Call for Poetry Readings: Woman Made Gallery Literary Series

Call for Poetry: Woman Made Gallery Literary Series

Theme: Wild Cuts: Collage and Beyond
Date: Sunday, August 13, 2017/ 1:00 – 3:30 p.m.
Place: 685 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago IL

Collage has appeared in wildly distinct forms across all the major art and culture movements of the 20th and 21st century. This reading is open to femme writers of all genders. The poems we're looking for range from centos to hybrids, cut-ups and re-mixes, chance operations and cross disciplinary work. And beyond. Send us your best.

Selections will be made with an eye to assembling a program that represents a diversity of poets, styles, and approaches to the theme.

Selected poets MUST be available to read in person. Please send 4 – 6 poems on the theme ALONG WITH a 50 to 75 word bio, IN THE BODY OF AN E-MAIL to:

poetryATwomanmadeDOTorg (Change AT to @ and DOT to .)

Submissions must be received by July 11, 12:01 a.m. We will make every effort to inform those chosen of our decision by July 17. Although we can't afford to pay readers, this is a great opportunity to sell books and read with other talented people in a very special environment.

If you know of someone whose work might fit here, please spread the word!

Read more about poetry events at Woman Made Gallery here: 
http://womanmade.org/poetry.html

 

 

Call for Submissions: Storyboard 17: A Journal of Pacific Imagery

Storyboard: A Journal of Pacific Imagery is accepting submissions of previously unpublished work from the original writer or artist for Issue 17.

Storyboard publishes quality poetry, fiction, and non-fiction written in English or any other Pacific language (with translations into English), as well as visual art.

Storyboard is published by the Division of English and Applied Linguistics in the College of Liberal A rts and Social Sciences of the University of Guam. The purpose of Storyboard is to foster and promote literary activity in the Pacific Islands.

Submissions from published and unpublished writers in or from the region, or writings about the region are welcome, with special encouragement to writers and artists from Micronesia. All submissions are due December 1, 2017.

For more information, contact:

storyboardATtritonDOTuogDOTedu (Change AT to @ and DOT to .)

or visit our website.

Submission Guidelines
Poetry: Submit up to 5 poems, a maximum of 10 pages
Prose: Submit up to 3 prose entries with a maximum of 2,500 words each, double-spaced. For longer works, please query first.
Artwork: Submit up to 5 pieces of visual art. For complete details, please visit: the DEAL/CLASS links here.

Submissions via email: 

storyboardATtritonDOTuogDOTedu (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )

Call for Submissions to Anthology: Shame

Shame: An Anthology
Edited by Charlie Bondhus

Shaming is both a cultural practice and a form of abuse. It’s used by parents, teachers, government, police, social media, healthcare professionals, and countless other entities to punish and to ensure compliance with dominant values. Women, immigrants, people of color, LGBTQIA folks, and people with disabilities are particularly vulnerable to shaming and its long-term effects, not least of which are anxiety and depression.

What We Want:

In this anthology, we hope to challenge the multifaceted culture of shame and the layers of silence surrounding it. We are soliciting poems, stories, and essays that critically confront shame, its causes, and its far-reaching effects. We’re interested in work that addresses shame on the individual level, the systemic level, or both. We want the personal and the theoretical, the visceral and the thought-provoking. We want to know how shame affects the individual but we also want to know how the culture of shame informs and enables imperialism, environmental devastation, mass incarceration, poverty, Trump.

What We Don’t Want:

Although personal narratives—in verse or prose—are certainly welcome, please do not send work whose sole or primary purpose is self-healing. Writing is a powerful therapeutic tool, but we want work that considers audiences beyond the writer.

At the other extreme, while we are interested in analytical essays, we do not want academic writing.

How to Submit:

Poetry: up to 5 poems totaling not more than 10 pages. Poems should be single-spaced.

Fiction and Essays: 1-2 pieces totaling not more than 20 pages. Prose should be double-spaced.

