Saturday, December 18, 2021

Call for Submissions: Heron Tree

Heron Tree: Call for Submissions

Deadline: January 15, 2022

Heron Tree is open for submissions through January 15, 2022. We will read submissions and make decisions on a rolling basis. Accepted poems will be published individually online (one poem a week beginning in February 2022) and then collected in Heron Tree volume 9, which will be available as a free downloadable ebook.

This special issue will be devoted to found poetry. See our detailed submission guidelines here.

Writing Competition: Yeats Poetry Prize

Yeats Poetry Prize

Ann Kjellberg judge

Deadline: February 1, 2022

First prize $1,000, Second $500. Poems in English up to 60 lines, any subject, unpublished at submission.

Enter via Submittable or mail:

c/o WB Yeats Society of NY
National Arts Club
15 Gramercy Park South
NYC 10003

Enter name, contact information separately in Submittable entry form or separate card.

Entry $15 for first, $12 each additional poem.

Call for Submissions: Meat for Tea

Submit Your Art and Writing to Meat for Tea!

This fully independent journal is committed to featuring the work of emerging writers and artists alongside that of more established people, such as Jane Yolen, Marge Piercy, John Lurie, David Yow, and many other luminaries.

This is a physical print publication designed to showcase contributor's work beautifully. Let your writing and art shine in Meat for Tea.

Deadline: February 26, 2022.

Free Writing Workshops for Teachers and Adjunct Faculty: Kenyon Review

Saturday, January 22nd

2:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m. EST

If you’re a writer who is working as a school teacher or adjunct faculty member, we’d like to invite you to apply for our free two-hour workshops with award-winning writers Ross Gay, T Kira Madden, and Tracy K. Smith.

To acknowledge the stress you’ve endured throughout the past two years of the pandemic, and to thank you for your grace under pressure, we’d like to offer you two hours of inspiration.

All writers who are adjuncts, primary or secondary school teachers are welcome to apply. Please visit our website to learn more.

Those accepted will be notified via email by January 5th. Each workshop is limited to 15 participants.

Sunday, December 12, 2021

Call for Submissions: Ginosko

Accepting short fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, social justice, literary insights for Ginosko Literary Journal.

Publishing as semiannual litzine. Check downloadable issues on website for tone & style.

Editorial lead time 1-2 months; accept simultaneous submissions & reprints; length flexible, accept excerpts. Receives postal and email submissions—prefer email submissions as attachments in .wps, .doc, .rtf. —or by Submittable.

Authors retain copyrights.

Read year-round.

Ginosko (ghin-ocĂ©-koe) 

A word meaning to perceive, understand, realize, come to know; knowledge that has an inception, a progress, an attainment. The recognition of truth from experience.

Est 2002.

Editors
Robert Paul Cesaretti

Fellowship: Folger Institute Artist Research Fellowship

Artist Research Fellowship

About the Artist Research Fellowship

The Folger Institute Artist Research Fellowship is open to artists working in all media whose work would benefit from significant primary research. This includes, but is not limited to, visual artists, writers, dramaturgs, playwrights, performers, filmmakers, and composers.

While a terminal degree is not required for the Artist Research Fellowship, applicants should describe their training and level of industry-specific experience in their CV. All applicants must apply as individuals, including artists working as collaborators. See additional Rules and Requirements and Application Instructions.

Please note that in 2022–2023, all Artist Research Fellowships will be non-residential.

Awards are $3,500 for four weeks of work away from the Folger.

All applications are due by 11:59pm ET on 18 January 2022. All applications must be submitted through the Folger’s online portal. Fellowships may be undertaken between July 2022 and June 2023.

More information here.

Call for Submissions: The Puritan

The Puritan seeks submissions all year round, from anywhere in the world.

Our current publication rates (as of Summer 2019) stand as:

$100 PER INTERVIEW,

$200 PER ESSAY,

$100 PER REVIEW,

$150 PER WORK OF FICTION, AND

$25 PER POEM (OR PAGE, CAPPED AT $80 FOR POEMS RUNNING FOUR PAGES OR MORE).

Check back with the magazine regularly; The Puritan is working ever assiduously to increase these figures.

Please note that we can ONLY issue payments using PayPal or a cheque in the mail. We also pay in CAD. If you cannot accept payment via PayPal or cheque from a Canadian bank, we cannot accept your submission.

Regular submissions to the magazine should fall under one of four categories: fiction, essays, poetry, and reviews. Unless we are soliciting your work, all submissions must be previously unpublished (this includes self-publishing, publishing on blogs, and in chapbook format). 

All submissions received by December 25 are considered for the winter issue, out in February.

Send all questions and messages to:

puritanmagazine [at] gmail [dot] com

Please note that we CANNOT accept email submissions. They will be discarded.

We are open to simultaneous submissions. If your work is accepted elsewhere, please leave a comment via Submittable. Email notifications of withdrawals will be ignored as we simply cannot keep up with the volume of them.