Opportunities with Rolling Submissions
Opportunities with Rolling Submissions
* FOR THE ARCHIVES*
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The list below will be left in the archives so you can access it anytime. I will update it weekly as I come across rolling opportunities.
***INTERNATIONAL ENTRIES/SUBMISSIONS WELCOMED***
Nina Riggs Poetry Award
Given annually for a single poem that examines relationships, family, or domestic life and was published in a book or magazine in the last three years.
We welcome nominations year-round by postal mail.
Self-nominations are not accepted
Compensation: 1000
Guidelines + Submissions: HERE
Futurefarmers Artist in Residence Program
Futurefarmers Artist in Residence (AIR) program provides opportunities for young artists, designers, writers and architects to unite in the collaborative environment of Futurefarmers studio.
Residencies range from six weeks to six months.
** It’s important to note that this is a live-out residency based in San Francisco, so it may be more accessible for someone already living in the area. Artists are invited to work on paid projects to provide income, but work visa’s are required. They will work with prospective residents to facilitate financial aid.*
Compensation: Usually $500 per month
Information + Submissions: HERE
Prism International
Welcomes review copies of high-quality literary fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, graphic novels, theatre, and chapbooks. We also accept pitches for interviews with local or international authors.
Reviews and interviews are published weekly their website.
Compensation: 60 per piece
Submissions: Please contact our reviews editor Cid V Brunet at prism.reviews@ubc.ca. We ask you to disclose any conflict of interest prior to submitting a review.
Frontier Poetry
Accepting poetry submissions all year round.
Free Fast Response for BIPOC– Our quick turnaround option offered for free to Black, Indigenous, and other writers of color.
Compensation: 50 per piece
Submissions: https://www.frontierpoetry.com/submit/
The Margins
The Margins is open year-round to pitches and submissions of critical essays on Asian American literature, film, visual art, and culture.
We specifically seek essays that—through close engagement with art—might challenge the Asian American community to think or act in a new way. We are open to criticism of any artform, of works from any time period, so long as the writer speaks in some way to how we live now. Critics are encouraged to foreground their own voice and style in the pursuit of this goal, but should ultimately keep focus on their chosen objects of study.
Compensation: Up to 500
More Information: HERE
Submissions: Send pitches of up to 500 words or drafts from 1,500-3,000 words to Spencer Quong, criticism editor, at criticism@aaww.org
Burnaway Magazine
We are committed to publishing thoughtful, rigorous writing on contemporary art in the South, the Caribbean and the Southern Diaspora.
Alabama, Arkansas, Washington, D.C, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky,Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas,Virginia, West Virginia and the Caribbean.
We accept proposals for short and long-form reviews, interviews, studio visits, profiles, essays, and theme-specific essays.
WHAT WE LOOK FOR:
We accept proposals for short and long-form reviews, interviews, studio visits, profiles, essays, and theme-specific essays. Daily includes short-form reviews or studio visits are no more than 800 words.
Magazine contributions are deep-dive, long-form essays and theme-specific projects that are typically no more than 1,800 words. Themes for the Magazine are released annually.
Stories, projects, and other media related to each theme will be published to produce a cohesive inquiry into aspects of Southern culture and life.
More info on how to pitch and to whom HERE
(scroll down to Pitches)
Compensation: .30 cents per word
The John Updike Review Emerging Writers Prize
The review is looking for an essay by a young writer or critic that deepens our understanding of the work of John Updike. The writing may be scholarly or bellestristic in nature. Academics, critics, graduate students, assistant professors, novelists, poets, and short story writers are encouraged to submit 10-30 page essays.
To Submit: Send essay submissions of 10-30 pages via attachment to: Prof. James Schiff, Editor, The John Updike Review, james.schiff@uc.edu
More Information on the Journal: The John Updike Review
More Information on Submissions:HERE
Compensation: A $1000 prize plus publication in The John Updike Review, awarded annually to writers 40 years of age or younger.
Raising Mothers
Raising Mothers is a literary magazine celebrating parenthood within the Global majority. We’re looking for writers who want to explore the many avenues we come to as caregivers as well as how we were parented. We also welcome voices of people who want to share child-centered perspectives (note: this is from the POV of the adult writer).
We publish experimental and traditional fiction, micro and flash, creative nonfiction, interviews, book reviews, photo essays, and comic/graphic narratives. We only publish work written by members of the global majority.
Compensation: up to $50 USD for select essays
We are also interested in columnists to pitch their ideas and anything bookish or book-adjacent.
SmokeLong
SmokeLong publishes flash narratives--fiction, nonfiction, and hybrid (somewhere between fiction and nonfiction)--up to 1000 words. This word limit is firm. We do not consider poetry.
We love:
* language that surprises and excites,
* narratives that strive toward something other than a final punch line or twist,
* pieces that add up to something, often (but not necessarily always) meaning or emotional resonance,
* honest work that feels as if it has far more purpose than a writer wanting to write a clever story.
