POETRY -- SEPTEMBER 2021

Princeton Arts Fellowships

Princeton University

DEADLINE: September 14, 2021

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 composers, conductors, musicians, choreographers, 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.

STIPEND: An $86,000 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.

APPLICATION GUIDELINES: To apply, please submit a curriculum vitae, a 500-word statement about how you would hope to use the two years of the fellowship at this moment in your career and how you would contribute to Princeton’s arts community through teaching and/or production, 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.). You are also encouraged to submit an optional 300-word diversity and inclusion statement as part of your application package.

As part of your submitted application materials, we encourage all applicants to describe their experiences with encouraging diversity and inclusion in their artistic practice, teaching and/or research in the past and present, and their ability to make future contributions. Any submitted statement should include their potential for supporting the Lewis Center’s commitment to diversity and to furthering equitable practices within the arts as well as their potential to mentor and educate students from backgrounds underrepresented in the candidate’s artistic field.

Applicants can only apply for the Princeton Arts Fellowship twice in a lifetime.

https://arts.princeton.edu/fellowships/princeton-arts-fellowship/

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2021 Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady Chapbook Prize

Cave Canem

DEADLINE: September 15, 2021 at 11:59 pm ET

ENTRY FEE: $0

INFO: Launched in 2015, the annual Toi Derricotte & Cornelius Eady Chapbook Prize is dedicated to the discovery of exceptional chapbook-length manuscripts by Black poets, and is presented in collaboration with the O, Miami Poetry Festival, Jai-Alai Books, and The Betsy – South Beach.

This is not a first-book award. All unpublished, original collections of poems written in English by Black writers are eligible. Simultaneous submission to other chapbook awards should be noted: immediate notice upon winning such an award is required.

AWARD: Winner receives $1000, publication by Jai-Alai Books in spring 2022, 10 copies of the chapbook, a residency at The Writer’s Room at The Betsy Hotel in Miami and a featured virtual reading at the O, Miami Poetry Festival.

FINAL JUDGE: Lillian-Yvonne Bertram is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, where they teach in and direct the UMass Boston MFA in Creative Writing Program. They also direct the Chautauqua Institution Writers’ Festival. They are the author of the poetry collections Travesty Generator (Noemi Press, 2019), winner of the 2018 Noemi Press Poetry Prize and the 2020 Poetry Society of America Anna Rabinowitz Prize, and a finalist for the National Poetry Series. Other works include Personal Science (Tupelo Press, 2017); a slice from the cake made of air (Red Hen Press 2016); and But a Storm is Blowing From Paradise (Red Hen Press, 2012), chosen by Claudia Rankine as the winner of the 2010 Benjamin Saltman Award. Bertram’s honors include a 2017 Harvard University Woodberry Poetry Room Creative Grant, a 2014 National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship, finalist nomination for the 2013 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, a Vermont Studio Center Fellowship, and fellowships to the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Cave Canem, and others. Bertram holds a PhD in Literature & Creative Writing from the creative writing program at the University of Utah, among degrees from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS:

• Submit manuscripts online via Submittable. Hard copy submissions will not be considered.

• One manuscript per poet allowed.

• Upload manuscript as a .doc or .pdf document. Include a title page with the title only and a table of contents. Author’s name should not appear on any pages within the uploaded document.

• Include a cover letter in the Submittable text box with a brief author’s bio (200 words, maximum) and a list of acknowledgments of previously published poems. DO NOT include this information within the .doc or .pdf document of the manuscript.

• Manuscript must be paginated, with a font size of 11 or 12, and 25-30 pages in length, inclusive of title page and table of contents. A poem may be multiple pages, but no more than one poem per page is permitted.

• Manuscripts not adhering to submission guidelines will not be considered.

• Post-submission revisions or corrections are not permitted.

About O, Miami

O, Miami builds literary culture in Miami, FL. In collaboration with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, O, Miami produces a visiting writer series, a publishing imprint, a poets-in-the-community workshop program, and the O, Miami Poetry Festival, which has the annual goal of every single person in Miami-Dade County encountering a poem during the month of April. For more, visit omiami.org.

About Jai-Alai Books
Jai-Alai Books is a small press dedicated to the advancement of Miami’s literary identity. Launched in 2014 and winner of the 2014 Knight Arts Challenge from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the press publishes titles in a variety of genres. For more information visit www.jai-alaibooks.com.

About The Betsy Hotel

The Betsy – South Beach is an award-winning global arts hotel and home of The Betsy Writer’s Roomthat has hosted over 800 artists, thought leaders, poets and creators in residence. The Betsy is also the home of O, Miami Poetry Festival, Miami Classical Music Festival and host Hotel to many of South Florida’s leading regional charitable, arts and culture organizations. Poetry programs are inspired by the work of mid-century poet Hyam Plutzik, three-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and father of Betsy owner Jonathan Plutzik. The Betsy Hotel, located on iconic Ocean Drive, beachfront, is also home of The Betsy Poetry Rail, a public installation that champions the work of 12 writers that shaped Miami Culture.

https://cavecanem.submittable.com/submit/198447/2021-toi-derricotte-and-cornelius-eady-chapbook-prize

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The Anzaldúa Poetry Prize

Newfound

DEADLINE: September 15, 2021, at 12am CDT

READING FEE: $15

INFO: The Gloria E. Anzaldúa Poetry Prize is awarded annually to a poet whose work explores how place shapes identity, imagination, and understanding. Special attention is given to poems that exhibit multiple vectors of thinking: artistic, theoretical, and social, which is to say, political.

The annual poetry prize proudly honors poet, writer, and cultural theorist, Gloria E. Anzaldúa. Anzaldúa’s work highlights how one’s place in the world is at once geographical, geopolitical, psychological, mythological, spiritual, and linguistic. She is well known for her book of prose and poetry, “Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza,” which draws on her experience as a Chicana/Tejana/lesbian/feminist activist—a revolutionary and inspirational work that continues to be so.

GUEST JUDGE: Chen Chen

AWARDS: First place is publication, $1,500 prize, and 25 contributor copies. Three finalists will be announced, and all previously unpublished work will be considered for publication as a general submission to the journal.

GUIDELINES:

• Send 15 to 30 pages of poetry. Please include no more than one poem per page.

• Simultaneous submissions and previously published poems are acceptable.

• All entries must be sent online via our submission manager and be contained in a single document.

• The author’s name should not appear in the document (.docx).

• A non-refundable $15 reading fee must accompany your work. If our reading fee is prohibitive, email editor [at] newfound [dot] org for a manuscript fee waiver. We can offer a few a year.

• Students (past and present), relatives, and close friends of the judge are ineligible.

PRIZE:

• The winner will receive a prize of $1,500 plus 25 copies of the published manuscript. The author will have the opportunity to purchase additional copies at a discount.

• The author will have the option to sign a royalties contract to sell the chapbook with Newfound.

• Newfound will design, print, and bind the chapbook. The cover will be decided in cooperation with the winning author.

• All finalists will be announced in December on the Newfound blog and social media channels.

• All poems submitted for the award will be considered for publication in Newfound.

• Due to the number of submissions, we cannot leave each manuscript personalized feedback. Authors will receive acknowledgment of receipt and panel decision. Check here for notification of the winner.

GUEST JUDGE: Chen Chen is the author of “When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities” (BOA Editions, 2017), which was longlisted for the National Book Award and won the Thom Gunn Award, among other honors. Last summer, Bloodaxe Books published the UK edition. He is also the author of four chapbooks, most recently “GESUNDHEIT!” (with Sam Herschel Wein & out from Glass Poetry Press). His work appears in many publications, including Poetry, Ploughshares, Poem-a-Day, and The Best American Poetry (2015 & 2019). He has received a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from Kundiman and the National Endowment for the Arts. He holds an MFA from Syracuse University and a PhD from Texas Tech University. He teaches at Brandeis University as the Jacob Ziskind Poet-in-Residence and co-runs the journal, Underblong. He lives in Waltham, MA with his partner, Jeff Gilbert and their pug, Mr. Rupert Giles.

http://newfound.org/poetry-prize/

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: POETRY

Columbia Journal

DEADLINE: September 15, 2021

INFO: Columbia Journal seeks submissions of poetry, for both print and online. We welcome you to submit with us. We’re in search of innovative, outward-looking voices, stories that break boundaries and language that lingers.

We accept all forms of poetry (prose poetry, lyric, formal, etc). Please send up to three poems in one document, with each poem on a separate page. Your submission should be in a DOC, DOCX, or PDFfile format. Your name, a short (300 words or less) bio should be included in the cover letter. Please also include your preferred social media handles (IE Twitter, Instagram, etc.) if you would like to  be tagged on our profiles should we publish your work. Bios over 300 words will be truncated at the reviewing editor's discretion.

Submissions will be considered for both the print and online editions.

Our editors do our best to be timely in their responses to submissions, but due to the incredible number of submissions we receive on an ongoing basis, we cannot guarantee a specific time period in which a decision will have been made. We do not consider previously published work. If your work is accepted elsewhere, please let us know as soon as possible and we will withdraw it from our consideration.

https://columbiajournal.submittable.com/submit

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Mixed Mag

DEADLINE: September 15, 2021

INFO: Mixed Mag is an online multimedia publication dedicated to promoting creatives of color and celebrating our multiethnic/multicultural voices.

We’re accepting articles, think pieces, short stories, reviews and essays between 500-3000 words (sections include ART, FASHION, POLITICS, PROSE, TV/FILM/THEATER, MUSIC, FOOD, HEALTH/SEX/WELLNESS). Please read specific section requirements below: 

• POETRY: Submit up to three poems. 

• PROSE: Submit creative non-fiction, flash fiction or short stories between 500-3000 words.

• TV, FILM & THEATER: Monologues must be 5 pages max. Plays/screenplays must be between 10-15 page max (this includes plays, films and web series). Short films or web series episodes must be no longer than 15 minutes. 

• ART: Submit 10 photos/videos max for visual submissions. Please include an artist’s statement.

• MUSIC: Send us your essays, albums reviews or original music links. Please include links to Soundcloud, Spotify, Apple Music, iTunes, Youtube, etc. as well as a paragraph about your submission. 

• FOOD: Send us your food stories, recipes, conversations and good eats related to culture or ancestry. Please include photos and if sending a recipe, please include a paragraph explaining what this food means to you and your culture. 

• FASHION: Submit articles, essays or reviews about clothing, accessories, upcoming designers, sustainable fashion and more. Also submit your own upcoming labels/lines with up to 10 photos/videos max and an artist statement. 

Please send your submissions to submissions@mixedmag.co

Please submit your written submission(s) in a word doc file, include what section you are submitting to in the email subject line and include a short 3rd person bio.

PUBLICATION RIGHTS: MixedMag reserves all rights to the author/creator. We just ask that you mention MixedMag as the original publisher of your piece, should it appear in another publication (i.e. This piece first appeared in the online publication MixedMag)

We are a volunteer-run magazine, so unfortunately we can’t pay contributors at this time, however we hope you will join our platform as we begin paving the way to promote, uplift and push your voices to the forefront.

https://mixedmag.co/about/

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: SPECULATIVE POETRY

Eye to the Telescope

DEADLINE: September 15, 2021

INFO: Eye to the Telescope 42, The Sea, will be edited by Akua Lezli Hope. 

The sea, a place of myth and lore, is the medium from which we are said to have arisen to occupy the lesser dry slivers on this globe. The sea is the real undiscovered world, the substance of which most of earth’s surface is comprised, the mass that is rising to overtake us. It is the place where we jettison our trash. It is home for our aliens at home—the soft bodied minuscule and the massive, from mammals to arthropods, mollusks to cnidaria. A 15,000-year-old sponge dwells there, as do the immortal jellyfish and mammals with lifespans that are multiples of ours, bearing marks of our primitive weapons.

Whatever else dwells in the depths may or may not be earthborn and our own sea may be full of lessons about alien seas. I am intrigued by merfolk, sirens, aquatic changelings, selkie, the unexplored sentience of sea mammals and other forms; Yemayaah/Yemonja and Nommo origins; whale songs, dolphin telepathy and ray clicks; bioluminescence as communication. The mythic Kraken as gigantic squid or chimeric sea giant dispatched by Neptune (another god figure), also compels, as do the water-warping aliens we’ve met in undersea movies.

What lives in the ice-crusted ocean/s of Europa or the methane seas of Titan? Maybe (the/a) water is sentient–the “sea is a harsh mistress” may be more than metaphor. What do we not yet imagine nor dare to comprehend? I seek the speculative in any verse vessel form in which you wish to pour it. Please send only unpublished work. I eagerly await your creations.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:

• Use the form at http://bit.ly/SFPAettt42 to submit.

• Please submit 1–3 poems in English (attached as .docx or .txt) and include a short bio. Translations from other languages are acceptable with the permission of the original poet (unless public domain).

• Inquiries only to ettt42@sfpoetry.com with “ETTT” in the subject line.

• Deadline: September 15. The issue will appear on October 15, 2021.

PAYMENT & RIGHTS:

• Accepted poems will be paid for at the following rate: US 3¢/word rounded up to nearest dollar; minimum US $3, maximum $25. Payment is on publication.

• The Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association normally uses PayPal to pay poets, but can also send checks.

• Eye to the Telescope is an online publication. Therefore, First Electronic Rights (for original unpublished poems) are being sought.

Who can submit?

Anyone writing speculative poetry.

What is Speculative Poetry?

Speculative poetry is poetry which falls within the genres of science fiction, fantasy, and supernatural horror, plus some related genres such as magic realism, metafiction, and fabulation. It is not easy to give precise definitions, partly because many of these genres are framed in term of fiction rather than poetry.

A good starting point is “About Science Fiction Poetry” by Suzette Haden Elgin, the founder of the Science Fiction Poetry Association. Despite its title, this article is applicable all forms of speculative poetry.

Tim Jones, editor of Issue 2, had a go at defining science fiction poetry on his blog, in two parts (These blog posts date from 2009, and the Voyagersanthology has since been published. These posts do refer specifically to science fiction poetry, rather than the broader field of speculative poetry.):

• timjonesbooks.co.nz/2009/02/08/what-is-science-fiction-poetry-part-1-definition/

• .timjonesbooks.co.nz/2009/02/15/what-is-science-fiction-poetry-part-2-history/

http://www.eyetothetelescope.com/submit.html?fbclid=IwAR3VwrLG2EATXN-b6nA_dMQr0ckqAqo5cpcP926c0RefkKBb_RfkbweL_vU

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SPRING 2022 RESIDENCY

Sundress Academy for the Arts

DEADLINE: September 15, 2021

INFO: The Sundress Academy for the Arts (SAFTA) is now accepting applications for short-term writing residencies in all genres—poetry, fiction, nonfiction, playwriting, screenwriting, journalism, academic writing, and more—for their spring residency period which runs from January 3 to May 15, 2022. These residencies are designed to give artists time and space to complete their creative projects in a quiet and productive environment.

Each farmhouse residency costs $300/week, which includes a room of one’s own, as well as access to our communal kitchen, bathroom, office, and living space, plus wireless internet.

Residencies in the Writers Coop are $150/week and include your own private dry cabin as well as access to the farmhouse amenities. Because of the low cost, we are rarely able to offer scholarships for Writers Coop residents.

Residents will stay at the SAFTA farmhouse, located on a working farm on a 45-acre wooded plot in a Tennessee “holler” perfect for hiking, camping, and nature walks. The farmhouse is also just a half-hour from downtown Knoxville, an exciting and creative city that is home to a thriving artistic community. SAFTA is ideal for writers looking for a rural retreat with urban amenities. 

SAFTA’s residencies, which also include free access to workshops, readings, and events, offer a unique and engaging experience. Residents can participate in local writing workshops, lead their own workshops, and even have the opportunity to learn life skills like gardening and animal care.

As part of our commitment to anti-racist work, we are now also using a reparations payment model for our farmhouse residencies which consists of the following:

1. 3 reparations weeks of equally divided payments for Black and/or Indigenous identifying writers at $150/week

2. 3 discounted weeks of equally divided payments for BIPOC writers at $250/week

3. 6 equitable weeks of equally divided payments at $300/week

Black and/or Indigenous identifying writers are also invited to apply for a $350 support grant to help cover the costs of food, travel, childcare, and/or any other needs while they are at the residency. We are currently able to offer two of these grants per residency period (spring/summer/fall). If you would like to donate to expand this funding, you may do so here.

For the Spring 2022 residency period, SAFTA will be offering the following fellowships only: 

• LGBTQIA+ Fellowship: one full and one 50% fellowship for writers who identify as LGBTQIA+

• Dr. Kristi Larkin Havens Memorial Fellowship for Service to the Community

• Black & Indigenous Writers Fellowships: one full fellowship for Black and/or Indigenous identifying writers

LGBTQIA+ Fellowship (Spring 2022): This year’s judge for the LGBTQIA fellowships is Nicole Shawan Junior, a counter-storyteller who was bred in the bass-heavy beat and scratch of Brooklyn, where the cool of beautiful inner-city life barely survived crack cocaine’s burn. Her work appears in The Rumpus, SLICE Magazine, Kweli Journal, CURA, ZORA, Gay Mag, The Feminist Wire, and elsewhere. Nicole has received residencies and fellowships from Hedgebrook, PERIPLUS, New York Foundation for the Arts, Lambda Literary, RADAR Productions and the San Francisco Public Library’s James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center, and more. Her work has received support from Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship, Hurston/Wright Writers Week, Tin House Summer Workshop, VONA, Carnegie Hall, Sundress Academy for the Arts, and others. Nicole is the founder of Roots. Wounds. Words. (a literary arts revolution that serves BIPOC storytellers), editor in chief of Black Femme Collective, has guest edited for The Rumpus, and serves on the editorial board at Sundress Publications.

Dr. Kristi Larkin Havens Memorial Fellowship for Service to the Community (Spring 2022 or Fall 2022): Dr. Kristi Larkin Havens served as the Community Outreach Director for Sundress Academy for the Arts and then as the Vice President of the Board of Directors for Sundress Publications for over six years. She earned a Ph.D. in English from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where she was a Lecturer and the Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies. She was a photographer who served as a producer on films for several local competitions including The Knoxville 24-Hour Film Festival and the Grindhouse Grind-out. For many years she served as a coordinator for the Knoxville Girls Rock Camp, an organization dedicated to fostering inclusivity and creativity. For her, the arts were a natural venue for pursuing the aims of social justice. 

This fellowship will be awarded to a writer who has shown exceptional service to their own community through any of the following: volunteering, organizing, fundraising, board membership, etc. Fellowship winners will receive a one-week fully-funded residency the Sundress Academy for the Arts at Firefly Farms in Knoxville, TN for either the spring or fall of 2022. The spring residency period runs from January 3 to May 15, 2022, and the fall period runs from August 23-January 2, 2023.

Find out more about the application process at www.sundressacademyforthearts.com.

The application fee is waived for all BIPOC identifying writers. For all fellowship applications, the application fee will also be waived for those who demonstrate financial need; please state this in your application under the financial need section. Limited partial scholarships are also available to any applicant with financial need. 

https://sundressblog.com/2021/07/20/sundress-academy-for-the-arts-now-accepting-%E2%80%A8residency-applications-for-spring-2022/

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The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers

New York Public Library

DEADLINE: September 24, 2021 at 5pm ET

INFO: The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers is an international fellowship program open to people whose work will benefit directly from access to the collections at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building—including academics, independent scholars, and creative writers (novelists, playwrights, poets). Visual artists at work on a book project are also welcome to apply.

Renowned for the extraordinary comprehensiveness of its collections, the Library is one of the world’s preeminent resources for study in anthropology, art, geography, history, languages and literature, philosophy, politics, popular culture, psychology, religion, sociology, sports, and urban studies.

CRITERIA AND TERMS:

The Cullman Center’s Selection Committee awards fifteen Fellowships a year to outstanding scholars and writers—academics, independent scholars, journalists, creative writers (novelists, playwrights, poets), translators, and visual artists.

Foreign nationals conversant in English are welcome to apply. Candidates for the Fellowship will need to work primarily at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building rather than at other divisions of the Library. People seeking funding for research leading directly to a degree are not eligible. 

The Cullman Center looks for top-quality writing. It aims to promote dynamic communication about literature and scholarship at the very highest level—within the Center, in public forums throughout the Library, and in the Fellows’ published work.

A Cullman Center Fellow receives a stipend of up to $75,000, the use of an office with a computer, and full access to the Library’s physical and electronic resources. Fellows work at the Center for the duration of the Fellowship term, which runs from September through May. Each Fellow gives a talk over lunch on his or her current work-in-progress to the other Fellows and to a wide range of invited guests, and may be asked to take part in other programs at The New York Public Library.

https://www.nypl.org/help/about-nypl/fellowships-institutes/center-for-scholars-and-writers

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The Carolyn Bush Award

Wendy’s Subway

DEADLINE: September 30, 2021

INFO: The Carolyn Bush Award aims to support innovative, hybrid, and cross-genre work that contributes to expanding the discourses and practices of poetry. Titles selected for this award are published as part of the Passage Series, which assembles books by emerging writers and artists that imagine new possibilities and expressions of the poetic, the political, and the social.

This award honors the life and work of Wendy’s Subway co-founder Carolyn Bush and seeks to provide in-depth editorial and professional support to an emerging writer in her name.

The winner will author a publication with Wendy’s Subway, receive an honorarium of $1,000, a standard royalty contract, and 25 author copies. Crucial to the award is the editorial support provided to complete the manuscript for publication. The winner will receive two consultations at key stages in the manuscript’s progress with established writers who will offer rigorous feedback and suggestions for revisions or further development. The winner will also receive two advisory meetings for professional development to learn strategies for residency and fellowship applications, crafting personal statements, submitting to journals and magazines, and self-publishing. Additionally, free enrollment in two workshops at Wendy’s Subway and a one year key-holding “Contributor” membership to the Wendy’s Subway reading room in Brooklyn, which includes a library collection of over 3,000 titles, will be made available to the winner.

Wendy’s Subway is committed to a publishing practice that amplifies marginalized and underrepresented writers. The Carolyn Bush Award aims to encourage an emerging writer to follow and develop their work and envision a future in the field with confidence and an abundance of support.

ANNOUNCEMENT: The winning book will be announced in Winter 2021-2022 and published in Spring 2023.

ABOUT THIS AWARD: This award has been established in honor of founding member of Wendy’s Subway, Carolyn Bush (1990-2016). In honoring Carolyn and continuing her legacy, we seek to acknowledge her fiercely particular approach to learning, writing, and collaborating. Carolyn chose her own path and followed her own schedule. She was wary of formal education but sought out workshops, reading groups, and informal collectives where learning is enacted relationally, as a form of exchange and intimacy. She engaged mentors but was skeptical of received wisdom of any kind. Her library included poetry and fiction, mystical and religious texts, feminist theory and biography, and idiosyncratic curricula including a collection of texts on the limits of language itself. The poetry and essays she left us are densely allusive, hybrid in forms, galvanized by her concern with social and political justice, and alive with the curiosity and irreverence for which she was famous and beloved. She loved truth-tellers, and was one.

JUDGES: The Wendy’s Subway Carolyn Bush Award Editorial Committee, composed of Wendy’s Subway staff: Harris Bauer, Corinne Butta, Gabriel Kruis, Sanjana Iyer, Matt Longabucco, and Rachel Valinsky. To learn about our staff visit our About page.

ELIGIBILITY: This award is intended for emerging writers residing in New York City. We welcome submissions from female-identifying, genderqueer, non-conforming, non-binary, and trans writers.

SIMULTANEOUS SUBMISSIONS: Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but should the manuscript be accepted for publication elsewhere, we ask that you notify us as soon as possible and withdraw your Submittable application.

FORMAT & GUIDELINES: We seek early-stage manuscripts of 20 pages in length to be considered for the Carolyn Bush Award. Your manuscript may include visual art and illustrations. It may not be a translation of another author’s writing and should reflect your original work.

Applications also consist of a 500-word written reflection about your work, how you see it developing, and how you think you will benefit from this opportunity with Wendy’s Subway to do so. The manuscript need not be complete at the time of application. While excerpts from the manuscript may have been previously published (as chapbooks, in journals), the manuscript as a whole should reflect a new and unpublished work. Please include page numbers, a title page, a table of contents, and acknowledgments listing previous publications (if applicable). You may only submit one manuscript for consideration. You will not have the opportunity to make any edits or revisions to your manuscript in Submittable once it has been submitted. We encourage applicants to familiarize themselves with our publishing initiative and public programs to learn more about the mission and activities of Wendy’s Subway.

CONFLICT OF INTEREST: Wendy’s Subway abides by the Code of Ethics developed by the Community of Literary Magazines and Publishers (see below). We are committed to fairly and ethically evaluating each and every submission. Close friends, relatives, colleagues, and students (past and present) of any the judges are not eligible to submit. You can write us at publishing@wendyssubway.com with any questions about your eligibility or the application process. 

https://wendyssubway.submittable.com/submit

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TWH WINTER RETREAT 2021 Writing Workshop Fellowship

The Watering Hole

DEADLINE: September 30, 2021

SUBMISSION FEE: $25 

INFO: The Watering Hole Retreat features living room style daily classes/workshops, daily craft talks, two readings, one performance workshop, a keynote speech, group writing challenges, and a genuine community. Our mission is to build Tribe through genuine relationships and help poets reach their best work.

• Location: TBD 

• Writing Facilitators: TBD

• Performance Facilitator:  TBD

• Keynote:  TBD 

APPLICATION PROCESS:

• 1 Cover Letter (with aesthetics statement)

• 3 poems (written within the last two years).

• Do not include your name on these materials. Judging will be blind.

• The cover letter must be written. The poems may be written or audio. We accept a variety of file types.

ELIGIBILITY: You must be 21 years of age by December 25th.

If you need help with the basic cover letter format, check out our blog post of Cover Letter Advice.

The type of aesthetics statement that we ask for is a paragraph or two that details...

1. who influences your art,

2. what challenges have you faced on your creative journey,

3. what you seek to accomplish in your poems,

4. and what The Watering Hole means to you as a writer of color.

This will contextualize the poems in your submission and help us get to know you as an artist. You may also optionally include how your art or aesthetic informs what you do, where you work, or any work you do in the arts community or vice versa.

Make certain your submission is your final version. Corrections and new versions will not be accepted.

Additional Note: We ask for a sample of your recent poetry, because we don't want to see "hits from the '80s." We want to get to know you through your current artistic voice.

What's the Review Process?
New applications are reviewed and accepted by The Watering Hole graduate fellows. They have a vested interest in continuing to build TWH Tribe with a wide variety of talents, backgrounds, and aesthetics.

While under review, preference is given to...

• those who follow our social media pages on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter

• and members of The Watering Hole Facebook Group

Additional Information 

• The Watering Hole sponsors between 50% and 75% (depending on the year) of every fellow's fees. Your portion of this year's registration price is listed in the package options on the website.

• Late July/Early August: Acceptance Letters go out

• September 1: Partial payment due

• October 1: Registration must be paid in full

• October - November: Manuscripts are shared along with preparation materials, shared reading list, pre-work, and peer review instructions. December 15: Peer Reviews are due December 26-30: Fellows meet in person or via Zoom for the Manuscript Coaching Intensives.

• The first 10 fellows to pay for the retreat in full will receive a one-on-one conference with the Writing Workshop facilitator of their choice.

• December 26-30: Fellows meet for the Retreat.

https://twhpoetry.submittable.com/submit

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TWH WINTER RETREAT 2021 manuscript coaching Fellowship

The Watering Hole

DEADLINE: September 30, 2021

SUBMISSION FEE: $40 

INFO: The purpose of this fellowship is to give up to six unpublished poets of color guidance with their manuscript in progress. The poets will spend Dec. 26-30 in community with each other and under the guidance of one of our former TWH Retreat facilitators. (This is not the application for the Writing Workshop track.)  

• Location: TBD

• Manuscript Coach:  TBD

This program includes:

• Daily virtual classes focused on advanced aspects of manuscript preparation.

• Peer Review feedback on a full length manuscript

• An individual coaching session with the Manuscript Coach

• Access to all Winter Retreat events (including performance workshop, craft talks, readings, keynote, etc.). Fellows may also opt to spend this time revising their manuscript.

If you apply for this fellowship and do not get in, you will automatically be considered for The Watering Hole Writing Workshop.

What's the Applications Process? Submission Components:  

1. a Query Letter and

2. a Manuscript of 10 pages here on Submittable.

If you need help with the basic query letter format, click here for sample outline. Do not include your name on this document. Judging will be blind. A Manuscript consists of Title Page + Table of Contents + Acknowledgement Page (for previously published poems) + Sample Manuscript (10 pages). A poem may be multiple pages, but no more than one poem per page is permitted.     

Eligibility: 

• Applicants must be 21 years of age by December 25th.

• Applicants cannot have a full-length collection either published or under contract for publication.

• Poetry must be original, not translations.

What's the Review Process? Applications are reviewed and accepted by The Watering Hole graduate fellows who have published at least one book. They have a vested interest in continuing to build TWH Tribe with a wide variety of talents, backgrounds, and aesthetics.  

While under review, preference is given to...  

• those who follow our social media pages on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter

• and members of The Watering Hole Facebook Group

What if my Application is Accepted? 

You'll need to:

• turn in your full manuscript of 40 to 65 pages within 15 days of acceptance

• and send your deposit within 30 days of acceptance.

You can find basic information at twhpoetry.org. When the time comes, The Watering Hole will send out information about online payment options and the welcome packet upon acceptance.  

Pre-Work and Payment Schedule 
Late July/Early August: Acceptance Letters go out  
Late July/Early August: Within 15 days of acceptance, Manuscript Coaching Fellows submit finalized versions of the manuscript:   

• A query letter + the full version for peer review.

• Each fellow will review five peer manuscripts.

• September 1 : Partial payment due 

• October 1: Registration must be paid in full

• October - November: Manuscripts are shared along with preparation materials, shared reading list, pre-work, and peer review instructions.

• December 15: Peer Reviews are due  

• December 26-30: Fellows meet for the Retreat.    

Additional Information : The Watering Hole sponsors between 50% and 75% (depending on the year) of every fellow's fees. Your portion of this year's registration price is listed in the package options on the website.

https://twhpoetry.submittable.com/submit

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: ‘ANFRACTUOUS’ ISSUE

Yellow Arrow Journal

DEADLINE: September 30, 2021

INFO: Yellow Arrow Journal is excited to announce submissions are now open for the fall 2021 (Vol. VI, No. 2) issue:

Anfractuous

: full of windings and intricate turnings

: things that twist and turn but do not break

And meet the guest editor of ANFRACTUOUS, Keshni Naicker Washington, who chose the issue’s overarching theme of “belonging-ness.”

Interested in submitting to this issue? Do you have creative nonfiction, poetry, or cover art you would like to share? See below for Submissions Guidelines and sign up for our newsletter to receive updates about the journal and Yellow Arrow Publishing.

If selected, you will receive $10.00USD 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.

We receive many wonderful submissions but have limited room in each issue. Please do not be discouraged if your submission is not accepted or you miss the deadline—there will be more opportunities available to you in the future.

We are grateful that you would like to share your story with us and our readers.

Please read the guidelines below in their entirety before submitting. Any questions? Email submissions@yellowarrowpublishing.com.

SUBMISSIONS GUIDELINES:

• Accepted submissions include creative nonfiction and poetry by authors that identify as women (cover art guidelines follow below).

• Submissions must relate to the theme as interpreted by the author, using provided guiding questions (these will change for each theme):

  • How has your “belonging-ness” been shaped by your own personal life journey? Have you taken any sharp unpredictable turns, or has it been a slower accumulation or a shedding?’

  • Is it necessary to “belong” to be happy? How has your sense of who you are been a process of “un-belonging”?

  • How have your circumstances (the land you live in or don’t live in/your family history) or your conscious choices (your chosen family/career/passions) tempered or shaped your understanding of your own belonging?

• Creative nonfiction (1 submission per author per issue) must be between 500 and 5,000 words. Poetry (up to 2 poems per author per issue, grouped into a single document) may be any length.

• Submissions do not need to be in English but must include an English translation.

• No previously published work will be accepted at this time—this includes all printed and online material; simultaneous submissions are okay but please let us know when you send in your submission(s) and if a submission is published elsewhere in the interim, email submissions@yellowarrowpublishing.com immediately.

ARE YOU READY TO SUBMIT?

To submit to this issue, send an email to submissions@yellowarrowpublishing.com and include:

• Subject: Vol. #, No. # Theme – type of submission [nonfiction, poetry, or cover art] (required)

• Your full name (and name you would want Yellow Arrow to use), age, nationality, and current city/state/country of residence (required)

• Cultural and/or ethnic background (how do you self-identify?) (optional)

• Where you heard about us (optional)

• For cover art submissions, a list of past publications/exhibits (required, if applicable).

Authors/artists should only submit one type of submission per issue; no agents please.

Note that submissions are blindly reviewed in-house; the information you provide above is used only to better understand the composition of our audience.

Attach your submission to your email. Accepted files for creative nonfiction and poetry submissions include .doc/.docx, .rtf, or .pdf—use minimal document styling and do not include identifying information (only within your email). Accepted files for cover art include .jpeg/.jpg, .tiff/.tif, .gif, .eps, or .psd—a low resolution is preferable at this time.

By sending your submission you agree to the following statements:

• You are a writer or artist who identifies as a woman

• You have completely read and submitted within the guidelines.

Due to the volume of submissions and the nature of our submission process, authors/artists will not receive an email confirming receipt of submission. Rather, all who submit within the guidelines, whether accepted to the next issue or not, will receive an email after submissions have closed—please do not email us to inquire about a submission.

https://www.yellowarrowpublishing.com/submissions

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2021 CHAPBOOK PRIZE

Gasher Press

DEADLINE: September 30, 2021

ENTRY FEE: $10

INFO: Founded in 2018 by poet, Whitney Kerutis, Gasher Press is a literary small press and journal publication committed to serving the literary community by the means of providing opportunities in publishing, editing, and scholarship.

We are pleased to announce our chapbook submissions for poetry are open! The selected manuscript will receive $250 and 10 contributor copies upon publication. Our chapbooks are perfect-bound and printed with 12 pt. matte lamination covers and #60 cream stock for the interior. Before submitting, please read the following guidelines for submission:

• We are currently only accepting submissions for poetry chapbooks.

• Manuscripts must be between 25-45 pgs

• We accept simultaneous submissions. Please, let us know if your submission is accepted elsewhere.

• Please include a brief bio with your submission.

• Manuscripts must be submitted as .docx

• Submitters may only submit ONE manuscript per submission period.

• Revisions are not permitted while under review. If selected, the author has the opportunity to make changes.

• Submitters must reside in the U.S. at the time of submission.

https://gasherjournal.submittable.com/submit

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2022 Writers Retreat

Storyknife

DEADLINE: September 30, 2021

APPLICATION FEE: $35

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 15th. Residencies are available April through October.

ELIGIBILITY:

Applicants must:

• Be woman-identified

• Be 21 years of age or older

• Apply as an individual artist, not a collaborative group or team

Please note that the Board of Directors of Storyknife has mandated that all residents must be vaccinated against COVID-19 and show proof of that vaccination prior to residency.

You will provide a work sample and answer three 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.)

Work Sample Requirements:

• Work samples should reflect work completed within the last two years. All work samples must be uploaded through Submittable. Written work samples will be uploaded directly within the application.

• Applicants can submit published or unpublished work samples.

• All work 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).

• Any writing samples with identifying material will be disqualified. This is an anonymous jurying process.

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.

Application Fee

There is a $35.00 fee to apply for residency. These funds are used to support Storyknife and are collected through the Submittable application process. If you cannot afford this application fee, please contact ehollowell@storyknife.org. This a limited opportunity, so please inquire early in the application process.

https://storyknife.org/how-to-apply/

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GENERAL SUBMISSIONS

Kenyon Review

DEADLINE: September 30, 2021

INFO: Kenyon Review’s next submission period will open on September 1 and close on September 30, 2021. All submissions received during the reading period will be read. The response time will vary according to the number of submissions. We make every effort to respond to all submissions within six months of receipt.

We consider:

• short fiction and essays (up to 7,500 words)

• flash fiction and essays (up to 3 pieces, up to 1,000 words each; please format and submit as a single document)

• poetry (up to 6 poems; please format and submit as a single document)

• plays (up to 30 pages)

• excerpts (up to 30 pages) from larger works

• translations of poetry and short prose

We do not accept submissions via email, but in the interest of remaining accessible to all of our readers and writers, will accept mailed submissions postmarked during the month of September.

We strongly recommend that you utilize our Submittable portal. Creating an account is free, and you can easily keep track of your submissions from within your account.

Please submit no more than one submission in a given genre during this reading period; multiple submissions will be disregarded. Simultaneous submissions are permitted. Please notify us immediately if the work has been accepted elsewhere:

• For prose and drama submissions, please use your submittable.com account to withdraw your piece

• For poetry submissions, please use your submittable.com account to add a note to your submission listing the titles of works no longer available for consideration

Hard copy submissions should be mailed to:
SUBMISSIONS
The Kenyon Review
102 W. Wiggin St.
Gambier, OH 43022 

Hard copy materials must be accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope. We will only accept and respond to work that is postmarked during the month of September.

We will only consider work that has not been previously published either in print or online.

If your work is accepted it will be subject to an agreement granting the Kenyon Review first publication rights. You retain the rights to the work after first publication.

By submitting the work for consideration, you represent that:

The work is not in the public domain, has not been published in any other publication in any jurisdiction in the World, has not been distributed or displayed to members of the public, and you have not made any agreement with another party inconsistent with granting first publication rights to us. (It is important for us to know if your work is to be included in a collection or larger work being prepared for future publication. Please let us know, right away, the title, publisher and planned publication date.);

The work is your original authorship and no other party has a claim to rights in it except as you specifically disclose at the time of your submission;

In the case of translations, you have obtained permission of the author or the author’s agent or estate to publish your translation; and

There is nothing in the work that is libelous, invades personal privacy or deprives another of the right of publicity, or is otherwise actionably tortious or illegal.

Thank you in advance for sharing your work with us!

https://kenyonreview.org/submission/

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OPEN CALL FOR GENERAL WORK

Taint Taint Taint Magazine

DEADLINE: September 30, 2021

INFO: Taint Taint Taint is a literary and cultural arts magazine dedicated to decolonizing the art world. They are currently accepting general submissions.

GUIDELINES:

• Fiction, Nonfiction and Essays (5,000 words max.) Poetry, three poems (all within the same document).

• All work must be in a doc or docx format, Times Roman, 12pt, paginated with author’s full name on every page.

• Multimedia, art and photography must be done professionally.

Send submissions to tainttainttaintmagazine@gmail.com

https://www.tainttainttaintmagazine.com/submissions-1

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2022 First Book Award

Academy of American Poets

DEADLINE: October 1, 2021 at 11:59pm ET

INFO: The Academy of American Poets First Book Award is a $5,000 first-book publication prize. The winning manuscript, chosen by an acclaimed poet, is published by Graywolf Press, an award-winning independent publisher committed to the discovery and energetic publication of contemporary American and international literature.

The winner also receives an all-expenses-paid six-week residency at the Civitella Ranieri Center, a 15th century castle in the Umbrian region of Italy, where they will become part of a cohort of accomplished international artists, writers, and composers; distribution of their winning book to thousands of Academy of American Poets members, making it one of the most widely distributed poetry books that year; inclusion and promotion in American Poets magazine, the Academy's newsletter, and Poets.org, among other opportunities. 

JUDGE: Tyehimba Jess.

Tyehimba Jess was born in Detroit, Michigan, and earned a BA from the University of Chicago and an MFA from New York University. He is the author of Olio (Wave Books, 2016), winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and leadbelly (Wave Books, 2005), winner of the 2004 National Poetry Series. Jess has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, as well as a Whiting Award. Jess is a Professor of English at the College of Staten Island.

This award was established in 1975 to encourage the work of emerging poets and to enable the publication of a poet’s first book. It is currently made possible by financial support from the members of the Academy of American Poets. From 1975 - 2020, the award was titled in tribute to Walt Whitman. Please see a list of Walt Whitman Award winners below.

https://poets.org/academy-american-poets/prizes/first-book-award

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: 'Awake'

Lucky Jefferson

DEADLINE: October 3, 2021

INFO: Lucky Jefferson's digital zine Awake seeks to amplify the experiences and perspectives of Black writers in American society. 

The fourth issue of Awake is titled Odyssey: 

Despite being the first Black captain of your crew, you’ve been overlooked for promotions your entire career in the Space Force. One day, you finally receive your chance at your own expedition to the Outer Ring. After launch, your ship experiences technical difficulties and you find yourself plummeting four thousand kilometers off course.

After awakening, you realize it’s been a few days since you lost connection with Mission Control. You stumble through iridescent foliage to discover a bustling city ahead of your own time. You are soon discovered and greeted by the inhabitants of this world—inhabitants that reflect your culture.

Now you have two options: figure out a way to return home or explore this planet and begin a new life. What are you going to do?

Poems, essays, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, and art should illustrate your decision. 

Upon acceptance, submissions will be included on our website and publicized on social media. 

COMPENSATION: Accepted authors will receive $15 for each accepted work.

https://luckyjefferson.submittable.com/submit/167135/awake-submission-a-digital-zine-for-black-authors

POETRY -- AUGUST 2021

GRANUM FOUNDATION FELLOWSHIP PRIZE

Granum Foundation

DEADLINE: August 3, 2021 at 11:59 pm PT

INFO: The Granum Foundation Fellowship Prize will be awarded annually to help U.S.-based writers complete substantive literary works—such as poetry books, essay or short story collections, novels, memoirs, and translations—or to help launch these works.

Funding can be used to provide a writer with the tools, time, and freedom to help ensure their success. For example, resources may be used to cover fees for a writing residency, mentorship, editing services, or a book tour. They also may be used for necessities such as rent or writing equipment.

Competitive applicants will be able to present a compelling project with a reasonable timeline for completion. They also should be able to demonstrate a record of commitment to the literary arts.

The Granum Foundation is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds.

• Prize: $5,000 awarded annually.

• Up to three finalists may be awarded $500.

A winner and finalists will be announced on November 9, 2021.

At this time, only U.S. residents 18+ are eligible for funding.

https://www.granumfoundation.org/granum-fellows

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ARTHROPOD ANTHOLOGY: POETRY

Perennial Press

DEADLINE: August 7, 2021

INFO: Do you have a story or poem featuring insects, crustaceans, arachnids, or myriapods? We want to publish it!

We are looking for speculative poetry with monstrous, mythical, or mechanical arthropods for our upcoming Arthropoda anthology!

The call is open to original poetry and reprints up to 45 lines and 7,500 words respectively.    

Please submit no more than six poems. Simultaneous submissions permitted.    

Arthropoda will be edited by JW Stebner (of Hexagon Magazine) and published by Perennial Press in mid-to-late 2022!

PAYMENT: All selected poets will be paid a $20 flat rate.      

We will not accept submissions that contain any excessive profanity or explicit content. We will not tolerate submissions that support or suggest any form of racism, sexism, or any other kind of discrimination.

About Perennial: Perennial Press archives truths through fiction and poetry. We are committed to highlighting and uplifting voices & perspectives that have traditionally been underrepresented in literature.

About Hexagon: Hexagon is an online magazine created to take our readers to fantastic worlds and to meet incredible characters. We specialize in the weird, the wondrous, and the whimsical!

https://perennialpress.submittable.com/submit

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Open Call: Poetry from Emerging First-Generation Immigrants

A Public Space

DEADLINE: August 15, 2021 at 11:59 pm ET

INFO: In connection with the Editorial Fellowship program at A Public Space, we are pleased to announce an open call for a special portfolio in the magazine to be edited by Miguel Coronado.

Coronado is looking for poetry by emerging writers who identify as first-generation immigrants and are interested in what it means to write within the conjunction of a multicultural identity. How do you navigate the abyss of distance that gets formed between the places to which your body, memory, and heritage belong? He would like to read poems that may not belong "anywhere," estranged from easy geopolitical labels, but also belong "everywhere," in the way that any great poem should. He’s open to any interpretations of this prompt, as close or as tangential as you see fit.

Work selected from the Open Call will be published in the winter issue of A Public Space.

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: Writers must identify as first-generation immigrants, including both people born in another country who relocated, and residents of a country whose parents were born elsewhere. Only previously unpublished poems are eligible. International submissions are welcome. Multilingual submissions are welcome, provided that English is the primary language used. Writers whose work is published in the magazine will receive an honorarium.

TIMELINE: Submissions will close at 11:59 p.m. (EDT) on August 15, 2021. Submitters will be informed no later than August 31, 2021.

PROCEDURE: Only electronic submissions will be considered. Work must be submitted through the Special Call category in Submittable. There is no submission fee. Please submit the following:

— A cover letter, including a one-paragraph biographical statement, and one paragraph describing a poem or book of poetry you’ve read that you felt gave you “permission” to write more freely or more like yourself; how did their work inspire you?
— Up to five (5) previously unpublished poems.
— Simultaneous submissions are allowed.

Note that we only accept PDF or Word files (.doc and .docx). The cover letter and manuscript should be submitted as separate files. Incomplete submissions or submissions that do not address this call will not be considered and will be returned unread.

https://apublicspace.org/news/detail/open-call-for-poetry-submissions

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Palette Poetry Prize

DEADLINE: August 15, 2021

INFO: We are thrilled to offer the Palette Poetry Prize for 2021: $4000 and publication! We are seeking one excellent poem that speaks to what poetry is and can be for our world today. Send us your incandescent heart on the page. The winner will be selected by our guest judge, the 2020 Pulitzer Prize Winner Jericho Brown. 

Palette's editors will choose ten finalists and any honorable mentions that warrant extra attention. Our judge will then select the winner and runner-ups. Second and third place receive $300 and $200, respectively.

ABOUT OUR JUDGE: Jericho Brown is author of the The Tradition (Copper Canyon 2019), for which he won the Pulitzer Prize. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, and the National Endowment for the Arts, and he is the winner of the Whiting Award. Brown’s first book, Please (New Issues 2008), won the American Book Award. His second book, The New Testament (Copper Canyon 2014), won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. His third collection, The Tradition won the Paterson Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His poems have appeared in The Bennington Review, Buzzfeed, Fence, jubilat, The New Republic, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, TIME magazine, and several volumes of The Best American Poetry. He is the director of the Creative Writing Program and a professor at Emory University.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

• Submissions are open internationally, to any poet writing in English—other languages are okay to include, as long as the meat of the poem is in English.

• We accept simultaneous submissions—please send us a note if your work is picked up elsewhere (we want to say congrats!)

• There is no page requirement, but submission must be no more than 3 poems. Please submit all your poems in ONE document.

• We only accept submissions through Submittable. Emailed submissions, attachments, etc... will not be considered.

• We accept multiple submissions, but each submission will include the reading fee.

• Please include a brief cover letter with your publication history.

https://www.palettepoetry.com/current-contest/

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CALL FOR CHAPBOOK SUBMISSIONS

Yellow Arrow Publishing

DEADLINE: August 15, 2021

INFO: Yellow Arrow Publishing is currently accepting submissions of poetry chapbooks by authors that identify as women from around the world. We only accept digital submissions. At this time, we prefer working with authors without agents.

Please note that as a small press we produce a limited number of publications each year. We pour our hearts and souls into each submission and each Yellow Arrow publication and thank everyone for their interest and inquiries.

Click here for an editorial statement from our Editor-in-Chief.

SUBMISSIONS GUIDELINES:

• Chapbooks should be between 20 and 50 poems (no more than 50 pages total) with a clear, overarching theme and headers added (as needed).

• Submissions must be (predominantly) in English and must be complete (do not send partials or summaries).

• Send your submission as an attachment (as a .doc/.docx, .rtf, or .pdf) to submissions@yellowarrowpublishing.com—submit your text 12 pt font with 1-inch margins and consecutively numbered pages. Poetry should be single-spaced unless spacing is part of the original formatting.

• Use as the subject of your email: Yellow Arrow Publishing, chapbook submission.

• Include in the body of the email a brief (150 words or less) synopsis of your work, estimated word and page counts, and a bio or short introduction to yourself.

• We will consider previously published poems as long as the author currently holds all rights—if previously published, please list where and when as an acknowledgments page within your chapbook.

• At this time, we do not require exclusive submission but let us know if you will be submitting to more than one publisher and contact us as soon as possible if you choose to go with someone else before a publishing agreement is signed.

• We only want one chapbook submission per author at this time.

By sending your submission you agree to the following statements:

• You are a writer that identifies as a woman

• You have read and submitted within the guidelines

Note that the guidelines can change at any time—check this page before submitting. We are unable to respond to those who do not submit within the guidelines.

https://www.yellowarrowpublishing.com/cbsubmissions

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EMERGE-SURFACE-BE: 2021-22 FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM FOR EMERGING POETS

Poetry Project

DEADLINE: August 15, 2021 at 11:59 pm EST

INFO: Emerge–Surface–Be is a natural extension of The Poetry Project’s program offerings. It formalizes the distinct yet unspoken pedagogical aspect of The Poetry Project’s programs while providing a unique opportunity to support, develop, and present emerging NYC based poets of promise.

We are pleased this year to have support for five mentor/fellow pairings, and to be able to support writers working in a broader range of modes this year — including poetry, but also crossing into nonfiction, criticism, and performance. Mentors Anaïs Duplan, Steph Gray, Celina Su, Stacy Szymaszek, and Asiya Wadud will each select an emerging poet to work with. Over the course of nine months, Fellows will be given the opportunity to work one-on-one with their Mentor to develop their craft; explore publication and performance opportunities; and reflect on the professional and community-based dimensions of a writing life. Meetings between Fellows and Mentors can take place both in-person and virtually. Ideal Fellows will have a project they are working on or want to embark upon, and feel that they would benefit from guidance and support. Each Fellow will receive an award of $2,500. In adherence with US tax requirements, ESB Fellows will be issued an IRS 1099 Form.

In addition to working with their Mentors, Fellows will have access to all Poetry Project events (free workshops, free readings, free publications) and be included in the Annual New Year’s Day Marathon Reading. Fellows will also read within The Poetry Project’s Monday or Friday Night Reading Series as a culminating event with introductions made by their Mentors. Fellows will be invited to attend gatherings with Poetry Project staff and other 2021-22 Fellows and Mentors. Poetry Project staff and Mentors will also work with each Fellow to find other unique opportunities for deepening, sharing, and connecting their poetry to specific goals the Fellows might have.

The most important criteria will be the demonstration of potential, as well as unique vision and voice, in the applicant’s work sample. While applicants who have achieved some measure of local, regional, or national professional recognition will have these merits taken into account, we equally welcome — and encourage — applications from individuals who may have not yet had highly visible or public opportunities to share their work.

Our definition of “emerging” ranges from writers who are just beginning to share their work publicly; to writers who have local and perhaps regional recognition; and up to writers who are approaching national exposure, though not yet national recognition. As a top limit, an emerging writer has published no more than one full-length perfect bound book and no more than three chapbooks (not including self-published work in chapbook form)

ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS:

• New York City resident at the time of application and have lived in NYC at least one year prior to the application deadline;

• Eighteen years of age and older;

• Individuals enrolled in undergraduate and graduate degree-granting writing programs are not eligible. However, individuals who enroll in degree-granting writing programs or take classes after the time of application submission are eligible for Fellowships providing they maintain an active, professional practice of creating and presenting work to the public.

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS:

• Project description, including project goals and long-term artistic goals;

• Work Sample: Seven to ten (7-10) page sample of project manuscript OR - Seven to ten (7-10) pages of prior work;

• Creative resume and bio;

• Optional video clip or mp3 of applicant reading

The Poetry Project is a poet-run, nonprofit arts organization committed to countering institutional barriers through expanded access to poetry. We welcome applications from all candidates regardless of educational background and encourage applicants of all experiences, education backgrounds, system-involvement backgrounds, races, ethnicities, gender and sexual identities, documentation statuses, and disability statuses to apply.

https://form.jotform.com/211515952957968

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Digital Chapbook Series

Fahmidan Journal

DEADLINE: August 15, 2021

INFO: Fahmidan Journal, an international publication supporting women and BIPOC writers, is seeking poetry and short fiction collections.

GUIDELINES:

• Please only submit to if you consider yourself to be POC and/or a women.

• Please submit manuscripts at a maximum of 40 pages. The collection should be single spaced for poetry and at discretion for short fiction. 

• Please format to Times New Roman 12 and number pages, please format your collection as A5

• Simultaneous Submissions are fine, but please let us know immediately if your manuscript is accepted elsewhere.

Accepted authors will receive a standard & specified contract alongside the following:

• 40% royalties

• A Digital Publishing Run of 12 Months

If you have not heard from us on/by September 25th 2021 please send us an email as it is likely your/our correspondence has disappeared into the ether.

Please send us a max 150 word bio including any relevant social media links/publications and anything important to the collection

Collections should be in single line spacing, include a contents page, and acknowledgements page if applicable and 

Short fiction & Poetry collections are welcome!

Submissions should be sent to fahmidanpublishingsubmissions@gmail.com

https://www.fahmidan.net/publishing

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PUBLISHING GRANT

Café Royal Cultural Foundation

DEADLINE: August 16, 2021

INFO: Café Royal Cultural Foundation NYC will award a publishing grant to authors of fiction / creative non-fiction, poetry and playwriting. 

AMOUNT: Up to $10,000.00  

ELIGIBILITY:

• Authors in fiction / creative non-fiction, poetry and playwriting. The applicant must be the originator of the written material.

• Grants awarded in this category may fund costs associated with continuing the composition of work submitted.

• Writers applying must be a current resident of New York City and have lived there for a minimum of one year prior to applying.

• Please make sure to submit your application with ample time before the start date of your project. 

REVIEW PROCEDURES: Funding decisions will be made by the Café Royal Cultural Foundation Selection and Executive Committees. The following criteria will be applied in evaluating grant proposals:

• Creativity, originality, ideas and concepts, writing style

• Importance of the Project/Cultural Relevance

• Promise of future achievements in writing 

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS: 

• Up to and no more than a 30 page PDF of the work, for the Café Royal Cultural Foundation executive committee to download and read.

• A letter of intent from the publisher with a date of planned publication, if no publisher is assigned, Café Royal Cultural Foundation may work with writer to help find a publisher.

• A short description of the project.

• A short author biography of the person(s) involved.

• List of costs that the grant money be used for - must not exceed the amount of $10,000.00

https://caferoyalculturalfoundation.org/literature-page?fbclid=IwAR3eJN3NUv-1GpfLcJXLuQNxjzuWYTs6tNOMjhr46lDzFGs7WX-FfY7KlQE

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Thee Space poetry prize

Shade Literary Arts

DEADLINE: August 31, 2021

INFO: While many are working to radically transform the literary prize complex, we must also intentionally devote time & resources to our own communities & find ways to platform each other. With that, Dovesong and Shade Literary Arts presents: THEE SPACE, a poetry prize for Trans/GNC writers of color, judged by Xandria Phillips.

​JUDGE: Xandria Phillips is a Whiting Award-winning poet, and visual artist from rural Ohio. The recipient of a LAMBDA Literary Award, and the Judith A. Markowitz Award for Emerging writers, Xandria is the author of HULL (Nightboat Books 2019) and Reasons for Smoking, which won the 2016 Seattle Review Chapbook Contest judged by Claudia Rankine. They have received fellowships from Brown University, Callaloo, Cave Canem, The Conversation Literary Festival, Oberlin College, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, and are the 2021-2023 poetry fellow at the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics. Xandria’s poetry has appeared in Berlin Quarterly Review, BOMB Magazine, Crazyhorse, Poets.org, and Virginia Quarterly Review.

GUIDELINES: Submit three (3) to five (5) unpublished poems of any length in a single file. "Unpublished" is considered never appearing online (including all blogs; not including in video format). Simultaneous submissions are accepted. Please notify us immediately through the submission manager if one or more of these poems has been accepted elsewhere. If only one of the pieces is being withdrawn, do not withdraw the entire submission unless that is what you intend.

https://theshadejournal.submittable.com/submit

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Open Call for Full-Length Poetry Manuscripts

Sundress Publications

DEADLINE: August 31, 2021

ENTRY FEE: $13

INFO: Sundress Publications is open for submissions of full-length poetry manuscripts. All authors are welcome to submit qualifying manuscripts during our reading period of June 1st to August 31st, 2021.

We’re looking for manuscripts of forty-eight to eighty (48-80) single-spaced pages; front matter is excluded from page count. Individual pieces or selections may have been previously published in anthologies, chapbooks, print journals, online journals, etc., but cannot have appeared in any full-length collection, including self-published collections. Single-author and collaborative author manuscripts will be considered. Manuscripts translated from another language will not be accepted. Simultaneous submissions are fine, but we ask that authors notify us immediately if their manuscript has been accepted elsewhere.

The reading fee is $13 per manuscript, though the fee will be waived for entrants who purchase or pre-order any Sundress title or broadside. We will also accept nominations for entrants, provided the nominating person either pays the reading fee or makes a qualifying purchase. Authors may submit and/or nominate as many manuscripts as they would like, so long as each is accompanied by a separate reading fee or purchase/pre-order. Entrants and nominators can place book orders or pay submission fees at our store. Please note that this submission fee is waived for all BIPOC writers.

All manuscripts will be read by members of our editorial board, and we will choose at least two manuscripts for publication. We are actively seeking collections from writers of color, trans and nonbinary writers, writers with disabilities, and others whose voices are underrepresented in literary publishing. Selected manuscripts will be offered a standard publication contract, which includes 25 copies of the published book, as well as any additional copies at cost.

This year our top selection from the reading period also will receive a free one-week writing residency at the Sundress Academy for the Arts in Knoxville, TN.

To submit, email your Sundress store receipt for submission fee or book purchase, along with your manuscript (DOC, DOCX, or PDF), to sundresspublications@gmail.com. Be sure to note both your name and the title of the manuscript in your email header. For those nominating others for our reading period, please include the name of nominee as well as an email address; we will solicit the manuscript directly.

https://sundressblog.com/2021/06/01/sundress-publications-open-call-for-full-length-poetry-manuscripts/

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2021 Barthelme Prize for Short Prose

Gult Coast

DEADLINE: August 31, 2021

ENTRY FEES: $20

INFO: A prize of $1,000 and publication in Gulf Coast is given annually for a piece of short prose or prose poetry. Two honorable mentions will each receive $250. All entries will be considered for publication. This year's final judge is Molly McCully Brown.

Submit a prose poem, a piece of flash fiction, or a micro-essay of up to 500 words. Each entry can include up to three pieces. The fee for each entry is $20, which includes a yearlong subscription to Gulf Coast.

Only previously unpublished work will be considered. The contest will be judged blindly, so please do not include your cover letter, your name, or any contact information in the uploaded document.

https://gulfcoastajournalofliteratureandfinearts.submittable.com/submit

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RESIDENCY PROGRAM: Ucross Fellowships for Native American Visual Artists and Writers

UCross Foundation

DEADLINE: September 1, 2021

APPLICATION FEE: $0

INFO: The Ucross Residency Program is open to visual artists, writers, composers, choreographers, interdisciplinary artists, and performance artists, as well as collaborative teams. Applicants must exhibit professional standing in their field; both mature and emerging artists of promise are welcome to apply.

Current work is requested. An applicant's work sample is the most significant feature of his or her application. Unless work is interdisciplinary, i.e. the various genres interconnect, each applicant is encouraged to apply in a primary discipline and submit a work sample and project description that emphasizes this single discipline. Competition for residencies varies seasonally and with the number of applications. While only one Fellowship winner will be selected, all applicants will have the option of being considered for a regular Ucross residency.

ELIGIBILITY: Residencies are open to Native American writers who meet the criteria below. They must:

* Be a practicing contemporary writer who is currently producing works in one or more of the following genres -- FICTION, NONFICTION, POETRY, DRAMA, SCREENWRITING, PLAYWRITING, HYBRID FORMS, and more;

* Be an enrolled member of a state-recognized or federally-recognized Tribe, Pueblo, Nation, Native Community, Political Entity, or Alaskan Native Village.

FICTION WORK SAMPLE: Your writing sample should be representative of the genre in which you plan to work while in residence. Writing samples should be double-spaced and include your full name. 

* Appropriate sample: 20 pages of fiction, which could be a novel excerpt, a story, several stories, or a combination.

NONFICTION WORK SAMPLE: Your sample should be representative of the genre in which you plan to work while in residence. Writing samples should be double-spaced and include your full name. 

* Appropriate sample: 20 pages of nonfiction

POETRY WORK SAMPLE: Your sample should be representative of the genre in which you plan to work while in residence. Writing samples should be double-spaced, but poetry submissions may be single-spaced, and they should include your full name.

* Appropriate samples: 10 pages of poetry.

PLAYWRITING WORK SAMPLE: Your sample should be representative of the genre in which you plan to work while in residence. Writing samples should be double-spaced and include your full name.

* Appropriate samples: One complete play (documentation of production may be included, if relevant).

SCREENWRITING WORK SAMPLE: Your sample should be representative of the genre in which you plan to work while in residence. Writing samples should be double-spaced and include your full name.

* Appropriate samples: One complete screenplay (documentation of production may be included, if relevant).

https://ucrossfoundation.submittable.com/submit
 

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FIRST-BOOK SCHOLARSHIP 2021

Gasher Press

DEADLINE: September 1, 2021

INFO: Founded in 2018 by poet, Whitney Kerutis, Gasher Press is a literary small press and journal publication committed to serving the literary community by the means of providing opportunities in publishing, editing, and scholarship.

Gasher’s First-Book scholarship is to provide financial assistance of $250 to a writer submitting their first book. This year, we are pleased to be able to offer two awards, one for Prose and one for Poetry. Please see the guidelines below before submitting:

• Please include in the title of the submission the manuscript's title followed by its genre (EX: The Seedling - PROSE)

• Please submit your first-book manuscript must be at least 48pgs in length with a cover letter and bio.

• You may only submit one entry per submission period. All other entries will be disqualified regardless of withdrawing previous submissions.

• Writers must not have published a full-length collection at the time of submission, including self-published books. (chapbooks are okay.)

• The writer must reside in the United States at the time of submission.

• This is a blind reading. Please DO NOT include any identifying material on your manuscript, including an acknowledgments page. Those who do not remove this information from their submission will be disqualified.

https://gasherjournal.submittable.com/submit

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: DIRT - A SPECIAL ISSUE

Guernica

DEADLINE: September 1, 2021

INFO: Guernica, a magazine of art and politics, is now accepting submissions for DIRT: A Special Issue.

This year was a year spent cleaning—sanitizing surfaces, doing endless dishes, relearning to wash our hands. There was so much extraneous cleaning going on, in fact, that it necessitated a new term: “hygiene theater.” The misdirection of our disinfection points to a larger phenomenon: that for all that is known about pathogens and where they live, we can’t always tell when dirt is danger, when it is superstition, or, even, when it’s good for us.

The anthropologist Mary Douglas, who memorably called dirt “matter out of place,” believed that cleanliness rituals are largely symbolic exercises that reveal a society’s most fundamental organizing principles. “There is no such thing as absolute dirt: it exists in the eye of the beholder,” she wrote. Yet dirt is also a tangible thing, a physical record of life and death on this planet. As adrienne maree brown wrote, “The Earth is layer upon layer of all that has existed, remembered by the dirt.”

In this special issue of Guernica, edited by Michele Moses, we want to examine dirt at the intersection of the societal, the personal, and the ecological—dirt as metaphor and dirt as substance. We are looking for submissions—essays, journalism, poetry, fiction, illustration, and beyond—that explore the emotional, interpersonal, and political meanings that hide inside our ideas about uncleanness and hygiene. Long before this pandemic year, the notion of dirt has been used to signal feelings of fear or disgust for other people: to enshrine class, caste, and colonial systems, to enact racism and misogyny, to express our everyday amorphous discomfort with each other. At the same time, dirt is exalted for its life-sustaining properties, and often sentimentalized. It’s something kids need a chance to play in, it’s something we need contact with to feel “grounded.”

Dirt is also sex, and dirt is gossip. Soil is homeland and a final resting place. Some examples of the kinds of stories we would be interested in: an investigation into how the rhetoric of filth has contributed to the removal of public infrastructure like water fountains or pay phones; a look at religious laws about purity and menstruation; a critical reading of the fantasies put forth in advertisements for soap and other cleaning products.

We are also looking for writing that engages deeply with the materiality of the many natural and unnatural substances that make up the larger category of “dirt”: soil, soot, grime, dust, ash, and beyond. Some ideas that appeal to us are: a chronicle of the fight for regenerative agriculture and the untapped carbon-capture potential of soil; a brief history of the humble mud brick; an exegesis of household dust; an ode to belly-button lint.

PAY: Guernica offers honoraria of $50 for poetry, $100 for original essays, and $150 for original fiction and for reportage.

https://guernicamagazine.submittable.com/submit

POETRY -- JULY 2021

POETRY COALITION FELLOWSHIP

Lambda Literary

DEADLINE: July 6, 2021

INFO: Lambda Literary is accepting applications for a paid Poetry Coalition Fellowship position.

This position is 20 hours per week from September 13, 2021 to June 30, 2022. The stipend is $18,720 plus $1,000 toward health care. While the majority of work is conducted virtually, fellows must be located in or near New York City for select, site-specific tasks.

The Poetry Coalition Fellowship Program is a three-year pilot program. The goals of this are to help: 

• Diversify the leadership of the nonprofit literary field by encouraging more inclusion of individuals from under-represented communities

• Develop future literary leaders regardless of educational background;

• Introduce the individuals who are interested to nonprofit literary arts management, fundraising, programming, and editorial work, providing experiences that will be useful as they seek jobs and inspiring them to consider working in the literary field; and

• Increase the capacity of our individual organizations by having additional assistance.

https://www.lambdaliterary.org/2021/04/were-hiring-poetry-coalition-fellow/

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The Francine Ringold Awards for New Writers

The University of Tulsa

DEADLINE: July 15, 2021

ENTRY FEE : Each entry must be accompanied by a $12 fee, which includes both the reading fee and a copy of the spring issue of Nimrod. Make checks payable to Nimrod. Writers may submit multiple entries, but each entry must include its own $12 fee.

INFO: The Francine Ringold Awards for New Writers honor the work of writers at the beginning of their careers.

PRIZES $500 prizes will be awarded in both the fiction and poetry categories, and the winning manuscripts will appear in the spring issue of Nimrod. Winners will have the chance to work with the Nimrod board of editors to refine and edit their manuscripts before publication.

ELIGIBILITY: Open only to writers whose work has not appeared or is not scheduled to appear in more than 2 publications in the genre in which they are submitting. (Self-published works, works with a distribution of less than 100 copies, and journalistic articles are not considered toward the count of 2 publications.)

GUIDELINES:

• Poetry: Up to 5 pages of poetry (one long poem or several short poems)

• Fiction: 5,000 words maximum (one short story or a self-contained excerpt from a novel)

• All work submitted must be unpublished.

• Work submitted may be on any theme, any subject.

• The contest is open internationally.

• Include a cover sheet containing title(s), author’s name, full address, phone, and email.

• Omit author’s name on manuscript.

Online Submissions : Work may be submitted online using our online submission manager system:https://nimrodjournal.submittable.com/submit .

Postal Submissions: Clearly indicate “Ringold Contest Entry” on both the outer envelope and the cover sheet. Staple manuscript if possible; if not, please bind with a heavy clip. Include SASE for results only; manuscripts will not be returned. The results will be posted on Nimrod’s website.

Mail to:

Nimrod International Journal
Francine Ringold Awards for New Writers–Fiction or Poetry (indicate the appropriate category)
The University of Tulsa
800 S. Tucker Dr.
Tulsa, OK 74104

https://artsandsciences.utulsa.edu/nimrod/francine-ringold-awards/

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DEVELOPMENTAL EDITING FELLOWSHIP FOR EMERGING WRITERS

Kenyon Review

DEADLINE: July 15, 2021

APPLICATION FEE: $12

INFO: The Kenyon Review Developmental Editing Fellowship for Emerging Writers is designed to nurture and develop new voices in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. It is designed to provide support for emerging writers who demonstrate exceptional talent, promise, and commitment to their chosen craft.

Participation in the program involves one-on-one mentorship by an experienced editor over a period of four months. Writers can expect to have monthly hour-long conversations with an Editor who will provide feedback and suggestions on the draft.

Thanks to those of you who have reached out with questions, we’ve clarified the eligibility criteria below and added some frequently asked questions at the bottom of the page.

ELIGIBILITY:

Emerging writers must:

• Writers must be 21 years of age or older

• UPDATE: This fellowship opportunity is open to any writer who is not currently enrolled in a degree-granting creative writing program

• Writers should not have published a full-length literary book with a major publisher, university press, or other established press, or be under contract for a book. Published work in literary magazines or journals is acceptable

APPLICATION:

• Submit a narrative of a project in process (500 word maximum). Please note any challenges or particular areas of concern within the work.

• Submit a poetry or prose writing sample of the project between June 1–July 15, 2021. The writing sample should be 10–15 pages (double spaced for fiction and nonfiction).

• A recent copy of your CV

• The application fee is $12, which includes a half-year subscription to the Kenyon Review. If this fee poses a hardship, please contact us at kenyonreview@kenyon.edu and we will work with you.

PROCESS:

Our Developmental Editors will review and select the writers they will work with. They will reach out to the writer and  arrange for an initial conversation by phone or Zoom. Writers and Editors will collaborate on a work plan, establish goals and determine deadlines and a schedule for monthly hour-long conversations. Over the course of four months they will meet by phone or Zoom to discuss the progress of the writing project.

Winners will be announced by September 1st

Writers from communities that are traditionally underrepresented in the publishing industry are especially encouraged to apply.

https://kenyonreview.org/programs/developmental-editing-fellowship/

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ANNE LABASTILLE MEMORIAL WRITERS RESIDENCY

Adirondack Center for Writing

DEADLINE: July 15, 2021

APPLICATION FEE: $30

INFO: The Adirondack Center for Writing offers a two-week residency annually in October to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at a lodge on Twitchell Lake in the heart of the Adirondack Mountains. Now is the time to prepare your application!

Six writers are selected to take part in this intimate community of writers, half of the spaces are reserved for regional authors, and the other spaces are open to writers from all over the world. Quality of written submissions is the primary consideration when accepting applications. We’re more interested in your writing than your MFA or publications.

Includes indoor and outdoor writing spaces, family-style meals, and fireside discussions at a lakeside lodge in the Adirondacks.

IMPORTANT DATES:

• Decision announcement: August 23, 2021

• Residency dates: October 3-Sunday, October 17, 2021

Note: Proof of vaccination is required for selected residents. Selected residents who are unable to be vaccinated for medical reasons will be required to provide proof of negative test upon arrival to the lodge and will contact ACW to ensure proper protocols are maintained and residents can enjoy the residency safely!

https://adirondackcenterforwriting.submittable.com/submit

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POETRY RESIDENCY

Mineral School

DEADLINE: July 15, 2021

APPLICATION FEE: $25

INFO: Mineral School is an artists residency located in a former 1947 elementary school near Mt. Rainier, in Mineral, Washington. During 2021, we're hosting accepted 2020 writing and visual artist residents who could not attend in 2020 due to our closure during the pandemic, as well as up to 8 additional writing residents. We have openings for poetry and prose writers during three two-week residency sessions, providing accepted applicants with space and time to create new work without the interruptions of normal life and with the bonus of healthy meals prepared by culinary volunteers using locally-grown organic produce and eggs where possible. 

Each resident will live in an 800-square foot former classroom that offers peekaboo views of Mineral Lake and Mt. Rainier, and that will double as their writing studio, with desk and chair, lighting, bookcase, and lots of chalkboards. The school building has shared bathrooms with showers. Residents are served all meals daily (plus 24/7 access to a snack fridge and coffee/tea station), and will have the opportunity to share work with the public. Mineral features a fishing lake, boat rentals (or our two free kayaks), some in-town hiking trails, a bar, a B&B, a general store, churches, a post office, and many deer. It's a 25-minute drive to the Ashford/Nisqually entrance to Mt. Rainier National Park.

Visiting authors and artists: During each two-week residency, special guests will visit and present work. Typically, alumni presenters visit and in some cases bring with them a special guest artist they've chosen to introduce to Mineral. Due to continued precautions related to COVID-19. we may host these activities online; this will be decided on a session-by-session basis with residents.

Resident presentations: If they wish, residents can share with one another and the public at each session's "show and tell" held during residency. These presentations are typically held after dinner in our library/multi-purpose room and are casual dessert potlucks. Due to continued precautions related to COVID-19. we may host these activities online; this will be decided on a session-by-session basis with residents.

We are accepting applications from June 1, 2021, through July 15, 2021 (Midnight, PST) for 2021 residencies. Notification will be given at least two months before the residency period for which you've applied. 

2021 RESIDENCY DATES

• Residency sessions with openings will be held during the following two-week time periods:

• September 26, 2021 - October 10, 2021

• October 17, 2021 - October 31, 2021

• November 7, 2021 - November 21, 2021

PAID RESIDENCY OPTIONS

We're pleased to offer up to eight nominally-priced residencies in 2021.

Two-week residencies for poets and writers cost $425 and include room, board, presentations by guest writer and artists, opportunities for public presentation, and lots of love. Travel is not included; travel from points (bust stations, Amtrak, airports, in-town) between Portland, OR, and Seattle, WA, to Mineral may be arranged for $20-$30/each way. 

GUIDELINES:

Who should apply? If you write poetry (prose poetry, poetry in stanzas, free verse, limericks, Haikus, etc.), or any other form of poetry, this is where you should apply. Writers at all career stages are encouraged. 

Selection: Your work will be evaluated by a panel of established poetry and prose writers. Your work is presented anonymously to the readers and they will make choices based on the merit of your artist statement and work sample. Please do NOT include your name on your artist statement or work sample. Your application will be assigned a number once it is completed. 

What you will need to prepare before beginning the application process:

Short bio: In one paragraph, how would you describe your education, publication or public readings experience, and any paid or service work that helps further your artistic vision? 

Artist Statement: In a one-page (maximum) statement, please discuss how a residency would help you advance your creative work. Also share a short statement about your writing process and/or what life experiences and literary influences have shaped your art and its themes and how you have grown or are growing as a writer. Be yourself! The reviewers want to get a sense of you as an artist and your creative process.  For the artist statement you do not include information regarding awards, published work, or identifying or biographical information (you can put that in your bio). This assures admissions are blind.

Work Sample: Create a work sample of up to 20 pages of poetry in 12-point font, in a Word Doc, Docx, or PDF format. Work samples can be work-in-progress or already published work -- whatever you feel will make the strongest application. You are welcome to include an introductory note (a paragraph or two) explaining the sample (i.e. -- this is a selection of a cycle of sonnets etc..). Do not include biographical or identifying information in your work sample. Make sure your name is not on any of the work sample pages. Please do not use your name in the title of the file you upload. (If your name is Jane Doe, don't upload janedoe.doc!) 

Preferred Residency Dates: Our application lets you choose your preferred residency period. If you can only attend during your preferred residency period, do not designate 2nd or 3rd choice residency periods. If you have a preferred residency period but are willing to attend other sessions in the event your first choice isn't possible, mark 2nd and/or 3rd choices. If all dates are equally fine, tick that box.

https://mineralschool.submittable.com/submit

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Thirteenth Annual Poetry Contest

Narrative

DEADLINE: July 16, 2021

ENTRY FEE: $25 for each entry. With your entry, you’ll receive three months of complimentary access to Narrative Backstage.

INFO: NARRATIVE’S THIRTEENTH Annual Poetry Contest runs until July 16. In a continuing effort to encourage and support talented poets, we’re offering prizes and widespread publicity to all winners and finalists. Narrative is always looking for new voices, so all entries will be considered for publication in the magazine.

The contest is open to all poets. Entries must be unpublished and must not have been previously chosen as winners, finalists, or honorable mentions in other contests. Each entry may contain up to five poems. The poems should all be contained in a single file. You may enter as many times as you wish, but we encourage you to be selective and to send your best work.

Narrative winners and finalists have gone on to win Whiting Awards, the Pulitzer Prize, the Pushcart Prize, and the Atlantic prize, and have appeared in collections such as The Best American Poetry, Best New Poets, and many others. View the recent awards won by Narrative authors.

AWARDS:

• First Prize is $1,500

• Second Prize is $750

• Third Prize is $300

• Up to ten finalists will receive $75 each

• All entries will be considered for publication.

All contest entries are eligible for the $4,000 Narrative Prize and for acceptance as a Poem of the Week.

JUDGING: The contest will be judged by the editors of the magazine. Winners and finalists will be announced to the public by September 30, 2021. All writers who enter will be notified by email of the judges’ decisions. The judges reserve the option to declare ties and to designate and award only as many winners and/or finalists as are appropriate to the quality of contest entries and of work represented in the magazine.

GUIDELINES: Submissions may contain up to five poems. Your submission should give a strong sense of your style and range. We accept submissions of all poetic forms and genres but do not accept translations. Please read our Submission Guidelines for manuscript formatting and other information.

https://www.narrativemagazine.com/thirteenth-annual-poetry-contest?uid=103566&m=86af698c065b4e4ca2f8ac23e3b0ad98&d=1621359305

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Call for Writing on Climate Change

Singapore Unbound

DEADLINE: July 31, 2021

INFO: To draw attention to climate change and its catastrophic consequences, Singapore Unbound's SP Blog is devoting the month of October 2021 to the publication of literary works that speak powerfully to the theme.

