Call for Submissions on Theme of "Rock 'n Roll": Dorothy Parker's Ashes

Please submit first-person essays* anytime before the deadline prior to publication date. We also consider art and photography from women and gender non-conforming writers.

Although the essay holds the central role at DPA, we are open to other genres, including experimental, poetry and flash non-fiction, as long as there is a first-person point of view.

Deadline: May 1, 2023

Publication: May 15th 

All rights are non-exclusive. We do not currently offer payment. We accept no responsibility for anything from libel to hurt feelings. As Anne Lamott says, “You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should've behaved better."

Preferred length. 500 to 2000 words.

Please send submissions along with a short bio pasted directly into your email to:  

info@dorothyparkersashes.com 

We ask for this to avoid potentially malware-laden attachments. Unless your formatting is a specific design element of your piece, format should be single space with no paragraph indentation and one extra space between paragraphs.

For more information, please visit our website.

Call for Submissions: Thin Air Online

Online Guidelines: Our MFA program is multi-genre and interdisciplinary, and so we are excited to receive hybrid work in any genre.

We accept fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and short plays, performance audio, as well as video literature (cinepoetry, video essay, art films, spoken word, etc.), photography, and other visual artwork on an ongoing basis to be featured on our website. WE DO NOT ACCEPT REVIEWS, INTERVIEWS, OR EXCERPTS FROM LONGER WORK.

Formatting: We accept batches of 3-5 poems and prose submissions up to 1,500 words. For video or audio submissions, please keep them to five minutes or less. For visual art, we accept up to 5 pieces.

Please include a brief, two-sentence bio (about fifty words) to run with all work, should it be accepted. Feel free to include your social media handles.

For fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or plays, send your submission as a .doc, .docx, or PDF. For video/audio, please send a link to your piece(s) on DropBox or Google Drive. For art/photography, include links to your work on DropBox, your website, Instagram, etc. Fit images to a 1000 x 1000-pixel box and save to medium JPEG quality to keep the file sizes small.

Submission Deadline: Thin Air Online submissions are free and open year-round. Thank you for submitting!

DO NOT SUBMIT THE SAME MATERIAL TO THE WEBSITE AS YOU SUBMIT TO THE MAGAZINE. Again, read both guidelines carefully, as each accept different things. Web submissions will only be accepted via Submittable. A team of editors review submissions throughout the year, and we vow to do our best to respond in a timely fashion. Response rate times vary from 1-3 months, depending on the time of year and volume of submissions. We look forward to seeing your work!

For more information and to submit, please visit our website.

Call for Submissions on Theme of "Baseball": The Twin Bill

 

Submissions are open for our twelfth issue until June 1, publishing on the July 11th for the All-Star Game.

Fiction

We are interested in short stories between roughly 1,000 to 3,000 words. Anything we deem significantly over the word count will not be read out of respect for the number of submissions our editors receive.

We are looking for writing that displays a strong personal style and a connection to the game of baseball. Most of all, we are excited by stories that situate baseball in a broader context, beyond the action of an individual game or at-bat. The more surprising connection to baseball, the better. There is a $20 honorarium per short story.

Creative Nonfiction

Creative Nonfiction at The Twin Bill is a place for true stories, boldly told. We have no formal requirements or word count, and we encourage experimentation in the name of contemporary storytelling.That said, we urge writers to carefully consider their story and to use not a word more than strictly necessary.

Submissions can be on topics within or beyond the world of baseball, and should be on theme for the upcoming issue. There is a $10 honorarium per accepted submission. 

Poetry

Please send up to five poems per issue. We love baseball from all eras, but we would particularly like to see poems of a more contemporary style or subject matter. There is a $5 honorarium per poem.

Visual Art

We are interested in comics, illustrations, basically anything that you can think of that says something about baseball. Feel free to reach out with ideas, we love to be surprised. We are also looking for illustrators for our pieces. Please email us at:

scott@thetwinbill.com 

before submitting art. We do not publish photography.

Guidelines

There is a $3 submission fee. Writers retain all rights to their work. Please send all written submissions as a Word doc along with a short bio and any social media you want us to plug. We are only interested in previously unpublished work. Simultaneous submissions are fine, but please let us know if it is accepted elsewhere. We won't make any decisions until after the submission period has closed. Send any questions or ideas to:

scott@thetwinbill.com 

We would love to hear from you.

