2023 Emerging Writer's Contest
Ploughshares
SUBMISSION PERIOD: March 1 - May 15, 2023
ENTRY FEE:
Subscribers: $0
Non-Subscribers: $24
INFO: The Emerging Writer's Contest is open to writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry who have yet to publish or self-publish a book.
AWARD: We award publication, $2,000, review from Aevitas Creative Management, and a 1-year subscription for one winner in each of the three genres. Submit to the Emerging Writer's Contest through our submission manager. You must be logged in to access our submission manager.
JUDGES: The 2023 contest judges are Gish Jen (Fiction), Sandra Cisneros (Poetry), and Meghan O'Rourke (Nonfiction).
PUBLICATION: The winning story, essay, and poems from the 2023 contest will be published in the Winter 2023-24 issue of Ploughshares.
ELIGIBILITY:
You are eligible if you:
Have yet to publish a book (including eBooks, translations, books in other languages/countries, self-published works, and poetry chapbooks with a print run of more than 300).
Have no book forthcoming before April 15, 2024.
Are not affiliated with Emerson College or with Ploughshares as a contributing author, volunteer screener, intern, student, staff member, or faculty member.
Will not have a relationship with Emerson College before April 15, 2024 (example: if there is a chance you will attend the Emerson MFA program in the coming year or if your work has been accepted for publication for an upcoming issue).
SUBMITTING:
Fiction and Nonfiction: Under 6,000 words
Poetry: 3-5 pages
Submit one entry per year via our online submission manager.
No entries via email or mail will be considered for the contest.
Submitted work must be original and previously unpublished in any form.
For poetry, we will be reading both for the strongest individual poem and the general level of work, and may choose to publish one, some, or all of the winner's submitted poems.
International submissions welcome.
We cannot accomodate revisions once a manuscript has been submitted.
Cover letters are not necessary. Please remove all identifying information from your submission as they will be read anonymously.
SIMULTANEOUS VS. MULTIPLE SUBMISSIONS:
We only consider one submission per author for the duration of the contest, regardless of genre. Simultaneous submissions to other journals are fine as long as we are notified immediately upon acceptance elsewhere via email (pshares@pshares.org) or our online contact form.
pshares.org/submit/emerging-writers-contest/guidelines
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2024 Writer in Residence (WiR) program
Hedgebrook
DEADLINE / FEES:
By March 7, 2023 (by midnight, PST) / $45
From March 8-14, 2023 (by midnight, PST) / $55
INFO: Hedgebrook’s Writer-in-Residence Program supports writers from all over the world for residencies of two to four weeks. The cottage, all meals, and the entire residency experience at Hedgebrook is free to selected writers. 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.
These residencies will take place February to mid-June 2024.
ACCEPTED GENRES:
FICTION
NON-FICTION
PLAYWRITING
POETRY
SCREENWRITING/TV WRITING
SONGWRITING
hedgebrook.org/writers-in-residence
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: ISSUE FIFteen
Parentheses Journal
DEADLINE: March 10, 2023
INFO: Parentheses Journal is an independent literary journal based in Ontario, Canada. We welcome submissions of poetry, prose and art from Canada, as well as international creatives.
Parentheses Journal welcomes diverse and interdisciplinary narratives. We seek work that straddles across varied paradigms, in form and content. Submissions are open for Issue Fifteen. We actively seek to publish and celebrate diverse voices.
Our founding editors are deeply committed to ensuring that the contributor community of Parentheses Journal are creators from multitude areas of life. We are especially interested in works by contributors that identify as women, non-binary, LGBTQ+, disabled, immigrant, working-class, trans, indigenous, and anyone else living and working in a fluid space of identity. We accept simultaneous submissions.
Please peruse our submission guidelines before you submit work.
GUIDELINES:
No identifying information in the submission document - We read and select your submissions without seeing the cover letter or bio to ensure fairness. Kindly DO NOT include any identifying information in your submission document. We will automatically reject pieces that do not follow this, so check your submission carefully before sending it to us.
