CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: FICTION, CREATIVE NONFICTION, POETRY, AND VISUAL WORKS
Entre Magazine
DEADLINE: December 4, 2023
INFO: Entre is, primarily, a creative platform for queer Latina/o/x artists, but we are open to publishing works from all artists, regardless of background.
They currently seek submissions for its premiere issue, to tentatively debut in Spring 2024, including previously-unpublished creative fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and visual works that focus on the queer Latinx experience or any experiences that deal with hybridity, fluidity, and inbetweenness (be it race, ethnicity, culture, gender, sexuality, etc.)
Submissions should be previously unpublished; please do not submit any works that have been previously published on personal blogs, social media, or in other magazines, anthologies, or chapbooks.
We will gladly accept simultaneous submissions. Please notify us if your work is accepted elsewhere and it will be withdrawn from the consideration process.
GUIDELINES: All submissions should include (aside from the work) an artist's bio (50-100 words) and a brief statement describing the artist's motivation behind the work--what is the intention of the work? What does the work represent?
Artists are free to submit multiple works in multiple categories, but please be advised that only one work in one genre will most likely be selected to encourage a diverse representation of artists.
FORMATTING: Written works must be submitted in Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx) format. Fiction submissions should not exceed a maximum of 5,000 words. Poetry submissions should not exceed a maximum of 3 poems. Fiction submissions should be double-spaced, utilize a standard typeface and font size (12 pt), and have numbered pages. Poetry submissions can be single-spaced, but should still utilize a standard typeface and font size. If submitting more than one poem, please start each new poem on its own page.
Visual works must be submitted either as JPEGs (JPGs), PNGs, or any widely-accepted image format (up to 100 MB).
PUBLISHING:
All submissions are subjected to an editing process. If selected for publication, artists will always have the final say as to how their submissions will appear in Entre.
By submitting to Entre, artists agree to be published digitally (online) in Entre Magazine. Artists also agree to be potentially promoted on Entre's social media platforms (as they are launched). Social media handles may be included (if provided during the submission process).
After first publication in Entre Magazine, artists will retain all rights to their work.
Entre does not provide monetary compensation for publications at this time.
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Black Girl Writers Mentoring PROGRAM
DEADLINE: December 11, 2023
INFO: Black Girl Writers is a free mentoring program for Black women who write. We pair Black women with the best in the industry, from bestselling authors to internationally renowned literary agents, and host online workshops throughout the year.
We are aware that there is a racial disparity in the publishing industry, which is not helped by a lack of knowledge on how to get published. Mentoring is a great way to get your work to its highest standard, which then increases your chances of getting an agent or book deal.
So if you have a completed manuscript, a work in progress, a short story collection, a poetry cycle, a non-fiction proposal—anything—and you would like to be mentored by the very people who sign the deals, please get in touch!
How does it work?
The aim of Black Girl Writers is to connect professional mentors with aspiring writers who identify as Black women for free. Black in this sense includes women of African, Caribbean, Afro-Latin, African-American, and Bi-racial heritage. Women includes cis, trans, and non-binary. We are based in the UK, but accept applications internationally.
These mentors are a mixture of editors, writers, and literary agents.
We will forward your details to your chosen mentor (subject to availability). After an introductory email, you and your mentor will then organise weekly, fortnightly, or monthly sessions together. Monthly mentorships should last between 2-4 months unless your mentor decides to keep you on for longer.
We are currently running on a first come, first served basis, which means mentor spaces get filled very quickly. If your chosen mentor is no longer available, we will work with you to arrange a session with our 1:1 standalone mentors as an alternative.
On rare occasions, we will be unable to find a suitable mentor for your application, but in such cases, we aim to organise a private, tailor-made group session to give unmatched mentees the opportunity to speak to an industry professional in a safe and confidential environment.
Due to increasing demand, we will periodically close our applications. Application windows will generally run from late January - May, and then August - October but we may have to close early if too many mentors are full.
We also organise free writing events with publishing professionals throughout the year. These are a great opportunity to network and ask your burning questions to literary agents, editors, authors, and directors. We always announce our events on the news page.
Future plans of Black Girl Writers include regular meetups to discuss our WIPs, offer support, and collaborate on anthology projects. All of these things will be achieved by potential lottery funding. Please watch this space for future announcements!
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2024 CAAPP Book Prize
University of Pittsburgh’s Center for African American Poetry / Poetics and Autumn House Press
READING PERIOD: December 15, 2023 - February 15, 2024
INFO: Founded in 2020, the CAAPP Book Prize is a publishing partnership between the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for African American Poetry and Poetics and Autumn House Press with the goal of publishing and promoting a writer of African descent. The prize is awarded annually to a first or second book by a writer of African descent and is open to the full range of writers embodying African, African American, and African diasporic experiences.
