Call for Submissions: The Meadow

The Meadow is currently seeking submissions in poetry, fiction, nonfiction and artwork for our summer 2014 print and online issue. On our webpage, you can find information on how to submit work or past issues.

Our reading period closes February 1, 2014.

Call for Southeast Asia-themed Submissions: Anak Sastra

Submission deadline: January 14, 2014

Anak Sastra seeks short stories (fiction or creative nonfiction), poetry, and book reviews for its 14th issue due out in late January 2014. Contributors and/or story themes must have some connection to Southeast Asia. 

For more information and to submit work, please visit our website.

Call for Short Story and Novel Submissions: Infinite Acacia

Online submission deadline: December 31, 2013

Infinite Acacia is seeking submissions for a variety of projects. We always pay our contributors, sometimes not as much as we'd like to, but always. We value diversity. If you're a white, straight, able male—your stories are welcome. But if you're not, we would love to see your stories as well. We encourage you to submit.

To see a listing of open projects and their guidelines, visit our website.

Call for Submissions: Workers Write!

Email/Postmark submission deadline: December 31, 2013

Issue 10 of Workers Write! will be More Tales from the Cubicle and will contain stories and poems from the office worker's point of view.

The deadline for submissions is Dec. 31, 2013. Submit your stories and poems via e-mail to:

cubicleATworkerswritejournalDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to .) or send a hard copy to:

Blue Cubicle Press
P.O. Box 250382
Plano, TX 75025-0382

Word count: 500 to 5,000 words / Payment: Between $5 and $50 (depending on length and rights requested). We will consider previously published material. Visit our website for more information.

Call for Environmental-Themed Submissions: Bellevue Review

Bellevue Literary Review theme issue: Our Fragile Environment

Submission deadline: February 1, 2014

Bellevue Literary Review plans a special theme issue on “Our Fragile Environment” to be published in Fall 2014. Seeking fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that explore health, illness, and healing in the context of environmental issues.  

Prose (up to 5,000 words), Poetry (up to 3 poems). Deadline February 1.

For submission guidelines, visit our website.

Poetry Residency: Poetry Center at Univ. of Arizona

Since 1994, the Poetry Center’s Residency Program has offered writers an opportunity to develop their work. Beginning in Spring 2014, the Poetry Center will award one residency each summer for a poet to spend two to four weeks in Tucson, Arizona developing his/her work. Writers at any stage of their careers may apply; emerging writers are welcome. The residency includes a $150 stipend per week and a two-to-four-week stay in a studio apartment located within steps of the Center’s renowned library of contemporary poetry. The residency is offered between June 1 and August 31.

This is a blind submission process. Friends, students, or family members of the judge are not eligible to apply. Current University of Arizona faculty, staff, students, and Tucson residents are not eligible to receive the residency. International applicants are welcome.

The Poetry Center will contact finalists to receive their CV/Resumes, as well as the contact information for three professional/personal references, before selecting a winner.

For a complete description of the Summer Residency package, please click HERE. Before submitting, we recommend you read this document to ensure that this is the right residency program for you.

***Guidelines Have Recently Changed (Please read):***
You no longer need to submit a CV or references. Should your manuscript be selected as a winner or runner up, these items will be requested.

Submissions should include:
Submit a typed poetry manuscript totaling no more than ten pages. Please make sure that your name and/or contact information is not included on your manuscript or in the title of your submission.
We only accept DOC, DOCX, PDF, and RTF files.
Next Deadline: December 16, 2013, by midnight
Judge: Farid Matuk, author of This Isa Nice Neighborhood (Letter Machine Press, 2010).

Entry link.

Call for Olympic-Themed Submissions: InDigest Magazine

We’re accepting poems, comics, videos, stories, flash fiction, and anything else you’d like to send our way.

On top of our normal submissions for the upcoming issue, we’re taking submissions for a special sub-issue. Maybe you remember last year’s online marathon reading for the Mayan apocalypse called “The Last Reading on Earth, Ever.” Well, this will be a little in that spirit. Except this time there will be a sub-issue to go along with our marathon reading.

This sub-issue will be themed around the Olympics, it’s called “A Reading About the Olympics That Definitely Doesn’t Have the Word Olympics in the Title.” We’re looking for work that deals broadly with the Olympics. This can be interpreted any way you’d like, though we’re a little more interested in discussing the proxy politics of the event, the environmental costs, the social displacement of Olympic-urban construction than we are interested in hearing about the spirit of international sporting and collaboration or poems about five rings. But whatever, if you think it’s worth talking about, send it on over. We’ll gladly take a look. Have the joy of this sub-issue is that we won’t be 100% sure what we’re looking for until we see it. Send over your comics, videos, poems, flash fiction, photography, paintings, or whatever else you can come up with. We’re looking forward to reading it.

