"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.
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The Other Futures Award 2024
Futurepoem
DEADLINE: August 15, 2024 at 11:59pm EST
ENTRY FEE: $28. We also offer need-based reduced fees of $18 and $9; please select the fee that is most appropriate for you. You can also choose to partially sponsor someone else’s submission for $35. A fee waiver is available for anyone who may need it — if the lowest fee represents a hardship for you, please email ahana@futurepoem.com with subject line: 2024 OFA Fee Waiver.
INFO: The Other Futures Award is given annually to an innovative, adventurous full-length work that challenges conventions of genre and language, content and form. Send us writing that imagines new lived or literary possibilities, and questions established paradigms.
AWARD: The winner will receive publication with Futurepoem, an honorarium of $1000, a standard royalty contract, and 25 author copies. We will announce our decision in late 2024. The winning book will be published in 2026.
PROCESS: All submissions are read by at least two Futurepoem staff readers, who then recommend a limited group of manuscripts to the permanent editors. The winning manuscript is selected by Futurepoem's permanent editorial staff. Our process is identity-hidden, so please be sure that the author's name does not appear anywhere in the manuscript.
ELIGIBILITY: We welcome submissions by writers at any stage of their career. Manuscripts must be unpublished book-length works of prose, poetry, or multi-genre work. And though we are open to books with visuals, we have a limited capacity to support image-based projects. We publish poetry, first and foremost, and heavily image-based projects will be better served by a different publisher. Previously published poems or chapbooks may be included, but the manuscript as a whole must be unpublished. Writers who are not U.S. citizens are welcome to send work. Past or present students, colleagues, or close friends of Futurepoem editors are not eligible to submit.
TRANSLATIONS: We do not publish translations of works originally written in languages other than English. However, previously unpublished texts that engage bilingual or multilingual practices are welcome.
SIMULTANEOUS SUBMISSIONS: We accept simultaneous submissions. Please notify Futurepoem as soon as possible if your book is accepted elsewhere.
MULTIPLE SUBMISSIONS: We accept multiple submissions from the same author. Each manuscript should be submitted separately including a separate entry fee.
FORMAT: Suggested length is 50 to 150 pages, though manuscripts may be slightly shorter or longer. The Other Futures Award is an anonymized contest. Please include a title page with title only, and a table of contents. The author’s name should NOT appear anywhere in the manuscript.
REVISIONS: While we are not able to accept revisions during the reading period, the winner will be able to revise their manuscript before publication.
HOW TO SUBMIT: Please submit online using our Submittable page (futurepoem.submittable.com/submit). We cannot accept hardcopy or emailed submissions. We encourage you to familiarize yourself with our catalog before you submit.
futurepoem.submittable.com/submit/300464/the-other-futures-award-2024
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The Aggrey Prize for Poetry
Inverted Syntax
DEADLINE: August 15, 2024
INFO: This prize is dedicated to the discovery of exceptional first- or second-poetry collections written in English by a writer who identifies as Black, Indigenous, or a Person of Color (BIPOC) residing within the United States, regardless of citizenship. Named after the Aggrey family of Ghana, the prize seeks to identify, award, and honor those whose original work focuses on any aspect of life from the perspective of those within the BIPOC community. The poetry manuscript can be a hybrid, that is, it can intersect with any genre, including speculative prose and visual elements (note: we do not publish photographs and cannot print in color); essentially, we are looking for work that celebrates hybridity and resists genre specificity.
Judged by the editors of Inverted Syntax*, one winner will be selected with the possibility of runners-up.
PRIZE:
Publication with Inverted Syntax Press (using Bookmobile for printing and Itasca Books for distribution).
25 author copies.
$500 prize money.
5%-10% standard royalties on net receipts.
Assistance in planning a reading launch with other writers within the winner's state and elsewhere when possible.
Inverted Syntax-hosted online reading launch
Weeklong writing retreat to a historic Victorian home located in Leadville, Colorado, with up to four members of your writing community.
NOTE: Inverted Syntax may also offer a runner-up publication of another manuscript in addition to the winner. This runner-up author will receive everything listed above with the exception of the $500 prize.
All other submission entries are also considered for publication and long-listing.
Any work published beyond the winner and runner-up will receive everything listed above with the exception of the prize money and the writing retreat.
CONTEST GUIDELINES:
The Aggrey Prize for Poetry is open to writers who identify as BIPOC, of any citizenship residing in the United States who have published no more than one book in any genre.
Inclusion of other languages/ code-switching/meshing is very much welcome as long as the book is largely written in English.
Theme: We are looking to amplify the myriad experiences, struggles, triumphs, and aspirations of the diverse narratives within the BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) communities through the power of poetry. We aim to create a space for solidarity, healing, and empowerment, showcasing the richness and complexity of BIPOC voices in contemporary poetry. While there is no specific theme for this book contest, we encourage submissions that reflect on intersectional perspectives, including those that delve into themes of identity, cultural heritage, social justice, resilience, and the nuanced complexities of lived experiences. We encourage genre-breaking writing--hybrid, speculative, and experimental submissions.
