2024 KWELI FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
Kweli Journal
DEADLINE: October 12, 2023 at 11:59 pm EST
APPLICATION FEE: $0
INFO: Building on Kweli's successful history of mentoring emerging authors since 2009, we will provide three or more early-stage writers with 11-month writing fellowships.
Eligible candidates are early career vocational writers living in New York City, who are NOT enrolled in degree-granting programs and self-identify as Black, Indigenous/Native, POC, and/or Arab American.
Writers who have NOT yet contracted to publish a book are invited to apply.
AWARD:
Three fellowships will be awarded, which will include:
ten months of editorial support from Kweli Journal editors to prepare a piece for publication in the magazine;
a $2,000 stipend;
admission-free enrollment in three professionally led writing workshops on literary fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry.
participation in four public readings by workshop participants;
admission-free participation in our International Literary Festival, inclusive of pitch sessions with literary agents and editors;
optionally, admission-free participation in our Color of Children Literature Conference;
publication in Kweli Journal;
all expense paid writing retreat hosted at Akwaaba.
ELIGIBILITY: Only writers who have not yet published or been contracted to write a book-length work are eligible. Only one submission per person is allowed. Please do not submit a piece you have previously submitted to Kweli Journal, either through the Fellowship category or the General Submissions category. Kweli Journal reserves the right to invite submissions.
TIMELINE: Submittable will be open for Fellowship submissions from Tuesday, September 12 – Thursday, October 12 only. Submissions for the Fellowships close at 11:59 p.m. (EST) on October 12, 2023. Successful applicants will be informed no later than December 15, 2023. The fellowship period will be January 3, 2024 – December 3, 2024.
PROCEDURE:
Applications must be submitted through the Fellowship category in Submittable. There is no application fee. Please submit the following:
A cover letter containing a one-paragraph biographical statement; one paragraph that is a favorite of yours from a book you've read recently; and a brief statement telling us why this particular passage is meaningful to you. Please also note in your cover letter which one of New York City's five boroughs you reside in.
A CV or résumé
a brief statement of your career goals and what you expect to accomplish as a Kweli Fellow.
A 10 page writing sample. There is no word-count requirement. Eligible genres are fiction, poetry, literary nonfiction, and cross-genre writing, whether written for adults, young adults, or children.
Selection will be based on (i) quality, promise, and subject matter of the writing sample; (ii) educational or experiential preparation; and (iii) seriousness of purpose and willingness to push beyond one's comfort zone.
Note that we only accept PDF or Word files (.doc and .docx). The cover letter and manuscript should be submitted as separate files. Incomplete applications will not be considered and will be returned unread.
kwelijournal.org/kweli-fellowship-program
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Resistance & Resilience Prize
Palette Poetry
DEADLINE: October 15, 2023
READING FEE: $20 (for each submission)
INFO: Palette Poetry warmly invite all poets to submit to the Resistance & Resilience Prize! For this contest, we are especially interested in reading poems that reflect upon, live within, wrestle with, uplift, or subvert themes of resistance and resilience. We are looking for poetry of pushback and of survival, poetry that troubles power and poetry that nurtures its readers and writers alike. Send us your very best! The winning poet will be awarded $3000, publication, and a brief interview in Palette Poetry. Second and third place will receive $300 and $200, respectively, as well as publication. The top ten finalists will be selected by Palette editors, and Guest Judge Nicole Sealey will then select the top three winners for the contest.
GUEST JUDGE: NICOLE SEALEY is the author of Ordinary Beast, a finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and PEN Open Book Award, and The Animal After Whom Other Animals Are Named. Her honors include a Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She is a visiting professor at Boston University and teaches in the MFA Writers Workshop in Paris at New York University.
Order Nicole Sealey’s latest collection, The Ferguson Report: An Erasure, here.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
Submissions are open internationally, to any poet writing in English—inclusion of other languages is welcome, as long as the poem is largely written 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 section is where you can include your name and/or bio! If you select the editorial feedback option, this section 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 us rather than withdrawing and resubmitting your submission. We can open it to editing once so you can correct the error.
palettepoetry.com/current-contest-copy/
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Reading Period for Obsidian Issue 50.1
Obsidian
DEADLINE: October 16, 2023
INFO: Manuscript submission guidelines are as follows:
Include a short cover letter noting the title(s) of the work(s) submitted and citing major publications and awards, as well as any association or past correspondence with a guest or staff editor.