(NOTE: This issue will have an online issue element and an online reading – via Youtube – element.)

We’ll be reading for the new issue and the “A Reading About the Olympics That Definitely Doesn’t Have the Word Olympics in the Title” sub-issue/online reading through December 15, 2013. Submit here.

Seeking Nonfiction Editor (Unpaid): Stymie: A Journal of Sport & Literature

Like Stymie? Enjoy reading the outstanding work of our contributors? Have a knack for giving feedback and making good decisions (at least good editorial ones)? Then we might have a job for you (by job we mean unpaid volunteer role full of glory and accolades and complimentary beverages). Then shoot an email with your credentials and reason for interest to:

stymiemag AT gmail.com (Change AT to @, no spaces)
Subject: Nonfiction Editor Vacancy.

Note: this role unfortunately does not include much in the way of glory, accolades, or complimentary beverages... if only.

Writing Competition: 2014 International Literary Awards

Three prizes of $1,000 each will be given for a poem, a short story, and a piece of creative nonfiction (this may include literary journalism, memoir, lyric essay, etc). The contest is open to any person writing in English; Salem College & Academy employees or students are excluded from entering the contest.

Deadline: postmarked by 8 February 2014.

Winners announced by 2 May 2014.

The Rita Dove Poetry Prize will be judged by Veronica Golos.
The Reynolds Fiction Prize will be judged by Zelda Lockhart.
The Penelope Niven Creative Non Fiction prize will be judged by Samuel Autman.

Email the Director, Metta Sáma, with any questions:
cwwATsalemDOTedu (Change AT to @ and DOT to .)

Full guidelines.

Judge bios.

Writing Conference Scholarships: The Jan-ai Scholarship Fund for the 21st Annual Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway

The Jan-ai Scholarship Fund will sponsor two poets or writers between the ages of 18 - 30 to attend the 21st Annual WINTER POETRY & PROSE GETAWAY, January 17-20, 2014 in the Atlantic City area.

Recipients may choose from workshops in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, memoir and more, including special advanced sections with Stephen Dunn and Tony Hoagland. In addition, the conference also offers open mics, tutorials, talks, sunrise yoga, dancing at the Getaway Disco and writerly camaraderie.

The Jan-ai Scholarship Fund commemorates the life and untimely death of young writer, poet and photographer, Jennifer Cakert (1980 - 2006).

DEADLINE: November 30, 2013.

For more information, visit our website.

Fiction Competition: Waxing Press

Waxing Press announces its inaugural contest for works of fiction, the Tide Lock Prize. We are seeking new work in the form of a novel, novella or collection of short stories. A single prizewinner will be selected and awarded with publication in both print and digital editions. There is a modest $5 entry fee.

Submissions are due February 1st, 2014.

For more information and guidelines, please visit us at our website or our submissions page.

We are also on Facebook and on Twitter.

About the press:
Based out of Cincinnati, OH, Waxing Press is an independent small book publisher. We prize, above all else, literary excellence and work that pushes the bounds of what fiction does, what fiction can do and what fiction should do. Writing that is deeply intellectual. Work with big ideas, and navigates risk and experimentation with a masterful hand.

All other inquiries can be directed to us at:

 

info[AT]waxingpress(DOT)com (Change [AT] to @ and (DOT) to .)

Call for Submissions: Red Savina Review

Red Savina Review is a place to take the risk of authenticity. Send exceptional art, flash fiction, short fiction, creative nonfiction, creative non flash, poems and short films for Spring. We want smart, non-pretentious work that leads to an authentic investigation into the concept of identity and how it constitutes human experience.

Please read our submission policy/guidelines before submitting. We live in strange times. Send us your strange. For real.

Call for Memoir Submissions: Wordrunner eChapbooks

Wordrunner eChapbooks publishes four online collections annually of fiction, poetry or memoir, each featuring one author, and the occasional anthology. Submissions are open for the December 2013 memoir/personal narrative e-chapbook from October 1 through November 30, 2013.  

Payment: $65. At least 1/4 of the collection should be previously unpublished. No fee to submit.

Detailed guidelines are posted at our website.

