GRANUM FOUNDATION FELLOWSHIP PRIZE
Granum Foundation
DEADLINE: August 3, 2021 at 11:59 pm PT
INFO: The Granum Foundation Fellowship Prize will be awarded annually to help U.S.-based writers complete substantive literary works—such as poetry books, essay or short story collections, novels, memoirs, and translations—or to help launch these works.
Funding can be used to provide a writer with the tools, time, and freedom to help ensure their success. For example, resources may be used to cover fees for a writing residency, mentorship, editing services, or a book tour. They also may be used for necessities such as rent or writing equipment.
Competitive applicants will be able to present a compelling project with a reasonable timeline for completion. They also should be able to demonstrate a record of commitment to the literary arts.
The Granum Foundation is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds.
Prize: $5,000 awarded annually.
Up to three finalists may be awarded $500.
A winner and finalists will be announced on November 9, 2021.
At this time, only U.S. residents 18+ are eligible for funding.
https://www.granumfoundation.org/granum-fellows
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ARTHROPOD ANTHOLOGY: POETRY
Perennial Press
DEADLINE: August 7, 2021
INFO: Do you have a story or poem featuring insects, crustaceans, arachnids, or myriapods? We want to publish it!
We are looking for speculative poetry with monstrous, mythical, or mechanical arthropods for our upcoming Arthropoda anthology!
The call is open to original poetry and reprints up to 45 lines and 7,500 words respectively.
Please submit no more than six poems. Simultaneous submissions permitted.
Arthropoda will be edited by JW Stebner (of Hexagon Magazine) and published by Perennial Press in mid-to-late 2022!
PAYMENT: All selected poets will be paid a $20 flat rate.
We will not accept submissions that contain any excessive profanity or explicit content. We will not tolerate submissions that support or suggest any form of racism, sexism, or any other kind of discrimination.
About Perennial: Perennial Press archives truths through fiction and poetry. We are committed to highlighting and uplifting voices & perspectives that have traditionally been underrepresented in literature.
About Hexagon: Hexagon is an online magazine created to take our readers to fantastic worlds and to meet incredible characters. We specialize in the weird, the wondrous, and the whimsical!
https://perennialpress.submittable.com/submit
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Open Call: Poetry from Emerging First-Generation Immigrants
A Public Space
DEADLINE: August 15, 2021 at 11:59 pm ET
INFO: In connection with the Editorial Fellowship program at A Public Space, we are pleased to announce an open call for a special portfolio in the magazine to be edited by Miguel Coronado.
Coronado is looking for poetry by emerging writers who identify as first-generation immigrants and are interested in what it means to write within the conjunction of a multicultural identity. How do you navigate the abyss of distance that gets formed between the places to which your body, memory, and heritage belong? He would like to read poems that may not belong "anywhere," estranged from easy geopolitical labels, but also belong "everywhere," in the way that any great poem should. He’s open to any interpretations of this prompt, as close or as tangential as you see fit.
Work selected from the Open Call will be published in the winter issue of A Public Space.
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: Writers must identify as first-generation immigrants, including both people born in another country who relocated, and residents of a country whose parents were born elsewhere. Only previously unpublished poems are eligible. International submissions are welcome. Multilingual submissions are welcome, provided that English is the primary language used. Writers whose work is published in the magazine will receive an honorarium.
TIMELINE: Submissions will close at 11:59 p.m. (EDT) on August 15, 2021. Submitters will be informed no later than August 31, 2021.
PROCEDURE: Only electronic submissions will be considered. Work must be submitted through the Special Call category in Submittable. There is no submission fee. Please submit the following:
— A cover letter, including a one-paragraph biographical statement, and one paragraph describing a poem or book of poetry you’ve read that you felt gave you “permission” to write more freely or more like yourself; how did their work inspire you?
— Up to five (5) previously unpublished poems.
— Simultaneous submissions are allowed.
Note that we only accept PDF or Word files (.doc and .docx). The cover letter and manuscript should be submitted as separate files. Incomplete submissions or submissions that do not address this call will not be considered and will be returned unread.
https://apublicspace.org/news/detail/open-call-for-poetry-submissions
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Palette Poetry Prize
DEADLINE: August 15, 2021
INFO: We are thrilled to offer the Palette Poetry Prize for 2021: $4000 and publication! We are seeking one excellent poem that speaks to what poetry is and can be for our world today. Send us your incandescent heart on the page. The winner will be selected by our guest judge, the 2020 Pulitzer Prize Winner Jericho Brown.
Palette's editors will choose ten finalists and any honorable mentions that warrant extra attention. Our judge will then select the winner and runner-ups. Second and third place receive $300 and $200, respectively.