Upload your text submission as a Word (DOC, DOCX), portable document format/PDF (PDF) or rich-text format (RTF) file. No Pages, TXT, or Open Office Documents.
Typed, double-spaced (poetry may be single-spaced) pages.
Numbered pages.
Submissions should follow the Chicago Manual of Style for grammar and MLA format for citations and works cited, when applicable.
Margins should be set at no less than 1” and no greater than 1.5”.
Poetry: submit up to five (5) poems totaling no more than eight (8) pages.
Fiction, Hybrid genre: 12-point font. No more than twenty (20) pages or 5000 words (whichever is achieved first). Excerpts of longer works are welcome if self-contained.
Drama/Performance: submit one act or a collection of short scenes no longer than twenty (20) pages following Samuel French or the Dramatists Guild suggested formatting. Excerpts of longer works are welcome if self-contained.
Translations are welcome if permission has been granted.
https://obsidian.submittable.com/submit
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PERIPLUS Mentorship program
Periplus
DEADLINE: October 27, 2023
FEE: $0
INFO: Periplus is a collective of writers engaged in mentorship and community-building for writers of color. Each year, we select about 50 new Fellows to join our community and be mentored one-on-one by an established writer. Fellows also have access to other resources, including a large and growing community of fellow writers of color and regular events about the craft and business of writing. In assessing applications, we consider the promise we see in applicants' writing samples, while also paying attention to how helpful a Periplus Fellowship could be for their craft and career. Applying and participating is free.
FAQs:
Who are the mentors, and what do they do?
The Periplus mentors are a group of about 50 writers who, having benefited when we’ve belonged to diverse and inclusive writing communities, would like to mentor promising BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, people of color) writers in the United States who are earlier in their careers than we are.
We write essays, fiction, longform journalism, poetry, memoir, criticism, and various hybrid or undefined forms, and seek mentees working in those forms. (While several mentors are journalists with varied experience, this collective is geared more toward longform stories—features, investigations, and the like—than shortform reporting; people on the latter track might find more suitable resources through journalists’ organizations such as NAJA, NAHJ, NABJ, AAJA, and SAJA.) We don’t mentor in playwriting or screenwriting. We don’t mentor in writing for children.
The first year of mentorship took place in 2021. This year is our third. Each mentor takes on one mentee, known as a Periplus Fellow. Mentors and fellows will talk for at least 30 minutes every month, about topics that might include, for example, building writing into a daily routine, making money as a writer, considering craft concerns like structuring a book or magazine article, and approaching career-related problems like finding an agent, pitching magazines, or applying to graduate school. Some of us, though not all, can also read and give feedback on fellows’ work—within certain limits, which mentors can specify. In addition, mentors periodically arrange panels and presentations for the collective; in the past, for example, we have hosted panels of writers, literary agents, book editors, magazine and journal editors, and representatives from graduate creative-writing programs.
Because this is a collective, mentors make big decisions as a group and share some work of running it. That said, the depth of individual mentors’ involvement depends on their particular circumstances. The only requirement is the monthly conversations. Anything else mentors do on top of that—including reading fellows’ work or helping to read applications, for example—is up to them.
Who are the Fellows, and what do they do?
Periplus Fellows, past and present, have played a major role in making Periplus a robust, supportive community. As with the mentors, the depth of individual Fellows’ involvement depends on their particular circumstances. The only requirement, for Fellows, is the monthly conversations with mentors.
That said, there are lots of opportunities for broader engagement on the part of Fellows: planning panels, talks, meet-ups, readings or other events; attending those events; sharing support and resources with the community; and doing whatever else they think would be useful and interesting.
Is any of the work paid? Is there a financial cost for anyone involved?
