Authortunities #27 for September 23-October 21
Authortunities has an assistant!! ➕ Your Signal Boost invite ➕ FREE on Amazon May 1975 Space and Time #30 〓 an ALL FREE issue read in all 50 US states and 36 countries!
Hot, fresh authortunities for a hot, fresh new week… but hopefully not as hot as it’s been for all of you in the northern hemisphere. Apparently we get our turn on the south half of the world this weekend with temps predicted to break records on Sunday.
🔥In other hot news, Authortunities has grown large enough to merit having an assistant! To celebrate, an all free issue! Please welcome Lenoff to Team Authortunity. So far it’s consisted of me, Chupacabra (the Choweenie desk goblin) and all the helpful readers who send items in. Keep it coming at aysmith.authortunities@gmail.com.
🔊Speaking of those wonderful readers that send items in, I have a short Signal Boost from Laura Kester Duerrwaechter asking authors to share their books with “charities, libraries, deployed military, retirement homes, prisons, schools, boys and girls club, and/or institutions of higher learning.” She will be traveling to Tucson next month to donate a complete collection of her own work to the Poetry Center at University of Arizona. If you are interested in sending your books to the Poetry Center, you can read her message at Author Asks for Win-win Book Share and leave a comment for her.
You are also invited to share your own Signal Boost by emailing me at aysmith.authortunities@gmail.com with “Signal Boost” in the subject line. Book releases, work sold, appearances or a nice reminder like Laura’s always welcome. I’ll use what I can (no hate, no guarantees).
Another Signal Boost: Do you like reading the strange and unusual? 🤖Subscribe to Cyber Talks, the official newsletter for Maxwell I. Gold! The first issue drops in October and will be a monthly newsletter. Stay tuned for weird horror, poetry, the occasional author happenings, book news, and more. Mailing list sign up here. 🔗http://eepurl.com/izjq4g
Ever wonder where I gather the information for my calendar? I have some great sources and they all deserve credit. We keep an eye on them all week looking for new opportunities. If you’d like to browse them yourself, I keep a list on my blog. 🔗 https://angelaysmith.com/subscribe/
Ready for a present? Many issues of Space and Time magazine are now free to read on Kindle Unlimited! For those without Kindle Unlimited, there is a new free issue up on Amazon each week. This week it’s true vintage—May 1975, Issue #30. 🚀 Find it here https://amzn.to/48iUgsp
The Space and Time magazine Free Book Promotion will be from Sunday, September 24, 2023, 12:00 AM PDT Thursday, September 28, 2023, 11:59 PM PDT. Reviews and shares always appreciated.
And that’s it from me this week. Enjoy this week’s authortunities and go write something that matters.
In this entire calendar share you will find:
21 newly opened submissions 🟢
27 submission deadlines 🔴
5 events for authors ⭐
10 reprint markets ♻️
2 education 📚
3 award 🏆
2 grants 💲
Send comments, items, Signal Boosts+ to aysmith.authortunities@gmail.com.
🟢 ONGOING · Bourbon Penn seeks “highly imaginative stories with a healthy dose of the odd” from 2000 - 7500 words for 3¢ / word. 🔗https://www.bourbonpenn.com/submissions
🟢 OPEN NOW · Planet Scumm seeks “Hard sci-fi, soft sci-fi, sci-fi that melts in your mouth-brain not your hand-brain” of no more than 5,000 words words until November 5. Payment is $0.06 per word. 🔗https://www.planetscumm.space/submit
⭐ SEP 23 · Exorcise Your Writes for horror writers on the Horror Writers Association YouTube channel. Members of the Horror Writer’s Association can watch for the column of the same name in the HWA monthly newsletter to find out what guests are coming up, and how you can be a guest as well. See what you may have missed. Every Saturday at 2 pm EST with Angela Yuriko Smith. 🔗 Metaphysical Traditions with Benebell Wen
🟢 SEP 24 · Shoreline of Infinity closes for science fiction up to 6,000 words. Payment is £20/1000 words. 🔗https://www.shorelineofinfinity.com/submissions/
🔴 SEP 25 · The Ex-Puritan is closed for interviews, essays, reviews, fiction, poetry and experimental work for their November issue. Payment ranges from $35 CAD per page for poetry to $200 CAD for essays.