The book can be of any genre that is, or intersects with, poetry, including poetry, hybrid work, speculative prose, and/or translation. The winning manuscript will be published by Autumn House Press and its author will be awarded $3,000. Previous winners include Carly Inghram's The Animal Indoors, Jacqui Germain's Bittering the Wound, and Richard Hamilton's Discordant, and Okwudili Nebeolisa's forthcoming Terminal Maladies.
2024 CAAPP Book Prize:
The reading period opens on December 15, 2023, and is open until February 15, 2024.
Please submit a manuscript between 48-168 pages.
Please submit your manuscript as a doc, docx, or pdf file.
Only one manuscript submission is permitted per person.
Final Judge: aracelis girmay
About the Final Judge: aracelis girmay is a poet who makes work across genres, including essays, collages, and picture books. She is the author of three books of poems, for which she was a finalist for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. Her most recent work is the chapbook and was a flower, made in collaboration with book artist Valentina Améstica. Other recent work has been published in Astra, The Paris Review online, and e-flux. girmay is on the editorial board of the African Poetry Book Fund and is the editor-at-large of the Blessing the Boats Selections (BOA Editions). She teaches at Stanford University.
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2024-2025 WRITING FELLOWSHIP
The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown
DEADLINE: Extended to December 15, 2023
INFO: Since its creation 50 years ago, the Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship has become one of the leading residency programs in the world.
Each year, the Work Center offers 20 seven-month residencies to a juried group of emerging visual artists, fiction writers, and poets. Each Fellow receives an apartment, a studio (for visual artists), and a monthly stipend of $1,250 plus an exit stipend of $1,000. Residencies run from October 1 through April 30. During this time, Fellows have the opportunity to pursue their work independently in a diverse and supportive community of peers.
The Fine Arts Work Center has hosted more than 1,000 Fellows since 1968, nurturing an accomplished and far-reaching alumni network. The impact of the experience is best illustrated by the extensive list of awards Fellows have gone on to win, including the Guggenheim Fellowship, MacArthur Fellowship, Prix de Rome, Pulitzer Prize, and the Nobel Prize in Literature.
THE RESIDENCY: During the course of the Fellowship, each Writing Fellow is invited to give a public reading and each Visual Art Fellow is given a solo exhibition opportunity. Readings and openings are attended by current and past Fellows, local residents, visitors to Provincetown, leadership of the town’s numerous cultural institutions, and the many illustrious artists and writers who make their homes in Provincetown. Events take place in the beautifully renovated public spaces of the Work Center: the Stanley Kunitz Common Room and Hudson D. Walker Gallery.
VISITING ARTISTS + WRITERS: While in residence, Fellows also help select a series of visiting artists and writers. These visiting artists and writers meet with the Fellows for studio visits and manuscript reviews and give public readings and artist talks that draw thousands from Provincetown and beyond. Visiting guests have included presidential inaugural poet Elizabeth Alexander; Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel; winner of the National Book Award for Poetry Mark Doty; Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress Robert Pinsky; artist and MacArthur Fellowship recipient Judy Pfaff; and Katherine Porter, whose work is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, and Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
The Work Center’s founders believed that seven months was the minimum amount of time needed for artists and writers in the crucial early stages of their careers to learn to structure their lives around their creative practice. Each generation of Fellows ideally moves on from the Work Center with a firm belief in their ability to pursue a life as a practicing artist or writer.
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Call for Submissions: Mizna 25.1
Mizna
DEADLINE: December 15, 2023
INFO: As Mizna’s twenty-fifth anniversary approaches, we are opening submissions for our Summer 2024 Issue, Mizna 25.1. Although this issue will be unthemed, the editorial team wishes to center and uplift our community in a time of rage and mourning, especially those Palestinian, Armenian, Afghan, Sudanese, Moroccan, and Libyan folks who are living through various forms of colonial, imperial, genocidal, and ecological catastrophe.
We highly encourage submissions from those most affected by these disastrous situations. Furthermore, in a moment where solidarity with Palestine has been met with censorship, doxxing, cancellation of awards and events, and firing from professional positions, we continue to welcome writing from our anti-Zionist comrades as well as those who have been victims of aforementioned silencing. While we welcome submissions from former contributors seeking a space for their work in this urgent moment, we also especially encourage submissions from writers who have never been published by us before.
Mizna has long been a home for literature with innovative, experimental forms, as well as visual art that is published with high quality print production practices. As such, we especially encourage ongoing submissions from artists doing visual poetry work, or hybrid works that cross the arbitrary boundaries of genre. In general, literary works of poetry, visual poetry, fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, creative nonfiction, comics, collage, invented forms, and any forms of mixed print or hybrid work will all be considered.
Submitters do not need to be SWANA or Arab identified, but work submitted should be considerate of Mizna’s aesthetic and the social realities of our audiences, as well as be a contribution to ongoing conversations in and beyond our communities. We encourage submitters to read back issues of Mizna before submitting work for consideration.
