The Sun, an independent, ad-free nonprofit magazine founded in 1974, is hiring a business manager and associate editor in its Chapel Hill, North Carolina, editorial office. The monthly magazine publishes personal essays, short stories, interviews, poetry, and photographs. The ideal candidate should be prepared to make at least a five-year commitment to The Sun.
The 2015 New Letters Literary Awards are accepting poetry, essay, and fiction submissions. Writers can enter their work for consideration for the following prizes: The $1,500 New Letters Prize for Poetry for the best group of three to six poems The $1,500 Dorothy Cappon Prize for the best essay The $1,500 Alexander Cappon Prize for Fiction for the best short story The submission deadline is midnight on Monday, May May 18.
Teachers, you all on the front lines of molding young minds—this one’s for you. In Fact Books, a new book imprint supported by the Creative Nonfiction Foundation, is putting together a Becoming a Teacher anthology. It’s accepting submissions from elementary and secondary school teachers through March 9, 2015. Essays must be previously unpublished and no longer than 4,500 words. Submit your true stories and read the guidelines here.
Earlier this week, we received an exciting piece of Alumni News: after a long wait, MAWP graduate Zhanna Vaynberg‘s series of six short essays had finally gotten published in the Michigan Quarterly Review. We asked Zhanna how this unusual publishing contract had come about, and when she sat down to write out an answer, the story turned out to be quite long. We’re posting Zhanna’s story here as a guest post in hopes that it interests those of you looking to publish your writing in literary journals– and we would like to send Zhanna our… Read Article →