Call for Nonfiction about Games: Creative Nonfiction

Creative Nonfiction Seeks True Stories about Games

Deadline: November 19, 2018

For a special issue, Creative Nonfiction magazine seeks true stories exploring the ways our society integrates games, and especially games whose impact transcends entertainment and changes us in ways outside of the gaming context. We’re looking for stories that illuminate the great variety of ways in which games have affected the lives of diverse individuals and communities—offering opportunities to fail forward within a safe context, play with possible selves and futures, collaborate with people from different backgrounds, develop professional or other skills, become protagonists in simulated worlds, or collaborate with others on solutions to real-world problems.

$3 reading fee, waived for subscribers. Paying market.

Complete guidelines here.

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 now until November 1, 2018.

Please go to our website for more information.

Call for Submissions: The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts

Submit here.

The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts is looking for, as you might guess, "compressed creative arts." We accept fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, mixed media, visual arts, and even kitchen sinks, if they are compressed in some way. Work is published weekly, without labels, and the labels here only exist to help us determine its best readers. 

Our response time is generally 1-3 days. Also, our acceptance rate is currently about 3% of submissions. We pay writers $50 per accepted piece and signed contract. 

Submissions will be open until December 15 2018.

The reader for your submission is, during this round of submissions, the managing editor, Randall Brown.

Please be sure to submit in the correct category; we've been receiving several fiction submissions in the creative nonfiction category.

For all submitters, we aren't as concerned with labels—hint fiction, prose poetry, micro fiction, flash fiction, and so on—as we are with what compression means to you. In other words, what form "compression" takes in each artist's work will be up to each individual. However, we don't publish erotica or work with strong, graphic sexual content. 

In short, we want to fall in love with your work. That might happen in the way we've fallen in love with work we've previously published, or it might happen in a way we have yet to experience. Maybe reading that other work will help in knowing whether you should send your work to us, but in truth, such a thing might not be discoverable. 

Here are things that matter:

• Please do not include any contact information, including your name, in the manuscript.. Do not include a cover letter as part of the manuscript document.

• Please include, as part of your cover letter on Submittable, a brief bio.

• Please no more than one submission of a single piece in each genre at a time. Please feel free to submit again after receiving a response.

• Simultaneous submissions are fine with us, but please let us know if the submission has been accepted elsewhere. Failure to do will result in some facsimile of your face being put on the Matter dart board. And no one wants that.

• Please format prose to be double-spaced, 12-point Times New Roman font, in a Microsoft Word document. Poetry can be single-spaced.

Call for Submissions: Arkana

Arkana, a literary journal of mysteries and marginalized voices, is now reading for its fifth issue. We’re looking for quality work that reflects our mission: to seek and foster a sense of shared wonder by publishing inclusive art that asks questions, explores mystery, and works to make visible the marginalized, the overlooked, and those whose voices have been silenced.

We publish fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry, as well as work in genres not commonly seen in literary journals, such as scripts and illustrated narratives. Although we’re run by the Arkansas Writers MFA Program, we strive to publish work from individuals who come from various cultural backgrounds, education levels, and places of origin. We nominate our writers’ work yearly for the Pushcart Prize and for other prizes, such as Best of the Net, and we promote our writers by posting regularly on social media and featuring audio of the pieces published in each issue.

The deadline for Issue 5 is October 31st. To submit, visit the Submit page of our website.

And if you still have questions, send us an email at:

arkanamagATgmailDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )

We look forward to hearing from you!

Writing Competition: Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards & Masters Workshop

Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards

Call for entries: Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards & Masters Workshop

Deadline: Oct. 31

Fiction, nonfiction, and poetry entries are now being accepted for the seventh annual Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards writing competition and Masters Workshop.

First-place winners in each category receive $1,000, second-place winners $500, and third-place winners $250. All winners earn scholarships to the March 4-5 Masters Workshop on the University of Arizona campus.

2018 Masters Workshop faculty: Mary Jo Bang, Kevin Canty, Ron Hogan, Ron Hansen, Stephanie Powell Watts, and Katharine Sands of the Sarah Jane Freymann literary agency.

The 2019 faculty, to include Marilyn Chin and Shobha Rao, will serve as judges.

Deadline for entries is 5 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 31. For submission guidelines and to submit an entry, go here.

