Sunday, March 17, 2024

Call for Submissions on Theme of "Rage"; Michigan Quarterly Review Mixtape

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MQR Mixtape is currently accepting submissions for MQR Mixtape: Rage, an issue guest edited by Sahara Sidi.

Submission deadline: April 22, 2024.

“We are dismissed as emotional. It is enough to make you emotional.”

—Sara Ahmed

Many scholars and artists have remarked on the importance of anger in art and everyday life. In her 1981 keynote presentation to the National Women’s Studies Conference, Audre Lorde delivered the indicting line “anger is loaded with information and energy,” reminding us that such anger should not be considered a source of shame, but evidence of the injustices that “brought that anger into being.”

This issue seeks to hold space for the “ugly feelings” we are often told to tame, to clean up, and to quiet: our rage, our annoyance, our frustration. We aim to honor the wisdom of unruly emotions. We understand that feelings cannot be boxed and separated from one another, and we acknowledge the muddling of it all. Rage with a side of grief? Anger with a dash of paranoia? Vexed yet anxious? We get it. Rage comes in different forms, tempos, and decibels and we want to amplify it!

For this issue, we are looking for pieces that seek to express the complexities of such a charged emotion. We welcome expressions, critiques, and meditations on rage in a variety of forms: poems, visual art, essays, comics, short films, and short fiction. We encourage perspectives that contextualize the social, cultural, and political realities of anger. Who is allowed to express their anger? How, and when, is rage a symptom of our social conditions and dispositions? What forces attempt to stifle such a resistance? We are looking for work that seeks to reorient our understanding of emotions and their function in “polite” society.

For this issue, please submit: 

Prose: up to 4,000 words
Poetry: up to four poems
Visual art/photography: up to five works (if 3D, please provide multiple angles/references)
Short films: no longer than 20 minutes

Hybrid forms such as multi-media works, comics, collaborations, erasure/black-out/found poems, collages, and much more are welcome.

Only previously unpublished work will be considered. Simultaneous submissions are permitted, but please notify us immediately if your work is accepted by another publication. Please send only one submission per window; subsequent submissions will be rejected automatically. 

MQR Mixtape pays all contributors.

Submission link here.

Call for Submissions on Theme of "Trash": Canthius

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call for submissions: open (Feb. 25-april 1)

Canthius is seeking submissions on the theme of TRASH for its 14th issue. Whether you write about the things we throw away, ignore, discard, or scavenge for, we want to read your poems, prose, and hybrid works. How do you define trash? How does trash intersect with our ecological and social spheres and communities? How do we live, breathe, and write trash? In what ways do we embody, become, reject what is worthless? Do you think trash is beautiful, valuable, something to be treasured? Who defines what is or is not our filth?

Send us your work about treasures you’ve reclaimed, leftovers, pulpiness, messiness, griminess, and excessiveness. What you’re afraid to touch with a ten foot pole. In short, send us your trashiest and filthiest work.

Canthius is an intersectional feminist magazine that publishes poetry and prose by writers of marginalized gender identities, including trans, Two Spirit, non-binary, agender, cis women, genderqueer, GNC, and intersex writers. We are committed to publishing diverse perspectives and experiences and strongly encourage Indigenous women, Black women, and women of colour to submit. We also welcome submissions in Indigenous languages.

GUIDELINES
 
We consider unpublished work of poetry and prose (both fiction and creative non-fiction). We welcome experimental works. Please limit prose submissions to 2500 words and poetry submissions to three poems. We accept simultaneous submissions, but please let us know if another publication accepts work you've submitted to Canthius.

Along with your submission, please include a cover letter with your name, home address, email address, phone number, the date, and the name(s) of the piece(s) you're submitting. If you are comfortable disclosing your racial background and/or gender identity in your cover letter, we encourage you to do so. This information will be held in confidence and will be used solely to help us uphold our mandate to publish diverse work. For prose submissions, please include a word and page count in your cover letter. Finally, your cover letter should include a short bio that tells us a bit about yourself and lists your previous publications, if any. Please include a header on each page of your submission with your name.

We respond to all submissions by email. Our average response time is 12 to 15 weeks. Please be sure to designate Canthius as an approved sender to prevent our response from being caught in your email spam filters.

Writers accepted for publication will receive $50 for one page, $75 for two pages, $100 for three, $125 for four pages, and $150 for five pages or more, regardless of genre. Contributors will also receive a complimentary a copy of the issue and a discounted price on any further copies of the issue in which their work appears.

Thanks for sharing your writing with us – we can't wait to read it!

Please note that Submittable caps the number of submissions we can receive during each calendar month. Every first of the month, the cap is reset and the forms will open again. For this reason, we open submissions across different calendar months. Please plan accordingly if you can, and reach out to us if you have any difficulty submitting during our open submission periods. 
Submission link here.

