Brand New Issue of Space and Time!
Authortunities #59│April 27—May 25
This is the last week of National Poetry Month. The whole month flew by and I feel like I’ve missed most of it. What did you do? Share your poetry readings and anything else in the comments. Let me poet vicariously through you.
Civil Writes
🟠Here’s a sobering article from
about the failed merger of Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster and, more importantly, an an eye-opening account of the industry from the inside. Read “No one buys books: Everything we learned about the publishing industry from Penguin vs. DOJ.”My Writes
🟠 Aisha Kandisha, Head Librarian at Kandisha Press caught me among the dusty stacks to talk about being a Women in Horror with IN THE LIBRARY WITH ANGELA YURIKO-SMITH
🟠 Listen to the talented
read my poem "Critical Bird Song..." for the Ladies of Horror Challenge. It’s a haibun written about the horrors of global warming, and you can listen and read-a-long here.🟠 Horror Zine Staff Reviewer Jonathan Chapman shares his thoughts on Back 2 OmniPark and gives my story “Eat the Rich” a special nod. Dark water freaks me out too, Jonathan. Read that review here.
Your Writes
🟠This last week I read Becoming the Twilight Empress: A Theodosian Women by Faith L. Justice. This was a highly enjoyable read I couldn’t put down. Faith’s attention to detail without bogging down the world building was excellent. Her characters are fully fleshed with flaws, human and believable. The pacing kept my attention. This book left me feeling well satisfied. If you’re looking for some historical fiction set in Italy, you will enjoy this book. At only 99¢, it’s a great deal.
You can also find Faith L. Justice’s collection The Reluctant Groom and Other Historical Stories in this free Historical Fiction bundle. Grab your freebies today--available only until April 30th.
🟠 Want more free reading? The 65th issue of The Sirens Call comes in at 283 pages! It's made up of 200 pieces of fiction from 104 different writers in the form of short stories, flash fiction, and dark poetry. Download the latest copy for FREE here!
Find your copy here! Out now, the Space and Time Spring/Summer #146 issue begins our 58th year with a packed issue full of stories, poetry and art to entertain and enlighten with fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art from Claire Fitzpatrick, Lee Clark Zumpe, Donna J. W. Munro, Robin Helweg-Larsen, F. J. Bergmann, Jose Ángel Conde, Brian U. Garrison, M. C. Childs, Daniel M. Kimmel, Dom Gerard, Edoardo Maroncelli, KT Wagner, Michael H. Payne, Sam Crain, C. H. Williams, Felicia Martínez, J. S. Graham, Maxwell I. Gold, Michael Bacchia, Casey Aimer, Spencer Sekulin, Jeffrey Ogochukwu, Jonathan Ukah, Craig Brownlie, Kurt Newton, Briant Laslo, Don DeBrandt, C. H. Lindsay, Linda D. Addison, Michael Wyatt, Angela Yuriko Smith, Alan F. Beck, Doug Draper, Alfred Klosterman, Arthur Haywood, Amy of Prettysleepy Art, Anthony R. Rhodes, and Al Sirois. Cover art by Matthew Schuler. Layout by Anthony R. Rhodes.
While I find author opportunities everywhere, you can find a list of my favorite resources and sources here. 🔗https://angelaysmith.com/subscribe/
🏁 This calendar is organized by emoji! Ctrl F to find what you want.
🟢 opening subs
🔴 closing subs
⭐ networking
♻️ reprints
📚 education
🏆 awards
💲 grants
🟢 APR 26 · 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. This week’s prompt for contest #397: From the Top📝.
🔗https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/
⭐📚 APR 28 · 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. Richard Garcia | Rattlecast 243 at 8 pm EST.
🔗https://www.youtube.com/playlistlist=PLD_fMFokoxAEbUzqLMIldRifEYrWK7w9-
🟢 APR 29 · Havok is open until May 31 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/
🔴 APR 30 · Chicken Soup for the Soul closes for stories or poems on the theme “Funny Stories” for $250 paid “one month after publication of the book and you will receive ten free copies of the book your story or poem appears in.”
🔗https://www.chickensoup.com/story-submissions/submit-your-story/
🔴 APR 30 · Pulp Literature is open until April 30 for “entertaining, accessible stories. We do appreciate clever and poetic turns of phrase, but first and foremost we want a story readers can sink into late at night before they go to bed. We want to stretch people’s minds, but not give them a headache.” Payment is $0.05 – $0.08 per word for short stories (to 5000 words), $0.03 – $0.06 per word between 5000 and 10000 words, and $0.02 – $0.04 per word for works over 10000 words. Poetry and interior illustrations pay between $25 – $50. Sequential art (graphic novels and cartoons) and illustrations are at a rate of $25 to $75 per page and a limited number of reprints at rates up to 50% of first publication rates.
