Opportunities for Writers – June 2022
Opportunities for writers including writers conferences, workshops, contests, and submissions. Updated 6/27/2022.
Submit your opportunity to mail@indianawriters.org. Submit your opportunity by the 1st of the month to ensure it is included.
Have a short story, poem or other work you’re just dying to share? Check out these publications, workshop and contest opportunities for June 2022 and beyond:
*Advice on Writing Contests:
When considering contests, look to see how they handled winners’ work from previous years: Is there a list of previous winners? Where you can go to read or have access to the winning pieces of writing? Who are the judges? Are they people who you would read yourself? If you win, what kind of audience would you receive for your work? Research contests and their reputations online. Use places like duotrope.com, Poets and Writers (pw.org), the New Pages (newpages.com), or The Review Review (thereviewreview.net), to see whether there is any other information about the contest from other sources.
Books in Progress Conference
June 4-5 at the Carnegie Center
The Carnegie Center for Literacy & Learning is offering a Books-in-Progress Conference for aspiring authors of all levels! Participants will have the opportunity to immerse themselves in craft workshops led by top writers, editors, and writing professionals, with Gwenda Bond as the keynote speaker. Topics will include fiction, nonfiction, YA, publishing, revision, and more. I’ve attached our flyer and a tentative agenda.
If you are interested in the conference, you can find more information and sign up on our website here: https://carnegiecenterlex.org/events/2022-books-in-progress-conference/
Virtual one-on-one pitches with literary agents will also be available for conference participants at an additional $25. For more information about this year’s agents please see here –
https://carnegiecenterlex.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/2022-Agent-bios-pictures.pdf
“Know Your Roots” Marion County Public Library Black Culture Center
June 4th 2:00-5:00
Marion County Public Library Black Culture Center
Attention all writers: Become a part of making history by capturing the stories of the families in the central Indianapolis Area. Writers will have a brief introductory zoom before that date. Genealogists will select people and families of special interest that have had a significant impact on their community and will have an introductory interview with a writer during event. That’s you! They will schedule another time to gather more information with their person or family and write their story. Guidelines will be offered with a timeline for submitting work. Please consider volunteering for this important work.
Email Kathy Calwell (kathycalwell@gmail.com) to let her know of your interest. Subject: Know Your Roots.
Eunice Trotter, author and historian, and William Rasdell, photographer and artist have spearheaded this project. This event is sponsored by The Harrison Center, Indiana Remembrance Coalition, Indiana African American Genealogy Group, Indiana Album, and the Marion County Public Library.
IUPUI Religion Spirituality and the Arts
A project of IUPUI’s Arts and Humanities Institute, this program brings together writers and artists of various disciplines to study and discuss religious texts and to create new artistic works inspired by that exploration. The 2022-23 theme is “I Will Not Let You Go Until You Bless Me.”
Deadline: June 15
Click here for information about the program and how to apply:https://www.culturalecologies.org/rsa-titlecard
Indiana Humanities Opens Applications for Advancing Racial Equity Collection Development Grants
Libraries, schools, colleges and universities and nonprofit organizations are invited to apply to Indiana Humanities for funds to add to their circulating collections digital or physical resources that address topics of race, systemic racism and the Black experience in Indiana and beyond.
The grants of up to $1,000 can be used to add digital or physical resources — including books, films or other materials — to a library’s collection. Materials must be selected from among the more than 400 titles on the pre-approved list, which has been curated by librarians with input from humanities scholars.
Applications are due June 24, 2022 by 5pm EDT. Grantees will be notified by July 29, 2022, and funds must be used by Dec. 31, 2022. Up to 150 grants will be awarded.
More information on the Indiana Humanities website
2022 Summer Camp for Creative Writers
This is our 23rd year of creating Fine Lines writing summer camps for students of all ages. Connect with writers who add clarity and passion to their lives with the written word. We have fun with sentences, while developing poems, stories, essays, and discover creative corners of our minds that we did not know existed.
College & Adults
July 9-10 10:00 a.m. – Noon
July 13 5:00 p.m. – 7 p.m.
July 16-17 10:00 a.m. – Noon
Information and Registration sheet
Poetry Sought to Honor Madam CJ Walker
DEADLINE : Jul 24, 2022
Megan Telligman
Indiana Humanities and the Indy Arts Council seek to commission an Indiana poet to write an original poem inspired by the life, career, and legacy of Madam C.J. Walker. The poem will accompany a new portrait mural of the entrepreneur to be installed in the fall of 2022.
