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by Ex Libris on April 3, 2024

Submit to This: The Chicago Film Critics Association and Rotten Tomatoes Emerging Critics Program

The Chicago Film Critics Association and Rotten Tomatoes have again partnered on an exciting grant opportunity that may be of interest to your students. See below a brief summary of this initiative, and please feel free to circulate amongst your department or forward to any colleague not included here that you deem fit. The Chicago Film Critics Association and Rotten Tomatoes Emerging Critics Program supports individuals in the early stages of their career in film and media criticism. Ahead of the 2024 Chicago Critics Film Festival (May 3-9, 2024), two recipients will be selected and awarded the… Read Article →

by Ex Libris on March 26, 2024

Spring English Conference Deadline Extended! April 7

Submit your work (in any genre) to participate in one of a kind panels with your DePaul peers! The themes of each panel are determined by the work submitted to the organizing body. Send your work to SpringEnglishConference@gmail.com and help shape the event!

by Ex Libris on March 18, 2024

Tin House Fall Residency Program (Portland, Oregon – Deadline March 29)

Tin House Fall Residency Program (Portland, Oregon – Deadline March 29) The Tin House Resident will be housed in a 900 square ft. studio apartment next to the Tin House Workshop office in Northwest Portland. The apartment includes a full kitchen, bathroom, and a small living room/office with WiFi. There are several coffee shops, restaurants, and grocery stores within walking distance of the apartment and access to public transit. Parents ResidencySeptemberThis residency is open to writers with children 18 years of age or younger (as of March 1st, 2024). General ResidencyOctoberThis residency is intended for any… Read Article →

by Ex Libris on March 18, 2024

The Woolf Call for Submissions (Issue 6: “Music” – Deadline March 25)

The Woolf Call for Submissions (Issue 6: “Music” – Deadline March 25) The Woolf is an online magazine of new writing and visual art. Published twice a year out of Switzerland, we welcome short fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry and visual art from anywhere in the world. As long as it makes us howl. Hear, play or make it. Be stilled, stunned, changed, warped, saved, ruined or reborn by it. Music is the prompt for Issue 6 – so send us your best. Guidelines: WORDS  Microfiction: <100 words (up to 3 pieces in one document) Flash fiction: <1000 words … Read Article →

by Ex Libris on March 18, 2024

The Cut Call for Pitches

The Cut Call for Pitches The Cut (of the New Yorker) publishes stories that address our readers’ lives head-on, with generous wit, honesty, and power. We are in a dynamic conversation with women about the issues that matter to them most—politics, feminism, work, money, relationships, mental health, fashion, and issues relating to equality—and we’re always looking for ideas that add to that conversation. Our stories go through a collaborative and thorough editorial process, and writers are paid at competitive rates. What we’re looking for: Smart, generous, funny writing that engages with The Cut’s readers and finds a natural home on our… Read Article →

by Ex Libris on March 18, 2024

Necessary Fiction Call for Summer Flash Fiction (Deadline May 1)

Necessary Fiction Call for Summer Flash Fiction (Deadline May 1) Necessary Fiction will publish weekly flash fiction each Wednesday for your summer reading enjoyment beginning in June and lasting through Labor Day. Here are 10 things we’ve noticed about our broad aesthetic tendencies over the years: We’re often fans of the absurd, the off-kilter, and the darkly comic. We tend to fall for beautiful language or an unexpected phrase. We’re interested in how a story gets told. We prefer stories that are stories, not static moments or a character’s memories lacking broader context. We’re open to reading the slyly speculative, the strange,… Read Article →

by Laurance Matthews on March 18, 2024

33 ⅓ Series Call for Proposals (Deadline March 29)

33 ⅓ Series Call for Proposals (Deadline March 29) Widely acclaimed by fans, musicians and scholars alike, the 33 ⅓ series dives deep into your favorite artists, albums and genres. In October 2003 we published our first ever batch of 33 ⅓ books, each one focusing on a popular LP. Since then we’ve covered many artists and albums, from Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures to Celine Dion’s Let’s Talk About Love, Duran Duran’s Rio to Kraftwerk’s Computer World, and Madvillain’s Madvillainy to Britney Spears’s Blackout. Each album covered in the series occupies such a specific place in music history, so each book-length treatment is different. Since… Read Article →

by Ex Libris on March 18, 2024

Short Story, Long Call for Submissions (Deadline March 31)

Short Story, Long Call for Submissions (Deadline March 31) Short stories, 2k-8k words long (with the 3,000-5,500 range being our real sweet spot). What are we looking for? Honestly, best indicator is to read a story or two we’ve already published. Second best indicator is to generally be familiar with Aaron’s taste and what he’s published on HAD, and Hobart before that. Every published story will be paired with original art, and I am paying both writer and artist $100. Submissions will be open until the end of March. Please only submit once per submission period.

by Ex Libris on March 18, 2024

december Call for Submissions & 2024 Curt Johnson Prose Awards(Deadline May 1)

december Call for Submissions & 2024 Curt Johnson Prose Awards(Deadline May 1) “december invites submissions of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction (essays, memoirs, biography, literary journalism, social or cultural commentary or analysis), and visual art (print or digital). december magazine was founded in Iowa City in 1958 by a group of poets, writers, and artists who declared, “We are humanists…far more concerned with people than dogmatic critical or aesthetic attitudes.” december was a pioneer in the “little” magazine and small press movement, publishing cutting-edge fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and art.  december has a distinguished legacy of publishing the early work of little-known writers and artists, many of… Read Article →

by Ex Libris on March 18, 2024

Berkley | Penguin Random House Open Submission Program Call for Novels

Berkley | Penguin Random House Open Submission Program Call for Novels “Berkley launched its Open Submission Program in 2021 with the goal of creating a direct submission channel to editors in hopes of reaching more potential authors and sharing their works with the world. At Berkley, we strive to publish commercial fiction that reflects the world we live in and to bring readers stories that encompass a full range of backgrounds, experiences and unique perspectives.  Beginning March 18, 2024 at 9:00am ET, we will accept the first 1,000 submissions. We are looking for full-length adult novels in the… Read Article →

by Ex Libris on March 12, 2024

Apply for the MilkWeed Fellowship Publishing Program

“ The Milkweed Fellowship is grounded in our belief that books have the potential to change the way we see the world, and that equity is essential to a vibrant, diverse, and empowered literary ecosystem. This paid, one- to two-year immersion program is designed to offer the tools, experience, and exposure necessary to pursue a career in book publishing. Intended to provide an alternative route to leadership in an industry where the prerequisite to an entry-level position is typically an unpaid internship, this learning-oriented position seeks to provide entry to those historically underrepresented among workers in book… Read Article →

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