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SUMMARY:FN - Narrative's Fall 2021 Story Contest
DESCRIPTION:OUR FALL 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 Entries must be previously unpublished\, no longer than 15\,000 words\, and must not have been previously chosen as a winner\, finalist\, or honorable mention in another contest.\nNarrative winners and finalists have gone on to win Whiting Awards\, the Pulitzer Prize\, the Pushcart Prize\, and the Atlantic prize\, and have appeared in collections such as The Best American Short Stories\, The Best American Nonrequired Reading\, and many others.\n\n\n\nAs always\, we are looking for works with a strong narrative drive\, with characters we can respond to\, and with effects of language\, situation\, and insight that are intense and total. We look for works that have the ambition of enlarging our view of ourselves and the world.\n\nWe welcome and look forward to reading your pages. \n\nAwards: First Prize is $2\,500\, Second Prize is $1\,000\, Third Prize is $500\, and up to ten finalists will receive $100 each. All entries will be considered for publication. \n\nSubmission Fee: There is a $27 fee for each entry. With your entry\, you’ll receive three months of complimentary access to Narrative Backstage.\nAll contest entries are eligible for the $4\,000 Narrative Prize and for acceptance as a Story of the Week.\n\nTiming: The contest deadline is November 30\, 2021\, at midnight\, Pacific standard time.Judging: The contest will be judged by the editors of the magazine. Winners and finalists will be announced to the public by December 31\, 2021. All writers who enter will be notified by email of the judges’ decisions\, which will be final. The judges reserve the option to declare ties and to designate and award only as many winners and/or finalists as are appropriate to the quality of contest entries and of work represented in the magazine. \nSubmission Guidelines: Please read our Submission Guidelines for manuscript formatting and other information. \nOther Submission Categories: In addition to our contest\, please review our other Submission Categories for areas that may interest you. \n\n 
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/fn-narratives-fall-2021-story-contest/
LOCATION:Through Journal’s own submission portal
CATEGORIES:Contest
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SUMMARY:F - The Masters Review Novel Excerpt Contest
DESCRIPTION:Guest Judge:  Dan Chaon \nThe Masters Review is hosting its first Novel Excerpt Contest! We’re looking for excerpts that show off a sense of style\, with a clear grasp on craft: narrative\, character\, and plot. Choose wisely! Your excerpt can come from any point in your completed or in-progress novels\, but a synopsis should not be required for understanding the excerpt. Excerpts must be from previously unpublished novels; if your novel has been self-published\, it is ineligible for this contest. As always\, we have no limitations on genre\, though we are primarily interested in literary fiction. Dan Chaon will serve as our inaugural judge and select the finalists from a shortlist provided by The Masters Review’s editorial team. The winning excerpt will be awarded $3000 and online publication and an hour-long consultation with Halley Parry\, an agent at Drift(less) Literary. Second and third place excerpts will be awarded online publication and $300 and $200 respectively\, in addition to 1 page of feedback from a literary agent. \nGuidelines: \n\nWinner receives $3000\, publication and consultation with an agent\nSecond and third place prizes ($300 / $200\, publication and agent feedback)\nExcerpts under 6000 words\nExcerpts from unpublished novels only\nSimultaneous and multiple submissions allowed\nEmerging writers only (We are interested in offering a larger platform to new writers. Self-published writers and writers with story collections and novels with a small circulation (fewer than 5000 copies) are welcome to submit.)\nInternational English submissions allowed\n$20 entry fee\nDeadline: November 30th\, 2021\nPlease\, no identifying information on your excerpt\nAll excerpts are considered for publication\nA significant portion of the editorial letter fees go to our feedback editor\, according to the rates established by the EFA
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/f-the-masters-review-novel-excerpt-contest/
LOCATION:The Masters Review
CATEGORIES:Contest
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SUMMARY:P - The Gregory ODonoghue International Poetry Competition
