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SUMMARY:P - The VOLE Summer Single Poem Competition: "Autumn makes me sing"
DESCRIPTION:The VOLE Summer Competition\n​’AUTUMN MAKES ME SING’\n\nNO THEME (despite the title) – poems on any subject are invited\n​Open to international entries\n1st Prize: £50; 2nd Prize: £30; 3rd Prize: £20.\n50 poems will be selected and published in an anthology and all poets included will receive a free copy. \nDorothy Parker famously said:\n“Summer makes me drowsy.\nAutumn makes me sing.\nWinter’s pretty lousy\,\nbut I hate Spring.”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n We don’t hate Spring — In March and April we thoroughly enjoyed editing  the VOLE 2024 Spring Anthology\, GREEN FUSES\, from the entries to our Winter/Spring Competition. Now we’re planning an Autumn Anthology based on poems entered in our Summer Competition. As always\, the anonymously entered poems will be judged by an external adjudicator and 1st\, 2nd and 3rd prizes will be awarded. 50 of the poems will be included in AUTUMN MAKES ME SING\, published in October 2024. Our judge is to be Kathryn Southworth\, poet and academic\, the author of a collection and three pamphlets of poetry\, and co-author of a third (with Belinda Singleton).\n\n\n\n\nWe invite you to enter poems on any topic\, up to 30 lines plus title\, previously unpublished and original\, not translations. \nEntry fee: 1 poem: £5.50; up to 3 poems: £10.50.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/p-the-vole-summer-single-poem-competition-autumn-makes-me-sing/
LOCATION:The VOLE Summer Single Poem Competition
CATEGORIES:Contest
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SUMMARY:PFN - The MockingOwl Roost Seeking Submissions on: Dragon Scales and Other Tails
DESCRIPTION:MockingOwl Roost Submission Guidelines\nThemes are intentionally vague to leave the concept up to the writer’s interpretation. \nWe have some specific things we’re looking for\, but even if your work doesn’t fit these exactly\, send it anyway (unless they break our “we don’t publish” guidelines). We’re dedicated to helping writers get published in almost any genre or type\, even if it doesn’t fit our “norm.” We love unique! \n\nFlash fiction (250 words or fewer): Any genre\nShort fiction (under 5\,000 words): Any genre\nLengthy short stories and serialized fiction: If you have a serialized story or work of fiction longer than 5\,000 words\, please send them along. We love long-running\, well-connected stories.\nOpinion: On just about any topic out there\nPoetry: Long and short form\nPersonal essays: Have an interesting essay? Submit the full manuscript\n\n  \nThere is no reading fee for submissions to the MockingOwl Roost. \nWe accept simultaneous submissions on a few conditions. Because of the many complications that accompany simultaneous submissions\, we will accept them on conditions that \n\nIf the piece is accepted elsewhere before we commission\, you will let us know immediately.\nOnce we have accepted a piece for publication\, you will inform others that the piece is no longer available for publication.\nOnce we begin the editing process\, you may no longer withdraw the piece from our publication calendar. If issues arise due to legal reasons or other legitimate reasons\, we will discuss the procedures at this time.\n\nWe gladly accept multiple submissions\, with these limitations: \n\n\n\nEach piece longer than 3 pages should be submitted in a separate document.\nOn all submission files\, include your full name and the title of the work.\nYou may submit up to 15 poems\, 15 essays\, 15 short stories/serialized fiction works\, or 15 other works at this time\, with a combination of no more than 20 written works. All poetry may be submitted together in a single file. All flash fiction or micro essays may be submitted together in a single file. All other works should be submitted in separate files.\nIf you do not follow these limitations in submissions\, you will be asked to resubmit following the guidelines or will automatically be rejected\, depending on the editor’s discretion.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-the-mockingowl-roost-dragon-scales-and-other-tails/
LOCATION:The MockingOwl Roost
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:P - Call for Submisions to Rabbit: a journal for nonfiction poetry. Theme: Extinction
DESCRIPTION:Rabbit is currently accepting submissions for Issue 40: the EXTINCTION Issue. \nThe sixth mass extinction bears the marks of centuries of capitalist accumulation. While the science of climate catastrophe is well documented and broadly accepted\, ways of preventing extinction are far from settled. Poetry has engaged with the destructive nature of capitalism and imperial expansion since early English industrialisation\, and contemporary poetry confronts these questions with aesthetic curiosity and force. If it feels impossible to imagine a future\, poetry offers itself as a site to do just that. \nEXTINCTION asks for poetry inspired by science and ecology\, geopolitical/materialist writing\, writing from avant-garde or prophetic traditions\, and human–nonhuman relations. \nEXTINCTION considers the social and economic inequalities produced by capitalism’s climate catastrophes\, its effects on gender\, social relations\, and the dialectic of classes and nations. It demands we look at what is possible beyond what has already been. \nWe’re especially interested in non-Western poetic forms\, and work that explores non-Western perspectives on relations between empire\, colony and production. \n  \nWe invite poets to send up to 3 poems in one document through Rabbit’s Submittable site. Please include in the cover letter of your submission: \n• full contact details (postal address\, email) \n• 50-word max. bio \n• a short (50-word max.) response to the following: “What is the role of the poem in an era of decline?”