🔗https://puritan-magazine.submittable.com/submit
📚 SEP 26 · Be the Boss of Your Own Time: Achieve Your Ideal Freelance Lifestyle is a free Reedsy sponsored 90 minute workshop where freelance coach Sarah Duran runs a workshop on how to be the boss of your time and achieve the lifestyle you want through freelance work. Whether you’re completely new to freelancing, or you’ve been doing it for a while but want to revamp your business, this workshop will help you: Understand the conditions that allow you to do your best work, analyze your work in terms of revenue, significance, preference, and skill, identify things to focus on (and not focus on) that bring you joy and revenue, and map your ideal day, week, and month. Noon EST, 9 am PST, 5 pm UK. To register 🔗https://tinyurl.com/3xhfapak
🔴🏆 SEP 29 · The Edgar® Awards, sponsored by the Mystery Writers of America, honor the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction, television, film, and theater. Submissions close for books published in August. Books must be submitted during the month of publication. In addition, the book MUST arrive to the judges within 30 days of sending the submission form to the national office. 🔗https://mysterywriters.org/edgars/edgar-submission-information/
🔴 SEP 29 · 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 complimentary subscription to the print magazine. The deadline for each week is Friday at midnight PST.
🔗https://rattle.submittable.com/submit
⭐ SEP 29 · The Pixel Project proudly presents our 21st live "Read For Pixels" YouTube Livestream Panel Session, “Tackling the Terrors of #MeToo: A 10-Year Retrospective on Sexism, Misogyny, and Violence Against Women in Horror”, featuring acclaimed Horror authors Angela Yuriko Smith, Linda D. Addison, and Paul Tremblay. Viewers can also support our anti-violence against women initiatives such as this panel session by donating to get fabulously cool and exclusive goodies for donors from our upcoming 10th Anniversary Read For Pixels fundraiser (https://tinyurl.com/R4PRallyUp2023) which will include exclusive goodies Angela Yuriko Smith, Linda D. Addison, and Paul Tremblay. The fundraiser will from September 1st – 30th 2023. The 10th annual Fall Edition of the “Read For Pixels” YouTube Livestream session series features live YouTube Livestream sessions with award-winning bestselling authors in support of The Pixel Project’s work to end violence against women (www.thepixelproject.net).
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/live/P6hAlZa2exg?si=CQ6_FVRy9EiGNmhl
CANCELED 🔴 SEP 30 · Little Bastards: Too-Short Horror Stories Nobody Wants, Edited by Alexis DuBon and Brandon Applegate closes for short dark fiction between 1000 and 2000 words. Payment is $0.08 per word. 🔗https://www.hungryshadowpress.com/submissions-little-bastards
🔴 SEP 30 · Split Lip Magazine closes free submissions for poems, memoirs, flash, fiction, art, interviews/reviews, and mini-reviews. Payment is $75 per author for poems, memoirs, flash, fiction, and art, $50 for interviews/reviews, and $25 for mini-reviews. 🔗https://splitlipthemag.com/submit
🔴 SEP 30 · Chicken Soup for the Soul seeks stories or poems on the theme “Miracles, messages from heaven, angels” for $250 paid “one month after publication of the book and you will receive ten free copies of the book your story or poem appears in.” 🔗https://www.chickensoup.com/story-submissions/submit-your-story/
🔴 SEP 30 · SO, I MARRIED A NARCISSIST [Hellbound Books] seeks “ tales of terror and woe at the hands of that most heinous of monsters, a narcissist” from 2.5K-6K words for $10. 🔗https://hellboundbookspublishing.com/subs-anthologies.html
🔴♻️ SEP 30 · Short Story on Substack is closed for short stories from 6- 10,000 words in any genre. Payment is $100 + 50% of subscription revenue to be sent by Paypal, Zelle, or check. Selected story to be announced on the 15th. Reprints welcome. 🔗https://shortstory.substack.com/about?nthPub=601