For questions, contact:

mastersATtucsonfestivalofbooksDOTorg (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )

Poetry Competition: Gemini Magazine

Gemini Magazine is pleased to announce its ninth annual Poetry Open competition. First prize is $1,000. Second place wins $100 and there will also be four honorable mentions at $25 each. All six finalists will be published online in the March 2019 issue of Gemini and every entry will also be considered for general publication.

There are no restrictions on subject, length or type of poetry. Entries must be unpublished.

All writers are welcome. All entries are read blind so everyone gets an equal chance. We have published some very diverse work and look forward to reading yours.

Entry fee: $7 per batch of up to three poems.

Deadline: January 2, 2019. Read full details and all previous winners here.

Artist's Residency: Pond Farm

The application period for the inaugural round of artist residencies at Guerneville, CA's Pond Farm is now open through 11/1/18. Pond Farm was a former ceramicists' school and colony, but the current residency is open to artists of all disciplines, including writers.

This is a solo residency of 1-3 months; choose dates between January 1, 2019 and June 30, 2019. Pond Farm is a rustic, beautiful, historic space within parklands, remote-feeling yet about 10 minutes outside of Guernveville, CA.

Details, history of place, and Submittable application link are available here.

Seeking Editorial Intern: Sundress Publications

Sundress Publications is an entirely volunteer-run 501(c)(3) nonprofit publishing collective founded in 2000 that hosts a variety of online journals and publishes chapbooks, full-length collections, and literary anthologies in both print and digital formats. Sundress also publishes the annual Best of the Net Anthology, celebrating the best work published online, and the Gone Dark Archives, preserving online journals that have reached the end of their run.

 

The editorial internship position will run from October 2018 to April 2019. The editorial intern's responsibilities can include writing press releases, composing blogs and promotional emails, proofreading manuscripts, helping to run social media sites (Facebook, Wordpress, etc.), collating editorial data, and more. The intern may also be responsible for assisting with researching grant opportunities, writing copy, conducting interviews with Sundress authors, and promoting our catalog of titles.

 

Preferred qualifications include:

 

-A keen eye for proof-reading
-Strong written communication skills
-Familiarity with WordPress or HTML
-Knowledge of contemporary literature a plus

 

Applicants are welcome to telecommunicate and therefore are not restricted to living in the Knoxville area.

 

While this is an unpaid internship, all interns will gain real-world experience in the ins and outs of independent publishing with a nationally recognized press while creating a portfolio of work for future employment opportunities. Interns will also be able to attend all workshops at the Sundress Academy for the Arts at cost.

 

To apply, please send a resume and a brief cover letter detailing your interest in the position to our Staff Director, Laura Villareal:

 

villarealATsundresspublicationsDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to .)

 

by October 15, 2018.

 

For more information, visit our website.

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, and now creative non-fiction.

 

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: The Rappahannock Review

The Rappahannock Review, an online literary journal published through the University of Mary Washington, is currently accepting submissions in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction from established and emerging writers.

 

We’re currently reading for our general issue 6.1, which will be published in December, and we’d love to consider your work. You can find us at our website, and we invite you to explore our current and past issues. Submissions will remain open until November 1.

 

Please submit your poetry, fiction, and nonfiction here. 

 

For poetry, submit up to five poems. For fiction and nonfiction, submit one longer piece or up to three flash pieces. We look forward to reading your work!

Call for Submissions to Anthology: 51 Stories of US

51 Stories of US is an attempt to collect and showcase 51 stories of people staying in the United States originating from the Indian Subcontinent (Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bhutan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Maldives and of course India) Everyone comes to the US with some preconceived notions. Slowly we learn new things and collect new experiences. This anthology is an attempt to collect these unique and unexpected experiences and present it to our well wishers back home and offer it as AN UNOFFICIAL GUIDEBOOK TO SURVIVING IN THE US.

Submission Guidelines:

• Simultaneous submissions allowed but please mention so in the email.

• Previously published stories might be considered. Please mention the place and link it in the e-mail

• Multiple entries welcome up to 3.

• No submission fees

Story Guidelines

• The story should be about a special and specific experience (good or bad or funny) that you always tell your well wishers back home or something that always amazes you about your life in the US.

• Story should preferably be in first person.

• It should be in the form of a story and the story must be original and true and yours..

• Write from the heart and hope you enjoy the process.

• Word limit - 750 to 1200 words.