Simultaneous submissions are accepted, though we ask to be notified as soon as possible if the submission is accepted elsewhere. There are no submission fees. Selected contributors receive a $200 honorarium, a 1-year subscription to Mizna, and 5 copies of the issue.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
Please include a short cover letter (200 words or less) as the first page of your submission, with a brief overview of the work you’re submitting and why you are submitting to Mizna.
Poets should list out the poems they are submitting, and let us know if there are simultaneous submissions elsewhere.
Prose submissions should include a brief 1-2 sentence overview of the submission (e.g. a synopsis if it is a story or narrative essay, or an overview of the argument for more expository essays; keep in mind that we are a literary magazine).
Include a brief (50 words or less) author bio.
Add a maximum of one sentence for any additional information you would like the editorial team to know about the work.
Please submit as .doc or .docx files preferably, or pdfs for pieces with complex layouts. We do not accept other file formats (e.g. pages). Prose submissions should be double spaced and limited to 5000 words. Please do not send us your term papers or thesis manuscripts for consideration. Poetry submissions should be limited to four poems of any length, verses exceeding our page width will be treated with a runover indent.
Please only submit once per submission period. We are open to submissions from November 15 through December 15. All submissions that do not adhere to our guidelines will be discarded unread.
mizna.org/journal/submissions/
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ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE FELLOWSHIP
Newberry Library
DEADLINE: December 15, 2023
INFO: Newberry Library provides fellowships for writers, artists, and other humanists.
The Historical Fiction Writing Artist-in-Residence Fellowship
Offering one month of support for a person working in the area of historical fiction. We encourage applications relating to a wide range of historical fiction including novels, short stories, plays and theatrical works, or poetry.
Stipend: $3,000
Length: 1 month
Who can apply: Writers of historical fiction.
newberry.org/research/artists-in-residence
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call for submissions
Honey Literary
DEADLINE: December 15, 2023 by 11:59 pm PST.
INFO: Honey Literary is a BIPOC-focused literary journal / 501(c)(3) literary arts organization. They publish two issues each year, one in winter, and one in summer.
To share your work, please upload your .docx or image files to the appropriate category:
Animals
Poetry
Sex+ OR Food and Beverage
Valentines OR Hybrid
Essays OR Rants and Raves
Interviews OR Sticky Fingers
honeyliterary.submittable.com/submit
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Starshine & Clay Fellowship
Cave Canem / EcoTheo Collective
DEADLINE: December 17, 2023 at 11:59 pm ET
SUBMISSION FEE: $0
INFO: Cave Canem and EcoTheo Collective are pleased to announce the 2024 Starshine and Clay Fellowship. Developed in 2020, this initiative provides financial and developmental support to emerging Black poets. Named in honor of Cave Canem elder Lucille Clifton, the Starshine and Clay Fellowship was developed to speak to the mentorship Clifton offered Cave Canem Fellows during her tenure as faculty at the Cave Canem Retreat.
Two recipients will each receive:
A $500 cash award
A featured reading at the 2024 Wonder Festival.
A one-on-one consultation with aracelis girmay.
Publication in an issue of EcoTheo Review.
ABOUT THE JUDGE: aracelis girmay (2003)* is a poet and teacher who makes work across genres. In collaboration with artist Valentina Améstica and the Center for Book Arts, a limited edition chapbook of her new work will be out in the fall (2023). She is the editor of So We Can Know: Writers of Color on Pregnancy, Loss, Abortion, and Birth (Haymarket) and is the editor-at-large of the Blessing the Boats Selections. She is also on the editorial board of the African Poetry Book Fund. For her work, Girmay was a finalist for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature.
cavecanem.submittable.com/submit
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call for submissions: the fire inside Volume 3
Zora’s Den
DEADLINE: December 18, 2023 by 11:59pm
INFO: Zora's Den is dedicated to empowering Black women writers, by offering a platform for their authentic stories and unique voices.
We are currently accepting fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry written by Black women for our third anthology, The Fire Inside, Volume III.
GUEST EDITOR: Bernice McFadden, award-winning author of Sugar, Praise Song for the Butterflies, and more.
GUIDELINES:
Poetry: Submit up to three (3) poems with a combined length of no more than five (5) pages.
Fiction: maximum length of 3000 words.
Non-Fiction: maximum length of 2500 words.
All submissions should be double-spaced (except poetry, which can be single-spaced). 12 point font. Pages must be numbered.
No experimental forms in any genre.
No names or identifying information on any pages.
Upload submission as a Word document (either DOC or DOCX format) or pdf.
We welcome simultaneous submissions but request immediate notification, if your work is accepted by another publisher.
Submissions should be original; we will not accept content generated by artificial intelligence (AI).
Work should not have been previously published in print or online. (including author’s website or blog)
Accompany your submission with a brief bio.