- Poetry Sought to Honor Madam CJ Walker/Convocatoria de Poeta Para el Proyecto del Mural de Madam CJ Walker
Poetry Sought to Honor Madam CJ Walker/Convocatoria de Poeta Para el Proyecto del Mural de Madam CJ Walker
Posted by Indy Arts Council ; Posted on Jun 22, 2022Literary – DEADLINE : Jul 24, 2022
Megan Telligman
Indianapolis, IN, 46204
Indiana Humanities and the Indy Arts Council seek to commission an Indiana poet to write an original poem inspired by the life, career, and legacy of Madam C.J. Walker. The poem will accompany a new portrait mural of the entrepreneur to be installed in the fall of 2022.
COMMISSION AMOUNT: $1,000
APPLICATION DEADLINE: Sunday, July 24, 2022 11:59 p.m.
Story Alive!
Story Alive! is an early-learning program that uses storytelling, music, movement and crafting as an introduction to arts appreciation. The sessions draw from performing arts-themed books and a wide variety of music to teach creative movement. To wrap up each session, the participants have an opportunity to express themselves by creating take-home craft projects related to each week’s story. Come to the Center with your preschooler to help bring the Story Alive!
- Designed for ages 4 to 6
- Participation is limited to 10 children
- Craft supplies will be available for all registered children
- Cost: $15 per session (the July 15 session is sold out, but spaces remain for the other five classes!)
Writing/Art Sought for Zine pLopLop Vol. 14
Are you a writer? Have something to say? Want to put it in print? Submit your work to PLopLop! 100 word limit. Submissions are due by August 1.
pLOpLop is an “Antholozine” of Poetry, Prose and Artwork published by Indianapolis, IN based visual artist, Big Car co-founder and writer John Clark since 1992.
pLopLop has published the work of writers like Kurt Vonnegut, Charles Bukowski, Jack Kerouac, Fielding Dawson, Eileen Myles, Gerald Locklin and more.
Inked Voices
A Platform for Writing Groups and an Online Space for Writers
With Inked Voices, writing groups and workshops can collaborate intimately despite distance and strange schedules. We are not a giant critique forum, but a collection of small workshopping communities.
Join the community and check out the plans
More than a publication; a community.
Of Rust and Glass is a literature and arts publication featuring talent from all across the Midwest United States, including writers, artists, photographers, videographers, musicians, and everything in between. It is a celebration of the thriving creative spirit within our wonderful community.
Currently seeking submissions for themed releases:
“Summer” Submissions open through 6/15/2022
“Fall” Submissions open through 9/15/2022
Literary Fiction Anthology – Made of Rust and Glass, Vol 2
Submissions open through 5/31/2022
LGBTQIA Fiction Anthology – Of Rust and Glass Pride
Submissions open through 7/31/2022
For more information on these themes visit our submissions page.
Old Iron Press open to submissions!
Old Iron Press is a female-led small press dedicated to retooled classics and new voices innovating the familiar. Existing apart from traditional publishing with an entirely different set of values, we are focused on originality over sales.
Submissions for our inaugural anthology, “Playing Authors,” will go live on May 1, 2022 and run until October 1, 2022. Selected contributors will receive one free contributor copy and an honorarium..
Inspired by the classic game of Authors, originally published in 1861, we are asking what it means to be an author—and an Author.
For more information, visit our submission guidelines at www.oldironpress.com.
The Glacier: Poetry for the Coming Ice Age now Accepting Submissions
The Glacier is an online literary magazine based out of Indiana University South Bend. The magazine is accepting submissions of poetry, visual art, and fiction for its inaugural issue.
Curated by poet and artist David Dodd Lee and managed by editor and poet Austin Veldman, The Glacier is a sister press to both 42 Miles Press and Twyckenham Notes, both also of South Bend, Indiana.
We seek the best art possible. Accepted work will be presented in a clean online aesthetic. For an idea about how your work will be presented, please visit the latest issue of Twyckenham Notes.
Indiana Pandemic Poetry Project
COVID-19 has created a time in history like no other; students, specifically, have faced many unique challenges because of this. With this poetry project, we hope to assemble a collective reflection in response to the trials and time at home we have faced, as we work towards the end of the Pandemic together.
Indiana students in the years of study of 4th-12th grade or the undergraduate, graduate, or doctorate levels are all welcome to submit one original poem.
“Dear Yusuf” Anthology
Dear Yusef: Essays, Letters, and Poems For and About One Mr. Komunyakaa
Edited by poets John Murillo and Nicole Sealey
Wesleyan University Press
Call for Submissions: The editors are seeking poems, letters, personal and critical essays to be considered for an anthology to be published by Wesleyan University Press, celebrating the life and work of internationally acclaimed poet and professor Yusef Komunyakaa.
