Hello writer friends,
We’re thrilled to be sending out our very first mini newsletter. The hope is that this community makes the process of getting your work published a little easier. That way, you can focus on what you love, and get paid for doing it.
August 1st will be the newsletters official launch—be sure to become a subscriber so you don’t miss out on all of the funding and paid publication opportunities!
About the newsletter
Every 1st of the month, you’ll receive a list of paid writing opportunities. This will include; magazines, anthologies, literary journals, contests as well as funding opportunities via arts foundations and organizations as well as job postings.
Get your project funded
The vision for this community is to have a portion of every paid subscription (5.00/ month) going towards the writers fund where every 15th-21st of the month, you will be able to submit your project. Selected projects will be announced and paid out the following 1st of the month.
Now onto the paid opportunities, scholarships + funding for our July Mini List!
please note: We would love feedback on the types of opportunities you’d like to see. Let us know in the comments! There are tons of funding opps coming up in the next months- so keep an eye out for our next newsletter on August 1st!
INTERNATIONAL ENTRIES ACCEPTED
Speculative Literature Foundation
The Diverse Worlds Grant
The Diverse Worlds grant is intended for work that best presents a diverse world, regardless of the writer’s background.
Pay: $500 USD
Submission Due: July 31st
https://speculativeliterature.org/grants-3/slf-diverse-writers-and-diverse-worlds-grants/
Speculative Literature Foundation
The Diverse Writers Grant
Intended 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.
Pay: $500 USD
Submission Due July 31st
https://speculativeliterature.org/grants-3/slf-diverse-writers-and-diverse-worlds-grants/
About Her Culture (For African and Caribbean Women )
Micro Grant Applications Now Open for (entrepreneurs, creatives + non profit founders)
Our micro grants aim to empower African and Caribbean women around the world for social and economic development.
Submission Due: Taking applications every month til 2025
Pay: $500 USD
https://aboutherculture.com/micro-grant-opportunities/
THE AWESOME FOUNDATION
The Awesome Foundation is a global community advancing the interest of awesome in the universe, $1000 at a time.
Get funding for your project https://www.awesomefoundation.org/en/submissions/new
ReIssue
ReIssue is an interdisciplinary art writing platform focused on shaping and sustaining a contemporary west coast discourse rooted in critical engagement with experimental art practices. Our mission is to nurture interdisciplinary engagement through written work that critically responds to and advances the understanding, appreciation, and dissemination of art in its many forms.
Accepting pitches for any of these sections:
Reviews 600-1000 words
Creative, varies up to 3000 words
Interviews, 800-2000 words
Essays,1000-3000 words
Moving Image, 800-1500 words
Pay (in USD):
Reviews up to 1000 words $350
Fiction/Prose and Essays: 75 cents per word, up to $500 Interviews: Interviewer paid $300 + Interviewee $100 Honorarium
Poetry: $100 per poem, up to 3 poems, or $50 per page, up to $300 for poems longer than 1 page
Plays/Scripts/Screenplay: $50 per page, up to $400
Submission Guide:
https://reissue.pub/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/20231130-ReIssue-Submission-Guide-final.pdf
AuthorMag
We are looking for articles about publishing, self-publishing, selling books, and author marketing. We like articles related to personal experiences especially if you can share detailed strategies, case studies, and numbers.
Pay:
Unlisted but published articles are paid out within 10 days via PayPal
https://www.authormag.com/paying-market/
NER DIGITAL
Accepting submissions in fiction, poetry, nonfiction, dramatic writing, and translation in all genres.
PAY:
work published in the journal is $20 per page ($50 minimum), plus two copies of the issue in which the work appears and a one-year subscription to the print or e-book edition.
online publication $50 and a one-year subscription to the magazine.
Entry Fees for Poets
This group pays entry fees for poets attempting to submit their manuscripts to publishers that charge to submit. Submission fees for poetry chapbooks and full-length poetry manuscripts only. A maximum of three submissions per poet.
https://www.poetrybulletin.com/poetry-fee-support
ATMOS
If you are interested in pitching specifically for print, you may inquire as to the theme of the current issue. The ideal Atmos story exists at the intersection of climate and culture. That can mean a culture story with a climate twist, a climate story with a culture twist, or something directly in between.
