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CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS Anthologies
ALLPOETRY.COM—Join the largest poetry community, more than 500,000 poets strong. From beginners to experts, get friendly encouragement and detailed critiques when you’re ready. No-fee contests, $50 cash prizes, active discussion forums, and join our annual anthology. Totally free with optional monthly memberships. For more information, visit: www.allpoetry.com/pw.
ANTHOLOGY: Relational Aggression in Females. Seeking essays from women of all ages, races, and sexual orientations who have experienced bullying during their developmental years from other girls or who have been victims in their adulthood of aggressive, demeaning, or disempowering behavior from other women. The ideal essay will include observations about the emotional impact such experiences have had. Word limit: 1,000. Visit www.changesinlife.com to submit your essay. Click on the Submit link in the right-hand column. Type “Anthology” on the title line and include the title of the essay in the body of your submission. Deadline: January 15, 2020.
POETRYSOUP.COM Poetry community with the most poetry resources in the world. Free online poetry contests. All competitions are free. Enter as many contests as you want. You keep copyrights on all your poems. Some poetry contests even have prizes! Run your own poetry contests. Visit: www.poetrysoup.com/poetry/contests.
RATTLE SEEKS submissions by children for our annual Young Poets Anthology—poets must be age 15 or younger. Deadline: October 15. Children, parents, or teachers (with parents’ permission and contact information) may send up to 4 poems using our online submission manager. Website: www.rattle.com/children.
CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS Books
ATMOSPHERE PRESS is currently seeking submissions of full-length book manuscripts in all genres—from poetry to fiction to memoir and beyond—with no reading fee. Atmosphere Press is an independent publisher dedicated to honesty, transparency, professionalism, kindness, and making your book awesome. Learn more at atmospherepress.com.
BELLEVUE LITERARY Press, a nonprofit publishing at the intersection of the arts and sciences, seeks exceptional narrative nonfiction. We are holding an open reading period this fall for unsolicited nonfiction submissions, specifically great books in the sciences and social sciences. Find our guidelines at https://blpress.org/contact.
BLUE LIGHT PRESS Book Award—Imagistic, inventive, honest poems that push the edge. Send 50-to 80-page manuscript, SASE, $20 reading fee to Blue Light Press, P.O. Box 150300, San Rafael, CA 94915 by January 30, 2020. For guidelines, e-mail bluelightpress@aol.com. Website: www.bluelightpress.com.
FAW (FRIENDS OF American Writers) seeks book submissions for its annual, 98-year-old literary awards in 2 categories: Literature for adults and literature for children and young adults. Publishers and/or authors are invited to submit books published in 2019. Generous monetary prizes awarded. Guidelines: Authors must reside (or have resided) in the American Midwest. Books set in the region (even if the author is nonresident) also qualify. Fiction or creative nonfiction, please. No self-published or e-books, poetry, genres, or series books. Authors of more than 3 published books are ineligible. (If an author has multiple books published in 2019, all are eligible.) Books nominated for the award must be submitted to the FAW Awards Committees by December 10, but we appreciate entries ASAP. No application forms! Please send 2 copies of each book and author info as early as possible to: Karen Pulver, Literature Awards Chair, 748 Western Ave., Glen Ellyn, IL 60137. E-mail: kspulver@gmail.com. Or Angela Gall, Young People’s Literature Awards Chair, 13325 S. Columbine Circle, Plainfield IL 60585. E-mail: angelagall1@gmail.com. For info on previous awards, please visit www.fawchicago.org/awards.php.
SARABANDE BOOKS Open Essay Month is open for submissions September 1–30. Submissions are open to essay manuscripts in English and may be a single essay or collection of essays between 150–250 pages. Complete guidelines at www.sarabandebooks.org/submissions.
SOUTHERN FRIED Karma seeks book-length fiction. Our mission: Cultivate artistic voices of the new millennium with a local accent but a global view. We want the multiplicity of the cosmic experience: past, present, future, the good, the bad, and especially the unexpected. POC, LGBTQIA+, and women to the front. Website: http:// sfkpress.com/submissions.
CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS Chapbooks
JEANNE LEIBY annual chapbook award by The Florida Review. Winner receives chapbook publication plus $1,000. Accepts fiction, nonfiction, graphic narrative (flash collections or long-form). Submit up to 45 pages with $25 entry fee. All entries considered for publication. For guidelines, see http://florida review.cah.ucf.edu.
CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS Magazines
AJI MAGAZINE is calling for poetry, short fiction, literary nonfiction, reviews, photography, and graphic art from emerging and established writers and artists. Submissions open on May 1 and November 1 and close once the upcoming issue is filled. Back issues are available at www.ajimagazine.com; e-mail queries can be sent to ajimagazine@gmail.com.
ALGORITHM-FREE readers! Actual human beings will read your submissions of funk-adelic, saucy, and will-o’-the-wispy creative nonfiction, poetry, fiction, and text/image pieces for our upcoming issue. Send us your traditional and medium-length work. We dig flash, too. Reading period: August 1 until December 15. Yummy samples and loads more info at slablitmag.org.
THE AWAKENINGS Review, a leading lit mag for writers and poets with a relationship to mental illnesses—either self, family member or friend—is now accepting e-mail submissions to its 2020 issue. Send your work with a cover letter to ar@awakeningsproject.org or by mail to The Awakenings Review, P.O. Box 177, Wheaton, IL 60187. See new submission guidelines at www.awakenings project.org.
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