BLACK GIRL MAGIC FELLOWSHIP Program
Urban Word NYC
DEADLINE: March 5, 2021
INFO: Urban Word NYC’s Black Girl Magic Fellowship Program is a series for girls and non-binary youth ages 13-19 centered on their development as writers, building their self-esteem, and addressing issues that matter most to them. Curated by Mahogany L. Browne, Urban Word Artistic Director/ Poet/ Activist, this year's fellowship launches at the 2021 Black Girl Magic Ball, where 15 Fellowship winners will be invited and officially introduced as this year's cohort.
On Saturday, March 27th, April 6th, April 13th, and April 17th from 11am-12:30pm EST, Fellows participate in a series of master class workshops focusing on the work of women artists and activists (both contemporary and historic). Under the leadership of Mahogany L. Browne and other invited guests, workshops will use texts for and by Black women artists and scholars. Fellows have the opportunity to learn from guest artists and lectures from BGM Ball honorees.
Throughout the 2021 year, BGM Fellows will participate in readings and other events. They will continue to have occasional workshops to help them continue their craft, exploring various writing careers (PR, speech writing, copyrighting, playwriting, etc.), college workshops, as well as self-care.
At the end of the season, Black Girl Magic Fellows will release a digital anthology of their work.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf_LDIgsds5x901MdEFl_jx35RnUIn9abwxzHdsm7xlrPe0BQ/viewform
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2021 NYC Teen Grand Poetry Slam
Urban Word NYC
DEADLINE: March 5, 2021 at 5pm ET
INFO: Urban Word NYC’s annual poetry slam program is among the most rigorous and competitive in the country. Poets from the NYC area are invited to submit ONE (1) video of themselves performing ONE (1) poem.
20 finalists will participate in a two-day Slam School Fellowship on March 15th & 18th at 5-7pm (must be available both dates) and advance to the Virtual Grand Slam Finals happening virtually on April 3rd at 2pm. The top 5 winners earn a spot on the Urban Word NYC Slam Team, win paid performance & publication opportunities, a professional video filming of their poetry, and will represent NYC at the Regional Poetry Slam against teams from Boston, DC, and more.
https://www.urbanwordnyc.org/slam
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I Want Sky: Celebrating Sarah Hegazy and Queer SWANA Life
Mizna / AAWW
DEADLINE: March 8, 2021
INFO: In her suicide note, composed in the mute solidarity of the asylum of forced exile—and by a hand whose skin had yet to wrinkle—Sarah Hegazy apologizes.
On a simple, lined, spiral-bound notebook, with the faint red margin appearing on the left, not the right, inhospitable to her native tongue, she starts at the top, addressing her siblings, in blue-ballpoint Arabic:
“I tried to survive and failed, forgive me.”
On the next line she addresses her friends, asking absolution for being not strong enough.
On the next she addresses the world, forgiving it its manifest cruelty.
Her signature ends it, the very short letter. The whole thing doesn’t reach even half the page.
The last word in it is the Hegazy in her name. Written minutes or hours or days or weeks or months before Sarah committed suicide on June 14, 2020—none of us are ever going to know—Sarah pens the sickle of the ي, with a flourish.
This all happened because, on September 22, 2017, Sarah lifted a rainbow flag at a concert in Cairo, to signal to a country and a regime that wished so much for her not to exist, that she, Sarah Hegazy, was there, in an evening dedicated to music.
Sarah Hegazy ended her life in response to unimaginable cruelty, after being imprisoned and tortured by the Egyptian regime. Concurrent with her death was the novel coronavirus pandemic, in its sixth month of claiming lives and livelihoods and attention spans, a pandemic of constant uncertainty. Concurrent with that was the more familiar endemic of these United States: the routine killing, with utter impunity, of Black people, by a criminal state and its apparatus of enforcement. Concurrent with that was the rising horror of watching, at a time so steeped already in palpable despair, the United States’ necropolitic deadly crack down on protestors, for their insistence on hope and dignity and Black liberation.
In the midst of that, and the difficulty of in-person gathering, and a news cycle snowballing with terror, there were few avenues available to collectively mark and witness Sarah’s passing. For this special issue of The Margins, we invite submissions honoring Sarah Hegazy’s one irreplaceable life, and the lives of all LGBTQ+ Arabs and people of the SWANA region and its diaspora, and, too often, the risk inherent in their visibility.
We are looking for essays, poetry, short fiction, songs, comic strips, all forms of hybrid work, and submissions that queer any/all of these genres. We invite submissions that sing with joy on the page, or that rage, or that ask why, or that answer, or that name and mourn our losses, or that deny the past its salience, or that imagine a better tomorrow, or that do all or none of these things.