🔴🏆💲 SEP 30 · The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction submission period closes September 30. The winner will receive $15,000 and finalists will receive $5,000 each. $75 entry fee 🔗https://www.penfaulkner.org/our-awards/pen-faulkner-award/
🔴 SEP 30 · Rattle Magazine’s Ekphrastic Poetry challenge calls for poems inspired by a visual art prompt posted on their site. Poets have until the end of the month to write. Two winners will receive online publication and $100 each. 🔗https://www.rattle.com/ekphrastic/
🔴 SEP 30 · Shallow Waters Flash Fiction Contest [Crystal Lake Entertainment] seeks “Horror Onboard: Boat/Ship related stories” of max 1,500 words. “The winner will receive $0.03 per word, publication, and an Author Spotlight on our newsletter and Patreon page. The second place winner will receive $0.02 a word, and the third place winner $0.01 per word. The winner will also have the option of hosting the following month’s contest for an extra payment and a profit share from any new patrons joining our Patreon during that month.” 🔗https://tinyurl.com/ywz4fsnx
🔴 SEP 30 · The Kenyon Review closes to submissions for short fiction and essays (up to 7,500 words), flash fiction and essays (up to 3 pieces, up to 1,000 words each; please format and submit as a single document), poetry (up to 6 poems; please format and submit as a single document), plays (up to 30 pages double-spaced), and excerpts (up to 30 pages double-spaced) from larger works for payment of $0.08 per published word of prose (minimum $80, maximum $450) and $0.16 per published word of poetry (minimum $40, maximum $200).🔗https://kenyonreview.org/submit/
🔴 SEP 30 · Event Poetry and Prose closes free submissions for poetry and prose. Payment is $40/page for poetry and $35/page for prose, up to a maximum of $500. 🔗https://www.eventmagazine.ca/submit/
⭐ SEP 30 · Exorcise Your Writes for horror writers on the Horror Writers Association channel. Members of the Horror Writer’s Association can watch for the column of the same name in the HWA monthly newsletter to find out what guests are coming up, and how you can be a guest as well. See what you may have missed. Every Saturday at 2 pm EST with Angela Yuriko Smith. 🔗 Playing Games with Frances Ippolito
🕸 ⋆｡°✩🎃 Happy OCTOBER 🎃✩°｡⋆ 🕸
🔴♻️ OCT 1 · Still Point Arts Quarterly closes submissions of historical and contemporary art, fiction, non-fiction, and poetry on the theme of “Living with Art.” For payment “We list broad pay categories rather than payment specifics. Check with the publisher for details.” Reprints. 🔗https://duotrope.com/duosuma/submit/form.aspx?id=50id479-nRb7B-tlH14G1
🟢 OCT 1 · The Ex-Puritan is open for interviews, essays, reviews, fiction, poetry and experimental work until December 25 for their February issue. Payment ranges from $35 CAD per page for poetry to $200 CAD for essays.
🔗https://puritan-magazine.submittable.com/submit
🟢 OCT 1 · Split Lip Magazine opens tip jar submissions for poems, memoirs, flash, fiction, art, interviews/reviews, and mini-reviews until October 31. Payment is $75 per author for poems, memoirs, flash, fiction, and art, $50 for interviews/reviews, and $25 for mini-reviews. 🔗https://splitlipthemag.com/submit
🟢 OCT 1 · The Forge Literary Magazine calls for fiction and nonfiction under 3,000 words including flash and micro fiction for $75 flat rate until the free submissions quota is full. “If there is no free link, we’ve hit our quota.” 🔗https://forgelitmag.com/submit/
🟢 OCT 1 · Apparition Lit’s Reality Show Madness Flash Fiction Prompt opens for submissions of speculative flash fiction (under 1k words) prompted by “Paranormal Investigators/Ghost Hunters” until the 14th. Payment is $30 USD.
