8 WiHM Anthologies To Read in March
Authortunities #104 │March 8 — April 5
Next Thursday, March 13, Authortunities Turns Two! 🎉
Two years ago, this newsletter was just a humble paper mailing list on a clipboard of 438 people. Today, nearly 4,000 subscribers receive hand-picked author opportunities every Saturday morning—almost 100 weeks straight! It’s been an incredible journey, and I’m beyond grateful for your support.
A Birthday Makeover 🎨
Just like people, newsletters evolve. To celebrate this milestone, I consulted with Nan Tepper of on how to refine Authortunities' look and feel.
As a result the logo has been simplified from the full Authortunities Press pen tree to a sleek single-leaf pen. The headers got a fresh glow-up, along with some color updates and the website has been revamped—with more polish coming soon!
New Monthly Digital Tools for Writers 📌
Thanks to your enthusiastic response to my first digital offer, I’ll be launching a new digital tool every month! For March, I have the Lo-Tech Social Media Sanity System—a streamlined approach to content planning.
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A Necessary Price Adjustment (for New Subscribers) 📈
After two years of steady growth, it’s time for a small adjustment. Starting March 15, the subscription price for new members will increase to $8.88/month or $88.88/year.
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Looking Ahead 🚀
What’s next? My immediate goal is to gain 182 more subscribers so I can officially say "4,000" without the “almost.” 😂 Beyond that, my focus is on increasing the value of what I offer to you.
Authortunities has grown from a simple newsletter into:
🌱 A free NeighborHub community
📚 A thriving Publishing Coach service on Reedsy
🎓 A Publishing Coach Certification program to create more coaches
I’m excited for what’s to come, and it’s all thanks to you, the Authortunities family. Here’s to another amazing year of growth, connection, and opportunities!
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Neighborhoods have block parties, and neighborHubs have Writers Block Parties! Still confirming guests, but on March 21 everything kicks off on Substack Live with the Godfather of Self-Publishing himself, . The theme for this party is “The Business of Writing,” so the goal will be giving writers real tools they can use to build an income and (hopefully) pay for more eggs.
Watch this space for details next week, or just join the community now.
From Space and Time Magazine: most of the fiction submissions for our Autumn issue #149 has been read by two Readers now. Our Poetry Editor Extraordinaire, aka Linda D. Addison, is narrowing in on her selections. Our Brilliant Layout and Artist Anthony R. Rhodes is creating another masterpiece for the upcoming #148 that should be published this April. I’ve seen the art and our illustrators have outdone themselves. The cover art is from Arthur Haywood and it’s warm, hopeful and magical all at once.
The upcoming Space and Time Flash is still in the organizing stage. The idea behind this monthly online offspring of Space and Time is to offer it as an introduction to publishing. Working on edits for 14 Spooky Stories for Boys and Girls. Pauline Chow and I have our invited stories in and are now reading through submissions for Coven of the East: Reclaiming Asian Women’s Magical Histories.
Get FREE sci-fi & fantasy ebooks featuring fierce heroines who defy the odds! Magic, mayhem, & power await—are you ready? Claim your books now!
I have a story in this one! Claw Machine: The Anthology is live on Kickstarter! This thrilling collection of speculative fiction grips you with tales of luck, fate & claw machines that take more than they give. Back it now & claim your prize!
Tariffs aren’t affecting just food prices. Food for thought, aka books, are also going to be affected. Libraries are already priceless, but they may become even more vital. Read what Publisher’s Weekly has to say: “The Book Business Prepares for Tariff Turmoil”
spoke with with Sean Murphy on Some Things Considered about “the role of AI in the industry, and the state of literary magazines.” Watch Jane Friedman: The Truth About AI and the Future of Writing here.
over at has a quite the line up of interviews in March. You can see who is on the list and save the dates with her “March Interviews & Info Sessions!” post here.