Please format the title of your submission as follows: “LAST NAME – I Want Sky – TITLE OF PIECE.” Be sure to include a short biography (maximum 60 words) in your cover letter, and tell us a little bit about why your work speaks to this call for submissions.
Please double-space all prose submissions and limit them to approximately 3,000 words (though you may write as short as you like). You may send us up to five poems per submission. Please attach your submission as Rich Text Format, MS Word, or PDF. For graphic work, please submit with enough detail that we can read the text in JPG, GIF, PNG, or PDF format. Please do not include your name on the attachments of your submissions. We accept simultaneous submissions, but we ask that you let us know if your work has been accepted elsewhere. Writers whose pieces are accepted for the issue will receive compensation.
Mizna is a critical platform for contemporary literature, art, film, and cultural programming centering the work of Arab and Southwest Asian and North African artists. For more than twenty years, we have sought to reflect the depth and multiplicity of our community and have been committed to being a space for Arab, Muslim, and other artists from the region to create our narratives and engage audiences in meaningful and artistically excellent art.
AAWW is a national literary nonprofit dedicated to publishing, incubating, and amplifying work by Asian and Asian diasporic writers and artists. Since its founding in 1991, AAWW has provided a countercultural literary space that operates at the intersections of migration, race, and social justice. AAWW’s award-winning digital magazine The Margins imagines a vibrant, nuanced, multiracial, and transnational Asian America through original fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, reportage, and interviews.
Mariam Bazeed is an Egyptian immigrant, writer, performer, and cook living in a rent-stabilized apartment in Brooklyn. An alliteration-leaning writer of prose, poetry, plays, and personal essays, they are currently at work, with poet Kamelya Omayma Youssef, on Kilo Batra: In Death More Radiant [working title]; a play commission by Detroit-based A Host of People, written partially in verse and two languages, premiering at the Arab American National Museum.
https://aaww.submittable.com/submit/185951/i-want-sky-celebrating-sarah-hegazy-and-queer-swana-life
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THE MARCH CONTINUES COMMUNITY POEM
Southern Poverty Law Center
DEADLINE: March 10, 2021
INFO: The Civil Rights Memorial Center is partnering with bestselling author Kwame Alexander and the community to produce “A Community Poem,” a new exhibit that will be featured inside the museum when it reopens later this year.
Members of the community are invited to submit an original poem around the themes of racial justice and human rights. Alexander will select lines from multiple submissions and combine them into one single community poem. The final poem, representing the combined work of multiple contributors across the United States, will be displayed on a digital screen in the final gallery of the Civil Rights Memorial Center.
Anyone living in the United States can submit a poem for consideration.
Entry Rules:
All entries must be the original work of the individual. If the poem is not written in English, a translation should be provided.
Participants must use the form below to submit their poem. Entries sent by mail, e-mail or any other method will not be considered.
If you are a student in grades K-12 submitting a poem, you must be enrolled in a school (public, private or home school) in the United States. Students can enter on their own or have a parent or teacher submit their entry.
A photo of the author must accompany the submission.
Poem submissions should begin with the phrase “Remember” or “If you.” Here is an example:
If you climb a lemon tree,
feel its bark
with your feet and knees,
smell its white flowers,
rub in your hands its leaves.
Remember,
the tree is older than you
and in its branches,
you might find stories.
— Jennifer ClementYour poem should be inspirational or informational. It should either honor or recognize the civil rights movement—past or present; encourage people to think about social injustices; document current civil and human rights issues; envision a better future for our country; or some combination of each.
There is no limit on poem length.
Rights: Bestselling author Kwame Alexander will select poems to be published for use in the Civil Rights Memorial Center and on the Southern Poverty Law Center website. All contributors will grant the Southern Poverty Law Center unlimited 'use' rights for their original work of art. The Southern Poverty Law Center will retain no copyright to your poetry. Such rights remain with the poet at all times.
https://www.splcenter.org/march-continues-community-poem
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5TH ANNUAL CHAPBOOK CONTEST
Thirty West Publishing House
DEADLINE: March 12, 2021
INFO: Thirty West Publishing House announces its 5th chapbook contest. Accepting poetry, fiction, or CNF manuscripts.
SUBMISSION FEE: $13
GUIDELINES:
The manuscript should be between 20-30 pages of content. If you'd like to add a title page and table of contents, that is appreciated, but not required.
Please take a look at our previously published chaps and books to get a feel for what we like to publish. Our chapbooks are generally on the longer side, typically over 30 pages in length.
Poetry and prose are what we want. If it fits in a chapbook, send them in. Flash & microfiction, essays, and cross-genre are also welcomed.
