Call for Submissions: Glass: A Journal of Poetry

Glass: A Journal of Poetry seeks poetry submissions for future issues. 

 

Submissions are always free and simultaneous submissions are always welcome. We are always looking for general submissions and we always encourage submissions from underrepresented voices.

 

We are also currently seeking submissions for an Ohio Poets special issue, to be published in March, 2018. Any poets with ties to the Buckeye State can submit.

 

Submissions are accepted through email:

 

 editorATglass-poetryDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )

 

Full guidelines can be found on our website.

 

Glass is published monthly on the Glass Poetry Press website. Past contributors include Zaina Alsous, Amorak Huey, Khaty Xiong, torrin a greathouse, Darrel Alejandro Holnes, Lena Tuffaha, sam sax, and many more. 

 

We nominate for all major awards and work from Glass has been selected for Best of the Net and Verse Daily

Call for Submissions: Blue River Review

Blue River Review submissions now open. We are looking for the best poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction by new or published authors.

Submission is free, and for submission instructions please visit our website.

More announcements are on the way, so check up here on Facebook and follow us on Twitter @bluerivermag.

Blue River is a non-profit literary journal produced by Creighton University’s MFA program. Published bi-annually, we seek to celebrate contemporary creative writers in both the local area and beyond by publishing their fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. In that spirit, we also provide our own MFA students with experience in literary editing and production as a preparation for work in the publishing industry.

Call for Submissions: The Cincinnati Review

The Cincinnati Review weekly online.

The Cincinnati Review welcomes submissions to our weekly online flash feature, miCRo, as well as all other regular submissions. Every week, miCRo will highlight a writer whose work packs in a punch, in under 500 words for fiction/literary nonfiction/hybrids and under 32 lines for poetry.

See more about all our submission guidelines here.

Call for Submissions: Red Earth Review

Red Earth Review, a literary magazine published by the Red Earth MFA program at Oklahoma City University, is now accepting submissions for our sixth edition. Much like the program that shares its name, Red Earth Review seeks writers who are genuine, grounded, and fearless. Send us poetry or prose that is firm in the foundation of its craft and steadfast in its soul.

Our submission guidelines are below; you can submit at Submittable beginning October 1.

We accept fiction, both literary and genre, creative nonfiction, poetry, and encourage new and emerging writers to submit.

The deadline for submissions is November 1, 2017 or 300 submissions, whichever comes first. The target release date is July 2018. Submit one to five previously unpublished poems or one short story (fewer than 7,500 words) or one essay (fewer than 7,500 words). Poets: Please submit each work separately--in other words, please do not put more than one poem in a file. You'll need to make new submissions for each poem. Submissions should be in a word document file (.doc or .docx).

If our Submittable page says "No Active Categories," before November 1, then we have reached 300 submissions. Red Earth Review has chosen to limit the number of submissions in order to assure that we can give submissions the readings they deserve. Please include a bio in the bio section of the submission form; bios must be 150 words or less. Submissions that do not follow guidelines on the Submittable page will not be read.

Simultaneous submissions are allowed, but if your submitted work is accepted elsewhere, please withdraw your submission using your Submittable account.

Payment is a contributor’s copy of Red Earth Review. After first publication, all rights revert to the author/artist.

We reserve the right to determine whether material submitted should be published or not.

For more information and to read free PDFs of Issues 1 through 5, check out our page.

Nonfiction Book Award: 2018 Hefner Heitz Kansas Book Award for Best Work of Literary Nonfiction

The 2018 Hefner Heitz Kansas Book Award for Best Work of Literary Nonfiction (no fee)

Deadline: December 31, 2017

Prize of $1,000 for best Creative Nonfiction published in the past three years: 2015/2016/2017. The Kansas Book Award is open to those living in Kansas and those with ties to Kansas.

There's no fee to enter. This year's judge will be essayist, commentator, poet, playwright and memoirist Mary Swander, recently the Poet Laureate of Iowa.

This competition is sponsored by Washburn University of Topeka, Mabee Library, and its Thomas Fox Averill Kansas Studies Collection. For complete guidelines, visit our website.

The winner and the judge will be invited to Washburn University's Mabee Library in the Spring of 2018 for a reading and presentation ceremony.

Call for Submissions: Nimrod International Journal

Call for Submissions: Diversity and the Arts

Deadline: November 5, 2017

For our Spring/Summer 2018 issue, Let Us Gather: Diversity and the Arts, Nimrod International Journal is seeking poetry, short stories, and creative nonfiction pieces that explore or demonstrate the idea of the arts as a gathering place for diverse and unique perspectives. We also invite writing that addresses and confronts the times when the arts have not been as diverse as they could be—including the present.

Poetry may be up to 8 pages; fiction/creative nonfiction may be up to 7,500 words.

