Summer 2013

•  Lakeshore Writers 9-Week Creative Writing Workshops and Call for Submissions!

  There's still a chance to grab one of the remaining spots in the Fall workshops starting next week. I'm also offering the Introduction to Creative Writing Class again this fall and have one spot available.

  Reminder: Call For Submissions: October 19th is the deadline for submitting work for consideration in The Lakeshore, a literary magazine featuring work by Lakeshore Writers. 

   

• The Missouri Review Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize contest.

  We are proud of the fact that many of our contest-winning entries have been first publications, and we look forward to more. Some of the past emerging writers who won the prize include:

  Michael Byers, “Settled on the Cranberry Coast”, winner of our fiction 1994 prize

  Anne Miano, “The Oboist”, winner of our fiction 1997 prize

  Rachel Hiller Pratt, “Negotiating Bride Price”, 2003 essay prize winner

  Yuko Sakata, “Unintended”, 2012 fiction prize winner

  poet Derek Mong, fiction-writer Joanna Luloff and essayist Erica Bleeg, all first time publications and winners in our 2006 issue. 

  Again, don’t forget that your $20 entry fee gets you a one-year subscription to The Missouri Review. Subscriptions are available in print or digital versions. Our downloadable digital subscription includes a full-length audio version of the journal.  You can find more information about the contest through our website: http://www.missourireview.com/tmrsubmissions/editors-prize-contest/

  The deadline is October 1st, 2013, and we accept submissions online or by mail. Winners will be announced in January of 2014. We look forward to reading your entries!

• The Oklahoma Review will be accepting submissions in fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry until October 15.

  Submissions may be sent via email to okreview@cameron.edu.

  All works must be submitted electronically to okreview@cameron.edu. Files should be sent as email attachments in either .doc or .rtf format. If an attachment is impossible, writers may submit their work in the body of their email messages, noting specific format criteria when necessary. When sending multiple submissions (e.g. five poems), please include all the work in a single file. Indicate in the file name: your name and the title(s) in the following format (Author--Title of Piece). If you have any questions, please email Dr. Bayard Godsave at bgodsave@cameron.edu.

  Authors should provide a cover paragraph with a short biography in the body of their email. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable. Please indicate in your cover letter if your work is under consideration elsewhere. If your work is accepted by another publication, please let us know immediately.

  We will neither consider nor return any submissions turned in via hard copy. Writers may submit the following:

  •One piece of fiction, not surpassing twenty five (25) total pages

  •One piece of nonfiction, not surpassing twenty five (25) total pages

  •As many as five (5) pieces of poetry or translation

• So to Speak: a feminist journal of language and art is now accepting submissions for our Spring 2014 issue.

  This issue of So to Speak will feature our poetry and nonfiction contest winners, as well as fiction.  Submissions will be accepted from August 15 through October 15 through our online submissions manager.

  The contest judge for the Spring 2014 Poetry Contest is Beth Ann Fennelly, and the judge for the Spring 2014 Nonfiction Contest is Jana Richman.  Winners will receive prize money and publication in the magazine; other finalists will also be published.  The contest entry fee of $15 includes a free copy of the Spring 2014 issue for all entrants.  Full submission guidelines are available at our website.

  So to Speak, founded in 1993 by an editorial collective of women MFA candidates at George Mason University, has served as a space for feminist writing and art for nearly 18 years.  So to Speak publishes poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and visual art that live up to a high standard of language, form, and meaning.  We look for work that addresses issues of significance to women’s lives and movements for women’s equality and are especially interested in pieces that explore issues of race, class, and sexuality in relation to gender.

  To read the kind of work So to Speak publishes, please visit our website, where you can find the free Summer 2013 Online Issue, and where you can find information about how to subscribe to the magazine.

• CORK WRITERS’ SCHOOL 2014, MITCHELSTOWN, CO CORK, IRELAND

  The goal of this two-week program is to celebrate the concentration in Cork of a rich literary and cultural history and to offer to participants a unique educational and creative opportunity in this historic part of Ireland.

  See our website www.corkwritersschool.com for full details.

  Bookings are welcome from individuals or groups of any size.

  For scholarships and concessions to visiting academics see “News and Announcements” on our home page.

• 2013 Lindsay Wildlife Museum Wild About Writers Prize for Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry

Prizes Awarded for

$100 Fiction | $100 Poetry | $100 Non-Fiction

Each category will have five finalists. All finalists will receive non-cash prizes and ribbons attached to their name tags at the conference. From the five finalists, a first-place winner will be selected for the additional cash prize, with the invitation to read at the Wine and Cheese Mingle.

Complete guidelines and submission details here.  October 5, 2013 deadline.

• THE END IS NIGH: A Researched Prose Contest from the Carolina Quarterly

  Send us your dispatches about anxious endings, anticipated apocalypses, doomsday prepping, or getting right with God and family before it all comes crashing down. Or tell us about the aftermath of a less-than-total cataclysm. How do you move on after you literally (or figuratively) bet it all on END.
   
  Pieces should incorporate travel experience, archival research, ethnographic observation, interviews, technical vocabulary from specialized professions, schematics for future technologies, or otherwise explore the vast, undocumented wilderness that lies beyond contemporary fiction and nonfiction’s manicured, clearly demarcated backyards.
   
  Contest ends at midnight EST, December 31, 2013. No more than 5000 words per submission. Author name and contact information should appear on the cover letter, but nowhere else on the submission.
   
  The grand prize winner will receive $1000. Three runners-up will receive $150 each. All winners will be published in an upcoming issue and featured in our online edition.
   
  Guidelines:
  Contest entry fee is $15, or $25 with a one-year subscription to the Quarterly (Just a buck more than the regular price!).
   
  To submit, go here: https://www.tellitslant.com/home/journal_details/21
   
  Or mail your entry, fee, and a SASE to THE END IS NIGH, Carolina Quarterly, 510 Greenlaw Hall, CB# 3520, UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599.

• PHILIP LEVINE POETRY BOOK PRIZE 2013

  $2000 prize and book publication by Anhinga Press
   
  Final Judge: PHILIP LEVINE
   
  Postmark Deadline: 9/30/2013
   
  Manuscript should be original poetry, not previously published in book form, 48-100 pages, no more than one poem per page. Include two manuscript title pages: one with name and contact information and one with the name of the manuscript ONLY. Manuscripts are screened and judged anonymously. Multiple submissions are fine as long as the manuscript is withdrawn immediately upon its acceptance elsewhere. The entry fee is $25. Checks should be made out to “Fresno State (Levine Prize).” 
   
  Poets can submit more than one manuscript, but each will be considered a separate entry and must be accompanied by the $25 fee. Online payments can be made via credit or debit card at : http://www.fresnostate.edu/artshum/english/graduate/mfa/levine.html 
   
  Mail Entries to: Philip Levine Prize in Poetry Department of English, Mail Stop PB 98 5245 N. Backer Ave. California State University, Fresno, Fresno, California 93740-8001
   
  For more details visit: http://www.fresnostate.edu/artshum/english/graduate/mfa/levine.html 
  or email  connieh@csufresno.edu

• Ninth Letter Call For Submissions Graduate & Undergraduate Writers

Ninth Letter will be accepting submissions of fiction and poetry from students currently enrolled in a creative writing program for a special online edition to be published at ninthletter.com in Winter 2013-14. Graduate and undergraduate students are invited to send work. Submissions will be open to November 1.

