Bram Stoker Awards Saturday!
Authortunities #64│June 1—29
The Nut Graph
Too busy to read? Here’s a quick summary of what’s here, plus 96 author opportunities organized by date and emoji.
The link to watch the Bram Stoker Awards—do I think Lee Murray and I will win for editing Unquiet Spirits? No idea. We’re just happy to be there. Good luck everyone!
My first official week on Reedsy has been $1k worth of busy! Freelancer friends, info below on how to get a $100 bonus for each of us.
Substacks with 1,000 followers or less can submit to get noticed on Robin Taylor’s Smallstack. Details below.
The SFPA Speculative Poetry Contest opens today. Chaired by me and judged by Stephanie Wytovich.
Let me know what you’ve been up to! Share your triumphs, tribulations and any author opportunities you find in the comments!
Our Writes
🟠 So sad I won’t be attending StokerCon for the second year in a row, but I will be watching to cheer everyone on tonight. Lee Murray and I are up for an award ourselves in the Nonfiction category. Crossing my fingers!
Your Writes
🟠 I like this idea from
! He is starting a Smallstack to help share Substacks with 1,000 followers or less get noticed. I don’t qualify, but I can recommend some pretty awesome Substacks that do. You can follow or subscribe to his newsletter to find out when. Start with his funny and warm post “Let’s Talk About Money.” Hilarious sidenote: Smallstack is too big to qualify being listed on Smallstack🟠 Reading makes us better writers, and reviewing makes us better friends. Here are the books I made friends with in May. “8 Books I Read in May 2024.”
My Writes
🟠 Weird Fiction Quarterly will be publishing my story “Tenfold.” At the moment they are invite only so you won’t find their submission calls in Authortunities, yet. Best way to get invited? Become a fan by visiting them here.
🟠 Try not to cry as you listen to, Ryan Aussie Smith, "Voted #1 Creamiest voice on Twitch 3 years running" read “Tomato Leaf Tea,” the third chapter from my Bram Stoker Award Finalist novella Bitter Suites (2019). You can listen to that here.
🟠 My first official week on Reedsy has been busy! I’ll be making over $1k in June, just in time to pay off the last of Chief’s operation bill. Freelancer friends, Reedsy is awesome. 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?
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🟢 opening subs
🔴 closing subs
⭐ networking
🎤 open mics
🎓 education
♻️ reprints
🏆 awards
💲 grants
🟢 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. This week’s prompt is: Slow Down 🐌.
🔗https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/
🔴 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 · Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors short story contest is open until June 24 for stories from 2,500 to 5,000 words that “show us the world you dream of building… set sometime between the near future and roughly the year 2200.” The winning story receives $3,000, second and third receive $2, 000 and $1,000. Nine finalists will each receive $300. Free to enter.
🔗https://grist.org/climate-fiction/imagine-2200-contest-submissions
🟢 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 · Flash Fiction Online opens their “Winter Folklore” call until June 30 for speculative fiction flash from 500-1k words “with crisp prose, well-developed characters, compelling plots, and satisfying resolutions. We want stories that engage our minds and emotions... for the first time in recent memory, we're taking cover ART submissions.” Payment is $100 USD flat rate.
🔗https://ffo.submittable.com/submit
🟢 JUN 1 · Mslexia is open for submissions for issue 103 with 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.
🔗https://mslexia.co.uk/submit-your-work/
🟢 JUN 1 · The Bad Day Book-Teaching/Parenting Edition is open until June 24 for fiction and poetry under 1200 words in first person narration and told in past tense. Payment is All stories and poems 199 words or under words will be paid $40 for publication. All stories and poems 200 words and over will be paid $75 for publication.
🔗https://thebaddaybook.com/faq/
🟢 JUN 1 · The Twisted Laughs anthology from Exploding Head Fiction is open until July 15 for “tales that tickle the funny bone while sending shivers down the spine” no longer than 2,500 words. Payment is $15 USD flat rate.
🔗https://www.jenniferbernardini-author.com/submission-guidelines
🟢JUN 1 · Nat. Brut is open for open fiction, nonfiction, and poetry submissions until June 15 for folio, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Payment is a $30 honorarium.
🔗https://www.natbrut.com/submit-open
🟢 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 · The Fantastic Other is open until July 14 for fiction, flash fiction, poetry, or art. “We are interested in all things fantasy, sci-fi, paranormal, surrealist, fabulist, and magical realist. Show off your weird!” Payment is $5 flat rate.
