Brooklyn Poets Fellowships: Summer 2022 Workshops
Brooklyn Poets
DEADLINE: June 5, 2022 by 11:59pm ET
INFO: Brooklyn Poets award fellowships to promising students in need to enroll in one of our workshops for free. We also offer partial fellowship awards to finalists and semifinalists. Applicants must not be enrolled in a degree program with access to creative writing instruction or have had a book of poems published or accepted for publication by a United States press. Additionally, applicants who hold a graduate degree in creative writing (MA/MFA/PhD) will be considered separately for a limited number of fellowship awards per season. Applicants are limited to one workshop fellowship lifetime and eligible for only one Brooklyn Poets fellowship per twelve-month period (i.e. recent Retreat Fellows are ineligible).
GUIDELINES: To apply for a summer 2022 workshop fellowship, submit 4–5 poems, published or unpublished, eight pages max. Make sure to include a cover letter (250–350 words) detailing your writing background, why you're interested in a particular workshop/teacher, and why you need financial aid—let us know whether you need full aid or if partial aid will suffice.
Fellowship decisions will be announced via newsletter and social media on June 19. We strongly encourage writers from historically underserved and marginalized communities to apply, including (but not limited to) writers of color, LGBTQ+ writers, writers with disabilities and women writers.
brooklynpoets.submittable.com/submit/225783/brooklyn-poets-fellowships-summer-2022-workshops
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WRITING INTENSIVE: WORDS OF RESISTANCE & RESTORATION
Roots. Wounds. Words.
DEADLINE: June 12, 2022 at 11:59pm ET
INFO: Words of Resistance & Restoration is a 12-week writing intensive where RWW’s faculty of acclaimed BIPOC literary artists will engage justice-involved and -impacted individuals in the art of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, as well as the art of performance. Words of Resistance and Restoration will attempt to cultivate joy, resilience, and community for storytellers who have had direct and/or indirect experience with the carceral state. The primary beneficiaries are Black, Latina/e/x, Indigenous, Asian, Southeast Asian, People of Color (BIPOC)-identified storytellers who have been arrested, incarcerated, held under state control and monitoring, or who have been impacted by the incarceration of a loved one.
Words of Resistance & Restoration is a virtual literary arts intensive.
Those taking part will be truly supported through the experience by justice-involved and -impacted faculty such as Nawaaz Ahmed (Radiant Fugitives), Patrice Gaines(Laughing in the Dark and Moments of Grace), Roya Marsh (dayliGht), and Louise Waakaa'igan (This is Where).
DATES & LOCATION: Words of Resistance & Restoration will be held weekly from Saturday, August 6th - Thursday October 20, 2022 virtually via Zoom.
TUITION & SCHOLARSHIPS: $0.00. This offering is completely tuitionless. Application and participation in Words of Resistance and Restoration is completely free. In fact, the storytellers will receive an honorarium for the culminating performance and for their work to be published in an RWW anthology.
This offering is available to beginner, moderate and advanced storytellers.
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The Letras Boricuas 2022 Fellowship
The Mellon Foundation / The Flamboyan Foundation’s Arts Fund
DEADLINE: June 13, 2022 at 4:00pm ET
INFO: The Letras Boricuas Fellowship is an opportunity sponsored by The Mellon Foundation and The Flamboyan Foundation’s Arts Fund, which will provide forty writers (of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and children’s literature) —twenty selected in 2021 and twenty selected in 2022 — $25,000 each. Recipients will also participate in a gathering of all forty Fellows to be hosted in Puerto Rico, tentatively scheduled for April 2023.
While fellowship award funds are unrestricted, the hope is to help writers in Puerto Rico and across the diaspora, 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 was announced in November 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.
flamboyanfoundation.org/letras-boricuas/
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VSC FELLOWSHIPS
Vermont Studio Center
DEADLINE: June 15, 2022 by midnight
INFO: VSC’s residency program welcomes artists and writers working across all mediums and genres for two, three, and four week sessions. Residents enjoy well-lit, private studios within a short walk to residency housing, dining hall, and local amenities. Studio spaces range from 170 - 300 square feet. Accommodations include a private room and shared common areas. The campus features include a print shop, digital lab, and metal, wood, ceramic facility. Studios are open 24 hours a day.
