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SUMMARY:Changing Light Prize for a Novel-in-Verse
DESCRIPTION:Livingston Press announces its new annual Changing Light Prize for a Novel-in-Verse. Recommended length: 90-160 pages. $500 prize plus 20 copies\, standard royalty contract. Publication in trade paper\, e-book\, and Kindle. There is no entry fee. Submission deadline: May 25. Send Word attachment including contact information\, brief bio\, and letter to jwt@uwa.edu. Please list Novel-in-Verse on your subject line. \nPrevious similar titles from Livingston: \nAn Art\, A Craft\, A Mystery – Laura Secord \nDon Quickshot – William Van Wert \nForthcoming title: \n Near Where the Blood Pools – Ben Terry
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/changing-light-prize-for-a-novel-in-verse/
ORGANIZER;CN="Livingston Press":MAILTO:jwt@uwa.edu
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SUMMARY:Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition
DESCRIPTION:Contest for up-and-coming screenwriters! A great way to gain potential industry exposure and place in our competition. All entrants\, regardless of placement\, receive free reader comments\, so everyone will get feedback on their scripts! \n– Early Deadline: March 23rd\, 2023\n– Regular: April 18th\, 2023\n– Late Deadline: May 25th\, 2023 \n$5 Off Discount Code: AFFWG23 \nLink for more information:\n \n\nScreenplay and Teleplay Submissions
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/austin-film-festival-screenplay-competition/
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SUMMARY:Rigel 2023: $500 for Fiction\, Nonfiction\, Poetry\, Art\, or Graphic Novel
DESCRIPTION:Sunspot Lit seeks one short story\, CNF\, artwork\, poem\, graphic novel\, script\, or excerpt that outshines the rest. No restrictions on theme. Literary and genre works accepted. Winner receives $500 plus publication. Feedback available for additional fee. See guidelines for details. Closes May 31\, 2023. Entry fee is $10. Enter through Sunspot’s Submittable: https://sunspotlit.submittable.com/submit/259026/rigel-2023-500-for-fiction-nonfiction-poetry-art-or-graphic-novel page or through Duotrope: https://duotrope.com/listing/32395/sunspot-lit-rigel-contest.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/rigel-2023-500-for-fiction-nonfiction-poetry-art-or-graphic-novel/
LOCATION:Online\, NC
ORGANIZER;CN="Sunspot Literary Journal":MAILTO:SunspotLit@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Auburn Witness Poetry Prize Opens May 1
DESCRIPTION:The annual Auburn Witness Poetry Prize honoring Jake Adam York will be open May 1 – June 1. Submit up to 3 poems for this year’s judge\, Joy Harjo! Entry fee of $15. Winner receives $1\,000 and a chance to read at an event in Auburn\, AL. \nPresented in October by the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University\, the Auburn Witness Poetry Prize event features the recipient and judge in conversation at the museum and includes a workshop. The recipient also receives travel expenses to attend the event. \nJoy Harjo is an internationally renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. She served three terms as the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States from 2019-2022 and is winner of Yale’s 2023 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/auburn-witness-poetry-prize-opens-may-1/
LOCATION:Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University\, 901 S. College St.\, Auburn\, AL\, 36849\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Southern Humanities Review":MAILTO:shr@auburn.edu
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SUMMARY:Asian American Pacific Islander Fellowship
DESCRIPTION:Tell Us About AAPI Contributions to American Life \nApply by Tues. May 16th\, 2023\, 5pm (PST) \nThree Fellowship Awards for AAPI Writers & Filmmakers \nYou can apply via the application on our website: Writers Boot Camp AAPI Fellowship Application. \nWriters Boot Camp continues our support of fresh voices this month by providing three $2500 full scholarships to writers in the Thursday\, May 25th Basic Training. \nCandidates must verify their availabity to write 10 hours per week for 10 weeks during the Basic Training process that has supported more than 12\,000 writers and filmmakers over the past 33 years. While we celebrate our anniversary each October\, the first session conducted by JG was in his living room in March 1989 during his last semester of his MFA at USC’s Peter Stark Producing Program. \nThis month’s theme of “AAPI Contributions III” is our third offering in this category of creative material that supports the voices of artists\, writers\, and filmmakers with Asian American Pacific Islander heritage. \nWhether you’re writing a family story\, one about an unheralded individual in leadership or American history\, a genre with specific thematic significance\, or profound change and artistic achievement of AAPI people and subjects–this theme’s creative parameters are otherwise unlimited. The only project requirements are AAPI lead characters and subject matter. \nPertinent professional experience combined with cogent answers will complement the project idea to determine the three winners. \nEligibility Notes \nWriters Boot Camp alumni who have applied to a prior fellowship within the past six months–or who have won before–may apply for fun yet are not eligible to win. Winners must confirm their