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SUMMARY:P - Frosted Fire Fifth Annual Single Poem Competition. Theme: "The Beginning...of the End"
DESCRIPTION:Prizes: £350 1st prize £150 2nd £75 3rd plus 3 runner up prizes of £25 \nAnthology publication for up to 20 longlisted and prizewinning poets \nCompetition rules | Entry form \nYou can call it many things: a tipping point\, the eleventh hour\, climate change\, the bell for the last lap\, a general election\, a jury retiring to reach a verdict\, an amber traffic light\, a month’s notice\, someone asking for a divorce\, being rushed into hospital\, pushing a bell on a bus\, pulling a train communication cord\, losing your balance\, the start of the last chapter\, a final written warning\, a notice to quit\, being charged with murder\, passing the point of no return. Whatever you call it\, it’s The Beginning of the End. \nWe can’t wait to read your poem. \nOur judges will be open to all forms of poetry whether it be rhymed or blank\, light or serious\, structured or free. They consider content\, quality\, and originality before form. Entries are welcome from anywhere in the world\, and we hope that this\, our fifth annual single-poem competition will pass last year’s record number of countries from which competitors originated. \nThe judging team will read every entry\, and long-listed and short-listed entries will each be read by two judges. Our judges are Marilyn Timms and Katherine Parsons. \nAll entries presented to the judges are anonymous. Our entry system automatically sends only the actual poems to the judges. Details of author and payment details are stored separately\, filed under the title of each poem. The administration database is locked until judging is complete\, when the names of successful poets are discovered and linked with their poem titles. \n\n\n\nRules for The Beginning . . . of the End competition 2024\nClosing date: 30 September 2024 at 11.59 BST\n\nThe contest is open to all poets\, except those who act as volunteers for Wildfire Words/Frosted Fire or major prizewinners in the last two years of Frosted Fire/Wildfire Words competitions.\nAll poems must be entirely the entrant’s own\, unpublished work.\nInternational entrants are welcome\, but entries must be in English. Translations are not allowed\, unless the poet has translated their own poetry into English.\nYou may submit as many poems as you like\, in batches of up to 4 poems. Each poem should be a separate file\, and an entry fee must be paid for each.\nEach poem’s title should be at the top of the page\, and the file name of the poem must be the poem’s title.\nEach poem should be a separate file in Word or PDF\, and no longer than 50 lines\, including title and stanza break lines.\nDo not put any identification on the work. We will match your entry title to your email address after the anonymous judging is complete.\nTo maintain anonymous judging\, your entry must not contain a poem that might be recognized by any of the judges through workshops\, mentoring\, or public readings.\nSimultaneous submissions are accepted\, but an entry must be withdrawn in the event of it winning a prize or publication elsewhere. Entry fees are not refundable once an entry has been received.\nWork will not be returned\, so please keep a copy.\nWe are unable to give feedback on individual entries or on the results of the competition — the judges’ decisions are final.\nResults will be emailed by late October to all who entered\, and published on this website and social media.\nThe entry fee is £4 per poem or £12 for 4 — but on 10 September will rise to £5 per poem or £16 for 4.\nEntries must be paid for on the entry form\, and your entry file uploaded\, by the closing time of 11.59 pm on 30 September 2024. Our banking for credit or debit card payments is provided by PayPal\, but you do not need a PayPal account to pay by card.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/p-frosted-fire-fifth-annual-single-poem-competition-theme-the-beginning-of-the-end/
LOCATION:Frosted Fire Single Poem Competition
CATEGORIES:Contest
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SUMMARY:PFN - Open Call for Gutter Magazine
DESCRIPTION:GUIDELINES\nAll work must be previously unpublished in print or on-line.\nPlease save your work as ‘firstname_surname_prose’ or ‘firstname_surname_poetry’\nFile format and administrative details: \n• Work should be submitted in Word Documents only. In the case of concrete poetry or work with a visual element please submit as a Word document with an accompanying PDF. In the case of multiple poems\, please save and send them within a single word document – it makes our job much easier! \n• Put your name in the header of each page of your word document \n• Please include your name\, address\, postcode\, and word count (or line count in the case of poetry) on a title sheet \n• Save your work as ‘firstname_surname_prose’ or ‘firstname_surname_poetry’ and title your submission with your name as well \nQuantity of submission: \n• Up to a maximum of five poems totaling no more than 120 lines\, or one piece of prose up to 3000 words \nPlease include a 20 word bio for use in case of publication. \nSuccessful contributors will be paid a flat fee of £25 for work published in the mag\, regardless of length or style. You will also receive a complimentary copy of the issue. \n\n\nPoetry submissions can consist of up to three poems\, totalling no more than 100 lines. Please send all poems within a single text document. \n\n\nFiction and essay submissions can run to a maximum of 2500 words. Please only send one prose submission per issue. \n\n\nWork should be submitted as .docx or .rtf files. \n\n\nSubmit your work using the file name format: firstname_surname_fiction\, firstname_surn \n\n\nType your name and form (Fiction\, Essay or Poetry) on the first page of your submission. \n\n\nWe do not accept simultaneous submissions. \n\n\nAll submissions should be sent via our online portal.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-open-call-for-gutter-magazine/
LOCATION:Gutter Magazine
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PFN - Kenyon Review Seeking Submissions on the Theme of Visitation
DESCRIPTION:Submissions Information and Guidelines\nWith VISITATION we are looking for writing which captures an impermanent experience of presence. 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. Guest edited by Kenyon Review Fellow\, Jennifer Galvão\, this folio seeks to think about doors\, borders\, power\, incarceration\, and other institutions which divide or limit our time. \nWe invite work that broadly interprets these themes . When you submit\, you will have the option to identify your work for general submission or the themes. \nWe strongly encourage submitters to familiarize themselves with work previously published by The Kenyon Review. Subscriptions are available here\, and anyone can read up to five free pieces per month in our Archive. \nWe do not charge a reading fee for general submissions. \nWe consider previously unpublished: \n\nshort fiction and essays (up to 7\,500 words)\nflash fiction and essays (up to 3 pieces\, up to 1\,000 words each; please format and submit as a single document)\npoetry (up to 6 poems; please format and submit as a single document)\nexcerpts (up to 30 pages double-spaced) from larger works\n\nWe do consider translations in the categories and special folios and themes listed above. Please submit your translated work to its corresponding genre (fiction\, nonfiction\, poetry\, or the appropriate theme or folio). \nYou may submit to more than one genre. However\, please submit no more than one submission in a given genre (fiction\, nonfiction\, and poetry); multiple submissions in the same genre (including multiple submissions with different themes) will be disregarded. \nWe consider submissions on Submittable and do not consider paper submissions\, except from writers (such as those who are incarcerated) who do not have ready access to the internet. Paper submissions for the current submissions period must be postmarked by the current submission period’s deadline and must be accompanied by a self-addressed\, stamped envelope. Send hard copies to: SUBMISSIONS\, The Kenyon Review\, 102 W. Wiggin St.\, Gambier\, OH 43022 \nHere’s the link to our Submittable portal: https://thekenyonreview.submittable.com/submit \nWe do not accept revisions to submissions once the submission period is closed. Do not send new drafts unless requested to do so by an editor. \nSimultaneous submissions are permitted\, but please notify us immediately if the work has been accepted elsewhere. \nFor prose and drama submissions\, please withdraw your piece via Submittable. \nFor poetry and flash fiction/nonfiction submissions\, please use your Submittable account to add a note to your submission listing the titles of works no longer available for consideration. \nWe cannot consider additional work in the place of withdrawn work. \nWe read every submission\, and because we receive so many submissions per year\, response times will vary according to the volume of submissions. We aim to respond to all submissions within six months of receipt. Feel free to query us at kenyonreview@kenyon.edu for an update if after six months of submitting work you do not hear from us. Thank you in advance for your patience. \nAuthors will receive a contract upon acceptance and payment upon publication. Authors retain copyright to their work published in The Kenyon Review. \nSubmitting work to The Kenyon Review adds you to our mailing lists. You may unsubscribe from these lists at any time. \nPlease be sure to add kenyonreview@kenyon.edu to contacts so that you can receive correspondence from us about your submission. \nIf you are unable to submit because you have not verified your email address with Submittable and have not received a verification notification\, we recommend adding notifications@email.submittable.com to your safe-sender or contact list and attempting email verification again. The Submittable forms require email verification for security purposes. If you continue to experience issues\, we recommend you submit a Submittable support request; the support team usually respond quite quickly and can send you your individual verification link directly. \nWe pay $0.08 per published word of prose (minimum $80\, maximum $450) and $0.16 per published word of poetry (minimum $40\, maximum $200). \nWe generally follow the Chicago Manual of Style and Webster’s latest New Collegiate Dictionary. \nThank you for sharing your work with us!