We will accept submissions between June 5 and August 15. The winner will be announced 6 months after the submission window closes.
Please send a manuscript that is between 48-100 pages, not including front matter.
The manuscript should be paginated and include a table of contents.
Do not put your name on any page within the manuscript or in the file name.
Include an acknowledgements page, for example, list any previously published poems.
We accept simultaneous submissions. Notify us immediately if your work is picked up elsewhere.
We accept multiple submissions, but each submission must be accompanied by its own fee.
We will not accept changes to your manuscript during our review period.
Anyone affiliated with the editors or reading staff of Inverted Syntax is not eligible.
Any writer residing outside of the USA is not eligible.
Submission Fee is $20 (Why we charge fees explained here)
If the submission costs are a burden, please include an explanation of your situation and why you want to publish with Inverted Syntax, and we will send you a waiver for a reduced fee of $10.
ADDITIONAL GUIDELINES:
Inverted Syntax strongly encourages diverse and inclusive voices, especially those from under-represented and vulnerable communities, to consider submitting work to Inverted Syntax.
Manuscripts are screened carefully by our aesthetically diverse volunteer editorial staff. If you are interested in being a reader for the Prize, contact us here.
Before you submit, check that your work meets our standards. Work is automatically ignored, rejected, declined, dismissed if it contains any manner of abusive behavior and this extends to the creators of said work. To be clear: NO racism, NO misogyny, NO homophobia, NO sexism, NO transphobia, NO body-shaming, NO Islamophobia, NO Anti-semitism, NO xenophobia, absolutely no work that in any way perpetuate stereotypes.
*INCLUSIVITY STATEMENT: We value and respect all volunteers, readers, subscribers, submitters, and participants, regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, national origin, age, sexual orientation or identity, education, and/or disability. Inverted Syntax editors are committed to creating an inclusive, supportive, and welcoming environment where our community of contributors and supporters feel valued.
Inverted Syntax stands in solidarity with the Palestinian plight for liberation. Read our October 2023 letter for more information.
invertedsyntax.com/poetry-book-contests.html
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The Tabbikha Prize for Poetry
Inverted Syntax
DEADLINE: August 15, 2024
INFO: This prize is dedicated to the discovery of exceptional first- or second-poetry works written in English by a writer of the S .W.A.N.A. diaspora. We invite all members of the South West Asian and North African region regardless of citizenship, residing within the United States to submit work. Named after the Tabbica (pronounced and sometimes spelled Tabbikha) family of Lebanon, the prize seeks to identify, award, and honor original work focused on any aspect of life within this particular diasporic experience. Diasporas can span up to several generations. The poetry manuscript can be a hybrid, that is, it can intersect with any genre, including speculative prose and visual elements (note: we do not publish photographs and cannot print in color); essentially, we are looking for work that celebrates hybridity and resists genre specificity.
SWANA is a decolonial word for the South West Asian/ North African (S.W.A.N.A.) region in place of Middle Eastern, Near Eastern, Arab World that typically have colonial, Eurocentric, and Orientalist origins.
Judged by the editors of Inverted Syntax*, one winner will be selected with the possibility of runners-up.
PRIZE:
Publication with Inverted Syntax Press (using Bookmobile for printing and Itasca Books for distribution).
25 author copies.
$500 prize money.
5%-10% standard royalties on net receipts.
Assistance in planning a reading launch with other writers within the winner's state and elsewhere when possible.
Inverted Syntax-hosted online reading launch
Weeklong writing retreat to a historic Victorian home located in Leadville, Colorado, with up to four members of your writing community.
NOTE: Inverted Syntax may also offer a runner-up publication of another manuscript in addition to the winner. This runner-up author will receive everything listed above with the exception of the $500 prize.
All other submission entries are also considered for publication and long-listing.
Any work published beyond the winner and runner-up will receive everything listed above with the exception of the prize money and the writing retreat.
CONTEST GUIDELINES:
The Tabbikha Prize for Poetry is open to writers of the S.W.A.N.A diaspora, of any citizenship, residing in the United States who have published no more than one book in any genre.
Inclusion of other languages/ code-switching/meshing is very much welcome as long as the book is largely written in English.
Theme: We strive to elevate the diverse narratives within the Southwest Asian and North African (S.W.A.N.A) diaspora, illuminating the myriad experiences, challenges, triumphs, and dreams. We invite all writers who identify with the South West Asian and North African region, residing within the United States, to submit work. We aim to create a space for solidarity, healing, and empowerment, spotlighting the richness and intricacy of voices within contemporary S .W.A.N.A. poetry. While there is no specific theme for this contest, we encourage writers to submit work that reflects on intersectional perspectives that explore the complexities of lived experiences, addressing themes such as diaspora, cultural heritage, tradition, displacement, and belonging--from navigating and negotiating aspects of identities, including ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, and socio-economic background. We encourage genre-breaking writing--hybrid, speculative, and experimental submissions.