Deadline - 1st November 2018 or until full.

Payment - Each contributor will be given $50 for their accepted story via Paypal (*if the sales cross 500 copies) and/or royalties via Paypal.

How to Submit

Put the story in the email or as an attachment to:

51storiesofusATgmailDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to .)

Please send a short Bio written in third person.

Please share your social media links (Facebook, twitter etc )

Call for Submissions: Iron Horse Literary Review NewsFlash

The IHLR PhotoFinish

Iron Horse Literary Review is proud to launch IHLR NewsFlash. For this series on IHLR Online, we're seeking brief poems, flash fiction, and flash nonfiction that responds to the most pressing events occurring right now.

Every Monday, year-round, we'll open the IHLR NewsFlash gate, will receive the first 20 submissions, and publish the very best of them at IHLR Online the following week. The next Monday, we'll open the gate again for 20 new submissions. At the end of the year, we'll pay a $200 honorarium to the writer of the best NewsFlash from that year.

Prose submissions should be no longer than 800 words; poems should be no longer than 25 lines. Learn more about the series, and submit to it here.

Beginning September 24, read IHLR NewsFlash here.

Call for Submissions: The Rathalla Review

Submittable link.

The Rathalla Review is currently looking for submissions in Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, and Creative Non-Fiction.

The Rathalla Review is published by the students of Rosemont College’s MFA in Creative Writing and Graduate Publishing programs.

Our mission is to give emerging and established writers and artists an outlet for their creative vision in our online and print publication.

We publish the best fiction, creative nonfiction, flash fiction, poetry, and art, culled from a nationwide community of writers and artists. Rathalla Review’s staff, comprised of MFA in Creative Writing and MA in Publishing candidates, merges the creative arts and the business of publishing into a shared voice and vision.

Call for Submissions: The Broken Plate

The Broken Plate, the student-run literary magazine of Ball State University, seeks submissions of fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and art for our Spring 2019 issue. We value work that explores relevant, contemporary issues and has a lasting impact. We are interested in work that experiments with new and interesting ways of writing and includes strong language and characters, an engaging voice, and compelling imagery. We encourage submissions from both established and emerging writers and are committed to the inclusion of a variety of voices, ideas, and perspectives.

 

Submissions close on October 31, 2018. 

 

Visit our website for more information.

Call for Submissions: Driftwood Press

John Updike once said, "Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better."

At Driftwood Press, we are actively searching for artists who care about doing it right, or better. We are excited to receive your submissions and will diligently work to bring you the best in craft essays, short fiction, poetry, graphic narrative, photography, art, and interviews.

We also offer our submitters a premium option to receive an acceptance or rejection letter within one week of submission; many authors are offered editorships and interviews.

Contests are now offered year-round; our newest contests (for poetry and short stories) each offer $500 awards. More information here.

Writing Competition: The Juniper Literary Prizes

The Juniper Literary Prizes showcase distinctive and fresh voices and share their work with a wide array of readers. Every year, faculty-judges from the distinguished University of Massachusetts MFA program select two winners in poetry, two in fiction, and one in creative nonfiction, and the awardees each receive an honorarium of $1,000 and a publication contract with the University of Massachusetts Press.

Entry Fee: $30.00

Details here.

Webinar: Expert Tips for Revising Your Novel (Author Learning Center)

I hope you will be able to join me on Sep. 13, 2018 (11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. MDT) for my webinar, "Expert Tips for Revising Your Novel," hosted by Author Learning Center. The webinars are live, and you need only to register for the webinar if you plan to attend the live session. However, if you wish to listen to webinar at a later date (it's recorded), you will need to join Author Learning Center.

Expert Tips for Revising Your Novel - Session 1

• Sep 13, 2018 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM

Jeanne Lyet-Gassman

IMPORTANT: All events are listed in Eastern Time. e.g., 1:30pm US Eastern = 6:30pm BST (United Kingdom)
The flush of inspiration can carry you through the first draft of a novel or story, but what do you do once that draft is complete? How do you revise your novel or story and bring it to a polished final draft? In this webinar, author and editor Jeanne Lyet Gassman will discuss some of the tricks of the revision process, including creating an editing map, breaking down chapters and scenes, and analyzing character arcs. She will also look at the difference between global issues and local issues, and how to avoid the trap of tunnel revision. 

Register here. 

