Call for Submissions on Theme of "re-homing": apo-press

collective.aporia's press, *apo-press, is currently collecting work from artists around the world for our blog. Our goal is to amplify diverse voices, experiences, cultures, and languages on our digital platform year-round, and culminate the year into our second issue, re-homing.

This means that any submission to our blog will be considered first for Issue 2, coming November 2021.

* We welcome these styles and genres:

poetry / fiction / creative nonfiction / critical theory / articles / rituals / spells / essays / reviews / visual art / music / video / photography / translations / collaborations / performances / novellas / hybrid work

* Send up to 5 poems or images and up to 10 pages of prose. Please keep videos under 20 minutes.

Submit your work here.

Writing Competition: Narrative's 2021 Fall Story Contest

Our fall contest is open to all fiction and nonfiction writers. We’re looking for short shorts, short stories, essays, memoirs, photo essays, graphic stories, all forms of literary nonfiction, and excerpts from longer works of both fiction and nonfiction. Entries must be previously unpublished, no longer than 15,000 words, and must not have been previously chosen as a winner, finalist, or honorable mention in another contest.

Narrative winners and finalists have gone on to win Whiting Awards, the Pulitzer Prize, the PushcartPrize, and the Atlantic prize, and have appeared in collections such as The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, and many others. View the recent awards won by Narrative authors.

As always, we are looking for works with a strong narrative drive, with characters we can respond to, and with effects of language, situation, and insight that are intense and total. We look for works that have the ambition of enlarging our view of ourselves and the world.

We welcome and look forward to reading your pages.

Awards: First Prize is $2,500, Second Prize is $1,000, Third Prize is $500, and up to ten finalists will receive $100 each. All entries will be considered for publication.

Submission Fee: There is a $27 fee for each entry. With your entry, you’ll receive three months of complimentary access to Narrative Backstage.

All contest entries are eligible for the $4,000 Narrative Prize and for acceptance as a Story of the Week.

Timing: The contest deadline is November 30, 2021, at midnight, Pacific standard time.

Judging: The contest will be judged by the editors of the magazine. Winners and finalists will be announced to the public by December 31, 2021. All writers who enter will be notified by email of the judges’ decisions, which will be final. The judges reserve the option to declare ties and to designate and award only as many winners and/or finalists as are appropriate to the quality of contest entries and of work represented in the magazine.

Visit our website for more information and to submit.

Call for Submissions: Planisphere Q

 Planisphere Q Seeks Flash Fiction, Vignettes, Character Sketches, and Poetry

Deadline: November 15, 2021

Planisphere Q is seeking submissions for its third issue. "Dark Forest" is the theme. Any interpretation of the word is acceptable. All genres are accepted. The 500-word limit is firm. Flash fiction, vignettes, character sketches, and poetry accepted.

See submission guidelines. 

Call for Submissions on Theme of "Seasons": The Garfield Lake Review

The Garfield Lake Review

Deadline: October 15, 2021

The Garfield Lake Review is an annual literary and visual arts journal started in 1971 by Olivet College students. We produce a print journal and post an online edition on our website. The Garfield Lake Review prides itself in accepting a wide selection of fiction, poetry, and visual arts. Our theme this year is seasons. Send us anything that involves movement, change, growth, and progression. All submissions are reviewed anonymously, regardless of form, which assures that no author will be judged by race, creed, sexual orientation, or political ideology. No submission fee.

Visit our website for more information.

Call for Submissions on Theme of "What Now? The Future We Make": Nimrod International Journal

Call for Submissions: What Now?: The Future We Make

Deadline: November 1, 2021

Nimrod International Journal invites submissions of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction for our spring 2022 thematic issue, What Now?: The Future We Make. In this time of change, the question that keeps arising is: “What now?” We now have a rare opportunity to pause and question our often unexamined assumptions about the world as it is and as it could be. We would love to read your work about what comes next in our futures on an individual, relationship, or family level and our social, national, and worldwide future. For complete guidelines and to submit, please visit our website.

Call for Submissions from Community College Students: Kings River Review

Kings River Review Call for 2-Year College Student Submissions

Deadline: November 1, 2021

Beginning fall 2021, the Kings River Review will be publishing artwork, creative nonfiction, short fiction, and poetry of community college students.

Submission Deadlines: November 1 for the fall issue and April 15 for the spring issue.

