Deadline: October 1, 2021
Don’t forget the Missouri Review‘s 31st annual Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize is open through October 1. Winners in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction receive $5000 and publication, promotion, and an event to be determined later. All entries are considered for publication in TMR, or in our web-exclusive features, BLAST and/or Poem of the Week. Visit our website to learn more: www.missourireview.com/contests/jeffrey-e-smith-editors-prize/.
Event :: 18th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival
Application Deadline: November 15, 2021
Event Dates: January 10-15, 2022
Event Location: Virtual
18th Annual Virtual Palm Beach Poetry Festival, January 10-15, 2022. Focus on your work with America’s most engaging and award-winning poets. Workshops with Kim Addonizio, Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Chard deNiord, Mark Doty, Yona Harvey, John Murillo, Matthew Olzmann, and Diane Seuss. One-On-One Conferences with Lorna Blake, Sally Bliumis Dunn, Nickole Brown, Jessica Jacobs, and Angela Narciso Torres. A special Craft Talk by Kwame Dawes, Special Guest Poet, Yusef Komunyakaa. Poet-at-Large, Aimee Nezhukumatathil. To find out more, visit www.palmbeachpoetryfestival.org. Apply to attend a workshop by November 15.
Weekly Round-up of Calls & Contests :: September 24, 2021
Phew. A cold, rainy, dreary week is finally at a close. If you went through similar weather, did you spend more time indoors writing and submitting? Keep your submission goals strong and fine opportunities to finetune your craft with a roundup of the ads featured on the NewPage Classifieds this week. Don’t forget newsletter subscribers get a sneak peek first, so subscribe today!
Call for Submissions Round-up
You can view all active calls for submissions by visiting our website. Plus, if you have a young writer in your house, don’t forget you can find publications for them to submit to in our Young Writers Guide.
Sky Island Journal: Issue 18 (Fall 2021) Call for Submissions
Deadline: September 30, 2021
Sky Island Journal is an independent, international, free-access literary journal dedicated to publishing the finest poetry, flash fiction, and creative nonfiction. We publish accomplished, well-established authors—side by side—with fresh, emerging voices. We provide over 90,000 readers in 145 countries with a powerful, focused, advertising-free literary experience that transports them: one that challenges them intellectually and moves them emotionally. We publish quarterly, and our average response time is 9 days. Every submission receives a prompt, respectful response detailing what we appreciated. Enjoy our previous issues, and submit to our stunning Issue 18 before midnight on September 30th, at www.skyislandjournal.com.
Hole In The Head Review. Art, photograph, videography. $3 fee. Deadline: October 1, 2021.
Seeking 20 Word Quotations, Inclusion in Outdoor Exhibit, Cash Award
Deadline: October 6, 2021
Embracing Our Differences is seeking submissions for an outdoor juried art exhibit featuring 50 billboard size images paired with a quotation created by local, national, and international artists and writers. Entries can be no longer than 20 words and should be centered by our theme “enriching lives through diversity and inclusion.” The exhibit is displayed annually at Bayfront Park in downtown Sarasota and will be displayed from January 15 – April 10, 2022. A cash award of $1,000 is given for “Best Quotation.” www.embracingourdifferences.org/submit-a-quotation-2022-exhibit/
Garfield Lake Review. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, photography. No fee. Deadline: October 15, 2021.
Kings River Review. Fall 2021 Issue. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, photography, cross-genre, translations. No fee. Deadline: November 1, 2021. **Open to 2-year college students only!**
Nimrod. What Now? The Future We Make (Spring 2022 issue). Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, cross-genre, translation. $3 fee (online). Deadline: November 1, 2021.
Planisphere Q. “Dark Forest” issue. Fiction, poetry. No fee. Deadline: November 15, 2021. [Read more…] about Weekly Round-up of Calls & Contests :: September 24, 2021
Contest :: New Letters Editor’s Choice Award—$1,000 + Publication
Deadline: October 18, 2021
New Letters invites you to submit work that experiments and that crosses the traditional boundaries of genre and form to our Editor’s Choice Award. Enter your hybrid work—your lyric essays, prose poems, short-shorts, collages, micro-memoirs . . . whatever you’re doing that’s experimental, we want to see it. The winner will receive $1,000 plus publication in an issue of New Letters. www.newletters.org/editors-choice-award/
September 2021 eLitPak :: Watershed Review and Flume Press Contest Now Open for Submissions!
CSU, Chico’s literary publications—Watershed Review and Flume Press—are now open for submissions. After a decade-long hiatus, we’re excited to bring back the annual Flume Press Chapbook Contest, accepting work in poetry, prose, and hybrid forms.
September 2021 eLitPak :: Come to the 22nd Annual Taos Storytelling Festival
Our 22nd Annual Taos Storytelling Festival features a two hour workshop by Cisco Guevara on “The Art of Storytelling,” a free community story swap, and an evening of ten featured tellers competing for cash prizes on the theme of “Transformations.” Judges are Cisco Guevara, Sarah Malone, & David McDonnell. For registration and schedule view our website, call 575-758-0081, or send us an email.
September 2021 eLitPak :: 20% off Your First Class at Caesura Poetry Workshop
Caesura Poetry Workshop aims to inspire, educate, and energize poets of all backgrounds through affordable Zoom workshops hosted by award-winning poet John Sibley Williams. Workshops include poem analysis, group discussion, writing prompts, poem critiques, and writing time. Come join our growing community! 1-1 personalized workshops, coaching, and manuscript critiques to keep you writing and inspired also available. More information here.
September 2021 eLitPak :: The Gival Press Poetry Award
2021 Deadline is December 15
The 20th Gival Press Poetry Award, with a prize of $1,000 plus book publication in 2022, deadline is December 15, 2021. Original, unpublished manuscripts of 45+ pages in any style are acceptable. Visit: Submittable for complete details, to pay $20 reading fee, and to upload your manuscript.
September 2021 eLitPak :: Tartt First Fiction Award
This year’s co-winners were Judy Juanita of Oakland, CA. and Schuyler Dickson of Houlka, MS. Their respective books will come out in June. The deadline for the new contest is December 31. Please see our website for details. And see our forthcoming books, also. Credit cards accepted.
September 2021 eLitPak :: The Caribbean Writer is Open for Artwork and Creative Submissions
TCW is especially inviting artwork to grace the next cover and interior sections of Volume 36 under the 2021 theme: “Disruption, Disguise and Illuminations.” Increasingly, as history meets day to day experiences, epiphanies unfold. And as we self-interrogate the disruption motifs in many of these illuminations, the roots of prevailing disruptions emerge, complicated by disguise. We’re exploring the widest permutations.
September 2021 eLitPak :: Find Your Story Here
MFA in Creative Writing at UNCG
Application deadline: January 1, 2022
UNC Greensboro’s MFA is a two-year residency program offering fully funded assistantships with stipends. Students work closely with faculty in one-on-one tutorials and develop their craft in a lifelong community of writers. UNCG offers courses in poetry, fiction, publishing, and creative nonfiction, plus opportunities in college teaching and editorial work for The Greensboro Review. More at our website.