The new website for Slag Glass City has launched. Created by Professor Barrie Jean Borich with support from DePaul’s English department/MAWP program, the journal accepts general submissions on a rolling basis from September 15 to June 15. Click here to submit to Slag Glass City. The magazine is looking for “new, original nonfiction literature and art from, by, and about cities, urban sustainability, and what does and does not makes cities livable.”
Indiana University Bloomington‘s comparative literature department is accepting abstracts for Missed Connections, a graduate student conference. The conference will take place April 10 and 11, 2015. The deadline for submitting abstracts is February 1, 2015. What to Submit Abstract (300 words max) Title of your presentation Short bio (50 words max) with your name, email address, degree level, and institutional affiliation *** Send submission materials to iu.complit@gmail.com, both in the body of the email and as an attachment.
The Children’s Book Academy is offering a free novel-writing webinar on January 2 at 5:30 p.m. PST. The Academy is also accepting scholarship applications for The Chapter Book Alchemist, a five-week e-course on writing chapter books. Aspiring authors of children’s literature may submit their applications through December 10, 2014. To quote the Children’s Book Academy website: “Our scholarships are designed to help bring more diversity of all kinds into the children’s literature field and are currently offered to folks who identify as LBQTI, having a disability, being a person of color, or being low income.”
The 2015 USA Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop is accepting submissions. The workshop, Poetry and Fiction Writing in the African Diaspora, will take place May 31–June 13, 2015, at Brown University. Applicants may submit a writing sample of poetry or fiction here. The submission deadline is February 15, 2015. For more information, view the PDF flyer.
Pearson is accepting project proposals for its Emerging Pedagogies Research and Travel Grant. Graduate students in composition, rhetoric, and business and technical communication—and adjunct faculty teaching composition courses—may submit proposals. The submission deadline is December 31, 2014. Up to ten $750 grants will be awarded. These grants will help defray the cost of attending the 2015 Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), which will take place March 18–21, 2015, in Tampa.
Chicken Soup for the Soul is compiling stories from volunteers for its forthcoming book, Volunteering & Giving Back: 101 Inspiring Stories about Purpose and Passion. The deadline for submissions is February 15, 2015. Visit the Chicken Soup for the Soul website to view the writing guidelines and submit your stories.
Columbia: A Journal of Literature & Art is accepting original work in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry for its annual writing competition. One winner in each category will receive a $500 cash prize and publication in Issue 53, due out this spring. The submission deadline is December 1, 2014. The entry fee is $15. Enter the competition here.
Books on a Whim in Evanston is always seeking humorous submissions. See below. Are you a funny writer? Do you know funny writers? Books on a Whim holds writing contests for Grade A Papers publications. E-mail info@booksonawhim.com to stay informed about upcoming projects.
The 30 Below Contest is open to all young writers, poets, visual artists, photographers, performers, and filmmakers between eighteen and thirty years old. Deadline: Saturday, November 15, at midnight, PST. First Prize: $1,500 Second Prize: $750 Third Prize: $300 Ten finalists receive $100 each 30 Below Contest entrants may submit their work here.
The Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival‘s annual fiction contest is accepting submissions through 5 p.m. CST on November 16, 2014. For more information, view the contest guidelines and FAQ.
The Conium Review’s Flash Fiction Contest is currently seeking submissions. The submission deadline is December 15, 2014. This year’s judge is Ashley Farmer, author of Beside Myself (Tiny Hardcore Press) and Farm Town (Rust Belt Bindery). The winning writer receives $300, a copy of the judge’s latest book, online publication, and publication as a limited-run broadside or micro-chap for distribution at the 2015 AWP Conference.
Memoryhouse Magazine Memoryhouse Magazine, the University of Chicago’s quarterly student-run publication, welcomes submissions of poetry, prose, comics, visual art, and experimental media submissions on a rolling basis. The magazine reviews submissions as a whole twice per quarter.