call for submissions: 2024 Fall/Winter Print Issue
Epiphany
DEADLINE: July 8, 2024 at 11pm
INFO: We are pleased to announce Epiphany is open for submissions for our 2024 Fall/Winter print issue in the categories of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, translation, hybrid work, and art. We look forward to reading your best work—work that makes you excited and in turn will make us pause and wonder. Please click the link in our bio for more information and to read a selection of work from previous issues to get a sense of what we've published in the past.
We also offer everyone who submits a free digital subscription to Epiphany. The code for a free digital subscription will be included in our initial response letter.
GUIDELINES:
Prose submissions: submit one piece at a time, double-spaced
Poetry submissions: submit up to five poems
Translated Work: submit one piece at a time, double-spaced for prose; translations require rights permission from the original writer
We accept simultaneous submissions but please inform us in your cover letter and withdraw promptly through Submittable should your work be accepted elsewhere.
We only consider previously unpublished work.
All work will be considered for online publication
Please include your name, title, and word count on the first page of the submitted file.
Self-contained novel chapters/excerpts are welcome.
Please include a short bio with your cover letter.
epiphanyzine.com/features/submissions-open-for-fallwinter-2024
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Blessing the Boats Selections
BOA Editions, LTD.
DEADLINE: July 14, 2024
INFO: Blessing the Boats Selections spotlights poetry collections by women of color. As the 2021-2023 Blessing the Boats Selections Editor-at-Large, Aracelis Girmay will read submissions and select the final manuscript for publication. Blessing the Boats Selections is named after Lucille Clifton’s National Book Award-winning collection, Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems (BOA, 2000), in honor and celebration of her enduring legacy.
Lucille Clifton's writings of Black life and Black female life have shaped a sense of what is possible for so many. In the poem that begins "won't you celebrate with me," she writes: "born in babylon / both nonwhite and woman / what did i see to be except myself?" Blessing the Boats Selections titles walk behind and grow out of the poetry of those lines. Submissions are thus open to all women poets of color in the U.S., including poets who identify as cis, trans, and non-binary people who are comfortable in a space that centers on women’s experiences, regardless of citizenship and publication history. Our hope is that the Blessing the Boats Selections will further facilitate encounters between readers and writers of some of the most extraordinary texts of our time.
AWARD:
One poet receives:
Book publication by BOA Editions, Ltd. in Fall 2026
$5,000 honorarium
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
We accept submissions via Submittable or by mail.
There is no submission fee associated with this reading period.
Submit only one book-length, complete manuscript at a time. If two manuscripts are sent, both will be removed from consideration.
Manuscript should be a minimum of 65 pages, maximum of 120 pages of poetry.
Manuscript text should be at least 12 pt. font. Manuscript pages should be one-sided.
Include a cover letter. Do not include a résumé or vitae.
Please include your phone number and/or email address on the cover letter.
Simultaneous submissions are okay. Note simultaneous submissions in your cover letter and notify BOA immediately should your submission be accepted elsewhere.
Include title, publisher, and publication year of previous full-length poetry collections you have published, if any. Feel free to include an acknowledgments page for any previously published poems in your manuscript.
Family members, or any students who have studied poetry or fiction or literature with Aracelis Girmay in the past four years, whether that be through a university, a community setting or a tutorial are prohibited from consideration.
No AI-assisted submissions.
ADDITIONAL GUIDELINES FOR PRINT SUBMISSIONS:
Send the manuscript ATTN: BLESSING THE BOATS SELECTIONS.
Include a self-addressed, stamped envelope (SASE) with sufficient return postage.
Please note that manuscripts will be recycled, not returned.
Submissions may be mailed to:
BOA Editions, Ltd.
ATTN: Blessing the Boats Selections
250 North Goodman Street, Suite 306
Rochester, NY 14607
ANSWERS TO FAQs:
The winner will be announced in Fall 2025.
The winning manuscript will be published in Fall 2026, in an original paperback edition and an e-book edition of the American Poets Continuum Series, with a standard royalties package.
