Feb
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Call for Submissions
February 5, 2016 | Leave a Comment
Portland Review
Portland Review has opened up submissions during the month of Feb. for their spring 2016 issue. They are accepting works across the genres of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and art. They will also be holding a Spring 2016 short fiction contest in which the winner will receive $500. The selected story will be featured in their upcoming spring issue and will also be invited to headline the Spring 2016 Release Reading in June alongside their special guest reader, Charles McLeod, author of the novel American Weather.
Essay Press Open Book Contest
Essay Press is holding their Open Book Contest and accepting submissions from now until May 1 at midnight PST. They welcome a wide range of book length manuscripts that challenge the formality of nonfiction work. They like to see work that experiments with biography and autobiography; lyric and prose poetry; journalism, experimental historiography, criticism, scholarship and philosophy. They will accept collaborative works as well as single author works. If you have any questions about the contest, don’t hesitate to send an email to essaypress(at)gmail(dot)com.
Make.Media
Make.Media is a Twitter project in which participants Tweet a 140-character pitch for their screenplay for a short video to be produced by filmmaker Jose Muniain/MakeMedia. They want to take a Tweet and turn it into a wonderful, digital product that transcends geographic, social and cultural boundaries. On Feb. 12, 2016 at 10 am make sure to Tweet the synopsis of your short film idea in 140 characters or less. It must be a contemporary story with 2-3 characters. The call will end at 6 pm on Feb. 13.