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-kenyon-review-seeking-submissions-on-the-theme-of-visitation/
LOCATION:Kenyon Review
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PFN - Lunch Ticket: Amuse Bouche Seeking Submissions on the Theme of Resistance and Liberation
DESCRIPTION:Lunch Ticket 26 Theme: “Resistance and Liberation”\nSince their founding\, Antioch University\, the Antioch MFA program\, and Lunch Ticket have centered the pursuit of social\, racial\, environmental\, gender\, and economic justice. As we watch the reversal of decades of social victories\, the suppression of dissent\, the use of indiscriminate violence\, and the rise of authoritarianism in the USA and around the world\, we at Lunch Ticket 26 feel compelled to address the theme of “Resistance and Liberation” for our upcoming issue. Lunch Ticket seeks to be a beacon and a home for stories\, essays\, and poems that highlight how people resist oppression and fight for collective liberation. \nAs Ursula K. LeGuin said\, “We will need writers who can remember freedom.” 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.  While we are prioritizing such voices\, we are also interested in reading your pieces even if they do not apply to our theme. As always\, we aim to center writers and artists who have been marginalized and underrepresented\, or historically misrepresented\, and feature work that plays with form and strives for a more just world. We are especially interested in writing from people directly engaged in resistance and liberation. Multilingual submissions are welcome in all genres. \n\n\n\n\n \nRalph & Rita in Sienna\, 36″x24″  \n\n\n\n\n\nAmuse-Bouche Guidelines:\n\nPlease submit to Lunch Ticket only once per submission reading period (regardless of genre).\nIf your work has been published in Lunch Ticket\, please skip one submission reading period before submitting again.\nAll submissions at Lunch Ticket are read anonymously in the first round. We only read pieces that have all identifying information removed. Make sure no identifying information exists in the document title\, submission title\, or the work itself. Identifying information (such as names and bios) can only be included in the cover letter\, and not in any attached files or the submission title.\nAll prose must be double-spaced in 12-pt Times New Roman font.\nSubmissions should not exceed 3\,500 words (source text not included in the word count).\nIf your piece is 750 words and under\, please choose the Flash Prose category when you indicate the genre of your submission below.\nSubmit up to 3 poems per submission reading period. Submit all poems in the same document.\nWe recognize that poetry often calls for its own particular formatting. When in doubt\, use 12-pt Times New Roman font.\nWe allow simultaneous submissions. Please indicate in your cover letter that this is a simultaneous submission\, and if your piece is accepted elsewhere\, you must notify us immediately.\nWe do not accept previously published work (this includes work published in personal blogs or social media).\nWe do not accept AI-generated work.\nSubmitters must be 18 years of age or older.\nAll submitters are added to our bi-monthly newsletter email subscriber list.\n\nWe look forward to sampling your work!
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-lunch-ticket-amuse-bouche-seeking-submissions-on-the-theme-of-resistance-and-liberation/
LOCATION:Lunch Ticket: Amuse Bouche
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PF - Open Call for Submissions to Okay Donkey
DESCRIPTION:We publish one new piece every Friday\, alternating between poetry and flash fiction. We do NOT publish flash nonfiction. Please send us either one poem OR one flash fiction per author\, per submission period. \nWe’re open for submissions on the 1st of every month and stay open until we hit our submissions cap. If we hit the submission cap early\, regular submissions will close and reopen on the 1st of the next month. However\, Tip Jar and Expedited Response submissions will remain open until the end of the month. \nOur usual turnaround time is around 2-3 months. If you haven’t heard from us after 3 months\, please feel free to follow up on your submission. \nPOETRY \n\nPlease send us only one poem per author\, per submission period.\nWhile there are no strict word limits for poetry\, we tend to like poems that fit on one page.\nUse a 12-point standard font and single space your submissions (except for form poems).\nAttach your piece as a Word doc\, docx\, Google doc\, or PDF.\nPlease include a brief cover letter with a short third-person bio if you so desire.\n\nFLASH FICTION \n\nPlease send us one flash fiction per author\, per submission period.\nOur maximum word limit for flash fiction is 1\,200 words. This can either be one longer piece\, or 3-4 micros that add up to a total of 1\,200 words.\nUse a 12-point standard font and double space your submissions.\nAttach your piece as a Word doc\, docx\, Google doc\, or PDF.\nPlease include a brief cover letter with a short third-person bio if you so desire.\n\nGENERAL GUIDELINES \nIf we pass on an author’s flash fiction or poem\, please wait at least 2-3 months before submitting again. If we accept a flash fiction or poem\, please wait at least one year before submitting again. This helps us give everyone a fair shake. \nSimultaneous submissions are okay\, but we do not accept multiple submissions. If you send us one piece\, please wait until we respond before sending us another. We also do not accept previously published pieces. \nWe like to read both literary and genre-bending work\, but no gratuitous sex or violence. Also\, no racism\, misogyny\, ableism\, homophobia\, transphobia\, or xenophobia. \nWe do not read blind\, or publish anonymous work. This enables us to publish authors from diverse backgrounds\, and we strive to uplift marginalized and underrepresented voices. We do however respect our authors’ privacy and publish works under a pen name. \nOkay Donkey acquires First Electronic Rights and Non-exclusive Archival Rights. All other rights remain with the author. If you reprint your piece in a book or anthology\, all we ask is that you mention it appeared here first.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pf-open-call-for-submissions-to-okay-donkey/
LOCATION:Okay Donkey
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PFN - Epistemic Literary Issue #4 Seeking Submissions on Exclusion
DESCRIPTION:As humans we have an inherent need to belong to something outside of ourselves\, a community of some sort. And\, unfortunately\, most of us know what it feels like not to belong—to be left out. To be excluded. \nFor our fourth issue we want to explore the idea of exclusion. 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)! \nAnticipated publication November 2024. \nGenre: \nPoetry\, including prose poems: up to three poems\, not to exceed three pages. *Editors note: I have a strong preference for shorter\, free-verse works but I’d love for you to knock my socks off with longer\, metrical\, or rhyming works. \nFlash and Microfiction: maximum three pieces up to a total of 1500 words. \nCreative Nonfiction (CNF): maximum two pieces up  to 1000 words each. \n(All final decisions are joint.) \nFormat: Please submit your work using our Google Form\, which will go live on the website when submissions open on September 1. Attach your file as a Doc or docx (If this is a problem submit how you need to and give us a heads up in your email)\, saved as “genre-last name” such as “Poetry-Houlihan.” No cover letter required\, but please include a short bio and any social media or website info. \nSimultaneous submissions and previously published work are welcome; please note the original publication so we may give appropriate credit. Collaborations are welcome. \nAll submissions will receive a response prior to publication.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-epistemic-literary-issue-4-seeking-submissions-on-exclusion/
LOCATION:Epistemic Literary
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:F - The Meadowlark Review Seeking Flash Prose about "Firsts"
DESCRIPTION:During this reading period\, we accept: \n\n\nShort fiction up to 1\,000 words \n\n\nBased in Laramie\, Wyoming\, we’re inspired by the American West\, but we love work that pushes against the traditional Western narrative\, as well as new perspectives\, unexpected twists\, and pieces that have absolutely nothing to do with the West. We are especially interested in hybrid works and works that break the mold and push the boundaries of today’s literature. \nThe Meadowlark Review welcomes submissions from writers of all identities\, working anywhere in the world\, and we especially seek to find and support work by writers who are often marginalized within literary spaces due to their race\, gender\, sexual orientation\, ability\, and/or other aspect(s) of identity. We will not accept work that contains any racist\, homophobic\, transphobic\, and xenophobic content. We search for work that challenges us\, but not in ways that contribute to harmful\, oppressive narratives. \nSimultaneous submissions are welcome\, as long as you let us know and withdraw your work as soon as it is accepted elsewhere. We also do not accept previously published work. \nUpon acceptance\, we ask for first publication rights as well as the rights to feature your work for the lifetime of The Meadowlark Review. All rights revert to the author after publication. If your piece is reprinted elsewhere\, please mention that it first appeared here (and also let us know—we’d love to help promote it!). \nFlash – Open \nFlash prose and poetry up to 1\,000 words for prose\, or one to two brief poems\, about “firsts.” This could be anything from first middle school dance to first female president. Submissions capped at 50 for each genre or until 11:59pm Sept 30\, whichever comes. Please use standard 12-sized font. \nWe typically take 3-6 months to respond to submissions. After 3 months\, you are more than welcome to query. Please send queries to meadowlarkreview@gmail.com. Include in the subject line your name and the genre submission. We will try to respond to you as soon as possible.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/f-the-meadowlark-review-seeking-flash-prose-about-firsts/
