Substack Masterclass & Rhysling Finalists
Authortunities #63│May 25—June 22
Congratulations 2024 Rhysling Award Finalists! Proud to have my poem “Whispers in Ink” from Whispers from Beyond (Crystal Lake Publishing) as a Rhysling Finalist. See all the Finalists on File 770 here.
Also, I’ve introduced a new category! Entries with the microphone emoji (🎤) highlight open mic events. Open mics are important because they are a dependable, often weekly way to get your words heard. I’ve added several regular open mic events to the calendar. I also updated the education emoji from 📚 to 🎓.
Let me know what you’ve been up to! Share your triumphs, tribulations and any author opportunities you find in the comments!
Our Writes
🟠 Speaking of open mics, the Authortunities open mic is tonight at 9 pm EST. Come read poetry or prose. The link to read will be pinned in the LIVE chat 15 minutes prior to showtime. Come read or just support your lit friends.
🟠⭐🎓 JUN 20 · Substack Masterclass for Video Creators Substack is home to the world's best writing and podcasting, all based on the power of direct ownership and subscriptions. Now, they are helping the best video creators build their homes on Substack too. Join this free masterclass at 1:30 EST.
🔗https://lu.ma/sz59ky6q?tk=g4y2Rv
Your Writes
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is bringing back her Author Interview Series and she has started things off with “Inside Every Dream, A Raging Sea by Liz Worth.” If you enjoy poetry as spellwork, you will love reading about Liz Worth and her new collection.🟠
and had a brilliant idea for Substack: selling ebooks direct through this platform. Winston wrote “Selling ebooks on Substack could change publishing forever” to explain the idea. This is now on my wishlist!My Writes
🟠 Listen to, Ryan Aussie Smith, "Voted #1 Creamiest voice on Twitch 3 years running" read “Poinsettia Creams,” the second chapter from my Bram Stoker Award Finalist novella Bitter Suites. You can listen to that here.
🟠 I love listening to
reading my eco-horror poem “Perpetual Snow Days...” for the Ladies of Horror Challenge. Listen to her read here.🟠 Beth Hildenbrand had me laughing so much on her talkshow ALL BOOKED UP. We talk books, babies (why do we use food terminology to describe children?) and awards. If you are looking for humor and books, please check out her YouTube and give her a like and a follow.
🟠 For freelancers: Reedsy has a robust market and a great platform with amazing support for professional editors, designers, marketers, publicists, ghost writers and web designers… Follow this link for a $100 bonus for each of us.
🟠 While I find author opportunities everywhere, you can find a list of my favorite resources and sources here. 🔗https://angelaysmith.com/subscribe/
Comments, questions, compliments or concerns?
🦝This calendar is organized by emoji! Use [ctrl F] to find what you want fast.
🟢 opening subs
🔴 closing subs
⭐ networking
🎤 open mics
🎓 education
♻️ reprints
🏆 awards
💲 grants
🟢 MAY 24 · Reedsy Prompts opens 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 11.59pm 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. This week’s prompt is: #401: Obsession 🦌.
🔗https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/
🔴 MAY 25 · Off Topic Publishing’s Poetry Box closes to submissions of poetry to be sent out as a physical card with tea and chocolate to subscribers. Payment is for $30 CAD.
🔗https://offtopicpublishing.com/opencalls/
⭐🎤 MAY 25 · Authortunities Open Mic Poets and prosers are all invited to read for up to 3 minutes beginning at 9 pm EST. Link to read will be in live chat. Everyone is invited to share bios and links in the comments section. Come, exercise your writes and make friends.
🔗https://www.youtube.com/live/yDfAiVTU9sI?si=JtCfMA1r6KZpm6wX
🟢 MAY 25 · Arsenic and Grandma's Refrigerator: Horror Told in Colours' Anthology is open for submissions until July 7 for prose between 5,000 and 7,000 words on the theme. Payment is $15 plus 50% of the royalties will be equally split amongst the anthology authors with “ further payout once a year for four years after publication.”