Complete details and submissions guidelines here.

• Kelsey Street Press Announces 2013 Firsts!

ELIGIBILITY
The contest is open to women writers who have never published a full-length book of poetry. Our definition of “woman” is broad and includes transsexual, transgender, and genderqueer individuals. This year current and former students and close friends of Elizabeth Robinson may not submit manuscripts to the contest.

Complete guidelines and submissions details here.

• Career Counseling for Recent Graduates

• Just 20 days left to submit your residency application to the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts!

Want to spend 2 - 8 weeks focusing solely on your creative process? Apply by September 1 for a residency at the KHN Center in historic Nebraska City! Now accepting apps for spots between January - June 2014.

Submission details here.

• The Department of English at the University of Minnesota invites applications for these assistant professorships: tenure-track, 2/2 course load, beginning fall semester 2014

(1) Approved Hire for Assistant Professor of Creative Writing -- Creative Nonfiction

(2) Possible Hire for Assistant Professor of Creative Writing -- Fiction

Required qualifications: (1) Terminal degree in Creative Writing (MA, MFA, or PhD) or English (PhD), in hand by July 1, 2014; (2) one volume in primary specialization (literary nonfiction or fiction) published with a national press; (3) college/university-level teaching experience.

Preferred qualifications: experience/expertise in other creative genres (e.g. poetry, drama, screenwriting) and/or editing/publishing; evidence of potential for continued success as a published writer; ability to work with graduate students individually and to direct MFA theses; and ability to teach courses in undergraduate creative writing and literature.

The university expects faculty members to continue to publish, teach undergraduate and graduate courses, advise students, and contribute service to the department, college, university, and profession. Applicants must apply online at https://employment.umn.edu/applicants/jsp/shared/search/Search_css.jsp requisition #185848 On-line applications can begin on August 12.

Provide a cover letter, a CV, 20-25 pages of literary nonfiction or fiction, and syllabi for two courses taught. To be assured full consideration, deadline is Oct 14. Selected applicants will be contacted at a later date for 3 letters of recommendation, published book, and for preliminary interviews via Skype. The University of Minnesota is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
--
Kathleen Glasgow
Coordinator, Creative Writing Program
University of Minnesota
Department of English
kglasgow@umn.edu<mailto:kglasgow@umn.edu>
612-625-4360
http://creativewriting.umn.edu/

• Gulf Coast's 2013 Barthelme Prize for Short Prose

There's only one month left to enter Gulf Coast's 2013 Barthelme Prize for Short Prose, judged by Robert Coover. The contest is open to pieces of prose poetry, flash fiction, and micro-essays of 500 words or fewer. Established in 2008, the contest awards its winner $1,000 and publication in the journal. Two honorable mentions will each receive $250 and also appear in issue 26.2, due out in April 2014, and all entries will be considered for paid publication on our website as Online Exclusives.

Click here for more information about how to enter.

• Aesthetica Creative Writing Competition 2013: One Month to Go!

There’s only one month left to enter the Aesthetica Creative Writing Competition, which offers both existing and aspiring writers the chance to showcase their work to a wider, international audience. Now in its sixth year, the competition celebrates and nurtures creative talent, inviting writers to submit imaginative and original work in either category for entry: Poetry or Short Fiction.

Prizes include £500 prize money, publication in the Aesthetica Creative Writing Annual and a selection of books from partner organisations. Submissions previously published elsewhere are accepted and the deadline for entries is 31 August 2013.

For more information please visit www.aestheticamagazine.com/creativewriting.

• Volunteer Teach for Prison University Project

If you are seriously interested in the opportunity there is an Orientation/Training being offered for new and prospective volunteers this Saturday, July 27, 2013 from 10a-2p.  Please email info@prisonuniversityproject.org to RSVP and for details.

Attendance at a training before the start of the semester is required for all volunteers. Note that if you have already attended an orientation session, you do not have to attend another.

• SOL: English Writing in Mexico CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

SOL, the online literary magazine (as well as hard copy available at Amazon.com) originating in the quaint colonial town of San Miguel de Allende in Mexico, requests submissions in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

NEW DEADLINE FOR THE OCTOBER 2013 issue: September 1. Your writing does not have to be about Mexico. Our three submission categories are:

a) people writing in English in Mexico

b) people writing in English about Mexico and

c) We Like It! Previously published submissions in SOL have included stories set in locations around the world.

Complete details and submission guidelines here

• Narrative Spring 2013 Story Contest

Our spring contest is open to all fiction and nonfiction writers. We’re looking for short shorts, short stories, essays, memoirs, photo essays, graphic stories, all forms of literary nonfiction, and excerpts from longer works of both fiction and nonfiction. Entries must be previously unpublished, no longer than 15,000 words, and must not have been previously chosen as a winner, finalist, or honorable mention in another contest.

Complete details & submission guidelines here

• Narrative Fifth Annual Poetry Contest
  

• Typist Opportunity

A local author is looking for someone to assist as a typist.  Chapters would be submitted to typist in handwriting, and typist would then type the text as written into Microsoft Word and email the document to the author's editor.  The book is about basketball and will include a lot of basketball/sports jargon, so the typist should be familiar with sports writing and preferably have foundational basketball knowledge.  Please submit resumes and a brief bio to Justine Jameson at js21@stmarys-ca.edu. 

Payment is hourly, and between $12 and $20 an hour depending on experience.  DEADLINE TO APPLY IS TUESDAY, JULY 23, 2013.

• Gold Line Press's 2013 Poetry & Fiction Chapbook Competitions are now open for submissions! 

Submit your manuscript on or before AUGUST 31, 2013

Each winner receives $500, publication of her/his perfect-bound chapbook with ISBN, and 10 contributor copies.Gold Line Press sends out an additional 30 copies on behalf of winners to respected literary venues for review. Winners can purchase additional copies of their chapbooks at cost.

Complete details & submission guidelines here

• Three Tupelo Press Opportunities

July Open Submission Guidelines

Throughout the month of July, Tupelo Press will hold open submissions for book-length poetry collections (48-90 pages) and chapbook-length poetry collections (20-47 pages). Selected manuscripts will receive publication by Tupelo Press, a book launch, and national distribution with energetic publicity and promotion. Please read the complete guidelines before submitting your manuscript.

Complete details & submissions guidelines here

Tupelo Quarterly Inaugural Poetry Contest Guidelines

Deadline: August 15, 2013

Judge: Ilya Kaminsky

First prize: $1,000

Complete details & submission guidelines here

The Sunken Garden Poetry Prize is a prestigious national poetry prize for adult writers. Established in 2002, the Prize has drawn submissions from around the country that have been judged by renowned poets such as Martha Collins, Patricia Smith and Tony Hoagland. The winner receives a cash prize, an introductory reading at the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival (check out the Festival here: www.sunkengardenpoetry.org), and publication of a chapbook. Beginning in 2013, Hill-Stead will partner with Tupelo Press for the publication of the chapbook.

