Summer 2022 The VONA Experience
VONA
DEADLINE: March 4, 2022, by 11:59pm PST
ENTRY FEE: $35
INFO: The VONA Experience is a spectacular week of writing workshops, professional development, panels, and community building designed for writers of color (June 27, 2022 - July 3, 2022).
TUITION:
Workshop: $1,000
Residency: $1,200
WORKSHOPS INCLUDE:
Poetry Residency with Adrian Castro - This workshop will be conducted focusing on writing about place. We will examine poems both from workshop participants and other poets that exemplify the use of place. We will also ask where is that place? Where is that physical place, that geographical place, and also where is that mental place? Is that place existent, nostalgic, dreamt, etc.? Participants will bring to the workshop poems with these themes. Feedback will be given based on the Liz Lerhman method, which focuses feedback beginning from the artist place of inspiration and creative space, then from the reader’s/listener’s perspective—i.e. what the reader thought, felt, assimilated while reading the poem. Lastly poets will be encouraged to appropriately render their poems out aloud—from their voice, their perspective, their place.
Adrian Castro is a poet, performer, and interdisciplinary artist. Born in Miami from Caribbean heritage which has provided fertile ground for the rhythmic Afro-Caribbean style in which he writes and performs. He is the author of Cantos to Blood and Honey, Wise Fish, Handling Destiny (all Coffee House Press). He has been published in many literary anthologies. He is the recipient of many awards and fellowships including from the Academy of American Poets and USA Knight Fellowship for Writing. He is also a Doctor of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine practicing in Miami.
Prose Residency with Reyna Grande - The prose residency mainly consists of individual conferences with the instructor. The conferences are designed for the instructor to give intense individual attention to the student’s work (this is not a workshop where students critique each other’s work). The topics of the noontime daily classes will include material on the writing process, on race and creative writing, and on narrative structures and other techniques in fiction and memoir. Students will be asked to do readings and some writing before the residency begins.
Reyna Grande is the author of the bestselling memoir, The Distance Between Us, (2012) and the sequel, A Dream Called Home (2018). Reyna has received an American Book award, the El Premio Aztlán Literary Award, and the International Latino Book Award. She was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Awards and honored with a Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature. Reyna has two forthcoming books in 2022: A Ballad of Love and Glory (March 15), her first historical fiction set during the Mexican-American War, and Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings (June 7), an anthology of essays, poems, and artwork by and about undocumented Americans.
Narrative Journalism/Memoir with Roberto Lovato - This workshop is designed to explore the form and techniques of a genre whose fluid, malleable boundaries, its dynamism, and, especially, its focus on truth conditions and identity make it an ideal instrument for exploration in times of such astonishing uncertainty and confusion: narrative journalism. The filter through which we’ll study the choices made by narrative journalists are some of the defining elements of creative nonfiction, including bodily writing; scene and summary, voice, structure, and character. We will pay close attention to the choices made by writers engaged in the struggle to tell truthful stories in an age of epic, technologically-enabled lying.
Roberto Lovato is the author of Unforgetting (Harper Collins), a “groundbreaking” memoir the New York Times picked as an “Editor’s Choice” Newsweek listed Lovato’s memoir as a “must-read” 2020 book and the Los Angeles Times listed it as one of its 20 Best Books of 2020. Lovato is also an educator, journalist, and writer based at The Writers Grotto in San Francisco, California. A recipient of a reporting grant from the Pulitzer Center, Lovato has reported on numerous issues—violence, terrorism, the drug war, and the refugee crisis—from Mexico, Venezuela, El Salvador, Dominican Republic, Haiti, France, and the United States, among other countries.
Fiction with Mathangi Subramanian - What are the stories you want to tell that are unlike anything that has been told before? What are your fears about creating and sharing original work with our capitalist, white supremacy culture? How does your inner editor work with existing power structures to stifle your voice? In this workshop, we will explore our choices about perspective, tense, character, and setting, while also developing self-care-based revision techniques that allow us to bring our whole selves to the page. Students will receive feedback from the instructor as well as small critique groups within the class.
Mathangi Subramanian is an award winning South Asian American author, educator, mother, and musician. Her novel A People's History of Heaven was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards and was longlisted for the PEN/Faulkner and the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Her middle grades book Dear Mrs. Naidu won the South Asia Book Award and was a finalist for The Hindu-Goodbooks Award. Her essays and op-eds have appeared in The Washington Post, Harper's Bazaar, The San Francisco Chronicle, Ms., and Al Jazeer America, among others. A former public school teacher, Assistant Vice President at Sesame Workshop, and senior policy analyst for the New York City Council, she holds a doctorate in education from Columbia University Teachers College.