We will accept submissions between June 5 and August 15. The winner will be announced 6 months after the submission window closes.
Please send a manuscript that is between 48-100 pages, not including front matter.
The manuscript should be paginated and include a table of contents.
Do not put your name on any page within the manuscript or in the file name.
Include an acknowledgements page, for example, list any previously published poems.
We accept simultaneous submissions. Notify us immediately if your work is picked up elsewhere.
We accept multiple submissions, but each submission must be accompanied by its own fee.
We will not accept changes to your manuscript during our review period.
Anyone affiliated with the editors or reading staff of Inverted Syntax is not eligible.
Any writer residing outside of the USA is not eligible.
Submission Fee is $20
If the submission costs are a burden, please include an explanation of your situation and why you want to publish with Inverted Syntax, and we will send you a waiver for a reduced fee of $10.
ADDITIONAL GUIDELINES:
Inverted Syntax strongly encourages diverse and inclusive voices, especially those from under-represented and vulnerable communities, to consider submitting work to Inverted Syntax.
Manuscripts are screened carefully by our aesthetically diverse volunteer editorial staff. If you are interested in being a reader for the Prize, contact us here.
Before you submit, check that your work meets our standards. Work is automatically ignored, rejected, declined, dismissed if it contains any manner of abusive behavior and this extends to the creators of said work. To be clear: NO racism, NO misogyny, NO homophobia, NO sexism, NO transphobia, NO body-shaming, NO Islamophobia, NO Anti-semitism, NO xenophobia, absolutely no work that in any way perpetuate stereotypes.
*INCLUSIVITY STATEMENT: We value and respect all volunteers, readers, subscribers, submitters, and participants, regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, national origin, age, sexual orientation or identity, education, and/or disability. Inverted Syntax editors are committed to creating an inclusive, supportive, and welcoming environment where our community of contributors and supporters feel valued.
Inverted Syntax stands in solidarity with the Palestinian plight for liberation. Read our October 2023 letter for more information.
invertedsyntax.com/poetry-book-contests.html
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The Sublingua Prize for Poetry
Inverted Syntax
DEADLINE: August 15, 2024
INFO: In 2024 the Sublingua prize is dedicated to the discovery of an exceptional debut poetry collection written in English by a female-identifying writer of any citizenship residing in the United States who has not yet published or self-published a full-length manuscript in any genre nor a chapbook exceeding 25 pages. The poetry manuscript can be a hybrid, that is, it can intersect with any genre, including speculative prose and visual elements (note: we do not publish photographs and do not print in color); essentially, we are looking for work that celebrates hybridity and resists genre specificity.
Judged by the editors of Inverted Syntax*, one winner will be selected with the possibility of runners-up.
PRIZE:
Publication with Inverted Syntax Press (using Bookmobile for printing and Itasca Books for distribution).
25 author copies.
$500 prize money.
5%-10% standard royalties on net receipts.
Assistance in planning a reading launch with other writers within the winner's state and elsewhere when possible.
Inverted Syntax-hosted online reading launch
Weeklong writing retreat to a historic Victorian home located in Leadville, Colorado, with up to four members of your writing community.
NOTE: Inverted Syntax may also offer a runner-up publication of another manuscript in addition to the winner. This runner-up author will receive everything listed above with the exception of the $500 prize.
All other submission entries are also considered for publication and long-listing.
Any work published beyond the winner and runner-up will receive everything listed above with the exception of the prize money and the writing retreat.
CONTEST GUIDELINES:
The Sublingua Prize for Poetry (1st Book Award) is open to female-identifying emerging writers of any citizenship residing in the United States who have not yet published or self-published a full-length manuscript in any genre, nor a chapbook exceeding 25 pages.
We encourage genre-breaking writing--hybrid, speculative, and experimental submissions.
Inclusion of other languages/ code-switching/meshing is very much welcome as long as the book is largely written in English.
We will accept submissions between June 5 and August 15. The winner will be announced 6 months after the submission window closes.
Please send a manuscript that is between 48-100 pages, not including front matter.
The manuscript should be paginated and include a table of contents.
Do not put your name on any page within the manuscript or in the file name.
Include an acknowledgements page, for example, list any previously published poems.
We accept simultaneous submissions. Notify us immediately if your work is picked up elsewhere.
We accept multiple submissions, but each submission must be accompanied by its own fee.
We will not accept changes to your manuscript during our review period.
Anyone affiliated with the editors or reading staff of Inverted Syntax is not eligible.
Any writer residing outside of the USA is not eligible.
Submission Fee is $20
If the submission costs are a burden, please include an explanation of your situation and why you want to publish with Inverted Syntax, and we will send you a waiver for a reduced fee of $10.