We seek poetry, fiction, and essays that imaginatively explore the global crisis in local terms. We are especially interested in less well-known stories located in Asia. In accordance with our mission, we welcome submissions by authors of Asian heritage residing anywhere around the world.

All submissions must abide by a maximum word count of 5000 words. They are to be typed in MSWord and attached in an email to Jee at jkoh@singaporeunbound.org with a short cover letter in the body of the email. The cover letter should include a biographical note of 50-100 words.

We pay USD50 for a short story or essay and USD25 for a poem.

https://singaporeunbound.org/opportunities

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CALL FOR WORK: A Return to Where We Have Never Been Before

Taint Taint Taint Magazine

DEADLINE: July 31, 2021

INFO: Taint Taint Taint is a bi-annual online magazine.

The Covid-19 pandemic has affected the world in unimaginable ways. While this crisis may be new, our challenges are not. What art, stories, poems, and essays have you created to reflect works of recovery, repair and change? Many people do not want to return to living the same old way. Inequities are rife worldwide. Where are we going as society? Send us your work that reflects this season of change in the world.

GUIDELINES:

• Fiction, Nonfiction and Essays (5,000 words max.) Poetry, three poems (all within the same document).

• All work must be in a doc or docx format, Times Roman, 12pt, paginated with author’s full name on every page.

• Multimedia, art and photography must be done professionally.

COMPENSATION: At the moment, we do not pay contributors. However, we are fundraising to pay contributors in future issues through our non-profit the Chapungu Arts Initiative, send us an email using this link.

https://www.tainttainttaintmagazine.com/submissions-1

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OPEN CALL for BIPOC Disabled Creatives for a Digital Zine Anthology

Self_Saboteur

DEADLINE: July 31, 2021

INFO: Do you have a story that needs to be shared? Do you want to discuss topics of race and disability? Then this is the project for you!

Artist and writer @Self_Saboteur is seeking creative submissions from BIPOC folks with disabilities ONLY for a digital zine anthology. Money will be awarded to those selected.

We are accepting visual arts, poems, essays, diary entries, voice recording and music in the following formats:

• VISUAL ARTS: All images must be jpeg with less then 10 MB

• WRITTEN WORKS: Must be less than 1000 words, we accept all kinds of works no matter the grammar error. Send in .doc or .docx format

• VIDEO/AUDIO WORKS: Must be in .mp3/.mp4 format and within 10 mins length.

https://rb.gy/wyt0eh

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: MAGMA 82, OBSIDIAN

Magma Poetry

DEADLINE: July 31, 2021

INFO: The 82nd issue of Magma Poetry, edited by Nick Makoha and Gboyega Odubanjo, is in partnership with the Obsidian Foundation and will focus on Black poets. The submissions window for M82: Obsidian is open from 1st July - 31st July 2021. We welcome poems from writers of Black African, Caribbean, Afro-Latinx, and African-American heritage, including those of mixed-Black heritage. These poems must not have been previously published, either in print or online.

Up to 4 poems may be sent via Submittable, or by post if you live in the UK. Postal submissions are not acknowledged until a decision is made.

In 2020, Nick Makoha founded the Obsidian Foundation, a one-week retreat for Black poets of African descent who want to advance their writing practice led by five acclaimed Black tutors. The aim of the Obsidian Foundation is to create a community of Black poets and provide a place for them to express themselves with freedom.

When announcing the Foundation, Makoha said: “Our mission is to create a safe space for Black poets in the UK and beyond to write with complete freedom but without the burden of identity. Through this exceptional opportunity, we provide Black poets with lifelong networks, development, and a space to excel. Statistical data has revealed that there is an extreme deficit in diverse voices within the UK poetry scene. Our intention is to radically challenge this by giving poets a leg up and opening doors that have been closed for too long.”

I will no longer lightly walk behind

a one of you who fear me:

Be afraid.

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This issue of Magma aims to highlight and celebrate the best of Black poetry in the UK and beyond. By creating a space solely for Black poets we want to demolish any imagined boxes that Black writers might feel they must exist within. We welcome poems on any theme or topic. Too often representations of Blackness are made synonymous with oppression or trauma, and whilst these may inform our lives they do not encapsulate them. That is not to say that you should not submit poems that relate to the lived experiences of Black people, but that we hope you feel free to write about whatever you want to. Every day we are reminded of the precarities and challenges that come with being Black; for this issue we welcome you into a space where you can express yourself freely without fear of your language being censored or othered. We believe in Black poetry in all of its variances and welcome those variances.

I live like a lover

who drops her dime into the phone

just as the subway shakes into the station

What we are asking for is relatively simple: we want your best poems. In submissions we are looking for quality and originality. The ‘Obsidian’ issue aims to be an example of excellence within literature. We welcome submissions from new Black voices and those who have not been regularly published. We welcome poems that re-imagine and challenge our realities. We welcome bilingual poems that use English and any other language. Blackness is not a monolith and this issue could never be large enough to hold its multitudes, but what it can do is expand our current literary canon and reaffirm what is possible and valuable in poetry.

I must become the action of my fate.

June Jordan, ‘I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies’

Nick Makoha and Gboyega Odubanjo. Editors, Magma 82.

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Wanting to submit to Magma 82?

Submissions are open to people of Black African, Caribbean, Afro-Latinx, and African-American heritage, including those of mixed-Black heritage.

You may submit up to 4 previously unpublished poems in a single Word document.

We are now accepting simultaneous submissions – but please withdraw your submission or contact us if it is accepted for publication somewhere else first. The editors’ decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.

https://magmapoetry.submittable.com/submit

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GRANUM FOUNDATION FELLOWSHIP PRIZE

Granum Foundation

DEADLINE: August 3, 2021 at 11:59 pm PT

INFO: The Granum Foundation Fellowship Prize will be awarded annually to help U.S.-based writers complete substantive literary works—such as poetry books, essay or short story collections, novels, memoirs, and translations—or to help launch these works.

Funding can be used to provide a writer with the tools, time, and freedom to help ensure their success. For example, resources may be used to cover fees for a writing residency, mentorship, editing services, or a book tour. They also may be used for necessities such as rent or writing equipment.

Competitive applicants will be able to present a compelling project with a reasonable timeline for completion. They also should be able to demonstrate a record of commitment to the literary arts.

The Granum Foundation is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds.

• Prize: $5,000 awarded annually.

• Up to three finalists may be awarded $500.

A winner and finalists will be announced on November 9, 2021.

At this time, only U.S. residents 18+ are eligible for funding.

https://www.granumfoundation.org/granum-fellows

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Arthropod Anthology: Poetry

Perennial Press

DEADLINE: August 7, 2021

INFO: Do you have a story or poem featuring insects, crustaceans, arachnids, or myriapods? We want to publish it!

We are looking for speculative poetry with monstrous, mythical, or mechanical arthropods for our upcoming Arthropoda anthology!

The call is open to original poetry and reprints up to 45 lines and 7,500 words respectively.    

Please submit no more than six poems. Simultaneous submissions permitted.    

Arthropoda will be edited by JW Stebner (of Hexagon Magazine) and published by Perennial Press in mid-to-late 2022!

PAYMENT: All selected poets will be paid a $20 flat rate.      

We will not accept submissions that contain any excessive profanity or explicit content. We will not tolerate submissions that support or suggest any form of racism, sexism, or any other kind of discrimination.

About Perennial: Perennial Press archives truths through fiction and poetry. We are committed to highlighting and uplifting voices & perspectives that have traditionally been underrepresented in literature.

About Hexagon: Hexagon is an online magazine created to take our readers to fantastic worlds and to meet incredible characters. We specialize in the weird, the wondrous, and the whimsical!

https://perennialpress.submittable.com/submit

POETRY -- JUNE 2021

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Mixed Mag

DEADLINE: June 10, 2021

INFO: Mixed Mag, an online multimedia publication dedicated to promoting creatives of color and celebrating multiethnic/multicultural voices, is accepting articles, think pieces, short stories, reviews and essays between 500-3000 words (sections include ART, FASHION, POLITICS, PROSE, TV/FILM/THEATER, MUSIC, FOOD, HEALTH/SEX/WELLNESS).

Please read specific section requirements below: 

• POETRY: Submit up to three poems. 

• PROSE: Submit creative non-fiction, flash fiction or short stories between 500-3000 words.

• TV, FILM & THEATER: Monologues must be 5 pages max. Plays/screenplays must be between 10-15 page max (this includes plays, films and web series). Short films or web series episodes must be no longer than 15 minutes. 

• ART: Submit 10 photos/videos max for visual submissions. Please include an artist’s statement.

• MUSIC: Send us your essays, albums reviews or original music links. Please include links to Soundcloud, Spotify, Apple Music, iTunes, Youtube, etc. as well as a paragraph about your submission. 

• FOOD: Send us your food stories, recipes, conversations and good eats related to culture or ancestry. Please include photos and if sending a recipe, please include a paragraph explaining what this food means to you and your culture. 

• FASHION: Submit articles, essays or reviews about clothing, accessories, upcoming designers, sustainable fashion and more. Also submit your own upcoming labels/lines with up to 10 photos/videos max and an artist statement. 

Please send your submissions to submissions@mixedmag.co

https://mixedmag.co/about/

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2021 Emerging Poet Fellowship

The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow

DEADLINE: June 14​, 2021

APPLICATION FEE: $35

INFO: Poets assembling their first book of poems are invited to apply for this fellowship. Do you have enough or nearly enough poems for your first book? Do you need time and mental space to write new poems, revise the ones you’ve written, select and arrange them for a book, or all of these? Eligible applicants shall not have published a chapbook or other book of verse but may have published other books. (Published means the book has been issued for public sale and distribution.) Prior publication of individual poems is desirable but not required. The writing sample provided must demonstrate literary merit and the promise of publication in book form.   

The fellowship winner will receive a two-week residency to allow the recipient to focus completely on their work. 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 breakfast and lunch.

Fellowship applications must be accompanied by a writing sample and a non-refundable $35 application fee.  Only one writing project may be proposed per application.

The winner will be announced no later than July 1, 2021. Residency must be completed by July 31, 2022. Exceptions will be made for COVID-19 concerns.

https://form.jotform.com/210663820182955

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2021 Autumn House Poetry Contest

Autumn House

DEADLINE: June 15, 2021

INFO: For the 2021 contest, the Autumn House staff serves as the preliminary readers, and the final judge is Eileen Myles. The winner receives publication of a full-length manuscript and $2,500. 

• The winner will receive book publication, a $1,000 honorarium, and a $1,500 travel/publicity grant to promote their book

• All finalists will be considered for publication

• Poetry submissions should be approximately 50-80 pages

• Each new poem should start on a new page

• Illustrations are strongly discouraged

• The reading fee for the Poetry Contest is $30 (We will waive the submission fee for anyone undergoing financial hardship or living with limited means. Please reach out, and we’ll step you through the submission process)

• Submission should be previously unpublished

• Do not include your name anywhere on the actual manuscript; if your name appears within the body of the text, please omit it or black it out

• You may include a brief bio in the “cover letter” section of Submittable

• Do not include an acknowledgments page in the manuscript

• Feel free to include a table of contents

• Simultaneous submissions permitted

• Friends, family members, and former students of judges or Autumn House editors may not submit to the contest. Students do not include interactions at short-term residencies or fellowships.

• Former employees of Autumn House, including interns, may not submit to the contest.

https://www.autumnhouse.org/submissions/poetry/

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2021 Narrative Prize

Narrative

DEADLINE: June 15, 2021

INFO: THE $4,000 NARRATIVE PRIZE is awarded annually for the best short story, novel excerpt, poem, one-act play, graphic story, or work of literary nonfiction published by a new or emerging writer in Narrative.

The prize is announced each September and is given to the best work published each year in Narrative by a new or emerging writer, as judged by the magazine’s editors. In some years, the prize may be divided between winners, when more than one work merits the award.

https://www.narrativemagazine.com/great-stories/narrative-prize?uid=103566&m=d1d4332c2c95162ffa168aed50ddf89e&d=1620073801m

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

CERASUS Magazine

DEADLINE: June 15, 2021

INFO: Please note, we are not a vanity publisher, so will never ask you for money. Nor do we guarantee publication, unless we are confident you can supply a full, complete work of publishable quality. You must be prepared to accept constructive criticism and to take editorial advice.

We enjoy writing and art that demonstrate craft, wit and intelligence and which possess muscle. Don’t tell us how wonderful love is, or about the pretty flowers and butterflies. Equally, don’t burden us with your existential angst. Tell us something we don’t already know. Or, at least, tell us in a way we haven’t heard before.

By submitting to us, you are declaring that you are the sole author of your work to which you hold full rights. As well as plagiarism, we also do not tolerate gratuitous sex, violence, discriminatory representations of BAME and LBQT+ communities and slanderous allegations.

We are not averse to simultaneous submissions. (Let’s be honest, everybody still does it regardless.) But please extend us the basic courtesy of letting us know if your piece is accepted elsewhere.

• Poetry can be anything between a 1 line epithet and a sequence of epic verse (short of the Iliad) and everything between. Send us one brilliant poem, or a clutch to choose from, or a short themed collection.

• Fiction can be micro or flash, a short story, a novella strong enough to be serialised, or a standalone extract from a novel.

• Prose can be (auto)biography, a review, or an article, tutorial or ‘think piece’ of interest to writers.

• Submit as a Word compatible document with single spaced lines, titles in bold and a clear page break between items. Preferred fonts are Verdana 12pt for titles and Georgia 10pt for body text. 

• Artwork can be full colour, greyscale and black & white graphics, illustrations, photographs, cartoons and comic strips that will fit within a US Letter sized page (8.5”X11”).

• Submit as a print quality jpeg of at least 300dpi.

No covering details required. We take no account of your personal history or previous publications. All we are interested in is your submission. So please check it carefully before sending, as basic errors in spelling, grammar, punctuation and layout may spoil your chance of being published.

We aim to reply to all submissions in a timely manner. Initially, we will let you know if you have been accepted, shortlisted, longlisted or declined, before making our final decisions after each quarter’s deadline.

We may accept your submission, subject to certain edit suggestions, which are open to further negotiation and which you can refuse.

If accepted, you grant us permission to feature your material in CERASUS Magazine and to sell it in one featured edition throughout the world. You still retain full rights to your work.

At the moment, we have no budget for cash payments. Each contributor will receive a complimentary hard copy and PDF of the Magazine in which they are featured.

Publication months are April, July, October and January. Our rolling submission deadlines close on 15th March, 15th June, 15th September and 15th December.

All submissions and enquiries should be sent to: cerasusmag@gmail.com

https://cerasusmagazine.com/submissions/

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Remembering Lucille Clifton

Moonstone Arts Center

DEADLINE: June 18, 2021

ENTRY FEE: $5

INFO: Born on June 27, 1936, her first book of poems, Good Times, was rated one of the best books of the year by the New York Times. Among her other books were Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988–2000, which won the National Book Award; Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980 and Two-Headed Woman, both nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. In 1999, she was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, served as Poet Laureate for the State of Maryland from 1979 to 1985, and Distinguished Professor of Humanities at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. After a long battle with cancer, Lucille Clifton died on February 13, 2010, at the age of seventy-three.

“Lucille Clifton’s poems are compact and self-sufficient...Her revelations then resemble the epiphanies of childhood and early adolescence, when one’s lack of preconceptions about the self allowed for brilliant slippage into the metaphysical, a glimpse into an egoless, utterly thingful and serene world.” Rita Dove

Write a Praise poem or Tribute to Clifton

Deadline for submissions: June 18, 2021

Program: June 27, 2021

SUBMISSION REQUIREMNENTS:

Anthology Submissions: Please submit a poem or poems pertaining to the Remembering Lucille Clifton anthology/reading.

Please limit your submission to one poem. Please keep this poem limited to 35 lines total. When determining the total line length for each poem, include spaces between stanzas (ex: a poem of 5 couplets would equal 14 lines). Numbers or section breaks should also be included as lines when calculating the total line length. Count an epigraph as 3 extra lines. A line that has more than 60 characters (including spaces and punctuation) should be counted as two lines of your total line count. If lines are staggered like a Ferlinghetti poem, estimate the width of the line and remember that the final book will be printed in 12 point Times New Roman font on pages that are 5 1/2 inches wide.

If you have a problem contact Larry Robin @ larry@moonstoneartscenter.org or 215-735-9600.

https://moonstoneartscenter.submittable.com/submit/191593/remembering-lucille-clifton

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LETRAS BORICUAS 2021 FELLOWSHIP

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation / The Flamboyan Foundation’s Arts Fund

DEADLINE: June 20, 2021

INFO: The Letras Boricuas Fellowship is a new opportunity sponsored by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and The Flamboyan Foundation’s Arts Fund, which will provide thirty writers — fifteen selected in 2021 and fifteen selected in 2022 — $25,000 each. Recipients will also participate in a gathering of all thirty Fellows to be hosted in San Juan, tentatively scheduled for April 2023.

To be eligible for consideration, writers must be 21 years or older at the time of application, be a current resident of Puerto Rico or the United States, and of Puerto Rican heritage. Writers must work in poetry (including spoken word), fiction, creative nonfiction (e.g. memoir, personal essays, and related forms) and/or children’s literature, and demonstrate a history of publication. Only individual writers may apply.

While fellowship award funds are unrestricted, the hope is to help writers in Puerto Rico and across the diaspora, from emerging to established, pursue their writing, amplify their work to a broader audience, and create work that celebrates Puerto Rican life and culture. It is also the aim that each Fellowship cohort will include writers of different genres and writers who live in Puerto Rico, as well Puerto Ricans who may live in the United States. Applications will be accepted in Spanish and/or English.

The Letras Boricuas Fellowship will have two cohorts. The first will be announced in fall 2021 with the fellowship running from January to December 2022. The second cohort will be announced in fall 2022 with the fellowship running from January to December 2023.

https://flamboyanfoundation.org/letras-boricuas/

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3RD ANNUAL SUMMER WRITING COMPETITION

sinθ Magazine

DEADLINE: June 27, 2021

ENTRY FEE: $0

INFO: sinθ Magazine, an international print creative arts magazine that connects and empowers members of the Sino diaspora, is bringing back the summer writing competition for its third iteration.

They’re accepting entries for both fiction (prose) and poetry and invite you to reflect on the following three prompts as inspiration for your pieces. You may reflect on the prompts separately or as a collective, drawing themes and ideas that resonate with you. Entries must engage with the prompt(s), but can do so either directly or indirectly. You may only submit one entry per category, so send us your best work!

PROMPTS:

Set your written piece on a horizon.

“黑夜给了我黑色的眼睛，我却用它寻找光明。”–故城，‘一代人’（1979

“The night gave me black eyes, but I used them to search for the light.” –Gu Cheng, ‘A Generation’ (1979)

“We are wiped of age first thing in the morning

sleep is a light wash / and don’t we know it

we are wrung and wrung”

– Jenny Xie, ‘Letters to Du Fu’ (2017)

JUDGES: RF Kuang (author of THE POPPY WARS trilogy) is announced as this year’s Fiction judge and Chen Chen (author of National Book Award-longlisted WHEN I GROW UP I WANT TO BE A LIST OF FURTHER POSSIBILITIES) as this year’s Poetry judge.

PRIZE: First place in each category will receive a $50 USD cash prize.

HOW TO ENTER:

Email sinethetamag@gmail.com with “Writing Competition - NAME - CATEGORY” as the subject line. Attach your submission as a PDF or Word document. Do not include your name on the document, as entries will be judged anonymously. If you are entering a poetry and a prose piece, please submit each piece separately via email.

Please include the following completed form with your submission in the body of your email:

• Name:

• Chinese name (if available):

• Short third-person bio (less than 80 words):

• If poetry - line count:

• If prose - word count:

• Do you identify as a member of the Sino diaspora?: Yes/No (If the answer is no, please do not submit.)

• Do you confirm that the submitted work is entirely your own, and that all quotes have been appropriately attributed?: Yes/No (If the answer is no, please do not submit.)

https://sinetheta.net/contest2021.html

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Call for submissions

FeelsZine

Deadline: June 30, 2021

INFO: We are currently accepting submissions for Issue 15: Falling out of Love (September 2021).

There is a complicated middle between love and love lost -- the process we go through and emotions we feel as we fall out of love. How do we navigate the messiness of changing feelings in a world that villainizes the one doing the leaving? How do we express ourselves about romantic partners, family, friends, places, and identities that are no longer serving us? How does it feel when we finally say goodbye? In Issue 15, we explore the ambivalence, the hurt, the strength, and the transformation that comes with desenamorarse -- falling out of love.

*We are looking for submissions beyond romantic love as this issue is not centred on one type of love*

We accept:

• Writing: poetry, personal essays, fictional stories, interview proposals.

• Visual Art: photography, illustration, art, typography.

Have an idea for a submission not listed above? Send us an email with your proposal, we’re eager to read it.

Before submitting, please read our COMMUNITY GUIDELINES.

We welcome (and encourage) people of all diverse experiences, abilities and communities to submit their work. Your voice is important, and we would like to support it. The more voices we hear, the more we can learn from one another.

Please keep up to date with the current deadlines and mission statements for upcoming issues *including if the issue is being printed in full colour or risograph* by following us on Instagram & Facebook

Submission Guidelines

1. Please title your email submissions using the following: "FEELS Submission - Issue ___ - [Your name as it should appear in the issue if accepted] - Title of Submission"

2. If submitting a collection of works, please submit all in one email with the name of the collection as the title.

3. If submitting multiple separate works for the same issue, please submit each individually.

4. Art submissions: FEELS is 7.5" x 9.5" with a 0.125" bleed. Please be advised that we will ask you to recolour your artwork as we print in risograph.

5. Longform written submissions: the maximum word count for submissions is 1200 words. Please submit as a word document or using Google Docs. 

6. Please indicate in the body of your email the country you are submitting from, as we publish a majority Canadian content as a Canadian publication, but do include global contributors as well. 

Please send all submissions to submittofeels@gmail.com. If you do not receive a reply to your email confirming it has reached us, please follow up with our main email, hellofeelszine@gmail.com.

We kindly request submissions are limited to one or two works due to the high volume of submissions we receive, and please have patience with us in responding to new emails--we promise to reply to each and every one.

https://feelszine.com/pages/submissions

POETRY -- MAY 2021

THE COOKOUT POETRY PRIZE

Write About Now Poetry

DEADLINE: May 2, 2021

INFO: "The CookOut" is a literary magazine published out of Write About Now Poetry that encompasses the warmth and hospitality of the South, the fast-paced, forward-thinking nature of the city, and the openness and innovation fostered within a community from all over the world.

If you’re looking for a place to gather, “The CookOut” welcomes you to our table carved out of the love and creativity of Black authors who archive their existence, dreams, and ideas into the written word.

This online journal serves as a response to the call to amplify Black writers, Black voices and Black stories, as well as to invest into Black communities through supporting Black-led organizations and through The CookOut's $1000 grand prize.

We are seeking poems from Black writers that have a unique vision, a fresh perspective, and a clear passion for language and music. We love striking images and captivating narratives. Our readers have range, so ultimately, we are looking for work that moves us. Send us your best.

GUIDELINES:

• Individuals must identify as Black to submit to the publication. The works submitted may include, but are not restricted to topics around Blackness.

• TCO accepts simultaneous submissions; however, TCO does not accept work that has been previously published.

• Please use 12 pt. font, unless the font size is a device used for the poem.

• You may submit up to 3 poems. Please submit your works as one file with each poem on a separate page.

• Include a cover page with your: Name, Phone Number, Mailing Address, Email and social media handles.

• One poem will be selected by a committee of Black readers to win our $1,000 grand poetry prize.

• These will be shut-eye submissions (readers will not see your name until after the poems are read), so please ensure that your name appears nowhere else in the submission manuscript (aside from the cover page) unless it is a part of your poem.

https://writeaboutnow.submittable.com/submit/190393/the-cookout-literary-journal-1000-poetry-prize

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MVICW POET & AUTHOR FELLOWSHIPS

Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing Virtual Summer Writers' Conference

DEADLINE: May 3, 2021

ENTRY FEE: $25

INFO: MVICW is able to provide a number of need and merit-based fellowships (25-40% of registration cost) to attend our Virtual Summer Writers' Conference. Consideration is given to applicants demonstrating economic need. To apply for financial assistance to attend our MVICW Summer Writers' Conference, send a sample of your writing  (3 poems or 10 pages of fiction/CNF) and a letter of interest. 

Letter of Interest (approx. 750 words): Please tell us about who you are as a person and an artist. We'd like to hear about your life, your artistic career, and your creative work. If you have specific needs (financial or creative) which would be met by this award please outline them in your letter.

https://mvicw.submittable.com/submit

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: PROSE POETRY

Stellium Literary Magazine

DEADLINE: May 3, 2021

INFO: Stellium is a literary magazine centering Black queer and trans prose writers. We still accept work from other Black and QTPOC writers. We are a bimonthly (every two months) magazine seeking to create our first two digital issues.

The literary scene is flush with racist, homophobic, transphobic, and elitist platforms that often discriminate against QTPOC writing, let alone that of Black queer and trans creators. We've noticed how we're a trend to be recognized after shootings or attacks on our communities. Rarely are we considered "legitimate" unless our creative work can generate donations for publications and institutions that stick to the status quo during the rest of the year.

At Stellium, we're setting our intentions to not just make a statement in the world of prose but to redefine the space entirely. The magazine will publish five pieces each of prose poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and art within each issue. We seek work from emerging and established writers (with an emphasis on emerging). In due time, we hope to include a number of interviews, translations, reviews, and other works relevant to the QTPOC writing scene on our website, and (eventually) in print! 

We are currently curating pieces for our third and fourth issues. Here are the themes.

• Issue Three - Home - Where (or who) is home? What does it mean now that you're older? What did you picture when you were young? Are you there now or arriving? How do you protect it, fill it, or renew it? Do you click your heels three times or do you simply open the door? Take us there.

• Issue Four - Skepticism - What are you a skeptic of? Who deserves the most review and re-review? How have you been critiqued yourself? Why this issue in particular? Has it always been this way or did something change within? Ruin the façade.

What are we looking for?

• Prose poetry - We do not accept traditional poetry. Please note this description before submitting. Prose poetry is "not broken into verse lines, [but] demonstrates other traits such as symbols, metaphors, and other figures of speech common to poetry." Write in paragraphs and with a poetic flow, and we'll want to see it. Please submit a maximum of three poems. This section is not theme-specific but you're encouraged to focus on it.

https://stelliumlit.submittable.com/submit

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Anaphora Writing Residency

DEADLINES:

• Priority: May 10, 2021

• Final: May 15, 2021

INFO: Anaphora Writing Residency is a ten-day program designed exclusively for writers of color. The residency offers workshops, readings, craft talks, and discussions with professionals from the literary and publishing industry. The goal of the program is to nurture emerging and established writers of color, to create opportunities for publication, and establish a wide network of support for writers of different backgrounds.

DATES AND FEES: The upcoming residency will run on August 12 - 21, 2021, and will be held virtually. The program costs $2,400, and several partial fellowships are available every year, depending on funding availability. Applications must be submitted by the priority deadline to be eligible for fellowships. Our Founding Fellows and returning alumnx, will have the opportunity to attend the program at a discounted rate.

Applications are reviewed by an anonymous admission board of peers, which rotates every year. Notifications will be sent out by May 31st.  A non-refundable security deposit of $150 is required within two weeks of notification; program fees must be paid entirely prior to the beginning of the residency.

WHAT TO EXPECT: The program will provide workshops in poetry and prose, craft talks, daily readings (by guests and program participants), masterclasses, generative sessions, and discussions with professionals from the industry, including literary agents, editors, and publishers.

VISITING WRITERS - 2021

• Eduardo C. Corral earned degrees from Arizona State University and the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His debut collection of poetry, Slow Lightning (2012), won the Yale Younger Poets Prize, making him the first Latino recipient of the award. His second collection is Guillotine (2020). Praised for his seamless blending of English and Spanish, tender treatment of history, and careful exploration of sexuality, Corral has received numerous honors and awards, including the Discovery/The Nation Award, the J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood Prize, a Whiting Writers’ Award, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. A CantoMundo Fellow, he has held the Olive B. O’Connor Fellowship in Creative Writing at Colgate University and was the Philip Roth Resident in Creative Writing at Bucknell University. In 2016 he won the Holmes National Poetry Prize from Princeton University. Corral teaches in the MFA program at North Carolina State University in Raleigh and is currently a Hodder Fellow at Princeton University.

• Kwame Dawes has authored 36 books of poetry, fiction, criticism, and essays, including, most recently, Nebraska (UNP, 2019), Bivouac (Akashic Books, 2019), and City of Bones: A Testament (Northwestern, 2017). Speak from Here to There (Peepal Tree Press), co-written with Australian poet John Kinsella, appeared in 2016. He is Glenna Luschei Editor of Prairie Schooner and Chancellor’s Professor of English at the University of Nebraska. He is also a faculty member in the Pacific MFA Program. He is Director of the African Poetry Book Fund and Artistic Director of the Calabash International Literary Festival. Dawes is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

• Natashia Deón is a 2017 NAACP Image Award Nominee and author of the critically-acclaimed novel, Grace (Counterpoint Press), which was named a best book of 2016 by The New York Times, The Root, Kirkus Review, Book Riot, and Entropy Magazine, and has been featured in People Magazine, TIME Magazine, and Red Book. Grace won the 2017 American Library Association, Black Caucus Award for Best Debut Fiction. A practicing attorney, mother, and law professor, Deón is the recipient of a PEN Center USA Emerging Voices Fellowship and served as a 2017 U.S. Delegate to Armenia in partnership with the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program, for a reconciliation project involving Armenian and Turkish writers.

• Born in Manila and raised in the U.S. and Saudi Arabia, Sasha Pimentel is the author of For Want of Water, selected by Gregory Pardlo as winner of the National Poetry Series and longlisted for the PEN/Open Book Award, and Insides She Swallowed, winner of the American Book Award. She has published poems and essays in The New York Times Magazine, PBS NewsHour, ESPN, The American Poetry Review, New England Review, and Literary Hub, and other literary publications. She has been a Picador Guest Professor for Literature at Universität Leipzig in Germany, an NEA fellow, and March 2021's guest editor for Poem-A-Day for the Academy of American Poets. She teaches poetry and creative nonfiction in the bilingual (Español-English) Department of Creative Writing at the University of Texas at El Paso, on the border of Ciudad Juárez, México.

• Matthew Shenoda is a writer, professor, university administrator, and author and editor of several books. His poems and essays have appeared in a variety of newspapers, journals, radio programs and anthologies. His debut collection of poems, Somewhere Else (Coffee House Press), was named one of 2005's debut books of the year by Poets & Writers Magazine and was winner of a 2006 American Book Award. He is also the author of Seasons of Lotus, Seasons of Bone (BOA Editions Ltd.), editor of Duppy Conqueror: New & Selected Poems by Kwame Dawes, and most recently author of Tahrir Suite: Poems (TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press), winner of the 2015 Arab American Book Award and with Kwame Dawes editor of Bearden’s Odyssey: Poets Respond to the Art of Romare Bearden (TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, 2017).

• Anni Liu is a poet, essayist, translator and editor. Her poetry collection Border Vista (Persea, 2022) won the 2021 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize. She was born and raised in 西安, 陕西, then later in Bowling Green, Ohio. She earned her MFA from Indiana University, where she served as poetry editor of Indiana Review. Her work is featured in Ploughshares, Ecotone, the Georgia Review, Two Lines, Hyphen, Pleiades, Quarterly West, and elsewhere, and her honors include an Undocupoets Fellowship, a Katherine Bakeless Nason Scholarship to Bread Loaf Environmental Conference, and the National Society for Arts and Letters’ Literature Award. She’s also been supported by the Mae Fellowship and awarded a residency at the Anderson Center at Tower View in Red Wing, MN. She is Associate Editor at Graywolf Press, and lives in Minneapolis with her partner and plants.

• Before joining Ayesha Pande Literary, Annie Hwang began her career at Folio Literary Management where she had the pleasure of working with debut and seasoned authors alike. As a former journalist, Annie possesses a keen editorial eye which she brings to her approach to agenting, taking an active role in the careers of her clients. Annie represents voice-driven literary fiction and select nonfiction. In particular, she gravitates toward subversive and irreverent literary fiction and impactful mission-driven narrative nonfiction that grapples with the complexities of our world. A fierce champion of underrepresented voices, Annie is always on the hunt for gifted storytelling that stretches its genre to new heights.

https://www.anaphoraarts.com/anaphora-writing-residency-2021

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The Kurt Brown Prizes

AWP

DEADLINE: May 14, 2021

ENTRY FEE: $10

INFO: Each year, AWP offers three annual scholarships to emerging writers who wish to attend a writers’ conference, center, festival, retreat, or residency. The scholarships are applied to the event or workshop fees of the winners’ chosen program. Winners and six finalists also receive a one-year individual membership in AWP. Visit our website for more information and a list of past winners. 

ELIGIBILITY:

• Previous recipients of Kurt Brown Prizes (formerly known as WC&C scholarships), and former or current students of the judge are not eligible to submit.

• Our judges this year are Erika T. Wurth for fiction, Joshunda Sanders for creative nonfiction, and Richard Terrill for poetry.

GUIDELINES:

• Your name must not appear anywhere on the manuscript or it will be disqualified.

• For fiction, one short story (or novel excerpt) up to 25 pages will be considered. Fiction must be double-spaced and presented in manuscript form with 12-pt font.

• For poetry, up to 10 pages will be considered. Each new poem must start on a new page.

• For creative nonfiction, up to 25 pages will be considered.

• You may enter in more than one genre, and you may also enter multiple manuscripts in one genre, provided that each submission is accompanied by its own entry fee.

• Please send us your best, unpublished work.

• A $10 reading fee must accompany each submission and is not refundable.

PRIZE: All winners will be notified by email by June 11 and announced on AWP’s website and in the AWP Annual Conference & Bookfair program. Three winners will each receive a $500 scholarship to attend a WC&C member program. Winners have one year to use their prize, and funds are paid directly to the selected program. Member conferences reserve the right to determine participants in their programs; winning does not guarantee admittance to any program.

https://awp.submittable.com/submit/24932/the-kurt-brown-prizes

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EMERGING WRITER’S CONTEST

Ploughshares

DEADLINE: May 15, 2021

INFO: The Emerging Writer’s Contest recognizes work by an emerging writer in each of three genres: fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. We consider you “emerging” if you haven’t published a book. Current subscribers through our Winter 2021-2022 issue submit for free; other subscribers receive a one-year subscription to Ploughshares with their submission. 

This year’s judges are Kiley Reid in fiction, Paul Lisicky in nonfiction, and Paige Lewis in poetry.

PRIZE: One winner in each genre will receive $2,000, publication in Ploughshares, and a conversation with literary agency Aevitas Creative Management.  

https://www.pshares.org/submit/emerging-writers-contest/guidelines

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The Fire Inside Volume 2

Zora’s Den

DEADLINE: May 31, 2021

INFO: Zora’s Den is an online community of Black women writers started in January 2017. Our mission is to uplift their stories, thus acknowledging free agency over their experiences and voices, in their own words. Hence submissions are open for those identifying as Black women. 

Submissions are open for The Fire Inside, Volume II. Following the success of Zora’s Den’s first anthology, we want your kick-ass fiction, your soulful non-fiction, and your bold poetry. Zora Neale Hurston was known for her spunk. Let’s honor that spirit with our words, in voices distinctly our own. Send us the fire inside you!

GUIDELINES:

• Poetry: up to 3 poems.

• Fiction: limited to 1 story, no more than 3,000 words.

• Flash Fiction: limited to 2 stories, up to 1,200 words each.

• Creative Nonfiction: limited to 1 essay, no more than 1,500 words.

SUBMISSIONS:

Fiction, Flash Fiction and Creative Nonfiction must be double-spaced and formatted in a 12-point font (preferably Times New Roman). Poetry should be single-spaced and please send multiple poems in one submission entry. Please number the pages, provide the word count and title only. Please do not add additional spaces between sentences. Accepted files for prose and poetry submissions include .doc or .pdf—use minimal document styling and do not include author identifying information on any pages of submitted document.

Submitted material must be unpublished. We will consider simultaneous submissions, but please inform us immediately if the work has been accepted by another publication. Please edit your work with care.

By sending your submission you agree to the following statements:

• You are a writer or artist who identifies as a Black woman.

• You have completely read and submitted within the guidelines.

https://zorasden.submittable.com/submit/190865/the-fire-inside-volume-2

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: “COOKOUT” ISSUE

Lucky Jefferson

DEADLINE: May 31, 2021

INFO: Grab your sunglasses, sandals, and favorite dish—you’re invited to our cookout. 

Send us unpublished poetry (there is no line limit but we adore shorter poems), flash fiction, and food-inspired art that describes what you would bring to our cookout.

Topics may include:

• food 

• games / entertainment

• libations

• decorations

• cutlery

GUIDELINES:

• Send no more than 3 poems in a submission. Separate poems by page break.

• No more than 1000 words for flash fiction.

• Include a short and sweet cover page highlighting: your name, email address, mailing address, and bio (third-person, 50 words max). 

No translations or work that has been previously published in print or online. 

Please absolutely no sexually explicit poems or works highlighting extreme violence, racism, antisemitism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, insta poems or love poems. We're hopeless romantics, but we're not interested in printing romance unless it's a unique perspective.

https://luckyjefferson.submittable.com/submit/191426/issue-7-cookout-early-bird-submission

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: AWAKE

Lucky Jefferson

DEADLINE: May 31, 2021

Lucky Jefferson's digital zine Awake seeks to amplify the experiences and perspectives of Black writers in American society. 

The third issue of our digital zine will explore Black Resiliency. While the undercurrents of trauma will remain embedded in the fabric of our history, and stories, trauma is not our only defining trait. 

Send poems, essays, flash fiction, and art that embrace and magnify the persistence, strength, and power of our people through text, form, and structure.

Upon acceptance, submissions will be included on our website and publicized on social media. Accepted authors will receive $15 for each accepted work.

GUIDELINES:

• Send no more than three poems in a submission. Separate poems by titles or page breaks.

• Essays should be no more than 1500 words. 

• Flash Fiction should be no more than 1000 words.

• Send no more than three pieces of art. Artwork that offers social commentary on Black resiliency is highly preferred (We love comics and collage pieces!).

• Include a cover page highlighting your name, email address, current address, and bio (third-person, 50 words max).

• We do not accept translations or work that has been previously published in print or online.

https://luckyjefferson.submittable.com/submit/167135/awake-submission-a-digital-zine-for-black-authors

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

The Liminal Review

DEADLINE: May 31, 2021

INFO: We’re open to fiction, short prose, reviews, poetry, creative nonfiction, marginalia, and illustrations.

The Liminal Review was founded in December 2020 by Alix Berber and Shauna Smullen. Two queer artists looking to carve out a new space for marginalised voices in Ireland and beyond. The project emerged from a curiosity for the concept of liminal spaces, transition and temporality. Liminality is familiar to everyone, even if the word might not be. Liminality is the experience of transition, metamorphosis, of crossing the small and momentous thresholds of life and death.

Please only submit to one category (Poetry or Fiction or Nonfiction) per submission period to liminalreview [at] gmail. com

The Liminal Review is currently run without any outside funding and we are as of now unable to pay contributors. It is our explicit goal to be able to offer contributors payment in the future. Featured writers will receive a contributor copy.

Please read the following submission guidelines carefully. Submissions that fail to adhere to the guidelines will not be considered for publication. If you have any further questions please feel free to reach out via the contact form, email or our social media channels.

The Liminal Review’s stated goal is to give special consideration to emerging authors/artists regardless of their previous publishing history. BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ artists and writers, as well as those living with disabilities, are strongly encouraged to submit.

https://www.liminalreview.com/home/submit

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The 2021 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize

Wasafiri

DEADLINE: May 31, 2021

ENTRY FEE: £10 for a single entry / £16 for a double entry.

INFO: Representing more of the globe than any other prize of its kind, the Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize is opening its doors for 2021 and welcoming work in fiction, poetry, and life writing from unpublished writers around the world. The prize will remain open from 1 February to 31 May 2021.  

Winners of the prize will be announced on 14 October and will receive £1,000 each to support their work. All fifteen shortlisted writers will be offered mentoring and career guidance from partners The Literary Consultancy and The Good Literary Agency. All winners of the prize, running since 2009, remain part of the Wasafiri community, and are supported by the magazine as their careers grow. Past winners and shortlistees have gone on to score deals with major international publishing houses such as Verso, Peepal Tree Press, and HarperCollins India and to be shortlisted for and win prizes including the TS Eliot Prize, Ambit Short Fiction, and Bocas Poetry Prize, among very many others. 

This year’s multiply-award-winning international judging panel comprises Tishani Doshi (Poetry), Hirsh Sawhney (Fiction), and Christie Watson (Life Writing). It will be chaired by renowned novelist and Professor of Creative Writing Andrew Cowan, who says of this role, ‘I’m thrilled to be chairing the judging for this year’s Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize. I’m looking forward to working with Tishani, Hirsh, and Christie, who are such wonderful writers. It’ll be a real pleasure, and a genuine honour.’ 

JUDGES:

• Andrew Cowan is a novelist and Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia and has taught creative writing all over the world. His first novel  Pig  was published in 1994 and received multiple national awards. Including a Betty Trask Award and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. It was followed by much-celebrated novels  Common Ground  (1996), Crustaceans (2000), What I Know  (2005), and Worthless Men  (2013), and Your Fault (2019). He has also written a creative writing guidebook, The Art of Writing Fiction, and he is currently completing the monograph Against Creative Writing.  

• Tishani  Doshi is Welsh-Gujarati  poet, novelist, and dancer. Her most recent books are Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods, shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Poetry Award, and a novel, Small Days and Nights, shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize and a New York Times Bestsellers Editor’s Choice. A God at the Door (Bloodaxe Books), her fourth collection of poems, is forthcoming in spring 2021. She lives in Tamil Nadu, India.   

• Hirsh Sawhney’s writing has appeared in international anthologies and periodicals including the Times Literary Supplement, The New York Times Book Review, The Guardian, the Indian Express, the Financial Times, Outlook, and many more. His novel South Haven was nominated for the 2017 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, and he is the editor of the fiction anthology Delhi Noir. He currently lives in New Haven, Connecticut and teaches at Wesleyan University. 

• Christie Watson is an award-winning and bestselling writer of fiction and non-fiction. She has been a nurse for over twenty years and is currently Professor of Medical and Health Humanities at UEA. Her work has been translated into twenty-three languages. 

https://www.wasafiri.org/article/the-2021-queen-mary-wasafiri-new-writing-prize-open-for-submissions/

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-1000 Below: Flash Prose and Poetry Contest

Midway Journal

DEADLINE: June 1, 2021

FEE: $10 per entry (unlimited entries)

INFO: Enter Midway Journal’s -1000 Below: Flash Prose and Poetry Contest for a chance to win the $500 grand prize! See contest guidelines below.

You may submit an unlimited number of entries, but a new entry fee must be paid for each new submission. You may also submit to each genre. However, there is only one grand prize winner, one second prize winner and one third prize winner and not a winner in each genre.

Paste the title of your submission and your contact information (name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address) in the cover letter box. Your name and contact information must not appear anywhere on the manuscript you upload.

Previously published work will not be accepted. Simultaneous submissions are permitted, but must be withdrawn from the contest if accepted elsewhere.

• Poetry: up to 2 poems per entry, up to 40 words per poem. No more than one poem per page.

• Prose (Fiction and Nonfiction): 1 piece per entry, up to 1,000 words per piece.

All submissions will be considered for publication.

PRIZES:

• First Prize: $500 + publication in Midway Journal

• Second Prize: $250 + publication in Midway Journal

• Third Prize: $50 + publication in Midway Journal

JUDGE: Tiana Clark is the author of the poetry collection, I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018), winner of the 2017 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize, and Equilibrium (Bull City Press, 2016), selected by Afaa Michael Weaver for the 2016 Frost Place Chapbook Competition. Clark is a winner for the 2020 Kate Tufts Discovery Award (Claremont Graduate University), a 2019 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow, a recipient of a 2019 Pushcart Prize, a winner of the 2017 Furious Flower’s Gwendolyn Brooks Centennial Poetry Prize, and the 2015 Rattle Poetry Prize. She was the 2017-2018 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute of Creative Writing. Clark is the recipient of scholarships and fellowships to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and Kenyon Review Writers Workshop. She is a graduate of Vanderbilt University (M.F.A) and Tennessee State University (B.A.) where she studied Africana and Women’s studies. Her writing has appeared in or is forthcoming from The New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, The Washington Post, VQR, Tin House Online, Kenyon Review, BuzzFeed News, American Poetry Review, New England Review, Oxford American, Best New Poets 2015, and elsewhere. She teaches creative writing at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville.

JUDGING PROCESS:

 The staff of Midway Journal will select a group of finalists from all the contest entries. Finalists will be chosen for strong work regardless of genre and sent to the judge by September. The finalists will be sent to judge blindly. A winner will be announced in October.

http://midwayjournal.com/contest/

POETRY -- APRIL 2021

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: POEMVILLAGE!

Adirondack Center for Writing

DEADLINE: April 4, 2021

INFO: This beloved program has been celebrating local poetry from neighbors and friends annually since 2016 and is open only to poets with ties to the Adirondacks. Instead of visiting a corridor of poetry in town during National Poetry Month, bundles of locally-harvested poems are safely delivered to inboxes and to the ACW website daily.

Poets with ties to the Adirondack region can be a part of PoemVillage. We consider anyone within 30 minutes of the Adirondack Park a part of the region.

Review these guidelines before submitting to PoemVillage this year:

↠ This year each person can submit one poem. You will copy/paste your poems into the form below.
↠ Poems must be within 300 words and 25 lines, those too long will not be included, so please edit before submitting your poem.
↠ Please ensure that you have rights to offer this poem for publication. This poem must be your own work.
↠ Refrain from sending in poems that have previously been submitted to PoemVillage.

https://adirondackcenterforwriting.submittable.com/submit/187585/poemvillage-2021

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CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS: POETRY

Perennial Press

DEADLINE: April 7, 2021

SUBMISSION FEE: $10

INFO: Perennial Press archives truths through fiction, art, and poetry. We are committed to highlighting and uplifting voices & perspectives that have traditionally been underrepresented in literature. We center narratives of womxn, people of color, and queer folks. Our published works explore trauma and resilience in our histories, and visions of more just futures.

GUIDELINES:

We are open for submissions of poetry, including hybrid and experimental poetics.  

Submissions should be a minimum of 48 pages, with each poem beginning on a new page.

Submissions are accepted on a rolling basis. We require a $10 submission fee to cover overhead costs to review all manuscripts. All submitters will receive a free PDF copy of one of our poetry chapbooks. 

What kind of works do we like?

• We like eco-poetics, speculative poetry, and anything that challenges what we think of as "poetry." We also like poetry that tackles political and social topics with nuance. We like experimental stuff. We also love works that combine visuals with text. 

• We don’t care if you have a degree in writing, but we care that your writing is thoughtful and evokes feeling in the reader. We want to have an experience when we’re reading your manuscript.

Please note:

• We only publish inclusive works.

• You must have a complete manuscript ready upon submission.

• We will not accept multiple submissions from any one person, unless otherwise noted. Please send one manuscript at a time.

• If any of your work has been previously published, please indicate where and when in your cover letter.

https://perennialpress.submittable.com/submit

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CALL FOR Fiction, Flash Fiction, Poetry & Translations

SAND

DEADLINE: April 10, 2021

INFO: SAND looks for submissions that push the boundaries of form, message, and voice in fresh and unpredictable ways—work that is haunting for its soul, edge, and truth.

SAND is made by a diverse international team in Berlin, and we welcome writers and artists from a range of perspectives to submit, including those who are women, LGBTQ+, people with disabilities, people of color, working class, and/or geographically underrepresented. Most of us editors are also writers, and we know how it goes. That’s why we consider every submission, why we welcome emerging writers and artists, and why we will never charge you fees for submitting. (Donations and subscriptions are of course appreciated, and help us stay weird and independent.)

• Submissions are open until April 10th, 2021. There is a cap on fiction, poetry, and flash fiction submissions, so these genres may close before April 10th. Submit to these genres as early as possible.

• We accept previously unpublished poems, including translations, and visual art. (Creative Nonfiction is currently closed.) Work forthcoming in a book, including stand-alone excerpts, is acceptable, as long as it appears in SAND before the book’s publication date. We ask for worldwide First Serial Rights. (Rights revert to you after publication.)

• Simultaneous submissions are welcome, but please inform us as soon as possible if the work has been accepted elsewhere. We also accept multiple submissions as long as they are in separate categories. 

• Please allow six months for a response before sending an inquiry.

• We will pay contributors as long as our funding will allow. We also send all contributors a free copy of SAND and promise faithful promotion of your writing/art for as long as we both shall live.

GUIDELINES:

• Poetry: Please send us poems that take interesting risks. Your weird poems, your challenging poems, your sensitive poems. Poems unanticipated.We want poems that are attentive to their language; precise and economical. We would like to see specific and deliberate methods for setting the words on the page. If your work considers classical forms and uses them to new ends, send it. If it rejects traditional forms and forges new ones, we want it. Push the bounds of what is ordinarily pondered, and send the results our way.Due to design considerations, prose poetry that is particularly wide is likely to undergo some spatial shifts during the editing process.We will not consider submissions over 5 pages.There is a cap on poetry submissions, and this category might close before April 10th.

• Fiction and Flash Fiction: Send subversive fiction that will pull the tops of our heads off, to paraphrase Emily Dickinson. We want to read stories that need to be told from perspectives that aren’t always heard. Take risks that surprise us and keep us wanting to read long after your story is finished. To make sure your submission is right for SAND, read about our fiction preferences here.We accept previously unpublished short stories, flash fiction, and translations. We do not read full novels, novel excerpts, full novellas, or plays.Writers may submit one short story (up to 5,000 words) OR a single file with up to three pieces of flash fiction (of up to 1000 words each, not to exceed 3000 words).Do not include your name or any other identifying information on the document you submit. Fiction reads submissions blind. We will automatically reject any submissions that include identifying information. There is a cap on fiction and flash fiction submissions, and these categories might close before April 10th.

  
  We accept translations of fiction into English. Submitters should ensure that they have permission from the author and publisher to print the translation before submitting.Submit the most complete, most polished version of your work. In exceptional cases, we sometimes edit stories in conversation with the author, who naturally has the final say.

• Creative Nonfiction: Nonfiction submissions are currently closed. 

• Translations: We accept translations into English of poetry, fiction, and flash fiction. (Creative nonfiction is currently closed.) We generally include the original version of a poem or flash piece alongside the translation. For reasons of space, we publish translated longer prose in English only.The original work may be previously published, as long as it has not been translated to English before. Permission must be granted for publication in SAND from both the author and the translator and, if necessary, the author’s publisher.Please include the name and brief biography for both the author and translator in your cover letter, as well as a copy of the text in its original language.

https://sandjournal.com/submit/

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2021 Gulf Coast Prize in Poetry

Gulf Coast Journal

DEADLINE: April 15, 2021

ENTRY FEE: $23 (includes a one-year subscription to Gulf Coast).

INFO: Entrants for the Gulf Coast Prize in Poetry may submit up to five poems not exceeding 10 total pages in length. We only accept submissions via Submittable. 

JUDGE: Natalie Diaz. Diaz is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Tribe. Her first poetry collection, When My Brother Was an Aztec, was published by Copper Canyon Press, and her second book, Postcolonial Love Poem, was published by Graywolf Press in March 2020. She is a MacArthur Fellow, a Lannan Literary Fellow, a United States Artists Ford Fellow, and a Native Arts Council Foundation Artist Fellow. Diaz is Director of the Center for Imagination in the Borderlands and is the Maxine and Jonathan Marshall Chair in Modern and Contemporary Poetry at Arizona State University. She lives in Phoenix, Arizona.

PRIZES: The contest awards $1,500 and publication in Gulf Coast. Two honorable mentions are awarded $250. All entries are considered for publication and the entry fee includes a one-year subscription to Gulf Coast.

GUIDELINES:

• Click here for online submissions accepted via Gulf Coast’s Submittable

• Submit your work as a single .doc, .docx, or .pdf file.

• Only previously unpublished work will be considered.

• The contest will be judged blindly, so please do not include your cover letter, your name, or any contact information in the uploaded document. This information should only be pasted in the “Comments” field in Submittable.

https://gulfcoastmag.org/contests/gulf-coast-prize/

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QTBIPOC 2021 Poetry Manuscript Contest

Kelsey Street Press

DEADLINE: April 15, 2021

INFO: We are pleased to announce Kelsey Street Press’s first QTBIPOC Prize. This is a FREE book contest open to QTBIPOC-identified feminist innovative writers/poets. The winning manuscript will be chosen by Metta Sáma, author of Swing at your own risk (Kelsey Street Press, 2019). The prize winner will receive publication along with a $1,000.00 cash award to help aid in book promotion, travel, event attendance, and a general contribution to the hopes of thriving as an artist.

Along with book publication and cash prize, Ching-In Chen, winner of the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Best Transgender Poetry for recombinant (Kelsey Street Press, 2017), will serve as editor along with a Kelsey Street Press collective member. This prize continues Kelsey Street’s commitment to publishing a poetics of inclusion. 

GUIDELINES:​

• Kelsey Street Press poetry editors seek work that challenges and engages alternative conventions, a poetics of allowance that encourages
  writers to write directly from their own creative imperatives.

• There are no citizenship requirements or limitations. Online submissions are accepted from around the world.

• Manuscripts must be in English, although it is perfectly acceptable to include some text in other languages.

• For the scope of this contest, QTBIPOC is inclusive of Lesbian, Bisexual, Trans, Nonbinary and/or Queer writers who are Black, Indigenous and/or People of Color.​

• Manuscript submissions for all contests must be original. (If you include quotes from other works in your manuscript, please be sure they
  are clearly attributed to the author either on the same page or in a “Notes” section at the back of the manuscript.)​

• Manuscripts must be previously unpublished, although individual poems in a manuscript are still eligible for this contest if they have been
  previously published in print or web magazines, journals, anthologies, or on a personal web site. 

• Simultaneous submissions to other contests and multiple submissions acceptable. Please notify us if your manuscript is accepted
  elsewhere.

• If you are submitting a poetry manuscript that includes photographs, illustrations, or other graphics please obtain permissions.

• This is not a "blind" contest.

• Revisions are not allowed to a manuscript after it has been submitted to the contest. However, the winning poet will have time to revise the
  manuscript before publication. We do reserve the right to get approval from the judge if those revisions are significant.

• ​Past or present “students,” “colleagues,” or “close friends” of the judge are NOT ELIGIBLE. For the purpose of this contest the following
  definitions apply: “Students” are defined as someone who has taken one or more semesters or quarter courses from the judge, but we do not consider someone who has taken only a weekend or week-long workshop to be a “student” of the judge. “Colleagues” include someone who has worked with the judge, usually in the same department at a university or college, but someone who has worked in a different unrelated department at the same university or college and has had very little contact with the judge is not considered a “colleague”. A “close friend” is defined as someone who has met with the judge socially, for instance for a private dinner. Someone who knows the judge, but only meets and greets the judge at readings and other events is not considered a “close friend.” Once you have had a “student,” "colleague,” or “close friend” relationship with the judge, even if it was many years ago, you are ineligible for this contest.

• ALSO NOT ELIGIBLE are translations; collaborations by more than one author on the poetry (although photos or graphics in a
  manuscript can be created by other individuals), along with Kelsey Street Press past and present collective members.

• Errors in your manuscript. If our staff find a serious error in your entry (your manuscript file won't open, is locked, is unreadable, or is missing pages, etc.) we will contact you to obtain a correction. Errors sometimes occur and can be easily corrected later.

​https://www.kelseystreetpress.org/contests

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HAMBIDGE RESIDENCIES

Hambidge Center

DEADLINE: April 15, 2021 (for Fall Session - September through December).

INFO: The Hambidge Center is situated on 600 forested acres in the mountains of north Georgia and offers miles of nature trails, meadows, waterfalls, a swimming hole and an abundance of wildflowers.

The oldest residency program in the Southeast, Hambidge provides a self-directed program that honors the creative process and trusts individuals to know what they need to cultivate their talent, whether it’s to work and produce, to think, to experiment or to rejuvenate. Residents’ time is their own; there are no workshops, critiques, nor required activities.


Each resident is given their own private studio which provides work and living space with a bathroom and full kitchen. The studios are designed to protect the time, space and solitude that allows residents to focus on their work.


Resident groups are intentionally kept small enough (8-10 people) to gather around the dinner table each evening, Tuesday through Friday, for delicious vegetarian meals prepared by our chef. These communal meals are an essential part of the Hambidge residency experience. Serious topics are discussed (and light-hearted ones, too), experiences are shared, and encouragement is given. Many a collaboration and life-long friendship have begun at the Hambidge dinner table.

Members of each resident group come from different walks of life and work in different creative disciplines; from musicians, chefs and scientists, to visual artists, writers, and beyond. Each year, residents of all ages come to Hambidge from over 30 states across the U.S., as well as internationally.

Specialized equipment and facilities include the Antinori Pottery Studio, and a beautifully rebuilt turn-of-the-century Steinway grand piano housed in Garden Studio.



WHAT TO KNOW BEFORE YOU APPLY

• The studios are comfortable, but rustic and secluded. They are purposely simple, and most are out of sight of each other, if not quite isolated. 

• We are located in a forested environment. Residents should expect to occasionally encounter wildlife and insects – and sometimes the insects are inside the studios. 

• It is dark at night. There are no street lights or ambient light, other than the moon and stars.

• Due to our remote location, there is no cell service at Hambidge. Each studio has a phone for emergency, local and incoming calls. 

• To encourage focused creativity, there is no internet in the studios. Wi-fi is available 24 hours a day in the communal space of Lucinda's Rock House.

ELIGIBILITY: Qualified applicants must be working at a professional level in their field. We seek applications from emerging and mid-career creatives, as well as from those who are established with national and/or international reputations. 

Applications for residency are judged primarily on the quality of submitted work samples and professional promise. Hambidge accepts approximately 170 artists each year. There are no publication, exhibition, or performance requirements contingent on a Hambidge residency. 

The Hambidge Center encourages creative professionals of all backgrounds to apply for admission. We celebrate varied ideas, world views, and personal characteristics, and are committed to being an organization that welcomes and respects everyone regardless of age, ability, ethnicity, race, religion, philosophical or political beliefs, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, nationality, geographic origin, and socioeconomic status. 

FEES: There is a $30 application fee. If this represents a barrier to submitting an application, please contact our Operations Manager at center@hambidge.org to discuss a waiver.

The residency fee is $250 per week. 

Note: the actual cost of a residency is $1500/wk. Every year, the Hambidge Center raises funds to supplement $1250 for every residency week, leaving each resident with only the $250/wk fee.

FUNDING: Hambidge offers several merit-based Distinguished Fellowships which remove the fees for a two-week residency and provide a $700 stipend. Available Distinguished Fellowships vary from session to session and are listed in the Awards & Financial Assistance section of each session's application. Unless otherwise noted, they are reserved for first-time residents. The list of previously awarded Distinguished Fellowships can be seen here. 

FINANCIAL AID: Hambidge offers limited financial aid scholarships to accepted residents. Priority will be given to minority residents with the goal of a more diverse and inclusive residency program.

Upon acceptance to the program and receiving the financial aid forms, applicants will be required to provide completed documents within 5 days, including last year’s Tax Return, and a Statement of Need. The Statement is a description of financial needs: the reasons for requesting aid and an explanation of the applicant’s financial situation, including current expenses, debt, and sources of income. International applicants will be asked to complete a questionnaire instead of providing a tax return. 

Admission Panels: Applications in each discipline are reviewed by panels of three esteemed peers within that discipline. Panel membership is rotated frequently. 

Length of Stay: Applicants may request stays between two weeks and eight weeks. Residents arrive on Tuesday and depart on Sunday. Residencies of one week are available to Arts & Culture Administrator applicants and Culinary applicants ONLY. Eight-week residencies will only be scheduled in the Fall and Spring Sessions. The maximum length of residencies awarded in Summer Session is four weeks. Because of differing lengths of individual stays, residents will arrive and depart on varying schedules. 

Creative Disciplines
Hambidge accepts applications in the following disciplines:

• ARTS & CULTURE ADMINISTRATION - including propopsals for professional projects and/or personal creative projects by administrators working for arts, culture or environmental organizations, or independently (a freelance curator, for example). It is not a requirement that the organization be a non-profit, however it must be an organization that works with or assists other people or produces public projects.

• CERAMICS - including functional and sculptural

• CULINARY ARTS - including recipe development, cookbook writing, food writing, food styling, food photography, and food preservation

• DANCE - including choreography, performance, and theory

• MUSIC - including composition, performance, vocal, and theory, in all genres of music

• SCIENCE - this residency offers scientists in any branch of science a place to write and/or organize research

• VISUAL ARTS - including book arts, conceptual art, design, drawing, environmental art, fiber arts, film & video, installation arts, metalworking, mixed media, multimedia art, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and woodworking. Note: We do not have darkroom or printmaking facilities, but provide exploration space for artists working in those disciplines. Those working in wood or metal must bring their own tools and machinery.

• WRITING - including academic scholarship, criticism, fiction, history, poetry, journalism, nonfiction, philosophy, playwriting, screenwriting, storytelling.

References: Hambidge no longer requires letters of recommendation as part of the application materials.  

Collaborations and Couples: Collaborators must submit individual applications, but may choose to share studio/living space. Applications must contain a joint proposal of the work they intend to do while in residence and an example of previous collaborative work. The acceptance of one collaborator does NOT guarantee the acceptance of the other.

Non-collaborating couples who wish to be in residence together must submit individual applications. Upon acceptance, they may request concurrent residency dates and choose whether or not to share studio/living space. No other provisions are made for partners. The acceptance of one partner does NOT guarantee the acceptance of the other. 

Children: Hambidge has successfully hosted several residents accompanied by their children. We are still developing our parental program, but we are quite willing to work with resident parents to find the best timing and to recommend part-time childcare for their stay. Please contact us at center@hambidge.org or 706-746-7324 to discuss these options before submitting your application. 

Pets: With the exception of licensed service animals (as defined by the ADA), pets are not permitted. 

International Applicants: Hambidge welcomes applicants in all disciplines from around the world. Writers who work in languages other than English should supply samples of work in translation as well as in the original. A working understanding of English is required. Hambidge does not provide an interpreter for residents who speak little or no English. 

Application Instructions: All application materials must be submitted electronically through hambidge.slideroom.com. Step-by-step instructions are included in each application. For technical assistance during the application process, contact Slidroom Support in the Help tab of the application portal. 

Late applications will not be accepted. Notification of results is sent via email approximately 5 weeks after the application deadline. 

NOTE: We will contact you using the EMAIL address in your Slideroom Account Information. Before submitting your application, please double check to make sure ALL your Slideroom account info is current.

https://www.hambidge.org/guidelines-apply

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2021 Poems in Translation Contest

Words Without Borders

DEADLINE: April 16, 2021 by 11:59pm ET

INFO: Words Without Borders is pleased to announce the 2021 Poems in Translation Contest to spotlight some of the groundbreaking poets working around the world today and to celebrate the art of translating poetry.

The contest is open to contemporary international poetry translated from other languages into English. Four winning translated poems will be co-published on Words Without Borders, the digital magazine for international literature, and in Poem-a-Day, the popular daily poetry series produced by the Academy of American Poets, throughout September, which is National Translation Month.

The winning poems will be selected by acclaimed poet Airea D. Matthews, along with the editors of Words Without Borders.

The winning poets and translators will be awarded $150 each. (In the case of multiple translators, the translator award shall be split evenly.)

Submissions will be accepted through 11:59 pm ET on April 16, 2021. We regret that, due to the high number of submissions we receive, only winners will be contacted.

Guidelines for submissions:

• Entries must be submitted by translators and include both original- language texts and translations. Self-translations are eligible.

• Only poems translated from languages other than English are eligible.

• Only first English translations will be considered. Retranslations of poems already available in English are not eligible.

• Translations must be unpublished.

• Translations must not be under contract for publication.

• Authors of original poems must be living.

• Translators must have confirmed that English translation rights are available.

• Translators may submit up to three poems. (All three poems need not have the same author. Similarly, co-translations are also eligible.)

• Individual poems must not exceed forty lines.

• Submissions must include brief bios for authors and translators.

https://wordswithoutborders.submittable.com/submit/188120/words-without-borders-2021-poems-in-translation-contest

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CAVE CANEM POETRY PRIZE

DEADLINE: April 30, 2021 at 11:59pm ET

ENTRY FEE: $0

INFO: All unpublished, original collections of poems written in English by Black writers of African descent who have not had a full-length book of poetry published by a professional press are eligible for the Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Authors of chapbooks and self-published books with a maximum print run of 500 may apply. Simultaneous submission to other book awards should be noted: immediate notice upon winning such an award is required. Winner agrees to be present in the continental United States at her or his own expense shortly after the book is published in order to participate in promotional reading(s). 

AWARD: Winner receives $1,000, publication by Graywolf Press in fall 2022, 15 copies of the book, and a feature reading. Both the winner and runner-up will be invited to individual critique sessions with the final judge.

Winner announced via email by or before October 2021.

FINAL JUDGE: Rachel Eliza Griffiths (Judge reserves the right not to select a winner and/or honorable mentions.)

FIRST READERS: Abdul Ali and TBD. Manuscripts are read without the reviewers and judge’s knowledge of contestants’ identities.

EXCLUSIONS: Current or former students, colleagues, employees, family members and close friends of the judge; current or former employees and members of the board of Cave Canem Foundation or Graywolf Press; and authors who have published a book or have a book under contract with Graywolf Press are ineligible.

If any of the selected authors fall under the above exclusions, they will be disqualified and a replacement chosen from among the finalists. As the poetry community is small and the contest is judged without knowledge of the submitter’s identity, acquaintance with the judge or participation in a workshop taught by the judge are not disqualifying criteria.

GUIDELINES:

• Submit manuscripts online at cavecanem.submittable.com. Hard copy submissions will not be considered.

• One manuscript per poet.

• Upload manuscript as a .doc or .pdf document. Include a title page with the title only and table of contents. Author’s name should not appear on any pages within the uploaded document.

• Include a cover letter in the Submittable text box—DO NOT include within the .doc or .pdf document of the manuscript. Cover letter should include author’s brief bio (200 words, maximum) and list of acknowledgments of previously published poems.

• Manuscript must be paginated, with a font size of 11 or 12, and 48-75 pages in length, inclusive of title page and table of contents. A poem may be multiple pages, but no more than one poem per page is permitted.

• Manuscripts not adhering to submission guidelines will not be considered.

• Post-submission revisions or corrections are not permitted.

https://cavecanempoets.org/prizes/cave-canem-poetry-prize/

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Call for Submissions: NOMBONO: An Anthology of Speculative Poetry by BIPOC Creators

Sundress Publications

DEADLINE: April 30, 2021

INFO: Sundress Publications announces an open submission call for NOMBONO: An Anthology of Speculative Poetry by BIPOC Creators, a collection that asks us earthers, terrans, the identified sentients of this planet to reconceive how we perceive our doings and being in this world.

Reaching far beyond a generic exploration of visionary and speculative possibilities, NOMBONO: An Anthology of Speculative Poetry by BIPOC Creators asks: are we on a bright threshold or at the edge of a dark precipice? Are we about to take flight and evolve, or plummet into an abysmal abyss? BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, poets of color) word-wielders are invited to share their visions, invocations, foretellings, and alterations in this new anthology of speculative poetry entitled NOMBONO (the Zulu word for “visionary”). The range of speculative poetry’s engagements are sought: aliens, alternate history, cryptids, cyberfunk, cyberpunk, dystopia, fairy tales, fabulism, fantasy, folklore, futurism, horror, magic, monsters, mythology, occult, paranormal, post-apocalyptic, robots, science fiction, shifters, slipstream, solar punk, space opera, steamfunk, steampunk, superheroes, supernatural, sword and sorcery, sword and soul, time-travel, and weird. All poetic forms and scifaiku are welcome.

Interested poets should submit up to 5 poems, a short bio (max. 100 words) along with your preferred email address, phone number, and physical mailing address as a single DOCX or PDF file to anthology@sundresspublications.com, by April 30, 2021. Previously published work will be considered as long as you retain the right to reprint it and note where it first appeared. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable as long as they are noted as such and the author notifies the editor that the work has been accepted elsewhere, before notification of acceptance in the anthology. Failure to conform to these guidelines means your poems will go unconsidered for the anthology. Early submission is recommended, as work will be assessed as it arrives. Publication is slated for the second half of 2021.

Artwork by BIPOC artists is also sought for consideration for this anthology. To submit, please send high-resolution JPEGS and a short bio (max. 100 words) along with your preferred email address, phone number, and physical mailing address to anthology@sundresspublications.com.

This anthology will appear both in a print and digital format. All contributors will receive one print author copy plus any additional copies at cost. Any additional funding from the project will be paid to authors.

The poet Akua Lezli Hope will serve as the editor for this anthology. Akua Lezli Hope’s awards include the National Endowment for the Arts writing fellowship, two New York Foundation for the Arts poetry fellowships, a Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association prize, and Rhysling and Pushcart Prize nominations, among others. She is the author of the award-winning collection, EMBOUCHURE, Poems on Jazz and Other Musics (ArtFarm Press), and THEM GONE (The Word Works). A lifetime member of the SFPA, she created Speculative Sundays, a biweekly, online, speculative poetry reading series. Her speculative poetry chapbook, Otherwheres (ArtFarm Press, 2020), is available on Amazon.

http://www.sundresspublications.com

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POETRY FELLOWSHIP

Just Buffalo Literary Center

DEADLINE: April 30, 2021

INFO: Just Buffalo Literary Center invites adult poets of all ages and stages of their career to apply for its Poetry Fellowship, judged this year by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram.

THE FELLOWSHIP AWARD:

• A $1,500 stipend

• One month of free lodging during August 2021 in a beautiful apartment in one of Buffalo’s most vibrant neighborhoods

• An opportunity to read at an event curated by Just Buffalo Literary Center

ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS:

• Applicants must be 21 years or older

• A completed application must be received by 11:59 p.m. on April 30, 2021 (incomplete applications will NOT be considered)

• Past or present employees of Just Buffalo Literary Center are NOT eligible to apply

https://www.justbuffalo.org/fellowships/poetry-fellowship/?fbclid=IwAR1glhUTUiEFWZmpqgNnl7F-9V7AZkWeW9gRMH_f52-b1uJd6OkDH_5Rrlo

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Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships

The Poetry Foundation / Poetry Magazine

DEADLINE: April 30, 2021

INFO: The Poetry Foundation and Poetry magazine are pleased to announce the five recipients of the 2020 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships: Isabella Borgeson, Luther Hughes, Cyrée Jarelle Johnson, Darius Simpson, and Khaty Xiong. 

Among the largest awards offered to young poets in the United States, the $25,800 prize is intended to encourage the further study and writing of poetry and is open to all US poets between 21 and 31 years of age.

APPLICANT GUIDELINES:

• Applicants must reside in the U.S. or be U.S. citizens.

• Applicants must be at least 21 years of age and no older than 31 years of age as of April 30, 2021.

• Applications will be accepted from March 8, 2021 through April 30, 2021 at 11:59 PM (Central Standard Time).

• Applications must be made through this submission website; applications via email are not permitted. If you have accessibility needs or concerns, please email fellowships@poetryfoundation.org.

• Poems previously published in journals or books may be included in your application.

HOW TO APPLY:

Please assemble your application materials as a SINGLE file (accepted file types are pdf, doc, docx, txt, rtf, wpf). This document must include:

• An approximately 250-word introduction to your work (not to exceed one page). The introduction can be whatever you would like. If you're not sure how to introduce your work, this can include talking about your studies of poetry so far, the poets who influence your work, and your goals for the future.

• Ten pages of poems. You may include multiple poems on one page, but total pages of poems must not exceed ten. You are welcome to include poems that have already been published.

• Name this document FELLOWSHIP [LAST NAME]_[FIRST NAME] (example: FELLOWSHIP Doe_John.doc)

• PLEASE ensure that all required materials are included in one document. Application materials submitted in multiple files will not be considered.

• Selected Fellows will be notified by July 1, 2021 and publicly announced in September.

• Selected Fellows will be invited to record a short reading via Zoom between July and August 2021, to be featured in our Poetry Day virtual award celebration on October 21, 2021

• If you have any questions, contact fellowships@poetryfoundation.org

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/foundation/prizes-fellowship

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Latinx Video Anthology

Ruben Quesada

DEADLINE: April 30, 2021

INFO: Author and poet Ruben Quesada is making a video anthology showcasing U.S. Latinx poets sharing a poem they love written by another Latinx poet. This is a one-of-a-kind collection of poetry that gathers thinking about Latinx poetry from Latinx poets in the United States from all walks of life. This video anthology collects views of poetry by new, emerging, and established Latinx poets. A collection of 50 short video documentaries showcasing individual U.S. Latinx poets reading and speaking personally about poems they love.

Goal: Latinx poets from every state, representing a range of occupations, education, & backgrounds.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd3hiz5WhhOhPFh012BPGBOvkV0ytnCqxHp79FeibEzkv6TrQ/viewform

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: ‘UNITY’ ISSUE

Skin Magazine

DEADLINES: April 30, 2021

INFO: For Skin Magazine’s third issue, we will cover the theme of UNITY.

When was the last time you felt like a part of something? Is unity to you something that you can experience on the individual level? What do you think we can do to become a more united world? We'd love to see how you depict and explore the concept of unity!

GUIDELINES:

• Acceptable submission forms: visual art, photography, poetry, essays, interviews, collages, and playlists.

• Submission limit: Up to three (3) submissions per submitter.

• Please remember that we will only allow unpublished and original content

https://twitter.com/skinthemag/status/1347759767905701891

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The CookOut Poetry Prize

Write About Now Poetry

DEADLINE: May 2, 2021

INFO: "The CookOut" is a literary magazine published out of Write About Now Poetry that encompasses the warmth and hospitality of the South, the fast-paced, forward-thinking nature of the city, and the openness and innovation fostered within a community from all over the world.

If you’re looking for a place to gather, “The CookOut” welcomes you to our table carved out of the love and creativity of Black authors who archive their existence, dreams, and ideas into the written word.

This online journal serves as a response to the call to amplify Black writers, Black voices and Black stories, as well as to invest into Black communities through supporting Black-led organizations and through The CookOut's $1000 grand prize.

We are seeking poems from Black writers that have a unique vision, a fresh perspective, and a clear passion for language and music. We love striking images and captivating narratives. Our readers have range, so ultimately, we are looking for work that moves us. Send us your best.

GUIDELINES:

• Individuals must identify as Black to submit to the publication. The works submitted may include, but are not restricted to topics around Blackness.

• TCO accepts simultaneous submissions; however, TCO does not accept work that has been previously published.

• Please use 12 pt. font, unless the font size is a device used for the poem.

• You may submit up to 3 poems. Please submit your works as one file with each poem on a separate page.

• Include a cover page with your: Name, Phone Number, Mailing Address, Email and social media handles.

• One poem will be selected by a committee of Black readers to win our $1,000 grand poetry prize.

• These will be shut-eye submissions (readers will not see your name until after the poems are read), so please ensure that your name appears nowhere else in the submission manuscript (aside from the cover page) unless it is a part of your poem.

https://writeaboutnow.submittable.com/submit/190393/the-cookout-literary-journal-1000-poetry-prize

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MVICW Poet & Author Fellowships

Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing Virtual Summer Writers' Conference

DEADLINE: May 3, 2021

ENTRY FEE: $25

INFO: MVICW is able to provide a number of need and merit-based fellowships (25-40% of registration cost) to attend our Virtual Summer Writers' Conference. Consideration is given to applicants demonstrating economic need. To apply for financial assistance to attend our MVICW Summer Writers' Conference, send a sample of your writing  (3 poems or 10 pages of fiction/CNF) and a letter of interest. 

Letter of Interest (approx. 750 words): Please tell us about who you are as a person and an artist. We'd like to hear about your life, your artistic career, and your creative work. If you have specific needs (financial or creative) which would be met by this award please outline them in your letter.

https://mvicw.submittable.com/submit

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: PROSE POETRY

Stellium Literary Magazine

DEADLINE: May 3, 2021

INFO: Stellium is a literary magazine centering Black queer and trans prose writers. We still accept work from other Black and QTPOC writers. We are a bimonthly (every two months) magazine seeking to create our first two digital issues.

The literary scene is flush with racist, homophobic, transphobic, and elitist platforms that often discriminate against QTPOC writing, let alone that of Black queer and trans creators. We've noticed how we're a trend to be recognized after shootings or attacks on our communities. Rarely are we considered "legitimate" unless our creative work can generate donations for publications and institutions that stick to the status quo during the rest of the year.

At Stellium, we're setting our intentions to not just make a statement in the world of prose but to redefine the space entirely. The magazine will publish five pieces each of prose poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and art within each issue. We seek work from emerging and established writers (with an emphasis on emerging). In due time, we hope to include a number of interviews, translations, reviews, and other works relevant to the QTPOC writing scene on our website, and (eventually) in print! 

We are currently curating pieces for our third and fourth issues. Here are the themes.

• Issue Three - Home - Where (or who) is home? What does it mean now that you're older? What did you picture when you were young? Are you there now or arriving? How do you protect it, fill it, or renew it? Do you click your heels three times or do you simply open the door? Take us there.

