2/19: News & Opportunities Round-up
Compiled by Content Manager Eloise Wales from Associate Director Paul McVeigh’s blog. A monthly listing you can’t afford to miss. See the links below.
News & Resources
- *Don’t miss* Word Factory Apprenticeship Award 2019. Applications close: February 7th 2019 at 11:30PM
- Orhan Pamuk reads & talks “Ibn Hakkan Al-Bokhari, Dead in his Labyrinth,” by Jorge Luis Borges
- 4 Character Questionnaire Tests
- Camille Acker on an Individualistic Writing Process
- How to Keep Going by A L Kennedy
- WHAT’S NEEDED IS MAGIC: WRITING ADVICE FROM HARUKI MURAKAMI
- Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ interviews Oyinkan Braithwaite
- 50 Writing Tips From Famous Authors
- HOW DOMESTICITY IS AT THE HEART OF THE NOVEL by Tessa Hadley
- LAUREN GROFF AND RACHEL KUSHNER TALK PRISONS, PRAIRIES, AND POWER
- Roxane Gay: ‘If I was waiting for confidence to write, I’d still be waiting’
Short Story Deadlines
- The Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize. Deadline: Feb 14
- £30,000 The Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award. Deadline: Feb 19
- The Southeast Review: The World’s Best Short-Short Story Contest. Deadline: March 15
- 44 US Publishers Looking for Short Story Collections
- Skein Press seeks Short Stories & Novels esp minority ethnic backgrounds
- Storymart seeks Short Stories
- Broken Metropolis Anthology: Queer Tales of a City That Never Was – Seeks Stories under 6000
- 44 Publishers Looking for Short Story Collections
- The Fiction Desk Short Story Anthology: Ongoing Submissions
- Signature’s Guide to Writing Narrative Nonfiction
- For Books’ Sake seeks Short Stories from Self-Identifying Women
- American Short Fiction seeks submissions
- Enter The Hennessy New Irish Writing Award. Open Submissions.
- Joyland Magazine seeks short fiction, novel excerpts, and literary non-fiction. Open Deadline.
- Memorious seeks Poetry and Short Stories. Open Deadline.
- Unsung Stories. Max 3000 words. Ongoing Submissions.
- Soliloquies Seeks Short Fiction, Poetry, Drama & Creative Non-Fiction. Open Deadline.
- Red City Review seeks Short Stories. Open deadline.
Flash Fiction
- National Flash Fiction Day Anthology. Deadline: March 15
- Writers’ HQ Flash Quarterly Competition. Deadline: 31st March 2019
- Battery Pack seeks Micro/Flash Fiction
- Ad Hoc Fiction. Weekly Flash Fiction Competition.
- Top 20 Places to Submit Flash Fiction | BookFox.
- River Teeth weekly column, Beautiful Things: 250 words.
- Bath Flash Fiction Award. Rolling Competition.
- Fine Linen Magazine Seeks Flash Fiction.
- iStory for Narrative Magazine. Open for submissions all year round.
- Narrative Magazine seeks your Six-Word Story.
Books
- International Rubery Book Award. Deadline: March 31
- FourCats Press seeks LGBTQ & working-class literary fiction & nonfiction
- Skein Press seeks Short Stories & Novels esp minority ethnic backgrounds
- Avon (Harper Collins Imprint) Seeks Submissions
- Mercier Press seeks Fiction & Non-Fiction Submissions
- Salt Publishing Open for Novel Submissions
- An open call for children’s fiction submissions from debut BAME writers.
- All Due Respect Books seeks Book Submissions.
- Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing Seeks Novels.
- Burning Eye Books Seeks Novels & Novellas.
- Pow-Wow Writing Services Looking For Novels to Publish.
Other Literary Opportunities
- Stockholm Writers Festival First Pages Prize. Deadline: Feb 3
- The Sea Letter seeks Short Fiction & Poetry
- Word Factory Apprenticeship Award 2019. Applications close: February 7th 2019 at 11:30PM
- Spotlight Books seeks Poetry & Prose from under-represented writers. Deadline: Feb 24
- THE FITZCARRALDO EDITIONS ESSAY PRIZE. Deadline: Mar 1
- Salamander seeks Poetry, Fiction & Memoir. Deadline: April 1 2019
- Berlin Writing Prize. Deadline: June 30
- Submittable seeks Short Essays
- Fairlight Books seek short stories, novellas & novels
- The Los Angeles Review seeks Submissions
- Panorama: The Journal of Intelligent Travel. Deadline: Various
- Neon seeks Short Stories, Flash, Poetry, Images, Comics & Graphic Poems
- PAID: Craft seeks Flash & Short Fiction, Reviews & Interviews
- The Laurel Review seeks poetry, fiction & more
- Wanderlust – travel journal seeks submissions
- Storgy seeks Short Stories & Nonfiction – Open Submission
- McNeese Review Print & Online Submissions
- Wildness seeks Short Stories, Poetry & Non-Fiction.
- Pendora Magazine seeks Fiction & Nonfiction
- The Stupendous Tramp Press Submissions Open
- Panorama Journal of Intelligent Travel seeks Poetry & Fiction
- Irish Journals: Submission Calls Round Up
- Cold Creek Review seeks poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and art
- Dublin Review of Books seeks Essays & Reviews
- All The Sins seeks Poetry, Short Fiction & Nonfiction
- Send your writing to Junot Díaz at Boston Review
- Neon seeks fiction, poetry, artwork and graphic short stories
- 2 Elizabeths seek Poetry, Flash Fiction & Short Stories
- The Southeast Review seeks Nonfiction, Poetry & Fiction
- The Gambler seeks fiction, non-fiction, poetry, experimental writing & art. Deadline: Various
- Cease Cows seeks Stories up to 1,500 Words
- Structo seeks Fiction and Poetry. Submissions Ongoing
- The Next Review seeks Poetry, Reviews & Fiction
- Pank seeks Chap Books in Poetry, Nonfiction & Fiction
- Idler seeks Short Stories, Poetry & Essays
- The Other Stories seeks Short Stories & Novel Extracts for Audio.
- Split Lip Magazine seeks Poetry, Nonfiction & Fiction
Free Reads & Podcasts
- Free Read: ‘All Rivers’ by Amos Oz
- Best Podcasts of 2018