Call for Submissions on Theme of Environment: Sleet Magazine

SLEET MAGAZINE, an online literary journal, is currently open for submissions.

We are looking for work for our upcoming Winter edition, and most especially pieces focused on the environment.

Sleet's categories include poetry, fiction, irregulars, CNF.

Please see guidelines here.

Call for Submissions from College-Aged Writers: ANGLES

ANGLES is seeking poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, photography, and visual art by college-aged writers with distinct perspectives on ourselves and our world. As a web-based literary magazine edited by students at St. John Fisher College, ANGLES prioritizes new voices and takes pride in being among a writer's first publications.

Deadline for the Issue 4 reading period is 10/31.

Visit our website for more information, or go here and send us your work.

Guidelines: Do not include your name ANYWHERE within your work.If you do, it will break our hearts, but we will reject it immediately.

We do not accept multiple submissions.

Simultaneous submissions are fine by us, but please let us know ASAP if the work you sent us is accepted elsewhere.

Fiction and creative nonfiction submissions must be 3000 words or less. We prefer shorter.
For poetry, please send 3-5 poems in a single document.

Call for Nominations from Editors of Literary Periodicals: The 2019 Orison Anthology

Orison Books invites nominations from editors of literary periodicals for the 2019 volume of The Orison Anthology!

The Orison Anthology reprints the finest spiritually engaged writing from a broad and inclusive range of perspectives each year, alongside new work by the winners of The Orison Anthology Awards. Past and upcoming contributors include Anne Carson, Vandana Khanna, Carl Phillips, Christian Wiman, Leila Chatti, Sonja Livingston, Justin Torres, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Zeina Hashem Beck, Stephen Mitchell, Li-Young Lee, Joy Ladin, sam sax, Jane Hirshfield, and many others.

Nominations are open through September 15, 2018.

See complete guidelines here.

Call for Poetry Submissions: Foundry

Foundry is open for expedited poetry submissions through September 10 ($5 for a response within three days). One dollar from every submission will be donated to #HappyPeriod, an organization that provides menstrual hygiene kits to those in need. 

We are always open for general poetry submissions (free).

Please submit 3-5 original, previously unpublished poems through Submittable. Simultaneous submissions are encouraged. We pay $10 per poem.

Foundry publishes a range of styles and forms, from short lyric poems to prose poems and longer narratives. We are committed to inclusivity and warmly welcome submissions from marginalized voices.

Guidelines can be found here. We look forward to reading your work!

Writing Competition: Critical Read's Origins Essay Contest

Deadline: September 30, 2018

Entry Fee: $10.00

Announcing Critical Read’s Origins Essay Contest. Winner receives $500 and publication in our online fall issue, Origins. Your essay should be no longer than 3,000 words and must involve some art or art historical incident, appreciation, or other artistic point of reflection. This point of reflection should tie to the theme of Origins. What does it mean to be original? What are the origins of an art experience? What are your origins as an artist? Only previously unpublished essays will be considered.

For more information see our Submittable page.

Questions? Contact:

scottATcriticalreadDOTorg (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )

All entries will be considered for publication in future issues.

Call for Submissions: The Cumberland River Review

Deadline: April 30, 2019
The Cumberland River Review reads during the traditional academic year, September through April, and aims to maintain a regular response time of three months. We read and encourage simultaneous submissions and acquire First North American Serial Rights and the right to maintain an archive copy of accepted work online. (All other rights revert to our authors upon publication.)

We nominate work for the Pushcart Prize, Best New Poets, Best of the Net, and other anthologies and prizes. As always, our hope is to feature work of moral consequence.

Call for Submissions from Young Writers: Bridge: The Bluffton University Literary Journal

Deadline: October 1, 2018

Bridge: The Bluffton University Literary Journal features dynamic work from writers age 14-24.

We're seeking poetry, prose (fiction/nonfiction/memoir/journalism/interviews), art, comics, graphic novels, and drama for stage or screen.

Submit your work by September 30th for consideration in our 2019 Spring print edition. Please visit our submittable page for more details and check out previous issues here.

Writing Competition: JuxtaProse

JuxtaProse is now accepting submissions to their 2018 poetry contest.

The winning poem will receive $1,000 and up to three honorable mentions will receive $100 each. All entries will be considered for publication.