Call for Submissions from Writers with Connections to Hawai'i or the Pacific Region: Bamboo Ridge

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We’re calling for your works of poetry and prose and are now open for submissions. Issue #128 of Bamboo Ridge Journal of Hawaiʻi Literature & Arts is scheduled for release in Fall of 2025 with guest editor Naomi Shihab Nye, and BR editor Cathy Song.

This is a regular issue with no specific theme. 

Our submission period will close on JUNE 30, 2024.

Email your submission to:

BRPsubmissions@gmail.com 

Subject line should read “Submission, [last name], Issue 128”

Forms: prose, creative nonfiction, poetry, essay, micro/flash, stand-alone excerpts, visual art, experimental forms.

  • Prose (word count/page count): 5,000 words
  • Poetry (# of poems): up to 5 poems per author (no more than 10 pages).
  • Double spaced unless it’s poetry, 12 pt. any font style (such as Times New Roman or Calibri).
  • Send Word or PDF document as an attachment. File name should be your last name followed by the piece/collection title.
  • In the body of your email (or optional attached cover letter) please include your author name, byline if different, short bio, and contact information. Please also indicate the island that you are from. If you are not from the Pacific, please indicate your connection to Hawai’i or the Pacific region.
  • Simultaneous submissions are allowed. If accepted by another publication please notify us asap via email to withdraw your work.
  • We will consider reprints if you retain rights to the work. In this case please include the name of the previous publisher and date of publication.
  • If you are quoting material, like song lyrics, it must be in the public domain or you must provide permission(s) from the copyright holder to reprint the quoted material.

We value your submissions however, cannot respond to every email personally. If your work is chosen for publication you will hear from us as soon as possible. We appreciate your understanding and patience during the selection process.

*Please do not submit AI generated writing or art. Also, we are not currently accepting full-length manuscripts.

What we’re looking for: Thought-provoking and unforgettable pieces that sustain us. Work that inspires and connects us. While we invite submissions from all writers, we’re especially interested in seeing works rooted in, and from, Hawaiʻi, the Pacific region, and island communities.

We’re open to all written and visual forms, i.e. short fiction, poetry, essays, plays, comics, experimental forms, or hybrid/mixed-genre.

What we’re NOT looking for: We are not looking for work that promotes hate speech, presents stereotypes, and/or romanticizes or exoticizes a culture/place/ or people. Work that is clearly racist, homophobic, ableist, sexist, classist, or anti-trans will not be considered.

While we will continue to accept submissions via regular mail, we prefer email.

If you would like to mail your submission, please include your mailing address, phone, and email with your submission and mail to:

Bamboo Ridge Press
P.O. Box 61781
Honolulu, Hawaii 96839-1781

Manuscripts should be in 12-point type, with one-inch margins on one side of 8.5″ x 11″ white paper. Prose should be double-spaced. Poetry may be single-spaced.

If you would like your manuscript to be returned, please include a self-addressed stamped envelope with sufficient postage. Please do not send your only copy of your writing; we will not be responsible for lost or damaged manuscripts.

We are a paying market.

Calll for Submissions to Anthology: The Cost of Our Baggage

Gnashing Teeth Publishing will be accepting submissions for our next anthology, The Cost of Our Baggage. We are seeking poetry, micro or flash fiction, essays, creative non-fiction, and artwork which fit the theme.

Submissions open May 1, 2024 –  June 30, 2024.

There are things we carry with us through life: physical, emotional, metaphorical.  A teddy bear you’ve had since you were a child, the resentment at a family member who let you down, the fear which keeps you awake at night. All of these come with a cost. Upset stomachs, sleepless nights, disconnection, anxiety, worry, money, phsycial costs.

Free yourself. Tell us about it.

Selected submissions will receive choice of either: 1 (one) copy of the anthology or $10 payable through PayPal. You are asked to choose upon submission and you will not be able to change your selection.

Complete guidelines and submission portal here.

Saturday, March 16, 2024

Call for Submissions: Suisun Valley Review

SVR is primarily a literary magazine and accepts literary submissions in prose, poetry and short fiction.

Submissions should include: 

  1. A cover letter including the contributor’s name, address, phone number, and email address.
  2. A two to five line biography of the contributor so our readers can get a little view of who the author is behind each piece.
  3. Submissions in .doc, .docx or .rtf formats if submitted via email.
  4. A SASE if submitted by US mail.
  5. Simultaneous submissions are amenable as long as we are notified immediately if work is accepted elsewhere.
  6. Please note that we do not accept previously published works. This includes pieces published on a personal blog.
  7. The contributor maintains rights to each published piece, but Suisun Valley Review reserves right of first printing.
  8. No more than seven poems per poet.
  9. We have a loose word count limit of 3,000 words for prose submissions. This is by no means a hard and fast rule and that works over 3,000 words will be automatically rejected, but we hope all pieces are around this limit in order to ensure we have enough space to publish the piece if accepted.
Please indicate if you are an SCC student to be eligible for the Quinton Duval Award.