Complete details & submission guidelines here

• The Department of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison seeks a fiction writer at the rank of assistant professor (tenure-track)

• The Bay School of San Francisco is hiring a Writing & Literature Instructor

• BANG OUT's current submission period is now OPEN until August 15th.

  BANG OUT Volume XXII: “Song” will be Saturday, October 19th at Litquake's annual Lit Crawl, arguably the best night for readings in the Bay Area all year. 

  The theme for the reading is "Song."

  Before the written word, literature it was oral, performed or in song. All our best songwriters are gifted poets and storytellers and the rhythms and refrains of song are present in our best written words. 

  BANG OUT Volume XXII: "Song" is a celebration of storytelling and lyric and through a musical lens. The loose requirements for this theme are that you write a maximum of 1,000 words of fiction, poetry or essay either 1. written to be a song, or 2. about songs.

  Your pieces can be played, sung or simply read at our event during Litquake's Lit Crawl on October 19th.

  Please only submit if you are not already booked to participate in any Litquake events, and are available to read on Saturday, October 19th.

  We will be accepting submissions until August 15th. 

  Send submissions, attached as a Word document, to: submissions@bangoutsf.com

  We will contact you by email to let you know if your work has been accepted.

• Babbling Creek Review Seeking Submissions

Alumna and Editor-in-Chief, Bethany Ruthnick (creative nonfiction, 2013) has just launched this cool, new E-Zine!  Congrats on this huge accomplishment, Bethany!  Here’s what she’s looking for:

1.) Original work. Nothing borrowed or lifted (aka plagiarized). This should really be a huge Duh, but I'll throw it out there just in case.

2.) We want first run work. If it's been published somewhere else (online or print), sorry we'll have to pass. Beside do you really want the same piece out there in multiple places, all confused and bug eyed, and not at all sure which lit mag to run to when it gets lost? If you've been published elsewhere, good on you. Now sit back down and write something else -something amazing- and send that our way instead.

3.) We will only consider submissions that are sent via email. Please send your stuff to: BabblingCreekReview@gmail.com   Please include the title of your piece, along with the word Submissions in the subject line. Example: A Thirsty Toad, Submissions. If you leave out one, or the other, or both (& "WTH" is your problem, buddy?) the piece will be discarded. We will not respond to inquiries about the status of a submission. But rest assured that if you have submitted, we will get back to you. Be patient. We'll be in touch in four to six weeks.

For more information check out their website!

• Aesthetica Creative Writing Competition Call for Entries: Open for Entries

The Aesthetica Creative Writing Competition offers both existing and aspiring writers the chance to showcase their work to a wider, international audience. Now in its sixth year, the competition celebrates and nurtures creative talent, inviting writers to submit imaginative and original work in either category for entry: Poetry or Short Fiction.

Prizes include £500 prize money, publication in the Aesthetica Creative Writing Annual and a selection of books from partner organisations. Submissions previously published elsewhere are accepted and the deadline for entries is 31 August 2013. For more information please visit www.aestheticamagazine.com/creativewriting.

• The Mosaic Company is hiring! Open House in San Ramon

Wednesday, July 10th
5-7 pm

3170 Crow Canyon Place, Ste 200
San Ramon, CA  94583

** We will be serving light appetizers and  non-alcoholic beverages

*** Raffle prize drawings

We are a dynamic organization, focused on training and consulting for energy and utility organizations in the United States and Canada. We are hiring in San Ramon & Walnut Creek!
Come meet with Mosaic’s Hiring team.

We are currently hiring for the following positions:
•  Instructional Design Consultants
•  Senior Instructional Design Consultants
•  Project Managers
•  Technical Writers
•  Change Management Consultants
•  Junior Instructional Design Consultants

Please let me know if you have any questions.  The parking is also free…Crow Canyon Road exit off of 680 freeway.

Jill Howard is local in the SF East Bay working remote for Mosaic, her cell is 925-785-1107 and email jillh@themosaiccompany.com.  LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jill-howard/13/409/2b6

2013’s Mosaic: Seven Small Jewels in Consulting Magazine

If anyone has an immediate job need, they can also contact me directly, that’s perfectly fine.

• Women Who Write 2013 International Poetry & Short Prose Contest

Women Who Write Inc.’s 2013 International Poetry & Short Prose Contest is accepting entries through June 30. The contest is open to all women ages 18 and above.

There is a $12 entry fee for each prose piece submitted, or for up to two poems. Prose pieces may be fiction or nonfiction and are limited to 3,000 words max.

First prize is $300, second $200 and third $100. Prizes will be awarded in each category, and winners will also be published in Calliope, the annual anthology of Women Who Write.

Complete Submmission Guidelines

• Kentucky Women Writers Conference

Each year the Kentucky Women Writers Conference offers opportunities for both emerging and established voices to be singled out and cheered on by our community. The Betty Gabehart Prize honors our good friend, patron, and former director who led the conference during its seminal decade in the 1980s. One winner is chosen in each genre--poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction--by pairs of judges from our Board of Advisors. Each winner receives $200, two tickets to the conference on September 20-21, 2013, and a reading during the conference.

Complete Submission Guidelines

• Four Way Books June Reading Period

In June, we read full-length poetry collections and novellas or short story collections. We do not read novels, translations, non-fiction.

During our June reading period, manuscripts are selected by the editors of Four Way Books.

Each manuscript may be mailed by June 30, 2013, or submitted online between June 1 and midnight PST / 3 AM EST on July 1, 2013, accompanied by a $28.00 processing fee made online or by check or money order made out to Four Way Books.

Complete Submission Guidelines

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• Subito Press Book Prize
  

for full-length collections of poetry & prose

Poetry Judge: Julie Carr

Fiction Judge: Stephen Graham Jones

Submissions are open from June 15th to August 15th. 

Reading Fee is $20.

Submission details

• Barrow Street Poetry Prize June 30 Deadline

• NANO Fiction Fifth Annual NANO Prize

The Fifth Annual NANO Prize, awarding publication and $500 to a previously unpublished work of fiction 300 words or fewer, is open!

All entrants will receive a one year subscription to NANO Fiction and winners will be announced in September.

Submission details

• Ether Books Writing Competition

We are currently running three writing competitions. All are Flash Fiction/non-Fiction and free to enter:

1. 18-25 Summer Shorts 2013
This is a downloads based competition. The story with the highest number of downloads wins.
Prize: £50 for first place and top three will receive premium-level Ether Writer Membership.

2. Journeys Flash Competition
This is a judged competition. Our panel of five judges will decide the winner.
Prize: £50 for first place and top three will receive formal reviews from each of the five judges.

3. Twisted Tales
We are hosting this competition in conjunction with Raging Aardvark Publishing.
Winning entries will be published in ebook and printed formats.