The winner will retain full copyright of their work.
The paper from all manuscripts will be recycled after the winner is announced.
BOA Editions assumes no responsibility for loss of manuscripts.
As this is an open reading period rather than a contest, submissions are not read blind.
boaeditions.org/pages/blessing-the-boats-selections
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call for submissions: Issue One: Potential Energy
Notch
DEADLINE: July 15, 2024
INFO: At the root of each creative process is the mysterious stillness that precedes the conception of an idea, followed by the thrill of possibility. The moment in which a thousand futures fold into the present, neither true nor false.
While meditating on this shift from absence to presence–potential to kinetic–we discovered an inflection point that each artist has felt. It exists at the neck of an hourglass when ideas transform from the vague realm of the imaginary into something that can be shared in this world. The delightful metamorphosis that is invisible to all but the creator.
For this first issue, we ask our artists to meditate on the top half of the hourglass–the infinitude that potential energy holds before its whittling into reality.
GUIDELINES:
We are looking for new and strange, excellent and mystifying, sharp. Send us work that sparks imaginative discourse, ideas to take our breath away and mull over for days to come.
Literary - Previously unpublished fiction exploring the state of motionless vertigo, poetry from the precipice, essays that rescue excellent works from obscurity, comparative criticism stitching together unexpected forms, screenplays that capture the seismic potential between two souls...
Currentness is overrated. A thoughtful connection to the theme is not.
Pieces up to 1500 words are preferred. Longer work is considered on occasion.
Works in translation are welcome.
Visual - Film negatives that show what light can invert, drawings with perspective that tumbles the viewer into the frame, sculptures that call upon the sediment from which they came, paintings that defamiliarize their objects, textiles that center the stitch...
Or something completely different.
Please send a high resolution image of your art. Artist statement optional.
Other - Tattoo flash sheets that spark momentum, mathematical equations that illustrate the potential between two planets, set lists that build and build, nail art that activates a multiplicity of identity, a puppet show whose pacing defies the insistent pull of gravity...
Please send a link or a high resolution image or audio file. Artist statement optional.
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THE Carolyn Bush Award
Wendy’s Subway
DEADLINE: July 15, 2024
INFO: We’re continuing to welcome submissions of manuscripts-in-progress for the Carolyn Bush Award.
This award honors the life and work of Wendy’s Subway co-founder Carolyn Bush and provides in-depth editorial and professional support to an emerging writer in her name.
The award offers a year of editorial support from Wendy’s Subway’s editorial team, two manuscript consultations with established writers, professional development opportunities, a key-holding membership to our library space, and free enrollment in WS’s workshops. The author will receive an honorarium of $1,250 and 25 author copies.
Titles selected for the Carolyn Bush Award are published as part of the Passage Series, which features books by emerging writers and artists whose work manifests in innovative, hybrid, and cross-genre forms that imagine new possibilities and expressions of the poetic, the political, and the social. These have included Rachel James’s 𝘈𝘯 𝘌𝘳𝘰𝘴 𝘌𝘯𝘤𝘺𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢, Kamelya Omayma Youssef’s 𝘈 𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢 𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘪𝘵, and the forthcoming 𝘈 𝘊𝘢𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘶𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘙𝘪𝘴𝘬 by Alisha Mascarenhas, 𝘊𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘦 by Kaur Alia Ahmed, out this fall!
wendyssubway.com/publishing/submit
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OPEN READING PERIOD FOR FULL-LENGTH MANUSCRIPTS
Wendy’s Subway
DEADLINE: Extended to July 15, 2024
ENTRY FEE: $20
Wendy’s Subway is pleased to announce our fifth reading period for full-length manuscripts. Titles selected through the Open Reading Period are published as part of the Passage Series, which features books by emerging writers and artists whose work manifests in innovative, hybrid, and cross-genre forms that imagine new possibilities and expressions of the poetic, the political, and the social.
PRIZE: The author will publish a book with Wendy’s Subway, receive an honorarium of $1,250, and 25 author copies.