Call for Submissions: The Popcorn Farm

The Popcorn Farm, a new, Midwestern literary journal, is seeking submissions for its inaugural print edition and its online component. All submissions must riff on or be inspired by cinema or a film in some way.
Writers may submit up to three poems, two short stories, and/or one essay/movie review at a time respectively; none of these may exceed 3,000 words.

Call for print edition ends November 20, 2013.

Send all submissions to:

popcornlitkernelsATgmailDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to .)

Short Story Book Award: Press 53

The Press 53 Award for Short Fiction will be awarded to an outstanding, unpublished collection of short stories. This contest is open to any writer, regardless of his or her publication history, provided the manuscript is written in English and the author lives in the United States. The Press 53 Award for Short Fiction includes:

Publication by Press 53 of winning short story collection

$1000 cash advance

Travel expenses to Press 53 headquarters for a reading/book launch party at the Community Arts Café in downtown Winston-Salem, NC, on Friday, October 17, 2014

Attendance as our special guest to the Press 53/Prime Number Magazine Gathering of Writers on Saturday, October 18, 2014.

Submission period: September 1 – December 31, 2013.

Reading Fee: $30

For complete details, visit our website.

Call for Submissions: Siren

Siren is a biannual online zine looking for artists of all genres who create new, edgy, and experimental work. We want work that pushes boundaries, that surprises in terms of structure and content, that provokes a visceral response. We want to be shocked. We want to blush. We want Art that is provocative, raw and beautiful. We want Art with wings, teeth, claws.

We welcome submissions from artists of all genres. This includes, but is not limited to, poets and writers of ALL genres, audio/visual and graphic artists, video and film makers, performance and spoken word artists, musicians, fine artists, and photographers...

The submission deadline for our fourth issue is November 30, 2013.
To submit, send an email to:

sirenwebzineATgmailDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to .)

with the type of submission and your last name in the subject line. Please include your contact information, a short bio, and your submission in the body of the email. Our guidelines are as follows: Poetry – 3 poems max. Prose – 1500 words max. Audio/Visual Media – 3 to 5 minutes max. Visual Art – 3 images max.
As an online zine, your work will be free to all who visit the site. You retain all rights to your work. For more details, visit Siren at our website.

Call for Submissions: Reverie

Established in 2007, Reverie is a journal devoted to showcasing literature by African Americans with “ties” to the Midwest. Now a digital publication, Reverie publishes poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, essays, and book reviews. Writers selected for publication will each receive an online feature that will be distributed nationally as well as the opportunity to read at the annual Willow Books LitFest. A Reverie Contributor's Prize of $250 will be awarded for the best submission to the issue. Artists are encouraged to submit artwork for the cover; the artist of the work selected for a given issue will receive a feature.

Summer 2014 Issue Theme: Beauty

Deadline: January 30, 2014

We are seeking poetry, creative nonfiction and short stories that examine the concept of beauty from aesthetic as well as abstract viewpoints.

Guidelines for Reverie
(Submissions accepted only as pdfs via Submittable)

1. Include a 50-word bio that includes info on contributor’s Midwestern connection.
2. Text should be in Times New Roman, 11 pt. font. Word count should not exceed 50 lines (poetry) and/or 3,000 words (prose). No page numbering/footers, no borders. Once accepted for publication, no changes to the manuscript will be allowed except for typographical errors; contributors will get one online proof before publication.
3. Tabs/indents at .3” and single space after punctuation; poems should be no wider than 4.5”.
4. Submit no more than three poems. No urban crime fiction or erotica, please.
5. Publisher reserves the right to make light edits as necessary and reserves the right to reject submissions. Writer will be notified of acceptance; no emails or phone calls, please. For more info, visit our website.

Call for Artists: Phoenix, AZ Office of Arts and Culture Public Art Program

The Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture’s Public Art Program seeks an artist to join the design team responsible for the design of a new transit center. The selected artist will be asked to consider unique ways to provide functional integrated elements for passengers and to advise the team on other potential areas for artistic treatment. Art opportunities include, but are not limited to: vertical shade features, shelters and seating, walkways, and landscape enhancements.

The estimated budget is $250,000, inclusive of all design and construction, travel, insurance, taxes, and incidentals.

Deadline: November 22 at 12:00 PM (Arizona Time).

To download the full Call to Artist go to our website.

For questions about this call contact Rebecca Rothman, project manager, at 602-495-0839. For questions about procurement contact Scott Steventon at 602-534-8334.

