Authortunities April 12-26
The free version of my weekly calendar of open paying submissions, grants, contests, fellowships, events and more.
Welcome to my personal list of author related opportunities expanded. Here you will find approximately:
40 open submissions
6 events for authors
5 reprint markets
2 grants
If you know of something you think should be included, send it to me to add. If you find success through this list, let me know so I can share that too. Feel free to pass this on, and thank you and good luck! 😉
How to read the list:
🔴 Submission deadline.
🟢Submission opening.
💰 Grant, fellowship, employment.
⭐Event of author interest.
📰 Fresh news.
Here are the next two weeks of authortunity for you:
📰 April 15-May 15 Submissions for the annual HWA Poetry Showcase open until May 15. This is an adjustment of the original submission period. The Showcase is only open to members of the Horror Writers Association (horror.org). Payment is $10 USD plus print contributor copy. The link to Submittable will be shared on HWA’s social media and released in their iMailer, and at https://horror.org/coming-to-a-shelf-near-you-poetry-showcase-volume-x/
⭐April 12: Exercise Your Writes with Colleen Anderson who tells about the brand new SFPA award just announced. Check the YouTube link for times in your area. New Award Announcement from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association
🔴April 12: Funicular Magazine publishes quality fiction and poetry that shocks, surprises, moves, and tickles them. Payment of $25 per work of flash fiction and poetry and $10 per printed page of short fiction (to a maximum of $100) plus one contributor copy of Funicular Magazine. Details: https://funicularmagazine.submittable.com/submit
🔴April 12: 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.For details: https://theshowcase.submittable.com/submit
⭐April 13: Galactic Terrors online reading series, featuring readings by GARY FRANK, KATHERINE SILVA, and JOHN G. HARTNESS with co-hosts Carol Gyzander and James Chambers! Enjoy stories and live Q&A with the authors. Check the YouTube link for times in your area. Galactic Terrors April 2023
🔴April 14: Narrative seeks short stories, novel excerpts, novellas, poems, or literary nonfiction. Payment is up to $1000. Narrative does not charge submission fees during the first two weeks of April.Payments are $500 for a Story of the Week, $200 for a Poem of the Week, $250 to $500 for 500 to 2,000 word manuscripts, $500 to $1,000 for 2,000 to 15,000 word manuscripts, $200 minimum for each accepted poem or audio/video piece. ($100 for poetry reprints.) and $100 for Readers’ Narratives.Details: https://www.narrativemagazine.com/submission-guidelines
🔴April 14: All Women are Werewolves: An Anthology of Womanhood seeks short stories from women, inclusive of those who identify as non-binary and trans women. "This anthology is a collection of stories about the transformative experiences that shape womanhood; dark, uncanny, curious and captured by vivid, varied feminine voices." Payment is £100 plus author copies of the book. Details: https://www.erropress.com/submissions
🔴April 14: Translunar Travelers Lounge seeks speculative fiction at .03 per word with a minimum of $20. Details: https://translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/
🔴April 14: Gallery of Curiosities seeks speculative fiction using the theme of “audio” up to 7,500 words. Payment is .01 per word for reprints, 5 cents per word for original stories. Podcast. Accepts reprints. For details:
https://gallerycurious.com/p/submissions-1599834174/
🔴April 14: Room Magazine publishes fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and art by folks of marginalized genders, including but not limited to women (cisgender and transgender), transgender men, Two-Spirit and nonbinary people. They seek original short stories, poems, creative non-fiction, or art that fits the theme “AUDACITY.” Payment is $50 (CAD) for one page 60 for two pages, $90 for three pages, $120 for four pages, $150 for five or more pages. Details: https://roommagazine.com/call-for-submissions-45-3-audacity/?mc_cid=9cb83378fd&mc_eid=d7887087e3
🔴April 14: Mirrors Reflecting Shadows: A Trevor Project Charity Anthology seeks flash fiction and short stories in all genres. "Outcast Press, Anxiety Press, and Roi Fainéant Press have teamed up to curate a charity anthology with proceeds going towards The Trevor Project. For over 20 years, The Trevor Project has worked tirelessly on suicide prevention among LGBTQ+ youth. We are open to most genres, including, but not limited to, literary, transgressive, horror, crime, noir, and speculative fiction. The pieces can be about most anything, so don’t feel you need to write about LGBTQ+ issues." Payment is $40. Accepts reprints. Details: https://www.outcast-press.com/copy-of-about
🔴April 14: Electric Spec seeks speculative fiction stories of “science fiction, fantasy, and the macabre” between 250 and 7000 words with for $20 per piece. Details: http://www.electricspec.com/Submissions.html
🔴💰April 14: The Poetry Foundation offers five fellowships of $27,000 each annually to U.S. poets between the ages of 21 and 31. Applicants can submit 10 pages of poetry and an application from March 2 to April 14 using the online submission system. There is no entry fee. Visit the website for complete guidelines and to register in the foundation’s new online grants and awards portal, which must be done before accessing the fellowship application. Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships
⭐April 15: Exercise Your Writes A New Chapter with Amanda Worthington. Check the YouTube link for times in your area.