Submission Requirements: up to 5 pieces of artwork and photography sent as .JPEG files; Creative Nonfiction and Fiction of up to 3,000 words; and up to 5 poems.

Go to our website for full submission guidelines.

Questions? E-mail us:

kingsriverreview@reedleycollege.edu

Writing Competition: New Letters Editor's Choice Award

 

New Letters Editor's Choice Award—$1,000 + Publication

Deadline: October 18, 2021

New Letters invites you to submit work that experiments and that crosses the traditional boundaries of genre and form to our Editor's Choice Award. Enter your hybrid work—your lyric essays, prose poems, short-shorts, collages, micro-memoirs . . . whatever you’re doing that’s experimental, we want to see it.

The winner will receive $1,000 plus publication in an issue of New Letters.

Entry Fee: $20.00

Writing Festival and Workshops: 18th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival

 

18th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival

Application Deadline: November 15, 2021

Event Dates: January 10-15, 2022

Event Location: Virtual

18th Annual Virtual Palm Beach Poetry Festival, January 10-15, 2022. Focus on your work with America’s most engaging and award-winning poets. Workshops with Kim Addonizio, Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Chard deNiord, Mark Doty, Yona Harvey, John Murillo, Matthew Olzmann, and Diane Seuss. One-On-One Conferences with Lorna Blake, Sally Bliumis Dunn, Nickole Brown, Jessica Jacobs, and Angela Narciso Torres. A special Craft Talk by Kwame Dawes, Special Guest Poet, Yusef Komunyakaa. Poet-at-Large, Aimee Nezhukumatathil.

To find out more, visit our website.

Apply to attend a workshop by November 15.

Writing Competition: Arkansas International Emerging Writer's Prize in Fiction

Entries for the Emerging Writer's Prize in Fiction should be a single prose work not exceeding 7,500 words. Entrants may submit more than once, but each new entry must be accompanied by a separate $20 entry fee.

Contest Guidelines:

- Open to writers who haven’t yet published a full-length book, and who have no book forthcoming before May 1, 2020. Writers with chapbooks are allowed. Writers with a self-published book with a print run under 500 copies are allowed.
- All work will be considered for inclusion in the print magazine.
- Only previously unpublished work will be considered.
- The 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 anyone recently affiliated with the University of Arkansas, which includes those who have studied or worked there within the past 4 years, are ineligible.
- $20 entry fee includes an issue of The Arkansas International (free to current subscribers).

Deadline: October 25, 2021

Writing Competition: Vern Rutsala Book Prize

 

Vern Rutsala Book Prize

Deadline: October 31, 2021

The Vern Rutsala Book Prize is an annual contest sponsored by Cloudbank Books.

The winner receives a $1,000 cash award, plus publication.

This year’s judge is Doug Ramspeck. Most recent prize winners were John Kooistra for Long Voyage Gathering Light and Jane Craven for My Bright Last Country.

Submission due date is October 31, 2021. For details visit Contest Guidelines 

Cloudbank also awards a $200 prize for one poem or flash fiction published in each magazine. Regular submissions are accepted year round. Visit Cloudbank for more information.

Writing Competition: North American Review's 2022 Kurt Vonnegut Speculative Fiction Prize

North American Review’s 2022 Kurt Vonnegut Speculative Fiction Prize

Deadline: November 1, 2021

The 2022 Kurt Vonnegut Speculative Fiction Prize is accepting submissions! Open to all authors, the prize is awarded for a single piece.

$23 submission fee per entry. Entry fee includes a copy of the contest issue. Simultaneous submission to other journals or competitions is not allowed.

The prizewinner will receive an award of $1,000 and winner and finalists will be published in the Summer 2022 issue of the North American Review.

This year’s final judge is Brenda Peynado. Full guidelines can be found here.

Questions? Contact:

nar@uni.edu

Writing Competition: North American Review's 2022 James Hearst Poetry Prize

North American Review’s 2022 James Hearst Poetry Prize

Deadline: November 1, 2021

The 2022 James Hearst Poetry Prize is accepting submissions! Open to all poets, the prize is awarded for a single poem.

For a fee of $23, submit one entry of up to five poems. Entry fee includes a copy of the contest issue. Simultaneous submission to other journals or competitions is not allowed.

The prizewinner will receive an award of $1,000. Winner and finalists will be published in the Spring 2022 issue of the North American Review.

This year’s final judge is Natalie Diaz. Full guidelines and submission link can be found here.

