Put Into Words, My Love - Petite Pomme by Pomme Journal
INFO: Pomme Journal is pleased to announce a call for submissions for their inaugural Petite Pomme, a miniature sized journal at 4x6", entitled "Put Into Words, My Love"
We're looking forward to falling in love with your work! "Put Into Words, My Love" is an exploration of the feeling of love, and an attempt to put it into words. The final collection will be a long love story, small enough to fit in your pocket and suitable for recitation to your dearest loved one.
Accepted work will feel
genuine
gender neutral
reflective
uplifting
Please note, submissions that do not meet the guidelines will not be accepted.
All submissions must be
no longer than 900 CHARACTERS (please note, spaces and punctuation count as a character).
OR 20 lines (Take into consideration, a full return space between stanzas counts as a line).
Each line cannot exceed 45 characters
Accepted work will be displayed in 9pt font in a space approximately 2.5x5".
SUBMISSION FEE: $2
DEADLINE: January 2, 2020
LATINX POETS MENTORSHIP
INFO: Poet Eduardo C. Corral’s Latinx Poets Mentorship Program is open to:
Latinx poets working on their first full-length poetry manuscripts
Latinx poets living and working inside and outside the USA
MFA degree not required
Mentorship includes feedback on full-length manuscript (line edits, order) and advice on how to navigate book contests and publishing opportunities. He will also help fashion cover letters and project descriptions for fellowships / award opportunities. Additionally, he would be more than happy to discuss the highs and lows of post-MFA life and the importance of developing an active writing practice.
Please send the following materials, in a single PDF file, to latinxpoetrymentorship@gmail.com:
Five pages of work
Letter of introduction (no more than a page). Feel free to describe your work, the current state of your manuscript, and the writers you’ve worked with in the past. That said, the letter is your letter. Write what you wish.
He will select three Latinx poets by end of January.
DEADLINE: January 5, 2020
https://twitter.com/eduardoccorral/status/1205592953780981761
2020 UNDOCUPOETS FELLOWSHIP
Sibling Rivalry Press Foundation
INFO: The Sibling Rivalry Press Foundation is proud to host the Undocupoets Fellowship, sponsored by Amazon Literary Partnership. The mission of Undocupoets is to promote the work of undocumented poets and raise consciousness about the structural barriers that they face in the literary community. We believe in supporting all poets, regardless of immigration status.
Overview: The Undocupoets Fellowship annually grants TWO $500 fellowships, with no strings attached, to poets who are currently or who were formerly undocumented in the United States to help defray the cost of poetry-related submission fees.
Submission Process: Please submit up to 10 pages of poetry, with no more than one poem per page, per individual. In addition, please include a cover letter with a bio and brief description of your current work or manuscript-in-progress.
At least one of the two fellowships awarded will be given to LGBTQ undocumented or previously undocumented poets per an agreement with Sibling Rivalry Press. Please indicate on your bio if you identify as LGBTQ.
While no single fellowship recipient will receive more than $500 on any given year, fellowships can be awarded to the same individual for multiple years.
DEADLINE: January 15, 2020
siblingrivalrypress.com/undocupoets-fellowship
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Please See Me
INFO: We seek previously unpublished, creative, and high-quality work in the form of poetry, creative nonfiction/essays, fiction/short stories/flash fiction, and digital media (photography, drawings, podcasts, and short films). Patients, students, family members, caregivers, nurses, physicians, healthcare consumers, artists, mental health providers, physical therapists, writers, clergy—all of us will be patients one day and all are welcome to submit work. We are especially looking for content that connects us, make us feel something, or helps us see illness, wellness, health, or the healthcare environment differently.
Theme Guidelines
The theme for our March 2020 issue is Hope. What, or who, gives you hope? A caregiver? A patient? A child? A colleague? What did you hope for and receive, or not receive? What are you hoping for as it relates to health and wellness–for yourself or for others? Have you lost hope? Have you found hope? Did a new treatment or wellness plan give you hope for a cure? A better way of life? Tell us about all of it. All submissions should directly or indirectly touch on this theme in some way. Be creative! It’s a new year and there is much to be hopeful about!