Send a cover letter with your submission - Blank emails will not be entertained and will be deleted unread. Please include a brief cover letter and introduce yourself, the title of your pieces, and anything else you would like to share with us. This letter will be only viewed by our founding editors in the last phase of the consideration process to ensure a blind peer-review process.
Please send your submission in a new email that does not include an email thread with a response to your previous submission. This practice has caused several backlogs and we would not be responding to such submissions. If you need to withdraw any part of your submission, only then reply to us in the same email thread as your submission for that particular issue.
Please do not include a third person biography or a long list of prior publications. We will request a brief biography upon acceptance.
Response time is around 3 months - We will attempt to respond as quickly as possible but bear with us as we are a small journal run by volunteers.
Please allow up to 3 months for us to inform you if we’ve selected your work for publication.
We DO NOT accept previously published work - This includes content previously appeared in print or online (including on your personal blog or website).
Artwork and photography may appear online on the artist’s web portfolio/blog /social networks but must not be published by any literary journal, magazine, or self-publication. In case you are unsure, please send us an inquiry via email or by using our contact form
We accept simultaneous submissions - However, we request you to let us know by email (email id) at the earliest if your work is accepted for publication elsewhere. We will celebrate your success.
parenthesesjournal.com/submit/
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CALL FOR POETS: POETS-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM
MoAD
DEADLINE: March 13, 2023
INFO: MoAD's Poets-in-Residence Program provides writers with opportunities to respond to contemporary art of the African Diaspora and extend the reach of the museum through programming and educational workshops with local high school students.
MoAD is currently accepting applications for two Poets-in-Residence to participate in a four-month writing residency from September 1—December 31, 2023.
Residents enjoy flexible, drop-in access to the Museum of the African Diaspora, located in San Francisco, California. For the term of the residency, every resident receives:
A monthly stipend of $1500 (for 4 months)
No-cost access to the museum exhibitions, on-site programs and events
Designated work space
A 10% discount on all Museum store purchases
Publicity for public programs on social media
Staff support for programming
Access to learning more about the work of the Museum of the African Diaspora from curatorial and education staff
The residency welcomes writers to pursue their own writing projects in addition to responding to the artistic collections. The residency does require that writers implement a school-based writing program in partnership with Ruth Asawa School of the Arts. Residencies last for one academic semester or 4 months. The workshops will include at least 6 site visits and one visit with students at the museum. There are also two culminating public programs that are required: a student reading and a poet-in- residence reading.
While the Museum does not retain ownership of any works created as part of the residency, we do require a printed compilation of that work to be preserved within the museum archives and, should work be published by the author in a book form, that the Museum is acknowledged for contributing to the author’s creative process.
Residency applications are reviewed by the Director of Programs, the Senior Manager of Public Programs, and the Spoken Arts Director at the partner school. Acceptance to the residency is determined through an evaluation of the written materials and the innovation within the education project.
Please note: The residency does not include accommodations or meals, so it may be best suited for Bay Area writers; writers from other communities are welcome to apply but are responsible for arranging their own accommodations. We strongly encourage writers from the African diaspora to apply.
Selected Poets-in-Residence will be expected to complete a TB test and Livescan background check (at a MoAD-partner vendor) by September 1 and meet with the partner teacher and poet-in-residence coordinator for community building and brainstorming once during the Spring (possibly online) and at least once at the start of the Fall semester.
Selected residents, along with all MoAD employees, volunteers, and/or agents providing in-person services at MoAD and partner school sites are required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19; or if they cannot receive the COVID-19 vaccine due to disability or a sincerely held religious belief will instead show proof of a negative COVID-19 test administered within 72 hours of the first entrance at MoAD or school site and every week thereafter.
moadsf.org/projects/poets-in-residence-2022
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EMERGING WRITER FELLOWSHIP
GrubStreet
DEADLINE: March 13, 2023 at 11:59pm EST
INFO: The Emerging Writer Fellowship aims to develop new, exciting voices by providing three writers per year tuition-free access to GrubStreet’s classes and two Muse & the Marketplace summits. Over the course of one year, each Emerging Writer Fellow will attend a combination of seminars and multi-week courses of their choosing, along with a wide selection of Muse & The Marketplace programming, in order to enhance their understanding of craft and the publishing industry.