• Issue Four - Skepticism - What are you a skeptic of? Who deserves the most review and re-review? How have you been critiqued yourself? Why this issue in particular? Has it always been this way or did something change within? Ruin the façade.

What are we looking for?

• Prose poetry - We do not accept traditional poetry. Please note this description before submitting. Prose poetry is "not broken into verse lines, [but] demonstrates other traits such as symbols, metaphors, and other figures of speech common to poetry." Write in paragraphs and with a poetic flow, and we'll want to see it. Please submit a maximum of three poems. This section is not theme-specific but you're encouraged to focus on it.

https://stelliumlit.submittable.com/submit

POETRY -- MARCH 2021

BLACK GIRL MAGIC FELLOWSHIP Program

Urban Word NYC

DEADLINE: March 5, 2021

INFO: Urban Word NYC’s Black Girl Magic Fellowship Program is a series for girls and non-binary youth ages 13-19 centered on their development as writers, building their self-esteem, and addressing issues that matter most to them. Curated by Mahogany L. Browne, Urban Word Artistic Director/ Poet/ Activist, this year's fellowship launches at the 2021 Black Girl Magic Ball, where 15 Fellowship winners will be invited and officially introduced as this year's cohort. 

On Saturday, March 27th, April 6th, April 13th, and April 17th from 11am-12:30pm EST, Fellows participate in a series of master class workshops focusing on the work of women artists and activists (both contemporary and historic). Under the leadership of Mahogany L. Browne and other invited guests, workshops will use texts for and by Black women artists and scholars. Fellows have the opportunity to learn from guest artists and lectures from BGM Ball honorees.

Throughout the 2021 year, BGM Fellows will participate in readings and other events. They will continue to have occasional workshops to help them continue their craft, exploring various writing careers (PR, speech writing, copyrighting, playwriting, etc.), college workshops, as well as self-care.

At the end of the season, Black Girl Magic Fellows will release a digital anthology of their work.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf_LDIgsds5x901MdEFl_jx35RnUIn9abwxzHdsm7xlrPe0BQ/viewform

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2021 NYC Teen Grand Poetry Slam

Urban Word NYC

DEADLINE: March 5, 2021 at 5pm ET

INFO: Urban Word NYC’s annual poetry slam program is among the most rigorous and competitive in the country. Poets from the NYC area are invited to submit ONE (1) video of themselves performing ONE (1) poem.

20 finalists will participate in a two-day Slam School Fellowship on March 15th & 18th at 5-7pm (must be available both dates) and advance to the Virtual Grand Slam Finals happening virtually on April 3rd at 2pm. The top 5 winners earn a spot on the Urban Word NYC Slam Team, win paid performance & publication opportunities, a professional video filming of their poetry, and will represent NYC at the Regional Poetry Slam against teams from Boston, DC, and more.

https://www.urbanwordnyc.org/slam

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I Want Sky: Celebrating Sarah Hegazy and Queer SWANA Life

Mizna / AAWW

DEADLINE: March 8, 2021

INFO: In her suicide note, composed in the mute solidarity of the asylum of forced exile—and by a hand whose skin had yet to wrinkle—Sarah Hegazy apologizes.

On a simple, lined, spiral-bound notebook, with the faint red margin appearing on the left, not the right, inhospitable to her native tongue, she starts at the top, addressing her siblings, in blue-ballpoint Arabic:

“I tried to survive and failed, forgive me.”

On the next line she addresses her friends, asking absolution for being not strong enough.

On the next she addresses the world, forgiving it its manifest cruelty.

Her signature ends it, the very short letter. The whole thing doesn’t reach even half the page.

The last word in it is the Hegazy in her name. Written minutes or hours or days or weeks or months before Sarah committed suicide on June 14, 2020—none of us are ever going to know—Sarah pens the sickle of the ي, with a flourish.

This all happened because, on September 22, 2017, Sarah lifted a rainbow flag at a concert in Cairo, to signal to a country and a regime that wished so much for her not to exist, that she, Sarah Hegazy, was there, in an evening dedicated to music.

Sarah Hegazy ended her life in response to unimaginable cruelty, after being imprisoned and tortured by the Egyptian regime. Concurrent with her death was the novel coronavirus pandemic, in its sixth month of claiming lives and livelihoods and attention spans, a pandemic of constant uncertainty. Concurrent with that was the more familiar endemic of these United States: the routine killing, with utter impunity, of Black people, by a criminal state and its apparatus of enforcement. Concurrent with that was the rising horror of watching, at a time so steeped already in palpable despair, the United States’ necropolitic deadly crack down on protestors, for their insistence on hope and dignity and Black liberation.

In the midst of that, and the difficulty of in-person gathering, and a news cycle snowballing with terror, there were few avenues available to collectively mark and witness Sarah’s passing. For this special issue of The Margins, we invite submissions honoring Sarah Hegazy’s one irreplaceable life, and the lives of all LGBTQ+ Arabs and people of the SWANA region and its diaspora, and, too often, the risk inherent in their visibility.

We are looking for essays, poetry, short fiction, songs, comic strips, all forms of hybrid work, and submissions that queer any/all of these genres. We invite submissions that sing with joy on the page, or that rage, or that ask why, or that answer, or that name and mourn our losses, or that deny the past its salience, or that imagine a better tomorrow, or that do all or none of these things.

Please format the title of your submission as follows: “LAST NAME – I Want Sky – TITLE OF PIECE.” Be sure to include a short biography (maximum 60 words) in your cover letter, and tell us a little bit about why your work speaks to this call for submissions.

Please double-space all prose submissions and limit them to approximately 3,000 words (though you may write as short as you like). You may send us up to five poems per submission. Please attach your submission as Rich Text Format, MS Word, or PDF. For graphic work, please submit with enough detail that we can read the text in JPG, GIF, PNG, or PDF format. Please do not include your name on the attachments of your submissions. We accept simultaneous submissions, but we ask that you let us know if your work has been accepted elsewhere. Writers whose pieces are accepted for the issue will receive compensation.

Mizna is a critical platform for contemporary literature, art, film, and cultural programming centering the work of Arab and Southwest Asian and North African artists. For more than twenty years, we have sought to reflect the depth and multiplicity of our community and have been committed to being a space for Arab, Muslim, and other artists from the region to create our narratives and engage audiences in meaningful and artistically excellent art.

AAWW is a national literary nonprofit dedicated to publishing, incubating, and amplifying work by Asian and Asian diasporic writers and artists. Since its founding in 1991, AAWW has provided a countercultural literary space that operates at the intersections of migration, race, and social justice. AAWW’s award-winning digital magazine The Margins imagines a vibrant, nuanced, multiracial, and transnational Asian America through original fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, reportage, and interviews.

Mariam Bazeed is an Egyptian immigrant, writer, performer, and cook living in a rent-stabilized apartment in Brooklyn. An alliteration-leaning writer of prose, poetry, plays, and personal essays, they are currently at work, with poet Kamelya Omayma Youssef, on Kilo Batra: In Death More Radiant [working title]; a play commission by Detroit-based A Host of People, written partially in verse and two languages, premiering at the Arab American National Museum.

https://aaww.submittable.com/submit/185951/i-want-sky-celebrating-sarah-hegazy-and-queer-swana-life

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THE MARCH CONTINUES COMMUNITY POEM

Southern Poverty Law Center

DEADLINE: March 10, 2021

INFO: The Civil Rights Memorial Center is partnering with bestselling author Kwame Alexander and the community to produce “A Community Poem,” a new exhibit that will be featured inside the museum when it reopens later this year. 

Members of the community are invited to submit an original poem around the themes of racial justice and human rights. Alexander will select lines from multiple submissions and combine them into one single community poem. The final poem, representing the combined work of multiple contributors across the United States, will be displayed on a digital screen in the final gallery of the Civil Rights Memorial Center. 

Anyone living in the United States can submit a poem for consideration.

Entry Rules:

• All entries must be the original work of the individual. If the poem is not written in English, a translation should be provided.

• Participants must use the form below to submit their poem. Entries sent by mail, e-mail or any other method will not be considered.

• If you are a student in grades K-12 submitting a poem, you must be enrolled in a school (public, private or home school) in the United States. Students can enter on their own or have a parent or teacher submit their entry.

• A photo of the author must accompany the submission.

• Poem submissions should begin with the phrase “Remember” or “If you.” Here is an example:

      If you climb a lemon tree,
      feel its bark
      with your feet and knees,
      smell its white flowers,
      rub in your hands its leaves.
      Remember,
      the tree is older than you
      and in its branches,
      you might find stories.

      — Jennifer Clement

• Your poem should be inspirational or informational. It should either honor or recognize the civil rights movement—past or present; encourage people to think about social injustices; document current civil and human rights issues; envision a better future for our country; or some combination of each.

• There is no limit on poem length.

Rights: Bestselling author Kwame Alexander will select poems to be published for use in the Civil Rights Memorial Center and on the Southern Poverty Law Center website. All contributors will grant the Southern Poverty Law Center unlimited 'use' rights for their original work of art. The Southern Poverty Law Center will retain no copyright to your poetry. Such rights remain with the poet at all times.

https://www.splcenter.org/march-continues-community-poem

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5TH ANNUAL CHAPBOOK CONTEST

Thirty West Publishing House

DEADLINE: March 12, 2021

INFO: Thirty West Publishing House announces its 5th chapbook contest. Accepting poetry, fiction, or CNF manuscripts.

SUBMISSION FEE: $13

GUIDELINES:

• The manuscript should be between 20-30 pages of content. If you'd like to add a title page and table of contents, that is appreciated, but not required.

• Please take a look at our previously published chaps and books to get a feel for what we like to publish. Our chapbooks are generally on the longer side, typically over 30 pages in length.

• Poetry and prose are what we want. If it fits in a chapbook, send them in. Flash & microfiction, essays, and cross-genre are also welcomed.

• We will not accept email submissions for the contest. Any manuscripts submitted this way will be unread and eventually deleted.

• Manuscripts should be currently unpublished (as in no reprints). See the note below on acknowledgments.

• Previously published material within the manuscript must contain proper acknowledgment from online and in-print journals, magazines, etc.

REWARDS:

• The winning author will receive a $500 USD cash honorarium and an author package of their chapbook upon publication.

• The winning manuscript will be subject to an official Thirty West publishing contract. This includes royalties, marketing, and reviews.

• The finished chapbook will be archived and sold through thirtywestph.com and many book fairs that we frequent including AWP, Brooklyn Book Fest, Philalalia, Baltimore Book Fest, and more.

https://www.thirtywestph.com/contest

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2021 Summer Residencies

Tin House

DEADLINE: March 14, 2021

INFO: Each residency will feature two writers at the same time (in separate apartments). 

If eligible, you may apply for all of the residencies using this single application.

Tin House Workshop recognizes that the ongoing pandemic makes traveling and timelines more difficult than ever. We’re committed to working with each resident to make their visit as comfortable and safe as possible. Should anyone need to cancel their residency due to COVID concerns, we will still honor the stipend. 

APPLICATION FEE: $25

Application Requirements (submitted as one document):

A personal essay (1,500 words or less outlining your journey as a writer and description of the project you will be working on) + writing sample.

• Fiction and Nonfiction: One writing sample of no more than 7,000 words. A short story/essay or a portion of a novel/NF project may be submitted. If you are submitting an excerpt, please include a synopsis.

• Poetry: Up to six poems, totaling no more than 20 pages.

• Translation: Please follow the requirements for the genre in the original language and submit both your translation and the original text.

• Graphic Narrative: Project synopsis and up to 30 pages of the project.

• Play/Screenplay: Project synopsis and up to 30 pages of the project.

Please submit something from the project you will be working on during the residency.

No reference letters, please.

As part of our Pay It Forward program, you have the option of helping to cover the cost of another writer’s application fee. All additional funds raised will be carried over to our next residency application period. Thank you!

RESIDENCY FOR DEBUT WRITERS:

This residency is intended to support writers who are working on their debut manuscripts.

• Dates: June 3rd-June 28th, 2021

• Stipend: $1200

• Eligibility:

• Working on a full-length manuscript in any genre.

• Applicants may be under contract but cannot be scheduled to publish their debuts before the Summer of 2022.

• Chapbooks and self-published works do not count towards this requirement.

• International writers may apply.

• 2020/2021 Tin House Scholars/Workshop faculty, former Residents, and Tin House Books authors may not apply.

• You must be 21 years of age or older by June 1st, 2021.
  

RESIDENCY FOR TEACHERS:

This residency is intended to support writers who teach and are working on a full-length manuscript.

• Dates: July 8th-August 3rd, 2021

• Stipend: $1200

• Eligibility

• Working on a full-length manuscript in any genre.

• Applicants may teach full or part-time, any grade, any subject.

• International writers may apply.

• 2020/2021 Tin House Scholars/Workshop faculty, former Residents, and Tin House Books authors may not apply.

• You must be 21 years of age or older by July 1st, 2021.
  

RESIDENCY FOR PARENTS:

These weekend residencies are intended to support writers with school-aged children at home.

• Dates: August 12th-16th, 2021 & August 19th-23rd, 2021

• Stipend: $500

• Eligibility:

• Working on a full-length manuscript in any genre.

• Applicants must have at least one child under the age of 18 living at home as of August 1st, 2021.

• International writers may apply.

• 2020/2021 Tin House Scholars/Workshop faculty, former Residents, and Tin House Books authors may not apply.

• You must be 21 years of age or older by August 1st, 2021.

https://tinhouseonline.submittable.com/submit/186243/2021-tin-house-summer-residencies

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: “ISOLA” ISSUE

Golden Walkman Magazine

DEADLINE: March 15, 2021

INFO: Golden Walkman Magazine is a literary magazine in the form of a podcast aimed at giving the written word a voice. Each month, Golden will release an issue featuring work in response to a specific theme alongside general issues.

For the April issue, guest editor Camille Wanliss has chosen the theme “Isola.” When translated to English, isola means "island." It's also the root word for isolation. For this issue, Golden will explore what it means to be islanded - geographically and metaphorically. Whether your piece takes place on a tropical island, the isle of Manhattan, or relates to moments of feeling marooned, stranded, and cast adrift, they want to hear from you.

Accepting poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction (no more than 1,000 words).

https://www.goldwalkmag.com/themed-issues.html

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

The Giving Room

DEADLINE: March 15, 2021

INFO: The Giving Room Review is dedicated to making space in the world for the voices that deserve it most. Our mission is to create a platform accessible for BIPOC, LGBTQ+, disabled, and women artists.

The Giving Room Review only accepts work that is original and previously unpublished. Please expect a wait time of 1-3 months regarding the decision we have made on your submission. Please be patient as we are a small team of editors. Rest assured that we are doing our best and working as quickly as possible. Feel free to inquiry us via email about your submission’s status if you have not heard back from us after 3 months.

Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but you must notify us immediately if your work is accepted for publication elsewhere.

​Currently, we are unable to pay for publication.

Fiction
Submissions should be no more than four thousand (4,000) words. Please include page numbers and your name on every page in the header, use 12 point Times New Roman font and double space your work.

Creative Nonfiction
All types of creative nonfiction (memoir, essays, etc.) are acceptable. Submissions should be no more than four thousand (4,000) words. Please include page numbers and your name on every page in the header, use 12 point Times New Roman font and double space your work.

Poetry
You may submit up to five (5) poetry selections per submission. Please use 12 point Times New Roman font and single space your poems unless you are using a specific format for your work.

Visual Arts
All visual art (photography, paintings, sculpture, collage, etc.) is acceptable for publication. You may submit up to five (5) photographs per submission. Please submit photographs in PNG or PDF files.
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Blog/Interviews
If you have an idea for a blog post or an interview you would like to conduct, please feel free to email us a short (500-1000 word) pitch. We are looking for articles and interviews of all kinds within the realm of revealing a fresh perspective on an important matter that deserves our readers’ attention.

You can email your submission to us via email: thegivingroomreview@gmail.com. Please include a third person bio with your submission.

http://www.thegivingroomreview.com/submit.html

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POETRY: the blongprize

Underblong

DEADLINE: March 15, 2021

INFO: In partnership with The Speakeasy Project, Underblong is thrilled and tickled to our cores to announce our first ever contest!!! Enter to win the blongprize, or America’s Next Top Blongee (need not be American to apply). We really want your best and blongiest work. If you’re not familiar with the journal, please read our fifth issue and check out our list of things we like. This contest is free to enter, but we encourage everyone who can to donate (check out the button!) and help us pay our team.

AWARD: We will select 2 winners receiving $150 and 2 runner-ups receiving $100. All entries will be considered for publication in Issue 6. For contributors to Issue 6, we are offering a modest $20 for each contributor. We will promote contributors like we are on fire. Grateful for every submission. Thank you for believing in us & trusting us with your work.

Underblong is a journal of the not-quite-so, of unfinished thoughts, of unresolved anger, of unforgotten macaroni art. Underblong is the coatroom of your secret’s secrets, a boiling pot of kit-kats becoming your favorite soup. Send us a poem that cuts through the crap. Send us your dinner chicken. Poems made by a soul.

blongprize submissions will be collected through Google Forms. Submissions should be a maximum of 3 poems / no more than 5 pages. Click the link below to submit!

We only accept unpublished submissions. If you need to withdraw a poem, email us at :: underblong@gmail.com. Please wait for a response before submitting again.

Absolutely no: racism, homophobia, misogyny, transphobia, ableism, Islamophobia, orientalist b.s., fat-shaming, colonialist exoticizing or fetishizing of cultures and peoples, appropriation of experiences & communities that aren’t yours, general literary assholery, “edgy” or “ironic” renditions of any of the above. If you send us this crap, we will point it out. So, like, don’t.

https://www.underblong.com/send-plz

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My Time: A Writer's Fellowship for Parents

​The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow

DEADLINE: March 15, 2021

INFO: The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow is pleased to announce the My Time fellowship funded by the Sustainable Arts Foundation. Writers who are also parents of dependent children under the age of 18 are invited to apply.  Work may be any literary genre: fiction or nonfiction, poetry or prose, scripts or screenplays. The successful application will demonstrate literary merit and the likelihood of publication however, prior publication is not a requirement. 

The fellowship winner will receive a one-week residency to allow the recipient to focus completely on their work. A $400 stipend is available to cover childcare and/or travel costs.  Each writers’ 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 breakfast and lunch.

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 March 31, 2021. Residency may be completed at any time during 2021. This may be extended up to twelve months for extenuating circumstances including COVID-19 concerns.

https://www.writerscolony.org/fellowships

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Summer Mentorship Program

The Adroit Journal’s

DEADLINE: March 22, 2021 at 11:59pm PST

INFO: Now in its ninth year, The Adroit Journal’s Summer Mentorship Program is an online program that pairs established writers with high school students (including graduating seniors) and gap year students (high school class of ’20 or ’21) interested in learning more about the creative writing processes of drafting, redrafting and editing.

The 2021 program will cater to poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction/memoir, and spoken word. The aim of the mentorship program is not formalized instruction, but rather an individualized, flexible, and often informal correspondence. Poetry and spoken word mentorship students will share weekly work with mentors and peers, while fiction and creative nonfiction/memoir mentorship students will share biweekly work with mentors and peers.

Applicants should possess a firm work ethic and some familiarity with the writing and revision process; should be comfortable with receiving (and giving) commentary and critique; and should be prompt and generous communicators. Applicants should also possess the will to explore and improve!

APPLICATION FEE: $0

TUITION: Tuition for participation in the full program is $350/student. Furthermore, we want to assure applicants for whom tuition will be a barrier that fee remission and financial aid will be available. Need for financial assistance will be addressed entirely separately and will not be an influencing factor on mentorship admission decisions. Program administrators and application screeners will not have access to financial need information until after admission decisions have been made.

This opportunity will not offer academic credit (this is a mentorship, not a class!), and participation in this workshop is not a route to publication in The Adroit Journal. At the end of the day, we are looking for the best potential: the writers with the drive to explore and discuss, to be active participants, and to challenge themselves in their writing.

https://theadroitjournal.org/about/mentorship/?amp

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THE BETTY L. YU AND JIN C. YU CREATIVE WRITING PRIZES

Charles Yu / TaiwaneseAmerican.org

DEADLINE: March 31, 2021 at 11:59pm PT

INFO: TaiwaneseAmerican.org is pleased to announce the inaugural Betty L. Yu and Jin C. Yu Creative Writing Prizes. Created in collaboration with Taiwanese American author Charles Yu, the Prizes are intended to encourage and recognize creative literary work by Taiwanese American high school and college students, and to foster discussion and community around such work.

Submissions may be in any literary genre including fiction, poetry, personal essays or other creative non-fiction. Submissions must be sent via Google Form. In order to be eligible, submissions must be from writers of Taiwanese heritage (or writers with other significant connection to Taiwan), or have subject matter otherwise relevant to the Taiwanese or Taiwanese American experience. 

Submissions will be considered in two categories, High School (enrolled in high school as of the deadline) and College (enrolled in community college or as an undergraduate as of the deadline). Winners and finalists will be announced in May 2021. A total of $1500 will be awarded to the winners. In addition, each of the winners and finalists will have their submitted work published online by TaiwaneseAmerican.org and considered for publication in a future edition of Chrysanthemum, and offered the opportunity to participate in an individual mentoring session with one of the judges.

JUDGES:

• Shawna Yang Ryan is a Taiwanese American novelist, short story writer and creative writing professor, who has published the novels Water Ghosts and Green Island. She currently teaches in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa.

• Charles Yu is a Taiwanese American writer. He is the author of the novels How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe and Interior Chinatown as well as the short-story collections Third Class Superhero and Sorry Please Thank You. In 2020, he received the National Book Award for Fiction.

The Prizes are named in honor of Betty Lin Yu and Jin-Chyuan Yu for their service to the Taiwanese-American community, including establishment of TACL LID Youth Camp in Southern California, co-founding of the South Bay Taiwanese-American School, the first school in the United States specifically for the purpose of Taiwanese Language instruction, establishment of North America Taiwanese Engineering Association, Southern California Chapter (NATEA-SC) and longtime support for other organizations including Formosa Association for Public Affair (FAPA), North America Taiwanese Women Association (NATWA), and Taiwan American Association (TAA).

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd4Kv0n-AH68wgRGV7GPpLMdiLi2WSYjQ7m5fR6vfWx-7hrqg/viewform

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Liminal Transit Review

DEADLINE: March 31, 2021

INFO: Liminal Transit Review is a literary journal that publishes work related to themes such as (but not limited to) diaspora, immigration, displacement, borders, and decolonization. LTR publishes fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction (including flash fiction and flash nonfiction), and also encourages cross genre work and work that does not conform to traditional genre boundaries. 

We publish work focusing on themes including but not limited to immigration, diaspora, displacement, decolonization, and border, and the intersections of these themes with literature, movement, and transit. We’re interested in work about geography and place, its connections with literature and identity. In addition to cross genre work, we’re also particularly drawn to experimental, abstract, and theoretical work.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

• Up to five poems, 10 pages of cross-genre work, or 3,000 words of prose. Multiple flash fictions or nonfictions are allowed if their total word count is under 3,000 words.

• Attach all submissions to our Google form as a single document (Word or PDF) in 12-point Garamond or Comic Sans. Prose (fiction and creative nonfiction) must be double spaced.

• Simultaneous submissions are allowed. Please email us immediately at liminaltransitreview [at] gmail [dot] com if your work is accepted elsewhere.

• Multiple submissions are not allowed. Please submit once per issue and in only one genre.

• Include trigger or content warnings if needed.

• Please submit in English. Translations are not accepted at this time.

• We aim to respond within two months. If you have not heard back by April 25, 2021 for your submission to the May 2021 issue, please email us.

https://liminaltransitreview.com/submit/

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Afrofuture, Sci-Fi, speculative fiction

Bee Infinite Publishing

DEADLINE: March 31, 2021

INFO: Bee Infinite Publishing, a Los Angeles-based independent publisher, is accepting submissions for its first anthology! Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) writers are invited to share short stories, poetry, and essays.

We have the power to imagine our future and in our upcoming anthology, Future Splendor: Celebrating A New Renaissance, we boldly ask how do you WANT to see the future? Tell us your vision. 

We’re looking for Afrofuture, Sci-Fi, speculative fiction visions of the 2020s and beyond. We challenge you to share visions of liberation, joy, empowerment, and more.

To get you in the mindset, realize at this moment we are future ancestors of the next creatives. In the Indigenous tradition, it’s encouraged to look seven generations ahead when thinking about your legacy and impact. As of 2021, we’re very much in the future. 

GUIDELINE:

Send us your short stories, poetry and essays at info@beeinfinite.org 

• Short stories: 6,000 word max. 

• Essays: 1,000 words max.

• Poetry: 800 words max. 

• You are welcome to submit 2-3 poems for review, and 1-2 short stories and essays for review.

• For prose, please include your word count at the top of your document, use 12 pt Times New Roman or Courier New fonts. All work should be submitted in Word document format.

• When submitting, make sure to include SUBMISSION in your subject line followed by the title of your piece and your name. 

https://www.beeinfinite.org/submissions

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: ISSUE 8

The Rush

DEADLINE: March 31, 2021

INFO: The Rush seeks to publish fiction, poetry, prose, and art; providing a platform to a diverse body of writers on a transcontinental level, from emerging to established writers. We welcome Spanish and English work. 

• Fiction: 1500 words max

• Nonfiction 1500 words max

• Personal Essay: 1500 words max

• Poetry: 3 poems per submission (3 pp max)

• Flash Fiction: one page

• Art: Up to 3 pieces.

We aim to respond to all submissions within sixty days. Please feel free to query us if you have not received a response by the allotted time.  We are a volunteer-based journal; your patience is appreciated.

We encourage and welcome simultaneous submissions; please let us know by adding a note to your submission if your work has been accepted elsewhere. If you have sent multiple pieces in one submission and must withdraw one-piece or two, there is no need to withdraw the entire submission if there are still some pieces for our consideration. 

We do not accept work that has been previously published.

We do not own anyone’s work. The author may republish the work elsewhere after publication. Acceptance grants us non-exclusive North American Serial Rights in print and digital format. 

Please include “Full Name” and “Submission Type” in the subject header.

https://www.rushmagazine.org/submit

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: “Renascence” ISSUE

Yellow Arrow Journal

DEADLINE: March 31, 2021

INFO: Yellow Arrow Journal is excited to announce submissions are open for the spring 2021 (Vol. VI, No. 1) issue on Renascence.

SUBMISSIONS GUIDELINES:

• Accepted submissions include creative nonfiction and poetry by authors that identify as women (cover art guidelines follow below).

• Submissions must relate to the theme on the overarching topic of cultural resurrections, as interpreted by the author, using the following definition and guiding questions (these change for each theme and are available during open submissions):

  • Renascence - the revival of something that has been dormant

  • How does your culture shape your personal identity? What part of your culture has been lost, or nearly lost? How was it lost? Why?

  • How have cultural absences affected your life? Strengthened it? Made it more difficult? What do you wish you had learned in school about your cultural identity?

  • What parts of your personal identity have been awakened/reawakened by your cultural identity? How?

• Creative nonfiction (1 submission per author per issue) must be between 500 and 5,000 words. Poetry (up to 2 poems per author per issue, grouped into a single document) may be any length.

• Submissions do not need to be in English but must include an English translation.

• No previously published work will be accepted at this time—this includes all printed and online material; simultaneous submissions are okay but please let us know when you send in your submission(s) and if a submission is published elsewhere in the interim, email submissions@yellowarrowpublishing.com immediately.

If selected, you will receive $10.00USD and a PDF of the journal issue. Note that payments are through PayPal; while we will 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.

https://www.yellowarrowpublishing.com/submissions

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Emerging Woman Poet Honor

Small Orange

DEADLINE: March 31, 2021 at 11:59pm EST

INFO: For National Poetry Month, Small Orange Journal invites women-identifying and nonbinary emerging poets who do not yet have a full-length poetry collection to submit poems for our Emerging Woman Poet Honor. The submission fee is $5.00 for up to five pages of poetry. This fee will support the $100.00 honorarium for the winning poet, as well as a donation to the nonprofit organization, Girls Write Now.

The winning poet and three honorable mentions will be published in the April issue of Small Orange as well as our limited edition Small Orange Anthology. All entries will be considered for publication in a future issue of Small Orange. The editors will judge.

To submit your poems for the Small Orange Emerging Woman Poet Honor, please:

• send up to five pages of poetry in a PDF or .docx word document

• Submissions will be read anonymously by the Small Orange editors, so please do not include your name or any other identifying information in your submission.

Winners will be announced in early April.

https://smallorange.submittable.com/submit/187386/emerging-woman-poet-honor

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THE ORISON PRIZES IN POETRY & FICTION

Orison Books

DEADLINE: April 1, 2021

INFO: Each year, we 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.

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.

ENTRY FEE: $25

2021 JUDGES:

• Poetry: Jericho Brown

• Fiction: Debra Spark

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.

https://duotrope.com/duosuma/submit/orison-prizes-poetry-fiction-eyhfu

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New South WRITING Contest

DEADLINE: April 1, 2021

INFO: New South holds an annual writing contest at the beginning of each year. Submissions for New South’s 2021 writing contest are now open. Winners and runners-up will be featured in issue 14.2 of New South.

EJ Koh will judge our prose category and Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach will judge our poetry.

GUIDELINES:

New South’s contest is open to writers who have not yet published more than one book of prose or poetry (chapbooks are fine). The contest awards $1,000 to one winner in poetry and one winner in prose, and a $250 runner’s up prize in each category.

Your $18 entry fee includes a one-year subscription to New South. You may submit electronically via Submittable ONLY. Discounted entry fees, which do not include a subscription to New South, are available for $9. Please take care that you are submitting under the contest category; regular submissions received during the contest period WILL NOT be entered into the contest. All paper mailed entries will be destroyed.

The deadline for contest submissions is April 1st, 2021 at 11:59 PM EST. (Submittable submissions will close automatically). Each entry must include: 1) A reading fee of either eighteen dollars ($18) or nine dollars ($9) if using the discounted entry form. 2) The submitter’s contact info, including a mailing address for your subscription. (Do not include any identifying information in the manuscript).

Each prose submission may contain one (1) short story or non-fiction piece of up to 7,500 words per $18 entry fee. Each poetry submission may contain up to three (3) poems per $18 entry fee. Entrants are welcome to submit more than once, but must pay a separate entry fee each time.

No GSU staff, students, or University system of Georgia staff or students are eligible for the prize. Any alumni who enter the contest must be five (5) years or more removed from attending GSU. Additionally, no relatives of the New South team or the judges are eligible. 

https://newsouthjournal.com/contest/

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2022 AIR Application Poetry

Marble House Project

DEADLINE: April 1, 2021

INFO: Marble House Project is a multidisciplinary artist residency program that fosters collaboration and the exchange of ideas, by providing an environment for artists across disciplines to live and work together. The residency integrates sustainable practices, including small-scale organic food production and waste conservation. Residents sustain their growth by engaging with the grounds while working on their artistic practice. Marble House Project is founded on the belief that the act of creating, whether in the studio or in nature, is how human potential expands and community thrives.

Marble House Project accepts approximately 60 residents and is open to artists living in the United States and abroad. You must be at least 21 years old.   Residencies run from April through October, scheduled into six three-week residencies and one two-week family-friendly residency for artists with children. Please note that if you apply to the family friendly residency, it is a specific date within the artist in residency application. Each session accommodates eight artists and is specifically curated to bring together a diverse group of creative workers, to maximize potential for collaboration and dialogue while in residence and beyond. 

All residents live together in the historic, eight-bedroom Manley-Lefevre house, a communal space organized around responsibilities-sharing systems which highlight sustainability and community. All residents will be paired and asked to cook for shared dinners three times over the course of their residency, Monday-Friday. A substantial amount of the food we provide comes from our organic garden, which also serves as a space for gathering and an educational tool. Residents are invited to help with planting, harvesting, and maintenance. While not required, our hope is that you will spend some time in the garden alongside your studio practice. Each session culminates with ART SEED, our public open house weekend event. Artists are invited to share their work with our community through artist talks, readings, performances, and open studios.

Marble House Project provides private bedrooms, food, private studio space, and artist support. We are not able to cover costs related to travel or materials. There is no fee to attend the residency.

Applications are accepted in all creative fields including but not limited to writing, dance and choreography, performance, music composition and sound, film and video, visual arts, and culinary arts. Applications are reviewed by a jury of alumni, staff, and outside experts, and artists are selected based on quality of work, commitment to practice, and project description. Please choose the application that best describes your work. Two artists may apply together as a collaborative, and should complete one application. Within each application you will be asked to select the session dates best for you. You may choose the family friendly residency only if you will be bringing your children. Family friendly applicants may select additional dates if willing to attend without your children.

Marble House Project does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion (creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin (ancestry), disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or military status, in any of its activities or operations. For exact dates, more information or questions about the residency, visit our FAQ page.  If you still have questions you may   contact info@marblehouseproject.org. 

APPLICATION FEE: $35

https://marblehouseproject.submittable.com/submit

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Call for Submissions: Issue 5: To Be Tender

Raising Mothers 

DEADLINE: April 2, 2021

INFO: Raising Mothers is currently seeking submissions in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, graphic narrative, and hybrid writing exploring the theme TO BE TENDER. We are interested in submissions from BIPOC women and nonbinary writers of color who explore this theme from either the child or parent perspective.

If vulnerability is a superpower, how does it save you? In a world that demands so much of us, that would turn us into stone and shatter us, how do we manage to tend to the softness within us? How do we nurture and care for ourselves and our children? How do we hold space for tenderness? How do we create soft places to land?

Please submit prose between 1500-4000 words. For poetry submissions, submit 3-5 poems in a single document totaling no more than ten pages in length.

https://www.raisingmothers.com/submissions/

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Call for Submissions: PoemVillage!

Adirondack Center for Writing

DEADLINE: April 4, 2021

INFO: This beloved program has been celebrating local poetry from neighbors and friends annually since 2016 and is open only to poets with ties to the Adirondacks. Instead of visiting a corridor of poetry in town during National Poetry Month, bundles of locally-harvested poems are safely delivered to inboxes and to the ACW website daily.

Poets with ties to the Adirondack region can be a part of PoemVillage. We consider anyone within 30 minutes of the Adirondack Park a part of the region.

Review these guidelines before submitting to PoemVillage this year:

↠ This year each person can submit one poem. You will copy/paste your poems into the form below.
↠ Poems must be within 300 words and 25 lines, those too long will not be included, so please edit before submitting your poem.
↠ Please ensure that you have rights to offer this poem for publication. This poem must be your own work.
↠ Refrain from sending in poems that have previously been submitted to PoemVillage.

https://adirondackcenterforwriting.submittable.com/submit/187585/poemvillage-2021

POETRY -- FEBRUARY 2021

“Tell Me a Story” High School Contest!

Narrative Magazine

DEADLINE: February 4, 2021, at noon PST.

INFO: This year, for the first time, we’re inviting poetry submissions from all U.S. and international high school students (aged fifteen to eighteen) to participate in our Sixth Annual “Tell Me a Story” High School Contest! We are eager to hear from as many voices as possible.

Poetry has been called “the voice that is great within us,” and yet there is no single way to write a poem. Particularly during these times of isolation and separation, we’re seeking new voices who will not only delight and inspire us but, through your poems, will encourage all of us to see the world anew.

GUIDELINES:

Who can enter?
Students worldwide ages fifteen to eighteen are eligible to submit to the contest. (Winners and finalists will be asked to provide proof of age.)

How do I send my work?
Writers will submit work through their English teacher, who will upload the work on the contest submission page. Each teacher may submit the work of no more than ten students with one poem submitted on behalf of each student. The contest is free to enter.

All submissions must be previously unpublished, either in print or online (including on social media). Winners, along with their teachers, will be notified in mid-March. The contest results, including finalists, will be announced in mid-April.

What’s the prompt?
In the era of stay-at-home orders and COVID-19, we want to invite you to Escape. Your Escape poem might be about a literal taking off, or it might be an imaginative flight of fancy; it could be centered on something big or small; it might be fearful or brave. Escape might entail getting to a specific place or time, or it could be about a person or feeling. It might involve running toward something, or away. Escape could mean a trip outside yourself, or a journey within. Is there a companion in your escape plan? Is there an adventure you’re longing to take? What words or images come to mind when you hear the word escape? What circumstances are you itching to get away from? We want to know where you start from and where you go. Write a poem that takes your audience on an escape that only you can write—in your unique voice. Be sure your poem is ten to fifty lines long. Now, go!

How will the winners be chosen, and when will they be announced?
All judging is blind—meaning the names, grades, and school affiliations will be removed and entries will be sorted randomly by Narrative’s editorial team. Salvadoran poet and Narrative Prize winner Javier Zamora will select the final winners, with the help of Narrative cofounder/editor Carol Edgarian and Michael Wiegers of Copper Canyon Press. In March writers of the winning entries will work closely with our editors to refine and record their work—in other words, to be mentored and to engage in all aspects of a professional publishing process. Winners, along with finalists, will be announced with fanfare in April 2021.

What awards will the winners receive?
The winning author will be presented with a $500 award. The second-place winner will receive $200, and the third-place winner will receive $100. Each of four finalists will receive $50. The schools of winners will also receive special recognition and prizes. The winning works will be published on NarrativeMagazine.com, alongside many of today’s great writers. The winners will also have an opportunity to perform their work on our popular Narrative Outloud podcast.

https://www.narrativemagazine.com/narrative-in-the-schools-program/sixth-annual-contest

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THE CPB YOUNG WRITING FELLOWSHIP

The Bombay Review

DEADLINES / FEES:

• Early: February 5, 2021, INR 500

• Regular: April 30, 2021, INR 1,000

• Late: June 30, 2021, INR 1,250

INFO: In 2014, The Bombay Review launched on a quiet college evening by two friends in Pune, India. 7 years later, we have realised that we are in a position to help the literary landscape of our home country, and the region. We began the year by funding new writing coming from LGBTQ+ and Dalit backgrounds, followed it with an annual creative writing award for fiction and poetry, and are now offering fellowships.

Over the years, TBR has been supported by a wide range of writers and poets from all over the world. From New York Times editors to Booker Prize winners, the 13 year old writer we published to Altaf Tyrewala’s 90 year old grandmother – it has been lovely.

These literary fellowships represent a significant fulfillment of one aspect of our continuing mission: to recognize, publish, and support extraordinary authors in the early stages of their careers.

GENERAL INFORMATION:

This fellowship at The Bombay Review offers qualified young individuals time to develop as writers by receiving a modest stipend, healthy work space for writing, and mentorship from qualified writers. Fellows will receive INR 20,000 over the course of 2 months, and do not have to be physically present in either New York or Mumbai. In light of the pandemic situation, the fellowship has moved completely online.

Points to note:

• Fellows will undertake a significant writing project.

• Assist with creative and editorial projects for The Bombay Review’s website and social media.

• Participate in the readings and events curated by the magazine.

• The average workload will be 10 hrs / week for 8 weeks.

• Fellows will participate in reading and writing exercises, workshop and discussions.

• Reviewing pieces of other Fellows will be a compulsory requirement.

ELIGIBILITY:

Eligible candidates must meet the following requirements:

• Age between 20 and 25, as of January 2021.

• A BA/MA/BFA/MFA in creative writing, English literature, or comparative literature ongoing or completed before December 1, 2020 but no earlier than January 1, 2017 is preferred. However, we would love to award those from other fields as well.

• Must be a citizen of India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Afghanistan, and Maldives.

All application materials must be submitted by June 30th, 2021 for full consideration.

https://thebombayreview.com/the-cpb-young-writing-fellowship/

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Call for submissions for bilingual anthology

Dominican Writers Association

DEADLINE: February 6, 2021, by 11:59pm EST

INFO: Dominican Writers Association invites authors who define themselves as part of the Dominican LGBTQ community on the island or in the diaspora to participate in the anthology ¡Pájaros, lesbianas y queers, a volar! This compilation aims to archive and celebrate the vision and experiences of our community in terms of identity, history, homophobia, transphobia, sexual rights, religion, race, intergenerational lens, human rights and intersectionality.

Although we will give priority to the works written in the workshops scheduled for the anthology, their publication is not guaranteed. All writings will go through the same process of reading, selection and editing.

LITERARY GENRES:

• Poetry: up to 5 poems (no more than 10 pages)

• Nonfiction: memoir, essays (academic or creative)

• Fiction: short story or novel excerpt

GENERAL SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

• All work must be unpublished to be considered

• Multiple submissions are welcome but only one submission per genre

• Works in Spanish, English or Spanglish accepted

• DWA acquires first rights (which revert back to the author upon publication) and request acknowledgement in subsequent publications.

• Manuscripts should not exceed 10 pages, double spaced,Times New Roman, 12 font size, and one-inch margin on all sides, unless a hybrid submission. Please avoid complicated formatting.

• Visual work should be in jpeg format.

• Each submission should be a single file attachment in .doc or .docx.

• All submissions must be titled: (firstname_lastname_genre) before uploading.

• The first page of the manuscript is the cover page. Include a short Bio (200 word limit ) written in third person. In the top left corner write: submission title, genre, author’s name, address, phone, email and website, if available. (total pages 11 with cover page)

• Unfortunately, writers will not receive any monetary compensation. They will receive 2 free copies of the anthology and a discounted rate for additional copies purchased.

https://dominicanwriters.submittable.com/submit?fbclid=IwAR1gFxq_glXfgIbH9wfLqY-sRX6UeNEvp4v_js4TlVqj4Dgl-RLqtWih3GQ

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: BONDS

querencia literary magazine

DEADLINE: February 8, 2021

INFO: querencia literary magazine, an online lit magazine that highlights the creative voices of BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and historically underrepresented communities, is currently open for submissions on the theme “Bonds.”

Send us work that explores your interpretation of bonds, whether it may be bonds between family, friends, ancestors, strangers, heritage, nature, the universe, or even with yourself.

GUIDELINES:

All submissions must abide by the following guidelines, dependent on category:

• Nonfiction must be under 2,000 words; no more than two submissions per submission period. 

• Fiction must be under 2,500 words; no more than two submissions per submission period. 

• Poems must be under 3 typed pages double spaced; no more than three submissions per submission period. 

Each submission must be in its own file (i.e. please do not put three separate poems in a single .docx). Kindly attach all your submissions/files and email to querencia.litmag[at]gmail.com. The subject line should be formatted as [name] [category*] [title of piece].

​We accept simultaneous submissions. If your work is selected for publication elsewhere, please notify us as soon as possible.

https://www.querencialitmag.org/

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2021 Furious Flower Poetry Prize

Furious Flower Poetry Center

DEADLINE: February 10, 2021

INFO: The nation’s first academic center for Black poetry, the Furious Flower Poetry Center is committed to ensuring the visibility, inclusion and critical consideration of Black poets in American letters, as well as in the whole range of educational curricula. Furious Flower seeks to support and promote Black poets at all stages of their careers and to preserve the history of Black poets for future generations.

The Poetry Prize will be judged by poet and Essayist Erica Hunt.

AWARD:

• Winning Poet: $1,000

• Honorable Mention: $500

SUBMISSION FEE: $15

https://www.jmu.edu/furiousflower/index.shtml

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Poetry: Asian American Futures

Lantern Review

DEADLINE: February 11, 2021

INFO: As we enter 2021, many of us face uncertainty or grief, but the new year gives us a chance to dare to hope. And there is so much to hope for in the Asian American community, from the leadership of young Asian American activists on the protest lines to the rising profiles of Asian American artists, writers, and scholars on the national and global stages. This season, we’re hoping to publish poetry and visual art that embodies the spirit of a “love letter” to the future of Asian America. Maybe you have something to say to the young people in your life. Maybe you look at Kamala Harris and see a glimpse of your own childhood dreams or even the dreams you haven’t yet dreamed. Or maybe you’re thinking about the work we still need to do: about climate change, police brutality, anti-Asian racism, incarceration at the border, rising food insecurity, the model minority myth. Maybe you’ll channel the prophetic, the visionary; maybe you’ll see glimmers of hope in the ordinary. However you interpret this call, we look forward to hearing what you have to say.

This call is open to all poets who identify as Asian American. We especially welcome submissions from poets who identify with marginalized groups within the Asian American community. 

DETAILS:

• Please submit no more than four poems at a time (eight pages maximum).

• All poems should be included in a single file.

• Your submission must also follow our general guidelines.

• For collaborative pieces, please submit under the name of only one artist but include all collaborators’ names in the "Description" field, in your cover letter, and in the manuscript itself.

• We are only able to accept a limited number of submissions each month under our Submittable plan. Should we reach our January limit before 1/31, this form will shut down temporarily, but please don't worry! It will reopen again first thing on 2/1.

• Questions? Please refer to our Submissions FAQ post on our blog; if your question isn't answered there, feel free to shoot us an email at editors [at] lanternreview [dot] com.

https://lanternreview.submittable.com/submit/182733/poetry-asian-american-futures-jan-2021-open-submissions

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CALL FOR BLACK WOMEN WRITERS

V is for Voices

DEADLINE: February 14, 2021 11:59pm ET

INFO: Voices is a poetic performance piece and artistic campaign. We need you! The creative process will be just as crucial as the piece itself. This is an urgent call for submissions of poems and monologues written by Black Women for all women and those who love us. We are also accepting visual art submissions that we will curate throughout the campaign for performance and the solidarity-making toolkit. The performance piece will ultimately be in service of and for women to speak to the complexities of their experiences as well as an inclusive vision for change, justice, compassion and solidarity. We seek to encourage and establish a world that nurtures radical truth telling love. We welcome all poems and monologues that speak to our hurt, our hope, and our wisdom. Poems that cast spells and poems that animate the future we know is possible. We want paintings, portraits, collages, and illustrations that establish our visions for a world where we are heard. What are our examples of sisterhood? What is our call to action? How do we work together and expand one another? This project seeks to get out of the stories that have been constructed for us. What are the stories we have inherited and carried that have been hard to give up for the sake of transformative justice? What are the stories we still lean on today as a source of strength, inspiration, and guidance? What will be our new story?

All submissions must be created by Black women: cis women, transwomen, and non-binary people across the African continent and Diaspora. We welcome all written forms of storytelling: poems, monologues, short stories etc. All work must be unpublished original work and never before publicly performed. 1000 word max. Languages: English, Spanish, & French. For visual artists, we welcome all files in .jpg or .pdf format. (300 dpi or higher recommended)

Voices/V-Day assumes no liability for any statements made by you that you submit to Voices/V-Day. Please remember that your piece may be made public. Please do not include first or last names, including your own, nicknames, towns, schools and other identifying information in association with your story.

We have created several prompts to inspire and animate our submissions. Please feel free to write in response to any of these prompts:

• Share a story where you have used your voice to speak up against violence.

• What are ways that you have been silenced?

• What are stories that demonstrate examples of solidarity and transformational justice?

• What are visions for a world where women are loved holistically?

• Praise a woman or several women in your community that are often unheard or underrepresented.

• What is an example of when someone has shown you solidarity and how did they show it?

• Describe a story where a man in your life showed support or care holistically?

• Tell the history of a scar on your body.

• Describe the first time you stood up to someone who abused their authority.

• Share a story from the perspective of your lover’s arms.

• What is advice an elder woman has given you in your life that you have had to use and how was it useful?

• How has social media helped or hindered your voice?

• Whose voices do you carry with you?

• Tell us about a letter you never sent.

• How are you stealing your body back?

• What is power to you?

• What are things you do in the dark?

• Who are the women that have mothered you?

• How would your mother describe you?

• What do you want to scream to the world?

• Sing us a song of resistance.

• Describe the loss or grief and how you moved through it.

• Speak in tongues.

• What have others erased while you speak?

• How do you make life out of death? -or- how do you make life

• When was the last time you felt safe?

• Describe a community where you feel safe.

• Who would you be if money wasn’t a concern?

• Can you describe the relationship between you and the sister you’ve never had.

• Share a moment when you were ‘seen’ or ‘heard’ by someone you least expected? How did you feel?

• What do you believe are your great-great grandmother’s dreams for you?

• Share a time you witnessed another woman’s courage? What did you see in her? Did you see it in yourself too?

• Write a love letter to your voice when it was silenced or misunderstood.

• If your voice had a personality and being in the world, what would it look like? What would it do?

https://voices.vday.org/speak/

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Crystal Wilkinson Creative Writing Prize FOR EMERGING BLACK WRITERS

New Limestone Review / PLUCK! 

DEADLINE: February 15, 2021

INFO: New Limestone Review & PLUCK! welcome emerging Black writers to submit to the inaugural Crystal Wilkinson Creative Writing Prize. Submissions may be fiction, nonfiction/memoir, poetry, and other hybrid forms. 

This contest was named in honor of writer and Professor, Crystal Wilkinson. As MFA candidates at the University of Kentucky, we named this inaugural prize in honor of Crystal Wilkinson, a prolific writer who grew up in Appalachia. Wilkinson has impacted countless students of English and writing during her career as a professor and even more individuals who have found her published works over the years.

In 2000, Crystal Wilkinson published her first volume of short stories, Blackberries, Blackberries (Toby Press), which received a Chaffin Award for Appalachian Literature. Wilkinson’s second book, Water Street (Toby Press 2002), was nominated for the UK Orange Award and placed on the short list for the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award. In 2016, she published her novel The Birds of Opulence (The University Press of Kentucky), which received the Weatherford Fiction Award and the prestigious Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. Her forthcoming book of collected poems, Perfect Black (The University Press of Kentucky), will be published in August 2021.

Wilkinson has held various writer-in-residence and teaching positions throughout her career: at Eastern Kentucky University, Indiana University-Bloomington, Morehead State University, and Berea College. She is currently a Professor of English at the University of Kentucky in the MFA in Creative Writing.

The winner will be chosen by Dr. Damaris Hill, who serves as an Associate Professor of Creative Writing and African American and Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky. She is the author of The Fluid Boundaries of Suffrage and Jim Crow: Staking Claims in the American Heartland, an edited collection of essays, and chapbook of poems entitled \ Vi-zə-bəl \ \ Teks-chərs \(Visible Textures). Her memoir in verse, A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing (Bloomsbury) was published in 2019.

PRIZE:

• $500 for first place

• $250 for second place

We will announce the winners in Spring of 2021. 

ELIGIBILITY:

You are eligible if you:

• Have yet to publish a book (including eBooks, translations, books in other languages/countries, self-published works, and poetry chapbooks with a print run of more than 300).

• Have no book forthcoming before December 31, 2021.

• Are not currently a student or faculty at the University of Kentucky or have not been in the last two years (graduated no sooner than December 2018).

https://newlimestonereview.as.uky.edu/2021-nlr-pluck-crystal-wilkinson-creative-writing-prize/

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Indigenous Voices Awards

DEADLINE: February 15, 2021

INFO: The Indigenous Voices Awards aim to support Indigenous literary production in its diversity and complexity. The awards honour the sovereignty of Indigenous creative voices and reject cultural appropriation; to be eligible for the Indigenous Voices Awards, authors must be Indigenous and must make a declaration of Indigenous identity. The awards are intended to support Indigenous artistic communities and to resist the individualism of prize culture. As such, the IVA Board will endeavour to create opportunities for mentorship, professionalization, and creative collaboration among applicants, jurors, and other members of the Indigenous artistic community when possible.

Each year, the number of prizes, their amounts, and their stipulations will be determined by the IVA Board based on the amount of money available in the Trust Fund, feedback from the Indigenous literary community, and reassessment of the campaign’s goals and objectives, with attentiveness to sustainability. The precise details of the awards will be subject to alteration based on decisions of the IVA Board, while ensuring the awards continue to support Indigenous literary arts and artists.

On “Emerging” and “Established” Writer

While for many people the category of “emerging writer” implies youth, ILSA and the prize committee recognize that there are Indigenous artists of diverse ages who are finding their voices as writers, including many older people and even quite a few elders. Our definition of “emerging” is not focused on age but on the writer’s history of publication. For the purposes of these awards, “emerging” refers to writers who are thus far unpublished or who have published three books or fewer.

PRIZE CATEGORIES:

This year there are 10 categories totalling $35,000 for emerging Indigenous writers

Three Indigenous Voices Awards for Prose in English

• Published Prose in English: fiction

• Published Prose in English: Creative non-fiction and life-writing

• Unpublished Prose in English

Two Indigenous Voices Awards for Poetry in English

• Published Poetry in English

• Unpublished Poetry in English

Three Awards for work in French

• Published Prose in French

• Published Poetry in French

• Unpublished Work in French

Two Awards for Alternate Categories

• Published Graphic Novels and Illustrated books in any language

• Published work in an Indigenous language

https://indigenousvoicesawards.org/english-submission-page

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PIGEON PAGES POETRY CONTEST

DEADLINE: February 15, 2021

INFO: Pigeon Pages Poetry Contest will be judged by Natalie Diaz, author of When My Brother Was an Aztec and Postcolonial Love Poem.

AWARD:

• The winner will receive $250 and publication in Pigeon Pages.

• Honorable mentions will receive $50 and publication.

GUIDELINES:

• Previously unpublished poems are eligible for this contest. 

• $7 entry fee for one poem of 5 pages or less

• Only one poem per contest submission, but we welcome writers to submit as many times as they would like. Any entries with more than one poem will not be eligible for contest consideration.

• We do accept simultaneous submissions, but please let us know if the submitted piece is accepted elsewhere.

• Please do not include personal information on your piece, as submissions will be read blind.

• All submissions will be considered for publication in the general journal.

https://pigeonpagesnyc.com/poetry-contest

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2021 Jerome Emerging Artist Residency - For MN & NYC Artists

The Anderson Center

DEADLINE: February 15, 2021, by 11:59pm CST.

INFO: The Anderson Center’s Jerome Emerging Artist Residency Program offers month-long residency-fellowships at Tower View to a cohort of early-career artists from Minnesota or one of the five boroughs of New York City for concentrated, uninterrupted creative time to advance their personal artistic goals and projects.

The program aims to meet the specific needs of emerging artists while welcoming them into a supportive and inspiring residency environment that empowers them to take risks, embrace challenges, and utilize unconventional approaches to problem-solving. 

Thanks to support from the Jerome Foundation, selected emerging artists receive a $625/week artist stipend, documentation support, art-making resources, facilitation of community connections, lodging & studio space, a travel honorarium, groceries, and chef-prepared communal dinners.

Located at the historic Tower View estate, a venerable research-and-development lab for the arts rooted in an expansive natural setting, the program is an ideal fit for early-career artists whose work reveals a significant potential for cultural and community impact, is technically accomplished, engages diverse communities. 

The Anderson Center’s goal is for connections participating artists make with one another, as well as connections made with other creatives and community members, to outlast the duration of their residency visit. The organization believes that the environment and resources of Tower View, along with an exchange of ideas across disciplines, can serve as a catalyst for new inspiration and innovative directions for the work emerging artists create while in residence. 

APPLICATION FEE: $0

TO APPLY: Applications must be submitted on or before the deadline in order to be considered in the jury review period. 

Jury review will take place in late February and early March. Applicants will be notified by March 4 at the latest as to the status of their application. A phone interview process with finalists will take place in late March following a second round of jury review. Selected artist residents, wait-list and runners-up will be notified by April 5, 2021.

Artists must be legal residents of Minnesota or one of the five boroughs of New York City to be eligible to apply. To be considered, eligible artists must submit an application through the Anderson Center’s online form via Submittable. Each artist in a collaborative / partnership / collective should submit their own application and then note in the materials they are applying as a group. Complete program details are below. Please contact Adam Wiltgen at 651-388-2009 x4 or adam@andersoncenter.org for any questions.

LOCATION: The Anderson Center campus is located on the 350-acre historic Tower View Estate, built by scientist & farmer Dr. Alexander Pierce Anderson between 1915 and 1921, on the western edge of Red Wing, Minnesota, and its buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Center features a large sculpture garden, and is adjacent to the Cannon Valley Trail, a 20-mile biking and walking trail that runs from Cannon Falls to Red Wing. 

The Center is approximately 45 minutes southeast of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Transportation is provided between the Center and the Twin Cities airport on the first and last day of residencies only. Artist Residents that choose to drive will have access to private parking on the property.

The community of Red Wing, Minn., (pop. 16,000) is nestled amidst the scenic bluffs of the upper Mississippi River. The town is settled on the ancestral homelands of the Mdewakanton & Wapakute bands of the Dakota people. The City of Red Wing is named after Tatanka Mani (Walking Buffalo), a leader of the Mdewakanton Dakota in the upper Mississippi Valley who wore a ceremonial swan’s wing dyed in brilliant red. In 1815, Tatanka Mani and his people moved their village south to a place they called Khemnichan (Hill, Wood, & Water) in present-day downtown Red Wing. Euro-American immigrants who met him as they advanced into the region in the early nineteenth century came to know him and his village as “Red Wing.”

Since its settlement and eventual incorporation in 1857, Red Wing established itself as a center for agriculture, industry, tourism, medical care, technology, and the arts. The Red Wing Shoe Company and its iconic brands, in particular, continue to have a significant impact on the community’s economic, business, and community development climates. Natural resources abound with Red Wing's riverfront, winding paths through the majestic bluffs, bike trails, and 35 city parks. The Prairie Island Indian Community is located northwest of the city. Frontenac State Park is to the southeast on Lake Pepin. Minnesota State College Southeast Technical’s Red Wing campus is known for its string and brass instrument repair programs. The MN Dept. of Corrections also operates a large juvenile residential facility in Red Wing.

Other amenities include a destination bakery, a chocolate shop, coffee shops, restaurants, the flagship Red Wing Shoe Company store, Goodhue County Historical Society Museum, the Red Wing Stoneware & Pottery store, the Pottery Museum of Red Wing, a Duluth Trading store, the Red Wing Marine Museum, a Target, several pharmacies, a plant nursery & garden center, a Mayo Health System Hospital, a small independent bookstore, and a public library (the Center has arranged for residents to have access to a library card for their month at the Center)

Other key community stakeholders include the historic Sheldon Theatre, the Red Wing Arts Association, Red Wing YMCA, Red Wing Youth Outreach, Hispanic Outreach of Goodhue County, Red Wing Area Friends of Immigrants, Red Wing Area Women’s Art History Club, Live Healthy Red Wing, Artreach, Red Wing Artisan Collective, the Artist Sanctuary, Pier 55 Red Wing Area Seniors, Big Turn Music Festival, Red Wing AAUW, Red Wing Environmental Learning Center, Red Wing Girl Scouts, Red Wing Public Schools, Tower View Alternative School, and Universal Music Center, as well as several City boards, commissions, and departments.

ELIGIBILITY AND DEFINITION OF “EMERGING ARTIST”: While the Anderson Center’s general Artist Residency Program hosts artists with a wide range of talent and experience, the Jerome Emerging Artist Residency Program exclusively focuses on meeting the specific needs of artists who are in the early stages of their artistic development and career. 

The Anderson Center defines an emerging artist as someone who has some evidence of professional achievement but has not yet a substantial record of accomplishment. These are the applicants who are practicing vocational artists but are not yet recognized as "established" by the artistic community (other artists, curators, producers, critics, and arts administrators). 

The organization looks for artists whose work reveals a significant potential for cultural and community impact. These are artists who are uncompromising in their approach to creation and production, people who are not afraid to take risks, embrace challenges, and utilize unconventional approaches to problem-solving. 

Degree-seeking students at the time of application, or during the grant period, are not eligible for a residency (including K-12, college, graduate or post graduate studies). Age is not a factor in determining emerging artist status.

Artists that are part of an artistic collective, partnership, or collaborative are welcome to apply! However, each artist should complete their own application form. Please note in the materials you submit that you are applying as group and wish to be reviewed by the jury as a collaborative. 

Artists of all disciplines are eligible and are encouraged to apply. Artists must currently be legal residents of Minnesota or one of the five boroughs of New York City and have been residents for at least one year prior to the submission of an application. Applications must be submitted through the Anderson Center’s online webform via Submittable. The primary goal of eligible artists must be to generate new works, as opposed to remounting or re-interpreting existing works.

Further details from the Jerome Foundation on emerging artist eligibility requirements can be found here: https://www.jeromefdn.org/defining-early-career-emerging-artists

APPLICATION: A completed application form includes a brief artist statement, a work plan, an emerging artist statement, work samples, and a resume. Incomplete or late applications will not be reviewed by the panel. You may begin your application, leave and return as many times as necessary to complete the form PRIOR to clicking the submit button at the bottom of the completed form. Important: do not submit your application form until you are completely finished editing as your application will be finalized at that time.

The Artist Statement, provides an opportunity for you to share, in 100 words or less, a brief statement or summary about your current and future work.

The Work Plan is a 1-2 page Word or PDF document. Write about your work, yourself, and your current thinking about what you’d like to accomplish at the Anderson Center as clearly and concisely as possible. The document can be single-spaced.

An Emerging Artist Statement addresses, in 250 words or less, your status as an emerging artist or early-career artist. How would participating in this program impact or advance your practice as an emerging artist? In what ways would this program meet your needs as an emerging artist? Why is this residency important to this stage of your career path? How do you identify as an emerging artist?

Work Samples should be of recent work and should include:

• For composers and musicians: 3 to 5 recordings

• For visual artists: At least 5 images of work (300 dpi or larger)

• For nonfiction and fiction writers: 10 pages of double-spaced prose

• For playwrights & screenwriters: 10-page excerpt (does not need to be from the beginning)

• For poets: 10 pages of poetry

• For translators: 10 pages of translation and original text

• For performance artists: 3 short videos excerpts of performances (no videos longer than 5 minutes)

• For filmmakers: at least 3 short film clips (no videos longer than 5 minutes)

The Resume, CV, or Biographical Outline is a Word or PDF document that shows education, work experience, publications, awards, and any previous residency experience. 3 pages maximum.

DURATION OF RESIDENCY: The Anderson Center’s Jerome Emerging Artist Residency Program offers residencies-fellowships of two weeks or one month in August. Preference is given to those applying for month-long stays. August is the only month the Jerome Emerging Artist Residency Program takes place. 

PROGRAM DETAILS:

Each artist-in-residence receives:

• $625/week artist stipend

• Travel honorarium ($550 for New Yorkers and $150 for Minnesotans)

• $450 documentation budget (services for photography, video, audio, etc.)

Evening dinners are prepared and presented by the Anderson Center chef Monday through Friday. The chef also shops for meal items for artist residents, and residents are responsible for preparing their own breakfasts and lunches, and meals over the weekends. 

There is also a housekeeper who cleans and maintains the historic facilities. Additional cleaning and sanitization measures are being taken during the pandemic to help ensure the health and safety of artists, staff, and the community.

ACCOMMODATIONS: Each resident is provided room, board, and workspace for the length of the residency period in the historic Tower View mansion. Visual artists are provided a 15' x 26' studio. Other workspaces on site include gas and electric kilns, a print studio (with a Vandercook 219 letterpress and a Charles Brand-like etching press), and an open-air metalsmith facility. Options for rehearsal and studio space are also available for musicians, composers, dancers and choreographers.

Residents have access to the many walking trails on campus and to the Cannon Valley Trail, which goes through the Anderson Center’s property. Bicycles are also provided. Residents have responded to many different aspects of the gorgeous Tower View campus through their work, including composers sampling natural sounds and visual artists harvesting plant materials to create site-specific natural inks.

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT: The program is set-up to minimize distractions and other obligations so that artists have every opportunity to fully focus on their work. However, the Anderson Center was one of the first artist residency programs in the country to require that residents give back to the local community and connect with area residents & organizations through community engagement activities.

Staff work with artists to facilitate and customize at least one hour of mutually beneficial exchange with the Red Wing community that helps foster connection and greater a sense of place.

Within the last few years, Anderson Center residents have connected with 12 schools in five area communities (ranging from elementary through college), 5 senior centers, 2 correctional or detention facilities, 7 community organizations serving children and families, and 8 community organizations serving adults. Residents have also engaged individuals from all walks of life through public workshops, events, discussions, and artful interventions. 

During the pandemic, community engagement activities have safely and creatively continued in small group, outdoor, online or distance settings. Examples from the later half of 2020 include a writing exercise letter exchange with residents of a correctional facility, a poetry walk along a park trail, an outdoor natural dye workshop, a distanced reading/discussion with students of Tower View Alternative High School, and various public & private online interviews/discussions with community stakeholders.

PROGRAM MISSION & VALUES: The mission of the Anderson Center is to, in the unique and historic setting of Tower View, offer residencies in the arts, sciences, and humanities; provide a dynamic environment for the exchange of ideas; encourage the pursuit of creative and scholarly endeavors; and serve as a forum for significant contributions to society.

The Anderson Center Residency Program was set-up by a working poet to support other artists and continues to function by those with hands-on experience in the creative process. The organization seeks out feedback from residents each month in order to implement necessary changes as it works toward continual improvement of the program. Most importantly, staff trust artists to know what they need most to advance their individual practices. The Center does not dictate specific outcomes. Instead, the expectation is that the gift of time and space will generate significant advancements in residents' work. The Anderson Center trusts the artists to best use their time to benefit their own work and reach their own goals.

As an interdisciplinary arts organization, the Anderson Center embraces artists who are diverse in every way. Since its inception, the organization has intentionally worked with artists representing a wide range of disciplines, with the belief that the exchange of ideas is generative. The residency program supports artists from around the world, representing a wide range of cultures, races, sexual identities and genders. The Jerome Emerging Artist Residency Program exemplifies this diversity of identity and background for artists living in New York City and Minnesota. The Center strives to bring people and ideas together and operates with a spirit of welcome for all.

The Anderson Center aims to support work that is technically accomplished, conceptually rigorous and engages diverse communities. A goal of the Jerome Emerging Artist Residency Program in particular is to advance the practice of early-career artists that are uncompromising in their approach to creation and production, and whose work pushes boundaries and explores new creative territories.

SELECTION TIMELINE:

• February 15, 2021 (11:59 p.m. CST) – application deadline

• March 4, 2021 – Jury has selected Round 2 applications. All artists are notified of the status of their application

• March 22, 2021 – Jury has selected finalists. Phone interviews with finalists begin.

• April 4, 2021 – Final notification to selected artists, wait-list and runners-up

https://theandersoncenter.submittable.com/submit/174353/2021-jerome-emerging-artist-residency-for-mn-nyc-artists

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CALL FOR POETRY

Shenandoah

DEADLINE: February 15, 2021

INFO: Shenandoah, a literary magazine supporting poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, comic artists, and translators, is open for poetry submissions.

Submissions, considered by editor Lesley Wheeler, should contain up to five pieces and not more than ten pages total. Lesley reads for power, surprise, intelligence, big-heartedness, complicated craftiness, mystery, and risky strangeness. Please send three to five of the poems you consider your most urgent work.

https://shenandoah.submittable.com/submit/179368/poetry-winter-spring-2021

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: ISSUE III

EX/POST MAGAZINE

DEADLINE: February 15, 2021

INFO: EX/POST is currently accepting submissions for Issue III. All submissions are read anonymously. We welcome people of all ages, ethnicities, and sexualities to submit. We are open to multiple and simultaneous submissions as long as you state such in your cover letter. Unless solicited, please submit only previously unpublished work; we do not consider work that has been featured on personal websites or social media as published.

All submissions should be in 12-point Times New Roman, with poetry single-spaced. Please do not include any identifying information within the body of the work submitted.

At this time, we are able to offer a modest honorarium to accepted writers. Upon acceptance, EX/POST MAGAZINE receives first North American publishing and archival rights. All rights revert back to the author upon publication. We ask that you credit us if the work is reprinted in the future.

EXPEDITED DECISION POLICY: We aim to return decisions within a few weeks, but if you wish to receive a decision within three days, attach a receipt of a $3 donation via our PayPal below to an email with your submission to expostmag@gmail.com—do not submit via Duosuma. All funds go toward supporting our microgrant and paying contributors.

YOUNG WRITERS SPOTLIGHT: For any of the below genres, feel free to note in your submission if you are a young writer (ages 18 and under) for special inclusion in our issue and blog.

POETRY: Please send up to five poems. Include a brief third-person biography with your cover letter. We also accept short videos of spoken word.

PROSE: Please send up to three works of fiction or nonfiction under 7,000 words total. Include a brief third-person biography with your cover letter.

DRAMA: Please send up to two one-act plays under ten pages each. Include a brief third-person biography with your cover letter.

ART: Please send up to five pieces of art. Include a brief third-person biography with your cover letter, as well as an artist statement under 300 words and description of medium used. We accept photography, digital art, painting, and mixed media.

ESSAYS, INTERVIEWS, REVIEWS, BLOGS: Interested in publishing on our blog? Have a great piece of art that doesn't fit into the categories above? Please send a pitch to expostmag@gmail.com, with the subject line "PITCH_{FIRST AND LAST NAME}." Include a brief third-person biography, as well as an outline and timeline of your intended piece.

https://www.expostmag.com/submit ​

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ARTISTS & WRITERS RESIDENCY

Vermont Studio Center

DEADLINE: February 15, 2021

INFO: Each month, VSC welcomes over 50 artists and writers from across the country and around the world to our historic campus in northern Vermont.

All of our residencies include:

• A private room in modest, shared housing

• 24-hour access to a private studio space in one of our 6 medium-specific studio buildings

• 3 communal meals per day (plus fresh fruit, coffee/tea/cold beverages, and cereal available around the clock)

Most residents stay with us for 1 month, so our sessions adhere to a 4-week calendar however, residencies can be scheduled in 2-week increments ranging from 2 to 12 weeks if a shorter or longer stay better suits your needs. Although we accept residents for stays for 2 weeks, we recommend a minimum stay of one month for the fullest experience.

Each 4-week session includes:

• Opening Night Dinner & Reception

• 7 Resident Presentation (“Res Pres”) Nights

• 2 Open Studios Nights

• Public Slide Talks / Public Readings from our Visiting Artists & Writers

• Visiting Writer Craft Talks (open to writers only)

• Opportunities for studio visits/manuscript critiques with Visiting Artists/Writers

Most months, numerous other spontaneous events take place--intimate readings, pop-up shows, group hikes or swims, performances, site-specific installations, movie screenings, dance parties, and bonfires, to name a few.

All events in our monthly program are optional. Our program is designed to enhance your studio practice by providing opportunities to engage with a supportive creative community; you are welcome to participate in as many or as few of these activities as you like. 

https://vermontstudiocenter.org/

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INDIVIDUAL AWARDS

Sustainable Arts Foundation

DEADLINE: February 26, 2021 at 5pm EST

INFO: This year, Sustainable Arts Foundation will make awards of $5,000 each to twenty artists and writers with children. Additionally, we will name twenty finalists. Our awards offer unrestricted cash, and recipients can use the funds as they see fit. Our selection process is focused almost entirely on the strength of the submitted portfolio.

Changes for 2021: In order to simplify the process for our applicants, we no longer request a biography or statement of future plans. The only essay response in the application is the artist statement. This aligns with our goal of keeping our review process focused on the portfolio.

Eligibility: To be eligible, the applicant must have at least one child under the age of 18. Parents of older children with a disability or special needs may also be eligible.

Who Should Apply:

• Artists and writers with at least one child under the age of 18 and a strong portfolio of polished work are welcome to apply.

• We are inspired by anyone who is making creative work while raising a family. Given the intense demand for these awards (we typically receive 2,000-3,000 applications), and the fact that the awards are based on demonstrated excellence in your discipline, we don’t recommend that artists or writers who are beginning their creative careers apply to this program.

While we don’t require that applicants have published or exhibited their work, the rigor and critique involved in that process can certainly benefit the portfolio. Portfolios of writing or artwork created in a more personal vein for sharing with friends and family are not suitable.

We invite you to view our list of previous awardees and follow the links to their work to get a feel for their level of craft.

Racial Equity: As of Fall 2016, we make half our awards to applicants of color. You can read more about this decision on our website.

Writers may apply in one of the following categories:

• Creative Nonfiction

• Early and Middle Grade Readers

• Fiction

• Graphic Novel/Graphic Memoir

• Illustrated Children's Books

• Illustrated Children's Books (Text Only)

• Poetry

• Young Adult Fiction

Please see our FAQ for more information about disciplines.

Criteria: The application consists of 3 parts: personal information, artist statement, and portfolio. You may download a PDF copy of our application in case it's helpful to prepare your submission offline, but please note that our application must be completed online through this website.

Personal Information: We need your contact information so we can keep you posted on the status of your application. This will be kept separate from your artist statement and portfolio; our jurors will not see it.

Artist Statement: This is your chance to tell us about your work. Please give us a concise statement of your work and goals as an artist. This should not be a CV or list of accomplishments, but a description of what compels and informs your work. Please do not exceed 500 words. Please do not use your name anywhere in this statement.

Portfolio: All submitted work must have been created since becoming a parent, and within the last 5 years. Please view our portfolio requirements page for specific details about portfolio requirements for all disciplines.

APPLICATION FEE: Our application fee is $20. 100% of this fee goes to our jurors, who are all parent artists and writers themselves. This fee ensures that at least two jurors will review each application and be compensated for their work.

https://apply.sustainableartsfoundation.org/

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Issue 6: "Riff"

Lucky Jefferson

DEADLINES / FEES:

• Early Bird: February 28, 2021 (Free)

• Last Call: March 15, 2021 ($2)

INFO: If instruments could speak, what would they say? Join us for our first poetic and collaborative jam session!

Send us poetry between 20-27 lines that includes the following refrain:

• first line: A burst of sudden tempo evokes tremors

• end line: rubato rhythms, inclined ears exalt

(line limit includes refrain)

Your piece should begin with the first line and conclude with the end line. Help us set the tone, inspire rhythm, create tempo, birth soul by describing what sounds you hear, expressing how the music and art of others liberate, and/or telling us what you see unfolding in our jam session.

All submissions will be used to create a larger “never-ending” musical poem.

GUIDELINES:

• Send no more than three 'riff' poems in a submission. Separate poems by page break.

• Include a short and sweet cover page highlighting: your name, email address, mailing address, and bio (third-person, 50 words max).

• No translations or work that has been previously published in print or online.

• Please absolutely no sexually explicit poems or works highlighting extreme violence, racism, antisemitism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, insta poems or love poems. We're hopeless romantics, but we're not interested in printing romance unless it's a unique perspective.

https://luckyjefferson.submittable.com/submit/181857/issue-6-riff-early-bird-submission

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The Undocupoets Fellowship

Sibling Rivalry Press Foundation

DEADLINE: February 28, 2021 at 11:59 PST

INFO: 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. Through our continued partnership with Catapult, 2021 Fellows will also receive a scholarship for a six-week workshop (or its equivalent value toward other Catapult classes).
 
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 cover letter 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.

​GUIDELINES: In a single PDF file, include the following:

•  A cover letter with your contact information, bio, and brief description of your current work or manuscript-in-progress;

• Up to ten pages of poetry, with no more than one poem per page.

• Previously published work is permitted. Only one submission per individual, please.

 https://www.siblingrivalrypress.com/undocupoets-fellowship

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Call for VIPF 2021 Submissions

FlowerSong Press

DEADLINE: February 28, 2021 at midnight

INFO: Boundless: The Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival Anthology 2021 is now accepting submissions!

Boundless will be published as a perfect bound edition with an ISBN and will be available at flowersongpress.com, amazon.com., and wherever book s are sold. As always, poets do not have to attend our festival or register for our festival in order to submit for publication. Since we are no longer charging a fee for 2021, poets will be able to purchase a copy of Boundless 2021 at a discounted price.

Previous editions include poets from across the U.S., Africa, Albania, Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Iran, Israel, Mexico, Portugal, South America, Spain, and England. Be part of this exciting edition!

GUIDELINES: 

• Submit up to three typewritten poems in a legible font. 

• Poems may be of any topic, any style

• Poems may be in any language. (We ask for a translation if it is not in English, however.)

• Strict 30-line limit per poem, not including title and spaces.

• E-mail submissions to BoundlessAnthology@gmail.com. Only E-mailed Submissions accepted. Submissions shipped by mail Will NOT Be Accepted! 

• No previously published poems--or translations of previously-published poems--please, except from self-published chapbooks with limited distribution. 

• DO NOT place your name or other identifying information on the poem itself. 

• Submit ONE e-mail with ONE attachment. Do not e-mail two separate attachments! 

• The cover letter as the message of the e-mail must include:

  • Your Name as you wish for it to be published.

  • Title of poems or first line for an untitled poem

  • E-mail address AND phone number

  • A short bio – 50 words or less –  written in third person and focusing on your life as a writer

A limited amount of perfect-bound copies of the anthology will be available for purchase at the anthology release event and potentially thereafter. First copy for poets whose poetry is accepted: $10 (while supplies last.) All other copies, $18.

https://www.flowersongpress.com/call-for-submissions

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CALL FOR PAPERS: “BLACK LOVE” ISSUE

WSQ / Feminist Press

DEADLINE: March 1, 2021

INFO: WSQ, an interdisciplinary forum for the exchange of emerging perspectives on women, gender, and sexuality, seeks to focus on groups that imagine a world beyond limitations imposed by borders to conceptualize for themselves what justice looks like when we center love and care at the heart of our politics. Moving away from the mere ephemeral, this issue explores the moment love moves from theory to practice. As bell hooks has noted, “We need to concentrate on the politicization of love, not just in the context of talking about victimization in intimate relationships, but in a critical discussion where love can be understood as a powerful force that challenges and resists domination” (1989, 26). The policing of affect within Black diasporic communities and the larger public hinders our ability to see love as a collective and political tool. On the other hand, Robin D. G. Kelley asserts that “once we strip radical social movements down to their bare essence and understand the collective desires of people in motion, freedom and love lay at the very heart of the matter” (2002, 12). The chasm between the actual policing of affect and Kelley’s vision in Freedom Dreams is that we do not have a clear definition of love. Without it, we are unable to uncover its radical potential as a pathway to freedom.