Poetry with Cynthia Dewi Oka - This workshop engages with how displacement as a tactic of conquest alienates the displaced across time, place, language, and modes of identity. What does it mean to recover and to speak to/from/as our Othered selves? In this workshop, we will study, generate, and workshop poems through the lens of exile and errantry (in contrast/opposition to empire), as conceptualized by the poet and philosopher Edouard Glissant. Participants will be provided with and required to read Glissant's essay, “Errantry, Exile” from his book Poetics of Relation in preparation.
Cynthia Dewi Oka is the author of Fire Is Not a Country (2021) and Salvage (2017) from Northwestern University Press, and Nomad of Salt and Hard Water (2016) from Thread Makes Blanket Press. A recipient of the Amy Clampitt Residency, Tupelo Quarterly Poetry Prize, and the Leeway Transformation Award, her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, POETRY, Academy of American Poets, Poetry Society of America, Hyperallergic, Guernica, The Rumpus, ESPNW, and elsewhere. An alumnus of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers, she has taught creative writing at Bryn Mawr College and New Mexico State University, and with arts organizations such as Blue Stoop, Asian Arts Initiative, The Speakeasy Project, Kundiman, and the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival.
Comedy Writing with Zahra Noorbakhsh - Whether it’s in storytelling, stand-up, or essay, dialogue, prose, or a performance, we’re all funny some of the time. But, how do we make it happen on purpose, and often? How do we walk the line between comedy and drama? When do we take criticism and when do we tell critics to shove it? What are the tools and techniques that deliver laughs and how do we innovate in the genre? All attendees will leave with the fundamentals and guidance to master humor. Get ready to play and ready to work!
Zahra Noorbakhsh is a comedian, writer, and performer. Her award-winning podcast, #GoodMuslimBadMuslim was deemed a must-listen by O, the Oprah Magazine, and invited to the Obama Whitehouse to record an episode. She’s a Senior Fellow on Comedy for Social Change with the Pop Culture Collaborative and an Innovations Fellow with The Opportunity Agenda. Her one-woman show, “All Atheists are Muslim” originally directed by W. Kamau Bell, was dubbed a highlight of the International New York City Fringe Theater Festival by the New Yorker. Her comedy special, “On Behalf of All Muslims” debuts this year. Visit ZahraComedy.com.
Playwriting with Lisa Marie Rollins - This workshop’s focus is centered on supporting the development of your new play in progress. Part generative, part workshop, we will spend time with focused exercises to explore and articulate the imagined realm of your play, and time will be spent reading and attending to the worlds created inside your individual scripts. We’ll ask questions about worldmaking for the stage, and spend time discussing place, conflict, character, endings and explore the uses of a non-linear /nontraditional structures to support the needs of your play.
Lisa Marie Rollins is a freelance director, writer and new play developer. She is currently developing her new play LOVE IS ANOTHER COUNTRY. She is a Sundance Institute Theatre Lab Fellow (Directing), a Directors Lab Westmember and an Associate Member of Stage Directors and Choreographers. Lisa Marie recently received the WallaceGerbode Special Award in the Arts commission in which she will be working with Crowded Fire Theater to write and develop a new play to world premiere in Fall 2023. She was an Artistic Associate for Intiman Theater in Seattle (20-21) and is currently a Resident Artist with Crowded Fire Theater.
Political Content in Journalism with Teresa Wiltz - This workshop will focus on exploring race and culture as political content in Journalism. You will spend time revising and refining articles infused that elevate racial and cultural issues. Participants will receive faculty and peer feedback as they prepare a piece to pitch major market outlets like The Guardian, Mother Jones, and Essence.
Teresa Wiltz, is the author of The Real America: The Tangled Roots of Race and Identity. A Senior Editor at POLITICO magazine, Teresa launched The Recast last year, a biweekly newsletter unpacking how race and identity are shaking up politics. As a staff writer on the Chicago Tribune’s metro news desk, she was part of a reporting team that won the Grand Prize, Robert Kennedy Journalism Award for a series on murdered children in Chicago; the team also was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. During a decade at the Post, Teresa wrote for the paper’s acclaimed Style section, with a focus on cultural criticism.
vonavoices.org/summer-2022-workshops-open
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CREATIVE WRITING FELLOWSHIPS: POETRY
National Endowment for the Arts
DEADLINE: March 10, 2022
INFO: The National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowships program offers $25,000 grants in prose (fiction and creative nonfiction) and poetry to published creative writers that enable the recipients to set aside time for writing, research, travel, and general career advancement.