OVERVIEW:
The Emerging Writer Fellowship will be awarded to three writers who demonstrate a passion for writing, a commitment to developing their writing abilities, and financial need. Any person 18 and older who demonstrates ability and passion for writing is eligible.
The Emerging Writer Fellowship will provide access to each of the following:
4 multi-week courses
4 one-day (6hr) classes
4 three-hour seminars
Access to a wide selection of 2023 and 2024 Muse & the Marketplace conference series programming
Access to GrubStreet's Education Director and/or other program staff members for quarterly (or as-needed) office hours for personalized mentorship. (Not Required)
The fellowship year begins in May, 2023.
WHO SHOULD APPLY:
This fellowship is open to anyone 18 and older with a passion for writing. The fellowship specifically aims to assist writers in need of financial assistance in reaching their writing goals. We particularly encourage writers of color, ethnic minorities, those who identify as LGBTQ+, people with disabilities, and other members of communities historically underrepresented by the literary community to apply.
HOW TO APPLY:
The Emerging Writer Fellowship Application Form will require the following:
A sample of your writing that demonstrates your artistic style and voice. 5-10 pages for prose, screenwriting, or playwriting. 3-7 pages for poetry.
A personal statement -- no more than 500 words please! -- which should include the following:
How you envision using the fellowship.
A description of your relationship to writing. By this we mean: what excites you about it? What does it mean to you personally?
How the fellowship will help you in your growth and success as a writer.
Your writing and workshop history (Note: Prior workshop experience at GrubStreet is not required).
grubstreet.org/programs/emerging-writer-fellowship/
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Columbia Journal
DEADLINE: March 15, 2023
INFO: Columbia Journal seeks submissions of poetry, nonfiction, fiction, art, and translation, for both print and online. We welcome you to submit with us. We’re in search of innovative, outward-looking voices, stories that break boundaries and language that lingers.
GUIDELINES:
Submissions should be sent through our Submittable. Please allow us up to six months to respond.
To get a sense of the work we have published recently, we recommend reading the Spring 2021 issue of the Journal, which you can order here.
Manuscripts should be typed and double-spaced, with numbered pages. Poetry may be single-spaced, but each poem should start on a new page.
Please submit up to 5 pages of poetry or up to 5,000 words of prose at a time.
We accept simultaneous submissions, but we ask that you please inform us as soon as your work is accepted somewhere else. You can withdraw a submission within the Submittable platform. If you only want to withdraw one piece (or poem) from your overall submission, please email info@columbiajournal.org with the details of your request.
Print and Online: Submissions in multiple genres are okay.
ELIGIBILITY:
If you have studied at or taught in the Columbia University School of the Arts Writing Program at any time in the past five years, you are ineligible to submit your original work.
Previously published materials: For the website, we do not publish previously published work.
Please note that we require writers to submit letters of consent from the original author or their estate to our email, publisher.columbia@gmail.com, alongside submissions. We will be independently contacting writers if a translated piece is accepted by our staff.
You may re-publish your work that appears on the site after 60 days, and we ask that you credit us in future publications.
The best way to get a sense for what kind of work we are interested in is to read recent fiction, poetry and nonfiction on columbiajournal.org and to read the most recent print issues of Columbia Journal, copies of which you can order online.
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2023 Fall Residencies
Tin House
DEADLINE: March 21, 2023
APPLICATION FEE: $30
INFO: Each residency will feature two writers simultaneously (in separate apartments). Selected residents may stay for any length of time within the dates of their awarded Residency.
If eligible, you may apply to all residencies using this single application.
Tin House Workshop recognizes that the ongoing pandemic makes traveling and timelines more difficult than ever. We’re committed to working with each resident to make their visit as comfortable and safe as possible. Should anyone cancel their residency (for any reason), we will honor the stipend.