ABOUT OUR JUDGE: Jericho Brown is author of the The Tradition (Copper Canyon 2019), for which he won the Pulitzer Prize. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, and the National Endowment for the Arts, and he is the winner of the Whiting Award. Brown’s first book, Please (New Issues 2008), won the American Book Award. His second book, The New Testament (Copper Canyon 2014), won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. His third collection, The Tradition won the Paterson Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His poems have appeared in The Bennington Review, Buzzfeed, Fence, jubilat, The New Republic, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, TIME magazine, and several volumes of The Best American Poetry. He is the director of the Creative Writing Program and a professor at Emory University.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
Submissions are open internationally, to any poet writing in English—other languages are okay to include, as long as the meat of the poem is in English.
We accept simultaneous submissions—please send us a note if your work is picked up elsewhere (we want to say congrats!)
There is no page requirement, but submission must be no more than 3 poems. Please submit all your poems in ONE document.
We only accept submissions through Submittable. Emailed submissions, attachments, etc... will not be considered.
We accept multiple submissions, but each submission will include the reading fee.
Please include a brief cover letter with your publication history.
https://www.palettepoetry.com/current-contest/
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CALL FOR CHAPBOOK SUBMISSIONS
Yellow Arrow Publishing
DEADLINE: August 15, 2021
INFO: Yellow Arrow Publishing is currently accepting submissions of poetry chapbooks by authors that identify as women from around the world. We only accept digital submissions. At this time, we prefer working with authors without agents.
Please note that as a small press we produce a limited number of publications each year. We pour our hearts and souls into each submission and each Yellow Arrow publication and thank everyone for their interest and inquiries.
Click here for an editorial statement from our Editor-in-Chief.
SUBMISSIONS GUIDELINES:
Chapbooks should be between 20 and 50 poems (no more than 50 pages total) with a clear, overarching theme and headers added (as needed).
Submissions must be (predominantly) in English and must be complete (do not send partials or summaries).
Send your submission as an attachment (as a .doc/.docx, .rtf, or .pdf) to submissions@yellowarrowpublishing.com—submit your text 12 pt font with 1-inch margins and consecutively numbered pages. Poetry should be single-spaced unless spacing is part of the original formatting.
Use as the subject of your email: Yellow Arrow Publishing, chapbook submission.
Include in the body of the email a brief (150 words or less) synopsis of your work, estimated word and page counts, and a bio or short introduction to yourself.
We will consider previously published poems as long as the author currently holds all rights—if previously published, please list where and when as an acknowledgments page within your chapbook.
At this time, we do not require exclusive submission but let us know if you will be submitting to more than one publisher and contact us as soon as possible if you choose to go with someone else before a publishing agreement is signed.
We only want one chapbook submission per author at this time.
By sending your submission you agree to the following statements:
You are a writer that identifies as a woman
You have read and submitted within the guidelines
Note that the guidelines can change at any time—check this page before submitting. We are unable to respond to those who do not submit within the guidelines.
https://www.yellowarrowpublishing.com/cbsubmissions
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EMERGE-SURFACE-BE: 2021-22 FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM FOR EMERGING POETS
Poetry Project
DEADLINE: August 15, 2021 at 11:59 pm EST
INFO: Emerge–Surface–Be is a natural extension of The Poetry Project’s program offerings. It formalizes the distinct yet unspoken pedagogical aspect of The Poetry Project’s programs while providing a unique opportunity to support, develop, and present emerging NYC based poets of promise.
We are pleased this year to have support for five mentor/fellow pairings, and to be able to support writers working in a broader range of modes this year — including poetry, but also crossing into nonfiction, criticism, and performance. Mentors Anaïs Duplan, Steph Gray, Celina Su, Stacy Szymaszek, and Asiya Wadud will each select an emerging poet to work with. Over the course of nine months, Fellows will be given the opportunity to work one-on-one with their Mentor to develop their craft; explore publication and performance opportunities; and reflect on the professional and community-based dimensions of a writing life. Meetings between Fellows and Mentors can take place both in-person and virtually. Ideal Fellows will have a project they are working on or want to embark upon, and feel that they would benefit from guidance and support. Each Fellow will receive an award of $2,500. In adherence with US tax requirements, ESB Fellows will be issued an IRS 1099 Form.