The winning book will be announced in Fall 2024 and published in Fall 2025.
JUDGE: Bhanu Kapil is the author of six books of poetry and hybrid work, including two new editions of Incubation: a space for monsters, published by Prototype (UK) and Kelsey Street Press in 2023. Currently, she is based in Cambridge, England, where she is an Extraordinary Fellow of Churchill College. The winner of the TS Eliot prize, a Windham Campbell prize, and a Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors, Kapil has written two new books, as yet in manuscript form: The Secret Garden, a novel of the forest, and Promiscuity, an unpublishable work of creative nonfiction.
ELIGIBILITY: The call is open to writers at any stage of their career. Wendy’s Subway is committed to a publishing practice that amplifies marginalized and underrepresented writers.
SIMULTANEOUS SUBMISSIONS: Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but should the manuscript be accepted for publication elsewhere, we ask that you notify us as soon as possible and withdraw your Submittable application.
FORMAT + GUIDELINES:
Please submit a manuscript of 40 pages or more of original work. While excerpts from the manuscript may have been previously published (as chapbooks, online, or in journals and anthologies, for instance), the manuscript as a whole should reflect a new and unpublished work. Your manuscript may include visual art and illustrations. Collaborations are accepted. While experimental approaches to translation will be considered, one-to-one translations of another author’s writing are not eligible.
Our submission review process is not anonymous. Your manuscript should include: page numbers, a title page, a table of contents, and acknowledgements of previous publication, if applicable. Please also include a one-paragraph biographical statement in the submission form. You may only submit one manuscript for consideration. You will not have the opportunity to make any edits or revisions to your manuscript in Submittable once it has been submitted. The winning author will have time to revise the manuscript once it has been accepted.
We encourage applicants to familiarize themselves with our publishing initiative and public programs to learn more about the mission and activities of Wendy’s Subway.
wendyssubway.com/publishing/submit
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FELLOWSHIP FOR NATIVE AMERICAN WRITERS
Ucross
DEADLINE: July 15, 2024 by 11:59pm MT
APPLICATION FEE: $0
INFO: Ucross is dedicated to fostering the creative spirit of working artists by providing uninterrupted time, studio space, living accommodations, and the experience of the majestic High Plains, while serving as a responsible steward of our historic 20,000-acre ranch in northern Wyoming.
In 2020, following the success of its Fellowship for Native American Visual Artists, Ucross launched a similar opportunity for Native American writers at all stages in their professional careers. The Ucross Fellowship for Native American Writers is open to practicing writers who are currently producing work in one or more of the following genres — fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, screenwriting, playwriting, or hybrid forms.
Two Ucross Fellowships for Native American Writers are awarded each year. Those selected for the fellowship are offered a four-week residency, a stipend of $2,000, and an opportunity to present work publicly.
Current work is requested. An applicant's work sample and project description are the most significant feature of their application. Unless work is interdisciplinary, i.e. the various genres interconnect, each applicant is encouraged to apply in a primary discipline and submit a work sample and project description that emphasizes this single discipline. Competition for residencies varies annually and with the number of applications. While only one Fellowship winner will be selected, all applicants will have the option of being considered for a general Ucross residency.
ELIGIBILITY: Residencies are open to Native American writers who meet the criteria below.
They must:
Be a practicing contemporary writer who is currently producing works in one or more of the following genres, including but not limited to FICTION, NONFICTION, POETRY, DRAMA, SCREENWRITING, PLAYWRITING, and HYBRID FORMS;
Be an enrolled member of a state-recognized or federally-recognized Tribe, Pueblo, Nation, Native Community, Political Entity, or Alaskan Native Village.
FICTION WORK SAMPLE: Your writing sample should represent the genre in which you plan to work while in residence. Writing samples should be double-spaced and include your full name. * Appropriate sample: 20 pages of fiction, which could be a novel excerpt, a story, several stories, or a combination.