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/p-rabbit-a-journal-for-nonfiction-poetry-extinction/
LOCATION:Rabbit Poetry
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:P - Last Leaves Magazine Seeking Submisions on the Theme: Feral
DESCRIPTION:Theme for Issue 9: Feral​\n\n\nIn this issue we invite you to unleash the feral animal that lives within your poet heart. Show us the wild creature you’ve hidden\, or the ferocious existence you wish you could live out. We want to read your untamed poetry before it has been cultivated by society. Or\, you can send us poems that touch on an encounter with the feral. What beasts have you known? Have you stared into the eyes of an animal and felt that nature itself stared back? Write it down\, send it our way\, take us with you into the wilderness. \n\n\n\n\nSubmission guidelines:\n\n\nWe do not accept AI-generated poetry. \n\n\nPlease send up to 5 poems (no more than 10 pages) as a single Word (.doc or .docx) attachment. Please start each poem on a new page. All work should be single-spaced and in Times New Roman\, 12-point font. \n\n\nDo not include your name or contact information in the documents. \n\n\nSubmitters are welcome to send work through Duosuma\, once per submission period per category and up to 5 pieces in each category. \n\n\nPlease include a brief 50-word bio. Include your name as you would like it to appear in the magazine\, your email\, and links to your website and/or social media (if desired). We will trim the bio as-needed if it exceeds the word count. \n\n\n​ \nSimultaneous submissions are accepted\, though please send us a message ASAP if your work is accepted elsewhere. We do not accept previously published work\, but we love reading your poems on Instagram @lastleavesmag. \nPlease only submit once per issue and wait until the next reading period to submit again. We hope to respond to each submission within two months. As with most literary magazines\, we’re volunteers and doing our best. We thank you in advance for your  patience.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/p-last-leaves-magazine-seking-submisions-on-the-theme-feral/
LOCATION:Last Leaves Magazine
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PFN - NonBinary Review Seeking Submissions on: False Memories
DESCRIPTION:NonBinary Review is currently open for submissions on the theme of FALSE MEMORIES. \nFalse memories first came to public consciousness in the 1980s when a group of pre-schoolers at a California preschool were coached by well-meaning social workers and police investigators into “remembering” Satanic abuse that never happened. The fallout from that episode wasn’t just the persecution of an innocent family\, but a nationwide mass delusion now known as “the Satanic Panic\,” where authorities were warning the public about supposed widespread satanic cults committing heinous acts of abuse. Not a single one of these warnings were founded in fact\, and it is now known that a large number of them were propaganda. \nBut false memories aren’t always bad. There is a common phenomenon wherein people hear stories of their early childhoods so often that those stories turn into “memories.” It is common in dreams to have “memories” of things that happened to the dream self\, but not to the real self. Or a person might believe that they took their regular medication\, brought in the garbage bins\, or picked up the mail when they haven’t. \nWe’re looking for weird and wonderful stories of not just the memories themselves\, but of their production\, their repercussions\, their wider meanings. We’re looking for false memories that might have changed history\, that led to remarkable discoveries\, that impacted lives. \nWe’re NOT looking stories of recovered memories. Recovered memories are memories of real events that have been suppressed because they’re traumatic\, and are a widely disputed phenomenon. We would also like to avoid stories centering abuse\, trauma\, and violence. \nPoetry\nAll submissions must have a clear relationship to our theme and be submitted in 12pt Times New Roman\, or they will be rejected. Submitters may include up to THREE poems per submission\, but each must be a separate file. NonBinary Review pays a $10 flat fee for poetry. \nProse\nAll submissions must have a clear relationship to our theme\, and be double-spaced in 12pt Times New Roman or they will be rejected. NonBinary Review  pays 1¢ per word for prose with a limit of 3000 words. \nWe have different teams evaluating poetry and prose. If you submit to the wrong genre\, your submission will be declined.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-nonbinary-review-seeking-submissions-on-false-memories/
