Authortunities June 28—July 26
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And now, on to the main course. In this entire calendar share you will find:
40 newly opened submissions 🟢
42 submission deadlines 🔴
8 events for authors ⭐
24 first time shared 👁️🗨️
17 reprint markets ♻️
3 education 📚
3 awards 🏆
5 grants 💲
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👁️🗨️🟢 · Eye to the Telescope 49, a publication of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association calls for submissions of 1–3 unpublished poems in English for US 4¢/word rounded up to nearest dollar; minimum US $4, maximum $25 until September 15. ➡️http://eyetothetelescope.com/submit.html
👁️🗨️🟢♻️· NonBinary Review (Zoetic Press) calls for up to 3k word prose for $0.01 USD per word, poetry for $10 USD flat rate and visual art $25 USD flat rate until August 1 or until submissions reach the acceptance cap for each issue. ➡️https://nonbinaryreview.submittable.com/submit
👁️🗨️🟢♻️ · Flash Fiction Online calls for speculative fiction flash from 500-1k words for $80 USD flat rate until June 21 or “unless we reach our submission cap of 425 stories”. ➡️https://ffo.submittable.com/submit
👁️🗨️🟢 · Astrolabe calls for fiction, creative nonfiction, and photography/art for $50 USD flat rate with free submissions until July 21. ➡️https://www.astrolabe.ooo/submissions
👁️🗨️🟢 · The Nightmare Never Ends (Exploding Head Fiction) calls for “stories that blend dreamscapes into reality, stories where nightmares come alive, where fears take shape, and we can no longer tell what’s real and what’s not” between 2,000 and 5,000 words for $25 USD flat rate until July 15. ➡️https://www.jenniferbernardini-author.com/submission-guidelines
👁️🗨️🟢 · Invisible City calls for creative nonfiction up to 5,000 words for $20 USD flat rate until July 16. ➡️https://www.invisiblecitylit.com/submissions/
👁️🗨️🟢 · It Was All A Dream (Hungry Shadow Press) calls for “short horror, weird, dark fiction between 1500 and 3000 words (firm limit) that take your least favorite horror trope and make it work” for $0.05 USD per word until July 15 (July 16-22 for LGBTQIA+, BIPOC, and marginalized writers). ➡️https://www.hungryshadowpress.com/it-was-all-a-dream-2
👁️🗨️🟢♻️ · The Other Stories Podcast calls for 2,000 word speculative fiction on the theme of “Rituals” for a $15 GBP flat rate until July 22. ➡️https://theotherstories.net/submissions/
👁️🗨️🟢 · December Tales II (Curious Blue Press) calls for ghost stories between 2000 and 3500 words (firm limit) for a $25 USD flat rate until July 15. ➡️https://www.curiousbluepress.com/contact-and-submissions
👁️🗨️🟢 · If There’s Anyone Left calls for science fiction and speculative flash fiction up to 1k words for $0.08 USD per word until July 15. ➡️https://www.iftheresanyoneleft.com/submission-guidelines
👁️🗨️🟢 · The Oswald in Mexico City Dossier (Vautrin Publishing) calls for short stories inspired by “Oswald in Mexico City” between 2,000 and 5,000 words for $35 USD flat rate until July 15. ➡️https://vautrin.pub/submissions/
👁️🗨️🟢 · Nat. Brut calls for folio, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry for $30 flat rate until July 15. ➡️https://www.natbrut.com/submit-open
👁️🗨️🟢 · SONORAN HORROR (Aphotic Realm) calls for “short stories of any genre as long as they are dark, sinister, or eerie in tone” from 1-5k words for 0.01 USD per word until July 15. ➡️https://aphoticrealm.com/announcing-sonoran-horror/
👁️🗨️🟢 · Sasee calls for 500-1k word nonfiction articles by women on “Wonder-fur World” for variable payments until July 15. ➡️https://sasee.com/submissions/
👁️🗨️🟢 · The Bad Day Book-Teaching/College Life/Parenting/Kids/Teenage Edition calls for fiction and poetry for $40-75 until September 1. ➡️https://thebaddaybook.com/faq/
👁️🗨️🟢 · The Fantastic Other calls for fiction, flash fiction, poetry, or art for $5 flat rate until July 15. ➡️https://fantasticother.com/submissions/
👁️🗨️🟢 · Dark Blooms calls for girl coming-of-age horror stories of up to 15k words for up to $40 flat rate until July 15 (July 22 for trans women and women of color). ➡️https://sites.google.com/view/ruthannaevans/dark-blooms-submissions
👁️🗨️🟢 JUN 29· Monstrous Magazine (Monstrous Books) calls for 1-2k word Horror Flash Fiction for $0.06 USD per word, black and white comics for $125 a page and 1-2k word nonfiction for $0.03 USD per word until July 27. ➡️https://monstrousbooks.com/submissions