NONFICTION WORK SAMPLE: Your sample should represent the genre in which you plan to work while in residence. Writing samples should be double-spaced and include your full name. * Appropriate sample: 20 pages of nonfiction.
POETRY WORK SAMPLE: Your sample should represent the genre in which you plan to work while in residence. Poetry submissions may be single-spaced and should include your full name. * Appropriate samples: 10 pages of poetry.
PLAYWRITING WORK SAMPLE: Your sample should represent the genre in which you plan to work while in residence. Writing samples should be double-spaced and include your full name. * Appropriate samples: One complete play (documentation of production may be included, if relevant), noting the 20 pages that you would like the reviewers to read.
SCREENWRITING WORK SAMPLE: Your sample should represent the genre in which you plan to work while in residence. Writing samples should be double-spaced and include your full name. * Appropriate samples: One complete screenplay (documentation of production may be included, if relevant), noting the 20 pages that you would like the reviewers to read.
ucrossfoundation.submittable.com/submit
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Robert and Adele Schiff Award
The Cincinnati Review
DEADLINE: July 15, 2024 at 11:59pm ET
ENTRY FEE: $25
INFO: The Cincinnati Review invites submissions for the annual Robert and Adele Schiff Awards. One poem, one piece of fiction, and one piece of literary nonfiction will be chosen for publication in our prize issue, and winning authors will receive $1,000 each. All entries will be considered for publication in The Cincinnati Review.
RULES: Writers may submit up to 8 pages of poetry (up to 5 poems total within those pages); up to 10,000 words of a single double-spaced piece of fiction; or 5,000 words of a single double-spaced piece of literary nonfiction, per entry. Previously published manuscripts, including works that have appeared online (in any form), will not be considered. There are no restrictions as to form, style, or content; all entries will be considered for publication. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable under the condition that you notify us if your manuscript is accepted elsewhere. As the contest is judged anonymously, no contact information may appear anywhere on the manuscript file. Files that do include identifying information will be rejected unread, and entry fees will not be refunded (though you’ll still get your free subscription).
TO ENTER: The entry fee is $25, and includes a one-year subscription to The Cincinnati Review. Multiple submissions are welcome and come with additional yearlong subscriptions, which can be used to extend your original subscription or given as gifts. All entrants with an international address will receive an e-book subscription. (If you live at a US address and would prefer an e-book subscription, please write that in the “comments” field as you submit your entry.)
We will be accepting submissions only via our online submission manager, through which you’ll pay the entry fee. Again, please do not include the writer’s name or any identifying information in the manuscript file. Instead, in the “comments” field at the bottom of the entry page, enter the writer’s name, mailing address, telephone number, email, and the title(s) of the submitted work(s). Also, be sure to use the “genre” tab to indicate whether your submission is poetry, fiction, or literary nonfiction.
SUBMISSION PERIOD
The 2024 contest will run from June 1 to July 15 at 11:59 p.m. EDT. Results will be announced on October 1. Winning entries will be published in the Summer 2025 issue, which comes out in May.
CONTACT INFO: If you have any questions about the contest or problems submitting and/or making payment, please email editors[at]cincinnatireview[dot]com or use the contact form on this site, and we’ll get back to you shortly.
CLMP CONTEST CODE OF ETHICS:
In keeping with the CLMP‘s contest code of ethics, we’d like to inform you of the following:
CLMP’s community of independent literary publishers believes that ethical contests serve our shared goal: to connect writers and readers by publishing exceptional writing. We believe that intent to act ethically, clarity of guidelines, and transparency of process form the foundation of an ethical contest. To that end, we agree to 1) conduct our contests as ethically as possible and to address any unethical behavior on the part of our readers, judges, or editors; 2) to provide clear and specific contest guidelines—defining conflict of interest for all parties involved; and 3) to make the mechanics of our selection process available to the public. This Code recognizes that different contest models produce different results, but that each model can be run ethically. We have adopted this Code to reinforce our integrity and dedication as a publishing community and to ensure that our contests contribute to a vibrant literary heritage.