This program operates on a two-year cycle with fellowships in prose and poetry available in alternating years. In 2022 we are accepting applications in poetry.
Before submitting an application to the NEA, you must register or renew your registration with Grants.gov. Registration with Grants.gov is a one-time process, which can take several days to complete. To allow time to resolve any issues that may arise, be sure not to wait until the day of the application deadline to register. You will not be able to submit your application if you don’t successfully register with Grants.gov or update/maintain your existing registration.
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: ‘DIASPORA’ ISSUE
Lampblack Lit
DEADLINE: March 14, 2022
INFO: Lampblack, an organization created by Black writers to support all Black writers, is accepting submissions of previously unpublished poetry, prose, and criticism for their DIASPORA issue.
Submit no more than 5 pages of poetry or 10 pages of prose via email to magazine@lampblacklit.com
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MoAD Poets-in-Residence 2022
Museum of the African Diaspora
DEADLINE: March 14, 2022
INFO: The Museum of the African Diaspora Poets-in-Residence program was founded in 2018. This program provides writers with opportunities to respond to contemporary art of the African Diaspora and extend the reach of the museum through programming and educational workshops with local high school students.
We host two concurrent writing residencies per year. This year, the four-month residency runs from September 1, 2022 - December 31, 2022.
Residents enjoy flexible, drop-in access to the Museum of the African Diaspora, located in San Francisco, California. For the term of the residency, every resident receives:
A monthly stipend of $1500 (for 4 months)
No-cost access to the museum exhibitions, on-site programs and events
Designated work space
A 10% discount on all Museum store purchases
Wi-Fi access
Publicity for public programs on social media
Staff support for programming
Access to learning more about the work of the Museum of the African Diaspora from curatorial and education staff
The residency welcomes writers to pursue their own writing projects in addition to responding to the artistic collections. The residency does require that writers implement a school-based writing program in partnership with Ruth Asawa School of the Arts. Residencies last for one academic semester or 4 months. The workshops will include at least 6 site visits and one visit with students at the museum. There are also two culminating public programs that are required: a student reading and a poet-in- residence reading.
While the Museum does not retain ownership of any works created as part of the residency, we do require a printed compilation of that work to be preserved within the museum archives and, should work be published by the author in a book form, that the Museum is acknowledged for contributing to the author’s creative process.
Residency applications are reviewed by the Director of Programs, the Manager of Public Programs, and the Spoken Arts Director at the partner school. Acceptance to the residency is determined through an evaluation of the written materials and the innovation within the education project.
PLEASE NOTE: The residency does not include accommodations or meals, so it may be best suited for Bay Area writers; writers from other communities are welcome to apply but are responsible for arranging their own accommodations. We strongly encourage writers from the African diaspora to apply.
TIMELINE:
Notifications will be sent by April 4th
Residency Runs from September 1st-December 31st 2022
Selected Poets-in-Residence will be expected to complete a TB test and Livescan background check (at a MoAD-partner vendor) by September 1 and meet with the partner teacher and poet-in-residence coordinator for community building and brainstorming once during the Spring (possibly online) and at least once at the start of the Fall semester.
Selected residents, along with all MoAD employees, volunteers, and/or agents providing in-person services at MoAD and partner school sites are required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19; or if they cannot receive the COVID-19 vaccine due to disability or a sincerely held religious belief will instead show proof of a negative COVID-19 test administered within 72 hours of the first entrance at MoAD or school site and every week thereafter.
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WRITERS IN RESIDENCE
Hedgebrook
DEADLINE: March 14, 2022
INFO: Hedgebrook is on Whidbey Island, about thirty-five miles northwest of Seattle. Situated on 48-acres of forest and meadow facing Puget Sound, with a view of Mount Rainier, the retreat hosts writers from all over the world for fully-funded residencies of two to four weeks (travel is not included and is the responsibility of the writer to arrange and pay for). This residency is open to women-identified writers 18 and older.
Central to what we do, our Writer-in-Residence Program supports fully-funded residencies for selected women-identified writers at the retreat each year. Up to 6 writers can be in residence at a time, each housed in a handcrafted cottage. They spend their days in solitude – writing, reading, taking walks in the woods on the property or on nearby Double Bluff beach. In the evenings, “The Gathering” is a social time for residents to connect and share over their freshly prepared meals.