🔗https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdgxv4M28U9mGH7BmA47xG4tOgEfVY-A8o7E1nNDMmV1F6nSQ/viewform
⭐🎤 MAY 26 · 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. Nancy Miller Gomez | Rattlecast at 8 pm EST.
🔗https://www.youtube.com/live/yDfAiVTU9sI?si=JtCfMA1r6KZpm6wX
⭐ MAY 26 · GoIndieNow presents This Week In Indies for 2024 a weekly Sunday chat show that covers issues relevant for Indie artists and the scoop on who is publishing what and where you can get it. Broadcasting every Sunday at Noon ET/11a CT/10a MT/9a PT.
⭐ MAY 28 · In Celebration of noam keim's The Land is Holy Join Asian American Writers' Workshop online for a celebration of writer noam keim's The Land is Holy. noam will be joined by Palestinian American writer, Sarah Aziza, and Syrian American playwright, Michael Zalta. Free to attend, registration required.
This event is in collaboration with Radix Media, a worker owned printer and publisher based in Brooklyn, NY.
🔗https://www.eventbrite.com/e/in-celebration-of-noam-keims-the-land-is-holy-tickets-895503885227
⭐🎓 MAY 29 · An online Harvard Diversity Discussion on “Race and Careers: When and How to Talk About Race” will be open to the public via Zoom from 5-6 pm EST.
⭐ MAY 29 · Meet the Author Podcast LIVE with hosts Rob and Joan Carter will be available on YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook and WDJY 99.1 FM RADIO (Atlanta, Georgia). Wednesdays at 7 pm EST. Today’s guest is Noah Asher.
🔗https://indiebooksource.com/podcast/
⭐ MAY 29 · Spofest Poetry and Prose presents The Muse’s Mic: A conversation with Penny Thieme at 7 pm EST. Hosts James Bryant and Ohio Beat Poet Laureate Sandra Feen discuss visual arts with Penny Thieme, as well as delve into her expertise as a facilitator of all creative arts. Includes audience Q&A and game for Zoom participants.
🔗https://www.facebook.com/events/974904617634741/
⭐🏆🎓 MAY 30-JUN 2 · The 2023 StokerCon & Awards Ceremony will be a hybrid conference physically held in San Diego, CA. Registration for the online portion of the conference is from $60 – $1,500. The Bram Stoker Awards ceremony will be Sunday, June 1, and will be streamed live online for the public.
🔗https://www.eventbrite.com/e/stokercon-2024-tickets-657825793657
🔴 MAY 31 · Heartlines close for speculative fiction and poetry about long-term relationships, “stories featuring queer platonic relationships, ace/aro love stories, and polycules.” Payment is $0.08 CAD per word for short fiction (1,000-3,500 words) and $60 CAD flat per poem. 50% of content is from writers identifying as being from Canada/Turtle Island.
🔗https://www.heartlines-spec.com/submission-guidelines/
🔴 MAY 30 · Kweli Journal closes to self-contained novel excerpts, short stories, creative nonfiction pieces, and poetry, up to 6,000 words. Payment is “We list broad pay categories rather than payment specifics. Check with the publisher for details.Pay ranges from Token payment (under 1 US cent per word) to Semi-pro payment (1-4.9 US cents per word). $50 per poem.
🔗https://www.kwelijournal.org/submit
🔴 MAY 30 · Poet Lore closes for poetry. “We are committed to diversity and inclusivity and highly encourage submissions from marginalized voices.” America's Oldest Poetry Magazine, publishing since 1889. Payment is $50.
🔗https://www.poetlore.com/submit/
🔴 MAY 31 · 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
🟢 MAY 31 · Reedsy Prompts opens 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 11.59pm 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/
⭐🎓 MAY 31 · 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 at 4 pm EST.
🔗https://www.youtube.com/@RattlePoetry/featured
🔴♻️ MAY 31 · Short Story on Substack is closing 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
🔴 MAY 31 · Split Lip Magazine closes for submissions of poems, memoirs, flash, fiction, art, interviews/reviews, and mini-reviews unless the free submissions cap has been reached. 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
🔴♻️ MAY 31 · Touchpoint Press closes submissions until May 31 for three anthologies: Nightmares of Strangers, Christmas and Haunting Tales of Romance from 3,000 – 7,000 words. Payment is a choice of a $50 Amazon gift card or $50 cash via PayPal ($25 for reprints). Reprints accepted.