LOCATION:NonBinary Review
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PFN - Call for Submissions to The MockingOwl Roost. Theme: All the World’s a Stage
DESCRIPTION:Themes are intentionally vague to leave the concept up to the writer’s interpretation. \nWe have some specific things we’re looking for\, but even if your work doesn’t fit these exactly\, send it anyway (unless they break our “we don’t publish” guidelines). We’re dedicated to helping writers get published in almost any genre or type\, even if it doesn’t fit our “norm.” We love unique! \n\nFlash fiction (250 words or fewer): Any genre\nShort fiction (under 5\,000 words): Any genre\nLengthy short stories and serialized fiction: If you have a serialized story or work of fiction longer than 5\,000 words\, please send them along. We love long-running\, well-connected stories.\nOpinion: On just about any topic out there\nPoetry: Long and short form\nPersonal essays: Have an interesting essay? Submit the full manuscript\n\n  \nThere is no reading fee for submissions to the MockingOwl Roost. \nWe accept simultaneous submissions on a few conditions. Because of the many complications that accompany simultaneous submissions\, we will accept them on conditions that \n\nIf the piece is accepted elsewhere before we commission\, you will let us know immediately.\nOnce we have accepted a piece for publication\, you will inform others that the piece is no longer available for publication.\nOnce we begin the editing process\, you may no longer withdraw the piece from our publication calendar. If issues arise due to legal reasons or other legitimate reasons\, we will discuss the procedures at this time.\n\nWe gladly accept multiple submissions\, with these limitations: \n\n\n\nEach piece longer than 3 pages should be submitted in a separate document.\nOn all submission files\, include your full name and the title of the work.\nYou may submit up to 15 poems\, 15 essays\, 15 short stories/serialized fiction works\, or 15 other works at this time\, with a combination of no more than 20 written works. All poetry may be submitted together in a single file. All flash fiction or micro essays may be submitted together in a single file. All other works should be submitted in separate files.\nIf you do not follow these limitations in submissions\, you will be asked to resubmit following the guidelines or will automatically be rejected\, depending on the editor’s discretion.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-call-for-submissions-to-the-mockingowl-roost-theme-all-the-worlds-a-stage/
LOCATION:The MockingOwl Roost
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:P - Call for Submissions to Dipity Literary Magazine: Cat-themed or feline-inspired
DESCRIPTION:MEOW!  You must submit previously unpublished poetry for our upcoming print issue. \n\nWrite up to 3 poems BUT they must be cat-themed or feline-inspired\, for instance. it could be a poem about your cat\, or if you don’t own a cat — a poem about a cat object i.e. a cat keychain\, a cat museum Egyptian sculpture or abstract meow painting\, cat graffiti art on a wall\, or a group of street cats that you photographed.\nTitle or nickname each poem. \nEach poem should have a brief backstory paragraph on a separate page about 5-8 sentences.\nEach poem should have a few photos that you’ve taken yourself to choose from in the event we select it for print issues\, online\, or both. The photos should NOT include you in them as we only ask for profile photos after acceptance.\nPlease do not put any identifying information inside your document or file name.\n\nWe are only selecting 11 poems for our sub-section so it’ll close quick if we hit our caps\, but remember from time to time we select poems for the online tank and then may inform you about print selection if accepted. We’ll determine if it’ll go into online\, print\, or both if accepted. Contributors receive a private heavily discounted link to purchase the print issue and can share it with fam and friends and the issue will be available to read digitally online until the next release. We are no longer able to make first-time subs free over just our print calls so please follow our guidelines carefully. Take some time to scan our most recent issue in the READ section of our site — issue no. 4 is a good example. \nIf you’re a photographer and are interested in donating photos to us or becoming a contributing photographer and have any that may fit an upcoming theme you can reach out to us via the contact form at the bottom of our staff page. You can also hop into our Discord or chat channel.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/p-call-for-submissions-to-dipity-literary-magazine-cat-themed-or-feline-inspired/