No one’s work is paid, and there is no financial cost. We’re a collective of writers who want to, and are able to, participate in this community. We like the idea of a low-key, informal, mutual-aid-style project that exists outside of institutions. Though some of us are affiliated with institutions such as universities or magazines, we don’t have outside funding or other institutional support for this project. It’s just us.
docs.google.com/document/d/1-0SRWxJqx4oNbWVmbq4j9JE5INhisz76--U63UbtncM/edit
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Forough Farrokhzad Folio
Kenyon Review
DEADLINE: October 31, 2023
READING FEE: $0
INFO: Poet, translator, and filmmaker Forough (or Forugh) Farrokhzad, often referred to as Forough, is a household Iranian name. Her inimitable work, known and loved intimately all over the world, has brought about many translations and transmutations. In celebration of her ninetieth birthday in December 2024, this winter issue folio will newly gather translations by multiple translators of her original Farsi poems (whose rights are in the public domain), alongside writing across genres about, for, and after Forough: essays, stories, poems, and hybrid writing engaging with her through various modes. The folio seeks to complicate rather than complete, to share unusual permutations and under-acknowledged histories. From criticism to personal history, imagined interactions to visual bursts, the prompt is as open as the poet’s distinctive force.
Guest edited by Kenyon Review Fellow Cindy Juyoung Ok.
GUIDELINES:
We consider previously unpublished:
poetry (up to 6 poems; please format and submit as a single document)
short fiction and essays (up to 7,500 words)
flash fiction and essays (up to 3 pieces, up to 1,000 words each; please format and submit as a single document)
plays (up to 30 pages double-spaced)
excerpts (up to 30 pages double-spaced) from larger works
Please submit translated work to its corresponding genre (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama). By submitting, you affirm that you hold first-serial English-language publication rights to the work or else that it falls in the public domain.
You may submit to more than one genre. However, please submit no more than one submission in a given genre (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama); multiple submissions in the same genre (including multiple submissions with different themes) will be disregarded.
We are not currently considering the following:
unsolicited interviews
unsolicited book reviews
unsolicited artwork
emailed submissions (please use Submittable)
previously published material
We consider submissions on Submittable and do not consider paper submissions, except from writers (such as those who are incarcerated) who do not have ready access to the internet. Paper submissions for the current submissions period must be postmarked by the current submission period’s deadline and must be accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope. Send hard copies to: SUBMISSIONS, The Kenyon Review, 102 W. Wiggin St., Gambier, OH 43022
We do not accept revisions to submissions once the submission period is closed. Do not send new drafts unless requested to do so by an editor.
We allow simultaneous submissions, but please notify us immediately if the work has been accepted elsewhere.
For prose and drama submissions, please withdraw your piece via Submittable.
For poetry and flash fiction/nonfiction submissions, please use your Submittable account to add a note to your submission listing the titles of works no longer available for consideration.
We cannot consider additional work in the place of withdrawn work.
We read every submission, and because we receive so many submissions per year, response times will vary according to the volume of submissions. We aim to respond to all submissions within six months of receipt. Feel free to query us at kenyonreview@kenyon.edu for an update if after six months of submitting work you do not hear from us. Thank you in advance for your patience.
Authors will receive a contract upon acceptance and payment upon publication. Authors retain copyright to their work published in The Kenyon Review.
Submitting work to The Kenyon Review adds you to our mailing lists. You may unsubscribe from these lists at any time.
Please be sure to add kenyonreview@kenyon.edu to contacts so that you can receive correspondence from us about your submission.
If you are unable to submit because you have not verified your email address with Submittable and have not received a verification notification, we recommend adding notifications@email.submittable.com to your safe-sender or contact list and attempting email verification again. The Submittable forms require email verification for security purposes. If you continue to experience issues, we recommend you submit a Submittable support request; the support team usually respond quite quickly and can send you your individual verification link directly.
COMPENSATION: We pay $0.08 per published word of prose (minimum $80, maximum $450) and $0.16 per published word of poetry (minimum $40, maximum $200).
