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July 3, 2009
Young Lions Fiction Award
Deadline August 28 (must be received by this date), formerly August 29. Highly recommended free contest sponsored by the NY Public Library offers $10,000 for the best published book of fiction (novel or short story collection) by a US author age 35 or under. Books must have been published or scheduled for publication during the current calendar year. Must be submitted by publisher. See website for nomination form.
July 3, 2009
Prisons Foundation
The Prisons Foundation is a nonprofit organization based in Washington, DC that promotes the arts and education in prison and alternatives to incarceration. Visit the gallery page of their website to view and purchase original work by incarcerated artists.
July 3, 2009
Folded Word
Independent literary press with a special interest in adapting short written works into a variety of electronic media. One of their projects is Shape of a Box, the first YouTube poetry journal, which features videos by poets such as Ellaraine Lockie, Dan Nowak and Pris Campbell.
July 3, 2009
First Rain
By Francine Witte. The poems in this chapbook are spare yet filled with longing, like the empty rooms in an Edward Hopper painting. Their narrators reach for the unsentimental wisdom to be found on the far side of divorce, aging, and other losses. This collection won the 2009 Pecan Grove Press National Chapbook Competition. High-quality book design enhances the appeal.
July 3, 2009
Crazy Love
By Pamela Uschuk. This poetry collection is enlivened by twin passions for social justice and the beauties of the Colorado landscape. In these poems, nature always provides a restorative place of peace and abundance when the wartime news becomes overwhelming. Uschuk is the editor-in-chief of the literary journal Cutthroat.
July 3, 2009
XX Eccentric: Stories About the Eccentricities of Women
Edited by S. Craig Renfroe, Jr. This short fiction anthology from Main Street Rag celebrates the creativity and perseverance of women who don't play by normal rules. The eclectic cast of characters includes an HIV-positive senior citizen, a spunky lesbian drama teacher fighting her school's bureaucracy, and a teenage girl with a crush on Abe Lincoln.
July 3, 2009
What We Have Learned to Love
By Charlie Bondhus. Raw, tender poems of gay male love and lust, and the blurry line between them. This chapbook won the 2008-09 Stonewall Competition from BrickHouse Books.
June 28, 2009
Call for Submissions: Promise of Light
Deadline September 1 (must be received by this date). Promise of Light, an online forum for creative writing, philosophical reflections and artwork, seeks haiku in both traditional and modern styles. The top three entries will be published on the website and in the magazine Flowers and Vortexes. Send your entries pasted into an email to sir_james@netzero.net with haiku submission in the subject box.
June 25, 2009
BuildingBloc Arts Collective
BuildingBloc is a California-based collective of artists dedicated to using art to explore social inequalities. They sponsor the Artist Pen-Pal Mutual Aid Project, which pairs incarcerated writers and artists with outside mentors to publish a magazine of their work, "Paper Thin Walls". BuildingBloc's website says, "Through experimentation, collaboration, and performance, we inform, provoke, and inspire ourselves and our audiences. We aim to spark dialogue, to create and sustain relationships between artists and community organizations, to support existing struggles for social justice, and to erase the boundaries between art and activism."
June 25, 2009
The Pedestal Magazine
Online journal of poetry, fiction, reviews and artwork, edited by poet and songwriter John Amen. They also accept submissions of "slam" poetry performances (send as MP3 files). Contributors have included Jim Redmond, Nathan Leslie, Arlene Ang, JoSelle Vanderhooft and Linda Leedy Schneider.
June 23, 2009
Bright Lights Big Verse: Poems of Times Square
Deadline July 15 (must be received by this date), formerly March 1. Highly recommended free contest offers four prizes of $750 for unpublished poems, any length, that celebrate Times Square, and the qualities that Times Square represents: diversity, desire, dynamism and the marriage of commerce and culture. One entry per person. Award includes trip to NYC (airfare and 1 night hotel stay) to read at an event in Times Square. Co-sponsored by the Poetry Society of America, one of the nation's leading arts organizations, and the Times Square Alliance, an association of local businesses. Open to legal residents of the US who are aged 18+. No simultaneous submissions.