DESCRIPTION:€7 per poem or €30 for a batch of five. \nThe competition is open to original\, unpublished and unbroadcast poems in the English language of 40 lines or fewer. The poem can be on any subject\, in any style\, by a writer of any nationality\, living anywhere in the world. Translated work is not in the scope of this competition. Once entered\, no alterations can be made to the submission. Simultaneous submissions are accepted but please notify us immediately should your work be accepted elsewhere. \nDeadline: 30th November\, 2021 (midnight). Entries are accepted from 1st September. \nCost of entry: €7 per poem or €30 for a batch of five. If you would like to submit more than five poems\, please make more than one entry. \nAs the poem is judged anonymously\, the entrant’s name must not appear on poem pages.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/p-the-gregory-odonoghue-international-poetry-competition/
LOCATION:Munster Literature Centre
CATEGORIES:Contest
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SUMMARY:F - WOW! Women On Writing Fall 2021 Flash Fiction Contest
DESCRIPTION:WOW! hosts a (quarterly) writing contest every three months\, and has done so since 2006. The mission of this contest is to inspire creativity\, great writing\, and provide well-rewarded recognition to contestants. The WOW Flash Fiction Contest has awarded over $100\,000 in cash to writers since its inception. The contest is open globally; age is of no matter; and entries must be in English. We are open to all styles and genres of flash fiction\, although we do encourage you to take a close look at our guest judge for the season if you are serious about winning. Get creative\, and let’s have some fun! Remember\, we only allow for 300 entries\, so enter early to ensure your spot. We look forward to reading your work! \nWORD COUNT: Maximum: 750\, Minimum: 250 \nThe title is not to be counted in your word count. We use MS Word’s word count to determine the submitted entry’s word count. \nPROMPT: \nOPEN PROMPT! \nThat’s right\, this is your chance to shine\, and get creative. You can write about anything\, as long as it’s within the word count and fiction. If you’re feeling inspired\, write something new\, or dig out those stories you started way back when and tailor them to the word count. \nWe’re open to any style and genre. So\, get creative\, and most of all\, have fun. \nTop 10 stories are published in the WOW! Women On Writing e-zine\, and contestants are interviewed on WOW’s blog\, The Muffin. First Place: $400\, publication\, interview\, and $25 Amazon Gift Certificate. Second Place: $300\, publication\, interview\, and $25 Amazon Gift Certificate. Third Place: $200\, publication\, interview and $25 Amazon Gift Certificate. Seven Runners Up receive $25 Amazon Gift Cards\, publication and interview. Ten Honorable mentions receive $20 Amazon Gift Card
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/f-wow-women-on-writing-fall-2021-flash-fiction-contest/
LOCATION:WOW! Women On Writing
CATEGORIES:Contest
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SUMMARY:Fourth Genre - NONFICTION
DESCRIPTION:Here at Fourth Genre editorial we are thirsty for essays that give us something to drink besides mainstream ideologies and forms\, that showcase imagination and meaning-making capacities\, that embrace a love of a sentence’s shape. We believe good essays center the margin or marginalize the center\, or even better\, blow up the center-margin borders. We want essays that make the common uncommon—that are not about the things they pretend to be about. You know\, the essay about your shoelace that’s not really about your shoelace. We want to read more essays that reflect the intersections of race\, ethnicity\, culture\, class\, identity\, gender\, sexuality\, diasporas\, borderlands; and more essays that are cultural\, lyrical\, experimental\, personal\, environmental\, self-interrogative\, meditative\, and reflective\, as well as expository\, analytical\, exploratory\, or whimsical. We want to publish the best creative nonfiction essays\, understanding that notions of “best\,” of taste and genre\, are political and cultural.\n\n\nSubmission Guidelines \n\nGeneral Submissions: Accepted September 1 – November 30 only. Authors selected for publication paid with two (2) complimentary copies of the journal.\nPlease include an approximate word count. No need to include a bio.\nPlease be sure your name does not appear on the manuscript\, either on the front page or in the headers or footers.\n8\,000 word limit for general submissions.\nDuring the fall reading period\, we ask that you submit only one piece per author.\nSimultaneous submissions require immediate notification to Fourth Genre if accepted elsewhere.\n\nIMAGES & DERIVATIVE MATERIALS \n\nAlthough we love graphic and visual elements in essays\, we cannot print the inside pages in color. Any image in your essay must be effective in gray scale.\nAll images must be minimum 300 dpi at planned publication size.\nIt is the author/researcher’s obligation and responsibility to determine and satisfy copyright and/or other use restrictions prior to submitting materials to MSU Press for publication.\nCitations\, permissions\, and captions are required upon submission for all images\, including those derived from the internet.\nUse the Fourth Genre Permission Request Letter to obtain permission from image’s rightsholder.\nMSU Press cannot publish such materials until written clearance is obtained.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/fourth-genre-nonfiction/
