30+ Paid Open Calls for Writers (and Artists) to apply to this July!

This list has something for everyone! This month you'll find calls for speculative fiction, romantic fantasy, chapbooks on illness, works of poetry and prose as well as grants and residencies!

Hey everyone,

I hope you find something that speaks to you below! 

Before you go, we have a upcoming community event geared towards assisting you with your writing + submissions. Thanks for your support — your shares, and subscriptions make it possible to continue to pour into this community.

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This month while scrolling notes I came across a post by

Sasadya Jayde

— the founder of The Gathering

“Black Studies was never meant to live inside higher institutions. The Gathering is a dedicated space to bring the study of Black life back to the community for the purpose of educating and empowering through book club, essays, and workshops!”

Beginning on July 17th, Sasadya will also be hosting Poetry is not a luxury ,a 5-week workshop reading, discussing, and writing about Audre Lorde's most necessary and profound teachings. You can find a donation based ticket link here

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ALSO - I WANT TO HIGHLIGHT YOUR WORK!!!

I came across a stunning piece via notes (I hope you’re posting your work there) but I didn’t receive a response on if I could include it in this months newsletter. 

That being said, if you have a piece of work that you’re proud of please share it below in the comments. I encourage you to include more than just a link. What moves you? What will we find in the world you’ve created? 

Until next time!

- Kanika

Speculative Literature Foundation

The Diverse Worlds Grant

Intended for work that best presents a diverse world, regardless of the writer’s background.

Note: The submitted project must be a book-length work of speculative fiction. This grant is designed to foster new, in-progress work, not to recognize already published work. We intend that grant funds will facilitate completing the work.

Compensation: 500 USD

Submissions Due: July 31st

Info + Submissions: HERE

Tractor Beam

Tractor Beam is a quarterly speculative and science fiction publication dedicated to soilpunk: radical visions of hopeful futures on Earth.

Seeking: original written and graphic works for Issue 3, that have actionable soil-based technologies as their premise. We prefer stories under 6,000 words or graphic novellas at 16 panels.

• For our upcoming issues, we’re specifically seeking stories celebrating decay and rot, ice and snow (the frozen earth), the ocean and soil under water, fashion and style, soil as tech, soil as the origin of life and anti-apocalyptic futures. Literal or abstract, near term or on distant horizons: worlds can take inspiration from innovations or alternative practices in earth and material science, regenerative agriculture, food, microbiology, and more.

  *** Pitches and pencils (sketches) are welcome.***

Compensation: 1,000 USD

Submissions Due: July 21st

Info + Submissions: HERE

Notch Magazine

For this issue we’d like to invite you to consider currents.

Currents in rivers are shaped by the depth of the water and the obstacles it meets in its path. Currents, vertical and horizontal, are also present in oceans; influenced by planetary rotations and variable water density. Wind itself is an air current—jet streams and breezes sweep along as temperature changes and pressure recalibrates.

Considerations: 

We accept all mediums–from operatic scores to tattoos to sonnets.

For writing: Pieces up to 1500 words are preferred. Longer work is considered on occasion. Works in translation are welcome.

For the visual & sonic: Please send a high resolution image, audio file, or link to your art. Artist statement optional.

Compensation: Paid (unstated) + Publication

Submissions Due: July 7th

Submit to: email your work and a brief bio to submissions@notch.ink

Merganser Magazine

Merganser Magazine is a free online literary magazine, featuring a variety of prose and poetry.

Seeking: Writers and artists whose work transcends disciplines and genres.

• No hard editorial guidelines. We're eager to find strong, well-written pieces across a wide range of material. That said, our business model prioritizes shorter works, as well as those which are suitable for online reading (avoid long paragraphs). Anything longer than 2,000 words is likely a hard sell.

Compensation: For prose, $0.08 USD per word. For poetry,$1 USD per line.

Submissions Due: Unstated, but currently open to submissions.

Info + Submissions: HERE

Art Critic Mentorship Program (ACMP)

Pairing emerging writers with art critic mentors to produce original long-form critical essays about the work of artists exhibiting at CUE's gallery space.

