Fellowships: Maine Artist Fellowship

Deadline: June 16, 2022

Cash Prize: $5,000

E-mail address:

kerstin.gilg@maine.gov-artist-fellowships 

 

Website: 

https://mainearts.maine.gov/Pages/Funding/Grants-Home 

 

A fellowship of up to $5,000 is given annually to a poet, a fiction writer, a creative nonfiction writer, or a writer working in a genre beyond these categories who has lived in the state of Maine for at least one year. The fellow is expected to reside in the state for the year of the fellowship. Writers enrolled in a degree-granting program are ineligible. Using only the online submission system, submit up to five poems of any length or no more than 20 pages of prose, an artist statement, and a résumé by June 16. There is no entry fee. Visit the website for complete guidelines.

 

Maine Arts Commission,

Maine Artist Fellowship

193 State Street, 25 State House Station,

Augusta, ME 04333

 

(207) 287-6719

Kerstin Gilg, Contact.

Call for Submissions to Anthology: Queer Pagan Fiction

Queer Pagan Fiction

Deadline: June 30, 2022

Anthology of queer pagan fiction accepting pieces of 2,500-7,500 words, that are previously unpublished.

Pays contributors $25-$75 per accepted piece. 

For full info and guidelines visit our website.

Call for Submissions on Theme of "Connection/Community": redrosethorns magazine

 

redrosethorns magazine Seeks Writers and Artists for Magazine Submission

Deadline: June 30, 2022

redrosethorns annual magazine is seeking unpublished writing pieces and art based around our publication theme in any genre and any style.

This year's theme is “Connection/Community.” Inspired by the feminist conscious raising movement, we wanted to create a platform where folks could share their stories and we could showcase the actual diversity and realities we live in. Each year we select a theme and encourage others to share their interpretation of this through art or writings. Along with our submissions, our magazine will also feature interviews, quotes and fun facts about our theme. 

Call for Fiction Chapbook Submissions: Wordrunner eChapbooks

Wordrunner eChapbooks Seeks Mini-Fiction Collections

Deadline: June 30, 2022

Two fiction collections will be selected for our 2022 e-chapbook series, to be published in August and December, online and as epubs.

Submit your manuscript between May 1 and June 30. Stories may be flash or longer, from 500 up to 5,000 words each. We’d like three to five stories, or if flash fiction, a maximum of 15. Maximum word count: 20,000. We will also consider novel excerpts, if the collection can stand alone. No genre fiction (horror, fantasy, mystery).

See www.echapbook.com/submissions.html for detailed guidelines and Submittable link.

Authors are paid $125 plus royalties.

Submission fee: $8.00

Call for Submissions: Palooka

Palooka Seeks Chapbooks, Prose, Poetry, Artwork, Photography

Deadline: Year-round

Palooka is an international literary magazine. For over a decade we’ve featured new, up-and-coming, and established writers, artists, and photographers from around the world. We're open to diverse forms and styles and are always seeking unique chapbooks, fiction, poetry, nonfiction, artwork, photography, and graphic narratives. Submissions open year-round.

Call for Submissions: Molecule

 

Call for Submissions - Molecule: a tiny lit mag

Deadline: July 15, 2022

Submissions open from 6/1/22 to 7/15/22. Replies by: 8/15/22. Send your work for the Fall 2022 issue of Molecule - a tiny lit mag. Poetry, prose, nonfiction, plays, reviews, and interviews in 50 words or less (including titles). Visual art work of tiny things like tea bags and toothpicks, or tiny paintings also wanted. Strict word count. Don’t try and trick us we have small minds.

Send submissions (preferably in the body) via email, along with a 3rd person bio no more than 24 words (including name).

Call for Literary Nonfiction Submissions: Interim

Call for Literary Nonfiction submissions

Deadline: June 30, 2022

Interim invites submissions of literary nonfiction, including essays that reflect literary movements in America and around the world. We invite writers from all parts of the globe—the Americas, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Western and Eastern Europe, New Zealand, Australia, etc.—especially women writers, to submit to this special issue. If you have perspective on the evolution of the Gurlesque (the vibrant movement of women reclaiming their bodies) or any other newly established literary movement, we are especially eager to hear from you.

We will consider original essays 1,500 to 5,000 words.

$4 submission fee. Upload to Interim’s Submittable.