🔴April 15: Bourbon Penn seeks 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 .03 cents per word. Details: https://www.bourbonpenn.com/submissions
🔴April 15: House of Zolo’s Journal of Speculative Literature seeks short stories up to 5k words and poetry that explore possibilities for the future with anthem of Artificial Intelligence. Payment is $25 CND for poems and between $50 and $75 CND per short story. Reprints accepted, if they are not currently available for free online. Details: https://houseofzolo.com/submit-to-hoz/
🔴April 15: Over/Exposed prioritizes the work of graduate students, so please indicate in your submission if you are a graduate student, including your university, and department. Open internationally for flash, short fiction, and non-fiction personal essays/memoir, poetry, reviews, and experimental art. "We are focused on the publication of works that are vulnerable, experimental, a little bit weird and sexy." Payment is CAD $15. Details: https://overexposedlit.uvic.ca/submission-guidelines/
🔴April 15: FlowerSong Press is open to Latinx authorsfor horror, science fiction, and fantasy works from 75,000 to 150,000 words. Payment is in royalties. Details: https://www.flowersongpress.com/call-for-submissions
🔴April 15: Rattle’s Tribute to Prompt Poems. Genre: Poetry. The poems may be any subject, style, or length, but must have been generated by a writing prompt. Payment is $200 if accepted for print, $100 for online. Details: https://rattle.submittable.com/submit
🔴April 15: Bull City Press’ Inch seeks small collections—a minimum of three stories or essays, or a constellation of poems, between 10-16 pages in length. Payment in royalties. Details: https://bullcitypress.com/submissions-top/submissions/
🔴April 15: Consequence Magazine, print and online, seeks short fiction, poetry, nonfiction, interviews, reviews, and visual art mainly focused on the culture of war. Payment is $20 - $60 for prose and poetry, $150 for art. Details: https://www.consequenceforum.org/submissions
🔴April 15: The Devil Take You: Tales of Medieval Horror seeks weird tales set in the medieval period that explore the human (and inhuman) experience through the lens of horror. Payment is $125 - $200. Details: https://mailchi.mp/fb90e5c74b7e/thedeviltakeyou
🔴April 15: Gival Press, LLC seeks full-length fiction, non-fiction (essays / educational texts), and poetry. Publications are in English, French, and Spanish. Payment in royalties. Deadline for queries only. https://www.givalpress.com/about
🔴April 15: Dose of Dread seeks horror flash fiction from 500 – 1,000 words. Payment is .02 per word. Details: https://dreadstonepress.com/submissions/
🟢April 15: HWA Poetry Showcase seeks horror and dark poetryup to 35 lines. Payment is $10 plus contributor copy. Open to members of the Horror Writer Association only (horror.org). Closes May 15. Please note, this is a change from the original April 1-30 date. Link to details will be at: https://horror.org/coming-to-a-shelf-near-you-poetry-showcase-volume-x/
🔴April 16: Event Magazine, one of Western Canada’s longest-running literary magazines, seeks poetry at $40 (CAD) per page. Submit up to eight poems. Details: https://eventmagazine.submittable.com/submit
🔴 April 16: Invisible City seeks all genres, up to 5,000 words of prose. Payment is $20 CAD. Details: https://www.invisiblecitylit.com/submissions/
🔴 April 16: Daikaijuzine seeks speculative fiction, poetry, and art. Payment is $10.00 USD per short story, and $5.00 USD per poem or flash fiction piece. Details: https://daikaijuzine.org/guidelines
🔴 April 16: Poems of Liberty—Project Europe 2050 seeks poetry exploring the future of Europe. Restrictions: Open to poets who reside within the European Union. Payment: €250 per contributor. Details: https://www.freiheit.org/european-union/poems-liberty-project-europe-2050
⭐April 19: Exercise Your Writes with Space & Time magazine (spaceandtime.net). Check the YouTube link for times in your area. SPILLING THE INK - YouTube
🔴 April 19: Sinister Smile Press: If I Die Before I Wake – Tales of Halloween Horror seeks horror stories between 4,000 and 10,000 words. Payment: $30 - $50 depending on length. Details: https://www.sinistersmilepress.com/submissions-new
🔴 April 20: SICK issue #5 seeks personal essays, creative and experimental nonfiction, fiction, lyric essays, poetry, interviews, reviews, art from sick/chronically ill/mentally ill/disabled writers. Payment is £50 per contributor. Details: https://sickmagazine.co.uk/submit