Image Submission Guidelines
  1. While SVR is principally a literary journal, we encourage and publish visual mediums as well. Should you submit a piece of fine art, photography, 3D art or graphic art: Please send your art in TIFF or JPG formats to suisunvalleyreview@gmail.com.
  2. Please include the size of the original artwork and the medium used.
  3. Submissions should be at least 1200 pixels wide so we can publish at 300 ppi.
  4. No more than five images per artist should be submitted.
  5. Any submitted image may be selected as the cover of the magazine.

SVR publishes images in full color.

For All Submissions

  1. All submissions must be received no later than 11:59 PM on April 3, 2024.
  2. Editors will respond in four to eight weeks.
  3. Accepted authors and artists will receive two copies gratis.
  4. Accepted authors and artists will be invited to present their work at our publication release reading, scheduled to occur near the end of Solano Community College’s Spring term at the campus’ library. Dates vary year to year and will be announced via email.
Submit your work here.

Fellowship: The American Library Visiting Fellowship

We are currently accepting applications for the 2024–25 American Library Visiting Fellowship.

The application cycle will close on 1 April 2024.

Application fee: 30 euros

What is the Visiting Fellowship?

The American Library in Paris Visiting Fellowship was created in 2013 to nurture and sustain a heritage as old as the Library itself: deepening French-American understanding. The Visiting Fellowship offers writers and researchers an opportunity to pursue a creative project in Paris for a month or longer while participating actively in the life of the American Library.

There are two one-month Fellowship periods a year in fall and spring, with dates to be specified later.

A $5,000 stipend will be paid before start of a Fellowship period. The award, to be spent at the discretion of the Fellow, is designed to cover travel to Paris, accommodation, and expenses associated with the month in Paris. In addition to the stipend, the Library will connect the fellow to resources and people in Paris that could be helpful to his or her project.


The American Library in Paris Visiting Fellowship is made possible through the generous support of The de Groot Foundation.

Who should apply?

We welcome the applications of all researchers, journalists, writers (both fiction and non-fiction), poets, screenwriters, playwrights, directors, and documentary filmmakers.

Applicants should be researching or working on a project that contributes to cross-cultural discourse. Particular attention will be paid to an applicant’s ability to offer the Library’s community a variety of opportunities for exploring a topic. All topics and subject matters are eligible.

Applicants need not be American. International applicants are encouraged. The proposed project must be in English. Members of the Library governance are not eligible recipients of a Visiting Fellowship.
What is expected of Visiting Fellows?

Visiting Fellows must be in Paris during the period of the fellowship, and are expected to be present in the American Library for a minimum of three half-days a week. During their residency, fellows will present an hour-long evening program at the Library, participate in a Library reception, meet with staff informally to explore a topic of mutual interest, and extend the Library’s reach by participating in events arranged by the Library with other organizations in Paris.

At the conclusion of the Visiting Fellowship period, fellows will provide the Library and the funding foundation with a written report of the Fellowship experience. Fellows are expected to appropriately acknowledge the Library and the Visiting Fellowship in publications and print media related to the Fellowship project. Fellows will participate in the Library’s social media communication, fundraising campaigns, and other public events.

More information and application portal here.

Writing Competitions: 2024 Arts & Letters Prizes in Poetry, Fiction, and Creative Nonfiction

2024 Prize Judges

Poetry: Chelsea Rathburn
Creative Nonfiction: Beth Ann Fennelly
Fiction: Tiphanie Yanique

Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, and Fiction Winners will appear in next year’s Fall or Spring issue of Arts & Letters.

About the Prizes

For our prizes in fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction, we offer the winner a $1,000 prize and publication in the next year’s Fall or Spring issue. Our prizes are made possible through generous gifts to our prize endowments from Dr. Martin Lammon, Dr. Barry Darugar, Bahram and Fari Atefat, and other friends of Arts & Letters. If you are interested in contributing to our endowments, please contact us!

Submission Guidelines:

Please do NOT include your name on any part of the uploaded file you submit to any genre. We accept most file formats (Word, .rtf, PDF).

We prefer, for the prizes, that your work not be simultaneously submitted. This helps us preserve the integrity of the contest(s). Our judges’ decisions are usually made by the end of May.

All fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction prize submissions will be considered for publication at regular payment rates.

All writers and poets writing in English are eligible to enter, excepting friends, relatives, or current and former students of the current-year judges.

The submission period for our annual prizes is February 1 – March 31st. The entry fee is $20.

Arts & Letters Prize for Fiction:

Submit a manuscript of up to 25 pages, typed, double-spaced

Susan Atefat Prize for Creative Nonfiction:

Submit a manuscript of up to 25 pages, typed, double-spaced

Rumi Prize for Poetry:

Submit a manuscript of up to 4 poems, typed, single-spaced (poems need not be thematically linked, though it is fine if they are)

Submit your entry here.