Call for Submissions: Pedestal 73 and Pedestal 74

Pedestal 73 will be posting on December 21, 2013, in conjunction with the journal's 13-year anniversary. Deadline for current submissions is November 30. No restrictions on length, theme, style, or genre. All submissions should be sent via the link provided on the site. Please see our guidelines for further information and to send work.

Re Pedestal 74, which will post in June 2014:

John Amen and Daniel Y. Harris will be receiving hybrid and/or multi-genre work. No restrictions on length, style, genre, or thematic directions; however, each piece must include elements of 1) poetry and 2) prose as well as 3) at least one original or copyright-free image (photograph, art work, etc.). Submission period: April 1-May 31. Please do not submit prior to April 1.

Bruce Boston and Marge Simon will be receiving speculative poetry. Speculative includes science fiction, fantasy, supernatural horror, science, surrealism, and experimental. No restrictions on length. Submission period: April 1-May 31. Please do not submit prior to April 1.

See the guidelines section of the site for more detailed information.

Poetry Competition: Sonora Review

Sonora Review invites poetry submissions for annual contest. Winner receives a $1000 Prize, Judge: Eduardo Corral. Visit our website for more information.
 
DEADLINE: February 14th, 2014

JUDGE: Eduardo Corral, 2011 Yale Younger Poets prize winner & author of Slow Lightning (Yale University Press, 2012.)

WHAT WE WANT: 3-5 pages of poetry and an entry fee ($15) Your submission should be typed and submitted in one document, with the titles separated by commas in the “Submission Title” field. You may abbreviate the titles if they do not fit. Include a cover letter with a brief biography, your contact information and any other pertinent information about your submission. Please remove your name or any other identifying marks from your manuscript before submitting

HOW TO DO IT: Submit online or send a SASE to:

Mike Coakley & Laura Miller, Editors-in-Chief 
(c/o Poetry Editorial Board) 
Sonora Review 
Dept. of English 
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85719

Call for Poetry Submissions: Heron Tree

Heron Tree's submission period closes December 1.

Submit 2 – 5 poems with a cover letter via email to:

submitDOTherontreeATgmailDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to .)

and include your cover letter in the body of the email. Attach poems in a single doc, docx, or rtf file. All submissions will be read blind; please do not include your name on the poems themselves.

Simultaneous submissions are welcome with notification of acceptance elsewhere. Work previously published online, electronically, or in print should not be submitted.

Accepted work will be published on the Heron Tree website and will be included in a yearly bound edition available as a print-on-demand volume.

Check our website for complete guidelines.

Call for Poetry Submissions: Glass: A Journal of Poetry

Glass: A Journal of Poetry (ISSN 1941-4137) seeks poems for it's upcoming December issue. Full information about Glass, including submission guidelines, can be found at our website.

Glass is an online poetry journal that appears two times a year (June and December). We want to see poetry that enacts the artistic and creative purity of glass. We seek to promote new and established poets by publishing their work. We are not bound by any specific aesthetic; our only mission is to present high quality writing. All styles, forms and schools of poetry are welcome, though easy rhymes and “light” verse are less likely to inspire us. All will be judged on the quality of the content of the poem. We like poems that show a careful understanding of language, music, passion and creativity and poems that surprise us.

Volume Six Issue Two will include a special featured theme section: Great Lakes Poets. The issue goes like on December 31, 2013 and the deadline for Great Lakes Poets submissions is November 30, 2013.

Submissions should be sent to our email address and should include up to four poems pasted into the body of the email. Simultaneous submissions are accepted. We accept submissions between September 1 and May 31. Please read our submission guidelines carefully.

Sincerely,
Holly Burnside & Anthony Frame
editors, Glass: A Journal of Poetry
http:// www. glass-poetry. com

Call for Submissions: Rock and Sling

Rock & Sling, a journal of witness, seeks prose submissions for our next issue, Spring 2014. Rock & Sling views literature as a means of witnessing to the truth of human experience, often (but not necessarily) as it relates to faith. We seek essays and stories that challenge our assumptions, that expand, clarify, argue, rail, surprise, stun. We seek prose that shocks with its quality, not with its shocking tales.

We welcome lyric essays, personal narratives, hybrid forms, microfiction, short stories. Nondenominational prose.

To prevent our undue anxiety, please submit work by November 20.

Visit our website for full submission guidelines.

Call for Submissions: The Cumberland River Review

The Cumberland River Review is a quarterly online journal of new poetry, fiction, essays, and art, welcoming submissions from both national and international writers and artists at any point in their careers. Each issue of The Cumberland River Review features ten poems and one story or essay, all chosen on the basis of their excellence. While we read with no particular theme or issue-length arc in mind, we’re always happy when one develops. 