🔗https://touchpointpress.com/about/submissions/
🔴 MAY 31 · Baltimore Review closes for poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Payment is $50 via Amazon gift certificate or $50 through PayPal and a contributor copy.
🔗https://baltimorereview.org/submit
🔴 MAY 31 · New Orleans Review closes for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Payment is $300 for prose and $100 for poetry. In celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage month, there are no submission fees for all API writers for the month of May, not limited to those living in/born in the US. $3 submission fee otherwise.
🔗https://www.neworleansreview.org/submit/
🔴 MAY 31 · AGNI closes for poetry and prose. Payment is $20 per printed page for prose and $40 per page for poetry, up to $300. $3 fee for online submissions, no fee for USPS submissions.
🔗https://agnionline.bu.edu/submit/
🔴 MAY 31 · Weird Little Worlds is closing submissions for their The Robots Were Right: Tales of Unstoppable Technology anthology. Payments are .5 per word (500 – 5000 words) and poetry at $1 per line (>50 Lines). No reprints or multiple submissions. Simultaneous submissions welcome. Payment will increase with Kickstarter stretch goals.
🔗https://weirdlittleworlds.com/submissions/
🔴🏆 MAY 31 · 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 April. 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/
🔴💲 MAY 31 · The Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing offers $10,000 and publication for a debut book of nonfiction by a first-generation immigrant. Eligible writers “must not have previously published a book-length work in English in the genre in which they’re applying.” The prize alternates annually between fiction and nonfiction, with 2024 being fiction. There is no entry fee.
🔗https://restlessbooks.org/prize-for-new-immigrant-writing-guidelines-and-eligibility
🔴 MAY 31 · Rattle Magazine’s Ekphrastic Poetry Challenge closes for ekphrastic poetry in response to selected visual art posted on their page. Two winners receive $100 and publication online.
🔗https://www.rattle.com/ekphrastic/
🏆🔴 MAY 31 · 2024 Elgin Award Nominations closes for books of speculative poetry first published during 2022 and 2023. Only current members of Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA) may nominate; however, the author of the nominated book or chapbook need not be an SFPA member. This year’s chair is Felicia Martínez.
🔗https://www.sfpoetry.com/el/elgnom.html
🔴 MAY 31 · Strange Aeon: 2024 (Mythic Art) closes for cosmic horror/Lovecraftian vein. Payment is “$20 and a compensatory copy for the author, or $35 for authors outside the USA.”
🔗https://mkeatonauthor.blogspot.com/2024/
🔴 MAY 31 · Weird Little Worlds closes for submissions of prose at .5 per word (500 – 5000 words) and poetry at $1 per line (>50 Lines) for their upcoming The Robots Weren’t Wrong: Tales of Unstoppable Technology anthology. No reprints or multiple submissions. Simultaneous submissions welcome.
🔗https://weirdlittleworlds.com/submissions/
🔴♻️ MAY 31 · Siren’s Call eZine closes for short stories, flash fiction, drabbles, and poetry that fit within the horror/dark fiction genre. Reprints welcome. No payment. Reach 35,000 readers! Advertise for only $10 for a full page ad.
🔗http://www.sirenscallpublications.com/open_subs.htm
🔴 MAY 31 · The Spring Black River Chapbook Competition closes for unpublished chapbooks of poetry or prose between 16-36 pages in length from new, emerging, and established writers. The winner will receive book publication, a $500 cash award, and ten copies of the book. Entry fee: $18.
🔗https://blacklawrencepress.submittable.com/submit
🔴 MAY 31 · Crannóg closes for general submissions of poetry and prose. Payment is €120 per poem, €200 per story, author interview, and cover image.