🔴 April 21: Flash Fiction Online seeks speculative (science fiction, fantasy, slipstream, and horror) and literary flash fiction between 500- to 1000-words. Payment: $80. Details: https://ffo.submittable.com/submit
⭐April 22: Exercise Your Writes with Maxwell I. Gold. Check the YouTube link for times in your area. SPILLING THE INK - YouTube
🔴 April 23: Hoax seeks "creative work that incorporates text." Payment is £50. Details: https://hoaxpublication.org/submissions
🔴 April 23: Voiceworks seeks fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art and comics from Australians under the age of 25. Payment is $100 for written work and art, $150 for multi-page comics or suites of art. Nonfiction pitches. See Details for theme. Details: https://www.voiceworksmag.com.au/print
🟢April 23: BIPOC only submissions of short fiction fantasy open for Lightspeed from April 23-30 and May 1-7 for all. Lightspeed pays 8 cents per word for original fiction stories of 1500-10,000 words; stories of 5000 words or less are preferred. They also consider flash fiction stories of 1500 words or less. For details: https://adamant.moksha.io/publication/lightspeed/guidelines
🔴💰 April 25: The Whiting Foundation Creative Nonfiction Grants seeks creative nonfiction writers under contract with a publisher as of April 25. Grants of $40,000 each will be awarded annually to up to 10 writers to support them in completing their books. No entry fee. Details: http://whiting.org/writers/creative-nonfiction-grant
🔴 April 25: Mudroom seeks poetry, fiction, essays, and essays in translation. Payment is $15. Details: https://www.mudroommag.com/submissions
🔴 April 25: Off Topic Publishing’s Poetry Box seeks poetry for $40 CAD. Details: https://offtopicpublishing.com/opencalls/
⭐April 26: Exercise Your Writes with Space & Time magazine (spaceandtime.net). Check the YouTube link for times in your area. SPILLING THE INK - YouTube
🟢 April 26:Strange Horizons seeks speculative fiction. Submissions capped at 1,000. Payment: 10¢/word USD. Details: http://strangehorizons.com/submit/fiction-submission-guidelines/.
⭐April 12: Exercise Your Writes with Colleen Anderson who tells about the brand new SFPA award just announced. Check the YouTube link for times in your area. New Award Announcement from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association
🔴April 12: Funicular Magazine publishes quality fiction and poetry that shocks, surprises, moves, and tickles them. Payment of $25 per work of flash fiction and poetry and $10 per printed page of short fiction (to a maximum of $100) plus one contributor copy of Funicular Magazine. Details: https://funicularmagazine.submittable.com/submit
🔴April 12: 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.For details: https://theshowcase.submittable.com/submit
⭐April 13: Galactic Terrors online reading series, featuring readings by GARY FRANK, KATHERINE SILVA, and JOHN G. HARTNESS with co-hosts Carol Gyzander and James Chambers! Enjoy stories and live Q&A with the authors. Check the YouTube link for times in your area. Galactic Terrors April 2023
🔴April 14: Narrative seeks short stories, novel excerpts, novellas, poems, or literary nonfiction. Payment is up to $1000. Narrative does not charge submission fees during the first two weeks of April.Payments are $500 for a Story of the Week, $200 for a Poem of the Week, $250 to $500 for 500 to 2,000 word manuscripts, $500 to $1,000 for 2,000 to 15,000 word manuscripts, $200 minimum for each accepted poem or audio/video piece. ($100 for poetry reprints.) and $100 for Readers’ Narratives.Details: https://www.narrativemagazine.com/submission-guidelines
🔴April 14: All Women are Werewolves: An Anthology of Womanhood seeks short stories from women, inclusive of those who identify as non-binary and trans women. "This anthology is a collection of stories about the transformative experiences that shape womanhood; dark, uncanny, curious and captured by vivid, varied feminine voices." Payment is £100 plus author copies of the book. Details: https://www.erropress.com/submissions
🔴April 14: Translunar Travelers Lounge seeks speculative fiction at .03 per word with a minimum of $20. Details: https://translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/
