MACDOWELL FELLOWSHIP
MacDowell
DEADLINE: September 10, 2022 at 11:59pm EST*
PROCESSING FEE: $30
INFO: MacDowell is a fellowship and residency program for writers, visual artists, composers, filmmakers, playwrights, interdisciplinary artists, and architects. About 300 artists are awarded Fellowships each year and the sole criterion for acceptance is artistic excellence.
There are no residency fees. Need-based travel grants and stipends are available to open the residency experience to the broadest possible community of artists. Artists with professional standing in their fields, as well as emerging artists, are eligible to apply.
MacDowell encourages artists from all backgrounds and all countries in the following disciplines: architecture, film/video arts, interdisciplinary arts, literature, music composition, theatre, and visual arts. Any applicant whose proposed project does not fall clearly within one of these artistic disciplines should contact the admissions department for guidance. We aim to be inclusive, not exclusive in our admissions process.
MacDowell is currently accepting applications for the Spring Summer 2023 residency season (March - August 2023) and has suspended a longstanding admissions requirement that applicants supply reference letters as part of the application process.
macdowell.org/apply/apply-for-fellowship
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WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM
Hedgebrook
DEADLINE: September 12, 2022
APPLICATION FEE: $35
INFO: Hedgebrook’s Writer-in-Residence Program supports writers from all over the world for fully-funded residencies of two to four weeks (travel is not included and is the responsibility of the writer to arrange and pay for). Up to 6 writers can be in residence at a time, each housed in their own handcrafted cottage. They spend their days in solitude – writing, reading, taking walks in the woods on the property or on nearby Double Bluff beach. In the evenings, “The Gathering” is a social time for residents to connect and share over their freshly prepared meals.
Hedgebrook’s mission is to support visionary women-identified writers, 18 and older, whose stories and ideas shape our culture now and for generations to come. Writers must be women, which is inclusive of transgender women and female-identified individuals. Because gender inequity still occurs in all spaces including literary ones, it is part of our explicit mission to support and promote women’s voices. This application is not for alumnae seeking a return stay.
2023 RESIDENCY DATES: July-Oct 2023
hedgebrook.org/writers-in-residence
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Hodder Fellowship
Princeton University
DEADLINE: September 13, 2022 at 11:59 p.m. ET.
INFO: The Hodder Fellowship will be given to artists and writers of exceptional promise to pursue independent projects at Princeton University during the academic year. Potential Hodder Fellows are composers, choreographers, performance artists, visual artists, writers, translators, or other kinds of artists or humanists who have “much more than ordinary intellectual and literary gifts”; they are selected more “for promise than for performance.” Given the strength of the applicant pool, most successful Fellows have published a first book or have similar achievements in their own fields; the Hodder is designed to provide Fellows with the “studious leisure” to undertake significant new work.
Hodder Fellows spend an academic year at Princeton, but no formal teaching is involved. An $88,000 stipend is provided for this 10-month appointment as a Visiting Fellow. Fellowships are not intended to fund work leading to an advanced degree. One need not be a U.S. citizen to apply.
GUIDELINES:
Please submit the online application and supporting documentation through AHIRE. Supporting documentation includes:
A resume
500-word project proposal in which you describe your artistic project and what you plan to do during the fellowship’s 10-month appointment
Please submit your project proposal in the “Cover Letter” field in the online application.Work samples accompanied by a 150-word statement on how they relate to your proposal
Creative Writing: Prose samples are limited to 3000 words. If you are a poet, submit up to 20 pages of poetry.
arts.princeton.edu/fellowships/hodder-fellowship/
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Princeton Arts Fellowship
Princeton University
DEADLINE: September 13, 2022 at 11:59 p.m. ET.
INFO: Princeton Arts Fellowships, funded in part by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, David E. Kelley Society of Fellows in the Arts, and the Maurice R. Greenberg Scholarship Fund, will be awarded to artists whose achievements have been recognized as demonstrating extraordinary promise in any area of artistic practice and teaching. Applicants should be early career composers, conductors, musicians, choreographers, visual artists, filmmakers, poets, novelists, playwrights, designers, directors and performance artists–this list is not meant to be exhaustive–who would find it beneficial to spend two years teaching and working in an artistically vibrant university community.