🔗https://crannogmagazine.com/submit
🔴 MAY 31 · Shallow Waters Flash Fiction Contest from Crystal Lake Entertainment closes for stories up to 1,500 words inspired by Stephen King’s Carrie. The top 15 to 20 stories will be posted on our Patreon page for our patrons to vote on. 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 additional $50. Second and third-place authors will also be invited to be published in the Hotel Macabre anthology series.
🔗https://www.patreon.com/posts/theme-for-this-103436012
🔴 MAY 31 · Havok closes for flash fiction to the theme of “Remember August” in “all five genres: mystery, science fiction, humor, thriller, and fantasy.” Payment is $50 via PayPal for each story selected for an Anthology; no payment for online publication.
🔗https://gohavok.com/submission-guidelines/upcoming-themes/
⭐🎤 MAY 31 · Open Minds Open Mic begins at 7 pm EST for all sorts of performers including welcome all kinds of performers including poetry readings, spoken word, stories, singing, fashion, dancing, painting, comedy, magic, music and acting. Sign up is is order of arrival. Watch their Instagram for the Zoom link to read.
🔗https://www.instagram.com/OpenMindsOpenMic/
🔴 JUN 1 · Eternal Haunted Summer closes for poetry and short fiction with the theme "Garden." Payment is $5.
🔗https://eternalhauntedsummer.com/about/
🔴 JUN 1 · Parabola, a quarterly journal, closes for original fiction, poetry, essays and translations exploring the theme 'Grief and Gratitude.' Payment details are unspecified, but rumored to be several hundred dollars. Have requested details and will update when I have an answer.
🔗https://parabola.org/submissions/
🔴♻️ JUN 1 · Escape Pod closes for General Submissions of original science fiction from 1,500-6,000 words, reprints from 1,500-7,500 words, novelette reprints from 1,500-7,500 words and audio submissions for narrators. Payment is $0.08 per word for original fiction and $100 per story for reprints. Reprints accepted.
🔗https://escapepod.org/guidelines/short-fiction/
🟢 JUN 1 · The SFPA Speculative Poetry Contest opens until August 31 to all poets, including non-SFPA-members for speculative poetry in any form. Prizes will be awarded for best unpublished poem in 3 categories: Dwarf (poems 1–10 lines, prose poems 0–100 words); Short (11–49 lines, prose poems 101–499 words); Long (50 lines and more, prose 500 words and up. Winning poets will be awarded $150 First Prize, $75 Second Prize, $25 Third Prize and publication on the SFPA website for first through third places in all categories. $3 entry fee, the contest is chaired by Angela Yuriko Smith and judged by Stephanie Wytovich.
🔗https://www.sfpoetry.com/contests.html
🟢 JUN 1 · Silk & Sinew opens until June 8 for South Asian diaspora writers and from June 8-30 for ALL Asian diaspora writers, submissions capped at 300. Edited by Kristy Park Kulski, submissions will be for folk horror rooted in the experience of the Asian Diaspora from 3000-5000 words. Payment is .5 a word.
🟢 JUN 1 · THREE COUSINS PUBLISHING, an imprint of WEST MESA PRESS, will be accepting submissions until midnight July 31 for their next anthology, The Trouble with Time. Stories submitted before or after the submission period will not be considered. Payment is $10 USD Amazon gift card.
🟢 JUN 1 · Havok is open until August 2 for flash fiction to the theme of “Remember October” in “all five genres: mystery, science fiction, humor, thriller, and fantasy.” Payment is $50 via PayPal for each story selected for an Anthology; no payment for online publication.
🔗https://gohavok.com/submission-guidelines/upcoming-themes/
🟢 JUN 1 · New Orleans Review closes for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Payment is $300 for prose and $100 for poetry. In celebration of Pride, there are no submission fees for LGBTQIA2+ writers in June. “We are especially interested in trans, non-binary, and gender non-conforming voices.” $3 submission fee otherwise.
🔗https://www.neworleansreview.org/submit/
🟢 JUN 1 · Diet Milk Magazine is open until July 8 for submissions of “poetry, prose, and visual art of all kinds.” Payment is $15 per poem, $0.01 per word ($40 minimum) for short stories, and $50 per art piece.
