First Ever Linzner Awards!
Authortunities #52│March 16—April 13
Authortunities is a year old now and I think it’s the best thing I’ve ever published. With this issue, I have graduated my assistant Lenoff to working on Space and Time’s neglected social media and I’ve taken back over here. Authortunities Year Two has begun with an audit of every entry. There’s also a new form anyone can submit to. I’ll include all I can. Priority is always given to paid submission calls and no fee contests. Readings, open mics, submission calls, contest, workshops, grants… send it to me here, or just click the mailbox below.
And now for a really special announcement: The first-ever Linzner Awards! Nominations will open on April 9 for poetry, fiction, nonfiction and art previously published in Space and Time magazine issues published in 2023: #143, #145 and #146. Voting by readers will begin September 9 with the award winners announced during the first-ever LaikaCon (Oct. 30-Nov. 3). Watch this space for more details very soon. There will also be a special nomination for works from all of Space and Time in August. Why open nominations on April 9? To celebrate Space and Time founder Gordon Linzner’s birthday, of course!
Questions? News to share? Drop it in the Ask Me Anything thread here.
What’s Been Going On…
🟠 The Horror Writers Association blog has a WiHM interview series here.
🟠 William Meikle is having a Spring Equinox Giveaway. One winner will win six supernatural ebooks. Enter the giveaway here.
🟠 I was quoted in this great essay on craft by Eugen Bacon on speculative poetry and why we need it. It’s great because of what Eugen said, not because of the quote… I was chuffed to be a part. 🥰 Read FOR WRITERS: Speculative Poetry Is Alive! here.
🟠 If you missed the sixth annual Summer Scares list on National Library Lover’s Day, you can read it here along with a link to the Summer Scares resource page.
🟠 Interested in your own Substack newsletter? Here’s a free workshop series on the basics. https://substack.com/grow
🟠 I finished reading an ARC of The Barricade by Stephanie Ellis to be published by Lycan Valley Press. I can’t wait until this comes out. It’s a really original and good story with a regular, older woman as a hero.
🟠 The Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association just published the 2024 Rhysling Award Candidates for poems published in 2023 here. Proud to have a poem nominated, but even more proud to see all the poems from work I’ve published from the HWA Poetry Showcase X, The Lore of Inscrutable Dreams and Space and Time.
🟠 I just finished reading Dead Girl, Driving and Other Devastations by Carina Bissett for WiHM and I loved it. Truly fresh horror here. Find it on Amazon.
My Writes…
I posted an interview with Joseph Yoshimasu Kamiya │ Ryūkyūan Sanshin Musician and Filmmaker this last week to celebrate his brand new album. Ever wonder what a Ryūkyūan sounds like? You’re welcome.
Your Writes…
Katherine Quevedo is thrilled to announce the publication of her debut mini-chapbook, The Inca Weaver’s Tales, available from Sword & Kettle Press. The Inca Weaver’s Tales traverses a fabled landscape inspired by Ecuadorian and Peruvian folklore in rich, cyclical verse that mimics the interconnected nature of humanity and divinity as a whole. This mini-chapbook is part of the New Cosmologies series, eleven titles by different authors featuring reinterpretations and retellings, original cosmologies and personal mythologies, prose and poetry, beginnings of universes and ends of worlds. Find The Inca Weaver’s Tales by Katherine Quevedo here.
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What’s Happening in Space and Time?
Well, besides the Linzner Awards (read above), almost everything is with Anthony R. Rhodes for his incredible layout work. The artists are due to have the illustrations due back in early April. The last contract just came in so payments for prose and poetry will go out asap. Lenoff Arce is working on a series of short videos featuring the authors in this coming issue. Here’s poet Jeffrey Ogochukwu and on "I Wish… I Wish You’d Be Happy" See the video here on our Facebook page.
While you are waiting for the next issue, there's always free Space and Time! This week’s free issue is #9 from July 1970. It will be free from now until Wednesday, March 20, 2024, 11:59 PM PDT. Get your free issue here.
A big thank you to everyone who reads for free. This boosts our Kindle Edition Normalized Page Count (KENPC). As much as we all want to support each other, who can afford to buy every book? Reviews, shares, likes and KENPC are all easy ways to support your favorite authors.
I’d love to know you better. Here’s a seven question survey about what writers want.
And finally, thank you to all the great sources we get our author opportunities from. You can find a list at 🔗https://angelaysmith.com/subscribe/
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21 🟢 newly opened subs
30 🔴 closing subs
15 ⭐ networking
6 ♻️ reprints
16 📚 education
3 🏆 awards
7 💲 grants
🟢 MAR 15 · Reedsy’s Short Story Contest #242: Fine Art calls for short fiction between 1,000 - 3,000 words based on one of five prompts. Writers have until the following Friday at 11.59pm EST to enter. No fee to enter and have work posted. $5 fee to be eligible for the $250 cash prize. New prompt every Friday.