We invite papers that interrogate Black love as a concept and tool for forming, sustaining, and fragmenting global Black communities in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Submissions might attend to questions such as: What are the histories and legacies of Black love? How have expressions and practices of Black love changed across locales and periods? What does it mean to lead with care in everyday actions? What does it mean to transgress boundaries of affect? What does it mean to jeopardize one’s freedom for one’s community? What does it mean to lead with care in everyday actions? How do gender roles and affect shape political engagement? How do we reconcile loving harmful Black folks as they are violent toward us?

Possible Topics:

• Diasporic Solidarities

• Parental Incarceration and Family Separation

• Restorative and Healing Justice Projects

• Intercommunal Feminist Praxis

• Self-Love Affect Studies

• The Politics of Beauty and Hair

• (Community) Parenting Consciousness Raising

• Social Media Studies

• Masculinity

• Performativity

• Radical Friendships and Intimacy

• Queer Community Formation

• Pleasure and Sex Work

• Community Healing and Self-Care

• Protest, Rebellion, Riot

• Trans-inclusive Feminist Politics

• Religion and Spirituality

• Sexuality

• Disability Studies

• Iconic Figures/Popular Culture

• Fat Studies

• Cultural Production-Visual Arts/Theatre

GUEST EDITORS:

• Mary Phillips (WSQ Editorial Board & Lehman College, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies)

• Rashida L. Harrison (Michigan State University, Assistant Professor of Social Relations and Policy)

• Nicole M. Jackson (Bowling Green State University, Associate Professor of History)

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

• Scholarly articles should be sent to guest issue editors Mary Phillips, Rashida L. Harrison, and Nicole M. Jackson at WSQBlackLove@gmail.com. We will give priority consideration to submissions received by March 1, 2021. Please send complete articles, not abstracts.

• Submissions should not exceed 6,000 words (including un-embedded notes and works cited) and should comply with the formatting guidelines at http://www.feministpress.org/wsq/submission- guidelines.

• Poetry submissions related to the issue theme should be sent to WSQ’s poetry editor at WSQpoetry@gmail.com by March 1, 2021. Please review previous issues of WSQ to see what type of submissions we prefer before submitting poems. Please note that poetry submissions may be held for six months or longer. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable if the poetry editor is notified immediately of acceptance elsewhere. We do not accept work that has been previously published. Please paste poetry submissions into the body of the e-mail along with all contact information.

• Fiction, essay, memoir, and translation submissions related to the issue theme between 2,000 and 2,500 words should be sent to WSQ’s fiction/nonfiction editor, at WSQCreativeProse@gmail.com by March 1, 2021. Please review previous issues of WSQ to see what type of submissions we prefer before submitting prose. Please note that prose submissions may be held for six months or longer. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable if the prose editor is notified immediately of acceptance elsewhere. We do not accept work that has been previously published. Please provide all contact information in the body of the e-mail.

ABOUT WSQ: Since 1972, WSQ has been an interdisciplinary forum for the exchange of emerging perspectives on women, gender, and sexuality. Its peer-reviewed interdisciplinary thematic issues focus on such topics as Asian Diasporas, Protest, Beauty, Precarious Work, At Sea, Solidarity, Queer Methods, Activisms, The Global and the Intimate, Trans-, The Sexual Body, and Mother, combining legal, queer, cultural, technological, and historical work to present the most exciting new scholarship, fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, book reviews, and visual arts on ideas that engage popular and academic readers alike. WSQ is edited by Brianne Waychoff (Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY) and Red Washburn (Kingsborough Community College, CUNY) and published by the Feminist Press at the City University of New York. Visit http://www.feministpress.org/wsq.

https://www.feministpress.org/current-call-for-papers

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GENERAL SUBMISSIONs

Tulsa Review

DEADLINE: March 1, 2021

INFO: The Tulsa Review seeks bold, unique voices for publication in our annual journal. We accept submissions of any unpublished, short creative writing (such as poems, fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction, one-act plays, and short screenplays) and visual artwork (such as photographs, illustrations, or digital images).

GUIDELINES:

1. Any writer or artist who is not a TCC student may submit their unpublished work as a General Submission.

2. Do not include your name on your manuscript or artwork. We read and judge submissions blindly.

3. Each submission in every category must be submitted individually.

4. Prose and poetry submissions must be in a .DOC, .DOCX, .RTF, or .TXT file format. Please use Times New Roman font, size 1

   • For fiction and nonfiction use double spaced lines. Do not exceed 7,500 words. Writers can submit up to 2 works in each genre.

   • Poets can submit up to 5 poems. Do not exceed 25-30 lines.

   • For drama, writers can submit up to 3 works.

   • Visual artwork must be submitted as a .PDF of less than 5 MB. (If your artwork is selected for publication, we will contact you for a higher-resolution image.) Artists can submit up to 5 pieces.

5. We encourage submissions to multiple genres.

6. Submissions are accepted year-round but are reviewed only during the spring semester.

7. Simultaneous submissions are welcome, but please let us know immediately if a work has been accepted for publication elsewhere.

8. When a submission is accepted for publication, Tulsa Review is given first-publication rights. (Rights revert to the author/artist after publication.)

9. TCC students, if you wish to submit to the TCC Student Writing Contest, please see the TCC Student Writing Contest Guidelines. If you are a TCC student submitting to a contest, there is no need to make a separate General Submission.

SUBMISSION FEE: $0

For each piece submit a short bio (no more than 30 words) to be included with publication. Feel free to include any social media information, or personal creative website in the bio. All contributors will be notified by April 1, 2021 whether their work has been accepted.

https://www.tulsaccreview.com/submit/

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CORE RESIDENCY

Millay Colony

DEADLINE: March 1, 2021, at 12am midnight

INFO: One of the oldest and longest-running artist residencies in the world, the Millay Colony for the Arts has hosted @3000 composers, poets, writers, visual artists, playwrights, screenwriters and filmmakers since its beginnings in 1973; we will be celebrating our 50th anniversary in 2023!

WHAT WE DO: We provide uninterrupted time and a nurturing space for artists to do what they do best: create. Our historic “Core Residency” program hosts 6-7 artists from May through November to create work in a secluded setting that might not otherwise have been realized. Works created while in residence enrich lives and communities globally: our alumni are consistently recognized with Pulitzer Prizes, Guggenheim Fellowships, National Book Awards, Lambda Literary Prizes and other honors. Our mostly month-long residencies — June and September offer two-week sessions —  feature private bedrooms and studios, shared living space, groceries and chef-prepared communal dinners. Friendships formed while in residence continue past departure and often spark creative collaborations and ongoing professional development opportunities and networking.  In response to need and due to space constraints, we continue to strive to serve the needs of creators at every stage of their career and have implemented additional residencies as well.

WHERE WE ARE: We are located at Steepletop, in Austerlitz, NY, situated in the picturesque Hudson Valley nestled against the the foothills of the Berkshires. Our seven acre campus features sylvan meadows and pristine woods, with designated trails for hiking and biking as well as nearby lakes, rivers and streams.  In the summer, wild blueberries and other delicacies abound, while in  winter, cross-country skis and snowshoes are welcome; nearby Harvey Mountain State Forest draws visitors year-round.  We are 30 minutes from Chatham, NY and Great Barrington, MA; other attractions include The Mount, Tanglewood, the Norman Rockwell Museum, Chesterwood, MassMOCA, Naumkeag, Jacobs Pillow, PS21, the Columbia County Film Festival and the Berkshire’s Shakespeare & Company.  

APPLICATION FEE: $40

https://millaycolony.submittable.com/submit

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Spring 2021 Call for Submissions

A Gathering Together Literary Journal

DEADLINE: March 1, 2021

INFO: A Gathering Together is a journal that resists the easy and often unsophisticated attempt to say profound things in the moment, without deep contemplation, or in the heat of discursive battle.

We primarily select works that speak to Mekhet--the Kemetic (Ancient Egyptian) term for resonating across time and space. This term is reserved for works that simultaneously transcend and address the moment they speak from, works that will last beyond the creator's last breath and still be relevant, or works that put the writer and reader in conversation with the intellectual thought of Ancestors of all kinds.

Our writers are primarily descendants of Africa and her Diaspora. All writers whose works resonate with the human experience, and thus the Diasporic African experience, are considered. Our back issues are all available online and serve as a good model for the variety of writers and works we've featured.

We welcome submissions of previously unpublished essays, short stories, poetry, reviews, visual art, and film for our Spring 2021 issue.

Artists who want to be featured in our upcoming issues are invited to send us a letter of interest, brief bio, and a sample portfolio. Writers who want to conduct artist interviews are welcome to send us pitches letting us know how the interview and artist would be a good fit for our journal. Features are generally published January-March or July-September.

We are especially keen to have more visual arts, reviews (any format), essays, and short stories. If you have questions, contact us at submissions@agatheringtogether.com

A Gathering Together is unable to compensate writers at this time.

https://www.agatheringtogether.com/how-to-submit/

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Penguin Random House Creative Writing Awards

Penguin Random House / We Need Diverse Books

DEADLINE: March 2, 2021 3:00 pm CT (or when 1000 applications have been received)

INFO: Penguin Random House is passionate about encouraging the next generation of readers and authors and promoting diverse voices and stories. For 27 years, Penguin Random House has supported this mission through the Creative Writing Awards, which in 2019 entered into an innovative new partnership with national advocacy organization We Need Diverse Books. Through this program, Penguin Random House will award college scholarships of up to $10,000 each to five U.S. high school seniors, nationwide.

Creative Writing Awards winners have gone on to become professional and award-winning authors. Since 1993, this program has awarded more than $2.8 million dollars to public high school students for original poetry, memoir/personal essay, fiction/drama, and spoken-word compositions. This signature program continues to empower and celebrate hundreds of young writers each year.

This program is administered by Scholarship America®, the nation’s largest designer and manager of scholarship, tuition assistance and other education support programs for corporations, foundations, associations, and individuals. Awards are granted without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sexual orientation, gender, disability, or national origin.

AWARD INFORMATION:

Awards will be distributed as follows:

• $10,000 Maya Angelou Award for Spoken-Word Poetry

• $10,000 Poetry

• $10,000 Fiction/Drama

• $10,000 Personal Essay/Memoir

Fifty Honorable Mention recipients will receive a “Creativity Kit” gift from Penguin Random House.

In recognition of the Creative Writing Awards previously being centered on New York City and as an extension of our longtime work with local schools there, we will also offer an additional first-place prize of $10,000 to the top entrant from the NYC area.

ELIGIBILITY:

Applicants must:

• Be current high school seniors at a public high school in the United States

• Be 21 years of age and under

• Plan to enroll in an accredited two-year or four-year college, university, or approved vocational-technical school Fall 2021

• Submit one original literary composition in English in one of the following genres of poetry, spoken word, fiction/drama or personal essay/memoir.

  • All submissions must be typed, double-spaced with a minimum 12 point font size and no longer than 10 pages.

  • All literary pages with multiple pages must be numbered with a page number and total number of pages (Ex. 1/3, 2/3, 3/3).

  • A four-page minimum is recommended for the fiction/drama genre.

  • Spoken word entries must upload a typed entry along with an emailed audio format file.

  • Only one entry per student may be submitted and considered.

https://learnmore.scholarsapply.org/penguinrandomhouse/

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Backbone Press Chapbook Contest

Backbone Press

DEADLINE: March 5, 2021

INFO: Backbone Press is now accepting submissions to our annual chapbook contest.

Submit a manuscript of 20 to 30 pages. Iain Haley Pollock will judge.

PRIZE: $250 and publication by Backbone Press along with 25 author copies is given to the winner. 

ENTRY FEE: $15

https://backbonepress.submittable.com/submit/183944/backbone-press-chapbook-contest

POETRY -- JANUARY 2021

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: TRANSLATIONS OF POEMS, DRAMA, ETC.

Circumference

DEADLINE: January 2, 2021

INFO: Circumference was founded in 2003 by Jennifer Kronovet and Stefania Heim as a journal for poetry in translation. We believe translation continues to be a vital part of public and artistic discourse.

We’re interested in new translations of poetry and drama, particularly (but not exclusively) from contemporary authors. We’re expanding to include interviews and dialogues between artists and thinkers of all stripes: conversations where disagreement tends to enrich debate, rather than suspend it. We’re on the hunt for profiles and long-form writing that sheds light on literary and artistic praxis around the world.

We publish all poems in their original languages alongside their translations. We pay you for your work.

GUIDELINES: Please upload up to 5 poems by the same author, and a brief explanatory note to contextualize the work, with the title “Poems: [Author’s name, original language].” If you're submitting drama or another genre, please adjust title accordingly.

Please also upload the original texts and confirmation of permission to publish your translations, given by the author, publisher, and/or estate. 

We only accept work that has not been previously published in English. Simultaneous submissions are welcome, but please do let us know if your work will appear elsewhere. We’ll do our best to get back to you within four months. 

https://circumferencemag.submittable.com/submit?utm_source=Words+of+Mouth&utm_campaign=9575a9f2ea-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_11_29_05_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d4310f52d6-9575a9f2ea-242929430

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LITERARY PORTFOLIO SUBMISSIONS

P+B In Print

DEADLINE: January 4, 2021

INFO: P+B Publications is an independent publisher, seeking the best new work by women and non-binary authors. In the spirit of Pen + Brush, we believe fervently that our publishing program exists to act as forceful means of dispelling the misconception that too few women produce consistently high-level literary fiction and poetry.

We publish with the following goals:

1. All work we publish is of a high quality

2. We never pre-filter submissions based on publishing experience, education, or background

We are looking to work with strong new voices and we are committed to publishing them.

Pen + Brush publishes poetry and short and long literary fiction. We publish short stories and poems in our literary magazine Pen + Brush In Print, which is distributed in print and electronically.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: P+B In Print No. 5 

We are currently accepting submissions for our P+B In Print, No. 5 literary magazine, to be released in 2021. This issue will feature a guest editor, Novella Ford, whose theme is inspired by the recent  HBO series created by Misha Green, Lovecraft Country episode “I Am.”  We are seeking submissions that explore a question Hippolyta, a mother of a gifted artist, a science nerd and a widowed business owner, asks after unexpected travel through space and time; each experience revealing herself to herself, in order to name herself. At the end of the journey, she joyously proclaimed “How can I fit everything that I am now, into this place?” A clarion call for anyone who has experienced a shift in their persona, creative practice, principles, and/or actions.

For some, the quarantine due to COVID 19 has provided a time to sit with oneself and operate in solitude. For others, quarantine, global uprisings against police brutality, a protracted U.S. election season, and more, gave way to a dizzying cocktail of financial insecurity, anxiety, and stretching to meet the needs of many. You may not have made it completely to the other side, but you know more about what you are capable of than when the year 2020 started. What happens in the aftermath when we awaken to ourselves; when we cannot unknow what has been revealed? How do we make room for our glorious revelations in seemingly fixed spaces? 

For P+B In Print, No. 5, we are looking for a variety of work led by the imagination, that is also revelatory and worthy of the journey. How the theme is approached is up to you. We are excited by different writing styles, genres, and subgenres. 

Aligned with P+B’s vision to provide a platform to showcase the work of female and non-binary artists and writers to a broader audience with the ultimate goal of effecting real change within the marketplace, we are pleased to offer an honorarium ($150 - $500) for all submissions accepted for publication.  *Please note these honorariums are made possible by generous grants and donations received during this publication period, amounts may vary for subsequent publications.  

We are only accepting previously unpublished work.

Fiction/Non Fiction (under 3500 words) - up to $500

We are accepting one submission per author. Excerpts from book-length projects are fine, but we will be looking for the excerpt to stand strong on its own. Short stories, essays, autobiographical/memoir, literary fiction, and creative nonfiction are all welcomed. Humor, satire, and the political also have a place here.

Poetry (under 2 pages typed) - $150 for two published poems

We are accepting up to four submissions per author. 

Each submission should include a short bio, not to exceed 75 words. This will not impact the assessment of the work. We want to know a little bit about you!

About Guest Curator, Novella Ford:  

Novella Ford is the Associate Director of Public Programs and Exhibitions at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a research division of The New York Public Library. She created the inaugural Schomburg Center Literary Festival in 2019 and has organized hundreds of public programs at the intersection of scholarship and popular culture.  She connects diverse audiences to the archives and engages history through dialogue, performance, literature, and visual arts.

http://www.penandbrush.org/explore/literary

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2021 CHAPBOOK COMPETITION

The Frost Place

DEADLINE: January 5, 2021

INFO: The Frost Place, a nonprofit center for poetry and the arts at Robert Frost’s old homestead in Franconia, NH, in partnership with Bull City Press, invites submissions to The Ninth Annual Frost Place Chapbook Competition Sponsored by Bull City Press.

The winner’s chapbook will be published by Bull City Press in Summer 2021.  The winner will receive 10 complimentary copies (from a print run of 300), and a $250 prize.  The winner will also receive a full scholarship to attend the Poetry Seminar at The Frost Place, August 2021, including room and board (valued at approximately $1,550, Pending COVID-19), and will give a featured reading from the chapbook at the Seminar.

Additionally, the chapbook fellow will have the option to spend one week living and writing in The Frost Place House-Museum in September 2021 (peak fall foliage season in the White Mountains) at a time agreed upon by the fellow and the Frost Place.

ELIGIBILITY: The Frost Place Chapbook Competition Sponsored by Bull City Press is open to any poet writing in English.  Simultaneous submissions are permissible, but entrants are asked to notify the competition administrators through the competition website immediately if a manuscript becomes committed elsewhere.

Please do not submit to this competition if you are close enough to the final judge, Tiana Clark, that her integrity, or the integrity of Bull City Press and The Frost Place, would be called into question should you be selected as the winner. You may query us if you have questions regarding this matter. Please query by email to frost@frostplace.org.

SUBMISSION FEE: $28

https://frostplace.org/chapbook-competition/

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GULF SOUTH WRITER IN THE WOODS

A Studio in the Woods

DEADLINE: January 8, 2021

INFO: Gulf South Writer in the Woods, a program of A Studio in the Woods and the New Orleans Center for the Gulf South, supports the creative work, scholarship and community engagement of writers examining the Gulf South region.

Specifically, this year we aim to support BILAPOC Speculative Fiction writers working in prose, poetry and stage/screenwriting. Special consideration will be given to southern voices, under-represented communities, and perspectives not often heard. Eligible writers must live in the Gulf South, be from/have heritage in the Gulf South, and/or write about the Gulf South. The awardee will receive a stipend of $5,000, a 6-week residency at A Studio in the Woods over 18 months, Tulane University library access, and staff support from the presenting partners.

DATES The term of the Gulf South Writer in the Woods will be Winter 2021 through Summer 2023. The six weeks of residency at A Studio in the Woods can be scheduled in up to three sessions between July 2021-June 2022.

REQUIREMENTS

• Exploration and early development of concept for a significant manuscript

• Creative and radical thinking

• Participation in six week residency

• Giving a public lecture

• Design and implement a community engagement event

• Participating in a public dinner

ELIGIBILITY Creative writers working in Speculative Fiction in the format of prose, poetry, or stage/screenwriting will be considered. This year we aim to support BILAPOC writers working in prose, poetry and stage/screenwriting who live in the Gulf South, are from/have heritage in the Gulf South, and/or write about the Gulf South. There are no degree requirements. If the applicant is a student, they must be an active and advanced graduate student—in their second year of coursework and beyond. Note that this is an opportunity for a single writer, not a collaborative team or ensemble. Foreign language projects are welcome, however application and primary work sample must be in English.

SPECULATIVE FICTION Speculative Fiction is a broad category of fiction encompassing genres with certain elements that do not exist in terms of the recorded history and observed phenomena of the current universe, covering various themes in the context of the supernatural, futuristic, and many other imaginative topics.[1] Under this umbrella category, the genres include, but are not limited to, science fiction, fantasy, horror, superhero fiction, alternate history, utopian and dystopian fiction, and supernatural fiction, as well as combinations thereof (e.g. science fantasy).[2]

SELECTION PROCESS Every two years, a new Gulf South Writer in the Woods is selected through a jury process. The position will be awarded on the merit of the proposal, the stage of the manuscript, and its potential to result in new and refreshed understandings about this region. We will also consider the impact of the position on the writer’s career trajectory. The next selection process will take place in Winter 2023.

SUPPORT The awardee will receive a stipend of $5,000, a 6-week residency at A Studio in the Woods over 18 months, Tulane University library access, and staff support from the presenting partners. We are looking to support projects in the exploratory phase and will endeavor to connect the writer with faculty and experts in relevant fields. We will provide full room and board including food, utilities for living and studio space to selected resident. Resident is expected to cover personal living expenses, additional materials and supplies, and any other expenses relating to the cost of producing work incurred while in the program. Travel and shipping expenses to and from A Studio in the Woods for the residency are also the responsibility of the artist. To better understand project impact, each artist will work with an external evaluator.

GUIDELINES:

Gulf South Writer in the Woods proposals should include the following:

• 500-word project summary.

• Project narrative of no more than five double-spaced pages.

http://www.astudiointhewoods.org/2020/11/18/open-call-for-next-gulf-south-writer-in-the-woods/

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Full Bleed

DEADLINE: January 10, 2021

INFO: Full Bleed, an annual journal of art and design, seeks submissions for its fifth issue, forthcoming in May 2021. We publish criticism, belle lettres, artwork, design, illustration, fiction, poetry, and graphic essays. 

For Issue Five, we are especially interested in submissions on the theme of adaptation. In this time of accelerating change, we invite artists, designers, and writers to reflect on the various ways that ecological, technological, and social conditions have necessitated and will necessitate reinvention, hard resets, or new modes of coping, working, living, and thinking. How might art and design imagine, critique, or facilitate the adaptations that will surely be required of us--and of other creatures--in the years to come? How does this time compare to other periods of disruption? How do artists, designers, and creative people persevere? We welcome critical essays on art and artists concerned with ecological change, mass psychology, mental health, and personal, socio-economic, or political adaptations--those that have occurred in the past, and those yet to materialize. We also invite designers and educators to share socially inclusive innovations for the future, and ideas regarding the transmission of adaptation as a skill for coping with rapid change. Send us, too, your personal essays, poetry, and fiction about survival and somehow finding joy or comedy in the struggle to adapt to the changes afoot in our lives. 

In addition to essays and stories of up to 7000 words, Full Bleed publishes shorter, recurring columns of approximately 800 to 2000 words. These include "Close Looks", in which writers offer in-depth appreciations of individual artworks; "Design Futures", in which designers propose new ideas relevant to contemporary challenges facing their discipline; "Cities", which examines urban conditions, innovations, and tendencies; and “Studio Visit”, in which the writer visits with and interviews a contemporary artist or designer. 

Please submit previously unpublished work along with a brief biography and cover letter through this form. Keep in mind that we are an annual publication and will not be making final decisions about the content of issue 5 before February 2021. If your work is accepted elsewhere between now and then, please do let us know by writing to fullbleedjournal@gmail.com.

Published annually by the Maryland Institute College of Art, Full Bleed is committed to cultivating aesthetic experience and progressive design while furthering understanding of contemporary conditions. We favor criticism that emanates personality and experiments with form. We encourage contrarian argument and ambitious critical essays on cultural phenomena that are of active concern to living artists and designers. Issues One (Migration), Two (Crisis), Three (Machines), and Four (Archive) are available at www.full-bleed.org.

https://www.full-bleed.org/submit

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Kresge Artist Fellowships for Literary & visual artists

Kresge Arts in Detroit

DEADLINE: January 14, 2021

INFO: Kresge Artist Fellowships are $25,000 awards plus professional development support for emerging and established metro Detroit artists.

Fellowships recognize creative vision and commitment to excellence across a wide range of artistic disciplines, including artists who have been academically trained, self-taught artists, and artists whose art forms have been passed down through cultural heritage.

Gilda Awards are $5,000 prizes for emerging artists, named in honor of artist, CCS professor, and 2009 Kresge Artist Fellow Gilda Snowden (1954–2014). Fellowships and Gilda Awards are no strings attached awards, meaning artists may spend the money on any aspect of their creative practice or life (i.e. making new work, renting or purchasing studio space, travel, general living expenses, paying off debt, etc.).

Twenty fellowships and ten Gilda Awards

• Literary Arts: 10 Kresge Artist Fellowships and 4-6* Gilda Awards

• Visual Arts: 10 Kresge Artist Fellowships and 4-6* Gilda Awards

LITERARY ARTS DISCIPLINES:

• Arts Criticism

• Creative Nonfiction

• Fiction

• Graphic Novels

• Playwriting

• Poetry

• Spoken Word

• Zines

• Interdisciplinary Work

http://www.kresgeartsindetroit.org/get-started

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2021 Kundiman Mentorship Lab

Kundiman

DEADLINE: January 15, 2021

INFO: This program will support nine NYC–based emerging artists (3 writers in each genre of Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, & Poetry) for a six-month mentorship program from August 2021–January 2022. This lab will include mentorship support from established artists as well as writing workshops, craft classes, and a culminating reading open to the public. Kundiman has long been a source of community and support for Asian American writers, and we’re excited to offer this space of close collaboration and community guidance.

Mentorship Fellows receive a $1000 stipend, individual mentoring sessions with the Mentor in their genre, six Craft Classes, and six Workshops. To encourage learning and community across genres, the Craft Classes will include fellows from all three genres. The Workshops will be conducted within specific genres.

Due to current health concerns, the 2021 Mentorship Lab will take place remotely, with a possible in-person reading in February 2022. However, applicants must be residents of New York City in order to participate, due to the nature of our grant.

We are thrilled to have the following writers serving as Mentors this year:

• Rajesh Parameswaran: Fiction

• Larissa Pham: Creative Nonfiction

• Arm Choi Wild: Poetry

ELIGIBILITY: The Mentorship Lab is open to emerging writers who self-identify as Asian American. Writers must not have published a full-length book by the conclusion of the Lab, and cannot be enrolled in a degree-granting program during the time of the Mentorship Lab. Writers must be residents of the five boroughs of New York City, and be living in NYC for the full period of the Mentorship Lab. 

Mentorship Lab will meet virtually on biweekly Wednesday evenings from 6:30–9:00 PM ET from August 2021–January 2022. Please make sure these times will work for you before applying. A full calendar will be sent out upon acceptance.

REQUIREMENTS FOR MENTORSHIP FELLOWS:

• Meet with entire cohort for introductory meeting in August 2021, and closing meeting in January 2022

• Participate in biweekly 30-minute check-ins with Mentors from August 2021–January 2022, via phone or Skype

• Attend all 6 Craft Classes and 6 Writing Workshops on biweekly Wednesdays from August–January 2022

• Participate in culminating public reading in February 2022

http://www.kundiman.org/mentorship-lab

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Stellium

DEADLINE: January 15, 2021

INFO: Stellium is a literary magazine centering Black queer and trans prose writers. We still accept work from other Black and QTPOC writers. We are a bimonthly (every two months) magazine seeking to create our first two digital issues.

We are currently curating pieces for our first and second issues. Here are the themes.

• Issue One - Manifestation - What would you create if you could conjure? What do you create since you can conjure?  Who is clearly a master at this art? Is it tangible? Is it ethereal? Does it reach you and your community or is it symbolic? Are you fearful of the creation or begging for it?

• Issue Two - Exposing - What has been brought to light recently? What has been lying underneath the surface that is generally unspoken? Was it hidden on purpose or just tossed to the side and forgotten? How was it revealed? What happens now that we "know"? Is it a shy or exhibitionist truth?

What are we looking for?

• Prose poetry - We do not accept traditional poetry. Please note this description before submitting. Prose poetry is "not broken into verse lines, [but] demonstrates other traits such as symbols, metaphors, and other figures of speech common to poetry." Write in paragraphs and with a poetic flow, and we'll want to see it. Please submit a maximum of three poems. This section is not theme-specific but you're encouraged to focus on it.

• Fiction - We welcome long- or short-form fiction. If you submit flash fiction (up to 2k words), you can submit up to three pieces of similar length. The sweet spot is around 4k to 7k words. This section is not theme-specific but you're encouraged to focus on it.

• Nonfiction - We're seeking creative nonfiction submissions. We welcome memoir, social commentary, and new-journalism pieces among other works. Not academic papers. The sweet spot is around 2k to 4k words. This section is not theme-specific but you're encouraged to focus on it.

• Art - We accept scans of any original, visual art. This section is theme-specific. We won't accept work that doesn't adhere to the theme of the issue.

• Editors - We're looking for editors for each section, social media, design, and the website! Please spread the word after you apply.

https://stelliumlit.submittable.com/submit?fbclid=IwAR3_quGZay_Yw24y1odkhh3WRGErVgEBrDai2sZ9xOCO0dbaBM5SyX_zEkQ

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: SUMMERTIME ISSUE

Split Lip Magazine

DEADLINE: January 15, 2021

INFO: Split Lip Magazine is publishing a special summertime-themed issue for Black Voices, edited by our very own Tyrese Coleman!

GUIDELINES:

• Theme: Summertime

• Issue launch: June 15, 2021

• What we’re looking for: poetry, memoir, flash, fiction, art

• Word limits: 1000 words for flash, 2000 words for memoir, 1000-3000 words for fiction

We will only accept work from Black authors/artists for this issue. If you are not Black, please do not submit your work to this submissions category; we will not publish it in this special Black Voices issue.

PAYMENT: Our standard rates apply ($50 per piece)

READERS: Jane Josée Link, Ashley Monique Lee, Cree Pettaway

https://splitlipthemag.com/call-for-submissions-summertime-issue

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Rising Writer Prize in Poetry

Autumn House

DEADLINE: January 15, 2021

INFO: The Rising Writer Prize in Poetry is for a first full-length book of poetry by an author 36 years old or younger. Autumn House believes in supporting the work of younger, less-established writers who will become the voices of an emerging generation.

For the 2021 contest, the Autumn House staff serves as the preliminary readers, and the final judge is Matthew Dickman. The winner receives publication of a full-length manuscript and $1,000.

• Must be the author’s first full-length poetry collection (previous publications of chapbooks are fine).

• Authors must be 36 years old or younger in this calendar year

• The winners will receive book publication, $500 advance against royalties, and a $500 travel/publicity grant to promote their book

• All finalists will be considered for publication

• Submissions should be approximately 50-80 pages

• The reading fee is $25 (We will waive the submission fee for anyone undergoing financial hardship or living with limited means. Please reach out, and we’ll step you through the submission process)

• Please don’t include your name anywhere on the actual MS

• Include a brief bio in the “cover letter” section of Submittable

• Feel free to include a TOC and acknowledgments page

• Simultaneous submissions permitted

https://www.autumnhouse.org/submissions/rising-writers-poetry/

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CALL FOR TEXTS

James Banner + Stephanie Lamprea Duo

DEADLINE: January 15, 2021, 10pm CET

INFO: Berlin-based composer and improviser James Banner is commissioning 6 people who work with words to create new pieces of writing for a new duo with Stephanie Lamprea. The words will form the basis of a new series of works for voice and double bass (plus guests) for a 2021 album release. Each commissioned writer will receive 200 euros and in addition, each piece will be published alongside its paired musical score as a limited edition printed book and in digital form.

You may be an author, poet, writer, blogger, journalist, or active in any other field that uses words, and at any level or stage in your career. There is no official requirement to be working professionally or established in any of these fields, however one aim of the project is to further the visibility of your work and develop your portfolio, to help stimulate future opportunities and the possibilities of further collaborations, therefore please consider if this is the right project for you before applying.

BRIEF: The brief is to create a new piece of writing that is limited to 1-2 A4 pages with no minimum or maximum word count. The content is totally up to the contributor and may also include other visual/graphic elements, but this is not a requirement – the focus is on the meaning of the words and representing a diverse range of voices and ideas in the resulting music.

You may consider yourself published, self-published, unpublished, ‘emerging’ etc. We recognise the variety of people who may feel included in one or more of these umbrella terms and no-one is excluded based on this.

For this project, James is especially seeking to include those who identify as LGBTQIA+, non-binary, gender fluid, BIPOC, QTPOC, Latinx, Asian, female, disabled and neurodivergent, as well as those who are or were first generation college/university students or come from under-represented socio-economic backgrounds.

To enter, please fill out the form below by 15th January 2021, 10pm CET – audio and/or video submissions are also encouraged alongside textual representations. 6 Shortlisted contributors will receive 50 euros, 6 final contributors will receive 200 euros. 

FULL DETAILS:

The call uses a three stage non-anonymous process: open call, shortlisting and final selection. The open call runs for one month during which contributors can send in existing work examples. At the shortlisting stage, 12 contributors will be asked to propose an idea or submit a draft for the final piece – the 6 not selected at this stage will still receive 50 euros for their draft/idea which will not be used in the project. The remaining 6 contributors will go on to submit a final work to be included in the project, and receive a 200 euro commission fee.

SCHEDULE:

• Open call – submissions accepted until 15th January 2021, 10pm CET

• 12 person shortlist notified – 17th January 2021, 10pm CET

• Deadline to submit ideas and drafts for the final work – 27th January 2021, 10pm CET

• Final 6 selected for the project notified – 31st January 2021, 10pm CET

• Final works to be submitted – 14th February 2021, 10pm CET

• Project realisation – summer/autumn 2021

APPLICATION:

• Submissions will not be judged anonymously and a diverse range of voices will be represented – additionally, we will endeavour to actively reach out to the groups mentioned above during the open call process

• Free to apply, no age limit, no location limit, no language or education requirements

• Dates and deadlines are subject to change depending on applications and will be flexible to allow more time where necessary

PROJECT:

• The 6 contributors agree to communicate with James in a timely manner via email and will aim to promote their participation in the project via personal websites and/or their social media presence (where available) – where email is not accessible or appropriate, an alternative mode of communication will be established

• The design of the physical/downloadable editions will be made in collaboration between James and the contributor to ensure they feel their work is being visually represented fully and accurately – whilst we do want the finished work to be high quality and high resolution, no-one will be excluded based on access to hardware or software or abilities in design, and this is not part of the judgement in the open call or shortlisting stages

• If a contributor misses a deadline without warning due to exceptional circumstances and no contact is made, James will attempt to contact them by email to check in – where the contributor does not respond within two weeks of the final deadline, James reserves the right to withdraw the offer of inclusion in the project and will ask someone from the shortlist to take their place

COPYRIGHT AND ACCREDITATION:

• Every contributor retains copyright of their work and is permitted to publish their work elsewhere, wherever it does not impinge on the ability to continue to use the work for this project – a non-exclusive licence will be set up between the contributor and James that details the uses of the words for this project only

• Contributors agree that their work can be freely interpreted, developed, performed, broadcast and recorded live, digitally, on radio and in any other format for this project only (in relation to audio/booklet purchases, also for profit) – full details will be provided in the contract

• Upon completion of the musical works, contributors will be credited by James as ‘authors’ of the words through GEMA and any royalties through live/radio performance automatically distributed through that system if you are registered with a performing rights organisation such as PRS, GEMA, ASCAP etc. by doing this, contributors are able to receive both the one off payment for the new work and any continued royalties that may arise from performance or broadcast

• Contributors will not receive any share of audio/physical/download sales or concert ticket sales relating to this project

• With approval, all contributors from the open call and shortlist stages will be credited in the digital download edition of the final work alongside one link to their work/portfolio/website etc. – please select this option in the application form if you wish to be included

• The final 6 contributors will receive appropriate credit in the album track listings, physical and digital download editions of the final work and agree to send one press photo with photographer credit and a biography that is available to use in this project without restriction

• Every contributor from the first stage onwards will receive a free digital download of the project. Each of the final 6 contributors will receive a printed copy of the book (including postage up to 15 euros) plus a digital download

COMMISSION FEES AND FINANCIAL TRANSPARENCY:

• Each of the 6 final contributors selected from the shortlist will receive a commission fee of 100 euros from James plus a further 100 euros from the crowdfunding campaign – in the event that the crowdfunding campaign does not reach its target, the contributors will still receive the agreed amounts

• The other 6 people from the 12 shortlisted will receive a fee of 50 euros from James for their time and contribution

• This project is partly enabled by the support provided from the Berlin State scholarship ‘Kulturprojekte Berlin’, full details are available at https://stipendium.kulturprojekte.berlin/de/stipendien/

https://jamesbanner.com/callfortexts/

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Variety Pack

DEADLINE: January 15, 2021

INFO: Variety Pack is OPEN for submissions until 01/15/21, for our ISSUE #04.

GUIDELINES: Please greet the editors! Our names or “Hey editors” is fine, include a word-count for all fiction and non-fiction in the email body, include a brief 3rd person bio including your pronouns and any social media handles you have (Instagram & twitter).

Please continue below to find more specific guidelines for each genre.

ALSO: In an effort to expand accessibility for all differently-abled folks we will be adding an audio option to all of those who we accept for publication. In this option, either we can have a voice over actor read your work or you can send us an mp3/wav. Include your preference in the body of the email.

Fiction – We want something short that kicks through the door and pushes against the literary grain. We crave gripping, haunting work that is hard to turn away from once we dig in. We accept both genre and literary work.

Flash Fiction – Up to 1,000. Flash fiction should be sent to varietypackflashfiction@gmail.com.

Short Fiction –  Between 1,001 and 9,000 words  should be sent to varietypackshortfiction@gmail.com.

Preferred format is Times New Roman, double spaced, 12-point font.

Non-Fiction – Send us your cultural criticisms, immersive journalism, memoirs, creative non-fiction (CNF), and essays.

Send up to 3 NF pieces, a maximum of 5,000 words to varietypacknonfiction@gmail.com. Please do not exceed 1,500 words per piece unless solicited by editor. Please include word count in the body of your email.

Preferred format is Times New Roman, double spaced, 12-point font.

Poetry – For poetry, like our love of narrative prose, the aesthetic we have has a broad and inclusive atlas. We are creatures of eclectic habit. We want poems that redefine the traditional forms of poetry. Feel free to send us haikus, ghazals, senryus, sestinas, sonnets, elegies, odes, among others, as long as they fit the spirit of what we’re about. If your style leans more on the experimental side of the pond, send us your confessions, erasures, dada, maybe visual poetry, or anything you think will work against the norms of literary canon entirely, feel free to send it our way.

Send up to 4 poems, to varietypackpoetry@gmail.com.

Preferred format is Times New Roman, single spaced, 12-point font.

Reviews/Interviews – We are taking in-depth reviews, review essays, and interviews. We do not believe in ranking a literary work or posing negative criticisms on the work of writers. We welcome music reviews (either albums or live shows), book reviews, film reviews, TV reviews, art reviews, theatre reviews. However, we aren’t looking for praises either, rather works that explain why a manuscript or a series is worthy of such.

ALSO this should be clarified, but due to the fact we only have one reviewer, at this time, we are not accepting works to review, but solely the reviews themselves, please keep this in mind when you submit, that WE WILL NO LONGER BE OPEN TO REVIEW UNSOLICITED WORK.

Please send us your most insightful reviews from 100 – 2,500 words (although aren’t sticklers for word count on these, depending on the content) for any review to varietypackreviews@gmail.com.

Preferred format is Times New Roman, single spaced, 12-point font.

Visual Arts – We are now taking visual arts submissions for future on-site features as well as our issues. Send us your finest collages, illustrations, comics, napkin sketches, photographs and/or anything else you want to submit. Whether it’s a more traditional style or an experimental take we welcome all styles to our forefront.

Please send us your latest masterpieces at varietypackart@gmail.com.

https://varietypack.net/submissions-2/

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Immigrant Creative Fellowship

Define American

DEADLINE: January 18, 2021

INFO: This fellowship supports immigrant creatives working in narrative art forms as they build their professional practice and network. Recognizing the unique hurdles that immigrant creatives in these fields may face, the six fellows selected for the Define American Creative Fellowship will participate in workshops and conversations around furthering their network and impact, be connected with additional resources, and supported in their community engagement efforts.

The Define American Creative Fellowship is open to creatives in narrative-oriented art forms (writing, filmmaking, visual storytelling, theater, illustration, spoken word, digital journalism, etc.) with at least some experience (professional or amateur) in their chosen medium. This program is uniquely suited to supporting artists who have a deep commitment to their local communities and further developing their creative practice as they shape narratives of American identity.

NOTE: In 2021, the fellowship will be all virtual.

Fellows will receive:

• $5,000 stipend

• Regular coaching check-ins with Define American staff

• Professional development workshops and facilitated conversations

• Tools to build community collaborations

• Introductions to experienced creatives in their field

• Opportunity to apply for additional project-based funding

Application process:

• Please review the full fellowship expectations before applying

• Complete application form and upload portfolio

• Finalists will be contacted by email to schedule a phone interview in February

Who should apply?

• Creatives in narrative-oriented art forms (writing, filmmaking, illustration, spoken word, etc.) with some amount of experience in their field.

• Immigrant Americans, regardless of current immigration status — undocumented, DACAmented, naturalized citizens, green card holders, refugees, asylum seekers, etc

• Creatives that can commit to participating in at least 6–8 90-minute workshops and facilitated conversations

• Creatives with a commitment to their local communities

• Creatives who will not be enrolled in a degree-seeking program during the length of this fellowship (March – September 2021)

• Must be at least 18 years old at time of application

https://www.defineamerican.com/fellowship

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Wurlitzer Foundation RESIDENCY

Helene Wurlitzer Foundation

DEADLINE: January 18, 2021

INFO: The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico (HWF) is a private, 501(c)(3) non-profit, educational and charitable organization committed to supporting the arts. Founded in 1954, the HWF manages one of the oldest artist residency programs in the USA and is located on fifteen acres in the heart of Taos, New Mexico, a multicultural community renowned for its popularity with artists.

The Foundation offers three months of rent-free and utility-paid housing to people who specialize in the creative arts. Our eleven artist casitas, or guest houses, 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.

GUIDELINES:

Literary artists may upload writing samples in .pdf format using the application form above. Alternatively, literary artists may choose to mail hard-copies. Include a cover sheet containing your contact info and table of contents, but please omit names and contact info on the writing samples themselves.
• Writers: samples should not exceed 35 double-spaced pages
• Poets: a maximum of six poems.
• Playwrights: include one complete play.
• Screenwriters: include one complete screenplay.

Digital work samples are accepted and encouraged for applications from visual artists and composers. Applicants should prepare to submit five work sample files when filling out the online application form. Acceptable file types for images include jpg, gif and png. Accepted types for audio files are mp3 and m4a.

Filmmakers must mail a DVD or USB-drive containing up to 30 minutes of video which represents no more than five different samples of your work.

APPLICATION FEE: $25

https://wurlitzerfoundation.org/apply

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Marías at Sampaguitas

DEADLINE: January 22, 2021

INFO: Marías at Sampaguitas — online lit mag uplifting f/pilipino/a/x folks — is currently open for general submissions. They seek poetry, flash fiction, essays, letters, prose, and or reviews.

GUIDELINES:

• Poetry: Please send no more than three poems.

• Letters & Prose / Flash Fiction: Please send no more than two pieces. Please do not let word count exceed 1,500 words.

• Creative Non-Fiction / Essays / Reviews: Please send no more than one essay/review at a time. If you are interested in sending multiple reviews, please withhold from submitting the second essay/review until after you’ve received a response regarding the first review. Please do not let word count exceed 1,500 words. 

• Interview Requests: Please send your email request to our Interview Editor, Nazli Karabıyıkoğlu at nazlikarabiyikoglu@gmail.com, and please copy mariasatsampaguitas@gmail.com. Nazli uses she/her pronouns. If you wish to use a prefix, please use Mx. or Ms. In the body, please introduce yourself and how an interview would benefit you. Please also describe your craft (e.g. fiction writer, poet, photographer, etc.) and provide either links to a portfolio/website or attached Word Docs/PDFs of your work. Please include any social media handles within the short, third-person author bio.

Accepted work will be published online on the Marías at Sampaguitas website. Please only submit original work, unpublished elsewhere. Simultaneous submissions are accepted; however, please let us know if your piece is accepted elsewhere. Unfortunately, we are unable to pay contributors at this time.

https://mariasatsampaguitas.wixsite.com/marias/general-submissions

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Hurston/Wright College Awards

Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation

DEADLINE: January 29, 2021

INFO: The Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation is proud to host the annual Hurston/Wright Awards for College Writers, which is the only award of its kind that recognizes Black college writers. The award is the foundation’s first program. It was initiated to support emerging Black artists in fiction and poetry enrolled full-time in an undergraduate or graduate school program anywhere in the United States.   
Submissions for the award open October 1, 2020 and close January 29, 2021. Submissions will be judged by distinguished published authors in fiction and poetry. Writers will be notified in March whether their submissions were accepted or not accepted. Awards, which include a cash prize, will be announced in May. Award winners will be invited to attend the Legacy Award ceremony that is hosted in October in Washington, DC.
Amistad, A Division of HarperCollins Publishers sponsors the award.

Requirements:

• Black writers who are full-time students in undergraduate and graduate programs at a college or university in the United States are eligible to submit a work of fiction or poetry. They must be enrolled at the time of submission. Students in online-only courses are not eligible.

• Writers who have published books, including poetry chapbooks or fiction narratives, through any publishing platform, are not eligible.

• All work submitted must be original and unpublished at the time of submission. Hurston/Wright does not accept simultaneous submissions.

• Author name and contact information should not appear on the submission.

• Winning works may be published in whole or in part by Hurston/Wright online or print. Your submission gives the Hurston/Wright Foundation permission to publish an excerpt or the entire work. The author retains all rights.

• Hurston/Wright maintains the right to decline any submission not deemed eligible.

Format Guidelines
The original creative work submitted should be formatted as follows:

Fiction:

• No more than 20 pages of fiction, double-spaced, Times New Roman, 12-point font, and within 1-inch margins.

• Put title of the work on each page of the submission.

• Do not put the author’s name on the pages of the work. Provide a separate page with the title of the work, name and contact information of author, school and year of study.

 Poetry:

• Maximum of 3 poems.

• The submission must total at least 120 lines or more.

• Do not include the author’s name on the pages of poetry. Provide a separate page with the title of the work, name and contact information of author, school and year of study.

SUBMISSION FEE: $25

https://hurstonwrightfoundation.submittable.com/submit/171743/hurston-wright-college-awards-submissions-2021

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Bronx Poet Laureate

The Bronx is Reading

DEADLINE: January 29, 2021

INFO: The Bronx Poet Laureate promotes the inclusion of and passion for poetry across the Bronx, looking to inspire a new generation of writers and poets, and to educate Bronx residents about the history of poetry in our borough. The Poet Laureate serves as an ambassador for poetry and creative expression in the Bronx, committed to upholding and growing the borough's literary community.

The poet laureate gives public readings and advocates for engagement in literary expression in locations across the Bronx, including but not limited to, libraries, schools, boardrooms, The Bronx is Reading events, and other annual events. They engage with local leaders about the value of poetry, and are expected to actively conduct outreach over their term.

AWARD: This is a two year position, and will include a $5,000 grant/stipend for each year, for a total of $10,000 for the duration of term. 

GUIDELINES: Applicants for the Bronx Poet Laureate position must meet the following criteria:

• Must have lived in the Bronx for at least the past five years and currently reside in the borough

• Must have poetry inspired by the borough

• Must have published their work, preferably with reviews that recognize their talent

• Must be able to commit to this position for two years (June 2021 - June 2023)

• Must participate in at least 10 events per term

• Must be creating some body of work

To apply, applicants can submit up to 10 pages of their work, along with a resume, bio, and 500-word description outlining why they are interested in becoming the Bronx Poet Laureate.

JUDGES / REVIEW PROCESS: The panel of judges selects the 2021 Bronx Poet Laureate based on relevant criteria and incoming submissions. Judges will be a group of writers well-versed in the medium, with substantial experience in poetics and publishing (through various accredited publications). 

After applications have closed for the Bronx Poet Laureate, they are reviewed an evaluated by a panel of knowledgeable and established Bronx poets. All applications are considered based on relevant criteria and quality of submissions. The poet laureate will be announced in Spring 2021 and a ceremony will be held at the annual Bronx Book Festival on the Friday prior to the festival.

Judges for the inaugural Bronx Poet Laureate position include Camonghne Felix, Peggy Robles-Alvarado, and Joel L. Daniels.

https://www.thebronxisreading.com/bronxpoetlaureate?utm_campaign=later-linkinbio-tipsheet.art&utm_content=later-13126849&utm_medium=social&utm_source=instagram

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Starshine and Clay Fellowship for Emerging Black Poets

Cave Canem

DEADLINE: January 31, 2021, 11:59 pm EST

INFO: Cave Canem, EcoTheo Review, and LOGOS Poetry Collective are pleased to announce the launch of the Starshine and Clay Fellowship, a new initiative providing financial and development support to emerging Black poets, and fundraising opportunities for Cave Canem. Named in honor of Cave Canem elder Lucille Clifton (“won’t you celebrate with me”), the Starshine and Clay Fellowship was developed to speak to the mentorship Clifton offered Cave Canem fellows during her tenure as faculty at the Cave Canem Retreat.

AWARD: Four recipients will each receive $500, $500 for a LOGOS reading, a $500 travel stipend and free lodging to attend the Wonder in Wyoming conference, a one-on-one consultation with the final judge, and master classes and other opportunities provided by Cave Canem. Poets will also have their work published in the Summer 2021 issue of EcoTheo Review, with proceeds of the sale going to Cave Canem.

ENTRY FEE: $0

JUDGE: Gregory Pardlo

ELIGIBILITY: All adult Black writers who have not had a full-length book published by or currently under contract with a professional press. Authors of chapbooks and self-published books with a maximum print run of 500 may apply.

EXCLUSIONS: Current or former students, colleagues, employees, family members and close friends of the judge; current or former employees and members of the board of Cave Canem Foundation, EcoTheo, or LOGOS Poetry Collective. If any of the selected poets fall under the above exclusions, they will be disqualified and a replacement will be chosen from among the finalists. As the poetry community is small and the contest is judged without knowledge of the submitter’s identity, acquaintance with the judge or participation in a workshop taught by the judge are not disqualifying criteria.

GUIDELINES:

• 8-12 pages of unpublished poems. A poem may be multiple pages, but no more than one poem per page is permitted.

• The fellowship welcomes poets writing from a variety of themes and perspectives, and poets writing on ecological, spiritual, and/or theological concerns are particularly encouraged to apply.

• Submit manuscripts online via Submittable. Hard copy submissions will not be considered. One manuscript per poet allowed.

• Author’s name should not appear on any pages within the uploaded document.

• Upload manuscript as a .doc or .pdf document.

• Manuscripts not adhering to submission guidelines will not be considered.

• Post-submission revisions or corrections are not permitted.

https://cavecanem.submittable.com/submit/180665/2021-starshine-and-clay-fellowship

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WOMEN IN THE ARTS GRANTS

Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Inc.

DEADLINE: January 31, 2021

INFO: The Barbara Deming Memorial Fund offers small support grants ($500 - $1500) to individual feminist women in the arts who are citizens with primary residence in the US and Canada.

Applications from women artists and writers (cis and transgender) who:

• Exhibit high quality and originality in their work.

• Use feminism as their central interpretive lens.

• Value both personal and political changes that stand against the limitations and controls exerted against women while aiming at optimum freedom and agency for women.

• Validate differences that overlap with gender such as race, ethnicity, and class.

• Express an inclusive vision of social justice while focusing on justice for women.

We are interested in funding projects which you have begun or are well underway, and for which you have substantial work to show. Please take time to carefully read the guidelines and application form on Submittable.

Basic Application:  

1. Project description (max. 400 words)

2. Budget

3. Description explaining why you are applying to a feminist fund (max. 100 words)

4. Resume (max. 2 pages)

5. Project Samples

Project Samples by Category:

Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction - Submit 10-15 pages, using 12-point type. Please paginate and include your name and project title in the top right corner of each page. Double-space for fiction and nonfiction submissions.

 https://demingfund.org/apply-pd-11.php

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2021-2023 Fellowship in Creative Writing at the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics

The University of Pittsburgh

DEADLINE: January 31, 2021

INFO: Applications are open for our 2021-2023 Fellowship in Creative Writing! This two-year fellowship in a “creative think tank” for African American and African diasporic poetry and poetics, housed in a lively English/ creative writing program, beginning fall 2021.

The fellow will teach one community workshop each year; lead seminar discussions in the course Studio in African American Poetry and Poetics; participate in Co-Lab, the interactive public forum in which visiting writers and artists present their work in progress; give one public reading with a Q&A; and have the possibility of teaching a course at the university. The fellow's primary attention will be focused on their own poetry and creative work.

Poets who have completed an MFA or PhD with creative writing experience are eligible to apply, provided they do not yet have more than one full-length book of poetry or other creative writing published or under contract by the application deadline. Required: An MFA or PhD with creative writing experience by August 2021; knowledge of African American and/or African diasporic poetry and poetics; and creative writing teaching experience. Desirable: record of publication; book underway; interest in a secondary genre or art form and/or in hybrid or cross-genre exploration. Because this is a residential fellowship, we expect fellows to live in the Pittsburgh area, to hold no other substantial teaching, graduate study or fellowship obligations, and to be active participants in the Pittsburgh literary community during the fellowship period. 

Applicants should upload a cover letter, C.V., writing sample of up to 15 pages, and send three letters of recommendation by January 31, 2021.

Please have recommenders send letters to caapp@pitt.edu with the following subject line: Recommendation [Applicant's Name]. 

SALARY: $48,000 per year and health benefits provided.

https://cfopitt.taleo.net/careersection/pitt_faculty_external/jobdetail.ftl?job=20006024&tz=GMT-05:00&tzname=America/New_York&fbclid=IwAR032MJnhrkRflq3Jjvz330wQQXHA1VfdfyfBIicKtFaBe-4BnrcZrfJcE8

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2021 BOOK PRIZE

Nervous Ghost Press

DEADLINE: January 31, 2021

INFO: Nervous Ghost Press — an independent publisher committed to publishing quality work regardless of race, age, gender, sexuality, or education — announces its 2021 Book Prize.

Prose Prize/ Guidelines: 

• $1000 Cash

• Publication by Nervous Ghost Press

• 10 Author Copies

• California Reading Tour (travel expenses paid for in full or in part by the cash prize)

• Entry Fee: $24

• Single author manuscript, original, previously unpublished writing between 50,000 and 100,000 words

*All genres considered except for work in translation

Poetry Prize/ Guidelines:

• $1000 Cash

• Publication by Nervous Ghost Press

• 10 Author Copies

• California Reading Tour (travel expenses paid for in full or in part by the cash prize)

• Entry Fee: $24

• Single author manuscript, original, previously unpublished writing between 48 and 128 pages​

*All genres considered except for work in translation

https://www.nervousghostpress.com/prize-submission-guidelines

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: ‘EVERY MOTHER IS A FUTURIST’ ISSUE

Raising Mothers

DEADLINE: February 1, 2021

INFO: For our fourth issue, Raising Mothers is seeking poetry, short fiction, essays, art, multimedia, and hybrid work by Black, Indigenous, or POC and colonized people of color that speak to the layered intricacies of parenthood from the perspective of the parent or the (now adult) child.

Work should relate or respond to Indigenous/Afro/ Asian/ Latin futurisms, and/or imagining the de-colonial (future, present, or past). Speculative and non-speculative work are both welcome. Imagine the future, re-imagine the past or present. Let’s talk about what future we’re fighting for. What ways will we honor and raise our children, ourselves and our communities in this new world?

We want any genre, any approach that includes the above, or is not included.

http://www.raisingmothers.com/submissions/call-for-work/

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: LOVERS! ISSUE

perhappened mag

DEADLINE: February 1, 2021

INFO: we here at perhappened mag strive to publish your truth, whatever it looks like. tell us your story how only you know best. while we accept work from all, we especially seek pieces from BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and/or otherwise marginalized contributors.

each monthly issue of perhappened mag follows a particular theme/prompt. the current prompt word or phrase is LOVERS! give us your unconventional love letters, your first kisses, your worst goodbyes, the hands you wish you'd held, the summer you'll always remember. send us your hurt, your yearning, and your joy in equal measure. make our hearts skip a beat. ♡

please submit only one (1) piece per email that fits the theme as closely or loosely as you'd like. there are no word limits!

FEES:

• tip jar submissions ($3)

• 24-hour expedited decisions ($5)

• editorial feedback ($10/pg)

https://www.perhappened.com/submit.html

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Chaotic Merge

DEADLINE: Rolling

INFO: Chaotic Merge is looking for submissions from all different forms of artist. We seek work that is adventurous and test the border of art and structure. Don't be afraid to mess with everything you have ever learned in your lives. We write to have fun!We encourage voice of people of color and members of the LGBTQ+ community to submit their work.

We are open for submissions all year round.*We strongly suggest following all guidelines upon submitting. 

GUIDELINES:

• Submit all work to ChaoticMergeMagazine@gmail.com

• Title your email subject as follows: Full name_Genre_Title of work. Anything labelled otherwise will not be read.

• Depending on your genre, please limit each submission to:

  • Up to 5 unpublished poems (a non-English work & its English translation count as one poem submission)

  • 2 unpublished short fiction piece (up to 5,000 words) 

  • Up to 5 unpublished art/photographs/ illustrations in pdf, png, and jpeg or

  • 2 unpublished Screenplay or Play (up to 10-15 pages) 

• All work submitted should be accompanied by a short author bio between 50 and 100 words, a author/creator photo in jpg, and your pronouns.While we accept simultaneous submissions, do indicate in your email that this is a simultaneous submission, and write in to us immediately to withdraw your work once it has been accepted elsewhere.

• Publication Rights: Chaotic Merge Magazine publishes only unpublished work, unless we ourselves request for them. By submitting your work, you affirm that you are the sole author and maintain all rights for your work. By submitting your work, you authorize Chaotic Merge Magazine to publish your work in both its e-journal and online platforms.

https://chaoticmergemagazine.com/submit/

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ONGOING

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Latin American Literature Today

INFO: Latin American Literature Today (LALT) welcomes throughout the year submissions of translated texts (Spanish-English, Brazilian Portuguese-English) of contemporary Latin American prose, verse, interviews, essays, and book reviews.

Furthermore, the journal is committed to foregrounding the work of translators, so we encourage and welcome contributions such as translator’s notes, essays on the art of translation, translation reviews, interviews to translators, as well as translation “previews” from forthcoming book publications.

All translation submissions and questions should be directed to Denise Kripper, our Translation Editor, to translation.lalt@gmail.com. Submissions will be reviewed by the entire LALT editorial committee.

LENGTH OF SUBMISSIONS:

• Creative prose (fiction and non-fiction) should have a maximum length of 5000 words

• Poems should be limited to 3 to 5 poems

• Articles and interviews should have a maximum length of 2,000 to 2,200 words, unless otherwise directed by the editor;

• Book reviews should have a maximum length of 1,200 words

DEADLINE: Rolling Submissions

http://www.latinamericanliteraturetoday.org/en/submission-guidelines-translators

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

VIDA Review

INFO: The VIDA Review is an online literary magazine publishing original fiction, nonfiction, poetry, reviews, and interviews. 

We are exclusively interested in work by those often marginalized in literary spaces, including Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC); cis and trans women, agender, gender non-conforming, genderqueer, nonbinary, and two-spirit people; LGBQIA people; people with disabilities; and people living at the intersections of these identities.

All pieces should be original, and previously unpublished in any format in English.

Please send one submission at a time, and please submit only once every 6 months.

We are open to simultaneous submissions, so long as you label them as such and promptly let us know if your work has been accepted elsewhere. 

Please note that all submissions should be accompanied by a cover letter and brief third-person biography statement, and that (unless otherwise stated) we ask for First North American Rights to publish writing. Following publication, all rights revert back to the writer; we only ask that you credit the VIDA Review as the place your work first appeared.

GUIDELINES:

Up to six poems at a time, each on separate pages

• Single-space

• Combine into one document (.doc, .docx, or .pdf)

• Include contact information on first page of submission

• Provide a cover letter in the "Cover Letter" section and a brief third-person biography

PAYMENT: Payment for those accepted will range between $15-$20. We recognize that this is a token amount of money but hope to increase this amount in the future. Payment will be made via PayPal within 2 months of publication.

DEADLINE: Rolling Submissions

https://thevidareview.submittable.com/submit

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Hyphen Magazine

INFO: Narrative, experimental, lyrical or prose poetry, free verse, eastern or western poetic forms, or works meant as spoken word are all welcome as poetry. We tend to prefer poems that take risks and/or surprise us, but due consideration will be given to all submissions. We expect to see a poet’s best demonstrations of craft, and poems need not be about Asian American themes.

Send only your best, previously unpublished work. Asian American themes are not essential. We are much more interested in work that incorporates identity than in work that is about identity.

Send 5-6 poems per submission in a single document.

Simultaneous submissions (when you send the same submission to us and other publications) are okay as long as you let us know and notify us immediately when a piece has been accepted elsewhere.

Multiple submissions are not okay (when you send more than one submission to us in the same genre). If you send more than six poems, only the six poems will be considered; the others will not be read. Please wait to hear back before submitting again.

Submitting to more than one genre at a time is okay (but please send them separately to the appropriate email addresses).

Please note:

• Poetry features are published monthly. 1-3 poems by a single poet will be published each month, though exceptions are possible.

• Submissions are considered on a rolling basis, and is dependent upon space availability.

• Reading period can be up to six months. If you have not heard back after six months, feel free to contact the editor.

• We are able to pay writers $25 per piece upon publication.

DEADLINE: Rolling

https://hyphenmag.submittable.com/submit/77191/fiction-poetry

POETRY -- DECEMBER 2020

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: AFRO-LATINX ANTHOLOGY

Alan Pelaez

INFO: Editor Alan Pelaez Lopez invites contributions to a multi-genre anthology (Title TBA) of contemporary queer and trans Afro-Latinx writers on memory, care, and futurity published by a notable University Press with a slated publication date of 2021.

This collection of writings will serve as a living archive of contemporary literature by queer and trans Afro-Latinx writers. By “Afro-Latinx,” we mean writers who are Black of Latin American and Caribbean descent. This anthology aims to push the boundaries of how we think, accept, deny, or play with the concept of “Latinx.” The final project will not be a survey of recent literature but a gesture towards an Afro-Latinx aesthetic informed by differently Black experiences. Latin America and the Caribbean, as landscapes, as imagined communities, and as diasporic analytics are continually shapeshifting. Black people in, of, and from Latin America, the Caribbean, and their diasporas are at the heart of this shapeshifting, but the literature of Afro-Latinx writers is— similarly to Black people across the continent— policed, surveilled, and organized by non-Black entities. This anthology seeks to open, nuance and challenge narratives made about us without us. The anthology is not an explanation of what it means to be a queer and/or trans Black person of Latin American and/or Caribbean descent, but a dialogue of how we work with, through, and against memory, care, and futures.

The anthology seeks to answer:

• How do queer and/or trans Black writers from Latin America, the Caribbean and their diaspora(s) address memory? How do queer and trans embodiments help us understand and/or question the past, the present, and construct a Black queer and trans future?

• How does Blackness remember geographies we are no longer inhabiting, those we never inhabited, and those we may never know?

• What are the textures of caring, being cared for, and accepting care as Black queer and/or trans people?

• What are the uses of care, love, intimacy, and kinship in queer and/or trans Black spaces?

• And, how do our genders, sexualities, sexual performances, and rejections of all three serve as worldbuilding embodiments for the future?

Mediums:

• Creative non-fiction (15 pages max)

• Fiction (15 pages max)

• Poetry (Send 3-5 poems, no more than 7 pages)

• Comics (15 pages max—you can send text submission if it’s not inked yet, or send a full first draft)

• Plays and choreopoems (15 pages max)

• Performance essays / documentation (20 pages max including images—you must have permission to use all images submitted.)

What we are looking for from contributors:

We are looking for new work (or pieces that have not appeared in a full-length collection that you have retained the rights to) that address memory, care and futures. All work must be submitted in English and you must be open to working with an editor. Pieces that utilize other languages are welcome as long as the piece is primarily in English. This anthology will not publish work that considers Blackness as a monolithic experience. All published writings will receive a modest honorarium.

Submissions:

Please include your name, contact info, and a 50-word bio.

DEADLINE: December 1, 2020

http://www.alanpelaez.com/afro-latinx-anthology/

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: “Composite Dreams” ISSUE

Oyster River Pages

INFO: Oyster River Pages publishes fine fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, and visual art online. . Please see the general guidelines below for each genre. (Work that is unfinished, unproofed, or noncompliant with the guidelines gives our editors existential angst.) Simultaneous submissions are fine, but please contact us immediately if your work is picked up elsewhere. We request first serial rights, after which all rights revert to the author or artist. For this special issue only, we will accept previously published work, provided you have the rights to republish it and you provide the original publication in which it appeared.

“Composite Dreams” is the first of an ongoing series of Oyster River Pages’ efforts into implementing inclusion and diversity deeper into our mission as a magazine. The intention of this collection is to publish Black voices only, to be a space exclusively for and filled by Black writers and artists. We kindly ask that if you do not fit this category, to wait until our annual issue to submit your work. Please include a 60-word bio with your submission. To stay in touch with the latest happenings at ORP, subscribe to our mailing list below.

• Fiction: Please submit one story up to 4,000 words in .docx format. All work should be double-spaced, and at least font size eleven.

• Creative Non-Fiction: Please submit creative nonfiction pieces that are no longer than 4,000 words in .docx format. All work should be double-spaced and at least font size eleven.

• Poetry: Please submit up to three poems in .docx format. Each poem should start on its own page. Otherwise, the spacing of the submission will remain as is in publication to preserve the integrity of the poem.

• Visual Art: Please submit photography or other visual arts that are saved at 300 dpi or greater. We reserve the right to crop or edit submissions in order to fit in print or on our webpage.

DEADLINE: December 1, 2020

https://www.oysterriverpages.com/submit

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2021 Palm Beach Poetry Festival Fellowships

The Palm Beach Poetry Festival

INFO: The Palm Beach Poetry Festival is pleased to announce it will offer three fellowships that provide full workshop tuition and admission to all festival events for the upcoming 17th Annual Virtual Palm Beach Poetry Festival, January 18-23, 2021. The fellowships are offered to open the festival workshop doors widely to qualified poets and to ensure the festival’s workshops provide enriching experiences through working with poets from a wide variety of cultures.

The three fellowships are the Palm Beach Poetry Festival Langston Hughes Fellowship, the CantoMundo Palm Beach Poetry Festival Fellowship, and the Kundiman Palm Beach Poetry Festival Fellowship.

Each fellowship recipient will be an outstanding poet who will benefit from, and contribute to, participation in the workshop. A writing sample, letter of introduction, and description of need are an integral part of the application and selection process. Fellowships applications are now open. For details, please visit the links below to each for specifics, details and to apply. Applications are now open, and the deadline to apply for these fellowships is December 1, 2020.

CantoMundo nurtures and supports the numerous aesthetic and philosophical approaches of Latinx poetry in the USA, and builds on the aesthetically, culturally, and linguistically diverse work of Latinx poets, who have historically—and with limited economic resources—formed supportive literary spaces. CantoMundo’s first gathering convened in 2010. Use this link to find out more about the CantoMundo /Palm Beach Poetry Festival 2021 Fellowship and to apply.
 

Kundiman is dedicated to the creation and cultivation of Asian American literature, offering a comprehensive spectrum of arts programming that gives writers opportunities to inscribe their own stories, transforming and enriching the American literary landscape. Use this link to find out more about the Kundiman / Palm Beach Poetry Festival 2021 Fellowship and to apply.

The Palm Beach Poetry Festival – Langston Hughes Fellowship includes the application fee, tuition, and admission to all festival events. The fellow will be an outstanding African American poet who will benefit from and contribute to participation in the workshop. A writing sample, letter of introduction, and description of need are an integral part of the application and selection process. Fellowships are open by application to poets who identify as Black or African American. We are grateful to the administrators of the Langston Hughes Estate who assisted us by granting permission to name this fellowship. You may use this link to apply for the Palm Beach Poetry Festival Langston Hughes 2021 Fellowship.

We welcome inquiries from donors who may be interested in our efforts to expand the availability of these fellowships and seek to support the festival’s dedication to inclusiveness and enrichment of its workshops and public events. Donors may contribute to the PBPF Diversity Fellowship Fund, established to support these efforts. Interested donors may contact Festival Director, Susan R. Williamson or Founder, Miles Coon.

These fellowships are supported by the generous donations of individuals who wish to remain anonymous. In addition, the festival also offers a limited number of partial scholarships to applicants for whom partial assistance makes attendance possible. Email query must be made after applications are submitted.

DEADLINE: December 1, 2020

https://www.palmbeachpoetryfestival.org/news/2021-palm-beach-poetry-festival-fellowships/

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Honey Literary

INFO: Honey Literary’s first issue will debut in Winter 2020/2021. We publish two issues each year, one in winter, and one in summer. Our first reading period opens September 1st and closes December 1st. 

To share your work, please email the respective genre editor and upload your .docx/.pdf files. Include a brief bio with a few sentences about why your work is a good fit for us with our mission statement in mind. 

Please send us your work only once per submission period. Simultaneous submissions are cool as long as you promptly notify us if the work is accepted elsewhere.

Honey Literary accepts and encourages simultaneous submissions, but please let us know immediately if a piece is accepted elsewhere. Submit no more than once per submissions period. We only accept unpublished work. Honey Literary retains first publication rights, and upon publication, rights revert back to the author. Please credit Honey Literary as the first publisher if the piece appears elsewhere after publication, which includes, but isn’t limited to other journals, anthologies, chapbooks, and full-length books.   

Poetry:  Send us three to five unpublished pieces at a time. We’ve got big appetites, so more is more. We want the poems that were too weird for workshop. Give us work that is eclectic and absurd and demands to be read aloud. Send us your jigsaw edges and remixes. 

• Email submissions to Editor Rita Mookerjee: poetry@honeyliterary.com 

Sex, Kink, and the Erotic: Locker room talk is dead; Honey Literary is here for body-positive, kink-friendly content centered around respect and consent. Ideal submissions include but are not limited to confessions, toy/gear reviews, etiquette guides, dirty little secrets, burlesque show recommendations, odes to sideboob, fav strip club snacks, dating app wins (or fails), shibari shoots, erotic vignettes, recaps from the weekend, and that porno script you saved on your old desktop. Honey Literary loves and supports sex workers as well as their art/writing! Show us what’s inside your bedside drawer. 

• Email submissions to Editor Rita Mookerjee: sex@honeyliterary.com 

Essays: Send us essays that use the personal to explore facets of our current world. From natural history, science, politics, international events, food, culture, and art, we want to see how the personal and public intersect in your work.We’re seeking essays that are elastic, capacious, experimental and exploratory. We welcome memoir, nonfiction, research, lyric meditations, and hybrid work about what stirs your curiosity, what raises your hackles. We especially invite emerging writers and student writers to submit their work.  

• (750-1000 words) 

• Email submissions to Editor Avni Vyas: essays@honeyliterary.com 

Hybrid: Do you have work that blurs, defies, or redefines genre? We welcome excerpts and stand alones that may include, but are not limited to: documentary poetics, notes, mappings, marginalia, lists, altars/shrines, collections, audiovisual pieces, prose poetry, letters, invented forms, collaborations, and scholarly projects that are slightly or largely out of touch with institutions. Send enough work to contextualize your project with respect for our time. For example: a bouquet–not the entire meadow.

• Email submissions to Editor Claire Meuschke: hybrid@honeyliterary.com

Comics: We’re looking for eccentric, experimental, excessive, confessional, instructional, genre-nasty comics pieces (10 pages or less) in any form. Single-panel pieces, excerpts from zines, comics stories without words, comics without pictures, one-offs, doodles, interesting trash, and everything in between. We are particularly open to submissions from members of the LGBTQIAAP+ community.

• Email submissions to Editor Jessica Q. Stark: comics@honeyliterary.com 

Animals: Kingdom: Animalia. Familiars. Daemons. Protectors. Companions. Predators. Prey. This is a space to submit art & writing about animals real or imagined, pre-historic or future, spineless or silky, friend or foe. Share the work you do with animals; show us the bioluminescent creatures in your lagoon; describe the dreams where your lost pets come to visit you. Highlight conservation work in your habitats. Profile the service animal of the year. Recount the folk tales that made you scared of drain serpents. Tell us about the anteater in the forest, the sandhill cranes in the parking lot, the carabao in the rice field, the angler in the deep. We want your venom, oily feathers, plush fur, mythical beasts, and whale songs.

• Please submit a maximum of 3 artworks, 3-5 pages for poems, and 10-15 pages for longer pieces.

• Email submissions to Editor Christina Giarrusso: animals@honeyliterary.com 

Interviews: Honey Literary seeks to conduct interviews that showcase the boundlessness of art and innovation, tapping into the creative’s soul and teasing out the hows and whys of their passions. We want to facilitate interviews that go beyond the typical, robotic back and forth between two parties, but rather a natural, gradual unfurling between people who cherish expression and creation. Whether you’re a singer, writer, visual artist, or culinary chef, Honey Literary wants to know what moves you, what keeps you up at night, who’s in your artistic lineage, and of course, all about your craft. 

• Email submissions to Editor Zakiya Cowan: interviews@honeyliterary.com

Reviews: Honey Literary is seeking reviews on recently released books, along with art mediums that aren’t typically at the forefront of conversations. From novels, novellas, short story collections, and poetry collections, to graphic novels filled with queer and magical themes (think non-binary werewolves and time travel) and hybrid books, we want to engage with all forms and genres. We’re also seeking a wide variety of reviews, so think about that fashion line that makes their clothing from plastic bottles, or that brand of panties whose goal is to eliminate product waste among people who have periods. Or maybe you want to engage with films and tv shows from independent studios, directed, written, and/or starring BIPOC, queer, and disabled individuals. Or what about restaurants that feature traditional recipes from across an ocean? Reviews are boundless, and whether it’s an in-depth analysis or short and sweet praise, we want to hear it all! 

• Email submissions to Editor Trinity Jones: reviews@honeyliterary.com

Valentines: Tell us about that one friend you didn’t know you were in love with until you came out. Share the sticky note love letters you’ll never end up giving your roommate’s girlfriend. Or what about those love songs you wrote to your favorite artists? Honey Literary wants your Valentines: your phone notes, email drafts, letters in a box, corner-of-the-page-too-distracted-by-lust-to-pay-attention doodles, and descriptions of the outfits you love but will never wear. Or what about your thoughts on the perfect perfume for that special someone, your late-night car conversations, your platonic epics, your [self-insert] fanfiction, your realizations of being pursued or secretly admired, your sheets of loose leaf stuffed into drawers, your quarantine love stories, or your Tinder conversations with strangers that you’ll never speak to again? Think about those missed connections: the person you ran into three times at the grocery store whose name you didn’t catch. Is your valentine a top 10 list? Is it taped on a bus stop, in the refrain of a pop song, at the bottom of a bowl, or framed at an altar? Give us your cutesy, your sexy, your sultry, and your badass expressions of love and life.

• Email submissions to Editor Maria Clara Melo: valentines@honeyliterary.com

DEADLINE: December 1, 2020

https://honeyliterary.com/submit/

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Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets

African Poetry Book Fund

INFO: The Sillerman First Book  Prize for African Poetry is awarded annually to an African poet who has  not yet published a collection of poetry. The winner receives USD $1000  and book publication through the University of Nebraska Press and  Amalion Press in Senegal.

The African Poetry Book Fund Editorial  Board, including Kwame Dawes, Chris Abani, Matthew Shenoda, John Keene,  Gabeba Baderoon, Phillippaa yaa de Villiers, Aracelis Girmay, and Bernardine Evaristo, will judge.

A winner will be announced in early January, with notifications sent shortly thereafter.

ELIGIBILITY: The  Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets will only accept “first  book” submissions from African writers who have not published a  book-length poetry collection. This includes self-published books if  they were sold online, in stores, or at readings. Writers who have  edited and published an anthology or a similar collection of other  writers’ work remain eligible.

An “African  writer” is taken to mean someone who was born in Africa, who is a  national or resident of an African country, or whose parents are  African.

Only poetry submissions in English can be considered. Work translated from another language to English is accepted,  but a percentage of the prize will be awarded to the translator.

No  past or present paid employees of the University of Nebraska Press or  Amalion Press, or current faculty, students, or employees at the  University of Nebraska, are eligible for the prizes.

MANUSCRIPT: Poetry manuscripts should be at least 50 pages long.

The author’s name should not appear on the manuscript. All entries will be read anonymously. Please include a cover page listing only the title of the manuscript (not the  author’s name, address, telephone number, or email address). An  acknowledgements page listing the publication history of individual  poems may be included, if desired. No application forms are necessary. Eligible writers may submit more than one manuscript.

While  we have no specific formatting rules, we suggest sending your  manuscript in Times New Roman or Arial, 12 point font, single-spaced. We  also prefer one poem per page, meaning a new poem does not  begin on the same page on which another ends.

ENTRY FEE: $0

DEADLINE: December 1, 2020

https://africanpoetrybookfund.submittable.com/submit/46724/sillerman-first-book-prize-for-african-poets

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Poetry: Latinx Anthology

The Ice Colony

INFO: The Ice Colony seeks  poetry attentive to  Latinx Immigrants  inspired by true events. Whether they be events that you or your family experienced.

Have you ever felt like an immigrant in your country of birth? In your neighborhood? In your body?  

We are interested in poems that speak on one or more of the following: 

• Struggles  with borders both physical and metaphorical.

• Migration. 

• What does it mean to be a foreigner? 

• Growing up in an immigrant home.

• Traditions.

• Detention facilities and deportation.