All rights remain with the author.
Each author will receive a contributor copy of the anthology, as compensation.
zorasden.submittable.com/submit
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call for submissions: Spring/Summer 2024 print issue
Epiphany Magazine
DEADLINE: December 18, 2023
SUBMISSION FEE: $5
INFO: How quickly the seasons change: We are now open for submissions for our Spring/Summer 2024 print issue in the categories of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art.
Send us work that blooms and withers and speaks through a larger netowrk of root; send us your most honest and original work. We are especially eager to read more nonfiction and works in translation.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
Prose: submit one piece at a time, double-spaced / Poetry: submit up to five poems
Please format submissions in 12-pt font
We accept simultaneous submissions but please withdraw promptly through Submittable should your work be accepted elsewhere.
We only consider previously unpublished work.
All work will be considered for online publication
Please include your name, title, and word count on the first page of the submitted file.
Translations are welcome with rights permission from the original writer. Novel chapters / excerpts are also welcome.
Please include a short bio with your cover letter.
epiphanyzine.com/features/open-spring-summer-2024
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JANUARY 2024 ANDERSON CENTER WINTER RETREAT
The Anderson Center
DEADLINE: December 22, 2023
INFO: The Anderson Center’s Winter Retreat program is a short-term residency during the organization’s off-season for artists and writers seeking concentrated creative time for reflection and the advancement of their personal artistic goals. A Winter Retreat at the Anderson Center is a fee-based opportunity for up to four artists at a time to live in community and fellowship while working on their own projects in the inspiring setting of the historic Tower View Estate.
The Anderson Center is currently accepting applications for sessions of 1 to 4 weeks in duration from Monday, January 8 to Sunday, February 4, 2023. Arrival takes place between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. each Monday and includes a short orientation. Check out is by 10 a.m. on Sundays. Spaces are rented on a first come, first serve basis and acceptance is made at the discretion of staff. There is no fee to apply. Application or participation in a Winter Retreat in no way affects eligibility or selection for other Anderson Center Residency Programs.
Practicing artists of all backgrounds and at any stage of their career are encouraged to apply. A self-paced Winter Retreat may be a good fit for artists & writers who need time away from daily responsibilities and distractions to focus on a creative project, visual artists needing access to the Anderson Center’s specific studio facilities, or educators seeking focused creative time during a winter break or sabbatical. A Winter Retreat is also an ideal opportunity for collaborating artists to advance a project or work alongside one another at Tower View.
If you have any questions about Winter Retreats, please contact Program Director Adam M. Wiltgen at 651-388-2009 x4.
RATES, ACCOMMODATIONS, & AMENITIES
The weekly rate for a Winter Retreat at the Anderson Center is $600. A 10% discount is offered to local artists living with in Goodhue County, Minnesota. A 50% deposit is due upon acceptance with the balance due at arrival. There is no fee to apply. Notification of acceptance and confirmation of dates will be emailed within a week of receiving application.
A Winter Retreat in the Historic Tower View Residence includes a private bedroom and a private bathroom, along with access to a fully equipped kitchen, laundry room, living room, dining room, and several common spaces. Bedrooms are equipped with either a king bed, full bed, or twin beds; a desk, a dresser, a large closet, and a comfortable chair.
Linens and towels are provided. The house is cleaned weekly. Couples are welcome and may share bedroom/studio if desired (weekly rate applies to each person). Children and pets (except for certified service animals) are unable to be accommodated during Winter Retreats.
The Granary Printmaking Studio (with a Vandercook 219 letterpress and Charles Brand-like etching press) is available for Winter Retreats for $150/week. The fee for a 15' x 26' visual art studio in the North Studios complex (with a sink, heater, easels, and tables) is $100/week.
The Anderson Center does not supply paper or any visual art supplies. Residents are generally expected to bring supplies and tools with them, or have supplies sent to the Center prior to arrival. All Winter Retreat participants should be able and willing to work independently.
Dancers and choreographers interested in using the Tower View Barn for movement work are encouraged to inquire with staff regarding availability and rates. Musicians and composers interested in utilizing the Tower View Barn (and its Grand Royale piano) are likewise encouraged to make a special request about rates and availability.
The Anderson Center does not hire a chef for Winter Retreats and no meals or groceries are provided. Participating writers and artists are expected to do their own grocery shopping and their own cooking in the fully equipped kitchen. There are numerous grocery stores, gourmet shops and restaurants nearby.
Artists are responsible for their own transportation. Given the time of year, Tower View’s location, and that no food is provided, participating artists and writers staying longer than one week are required to have their own car with them.
CANCELLATION / REFUND POLICY
Before December 1, cancellations will be offered a refund of their deposit. Beginning December 1, deposits are non-refundable. Cancellations will not be offered a refund of their deposit on or after December 1.
