NewPages February 2024 eLitPak
Writing Workshops & Retreats, New Books, & Submission Opportunities
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Reserve your spot in an upcoming NewPages eLitPak. Reach our 6,000+ newsletter subscribers and have your flyer promoted on our blog and on our social media to our 30,000+ followers. Now accepting reservations for our March 2024 through February 2025 eLitPaks. Flyer order in the newsletter is based on order of reservations.
Open for Entries: The National Indie Excellence® Awards
Deadline: March 31, 2024
The 18th annual National Indie Excellence® Awards (NIEA) are open to all English language printed books available for sale, including small presses, mid-sized independent publishers, university presses, and self-published authors. NIEA is proud to be a champion of self-publishing and independent presses. Monetary awards, sponsorships, and entry rules are described in detail on our website.
Third Street Review - Open for Submissions
Deadline: February 29, 2024
We want to see your work! Fiction, creative nonfiction up to 1000 words, three poems, and art and photography. Our mission is to explore the edges of things, to find the hidden cracks that let the light shine through. We publish quarterly and are a paying market. Have you got something for us? We can't wait to see it! Submissions now open. View our flyer for more information.
Announcing the Book Wheatley at 250 from Pangyrus Press
Just published! Pangyrus Press announces Wheatley at 250, celebrating the 250th anniversary of Phillis Wheatley Peters’s historic and transformative Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral with exciting re-inscriptions by some of today’s most compelling poets: U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith, Evie Shockley, Kiki Petrosino, Mahogany L. Browne, and more. View our flyer and learn more at our website.
Flying South 2024 Contest is Open - $2,100 in Prizes
Deadline: May 31, 2024
From March 1 to May 31, Flying South 2024 will be accepting entries for this year’s contest. There will be three categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry. In each of the three categories the awards will be $400 for First Place, $200 for Second Place, and $100 for Third Place. Finalists will be awarded publication in Flying South. View our flyer and visit our website to learn more.
Changing Light Prize for a Novel-in-Verse
Deadline: May 25, 2024
Livingston Press is accepting submissions of unpublished manuscripts for its annual Changing Light Prize for a Novel-in-Verse. There is no entry fee. Winner receives $500, publication, twenty copies, and a standard royalty contract. View our flyer and visit our website for guidelines.
Ireland Writing Retreat on the Ring of Kerry
Registration Deadline: May 1, 2024
Event Dates: June 9-13, 2024
A generative and restorative writing immersion in County Kerry, Ireland with Carolyn Dawn Flynn, acclaimed novelist, memoirist and TEDx speaker, and writer and poet extraordinaire Jona Kottler. Let the soul-stirring mountains and wild sea of Ireland’s Ring of Kerry be your inspiration for this generative and restorative retreat for writers of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Whether you’re writing essays or a book-length memoir, short stories or a novel, poetry or screenplays—or hybrid!—this immersive retreat is designed to help you deepen and refine your work-in-progress, emerging with clarity and vision. Find out more at our website.
Stories & Songs: A Writing Retreat in Italy ~ Sept. 10-16, 2024
Join Memoirist/Fiction writer Carolyn Flynn, Fiction writer/Writing Coach Karen Leslie, and #1 songwriter Clay Mills for a 6 day/night immersive writing retreat at Spannocchia, a 12th Century Tuscan tenuta. Generative workshops, time to write, individualized feedback, open mics, wine on the grass terrace, Tuscan food, and a writer's excursion to Siena. Choose your track: Storyteller, Songwriter or Hybrid. View our flyer and visit our website to learn more. Zoom Q & A: 2/22/24. Register on website.
A Breakthrough Experience for Writers of Fantasy, Science Fiction, Horror
Have you ever wished you could attend your own private writing workshop that would teach you exactly what you need to know, at the right pace for you, and provide feedback and guidance in extensive one-on-one sessions? That's Your Personal Odyssey Writing Workshop. It's an intensive, personalized, one-on-one online workshop experience combining advanced lectures, expert feedback, and deep mentoring. View our flyer and visit our website to learn more.
3 Days Left: Fellowships for Writers to MVICW Virtual Seminars
Application Deadline: February 17, 2024
MVICW's Virtual Writers Seminars offers four separate weekends this spring. Take a deep dive into your writing with award-winning faculty online. Seminars include fiction, poetry, CNF classes, evening readings, open mics. Weekends can be taken individually or as full series. Fellowships Available: 4 first prizes (winners receive the entire series), 4 second prizes. Fellowship Deadline: February 17th. Register at our website.
WP-MFA: Rachel Wetzsteon Chapbook Award
"I'm going to let you in on a secret:
I have so many ghosts and nowhere to put them."
Map Literary and the MFA program at William Paterson University are thrilled to celebrate the publication of Fiona Lu's How to Become the God of Small Things. Come celebrate with us! View flyer to learn more.
Martin Espada is the Featured Poet for 2024 SOMOS Poetry Month on 4/12-4/13/24.
Deadline: April 11, 2024
Award-winning poet Martin Espada has published more than twenty books as a poet, editor, essayist, and translator. His new book of poems from Norton is "Floaters," winner of the 2021 National Book Award. His other books of poems include "Vivas to Those Who Have Failed," The Trouble Ball" and "The Republic of Poetry" which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, as well as others. Espada is a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. View flyer to learn more.
Poets Time to Submit Your Manuscript to The Washington Prize
Deadline: March 15, 2024
Win $1,500 and publication by The Word Works. The contest is open to unpublished English language volumes of original poetry by a living Canadian or American writer at any stage of their career. Winner announced August 1 by series editor Andrea Carter Brown. View flyer to learn more and submit.
About Place Journal: Strange Wests Call for Submissions
Deadline: March 10, 2024
Our next issue invites you to consider and reimagine all things West. Send us your prose, poetry, and visual art that conceives of the West beyond its conventional and colonialized framework to help us decenter traditional subjects and propagandized histories of this region. Learn more and submit here.
Changing Skies Now Accepting Submissions for Fall Issue!
Changing Skies Creative Nonfiction Journal is accepting submissions for online and print publication. We accept creative nonfiction writing on living through the climate crisis. We also accept forms of art including paint, drawing, photography, and more! Read our latest issues and submission details at our website.