Hedgebrook’s mission is to support visionary women writers whose stories and ideas shape our culture now and for generations to come. Residents must be willing to adhere to a specific set of health and safety protocols we have implemented to keep writers, staff, and surrounding communities safer. We will be following CDC and local government guidelines and recommendations for travel and in-person gathering restrictions.
Residencies for this application cycle, Cycle 1, will take place February - June 2023.
2023 WiR Genres for Cycle One:
Fiction
Non-Fiction
Playwriting
Poetry
Screenwriting/TV Writing
Songwriting
hedgebrook.org/writers-in-residence
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: ‘VOZ’ ISSUE
Alebrijes Review
DEADLINE: March 15, 2022
INFO: Alebrijes Review's third issue, VOZ, will be published both online and in print! We're seeking original poetry, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, visual art, photography, and hybrid work created by Latino artists.
The theme of VOZ primarily serves to emphasize that we are seeking work showcasing unique, impactful, or personal voices. We accept submissions of work on any subject, however please do not submit graphic sexual or violent material, and know that we do not tolerate plagiarism.
We accept pieces in English, Spanish, and Ingléspañol/Spanglish. (If you would like to submit a piece in a different language, please email your submission as an attachment to alebrijesmag@gmail.com.)
We aim to publish the issue April 2022. If accepted, we ask that you credit us as the original publisher if your piece appears elsewhere, but you will retain all rights to your work.
Please reach out to us as alebrijesmag@gmail.com if you have any questions!
alebrijesreview.com/submissions
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Raz-Shumaker Book Prize: SHORT FICTION & POETRY
Prairie Schooner
DEADLINE: March 15, 2022
ENTRY FEE: A $25 processing fee must accompany each submission, payable to Prairie Schooner.
INFO: The Prairie Schooner Raz-Shumaker Book Prize Series welcomes manuscripts from all living writers, including non-US citizens, writing in English. Both unpublished and published writers are welcome to submit manuscripts. However, we will not consider manuscripts that have previously been published, which includes self-publication. Writers may enter both contests (poetry and fiction).
Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but we ask that you notify us immediately if your manuscript is accepted for publication somewhere else. No past or present paid employee of Prairie Schooner or the University of Nebraska Press or current faculty or student at the University of Nebraska will be eligible for the prizes.
PRIZES: Winners will receive $3000 and publication through the University of Nebraska Press.
MANUSCRIPT: We prefer that fiction manuscripts be at least 150 pages long and poetry manuscripts at least 50 pages long. Novels are not considered; we will consider manuscripts comprised either entirely of short stories or one novella along with short stories (please do not send a single novella or a collection of novellas). Manuscripts may contain stories or poems that have been published in journals or in chapbook form; however, if the full-length manuscript includes work from a previously published chapbook, the majority of the manuscript must be additional work not appearing in the chapbook. Prairie Schooner accepts electronic submissions as well as hard copy submissions. Please see below for further formatting guidelines and the link to submit electronically.
HARD COPY SUBMISSIONS: The author’s name should not appear on the manuscript. All entries will be read anonymously. Please include two cover pages: one listing only the title of the manuscript, and the other listing the author’s name, address, telephone number, and email address. An acknowledgements page listing the publication history of individual stories or poems may be included, if desired. No application forms are necessary.
For hard copy submissions, photocopies are acceptable. Please do not bind manuscripts with anything other than a binder clip or rubber band. Please include a self-addressed postage-paid postcard for confirmation of manuscript receipt. Please use a standard postcard—small index cards will not be accepted by the U.S. Postal Service. A stamped, self-addressed business size envelope must accompany the submission for notification of results. No manuscripts will be returned. All manuscripts that do not win will be recycled.
ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS: The author’s name should not appear anywhere on the manuscript. All entries will be read anonymously. An acknowledgements page listing the publication history of individual stories or poems may be included, if desired. No application forms are necessary.
NOTIFICATION: Winners will be announced on this website on or before July 15, 2022. Results will be emailed or mailed shortly thereafter.
prairieschooner.unl.edu/book-prize
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: POETRY & PROSE
Hayden’s Ferry Review
DEADLINE: March 15, 2022
READING FEE: $3 (The fee is waived for Black writers).
INFO: Hayden's Ferry Review is the international literary journal out of Arizona State University.
GUIDELINES:
Please send one submission per genre at a time, and wait for a response before you submit additional work.