LOCATION:The Meadowlark Review
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:P - The APR Honickman First Book Prize
DESCRIPTION:The prize of $3\,000\, with an introduction by the judge and distribution of the winning book by Copper Canyon Press through Consortium\, will be awarded in 2025 with publication of the book in the same year. The author will receive a standard book publishing contract\, with royalties paid in addition to the $3\,000 prize. This year’s final judge is poet Nicole Sealey. \nThe prize is open to poets who have not published a book-length collection of poems with a registered ISBN. Poems previously published in journals or limited-edition chapbooks may be included in the manuscript\, but the entire manuscript itself must not have been published as a book-length work. Translations are not eligible nor are works written by multiple authors. The editors of The American Poetry Review will screen manuscripts for the judge. APR complies with the CLMP Code of Ethics in the administration of this contest. The judge will select a manuscript in an anonymous review process and will not award the prize to any writer whose personal relationship to the judge poses a conflict of interest. \nTo be considered for the prize\, submit a manuscript of 48 pages or more\, single-spaced\, paginated\, with a table of contents and acknowledgments. \n• Manuscripts must be received by October 1\, 2024 The winning author and all other entrants will be notified by January 15\, 2025.\n• You may simultaneously submit your manuscript elsewhere\, but please notify us immediately if it is accepted for publication. Submission of more than one manuscript is permissible; each must be under separate cover with a fee\, a return postcard\, and a notification envelope.\n• The winning author will have time to revise the manuscript after acceptance\, but please send no revisions during the reading period.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/p-the-apr-honickman-first-book-prize/
LOCATION:The APR Honickman First Book Prize
CATEGORIES:Contest
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SUMMARY:PFN - Call for Submissions to The Courtship of Winds. Theme: Election 2024
DESCRIPTION:Recognizing the importance of the upcoming presidential election\, the winter issue of The Courtship of Winds will be a special Election Issue and will be published before the election. We are once again looking at a desperately important election in the fall.  As a result we would be particularly interested in submissions for the next issue 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. Submissions should still be works of art\, as opposed to simple diatribe.  Other than that\, there are no narrow restrictions. \n\nThe Courtship of Winds publishes poetry\, fiction\, and essays. Please submit no more than six poems at a time. Please include a short\, third-person bio with your submission. Please use Submittable for all submissions. Simultaneous submissions are fine\, provided the author immediately withdraws any work accepted elsewhere. Please withdraw work only through Submittable\, indicating in the “reason” field if you are withdrawing part or all of your submission.  Courtship does not publish previously published work.  Authors retain all rights to their work. You should expect a response within six months. We regret that we cannot currently pay for accepted work. \n\n  \nPoetry\nSubmit up to 6 poems.  We are open to all subjects and styles. \nFiction\nWe are open to anything from very short fiction (aka “flash fiction\,” though we don’t love that term) to substantial short stories or excerpts from novels.  Length shouldn’t exceed 10\,000 words as a rule. \nNon-Fiction\nWe are interested in essays that offer insightful observations of social\, political or philosophical matters and which are written in an engaging\, accessible style.  Sharp\, concise literary analysis\, reportage\, and travel writing are also welcome. Length should generally not exceed 10\,000 words. \n\n  \nIt goes without saying that we are looking to publish the best work.  Some sense of the editorial philosophy behind Courtship can be gained by reading the “Editor’s Desk” page.  We are interested in publishing “unknowns\,” as well as well-established writers.  A writer who has published absolutely nothing will be read the same way as a prize-winning “name” writer.   Work that does something not seen before or\, more to the point\, makes us see differently — call it avant-garde\, experimental\, or what you like — is always welcome.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-call-frsubmissions-to-the-courtship-of-winds-theme-election-2024/
LOCATION:The Courtship of Winds
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:F - The Last Line Literary Journal Seeking Submissions Ending with the Line: "I didn't want to admit it\, but Lee was usually right."
DESCRIPTION:Submission Guideline\n \nFiction: All stories must end with the last line provided. The line cannot be altered in any way\, unless otherwise noted by the editors. The story should be between 300 and 5\,000 words (this is more like a guideline and not a hard-and-fast rule; going over or under the word count won’t get your story tossed from the slush pile).\n \nAlso\, we understand that writers may add our last line to a story that they are currently working on or have already completed\, and that’s cool. But please do not add our last line to a previously published story and submit it to us. We do not accept previously published stories\, even if they have been repurposed for our last lines. Also\, we do not accept simultaneous submissions. \nAll Stories: Writers should include a two- to three-sentence biography of themselves that we can use in the journal should your story be accepted. \nMultiple Submissions: We don’t mind if you want to submit multiple stories for the same issue. However\, it is unlikely we will use more than one of your stories in the same issue. \nSubmissions: We prefer you send manuscripts via email to submission (@) thelastlinejournal (dot) com. We accept stories in MS Word or Word Perfect format (we prefer attachments). Please do not send .pdf versions of your story. Make sure your name and contact information\, as well as your bio\, are part of the attachment. Stories also can be sent to The Last Line‘s post office box (PO Box 250382\, Plano\, TX\, 75025-0382). No manuscripts will be returned without an accompanying SASE with sufficient return postage. \nThe 2024 last line is: \nI didn’t want to admit it\, but Lee was usually right.\nDue date: October 1\, 2024 \nNotification: We don’t make decisions about submissions until after each issue closes. We typically send notices to everyone who submitted within three to four weeks after the issue’s deadline. You can also check the website’s home page for each issue’s production status. \n\n\n\n\nPayment: We pay on publication: $20.00 – $40.00 for fiction (all U.S. dollars). We also send you a copy of the issue in which your piece appears. You’ll receive your money and issue at the same time. \n(Note to our international writers: Postage cost for sending author copies overseas is becoming outrageous\, so we are reducing international author payment by the amount it would cost to send one author copy overseas. However\, if you would like to receive an electronic version of the issue [PDF] instead of a hard copy\, author payment will not be changed.)
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/f-the-last-line-literary-journal-seeking-sybmissions-ending-with-the-line-i-didnt-want-to-admit-it-but-lee-was-usually-right/
LOCATION:The Last Line Literary Journal
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:P - Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest 2024
DESCRIPTION:Submit poems on any theme\, up to 250 lines each. \nPrizes: \n\nTOM HOWARD PRIZE: $3\,500 for a poem in any style or genre\nMARGARET REID PRIZE: $3\,500 for a poem that rhymes or has a traditional style\nThe top two winners will also receive two-year gift certificates from our co-sponsor\, Duotrope (a $100 value)\nHonorable Mentions: 10 awards of $300 each (any style)\nTop 12 entries published online\nEnter via Submittable\n\nLength limit: 250 lines maximum per poem. No restriction on age of author. Authors from all countries eligible except Syria\, Iran\, North Korea\, Crimea\, Russia\, and Belarus (due to US government restrictions). Final judge: Michal ‘MJ’ Jones\, assisted by Briana Grogan and Dare Williams. \nFirst time entering? We prepared this brief video to guide you. See also our short entry checklist\, then click the button below to submit. Read the winning entries from the 21st contest. The results of the 22nd contest will be announced on April 15\, 2025. Fee: $22 per submission (one submission may contain up to 3 poems). Enter as many submissions as you wish. \nYou may submit published or unpublished work. Each submission may contain up to three poems. You may make multiple submissions. Please omit your name from your entries. We prefer 12-point type or larger. Please avoid fancy\, hard-to-read fonts. No restriction on age of author. All countries eligible except Syria\, Iran\, North Korea\, Crimea\, Russia\, and Belarus (due to US government restrictions). \nFor the purpose of the Margaret Reid Prize\, a poem in a traditional style employs regular meter and/or rhyme\, or is written in a recognized poetic form. This includes traditional Western forms such as ballads\, sonnets\, and blank verse\, Asian forms such as tanka and haiku\, and other traditional forms. \nFirst time entering? We prepared this brief video to guide you. See also our short entry checklist. \nEntry fee: $22 for each submission of 1-3 poems.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/p-tom-howard-margaret-reid-poetry-contest/