ADDITIONAL GUIDELINES:
Inverted Syntax strongly encourages diverse and inclusive voices, especially those from under-represented and vulnerable communities, to consider submitting work to Inverted Syntax.
Manuscripts are screened carefully by our aesthetically diverse volunteer editorial staff. If you are interested in being a reader for the Prize, contact us here.
Before you submit, check that your work meets our standards. Work is automatically ignored, rejected, declined, dismissed if it contains any manner of abusive behavior and this extends to the creators of said work. To be clear: NO racism, NO misogyny, NO homophobia, NO sexism, NO transphobia, NO body-shaming, NO Islamophobia, NO Anti-semitism, NO xenophobia, absolutely no work that in any way perpetuate stereotypes.
*INCLUSIVITY STATEMENT: We value and respect all volunteers, readers, subscribers, submitters, and participants, regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, national origin, age, sexual orientation or identity, education, and/or disability. Inverted Syntax editors are committed to creating an inclusive, supportive, and welcoming environment where our community of contributors and supporters feel valued.
Inverted Syntax stands in solidarity with the Palestinian plight for liberation. Read our October 2023 letter for more information.
invertedsyntax.com/poetry-book-contests.html
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2024 1/2K Prize
Indiana Review
DEADLINE: August 15, 2024
SUBMISSION FEE: $20
INFO: Send us one to three pieces of 500 words (or fewer!) each, for a chance at $1000 + publication. Fiction, nonfiction, and poetry are all welcome, as long as each individual piece is 500 words or fewer. Each paid submission also gets you a year-long subscription to Indiana Review. Please note the following:
Previously published works and works forthcoming elsewhere cannot be considered.
Multiple and simultaneous submissions are permitted; however, each submission requires a separate reading fee. Please withdraw your piece immediately if it is accepted elsewhere. If you need to withdraw one piece from a packet with multiple, please leave a note on your submission.
Do not include your name on or in your submission file.
IR cannot consider work from anyone currently or recently affiliated with Indiana University or the prize judge(s). This includes people who have studied or taught at Indiana University in the past four years.
All entries will be considered for regular publication in Indiana Review.
This year's prize will be judged by K. Iver, author of Short Film Starring My Beloved's Red Bronco.
indianareview.submittable.com/submit
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FALL ‘24 GUEST RESIDENCY
Woodward Residency
DEADLINE: August 16, 2024
INFO: Applications are now open for the Fall '24 Guest Residency in Ridgewood, Queens. This year we're offering two longer residencies (instead of our usual 3).
Established/emerging creatives in the fields of literary arts, design, film, and multi-disciplinary arts are all encouraged to apply. We also have two pianos in the space for musicians and composers.
FALL DATES: Sept 16, 2024 — Jan 31, 2025
ELIGIBILITY: Established/emerging artists and creative professionals in the fields of literary arts, design, music, and multi-disciplinary arts are encouraged to apply.
Please note that art forms that generate fumes (such as oil painting) cannot be accommodated. Also, with the exception of our piano residents who can use headphones, our space is best suited to less cacophonous artistic pursuits.
AWARD BENEFITS:
Access to the building from 9AM-5 PM, Monday through Friday for the duration of your Guest Residency.
Guest Residents will work in the communal Great Room, with library etiquette.
Open invite to weekly tea and cake gatherings, and occasional work shares and evening parties.
A supportive and engaged community of working creatives.
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Poetry and Prose 2024 Contest
Lucky Jefferson
DEADLINE: August 18, 2024
SUBMISSION FEE: $0
INFO: Writers….stop paying for contests and enter ours instead!
• It’s free free freeeeee to submit
• Submit your favorite unpublished poems or prose
• Potentially get published and/or earn $100 + swag
This year’s judge is the Lisa Low, author of the chapbook Crown for the Girl Inside (YesYes Books, 2023), winner of the 2020 Vinyl 45 Chapbook Contest. Her work has appeared in Copper Nickel, Ecotone, The Massachusetts Review, Poetry, The Southern Review, and elsewhere, and was awarded the 2020 Gulf Coast Nonfiction Prize and a 2023 Pushcart Prize. Originally from Maryland, she lives in Chicago.
luckyjefferson.com/submit/
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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: Afro-Latin@* Reader: Vol 2
Editors: Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez, Paul Joseph López Oro, and Omaris Z. Zamora
DEADLINE: August 18, 2024
INFO: In July 2010, the watershed publication of The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States edited by the late Miriam Jiménez Román and Juan Flores blazed a trail for the emerging field of Afro-Latinx* Studies. The reader continues to be a foundational and transformative text and in honor of the scholarly activist legacy of Miriam and Juan, we are announcing the development of The Afro-Latin@* Reader: Volume 2. We are using Afro-Latin@* with an asterisk as a way to respect the original title while making space for multiple identity pathways within Black Latinidad and to disrupt the normative gender politics embedded in the Spanish language. The asterisk, a mathematical symbol, represents multiplication, and underscores for the editors, a multiplicity of ways to engage, identify, or disidentify with the markers of Afro-Latinidad.