A VSC residency provides artists and writers the time and space to focus on their creative practice in an inclusive, international community within a small Vermont village. Residents can explore swimming holes, hiking and biking trails, as well as the rural charm of neighboring towns, while expanding their creative potential and building a solid network of friends and mentors.
VSC will award 17 fellowships between October 2022 and May 2023. Fellowships offer full funding and will be awarded to artists and writers with exceptional work.
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NARRATIVE PRIZE
Narrative Magazine
DEADLINE: June 15, 2022
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.
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Jane Brinkley Summer Fellowship
Poetry Society of New York
DEADLINE: June 16, 2022
INFO: The Poetry Society of New York is seeking a generous, creative, thoughtful, open-minded, and hardworking young artist for our 2022 Jane Brinkley Fellowship. This fellowship is named after and was founded in memory of our former intern who we tragically lost at the beginning of this year. Jane was and will be in perpetuity a dynamic, hilarious, crucial member of our community, with a propensity for typewriters, yellow flowers, and risky art. She was not only a vital component to the 2021 New York City Poetry Festival, without whom it would not have been possible; she was a performer, poet, songbird, and a dear friend. With this fellowship, we want to grant the opportunity for a college student like Jane to move to New York City for the summer and help produce the New York City Poetry Festival from September 10th-11th.
This fellow will report to the Company’s Chief Executive Officer Stephanie Berger, the Company’s Chief Operating Officer Jackie Braje, as well as other members of Staff as directed by the Company’s Chief Executive Officer. Among various other tasks, this fellow is to assist with:
The set-up and breakdown of events, namely the New York City Poetry Festival on Governors Island and the Catskills Poetry Campout (and all advertising-related activities)
Tasks provided by the Social Media Manager, Lisette Boer, and the Programs Coordinator, Tova Greene, as needed
Communication between event casts, event staff, venues, sponsors, clients, and other professional contacts to streamline production processes
The development of new production ideas and see them through to their execution
On-site duties during events and rehearsals, including selling merchandise and taking video
Writing, editing, and designing production documents (runs of show, materials lists, et al)
This fellowship will last from July 1st to September 15th. The awardee will receive $5000 for these three months, as well as support from the Poetry Society of New York re: finding housing and acclimating to the New York area. To make our decision as equitable as possible, our fellow will be chosen on a completely blind basis; that being said, BIPOC, queer, and gender non-conforming folks are especially encouraged to apply. All applicants must be devoted to diversity, equity and inclusion, not take themselves too seriously, and have a profound love for weird and wonderful poetry. Applicants must be flexible, communicative, and collaborative.
We're very much looking forward to reviewing your application!
poetrysocietyny.submittable.com/submit/227111/jane-brinkley-summer-fellowship
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Sappho Prize for Women Poets
Palette Poetry
DEADLINE: June 19, 2022
READING FEE: $20
INFO: This contest only accepts submissions from women poets. ALL women are welcome to submit (cis and trans).
AWARD: The winning poet will be awarded $3000 and publication on Palette Poetry. Second and third place will win $300 & $200 respectively, as well as publication.
The top ten finalists will be selected by the editors, and guest judge Jos Charles will then select the winner and two runners-up.
ABOUT OUR JUDGE: Jos Charles is the author of the poetry collections a Year & other poems (Milkweed Editions, 2022), feeld, a Pulitzer-finalist and winner of the 2017 National Poetry Series selected by Fady Joudah (Milkweed Editions, 2018), and Safe Space (Ahsahta Press, 2016). She currently teaches as a part of Randolph College's low-residency MFA program. Charles has an MFA from the University of Arizona and is currently a PhD student at UC Irvine. She resides in Long Beach, CA.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
Please read carefully to ensure your submission will be considered!
for this prize, we are only accepting submissions from women (cis and trans) poets.
submissions are open internationally, to any poet writing in English—inclusion of other languages is more than welcome, as long as the meat of the poem is in English.