Withdraw your submission using Submittable. if you are only withdrawing a section of your work (for example: 2/5 poems), add a note to your submission.
Please limit your prose submissions to under 20 pages, and your poetry submissions to 6 or less poems.
All prose should be double-spaced.
Contributors receive one copy of the issue in which they appear. Additional copies may be purchased for $6 each up to 5 copies.
Simultaneous submissions are welcome. If your work is accepted elsewhere, please notify the editors immediately.
We do not accept previously published material.
We do not consider book-length works.
Submitters are strongly encouraged to read the journal before submitting: to subscribe, visit http://hfr.clas.asu.edu/store.
We are always open to submissions of visual art.
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Issue 4 “Freedom”!
Spoken Black Girl Magazine
DEADLINE: March 25, 2022
INFO: In Spoken Black Girl Issue 4 “Freedom” we are looking for new poetry, essays, articles, short stories, novel excerpts, hybrid forms, interviews, art, illustrations, and photography around the topic of “Freedom”.
Submissions are open to Black women, women of color, femme-identifying folks, nonbinary folks LGBTQIA+, and queer writers of color. We are looking for real-life stories, and images that speak for themselves and show a unique perspective on freedom. What do we do when we’re free? How do you express your freedom? Some suggested topics are; reproductive justice, freedom of religion/spirituality, freedom to break barriers, economic freedom, interviews about domestic violence, Black and brown infant mortality rates, freedom from stereotypes and constructs, freedom to express sexuality, sensuality & erotic freedom, sexual orientation, and gender identity. How is our freedom limited? How can we seek true freedom?
All accepted submissions will receive $75 in compensation.
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: BIPOC-ONLY ISSUE
Salt Hill Journal
DEADLINE: March 28, 2022
INFO: For their upcoming edition, Salt Hill Journal is accepting fiction, nonfiction, and poetry only from BIPOC writers.
GUIDELINES:
Fiction/Nonfiction: Please do not submit works of more than 30 pages, double-spaced. We accept multiple flash pieces, so long as their combined length does not exceed 30 pages
Poetry: Please submit no more than five poems at a time.
https://salthill.submittable.com/submit
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: ‘UPSPRING’ ISSUE
Yellow Arrow Journal
DEADLINE: March 31, 2022
INFO: Yellow Arrow Journal, a biannual publication of creative nonfiction, poetry, and cover art by writers/artists that identify as women, is excited to announce submissions are now OPEN for the spring 2022 (Vol. VII, No. 1) issue on UpSpring.
Accepted submissions include creative nonfiction, poetry, and cover art by authors/artists that identify as women. Submissions must relate to the theme of UpSpring as interpreted by the author. Find the guidelines at .
COMPENSATION: If selected, you will receive $10.00 USD and a PDF of the journal issue. Note that payments are through PayPal; while we try to accommodate those that do not have a PayPal account, this is not always possible, especially for people outside of the U.S. Thank you for understanding.
yellowarrowpublishing.com/submissions
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: ‘BIRTH/MARK: TRANSRACIAL ADOPTEES’ ISSUE
Raising Mothers
DEADLINE: March 31, 2022
INFO: Raising Mothers publishes work that centers parenthood from either a parent, or child-centered perspective from BIPOC people exclusively; women, femmes, disabled, nonbinary and LGBTQIA+ parents.
For their next issue, Raising Mothers is seeking work writers who are also Transracial Adoptees. Share your experience of being a child of color growing up and moving away from the gaze of whiteness. How has it shaped you? How has it informed your parenting? Have you decided against parenting because of it? Have you searched for your birth family?
They invite all forms--essays, poems, interviews, comics, etc.--from diasporic transracial adoptees (Black, Asian, Latine(x), Indigenous, and other persons of color) to add nuance to the collective narrative. Being a parent is not a requirement.
Select featured works will receive honoraria.
raisingmothers.com/submissions/#tab-92941
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The 2022 Pinch Literary Awards in PoetrY
The Pinch
DEADLINE: March 31, 2022
ENTRY FEE: $20
INFO: The 2022 Pinch Literary Awards in poetry is now open. All entries are considered for publication. First, second, and third place winners will be selected from each category. The first place winners will be published in the Spring issue following announcement. Second and third place winners will be given high-priority consideration for publication, but because of space, cannot be guaranteed. Due to the high volume of submissions, any prize winners will be ineligible for contest participation for three years.
