March 10, 2022

10 Literary Scholarship, Residency, and Grant Opportunities in March

By NmaHassan Muhammad The following opportunities have different requirements and limitations, so please read the details carefully before submitting. We wish our readers the best of luck! Highlights Foundation New Scholarships Highlights Foundation have put a new, streamlined process in place for scholarship applications and will award more than $75,000 in scholarships in 2022. The…

Writing Book Reviews to Promote Your Own Books

By Emily-Jane Hills Orford If you’ve written and published a book, you know the importance of book reviews, both good and bad (yes, bad reviews are important, too). But did you know that writing reviews of books you’ve read and publishing them on various sites is a great way to promote your own book(s)? It…

March 7, 2022

39 Themed Calls for Submissions for March 2022

These are calls for submissions and contests – for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Some of the themed calls are: Medusa; maps & biomes; preteens; the sea; wildfire; solarpunk; lunarpunk; prehistories; after the Gold Rush; human monsters; madam president; vacant spaces; and war. Also see this list for more themed calls, and this list of speculative…

March 3, 2022

5 Paying Literary Magazines to Submit to in March 2022

These magazines publish fiction, nonfiction, poetry; a couple also publish other genres, like cross-genre work, and graphic narrative. They’re a mix of literary and genre markets. The Offing This magazine publishes work in various genres. They’re reading nonfiction for their ‘Insight’ section until 31st March – “Creative nonfiction that centers one’s personal experience against the…

Michael O’Mara Books: Now Accepting Nonfiction Manuscript Queries

Michael O’Mara Books (also known as MOM Books) is a UK based publisher of nonfiction, and publish a wide range of books including history, popular science, language, sport, lifestyle and biography. Outside of traditional books they also publish coloring books, activity and puzzles books, and stationary. You can get a feel for what they publish…

River and South Review: Now Seeking Submissions

River and South Review is an online journal of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry produced by the students of the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Wilkes University. They’re looking for writing that creates conversation and evokes emotion: “We want work that stays with us long after we’ve left the page.” To find out…

Make More Money With an Audiobook

By Amanda Nicholson Making money as a self-published author isn’t always easy, but having your book available in more formats can help introduce readers to your work. One way of doing this is by having your book adapted into an audiobook. If you’re unsure how to do this, or think it might be too costly,…