Pay: 50c per word
Editorial Guidelines: https://brindle-caraway-75e.notion.site/0c1688d8986644a98cd3118dfb069c8e?v=4bc2293983224e41b0a906b2e2fd8010
Co-Prosperity Open Call for 2025 Window Exhibitions
“Co-Prosperity Peers” solo exhibition series was designed to provide opportunities for emerging artists to have their first one-person shows in Chicago.
Submission Due: July 8th
Pay: $1000 USD
https://app.publicmediainstitute.com/PMI/window-app-25/
Also - Co-Prosperity commissions writers to produce responses that document/review/analyze/discuss/talk about their experiences at exhibitions.
If interested in being added to their Writer’s Bank, please email the following to ahniya@publicmediainstitute.com
Full Name
Website
Links to 3-5 writing samples
Pay: 225 USD
https://coprosperity.org/writers-bank
Only Poems
Takes poem submission all year long
Pay: 55 USD per contribution
https://www.onlypoems.net/submit
Blue Dot Living
Seeking great solutions-focused climate stories to share about what’s happening in your community.
Pay: $175USD
for reporting about a specific project/initiative in a community- this should be 400-800 words. Features are from 800-1,500 words with compensation of $400-$750 depending on complexity/writer’s experience.
Submit to Leslie leslie@bluedotliving.com
U.S BASED OPPORTUNITIES
WRITERS AID INITIATIVE
The U.S. Writers Aid Initiative is intended to assist fiction and nonfiction authors, poets, playwrights, translators, and journalists in addressing short-term financial emergencies. To be eligible, applicants must be professional writers based in the United States, and be able to demonstrate that this one-time grant will be meaningful in helping address a short-term emergency situation.
Applications Due: July 1, 2024 - October 1, 2024.
https://pen.org/us-writers-aid-initiative/
Dramatists Guild Foundation
A national charity that fuels the future of American theater by supporting the writers who create it. DGF fosters playwrights, composers, lyricists, and book writers at all stages of their careers
We sponsor educational programs; provide awards, grants, and stipends; offer free space to create new works; and give emergency aid to writers in need
Pay: Up to 20,000
https://dramatistsguildfoundation.submittable.com/submit
The Onion
Job Opportunity for Writers & Creators, Chicago Illinois
Seeking talented writers and creators to join The Onion Writing Fellowship. The Fellowship is a six-month-long intensive and esteemed program beginning Late August that has produced the majority of The Onion’s current writers and numerous former writers and editors. This is a full-time, in-office position.
Pay:
$35,000, paid on a semi-monthly payroll schedule (or the equivalent to $70,000 per year). Full eligibility for our benefits offering, including Medical, Vision, Dental, Disability, and Life Insurance. (We fully cover the cost of our base medical insurance for the employee.) We also offer Unlimited PTO, in consultation with your Manager. There are two fellowship positions available this session.
Application Deadline: July 15, 2024
https://jobs.gusto.com/postings/the-onion-the-onion-fellowship-49bc77b7-6c97-42b2-a5e4-49c7900f25ed
Dramatists Guild Foundation
Part Time Job Opportunity
seeks a self-motivated and efficient professional to help support the writing spaces.
Location: 520 8th Ave, Suite 2401, New York, NY 10018. The DGF Office is ADA accessible.
Salary: $25/per hour
(available to work evenings and weekends is a must)
https://dramatistsguildfoundation.submittable.com/submit
Artist Fellowship program for the New Jersey State Council of the Arts
Artists must be permanent residents of the State of New Jersey.
The support the following written Arts
Playwriting/Screenwriting
Poetry
Application Due Tuesday, July 16, 2024 at 5PM ET
Pay: Past awards have ranged from $4,000 – $32,000
https://www.midatlanticarts.org/opportunity/new-jersey-state-arts-fellowships/
Opportunity for Writers Born in Africa
The Miles Morland Foundation Writing Scholarship
African Writer (Born in Africa or w/parents born in Africa)
Fiction + Non-Fiction
Dates: Applications will be received between 1st July 2024 and 20th September 2024.
Pay:
Scholars will receive a grant of £18,000, paid monthly over the course of twelve months. At the discretion of the Foundation, Scholars writing non-fiction, who require additional research time, could receive an additional grant, paid over a period of up to eighteen months.
https://milesmorlandfoundation.com/entry-requirements/
Opportunities for UK Based Writers
Curtis Brown Creative
This scholarship, sponsored by HW Fisher, will award one talented writer of limited financial means a free place in their three-month ‘Writing Your Novel’ course with teaching in London.
