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Weekly Round-up of Calls & Contests :: April 9, 2021

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It seems like April just started and will already be half over with next week. Weather is getting warmer, but is still teasing us by giving us the cold shoulder every now and then. While the weather is waffling, keep your submission goals strong. Check out these opportunities featured on NewPages this past week.

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.

Decolonial Passage. Issue 1: Migration and Movement. Art, photography, comics. No fee. Deadline: May 31, 2021.

Superpresent. Summer 2021 Issue: Mind at Play. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, photography, comics, reviews, interviews, audio, video. No fee. Deadline: June 1, 2021.

Submit to ABLE MUSE: A Review of Poetry, Prose & Art

Deadline: July 15, 2021
Able Muse is now accepting submissions for our forthcoming issue, Winter 2021/2022. Submit poetry, fiction, essays, book reviews, art, and photography. Submission opens yearly January 1 and closes July 15. Read our guidelines and submit at at our website. [Read more…] about Weekly Round-up of Calls & Contests :: April 9, 2021

Event :: Study Online with The Constellation, A Place for Writers

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Study Online with Great Writers Who Are Also Great Teachers

Deadline: Year-round
Location: Virtual
The Constellation, A Place for Writers provides innovative, online creative writing workshops that inspire, instruct, nurture, and challenge. Our acclaimed instructors offer classes in short fiction, novel, essay, memoir, poetry, children and young adult, literary translation, publishing, and hybrid forms. We host sessions for writers at all levels. The brainchild of award-winning and bestselling author Connie May Fowler, The Constellation is a global community of writers who support and elevate each other as they engage in the important work of honing their art and craft. In addition to workshops, The Constellation mentors weekly free prompts, write-ins, and more. Workshops begin this May.

Weekly Round-up of Calls & Contests :: April 2, 2021

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It’s Friday! Did you survive April Fool’s Day unscathed? Fingers crossed you did. Check out the submission opportunities featured on NewPages this past week and don’t forget to subscribe to our weekly newsletter for early access to calls, contests, writing programs, and literary events + our monthly eLitPak.

March 31 has passed and a handful of contests extended their deadline to next week! Plus, it’s April, don’t forget to check out our Big List of Writing Contests for upcoming deadlines.

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.

The Roadrunner Review. Issue 8. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art. No fee. Deadline: May 2, 2021.

Escutcheon Review. Inaugural Issue. Poetry. No fee. Deadline: May 30, 2021.

Tolsun Books. Chapbooks, full-length books. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, cross-genre, translations. $10-15 fee. Deadline: May 31, 2021.

Submit to ABLE MUSE: A Review of Poetry, Prose & Art

Deadline: July 15, 2021
 Able Muse is now accepting submissions for our forthcoming issue, Winter 2021/2022. Submit poetry, fiction, essays, book reviews, art, and photography. Submission opens yearly January 1 and closes July 15. Read our guidelines and submit at at our website.

CHESTNUT REVIEW (“for stubborn artists”) Invites Submissions Year Round

Submissions accepted year-round.
CHESTNUT REVIEW (“for stubborn artists”) invites submissions year round of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, art, and photography. We offer free submissions for poetry (3 poems), flash fiction (<1000 words), and art/photography (20 images); $5 submissions for fiction/nonfiction (<5k words), or 4-6 poems. Published artists receive $100 and a copy of the annual anthology of four issues (released each summer). Notification in <30 days or submission fee refunded. We appreciate stories in every genre we publish. All issues free online which illustrates what we have liked, but we are always ready to be surprised by the new! chestnutreview.com [Read more…] about Weekly Round-up of Calls & Contests :: April 2, 2021

Creative Nonfiction Offering 12 Classes This Spring

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Literary magazine Creative Nonfiction has currently announced their Spring 2021 courses. They are offering a total of 12 to help people achieve their writing goals.

Currently available courses are the Creative Nonfiction Boot Camp (5-week or 10-week); Thirty-Minute Memoir; Advanced Historical Narratives: Crafting the Best Material; Advanced Memoir: From First Sentence to Resolution; and Advanced Personal Essay: Finding a Way Through. The advanced courses do require you meet pre-requisites before enrolling.

These classes are offered completely online and will run April 12 through June 20, 2021.