LOCATION:Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest
CATEGORIES:Contest
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SUMMARY:PFN - Call for Submissions to Issue 7 of Moss Puppy Magazine. Theme: The Boneyard
DESCRIPTION:Call For Submissions: The Boneyard\n\n\nFor our seventh issue\, we are diving into the haunting and evocative theme of “The Boneyard.” We are seeking prose and poetry that evoke feelings of abandonment\, emptiness\, loneliness\, and the eerie ambiance of graveyards. We invite you to explore both literal and abstract takes on this theme\, drawing on images of skeletal structures\, the haunting silence of a graveyard\, or the decaying remnants of a junkyard filled with old cars. Consider the symbolism of dog bones or the raw essence of bones themselves. \n\nIssue 7: What We’re Looking For\n\n\nWe are particularly interested in pieces that delve into spooky\, ghostly\, and haunting elements\, including personal experiences with death. Explore the underground\, dirt\, vines\, and the creepy aspects of “the creaky bones of the house.” Themes can also include the decaying remains of an old house or the bones of a relationship\, depending on your unique execution. \nWe seek emotionally resonant pieces that linger with us long after we’ve experienced them\, much like a visit to a boneyard. Whether you choose stark\, skeletal imagery or more metaphorical explorations of decay and emptiness\, we encourage you to interpret the theme in your unique way. \nLet your creativity roam through the eerie silence of the boneyard. We can’t wait to see how you bring this theme to life through your words and art. \nSimultaneous Submissions: Encouraged – just withdraw via email if it’s accepted elsewhere!\n​ \n\nPoetry\n\n\nPreferred Formatting:​ \n12 point font \nTimes New Roman \ndouble-spaced \nSubmit up to three poems separately using the appropriate Google Form. \nPoems can appear within one document\, but should be submitted separately for organizational purposes. \n\n\nProse\n\n\nPreferred Formatting:​ \n12 point font \nTimes New Roman \ndouble-spaced \nindented \nSubmit up to 3\,000 words of prose using the appropriate Google Form. \nProse can appear within one document\, but should be submitted separately for organizational purposes.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-call-for-submissions-to-issue-7-of-moss-puppy-magazine-theme-the-boneyard/
LOCATION:Moss Puppy Magazine
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:N - Dorothy Parker's Ashes Seeking Submissions on the Theme of: The Cops
DESCRIPTION:Submissions are restricted to women and gender non-conforming people.\nSubmit.\nPlease submit first-person essays* anytime before the deadline prior to publication date. Please be advised that we reserve the right to edit\, though all edits will be sent to writer before publication for approval. Please feel free to include a suggested title and art but we reserve the right to change the title and choose the art. We do consider previously published essays\, taking into consideration venue\, date\, etc. \nAlthough the essay holds the central role at DPA\, we are open to other genres\, including experimental\, poetry and flash non-fiction\, as long as there is a first-person point of view. \nAll rights are non-exclusive. We do not currently offer payment. We accept no responsibility for anything from libel to hurt feelings. As Anne Lamott says\, “You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them\, they should’ve behaved better.” \nPreferred length. 500 to 2000 words. \nPlease send submissions along with a short bio pasted directly into your email to: info@dorothyparkersashes.com We ask for this to avoid potentially malware-laden attachments. Unless your formatting is a specific design element of your piece\, format should be single space with no paragraph indentation and one extra space between paragraphs.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/n-dorothy-parkers-ashes-seeking-submissions-on-the-theme-of-the-cops/
LOCATION:Dorothy Parker’s Ashes
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PFN - Call for Submisions to Potomac Review. Theme: The Other
DESCRIPTION:We welcome poetry\, short fiction\, essays\, and meditations the topic. Writers may interpret these themes in a myriad of ways. For inspiration\, we offer excerpts from our recent editor’s note “A Reconciliatory Approach” \n“The initial seed of inspiration brings with it restraint and empathy\, humility\, and gratitude for whomever is abroad\, and the decision to share does not include the decision to disqualify\, for the decision to share is by definition reconciliatory; the poet will never meet but even a small percentage of their readers. Like othering\, not seeing is also a choice. We are not the only ones who observe and perhaps even engage in forms of mimesis. Just as self implies other\, the seen implicates the unseen. Much can be seen and understood\, but there is an ever-vanishing horizon\, and the other\, and the unseen\, call into this future. Seeing and failure to see are literary matters\, and while our themed issues will be capacious enough to allow for each writer’s vision—transgressive\, disruptive\, queer\, representative of the animal turn in the Anthropocene—they will be defining enough to proscribe that vision into the form of a task\, an aesthetic task\, where literature is itself seen as a form of reconciliation that does not recognize otherness\, difference\, disfiguration\, or boundaries except as an also-I where the unseen is that aspect of artistic creation that is ahead of its time\, that reveals itself as what has not yet been seen. ” \n  \nGeneral Submission Guidelines:\nPlease send us only one submission at a time per reading period. Send your work via Submittable at PotomacReview.Submittable.com. \nWe try to respond within four to six months. \nWe happily read simultaneous submissions\, but ask that you let us know as soon as a work has found a new home. Please see guidelines below for withdrawing your work if another publication has accepted it. \nWe do not accept multiple submissions. We cannot accept submissions from individuals currently associated with Montgomery College. \nContributors will be compensated with two complimentary copies and a 40% discount for additional copies. \nThank you! We look forward to reading your work. \nPoetry\nPlease send us up to five poems per poetry submission. \nIf any of your poems have been accepted elsewhere\, please leave a note in your submission specifying which were selected for publication\, and we’ll consider the remaining poems. \nFiction\nWhile we don’t have specific word limits for fiction submissions\, we are\, like everyone else\, constrained by final page counts. The longer the work\, the more difficult it is to find room for it; we typically find it difficult to make room for works that run much longer than 7\,500 words. On the other hand\, we’ve never turned down something we loved. \nWe only ask that you withdraw your submission if it has been accepted elsewhere. And please\, only send us one submission at a time. Thank you. \nNonfiction\nThere are no specific word limits for nonfiction submissions\, though like everyone else\, we are constrained by page counts\, and the longer a piece of work\, the more difficult it is to find room for it. We typically find it difficult to make room for works that run much longer than 7\,500 words. However\, we’ve never not been able to publish something we love.\nPlease note that we do not publish academic essays; we’re interested solely in creative nonfiction.\nWe only ask that you send one submission at a time (no multiple submissions)\, and that you withdraw your submission if it has been accepted elsewhere.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-call-for-submisions-to-potomac-review-theme-the-other/
LOCATION:Potomac Review
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PFN - Still Point Arts Quarterly Seeking Submissions on: The Self-Portrait
