Call for Submissions: The Emerald Coast Review

The Emerald Coast Review, published by West Florida Literary Federation, Inc. since 1989, is open for submissions May 1 - June 15, 2019.

The biennial anthology enjoys a rich history of publishing diverse styles in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, photography, and art by regional writers and visual artists. New, emerging and established authors and artists living along the Florida Panhandle and coastal Alabama are encouraged to submit work from May 1 to June 15.

Submission fees range from five to ten dollars and help defray the cost of publishing the book and contributor copies. Student discounts. This 20th anniversary volume will also include solicited works from current and former Poet Laureates of Northwest Florida. Deadline for submissions is midnight June 15.

The 2019Emerald Coast Review accepts submissions from authors/writers/poets and visual artists residing in the following counties in Florida and Alabama: Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa, Walton, Bay (Florida) and Escambia, Mobile, and Baldwin (Alabama).

Submission guidelines and details here. 

Writing Competition on Theme of "On the Road": Baltimore Review

Baltimore Review Summer Contest. The theme for The Baltimore Review’s summer contest is “On the Road.” Why? We spend a lot of time on the road. Interstate, beltway, city street, suburban street, dead end, one way, four lane, dirt road, icy road, dark road. Take a ride in your poem, story, or creative nonfiction. See where it takes you.

Submit your work to our Submittable Contest category.

Three winners will be selected from among all entries. All submissions considered for publication. Prizes are $500, $200, and $100. 

Entry fee is $10. Final judge: Jennifer Givhan.

For more information, visit our website.

Deadline: May 31, 2019.

Call for Submissions from Former or Current Foster Youth or Foster Care Advocates: Luna Luna Magazine

Work by Former or Current Foster Youth or Foster Care Advocates

In 2016, 437,465 kids were in foster care. In 2018, thousands of children were forcibly separated from their parents by the American government.

Were you, or are you, in foster care—or are you a foster care advocate? We want you to send us your work to publish: poetry, fiction, a letter to your local government, anything you'd like.

We want to hear your perspective and provide a platform for your voice. Note: We cannot provide payment at this time, but we will provide support and educational resources.

Our editor Lisa Marie Basile, a former foster youth, will work with you.

We realize that many foster youth experience lasting trauma reactions: constant fight or flight mode, depression+anxiety, & physiological issues—and we want to recognize & give voice to that struggle.

We also recognize, more importantly, that foster youth are resilient, creative, kind, successful, and inspiring. At Luna Luna, we believe that encouragement, positive messaging, love, inclusion, and compassion is critical.

If you’re a foster parent, get in touch. If you’re a former youth, reach out.

We love you.

Submit your work here.

Writing Competition: Raymond Carver Short Story Contest

Carve is pleased to announce CLAIRE FULLER is this year's guest judge for the Raymond Carver Short Story Contest.

REMINDERS:

• No limit to number of entries but each entry requires a separate entry fee and submission.

• Max word count: 10,000.

• Simultaneous submissions accepted. Please notify us promptly if your story is accepted elsewhere by withdrawing via Submittable.

• Please do your best to format manuscript to be double-spaced, with 1" margins. Do not include any author info in the document.

• Prizes include $1500 (1st), $500 (2nd), $250 (3rd), and two $125 editor's choice winners. We will also send winning stories to three literary agents.

• Deadline: May 15, 2019

• Entry Fee: $17.00

Review additional guidelines here.

Submit here.

Note: we cannot do any file swaps for the contest, as it would violate our blind reading policy. Once you submit, that's it!

For additional questions about the contest, please email us at:

infoATcarvezineDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to .)

Call for Submissions: The West Marin Review

The West Marin Review is an award-winning literary and arts journal founded in the rural town of Point Reyes Station, California. Its first issue was released in 2008. The publication is a grassroots collaborative effort by a dedicated team of volunteer editors and designers (Neighbors & Friends), with Point Reyes Books and Black Mountain Circle. Each volume is printed with the support of artists, writers, poets, and readers who share a passion for literature and learning.

We publish fiction, poetry, essays, and art. Please visit our website for submission guidelines and to see if you may fit within our journal.

Deadline: June 30, 2019

Submissions page here.

