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Previously unpublished work only, please.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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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: poetry, short fiction, & non-fiction
Lampblack Magazine
DEADLINE: April 7, 2023
INFO: We are now accepting submissions for the next issue of Lampblack Magazine! We invite you to submit poetry, short fiction, and non-fiction essays on the subject of labor.
GUIDELINES: We ask that you submit no more than 10 pages of poetry or 20 double-spaced, paginated pages of prose in 12-point font to magazine@lampblacklit.com. You can submit individual poems, as long as they total 5 separate pages, sent in the same document. Please include your name, the title of your piece, and the genre you are submitting to in the subject line of your offering.
COMPENSATION: If your submission is selected, you will be awarded $350 and an invitation to read your work alongside other authors upon publication.
We encourage you to read our Founders’ and Diaspora issues to gain a sense of our aesthetic, which is available on our website and in local independent bookstores. If you cannot afford to purchase one of our earlier issues and would like to read it before submitting, please reach out to us at magazine@lampblacklit.com informing us of your situation and we will ensure you are provided with a digital copy of the magazine free of charge.
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Pitch us: Abolition Week and Project Abolition
Scalawag
DEADLINE: April 9, 2023 by 11:59 pm EST
INFO: Scalawag is seeking submissions for our fourth-annual Abolition Week, during which we exclusively publish the work of currently incarcerated folks. This year, we are expanding our focus to include people affected by open-air prisons.
What Scalawag is looking to publish during Abolition Week:
Essays, poetry, short fiction, audio or visual content from currently, formerly incarcerated people or folks living in open-air prisons in the South and worldwide, including folks living in or who have lived in Gaza.
Reported stories, interviews, or other news stories that explore the impact and conditions of open-air prisons (instances of apartheid, occupation, labor camps, refugee camps).
Essays that explore how prison impacts women, especially Black women, women of color, and trans women.
Personal Testimonies of 200-500 words from intimate partners, children, and loved ones of incarcerated people to the following prompts:
How did the arrest of your loved one(s) impact you?
Did/do prisons and police make you feel safer?
How do we truly protect women and children?
Academic and personal essays or reporting about the conditions, policies, and ideologies that proliferate in and around prisons and explore the following questions:
What counts as crime vs. what is law-breaking?
State-sponsored myths about safety and security.
What does abolition mean to you as someone who has experienced being incarcerated?
Context-setting analysis of the effects of recent prison reforms, expansion of surveillance, or the expansion of police budgets against the popular narrative around defunding police.
Writers submitting stories for Abolition Week need to be directly impacted by the issues they're covering. Specifically, we're seeking stories from currently or formerly incarcerated people, as well as folks living in open-air prisons, labor camps, or refugee camps—including those currently living in or who have lived in Gaza. (If you aren't directly impacted by these forces, you can still pitch us on these topics for publication outside of Abolition Week under Project Abolition—more on that below!)
RATES: Our base pay rates range from $800 to $1500 depending on the level of reporting involved. We will work with incarcerated writers to ensure that payments are made in the way that is most easily-accessible for them.
If you are directly affected by incarceration, please pitch us your story for Abolition Week using the form below. Currently incarcerated folks in particular, for whom this pitch process is clunky or impossible, may also send physical mail to our P.O. box: Scalawag, P.O. Box 129, Durham, NC, 27702; or reach out to our editors directly: da'shaun@scalawagmagazine.org, alysia@scalawagmagazine.org, lovey@scalawagmagazine.org
If your pitch is accepted, our editors will work with you to develop your story throughout April and May. All abolition week stories will be published on our website the week of June 19th.
Outside of Abolition Week, Scalawag is also looking for stories to publish for the rest of the year as a part of Project Abolition. This especially applies to essays on figurative prisons and their connections to abolition, i.e.: Gender as a prison, the body as a prison, environmental hazards as a prison. We are also seeking stories about community responses to police reforms since 2020, including the ways movement has responded to urban policing as cities across the South generate new methods of carcerality. We want to know what's going on at the local level, big and small—from Cop City and the surrounding protests, to individual police departments training with Israeli security forces. If you are interested in publishing for Project Abolition outside of Abolition Week, please check the appropriate box on the pitch form.
scalawagmagazine.org/project-abolition/
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2023 My Time Fellowship
Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow
DEADLINE: April 10, 2023
APPLICATION FEE: $35
INFO: The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow is pleased to announce the 2023 My Time fellowship funded by the Sustainable Arts Foundation. Writers who are also parents of dependent children under the age of 18 are invited to apply. Work may be any literary genre: poetry, fiction, plays, memoir, screenplays, or nonfiction. The successful application will demonstrate literary merit and the likelihood of publication. Prior publication is not a requirement.
