Authors Guild Sues to Bring Back Grants; Major Newspapers Use AI to Recommend Books that Don’t Exist; Plus Publishing Opportunities, Success Stories, and Editing Jobs
This monthly column is published on the fourth Thursday of every month, and is an opportunity for me to share information that doesn’t fit anywhere else in our publication. This includes a wide range of opportunities for writers, news and information, and subscriber’s recent success stories.
Opportunities:
Tint Journal is currently open for submissions written in English by non-native speakers of English. They are open to short stories, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry on the theme of patchwork. Submissions closed on May 31st.
Redivider’s “Blurred Genre summer special edition explores the fluid boundaries between genres. We welcome all hybrid, genre-blurring and experimental work. Submit your flash nonfiction, visual sci-fi poetry, memoir comics, mixed-media fiction collage with a dash of cultural critique, digital or drawn media—all fall in the broad spectrum of possibilities!” They close to submissions on May 31st.
Fahmidan Journal is seeking a prose editor (paid), an assistant managing editor (paid), and social media intern (volunteer), and applications close on the 27th of May!
Sundress Publications has openings for several different volunteer positions currently, with different deadlines attached. Learn more here.
News:
Benjamin Davis of ChillSubs did the number crunching I’ve long wanted to do, and published this excellent article with Literary Hub about the increasing issue of submission fees.
On May 2nd, Trump proposed cutting NEA funding from government budget. Within 24 hours the National Endowment for the Arts started withdrawing and terminating grant offers for small presses, magazines and other publishing related endeavours. You can see some of the impacted publishers here. Publications we cover that have been impacted, include but are not limited to the following: OneStory, HubCity, and The Paris Review. They have continued to withdraw funding from even more organizations over the last two weeks. The Authors Guild, has since filed a lawsuit to reverse the termination of grants.
Two major newspapers published a “summer reading list” that included a large number of books that do not exist (although their authors are real and established). You can read more about it here, but AI was at fault. Apologies have since been offered up
Subscriber Success Stories:
Deborah Heimann‘s piece The Moves: A Record in Flashes was published by The McNeese Review
Belle Reeves’s book The Heart Can’t Keep a Secret was published by Evernight.
Donna Faulkner‘s story A Summons to the Revolution won 2nd prize in literature at ZO magazine.
Robby Dube’s short story The Dancing Plague, was published by Viridine Literary.
Mitchell Austin‘s short story The Forester won first place in Magnets and Ladders Spring/Summer 2025 fiction contest.
Jerome Stanley’s story A Summer Vacation was published in Sybil.
Rachel Turney had work published in the current issue of TEACH. WRITE., as well as a blogpost on drip.
Ellen Rosenbloom’s second chapbook Traveling is available for pre-sales and will be published by Finishing Line Press.
Wendy Westley’s poem Longing for Tomorrow was published by Underbelly Press.
Monica Goertzen Hertlein’s short story How to be Human After Evil Fae Possession was published in The Lorelei Signal.
Wayne Lee’s sixth poetry collection Dining on Salt: Four Seasons of Septets was published by Cornerstone Press.
Noelle Sterne’s story Time to Say Goodbye will be reprinted in Chicken Soup for the Soul‘s, Self-Care Isn’t Selfish. Two of their poems, Wilderness Quest and Reminiscence: Mother were just published in The Soliloquist, Spring issue.
Stephen Kamugasa‘s piece Strong Democratic Institutions Are Crucial For Climate Action In Africa was published by The New Climate.
Denise Diehl’s story The Caravan Pearls was published in Frivolous Comma.
Giles Kelber’s short story A Road to Yesterday was published by Etched Onyx Magazine.
Lance Mason’s story Africa, Once and Again was a finalists for for Fish Publishing‘s 2025 Short Memoir Prize.
Ki-tyØ ‘Ssemma’nda’s poem Tongue-Tied-Akanyata, was published in Puerto Del Sol’s spring FREAK issue and their nonfiction reflection on Meaning and Happiness for Africa, Places and Time was published in Kalahari Review.
Kurt Schmidt‘s memoir chapbook, Birth of a Risk-Taker, was published by Bottlecap Press.
Susan Helene’s book Connections: Stories of Unexpected Encounters published by WordWooze now has an audiobook version.
Dorsía Smith Silva‘s poem Puerto Rico as Non-Erasure was published by Split This Rock.
John A. Tures’s short story Hurricane Hunters was published in Green Magic: Stories of Hope and Power, published by Gilbert & Hall Press.
Alan M. Wishnoff’s novel Holotrial was published by TWB Press.
M.S. Gardner‘s novella Wolf’s Bane was the winner of the 2024 Moon Meridian Novella Award and will be published by April Gloaming Publishing.
Steven Bay won the Shooter Flash February contest with his short story, Lisa’s Little Lie.
CM Pickard’s poems, Broken Wing, No donations here, and White Walls were published by The Write Launch, and their poems The Father I Loved, Canopy of Protection, Aggression, and Melbourne Cup were published by The Sandy River Review.
Duane L. Herrmann’s short story The Fire that Escaped from a Tree was published in Chewers, and their short story House of Money was published in Literary Yard. They also had two poems, Just One Moment, and Success One published in Sparks of Calliope.
Kim Gottlieb-Walker’s Novel Lenswoman in Love is a finalist at the Chanticleer Book Awards for women’s fiction and romance.
M. Kelly Peach‘s chapbook Please, Do Not Tap on Glass, was published by Alien Buddha Press.
Encounter With an Enigmatic Fish and Legendary Red of the Qin Mountains, translation of Yan An’s poems by Chen Du and Xisheng Chen were published by the Notre Dame Review.
Please send us an email at success.stories@authorspublish.com if you have a publication success you want to share in our next update. You must include a link to the publication. You can also include a link to your website (if you have one), and the publisher/journals main landing page. To be featured in the June update work must be published no earlier than March. Work available for pre-order can be shared. Please note that we are only listing work that has been traditionally published by literary journals, magazines, or traditional presses. We are not covering vanity presses or self-published books.
Bio: Caitlin Jans has an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. She is the co-founder of Authors Publish and The Poetry Marathon. Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies and literary journals including: The Literary Review of Canada, The Fiddlehead, Jelly Bucket, The Penn Review, The Adroit Journal, and Killer Verse. Her prose and poetry has been nominated for The Pushcart Prize, BILiNE, The Best Small Fictions Anthology, and The Best of the Net. You can learn more at www.caitlinthomson.com.