Call for Proposals: 2019 SUNY Conference on Writing

The 2019 SUNY Conference on Writing will take place at Purchase College (SUNY Purchase) from November 8-9.
Theme: The Art of Writing/The Writing of Art

Call for Proposals:

Based on the principle that arts and scholarship are indispensable to each other and to society, Purchase College, SUNY, was envisioned from its founding as a campus where conservatory training in the visual and performing arts would reside alongside programs in the liberal arts and sciences. In this spirit, and in honor of Purchase College’s unusually artistic student body, we invite attendees and presenters to consider the relationship between writing and art.. There is art within all forms of writing: creative, expository, persuasive. This conference seeks to blur the division between the critical and the creative.

We seek submissions from a range of perspectives, including those that discuss teaching writing about art and the art inherent in the act of writing. This theme highlights the pleasure and beauty in all forms of writing, in all disciplines and concerning all topics, as well as pedagogical approaches to teaching the artistry of writing.

We invite presentations from any discipline or theoretical perspective on college writers, composition or writing pedagogy. Participants need not be current or past SUNY faculty; we welcome submissions from all faculty, graduate students, and independent scholars regardless of institutional affiliation. Potential topics include but are not limited to:


All forms of writing pedagogy

Writing as a creative process

Art in the composition classroom

Teaching creative writing

Writing about art

Teaching writing to artists

Performance-rhetoric and performance-composition

Writing across the curriculum

Multimodal pedagogy

Visual rhetoric

New media in the writing classroom

Writing and art as bridges across cultural barriers

Highlighting diverse voices in the writing classroom

Questions and proposals should be directed to:

sunycow2019ATgmailDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )

Submit proposals by July 1, 2019. Please include your name, a title, and an abstract of no more than 300 words in a Word document.

For more about the annual conference, visit our website.

Call for Submissions: Tinderbox Poetry Journal

Tinderbox Poetry Journal is open for submissions until May 15.

Tinderbox has been the original home of poems appearing in Best of the Net, Best New Poets, and Bettering American Poetry anthologies.

We are a paying market that offers contributors $15, regardless of how many poems are selected. We offer fee-free submissions year-round, but to offset the costs of running our journal (and to continue offering no mandatory fees), we recommend Tip Jar ($3) and Requesting Feedback options ($5) for folks with the means to make a donation. Please send no more than four poems (six pages). We aim to respond within three months or sooner. 

 

Submit your work here.

Writing Competition: 2020 Kingsley & Kate Tufts Poetry Awards

Claremont Graduate University is now accepting submissions for the 2020 Kingsley & Kate Tufts Poetry Awards.

The Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award offers $100,000 for a book of poetry published between July 1, 2018 and June 30, 2019.

The Kate Tufts Discovery Award offers $10,000 for a first book of poetry published between July 1, 2018 and June 30, 2019.

Entries must be postmarked on or before July 1, 2019, and may be submitted by poets, publishers, agents, or friends.

There is no entry fee. For complete eligibility and submission requirements, please go here. 

Kingsley & Kate Tufts Poetry Awards

160 East 10th Street, Harper B7
Claremont, CA 91711-6165

909-621-8974 

Email:

tuftsATcguDOTedu (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )

Writing Competition: Tartt First Fiction Award

Tartt First Fiction Award: 13 Years of Winners!

Deadline: December 31, 2019.

Livingston Press annually awards $1,000 and publication for a collection of short stories. Writers must not have previously published a story collection.

There is no entry fee.

For complete rules, visit our website.

Writing Competition: Bacopa Literary Review

Bacopa Literary Review 10th Annual Contest

Deadline: Midnight May 17, 2019

Bacopa Literary Review invites submissions until midnight May 17 for our 10th annual contest: 

•  no submission fee
• $300 First Prize and Honorable Mention in each of six genres: Fiction (250-5000 words of beautiful writing with a story arc), Creative Nonfiction (up to 2500 words grounded in fact, with a moving inner voice), Poetry (1-3 poems that disturb our well-trod patterns of thought), Prose Poetry (up to 250 words at the daring and playful edge of poetry), Haiku (1-3 haiku—your experience of the world on a pinhead), and Mixed Genre (writing that merges, blends, or removes traditional definitions). 

Call for Submissions: Tolson Books

Deadline: May 31, 2019 

Tolsun Books is looking for energetic, full-length manuscripts from diverse authors for our 2020 catalog. We accept anything made from parts: poetry, short stories, flash memoir, hybrids, comics-poetry, photo-essays, micro-plays, and things we've never seen before.

We do not accept novels or genre works, and we are not accepting chapbooks, at this time.

Submissions are $10.

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions: Jewish Fiction

Submissions accepted year-round.