Two fellowship winners will receive a one-week residency to allow the recipient to focus completely on their work, at least one to be awarded to a Person of Color. A $500 stipend will be provided to cover childcare and/or travel costs. Each writer’s suite has a bedroom, private bathroom, separate writing space, and wireless internet. We provide uninterrupted writing time, a European-style gourmet dinner prepared five nights a week, and served in our community dining room, the camaraderie of other professional writers when you want it, and a community kitchen stocked with the basics for other meals.
Fellowship applications must be accompanied by a writing sample and a non-refundable $35 application fee. There is a limit of one submission per application. The submission period opens on Monday, January 30, 2023. The deadline is midnight CST on Monday, April 10, 2023. The winner will be announced no later than May 1, 2023. Residencies may be completed at any time during 2023. This may be extended up to twelve months for extenuating circumstances including COVID-19 concerns.
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Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships
Poetry Foundation
DEADLINE: April 14, 2023 by 5:00pm CT
INFO: The Poetry Foundation awards five Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships annually. Among the largest awards offered to young poets in the US, the $27,000 prize is intended to support exceptional US poets between 21 and 31 years of age.
The fellowships were established in 1989 by the Indianapolis philanthropist Ruth Lilly and expanded in 2013 with a gift from the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Fund.
PRIZE: In 2023, the prize amount was increased from $25,800 to $27,000 for each recipient.
Applications for the 2023 fellowships will be accepted March 2–April 14, 2023 via the Poetry Foundation’s Grants and Awards Online Portal. Please register for the online portal by April 10, 2023 if you intend to apply.
APPLICATION PROCESS + TIMELINE:
Requirements:
Applicants must be at least 21 years of age and no older than 31 years of age as of April 30, 2023.
Applicants should be able to demonstrate a commitment to poetry.
Applicants must be US citizens or currently reside in the US.
Important Dates:
April 3 - Deadline to request alternative application formats.
April 10 - Cutoff to register for the online portal.
Allow adequate time to complete your application.
April 14, 5PM (CT) - Applications due.
All applicants will be notified by mid-August 2023.
HOW TO APPLY:
Starting in 2023, all applicants will need to register and apply through the Poetry Foundation’s new Grants and Awards Online Portal. To access the portal, applicants must submit an initial registration form. Registrations will be approved within 3-5 business days.
After approval, applicants will be required to upload 10 pages of poetry as a single PDF and answer questions regarding their creative practices.
poetryfoundation.org/foundation/prizes-fellowship
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: NIGHTBOAT EDITORIAL FELLOWSHIP ANTHOLOGY ‘PERMANENT RECORD’
Nightboat Books
DEADLINE: April 14,2023
INFO: Nightboat Books is excited to invite submissions for an anthology edited by Naima Yael Tokunow.
Permanent Record, an experimental collection of poetry and poetics, will hold work that engages with the a/Archive. We are thinking of the a/Archive in two forms: the Archive, as the commodification of shared cultural recording (i.e. The Canon, The State, the Written Record, forms of documentation, and other “Legitimate” ways of knowing), and the archive, as a counter-practice, the portals to the future, histories, and lineages that stem from our current moment. This anthology will be published by Nightboat Books in the Fall 2024/Winter 2025.
Currently, we are seeking poetry, poetics, and hybrid work that could fall into the following frameworks:
Mothertongued: Explorations of Identity & Language
Diasporic and 1st generation lived experiences, fluency, multilingual and mono-lingual explorations, language as the codes/keys of The Archive, etc.File Not Found: Holes in The Archive
How do we create our own records, borrow from others, and build narratives that are not fictional, but also not rooted in known “fact”? Where does our not-knowing lead us? Who or what is missing and where are the redactions and omissions?The Map as Misdirection: The Archive as Colonial Project
Responses to the ways the record upholds harm and provides incomplete understandings (e.g. suppression of Indigenous sovereignty in the US and internationally, slave schedules, political propaganda, redlining, etc.), and/or alternate ways of locating ourselves in place and space.Future Continuous
How and what are we leaving as records for our future(s)? What will we leave for our descendants to build their own epistemologies? What are our dreams, hopes, and fears about how we are ma(r)king the future, today?