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS:
1. Fill out the questionnaire.
2. Attach a writing sample from the project you will be working on during the residency:
Fiction and Nonfiction: One unpublished writing sample of no more than 6,000 words. A short story/essay or a portion of a novel/NF project may be submitted.
Poetry: Up to six poems, totaling no more than 20 pages.
Translation: Please follow the requirements for the genre in the original language and submit your translation and the original text.
Graphic Narrative: Project synopsis and up to 30 pages of the project.
No reference letters, please.
FIRST RESIDENCY: This residency is intended for writers who have not attended a juried residential program for any length of time, nor are scheduled to do so in 2023/2024 (at the time of applying). Applicants may apply with work that is under contract as long as it is not scheduled to be published until 2024.
Dates: September 2023
Stipend: $1200
Eligibility:
Working on a full-length manuscript in any genre.
International writers may apply.
Former Workshop Faculty and Scholars may apply. Former Residents are not eligible.
You must be 21 years of age or older by September 1st, 2023.
GENERAL RESIDENCY: This residency is intended for any writer working on a full-length manuscript.
Dates: October 2023
Stipend: $1200
Eligibility:
Working on a full-length manuscript in any genre.
International writers may apply.
Former Workshop Faculty and Scholars may apply. Former Residents are not eligible.
You must be 21 years of age or older by August 1st, 2023
tinhouseonline.submittable.com/submit/252672/tin-house-fall-residency
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POETRY PRIZE
Indiana Review
DEADLINE: March 31, 2023
ENTRY FEE: $20
INFO: Indiana Review is seeking submissions for it Poetry Prize.
PRIZE: The Winner of the Poetry Prize has the opportunity to receive $1000 AND Publication!
2023 JUDGE: We are excited to announce this year’s Poetry Prize judge, Tommye Blount! Blount is the author of the chapbook, What Are We Not For (Bull City Press), and his full-length debut, Fantasia for the Man in Blue (Four Way Books), which was a finalist for the National Book Award. He has received fellowships and grants from: Kresge Arts in Detroit, Cave Canem, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the Aninstantia Foundation. Born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, he now lives in the nearby city of Novi.
GUIDLINES:
Remember to send up to three poems in a single word document.
Entrant’s name must not appear on the submission.
A cover letter is not required.
Each $20 fee gets you a year-long subscription of the journal. International addressees, please add $12 for postage ($7 for addresses in Canada). If the fee provides a hardship, please submit during the discounted rate period, which will be announced at a later time.
KEEP IN MIND:
IR does not accept emailed submissions.
All entries are considered anonymously.
Previously published works and works forthcoming elsewhere cannot be considered.
Multiple and simultaneous submissions are permitted; however, each submission requires a separate reading fee. Please withdraw your piece immediately if it is accepted elsewhere.
IR cannot consider work from anyone currently or recently affiliated with Indiana University or the prize judge. This includes people who have studied or taught at Indiana University in the past four years.
If you are unable to submit through our Submittable page for any reason, you may mail us your submission. Please include a self-addressed stamped envelope and a check with the applicable submission and shipping fee; checks must be made out to Indiana University.
indianareview.org/prizes/poetry-prize/
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KURT BROWN WC&C SCHOLARSHIPS:CREATIVE NONFICTION, FICTION, AND POETRY
AWP
DEADLINE: March 31, 2023
INFO: Every year, AWP awards three $500 scholarships to three first-place winners in the genres of creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry. These scholarships must be used to attend a writers’ conference, center, retreat, festival, or residency at one of the AWP member programs in the Directory of Conferences & Centers. All winners and six finalists will also receive a one-year individual membership.
In 1990, Kurt Brown founded WC&C, a coalition of writers’ conferences and festivals, to help these groups support one another and thrive. Kurt was a friend and mentor to many writers, as well as a poet, editor, memoirist, essayist, teacher, and administrator. Today, the group he founded is an important part of AWP; we hope you will take the time to visit our directory and explore them all. There is an excellent chance you will find one that meets in your local area that can help you connect with a community of writers and friends.