LOCATION:Dipity Literary Magazine
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PFN - The Muleskinner Journal Seeking Submissions for Journal Eleven. Theme: Grounded
DESCRIPTION:For Journal 11:  \nWe are grounded. We walk slowly\, speak clearly\, open our senses\, accept beauty\, seek communion\, remain calm. \nYou are grounded. Saturday night will have to be “live” without you. It just ain’t fair\, and you can’t wait ‘til you can get out on your own. \nThey are grounded. It’s kind of like punishing yourself\, having the kids home all weekend\, but they gotta learn that some things ain’t okay. \nEveryone’s grounded. The planes won’t fly. Damn that weather. We were so ready to leave. \nGrounded. Grounded out. Ground up. Ground down. Rumors of an underground. The daily grind that grinds you down. The daily grind that perks you up. \nOur theme is grounded.\nIt’s where we start each day\, down on the earth\, on the ground but getting up\, comfortable in our skins\, ground zero for ourselves. \nOur wires are properly grounded\, but we still might be shocked. We might even like being shocked. \n  \nWe’ll be Grounded until July 31. Then\, who knows…
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-the-muleskinner-journal-seeking-submissions-for-journal-eleven-theme-grounded/
LOCATION:The Muleskinner Journal
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PFN - Amsterdam Quarterly Seeking Submissions on: Migration
DESCRIPTION:AQ41’s theme\, (reading period July 2024)\, is Migration. Whether you have observed the annual migrations of birds\, amphibians\, fish\, reptiles\, mammals\, or the temporary or permanent geographical dislocations of people\, send us work that has moved you to commemorate these journeys. \nYou may submit work to Amsterdam Quarterly at submissions@amsterdamquarterly.org \nWork must be previously unpublished and submitted in a recent Microsoft Word file format. (Self-published work is considered as published). Poems should be no longer than two A4 pages; articles\, fiction\, essays and other prose\, no more than 3\,000 words. Artwork and photography files should be no larger than one megabyte (1MB). Submit no more than two pieces (for example\, two poems or one poem and one short story) per person per reading period. Please indicate your last name and Amsterdam Quarterly submission in the subject line of your e-mail. \nAQ retains first publication and serialization rights for its online magazine as well as for its print-on-demand yearbook. No simultaneous submissions. Please note: due to increased postage and printing costs and new customs duties and tariffs\, as of issue #33 (spring 2022)\, AQ will only be able to offer one copy of the AQ Yearbook as payment to its published artists and writers for their work.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-amsterdam-quarterly-seeking-submissions-on-migration/
LOCATION:Amsterdam Quarterly
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PFN - Open Call for The Spoon Knife Anthology Series.  Theme: Numbers
DESCRIPTION:Call for Submissions: Spoon Knife 9 \nAutonomous Press is now accepting submissions of short fiction\, short literary memoir\, and poetry for the ninth volume of Spoon Knife\, our annual genre-bending lit anthology. \nTimeline \nThe deadline for submissions is July 31st\, 2024. \nContributors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by the end of 2024. \nSpoon Knife 9 will be published in Spring 2025. \nTheme \nIn celebration of the ninth year of Spoon Knife\, the theme for Spoon Knife 9 is Numbers – stories in which numbers or counting or our relationship to numbers matter in some way. \nIs there safety in numbers? \nAre we defined by numbers? In what ways do your measurements\, your IQ\, your BMI\, your credit score matter? Can your existence be encoded as data? Why do we measure what we measure\, and how are these quantifiers used as a means of societal control? \nOr think of the Old Testament book of Numbers\, concerned with census taking. Who counts and who doesn’t count? \nNumbers as friends or enemies\, stories of dyscalculia or math savants; stories about rounding errors\, countdowns\, numerology; lucky or unlucky numbers; stories about lotteries or elections are all fair game. \nNumbers can be rational and irrational\, as can the contributions to Spoon Knife 9: Numbers. Authors are encouraged to interpret the theme broadly\, twisting and queering as needed. \nFormat \nAll submissions must be sent as Word documents (.doc or .docx files). \nProse submissions (fiction and memoir) must meet the following criteria: \n12-point Times New Roman font\, double-spaced.