In this second volume, we envision expanding the discourses and provocations posed by the first volume and seek to cultivate and unearth new terrains of knowledge production by and for Black Latinx peoples in the United States, whose histories, politics, and cultures remain understudied and undertheorized. This volume highlights the directions in which Afro-Latinx Studies as a field has developed and made major contributions to Black and Latinx Studies, among other fields. This volume focuses on contemporary concerns and developments in Afro-Latinx* Studies that center Blackness and Indigeneity, gender, sexuality, queerness, history, community, spirituality, cultural productions, and politics through transdisciplinary dialogues.
This volume centers the embodied knowledges, cultural productions, and epistemologies rooted in the memories and racialized gendered experiences of Afro-Latinx*s in the US. We seek to engage the politics and genre of testimonios, considering what Nancy Lopez calls “street race,” while expanding Flores’ notion of triple consciousness and Afro-Latinx identity. We open the volume with a meditation on the geographies and cartographies of Afro-Latinidad from slavery and cimarronaje to transnational migration and diasporas. We emphasize hemispheric approaches to Blackness and the role of the U.S. Census in shaping the language of identity formation. In this intellectual and communal gathering of scholars, activists, educators, and artists, the volume crafts directions, pathways, and futurities of Afro-Latinx studies, culture, and life. The collective exercise of this project is rooted in responsive community care, faithful witnessing, and fluidity that continues to center the African Diaspora in the Americas and Black life.
Volume two will be edited by Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vasquez, Paul Joseph López Oro, and Omaris Z. Zamora, and is envisioned as also having a wide array of voices, a chorus, that represent disciplinary, creative, and activist scholars. Through this choral approach, we have invited a team of collaborating section editors, themselves leaders in the fields of thought and practice, to help curate each section of the volume. Section editors include: Zaire Dinzey-Flores, Jessica Marie Johnson, Kaysha Corinealdi, Janel Martinez, Mary Peña, Alan Pelaez López, Petra R. Rivera-Rideau, Ashley Coleman Taylor, Guesnerth Josue Perea, and The Afro-Latin@ Forum.
We invite researchers, educators, artists, activists, writers, and independent scholars, among others, to submit:
A 300-500 word abstract of a proposed critical, research, or personal essay (if critical or research please include a short bibliography of 5-10 selected sources)
OR
A compilation of 1-3 creative works (poetry, short story, visual works; accompanied by a short contextual introduction), for consideration for publication in this volume.
The proposed work should fall within one of the following featured sections of the book, but may certainly go beyond these bounds:
Early Black Américas: Slavery, Cimarronaje, Collective Beginnings
Hemispheric Blackness: Contemporary Entangled Geographies
Self-Making Politics: Race, Ethnicity, and the U.S. Census
Embodied Archives: Storytelling, Memoirs, Testimonios
Poetics & Literary Landscapes
Spiritualities, Syncretisms, and Ritual Practice
Arts, Culture, Performance & Curation
Music & Sonic Technologies
Feminisms, Gender & Queerness
Digital Worlds of Afro-Latinidades
GUIDELINES:
Please submit your abstract (including short bibliography for essays or contextual introduction for creative work) accompanied by your CV to the link below.
Final contributions should be 3-5k words for critical/research essays; 2-3k words for creative works; up to two poems; OR up to 2-3 visual works.
Initial decisions will be announced by September 15, 2024. Submission of the first draft of contributions will be November 15, 2024.
Questions can be directed to editorial manager Francheska Pierce: AfroLatinxReader[at]gmail.com Please allow up to two working days for response.
yomairafigueroa.com/afrolatinx-reader-vol-2
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Small Press Incubator Program
Center for Book Arts
DEADLINE: August 18, 2024
INFO: We are thrilled to announce the open call for our Small Press Incubator Program, an opportunity for BIPOC writers and poets to explore book-making and publishing. This 8-week program, running from October 21, 2024, to December 12, 2024, offers studio access, a $2,000 stipend, a $1,000 materials budget, and 30 hours of workshops on Design, Riso Printing, and Bookbinding. Participants will also receive personalized mentorship from industry professionals and have the chance to present their publishing projects at a final public program.
Designed specifically for BIPOC writers, artists, and poets, this program fosters a supportive and inclusive environment. We aim to empower participants to turn their publishing ideas into reality, providing the skills, context, and community needed to start a small press.
The application period is open from June 26, 2024, to August 18, 2024, with an information session on August 2, 2024, from 12:30 PM to 1:00 PM ET. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by September 20, 2024. Apply now via centerforbookarts.org!
WHO IS THIS PROGRAM FOR?
