Creative Writers Opportunities

Subject: Gwendolyn Brooks youth poetry awards In partnership with Poetry Foundation, Brooks Permissions, and the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, Illinois Humanities is proud to announce the opening of the Fourth Annual Gwendolyn Brooks Youth Poetry Awards competition celebrating young poets in kindergarten through 12 th grade across the state of Illinois.   We are currently accepting submissions and will continue to do so until the April 30, 2020 deadline. Continuing the tradition started by the Pulitzer Prize-winning Illinois Poet Laureate herself in 1970, the Gwendolyn Brooks Youth Poetry Awards encourages submissions of original poetry from young people throughout Illinois that exemplifies what Ms. Brooks looked for when she ran the contest: "vitality, language surprises, bright contemporaneity, technical excellence, evidence of suitability for the 'long haul". Ultimately, however, we look forward to honoring and celebrating the

Subject: short story contest: 2020 Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction Colorado Review is accepting submissions for the 2020 Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction from December 1 through March 14, 2020; the prize is given annually for the best short story. General guidelines: 1. $2,000 will be awarded for the best short story, which will be published in the fall/winter 2020 issue of Colorado Review. 2. This year's final judge is Lori Ostlund; friends and students (current & former) of the judge are not eligible to compete, nor are Colorado State University employees, students, or alumni. 3.  Entry fee is $15 per story ($17 to submit online); there is no limit on the number of entries you may submit. 4. Stories must be previously unpublished. 5. There are no theme restrictions, but stories must be at least 10 and no more than 50 pages. 6. Deadline is the postmark of March 14, 2020 (note that we observe a 5-day grace period for both paper and online submissions). 7. Winner will be announ

  Shenandoah is accepting poetry submissions until December 15. We will also accept submissions in the same window for the GRAYBEAL-GOWEN PRIZE FOR VIRGINIA POETS, which was established to honor the memory of Washington and Lee graduate and lover of poetry, Howerton Gowen. Poets living in or born in Virginia, as well as those with long-term residency in the past, are eligible. https://shenandoahliterary.org/submissions/     Lesley Wheeler, Henry S. Fox Professor of English Poetry Editor of Shenandoah https://lesleywheeler.org/ wheelerlm@wlu.edu , 540.458.8758 Washington & Lee University 204 W. Washington Street Lexington, VA, 24450  

Deadline is   NEXT TUESDAY December 2nd . Our Fall Short Story Contest is underway! Submit your best fictional work in 2,000 words or less for your chance to win $1,000 AND publication in The Writer.  Enter Now The Writer 25 Braintree Hill Office Park, Suite 404 Braintree, MA 02184

The Dark Sire, a quarterly literary magazine available in digital and print formats, is accepting on-going submissions of short fiction, poetry, and art in the genres of gothic, horror, fantasy, and psychological. Special interest is in darker tones and themes of the representated genres, as well as in abstract art. LGBTQ+ and international works welcome. All submissions must be in English. Short Fiction - upto 5,000 words Poetry - upto 2 pages in length Art - color or B&W (photography and digital artwork accepted) Simultaneous submissions accepted, but must be specified as such at submission; previously published/reprints accepted, but must be identified as such at submission. Guidelines can be found at http://darksire.weebly.com The debut issue of The Dark Sire can be read at  https://joom.ag/JY7e The paperback version of The Dark Sire can be found at  https://www.amazon.com/dp/1704641209 To contact the editor, email darksiremag@gmail.com . The Dark Sire launched on Halloween 201

  Call for Maunsripts: the 2019 Cider Press Review Book Award   Trouble viewing this email? View online .   Still Time to Enter: the 2019 Cider Press Review Book Award The Cider Press Review Book Award is accepting manuscript submissions between September 1 and December 1, 2019. The annual Cider Press Review Book Award offers a $1,500 prize, publication, and 25 author's copies of a book length collection of poetry. Author receives a standard publishing contract. Initial print run is not less than 1,000 copies. 2019 judge is Leslie Wheeler. While we strongly encourage all authors to use our convenient online submission system , we also understand that some writers still prefer mail: PO Box 33384, San Diego, CA 92163. Entries must be accompanied by a $26 entry fee. See our submission guidelines online at c

THE EDITOR'S PRIZE, $200, AND PUBLICATION ONLINE AT HARBOR REVIEW For more information and full submission details visit https://www.harbor-review.com/theeditorsprize . The entry period runs from November 1st to January 31st . The prize is awarded once a year for a micro chapbook. People of color and marginalized folks are encouraged to apply. Micro chapbooks should be exactly 10 poems long. Simultaneous submissions are permitted. The submission fee is $10 to cover submission management. Your submission fee must be paid via paypal prior to submission. All entries must be submitted by email to harborreviewmagazine@gmail.com . The winner will receive $200 and publication of their micro chapbook online at Harbor Review .

Hello, I'm writing to let you know that we have officially launched the 2020 Desperate Literature Prize for Short Fiction and thought that your students might be interested in receiving some information.  We've a wonderful judging panel - comprised of Rachel Cusk, Niven Govinden, Ottessa Moshfegh, and Claire-Louise Bennett - and we've added even more to the prize kitty this year, with more partner journals than before, higher monetary prizes for runners-up, meetings with a UK literary agent for the winner and runners-up, and publication and events across Europe. Our focus very much remains offering the widest possible reach for our winners and shortlisters. We send our shortlist selection (published as Eleven Stories ) to agents in the US and UK and we're delighted to announce that after reading the first place story Charlotte Seymour of Andrew Nurnberg Associates (UK) signed 2019 winner Francesca Reece and has secured her a two book deal, forthco