We're not at AWP but we are reading for our summer issue! Have some poetry or prose ready for us? We're excited to read your work!
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We're not at AWP but we are reading for our summer issue! Have some poetry or prose ready for us? We're excited to read your work!
This Throwback Thursday brings us Shauna Friesen’s short story “Bughouse” from our Spring 2024 (5:4) issue! To find out more, read her story available on our website (link in bio).
#chestnutreview #prose #failedrelationship #infestation #loss
Barry Hannah Prize for Fiction (Fiction; pays) opened to fee-based fiction submissions. https://duotrope.com... #amwriting
Submissions are open! Send us your strange, your disciplined, your heartfelt.
OKD is open for free subs until we reach our cap! Learn more about us and submit your best poetry or flash fiction: buff.ly/chQ4jpz
Okay Donkey is always open for tip jar ($2.50) or expedited ($4.00) subs! Your contribution helps us pay our contributors and cover other mag-related expenses.
Fungi in SFF Special Issues call for non-fiction submissions
Strange Horizons is open to non-fiction submissions for our March 30th special issue which will be all about Fungi in SFF!
More information about our submission guidelines and how to submit ⬇️
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Variant Lit is open for submissions of prose and poetry. Photo by staff member of the moon in the trees in the pacific northwest.
We're open for submissions! Send us your best prose or poetry: variantlit.com/submit/
The graphic for The Fiddlehead’s 2026 Creative Nonfiction Contest. The background is blue with an open padlock. There is a photo of Brian Braganza in the bottom left corner. The graphic reads: Unlock your story. Enter our 2026 Creative Nonfiction Contest. Deadline: June 1 2026. Enter via submittable. $2000 Prize plus publication. Judged by Brian Braganza. For more info visit thefiddlehead.ca/cnf-contest
The Fiddlehead's 2026 Creative Nonfiction Contest is now open for submissions!
The winner of the contest will receive $2000 and publication. Thank you to Brian Braganza for judging this year's contest.
Unlock your story. Find more information on our website: thefiddlehead.ca/cnf-contest
Love this line in today's #writing workshop
@ Off Campus Writers' Workshop from Sue Brown Moore "Heroes can be stubborn." In context, this meant that heroes can be stubborn revealing themselves to the writer. #amwriting #WritingCommunity
This is important. The head of CBP says here that his agency did NOT provide the assessment that led DHS to label Alex Pretti a terrorist looking to inflict mass casualties.
That appears to contradict Stephen Miller's claim that the initial assessment was based on CBP reports:
The Time Is Now to spark your writing! This week we recommend a classic book on the history of memoir writing by Ben Yagoda, and #PWWritingPrompts on beloveds, breakups, and biographical myths. Read more: at.pw.org/TTIN
My new flash piece is up at Variant Lit! I wrote about an unnamed extra in the “I am your father” scene from Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. I loved writing this during my MVCWI Fellowship last year. I stayed in my room for a week writing, drink too much coffee. variantlit.com/back-in-the-...
Ahhh I can’t believe I get to host my own HAD sub call!!! I hope you all send something my way!!!
White House officials have grown frustrated with DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, and one source says her position may no longer be secure, Nick Miroff, Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, and Michael Scherer report.
Do you know that you can become a Stanchion Book Club member on a monthly basis & still get all the perks? Brand new well-edited & beautifully designed books delivered every month, exclusive goodies quarterly + invites to Zoom book club author chats. $12 a month & you sustain this press. 🖤🤍
very very excited (& nervous! stage jitters!) to share news of a project that my person & I have been working on for so long now
we're starting a tiny artist residency here in Baltimore; say hello to The Doll House!
www.thedollhouse.studio
Very cool
I'm actually terrible at creating playlists. I think you've helped me discover the reason behind my rejections
Big News! Submissions are now open for our next micro anthology, "Tales that Survived the Fire." Learn more at the link below, and we can't wait to see your pieces.
I work hard to keep politics off this feed, but this is directly related to our #WritingCommunity. There are so many ways to help. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Great interview with author Jeannie Vanasco by writer Leslie Lindsay on About Write from Off Campus Writers' Workshop. Vanasco discusses her new memoir, her process, and her unusual approach to representing her mother's silent treatment on the page. ocww.info/About-Write?...
Rolling deadline: $1,000 John Updike Review Emerging Writers Prize
No fee. Writers up to 40 years old may submit essays that deepen our understanding of the work of John Updike. Submit to: Prof. James Schiff, Editor, The John Updike Review, james.schiff@uc.edu.
https://updikereview.com/submissions/
It’s time for The Great Tote Vote! Head to the link and let us know which tote design you prefer: bookshopdotorg.typeform.com/to/J5qqWpDp
Happy birthday and happy World Prematurity Day to my favorite 24-weekers. It's been quite a ride.
#prematurity #WorldPrematurityDay #preemies
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October is for stories that unsettle.
That’s the point. The best literature shakes something loose.
If a book makes you uncomfortable, it’s probably worth reading.
Find the ones that still speak:
I maintain that every one of these people should be forced to live on SNAP for a month.
#callforsubmissions: L'Esprit seeks stories, CNF, essays, translation, reviews.
Consciousness-forward, language-driven, risk-adept.
Send us writing beyond convention.
G’Lines and open calls:
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
New $50M #literary arts fund. #WritingCommunity
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*the* story