Virtual Launch Reading for Able Muse Winter 2020/2021 Edition

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Picture collage with blue background and pictures of several peopleLiterary magazine Able Muse is celebrating the release of its new print edition with a virtual reading and Q&A session with the contributors and authors of Issue Number 28.

The event is hosted by poetry associated editor Nicole Caruso Garcia and will include fellow editors Alexander Pepple, Richard Wakefield, Karen Kevorkian, and N. S. Thompson. Contributors/readers include Bruce Bennett, Anna M. Evans, Dan Campion, Estill Pollock, J.C. Scharl, John Beaton, Susan McLean, Nageen Rather, L.M. Brown (who will be reading the winning story of the 2020 Able Muse Write Prize for Fiction), and N. S. Thompson.

The launch event will take place virtually via Zoom on April 3 from 3-4PM EDT. Attendance is free and everyone is welcome to join that wishes, too. You just have to register for the event first.

March 2021 eLitPak :: Get 15% Off Your First WritingWorkshops.com Class

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WritingWorkshops.com: Get 15% Off Your First Class!

Exclusive for NewPages fans: Get 15% off your first class at WritingWorkshops.com. Our classes are inclusive and intentionally small, offered on a rolling basis throughout the year, and taught by award-winning authors, agents, and editors. Use code NEWPAGES at checkout—but hurry, our upcoming classes are almost full! Discount expires 3/24/2021. Visit our website.

View the full March 2021 eLitPak Newsletter.

March 2021 eLitPak :: Take 10% off CARVE Online Writing Classes

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Use code NEWPAGES for 10% off CARVE’s group online writing classes with 6 weeks of lessons and peer critiques. Short Story Writing: Fundamentals starts March 29 and covers Character & Plot, Point of View, Dialogue, Inner Monologue, and Description. Short Story Writing: Techniques starts May 10 and covers Use of Senses, Imagery, Metaphors & Similes, Rhythm & Pacing, and Threading.

View the full March 2021 eLitPak Newsletter.

March 2021 eLitPak :: Foster a Connection with the Environment

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Explore Your Wild at the Elk River Writers Workshop

The Elk River Writers Workshop takes place at Chico Hot Springs, Montana, bringing together some of the country’s most celebrated nature writers with students who are serious about fostering a connection with the environment in their writing. This year, we are thrilled to welcome faculty members Rick Bass, Linda Hogan, J. Drew Lanham, William Pitt Root, and Pamela Uschuk.

View the full March 2021 eLitPak Newsletter.

March 2021 eLitPak :: 5th Annual Taos Writers Conference

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5th Annual Taos Writers Conference with Keynote Speaker, Luci Tapahonso

Join your fellow writers at the virtual 5th Annual Taos, New Mexico, Writers Conference on Zoom. Panel presentation on “Writing about Race, Class, Culture & Gender” plus over 20 workshops in all genres. Faculty include: Frank X Walker, CMarie Fuhrman, Levi Romero, Ari Honarvar, Stephanie Han, Jeremy Paden, Margaret Garcia and many more. Go to our website, call 575-758-0081, or email us.

View the full March 2021 eLitPak Newsletter.

February 2021 eLitPak :: WritingWorkshops.com

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Get 15% Off Your First Class!

Exclusive for NewPages fans: Get 15% off your first class at WritingWorkshops.com. Our classes are inclusive and intentionally small and taught by award-winning authors, agents, and editors. Use code NEWPAGES at checkout—but hurry, our upcoming classes are almost full! Discount expires 2/24/2021. Visit our website.

View the entire February eLitPak here. Don’t forget to subscribe to our newsletter to get first access to future eLitPaks.

February 2021 eLitPak :: CARVE Editing Workshop Begins March 15

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Registration Deadline: March 15, 2021
In this intensive all-remote workshop, you’ll spend 10 weeks working one-on-one with Carve’s publisher on up to 5 of your short stories or essays (4000 words max ea.) You’ll receive weekly edits and revise your stories or essays multiple times, culminating in submitting at least one polished story or essay to a tailored list of 10 lit mags or journals. www.carvezine.com.

View the entire February eLitPak here. Don’t forget to subscribe to our newsletter to get first access to future eLitPaks.