🔴April 14: Gallery of Curiosities seeks speculative fiction using the theme of “audio” up to 7,500 words. Payment is .01 per word for reprints, 5 cents per word for original stories. Podcast. Accepts reprints. For details:
https://gallerycurious.com/p/submissions-1599834174/
🔴April 14: Room Magazine publishes fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and art by folks of marginalized genders, including but not limited to women (cisgender and transgender), transgender men, Two-Spirit and nonbinary people. They seek original short stories, poems, creative non-fiction, or art that fits the theme “AUDACITY.” Payment is $50 (CAD) for one page 60 for two pages, $90 for three pages, $120 for four pages, $150 for five or more pages. Details: https://roommagazine.com/call-for-submissions-45-3-audacity/?mc_cid=9cb83378fd&mc_eid=d7887087e3
🔴April 14: Mirrors Reflecting Shadows: A Trevor Project Charity Anthology seeks flash fiction and short stories in all genres. "Outcast Press, Anxiety Press, and Roi Fainéant Press have teamed up to curate a charity anthology with proceeds going towards The Trevor Project. For over 20 years, The Trevor Project has worked tirelessly on suicide prevention among LGBTQ+ youth. We are open to most genres, including, but not limited to, literary, transgressive, horror, crime, noir, and speculative fiction. The pieces can be about most anything, so don’t feel you need to write about LGBTQ+ issues." Payment is $40. Accepts reprints. Details: https://www.outcast-press.com/copy-of-about
🔴April 14: Electric Spec seeks speculative fiction stories of “science fiction, fantasy, and the macabre” between 250 and 7000 words with for $20 per piece. Details: http://www.electricspec.com/Submissions.html
🔴💰April 14: The Poetry Foundation offers five fellowships of $27,000 each annually to U.S. poets between the ages of 21 and 31. Applicants can submit 10 pages of poetry and an application from March 2 to April 14 using the online submission system. There is no entry fee. Visit the website for complete guidelines and to register in the foundation’s new online grants and awards portal, which must be done before accessing the fellowship application. Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships
⭐April 15: Exercise Your Writes A New Chapter with Amanda Worthington. Check the YouTube link for times in your area.
🔴April 15: Bourbon Penn seeks 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 .03 cents per word. Details: https://www.bourbonpenn.com/submissions
🔴April 15: House of Zolo’s Journal of Speculative Literature seeks short stories up to 5k words and poetry that explore possibilities for the future with anthem of Artificial Intelligence. Payment is $25 CND for poems and between $50 and $75 CND per short story. Reprints accepted, if they are not currently available for free online. Details: https://houseofzolo.com/submit-to-hoz/
🔴April 15: Over/Exposed prioritizes the work of graduate students, so please indicate in your submission if you are a graduate student, including your university, and department. Open internationally for flash, short fiction, and non-fiction personal essays/memoir, poetry, reviews, and experimental art. "We are focused on the publication of works that are vulnerable, experimental, a little bit weird and sexy." Payment is CAD $15. Details: https://overexposedlit.uvic.ca/submission-guidelines/
🔴April 15: FlowerSong Press is open to Latinx authorsfor horror, science fiction, and fantasy works from 75,000 to 150,000 words. Payment is in royalties. Details: https://www.flowersongpress.com/call-for-submissions
🔴April 15: Rattle’s Tribute to Prompt Poems. Genre: Poetry. The poems may be any subject, style, or length, but must have been generated by a writing prompt. Payment is $200 if accepted for print, $100 for online. Details: https://rattle.submittable.com/submit
🔴April 15: Bull City Press’ Inch seeks small collections—a minimum of three stories or essays, or a constellation of poems, between 10-16 pages in length. Payment in royalties. Details: https://bullcitypress.com/submissions-top/submissions/
🔴April 15: Consequence Magazine, print and online, seeks short fiction, poetry, nonfiction, interviews, reviews, and visual art mainly focused on the culture of war. Payment is $20 - $60 for prose and poetry, $150 for art. Details: https://www.consequenceforum.org/submissions
🔴April 15: The Devil Take You: Tales of Medieval Horror seeks weird tales set in the medieval period that explore the human (and inhuman) experience through the lens of horror. Payment is $125 - $200. Details: https://mailchi.mp/fb90e5c74b7e/thedeviltakeyou
