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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:Southern Humanities Review Call for Submissions
DESCRIPTION:Southern Humanities Review is seeking poetry\, fiction\, and nonfiction for our next quarterly issue. Submissions will be open until November 1st. Poetry is capped at 250 submissions. There are 100 free submissions available for BIPOC writers. Contributors receive a small honorarium.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/southern-humanities-call-for-submissions/
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ORGANIZER;CN="Southern Humanities Review":MAILTO:shr@auburn.edu
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SUMMARY:The Fitzgerald Museum's sixth annual Literary Contest: Submissions Period
DESCRIPTION:F. Scott and Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald were daring and revolutionary in their lives and in their art and writing. More than one hundred years after they met in Montgomery\, Alabama\, the Fitzgeralds’ literary and artistic works from the 1920s and 1930s are still regarded as groundbreaking\, and The Fitzgerald Museum is seeking to identify and honor the daring and revolutionary young writers and artists of this generation. \nCategories: Grades 9–10\, Grades 11–12\, Undergraduate \nGeneral Guidelines for 2023 – 2024: \nThe Fitzgerald Museum’s sixth annual Literary Contest is accepting submissions of short fiction\, poetry\, ten-minute plays\, film scripts\, and multi-genre works that exhibit the theme “The Best Postman in the World\,” which comes from lines in Act III of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1923 stage play The Vegetable. This theme implies works about ambition\, the pursuit of a goal\, or excellence in one’s work. Works with traditional forms and styles will be accepted for judging\, yet writers are encouraged to send works that utilize innovative forms and techniques. Literary works may include artwork\, illustrations\, font variations\, and other graphic elements\, with the caveat that these elements should enhance the work\, not simply decorate the page. \nThe submissions period is open from September 1 until December 31\, 2023. Works will be judged within three separate age categories\, not by genre\, so please be clear about the age category. Submissions should not exceed ten pages (with font sizes no smaller than 11 point). Each student may only enter once. Awards will be announced by March 15\, 2024. Each age/grade category will have a single winner and possibly an honorable mention. \nWorks should be submitted through the web form available on the Fitzgerald Museum’s website. Due to issues of compatibility\, works should be submitted as PDF to ensure that they appear as the author intends. Files should be named with the author’s first initial [dot] last name [underscore] title. For example\, J.Smith_InnovativeStory.pdf. Questions about the contest or the entry process may be sent to contest coordinator Foster Dickson at fitzgeraldliterarycontest@gmail.com\, with “Literary Contest Question” in the subject line. \nThis year’s judges are Zestlan Simmons for the undergraduate category and Jim Hilgartner for the high school categories. Zestlan Simmons is an alumni of the Carver Creative and Performing Arts Center’s creative writing component and has been a high school English teacher for more than twenty years. She was the 2018 Alabama Teacher of the Year. Jim Hilgartner is a fiction writer and teacher who has published work in ACM: Another Chicago Magazine\, Greensboro Review\, Mid-American Review\, New Orleans Review\, Vermont Literary Review\, Xavier Review\, and elsewhere. He has also served as fiction editor at Black Warrior Review\, THAT Literary Review\, and (currently) Thirteen Bridges Review. Hilgartner retired as Professor of English at Huntingdon College in 2023. \nThe Literary Contest’s annual themes honor and reflect upon the Fitzgeralds’ literary legacy. The inaugural contest had as its theme “What’s Old is New\,” which encouraged students to look to tradition for inspiration. For the second year\, the theme “Love + Marriage” celebrated the centennial of the couple’s courtship and marriage. In year three\, “The Education of a Personage” centered on themes of growth and maturing aligned with the centennial of Scott’s debut novel This Side of Paradise. Year four harkened back to 1921’s The Beautiful and the Damned with the theme “The Radiant Hour.” Last year’s theme\, “Unclassified Masterpieces\,” honored the anniversary of the 1922 story collection Tales from the Jazz Age. While these themes do parallel the Fitzgerald’s literary and personal history\, they are intended to guide students to consider and examine the present and the future as Scott and Zelda did in their day.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/the-fitzgerald-museums-sixth-annual-literary-contest-submissions-period/
LOCATION:The Fitzgerald Museum\, 919 Felder Avenue\, Montgomery\, AL\, 36106\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Foster Dickson":MAILTO:fitzgeraldliterarycontest@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald Young Writers Award: Submissions Period
