11 places to submit your poems28/2/2021 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:
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 Work must be previously unpublished (in print or online) with the exception of the original text of a translation.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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12 PLACES TO SUBMIT YOUR POEMS21/2/2021 OLONGO JOURNAL
Olongo will receive both solicited and unsolicited pieces from across all social ranges and regions in Africa. All works must be previously unpublished, simultaneous submissions permitted. New writers highly encouraged to submit. Prize/Pay: Undisclosed but assured. Submission Window/ Deadline: Year-long submissions Entry Fee: NONE Read guidelines here: https://olongoafrica.com/submit/ LOLWE Lolwe is looking for work that is bold, different, and blurs or pushes boundaries: play with form and language, ignore genre classifications, send in your fears and joys, your doubts and faiths, your curiosities and silences. Prize/Pay: Undisclosed but assured. Deadline: Feb. 28, 2021 Entry Fee: None Read guidelines here: https://lolwe.org/submit/ POETRY COLUMN-NND POETRY COLUMN-NND is open to poetry submissions weekly. They hope to publish one poem per week in Nigerian NewsDirect newspaper by Nigerian poets & are open to a diversity of voices—established & emerging. Check out their website for older publications to have an idea of what they publish. Prize/Pay: N5,000 per accepted poem Submission Window: Saturday – Wednesday every week (Entries submitted on Thursday and Friday will remain unread). Entry Fee: NONE Read guidelines here: https://nigeriannewsdirect.com/call-for-submissions-weekly-poetry-column/ ARTSLOUNGE ArtsLounge is currently open for submissions for Volume 1, Issue 1. This call is an open submission and writers can submit works with variant themes, styles, and forms, either as traditional pieces or hybrids. Deadline: February 28th 2020 Entry Fee: NONE Read Guidelines here: https://artsloungenyc.com/2021/01/20/call-for-submission/ UNDERBLONG Enter to win the blongprize, or America’s Next Top Blongee (need not be American to apply). Prize/Pay: 2 winners will receive $150 and 2 runner-ups will receive $100. All entries will be considered for publication in Issue 6. Contributors to Issue 6 will be paid $20. Submission Window: Feb. 15 to Mar. 15 Entry Fee: NONE Read guidelines here: https://www.underblong.com/send-plz THE 7TH SINGAPORE POETRY CONTEST In conjunction with Gaudy Boy’s June 2021 publication of The Sweetest Fruits by Monique Truong (Singaporean/Malaysian edition), Singapore Unbound’s SP Blog is holding its seventh annual poetry contest with a new call inspired by the title of this extraordinary novel. They are looking for poems about “the sweetest fruits,” treated literally in odes to the tropical fruits of Southeast Asia, or figuratively in poems that wrap themselves deliciously around this theme. The contest is open to everyone. A Nigerian poet, Iloh Onyekachi, won Third Place last year. Prize/Pay: USD100, 50, and 20 Deadline: April 15, 2021 Entry Fee: NONE Read guidelines here: https://singaporeunbound.org/opportunities THE ANIMAL HEART POETRY CHAPBOOK CONTEST Animal Heart Press is calling for submissions to their first ever poetry chapbook contest. Prize: – 50% of the reading fees – publication of chapbook with Animal Heart Press – 5 print copies of the chapbook – a feature in FERAL: A Journal of Poetry and Art Two runners up will receive: – a copy of the winning book – a feature in FERAL: A Journal of Poetry and Art – a print copy of the issue of FERAL in which their feature appears Deadline: February 28, 2021 Entry Fee: $5 Read guidelines here: https://animalheartpress.net/the-animal-heart-poetry-chapbook-contest/ GHOST CITY PRESS: MICRO-CHAP SERIES GHC PRESS welcomes collections of poetry, prose, or other multimedia work—the more creative the better. Co-authored collections are also welcomed. Prize: A Published Micro-Chap with Ghost City Press Deadline: March 1, 2021 Entry Fee: NONE Read Guidelines here: https://ghostcitypress.com/microchap-submission-guidelines THE SHORE JOURNAL The Shore is an online poetry publication seeking cutting, strange, and daring work from new and established poets alike. They want poems that explore the worlds of things and ideas, that recognize the liminality, the shifting of everything around us and our ability to name a thing whole. Send them your best. They publish 4 times a year. Deadline: March 1, 2021 Entry Fee: NONE Read guidelines here: https://www.theshorepoetry.org/#:~:text=Submission%20Guidelines%3A,the%20body%20of%20the%20email. SLIPSTREAM POETS OPEN POETRY COMPETITION 2021 Entries are invited ON ANY SUBJECT Prize/Pay: £200, £100, £50 Deadline: April 15, 2021 Entry Fee: £5.00 first poem, £3.50 for each additional submission. Read Guidelines here: http://www.slipstream-poets.co.uk/competition/ POETS&PLAYERS: 9TH POETRY COMPETITION Prize/Pay: £600, £200, £100 Deadline: 1 March 2021 Entry Fee: £4 per poem or 3 for £10. Email entries must be paid by PayPal. Read Guidelines here: https://poetsandplayers.co/competition/competition-2021/ THE FIDDLEHEAD Literary Journal open to writing open to good writing in English or translations into English from all over the world and in a variety of styles, including experimental genres. The Fiddlehead will not read work that is ableist, misogynistic, queer-phobic, or racist. Prize/Pay: $60 CAD per published page plus two complimentary copies of the issue with your work. Submission Window: February 15 - April 30; September 15 - November 30. Entry Fee: NONE Read guidelines here: https://thefiddlehead.ca/submit ArchivesCategories |
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