Jewish Fiction.net, a prestigious literary journal, invites submissions for its Fall 2019 and Spring 2020 issues. We’re the only English-language journal devoted exclusively to publishing Jewish fiction, and we showcase the finest contemporary Jewish-themed writing (either written in, or translated into, English) from around the world. In 9 years we have published over 380 stories or novel excerpts, originally written in sixteen languages and on five continents, and we have readers in 140 countries. We’ve published such eminent authors as Elie Wiesel, Savyon Liebrecht, and Aharon Appelfeld, alongside many fine lesser-known writers.

For submission details, please visit our Submissions page.

Call for Submissions on Theme of Corruption: borrowed solace

borrowed solace is open for fall submissions

Deadline: June 30, 2019

borrowed solace, an online literary and arts journal, is accepting submissions for its Fall 2019 themed issue corruption. We accept poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and art. Submissions are open now and close June 30th.

Corruption is a process by which a simple word or well-known expression is changed from its original use and is abused or manipulated into something that it’s not. Corruption is power that rots relationships, it is the gaps between the haves and have-nots, the never-ending struggle for happiness, to belong and much more. You can find our submission guidelines and more about our theme here.

Call for Submissions on Theme of Seeking Space/Flight: Salty at Heart

Women Empowerment Journal Seeking Space/Flight-Themed Content

Deadline: May 20, 2019

Salty at Heart Journal is now accepting poetry, stories, interviews, art, and photography. In this issue, space and flight are the overriding themes, recognizing the universal connection of all things, appreciating the science and philosophy of the cosmos, and acknowledging the human desire to take flight, voyaging both on this planet and beyond. From sea level rise to cosmology, we are looking for inspirational pieces that embrace the human connection to our earth system and the universe at large.

We are also accepting submissions that fall into one of these categories: Creativity, Empowerment, Oceans, or Sustainability.

See submission guidelines here.

Call for Submissions: After the Art

After the Art seeks personal review essays that explore the way reading can enrich art.

Please read our guidelines for more details.

The next deadline is 15 May.

Visit our website for more information.

Call for Submissions: Matter: Russia and Politics

SPECIAL ISSUE OF MATTER: Russia and Politics

Russia, the American mirror - serfs and slaves, manifest destiny, nationalism, strongmen at the helm; socialism and New Deal perverted, revolution denied; LGBT outlawed, oligarchs in charge, racisms, religiosities, and misogynies enthroned. Pushkin to Pussy Riot, how do we engage Russia and her dead Kareninas, her poetry, her dissent? How does Russia affect us? What is our shared history and politics, the literature of our culture wars?

Collude with us with your submissions of poetry and poetry in translation. Send with bio to:

larissaATlarissashmailoDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to .)

Writing Competition: Runaway: An Anthology of Short Stories (Real or Imagined)

For this anthology, Madville Publishing is looking for stories, real or imagined, of up to 5,000 words that explore running away. We’re looking for stories about running away, wanting to run away, and trying to run away. We want stories that involve escaping with someone and stories that involve escaping from someone. We also want stories from the point of view of the ones left behind, about their feelings of loss and loneliness. We want to read stories about kids, teens and adults of all ages who have left, for whatever reason. Take us on their journeys down the road, across town, across the country, and across the world. Tell us about empty closets, longing, and unanswered messages.

Important points to consider:

• We are interested in believable dialogue. We love dialect and regionalisms, but there is an art to writing them well, and we will judge poorly written dialect and slang harshly.

• We’re looking for a sense of time and place, so be careful of anachronisms.

• While we want to see character development, we still want a story. Give us a beginning, a middle, and especially, an end.

• Grammar and mechanics count. Please proofread.

Submission Deadline: August 1, 2019

Submission Guidelines:

• Submissions are open April 1 – August 1, 2019.

• A reading fee of $12 must be paid at the time of submission.

• All submissions must be in English.

• We accept previously published fiction and nonfiction as long as the author discloses the publication history of the work in the cover letter accompanying the submission.

We accept simultaneous submissions, but please notify Madville immediately if the story is accepted elsewhere and you wish to withdraw it from consideration. There will be no refunds of the reading fees.

Writers may submit more than one story, but each must be submitted separately.

Formatting:

• Short stories, whether fiction or nonfiction, should have a total word count of no more than 5,000 words.

• Please include page numbers.

• Please double-space and use a 12pt. font.