VACCINATION POLICY
Prior to arrival, all artists are sent a Retreat Handbook outlining many items related to daily life, including the most current safety policies and protocols. The organization's goal is to balance standard pandemic policies and clear expectations while also highlighting areas where communication or flexibility within each cohort might be beneficial or needed.
The Anderson Center Residency Program trusts that artists know what they need most to advance their individual practices and how best to use their time to benefit their own work and reach their own goals. Likewise, artists are empowered to collectively make changes where appropriate and ultimately build the artist community they'd like to see.
At the same time, and as is outlined in the Retreat Handbook, the Anderson Center is committed to supporting artists by creating a safe space for their residency experience. As such, the organization requires all participating Winter Retreat artists to provide proof COVID-19 vaccination (and a booster within the last 12 months) prior to arrival.
Of course even with all of these precautions, by simply participating in an the retreat program with other artists, there is an inherent risk of exposure, even for vaccinated persons, that is beyond the ability of the Anderson Center to control entirely. By applying to this program you are communicating that you are comfortable with that risk and that you are also up-to-date on your COVID vaccinations (or will be prior to arrival). A COVID-19 risk acknowledgement and liability waiver is included in the retreat agreement.
ABOUT THE ANDERSON CENTER
The Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, founded in 1995 on the Tower View estate in rural Red Wing, Minn., has renovated and restored historic buildings to support working artists and the creative process, including developing twenty-two active studio spaces and three galleries. A renovated barn serves as a performance and event venue, the historic main residence houses artists-in-residence, and fifteen acres support a sculpture garden.
The Anderson Center's flagship artist residency program runs May through October each year and enables artists, writers, musicians, and performers of exceptional promise and demonstrated accomplishment to create, advance, or complete work. In addition to community engagement activities through the artist residency program, the organization has a strong history of helping integrate the arts into community life through local partnerships, hosting annual arts events and participating in other community-based initiatives.
LOCATION
The Anderson Center campus is located on the 350-acre historic Tower View Estate, built by scientist & farmer Dr. Alexander Pierce Anderson between 1915 and 1921, on the western edge of Red Wing, Minnesota, and its buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Center features a large sculpture garden, and is adjacent to the Cannon Valley Trail, a 20-mile biking and walking trail that runs from Cannon Falls to Red Wing.
The Center is approximately 45 minutes southeast of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Transportation is provided between the Center and the Twin Cities airport on the first and last day of residencies only. Artist Residents that choose to drive will have access to private parking on the property.
The community of Red Wing, Minn., (pop. 16,000) is nestled amidst the scenic bluffs of the upper Mississippi River.
The town is settled on the ancestral homelands of the Mdewakanton & Wahpakute bands of the Dakota people. The City of Red Wing is named after Tatanka Mani (Walking Buffalo), a leader of the Mdewakanton Dakota in the upper Mississippi Valley who wore a ceremonial swan’s wing dyed in brilliant red. In 1815, Tatanka Mani and his people moved their village south to a place they called Khemnichan (Hill, Wood, & Water) in present-day downtown Red Wing. Euro-American immigrants who met him as they advanced into the region in the early nineteenth century came to know him and his village as “Red Wing.”
Since its settlement and eventual incorporation in 1857, Red Wing established itself as a center for agriculture, industry, tourism, medical care, technology, and the arts. The Red Wing Shoe Company and its iconic brands, in particular, continue to have a significant impact on the community’s economic, business, and community development climates. Natural resources abound with Red Wing's riverfront, winding paths through the majestic bluffs, bike trails, and 35 city parks. The Prairie Island Indian Community is located northwest of the city. Frontenac State Park is to the southeast on Lake Pepin. Minnesota State College Southeast Technical’s Red Wing campus is known for its string and brass instrument repair programs. The MN Dept. of Corrections also operates a large juvenile residential facility in Red Wing.
Other amenities include a destination bakery, a chocolate shop, coffee shops, restaurants, the flagship Red Wing Shoe Company store, Goodhue County Historical Society Museum, the Red Wing Stoneware & Pottery store, the Pottery Museum of Red Wing, a Duluth Trading store, the Red Wing Marine Museum, a Target, several pharmacies, a plant nursery & garden center, a Mayo Health System Hospital, a small independent bookstore, and a public library.
theandersoncenter.submittable.com/submit/261191/january-2024-andeson-center-winter-retreat
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Reclaiming Mni Sota Indigenous Writers Grant
History Through Fiction Press
DEADLINE: December 31, 2023
INFO: Are you an Indigenous writer? Are you an enrolled member of a tribal community within Minnesota? Then you're eligible for the Reclaiming Mni Sota Indigenous Writers Grant.
In conjunction with his forthcoming novel, Reclaiming Mni Sota, author Colin Mustful, and his press, History Through Fiction, will award one Indigenous writer a $10,000 grant to pursue the advancement of their creative writing projects, education, and career. To be considered for the grant, eligible applicants must submit proof of membership to federally recognized Minnesota Indian community, a personal essay, and a writing sample.