Compensation: $100 per narrative or $150 per story with audio upon publication in the quarterly issue. Payment will be issued via PayPal
https://smokelong.submittable.com/Submit
Salo Press: Call for Submissions for ‘The Flirtations’
Salo Press is an independent publisher of poetry and prose. The Flirtations is their chapbook imprint with twenty four titles currently in print. They are currently seeking manuscripts for publication under this imprint.
Compensation: 50% of profits + author copy.
How to submit:
They are seeking works up to 32 pages, including but not limited to: Poetry, Poetry Sequences, Single Short Stories, Linked Short Stories, Fictions, Non-Fiction, Essays, Experiments.
Send your manuscript as a .doc or .pdf to editorsalopress@gmail.com, quoting ‘The Flirtations‘ in the subject header.
Include a brief cover letter.
Cinncinnati Review
Accepting Poetry, Fiction, Fiction Translations, Literary Non-Fiction, Poetry Translations, Drama.
Compensation: $25/ page for prose and $30/page for poetry in the print journal and $25 for miCRo posts or special features.
https://www.cincinnatireview.com/submission-guidelines-2021/
New Orleans Review
Submit fiction pieces up to 5,000 words. Flash fiction welcome, but only one piece at a time. No previously published work (online or in print). Simultaneous submissions are okay.
Compensation: 175, regardless of length.
Submit nonfiction pieces up to 5,000 words. Flash nonfiction welcome, but only one piece at a time. No previously published work (online or in print). Simultaneous submissions are okay.
Compensation: 175, regardless of length.
Submit up to five pages of poems. No previously published work (online or in print). Simultaneous submissions are okay.
Compensation: 50 per poem, regardless of length.
Submissions have a fee of 3.00
Free Submissions for Refugees and Palestinians. <3
https://www.neworleansreview.org/submit/
CRAFT LITERARY
Seeking:
Longform creative nonfiction. *They should be essays or standalone excerpts between 1,000 and 6,000 words.
Compensation: 200
Flash creative nonfiction. *1000 words or less.
Compensation: 100
Fiction. *Short stories and standalone fiction excerpts between 1000-6000 words
Compensation: 200
Flash Fiction. *1000 words of less
Compensation: 100
Fast Response: Free for BIPOC and Other Underrepresented Writers (Up to 6K Words)
Both short fiction and longform creative nonfiction (short stories, standalone excerpts, and creative nonfiction essays) between 1,001 and 6,000 words, and for flash and micros (both fiction and creative nonfiction) up to 1,000 words.
Compensation: $200 for accepted short stories or longform creative nonfiction, and $100 for accepted flash or micro pieces.
Interested in writing critically for CRAFT?
We review essays on writing craft, critical literary analyses, and interviews. Craft and critical essays range from 1,500 to 2,500 words concerning the craft of fiction or creative nonfiction. We recommend familiarizing yourself with our archive. Most essays we publish offer a careful examination of craft elements in fiction or creative nonfiction.
Compensation: $50 for craft and critical essays, $50 for most standard interviews, and $100 for hybrid interviews (a critical essay paired with a Q&A).
Guidelines and Submissions: https://craft.submittable.com/submit
Grubb Street Scholarships
General scholarships are awarded for writerly promise and financial need. Scholarships are awarded for the specific class requested, and are not transferable to another class, term, or user.
You can apply for scholarships directly from the website page of the class you're interested in taking. Please visit our Find a Class page, and click on the class you're interested in taking. From there, you can click on Apply for Scholarship within that class page, and fill our out our short application. You can expect to hear back within two weeks of submitting your application.
Classes Offered: https://grubstreet.org/find-a-class
CUE Art Foundation
ART CRITIC MENTORSHIP PROGRAM
For emerging Writers that have a demonstrated art and/or critical writing practice and an interest in contemporary art
Compensation: 600 USD + being paired with art critic mentors to produce original long-form critical essays about the work of artists exhibiting at CUE's gallery space.
https://cueartfoundation.org/acmp
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
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
Magazines + Web Based Articles (International)
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
Compensation:
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
NER DIGITAL
Accepting submissions in fiction, poetry, nonfiction, dramatic writing, and translation in all genres.
Compensation: 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 pays $50 and a one-year subscription to the magazine
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.
Compensation: 50c per word
https://atmos.earth/
Editorial Guidelines: https://brindle-caraway-75e.notion.site/0c1688d8986644a98cd3118dfb069c8e?v=4bc2293983224e41b0a906b2e2fd8010
Only Poems
Takes poem submissions
Compensation: 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 a community.
Compensation: $175 USD 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
**US BASED BY REGION**
ILLINOIS ARTS COUNCIL CREATIVE CATALYST GRANTS
The Creative Catalyst Grant offers support to Illinois artists and non-profit organizations for arts-related projects, programming, events, and/or professional development.
Compensation: Up to $12,000
Guidelines + Submssions: HERE
This list will be updated monthly **
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