Creative Writers Opportunities

Milk & Cake Press is  open  for submissions for January 1- April 30, 2020. Submission Guidelines: Milk & Cake Press publishes full-length and chapbook collections of poetry. We are interested in manuscripts with attention to the sound of language. We would like to see experimental work, though we are open to virtually any kind of manuscript. (No light verse or limericks, please.) Submit chapbooks of 18-30 pages or full-length collections of 48-70 pages. Manuscripts should be in Word or Apple's Pages format–no PDFs. We want to read work of emerging and experienced poets. Please do not identify yourself. Be sure your name is not on the manuscript, and do not provide a biographical statement or acknowledgments of previously published poems. Instead, in your cover letter, provide 3-5 sentences summarizing your manuscript. Submissions should be emailed to  milkandcakepress@gmail.com.  For  chapbook submissions , please write "Chapbook Submission: [title of yo...

Subject: poetry contest: Gemini Magazine The deadline for Gemini Magazine's 10th annual Poetry Open competition is Thursday, January 2, 2020. First prize is $1,000. Second place wins $100 and there will also be four honorable mentions at $25 each. All six finalists will be published online in the March 2020 issue of Gemini and each entry will also be considered for general publication.   There are no restrictions on content, length or type of poetry. Entries must be unpublished.   All writers are welcome. All entries are read blind so everyone gets an equal chance. We have published some very diverse work, so consider giving us a try!   Entry fee: $8 per batch of up to three poems. Read full details and all previous winners at www.gemini-magazine.com/poetryopen.html .

From: DISQUIET International Literary Program <disquietinternational@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, December 27, 2019 9:00:38 AM Can't see the images in this email? Click here to open in browser . INTERNATIONAL LITERARY PROGRAM JUNE 21 - JULY 3, 2020 2020 Program Faculty and Guests  to include Jennifer Acker (Editor,  The Common) , Jensen Beach, Gabriel Bump, Arthur Flowers, Tayari Jones, Shayla Lawson, Ben Lerner, Annie Liontas, Cyriaco Lopes, T Kira Madden, Maaza Mengiste, Katherine Vaz, Joy Williams, and Terri Witek, with Portuguese guests including Teolinda Gersão, Susana Moreira Marques, José Luís Peixoto, Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida, Jacinto Lucas Pires, Richa...

-----Original Message----- From: The LaHave Review <lahavereview@gmail.com> The LaHave Review is an online poetry magazine in Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia. It launched in December, 2019 and is currently accepting poetry submissions. Each issue features one poem, a biography of the poet, and an interview. TLR publishes one poem per season, meaning four poems per year, and pays $100 Canadian per poem. For more information, see https://lahavereview.com/

Wordrunner eChapbook seeks fiction, memoir/CNF, poetry Poetry, fiction and memoir/CNF on any theme will be considered for our tenth anniversary issue and spring 2020 anthology. We want emotionally complex work about whatever strikes your fancy, be it serious or humorous or both. This will be a larger than usual issue. Submit your best work—up to three poems or a short story, personal narrative, novel or memoir excerpt (to 5,000 words). Submissions open January 1; deadline: February 29, 2020. Work should not have been previously published. Submission fee: $3. Authors are paid ($5 to $25). Complete guidelines and submittable link at   http://echapbook.com/submissions.html .

accepting entries until Feb 18, 2020 View this email in your browser 8 weeks left Omnidawn 1st/2nd Poetry Book Contest www.omnidawn.com/contest Open to any poet writing in English who has not published a second book of poems. (Chapbooks are not counted as books.) Winner receives $3,000, publication & 100 copies. Accepting electronic & postal submissions Nov 1, 2019 to Feb 18, 2020. Looking forward to reading your work. Jericho Brown will judge. Photo credit: Brian Cornelius Jericho Brown is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, and the National Endowment...

-----Original Message----- Hi Allison, I'd like to add two calls to the list. The first is for our year-round journal submissions (we were formerly Muse/A Journal and have undergone a rebrand), and the second is for our second annual poetry book contest through our sister press. Birdcoat Quarterly / Year-round / Poetry, Lyric Essay / $3 / Paying Market https://birdcoatquarterly.com/submit/   Ghost Peach Press / Deadline: May 1, 2020 / Poetry / Prize: $1,000 + publication / Judge: Diane Seuss  https://birdcoatquarterly.com/press/     Best, Anna Sandy-Elrod Editor

  CROSSWINDS  POETRY     JOURNAL ‌ Dear Poets, $1,350 in prizes to be awarded. Don't miss the deadline of December 31st. Please consider submitting your work. If you've already sent Crosswinds your work, we thank you for your support. Judge is Richard Blanco. All winners will be announced in Poets & Writers Magazine, on our web-site, and in other announcements. Grand Prize - $ 1,000.00 Second Prize - $  250.00 Third Prize -  $    100.00 All poems will be considered for publication.  A minimum of one hundred poems to be published in our Spring ...