OUR SELECTION PROCESS:
We ask all entrants to omit names or other identifying information from their files. If such information is included, that entry will not be read and the entry fee will not be refunded (though that writer will still receive a free subscription).
Then, we also use a special feature on our submission manager to remove the author and cover-letter sections from view of our screeners and judges.
In the first round of judging, the screeners for each of the three contest tracks (poetry, fiction, and literary nonfiction) pick 15-40 pieces to send on for the next round of judging. With the special feature still blocking author and cover-letter information, Erica Dawson judges the poetry contest, Michael Griffith judges the fiction contest, and Kristen Iversen judges the literary nonfiction contest.
As with our regular submission policy, current and former students, faculty, and staff of the University of Cincinnati are ineligible to submit unless they are more than two years removed from their affiliation with the university.
cincinnatireview.com/contests/robert-and-adele-schiff-awards/
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: ISSUES IX + X
Mulberry Literary
DEADLINE: July 15, 2024 at midnight CT
INFO: Submissions are open for Mulberry Literary’s Issue IX (Fall/Winter 2024) and Issue X (Spring/Summer 2025). Please note that submissions for a particular genre are subject to close early if a large amount of submissions are received.
Mulberry accepts all creative media—from prose, flash, poetry, script, and comics, to film, music, visual art, dance, and everything in-between. Cross-genre, experimental, and hybrid work are always welcome, as well as excerpts of longer pieces.
We accept work from everyone who wishes to submit, but we particularly encourage work from LGBTQIA+, gender expansive creators, and BIPoC voices. If you’re a creative writing undergraduate, graduate student, or member of creative writing faculty at a college/university, we’d love to hear from you. As ever, international submissions and submissions of translated work are welcome.
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Sixteenth Annual Poetry Contest
Narrative Mag
DEADLINE: July 18, 2024 by midnight PST
SUBMISSION FEE: $26 (for each entry)
INFO: NARRATIVE’S sixteenth Annual Poetry Contest is open to all poets. Entries must be unpublished and must not have been previously chosen as winners, finalists, or honorable mentions in other contests. Each entry may contain up to five poems. The poems should all be contained in a single file. You may enter as many times as you wish, but we encourage you to be selective and to send your best work.
Narrative winners and finalists have gone on to win Whiting Awards, the Pulitzer Prize, the Pushcart Prize, and the Atlantic prize, and have appeared in collections such as Best American Poetry, Best New Poets,and many others. View the recent awards won by Narrative authors.
AWARDS:
First Prize: $1,500
Second Prize: $750
Third Prize: $300
Up to ten finalists will receive $75 each
All entries will be considered for publication
NOTES ON THE CONTEST: A few years ago, an NEA study found that, after two decades in decline, poetry reading in the United States is on the rise. While the study didn’t say definitively what’s behind this reversal, Narrativeand other great venues that have continued to publish and support poetry and poets have doubtlessly contributed to the heightened interest in the art.
Still, just over one in ten adults in the United States reads poetry, and the economics of poetry are such that poetry is for the most part a subsidized, rather than a profitable, enterprise. Poets and poetry publishers are still engaged in labors of love, aided by patrons who believe in the importance of poetry.
Narrative is a nonprofit organization, and its poetry program, like its other programs, depends largely on the support of many dedicated individuals who contribute resources and time to make the magazine possible. We are committed to paying our authors as well as possible and to creating as much attention as possible for their work. The overall cost of publishing poetry (payments to authors, production costs, awards and prizes, promotion) is far more than what comes in from poetry-related reading and entry fees—the income is nowhere close to the expense. Our reasons for publishing poetry are not about submission fees but about wanting poetry to be an important part of what we do and wanting to give back as much as we can, because literature contributes so much to life.
Narrative has 325,000 readers, and our audience is steadily growing. With a sizable and engaged readership, Narrative places poets and poetry in front of many more readers than most venues can. We’re working hard to get the magazine, and all our authors and artists, into the world via digital and other means—for free—to as many people as possible.