Applications Due Aug 4, 2024 This includes 3000 words of your novel + 1 page synopsis, and application, including financial information
The White Pube Creatives Grant
The White Pube Creatives Grant is a one-off grant to be given out to a different working class creative practitioner based in the UK once every month. This grant has been set up to support creatives of all ages who are early in their careers and would benefit from this no-strings attached financial support to help them in whatever they like – be that money to cover time to make, or fund materials, equipment, research, subscriptions, development, travel, or even rent and bills.
Pay: £500
https://thewhitepube.co.uk/grants/
Opportunity for Canada Based Writers
Alberta Foundation for the Arts
Open to all disciplines
Art for Social Change is a pilot program that uses conceptual art to provide powerful experiences that inspire people to take personal action to create positive change for
those facing barriers due to lack of accessibility, inclusion, and other oppressive systems and structures.
Pay: Up to 10,000
https://www.affta.ab.ca/news/call-artist-art-social-change
ACCEPTING MANUSCRIPTS (No sub fee)
Europe Books
Evaluates unpublished manuscripts for international publication and distribution.
They evaluate poetry, fiction, non-fiction, children’s fiction, biographies, degree theses. There are no thematic limits.The minimum length of submitted works must be 40 pages (72,000 characters in total); a minimum of 25 poems should be sent for poetry. There is no limit for the maximum length.
Submissions Due: July 27th
Dancing Girl Press
They accept manuscripts from women poets for publication in their annual chapbook series. They plan to publish a varying number of chapbooks per year chosen from the best of the manuscripts they receive.
Pay: 10 copies of the chapbook to the authors chosen. They also offer generous discount (40%) on additional copies the author may wish to purchase to sell themselves at readings and events.
Submissions Due: August 31st
https://dulcetshop.myshopify.com/pages/submissions-guidelines-dancing-girl-press-chapbook-series
CONTESTS
Omnidawn Poetry Open Book Contest
They have an entry fee of $25*
Submission Due: August 16, 2024
Prize: $3000 USD
https://www.omnidawn.com/contests/omnidawn-poetry-contests/
The St. Lawrence Book Award
First book competition, poetry and prose
They have an entry fee of $28*
Submission Due: August 31st
Award: $1,000 USD, and ten copies of the book.
https://blacklawrencepress.submittable.com/submit
Unpaid Publishing Opportunities
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Journal publishes Articles and Research Notes. All texts must take works of art in the collection as the point of departure. Articles contribute extensive and thoroughly argued scholarship, whereas Research Notes are often smaller in scope, focusing on a specific aspect of new research or presenting a significant finding from technical analysis. The maximum length for articles is 8,000 words (including endnotes) and 10–12 images, and for research notes 4,000 words with 4–6 images.
Submission Due: September 15
Compensation:
Each author receives two copies of the printed Journal. The Journal appears on the museum's website and on the UCP Metropolitan Museum Journal's homepage
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/met/instruct
West Virginia University Press
A Book Series Dedicated to Coalitional Politics, Interdisciplinarity, Community Building, Participatory Research, and Disruptive Thought
The editors and editorial board seek book-length manuscripts focused on finding interdisciplinary solutions to global injustice, connecting communities of resistance, and forming coalition and solidarity. Borderless is committed to curating a series of innovative, experimental, interdisciplinary titles that center decoloniality and transborder solidarity, that bring to the forefront marginalized voices and knowledges, and that recognize borders as liminal spaces where transformation is possible.
Authors interested in submitting proposals for consideration should contact series editor Lupe Davidson (lupe.davidson@mail.wvu.edu) or Than Saffel (WVUPress@mail.wvu.edu) at West Virginia University Press.
Submission Guidelines: https://wvupressonline.com/series/borderless/submission_guidelines
Submission Due: No date Listed
Compensation: Book Publication
University of Illinois Press
Women, Gender, and Families of Color
(WGFC) is a multidisciplinary journal that centers on the study of Black, Latina, Indigenous, and Asian American women, gender, and families. Within this framework, the journal encourages theoretical and empirical research from history, the social and behavioral sciences, and humanities, including comparative and transnational research, and analyses of domestic social, political, economic, and cultural policies and practices within the United States.
https://www.press.uillinois.edu/journals/?id=wgfc
Submission Date: Ongoing - Issued in Spring and Fall
Compensation: Online Publication
See you August 1st, for our official launch!
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