WHO: We are particularly interested in work from Black, Indigenous, POC, queer, immigrant, disabled, and otherwise historically marginalized writers. We invite work by writers of color and writers outside the US and Canada. We welcome collaborative work and submissions in translation, with permission of the original writer.
HOW: Submission guidelines:
Up to 5 pieces (with a maximum total length of 8 pages) per submission (one submission/writer)
12pt, Serif font
In the submission form, please note what framework(s) you could see your work falling into (select as many categories as apply)
We cannot accept previously published work.
Each contributor will receive a payment of $50, as well as a complimentary copy of the anthology. Contributors will retain the rights to their work.
nightboat.org/call-for-submissions-permanent-record/
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Willa Cather Residency
Willa Cather Center
DEADLINE: April 15, 2023
APPLICATION FEE: $25
INFO: The was created in 2023 to commemorate the 150th year of Cather’s birth and to provide a unique opportunity for a small cohort of writers—and eventually artists of all media—to reside and create in Red Cloud, Nebraska for two weeks. A new initiative of the National Willa Cather Center, the program reflects the life-long reverence that world-renowned author Willa Cather had for art, storytelling, and her hometown—an inspirational setting amidst the Great Plains of Nebraska—from which she created the communities in half of her novels.
In a nod to the long road that Willa Cather traveled before she became free to focus on her own writing—a road that included freelancing, teaching, editing, and managing a national magazine—the Willa Cather Residency welcomes writers who are struggling to transition from a hectic career to a life in art. While open to all, our purpose is to assist such artists.
LOGISTICS:
Our select cohort of writers will live and work in Red Cloud over a two-week period from October 15-29, 2023. Each resident will be provided a private furnished room in the Cather Second Home Guest House—with its comfortable communal kitchen, dining, and living spaces—and a separate place to work. Residents will also receive $400 for provisions while in Red Cloud.
While knowledge of Cather’s work and personal connection to Nebraska is not essential, it is important that applicants—and selected artists—embrace and appreciate the relative isolation of Red Cloud and seek a quiet place to do their work. In addition to a $25 application fee, residents are expected to provide their own transportation to and from Red Cloud. Airport pickups may be arranged.
TIMELINE:
Late April 2023: Shortlist interviews
May 1, 2023: Announce inaugural cohort
October 15-29, 2023: Inaugural residency in Red Cloud
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2023-2024 TLR FELLOWSHIP@MINERAL SCHOOL
Mineral School
DEADLINE: April 15, 2023 (by midnight, PST)
APPLICATION FEE: $25
INFO: The Tahoma Literary Review Fellowship (1) at Mineral School will offer one writer of poetry or prose who identifies as part of the BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and/or People of Color) community support for a two-week residency. Applicants may request that their submission be read solely for residency or also considered for publication in Tahoma Literary Review. TLR is supporting this fellowship and publication opportunity to recognize and uplift BIPOC voices.
Residency attendees are provided 3 meals daily (allergies/food sensitivities/special diets accommodated), linens are provided, and there are two optional programming opportunities (a visiting presenter, a residents' presentation). The fellowship also includes travel assistance from points (airports, Amtrak, bus stops, your pal's house) between Portland, OR and Seattle, WA along the I-5 corridor, if needed.
