Free Lecture: How Writers Can Successfully Apply for Grants, Fellowships, and Residencies

How to apply for grants, fellowships, and residences.

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Free Talk: The Narrative Arc—Finding the Pulse of the Poem With Bill Garvey

Bill Garvey is the author of the book Leaning in the same direction, published by Darkwinter Press this April. He’s written three collections of poetry, and has been  published in a variety of literary journals.  He lives in Toronto.  Get a copy of Bill’s book here.

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Epic Ink: Seeking Manuscript Proposals

Epic Ink is an imprint of Quarto Publishing Group. Epic Ink focuses on publishing entertainment or pop culture books that are visually striking. You can see books they’ve previously published under this imprint here. On their imprint-focused page here they particularly highlight the Bucket List Series, which includes this book. They also mention the “Inspiring…

MANDRAKE of Oxford: Seeking Manuscript Queries

This UK-based publisher describes themselves as an “Independent publisher of essential occultural books”. They are open to submissions of work on Mysticism, Esotericism, Magick, Paganism, Erotica and Fetish, Shamanism, Culture, True Crime and Ripperology, as well as work related to Yoga Ayurveda, and Tantra, and other related topics, like ancient mysteries and UFOlogy. In terms…

Cicada Books: Seeking Manuscript Queries

Cicada Books is a children’s book publisher based in London. Initially focused on producing books for adults around art and design, they have now pivoted to fully focusing on publishing children’s books. The books they publish are well-designed and beautifully printed, and intended for kids ages 4-11. They publish activity books, picture books, and nonfiction….

The Whumpy Printing Press: Seeking Manuscript Submissions

If you are familiar with fanfiction, the title of this press alone might help you know if your work is a good fit for it or not. They only publish work in the Whump genre. Whump is a genre that emphasizes trauma, and can go fully horror or lean more towards hurt/comfort (which is to…