• The program is open to writers of any age and educational background in the early stages of their careers.

Guidelines: 

• Have a demonstrated art and/or critical writing practice and an interest in contemporary art

• Have not published a book or are not currently under contract for a book with a large commercial publisher (self-published books, short chapbooks, and publications by small or independent printers are acceptable)

Note: Please check listing for full eligibility requirements

Compensation: An honorarium of $600 +  editorial support from their mentor and CUE’s staff 

+ Essays commissioned through the program are published by CUE in print exhibition catalogues distributed at the gallery for each exhibition and are also made available and promoted online on CUE’s website and social media.

Submissions: Accepting of a Rolling Basis

Info + Submissions: HERE

Amazing Stories

Tales of Galactic Pest Control, a new Anthology

We’re seeking original short stories that explore the theme of pest control in creative, unexpected, and engaging ways. However, don’t be misled by the title—this is not a shared-universe project, nor does your story have to be set in space or on an alien world. Your tale can take place anywhere—on a starship, in a medieval village, deep in the jungle, or even within the microcosm of a single human body. The crucial element is the struggle against some form of infestation, nuisance, or destructive force.

Compensation: 100 USD

Submissions Due: Unstated (but it’s still listed as open for publication late 2025 / early 2026

Info + Submissions: HERE

The Lemonwood Quarterly

Seeking the best English language short stories and plays for the Summer 2025 Issue.

We especially seek out stories with female protagonists who are well into adulthood. There’s no minimum age requirement, but if your protagonist is not at least over thirty years old or so, it could be difficult for them to carry forward the type of stories we aim to publish. 

We definitely are not looking for coming-of-age stories. We are excited to showcase stories with protagonists who have already passed through those earlier milestones or hurdles and are at a different point in their life.

Compensation: 200 USD + Magazine Publishing with the opportunity to submit an updated bio, a photo, and any links to your social media. 

+ All stories published by us in the calendar year are automatically entered for consideration for the $1000 Charlotte Ann Porter Prize for Fiction.

+ All dramatic pieces published in The Lemonwood Quarterly in a given calendar year are automatically entered in the running for the $500 Hononegah Mack Prize for the Best Play.

+ We will nominate as many pieces as we can to annual literary prizes such as The Pushcart Prize, The O. Henry Award and The Best American Short Stories.

Submissions Due: July 14th

Info + Submissions: HERE

Barely South Review

Non-Fiction Writing Contest

We invite all creative non-fiction that is previously unpublished, original, and under 5,000 words.

Compensation: 300 USD + Publication with Barely South Review

Submissions Due: July 30th

Info + Submissions: HERE

Note: There is a $3 submissions fee

Flame Tree Publishing

Seeking: Romantic Fantasy Short Stories for their new Anthologies A Breath of Time and Of Love & Dragons 

We're looking for tales featuring strong-willed, independent leads who are resilient, perhaps flawed or possess hidden powers, secrets or royal bloodlines. Such protagonists would not be defined solely by their love interests but grow through emotionally charged journeys.

A Breath of Time

Lost loves, love discovered, love unreachable unless Time itself is conquered, these and many other time-bending, time traveling, time feasting themes can spark your imagination for stories of alternate history, of ancient forests returning to haunt the present and great adventures through dreams and timeless mountain tops, all with hearts beating to the rhythm of romance. Let's see where your stories take us!

Of Love & Dragons

Dragons may be fierce but they are symbols of great power, and the bond between human and dragon, once forged can never be broken. Or can it? Can romance deal a deathly trail of vows abandoned, or forgotten, can realms beyond our time conjure tales of Dragon Lords and warrior princesses, of great rivalries and oceans yearning with desire and determination, can you tempt the ancient ways into new meanings, and new stories.

Compensation: We pay Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) rates of 8 cents/6 pence per word for original stories, 6 cents/4 pence for reprints.