PERSONAL ESSAY - The personal essay should be an expression of the writer's journey that clearly demonstrates the writer's intentions to use creative writing to share stories about the past. It should convey the importance of historical storytelling and the value of advancing diverse narratives in historical fiction. It should be between 750 and 1,500 words long.
WRITING SAMPLE - The writing sample should be a sample of the writer's creative writing. It can be any form of fiction or poetry and can be a complete short-form narrative or an excerpt from a longer piece. It can be the writer's published or unpublished work. It should be between 1,000 and 2,000 words long.
TO APPLY - To apply for the Reclaiming Mni Sota Indigenous Writers Grant, please submit all materials through our Duosuma Submission Manager. Please attach the personal essay and writing sample as a PDF, .doc, or .docx file. Your cover letter should include your full name, tribal membership, email, phone number, and mailing address. Your writing sample should not include any identifying information. The application period begins June 15, 2023 and ends December 31, 2023.
SELECTION + AWARDING - The awardee will be chosen through a reviewal process by Colin Mustful, History Through Fiction, and judges Erica T. Wurth, Linda G. Johnston, and CMarie Fuhrman. The awardee will be selected and notified no later than January 31, 2024. The grant will be awarded by check at a public event or banquet on a date to be determined, but shall be no later than May 1, 2024.
DETAILS + DISCLAIMERS:
This grant is an effort of Colin Mustful and History Through Fiction and is supported by its contributors and advocates. It is not directly affiliated with any other person or organization.
The full award will amount to the total earned through the GoFundMe campaign less fees and taxes. Therefore, the final total may not be equal to $10,000.
The fundraising period for this grant begins June 15, 2023 and ends December 31, 2023. There will be no further contributions made after December 31, 2023.
The application period begins June 15, 2023 and ends December 31, 2023. The awardee will be chosen through a reviewal process by Colin Mustful, History Through Fiction, and judges Erica T. Wurth, Linda G. Johnston, and CMarie Fuhrman. The awardee will be selected and notified no later than January 31, 2024. The grant will be awarded by check at a public event or banquet on a date to be determined, but shall be no later than May 1, 2024.
The awardee must be an enrolled member of one of the eleven federally recognized Indian Tribes in Minnesota.
The awardee agrees to provide the History Through Fiction and Colin Mustful bi-yearly updates on how the grant funding is being utilized. Colin Mustful will publish the updates on his blogs and newsletters. The awardee shall provide four total updates.
duotrope.com/duosuma/submit/form.aspx?id=R1oLKW7-d53F2-R0di9Mz
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2024 Laurence Goldstein Poetry Prize
Michigan Quarterly Review
DEADLINE: December 31, 2023 by 11:59pm
SUBMISSION FEE: $20
INFO: The Goldstein Prize is awarded annually to a poem of exemplary quality submitted for consideration. One poem submitted for this prize will be awarded $1,000 and publication in MQR. All submissions will be considered for publication.
Please submit up to 5 previously unpublished poems with a total page count of no more than 10 pages. Poets at all stages of their careers are encouraged to submit. Multiple submissions are permitted with multiple fees. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable but please leave us a note to withdraw individual poems if they are accepted elsewhere. All submissions will be considered for publication. This year's final judge will be Lawrence Joseph. The prize is $1,000 and the winning submission will be published in the Summer 2024 issue of the journal.
GUIDELINES:
We accept submissions via Submittable and use its tools to ensure that all identifying information is hidden from our contest readers throughout the selection process.
We ask entrants not to include their names or contact information within the document they upload to Submittable, its title, or its file name.
Up to 20 submissions will be passed on, without identifying information within them, to the judge.
Close friends, relatives, students, and former students of the judge, are excluded from the contest. Likewise, the current Editorial Board and staff of MQR, as well as their immediate family members, are excluded from the contest. Graduates of the Helen Zell Writers Program in the last 3 years and current faculty and staff of that program are also excluded. If any of the selected authors fall under these categories they will be disqualified, and a replacement will be chosen from among the finalists.
We feel acquaintance and/or participation in a workshop (outside of semester-long academic settings) taught by the judge should not be a disqualifying factor, so long as none of the poems in a manuscript is recognizable to the judge.
For the purposes of this contest, we'll call a “close friend” anyone with whom we have regular direct correspondence. And please remember that if a poem is recognizable to the judge, it will be disqualified.
JUDGE: The 2024 judge is Lawrence Joseph.
Born in Detroit, the grandson of Lebanese and Syrian Catholics, Lawrence Joseph is the author of numerous books of poetry, most recently A Certain Clarity: Selected Poems (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020). He is also the author of two books of prose, Lawyerland, a non-fiction novel published by FSG, and The Game Changed: Essays and Other Prose, in the University of Michigan Press’s Poets on Poetry Series. Among his awards are two National Endowment for the Arts poetry fellowships and a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation. He is Professor of Law Emeritus at St. John’s University School of Law and lives in New York City.