This program is meant for BIPOC writers/poets interested in learning what it takes to create a long-term small publishing press.
This program is for those who have a project connected to their community.
This program is not meant for established publishing presses and is instead geared to those in the beginning stages of their small press activity.
This program is meant for individuals only. Any collectives/groups would need to have a single representative for the program.
This program is meant for anyone who is 18 and older.
This program is for those who would be able to attend the Small Press Incubator program full-time in-person for eight weeks at Center for Book Arts. Please see dates below.
TIMELINE:
Open Call: 06/24/2024 - 08/18/2024
Information session: August 2nd, 2024, from 12:30PM to 1:00PM ET
Notified of acceptance: 9/20/2024
Start date of the Program: 10/21/2024
Final Presentation: 12/13/2024
HOW TO APPLY:
To apply for the Small Press Incubator Program, please submit the following materials:
A brief statement of interest outlining why you are interested in participating in the program and what you hope to gain from it.
Do you identify as a (Black, Indigenous and People of Color) BIPOC person? A participant’s self-declared identity at registration will be accepted at face value and there shall be no basis for, or tolerance of, a challenge to a participant’s self-declared identity.
A brief bio or resume highlighting your background and connection to publishing
Describe the small press that you would like to create. Please bear in mind the following; the feasibility of the project, the audience for this project, and the impact it would have in your community.
What do you hope the life-span of this publishing project would be?
Submit three publication ideas that you would potentially publish with your small press.
Name three publishers that you admire and explain why.
Would you be available to participate full-time in this eight-week in-person Small Press Incubator program from 10/21/24 - 12/13/24 at Center for Book Arts in New York?
centerforbookarts.submittable.com/submit/299342/small-press-incubator
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call for submissions: British Latinx special issue
Wasafiri
DEADLINE: August 25, 2024 by 11.59pm
INFO: Wasafari is seeking submissions for a British Latinx special issue of Wasafiri, to be guest co-edited by Leonardo Boix and Karina Lickorish Quinn, and published in winter 2025.
We are looking for:
Unpublished short fiction or life writing (3,000-5,000 words)
Poetry (up to 2 poems per submission)
We especially welcome submissions from unpublished writers, UK-based BIPOC and LGBTQ+ writers with heritage from Abya Yala, or the region known as Latin America, and writers who identify as Latinx in the UK.
We are especially interested in writing that embraces and incorporates the Indigenous languages of Abya Yala.
Submissions of poems may be written in any of the languages of Latin America/Abya Yala. Poems not written in English or Spanish need to be accompanied by a translation into English.
Send your submissions along with a 100 word bio to britishlatinxsubs@gmail.com
instagram.com/p/C9KJv3JojFe/?igsh=Z2V2anF0bWQ2M3Iw
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call for submissions
PREE
DEADLINE: August 31, 2024
INFO: PREE, an online magazine for new contemporary writing from and about the Caribbean, is accepting submissions for its next issue; PREE 13.
There’s no theme for this issue so show the best of the places your writing will take you. Send your best Essays, Memoir, Criticism, Fiction, Poetry, and Art.
Email your submissions to preelieditors@gmail.com
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call for creative nonfiction, poetry + cover art
Yellow Arrow Journal
DEADLINE: August 31, 2024
INFO: Yellow Arrow Publishing is excited to announce that submissions for our next issue of Yellow Arrow Journal, Vol. IX, No. 2 (fall 2024) is open August 1-31, exploring the concept griefulness, an intertwining of grief and gratitude. Guest editor, Tramaine Suubi contemplated about the term and how “it feels deeply resonant for our current times. My life, my very body, feels full of grief. As I tried to find home on 15 wildly different streets, in five cities, across four nations, on three continents, my body certainly kept the score. . . . In my present season of life, I am reclaiming darkness and blackness as spaces of goodness—as spaces of rest, reflection, and revival. . . . Grief and gratitude are often intertwined in my findings.”
This issue’s theme is kitalo
: an empathetic Luganda term of solidarity offered when someone experiences a spectrum of loss
: directly translates to “this/that is tragic” but is far richer than that
Our hope is that this issue gives women-identifying creatives a place where they can meditate on communal grief and communal gratitude. Here are some guiding questions about the theme:
1) In the midst of grief, how have others cared for you, how do you care for others, and how do you care for yourself? What are the most striking or profound examples you have experienced or witnessed?
2) If your grief were to take the form of an animal (remember, humans are animals, too), which animal (fictional, nonfictional, or extinct) would it be and how would this animal behave? Be as specific as possible. Feel free to defy logic and science; grief often can.
3) Have you ever immigrated to or emigrated from a different nation than your current nation of residence? What potential life paths and livelihoods did you leave behind as a result? Which ones do you still yearn for and why, if any?
4) Have you ever experienced a platonic break-up (real or imaginary friend)? If so, how do you specifically navigate or ignore the gaps left by lost friendship?