LOCATION:Through Journal’s own submission portal
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PNF - Abandon Journal Issue #3. Theme "Abandon Time"
DESCRIPTION:Issue #3 of Abandon Journal is open for submissions until 11/30/21. The theme is “Abandon Time” (interpret that as you wish). No fees for general subs. Accepting just about anything\, as long as it is created with abandon\, and we pay our contributors. See abandonjournal.com/submissions for full guidelines. \nWe want to showcase writing and artwork that has been created with abandon. That term is free to be interpreted liberally\, but ideally it is the kind of work that takes risks\, created in a space wherein the artist doesn’t care what anyone else thinks or what everyone else is doing. This means that we’re open to so-called “genre fiction\,” from mystery to sci-fi to romance to fantasy to horror to whatever strikes your fancy. As long as the writing is powerful and abandons the preconceived notions of what is expected\, we want to read it \n\nFlash (fiction or nonfiction): max 1\,000 words each (1-3 pieces at a time\, please)\nShort story: max 7\,500 words\nLonger story: 7\,500-12\,000 words\nCreative nonfiction: max 8\,000 words\nPoetry: any length or form (please send no more than five poems at a time)\nAbandon Form: this is hybrid\, experimental\, and/or idiosyncratic work that doesn’t fit into conventional genres\, categories\, or forms\, and can be of any length\n\n.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pnf-abandon-journal-issue-3-theme-abandon-time/
LOCATION:Abandon Journal
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:F - ScreenCraft Cinematic Short Story 2021 Competition
DESCRIPTION:Hollywood has adapted countless movies and TV pilots from great short stories. Our judges are looking for stories with potential to be adapted for the screen. We’re looking for true and fictional short stories\, novellas less than 20\,000 words in length.  Submit your work for consideration today! \nPrize: Grand prize of $1\,000 USD\, entry to the ScreenCraft Writer Development Program\, personal introductions and phone calls with one or more top Hollywood literary managers\, complimentary badge for the 2022 ScreenCraft Virtual Summit\, and a lifetime subscription to Arc Studio Pro; second prize of $500 USD\, entry to the ScreenCraft Writer Development Program\, 50% off 2022 ScreenCraft Virtual Summit\, and a lifetime subscription to Arc Studio Pro; the top quarterfinalists will receive special mention on the announcement website\nDescription: This unique literary competition seeks short stories (not scripts) with cinematic adaptation potential. All writers at least 18 years of age are eligible\, although any writer who has earned more than $50\,000 USD from professional writing services for film or TV in the preceding year is not. Short stories or novellas longer than 20\,000 words will not be eligible.\nDetails: https://screencraft.org/shortstory/
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/screencraft-cinematic-short-story-2021-competition/
LOCATION:Screencraft
CATEGORIES:Contest
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SUMMARY:PNF - PRAIRIE FIRE: Banff Centre Bliss Carman Poetry Award\, Short Fiction and Creative Non-Fiction Contests
DESCRIPTION:Although our deadline is November 30 (postmarked)\, you may submit anytime. By entering the Banff Centre Bliss Carman Poetry Award Contest have a chance to win: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n$1\,250 in cash\nA one-week residency in the Leighton Artists’s Studios\, which includes a private studio in the woods\, a bedroom and a meal plan\nA jeweler-cast replica of poet Bliss Carman’s ring\nAn invitation to THIN AIR (produced by the Winnipeg International Writers Festival)\nDinner with the staff of Prairie Fire\nPublication in Prairie Fire magazine\nWith your contest submission you’ll receive a one-year subscription to Prairie Fire\, so if would like to start reading Prairie Fire as soon as possible\, you can send in your entry today!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEntries by email are accepted. Please email submission to prfire@prairiefire.ca and pay via PayPal or by phoning in a credit card immediately before or after submitting your entry. Info on payment below.  \nEntry Fee: $32 \n\n\n\n\nEntries by email are accepted. \n 