Query for work that exceeds these limits.

Simultaneous submissions and previously published are fine.

Email as an attachment to: 

shameanthology[at]gmail[dot]com (Change [at] to @ and [dot] to . )
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Deadline: August 31, 2017

Call for Chapbook Submissions: Bull City Press

Got an unpublished chapbook? We'd love to see it!

Bull City Press is open to chapbook-length manuscripts of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction during our Summer 2017 Chapbook Open Reading Period. Instead of charging a set reading fee, the reading fee is "pay what you want."

The open reading period ends July 5, 2017.

If you're saddled with student debt or have limited access to submissions periods and contests, we want to hear from you. If you've got a quirky manuscript that's still looking for a home, we want to hear from you. Whether you're a new, unpublished writer or an established writer with a short project close to your heart, we want to hear from you.

To see manuscript guidelines and FAQs, please visit our submissions page.

Writing Competition: Augsburg's Howling Bird Press Poetry Book Prize

Augsburg’s Howling Bird Press Poetry Book Prize

Poets—we want to read your work! Send your manuscript to Howling Bird Press to be considered for our annual prize. The winner receives $1,000, book publication in fall 2018, distribution by Small Press Distribution, and an invitation to read in Minneapolis (all expenses paid) at Augsburg’s MFA summer residency. All books are handsomely designed and printed on offset presses (no print-on-demand). This nationwide contest is open to all writers in English regardless of publication history—both emerging and established authors are encouraged to apply.

Howling Bird Press is the publishing imprint of Augsburg’s MFA in Creative Writing, proudly situated in the rich literary community of the Twin Cities. Our growing list of publications includes books by Marci Vogel, Jacob M. Appel, and Jean Harper. MFA faculty and graduate students enrolled in our publishing sequence read manuscripts and choose the winner. In making our decision, we give careful, thorough attention and consideration to every entry in full. The prize category alternates yearly—from poetry, fiction, and nonfiction—so don’t miss this chance, as it won’t come around again for another three years! The deadline is June 30. The winner is notified in January. Manuscripts should be 60 to 80 pages long.

The entry fee is $25.

Online submissions only. To submit, go here.

Call for Submissions: Far Villages: Welcome Essays for New & Beginner Poets

Far Villages: Welcome Essays for New & Beginner Poets

Abstract:
Poetry manuals, at their most essential, are aimed at demystifying aspects of poetry (especially for beginner poets) in order to make poets’ journeys easier and less daunting. Such manuals are also reminders that poetry itself is a discipline with a landscape and a history.

With this anthology, we aim to build on the long body of work in this tradition by bringing a number of established and emerging poets together in a single volume to welcome new and beginner poets to the art. Multiple voices, we believe, are essential to the poet’s journey.

Call for Submissions:
Black Lawrence Press is now accepting submissions for a new anthology of essays.

Poets in the United States and abroad are encouraged to submit essays aimed at welcoming new and beginner poets to the discipline of poetry.

Contributors are encouraged to provide anecdotes and advice, instructions and suggestions, fun exercises and crazy ideas, or individual failures and encouraging words, in order to better prepare new poets for the long journey through poetry.

Essays should be between 700-5000 words on any of the following broad themes (other themes will be considered):
1. First Words
2. Poetry Workshop
3. The Poet’s Journey
4. Family & Work
5. The Poet in the World

Essays can be creative or academic. However, they have to be accessible since they are also for a general audience.

Abayomi Animashaun, will serve as editor. Please contact him at

abayo.animashaunATgmailDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )

with questions.

Submissions will be accepted via Submittable. Deadline for Submission is November 30, 2017.

About the Editor:
Abayomi Animashaun is the author of two poetry collections, Sailing for Ithaca and The Giving of Pears, and editor of two anthologies, Walking the Tightrope: Poetry and Prose by LGBTQ Writers from Africa and Others Will Enter the Gates: Immigrant Poets on Poetry, Influences, and Writing in America. He teaches writing and literature at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh.