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🟢 opening for submissions
🔴 closing to submissions
🚀 fiction prose
📖 nonfiction
🪶 poetry
🎨 visual art
♻️ reprints
🏆 awards, contests & grants
⭐ learning, performing & networking
🟢📖🚀🪶 MAR 1 · BookLife is open until April 1 for submissions of self-published books related to humor and satire for their Indie Spotlight feature, a thematic roundup of self-published books both online and in print in Publishers Weekly magazine. Each Indie Spotlight is open to all types of books as long as they match the month's topic. Submissions close for self-published books related to travel, global culture, and food.
https://booklife.com/about-us/booklife-s-indie-spotlight.html
🟢🚀 MAR 1 · Reedsy Prompts is open until the following Friday for short fiction between 1,000 - 3,000 words based on one of five prompts. Writers have until the following Friday at 11.59 pm EST to enter. No fee to enter and have work posted. $5 fee to be eligible for the $250 cash prize. This week’s prompt is: On the Go 🚗.
https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/
🔴🚀🪶🎨 MAR 8 · subTerrain magazine is closing for “a stimulating fusion of fiction, poetry, photography and graphic illustration” to the theme of “dreams.” This project charges fees (or requires purchases) for some submissions so please check their guidelines carefully before submitting.
https://subterrain.ca/about/35/sub-terrain-writer-s-guidelines
⭐ MAR 9 · Inspirational Indie Authors podcast with the Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi) and Howard Lovy. Dive deep into personal stories of indie authors, understanding their pathways to success, challenges faced, and lessons learned. 1 pm GMT.
https://www.allianceindependentauthors.org/inspirational-indie-author-interviews-podcast/
🪶⭐ MAR 9 · Rattlecast livestreams, is part interview and open mic with a prompt-based open mic. Hangout with Rattle editor Timothy Green and Katie Dozier. Each Rattlecast begins with an interview, a writing prompt, and poets reading from the last week’s prompt. | Rattlecast at 8 pm EST.
🔴📖🚀🪶 MAR 10 · Mslexia Magazine is closing for fiction, nonfiction and poetry written by women on the theme of “Snakes.” There are 25 ways of submitting to Mslexia and length, form, and theme requirements vary. As always, check their guidelines before submitting. Payments vary with a minimum of GBP £30.
https://mslexia.co.uk/submit-your-work/
🔴🏆 MAR 10 · The Scholarship From Hell, the only scholarship offered by HWA that puts the recipient right into the intensive, hands-on workshop environment of Horror University, is closing. The winner will receive domestic coach airfare (contiguous 48 states) to and from the StokerCon venue, $50 for luggage reimbursement, a 3-night stay at the convention, free registration to StokerCon, and HU workshops.
https://horrorscholarships.com/the-scholarship-from-hell/
🚀⭐ MAR 10-31 · The Influence of Mike Flanagan on Horror and Gothic Fiction This four week course, which includes creative writing tasks throughout, focuses on Mike Flanagan's extensive catalogue of work, with a particular focus on his Netflix originals (The Fall of the House of Usher, The Haunting of Bly Manor, The Haunting of Hill House, Midnight Mass). From his ability to utilise and rewrite the Gothic woman trope to his carefully constructed atmosphere, incredible jump scares of misdirection and his use of abject horror; we will look at what lessons his work holds to inform and develop our own pieces. Taught by Dr Charlotte Baker, an author and associate lecturer, with an interest in crime, horror and dark romance. From £43.37. Check the listing for times.
🔴🪶 MAR 14 · Rattle Magazine’s “Poets Respond” challenge calls for poems inspired by “a news story or public event from the previous week, and has been written in the time since.” Selected poems will appear as the Sunday poem at Rattle.com which appear to over 10,000 people via RSS feed and daily email service. Poets will receive $100 and a free print magazine subscription. Each week's deadline is Friday midnight PST.
https://rattle.submittable.com/submit/30232/poets-respond-online
🔴🪶 MAR 15 · Eye to the Telescope, a project of Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA), is closing for speculative poetry. Each issue is guest-edited, and submission guidelines will vary for each issue. Payment USD $0.04/word, rounded to nearest dollar; min. $4, max. $25.
