Creative Writers Opportunities

Subject: Arkana Call for Submissions for Issue 9! [EXTERNAL EMAIL ALERT]: Verify sender before opening links or attachments.Please forward to any interested students! Thank you a ton!
Dear writers on the margins,
Arkana, the journal of mysteries and marginalized voices published by the Arkansas Writers' MFA Program, is now reading for its ninth issue! Please send us your fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, illustrated narratives, short scripts for the stage or screen, translations, art, or whatever hybrid work strikes your fancy and you think would appeal to us too.   
We want quality work that reflects our mission: to seek and foster a sense of shared wonder by publishing inclusive art that asks questions, explores mystery, and works to make visible the marginalized, the overlooked, and those whose voices have been silenced. Such individuals may come from a variety of cultural backgrounds, may identify as neurodivergent, may be part of the LGBTQ+ community, and/or have…

Submit your best work for a chance to win! Deadline:October 6, 2020

Do you have what it takes to start and finish a piece in 100 words? Remember, every word counts.

Submit your best work – fiction OR nonfiction – in 100 words or less for your chance to win $1,000 and publication in our magazine. Enter NowGet feedback from professionals.

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From: Rappahannock Review <rappahannockreview@gmail.com>

Dear writers,
The Rappahannock Review, an online literary journal published through the University of Mary Washington, is now accepting submissions in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction from established and emerging writers.

We hope that you will share this call for submissions and we would love to consider work from your department. We're currently reading for our next release, Issue 8.1, which will be published in December of this year. In addition to written work, we've opened submissions in the category of audio, and we would love to consider work that experiments with form and that which pushes past the edge of the genres.

You can find us at rappahannockreview.com, and we invite you to explore our current and past issues. Our complete guidelines are here: https://rappahannockreview.submittable.com/submit, and submissions will remain open until October 15.

We look forward to reading your work!

Sincerely,
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7 Days Left: Submit to the Wisconsin Poetry Series!Writers! You've got just one week to submit your manuscript to the Brittingham & Felix Pollak Prizes in Poetry. This year's $1,000 prizes will be judged by National Book Award Finalist Carmen Giménez Smith. Any poet with an original, full-length, yet-to-be-published collection is eligible. Each manuscript will be considered for both prizes, and the winners and up to three other finalists will have their books published as part of the University of Wisconsin Press's Wisconsin Poetry Series. This year's submission deadline is Tuesday, September 15. Before visiting our Submittable page, please assemble a single pdf including a title page, a table of contents, your poems, and (optionally) an acknowledgments page listing any magazines or journals where the submitted poems may have first appeared. Your name and contact info should not appear anywhere in the document, or in the pdf file name. Manuscripts shoul…

:: The Black River Chapbook Competition ::
Fall 2020 contest now open to entries!
About the Prize & How to Enter
The Black River Chapbook Competition is a semi-annual prize from Black Lawrence Press for a chapbook of poems or prose (including fiction, creative non-fiction, lyric essay, and prose hybrid manuscripts). Entries should be between 16 and 36 pages in length. The winner will receive $500 and publication. Recent winners include: Meghan Privitello, Ruth Baumann, Jacqueline Doyle, Nancy Reddy, Amy Sayre Baptista, Ashley Morrow Hermsmeier, Alan Chazaro, Christopher Locke, Veronica Montes, and Danielle Rose. Entry deadline for the Fall Competition: October 31, 2020 Black Lawrence Press accepts submissions and payment of the entry fee ($15) exclusively through our online submission manager, Submittable. All entries are read blind by our panel of judges and editors. 

Visit us onlinefor complete submission guidelines. Submissions are accepted via Submittable now through…