Writing Competition: Louisville Literary Arts Fourth Annual Writer's Block Award in Creative Non-Fiction

Louisville Literary Arts is pleased to announce submissions are now being accepted for the the Fourth Annual Writer's Block Award in Creative Non-Fiction. The contest will be judged by novelist and writer Roy Hoffman, author of the two nonfiction books: Back Home, with a focus on the diverse cultures of the Gulf Coast, and Alabama Afternoons: Profiles and Conversations, will judge.

Submissions will be accepted here through August 15, 2017.

One first place winner will receive $500, an opportunity to read at the 2017 Writer’s Block Festival in Louisville, KY on October 21, and publication in The Louisville Review, the literary magazine of Spalding University’s nationally distinguished low residency MFA in Writing program. 

GUIDELINES:
Please submit an original piece of creative nonfiction, such as personal or lyric essay, personal narrative, memoir, or any other form that involves a creative treatment of a nonfiction subject.

Entries must be 4,000 words or less.

Your name and contact information must NOT appear anywhere on the manuscript.

Filling out Submittable's “cover letter” field is unnecessary.

Friends, family, and students (within the past three years) of the judge, Roy Hoffman, should not submit to this contest.

Submitting multiple works is fine with a separate entry and fee for each.

Entries must be previously unpublished to be considered.

Simultaneous submissions are permitted; please withdraw your work through Submittable if it is accepted for publication elsewhere.

Entry Fee: $12.00

Writing Competition: Woven Tale Press

WTP 2017 Writing Contest: Prose 

Submit here.

Deadline: July 31, 2017

Win a one-week writing retreat to the legendary Hamptons, NY, a destination to writers from around the world; home to Peter Matthiessen, George Plimpton, Truman Capote, among other literary legends; accommodations for two in spacious residence within walking distance to NYC train, ocean beach, and town. Publication in special winners WTP edition. Juror: DeWitt Henry, founding editor of Ploughshares literary magazine. Submit previously unpublished literary fiction or creative nonfiction. All submissions will be considered for publication in the WTP regularly monthly magazine on a rolling basis.

Submission fee: $20.

Fiction Competition: The Moth International Short Story Prize

The Moth International Short Story Prize is open until June 30, 2017.
Entry Fee: €12
Prizes: First prize is €3,000. Second prize is a week’s writing retreat at Circle of Misse in France. Third prize is €1,000. The winning stories will be published in the autumn issue of The Moth Magazine.

ABOUT THE PRIZE

Launched in 2011, The Moth Short Story Prize is an important date on the literary calendar. Every year, a single judge is asked to choose three winning stories, to feature in the autumn issue of The Moth. Previous judges include John Boyne, Martina Evans, Donal Ryan and Mike McCormack.

1st prize €3,000
2nd prize week-long writing retreat at Circle of Misse in France
3rd prize €1,000

Our thanks are due to Circle of Misse for their ongoing generous support of the prize.

You can read about the winner of last year’s Short Story Prize in the Irish Times.

THE JUDGE

This year’s judge is Belinda McKeon. Her debut novel Solace won the Faber Prize and was shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Her essays and journalism have appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian and the Paris Review. As a playwright, she has had work produced in Dublin and New York, and is currently under commission to the Abbey Theatre. She lives in Brooklyn and is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Rutgers University.

HOW TO ENTER: Online Entry form 

The Prize is open to anyone (over 18), as long as the work is original and previously unpublished.

There is a word limit of 6,000.

The entry fee is €12 per story. You can enter online or send your story along with a cheque or postal order made payable to ‘The Moth Magazine Ltd.’ with an entry form or a cover letter with your name and contact details and the title of your story (or stories) attached to: The Moth, Ardan Grange, Milltown, Belturbet, Co. Cavan, Ireland.

Please remember to read the rules of the competition before you enter.

CLOSING DATE 30 JUNE 2017

The winners will be announced in September 2017 and all three stories will appear in the autumn issue of The Moth.