🔗https://duotrope.com/duosuma/submit/diet-milk-magazine-rv29z
✅🟢 JUN 1 · Rattle Magazine’s Ekphrastic Poetry Challenge opens until the last day of the month for ekphrastic poetry in response to selected visual art posted on their page. Two winners receive $100 and publication online.
🔗https://www.rattle.com/ekphrastic/
🟢 JUN 1 · Black Lawrence Press opens for general submissions until June 30 for novel, novella, short story collection (full-length and chapbook), poetry (full-length and chapbook), biography & cultural studies, translation (from the German), and creative nonfiction from new, emerging, and established writers.
🔗https://blacklawrencepress.com/events
🟢 JUN 1 · Electric Spec is open for speculative fiction stories of “science fiction, fantasy, and the macabre” between 250 and 7000 words for their August issue until July 15. Payment is $20 per piece.
🔗http://www.electricspec.com/Submissions.html
🟢 JUN 1 · Off Topic Publishing’s Poetry Box opens to submissions of poetry until the 25th of the month. Selected poems to be sent out as a physical card with tea and chocolate to subscribers. Payment is for $30 CAD.
🔗https://offtopicpublishing.com/opencalls/
🟢 JUN 1 · Strange Horizons is open for speculative poetry submissions year-round, including at times when Strange Horizons is closed to fiction submissions. The editors operate on a rotation system, so the person who reads and replies to your poem will depend on when you send it. Payment is $50 USD per poem, regardless of length or complexity.
🔗 http://strangehorizons.com/submit/poetry-submission-guidelines/
🟢 JUN 1 · The Forge Literary Magazine calls for fiction and nonfiction under 3,000 words including flash and micro fiction for $100 flat rate until the free submissions quota is full. “If there is no free link, we’ve hit our quota.”
🔗https://forgelitmag.com/submit/
🟢 JUN 1 · Robert and Adele Schiff Awards hosted by The Cincinnati Review opens until July 15 for submissions of poetry, fiction and literary nonfiction for publication in The Cincinnati Review prize issue, and winning authors will receive $1,000 each. All entries will be considered for publication in The Cincinnati Review.
🔗https://www.cincinnatireview.com/contests/robert-and-adele-schiff-awards/
🟢 JUN 1 · Split Lip Magazine opens tip jar submissions for poems, memoirs, flash, fiction, art, interviews/reviews, and mini-reviews until June 30. 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
🟢 JUN 1 · New Myths opens until July 31 for fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, book reviews and poetry. Payment is 3 cents/word with a minimum payment of $50, $50 flat rate for reviews and art for $80.
🔗https://sites.google.com/newmyths.com/newmyths-com-home/submissions?authuser=0
🟢 JUN 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/
🟢♻️ JUN 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
🟢 JUN 1 · Bourbon Penn is open now for 2000-7500 word “highly imaginative stories with a healthy dose of the odd… looking for genre / speculative stories and are quite partial to slipstream, cross-genre, magic realism, absurdist, and the surreal." Payment is .04 cents per word.
🔗https://www.bourbonpenn.com/submissions
🟢♻️ JUN 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/
🟢💲 JUN 1 · Horror Writers Association Scholarships open to all horror writers from June 1-Aug 1 with a variety of scholarships to assist writers looking to pursue a career as a writer of horror fiction, nonfiction, or poetry. They also offer one endowment to libraries to expand their young adult reading programs. HWA membership is not a requirement. The available scholarships are:
💲The Horror Writers Association Scholarship, $2500
http://horrorscholarships.com/hwa-scholarship/
💲The Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Scholarship, $2500 http://horrorscholarships.com/mary-shelley-scholarship/
💲Up to 4 Diversity Grants, $500
http://horrorscholarships.com/diversity-grants/
💲The Dark Poetry Scholarship, $1,250
http://horrorscholarships.com/dark-poetry-scholarship/
💲The Dennis Etchison Young Writers Scholarship, $500
http://horrorscholarships.com/dennis-etchison-young-writers-scholarship/
💲Up to 5 Young Adults Write Now endowment program, $250
http://horrorscholarships.com/young-adults-write-now-endowment-program/
⭐🎤 JUN 1 · Authortunities Open Mic Poets and prosers are all invited to read for up to 3 minutes beginning at 9 pm EST. Link to read will be in live chat. Everyone is invited to share bios and links in the comments section. Come, exercise your writes and make friends.
