Creative Writers Opportunities

Fiction Southeast is excited to announce the Fiction Southeast Editors' Prize. Each year, the editors of Fiction Southeast will select a winner (and three runners-up). Guidelines: Entries for the Fiction Southeast Editors' Prize should be approximately 1500 words or less. Submissions should be unpublished and in rtf, .doc, or .pdf format. Feel free to submit multiple stories, but please DO NOT submit multiple Word documents as one submission or one text document containing multiple stories. Instead, please submit each story as a SEPARATE entry (so that you complete an individual submission process for each story). Submissions should be unpublished. Simultaneous submissions ARE welcome. Contest will open annually in June with a deadline of August 31st. Entry fee is $10. All entries will be considered for publication in Fiction Southeast. Winner – $200 and publication in Fiction Southeast Runners-up – publica...

List of residencies and fellowships, via Bomb Magazine https://bombmagazine.org/articles/bomb-fellowships-and-residenciessummer-2021/

From: Diane Goettel <diane@blacklawrencepress.com> Previous Open Reading Period Selection: The Violence Almanac  by Miah Jeffra 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 anthologies. Black Lawrence Press accepts submissions ...

POSITION DESCRIPTION: Poetry Coalition Fellow https://sites.uwm.edu/in-na-po/2021/04/29/job-opportunity-paid-poetry-coalition-fellowship-position/ JOB OPPORTUNITY: Paid Poetry Coalition Fellowship position. | In Na Po POSITION DESCRIPTION: Poetry Coalition Fellow. LOCATION: Remote. IN-NA-PO, Indigenous Nations Poets, a member of the Poetry Coalition, is accepting applications for a paid Poetry Coalition Fellowship position.This position is 20 hours per week from September 13, 2021 to June 30, 2022. sites.uwm.edu LOCATION: Remote IN-NA-PO, Indigenous Nations Poets , a member of the Poetry Coalition, is accepting applications for a paid Poetry Coalition Fellowship position. This position is 20 hours per week from September 13, 2021 to June 30, 2022. The stipend is $18,720 plus $1,000 toward health care. Indigenous Nations Poets —is a national Indigenous poetry community committed to mentoring emerging w...

From: CavanKerry Press  CavanKerry Press is looking for a candidate with professional grant writing experience preferably in the field of publishing and arts administration. we're currently searching to fulfill the position of Director of Development.   ( Please feel free to share this opportunity via email and/or social media.) Job Description: CavanKerry Press seeks a team member who can provide professional grant writing services and has experience working in the field of publishing. You will work with the rest of the team to develop fulfilling experiences for donors and members of the literary community alike.  This role hinges on communication, administrative and organizational ski...

Contest Time, Coming At You Again The Cincinnati Review is accepting entries for the 2021 Robert and Adele Schiff Awards from now through July 15th.   Image by Mahwish Chishty Contest Time, Coming At You Again The Cincinnati Review is accepting entries for the 2021 Robert and Adele Schiff Awards from now through July 15th . We'll choose one poem, one story, and one piece of literary nonfiction for publication in our 2022 prize issue, and the three winners will each receive $1,000 . The entry fee of $20 includes a yearlong subscription, * and all entries will be considered for publication, not just the winners. For each entry, send up to 8 pages of poetry, 40 pages of a single double-spaced piece of fiction, or 20 pages of a single double-spaced piece of literary nonfiction . Please su...