ELIGIBILITY & GUIDELINES:
Previous recipients of Kurt Brown WC&C Scholarships and former or current students of the judges are not eligible to submit.
Writers’ names must not appear on the submissions or they will be disqualified.
For fiction and creative nonfiction, up to ten unpublished pages will be considered. Work must be double-spaced and presented in twelve-point font.
For poetry, five to ten unpublished poems will be considered. Each new poem must start on a new page.
You may enter in more than one genre, and you may also enter multiple manuscripts in one genre, provided that each submission is accompanied by its own $10 entry fee.
Winners have one year to use their prize, and funds are paid directly to the selected program; unused funds will not be issued to the writer.
Member conferences reserve the right to determine entry to their programs; winning does not guarantee admittance to any program.
2023 KURT BROWN JUDGES:
Kao Kalia Yang is a Hmong American writer. She is the author of the memoirs The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir, The Song Poet, and Somewhere in the Unknown World. Yang wrote the children’s books A Map Into the World, The Shared Room, The Most Beautiful Thing, Yang Warriors, and From the Tops of the Trees. She co-edited the ground-breaking collection What God is Honored Here?: Writings on Miscarriage and Infant Loss by and for Native Women and Women of Color. Yang’s work has been recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Chautauqua Prize, the PEN America literary awards, the Dayton’s Literary Peace Prize, as Notable Books by the American Library Association, Kirkus Best Books of the Year, the Heartland Bookseller’s Award, Bank Street College of Education, the Midland Authors Award, and garnered four Minnesota Book Awards. Kao Kalia Yang is also a teacher and public speaker.
Sherwin Bitsui (Diné) is the author of Dissolve and Flood Song (Copper Canyon Press) and Shapeshift (University of Arizona Press). He is of the Bįį’tóó’nii’ Tódi’chii’nii clan and is born for the Tlizilłani’ clan. He is from White Cone, Arizona, on the Navajo Reservation. His honors include the 2011 Lannan Literary Fellowship, a Native Arts & Culture Foundation Fellowship for Literature, a PEN Open Book Award, an American Book Award, and a Whiting Writers Award. Bitsui teaches for the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Northern Arizona University.
Deesha Philyaw’s debut short story collection, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, won the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the 2020/2021 Story Prize, and the 2020 LA Times Book Prize: The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, and was a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction. The Secret Lives of Church Ladies focuses on Black women, sex, and the Black church, and is being adapted for television by HBO Max with Tessa Thompson executive producing. Philyaw is also a Kimbilio Fiction Fellow and the 2022-2023 John and Renée Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi.
awpwriter.org/contests/kurt_brown_prizes_overview
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2023 LEVIS PRIZE IN POETRY
Four Way Books
DEADLINE: March 31, 2023
READING FEE: $30 (per submission)
INFO: Awarding publication of a book-length collection, a Four Way Books sponsored reading, and $1000.
JUDGE: Diane Seuss, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Cirlce Award
ELIGIBILITY:
Open to any poet writing in English regardless of publication history.
Submissions accepted online only.
GUIDELINES:
Submit a previously unpublished, full-length poetry manuscript, in English.
Material in your manuscript may have been published previously in a chapbook, magazines, journals or anthologies, but the work as a whole must be unpublished.
You may include a list of acknowledgments if you wish.
Please use a legible 12-point font.
Do not include artwork.
Translations and previously self-published books are not eligible.
There are no length requirements save that book-length collections of poetry usually run between 48 and 80 pages of text.
You may submit multiple manuscripts, but each must be treated as an individual submission, submitted separately, and each requires an entry fee of $30.00 per submission. Each must have complete contact info, etc.
If you pay the entry fee but fail to submit your manuscript by the deadline, your fee will not be returned.
Please let us know immediately if your manuscript is accepted elsewhere.
Your work will be disqualified if your name or contact info appears on the manuscript. Our online form via Submission Manager will capture your contact information.
In the event of a condition beyond our control (website down, internet down, power outage, or other extreme circumstances), the deadline will be extended and notice will be given along with the reason for the extension.