DESCRIPTION:The focus of our winter 2024 journal will be: \nTHE SELF-PORTRAIT \nIn its grandest sense\, a self-portrait may be presented as a painting\,\na collage\, a poem\, an essay\, a story . . . Who is the you that you know?\nHow do you express it? \nCall for Writers\nSubmission Deadline: October 1\, 2024\nSelected writers will have their work published in the\nwinter 2024 issue of Still Point Arts Quarterly\nINFORMATION AND SUBMISSION FORM \n\n\n\n\n\nThe Self-Portrait | Journal Submission | Winter 2024 \nIn its grandest sense\, a self-portrait may be presented as a painting\, a collage\, a poem\, an essay\, a story . . . Who is the you that you know? How do you express it? \n\nStill Point Arts Quarterly is accepting writing submissions (fiction\, creative non-fiction\, essays\, poetry; 5000 words maximum) on the theme The Self-Portrait. \nDATES AND DEADLINES \nOctober 1\, 2024 – Submissions Close (Deadline) \nNovember 15\, 2024 (or earlier) – Notification of Writers \nDecember 1\, 2024 – Still Point Arts Quarterly Winter Issue Released \nGENERAL GUIDELINES AND POLICIES \n\nPlease do not email or call us to ask about the review process or results. We will email you when we have made a decision regarding your submission.\nIf we decide to publish your work\, we will send a writing agreement for your review and signature. Typically we ask for one-time print and digital rights. You may republish your work at any time.\nPlease know that we typically receive well over 100 poetry submissions\, and we accept between 5 and 8. To keep things somewhat orderly\, we limit all writing submissions to one piece per person.\nWe do accept reprints.\nIf we have published your work previously\, we have no waiting period for submitting work again. We’ll gladly accept good writing whenever we receive it.\n\n  \n\n  \n\nCategories: Fiction/Nonfiction/Poetry\nFile types: .doc\, .docx\nNumber of Pieces: 1 piece
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-still-point-arts-quarterly-the-self-portrait/
LOCATION:Still Points Arts Quarterly
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:N - Open Call to HerStry. Theme: Traveling Women
DESCRIPTION:Traveling Women\nPack up your suitcases\, we’re going on vacation! Tell us your travel stories\, whether across the ocean or in your own city. A woman out in the world is still something revolutionary. \n** HerStry is always happy to share stories anonymously—if your story is selected for publication\, simply let your editor know you would not like your name shared ** \nTHE RULES:\n\n\nAll stories must be true and about you. \n\n\nStories must follow the theme in some way\, interpretations can be wide. \n\n\nStories must stay between 500–3\,000 words. \n\n\nDocuments should be double spaced\, 12Pt font with 1 inch margins. \n\n\nSubmissions must be in .doc or .docx form—we do not accept PDFs. \n\n\nStories are read blind. Please DO NOT put any identifying material on your manuscript. Manuscripts that don’t follow this rule will be automatically disqualified without being read. We realize personal essays may contain your name; a first name is fine. \n\n\nPlease include a third person bio. Cover letters are fine\, but not necessary (we don’t read them\, we’re more interested in what you’ve written). \n\n\nPlease submit only once per theme. \n\n\nWe do not accept previously published stories. \n\n\nHerStry centers the experiences of women identifying persons. We’re looking for work from bigender/polygender persons\, cisgender women\, intergender persons/intersex persons\, nonbinary persons/gender non-conforming persons\, transgender women/transfeminine persons\, two spirit. In other words\, if you are a cis man\, please refrain from submitting. \n\n\n\nA few things we don’t want to see: \n\n\nTear down pieces \n\n\nRacist material or hate speech \n\n\nExplicitly sexual material (In other words\, please don’t send us porn) \n\n\nOverly violent material \n\n\nHerStry does not accept previously published pieces.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/n-open-call-to-herstry-theme-traveling-women/
LOCATION:HerStry
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:P - Call for Submissions to Contemporary Verse 2 (CV2): The Birthday Issue
DESCRIPTION:We’re excited to announce a call for submissions to our next themed issue: \nTHE BIRTHDAY ISSUE! \nIn 2025 CV2 Magazine will turn 50 (!!) years old\, and we’ll be celebrating with a whole year of special events and issues. We’re kicking things off with the Birthday Issue (coming out in January 2025)\, and we want your poems! \nDo you have lingering thoughts about the MTV show My Super Sweet Sixteen? Do you feel like the person who chose the birthstones for each month was probably born in April (whose stone is DIAMONDS)? Do you find it mildly offensive that Wikipedia refers to astrology as a pseudoscience? We want your poems about it! \nWe want to know if you were born in the Year of the Dragon or the Ox\, the Rooster or the Dog. We want poems that explore aging\, milestones\, parties\, presents. Astrology\, celebrations\, birth order\, cake. About giving or witnessing birth. About loving or hating being the centre of attention. \nFind out what the Hubble telescope saw the day you were born and turn it into a poem. Revisit the time you told someone it was your birthday\, but it wasn’t. Tell us about a time you felt reborn. \nSing us a song. Cry if you want to. Make it happy or sad\, funny or bittersweet. Blow out your candles and\, just this once\, tell us what you wished for. \n  \n General Submission Guidelines:\nAny submissions that do not follow correct guidelines or do not include full contact information will not be considered for publication and will not receive a reply. Please read the submission guidelines before sending us your work. \nLength of Submissions \n\nPoetry submissions: no more than 6 pages.\n\nWe strongly prefer that work be submitted in a Word doc\, not a pdf. \nWe prefer that you do not send us work for this themed issue that has also been submitted elsewhere.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/p-call-for-submissions-to-contemporary-verse-2-cv2-the-birthday-issue/
LOCATION:Contemporary Verse 2 (CV2)
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:F - Call for Submissions to Humour Me Magazine. Theme: Halloween
DESCRIPTION:Beyond the seasonal theme there are no rules (other than those outlined in our general guidelines below). All you have to do is tell us a funny spooky story! \nOur seasonal issues have been huge hits in previous years and we look forward to seeing what you all come up with. Happy writing! \nSHORT STORIES:  Minimum 500 words\, maximum 3000.   \nFEES:  Flat fee of £20.00 per accepted submission for stories. \n  \nGENERAL SUBMISSION RULES \nPlease send all submissions attached to an email as a word/image document\, as well as a short bio. Bio can be sent as an attachment or in the email body. \nWe are happy to accept all types of humour\, from sharp satire to slapstick. While humour is subjective\, we will not tolerate any form of bigotry or discrimination toward any ethnicity\, gender identity\, sexuality or disability. \nWe will not accept multiple submissions. \nWe will allow simultaneous subs\, please do just let us know if you have been accepted somewhere else in the meantime. \nWe will not accept submissions that have been previously published or displayed in any format\, anywhere. \nWe will not respond to any submissions that do not meet the submission criteria. We also will not respond to rejection follow-up emails. \nWe reserve the right to edit submissions for publication. \nAll payments to be made via paypal at least 48hrs before magazine publication. \nPlease send all submissions to: humourmemag@outlook.com
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/f-call-for-submissions-to-humour-me-magazine-theme-halloween/
LOCATION:Humour Me Magazine
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PFN - Moss Piglet Zine Seeking Submissions on the Theme of Patterns
DESCRIPTION:Submissions of Stories\, Essays & Poems\nPlease send text submissions in .doc\, .docx or PDF formats to info@krazines.com. \nAs our publication is digest-sized\, we prefer short poems and prose pieces.  Your stories and essays may go up to 1\,000 words\, but anything beyond that total won’t be considered. \nYou may provide multiple submissions\, but don’t go crazy. Someone has to read all of the stuff that comes across our desk. \nWe’re OK with simultaneous submissions and previously published work. Just cite the place where your writing has previously appeared. \nIf you have a fancy title like Poet Laureate\, Writer-In-Residence\, or you have been knighted by a King or Queen\, we’d be happy to include that information in our publication. \nYou retain all rights to your work. \nWhen in doubt or you just want to say hello\, contact us. info@krazines.com.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-moss-piglet-zine-seeking-submissions-on-the-theme-of-patterns/
LOCATION:Moss Piglet Zine
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:P - Peonies & Prose Poetry Contest. Theme: Threads of Connection
DESCRIPTION:Theme: Threads of Connection\nDeadline: October 2\, 2024​\nSubmission Guidelines:\n\n\nThreads of Connection: You are invited to explore and reflect on the power of connection\, empathy\, and support in the healing process. Connection is open to interpretation in the broad sense (e.g.\,human relationships\, animals\, and nature). \n\n\nPoems can be free verse\, narrative\, lyrical\, or experimental \n\n\nMaximum 2 submissions per poet \n\n\nOpen to poets worldwide \n\n\nPoems should be unpublished and original work\, in English \n\n\nMaximum 40 lines per poem\, font size 12 point\, sans serif. \n\n\nFile types: PDF or .docx. \n\n\nAI-assisted submissions not permitted \n\n\nInclude a brief bio (50 words or less) with your submission \n\n\nStart with your name in bold and write the biography in the 3rd person (e.g. She\, he\, they\, not ‘I’) \n\n\nNames of books in italics\, names of poems in single quotation marks. \n\n\nSingle spacing \n\n\nPoets retain all rights to their work. Participants grant Peonies & Prose the right to publish their poem in our anthology\, in print and/or on our website\, and on social media with attribution. \n\n\nEntry fee: $20 USD \n\n\nJudging/Prizes:\n\n\nJudging Criteria: Originality\, creativity\, and emotional impact \n\n\nPublication in the inaugural edition of our online literary space\, Peonies & Prose. \n\n\nSpecial recognition for outstanding poems: 1st place: $500 USD; 2nd place: $250 USD; 3rd place: $100 USD. \n\n\nTips & Inspiration:\n\n\nExplore the emotions and experiences of healing through the threads of connection \n\n\nWe’re looking for creative\, authentic poems that share a story \n\n\nDraw from personal experiences\, observations\, or imaginative scenarios \n\n\nUse language that is authentic\, evocative\, and meaningful.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/p-peonies-prose-poetry-contest-theme-threads-of-connection/