\nFirst line of each paragraph indented.\nNo extra whitespace between paragraphs.\nConsistent use of Oxford commas.\nThoroughly proofread and spell-checked.\nIf submitting poetry\, you may send up to 3 poems (please put them all in a single document). Poems should also be in 12-point Times New Roman font\, but do not need to be double-spaced. \nMaximum length for submissions is 10k words. Exception: You can assume this limit to be as flexible as you need it to be if you’re an author whom we’ve previously published or whose submission the editors have actively solicited. \nProcess \nEmail all submissions to sean [at] autpress [dot] com. The title of your email should be your name plus the words “Spoon Knife 9 Submission.” The body of your email must include a 1–4 sentence bio written in the third person\, with the exact name under which you wish to be credited\, no more than 150 words in length. \nOur process\, on acceptance\, includes a close copy-edit\, and we’ll check in with authors if it looks like there should be any change beyond basic typo fixes; we don’t send author proofs. \nSpoon Knife 9 will be co-edited by J.S. Allen and B. Martin Allen. \nPayment \nPayment for accepted submissions will be $20 plus 1 cent per word\, sent near the time of the book’s release.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-open-call-for-the-spoon-knife-anthology-series-theme-numbers/
LOCATION:The Spoon Knife Anthology Series
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PFN - Call for Submissions to Icebreakers Lit: Hermit Crab Issue
DESCRIPTION:It’s summer and the hermit crabs are everywhere! In honor of their shelled and many-legged goodness\, the Icebreakers are requesting all submissions be hermit crab pieces. We’re open for CNF\, poetry\, fiction\, and that in-between stuff as long as it: \n1. is collaborative (two or more creators\, and if you don’t already have a buddy\, come play spin the bottle with us) \n2. borrows from an existing form (this is what makes it a hermit crab piece)! Send us a poem written in the form of a recipe\, a CNF in the form of a parking ticket\, micro fiction written as an astrology-a-day summary\, visual art that’s an ad for a strange toy\, etc. Whatever you want! Just make it hermit crab-y! \nAll general submission guidelines apply\, so give those a glance if you’re new here. As always\, don’t overthink it\, have fun\, get weird. \nCollaboration \nAt our minty liquid core\, Icebreakers is about fostering connection within the lit community. As such\, general and themed submissions should  be the work of two or more authors / artists (no max). If you’re coming to the party with collaborators already in mind\, great! If not\, please see our “spin the bottle” opportunity here (only available for artists that are 18+). \nWhat we accept \nIcebreakers is interested in poetry\, flash\, art\, fiction\, essays\, creative nonfiction (CNF)\, that weird little thing you wrote in your notes app but don’t know what to call\, etc. We want your art\, and we know that art comes in many glorious forms. We aren’t too picky about rules\, but to keep this reasonable\, here are a few requests: \n\nPoetry – Up to 3 pieces in any form\, any length\nFlash fiction\, micro\, and flash CNF – 3 pieces per submission\nShort fiction\, CNF\, and everything else – 1 piece per submission\, 2500 words or under\nJust make sure they’re hermit crabs!\n\nWe also accept simultaneous submissions. Just let us know if you’re published elsewhere so we can do a little celebratory dance with you. \nCover letter and bios \nWe love getting to know you\, but no need to be super formal. Most importantly\, please include the names of all collaborators. Also include a publication-ready bio for each contributor. One to three sentences should do the trick. If you would rather collaborate on a single amalgamated bio\, that’s cool\, too!