🔗https://pulpliterature.com/submissions/submission-guidelines/
🔴 APR 15 · Cast of Wonders closes for YA speculative fiction for Banned Books Week. Payment is $.08/word for original fiction up to 6,000 words.
🔗https://www.castofwonders.org/submissions/
🔴 APR 30 · Mythaxis closes for submissions of fiction from 1,000-5,000 words for €0.01 per word, with a €20 minimum.
🔗https://mythaxis.co.uk/submissions.html
🔴♻️ APR 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. Reprints welcome.
🔗https://shortstory.substack.com/about?nthPub=601
🔴🏆 APR 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 from January thru March. 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/
🔴 APR 30 · Tundra Swan Press closes for original dark haunting stories for its third anthology, Don’t Ask, Ghosts Tell, edited by Bram Stoker Award® Winner, Vince A. Liaguno and TSP Editor-in-Chief, Sirrah Medeiros. Payment is $0.03/word per accepted submission, possible boost if Kickstarter goals are reached. Poetry by invitation only.
🔗https://tundraswanpress.com/submissions/
🔴 APR 30 · The Temz Review closes for prose (fiction and creative non-fiction) up to 10,000 words long. Payment is $20 for prose and “$20 per batch of poems.”
🔗https://www.thetemzreview.com/submissions.html
🔴 APR 30 · Chestnut Review is closed for poetry, prose, or hybrid chapbooks of 15-25 pages of poetry, or 15-35 pages of prose: Submission fee is on a sliding scale between $6-$12. Payment is $150 USD, 50 copies of their chapbook plus 30% royalties on all Amazon sales of the chapbook, paid annually.”
🔗https://chestnutreview.com/chapbooks/
🔴 APR 30 · Brick closes for literary non-fiction. Payment $65–720, “depending on the length of accepted work, plus two copies of the issue the work appears in and a one-year subscription to the magazine.”
🔗https://brickmag.com/submissions/
🔴 APR 30 · Psychopomp closes for speculative fiction or literary novellas between 20,000 to 40,000 words on the theme "Novella Mori." Payment is an advance against royalties of $750, as well as 25% of net net receipts.
🔗https://psychopomp.com/novella-guidelines/
🔴 APR 30 · Split Lip Magazine closes tip jar submissions for poems, memoirs, flash, fiction, art, interviews/reviews, and mini-reviews. 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
🔴 APR 30 · Egaeus Press closes submissions for “a limited edition (as yet unnamed) volume of stories and poems in the GOTHIC tradition.” Word limit is “with room for negotiation. No word limit for poetry.” Payment is “80p per 100 words along with two copies of the finished book.”
🔗https://www.egaeuspress.com/News_-_Egaeus_Press.html
🔴 APR 30 · 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/
🔴 APR 30 · Cursed Cooking: A Horror Community Cookbook and Food Horror Anthology closes for flash, short stories, drabble and recipes with an extended submission window exclusively for writers of color, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and other underrepresented groups from May 1 to May 10. Payment is .05 per word.
🔗https://www.cateyepress.com/submissions
MAY
🔴 MAY 1 · HWA Poetry Showcase XI closes to horror and dark poetry up to 35 lines. Payment is now $35 plus contributor copy. Open to members of the Horror Writer Association only. Edited by Maxwell I. Gold, judges include L.E. Daniels, Sumiko Saulson, Pedro Iniguez, and Ngô Bình Anh Khoa. To join, visit the Horror Writers Association website for details.
🔗https://horror.org/call-for-submissions-for-poetry-showcase-volume-xi-poems-now-35/
🔴 MAY 1 · Spellbinder closes for poetry, fiction, nonfiction, drama, and art. One submission is permitted per quarterly. Payment is a £3 honorarium.
🔗https://www.spellbindermag.com/submission-guidelines/
🔴 MAY 1 · After Happy Hour closes for “online issues, we accept fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, visual art, photographs, graphic narratives, and any combination thereof.” Payment is $10.
🔗https://afterhappyhourreview.submittable.com/submit
🔴 MAY 1 · Plenitude Magazine is closed for literary fiction, nonfiction, poetry, graphic narrative, book reviews, and short films “submissions from US and international” LGBTTQI writers. Payment is $50 - $100. “Each genre has a monthly submission cap. If the genre you wish to enter does not appear below, please try again at the start of next month to submit.”
🔗https://plenitudemagazine.submittable.com/submit
🔴 MAY 1 · Boulevard closes for poems up to 200 lines, fiction and nonfiction. Payment is $50-$250 for poetry and $100-300 for prose. A $3 submission fee for online subs, no submission fee for snail-mailed submissions.