Submission deadline: April 30, 2014 


Our goal, always, is to feature work of moral consequence—work that transports us.
Submit at:  

crrATtreveccaDOTedu (Change AT to @ and DOT to .)

Call for Submissions: Empty Sink Publishing

Empty Sink Publishing is looking for professional-quality prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and visual media submissions that stretch the mind, defy convention, and offer a new perspective on life. We currently pay all writers with a pat on the back and a byline. We hope to change that soon. Submissions can be sent at any time. For submission guidelines, please visit our website.
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Call for Submissions: The Fourth River

The Fourth River, Chatham University’s literary journal of nature and place-based writing, is accepting submissions of flash fiction and non-fiction that explore the relationship between humans and their environments—writings that are richly situated at the confluence of place, space and identity, or that reflect upon landscape as culture, and culture as landscape.  

 

Submit prose pieces of 500-800 words via Submittable by December 1st, 2013.
 

Direct inquiries to Sheila Squillante, Editor-in-Chief, at:

SSquillanteATchathamDOTedu (Change AT to @ and DOT to .)

Call for Fiction Submissions: Per Contra

Per Contra welcomes submissions of literary fiction to 4500 words, including literary flash fiction to 1000 words. We publish both well-established authors and occasionally also talented writers with few previous credits.

Please read our guidelines in the current issue. Per Contra publishes quarterly online. Founding Editor: Miriam N. Kotzin.

Call for Submissions: The New Sound: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Art & Literature

The New Sound: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Art & Literature publishes short fiction, poetry, essays, drama, art and book reviews. Writers at all stages of their careers are invited to submit. Undergraduate students are especially encouraged to submit, as each issue will feature undergraduate writing and art. If you are interested in submitting your work for consideration, please refer to the guidelines below.

Reading period: The New Sound: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Art & Literature will be published in the spring of each year, and we ask that writers and artists submit no more than once each year. Our reading period will be from November 1st to February 1st. Manuscripts received any other time will not be  read. Manuscripts must be paginated and clearly labeled with the author’s name on every page. Please limit your submission to no more than 5 poems, 2 short plays, or 7,000 words of prose, either critical or creative. Simultaneous submissions are encouraged, but we ask that you notify us if the work is accepted elsewhere.  Do not send the only copy of your work, as we do not accept responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts.

Visual art and design submissions should be submitted in JPG format at 72 DPI and not exceed a file size of 2MB each. Each file should be titled with your name and the number of the submission (ex/ john_doe1.jpg, john_doe2.jpg). A maximum of four works may be submitted each year. Black and white and color are  encouraged.

Book Reviews: Please note that we do not accept unsolicited book reviews. If you are interested in reviewing, please write to the editor describing the kind of books you would be interested in reviewing and enclose one or more recent samples of a review.

If you submit prose, please send your submission in a document saved in a rich text format with the following specifications:

A. Font: Times New Roman
B. Size: 12 pt
C. Color: Black
D. Spacing: Double
E. Left and Right Margins: 1.25 inch
F. Top and Bottom: 1 inch

Response Time: We try to respond to submissions within 6 months; however, it may occasionally take longer for a manuscript to be read. We ask for your patience, as we do make every effort to read all the submissions we receive. Unfortunately, we are unable to respond to status inquiries.

Although The New Sound: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Art & Literature is a print journal, we will feature excerpts from each issue on the University of New Haven website. Thus, please note that if your work is accepted, we may ask your permission to include your work on our website as well as in the print journal.

Send submissions to the following email address: 

thenewsound2@newhavenDOTedu (Change AT to @ and DOT to .)
 

Poetry Book Competitions: Trio House Press

Trio House Press gives two awards annually: the Trio Award for First or Second Book for emerging poets, and the Louise Bogan Award for Artistic Merit and Excellence for a book of poems contributing in an innovative and distinct way to American poetry. The Louise Bogan Award for Artistic Merit and Excellence is open to all poets, regardless of publication history. Each award winner receives $1000 and twenty copies of his or her book. Additionally, each winner must serve as a Collective Member of Trio House Press for twenty-four months after publication in order to assist with the press and bringing more Trio books into print. 

 

Our reading period for both awards is November 1st through April 30th. Manuscripts received outside of this reading period will not be considered. Our submissions fee is $25 per manuscript for all award reading periods.
We are an environmentally conscious press and only accept manuscripts through our online submissions manager on our web page.
Carol Frost is the 2014 judge for the Louise Bogan Award for Artistic Merit and Excellence and Peter Campion is the 2014 judge for the Trio Award for First of Second Book of poems. For their bio information and to submit, visit our website.