Manuscripts may be mailed or submitted online.

For complete guidelines, email:

nimrodATutulsaDOTedu (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )

or visit our website.

Writing Competition: 2017 Fourth River Folio Prize for Prose

2017 Fourth River Folio Prize for Prose (Fiction and Nonfiction)

Deadline: December 15th, 2017 

Genre: Prose
Judge: Ira Sukrungruang

Entry fee: $15
The winning entry will be published as a 20-25-page feature in our fall, 2018 online issue. The author will also receive a cash prize of $500, and a subscription to The Fourth River’s print edition. 

GUIDELINES
Please submit approximately 20-25, double-spaced pages of fiction or nonfiction prose in one file (.doc or .docx or .rtf only. No .pdf please). Submissions that are far below 20 pages will not be considered.
You may submit one long piece or several short pieces.

As always, we invite work that engages and interrogates our notions of nature and place and helps us see the world around us in a new way. The writer's name and contact information should appear on each page of the manuscript. We do not read blind. Please also provide a short bio in the appropriate field on Submittable. All pages should be numbered.

We are looking for adherence to our vision of nature and place via strong voices and impeccable craft, regardless of the style.

We accept electronic submissions only through Submittable. Emailed submissions and mailed submissions will not be considered.

Simultaneous submissions are accepted as long as they are withdrawn promptly in the event of publication elsewhere. Multiple submissions are accepted but each must include a separate contest fee. No translations.

For all our submissions, themed or otherwise, we welcome especially work by writers who are part of marginalized groups: immigrant and indigenous writers; writers of color; women, non-binary, LGBQA and trans writers; writers with disabilities both visible and invisible. No racist, misogynistic, homophobic or otherwise gratuitously hateful work will be considered. Send us your best work!

All work must be original and previously unpublished. This includes any work that has appeared in print or online in any form including personal websites. We claim first North American Serial rights, so rights revert to the author after the initial publication period. We ask that you credit The Fourth River in any subsequent publications.

Submissions will be screened by a panel of editors and up to ten finalists will be sent to the judge.

The contest is open to all writers in English except those affiliated in any way with Chatham University, The Fourth River, or current or former students and colleagues of the judge.

Submissions accepted until December 15th, 2017. Winners will be announced by email and listed on our website by May 15th, 2018.

The Folio Contest will rotate genres each year between poetry and prose.
SUBMIT here.

Call for Submissions: Masque & Spectacle

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

We do not accept previously published work, and we ask for first serial rights upon acceptance. All rights revert back to the writer/artist upon publication. 

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.

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.

Call for Submissions: Lunch Ticket

Lunch Ticket is accepting submissions for Issue 12: Winter/Spring 2018 in the following genres: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Flash Prose, Poetry, Translation, Visual Art, Young Adult (13+). The journal of the Antioch University MFA program, Lunch Ticket balances literary and visual art with conversations about social justice and community activism.

 

We publish work by new, emerging, and established writers and artists, including those who have been underrepresented, or historically misrepresented. Submissions are always free.

 

Visit our website for submission guidelines.

 

Deadline: October 31.

Call for Submissions: Sou'wester Literary Journal

Sou'wester literary journal is now accepting submissions for its 2018 annual print issue.

Online submissions are free through Submittable.

Submissions are open until February 1, 2018.

Writing Competition: The Moth Poetry Prize

The Moth Poetry Prize – €10,000 for a single unpublished poem plus 3 runner-up prizes of €1,000.

All four poems published in the spring issue of The Moth.

Special award ceremony at Poetry Ireland (closing 31 December) 

Deadline: Dec. 31, 2017

Entry Fee: €12 per poem, and you can enter as many poems as you like.

Complete entry information here.

Writing Competition: The Malahat Review

The annual Open Season Awards prize money has been increased to $2000 CAD per genre (poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction) for a total prize giveaway of $6000! This is a $1500 increase over previous years. Three lucky winners will each take home a $2000 prize this year.

This annual literary contest is open to emerging and established writers of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Contest entry fees vary by location, but there’s no limit to how many entries can be sent in of any genre. All entrants receive a complimentary one-year subscription to The Malahat Review.

Deadline November 1.

Contest judges this year are Evelyn Lau (poetry), Carleigh Baker (fiction), and Betsy Warland (creative nonfiction).

Visit the submissions link for all contest details including payment/submission options, judge bios, profiles on past winners, and more.

Writing Competition: The Shared Dream Chapbook Contest

Announcing The Shared Dream Chapbook Contest!

In times of anti-immigrant sentiment and racial intolerance, we are please to announce The Shared Dream Chapbook Contest for immigrant poets. The final judge will be poet Janine Joseph, the author of Driving Without a License (Alice James Books, 2016) winner of the 2014 Kundiman Poetry Prize.

