Authortunities May 10-June 7

Two weeks of open paying submissions, grants, contests, fellowships, events and everything else I could dig up. Additional two weeks for paid subscribers. Thank you to ALL subscribers ❤

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Good luck to Rook Riley who found a submission opportunity from last week’s calendar! Rook Riley also does book coaching, and you can find them online here.

Now, who is going to The 2023 SFWA Nebula Conference? I’ll be there virtually on 4 different panels. If you will be attending, come say hello!

Friday I’m at “On the Writing a Moving Target: AI for the Bewildered”

Saturday I’m at “Meeting Young Readers Where They Are: Creating Connections with Schools and Libraries”

Sunday I’m at “The Rise of the Unquiet Voice” as well as “Virtual Reality and SFF Story-Sharing: The Meeting of Imagination and High-Tech”

And then Monday I’m at “Artificial Intelligence and Writing: What AI Means for the Future of Fiction Writing and Publishing” for The Horror Writers Association’s Horror University. Pre-register here—free.

Let me know if you sell any work—let me live vicariously through your submissions.

Thank you to everyone who shared, especially to Erica Verrillo with her blog, Published to Death.

And now, on to the main course. In this entire calendar share you will find:

• 24 newly opened submissions 🟢

• 78 submission deadlines 🔴

• 14 events for authors ⭐

• 12 reprint markets ♻️

If you know of something you think should be included, submit via this link: https://forms.gle/MLXktvYw9o3G2SfF7.

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. Most of all, good luck! 🥰

And now, your Authortunity knocks:

⭐May 10-12: Nonfiction Writers Conference (NFWC) Reserve your virtual seat to be among the first to receive conference updates and access details. Registration begins at $197 with options for payment plans. Event starts each day at 9am PT / 12pm ET. Event ends each day at 3pm PT / 6pm ET. Five live sessions per day delivered with Zoom. Includes 10 minute breaks between sessions and a one-hour break mid-day. Details: https://nonfictionwritersconference.com/#pricing&registration

🔴May 10: Orion's Beau seeks LGBTQ fantasy in fiction, poetry, and art. Payment is $3. Details: https://www.orionsbeau.com/arts-and-literary-submissions

🔴May 10: (UK writers aged 18-21 only) Tiger Lily seeks fantasy with a length of roughly 5,000 words. Payment is £50 per piece. Details:https://www.tigerlilypublishingco.uk/short-stories

🔴May 11: Horns & Rattles Press: Underwater Creepies seeks horror science fiction and fantasy stories with an emphasis on below the water. Payment is $20. Details: https://www.hornsandrattlespress.com/submit

🟢 Open now: Goatshed Press seeks short stories, flash fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction with payment of £60 for stories and essays (over 1000 words) and £25 for poems and flash fiction. They are also looking to publish longer form work in 2023, including novels, novellas, graphic novels, non fiction books and short story collections. Ongoing submissions. Details: https://www.goatshedpress.co.uk/submito

🟢♻️ Open now: Radon seeks short stories and poetry containing elements of anarchism, transhumanism, dystopia, and/or science fiction. Payment: 1 cent per word for original work, half a cent per word for reprints. Details: https://www.radonjournal.com/submit

🟢♻️ Open now: The Hungur Chronicles seeks horror about vampires or creatures with vampiric themes. Payment for original stories is $25.00; for reprints, $12.00. Payment for poems is $5. The pay for illustrations is $8.00. The payment for articles is $10. The pay for cover art is $25.00. Details: https://www.hiraethsffh.com/hungur-chronicles-guidelines

🟢 Open now: The Were-Traveler: Curst & Twysted Tarot seeks short fiction. Choose an image you would like to write a story about. Payment: $10 for flash, $15 for short stories. Open until filled. Details: https://the-were-traveler.weebly.com/submissions-call.html

🟢 Open now: Fantasy Magazine is open until filled for BIPOC authors with fantasy short stories, flash fiction, poetry. Payment: 8 cents per word; $40 per poem. Details: https://adamant.moksha.io/publication/fantasy

🟢 May 12: Space Cat Press seeks poetry, flash fiction, short stories, and creative non-fiction inspired by the theme ‘Into the Forest’. Payment is £5 for poetry/flash fiction and £10 for short stories. Details: https://spacecatpress.co.uk/submission/