June 23, 2009
Monkeys Tapping
This amateur poetry forum seeks to encourage collaborative writing and playful self-expression in the haiku form. Sign up for free to begin posting haiku and responding to others' poems. Users can "branch" a haiku - in other words, create a new version of the haiku based on the first line (or first two lines) that a previous author wrote. This feature makes it possible to create a virtually infinite number of haiku based on a single starting line; just like monkeys tapping at a typewriter.
June 23, 2009
United Planet Writing & Photography/Video Contest
Deadline August 29 (must be received by this date), formerly September 12. Neutral free contest seeks written work (poetry, fiction or creative nonfiction) along with photos and videos that demonstrate the promotion of cross-cultural understanding, friendship, and supporting one another in one's own community or abroad. Top prize is a free volunteer Quest (airfare not included) for up to two weeks to any of United Planet's short-term locations around the world in order to advance the winner's own personal intercultural interaction and promote social and economic prosperity worldwide. Written entries not to exceed 1,000 words; see website for photo and video formatting rules. Accepts both published and unpublished work. Enter by email only.
June 19, 2009
Johnmichael Simon
Website of Israeli poet Johnmichael Simon, author of 'Sonatina' and other collections, and co-editor (with Helen Bar-Lev) of the poetry journal Cyclamens & Swords.
June 18, 2009
Eugene S. Thorpe Award
Deadline November 1 (must be received by this date), formerly August 15. Recommended free contest from libertarian think tank The Foundation for Economic Education offers $2,000 for essays up to 2,000 words, on an annual theme relating to free markets. Enter by email. No simultaneous submissions. 2009 theme: "The conventional wisdom says the 1999-2006 residential real estate 'bubble' in the U.S. and the subsequent collapse of global financial markets were caused by a failure of the free market. What's wrong with that assertion?"
June 18, 2009
Call for Submissions: Saving the Planet, Saving our Souls
Deadline September 1 (must be received by this date). Essays up to 5,000 words are sought for an anthology on the theme of faith and ecology. "Saving the Planet, Saving our Souls" is an online community of Christians who are concerned about the environment. The planned anthology will explore the sometimes strained, often misunderstood relationship between ecology and spirituality. Essays should address some aspect of ecological awareness within a faith community and can consider themes of: sacramentalism, sustainability, dietary habits, prayer, meditation, activism, ecumentalism, new monasticism, literature and ecocriticism, human interaction with the natural world and others. See website for email entry instructions.
June 18, 2009
Gemini Magazine Flash Fiction Contest
Deadline August 31 (must be received by this date). Neutral free contest offers $100 and publication in online literary journal Gemini Magazine for short fiction up to 1,000 words. Enter by mail or email.
June 17, 2009
Avocet, A Journal of Nature Poems
Avocet is devoted to publishing Imagist Nature Poetry that depicts meaning through the use of precise visual images. Editors say, "We prefer nature poetry that has vivid, concrete imagery, insight and interconnectedness with nature. We avoid poems that have rhyme or metrical schemes, cliche, abstraction, and sexual overtones." Authors they admire include Wendell Berry, Mary Oliver, and Wallace Stevens. Previously published poems accepted, but no simultaneous submissions.
June 16, 2009
Raving Dove of Hope Award
Deadline November 30 (must be received by this date; don't enter before October 1). Neutral free contest sponsored by peace-themed online journal offers top prize of $800 for short essays, up to 800 words, on pacifist and human rights themes, by Oregon high school students. 2009 theme is nondiscrimination. Enter by email.
June 16, 2009
Massachusetts Poetry Festival
This annual celebration of Massachusetts poets and small presses is held every October. The festival is based in Lowell, Mass., and also includes events around Boston, Worcester, Amherst, and the Berkshires. Videos from the festival are available on their YouTube channel: presenters include Rhina Espaillat, Robert Pinsky, Nick Flynn, and Martin Espada.
June 16, 2009
Susan Tepper
Website of Pushcart Prize-nominated poet and fiction writer Susan Tepper, author of 'DEER and Other Stories' (Wilderness House Press, 2009) and the poetry chapbook 'Blue Edge' (Cervena Barva Press, 2006).
June 13, 2009
Literary Christian
This website for Christian creative writers includes articles on the writing process, literary conference news, and links to well-known authors such as Kathleen Norris, Anne Lamott, and Lauren Winner.