DO NOT INCLUDE your name or identifying information in the document OR submission title. If your name is on the submission, it will be declined unread.
we are only accepting unpublished work. If your poem has been published on a blog or on social media, it is not eligible.
we accept simultaneous submissions—just 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 do accept multiple submissions, but each submission will include the $20 reading fee.
please include a brief cover letter with your publication history, if any.
palettepoetry.com/current-contest/
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Call for Work: Atlas: Skin/Bone/Blood Bodymaps in Brown and Black, A Disabled Latinx Folio
Apogee Literary / Letras Latinas
DEADLINE: June 30, 2022
INFO: Our bodies tell stories, carry historical memory, bear the intergenerational traumas and forms of resilience we’ve inherited from our ancestors. Our bodies share ways of knowing and being, with and as a part of the planet’s vibrant human and more-than-human ecologies. The memory of land and what our bodies carry are deeply intertwined. In the ongoingness of settler colonial violence, our bodies, selves, land, communities, and life itself, are variously entangled with, subjected to, and complicit in its persistence through extractivism, exploitation of land and labor, and racial-carceral systems that both debilitate us and produce ideas about which bodies matter.
This collection seeks to address these themes at the intersections of latinidad and disability, to put forth a poetics of black and brown racial and disability justice. What storms shake your body and occupy the worlds of you, the worlds you are, and the worlds you live in and move through? What are the relations between geography and corporeal experience that illuminate what is vital and necessary about solidarities between the work of racial justice and disability justice? What stories do you need to tell, about how your body carries the land and how the land has carried your body? What maps to history and to liberatory futures are found in the atlas of your skin, bone, and blood?
Call for Work: Seeking poems on the themes addressed above from disabled Latinx/Latine/Latina/Latino writers.
We welcome submissions in English; and encourage submissions in Spanish, Portuguese, and indigenous languages, accompanied by English-language translations.
Please submit 3-5 unpublished poems totaling no more than ten pages to apogeejournal.org/submit.
In your cover letter, please include a bio of 100-150 words.
*There will be a $100 honorarium for poets included in the folio. Supported by the Mellon Foundation, this folio is an extension of the March 29th, 2022 event by the same title, hosted by the Writer’s Center, and commissioned by Letras Latinas, the literary initiative at University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies, as part of the 2022 Poetry Coalition initiative themed on, “The future lives in our bodies: Poetry & Disability Justice.”
apogeejournal.org/2022/05/23/skin-bone-blood-bodymaps/
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The Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize
Wasafiri
DEADLINE: June 30, 2022
ENTRY FEE: £10 for one entry, £16 for double entry
INFO: The 2022 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize is open for submissions. Exceptionally international in scope, the prize supports writers who have not yet published a book-length work, with no limits on age, gender, nationality, or background. The winners of each category will receive a £1,000 cash prize and publication, and will be published in Wasafiri’s print magazine. Shortlisted writers will have their work published on Wasafiri’s website.
All fifteen shortlistees and winners will also be offered the Chapter and Verse or Free Reads mentoring scheme in partnership with The Literary Consultancy (dependent on eligibility), and a conversation with Nikesh Shukla of The Good Literary Agency to discuss their career progression.
Before entering the prize, please read the Terms and Conditions carefully. You may enter two manuscripts to the prize (£10 for one entry, £16 for double entry), either in the same or different categories. You may complete the form more than once if you wish to submit more than two entries. Subsidised entry is available for those who would otherwise be unable to enter the prize; details of this are below.
ELIGIBILITY:
1: The competition is open to anyone who has not published or signed a contract to publish a book-length work of fiction, life writing, or poetry, except for self-published works or poetry chapbooks.
2: Entries must not have been previously published in any form (excluding live performances or shares on personal blogs or social media channels).
3: If entries are published, or accepted for publication, elsewhere between submission and shortlisting, they will no longer be eligible. You must inform us immediately if work submitted to the prize is then accepted for publication elsewhere by emailing wasafirinewwritingprize@qmul.ac.uk.
4: The competition is not open to members of the Wasafiri Board or Wasafiri staff, or any individual involved in the administration of the prize, or their families.
5: Entries must be completed through the submissions form no later than 5pm BST on Thursday 30 June 2022.
6: Failure to meet the conditions of entry will mean that a submission is automatically disqualified from the competition. Entry fee will not be refunded.
FORMAT OF ENTRIES
7: No entry may exceed 3,000 words.
8: All prizes are for short works, not for novel/memoir extracts. While extracts from longer works are eligible, they must stand alone as complete works in their own right.
