The Center for Interfaith Relations is now accepting submissions for the Thomas Merton Prize in Poetry of the Sacred. Poems will be evaluated upon literary excellence, authenticity, and spiritual tenor. There will be three honorable mention award winners who will receive $100 and publication in Parabola Magazine. The grand prize winner receives $500, publication, and a chance to read the winner on stage at the 2016 Festival of Faiths. Poems are due March 31st. Find out more and submit here.
This year SAIC’s learning symposium, titled Going Off(Shore), attempts to flatten the typical hierarchical design of conferences and take on a conversational format, inviting graduate students to submit generative conversational prompts that provoke a departure from stable ground, so as to rethink learning and curriculum. The symposium takes place Saturday, April 9th from 10:00 am to 2:30 pm. Submissions are due on March 11th, and can be sent here. For further details, see the flyer below or contact the conference organizers at goingoffshore2016@gmail.com.
Below is a call for submissions for DePaul’s 7th annual Spring English Conference. Here is a .pdf or .docx of submission guidelines. Submissions are due April 1st. Call for Submissions – Academic and Creative Work 7th Annual Spring English Conference Hosted by Students of the Department of English Organizers: Anastasia Sasewich (MAWP) and Jordan Weber (MAE) Friday, April 29, 2016 • Arts & Letters Hall 2315 N. Kenmore Ave The DePaul English Department invites you to participate in our seventh annual student-run conference. The Spring English Conference (SPEC) will be held on the afternoon of Friday, April… Read Article →
Palaver, the interdisciplinary journal of the University of North Carolina Wilmington, is now open for both academic and creative submissions. Find out more on the flyer below.
Driftwood Press is a literary magazine dedicated to curating from a broad field of work including fiction, poetry, photography, graphic narrative, literary criticism, and interviews. Driftwood is currently open year-round for submissions. There next publication will be released April, 4th. Find out submissions details here.
Mark your calendars! The 7th Annual the Spring English Conference will be held on Friday, April 29th. Submissions, open for both creative and academic writing, are due April 1st. Stay tuned for further details on guidelines, requirements, and the announcement of the keynote speaker!
A new online literary journal, NoiseMedium, is hosting their first creative writing contest. Their first contest is free to enter, and includes a $500 grand prize and publication for the top 100 submissions. It is open to all genres and formats. The deadline to submit is March 14. Send submissions to contests@noisemedium.com. Find out more online.
Submissions are open until March 31 for the Florida Keys Flash Fiction Contest. The contest winner will receive $1,500 air travel card and accommodations in a residency cottage at The Studios of Key West between July 5 and July 31. A $500 stipend as well as passes and admission to various events during the Hemingway Days festival set for July 19-25. Ten of the residency days include an opportunity to write in the colonial estate that Hemingway lived and worked in throughout most of the 1930’s. Full details, rules, and submission forms can be found on the contest website.
The eleventh annual Schiff Foundation Fellowship for Critical Architectual Writing is now open for proposals. The fellowship program, administered by the Department of Architecture and Design at the Art Institute of Chicago, was established to engage young writers and scholars in critical discussions about the built environment and is open to graduate students currently enrolled in coursework at Chicago-area universities. Though the fellowship is focused on architecture, English students with research interests that converge with art theory, materiality, and space are encouraged to consider applying. The deadline for application is Monday, Aprill 11. Full details can be found… Read Article →
Santa Ana River Review (formerly Crate) is looking for pieces of fiction, poetry, non-fiction, dramatic work and visual art for the Spring 2016 issue. The submission deadline is March 15. Juan Felipe Herrera, U.S. Poet Laureate, will be judging the poetry contest. $7 early bird submission fee and $100 minimum cash prize. Find details and submit here. Santa Ana River Review is the official literary journal of University of California Riverside’s MFA program in Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts. Santa Ana River Review aims to publish provocative, imaginative work to fuel their readers own inquisitive minds.
CURA: A Literature Magazine of Art and Action is currently accepting submissions for their 2015-2016 issue dedicated to the Black Lives Matter movement and the voices, art, and action of racial justice. CURA is open to poetry submissions and prose submissions at a maximum of 6,000 words. Their reading period closes on March 15. Further details can be found here, and submissions can be sent here. From CURA: “We seek to promote a movement of creative response guided by meaningful action– to celebrate active citizenship where a republic of writers, filmmakers, visual and digital artists converge. What… Read Article →
indicia is a new online biannual literature journal seeking submissions for their first publication. Currently indicia is seeking unpublished works of poetry, flash fiction, and visual art. Submissions include up to 6 poems of not more than 10 pages total, up to 3 flash fiction stories of not more than 750 words each, or up to 5 high-quality image files. Find further details here, and send submissions to editors.indicia@gmail.com. From indicia: “indicia seeks to showcase a dynamic collage of passionate and profound voices hungry to produce art and write primarily in the English language. indicia enjoys feeling out the lengths to which language… Read Article →