More information and submission link here.

Writing Competition: Marguerite McGlinn Prize for Fiction

Marguerite McGlinn Prize for Fiction

This is an annual national short fiction contest that features a first place $2,500 cash award and invitation to an awards dinner; a second place cash prize of $750; and a third place cash prize of $500. The winner stories will be published in the print issue of Fall of Philadelphia Stories. The Marguerite McGlinn Prize for Fiction is made possible by the generous support of the McGlinn and Hansma families. We especially encourage writers from underrepresented groups and backgrounds to send their work.

Contest Submission Guidelines: 

• Submit to the 2023 Marguerite McGlinn Fiction Contest until Monday, May 15, 2023.

• Previously unpublished works of fiction up to 8,000 words. Please note, “published” includes any work published in print or online, including online magazines, blogs, public social media sites, etc.

• Multiple submissions will be accepted for the contest only. Simultaneous submissions are also accepted, however, we must be notified immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere.

• Only authors currently residing in the United States are eligible.

• Submissions will only be accepted via the website. Please email PhiladelphiaStoriesContests@gmail.com if you are having any trouble with your submission.

• There is a $15 reading fee for each story submitted.

• All entrants will receive a complimentary copy of the Philadelphia Stories contest issue.

More information and submission link here.

Writing Competition: James Laughlin Award for Poetry

Offered since 1954, the James Laughlin Award is given to recognize and support a second book of poetry forthcoming in the next calendar year. The award was endowed in 1995 by a gift to the Academy from the Drue Heinz Trust. It is named for the poet and publisher James Laughlin (1914-1997), who founded New Directions in 1936.

The winning poet receives a prize of $5,000, an all-expenses-paid weeklong residency at The Betsy Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida, and distribution of the winning book to approximately one thousand Academy of American Poets members.

Submissions are accepted from January 1, 2023 to May 15, 2023 (11:59 p.m. ET). The judges for the 2023 James Laughlin Award are Leila Chatti, John Murillo, and Sam Sax.

 

For questions, contact:

 

awards@poets.org 

 

2023 James Laughlin Award - Eligibility Guidelines

• The James Laughlin Award is given to honor a second full-length print book of original poetry, in English, by a living poet, forthcoming in the next calendar year.

• Any poet who meets one of the below criteria on the date of the application deadline, in any given year, is eligible to apply: U.S. Citizen; resident of the United States for the ten-year period prior to the submission deadline, or; Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) status, Temporary Protected Status (TPS), Legal Permanent Status (LPS), or any subsequent categories designated by the U.S. authorities as conferring similar enhanced status upon non-citizens living in the United States.

• To be eligible, a book must be under contract with a U.S. publisher and scheduled to be published between January 1, 2024, and December 31, 2024. Winning books must be published by December 31, 2024.

• To be eligible, an author must have published one book of poetry in a standard edition (48 pages or more). The publication of chapbooks (less than 48 pages) does not disqualify an author.

• Entries must be at least 48 pages total (suggested length: 48 to 100 pages).

• Entries must be submitted in manuscript form (or page proofs) so the jury can review them without considering the books’ design. Galleys will not be accepted.

• To submit an entry, publishers must upload a PDF copy of the manuscript to Submittable. A completed entry form via Submittable signifying the publisher’s acceptance of these guidelines is required for each title submitted.

• There is no fee to enter.

• The winner will be announced in September 2023.

• The author’s name should not be included in running heads or appear on any page. Acknowledgements may be included.

• Submissions are welcome from small presses, university presses, and trade publishers that have previously published at least four books of poetry.

• Translations and new editions of previously published books are not eligible.

• Each entry must be accompanied by a completed entry form via Submittable signifying the publisher’s acceptance of these guidelines. The winner will be announced in September.

• The Academy of American Poets agrees to purchase approximately one thousand copies of the winning book for distribution to its members. The Academy of American Poets may purchase additional copies of the book for its own use, but not for resale. No royalties will be paid to the author on the copies purchased by the Academy of American Poets. The publisher agrees to sell to the Academy of American Poets the number of copies requested at a standard paper, printing, and binding, or at-cost discount.