Submission Guidelines:
The publisher welcomes original poems, letters, critical and personal essays of any length. Both unpublished and previously published work is welcome providing authors retain North American rights. Submissions from writers who identify as trans, gender non-conforming, non-binary or women are strongly encouraged.
Only submissions sent in Microsoft Word format will be considered.
Submission deadline is August 1, 2022. Authors should allow 6-8 weeks for the selection process.
Please send submissions and questions to dearyusefanthology@gmail.com.
Authors will be compensated $50 and two complimentary copies of published anthology.
Yusef Komunyakaa is the author of nearly twenty volumes of poetry and prose, and his plays and librettos have been performed to international acclaim. His honors include the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, the Wallace Steven Award from the Academy of American Poets, the Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lily Poetry Prize, and the William Faulkner Prize from the University de Rennes among others. He has served as Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 1999-2005 and has taught in the Cave Canem workshop/retreat, as well as at many universities including the University of New Orleans, Indiana University, Princeton University, and New York University where he currently serves as Distinguished Senior Poet in the creative writing program.
Storm Cellar: A Literary Journal of Safety and Danger
Storm Cellar is a nationally distributed, independent literary arts magazine rooted in the Midwest, appearing in print and ebook editions. This is a journal of safety and danger. We want your prose, poems, chimeras, and ideas penned on envelopes in buses and train cars. The magazine aims to publish amazing work by new and established writers and artists, present a range of styles and approaches, and cure (not merely displace) boredom. If you write one thing to be read while waiting for the all-clear to sound, send it here.
-La Libreta- Open for Submissions
-La Libreta- is published online three times each year. We publish the work of intergenerational writers and artists of color from the Bronx and beyond that identify as women.
Submissions open Dec 1
Please read and follow submission guidelines.
Cutleaf Journal Open to Submissions
Cutleaf publishes a new issue twice a month. We welcome unsolicited original prose (both creative nonfiction and fiction) and poetry from established and emerging writers.
Work published online in Cutleaf may be chosen for inclusion in the print Cutleaf Reader.
You can find updated submission guidelines here.
Acre Books open to submissions
Acre Books, the book-publishing offshoot of The Cincinnati Review, aims to build on the excellence that its parent publication has become known for. Like CR, our small press will focus on surprising, imaginative, and absorbing works—of poetry, fiction, literary nonfiction, and hybrid forms—that are expertly crafted and beautifully polished, and that engage readers aesthetically as well as emotionally. We are devoted in particular to finding, and bringing to a broad readership, remarkably talented newcomers. Initially we will bring out 6 titles annually, but we intend in the coming years to expand our lists and our staff. Visit our home page to subscribe to our mailing list.
Acre’s titles are distributed by the CDC (Chicago Distribution Center).
The American Poetry Review Seeks Submissions
Seeking poetry submissions, submissions for first book prize, and prose writing related to poetry such as book reviews and interviews. Visit them on Submittable to learn more.
Seeking Submissions for Meditation Anthologies
Hazelden Publishing is the leading publisher of addiction recovery and self-help resources. Part of the?Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation, the nation’s largest nonprofit treatment provider, we offer a variety of accessible and life changing materials–from daily meditations to evidence-based programs.
In the past, our meditation-a-day format books have been written by a single author. Now, we are taking the opportunity of using the 365 days in a year to expand the number of voices we can uplift and recognize.?The more people who hear about the call for submissions, the more inclusive, reflective of the community, and useful the final books will be.
Complete information about How We Heal: Meditations for Reclaiming Our Voices from Addiction and Sexual Trauma is available here: https://www.hazelden.org/store/publicpage/meditations-anthology-writing-detail
Complete information about Leave No One Behind: Daily Meditations for Service Members and Veterans in Recovery is available here: https://www.hazelden.org/store/publicpage/meditations-anthology-writing-leave-no-one-behind
The Flying Island: New Look for 2021!
Flying Island, the Online Literary Journal of the Indiana Writers Center accepts submissions on a rolling basis from Indiana residents and those with significant ties to Indiana.
- Fiction: up to 5,000 words
- Nonfiction: up to 3,500 words
- Poetry: up to three poems, no more than 50 lines each.
Visit the journal and submit your work.