🔴♻️ JUN 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
🔴 JUN 30 · Sirens Call Publications seeks Alien Horror with “at least one human and one alien involved” from 2-3,000 words. Payment, $15 per story, best story receives $50 bonus. Deadline June 30. ➡️http://www.sirenscallpublications.com/open_subs.htm
🔴♻️ JUN 30 · Off Limits Press is open to submissions for their new anthology: Make Your Presence Known: Stories of Seances, Conjuring, and Mediumship. They pay .04 per word for 1500 and 5000 word short fiction on “stories of spiritualism, contact, ouija boards, spirit conjuring and more.” Reprints considered. ➡️https://www.offlimitspress.com/submit
🔴 JUN 30 · Black Lawrence Press seeks innovative, electrifying manuscripts in various categories, such as novel, novella, short story collection, poetry, biography & cultural studies, translation from German, and creative nonfiction. The deadline for submissions is June 30. They do request submitters to select one Black Lawrence Press publication at a discounted price ($14, including shipping for print editions). Proceeds from the open reading period will go directly back into supporting the activities of the press. ➡️https://tinyurl.com/mtfutcv9
🔴📚 JUN 30 · Elk River Writers Workshop is designed for students who are serious about fostering a connection with place in their writing. The next workshop takes place from August 13-18, 2023, at Chico Hot Springs. The deadline for applications is June 30. ➡️https://manager.submittable.com/opportunities/organization/10268
🔴 JUN 30 · Split Lip Magazine Call for Submissions: This literary journal accepts fiction, memoir, poetry, art, and photography. They are particularly interested in promoting Black voices and offer free submissions for Black writers and artists in all genres. Contributors to web issues will receive $75 (paid via PayPal; note that payment cannot be made by any other method than PayPal). Print issue contributor payment is $5 per printed page, minimum of $20, plus 2 contributor copies.
➡️https://tinyurl.com/2vvhjzxm
🔴🏆 JUN 30 · 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 May. 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/
🔴 JUN 30 · BIPOC only submissions of fantasy flash stories close for Lightspeed from June 30. 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.
➡️https://adamant.moksha.io/publication/lightspeed/guidelines
🔴 JUN 30 ·· Submissions close to the DBS Press call for 1500-5000 word stories at .05 cents a word for “Issue 3: Lucy Westenra/Bloofer Lady.” Simultaneous submissions accepted. Cover art also sought. ➡️ https://www.dbspress.com/submissions
🔴 JUN 30 · Submissions close for Alone on the Borderland: Tales of Edwardian Dread, an anthology of new weird and strange fiction set between 1901 and 1919 – from the death of Queen Victoria to the immediate aftermath of the Great War and the Spanish Influenza epidemic. Stories should be between 5,000 and 10,000 words. Authors shall receive a percentage of the Kickstarter net profits, a percentage of first year royalties (percentage determined by number of contributing authors), and a paperback copy of the anthology. Belanger Books have an excellent long-term track record with Kickstarters, and with decent remuneration for their writers. ➡️http://greydogtales.com/blog/new-anthologies-of-the-weird/
🔴💲 JUN 30 · Applications close for Arc Poetry’s 15th annual virtual Poet-in-Residence (PIR) program. The contract fee for the PIR will be $10,000, pending funding. Between 30 and 60 poets participate yearly, in roughly one-month-long mentorships. The Poet-in-Residence is also commissioned to create new work for publication in an issue of Arc Poetry Magazine. The 2023/2024 program year goes from November 1, 2023 to July 31, 2024. ➡️https://arcpoetry.ca/resources/arcs-15th-virtual-poet-in-residence/
🔴 JUN 30 · Engen Books and Kit Sora Photography have teamed up to offer the “Flash Fiction Photography Contest” which calls for ekphrastic flash prose pieces of 250 words or less inspired by the photography of Kit Sora. Payment is 10 cents a word. ➡️https://tinyurl.com/43edtd7j
JULY