We will not accept email submissions for the contest. Any manuscripts submitted this way will be unread and eventually deleted.
Manuscripts should be currently unpublished (as in no reprints). See the note below on acknowledgments.
Previously published material within the manuscript must contain proper acknowledgment from online and in-print journals, magazines, etc.
REWARDS:
The winning author will receive a $500 USD cash honorarium and an author package of their chapbook upon publication.
The winning manuscript will be subject to an official Thirty West publishing contract. This includes royalties, marketing, and reviews.
The finished chapbook will be archived and sold through thirtywestph.com and many book fairs that we frequent including AWP, Brooklyn Book Fest, Philalalia, Baltimore Book Fest, and more.
https://www.thirtywestph.com/contest
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2021 Summer Residencies
Tin House
DEADLINE: March 14, 2021
INFO: Each residency will feature two writers at the same time (in separate apartments).
If eligible, you may apply for all of the residencies using this single application.
Tin House Workshop recognizes that the ongoing pandemic makes traveling and timelines more difficult than ever. We’re committed to working with each resident to make their visit as comfortable and safe as possible. Should anyone need to cancel their residency due to COVID concerns, we will still honor the stipend.
APPLICATION FEE: $25
Application Requirements (submitted as one document):
A personal essay (1,500 words or less outlining your journey as a writer and description of the project you will be working on) + writing sample.
Fiction and Nonfiction: One writing sample of no more than 7,000 words. A short story/essay or a portion of a novel/NF project may be submitted. If you are submitting an excerpt, please include a synopsis.
Poetry: Up to six poems, totaling no more than 20 pages.
Translation: Please follow the requirements for the genre in the original language and submit both your translation and the original text.
Graphic Narrative: Project synopsis and up to 30 pages of the project.
Play/Screenplay: Project synopsis and up to 30 pages of the project.
Please submit something from the project you will be working on during the residency.
No reference letters, please.
As part of our Pay It Forward program, you have the option of helping to cover the cost of another writer’s application fee. All additional funds raised will be carried over to our next residency application period. Thank you!
RESIDENCY FOR DEBUT WRITERS:
This residency is intended to support writers who are working on their debut manuscripts.
Dates: June 3rd-June 28th, 2021
Stipend: $1200
Eligibility:
Working on a full-length manuscript in any genre.
Applicants may be under contract but cannot be scheduled to publish their debuts before the Summer of 2022.
Chapbooks and self-published works do not count towards this requirement.
International writers may apply.
2020/2021 Tin House Scholars/Workshop faculty, former Residents, and Tin House Books authors may not apply.
You must be 21 years of age or older by June 1st, 2021.
RESIDENCY FOR TEACHERS:
This residency is intended to support writers who teach and are working on a full-length manuscript.
Dates: July 8th-August 3rd, 2021
Stipend: $1200
Eligibility
Working on a full-length manuscript in any genre.
Applicants may teach full or part-time, any grade, any subject.
International writers may apply.
2020/2021 Tin House Scholars/Workshop faculty, former Residents, and Tin House Books authors may not apply.
You must be 21 years of age or older by July 1st, 2021.
RESIDENCY FOR PARENTS:
These weekend residencies are intended to support writers with school-aged children at home.
Dates: August 12th-16th, 2021 & August 19th-23rd, 2021
Stipend: $500
Eligibility:
Working on a full-length manuscript in any genre.
Applicants must have at least one child under the age of 18 living at home as of August 1st, 2021.
International writers may apply.
2020/2021 Tin House Scholars/Workshop faculty, former Residents, and Tin House Books authors may not apply.
You must be 21 years of age or older by August 1st, 2021.
https://tinhouseonline.submittable.com/submit/186243/2021-tin-house-summer-residencies
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: “ISOLA” ISSUE
Golden Walkman Magazine
DEADLINE: March 15, 2021
INFO: Golden Walkman Magazine is a literary magazine in the form of a podcast aimed at giving the written word a voice. Each month, Golden will release an issue featuring work in response to a specific theme alongside general issues.
For the April issue, guest editor Camille Wanliss has chosen the theme “Isola.” When translated to English, isola means "island." It's also the root word for isolation. For this issue, Golden will explore what it means to be islanded - geographically and metaphorically. Whether your piece takes place on a tropical island, the isle of Manhattan, or relates to moments of feeling marooned, stranded, and cast adrift, they want to hear from you.
Accepting poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction (no more than 1,000 words).
https://www.goldwalkmag.com/themed-issues.html
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
The Giving Room
DEADLINE: March 15, 2021
INFO: The Giving Room Review is dedicated to making space in the world for the voices that deserve it most. Our mission is to create a platform accessible for BIPOC, LGBTQ+, disabled, and women artists.
