Creative Writers Opportunities

________________________________________ From: editors@steeltoebooks.com <editors@steeltoebooks.com> Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2020 2:12 PM Subject: Steel Toe Books Call for Interns [EXTERNAL EMAIL ALERT]: Verify sender before opening links or attachments. Dear Educators and Fellow Writers, Steel Toe Books is looking for interns! We are looking for a Publishing Intern to help with a number of duties. The main functions include reading and judging submissions, crafting social media and newsletter content, research, planning events, some editing, and other miscellaneous administrative work. We're looking for someone who considers themselves to be creative, hard-working, detail-oriented, and interested in independent publishing! Candidates with an MFA or in the process of obtaining one will be given priority, but enterprising and astute undergrads will be considered as well. Applications should include a resume, cover lette...

I hope this email finds you and the members of your community well and safe. My name is Meher Manda and I'm a poet and  editorial consultant with Radix Media , a completely worker-owned, independent publisher and printer based in Brooklyn, New York. We are currently accepting submissions to the debut Own Voices Chapbook Prize from emerging writers of color who haven't published a full-length poetry book. We are looking for work that is audacious and challenging, and are open to work that is multilingual, collaborative, self-translated, and hybrid. The wonderful Aria Aber will guest judge and pick two winners who will receive publication, $500, and 25 author copies from a limited print run of 250 copies. The deadline in May 31 with a possibility of deadline extension, given the present circumstances. We will be announcing the new deadline of June 15 in the coming days. More information on the contest and how to submit can be found here: htt...

From: Adam Cohen <adam@winningwriters.com> Sponsored by Winning Writers     North Street Book Prize for Self-Published Books Winning Writers will award a grand prize of $5,000 in the sixth annual North Street competition for self-published books. Choose from six categories: Mainstream/Literary Fiction, Genre Fiction, Creative Nonfiction & Memoir, Poetry, Children's Picture Book, and Graphic Novel & Memoir. $12,500 will be awarded in all, and the top seven winners will receive additional benefits to help market their books. Entry fee: $65 per book. Deadline: June 30. Submit online via Submittable or by mail. Click to learn more about our guidelines, past winners, and judges' remarks.   Learn more ...

Subject: We want to read your poetry manuscript! Deadline: July 31 WE WANT TO READ YOUR POETRY MANUSCRIPT! Join our award-winning poets! Enter your manuscript today! Paradise Drive by Rebecca Foust Winner of the 2015 Press 53 Award for Poetry Paradise Drive went on t   WE WANT TO READ YOUR POETRY MANUSCRIPT!   Join our award-winning poets! Enter your manuscript today!  

CALL FOR SUBM ISSIONS. We at the WritersCache are in search of your stories, essays, and poems regarding WHEELS—your cars, trucks, junkers, jalopies, hot rods, and daily drivers. Spare us please your spec-sheets and quarter-mile times. Show us instead how you feel about automobiles. Send stories about your first, your favorite, new, old, the one you crashed, the one you're sorry you sold. WHEELS is an anthology of poetry and prose celebrating our rich and complicated relationships with motorized vehicles. We are now accepting short fiction and personal essays of up to 5,000 words, and poetry of one printed page or less. Compensation may be offered for selected work. Multiple submissions will be considered. Simultaneous submissions are permitted, but please notify us immediately if your plans change. Previously published work will be considered, but please provide relevant publishing information with your submission (publishing history or future, book or journal titl...

The Oversound Chapbook Contest closes May 31st!  Oversound Chapbook Prize Judge: francine j. harris $1000 and 25 copies to winner. $18 to enter. All entrants will receive a subscription to  Oversound . April 1, 2020-May 31, 2020 Manuscript length: 15-30 pages. For a manuscript outside this range, please contact us prior to sending.   About the Judge:  francine j. harris is the author of  play dead,  winner of the Lambda Literary and Audre Lorde Awards and finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. Her third collection,  Here is the Sweet Hand,  is forthcoming on Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 2020. Originally from Detroit, she has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Cave Canem, and MacDowell Colon...

The Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society, Inc. 6028-30 Prytania Street New Orleans, LA  70118 faulkhouse@aol.com (504) 586-1609 (Land)  *  (504) 491-8859 (Cell http://www.faulknersociety.org  2020 Faulkner Society Events The Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society, like all non-profits, is operating with limited resources during the current, dreadful pandemic. To date, we have been fortunate in that none of our board member volunteer administrators have been struck by the virus but because of social distancing and other pandemic guidelines, operations and responses to queries have been limited and difficult, as we are without staff.  Competition The Society's annual competition opened on December 1 and is in progress. Our traditional May deadline, however, was first extended to June 1...

Doubleback Books Call for Submissions  for Out-of-Print Books   Doubleback Books , a Sundress Publications imprint, is now open for submissions by authors of out-of-print books. At Doubleback Books, we believe that out of print should not mean out of mind. Although other publishers rescue works that have fallen into the public eye from obscurity, few reprint books from small, independent presses that have folded during the twenty-first century and (often through no fault of their own) left new, exciting books to go out of print before their time.    If you are the author of a book that has recently gone out of print because of a press closure, we want to read it. We are hosting an open reading period from March to May 2020 .  Authors of works that have gone out of print due to their original press folding may submit full-length or short books, including novels, novellas, chapbooks, short story collections, poetry collec...

We welcome you all to apply for our editorial internship positions that will run from July 1, 2020 to January 1, 2021January  Sundress Publications Now Accepting Applications for Editorial Internships Sundress Publications is an entirely volunteer-run 501(c)(3) nonprofit publishing collective founded in 2000 that hosts a variety of online journals and publishes chapbooks, full-length collections, and literary anthologies in both print and digital formats. Sundress also publishes the annual Best of the Net Anthology, celebrating the best work published online, runs Poets in Pajamas, an online reading series, and the Gone Dark Archives, preserving online journals that have reached the end of their run.  The editorial internship position will run from July 1 to January 1, 2021. The editorial intern's responsibilities can include writing press releases, composing blog posts and promotional emails, proofreading manuscripts, assembling pres...