Writing Competition: Claire Keyes Poetry Award

Claire Keyes Poetry Award

Guidelines for the 2023 Claire Keyes Poetry Award 

A prize of $1,000 and publication in Soundings East will be given for a group of previously unpublished poems.

Submit 8 to 10 pages of poetry (no more than one poem per page) with a $10/$15/$20 entry fee from Dec 1, 2022 to February 1, 2023.

Final judge Naomi Shihab Nye.

$10 - entry fee only

$15 - entry fee and copy of the magazine for US addresses

$20 - entry fee and copy of the magazine for international addresses

Online entries only via Submittable.

More information here.

Writing Competition: Big Moose Prize

The Big Moose Prize

Deadline: January 31, 2023

Entry Fee; $27.00 

Each year Black Lawrence Press will award The Big Moose Prize for an unpublished novel. The prize is open to new, emerging, and established writers. The winner of this contest will receive book publication, a $1,000 cash award, and ten copies of the book.  

Prizes will be awarded on publication.

The Big Moose Prize is open to traditional novels as well as novels-in-stories, novels-in-poems, and other hybrid forms that contain within them the spirit of a novel.

More information here.

Call for Submissions to Anthology: Celebrations of Healing

 

Seeking Positive Stories of Sexual Intimacy after Abuse: Celebrations of Healing

Dedicated to publishing anthologies of discovery, exploration, and personal growth. Started by Heather Canfield, a student at Berkeley City College, with help and guidance from Professor Sharon Coleman.

Deadline: February 28, 2023 

Are you a writer and survivor of sexual abuse?

Since you began your recovery, have you begun to experience moments of meaningful, joyful, sexual or sensual intimacy and exploration?

We are collecting stories of sexual awakening/reawakening to inspire other survivors and give hope to those who are just starting their recovery journey.

All sexualities and genders are encouraged to submit.

Stories can be published under pseudonyms to protect privacy.

(Please do not submit fiction.)

Call for Submissions: Clinch

Submissions for Issue III are now open until April 1st, 2023!

Please send all submissions as an attachment to:

submissions@clinchlit.com 

In your subject line, please include the genre of which you are submitting to (ex. Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction, Visual Art). Submissions that don’t include a specific genre in the subject will not be considered for publication, nor will pieces that are pasted in the body of the email. We appreciate cover letters, but they aren’t required.

We are now a paying market and can offer our writers and visual artists a $15 honorarium per accepted work, payable via our Venmo (@clinchlit) on the day of publication.

Our prior submission manager allowed us to include a $3 Tip Jar and a $5 Personalized Feedback option, where we offer personalized feedback on your piece that includes what’s working in the piece and suggestions to consider for future drafts. This feedback will be given regardless of whether the piece(s) are accepted. While we are still offering both the Tip Jar and Personalized Feedback options, we now ask that you send the payment to our Venmo (@clinchlit) and note your doing so in the submission email. You can also always use our ‘Donate’ page as well.

Also, please skim our sample readings and editor preferences (on sidebar and below, respectively) to see what we prefer. Also, consider these general guidelines: Submissions do not have to mention the martial arts—though we prefer those that do. Instead, all submissions must share in the virtues of martial arts, those of patience, meditation, and surprise, whether that be in their technique or in their content.

• We consider: Fiction and creative nonfiction (up to 5,000 words; novel and memoir excerpts are acceptable as long as they may stand on their own.)

• Poetry (up to 3 poems, no longer than 10 total pages; please submit as one document)

• All submissions must be previously unpublished. That includes personal postings, e.g. those on an author’s website or social media.

• We reserve First Electronic Rights to any piece we accept and publish. All other rights remain with the writer. If a piece we publish is reprinted elsewhere, we ask the writer acknowledges Clinch as its first venue of publication.

• We encourage simultaneous submissions. If a piece is accepted elsewhere, please notify us via the original submission email to withdraw it as soon as possible.

• If you wish to make edits or changes on an accepted piece, please notify us BEFORE the piece is published in an issue. We can’t promise that we’ll respond to edit requests for published pieces. 

Please visit our website for more information.

Call for Submissions: Dark Onus Press

 

Submissions are open January 1st, 2023.

• We don’t charge reading fees.
• All submissions are accepted via email: 

info@darkonuspress.com

• email subject reads: Submission: Genre, Date (format- 1/1/2023)

• emailed attachments: Send your manuscript in full. We do not read portions or inquire for more portions.
  