Call 00 353 (0)87 2657251 or email:

enquiriesATthemothmagazineDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )

for more details.

Chapbook Contest: Golden Walkman Magazine

Genre(s): Poetry, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Hybrid
Length: 30 pages or less
Deadline: July 31, 2017

Fee: $10 per submission

Website

Golden Walkman Magazine is now open for its very first chapbook contest. However, we are extremely committed (sometimes obsessively so) to the spoken word, so the winning manuscript will be published solely as an audiobook. Don't fear! You will not simply hand over your carefully chiseled words to be mangled into barely discernible noise - we will work directly with you to ensure the finished product rings true to what you want. 

The winning author will also be paid some sum of money (to be determined by the success of the contest) and a percentage of sales from the book.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Call for Contributors for Craft Talk: The Tishman Review

Submissions accepted year-round.

The Tishman Review is looking for several regular contributors of Craft Talk articles for our quarterly journal. All articles will receive monetary compensation. Craft Talk articles consist of interviews with established writers, book reviews and introspections, and essays on the craft of writing and the writing life. Humor is appreciated but not a requisite. The contributor will work with the Craft Talk editor on the form of article prior to its composition, but contributors will have significant creative leeway. We ask for a four-issue commitment.

If interested, please email us at:

thetishmanreviewATgmailDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to .)

for further details.

Read the journal.

Calls for Submission: The Artist Unleashed

Deadline: Rolling

Earn $0.015 per word to be published on The Artist Unleashed. We want articles based on your personal experience as a writer or artist to help fellow creatives. Articles for this website must be about an aspect of writing and/or other form of art, and must also inspire and/or motivate, encourage discussion, offer advice or argue an opinion, and be rich with informative/engaging content.

 

We will tweet and Facebook your post to get it as much exposure as possible. Views on a single post have reached 1500+ within 24 hours.

 

Please visit our website for submission guidelines.

Call for Submissions: Grist: A Journal of the Literary Arts

Grist: A Journal of the Literary Arts is now open for submissions! Our open reading period for craft essays, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry for our print and online issues runs from June 15 to September 15, and we pay all the writers we publish.

For more information, see our guidelines here.

Call for Submissions: Masque & Spectacle

Masque & Spectacle is calling for submissions for its next issue. 

 

Send all materials and queries to:

 

masqueandspectacleATgmailDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )

 

Please see the submission guidelines here.

 

Writing
We publish all forms of creative writing, including essays, plays, literary journalism, and hybrid formats. Longer works, up to 10,000 words, will be read with delight; however, we're not ready for your novella, not just yet.
We are interested only in unpublished work.
Please attach written submissions in a single Word doc or docx file.
Include your last name in the file name and the email subject line.

 

Visual Art
Attach JPGs with an edge of at least 2000 px.
Please include captions with titles, materials, canvas size, names of performers, etc. in email.
Include your last name in the file name and in the email subject line.

 

Video
For initial consideration, please send a YouTube or Vimeo link to your video.
Please include your last name in the email subject line.

 

Music & Sound Installation
Please attach all MP3 files with titles and your last name in the file title.
Include your last name in the email subject line.

Writing Competition: Max Ritvo Poetry Prize

Milkweed Editions, in partnership with the Alan B. Slifka Foundation, is pleased to announce the inaugural Max Ritvo Poetry Prize! Designed to honor the legacy of one of the most original and accomplished poets to emerge in recent years—and to reward outstanding emerging poets for years to come—the prize will be awarded annually to the author of a debut collection of poems. The inaugural winner will receive publication by Milkweed Editions in April 2018 and $10,000, making the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize the most lucrative first-book prize in the U.S.

 

We aim to establish a transparent, ethical prize that brings together a community of poets to play a significant role in considering submissions. Celebrated poet Henri Cole will judge the inaugural prize. He has chosen five emerging poets to serve as paid first readers: Ruth Awad, Graham Barnhart, Lauren Cook, Allison Pitinii Davis, and Jordan Zandi.