⭐May 13: Exercise Your Writes with mother and daughter team Lee and Celine Murray. There are so many tropes out there about Asian mother-daughter relationships, but how accurate are they? Find out as in this interview with the multi-award winning author Lee Murray and her daughter (and author!) Celine Murray. Check the YouTube link for times in your area. Mother's Day with Lee and Celine Murray

🟢 Open now: Backyard Earth is a "round the world" series of five books, one for each continent (more or less). Each book will contain one story for every country on that continent. Submissions will stay open until the Table of Contents is filled.. Short fiction only. Payment is $25. https://patchworkraven.com/backyardearth

⭐May 12-13: East Coast residents, the 10th Annual Washington Writers Conference in Rockville, MD. You will be able to choose from a pool of roughly 20 literary agents. Once they have the full slate set, registrants will be sent a link where you can make your selections; agent bios are available on wirobooks.com. https://tinyurl.com/ybn757d6

🟢 Open now: Psychopomp has ongoing submissions for nonfiction essays on art, short fiction, novels, movies, music, fashion, culture, entertainment, science, and more, that fall under the umbrella of goth, death, funerary, grief, loss, alternative, otherworldly themes. Payment is $50. https://psychopomp.com/nonfiction-guidelines/

⭐May 12-14: The 2023 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 Anaheim, California, the Registration for the online portion of the conference is $150.00 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 beginning May 1, 2023. The Nebula Awards ceremony will be Sunday, May 14, and will be streamed live online for the public. Details, including how to watch the Nebulas: https://events.sfwa.org/

⭐May 13-16:the 2023 Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference is full at this time, but you may still register for recordings only – access to recordings of keynote, classes, and panels for one month after the conference. The Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference has been the place where writers from Alaska and beyond come together to create community and learn how to be better writers. https://tinyurl.com/4hb7453k

🟢 Open now: The International Human Rights Art Festival’s submission window for IHRAF Publishes 2023 remains open. Please submit your poem, short story, or essay (2500 words or less) to submit@ihraf.org along with a 2-5 sentence biography. Translations are also welcome. IHRAF Publishes will pay $50 per accepted piece. Ongoing. Details: https://www.ihraf.org/ihraf-publishes

🟢 Open now:  Assemble Artifacts is currently open until filled for stories of wonder and suspense. They prefer stories of at least 5,000 words, but are open to longer and shorter works. Please include a one to three sentence pitch of your story, and an author bio with your submission. Open to writers of all levels of experience. Payment: 8-10 cents per word for short fiction. https://www.assemblemedia.com/artifacts-submissions

⭐May 14-17: Technical Communication Summit (Atlanta, GA). The STC Summit makes technical communication come to life like no other event. Every year, technical communicators gather together to: Learn! Attend educational sessions on numerous topics with a variety of formats and experience levels. Hear from industry experts, well-known authors, and inspiring new voices to upgrade your skill sets and bring best practices back to your workplace. https://summit.stc.org/

🟢 Open now: Jay Henge: The Back Forty seeks speculative fiction. "In The Back Forty, we are looking for your stories that explore new, lawless frontiers, backwater towns, self-appointed sheriffs, lonesome explorers, bounty hunters, and other Wild West in Outer Space kinds of themes." Payment is $5 USD per 1000 words, up to 15k words. They currently have two publications open until filled. Details: https://www.jayhenge.com/callforstories.html

🟢 Open now: Through the Gate is open ongoing for submissions of fantastical poetry ”of literary and emotional depth from a diversity of voices and perspectives. Our definition of fantastical is quite fluid, encompassing fantasy, magic realism, myth, folklore, surrealism and slipstream. We desire poetry that is atypically beautiful, unconventionally imaginative, and boundary-crossing. We are not interested in work that is strictly science fiction or mainstream, but poetry that blurs the lines between such genres and the fantastical is welcome." Send up to three poems. Payment is $20 per poem. Open until filled. Details: https://throughthegate.net/submissions/

🟢 Open now: Three-lobed Burning Eye is open for ingoing submissions of "Original speculative fiction: horror, fantasy, and science fiction. We're looking for short stories from across the big classifications and those shadowy places between: magical realism, fantastique, slipstream, interstitial, and the Weird. We will consider suspense or western, though we prefer it to contain some speculative element. We like voices that are full of feeling, from literary to pulpy, with styles unique and flowing, but not too experimental. All labels aside, we want tales that expand genre, that value imagination in character, narrative, and plot. We want to see something new and different." Length for short fiction 1000–7000 words, flash fiction 500–1000 words, (2000–5000 preferred). Payment is $100 for short fiction, $30 for flash fiction; + 1 print annual. Open now. Details: https://www.3lobedmag.com/submissions.html