Participating in Narrative, whether by simply reading, by becoming a donor, or by introducing a friend to the magazine, is a vote to encourage and sustain literary work at a vital time.
If you have any questions regarding the contest, please contact us.
narrativemagazine.com/sixteenth-annual-poetry-contest
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2024 Community Anthologies
Seventh Wave
DEADLINE: July 18, 2024
SUBMISSION FEE: $7
INFO: Our 2024 Community Anthologies — curated by our editors-in-chief Xu Li, Isaiah Yonah Back-Gaal, dezireé a. brown, and Para Vadhahong — are now open for submissions.
Prior to submitting, please ensure that you have read about this program in full here, as well as visited our FAQ page here. To call out a few key details:
Four 2024 Community Anthologies. There are four Community Anthologies open for submission, each of which is curated and edited by a different editor-in-chief. The Seventh Wave selected our four 2024 Editors-in-Chief through an application process in March 2024, and our four EICs — named above — were selected based on the anthology topic they wished to curate in the world.
Each Community Anthology focuses on a different topic. As mentioned at the links above, our four 2024 Community Anthologies are On Endings (curated by Xu Li), On Queer Family (curated by Isaiah Yonah Back-Gaal), On Gaming (curated by dezireé a. brown), and On Prayer (curated by Para Vadhahong). Each Community Anthology has its own call/topic for submission, but there is only 1 submission form for all 4 (as you can only apply to one anthology).
Each EIC will be selecting 6-8 contributors. If you are one of the 6-8 contributors selected by the EIC you submit work to, please note that you will be working directly with that EIC from acceptance to publication. TSW will host orientation sessions for all accepted contributors in August, but you will then work on revisions with your EIC from September - November.
GUIDELINES:
In terms of genre/form, Xu is specifically looking for poetry (long(er) poems especially encouraged), lyric essays, and creative non-fiction.
In terms of form/genre, Isaiah is specifically interested in poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and multimodal art. This call is also a hybrid call: Isaiah will be inviting 1-3 contributors to submit work, and the remaining 5-7 spots will be filled via an open call on Submittable (each anthology publishes 6-8 people).
In terms of form, Dez is looking for creative writing — poetry, flash fiction, flash CNF, short screenplays, hybrid, and interactive works — and visual art.
In terms of form, Vadhahong encourages BIPOC artists to submit, though this call is open to all writers and artists.
seventhwavemag.submittable.com/submit
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THE JULY OPEN: call for book-length manuscripts of poetry, prose + literary nonfiction
Sarabande Books
DEADLINE: July 31, 2024
SUBMISSION FEE: $22
INFO: Sarabande is pleased to offer an open reading period for book-length manuscripts of poetry (hybrid and visual poetry, book-length poems, and experimental poetry), short fiction (micro/flash fiction, short stories, novellas, and short novels), and literary nonfiction (essay collections, book-length essays, and hybrid and experimental works).
The July Open is also open to proposals for works of poetry, fiction, and literary nonfiction in translation.
ELIGIBILITY: This submission period is open to manuscripts in English. Employees and board members of Sarabande are not eligible. It is highly recommended that those who intend to submit a manuscript familiarize themselves with Sarabande’s catalog. You can find some of our recent titles to the right.
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTSL
Submissions to The July Open should include:
A cover letter with a description of the work and a brief author bio
A complete, full-length manuscript, paginated consecutively with a table of contents and acknowledgements page
poetry should be single spaced, prose should be double spaced, all manuscripts should be typed in a standard 12 pt font
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TRANSLATION PROPOSALS:
ELIGIBILITY:
Publication of a translated work is contingent upon the agreement to grant English language rights and other contractual terms. Employees and board members of Sarabande are not eligible. Sarabande reserves the right to reject any submitted manuscript or to withdraw a publication offer if contractual obligations are not met.
It is highly recommended that those who intend to submit a proposal familiarize themselves with Sarabande’s catalog. You can find some of our bilingual titles and works in translation to the right.