The winning manuscript with be published by Backbone Press and the author will receive a prize of $250.

Deadline: November 30, 2017.

Please see our submissions page for full guidelines.

Call for Submissions: Always Crashing

Always Crashing is now open for submissions of fiction, poetry, collage text, visual collage, labyrinths, manifestos, the generically transgressive, and nonfiction (though we prefer not to be told if it’s nonfiction). 

 

We are interested in surfaces and form. We are interested in discontinuity and want to watch you break things. We want to read works that seek something via untruth, fantasy, artificiality, the plastic, deep superficiality, and attention to their own construction. We are interested in work that strikes curious poses; in the “experimental,” not as an avant-garde, but as a furthering of a subterranean literary tradition. We are interested, ultimately, in the aesthetic: the beautiful and the sublime, sure, but also the boring, the dumb, the merely interesting, the zany, the disgusting, the cute—particularly when pushed into strange and unfamiliar territories.

 

Always Crashing publishes one print issue each year and will feature online content year-round. We are headquartered in Chicago and Urbana, Illinois.

 

Submissions may be sent to:
 

submissionsATalwayscrashingDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )

 

Please include your name and the word “SUBMISSION” in the subject line.

 

We do not (and will not) charge for submissions.

Poetry Competition for Women over Age 50: 2017 Wilder Series Poetry Book Prize

2017 Wilder Series Poetry Book Prize:
A Poetry Contest for Women Over Age 50

 

Submission Dates: Sept. 1, 2017 – Nov. 30, 2017. 

 

Judges: The editors of Two Sylvias Press--
Kelli Russell Agodon and Annette Spaulding-Convy

 

Prize: $1000 and publication by Two Sylvias Press
(print book and eBook publication, and a vintage art nouveau pendant).

 

The Wilder Series Book Prize is open to women over 50 years of age (established or emerging poets) and includes a $1000 prize, publication by Two Sylvias Press, 20 copies of the winning book, and a vintage, art nouveau pendant. Women submitting manuscripts may be poets with one or more previously published chapbooks/books or poets without any prior chapbook/book publications. (We use an inclusive definition of “woman” and “female” and we welcome trans women, genderqueer women, and non-binary people who are significantly female-identified.)

 

​All manuscripts will be considered for publication.

 

Please read the complete guidelines below before submitting your manuscript.

 

Submission Requirements:

 

Please submit an original, unpublished full-length manuscript of poetry (no translations or previously self-published books). Individual poems may have been previously published in journals, magazines, anthologies, and chapbooks, but the collection as a whole must be unpublished. 

 

Open to: Women over the age of 50 (born on or before November 30, 1967) 

 

Length: 60-100 pages of poems
(One poem per page. Note: poems can be longer than one page, we just want to make sure each poem begins on its own page and that two poems are never included on the same page.)

 

Manuscript should include a table of contents and an acknowledgments page for previously published poems.

 

Poet’s name should not appear in the manuscript.

 

A poet may submit more than one manuscript for consideration. Submit additional manuscript(s) in a separate email(s) and include submission fee(s).

 

Simultaneous submissions allowed. Please notify Two Sylvias Press immediately if manuscript is accepted elsewhere.

NOTE: Our mission at Two Sylvias Press is to support poets. Your manuscript will NOT be disqualified if it was submitted incorrectly. We will not penalize you for trying and making a mistake. If we have a question or concern about your manuscript format, we will contact you and allow you to resubmit. Please know that we are on your side. Thank you for trusting us with your work.

HOW TO SUBMIT:


Electronic submissions only, emailed to:  

 

twosylviaswilderseriesATgmailDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )

 

Note: If you do not receive an email confirmation of your submission within 24 hours, resubmit your manuscript. The confirmation email may be in your spam folder. Please do not email Two Sylvias Press to receive an individual confirmation of receipt of your manuscript or to confirm your payment.

 

In the body of email, please include a short bio, manuscript title, page length, poet’s name, and all contact info (email, mailing address, and phone number).

 

Email subject line should include: last name, manuscript title, and the year (2017).
Attach your manuscript as an MS Word Doc and email to:

 

twosylviaswilderseriesATgmailDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to . ) 

 

Submission/Reading Fee is $20 per manuscript OR $35, which includes copy of the winning book. 

 

Address any questions to:

 

twosylviaspressATgmailDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )

Full guidelines can be found here. 

 

Thank you for your support of Two Sylvias Press.

 

To learn more about our opportunities, sign up for our newsletter here.

Call for Submissions: Arkana

Dear overlooked, misunderstood, or silenced writers,

Arkana, the journal of marginalized voices and mysteries published by the Arkansas Writers MFA Program, is now reading for its third issue! Pretty, pretty please send us your fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, illustrated narrative, scriptwriting, translation, artwork or whatever other mixed-genre strikes your fancy and you think will strike our fancy too.