June 12, 2009
Utah Arts Council Original Writing Competition
Deadline June 25, formerly June 27. Recommended free contest for Utah residents offers prizes up to $1,000 for unpublished full-length manuscripts of poetry, novels, general nonfiction and juvenile literature, plus smaller awards for individual poems, stories and essays. Manuscript prizes are for authors with no published books in the genre they are entering; other prizes are open to all.
June 12, 2009
Ekphrasis Editor's Award
Deadline June 30. Free neutral contest offered by established literary journal seeks individual poems. Submit 3-5 poems as part of the regular submission process. All poems published in the journal during the calendar year are considered for the Award. Replaced the Ekphrasis Prize in 2009.
June 9, 2009
J Journal: The Literary Journal of John Jay College of Criminal Justice
This literary journal, launched in 2008, is published by a well-regarded college in the CUNY system. J Journal presents perspectives on contemporary justice issues through the medium of poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction. Contributors have included Paul Mariani, Erika Dreifus, Randall Brown, Paul Hostovsky and Kathryn Howd Machan.
June 9, 2009
Damazine
Online literary journal based in Damascus, Syria publishes poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction in English. Enter online. Modest payment for published authors. Editors say, "We aim to become the treasure house for quality literature related to the Muslim world. For those of you who search for truths that can't be expressed in news reports or feature articles, we pray that Damazine will become one of your regular stops."
June 5, 2009
Best American Short Stories 1999 (The)
Edited by Amy Tan and Katrina Kenison. A particularly fine installment of this annual series, the 1999 anthology includes a wide spectrum of styles and ethnic backgrounds, with emotionally compelling tales that leave the reader with much to ponder. Standouts include Nathan Englander's 'The Tumblers', which casts the shadow of the Holocaust over Yiddish folklore's mythical village of Chelm; Sheila Kohler's 'Africans', a quietly chilling account of a family's disintegration under apartheid; and Heidi Julavits' 'Marry the One Who Gets There First', an unlikely love story told through wedding-album outtakes.
June 5, 2009
Wrestling with the Angel: Faith and Religion in the Lives of Gay Men
Edited by Brian Bouldrey. Contributors to this profound and heartfelt anthology of spiritual memoirs include Mark Doty, Andrew Holleran, Alfred Corn, Fenton Johnson, and Lev Raphael. The authors touch on such topics as the connection between spiritual and erotic ecstasy, family secrets and reconciliations, and AIDS as a modern crucible of faith.
June 3, 2009
Discovering New Mysteries Competition
Deadline August 31. Recommended free contest offers prizes up to $10,000 for mystery writing in several genres: original plays, screenplays, teleplays, and short stories for both adult and youth audiences. Contest is sponsored by the International Mystery Writers' Festival, held each summer in Owensboro, KY.
June 3, 2009
BookTour.com
Large, free directory of author events. Authors can create a page showcasing their biography, books, and upcoming engagements. Publishers, booksellers, events managers, and even just well-informed readers can add tour dates by simply filling in a few blanks. Nice feature: website can tell the visitor's location and automatically pulls up events in your region when you access their home page.
June 3, 2009
Pirene's Fountain
Attractive online journal combines artwork with poetry by emerging and established writers. Contributors have included Mark Doty, Rebecca Seiferle, and Linda Pastan. Pirene's Fountain takes advantage of the possibilities of online media to create a dialogue between poetry and the visual arts.
May 29, 2009
Collective Fallout
This literary magazine is dedicated to queer-themed sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and mystery fiction and poetry. Fiction submissions must be queer-related, and fall into one or more of the the science fiction, fantasy, horror, or mystery genres. Stories may not be longer than 10,000 words. Poetry submissions must be queer-related, both form and free verse, and of a surreal, metaphysical, or similar nature. Up to 5 poems per submission, no more than 450 total lines. No "blatant erotica", fan-fiction or "slash". Send entries as MS Word, RTF or PDF attachments to collectivefallout@gmail.com. Issue deadlines are June 1 and December 1 annually.
May 27, 2009
Small Press Database at Poets & Writers
Poets & Writers Magazine offers this free online database featuring submission guidelines for over 100 small literary presses. The database is searchable by name, keyword, genre, openness to simultaneous and electronic submissions, geographic region and more. A very useful service.
May 21, 2009
Esquire Fiction Contest
Deadline August 1 (must be received by this date; don't enter before May 1). Highly recommended free contest offers $2,500 and publication in the prestigious men's magazine Esquire for a short story up to 4,000 words. Entrants must choose one of three themes on the website. Enter via online form. Open to legal residents of the US and Canada, aged 16+.