Full details and how to submit here.

• Marketing and Communications Assistant Position at SFMOMA

This is a union position subject to the provisions of the collective bargaining agreement.

As the initial department contact both inside and outside the organization, the Marketing and Communications Assistant is a key position, responsible for providing administrative support for the M&C department and coordinating a wide range of projects as assigned by the M&C staff. S/He reports to the Director of Marketing and Communications.

DEADLINE TO APPLY IS JUNE 21, 2013.  Further details & how to apply here.

• The Song Cave hosting an open call for manuscripts 

Accepting submissions in poetry/essay/translation from July 1st through July 31st!

Full submission details will be announced on July 1st. We'll see you then... Now get to work!

http://main.the-song-cave.com/

• The Kenyon Review Fellowships

This two-year post-graduate residential fellowship at Kenyon College offers qualified individuals time to develop as writers, teachers, and editors. Fellows will receive a $32,500 stipend, plus health benefits.

September 1st – October 1st, 2013 • Application Period

Complete details and how to apply here!

• Call for Papers and Creative Presentations, 2013 John R. Milton Writers’ Conference

Please join us for the biennial John R. Milton Writers’ Conference: A Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of South Dakota Review, held October 31-November 2, 2013, at The University of South Dakota in Vermillion, South Dakota.

In celebration of the 50th Anniversary of South Dakota Review, we are seeking panel proposals, roundtable proposals, and scholarly papers related (either explicitly or implicitly) to the theme of Memory, Remembrance, Commemoration and the American West.

Complete details and submission guidelines here.

• Applied Research Center is hiring

• Flying Object is hiring

Full-time permanent position available September 1st:  Managing Director

Flying Object is seeking an experienced Managing Director to handle the day-to-day management of the organization. This full-time position reports to the Executive Director. The Managing Director is a new position within the organization.

Flying Object is a nationally known literary and visual arts center centrally located in the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts between Amherst and Northampton. Flying Object’s major program areas include its work as a publisher (Factory Hollow Press), production of an annual literary festival and bookfair (ifbookthen festival), as well as a residency program (ResidencyX), all of which are actively being developed. Additionally, the organization serves as an intimate venue for events and performances, exhibitions, workshops, a contemporary poetry archive, and other activities.

See full details and how to apply here:  http://www.flying-object.org/2013/05/flying-object-is-hiring/

Spring 2013

• Best New Poests 2013 Open Competition

I am pleased to announce that we have extended the deadline for the Best New Poets 2013 Open Competition. 

Eligible poets have until Saturday, May 25 to submit their work for consideration by guest editor Brenda Shaughnessy.

Best New Poets is an annual anthology of 50 poems from emerging writers who have not yet published a full-length collection of poetry. You can read the full eligibility rules at http://bestnewpoets.org/eligibility.

•  William Faulkner - William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition

A competitive talent search open to all writing in English, the William Faulkner - William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition is for previously unpublished work. Self-published and print-on-demand books are considered published. Books, stories, essays previously published in their entirety on the Internet are considered published. Collections are not accepted in any category.

Entries are accepted now in eight categories: Novel, Novella, book-length Narrative Non-Fiction, Novel-in-Progress, Short Story, Essay, Poetry, and Short Story by a High School Student. Overall goals of the competition are to seek out new, talented writers and assist them in finding literary agents and, ultimately, publishers for their work.

DEADLINE IS WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 2013.  Complete contest guidelines here.

• Ahsahta's third annual chapbook contest!

  This year's contest will be judged by K. Silem Mohammad. The prize is $1,000 + 100 copies of the chapbook, which will also be available through our website. (Check out our previous chapbooks by Janaka Stucky, Jasmine Dreame Wagner, and Farid Matuk at ahsahtapress.org.)

  We're looking for manuscripts from 25-40 pages long. The full description of the rules is at ahsahtapress.org/secure/submissions/, which also hosts the Submission Manager.

• The 2013 Blake Poetry Prize is now open and accepting entries. Entries close Friday 14 June.

  If you’re interested in entering your poem, you can download and fill in the2013 Blake Entry Form and follow the submission guidelines on the flyer. You can find the answers to the most frequently asked questions here.

  Presented by the NSW Writers’ Centre and the Blake Society, the $5,000 Prize is named for visionary artist and poet William Blake, and was established to give Australian poets new possibilities to explore religion and spirituality in the twenty-first century.

  The judges for the 2013 prize are renowned Australian poets Robert Adamson, Michelle Cahill and Eileen Chong.

•  Doire Press is pleased to announce its 2013 International Poetry Chapbook Competition! 

  Winners will each receive 75 copies of their own professionally edited and printed chapbook published by Doire Press.  Chapbooks will be perfect-bound, contain up to 40 pages, feature color front and back covers, as well as their own isbn and barcode.

  Ten shortlisted writers will be included in an anthology.

  Entries: 3 poems per entry (6 pages max)

  Deadline: May 29th, 2013

  To read the full list of contest guidelines, submit via email or to pay by Paypal, please visit our website at www.doirepress.com

   

• Omindawn is delighted to announce BAX: Best American Experimental Writing Anthology is now open for submissions!

  The Best American Experimental Writing anthology ("BAX" for short) will 

  be an annual anthology of approximately 200 pages. The first issue will be 

  published in the spring of 2014 by Omnidawn Publishing. The Guest Editor, 

  Cole Swensen, will choose 60% of the content; the Series Editors, Seth 

  Abramson and Jesse Damiani, will select 20% of the content, and at least 

  20% of the content will be chosen by the Guest Editor and Series Editors 

  from submissions received via the submission process described below.  

  The cost for a submission is $9 for three pieces of writing or nine pages 

  (whichever is fewer). If you have ever been a colleague, student, and/ 

  or close friend of the Guest Editor (for 2013: Cole Swensen) or the Series 

  Editors (for 2013 and beyond: Seth Abramson and Jesse Damiani) there is a 

  question on the Omnidawn Submittable web page where you can indicate 

  any Editors with whom you have had such a relationship so your submission 

  can be read by someone other than the Editor(s) you know. Selections for 

  the anthology will be announced publicly in spring 2014, though authors

  whose work is selected will be notified electronically in winter 2013-14.

  For full guidelines visit www.omnidawn.com/bax

   

• WritersCorps is hiring creative writing teaching artists the 2013-14 academic year!

  Applications are due on May 20th 

  http://bit.ly/mknod4 

  We will also have an informal meet n' greet session on April 13th at our Poetry Projection Project event at YBCA (701 Mission Street) at 2 pm. This is a short film program that we've been doing for the past 3 years. Following the event, there will be a reception, and WritersCorps staff and current teaching artists will be there to meet applicants and answer any questions.

  http://bit.ly/15I8P3o

• The Captive Muse:  A Workshop on Creativity and What Gets in Its Way

  with Susan Kolodny, DMH, MFA

  Sunday, April 28, l:00-5:00 p.m.

