CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Mixed Mag
DEADLINE: June 10, 2021
INFO: Mixed Mag, an online multimedia publication dedicated to promoting creatives of color and celebrating multiethnic/multicultural voices, is accepting articles, think pieces, short stories, reviews and essays between 500-3000 words (sections include ART, FASHION, POLITICS, PROSE, TV/FILM/THEATER, MUSIC, FOOD, HEALTH/SEX/WELLNESS).
Please read specific section requirements below:
POETRY: Submit up to three poems.
PROSE: Submit creative non-fiction, flash fiction or short stories between 500-3000 words.
TV, FILM & THEATER: Monologues must be 5 pages max. Plays/screenplays must be between 10-15 page max (this includes plays, films and web series). Short films or web series episodes must be no longer than 15 minutes.
ART: Submit 10 photos/videos max for visual submissions. Please include an artist’s statement.
MUSIC: Send us your essays, albums reviews or original music links. Please include links to Soundcloud, Spotify, Apple Music, iTunes, Youtube, etc. as well as a paragraph about your submission.
FOOD: Send us your food stories, recipes, conversations and good eats related to culture or ancestry. Please include photos and if sending a recipe, please include a paragraph explaining what this food means to you and your culture.
FASHION: Submit articles, essays or reviews about clothing, accessories, upcoming designers, sustainable fashion and more. Also submit your own upcoming labels/lines with up to 10 photos/videos max and an artist statement.
Please send your submissions to submissions@mixedmag.co
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2021 Emerging Poet Fellowship
The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow
DEADLINE: June 14, 2021
APPLICATION FEE: $35
INFO: Poets assembling their first book of poems are invited to apply for this fellowship. Do you have enough or nearly enough poems for your first book? Do you need time and mental space to write new poems, revise the ones you’ve written, select and arrange them for a book, or all of these? Eligible applicants shall not have published a chapbook or other book of verse but may have published other books. (Published means the book has been issued for public sale and distribution.) Prior publication of individual poems is desirable but not required. The writing sample provided must demonstrate literary merit and the promise of publication in book form.
The fellowship winner will receive a two-week residency to allow the recipient to focus completely on their work. 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 breakfast and lunch.
Fellowship applications must be accompanied by a writing sample and a non-refundable $35 application fee. Only one writing project may be proposed per application.
The winner will be announced no later than July 1, 2021. Residency must be completed by July 31, 2022. Exceptions will be made for COVID-19 concerns.
https://form.jotform.com/210663820182955
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2021 Autumn House Poetry Contest
Autumn House
DEADLINE: June 15, 2021
INFO: For the 2021 contest, the Autumn House staff serves as the preliminary readers, and the final judge is Eileen Myles. The winner receives publication of a full-length manuscript and $2,500.
The winner will receive book publication, a $1,000 honorarium, and a $1,500 travel/publicity grant to promote their book
All finalists will be considered for publication
Poetry submissions should be approximately 50-80 pages
Each new poem should start on a new page
Illustrations are strongly discouraged
The reading fee for the Poetry Contest is $30 (We will waive the submission fee for anyone undergoing financial hardship or living with limited means. Please reach out, and we’ll step you through the submission process)
Submission should be previously unpublished
Do not include your name anywhere on the actual manuscript; if your name appears within the body of the text, please omit it or black it out
You may include a brief bio in the “cover letter” section of Submittable
Do not include an acknowledgments page in the manuscript
Feel free to include a table of contents
Simultaneous submissions permitted
Friends, family members, and former students of judges or Autumn House editors may not submit to the contest. Students do not include interactions at short-term residencies or fellowships.
Former employees of Autumn House, including interns, may not submit to the contest.
https://www.autumnhouse.org/submissions/poetry/
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2021 Narrative Prize
Narrative
DEADLINE: June 15, 2021
INFO: THE $4,000 NARRATIVE PRIZE is awarded annually for the best short story, novel excerpt, poem, one-act play, graphic story, or work of literary nonfiction published by a new or emerging writer in Narrative.
The prize is announced each September and is given to the best work published each year in Narrative by a new or emerging writer, as judged by the magazine’s editors. In some years, the prize may be divided between winners, when more than one work merits the award.
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
CERASUS Magazine
DEADLINE: June 15, 2021
INFO: Please note, we are not a vanity publisher, so will never ask you for money. Nor do we guarantee publication, unless we are confident you can supply a full, complete work of publishable quality. You must be prepared to accept constructive criticism and to take editorial advice.
We enjoy writing and art that demonstrate craft, wit and intelligence and which possess muscle. Don’t tell us how wonderful love is, or about the pretty flowers and butterflies. Equally, don’t burden us with your existential angst. Tell us something we don’t already know. Or, at least, tell us in a way we haven’t heard before.
By submitting to us, you are declaring that you are the sole author of your work to which you hold full rights. As well as plagiarism, we also do not tolerate gratuitous sex, violence, discriminatory representations of BAME and LBQT+ communities and slanderous allegations.