• We follow a blind submission process- do not include identifiers in the submitted attachments.

• attachments: Docx, PDF, JPEG/PNG. If you have specific formatting that requires something else, let us know.
  

• We do not require cover letters and will not read them. We will ask for your bio and headshot if accepted.

• We accept new and established authors- do not assume a literary resume gets you in the door. It’s the work.

• We accept unsolicited manuscripts.

• We are a s.m.a.l.l. press. Our submission process and deadlines are reflections of submission volume, time constraints, quality, and cost.

Please adhere to specified guidelines. Do not send us manuscripts that are over the page count, unfinished or contain errors. These manuscripts will be rejected outright. What do we mean by errors? If we read the first two pages of a short story and there’s two periods missing, then that manuscript isn’t ready for publication. We aren’t going to throw your book out for a single error, but we will stop reading if we see patterned mistakes.

 

We expect fully edited work- if you feel the need for an editor for your manuscript, seek out professional editorial services prior to submitting to us.

 

We (generally) do not republish work. Your manuscript should be given to us in consideration of it’s first publication. If you have a specific, one-off interest in republishing a book, email us so we can discuss whether or not it’s suitable. If you published a book in the 70’s that you’d like to put out again in the modern day, it’d be something we’d consider under certain circumstances.

 

You will be notified via email if accepted, along with documentation of how to proceed. Please withdraw your work from consideration elsewhere once you’ve agreed to publish with us.

 

Depending on the category of book you’ve been accepted for (ebook or print) you will receive a number of copies of your book for free as part of your publication process. The amount of which is dependent on cost. But 25ish books is our goal.

 

We ask for a 50-100 word Bio and Headshot upon acceptance.

 

Simultaneous submissions are fine.

 

We reserve first North American serial rights for publication of your book- you’re welcome to republish elsewhere at a later time. This means we have the right to be the first entity to publish your book in North America.

General Guidelines:

• Micro-books. Note- we are only able to produce a small number of printed titles per year. Once we’ve reached this threshold, we will close submissions for printed books. We will still take submissions for ebooks thereafter.

• Dark-themed, experimental work is our focus, not our hardline. Please check out our imprint online literary magazine Dark Onus Lit to get a sense of our aesthetic sensibilities.

• What does “experimental work” mean? Work that experiments with form, presentation, style, and character. That doesn’t necessarily mean your series of short stories has to be House of Leaves, but we are more engaged with things we haven’t seen before than things we’ve seen done a million times before with literary exaction.

• We publish micro-sized books of poetry, flash fiction, short stories, artwork, and hybrid. We also publish poetry collections, as our only full-length category. If you haven’t seen any movement or correspondence regarding your manuscript for two months, please reach out.

Categories
(we accept these categories, but they are not always open for submission. Open or Closed designations indicate what we are currently taking)

• Poetry (chapbook): up to 30 pages

Status: Open 1.1.23

• Poetry (full-length): 50-75 pages

Status: Open 1.1.23

• Flash Fiction (chapbook): up to 30 pages

Status: Open 1.1.23

• Short Stories (chapbook): 50-75 pages (a full length collection is 120 pages, for reference)

Status: Open 1.1.23

• Artbook (chapbook) up to 50 pages

Status: Open 1.1.23

 

To clarify we are generally not interested in photography books or children's books.
 

We are interested in comic books, collections of artwork, and hybrid (chapbook): up to 50 pages.

Call for Submissions: Works Progress

We publish short fiction about anything bigger than yourself: stories about astronauts, ICU nurses, politics, protests, alternate histories, weird celebrities, big-world calamities, juicy personal dramas and the people who experience them. Fiction with dynamic characters who do interesting things. We don’t think stories should be slogs. We do not publish quiet stories about divorce.

How do I submit?

Send stories to:

worksprogress.submissions@gmail.com

Under 4,000 words, and the shorter the better. First serial rights, and we'll keep the story displayed on our website.

You’ll be shocked to learn this isn’t a federally subsidized project. But we pay writers.

Editing Position: Fleas on the Dog

Fleas on the Dog Seeking a Drama Editor

Deadline: Until Filled

This is a temporary position. You would be responsible for selecting plays for publication and writing an introductory note for each one. You don’t have to be a playwright yourself but knowledge of theatre and drama is required and a broad acceptance of a variety of writing styles. No $ just infamy. Contact CHARLES at:

fleasonthedog.com 

for details.