Princeton Arts Fellows spend two consecutive academic years (September 1-July 1) at Princeton University and formal teaching is expected. The normal work assignment will be to teach one course each semester subject to approval by the Dean of the Faculty, but fellows may be asked to take on an artistic assignment in lieu of a class, such as directing a play or creating a dance with students. Although the teaching load is light, our expectation is that Fellows will be full and active members of our community, committed to frequent and engaged interactions with students during the academic year.
STIPEND: An $88,000 a year stipend is provided. Fellowships are not intended to fund work leading to an advanced degree. One need not be a U.S. citizen to apply. Holders of Ph.D. degrees from Princeton are not eligible to apply.
GUIDELINES: To apply, please submit a curriculum vitae, contact information for three references (should the search committee choose to contact references, please do not request letters or have letters sent in advance of a request from the search committee), and work samples (i.e., a writing sample, images of your work, video links to performances, etc.). Please also submit a 750-word proposal that includes how you would hope to use the two years of the fellowship to develop your work, how you would contribute to Princeton’s arts community through teaching and/or production, and how you have encouraged diversity and inclusion in your artistic practice, teaching, and/or research.
arts.princeton.edu/fellowships/princeton-arts-fellowship/
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CANADIAN WOMEN ARTISTS’ AWARD
New York Foundation for the Arts / Canadian Women’s Club
DEADLINE: Extended to September 13, 2022
INFO: The Canadian Women Artists’ Award is a $5,000 cash grant open to Canadian women artists ages 25-40 in New York State. The CWAA is an unrestricted cash grant and can be used in any manner the recipient deems necessary to further their artistic goals.
In 2022, CWC and NYFA will be awarding three (3) $5,000 awards, one in each of the following categories:
Visual Arts: Painting, Photography, Craft/Sculpture, Printmaking/Drawing, or Interdisciplinary Work
Media and Design: Video/Film, Experimental Sound, or Design
Literary Arts: Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction, or Playwriting/Screenwriting
ELIGIBILITY:
The Canadian Women Artists’ Award is open to Canadian women artists living in New York State who meet the following requirements:
Must be a Canadian citizen, and able to provide proof of citizenship with legal documentation upon receipt of the award.
Must be between the ages of 25 and 40 before the application deadline.
Must be a current resident of New York State.
Must apply in only one of the eligible discipline categories.
Must be the originators of the work.
Must not be a previous recipient of the Canadian Women Artists’ Award.
Must not be a NYFA employee, member of the NYFA Board of Trustees or Artists’ Advisory Committee, and/or an immediate family member of any of the previous.
Students in bachelor’s or master’s degree programs are eligible to apply.
ACCESSIBILITY STATEMENT:
NYFA is committed to supporting artists from every background, and at all stages in their creative careers. We strongly encourage artists of color, LGBTQ+ artists, artists with disabilities, and artists living outside of the metropolitan area to apply.
To request an accommodation or assistance in applying, please email CWAA@nyfa.org. We ask that requests for accommodation be made as soon as possible, or by Tuesday, August 9, 2022, to allow adequate time for staff to support you in submitting an application before the deadline.
https://www.nyfa.org/awards-grants/canadian-women-artists-award/
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POWERHOUSE RESIDENCY
DEADLINE: September 14, 2022
FEES: Application Fee ($25) + Refundable Deposit ($250)
INFO: POWERHOUSE exists as a residency, a retreat space, a refuge for New York City based Black, Brown, Queer, Trans, & other Othered Folx.
POWERHOUSE is a homeplace / safe space for artists, activists, creatives, free-thinkers, fugitives, makers, resters, resisters, weirdos & writers. we are committed to supporting Folx who need time & space outside New York City to create, commune with nature, read, relax, reflect, restore, ruminate & rejuvenate. we believe that Folx are most powerful when they are unbothered & unencumbered by day-to-day stressors, chaotic environments, & oppressive systems. our mission is to provide a place to revive & reconnect with the creative power within.