In addition to working with their Mentors, Fellows will have access to all Poetry Project events (free workshops, free readings, free publications) and be included in the Annual New Year’s Day Marathon Reading. Fellows will also read within The Poetry Project’s Monday or Friday Night Reading Series as a culminating event with introductions made by their Mentors. Fellows will be invited to attend gatherings with Poetry Project staff and other 2021-22 Fellows and Mentors. Poetry Project staff and Mentors will also work with each Fellow to find other unique opportunities for deepening, sharing, and connecting their poetry to specific goals the Fellows might have.
The most important criteria will be the demonstration of potential, as well as unique vision and voice, in the applicant’s work sample. While applicants who have achieved some measure of local, regional, or national professional recognition will have these merits taken into account, we equally welcome — and encourage — applications from individuals who may have not yet had highly visible or public opportunities to share their work.
Our definition of “emerging” ranges from writers who are just beginning to share their work publicly; to writers who have local and perhaps regional recognition; and up to writers who are approaching national exposure, though not yet national recognition. As a top limit, an emerging writer has published no more than one full-length perfect bound book and no more than three chapbooks (not including self-published work in chapbook form)
ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS:
New York City resident at the time of application and have lived in NYC at least one year prior to the application deadline;
Eighteen years of age and older;
Individuals enrolled in undergraduate and graduate degree-granting writing programs are not eligible. However, individuals who enroll in degree-granting writing programs or take classes after the time of application submission are eligible for Fellowships providing they maintain an active, professional practice of creating and presenting work to the public.
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS:
Project description, including project goals and long-term artistic goals;
Work Sample: Seven to ten (7-10) page sample of project manuscript OR - Seven to ten (7-10) pages of prior work;
Creative resume and bio;
Optional video clip or mp3 of applicant reading
The Poetry Project is a poet-run, nonprofit arts organization committed to countering institutional barriers through expanded access to poetry. We welcome applications from all candidates regardless of educational background and encourage applicants of all experiences, education backgrounds, system-involvement backgrounds, races, ethnicities, gender and sexual identities, documentation statuses, and disability statuses to apply.
https://form.jotform.com/211515952957968
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Digital Chapbook Series
Fahmidan Journal
DEADLINE: August 15, 2021
INFO: Fahmidan Journal, an international publication supporting women and BIPOC writers, is seeking poetry and short fiction collections.
GUIDELINES:
Please only submit to if you consider yourself to be POC and/or a women.
Please submit manuscripts at a maximum of 40 pages. The collection should be single spaced for poetry and at discretion for short fiction.
Please format to Times New Roman 12 and number pages, please format your collection as A5
Simultaneous Submissions are fine, but please let us know immediately if your manuscript is accepted elsewhere.
Accepted authors will receive a standard & specified contract alongside the following:
40% royalties
A Digital Publishing Run of 12 Months
If you have not heard from us on/by September 25th 2021 please send us an email as it is likely your/our correspondence has disappeared into the ether.
Please send us a max 150 word bio including any relevant social media links/publications and anything important to the collection
Collections should be in single line spacing, include a contents page, and acknowledgements page if applicable and
Short fiction & Poetry collections are welcome!
Submissions should be sent to fahmidanpublishingsubmissions@gmail.com
https://www.fahmidan.net/publishing
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PUBLISHING GRANT
Café Royal Cultural Foundation
DEADLINE: August 16, 2021
INFO: Café Royal Cultural Foundation NYC will award a publishing grant to authors of fiction / creative non-fiction, poetry and playwriting.
AMOUNT: 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.
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.
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 30 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
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Thee Space poetry prize
Shade Literary Arts
DEADLINE: August 31, 2021
INFO: While many are working to radically transform the literary prize complex, we must also intentionally devote time & resources to our own communities & find ways to platform each other. With that, Dovesong and Shade Literary Arts presents: THEE SPACE, a poetry prize for Trans/GNC writers of color, judged by Xandria Phillips.
JUDGE: Xandria Phillips is a Whiting Award-winning poet, and visual artist from rural Ohio. The recipient of a LAMBDA Literary Award, and the Judith A. Markowitz Award for Emerging writers, Xandria is the author of HULL (Nightboat Books 2019) and Reasons for Smoking, which won the 2016 Seattle Review Chapbook Contest judged by Claudia Rankine. They have received fellowships from Brown University, Callaloo, Cave Canem, The Conversation Literary Festival, Oberlin College, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, and are the 2021-2023 poetry fellow at the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics. Xandria’s poetry has appeared in Berlin Quarterly Review, BOMB Magazine, Crazyhorse, Poets.org, and Virginia Quarterly Review.