  Dream Institute of Northern California

  1672 University Avenue, Berkeley 94703

  For information or to register:

    (5l0) 845-1767       

    dreaminstitute@gmail.com

  Workshop: 

  Those who do creative work, or want to, often encounter internal obstacles to that work.

  Some of these are expressions of the fears and anxieties that inevitably accompany the creative process. In this workshop, we will meet and name the inner voices that may berate, disparage, 

  or distract when we would paint, sculpt, or write. We will consider what constitutes “helpers” and can contribute to a sense of safety that can allow us to proceed. Although the focus will be on creativity in the arts and writing, the workshop will have bearing on other creative pursuits.

  Psychotherapists and others who work with creative individuals will gain a deeper understanding of the anxieties creative people often experience and ways these may be better understood, tamed, and so made tolerable. Part experiential, part didactic.

  $45 ($55 with Continuing Education Units for Psychotherapists)

  Open to the public.

  Workshop Leader:

  Susan Kolodny is a psychoanalyst practicing in Oakland where she works with artists, writers, and others in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. She is the author of The Captive Muse: On Creativity and Its Inhibition (PsychoSocial Press, 2000). She is also a poet whose work appears in many literary journals and anthologies and has been featured on Poetry Daily and American Life in Poetry. Her first collection, After the Firestorm, was published in 2011 by Mayapple Press. Dr. Kolodny is Member and Faculty at SFCP and a Personal Analyst at PINC. She has lectured widely, taught courses, and conducted workshops on various aspects of creativity and its inhibition.

• Inclusive feminist chapbook contest!

  Gazing Grain Press, an inclusive feminist press sponsored by the Fall for the Book literary festival, seeks submissions for its annual chapbook contest.  Writers of any gender or sexuality are welcome to submit.

  Judge: Cathy Park Hong

  Genres accepted: Poetry and hybrid texts 

  Reading Period: March 15 - June 1, 2013

  Length: 15-25 page manuscripts

  Reading fees begin at $16, with options for discounted catalog titles

  For more information visit http://gazinggrainpress.wordpress.com

• Upcoming deadline!

  Family Matters. 

  First place: $1,500 and publication in Glimmer Train. 

  Deadline: April 30.

  Entries tend to run from 1,000 to 5,000 words, but all lengths up to 12,000 words are welcome.

  We invite stories about families of all configurations. 

  Writing Guidelines can be found at http://www.glimmertrain.com/familymatters.html

  People spend much of their lives trying to repress and hide things, and I've come to feel that it's the business of fiction to bring up to visibility those things that families and social groups and individuals habitually hide.—Charles Baxter, interviewed by Jeremiah Chamberlin.

• Win a $750 scholarship to the Community of Writers week-long writing workshop and publication in Moonshine Ink!

  You must live within 105-mile radius of Downtown Truckee and be accepted as a participant to the Community of Writers summer workshops.

  Workshop Application Deadline:

  April 5, 2013

  Contest Submission Deadline: 

  April 29, 2013

  Poetry Workshop Dates: 

  June 22 - 29, 2013 (Sat-Sat)

  Writers Workshop Dates: 

  July 8 - 15, 2013 (Mon-Mon)

  Contest Guidelines:

  The Tahoe region should play an integral and identifiable role in your submission.

  The submission should be no more than 500 words, but it can be a self-contained piece or an excerpt from current work. If an excerpt, the work should be able to stand on its own celebrating the local community/region. 

  Accepted genres are fiction, creative nonfiction, memoir, or poetry.

  For more information about the contest visit www.the-y-foundation.org

• Ballot Press is having a $2,000 monthly writing contest!

  How the contest works:

  First, writers submit a complete manuscript after agreeing to the contest rules and terms of service. Then, the writer selects 1,500 words or less to be posted on BallotPress.com. And like a private writers’ group, readers can then critique the work and vote from one to five on each entry.

  All entries are open to votes for 30 days, regardless of when they are submitted. There are no entry fees and unless the work is a contest winner selected for publishing, the author retains all rights to their work.

  The top entries, in their entirety, will be judged by a Ballot Press jury. Each month, at least one winner will receive $2,000.

  If selected by the judges for publishing, the work will be professionally edited with the writer being responsible for requested rewrites, then copy edited. Next, the book will be published and promoted by Ballot Press with writers earning 50 percent of the net profits. Costs do not include Ballot Press operating costs, including our marketer’s salaries.

  Further details can be found at BallotPress.com

• Paper Darts Short Fiction Award!

  Write Words.  Make Money.

  Entree fee: $6

  Judge: Elliot Holt

  Word Limit: 800

  Deadline: 5-15-2013

  $800 for 800 Words.  Plus, the winning story will appear fully illustrated, all beautified and sexy on its very own custom website. 

  For submission details visit http://paperdarts.org/short-fiction-award

• Financial Support for Writers! 

  The Elizabeth George Foundation makes artistic grants to unpublished fiction writers, to poets, to emerging playwrights and to organizations benefiting disadvantaged youth.  These grants cover expenses in a number of areas.

  We offer financial support to unpublished and emerging writers for a period not to exceed a year; we offer scholarships for students to attend accredited MFA programs in creative writing; we support writing research; we offer funding to allow unpublished and emerging writers to attend writers' retreats and conferences. 

  The deadline for receipt of all material is October 15th.

  For application details visit ElizabethGeorgeOnline.com

• Job Opportunity!

  The Jan Term catalog editor will edit/revise/standardize all text for the Jan Term 2014 catalog. The work is done approx. 80% independently, and 20% in consultation with the Jan Term program coordinator. 

  Deadline to apply: Monday, April 1, 2013 by 5:00p

  Please send resume and paragraph of interest to pe1@stmarys-ca.edu and cc: Candace Eros Diaz and Sara Mumolo

  Tasks include:

  --Editing all course proposals for syntax/grammar, uniformity, length, and accuracy;

  --Corresponding with approx. 125 faculty members regarding each of their proposals;

  --Setting and keeping deadlines for faculty feedback/corrections/amendments to their proposals;

  --Preparing the full text of the catalog for delivery to the Jan Term program coordinator no later than mid-July/August 1st.

  Qualifications:

  --Previous paid work experience in writing/editing projects

  --Ability to handle many different faculty contacts and respond in a more-than-timely manner to all inquiries/responses/requests

  --Ability to work independently

  --Ability to adopt editorial standards and apply them across different texts

  --proficiency with Microsoft Word

  A successful catalog editor is able to work on weekends and should be able to get the job done in under 15-20 hours per week. (I and other past editors have been able to do it in around 10 hours a week.) 

  Term of employment is May through July (August at the latest); pay is $15/hr.

  Good organizational skills

  Experience conducting research on Internet

  Experience with social media a plus

  Familiarity with booksellers, children's books helpful, but not essential

  Good command of English language, knowledge of grammar is important

  Please send cover letter explaining why this internship interests you, what you hope to get out of it, along with a resume of previous work experience to: marissamoss@crestonbooks.co and please cc: Candace Eros Diaz and Sara Mumolo.  The deadline to apply is Wednesday, May 1, 2013.