May 21, 2009
Naval Intelligence Essay Contest
Deadline November 1 (must be received by this date), formerly August 1. Recommended free contest from Naval Intelligence Professionals offers $1,000 for essays on a selected topic concerning naval intelligence. Maximum 2,000 words. One entry per person; no simultaneous submissions. Enter by email only.
May 20, 2009
Arts and Faith
Online forum hosted by the literary journal Image, for discussions of literature, music, visual and performing arts, from a spiritual perspective.
May 20, 2009
Versal
Versal is the literary journal of wordsinhere, an international collective of writers, based in the Netherlands. Visit their blog for the editors' thoughts about their submission review process and the wide(ning) aesthetic that Versal seeks out. Contributors have included Peter Shippy, Jennifer Chapis, and Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé.
May 20, 2009
ABC Tales Radio
A joint venture between UK-based online writers' forum ABC Tales and the online broadcaster Short Story Radio, ABC Tales Radio is a unique website offering writers and poets the chance to self-publish their work in an audio format. Fees start at 20 pounds for a story under 2,000 words, and increase with length.
May 20, 2009
Tachyon Publications
This San Francisco-based small press specializes in science fiction and fantasy, with titles by James Morrow, Thomas M. Disch, Peter S. Beagle, Charles de Lint, and other leading authors in that genre, as well as "steampunk" and "cyberpunk" anthologies.
May 20, 2009
MAKE: A Chicago Literary Magazine
Biannual print journal of poetry, literary prose, articles and interviews. Contributors have included Joyelle McSweeney, Eula Biss, Gabriel Gudding, and Joe Meno. See website for upcoming themed issues. Editors say, "Chicago is a storyteller's city, and MAKE is the story's magazine. Chock full of fiction, poetry, essays, art, and reviews, MAKE is substantial in both feel and scope. MAKE expands on the Chicago tradition to entertain and to inform."
May 20, 2009
The Lutheran Writers Project
The Lutheran Writers Project seeks to make connections among writers and readers who are influencing and influenced by Lutheran traditions. They offer resources for book clubs, pastors, and educators, and also sponsor a literary festival at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa.
May 20, 2009
Fringe Magazine
Quarterly webzine publishes literature, art and criticism with a progressive or experimental flavor. See website for upcoming themed issues and submission periods for each genre. Editors say, "We founded Fringe to fight against the homogenization of culture and the loss of revolutionary literature at the high-literary and popular levels. This loss of variety stems from the politics of market capitalism and mass media. Because larger retailers market to mainstream perspectives, magazines that cater to specific groups (feminist, Afrofuturist, environmental) find themselves going the way of the eight-track. Such journals provide the natural mechanism by which fringe writers mix into the mainstream. Without them, corporate media rules unopposed, eliminating competing voices, or worse, co-opting their style while stripping these voices of their content. To combat this trend, we founded a free and readily available magazine to disseminate progressive voices to everyone."
May 20, 2009
Memorious: A Journal of New Verse and Fiction
Online literary journal founded in 2004 publishes poetry, short fiction and interviews with contemporary writers. Contributors have included Kevin Prufer, G.C. Waldrep, Mark Conway, Lynn Chandhok, and Bob Hicok. Their website is attractively designed, with original artwork for each issue.
May 20, 2009
Boardman Tasker Prize
Deadline August 15 (must be received by this date), formerly August 18. Recommended free contest offers 3,000 pounds for the best published book on the theme of mountains or mountaineering, first published or distributed in the UK between November 1 of the previous year and October 31 of this year. Entries must be submitted by publisher, and may be poetry, fiction, nonfiction or drama. Early entries are encouraged.
May 15, 2009
Readerjack.com Awards Listing Page
Online self-publishing company Readerjack maintains this alpabetical directory of links to several hundred literary contests.
May 12, 2009
Tamarack Award
Deadline July 1 (don't enter before May 1), formerly May 15. Neutral free contest offers publication in Minnesota Monthly for a short story, 4,000 words maximum. Residents of Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Michigan may enter. 2008 prize included $10,000 cash award, but no cash award is mentioned in 2009 guidelines, so we've downgraded our rating from "Highly Recommended" to "Neutral."