NOTIFICATION:
The winner will be notified by email or phone no later than Labor Day. Submitters will be notified by email only. The result will also be posted on our website and on social media by Labor Day.
We do not offer editorial feedback to submitters.
READING POLICY:
Each manuscript is delivered to our readers as a blind submission. That is, it is stripped of identifying material. Only the manuscript, inclusive of any text notes, is sent to the readers and if chosen as a finalist, to the judge. We do not give a list of submitters or titles to the judge.
Please do not submit to this contest if you are close enough to Diane Seuss that her integrity, your integrity, and the integrity of Four Way Books would be called into question should you be selected as the winner. You may query us if you have questions regarding this matter. Please query by email to editors@fourwaybooks.com.
Our preliminary readers for the contest are selected by the director of the press and are published poets, experienced editors, and/or poets who have received a graduate degree in creative writing or literature. Each manuscript is read by at least two readers. We rotate our readers seasonally so that those writers who wish to re-submit to Four Way Books can be assured that their manuscript(s) will receive fresh “reads.” We do not employ students to read manuscripts.
Our readers select approximately 50 manuscripts as finalist selections. They look for work that is beautifully crafted, manuscripts that feel whole and well-shaped. They do not try to second-guess a judge’s preference. Rather, they look to present a wide range of excellent work to the judge.
On occasion, a judge may ask to see more work but the judge is not allowed to ask for specific work by a specific writer but may ask to see a wider sampling of strong work. If that is the case, the press reviews the submissions again and more manuscripts are sent to the judge as finalists. Therefore, we do not inform the public of finalist selections since that list may grow after the first culling.
The judge is instructed to notify the press of any indiscretions. If a submitter contacts the judge regarding the contest, that person will be disqualified. If the judge does not select a winner, the press’s director, and senior editors will select a finalist’s manuscript to publish.
fourwaybooks.com/site/levis-prize/
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2023 Writing Fellowship
A Public Space
DEADLINE: March 31, 2023 at 11:59 pm EST
APPLICATION FEE: $0
INFO: We are pleased to announce that applications will open on March 1, 2023, for the 2023 A Public Space Writing Fellowships. The aim of these fellowships is to seek out and support writers who embrace risk in their work and their own singular vision. Writers who have not yet contracted to publish a book are invited to apply.
Submissions of fiction, nonfiction, and—this year, for this first time—poetry are welcome. Three fellowships will be awarded.
During the six-month fellowship, fellows will receive:
editorial support from A Public Space editors to prepare a piece for publication in the magazine;
a $1,000 honorarium;
a one-year subscription to A Public Space;
a guest pass to attend Master Classes with A Public Space during the term of the fellowship;
the opportunity to participate in a public reading and conversation with A Public Space editors and contributors.
ELIGIBILITY: Only writers who have not yet published or been contracted to write a book-length work with a U.S. publisher are eligible. International applicants are encouraged to apply, but we are only able to consider submissions in English. Only one submission per person is allowed. Please do not submit a piece you have previously submitted to A Public Space, either through the Fellowship category, the General Submissions category, or an Open Call. A Public Space reserves the right to invite submissions.
TIMELINE: Successful applicants will be informed no later than May 15, 2023. The fellowship period will be June 1, 2023 – November 30, 2023.
Procedure: Only electronic submissions will be considered. Applications must be submitted through the Fellowship category in Submittable. Please submit the following:
A CV
A cover letter containing a one-paragraph biographical statement; one paragraph that is a favorite of yours from a book you've read, be it recently or long ago; and a brief statement telling us why this particular passage is meaningful to you.
One previously unpublished piece (for prose, one fiction or nonfiction piece with a limit of 8,000 words; for poetry, a sequence of poems, a long poem, or hybrid work, with a limit of 15 pages) If selected, the submitted manuscript is the piece that will be published in the magazine.
Simultaneous submissions are allowed, but please note that if any part of the submitted work is accepted elsewhere, you will be required to withdraw your entire application; replacement submissions will not be accepted once the deadline has passed.