Submissions Due: July 20th

Info + Submissions: HERE

Faoileánach Journal (via )

Melanie Cole

Seeking: Poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction, and nonfiction

Theme: Place

Wherever you are sitting right now is place. Whenever you step outside your door is place. Place can be a trip to Italy or an errand to Trader Joe’s. Place can be a spot in your community or your heritage and family history, Place can be in the arms of a lover or scratching the back of a cat,

Place might be where you rest your head at night. Conversely, it may be fighting for the right of everyone to have a safe place to do so, too.

Tell us: what, where, or who is your place?

Compensation: Online Publication

Submissions Due: August 1st

Info + Submissions: HERE

Filling Station

Issue: 85 - Companionship

Seeking: previously unpublished poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, and visual art.

This one is for our friends; for our partners, spouses, lovers; for our families (by both blood and choice); for our pets; and maybe even for our sworn enemies and people we made eye contact with on the bus. Amidst the ambient siren song of alienation which in many ways defines our current moment, we yearn for mutual care and support—for ragged harmonies.

Compensation: Publication + Awards Nominations

Submissions Due: July 18th

Info + Submissions: HERE

Elastic Mag

Seeking Submissions for Vol.2 interspecies

Elastic is a print magazine of psychedelic art and literature.

We welcome work that explores connections—intimate, hostile, symbiotic, psychic—between humans, animals, plants, fungi, and other lifeforms. And we encourage broad, speculative, slippery interpretations of “species”: think mermaids, microbes, extinct things, imagined hybrids, bodies of water, mountains and desertscapes, imperceptibles or the great unknown.

Compensation: Print Publication

Submissions Due: July 31st

More Info : HERE

Submit To: submissions@elasticmag.com

Delaware Division of the Arts

Individual Artist Fellowships

Seeking: Creative artists working in the visual, performing, media, folk, and literary arts in Delaware.

Fellowships are designed to enable recipients to purchase equipment and materials, allocate working time, or fulfill other needs that will allow them to advance their careers.

Compensation: $5,000 for Emerging; $8,000 for Established; and $12,000 for Masters.

Submissions Due: August 1st

Info + Submissions: HERE

The Granum Foundation Prize

Awarded annually to help writers complete substantive literary works—such as poetry books, essay or short story collections, novels, and memoirs—or to help launch these works.

• Competitive applicants will be able to present a compelling project with a reasonable timeline for completion. They also should be able to demonstrate a record of commitment to the literary arts.

Compensation: $5,000, Up to three finalists will be awarded $500 or more.

Submissions Due: August 1 at 11:59 pm Pacific Time

Info + Submissions: HERE

The Granum Foundation Translation Prize

Awarded to support the completion of a work translated into English by a U.S.-based writer.

Compensation: 1,500 or More

Submissions Due: August 1 at 11:59 pm Pacific Time

Info + Submissions: HERE

The Writing Barn

The Writing Barn has a small but budding scholarship program available for their programming.

Scholarships are awarded on the following criteria:

• Seriousness of purpose: A brief questionnaire asks about the time and effort you devote to your craft.

• Talent: A writing sample speaks to your talent.

• Financial need: As a follow-up to the initial application, we may be in contact asking for details about your financial need.

• We also offer specific Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity scholarships for B.I.P.O.C, LGBTQIA+, Neurodiverse writers, and writers with disabilities.

Submissions Due: On a Rolling Basis

Info + Submissions: HERE

Speculative Literature Foundation

The Diverse Writers Grant

To support speculative fiction writers from underrepresented and underprivileged groups — such as writers of color, women, queer writers, disabled writers, etc. — whose marginalized identities may present additional obstacles in the writing and publishing process.

• Your project does not need to center on identity issues. We also do not expect or want work that simply attempts to check off all the boxes in a tokenistic way, but rather are looking for writing that offers deep characterization, complex cultural landscapes, and strong literary quality overall.

Note: The submitted project must be a book-length work of speculative fiction. This grant is designed to foster new, in-progress work, not to recognize already published work. We intend that grant funds will facilitate completing the work.