May 3, 2009
Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Blog
This blog from the sponsor of the renowned Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival features video clips of readings by major contemporary poets (see the "Poetry Fridays" sidebar link), plus news about other cultural programs that the Dodge Foundation sponsors in New Jersey and beyond.
May 2, 2009
Call for Submissions: The Fiction Flyer "Old Mold New Milieu" Flash Fiction Contest
Deadline June 30 (must be received by this date). The Fiction Flyer, a free e-zine for writers, offers prizes up to $10 and publication for flash fiction with a twist. "Old Mold New Milieu" challenges authors and writers to choose two characters from one of their books or works and create a flash fiction story based on several prompts provided in the contest guidelines. Winners will receive certificates and modest cash prizes, and their stories will be published in the July/August issue of The Fiction Flyer with a subscriber list of about 1,000. The contest will be judged by youth book illustrator and author Kevin Collier, his co-author and wife, Kristen, and author and promotional guru, Carolyn Howard-Johnson. Entrants must be subscribers to The Fiction Flyer (membership is free). Enter by email.
May 2, 2009
Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Instruments
Iowa State University maintains this website featuring definitions of over 30 early musical instruments, with illustrations and audio clips. Writers of historical fiction will find this site useful for fact-checking or just creating a mood while they envision their characters' next adventure.
April 28, 2009
Poemeleon Mystery Box Contest
Online journal Poemeleon seeks poems inspired by a "mystery box" depicted in a photo on their website. The winner and runners-up will be published in Poemeleon, and the first-prize author will receive the box. Deadlines are irregular; check website.
April 26, 2009
Call for Submissions: First Person America - In These Hard Times
Deadline June 30. First Person Arts, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit organization dedicated to memoir and documentary art of all kinds, seeks submissions of personal essays, photos and videos that depict Americans from all walks of life. Inspired by the artists of the WPA, who documented the experiences of Americans in every part of the country, First Person Arts is asking artists to help craft the first draft of the history of our era by capturing, in photographs, on video, or in writing, the stories of America and its people during these difficult times. Finalists in each category (writing, film, and photography) will be featured on the First Person Arts website and at the First Person Festival of Memoir and Documentary Art, November 4-8, 2009. First place winners in each genre will be invited to Philadelphia to participate in the festival. A cash prize will be awarded to the best story overall. See website for mail and online submission guidelines and length limits for each genre.
April 26, 2009
Northrop Grumman Annual Robotics Essay Contest
Deadline June 15 (must be received by this date). New recommended free contest from the U.S. Naval Institute offers top prize of $10,000 for essays on the subject of new or enhanced robotics applications. Open to members of the Naval Institute only. Maximum 2,500 words. One entry per person. Submit online. No simultaneous submissions.
April 24, 2009
Poetry.com Goes Out of Business, Web Address Acquired by Lulu.com
We are pleased to report that the largest vanity contest, Poetry.com, has gone out of business. This deceptive marketer operated under the following names: Poets.com, the National Library of Poetry, the International Library of Poetry, the International Society of Poets, Watermark Press, and the International Poetry Hall of Fame. It also appears to be affiliated with Noble House. Lulu.com, a print-on-demand publisher, acquired the www.poetry.com web address. We have high hopes that Lulu will not engage in the same bad practices as Watermark Media and its affiliates.
April 22, 2009
St. Francis College Literary Prize
Deadline July 1 (must be received by this date). Highly recommended free contest offers $50,000 for an author's fourth published or self-published book of fiction (novel or short story collection). Translations are eligible. This contest runs in odd-numbered years only; for the 2009 contest, books must have been published between January 2008 and July 2009. Send 6 copies of the book. Contest sponsor St. Francis College was founded by Franciscan Brothers in 1859 as St. Francis Academy, the first private school in the diocese of Brooklyn.
April 22, 2009
Poetry Through the Ages
Poetry Through the Ages, a project of the Institute for Dynamic Educational Advancement (IDEA), is a free online exhibit that showcases poetic forms and movements from different cultures, with examples and instructions. A special feature of the site is a new poetic form called "node poetry", which breaks the traditional linear flow of a poem into branching clusters of words that the reader can read in different sequences. Drawing its inspiration from synthetic and visual poetry, the form is found exclusively online, and enables readers to take the poet's lines and construct the poem as they explore it.