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NORMA FARBER FIRST BOOK AWARD
Poetry Society of America
DEADLINE: December 31, 2023
ENTRY FEE: $20 per book
INFO: The Norma Farber First Book Award is given to a first book of original poetry written by a living author who lives in the United States or is a U.S. citizen. The book must be published in either a hard or soft cover in a standard edition in 2023. Translations are ineligible, as are chapbooks.
AWARD: A $500 cash prize goes to the author.
2024 JUDGE: Rio Cortez
SUBMISSION DETAILS:
Books must be submitted directly by publishers.
There is a $20 entry fee per book
Publishers must submit 2 copies of each title.
No book may be submitted to both contests.
Books should be sent via USPS.
Submissions from Poetry Society employees, officers, advisory board committee members, or their immediate families are ineligible.
MAILING ADDRESS
Poetry Society of America
119 Smith Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
poetrysociety.org/awards/annual-awards/poetry-society-of-america-book-award
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WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS AWARD
Poetry Society of America
DEADLINE: December 31, 2023
ENTRY FEE: $20 per book
INFO: The William Carlos Williams Award is given to a book of poetry written by a living author who lives in the United States or is a U.S. citizen. The book must be published by a small press, non-profit, or university press in a standard edition in 2023. Translations are ineligible, as are chapbooks. A $500 cash prize goes to the author.
2024 JUDGE: Daisy Fried
SUBMISSION DETAILS:
Books must be submitted directly by publishers.
There is a $20 entry fee per book
Publishers must submit 2 copies of each title.
No book may be submitted to both contests.
Books should be sent via USPS.
Submissions from Poetry Society employees, officers, advisory board committee members, or their immediate families are ineligible.
MAILING ADDRESS
Poetry Society of America
119 Smith Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
poetrysociety.org/awards/annual-awards/poetry-society-of-america-book-award
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Anna Rabinowitz Prize
Poetry Society of America
DEADLINE: December 31, 2023
ENTRY FEE: $10 (checks should be made payable to the Poetry Society of America)
INFO: The Anna Rabinowitz Prize is awarded to poets and their collaborators for venturesome, interdisciplinary work made in the previous year and combining poetry and any other art or discipline.
Work that qualifies includes but is not limited to books that blend visual art and poetry, original performances of dance and poetry (or dance based on poetry) and of music and poetry (including libretti based on poetry) as well as more eclectic collaborations involving poetry and technology, the sciences or math.
Candidates are required to provide materials documenting their projects. These will be key to the judging process. Panels, discussions, and programs focused on dialogue between disciplines rather than the creation of a new work are not eligible.
The finished work should have been produced or published in 2023 but can involve or be based in part on work from any era. All are welcome to apply singly if the work involving more than one discipline has been accomplished alone.
HONORARIUM: $1,000 to be divided equally between or among the principals if not awarded to a single artist.
The prize is established by the children of Anna Rabinowitz to honor her boundless curiosity, creativity, and artistic accomplishments.
ABOUT THE JUDGE: Farid Matuk is the author of the poetry collections This Isa Nice Neighborhood and The Real Horse, and of several chapbooks, including My Daughter La Chola. Matuk’s work has been supported, most recently, by the Headlands Center for the Arts and by a Holloway Visiting Professorship in Poetry & Poetics at UC Berkeley.
SUBMISSION DETAILS & INSTRUCTIONS:
If you are submitting a book or chapbook or printed materials please include:
One cover sheet for each entry with the following: Name, Address, Email, Phone, and Name of the Award.
An Artist Statement describing the aims of the work submitted (up to 500 words)
A Biographical Note (up to 500 words)
Two copies of the work submitted.
Submissions from Poetry Society employees, officers, advisory board committee members, or their immediate families are ineligible.
If you are submitting documentation of a performance or artwork please include a thumb drive with:
Documentation of your work in the following formats: jpeg, pdf, mp3, or mpeg (as applicable).
A PDF cover sheet which includes: Name, Address, Email, Phone, and Name of the Award.
A PDF of your Artist Statement describing the aims of the work submitted (up to 500 words)
A PDF of your Biographical Note (up to 500 words)
Place ALL files in a folder named: YOUR FIRST AND LAST NAME_Anna Rabinowitz Prize
poetrysociety.org/awards/annual-awards/anna-rabinowitz-award
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Poetry Society of America individual Awards
Poetry Society of America
DEADLINE: December 31, 2023
INFO: The PSA's Annual Awards are among the most prestigious honors available to poets. They offer emerging and established poets recognition at all stages of their careers, including our student poetry award and book awards for publishers.
Award 1
The Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award
$250
For a short poem, no longer than 16 lines.