We generally follow the Chicago Manual of Style and Webster’s latest New Collegiate Dictionary.
kenyonreview.org/submit/special-calls-for-submissions/
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Call for Submissions: Black Appalachia: Past, Present, and Future
Callaloo
DEADLINE: October 31, 2023
INFO: Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts invites submissions for a special issue on being Black and Appalachian, guest edited by Crystal Wilkinson (University of Kentucky). This issue invites essays, critical articles, fiction, poetry, interviews, drama, and visual art. We seek work that speaks to all facets of the Black Appalachian/Black Rural experience—present, historical, and future.
This call for submissions does not seek to define Appalachia simply in terms of geography but hopes to include a variety of writers in a variety of genres and disciplines who expand the notion and reality of what it means to be Black and Appalachian.
Potential topics and approaches include but are not limited to:
Aesthetics and form in Black literature of Appalachia
Black artists and writers in Appalachia
Historical perspectives of Black Appalachia
Black music in Appalachia
Teaching Black literature and culture in Appalachia
Digital and/or archival work on Black culture and literature in Appalachia
Living in Appalachia as Black people
Black children’s literature in Appalachia
Black Art, photography, and other visual studies in Appalachia
Black futures in Appalachia
The rural landscape and Black Appalachians
Black Appalachian foodways
The Affrilachian Poets
Black farmers in Appalachia
In addition, work might address one of the following: What does it mean to be Black and living in Appalachia now? In the past? What is Affrilachia? The visibility of Black people in Appalachia; Politics and the Black Appalachian experience; etc.
Submissions must be sent via our submission management system here. Please indicate that your submission is for the Black Appalachia special issue in your cover letter.
callalooliteraryjournal.com/submission-guidelines
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Helena Whitehill Book Award
Tupelo Press
DEADLINE: October 31, 2023 by 11:59pm
ENTRY FEE: $30
INFO: The Helena Whitehill Book Award is a prestigious national poetry prize for adult writers. Established in 2002, the Prize has drawn submissions from around the country that have been judged by renowned poets such as Martha Collins, Patricia Smith, and Tony Hoagland.
AWARD: The Helena Whitehill Book Award includes a cash award of $1,000 in addition to publication by Tupelo Press, a book launch, national and international distribution by the University of Chicago Press, a one-week residence at Gentle House on the Olympic Peninsula, and unlike our other prizes, open to submissions of poetry, chapbook or full length, no page limit, and also open to creative non-fiction, no page limit. Manuscripts are judged anonymously and all finalists will be considered for publication. Please read the complete guidelines before submitting your manuscript.
FINAL JUDGE: Jane Wong is the author of the debut memoir, Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City, out now from Tin House (2023). She is also the author of two books of poetry: How to Not Be Afraid of Everything from Alice James (2021) and Overpour from Action Books (2016).
She holds an M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Iowa and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Washington and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Western Washington University. Her poems can be found in places such as Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019, Best American Poetry 2015, The New York Times, American Poetry Review, POETRY, The Kenyon Review, New England Review, and others. Her essays have appeared in places such as McSweeney’s, Black Warrior Review, Ecotone, The Common, The Georgia Review, Shenandoah, and Want: Women Writing About Desire (Catapult).
WHO MAY SUBMIT:
The Helena Whitehill Book Award is open to anyone writing in the English language, whether living in the United States or abroad. Translations are not eligible for this prize, nor are previously self-published books. Employees of Tupelo Press and authors with books previously published by Tupelo Press are not eligible. This contest is open to all poets, regardless of prior publication history.
We continue to be impressed by the quality of work we see and generally receive many, many more worthy manuscripts than we are able to publish. In addition, each of our contests and reading periods has a different team of editors, guest editors, esteemed readers, and final judge. And of course our tastes and needs evolve from year to year with each production schedule. For all of these reasons and more, please know you are welcome to submit your manuscript even if you have already entered it in one or more of our contests or reading periods in the past, and even if you have a manuscript pending in a recent submission opportunity. Thank you for honoring us with your work — we’re excited to see what wonders arrive over the transom.
MANUSCRIPT REQUIREMENTS + ETHICAL GUIDELINES:
Submit a previously unpublished, full or chapbook-length poetry manuscript, or creative non-fiction manuscript with a table of contents. There is no mandatory page count. All manuscripts will be read and considered with full respect, regardless of length, and no manuscript will be rejected simply because it’s shorter or longer.