April 21, 2009
Crazyhorse/Tupelo Press Publishing Institute
Two prestigious literary publishers, poetry press Tupelo Press and literary journal Crazyhorse, have teamed up with the College of Charleston in South Carolina to offer this graduate-level program open to writers at any post-baccalaureate level, whether finished with a graduate program in creative writing, currently enrolled or considering attending one. Students may choose to pursue either a credit or non-credit option. The program combines the opportunity for a practical internship at Crazyhorse with important lessons on the first book through an intensive, four-week course that chronicles the selection of a winner in the annual Tupelo Press First Book Prize. Crazyhorse and Tupelo editors will also be offering poetry and fiction workshops and book-length manuscript critiques.
April 21, 2009
Ragged Sky Press
Ragged Sky Press was founded in 1992 by poet and publisher Ellen Foos of Princeton, NJ, and publishes quality works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. See website for submission guidelines for their themed anthologies. Authors in their catalog include Elizabeth Socolow, Anca Vlasopolos, and Carlos Hernández Peña.
April 21, 2009
Snow Monkey
This eclectic online journal of poetry and micro-prose is published 10 times a year with up to 10 writers featured in monthly postings September through June. The editor seeks writing that's like footprints of Langur monkeys left at 11,000 feet on Poon Hill, Nepal. Snow Monkey Online is supported by Ravenna Press.
April 20, 2009
Dzanc Creative Writing Sessions
Independent small press Dzanc Books offers a very reasonably priced online mentoring program through which members can get critiques of their poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction from professionally published authors. Fees support Dzanc's creative writing programs for low-income youth. Dzanc Books also runs Black Lawrence Press, which sponsors several well-regarded literary contests annually.
April 20, 2009
Liturgical Credo
Formerly an online journal of theological articles, as of June 2009 Liturgical Credo will become a literary site devoted to contemporary stories of faith and doubt, including fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. See website for submission guidelines.
April 19, 2009
Benjamin Franklin House Literary Prize
Deadline September 30 (must be received by this date), formerly October 15. Recommended free contest offers prizes of 500 pounds for Young Writers (aged 18-25), 1,000 pounds for Professional Writers, for essays of 1,000-1,500 words on a question exploring Franklin's relevance in our time. 2009 theme is liberty versus security. Entrants must be current residents of the US or UK. Enter by email.
April 19, 2009
Call for Submissions: Voices Israel Anthology
Deadline October 7 (must be received by this date). The Voices Israel Group of Poets in English seeks submissions of poems for their 36th annual anthology. Send 1-4 poems, maximum 40 lines each, as a single MS Word or RTF email attachment to Voices_Israel_2010@me.com. One poem per page, with author's name and contact information in upper right corner of each page. Include bio, 7 lines maximum. Include NIS30 or US$15 if you would like a copy of the anthology. (Normally, Winning Writers does not list publishers that do not provide free contributors' copies, but Voices Israel is a very reputable organization and the anthology is edited by internationally known authors.)
April 15, 2009
Hillerman Mystery Competition
Deadline June 1, formerly July 1. Highly recommended free contest offers $10,000 and publication by St. Martin's Press for a mystery novel set in the Southwestern US, by an author with no published books in that genre. Entries should be a minimum of 220 pages (60,000 words). Early entries strongly encouraged. Contest is co-sponsored by St. Martin's Press and the Tony Hillerman Writers Conference. Hillerman, who passed away in 2008, was the author of the best-selling Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mystery series set on a Navajo reservation.
April 14, 2009
Call for Submissions: Cyclamens and Swords
Deadline May 31 (must be received by this date). Cyclamens and Swords, an online literary journal edited by Israeli poets Helen Bar-Lev and Johnmichael Simon, seeks submissions of poetry, stories and artwork for their next issue. The poetry theme for this submission period is "Not What You Might Expect". Fiction can be on any theme. Enter online only.
April 11, 2009
Assisi
Assisi, the online literary journal of St. Francis College in Brooklyn, NY, accepts submissions of poetry, stories, essays (academic or personal), photos and artwork. Send 1-3 poems or one prose piece, maximum 20 double-spaced pages. One submission per person per genre. Entries should be sent as MS Word or RTF attachments to assisi@stfranciscollege.edu. Author's name and contact information should not appear anywhere in the attached manuscript. Instead, include your name, address, phone, email, entry titles and genres in the body of the email message. Email Dr. Wendy Galgan, editor, with questions.
