The 2018 Hudson Prize is now open for submissions! Each year Black Lawrence Press will award The Hudson Prize for an unpublished collection of poems or short stories. The prize is open to new, emerging, and established writers. The winner of this contest will receive book publication, a $1,000 cash award, and ten copies of the book. Prizes are awarded on publication. The annual deadline is March 31. For more information and to submit, click here.
Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers Deadline: February 28, 2018 1st place wins $2,500 color, publication in Glimmer Train and 10 copies. 2nd place wins $500, or if chosen for publication, $700. 3rd place wins $300, or if chosen for publication, $700. (All submissions are considered for publication.) Open only to emerging writers who haven’t had fiction appear in any print publication with a circulation over 5,000. (Previous online publication is fine.) Reading fee: $18. Most entries run from 1,000 to 4,000 words, but any lengths up to 12,000 are welcome For more… Read Article →
March 9 is the preferential due date to apply for the limited number of fee-remission assistantships at Taleamor Park artists’ residency. Taleamor Park offers two-week and longer residencies in an 1854 Italianate farmhouse on a scenic farm near Chicago and Lake Michigan. Residents live in a lovely 1854 Italianate farmhouse that has four private air-conditioned bedrooms, two bathrooms, two kitchens, a laundry room, two common rooms, a library, a writing nook, and a paper studio. Vintage outbuildings offer both private and spacious shared studio spaces. Verdant walking trails wind through fields of grain to woods and ponds and scenic vistas. We welcome artists in all media and generally have a mix of… Read Article →
MALS/IDS Communications Assistant (Student Assistant II), updated Feb. 2018 General Summary: Student Assistant II is responsible for assisting with projects, basic office duties (i.e. typing, filing, photocopying, answering phones, etc.), providing customer service, and assisting department staff. Major projects include assisting with production and publication of annual newsletter and program marketing pieces. Some attendance at occasional recruiting and program social events will be required. Excellent writing and communication skills required, and providing writing samples is strongly recommended. Familiarity with social media (WordPress), Digication, Adobe Creative Suite, and print production required. The supervisor for the MALS/IDS… Read Article →
Good news from Kathleen Rooney, who reports that: “Rose Metal Press’s latest book, MONSTER PORTRAITS, has just been reviewed in the NY Times Book Review: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/21/books/review/new-science-fiction-fantasy.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fbook-review&action=click&contentCollection=review®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=sectionfront “We’ve been around since 2006, and we are regularly reviewed in Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Library Journal, etc but this is our first time–in 12 years!– in the NYTBR.” Congrats, Kathleen! The Department is proud of you!
The Oxford American Jeff Baskin Writers Fellowship To support a debut book of creative nonfiction. $10,000 stipend, housing, and an editorial fellowship with the Oxford American toward a nine-month residency in Central Arkansas. The OA, a quarterly magazine dedicated to documenting the complexity and vitality of the American South, has helped launch and sustain the careers of many significant writers of literary journalism, memoir, reportage, criticism, and the lyric essay. Along with its contributors, the OA has received numerous awards, including the National Magazine Award in General Excellence. Alex Mar, Zandria F. Robinson, and Timothy B…. Read Article →
Manzano Mountain Review seeks submissions Manzano Mountain Review is an online literary journal based in New Mexico seeking submissions for its second issue. We like writing that is honest, gritty, vulnerable. Give us plot, but not too much. We want characters like us—complicated, flawed, human. Discomfort us. Provoke awe. Melt our brains. The theme for Issue No. 2 is “Summer Haunts/ Hauntings.” Aesthetically, the two editors, Justin Bendell and Kristian Macaron, value writing that crosses boundaries, treads unfamiliar ground, but also work that is rooted in place. Readers will find examples of this in our issues. Justin… Read Article →
Announcing the 2018 Hillary Gravendyk Prize, Sponsored by the Inlandia Institute One National and one Regional Winner will each be awarded $1000 and book publication, and additional books may be chosen for publication by the editors. The Hillary Gravendyk Prize is an open poetry book competition for all writers regardless of the number of previously published poetry collections. The manuscript page limit is 48 – 100 pages, and the press invites all styles and forms of poetry. Only electronic submissions accepted via Inlandia’s Submittable portal. Entries must be received online by April 30, 2018 at… Read Article →