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Call for Submissions
February 21, 2015 | Leave a Comment
J Journal: New Writing on Justice seeks submissions. Now in its eighth year, J publishes creative writing with a justice theme, its most powerful pieces approaching justice tangentially rather than directly. J Journal has received strong notices in review sites and a Pushcart Prize for fiction. Send previously unpublished literary fiction, poetry, memoir or personal essays that address the issue of justice to:
Editors, J Journal
c/o Department of English
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
524 West 59th Street, 7th Floor
New York, NY 10019
We read year round and have published several MFA students and recent MFA grads.
Three poems or 6000 words of prose, max.
Please include email address for reply (manuscripts recycled).
Queries: [email protected]
The 2nd Annual Vine Leaves Vignette Collection Award is now open for submissions. This competition is open to vignettes in English (poetry and/or prose), written by authors anywhere in the world. Individual pieces in a manuscript may have been previously published in magazines, print or web journals, or anthologies, but the work as a whole must be unpublished (this includes previously self-published books.)
The award includes a cash prize of $500, publication by Vine Leaves Press (paperback and eBook), 20 copies of the paperback, worldwide distribution, and promotion through Vine Leaves Literary Journal and staff websites. Author will receive a 70% net royalty on all eBook and print sales. A copy of the publishing contract for your perusal can be downloaded HERE.
Manuscripts are judged by Vine Leaves Literary Journal staff, and guest judge, Sara Sargent.
Essay Press Open Book Contest is accepting submissions until April 1st.
Essay Press is now reading for its first open-book contest, to be judged by Essay author Kristin Prevallet. We particularly welcome book-length manuscripts that extend or challenge the formal range of nonfiction, including but not limited to: lyric essays and prose poems or poetics; experimental biography and autobiography; innovative approaches to journalism, experimental historiography, criticism, scholarship and philosophy. Simultaneous submissions, multiple submissions, collaborative manuscripts, digital and hybridized text/art manuscripts are all encouraged. Each completed submission will be considered with care by multiple readers. We will announce our contest winner in summer, and will publish the book by early 2016. We will consider all submitted manuscripts for additional publishing possibilities.
For guidelines and to submit, as well as to browse our existing digital and print catalogs, click here.
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Writers previously published with Essay Press include David Lazar, John D’Agata, Rosebud Ben-Oni, Wayne Koestenbaum, Lily Hoang, Albert Goldbarth & Jenny Boully.
Fiction International announces its Short Short Fiction Contest.
2015 Theme: “Virus”
From biological entities to cultural memes to activist movements, viruses are everywhere.
Submission Period: January 15-March 15
Submissions should be exactly 300 words (not including the title)
Fee: $10
First prize is $500, publication on our website, and a free issue of Fiction International. Second and third prize winners will be published on our website and receive a free issue of Fiction International. Please submit online through Submittable at https://fictioninternational.submittable.com/submit
The final judge will be editor-in-chief Harold Jaffe.
SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN for The Masters Review Volume IV
Judged by Kevin Brockmeier
January 1st — March 31st
Submissions for our annual printed anthology are open now. Our guest judge this year is author Kevin Brockmeier. Mr. Brockmeier and The Masters Review staff are looking for the best fiction and narrative nonfiction from emerging writers, which we consider to be authors who have not yet published a novel-length work. The top ten writers selected for publication will be nationally distributed with their work exposed to top agents, editors, and authors across the country. Published authors will receive a total of $5000 in prizes.
Canyon Voices seeks submissions for its spring issue. We seek writing and art from undergraduates, graduates, faculty members, and the community.
Visit us at CanyonVoices.asu.edu for details, or submit at [email protected].