Compensation: 500 USD

Submissions Due: July 31st

Info + Submissions: HERE

Women’s Studio Workshop

Artist Book Residency Grant

Note: WSW supports all women and trans, intersex, nonbinary and genderfluid people in residencies and internships.**

An eight- to ten-week residency for artists to produce a limited edition book work. Working intensively in our studios, artists print and bind their own books, and are encouraged to create an edition size no larger than 100 and no smaller than 50.

Compensation: a stipend of $350/week, up to $1000 for materials, up to $250 for travel within the Continental US, free onsite housing, and 24/7 studio access. WSW can provide technical advice; training on new equipment, techniques, and materials; and production assistance.

Submissions Due: July 15th

Info + Submissions: HERE

Splinter Journal

Submit to the First Nations Issue

Whether you’re Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander, Māori, Sámi or belong to another first peoples community, we want to hear your voice.

Give us the stories that sit in your body. The ones passed down. The ones that keep you up at night. The ones you’re still trying to understand.

We’re interested in the fractures and the fight, the moments of stillness, the ridiculous. What does it mean to carry culture, to carry knowledge in a world that wants us to forget? What does survival feel like today — and what does joy look like in the cracks?

Compensation: 

• Profiles - $900 AUD / 585 USD

• Essays - $900 / 585 USD

• Memoir - $600 / 390 USD

• Criticism - $700 / 455 USD

• Fiction - $900 / 585 USD

• Poetry - $250/poem / 162 USD

• Poetry collection - $450/collection / 292 USD

• Writing about writing - $500 / 325 USD

• Experimental work - Paid (rates dependent on the nature of the work)

Submissions Due: Aug 3rd

Info + Submissions: HERE

Simon & Schuster

Books Like Us — First Novel Contest

The aim of the contest is to facilitate access to the publishing process for writers from underrepresented groups, and to celebrate the diversity of readers across the United States.

• Writers are invited and encouraged to submit twenty-five pages of an original adult novel. The publisher welcomes inclusive, entertaining, and groundbreaking reads with expert pacing, depth as well as heart, and irresistible characters who leap from the page

Compensation: The winner will be awarded the opportunity to enter into a $50,000 book deal with Avid Reader Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, LLC 

+ The winner will be provided a list of literary agents who have expressed interest in representation to choose from. The winner is also welcome to search for an agent on their own. Our intention is to allow the winner the option of signing with an agent of their choice.

** NOTE: Open to residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia.

Submission Due: July 14th

Info + Submissions: HERE

The Dodge Magazine

Return to Roots: Writing Toward Land—A special teaching issue on Palestine and the Global Indigenous Struggle

For Palestinians, as well as any Indigenous peoples forcibly (re)moved, land is not merely territory—it is the vessel of generational memory, holistic connectedness in which the people and their earth are one and in the same, and collective, deeply rich and rooted identity. It is this immense and unmeasurable loss of stolen land that keeps generations grounded in their pursuit of justice, in their reclamation of a mystical inheritance.

• This issue welcomes submissions exploring returns, roots, and land largely writ—be it physical, imagined, occupied, liberated, or in any possible condition which art and literature may make possible. This is a teaching issue across genres and languages committed to creating conversations around the curated works to enliven their mediums, extend their afterlife, as well as generate fruitful conversation toward solidarity.

We welcome submissions from Arab and Indigenous writers, artists, and educators in solidarity with Palestine in the following genres:

• Poetry

• Fiction

• Creative Nonfiction

• Visual Art

• Translation

• Craft & Teaching Materials on Palestine and Indigenous Resistance

Compensation: Publishing in Quarterly Issue

Submissions Due: July 31st

Info + Submissions: HERE

Anmly

Call for Work: Autistic Protest Poetry

Autistic people’s rights are being threatened. Our worth is being questioned. And suddenly, we’re facing a bizarre accusation that an autistic child will never grow up to write a poem.

This call for work seeks poetry by autistic writers that is socially-engaged, politically-charged, and geared toward raising our voices together against oppression and erasure.