October 1-October 15, 2023 (all genres)
November 5-November 19, 2023 (all genres)
December 3-December 17, 2023 (all genres
March 3-March 17, 2024 (all genres)
ACCEPTED GENRES:
FICTION
NON-FICTION
POETRY
mineralschool.submittable.com/submit
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2023-2024 SPANISH-LANGUAGE FELLOWSHIPS@MINERAL SCHOOL
Mineral School
DEADLINE: April 15, 2023 (by midnight, PST)
APPLICATION FEE: $25
INFO: Mineral School es una residencia de artistas ubicada en una antigua escuela primaria de 1947 cerca de Mt. Rainier, en Mineral, Washington. En el 2023 y la primera mitad de 2024, ofreceremos residencias a un total de 24 personas. (Recibiremos por separado a ocho personas que reprogramaron las fechas de años anteriores o se unirán a nosotros en una residencia por invitación). Tendremos cuatro períodos de residencia de dos semanas, así como dos sesiones de residencias de una semana para escritores en español (una sesión para padres, y otra sin ese requisito), y una sesión especial de una semana para padres que escriben en inglés. Las solicitudes se abren el 2 de marzo de 2023 y se extienden hasta el 15 de abril de 2023.
Los artistas y escritores seleccionados gozarán de un espacio y tiempo para crear nuevas obras sin las interrupciones de la vida cotidiana, y de comidas saludables preparadas por personal de invitados culinarios que usarán mayoritariamente productos orgánicos locales. Cada residente se alojará en un antiguo salón de clases de 800 pies cuadrados con vistas panorámicas al lago Mineral Lake y al Mt. Rainier, que servirá también de estudio de escritura, con escritorio, silla, iluminación, biblioteca y pizarras. El edificio de la escuela cuenta con baños y duchas compartidos. Se servirán tres comidas todos los días (además hay acceso las 24 horas, los 7 días de la semana a un refrigerador para refrigerios y una estación de café/té), los residentes tendrán la oportunidad de compartir sus obras con el público. Mineral cuenta con un lago con posibilidad para la pesca, alquiler de botes (o nuestros kayaks), algunas rutas de senderismo en la localidad, un bar, un B & B, una tienda, iglesias, una oficina de correos y gran cantidad de ciervos. Mineral está a 25 minutos en coche de la entrada de Ashford/Nisqually al Parque Nacional del Monte Rainier.
Autores y artistas visitantes: Durante cada residencia, contaremos con invitados especiales que harán una visita y presentarán sus trabajos. Por lo general, los presentadores son ex alumnos de la residencia y, quienes en algunos casos, vienen acompañados de un artista o invitado especial con quien presentan en la residencia de Mineral. Estos eventos son gratuitos y abiertos al público e incluyen postre.
Presentaciones de los residentes: si así lo desean, los residentes podrían compartir entre sí y con el público en cada sesión de "mostrar y comentar" ("show and tell") que se lleve a cabo durante la residencia. Estas presentaciones se llevan generalmente a cabo después de la cena en nuestra biblioteca/salón de usos múltiples y se trata de encuentros informales con postres.
FECHAS DE RESIDENCIA 2023-2024:
Las sesiones de residencia con vacantes se llevarán a cabo durante los siguientes períodos:
16 de septiembre al 24 de septiembre de 2023 (sesión de escritores en español con Seattle Escribe para padres)
30 de marzo al 7 de abril 2024 (sesión de escritores en español con Seattle Escribe)
BECAS DE RESIDENCIA:
Seattle Escribe celebra la literatura en español y apoya a los poetas y escritores que producen literatura en español. En 2023 y 2024, Seattle Escribe y Mineral School se han asociado para ofrecer dos residencias de escritura en español a poetas y prosistas que actualmente viven en los Estados Unidos. La primera sesión, en septiembre de 2023, apoya a cuatro escritores que escriban en español y que también sean padres; la segunda, en marzo de 2024, está abierta a escritores radicados en Estados Unidos que escriban en español sean o no padres. La beca también incluye asistencia con el traslado desde Portland (Oregón) Seattle (Washington) o sus alrededores.
ACCEPTED GENRES:
· FICCION
· NO FICCIÓN
· POESÍA
mineralschool.submittable.com/submit
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Rhinebeck Residency
The Seventh Wave
DEADLINE: April 15, 2023
APPLICATION FEE: $0
INFO: Applications for The Seventh Wave’s 2023 Rhinebeck Residency are now open.
The residency, which is located in Rhinebeck, NY, is now a two-week artist residency open to four writers or artists. This is specifically for the artist or writer who is looking to work on a longer-length work, such as a chapbook, manuscript, film, or play. This is our longest-standing residency, and the property sits on 27 acres of wildness, providing an oasis of lush silence and creative space amid canopies of green and disappearing paths perfect for some natural inspiration. Known for, and as, The Crystal Cottage, our residents tend to congregate in the glass octagon attached to the side of the house, which offers incredible acoustics during rainstorms.