• Ancestry- tell us their stories, heartbreaks and joys. 

• Current political or social climate pertaining to Latinx community. 

Give us the tiniest details. Be imaginative.  Bring the past, present and future, most importantly let it be authentic and palpable. 

General Submission Guidelines:  

• Open to Latinx Poets Internationally age 18+

• Unpublished Poems of any length and form are welcome.  Maximum of  5 poems per submission. Submit all poetry in one document, do not submit multiple forms. They will not be accepted. 

• Submissions must be typed: Times New Roman, 12 pt, 2.0 line spacing. 

• Please use .doc or docx file formats when submitting 

• Include all writer contact info,  full legal name, email, address and cell phone number, on the first page of the submitted file.

• Cover letter:

  • Confirming Latinx background 

  • Confirming submitted poem(s) are unpublished. 

  • A short bio 250 words or less.

  • Contact information-  full legal name, email, address and cell phone number as well as  social media handles. 

• If your submission is accepted elsewhere, please let  us know immediately and withdraw it. 

• Poems demonstrating racism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or other forms of oppression will not be accepted. 

The Ice Colony is currently not  a paying market. We are all volunteers: editors, writers, and narrators. For this call,  poets may receive a free copy of the anthology (depending on our funding at the time of publication) and will be  invited to participate in a virtual live reading in celebration of publication. We  also make a collaborative effort to promote your via our website, Twitter and Instagram. 

A percentage of the profits from the anthology will go to  the organization No more Deaths

DEADLINE: December 1, 2020

https://theicecolony.submittable.com/submit

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: BLACK POETS, WRITERS, VIDEO ARTISTS

TriQuarterly

INFO: TriQuarterly, the literary journal of Northwestern University and of the Litowitz MFA+MA program, welcomes submissions of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, short drama, video essays, and hybrid work from established as well as emerging writers. We also accept interviews and craft essays.

This fall, we are opening free submissions f for our 160th issue. We will be working with guest editors to select and curate work exclusively by Black poets, prose writers, and video artists for summer 2021.

Our general submissions will reopen next year and be extended by two months, from January 1 to May 31, 2021.

DEADLINE: December 1, 2020

https://triquarterly.submittable.com/submit

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Stadler Fellowships

Bucknell University

INFO: Since 1998, the Stadler Fellowships have offered recent MFA graduates in poetry the opportunity to receive professional training in editing and literary arts administration. Beginning in the 2021-22 academic year, the program will be divided into two distinct tracks: a fellowship in literary editing and a fellowship in literary arts administration. Applicants can apply to one or the other. Both fellowships are designed to balance the development of professional skills with time to complete a first book of poems. Fellows serve for 20 hours each week during the academic year. The balance of the fellows’ time is reserved for writing.

STIPEND: The 10-month fellowships provide health insurance and a stipend of at least $33,000.

Stadler Fellowship: Literary Arts Administration

The Stadler Fellow in Literary Arts Administration is a key player in the execution of the Stadler Center's programs and advises the Center's leadership on new and existing initiatives. The literary arts administration fellow contributes to campus and regional outreach efforts, leads a faculty/staff poetry reading group, serves on selection committees for our programs and residencies, and otherwise works to strengthen and enhance our literary community. In June, the fellow serves together with the Stadler Fellow in Literary Editing as a staff poet in the Bucknell Seminar for Undergraduate Poets, the Center's signature summer program that draws some of the nation's most accomplished undergraduate poets.

Stadler Fellowship: Literary Editing

The Stadler Fellow in Literary Editing serves as a poetry editor for West Branch, Bucknell's nationally-recognized literary journal. The editorial fellow screens poetry submissions, serves on the editorial committee, assists in proofreading, and, optionally, compiles a special poetry feature for the journal. The fellow may also contribute to other Stadler Center editorial projects. In June, the fellow serves together with the Stadler Fellow in Literary Arts Administration as a staff poet in the Bucknell Seminar for Undergraduate Poets.

Since these are residential fellowships, we expect fellows to live in the immediate Lewisburg area; to hold no other professional, academic, or fellowship obligations; and to participate fully in the life of the Bucknell literary community during the fellowship period.

Several recent Stadler Fellows have published books or received other honors subsequent to their fellowships, including Will Schutt (Westerly, Yale Prize for Younger Poets); Jamaal May (Hum, Beatrice Hawley Award, Alice James Books), Carolina Ebeid (You Ask Me to Talk About the Interior, Noemi Press), Justin Boening (Not On the Last Day, But On the Very Last; National Poetry Series, Milkweed ), Chet'la Sebree (Mistress, New Issues Poetry Prize), E.G. Asher (Natality, Noemi Press), and Monica Sok (A Nail the Evening Hangs On, Copper Canyon).

DEADLINE: December 1, 2020

https://www.bucknell.edu/academics/beyond-classroom/academic-centers-institutes/stadler-center-poetry-literary-arts/programs-residencies/stadler-fellowships

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WNBA Writing Contest 

Women’s National Book Association

INFO: The 2020 WNBA Writing Contest is now open for submissions!

Categories

• FICTION: 3,000 words maximum. 

• CREATIVE NONFICTION: 2,500 words maximum. Includes memoir, personal essay and commentary.

• FLASH PROSE: 750 words maximum. May submit fiction or creative nonfiction.

• POETRY: 3–5 pages maximum

• No theme is required in any category.

Winners:

• Winners will be announced in March 2021 on the Women's National Book Association's website. 

• Winners will receive a cash prize and the winning entries will be published in The Bookwoman Newsletter, the national publication of the WNBA, and on the WNBA website.

• After winners are announced and awarded, the WNBA will publish an anthology of past winning entries. Every few years, a new anthology will be published.   

Basic Guidelines

• The WNBA Writing Contest is open to everyone ages 18 years or older writing in English. 

• International submissions are welcome if the author is able to accept the winning prize in US dollars.

• All WNBA members in good standing receive a 25% discount on submission fees.

• You may submit more than one entry, but each entry requires a separate fee and entry form.

• Simultaneous submissions are acceptable. If your work is accepted elsewhere, please inform Andrea Auten, the contest chair, at contest@wnba-books.org. 

• Previously published work will be accepted as long as the publisher allows for the work to be reprinted/redistributed. If your work is accepted elsewhere, please inform Andrea Auten, the contest chair, at contest@wnba-books.org. 

To qualify for the WNBA member discount, you must be a current member of the Women's National Book Association, which means you have paid for the 2020/2021 membership year that began in June 20.

DEADLINE: December 1, 2020

https://wnba.submittable.com/submit

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: "SOMEWHERE WE ARE HUMAN: AN ANTHOLOGY ON MIGRATION, SURVIVAL, AND NEW BEGINNINGS"

Migrant Anthology

INFO: "Somewhere We Are Human: An Anthology on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings", edited by award winning author of The Distance Between Us, Reyna Grande, and acclaimed poet and author of Nostalgia & Borders, Sonia Guiñansaca. We are seeking bold personal non-fiction essays and poems from migrants, asylum seekers, refugees and displaced people with experience in the United States. We are especially interested in essays and poems from those in the midwest and Border towns. We are centering and giving priority to essays and poems from Indigenous migrants, Black migrants, Asian Pacific Islanders, and Arab communities.

During this time of political unrest, how do we shift the nation’s collective imagination about migrants towards one rooted in humanity and justice? What stories about ourselves and communities need to be told during these times of border militarization, mass detention, and draconian anti-immigrant legislation?

The anthology will be published by HarperCollins in English and Spanish. Contributors will be compensated (a min. of $800)

GUIDELINES:

• All attachments should be saved as a Microsoft Word document (.docx)

• For Non-Fiction Essays no more than 2,000 words

• Poems should be no more than 6 pages in length (1-3 poems)

• Written work should be finished pieces (no drafts)

• Essays and poems should primarily be written in English.

• All submissions should be unpublished pieces

• Please number your pages in the order it should be read

• One anthology submission per person

Short cover letter describing your interest in participating in this anthology (2-3 paragraphs)

A cover letter, short bio, and written work must be included in order to be considered

Please make no inquiries about the status of your submission. Only those selected will be contacted through email by the end of December

Guiding Questions:
We are seeking bold personal essays, and poems from migrants, asylum seekers, refugees and those deported from across the United States. These are just guiding questions and themes. We understand the topic of migration is broad so we are looking for pieces that touch upon these but not limited to these. There is no monolithic migrant story, we want to hear YOUR STORY, and YOUR EXPERIENCE.

We believe that we existed before the migration. That we had childhoods, and memories of our loved ones and a place we may have called “home”. Tell us those stories. What are stories before migration that you wished were written about.

We believe that our migration story is complicated, nuanced, layered, and intersectional. Scholars and politicians skip over the hard decision and journey of migrating or that many of us were displaced from our home country because of climate change, political turmoil, war, economic inequity-leaving us with no other choice but to “migrate”. Mainstream stories often leave out how some of our family members are detained in the process of coming to the U.S. They fast forward to us as “hard workers” and “taxpayers” and take away our childhoods, teenage years, and coming of age moments. Tell us those stories of our growing up in the United States. As a teenager what was it like to grow up in a mixed status family? What was dating like? If you are queer, how did you understand your queerness in relationship to your migration? What was it like before DACA? What are some stories of growing up undocumented that you wished you could have read? If you came to the U.S later on (after your formative years), what did you learn about yourself? What did you wish people knew about growing up in the South? Tell us these stories. Stories that disrupt the mainstream tokenizing, stories outside the “good” vs “bad immigrant”. Essays and poems that decenter whiteness, and assimilation.

We believe that our migrant communities deserve justice and a world without borders and detention centers. We believe that joy, healing, and freedom of expression is crucial to our existence. We want to read poems and essays touching on this. We want to read about where you are now in life? Tell us about the world you envision. What are some things you have reflected on about your migrant story? What are you un-learning? What is some advice and words you wished you were given about being migrant when you were younger? What are the messages you want recently “arrived” migrants to hear? What do you want to tell yourself 20 years from now? For artists, how has your art played a role in your healing and growth?

PLEASE NOTE: We are not looking for scholarly/academic papers. We will not consider submissions by non-migrant people. We are looking for contributors that are undocumented or formerly undocumented.

DEADLINE: December 5, 2020 at 11pm PT

https://www.migrantanthology.com/

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: JANUARY ISSUE

Liminal Transit Review

INFO: We accept work about themes including but not limited to immigration, diaspora, displacement, decolonization, borders, as well as the intersections of these themes with literature, movement, and transit– interpreted as broadly as possible! We want your work about geography, about place and identity, about the connections between literature and identity and place. We want your work about transit and movement– and how that exists in and shapes how we see borders and diaspora and displacement. We love experimental work, and abstract work, and theoretical work. If you have any questions about whether your work fits our themes, go ahead and send it to us, and we’ll let you know. 

We accept fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and cross genre work in English. Send us up to five poems or 3000 words of prose (multiple pieces of prose totaling this word count is allowed), or up to ten pages of cross genre work. We also accept flash fiction and flash creative nonfiction. Poetry has no formatting guidelines except font (Garamond or Comic Sans, please!), but please double space your prose in 12-point Garamond or Comic Sans. Cross genre work has no formatting guidelines. All submissions must be submitted as PDF files or Word documents. Please include trigger warnings and content warnings as and when required. Please only submit once per issue unless specifically requested, in only one genre. We do not accept works in translation at the moment.

Simultaneous submissions are allowed but please email us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere.

DEADLINE: December 10, 2020

https://liminaltransitreview.com/submit/

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: “HYBRID IDENTITIES”

Harpy Hybrid Review 

INFO: Harpy Hybrid Review exists to celebrate and showcase hybrid works in all their varied forms: poetry, songs, translations, flash/micro fiction, creative nonfiction, videos, collaborations, erasures/found poetry, and visual arts including comics and broadsides. We seek submissions from published and unpublished writers and artists. Our current themed call is on “Hybrid Identities.” All contributions will be fully archived.

We publish original works, and we will also consider materials previously published (from printed journals only; please let us know where so we can give proper acknowledgment). We accept simultaneously submitted materials, but notify us as soon as possible if your work is accepted elsewhere.

We seek to publish a variety of new and established voices. We encourage submissions from underrepresented voices including, but not limited to, women, artists and writers of color, LGBTQ+, those living with poverty, survivors of trauma, and incarcerated poets and writers.

WHAT IS A HYBRID WORK?

Historically, poetry and drama were connected. Lyrical poems were sung or accompanied by music in ancient Greece. In some languages, story and poem share a common word.

In contemporary America and its production of literary journals, genres are often separated, delineated, and categorized for publication according to markets that have little to do with the art itself. This easy ordering of art limits its potential as well as ours—the use of our many talents and possibilities of our work.

Hybrid pieces are pieces that challenge contemporary genre limitations, utilizing any and all of the artist’s/artists’ capabilities as well as encouraging collaboration. This is the work we need in our nuanced, not easily labeled world. A hybrid piece pushes and challenges easy labels. It finds itself not easily categorized. It pushes back on the limitations imposed by definitions or publishing standards. Hybridity allows us, the artists, the freedom to express an idea as it presents itself—in its potentially many varied forms, without fear or restriction. It allows us to embrace our art, shedding expectations and therefore allowing it to become what it was meant to be.

Examples of hybridity in literature include, but are not limited to: prose poetry, lyric essays, ekphrastic poems, songs, broadsides, found poetry, digital literature, comics, and any combination of the expectations of the genres of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and visual art.

DEADLINE: December 15, 2020

http://www.harpyhybridreview.org/submissions/

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2020 Columbia Journal Winter Contest

Columbia Journal 

INFO: The editors of Columbia Journal are delighted to officially announce that the 2020 Winter Contest is now open for submissions in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Our judges this year will be Viet Thanh Nguyen (fiction), Jia Tolentino (nonfiction), Roger Reeves (poetry), and Sawako Nakayasu (translation).

AWARD: The four 1st place winners of the Winter Contest will be published in print in Columbia Journal Issue 59 in Spring 2020, and will receive a $500 cash prize. At least two additional runner-ups will be selected and announced for each genre.

JUDGES:

• Viet Thanh Nguyen (fiction judge) is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Refugees, Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War, The Sympathizer, and its forthcoming sequel, The Committed (March 2021)

• Jia Tolentino (nonfiction judge) is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of the essay collection Trick Mirror.

• Roger Reeves’ (poetry judge) work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry, Ploughshares, Tin House, among other publications. Reeves is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize as well as a Whiting Award in Poetry. His first book is King Me, published in 2013, and his second collection of poetry is forthcoming from W.W. Norton.

• Sawako Nakayasu (translation judge) is an artist who works with language, translation, and performance. She is the author of /The Ants/, /Mouth: Eats Color/, and /Costume en Face/. Her most recent book, /Some Girls Walk Into the Country They Are From/, was published in October, 2020.

SUBMISSION FEE: $15 for each submission

DEADLINE: December 15, 2020

http://columbiajournal.org/2020-winter-contest-submission-guidelines/

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: “Black Lives Matter” ISSUE

Philadelphia Stories

INFO: Philadelphia Stories is accepting submissions for our winter issue: Black Lives Matter. Like much of the country, our team has been horrified witnessing the debilitating effects the coronavirus is having on the Black community and the police killings of George Floyd, Tony McDade, Breonna Taylor, Rayshard Brooks, and 160 more this year. We hate to admit these tragic circumstances have forced us to reflect on our culpability and to recognize we have not done all we could to support Black writers and visual artists. We’ve been listening to our Black editors and staff, following conversations in the lit community, and paying attention to the response from other publications. Now is our time to act. Today, we renew our commitment and take the first step in a long journey of, not only amplifying, but also supporting and nurturing Black writers and artists. 

Please send us your submissions, now and in the future. We want to share your stories of Black life. Tell us how you may be dealing with the pandemic, how the protests have impacted you OR tell us a story about how your community continues to thrive, continues to love. All subjects are welcome. We accept fiction, poetry, nonfiction, art, and hybrid work.

STIPEND: We pay a small stipend, $50, for accepted literary work. We know this is not enough. As an all-volunteer organization, we will continue to strengthen our fundraising efforts. Hopefully, we will be able to pay our writers more soon. We know Black labor is not free, so we will continue to push for fair compensation.
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DEADLINE: December 15, 2020

https://philadelphiastories.org/philadelphia-stories-black-lives-matter/

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

As Loud As It’s Kept Magazine

INFO: As Loud As It’s Kept — a magazine for artists of color — is calling all creatives (visual artists, writers, photographers, and creators who are looking for the opportunity to showcase their craft) to submit work on the theme of “Anniversary!”

GUIDELINES:

• Who Can Participate: Writers, Photographers, Visual Artists, Poets and Graphic Designers, (if you have something that you would like to submit and you aren’t sure if we will accept it, please email us!)

• Theme: This issue’s theme is Anniversary! We are looking for submissions with this theme integrally in its story (not just briefly mentioned or as an afterthought). It can be conveyed through Plot, Setting, Dialogue, etc. Anniversaries are usually seen as celebratory, but this isn’t needed to be considered for this issue! An anniversary is a day that recalls a particular event, so let your mind run free

• Word Limit: OPEN FOR REVIEW

• Submissions will be accepted on a first-come basis, however, if your submission is not chosen to be in this issue, please reply in your email stating that you would like for your piece to be included in the next issue. A new Issue will be published quarterly. There will be a confirmation email sent to those who submit their submissions promptly

• ALL SUBMISSIONS WILL BE EDITED!!

DEADLINE: December 20, 2020

https://www.alaikmag.com/submission-guidelines

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Howling Press

INFO: Howling Press is an online magazine publishing company based in the UK that is dedicated to publishing Postmodern, experimental, Political, and Avant-Garde Poetry from around the globe. They are currently accepting digital art, poetry and short prose.

GUIDELINES:

• Send a maximum of five poems to be considered for an issue.

• Short Prose– no more than 2 pieces, 1,000 words maximum (per piece)

• Digital Artwork & Photos – 5 to 8 works at a time, high resolution (300dpi)

• Only send unpublished work

• Send one submission at a time

• We do not consider simultaneous submissions, i.e. work that is being considered elsewhere

• Poems and pros should be typed

• Please provide your full name, theme, genre, and your Instagram handle with your submission

• Please send in your work in docs/JPEG format

DEADLINE: December 21, 2020

https://www.howlingpress.com/press-1

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Inkwell Black

INFO: Inkwell Black - an online publication whose goal is to share and uplift Black lesbian, queer, trans and non-binary voices through poetry - is looking for poetry that utilizes strong, expressive language, imagery, and style. Send us poems with form and function, free verse, and the like. Please note we will not publish derogatory or degrading pieces.

Please send one document with up to three (3) poems, in either .doc or .docx format. Please use 12pt font, 1-inch margins, and number your pages. Include your name and title of work in the header.

All work must be previously unpublished. This includes blogs and other online publications.

• Please include a current bio of no more than 100 words written in third person with your social media/website information.

• We accept simultaneous submissions. Please notify us immediately if work you submitted has been accepted elsewhere.

Contributors will receive $15 as payment remitted via PayPal.

​DEADLINE: December 21, 2020

https://www.inkwellblack.com/submit

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Black and Indigenous Writers

The Soul In Space

INFO: The Soul In Space is open for submissions from Black and Indigenous Creators. They are open to Essays, CNF, Fiction, Poetry, Music, and Visual Art.

GUIDELINES:

• It’s asked that all written submissions are in the form of words or pages.

• Any font is fine as long as its readable and the size is at least 11pt.

• Poetry submissions are asked to be no more than 3 poems.

• Prose submissions are asked to be no more than 8 pages, double spaced.

• Visual Arts can include video, drawing, painting or digital art submissions.

• All work is to be emailed to info@soulin.space

SUBMISSION FEE: $0

DEADLINE: December 31, 2020

https://www.facebook.com/TheSoulinSpace/posts/137130981502807

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2021 Anna Rabinowitz Award

Poetry Society of America

INFO: The Anna Rabinowitz Prize is awarded to poets and their collaborators for venturesome, interdisciplinary work made in the previous year and combining poetry and any other art or discipline.

Work that qualifies includes but is not limited to books that blend visual art and poetry, original performances of dance and poetry (or dance based on poetry ) and of music and poetry (including libretti based on poetry) as well as more eclectic collaborations involving poetry and technology, the sciences or math.

Candidates are required to provide material documenting their projects. These will be key to the judging process. Panels, discussions, and programs focused on dialogue between disciplines rather than the creation of a new work are not eligible.

The finished work should have been produced or published in 2020 but can involve or be based in part on work from any era. And all are welcome to apply singly if the work involving more than one discipline has been accomplished alone.

HONORARIUM: $1,000 to be divided equally between or among the principals if not awarded to a single artist.

The prize is established by the children of Anna Rabinowitz to honor her boundless curiosity, creativity, and artistic accomplishments.

THIS YEAR'S JUDGE: Lillian-Yvonne Bertram is the author of Travesty Generator, (Noemi Press, 2019), How Narrow My Escapes (Diagram/New Michigan Press, 2019), Personal Science (Tupelo Press, 2017), the artist book Grand Dessein (Container, 2017), a slice from the cake made of air (Red Hen Press, 2016), and But a Storm is Blowing from Paradise (Red Hen Press, 2012), chosen by Claudia Rankine as winner of the 2010 Benjamin Saltman Award. Recipient of an NEA Fellowship in Poetry, a Massachusetts Cultural Council Poetry Fellowship, and other awards, they are the current Director of the MFA in Creative Writing at UMass Boston and also direct The Chautauqua Writers' Festival.

ENTRY FEE: $10 (for members and non-members)

DEADLINE: December 31, 2020

https://poetrysociety.org/awards/annual-awards/2021-anna-rabinowitz-award?utm_source=Words+of+Mouth&utm_campaign=d2fbfc3142-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_11_22_06_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d4310f52d6-d2fbfc3142-242929430

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FREE CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR BLACK POETS

Split Lip Magazine

INFO: Split Lip Magazine is a voice-driven literary journal with a pop culture twist. We publish online monthly and in print annually. We accept fiction (flash and short stories), memoir, poetry, art, and photography. Please read our guidelines and submit accordingly. We appreciate you taking time to check us out and look forward to reading your work!

GUIDELINES: Send us your best poem.  Yes, 1 poem per submission. We want new, innovative works by fresh voices.  

Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but please contact us if the piece is picked up elsewhere.  

COMPENSATION: Contributors to web issues will receive $50 (paid via PayPal). Print issue contributor payment is $5 per printed page, minimum of $20, plus 2 contributor copies.

SUBMISSION FEE: In an effort to promote Black voices, free submissions will be open for Black writers and artists in all genres for the rest of the year.

DEADLINE: December 31, 2020

https://splitlip.submittable.com/submit

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

A Public Space

INFO: A Public Space welcomes submissions of fiction, essays, poetry, as well as graphic and hybrid work. For additional information, please see an interview with the editors on our Duotrope page; an overview of A Public Space by the Whiting Literary Magazine Prize [insert link]; and an archive of the magazine's previous issues.

GUIDELINES: Please submit up to five (5) poems in one document. Only one submission at a time is allowed; additional submissions will be returned unread. Only previously unpublished work will be considered. Simultaneous submissions are allowed, but if a poem is accepted elsewhere, we ask that you withdraw your submission from the system or, if you've submitted multiple poems, that you add a note to your submission letting us know which poem(s) you are withdrawing. Translations are welcome, but it is the translator's responsibility to secure rights to the work before it is submitted. Reading an issue or two of the magazine before submitting is strongly recommended.

Please note we cannot accept revisions to pieces once they've been submitted.

We will make every effort to respond to your submissions within four months, though at times it may be longer. If it has been more than four months and you have not yet received a response, we will be happy to reply to a query regarding the status of your submission.

Writers whose work is published in the magazine will receive an honorarium.

DEADLINE: December 31, 2020

https://apublicspacedemo.submittable.com/submit?utm_source=Master+List&utm_campaign=be874f855f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_10_20_05_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6566a6ed1a-be874f855f-68639565

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WINTER WRITERS RESIDENCY 

Hortus Arboretum and Botanical Gardens

INFO: The Hortus Residency is open to established and emerging fiction and non-fiction writers and poets exploring the themes of nature and/or the human connection with nature. 

Hortus Arboretum & Botanical Garden is an accredited botanical garden and arboretum located in the lower Hudson Valley. 

It was established by two artists turned gardeners.This residency was formed to provide opportunities for writers whose work focuses on nature. The Winter residency will allow writers to have access to the botanical garden if they would like to have that as part of their residency experience. 

For the Submission: Writers should submit 40 pages of a novel, or 5 poems. Please include a cover letter with how the residency would help you.

Housing: The Barnette is a small  house situated in the hamlet of Stone Ridge located in the lower Catskill mountains of New York state. The Barnette is situated in a rural region on the edge of the Hortus gardens, surrounded by woods and overlooking NY state protected wetlands. The Barnett is a GREEN HOUSE with solar panels, heat on demand, a woodstove, 1-large bedroom, modern bathroom, air conditioning, and an outside deck. It has easy access to the Hortus Arboretum & Botanical Garden.  The Barnette has Hi-Speed Internet. Smoking is not permitted on the property. 

Meals: Residents make and provide their own meals. The Barnette has a fully stocked kitchen. 

There are several local places to eat as well several good food markets within 10 minutes drive from the property.

Travel: The residency participant is responsible for all travel expenses. A car is necessary due to the rural location. 

Stipend: At this time, Hortus does not offer any stipends but does provide comfortable accommodations and unlimited access to the gardens during the residency. 

Duration: One week

DEADLINE: December 31, 2020

https://www.hortusgardens.org/opportunities.php

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: AWAKE

Lucky Jefferson

INFO: Lucky Jefferson's digital zine Awake seeks to amplify the experiences and perspectives of Black writers in American society. 

The second issue of our digital zine will explore Black culture through cuisine. Send us your most savory and decadent poems, essays, flash fiction, and art on foods that inspired your identity and exude blackness.

Upon acceptance, submissions will be included on our website and publicized on social media.

When submitting:

• Send no more than three poems in a submission. Poems should be separated by titles or page breaks.

• If sharing an essay, include an essay with no more than 1500 words. 

• Send no more than three pieces of art. Artwork that offers social commentary on the Black experience is highly preferred (We love comics and collage pieces!).

• Include a cover page highlighting your name, email address, current address, and bio (third-person, 50 words max).

We do not accept translations or work that has been previously published in print or online.

DEADLINE: DEcember 31, 2020

https://luckyjefferson.submittable.com/submit/167135/lucky-jefferson-awake-zine-submission

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Translations of Poems, Drama, etc.

Circumference

INFO: Circumference was founded in 2003 by Jennifer Kronovet and Stefania Heim as a journal for poetry in translation. We believe translation continues to be a vital part of public and artistic discourse.

We’re interested in new translations of poetry and drama, particularly (but not exclusively) from contemporary authors. We’re expanding to include interviews and dialogues between artists and thinkers of all stripes: conversations where disagreement tends to enrich debate, rather than suspend it. We’re on the hunt for profiles and long-form writing that sheds light on literary and artistic praxis around the world.

We publish all poems in their original languages alongside their translations. We pay you for your work.

GUIDELINES: Please upload up to 5 poems by the same author, and a brief explanatory note to contextualize the work, with the title “Poems: [Author’s name, original language].” If you're submitting drama or another genre, please adjust title accordingly.

Please also upload the original texts and confirmation of permission to publish your translations, given by the author, publisher, and/or estate. 

We only accept work that has not been previously published in English. Simultaneous submissions are welcome, but please do let us know if your work will appear elsewhere. We’ll do our best to get back to you within four months. 

DEADLINE: January 2, 2021

https://circumferencemag.submittable.com/submit?utm_source=Words+of+Mouth&utm_campaign=9575a9f2ea-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_11_29_05_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d4310f52d6-9575a9f2ea-242929430

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Literary Portfolio Submissions

P+B In Print

INFO: P+B Publications is an independent publisher, seeking the best new work by women and non-binary authors. In the spirit of Pen + Brush, we believe fervently that our publishing program exists to act as forceful means of dispelling the misconception that too few women produce consistently high-level literary fiction and poetry.

We publish with the following goals:

1. All work we publish is of a high quality

2. We never pre-filter submissions based on publishing experience, education, or background

We are looking to work with strong new voices and we are committed to publishing them.

Pen + Brush publishes poetry and short and long literary fiction. We publish short stories and poems in our literary magazine Pen + Brush In Print, which is distributed in print and electronically.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: P+B In Print No. 5 

We are currently accepting submissions for our P+B In Print, No. 5 literary magazine, to be released in 2021. This issue will feature a guest editor, Novella Ford, whose theme is inspired by the recent  HBO series created by Misha Green, Lovecraft Country episode “I Am.”  We are seeking submissions that explore a question Hippolyta, a mother of a gifted artist, a science nerd and a widowed business owner, asks after unexpected travel through space and time; each experience revealing herself to herself, in order to name herself. At the end of the journey, she joyously proclaimed “How can I fit everything that I am now, into this place?” A clarion call for anyone who has experienced a shift in their persona, creative practice, principles, and/or actions.

For some, the quarantine due to COVID 19 has provided a time to sit with oneself and operate in solitude. For others, quarantine, global uprisings against police brutality, a protracted U.S. election season, and more, gave way to a dizzying cocktail of financial insecurity, anxiety, and stretching to meet the needs of many. You may not have made it completely to the other side, but you know more about what you are capable of than when the year 2020 started. What happens in the aftermath when we awaken to ourselves; when we cannot unknow what has been revealed? How do we make room for our glorious revelations in seemingly fixed spaces? 

For P+B In Print, No. 5, we are looking for a variety of work led by the imagination, that is also revelatory and worthy of the journey. How the theme is approached is up to you. We are excited by different writing styles, genres, and subgenres. 

Aligned with P+B’s vision to provide a platform to showcase the work of female and non-binary artists and writers to a broader audience with the ultimate goal of effecting real change within the marketplace, we are pleased to offer an honorarium ($150 - $500) for all submissions accepted for publication.  *Please note these honorariums are made possible by generous grants and donations received during this publication period, amounts may vary for subsequent publications.  

We are only accepting previously unpublished work.

Fiction/Non Fiction (under 3500 words) - up to $500

We are accepting one submission per author. Excerpts from book-length projects are fine, but we will be looking for the excerpt to stand strong on its own. Short stories, essays, autobiographical/memoir, literary fiction, and creative nonfiction are all welcomed. Humor, satire, and the political also have a place here.

Poetry (under 2 pages typed) - $150 for two published poems

We are accepting up to four submissions per author. 

Each submission should include a short bio, not to exceed 75 words. This will not impact the assessment of the work. We want to know a little bit about you!

About Guest Curator, Novella Ford:  

Novella Ford is the Associate Director of Public Programs and Exhibitions at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a research division of The New York Public Library. She created the inaugural Schomburg Center Literary Festival in 2019 and has organized hundreds of public programs at the intersection of scholarship and popular culture.  She connects diverse audiences to the archives and engages history through dialogue, performance, literature, and visual arts.

DEADLINE: January 4, 2021

http://www.penandbrush.org/explore/literary

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2021 Chapbook Competition

The Frost Place

INFO: The Frost Place, a nonprofit center for poetry and the arts at Robert Frost’s old homestead in Franconia, NH, in partnership with Bull City Press, invites submissions to The Ninth Annual Frost Place Chapbook Competition Sponsored by Bull City Press.

The winner’s chapbook will be published by Bull City Press in Summer 2021.  The winner will receive 10 complimentary copies (from a print run of 300), and a $250 prize.  The winner will also receive a full scholarship to attend the Poetry Seminar at The Frost Place, August 2021, including room and board (valued at approximately $1,550, Pending COVID-19), and will give a featured reading from the chapbook at the Seminar.

Additionally, the chapbook fellow will have the option to spend one week living and writing in The Frost Place House-Museum in September 2021 (peak fall foliage season in the White Mountains) at a time agreed upon by the fellow and the Frost Place.

ELIGIBILITY: The Frost Place Chapbook Competition Sponsored by Bull City Press is open to any poet writing in English.  Simultaneous submissions are permissible, but entrants are asked to notify the competition administrators through the competition website immediately if a manuscript becomes committed elsewhere.

Please do not submit to this competition if you are close enough to the final judge, Tiana Clark, that her integrity, or the integrity of Bull City Press and The Frost Place, would be called into question should you be selected as the winner. You may query us if you have questions regarding this matter. Please query by email to frost@frostplace.org.

SUBMISSION FEE: $28

DEADLINE: January 5, 2021

https://frostplace.org/chapbook-competition/

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ONGOING

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Latin American Literature Today

INFO: Latin American Literature Today (LALT) welcomes throughout the year submissions of translated texts (Spanish-English, Brazilian Portuguese-English) of contemporary Latin American prose, verse, interviews, essays, and book reviews.

Furthermore, the journal is committed to foregrounding the work of translators, so we encourage and welcome contributions such as translator’s notes, essays on the art of translation, translation reviews, interviews to translators, as well as translation “previews” from forthcoming book publications.

All translation submissions and questions should be directed to Denise Kripper, our Translation Editor, to translation.lalt@gmail.com. Submissions will be reviewed by the entire LALT editorial committee.

LENGTH OF SUBMISSIONS:

• Creative prose (fiction and non-fiction) should have a maximum length of 5000 words

• Poems should be limited to 3 to 5 poems

• Articles and interviews should have a maximum length of 2,000 to 2,200 words, unless otherwise directed by the editor;

• Book reviews should have a maximum length of 1,200 words

DEADLINE: Rolling Submissions

http://www.latinamericanliteraturetoday.org/en/submission-guidelines-translators

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

VIDA Review

INFO: The VIDA Review is an online literary magazine publishing original fiction, nonfiction, poetry, reviews, and interviews. 

We are exclusively interested in work by those often marginalized in literary spaces, including Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC); cis and trans women, agender, gender non-conforming, genderqueer, nonbinary, and two-spirit people; LGBQIA people; people with disabilities; and people living at the intersections of these identities.

All pieces should be original, and previously unpublished in any format in English.

Please send one submission at a time, and please submit only once every 6 months.

We are open to simultaneous submissions, so long as you label them as such and promptly let us know if your work has been accepted elsewhere. 

Please note that all submissions should be accompanied by a cover letter and brief third-person biography statement, and that (unless otherwise stated) we ask for First North American Rights to publish writing. Following publication, all rights revert back to the writer; we only ask that you credit the VIDA Review as the place your work first appeared.

GUIDELINES:

Up to six poems at a time, each on separate pages

• Single-space

• Combine into one document (.doc, .docx, or .pdf)

• Include contact information on first page of submission

• Provide a cover letter in the "Cover Letter" section and a brief third-person biography

PAYMENT: Payment for those accepted will range between $15-$20. We recognize that this is a token amount of money but hope to increase this amount in the future. Payment will be made via PayPal within 2 months of publication.

DEADLINE: Rolling Submissions

https://thevidareview.submittable.com/submit

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Hyphen Magazine

INFO: Narrative, experimental, lyrical or prose poetry, free verse, eastern or western poetic forms, or works meant as spoken word are all welcome as poetry. We tend to prefer poems that take risks and/or surprise us, but due consideration will be given to all submissions. We expect to see a poet’s best demonstrations of craft, and poems need not be about Asian American themes.

Send only your best, previously unpublished work. Asian American themes are not essential. We are much more interested in work that incorporates identity than in work that is about identity.

Send 5-6 poems per submission in a single document.

Simultaneous submissions (when you send the same submission to us and other publications) are okay as long as you let us know and notify us immediately when a piece has been accepted elsewhere.

Multiple submissions are not okay (when you send more than one submission to us in the same genre). If you send more than six poems, only the six poems will be considered; the others will not be read. Please wait to hear back before submitting again.

Submitting to more than one genre at a time is okay (but please send them separately to the appropriate email addresses).

Please note:

• Poetry features are published monthly. 1-3 poems by a single poet will be published each month, though exceptions are possible.

• Submissions are considered on a rolling basis, and is dependent upon space availability.

• Reading period can be up to six months. If you have not heard back after six months, feel free to contact the editor.

• We are able to pay writers $25 per piece upon publication.

DEADLINE: Rolling

https://hyphenmag.submittable.com/submit/77191/fiction-poetry

POETRY -- NOVEMBER 2020

START A RIOT! CHAPBOOK PRIZE

Foglifter

INFO: In response to rapid gentrification and displacement of QTBIPOC+ literary artists in the San Francisco Bay Area, and in celebration of these communities’ revolutionary history, Foglifter Press, Radar Productions, and Still Here San Francisco are pleased to announce Start a Riot! - a chapbook series for local emerging queer and trans Black writers, Indigenous writers, and writers of color.

AWARD: Each year, the prize will honor one author with:

• chapbook publication

• a $1,000 prize

• promotion

• a spot on the Sister Spit Tour

ELIGIBILITY:

• Submitter is a QTBIPOC+ literary artist

• Submitter is a current resident of the larger San Francisco Bay Area

• Submitter does not have a previous full-length publication in their submission genre

MANUSCRIPT DETAILS:

• Open to all genres, including poetry, fiction, nonfiction, hybrid, graphic novels

• 25 pages (maximum)

IMPORTANT DATES:

• Deadline: November 1, 2020

• Results Announced: Spring 2021

• Chapbook Release: Fall 2021

https://foglifterjournal.com/submit-to-start-a-riot/

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2021 Alice James Award

Alice James Books

INFO: Alice James Books will be accepting submissions of poetry manuscripts to the Alice James Award (formerly the Beatrice Hawley Award) postmarked through November 2nd, 2020. The Alice James Award welcomes submissions from emerging as well as established poets. Entrants must reside in the United States.

AWARD: The winner receives $2000, book publication, promotion, and distribution through Consortium. In addition to the winning manuscript, one or more additional manuscripts may be chosen for publication as the Editor’s Choice.

GUIDELINES:

• Screening for the Alice James Award is blind. Because of this, no contact information is allowed within your manuscript, including within the filename, if electronically submitted. Electronic submissions will have contact information collected via Submittable, which is hidden from our screeners. Hardcopy submissions must include a separate title page, which lists the title of your manuscript and contact information (name, address, e-mail address, and phone number).

• Do not include any preambles, bios, or acknowledgements within your submitted manuscript.

• Manuscripts must have a table of contents.

• No illustrations, photographs or images should be included.

• Manuscripts must be typed in a no less than 12 point font, paginated, and 50 – 100 pages in length (single spaced). We accept double sided manuscripts.

• Individual poems from the manuscript may have been previously published in magazines, anthologies, or chapbooks of less than 25 pages, but the collection, as a whole, must be unpublished.

• Translations and self-published books are not eligible.

• No multi-authored collections, please.

• MANUSCRIPTS CANNOT BE RETURNED. Please do not send us your only copy.

• If hardcopy: send one copy of your manuscript submission with two copies of the title page (one title page that includes just the title of your manuscript, the second which includes the title and your contact information [your name, address, phone number, e-mail address, and an optional biographical note]). Use only binder clips. No staples, folders, or printer-bound copies.

• For notification of winners, include a business-sized SASE.

• If you wish acknowledgment of the receipt of your manuscript, include a stamped addressed postcard. Winners will be announced in February 2021.

• Manuscripts may be submitted online or by regular mail. Mail hard copy entries to: Alice James Books, Alice James Award, 114 Prescott Street, Farmington, ME 04938. Online submissions are open until 11:59 PM EST on 11/2.

 Checklist for entry:

• One (1) copy of manuscript enclosed (NO CONTACT INFORMATION WITHIN MANUSCRIPT).

• Electronic: Title page that lists only the title of your manuscript (NO CONTACT INFORMATION)

• Hardcopy: Two (2) copies of title page (one page that shows only the title, the second which shows the title and your contact information)

• $30 entry fee

ENTRY FEE: $30 for online and hardcopy submissions. Checks or money orders for hardcopy submissions should be made payable to Alice James Books.

DEADLINE: November 2, 2020 at 11:59 PM EST

https://alicejames.submittable.com/submit/161533/the-2021-alice-james-award

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JACK STRAW WRITERS PROGRAM

Jack Straw Cultural Center

INFO: Jack Straw Cultural Center is now accepting applications for the 25th year of the Jack Straw Writers Program. To date, the program has included more than 275 writers from the Pacific Northwest and beyond who represent a diverse range of literary genres. Each year, an invited curator selects 12 participants.

The purpose of the Jack Straw Writers Program is to introduce writers to the medium of recorded audio; to develop their presentation skills for both live and recorded readings; to encourage the creation of new literary work; to present the writers and their work in live readings, in an anthology, on the web, and on the radio; and to build community among writers. Participating writers are presented in live readings, in the printed Jack Straw Writers Anthology; and on the web and radio. Each year an invited curator selects the participating writers from a large pool of applicants based foremost on artistic excellence. Among past curators are program co-founder Rebecca Brown, Anastacia- Renée, Donna Miscolta, Matt Briggs, Stephanie Kallos, Shawn Wong, and Jourdan Imani Keith. Writers receive training in vocal presentation, performance, and microphone technique to prepare them for public readings, interviews, and studio recording. Their recorded readings and interviews with the curator are then used to produce programs for SoundPages, our literary podcast, and for selected radio broadcast.

The Writers Program requires participants to be on-site at Jack Straw Cultural Center for a number of activities, such as an introductory orientation, workshops for microphone/voice technique and live performance, in-studio interview session with the program curator, and live readings. (See Covid-19 advisory for more on this.) Most of these activities take place between January and June. Additional Writers Program readings will take place around the community throughout the year, including a final reading with all of the writers in November. Work appearing in the Jack Straw Writers Anthology may not be previously published material, and any subsequent publication of this work must acknowledge the Jack Straw Writers Program.

The 2021 Writers Program Curator is E. J. Koh.  E. J., a 2016 Jack Straw Writers Program fellow, is the author of the memoir The Magical Language of Others (Tin House Books, 2020) and poetry collection A Lesser Love (Louisiana State University Press, 2017), winner of the Pleiades Editors Prize for Poetry. Her poems, translations, and stories have appeared in Academy of American Poets, Boston Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, PEN America, Slate, and World Literature Today. Koh is the recipient of The Virginia Faulkner Award for Excellence in Writing from Prairie Schooner and has received fellowships from the American Literary Translators Association, Kundiman, MacDowell Colony, Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, and Vermont Studio Center. She is the editor for Pleiades: Poetry by Korean American Women and has appeared in anthologies: Bettering American Poetry Vol. 3, Privacy Policy: The Anthology of Surveillance Poetics, Political Punch: Contemporary Poems on Politics of Identity, and The World I Leave You: Asian American Poets on Faith and Spirit. Koh earned her MFA at Columbia University in New York for Creative Writing and Literary Translation. She is completing her PhD at the University of Washington in English Language and Literature.

Selection Process

Writers Program applications are evaluated and awarded by an invited curator. The curators change each year. All applicants will be notified of the results in writing. Please allow at least eight weeks after deadline dates for the review and notification process to be completed. The first Writers Program mandatory meeting will take place in January 2021.

Selection Criteria

The Writers Program receives more than a hundred applicants, from which 12 writers are selected. Curator selections will be based upon the excellence of the work represented in the support materials provided by the applicant.

Covid-19 Advisory

We will almost certainly need to adapt the 2021 Writers Program to fit the safety requirements of the current situation, as we have been doing for the 2020 Writers. Some elements – such as workshops, readings, and meetings – will be moved online, and some will be adjusted to minimize the number of people sharing space. 

It is impossible to know exactly what the situation will look like in January, when this program is set to begin, so we are requesting your patience, flexibility, and adaptability in advance. Know that we will do whatever we can to help you get the most out of this program and find community with your cohort and curator. 

DEADLINE: November 3, 2020

https://jackstraw.submittable.com/submit/90532/jack-straw-writers-program

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: AWAKE

Lucky Jefferson

INFO: Lucky Jefferson's digital zine Awake seeks to amplify the experiences and perspectives of Black writers in American society. 

The second issue of our digital zine will explore Black culture through cuisine. Send us your most savory and decadent poems, essays, flash fiction, and art on foods that inspired your identity and exude blackness.

Upon acceptance, submissions will be included on our website and publicized on social media.

Writers looking to be published in upcoming print issues should plan to submit their work to the appropriate form during open calls.

When submitting:

- Send no more than three poems in a submission. Poems should be separated by titles or page breaks.

- If sharing an essay, include an essay with no more than 1500 words. 

- Send no more than three pieces of art. Artwork that offers social commentary on the Black experience is highly preferred (We love comics and collage pieces!).

- Include a cover page highlighting your name, email address, current address, and bio (third-person, 50 words max).

We do not accept translations or work that has been previously published in print or online.

DEADLINE: November 6, 2020

https://luckyjefferson.submittable.com/submit/167135/lucky-jefferson-awake-zine-submission?fbclid=IwAR1hJFhLJJ_-0xSWLX-I2yvncdA40aTlf4i8ElGNgGkudxgncwmu1D031xw

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THE OCM BOCAS PRIZE FOR CARIBBEAN LITERATURE 2021

INFO: The OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature is an annual award for literary books by Caribbean writers, first presented in 2011. Books are judged in three categories: poetry; fiction — both novels and collections of short stories; and literary non-fiction — including books of essays, biography and autobiography, history, current affairs, travel, and other genres, which demonstrate literary qualities and use literary techniques, regardless of subject matter. (Note: textbooks, technical books, coffee-table books, specialist publications and reference works are not eligible.)

There will be a panel of three judges for each category, who will determine category shortlists and winners.

The three category winners will then be judged by a panel of four judges — consisting of the chairs of the category panels and the prize chair — who will determine the overall winner.

AWARD: The author of the book judged overall winner will receive an award of US$10,000. The other category winners will receive US$3,000.

To be eligible for entry for the 2021 prize, a book must:

1. Have been first published in the calendar year 2020 (1 January to 31 December);

2. Have been written by a single author who either holds Caribbean citizenship or was born in the Caribbean (this must be verified by the publisher), regardless of current place of residence; 

3. Have been written by an author who is living on 31 December, 2020;

4. Have been written and first published in English originally (i.e. translations are not eligible);

5. Be a new work, previously unpublished in book form (though collections including poems, stories, essays, or other short pieces that have individually appeared in print in periodicals or anthologies are eligible).

The OCM Bocas Prize is requesting both digital and print copies of each entry for 2021:  a PDF file of the book must be uploaded with the entry form below, and five copies of the book must be mailed via reliable courier to The Bocas Lit Fest.

DEADLINE: November 9, 2020

https://www.bocaslitfest.com/2021/awards/ocm-bocas-prize-entry/

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QUEERIBBEAN STORIES: THE HOLIDAYS

Rebel Women Lit

INFO: The December holiday period can be a period of extremes for many queer folks, especially here in the Caribbean where we pair every season with rituals around food, outfits, and of course family gatherings.

It can be particularly difficult for LGBTQ+ folk who may not be able to bring their full selves home, or who may have been rejected by their biological family for attempting to do just that.

It can also be season can be a source of immense joy for queer people who have been accepted and loved by their biological family, or decide to spend time with their chosen family.

We want to hear your Queeribbean Christmas/December Holiday stories. This includes fiction, non-fiction, essays, poetry and visual art.

We want it all. Happy, sad, angry, reflective, comedic. If your holidays feel like a Hallmark rom-com, a retelling of the Grinch or something as sad as burnt-up fruit cake tell us! Let's write, share, and archive our own stories.

DEADLINE: November 15, 2020

https://www.rebelwomenlit.com/queeribbean

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The Sandy Crimmins National Prize for Poetry

Philadephia Stories

INFO: The Sandy Crimmins National Prize for Poetry annual national poetry prize features a first place of $1,000 cash award. Three runners up will each receive a $250 cash award. The winning and runner up poems are published in the Spring issue with these poems and honorable mentions appearing online. The Crimmins Prize celebrates risk, innovation, and emotional engagement. We especially encourage poets from underrepresented groups and backgrounds to send their work. 

About Airea D. Matthews: Airea D. Matthews is the author of Simulacra, winner of the 2016 Yale Series of Younger Poets. Her work has appeared in Night Heron Barks, Callaloo, Best American Poets, Harvard Review, American Poet, Los Angeles Review of Books, Tin House, and elsewhere. A past recipient of the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award and the Louis Untermeyer Scholarship from Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, she is an assistant professor at Bryn Mawr College.

About Sandy Crimmins: Sandy Crimmins’s poem “Spring” appeared in the first issue of Philadelphia Stories and she performed at our launch party. She served on the Philadelphia Stories board from 2005 to 2007. Since Philadelphia Stories magazine premiered in 2004, Sandy’s voice and vision have fundamentally shaped Philadelphia Stories. Sandy was a poet who performed with musicians, dancers, and fire-eaters, and one of her proudest accomplishments was celebrating the work of her vibrant poetry community. The Sandy Crimmins Prize for Poetry is made possible by the generous support of her family.

Contest Submission Guidelines

1. We will only consider work previously unpublished in print or online (including personal websites, blogs, or any other self published media).

2. Simultaneous submissions are also accepted; however, we must be notified immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere.

3. Poets currently residing in the United States are eligible.

4. Submissions will be accepted via the website. If you have any trouble uploading to the site, please email christine@philadelphiastories.org.

5. We will accept up to five pages of poetry. You may submit one 5-page poem, five 1-page poems, or any other combination within the five-page restriction.

6. All submissions should use a 12 pt font and standard typeface (not Comic Sans or Impact, etc.). Author’s name should appear on each page (this will be removed for the screening process).

READING FEE: $15 for every submissions. [All entrants will receive a copy of the Philadelphia Stories Spring 2021 Contest issue. Submission fees are not refundable.]

DEADLINE: November 15, 2020

https://philadelphiastories.org/poetry-contest/

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Perugia Press Prize

INFO: THE WINNER OF THE PERUGIA PRESS PRIZE RECEIVES:

• Book publication and a $1,000 prize

• Ten author copies and an ongoing discount of 50% off of the cover price for additional copies

• Time to work with the editor to create a book she loves with input into book editing, design & promotion

• Mentoring from the Perugia Poet Liaison during the publication and promotion of her book

• Review copies and entry copies to a range of post-publication contests, provided and sent by the Press

• Some book launch events planned by the Press, with a partial travel stipend and reading honorariums provided

• Ongoing publicity support through our website, newsletter, and social media

• Exposure through Press attendance at local and national book fairs to promote the work of Perugia poets

ELIGIBILITY

• Poets must be women, which is inclusive of transgender women and female-identified individuals. Because gender inequity still occurs in publishing, it is part of our explicit feminist mission to support and promote women’s voices in print.

• Perugia Press seeks to highlight marginalized and underrepresented voices in our publications, and to that end we encourage submissions written by poets of all abilities, ages, and sexual orientations, and from across all cultural, socio-economic, ethnic, racial, and religious backgrounds.

• Poets must have no more than one previously published full-length book. You are still eligible if you have published a poetry chapbook/s or books in other genres. You are still eligible if you have published more than one full-length poetry collection in a language other than English.

• Perugia Press welcomes diversity of expression in content, form, and language. We are open to considering hybrid manuscripts, including those incorporating visuals or created in collaboration.

• Individual poems may have been published previously in magazines, journals, anthologies, and chapbooks, but the collection as a whole must be unpublished.

• Translations of the work of others and previously self-published books are not eligible.

• Submissions from poets living outside the U.S. are not eligible, though international submissions from poets based in the U.S. but away during our contest period are fine. As a small press, we are not able to support the promotion of our books on a global scale.

• Poets may not be a close friend or colleague of the editor/director as she facilitates the contest and takes part in the final decision about the winning manuscript.

• Simultaneous submissions are fine. Notify Perugia Press through Submittable if accepted elsewhere.

DEADLINE: November 15, 2020

https://perugiapress.submittable.com/submit

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Academy of American Poets First Book Award

INFO: The Academy of American Poets First Book Award is a $5,000 first-book publication prize. The winning manuscript, chosen by an acclaimed poet, is published by Graywolf Press, a leading independent publisher committed to the discovery and energetic publication of contemporary American and international literature. The winner also receives an all-expenses-paid six-week residency at the Civitella Ranieri Center in the Umbrian region of Italy, distribution of the winning book to thousands of Academy of American Poets members, and promotion in American Poets magazine. 

The 2021 judge is Claudia Rankine.

This award was established in 1975 to encourage the work of emerging poets and to enable the publication of a poet’s first book. It is currently made possible by financial support from the members of the Academy of American Poets. From 1975 - 2020, the award was titled in tribute to Walt Whitman. Please see a list of Walt Whitman Award winners below.

DEADLINE: November 16, 2020

https://poets.org/academy-american-poets/prizes/first-book-award

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LITERATURE GRANT

Café Royal Cultural Foundation

INFO: Café Royal Cultural Foundation NYC will award a publishing grant to authors of fiction / creative non-fiction, poetry and playwriting. 

GRANT: Up to $10,000.00  

ELIGIBILITY: Authors in fiction / creative non-fiction, poetry and playwriting. The applicant must be the originator of the written material.

Grants awarded in this category may fund costs associated with continuing the composition of work submitted.

Writers applying must be a current resident of New York City and have lived there for a minimum of one year prior to applying.

The processing time of application can take up to three months. Please make sure to submit your application with ample time before the start date of your project. 

Application Requirements: 

• Up to and no more than a 30 page PDF of the work, for the Café Royal Cultural Foundation executive committee to download and read.

• A letter of intent from the publisher with a date of planned publication, if no publisher is assigned, Café Royal Cultural Foundation may work with writer to help find a publisher.

• A short description of the project.

• A short author biography of the person(s) involved.

• List of costs that the grant money be used for - must not exceed the amount of $10,000.00

Click on the apply button below to download the application. Once completed, please e-mail application to publishinggrant@caferoyalculturalfoundation.org.

We accept applications all year round. Applications will only be received by e-mail. The processing time of application can take up to three months. Please make sure to submit your application with ample time before the start date of your project and please refrain from inquiries in the meantime.

DEADLINE: November 16, 2020 at 9am

https://caferoyalculturalfoundation.org/literature-page

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33rd Lambda Literary Awards

INFO: Lambda Literary Award submissions are judged principally on literary merit and content relevant to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer lives. Specific guidelines must be met for each award category.

A book may be submitted to only one category. Because of this, it is very important that you read through these guidelines carefully to ensure that your book is eligible for consideration and that you are submitting it to the proper category.

New This Year

• Due to COVID-19, we have implemented an entirely digital submission process using Submittable. Please do not send physical copies of your books.

• Given the significant increase in the volume of LGBTQ books for younger readers, we have split the LGBTQ Children’s/YA category into two categories: LGBTQ Children’s/Middle Grade and LGBTQ Young Adult.

• We have expanded the mystery category to include bi, trans, and queer books by creating a single LGBTQ Mystery category as opposed to separate lesbian and gay mystery categories.

General Eligibility

• Lambda Literary Award submissions are judged principally on literary merit and content relevant to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer lives.

• Submitted books must be published between January 1 and December 31, 2020. The book must also be distributed (i.e., available in bookstores or online) in the United States during 2020. (See the LGBTQ Drama criteria for exceptions regarding plays.)

• Lambda Literary Awards are open to all authors regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity except in the case of the special awards that mark specific stages of an individual LGBTQ writer’s career.

• Books must be published in English. Translations from other languages are eligible.

• Self-published books are eligible.

• Books available only in ebook format are not eligible.

• First print editions of books previously published online or in ebook format are eligible.

• Reprints of books that were published in the US in previous years are not eligible. This includes second (or later) editions, books that have been republished by a different publisher, and books that are modified versions of previously published works.

• First US editions of books published outside the US before 2020 are eligible if the original edition was not submitted for Lammy consideration in a previous year.

Specific Categories

A book may be submitted to only one category. If a category receives fewer than ten (10) submissions, the category will not be active in this awards cycle. The submitted books may then be reassigned to another category, if appropriate. If the book cannot compete in another category, the submission fee will be refunded.

I - LESBIAN & GAY CATEGORIES

Books eligible for lesbian categories feature a prominent lesbian character or contain content of strong significance to lesbian lives.

Books eligible for gay categories feature a prominent gay male character or contain content of strong significance to gay male lives.

Lesbian Fiction or Gay Fiction: Literary fiction that does not fit more precisely into a specific genre category such as Erotica, Romance, Speculative Fiction, or Mystery. Novels, novellas, and short story collections by a single author are eligible; anthologies are not.

Lesbian Memoir/Biography or Gay Memoir/Biography: Biographies, memoirs, autobiographies, and works of creative nonfiction by or about lesbians and gay men or with content of strong significance to gay and lesbian lives. Posthumously published works and/or those with co-authors are eligible; anthologies are not.

Lesbian Poetry or Gay Poetry : Single volumes and collected poems are eligible; chapbooks are not. Updated editions of previously published works are not eligible unless at least 50% of the poetry (not the supplemental text) is new.

Lesbian Romance or Gay Romance: Novels, novellas, and short story collections by a single author that focus on a central love relationship between two or more characters are eligible; anthologies are not. Category includes a broad range of subgenres including traditional, historical, gothic, Regency, and paranormal romance.

II - BISEXUAL & TRANSGENDER CATEGORIES

These categories are non-gender-specific works containing material of strong significance to members of the bi and trans communities.

Bisexual Fiction or Transgender Fiction: Novels, novellas, short story collections, and anthologies with prominent bi/trans characters and/or content of strong significance to the bi/trans communities. May include historical novels, comics, cross-genre works of fiction, humor, and other styles of fiction.

Bisexual Nonfiction or Transgender Nonfiction: Nonfiction works with content of strong significance to members of the bi/trans communities. Includes a wide range of subjects for the general or academic reader (e.g., history, memoirs, cultural studies, public policy, law, politics, community organizations, humor, spirituality, gender studies, parenting, religion, spirituality, relationships, psychology, travel).

Bisexual Poetry or Transgender Poetry: Single volumes and collected poems are eligible; chapbooks are not. Updated editions of previously published works are not eligible unless at least 50% of the poetry (not the supplemental text) is new.

III - LGBTQ CATEGORIES

These categories are non-gender-specific works containing material of strong significance to members of the LGBTQ community.

LGBTQ Anthology: Collections of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry are eligible.

LGBTQ Children’s/Middle Grade: Individual works and collections of fiction, nonfiction, picture books, and poetry whose intended audience is young readers are all eligible; anthologies are not.

LGBTQ Young Adult: Individual works and collections of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry whose intended audience is young adult readers are all eligible; anthologies are not.

LGBTQ Comics: Book-length works of fiction or non-fiction that use a combination of words and sequential art to convey a narrative are eligible, including novels, graphic memoirs and short story or comics collections by the same author/team. Individual comic books, periodicals, anthologies, and web-only content are not eligible.

LGBTQ Drama: Plays and other theatrical works and performance pieces that have been published in book or script form during 2020. Collections from a single author are eligible; anthologies featuring multiple authors are not. Unpublished play manuscripts are eligible, as long as the play has received a full production with at least 8 consecutive shows in 2020.

Because of the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on theater, we will also allow entries for the following this year in the LGBTQ Drama category:

• Plays that were scheduled to be produced in theaters in 2020 but which were postponed or cancelled because of the pandemic

• Plays that were produced and performed outside traditional theatrical venues in 2020 because of the pandemic (such as online venues, etc.)

LGBTQ Erotica: Anthologies, novels, novellas, graphic novels, memoirs, and short story collections whose content is principally of an erotic nature.

LGBTQ Mystery: Novels, novellas, and short story collections in which a crime or series of crimes is an integral part of the story are all eligible; anthologies are not. Category includes a wide range of crime fiction subgenres including police procedurals, political/legal/medical thrillers, cozies, and hard-boiled detective stories.

LGBTQ Nonfiction: LGBTQ-themed works for general readers, as opposed to those targeted primarily to scholarly audiences (e.g., LGBT/Queer/Gender Studies programs). Includes but is not limited to law, history, politics, spirituality, humor, parenting, relationships, psychology, travel, and photography. Anthologies (edited collections of separately authored work) are not eligible in the LGBTQ Nonfiction category and should be submitted to LGBTQ Anthology. (Please see the LGBTQ Studies category below for comparison and contact Lambda’s awards manager at awards@lambdaliterary.org if you have questions about where to submit your work.)

LGBTQ Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror: Includes science fiction, fantasy, horror, and related genres. Novels, novellas, and short story collections are eligible; anthologies are not.

LGBTQ Studies: Scholarly work focusing on issues relating to sexual orientation and gender identity, and oriented toward academia, libraries, cultural professionals, and the more academic reader. Generally, but not exclusively, published by university presses. Anthologies (edited collections of separately authored work) are not eligible in the LGBTQ Studies category and should be submitted to LGBTQ Anthology. (Please see the LGBTQ Nonfiction category above for comparison and contact the Lambda’s awards manager at awards@lambdaliterary.org if you have questions about where to submit your work.).

DEADLINE: November 16, 2020

https://www.lambdaliterary.org/guidelines-categories/

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30 Below Contest—2020

Narrative Magazine

INFO: Narrative invites all writers, poets, visual artists, photographers, performers, and filmmakers between eighteen and thirty years old to send us their best work. We’re looking for the traditional and the innovative, the true and the imaginary. We’re looking to encourage and promote the best young authors and artists working today.

AWARDS:

• First Prize - $1,500

• Second Prize - $750

• Third Prize - $300 

• Ten finalists will receive $100 each

• The prizewinners and finalists will be announced in Narrative

• All entries are eligible for the $4,000 Narrative Prize for 2021 and for acceptance as a Story of the Week or Poem of the Week.

We accept submissions in the following media:

Written: Works of prose and of poetry, including short stories, all poetic forms, novel excerpts, essays, memoirs, and excerpts from book-length nonfiction. Prose submissions must not exceed 15,000 words. Each poetry submission may contain up to five poems. The poems should all be contained in a single file. All submissions should be double-spaced (excluding poetry, which should be single-spaced), with 12-point type, at least one-inch margins, and sequentially numbered pages. Please provide your name, address, telephone number, and email address at the top of the first page. Submit your document as a .doc, .docx, .pdf, or .rtf file. You may enter as many times as you wish, but we encourage you to be selective and to send your best work. All entries will be considered for publication.

Drawn: Graphic stories, graphic-novel excerpts, and comics of no more than thirty pages, in .pdf format.

Photographed: Photo essays of between five and twenty images, previously unpublished (including on sites like Instagram, your personal website, stock photography sites, etc.). Images should be submitted together in low-resolution .pdf format; however, upon acceptance, images will need to be provided that have a resolution of at least 300 dpi, in a .tif, .jpg, or raw format that can be reproduced at 2,048 pixels wide. Captions or text should be included, either with the file containing the images or as a separate document in a .doc or .pdf format, with numbered captions corresponding to the similarly numbered photographs. Please provide your name, address, telephone number, and email address on the first page.

Spoken: Original works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry in audio theater, including performance, radio journalism, and stories and poems read aloud. Submissions may run up to ten minutes, in .mp3 format, with a bit rate of at least 128 kbit/s.

Filmed: Short films and documentaries of up to fifteen minutes. Submissions must be in .mp4 or .mov format.

Judging: The contest will be judged by the editors of the magazine. Winners and finalists will be announced to the public by December 18, 2020. All entrants will be notified by email of the judges’ decisions, which will be final. The judges reserve the option to declare ties and to designate and award only as many winners and/or finalists as are appropriate to the quality of contest entries and of work represented in the magazine.

Entries must be previously unpublished, though we do accept works that have appeared in college publications. Entries cannot have been the winner, finalist, or honorable mention in another contest. We accept online entries only. We do accept simultaneous submissions, but if your entry is accepted elsewhere, please let us know as soon as possible (and accept our congratulations!).

ENTRY FEE: $26 fee for each entry. And with your entry, you’ll receive three months of complimentary access to Narrative Backstage.

DEADLINE: November 19, 2020, at midnight, PST

https://www.narrativemagazine.com/30-below-2020?uid=103566&m=dfa081af7070171afb5f383d9533fa80&d=1600269761

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force / fields anthology submissions

Perennial Press

INFO: Perennial Press is publishing a new anthology in 2021 with the theme: "FORCE / FIELDS"

in speculative fiction, a force field is a barrier that protects someone or something from attacks or intrusions. what are the force fields you hold up? what are the force fields you fight against? we also want your interpretations of the separate themes of "force" and "fields." what the forces that move you forward? what are the forces holding you back? fields refers to places of open land and natural environments. what are the fields of your dreams? the fields of your nightmares? tell us about flora & fauna & fantastical field creatures.

we are open to submissions of fiction, poetry, and all forms of 2D visual art. hit us with the eco-poetics, the cli-fi, sci-fi, chick fic, apocalypse photography, protest art, all of it! interpret the theme, misinterpret the theme, just send us your best.

please submit 1-3 prose pieces (word limit: 3000 per piece), 2-5 poems, or up to 5 visual art works. all works must be in their final form. please proofread before submitting. we also strongly suggest having another person proofread your work.

our goal as a press is to publish the speculative & the environmental. give us your work that speaks to one or the other, or a combination of both of those. wide interpretations welcome. accepted pieces will be featured in our 2021 print anthology.

ELIGIBILITY: anyone who writes or makes art. any country. any age. if you are under 18 years of age, please note that in your submission in case we need to get parental permission.

COMPENSATION: accepted artists will be paid a percentage of the profits from the anthology, or a $20 stipend up front. you can choose upon acceptance. all contributors will receive a complimentary copy of the anthology. shipping may not be available to all countries, so in that case we will provide a pdf version.

DEADLINE: November 21, 2020

https://airtable.com/shrmhapHbLghyRb3s

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CALL FOR AUDIO SUBMISSIONS: HEARD/WORD

Galleyway

INFO: HEARD/WORD is Galleyway's new audio series highlighting compelling voices in poetry and prose. We invite you to share recordings of original poems and short fiction. Selected work will be showcased on our blog and social media platforms. Submissions should include:

• MP3 recording of you reading your poetry (no longer than 3 minutes) or short fiction (no longer than 5 minutes)

• Text version of the piece

• A headshot 

• A brief bio

• Social media handles and link to website

Please send submissions to camille@galleyway.com

DEADLINE: November 30, 2020

https://galleyway.com/blog/2020/3/31/call-for-audio-submissions

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ILLUMINATING BLACK LIVES: A WRITER'S FELLOWSHIP

Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow

INFO: This fellowship invites writers to explore the African-American experience. The work may be in any literary genre: fiction or nonfiction, poetry or prose, or a combination. It may take place now or in the past. It may draw upon the life of the author or probe other lives. There is no expectation of a certain attitude or type of experience. Rather, the successful application will demonstrate insight, honesty, literary merit, and the likelihood of publication.

The fellowship winner will receive a two-week residency to allow the recipient to focus completely on their work. 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 breakfast and lunch.

APPLICATION FEE: $35

DEADLINE: November 30, 2020

https://www.writerscolony.org/fellowships

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Latino Book Review

INFO: Latino Book Review is proud to announce the call for submissions for our print magazine 2021 issue. Our latest issue is set to be published in Spring 2021 and will include some of the best work by Latinx writers and artists in the U.S. and around the world.

We are currently seeking to publish original work by authors and artists in the following areas:

Poetry (3 poems per submission)
Fiction (Around 2000 words)
Nonfiction (Around 2000 words)
Visual arts (6 piece portfolio)
Essays (Related to culture, literature or arts Around 2000 words)
Research (Related to culture, literature or arts 2000-3000 words)

Works can be submitted to info@latinobookreview.com with an email titled "magazine submission." Written works should be attached in a Word document along with a 100-word bio, and a separate file with a high-resolution image of the author or visual artist. Visual works of art should be attached in a high-resolution PDF or JPEG format.

DEADLINE: November 30, 2020

https://www.latinobookreview.com/latino-book-review-magazine-8203call-for-submissions-2021--latino-book-review.html?fbclid=IwAR0UO-FS3BBjyNny5GReBQ-MjA6fWhK4joOBPLbX_5sTT2eeSuM1UIQ83zQ

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: AFRO-LATINX ANTHOLOGY

Alan Pelaez

INFO: Editor Alan Pelaez Lopez invites contributions to a multi-genre anthology (Title TBA) of contemporary queer and trans Afro-Latinx writers on memory, care, and futurity published by a notable University Press with a slated publication date of 2021.

This collection of writings will serve as a living archive of contemporary literature by queer and trans Afro-Latinx writers. By “Afro-Latinx,” we mean writers who are Black of Latin American and Caribbean descent. This anthology aims to push the boundaries of how we think, accept, deny, or play with the concept of “Latinx.” The final project will not be a survey of recent literature but a gesture towards an Afro-Latinx aesthetic informed by differently Black experiences. Latin America and the Caribbean, as landscapes, as imagined communities, and as diasporic analytics are continually shapeshifting. Black people in, of, and from Latin America, the Caribbean, and their diasporas are at the heart of this shapeshifting, but the literature of Afro-Latinx writers is— similarly to Black people across the continent— policed, surveilled, and organized by non-Black entities. This anthology seeks to open, nuance and challenge narratives made about us without us. The anthology is not an explanation of what it means to be a queer and/or trans Black person of Latin American and/or Caribbean descent, but a dialogue of how we work with, through, and against memory, care, and futures.

The anthology seeks to answer:

• How do queer and/or trans Black writers from Latin America, the Caribbean and their diaspora(s) address memory? How do queer and trans embodiments help us understand and/or question the past, the present, and construct a Black queer and trans future?

• How does Blackness remember geographies we are no longer inhabiting, those we never inhabited, and those we may never know?

• What are the textures of caring, being cared for, and accepting care as Black queer and/or trans people?

• What are the uses of care, love, intimacy, and kinship in queer and/or trans Black spaces?

• And, how do our genders, sexualities, sexual performances, and rejections of all three serve as worldbuilding embodiments for the future?

Mediums:

• Creative non-fiction (15 pages max)

• Fiction (15 pages max)

• Poetry (Send 3-5 poems, no more than 7 pages)

• Comics (15 pages max—you can send text submission if it’s not inked yet, or send a full first draft)

• Plays and choreopoems (15 pages max)

• Performance essays / documentation (20 pages max including images—you must have permission to use all images submitted.)

What we are looking for from contributors:

We are looking for new work (or pieces that have not appeared in a full-length collection that you have retained the rights to) that address memory, care and futures. All work must be submitted in English and you must be open to working with an editor. Pieces that utilize other languages are welcome as long as the piece is primarily in English. This anthology will not publish work that considers Blackness as a monolithic experience. All published writings will receive a modest honorarium.

Submissions:

Please include your name, contact info, and a 50-word bio.

DEADLINE: December 1, 2020

http://www.alanpelaez.com/afro-latinx-anthology/

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: “Composite Dreams” ISSUE

Oyster River Pages

INFO: Oyster River Pages publishes fine fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, and visual art online. . Please see the general guidelines below for each genre. (Work that is unfinished, unproofed, or noncompliant with the guidelines gives our editors existential angst.) Simultaneous submissions are fine, but please contact us immediately if your work is picked up elsewhere. We request first serial rights, after which all rights revert to the author or artist. For this special issue only, we will accept previously published work, provided you have the rights to republish it and you provide the original publication in which it appeared.

“Composite Dreams” is the first of an ongoing series of Oyster River Pages’ efforts into implementing inclusion and diversity deeper into our mission as a magazine. The intention of this collection is to publish Black voices only, to be a space exclusively for and filled by Black writers and artists. We kindly ask that if you do not fit this category, to wait until our annual issue to submit your work. Please include a 60-word bio with your submission. To stay in touch with the latest happenings at ORP, subscribe to our mailing list below.

• Fiction: Please submit one story up to 4,000 words in .docx format. All work should be double-spaced, and at least font size eleven.

• Creative Non-Fiction: Please submit creative nonfiction pieces that are no longer than 4,000 words in .docx format. All work should be double-spaced and at least font size eleven.

• Poetry: Please submit up to three poems in .docx format. Each poem should start on its own page. Otherwise, the spacing of the submission will remain as is in publication to preserve the integrity of the poem.

• Visual Art: Please submit photography or other visual arts that are saved at 300 dpi or greater. We reserve the right to crop or edit submissions in order to fit in print or on our webpage.

DEADLINE: December 1, 2020

https://www.oysterriverpages.com/submit

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2021 Palm Beach Poetry Festival Fellowships

The Palm Beach Poetry Festival

INFO: The Palm Beach Poetry Festival is pleased to announce it will offer three fellowships that provide full workshop tuition and admission to all festival events for the upcoming 17th Annual Virtual Palm Beach Poetry Festival, January 18-23, 2021. The fellowships are offered to open the festival workshop doors widely to qualified poets and to ensure the festival’s workshops provide enriching experiences through working with poets from a wide variety of cultures.

The three fellowships are the Palm Beach Poetry Festival Langston Hughes Fellowship, the CantoMundo Palm Beach Poetry Festival Fellowship, and the Kundiman Palm Beach Poetry Festival Fellowship.

Each fellowship recipient will be an outstanding poet who will benefit from, and contribute to, participation in the workshop. A writing sample, letter of introduction, and description of need are an integral part of the application and selection process. Fellowships applications are now open. For details, please visit the links below to each for specifics, details and to apply. Applications are now open, and the deadline to apply for these fellowships is December 1, 2020.

CantoMundo nurtures and supports the numerous aesthetic and philosophical approaches of Latinx poetry in the USA, and builds on the aesthetically, culturally, and linguistically diverse work of Latinx poets, who have historically—and with limited economic resources—formed supportive literary spaces. CantoMundo’s first gathering convened in 2010. Use this link to find out more about the CantoMundo /Palm Beach Poetry Festival 2021 Fellowship and to apply.
 

Kundiman is dedicated to the creation and cultivation of Asian American literature, offering a comprehensive spectrum of arts programming that gives writers opportunities to inscribe their own stories, transforming and enriching the American literary landscape. Use this link to find out more about the Kundiman / Palm Beach Poetry Festival 2021 Fellowship and to apply.

The Palm Beach Poetry Festival – Langston Hughes Fellowship includes the application fee, tuition, and admission to all festival events. The fellow will be an outstanding African American poet who will benefit from and contribute to participation in the workshop. A writing sample, letter of introduction, and description of need are an integral part of the application and selection process. Fellowships are open by application to poets who identify as Black or African American. We are grateful to the administrators of the Langston Hughes Estate who assisted us by granting permission to name this fellowship. You may use this link to apply for the Palm Beach Poetry Festival Langston Hughes 2021 Fellowship.

We welcome inquiries from donors who may be interested in our efforts to expand the availability of these fellowships and seek to support the festival’s dedication to inclusiveness and enrichment of its workshops and public events. Donors may contribute to the PBPF Diversity Fellowship Fund, established to support these efforts. Interested donors may contact Festival Director, Susan R. Williamson or Founder, Miles Coon.

These fellowships are supported by the generous donations of individuals who wish to remain anonymous. In addition, the festival also offers a limited number of partial scholarships to applicants for whom partial assistance makes attendance possible. Email query must be made after applications are submitted.

DEADLINE: December 1, 2020

https://www.palmbeachpoetryfestival.org/news/2021-palm-beach-poetry-festival-fellowships/

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Honey Literary

INFO: Honey Literary’s first issue will debut in Winter 2020/2021. We publish two issues each year, one in winter, and one in summer. Our first reading period opens September 1st and closes December 1st. 

To share your work, please email the respective genre editor and upload your .docx/.pdf files. Include a brief bio with a few sentences about why your work is a good fit for us with our mission statement in mind. 

Please send us your work only once per submission period. Simultaneous submissions are cool as long as you promptly notify us if the work is accepted elsewhere.

Honey Literary accepts and encourages simultaneous submissions, but please let us know immediately if a piece is accepted elsewhere. Submit no more than once per submissions period. We only accept unpublished work. Honey Literary retains first publication rights, and upon publication, rights revert back to the author. Please credit Honey Literary as the first publisher if the piece appears elsewhere after publication, which includes, but isn’t limited to other journals, anthologies, chapbooks, and full-length books.   

Poetry:  Send us three to five unpublished pieces at a time. We’ve got big appetites, so more is more. We want the poems that were too weird for workshop. Give us work that is eclectic and absurd and demands to be read aloud. Send us your jigsaw edges and remixes. 

• Email submissions to Editor Rita Mookerjee: poetry@honeyliterary.com 

Sex, Kink, and the Erotic: Locker room talk is dead; Honey Literary is here for body-positive, kink-friendly content centered around respect and consent. Ideal submissions include but are not limited to confessions, toy/gear reviews, etiquette guides, dirty little secrets, burlesque show recommendations, odes to sideboob, fav strip club snacks, dating app wins (or fails), shibari shoots, erotic vignettes, recaps from the weekend, and that porno script you saved on your old desktop. Honey Literary loves and supports sex workers as well as their art/writing! Show us what’s inside your bedside drawer. 

• Email submissions to Editor Rita Mookerjee: sex@honeyliterary.com 

Essays: Send us essays that use the personal to explore facets of our current world. From natural history, science, politics, international events, food, culture, and art, we want to see how the personal and public intersect in your work.We’re seeking essays that are elastic, capacious, experimental and exploratory. We welcome memoir, nonfiction, research, lyric meditations, and hybrid work about what stirs your curiosity, what raises your hackles. We especially invite emerging writers and student writers to submit their work.  

• (750-1000 words) 

• Email submissions to Editor Avni Vyas: essays@honeyliterary.com 

Hybrid: Do you have work that blurs, defies, or redefines genre? We welcome excerpts and stand alones that may include, but are not limited to: documentary poetics, notes, mappings, marginalia, lists, altars/shrines, collections, audiovisual pieces, prose poetry, letters, invented forms, collaborations, and scholarly projects that are slightly or largely out of touch with institutions. Send enough work to contextualize your project with respect for our time. For example: a bouquet–not the entire meadow.