 

Submissions will be open from July 1 through August 31, 2017.
The winner will be announced on December 1, 2017.

 

Full guidelines and information here.

Writing Competition: Yellow Flag Press

Deadline: August 31 

Award: Publication 

Fee: $10

Yellow Flag Press publishes one collection of short fiction per year under the banner of The Cypress & Pine Fiction Series. The 2017 selection was Jane Blunschi’s Understand Me, Sugar. We will be reading for next year’s selection from June 1 to August 31, 2017.

Collections of original literary short stories by both established and emerging authors writing in English will be considered. We skew towards collections connected to the US South but love to read compelling fiction set anywhere.

• Collections should be comprised of original literary stories and/or novellas that have not been published as a complete collection (stories published individually in journals or chapbook are fine). We are not publishing novels or genre fiction at this time.

• Manuscripts should be between 100 and 200 pages.

• Please number each page of the manuscript and include a table of contents. Also include a page of acknowledgements if any of the stories have been previously published.

• All submissions must be through Submittable. We do not accept hard copies.

• Include a short biographical statement in the cover letter field in Submittable. Also let us know (if you can) how you found out about the Cypress & Pine Fiction Series.

• Simultaneous submissions are accepted and encouraged. Please notify us immediately if your manuscript is accepted for publication elsewhere or if you wish to withdraw it for any reason.

• Please send only one manuscript a year.

Each submission will receive a copy of the collection selected. Copies will be mailed when the book is published in the spring of 2018. For this reason be sure that your mailing address is up to date with Submittable, and please notify us if you move before books are mailed.

Submit your work here.

Writing Competition: 9th Annual Gemini Magazine Flash Fiction Contest

9th Annual Gemini Magazine Flash Fiction Contest  

Deadline: August 31, 2017

Surprise us. Shock us. Make us fall in love in a complete story of 1,000 words or less!

Grand prize: $1,000. Second prize: $100. Four honorable mentions: $25 each. 

Low entry fee of $5.

Any subject, style, or genre. All six finalists will be published online in the October 2017 issue of Gemini. Check out any of the four dozen previous winners and finalists to see what we like.

Writing Competition: The Stage Company and The Varsity Center

The Stage Company and The Varsity Center are co-sponsoring a writing contest

Sun/Moon Stories - Call for original written work, for reading/performance at the Varsity Center the evening of Friday, August 18 

What are we looking for?

The writing can include personal and philosophical and cultural musings on the Eclipse. Want suggestions? These might help you start thinking, but you're not limited to these: How will/should the eclipse be important to the world, or just to you? What can it teach us/you? Its historical significance? What does it mean in your life, if anything? Spiritual connections? Cultural essays?

Type of writing: Use whatever style of writing you choose. These are some examples to get you started, but you are not limited to these: short play, essay, poetry, spoken word
Maximum Length: max of 10 minutes for poetry or spoken word, max of 20 minutes for other written work

Age categories:
Less than 13 years old
Ages 13 to 18
Age 19 and above

If the entry is a group effort, the work will compete in the category based on the age of the oldest contributor
Work will be judged on quality, and potential interest as performance piece; creativity and entertainment value is a plus. All submissions must be your original work.

From all pieces submitted, the best of those fitting into the time allotted (2 hours) can be read/performed at the Varsity. Readings and performances will be the evening of Friday, August 18, at the Varsity Center in Carbondale.

Submit the piece in written electronic form (text document or PDF), OR send us a you-tube link to performance/recitation of the work. You must include your name(s), age(s), where you live, and your contact information. Send to stagecompanycarbondaleATgmailDOTcom

Deadline to submit an entry: July 18, 2017

Judges will be Professor Emeritus David Rush & Director/Actor Kevin Purcell.

