Most events are installed on their deadline date, unless there is a long submission window or unless it's a rolling submission.
P=Poetry, N=Nonfiction, F=Fiction
Our Annual Literary Prize is back again for 2024, with bigger cash prizes, publication for all shortlisted entries in our annual anthologies, a televised award ceremony, and an inspiring new theme.
We are looking for variety and originality. Tickle us, haunt us, gobsmack us. Choose your words carefully and leave our readers wanting more. And do it in a small space.
We strive to create conversations here at The Ilanot Review that could occur nowhere else.
Can we ever really go back home? Where do we belong?
Submissions can but do not need to directly deal with sexual assault. We hope to provide an avenue for publishing work about sexual assault, as it can be challenging to find markets open to that topic, and showcase the full, vibrant lives survivors lead outside their trauma.
A single $100 award will be given for an outstanding poem.
Breath allows us the space to grieve, accept, be joyous, irate, or peaceful, and it facilitates the process by which we move forward in the world--and do not. Inhale/Exhale holds space for a moment, story, or image in all of us. What is yours?
Tell us your experiences with local legends/myths or create your own hometown horrors! It can be from Bigfoot to Indigenous myths to any eldritch horror, as long as its lore is tethered to the history of a town.
We seek poetry that stings, work that burns us long after reading.
Our mandate has been to encourage the voices of new, emerging, and established Canadian writers while providing a platform to be proud of for their quality work.
You can call it many things: a tipping point, the eleventh hour, climate change, passing the point of no return...whatever you call it, it’s The Beginning of the End.
We look for work that challenges, re-imagines or undermines the status quo, work that pushes at the boundaries of form and function, work that is striking and beautiful.
A visitation might be a knock at the door, a funereal ritual, a brush with the otherworldly, a legal mandate, an act of wrath, a moment of union. This folio seeks to think about doors, borders, power, incarceration, and other institutions which divide or limit our time.
We are looking for high-quality writing that engages with the nuances and complexities of our times and isn’t afraid to tackle difficult subjects. We are especially interested in writing from people directly engaged in resistance and liberation.
We like the odd, the off-kilter, and the just plain weird. We like work that’s funny, that’s sad, and that’s both funny and sad at the same time. And we especially love to read the experimental, the surreal, and the genre-bending.
Tell us your stories of isolation, being left out, discriminated against. What about a time you did the excluding? Or flip it on its head and share the joy that comes from escaping the exclusion and finding your people. Surprise us (someone always does)!
This could be anything from first middle school dance to first female president.
To be considered for the prize, submit a manuscript of 48 pages or more, single-spaced, paginated, with a table of contents and acknowledgments.
We are looking for submissions that touch in some way on the place we find ourselves in the U.S., trying to right a teetering democracy. As our situation is not unique in the world, writers and artists in other countries should feel free to submit work that speaks to the situations in their countries.
All stories must end with the last line provided, and you cannot change it in any way.