📚 JUL 1 · The AI-Assisted Artisan Author Webinar series by Joanna Penn of The Creative Penn will be available in multiple time zones. The sessions will cover Attitude to AI, ethical usage, copyright, legalities, what it can and can't do (at the time of recording), How to prompt ChatGPT in the most effective way — designing your mega prompt, ChatGPT for fiction — brainstorming, world-building, character ideation, outlining, discovery writing, book titles, ChatGPT for non-fiction — book titles, outlining, topics, writing Sudowrite for aspects of fiction, ChatGPT for editing — plus, ProWritingAid, ChatGPT for book marketing — sales descriptions, social media, Midjourney — social media images, character portraits, book cover considerations, What's coming next in AI? (auto-GPT, text to video, and more) and a Q & A. These will be live sessions only but ticket-holders will get the recording. ➡️https://www.thecreativepenn.com/live/
🔴 JUL 1 · A Velvet Giant is closed to various formats, including words, recordings, visual art, hybrid forms, and translations until July 1. Payment is $20. ➡️https://www.avelvetgiant.com/submit
🔴👁️🗨️♻️ JUL 1 · Still Point Arts Quarterly closes to submissions of historical and contemporary art, fiction, non-fiction, and poetry on the theme of “It’s the Journey.” 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=R5Do34J-nRb7B-TEcV3Pk
👁️🗨️🟢♻️JUL 1 · PodCastle calls for submissions of “quality fantasy fiction” up to 6k words and occasional reprints up to 17k words for $0.08 per word USD for original fiction, $100 flat rate for reprints over 1,500 words, and $20 flat rate for flash fiction reprints. ➡️https://podcastle.org/guidelines/
👁️🗨️🟢JUL 1 · The Forge Literary Magazine calls for submissions 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/
🟢♻️ JUL 1 · Flash Fiction Online calls for speculative fiction flash from 500-1k words for $80 USD flat rate until July 21 or “unless we reach our submission cap of 425 stories”. ➡️https://ffo.submittable.com/submit
👁️🗨️🟢JUL 1 · 34 Orchard calls for submissions of short fiction from 1000 to 5000 words and poetry of any genre/length for $50 flat rate until July 15. ➡️https://34orchard.com/guidelines/
👁️🗨️🟢JUL 1 · Monosyllabic Queer Theory calls for submissions of “your favourite queer theory text into a poem that uses only single-syllable words” of any length for $250 CAD honorarium until August 1. ➡️https://tinyurl.com/uvzrpu37
🟢♻️ JUL 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
🟢 JUL 1 · Hungry Shadow Press opens for short horror, weird, dark fiction stories between 1500 and 3000 words prompted by “your least favorite horror trope.” Payment is 5 cents a word. Submissions close on July 15. Extended submission window exclusively for LGBTQIA+, BIPOC, and marginalized writers open July 16-22. ➡️https://tinyurl.com/3bpn29te
🟢♻️ JUL 1 · Reach 35,000 readers in Siren’s Call eZine. They are open to submissions from July 1-August 15. They seek short stories, flash fiction, drabbles, and poetry that fit within the horror/dark fiction genre to the current theme of “Halloween.” Reprints welcome. No payment. Advertise for only $10 for a full page ad. ➡️http://www.sirenscallpublications.com/open_subs.htm
🟢💲 JUL 1 ·The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction submission period opens and closes September 30. The winner will receive $15,000 and finalists will receive $5,000 each. $75 entry fee. Closes September 30. ➡️https://www.penfaulkner.org/our-awards/pen-faulkner-award/
🟢 JUL 1 · Solarpunk Magazine seeks submissions from July 1-14. Pro rates paid as defined by the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA): $.08 per word for fiction ($100 minimum), $40 per poem, $75 for for nonfiction, $100 for reprint cover art, $200 for original unpublished cover art, $50 for reprint interior art, and $100 for original unpublished interior art. ➡️https://solarpunkmagazine.com/submissions/
🟢 JUL 1 · Broken Sleep Books opens for non-fiction prose pamphlets (up to 70 pages) from July 1 to August 31. 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
🟢 JUL 1 · Submissions of fantasy flash stories open for Lightspeed from July 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. ➡️https://adamant.moksha.io/publication/lightspeed/guidelines
🟢♻️ JUL 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
🟢♻️ JUL 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
🟢🏆💲 JUL 1 · The Young Lions Fiction Award recognizes the best book of fiction written by a writer under the age of 35. The winner will receive a $10,000 prize. ➡️https://www.nypl.org/help/about-nypl/awards/young-lions-fiction-award.