Call for Booklength Submissions: Urban Farmhouse Press

Urban Farmhouse Press Seeks Book-length Manuscripts

 

Deadline: December 1, 2017

 

Urban Farmhouse Press currently seeks book-length manuscripts of poetry, fiction, and science fiction. We are an independent small press located in the Windsor, Ontario-Detroit, Michigan area. We are looking for writing that crosses-borders and talks about the people and places it comes from. Series include Crossroads Poetry Series, Kilgore Trout Science Fiction Series, and Contemporary short fiction and novels. Submissions welcome from US, Canada, UK, and Australia.

 

More details at our website.

Fiction Book Contest: 2017 New American Fiction Prize

$1,000 Award: 2017 New American Fiction Prize

Deadline: June 30, 2017

A prize of $1,000 and publication by New American Press is given annually for a book of fiction. Lori Ostlund will judge.

Extended deadline: June 30. Using the online submission system, submit a collection of short stories or flash fiction, a novella, or a novel of at least 100 pages with $25 entry fee. 

For complete guidelines, visit our Submittable page.

Writing Competition: The Cincinnati Review

Give Us Something Amazing, Please!

The Cincinnati Review is accepting entries for the 2017 Robert and Adele Schiff Awards in Poetry and Prose from now until July 15th! We'll choose one poem and one prose piece (fiction or literary nonfiction) for publication in our 2018 prize issue, and the two winners will each get $1,000.

The entry fee of $20 includes a yearlong subscription, and all entries will be considered for publication, not just the winners. For each entry, send up to 8 pages of poetry or one story/essay of up to 40 pages.

Please submit entries through our online submission manager here, but not without reading our complete contest guidelines first!

Webinar: Secrets of Getting Traditionally Published - Part 1: Fiction

I will be teaching a webinar on the secrets of getting your fiction traditionally published on Thursday, June 15, 2017 at 1:30 p.m. EDT. Hope you can join me!

Register for the webinar here.

Secrets of Getting Traditionally Published - Part 1: Fiction

• Jun 15, 2017 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM

Jeanne Lyet-Gassman

Part 1: Fiction: You've written a short story or novel, but what do you do with it now? How do you find traditional markets for your short fiction? Do you need an agent for your novel? Broken into two sections, this webinar will discuss the traditional publishing process for fiction. The first section will address publishing short fiction, including formatting, writer's guidelines, markets, and submission procedures. The second half of the webinar will discuss the process of publishing your novel with a traditional publisher, including finding reputable agents, writing query letters, and preparing a synopsis.

Sign up for Part 2 here to learn how to traditionally publish your nonfiction.

ABOUT THE PRESENTER: Jeanne Lyet Gassman's debut novel Blood of a Stone (Tuscany Press) received a Bronze 2015 Independent Publisher Book Award in the national category of religious fiction. Her short work has been nominated for Best Small Fictions and the Pushcart Prize. Additional awards include fellowships from Ragdale and the Arizona Commission on the Arts. Jeanne's writing has appeared in The Manifest Station, Queen Mob's Tea House, Hippocampus Magazine, Literary Mama, Barrelhouse, and Hermeneutic Chaos Literary Journal, among many others. Her short story, "Sweet Dirty Love," was recently published in the anthology, Debris & Detritus: The Lesser Greek Gods Running Amok. Visit Jeanne at her website: www.jeannelyetgassman.com

Call for Submissions: SPANK the CARP

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS to SPANK the CARP. We’re looking for flash fiction, short stories, and poetry, including shape poetry. If your work is thought-provoking, sophisticated, yet not pretentious or obscure, we’re interested.

For submission guidelines and more information visit our website.

Call for Submissions: Heartwood Literary Magazine

Heartwood Literary Magazine is open year-round for submissions in fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and art. For complete guidelines please visit our website.

What We're Looking For:

We are interested in writing that pushes into, dares to reveal its own truth, that takes emotional risks, that gets to the heart of the matter. Simultaneous submissions are fine, provided you notify us it the work is accepted elsewhere.