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS:
Translators wishing to submit a query should include:
A one-page cover letter that that addresses the book’s cultural, historical, and artistic significance
A brief biography of the poet and the translator, including previously published works
A sample translation of at least 20 pages (more complete manuscripts are preferred, but not required)
A statement confirming that permission has been granted to the translator(s) for English translation and publication of the original text by the rights holder
A $15 reading fee
sarabandebooks.org/the-july-open
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2025 Queer|Art|Mentorship program
Queer Art
DEADLINE: July 31, 2024
INFO: The Queer|Art|Mentorship program nurtures exchange between LGBTQ+ artists at all levels of their careers and works against a natural division between generations and disciplines.
Fellows apply with a specific project they would like to work on during the program and meet with their Mentors monthly to discuss their progress.
Fellows also meet each month as a group to work through important issues shaping their creative and professional development in a collaborative and interdisciplinary environment.
The program begins in January 2025 and ends in October 2025
“QAM Debuts” are virtual artist talks scheduled throughout the program year in which current Fellows introduce their work to the broader QAM community and receive vital feedback. “The QAM Works-in-Progress (WIP)” series provides additional opportunities for Fellows to advance their Mentorship projects through public in-person presentations.
MENTORS:
Queer|Art is pleased to announce the new Mentors for the 2025 Queer|Art|Mentorship program cycle:
FILM
Andrew Ahn
Tabitha Jackson
Frédéric Tcheng
LITERATURE
Alexander Chee
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Stacy Szymaszek
PERFORMANCE
Raja Feather Kelly
Young Joon Kwak
Erin Markey
VISUAL ART
Liz Collins
Chitra Ganesh
Ken Gonzales-Day
Now in its 14th year, the organization’s celebrated year-long creative and professional development program supports both remote and in-person participation between early-career and established LGBTQ+ artists from across the country. In expanding nationally, Queer|Art|Mentorship bridges professional and social thresholds that often isolate artists by generation, discipline, and region. The program supports a year-long exchange between emerging and established LGBTQ+ artists across four distinct fields—Film, Literature, Performance, and Visual Art.
Fellows apply with a specific project they would like to work on during the program and meet each month with their Mentors to discuss their progress in the lead-up to this event. Fellows also meet each month as a group to learn from and provide support for one another throughout the year.
STRUCTURE:
The program is a year in length. Fellows in Film, Performance, Literature, and Visual Art apply with a specific project they would like to work on during the program. Proposing a project is a way for Fellows to introduce themselves to Mentors, and working on that project in dialogue with a Mentor is a way to focus the development of the relationship. Keeping Queer|Art|Mentorship project-based also provides a manner by which to assess, and modify if necessary, the program’s long-term effectiveness in facilitating and supporting the actual creation of new work.
The program is largely driven by the unique character of each Mentor/Fellow pairing, organized through individual monthly meetings. Fellows also meet each month as a group in an environment that provides an opportunity for sharing ideas across disciplines and gathering further support among peers. The entire group of Mentor/Fellow pairs also convenes for two dinners throughout the cycle, hosted by Queer|Art. Throughout the year, Queer|Art staff engage in an ongoing dialogue with the Mentors and Fellows in an effort to ensure that the program best serves its participants. Further opportunities for ongoing career education and development will be sought out as the unique needs of each group of Fellows are assessed.
HISTORY + CONTEXT:
Queer|Art|Mentorship was born of a need to address the lack of support for queer content in a variety of cultural sectors and the scarcity of examples of sustainable careers for LGBTQ+ artists. A sensitivity to the absence of mentors who would have emerged from the generation most strongly affected by AIDS is also a palpable and driving force behind the program. The program launched in 2011.
Queer|Art|Mentorship aims to expand the perceived value of queer work and cultivate a collection of voices that amplify queer artistic experience. The program does not expect any kind of specific content in terms of artists’ work or how queerness manifests within and around it.
WHO SHOULD APPLY?