All Submissions can be made through Submittable.
Mental Health Awareness Writing Contest
In this issue we are also hosting a Writing Contest with a $250 award in all 3 written genres for stories and narratives that raise awareness on issues related to mental health, such as homelessness, missed or delayed diagnosis, or loss (of family, husband/wife, jobs), with extra credit given to those who can tie both into our theme of Hope. Contest Submission should be made through Submittable.
Genre Guidelines
Poetry
Please submit a maximum of three poems at a time.
Fiction
Please submit short stories up to 4,000 words in length. Flash fiction, up to 1,000 words, is welcome and encouraged.
We will look at excepts of longer works on a case-by-case basis; please query us with a description of your project before submitting.
Creative Nonfiction
Please submit nonfiction pieces up to 4,000 words in length.
We will look at excepts of longer works on a case-by-case basis; please query us with a description of your project before submitting.
Films
Please submit links to your short films for review, and up to five minutes in length.
Other Media
We welcome submissions of photography, podcasts, and other media. All digital media will should be hosted by the creator, and shared by a link. Photography and still images can be attached to submission.
For All Submissions
Get creative! Anything that touches on our theme is be considered fair game. If you are not sure your work fits, please query us through Submittable.
DEADLINE: January 15, 2020
http://pleaseseeme.com/submissions/
Summer 2020 LITERATURE FELLOWSHIP (June 1– September 30, 2020)
MacDowell Colony
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. Travel grants as well as need-based stipends are available to open the residency experience to the broadest possible community of artists. Artists with professional standing in their fields, as well as emerging artists, are eligible to apply. MacDowell encourages artists from all backgrounds and all countries in the following disciplines: architecture, film/video arts, interdisciplinary arts, literature, music composition, theatre, and visual arts.
Writers of novels, short story, graphic writing, journalism, essays, biography, creative nonfiction, memoir, poetry, and translation into English are accepted.
SUBMISSION FEE: $30
DEADLINE: January 15, 2020
https://macdowell.slideroom.com/#/Login
ARTIST RESIDENCY
Helene Wurlitzer Foundation
INFO: The Foundation offers three months of rent-free and utility-paid housing to people who specialize in the creative arts. Our eleven guest houses, or casitas, are fully furnished and provide residents with a peaceful setting in which to pursue their creative endeavors.
The Foundation accepts applications from painters, poets, sculptors, writers, playwrights, screenwriters, composers, photographers, and filmmakers of national and international origin.
Applications are reviewed by a selection committee consisting of professionals who specialize in the artistic discipline of the applicant. Numerous jurors serve on committees for each: visual arts, music composers, writers, poets, playwrights, and filmmakers. Jurors, who know nothing about the artist's demographics, score in five categories based purely on the merit of the applicant's creative work samples.
Artists in residence have no imposed expectations, quotas, or requirements during their stay on the HWF campus. The HWF’s residency program provides artists with the time and space to create, which in turn enriches the artistic community and culture locally and abroad.
SESSIONS:
Session 1: Jan - Apr
Session 2: June - Aug
Session 3: Sept - Dec
DEADLINE: January 18, 2020
https://wurlitzerfoundation.org/apply
NYSCA/NYFA ARTIST FELLOWSHIP
INFO: The NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship is a $7,000 unrestricted cash grant available to artists living in New York State and/or one of the Indian Nations located therein. This grant is awarded in 15 different disciplines over a three-year period (five categories a year) and the application is free to complete. The NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship is not a project grant, but is intended to fund an artist's vision or voice, at all levels of their artistic development.