Washington Post Seeking Op-eds
In our effort to bring in more voices from across America, the Washington Post’s op-ed department would like to hear from writers with a wide variety of backgrounds, interests and outlooks. The one constant should be that they are good writers with strong viewpoints, and value facts and reasoned argument over invective. We’ll welcome one-off submissions, or pieces on breaking news events that we solicit, but we also hope that some writers will develop into regular contributors.
The Washington Post maintains a high bar for acceptance: We receive a large volume of op-ed submissions and have limited space, so even worthwhile op-eds might not be accepted if they don’t meet our needs at the moment. But our having a designated venue for op-eds from across the country does expand the possibility that your submission could find a home here. (A good target length for op-eds is 750-800 words.)
Here are some examples of writing that would fit into this category. As you can see, the range of topics is broad – political, personal, analytical, humorous, legal, business-oriented, you name it. What ties them together is that they don’t originate in Washington or universities or think tanks or other common sources of opinion articles. They bring first-hand experience or on-the-ground knowledge to bear on matters that may be local to the writer but could easily be of interest to readers everywhere.
Extra note: It’s best to send pieces in both an attachment and pasted into the email (reading in the email is fastest, but if there are links within the text, they convert more easily from a document).
Send op-eds to Mark Lasswell, Mark.Lasswell@washpost.com
Write for Sixty Inches from Center
Sixty welcomes writers and artists of all experience levels to pitch ideas for traditional and experimental arts writing around topics, and practices that are relevant to the cultural landscapes of the Midwest.
Priority will be given to writing by, about, and for BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ artists, artists with disabilities, and the long list of writing, art-making, and cultural practices that have been neglected in mainstream conversations and canons about art and culture. We publish writing, photography, art, archive materials, video, and conversations that are thoughtful, generative, experimental, and relatable to a variety of readers.
Once a pitch is accepted, writers have full and free access to our editors, transcribers, translators, photographers, and illustrators to support the creation and completion of the final piece.
To see what type of articles they publish and other guidelines, visit the link.
Driftwood Press Submissions Open
John Updike once said, “Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.” At Driftwood Press, we are actively searching for artists who care about doing it right, or better. Driftwood Press is a bi-annual literary magazine founded in Tampa, FL in 2013.
As of 2018, we pay our contributors (see guidelines for rates) for each contribution made to our magazine.
At Driftwood Press, we are actively searching for artists who care about doing it right, or better. We are excited to receive your submissions and will diligently work to bring you the best in full poetry collections, novellas, graphic novels, short fiction, poetry, graphic narrative, photography, art, interviews, and contests.]
Visit their website for more information and to submit your work.
Extinction Rebellion Creative Hub Open for Submissions
Welcome to the Extinction Rebellion Creative Hub: an anthology of songs, fiction and poetry that’s inspiring, meaningful and original, and that reflects the principles, concerns and values of the Extinction Rebellion from a global, regional or local perspective.
This collection is a voice and a resource for Extinction Rebellion members everywhere, and a contribution to the global XR profile in the wider world.
Find out more and submit your work.
blankcoverpress.com
Submissions open in all genres!
For submissions, email: submissions@blankcoverpress.com
https://blankcoverpress.com
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: A Force Outside Myself: Citizens Over 60 Speak
Deadline: Rolling
If you are 60 or older, we’re interested in your thoughts right now and hope you can write a short first-person narrative. (100-500 words) Send entries to Kitania Folk at aforce@mcsweeneys.net and watch our site for ongoing updates.
Awakenings Review Seeks Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Photography, and Art
Established in 2000, The Awakenings Review is an annual lit mag committed to publishing poetry, short story, nonfiction, photography, and art by writers, poets and artists who have a relationship with mental illness: either self, family member, or friend. Our striking hardcopy publication is one of the nation’s leading journals of this genre. Creative endeavors and mental illness have long had a close association. The Awakenings Review publishes works derived from artists’, writers’, and poets’ experiences with mental illness, though mental illness need not be the subject of your work. Visit www.AwakeningsProject.org for submission guidelines.
Hip Mama magazine is looking for unique, creative, strong, edgy, alternative parenting stories for upcoming issues.
Check out the magazine here.
Send submissions to: hipsubmissions@gmail.com
Complete Guide to 2021 Artist Grants & Opportunities
A list of the top international open calls, residencies, fellowships, and awards that we believe will benefit artists during the upcoming year! The complete list is broken down into six categories: grants, residencies & fellowships, calls-for-entry, publications, COVID relief funds, and opportunity sites.
This list will be updated throughout the year, so make sure to bookmark the page, check back often. View the list.
Poets & Writers: New Writing Contest Deadlines!
For information regarding writing contests and deadlines:Go Here
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