Held in the summer, the Rhinebeck Residency offers residents the opportunity to get a little lost. With 27 acres of disappearing paths, a wrap-around deck that faces west (think: sunsets), and a little glass greenhouse that provides for an acoustic environment that beckons the creative spirit, especially during rainfall. What used to be a three-day program designed to provide writers, artists, and creatives a physical interlude, is now a two-week artist residency catered toward the artist or writer working on a longer-length project, manuscript, or work.
2023 RESIDENCY: This residency will take place July 9-23 in the blues and greens of upstate NY. There is no cost to apply and no cost to attend; you just have to get yourself there + pitch in on a meal or two.
If shared meals, summer storms, and late-night chats on a wooden deck overlooking rolling hills call to your sensibilities as an artist, we want to hear from you. Those with larger projects and manuscripts are especially encouraged to apply.
Any questions, please feel free to reach out to us at residency@seventhwavemag.com anytime.
theseventhwave.co/rhinebeck-residency/
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2023 GULF COAST PRIZE IN POETRY
Gulf Coast Journal
DEADLINE: April 16, 2023
ENTRY FEE: $26 (includes a one-year subscription to Gulf Coast)
INFO: Gulf Coast is now accepting entries for the 2023 Gulf Coast Prize in Poetry.
AWARD: The contest awards $1,500 and publication in Gulf Coast to the winner. Two honorable mentions will be awarded $250. All entries will be considered for publication.
JUDGE: The judge for this year's contest is Carmen Jiménez.
GUIDELINES:
Submit up to five poems (ten pages max) in a single .doc, .docx, .rtf, or .pdf file.
Only previously unpublished work will be considered.
The contest will be judged blindly, so please do not include your cover letter, your name, or any contact information in the uploaded document.
gulfcoastajournalofliteratureandfinearts.submittable.com/submit
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The Rising Poet Prize
Palette Poetry
DEADLINE: April 16, 2023
READING FEE: $20
INFO: Palette Poetry invites all new and emerging poets to submit to The Rising Poet Prize! We will only accept submissions from poets who have not yet published a full-length collection at the time of submission.
PRIZE: The winning poet will be awarded $3000, publication, and a brief interview in Palette Poetry. Second and third place will receive $300 & $200, respectively, as well as publication. The top ten finalists will be selected by Palette editors, and Guest Judge Maggie Smith will then select the winner and two runners-up from among the ten finalists.
ABOUT THE GUEST JUDGE: Maggie Smith is the author of the national bestsellers Goldenrod and Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change, as well as Good Bones, The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison, and Lamp of the Body. Smith’s poems and essays are widely published and anthologized, appearing in The Best American Poetry, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Ploughshares,The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Nation, and elsewhere. In 2016 her poem “Good Bones” went viral internationally, and Public Radio International called it “the official poem of 2016.” Smith’s next book, a memoir, You Could Make This Place Beautiful, will be published by One Signal/Atria in April 2023.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
For this prize, we are only accepting unpublished work from new and emerging poets: poets without a full-length collection published at the time of submission. Poets with no publication history are especially encouraged to submit. Poets with only chapbooks published are eligible. Poets with self-published full-length collections are ineligible.
Submissions are open internationally, to any poet writing in English—inclusion of other languages is welcome, as long as the poem is largely in English.
DO NOT INCLUDE your name or identifying information in the document OR submission title box. If your name is on the submission, in the file name, or in the title box, it will be automatically declined.
We are only accepting unpublished work. If your poem has been published on a blog or on social media, it is not eligible.
We accept simultaneous submissions—just please send us a note if your work is picked up elsewhere.
There is no page requirement, but your submission must be no more than three poems. Please submit all your poems in ONE document. Please begin each poem on a new page and include each poem's individual title.
Please include a brief cover letter in the cover letter box with your publication history, if any. This is where you can include your name and/or bio! If you select the editorial feedback option, this is also where you can name which poem you'd like feedback on.
Review our FAQ page for frequently asked questions.