We want work that reflects our mission: to seek and foster a sense of shared wonder by privileging art that asks questions, explores mystery, and works to discover and uncover the overlooked, the misunderstood, and the silent.

So if you feel like we just described your work, we want to hear from you! We are super groovy with literary diversity. We accept work from writers of all shapes and sizes, no matter their background, place of origin, or education/career level—we have published writers with fancy MFA degrees and writers still in high school, writers from our home base in Arkansas to writers from across the world. Plus, we nominate our writers’ work yearly for the Pushcart Prize and for other prizes, such as Best of the Net. We also include an audio feature on our website, so if you’re published, you’ll get a chance to literally have your voice heard.

If you’re interested in sending polished, mysterious, and wonderful work our way, then check out our submission guidelines.

And it doesn’t hurt to read through the journal for yourself, just to get a feel for what kind of stuff we’re into. Visit our website.

Still have questions? Shoot us an email at:

arkanamagATgmailDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )

or look us up on Facebook or Twitter, @ArkanaMag.

We can’t wait to read your work!

All best,
The Editors

Call for Submissions: The Fourth River

The Fourth River's web series, Tributaries, has a new mission and a new guest editor!

Tributaries: The New Nature, Deadline: October 15

Editorial Statement, Ira Sukrungruang:
Where do we, writers of color and the LGBTQ community, find ourselves in this landscape of the natural/unnatural world. Tributaries wants to see pieces that explore the relationship between the individual and place, both in conflict and in harmony. We want writers to engage with place in a variety of ways–place and fear, place and isolation, place and solace, place and violence. We live on a planet where grey is the new green, where buildings are new trees, and where concrete is grass.

Guidelines:
Writers of color or members of the LGBTQ community may submit one poem or up to 500 words of nonfiction prose that addresses the editorial statement above.

Submit your work here.  

--
Sheila Squillante
Associate Director, Chatham University MFA Program
Editor-in-Chief, The Fourth River

Call for Submissions: NonBinary Review and Zoetic Press

NonBinary Review accepts fiction, nonfiction, poetry and visual art. We pay 1¢ per word for prose, $10 per poem, and $25 for visual art. We are currently reading work related to Shirley Jackson's novel "We Have Always Lived in the Castle." Reading period for this issue ends 10/31/2017.

 

Zoetic Press is also looking for submissions to its new podcast, The Literary Whip. Host Lise Quintana speaks to editors from other presses about pieces that were well-received, but didn't end up making it into print. We discuss the piece's strengths and weaknesses, as well as the literary aesthetic and editorial philosophy of the journals we talk to. We pay the author of the piece $20, and the piece appears on our website so listeners can read it too. If you or your press would like to feature a piece on The Literary Whip, email us at:

 

podcastATzoeticpressDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )

 

 Allons-y! Lise Quintana
Publisher
Zoetic Press

Fellowships: Under the Volcano 2018

FELLOWSHIPS for Under the Volcano 2018 

October 1st deadline for Under the Volcano's 15th cycle of writing master classes in Mexico.

Fiction with Taiye Selasi, poetry with Paul Muldoon, memoir/essay with Jonathan Levi & investigative journalism with Ginger Thompson. January 11-21, 2018, in Tepoztlán, Mexico. 

Our fellowships cover full tuition, the two-week follow-up residency and RT airfare from the US.

Grace Paley Fellowship:
For a woman writer of any age whose writing Grace Paley would have encouraged.

Margot Adler Fellowship for Innovative Journalism:
For a working journalist under 40 or recent journalism school graduate with demonstrated interest in developing in-depth stories using innovative literary and digital techniques.

We also offer partial scholarships to qualified applicants (talent + need). 

Writing Competition: The Wonder Institute

The Wonder Institute INVITES ALL WRITERS AND POETS TO PARTICIPATE IN OUR 2017 Annual Writing Contest BY SUBMITTING A PERSONAL ESSAY OR EPIC POEM ABOUT A
“Contemporary Pilgrim, Prophet, or Unsung S/Hero.”

Submissions link.

Deadline: November 1, 2017

1st PRIZE: $1,000 (Poem or Essay)
2nd PRIZE: $500 (Poem or Essay)

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

• 2000 words or fewer.
• 8.5 x 11 page size. Double spaced throughout. Pages clearly numbered.
• Arial, Courier or Times font. 12 point font size.

What to Submit: An original, unpublished essay or epic poem, 2000 words or fewer, about a “Contemporary Pilgrim, Prophet, or Unsung S/Hero.”

When to Submit: Contest deadline is November 1, 2017. Entries must be submitted online by midnight.