🟢♻️ Open now: The Dark seeks dark fantasy and horror. "Don’t be afraid to experiment or to deviate from the ordinary; be different—try us with fiction that may fall out of “regular” categories. However, it is also important to understand that despite the name, The Dark is not a market for graphic, violent horror." Length is 2,000 – 6,000 words. Payment is 6 cents/word for original fiction up to 6,000 words on publication for first world rights; and 1 cent/word for reprint fiction up to 6,000 words on publication for nonexclusive reprint rights. Open now. Details: http://www.thedarkmagazine.com/submission-guidelines/

🔴May 14: Spellbinder seeks poetry, fiction, nonfiction, drama, and art. Payment is £3. Details: https://www.spellbindermag.com/submission-guidelines/

🔴♻️May 14: Solarpunk Magazine closes to submissions May 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. For details: https://solarpunkmagazine.com/submissions/

⭐ May 15: “Artificial Intelligence and Writing: What AI Means for the Future of Fiction Writing and Publishing” for The Horror Writers Association’s Horror University. Do you hear “AI” and immediately think of horrific visions of technology run amok, Skynet, Ultron, Hal 9000,and other synthetic sentients who drive humanity to the brink of destruction? Do you write crime, fantasy, horror, poetry, science fiction, and wonder how AI will alter the way we write, publish, and read? Then this panel is for you. Pre-register: https://tinyurl.com/2vuu6p3s

🔴May 15: The James Laughlin Award: The James Laughlin Award, sponsored by the Academy of American Poets, is given to recognize and support a second book of poetry forthcoming in the next calendar year. The winner will receive a prize of $5,000 and publication of their manuscript by Nightboat Books. For more information, visit https://poets.org/academy-american-poets/prizes/james-laughlin-award.

🔴May 15: Delicate Friend seeks poetry, prose, visual art, music, videos, game descriptions, fake movie reviews, real movie reviews, and more. Payment is $10. Details: https://delicatefriend.com/submissions/

🔴May 15: Farmer-ish seeks nonfiction, CNF, poetry related to farming (including recipes). Payment is $25. Details: https://farmerish.net/submissions/

🔴May 15: The Horror Zine: Book of Monster Stories seeks monster stories. Payment is $20. Details: https://www.thehorrorzine.com/news.html

🔴May 15: Songs of Eretz Poetry Review seeks poetry and art. Payment is $7 per poem, $12 for cover art, and $7 for inside art. Details: http://www.songsoferetz.com/p/guidelines.html

🟢May 15: A Velvet Giant seeks various formats, including words, recordings, visual art, hybrid forms, and translations until July 1. Payment is $20. Details: https://www.avelvetgiant.com/submit

🟢May 15: Barrelhouse seeks all genres. Payment is $50. Opens May 15 and closes when the cap is reached. Details: https://www.barrelhousemag.com/submission-info

🔴♻️May 15: (women writers only): Luna Station Quarterly seeks speculative fiction. Payment is $5. Some reprints accepted. Details: https://lunastationquarterly.com/submissions/

🔴May 15: Intrepidus Ink seeks genre fiction, including flash (no horror, erotica, or children’s fiction). Themes: Intrepid and Overcoming. Payment is 2 cents/word for stories of 300-1,000 words and $30 for stories of 1,500-2,500 words. Details: https://intrepidusink.com/submissions/

🔴May 15: evOke seeks all things Pagan, polytheist, and witchy. See themes. Payment is $5. Open from the 1-15 of every month. Details: https://ev0kepublication.com/contributors/

🔴May 15: Uncanny Magazine seeks SF/F novellas with a length of 17,500 to 40,000 words. Payment is $.10 per word. Details: https://www.uncannymagazine.com/submissions/

🔴May 15: Diet Milk Minis seeks prose and poetry. Payment is $10 for poetry and $20 for prose. Details: https://www.dietmilkmag.com/submit

🔴May 15: berlin lit seeks poetry. Payment is 20 euros per poem. Details: https://www.berlinlit.com/submissions

🔴May 15: (Black, Minority, Indigenous, and other Persons of Color only): Propertius Press seeks full-length literary fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Payment is royalties. Details: https://propertiuspress.submittable.com/submit