• The publisher agrees to announce and publish the winning book as the Academy of American Poets James Laughlin Award Winner. The publisher also agrees to include a seal on all of the books, identifying the winning book as such. The Academy of American Poets will provide the publisher with the seal design as an electronic file. Any subsequent reprintings of the book must comply with the aforementioned stipulations.

The decisions of the Academy of American Poets regarding eligibility are final.

Please note: By law the Academy of American Poets must report cash prizes awarded to individuals to the Internal Revenue Service. If individuals have a Social Security Number (SSN) or an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN), the individual will receive a 1099. If the individual does not have an SSN or ITIN, the individual will receive a 1042 and could be subject to a withholding of a percentage of the cash prize.

 

More information and submission link here.

Writing Grant: 2023 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grants

The 2023 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant of $40,000 will be awarded to as many as ten writers in the process of completing a book-length work of deeply researched and imaginatively composed nonfiction for a general readership. It is intended for multiyear book projects requiring large amounts of deep and focused research, thinking, and writing at a crucial point mid-process, after significant work has been accomplished but when an extra infusion of support can make a difference in the ultimate shape and quality of the work.

Whiting welcomes applications for works of history, cultural or political reportage, biography, memoir, science, philosophy, criticism, food or travel writing, graphic nonfiction, and personal essays, among other categories. Again, the work should be intended for a general, not academic, adult reader. Self-help titles, historical fiction, textbooks, books primarily for a scholarly audience, and books for young readers are not eligible. Examples of the wide range of previous grantees can be found here.

Projects must be under contract with a publisher in Canada, the UK, or the US by April 25 to be eligible. Contracts with self-publishing companies are not eligible.
 

Writers must submit the following materials via the online application form by 11:59pm ET on Tuesday, April 25: 

• The original proposal that led to the contract with a publisher Up to 25,000 words from your draft. Please submit complete draft chapters, rather than short excerpts from across your book, to the extent the word count allows

• A statement of work yet to be completed

• A plan for use of funds

• A signed and dated contract (please note that to be eligible, books must be under contract with a Canadian, UK, or US publisher – unfortunately, we can make no exceptions to this requirement)

• A current resume

• A list of grants, fellowships, or other funding received for the book

• A letter of support from your publisher or editor

Each project under submission will have two first-round readers who will evaluate for substance and execution (while understanding that they are reading a work in progress). Finalists will be considered by a separate panel of judges who will evaluate for need in addition to substance and execution. Readers and judges will consist of experts in the field and will serve anonymously to shield them from any external pressures. The grantees will be announced in the fall.

Call for Submissions on Theme of "Subversion": Minerva Rising

 

Minerva Rising Press will be accepting poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction submissions for focused on the theme of Subversion.

Writers hold a superpower when it comes to undermining authority and breaking down systems of oppression. Our poetry, essays and stories carry the ideas and truths that influence necessary change in the world. What are the ways subversive behavior have shifted our direction? How have we rebelled against systemic racism, the patriarchy, discrimination in all forms? How do you define subversion, and how has it affected change in your life? How can it change and heal the planet? With this theme, we seek writers who can share stories, poems and essays showcasing the ways subversion has been and continues to be a necessary antidote to oppression within our own lives, our communities and the world.

Submissions will be open NOW through May 15. We look forward to reading your work.

Submission Guidelines

All work should address the theme of Subversion. Please no journalistic features, academic works or opinion pieces. We offer a contributor’s copy and a small stipend for accepted submissions. We purchase first publication rights. All other rights revert to the author upon publication. We only accept electronic submissions. Please, do not mail or fax submissions. Submissions received in this manner will not be acknowledged or considered.

Cover letters should briefly explain how you see your work connecting to this theme. For poetry, submit 1-5 poems (max. 10 pages) at a time. Poems may be single-spaced.

For fiction and nonfiction, please send only one story or one essay at a time, up to 7,000 words. (We will rarely run anything longer than seven thousand words. There’s no minimum word length). Prose submissions should be double-spaced.