🔴April 15: Gival Press, LLC seeks full-length fiction, non-fiction (essays / educational texts), and poetry. Publications are in English, French, and Spanish. Payment in royalties. Deadline for queries only. https://www.givalpress.com/about
🔴April 15: Dose of Dread seeks horror flash fiction from 500 – 1,000 words. Payment is .02 per word. Details: https://dreadstonepress.com/submissions/
🟢April 15: HWA Poetry Showcase seeks horror and dark poetryup to 35 lines. Payment is $10 plus contributor copy. Open to members of the Horror Writer Association only (horror.org). Closes May 15. Please note, this is a change from the original April 1-30 date. Link to details will be at: https://horror.org/coming-to-a-shelf-near-you-poetry-showcase-volume-x/
🔴April 16: Event Magazine, one of Western Canada’s longest-running literary magazines, seeks poetry at $40 (CAD) per page. Submit up to eight poems. Details: https://eventmagazine.submittable.com/submit
🔴 April 16: Invisible City seeks all genres, up to 5,000 words of prose. Payment is $20 CAD. Details: https://www.invisiblecitylit.com/submissions/
🔴 April 16: Daikaijuzine seeks speculative fiction, poetry, and art. Payment is $10.00 USD per short story, and $5.00 USD per poem or flash fiction piece. Details: https://daikaijuzine.org/guidelines
🔴 April 16: Poems of Liberty—Project Europe 2050 seeks poetry exploring the future of Europe. Restrictions: Open to poets who reside within the European Union. Payment: €250 per contributor. Details: https://www.freiheit.org/european-union/poems-liberty-project-europe-2050
⭐April 19: Exercise Your Writes with Space & Time magazine (spaceandtime.net). Check the YouTube link for times in your area. SPILLING THE INK - YouTube
🔴 April 19: Sinister Smile Press: If I Die Before I Wake – Tales of Halloween Horror seeks horror stories between 4,000 and 10,000 words. Payment: $30 - $50 depending on length. Details: https://www.sinistersmilepress.com/submissions-new
🔴 April 20: SICK issue #5 seeks personal essays, creative and experimental nonfiction, fiction, lyric essays, poetry, interviews, reviews, art from sick/chronically ill/mentally ill/disabled writers. Payment is £50 per contributor. Details: https://sickmagazine.co.uk/submit
🔴 April 21: Flash Fiction Online seeks speculative (science fiction, fantasy, slipstream, and horror) and literary flash fiction between 500- to 1000-words. Payment: $80. Details: https://ffo.submittable.com/submit
⭐April 22: Exercise Your Writes with Maxwell I. Gold. Check the YouTube link for times in your area. SPILLING THE INK - YouTube
🔴 April 23: Hoax seeks "creative work that incorporates text." Payment is £50. Details: https://hoaxpublication.org/submissions
🔴 April 23: Voiceworks seeks fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art and comics from Australians under the age of 25. Payment is $100 for written work and art, $150 for multi-page comics or suites of art. Nonfiction pitches. See Details for theme. Details: https://www.voiceworksmag.com.au/print
🟢April 23: BIPOC only submissions of short fiction fantasy open for Lightspeed from April 23-30 and May 1-7 for all. Lightspeed pays 8 cents per word for original fiction stories of 1500-10,000 words; stories of 5000 words or less are preferred. They also consider flash fiction stories of 1500 words or less. For details: https://adamant.moksha.io/publication/lightspeed/guidelines
🔴💰 April 25: The Whiting Foundation Creative Nonfiction Grants seeks creative nonfiction writers under contract with a publisher as of April 25. Grants of $40,000 each will be awarded annually to up to 10 writers to support them in completing their books. No entry fee. Details: http://whiting.org/writers/creative-nonfiction-grant
🔴 April 25: Mudroom seeks poetry, fiction, essays, and essays in translation. Payment is $15. Details: https://www.mudroommag.com/submissions
🔴 April 25: Off Topic Publishing’s Poetry Box seeks poetry for $40 CAD. Details: https://offtopicpublishing.com/opencalls/
⭐April 26: Exercise Your Writes with Space & Time magazine (spaceandtime.net). Check the YouTube link for times in your area. SPILLING THE INK - YouTube
🟢 April 26:Strange Horizons seeks speculative fiction. Submissions capped at 1,000. Payment: 10¢/word USD. Details: http://strangehorizons.com/submit/fiction-submission-guidelines/