Compensation: Publishing October 2025

Submissions Due: July 1st

Submit To: editor@anomalouspress.org 

Please include a brief bio.

Info: HERE

Sundress Publications

Microgrant for Trans Writers

Seeking: A chapbook or full-length book in progress. Applicants may apply for any genre.

Compensation: $500 + a one-week residency at the Sundress Academy for the Arts in Knoxville, TN, + the potential for publication 

To Apply: Please send a sample of the work in progress (up to 15 pages) along with a brief (no more than 500 words) artist/personal statement about what this grant would mean to the completion of said work.

Submissions Due: July 15th

Info + Submissions: HERE

Retreat for Survival and Healing

For survivors of se*ual assault

This two-day retreat will be held at The Birdhouse in Knoxville, TN and will be a safe space for creativity, generative writing exercises, discussions on ways to write trauma, advice on publishing, and more.

Session topics include the following:

• Accessing and Exploring the Inner Child

• Declarations of Existence

• Writing the Hard Stuff: A Focus on the Fragment, Memory and Self-Care

• Magic and Trauma Through the Lens of Culture and Lore

• Journaling for Pleasure, Journaling for Reclamation

The weekend event runs October 4 - 5th, from 10AM on Saturday through 4PM on Sunday and includes group instruction, a reading by workshop leaders, an open mic, writing supplies, and meals. 

• Writers will need to provide their own overnight accommodations and ground transportation.

Note: They will require a small, refundable deposit to hold your space.

Info + Registration: HERE

New Orleans Review

Welcoming submissions from Palestinian writers and artists (and the diaspora) from around the world for the Songs of the Sunbirds Column.

Please know that we are not interested only in stories about suffering, but a variety of stories–whatever you want to submit. We don’t want to box any writers or artists in. 

Include a short bio with your submission and state your genre, please!

Feel free to submit;

1. Creative Nonfiction Essay (maximum 1500 words)

2. Nonfiction, Opinion Piece (maximum 1500 words)

3. Poetry (please submit up to three poems at a time, in one document)

4. Art (please submit one image at a time)

5. Video (please submit one at a time, under five minutes)

6. Letters (please provide as an image)

7. Video (please submit only one video at a time, and this would include videos of spoken word poetry)

8. Visual Essay (maximum five images and 1500 words--this category is for those writing essays that include images)

9. Recipes (you may include one recipe per submission)

Compensation: $300 per piece for prose (fiction and essays), $100 for other genres

Submissions Due: On a Rolling Basis

Info + Submissions: HERE

New Orleans Review

Seeking poetry and prose from refugees living anywhere in the world. 

Please submit your Prose (less then 5,000 words) + Poetry (up to 3 poems)

• Please also include a short bio in your submission.

Compensation: $300 per piece for prose (fiction and essays), $100 for other genres

Submissions Due: On a Rolling Basis

Submissions: HERE

The Saartjie Journal

We accept original poems, short stories, visual art and hybrid pieces by black women artists and writers. Black nonbinary people who identify with womanhood are welcome to submit.

• We celebrate fiction, poetry, visual art and hybrid pieces which center all dimensions of black womanhood, from the personal to the political, championing both art as activism and art for art’s sake.

Compensation: Publishing + All pieces are considered for nomination for literary awards such as the Pushcart Prize and the Best of the Net Anthology.

Submissions Due: On a Rolling Basis

Info + Submissions: HERE

Saffron City Press

An online magazine dedicated to amplifying the voices of Middle Eastern and Middle Eastern-American writers and artists.

• We accept multiple submissions and previously published work.

Accepting;

Poetry, Flash Fiction, Short Stories, Creative Nonfiction, Review, Visual Art, Music, Short Film

Compensation: Online Publishing

Submissions Due: On a Rolling Basis

Info + Submissions: HERE

FSG Writer’s Fellowship

Seeking: Emerging writers from an underrepresented community

This program is designed to provide additional resources to build a life around writing: funding, editorial guidance, and advice on how to forge a writing career.