Prizes and Publication: First Prize is a check for $1,000 dollars and publication on The Wonder Institute website. Second Prize is a check for $500 dollars and publication on The Wonder Institute website. Honorable mention(s) will be selected at the discretion of the final judge, Linda Durham. Honorable Mention entries may also be published on the Wonder Institute website.

Results: Contest results will be announced by December 1, 2017 on the Wonder Institute Website. First and Second Prize winners will be contacted by email. Honorable mention(s) will be listed on the Wonder Institute Website.

Anonymous Judging: Entries are judged anonymously. Include a cover sheet containing title and author’s full name. Your name must not appear on the essay itself.

Privacy: Your privacy is assured. We will not sell your information to third parties.

Copyright: By submitting your essay, you give The Wonder Institute a non-exclusive license to publish your work online.

Final Judge: Linda Durham.

Call for Flash Fiction and Poetry Submissions: It Matters Radio

It Matters Radio is looking for flash fiction and poetry to share on our annual Halloween show.
Please send submissions via our website.

150 word limit. 

Must be received by Oct 10. Be sure to include contact information.

Writing Competitions: Alexandria Quarterly

Three Contests from Alexandria Quarterly:

AQP CHAPBOOK CONTEST
AQP is looking for an unpublished chapbook of poems 32 pages in length. The contest is open to both new and established writers. The winner will receive book publication, a $300 cash award, and twenty copies of the book.

GRAPHIC NOVEL CONTEST

AQP is looking for an unpublished graphic novel up to 40 pages in length. The contest is open to both new and established writers/artists. The winner will receive book publication, a $300 cash award, and twenty copies of the book.

SMALL STORIES SERIES POCKET BOOK CONTEST
This summer AQP published the first pocket sized book in we're calling the Small Stories Series. It's called Deliver Love and it's by Pal Shazar. (We highly recommend you check it out!) AQP is looking to add our second title to the series. The contest is open to both new and established writers. The winner will receive book publication, a $100 cash award, and twenty copies of the book. 

For more information, please visit our website.

Poetry Competition: 2017 X.J. Kennedy Parody Award

Measure: A Review of Formal Poetry presents
The 2017 X.J. Kennedy Parody Award 

$500 Prize 

Final Judge: Eric McHenry
Deadline: September 30, 2017

Click Here for More Information!

1. Submissions must be original, unpublished parodies of famous poems of any length and subject matter.
2. Parodies must be metrical (accentual-syllabic or accentual), though the original poems may be free verse.
3. Author’s name, address, phone number, e-mail address, and name of poem being parodied should be typed on the back of each entry (if not submitting electronically).
4. Final judge for the 2017 contest will be Eric McHenry. The winning poem and several runners-up will be published in a 2018 issue of Measure.
5. Send up to three poems in one envelope (or in one MS Word file via our electronic submission system). Entry fee: $10 per three poems, checks payable to Measure Press, or you may pay electronically via PayPal. Writers may enter as many times as they’d like, but each group of three poems must be accompanied by a $10 fee.
6. Entries must be sent to the address below and postmarked no later than September 30, 2017. Enclose an SASE if you would like to be notified of the contest results. Entries cannot be returned.

Measure Parody Award
526 S. Lincoln Park Drive
Evansville, IN 47714

Call for Submissions: Prime Number Magazine

Prime Number Magazine is accepting general submissions in poetry and short fiction

Now accepting submissions in Poetry and Short Fiction for Issue 127 (Jan 2018): Prime Number Magazine (a Press 53 publication)

Guest poetry editor, Seth Michelson, author of Swimming Through Fire

Guest short fiction editor, John Matthew Fox, author of I Will Shout Your Name (forthcoming, February 2018)

Our guest judges will select three poets and three short fiction authors for Issue 127, January 1, 2018.

No submission fee.
Submission guides are on the Press 53 Submittable page

Poetry Competition: Up North Poetry Prize

UP NORTH POETRY PRIZE  

WIN $500 + PUBLICATION / POETRY / SEPTEMBER 1 – NOVEMBER 15 

JUDGE: JOHN MCCARTHY

Contest Guidelines:

Open to writers from or writing about the Upper Midwest, who haven’t yet published a full-length book, and who have no book forthcoming before November 15, 2017. Writers with chapbooks are allowed.

Submit up to three poems of any length.

All work will be considered for inclusion in the print journal.

Simultaneous submissions are allowed, but please notify us immediately if the work we are considering has been accepted elsewhere.

Winner and finalists to be published in the print journal.

Only previously unpublished work will be considered.

This contest will be judged blindly, so please do not include your cover letter, your name, or any contact information in your uploaded document.

Submit your double-spaced work as a single .doc, .docx, or .pdf file.

Close friends of the judge, as well as close friends or family of Up North Lit editors, staff, and readers are prohibited from submitting

$5 entry fee to submit 

Optional $12 entry fee will include a one-year subscription to Up North Lit (free to current subscribers).