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-call-for-submissions-to-icebreakers-lit-hermit-crab-issue-2/
LOCATION:Icebreakers  Lit
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:P - Free the Verse Poetry Competitions: Nature Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to our first international poetry competition of 2024! We’re looking for all kinds of nature poetry. You are welcome to submit anything from eco / environmental poetry to pastoral poetry. As always\, we encourage you to bend the rules with both content and form… \nDeadline for entry: July 31st 2024 \n\n\nThere will be one prize winner. The winning poet will receive a prize of $100\, plus publication of their poem as a standalone piece on Free the Verse. Payment will be made via bank transfer or PayPal. \n\n\nThe entry fee is $2.49\, and you may submit 1 poem per entry. Multiple entries are permitted. All fees will be used toward our operating costs. \n\n\nAll entries must be original work that is owned by the entrant. We accept poems which have previously been published\, and simultaneous submissions are permitted. We do not accept poems previously published in our magazine\, Free the Verse. \n\n\nThe winning poet will be notified by email within 1 month of the competition closing. \n\n\nYou will retain the copyright to your work. By entering the competition\, you grant Free the Verse the right to publish your poem and name on our website and in any associated marketing materials. \n\n\nThis is an international competition – however\, at this time\, we only accept poems written in English. You are welcome to include words and phrases from other languages. \n\n\nYou must be over 18 years old to submit.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/p-free-the-verse-poetry-competitions-nature-poetry/
LOCATION:Free the Verse Poetry Competitions
CATEGORIES:Contest
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SUMMARY:P - Bad Betty Press: Poetry Collections
DESCRIPTION:Guidelines\nPlease send a maximum of 10 pages upfront. We’ll ask for the full manuscript of shortlisted submissions. \n.pdf or .doc files are preferred. If you need to use a different format then do\, and we’ll let you know if we’re unable to open it. \nWe don’t have specific font or spacing requirements\, but please keep it clear and readable\, with no more than one poem to a page. \nKeep your email brief – no need to explain your work as we’ll expect it to speak for itself. Feel free to include a short bio. \nWe’re based in the UK\, but welcome submissions from poets anywhere in the world. \nEmail your submission to: \nFull collections (July only): submissions@badbettypress.com \nPlease direct questions or tech issues here\, but start by checking our FAQs below. \nhttps://badbettypress.com/submissions/
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/p-bad-betty-press-poetry-collections/
LOCATION:Bad Betty Press
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:P - The Alchemy Spoon Issue 13. Theme: Silence
DESCRIPTION:Please submit up to 3 brilliant\, unpublished\, original poems this issue is ‘silence’ and we welcome poems up to 40 lines on that theme \nAll your poems must be in one word document with a new page for each poem.\nThe title of each poem you submit (titles are called a piece in the submission platform) MUST be entered in the appropriate boxes in Duosuma. \nBy submitting your work you give permission for The Alchemy Spoon to publish that work and confirm that it has not been published previously in books\, magazines\, webpages or on social media. \n\nName your document: issue 13-intials-lastname\nPoems should be in 11 point Times New Roman with a maximum 40 lines not including the title\nFollow the instructions on the Duosuma Submission Manager website to submit\nYour poems\, must be in one word-compatible document\nPlease enter a 50 word bio in the third person in the Duosuma Form\nStart a new page for each poem\nWe are only able to accept submissions from those over 18\nSimultaneous submissions are permitted but please tell us straightaway if a poem is accepted for publication elsewhere\nWe aim for a speedy turn-round and will respond to every submission but we don’t offer individual feedback\nNo changes can be made after submission\nAuthors retain all rights. However\, if a poem is subsequently published elsewhere\, please acknowledge that it first appeared in The Alchemy Spoon\nOur submission window for Issue 13 will be open 1st – 31st July 2024\nIf you have a poem published in Issue 12 we ask that you wait for Issue 14 before submitting again\n\n  \n\n\nSubmit
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/p-the-alchemy-spoon-issue-13-theme-silence/
LOCATION:The Alchemy Spoon
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:P - Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize 2024
DESCRIPTION:Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize \nFinal Judge: Kim Addonizio! \nThree prizes: $1\,000\, $500\, $250 \nFive finalists published in 2024 Red Wheelbarrow Literary Magazine! \nLetterpress broadside of winning poem printed by Gary Young\, Greenhouse Review Press! \nWinners Announced October 1st\, 2024. \nSubmit up to three unpublished poems in a single manuscript. $15.00/manuscript\, one manuscript per poet. \n\nEach poem must fit onto one 8.5 x 11 inch page\n\n  \n\nDo not include any personal identifiers in the manuscript\, manuscript file name\, and the title line when submitting or submission will be subject to disqualification;\n\n\nShort bio acceptable\, not required;\n\n  \n\nDeadline to submit: 31 July 2024;\n\n\nSimultaneous submission OK but please notify immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere.\n\n\nThe contest is open to all styles of poetry from national and international participants writing in English except individuals who are employees and/or board members for Red Wheelbarrow Literary Magazine and Poetry Center San José.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/p-red-wheelbarrow-poetry-prize-2024/