Only PDF or Word files (.doc and .docx) are accepted. The cover letter and manuscript should be submitted as separate files. Incomplete applications will not be considered and will be returned unread.
apublicspace.org/news/detail/the-2023-a-public-space-writing-fellowships
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Voyage POETRY PRIZE
Voyage
DEADLINE: April 2, 2023
READING FEE: $20 (up to three poems per entry)
INFO: Big changes are at work for Voyage this year! We are moving all of our prize opportunities to two biannual anthologies dedicated to top-notch YA writing. We want to give our great contributors a chance to see their name in print! We will be publishing hardcover, paperback, and ebook editions. Winners of this Poetry Prize will be published in Fall 2023, alongside the winners of the Short Story, Novel Excerpt, and Creative Nonfiction Prizes.
You can also submit your short stories right now! Just head to voyage.submittable.com/submit. Novel Excerpt and CNF Prizes will be open April - May.
The anthology will be edited by the Voyage editorial staff, and we will soon announce the contributing author who will share publication space with all of the emerging voices coming through our submissions.
Poetry in the YA market is increasing in popularity—and we at Voyage have become obsessed with reading poems with deep emotional roots. Submit your young adult poems to us for a chance to be selected for our upcoming anthology.
COMPENSATION: For the anthology, we are flexible with the number of winners, but all poetry contributors will be compensated accordingly:
Poems: $150
We are thrilled to bring more YA anthologies into the world and excited to read your submissions!
GUIDELINES:
Submissions are open to all writers working in English.
International submissions are allowed.
Submissions must be poetry in the young adult category, and from the point of view of a young adult, meaning through the lens of a teen protagonist.
Submit up to three poems.
Tell us in a brief cover letter your publication history (if applicable, no worries if not), along with any relevant information about your writing career.
We’re open to any genre or style—just send us the best you’ve got.
Previously unpublished work only, please.
Simultaneous submissions are fine—just notify us and withdraw your entry if it’s picked up by someone else.
Multiple submissions are okay—please submit each as a separate submission.
Please: 1) double-space, 2) use Times New Roman 12, 3) have one-inch margins, and 4) put the page number in the top right-hand corner.
Tell us in a brief cover letter your publication history (if applicable, no worries if not).
voyage.submittable.com/submit/250714/poetry-prize-for-voyage-anthology-2
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ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCY PROGRAM
Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio Inc.
DEADLINE: Rolling
FEE: $0
INFO: Ma’s House’s Artist-In-Residency program is open to US-based creatives of color working in any genre of visual art, creative writing, and performance arts. We encourage resident artists to pursue work that relates to Shinnecock’s history, the local landscape, community based work, and critical engagement in issues of diversity, race, and identity.
ELIGIBILITY: The Ma’s House Artist Residency is open to national and international BIPOC artists 21+ years of age. A variety of disciplines are accepted including, but not limited to: visual arts, media/new genre, performance, architecture, film/video, literature, interdisciplinary arts, and music composition. Solo artists or collaborative groups (up to three people) are welcome to apply.
Applicants will be chosen based on project proposals, artistic merit, feasibility/logistics of the residency, and how the artist will benefit from working at Ma’s House and Shinnecock.
LOCATION: Ma’s House is located on the Shinnecock Indian Reservation in Southampton, NY (about two hours from NYC).
RESIDENCY LENGTH: Residencies will be scheduled by mutual agreement between accepted resident artists and Ma’s House year-round. Residencies can be a minimum of a weekend and a maximum of one month. Artists from federally recognized tribes may apply for up to six months.
RESIDENCY REQUIREMENTS: Residents will be required to participate in a minimum of one public program during their stay (open rehearsals, workshops, studio visits, lectures, or artist talks). Engaging with or researching Shinnecock artists, east-end artists, and local art institutions is strongly recommended before arrival.
RESIDENCY COSTS:
There is no fee to apply or fee to attend. Residents will be responsible for their own groceries and meals.
Thanks to the Creatives Rebuild New York grant, we are grateful to offer $ 250.00 per week honorariums for visiting artists.