$2000 Masters Review Winter Short Story Award + Agency Review
Because of the popularity of our Short Story Award this summer and because the agents we work with were eager to see more, we are hosting a winter award. The winning story will be awarded $2000 and publication online. Second and third place stories will be awarded publication and $200 and $100 respectively. All winners and honorable mentions will receive agency review by: Amy Williams of The Williams Agency, Victoria Marini from Irene Goodman, and Laura Biagi from Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency, Inc.
Please see our website for more information on how to submit.
Full details include:
- Winner receives $2000, review by the agencies above, and publication
- Second and third place prizes ($200, $100, and publication, and agency review)
- Stories under 7000 words
- Simultaneous and multiple submissions allowed
- Emerging writers only (We are interested in offering a larger platform to new writers. Self-published writers and writers with story collections and novels with a small
circulation are welcome to submit.)
- International submissions allowed
- $20 entry fee
- Deadline: January 15, 2017
- Please no identifying information on your story
- All stories are considered for publication
Monday, December 26, 2016
Writing Competition: Crazyhorse
From January 1 to January 31, CRAZYHORSE will accept entries for our Prizes in Poetry, Fiction, & Nonfiction.
Ada Limon will judge Poetry, Justin Torres will judge Fiction, & Robin Hemley will judge Nonfiction. Submit fiction and nonfiction manuscripts of up to 25 pages or 1-3 poems via Submittable.
Winners in each genre receive $2,000 & publication.
The $20 entry fee includes a one-year subscription to Crazyhorse.
For more information, visit our website.
Ada Limon will judge Poetry, Justin Torres will judge Fiction, & Robin Hemley will judge Nonfiction. Submit fiction and nonfiction manuscripts of up to 25 pages or 1-3 poems via Submittable.
Winners in each genre receive $2,000 & publication.
The $20 entry fee includes a one-year subscription to Crazyhorse.
For more information, visit our website.
Essay Competition: The Notting Hill Editions Essay Prize
The Notting Hill Editions Essay Prize for the best original and unpublished essay in the English language, of between 2,000 and 8,000 words, on any subject.
Awards: £20,000. Five runners-up will each receive £1000.
Entry fee: £20.
Deadline: January 9, 2017.
Entry guidelines and more information here.
Awards: £20,000. Five runners-up will each receive £1000.
Entry fee: £20.
Deadline: January 9, 2017.
Entry guidelines and more information here.
Call for Papers: Kent Haruf Literary Celebration
Kent Haruf Literary Celebration
September 22-24, 2017
Salida SteamPlant Event Center
Salida, CO 8120
American novelist Kent Haruf (1943-2014) set his six novels in the fictional town of Holt in eastern Colorado. The novels, The Tie That Binds (1984), Where You Once Belonged (1990), Plainsong (1999), Eventide (2005), Benediction (2014), and Our Souls At Night (2015) have received numerous awards and prizes, and Kent Haruf received the Dos Passos Prize for Literature in 2009 and the Wallace Stegner Award in 2012. Countless reviewers and readers have praised Kent’s works, and now it’s time for the next step.
In September 2017, Salida, Colorado will host the first Kent Haruf Literary Celebration. Chris Outcalt, Kent’s biographer, and Sue Hodson, the Curator of Kent Haruf Literary Manuscripts at The Huntington Library, will be speaking at the literary celebration; in addition, the KHLC Planning Committee invites you to begin the literary discussion of his works.
September 22-24, 2017
Salida SteamPlant Event Center
Salida, CO 8120
American novelist Kent Haruf (1943-2014) set his six novels in the fictional town of Holt in eastern Colorado. The novels, The Tie That Binds (1984), Where You Once Belonged (1990), Plainsong (1999), Eventide (2005), Benediction (2014), and Our Souls At Night (2015) have received numerous awards and prizes, and Kent Haruf received the Dos Passos Prize for Literature in 2009 and the Wallace Stegner Award in 2012. Countless reviewers and readers have praised Kent’s works, and now it’s time for the next step.