Link to submit.

Call for Poetry Submissions to Anthology About Mistakes

Seeking poems for middle schoolers about mistakes:

Why make an anthology about mistakes? Because "mistakes flower/every hour"! We make them all the time. Some are the size of erasing a hole in your paper, mispronouncing a word, or tripping over your shoelace. Some are the size of telling a friend's secret. Some can be useful, like a science experiment that goes wrong but gives you a new idea. How can we make the most of the good mistakes and do our best to fix the ones that need fixing? Poetry can help us figure it out.

The details:

The anthology will look at mistakes from as many angles as possible, including (but not limited to) mistakes that result in discoveries/inventions, grammar and etiquette mishaps, historical and fictional blunders, funny/silly/embarrassing missteps, ways to make things right, and forgiveness.

Please submit blind entries (include your name, address, phone number, email address, and poem title on a separate page). Both form and free verse poems are welcome. There are no length limits, but keep the intended audience in mind. Multiple submissions are fine.

Simultaneous submissions are acceptable as long as they are identified and they are withdrawn if accepted elsewhere. Reprints are fine as long as the author has the rights. Payment is one print copy and one electronic copy. Acceptance grants one time publishing rights. Upon publication, all rights revert to the author.

The deadline is November 1, 2017. Send poems to:

 

mistakesanthologyATgmailDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )

Writing Competition: Sequestrum New Writer Awards

Sequestrum New Writer Awards

 Sequestrum is accepting submissions for the 2017 New Writer Awards. Over $500 will be awarded to up-and-coming talents in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. For complete details visit our website. 

Contest Guidelines:

• Open only to writers who have not yet published a book-length manuscript of fiction, poetry, or creative nonfiction. 
• Prose (fiction and creative nonfiction) and poetry will be judged separately, with one first-prize winner for each genre. 
• One first-prize winner in each genre will receive $200 plus publication. 
• Runners-up in each genre will be awarded publication and receive payment at our usual rates (plus a little extra).
•  Publication in our Spring ’18 Issue.

Deadline: Oct. 15, 2017

We're always accepting general submissions too. Submit your work here.

About Sequestrum:
We average 2,500+ readers a month, keep our archives open at pay-what-you-can subscriptions, are a paying market, and pair all our publications with stunning visual arts created by outside artists or our staff. Our contributors range from award-winning novelists and poets (with other works featured in publications including The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Glimmer Train, The Kenyon Review, many other university periodicals, and Best American Anthologies) to emerging voices and first-time writers. 

We're proud of our little plot on the literary landscape and the writers and artists we share it with. Come see why.

Call for Submissions: takahe magazine

Founded in 1989, takahē magazine publishes short stories, poetry and art, as well as essays, interviews, and book reviews in related areas. Many of Aotearoa New Zealand’s brightest literary talents made their first public appearance within our pages, and we remain committed to publishing the best work from emerging talents alongside that of established writers and artists.
takahē is published three times per year, in print in April and December, and online in August. The first online issue was published on 10 August 2016.

General Guidelines

• Submissions may be made at any time and will be considered for the next issue. Email is the preferred mode of submission in all genres, and will be acknowledged on receipt.

• We do not consider previously published work (including online – blogs, websites, ezines), or, with the exception of short stories, simultaneous submissions.

• Our usual response time is no longer than four months, and contributors should not submit further work until advised of the fate of earlier submissions.

• Please send as a Word attachment (doc or docx) to the relevant editor: art, essays, fiction, poetry or reviews. If submissions are being made in more than one genre, send each separately.

• Files should contain a cover-page which includes the date, your name, email address, postal address, and the title/s of the work. Your name should appear on every page of the submission.

• If you do not have access to email, please include a covering letter with above information, and a stamped self-addressd envelope for reply. (Submissions without either an email address or SSAE will be destroyed unread.) Put your name, the title of the work and the page number on each page, and post to: 

takahē
PO Box 13 335
Christchurch 8141, New Zealand

Overseas Submissions will only be accepted by email, as New Zealand Post no longer accepts IRCs (International Reply Coupons). Foreign stamps and/or cash are not acceptable alternatives.

Quote your name, the title/s of your submission, and the date it was sent with any subsequent enquiry.

For more information, please visit our website.

Webinar: Creating Captivating Characters in Fiction

Please join me next week for my live webinar, "Creating Captivating Characters in Fiction--Session 2," presented by the Author Learning Center. We had a lively time during Session 1, and this one promises to be equally fun.

To register, go here.