We are not averse to simultaneous submissions. (Let’s be honest, everybody still does it regardless.) But please extend us the basic courtesy of letting us know if your piece is accepted elsewhere.
Poetry can be anything between a 1 line epithet and a sequence of epic verse (short of the Iliad) and everything between. Send us one brilliant poem, or a clutch to choose from, or a short themed collection.
Fiction can be micro or flash, a short story, a novella strong enough to be serialised, or a standalone extract from a novel.
Prose can be (auto)biography, a review, or an article, tutorial or ‘think piece’ of interest to writers.
Submit as a Word compatible document with single spaced lines, titles in bold and a clear page break between items. Preferred fonts are Verdana 12pt for titles and Georgia 10pt for body text.
Artwork can be full colour, greyscale and black & white graphics, illustrations, photographs, cartoons and comic strips that will fit within a US Letter sized page (8.5”X11”).
Submit as a print quality jpeg of at least 300dpi.
No covering details required. We take no account of your personal history or previous publications. All we are interested in is your submission. So please check it carefully before sending, as basic errors in spelling, grammar, punctuation and layout may spoil your chance of being published.
We aim to reply to all submissions in a timely manner. Initially, we will let you know if you have been accepted, shortlisted, longlisted or declined, before making our final decisions after each quarter’s deadline.
We may accept your submission, subject to certain edit suggestions, which are open to further negotiation and which you can refuse.
If accepted, you grant us permission to feature your material in CERASUS Magazine and to sell it in one featured edition throughout the world. You still retain full rights to your work.
At the moment, we have no budget for cash payments. Each contributor will receive a complimentary hard copy and PDF of the Magazine in which they are featured.
Publication months are April, July, October and January. Our rolling submission deadlines close on 15th March, 15th June, 15th September and 15th December.
All submissions and enquiries should be sent to: cerasusmag@gmail.com
https://cerasusmagazine.com/submissions/
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Remembering Lucille Clifton
Moonstone Arts Center
DEADLINE: June 18, 2021
ENTRY FEE: $5
INFO: Born on June 27, 1936, her first book of poems, Good Times, was rated one of the best books of the year by the New York Times. Among her other books were Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988–2000, which won the National Book Award; Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980 and Two-Headed Woman, both nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. In 1999, she was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, served as Poet Laureate for the State of Maryland from 1979 to 1985, and Distinguished Professor of Humanities at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. After a long battle with cancer, Lucille Clifton died on February 13, 2010, at the age of seventy-three.
“Lucille Clifton’s poems are compact and self-sufficient...Her revelations then resemble the epiphanies of childhood and early adolescence, when one’s lack of preconceptions about the self allowed for brilliant slippage into the metaphysical, a glimpse into an egoless, utterly thingful and serene world.” Rita Dove
Write a Praise poem or Tribute to Clifton
Deadline for submissions: June 18, 2021
Program: June 27, 2021
SUBMISSION REQUIREMNENTS:
Anthology Submissions: Please submit a poem or poems pertaining to the Remembering Lucille Clifton anthology/reading.
Please limit your submission to one poem. Please keep this poem limited to 35 lines total. When determining the total line length for each poem, include spaces between stanzas (ex: a poem of 5 couplets would equal 14 lines). Numbers or section breaks should also be included as lines when calculating the total line length. Count an epigraph as 3 extra lines. A line that has more than 60 characters (including spaces and punctuation) should be counted as two lines of your total line count. If lines are staggered like a Ferlinghetti poem, estimate the width of the line and remember that the final book will be printed in 12 point Times New Roman font on pages that are 5 1/2 inches wide.
If you have a problem contact Larry Robin @ larry@moonstoneartscenter.org or 215-735-9600.
https://moonstoneartscenter.submittable.com/submit/191593/remembering-lucille-clifton
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LETRAS BORICUAS 2021 FELLOWSHIP
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation / The Flamboyan Foundation’s Arts Fund
DEADLINE: June 20, 2021
INFO: The Letras Boricuas Fellowship is a new opportunity sponsored by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and The Flamboyan Foundation’s Arts Fund, which will provide thirty writers — fifteen selected in 2021 and fifteen selected in 2022 — $25,000 each. Recipients will also participate in a gathering of all thirty Fellows to be hosted in San Juan, tentatively scheduled for April 2023.
To be eligible for consideration, writers must be 21 years or older at the time of application, be a current resident of Puerto Rico or the United States, and of Puerto Rican heritage. Writers must work in poetry (including spoken word), fiction, creative nonfiction (e.g. memoir, personal essays, and related forms) and/or children’s literature, and demonstrate a history of publication. Only individual writers may apply.
While fellowship award funds are unrestricted, the hope is to help writers in Puerto Rico and across the diaspora, from emerging to established, pursue their writing, amplify their work to a broader audience, and create work that celebrates Puerto Rican life and culture. It is also the aim that each Fellowship cohort will include writers of different genres and writers who live in Puerto Rico, as well Puerto Ricans who may live in the United States. Applications will be accepted in Spanish and/or English.