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pnf-prairie-fire-banff-centre-bliss-carman-poetry-award-short-fiction-and-creative-non-fiction-contests/
LOCATION:Prairie Fire: A Canadian Magazine of New Writing
CATEGORIES:Contest
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SUMMARY:P - Autumn House Press Rising Writer Prize
DESCRIPTION:Guidelines for the Rising Writer Prize\n\n\nMust be the author’s first full-length poetry collection (previous publications of chapbooks and full-length books in other genres are fine) \n\nThe winners will receive book publication\, $1\,000 honorarium\, and a $500 travel/publicity grant to promote their book\nAll finalists will be considered for publication\nSubmissions should be approximately 50-80 pages\nThe reading fee is $25 (We will waive the submission fee for those undergoing financial hardship or living with limited means. Please check out our FAQs page for more information)\nDo not include your name anywhere on the actual manuscript; if your name appears within the body of the text\, please omit it or black it out\nYou may include a brief bio in the “cover letter” section of Submittable\nDo not include an acknowledgments page in the manuscript\nFeel free to include a table of contents\nSimultaneous submissions are permitted\, but please let us know immediately if your book was accepted elsewhere\nFriends\, family members\, and former students of judges or Autumn House editors may not submit to the contest. Students do not include interactions at short-term residencies or fellowships\nFormer employees of Autumn House\, including interns\, may not submit to the contest\n\nNote: There is no longer an age restriction on this prize. \n\nCredit: Ladan Osman\nDonika Kelly is the author of THE RENUNCIATIONS (Graywolf 2021) and BESTIARY (Graywolf). BESTIARY is the winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize\, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry\, and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. The collection was also long-listed for the National Book Award\, and was a finalist for a Publishing Triangle Award and a Lambda Literary Award.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/p-autumn-house-press-rising-writer-prize/
LOCATION:Autumn House Press
CATEGORIES:Contest
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SUMMARY:P - Green Linden Press: Wishing Jewel Prize
DESCRIPTION:The Wishing Jewel Prize honors an innovative manuscript that challenges expectations of genre\, form\, or mode while engaging the rich possibilities of lyrical expression. Named for an essay in Anne Carson’s innovative book Plainwater\, we look forward to work that questions the boundaries of what poems and books can be. \n\nContest awards $1000 and publication.\nAll finalists considered for publication.\nWe welcome simultaneous submissions\, multiple submissions\, co-authored manuscripts\, and manuscripts in translation.\nSend an unpublished manuscript (48 pages minimum) with identifying information removed.\nIf your work includes non-textual components\, these may be included in the manuscript (preferred\, if possible) or attached separately.\nInclude an acknowledgments page indicating any poems\, writings\, art\, etc. that has been previously published.\nInclude a brief biographical statement in the space below. If you are uploading more than one file\, please explain their relationship\, sequence\, etc. You may also describe your manuscript / project if you would like.\nThe reading fee is necessary because it helps fund the publication of our books. There are several options: (1) general reading fee\, (2) general reading fee and a discounted book—note: we are not offering this for international submitters—\, and (3) a discounted rate for students and those experiencing financial difficulty.\nGreen Linden Press intends to publish one or more manuscripts from this contest; however\, we reserve the right to publish no manuscripts if we feel that none fit our aesthetic.\nContest will judged by Christopher Nelson\, the editor of Green Linden Press\, in consultation (if necessary) with our advisory board of poets.\nA portion of the proceeds from this contest will support reforestation efforts.\nSubmitters to Green Linden Press agree to receive updates about future publications and submission opportunities. You can unsubscribe at any time.\nDirect comments or questions to Christopher Nelson\, editor: greenlindenpress at gmail dot com.\nDeadline: November 30. Contest results will be announced in March.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/p-green-linden-press-wishing-jewel-prize/
LOCATION:Green Linden Press
CATEGORIES:Contest
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