There’s still time to submit your haiku to 2019 Soap Haiku Contest. It’s a fun contest, the entry’s free — hurry!
Just a few days left to submit to Owl Canyon Press Short Story Hackathon #3. No cost to enter, big prizes — don’t miss!
Good luck!
So, pick you age category, pick your topic, and write a winning article!
The deadline for the Rattle Poetry Prize is approaching. There’s a $25 fee, but it comes with quite a few perks.
Get your best four poems ready, and go rattling!
Happy writing!
Image: Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Louveciennes, c. 1872–1873. Oil on canvas, Overall: 15 1/4 x 18 1/4 in. (38.7 x 46.4 cm). BF860. Public Domain.
Happy Pi Day!
Google Plus is leaving us for good. Time to “ungoogle+”.
Anne R. Allen takes you through all the steps of doing it properly.
Do it now — April 2 will be here before you know it.
Why not write a fun poem, and submit it to a contest?
Why Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest?
Deadline is April 1, 2019.
Write and submit!
Image: Pi Pie, created at Delft University of Technology, applied physics, seismics and acoustics; Public Domain
Submit your previously unpublished book-length collection for a chance to win The Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry.
The prize awards $10,000, publication by Milkweed Editions, and other cool things.
Deadline: February 15, 2019.
Don’t miss your chance to win £30,000 (!)
Submit your writing to The Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award — the world’s richest and most prestigious prize for a single short story.
Deadline: February 15, 2019.
Good luck!
Image: Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Fruit and Bonbonnière, c. 1915–1917. Oil on canvas, Overall: 9 7/16 x 12 5/8 in. (24 x 32 cm). BF39. Public Domain.
Entries are now being accepted for the Chicago Tribune’s 2019 Algren Awards contest.
There will be one grand prize winner ($3,500) and five finalists ($750). No entry fee.
Revise your original short fiction, and submit. Deadline: January 31, 2019.
The Zócalo Public Square Poetry Prize is accepting submissions.
The prize ($500, and a published interview) will be awarded to the U.S. poet whose poem best evokes a connection to place.
‘“Place” may be interpreted by the poet as a place of historical, cultural, political, or personal importance; it may be a literal, imaginary, or metaphorical landscape.’
Deadline: February 4, 2019.
Image: James Wilson Morrice. Snow Scene, c. 1905. Oil on canvas board, Overall: 9 x 12 in. (22.9 x 30.5 cm). BF2053. Public Domain.
Have you written an adventure novel exceeding 50K words? You may be the next winner of the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize.
What’s particularly good about this opportunity is that self-published novels are eligible for the Best Unpublished Manuscript Prize.
Is your manuscript too long? Janice Hardy shares advice on how to give your manuscript a necessary trimming.
Submissions are open. Read the guidelines, revise your work, and submit.
Good luck!
Image: Georges Seurat. Two Sailboats at Grandcamp (Deux voiliers à Grandcamp), c. 1885. Oil on panel, Overall: 6 1/4 x 9 13/16 in. (15.8 x 25 cm). BF1153. Public Domain.
Go ahead. Write about K–12 teaching, and/or teachers, and submit your unpublished poem for a chance to win The $1,000 (!) On Teaching Poem Prize. No entry fee. Deadline: January 1st, 2019. Restrictions apply, read the guidelines carefully. Good luck!
Summer 2019 issue of Rattle will be dedicated to Instagram Poets. Submit your poems for a chance to be discovered, and promoted by the notable poetry magazine. You can also nominate poems written by other poets. Deadline: January 15th, 2019.
Guided by the editorial vision of Ashley Anna McHugh, Measure Review, an online magazine of formal poetry, will advance the legacy of Measure. Submissions will open in January, 2019. Get your unpublished sonnets, haiku, etc. ready.
Image: Paul Gauguin. Mr. Loulou (Louis Le Ray), 1890. Oil on canvas, Overall: 21 3/4 x 18 1/4 in. (55.2 x 46.4 cm). BF589. Public Domain.
Ugly Duckling Presse is starting a new poetry periodical.
UDP will accept up to 5 pages of poetry by December 31, for possible inclusion in the first issue, to be released in early 2019.
Submissions from new writers, translators, and people living outside the US are especially encouraged.
Read the guidelines carefully, and submit.
Plenty of FREE writing contests to choose from.
Again, read the guidelines carefully, and submit your work. Good luck!
Image: Paul Cézanne. Mont Sainte-Victoire (La Montagne Sainte-Victoire), c. 1900. Watercolor and graphite on laid paper, Overall: 12 3/8 x 19 1/8 in. (31.5 x 48.5 cm). BF652. Public Domain.
You might want to start putting together your submission to Measure Review.
Guided by the editorial vision of Ashley Anna McHugh, Measure Review, an online magazine of formal poetry, will advance the legacy of Measure.
So, if you happen to write a sonnet or two, don’t be in a hurry to publish them on your blog — save them until January, 2019. It’ll be here before you know it.
Love? Life? The universe? You might be doing it all wrong. Check your skin color.
If it’s white, you should–according to Ms. Angela Pelster-Wiebe–write about white supremacy. Why? Because “those who benefit from racism (that’s you) should be on the front lines fighting it.”
Ms. Pelster-Wiebe is apparently a successful author, “a white woman writing about the toxic inheritance of white supremacy.” Hmm..who’s benefiting from racism now?
You might want to follow in Ms. Pelster-Wiebe’s footsteps and start apologizing in writing for being born white — it’s not unlikely that you’ll achieve publication and success.
The alternative is to have respect for yourself and others, and very likely remain unpublished and unknown. (There’s always self-publishing, though.)
Now go write a love poem.
Image: Charles Demuth. In Vaudeville: Two Acrobat-Jugglers, 1916. Watercolor and graphite on wove paper, Overall: 11 3/16 x 8 in. (28.4 x 20.3 cm). BF602. Public Domain.
A story I’ve read recently–“The Basement Room”–made me think that it might not be long before Graham Green is added to the growing list of racist authors.
He used the N-word! More than once!
Does it matter that it’s a fictional character that uses the word? Does it matter that it’s important to the story? Does it matter that it’s a slice of history?
Apparently, it today’s world it doesn’t.
So, hurry. Read “The Basement Room” before it’s banned.
It’s a masterful, haunting story. What a great, great writer.
Glimmer Train has two contests you can still submit your work to: Very Short, & Fiction Open. Deadline’s tomorrow, August 31. HURRY!
Image: Horace Pippin. Supper Time, c. 1940. Oil on burnt-wood panel, Overall: 12 x 15 1/8 in. (30.5 x 38.4 cm). BF985. Public Domain.
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