APPLICANTS MUST MEET THE FOLLOWING ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
25 years or older
Current residents of New York State and/or one of the Indian Nations located in New York State
Must have maintained New York State residency, and/or residency in one of the Indian Nations located therein, for at least the last two consecutive years (2018 & 2019)
Cannot be enrolled in a degree-seeking program of any kind
Are the originators of the work, i.e. choreographers or playwrights, not interpretive artists such as dancers or actors
Did not receive a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in any discipline in the past five consecutive years: 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019
Cannot submit any work samples that have been previously awarded a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship
While collaborating artists are eligible to apply, the total number of collaborators cannot exceed three
Are not a current NYFA employee or have been in the last 12 months, a member of the NYFA Board of Trustees or Artists’ Advisory Committee, immediate family member of any of the aforementioned, or an immediate family member of a 2019-2020 panelist
Artists that have been awarded five NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowships receive Emeritus status and are no longer eligible for the award
2020 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship Categories
Craft/Sculpture
Digital/Electronic Arts
Nonfiction Literature
Poetry
Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts
DEADLINE: January 22, 2019
Summer Residency Program
University of Arizona Poetry Center
INFO: Founded in 1994, the University of Arizona Poetry Center’s Summer Residency Program offers poets the opportunity to focus on their writing during a two-week stay in Tucson, Arizona. Residents are housed in the Poetry Center’s studio apartment, located just steps away the Center’s renowned library of contemporary poetry. Residents also receive a $500 stipend and give a public reading in the Poetry Center’s Reading and Lecture Series, ongoing since 1962. The residency is offered annually between late June and August.
The 2020 Summer Residency Judge is sam sax. sam sax is a queer, Jewish, writer & educator. He is the author of Madness (Penguin, 2017) winner of The National Poetry Series selected by Terrance Hayes & Bury It (Wesleyan University Press, 2018) winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. sam has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Poetry Foundation, Lambda Literary, & the MacDowell Colony.
Eligibility
Open to poets at any stage of their career. Emerging writers welcome. Friends, students, or family members of the judge are not eligible. Current University of Arizona affiliates and/or Tucson residents may not apply. This award is currently only open to US Residents.
About the Residency Experience
Residents stay in a studio apartment located on the premises of the Poetry Center within the University of Arizona campus. Restaurants, a coffee shop, and stops for buses and the streetcar are all located nearby, and a bicycle is available for your use. Tucson’s streetcar provides convenient transportation to Fourth Avenue and downtown Tucson, where you can find restaurants, cafés, bars and music venues, and grocery stores.
The residency is offered late June through August. During this time, local temperatures average in the 100s. Some residents find the heat overwhelming at first. However, mornings are cool, and our monsoon season, which usually takes place from the end of June through July, can sometimes brings significantly lower temperatures along with the storms.
We host only one resident per summer and our residents have no duties or responsibilities, other than to give a public reading.
Our residency program is, in important ways, an experience of solitude. If collaboration, networking, and companionship are important elements of a residency experience for you, you may want to look into the many other excellent residency programs that can provide these opportunities.
What we can offer are the following essentials of our residency experience:
quiet, unstructured writing time
an apartment all to yourself
access to an amazing library collection of contemporary poetry in English
a $500 stipend and domestic roundtrip airfare. If traveling by car, you may be reimbursed in the amount equal to the cost of a domestic airfare ticket for the same time period. If you plan on driving instead of flying, please let us know in advance.
The resident’s studio apartment cannot accommodate partners or pets, other than certified service animals. Smoking in the studio apartment is not permitted. Residents are responsible for providing their own transportation for the duration of their stay, cell phone (there is no landline in the studio apartment), computer (free wifi is available), exercise equipment, and other supplies. The Poetry Center will have prepared the apartment with one initial round of groceries, after which the resident is responsible for acquiring their own food. Residents are also responsible for doing their laundry at a nearby laundromat.
DEADLINE: January 31, 2020
https://poetry.arizona.edu/opportunities/residencies/summer-residency-program
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Global City Review
INFO: Global City Review is a biannual online and print publication. Each issue is organized around a broad theme and includes stories, poems, memoirs, interviews, essays, and artwork. The designated theme for forthcoming Issue 24 is: Setting The Record Straight.
