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11 places to submit your poems

28/2/2021

 
THE ADROIT JOURNAL’S SUMMER MENTORSHIP PROGRAM
 
The Adroit Journal’s Summer Mentorship Program is an online program that pairs established writers with secondary school students interested in learning more about the creative writing processes of drafting, redrafting and editing. The 2021 program will cater to poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction/memoir, and spoken word.
 
Eligibility: Must be a secondary school (high school) student
Deadline:  March 22, 2021
Entry Fee: NONE
 
Read more here.
 
 
SPRINNG WRITING FELLOWSHIP FOR EMERGING WRITERS
 
The SprinNG Writing Fellowship (SWF) is an intensive 6 weeks online mentorship programme for developing writers with great potential and willingness to learn. The fellowship focuses on 6 genres of literature: Poetry, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Book Review, Play/Drama and Blogging. During the 5 weeks, mentees will be in contact with their mentors, sending them their works, getting reviews and commentaries. Mentors and mentees will aim to work on at least 1 piece of writing in their select genre per week.
 
Eligibility:
  • Applicant must be a Nigerian or Ghanaian citizen, residing in Nigeria or Ghana
  • Applicant must be between the ages 18 to 25
  • The SprinNG Writing Fellowship is only open to writers that have not published a book before (eBook/chapbook/hardcopy)
 
Deadline:  April 15, 2021
Entry Fee: NONE
 
Read more here.
 
 
STONEBOAT LITERARY JOURNAL
 
Stoneboat is a biannually published literary journal that strives to showcase outstanding and diverse work from both emerging and established artists. They publish fiction, nonfiction, memoir, poetry, artwork, and graphic literature.
 
Deadline: March 15, 2021
Entry Fee: NONE
 
Read more here.
 
 
JOSEPHINE QUARTERLY
 
Josephine Quarterly is an online literary magazine celebrating the resilience and voices of underrepresented poets.
 
Payment: $30 per accepted poem
Submission Window Opens: March 1, 2021
Entry Fee: NONE
 
Read more here.
 
 
 KISSING DYNAMITE
 
Kissing Dynamite curates compact issues that honour the thematic threads presented by contributing poets. Their goal is to present multiple facets of a theme/topic/issue to break the narrative of “the single story.” Acceptance rate is approximately 8%.
 
Deadline: 1st through the 7th monthly
Entry Fee: NONE
 
Read more here.
 
 
 ZIN DAILY
 
ZiN Daily accepts submissions year-round and asks for worldwide first publication rights. Work must be previously unpublished (in print or online) with the exception of the original text of a translation. Following publication in ZiN Daily, rights revert to the author.
 
 
Submission Window: Year-long Submissions
Entry Fee: NONE
 
Read more here.
 
 
CỌ́N-SCÌÒ MAGAZINE: REGENERATION ISSUE
CON-SCIO seeks poetry, short stories, non-fiction (essays, book reviews), art and photography that creatively tell individual and collective stories of ‘regeneration’ as the world tries to overcome the challenges that have become our ‘new normal’.
 
Deadline: March 5, 2021
Entry Fee: NONE
 
Read more here.
 
 
 THE MUSLIM WRITE INITIATIVE
 
The Muslim Write Initiative publishes fiction, poetry, articles, book reviews, and literary opportunities. They seek works that explore the Muslim identity, works that explore Islamic issues or the lives of Muslims. They also want works that linger with the reader long after, and are looking for works where authors write their own Muslim stories.
 
Submission Window: Year-long Submissions
Entry Fee: NONE
 
Read more here.
 
 
THE ALPINE FELLOWSHIP WRITING PRIZE 2021
 
Awarded for the best piece of writing on the theme of the Alpine Fellowship 2021 - Untamed: On Wilderness and Civilization. The winner receives a £10,000 cash prize and is presented with the award by the poet John Burnside. A £3,000 cash prize will go to the second place, and £2,000 to the third place runner up. The winner and two runners up are invited to attend the Fjällnäs symposium.
 
Prize: £15,000
Deadline: April 1, 2021
Entry Fee: NONE
 
Read more here.
 
 
NEW BEGINNINGS POETRY COMPETITON (ANTHOLOGY)
Open to all those who feel their voice was silenced in 2020 – from anyone in the world, any age. The resulting anthology – scheduled for September – will be a celebration of the end of the toxic aspects of 2020 and the pandemic, a glimmer of hope for the future and a manifesto for change.
 
Prize: £300
Deadline: May 21, 2021
Entry Fee: NONE
 
Read more here.
 
 
AFRO-EROS ANTHOLOGY
 
Submit works that are revealing, authentic, pure, funny, regretting, teasing, memorable, descriptive, and importantly, relatable to this theme. The editors—Shoola Oyindamola, Jide Badmus—are looking for the provoking, simple, experimental, playful, what follows the rules or breaks them. Rather than treat the topic of sex, eros, and sexuality as an ingredient needing context, they want an anthology that serves it as a meal to interested readers of the specific subject.
 
Eligibility: African Poets
Submission Window: February 15 – April 30 (2021)
Entry Fee: NONE
 
Read more here.
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