LOCATION:Peonies & Prose Poetry Contest
CATEGORIES:Contest
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SUMMARY:P - After the End Poetry Competition 2024. Theme: Time and Temporality
DESCRIPTION:The competition will recognise previously unpublished newcomers\, established names\, and emerging talents. \nPoems can be on any issue related to themes of time\, temporality and endings and in any style. Individual poems should be no longer than forty lines and can include previously published poems as long as they fit the brief. \nThe After the End Poetry Competition offers to winners a first prize of £750\, second and third place winners will be offered £125 each. All three winners will be published on the After the End website\, and poems may be shared on media channels connected to the After the End project. \n\n\n\n\nRules\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAll entries must be formatted as a single-spaced word document or PDF. \n\n\nEntries should be up to 5 pieces of poetry or a spoken word video performance \n\n\nEach poetry piece should be no longer than 40 lines. \n\n\nSpoken word video performance must be under 4 minutes total \n\n\nSpoken Word submissions should be submitted in mp4 format via wetransfer.com to admin@ethox.ox.ac.uk. Please also send the poem in word or pdf in an email attachment to admin@ethox.ox.ac.uk. \n\n\nAll entries are judged anonymously\, therefore\, please do not include your name or any identifying information in the documents you upload. You should include this information only in the body of the email. \n\n\nThis is an international competition\, and all entries must be in English. \n\n\nAll entries must be the entrant’s own original work\, and must not have been generated\, in whole or part\, by a chatbot or other artificial intelligence. \n\n\nThe author must have the right to publish the poem on aftertheend.squarespace.com. The copyright remains with the author. \n\n\nNo corrections post-entry can be accepted. \n\n\nThe results of the competition will be published online and the decision of the judge(s) will be final. \n\n\nNo correspondence will be entered into regarding the judging process. \n\n\nThe closing date for entries is midnight (UK time) on 3rd October 2024. Winners will be notified by email four-six weeks after the closing dates. \n\n\nEntries will not be eligible where the writer is part of the judging process\, or anyone involved in the management/administration of the Prize\, or a close family relative of any such person.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/p-after-the-end-poetry-competition-2024-theme-time-and-temporality/
LOCATION:After the End Poetry Competition
CATEGORIES:Contest
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SUMMARY:N - Call for Submissions to Exchanges: Journal of Literary Translation. Theme: Spirit
DESCRIPTION:Submissions\n\nUpcoming Issue:\nWe are currently accepting submissions for our Fall ‘24 issue. The theme is spirit. \nSpirit: soul\, essence. Breath\, life. Liveliness\, with a shadow of afterlife\, of death\, of the close unknown. \nWe eagerly await your submissions. The deadline is October 4th\, 2024\, 11:59pm CT. \n  \nSubmission Guidelines\nWe accept translations of poetry\, short or excerpted fiction\, plays\, and literary nonfiction into English. \nA critical component of your submission is the Translator’s Note.  Please use this opportunity to speak to the source and receiving contexts of the work and any unique challenges faced in the act of translation itself. Take care here—the Translator’s Note is often a deciding factor in our review process. \nWe happily accept simultaneous submissions\, but ask that you please notify us if your work is accepted elsewhere. \nTo be considered for publication\, submissions must include:\n\nBoth the original text and the translation in a copy-pastable text file format. Please\, no .pdfs. If you absolutely must submit a .pdf in order to make the submission deadline\, please notify us of this in your submission\, and be prepared to supply a copy-pastable text file in advance of publication.\nBrief biographies (100-150 words each) of both author and translator.\nA Translator’s Note (150-500 words\, approximately) in which you reflect on the translation process or another important aspect of your work that will help readers to contextualize\, appreciate\, and understand your piece.\nProof of permission from the original’s rightsholder(s) for publication of the original text on the internet.\n\nTo submit\, please collate all of the above in a single .doc or .docx attachment with the file name format translator’s surname_author’s surname_original language_genre.doc (e.g. Schmidt_Do_Arabic_fiction.doc) and email to studorg-exchanges@uiowa.edu. Submissions lacking any or multiple of the above components will not be accepted for publication. \nWhen you send your submission\, the subject of your email must be: TRASUB-Translator’s name\, Author’s name (e.g. TRASUB-Juan Schmidt\, Jane Doe). Emails with alternate subject lines are likely to be filtered or lost. \nIf your work has appeared previously in Exchanges\, we encourage you to wait at least one submission cycle before submitting again. \nSubmission Length\n\nPOETRY: no more than 7 poems.\nFICTION: no more than 4\,000 words.\nDRAMA: no more than 15 pages.\nLITERARY NONFICTION: no more than 4\,000 words\, or 2\,500 words of translated criticism.\nREVIEWS OF A SINGLE WORK: no more than 1\,000 words.\nREVIEWS OF MULTIPLE WORKS: no more than 2\,000 words.\nINTERVIEWS: no more than 2\,500 words.\nESSAYS ON TRANSLATION: no more than 2\,500 words.\n\nCompensation and Rights\nUnfortunately\, Exchanges has no funds with which to compensate translators\, authors or artists. We ask for first serial rights\, after which the rights for all work revert to the author and translator. \nTranslating from an Ancient Language?\nPlease consider submitting to our sister publication\, Ancient Exchanges. Submission dates and guidelines can be found at https://exchanges.uiowa.edu/ancient/submissions/ \nReviews\, essays\, and interviews\nExchanges considers English-language interviews\, essays and other writing on translation and translation studies for publication in our features column. Writers should query the features editor at studorg-exchanges@uiowa.edu\, subject line “Feature pitch.” Please note there is currently a 3-6 month response time for feature and review pitches. \nExchanges is excited to start publishing more regular reviews of literature in translation. We are currently looking for reviewers for books translated into English\, published during the calendar year 2023. To pitch a review\, query the reviews editor at studorg-exchanges@uiowa.edu\, subject line “Review pitch.” \nFeatures and reviews are considered and published on a rolling basis\,  so please contact us any time. 
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/n-call-fr-submissions-to-exchanges-journal-of-literary-translation-theme-spirit/
LOCATION:Exchanges: Journal of Literary Translation
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:F - Stone's Throw Seeking Submissions about: The Little Guy
DESCRIPTION:Get in on our November prompt early…something tells me government run amok is going to be fertile grounds for imagination this year for some reason… \nIt’s election season\, so this month we want to see stories about the government\, its power\, and how it can put its thumb on the scale. Whether it’s a cop with a chip on their shoulder\, a zoning board that cannot be reasoned with\, or a congressman saying one thing then doing the other\, we want to see your stories about the little guy\, and what happens when they come face to face with unaccountable power. \nStone’s Throw opens for submissions the first three days of every month\, from 12AM on the first through 12AM on the fourth (with some wiggle room here and there to account for the editors being human). We’re looking for all the same dark fiction\, crime\, and noir as our usual submissions\, but with a target length between 1\,000 and 2\,000 words\, and aligned with the monthly submissions prompt (see below). We’ll read through each story\, choose the one story that shines brightest\, and publish it online the following month\, paying $25 per accepted story. \nAfter a year\, we’ll collect all twelve stories into a Stone’s Throw Annual Anthology\, to be published alongside our other print issues. \nPLEASE NOTE — If you have been accepted within the calendar year for Stone’s Throw\, you are ineligible to submit again during that same calendar year. However\, we look forward to reading your submissions during our regular RHP Magazine open calls! \nAnd from the Department of Things We Never Thought We’d Have to Say Department: Anyone found to be submitting a story that uses AI or language modeling software will have their story instantly rejected; they will be banned for life from submitting to any other RHP open calls; and they will be the object of open public ridicule and scorn. Come on\, people — let’s not contribute to the eventual subjugation of humankind by the machines\, okay?