The Letras Boricuas Fellowship will have two cohorts. The first will be announced in fall 2021 with the fellowship running from January to December 2022. The second cohort will be announced in fall 2022 with the fellowship running from January to December 2023.
https://flamboyanfoundation.org/letras-boricuas/
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3RD ANNUAL SUMMER WRITING COMPETITION
sinθ Magazine
DEADLINE: June 27, 2021
ENTRY FEE: $0
INFO: sinθ Magazine, an international print creative arts magazine that connects and empowers members of the Sino diaspora, is bringing back the summer writing competition for its third iteration.
They’re accepting entries for both fiction (prose) and poetry and invite you to reflect on the following three prompts as inspiration for your pieces. You may reflect on the prompts separately or as a collective, drawing themes and ideas that resonate with you. Entries must engage with the prompt(s), but can do so either directly or indirectly. You may only submit one entry per category, so send us your best work!
PROMPTS:
Set your written piece on a horizon.
“黑夜给了我黑色的眼睛，我却用它寻找光明。”–故城，‘一代人’（1979
“The night gave me black eyes, but I used them to search for the light.” –Gu Cheng, ‘A Generation’ (1979)
“We are wiped of age first thing in the morning
sleep is a light wash / and don’t we know it
we are wrung and wrung”
– Jenny Xie, ‘Letters to Du Fu’ (2017)
JUDGES: RF Kuang (author of THE POPPY WARS trilogy) is announced as this year’s Fiction judge and Chen Chen (author of National Book Award-longlisted WHEN I GROW UP I WANT TO BE A LIST OF FURTHER POSSIBILITIES) as this year’s Poetry judge.
PRIZE: First place in each category will receive a $50 USD cash prize.
HOW TO ENTER:
Email sinethetamag@gmail.com with “Writing Competition - NAME - CATEGORY” as the subject line. Attach your submission as a PDF or Word document. Do not include your name on the document, as entries will be judged anonymously. If you are entering a poetry and a prose piece, please submit each piece separately via email.
Please include the following completed form with your submission in the body of your email:
Name:
Chinese name (if available):
Short third-person bio (less than 80 words):
If poetry - line count:
If prose - word count:
Do you identify as a member of the Sino diaspora?: Yes/No (If the answer is no, please do not submit.)
Do you confirm that the submitted work is entirely your own, and that all quotes have been appropriately attributed?: Yes/No (If the answer is no, please do not submit.)
https://sinetheta.net/contest2021.html
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Call for submissions
FeelsZine
Deadline: June 30, 2021
INFO: We are currently accepting submissions for Issue 15: Falling out of Love (September 2021).
There is a complicated middle between love and love lost -- the process we go through and emotions we feel as we fall out of love. How do we navigate the messiness of changing feelings in a world that villainizes the one doing the leaving? How do we express ourselves about romantic partners, family, friends, places, and identities that are no longer serving us? How does it feel when we finally say goodbye? In Issue 15, we explore the ambivalence, the hurt, the strength, and the transformation that comes with desenamorarse -- falling out of love.
*We are looking for submissions beyond romantic love as this issue is not centred on one type of love*
We accept:
Writing: poetry, personal essays, fictional stories, interview proposals.
Visual Art: photography, illustration, art, typography.
Have an idea for a submission not listed above? Send us an email with your proposal, we’re eager to read it.
Before submitting, please read our COMMUNITY GUIDELINES.
We welcome (and encourage) people of all diverse experiences, abilities and communities to submit their work. Your voice is important, and we would like to support it. The more voices we hear, the more we can learn from one another.
Please keep up to date with the current deadlines and mission statements for upcoming issues *including if the issue is being printed in full colour or risograph* by following us on Instagram & Facebook
Submission Guidelines
1. Please title your email submissions using the following: "FEELS Submission - Issue ___ - [Your name as it should appear in the issue if accepted] - Title of Submission"
2. If submitting a collection of works, please submit all in one email with the name of the collection as the title.
3. If submitting multiple separate works for the same issue, please submit each individually.
4. Art submissions: FEELS is 7.5" x 9.5" with a 0.125" bleed. Please be advised that we will ask you to recolour your artwork as we print in risograph.
5. Longform written submissions: the maximum word count for submissions is 1200 words. Please submit as a word document or using Google Docs.
6. Please indicate in the body of your email the country you are submitting from, as we publish a majority Canadian content as a Canadian publication, but do include global contributors as well.
Please send all submissions to submittofeels@gmail.com. If you do not receive a reply to your email confirming it has reached us, please follow up with our main email, hellofeelszine@gmail.com.
We kindly request submissions are limited to one or two works due to the high volume of submissions we receive, and please have patience with us in responding to new emails--we promise to reply to each and every one.