9: A single poetry entry can include up to three poems, which together total no more than 3,000 words. Each poem must each be submitted as a separate document.
10: Do not write your name or provide any other form of identification on your manuscript or in the document title. All submissions will be considered anonymously.
11: Work must be typed, in a legible font, font size 12, double-spaced, A4, and submitted as a .doc file or similar (no PDFs).
12: Manuscripts cannot be altered after submission.
FEES:
13: Entries are considered accepted through our website once the fee is paid. All successful submissions will receive an acknowledgement. If you do not receive an acknowledgement, there may have been a problem with your entry; in this case, check your email spam folder, and then contact wasafirinewwritingprize@qmul.ac.uk to confirm successful receipt.
14: Fee is per entry: £10 for a single entry, £16 for a double entry. You may make multiple entries if you would like to do so by completing the entry form multiple times.
15: We offer a limited number of subsidised entries at a rate of £6 per entry, which must be accompanied by a brief explanation of the entrant’s need for subsidised entry. No documentation is necessary. There is capacity for 25 subsidised entries per month during the months that the prize is open (January-June inclusive).
PRIZE GIVING & PUBLICATION
16: No more than one piece by any writer will be shortlisted for the prize in a single category in a single year, and no person may win in more than one category in a single year.
17: Shortlisted entrants will be notified by email in early September 2022 and must confirm eligibility of their work before the shortlist is confirmed.
18: Acceptance of a place on the shortlist will indicate the author’s agreement to their work being published in Wasafiri in print or online, and included in a possible anthology.
19: The judges’ decision is final. No discussion concerning the judges’ decision will be entered into.
20: The entry fee is non-refundable.
wasafiri.org/enter-the-queen-mary-wasafiri-prize/
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: ISSUE 18: SEXY
Feels Zine
DEADLINE: June 30, 2022
INFO: Feels is a feminist, sex-positive, 2SLGBTQ*, anti-racist, anti-colonial publication about feelings. For Issue 18, we will explore how we get to a place of seeing ourselves as worthy and desirable, how sexiness can empower us, how we celebrate it, and how we express ourselves as the sensual, gorgeous creatures we are.
We accept all forms of written and visual artistic expression, as long as we can print it. Please read our Community Guidelines at feelszine.com for more info about our publication, and our Submissions page for formatting your work. This issue will be risograph printed so please be aware that we may ask for edits to your visual art pieces! We are completely self-funded so all pieces are currently submitted on a volunteer basis.
Issue 18 will be released September 2022.
feelszine.com/pages/submissions
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: ISSUE 003: GROWTH
Soul In Space
DEADLINES:
June 1 - 30 (Black + Native Creatives)
July 1 - 31 (BIPOCs (all) and Allies)
INFO: Soul In Space Mag is seeking submissions in the topic of “Growth.”
You can submit, creative non-fiction, essays, poetry, fiction, etc… There is also the option for other forms of art like music, videography, digital art, and other methods of visual art.
Send your submissions to submission@soulin.space
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: SUMMER ISSUE
Voicemail Poems
DEADLINE: July 1, 2022
INFO: We are currently accepting submissions for our Summer Issue!
HOW TO SUBMIT:
Submitting a voicemail poem is easy, here’s how:
First, send us the text of your poem through our online form here:
(https://voicemailpoems.submittable.com/submit)
>> We only consider one poem per poet at a time. If you submit more than one poem we will reject all of them.
>> If you’ve been published by us before, please wait 6 months or so before submitting again. We want to get as many new people involved as possible!
>> We don’t mind if the poem has been previously published by another magazine. Life is too short.
>> Please submit only original poetry of your own creation.
>> CONSENT: Do you say the name of someone you know personally in your poem? Do you quote or paraphrase or reference something they did or said? This should go without saying, but you should be asking people for their permission if you can.
>> Please be okay with having your poem come up in Google searches with your name next to it.
2. Then, call 910-703-POEM(7636) – introduce your piece and start reading!
>> Calling from OUTSIDE the USA? Try dialing 001-910-703-7636
** Some countries’ phone providers will have “exit codes” in order to dial out internationally. Here’s a list of exit codes. If you are still having trouble placing the call, we also have a WhatsApp account (connected to the same number) & we will accept submissions via the voice memo feature there.