Creating Captivating Characters in Fiction - Session 2

• Sep 13, 2017 7:30 PM to 8:30 PM EDT

 

Strong stories need a plot, a setting, and most importantly, engaging characters. Agents and editors will tell you that all stories are character-driven. However, if your characters are stereotypes, one-dimensional, or predictable, the reader will soon lose interest. Readers are engaged with characters who are relatable, flawed, and unique. But how do you accomplish that in fiction? In this webinar, we will look at the tricks you can use to create strong, memorable characters that are supported by a fascinating cast. We will address a number of different character crafting techniques, including: defining your characters' formative years, understanding body language and the use of physical space, how opposites create tension and interest, using dialogue to illustrate emotions and need, and how to make troubled characters likable. In addition to the presentation, there will be resource handouts available for download.

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

Writing & Selling Short Stories & Personal Essays

I'm honored to be a contributor to a lovely new book, by Windy Lynn Harris: Writing & Selling Short Stories & Personal Essays. This is a nifty guide to submitting and publishing your short prose work. Check it out!

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Call for Submissions of Graphic Narratives: Hayden's Ferry Review

Hayden's Ferry Review would like to feature a graphic narrative in our next issue. (Submission window closes 11/20/2017.) Submission deadline will not be extended. 

 

This feature will have a central role in this edition so we are looking for something with presence, something that stuns us either visually or narratively, but ideally, on both fronts.  

 

We'd love to see your avant-ga rde or unique work, your strange, or your traditional. We want to see it all. We are especially interested in somewhat longer narratives given that this is our long issue. However, we will gladly accept shorter works as well if they are the perfect fit for this issue. 

 

We will accept pieces up to 25 pages in length.

 

We will only select between one and five narratives for this issue. We do not accept work that has been previously published either in print or online. We do accept simultaneous submissions but ask that you withdraw the submission immediately upon acceptance elsewhere.  

 

Decisions on acceptance will be sent by 1/1/2017.

 

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions of Dramatic Monologues: The Strand Project 2018

Call for Submissions: The Stand Project 2018

Project Coordinator and Co-director: Kris Harrington of Lit Youngstown

Project Co-coordinator: Bill Soldan of Lit Youngstown
Co-director: Mary Ruth Lynn of Selah Dessert Theatre

 

Strand: (n)one of a number of fibers plaited or twisted together; (v) to form a rope by twisting strands

 

A unique collaboration between Selah Dessert Theatre and Lit Youngstown, The Strand Project is in its third year. The Strand Project features a selection of original dramatic monologues, each piece revealing something about the speaker: inspirations, bad choices, personality quirks, fears, hopes, regrets, dreams, and secrets.

 

We’re looking for 300-1000 word first-person theatrical (not poetic) dramatic monologues about American experiences. We want monologues that are unique and universal, pieces that are authentic, funny, disruptive, and/or poignant in unexpected ways—pieces that speak and need to be heard. We don’t want pat endings, moralizing, or simplistic “and then I changed my life forever” tales. We want strands of the characters’ lives and experiences that speak to a larger, the-personal-is-political point.

 

Submitted monologues are screened, selected, and compiled into a full-length theatrical script based on themes, tone, and cohesiveness to the whole. Monologues should be contemporary and adaptable to any setting.

 

Submission deadline is November 17, 2017. Writers will be notified by February 2, 2018. Submit to:

 

thestrandprojectatselahATgmailDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to .)

 

No attachments! Copy and paste your submission into the body of the e-mail, and please include a brief (100 words or fewer) biography as well as contact information.

 

Submitted works must be previously unpublished and unproduced. No simultaneous submissions, please.

 

Once monologues are selected, auditions will be held to choose actors to perform the monologues in the final production. Writers are welcome to audition to read their own works.

 

In the final production, the strands will be woven together to represent a piece of the human experience. The Strand Project will run at Selah Dinner Theater at 130 South Bridge Street in Struthers, OH 44471 for four evening, June 1, June 2, June 8, and June 9, 2018. Each performance will be followed by refreshments and a talk back with the production team, cast, and writers who are able to attend.

 

The Strand Project 2016 and 2017 played to sold-out houses and featured the combined work of 40 writers and 37 actors.

 

Selah Dessert Theatre places emphasis on human expression through intimate works that focus on character and their stories. Situated in a cozy upstairs black box venue at the restaurant, audiences enjoy a relaxed evening of great theatre and are treated to homemade desserts at intermission.

 

Lit Youngstown is a non-profit Literary Arts Center founded in 2015 in Youngstown, Ohio. Youngstown has a long and abundant history of writers, beginning with immigrant steelworker Michael McGovern, the “Puddler Poet,” who crafted his verse in the mid 1800s. Today we celebrate award-winning poets, fiction and non-fiction writers and journalists, as well as presses, programs and publications. We believe that the act of writing and reading fosters creativity, an increased understanding of the self, a strengthening of community, and a broader knowledge of the world.

