Poets & Writers – September 2019

CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS
Anthologies

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ANTHOLOGY:
Relational Aggression
in Females. Seeking
essays from women
of all ages, races, and
sexual orientations
who have experienced
bullying during their
developmental years
from other girls or
who have been victims
in their adulthood of
aggressive, demeaning,
or disempowering
behavior from other
women. The ideal
essay will include
observations about the
emotional impact such
experiences have had.
Word limit: 1,000. Visit
http://www.changesinlife.com
to submit your essay.
Click on the Submit
link in the right-
hand column. Type
“Anthology” on the title
line and include the title
of the essay in the body
of your submission.
Deadline: January 15,
2020.

ALGORITHM-FREE readers! Actual human beings will read your submissions of funk- adelic, saucy, and will-o’-the-wispy creative nonfiction, poetry, fiction, and text/ image pieces for our upcoming issue. Send us your traditional and medium-length work. We dig flash, too. Reading period: August 1 until December 15. Yummy samples and loads more info at slablitmag.org.

THE AWAKENINGS Review, a leading lit mag for writers and poets with a rela- tionship to mental illnesses—either self, family member or friend—is now accepting e-mail submissions to its 2020 issue. Send your work with a cover letter to ar@awakeningsproject .org or by mail to The Awakenings Review, P.O. Box 177, Wheaton, IL 60187. See new submission guidelines at http://www.awakenings project.org.

BELLEVUE LITERARY Review seeks fiction, nonfiction, and poetry for a special issue— “Reading the Body”— focused on anatomy and its metaphors. Fiction, nonfiction (5,000 words max). Poetry (3 poems max). Submit September 1 to January

Info at https://
bellevueliteraryreview
.submittable.com.

artistic voices of the new millennium with a local accent but a global view. We want the multiplicity of the cosmic experience: past, present, future, the good, the bad, and espe- cially the unexpected. POC, LGBTQIA+, and women to the front. Website: http:// sfkpress.com/ submissions.

CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS Chapbooks

JEANNE LEIBY annual chapbook award by The Florida Review. Winner receives chapbook publication plus $1,000. Accepts fiction, nonfiction, graphic narrative (flash collec- tions or long-form). Submit up to 45 pages with $25 entry fee. All entries considered for publication. For guidelines, see http://florida review.cah.ucf.edu.

CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS Magazines

AJI MAGAZINE is calling for poetry, short fiction, literary nonfiction, reviews, photography, and graphic art from emerging and estab- lished writers and artists. Submissions open on May 1 and November 1 and close once the upcoming issue is filled. Back issues are available at http://www.ajimagazine.com; e-mail queries can be sent to ajimagazine@ gmail.com.

please. No self- published or e-books, poetry, genres, or series books. Authors of more than 3 published books are ineligible. (If an author has multiple books published in 2019, all are eligible.) Books nominated for the award must be submitted to the FAW Awards Committees by December 10, but we appreciate entries ASAP. No applica- tion forms! Please send 2 copies of each book and author info as early as possible to: Karen Pulver, Literature Awards Chair, 748 Western Ave., Glen Ellyn, IL 60137. E-mail: [email protected]. Or Angela Gall, Young People’s Literature Awards Chair, 13325 S. Columbine Circle, Plain- field IL 60585. E-mail: [email protected]. For info on previous awards, please visit http://www.fawchicago.org/ awards.php.

SARABANDE BOOKS Open Essay Month is open for submissions September 1–30. Submissions are open to essay manuscripts in English and may be a single essay or collection of essays between 150–250 pages. Complete guidelines at http://www.sarabandebooks .org/submissions.

SOUTHERN FRIED Karma seeks book- length fiction. Our mission: Cultivate

BELLEVUE LITERARY Press, a nonprofit publishing at the inter- section of the arts and sciences, seeks excep- tional narrative nonfiction. We are holding an open reading period this fall for unsolicited nonfiction submissions, specifically great books in the sciences and social sciences. Find our guidelines at https:// blpress.org/contact.

BLUE LIGHT PRESS Book Award—Imag- istic, inventive, honest poems that push the edge. Send 50- to 80-page manuscript, SASE, $20 reading fee to Blue Light Press, P.O. Box 150300, San Rafael, CA 94915 by January 30,

For guidelines,
e-mail bluelightpress@
aol.com. Website: www
.bluelightpress.com.

FAW (FRIENDS OF American Writers) seeks book submissions for its annual, 98-year- old literary awards in 2 categories: Literature for adults and literature for children and young adults. Publishers and/ or authors are invited to submit books published in 2019. Generous monetary prizes awarded. Guidelines: Authors must reside (or have resided) in the American Midwest. Books set in the region (even if the author is nonresident) also qualify. Fiction or creative nonfiction,

POETRYSOUP.COM —Poetry community with the most poetry resources in the world. Free online poetry contests. All competi- tions are free. Enter as many contests as you want. You keep copyrights on all your poems. Some poetry contests even have prizes! Run your own poetry contests. Visit: http://www.poetrysoup.com/ poetry/contests.

RATTLE SEEKS submissions by children for our annual Young Poets Anthology—poets must be age 15 or younger. Deadline: October 15. Children, parents, or teachers (with parents’ permis- sion and contact information) may send up to 4 poems using our online submission manager. Website: http://www.rattle.com/ children.

CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS Books

ATMOSPHERE PRESS is currently seeking submissions of full-length book manuscripts in all genres—from poetry to fiction to memoir and beyond—with no reading fee. Atmo- sphere Press is an independent publisher dedicated to honesty, transparency, profes- sionalism, kindness, and making your book awesome. Learn more at atmospherepress .com.

Caveat emptor! Poets & Writers Magazine is unable to check all claims made by advertisers. Readers should beware of publishers who charge, rather than pay, an author for publication; publishers who do not pay for publication, even in copies; publishers who require a purchase before publication; and contests that charge high reading fees. The magazine recommends that you see the publication and submission guidelines before submitting a manuscript; if you have questions regarding an advertiser’s commitment to publication, please contact the advertiser directly.

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