Creative Writers Opportunities

From: Diane Goettel <diane@blacklawrencepress.com> Previous Open Reading Period Selection: Jillian in the Borderlands by Beth Alvarado Forthcoming in October, 2020 Call for Submissions June Open Reading Period Black Lawrence Press seeks innovative, electrifying, and thoroughly intoxicating manuscripts that ensnare themselves in our hearts and minds and won't let go. During our June and November Open Reading Periods, we accept submissions in the following categories: novel, novella, short story collection (full-length and chapbook), poetry (full-length and chapbook), biography & cultural studies, translation (from the German), and creative nonfiction. We are now also accepting proposals for antholog...

Hello friends! Submit to our 2020 Creative Non-Fiction Contest with Contest Judge Alexander Chee! You have until July 15, 2020 to give us your best true stories—from essays to memoirs, to literary journalism and beyond! Alexander Chee is the author of the novels EDINBURGH, THE QUEEN OF THE NIGHT, and the essay collection HOW TO WRITE AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL. He is a contributing editor at The  New Republic , and an editor at large at  VQR . His essays and stories have appeared in  The New York Times Book Review, T Magazine, Tin House, Slate, Guernica,  and  Out , among others. Click here to read our ru...

Post: a queer run, independent literary journal featuring works by queer artists and writers , is currently accepting fiction. Here at  Post , we feel the crushing weight of both the pandemic and the recent string of murders produced by systemic oppression, injustice, and racism. We need space and time to mourn and reflect and we think you probably do, too. For that reason, we will only be accepting  fiction  for our next issue. Why? Because as the incredible Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie says: "stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity." We hope diving into your craft will be a respite, a space to feel, to dream, and that collectively, we can envision the world beyond lockdown, post-covid, post-racism and post-inequality. We are especially interested in flash/micro fiction, with sci-fi, ...

2020 Poets & Patrons Contest Poetry contest with 14 themed categories, plus a free sonnet contest with 2 categories (traditional and modern). Cash prizes. Top prize: $300. Deadline: September 1, 2020. Contests are open to all, except one category.  Go to  www.poetsandpatrons.net  for details and guidelines. Thank you!!

PAGE ONE PRIZE for novelists https://gutsygreatnovelist.com/page-one-prize/ Deadline June 23, 2020. Submit the first page of your novel-in-progress. First prize wins $200, a full year of Master Class, and free tuition for Writing Great Dialogue, an online masterclass. Second prize wins $75 and free tuition for Writing Great Dialogue. Submissions are open internationally to any writer writing in English. $10 entry fee.