DESCRIPTION:Montgomery\, Alabama native Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald was daring and revolutionary in her life\, art\, and writing\, and The Fitzgerald Museum’s Young Writers Award that bears her name seeks to identify and honor Alabama’s high school students who share her talent and spirit. Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald was inducted into the Alabama Writers Hall of Fame in spring 2020. This award\, which was first given the following year\, celebrates her life and legacy by recognizing the talents and abilities of young Alabama writers. \nGeneral Guidelines: \nThe Fitzgerald Museum’s fourth annual Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald Young Writers Award is accepting submissions of portfolios from young writers who are currently attending high school (grades 9 – 12) in Alabama. Portfolios should contain literary works (stories\, poems\, plays or film scripts\, multi-genre works) totaling 5 to 15 pages with font sizes no smaller than 11 point. Writers are encouraged to include works that are innovative in style\, content\, form\, and/or technique. Literary works may include artwork\, illustrations\, font variations\, and other graphic elements\, but these elements should enhance the work\, not simply decorate the page. \nThe submissions period is open from September 1 until December 31\, 2023. Each student may only enter once. \nPortfolios will be judged holistically\, and only one award will be given each year. The recipient will be announced by March 15\, 2024. \nPortfolios should be submitted through the web form on the Fitzgerald Museum’s website. Due to issues of compatibility\, works should be collected into one PDF named with the author’s first initial [dot] last name [underscore] ZeldaPortfolio (for example\, J.Smith_ZeldaPortfolio.pdf). Questions about the award or the entry process may be sent to contest coordinator Foster Dickson at fitzgeraldliterarycontest@gmail.com\, with “Zelda Fitzgerald Award Question” in the subject line. \nThis year’s judge for the award is Lenore Vickrey. Since 2012\, Vickrey has been the editor of Alabama Living magazine\, which is the largest circulation magazine in the state. She has been a journalist since high school and has more than forty-five years of experience as a newspaper reporter\, editor\, and corporate communicator.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/zelda-sayre-fitzgerald-young-writers-award-submissions-period/
LOCATION:Fitzgerald Museum\, 919 Felder Avenue\, Montgomery\, AL\, 36106\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Foster Dickson":MAILTO:fitzgeraldliterarycontest@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:DISQUIET International Literary Program
DESCRIPTION:Program applications are open until December 1 for the DISQUIET International Literary Program. Experience contemporary Portuguese literature and workshop your writing next summer with the DISQUIET International Literary Program in Lisbon. Faculty for 2024 will include Jessica Anthony\, Chris Feliciano Arnold\, Jamel Brinkley\, Cyriaco Lopes\, T Kira Madden\, Diana Khoi Nguyen\, Katherine Vaz\, Terri Witek\, and many more TBA. \nFull tuition waivers are available through our writing contest; see our website for details or enter at disquietinternational.submittable.com
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/disquiet-international-literary-program/
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ORGANIZER;CN="Dzanc Books DISQUIET ILP":MAILTO:disquietinternational@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Call for Submissions at Thirteen Bridges Review - AUM's professional literary journal
DESCRIPTION:We are now accepting submissions at Thirteen Bridges Review in poetry\, fiction\, and creative nonfiction until November 1.\nAccepted stories and poems will be posted to our monthly features gallery on our new website at https://www.thirteenbridgesreview.com/\nWe have an international focus but always love supporting local writers\, so please don’t hesitate to send us your work. \nGuidelines and submission links here:\nhttps://thirteenbridgesreview.submittable.com/submit
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/call-for-submissions-at-thirteen-bridges-review-aums-professional-literary-journal/
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ORGANIZER;CN="Kent Quaney - AUM Department of English and Philosophy":MAILTO:kquaney@aum.edu
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SUMMARY:Call for Submissions: Heroines Anthology\, Volume 5
DESCRIPTION:Women poets are invited to submit poetry that reimagines women in myth\, fairy tale\, folklore or legend\, poems that tell women’s lost histories\, or untold stories\, to the Heroines Anthology and Women’s Writing Prize. This will be the Heroines Anthology’s fifth volume and it is a GLOBAL POETRY EDITION. Submissions close on the 18TH DECEMBER 2023. First prize is $500 and all short-listed entries will be published in the anthology. Find out more & submit your poetry here: https://www.theneoperennialpress.com/heroine anthology submissions
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/call-for-submissions-heroines-anthology-volume-5/
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SUMMARY:Open calls for writers and artists
DESCRIPTION:Sunspot Lit publishes work that counts. Welcomes art and fiction\, nonfiction\, poetry\, scripts\, and graphic novels from 4 words to 49\,000 words (open calls for longer categories close early). Accepts genre\, commercial\, mainstream and literary. Pays editor’s prizes and cover art. Submit at https://sunspotlit.submittable.com/submit today!
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/open-calls-for-writers-and-artists-2/
LOCATION:Online\, NC
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sunspot Literary Journal":MAILTO:SunspotLit@gmail.com
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