The Giving Room Review only accepts work that is original and previously unpublished. Please expect a wait time of 1-3 months regarding the decision we have made on your submission. Please be patient as we are a small team of editors. Rest assured that we are doing our best and working as quickly as possible. Feel free to inquiry us via email about your submission’s status if you have not heard back from us after 3 months.
Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but you must notify us immediately if your work is accepted for publication elsewhere.
Currently, we are unable to pay for publication.
Fiction
Submissions should be no more than four thousand (4,000) words. Please include page numbers and your name on every page in the header, use 12 point Times New Roman font and double space your work.
Creative Nonfiction
All types of creative nonfiction (memoir, essays, etc.) are acceptable. Submissions should be no more than four thousand (4,000) words. Please include page numbers and your name on every page in the header, use 12 point Times New Roman font and double space your work.
Poetry
You may submit up to five (5) poetry selections per submission. Please use 12 point Times New Roman font and single space your poems unless you are using a specific format for your work.
Visual Arts
All visual art (photography, paintings, sculpture, collage, etc.) is acceptable for publication. You may submit up to five (5) photographs per submission. Please submit photographs in PNG or PDF files.
Blog/Interviews
If you have an idea for a blog post or an interview you would like to conduct, please feel free to email us a short (500-1000 word) pitch. We are looking for articles and interviews of all kinds within the realm of revealing a fresh perspective on an important matter that deserves our readers’ attention.
You can email your submission to us via email: thegivingroomreview@gmail.com. Please include a third person bio with your submission.
http://www.thegivingroomreview.com/submit.html
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POETRY: the blongprize
Underblong
DEADLINE: March 15, 2021
INFO: In partnership with The Speakeasy Project, Underblong is thrilled and tickled to our cores to announce our first ever contest!!! Enter to win the blongprize, or America’s Next Top Blongee (need not be American to apply). We really want your best and blongiest work. If you’re not familiar with the journal, please read our fifth issue and check out our list of things we like. This contest is free to enter, but we encourage everyone who can to donate (check out the button!) and help us pay our team.
AWARD: We will select 2 winners receiving $150 and 2 runner-ups receiving $100. All entries will be considered for publication in Issue 6. For contributors to Issue 6, we are offering a modest $20 for each contributor. We will promote contributors like we are on fire. Grateful for every submission. Thank you for believing in us & trusting us with your work.
Underblong is a journal of the not-quite-so, of unfinished thoughts, of unresolved anger, of unforgotten macaroni art. Underblong is the coatroom of your secret’s secrets, a boiling pot of kit-kats becoming your favorite soup. Send us a poem that cuts through the crap. Send us your dinner chicken. Poems made by a soul.
blongprize submissions will be collected through Google Forms. Submissions should be a maximum of 3 poems / no more than 5 pages. Click the link below to submit!
We only accept unpublished submissions. If you need to withdraw a poem, email us at :: underblong@gmail.com. Please wait for a response before submitting again.
Absolutely no: racism, homophobia, misogyny, transphobia, ableism, Islamophobia, orientalist b.s., fat-shaming, colonialist exoticizing or fetishizing of cultures and peoples, appropriation of experiences & communities that aren’t yours, general literary assholery, “edgy” or “ironic” renditions of any of the above. If you send us this crap, we will point it out. So, like, don’t.
https://www.underblong.com/send-plz
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My Time: A Writer's Fellowship for Parents
The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow
DEADLINE: March 15, 2021
INFO: The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow is pleased to announce the 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, scripts or screenplays. The successful application will demonstrate literary merit and the likelihood of publication however, prior publication is not a requirement.
The fellowship winner will receive a one-week residency to allow the recipient to focus completely on their work. A $400 stipend is available to cover childcare and/or travel costs. Each writers’ 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 breakfast and lunch.
Fellowship applications must be accompanied by a writing sample and a non-refundable $35 application fee. There is a limit of one submission per application. The winner will be announced no later than March 31, 2021. Residency may be completed at any time during 2021. This may be extended up to twelve months for extenuating circumstances including COVID-19 concerns.
https://www.writerscolony.org/fellowships
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Summer Mentorship Program
The Adroit Journal’s
DEADLINE: March 22, 2021 at 11:59pm PST
INFO: Now in its ninth year, The Adroit Journal’s Summer Mentorship Program is an online program that pairs established writers with high school students (including graduating seniors) and gap year students (high school class of ’20 or ’21) interested in learning more about the creative writing processes of drafting, redrafting and editing.