🔗https://www.boulevardmagazine.org/guidelines
🔴 MAY 1 · Seven Story Hotel closes for “the weird, esoteric, and outsider fringes of contemporary culture, art, and technology through an eclectic mix of interviews, essays… and artwork.” They are closed to fiction and poetry at this time. Payment is $35 per contributor.
🔗https://subtlebodypress.com/sevenstoryhotel
🔴 MAY 1 · Massachusetts Review closes for fiction, poetry, hybrid, and translations. Payment is $100. Fee for online submissions. No fee for USPS.
🔗https://www.massreview.org/submission-guidelines/general-guidelines
🔴🏆 MAY 1 · 2024 Dwarf Stars Nomination closes to all genres of speculative poetry, including science fiction, fantasy, horror, and “unclassifiable, but speculative.” Anyone may submit their own poems or those of others but only Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA) members may vote for the award.
🔗 https://www.sfpoetry.com/dwarfstars.html
🔴 MAY 1 · Hungry Shadow Press closes for short horror, weird, dark fiction suitable for adaptation into a comic book script of 12 pages or less for Vault of Shadows Issue 1 from LGBTQIA+, BIPOC, neurodivergent, and other marginalized writers until May 1. Payment is $35 per page of the adapted script, up to 12 pages, along with a print copy of the issue.
🔗 https://www.hungryshadowpress.com/submissions-vault-of-shadows
🔴💲 MAY 1 · High Desert Museum's Waterston Desert Writing Prize awards $3,000 annually for a work of nonfiction that explores the role of deserts in the ecosystem and human narrative. Prose, both published and unpublished, up to 10 pages long, are eligible. The winner will attend a reception and awards ceremony in Bend, Oregon.
🔗http://highdesertmuseum.org/waterston-prize
🔴 MAY 1 · The Sunlight Press closes submissions to poetry submissions on May 1 and to all submissions (including poetry) in July and August. They will reopen to all work on Monday, Sept. 4, 2023. They are open to personal essays (nonfiction), fiction, poetry, reviews, Artists on Craft Series and photography. Payment rates are $40 for essays (including book reviews and Artist on Craft pieces), $40 for fiction (short stories and flash fiction), $30 for the first poem accepted, and $10 for each additional accepted in the same submission, and $15 for photos.
🔗https://www.thesunlightpress.com/submissions/
🔴 MAY 1 · The First Line is closed for fiction, poetry, and nonfiction using the first line provided on their site: "Thank you for taking the time to meet with me today." Payment is $25-$50 for fiction, $5-$10 for poetry, and $25 for nonfiction.
🔗http://www.thefirstline.com/submission.htm
🔴 MAY 1 · Nonbinary Review closes for poetry, fiction, essays, and art around the theme of "heredity." Payment is 1 cent per word up to 3,000 words for prose, and a flat fee of $10 for poetry.
🔗https://nonbinaryreview.submittable.com/submit
🔴 MAY 1 · Last Girls Club closes for feminist horror short stories and poems. Payments for short story-2,500 words or less is $0.015 USD per word ($37.50 USD max); Flash Fiction-less than 1,000 words $0.015 USD per word ($15 USD max); Poems-less than 200 words $10.
🔗https://duotrope.com/duosuma/submit/last-girls-club-lImp7
🔴 MAY 1 · Foglifter closes submission for “daring and thoughtful” fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, hybrid works, and drama. A journal for LGBTQ+ contributors, they are especially interested in cross-genre, intersectional, marginal, and transgressive work.
🔗https://foglifterjournal.com/submit/
🔴 MAY 1 · december magazine closes for poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, and visual art. Payment is $10 per page with a minimum of $40 and a maximum of $200.
🔗https://decembermag.org/submit/
🟢 MAY 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/
🟢 MAY 1 · LONG DIVISION: Stories of Social Decay, Societal Collapse, and Bad Manners is open for “original stories of transgression, of the mechanisms behind what’s fraying the bonds that bind us. We want to ask readers to consider what’s worth keeping and what requires smashing to bits. Preference for stories that have a speculative element (horror, fantasy, sci-fi), but it is not 100% necessary.“ until the submission cap of 500 is reached, Payment is 10c/word for original short fiction up to 5,000 words.
🔗https://badhandbooks.com/submissions
🟢♻️ MAY 1 · Siren’s Call eZine opens until May 31 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. All story, flash, and poem submissions MUST be submitted to Submissions@SirensCallPublications.com for consideration.
🔗http://www.sirenscallpublications.com/open_subs.htm
🟢 MAY 1 · Unnerving Books opens until May 6 for “two stories to fill out THE MIDNIGHT EXHIBIT VOL. 4… 6,000-11,000 words of third person POV horror fiction.” Payment is $0.01/word USD + a paperback copy.