🔗https://fantasticother.com/submissions/
🟢 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 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 5 · In Celebration of Fang Si-Chi's First Love Paradise! Join Asian American Writers' Workshop (AAWW), Taipei Cultural Center, and Accent Society in celebration of Lin Yi-Han's and translated by Jenna Tang's, Fang Si-Chi's First Love Paradise! Jenna Tang will in conversation with Soje. “The most influential book of Taiwan’s #MeToo movement—a heartbreaking account of sexual violence and a remarkable reinvention of the trauma plot, turning the traditional Lolita narrative upside down as it explores women’s vulnerability, victimization, and the lengths they will go to survive.” Free to attend, event will be from 7 - 9 pm EST.
🔗https://www.eventbrite.com/e/in-celebration-of-fang-si-chis-first-love-paradise-tickets-895550464547
⭐🏆🎓 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
🔴⭐🎓 JUN 8 · Submissions close for the First Page Critique Panel presented at the Authortube Writing Conference, a free three-day conference on YouTube open to anyone who wishes to know more about the writing and publishing world.
🔗https://www.authortubewritingconference.com/
⭐🏆 JUN 9 · 35th Lambda Literary Awards celebrates LGBTQ+ Writers virtually and in person at the Edison Ballroom, NYC. Ticket packages begin at $50 for virtual registration.
🔗https://lambdaliterary.org/awards/get-tickets/
⭐ JUN 9 · 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 9 · Uncloistered Poetry Level up with June Uncloistered at 6 pm EST, featuring Pella Felton, Kyrsten Hodge, Emily Beane, and Elliott Stewart. Features followed by open mic (5 min each). Visit the link to sign up for open mic and Zoom link.
🔗https://www.facebook.com/events/2476805955836346/
🔴 JUN 10 · Samjoko Magazine is open until June 10 for "exemplary work from content creators around the world.” Not genre specific. Payment is $20.
🔗https://www.samjokomagazine.com/submission-guidelines
⭐🎓 JUN 11 · Black Lawrence Press presents Carol Guess – Choregraphing Collaboration at 8 pm EST. Attendance is free. Zoom registration required.
🔗https://blacklawrencepress.com/events/
⭐ JUN 12 · 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. With guest Dr. Bruce Farmer.
🔗https://indiebooksource.com/podcast/
⭐🎓 JUN 13 · An online Harvard Diversity Discussion on “Race and Making Mentors and Allies in the Workplace” will be open to the public via Zoom from 5-6 pm EST.
🔴 JUN 14 · 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 14 · 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/
⭐🎤 JUN 14 · 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 15 · Eye to the Telescope 53, an online publication of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association calls for submissions of 1–3 unpublished poems in English. Edited by Gretchen Tessmer, the theme is “Strange Mixology.” Accepted poems will be paid for at the following rate: US 4¢/word rounded up to nearest dollar; minimum US $4, maximum $25. The issue will appear on July 15, 2024.
🔗http://eyetothetelescope.com/submit.html
🔴 · Nat. Brut is open for open fiction, nonfiction, and poetry submissions until June 15 for folio, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Payment is a $30 honorarium.
🔗https://www.natbrut.com/submit-open
🟢 JUN 16 · Fahmidan Journal opens until September 14 for short stories, poetry and flash of “your thought-provoking existentialism, your phobias, your darkest moments.” Payment is $25 per piece.
🔗https://www.fahmidan.net/journal-submissions
🟢 JUN 15 · Star*Line, the official print journal of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA), is a literary venue for speculative (including science-fiction, fantasy, and horror) poets and poetry enthusiasts, and features interviews, articles, reviews, member news and letters, association business, and poetry. Star*Line is open for submissions year-round. Payment for poetry: 4¢/word rounded to next dollar, minimum $4. Nonfiction, 1¢/word rounded to the next dollar. Reviews pay a flat fee of $4.
🔗https://www.sfpoetry.com/starline.html
🟢 JUN 15 · Riddlebird is open until October 26 for literary fiction, personal essays, and genre fiction from 650-5000 words focusing on humor and lighthearted pieces until full. Payment is $100.
🔗https://duotrope.com/duosuma/submit/riddlebird-Ae4Nk
⭐🎤 JUN 15 · 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/Fs_Wk3ingys?si=GENcI_LmtDsSQmHB
🎓 JUN 15 · The Arcane University offers valuable video game development skills, including game writing, from experienced modders and industry professionals. In collaboration with TESRenewal, the AU aims to provide teaching and support to any and all members and applicants to help them to acquire, expand, or improve the skill set needed to contribute to Beyond Skyrim and/or their partnered modding projects. In addition, it serves as the primary location for learning or enhancing existing skills for the wider modding community, becoming the go-to place for anyone looking to learn. Free.
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