April 11, 2009
Call for Submissions: Poetry Super Highway Holocaust Issue
Deadline April 17 (must be received by this date). Literary website Poetry Super Highway seeks submissions of poetry written in response to the Holocaust for their annual Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) issue. Yom Hashoah this year falls on April 21. Please send your work, along with a bio of any length which includes what city you live in, to POTW@PoetrySuperHighway.com. See website for formatting guidelines and past issues.
April 10, 2009
Writing It Real: Sheila Bender's Blog
Writing It Real is a writers' resource site that offers lessons in turning your personal experience into creative work. Visit editor Sheila Bender's blog for announcements of contests and calls for submissions, as well as news of interest to writers.
April 9, 2009
Call for Submissions: Azania Speaks - Spoken Word and Visions of Partnership in Postcolonial Africa
Deadline May 15 (must be received by this date). Creative writing and scholarly articles on African literature and culture are being sought for a book project that grew out of the Azania Speaks International Conference in November 2008 at the University of Udine, Italy. In Western mainstream media Africa is often represented as "underdeveloped" and "the poorest" continent. This stereotypical view posits Africa and Africans at the margins of the various discourses in the globalizing world, useful only for measuring global war and poverty indices. The conference was held in order to offer alternative visions to this view, and to empower "voices of partnership" coming from Africa. The book will be based on the conference proceedings, and will include additional contributions from scholars in the field of Oral Literature, Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies, Performance Studies, Postcolonial Literatures, African Studies, Popular Culture, Media Studies, Globalization and Diaspora Studies. Initial submissions should be a scholarly article abstract of 300 words maximum, or a creative work (poetry, prose or drama) or 8,000 characters maximum. For complete guidelines, email Antonella Riem Natale.
April 8, 2009
Costa Book Awards
Deadline June 24 (must be received by this date), formerly June 25. Formerly known as the Whitbread Book Awards, this highly recommended free contest offers a top prize of 25,000 pounds, plus prizes of 5,000 pounds in each genre, for books first published in the UK or Ireland by authors who have lived in the UK or Ireland for at least six months of each of the preceding three years. Awards given in the genres of poetry, novel, first novel, biography, and children's literature. Books must have been published between November 1 of the previous year and October 31 of the current year. Must be submitted by publisher. 2009 entry forms will be available at the beginning of June.
April 7, 2009
Good Men Foundation Essay Contest
Deadline May 1 (must be received by this date). Recommended free contest offers $1,000 and anthology publication for essays by men aged 35-60 about a defining moment in their life. Entries should be 1,000-3,000 words, written in the first person, and submitted through their online form. The Good Men Foundation is a registered New York State charitable corporation dedicated to helping organizations that provide educational, social, financial or legal support to men and boys at risk. 'More Than a Few Good Men' will be an anthology of essays about what it means to be a man in America today. The authors, a wide cross section draw upon their experiences with either childhood, coming of age, work, relationships, fatherhood or death and explore the perspectives they have gained from those moments. This may be a one-time contest for 2009.
April 7, 2009
Mosaic Poetry & Fiction Competition
Deadline September 1, formerly May 1. Neutral free contest for poetry, fiction and nonfiction articles by disabled authors offers publication on website of Mosaic, a British organization for the disabled; in Mosaic News, their newsletter; and may also appear in a future anthology. Length limit is up to 40 lines per poem, 700 words per short story and 500 words for articles. 2009 guidelines confirmed by email.
April 6, 2009
Call for Submissions: Favorite Poem Project - Summer Poetry Institute for Teachers
Deadline May 22 (must be received by this date). The Favorite Poem Project, founded in 1997 by then-US Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, is dedicated to celebrating, documenting and encouraging poetry's role in Americans' lives. Applications are now being accepted from K-12 teachers to participate in a Summer Poetry Institute in Boston, July 13-17, 2009. Participants will read and discuss poems with renowned practitioners of the art, five award-winning American poets. Past faculty include Frank Bidart, Mark Doty, Louise Gluck and Heather McHugh. Teachers will work in groups to develop lesson plans to share with each other and bring back to their classrooms. Tuition is $275 and includes books, lesson plans and other written materials; room and board must be arranged separately. See website for details and application form.
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