Guidelines for Trio House Submissions

· The Trio Award for First or Second Book is only open to poets with less than two books published.
· The Louise Bogan Award for Artistic Merit and Excellence is open to ALL poets, regardless of publication history.
· Manuscripts must be between 48-70 pages, written in English by a poet residing within the U.S.
· Translations are not eligible for publication.
· Manuscripts must be sent in a single word doc. or docx. file.
· Include a cover letter with your bio as the first page of your file.
· Include an acknowledgement page of individual poems published. The manuscript as a whole must not be previously published.
· Include two cover pages, one with the title of your manuscript and your name and contact information, and one with only the title of your manuscript. Your name or other identifying materials must not appear anywhere else upon your manuscript.
· Payment of $25 is required for all submissions during our award submissions period.
· Multiple award submissions are accepted as long as a $25 fee accompanies each award submission.
· Simultaneous submissions are accepted as long as we are notified immediately if your manuscript is chosen elsewhere.
· Relatives and current or former students of the judge are not eligible for awards or publication during our contest submissions period.
· No edits can be made to manuscripts after you submit your manuscript. However, if chosen for award or publication, edits can be made prior to final proofs.

· All award winners and poets published must serve as a Collective Member of Trio House Press for twenty-four months after publication. They must assist with the press and bringing more Trio books into print. They must work on the Production and Design Committee, the Distribution and Sales Committee, the Educational Development Committee, or the Fundraising and Marketing Committee.

Call for Submissions: Tlaa: A Collective of Indigenous Expression

Tlaa: A Collective of Indigenous Expression

New Mexico State University's new online literary and art journal is accepting submissions focused on progressing Indigenous arts and scholarship, including, but not limited to fiction, creative non-fiction, scholarly criticism (MLA format), visual art, multimedia, poetry, and photographic expressions of your creative voice. We welcome all contributions that support Indigenous communities.

Submissions should be 12 point font, Times New Roman, in a PDF, or .doc file. Include 100 to 200 word author biography with submission. Send all submissions to:

tlaajournalATgmailDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to .)


Deadline: December 1

Call for Submissions: Compose: A Journal of Simply Good Writing

Compose: A Journal of Simply Good Writing is now accepting fiction, poetry, nonfiction and artwork for their Spring 2014 issue.

You can read their Fall 2013 issue here.   

 

Submission guidelines.   

 

Contributors have included William Logan, Ada Limon, Randall Mann, Rebecca Hazelton, Rebecca Rosenblum, Katrina Kenison, Amorak Huey, Hannah Stephenson, and Marion Roach Smith.

Professional Development Workshop for Artists: Mesa Arts Center

Mesa Arts Center is hosting a professional development workshop on how to be a working artist. The class is geared toward visual artists, photographers, and those who wish to work in the art business. Please see our website for more information about date/time/cost logistics and workshop topics.

Please share with anyone you think would be interested.

All the best!
Jessica Rajko
Artist Services Coordinator
602-771-6530

jrajkoATazartsDOTgov (Change AT to @ and DOT to .)

Call for Submissions: The Vermillion Literary Project

The Vermillion Literary Project (VLP) at the University of South Dakota is currently seeking submissions of poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction for its April 2014 issue of the VLP magazine, the University's only student-produced literary journal. For submission guidelines, visit our website.

This year's submission reading deadline is December 15.

Call for Submissions: Bird's Thumb

Bird's Thumb is a new online literary journal devoted to new and emerging writers. Our inaugural issue will be live on February 1, 2014; our submission deadline is December 1st. Bird's Thumb is listed on Duotrope. We will be exhibiting at AWP 2014 in Seattle and at the 2014 Printers Row Lit Fest in Chicago. We were recently featured on Chicago Literati.

Submission instructions here. 

Call for NYC Area Writers to Read: Harlem Works

Harlem Works, a co-working space/artists collective based in Harlem, New York, is looking for dynamic writers to participate in a new reading series.

If you live in the New York area and would be interested in participating, please send a short bio (200 words or less) along with a description of the work you're interested in reading to:

harlemcoworkersATgmailDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to .)

Or, if you would be interested in doing a workshop and a reading, let us know that too!

(Our readings are always Harlem-based; the next one will be held this Friday at Caffe Latte's 145th Street location.)

We look forward to hearing from you!