Note: The applicant must not have published a book-length work in any genre, have a book under contract, or be negotiating a contract either in the United States or abroad by the time the fellowship begins. Having published short poetry chapbooks will not exclude an applicant from eligibility.

Compensation: $15,000 USD

Plus:

• Mentorship with an FSG house author

• Guidance from two in-house editors, who will offer line and structural feedback on the fellow’s work throughout the year

• Opportunities for meet-and-greets with representatives from other departments – including Publicity/Marketing, Art, Subsidiary Rights, and Managing Editorial – to discuss their areas of expertise, answer questions, and help build a broader understanding of the publishing business

• Support with networking beyond FSG

The Fellow and finalists will receive a collection of FSG classics.

Submissions Due: July 18th

Info + Submissions: HERE

Arcanum Magazine

Arcanum Magazine is a digital and print magazine for creative writing, visual art, cultural criticism, and journalism by and for the Black diaspora.

They are accepting: fiction, nonfiction, short stories, poetry, , personal essays and visual art

+ op-eds of any kind (pop culture/political/humor etc.), interviews, thought pieces, essays (preferably non-academic), reviews (books, movies, albums etc.), and current events.

Compensation: Paid (amount unstated) + Publishing 

Submissions Due: On a rolling basis

Info + Submissions: HERE

Torch Literary Arts

Welcoming submissions of original creative work by Black women writers for their Friday Features

Seeking: fiction, hybrid works, poetry, and drama (including that accompanied by video or dramatic audio).

Compensation: 150 USD + Publication

Submissions Due: On a rolling basis

Info + Submissions: HERE

A Long House

CHRONIC - A Chapbook on Living with Illness

This is a call to the chronically ill—the sick, the disabled, the weary, the ones surviving in bodies that are dismissed and disappeared. We are looking for writing that refuses erasure—work that is raw, tender, furious, exhausted, joyful, inconvenient, alive.

We seek poems, essays, fragments, and reflections about what it means to live in a body that does not “get better.” This chapbook is grounded in the belief that sickness is political.

• Chronic is not looking for stories of overcoming. This is not a call for inspiration porn or sanitized suffering. We are not interested in redemption arcs or recovery stories meant to comfort the able-bodied gaze. We want the mess. The rage. The long nights. The appointments that led nowhere. The systems that harmed you. The dreams that keep you going. The truths that are hard to name. The lives lived in pain, love, and complexity. The stories that live in the waiting rooms, in the pills, in the daily negotiations with your own body.

  Compensation: 50 USD

  Submissions Due: July 15th

  Info + Submissions: HERE

Plenitude - Your Queer Literary Magazine

Accepting Fiction, Creative Nonfiction and Genre Benders* from Canadian Writers.

• This includes Canadian citizens living in Canada or abroad; those who identify as Indigenous; and/or residents of Canada (temporary residents or refugees).

* Gender Benders - hybrid works that don't fit into standard categories of poetry, fiction, or nonfiction. We're seeking new and exciting pieces that blur the lines between categories: literary blends of two or all three standard genres; cut-and-paste flash fiction; found poems from legal documents; erasure; conversations; collage text; you name it!

Compensation: 125 CAD (short stories), 100 CAD (genre benders)

Submissions Due: Accepted on Rolling Basis 

+ (Each genre has a monthly submission cap. If the genre you wish to enter is not listed, please try again at the start of next month to submit.

Info + Submissions: HERE

Richard J. Margolis Award

For nonfiction writers of social-justice journalism

• The award is designed to help developing journalists make progress on non-fiction writing projects that reflect important social values.

• Submitted samples should all be non-fiction pieces that give a clear indication of the applicant's ability to write well and apply journalistic skills effectively.

Compensation: $5,000 + residency at Blue Mountain Centre artists’ colony; $1,000 for runners-up.

Submissions Due: July 1st

​Submit To: All materials may be emailed as PDF files (preferred!) to award@margolis.com.

Please name all files starting with your last name (e.g., Smith-cover letter+description.pdf, Smith-writing sample.pdf, etc.).