5) Who (fictional or nonfictional) is no longer present in your life, whom you would like to offer your deepest gratitude to?
Yellow Arrow Journal is looking for creative nonfiction, poetry, and cover art submissions by writers/artists who identify as women, on the theme of kitalo. Submissions can be in any language as long as an English translation accompanies it. For more information regarding journal submission guidelines, please visit yellowarrowpublishing.com/submissions. Please read our guidelines carefully before submitting. To learn more about our editorial views and how important your voice is in your story, read about the journal. This issue will be released in November 2024.
Kitalo’s guest editor, Tramaine Suubi (she/they) is a multilingual writer who was born in Kampala. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Their forthcoming debut is a full-length poetry collection titled phases, which will be published in January 2025. Their forthcoming second book is also a full-length poetry collection titled stages, which will be published in January 2026. Both books will be published by Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins. Tramaine was one of our 2023 writers in residence and their poem "begin again" was included in Yellow Arrow Journal ELEVATE (IX/01). We appreciate all that she has done for Yellow Arrow and are excited to welcome Tramaine on this new venture.
yellowarrowpublishing.com/news/yaj-ix-02-submissions-open-kitalo
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Willapa Bay AiR residency
DEADLINE: August 31, 2024
APPLICATION FEE: $30
INFO: Willapa Bay AiR, situated on 20 acres in coastal southwest Washington state, launched its residency program in March 2014. The Residency has been specifically designed, from the site selection to the architecturally specific building concepts, layouts, and materials, to combine the opportunity for solitude with the opportunity for daily community that fosters creative endeavor.
We offer month-long, self-directed residencies to emerging and established artists, filmmakers, writers, playwrights, scholars, singer/songwriters, and musical composers. The Residency provides lodging, meals, and work space, at no cost, to six residents each month from April 1 through October 28 of the year. Applications are evaluated by selection committees comprised of working artists and professionals in the applicants' respective fields of discipline.
SELECTION PROCESS: Applications are evaluated by selection committees comprised of working artists and professionals in the applicants' respective fields of discipline. Invitation to a Willapa Bay AiR residency is based on the merit of past work and the potential for creative evolution through the exploration and experimentation offered in the residency environment.
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STORYKNIFE WRITERS RETREAT
Storyknife
DEADLINE: August 31, 2024 by midnight
APPLICATION FEE: $40.00
INFO: Women’s stories are vital and important. Currently, those stories whether expressed in poems, plays, novels, essays, or memoirs are not published, reviewed, or promoted as often as the work of men. Storyknife provides women with the time and space to explore their craft without distraction. Every aspect of a residency at Storyknife is steeped in a profound generosity of spirit so that each writer knows she and her work are valuable. Storyknife residents carry away both this affirmation and a living community of women writers to assist their valuable work wherever they go.
Residencies at Storyknife in Homer, Alaska, are either for two or four weeks. Resident’s food and lodging is covered during the period of their residency, but travel to and from Homer, Alaska, is the responsibility of the resident. Residents stay in individual cabins & dine at the main house. An on-staff chef is responsible for food preparation.
Four week residencies begin on the 1st of each month and end on the 28th. Two week residencies begin on the 1st of each month and end on the 14th OR begin on the 15th and end on the 28th. Residencies are available April through October.
Applications for 2025 season is currently open and will close on August 31, 2024 at midnight. Please make sure that you subscribe to our newsletter below or follow us on Facebook or Instagram.
ELIGIBILITY:
Applicants must:
Be woman-identified
Be 21 years of age or older
Apply as an individual artist, not a collaborative group or team
Writers who have been in residency for a minimum of two-weeks at Storyknife must wait five years before they can re-apply for another residency.
Please note that for the 2025 residency season, the Board of Directors of Storyknife strongly requests that all residents must be vaccinated and appropriately boosted against COVID-19.
You will provide a work sample and answer four questions (each answer 300 words or fewer).
How have you sought to educate yourself as a writer? (Formal education not a prerequisite, but evidence of curiosity and learning in your applicable genre is.)
What is your experience with publishing your work? (Publishing is not a prerequisite but is considered a goal for writers who attend Storyknife.)
What project will you pursue while in residency? (Please note that you will be free to work on whatever writing you wish during residency. We simply are interested in what you think you’ll be pursuing.)
Why would a writing residency benefit you at this time especially?
WRITING SAMPLE REQUIREMENTS:
Writing samples should reflect work completed within the last two years. All writing samples must be uploaded through Submittable. Written work samples will be uploaded directly within the application.
Applicants can submit published or unpublished writing samples.
All writing samples must be combined into one PDF file.
A writing sample not to exceed 10 pages (prose: double-spaced 12 point font, poetry: single-spaced 12 point font acceptable). Prose includes screenplays and stage plays which also must conform to the 10 page limit.
