Creative Writers Opportunities

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Subject: Please post on CRWROPPS blogsite Wordrunner eChapbook wants your fiction, memoir/CNF, poetry We are still reading poetry, fiction and memoir/CNF submissions on any theme for our tenth anniversary issue and spring 2020 anthology. Deadline: February 29, 2020 . We want emotionally complex, high quality writing about whatever strikes your fancy, be it serious or humorous or both. Submit your best work—up to three poems or a short story, personal narrative, novel or memoir excerpt (to 5,000 words). 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 . _______________________________________   Many thanks, Jo-Anne Rosen   What They Don't Know: Selected Fiction http://joannerosen.us tweet: @JoAnneRosen6   Wordrunner eChapbooks

Hello, Hope all is well! I wanted to reach out and let you know that the Ploughshares' Emerging Writer's Contest opens soon! It runs March 1 - May 15.  This year's judges are Kirstin Valdez Quade in Fiction, Esmé Weijun Wang in Nonfiction, and Ilya Kaminsky in Poetry. One winner in each genre will win $2,000, publication in Ploughshares, and a conversation with literary agency Aevitas Creative Management. We hope that you'll help us spread the word by featuring this opportunity for emerging writers on the Creative Writers Opportunities List. For more information, including guidelines, please visit the contest page . Let me know if you have any questions—thank you! Best, Olivia -- Olivia Carey she/her/hers Marketing Assistant Ploughshares 120 Boylston Street Boston, MA 02116-4624 617-824-3757 Twitter: @pshares marketing@pshares.org http://www.pshares.org The  Winter 2019-20 issue of Ploughshares , out now, edited by Editor-in-chief Ladette Randolph and Po...

Subject: BLUE LIGHT PRESS - 3/1/2020 Deadline BLUE LIGHT PRESS  is accepting full-length manuscripts for the 2020 BLUE LIGHT BOOK AWARD.  To enter, send 40 to 80 pages of poetry or flash fiction, reading fee of $20.00, and SASE to:  Blue Light Press - Book Award, P.O. Box 150300, San Rafael, CA 94915 .  For guidelines, E mail:  bluelightpressATaolDOTcom . Deadline: 3-1-2020. We publish poetry that is imagistic, inventive, emotionally honest, and pushes the language to a deeper level of insight.  To see the books we have published and our winner's list:  www.bluelightpress.com .

Submit your essay by March 3rd for a chance to win. Deadline:   Tuesday, March 3rd March 3rd will come sooner than you think. Button up those drafts and get your essays in before it's too late! You could win  $1,000 and publication in The Writer. Enter Now Get feedback from professionals! We can provide detailed feedback with our add-on critique service regardless of where your essay places in our contest! Check out last year's winner - Bonnie Hearn Hill's "What I Wish I'd Known." Read Now ...

From: Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing <institutemail@english.wisc.edu> Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2020 4:07 AM Subject: 1 week to apply! $39K creative writing fellowships,  1 WEEK! (EEK!)—APPLY BY 3/1 TO THE WICW POETRY & FICTION FELLOWSHIPS Please don't miss it! The deadline to apply for a Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Fellowship is March 1, 2020. Successful applicants will receive a minimum $39,000 stipend and will teach two creative writing courses (one each semester) at UW-Madison, beginning late August 2020. Prospective fellows may apply through Submittable at wicw.submittable.com/submit . Any writer with an MFA, who has published fewer than two books, can apply. Please read more eligibility details, below. We look forward to reading your work! ABOUT THE FELLOWSHIPS Since 1986, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing at UW-Madison has provided time, space, and a...

Subject: Fw: Deadline!! Annual Mary Blinn Poetry Prize  Quick Links After Hours Website Poetry Award Guidelines   Order After Hours Online Marty McConnell transplanted herself from Chicago to New York City in 1999, after completing the first of three national tours with The Morrigan, an all-female performance poetry troupe.  She received her MFA in creative writing/poetry from Sarah Lawrence College, and for nearly a decade, co-curated the flagship reading series of the New York City-based louderARTS Project. She returned to Chicago in 2009 to launch Vox Ferus, an organization dedicated to empowering and energizing individuals and communities through the written and spoken word.    Part of the vanguard of poets fusing and refusing and queering the delineations between liter...