IMPACT: In the United States, there are less than 15 retreat/ residency spaces that cater specifically to Black/ POC/ Indigenous/ LQBTIA+ Folx. in New York State, there are only three. POWERHOUSE intends to fill a void as the ONLY multi-genre creative residency providing artists with a NO COST space to escape, dream, plan, plot & rest. one week residencies will be awarded every month during spring, summer & fall for a total of 9 residencies per year.
OVERVIEW:
potential residents will go through an application process(unless nominated by a collaborating sponsor). applicants will be chosen based on merit & need.
residents need not be tethered to a specific work-related outcome or creation of new work. post residency, residents will be asked to write an impact statement (500 words or less)
residencies will take place from Saturday to Saturday. transport to and from POWERHOUSE can be provided if necessary.
while the residency is FREE, there is a $25 application fee & a required deposit ($250) that is fully refundable (2-3 days post residency).
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The Anzaldúa Poetry Prize
Newfound
DEADLINE: September 15, 2022
READING FEE: $15
INFO: The Gloria E. Anzaldúa Poetry Prize is awarded annually, in conjunction with the Anzaldúa Literary Trust, to a poet whose work explores how place shapes identity, imagination, and understanding. Special attention is given to poems that exhibit multiple vectors of thinking: artistic, theoretical, and social, which is to say, political.
AWARDS: First place is publication, $1,500 prize, 25 contributor copies, and royalties contract option. Three finalists will be announced.
GUEST JUDGE: Donika Kelly is the author The Renunciations and Bestiary. Bestiary is the winner of the 2015 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry, and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. A Cave Canem graduate fellow and member of the collective Poets at the End of the World, Donika has also received a Lannan Residency Fellowship, and a summer workshop fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center. She earned an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin and a PhD in English from Vanderbilt University. Her poems have been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, and Foglifter. She currently lives in Iowa City and is an assistant professor in the English Department at the University of Iowa, where she teaches creative writing.
The annual poetry prize proudly honors poet, writer, and cultural theorist, Gloria E. Anzaldúa. Anzaldúa’s work highlights how one’s place in the world is at once geographical, geopolitical, psychological, mythological, spiritual, and linguistic. She is well known for her book of prose and poetry, “Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza,” which draws on her experience as a Chicana/Tejana/lesbian/feminist activist—a revolutionary and inspirational work that continues to be so.
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Troubadour International Poetry Prize 2022
Coffee-House Poetry
DEADLINE: September 26, 2022
RULES:
Poems: Poems may be submitted from any country & must be in English, must each be no longer than 45 lines, must show title & poem only, must not show poet’s name, must be the original work of the entrant (no translations) & must not have been previously published; no text alterations accepted after submission; no limit on number of poems or number of subsequent submissions.
Submission: Email only, no postal entries: email your poems as attachments (.doc, .docx, .pdf, .rtf only) to poems@coffeehousepoetry.org; include in email: Poet’s Name & Address, Phone Number, List of Titles, Number of Poems, Total Fees, & PayPal Receipt Number.
Fees: £5/€6/$7 per poem (Sterling/Euro/US-Dollars only); pay online (see below, PayPal account not required).
Timeline: Submit by midnight (your local time) on Mon 26 Sep 2022; prize-winners will be contacted in week commencing Mon 21 Nov 2022.
Acknowledgement/Results: Submissions acknowledged within 14 days of receipt; results posted on website after our Mon 5 Dec 2022 prize-night event; judges’ decision is final; no correspondence entered into.
Email Address: By including email address you agree to receiving emails regarding annual Troubadour International Poetry Prize.
PRIZES:
first prize £2,000
second prize £1,000
third prize £500
plus 20 commendeds
plus – winners read with judges at 2022 prize-night celebration on mon 5 dec
JUDGES:
Victoria Kennefick lives in County Kerry, studied at University College Cork, then at Emory University, & Georgia College & State University as part of a Fulbright Scholarship, co-hosts the Unlaunched Books Podcast & is a Listowel Writers Week committee-member. Her 2021 collection Eat or We Both Starve (Carcanet) was a ‘best poetry book of the year’ in both Telegraph & Irish Times, in addition to being shortlisted for the 2021 TS Eliot Prize.