• Email submissions to Editor Claire Meuschke: hybrid@honeyliterary.com

Comics: We’re looking for eccentric, experimental, excessive, confessional, instructional, genre-nasty comics pieces (10 pages or less) in any form. Single-panel pieces, excerpts from zines, comics stories without words, comics without pictures, one-offs, doodles, interesting trash, and everything in between. We are particularly open to submissions from members of the LGBTQIAAP+ community.

• Email submissions to Editor Jessica Q. Stark: comics@honeyliterary.com 

Animals: Kingdom: Animalia. Familiars. Daemons. Protectors. Companions. Predators. Prey. This is a space to submit art & writing about animals real or imagined, pre-historic or future, spineless or silky, friend or foe. Share the work you do with animals; show us the bioluminescent creatures in your lagoon; describe the dreams where your lost pets come to visit you. Highlight conservation work in your habitats. Profile the service animal of the year. Recount the folk tales that made you scared of drain serpents. Tell us about the anteater in the forest, the sandhill cranes in the parking lot, the carabao in the rice field, the angler in the deep. We want your venom, oily feathers, plush fur, mythical beasts, and whale songs.

• Please submit a maximum of 3 artworks, 3-5 pages for poems, and 10-15 pages for longer pieces.

• Email submissions to Editor Christina Giarrusso: animals@honeyliterary.com 

Interviews: Honey Literary seeks to conduct interviews that showcase the boundlessness of art and innovation, tapping into the creative’s soul and teasing out the hows and whys of their passions. We want to facilitate interviews that go beyond the typical, robotic back and forth between two parties, but rather a natural, gradual unfurling between people who cherish expression and creation. Whether you’re a singer, writer, visual artist, or culinary chef, Honey Literary wants to know what moves you, what keeps you up at night, who’s in your artistic lineage, and of course, all about your craft. 

• Email submissions to Editor Zakiya Cowan: interviews@honeyliterary.com

Reviews: Honey Literary is seeking reviews on recently released books, along with art mediums that aren’t typically at the forefront of conversations. From novels, novellas, short story collections, and poetry collections, to graphic novels filled with queer and magical themes (think non-binary werewolves and time travel) and hybrid books, we want to engage with all forms and genres. We’re also seeking a wide variety of reviews, so think about that fashion line that makes their clothing from plastic bottles, or that brand of panties whose goal is to eliminate product waste among people who have periods. Or maybe you want to engage with films and tv shows from independent studios, directed, written, and/or starring BIPOC, queer, and disabled individuals. Or what about restaurants that feature traditional recipes from across an ocean? Reviews are boundless, and whether it’s an in-depth analysis or short and sweet praise, we want to hear it all! 

• Email submissions to Editor Trinity Jones: reviews@honeyliterary.com

Valentines: Tell us about that one friend you didn’t know you were in love with until you came out. Share the sticky note love letters you’ll never end up giving your roommate’s girlfriend. Or what about those love songs you wrote to your favorite artists? Honey Literary wants your Valentines: your phone notes, email drafts, letters in a box, corner-of-the-page-too-distracted-by-lust-to-pay-attention doodles, and descriptions of the outfits you love but will never wear. Or what about your thoughts on the perfect perfume for that special someone, your late-night car conversations, your platonic epics, your [self-insert] fanfiction, your realizations of being pursued or secretly admired, your sheets of loose leaf stuffed into drawers, your quarantine love stories, or your Tinder conversations with strangers that you’ll never speak to again? Think about those missed connections: the person you ran into three times at the grocery store whose name you didn’t catch. Is your valentine a top 10 list? Is it taped on a bus stop, in the refrain of a pop song, at the bottom of a bowl, or framed at an altar? Give us your cutesy, your sexy, your sultry, and your badass expressions of love and life.

• Email submissions to Editor Maria Clara Melo: valentines@honeyliterary.com

DEADLINE: December 1, 2020

https://honeyliterary.com/submit/

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Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets

African Poetry Book Fund

INFO: The Sillerman First Book  Prize for African Poetry is awarded annually to an African poet who has  not yet published a collection of poetry. The winner receives USD $1000  and book publication through the University of Nebraska Press and  Amalion Press in Senegal.

The African Poetry Book Fund Editorial  Board, including Kwame Dawes, Chris Abani, Matthew Shenoda, John Keene,  Gabeba Baderoon, Phillippaa yaa de Villiers, Aracelis Girmay, and Bernardine Evaristo, will judge.

A winner will be announced in early January, with notifications sent shortly thereafter.

ELIGIBILITY: The  Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets will only accept “first  book” submissions from African writers who have not published a  book-length poetry collection. This includes self-published books if  they were sold online, in stores, or at readings. Writers who have  edited and published an anthology or a similar collection of other  writers’ work remain eligible.

An “African  writer” is taken to mean someone who was born in Africa, who is a  national or resident of an African country, or whose parents are  African.

Only poetry submissions in English can be considered. Work translated from another language to English is accepted,  but a percentage of the prize will be awarded to the translator.

No  past or present paid employees of the University of Nebraska Press or  Amalion Press, or current faculty, students, or employees at the  University of Nebraska, are eligible for the prizes.

MANUSCRIPT: Poetry manuscripts should be at least 50 pages long.

The author’s name should not appear on the manuscript. All entries will be read anonymously. Please include a cover page listing only the title of the manuscript (not the  author’s name, address, telephone number, or email address). An  acknowledgements page listing the publication history of individual  poems may be included, if desired. No application forms are necessary. Eligible writers may submit more than one manuscript.

While  we have no specific formatting rules, we suggest sending your  manuscript in Times New Roman or Arial, 12 point font, single-spaced. We  also prefer one poem per page, meaning a new poem does not  begin on the same page on which another ends.

ENTRY FEE: $0

DEADLINE: December 1, 2020

https://africanpoetrybookfund.submittable.com/submit/46724/sillerman-first-book-prize-for-african-poets

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Poetry: Latinx Anthology

The Ice Colony

INFO: The Ice Colony seeks  poetry attentive to  Latinx Immigrants  inspired by true events. Whether they be events that you or your family experienced.

Have you ever felt like an immigrant in your country of birth? In your neighborhood? In your body?  

We are interested in poems that speak on one or more of the following: 

• Struggles  with borders both physical and metaphorical.

• Migration. 

• What does it mean to be a foreigner? 

• Growing up in an immigrant home.

• Traditions.

• Detention facilities and deportation.

• Ancestry- tell us their stories, heartbreaks and joys. 

• Current political or social climate pertaining to Latinx community. 

Give us the tiniest details. Be imaginative.  Bring the past, present and future, most importantly let it be authentic and palpable. 

General Submission Guidelines:  

• Open to Latinx Poets Internationally age 18+

• Unpublished Poems of any length and form are welcome.  Maximum of  5 poems per submission. Submit all poetry in one document, do not submit multiple forms. They will not be accepted. 

• Submissions must be typed: Times New Roman, 12 pt, 2.0 line spacing. 

• Please use .doc or docx file formats when submitting 

• Include all writer contact info,  full legal name, email, address and cell phone number, on the first page of the submitted file.

• Cover letter:

  • Confirming Latinx background 

  • Confirming submitted poem(s) are unpublished. 

  • A short bio 250 words or less.

  • Contact information-  full legal name, email, address and cell phone number as well as  social media handles. 

• If your submission is accepted elsewhere, please let  us know immediately and withdraw it. 

• Poems demonstrating racism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or other forms of oppression will not be accepted. 

The Ice Colony is currently not  a paying market. We are all volunteers: editors, writers, and narrators. For this call,  poets may receive a free copy of the anthology (depending on our funding at the time of publication) and will be  invited to participate in a virtual live reading in celebration of publication. We  also make a collaborative effort to promote your via our website, Twitter and Instagram. 

A percentage of the profits from the anthology will go to  the organization No more Deaths

DEADLINE: December 1, 2020

https://theicecolony.submittable.com/submit

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: BLACK POETS, WRITERS, VIDEO ARTISTS

TriQuarterly

INFO: TriQuarterly, the literary journal of Northwestern University and of the Litowitz MFA+MA program, welcomes submissions of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, short drama, video essays, and hybrid work from established as well as emerging writers. We also accept interviews and craft essays.

This fall, we are opening free submissions f for our 160th issue. We will be working with guest editors to select and curate work exclusively by Black poets, prose writers, and video artists for summer 2021.

Our general submissions will reopen next year and be extended by two months, from January 1 to May 31, 2021.

DEADLINE: December 1, 2020

https://triquarterly.submittable.com/submit

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Stadler Fellowships

Bucknell University

INFO: Since 1998, the Stadler Fellowships have offered recent MFA graduates in poetry the opportunity to receive professional training in editing and literary arts administration. Beginning in the 2021-22 academic year, the program will be divided into two distinct tracks: a fellowship in literary editing and a fellowship in literary arts administration. Applicants can apply to one or the other. Both fellowships are designed to balance the development of professional skills with time to complete a first book of poems. Fellows serve for 20 hours each week during the academic year. The balance of the fellows’ time is reserved for writing.

STIPEND: The 10-month fellowships provide health insurance and a stipend of at least $33,000.

Stadler Fellowship: Literary Arts Administration

The Stadler Fellow in Literary Arts Administration is a key player in the execution of the Stadler Center's programs and advises the Center's leadership on new and existing initiatives. The literary arts administration fellow contributes to campus and regional outreach efforts, leads a faculty/staff poetry reading group, serves on selection committees for our programs and residencies, and otherwise works to strengthen and enhance our literary community. In June, the fellow serves together with the Stadler Fellow in Literary Editing as a staff poet in the Bucknell Seminar for Undergraduate Poets, the Center's signature summer program that draws some of the nation's most accomplished undergraduate poets.

Stadler Fellowship: Literary Editing

The Stadler Fellow in Literary Editing serves as a poetry editor for West Branch, Bucknell's nationally-recognized literary journal. The editorial fellow screens poetry submissions, serves on the editorial committee, assists in proofreading, and, optionally, compiles a special poetry feature for the journal. The fellow may also contribute to other Stadler Center editorial projects. In June, the fellow serves together with the Stadler Fellow in Literary Arts Administration as a staff poet in the Bucknell Seminar for Undergraduate Poets.

Since these are residential fellowships, we expect fellows to live in the immediate Lewisburg area; to hold no other professional, academic, or fellowship obligations; and to participate fully in the life of the Bucknell literary community during the fellowship period.

Several recent Stadler Fellows have published books or received other honors subsequent to their fellowships, including Will Schutt (Westerly, Yale Prize for Younger Poets); Jamaal May (Hum, Beatrice Hawley Award, Alice James Books), Carolina Ebeid (You Ask Me to Talk About the Interior, Noemi Press), Justin Boening (Not On the Last Day, But On the Very Last; National Poetry Series, Milkweed ), Chet'la Sebree (Mistress, New Issues Poetry Prize), E.G. Asher (Natality, Noemi Press), and Monica Sok (A Nail the Evening Hangs On, Copper Canyon).

DEADLINE: December 1, 2020

https://www.bucknell.edu/academics/beyond-classroom/academic-centers-institutes/stadler-center-poetry-literary-arts/programs-residencies/stadler-fellowships

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WNBA Writing Contest 

Women’s National Book Association

INFO: The 2020 WNBA Writing Contest is now open for submissions!

Categories

• FICTION: 3,000 words maximum. 

• CREATIVE NONFICTION: 2,500 words maximum. Includes memoir, personal essay and commentary.

• FLASH PROSE: 750 words maximum. May submit fiction or creative nonfiction.

• POETRY: 3–5 pages maximum

• No theme is required in any category.

Winners:

• Winners will be announced in March 2021 on the Women's National Book Association's website. 

• Winners will receive a cash prize and the winning entries will be published in The Bookwoman Newsletter, the national publication of the WNBA, and on the WNBA website.

• After winners are announced and awarded, the WNBA will publish an anthology of past winning entries. Every few years, a new anthology will be published.   

Basic Guidelines

• The WNBA Writing Contest is open to everyone ages 18 years or older writing in English. 

• International submissions are welcome if the author is able to accept the winning prize in US dollars.

• All WNBA members in good standing receive a 25% discount on submission fees.

• You may submit more than one entry, but each entry requires a separate fee and entry form.

• Simultaneous submissions are acceptable. If your work is accepted elsewhere, please inform Andrea Auten, the contest chair, at contest@wnba-books.org. 

• Previously published work will be accepted as long as the publisher allows for the work to be reprinted/redistributed. If your work is accepted elsewhere, please inform Andrea Auten, the contest chair, at contest@wnba-books.org. 

To qualify for the WNBA member discount, you must be a current member of the Women's National Book Association, which means you have paid for the 2020/2021 membership year that began in June 20.

DEADLINE: December 1, 2020

https://wnba.submittable.com/submit

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: "SOMEWHERE WE ARE HUMAN: AN ANTHOLOGY ON MIGRATION, SURVIVAL, AND NEW BEGINNINGS"

Migrant Anthology

INFO: "Somewhere We Are Human: An Anthology on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings", edited by award winning author of The Distance Between Us, Reyna Grande, and acclaimed poet and author of Nostalgia & Borders, Sonia Guiñansaca. We are seeking bold personal non-fiction essays and poems from migrants, asylum seekers, refugees and displaced people with experience in the United States. We are especially interested in essays and poems from those in the midwest and Border towns. We are centering and giving priority to essays and poems from Indigenous migrants, Black migrants, Asian Pacific Islanders, and Arab communities.

During this time of political unrest, how do we shift the nation’s collective imagination about migrants towards one rooted in humanity and justice? What stories about ourselves and communities need to be told during these times of border militarization, mass detention, and draconian anti-immigrant legislation?

The anthology will be published by HarperCollins in English and Spanish. Contributors will be compensated (a min. of $800)

GUIDELINES:

• All attachments should be saved as a Microsoft Word document (.docx)

• For Non-Fiction Essays no more than 2,000 words

• Poems should be no more than 6 pages in length (1-3 poems)

• Written work should be finished pieces (no drafts)

• Essays and poems should primarily be written in English.

• All submissions should be unpublished pieces

• Please number your pages in the order it should be read

• One anthology submission per person

Short cover letter describing your interest in participating in this anthology (2-3 paragraphs)

A cover letter, short bio, and written work must be included in order to be considered

Please make no inquiries about the status of your submission. Only those selected will be contacted through email by the end of December

Guiding Questions:
We are seeking bold personal essays, and poems from migrants, asylum seekers, refugees and those deported from across the United States. These are just guiding questions and themes. We understand the topic of migration is broad so we are looking for pieces that touch upon these but not limited to these. There is no monolithic migrant story, we want to hear YOUR STORY, and YOUR EXPERIENCE.

We believe that we existed before the migration. That we had childhoods, and memories of our loved ones and a place we may have called “home”. Tell us those stories. What are stories before migration that you wished were written about.

We believe that our migration story is complicated, nuanced, layered, and intersectional. Scholars and politicians skip over the hard decision and journey of migrating or that many of us were displaced from our home country because of climate change, political turmoil, war, economic inequity-leaving us with no other choice but to “migrate”. Mainstream stories often leave out how some of our family members are detained in the process of coming to the U.S. They fast forward to us as “hard workers” and “taxpayers” and take away our childhoods, teenage years, and coming of age moments. Tell us those stories of our growing up in the United States. As a teenager what was it like to grow up in a mixed status family? What was dating like? If you are queer, how did you understand your queerness in relationship to your migration? What was it like before DACA? What are some stories of growing up undocumented that you wished you could have read? If you came to the U.S later on (after your formative years), what did you learn about yourself? What did you wish people knew about growing up in the South? Tell us these stories. Stories that disrupt the mainstream tokenizing, stories outside the “good” vs “bad immigrant”. Essays and poems that decenter whiteness, and assimilation.

We believe that our migrant communities deserve justice and a world without borders and detention centers. We believe that joy, healing, and freedom of expression is crucial to our existence. We want to read poems and essays touching on this. We want to read about where you are now in life? Tell us about the world you envision. What are some things you have reflected on about your migrant story? What are you un-learning? What is some advice and words you wished you were given about being migrant when you were younger? What are the messages you want recently “arrived” migrants to hear? What do you want to tell yourself 20 years from now? For artists, how has your art played a role in your healing and growth?

PLEASE NOTE: We are not looking for scholarly/academic papers. We will not consider submissions by non-migrant people. We are looking for contributors that are undocumented or formerly undocumented.

DEADLINE: December 5, 2020 at 11pm PT

https://www.migrantanthology.com/

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ONGOING

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

VIDA Review

INFO: The VIDA Review is an online literary magazine publishing original fiction, nonfiction, poetry, reviews, and interviews. 

We are exclusively interested in work by those often marginalized in literary spaces, including Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC); cis and trans women, agender, gender non-conforming, genderqueer, nonbinary, and two-spirit people; LGBQIA people; people with disabilities; and people living at the intersections of these identities.

All pieces should be original, and previously unpublished in any format in English.

Please send one submission at a time, and please submit only once every 6 months.

We are open to simultaneous submissions, so long as you label them as such and promptly let us know if your work has been accepted elsewhere. 

Please note that all submissions should be accompanied by a cover letter and brief third-person biography statement, and that (unless otherwise stated) we ask for First North American Rights to publish writing. Following publication, all rights revert back to the writer; we only ask that you credit the VIDA Review as the place your work first appeared.

GUIDELINES:

Up to six poems at a time, each on separate pages

• Single-space

• Combine into one document (.doc, .docx, or .pdf)

• Include contact information on first page of submission

• Provide a cover letter in the "Cover Letter" section and a brief third-person biography

PAYMENT: Payment for those accepted will range between $15-$20. We recognize that this is a token amount of money but hope to increase this amount in the future. Payment will be made via PayPal within 2 months of publication.

DEADLINE: Ongoing

https://thevidareview.submittable.com/submit

POETRY -- OCTOBER 2020

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Lost Balloon

INFO: Lost Balloon publishes flash fiction, flash nonfiction, and prose poetry (all 1,000 words or less). We publish one new piece every Wednesday. There are no theme or genre restrictions, but we want your best. Give us work that entertains and challenges, that pushes boundaries and breaks hearts.

Please send only one piece at a time and wait to hear back before sending another submission. We do not accept reprints, so your piece must be original and unpublished. Do not submit in more than one genre at a time. If your submission is rejected, please wait at least 1-2 month(s) after hearing back before you submit again. We will specifically ask for more work if we would like to see something else from you right away. If we accept and publish your piece, please wait one year from your publication date before submitting again.

Simultaneous submissions are great—please withdraw your piece right away if it’s accepted elsewhere.

We cannot currently pay our authors. We do promise to promote your piece on social media. We also nominate work for anthologies.

You can usually expect to hear back in about 60-90 days. If it has been at least 120 days, and you have not received a response, feel free to send a query about your submission status to lostballoonmag at gmail dot com. If you query before 120 days, your email will not be answered.

SUBMISSION FEE: $0

DEADLINE: October 7, 2020

https://lost-balloon.com/submit/

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Tricks and Treats Issue

No Contact

INFO: We are now OPEN for submissions to our No Contact: Tricks and Treats Issues! 

We are reading for your best Halloween work! Please send us all things horrific, gothic, dreadful, dark and dreary and particularly spooky. We’ll publish the best of what we find in one of our two October Tricks and Treats Issues. 

As always, we consider art, fiction, creative non-fiction, humor, poetry, and any fusion therein — so long as the work pays homage to this most ghastly of holidays. Please take a look at our guidelines, and click the link below to submit! 

DEADLINE: October 8, 2020

https://www.nocontactmag.com/submissions

Bridgewater International Poetry Festival

INFO: The Bridgewater International Poetry Festival, a celebration of global poetry, is accepting submissions of 5-minute readings of original poetry in English, or with English translation

The length of the video should be approximately 5 minutes long in total with a brief introduction of yourself as well as a reading from your original poetry. The best video format for YouTube is .MP4 (example: YourName.MP4). However, other supported formats include .MOV and .MPEG4.

In your submission, you will need to include a brief introduction of yourself (no longer than a minute) as well as a reading from your original poetry in English, or with English translation. Also, include a statement similar to: “I’m performing this for the Fall Virtual 2020 edition of the Bridgewater International Poetry Festival.”

The festival videos will be publicly available on the BIPF YouTube page. You can also access information about the festival on the BIPF Twitter page and the BIPF Facebook page.

The festival will be made public in two playlists on November 16 and 17, 2020. There is no end date anticipated for the poems to be removed

Send submissions by email to lit-conf@bridgewater.edu.

DEADLINE: October 12, 2020

https://wp.bridgewater.edu/bipf/fall-2020-virtual-event/

TWH Winter Retreat 2020 Writing Workshop Fellowship

The Watering Hole

INFO: TWH’s Retreat will take place December 26-30 (Virtual Retreat via Zoom Video Conference)

The retreat features living room style daily classes/workshops, daily craft talks, two readings, one performance workshop, a keynote speech, group writing challenges, and a genuine community. Our mission is to build Tribe through genuine relationships and help poets reach their best work. (This is not the application for the Manuscript Coaching Fellowship.)

Writing Facilitators: John Murillo, Justin Phillip Reed, TBD
Performance Facilitator:  Ebony Stewart  
Keynote:  Tyehimba Jess

APPLICATION PROCESS

Submission Components: 1 Cover Letter (with aesthetics statement) + 3 poems (written within the last two years). Do not include your name on these materials. Judging will be blind.

The cover letter must be written. The poems may be written or audio. We accept a variety of file types.

Eligibility: You must be 21 years of age by December 25th.

If you need help with the basic cover letter format, check out our blog post of Cover Letter Advice.

The type of aesthetics statement that we ask for is a paragraph or two that details...

1. who influences your art,

2. what challenges have you faced on your creative journey,

3. what you seek to accomplish in your poems,

4. and what The Watering Hole means to you as a writer of color.

This will contextualize the poems in your submission and help us get to know you as an artist. You may also optionally include how your art or aesthetic informs what you do, where you work, or any work you do in the arts community or vice versa.

Make certain your submission is your final version. Corrections and new versions will not be accepted.

Additional Note: We ask for a sample of your recent poetry, because we don't want to see "hits from the '80s." We want to get to know you through your current artistic voice.

SUBMISSION FEE: $25

DEADLINE: October 15, 2020

https://twhpoetry.submittable.com/submit/156024/twh-winter-retreat-2020-writing-workshop-fellowship

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Apogee Journal

INFO: We consider submissions as they come in during the month-long reading period. We aim to choose pieces for publication by November, to finish editing pieces by mid-January, and to send rejections by the end of January. We share this tentative timeline to help manage any anxiety that comes with the submissions process. 

Apogee is a journal of literature and art that engages with identity politics, including but not limited to: race, gender, sexuality, class, ability, and intersectional identities. We are a biannual print publication featuring fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and visual art. Our goals are twofold: to publish fresh work that interrogates the status quo, and to provide a platform for underrepresented voices, prioritizing artists and writers of color.

Working toward these goals, our fiction team is piloting several initiatives. Go here to 1. read what the team looks for (and other FAQ) and 2. complete a Submitter Form. Then submit your work at the Apogee Journal Submission Manager. You must complete the Submitter Form and submit your manuscript for us to consider your fiction. Please note, these steps apply only for fiction submissions. For guidelines on how to share poetry and nonfiction, please see below.

We often receive work from over-represented perspectives whose primary goal is to interrogate its privilege or come to terms with the “other.” Please note: this is not the work we seek to elevate at Apogee. We look for work that centers the experience of marginalized perspectives. We want to foster work that addresses the politics of identity, such as migration, diaspora, multiculturalism, privilege, hierarchy, oppression, though these themes are not a requirement for publication. We believe the exploration of perspectives and voices that are mostly unheard and ignored is a political act itself. To read our mission statement, please visit this page.

• All work must be previously unpublished.

• Cover letters are optional.

• Please include a current bio.

• We accept simultaneous submissions. Please notify us if your work has been accepted elsewhere.

• For prose submissions, please send a maximum of 5,000 words, in either .doc or .docx format.

• Please send only one piece per reading period.

• Please send a maximum of five poems in the same document, either .doc, .docx, or .pdf format.

DEADLINE: October 15, 2020

https://apogeejournal.org/submit/

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Rigorous

INFO: Rigorous is an online journal highlighting the works of authors, artists, critics, and educators of color. We take our name from an accusation commonly leveled at authors of color—that our works are not as rigorous as works created by white authors. We add our voices; we continue to prove otherwise.

We publish fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, visual art, sound art, audiovisual art and movies, cartoons, and any other artistic creations by people of color. We accept all genres, and have a particular affinity for science fiction, superheroes, and other “geek” genres. We enjoy work geared toward the Young Adult market, but we note that Rigorous will sometimes have content that is “Not Safe For Work.”

We seek essays on the personal experiences of people of color and interviews with interesting people of color. We seek critical analysis of art by people of color. We are especially interested in stories about and by educators of color, and the experience of teaching the works of people of color.

Rigorous is edited by Rosalyn Spencer and Kenyatta JP Garcia. Its next issue will be released around the end of October. If you’d like to submit, please do so through Submittable. If you are a white ally working on these issues, please consider our friends at Unlikely Stories and horse less press.

All submissions are handled through Submittable. Please submit up to 10 files, with a maximum of 3000 words.

Please include a cover letter with a brief bio (up to 100 words).

DEADLINE: Extended to October 15, 2020

https://rigorous.submittable.com/submit

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Underblong

INFO: Underblong, a poetry journal, is seeking poetry for the current reading period.

We only accept unpublished submissions.

Absolutely no: racism, homophobia, misogyny, transphobia, ableism, Islamophobia, orientalist b.s., fat-shaming, colonialist exoticizing or fetishizing of cultures and peoples, appropriation of experiences & communities that aren’t yours, general literary assholery, “edgy” or “ironic” renditions of any of the above. If you send us this crap, we will point it out. So, like, don’t.

COMPENSATION: We offer a modest $20 for each contributor. We will promote contributors like we are on fire. Grateful for every submission. Thank you for believing in us & trusting us with your work. 

DEADLINE: October 15, 2020

https://www.underblong.com/send-plz

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: POETRY

Pangyrus

INFO: Pangyrus publishes well-crafted, thought-provoking writing in every genre: fiction, poetry, journalism, essays and memoirs, reviews and criticism, comics and visual arts. We publish two print editions a year, and continuously online.

We are interested in showing the range of poetry that exists in the contemporary moment.

First and foremost, we publish poetry in a wide range of styles and voices that moves us deeply and has us see the world in a new way. 

In addition, our specific categories: Zest!;  Politics, Environment, and Society; In Sickness and In Health; Field Notes; and Schooled are always open to poetry submissions. 

Please send a maximum of 3 poems contained within a single document.  Because our volume of submissions is high, we ask that you submit only once per reading period.

SUBMISSION FEE: $3

DEADLINE: October 15, 2020

https://pangyrus.submittable.com/submit

2020 Brush & Lyre Prize

Palette Poetry

INFO: We are so thrilled to offer poets space to stretch their creativity into new and exciting projects. This unique multimedia contest will accept work that incorporates poetry into new media formats, including but not limited to: music, video, art, photography, sculpture, and performance—use the communication technique that you feel most creatively gets across the experience of your poetry. You choose the creative canvas. $3500 will be awarded and all winners will be published on Palette Poetry.

We will rate the work accordingly: 50% poetic experience, 50% media experience. Each submission must include poetry into the work in some significant way—visually written or audio recorded. Ekphrasis is welcome as well, as long as the art is original.

We're looking to experience poetry in a new way, beyond just black text on a blank page!

AWARD: Our editorial team will select the winner of the $3000 top prize, as well as two runner-ups for $300 and $200 respectively.

GUIDELINES:

• Submissions must include at least one significant multimedia aspect, such as video, photography, sculpture, audio, painting, or performance.

• Submissions are open internationally, to any poet writing in English—other languages are okay to include, as long as the meat of the poem is in English.

• Please keep any recordings or video to under 8 minutes in length. Please upload videos and include links when you can—works better than the native upload on submittable itself.

• Collaborations are welcome.

• The author may appear in the video and/or credits.

• A poem that has been published previously may be included into the new work, if the new multimedia aspect is original and unpublished. You must have permission from the previous publisher of the work however, and the poem must be your own or a collaborator's.

• There is no page requirement, but submission must be no more than 2 individual works.

• We do accept multiple submissions, but each submission will include the reading fee.

• Please include a brief cover letter with your publication history

• Review our FAQ page for frequently asked questions.

DEADLINE: October 18, 2020

https://palettepoetry.submittable.com/submit

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: MELIORA

Lucky Jefferson

INFO: After four enthralling issues, we are turning a new leaf and ending our first arc of collective poems and flash fiction with our upcoming fifth issue, Meliora! Submissions for this winter 2020 issue should bend the rules and challenge form; submissions should speak to the raw, healing nature of owning one’s truth, new beginnings, or the concept of ever better.

What does Meliora mean to you?

For this celebratory issue, we are interested in unpublished experimental, visual/concrete, and hybrid poetry; we tend to adore shorter poems (less than 18 lines in length).

SUBMISSION FEE: $3

DEADLINE: October 25, 2020

https://luckyjefferson.com/submit/

CALL FOR BLACK WRITERS

Knights Library Magazine

INFO: The Knights Library Magazine is looking for Black writers to fill our inbox for our special December issue. If you are a Black poet, playwright, fiction writer, nonfiction writer, etc., please send us your work.

All work submitted must be original material and previously unpublished.

Super secret special guest judges to be announced soon, so keep your eyes peeled on Twitter!

GUIDELINES:

• One poem or prose piece can be submitted. No longer than 3 pages (poetry) and 8 pages (prose).

• Work must be submitted as a separate Word document where your name does not appear in the document.

• You must be a Black writer.

• Please submit to BlackWriters@KnightsLibraryMagazine.co

DEADLINE: October 31, 2020

https://www.knightslibrarymagazine.com/?fbclid=IwAR24ZMLuPbpXlxcssHSoDJHtISZcVl3JRHQn3SQrQTmkX_M6Y062rKhw5As

Start A Riot! Chapbook Prize

Foglifter

INFO: In response to rapid gentrification and displacement of QTBIPOC+ literary artists in the San Francisco Bay Area, and in celebration of these communities’ revolutionary history, Foglifter Press, Radar Productions, and Still Here San Francisco are pleased to announce Start a Riot! - a chapbook series for local emerging queer and trans Black writers, Indigenous writers, and writers of color.

AWARD: Each year, the prize will honor one author with:

• chapbook publication

• a $1,000 prize

• promotion

• a spot on the Sister Spit Tour

ELIGIBILITY:

• Submitter is a QTBIPOC+ literary artist

• Submitter is a current resident of the larger San Francisco Bay Area

• Submitter does not have a previous full-length publication in their submission genre

MANUSCRIPT DETAILS:

• Open to all genres, including poetry, fiction, nonfiction, hybrid, graphic novels

• 25 pages (maximum)

IMPORTANT DATES:

• Deadline: November 1, 2020

• Results Announced: Spring 2021

• Chapbook Release: Fall 2021

https://foglifterjournal.com/submit-to-start-a-riot/

JACK STRAW WRITERS PROGRAM

Jack Straw Cultural Center

INFO: Jack Straw Cultural Center is now accepting applications for the 25th year of the Jack Straw Writers Program. To date, the program has included more than 275 writers from the Pacific Northwest and beyond who represent a diverse range of literary genres. Each year, an invited curator selects 12 participants.

The purpose of the Jack Straw Writers Program is to introduce writers to the medium of recorded audio; to develop their presentation skills for both live and recorded readings; to encourage the creation of new literary work; to present the writers and their work in live readings, in an anthology, on the web, and on the radio; and to build community among writers. Participating writers are presented in live readings, in the printed Jack Straw Writers Anthology; and on the web and radio. Each year an invited curator selects the participating writers from a large pool of applicants based foremost on artistic excellence. Among past curators are program co-founder Rebecca Brown, Anastacia- Renée, Donna Miscolta, Matt Briggs, Stephanie Kallos, Shawn Wong, and Jourdan Imani Keith. Writers receive training in vocal presentation, performance, and microphone technique to prepare them for public readings, interviews, and studio recording. Their recorded readings and interviews with the curator are then used to produce programs for SoundPages, our literary podcast, and for selected radio broadcast.

The Writers Program requires participants to be on-site at Jack Straw Cultural Center for a number of activities, such as an introductory orientation, workshops for microphone/voice technique and live performance, in-studio interview session with the program curator, and live readings. (See Covid-19 advisory for more on this.) Most of these activities take place between January and June. Additional Writers Program readings will take place around the community throughout the year, including a final reading with all of the writers in November. Work appearing in the Jack Straw Writers Anthology may not be previously published material, and any subsequent publication of this work must acknowledge the Jack Straw Writers Program.

The 2021 Writers Program Curator is E. J. Koh.  E. J., a 2016 Jack Straw Writers Program fellow, is the author of the memoir The Magical Language of Others (Tin House Books, 2020) and poetry collection A Lesser Love (Louisiana State University Press, 2017), winner of the Pleiades Editors Prize for Poetry. Her poems, translations, and stories have appeared in Academy of American Poets, Boston Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, PEN America, Slate, and World Literature Today. Koh is the recipient of The Virginia Faulkner Award for Excellence in Writing from Prairie Schooner and has received fellowships from the American Literary Translators Association, Kundiman, MacDowell Colony, Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, and Vermont Studio Center. She is the editor for Pleiades: Poetry by Korean American Women and has appeared in anthologies: Bettering American Poetry Vol. 3, Privacy Policy: The Anthology of Surveillance Poetics, Political Punch: Contemporary Poems on Politics of Identity, and The World I Leave You: Asian American Poets on Faith and Spirit. Koh earned her MFA at Columbia University in New York for Creative Writing and Literary Translation. She is completing her PhD at the University of Washington in English Language and Literature.

Selection Process

Writers Program applications are evaluated and awarded by an invited curator. The curators change each year. All applicants will be notified of the results in writing. Please allow at least eight weeks after deadline dates for the review and notification process to be completed. The first Writers Program mandatory meeting will take place in January 2021.

Selection Criteria

The Writers Program receives more than a hundred applicants, from which 12 writers are selected. Curator selections will be based upon the excellence of the work represented in the support materials provided by the applicant.

Covid-19 Advisory

We will almost certainly need to adapt the 2021 Writers Program to fit the safety requirements of the current situation, as we have been doing for the 2020 Writers. Some elements – such as workshops, readings, and meetings – will be moved online, and some will be adjusted to minimize the number of people sharing space. 

It is impossible to know exactly what the situation will look like in January, when this program is set to begin, so we are requesting your patience, flexibility, and adaptability in advance. Know that we will do whatever we can to help you get the most out of this program and find community with your cohort and curator. 

DEADLINE: November 3, 2020

https://jackstraw.submittable.com/submit/90532/jack-straw-writers-program

THE OCM BOCAS PRIZE FOR CARIBBEAN LITERATURE 2021

INFO: The OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature is an annual award for literary books by Caribbean writers, first presented in 2011. Books are judged in three categories: poetry; fiction — both novels and collections of short stories; and literary non-fiction — including books of essays, biography and autobiography, history, current affairs, travel, and other genres, which demonstrate literary qualities and use literary techniques, regardless of subject matter. (Note: textbooks, technical books, coffee-table books, specialist publications and reference works are not eligible.)

There will be a panel of three judges for each category, who will determine category shortlists and winners.

The three category winners will then be judged by a panel of four judges — consisting of the chairs of the category panels and the prize chair — who will determine the overall winner.

AWARD: The author of the book judged overall winner will receive an award of US$10,000. The other category winners will receive US$3,000.

To be eligible for entry for the 2021 prize, a book must:

1. Have been first published in the calendar year 2020 (1 January to 31 December);

2. Have been written by a single author who either holds Caribbean citizenship or was born in the Caribbean (this must be verified by the publisher), regardless of current place of residence; 

3. Have been written by an author who is living on 31 December, 2020;

4. Have been written and first published in English originally (i.e. translations are not eligible);

5. Be a new work, previously unpublished in book form (though collections including poems, stories, essays, or other short pieces that have individually appeared in print in periodicals or anthologies are eligible).

The OCM Bocas Prize is requesting both digital and print copies of each entry for 2021:  a PDF file of the book must be uploaded with the entry form below, and five copies of the book must be mailed via reliable courier to The Bocas Lit Fest.

DEADLINE: November 9, 2020

https://www.bocaslitfest.com/2021/awards/ocm-bocas-prize-entry/

CALL FOR AUDIO SUBMISSIONS: HEARD/WORD

Galleyway

INFO: HEARD/WORD is Galleyway's new audio series highlighting compelling voices in poetry and prose. We invite you to share recordings of original poems and short fiction. Selected work will be showcased on our blog and social media platforms. Submissions should include:

• MP3 recording of you reading your poetry (no longer than 3 minutes) or short fiction (no longer than 5 minutes)

• Text version of the piece

• A headshot 

• A brief bio

• Social media handles and link to website

Please send submissions to camille@galleyway.com

DEADLINE: Ongoing

https://galleyway.com/blog/2020/3/31/call-for-audio-submissions

POETRY -- SEPTEMBER 2020

THE CONISTON PRIZE

Radar

INFO: The Coniston Prize is an annual award that recognizes an exceptional group of poems by a woman writing in English.

Submit 3-6 previously unpublished poems in a single document through our submissions manager. You may include a cover letter and brief bio in the comments box. Multiple submissions are acceptable with additional reading fee.

Please remove all identifying information from the poems themselves. All contest submissions will be read anonymously.

This award recognizes an exceptional group of poems. We therefore suggest that you submit poems that are intentionally cohesive in some way, whether connected by subject matter, theme, voice, style, or imagery.

Simultaneous submissions are acceptable, but we cannot refund contest fees if you have to withdraw all or part of your submission. Multiple entries are acceptable with an additional fee.  

2020 Judge: Ada Limón

Ada Limón is the author of five books of poetry, including The Carrying, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and was named one of the top 5 poetry books of the year by the Washington Post. Her fourth book Bright Dead Things was named a finalist for the National Book Award, a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She serves on the faculty of Queens University of Charlotte Low Residency M.F.A. program, and the online and summer programs for the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. She also works as a freelance writer in Lexington, Kentucky.

AWARD: The winner receives $1,500 and is featured in Radar's dedicated contest issue, which is released in October of each year. Finalists are also awarded publication.

DEADLINE: September 1, 2020

https://www.radarpoetry.com/contest

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: REANIMATING ANCESTORS

Pleiades

INFO: We are seeking poetry and hybrid texts that exist despite imperialistic attempts at erasure. Does your work juxtapose time, place, and systems of thinking? Do you situate your readers within the multiplicities and nuances of your existence? Do you reanimate what has been widely forgotten? If history, ancestors, and an opposition to losing narratives maneuver your syntax, send us your work.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Please email a submission of up to 5 poems or hybrid texts to pleiadespoetryeditor@gmail.com, with the subject line “Reanimating Ancestors”. We are open to all interpretations of “hybridity,” though we would prefer each piece to be under 1,500 words. Please do not exceed 10 pages in your submission, and please send only one submission. For this folio, we will only consider previously unpublished work.  *Note that we cannot print in color, but we are open to publishing any work that utilizes color images on our website.

DEADLINE: September 1, 2020

https://pleiadesmag.com/submit/

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: POETRY

NELLE

INFO: NELLE proudly publishes the best, most exciting, poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and hybird forms written by individuals identifying as women.

Submit up to five poems at a time. Kindly wait until you hear back from us before submitting new work for consideration. All submissions should include a cover letter with a brief biographical statement.

All submissions will be automatically considered for our Three  Sisters Awards. A prize of $500.00 will awarded in each category of  poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.

SUBMISSION FEE: $3

DEADLINE: September 2, 2020

https://nelle.submittable.com/submit

Black Lives Matter Zine

Brushfire Literature & Arts Journal

INFO: This issue of the Brushfire Loose Leaf Zine is dedicated to recognizing and celebrating the black artists and writers who wish to share their experiences, their stories, and their work with the Reno Nevada arts community. All and any forms of creative expression that can be published in either a printed or audio-recorded format are welcome. 

For those contributing spoken word poetry or music, please provide a written version of your poems or lyrics. We aim to share both a printed version of your work in the zine, alongside the actual audio recording you submit with it, which will be featured in an audiobook we edit together for the Zine at the end of the project.

Our goal is to make sure the voices of black writers and artists are being heard and prioritized in our community, as well as to help circulate those voices by widely sharing their stories and creative projects with families, local artists, students, and businesses. The BLM Zine and its accompanying audiobook will also be published digitally on the Brushfire website for all to access in the future. 

DEADLINE: September 5, 2020

https://brushfire.submittable.com/submit/170292/black-lives-matter-zine

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: "FINDING A WAY"

Ayaskala

INFO: Ayaksala — an indian literary magazine and press passionately creating and curating art around mental health and its multi facets — is accepting submissions for its September issue. Theme is “Finding a way.”

Think about houseplants, your indoor greens. They grow in their own way, albeit less exposed to the outside world. Sometimes, they take over your walls, your desks, the lonely corners of your house. They find a way to bend towards any speck of light they can find. It doesn't matter that they don't have the same liberty as other plants outside, they still find a way to exist and thrive. Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you had to make the best out of what you had? Ever had to find a way through unfamiliar circumstances? Tell us your stories of conquering unknown territories, overcoming predicaments, and triumphing over your demons.

Tell us about how you found a way.

• Poetry - under 500 words (per piece) / up to 3 poems per monthly submission cycle

• Prose - under 1000 words (per piece) / up to 1 prose per monthly submission cycle

• Creative Non-Fiction - under 1000 words (per piece) / up to 1 CNF piece per monthly submission cycle

• Fiction - under 1000 words (per piece)/ up to 1 fiction piece per monthly submission cycle

• Letter - under 1000 words (per piece)/ up to 1 letter per monthly submission cycle

DEADLINE: September 6, 2020

http://ayaskala.com/magazineguideline

The Margins Fellowship

Asian American Writers’ Workshop

INFO: Through the Margins Fellowship, the AAWW offers emerging writers resources that they can take advantage of, such as access to workshops and trainings, publication opportunities, and programming opportunities in our event space. We also want to give artists a chance to develop as curators, armed with the resources of a literary arts institution.

The Margins Fellowship is a year-long program. The 2021 fellowship year will run from January 11 to December 17.

STIPEND: $5,000 honoraria, distributed in three parts over the fellowship year. Fellowship payment will require the completion of an IRS W-9 or W-8BEN form;

RESIDENCY: Fellows are awarded residency time at The Millay Colony—an innovative seven-acre artists retreat space at the former house and gardens of poet Edna St. Vincent Millay in Austerlitz, NY;

WRITING SPACE: 24/7 access to AAWW’s space, when the space reopens. Given that time and space to write are rare in New York, the Margins Fellows will be given keys to the AAWW Reading Room and workspace;

PUBLICATION: Fellows are invited to publish work on our online magazine, The Margins;

MENTORSHIP: In the second half of the fellowship term, fellows are paired with an established writer who will meet with fellows either in-person or virtually at minimum four times during and after the fellowship year. Previous mentors include Hua Hsu, Tina Chang, Monica Youn, Alexander Chee, Meera Nair, and Kaitlyn Greenidge;

CAREER BUILDING: Fellows are offered access to private career meet-ups and meetings with editors, agents, and fellow writers;

AAWW MEMBERSHIP: Free membership to AAWW includes discounts on book sales and free access to general programs;

WRITING WORKSHOP: One free writing workshop organized through AAWW ($200);

GUIDANCE: AAWW Programs Manager will meet with you periodically throughout the fellowship year to discuss your career goals and how AAWW can help you meet them;

FINAL READING: Fellows will take to the stage with their mentors for a final celebratory reading at the culmination of the fellowship year;

HEADSHOTS: We invite a photographer to take professional headshots of our fellows that they can use going forward.

DEADLINE: September 7, 2020

https://aaww.org/fellowships/margins/

SUMMER POETRY CONTEST

Aurora Poetry

INFO: The winning poem will receive $500 and publication in an upcoming issue of Aurora Poetry. Up to two additional poems may be awarded "Honorable Mention" status and $50. Poems will be considered for publication in Aurora Poetry, regardless of whether they place in the contest.

Each poem should be 100 lines or less and must be submitted as .doc, .docx, or .rtf files. Entries may consist of up to three poems. Only poems which have not been previously published in any form are eligible for consideration. Simultaneous submissions are permissible and encouraged, but please notify us immediately if any of the poems you've submitted to us are accepted elsewhere. Multiple entries are permissible, however, each entry require a separate fee. All entry fees are non-refundable. All entries which do not adhere to these guidelines may be subject to disqualification. No further edits will not be allowed to poems once they have been submitted.

The contest winner will be announced on or before October 31, 2020. We reserve the right to extend the contest deadline as necessary, so long as the winners are announced by this date.

SUBMISSION FEE: $15

DEADLINE: September 12, 2020

https://aurorapoetry.submittable.com/submit

SAAG WRITING PRIZE 2020

Southern Alberta Art Gallery

INFO: The Southern Alberta Art Gallery is pleased to announce the 9th annual SAAG Writing Prize. This writing competition encourages and recognizes the work of emerging arts writers in Alberta and BIPOC+ writers within Canada.

This year, we are honored to introduce the Aruna D’Souza Arts Writing Prize [BIPOC+ Arts Writing]. The award is named after Aruna D'Souza who will also be a guest juror. D'Souza writes about race in modern and contemporary art, intersectional feminisms, and how museums shape our views of each other and the world. Her most recent book, Whitewalling: Art, Race, and Protest in 3 Acts (Badlands Unlimited), was named one of the best art books of 2018 by the New York Times. She is currently editing two forthcoming volumes, Making It Modern: A Linda Nochlin Reader, and Lorraine O’Grady: Writing in Space 1973-2018, and is co-curator of the upcoming retrospective of Lorraine O’Grady’s work, Both/And, which will open in March 2021 at the Brooklyn Museum.

Applicants are invited to submit to the following categories:

SAAG Arts Writing Prize [Arts Writing]

• Long form text, critical essay, and exhibition review.

• Alberta-based arts writers are eligible for this category.

SAAG Arts Writing Prize [Poetry & Prose]

• Long form text, fiction, non-fiction. poetry, and experimental writing.

• Alberta-based arts writers are eligible for this category.

Aruna D’Souza Arts Writing Prize [BIPOC+ Arts Writing]

• Open format category of arts writing in any style, long or short form awarded to an author who self-identifies as Black, Indigenous, or as a Person of Colour.

• Canadian (citizen or resident) arts writers are eligible for this category.

PRIZES: The prizes for each writing prize category are:

• SAAG Arts Writing Prize [Arts Writing]: $250 prize & writing published online in Galleries West

• SAAG Arts Writing Prize [Poetry & Prose]: $250 prize & Gushul Writers Cottage residency for a Southern Alberta arts writer for the month of November, 2020

• Aruna D’Souza Arts Writing Prize [BIPOC+ Arts Writing]: $1000 prize & writing published online with Canadian Art

• All submissions will be included in our SAAG Arts Writing Prize Reader 2020, printed in-house at SAAG in our Publication Studio.

• All participants are invited to our Writing Prize Reception | Thursday, October 1, 2020 | 6-8 PM

ELIGIBILITY: At the time of entry, writers must be at least 18 years of age and have fewer than five pieces of writing published in a nationally distributed magazine.. Submissions to [Poetry & Prose] and [Arts Writing] must be from Alberta to be eligible. The Aruna D’Souza Arts Writing Prize [BIPOC+ Arts Writing] is open to all of Canada. Students and emerging writers are encouraged to participate. All applicants are encouraged to include a current CV and short biography. Writing submissions must not have been previously published elsewhere.

DEADLINE: September 13, 2020 

https://www.saag.ca/public-engagement-adults/saag-writing-prize-2020

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: ISSUE 6

Sequoyah Cherokee River Journal

INFO: Mysti S. Milwee, Editor/Publisher of Sequoyah Cherokee River Journal is accepting submissions for Issue 6. Seeking Poetry, Prose, Art (Paintings), Ekphrastic Collaborations, Collaborations, Micro Flash Fiction and Art Photography, & Photography.

If you would like your poetry translated into her Native language (Sequoyah Cherokee Syllabus) please let her know. There is a fee of $0.08 cents per word. (she accepta PayPal or Money Order only).

All accepted poetry that is translated will be published in the journal.

Please submit work relating to:
Nature, water, sky, animals, Native American folk, tales or stories.

Send your work(s) up to 5 poems or artworks and bio via email to:
mystiart21@gmail.com

In the subject line please state:
Your name, # of works, and Sequoyah Cherokee River Journal

DEADLINE: September 13, 2020

https://sequoyahcherokeeriverjournal.wordpress.com/

2020 Toi Derricotte & Cornelius Eady Chapbook Prize

Cave Canem

INFO: Launched in 2015, the annual Toi Derricotte & Cornelius Eady Chapbook Prize is dedicated to the discovery of exceptional chapbook-length manuscripts by Black poets, and is presented in collaboration with the O, Miami Poetry Festival and The Betsy – South Beach.

Award: Winner receives $500, publication by Jai-Alai Books in 2021, 10 copies of the chapbook, a residency in early April at The Writer’s Room at The Betsy Hotel in Miami, and a featured reading at the O, Miami Poetry Festival.

Final Judge: Mahogany L. Browne (Judge reserves the right not to select a winner or honorable mentions.)

First Readers: April Freely and Taylor Johnson. Cave Canem uses a blind judging system to arrive at the contest winner and honorable mention(s).

Eligibility: This is not a first-book award. All unpublished, original collections of poems written in English by black writers are eligible. Simultaneous submission to other chapbook awards should be noted: immediate notice upon winning such an award is required. Winner agrees to be present in the continental United States at her or his own expense shortly after the book is published in order to participate in O, Miami 2021.

Exclusions: Current or former students, colleagues, employees, family members, and close friends of the judge; current or former employees and members of the board of Cave Canem Foundation, Jai-Alai Books or O, Miami; and authors who have published a book or have a book under contract with Jai-Alai Books are ineligible.

If any of the selected authors fall under the above exclusions, they will be disqualified and a replacement chosen from among the finalists. As the poetry community is small and the contest is judged blind, acquaintance with the judge and participation in a workshop taught by the judge are not disqualifying criteria.

ENTRY FEE: $0. Though, donations may be made to Cave Canem here.

IMPORTANT DATES: 

• Deadline: September 15, 2020 at 11:59 pm EST

• Winner Announced: On or before December 31, 2020

https://cavecanempoets.org/prizes/toi-derricotte-cornelius-eady-chapbook-prize/

The Anzaldúa Poetry Prize

Newfound

INFO: The Gloria E. Anzaldúa Poetry Prize is awarded annually, in conjunction with the Anzaldúa Literary Trust, to a poet whose work explores how place shapes identity, imagination, and understanding. Special attention is given to poems that exhibit multiple vectors of thinking: artistic, theoretical, and social, which is to say, political.

The annual poetry prize proudly honors poet, writer, and cultural theorist, Gloria E. Anzaldúa. Anzaldúa’s work highlights how one’s place in the world is at once geographical, geopolitical, psychological, mythological, spiritual, and linguistic. She is well known for her book of prose and poetry, “Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza,” which draws on her experience as a Chicana/Tejana/lesbian/feminist activist—a revolutionary and inspirational work that continues to be so.

Guest Judge: Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

AWARDS: First place is publication, $1,000 prize, and 25 contributor copies. Three finalists will be announced, and all previously unpublished work will be considered for publication as a general submission to the journal.

READING FEE: $15

DEADLINE: September 15, 2020

https://newfound.org/poetry-prize/

GMR Vol. 31.2: Black Voices

Green Mountains Review

INFO: 2020 has been tough. We are wading through the grief and difficulty wrought by a pandemic and the long history of racism, classism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, able-ism, and many other -isms symptomatic of a profoundly unjust society. Recent protests build upon decades of movement building and offer Americans an honest, if uncomfortable, reckoning with our past and a radical way forward that values the sanctity of Black lives of all kinds.

We know that the work of writers and artists is always crucial at these turning points in history. In his posthumous New York Times Op-Ed, Congressman Lewis wrote to us, “You filled me with hope about the next chapter of the great American story when you used your power to make a difference in our society.” And the late, legendary Toni Morrison wrote, “Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.” 

So, let us read and write and speak our way forward. Black folks, send us your writings. Send us your tomorrows. Send us your yesterdays. Offer us your accounts of this moment and of the past and your speculations about what the future might hold. 

GMR Volume 31.2 will feature Black voices and be edited by Tara Betts, Naomi Jackson, and Keith S. Wilson. The content is yours. The form is open.

GUIDELINES: Please submit a cover letter and include up to 5 poems or up to 25 pages of prose.

DEADLINE: September 15, 2020

https://greenmountainsreview.submittable.com/submit/170216/gmr-vol-31-2-black-voices

Fall 2020 Call for Submission

A Gathering Together

INFO: A Gathering Together is a literary journal that resists the easy and often unsophisticated attempt to say profound things in the moment, without deep contemplation, or in the heat of discursive battle.

We primarily select works that speak to Mekhet--the Kemetic (Ancient Egyptian) term for resonating across time and space. This term is reserved for works that simultaneously transcend and address the moment they speak from, works that will last beyond the creator's last breath and still be relevant, or works that put the writer and reader in conversation with the intellectual thought of Ancestors of all kinds.

Our writers are primarily descendants of Africa and her Diaspora. All writers whose works resonate with the human experience, and thus the Diasporic African experience, are considered. Our back issues are all available online and serve as a good model for the variety of writers and works we've featured.

We welcome submissions of previously unpublished essays, short stories, poetry, reviews, visual art, and film for our Fall 2020 issue. We have extended the current deadline for our fall issue to September 15th.

Artists who want to be featured in our upcoming issues are invited to send us a letter of interest, brief bio, and a sample portfolio. Writers who want to conduct artist interviews are welcome to send us pitches letting us know how the interview and artist would be a good fit for our journal. Features are generally published January-March or July-September.

A Gathering Together is unable to compensate writers at this time.

DEADLINE: Extended to September 15, 2020

https://www.agatheringtogether.com/how-to-submit/

CHAPBOOK Submissions

Bone & Ink Press​

INFO: Bone & Ink Press is now accepting chapbook submissions for publication in 2021. From now until September 15, 2020, we are only accepting submissions from Black writers. After September 15, until the end of the year, we will be open for submissions from everyone. We are not here to police people’s identities, nor do we have time to check up on making sure everyone’s who they say they are, so I’ll reiterate: if you are white, or a non-Black POC, please wait until after September 15 to submit.

GUIDELINES:

• Manuscripts should be in standard, 12 pt. font, single-spaced, and no more than thirty pages (excluding front matter).

• All works must be primarily in English. You don’t have to live in the US, English doesn’t have to be your first language (and in fact we highly encourage writers from other countries and those writing in English as a second language to submit), and of course you can include words / sections in other languages, but English should be the primary language of the work. (Note: if you’re writing in a vernacular or style other than standard US English, that’s totally cool too! By “English,” we mean any version of it.)

• Almost any genre/form is cool with us. We like creative non-fiction, poetry, and fiction. Got a hybrid work? Poetry + lyric essays? A book-length poem? Great! Send them to us! Writing horror, sci-fi, fantasy, or other speculative stuff? Yes, please!

• Here’s what we don’t want:

  • Extreme violence or gore. Horror’s cool, as stated above, and some violence/gore is fine if it’s essential to the work (no matter the genre), but if it reads as violence-for-violence’s-sake, or like splatterporn, we won’t publish it.

  • Porn/erotica. Again, you can put in as much sex as you want if it fits in the context of the work, but we’re not a porn or erotica press. There are other outlets for that!

  • Homophobia, transphobia, misogyny, racism, xenophobia, etc. Again, context is important. If the work is about experiencing any of those things, that’s fine, but we don’t want misogynistic rants or anything like that.

  • Art books/comics. If there are a few illustrations or photographs that are essential to the work, that’s fine, but the manuscript should be primarily text.

• Collaborative works are neat, please just make sure that the names of all authors are included in the manuscript and in your submission email.

• By submitting, you are certifying that the work is an original creation by you (and any collaborators, if applicable). Found poems (such as erasures, centos, etc.) are great. So are works inspired by other writers (aka “after” poems). But due to an unfortunate uptick in plagiarism in the poetry community in recent years, we’re asking that you cite your sources. Meaning: if you have any found and/or “after” pieces in your manuscript, please include some kind of footnotes or endnotes citing the texts you used to create any found pieces, and the texts which inspired any “after” pieces.

• The manuscript must be previously unpublished. This includes self-publishing, or publishing online. Pieces from the work may have appeared elsewhere, but the manuscript as a whole must be previously unpublished.

• Simultaneous submissions are fine, please just let us know ASAP if your work is accepted elsewhere.

DEADLINE: September 15, 2020

https://www.boneandinkpress.com/manuscript-submissions

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Points of Contact Anthology

Philippine Collegian

INFO: Contributions are now welcome for the latest literary anthology of the Philippine Collegian, Points of Contact.

The COVID-19 pandemic has hollowed out nearly all communal spaces. Most of us spend our waking hours at home, deprived of intimacy and companionship. The few times we venture outside are now governed by rules of social interaction and calculated navigation that, if violated, could lead to more dangerous consequences than at almost any other time. So, we retreat into isolation and, at the same time, brave bouts of dread and despair over woes that relentlessly fray our nerves and collective bonds.

The pandemic has indeed exacted a toll, both personal and political, with far-reaching repercussions which the Philippine Collegian continues to take stock of in our coronavirus coverage. Still, there remains so much unsaid about the situation that we wish to capture and acknowledge in a way that is not strictly reportorial. We believe that a literary anthology would, to some small measure, contribute to making sense of the one thing everyone has been struggling with amid lockdowns and roiling crises—distance.

This literary anthology hopes to be an examination as it is a challenge. We are interested in works that rethink distance from various perspectives. Distance, in this case, may reference proximity, geography, time, emotion, or the gaps we bridge and the spaces we map out to open up new trajectories.

Possibilities abound for what the future has in store. But it is yet hard to find a patch of firm ground at this moment of crisis, when, by our lonesome, we cannot act together with others and mobilize to the degree that we could have before the pandemic. Our distance from one another provides a fertile ground for inaction. Such is precisely the crack that we can see has been exploited to railroad policies, like the Anti-Terrorism Law, that are bound to shrink our spaces for dissent and fracture our communities even more rapidly than has so far been done already.

Now may not be a good time as any to problematize our circumstances as a literary project. But such is the task that writers and artists, in our rather privileged positions, must inevitably confront. We thus very much welcome contributions that do not shy away from rhetoric and polemics, the summons of ideology, the defiance of formal structures. We are on the lookout for pieces that provoke and unsettle.

GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION

1. The call for contributions is open to all Filipino writers and artists with works, in either Filipino or English, under any of the four categories: (a) short fiction, (b) poetry, (c) essay, and (d) graphic literature. Collaborative works are welcome, and so are pieces that blend together or experiment with genres, transgressing their normative boundaries.

2. All original and unpublished contributions to the literary anthology of the Collegian must be sent to phkule@gmail.com, cc: sheilaannabarra@gmail.com and rccornelio@up.edu.ph. The deadline is 20 September 2020, 11:59 p.m.; late entries will not be considered.

3. Only one submission per category will be accepted. But one may submit an entry in at most two categories. Simultaneous submissions are also allowed, but the Collegian must be notified immediately if the piece is slated for publication elsewhere.

4. For the subject heading of the email and the filename of the submission, kindly follow this format: <Kule Lit Antho 2020 surname_genre>, e.g., Kule Lit Antho 2020 Perez_Poetry. Email your submission as an attachment of the .docx file. Should one wish to keep typography or page design intact, as with some poetry or graphic literature pieces, a PNG and/or PDF file of the work must be submitted instead.

5. Entries for the prose categories must be single-spaced, typeface Segoe UI or Roboto, font size 11. Each submission must follow a 1,000-5,000-word count limit.

6. Entries for the poetry category may either be a standalone poem or a suite consisting of at most five (5) poems, in which case a collective title must be provided.

7. For graphic literature:

a. Entries for comics must be in portrait, and within a 6” x 8” size. It must be at least one (1) but not more than four (4) pages long.

b. Entries for photo essays may be up to 15 photos. There will be no limit imposed for aspect ratio, but the file size for each photo must not be beyond 5 mb, and the text must follow a 1,000-word count limit. The raw and edited file must be uploaded in a Google Drive folder. Collaboration of up to three people is allowed.

c. Entries for illustrations may either be in landscape or portrait, and should not be more than 6” x 8” in size. Important elements should be away from the 0.125-inch bleed.

8. Please do not include any author’s name or metadata within the pages of the file attachment. Instead, as an in-line text in the email, include a brief bionote of not more than 250 words, indicating institutional affiliation and professional email address.

9. In submitting an entry, one shall retain ownership of copyright of their work. But the Collegian shall have the right, upon consultation with the author, to edit portions of the work to suit the demands of publication.

10. An acknowledgement of receipt will be sent within a week of the submission. Please give the issue editors a response time of at least three months before inquiring about the status of one’s submission. The final table of contents of the anthology will have been released by the next couple of weeks.

If you have any questions, you may contact us through our email address: phkule@gmail.com, or message us through our social media accounts @phkule.

DEADLINE: September 20, 2020

https://www.facebook.com/phkule/posts/3130951613652431?__tn__=K-R

Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers

New York Public Library

INFO: The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers offers Fellowships to people whose work will benefit directly from access to the research collections at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. Renowned for the extraordinary comprehensiveness of its collections, the Library is one of the world’s preeminent resources for study in anthropology, art, geography, history, languages and literature, philosophy, politics, popular culture, psychology, religion, sociology, sports, and urban studies.

The Cullman Center’s Selection Committee awards fifteen Fellowships a year to outstanding scholars and writers—academics, independent scholars, journalists, creative writers (novelists, playwrights, poets), translators, and visual artists. Foreign nationals conversant in English are welcome to apply. Candidates for the Fellowship will need to work primarily at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building rather than at other divisions of the Library. People seeking funding for research leading directly to a degree are not eligible. 

The Cullman Center looks for top-quality writing. It aims to promote dynamic communication about literature and scholarship at the very highest level—within the Center, in public forums throughout the Library, and in the Fellows’ published work.

A Cullman Center Fellow receives a stipend of up to $75,000, the use of an office with a computer, and full access to the Library’s physical and electronic resources. Fellows work at the Center for the duration of the Fellowship term, which runs from September through May. Each Fellow gives a talk over lunch on his or her current work-in-progress to the other Fellows and to a wide range of invited guests, and may be asked to take part in other programs at The New York Public Library.

DEADLINE: September 25, 2020

https://www.nypl.org/help/about-nypl/fellowships-institutes/center-for-scholars-and-writers/fellowships-at-the-cullman-center

Miller Williams Poetry Prize

The University of Arkansas Press

INFO: Every year, the University of Arkansas Press accepts submissions for the Miller Williams Poetry Series and from the books selected awards the $5,000 Miller Williams Poetry Prize in the following summer. For almost a quarter century the press has made this series the cornerstone of its work as a publisher of some of the country’s best new poetry. The series and prize are named for and operated to honor the cofounder and longtime director of the press, Miller Williams.

Series editor Patricia Smith serves as the judge for the Miller Williams Poetry Prize. With the help of screeners, she awards to three authors publication in the series. This is the most significant award the press can offer: the opportunity for the author’s work to be published with all the dedication and expertise we have to offer. We provide professional copyediting by expert poetry editors, design and production by veteran designers who specialize in the typesetting of verse, and production managed by a house with a history of printing first-rate books. We believe this offers the poet the best possible opportunity to connect with his or her audience in print. This prize goes to all three books selected for the series. Three of the books are announced as finalists for the Miller Williams Poetry Prize. One is further chosen as the winner of the prize and receives $5,000 in cash in addition to publication.

DEADLINE: September 30, 2020

https://www.uapress.com/millerwilliamspoetryseries/

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: CITIZENSHIP AND ITS DISCONTENTS

Anomaly

INFO: When we talk about immigrants, we tend to focus on those who come here seeking greater opportunity, higher education, and the American Dream. But, what about those for whom America was not their first choice, who ended up here because of war, persecution, colonization, adoption, migration, and displacement? If you have ever felt excluded, unwanted, or like you didn’t belong, if your Americanness has ever been challenged or denied, if you don’t fit neatly into a box on the Census… we want to hear from you.

Refugees, Dreamers, transnational adoptees, third culture kids, parachute kids, deportees, citizens of US territories overseas, descendants of enslaved people: Tell us your stories for a special folio of Anomaly. 

Send up to 4,000 words of essay, memoir, creative nonfiction, poetry, or hybrid narrative, to citizenshipfolio@gmail.com.

Guest editor: Grace Loh Prasad
Email: citizenshipfolio@gmail.com
Twitter: @GraceLP

DEADLINE: September 30, 2020

http://anmly.org/call-for-submissions-citizenship-and-its-discontents/?fbclid=IwAR0CMnn8AuZbF00e-02BbPq-esN8k3Qhjqc9QCgHK9yZ614GkcuH4jCNvqA

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Meliora

Lucky Jefferson

INFO: After four enthralling issues, we are turning a new leaf and ending our first arc of collective poems and flash fiction with our upcoming fifth issue, Meliora! Submissions for this winter 2020 issue should bend the rules and challenge form; submissions should speak to the raw, healing nature of owning one’s truth, new beginnings, or the concept of ever better.

What does Meliora mean to you?

For this celebratory issue, we are interested in unpublished experimental, visual/concrete, and hybrid poetry; we tend to adore shorter poems (less than 18 lines in length).

DEADLINES / SUBMISSION FEES:

Early Bird Submissions (free): August 1 – September 30

Last Call Submissions ($3): October 1 – October 25

https://luckyjefferson.com/submit/

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: (RE)FORMATION ISSUE

Yellow Arrow Journal

INFO: Yellow Arrow Journal is a biannual publication of creative nonfiction, poetry, book reviews, and cover art by writers/artists that identify as women.

Interested in submitting to this issue? Do you have creative nonfiction, poetry, a book review, or cover art you would like to share? See below for Submissions Guidelines and sign-up to our newsletter to receive updates about the Journal and Yellow Arrow Publishing.

If selected, you will receive $10.00USD and a PDF of the journal issue.

We receive many wonderful submissions but have limited room in each issue. Please do not be discouraged if your submission is not accepted or you miss the deadline—there will be more opportunities available to you in the future.

SUBMISSIONS GUIDELINES

• Accepted submissions include creative nonfiction and poetry by authors that identify as women (book review and cover art guidelines follow below).

• Submissions must relate to the theme of (Re)Formation, as interpreted by the author, using the following guiding questions (these will change for each theme):

  • What does it take to shape or form something? Ourselves? How do we sustain what we form? Why is it meaningful?

  • How do we know when reformation is necessary? Why is it necessary sometimes? What can we gain through such a transformation?

  • Can a personal (re)formation become a community act? How? Why might this be necessary at times?

  Formation – an act of giving form or shape to something

  Reformation – an act or process of reforming something

• Creative nonfiction (1 submission per author per issue) must be between 500 and 5,000 words (if interested in submitting full-length manuscripts, please visit Publish With Us for further information).

• Poetry (up to 2 poems per author per issue, grouped into a single document) may be any length (if interested in submitting chapbooks, please visit Publish With Us for further information).

• Submissions do not need to be in English but must include an English translation (note that it may not be possible to accept foreign nonfiction submissions due to editing concerns).

• No previously published work will be accepted at this time—this includes all printed and online material; if a submission is published elsewhere in the interim, email submissions@yellowarrowpublishing.com immediately.

DEADLINE: September 30, 2020

https://www.yellowarrowpublishing.com/submissions

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Chopsticks Alley Pinoy

INFO: Chopsticks Alley Pinoy, in the spirit of kapwa (roughly translated as “being together”), is seeking submissions from our fellow Filipinx Americans.

In particular, we are interested in the notion of identity. What does it mean to be Filipinx American? You might or might not call the islands home. You might easily or uneasily call the United States home. We want to know what it feels, looks, and means to be Pin@y in the States. We want to know the layers of identity and how they intersect with our connection to the Philippines. We want to share the nuances of being in-between and the conflicts of choosing what is lost and losing what you don’t even know. Bring us your stories, long or short, prose or poetry.

A few guiding questions:
-How do you accept, perform, and/or deny your Filipinx identity?
-How does being Filipinx juxtapose your other identities and roles, e.g. LGBTQ+, being a mother, first/second/third generation?
-What does the Philippines stand for to you?
-How has (de)colonization changed your identity and/or understandings of self?
-Are there ways that stereotypes affect your life?

We are seeking fiction, poetry, and nonfiction submissions to share with our readers. Send submissions or questions/comments/inquiries to pinoychopsticksalley@gmail.com.

We cannot offer compensation but will provide feedback on all pieces submitted. Our co-Editor, Asela Lee Kemper, has a background in editing and reviewing poetry at various literary magazines including Marías at Sampaguitas with a BFA in Creative Writing. Co-Editor, Giannina Ong, brings previous experience with reviewing and editing nonfiction at her university literary magazine as well as a B.A. in English.

DEADLINE: September 30, 2020

https://www.facebook.com/1665138136879538/posts/calling-all-writers-we-have-exciting-news-chopsticks-alley-pinoy-in-the-spirit-o/3176128019113868/

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Rigorous

INFO: Rigorous is an online journal highlighting the works of authors, artists, critics, and educators of color. We take our name from an accusation commonly leveled at authors of color—that our works are not as rigorous as works created by white authors. We add our voices; we continue to prove otherwise.

We publish fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, visual art, sound art, audiovisual art and movies, cartoons, and any other artistic creations by people of color. We accept all genres, and have a particular affinity for science fiction, superheroes, and other “geek” genres. We enjoy work geared toward the Young Adult market, but we note that Rigorous will sometimes have content that is “Not Safe For Work.”

We seek essays on the personal experiences of people of color and interviews with interesting people of color. We seek critical analysis of art by people of color. We are especially interested in stories about and by educators of color, and the experience of teaching the works of people of color.

Rigorous is edited by Rosalyn Spencer and Kenyatta JP Garcia. Its next issue will be released around the end of October. If you’d like to submit, please do so through Submittable. If you are a white ally working on these issues, please consider our friends at Unlikely Stories and horse less press.

All submissions are handled through Submittable. Please submit up to 10 files, with a maximum of 3000 words.

Please include a cover letter with a brief bio (up to 100 words).

DEADLINE: October 5, 2020

https://rigorous.submittable.com/submit

CALL FOR AUDIO SUBMISSIONS: HEARD/WORD

Galleyway

INFO: HEARD/WORD is Galleyway's new audio series highlighting compelling voices in poetry and prose. We invite you to share recordings of original poems and short fiction. Selected work will be showcased on our blog and social media platforms. Submissions should include:

• MP3 recording of you reading your poetry (no longer than 3 minutes) or short fiction (no longer than 5 minutes)

• Text version of the piece

• A headshot 

• A brief bio

• Social media handles and link to website

Please send submissions to camille@galleyway.com

DEADLINE: Ongoing

https://galleyway.com/blog/2020/3/31/call-for-audio-submissions

POETRY -- AUGUST 2020

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: CARIBBEAN FEMINIST STORIES

Intersect

INFO: Intersect, a Caribbean feminist organization committed to decolonial & intersectional knowledge production through storytelling in Antigua and Barbuda is seeking fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and art exploring Caribbean feminism. Themes are "Colourism" and "Growing Up Queer" in the Caribbean.

We need more grassroots feminist scholarship that allows us to hear and listen to diverse voices of people and their experiences with and perspectives on colourism and queerness in Antigua and Barbuda and throughout the Caribbean region. The word "queer" is also often deployed in a way that obscures people's unique experiences as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or gender non-conforming. Do you embrace this term? What does it mean to you? What have you learned about being a lesbian or a gay man and/or non-binary person from the Caribbean? The descriptions under each theme are writing prompts to help you get started. We're really hoping to receive submissions on these topics!

Fiction and non fiction: 500-1,000 words.

Poetry: less than 1,000 words.

Submit your pieces to intersect.anu@gmail.com.

DEADLINE: August 1, 2020

https://www.instagram.com/p/CA0IX-IjgL2/

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

The Remnant Archive

INFO: The Remnant Archive is committed in welcoming new voices and delightfully accepts submissions from everyone, especially women and non-binary individuals, members of the LGBTQIA community, and BIPOC.

We want poetry that is both moving and provides a strong visual to the reader. Let us know about your relationship with your mother, your deepest fears, what excites you, what makes you human. We want this to be a safe space for you to let your emotions take a hold of you. The beauty of poetry lies in its rawness and that honesty is all we want.

We are open to accept general poetry (maximum 2 pages), Haikus and micro poetry (3-6 lines). Short prose that defies structural order also falls under poetry for us.

If you’re a novice in poetry writing, don’t be hesitant in submitting your work. We believe that each poetry is special as long as it is imaginatively and moving.

We do not accept previously published poetry, that includes poetry that has been posted on your personal blog or social media. Additionally, if you’re making simultaneous submissions and get accepted somewhere else, let us know immediately.

Send us a maximum of 3 poetries combined in one single document for one reading period.

PAY: Please keep in mind that TRA is not a paying market right now, although we hope to monetarily appreciate our contributors in the future.

DEADLINE: August 15, 2020

https://www.theremnantarchive.com/submission

The Annual Stonewall Chapbook Competition

Brickhouse Books

INFO: The Stonewall Chapbook Competition is dedicated toward highlighting the voices of the LGBTQIA+ community.  The competition offers authors a chance to have a chapbook published by BrickHouse Books’ Stonewall imprint.  This is a wonderful opportunity for LGBTQIA+ authors to have their shorter works of poetry or short fiction published (BHB’s normal submissions guidelines prefer a minimum of 50 pages; Stonewall is 20-30 pages).

The prize is: publication of your chapbook, along with a featured online press release announcing both your win and the release of your chapbook.

Your judges are: Senior staff members of BrickHouse Books and a special guest judge.

Winner is declared in: December.

DEADLINE: August 15, 2020

https://brickhousebooks.wordpress.com/submissions/stonewall/

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Doek! 

INFO: Doek! — a literary magazine from Namibia — seeks nuanced, exciting, challenging, disturbing, and transformative work from the following categories of eligible writers and poets:

• Namibians, or those of Namibian descent, residing in Namibia;

• Namibians, or those of Namibian descent, in the diaspora; and

• Foreign nationals residing in Namibia who have a direct connection with Namibia (through the work they produce).

Unsolicited submissions from other foreign nationals are not presently accepted.

ACCEPTED SUBMISSIONS

• Narrative-driven short fiction hotter than a city pavement, sizzling like kapana, and more filling than a porsie chips met spice en asyn (bread roll and butter sold separately).

• Nonfiction with a point that haunts beyond the last full stop.

• Poetry that takes the reader to the edge of their senses and beyond.

Only original work will be considered. Previously published work (in any medium, including social media or personal blogs) is not accepted.

Novel or manuscript excerpts are not eligible for consideration.

Submissions must be written in English. Writers may use words or phrases from any of Namibia’s indigenous languages provided their meaning can be understood within the text.

Submissions may not exceed 3000 words. There is no minimum word count.

Submissions must be typed: Times New Roman, 12 pt, 2.0 line spacing. The document should only contain the title and the body text of the submission. No identifying details (name, contact number, or email address) may be used in the filename or be placed anywhere in the submission document.

Only one submission per person per submission window period. Eligible writers may not submit to more than one category.

Simultaneous submissions are permitted and should be retracted when accepted for publication elsewhere.

Writers and poets must be 18 years of age or older at the time of submission.

Past contributors must wait one year from the date of their publication before submitting to Doek! again.

Submissions which do not adhere to the provided guidelines will not be considered.

DEADLINE: August 15, 2020

https://doeklitmag.com/submissions/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=doek-has-grown

CALL FOR ENTRIES: THE LIT EXHIBIT 2020: ARCHIVES

The Lit Exhibit

INFO: This year we are inviting creatives to reflect on the Archive, and to send us poetry, micro fiction, installation art, and experimental writing that speaks to this premise.

We would also like to deepen the conversation on archiving through a public forum / webinar. The archive has value: it is a means of preservation, tradition, knowledge. How do we protect memory?

These conversations are not irrelevant in these times: the means of archiving information provides accountability & often healing. We are interested in collaborating with other archivists who might be interested in co-facilitating a workshop with us! We hope to inspire people to create their own archives & to possibly share with us for our upcoming exhibition.

DEADLINE: Extended to August 15, 2020

https://www.thelitexhibit.nyc/apply

Brooklyn Poets Fellowships: Fall 2020 Workshops

Brooklyn Poets

INFO: We award fellowships to promising students in need to enroll in a workshop, manuscript consultation or retreat for free. We also offer partial fellowship awards to finalists and semifinalists. Applicants must not be enrolled in a degree program with access to creative writing instruction or have previously published (or had accepted for publication) a book of poems. Additionally, applicants who hold a graduate degree in creative writing (MA/MFA/PhD) will be considered separately for only one fellowship award per season. Applicants are limited to one workshop/consultation fellowship and one retreat fellowship lifetime and eligible for only one fellowship per year.

To apply for a fall 2020 workshop fellowship, submit 4–5 poems, published or unpublished, eight pages max. Make sure to include a cover letter detailing your writing background, why you're interested in a particular workshop/teacher, and why you need financial aid (250–350 words).