GUIDELINES: Submit three (3) to five (5) unpublished poems of any length in a single file. "Unpublished" is considered never appearing online (including all blogs; not including in video format). Simultaneous submissions are accepted. Please notify us immediately through the submission manager if one or more of these poems has been accepted elsewhere. If only one of the pieces is being withdrawn, do not withdraw the entire submission unless that is what you intend.
https://theshadejournal.submittable.com/submit
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Open Call for Full-Length Poetry Manuscripts
Sundress Publications
DEADLINE: August 31, 2021
ENTRY FEE: $13
INFO: Sundress Publications is open for submissions of full-length poetry manuscripts. All authors are welcome to submit qualifying manuscripts during our reading period of June 1st to August 31st, 2021.
We’re looking for manuscripts of forty-eight to eighty (48-80) single-spaced pages; front matter is excluded from page count. Individual pieces or selections may have been previously published in anthologies, chapbooks, print journals, online journals, etc., but cannot have appeared in any full-length collection, including self-published collections. Single-author and collaborative author manuscripts will be considered. Manuscripts translated from another language will not be accepted. Simultaneous submissions are fine, but we ask that authors notify us immediately if their manuscript has been accepted elsewhere.
The reading fee is $13 per manuscript, though the fee will be waived for entrants who purchase or pre-order any Sundress title or broadside. We will also accept nominations for entrants, provided the nominating person either pays the reading fee or makes a qualifying purchase. Authors may submit and/or nominate as many manuscripts as they would like, so long as each is accompanied by a separate reading fee or purchase/pre-order. Entrants and nominators can place book orders or pay submission fees at our store. Please note that this submission fee is waived for all BIPOC writers.
All manuscripts will be read by members of our editorial board, and we will choose at least two manuscripts for publication. We are actively seeking collections from writers of color, trans and nonbinary writers, writers with disabilities, and others whose voices are underrepresented in literary publishing. Selected manuscripts will be offered a standard publication contract, which includes 25 copies of the published book, as well as any additional copies at cost.
This year our top selection from the reading period also will receive a free one-week writing residency at the Sundress Academy for the Arts in Knoxville, TN.
To submit, email your Sundress store receipt for submission fee or book purchase, along with your manuscript (DOC, DOCX, or PDF), to sundresspublications@gmail.com. Be sure to note both your name and the title of the manuscript in your email header. For those nominating others for our reading period, please include the name of nominee as well as an email address; we will solicit the manuscript directly.
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2021 Barthelme Prize for Short Prose
Gult Coast
DEADLINE: August 31, 2021
ENTRY FEES: $20
INFO: A prize of $1,000 and publication in Gulf Coast is given annually for a piece of short prose or prose poetry. Two honorable mentions will each receive $250. All entries will be considered for publication. This year's final judge is Molly McCully Brown.
Submit a prose poem, a piece of flash fiction, or a micro-essay of up to 500 words. Each entry can include up to three pieces. The fee for each entry is $20, which includes a yearlong subscription to Gulf Coast.
Only previously unpublished work will be considered. The contest will be judged blindly, so please do not include your cover letter, your name, or any contact information in the uploaded document.
https://gulfcoastajournalofliteratureandfinearts.submittable.com/submit
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RESIDENCY PROGRAM: Ucross Fellowships for Native American Visual Artists and Writers
UCross Foundation
DEADLINE: September 1, 2021
APPLICATION FEE: $0
INFO: The Ucross Residency Program is open to visual artists, writers, composers, choreographers, interdisciplinary artists, and performance artists, as well as collaborative teams. Applicants must exhibit professional standing in their field; both mature and emerging artists of promise are welcome to apply.
Current work is requested. An applicant's work sample is the most significant feature of his or her application. Unless work is interdisciplinary, i.e. the various genres interconnect, each applicant is encouraged to apply in a primary discipline and submit a work sample and project description that emphasizes this single discipline. Competition for residencies varies seasonally and with the number of applications. While only one Fellowship winner will be selected, all applicants will have the option of being considered for a regular Ucross residency.
ELIGIBILITY: Residencies are open to Native American writers who meet the criteria below. They must:
* Be a practicing contemporary writer who is currently producing works in one or more of the following genres -- FICTION, NONFICTION, POETRY, DRAMA, SCREENWRITING, PLAYWRITING, HYBRID FORMS, and more;
* Be an enrolled member of a state-recognized or federally-recognized Tribe, Pueblo, Nation, Native Community, Political Entity, or Alaskan Native Village.
FICTION WORK SAMPLE: Your writing sample should be representative of the genre in which you plan to work while in residence. Writing samples should be double-spaced and include your full name.
* Appropriate sample: 20 pages of fiction, which could be a novel excerpt, a story, several stories, or a combination.
NONFICTION WORK SAMPLE: Your sample should be representative of the genre in which you plan to work while in residence. Writing samples should be double-spaced and include your full name.