🔗https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/
🟢 MAR 16 · The Common is open for submissions for fiction, nonfiction, translations, and poetry until June 1. $200 honorarium per prose piece, $40 per poem and $100 per Dispatch. $3 submission fee waived for subscribers.
🔗https://thecommon.submittable.com/submit
🟢 MAR 16 · Fahmidan Journal seeks short stories, poetry and flash until June 15. Payment is $25 per piece.
https://www.fahmidan.net/journal-submissions
⭐📚 MAR 16 · PARSEC, Pittsburgh’s premier Science Fiction & Fantasy Organization, welcomes the public to their monthly meetings held the third Saturday of each month beginning at 12:30 pm EST. Virtual Zoom meeting is available for those who can’t attend in person.
🔗https://parsec-sff.org/monthly-meetings/
📚 MAR 18 · The Horror Writer Association’s Horror University Online presents “Bringing Cosmic Horror Down to Earth: Explore techniques for developing grounded settings, well-developed characters, and troubling themes for effective cosmic horror stories.” to be taught by James Chambers. Online on the Teachable platform, 8 pm EST, workshop costs $65.
🔗https://horror-university.teachable.com/p/bringing-cosmic-horror-down-to-earth
⭐📚 MAR 18 · Rattlecast livestreams, a livestreaming poetry reading and podcast, is part interview and part reading, with a prompt-based open mic. It’s a casual way to hangout with Rattle editor Timothy Green. Each Rattlecast begins with a Poets Respond Live segment, featuring poems about the news, and also features a writing prompt at the end of the show, and open lines for poems written for the last week’s prompt. Raymond Hammond | Rattlecast 237 at 8 pm EST.
⭐📚 MAR 20 · The Ultimate Craft Chat with Steve Almond: The Writer's Cheat Code free workshop is an “opportunity to hang out with Steve Almond and celebrate the release of his new craft book, Truth is the Arrow, Mercy the Bow: A DIY Manual for the Construction of Stories. This craft chat will to provide the ultimate cheat code to story, not just in the form of a lecture but by opening the floor to any questions you might bring about your own work. Workshop lasts from 7:30 pm EST. Pre-register.
🔗https://www.chillsubs.com/writeordie/events/steve-almond
🟢 MAR 20 · Astrolabe re-opens to fiction, creative nonfiction, and photography/art for $50 USD flat rate with free submissions until April 20.
🔗https://www.astrolabe.ooo/submissions
⭐📚 MAR 21 · An online Harvard Diversity Discussion on “Tokenism vs. Representation: Challenges of Being in Diverse Groups of People of Color” will be open to the public via Zoom from 5-6 pm EST.
❗⭐📚 MAR 22 (canceled) · This week’s Rattle Magazine’s livestream Poetry Critique of the Week is canceled due to Rattle's editor Timothy Green taking a vacation from this livestreamed poetry critique on YouTube and Facebook. The viewing audience is normally encouraged to participate. The goal is to help us all become better poets through the honest sharing of our reactions, similar to the experience of an MFA roundtable workshop. Critique of the Week | March 22, 2024 at 4 pm EST.
🔗https://www.youtube.com/@RattlePoetry/featured
🟢 MAR 22 · Reedsy’s Short Story Contest calls for short fiction between 1,000 - 3,000 words based on one of five prompts. Writers have until the following Friday at 11.59pm EST to enter. No fee to enter and have work posted. $5 fee to be eligible for the $250 cash prize. New prompt every Friday.
🔗https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/
🔴 MAR 22 · 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/30232/poets-respond-online
🔴 MAR 23 · So to Speak closes for poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and visual art. "We are looking for work that matches our intersectional feminist viewpoint." Payment is $100 per peice.
🔗http://sotospeakjournal.org/guidelines/
🔴 MAR 23 · NUNUM closes for flash fiction up to 500 words. Payment is $20 CAD per peice. Submit up to three stories per submission for $3.
🔗https://nunum.submittable.com/submit
⭐📚 MAR 25 · The Horror Writer Association’s Horror University Online presents “The Horror Hero's Journey: Learn how to adapt the “hero's journey” template to write epic horror fiction.” Instructor is Tim Waggoner. On the Teachable platform at 8 pm EST, workshop costs $65.
🔗https://horror-university.teachable.com/p/the-horror-hero-s-journey
⭐📚 MAR 25 · Rattlecast livestreams, a livestreaming poetry reading and podcast, is part interview and part reading, with a prompt-based open mic. It’s a casual way to hangout with Rattle editor Timothy Green. Each Rattlecast begins with a Poets Respond Live segment, featuring poems about the news, and also features a writing prompt at the end of the show, and open lines for poems written for the last week’s prompt. Jose Edmundo Ocampo Reyes | Rattlecast 238 at 8 pm EST.