Joshua Bennett has read at the White House at the invitation of President Barack Obama, is Professor of English & Creative Writing at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, & author of Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man (Harvard, 2020) & Spoken Word: A Cultural History (forthcoming from Knopf). His poetry collections are The Sobbing School (2016, a National Poetry Series Selection & NAACP Image Award finalist), Owed (2020) & The Study of Human Life (publ. Sep 2022), all from Penguin.
Judges read all submitted poems.
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Vol. VII, No. 2 ISSUE ‘PEREGRINE’
Yellow Arrow Journal
DEADLINE: September 30, 2022
INFO: Yellow Arrow Journal, a biannual publication of creative nonfiction, poetry, and cover art by writers/artists that identify as women, is excited to announce submissions are now OPEN for the fall 2022 (Vol. VII, No. 2) issue on PEREGRINE.
Accepted submissions include creative nonfiction, poetry, and cover art by authors/artists that identify as women. Submissions must relate to the theme of PEREGRINE as interpreted by the author.
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 of PEREGRINE as interpreted by the author, using the following provided guiding questions (these will change for each theme):
What are the constituent parts of the words/language you love? Where did those parts come from? What do the sounds of those parts mean/evoke?
What words don’t exist in your language? What silences does that create? How does that effect how you connect with others? How does those words exist in other languages?
What does your language look like when it is untethered? When you allow it to wander? To dance with abandon on the page?
How does language illuminate our feelings? Our thoughts? Our beliefs? Is it possible to share these through different languages?
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.
PAYMENT: If selected, you will receive $10.00USD and a PDF of the journal issue. Note that payments are through PayPal; while we 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.
yellowarrowpublishing.com/submissions
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Storyknife Writers Retreat
DEADLINE: September 30, 2022
APPLICATION FEE: $40
INFO: Storyknife provides women with the time and space to explore their craft without distraction. Every aspect of a residency at Storyknife is steeped in a profound generosity of spirit so that each writer knows she and her work are valuable. Storyknife residents carry away both this affirmation and a living community of women writers to assist their valuable work wherever they go.
Residencies at Storyknife in Homer, Alaska, are either for two or four weeks. Resident’s food and lodging is covered during the period of their residency, but travel to and from Homer, Alaska, is the responsibility of the resident. Residents stay in individual cabins & dine at the main house. An on-staff chef is responsible for food preparation.
Four week residencies begin on the 1st of each month and end on the 28th. Two week residencies begin on the 1st of each month and end on the 15th OR begin on the 15th and end on the 28th. Residencies are available April through October.
ELIGIBILITY:
Applicants must:
Be woman-identified
Be 21 years of age or older
Apply as an individual artist, not a collaborative group or team
You will provide a work sample and answer four questions (each answer 300 words or fewer).
How have you sought to educate yourself as a writer? (Formal education not a prerequisite, but evidence of curiosity and learning in your applicable genre is.)
What is your experience with publishing your work? (Publishing is not a prerequisite but is considered a goal for writers who attend Storyknife.)
What project will you pursue while in residency? (Please note that you will be free to work on whatever writing you wish during residency. We simply are interested in what you think you’ll be pursuing.)
Why would a writing residency benefit you at this time especially?
Work Sample Requirements:
Work samples should reflect work completed within the last two years. All work samples must be uploaded through Submittable. Written work samples will be uploaded directly within the application.
Applicants can submit published or unpublished work samples.
All work samples must be combined into one PDF file.
A writing sample not to exceed 10 pages (prose: double-spaced 12 point font, poetry: single-spaced 12 point font acceptable). Prose includes screenplays and stage plays which also must conform to the 10 page limit.
Any writing samples with identifying material will be disqualified. Identifying material is your name, address, or publication credits. This only refers to the writing sample, not the answers to the questions. This is an anonymous jurying process.