The 2021 program will cater to poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction/memoir, and spoken word. The aim of the mentorship program is not formalized instruction, but rather an individualized, flexible, and often informal correspondence. Poetry and spoken word mentorship students will share weekly work with mentors and peers, while fiction and creative nonfiction/memoir mentorship students will share biweekly work with mentors and peers.
Applicants should possess a firm work ethic and some familiarity with the writing and revision process; should be comfortable with receiving (and giving) commentary and critique; and should be prompt and generous communicators. Applicants should also possess the will to explore and improve!
APPLICATION FEE: $0
TUITION: Tuition for participation in the full program is $350/student. Furthermore, we want to assure applicants for whom tuition will be a barrier that fee remission and financial aid will be available. Need for financial assistance will be addressed entirely separately and will not be an influencing factor on mentorship admission decisions. Program administrators and application screeners will not have access to financial need information until after admission decisions have been made.
This opportunity will not offer academic credit (this is a mentorship, not a class!), and participation in this workshop is not a route to publication in The Adroit Journal. At the end of the day, we are looking for the best potential: the writers with the drive to explore and discuss, to be active participants, and to challenge themselves in their writing.
https://theadroitjournal.org/about/mentorship/?amp
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THE BETTY L. YU AND JIN C. YU CREATIVE WRITING PRIZES
Charles Yu / TaiwaneseAmerican.org
DEADLINE: March 31, 2021 at 11:59pm PT
INFO: TaiwaneseAmerican.org is pleased to announce the inaugural Betty L. Yu and Jin C. Yu Creative Writing Prizes. Created in collaboration with Taiwanese American author Charles Yu, the Prizes are intended to encourage and recognize creative literary work by Taiwanese American high school and college students, and to foster discussion and community around such work.
Submissions may be in any literary genre including fiction, poetry, personal essays or other creative non-fiction. Submissions must be sent via Google Form. In order to be eligible, submissions must be from writers of Taiwanese heritage (or writers with other significant connection to Taiwan), or have subject matter otherwise relevant to the Taiwanese or Taiwanese American experience.
Submissions will be considered in two categories, High School (enrolled in high school as of the deadline) and College (enrolled in community college or as an undergraduate as of the deadline). Winners and finalists will be announced in May 2021. A total of $1500 will be awarded to the winners. In addition, each of the winners and finalists will have their submitted work published online by TaiwaneseAmerican.org and considered for publication in a future edition of Chrysanthemum, and offered the opportunity to participate in an individual mentoring session with one of the judges.
JUDGES:
Shawna Yang Ryan is a Taiwanese American novelist, short story writer and creative writing professor, who has published the novels Water Ghosts and Green Island. She currently teaches in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa.
Charles Yu is a Taiwanese American writer. He is the author of the novels How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe and Interior Chinatown as well as the short-story collections Third Class Superhero and Sorry Please Thank You. In 2020, he received the National Book Award for Fiction.
The Prizes are named in honor of Betty Lin Yu and Jin-Chyuan Yu for their service to the Taiwanese-American community, including establishment of TACL LID Youth Camp in Southern California, co-founding of the South Bay Taiwanese-American School, the first school in the United States specifically for the purpose of Taiwanese Language instruction, establishment of North America Taiwanese Engineering Association, Southern California Chapter (NATEA-SC) and longtime support for other organizations including Formosa Association for Public Affair (FAPA), North America Taiwanese Women Association (NATWA), and Taiwan American Association (TAA).
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd4Kv0n-AH68wgRGV7GPpLMdiLi2WSYjQ7m5fR6vfWx-7hrqg/viewform
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Liminal Transit Review
DEADLINE: March 31, 2021
INFO: Liminal Transit Review is a literary journal that publishes work related to themes such as (but not limited to) diaspora, immigration, displacement, borders, and decolonization. LTR publishes fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction (including flash fiction and flash nonfiction), and also encourages cross genre work and work that does not conform to traditional genre boundaries.
We publish work focusing on themes including but not limited to immigration, diaspora, displacement, decolonization, and border, and the intersections of these themes with literature, movement, and transit. We’re interested in work about geography and place, its connections with literature and identity. In addition to cross genre work, we’re also particularly drawn to experimental, abstract, and theoretical work.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
Up to five poems, 10 pages of cross-genre work, or 3,000 words of prose. Multiple flash fictions or nonfictions are allowed if their total word count is under 3,000 words.
Attach all submissions to our Google form as a single document (Word or PDF) in 12-point Garamond or Comic Sans. Prose (fiction and creative nonfiction) must be double spaced.
Simultaneous submissions are allowed. Please email us immediately at liminaltransitreview [at] gmail [dot] com if your work is accepted elsewhere.