🔴May 15: just femme & dandy seeks creative expressions engaging with the idea of resurrection and LGBTQIA+ fashion. Payment is $50 for text-based submissions and $150 for multimedia submissions. Details: https://www.justfemmeanddandy.com/call-for-submissions

🔴May 15: Untethered seeks fiction, nonfiction, poetry, hybrid writing, visual art, and those strange things in between. Payment is $20. Details: https://alwaysuntethered.com/submissions/

🔴♻️May 15: The Lorelei Signal seeks fantasy short stories, flash fiction, and poetry with strong female characters. Payment is $15 for short stories, $5 for poems and flash (<1,000 words) fiction pieces, and $5 for reprints.  Accepts reprints. Details: https://www.loreleisignal.com/guidelines

🔴May 15: Arc Poetry Magazine seeks poetry on the theme "Crip Lives: Restoring Subjectivity." Payment is $50 per page. Details: https://arcpoetry.ca/submissions/

🔴May 15: HWA Poetry Showcase seeks horror and dark poetry up to 35 lines. Payment is $10 plus contributor copy. Open to members of the Horror Writer Association only (horror.org). Please note, this is a change from the original April 1-30 date. Details: https://dreadstonepress.com/submissions/

🔴♻️May 15: Unnerving Books seeks crime stories with a length of 1,500-8,000 words (preference for 2,500-4,000 words). Payment is $0.01/word USD + a paperback copy. Reprints accepted. Details: https://www.unnervingbooks.com/submissions 

🔴♻️May 15: Reach 35,000 readers in Siren’s Call eZine. They are closed to submissions after May 15. They seek short stories, flash fiction, drabbles, and poetry that fit within the horror/dark fiction genre to the current theme of “cryptids.” 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. Details: http://www.sirenscallpublications.com/open_subs.htm

🟢May 15: Space & Time magazine has a unique submissions call May 15-29 for a special issue exploring AI and human creators in poetry, prose, and visual art. Share your personal experiences with this fusion of technology and creativity. Seeking: AI-involved pieces showcasing unique ways to benefit from AI across all genres with a speculative element. Works up to 3,000 words (5,000 max considered) Payment & Rights: Penny-per-word payment via PayPal + digital contributor copy. First print, electronic, and audio rights.Submit your work through Duotrope’s Duosuma Submissions Manager. Details: https://duotrope.com/duosuma/submit/space-and-time-nDoUw or spaceandtime.net. 

⭐May 18: The Quick Reads event featuring women and non-binary writers of sci-fi, fantasy and speculative fiction Thursday, May 18th from 7-8 pm EST. This event features Victoria Dalpe, Silk Jazmyne, L.E. Daniels, Angela Acosta, Tiffani Angus, and Kristine Smith. Details: https://strongwomenstrangeworlds.weebly.com/

🔴May 20: Old Pal seeks poetry, fiction, criticism, excerpts, audio, mixed media, and various mediums of art. Payment is $50. Details: https://www.oldpalmag.com/submissions

🔴May 21: Solarpunk Micro Mini closes to solarpunk micro fiction, 250 words max from May 21. Payment is $25. Details: https://solarpunkmagazine.com/micro-fiction

🟢May 21: Solarpunk Micro Mini seeks solarpunk micro fiction, 250 words max from May 14-21. Payment is $25. Details: https://solarpunkmagazine.com/micro-fiction/

⭐May 18-21: The Looking Glass Rock Writers Conference in Brevard, NC will be exploring the theme “A Sense of Place,” with small select groups of conference attendees experiencing working under the guidance of notable writers. Founded in 2016 as a partnership between the Transylvania County Library and Brevard College, the annual conference consists of writing workshops for select participants and public readings by the workshop leaders free to the community. Details: https://www.lgrwc.org/

⭐May 20: Exercise Your Writes with Carol Gyzander. Check the YouTube link for times in your area. SPILLING THE INK - YouTube

🟢May 24: BIPOC only submissions of science fiction flash stories open for Lightspeed from May 24-31 and June 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

This is the end of the first two weeks, available free. If you can’t afford to subscribe to the full month, send me a message and I will be happy to set you up with a free subscription.

The next two weeks include:

• 5 newly opened submissions 🟢

• 52 submission deadlines 🔴

• 4 events for authors ⭐

• 4 reprint markets ♻️