>> If you are still unable to reach us, please send us an email at voicemailpoems@gmail.com, and we will do our absolute best to resolve the issue.
>> Poems MUST be 3 minutes or less. You’ll get cut off if your poem is longer than 3 minutes. Feel free to call back and try again if you run long the first time but do not split the piece up into two calls we will not accept it like that.
>> The poem must be read by you. Using your voice. Text to speech programs are only allowed if you actually require it to communicate verbally.
3. Finally, we’ll read and listen to your poem and let you know if/when it’ll be posted! (Please be patient, this can take several months.)
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John & Eileen Allman Prize for Poetry
Bellevue Literary Review
DEADLINE: July 1, 2022
INFO: The BLR Prizes award outstanding writing related to themes of health, healing, illness, the mind, and the body.
This year’s John & Eileen Allman Prize for Poetry will be judged by Phillip B. Williams
Phillip B. Williams is from Chicago, IL, and is the author of the books Mutiny and Thief in the Interior. A recipient of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, Lambda Literary Award, and Whiting Award, he has also received fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and the National Endowment for the Arts. He currently teaches at Bennington College and the Randolph College low-residency MFA. www.phillipbwilliams.com
GUIDELINES:
First prize is $1,000 (in each genre) and publication in the Spring 2023 issue of BLR. Honorable mention winners will receive $250 and publication in the Spring 2023 issue of BLR.
Poetry: We encourage poems that are accessible to a wide audience. Characteristics we look for are vivid writing, strong narrative, and rendering the familiar new. We encourage you to peruse back issues in our archive to get a sense of our ethos. You may submit up to 3 poems per submission (please include all 3 in one file).
Do not put your name or other identifying information on the manuscript document (or in the filename). Manuscripts are read blindly by reviewers, editors, and judges.
Work previously published in print or electronically will not be considered. For BLR, “published work” means published in print in North America, or published on the Internet in electronic journals, e-zines, academic websites, and other “public” or “official” websites. Works posted on personal blogs or websites will be considered on a case-by-case basis. We ask that authors be honest about web postings. (If a work is discovered to have been posted or published elsewhere—and not openly acknowledged by the author in advance—we will remove it from consideration.)
Simultaneous submissions are permitted, but we ask that you notify us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere. We regret that there can be no refunds or substitutions for withdrawn work.
All contest entries will also be considered for regular publication.
Students/friends/colleagues/relations of a judge are not permitted to enter submissions to that judge's genre.
BLR acquires first-time North American rights, and the right to reprint in anthologies. After publication, all other rights revert to the author and the work may be reprinted as long as appropriate acknowledgement to BLR is made.
bellevueliteraryreview.submittable.com/submit/54924/contest-submission-poetry
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2022–2023 Poetry Coalition Fellowships
Academy of American Poets
DEADLINE: July 3, 2022
INFO: 2022–2023 Poetry Coalition Fellowships, which are paid fellowship positions for five individuals who will each assist a different Poetry Coalition organization for twenty hours per week over the course of a forty-week period. The fellows will also receive professional development opportunities.
The five organizations hosting Poetry Coalition Fellows this year are Letras Latinas (Notre Dame, IN), Mass Poetry (Boston, MA), Urban Word (New York, NY), Woodland Pattern (Milwaukee, WI), and Youth Speaks (San Francisco, CA).
Applications for the 2022 Poetry Coalition Fellowship program are being accepted from May 3, 2022 through July 3, 2022. The positions will begin on September 5, 2022 and end on June 30, 2023. Interested individuals that are 21 or older are encouraged to apply, including those who are enrolled in or have recently graduated from an MFA program in creative writing.
To learn more or to apply for a Poetry Coalition Fellowship at any of the 2022 host organizations, visit their websites at the links below:
Letras Latinas: http://letraslatinasblog.blogspot.com/2022/04/poetry-coalition-pilot-fellowship.html
Mass Poetry: https://masspoetry.org/get-involved/
Urban Word: https://www.urbanword.org/become-a-mentor/
Woodland Pattern: https://woodlandpattern.org/opportunities
Youth Speaks: https://youthspeaks.org/careers/