Calls for submissions, 10/25

Soundings Review is the literary journal of the MFA program at the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts on Whidbey Island, Washington.  The magazine welcomes submissions of high quality writing in any area (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, children's/young adult). "We are open to different styles and voices, but are passionate about accessibility and depth. We seek articles that create a connection with a reader on the first reading and spur increase understanding and pleasure after further readings. (Our only taboo: hate literature, which includes pornography, gratuitous violence, and all the "isms" that stereotype or disrespect others)." 

The next submission deadline is January 1. Soundings Review is published twice a year. See submission guidelines at http://www.nila.edu/soundings/



Summer Literary Seminars announces their 2014 Literary Contest, held this year in affiliation with Fence Magazine, with prizes sponsored by the Center for Fiction, St. Petersburg Review, and Graywolf Press. Judging the contest are award-winning writers Aimee Bender (fiction), Dorothea Lasky (poetry), and Phillip Lopate (nonfiction). The Arkadii Dragomoshchenko Prize for Innovative Poetry will be judged by Eugene Ostashevsky, and the Sutzkever Prize by André Aciman.

Full contest guidelines can be found here.



The Southern Review invites you to send your fiction, nonfiction, and poetry manuscripts for consideration. Prose manuscripts accepted until December 1; poetry accepted until February 1. Visit the submissions page for details.



A River & Sound Review, in association with the Rainier Writing Workshop low-residency MFA Program, is accepting submissions for its poetry and fiction contests. General submissions are also open.

For the contests, submit 3 poems or 1 story/essay (no length limit on either genre) for a chance at $500 plus publication. Entry fee is $15. All contest entries will be read anonymously and considered for publication. For more details visit https://riverandsoundreview.submittable.com/submit


James Hearst Poetry Prize, sponsored by the North American Review, is accepting submissions until October 31.

First Prize: $1,000. You may submit up to five previously unpublished poems. All contact information should be entered in your cover letter. No names or addresses should appear on manuscripts. please. Your poems will be assigned log numbers so they can be "read blind." Simultaneous submission to other journals or competitions is not allowed. Payment will be required as part of the sign up procedure which will provide you with a one-year subscription of North American Review.

Rosalie Morales Kearns Founds Shade Mountain Press for Women Authors

MFA alumna Rosalie Morales Kearns has founded a new literary press for women authors, Shade Mountain Press. The press has two titles forthcoming in 2014: Egg Heaven, a story collection by Robin Parks; and Her Own Vietnam, a novel by Lynn Kanter. To support Shade Mountain Press, visit the Shade Mountain Press Indiegogo page.

Lillian-Yvonne Bertram Featured in New American Poets series

Illinois alumna Lillian-Yvonne Bertram was selected by Aracelis Girmay for the Poetry Society of America's New American Poets feature. Of Lillian's debut collection But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise, Girmay writes, "The poems move us through and over the terrain of a wild and changing geographic and linguistic landscape." A well deserved recognition--congrats, Lillian!

Calls for Submissions 10/18

Perugia Press is now accepting submissions for the Perugia Press Prize for a First or Second Book by a Woman. The prize includes a $1000 honorarium and publication. Entry must be received by November 15, 2013. Contest guidelines may be found at http://www.perugiapress.com/contest.html and manuscripts may be submitted at:

http://www.perugiapress.com/submission_manager/index.php

3Elements Review, an online journal with e-book versions forthcoming, is accepting submissions submissions for their second issue, due December 1.

For each issue, they require that all three of the current elements be in the piece of writing. The current elements are helix, cower, and hammock. View submission guidelines here: http://3elementsreview.com/submission-guidelines.html.



The upcoming double-issue of Sonora Review will feature explorations of the Mind & Body. They invite submissions of " work that connects, separates, interrogates, unpacks, packs up, misinterprets and examines in every which way the body, the mind and their intersections." Read through the guidelines and visit the submissions page  for more info.



