Writer Advice, online aid for writers, is open for submissions for their fiction, memoir, and creative nonfiction contest Scintillating Starts. Send in opening paragraphs, up to 1,000 words, to Writer Advice by December 1st. There is a $15 submission fee and a cash award of $210 that will be split among selected winners. The contest is open to anyone who has not signed a contract for the book they submit. Submit online.
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MENAGE a new online weekly literary journal is now open for submissions. MENAGE, launching late fall, will publish 2-4 poems in translation and in conversation with one another this week. Poets slated so far include Kim Sowol, Oscar Hahn, and Lorenzo Carlucci. Send submissions of 3-5 poems to editor@menagemagazine.com. Attachments are preferred. When submitting translations, please include the original.
Devil’s Lake, the graduate literary journal published by the MFA candidates at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is accepting online entries for their annual Driftless Prize in Fiction and Poetry. Winners will receive $1,000 and publication in the Spring 2017 issue. The entry fee $15 and all entries are considered for publication. The deadline to submit is October 31st. Submissions are currently low, so students chances at winning are high! Entries should include two poems totaling five pages or fewer (for poetry) or stories that are no longer than 4,500 words (prose)> One entry is defined as one short story… Read Article →
The Columbia Journal is now accepting submissions of nonfiction, fiction, and poetry for their 2016 Winter Contest. The winners in each category will receive cash prizes of $500 and have their winning works published in the spring print edition of the journal. Deadline for submissions is December 12, 2016. Find full details and submit online. Columbia Journal was founded in 1977 and, in the years since, has published work from Nobel laureates and lesser-known writers, National Book-award winners and newcomers. Our archives include everyone from Raymond Carver to Lorrie Moore to Louise Gluck to Philip… Read Article →
Submissions are now open for contests from the 2017 Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival. The festival is accepting works of fiction (deadline November 30), poetry (deadline November 15), and one-act plays (deadline November 1) with prizes up to $1,500, publication, and airfare to the festival. Find full details on the call for submissions below: Hello Coordinators, Instructors, Directors, and Writers, We are excited to announce that the 2017 Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival’s Writing Contests are now open for submissions! FICTION For our Fiction Contest the deadline is November 30, 2016. Entry Fee is $25. Grand Prize: $1,500 Domestic… Read Article →
Ex Libris is excited to announce it is currently seeking reporters and columnists for the 2016-2017 academic year! For full details, please see the following message from our Editor-in-Chief: Dear MAE and MAWP students, Hello all! Jordan Weber here, Editor-in-Chief of Ex Libris – your much beloved blog and news source! I’m contacting you to announce that Ex Libris is currently seeking reporters as well as columnists for the 2017 academic year. Both positions are great opportunities for hands-on experience with a flexible level of commitment. Reporters would conduct interviews and write reviews for recent publications from DePaul alums,… Read Article →
The new literary journal, Indicia is open for submissions until October 31 for their 2nd issue. They are searching for previously unpublished works of poetry, flash fiction, and visual art. See the following message from the editors: Dear Writers & Artists, We invite you to submit to our young online journal indicia, an art, poetry, and fiction publication made with love above all else. Mostly we are drawn to the experimental, the understated, the othered & outcast, the childlike, and the bizarre. Check out our first issue, then if you think we’d like your work, send some to us for the… Read Article →
Rowan University’s graduate literary magazine, Glassworks is currently open for submissions for their spring and fall print issues until December 15. Glassworks publish nonfiction, fiction, poetry, hybrid pieces, craft essays, new media, and art both digitally and in print. Full submission details can be found online. Glassworks also accepts submissions year-round of flash fiction, prose poetry, and micro essays for their online edition Flash Glass.
The Santa Ana Review, the University of California, Riverside’s literary journal is open for submissions until November 15 (and reopens in spring from January 15-March 15). The Santa Ana River Review is accepting Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and the visual arts and is open to established, emerging, and new writers. Find full submission details and submit online. Currently, they are also holding The Santa Ana River Review Dramatic Works Contest. They are searching for new, exciting, and challenging work in the world of performance writing. They are accepting ten-minute works (12 pages or less) of any medium (play,… Read Article →
The Gordian Review is an online literary journal operated by and for English and creative writing students at the graduate level. They are currently seeking submissions of fiction, and nonfiction from graduate level students. Find full details on the flyer below. Submissions are due by October 31.
The Indiana Review is seeking submissions to their 2016 Fiction Prize. Story submissions up to 8,000 words in length are accepted from established and emerging writers. The contest winner will receive $1,000 and publication. Complete guidelines can be found here, and there is a $20 entry fee (which includes a year subscription to the journal). Submissions are due October 31.
The Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies is hosting its annual Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference on January 26-28. The conference is a unique and enriching opportunity for graduate students interested in Renaissance, medieval and early modern research to meet peers from across the nation, an globally, to share and collaborate on work. Due to its interdisciplinary nature and broad scope, this is an ideal option for students who have never presented a paper at an academic conference before. The 2017 conference schedule will include workshops and sessions with rare books in addition to traditional conference sessions. The… Read Article →