If you are submitting a paper manuscript, include two cover pages: one with the title of the manuscript only, the other with title of manuscript, name, address, telephone number, and email address. Cover letters or biography notes are optional; if included, these will not be read until the conclusion of the contest.
If you are submitting a manuscript online, include a single cover page with the title of the manuscript only, so that your manuscript document remains anonymous. Submittable provides fields to fill in your contact information: name, address, telephone number, and email address.
Individual poems in a contest manuscript may have been previously published in magazines, journals, or anthologies, or chapbooks, but the work as a whole must be unpublished. If applicable, include with your manuscript an acknowledgments page for prior publications.
Simultaneous submissions to other publishers or contests are permitted, as long as you notify Tupelo Press promptly if a manuscript is accepted elsewhere.
Kindly note that poets who have personal relationships, current or recent student-teacher or mentoring relationships with the contest judge, or who have attended a program at the same time that the contest judge served on faculty, are not eligible for this prize. Likewise, poets are ineligible where it is reasonably likely that the contest judge will recognize your work.
Before you submit a manuscript to a Tupelo Press competition, please consider exploring the work of the poets we have published. We’re drawn to technical virtuosity combined with abundant imagination; memorable, vivid imagery and strikingly musical approaches to language; willingness to take risks; and an ability to convey penetrating insights into human experience.
Tupelo Press endorses and abides by the Ethical Guidelines of the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP), which can be reviewed here, along with more about Tupelo Press’s ethical considerations for literary contests.
NOTIFICATIONS + RESULTS:
Submittable automatically confirms receipt of your manuscript. Beyond this, kindly refrain from requesting an individual response to confirm receipt of your manuscript and/or payment. We receive thousands of manuscripts each year and cannot offer individual acknowledgments. Thank you for your understanding.
Results will be announced in winter 2024 via email and will also be posted on our website.
tupelopress.org/helena-whitehill-book-award/
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Start A Riot! Chapbook Prize
Foglifter
DEADLINE: November 1, 2023
INFO: In response to rapid gentrification and displacement of QTBIPOC+ literary artists in the San Francisco Bay Area, and in celebration of these communities’ revolutionary history, Foglifter Press, RADAR Productions, and Still Here San Francisco joined forces to create a poetry chapbook prize for local emerging queer and trans Black writers, indigenous writers, and writers of color. Each year, one poetry chapbook author is awarded publication, a $1,500 prize, and $1,000 to support their book tour/promotion.
ELIGIBILITY:
Submitter is a QTBIPOC+ literary artist
AND is a current resident of the larger San Francisco Bay Area (Alameda, Napa, Santa Clara, Contra Costa, San Francisco, Solano, Marin, San Mateo, Sonoma counties)
AND does not have a previous full-length poetry book publication
MANUSCRIPT DETAILS:
Poetry (Literally anything that falls under the verse genre—prose poetry, hybrid, etc. We want all your wild experiments!)
25 pages max
Remove all identifying information, including acknowledgments. There should be one title page with the name of the chapbook only.
Microsoft Word doc preferred; PDF also accepted
IMPORTANT DATES:
Submissions: September 1 to November 1, 2023
Results Announced: Spring 2024
Chapbook Release: June (Pride Month) 2025
foglifterjournal.com/start-a-riot/
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Developmental Editing Fellowship for Emerging Writers
The Kenyon Review
DEADLINE: November 1, 2023
APPLICATION FEE: $18 (if this fee poses a hardship, please contact us at kenyonreview@kenyon.edu)
INFO: The Kenyon Review Developmental Editing Fellowship for Emerging Writers is designed to nurture and develop new voices in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. The fellowship will provide support for emerging writers who demonstrate exceptional talent, promise, and commitment to their chosen craft. Participation in the program involves one-on-one mentorship by an experienced editor on the KR team over a period of four months. Fellows can expect to have monthly hour-long conversations with a Developmental Editor, who will provide feedback and suggestions on a book draft.
ELIBILITY:
Applicants must be twenty-one years of age or older.
This fellowship opportunity is open to any writer who is not currently enrolled in a degree-granting creative writing program.