🔗https://www.youtube.com/live/cgP4k5qgl6k?si=VZ56I4GLIQHmfYkq
⭐🎤 JUN 2 · 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. Alan Shapiro | Rattlecast at 8 pm EST.
⭐ JUN 2 · GoIndieNow presents This Week In Indies for 2024 a weekly Sunday chat show that covers issues relevant for Indie artists and the scoop on who is publishing what and where you can get it. Broadcasting every Sunday at Noon ET/11a CT/10a MT/9a PT.
🔴💲 JUN 2 · The Donna Wolf-Palacio Poetry Prize, an annual prize of $500 and publication by Finishing Line Press for a poetry book. Submit a manuscript of 40 to 99 pages with a $10 entry fee.
🔴 JUN 5 · Poet Lore: jason b. crawford’s Guest Edited Folio closes for ekphrastic poetry. “We are committed to diversity and inclusivity and highly encourage submissions from marginalized voices.” Payment is $50. America's Oldest Poetry Magazine, publishing since 1889.
🔗https://www.poetlore.com/submit/
⭐ JUN 5 · Meet the Author Podcast LIVE with hosts Rob and Joan Carter will be available on YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook and WDJY 99.1 FM RADIO (Atlanta, Georgia). Wednesdays at 7 pm EST. Featuring Angela Yuriko Smith.
🔗https://indiebooksource.com/podcast/
⭐🏆🎓 JUN 6-9 · The 2024 Nebula Conference & Awards Ceremony will be a hybrid conference, combining some of the innovative techniques developed while pivoting to online conferences over the past few years. Physically held in Pasadena, California, the Registration for the online portion of the conference is $150 and includes access to broadcasts of many of the weekend’s panels and the subsequent archive, mentorship opportunities, the Nebula Awards ceremony, a conference Discord, and entry to the ongoing Nebula conference events. In person conference tickets are $449. The Nebula Awards ceremony will be Sunday, June 9, and will be streamed live online for the public.
⭐ JUN 7 · First Friday - Third Thursday Quick Read features 6 authors each reading a selection of speculative fiction for 8 minutes. There will be time for questions & answers at the end and a giveaway from the authors. This free event is hosted by Strong Women - Strange Worlds and features Yangsze Choo, Kristy Gardner, Rowan Hill, Polly Holyoke, Rue Sparks, and Liv Strom. Pre-register.
🔗https://strongwomenstrangeworlds.weebly.com/
🔴 JUN 7 · 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
⭐🎓 JUN 7 · 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 at 4 pm EST.
🔗https://www.youtube.com/@RattlePoetry/featured
🟢 JUN 7 · Reedsy Prompts 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/
⭐🎤 JUN 7 · Open Minds Open Mic begins at 7 pm EST for all sorts of performers including welcome all kinds of performers including poetry readings, spoken word, stories, singing, fashion, dancing, painting, comedy, magic, music and acting. Sign up is is order of arrival. Watch their Instagram for the Zoom link to read.
🔗https://www.instagram.com/OpenMindsOpenMic/
🟢 JUN 8 · Silk & Sinew opens until June 30 for ALL Asian diaspora writers, with submissions capped at 300. Edited by Kristy Park Kulski, submissions will be for folk horror rooted in the experience of the Asian Diaspora from 3000-5000 words. Payment is .5 a word.
⭐🎤 JUN 8 · Authortunities Open Mic Poets and prosers are all invited to read for up to 3 minutes beginning at 9 pm EST. Link to read will be in live chat. Everyone is invited to share bios and links in the comments section. Come, exercise your writes and make friends.
🔗https://www.youtube.com/live/zGyf6SiZx-U?si=H68v95mH2vj7hgb9
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