Creative Writers Opportunities

Simple Machines , a new journal of poetry, will be open through January 31, 2021, for submissions for our inaugural issue, guest-edited by poet Ashley M. Jones. Our call:   While it is always a good time to read Lucille Clifton, this particularly tumultuous year has us holding tight onto the last lines of her poem "won't you celebrate with me": "...come celebrate /  with me that everyday /  something has tried to kill me / and has failed." For the inaugural issue of Simple Machines , we're looking for poems working likewise and timely—as matchsticks and fire, as vessels of water to slake our thirst, as balm for the rattling gears inside our minds and bodies. Send us your celebrations and sirens, your potions and panacea, your simple machines and little engines of change—for something has tried to kill us and our voices must rise to the occasion.  Guidelines and more at https://simplemachinesmag.org/

Deadline is fast approaching!    Sundress Publications' annual poetry broadside contest submission deadline is fast approaching. We'd hate for you to miss it! If you haven't submitted, enter by November 30, 2020 .  Sundress Publications   will  letterpress-print the winner's poem as an 8.5"x11" broadside complete with custom art and sell it on our online store.  Additionally, we'll give the   winner  $200 plus 20 copies  of their broadside .  BIPOC writers are invited to submit for FREE. The quick and dirty details are below, but be sure to check out  the  original contest announcement  for full submission requirements. Submit up to three poems, no longer than 28 lines each Pay the $10/batch reading fee (or have it waived by meeting certain criteria or purchasing a book) Previously published material is welcome provided you retain the rights to the work Simultaneous submissions

https://cornellcollege.applicantpro.com/jobs/1568358.html Distinguished Visiting Writer The Cornell College Center for the Literary Arts seeks a Distinguished Visiting Writer to teach a topics-based course in  Writing Difference in a Digital World. Courses that engage race, citizenship, and/or identity through audio, video, or new media writing are especially welcome.  The visiting writer will teach one block (a three-and-a-half-week term) in the academic year 2021-22; exact term schedule will be negotiated. During the teaching term, the visiting writer will also give a public reading at the Center for the Literary Arts. The stipend is $5,000, and on-campus housing can be provided. Past Distinguished Visiting Writers have included Angie Estes, Ross Gay, Michael Martone, and Mylene Dressler. Descriptions of previous Distinguished Visiting Writer courses can be found at  http://www.cornellcollege.edu/center-for-the-literary-arts/courses/index.s

Subject: Reminder: The Midland Authors Awards contest for 2020 books is now open   Reminder: The Midland Authors Awards contest for 2020 books is now open View this email in your browser The Midland Authors is now accepting submissions for its annual literary awards, which will honor books by Midwestern authors published in 2020. Please read the following rules carefully before submitting. (The rules are also on our website .) 2020-2021 Competition Rules The Midland Authors Awards recognize book writing excellence by Midwestern authors. Three judges on each committee will select one winner that is best in that category. Category winners receive $500 and a recognition award. Judges may also deem up to three honorees as worthy of recognition. Each honoree will receive a commemorative award. All honors are given out at the awards banquet the

Through November 30 we are encouraging submissions in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Free submissions for historically marginalized writers   Program directors & faculty, please share with your colleagues and students Open Call for Poetry and Prose Tahoma Literary Review editors are reading through November 30 for our Spring 2021 issue, and we will open to submissions again in January 2021 for our Summer 2021 issue .  Our contributors have gone on to win awards and place their work in anthologies.  TLR publishes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry three times a year.  We pay contributors and everyone involved with the publication of the magazine 100% of our selections are unsolicited manuscripts

$3000 come and get it Jump to Chapbook Award View online version The Masters Review Prose Chapbook Award Judged by Steve Almond! $3000 Grand Prize   The Masters Review is proud to be hosting our first chapbook contest! The winning writer will be awarded $3000, manuscript publication, a subscription to Journal of the Month , and 50 contributor copies. The incredible Steve Almond is judging the inaugural contest! We're seeking to celebrate bold, original voices within a single, cohesive manuscript of 25 to 40 pages. We're interested in collections of short fiction, essays, flash fiction, novellas/novelettes, longform fiction or essays, and any combination thereof, provided the manuscripts are complete (no excerpts, chapters, works-in

Wicked Woman Poetry Prize The Charlene Kushner Wicked Woman Poetry Prize 2020-21 SUBMISSION PERIOD – September 1, 2020 – January 1, 2021 Judge:   Nancy Naomi Carlson The Wicked Woman Poetry Prize seeks submissions of full length poetry manuscripts on the topic of women and female-identified individuals who are unique, different, or who "broke the mold." Submit your work using   Submittable   (link activates on start date).  Send a cover letter including the title of your submission along with one document, preferably in Word, containing between 42 and 64 pages of poetry.  Your name should not appear on the poetry document. Translations are not accepted, nor are "New & Selected" or "Collected" manuscripts including work from previously published books. Any person who has studied poetry in a formal program with this year's judge (through a college, university, a community program, residency,