We strongly encourage writers of color, LGBTQ+ writers, women writers, writers with disabilities and writers from other underserved communities to apply.

DEADLINE: August 16 by 11:59pm. Fellowship decisions will be announced on August 30.

https://brooklynpoets.org/workshops/fellowships/

Emerge-Surface-Be fellowship Program

The Poetry Project

INFO: The Poetry Project has always been a space that facilitates and values contact and learning between poets from different generations and experiences, and in 2013 we initiated the Emerge-Surface-Be fellowship program to formalize that relationship-centered pedagogical model while providing a unique opportunity to support and uplift emerging NYC-based poets. For the first six years we supported three emerging poets annually, and beginning in 2020-2021 the program grew to supporting five. Fellows are selected by and paired with their own poet mentors, who then work together over the course of nine months to support the Fellow in developing their craft; to explore publication and performance opportunities; and to reflect on the professional and community-based dimensions of a writing life. Ideal Fellows will have a project they are working on or want to embark upon, and feel that they would benefit from guidance and support. Each Fellow will receive an award of $2,500.

In addition to receiving the honorarium and working one-on-one with their mentors, Fellowship also includes access to all Poetry Project events (free workshops, free readings, free publications); participating in the Annual New Year's Day Marathon Reading; and contributing to The Poetry Project's journal, The Recluse. As a culminating event, Fellows read in The Poetry Project's Monday Night or Friday Night Reading Series with introductions made by their mentors. Fellows will be invited to attend gatherings with the Project staff, as well as the other Fellows and mentors. Poetry Project staff and mentors will also work with each Fellow to find other unique opportunities for deepening, sharing, and connecting their poetry to specific goals the Fellows might have.

Applicants that have achieved some measure of local, regional, or national professional recognition will be judged favorably, as will applicants who have been published or had work presented in recognized publications and venues. However, the most important criterion is that an applicant's work shows potential. Therefore, demonstration of a high level of skill and unique stylistic vision will be considered in the decision making process.

Our definition of "emerging" is a writer who has local and perhaps regional recognition and may have national exposure, though not national recognition. As a top limit, an emerging writer has published no more than one full­ length perfect bound book and no more than three chapbooks (not including self­-published work in chapbook form).

The Poetry Project embraces diversity in the broadest sense of the word. This principle is reflected in the choice of mentor poets and will be reflected in the selection of Fellows.

DEADLINE: August 16, 2020

https://www.poetryproject.org/about/programs/fellowships/emerge-surface-be

Seeking Diverse Writers for Children's Books

Heinemann Publishing

INFO: Heinemann Publishing, a leading publisher of leveled books, is looking for freelance writers to write engaging fiction, nonfiction, and poetry for children in grades 2 to 6. 

We are eager to find voices that are as diverse as our students. Writers who identify as BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color), LGBTQIA+, or disabled are encouraged to apply. We are especially interested in Native/Indigenous writers.

The ideal candidates will have a highly engaging writing style and can pitch ideas that are compelling to kids. We prefer candidates who have some experience writing for children but encourage all to apply. The assignments will be work for hire.

Please submit a resume and unedited writing samples. 

DEADLINE: August 17, 2020

https://heinemannpublishing.submittable.com/submit/170038/seeking-diverse-writers-for-childrens-books

CALL FOR SUBMISSION: COMEDY WRITING

Riot Act

INFO: RIOT ACT is an online journal for comedy writing – fiction, articles, poetry and more! We love all things funny and thought provoking and believe in the power of comedy as catharsis – taking power from the things that are difficult to talk about and laughing about them instead.

We’re particularly interested in work by women and non-binary writers, LGBTQ+ writers and writers of colour, but everyone is welcome. If you’re not sure if your piece fits with our objectives, please submit anyway! We will be happy to read and provide feedback.

We’re based in Glasgow, Scotland and love UK comedy – but we’d love to hear from you no matter where in the world you are!

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR:
Our goal isn’t to make fun of anything, but to showcase how comedy writing can make all sorts of subjects accessible. We want to hear your story – what makes you angry, what upsets you, what brings you joy, what makes you laugh.

We’re happy to accept short fiction, poetry, non-fiction, articles… anything! If your style is a little bit more experimental and you’re not sure if you fit into those categories, go ahead and send it in anyway. We will read and provide feedback to all.

We will NOT accept any pieces that perpetuate sexism, racism, ableism, homophobia, biphobia, transphobia, or any other sort of -ism or -phobia you can think of. We will happily read about your experience of these things, but pieces that discriminate against others will be rejected.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

Fiction, non-fiction and articles limit – 1,000 words

Poetry limit – 3 pages (up to 3 poems)

Please include a short (50 words max) third person bio to be included with your work, and any social media handles you would like to be included. You can also include a headshot if you like!

Feel free to include any artwork you would like to accompany your piece (incl. photography) but please make sure you have the rights to use it!

Please send all submissions in .docx format, size 12, single spaced to riotactmag@gmail.com.

‘We’ are a one-woman team, so please allow up to 14 days for a reply, and feel free to query if you have not heard back after this time.

We will accept simultaneous submissions, but please let us know if your piece has been published elsewhere and withdraw your submission by emailing riotactmag@gmail.com. Please do not publish any pieces you have submitted to Riot Act on social media or other publications before their publication in Riot Act.

Your work will always be yours, first and foremost. You can re-submit pieces to Riot Act that have been published elsewhere, but please make sure you tell us so we can credit the initial publication. Similarly, if you re-submit a piece published by Riot Act first, we kindly ask that you request Riot Act to be credited as its initial publication.

If Riot Act would like to republish your work in future as part of an anthology, we will let you know so that you have an opportunity to decline if you so wish.

We do not currently charge reading fees and so are unable to pay upon publication – we hope this is something we can reconsider in future! However, we will promote you across our social media on Twitter and Instagram, in email campaign updates and in our issues.

DEADLINE: August 20, 2020

https://riotactmag.com/submit/

Because You Can: Single Parents Writer Prize

Reclaim the Warrior

INFO: Reclaim the Warrior and Helen Knott are opening a call of submissions for single parents only, single dads & single mamas & single parents who are non binary/LGTBQ2S (in Canada only). Yes, you have to be the primary caregiver holding most of the weight.

Up to 2000 words in a genre of your choice. This doesn’t have to be single parent related but can be if you want. It can be fantasy, poetry, critical narrative etc. (don’t feel like you have to hit 2000 it can be 2 poems if that’s your vibe)

Send submissions to: helen@fiercewithheart.com

PRIZES: $1500 each and a one on one consult session with me on whatever you are working on (if you are a writer) or general writing advice.*

DEADLINE: August 22, 2020

Winner will be announced the following week- if there is a high volume of submissions the winner will be announced in early September.

https://reclaimthewarrior.com/2020/07/24/because-you-can-single-parents-writer-prize/

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Mixed Mag

INFO: Mixed Mag is a multimedia publication dedicated to promoting multiethnic/multicultural voices.

We are always accepting submissions covering politics, TV/film, theatre, creative writing, health/sex/wellness, food & visuals/photography. Send us your stories, poems, articles, personal essays, recipes & more! 

​SUBMISSION GUIDELINES​

• Written Submissions such as articles, think pieces, short stories, reviews and essays must be between 1500-3000 words (sections include FICTION/CNF, POLITICS, TV/FILM/THEATER, MUSIC, FOOD, HEALTH AND WELLNESS)

• POETRY: Submit up to three poems

• TV/FILM/THEATER: Monologues must be 5 pages max. Plays/screenplays must be between 10-15 page max (this includes plays, films and web series). Short films or web series episodes must be no longer than 15 minutes.

• ART: Photo/visual submissions should be 10 photos/videos max 

• Please include what section you are submitting to in the email subject line.

send to submissions@mixedmag.co

DEADLINE: August 25, 2020

https://twitter.com/MixedMag/status/1276631534586429441

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: LOS ANGELES-BASED WRITERS

Craig Carpenter / Afrophonics

INFO: 2020 has lived up to the hype as a tension filled year. The upcoming presidential election serves as a referendum on our leadership, and reflects growing divides in the country. The tidal wave of events that started the year with impeachment hearings rolled into spring with the pandemic induced lockdown. Perhaps without surprise, late spring became protest season with another string of videotaped racism and killings of unarmed people of color by law enforcement or an act of vigilantism. The Black Lives Matter movement, long seen with suspicion, was suddenly joined by throngs of Americans across the spectrum, blanketing the country with voices of anger, impatience and, finally, support. 

This is an especially uncertain time. Capturing this moment, before we see the longer term results unfold, can prove instructive for later generations. Those of you familiar with my work have seen my concert and street portrait photography. The lockdown had me, like everyone else, antsy and impatient at being indoors during a beautiful springtime. The protests were a call to action, both civically and politically, but also creatively. I attended several protests in Los Angeles, leaving, not only with a good amount of photos, but also a heartened feeling - that this time might be different. That this time might bring real change, and not just hope. And I decided to make it into a book project, tentatively titled, TRUTH IS NOT THE WHOLE QUESTION: Los Angeles in Lockdown and Protest.

SEEKING ESSAYS and POEMS to be included as part of an art book collection of photography captured during the lockdown and protests in Los Angeles this late Spring. 300 - 1500 words. All Los Angeles based voices welcomed. Honorarium provided for selected and included submissions. Contact with inquiries. 

DEADLINE: N/A

https://www.afrophonics.net/7442634-truth-is-not-the-whole-question?fbclid=IwAR0mT4ZC8JV5obAesqnUSOWuPq8_K7XfEJYER708m3MFrJA129dqEiRUNFM

CALL FOR POEMS: “HOME”

Voice and Verse Poetry Magazine

INFO: POETS from all over the world! What does “home” mean to you?

In Issue 56 of 聲韻詩刊 Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine — a Hong Kong-based print bilingual (Chinese and English) poetry publication distributed by the Chinese University Press — will publish an English-language section on “Home”.

Previously unpublished poems on this topic can be sent to swpoetry@gmail.com before 30 August 2020 with the subject line “VV: Home: [your initials]” for consideration. Each poet can submit up to two poems (please do not send us PDFs).

NOTE: Only poets whose work is accepted will be notified. If you do not hear a response within two weeks, please assume that your work has not been selected for publication.

DEADLINE: August 30, 2020

vvpoetry.com/2020/07/17/call-for-poems-home/?fbclid=IwAR0KTLmCshsY2VWrwrxy2ZmlIhn3rhA9C1TIL5V7HQcFH5K0hlCL-PzLbN4

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Autumn 2020

Macro Magazine

INFO: We are currently accepting submissions for Macro Autumn 2020 on the Black Lives Matter movement.

We accept varying types of written submissions.

• Short form: approximately 50 word observations on the topic of the magazine. We ask for these in both English and the native language of the country from which you are submitting - if you speak it

• Medium form: approximately 500-600 word essays on the topic of the magazine

• Long form feature essays: approximately 800-1,000 word essays and not more than 1,500 words on the topic of the magazine

• Poetry of varying lengths

• Fiction: approximately 500-600 words based on the topic of the magazine
  
  In addition to written submissions we also accept artwork, photography, or other forms of artistic expression. Unfortunately, we are not able to accept these pieces through this form. If you would like to submit artwork, please make a note in the submission section and we will get in touch with you via email.

IMPORTANT DATES:

• Deadline: August 31, 2020

• Notification: By September 14, 2020

https://www.macro-mag.com/contribute/

THE CONISTON PRIZE

Radar

INFO: The Coniston Prize is an annual award that recognizes an exceptional group of poems by a woman writing in English.

Submit 3-6 previously unpublished poems in a single document through our submissions manager. You may include a cover letter and brief bio in the comments box. Multiple submissions are acceptable with additional reading fee.

Please remove all identifying information from the poems themselves. All contest submissions will be read anonymously.

This award recognizes an exceptional group of poems. We therefore suggest that you submit poems that are intentionally cohesive in some way, whether connected by subject matter, theme, voice, style, or imagery.

Simultaneous submissions are acceptable, but we cannot refund contest fees if you have to withdraw all or part of your submission. Multiple entries are acceptable with an additional fee.  

2020 Judge: Ada Limón

Ada Limón is the author of five books of poetry, including The Carrying, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and was named one of the top 5 poetry books of the year by the Washington Post. Her fourth book Bright Dead Things was named a finalist for the National Book Award, a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She serves on the faculty of Queens University of Charlotte Low Residency M.F.A. program, and the online and summer programs for the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. She also works as a freelance writer in Lexington, Kentucky.

AWARD: The winner receives $1,500 and is featured in Radar's dedicated contest issue, which is released in October of each year. Finalists are also awarded publication.

DEADLINE: September 1, 2020

https://www.radarpoetry.com/contest

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: REANIMATING ANCESTORS

Pleiades

INFO: We are seeking poetry and hybrid texts that exist despite imperialistic attempts at erasure. Does your work juxtapose time, place, and systems of thinking? Do you situate your readers within the multiplicities and nuances of your existence? Do you reanimate what has been widely forgotten? If history, ancestors, and an opposition to losing narratives maneuver your syntax, send us your work.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Please email a submission of up to 5 poems or hybrid texts to pleiadespoetryeditor@gmail.com, with the subject line “Reanimating Ancestors”. We are open to all interpretations of “hybridity,” though we would prefer each piece to be under 1,500 words. Please do not exceed 10 pages in your submission, and please send only one submission. For this folio, we will only consider previously unpublished work.  *Note that we cannot print in color, but we are open to publishing any work that utilizes color images on our website.

DEADLINE: September 1, 2020

https://pleiadesmag.com/submit/

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: POETRY

NELLE

INFO: NELLE proudly publishes the best, most exciting, poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and hybird forms written by individuals identifying as women.

Submit up to five poems at a time. Kindly wait until you hear back from us before submitting new work for consideration. All submissions should include a cover letter with a brief biographical statement.

All submissions will be automatically considered for our Three  Sisters Awards. A prize of $500.00 will awarded in each category of  poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.

SUBMISSION FEE: $3

DEADLINE: September 2, 2020

https://nelle.submittable.com/submit

CALL FOR AUDIO SUBMISSIONS: HEARD/WORD

Galleyway

INFO: HEARD/WORD is Galleyway's new audio series highlighting compelling voices in poetry and prose. We invite you to share recordings of original poems and short fiction. Selected work will be showcased on our blog and social media platforms. Submissions should include:

• MP3 recording of you reading your poetry (no longer than 3 minutes) or short fiction (no longer than 5 minutes)

• Text version of the piece

• A headshot 

• A brief bio

• Social media handles and link to website

Please send submissions to camille@galleyway.com

DEADLINE: Ongoing

https://galleyway.com/blog/2020/3/31/call-for-audio-submissions

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Muslim-Jewish Solidarity Committee

INFO: The Muslim-Jewish Solidarity Committee is launching Shalom/Salaam Publishing, and looking for written work (short stories, poetry, etc) and imagery (paintings, photos, illustrations, collage, etc) that transcends boundaries, brings people together, and inspires faith in humanity.

The Muslim-Jewish Solidarity Committee (MJSC) is a grassroots organization guided by the Muslim and Jewish values of Peace שָׁלוֹם سلام, Learning علم‎‎ יֶדַע, and Charity زكاة‎‎ צדקה, to build meaningful relationships between all faiths, and to stand against hate through shared values and social action

DEADLINE: Ongoing

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdku-rxQnpN8yB6vqnoRuDwKPnsxeOlThH6aWjts1f31Wabew/viewform

'AWAKE' ZINE SUBMISSION

Lucky Jefferson

INFO: Lucky Jefferson's new digital zine Awake seeks to amplify the experiences and perspectives of Black and African American writers in American society. This digital zine will highlight poems, essays, and art from writers of color and the different opportunities and challenges of cultural assimilation in America, establishing identity and preserving culture, and the concept of double-consciousness. 

Upon acceptance, submissions will be included on our website and publicized on social media.

GUIDELINES:

- Send no more than three poems in a submission. Poems should be submitted in a single file, with poems separated by titles or page breaks.

- If sharing an essay, include an essay with no more than 1500 words. 

- Send no more than three pieces of art. Artwork that offers social commentary on the Black experience is highly preferred (We love comics and collage pieces!).

- Include a cover page highlighting the poet’s name, email address, biography, and mailing address. Biographical statements should be two to three sentences or 50-75 words.

DEADLINE: Ongoing

https://luckyjefferson.submittable.com/submit/167135/lucky-jefferson-awake-zine-submission

POETRY -- JULY 2020

LATINX LIT CELEBRATION GUEST EDITED BY RUBEN QUESADA

[PANK]

INFO: We will be publishing poetry, prose, non/traditional, and media by Latinx writers to raise awareness of the breadth of their experiences and talents. If you identify as Latinx and would like your work to be considered for publication, please submit by July 1 using the following guidelines:

For poetry:

• Up to 3 poems

• Include all poems in a single file

• Begin each new poem on a new page

For prose:

• Up to 3,000 words of fiction or non-fiction

For Non/Traditional or Media:

• Use MP3 or MP4 only, with a file size under 60MB.

DEADLINE: July 1, 2020

https://pankmagazine.submittable.com/submit/166847/latinx-lit-celebration-guest-edited-by-ruben-quesada

CALL FOR WORK: TO SPEAK AS A FLOWER: A FOLIO OF PERFORMANCE WRITING

Anomaly

INFO: Anomaly invites previously unpublished submissions of poems, prose, playwriting, video, art, and hybrid genres of work that might fall under a broad rubric of performance writing. We embrace this term’s wide scope, encompassing everything from Don Mee Choi’s turn to playwriting conventions in “Hardly Opera” (from which we draw our title) and jayy dodd’s scene in Anomaly‘s issue 26 folio Radical : Avant Garde Poets of Color, to Tatsumi Hijikata’s dance notations and Duriel Harris’ musical scores as poems.

We are interested in work that uses performance as one of its tools, work which is made possible by a relationship to performance — even if that performance never happens, or imagines impossible commitments. What forms might such composition take if it followed Etel Adnan’s provocation that “memory and theatre work in similar ways,” or if it pursued a stage “more open to different ways of moving” (as Hilton Als has characterized Adrienne Kennedy’s work)? We are committed to promoting the work of marginalized and underrepresented artists, including by Black, Indigenous, and other artists of color, as well as, disabled, neurodivergent, women, queer, trans, and gender nonconforming artists — and we wonder whether this form might be especially useful for these artists!

DEADLINE: July 1, 2020

https://medium.com/anomalyblog/call-for-work-to-speak-as-a-flower-a-folio-of-performance-writing-63d1b9193564

Inverted Syntax Sublingua Prize for Poetry

INFO: The Inverted Syntax Sublingua Prize for Poetry awards a cash prize of $1,000 and publication in our print issue for exceptionally crafted, previously unpublished poem(s) by a writer who has not yet published a full-length manuscript nor a chapbook exceeding 44 pages. The awe-inspiring poet Khadijah Queen will judge. All submission entries are also considered for publication.

Though it’s called the Inverted Syntax Sublingua Prize for Poetry, we accept work that celebrates hybridity, resisting genre-specificity. Whatever poetry means to you, send it our way.

ENTRY FEES (Three options):

• $15 :The Sublingua Prize submission entry fee is $15. Includes submission fee ONLY. 

• $25: Submission Fee +  Nov 2020 issue included 

• $35: Submission Fee + TWO issues: Feb 2020 & Nov 2020 included 

DEADLINE: July 2, 2020

https://invertedsyntax.submittable.com/submit/160792/inverted-syntax-sublingua-prize-for-poetry-judged-by-khadijah-queen

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Rigorous

INFO: Rigorous, an online journal highlighting the works of authors, artists, critics, and educators, seeks fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, visual art, sound art, audiovisual art and movies, cartoons, and any other artistic creations by people of color.

Submittable. Please submit up to 10 files, with a maximum of 3000 words.

Please include a cover letter with a brief bio (up to 100 words).

For text submissions: we prefer an easily-editable file, from Microsoft Word or OpenOffice Writer. We know that line spacing is very important to some poets, so some poets prefer to submit a .pdf file to ensure their spacing is handled properly. If you do this, please submit a .pdf and a Word (or Writer) file.

We are open to spoken word presentations, songs, and music videos. Feel free to submit an audio or audiovisual file of such performances. When you do so, additionally submit a Word or Writer file with the full text of your submission.

DEADLINE: July 7, 2020

https://rigorous.submittable.com/submit

CALL FOR SUBMISSION: AFRO-LATINX POETS

INFO: The ALEGRIA media & publishing familia is a diverse community of LatinX creators. Our mission has always been to give voice to those who are historically underrepresented. As a company we are committed to doing more, and to keep learning and listening more to our Afro LatinX & African Americans community.

As artists and creators, we are being called to use our talents to leave this world a lot better than how we found it. This is not art for art’s sake -but as a way to give center stage to the writers and creatives that otherwise will be oppressed by our system, and to learn about their stories.

That’s why we are calling on black poets to be part of a new poetry book. We are asking for 1 -2 poems*.

Themes: What is your experience of love? How do you envision a more compassionate and just world?

Poems must explore love, compassion, justice & equality. 

Email your poems to davina@alegriamagazine.com.

DEADLINE: July 10, 2020

https://www.instagram.com/p/CB015OhnzcJ/

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Fat & Queer: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Bodies and Lives

INFO: Fat & Queer: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Bodies and Lives is an anthology challenging the negative and damaging representation of fat bodies in popular culture. This anthology will celebrate our bodies, our lives, and present illuminating examples of fat & queer literature. 

Editors Bruce Owens Grimm, Miguel M. Morales, and Tiff Ferentini have teamed up to boost the voices of people who live at the intersection of fatness and queerness, especially the voices of fat and queer QTBIPOC.  Fat & Queer: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Bodies and Lives, which will be published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers, an imprint of Hachette, in 2021.

Works between 3,000 - 5,000 words are preferred for prose. A poet may submit up to 5 poems for consideration.

DEADLINE: July 10, 2020

https://www.fatandqueer.com/?fbclid=IwAR01uuqzHjH3MsabS0mBP6Du65UIYO3Y0jGiydkPIojqUsaFbw1t0chatF4

Summer One-on-One Manuscript Sessions

Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing

INFO: Summer One-on-One Sessions are a new offering from MVICW.  Our instructors will offer a generous review of your work, provide line edits, written feedback, and a 40-minute Zoom meeting to discuss your manuscript in late July or early August. (These Summer One-on-One sessions are separate from our Summer Conference manuscript-meetings which are included in attendance to our 2021 Summer Writers’ Conference). 

For poetry manuscripts, please submit between 3-4 poems (totaling no more than 8 pages max). 

For fiction and CNF manuscripts, please submit up to 15 pages of double-spaced prose (one piece only).

Once we receive your manuscript, we’ll match you with an author/poet best suited to your work. One-on-One Manuscript Sessions will be conducted by:

• Christopher Citro (poetry/CNF)

• Samantha Tetangco (poetry/CNF/fiction)

• Randi Beck Ocena (fiction/CNF)

• Robert James Russell (fiction/CNF)

• John T. Howard (poetry/fiction)

Please note that these sessions are available on a first-come first-served limited basis.

COST: $200

DEADLINE: July 10, 2020

https://mvicw.submittable.com/submit/166759/mvicw-summer-one-on-one-manuscript-sessions

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Sequoyah Cherokee River Journal

INFO: Sequoyah Cherokee River Journal is accepting poetry, prose, art (paintings), and art photography for Issue 4.

Please submit work relating to: Nature, water, sky, animals, Native American folk, tales or stories.

Send your work(s) up to 5 poems or artworks and bio via email to Editor/Publisher Mysti S. Milwee at mystiart21@gmail.com

In the subject line please state: Your name, # of works, and Sequoyah Cherokee River Journal

All accepted poetry that is translated will be published in the journal.

DEADLINE: July 13, 2020

https://sequoyahcherokeeriverjournal.wordpress.com/about/

Poetry Coalition Fellowship

Kundiman

INFO: Kundiman, a founding member of the Poetry Coalition, is accepting applications for a paid Poetry Coalition Fellowship position. This position is 20 hours per week from September 15, 2020 to June 30, 2021. The stipend is $18,720 plus $1,000 toward health care. 

The Poetry Coalition is a national alliance of more than 25 organizations dedicated to working together to promote the value poets bring to our culture and the important contribution poetry makes in the lives of people of all ages and backgrounds. Members are nonprofit organizations whose primary mission is to promote poets and poetry, and/or multi-genre literary organizations that serve poets of specific abilities, ethnic,  gender, or racial identities, backgrounds, or communities. All members present poets at live events. Each March, members present programming across the country on a theme of social importance. The Poetry Coalition is coordinated by the Academy of American Poets and we are grateful to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for its support of this work.

The Poetry Coalition Fellowship Program is a three-year pilot program, and Kundiman will host a Fellow for the 2020–2021 year only. The goals of this are to help:

• diversify the leadership of the nonprofit literary field by encouraging more inclusion of individuals from under-represented communities;

• develop future literary leaders regardless of educational background; 

• introduce individuals who are interested to nonprofit literary arts management, fundraising, programming, and editorial work, providing experiences that will be useful as they seek jobs and inspiring them to consider working in the literary field; and increase the capacity of our individual organizations by having additional assistance. 

Paid fellowships will not “level the playing field.” Opportunity in our country is not equally distributed across ability, class, ethnic, gender, and racial lines. And we alone cannot erase and undo the biases, barriers, discrimination, and prejudice that exist in our country. But we hope poetry organizations can be out front in building equity and inclusivity in literary arts organizations and spaces. 

Kundiman is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to nurturing generations of writers and readers of Asian American literature.

The Communications Fellow position supports Kundiman's programs by disseminating information through our website, emails, e-blasts, social media channels, brochures, and press releases. The Communications Fellow reports to the Programs & Communications Director and to the Executive Director. Candidates must be based in the New York City area to attend meetings and events, but most of the internship will be conducted remotely.

We’re looking for candidates with:

• An interest in Asian American writers and literature;

• A desire to work within a community of writers and arts workers;

• Alignment with Kundiman's mission and core values;

• An openness to learning new skills and a desire to grow

• Excellent verbal, written, and visual communications skills, including the ability to draft warm, professional, and timely emails, write clear and informative copy, and create compelling graphics. All communications should be free of grammar and usage errors and should follow professional conventions;

• The ability to work independently, as well as with others, manage time, and meet deadlines; and

• An attention to detail.

Duties include:

• Committing to 20 hours per week for the entire ten-month fellowship

• Adhering to rules and policies of Kundiman as appropriate 

• Assisting with some or all of the following:

• Marketing and promotion, including materials development;

• Helping to think through Kundiman’s overall communications, messaging, and social media strategy. We would love someone proactive who can take the initiative to pitch new creative ideas but also understands our values and will take the time to learn our voice;

• Drafting copy for programming, communications, and development, and creating content for our website via Squarespace, e-blasts via MailChimp, brochures, flyers, and our biannual report via Photoshop and InDesign;

• Designing graphics for our programs, development collateral, merchandise, social media, and other communications via Canva, Photoshop, and InDesign, as well as other promotional materials;

• Implementing Kundiman’s publicity plan across traditional and social media platforms, including Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram;

• Writing press releases and sending them to media outlets;

• Attending NYC programs (if safe to do so) and helping to create a digital archive of all programs;

• Assisting with the host organization’s Poetry Coalition joint programming in March;

• Attending and participating in meetings;

• Attending and participating in monthly Zooms with other Poetry Coalition fellows and Academy staff to foster community, professional development, and create a peer learning group;

• Participating in the Poetry Coalition’s fall convening and professional development trainings; and

• Completing evaluations at the end of the fellowship year.

Qualifications: 

• Passion for poetry and the literary arts and familiarity with and/or knowledge of contemporary poets;

• Interest in literary arts, communications, programming, administration, and management; 

• Knowledge of Squarespace, MailChimp, Canva, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, InDesign, Photoshop a plus; and

• Demonstrated experience in the areas listed above.

Note: We welcome all applicants, including those who are enrolled in or have recently graduated from MFA programs in creative writing. 

Applications will be accepted May 20th, 2020 through July 15, 2020 via Submittable. Please submit a cover letter, resume, and 2-3 references. Please also attach in a single PDF, a sample media plan that includes 250–300 words of copy, a sample eblast, three sample social media posts across our platforms, and a sample graphic for one of our programs or development initiatives.

DEADLINE: July 15, 2020

http://www.kundiman.org/jobs

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

The Pandemic Post

INFO: The Pandemic Post is a small online print zine featuring interviews, art, essays, recipes, fiction, poetry, and more. In solidarity with the fight for racial equity, Issue No. 4 of The Pandemic Post will only be featuring work from Black creators.

Is there anything you want to tell our progressive, largely white audience? Do you have existing work you want us to publish or re-publish? We want to see it all, and we promise to use our platform to amplify your voice as best we can.

We are a volunteer-run effort and all of our profits go to the organizations we support — however, we’re offering a small honorarium of $40 per accepted submission for this issue.

Email submissions to editors@thepandemicpost.com or upload something directly at thepandemicpost.com/submit

DEADLINE: N/A

https://www.instagram.com/p/CBwPl_njauC/

LAR Poetry Award

Los Angeles Review

INFO: The Los Angeles Review Poetry Award is a prize of $1,000 and publication in LAR given annually for an exceptional work of poetry. This season's judge is Francisco Aragón.

• Please submit poems of no more than 50 lines each (not including line spaces or numbering). Authors may submit up to three poems with each entry. Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but please notify us immediately at editor@losangelesreview.org if your poems are accepted elsewhere.

• Only previously unpublished poems are considered for the Los Angeles Review Poetry Award. Entries are not considered for general inclusion in the Los Angeles Review.

• The winner will be selected in fall of 2020 and announced via our website, and a Red Hen Press press release.

• The winning poem will be published in the new LAR Online and included in the annual best-of print edition, set to be released in spring 2021.

•  In the cover letter field of each submission, include author’s name, mailing address, email address, and telephone number. Do NOT include this information in the submitted file.

ENTRY FEE: $20

DEADLINE: July 15, 2020

https://losangelesreview.submittable.com/submit/52326/lar-poetry-award

ANNE LABASTILLE MEMORIAL WRITERS RESIDENCY

The Adirondack Center for Writing

INFO: The Adirondack Center for Writing offers a two-week residency annually in October to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at a lodge on Twitchell Lake in the heart of the Adirondack Mountains.

Six writers are selected to take part in this intimate community of writers, half of the spaces are reserved for regional authors, and the other spaces are open to writers from all over the world. Quality of written submissions will be our primary consideration when accepting applications. We’re more interested in your writing than your MFA or publications. Send us good writing!

AT THE LODGE

Meals are served family-style in the Lodge, which is luxurious with lots of common spaces for evening group discussions as well as private spaces for quiet writing and reflection during the day. Residents are offered single rooms with private baths. There are no desks in individual rooms, but plenty of private and collaborative work space throughout the residence. Residents are encouraged to take full use of the hiking and paddling of the local area.

This residency exists to provide space, time and an inspiring landscape for regional and outside writers to work on their writing projects. With no cell phone coverage, this residency is a chance to unplug and connect with other writers, and to tap into the creative self.

Prepping Your Application for the Anne LaBastille Memorial Writers Residency

• Prepare to send up to 10 pages of manuscript, or a .pdf. The text should be in your choice of easily readable 12pt font with 1.5 line spacing.

• Remove your name from ALL materials (except cover letter and references, if included). In order to remain unbiased, we will be forced to disregard any submissions that include your name.

• Do you live at least part time in the region of the Adirondack Park? If so, please submit under the Adirondack Region category. If not, please use the Out of Town category instead.

Eligibility: The residency will be open to 6 writers every year, with three spaces for writers from the region, and three from elsewhere. We accept writers in any genre.

Fees: $30. The entire two-week residency is free for selected applicants.

References: We don’t request references, but allow submission of up to two.

DEADLINE: July 15, 2020. All applicants will be notified of the status of their application by August 15, 2020.

https://adirondackcenterforwriting.org/2019/05/13/applications-open-to-the-anne-labastille-memorial-writers-residency/

BLOOMSDAY WRITING COMPETITION

Embassy of Ireland in Nigeria

INFO: The Embassy of Ireland in Nigeria has launched its Bloomsday Writing Competition. They are seeking poems of no more than 40 lines on the theme of isolation.

The winner of the Bloomsday Writing Competition gets a cash prize of 50,000 NGN and publication on Brittle Paper.

Entry Details:

• Poems should respond to the theme of isolation

• No more than 40 lines of poetry

• Email submissions to abujaembassy@dfa.ie

DEADLINE: July 16, 2020

https://twitter.com/IrlEmbNigeria/status/1273577280737021953

Twelfth Annual Poetry Contest

Narrative

INFO: NARRATIVE’S TWELFTH ANNUAL POETRY CONTEST runs from May 12 until July 17. In a continuing effort to encourage and support talented poets, we’re offering prizes and widespread publicity to all winners and finalists. Narrative is always looking for new voices, so all entries will be considered for publication in the magazine.

The contest is open to all poets. Entries must be unpublished and must not have been previously chosen as winners, finalists, or honorable mentions in other contests. Each entry may contain up to five poems. The poems should all be contained in a single file. You may enter as many times as you wish, but we encourage you to be selective and to send your best work.

Narrative winners and finalists have gone on to win Whiting Awards, the Pulitzer Prize, the Pushcart Prize, and the Atlantic prize, and have appeared in collections such as The Best American Poetry, Best New Poets, and many others. View the recent awards won by Narrative authors.

NOTES ON THE CONTEST: The latest NEA study has found that, after two decades in decline, poetry reading in the United States is now on the rise. While the study doesn’t say definitively what’s behind this reversal, Narrative and other great venues that have continued to publish and support poetry and poets have doubtlessly contributed to the heightened interest in the art.

Still, just over one in ten adults in the United States are reading poetry, and the economics of poetry are such that poetry is for the most part a subsidized, rather than a profitable, enterprise. Poets and poetry publishers are still engaged in labors of love, aided by donors who believe in the importance of poetry.

Narrative is a nonprofit organization, and its poetry program, like its other programs, depends largely on the support of many dedicated individuals who contribute resources and time to make the magazine possible. We are committed to paying our authors as well as possible and to creating as much attention as possible for their work. The overall cost of publishing poetry (payments to authors, production costs, awards and prizes, promotion) is far more than what comes in from poetry-related reading and entry fees—the income is nowhere close to the expense. Our reasons for publishing poetry are not about submission fees but about wanting poetry to be an important part of what we do and wanting to give back as much as we can, because literature contributes so much to life.

Narrative has 250,000 readers, and our audience is steadily growing. With a sizable and engaged readership, Narrative places poets and poetry in front of many more readers than most venues can. We’re working hard to get the magazine, and all our authors and artists, into the world via digital and other means—for free—to as many people as possible.

Participating in Narrative, whether by simply reading, by becoming a donor, or by introducing a friend to the magazine, is a vote to encourage and sustain literary work at a vital time.

If you have any questions regarding the contest, please contact us.

We look forward to reading your poems and to the new pleasures and insights we may discover there.

Awards: First Prize is $1,500, Second Prize is $750, Third Prize is $300, and up to ten finalists will receive $75 each. All entries will be considered for publication.

Submission Fee: There is a $25 fee for each entry. With your entry, you’ll receive three months of complimentary access to Narrative Backstage.

All contest entries are eligible for the $4,000 Narrative Prize and for acceptance as a Poem of the Week.

DEADLINE: July 17, 2020, at midnight, PT

https://www.narrativemagazine.com/twelfth-annual-poetry-contest

Letters from the Inside: intersectional reflections on life in lockdown

Art Spoken Madrid / Intersect Madrid

INFO: Intersect Madrid in partnership with Art Spoken Madrid present, Letters from the Inside: Intersectional Reflections on Life in Lockdown — an anthology that aims to bring to light stories from the recent quarantines arisen from the global COVID-19 pandemic and our transition into the first phases of worldwide re-opening. Through this anthology, we hope to create a body of work for community healing amidst a time of turbulent change.

We are looking for submissions in the genres of creative non-fiction, poetry, photography/video essays, and visual art. If you are a seasoned writer, a novice, or anywhere in-between, we want to hear your voice. Our goal is to uplift intersectional voices of historically underrepresented artists, including people of color, queer and trans individuals, asylum seekers, indigenous communities, and differently- abled and neurodivergent people. You can find the submission guidelines below, along with the anthology prompts thereafter.

What are the maximum limits for my piece?

• For poetry: 2 pages

• For creative non-fiction: 3,000 words

• For video essays: 5 minutes

• For photography essays: 15 photographs & 1,000 words in total For visual art: 5 pieces

How do I submit my work?

Please send the following to lfti.anthology@gmail.com:

• Your piece as a word document (.doc/.docx) or a Google Docs link.

• A short bio (200-300 words) telling us a little bit about yourself and any writing credits (not

  mandatory if you have not been previously published).

• A high-quality photo of yourself (.png or .jpg).

• If submitting a video essay: .mov, .mp4; If photography/visual art: .jpg, .tiff, .png, .pdf

• Your Venmo/Bizum/PayPal account information (optional)

What languages can I submit pieces in?

• English
• Spanish
• Other languages are welcome, but please submit a short English or Spanish summary of the piece

Will I be paid for my submission?

Unfortunately, we are unable to offer payment to contributors. However, we will provide you with a publishing credit as well as a free digital copy of the anthology. The money earned from this anthology will be utilized by Art Spoken and Intersect Madrid, two local non-profit organizations that uplift communities of color and other underrepresented groups through an emphasis on education and the performing arts. Both of our organizations are committed to creating spaces for voices that are typically left out of classrooms and artistic venues throughout the world. We also plan to develop lessons and curriculum based on the anthology in order to engage students in Madrid and beyond in an intersectional understanding of the pandemic.

NOTE: We find it important to acknowledge that the lack of direct compensation in this project plays into a historic undervaluing of artists, especially those from underrepresented communities. All artists deserve to be paid for their work, and as such, we encourage you to share with us your Venmo/Bizum/PayPal account information (or any other method in which to send compensation), so that we can invite readers to make direct contributions to you if they feel compelled to do so. Please do not hesitate to contact us via e-mail with any questions or suggestions regarding this topic.

Who retains the copyright to my work?

By submitting to this anthology, you grant Intersect Madrid and Art Spoken Madrid the right to use your submitted work in this anthology project. Uses include but are not limited to an e-book, print book, websites, marketing, and any other reasonable purpose having to do with the anthology. As it pertains to originally published pieces in this anthology, you retain the rights to use your work in any other future settings; however, we ask that you cite the piece as published in our anthology (i.e. “originally published in Letters from the Inside: Intersectional Reflections on Life in Lockdown”) and if published online, include a link to the forthcoming website.

What do I do if I’m resubmitting a piece that has been published elsewhere?

If you’re using a piece that has been published elsewhere, please include the location of where it was originally published and include permission to republish the piece.

Note: We do not accept any physical copies, only digital versions sent via the email below. If you don’t have online access, please ask a friend or loved one to share your work with us. If you have any further questions, do not hesitate to send a message to us at lfti.anthology@gmail.com.

DEADLINES:

• Early-Bird: July 18, 2020

• General: August 8, 2020

*Early bird submissions will be given priority consideration.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hsaJ9liUjdh-lfyLUQ_OcDe2VdDjnCS5/view

ArabLit Quarterly's Fall 2020 Issue: CATS

INFO: We are looking for cats (قطط)-focused writing, however that might be interpreted. Naturally, we are as interested in The Merits of the Housecat, by Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti (tr. David Larsen) as we are in “Medieval Cat Poem” by Abū ʿĀmir al-Faḍl ibn Ismāʿīl al-Tamīmī al-Jurjānī, in Rehab Bassam's “Days of the Black Cat,” in “Minouche,” by Anis Arrafai, and in cats both real and mystical. 

We are also interested in cat recipes (?), cat essays, cat comix, feline playlists, a history of cats in a particular city, as well as other cat topics not yet considered.

Also: If you have classic photos of Arab authors and their cats, please do share.

We are also interested in:   

Translated short stories between 100 and 10000 words  

Translated poetry   

Translated playtexts   

Translated comix 

Texts that play with genres, cat-like    

We are not able to accept:   

Fiction and poetry written originally in English. Sorry.   

We do accept: 

Both pitches and completed works.      

Yes, we do pay: 

$15/page

DEADLINE:

• Pitches: Due by July 20, 2020

• Drafts of completed works: Due by August 20, 2020

https://arablit.submittable.com/submit/163429/arablit-quarterlys-fall-2020-issue-cats

COVD-19 ARTIST RELIEF GRANTS

INFO: This Summer, Artist Relief will continue offering $5,000 grants for U.S. artists in need. The 10-minute application is open to all artists, including poets and writers.

Before applying, we ask that applicants self-evaluate whether they are experiencing dire financial emergencies during this time and make space for those most urgently in need.


Due to the unprecedented nature of the COVID-19 pandemic, we define “dire financial emergencies” as the lack or imminent endangerment of essentials such as housing, medicine, childcare, and food. We are aware that each artist’s needs differ, so ask that you thoroughly and accurately describe your situation. Applicants should demonstrate a pressing and critical need for emergency support to be considered for this grant.

We also highly recommend reviewing our FAQ for questions related to eligibility, application, selection process, and disbursement.

To be eligible, you must be able to answer ”Yes“ to the prompts listed below.

• I am a practicing artist able to demonstrate a sustained commitment to my work, career, and a public audience;

• I am experiencing dire financial emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic;

• I am 21 years of age or older;

• I can provide a Social Security Number (SSN) or Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN) after I’ve been notified of my selection;

• I have been living and working in the U.S. for the last two years;

• I am not a full-time employee, board member, director, officer, or immediate family member of any of the coalition partners;

• I have not previously been awarded a relief grant from this fund

DEADLINE: July 22, 2020

https://www.artistrelief.org/apply

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: 2020 Brooklyn Public Library Poet-in-Residence

Brooklyn Public Library

INFO: In celebration and support of the revolutionary changes happening worldwide, the Brooklyn Public Library in collaboration with the Brooklyn poet Laureate, Tina Chang, seeks applications for the BPL's first-ever Poet-in-Residence. In doing so, we take deliberate steps to amplify the voices of all Brooklyn writers in the service of positive change and social justice.

Brooklyn Public Library's longstanding mission has been to ensure the preservation and transmission of society’s knowledge, history, and culture, and to provide Brooklyn’s 2.6 million residents with free, open access to information for education, reference and recreation. The newly established Poet-in-Residence program offers time, space, resources, and mentorship to a Brooklyn-based poet. The Resident will serve as a creative force to enhance the Library’s current poetry offerings while supporting BPL's goal of providing a space where patrons of all backgrounds and every economic standing can participate in a wide range of literary and cultural programs.

One chosen resident will receive a stipend of $5000, office space (social distancing rules permitting), computer use, access to Brooklyn Public Library catalogue and reserves, support from the Brooklyn Public Library staff, yearlong mentorship from the Brooklyn Poet Laureate, opportunity for civic engagement with the Brooklyn literary community via workshops and collaboration on a National Poetry Month event.

The Brooklyn Public Library searches for work that demonstrates originality, skill, and vision as well as a teacher/curator who shows a strong dedication to literary civic engagement.

Eligibility: The Brooklyn Public Library accepts applications from writers practicing in the genre of poetry. Poets who are 21 or older and can demonstrate residency in Brooklyn for over two years are welcome to apply. Writers should have no more than one published collection of poetry. Poets enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate degree program at the time of application are ineligible to apply. We do not accept collaborative applications; only one application per applicant. We value work that invests in civil liberties, racial justice, economic and gender equality. The Brooklyn Public Library is barrier-free and offers accessibility in its main building. We encourage applications from people of color, especially BIPOC, women, LGBTQIA, and disabled artists and activists. We recognize and are invested in upholding the lives and imaginations of underserved communities.

Duration of residency: September 20, 2020 – May 1, 2021

The following information is requested through our online application system (click to submit below).:

• basic personal and contact info, confirmation of residency presence for the duration of the program

• a brief bio highlighting professional achievements (500 words)

• a brief proposal for a 4-6 week class as a resident of BPL (300 words)

• creative portfolio not to exceed 10 pages

• contact information for 2 references

• 1 video expressing the desire to work with the Brooklyn literary community (No more than 3 minutes)

• 1 video poem recitation (No more than 3 minutes)

DEADLINE: July 31, 2020

https://www.bklynlibrary.org/poet-in-residence

CALL FOR ENTRIES: THE LIT EXHIBIT 2020: ARCHIVES

The Lit Exhibit

INFO: This year we are inviting creatives to reflect on the Archive, and to send us poetry, micro fiction, installation art, and experimental writing that speaks to this premise.

We would also like to deepen the conversation on archiving through a public forum / webinar. The archive has value: it is a means of preservation, tradition, knowledge. How do we protect memory?

These conversations are not irrelevant in these times: the means of archiving information provides accountability & often healing. We are interested in collaborating with other archivists who might be interested in co-facilitating a workshop with us! We hope to inspire people to create their own archives & to possibly share with us for our upcoming exhibition.

DEADLINE: July 31, 2020

https://www.thelitexhibit.nyc/apply

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: African, Caribbean, Diaspora artists

Lolwe

INFO: Lolwe -- an online magazine that publishes fiction, literary criticism, personal essays, photography, and poetry -- is accepting submissions for Issue 2 throughout the month of July (1-31 July 2020). The issue will be guest-edited by Mapule Mohulatsi, Gbenga Adesina and Esther Karin Mngodo.

We are looking for work that is bold, different, and blurs or pushes boundaries: play with form and language, ignore genre classifications, send in your fears and joys, your doubts and faiths, your curiosities and silences.

Please read the submission guidelines and send us your work via Submittable.

Submission Guidelines

What to submit: Fiction, essays, poetry, and photography.

Who can submit: Black (African, Caribbean, Diaspora) artists.

Limit: 1,000-10,000 words for fiction and essays. 3-5 poems contained in a single document. 5-10 images/artwork in one document alongside 200-500 words about the work.

Format: Word document, Times New Roman, pt 12, double-spaced.

Response time: 3-4 months after submission deadline. Queries to info@lolwe.org.

Multiple submissions: No. Please submit to only one category.

Simultaneous submissions: Yes. Just remember to withdraw if accepted elsewhere.

Republishing: No. Only original, unpublished submissions will be read.

Submission fees: None. Feel free to donate a “tip” to us though.

Payment: Lolwe will offer a modest remuneration for work that is accepted for publication. You can help by donating to Lolwe.

Send a brief bio alongside the submission.

DEADLINE: July 31, 2020

https://lolwe.org/submit/

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: CARIBBEAN FEMINIST STORIES

Intersect

INFO: Intersect, a Caribbean feminist organization committed to decolonial & intersectional knowledge production through storytelling in Antigua and Barbuda is seeking fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and art exploring Caribbean feminism. Themes are "Colourism" and "Growing Up Queer" in the Caribbean.

We need more grassroots feminist scholarship that allows us to hear and listen to diverse voices of people and their experiences with and perspectives on colourism and queerness in Antigua and Barbuda and throughout the Caribbean region. The word "queer" is also often deployed in a way that obscures people's unique experiences as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or gender non-conforming. Do you embrace this term? What does it mean to you? What have you learned about being a lesbian or a gay man and/or non-binary person from the Caribbean? The descriptions under each theme are writing prompts to help you get started. We're really hoping to receive submissions on these topics!

Fiction and non fiction: 500-1,000 words.

Poetry: less than 1,000 words.

Submit your pieces to intersect.anu@gmail.com.

DEADLINE: August 1, 2020

https://www.instagram.com/p/CA0IX-IjgL2/

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Mixed Mag

INFO: Mixed Mag is a multimedia publication dedicated to promoting multiethnic/multicultural voices.

Submission guidelines:

• prose submissions must be under 1500 words in the following categories (fiction/CNF, politics, tv/film/theatre, music, health/wellness/food)

• submit up to 3 poems

• submit up to 10 original photos or visuals

send to mixedmag.media@gmail.com

DEADLINE: August 1, 2020

https://twitter.com/MixedMag/status/1276631534586429441

CALL FOR AUDIO SUBMISSIONS: HEARD/WORD

Galleyway

INFO: HEARD/WORD is Galleyway's new audio series highlighting compelling voices in poetry and prose. We invite you to share recordings of original poems and short fiction. Selected work will be showcased on our blog and social media platforms. Submissions should include:

• MP3 recording of you reading your poetry (no longer than 3 minutes) or short fiction (no longer than 5 minutes)

• Text version of the piece

• A headshot 

• A brief bio

• Social media handles and link to website

Please send submissions to camille@galleyway.com

DEADLINE: Ongoing

https://galleyway.com/blog/2020/3/31/call-for-audio-submissions

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Muslim-Jewish Solidarity Committee

INFO: The Muslim-Jewish Solidarity Committee is launching Shalom/Salaam Publishing, and looking for written work (short stories, poetry, etc) and imagery (paintings, photos, illustrations, collage, etc) that transcends boundaries, brings people together, and inspires faith in humanity.

The Muslim-Jewish Solidarity Committee (MJSC) is a grassroots organization guided by the Muslim and Jewish values of Peace שָׁלוֹם سلام, Learning علم‎‎ יֶדַע, and Charity زكاة‎‎ צדקה, to build meaningful relationships between all faiths, and to stand against hate through shared values and social action

DEADLINE: Ongoing

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdku-rxQnpN8yB6vqnoRuDwKPnsxeOlThH6aWjts1f31Wabew/viewform

'AWAKE' ZINE SUBMISSION

Lucky Jefferson

INFO: Lucky Jefferson's new digital zine Awake seeks to amplify the experiences and perspectives of Black and African American writers in American society. This digital zine will highlight poems, essays, and art from writers of color and the different opportunities and challenges of cultural assimilation in America, establishing identity and preserving culture, and the concept of double-consciousness. 

Upon acceptance, submissions will be included on our website and publicized on social media.

GUIDELINES:

- Send no more than three poems in a submission. Poems should be submitted in a single file, with poems separated by titles or page breaks.

- If sharing an essay, include an essay with no more than 1500 words. 

- Send no more than three pieces of art. Artwork that offers social commentary on the Black experience is highly preferred (We love comics and collage pieces!).

- Include a cover page highlighting the poet’s name, email address, biography, and mailing address. Biographical statements should be two to three sentences or 50-75 words.

DEADLINE: Ongoing

https://luckyjefferson.submittable.com/submit/167135/lucky-jefferson-awake-zine-submission

POETRY -- JUNE 2020

POEMS IN TRANSLATION CONTEST

Words Without Borders

INFO: Words Without Borders is pleased to announce the 2020 Poems in Translation Contest to spotlight some of the groundbreaking poets working around the world today and to celebrate the art of translating poetry.

The contest is open to contemporary international poetry translated from other languages into English. Four winning translated poems will be co-published on Words Without Borders, the digital magazine for international literature, and in Poem-a-Day, the popular daily poetry series produced by the Academy of American Poets, throughout September, which is National Translation Month.

The winning poems will be selected by acclaimed poet David Tomas Martinez, along with the editors of Words Without Borders.

The winning poets and translators will be awarded $150 each. (In the case of multiple translators, the translator award shall be split evenly.)

DEADLINE: June 1, 2020

https://wordswithoutborders.submittable.com/submit/164426/words-without-borders-poems-in-translation-contest?src=wordswithoutborders.org

WORKS OF RESISTANCE, RESILIENCE: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

About Place Journal

INFO: About Place Journal seeks submissions of creative non-fiction, poetry, fiction, hybrid work, video and artwork that explores the questions: How do we live and work towards a long-term dream for the continuation of our planet? How do we change our relationship to our earth; to each other to reflect social and economic equality?

We draw inspiration for this issue from a poem by the late Jayne Cortez, “There it is”:

“My friend / they don’t care /
They will try to exploit you /
absorb you   confine you /
or kill you.”

The Covid-19 pandemic provides an opportunity to look deeply into the mirror of our daily lives that reveal issues: lack of essential worker protections, lack of affordable health care, record level unemployment/underemployment, homelessness, Iack of protection for people in the shelters and those in systems of containment: prisoners, immigrants and their children.

Thousands have died worldwide, and the losses to families and communities are unquantifiable. The pandemic continues to disrupt our notions of “normal” in every aspect of life while becoming a window of opportunity through which those in power are advancing agendas that suit the interests of the one percent in opposition to the needs of the larger culture. How do we as artists and activists reflect on these times as we witness the disenfranchisement of poor, middle and working class people; further closing of borders; the ongoing, yet new economic turmoil; the continual erosion of land protections; the lack of water rights; and so many additional issues that face us?

We ask you consider the principal of Aya – a fern, in the Adinkra language. Aya is the Akan symbol for endurance and resourcefulness. It comes to mind when I think of our cultural and collective inheritance. In times of profound trouble in the West, we often look at other cultures such as African and Native cultures for examples of endurance. Resistance as a form of empowerment in a time where the average citizen must do something to save ourselves.

We have a profound opportunity to renew and reimagine our essential cultures, including our multiple relationships: to our planet, to our spiritual sources, to our family, to our friends, to our beliefs. As artists, what does it mean to be resilient in this time? We look forward to thinking with you about how art explores new ways of engagement in these times.

Editor: Jacqueline Johnson
Assistant Editors: Ifeona H. Fulani & Vida James

SUBMISSION PERIOD: June 1 - August 1, 2020

https://aboutplacejournal.org/submissions/

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Black Sunflowers Poetry Press

INFO: Black Sunflowers Poetry Press is calling for chapbooks, with a focus on poetry from women, especially older women and black poets. We are looking for completed, polished mini collections of poetry. We would prefer a set of themed poems but are open to all submissions. We want a set of poems that work perfectly as a chapbook, that feel ‘whole’ rather than part of a larger collection. Individual poems may have been published elsewhere but the complete set must be unpublished.

What we like

• edgy / experimental / beautiful /unsettling / powerful / unfamiliar / bold / hypnotising

• We want to be startled and moved.

• We want to think ‘yes’ while we are reading.

• From our first submissions round, we hope to select 4 outstanding poets who we will publish and market extensively

• Open to poets internationally aged 18+

What you get

• The successful poets will have their chapbook published and distributed by Black Sunflowers press within 1 year of close of submissions.

• Successful poets will receive a fee of £150 plus 20 copies of the chapbook.

SUBMISSION FEE: $3

DEADLINE: June 7, 2020

https://www.blacksunflowerspoetry.com/submissions

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Malasaña

INFO: Malasaña is an online arts magazine established in New England in 2019. We currently publish bi-annually. We are interested in writing that shows a love for language, experimentation, and craftsmanship. We want urgent & diverse voices, especially voices from historically-silenced peoples. 

We accept fiction, poetry, translation, and visual art submissions.  

• For fiction, please submit up to 2,500 words. We will occasionally accept a longer piece if we really feel it fits with our intent.  

• For poetry, please submit three to five poems, all in a single document.   

• For art, all images should be 300 dpi.   

• Translations of poems and flash fiction are welcome. Translator should have written permission from original author.   

• Please include a brief bio in your submitted document.   

All work should be previously unpublished. Simultaneous submissions are fine―we ask that you let us know if your work is accepted elsewhere. Please include a short third-person bio in your cover letter. 

SUBMISSION FEE: $2

DEADLINE: June 10, 2020

https://malasanamagazine.submittable.com/submit

2020 Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize

INFO: The 2020 Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize is now open for submissions! Launched in 2009, the prize is a second-book award for black poets of African descent, offered every other year. Presented in collaboration with Northwestern University Press, the award celebrates and publishes work of lasting cultural value and literary excellence.

The winner receives $1,000, publication by Northwestern University Press, 15 copies of the book and a feature reading in New York City.

This year’s prize is judged by Cave Canem faculty Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon. 

SUBMISSION FEE: $0

DEADLINE: June 12, 2020

https://cavecanempoets.org/submit-to-the-2020-cave-canem-northwestern-university-press-poetry-prize/

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Tint Journal

INFO: Tint showcases the original work of writers for whom English is a second or non-native language. Short stories, essays, flash and poetry will only be accepted by writers who have learned or acquired the English language after being fluent in another language and within an open call for submissions. Reviews, interviews, and profiles focusing on ESL writers are welcome year-round by writers of all linguistic backgrounds. Art submissions are accepted within an open call for submissions only. 

How can I submit my work?

• We exclusively accept creative writing and art submissions which reach us within the period of an open call for submissions.
  Interviews, reviews, profiles and essays on ESL writing are accepted year-round.

• Please name your document [Genre]_[Last Name]_[Title], e.g. Poetry_Miller_The Rose.

• Provide your submission with a title page, indicating your name, first language, second language(s), nationality, category, title of your piece, contact information (e-mail), and day of submission. Put page numbers on all following pages.

• All submissions should be sent to submissions@tintjournal.com. If this form of submission represents an obstacle to the writer, please contact the journal via info@tintjournal.com.

• We prefer doc and docx files. In case your submissions requires special formatting, we also accept pdf files.

• For length and content, read through the “Original creations by ESL writers” and the “Creations by writers of any kind” guidelines below.

• Allow for a time period of up to 20 days between the end of a call and an answer.

What kind of submissions does Tint accept?

• Please submit only previously unpublished pieces. If you have a previously published piece that fits our mission, please contact us via info@tintjournal.com.

• Translations will not be accepted. It should be an original creation in English. However, the work can feature words or passages in the writer’s original language.

• For creative prose submissions (fiction or nonfiction), please submit one piece (short story or essay) between 1,000 and 4,000 words.

• For flash (fiction or nonfiction) submissions, please submit one piece. It should not exceed 800 words.

• For poetry submissions, please submit one poem. If the poem has subsections, mark them clearly in your document. A poem should not exceed four C4, A4 or Letter pages in length.

SUBMISSION FEE: $0

DEADLINE: June 12, 2020

https://tintjournal.com/submit/submission-guidelines

Convening in the Ark: Black & Sacred Sites of Revelation 

Root Work Journal

INFO: Root Work Journal, grounded within the Ark, imagines this time of quarantine as a route and portal to convene with the sacred postures of our ancestors: to comfort, to dream, to manifest.

We invite those of us who are conscious of our proximities to the ship to convene around rebellion, fugitivity, marronage, and other less apparent survival strategies that will sustain our spirits. We are hoping to gather pieces that help us re-member how we contend with the ongoing violence of the ship while also transitioning into new conceptual and physical worlds. 

So with expediency, we seek to honor the ancestors' call to action: we invite you to convene with us in the Ark. We call for papers, poems, meditations and writings that guide us from societal collapse into new worlds. We invite you to think deeply and lovingly in responding to the following paradigms: 

Abolition: Rebelling against the hopium of schooling:

• How schooling seasons us to define optimism as “hoping against hope” that a mechanism built on the bones of our people will someday be our salvation

• Resistance to schooling as a form or act of mental health

• The necessity to reframe our depression and desires to end our lives as emanating from an underlying necessity to end the world in which we suffer

• Teachers’ allegiance to schooling amidst societal collapse

Fugitivity: Detaching from the forces that keep us captive 

• Re-conceptualizing growth in a culture of neoliberalism: growth does not always or necessarily mean "up" (i.e. stock market, test scores, degrees obtained) or even “more”; growth can refer to vital pathways that are oriented down (i.e. roots into the earth, from the womb to birth)

• Success in the plantation lessening one’s likelihood to leave it or recognize it as such  

Marronage: Fugitive Movements from bondage and replications of alternative worldviews (Jamal-Wright, 2019)

• How school achievement disintegrates Black communal connections

• Intergenerational dialogues that explore the comingling of our love of learning with the project of schooling

• The Sacredness of Black educational convenings

• Who and what are necessary for the inevitable journey of the Ark (the vehicle) that transitions us from the ending of one world into a new one

Unknown, Unarchived and Uncaptured

• We invite the community to offer reflections, works of art, and other testimonies about our Ark that speak beyond the suggested paradigms.

Curators for this special issue include: Cindy Bonaparte, Marcelo Clark, Sheryll Germany, Ernest Hardy, LeShawn Darnell Holcomb, Stephen Jamal Leeper, Leslie Poston, Tonesha Russell, Melanie Tervalon, Jas Wade, Deaidre White

For written entries, we ask that writers submit original pieces of work up to 10,000 words in length. 

(we prefer original pieces, but we are open to hosting work from journals that allow for concurrent submissions)​

DEADLINE: June 12, 2020 

https://www.rootworkjournal.org/calls

NARRATIVE PRIZE

Narrative

INFO: The Narrative Prize is awarded annually for the best short story, novel excerpt, poem, one-act play, graphic story, or work of literary nonfiction published by a new or emerging writer in Narrative.

The prize is announced each September and is given to the best work published each year in Narrative by a new or emerging writer, as judged by the magazine’s editors. In some years, the prize may be divided between winners, when more than one work merits the award.

AWARD: $4,000

DEADLINE: June 15, 2020

https://www.narrativemagazine.com/node/421?uid=103566&m=1e32f865664fcc3ea1affc353d055dc6&d=1559323196

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: ISSUE FOUR

The Journal of Latina Critical Feminism

INFO: The journal is issuing a call for submissions in the three categories of scholarly articles, poems, and prose (fiction, nonfiction, and experimental) dealing with themes in Gloria Anzaldua’s thought, including nepantla, spirituality, heteronormativity, Latinx identity, patriarchy, colonialism, mestizaje, and writing as a form of resistance.

Those interested in submission guidelines and learning more about the journal should refer to the journal’s website,  www.journallcf.org

Submissions outside of the thematic area of Anzaldua’s work will also be considered.

Poetry: Writers can submit between 3-5 poems. Upload multiple poems in one document.

The journal will provide a voice for the articulation of feminist and social justice concerns from a Latina perspective, broadly construed to include Latinas in the U.S., Latin America, and other countries. The journal will be an online, open access, peer-reviewed academic journal that considers narrative and poetic entries as legitimate forms of scholarly feminist analyses. We particularly welcome proposals for creating social orders in which both women and men can equally and autonomously promote a planetary ethic that expresses moral concern for all inhabitants of the earth community. Perhaps most of all, the journal will strive to exemplify the highest standards of intellectual and moral integrity and fairness. We believe that the true potential of feminism will never be realized unless these ideals are embraced and implemented.

SUBMISSION FEE: $3

DEADLINE: June 15, 2020

https://journallcf.submittable.com/submit

Sheltering Stories: NYC Teens Talk About COVID-19

City Dreams Press

INFO: New York City teens, we want to hear from you! Send us your personal essays, photography, and artwork in response to Covid-19. How is it affecting you? What are your thoughts, feelings, and observations? What do you see in your neighborhoods? How are you coping with sheltering in place?

City Dreams Press invites submissions from New York City teenagers age 12-18 for an upcoming e-book “Sheltering Stories: Teen Talk on COVID-19”.

GUIDELINES:

• Personal essays: up to 1,500 words

• Poetry: 3-5 poems

• Photography or artwork: 3-5 images

DEADLINE: June 15, 2020

https://www.citydreamspress.com/

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: POETRY

Bengaluru Review

INFO: Bengaluru Review is an online monthly publication. We welcome unsolicited submissions of poetry, prose, art, and book reviews, not necessarily that order. We request you to read our submission guidelines intently before submitting them.

Poetry:

• Age, theme, and genre are no barriers.

• You can submit a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 6 poems (3-6) per submission.

• Please send in your entries in a single document attached in either of the following formats ONLY: .doc, .docx.

• We suggest that submissions be formatted with 12 pt. Times New Roman or Garamond type.

• Simultaneous submission is allowed. We request you to immediately notify us if your work is accepted elsewhere.

• Please submit only once per reading period. You can submit again in the next reading period.

• Multiple submissions are considered if they pertain to different categories (poetry, fiction, etc.).

• Blank e-mails with no body will not be read. Please add a cover letter into the body of the email that includes your first and last name, email address, the title of your work(s), and a brief bio (strictly under 100 words or less).

• Please include an author photograph in a high-resolution landscape mode. You can attach up to 2-3 pictures. Please note that the minimum dimensions of a photo should be at least 800 x 420 pixels (W x H).

• We undergo a "blind" submission process. Personal information should not appear anywhere in the attached document(s).

READING PERIOD: June 20 - July 5, 2020

https://bengalurureview.com/page/submission-guidelines

2020 AUTUMN HOUSE Poetry Contest

INFO: For the 2020 contest, the Autumn House staff serves as the preliminary readers, and the final judge is Ilya Kaminsky. The winner receives publication of a full-length manuscript and $2,500. The submission period opens January 1, 2020, and closes June 30, 2020 (Eastern Time).

• The winners will receive book publication, $1,000 advance against royalties, and a $1,500 travel/publicity grant to promote their book

• All finalists will be considered for publication

• Poetry submissions should be approximately 50-80 pages

• The reading fee for the Poetry Contest is $30

• Submission should be previously unpublished

• Please don’t include your name anywhere on the actual MS

• Include a brief bio in the “cover letter” section of Submittable

• Feel free to include a TOC and acknowledgments page

• Simultaneous submissions permitted

DEADLINE: June 30, 2020

https://www.autumnhouse.org/submissions/poetry/

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: SUMMER 2020 PRINT ISSUE

Serendipity Literary Magazine

INFO: We are particularly interested in work that grapples with the intersections of race, gender, disability, and sexuality in our current socio-political climate. LGBTQ BIPOC are strongly encouraged to submit. Please do not submit if you do not identify as BIPOC.

Serendipity is a literary journal specializing in poetry, prose, and art that engages with issues of race, gender, sexuality, class, ability, and intersecting identities. We seek work that explores, celebrates, and interrogates all aspects of our identities; and work that delights and beguiles our readerly sensibilities. Formerly an online journal, we are now publishing an annual print publication featuring fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and visual art. Our goal is to publish exciting work that amplifies marginalized voices, particularly that of same-gender loving BIPOC.

GUIDELINES:

• Writers: We accept prose submissions under 5,000 words and no more than three (3) poems, in either .doc or .docx format. Please use 12pt font, 1-inch margins, and number your pages. Include your last name, genre, title of work, and email in the header.

• Artists: Please submit up to six images in separate files.

• All work must be previously unpublished. This includes blogs and other online publications.

• Cover letters are optional.

• Please include a current bio of no more than 100 words written in third person.

• We accept simultaneous submissions. Please notify us immediately if work you submitted has been accepted elsewhere.

Contributors will receive one free copy of the print journal and $15 as payment remitted via PayPal.

DEADLINE: June 30, 2020

http://serendipitylitmag.org/submit/

CALL FOR CHAPBOOK SUBMISSIONS

Paper Monster Press

INFO: Paper Monster Press, a bilingual publishing and a quarterly no-garage indie transgenre zine, is seeking chapbook submissions.

Send 13-30 pages of poetry, micro/flash fiction, essays in Filipino or English to papermonsterpress@gmail.com

DEADLINE: June 30, 2020

https://www.facebook.com/papermonsterpress/photos/a.191879894184936/3183062301733332/?type=3&theater

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Variety Pack

INFO: For the rest of the month of June we will be only seeking to publish Black LGBTQIA+ voices for our special issue: Black Voices of Pride 

Check out the info from our special issues pages:

At Variety Pack we know we can do more as a journal and we want to do more. In an effort to show solidarity with the amazing Black voices in the LGTBQIA+ Community. For the rest of June we will be taking submissions exclusively from Black LGBTQIA+ creatives. Joining us on our team for this special issue, will be our guest editor Dior J. Stephens!

We are taking submissions in all categories; flash fiction, short fiction, poetry, cnf/essays, visual art/mixed media.

Also for this special issue we will be adding a donations button to our website, where the proceeds will go to paying our contributors and guest editor as well!

Please submit to the following email: varietypackblmpride@gmail.com.

Please be sure to refer to our submission guidelines below: but remember the emails to send to don’t apply to this, please send to the one listed above^^^

Also along with the guidelines provided below, please put in your subject line: Name: Genre – “Title” (For ex: Gerry: Flash Fiction – “Something, Something, Something”)

DEADLINE: June 30, 2020

https://varietypack.net/submissions-2/

RESIDENCY

Vermont Studio Center

INFO: Each month, VSC welcomes over 50 artists and writers from across the country around the world to our historic campus in northern Vermont.

All of our residencies include:

• A private room in modest, shared housing

• 24-hour access to a private studio space in one of our 6 medium-specific studio buildings

• 3 communal meals per day (plus fresh fruit, coffee/tea/cold beverages, and cereal available around the clock) 

Most residents stay with us for 1 month, so our sessions adhere to a 4-week calendar; however, residencies can be scheduled in 2-week increments ranging from 2 to 12 weeks if a shorter or longer stay better suits your needs.

FELLOWSHIPS FOR WRITERS INCLUDE:

Henry David Thoreau Fellowship
One (1) fellowship for a poet whose creative work directly engages environmental issues and embodies the life, work, and spirit of Henry David Thoreau.

ELIGIBILITY NOTE: To be considered, please include a brief statement (250 words or less) that describes how your poetry engages environmental issues and embodies the life, work, and spirit of Henry David Thoreau. 

VSC/Cave Canem Fellowship
One (1) 4-week fellowship for a Cave Canem Fellow. Includes $1,000 stipend. The $25 application fee is waived for eligible applicants.

ELIGIBILITY NOTE: Please indicate in the application when you were a Cave Canem Fellow.

VSC/Kundiman Fellowship
One (1) 4-week fellowship for a Kundiman Fellow. Includes $1,000 stipend. The $25 application fee is waived for eligible applicants.

ELIGIBILITY NOTE: Please indicate in the application when you were a Kundiman Fellow.

DEADLINE: Extended to June 30, 2020

vermontstudiocenter.org/residencies

Latinx Lit Celebration guest edited by Ruben Quesada

[PANK]

INFO: We will be publishing poetry, prose, non/traditional, and media by Latinx writers to raise awareness of the breadth of their experiences and talents. If you identify as Latinx and would like your work to be considered for publication, please submit by July 1 using the following guidelines:

For poetry:

• Up to 3 poems

• Include all poems in a single file

• Begin each new poem on a new page

For prose:

• Up to 3,000 words of fiction or non-fiction

For Non/Traditional or Media:

• Use MP3 or MP4 only, with a file size under 60MB.

DEADLINE: July 1, 2020

https://pankmagazine.submittable.com/submit/166847/latinx-lit-celebration-guest-edited-by-ruben-quesada

Call for Work: To Speak as a Flower: A Folio of Performance Writing

Anomaly

INFO: Anomaly invites previously unpublished submissions of poems, prose, playwriting, video, art, and hybrid genres of work that might fall under a broad rubric of performance writing. We embrace this term’s wide scope, encompassing everything from Don Mee Choi’s turn to playwriting conventions in “Hardly Opera” (from which we draw our title) and jayy dodd’s scene in Anomaly‘s issue 26 folio Radical : Avant Garde Poets of Color, to Tatsumi Hijikata’s dance notations and Duriel Harris’ musical scores as poems.

We are interested in work that uses performance as one of its tools, work which is made possible by a relationship to performance — even if that performance never happens, or imagines impossible commitments. What forms might such composition take if it followed Etel Adnan’s provocation that “memory and theatre work in similar ways,” or if it pursued a stage “more open to different ways of moving” (as Hilton Als has characterized Adrienne Kennedy’s work)? We are committed to promoting the work of marginalized and underrepresented artists, including by Black, Indigenous, and other artists of color, as well as, disabled, neurodivergent, women, queer, trans, and gender nonconforming artists — and we wonder whether this form might be especially useful for these artists!

DEADLINE: July 1, 2020

https://medium.com/anomalyblog/call-for-work-to-speak-as-a-flower-a-folio-of-performance-writing-63d1b9193564

CALL FOR AUDIO SUBMISSIONS: HEARD/WORD

Galleyway

INFO: HEARD/WORD is Galleyway's new audio series highlighting compelling voices in poetry and prose. We invite you to share recordings of original poems and short fiction. Selected work will be showcased on our blog and social media platforms. Submissions should include:

• MP3 recording of you reading your poetry (no longer than 3 minutes) or short fiction (no longer than 5 minutes)

• Text version of the piece

• A headshot 

• A brief bio

• Social media handles and link to website

Please send submissions to camille@galleyway.com

DEADLINE: Ongoing

https://galleyway.com/blog/2020/3/31/call-for-audio-submissions

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Muslim-Jewish Solidarity Committee

INFO: The Muslim-Jewish Solidarity Committee is launching Shalom/Salaam Publishing, and looking for written work (short stories, poetry, etc) and imagery (paintings, photos, illustrations, collage, etc) that transcends boundaries, brings people together, and inspires faith in humanity.

The Muslim-Jewish Solidarity Committee (MJSC) is a grassroots organization guided by the Muslim and Jewish values of Peace שָׁלוֹם سلام, Learning علم‎‎ יֶדַע, and Charity زكاة‎‎ צדקה, to build meaningful relationships between all faiths, and to stand against hate through shared values and social action

DEADLINE: Ongoing

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdku-rxQnpN8yB6vqnoRuDwKPnsxeOlThH6aWjts1f31Wabew/viewform

'Awake' Zine Submission

Lucky Jefferson

INFO: Lucky Jefferson's new digital zine Awake seeks to amplify the experiences and perspectives of Black and African American writers in American society. This digital zine will highlight poems, essays, and art from writers of color and the different opportunities and challenges of cultural assimilation in America, establishing identity and preserving culture, and the concept of double-consciousness. 

Upon acceptance, submissions will be included on our website and publicized on social media.

GUIDELINES:

- Send no more than three poems in a submission. Poems should be submitted in a single file, with poems separated by titles or page breaks.

- If sharing an essay, include an essay with no more than 1500 words. 

- Send no more than three pieces of art. Artwork that offers social commentary on the Black experience is highly preferred (We love comics and collage pieces!).

- Include a cover page highlighting the poet’s name, email address, biography, and mailing address. Biographical statements should be two to three sentences or 50-75 words.

DEADLINE: Ongoing

https://luckyjefferson.submittable.com/submit/167135/lucky-jefferson-awake-zine-submission

POETRY -- MAY 2020

2020 GWENDOLYN BROOKS YOUTH POETRY AWARDS 

1. The contest is open to young people currently in Kindergarten through 12th grade across the state of Illinois. Participating young people can be affiliated with any school (public, private, home, etc.) or other institution.

2. Each youth can only submit ONE poem and the poem must be written by only ONE author (sorry, we do not accept jointly or co-written poems for this contest).

3. Poems cannot exceed 16 lines for poems submitted by young people in grades K-5 and cannot exceed 50 lines for poems submitted by young people in grades 6-12. Poems containing visual elements are allowed, if all images/visuals are original to the poet.

4. Please only submit poems that were written between May 1, 2019 - April 30, 2020, since poems are judged based on grade level.

5. All entries must be the original work of the young person submitting the poem.

6. Youth can submit their poem on their own or the poem can be submitted by a parent/guardian or teacher using submittable.com.

7. When submitting a poem, please only enter your name on the entry form and do not include your name or identifying information on the poem itself, since the judging is anonymous.

Contest winners will be notified by July 1, 2020. Winners will be honored at an Awards Ceremony to take place at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts at the University of Chicago (915 East 60th Street, Chicago, Illinois) on Saturday, August 1, 2020 from 1:00-3:00 PM.

DEADLINE: May 1, 2020

https://poetryfoundation.submittable.com/submit

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Hispanecdotes

INFO: Hispanecdotes - a magazine providing a platform for Latino writers to share their stories, poetry, and personal essays - is excited to announce the theme of our very first print issue: Ascendencia to be published in October 2020! We are interested in essays, poems, and flash fiction up to 1500 words pertaining to the theme.

Limit for submissions: no more than 2 full prose and/or 3 poems.

DEADLINE: May 1, 2020

http://hispanecdotes.com/ascendenciasubmissions/

2020 Poetry Contest

BOMB Magazine

INFO: BOMB is pleased to open its 2020 Poetry Contest, which will be judged by the acclaimed poet Simone White. The contest winner will receive a $1,000 prize and publication in BOMB Magazine’s print quarterly.

This year’s judge, Simone White, is the author of Dear Angel of Death (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2018), Of Being Dispersed (Futurepoem, 2016), and House Envy of All the World (Factory School, 2010) and of the poetry chapbooks Unrest (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2013) and, with Kim Thomas, Dolly (Q Ave, 2008). Her writing has appeared in publications including Artforum, e-flux journal, the Chicago Review, and the New York Times Book Review. She teaches at the University of Pennsylvania.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

• Manuscripts may contain no more than 5 poems and no more than 10 pages.

• All submissions will be read anonymously. Do not include author name on manuscript pages. Non-anonymous manuscripts will be disqualified.

• Simultaneous submissions are permitted, but the fee is not transferable.

• Work must be previously unpublished.

READING FEE: $20 (includes a one-year subscription to BOMB for all US entrants).

DEADLINE: May 3, 2020

https://bombmagazine.org/articles/contest2020/

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: QUEER INDIGENOUS POETICS

Anomaly

INFO: Anomaly is seeking poetry and cross-genre work by Indigenous poets & artists who exist as queer two-spirit, non-binary and trans people. We are seeking work that challenges what it means to live as queer Indigenous people in an increasingly technological society that emphasizes post-modern ideologies. We hope to hear from a wide range of Indigenous voices, and from the complete diaspora of post-colonial Indigenous experiences, including federally recognized and unrecognized tribes, Latinx people of Indigenous descent, and Indigenous Creole and Métis communities. Please send work that confronts prevailing paradigms and creates Indigenous futures that transcend and undermine Eurocentric ideologies.