Info: HERE

Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival

Seeking: Original works of fiction by Caribbean-American (US + Canada) writers

Eligibility:

• All entrants must be of Caribbean heritage/of Caribbean descent

• Be a resident of the United States/Canada

• Be over the age of 18 years

• Self-published writers may apply

• 3,000 words or less

Compensation: A $1,750 US cash prize, BCLF Trophy, A membership and gift certificate to Center for Fiction

+ A caché of books courtesy Akashic Books, a feature episode on the acclaimed BCLF Cocoapod, an Author interview and profile on the Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival website

+ BCLF branded merchandise and the winner will be published in PREE + Carib News

Submissions Due: July 1st, 11:59 EST

Info + Submissions: HERE

Blessing and Boats Selections

Spotlights poetry collections by women of color

• named after Lucille Clifton’s National Book Award-winning collection, Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems (BOA, 2000), in honor and celebration of her enduring legacy. Lucille Clifton's writings of Black life and Black female life have shaped a sense of what is possible for so many.

Submit you manuscripts: Minimum of 65 pages of poetry (not including Table of Contents, Acknowledgments, etc.), and maximum of 120 pages of poetry.

(Please check full requirements)

Compensation: 2,500 Honorarium + Book publication by BOA Editions, Ltd. in Fall 2027

Submissions Due: July 14th

Info + Submissions: HERE

Singapore Unbound

Gaudy Boy Open Call for Novel Manuscripts

A New York City -based independent press that publishes poetry, fiction, and non-fiction by extraordinary Asian voices, is open to submissions of unpublished adult novels by authors of Asian heritage residing anywhere in the world.

Compensation: Each author will receive book publication and an advance of USD 1,500.

To Submit: Send the first 30 pages of your novel manuscript and a cover letter to our Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, Jee Leong Koh, at jkoh@singaporeunbound.org.

Submissions Due: July 31st

Info: HERE

Stony Brook University

Undergraduate Short Fiction Prize

Eligibility: Undergraduates enrolled full time in United States and Canadian universities and colleges for the 2024-2025 academic year.

Compensation: $1,000 and a scholarship to the 2025 Southampton Writers Conference Additionally, the winning story will automatically be considered for publication in TSR: The Southampton Review.

Submissions Due: July 14th

Info + Submissions: HERE

Green Linden Press

The Essential Voices Editorial Fellowship

Gives an editor the resources and assistance to bring an anthology into the world. Green Linden Press intends to tailor the Fellowship to the editor of the selected project: so previous editorial experience is not required, and those with editorial experience are encouraged to apply.

• The Essential Voices Anthology Series has at its heart the ancient idea that poetry can reveal our shared humanity. It intends to make less insular the various poetries of the world and to correct misrepresentations and misunderstandings in the broader culture. In other words, to go where the silence is and let the poets speak. We believe that a good anthology not only captures the zeitgeist, it can help shape it.

Compensation: 2500 USD

Submissions Due: July 1st

Info + Submissions: HERE

Leeway Organization (Philadelphia)

Art and Change Grant

Providing grants to fund art for social change projects by women, trans*, and/or gender nonconforming artists and cultural producers.

** Creating social change must be integral to the ideas, beliefs, and goals that are woven throughout your art and your process of creating and sharing your art. **

Note: They offer help with applications » for a one-on-one appointment contact via info@leeway.org or 215.545.4078

Compensation: Based on application

Submissions Due: August 1st

Info + Submissions: HERE

Riddle Fence Publishing Inc ( Canada Based)

Fiction, Poetry and Visual Art Contest

Guidelines:

• One short-fiction submission is one story, maximum 5000 words

• One poetry submission is up to 3 poems; no more than 100 lines per poem

• One visual art submission is one piece of artwork.

• For visual art submissions, please also include any necessary information about the work in a separate file (medium, materials, etc.)

Note: There is an entry fee of $29, this fee is waved for BIPOC

Compensation: $1000 GRAND PRIZE + Winners and honourable mentions will be published in Riddle Fence #56.

Submissions Due: July 1st

Info + Submissions: HERE