We publish:
short fiction and memoir (up to 15 pages)
poetry (up to 5 poems; please format and submit as a single document)
interviews and essays (up to 15 pages)
artwork in various mediums
We accept simultaneous submission. If your work is accepted elsewhere, we ask you inform us immediately.
No multiple submissions. Please only send one submission per reading period.
We publish original, previously unpublished work.
Format:
All manuscripts must be double spaced and numbered.
To be included on the first page of your submission:
your name;
contact information;
genre;
word count; and
one to three sentences about how the work speaks to the designated theme of the forthcoming issue.
We accept .doc and .docx formats.
DEADLINE: January 31, 2020
https://globalcitypress.com/contact-subscribe-submit/
adda open call: CLIMATE CHANGE
INFO: adda is the online magazine of Commonwealth Writers. We are looking for new writing on the theme of climate change. We seek poetry, fiction and – in particular – non-fiction.
Non-fiction submissions can be sent either completed or in the form of a detailed proposed idea/pitch (maximum 500 words). For those sending in a pitch, Commonwealth Writers recommends submitting as far in advance of the deadline as possible.
No previously published work will be considered, whether in print or online, in whole or in part. We will, however, consider new translations into English of work already published in other languages. We will consider commissioning new non-fiction in other languages and arrange the translation ourselves. Please note, we can only accept submissions from citizens of Commonwealth countries.
We encourage you to familiarise yourself with the work already published on adda. We are looking to select a broad range of work. Entries by voices, or on topics, that may receive less attention from other publications are welcomed.
Please submit only once. You may enter work in one of the three categories: Poetry, Fiction, or Non-fiction. We accept simultaneous submissions on the understanding you will inform us immediately if the text is accepted for publication elsewhere.
To submit to this call, please complete the submissions form and upload:
A description of your writing history (300 words max)
And one of the following:
Up to two poems only (no word count, but a maximum five pages in total)
One piece of fiction writing (word count 2000-5000)
One non-fiction piece (word count 2000-5000)
One non-fiction proposal (word count 500 words maximum)
Submissions are read anonymously. Please do not include any contact or personal information in the files that you submit.
DEADLINE: January 31, 2020
https://www.addastories.org/open-call/
THE LUCY TERRY PRINCE PRIZE
Mount Island
INFO: We joyfully announce the establishment of the Lucy Terry Prince Prize, a new poetry competition open to rural writers of color. The Lucy Terry Prince Prize honors the life of Lucy Terry Prince, a free, landowning Black woman in colonial Vermont who is considered the first known African-American poet in English literature. An introduction to Lucy Terry Prince’s story, as well as links to further material, are available on our website.
PRIZE: The winner of the Lucy Terry Prince Prize will receive a cash prize of $500, publication in our 2020 print anthology, and an invitation to read at and participate in a panel on race, art, and the rural in fall 2020.
We are thoroughly honored to also announce that Major Jackson will serve as the Prize’s inaugural judge.
Major Jackson is the author of five books of poetry, including The Absurd Man (2020), Roll Deep (2015), Holding Company (2010), Hoops (2006) and Leaving Saturn (2002), which won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize for a first book of poems. His edited volumes include: Best American Poetry 2019, Renga for Obama, and Library of America’s Countee Cullen: Collected Poems. A recipient of fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Major Jackson has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, a Whiting Writers’ Award, and has been honored by the Pew Fellowship in the Arts and the Witter Bynner Foundation in conjunction with the Library of Congress. He has published poems and essays in American Poetry Review, Callaloo, The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, Paris Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, Tin House, and included in multiple volumes of Best American Poetry. Major Jackson lives in South Burlington, Vermont, where he is the Richard A. Dennis Professor of English and University Distinguished Professor at the University of Vermont. He serves as the Poetry Editor of The Harvard Review.
DEADLINE: February 15, 2020