Artists must be working at a generative level within at least one of the following fields:
Film
Literature
Performance
Visual Art
Queer|Art|Mentorship is for artists who are:
Self-identified as queer, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, non-binary, and/or intersex
Based in the United States, including US territories
Early-career and professionally focused, with a body of work already behind them
Not currently enrolled in school or university
And have a specific project they’d like to work on with a Mentor during their Mentorship cycle.
Most importantly, we are looking for artists who have an extraordinary potential for engagement in queer and artistic communities and would gain from, and add to, interaction with others.
Each Mentor chooses the Fellow they will be working with during the program. We encourage Mentors to look for artists who stand to receive maximum benefit from the resources of the program and bring diverse experiences and perspectives to the Queer|Art community.
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HUMAN RESIDENCY FELLOWSHIP
Ragdale / Lake Forest College
DEADLINE: July 31, 2024
APPLICATION FEE: $10
INFO: Ragdale is pleased to announce the HUMAN Residency Fellowship, an exciting new partnership with Lake Forest College made possible by the Mellon Foundation.
This multi-year collaboration invites artists from diverse disciplines to explore the intersection of the humanities, artificial intelligence, and social justice. Ragdale encourages applications from individuals whose work addresses questions about the impact of bias on AI outputs, the influence of dominant historical narratives on current AI technologies, and the ethical considerations for integrating AI into daily life.
ELIGIBILITY: Emerging, midcareer, and established writers, dancers, musicians, composers, and visual artists are encouraged to apply.
AWARD: Ragdale will award the HUMAN Residency Fellowship to 6 artists. This award includes an initial 6-day Group Residency in spring 2025 (dates TBD) with fellow HUMAN Residency Fellowship recipients and comes with a $1,000 stipend to offset travel and expenses. This AI-themed residency session will be followed by a full, individual, 18-day, fee-waived residency to be scheduled in the subsequent two years (2026 or 2027).
Full residencies are comprised of cohorts of up to 14 multidisciplinary artists working on their own projects. Awardees will receive a second stipend of $3,000 during the 18-day residency. All applicants who apply for the HUMAN Residency Fellowship will be asked to participate in a program, such as a panel talk, visiting artist lecture, workshop, or other related event as part of a culminating AI symposium in 2027. Program details will be determined after the cohort is selected.
The HUMAN residency at Ragdale is part of the Lake Forest College’s $1.2 million grant from the Mellon Foundation for HUMAN: Humanities Understanding of the Machine-Assisted Nexus, led by Professor of English and Executive Director of the Krebs Center for the Humanities, Davis Schneiderman.
GUIDELINES: All applicants submit electronic materials through the Submittable application portal. Do not email or mail any application materials. Please note the following requirements to complete your application.
A completed online application form includes:
A one-page artist statement and proposal. Proposals should describe how a residency would support the applicant’s work in exploring the intersection of the humanities and artificial intelligence (AI) and automation, with an emphasis on questions of equity and social justice.
A one or two-page CV or resume that summarizes your professional background.
Work samples that show work from the past 2-3 years. All media is acceptable. Most electronic file types and sizes are accepted.
PLEASE NOTE: Letters of recommendation are not required nor accepted.
ragdale.submittable.com/submit/293033/2025-human-residency
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"My Time" fellowship
Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow
DEADLINE: August 5, 2024 by midnight CST
APPLICATION FEE: $35
INFO: The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow is pleased to announce the 2024 "My Time" fellowship funded by James Dean. Writers who are parents of dependent children under the age of 18 are invited to apply. Work may be any literary genre: poetry, fiction, plays, memoirs, screenplays, or nonfiction. The successful application will demonstrate literary merit and the likelihood of publication. Prior publication is not a requirement.
PRIZE: Four fellowship winners will receive a one-week residency to allow the recipient to focus completely on their work. A $500 stipend will be provided to cover childcare and/or travel costs to each recipient.
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 winner will be announced no later than September 9, 2024.
Residencies may be completed anytime before December 2025.