Deadlines: January & February 2021
Every middle of the month: new deadlines, new contests, and new opportunities for your voice to find the world. The next four weeks include: our own Previously Published Prize, Crazyhorse Prizes, The Amistad, Public Space Fellowships, The Rumpus so many great book prizes, and more. This list is a small selection from Literistic’s deadline newsletter!
CLOSING THIS SUNDAY! 1/17
Our landscape has exploded with presses and magazines over the last few decades with the advent of digital publications—so many good poems have been found, celebrated, and, unfortunately, forgotten. We want to bring light to those lost pieces of poetry, the work that you love but no longer receives the attention it deserves. Send us your favorite previously published poems! There is no page requirement, but submission must be no more than 3 poems. Please submit all your poems in ONE document. The poems must have been previously published online or in print to be eligible. The poems must not have won any previous awards of $100 or more.
Reading Fee
DEADLINE: 1/15
The winning manuscript will be published and its author will receive $1,500 and 25 copies. Manuscripts should be at least 48 pages, but there is no maximum length. All forms and styles of poetry are welcome.
Reading fee
DEADLINE: 1/16
We aim to be the print literary arts journal on your shelf that starts a lasting conversation. Please submit either 1 short story or novel excerpt, up to ~3500 words; 1-3 short pieces of flash fiction, up to ~1000 words each; 3-5 poems; 1 essay or memoir excerpt, up to ~4000 words; or up to 3 short pieces of flash non-fiction, up to ~1000 words each.
Reading fee
DEADLINE: 1/18
The HWF grants rent-free and utility-paid housing on the foundation campus, providing artists with their own fully furnished home and a peaceful setting in which to pursue their creative endeavours. The HWF places no expectations or requirements on the artists in residence; it is the gift of time and space. There is an application fee of $25.00. If you are selected to receive a residency you are required to pay a deposit of $300, half of which is retained for maintaining your casita, the other half being held as a refundable damage deposit. Residencies run from 10-12 weeks.
DEADLINE: 1/25
Writers who are also parents have increased difficulties in making time for their writing. Our Parent-Writer Fellowships are intended to give parents the time and financial support to devote a week to themselves and their writing at MVICW. The fellowships are open to anyone who has a child age 16 or younger living with them. Four recipients (two in poetry, two in fiction/CNF) will receive the full retreat package, covering tuition and lodging. Two runners-up (one in each genre) will receive $500 credit toward the cost of tuition. Poetry: (1-3 pages) Submit your single best poem AND letter of interest. Prose: (up to 3,000 words) Submit ONE short story OR one flash fiction piece OR novel excerpt OR creative non-fiction entry AND letter of interest Letter of Interest (approx. 750 words): Please tell us about yourself as a person, an artist, and a parent. We’d like to hear how your family life inspires or challenges your artistic career and how parenthood plays a role in your creative work. If you have specific needs (financial or creative) which would be met by this award please outline them in your letter.
Reading fee
DEADLINE: 1/31
We accept unsolicited submissions of poetry (4-6 poems per submission), fiction (manuscripts up to 25 pages), flash fiction (1-3 pieces per submission up to 1,000 words each), and creative nonfiction (manuscripts up to 25 pages). Send only one submission per genre at any one time. Simultaneous submissions are fine; just please let us know right away if your work is accepted elsewhere. Payment: $10 per printed page (minimum payment: $50), and one contributor copy, plus a one year subscription. Arts & Letters is published twice a year, in Spring and Fall.
Reading Fee
DEADLINE: 1/31
Submit up to five pages of previously unpublished work. We’re open to free verse and formal poems, experimental and conceptual poems, concrete and visual (VisPo) poems. We like weird and feral poems. We like short poems and funny poems. We like poems that take risks. We like poems that take their craft seriously. We like poems that invest in and are aware of word choice, language’s music, and content’s relationship to form.