Applicants should not have published a full-length literary book with a major publisher, university press, or other established press, or be under contract for a book. Published work in literary magazines or journals is acceptable.
Writers from communities that are traditionally underrepresented in the publishing industry are especially encouraged to apply.
APPLICATION:
Submissions must include:
a project description (max 500 words). Please note any challenges or particular areas of concern within the work.
a poetry or prose writing sample of the project. The writing sample should be 10–15 pages (double spaced for fiction and nonfiction).
a recent copy of your CV.
All fee-paying applicants are invited to claim a complimentary half-year Print plus Digital subscription toThe Kenyon Review (for domestic addresses) or a half-year digital subscription (for international addresses) through November 15, 2023.
SELECTION PROCESS: Our Developmental Editors (members of the KR editorial team) will review the applications and select the Fellows they will work with. They will reach out to the Fellow and arrange for an initial conversation by phone or Zoom. Fellows and Developmental Editors will collaborate on a work plan, establish goals, and determine deadlines and a schedule for monthly hour-long conversations. Over the course of four months, they will meet by phone or Zoom to discuss the progress of the writing project. Winners will be announced in early 2024.
FAQ:
What is a developmental editing fellowship?
Writers may use these months to work with editors to expand and revise their work. Our Developmental Editors will review and select the writers they will work with. They will reach out to the writer and arrange for an initial conversation by phone or Zoom. Writers and Developmental Editors will collaborate on a work plan, establish goals and determine deadlines and a schedule for monthly hour-long conversations. Over the course of four months they will meet by phone or Zoom to discuss the progress of the writing project.
So the fellowship is to learn developmental editing?
No, the fellowship is meant to support emerging writers with developmental editing as they expand and revise a current writing project.
How often will writers communicate with the editor?
Fellows can expect to have monthly hour-long conversations by phone or Zoom with an Editor who will provide feedback and suggestions on the draft.
How long does the fellowship last?
Four months.
When will the developmental internship run?
February to April.
kenyonreview.org/fellowship/developmental-editing-fellowship/
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Open Call Derricotte/Eady Prize
Caven Canem
DEADLINE: November 5, 2023 at 11:59 pm EST
ENTRY FEE: $0
INFO: Established in 2015 and named after Cave Canem's Co-founders Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady, the Derricotte/Eady Prize is a collaboration with O, Miami to spotlight exceptional chapbook manuscripts by Black poets.
AWARD: The winner of the prize receives a $1,000 award, publication of their manuscript by O, Miami Books, 10 copies of the chapbook, a residency in The Writer’s Room at The Betsy Hotel in Miami, and a featured reading. Previous judges include: Robin Coste Lewis; Dawn Lundy Martin; Ross Gay; Major Jackson; Danez Smith; Mahogany L. Browne; Lillian Yvonne-Bertram; and Herman Beavers.
ABOUT THE JUDGE: Tara Betts is the author of Refuse to Disappear, Break the Habit, and Arc & Hue. Tara was the inaugural Poet for the People at University of Chicago’s Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture and the Pozen Center. She is currently the Professor of Practice and Poet in Residence at DePaul University’s Peace, Conflict Studies, and Social Justice Program. Tara also coedited The Beiging of America: Being Mixed Race in the 21st Century, a new edition of Philippa Duke Schuyler's memoir Adventures in Black and White, and Carving Out Rights from Inside the Prison Industrial Complex. In addition to writing new fiction, She is working on poems for her second collaboration with Peggy Choy Dance Company and co-editing an anthology of Bop Poems with Afaa M. Weaver.
ABOUT O, MIAMI: O, Miami builds literary culture in Miami, FL. In collaboration with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, O, Miami produces a visiting writer series, a publishing imprint, a poets-in-the-community workshop program, and the O, Miami Poetry Festival, which has the annual goal of every single person in Miami-Dade County encountering a poem during the month of April. O, Miami publishes print books, e-books, zines, chapbooks, posters, and other stuff. The mission of our publishing program is to contribute to a regional identity for Miami-based literary publishing and provide opportunities for South Florida voices to find new audiences. For more, visit omiami.org.