• Test Preparation Instructor Positions Available!

  Sherwood Test Prep is seeking test preparation instructors for our GRE, GMAT, LSAT, SAT and ACT classes.  These are part-time positions with classes once per week on weekends.  We seek intelligent, charismatic instructors who have both top test scores and excellent teaching skills.

  Everyone deserves to put their best score out there.

  Salary: $40 per hour for GRE, GMAT, and LSAT classroom instruction;

  $30 per hour for SAT and ACT classroom instruction.

  Qualifications:

  Current graduate or professional student (Ph.D. or equivalent, Master's. J.D.); or Completed Ph.D. or equivalent, J.D., or Master's degree.

  Top-tier test scores on one of the following: GRE, GMAT, LSAT, SAT, or ACT

  Have taught at least one university semester/quarter class.  Prior university teaching experience is required.

  Must have both excellent math and verbal/writing skills.  Sherwood Test Prep Instructors teach the entire course.

  Consistent Weekend Commitment

  For more information visit www.sherwoodtest.com

  Interviews and hiring are to commence immediately.

• The Narrative Winter Contest

  Open to all writers, and all entries will be considered for publication 

  Deadline: Sunday, March 31, at midnight, PDT.

  $2,500 First Prize

  $1,000 Second Prize

  $500 Third Prize

  Ten finalists receive $100 each

  See the guidelines.  Read prior winners and view the many recent awards garnered by our authors.

  http://www.narrativemagazine.com/node/194590

  The magazine is free to readers, but we are committed to paying our authors, to providing excellent editorial support, and to encouraging a wide audience for good writing.  Narrative reaches a worldwide audience of more than 170,000 readers.

• The Gulf Coast Prize Contest Closes March 15th

  Only two weeks left to submit to the annual Gulf Coast Prizes. The contest awards a total of $6,000 to poets, essayists, and fiction writers. This year's judges are Stanley Plumly (Poetry), Maggie Shipstead (Fiction), and Darin Strauss (Nonfiction/Lyric Essay)!

  The winner in each genre receives $1,500, and there are two $250 honorable mentions in each genre. The winners will appear in Gulf Coast 26.1, due out in Fall 2013, and all entries will be considered for paid publication on our website as Online Exclusives.

  Gulf Coast is accepting submissions both via our online submissions manager and via postal mail. The $23 reading fee includes a year-long subscription to Gulf Coast. The deadline for submissions is March 15, 2013. Only previously unpublished work will be considered. Fiction and nonfiction entrants may submit one piece, up to 7,000 words; poetry entrants may submit as many as five poems, up to ten pages. Multiple entries (or entries in more than one genre) are allowed, but entrants must pay a separate reading fee each time.

• Upcoming deadline for Glimmer Train's Fiction Open!

  First place: $2,500 and publication in Glimmer Train.

  Deadline: March 31

  Open to all writers.  Any story that has not appeared, nor is scheduled to appear, in a print publication is welcome. 

  Winners and finalists will be announced in the June 1st bulletin, and contacted directly one week earlier.

  Complete writing guidelines.

• Ameson Year in China!

  The Ameson Education and Cultural Exchange Foundation is looking for students graduating in Spring 2013 to participate in our Ameson Year in China program.
   
  As a participant in AYC, you will teach English for one academic year in China.  You will teach in a secondary school, a primary school, or an adult learning center.
   
  -Monthly stipend of 5000 RMB
  -Free Chinese language lessons
  -Free housing
  -Reimbursement for round trip flights
  -Basic health insurance
  -Free airport pickup and arrival support
   
  For required qualifications and other information visit www.ameson.org/ayc

• Writers @ Work Presents…

  Annual Fellowship Competition

  This annual Fellowship Competition is geared towards emerging writers in poetry, fiction and nonfiction.

  First place in each genre receives:

  - $1000

  - Publication in Quarterly West

  - A featured reading

  - Tuition for 2013 conference

  Deadline: Submissions close March 1, 2013

  Reading Fee: $20 per entry

  Eligibility and guidelines can be found online at www.writersatwork.org

• The Ploughshares Literary Magazine's Emerging Writer's Contest continues! 

  We will be open for a little over another month, until April 2nd. The prize is publication and $1,000 each for one story writer, one poet, and one essayist. For international readers, you now have the option of receiving your subscription digitally, as a PDF or an e-book file. Just select Digital Subscription from the "genre" drop-down menu. You can still get the issue in print, but the shipping is extra.

• We are excited to announce that Spry Literary Journal is open for submissions for its second issue.  

  We hope to inspire the students, faculty, and friends of the Saint Mary's College of California to read our guidelines and submit their poetry and prose.  We are accepting submissions for this issue until March 31, 2013. 

  Spry Literary Journal features undiscovered and established writers' concise, experimental, hybrid, modern, vintage or just-plain-vulnerable writing. It's a journal for people who excel at taking risks, who thrive under pressure--for people whose words and rhythms are spry. We are currently open for submissions for the second issue, which will be published in May. 

  We accept all short forms of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. We also challenge you to write sparsely (under 750 words) and submit to our Flash category. Submissions are requested in all genres, and simultaneous submissions are welcome. We have a strict blind submissions policy, and only accept writing through our submissions manager. Our first issue is live at http://www.sprylit.com. Please head over to see what we've published in our inaugural issue, and to start conversations with our authors, poets, and staff members. Renowned writer Porochista Khakpour is interviewed in the issue as well. 

  Please visit our submissions manager http://sprylit.submittable.com/submit to submit your work to us.

• Red Mountain Press will award $1000 and publication for a full-length book of poetry.

  Submit a manuscript of 48-75 pages via the Submission Manager or mail.  Visit the website www.redmountainpress.us for complete rules and submission criteria.  Open submission, blind judging.  Please use 12 pt. standard font.

   

  Deadline: September 15, 2013

  Website: www.redmountainpress.us

  Email: redmtnpress@gmail.com

   

  Entry Fee: $27 for electronic submissions via Submission Manager

  $30 for paper submissions

• Publishing Opportunity with Daring Pride

Daring Pride is soliciting GLBTQ related viction and/or poetry from talented young writers participating in MFA programs across the country.  Submissions accepted by mail or online from 1/20/13 through 8/2/13.  Winners will be announced by 9/30/13.  Submit work to ben.dralle@glbtbookstore.com or

Daring Pride Fiction Contest
#18
1900 NE 3rd Street, Suite 106
Bend, OR 97701

Guidelines:

• One original story (max 7000 words) or a poem
• Author's name should not appear on mss
• Include cover page with story/poem title, word count, author's name, address, phone, & email
• Typed in 12 pt font, numbered pages, and single spaced
• $10 entry fee paid by check or money order made out to "GLBT Books."

• Fourth Genre Steinberg Essay Prize

Fourth Genre seeks the best creative nonfiction essay for its ninth annual Fourth Genre Steinberg Essay Prize.  The winning author receives $1000 and the winning entry will be published in an upcoming issue of Fourth Genre.  The runner-up entry will be considered for publication.