DEADLINE: 1/31
POETRY submissions, considered by editor Lesley Wheeler, should contain up to five pieces and not more than ten pages total. We believe your work has incredible value. We pay our contributors at the rate of $100 per poem, $100 per 1000 words of prose up to $500, and $50 per page of comics up to $500.
DEADLINE: 1/31
A Public Space offers three writing fellowships annually to fiction and nonfiction writers who have not yet published a book-length work. Fellows are selected through an open application. Compensation: $10,000 stipend, to be paid bi-weekly Eligibility: A strong interest in literary publishing and a commitment to promoting literature are the only prerequisites. Preference will be given to aspiring editors who have not worked extensively in literary publishing, and who may have limited access to career opportunities in the industry. Candidates outside of New York City are encouraged to apply, but A Public Space cannot fund relocation expenses.
DEADLINE: 1/31
Short stories and essays up to 25 pages and poetry of 1-3 poems. $2,000 prize per category and publication.
Reading fee.
DEADLINE: 1/31
The Rumpus Original Poetry reading period is open January 15 through January 31.
DEADLINE: 1/31
Theme issue: We would like to acknowledge and hold space for diverse experiences of Indigeneity, but specifically that of Black Indigenous/Afro-Indigenous descent, as we acknowledge that our history includes Indigenous communities being complacent and often perpetuating anti-Black violence. We hope this Indigenous Brilliance special issue brings light to the entanglements of these histories and outlines a liberatory future. Fiction and creative non-fiction: up to 3500 words.Poetry: up to 5 poems. Art: up to 5 images. Submit all work in Times New Roman 12-point font. Double-space all prose submissions. All contributors will be paid upon publication: $50 CAD for one page, $60 for two pages, $90 for three pages, $120 for four pages, $150 for five or more pages.
DEADLINE: 2/01
Named in honor of the first Irish poet to win a Nobel Prize in Literature, the Yeats Poetry prize has been awarded to poets of all ages and backgrounds since 1994 by the WB Yeats Society of NY. Unpublished poems in English up to 60 lines on any subject and style. Each poem will be judged separately and read anonymously. There are no limits on the number of poems that can be submitted. $1000 first prize, $500 second prize.
Reading fee.
DEADLINE: 2/01
The Malahat Review invites entries for its biennial Long Poem Prize, for which one award of $2,500 CAD is given. The contest is open to Canadian and international writers anywhere in the world. Each entry must be a single poem or cycle of poems that will occupy between 10 and 20 printed pages when published in The Malahat Review.
Reading fee.
DEADLINE: 2/01
Washington Square Review is published biannually by the students and faculty of the NYU Graduate Creative Writing Program. Poetry submissions should not exceed five poems. Fiction and nonfiction submissions should not exceed 5,000 words. Please submit one piece per submission, and one piece per submission period. For translations, please submit both the original and the translation whenever possible.
DEADLINE: 2/07
Lost Balloon publishes flash fiction, flash nonfiction, and prose poetry (all 1,000 words or less). We publish one new piece every Wednesday. There are no theme or genre restrictions, but we want your best. Give us work that entertains and challenges, that pushes boundaries and breaks hearts.
DEADLINE: 2/07
No theme, no rules, except for one: send us your best poems. Cordite accepts submissions from any place on earth. Our funding partners allow Cordite to offer payments to Australian citizen or permanent resident contributors. Cordite maintains a hybrid submissions policy. This means that the guest editor may invite five (5) Australian and five (5) overseas authors directly to submit to the issue. In addition, the guest-editor will anonymously select an additional 30-35 works from Australian authors and use their discretion to select further overseas works.
DEADLINE: 2/14
The Amistad is Howard University’s literary arts journal. Our goal is to elevate the creative voices of the Black diaspora through poetry, fiction, interviews, and art. We strive to publish the best up-and-coming voices in conjunction with local and established writers to create a journal that speaks directly to the black community. Poetry: 3-5 poems (more more than seven pages)