• Do not include an acknowledgments page.

• Submissions will be judged blind. Please remove any identifying information from the submission.

• Submit as a .pdf, .doc, .rtf, or .txt file format.

• No revisions will be accepted once the submission is uploaded.

All authors chosen for the anthology will receive two free copies of the book.

The two best stories will receive $100 each along with their two copies of the published anthology.

Winners will be announced in November 2019. Projected publication date is March, 2020.

There is a $12 reading fee.

Submission Deadline: August 1, 2019.

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions: Parhelion Literary Magazine

Deadline: Rolling

Parhelion Literary Magazine is accepting fiction, flash, nonfiction, poetry, and photography for our summer 2019 issue. We look for strong writing, fresh voices, and compelling characters. Our magazine is growing and we look forward to reading your work! Please review our guidelines before submitting and take a look at what we're publishing. We appreciate it!

Call for Submissions: Kosmos Quarterly

Deadline: May 20, 2019

Our Kosmos Quarterly Summer theme is focused on our relationships with animals, plants and minerals – our living Earth and all beings. This is a continuation of our recent edition, Rising Earth Awareness, with a closer focus on factory farming, fossil fuel extraction, animal exploitation, species loss, forests, oceans and wild places.

We invite you to submit an essay up to 1000 words, one-three poems, or other artwork, in response to any of these prompts or what All My Relations means to you. We will choose several works to publish in our Quarterly and on our website.

For more details and submission guidelines, go here.

Writing Competition: UNO Publishing Lab Prize

The University of New Orleans Press is excited to announce that our fifth annual UNO Publishing Lab Prize is now open. For the fifth year of the Publishing Lab, the advance has been increased from $1,000 to $10,000.

The University of New Orleans Press is looking for full-length fiction manuscripts, either novels or short story collections, for the fourth annual Publishing Lab Prize.

The selected author will receive a ten thousand dollar ($10,000) advance on royalties and a contract to publish their winning manuscript with UNO Press. The work does not have to be regionally focused. There is no word limit. There is no limit on subjects covered. Submissions are open until August 31st. 

Entry Fee: $28.00

More information, including the Submittable link, can be found here.

Writing Competition: 2019 Autumn House Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry Contests

The 2019 Autumn House Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry Contests are accepting submissions until June 30, 2019 (Eastern Time). The winner in each category receives publication of a full-length manuscript and $2,500.

 

When submitting, note the following:

• The winner will receive book publication, $1,000 advance against royalties, and a $1,500 travel/publicity grant to promote their book.

• Nonfiction submissions should be approximately 200-300 pages. All nonfiction subjects (including personal essays, memoirs, travel writing, historical narratives, nature or science writing…) or any combination of subjects are eligible.

• Fiction submissions should be approximately 200-300 pages. All fiction sub-genres (short stories, short-shorts, novellas, or novels) or any combination of sub-genres are eligible.

• Poetry submissions should be approximately 50-80 pages.

• $30 reading fee to enter

For more information, please see our websites:

Nonfiction

Fiction

Poetry

Call for Submissions: Southern Humanities Review

The quarterly literary magazine Southern Humanities Review is currently open for submissions of fiction, nonfiction, and book review pitches. SHR, located at Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama, seeks submissions from writers in all stages of their careers, and especially in work from historically underrepresented voices.

Fiction and nonfiction manuscripts should be no longer than 8,000 words, double-spaced. Only one piece should be submitted by the same author in a given submission period. Book Review pitches should be no more than 300 words.

SHR accepts submissions via Submittable. In order to maintain our online submission manager, SHR charges a small $3 submission fee, which writers may use as a discount for our current issue or a year-long subscription. Book Review pitch submissions are free.

Complete submission guidelines can be found here.

SHR's submission window is open until May 1, 2019.

Our editors look forward to reading your work.

Call for Submissions: Adanna Literary Journal

Adanna Literary Journal is accepting poetry, fiction, essay, and book review submissions until May 1 for the Fall 2019 issue.  

We are looking for work that is devoted to the women’s experience. All topics must in some way explore women’s issues or experiences such as motherhood, loss, issues of inequality, romantic relationships, the experience of being a daughter, caretaker, etc. We also welcome work from the male perspective on these topics.

