“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All submissions must be previously unpublished, either in print or online (including on social media).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
Three Awards for work in French
Published Prose in French
Published Poetry in French
Unpublished Work in French
Two Awards for Alternate Categories
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:
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:
(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:
Any writer or artist who is not a TCC student may submit their unpublished work as a General Submission.
Do not include your name on your manuscript or artwork. We read and judge submissions blindly.
Each submission in every category must be submitted individually.
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.
We encourage submissions to multiple genres.
Submissions are accepted year-round but are reviewed only during the spring semester.
Simultaneous submissions are welcome, but please let us know immediately if a work has been accepted for publication elsewhere.
When a submission is accepted for publication, Tulsa Review is given first-publication rights. (Rights revert to the author/artist after publication.)
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