PRIZE: $2,000
JUDGE: Phillip B. Williams is the author of Mutiny (Penguin Random House, 2021), and Thief in the Interior (Alice James Books, 2016), winner of the 2017 Kate Tufts Discovery Award and a 2017 Lambda Literary award. He is also the author of the chapbooks Bruised Gospels (Arts in Bloom Inc., 2011) and Burn (YesYes Books, 2013). Williams’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Boston Review, Callaloo, Kenyon Review, The New Republic, The New Yorker, and others. He is the recipient of a 2020 creative writing grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, a 2017 Whiting Award, and a 2013 Ruth Lilly Fellowship. He serves as a faculty member at Bennington College and Randolph College low-res MFA.
CONTEST RULES: Only unpublished work will be considered. Entries must range from 1-3 poems. Simultaneous submissions are welcome, but notify us immediately if work is accepted elsewhere. No refunds will be issued. Manuscripts will not be returned. You may submit entries online via the link below or via mail. Emailed entries will not be considered.
INELIGIBLE:
No translations will be considered.
Current students and faculty of The University of Memphis, as well as volunteer staff members for The Pinch, are not eligible.
ENCLOSE THE FOLLOWING WITH EACH ENTRY:
1. $20 submission fee for each entry.
2. The following information entered into the cover letter box: name, address, phone number, and email address. The AUTHOR'S CONTACT INFORMATION SHOULD NOT APPEAR ON THE MANUSCRIPT itself. Entries that do not adhere to this policy will be DISCARDED UNREAD. Please notify us if your address or email changes.
3. Please do not title your entries "Poems," "Contest Entry," "Poems for Pinch Contest," or "Pinch Contest". This makes it really hard to go back and find the poem that we absolutely loved and want to sent off as a finalist! Title the entry with either the title of your first poem entry or as all three titles of your poems separated by commas.
pinchjournal.com/2021-pinch-literary-awards
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The Orison Prizes in Poetry & Fiction
Orison Books
DEADLINE: April 1, 2022
ENTRY FEE: $25
INFO: Each year Orison Books accept submissions of full-length poetry (50-100 pp.) and fiction (30,000 word minimum) manuscripts for The Orison Prizes in Poetry and Fiction, judged by different prominent writers each year in an anonymous judging process.
PRIZE: The winning entry in each genre will be awarded publication and a $1,500 cash prize, in addition to a standard royalties contract. Finalists will be selected by the editorial staff at Orison Books, and the winners will be selected from among the finalist manuscripts by the judges.
In the event that a judge in either genre does not select a winner from among the finalists, the Editor will select a winner. The editors also reserve the right to select no finalists, in which case all entry fees will be refunded to the entrants. All finalist manuscripts will be considered for publication under a standard royalties contract. Contest results will be announced by September 15, 2022. Winners will receive payment by October 15, 2022.
JUDGES:
Poetry: Rajiv Mohabir
Fiction: Tania James
GUIDELINES:
Original English work only; no translations.
Do not include your name anywhere in your manuscript file or file name, but only in your Duosuma cover letter.
Individual poems and stories or excerpts may have been previously published in periodicals and/or chapbooks, but the manuscript as a whole must not have been published in book form, whether digital or in print. Self-published manuscripts are considered previously published and are not eligible.
Please include any publication acknowledgments in your cover letter, listing any periodicals where individual pieces from your manuscript first appeared. Acknowledgments should not appear in the manuscript file.
Poetry manuscripts must be 50-100 pages of poems (each poem beginning on a new page). Fiction manuscripts must have a minimum word count of 30,000.
Fiction manuscripts may consist of short stories, a novel, a novella, flash/micro fiction, or any combination of forms, as long as the manuscript meets the 30,000 word minimum.
Existing Orison Books authors are not eligible for The Orison Prizes.
Simultaneous submissions are accepted; please notify us immediately should a manuscript be accepted for publication elsewhere.
Multiple manuscripts may be submitted; each manuscript must be accompanied by a separate entry fee.
Orison Books is committed to running ethical and transparent contests. Current or former students of the judge or the lead genre editor(s), or anyone with a close personal relationship with that judge or lead editor(s), are not eligible to submit in the category in question. Judges also never see author names until after they have made their selections.
Orison Books undertakes never to extend contest deadlines, except in the case of technical problems or other events that would prevent submitters from entering the contest by the original deadline.
We only accept electronic submissions, which must be sent through our Duosuma page.
duotrope.com/duosuma/submit/orison-prizes-poetry-fiction-eyhfu