Complete submission guidelines.

• Writers and Editors Awards, Grants, & Fellowship Website

A great resource for writers!

• West Marin Review is now accepting submissions for Vol. 5

West Marin Review is now accepting submissions of literary works and visual art for Volume 5 to be published in spring 2014. To help cover printing costs for Volume 5, we require a $10 submission fee.

Deadline is May 1, 2013.  Submission guidelines here.

• Sprung Formal, the Kansas City Art Institute’s literary arts journal, is now accepting submissions for its 2013 issue

We are currently seeking your bits, your bobs, your doodads, your inconsequentialities, your dashes, pinches and sprinkles, your inadequacies, your little man syndromes, your shrunken heads, your microcosms, your EPs, your miniatures, your flash in the pan, your parasites and viruses, your quirks, your quarks, your quacks, your mosquito bites, your tiny resentments, the small stuff you aren’t sweating, the small stuff you are sweating, your sweat and tears, your modest mice, your little deaths, your little debts, your teacup poodles, your cupcakes, your brief thoughts, your briefs’ thoughts, your wee dinky peanuts, your lowercase, your punctuation, your slights, your oxford commas, and all tiddlywits.

Acceptable formats:
Poetry (25 lines maximum, 4-6 poems)
Microfiction (under 400 words, 3-5 stories)
Visual Imagery (will be shrunk to 5x3” or smaller, 4-6 images)

Our submission period is: February 5th-March 12th, 2013.

Simultaneous submissions are accepted but please notify us if your work has been accepted elsewhere.

Email and snail mail submissions are accepted (Please note no submission will be returned)

Email submissions can be directed to:
sprungformalkcai@gmail.com

Please put last name/title(s) of work in subject line

Snail Mail submissions can be directed to:
Sprung Formal
Kansas City Art Institute
Attn: Jordan Stempleman
4415 Warwick Blvd
Kansas City, Missouri 64111

• Mason's Road is Seeking Submissions

Our submissions period runs for two months - February 1, 2013 to April 1, 2013. We seek to publish the best in fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, drama, craft essays, audio, and visual art.

The theme for our next issue is “point of view,” and we are seeking unique and playful takes on the topic. Please look at our submissions page to read more about this theme, which is rich with creative possibilities.

• Submit to the 2013 Ploughshares Emerging Writer's Contest 

The contest is open from today to April 2 at 12:00 noon EST.  One winner in each genre—fiction, poetry, and nonfiction—will receive $1,000 and publication.

Submission Guidelines

• Sunstone Magazine 2013 Eugene England Memorial Personal Essay Contest

Entries should relate to Latter-day Saint experience, theology, or worldview. Essays, without author identification, will be judged by noted Mormon authors and professors of literature. Winners will be announced by 31 May 2013 on Sunstone’s website, Sunstone.org. Winners only will be notified by email. After the announcement, all other entrants will be free to submit their essays elsewhere. 

Prizes: A total of $450 will be shared among the winning entries.

Rules: 1. Up to three entries may be submitted by any one author. Send manuscript in PDF or Word format to sunstone.editor@gmail.com by 28 February 2013. 

2. Each essay must be double-spaced. All essays must be 3500 words or fewer. The author’s name should not appear on any page of the essay.

3. In the body of the email,  the author must state the essay’s title and the author’s name, address, telephone number, and email. The author must also include language attesting that the entry is her or his own work, that it has not been previously published, that it is not being considered for publication elsewhere, and that it will not be submitted to other publishers until after the contest. The author must also grant permission for the manuscript to be filed in the Sunstone Collection at the Marriott Library of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. If the entry wins, Sunstone magazine retains  first-publication rights though publication is not guaranteed. The author retains all literary rights. Sunstone discourages the use of pseudonyms; if used, the author must identify the real and pen names and the reasons for writing under the pseudonym.

Failure to comply with the rules will result in disqualification.

• Glimmer Train Short Story Award for New Writers Now Open

1st place wins $1500 and publication.  Deadline: February 28.

Open only to writers whose fiction has not appeared in any print publication with a circulation over 5000.

Submissions Guidelines

• Southwestern American Literature is Seeking Submissions

• The Institute of Reading Development is Seeking Candidates for Summer 2013 Teaching Positions

We seek applicants with an undergraduate degree or higher from any discipline. We provide a paid training program and comprehensive on-going support.

Summer teaching positions with the Institute offer the opportunity to:

Earn more than $6,000 during the summer. Teachers typically earn between $500 and $700 per week while teaching.

Gain over 500 hours of teacher-training and teaching experience with a variety of age groups.

Help students of all ages develop their reading skills and ability to become imaginatively absorbed in books.

We invite you to submit an online application and learn more about teaching for the Institute at our website.

• Straight Forward Poetry Call for Submissions

We are also busy reading submissions for Issue Four, due out in March.

• Outrageous Fortune Call for Submissions!

  Outrageous fortune, the only online literary magazine made for undergraduates by undergraduates, would like to encourage you to submit to our literary magazine. We publish each of our volumes at the end the academic semester but also have roll over submissions. Students can find our submission guidelines at:http://www.mbc.edu/outrageousfortune-new/submission-guidelines/ . 
   
  We accept prose, poetry, and digital art files. We have previously published 6 volumes and will be publishing our seventh at the end of this semester.

• Scholarship Opportunity!

  24 Pearl Street Online Writing Workshops

  Applying for a scholarship to a 24PearlStreet online writing workshop is a free, easy process. First, apply to the class you are interested in; scholarships can only be awarded to accepted applicants. The deadline for our Spring scholarship is February 15: Good luck!

  Courses are offered in Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction. Each genre is offered in Eight-week Studio classes, Four-week Workshops, and One-week intensives.

  Look through the current catalog and choose a class that you would like to join. Apply online!

  http://www.fawc.org/24pearlstreet/application_scholarship.php

• Open for Submissions!

  Submit now to the annual Gulf Coast Prizes. The contest awards a total of $6,000 to poets, essayists, and fiction writers. This year's judges areStanley Plumly (Poetry), Maggie Shipstead (Fiction), and Darin Strauss (Nonfiction/Lyric Essay)!

  The winner in each genre receives $1,500, and there are two $250 honorable mentions in each genre. The winners will appear in Gulf Coast26.1, due out in Fall 2013, and all entries will be considered for paid publication on our website as Online Exclusives.

   
  Gulf Coast will accept submissions both via our online submissions managerand via postal mail. The $23 reading fee includes a year-long subscription to Gulf Coast. The deadline for submissions is March 15, 2013. Only previously unpublished work will be considered. Fiction and nonfiction entrants may submit one piece, up to 7,000 words; poetry entrants may submit as many as five poems, up to ten pages. Multiple entries (or entries in more than one genre) are allowed, but entrants must pay a separate reading fee each time. Click here for how to 

• Superstition Review

Is accepting submissions until February 28 for their spring issue.  Submission details here.

• Upcoming Deadline

  Very Short Fiction Award!