This is an anonymous jurying process. Any writing samples with identifying material will be disqualified (including in the file name). Do not include your full name, last name, address, or publication credits in your writing sample (including the file name). This only refers to the writing sample, not the answers to the questions.
DIVERSITY: Storyknife is committed to diversity and elevating voices of historically excluded communities. We value all aspects of diversity and seek to make each resident’s time at Storyknife as productive and pleasant as possible.
Please contact executive director, Erin Hollowell, at ehollowell@storyknife.org to ask about accommodation or to speak further about your needs. Storyknife is welcoming to all and will work with you to meet your needs.
TRAVEL FUNDS: In 2025, there will be multiple opportunities for travel cost stipends. Those that want to be considered for travel funds will indicate so on their applications.
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POETRY FOUNDATION GRANTS
Poetry Foundation
DEADLINE: September 4, 2024
INFO: Poetry Foundation’s grant application are now open
I - EQUITY IN VERSE - The Equity in Verse grant category was created in direct response to the June 6, 2020 community letter requesting that the Foundation examine its historic cultural debt to poets of color. These grants are intended to provide support for nonprofit poetry and literary organizations, which includes presses and publications, led and staffed by people of color.
The Poetry Foundation acknowledges that the art, ideas, and labor of BIPOC people are integral to its work and poetry as an art form and that those contributions have gone underrecognized. Honoring the legacy of past BIPOC poets and making space for living and future poets are critical to the Foundation’s evolution.
Grants range in size from $10,000-$100,000, and all grants are for a 12-month period. The Poetry Foundation accepts applications for Equity in Verse grants twice a year (the deadlines are March 1 and September 1).
II - POETRY RY PROGRAMS, PARTNERSHIS, AND INNOVATION - Poetry Programs, Partnerships, and Innovation grants provide support to nonprofit organizations invested in at least one of the following priorities:
Broadening the audiences for poetry;
Increasing access to poetry;
New collaborations and partnerships in poetry;
Innovations in the field of poetry, including investment in new technologies.
Grants range in size from $10,000-$75,000 and all grants are for a 12-month period. The Poetry Foundation accepts applications for Poetry Programs, Partnerships, and Innovation grants twice a year (the deadlines are March 1 and September 1).
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MacDowell Fellowship
MacDowell
DEADLINE: September 10, 2024
INFO: About 300 artists in seven disciplines are awarded Fellowships each year and the sole criterion for acceptance is artistic excellence. There are no residency fees, and need-based stipends and travel reimbursement grants are available to open the residency to the broadest possible community of artists.
MacDowell encourages applications from artists of all backgrounds and all countries in the following disciplines: architecture, film/video arts, interdisciplinary arts, literature, music composition, theatre, and visual arts. Any applicant whose proposed project does not fall clearly within one of these artistic disciplines should contact the admissions department for guidance. We aim to be inclusive, not exclusive in our admissions process.
macdowell.org/apply/apply-for-fellowship
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Princeton Arts Fellowships
Lewis Center for the Arts
DEADLINE: September 10, 2024 at 11:59pm ET
INFO: Princeton Arts Fellowships, funded in part by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, David E. Kelley Society of Fellows in the Arts, and the Maurice R. Greenberg Scholarship Fund, will be awarded to artists whose achievements have been recognized as demonstrating extraordinary promise in any area of artistic practice and teaching. Applicants should be early career visual artists, filmmakers, poets, novelists, playwrights, designers, directors and performance artists—this list is not meant to be exhaustive—who would find it beneficial to spend two years teaching and working in an artistically vibrant university community.
Princeton Arts Fellows spend two consecutive academic years (September 1-July 1) at Princeton University and formal teaching is expected. The normal work assignment will be to teach one course each semester subject to approval by the Dean of the Faculty, but fellows may be asked to take on an artistic assignment in lieu of a class, such as directing a play or creating a dance with students. Although the teaching load is light, our expectation is that Fellows will be full and active members of our community, committed to frequent and engaged interactions with students during the academic year.
A $92,000 a year stipend is provided. Fellowships are not intended to fund work leading to an advanced degree. One need not be a U.S. citizen to apply. Holders of Ph.D. degrees from Princeton are not eligible to apply.
Past recipients of the Hodder Fellowship and individuals who have had a sustained and continuous relationship with Princeton University are not eligible to apply. Those who have had an occasional and sporadic relationship with Princeton may apply.
To apply, please submit a curriculum vitae, contact information for three references (should the search committee choose to contact references, please do not request letters or have letters sent in advance of a request from the search committee), and work samples (i.e., a writing sample, images of your work, video links to performances, etc.). Please also submit a 750-word proposal that includes how you would hope to use the two years of the fellowship to develop your work, how you would contribute to Princeton’s arts community through teaching and/or production, and how you have encouraged diversity and inclusion and furthered accessibility in your artistic practice, teaching, and/or research.
Applicants can only apply for the Princeton Arts Fellowship twice in a lifetime.