In September 2017, Salida, Colorado will host the first Kent Haruf Literary Celebration. Chris Outcalt, Kent’s biographer, and Sue Hodson, the Curator of Kent Haruf Literary Manuscripts at The Huntington Library, will be speaking at the literary celebration; in addition, the KHLC Planning Committee invites you to begin the literary discussion of his works.
Call for Papers
Session 1: The Haruf World: A Writer’s Evolving Vision—Beginning, Middle, End (The Tie That Binds/ Plainsong/ Our Souls At Night)
Session 2: Community/ Family/ Womens’ Relationships in Small Town Spaces (Plainsong/ Eventide/ Benediction)
Session 3: Kent Haruf: A Writer’s Craft—grounded in the Geography and Culture of Colorado
We envision 10-minute presentations designed to stimulate audience discussion.
Please email 250-word proposals of individual papers to:
We envision 10-minute presentations designed to stimulate audience discussion.
Please email 250-word proposals of individual papers to:
lmarvelAThastingsDOTedu (Laura Marvel Wunderlich, KHLC sessions chair) by March 15, 2017.
If your proposal is accepted, you will be notified by April 15, 2017.
You will need to submit your final paper by August 15, 2017.
Papers (8-10 pages) will serve as the basis for your 10-minute presentation.
Selected papers will be published following the Literary Celebration.
If your proposal is accepted, you will be notified by April 15, 2017.
You will need to submit your final paper by August 15, 2017.
Papers (8-10 pages) will serve as the basis for your 10-minute presentation.
Selected papers will be published following the Literary Celebration.
Call for Submissions to Anthology about Conversion Therapy: Jane's Boy Press
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Vice President Elect of the United States Mike Pence has been a proponent of conversion therapy (AKA reparative therapy), though such "therapy" has been ruled unsuccessful and potentially damaging by the APA: “Therapy directed at specifically changing sexual orientation is contraindicated, since it can provoke guilt and anxiety while having little or no potential for achieving changes in orientation.” Jane’s Boy Press seeks poetry and nonfiction submissions for an anthology to share the stories of LGBTIQ people who have experienced or been closely affected by conversion therapy. The anthology, scheduled for publication in the fall of 2017, will be edited by Dustin Brookshire and Beth Gylys.
Submit up to two previously unpublished poems (max of two pages per poem) or one essay of no more than 5000 words via email to:
standagainstconversionATgmailDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )
All submissions should be received by 11:59pm on Tuesday, February 28, 2017.
Contributors should identify as someone who has experienced conversion therapy or been closely affected by it. Poems / essays must explore the effects of conversion therapy. Payment will be in the form of a contributor’s copy.
Direct questions to:
standagainstconversionATgmailDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )
Read more about conversion therapy here:
http://www.hrc.org/resources/the-lies-and-dangers-of-reparative-therapy
http://www.nclrights.org/our-work/bornperfect/
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/gay-conversion-therapy-un-committee
ABOUT THE EDITORS
Dustin Brookshire is the author of To The One Who Raped Me (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2012), a chapbook that explores taboo truths that are too-often unspoken and which chronicles a journey from victim to survivor. Dustin is a Pushcart Prize nominated poet whose work has appeared in Assaracus, Whiskey Island, OCHO, Oranges & Sardines, SubtleTea, Ouroboros, and Qarrtsiluni as well as the anthologies The Queer South: LGBTQ Writers on the American South (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2014) and Divining Divas: 100 Gay Men on Their Muses (Lethe Press, 2012).
Beth Gylys A professor of English and Creative Writing at Georgia State University, Beth has published three award-winning books of poetry, Sky Blue Enough to Drink, (Grayson Books, 2015), Spot in the Dark (Ohio State UP, 2004) and Bodies that Hum (Silverfish Review Press, 1999) and two chapbooks Matchbook (La Vita Poetica Press, 2007) and Balloon Heart (Wind Press, 1998). Awarded fellowships and residencies at the MacDowell Colony, La Muse and La Centre D'art i Natura de Farrera, she has work published or forthcoming in many anthologies and journals including Rattle, Barrow Street, Paris Review, Kenyon Review, and Ploughshares.