LOCATION:Red Wheelbarrow Literary Magazine
CATEGORIES:Contest
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SUMMARY:F - The 2024 Sydney Hammond Memorial Short Story Competition. Theme: "The look that said it all"
DESCRIPTION:Maximum 1\,000 words  \nTheme: The look that said it all \n$17.50AU entry \nWe’re looking for stories with powerful beginnings\, rising tension\, and a climax that resonates\, to the theme of The look that said it all. Short stories about complicated relationships\, quirky happenstance and tense encounters that examine lessons learned\, cautionary tales\, surprising endings and the quirky characters that enrich our lives. Whether it’s love at first sight\, misunderstood intentions\, a big reveal\, forbidden love or a decisive moment\, play with unconventional storytelling and make the judges take notice. \nJudges are Looking for the Following \n\nWriting ability: correct tense\, point of view\, minimal redundant words and adverbs\, show not tell.\nStory arc: rising tension\, climax\, resolution.\nAdherence to the competition theme.\nSpelling & Grammar.\nLayout conforms to the competition guidelines.\n\nWant an insight into the types of stories that win first prize and get published in our anthology? \nThen grab a copy of the 2023 Anthology\, Detours. Details here. \nFirst prize: \n\nA ticket to the Children and Young Adult (CYA) Conference for 2024 (valued at $410)\nA year-long membership to the Queensland Writers Centre (QWC) valued at $79.\nAnthology cover based on the winner’s story.\n\nSecond prize: \nA year-long membership to the Queensland Writers Centre (valued at $79). \nThird prize: \nA year-long membership to the Queensland Writers Centre (valued at $79). \nWinners who are existing QWC members will win a 12-month membership extension. Winners don’t have to be Queensland-based to enjoy the many wonderful membership benefits of the QWC. \nShortlisted and Longlisted announced. \nTOP 40 published in an anthology – free copy to all published entrants. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBy entering a piece in the Sydney Hammond Short Story Award – a writing competition – you agree to be bound by the following terms and conditions. \nSydney Hammond Memorial Short Story Competition Entry Terms and Conditions 2024
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/f-the-2024-sydney-hammond-memorial-short-story-competition-theme-the-look-that-said-it-all/
LOCATION:Sydney Hammond Memorial Short Story Competition
CATEGORIES:Contest
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SUMMARY:P - The 2024 Coniston Prize
DESCRIPTION:Guidelines \nThe winner of the Coniston Prize will receive $1\,000\, and up to 10 finalists will also be awarded $175. The winner and all finalists’ poems will be featured in the October Coniston Prize Issue. \n*Fees are waived for BIPOC poets until June 8. If you wish to take advantage of this opportunity\, please submit through the “BIPOC Poets” option in Submittable before the deadline. After that time\, paid submissions will continue to be open to all eligible poets. * \nSubmit 3-5 previously unpublished poems\, totaling no more than 10 pages\, in a single document through our submissions manager. You may include a cover letter and brief bio in the comments box. Multiple submissions are acceptable with additional reading fee. \nThis award recognizes an exceptional group of poems. We therefore suggest that you submit poems that are intentionally cohesive in some way\, whether connected by subject matter\, theme\, voice\, style\, or imagery. \nPlease remove all identifying information from the poems themselves. All contest submissions will be read anonymously. \nSimultaneous submissions are acceptable\, but we cannot refund contest fees if you have to withdraw all or part of your submission. Multiple entries are acceptable with an additional fee. \nEligibility \nThe Coniston Prize is awarded to women poets. Any poet who identifies as a woman is eligible. \nIf you know the editors or our judge personally\, you should not submit your work. This includes current or former students of the editors or the judge. If such a relationship is identified\, your entry will be disqualified. If you are unsure whether your relationship would make you ineligible\, query us: radarpoetry (at) gmail (dot) com. \nConiston Prize entries are read and judged anonymously. If the editors\, or the judge\, might recognize your poems\, you are not eligible to submit. \nProcess \nEach year\, the editors first read all Coniston Prize submissions without viewing any personal information (name\, cover letter\, or bio). From these submissions\, the editors select up to 10 finalists. The finalists’ manuscripts\, free of any identifying information\, are then sent to the contest judge\, who selects a winner. \nWe look forward to reading your poems!
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/p-the-2024-coniston-prize/
LOCATION:The Coniston Prize
CATEGORIES:Contest
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