🔗https://apparitionlit.com/submissions/
🟢 OCT 1 · Rattle Magazine’s Ekphrastic Poetry challenge calls for poems inspired by a visual art prompt posted on their site. Poets have until the end of the month to write. Two winners will receive online publication and $100 each. 🔗https://www.rattle.com/ekphrastic/
🟢 OCT 1 · Flame Tree Fiction Newsletter calls for monthly themed submissions from newsletter subscribers only (free to subscribe) up to 1k words for $0.08 per word USD for original fiction. 🔗https://www.flametreepress.com/submissions/
🟢 OCT 1 · Diet Milk Magazine, a “biannual literary magazine devoted to Gothic” opens until October 31 for submissions of “ micro and flash fiction for its December series, IN THE BLEAK MIDWINTER” for $3 per micro fiction and $2 per flash fiction. “Twenty-five works will be chosen to be posted from December 1st through Christmas to our website and boosted on twitter.”
🔗https://duotrope.com/duosuma/submit/diet-milk-magazine-rv29z
🟢♻️ OCT 1 · The Other Stories Podcast calls for 2,000 word speculative fiction on the theme of “Crime II” for a $15 GBP flat rate until October 14. 🔗https://theotherstories.net/submissions/
🟢 OCT 1 · evOke is open to "prosperity magic" themed submissions of artwork, poetry, short fiction, essays, interviews, lifestyle and reviews on things "Pagan, polytheist, and witchy" until the 15th of the month. Also interested in video and audio content. Payment is $5.
🔗https://ev0kepublication.com/contributors/
🟢♻️ OCT 1 · Flash Fiction Online calls for speculative fiction flash from 500-1k words for $80 USD flat rate until October 21 or “unless we reach our submission cap of 425 stories”. 🔗https://www.astrolabe.ooo/submissions
🟢 OCT 1 · Broken Sleep Books opens for poetry pamphlets (up to 40 pages) from October 1 to November 30. Payment is 10% royalties, with the author receiving five (5) free author copies and a 50% discount on future purchases. Simultaneous submissions.
🔗 https://www.brokensleepbooks.com/submissions
🟢 OCT 1 · Coffee House Press seeks book-length fiction and nonfiction manuscripts. Call closes when the cap of 200 is reached, so early submission is advised. Payment is royalties.
🔗 https://coffeehousepress.org/pages/submissions
🟢♻️ OCT 1 · Showcase: Object & Idea seeks flash fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. A poem and a prose piece are selected for each monthly issue, and the authors answer questions about the meaning behind their work. Payment is $50. Reprints accepted.
🔗 https://theshowcase.submittable.com/submit
🟢♻️ OCT 1 · Short Story on Substack is open for short stories from 6-10,000 words in any genre. Payment is $100 + 50% of subscription revenue to be sent by Paypal, Zelle, or check. Selected story to be announced on the 15th. Reprints welcome.
🔗 https://shortstory.substack.com/about?nthPub=601
🟢♻️ OCT 1 · Poetry on Substack is open for poems with “a rhyme scheme or a rhythm scheme” (no blank or free verse) in any genre. Payment is $10 + 50% of subscription revenue to be sent by Paypal, Zelle, or check. Winners announced every Sunday. Reprints welcome.