🟢 JUL 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/
🔴♻️ JUL 2 · Submissions close for Flame Tree Publishing’s Shadows on the Water Short Stories call. Payment is 8 cents/6 pence per word for original stories, 6 cents/4 pence for reprints for 2000-4000 word short fiction featuring water prompted Dark Fantasy, Folklore and Myth to be published in January 2024. ➡️https://tinyurl.com/muycb2u9
🔴♻️ JUL 2 · Submissions close for Flame Tree Publishing’s Learning to Be Human Short Stories call. Payment is 8 cents/6 pence per word for original stories, 6 cents/4 pence for reprints for 2000-4000 word short fiction featuring artificial intelligence prompted Science Fiction, Folklore and Myth to be published in January 2024. ➡️https://tinyurl.com/muycb2u9
🔴 JUL 2 · Havok seeks flash fiction on the theme of Legendary Places. Payment is $50 via PayPal for each story selected for an Anthology; no payment for online publication. ➡️https://gohavok.com/submission-guidelines/upcoming-themes/
⭐ JUL 5 · Your Authortunities Forecast, a streamlined show for pro writers covering opportunities that didn’t make this newsletter, news and reminders. See what you may have missed. Every Wednesday. ➡️https://tinyurl.com/342awykh
🔴 JUL 7 · Submissions of fantasy flash stories close for Lightspeed from July 7. 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. ➡️https://adamant.moksha.io/publication/lightspeed/guidelines
🔴 JUL 7 · The Marystina Santiestevan First Book Prize closes to previously unpublished poetry manuscripts of 48-90 pages by poets writing in English who have not yet published a full-length poetry book. Winning poet will receive $1,500 and 30 author copies. Entry fee of $25 USD. ➡️https://conduit.submittable.com/submit
⭐ JUL 7 · The Quick Reads event featuring women and non-binary writers of sci-fi, fantasy and speculative fiction Friday, July 7 at noon EST. This event features Kiyomi Appleton Gaines, Mindi Briar, Nicole M. Wolverton, Cindy Lynn Speer, Cari Lyn Jones, and Leticia Urieta reading for 8 minutes each. ➡️https://strongwomenstrangeworlds.weebly.com/
🟢📚 JUL 7 · Fright Club by Moanaria is taking applications from horror writers for the next guided series of generative workshops to run from October 8th to December 10th. Cost for members of the Horror Writers Association, $180 plus a $20 deposit. Cost for nonmembers $390 plus a $60 deposit. ➡️https://www.moanaria.com/frightclub
🟢♻️ JUL 7 · Still Point Arts Quarterly opens to submissions until October 1 for 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
🔴 JUL 10 · Mslexia Issue 99 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 August 2023. ➡️https://mslexia.co.uk/submit-your-work/
🟢 JUL 11 · 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. Submissions for this issue close on October 9. Authors for this issue will be notified of acceptance by November 2023. ➡️https://mslexia.co.uk/submit-your-work/
⭐ JUL 12 · Your Authortunities Forecast, a streamlined show for pro writers covering opportunities that didn’t make this newsletter, news and reminders. See what you may have missed. Every Wednesday. ➡️https://tinyurl.com/342awykh
👁️🗨️🔴 JUL 12 · Another Name for Darkness (Sans. Press) calls for short story submissions in all genres for €150 until July 12 or until they “hit our 1,000 submission cap”. ➡️https://www.sanspress.com/submissions
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3 newly opened submissions 🟢
21 submission deadlines 🔴
3 events for authors ⭐
2 reprint markets ♻️
1 awards 🏆
2 grants 💲
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