Questions? Contact:

nar@uni.edu

Writing Competition: Green Linden Press' Wishing Jewel Prize

Green Linden Press' Wishing Jewel Prize

Deadline: November 30, 2021

The Wishing Jewel Prize honors an innovative manuscript that challenges expectations of what a book of poems can be. Named for an essay in Anne Carson's innovative Plainwater, we seek work that questions the boundaries of genre, form, or mode while engaging the rich possibilities of lyrical expression.

Winner receives $1,000 and publication by Green Linden Press. All finalists are considered for publication.

Deadline: November 30

$25 fee (discounts available)

Call for Submissions on Theme of "Water": Puerto del Sol

Puerto del Sol Seeks Writing on Water

Deadline: December 1, 2021

Puerto del Sol seeks work which engages with water in all its forms. Life and growth and blood and poison and drought and commodity. Snow and steam and tsunami. We want to read work as sharp and brittle as ice. We want stories, essays, and poems which drip from dew-soaked branches or crash like waterfalls. Show us something as vast as the sea or as small as a single droplet of acid rain. Send us your explorations of fluidity, of the ways things shift and change, and of things which cannot be held, no matter how hard we try.

Seeking Volunteer Editors: Mayday

Open Editorial Positions at MAYDAY

Deadline: Friday, October 15, 2021

MAYDAY seeks to expand its all-volunteer editorial staff to include new interests, backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We invite applications to be submitted by October 15, 2021 for the following positions: Culture Editors, Translation Editors, Visual Art Editors, Production Editors, and Social Media Editors. For details, please visit

Call for Submissions: Club Plum Literary Journal

Club Plum Seeks Literary Horror for October 2021 Issue

Deadline: October 8, 2021

Please send your dark, surreal, horrific, and strange flash fiction, prose poetry, hybrid forms, and art to Club Plum for the October 2021 issue. Send your unsettling. Send your beautifully morbid. See our website for guidelines.

Call for Submissions: Santa Clara Review

Santa Clara Review—Call for Submissions in All Genres

Deadline: October 15, 2021

We are now accepting fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and art submissions for our Fall 2021 issue. The deadline for submission is October 15th at 11:59pm PT. The Santa Clara Review publishes a wide variety of work from creatives all over the world. Our magazine is especially interested in writing and art from Black writers, Indigenous writers, LGBT+ writers, and writers of color. Writers—send us your flash pieces, your humorous work and satire, your short screenplays and plays! Visual artists—send us art to fill the 12 pages of full-color art and photography we publish each issue!

For further submission guidelines and details, please visit our website.

Call for Submissions: Paper Dragon

Paper Dragon Call for Submissions

Deadline: October 15, 2021

Paper Dragon is committed to showcasing exciting and inclusive work across genres, publishing poetry, short stories, short screenplays, creative nonfiction, and artwork that resonates with contemporary readers. Paper Dragon seeks work that challenges us to see the human experience in new and honest ways through both established and emerging voices.

We are currently accepting no-fee submissions for our Fall/Winter issue. To see the kind of work we publish and to read more of our submission guidelines, visit our website.

Chapbook Competition: The Black River Chapbook Competition

The Black River Chapbook Competition is a semi-annual prize from Black Lawrence Press for a chapbook of poems or prose (including fiction, creative non-fiction, lyric essay, and prose hybrid manuscripts). Entries should be between 16 and 36 pages in length. The winner will receive $500 and publication.

Recent winners include: Ruth Baumann, Jacqueline Doyle, Nancy Reddy, Amy Sayre Baptista, Ashley Morrow Hermsmeier, Alan Chazaro, Christopher Locke, Veronica Montes, Danielle Rose, Ashanti Anderson, and SJ Sindu.

Entry deadline for the Fall Competition: October 31, 2021

Black Lawrence Press accepts submissions and payment of the entry fee ($17) exclusively through our online submission manager, Submittable. All entries are read without identifying information by our panel of judges and editors.

Visit us online for complete submission guidelines. Submissions are accepted via Submittable now through October 31. We look forward to reading your work!

Talk and Reading

I will be giving a talk and reading from my novel-in-progress, THE DOUBLE SUN, on Friday, Sep. 17, 2021 from 6:00-8:00 p.m. at the Otero Art Space, located at 12th Street and Indiana Ave., in Alamogordo, NM. If you're in the area, I hope you can join me.