🔗 https://poetica.substack.com/about
🟢 OCT 1-2 · Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores is open for new work, reprints, poetry (up to 40 lines) and prose from 1,000 words and up. Payment is .08 per word for new fiction, .02 per word for reprints, .02-.08 for new fact based work, .01-.04 for reprinted fact based work, $1 per line for original poetry, .50 per line for reprinted poetry. No simultaneous or multiple submissions. 🔗 https://cosmicrootsandeldritchshores.com/submissions/
🟢 OCT 2 · The Nimrod International Journal, a nonprofit literary magazine published by The University of Tulsa, invites poems, short stories, creative nonfiction pieces, and translations on the theme of refuge up to 7,500 words; poetry may be up to 7 pages. $3 reading fee, payment is $10/printed page with a $200 maximum. 🔗https://nimrodjournal.submittable.com/submit
⭐ OCT 6-8 · H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival® & CthulhuCon has been a Portland institution for over two decades. This is the 28th Annual event with 3 days of new & classic movies, guests, panels, and fun at the historic Hollywood Theatre in Portland, OR. 🔗https://hplfilmfestival.com/
🔴 OCT 6 · 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 complimentary subscription to the print magazine. The deadline for each week is Friday at midnight PST.
🔗 https://rattle.submittable.com/submit
🔴 OCT 9 · Mslexia Issue 100 has 17 ways to submit, including four-line poems, 3,000-word lead articles, 300-word bedtime stories to 700-word memoir performance pieces. Payment varies but begins at £30. Authors for this issue will be notified of acceptance by November 2023. 🔗 https://mslexia.co.uk/submit-your-work/
🔴 OCT 13 · 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 complimentary subscription to the print magazine. The deadline for each week is Friday at midnight PST.
🔗https://rattle.submittable.com/submit
🔴 OCT 14 · Apparition Lit’s Reality Show Madness Flash Fiction Prompt closes to submissions of speculative flash fiction (under 1k words) prompted by “Paranormal Investigators/Ghost Hunters” until the 14th. Payment is $30 USD.
🔗https://apparitionlit.com/submissions/
🔴♻️ OCT 14 · The Other Stories Podcast closes to 2,000 word speculative fiction on the theme of “Crime II” for a $15 GBP flat rate on October 14. 🔗https://theotherstories.net/submissions/
🔴 OCT 15 · Event Poetry and Prose closes their 2023 Non-Fiction Contest. $34.95 per entry; includes a one-year subscription (or renewal) to EVENT. Prizes: $3,000 in total, plus publication in EVENT: $1,500 First Place; $1,000 Second Place; $500 Third Place. This year’s judge is Omar Mouallem. 🔗https://www.eventmagazine.ca/contest-nf/
🔴 OCT 15 · BEYOND THE BOUNDS OF INFINITY [Raw Dog Screaming Press] seeks “cosmic horror and weird tales written by marginalized peoples whose experiences and worldviews have influenced their interpretation of dread” of 2000 – 4000 words for 8 cents per word. 🔗https://rawdogscreaming.com/contact/
🔴 OCT 15 · Electric Spec seeks speculative fiction stories of “science fiction, fantasy, and the macabre” between 250 and 7000 words for $20 per piece. Submissions for the November issue close October 15. 🔗http://www.electricspec.com/Submissions.html
🔴 OCT 15 · evOke is closed to "prosperity magic" themed submissions of artwork, poetry, short fiction, essays, interviews, lifestyle and reviews on things "Pagan, polytheist, and witchy." Also interested in video and audio content. Payment is $5.
🔗https://ev0kepublication.com/contributors/
🔴♻️ OCT 15 · Reach 35,000 readers! Siren’s Call eZine seeks short stories, flash fiction, drabbles, and poetry that fit within the horror/dark fiction genre to the current theme of “when Hell freezes over.” Reprints welcome. No payment. Advertise for only $10 for a full page ad. All story, flash, and poem submissions MUST be submitted to Submissions@SirensCallPublications.com for consideration. 🔗http://www.sirenscallpublications.com/open_subs.htm
🔴 DEC 16 · Rattle Magazine’s “Tribute to Collaborations” calls for poems “written as collaborations. The poems may be any subject, style, or length, but must have been written by two or more co-authors.” Payment is $200 per published poem to be divided among the co-authors. Closes October 16.
🔗https://rattle.submittable.com/submit
🔴 OCT 20 · 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 complimentary subscription to the print magazine. The deadline for each week is Friday at midnight PST.
🔗https://rattle.submittable.com/submit