Minerva Rising is sponsoring its first chapbook contest. Two winning chapbooks, one in prose and one in poetry, will be selected. The press is looking for "submissions that speak creatively, powerfully, thoughtfully and maybe even uniquely to our theme 'Daring to be the Woman I Am.'" Prose submissions may be a collection of short stories or a long short story (up to 45 pages). Poetry submissions should be a collection of poems, 12 - 15 pages.

Submissions will be accepted from October 1, 2013 through December 1, 2013. Publication is planned for March 2014 to coincide with Women's History Month.

Submission fee: $20

Prize: $250 each and 10 copies of the book.

The Judge: Rosemary Daniell, author of Secrets Of The Zona Rosa: How Writing (and Sisterhood) Can Change Women Lives

For more information: www.minervarising.com

Calls for submissions 10/11

The Lascaux Review announces the inaugural Lascaux Prize in Short Fiction and invites writers to submit their best stories. Stories may be unpublished or previously published. Winner will receive $500 and publication in The Lascaux Review; entry fee is $5 per submission. For more information, visit www.LascauxReview.com/contest.

Call for Papers: Modern Language Studies Special Issue: Teaching Creative Writing, edited by Lewis Land, Bucknell University. Deadline, March 31, 2014. For a special issue on creative writing pedagogy, Modern Language Studies invites essays that attempt to address the nuts and bolts of teaching creative writing in inventive, contemporary, and stimulating ways. Papers should seek not merely to identify flaws within current methods of instruction in creative writing, but instead address how to correct those flaws and/or to consider in their stead effective and rewarding teaching methods for both students and instructors. Download the complete CFP with contact information here.

The first annual Better Prizes in fiction and poetry, awarding $1,000 and publication to one story and one poem are now open for submissions. Deadline is January 7. This year's fiction judge will be Robert Lopez, author of Kamby Bolongo Mean River, Part of the World, and Asunder. The poetry prize will be judged by Srikanth Reddy, author of Voyager and Facts for Visitors.

The Ladies' Home Journal's annual personal essay contest is open for submissions. This year's theme is "The Best Decision I Ever Made." Deadline is December 6. The contest winner will receive $3,000 and the chance to have his/her essay published in Ladies' Home Journal. Essays not chosen as winner may also be considered for publication.

The Poet's Billow has extended the deadline for the Atlantis Award from October 1st to November 1st. The winner of The Atlantis Award, given for a best poem, receives $100, publication, and the opportunity to be interviewed on The Poet's Billow web site. The winning poem will also be nominated for any other award for which it qualifies, including a Pushcart Prize.


The Quaker, a national literary magazine dedicated to the work of outstanding undergraduate creative writing, is accepting submissions from undergraduate student writers.

VOICE reading this Thursday 10/10

This semester's first VOICE reading is happening on Thursday 10/10--if you're in C-U, mark your calendars!

Who: Natalie Mesnard, Rachel Samanie, Sean MacIntyre

 

Where: Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Main Library Floor 3 1408 W. Gregory Drive, Urbana 

 

When: Thursday, 10/10, @ 8 P.M.

 

VOICE is the graduate student reading series hosted by the MFA in Creative Writing Program at UIUC

American Indian Studies and Creative Writing Fall Reading, Wednesday, Oct 9

Wednesday, Oct 9
4:30 pm
Illini Union Bookstore, Author's Corner

Come see Professors LeAnne Howe, Joy Harjo, and Brenda Farnell read from their latest works!

Professor Howe's most recent book, Choctalking on Other Realities, is out this month from Aunt Lute Books.

Professor Harjo's most recent book, Crazy Brave: A Memoir, appeared in 2012 from W.W. Norton and was awarded the 2013 PEN Center USA Award in Creative Nonfiction and also just received the 2013 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation.

 Professor Farnell is the author of Do You See What I Mean?: Plains Indian Sign Talk and the Embodiment of Action  and Dynamic Embodiment for Social Theory.