  1st place wins $1,500 and publication inGlimmer Train. Deadline: January 31

  We invite you to submit your very short stories (maximum word count 3,000) within the next 21 days.

  Prizes:

  1st place: $1,500 and publication

  2nd place: $500, or if published, $700

  3rd place: $300, or if published, $700

  Reading fee is $15 per story; please, no more than three submissions per contest.

  Open to all. Any short story that has not appeared in print, nor been accepted by a print publication, is welcome!

  Writing Guidelines

• Fence is Accepting Poetry & Fiction Submissions through January 10th

Submissions guidelines here

Fall 2012

• Writers @ Work 2013 Fellowship Competition

W@W is pleased to announce our annual Fellowship Competition for emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

Prizes (Awarded in each category):

First Prize: $1,000, publication in Quarterly West, tuition for the 2012 conference and a manuscript consultation during the conference with one of the visiting editors or agents.

Two Honorable Mentions: $250.

Complete submission guidelines and eligibility requirements

• Smoking Glue Gun Chapbook Contest

Invites you to submit your face-rocking chapbook.

They welcome submissions containing any type of art; that is, writing, visual art, photography, hybrid, etc. we also welcome co-authored chapbooks.

Full submission guidelines here!

• Foothill: a journal of poetry

Is seeking submissions for its 2013 print and online issues.  They welcome up to five poems in any form or genre form from poets enrolled in a graduate program. 

For complete submission guidelines visit their website. 

• WC&C Scholarship Competition

AWP offers two annual scholarships of $500 each to emerging writers who wish to attend a writers’ conference, center, retreat, festival, or residency. The scholarships are applied to fees for winners who attend one of the member programs in AWP’s Directory of Conferences & Centers. Winners and four finalists also receive a one-year individual membership in AWP.

For full details go to: https://www.awpwriter.org/contests/wcc_scholarships_overview

• Cork Writers' School scholarship alert!

  This new and exciting academic program, The Cork Writers' School, was developed to run in conjunction with the Elizabeth Bowen/William Trevor Literary Festival based in Mitchelstown, Ireland.
   
  The goal of this two-week program is to celebrate the concentration in Cork of a rich literary and cultural history, and to offer participants a unique educational opportunity in this historic part of Ireland.  Please visit our website www.corkwritersschool.com.

Be sure to check out the William Trevor Scholarship to the Cork Writers' School.

• Upcoming Deadline for Glimmer Train!

  The Fiction Open (1st place wins $2,500 and, of course, publication in Glimmer Train Stories) welcomes your entries through January 2.

  This category is open to all subjects, all themes, and to all writers.Submissions to the Fiction Open usually run from 2,000 to 8,000 words, but stories of any length from 2,000 to 20,000 words are fine. Writing Guidelines

  The 1st-place winner will receive $2,500, be published inGlimmer Train Stories Issue 90 and will receive twenty copies of that issue. Second- and third-place winners will be awarded, respectively, $1,000 and $600 (or, if chosen for publication, $700).

• Stolen Island Review call for submissions!

  Please send previously unpublished fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, reviews, experimental works, critical essays, photography and artwork (black and white) to stolen.island@umit.maine.edu by December 15, and let us know if your work is accepted elsewhere.
   
  Suggested format:
  File name: LastnameGenreTitle
  .doc or .docx
   
  Suggested length limit:
  Review - 2 pages
  Poem - 3 pages
  Other - 8 pages
   
  Images:
  black & white
  .JPEG file format

• The Indie Writers' Deathmatch Short Story Contest is back!

  New Prize.  New Challenge.  Same Bloodthristy Prose.
   
  The most taxing short story contest on Earth returns for its sixth year, and Broken Pencil Magazine has upped the ante in more ways than one.  Canada's Magazine of Zine Culture and the Independent Arts is raising the pressure on writers with new rules and a new prize that means the stakes are higher than ever!  Eight stories will go head-to-head in our Online Arena, but only one will triumph.
   
  Whoever emerges victorious will be awarded The Complete Indie Writers Makeover: a consultation with literary agent Sam Hiyate of the Right Factory; a consultation with novelist and Globe & Mail columnist Russel Smith; and a meeting and feedback session with Coach House Press, plus publication in the Spring 2013 issue of Broken Pencil.
   
  Enter Your Story Now!
  The Deathmatch is now taking short story entries.  Stories must be 3,000 words or less.  Entries are accepted until December 31st, 2012.  The first round of Deathmatch begins January 20th, 2013.
   
  For full details visit 
  http://www.brokenpencil.com/deathmatch-2013

• INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS!

  THE TRUTH ABOUT THE FACT International Journal of Literary Nonfiction
   
  Literary nonfiction essay, memoir, commentary
  1000-5000 words
  Literary nonfiction narrative poetry
  Black & white art and photography
   
  Submission Deadline Decemeber 31, 2012
  Submit via email: editor@thetruthaboutthefact.com

   
  thetruthaboutthefact.com

• Omnidawn's OPEN POETRY BOOK CONTEST has been extended to January 15th!

  Open to all writers: no limitations on the amount of poetry a writer has published.
   
  Winner receives $3,000, publication, and 100 copies.
   
  For full details about all three of Omnidawn's Poetry Contests (current & future) go to 
  www.omnidawn.com/contest

• The Coachella Review is currently accepting submissions of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and films for our Winter 2013 Issue. 

  We welcome submission from both new and established writers, but we are especially excited to consider the work of new and current MFA students.
   
  Visit our website, thecoachellareview.com, to read the current issue, peruse our archives and to get the feel of our journal.

• SOUTHWEST TEXAS POPULAR CULTURE AND AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATION

  Jerry Bradley Award for Creative Writing

  The Jerry Bradley Award (Bradley Award) is presented to the graduate student who writes the best creative writing prepared for a SW/TX PCA meeting. The award includes a prize of $300. Students should submit either one short story or two poems that will be read at the conference.

  Before you submit your paper to Nathan Brown for this award, you must have been accepted into Jerry Bradley’s Creative Writing Area (Poetry & Fiction) for the 2013 SW/TX PCA meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 13-16, 2013 and be accepted. The database can be accessed at http://www.swtxpca.org/documents/106.html The deadline for submission is FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2012!

  The deadline for receipt of your SW/TX PCA poetry or fiction is January 1, 2013.

  To submit work for the Bradley Award, send materials as email attachments in Word to:

  Nathan Brown

  nub@ou.edu

  If you have any questions before submitting to this conference and the award, please contact Dr. Julie Chappell chappell@tarleton.edu

  
  

• LiterBug is now accepting poetry submissions online! 

  LiterBug is a social innovation in contemporary poetry, which aims to bridge the gap between literary journals and social networks by offering writers an interactive alternative for publishing their work.

  LiterBug publishes exciting new work by established and emerging writers alike. We are currently seeking contributions from dedicated writers.

  Those interested can visit LiterBug at http://www.LiterBug.com or submit their work directly to http://www.literbug.com/submit/.

• 87th Annual Poets' Dinner/Contest