Diversity
Storyknife is committed to diversity and elevating voices of historically excluded communities. We value all aspects of diversity and seek to make each resident’s time at Storyknife as productive and pleasant as possible.
Please contact executive director, Erin Hollowell, at ehollowell@storyknife.org to ask about accommodation or to speak further about your needs. Storyknife is welcoming to all and will work with you to meet your needs.
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Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest
Winning Writers
DEADLINE: September 30, 2022
ENTRY FEE: $20 for each submission of 1-3 poems.
INFO: Submit poems on any theme, up to 250 lines each. You may submit published or unpublished work. Each submission may contain up to three poems. You may make multiple submissions. Please omit your name from your entries. We prefer 12-point type or larger. Please avoid fancy, hard-to-read fonts. No restriction on age of author. All countries eligible except Syria, Iran, North Korea, Crimea, Russia, and Belarus (due to US government restrictions).
PRIZES: We will award the Tom Howard Prize of $3,000 for a poem in any style or genre, and the Margaret Reid Prize of $3,000 for a poem that rhymes or has a traditional style. Ten Honorable Mentions will receive $200 each (any style). The top 12 entries will be published online.
FINAL JUDGE: Soma Mei Sheng Frazier. This contest is proudly co-sponsored by Duotrope, which will award two-year gift certificates to the top two winners, a $100 value.
For the purpose of the Margaret Reid Prize, a poem in a traditional style employs regular meter and/or rhyme, or is written in a recognized poetic form. This includes traditional Western forms such as ballads, sonnets, and blank verse, Asian forms such as tanka and haiku, and other traditional forms.
First time entering? We prepared this brief video to guide you. See also our short entry checklist.
winningwriters.com/our-contests/tom-howard-margaret-reid-poetry-contest
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The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers
New York Public Library
DEADLINE: September 30, 2022 at 5:00 pm ET
INFO: The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers is an international fellowship program open to people whose work will benefit directly from access to the collections at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building—including academics, independent scholars, and creative writers (novelists, playwrights, poets). Visual artists at work on a book project are also welcome to apply.
The Center appoints 15 Fellows a year for a nine-month term at the Library, from September through May. In addition to working on their own projects, the Fellows engage in an ongoing exchange of ideas within the Center and in public forums throughout the Library.
CRITERIA & TERMS: The Cullman Center’s Selection Committee awards fifteen Fellowships a year to outstanding scholars and writers—academics, independent scholars, journalists, creative writers (novelists, playwrights, poets), translators, and visual artists. Foreign nationals conversant in English are welcome to apply. Candidates for the Fellowship will need to work primarily at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building rather than at other divisions of the Library. People seeking funding for research leading directly to a degree are not eligible.
The Cullman Center looks for top-quality writing. It aims to promote dynamic communication about literature and scholarship at the very highest level—within the Center, in public forums throughout the Library, and in the Fellows’ published work.
A Cullman Center Fellow receives a stipend of up to $75,000, the use of an office with a computer, and full access to the Library’s physical and electronic resources. Fellows work at the Center for the duration of the Fellowship term, which runs from September through May. Each Fellow gives a talk over lunch on his or her current work-in-progress to the other Fellows and to a wide range of invited guests, and may be asked to take part in other programs at The New York Public Library.
nypl.org/help/about-nypl/fellowships-institutes/center-for-scholars-and-writers
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John Lewis Writing Grants
Georgia Writers
DEADLINE: October 1, 2022
INFO: Georgia Writers’ John Lewis Writing Grants are inspired by the late civil rights icon and his more than three decades of service as Georgia’s 5th District representative. The John Lewis Writing Grants will be awarded annually in the categories of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. The purpose of the grants is to elevate, encourage, and inspire the voices of Black writers in Georgia.