Multiple submissions are not allowed. Please submit once per issue and in only one genre.
Include trigger or content warnings if needed.
Please submit in English. Translations are not accepted at this time.
We aim to respond within two months. If you have not heard back by April 25, 2021 for your submission to the May 2021 issue, please email us.
https://liminaltransitreview.com/submit/
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Afrofuture, Sci-Fi, speculative fiction
Bee Infinite Publishing
DEADLINE: March 31, 2021
INFO: Bee Infinite Publishing, a Los Angeles-based independent publisher, is accepting submissions for its first anthology! Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) writers are invited to share short stories, poetry, and essays.
We have the power to imagine our future and in our upcoming anthology, Future Splendor: Celebrating A New Renaissance, we boldly ask how do you WANT to see the future? Tell us your vision.
We’re looking for Afrofuture, Sci-Fi, speculative fiction visions of the 2020s and beyond. We challenge you to share visions of liberation, joy, empowerment, and more.
To get you in the mindset, realize at this moment we are future ancestors of the next creatives. In the Indigenous tradition, it’s encouraged to look seven generations ahead when thinking about your legacy and impact. As of 2021, we’re very much in the future.
GUIDELINE:
Send us your short stories, poetry and essays at info@beeinfinite.org
Short stories: 6,000 word max.
Essays: 1,000 words max.
Poetry: 800 words max.
You are welcome to submit 2-3 poems for review, and 1-2 short stories and essays for review.
For prose, please include your word count at the top of your document, use 12 pt Times New Roman or Courier New fonts. All work should be submitted in Word document format.
When submitting, make sure to include SUBMISSION in your subject line followed by the title of your piece and your name.
https://www.beeinfinite.org/submissions
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: ISSUE 8
The Rush
DEADLINE: March 31, 2021
INFO: The Rush seeks to publish fiction, poetry, prose, and art; providing a platform to a diverse body of writers on a transcontinental level, from emerging to established writers. We welcome Spanish and English work.
Fiction: 1500 words max
Nonfiction 1500 words max
Personal Essay: 1500 words max
Poetry: 3 poems per submission (3 pp max)
Flash Fiction: one page
Art: Up to 3 pieces.
We aim to respond to all submissions within sixty days. Please feel free to query us if you have not received a response by the allotted time. We are a volunteer-based journal; your patience is appreciated.
We encourage and welcome simultaneous submissions; please let us know by adding a note to your submission if your work has been accepted elsewhere. If you have sent multiple pieces in one submission and must withdraw one-piece or two, there is no need to withdraw the entire submission if there are still some pieces for our consideration.
We do not accept work that has been previously published.
We do not own anyone’s work. The author may republish the work elsewhere after publication. Acceptance grants us non-exclusive North American Serial Rights in print and digital format.
Please include “Full Name” and “Submission Type” in the subject header.
https://www.rushmagazine.org/submit
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: “Renascence” ISSUE
Yellow Arrow Journal
DEADLINE: March 31, 2021
INFO: Yellow Arrow Journal is excited to announce submissions are open for the spring 2021 (Vol. VI, No. 1) issue on Renascence.
SUBMISSIONS GUIDELINES:
Accepted submissions include creative nonfiction and poetry by authors that identify as women (cover art guidelines follow below).
Submissions must relate to the theme on the overarching topic of cultural resurrections, as interpreted by the author, using the following definition and guiding questions (these change for each theme and are available during open submissions):
Renascence - the revival of something that has been dormant
How does your culture shape your personal identity? What part of your culture has been lost, or nearly lost? How was it lost? Why?
How have cultural absences affected your life? Strengthened it? Made it more difficult? What do you wish you had learned in school about your cultural identity?
What parts of your personal identity have been awakened/reawakened by your cultural identity? How?
Creative nonfiction (1 submission per author per issue) must be between 500 and 5,000 words. Poetry (up to 2 poems per author per issue, grouped into a single document) may be any length.
Submissions do not need to be in English but must include an English translation.
No previously published work will be accepted at this time—this includes all printed and online material; simultaneous submissions are okay but please let us know when you send in your submission(s) and if a submission is published elsewhere in the interim, email submissions@yellowarrowpublishing.com immediately.
If selected, you will receive $10.00USD and a PDF of the journal issue. Note that payments are through PayPal; while we will try to accommodate those that do not have a PayPal account, this is not always possible, especially for people outside of the U.S. Thank you for understanding.
https://www.yellowarrowpublishing.com/submissions
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Emerging Woman Poet Honor
Small Orange
DEADLINE: March 31, 2021 at 11:59pm EST
INFO: For National Poetry Month, Small Orange Journal invites women-identifying and nonbinary emerging poets who do not yet have a full-length poetry collection to submit poems for our Emerging Woman Poet Honor. The submission fee is $5.00 for up to five pages of poetry. This fee will support the $100.00 honorarium for the winning poet, as well as a donation to the nonprofit organization, Girls Write Now.