NOTE: If after submitting you notice an error in your submission, please message usrather than withdrawing and resubmitting your submission. We can open it to editing once so you can correct the error.
palettepoetry.com/current-contest/
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2023 SEE DIGITAL RETREAT
The Southern Esusú Endeavor
DEADLINE: April 30, 2023
INFO: The Southern Esusú Endeavor was founded in 2023 to help foster Black Diasporic poetry and hybrid CNF from the vantage point and place that many of us call home; the South. Our flagship event is our intimate, three day, digital conference where participants will both share and receive knowledge in workshops, presentations, a publishing panel, editor talks, networking, close reading, reading open mic, andmore! The Southern Esusú Endeavor Conference welcomes poetry and prose writing by members of the Black Diaspora, with our inaugural offering capped at twelve (12) seats in order to provide attention and care to each and every piece of writing, maintaining transparent communication, and making sure we are taking good care of our own digital mental health.
We are located in the South and are proud to espouse Southern aesthetics and homecoming for all Black writers from all walks of life, who have been incarcerated, come to writing late in life, who have or are applying for an MFA, have never gotten or plan to pursue an MFA, choose to drop out of school, etc. We are committed to fostering Afro diversity, and have reserved two (2) seats for Black Disabled writers and two (2) seats for Afro-Indigenous writers.
APPLICATION MATERIALS:
On Topics Proposals
We believe that everyone has something to contribute to creating and fostering knowledge. To that end, all participants will give a 10-minute presentation on a topic they are passionate and educated on, whether that is formal academic learning, careful reading and personal study, or created exclusively for this conference.
We invite presentations in the following categories:
a Black Diaspora writer (famous, living, unsung, etc.)
a Black Diaspora form (Genesis, Gigan, Bop, Sweetelle, Mirror, Kwansaba, etc.)
Black writers working in genres of writing such as Ecopoetics/speculative/horror
Eras of writing such as Reconstruction, Harlem Renaissance, or
Geographic locations such as the Midwest, the Caribbean, Nuyorician, Affrilachian, etc.
Slam poetry, visual poetry, memorizing poems, stylistic similarities or inspiration to other forms of art such as music, painting, fashion, architecture, word evolution, methods of workshopping/revising, prison writing
Sample On Topics: Call and response forms
1. Censored in America: Maya Angelou
A 15-minute PP explains the story of how and why Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Still Sings was originally censored in Texas, controversy, and why being banned is a sign of honor.
Cites ALA, Maya Angelou's Oprah interview, and an article from newfricanmagazine.com, and provides the following writing prompts:
write a center aligned erasure poem of a topical article or a section of IKWCGS, and then write footnotes style comments for why the erased part was deemed too volatile.
write a poem about the first time you learned what censorship was
write a poem unearthing a time you felt you needed to censor yourself
write a poem on three levels or rows: what is taught in HS, what is known in Black families, and the true history of what happened in an event. This could be something small, like a micro aggression, something topical such as racism at sporting events or police interactions, family genealogy, or the history of a particular event or year like 1919, Philadelphia Bombing, or others.
2. Call and Response: Forms that Write How we Speak
If you understand the call and response spoken in your grandma's church, you can learn to write a Sweetelle poem! We'll study how and why Allison Josephs created the Sweetelle in order to spread awareness of contemporary forms by Black poets. I wrote a suite of Sweetelles last year, and I'm so excited to share how this form can be the perfect ode, or anti-ode! Cites: PoetryFoundation, Allison Josephs tweets. Prompts include:
writing a Sweetelle Ars Poetica
write a Sweetelle using a line from your favorite song
These presentations may make use of Power Point, short video clips, interviews, etc. We encourage creativity in your subject proposals!
On Topics should include a presentation title, brief explanation of which category is being explored, its personal relevance to you, why you can help educate others on this subject, and 2-3 prompts for other contributors to use in their own writing. We encourage creativity in topic subjects, as the Southern Esusú Endeavor Conference's ideal schedule is a variety of subjects, not just the first or most well-known people/practices in Black literary history. Example, although we love Phyllis Wheatley, we do not want 12 On Topics about her. Please dig deep into the wealth and breadth of Black writers/writing to craft something that will get people curious and excited to learn this aspect of our literary history.
All accepted participants will be required to practice their presentations by themselves and at least once with a staff member/volunteer/director prior to the Conference as a tech rehearsal.