ABOUT THE PRESS
Founded in 2014, Jane's Boy Press is dedicated to publishing the best of new, emerging, and established poets. We seek to do this through a series of full-length collections as well as chapbooks. We understand the importance of the chapbook in helping new writers make an impression on a reading market, so we apply the same focus to our chapbook releases that we do to our full-length collections.
Vice President Elect of the United States Mike Pence has been a proponent of conversion therapy (AKA reparative therapy), though such "therapy" has been ruled unsuccessful and potentially damaging by the APA: “Therapy directed at specifically changing sexual orientation is contraindicated, since it can provoke guilt and anxiety while having little or no potential for achieving changes in orientation.” Jane’s Boy Press seeks poetry and nonfiction submissions for an anthology to share the stories of LGBTIQ people who have experienced or been closely affected by conversion therapy. The anthology, scheduled for publication in the fall of 2017, will be edited by Dustin Brookshire and Beth Gylys.
Submit up to two previously unpublished poems (max of two pages per poem) or one essay of no more than 5000 words via email to:
standagainstconversionATgmailDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )
All submissions should be received by 11:59pm on Tuesday, February 28, 2017.
Contributors should identify as someone who has experienced conversion therapy or been closely affected by it. Poems / essays must explore the effects of conversion therapy. Payment will be in the form of a contributor’s copy.
Direct questions to:
standagainstconversionATgmailDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )
Read more about conversion therapy here:
http://www.hrc.org/resources/the-lies-and-dangers-of-reparative-therapy
http://www.nclrights.org/our-work/bornperfect/
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/gay-conversion-therapy-un-committee
ABOUT THE EDITORS
Dustin Brookshire is the author of To The One Who Raped Me (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2012), a chapbook that explores taboo truths that are too-often unspoken and which chronicles a journey from victim to survivor. Dustin is a Pushcart Prize nominated poet whose work has appeared in Assaracus, Whiskey Island, OCHO, Oranges & Sardines, SubtleTea, Ouroboros, and Qarrtsiluni as well as the anthologies The Queer South: LGBTQ Writers on the American South (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2014) and Divining Divas: 100 Gay Men on Their Muses (Lethe Press, 2012).
Beth Gylys A professor of English and Creative Writing at Georgia State University, Beth has published three award-winning books of poetry, Sky Blue Enough to Drink, (Grayson Books, 2015), Spot in the Dark (Ohio State UP, 2004) and Bodies that Hum (Silverfish Review Press, 1999) and two chapbooks Matchbook (La Vita Poetica Press, 2007) and Balloon Heart (Wind Press, 1998). Awarded fellowships and residencies at the MacDowell Colony, La Muse and La Centre D'art i Natura de Farrera, she has work published or forthcoming in many anthologies and journals including Rattle, Barrow Street, Paris Review, Kenyon Review, and Ploughshares.
ABOUT THE PRESS
Founded in 2014, Jane's Boy Press is dedicated to publishing the best of new, emerging, and established poets. We seek to do this through a series of full-length collections as well as chapbooks. We understand the importance of the chapbook in helping new writers make an impression on a reading market, so we apply the same focus to our chapbook releases that we do to our full-length collections.
Writing Competition: Hourglass Literary Magazine
At the confluence of the West and the East, Hourglass Literary Magazine proudly announces its second international writing competition for: Best Short Story, Best Poem, Best Essay.
- No theme or genre boundaries.
- +5000 in total prizes.
- Entry fee: $15 (except for Best Poem category where up to three submissions are accepted for the same price).
- Deadline: April 30, 2017
Call for Poetry Submissions: Foundry
Foundry reads poetry submissions year-round. Please submit 3-5 original, previously unpublished poems through Submittable. Simultaneous submissions are encouraged, but we ask that you notify us as soon as a poem is accepted elsewhere. 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.
To learn more, please visit our website.
We look forward to reading your work!
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.
To learn more, please visit our website.
We look forward to reading your work!
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