The winning poet and three honorable mentions will be published in the April issue of Small Orange as well as our limited edition Small Orange Anthology. All entries will be considered for publication in a future issue of Small Orange. The editors will judge.
To submit your poems for the Small Orange Emerging Woman Poet Honor, please:
send up to five pages of poetry in a PDF or .docx word document
Submissions will be read anonymously by the Small Orange editors, so please do not include your name or any other identifying information in your submission.
Winners will be announced in early April.
https://smallorange.submittable.com/submit/187386/emerging-woman-poet-honor
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THE ORISON PRIZES IN POETRY & FICTION
Orison Books
DEADLINE: April 1, 2021
INFO: Each year, we accept submissions of full-length poetry (50-100 pp.) and fiction (30,000 word minimum) manuscripts for The Orison Prizes in Poetry and Fiction, judged by different prominent writers each year in an anonymous judging process.
The winning entry in each genre will be awarded publication and a $1,500 cash prize, in addition to a standard royalties contract. Finalists will be selected by the editorial staff at Orison Books, and the winners will be selected from among the finalist manuscripts by the judges. In the event that a judge in either genre does not select a winner from among the finalists, the Editor will select a winner. The editors also reserve the right to select no finalists, in which case all entry fees will be refunded to the entrants. All finalist manuscripts will be considered for publication under a standard royalties contract.
ENTRY FEE: $25
2021 JUDGES:
Poetry: Jericho Brown
Fiction: Debra Spark
GUIDELINES:
Original English work only; no translations.
Do not include your name anywhere in your manuscript file or file name, but only in your Duosuma cover letter.
Individual poems and stories or excerpts may have been previously published in periodicals and/or chapbooks, but the manuscript as a whole must not have been published in book form, whether digital or in print. Self-published manuscripts are considered previously published and are not eligible.
Please include any publication acknowledgments in your cover letter, listing any periodicals where individual pieces from your manuscript first appeared. Acknowledgments should not appear in the manuscript file.
Poetry manuscripts must be 50-100 pages of poems (each poem beginning on a new page). Fiction manuscripts must have a minimum word count of 30,000.
Fiction manuscripts may consist of short stories, a novel, a novella, flash/micro fiction, or any combination of forms, as long as the manuscript meets the 30,000 word minimum.
Existing Orison Books authors are not eligible for The Orison Prizes.
Simultaneous submissions are accepted; please notify us immediately should a manuscript be accepted for publication elsewhere.
Multiple manuscripts may be submitted; each manuscript must be accompanied by a separate entry fee.
Orison Books is committed to running ethical and transparent contests. Current or former students of the judge or the lead genre editor(s), or anyone with a close personal relationship with that judge or lead editor(s), are not eligible to submit in the category in question. Judges also never see author names until after they have made their selections.
Orison Books undertakes never to extend contest deadlines, except in the case of technical problems or other events that would prevent submitters from entering the contest by the original deadline.
https://duotrope.com/duosuma/submit/orison-prizes-poetry-fiction-eyhfu
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New South WRITING Contest
DEADLINE: April 1, 2021
INFO: New South holds an annual writing contest at the beginning of each year. Submissions for New South’s 2021 writing contest are now open. Winners and runners-up will be featured in issue 14.2 of New South.
EJ Koh will judge our prose category and Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach will judge our poetry.
GUIDELINES:
New South’s contest is open to writers who have not yet published more than one book of prose or poetry (chapbooks are fine). The contest awards $1,000 to one winner in poetry and one winner in prose, and a $250 runner’s up prize in each category.
Your $18 entry fee includes a one-year subscription to New South. You may submit electronically via Submittable ONLY. Discounted entry fees, which do not include a subscription to New South, are available for $9. Please take care that you are submitting under the contest category; regular submissions received during the contest period WILL NOT be entered into the contest. All paper mailed entries will be destroyed.
The deadline for contest submissions is April 1st, 2021 at 11:59 PM EST. (Submittable submissions will close automatically). Each entry must include: 1) A reading fee of either eighteen dollars ($18) or nine dollars ($9) if using the discounted entry form. 2) The submitter’s contact info, including a mailing address for your subscription. (Do not include any identifying information in the manuscript).
Each prose submission may contain one (1) short story or non-fiction piece of up to 7,500 words per $18 entry fee. Each poetry submission may contain up to three (3) poems per $18 entry fee. Entrants are welcome to submit more than once, but must pay a separate entry fee each time.