Representative authors include: Jennifer Arin, Ronda Broatch, Cheryl Buchanan, Sarah Busse, Cathy Carlisi, George Drew, Patricia Fargnoli, Alice B. Fogel, Ruth Foley, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Oscar Gonzales, Penny Harter, Kathleen Hoerth, Claire Keyes, Kathleen Kirk, Judy Kronenfeld, Katharyn Howd Machan, Marjorie Maddox, Robin Lim, John McDermott, Judith H. Montgomery, Lois Greene Stone, Barbara Siman Strouse and many others.

All published authors receive a free contributor’s copy. To see full guidelines visit our website.

Editor: Christine Redman-Waldeyer/Writing After Retirement: Tips fromSuccessful Retired Writers

Writing Competition: Tiferet

Tiferet writing contest 

 

Tiferet is proud to announce that we are open for submissions to our yearly writing contest.

 

Submissions are open to writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry until May 31, 2019.

 

A total of $1,500 will be awarded, $500 to the winners in each category.

 

Entry Fee: $15.00

 

This year’s final nonfiction judge is Lisa Romeo.

This year's final poetry judge is Charles H. Johnson.
This year’s fiction judge is Susan Tepper.

We look forward to receiving your best work.

Call for Submissions: Pangyrus

Submissions are Open from January 20 until April 20, 2019

Pangyrus publishes well-crafted, thought-provoking writing and multimedia storytelling in every genre online and in two print editions per year.

Short stories, investigative reporting, reviews, essays and memoirs, flash fiction, poetry, journalism, short documentary film, comics and visual arts, just to name a few. We are interested in resistance, science, and food – themed pieces along with everything else. We encourage you to read us here to get a sense of what we like and how we like it.

If you think our readers will find it entertaining and compelling, send it our way. We read every submission that we get with fresh eyes and an open mind.

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* Pangyrus is always open to Lightning submissions for timely pieces that address the political or cultural moment. Please go to our Submittable page for details.

Call for Submissions: So To Speak

So To Speak considers unsolicited submissions of previously unpublished poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and visual art for every issue, as well as submissions to our blog.

We are looking for work that matches our intersectional feminist viewpoint. We strongly encourage you to read our most recent issue and our mission statement before submitting.

READING PERIODS

Deadline for Spring submissions: April 18, 2019

We read for one online issue and one print/contest issue a year — usually, one in the Spring, one in the Fall. We read for the Blog year-round. See our Submission Manager to see if we are open for submissions. We no longer accept paper submissions and do not accept email submissions. We respond to all submissions in one to four months.

Writing Grant: Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant

Creative Nonfiction Grant

 

Intensely researched nonfiction books, written with an artful sensitivity to complexity and nuance, have always been important in shaping the way we understand the world; today they are essential.

 

In recent years many extraordinary writers have contributed crucial works extending the form: Hope Jahren's Lab Girl, Siddhartha Mukherjee's The Gene, Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me, Leslie Jamison’s The Empathy Exams, Isabel Wilkerson’s The Warmth of Other Suns, Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: A Lyric, and Katherine Boo’s Behind the Beautiful Forevers, to name just a few examples.

 

Such projects require a wealth of time and resources. The path to a groundbreaking book is long and intensive, and the research process is unpredictable - even a generous advance from a supportive publisher may run out just as a writer unearths an essential piece of the story she’s trying to tell, something transformative that leads to new questions.

 

Recognizing this challenge to the creation of such exemplary works of literature, the Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant’s chief objective is to foster original, ambitious projects that bring writing to the highest possible standard. Knowing that writers of color often face additional structural hurdles to securing institutional resources to support such projects, we particularly encourage applications from these writers.

 

The Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant of $40,000 will be awarded to as many as eight writers in the process of completing a book-length work of deeply researched and imaginatively composed nonfiction for a general readership. It is intended for multiyear book projects requiring large amounts of deep and focused research, thinking, and writing at a crucial point mid-process, after significant work has been accomplished but when an extra infusion of support can make a difference in the ultimate shape and quality of the work.

Whiting welcomes applications for works of history, cultural or political reportage, biography, memoir, the sciences, philosophy, criticism, food or travel writing, and personal essays, among other categories. Again, the work should be intended for a general, not academic, reader. Self-help titles and textbooks are not eligible. 

 

To apply and see a list of previous winners, go here.

