April 13, 2023
The Orchards Poetry Journal is a biannual print and digital publication. They nominate three poems each issue for the Pushcart Prize, and they select two poems each issue for The Grantchester Award. The first place Grantchester Award winner is awarded $50, and the second place winner receives $30. The Orchards favors rhymed verse in traditional…
These are opportunities with deadlines or awarded on a rolling basis. Most of them have restrictions around who can apply. Please read each entry carefully. Larissa Marantz Need & Merit Scholarships Ten (10) Larissa Marantz Need & Merit Scholarships are open to any writer or illustrator who identifies as BIPOC, LGBTQIA2, Jewish, Low-Income, having a…
By Garth Pettersen Historical fiction can be defined as made-up stories involving true events or series of events that happened at an earlier time. Some suggest historical fiction should be set before mid-twentieth century, but to my thinking if a reader accepts a time setting to be recognizably different from the present, it is history….
April 10, 2023
It is good to start out by submitting your work to literary journals that have fast response times. It is rewarding to hear back from journals within a month, rather than a year later, when you have forgotten all about them. Submitting to journals with fast response times helps keep you motivated. All of these…
April 6, 2023
These magazines pay for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. They are a mix of literary and genre magazines, and not all of them are open through the month. AGNIThis respected literary magazine charges for online submissions, but postal submissions are still free. They publish fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Also, “We have no word limits, though space…
August 2023: They’ve updated their website and the submission page is gone, for now, but I suspect they may reopen to submissions because they still have a section of the home page devoted to books that started out as slush pile submissions. Avon Books UK, an imprint of Harper Collins, is one of the rare…
Arboreal Literary Magazine is a new print and digital publication of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and visual art. They aim to create a publication that nurtures artistic growth by showcasing a wide range of voices and encouraging creative risk-taking. Arboreal is published online as a downloadable journal, and their next issue will also be published in…
By Ratika Deshpande I started writing every day when I was 16. Because I was young, I’d developed certain ideas about how writing works by learning about other writers’ processes. I took these notions with me to my writing desk every day for over three years. And I watched as each was built upon or…
Jacob Jans and I got married twelve years ago, and on our first anniversary we talked about how we would never ever work together. About six months later, Jacob needed help launching a Facebook page for Freedom With Writing, which was relatively new at the time. He kept complaining about how he could not get…
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