No GSU staff, students, or University system of Georgia staff or students are eligible for the prize. Any alumni who enter the contest must be five (5) years or more removed from attending GSU. Additionally, no relatives of the New South team or the judges are eligible.
https://newsouthjournal.com/contest/
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2022 AIR Application Poetry
Marble House Project
DEADLINE: April 1, 2021
INFO: Marble House Project is a multidisciplinary artist residency program that fosters collaboration and the exchange of ideas, by providing an environment for artists across disciplines to live and work together. The residency integrates sustainable practices, including small-scale organic food production and waste conservation. Residents sustain their growth by engaging with the grounds while working on their artistic practice. Marble House Project is founded on the belief that the act of creating, whether in the studio or in nature, is how human potential expands and community thrives.
Marble House Project accepts approximately 60 residents and is open to artists living in the United States and abroad. You must be at least 21 years old. Residencies run from April through October, scheduled into six three-week residencies and one two-week family-friendly residency for artists with children. Please note that if you apply to the family friendly residency, it is a specific date within the artist in residency application. Each session accommodates eight artists and is specifically curated to bring together a diverse group of creative workers, to maximize potential for collaboration and dialogue while in residence and beyond.
All residents live together in the historic, eight-bedroom Manley-Lefevre house, a communal space organized around responsibilities-sharing systems which highlight sustainability and community. All residents will be paired and asked to cook for shared dinners three times over the course of their residency, Monday-Friday. A substantial amount of the food we provide comes from our organic garden, which also serves as a space for gathering and an educational tool. Residents are invited to help with planting, harvesting, and maintenance. While not required, our hope is that you will spend some time in the garden alongside your studio practice. Each session culminates with ART SEED, our public open house weekend event. Artists are invited to share their work with our community through artist talks, readings, performances, and open studios.
Marble House Project provides private bedrooms, food, private studio space, and artist support. We are not able to cover costs related to travel or materials. There is no fee to attend the residency.
Applications are accepted in all creative fields including but not limited to writing, dance and choreography, performance, music composition and sound, film and video, visual arts, and culinary arts. Applications are reviewed by a jury of alumni, staff, and outside experts, and artists are selected based on quality of work, commitment to practice, and project description. Please choose the application that best describes your work. Two artists may apply together as a collaborative, and should complete one application. Within each application you will be asked to select the session dates best for you. You may choose the family friendly residency only if you will be bringing your children. Family friendly applicants may select additional dates if willing to attend without your children.
Marble House Project does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion (creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin (ancestry), disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or military status, in any of its activities or operations. For exact dates, more information or questions about the residency, visit our FAQ page. If you still have questions you may contact info@marblehouseproject.org.
APPLICATION FEE: $35
https://marblehouseproject.submittable.com/submit
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Call for Submissions: Issue 5: To Be Tender
Raising Mothers
DEADLINE: April 2, 2021
INFO: Raising Mothers is currently seeking submissions in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, graphic narrative, and hybrid writing exploring the theme TO BE TENDER. We are interested in submissions from BIPOC women and nonbinary writers of color who explore this theme from either the child or parent perspective.
If vulnerability is a superpower, how does it save you? In a world that demands so much of us, that would turn us into stone and shatter us, how do we manage to tend to the softness within us? How do we nurture and care for ourselves and our children? How do we hold space for tenderness? How do we create soft places to land?
Please submit prose between 1500-4000 words. For poetry submissions, submit 3-5 poems in a single document totaling no more than ten pages in length.
https://www.raisingmothers.com/submissions/
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Call for Submissions: PoemVillage!
Adirondack Center for Writing
DEADLINE: April 4, 2021
INFO: This beloved program has been celebrating local poetry from neighbors and friends annually since 2016 and is open only to poets with ties to the Adirondacks. Instead of visiting a corridor of poetry in town during National Poetry Month, bundles of locally-harvested poems are safely delivered to inboxes and to the ACW website daily.
Poets with ties to the Adirondack region can be a part of PoemVillage. We consider anyone within 30 minutes of the Adirondack Park a part of the region.
Review these guidelines before submitting to PoemVillage this year:
↠ This year each person can submit one poem. You will copy/paste your poems into the form below.
↠ Poems must be within 300 words and 25 lines, those too long will not be included, so please edit before submitting your poem.
↠ Please ensure that you have rights to offer this poem for publication. This poem must be your own work.
↠ Refrain from sending in poems that have previously been submitted to PoemVillage.
https://adirondackcenterforwriting.submittable.com/submit/187585/poemvillage-2021