Call for Submissions

by Ex Libris on September 19, 2017

Tennessee Williams Literary Festival Writing Contests

The Tennessee Williams Literary Festival in New Orleans has four open contests! One-Act Play Contest Grand Prize $1,500 Professional Staged Reading at the next Festival VIP All-Access Festival pass ($600 value) Publication in Bayou Magazine Deadline: November 1,2017 For submission guidelines and more information click here. Poetry Contest Grand Prize $1,000 VIP All-Access Pass ($600 value) for the Festival Publication in Louisiana Cultural Vistas Magazine Public reading at the next Festival Deadline: November 15, 2017 For submission guidelines and more information click here. Fiction Contest Grand Prize $1,500 Domestic airfare (up to $500) and French Quarter accommodations to… Read Article →

by Ex Libris on September 15, 2017

Aura Estrada Short Story Contest

Less than a month remains to enter Boston Review’s Aura Estrada Short Story Contest! Deadline: October 1, 2017 Judge: Viet Thanh Nguyen Prize: $1,500 Complete guidelines: The winning author will receive $1,500 and have his or her work published online on Boston Review’s Web site. Runners up may also be published. Stories should not exceed 5,000 words and must be previously unpublished. Mailed manuscripts should be double-spaced and submitted with a cover note listing the author’s name, address, and phone number. No cover note is necessary for online submission. Names should not appear on the stories themselves. Any author writing in… Read Article →

by Ex Libris on September 15, 2017

Narrative’s Fall Story and 30 Below Contest

The Fall Story Contest is open to all writers, and all entries will be considered for publication. The fall contest is open to all fiction and nonfiction writers. They are looking for short stories, essays, memoirs, photo essays, graphic stories, all forms of literary nonfiction, and excerpts from longer works of both fiction and nonfiction. Entries must be previously unpublished, no longer than 15,000 words, and must not have been previously chosen as a winner, finalist, or honorable mention in another contest. $2,500 First Prize $1,000 Second Prize $500 Third Prize Ten finalists receive $100 each… Read Article →

by Ex Libris on September 15, 2017

The 2018 Public Space Fellowships

A Public Space is an independent magazine of literature and culture. Applications will open for the 2018 Public Space Fellowships on September 15. The aim of these fellowships is to seek out and support writers who embrace risk in their work and their own singular vision. Writers who have not yet contracted to publish a book are invited to apply. Three fellowships will be awarded, which will include: —six months of editorial support from A Public Space editors to prepare a piece for publication in the magazine; —a $1,000 honorarium; —the opportunity to meet with members of the… Read Article →

by Ex Libris on September 14, 2017

Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize

For 27 years, the Missouri Review’s Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize (open for submissions through October 2) has discovered and honored the best fiction, poetry, and nonfiction in the country. First prize in each genre is $5000, and they will announce three runners-up and ten finalists in each category. Each entry is $22 by mail or $25 online. Each entry is carefully read by the editorial staff and receives a one-year digital subscription to TMR and a paperback copy of Jane Gillette’s The Trail of the Demon and Other Stories. Deadline: October 2. Click here to learn more and enter.

by Ex Libris on September 14, 2017

The Journal Wheeler Prize for Poetry

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS! Submissions open September 1-30 for the annual The Journal / Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize In addition to publication under a standard book contract by The Ohio State University Press, the winning author receives the Charles B. Wheeler Prize of $2,500. THE RULES: Entries of at least 48 typed pages of original poetry must be submitted electronically during the month of September. The submitter’s name or other identifying information should appear only on a separate cover page. All manuscripts will be read and judged anonymously. Manuscripts will be screened, in accordance with… Read Article →

by Ex Libris on September 12, 2017

Jewish Studies Graduate Student Association’s 2018 Conference

Indiana University’s Jewish Studies Graduate Student Association is pleased to announce the 6th Annual Jewish Studies Graduate Student conference, sponsored by the Robert A. and Sandra A. Borns Jewish Studies Program. The conference is titled “Jewish Storytelling: Traditions & Transformations” It will be held on Thursday, February 8 and Friday February 9, 2018 in Bloomington, Indiana. Abstracts are due to mailto:jsgsacon@indiana.edu by Friday, October 27 For more information see the flyer above.

by Ex Libris on September 12, 2017

Black River Chapbook Competition Now Open

The Black River Chapbook Competition is a semi-annual prize from Black Lawrence Press for a chapbook of short fiction or poems. The competition is open to new emerging and established writers. They are accepting chapbooks of poems or short fiction between 16-36 pages in length. Winners will receive $500 and publication. Entry deadline for the Fall Competition: October 31, 2017 Find out more details and submit your work here.

by Ex Libris on September 12, 2017

Contest for New Writers and Poets!

Sequestrum is holding a contest through October 15th for new writers and poets (anyone yet to publish a book-length manuscript). Their aim is to showcase work by candidates in some of the top creative writing programs. The Sequestrum library contains NEA & Guggenheim Fellows, Pulitzer Prize nominees, and other award-winning poets and novelists; they hope to put some of today’s emerging talents alongside them. For more information see flyer above, or visit Sequestrum’s website here.

by Ex Libris on September 8, 2017

Glimmer Train’s New Writer Award

New Writer Award: 1st place $2,500 and publication. Deadline: 10/31. (The Fiction Open and Very Short grace periods end on 9/10.) Make a submission here. Open only to emerging writers whose fiction has not appeared in any print publication with a circulation over 5,000. (Previous online publication is fine.) The 1st-place winner will be published in Glimmer Train and will receive $2,500 and 10 copies of that issue. Second- and 3rd-place win $500/$300, respectively, or, if accepted for publication, $700. Winners and finalists will be announced in the January bulletin, and contacted directly the previous… Read Article →

by Ex Libris on September 8, 2017

Lascaux Prize in Poetry Contest, Deadline: September 30

The Lascaux Prize in Poetry closes at the end of the month. Poems may be previously published or unpublished, and simultaneous submissions are accepted. Winner receives $1,000, a bronze medallion, and publication in The Lascaux Review. The winner and all finalists will be published in The 2018 Lascaux Prize Anthology. Two copies of the anthology will be supplied to every poet appearing in it. Entry fee is $10. Poets may enter more than once, and as many as five poems may be submitted per entry. There are no length restrictions. All styles are welcome. Contests… Read Article →

by Ex Libris on September 5, 2017

Palaver: Call for Submissions

Palaver Journal, UNCW’s online interdisciplinary journal, is seeking submissions! The reading period closes on September 14. Please see the flyer above for more details on how to submit to this publication. For more information , visit Palaver’s website here.

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