Writing Competition: 2017 Lodestone Prize for Short Fiction

The 2017 Lodestone Prize for Short Fiction

 

Submissions link. 

 

Dust off that story you've written and submit it to our short fiction contest!

 

Grand Prize: $1,000
Two Runners-up: $250 each

 

Submit a manuscript of no more than 10,000 words at the submission link below.

 

Deadline: September 30, 2017

 

Award-winning entries will be published in Lodestone Journal. The winning contributors will receive a complimentary copy of Lodestone Issue 4, the prize issue.

 

Entry Fee: $12

 

All genres are welcome. 

 

Judge: TBD and the Lodestone Journal editors

Call for Submissions from Undergraduate Students: Sink Hollow Literary Journal

Sink Hollow, the national undergraduate literary journal at Utah State University, is seeking provocative, resonant, polished pieces of undergraduate work to be published in Fall 2017. We accept all original fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and art. All students currently enrolled as undergraduates at two- and four-year colleges and universities are invited to submit!

Deadline: November 5, 2017 

Please visit our website for more information.

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions: Little Patuxent Review

Little Patuxent Review (LPR) is seeking submissions of nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and visual art for its unthemed Winter 2018 issue.

Submissions will be accepted from August 1st through October 24th.

LPR publishes diverse voices and aesthetics and encourages both emerging and established authors to submit.

Review our guidelines here.

Submit your work here.

Writing Competition: The Missouri Review: 27th Jeffrey E. Smith Editor's Prize

The Missouri Review: 27th Jeffrey E. Smith Editor’s Prize Contest

Have a new short story, batch of poems, or essay ready to submit? The Missouri Review is now offering $15,000 in prize money for the 27th Jeffrey E. Smith Editor’s Prize Contest -- $5,000 per genre in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. Winners will also be published in The Missouri Review and receive an all-expenses-paid trip to our annual Editor’s Prize gala.

Past winners’ work has been reprinted in the Best American series. The online entry fee includes a one-year subscription to The Missouri Review in digital format, which includes bonus audio content, and a paperback copy of the first title of our new imprint, Missouri Review Books, The Trail of the Demon by Jane Gillette.

Send your submissions here.

Deadline: October 2nd, 2017

Entry Fee: $22.00

Call for Submissions: TINGE Magazine

TINGE Magazine, Temple University's online literary journal, is seeking submissions of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.

The submission period for the next issue is open from September 1 until November 1, 2017.
Please go to tingemagazine.org for more information.

Call for Submissions of Science Fiction Tanka and Kyota : Atlas Poetica

The Special Features section of Atlas Poetica is seeking submissions for a collection of 25 Science Fiction Tanka and Kyoka to be co-edited by Julie Bloss Kelsey and Susan Burch. This collection will be published on the AtlasPoetica.org website.

Poets are invited to send up to ten tanka / kyoka each, but only one poem may be chosen from each poet, in keeping with the theme and format of previous 25 poem Special Features on the Atlas Poetica website. Original poems are being sought; however, tanka and kyoka previously published on personal social media accounts will also be considered, as long as publication information is provided. We are not accepting tanka prose, nor poetry that has been published in journals, books, or other collaborative websites prior to being submitted to the 25 Science Fiction Tanka and Kyoka Special Feature.

The general Atlas Poetica guidelines apply; therefore, poets must be age 16 or older. Poems should be contained in the body of an email. Please query before sending attachments. To see the full list of guidelines, as well as Special Features from the past, head on over to our main webpage. Please include a bio sketch written in the third person (75 words max.). Include your location: [City, State/Province] Country. We reserve the right to edit bios for length, grammar, or any other reason. We may decline to publish biographies due to space limitations.

Deadline: The deadline for submitting to 25 Science Fiction Tanka and Kyoka is November 30, 2017. The planned publication date is spring 2018. Special Features are published on an irregular schedule. 

Email address for submissions: 

jublke(at)gmail(dot)com (Change (at) to @ and (dot) to . )

with the subject line: 25 Science Fiction Tanka and Kyoka. For a more detailed listing of these submission guidelines, please visit us here.

Call for Submissions: Nebo: A Literary Journal

Please consider submitting your work to Nebo: A Literary Journal, Arkansas Tech University’s literary journal. Nebo has been publishing quality work for 45 years and has published writers from all over the world.

Nebo accepts submissions year round. We’re interested in all kinds of creative work—fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, drama, comics, art, etc.

Send your submissions as an attachment to:

 neboATatuDOTedu (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )

Please include a brief, 3rd person author bio of no more than 100 words.

Simultaneous submissions and multiple submissions are fine. Please let us know if your work gets accepted for publication elsewhere.

We are also happy to consider reprints from print journals. Please let us know where the piece was published previously.

Submissions should include no more than 5,000 words of prose, five poems, or 20 pages of comics.