Deadline: Nov. 30, 2018

JuxtaProse welcomes established and emerging writers alike, and regularly features Pulitzer Prize winners and other distinguished writers side-by-side previously unpublished voices.

Full details here.

Writing Competition: Big Muddy's Wilda Hearne Flash Fiction Contest

Big Muddy's Wilda Hearne Flash Fiction Contest - $500 Prize

Send us your best flash fiction!

Deadline: October 1

Reading Fee: $15

Award: $500 and publication

Call for Submissions: Jewish Poetry in the Third Millennium

Jewish Poetry in the Third Millennium is a forthcoming anthology looking for unpublished poems on matters related to being Jewish in today’s world with a focus on issues that affect Jewish people and have occurred since year 2000 in both America and abroad.

We are looking for both English and non-English poems (with translations) from Jewish poets and non-Jewish poets. If submitting a translation, you must have already secured all needed permissions.

Note: we may make an exception and consider a previously published poem but please let us know in the cover letter that you obtain the rights to reprint and why that poem should be an exception.

1-3 poems are due to Nancy Naomi Carlson & Matthew E. Silverman by Nov 01 to:

jewpoemillenniumATgmailDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to .)

Call for Submissions: Raleigh Review

Raleigh Review is accepting poetry, flash, and short fiction submissions through October for the Spring 2019 issue, which will debut at AWP Portland.

 

We're looking for work that is emotionally and intellectually complex without sacrificing accessibility (the definition of "accessibility" is up to you).

 

Past contributors include Kwame Dawes, Paula Martinac, Vievee Francis, Randall Brown, Chen Chen, Carrie Knowles, Chelsea Dingman, Traci Brimhall, and many others.

 

All published authors receive a small cash honorarium and one free contributor’s copy. To see full guidelines and browse the archives to see what we've been publishing lately, visit our website.

Call for Submissions: Sou'wester

Sou'wester is now accepting poetry, fiction, and CNF for its annual print issue to appear in Spring 2019.

Please visit Submittable to view our guidelines and submit your work. 

Deadline: February 2019

Writing Competition: Boom Poetry Chapbook Contest

Bateau Press is accepting manuscripts for the annual Boom Poetry Chapbook Contest.

Winning chapbook is a handmade, handsewn, letter pressed work of art.

Winner gets $250 plus 25 copies. $14 entry fee includes a copy of the winning chapbook (or any chap in our catalogue) sent to you via usps.

DEADLINE: November 1st.

Visit us, check out our other chapbooks, look at our latest lit mag, say hallooo.

Call for Submissions: Inlandia: A Literary Journal

The online journal Inlandia: A Literary Journey is seeking poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and images for its late fall/early winter issue.

 

Submission deadline is October 22, 2018.

 

Go here for guidelines.

Call for Submissions: Vanguard: Exercises for the Creative Writing Classroom

Vanguard: Exercises for the Creative Writing Classroom

Graduate students are often the vanguard of undergraduate education: designing diverse courses and implementing innovative assignments in their undergraduate writing workshops. This open-access anthology brings together some of the best examples of their inventive exercises in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, made easily accessible online for instructors to use in their own undergraduate creative writing courses.

Students currently enrolled in or recently graduated from (2017 or later) a creative writing graduate program (MA, MFA, or PhD) are encouraged to submit proposals for entries to this anthology. Initial proposals should include a brief paragraph describing the exercise which will be the focus of their submission, a short bio, and an example of the exercise brought to fruition (if they will be including this in their final submission). Final submissions will include an overview, step-by-step instructions, and a rationale for the exercise, as well as a short bio. If the writer has an example of the exercise brought to fruition from their own work, these are also welcome, provided the writer holds explicit ownership for the piece to be included in the anthology. We especially encourage submissions engaging various forms of knowledge and access, and submissions from writing instructors underrepresented in graduate programs.

Vanguard: Exercises for the Creative Writing Classroom will be published by RAIDER Publishing, a digital and open access initiative of Texas Tech University Libraries, and is expected by late 2019. Proposals should be emailed as a Word attachment to D. Gilson:

d.gilsonATttuDOTedu (Change AT to @ and DOT to . ) 

by October 5, 2018. 

Editorial decisions will be made quickly, and contributors accepted on the basis of their proposal will be expected to submit their full entry by December 1, 2018.

Edited by D. Gilson with Jasmine V. Bailey, Kate Osana Simonian, and Jess Smith