Judged by Tawanda Mulalu.
Award 2
Cecil Hemley Memorial Award
$500
For a narrative poem.
Established by Jack Stadler, former Treasurer of the PSA, and his late wife, Ralynn Stadler.
Judged by Kathy Fagan.
Award 3
Lyric Poetry Award
$500
For a lyric poem on any subject.
Established under the will of PSA member Mrs. Consuelo Ford (Althea Urn), and also in memory of Mary Carolyn Davies.
Judged by Richie Hofmann.
Award 4
Lucille Medwick Memorial Award
$500
For a prose poem.
Established by Maury Medwick in memory of his wife, the poet and editor.
Judged by Sandra Lim.
Award 5
Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award
$1,000
For 10 pages of poetry from a manuscript-in-progress.
Previously published poems are acceptable; include acknowledgment of publications on your cover sheet. Poems entered as part of a Di Castagnola manuscript may be entered individually in other PSA awards, if they haven’t been previously published.
Offered in memory of a benefactor and friend of the PSA, and partially endowed by the Estate of Rachel Dalven, and the estate of Ellen Lamon Anderson.
Judged by Lucy Ives.
Award 6
George Bogin Memorial Award
$500
For a selection of four or five poems that use language in an original way to reflect the encounter of the ordinary and the extraordinary and to take a stand against oppression in any of its forms.
Established by the family and friends of George Bogin.
Judged by Claire Schwartz.
Award 7
Robert H. Winner Memorial Award
$2,500
For a manuscript of 10 pages by a mid-career poet who has not had substantial recognition. Open to poets 40 and over who have published no more than one full-length collection of poetry. Poets who have not published a poetry collection are eligible.
Previously published poems are acceptable; include acknowledgment of publications on your cover sheet. Poems entered as part of a Winner manuscript may be entered individually in other PSA awards, if they haven’t been previously published.
Established by the family and friends of Robert H. Winner, whose first book of poems appeared when he was almost fifty years old.
Judged by Nathan McClain.
SUBMISSION DETAILS & INSTRUCTIONS:
Awards are open to Poetry Society of America members for free.
The fees for non-members are: single poem awards $10, multiple poem awards are $15.
Personal identification cannot appear in the submission document anywhere, including in the file name.
Only one entry per award.
You cannot submit the same poem to more than one award.
The exception: Individual poems submitted to the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award or Robert H. Winner Award may be submitted to another PSA award.
The submission must not have been previously published or accepted for publication.
The exception: Individual poems submitted to the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award and the Robert Winner Award may have been published.
Simultaneous submissions are fine; if the poem is accepted elsewhere for publication, please withdraw the submission.
Submissions written by more than one author are not eligible.
Translations are not eligible. All poems must be original and primarily in English.
A poem that has previously won a Poetry Society of America award cannot be resubmitted to any of the awards.
We cannot accept corrections after submission.
Submissions from Poetry Society employees, officers, advisory board committee members, or their immediate families are ineligible.
All submissions are judged anonymously.
NOTIFICATION:
We cannot confirm receipt over phone or email.
We cannot accept any corrections or revisions to submissions.
The winners will be announced in late spring.
poetrysocietyofamerica.submittable.com/submit
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Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts
DEADLINE: January 7, 2024. by 11:59pm
APPLICATION FEE: $0
INFO: The Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts is thrilled to announce our Call for Entries for the 2024 Residency season! Residencies will begin May 30 and run through October 31.
We welcome submissions from artists and writers living in New York State and Indian Nations therein working in the following disciplines:
Poetry
Fiction & Creative Nonfiction
Photography & Filmmaking
Painting | Sculpture | Visual Arts
Accessible to all artists and writers
Saltonstall has re-centered our mission to make the residency experience accessible to all artists and writers in New York State.
In 2017, we waived application fees to remove an economic bar to access.
In 2019, we piloted a one-week residency specifically for artists and writers with at least one dependent child at home.
And in 2021, we offered a newly-constructed accessible space, so that all artists and writers in New York State could be part of our residency program
There is no cost associated with the residency and no cost to apply.
Artists and writers who are awarded a residency are provided the following:
$100 per-week stipend + additional stipend support based on financial need. This was a new initiative in 2023. We expect the upper threshold to be approximately $1,000 with priority given to those living below the median household income for their NYS County.
Artist/writer parents who attend the 7-night residency for parents will receive a $500 stipend.
writers: a spacious private apartment with ample desk space
visual artists: a private apartment with adjoining studio space on the same level
photographers or filmmakers: a private apartment with ample desk space and a fully functional wet darkroom
all apartments have private baths and a patio or balcony
hearty chef-prepared vegetarian dinners (we always accommodate for allergies but cannot always accommodate very specific dietary sensitivities.)
groceries and a 24-hour accessible kitchen
washer and dryer in each building