Creative Legacy Statement
The Creative Legacy Statement is part cover letter, part history of your connection to Black writing. We want to know, what Black Diaspora writers have you studied? Both well known and unknown, contemporary, historical, international? How have they contributed to your writing? Who have you studied outside the Black Diaspora and brought into your writing? Please answer these questions in 500 words or less.
Writing Sample
At the Southern Esusú Endeavor Conference we will have small, intimate workshops to praise, ponder, and provide insight and suggestions for the next iteration of our piece. We ask that you submit 3 poems, in a range of needs a lot workshop, needs specific workshopping help, and needs only praise. Poems/CNF hybrid work may be single or double spaced, and on any topic, but must include Trigger Warnings/Content Warnings. Each poem must start on a new page, have page numbers, and be in Arial or Calibri size 12. Each individual poem may be of any length, with a maximum of three pages, and the total application sample must not exceed 9 pages of poems. Fiction writers may submit 5-10 pages of your best prose, in Arial, Calibri, or another easy to read font, size 12.
Please collect the On Topics proposals, Creative Legacy Statement, and Writing Sample in a single word document or PDF (preferred) and save it as LASTNAME_FIRSTNAME_SEE2023.
docs.google.com/document/d/1QFhcLGFekkF4_fAAogsqNrlMadsd1nRIr3nCNlNDXRw/mobilebasic
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Call for Submissions: Undocupoetics Anthology
Undocupoets / HarperCollins
DEADLINE: April 30, 2023
INFO: Undocupoets is issuing a two-part open call for submissions of poems by undocumented and formerly undocumented poets to be considered for an anthology forthcoming from HarperCollins/Harper Perennial.
In a broader effort to archive the significant contributions that undocumented writers have made to contemporary American poetry, this timely and distinctive anthology seeks to showcase the wide range of backgrounds, styles, formal experimentations, and aesthetics practiced by such contemporary poets according to and/or apart from their experiences and identities.
The vision of this project involves challenging misconceptions of what it means to write as an undocumented person in 21st century America; to offer a vision of the boundless possibilities of our art.
Poets whose work is accepted will be invited to write an accompanying statement of poetics (500 words) that speaks to how their lived experiences inform the choices they make on the page. With the support of co-editors and Undocupoets co-organizers Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, Janine Joseph, and Esther Lin, contributors will have an opportunity to critically define the various and unique ways their art and lived experiences interact.
This call is intended for writers who hold or have held undocumented status in the U.S. Undocupoets recognize and embrace the diversity in race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, and country origin of writers among this group. We also recognize that as undocumented people, submitting and/or publishing may pose risks to the writer, their family, and/or their community. We offer privacy after acceptance and the option for a poet to publish anonymously. We trust in the accountability of writers to submit in good faith.
COMPENSATION: All contributors will be paid an honorarium.
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REST RESIDENCY FOR SINGLE MOTHERS
The Old Knitting Factory
DEADLINE: April 30, 2023
INFO: The Old Knitting Factory exists to support single mothers and other twice-marginalized single parents. Here’s how you can apply for a retreat and support our work.
Applications are now open for a free one-week stay in the Old Knitting Factory’s residency space, including a cash stipend to apply to childcare costs. The residency is open to single mothers and other twice-marginalized single parents from anywhere in the world. Come enjoy the beauty and peace of Connemara, and take some time to rest and honor yourself and your children.
Inspired by the work of The Nap Ministry, adrienne maree brown’s Pleasure Activism, and The Mae House, I am offering it as a rest residency, meaning that you don’t have to be an artist to apply; you just have to be a single mom (or other twice-marginalized single parent) who could use some rest. And couldn’t we all?
RESIDENCY / STIPEND: You’ll have use of our residency space for any week of your choosing, and you are welcome to bring your children or not, as best suits your needs. The space features a double bed, fold-out single bed, futon, and pack-and-play crib. The resident will receive a €250 cash stipend toward childcare costs, to use at your discretion.
Please note: Travel costs are not included.
GUIDELINES: To apply, email us with a brief statement (up to 500 words, shorter is fine!) on why this residency would be useful to you and your children (whether they will come with you or stay with someone else while you rest).
oldknittingfactory.com/single-mother-retreats
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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.