* Appropriate sample: 20 pages of nonfiction
POETRY WORK SAMPLE: Your sample should be representative of the genre in which you plan to work while in residence. Writing samples should be double-spaced, but poetry submissions may be single-spaced, and they should include your full name.
* Appropriate samples: 10 pages of poetry.
PLAYWRITING WORK SAMPLE: Your sample should be representative of the genre in which you plan to work while in residence. Writing samples should be double-spaced and include your full name.
* Appropriate samples: One complete play (documentation of production may be included, if relevant).
SCREENWRITING WORK SAMPLE: Your sample should be representative of the genre in which you plan to work while in residence. Writing samples should be double-spaced and include your full name.
* Appropriate samples: One complete screenplay (documentation of production may be included, if relevant).
https://ucrossfoundation.submittable.com/submit
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FIRST-BOOK SCHOLARSHIP 2021
Gasher Press
DEADLINE: September 1, 2021
INFO: Founded in 2018 by poet, Whitney Kerutis, Gasher Press is a literary small press and journal publication committed to serving the literary community by the means of providing opportunities in publishing, editing, and scholarship.
Gasher’s First-Book scholarship is to provide financial assistance of $250 to a writer submitting their first book. This year, we are pleased to be able to offer two awards, one for Prose and one for Poetry. Please see the guidelines below before submitting:
Please include in the title of the submission the manuscript's title followed by its genre (EX: The Seedling - PROSE)
Please submit your first-book manuscript must be at least 48pgs in length with a cover letter and bio.
You may only submit one entry per submission period. All other entries will be disqualified regardless of withdrawing previous submissions.
Writers must not have published a full-length collection at the time of submission, including self-published books. (chapbooks are okay.)
The writer must reside in the United States at the time of submission.
This is a blind reading. Please DO NOT include any identifying material on your manuscript, including an acknowledgments page. Those who do not remove this information from their submission will be disqualified.
https://gasherjournal.submittable.com/submit
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: DIRT - A SPECIAL ISSUE
Guernica
DEADLINE: September 1, 2021
INFO: Guernica, a magazine of art and politics, is now accepting submissions for DIRT: A Special Issue.
This year was a year spent cleaning—sanitizing surfaces, doing endless dishes, relearning to wash our hands. There was so much extraneous cleaning going on, in fact, that it necessitated a new term: “hygiene theater.” The misdirection of our disinfection points to a larger phenomenon: that for all that is known about pathogens and where they live, we can’t always tell when dirt is danger, when it is superstition, or, even, when it’s good for us.
The anthropologist Mary Douglas, who memorably called dirt “matter out of place,” believed that cleanliness rituals are largely symbolic exercises that reveal a society’s most fundamental organizing principles. “There is no such thing as absolute dirt: it exists in the eye of the beholder,” she wrote. Yet dirt is also a tangible thing, a physical record of life and death on this planet. As adrienne maree brown wrote, “The Earth is layer upon layer of all that has existed, remembered by the dirt.”
In this special issue of Guernica, edited by Michele Moses, we want to examine dirt at the intersection of the societal, the personal, and the ecological—dirt as metaphor and dirt as substance. We are looking for submissions—essays, journalism, poetry, fiction, illustration, and beyond—that explore the emotional, interpersonal, and political meanings that hide inside our ideas about uncleanness and hygiene. Long before this pandemic year, the notion of dirt has been used to signal feelings of fear or disgust for other people: to enshrine class, caste, and colonial systems, to enact racism and misogyny, to express our everyday amorphous discomfort with each other. At the same time, dirt is exalted for its life-sustaining properties, and often sentimentalized. It’s something kids need a chance to play in, it’s something we need contact with to feel “grounded.”
Dirt is also sex, and dirt is gossip. Soil is homeland and a final resting place. Some examples of the kinds of stories we would be interested in: an investigation into how the rhetoric of filth has contributed to the removal of public infrastructure like water fountains or pay phones; a look at religious laws about purity and menstruation; a critical reading of the fantasies put forth in advertisements for soap and other cleaning products.
We are also looking for writing that engages deeply with the materiality of the many natural and unnatural substances that make up the larger category of “dirt”: soil, soot, grime, dust, ash, and beyond. Some ideas that appeal to us are: a chronicle of the fight for regenerative agriculture and the untapped carbon-capture potential of soil; a brief history of the humble mud brick; an exegesis of household dust; an ode to belly-button lint.
PAY: Guernica offers honoraria of $50 for poetry, $100 for original essays, and $150 for original fiction and for reportage.