Scroll is a new online publishing platform designed by a group of Stanford students. They are currently looking for student writers to join their viral storytellers. Find out more about Scroll on their website, or on the flyer below. Applications are due June 6th.
The deadline for Glimmer Train‘s New Writer Award is June 30th. The award is open only to emerging writers whose fiction has not appeared in any print publication with a circulation over 5,000. The 1st place winner will be published in Glimmer Train and will receive ten copies of that issue. 2nd and 3rd place will win $500/$300, respectively, or, if accepted for publication $700. Most submissions run 1,500-6,000 words, but stories as long as 12,000 words are accepted. Find full guidelines here.
Art and literary journal Afterimage is seeking works of ekphrasis for their online project “Inklight.” For the project, photographers submit original work, which is selected to be posted on the Afterimage web site. Writers then submit original creative writing inspired by one of the images on the web site (engaging in the process of ekphrasis). New “Inklight” features are posted regularly and archived indefinitely. Find full submission details here, or check out “Inklight”.
The Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park has announced a new project which aims to promote new creative writing, and is designed with new writers in mind, the Hemingway Shorts. Submissions are due June 15, 2016. A winning submission will receive $500. Find full details here.
The deadline is approaching for the Black River Chapbook Competition from Black Lawrence Press. The biannual competition accepts unpublished chapbooks of poems or short fiction between 16 and 36 pages in length. The contest is open to new, emerging, and established writers. Winners receive publication, a $500 cash reward, and ten copies of the book. Spring entry closes May 31st, and entry reopens for the second period on September 1st. Full details and where to submit here.
DHChicago, in collaboration with the Macroanalysis and the Humanities Working Group, is accepting proposals for their digital humanities conference, “New Archival Knowledges,” being held at the University of Chicago May 19-20. DHChicago seeks to bring together scholars from across the Chicagoland area and across disciplines to present work on macroanalysis, or the computational analysis of textual data and metadata. Proposals are due Friday, May 6 and should include: a title, abstract of up to 250 words, and, in the email, the author’s name, a C.V., institutional affiliation, and email address. Send submissions and questions to… Read Article →
Submissions for the Luminarts Fellowship for excellence in creative writing are due this Friday, May 6th. Writers submit two pages of stand-alone work or an excerpt in categories of poetry or prose and have the opportunity to win $5,000. Apply on their submissions page, or contact info@luminarts.org for more information.
Do you speak (or write in) more than one language? Do you know someone who does? Then please see the Call for Submissions from Collaborative for Multilingual Writing and Research below. Official Call for Submissions The Collaborative for Multilingual Writing and Research (CMWR) is now accepting submissions for the sixth Issue of its annual electronic magazine, Global Voices. The magazine seeks to showcase the work of DePau¹s multilingual and cultural communities. We accept a wide range of texts, audio, and visual works—in different languages. If you have something that you’ve written or produced and would like to share… Read Article →
Applications are due on April 22 for the 2016 Mailer Poetry Fellowship. Hosted by The Norman Mailer Center and The Norman Mailer Writers Colony, the fellowship this year will take place July 9 to July 31 at the prestigious Pepperdine University campus in Malibu, California. To find out more, visit the fellowships website, and find full applications here.
Fictitious: Where Fiction Meets Improv , a unique online literary journal and show hosted by iO, is seeking submissions. Fictitious is accepting rolling submissions for short pieces of comedic fiction. Once selected, authors will be invited to read their piece at a live show at iO Chicago that takes place every fourth Wednesday of the month. Performed pieces can only be 1-3 pages, but longer stories will be considered for the online journal. At the show, selected authors will read their work and a group of iO improvisers will then improvise within their literary world. There is no submission… Read Article →
Submissions are due April 30 for the Very Short Fiction Award and the Fiction Open contests from Glimmer Train. Very Short prizes include: 1st place $2,000 and publication, 2nd place $500, and 3rd place $300. Find guidelines here. Fiction Open prizes include: 1st place $3,000 and publication, 2nd place $1,000, and 3rd place $600. Find guidelines here.