Call for Poetry Submissions: Poetry Reading: Woman Made Gallery Literary Series

Call for Poetry Reading: Woman Made Gallery Literary Series
Theme: Unquiet Minds 2
Event Date: Sunday, June 2, 2019 / 2:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Submission Deadline: Friday, April 26, 12:01 a.m.
Place: 2150 S Canalport Ave, 4A-3, Chicago, IL

In her memoir, An Unquiet Mind, Kay Redfield Jamison explores mood and madness, the terror and turmoil of living with mental illness. We are looking for work from the perspective of those with unquiet minds, their loved ones and professional healers – work that encompasses the experience of living and wrestling with all manner of inner demons, treatment, relationships, social stigma and more.

This reading is open to women and non-binary poets. 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:

treehouse523ATsbcglobalDOTnet (Change AT to @ and DOT to .)

Submissions must be received by April 26, 11:59 p.m. We will make every effort to inform those chosen of our decision by May 2nd. 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!

Writing Competition: Orison Chapbook Prize

Announcing the inaugural Orison Chapbook Prize!

Orison Books announces The 2019 Orison Chapbook Prize, judged by founder and editor Luke Hankins.

Open to all genres (poetry, fiction, nonfiction, hybrid). The winner receives $300 & publication by Orison Books.

Manuscript length: 20-45 pages

Entry fee: $12

Deadline: July 1, 2019

For complete guidelines, go here.

Call for Submissions: Orca

Orca, a journal of short stories and flash fiction, has reopened for free submissions. We now pay our contributors $25. We accept 100 no-fee and 100 fee-based submissions each month through Submittable. Deadline for the first issue is May 7, 2019.

We are open to any topic or genre, as long as it’s written in a literary style. We prefer work that is high concept: imaginative, thoughtful, even speculative, open to possibilities. Give us deep, diverse characters. Blend genres. Connect seemingly disparate ideas. Keep it entertaining, but make us think. We accept submissions up to 8000 words. For anything longer, you’re welcome to query.

We also accept submissions of photography by email.

Orca is published by Joe Ponepinto, founding publisher of Tahoma Literary Review, and Zachary Kellian. For complete submission guidelines, please visit our website.

Writing Competition and Anthology on Theme of Nighttime Sounds: TallGrass Writers Guild

Anthology on Nighttime Sounds in Nature and other settings seeks poetry, short fiction and nonfiction.

TallGrass Writers Guild in affiliation with Outrider Press seeks poetry, short fiction and nonfiction for its 24th annual anthology--LOON MAGIC and other Night Sounds (please remember the emphasis on SOUNDS).

Prizes: $1,000—$500 each for poetry and prose.

Deadline: April 30, 2019.

BREAKING NEWS: We announce our judge: Diane Williams, author of Performing Seals.
Anthology theme is: all about twilight and night sounds. We interpret themes broadly, and include: Nature's sounds at twilight and night including frogs, crickets, cicadas, all manner of birds including owls, ducks and other water and wading birds; nocturnal animals waking and finding food; and paranormal life at sundown, including vampires.

Also: people leaving work; crowded supermarkets and restaurants at 6 PM; audiences at indoor and outdoor concerts, formal and otherwise; people lining up or leaving movies or sports events; sports bars and cafes with indoor and outdoor seating; sports fans at an outdoor stadium; sounds of evening meal-making at home; children at bedtime; parties; whispered conversations in the dark; people who work the night shift at 24/7 jobs as tech support or sales people at gas stations, donut shops and restaurants. Sensuality OK, but no erotica/soft porn, please. We recommend becoming familiar with past years' anthologies for a sense of the work we publish. Go here and click on the ‘Publishing’ tab. We are especially interested in poetry.

Previously published and simultaneous submissions OK (please indicate on entry form).

Planned publication date: early fall 2019. Entry fee for each group or partial group of 1-4 poems or each prose entry is $19, reduced to $15 each for TWG members.

No limit on number of submissions in either category.

Our KICKOFF READING for LOON MAGIC and Other Night Sounds will be a Featured Event at the 2019 Chicago Tribune’s Printers Row Lit Fest (PRLF). Winners and other selected contributors receive Featured Reader status at PRLF, which drew over 100,000 attendees in 2018, and is the nation’s third-largest event of its kind.

For complete guidelines, go here and click on GUIDELINES

Questions? email:

tallgrassguildATsbcglobalDOTnet (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )

Curious Fictions

Pleased to share that I have joined a site called Curious Fictions, where readers can discover great stories and support their favorite authors. I've just posted a reprint of my flash piece, "Bedtime Stories," which was a finalist in Barrelhouse's Small Town Petite Noir Project competition in 2011. Hope you'll pop over and take a look!