Stephanie Hemphill's Latest Book Now Available

CW Alumna Stephanie Hemphill's most recent book, the verse novel Hideous Love: The Story of the Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein, has just been published by Balzer + Bray Press. Publisher's Weekly calls Hideous Love "a gripping story," and Kirkus Reviews says it's a "gripping portrait of the artist as a young woman."

Calls for Submissions

It's Friday, so here's a big round-up of calls for submissions we've received this week--students, faculty, alumni looking for places to send your work, check these out!


Fugue Literary Journal, a magazine run by English and Creative Writing graduate students at the University of Idaho, Moscow, is currently open for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry submissions.

Fugue has just celebrated their 25th anniversary last year, and continues to publish quality writing from new and established writers. For full submission guidelines and to browse last year's magazine, please visit their website at http://fuguejournal.org/.


Gambling the Aisle announces their first chapbook contest, open to both fiction and poetry submissions. Prize: Publication, 25 copies (sent upon publication). Five runners-up will receive recognition in the winter edition of Gambling the Aisle, a free copy of both the Winter 2013 issue and the winning chapbook.

For full contest details and to submit, visit https://gamblingtheaisle.submittable.com/submit


Poor Yorick: A Journal of Rediscovered Objects is now accepting submissions for its online launch scheduled for the fall of 2014. They welcome entries "in any and every literary genre, and from any visual or audio medium, including, but not limited to, poems, stories, essays, profiles, digital video shorts, photoessays, scholarly articles, songs, short plays, and innovative writing and productions about lost objects and images of material culture: sculptures and paintings in the back rooms of museums or in hidden corners of public spaces; murals forgotten in plain view; lost photographic archives and restored films; newly discovered letters or manuscripts; knickknacks in attics; oddities and curiosities in misbegotten sideshows; forgotten stories that remind us of pasts that we cannot afford to forget." Please see www.pooryorickjournal.com for more information and submission guidelines.


White Stag is a biannual journal publishing poetry and flash fiction from well-known and new writers. "We offer the literary community a uniquely distinct taste for dark comedy, phantasmagoric imagery, complete dishonesty, and love poems to die for (and yes, pun is intended and strongly encouraged). White Stag strives to publish only the deepest emotion, the rawest of images, and the most unique language and syntax." Please go to: http://whitestagjournal.com/submit.html for submission prompt and guidelines.



Water~Stone Review announces the 2014 Judith Kitchen Prize in Creative Nonfiction. The winner will receive $1000 and publication in Water~Stone Review. All submissions should be original, unpublished work. Submissions accepted October 1-December 1, 2013.

Literary nonfiction submissions only. An entry fee of $20 (check made payable to Water~Stone Review) must accompany your manuscript. Entry fee includes a one-year subscription.

Submit online at www.waterstonereview.com


New Delta Review is seeking to increase the presence of the nonfiction genre in its literary magazine. They are interested in personal essays that either elevate the form or challenge it through experimentation. They accept both online and print submissions (6,000 word limit). To be considered for the Winter 2013 edition, please send work by October 22, 2013. For more information: http://ndrmag.org/submissions/

New Delta Review is also opening submissions for their annual chapbook competition, judged this year by acclaimed poet and novelist Mark Yakich. NDR is looking for brilliant, inventive, mind-bending manuscripts of unpublished poetry, fiction, or hybrid work. The winner will receive a $100 prize and 20 complimentary copies of the chapbook, to be published in the spring of 2014.
Deadline for entry is December 2, 2013. All submissions require a $15 entry fee and must be sent through submittable: https://newdeltareview.submittable.com/submit/8669. Manuscripts should be 20-40 pages in length.



ROAR Magazine, a print literary journal dedicated to providing a space to showcase women's fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry, is now accepting submissions for their 2014 Spring issue. For detailed guidelines, please visit our website at www.roarmagazine.org