MAR 27 · Two Hour Transport, a monthly Science Fiction and Fantasy virtual reading based in Seattle features readers Coral Alejandra Moore and Patrick Swenson at 6 pm PDT.
🔗https://www.facebook.com/events/1401198980761456?active_tab=about
🔴 MAR 29 · NUNUM closes to sci-fi focused up to 1000 words for their Opolis Anthology 2024. Payment is $20 CAD per peice. No submission fee.
🔗https://nunum.submittable.com/submit
⭐📚 MAR 29 · Rattle Magazine’s livestream Poetry Critique of the Week Rattle's editor hosts a livestreamed poetry critique on YouTube and Facebook, offering suggestions and feedback. The viewing audience is encouraged to participate. The goal is to help us all become better poets through the honest sharing of our reactions, similar to the experience of an MFA roundtable workshop. Critique of the Week | March 29, 2024 at 4 pm EST.
🔗https://www.youtube.com/@RattlePoetry/featured
🟢 MAR 29 · Reedsy’s Short Story Contest calls for short fiction between 1,000 - 3,000 words based on one of five prompts. Writers have until the following Friday at 11.59pm EST to enter. No fee to enter and have work posted. $5 fee to be eligible for the $250 cash prize. New prompt every Friday.
🔗https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/
🔴 MAR 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/30232/poets-respond-online
🔴 MAR 30 · NUNUM closes to sci-fi focused up to 100 words for their Done in a Hundred anthology. Payment is $20 CAD per peice. No submission fee.
🔗https://nunum.submittable.com/submit
🔴♻️ MAR 31 · 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
🔴 MAR 31 · Tahoma Literary Review closes for poetry, fiction, or nonfiction. Payment is $55 for poetry and flash, and $135 for prose pieces over 1500 words. Submission fees for poetry and flash prose are $4; for longer prose the fee is $5.
🔗https://tahomaliteraryreview.submittable.com/submit
🔴 MAR 31 · Booth closes for poetry, fiction, nonfiction, comics, lists, and audio files. “Especially the last four. We want more of those.” Payment is $50, regardless of length. Submission fees $3.
🔗https://booth.submittable.com/submit
🔴 MAR 31 · Zehlreg Augustus Grindstone’s Spectacular Western Oddity Emporium closes for short stories, flash fiction, and poetry where “the Wild West meets Fantasy.” Payment depends upon successful crowdfunding campaign.
🔗https://the-hyperion-tales.com/
🔴🏆💲 MAR 31 · Paul Engle Prize closes for nominations today. Sponsored by Iowa City, UNESCO City of Literature, the winner receives a cash prize of $20,000 USD. The prize is awarded annually to a writer who represents a pioneering spirit in the literary arts through writing, editing, publishing, or teaching, and whose participation in larger issues of the day has contributed to the betterment of the world. Poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers are eligible. Submit a nomination, including a list of the writer's works and a statement about how the writer embodies the spirit of the prize by March 31. Self-nominations are not allowed.
🔗http://iowacityofliterature.org/paul-engle-day
🔴 MAR 31 · Broken Antler Magazine closes to submissions of poetry, fiction, CNF, art and hybrid work. Payment is $20 for print, a token of $10 for work published in online venues.
🔗https://www.brokenantlermag.com/submit
🔴💲 MAR 31 · A Public Space is offering three six-month Writing Fellowships of $1,000 each to emerging poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers who "embrace risk in their work" and have not published a full-length book. The fellows will work with the editors to prepare a piece for publication in A Public Space, receive complimentary access to all A Public Space master classes during the fellowship year, and will also have the opportunity to meet with publishing professionals and participate in a public reading. The Fellowship period is from June 1, 2024, to November 30, 2024. There is no application fee.
🔴 MAR 31 · Rattle Magazine’s Ekphrastic Poetry Challenge closes their call for ekphrastic poetry each month in response to selected visual art. Two winners receive $100 and publication online.
🔗https://www.rattle.com/ekphrastic/
🔴 MAR 31 · Alien Dimensions Issue #26 closes their call for speculative stories from 5000-7000 words. Theme: Mars Colonization 2033. Payment is $20 USD.
🔗https://aliendimensions.com/submission-guidelines/
🔴 MAR 31 · Indiana Review closes for "carefully strange" fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Theme: Mars Colonization 2033. Payment is $5 USD per page with a $25 minimum. There is a $3 submission fee with no-fee submissions from incarcerated writers.
🔗https://indianareview.submittable.com/submit
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