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/f-stones-throw-seeking-submissions-about-the-little-guy-2/
LOCATION:Stone’s Throw
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PF - Call for Submissions to Mystic Owl Magazine. Theme: Halloween
DESCRIPTION:Submission Guidelines\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMystic Owl is a poetry and fiction magazine. Speculative work is the focus\, but we also want pieces that weave strange and weird language through real human emotions. We aim to publish three online issues yearly: spring\, summer\, and fall. \nWe are currently accepting submissions for our micro Halloween-themed issue to be published in October 2024. Our submission period will be open from September 6\, 2024-October 4\, 2024.\n\nIn this issue\, we want to highlight fiction and poetry inspired by Halloween. Send us your work about monsters\, talking pumpkins\, becoming best friends with a sleep paralysis demon\, your childhood nightmares\, or whatever your tell-tale heart desires. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGeneral Guidelines\n \n\nComplete the submission form(s) below to submit your work. We encourage multiple submissions\, but if you submit work in both genres\, please ensure you submit separately through the appropriate form below.\nWe will try our best to review submissions received via email\, but we highly encourage you to submit through our form(s) to guarantee your work is considered for publication.\nWhen completing our form\, submit with a bio of 150 words or less written in 3rd-person.\nSimultaneous submissions are allowed but inform us if the piece has been taken elsewhere.\nNo pre-published work in other magazines or social media.\nAI work is not allowed and will be rejected.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFiction \n\n100-3000 words\nIf under 1000 words\, you can submit two pieces\n\nPoetry \n\n1-3 poems\nThree-page limit for each poem
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pf-call-for-submissions-to-mystic-owl-magazine-theme-halloween/
LOCATION:Mystic Owl Magazine
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PFN - Call for Submissions to Science Write Now. This Month's Theme: Synergy
DESCRIPTION:Submissions for Issue #11 ‘Synergy’ are now open!\nIn our next edition\, to be published in November\, we’re looking for creative explorations of the science of Synergy — interactions\, collaborations\, things that together become more than the sum of their parts. Show us the positives\, the negatives\, the interdependencies\, the amplifications. What happens when cultures collide? As always\, we pay writers for new and reprint stories\, narrative essays\, and poems\, and we love experiments! Just no AI\, please. We want to hear from you.\nWe look forward to reading your work! \nSubmit via Submittable.\nSubmissions close October 8\, 2024 \nWe welcome submissions from anywhere in the world. We publish new and reprinted original work. We pay $0.30AUD/word up to $390AUD for new writing\, $70AUD for a single poem or $180AUD for three poems\, $40AUD for reprint stories or essays\, and $20AUD for reprint poems. We rely on funding and donations and have introduced a $3.00 AUD submission fee to ensure our content remains accessible and open access. Please note that we offer a fee waiver for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and anyone undergoing financial hardship—please email your work directly to hello@sciencewritenow.com.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-call-for-submissions-to-science-write-now-this-months-theme-synergy/
LOCATION:Science Write Now
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PF- The 2024 Hedge Apple Halloween Contest. Theme: Fate Comes Knocking
DESCRIPTION:We are currently open for submissions to the annual Halloween contest. \n\nWe love to see work from Hagerstown Community College students\, staff\, faculty\, alumni\, and community members\, but we also love showcasing work from authors and artists around the world. \nIn other words\, if you are reading this\, we are interested in seeing your work! \nEmail your work to hedgeapple@hagerstowncc.edu. Scroll down for details! \nGeneral Submission Guidelines: \n\nNo cover letter is necessary\, although you are welcome to send us a few sentences of author bio if you want to.\nBy sending us your work\, you grant us permission to publish it both online and in print\, but you retain the rights to publish or show it anywhere else that you wish.\nFICTION/POETRY SUBMISSIONS: Please stay under 2000 words. Most pieces we publish are under 1000 words.\n\n  \nGENERAL SUBMISSION GUIDELINES \nAt the Hedge Apple\, we believe that literature and artwork are essential parts of humanity. These powerful channels can offer us hope and healing\, bring us together\, and give voice to the marginalized. They aren’t highbrow pursuits reserved only for intellectuals—literature and art are for everyone. Fresh voices are essential\, and we love fledgling artists. We are passionate about helping you find your niche\, whether it’s through our feedback or the resources provided on our website\, and yes\, we want to hear from you veteran crafters too\, so please send us your stuff as well. We want to hear what you have to say. \nWe are looking for mixed media submissions of all genres. We are especially drawn to pieces that showcase vulnerability and draw from real life experiences. That does not mean we don’t enjoy comedic takes on life\, fantasy epics\, and unconventional pieces. We like to uphold the unique\, showcase the weird\, and embrace the uncomfortable. \nPayment: \nContributors will receive a complimentary copy of their work if it is published in print. With deep apologies to our international contributors\, we are unable to mail copies outside of the United States at this time. \nSubmission Guidelines: \nPlease send fiction\, poetry and nonfiction to hedgeapple@hagerstowncc.edu with the subject “Fiction/Poetry Submission.” Please feel free to include a brief bio written in the third person\, pasted into the body of your email\, if you’d like. If you choose not to include an author bio in your email\, please understand that it be understood that you are choosing not to have one published with your work. \nWe do accept simultaneous submissions; however\, please be courteous and withdraw your story/poem from consideration upon acceptance at another venue. \nBy submitting\, you are agreeing to light editing that does not change the meaning or style. If your work is accepted for publication\, you will receive a galley of your submission. We encourage you to review this email and respond with either corrections or approval. However\, nonresponse will be considered approval of minor editing changes. \nBy sending your work to be considered for publication in our magazine\, you are granting us North American serial rights\, which means that we will publish the work online and in print\, and then the copyright will return to you. If the work is republished\, we ask that the Hedge Apple be credited.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pf-the-2024-hedge-apple-halloween-contest-theme-fate-comes-knocking/
LOCATION:Hedge Apple
CATEGORIES:Contest
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SUMMARY:PFN - Call for Submissions to Skink Beat Review. October's Theme: Fall/Horror
DESCRIPTION:Guidelines\nBIPOC\, LGBTQIA+\, neurodivergent people(s)\, and all other Others are encouraged to submit. \nSend your Prose (Fiction/CNF/Essay) to: Nikki.skinkbeatreview@gmail.com. \nSend your Poetry to: Krystal.skinkbeatreview@gmail.com. \nPlease do not include a bio. Say hi and tell us something cool. We like to evaluate work with no biases of “status.” \nAttach your work as a Word or Google doc. Times new roman\, 12-pt font\, please. \nPoetry: one page max; 3 poems max \nFiction: flash to 1\,000 words; 2 pieces max \nCNF: flash to 1\,000 words; 1 piece max \nAcademic Essay or Article: 1\,000 words or less; 1 piece max \nWe promote youth voices. If you have a youth artist in mind\, or are a youth artist who wants to publish\, please email us (if under 18\, please ask your parent/guardian)! \nSimultaneous submissions are accepted. Let us know if your work finds a home elsewhere and congratulations! \nWant to submit in multiple genres? No problem\, just be sure to email genres to the designated editor listed above. \nLEGAL STUFF: \nArtist/Writer retains all rights to work. It’s yours. Please give us a mention as first publishers. We ask permission to use your work in any future anthologies. We will provide notice/ask for consent prior to publishing. \nSubmission responses can take up to 120 days (or more\, but it may only take a day\, depends on life).
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-call-for-submissions-to-skink-beat-review-octobers-theme-fall-horror/
LOCATION:Skink Beat Review
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PFN - Penumbra Online Seeking Submissions on the Theme of: Dirt
DESCRIPTION:“Although the surface of our planet is two-thirds water\, we call it the Earth. We say we are earthlings\, not waterlings. Our blood is closer to seawater than our bones to soil\, but that’s no matter. The sea is the cradle we all rocked out of\, but it’s to dust that we go. From the time that water invented us\, we began to seek out dirt. The further we separate ourselves from the dirt\, the further we separate ourselves from ourselves. Alienation is a disease of the unsoiled.”                       ― Tom Robbins\, Another Roadside Attraction \n“Trillions of microorganisms\, even in my own smallish backyard\, like a great dark sea swarming with tiny creatures—it almost makes me feel a little seasick standing here\, knowing how much business is being conducted right under my feet.”                        ― Kristin Ohlson\, The Soil Will Save Us: How Scientists\, \n                             Farmers\, and Foodies Are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet \nAs the above quotes indicate\, soil—the\, epidermal layer of the body of fertile Mother Earth—is life itself; however\, it is also death: it’s where we return\, usually with dirt thrown in our faces as the human body experiences open air for the last time and gives itself to the billion-blooded earth. Soil implicates itself in most every aspect of experience; it is in fact key to life in the Great Central Valley of California\, an agricultural center and the breadbasket of the United States. Agricultural soil is an increasingly fraught political issue worldwide\, as the number of small farms dwindles across the earth in an era of widespread farmland consolidation\, a change threatening biodiversity and crop diversity\, ultimately putting the world’s food supply at risk. Monsanto is turning India’s small-holding farmers into cogs in its Great Reset wheel of global agriculture\, resulting in mass protests and suicides among farmers. The widespread use of GMOs has led to contamination that has affected seed purity and damaged the livelihood of non-GMO farmers. Beyond the economics and politics of soil\, dirt has theological import: Adam was the “dust of the earth” inspired with divine breath; the Jewish golem is shaped out of clay and brought to life with a secret word; in Greek mythology\, Prometheus shaped humanoid figures of clay and Athena provided them with the breath of life. Soil is also a crucial aspect of our everyday lives\, even though we experience the world largely through screens\, simulations\, memes\, and digital images without substance or texture—the common condition of humanity in the grip of modern life. But to plunge one’s hands into the moist\, friable earth is to connect\, once again\, with our primal\, childlike selves. We at Penumbra are anxious to gather a body of art and literature\, locally sourced and from around the world\, that focuses on earthy\, dirt-related themes. \n​ \nTopics may include\, but are certainly not limited to… \n\n\nDirt in all of its forms—silt\, chalk\, sand\, peat\, loam\, mud\, diatomaceous earth… \n\n\nRocks and dirt \n\n\nThe aesthetics of dirt; the various physical sensations arising from contact with the soil—the smell\, visual stimuli\, sounds—and the memories accompanying such contact; the experience of gardening\, landscaping\, or working the soil \n\n\nLandscapes: crop fields\, deserts\, plains\, gardens\, steppes\, wetlands\, the sandy sea floor (and perhaps the opposite—the hard\, dirtless cityscape) \n\n\nCultural practices involving dirt\, such as the long history of geophagy or the daily replenishing of the sacred dirt at El Santuario de Chimayó in New Mexico \n\n\nDirt in theological contexts \n\n\nDirt and monstrous or mythological beings: consider Hercules’ defeat of Antaeus\, or the creation of the Jewish golem\, or the Slavic bolotnik\, the Murphysboro mud monster\, the swamp thing\, the gargoyle… \n\n\nThe politics of dirt\, including farming\, territoriality and moving borders\, “lines in the sand\,” drilling\, fracking \n\n\nThe creatures who live and thrive in the dirt: the trillions of infinitesimal underground creatures\, the worms who churn the soil\, the ants\, the mud-loving pig… \n\n\nDirt as life\, dirt as death; dirt and the human body​ \n\n\nReflect deeply upon any of these topics or other related ones which may emerge for you\, and then create and submit your poem or story to Penumbra for consideration. Each contributor may submit up to three poems\, short stories\, pieces of creative non-fiction\, or hybrid pieces in any combination (e.g. three poems\, one poem and two short stories\, one short story\, one hybrid piece\, etc.). \nThe deadline for submissions for the online fall edition is October 11th at midnight. We look forward to hearing from you! \nSubmission Guidelines \nSubmissions are limited to a maximum of three items of poetry or prose in any combination. Each individual item must be submitted in a separate document. All submitted material must be original and not previously published. Works submitted simultaneously to Penumbra and to other journals are acceptable\, providing they are identified as such and Penumbra receives notification immediately upon their acceptance elsewhere.   \n*Email submissions are not accepted; please use submittable.com. We do not accept paper submissions\, except from writers (such as those who are incarcerated) who do not have access to the internet. Paper submissions must be postmarked by the July 4th\, 2024\, deadline. Include a self-addressed\, stamped envelope. Send hard copies to:  \nPenumbra Literary Journal One University Circle DBH 264 Turlock\, CA 95382​ \n*At this time we are unable to ship copies of Penumbra outside of the United States of America. *
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-penumbra-online-seeking-submissions-on-the-theme-of-dirt/
LOCATION:Penumbra Online
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:FN - Call for Submissions to Griffith Review. Theme: No Place Like Home
DESCRIPTION:GriffithReview87\nNo Place Like Home\nNon-fiction and fiction\nThere’s no place like home – although home isn’t always a place. It could be a feeling\, an instinct\, a language\, a person\, a memory; it could be where we long to return or can’t wait to escape. But for all its symbolic resonance\, home also has myriad material consequences: from the picket fence to the political arena\, it raises questions of sovereignty\, identity\, economics\, class and domestic labour. What’s the future of home ownership? What does it mean to protect endangered languages? How do our conceptions of home shift when we start new lives in different countries? \nThis edition of Griffith Review heads out in search of home – what it means to us\, why it matters and how it shapes our sense of self. \nThings for you to note:\n* We’re looking for non-fiction and fiction that responds to the theme.\n* We want pieces that are no longer than 4\,000 words (they can be shorter than this).\n* We’ll let you know the outcome of your submission within eight weeks of the call-out closing date. \nFull submissions only – no pitches please. \nPublication date: February 2025
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/fn-call-for-submssions-to-griffith-review-theme-no-place-like-home/
LOCATION:Griffith Review
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:P - The 2024 Waltham Forest Poetry Competition. Theme: Friendship
DESCRIPTION:FRIENDS! We declare the 2024 Waltham Forest Poetry Competition is now OPEN! Send your poems on the theme of ‘Friendship’ and who knows? Our judge Jacqueline Saphra could be picking your work of art out as the winner. Main prize £400\, and lots of other lovely prizes too. \nSend us up to 6 poems of 40 lines maximum per poem (not including title) on the theme of FRIENDSHIP – we hope the theme allows for a variety of interpretations but you can interpret it any way you want. PLEASE read the rules before you enter. We’re offering over a thousand pounds in prizes in total. Entry fee for adults is from £3 and it’s FREE entry for young poets under the age of 18. CLOSING DATE IS MONDAY 14 OCTOBER 2024. \nThe competition is open to everyone (UK and international). There are Adult and Young Poet prizes\, plus separate Waltham Forest local prizes for people who live\, work or study in the London Borough of Waltham Forest. There’s also a prize for the funniest poem overall. \nThe top three poems in each category\, plus the funniest poem\, plus a number of Commended poets\, will be published on our website. Our awards ceremony will be held at the Trades Hall\, Walthamstow\, London on Tuesday 10 December 2024 where all winners and Commended poets will be invited to read their winning poem/s and our judge will also perform. \nAdult prizes (18 or over)\nEntry fee: 1st poem £3\, subsequent poems in the same submission £1 – up to 6 poems in total\, 40 lines maximum per poem (not including title). Poets who live\, work or study in Waltham Forest will also be automatically included in the Waltham Forest local prize for no additional fee. \n\nMain prize: 1st £400\, 2nd £200\, 3rd £100.\nWaltham Forest prize (sponsored by The Stow Brothers): 1st £50\, 2nd £30\, and 3rd £20\n\n  \nYoung poet prizes (under 18)\nNo entry fee. Send up to 6 poems in total\, 40 lines maximum per poem (not including title). Poets who live or study in Waltham Forest will also be automatically included in the Waltham Forest local prize. \n\nMain Prize: 1st £50\, 2nd £30\, 3rd £20.\nWaltham Forest prize (sponsored by The Stow Brothers) for poets living or studying in Waltham Forest: 1st £50\, 2nd £30\, and 3rd £20.\n\nThere will be a separate prize for the funniest poem\, which should also be on the main theme\, whether from an adult or a young person\, and the winner will receive £100. The judges are Paul McGrane and Barry Coidan. \nRules\nPoems must be 40 lines maximum\, not including the title. \nSend no more than 6 poems in total. \nAdults should pay for entry (either by Eventbrite\, cheque or directly into our bank account)\, then email or post their poems. Young poets don’t need to pay so please email or post your poems without payment. \nPoems should be on the theme of FRIENDSHIP – though we’ll leave it to you how you interpret the theme. \nThe judge will read all poems entered into the competition. The judge’s decision is final and neither the judge nor anyone associated with the running of the competition will enter into any correspondence. \nPoems are judged anonymously\, so please don’t put your name or any identifying information on your poems. \nAt the time of entering the competition\, you must be 18 or over to enter the Adult prize and under 18 to enter the Young Poets prize. \nUnder no circumstances can alterations be made to poems once entered. \nNo one associated with the running of the competition is eligible to enter. \nPoems must be typed\, in English\, and the original work of the entrant. Poems generated by Artificial Intelligence (AI) will not be be accepted. \nPoems must not be previously published or self-published (including online)\, broadcast\, accepted for publication elsewhere\, or the translated work of another poet. If your poem is currently appearing on your social media pages\, please delete it before submitting it to our competition. \nSimultaneous submissions are NOT accepted. Please don’t send us your poems if you have already sent them to another competition or publication and you’re waiting for the result. \nDue to the sheer volume of entries\, only successful entrants will be notified. Details of the full winners list will be announced publicly on our website after the awards ceremony in December 2024. \nHow to enter\n\nThe easiest way for Adults to pay is via our EVENTBRITE page (Young Poets can ignore this step as entries for under 18s are free – simply email or post your poems as directed below).\nThen put all your poems in one document\, making sure your name is nowhere on the document and email your entry to poetrycompetition@yahoo.com with COMPETITION in the subject line. (We accept Word\, odt\, or pdf documents).\nInclude in the body of the email:\n\n\nyour name\nyour address\ntitle/s of your poem/s\nadd ‘LOCAL’ if you live\, work or study in the borough of Waltham Forest\nadd ‘YOUNG POET’ if you’re under 18\nIf paying by cheque\, address your envelope to Waltham Forest Poetry Competition\, 82 Somers Road\, London E17 6RS. Entries to the Adult competition should be accompanied by a cheque payable to ‘Forest Poets’. We can’t accept debit/credit card payment. Please enclose a stamped\, self-addressed envelope if you would like confirmation that we have received your poems. On a separate piece of paper from the poem/s\, enter your name\, address\, daytime contact number and email (if you have one)\, and the poem title/s. This will ensure that poems are judged anonymously. Please don’t use staples on your manuscripts and don’t put any identifying details on the poems. \nYou can also pay directly into our bank account – please state that your payment is for the Waltham Forest Poetry Competition. \nAccount Name: Forest Poets\nAccount Number: 51602934\nSort Code: 40-02-02 \nAny questions? Email poetrycompetition@yahoo.com
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/p-the-2024-waltham-forest-poetry-competition-theme-friendship/
LOCATION:Waltham Forest Poetry Competition
CATEGORIES:Contest
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