The Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction is open to submissions of previously unpublished short stories (50 pages max). The winner will receive $2,000 and publication in the 2015 fall/winter issue of the Colorado Review. The submission deadline is March 14, 2015. Writers may submit their pieces here for a $15 fee per story ($17/story for online submissions).
Narrative magazine is accepting fiction and nonfiction submissions for its winter 2015 story contest. The contest deadline is March 31, 2015, at midnight (PDT). Contest entrants may submit their work for a $22 fee, which includes three months of complimentary access to Narrative Backstage.
The Oklahoma Review, an online journal published by the department of English and foreign languages at Cameron University, is accepting fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry submissions until March 15. Students may email their submissions to okreview@cameron.edu. For detailed submission guidelines, download the Word doc or visit the website.
DePaul literary magazine Crook & Folly is hosting the first of three workshops this Thursday. Students can receive one-on-one feedback on their writing from the editorial staff. To nab an assigned time slot, students should email their pieces to crookandfolly@gmail.com by Tuesday, January 20, at 7 p.m. Walk-ins are also available on a first-come, first-served basis. The word limits are as follows. Fiction and creative nonfiction: 5,000 words Micro prose: 1,000 words Poetry: One to three poems, up to three pages Crook & Folly Workshop Thursday, January 22 5:30 p.m.–7:30 p.m. Student Resource Room, second floor of Arts & Letters Hall For more… Read Article →
The Nazim Hikmet Poetry Competition is accepting submissions. Entrants may submit their poems here. The deadline is January 31, 2015. Winners will receive $100 each and an invitation to read their poems at the seventh annual Nazim Hikmet Poetry Festival.
Crook & Folly, DePaul’s literary magazine, seeks submissions of fiction, creative nonfiction, micro prose, poetry, and dramatic literature. The submission deadline is February 23. Students can send their work to crookandfolly@gmail.com. Crook & Folly is holding a micro prose event this Thursday, January 15, from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. in Arts & Letters Hall, Room 303. Attendees will learn about micro prose and create their own micro prose pieces. Before the February 23 submission deadline, the student literary journal is hosting three other workshops. Students are welcome to bring in work they want to submit and get feedback from one of the editors. Thursday, January 22, 5:30 p.m.–7:30… Read Article →
J Journal: New Writing on Justice is accepting literary fiction, poetry, memoir, and personal essay submissions that address the issue of justice. Writers may send up to three poems or 6,000 words of prose to: Editors, J Journal c/o Department of English John Jay College of Criminal Justice 524 West 59th Street, 7th Floor New York, NY 10019 For more information, see J Journal‘s submission guidelines.
Crossing Boundaries, the second annual LAS interdisciplinary graduate student conference, is accepting proposals for papers, panels, or posters through Friday, January 23, 2015. Students interested in presenting at the conference may submit proposals here. The conference, which will showcase work by graduate students across many departments and programs, will take place on Friday, March 6, 2015. The one-day event will kick off at 11 a.m. in McGowan South (1110 West Belden Avenue).
The Group Project is looking for storytellers, musicians, and other artistic collaborators—such as dancers, actors, illustrators, comedians, and journalists—for its next 7 Stories show. The multimedia performance will take place at Martin’s Corner Bar (2056 West 22nd Place) on Monday, February 23, at 8 p.m. TGP is also offering three-month internships. Over the course of the internship, students will help produce three performances. Contact Thegroupprojectemail@gmail.com for more information.
Wayne State University‘s sixth annual Group for Early Modern Studies (GEMS) graduate symposium welcomes abstracts from humanities graduate students working on the early modern period, broadly defined as 1400–1800. Abstracts should relate to the general theme of “will.” The symposium will take place on Friday, March 13, 2015, at Wayne State University in Detroit. The submission deadline is January 16, 2015. Students may submit their 250-word abstracts to gems.symposium@gmail.com. For more information, download the official call for papers as a Word doc or check out the graduate symposium website.
The Vine Leaves Literary Journal is accepting submissions of 50- to 60-page manuscripts for its annual Vine Leaves Vignette Collection Award. The submission deadline is February 28, 2015. The contest winner will receive: 1) Cash prize of $500 2) Publication by Vine Leaves Press (paperback and eBook) 3) Twenty copies of the paperback 4) Worldwide distribution 5) Promotion through Vine Leaves Literary Journal and staff websites 6) 70% net royalty on all ebook and print sales
The American Graduate School in Paris is accepting abstracts for its 2015 conference, The Influence and Role of NGOs in Global Governance: From Grassroots to Global. The conference will take place in Paris April 23–24, 2015. The abstract submission deadline is January 30, 2015, and the final paper submission deadline is March 27, 2015. Students may submit abstracts of up to 500 words to conference@ags.edu as an attachment (Microsoft Word or PDF). For more information, visit the AGS conference website.