THE GRANTS:
Winners in each genre will receive:
A grant of $500 to present a workshop or reading at a selected Georgia venue
A scholarship to the next annual Red Clay Writers Conference
GUIDELINES:
Applicants must be 18 years of age and emerging writers who are Black or African-American residents of Georgia for at least one year, or full-time students at a Georgia college or university at the time of application and on the date of the award, and have published no more than one traditionally published book. Writers who are eligible may apply annually but may only win a grant once. There is no submission fee to enter. Applications will be reviewed anonymously. Applicants are ineligible if they are of relations to any of the Georgia Writers staff or board of directors.
Writers may apply in only one genre and must submit the following:
A completed grant application
An essay of at least 500 words as a concise description of your work and goals as a writer. Please tell us what inspires or challenges your writing career.
No more than a ten-page writing sample of a published or unpublished piece in the genre in which you are applying--fiction, non-fiction, or poetry.
If submitting poetry, one poem per page please.
georgiawriters.org/john-lewis-writing-award
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Nimrod International Journal
DEADLINE: October 1, 2022
SUBMISSION FEE: $3
INFO: Nimrod International Journal welcomes submissions of poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction. We publish two issues annually. Our spring issue is thematic, with the theme announced the preceding fall. Previous themes have included Writers of Age; Range of Light: The Americas; Australia; Who We Are; Islands of the Sea and of the Mind; The Arabic Nations; Mexico/USA; andCrossing Borders. The fall issue features the winners and finalists of our annual Literary Awards. In most cases, both issues also contain work accepted as general submissions throughout the year.
Each issue is approximately 200 pages, perfect bound with a four-color cover.
GENERAL SUBMISSIONS:
Accepted from January 1st to October 1st each year. Nimrod is closed to general submissions in November and December. Turn-around time for general submissions is one to five months. Online general submissions have a $3 fee associated with them.
Prose: Work must be previously unpublished. 7,500 words maximum. Double-spaced. We seek vigorous writing with characters that are well developed and dialogue that is realistic without being banal.
Poetry: Work must be previously unpublished. 3-7 pages. One poem per page. Poetry is open to all styles and subjects. We seek poems that go beyond one word or image, honor the impulse to reveal a truth about, or persuasive version of, the inner and outer worlds.
We recommend reading a sample issue before submitting a manuscript.
nimrodjournal.submittable.com/submit
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ARTISTS & WRITERS RESIDENCY
Vermont Studio Center
DEADLINE: October 1, 2022
INFO: Each month, VSC welcomes over 50 artists and writers from across the country and around the world to our historic campus in northern Vermont.
All of our residencies include:
A private room in modest, shared housing
24-hour access to a private studio space in one of our 6 medium-specific studio buildings
3 communal meals per day (plus fresh fruit, coffee/tea/cold beverages, and cereal available around the clock)
Most residents stay with us for 1 month, so our sessions adhere to a 4-week calendar however, residencies can be scheduled in 2-week increments ranging from 2 to 12 weeks if a shorter or longer stay better suits your needs. Although we accept residents for stays for 2 weeks, we recommend a minimum stay of one month for the fullest experience.
Each 4-week session includes:
Opening Night Dinner & Reception
7 Resident Presentation (“Res Pres”) Nights
2 Open Studios Nights
Public Slide Talks / Public Readings from our Visiting Artists & Writers
Visiting Writer Craft Talks (open to writers only)
Opportunities for studio visits/manuscript critiques with Visiting Artists/Writers
Most months, numerous other spontaneous events take place--intimate readings, pop-up shows, group hikes or swims, performances, site-specific installations, movie screenings, dance parties, and bonfires, to name a few.
All events in our monthly program are optional. Our program is designed to enhance your studio practice by providing opportunities to engage with a supportive creative community; you are welcome to participate in as many or as few of these activities as you like.
https://vermontstudiocenter.org/
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS AND PITCHES: BLACK AND ASIAN FEMINIST SOLIDARITIES
AAWW’s The Margins / Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities
DEADLINE: Rolling
INFO: A collaboration between Black Women Radicals and the Asian American Feminist Collective, Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities is a monthly series published in AAWW’s The Margins that launched in July 2020. This ongoing project looks to Black and Asian American feminist histories, practices, and frameworks on care, community, and survival for the tools and strategies to continue to build towards collective liberation.
