(The information below has been copied from Pen America’s website.) Deadline: October 5, 2024, 10:59 PM CST The Emerging Voices Workshop in Los Angeles serves early-career writers from communities underrepresented in the publishing world. An outgrowth of the long-running Emerging Voices Fellowship, this in-person craft intensive shares the goal of demystifying publishing, cultivating literary community, and diversifying the publishing and entertainment industries. The week-long workshop, offered twice annually, provides 15 writers the opportunity to develop a manuscript-in-progress with peers and expert instructors. Mornings are dedicated to guided poetry, fiction, and nonfiction workshops. Afternoons offer access to visiting… Read Article →
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From literary magazines to opportunities for publishing and industry recognition, check out these upcoming contests for writers! (Entries closest to the top of the list are the most time-sensitive.) Information below is copied from each competition’s webpage. 2. Cinematic Prose Writing Competition 3. Narrative Magazine Fall 2024 Story Contest 4. Black Fox Literary Magazine 5. Disquiet International Literary Program Prize 6. The Black List 2025 Unpublished Novel Award
Catamaran accepts fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and visual art. Themes they are especially interested in are science and nature writing, creativity and the artistic process, personal journey and travel, and innovation; any setting is fine, but the West Coast is of particular interest. There is an $8 reading fee for general submissions. You can submit to Catamaran at any time of the year! They would like to consider your submission for two consecutive quarterly issues of the magazine after you submit, so please allow up to six months for a decision. For special, time-sensitive calls for submission, see… Read Article →
The Missouri Review‘s 34th Annual Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize is accepting submissions through Tuesday, October 1! One winner from each genre (fiction, nonfiction, and poetry) will receive a $5,000 cash prize, as well as publication and promotion. Winners will be announced in early 2025. There is a $4 reading fee for each genre. Click here to open the online submissions form! Contest guidelines and eligibility details can be found below: Guidelines Eligibility Submit Questions? E-mail contest_question@moreview.com
Join us Wednesday, October 2nd, at 6PM (in Levan 100) as the English Department and Department of Modern Languages cohost “Place and Displacement in the Craft of Fiction,” with authors and professors Miles Harvey and Gazmend Kapllani!
Join us Tuesday, October 29, at 7PM (in ALH 103) to welcome award-winning author Amina Gautier! Gautier’s publications include four short story collections: At-Risk, Now We Will Be Happy, The Loss of All Lost Things, and most recently, The Best That You Can Do. Gautier is currently a professor in the MFA program at the University of Miami. For any questions about this event, contact Professor Royster at froyster@depaul.edu.
Course descriptions for Autumn Quarter 2024 are now available! Click here to view the list. (You can also view course descriptions for AQ2024, and any quarter, by mousing over the “Classes” tab at the top of the Ex Libris homepage.)
Glassworks publishes nonfiction, fiction, poetry, hybrid pieces, and artwork, both digitally and in print. They are currently reading until December 15, 2024 for their 2025 print issue. Glassworks also publishes flash fiction, prose poetry, and micro essays (under 750 words each) every month in their online edition, Flash Glass. Submissions for Flash Glass are also accepted through December 15, 2024, and occasionally reopen throughout the year. More information about Glassworks and Flash Glass, sample issues, submission guidelines, and a link to submit via Submittable can be found at www.rowanglassworks.org. Glassworks is the literary magazine of Rowan… Read Article →
Submit your fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and writing that defies genre classification to Thin Air Magazine by October 20th to be considered for Issue 31 (print issue). This year’s theme is Metamorphosis!: art that ponders the metamorphoses we see in creation, in destruction, in reflection, in meditation, in stagnation, in art itself. Submit your pieces that engage with this theme via the Thin Air Magazine Submittable page. Thin Air Magazine is an MFA-run literary journal based out of Northern Arizona University. See Thin Air‘s submission guidelines below: We charge a $3.00 submission fee for our print… Read Article →
Writers on Writing: Jericho Brown and Robyn Schiff Thursday, May 9, 6 to 7 pm CDT At the Newberry Library in Chicago or livestreamedRegistration in advance is required for both the in-person program and the livestream. Registrants will receive a link to the recording on the Newberry’s YouTube when it is available.FOLLOW THE LINK!
