior publication is not a requirement.
Two fellowship winners will receive a one-week residency to allow the recipient to focus completely on their work. A $400 stipend will be provided to cover childcare and/or travel costs. Each writer’s suite has a bedroom, private bathroom, separate writing space, and wireless internet. We provide uninterrupted writing time, a European-style gourmet dinner prepared five nights a week, and served in our community dining room, the camaraderie of other professional writers when you want it, and a community kitchen stocked with the basics for other meals.
The winner will be announced no later than March 21, 2022. Residencies may be completed at any time during 2022. This may be extended up to twelve months for extenuating circumstances including COVID-19 concerns.
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CALL FOR POETRY
Digging Through the Fat
DEADLINE: February 28, 2022
SUBMISSION FEE: $3.50
INFO: Digging Press LLC is an independent publisher. We publish the literary and arts journal, Digging Through The Fat, and a chapbook series. We also produce a podcast and host a reading series. As an organization for cultural omnivores, we aim to nurture experimentation in the arts and encourage broad-mindedness and cultural inclusion.
GUIDELINES:
Send up to three poems in a single upload. Multiple submissions are discouraged.
Do not include your name or any identifying information within the attachment. Please do not insert a header or footer containing your name, and do not include your name and contact information at the top of the document. Doing so will disqualify your submission.
Because this is a blind submission process, previously published works are not accepted. This includes work self-published on personal blogs. Simultaneous submissions are accepted as long as they are indicated as such and the submission is withdrawn from Submittable immediately upon acceptance elsewhere.
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CALL FOR INVITATIONS
Nomadic Press
DEADLINE: February 28, 2022
INVITATION FEE: $10
INFO: For years, we have used the “industry”-standard language—submissions. Any way you cut it, the word “submit” grates against who we are and what we stand for. It feels inauthentic to continue to use this word. We want to instead offer that this is a process of sending us an invitation—an invitation into relationship, an invitation to work together, an invitation to experience your art with you, an invitation into a space most sacred.
This year, we are accepting invitations in the following categories: chapbooks, full-length collections (poetry, fiction, non-fiction), and children's books. Please review category-specific guidelines below.
Accepted works will be published in 2023–2024.
Prior to sending us an invitation, please ensure that you are familiar with our organization's vision, mission, and safe space statement/process. We are more than just a publishing house. If you have not gotten a chance to read one of our books, please take a moment to do so. You can also see a list of previously published Nomadic Press authors at this link.
GENERAL INVITATION GUIDELINES:
We love simple:
attach two file versions of your work: a .pdf and a .doc(x)
for fiction, non-fiction, and children's books: double-space your invitations
12 pt. serif font (Garamond, Times New Roman)
WORD-COUNT LIMITS:
Chapbook (poetry, fiction, non-fiction): maximum of 70 pages or 21,000 words (@ roughly 300 words per page)
Full-length (poetry, fiction, non-fiction): anything above 70 pages or 21,000 words (@ roughly 300 words per page)
Children's books: we are interested in BIPOC/LGBTQIA+ children's books that earnestly push boundaries and engage kids in explorations of social and environmental justice issues. No word limit. Please include sample illustrations in your invitation or pictures from illustrators you are considering. We do have illustrators that we work with and we would like to see what type of illustration aesthetic you are leaning toward.
Note: photographs and illustrations are welcome in place of (or in addition to) written material, though it will be our final decision as to whether or not to include them should we decide to take on the project.
HOW DO WE READ YOUR INVITATIONS?
We have a team of 3 first-round readers, all of whom are previously published Nomadic Press authors. Our readers change every year. These readers will rate each invitation and we will compile a short list of finalists, out of which final publications will be chosen by our editorial team.
As an independent, small press, we take our reading period very seriously and enlist the help of trusted, highly talented authors who understand who Nomadic Press is and what we stand for. We feel it is important to pay them for their time, which your submission fee of $10 helps to cover. We look forward to reading your work, and thank you again for your interest in our press, and our values.
nomadicpress.submittable.com/submit
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: POETRY
Anomaly
DEADLINE: March 1, 2022
ENTRY FEE: $3 (Fees will be waived for all Black and Indigenous writers to support those most targeted by state violence. Email editor [at] anomalouspress [dot] org to request a fee waiver.)
INFO: Anomaly is currently seeking impact poetry. We are seeking poems that challenge the history and currents of the English language, poems that unsettle cultural norms, poems that utilize language to contest and remake the world. We seek poems that confront gender formations, white supremacy, class, body, possibility. We are seeking for poetry rooted in the radical imagination. We hope to find you.
Please be aware that we get over 500 submissions per reading period and read each carefully, so if you're work has not been accepted or rejected it's not from oversight-we promise we're working on it!
Attach up to five poems in a single document. Please include a short bio in the "Cover Letter" field.
Translations that foreground the work of the original author are welcome in this category. For translations that foreground the creativity of the translator, please see our Translation section.
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Spring 2022 Call for Submissions
A Gathering Together Literary Journal
DEADLINE: March 1, 2022
INFO: A Gathering Together is a 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 welcome submissions of previously unpublished essays, short stories, poetry, reviews, visual art, and film for our Spring 2022 issue.
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.
Artists who want to be featured in our upcoming issues are invited to send us a letter of interest, a 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.
agatheringtogether.com/how-to-submit/