DEADLINE: May 5, 2020

https://medium.com/anomalyblog/call-for-submissions-queer-indigenous-poetics-2b676c0e327

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Writers Space Africa

INFO: Writers Space Africa (WSA), an international literary magazine, published by the African Writers Development Trust (AWDT), is calling for submissions for its 43rd edition (JULY Edition) under the theme “FEAR”.

We accept submissions in the following categories:

• Articles/Essays – 1,200 Words maximum

• Flash Fiction – 300 words maximum

• Poetry – 1 poem, a maximum of 24 lines

• Children’s Literature – 700 words maximum (illustrations may be attached)

• Short Stories – 1,500 words maximum

DEADLINE: May 14, 2020

http://www.writersspace.net/submissions/

The Emerging Writer’s Contest

Ploughshares

INFO: The Emerging Writer's Contest is open to writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry who have yet to publish or self-publish a book. Read past winners of the contest here. 

We award publication, $2,000, review from Aevitas Creative Management, and a 1-year subscription for one winner in each of the three genres. Submit to the Emerging Writer's Contest through our submission manager. You must be logged in to access our submission manager.

The 2020 contest judges are Kirstin Valdez Quade (Fiction), Ilya Kaminsky (Poetry) and Esmé Weijun Wang (Nonfiction). 

PUBLICATION: The winning story, essay, and poems from the 2020 contest will be published in the Winter 2020-21 issue of Ploughshares. 

ELIGIBILITY:

• Have yet to publish a book (including eBooks, translations, books in other languages/countries, self-published works, and poetry chapbooks with a print run of more than 300).

• Have no book forthcoming before April 15, 2021.

• Are not affiliated with Emerson College or with Ploughshares as a contributing author, volunteer screener, intern, student, staff member, or faculty member.

• Will not have a relationship with Emerson before April 15, 2021 (example: if there is a chance you will attend the Emerson MFA program in the coming year or if your work has been accepted for publication for an upcoming issue).

DEADLINE: May 15, 2020 at noon EST

https://www.pshares.org/submit/emerging-writers-contest/guidelines

3rd Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize

Singapore Unbound

INFO: The Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize is awarded annually to an unpublished manuscript of original Anglophone poetry by an author of Asian heritage residing anywhere in the world. The winner receives book publication and USD1,000.00.

Past winners were The Experiment of The Tropics by Lawrence Lacambra Ypil and Autobiography of Horse by Jenifer Sang Eun Park, selected by Wong May; and Play for Time by Paula Mendoza, selected by Vijay Seshadri.

This year the prize judge is the poet, fictionist, and critic Cyril Wong. Cyril Wong is the Singapore Literature Prize-winning author of poetry collections, Unmarked Treasure and The Lover’s Inventory. A past recipient of the National Arts Council’s Young Artist Award for Literature, his poems have appeared in anthologies by Norton and Everyman’s Library, and have been translated into various languages.

Five finalists will be announced in July 2020, and the prizewinner in August 2020. The winning manuscript will be published in Spring 2021 by Gaudy Boy, an imprint of the NYC-based literary nonprofit Singapore Unbound.

Established in 2017, Gaudy Boy publishes poetry, fiction, and literary nonfiction of extraordinary merit by Asian voices. Our name is taken from the poem “Gaudy Turnout” by Singaporean poet Arthur Yap about his time abroad in 1970s Leeds, UK. From the Latin “gaudium,” meaning joy, Gaudy Boy seeks to delight our readers with the various powers of art.

GUIDELINES:

• The contest is open to emerging and established poets.

• No proof of Asian heritage is required. As writers ourselves, we go by honor between writers.

• Submit a 70–120-page unpublished manuscript of original poetry in English. Please number the pages of your manuscript. Include a title page, table of contents, and an acknowledgments page for any previously published poems.

• Email Jee Leong Koh at jkoh@singaporeunbound.org with a brief cover letter in the body of your email and the poetry manuscript attached in PDF or MSWord format.

• Your name, mailing address, and email address should not appear anywhere in the manuscript. Instead, they should be given in your cover letter in the body of your email.

• Submit your entry fee USD10.00 at PayPal to Jee Leong Koh (jkoh@singaporeunbound.org). We cannot consider your manuscript until we receive your entry fee. Your entry fee helps us defray some, but not all, of the editorial costs. We have set the entry fee low so it will not be too much of a barrier for most people. Entry fees are nonrefundable.

• You may submit more than one manuscript, but a separate entry fee must accompany each manuscript.

• You may submit the manuscript elsewhere simultaneously, but you must notify Gaudy Boy immediately if your manuscript is accepted by another publisher.

ENTRY FEE: $10

DEADLINE: May 15, 2020

https://singaporeunbound.org/opportunities

Spring 2020 Literature Grant

Café Royal Cultural Foundation

INFO: Café Royal Cultural Foundation NYC will award a publishing grant to authors of fiction / creative non-fiction, poetry and playwriting. 

Grants awarded in this category may fund costs associated with continuing the composition of work submitted.

Writers applying must be a current resident of New York City and have lived there for a minimum of one year prior to applying.

The processing time of application can take up to three months. Please make sure to submit your application with ample time before the start date of your project. 

GRANT Up to $10,000

DEADLINE: May 18, 2020

https://caferoyalculturalfoundation.org/

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Filipinx-American NARRATIVES

Here-After Magazine

INFO: Here-After Magazine is accepting writing and visual art that centers Filipinx-American narratives. You may submit up to 4 pieces of writing, but be sure to observe the limits for each genre (see below). *For example: you may choose to submit two pieces of poetry and two pieces of prose, but may not submit three pieces of prose and one piece of poetry. Please submit pieces of writing submissions of the same genre in one document. If you are sending both poetry and prose, submit two documents.

*You must send your pieces as a .pdf or .docx file.

PROSE: Please submit fiction/non-fiction up to 1,200 words, single-spaced 12-pt. font in Times New Roman or Arial; this includes short stories, personal essays, think pieces and more. You may only submit two pieces of prose to be considered.

POETRY: Please submit poetry up to 30 lines, single-spaced 12-pt. font in Times New Roman or Arial. All forms are welcome. You may submit up to 4 pieces of poetry to be considered.

DEADLINE: May 24, 2020

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LqfJPOeb93-RSYQGp-eaUuTf3rqFH6oa2zGRzhMr05w/mobilebasic?usp=gmail

PRIDE POETS

INFO: Last year, Pride Poets popped up with typewriters around West Hollywood throughout the month of Pride, crafting over 600 new poems for passersby commemorating their personal queer histories. This year...Pride Poets is going to look a little different. Parades all over the world are cancelled. But that doesn't mean we stop speaking. Building community. Writing.


We are looking for 10 new poets to join our little cohort in creating poetry as a public service, including writing custom poems for strangers and friends, sharing it in chalk on the streets, and supporting one another's writing lives. 

All LGBTQI+ poets & writers are welcome! Queer poets of color, trans poets, poets with disabilities, and West Hollywood-based poets especially encouraged to apply. Since we are all-digital this year, poets from anywhere in the world may apply! Allies, thank you for helping us keep this space reserved for queer writers, you're the best.

WHAT IS INVOLVED:

1. Training and orientation on Sunday, May 31, from 12-2pm, to meet the cohort and learn the RENT Poet service poetry practice.

2. Weekly Poetry Workshops and Mics in June to build our skills and create inclusive queer lit space online (Wednesday evening workshops, Friday evening mics). Each poet is expected to attend at least 2 workshops and 2 mics.

3. Writing custom poems to celebrate the personal queer histories people send us every week (remotely!) to craft into verse.

4. Publication in chalk of excerpts from the poems we write on the streets of WeHo!

5. A $100 base stipend (more for additional duties).

6. Being part of yet another weird little tribe!

DEADLINE: May 27, 2020

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1SBTpIRIC5cQ-OQDdmKek9PshnaizbOl_bwy-bPLdKcU/viewform?edit_requested=true

Writer-in-Residence Program

Associates of the Boston Public Library

INFO: The Associates of the Boston Public Library's Writer-in-Residence program is intended to:

• Provide an emerging children’s writer with the financial support and office space needed to complete one literary work for children or young adults.

• Encourage the imagination of young readers, and in so doing, draw attention to the importance of authors and the essential role they perform in nurturing developing minds and furthering our culture.

• Promote the awareness of the Boston Public Library and its resources, by establishing a living link between the Library and the community.

Residency Benefits

• A total stipend of $20,000, paid in monthly installments over a nine-month period.

• Use of a private office, Internet access, and a photocopier.

• Access to and use of the Boston Public Library’s collections.

• A forum for the presentation/promotion of your finished literary work.

• Opportunities to establish connections with writers, publishers, artists, and the community at large through participation in/attendance at Library readings, lectures, and other events.

• At the end of the residency, your completed manuscript will be added to the BPL’s collections. (However, you retain all rights to your completed work.)

Eligibility

• The proposed literary project should be intended for children or young adult readers. All genres are welcome, including fiction, non-fiction, scripts, or poetry. (The format is flexible and can include illustrated children’s books or graphic novels, but the majority of our submissions are generally Young Adult novels.)

• The applicant should demonstrate active engagement as a writer, whether full or part-time, as an avocation or profession.

• Since this program is intended for emerging authors, the applicant should not have any prior professional book publications. (Self-published books, works for hire, articles, and short stories published in an anthology do not count against this eligibility criteria.)

• Only one proposal may be submitted per person; joint applications or proposed collaborations by more than one author are not permitted.

• Works that are already under contract with a publisher are not eligible for submission.

• There is NO residency restriction to apply, but you must be able to spend at least nineteen (19) hours per week at the Boston Public Library’s Central Library in Copley Square, if selected.

• Must be eligible to work in the US, as a U.S. citizen or green card holder. English fluency required.

• There are NO age, gender, race, or educational requirements.

Terms of Residency

• Must work in-residence at the Boston Public Library’s Central Library in Copley Square, for a minimum of nineteen (19) hours per week from October 1, 2020 through June 30, 2021.

• Participation in a public reception toward the beginning of the residency, on a mutually agreed upon date.

• Completion and public presentation of a submission-ready manuscript at the end of residency, on a mutually agreed upon date.

• Include an acknowledgment of the Associates of the Boston Public Library in all work created during the residency and during any media opportunities stemming from the program, using mutually agreed upon language.

• Optional participation in Boston Public Library programs such as writing workshops and/or presentations to Boston-area students, as mutually agreed upon. (Participation would be only a small portion of your time.)

Application Process

To apply, please complete the application form (below) and upload a proposal (5 pages max.) and writing sample (15 pages max.) by Friday, May 29, 2020. The documents should be double spaced with one inch margins. The attachments should not include any biographical information, since there is a blind judging process.

Basic questions about the application will be answered via email (via hello@AssociatesBPL.org); no calls please. Questions regarding how to present your work will not be considered. Inquiries concerning applications under review will not be answered. 

Since the physical Boston Public Library is currently closed due to the pandemic, we cannot accept hard copy submissions this year. If using Submittable creates an undue burden for you, please let us know so we can work out an alternative.

Late applications will not be considered. Once submitted, applications may not be altered by either candidates or Associates' staff. 

Selection Process

Finalists are evaluated by a panel of judges, which includes a rotating group of authors, librarians, booksellers, publishers, editors, book designers, teachers, and/or citizens representing different areas of the world of children’s literature. Associates' staff do not vote in this process. The judges do not know the candidates’ names, gender, educational qualifications, or any background information. This blind judging process is focused solely on the quality of the applicant’s writing. The candidate selected to be the 2020-2021 Associates of the Boston Public Library Writer-in-Residence will be notified by July 30, 2020.

IMPORTANT DATES:

• Application Deadline:  Friday, May 29, 2020

• Notification: July 30, 2020

• Residency Period: October 1, 2020 through June 30, 2021

https://associatesofthebostonpubliclibrary.submittable.com/submit/163884/writer-in-residence-application-2020-21

Own Voices Chapbook Prize

Radix Media

INFO: The Radix Media Own Voices Chapbook Prize is an annual contest dedicated to the discovery of two timely, urgent, and interrogative chapbook-length poetry collections from debut poets of color. One chapbook will be published in the Fall of 2020 and the other in the Spring of 2021.

The contest is open from March 1 until May 31, 11:59 pm EST.

The Guest Judge for the 2020 Own Voices Chapbook Prize is Aria Aber.

The Own Voices Chapbook Prize includes a cash award of $500 for each winner, 25 author copies, a book launch in New York City, and a limited print run of 250 copies. At Radix Media, we pride ourselves on the production of superior quality, purposefully designed books. The poets of the winning chapbooks will work with our in-house designers to conceptualize their chapbook cover, letterpress printed on quality cover stock, like our other saddle-stitched chapbooks.

DEADLINE: May 31, 2020

https://radixmedia.org/own-voices-chapbook-prize/

EMERGING WRITER FELLOWSHIPS

Miami Book Fair

INFO: The Miami Book Fair at Miami Dade College is pleased to present the Emerging Writer Fellowship program. The program supports new literary voices that demonstrate exceptional talent and promise by providing writers working on a first book with time, space, and an intellectually and culturally rich artistic community.

The goal of the program is to actively support writers working to complete a book-length project within a year, and to help launch the literary careers of three fellows per year. The Emerging Writer Fellowships are designed to provide 12 months of uninterrupted time and studio space to write; mentorship with feedback from a nationally established author in their respective genre; professional experience such as arts administration, teaching creative writing, and other opportunities; $41,000 stipend, and strong literary community support in Miami, Florida.

Each Fellowship Includes:

• $41,000 honorarium, to be divided as follows:

  • $5,000 initial lump sum to be paid to fellow one month before fellowship dates begin.

  • $36,000 = 12-monthly stipend of $3,000 to cover all living expenses (i.e. utilities, incidentals, transportation, groceries, etc.)

• Mentorship with an established writer in your genre. Mentors arepart of the selection committee, and meet with fellow a minimum of 6 times (approximately every two months) during the 12-month fellowship. Fellows are expected to share progress and receive feedback on their manuscript-in-progress throughout the year.

• Professional experience. Fellows have the option to gain valuable experience in the field and build their professional resume during the 12-month fellowship:

  • Creative Writing Workshops: Miami Book Fair offers community creative writing workshops in all genres throughout the year. Fellows have the opportunity to create and teach one workshop during the 12-month fellowship.

  • School Visits: Give presentations at local elementary, middle, or high schools to inspire and empower students.

  • Fellows may visit Miami Dade County Public School Title 1 schools and/or Miami Dade College classes to give presentations and/or readings.

• Additional benefits:

  • Fellows may attend one community creative writing workshop per semester for free.

  • Fellows may attend one Miami Writers Institute workshop in the genre of their manuscript-in-progress. This includes one 15-minute manuscript consultation with that year’s MWI literary agent/editor.

  • Fellows are invited to attend any and all year-round Miami Book Fair events.

  • Studio space to work during your residency.

DEADLINE: Extended to May 31, 2020

https://www.miamibookfair.com/fellowships/

2020 BEACON STREET PRIZE - POETRY

Redivider Journal

INFO: Enter here for the 2020 Beacon Street Prize, poetry category. One winner will receive $1,000 and publication in Redivider 18.1 -- This year's poetry category features judge Chen-Chen. Please double-check our guidelines before submitting:

GUIDELINES:

• Length Restrictions: three (3) poems max in a single file

• Multiple submissions: Entrants may submit as many times as they please, to as many categories as they please, but the entry fee must be paid separately for each entry.

• Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are welcome. If accepted for publication elsewhere, simply withdraw the piece promptly (for fiction/nonfiction using the withdraw feature on Submittable, for poetry using the notes feature on Submittable to tell us which poem(s) is unavailable).

• Manuscript Specifications: Submissions must not contain the author’s name or any other identifying information. All entries must go through our online submission manager.

• Eligibility: All are eligible except current and former Emerson College students, faculty, and staff. Additionally, our judges’ students, or those with a personal connection to any one judge, are asked not to submit to that judge’s category.

PRIZE:

• $1,000 prize for fiction

• $1,000 for nonfiction

• $1,000 for poetry

SUBMISSION FEE: $10

DEADLINE: Extended to May 31, 2020

https://redivider.submittable.com/submit/161100/2020-beacon-street-prize-poetry

CBC Poetry Prize

CBC Books

INFO: The CBC Poetry Prize is open to all Canadian citizens and permanent residents of Canada. Submit your original, unpublished poem or poetry collection. You can write a poem or collection of poems, up to 600 words in length. There is no minimum word requirement.

PRIZE: The winner receives $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts, will have their story published on CBC Books and will have the opportunity to attend a two-week writing residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Four finalists will each receive $1,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts and have their story published on CBC Books.

WHAT YOU CAN WRITE: You can write a poem or collection of poems, up to 600 words in length. There is no minimum word requirement.

SUBMIT IN FRENCH: If you're looking to submit in French, you must log in to the French site at prixlitterairesrc.submittable.com

SUBMISSION FEE: $25

DEADLINE: May 31, 2020

https://cbcliteraryprizes.submittable.com/submit

Annual Poetry Contest

Boston Review

INFO: Who are your people? Who made you who you are? What about you only makes sense to someone who knows where you’re from? What’s a secret about your past?

It is rare now for people to stay where they were raised, and usually when we encounter one another—whether in person or online—it is in contexts that obscure if not outright hide details about our past. But even in moments of pure self-invention, we are always shaped by it. Ancestors asks today’s most imaginative writers to consider what it means to be made and fashioned by others: parents, grandparents, family, the deep past, the animal and natural world, epigenetic memory, predispositions for health or illness, political forebears, inherited social and economic circumstances, settled (and unsettled) ideas about gender and sex, class and racial history, the elders of whatever you feel beholden to or unable to outrun—not to mention your own best and worst decisions. Can we choose our family, or is blood always thicker? And looking forward, what will it mean to be ancestors ourselves, and how will our descendants remember us?

Judge: Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Prize: $1,000

DEADLINE: May 31, 2020

https://bostonreview.submittable.com/submit/55329/annual-poetry-contest-paid-entry-for-contestants-in-u-s-canada-and-western-eu

Poems in Translation Contest

Words Without Borders

INFO: Words Without Borders is pleased to announce the 2020 Poems in Translation Contest to spotlight some of the groundbreaking poets working around the world today and to celebrate the art of translating poetry.

The contest is open to contemporary international poetry translated from other languages into English. Four winning translated poems will be co-published on Words Without Borders, the digital magazine for international literature, and in Poem-a-Day, the popular daily poetry series produced by the Academy of American Poets, throughout September, which is National Translation Month.

The winning poems will be selected by acclaimed poet David Tomas Martinez, along with the editors of Words Without Borders.

The winning poets and translators will be awarded $150 each. (In the case of multiple translators, the translator award shall be split evenly.)

DEADLINE: June 1, 2020

https://wordswithoutborders.submittable.com/submit/164426/words-without-borders-poems-in-translation-contest?src=wordswithoutborders.org

POETRY -- APRIL 2020

CALL FOR SUBMISSION: WOMB ANTHOLOGY

POC United

INFO: The womb. From the Old English wamb. Referred to in science as the uterus. It is the inverted, pear-shaped organ that offers a space for the conception of offspring and is the home for that life to gestate. Throughout history, wombs have been extracted, cut into, sewn together, criminalized, politicized, legislated, and textualized. There are literal and figurative wombs, ones housed in our bodies, ones we wish were housed in our bodies, ones we don’t want, and, for all of us, the wombs from which we were born. For this second POC United anthology, we want them all.

We ask for fiction, essays, and poetry about the desire for a womb, the loss of a womb, the relationship to the mother’s womb, the metaphorical womb, phantom wombs, and any other womb-related ideas you might have. Interpret this theme as freely as you like, and submit so-called literary or genre work.

Please send fiction and non-fiction under 5,000 words and no more than three poems to pocunited@outlook.com as both an attachment and pasted in the body of the message.

DEADLINE: April 1, 2020

https://pocunited.com/submit/?fbclid=IwAR1jcQL_BaoHVsDxJpARZi9MBeJcL8zv9QOISY130Pr7vwi8iL5xVUijjHc

LYRICAL DESIRES FOR A NEW DECADE: POETRY AS FUTURE CONTINUOUS

The Acentos Review

INFO: In her 2011 poem “My God, It’s Full of Stars,” Tracy K. Smith ponders that: “We saw to the edge of all there is— So brutal and alive it seemed to comprehend us back.” As we embark on the beginning of a new decade, what will our world (& those beyond our own) look like? What will we lose and what will gain? How will we write ourselves into existence onto the increasingly virtual pages? What languages will we speak? I think of Aracelis Girmay’s poem “O” in the which in the speaker as: “But listen closely./ It is my mouth wailing redly//into the scene from The Future Knows.” ? What will happen to reality— and our ideas of it?

For a special issue for The Acentos Review, guest editor Rosebud Ben-Oni is seeking poems by Latinx writers on Lyrical Desires for a New Decade: Poetry as Future Continuous. Both form and free verse are welcome. Send us your future worlds and dreams, your imagined planets and stars filled with paradoxes and tangles, all the new riddles and puzzles and well-worn keys that turn but one lock (or more).

Please also complete the statement:  Being Latinx means to me ....

Guest editor:  Rosebud Ben-Oni is the winner of the 2019 Alice James Award for If This Is the Age We End Discovery, forthcoming in 2021, and the author of turn around, BRXGHT XYXS (Get Fresh Books, 2019). She is a recipient of fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) and CantoMundo. Her work appears in POETRY, The American Poetry Review, POETS.org, The Poetry Review (UK), Tin House, Guernica, Black Warrior Review, Prairie Schooner, Electric Literature, TriQuarterly, Hayden’s Ferry Review, among others. Her poem "Poet Wrestling with Angels in the Dark" was commissioned by the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York City, and published by The Kenyon Review Online.  She writes for The Kenyon Review blog. She recently edited a special chemistry poetry portfolio for Pleiades, and is finishing a series called The Atomic Sonnets, in honor of the Periodic Table’s 150th Birthday. Find her at 7TrainLove.org   

IMPORTANT DATES:

• Deadline: April 2, 2020

• Publication Date: August 2020

https://acentosreview.submittable.com/submit/160687/lyrical-desires-for-a-new-decade-poetry-as-future-continuous-with-guest-editor

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

MudRoom

INFO: Submissions are free, and simultaneous submissions are encouraged. If your work is accepted elsewhere, we just ask that you let us know immediately through Submittable. We try to respond to all submissions within thirty days. Feel free to query after two months. We will not consider work with sexist, racist, homophobic, xenophobic, or ableist content. Include a cover letter with a brief third-person bio on the first page of your submission.

POETRY GUIDELINES: MudRoom publishes poetry of all types. If you’d like your work reviewed, please submit 3-5 original, previously unpublished poems through Submittable. All poems should be included in a single .DOC/.DOCX or PDF file with one poem per page (eight pages maximum). 

PROSE GUIDELINES: Mudroom publishes fiction, essays, and essays in translation. If you’d like your work considered, please submit a previously unpublished work no longer than 6,000 words in double spaced 12-point Times New Roman font.

DEADLINE: April 15, 2020

https://mudroommag.submittable.com/submit

The Nimrod Literary Awards

INFO:
The Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction &
The Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry

First Prize: $2,000 and publication
Second Prize: $1,000 and publication

The winners will also be brought to Tulsa for the Awards Ceremony and Writing Conference in October. All finalists will be considered for publication.

Our final judges for 2020 are Kaveh Akbar and Joy Castro.

CONTEST RULES:

Poetry: 3-10 pages of poetry (one long poem or several short poems)

Fiction: 7,500 words maximum (one short story or a self-contained excerpt from a novel)

No previously published works or works accepted for publication elsewhere.  Author’s name must not appear on the manuscript.  Include a cover sheet containing titles, author’s name, full address, phone number, and email.  Submitters do not have to be U.S. citizens, but must be living in the U.S. in October of 2020 to enter the contest.

Postal Submissions: “Contest Entry” should be clearly indicated on both the outer envelope and the cover sheet. Manuscripts should be stapled, if possible; if not, please bind with a heavy clip. Manuscripts will not be returned.  Include SASE for results only. If no SASE is sent, no contest results will be sent; however, the results will be posted on Nimrod’s website.

Mail to:
Nimrod International Journal
Literary Contest–Fiction or Poetry (indicate the appropriate category)
The University of Tulsa
800 S. Tucker Dr.
Tulsa, OK 74104

Online Submissions: Work may be submitted online using our online submission manager system.

SUBMISSION FEE: $20

DEADLINE: April 15, 2020

https://artsandsciences.utulsa.edu/nimrod/nimrod-literary-awards/

2020 GULF COAST PRIZE IN POETRY

INFO: Gulf Coast is now accepting entries for the 2020 Gulf Coast Prize in Poetry.

The judge for this year's contest is Kazim Ali.

PRIZE: The contest awards $1,500 and publication in Gulf Coast to the winner. Two honorable mentions will be awarded $250. All entries will be considered for publication, and the entry fee includes a one-year subscription to Gulf Coast.

SUBMISSION FEE: $23

DEADLINE: April 16, 2020

https://gulfcoastajournalofliteratureandfinearts.submittable.com/submit/159708/2020-gulf-coast-prize-in-poetry

2020 Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry

The University of Utah Press

INFO: Honoring the memory of a celebrated poet and a beloved teacher, the Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry is awarded annually and is sponsored by The University of Utah Press and The University of Utah Department of  English. $1,000 Cash Prize and Publication; Reading in The University of  Utah's Guest Writers Series.

• Manuscripts must be in English and should be between 48 and 100 typed pages.

• Manuscripts must be submitted between February 1  through April 15, 2020. Early submissions are encouraged.  

• Manuscripts will not be returned.

• Submitted poems may have appeared previously in  journals or anthologies, although the collection as a whole must be previously unpublished. This includes chapbooks.

• The competition is open to poets who have previously published book-length poetry collections, as well as unpublished poets.

• Current and former students of The University of Utah  and of the finalist judge may not enter. Current and former employees  of The University of Utah Press are not eligible for the prize. We  support the CLMP Code of Ethics.

• Simultaneous submissions are permitted; however,  entrants must notify the Press immediately if the collection submitted  is accepted for publication elsewhere during the competition.

• All submissions should include a cover letter providing complete contact information, including name, address,  telephone, and email address. Please do not include any identifying information on the title page or on the manuscript itself. This includes acknowledgements.

 This year's judge is Gabrielle Calvocoressi. Read her bio from the Academy of American Poets here. 

SUBMISSION FEE: $25

DEADLINE: April 16, 2020

https://uofupress.submittable.com/submit/159516/2020-agha-shahid-ali-prize-in-poetry

CALL FOR AUDIO SUBMISSIONS: POETRY & PROSE

Galleyway

INFO: Galleyway seeks audio submissions of poetry or prose. In addition to spotlighting monthly opportunities for writers of color, our mission is to champion diverse voices. That’s why we want to hear yours - literally! Share an audio recording of you reading your best poem or work of fiction (excerpt preferred) and we'll showcase it on our blog and social channels. 

Submissions must include:

• One mp3 file (no longer than three minutes)

• Your headshot 

• Your bio

• Your social media handles

Previously published work is fine! Submissions should be sent to camille@galleyway.com

DEADLINE: April 17, 2020

http://galleyway.com/blog

2020 Latinx Scholarship

The Frost Place

INFO: This scholarship is designed to encourage the LatinX voice in poetry and the literary arts, both at The Frost Place and in the broader literary community. The winner will receive a full fellowship to attend the Conference on Poetry at The Frost Place, July 5 - 11, 2020, including tuition, room, board, and travel.

The LatinX Scholarship at The Frost Place will be selected by a small panel of readers who are committed to furthering the LatinX voice in poetry.  The winning recipient will be selected solely based on the merit of his/her work, and responses to the application questions.  The candidate’s selection will not be determined based on gender, immigration status, or any other biases.

The ideal applicant would self-identify as LatinX, would have a strong commitment to the Latin@ community, and be a minimum of 21 years of age.

Applications consist of a completed form, the contact information of two references, and a sample of 3 - 5 poems. 

DEADLINE: April 24, 2020

https://thefrostplace.submittable.com/submit

2020 Gregory Pardlo Scholarship

The Frost Place

INFO: The Frost Place invites submissions to the Gregory Pardlo Scholarship for Emerging African American Poets. This scholarship, which is funded by an anonymous donor, was named to honor Gregory Pardlo, Pulitzer Prize winning poet and faculty at The Frost Place 2015 Poetry Seminar.

Open to African American poets writing in English who have published up to one book of poetry.

PRIZE: The winner will receive a full scholarship to attend the Poetry Seminar (August 4- 10 2019)  at The Frost Place, including room and board (valued at approximately $1,550), and will give a featured reading at the Seminar. 

DEADLINE: April 24, 2020

https://thefrostplace.submittable.com/submit

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Burning House Press

INFO: Burning House Press is excited to welcome upfromsumdirt as our APRIL 2020 guest editor! As of today upfromsumdirt will take over editorship of Burning House Press online for the full month of APRIL.

upfromsumdirt‘s theme for the month is ESCAPISM

“escapism” captures the meaning of something liberating, physically, in spirit, in heavy thought or deep imagination, or in the heart.

a personal desire or something unbeknownst that calls to you. practical or farcical.

a journey, personal or communal, with a definitive destination, real or imagined.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: All submissions should be sent as attachments to guesteditorbhp@gmail.com

Please state the theme and form of your submission in the subject of the email. For example: ESCAPISM/POETRY

Poetry and Fiction

For poetry submissions, submit no more than three of your best poems. Short stories should be limited to 1,500 words or (preferably) less. We encourage flash fiction submissions, no more than three at a time. Send these in as a .doc or .docx file, along with a short third-person bio, and (optional) photograph of yourself.

Art
Submit hi-res images of your works (drawings, paintings, illustrations, collages, photography, etc) with descriptions of the work (Title, Year, Medium, etc) in the body of the email. Files should be in .JPEG unless they are GIFs or videos, and should not exceed 2MB in size for each work. File names should correspond with the work titles. Video submissions can be uploaded onto Youtube or Vimeo for feature on our website. Send these submissions along with a short third-person bio, and (optional) photograph of yourself.

Virtual Reality/ 3D Artworks

For VR Submissions, please submit no more than three (3) individual artworks. For Tilt Brush works, please upload your artwork to Google Poly (https://poly.google.com/), and mark it as ‘public’ (‘remixable’ is at your own preference). A VR/3D artwork can also be submitted as a video export navigating through the artwork. If you prefer this method, please upload your finished video file to YouTube or Vimeo and provide a URL. With either format, please provide a 150 word artist’s statement.

Non-fiction
Non-fiction submissions (essays, reviews, commentary, interviews, etc) should be no more than 1, 500 words and sent as a .doc or .docx file along with your third-person bio/and optional photograph.

Submissions are open from 1st till 24TH APRIL – and will reopen again on 1st MAY 2020/for new theme/new editor/s.

BHP online is now in the capable hands of the amazing upfromsumdirt – friends, arsonistas, send our APRIL 2020 guest editor your magic!

DEADLINE: April 24, 2020

https://burninghousepress.com/2020/03/31/april-2020-guest-editor-is-upfromsumdirt-theme-escapism/

2020 Beacon Street Prize - Poetry

Redivider Journal

INFO: Enter here for the 2020 Beacon Street Prize, poetry category. One winner will receive $1,000 and publication in Redivider 18.1 -- This year's poetry category features judge Chen-Chen. Please double-check our guidelines before submitting:

GUIDELINES:

• Length Restrictions: three (3) poems max in a single file

• Multiple submissions: Entrants may submit as many times as they please, to as many categories as they please, but the entry fee must be paid separately for each entry.

• Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are welcome. If accepted for publication elsewhere, simply withdraw the piece promptly (for fiction/nonfiction using the withdraw feature on Submittable, for poetry using the notes feature on Submittable to tell us which poem(s) is unavailable).

• Manuscript Specifications: Submissions must not contain the author’s name or any other identifying information. All entries must go through our online submission manager.

• Eligibility: All are eligible except current and former Emerson College students, faculty, and staff. Additionally, our judges’ students, or those with a personal connection to any one judge, are asked not to submit to that judge’s category.

PRIZE:

• $1,000 prize for fiction

• $1,000 for nonfiction

• $1,000 for poetry

SUBMISSION FEE: $10

DEADLINE: April 30, 2020

https://redivider.submittable.com/submit/161100/2020-beacon-street-prize-poetry

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: POETRY

FIYAH

INFO: FIYAH is a quarterly speculative fiction magazine that features stories by and about Black people of the African Diaspora. This definition is globally inclusive (Black anywhere in the world) and also applies to mixed/biracial and Afro-appended people regardless of gender identity or orientation.

What we want in speculative poetry is verse that struggles, reveals, instructs, comforts, and fights back. We are looking for weird, complex, honest and challenging work with a clear speculative element from Black authors. You can check out this post from our Poetry Editor for more on what we’d like to see in your poetry.

DEADLINE: April 30, 2020

http://www.fiyahlitmag.com/submissions/

2020 GWENDOLYN BROOKS YOUTH POETRY AWARDS 

1. The contest is open to young people currently in Kindergarten through 12th grade across the state of Illinois. Participating young people can be affiliated with any school (public, private, home, etc.) or other institution.

2. Each youth can only submit ONE poem and the poem must be written by only ONE author (sorry, we do not accept jointly or co-written poems for this contest).

3. Poems cannot exceed 16 lines for poems submitted by young people in grades K-5 and cannot exceed 50 lines for poems submitted by young people in grades 6-12. Poems containing visual elements are allowed, if all images/visuals are original to the poet.

4. Please only submit poems that were written between May 1, 2019 - April 30, 2020, since poems are judged based on grade level.

5. All entries must be the original work of the young person submitting the poem.

6. Youth can submit their poem on their own or the poem can be submitted by a parent/guardian or teacher using submittable.com.

7. When submitting a poem, please only enter your name on the entry form and do not include your name or identifying information on the poem itself, since the judging is anonymous.

Contest winners will be notified by July 1, 2020. Winners will be honored at an Awards Ceremony to take place at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts at the University of Chicago (915 East 60th Street, Chicago, Illinois) on Saturday, August 1, 2020 from 1:00-3:00 PM.

DEADLINE: May 1, 2020

https://poetryfoundation.submittable.com/submit

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Hispanecdotes

INFO: Hispanecdotes - a magazine providing a platform for Latino writers to share their stories, poetry, and personal essays - is excited to announce the theme of our very first print issue: Ascendencia to be published in October 2020! We are interested in essays, poems, and flash fiction up to 1500 words pertaining to the theme.

Limit for submissions: no more than 2 full prose and/or 3 poems.

DEADLINE: May 1, 2020

http://hispanecdotes.com/ascendenciasubmissions/

Call For Submissions: Queer Indigenous Poetics

Anomaly

INFO: Anomaly is seeking poetry and cross-genre work by Indigenous poets & artists who exist as queer two-spirit, non-binary and trans people. We are seeking work that challenges what it means to live as queer Indigenous people in an increasingly technological society that emphasizes post-modern ideologies. We hope to hear from a wide range of Indigenous voices, and from the complete diaspora of post-colonial Indigenous experiences, including federally recognized and unrecognized tribes, Latinx people of Indigenous descent, and Indigenous Creole and Métis communities. Please send work that confronts prevailing paradigms and creates Indigenous futures that transcend and undermine Eurocentric ideologies.

DEADLINE: May 5, 2020

https://medium.com/anomalyblog/call-for-submissions-queer-indigenous-poetics-2b676c0e327

POETRY -- MARCH 2020

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS — POETRY

ANMLY

INFO: ANMLY is currently seeking impact poetry. We are seeking poems that challenge the history and currents of the English language, poems that unsettle cultural norms, poems that utilize language to contest and remake the world. We seek poems that confront gender formations, white supremacy, class, body, possibility. We are seeking for poetry rooted in the radical imagination. We hope to find you.

Please be aware that we get over 500 submissions per reading period and read each carefully, so if you're work has not been accepted or rejected it's not from oversight-we promise we're working on it!

Attach up to five poems in a single document. Please include a short bio in the "Cover Letter" field.

Translations that foreground the work of the original author are welcome in this category. For translations that foreground the creativity of the translator, please see our Translation section.

DEADLINE: March 1, 2020

https://anmly.submittable.com/submit

CREATIVE RESIDENCY

Millay Colony for the Arts

INFO: The Millay Colony for the Arts is one of the oldest  multidisciplinary artist residencies in the world.  Since its inception by Norma Millay in 1973, we have invited thousands of writers, poets, visual artists, screenwriters, playwrights, filmmakers and composers to come to Steepletop, the estate of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and activist Edna St. Vincent Millay to reflect, refuel and create in quiet solitude. Most residencies are month-long but we do offer shorter stays several times a year, especially to accommodate the special needs of parent creators.

In addition, we partner with local and regional schools and other organizations for unique and compelling public programs and community outreach initiatives.

The seven-acre Colony is located in the Hudson Valley in the foothills of the Berkshires. The Millay Society, our neighbor, oversees Millay’s house and gardens.  There are designated trails for hiking and bicycling as well as nearby lakes, rivers and streams.  In the summer, wild blueberries and other delicacies abound, while in the winter, there is excellent crosscountry skiing.  Nearby Harvey Mountain State Forest draws visitors year-round.  We are within 30 minutes of Chatham, New York and Great Barrington, Massachusetts.  Other attractions include The Mount, Tanglewood, Norman Rockwell Museum, Chesterwood, MassMOCA, Naumkeag, Jacobs Pillow, PS21, the Columbia County Film Festival and Berkshire Shakespeare & Company.  

We provide groceries and Chef Donna cooks delicious family-style dinners weeknights.  We accommodate all dietary restrictions; we also have a bbq grill and firepit (burgers and s’mores anyone?).

Our beloved historic Barn (built from a Sears-Roebuck kit in 1926) features four private bedrooms and studios.  The Main Building (fully ADA-accessible) features 3 private bedrooms and 2 studios, as well as shared living/dining/kitchen space. In addition, the Main Building houses the Nancy Graves Memorial Library, a Yamaha U1 upright piano and the Martha Dupee Darkroom.  Other amenities include washer/dryer, WiFI, printer/computer/copier/fax. 

DEADLINE: March 1, 2020

https://millaycolony.submittable.com/submit

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Dryland Literary Journal

DSTL Arts

INFO: We accept poetry, prose, and art, and aim to publish the best of each genre. We look for subversive and bold voices; thought-provoking pieces that seek to illuminate a truth for the reader. We are proud to publish never published, emerging, and established writers/poets/artists. We enjoy reading and printing both English and Spanish language pieces.

Note: We prioritize works by people of color. We do not accept work that sustains the traditional white literary Western canon that has continuously ignored and poised itself as an authority over the voices of the oppressed. We do not give a voice to stories from the perspectives of cisgender, heterosexual, white, upper-class males that continue this tradition. We also do not give a voice to feminist works that only consider white female perspectives.

Submission Guidelines

• POETRY: No more than 1-5 poems in one document 

• FICTION: 1 short story at 3,000 words maximum

• FLASH FICTION: No more than 3-5 pieces in one document (not in separate files)

• NONFICTION: 1 piece at 3,000 words maximum

DEADLINE: March 5, 2020

https://dstlarts.submittable.com/submit/147037/dryland-literary-journal-submission-form

2020 CAVE CANEM POETRY PRIZE

Cave Canem

INFO: This prize is open to all unpublished, original collections of poems written in English by Black writers of African descent who have not had a full-length book of poetry published by a professional press. Authors of chapbooks and self-published books with a maximum print run of 500 may apply. Simultaneous submission to other book awards should be noted: immediate notice upon winning such an award is required. Winner agrees to be present in the continental United States at her or his own expense shortly after the book is published in order to participate in promotional reading(s).

Current or former students, colleagues, employees, family members and close friends of the judge; current or former employees and members of the board of Cave Canem Foundation or the University of Pittsburgh Press; and authors who have published a book or have a book under contract with University of Pittsburgh Press are ineligible.

Final Judge:  Douglas Kearney (Judge reserves the right not to select a winner and/or honorable mentions.)

First Readers:  Kwoya Fagin Maples and Dustin Pearson

Manuscripts are read without the reviewers and judge’s knowledge of contestants’ identities.

If any of the selected authors fall under the above exclusions, they will be disqualified and a replacement chosen from among the finalists. As the poetry community is small and the contest is judged without knowledge of the submitter’s identity, acquaintance with the judge or participation in a workshop taught by the judge are not disqualifying criteria.

AWARD: Winner receives $1,000, publication by University of Georgia Press in fall 2020, 15 copies of the book and a feature reading.

SUBMISSION FEE: $20

DEADLINE: March 9, 2020

https://cavecanem.submittable.com/submit/157337/2020-cave-canem-poetry-prize

TIN HOUSE SUMMER WORKSHOP

INFO: The Tin House Summer Workshop (July 11 - 19, 2020) is a weeklong intensive of workshops, seminars, panels, and readings led by prominent contemporary writers. The program combines morning workshops with afternoon seminars and career panels. Evenings are reserved for author readings, singing, and dancing.

Workshops meet for six sessions, Monday through Saturday, from 10:00 am until 1:00 pm. Each workshop will have no more than ten students. Each student will meet with their faculty instructor for a 15-minute one-on-one meeting during the week.

Tin House editors and guest agents are available to meet individually with students throughout the week.

For students who have completed a collection of stories or poems, a memoir, or a novel, one-on-one mentorships are available with select faculty and staff for an additional fee.

The Workshop will take place at Reed College, located on 100 acres of rolling lawns, winding lanes, and magnificent old trees in the southeast area of Portland, Oregon, just minutes from downtown and twelve miles from the airport.

Summer Workshop participants are housed in the dormitories of Reed College near the center of campus. Unless requested, all rooms are singles, with shared bathrooms (private stalls) on each floor. ADA accessible rooms are available.

All classrooms, readings, panel presentations, dining and reception areas are within 1/2 mile from the dormitories. Golf carts will be made available throughout the week for those who wish to have rides.

Meals are served in the dining area of the college and are catered by Bon Appetite. We work closely with Bon Appetite to ensure dietary requirements and restrictions are accommodated. Students who choose not to stay on campus will need to pay for meals individually.

You do not need to be a U.S. resident/citizen to apply.

Admissions

Applications are read by a board composed of Tin House Workshop staff and previous Tin House Scholars. All applications will be read by at least two readers. Our editorial board seeks work that reflects our core values and makes decisions regarding admission based on this and the merit of the writing sample submitted.

• We will begin admitting applicants in early March.

• The average turnaround time for applications is six weeks.

• Our acceptance rate in 2019 was 15%.

General Applicants

Application Requirements:

• Short Fiction: One writing sample of no more than 5,000 words.
  Novel: One excerpt (from the project you will be workshopping from) of no more than 5,000 words.
  Nonfiction: One essay of no more than 5,000 words or One excerpt (from the project you will be workshopping from) of no more than 5,000 words.
  Poetry: Up to four poems.
  Graphic Narrative-Up to 20 pages.

• Please do not apply with published material. However, it is acceptable to apply with work that is out for submission. If accepted, you will have the opportunity to switch your manuscript.

• If you have been accepted into a Tin House workshop previously, please do not apply with the same application material. You are free to excerpt from the same project.

• Participants may only attend our workshops (including Winter) three times.

• If you wish to apply in multiple genres, you must submit a separate application for each genre (this includes short fiction and the novel).

• Applicants must be 21 years of age by the time of the workshop.

• The general application deadline is March 11th.

Our 2020 Summer Workshop Admissions Board:
Lance Cleland (Workshop Director)
India Downes-Le Guin (Assistant Workshop Director)
Rickey Fayne (2019 Summer Scholar)
Mona Law (Workshop Intern)
Santiago Valencia (Workshop Intern)

SCHOLARSHIPS:

1 - Tin House Scholars

Tin House awards twelve full scholarships to our summer workshop. These awards cover the entire cost of the program, including room and board. Tin House Scholars will need to provide and pay for their travel to and from Portland. Scholarship applications are read by a board composed of Tin House Workshop staff, Tin House Books staff, and previous Tin House Scholars. All applications will be read by at least two readers. Our editorial board seeks work that reflects our core values and makes decisions regarding scholarship recipients based on this and the merit of the writing sample submitted.

• All general scholarship applicants will also be considered for general admission (meaning you do not need to submit a general application as well).

• In addition to your manuscript, you will be asked to submit a personal essay (1500 words or less) that gives our board insight into where you are coming from as a writer.

• Payment plans are available for the $30 application fee. Please email our assistant workshop director India Downes-LeGuin (india@tinhouse.com) to inquire.

• One may be awarded a scholarship once (this includes Winter Scholarships).

• You may apply for multiple scholarships with one application (in one genre).

• If you wish to apply in multiple genres, you must submit a separate scholarship application for each genre (this includes short fiction and the novel).

• Applicants must be 21 years of age by the time of the workshop.

• The winners of these awards will not be announced publicly until after the conclusion of the Summer Workshop.

• The deadline for scholarship applications is TBA.

A list of recent scholarship recipients can be found here. 

In addition to our general scholarships, Tin House will be offering these additional awards:

2 - Independent Bookseller Scholarship, Sponsored by Tin House Books 

• This award is intended for a writer presently employed at an independent bookstore.

• This award covers the cost of tuition and room/board. 

• The winner of this award will not be announced publicly until after the conclusion of the Summer Workshop, where they will be listed as a Tin House Scholar.

• Applicants must be 21 years of age by the time of the workshop.

• The deadline to apply for this award is March 11th, 2020.

3 - Institute of American Indian Arts MFA Scholarship

• This award is intended for applicants who are currently enrolled in or are a graduate of the MFA program at IAIA.

• Thanks to a private donation, this award covers the application fee, cost of tuition, room/board, and airfare from within the United States.

• The winner of this award will not be announced publicly until after the conclusion of the Summer Workshop, where they will be listed as a Tin House Scholar.

• Applicants must be 21 years of age by the time of the workshop.

• The deadline to apply for this award is March 11th, 2020.

4 - LGBTQ+ Scholarship

• This award is intended for writers who identify as LGBTQ+.

• This award covers the cost of tuition and room/board.

• The winner of this award will not be announced publicly until after the conclusion of the Summer Workshop, where they will be listed as a Tin House Scholar.

• Applicants must be 21 years of age by the time of the workshop.

• The deadline to apply for this award is March 11th, 2020.

5 - Oregon Writer of Color Scholarship

• This award is intended for a writer of color who currently resides in Oregon.

• This award covers the cost of tuition and room/board.

• The winner of this award will not be announced publicly until after the conclusion of the Summer Workshop, where they will be listed as a Tin House Scholar.

• Applicants must be 21 years of age by the time of the workshop.

• The deadline to apply for this award is March 11th, 2020.

6 - Still-Emerging Scholarship

• This award is intended to provide writers over forty years of age who have not yet published a book with the time and space to develop their writing skills further and connect with a community that might help launch their professional writing careers.

• This award covers the cost of tuition and room/board.

• The winner of this award will not be announced publicly until after the conclusion of the Summer Workshop, where they will be listed as a Tin House Scholar.

• Applicants must be 40 years or older by December 31st, 2020.

• The deadline to apply for this award is March 11th, 2020.

7 - Without Borders Scholarship

• This award is intended for any immigrant writer currently living in the United States.

• This award covers the cost of tuition and room/board,

• The winner of this award will not be announced publicly until after the conclusion of the Summer Workshop, where they will be listed as a Tin House Scholar.

• Applicants must be 21 years of age by the time of the workshop.

• The deadline to apply for this award is March 11th, 2020.

DEADLINE: March 11, 2020

https://tinhouse.com/workshop/summer-workshop/

2020 KUNDIMAN MENTORSHIP LAB

INFO: Applications are now open for the 2020 Mentorship Lab! This program will support 9 emerging writers through a six-month program. The Mentorship Lab supports 3 writers of each genre (Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, & Poetry), who will take Master Classes, Workshops, and receive one-on-one Mentorship.

This program will support nine NYC–based emerging artists for a six-month mentorship program from July 2020–December 2020. This lab will include not only mentorship support from established artists but also writing workshops, master classes, and a culminating reading open to the public. Kundiman has long been a source of community and support for Asian American writers, and we’re excited to offer this space of close collaboration and community guidance.

We are thrilled to have the following writers serving as Mentors this year:

• Hala Alyan: Poetry

• Gina Apostol: Fiction

• Mayukh Sen: Creative Nonfiction

AWARD: Mentorship Fellows receive a $1000 stipend, individual mentoring sessions with the Mentor in their genre, six Master Classes, and six Workshops. To encourage learning and community across genres, the Master Classes will include fellows from all three genres. The Workshops will be conducted within specific genres.

ELIGIBILITY: The Mentorship Lab is open to emerging writers who self-identify as Asian American. Writers must not have published a full-length book by the conclusion of the Lab, and cannot be enrolled in a degree-granting program during the time of the Mentorship Lab. Writers must be residents of the five boroughs of New York City, and be living in NYC for the full period of the Mentorship Lab. 

Mentorship Lab will meet on biweekly Monday evenings in NYC from September 2020–December 2020. Please make sure you are able to make these class times before applying.

REQUIREMENTS FOR MENTORSHIP FELLOWS:

• Meet with entire cohort for introductory meeting in July 2020

• Participate in biweekly 30-minute check-ins with Mentors from August 2020–December 2020, via phone or Skype

• Attend all 6 Master Classes and 6 Writing Workshops on biweekly Mondays from September–December 2020

• Participate in culminating public reading in December 2020

DEADLINE: March 15, 2020

http://www.kundiman.org/mentorship-lab

International Poetry Prize

Valparaíso Editions USA

INFO: Valparaíso Editions USA announces the International Poetry Prize Poet in New York for the publication of an unpublished collection of poems written originally in Spanish by an author residing in the United States. Only book-length manuscripts written in Spanish will be accepted. Translations, works of literary criticism and academic texts are not eligible. The winning collection will be decided upon by a prestigious Spanish-speaking jury. It will be translated into English and published by Valparaíso USA in a bilingual edition.

AWARD: Publication in 2020, 20 author copies.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:  

• Themes and length are free, although they should be in keeping with the accepted standards for a book of poems (approximately 45 pages).

• The work must be signed. It may not be submitted under a pseudonym or anonymously. On the first page of the manuscript, the author shall offer an autobiographical note.

• The jury will be composed of four members: a representative of Valparaíso USA; a representative of Valparaíso Colombia; a representative of Valparaíso Spain and one other author of international stature. Their names will be made public upon the awarding of the prize. 

• The prize will consist of the publication of the book in bilingual edition in the Poetry Collection of Valparaíso Editions USA. Valparaíso Editions USA will maintain and commercialize the rights of the work and may publish it through its other subsidiaries in Colombia, Mexico and Central America, in the event that it considers it to be opportune, without any expiration date. Valparaíso Editions USA will also produce an electronic version of the winning text. The author will receive the corresponding rights for the commercialization of this work.

• The work will be presented in the year of 2020. The author agrees to participate in the promotional acts that Valparaíso Editions USA may organize, at no cost to the author, with the goal of achieving the greatest possible circulation of the work.

• The jury may opt between choosing a single book as the winner or declaring two books ex-aequo as winners.

• Under no circumstances will books that do not receive the prize be returned to their authors. Said books will be destroyed upon the final deliberations of the jury.

DEADLINE: March 15, 2020

http://valparaisoeditions.us/content/25-poetry-prize-poet-in-new-york-in-spanish

SPECIAL ISSUE: VISIONS AND WORDS FOR CHILDREN OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA, FALL 2020

Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora 

INFO: Founded in 1975, Obsidian supports—through publication and critical inquiry—the contemporary poetry, fiction, drama/performance, visual and media art of Africans globally. Recognized by the National Endowment of the Arts as one of the premier journals dedicated to Africa and African Diaspora Literatures, Obsidian is published biannually in print and year-round online and hosted by Illinois State University.

This special issue of Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora is dedicated to creative artistry for children of the African Diaspora. We invite original textual and multimedia submissions devoted to interdisciplinary and creative approaches in African Diaspora Children’s and YA Literature. Submissions must focus upon literature, visual, and audio artistry created by people of the African Diaspora. Submissions may include scholarly papers, audio and/or visual presentations, interviews, and creative/artistic works. 

Guest Editor: Nancy D. Tolson

Manuscript Guidelines:

• Include a short cover letter noting the title(s) of the work(s) submitted and citing major publications and awards, as well as any association or past correspondence with a guest or staff editor.

• Upload your text submission only as a Word (doc, docx), portable document format/PDF (pdf) or rich-text format (rtf) file.
  **NO Pages, txt, or Open Office Documents.

• Typed, double-spaced pages (Note: Poetry may be single-spaced)

• Numbered pages.

• Scholarly papers should follow the Chicago Style for grammar and MLA format for citations and works cited, and the Obsidian Stylesheet (The style sheet is available to download as a pdf file here at this link : Obsidian Style Sheet The link opens in a new page.

• Margins should be set at no less than 1” and no greater than 1.5”.

• Poetry: submit up to five (5) poems totaling no more than eight (8) pages.

• Fiction, Hybrid genre and critical essays: 12-point font. No more than twenty (20) pages or 5000 words (whichever is achieved first). Excerpts of longer works are welcome if self-contained.

• Drama/Performance: submit one act or a collection of short scenes no longer than twenty pages (20) following Samuel French or the Dramatists Guild suggested formatting. Excerpts of longer works are welcome if self-contained.

• Translations are welcome if permission has been granted.

DEADLINE: March 15, 2020

https://obsidianlit.org/how-to-submit/

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: POETRY

them

INFO: Our team at them. is excited to announce our new monthly fiction column, a space dedicated to publishing queer stories and poems by and for the LGBTQ+ community.

Queer people have long used literature to telegraph our lives and stories to the world, and to reclaim, recontextualize, and retell history on our own terms. Queer literature was at the heart of the fight to strike down obscenity laws in the West, has helped countless people discover their sexuality and identity before the internet, and has long been a powerful tool of resistance and imagination for LGBTQ+ people worldwide. In short, it’s vital to our community — which is why we’re inspired to provide our audience with a platform for their own work, to publish the next generation of LGBTQ+ writers.

Each month, we will select a new theme — subjects as abstract as love, creation, and connection, or as concrete as a day at the beach — and invite readers around the world to submit poems, flash fiction, and short stories tied to that theme.

This April, leading up to this year’s Met Gala, About Time: Fashion and Duration, we’ll be publishing submissions themed around time. We’re looking for stories and poems both about time as a literal concept and as it relates to one’s life — a time you fell in love, how coming out changed the timeline of your adolescence, a queer time travel saga, even a period piece that transports us to a different historical era. While we encourage any interpretation of this theme, we are looking to select:

• 5 poems

• 4 pieces of flash fiction (under 1,000 words)

• 1 short story

DEADLINE: March 30, 2020

https://www.them.us/story/them-monthly-fiction-column-call-for-submissions

The 2020 Yellowwood Poetry Prize

Yalobusha Review 

INFO: Yalobusha Review is excited to announce the 2020 Yellowwood Poetry Prize. This year’s judge is Diana Khoi Nguyen.

The winner of the Yellowwood Poetry Prize will receive $500 and publication in YR:31. The contest is open March 1st through March 31st.

GUIDELINES:

• Please submit up to 3 poems, totaling no more than 5 pages, through Submittable. We accept only previously unpublished work. All entries will be considered for general publication.

• Only one submission per contestant. Simultaneous submissions are permitted. Please notify us immediately if a piece is selected for publication elsewhere.

• Please do not include your name anywhere on the manuscript.

• YR cannot consider work from anyone affiliated with the University of Mississippi or the prize judge, Diana Khoi Nguyen.

SUBMISSION FEE: $3

DEADLINE: March 31, 2020

http://yr.olemiss.edu/yellowwood-poetry-prize/

CALL FOR SUBMISSION: WOMB ANTHOLOGY

POC United

INFO: The womb. From the Old English wamb. Referred to in science as the uterus. It is the inverted, pear-shaped organ that offers a space for the conception of offspring and is the home for that life to gestate. Throughout history, wombs have been extracted, cut into, sewn together, criminalized, politicized, legislated, and textualized. There are literal and figurative wombs, ones housed in our bodies, ones we wish were housed in our bodies, ones we don’t want, and, for all of us, the wombs from which we were born. For this second POC United anthology, we want them all.

We ask for fiction, essays, and poetry about the desire for a womb, the loss of a womb, the relationship to the mother’s womb, the metaphorical womb, phantom wombs, and any other womb-related ideas you might have. Interpret this theme as freely as you like, and submit so-called literary or genre work.

Please send fiction and non-fiction under 5,000 words and no more than three poems to pocunited@outlook.com as both an attachment and pasted in the body of the message by

DEADLINE: April 1, 2020

https://pocunited.com/submit/?fbclid=IwAR1jcQL_BaoHVsDxJpARZi9MBeJcL8zv9QOISY130Pr7vwi8iL5xVUijjHc

Lyrical Desires for a New Decade: Poetry as Future Continuous

The Acentos Review

INFO: In her 2011 poem “My God, It’s Full of Stars,” Tracy K. Smith ponders that: “We saw to the edge of all there is— So brutal and alive it seemed to comprehend us back.” As we embark on the beginning of a new decade, what will our world (& those beyond our own) look like? What will we lose and what will gain? How will we write ourselves into existence onto the increasingly virtual pages? What languages will we speak? I think of Aracelis Girmay’s poem “O” in the which in the speaker as: “But listen closely./ It is my mouth wailing redly//into the scene from The Future Knows.” ? What will happen to reality— and our ideas of it?

For a special issue for The Acentos Review, guest editor Rosebud Ben-Oni is seeking poems by Latinx writers on Lyrical Desires for a New Decade: Poetry as Future Continuous. Both form and free verse are welcome. Send us your future worlds and dreams, your imagined planets and stars filled with paradoxes and tangles, all the new riddles and puzzles and well-worn keys that turn but one lock (or more).

Please also complete the statement:  Being Latinx means to me ....

Guest editor:  Rosebud Ben-Oni is the winner of the 2019 Alice James Award for If This Is the Age We End Discovery, forthcoming in 2021, and the author of turn around, BRXGHT XYXS (Get Fresh Books, 2019). She is a recipient of fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) and CantoMundo. Her work appears in POETRY, The American Poetry Review, POETS.org, The Poetry Review (UK), Tin House, Guernica, Black Warrior Review, Prairie Schooner, Electric Literature, TriQuarterly, Hayden’s Ferry Review, among others. Her poem "Poet Wrestling with Angels in the Dark" was commissioned by the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York City, and published by The Kenyon Review Online.  She writes for The Kenyon Review blog. She recently edited a special chemistry poetry portfolio for Pleiades, and is finishing a series called The Atomic Sonnets, in honor of the Periodic Table’s 150th Birthday. Find her at 7TrainLove.org   

IMPORTANT DATES:

• Deadline: April 2, 2020

• Publication Date: August 2020

https://acentosreview.submittable.com/submit/160687/lyrical-desires-for-a-new-decade-poetry-as-future-continuous-with-guest-editor

POETRY -- FEB 2020

Literary and Photographic Contest 2019-2020

Hispanic Culture Review

INFO: “Dime con quién andas y te diré quién eres” (Tell me who you are with, and I’ll tell you who you are). Even though this saying in Spanish has a negative connotation, we think it is time to give it a new meaning that speaks of identity going beyond self-definition. Nationality, ethnicity, language, gender, sexual orientation, and more are identity markers, ties that bring us together or separate us from others. According to this, knowing who we are implies that we learn the stories we have in common and to tell them to leave testimony of the human condition that makes us truly a community.

For the 2019-2020 edition, we invite you to think about the concept of “my people” and to go beyond the boundaries that separate us to give shape to what really unites us. 

The selected works will be published in our magazine, and the winners will receive a monetary prize of $100 dollars and a certificate of recognition, and will be notified through email as well as on our Facebook page (Hispanic Culture Review GMU). Prizes will be issued in the Spring of 2020. 

For a work to be considered, the following specifications must be followed; if the specifications are not followed, the work will be eliminated:

• The maximum number of works per author is 2, which must be sent as separate files. Those submitting photography and visual arts works are allowed to send up to 6 works.

• Written works must be written in Arial 12pt font.

• Academic works and essays must follow the current MLA or APA formatting style.

• Maximum length allowed for the texts:

          -Academic essays and investigations: 3000 words (including footnotes).

          -Narrative: 2500 words.

          -Poetry: 50 lines maximum.

• Visual Arts: photographs must be in JPEG format and 300 PPI.

• Only unedited work will be accepted, which means works that have not been published before or are pending revision in other media. This includes printed and electronic work, as well as those included in literary blogs.

• Works written in both English and Spanish will be accepted.

• There are no age or nationality restrictions to participate, except in the case that the person has his/her fiscal residence in any of the countries subject to the sanctions of the United States government, since it would be impossible to send the monetary prize to the winner. https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/Pages/Programs.aspx

Selected works will be published in both the print and electronic versions of the HCR magazine. HCR reserves the right to publish the works exclusively in its digital version. 

DEADLINE: February 7, 2020

https://hispanicculturereview.submittable.com/submit?utm_content=108803356&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&hss_channel=tw-50286440

Creative Writing Fellowship

Luminarts

INFO: The Creative Writing Fellowship awards two $7,500 Luminarts Fellowships for excellence in creative writing in the categories of prose and poetry, in fiction and nonfiction. Applicants (must be Chicago-based) submit a two-page written piece (either a stand-alone piece or an excerpt of a larger piece such as a novel or short story). Entries are submitted and reviewed by an initial panel of jurors. Once reviewed, all top entries go to the final juror panel and the winners are selected. Jurors are comprised of professional authors, novelists, and poets, literary contributors, publishers, editors, journalists and media contributors. 

DEADLINE: February 7, 2020 at 11:59 p.m. CST

https://luminarts.org/creative-writing-opportunities/

PREE Writing Studio

INFO: At PREE we care about writing so it gives us great pleasure to launch the very first PREE Writing Studio in collaboration with the Department of Literatures in English at the University of the West Indies, Mona and the Prince Claus Fund. We’re assembling some of the most exceptional Caribbean Writers for four days in Kingston, Jamaica, including Marlon James, Nicole Dennis-Benn, Ishion Hutchinson, Kei Miller, Ingrid Persaud, and Safiya Sinclair. If you’re an emerging writer who’s keen to learn from the best we invite you to join us. PREE Writing Studio is for all writers, anywhere, no Caribbean connection required.

WHEN: May 24-28, 2020

WHERE: On the beautiful campus of The University of the West Indies, Mona, in Kingston, Jamaica

Four days at a residential, boutique studio with our most outstanding writers to get your writing muscles in shape. Each participant will work with one of our writers in their studio for the duration of the four days, getting intimate feedback from a respected author as well as your peers. Groups are designed to be small so that writers can get meaningful attention from tutors.

If you’re an emerging or mid-career writer who wants to learn from some of the smartest, most innovative writers in the world, scroll down to see our exciting line-up.

We are currently accepting applications to the Pree 2020 Writing Studio! To express interest, please email a short sample (2500-3000 words, one to three poems) of your work to preewritingworkshop@gmail.com with Pree Writing Studio 2020 in the subject line. In the body of the email indicate a ranking of which writing studio you would like to participate in. Based on the quality of work, we will invite approximately 25-30 applicants to join us in May in Kingston. PREE staff will place you in a writing studio based on preference, availability, and best fit. For information on fees to attend studio please click here.

FEES: The fee for attending PREE’S inaugural writing studio is US$1000 or its equivalent in Jamaican dollars. The fee covers tuition, lodging and meals during the course of the studio. Classes will end at lunchtime on May 28, 2020. Please contact us if you need any more information or have questions at preewritingworkshop@gmail.com

Five lucky PREE writers under the age of 30 whose work appears in issues 4 and 5 will get fully subsidized places in the studio and will get to attend Calabash immediately after. This is an incentive for young writers to give us their best for Issue 5 which focuses on Ecocide. You might be one of the lucky ones! Here’s a link to our submission window.

DEADLINE: February 14, 2020

https://preewritingstudio.com/

Leonard A. Slade, Jr. Poetry FELLOWSHIP

 Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing

INFO: We are proud to announce the Leonard A. Slade, Jr. Poetry Fellowships for Writers of Color (established 2018). The fellowship provide support for writers of color. Application for these fellowships is open to all writers of color, ages 18 and older. The awards provide funding to attend a week of choice at the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. Two First Prize recipients will receive the full retreat package, covering tuition and lodging. One Second Prize recipients will receive $500 credit toward the cost of tuition. This fellowship assists MVICW with our commitment to expanding the American literary canon by promoting voices from a wide array of cultural backgrounds, and to increasing philanthropic support for writers of color in the arts.

PRIZE:

​Leonard A. Slade Jr. Fellowships:

• Two Full Fellowships in Poetry

• Tuition & Lodging for the Week

• $1700 Fellowship Value 

Second Prize Fellowship:

• One Poetry

• $500 Toward Tuition

DEADLINE: February 14, 2020

https://www.mvicw.com/voices-of-color

CAAPP Book Prize

Autumn House / The Center for African American Poetry and Poetics

INFO: Autumn House is thrilled to announce our newest partnership with The Center for African American Poetry and Poetics. This publishing partnership allows CAAPP and AHP the opportunity to publish and promote work by a writer of African descent.

The prize will be awarded to a first or second book by a writer of African descent and is open to the full range of writers embodying African and African diasporic experience. The book can be of any genre that is, or intersects with, poetry, including poetry, hybrid work, speculative prose, and/or translation. The winning manuscript will be published by Autumn House Press in 2021, and its author will be awarded $3,000.

Please submit a manuscript between 48-168 pages.

Final Judge: Terrance Hayes, CAAPP Co-Founder, and MacArthur-winning Poet

DEADLINE: February 15, 2020

https://www.autumnhouse.org/submissions/caapp-book-prize/

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

https://mountisland.com/call-for-submissions-the-winter-issue-2020-print-anthology-and-soon-our-first-poetry-prize/

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: JOY ISSUE

INQLUDED

INFO: We are looking for works that interrogate your thoughts, feelings, experiences & interactions with joy. what does joy look like to you? what does it feel like?

We are a platform for  QTIBIPoC youth (queer, trans & intersex Black, Indigenous & persons of color), therefore we only publish work by youth and people in the QTIBIPoC community. When we say youth, we mean ages 12-30 more or less. So, with that said, we respectfully ask that you do not submit if you are not part of those three communities. Additionally, since we want to engage a wide range of voices, and encourage readership from a variety of ages, we ask that your submissions are suitable for all ages. At this time we are unable to provide contributors with compensation.

• Poetry: We love poetry! Submit up to 5 poems at a time. 

• Fiction: Submit up to 1,500 words. If requested, please be prepared to send as google doc and structure your piece.

• Non-Fiction: We accept all forms of nonfiction. We are always on the look out for exceptional personal essays that explore the intersection of identities. Word limit: 1,500. 

• Music: Link us to your music! We’ll either request an interview or do a write-up!

• Visual Art: All of it! Feel free to send up to six original pieces or link us to your portfolio!

• Interviews/Interview requests: Doing something really cool or know of someone who deserves a community spotlight? Send us a pitch!

• Middle Grade / YA Short Stories:  Send us your best, most polished, original stories. All genres welcome! 1,500-4,000 words.

DEADLINE: February 15, 2020

https://inqluded.org/submit/

POETRY Fellowships for Writers Week

Idyllwild Arts

INFO: We will be awarding six fellowships. We are accepting poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Submit a 10 page work sample. By submitting work, you confirm that you will attend the 2020 Writers Week at Idyllwild Arts if selected. The fellowship covers tuition, meals and housing on campus. Fellowship recipients are responsible for their own transportation to and from Idyllwild, CA. Applicants must be over 18 years of age. For complete information about the program, and before submitting work, see: www.idyllwildarts.org/writersweek

Max 10 pages of poetry.

SUBMISSION FEE: $15

DEADLINE: February 19, 2020

https://idyllwildarts.submittable.com/submit

CREATIVE CAPITAL AWARDS

INFO: Creative Capital supports innovative and adventurous artists across the country through funding, counsel, and career development services. Our pioneering venture philanthropy approach helps artists working realize their visions and build sustainable practices. Creative Capital provides each funded project with up to $50,000 in direct funding and career development services valued at more than $50,000, for a total commitment of over $100,000 per project.

The application for the Creative Capital Awards is open to artists, collectives, and collaborations working in all disciplines, including Literary Fiction, Poetry, Theater, and Narrative Film, among others.

DEADLINE: February 29, 2020

https://creative-capital.org/award/about-the-creative-capital-award-open/

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS — POETRY

Anomaly

INFO: Anomaly is currently seeking impact poetry. We are seeking poems that challenge the history and currents of the English language, poems that unsettle cultural norms, poems that utilize language to contest and remake the world. We seek poems that confront gender formations, white supremacy, class, body, possibility. We are seeking for poetry rooted in the radical imagination. We hope to find you.

Please be aware that we get over 500 submissions per reading period and read each carefully, so if you're work has not been accepted or rejected it's not from oversight-we promise we're working on it!

Attach up to five poems in a single document. Please include a short bio in the "Cover Letter" field.

Translations that foreground the work of the original author are welcome in this category. For translations that foreground the creativity of the translator, please see our Translation section.

DEADLINE: March 1, 2020

https://anmly.submittable.com/submit

2020 Cave Canem Poetry Prize

Cave Canem

INFO: This prize is open to all unpublished, original collections of poems written in English by Black writers of African descent who have not had a full-length book of poetry published by a professional press. Authors of chapbooks and self-published books with a maximum print run of 500 may apply. Simultaneous submission to other book awards should be noted: immediate notice upon winning such an award is required. Winner agrees to be present in the continental United States at her or his own expense shortly after the book is published in order to participate in promotional reading(s).

Current or former students, colleagues, employees, family members and close friends of the judge; current or former employees and members of the board of Cave Canem Foundation or the University of Pittsburgh Press; and authors who have published a book or have a book under contract with University of Pittsburgh Press are ineligible.

Final Judge:  Douglas Kearney (Judge reserves the right not to select a winner and/or honorable mentions.)

First Readers:  Kwoya Fagin Maples and Dustin Pearson

Manuscripts are read without the reviewers and judge’s knowledge of contestants’ identities.

If any of the selected authors fall under the above exclusions, they will be disqualified and a replacement chosen from among the finalists. As the poetry community is small and the contest is judged without knowledge of the submitter’s identity, acquaintance with the judge or participation in a workshop taught by the judge are not disqualifying criteria.

AWARD: Winner receives $1,000, publication by University of Georgia Press in fall 2020, 15 copies of the book and a feature reading.

SUBMISSION FEE: $20

DEADLINE: March 9, 2020

https://cavecanem.submittable.com/submit/157337/2020-cave-canem-poetry-prize

Tin House Summer Workshop

INFO: The Tin House Summer Workshop (July 11 - 19, 2020) is a weeklong intensive of workshops, seminars, panels, and readings led by prominent contemporary writers. The program combines morning workshops with afternoon seminars and career panels. Evenings are reserved for author readings, singing, and dancing.

Workshops meet for six sessions, Monday through Saturday, from 10:00 am until 1:00 pm. Each workshop will have no more than ten students. Each student will meet with their faculty instructor for a 15-minute one-on-one meeting during the week.

Tin House editors and guest agents are available to meet individually with students throughout the week.

For students who have completed a collection of stories or poems, a memoir, or a novel, one-on-one mentorships are available with select faculty and staff for an additional fee.

The Workshop will take place at Reed College, located on 100 acres of rolling lawns, winding lanes, and magnificent old trees in the southeast area of Portland, Oregon, just minutes from downtown and twelve miles from the airport.

Summer Workshop participants are housed in the dormitories of Reed College near the center of campus. Unless requested, all rooms are singles, with shared bathrooms (private stalls) on each floor. ADA accessible rooms are available.

All classrooms, readings, panel presentations, dining and reception areas are within 1/2 mile from the dormitories. Golf carts will be made available throughout the week for those who wish to have rides.

Meals are served in the dining area of the college and are catered by Bon Appetite. We work closely with Bon Appetite to ensure dietary requirements and restrictions are accommodated. Students who choose not to stay on campus will need to pay for meals individually.

You do not need to be a U.S. resident/citizen to apply.

Admissions

Applications are read by a board composed of Tin House Workshop staff and previous Tin House Scholars. All applications will be read by at least two readers. Our editorial board seeks work that reflects our core values and makes decisions regarding admission based on this and the merit of the writing sample submitted.

• We will begin admitting applicants in early March.

• The average turnaround time for applications is six weeks.

• Our acceptance rate in 2019 was 15%.

General Applicants

Application Requirements:

• Short Fiction: One writing sample of no more than 5,000 words.
  Novel: One excerpt (from the project you will be workshopping from) of no more than 5,000 words.
  Nonfiction: One essay of no more than 5,000 words or One excerpt (from the project you will be workshopping from) of no more than 5,000 words.
  Poetry: Up to four poems.
  Graphic Narrative-Up to 20 pages.

• Please do not apply with published material. However, it is acceptable to apply with work that is out for submission. If accepted, you will have the opportunity to switch your manuscript.

• If you have been accepted into a Tin House workshop previously, please do not apply with the same application material. You are free to excerpt from the same project.

• Participants may only attend our workshops (including Winter) three times.

• If you wish to apply in multiple genres, you must submit a separate application for each genre (this includes short fiction and the novel).

• Applicants must be 21 years of age by the time of the workshop.

• The general application deadline is March 11th.

Our 2020 Summer Workshop Admissions Board:
Lance Cleland (Workshop Director)
India Downes-Le Guin (Assistant Workshop Director)
Rickey Fayne (2019 Summer Scholar)
Mona Law (Workshop Intern)
Santiago Valencia (Workshop Intern)

SCHOLARSHIPS:

1 - Tin House Scholars

Tin House awards twelve full scholarships to our summer workshop. These awards cover the entire cost of the program, including room and board. Tin House Scholars will need to provide and pay for their travel to and from Portland. Scholarship applications are read by a board composed of Tin House Workshop staff, Tin House Books staff, and previous Tin House Scholars. All applications will be read by at least two readers. Our editorial board seeks work that reflects our core values and makes decisions regarding scholarship recipients based on this and the merit of the writing sample submitted.

• All general scholarship applicants will also be considered for general admission (meaning you do not need to submit a general application as well).

• In addition to your manuscript, you will be asked to submit a personal essay (1500 words or less) that gives our board insight into where you are coming from as a writer.

• Payment plans are available for the $30 application fee. Please email our assistant workshop director India Downes-LeGuin (india@tinhouse.com) to inquire.

• One may be awarded a scholarship once (this includes Winter Scholarships).

• You may apply for multiple scholarships with one application (in one genre).

• If you wish to apply in multiple genres, you must submit a separate scholarship application for each genre (this includes short fiction and the novel).

• Applicants must be 21 years of age by the time of the workshop.

• The winners of these awards will not be announced publicly until after the conclusion of the Summer Workshop.

• The deadline for scholarship applications is TBA.

A list of recent scholarship recipients can be found here. 

In addition to our general scholarships, Tin House will be offering these additional awards:

2 - Independent Bookseller Scholarship, Sponsored by Tin House Books 

• This award is intended for a writer presently employed at an independent bookstore.

• This award covers the cost of tuition and room/board. 

• The winner of this award will not be announced publicly until after the conclusion of the Summer Workshop, where they will be listed as a Tin House Scholar.

• Applicants must be 21 years of age by the time of the workshop.

• The deadline to apply for this award is March 11th, 2020.

3 - Institute of American Indian Arts MFA Scholarship

• This award is intended for applicants who are currently enrolled in or are a graduate of the MFA program at IAIA.

• Thanks to a private donation, this award covers the application fee, cost of tuition, room/board, and airfare from within the United States.

• The winner of this award will not be announced publicly until after the conclusion of the Summer Workshop, where they will be listed as a Tin House Scholar.

• Applicants must be 21 years of age by the time of the workshop.

• The deadline to apply for this award is March 11th, 2020.

4 - LGBTQ+ Scholarship

• This award is intended for writers who identify as LGBTQ+.

• This award covers the cost of tuition and room/board.

• The winner of this award will not be announced publicly until after the conclusion of the Summer Workshop, where they will be listed as a Tin House Scholar.

• Applicants must be 21 years of age by the time of the workshop.

• The deadline to apply for this award is March 11th, 2020.

5 - Oregon Writer of Color Scholarship

• This award is intended for a writer of color who currently resides in Oregon.

• This award covers the cost of tuition and room/board.

• The winner of this award will not be announced publicly until after the conclusion of the Summer Workshop, where they will be listed as a Tin House Scholar.

• Applicants must be 21 years of age by the time of the workshop.

• The deadline to apply for this award is March 11th, 2020.

6 - Still-Emerging Scholarship

• This award is intended to provide writers over forty years of age who have not yet published a book with the time and space to develop their writing skills further and connect with a community that might help launch their professional writing careers.

• This award covers the cost of tuition and room/board.

• The winner of this award will not be announced publicly until after the conclusion of the Summer Workshop, where they will be listed as a Tin House Scholar.

• Applicants must be 40 years or older by December 31st, 2020.

• The deadline to apply for this award is March 11th, 2020.

7 - Without Borders Scholarship

• This award is intended for any immigrant writer currently living in the United States.

• This award covers the cost of tuition and room/board,

• The winner of this award will not be announced publicly until after the conclusion of the Summer Workshop, where they will be listed as a Tin House Scholar.

• Applicants must be 21 years of age by the time of the workshop.

• The deadline to apply for this award is March 11th, 2020.

DEADLINE: March 11, 2020

https://tinhouse.com/workshop/summer-workshop/