With two years under our belt, the editors of Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities are looking for pitches and submissions to shape the next phase in this series.
Since we started this project, people in Black and Asian communities have been reckoning with grief, loss, heartbreak, and death at different scales. We are witnessing in real time the stripping of reproductive rights; the ways state-based responses to violence pit Black and Asian communities against each other; and attempts to legislate queer and trans people out of existence.
In reflecting on solidarity, we often are left with more questions than answers.
What does it mean to create and nurture solidarity at this juncture? We’re currently seeking new pitches and finished pieces that interrogate past, present, and future issues within the realm of Black and Asian feminist solidarities, and that imagine possibilities between our communities through various written forms.
Topics and approaches of specific interest include:
Environmental justice and water protection; land, water, and place as solidarity; islands and oceans as connective sites; ancestral foodways and ecologies; and growing and caring for land and nature
Storytelling centering queer intimacies, friendships, kinships, and relationships across race
Reproductive justice, care work, and labor
Speculative fiction exploring fantasy, myth, magic, histories, futures, and more
Histories, genealogies, and inheritances of movements and migration
Transnational approaches to abolition politics, including political imprisonment, war, and demilitarization
Ending caste apartheid, politics of colorism, interrogations of racial categories and hierarchies of racialization
Navigating conflicts, tensions, difficulties, contradictions, and controversies within and across communities
Joy, love, and pleasure as solidarity including gatherings, sex and romance, and humor
Engagements with feminist literatures and critique and writing as craft
We invite submissions and pitches on feminist solidarities from creative writers, poets, community organizers, workers, artists, journalists, and scholars.
We are seeking FINISHED SUBMISSIONS in the following genres and forms:
Short creative stories across genres including speculative fiction, young adult, and romance
Illustrations, graphics, and comics
Creative nonfiction including personal essays and historical narratives
Poetry, letters, journal entries, songs, and spells
We are also open to PITCHES for:
Interviews and conversations
Researched or reported works
Political and cultural criticism and commentary
Collaborative works, hybrid genres, and/or exploratory formats
We are currently not seeking submissions for commentary and reported works that require timely or urgent publication.
GUIDELINES:
Email your finished submission or pitch as a .doc/x, or Google doc to bafs@aaww.org.
Please format the title of your submission as follows: “LAST NAME – Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities – TITLE OF PIECE or PITCH .”
Include your preferred name for publishing and a short biography (maximum 100 words).
For finished pieces, we welcome:
essays up to a maximum of 3,000 words
short fiction up to 3,500 words
poetry, illustrations, and hybrid work up to 10 pages or panels for consideration
Please include any image attachments as .jpgs or .pngs.
If you are sending a pitch, please indicate your plan and timeline for completion.
Please also include a short cover letter (max 300 words) about how you connect to this call as an author and how your submitted work relates to this call. Feel free to respond in a way that aligns with the aims of your work.
If our editors decide to move forward with a pitch or submission, writers can expect a reply within six weeks to three months. Although we cannot guarantee a response to all pitches and pieces, our editors will do their best to get back to all writers. We appreciate your patience.
We will pay for published pieces. The Margins‘ 2022 rate sheet is here.
About Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities
This ongoing project looks to Black and Asian American feminist histories, practices, and frameworks on care, community, and survival for the tools and strategies to continue to build towards collective liberation. Solidarity at its core is about relationships. Solidarity means we understand and commit to taking responsibility for one another—and that is the radical feminist future we believe in. So far we have featured nonfiction essays, creative writing and poetry, reading lists, archival materials, and interviews and conversations. The project offers political analysis and ruminations on a variety of topics such as reproductive justice, sex worker organizing, transnational feminisms, war and militarism, care work, and intergenerational movements. Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities is edited by Salonee Bhaman, Julie Ae Kim, Rachel Kuo, Senti Sojwal, Jaimee A. Swift, and Tiffany Diane Tso.
https://aaww.org/submissions-black-asian-feminist-solidarities/