ABOUT THE BETSY HOTEL: The Betsy – South Beach is an award-winning global arts hotel and home of The Betsy Writer’s Room that has hosted over 800 artists, thought leaders, poets and creators in residence. The Betsy is also the home of O, Miami Poetry Festival, Miami Classical Music Festival and host Hotel to many of South Florida’s leading regional charitable, arts and culture organizations. Poetry programs are inspired by the work of mid-century poet Hyam Plutzik, three-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and father of Betsy owner Jonathan Plutzik. The Betsy Hotel, located on iconic Ocean Drive, beachfront, is also home of The Betsy Poetry Rail, a public installation that champions the work of 12 writers that shaped Miami Culture.
cavecanem.submittable.com/submit
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LITERATURE GRANT
Café Royal Cultural Foundation
DEADLINE: November 6, 2023 at 9:00 am ET (or when they reach their limit of 40 applications, which ever comes first).
INFO: Café Royal Cultural Foundation NYC will award a writing grant to authors of fiction / creative nonfiction, poetry and playwriting.
AWARD: Up to $10,000.00
ELIGIBILITY:
Authors in fiction / creative non-fiction, poetry and playwriting.
The applicant must be the originator of the written material.
Grants will not be made for the purpose of research only.
Grants will not be made for equipment.
Writers applying must be a current resident of New York City and have lived there for a minimum of one year prior to applying and plan to be a resident through the completion of their project.
Grants awarded in this category may fund costs associated with continuing the composition of work submitted. Such as:
Course Reduction (if you're a Teacher/Professor)
Salary Replacement
Living Expenses
Research Expenses
Travel Research Expenses
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS:
Up to and no more than a 15 page PDF of the work, for the Café Royal Cultural Foundation Selection and Executive Committee to download and read. Please make sure your links are correct and not password protected. If they are not correct or have password protection your application will be declined and not reviewed by the Selection Committee.
A short description of the project.
A short author biography of the person(s) involved.
Budget must not exceed the amount of $10,000.00.
List of costs of how you plan to use the grant funds.
(Please review our lists of Approved and Ineligible Budget Items for Literature Grant Funds, located below)
Travel and Research costs within the United States must demonstrate a direct correlation to the project for which you are applying.
You may not apply for International Travel and Research Costs.
If you are hiring fact checkers / editors / research assistants please be aware that we prefer that individuals providing these services are located in the NYC area.
Writers applying must be a current resident of New York City and have lived there for a minimum of one year prior to applying and plan to be a resident through the completion of their project.
We ask that the completion of your manuscript is no sooner than 90 days after this application's due date and no later than 12 months after your grant’s award date.
Applicants can only apply with the same project twice.
You may apply in a different cycle with a different project.
caferoyalculturalfoundation.org/literature-page
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The 2024 Cave Canem Fellowship
Cave Canem
DEADLINE: November 10, 2023 at 11:59 pm EST
ENTRY FEE: $0
INFO: Since 1996, Cave Canem has awarded Fellowships to more than 500 Black poets. Cave Canem Fellows are among the most distinguished poets in the field, not only as recipients of the highest literary honors and critical acclaim but also for their service in communities across the country.
Each year a cohort of 10–20 new Fellows is selected based solely on the quality of their poems. Cohorts encompass a range of different aesthetics and poetic practices (the spoken word tradition, formalism, multimedia performance, text-based composition, etc.), to ensure an equity of voices in our gathering—all united by a common purpose to improve craft and find productive space.
Fellows receive an unparalleled opportunity to study with a world-class faculty and join a community of peers at the Retreat, a week-long series of intensive poetry workshops, thought-provoking presentations, both public & private readings, and creative discourse. Due to our generous community of institutional funders and individual donors, there is no submission fee for the Fellowship application and the Cave Canem Retreat is free to all Fellows.
The Cave Canem Fellowship includes:
Invitation to the Retreat
A subscription to MasterClass
Access to Fellows and Faculty Fund
Access to exclusive scholarships for select writing residences
Archival training
Inclusion in public programming (readings, panels, multigenre collaborations, etc.)
Subscription to Digest, a bimonthly Cave Canem resource containing community news and exclusive offers
The Retreat will be held from June 9 to June 16, 2024