availability to participate in Basic Training\, along with 10 hours per week for creative exercises and writing for 10 weeks without risk of dropping due to outside conflict or work opportunities. Only winners will be notified individually. All non-winners will be notified by email within a few days of the selection of winners. \nOur Remarkable Track Record and Diversity Emphasis \nThere are few places in society for artists to seek and receive personal support. No one does what we do and with as much depth of process. Writers Boot Camp’s tools are meant to empower your own authority. The tools and materials are more a language for collaboration and for describing your creative goals than a formula to fit your story. \nWriters Boot Camp’s remarkable success of supporting diversity and a range of creative voices is unparalleled in the business. Over the nine years Fox Diversity sponsored writers through Basic Training\, 50% of the writers attracted staff television jobs\, including top showrunners today. \nIn fact\, women represent a higher percentage of our overall alumni success stories—and through the years we’ve awarded nearly half a million dollars in fellowship awards to writers and filmmakers of diverse heritage\, highlighting opportunities for women of color. \nYou can see countless other movie and TV credits by Writers Boot Camp alumni on our A-List Credits page. \nAmong our favorite alumni–a past staff member–writer-director\, Sian Heder\, recently won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for her movie CODA. Other alumni have been nominated for Oscars\, including Josh Singer\, who won for co-writing SPOTLIGHT. Alumnus Cindy Chupack has won two Emmys for her work on Sex and the City and Modern Family. Steven Sater\, a New York Pro Member\, won the Tony Award for Spring Awakening. \nMore recently\, we’ve discovered many more success stories\, including alumni who have written the movies\, TILL (Michael Reilly)\, ON THE COME UP (Kay Oyegun)\, JOE BABY (Todd Samovitz)\, and the showrunners of Lucifer (Jason Ning) and Fear the Walking Dead (Ian Goldberg). \nThe Fellowship Application \nPlease complete only one application per person. Partners working together may apply via separate applications utilizing the same project. Keep every answer to only one single sentence\, including your answers to the four topical questions combined into one four-sentence paragraph. Again\, alumni who have applied to a fellowship in the past six months–or who have won before–are not eligible to win. \nPlease Don’t Wait Until The Last Minute to Apply! \nFellowship Application Deadline: Tuesday\, May 16th\, 5pm\, LA time. \nWe look forward to supporting three dynamic artists and their writing process with us. We appreciate the efforts and applications of all the candidates\, and the staff will follow up with brief notes about their personal expressions and the potential of their project ideas! \nFor information\, call 310 998 1199.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/asian-american-pacific-islander-fellowship/
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SUMMARY:Submit Your Writing to Salvation South
DESCRIPTION:Salvation South is the new online magazine founded by former Bitter Southerner editor-in-chief Chuck Reece. We’re looking for narrative journalism\, personal essays\, fiction and poetry.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/submit-your-writing-to-salvation-south/
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SUMMARY:ILS / Fence 2023 Fiction and Poetry Contest Now Live!
DESCRIPTION:We invite you to submit your writing for a chance to be published in Fence\, one of North America’s most prestigious literary magazines\, and be awarded a full scholarship to attend the December 2023 International Literary Seminars program in Kenya. The ILS program is a unique and intensive series of literary workshops\, career consultations\, and cultural offerings in Nairobi and Lamu\, Kenya. All entries will be considered for publication in Fence or Fence Digital\, and a chance to receive editorial feedback. \nThe first-prize winner will have their winning work published in Fence and will be awarded a full scholarship\, including tuition\, accommodations\, and an airfare stipend\, to attend the December 2023 International Literary Seminars program in Kenya. \nThe second-prize winner will have their work published in Fence\, and be offered a full tuition fee waiver to attend the December 2023 International Literary Seminars program in Kenya. \nThe third-prize winner will be offered 50% off the tuition fee. Runners-up will be awarded partial fellowships to attend the program. \nSubmit previously unpublished fiction manuscripts of 6\,000 words or less\, or up to three poems\, per entry. Multiple entries may be submitted. Simultaneous submissions are allowed\, but please notify us immediately if your work gets accepted elsewhere. The contest will run until August 25\, 2023 (11:59 p.m EST). The winners will be announced in September 2023.\nSince entries are read blind\, please leave off identifying information in your submission and file name. Submissions capped at 1\,000. \nOur low entry fee of $19 USD helps cover costs for running ILS\, a not-for-profit organization.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/ils-fence-2023-fiction-and-poetry-contest-now-live/
LOCATION:Online\, NC
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