https://www.eyetothetelescope.com/submit.html
🔴📖🚀🪶🎨 MAR 15 · kitchen work, a printed journal of food and the table, is closing for fiction, nonfiction, poetry and art on “big kitchens and small kitchens, about cooking, the business of food and the state of restaurants, about family and friends and strangers. What and how we eat and drink.” Current theme is “cities.” Payment is USD $0.20/word, $100 per visual piece.
https://www.kitchenwork.com/submissions
🔴🚀♻️ MAR 15 · Solstitia, a project of Fiction Fans Podcast, is closing for fiction from Flash to Novella length, nonfiction, poetry and visual art that “celebrates all things genre.” Current theme is “Coffeeshop!AU.” Payment: USD $50 per piece.
https://www.fictionfanspodcast.com/solstitia
🔴📖🚀🪶 MAR 15 · Fahmidan Journal's Summer Issue submissions close for poetry and fiction and nonfiction prose. Payment: USD $25 per piece.
https://www.fahmidan.net/journal-submissions
🔴🚀♻️ MAR 15 · Modern Mummies Anthology from Cat Eye Press is closing their call exclusively for BIPOC, 2SLGBTQ+, Disabled, Neurodiverse, and other underrepresented voices with short fiction that updates the “mummy genre” from 1,500 - 5,000 words. There will be a March 1—15 submission window exclusively for BIPOC, 2SLGBTQ+, Disabled, Neurodiverse, and other underrepresented voices. Payment is $0.05 USD per word; $0.01 for reprints.
https://www.cateyepress.com/submissions
🔴🚀🪶🎨♻️ MAR 17 · Collaborature Monthly Contest is closing for fiction and poetry “written by more than one author or include a collaboration of two people (i.e., art and poetry).” Reprints are allowed. Payment is $20 USD.
https://collaborature.blogspot.com/p/contests.html
⭐ MAR 15 · The Submission & Editorial Process: Understanding the Literary World Fahmidan's workshops are as little as $5 with pay-what-you-can options up to $25. All workshops will be recorded via Zoom. Check the listing for times.
https://fahmidanjournal.submittable.com/submit/308885/fahmidan-workshops-2024-2025
🟢📖🚀🪶 MAR 16 · Fahmidan Journal's Autumn Issue submissions open for diverse voices in poetry, fiction and nonfiction prose. Payment: $25 per piece.
https://www.fahmidan.net/journal-submissions
🪶⭐ MAR 16 · Rattlecast livestreams, is part interview and open mic with a prompt-based open mic. Hangout with Rattle editor Timothy Green and Katie Dozier. Each Rattlecast begins with an interview, a writing prompt, and poets reading from the last week’s prompt. | Rattlecast at 8 pm EST.
⭐ MAR 16-22 · The Future of Publishing Mastermind and Writer MBA Conference The Writer MBA Conference is the only writer conference that focuses on creating a cross-disciplinary career across different modalities while bringing together the Author Ecosystem methodology. The mastermind is an elite group of hand-selected authors and publishers in New Orleans. Costs $699 to attend the conference alone, or $2,499 to attend the conference and mastermind. Tickets are discounted to $600 and $2,000.
⭐ MAR 18-20 · Ireland’s Publishing Show: On the Wild Atlantic Way will run in Co. Clare, which is on part of the Wild Atlantic Way route. It is for any writer who is interested in publishing a book, for those who have published and want to scale up, and for anyone who is unsure as to where their career is headed. Costs €279, in Dromoland, County Clare, Ireland.
https://irelandspublishingshow.com/
🔴🪶 MAR 21 · Rattle Magazine’s “Poets Respond” challenge calls for poems inspired by “a news story or public event from the previous week, and has been written in the time since.” Selected poems will appear as the Sunday poem at Rattle.com which appear to over 10,000 people via RSS feed and daily email service. Poets will receive $100 and a free print magazine subscription. Each week's deadline is Friday midnight PST.
https://rattle.submittable.com/submit/30232/poets-respond-online
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