🔗https://www.unnervingbooks.com/submissions
🟢 MAY 1 · Diet Milk Minis opens until May 15 for prose and poetry written to the theme of “food.” Payment is $10 for poetry and $20 for prose.
🔗https://www.dietmilkmag.com/submit
🟢 MAY 15 · Songs of Eretz Poetry Review opens until May 15 for “quality poetry of any genre and length congruent with our themes, including traditional poems, form poems, prose poems, and narrative poems.” The current theme is "Ode on a Grecian Urn." Payment is $7 per poem.
🔗http://www.songsoferetz.com/p/guidelines.html
🟢 MAY 1 · Cursed Cooking: A Horror Community Cookbook and Food Horror Anthology opens an extended submission window exclusively for writers of color, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and other underrepresented groups until May 10 for flash, short stories, drabble and recipes. Payment is .05 per word.
🔗https://www.cateyepress.com/submissions
🟢 MAY 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
🟢 MAY 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. May’s poetry submissions will be read by Vanessa Jae (she/her/hers). Payment is $50 USD per poem, regardless of length or complexity.
🔗 http://strangehorizons.com/submit/poetry-submission-guidelines/
🟢 MAY 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/
🟢 May 1 · Chicken Soup for the Soul is open until June 30 for stories or poems on the theme “Cat Stories” for $250 paid “one month after publication of the book and you will receive ten free copies of the book your story or poem appears in.”
🔗https://www.chickensoup.com/story-submissions/submit-your-story/
🏆🟢 MAY 1 · Terrain.org’s Annual Contests in Poetry, Nonfiction, and Fiction opens until September 4 for submissions of poetry, fiction and nonfiction. With $1,000 grand prize in each genre and $200 to finalists.The cost to submit is $20 per story, essay or article, or set of 1-4 poems.
🔗https://www.terrain.org/submit/contest-guidelines/
🟢 MAY 1 · The Cincinnati Review opens to submissions of miCRo, poetry, fiction, fiction translations, literary nonfiction, poetry translations, and drama until they hit the submissions cap. Payment of $25/page for prose and $30/page for poetry in the print journal and $25 for miCRo posts or special features.
🔗https://www.cincinnatireview.com/submission-guidelines-2021/\
🟢 MAY 1 · Stone’s Throw, the monthly online companion to Rock and a Hard Place Magazine, opens until May 7 for noir stories “set at home, wherever that is. Apartments. The suburbs. A townhouse. An RV. Under an overpass. We all need to lay our head somewhere, and while we imagine it to always be safe, sometimes that’s just wishful thinking” from between 1- 2,000 words with a payment of $25.
🔗https://www.rockandahardplacemag.com/stones-throw-submissions
🟢 MAY 1 · Split Lip Magazine opens for submissions of poems, memoirs, flash, fiction, art, interviews/reviews, and mini-reviews until May 31 or free cap is 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 1 · The Bombay Literary Magazine opens until May 31 (or until subs cap of 400 is reached) for submissions of fiction, poetry, translated fiction, translated poetry and graphic fiction but will “only consider the first 400 submissions in each category”. Payment of an honorarium of ₹ 5,000 (approx. $61 or €51) per contribution.
🔗https://bombaylitmag.com/submit/
🟢 MAY 1 · Nonbinary Review is open until August 1 for poetry, fiction, essays, and art around the theme of "false memories." Payment is 1 cent per word up to 3,000 words for prose, and a flat fee of $10 for poetry.
🔗https://nonbinaryreview.submittable.com/submit
🟢 MAY 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/
🟢 MAY 1 · Diet Milk Magazine, a “biannual literary magazine devoted to Gothic” opens until May 15 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 for their annual themed mini-issue. The theme is “food.”
🔗https://duotrope.com/duosuma/submit/diet-milk-magazine-rv29z
🟢 MAY 1 · The Forge Literary Magazine calls for fiction and nonfiction 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/
🟢💲 MAY 1 · The Granum Foundation Prize opens until August 1 to assist U.S.-based writers complete substantive literary works—poetry books, essay or short story collections, novels, and memoirs—or to help launch these works. One winner will be awarded $5,000. Up to three finalists will be awarded $500 or more.
🔗https://www.granumfoundation.org/granum-prize
🟢💲 MAY 1 · The Granum Foundation Translation Prize opens until August 1 to assist U.S.-based writers complete their substantive literary works—poetry books, essay or short story collections, novels, and memoirs—or to help launch these works. One winner will receive $1,500 or more to support the completion of a work translated into English by a U.S.-based writer.
🔗https://www.granumfoundation.org/granum-prize
🟢🏆💲 MAY 1 · The Francine Ringold Awards for New Writers opens until July 15 to honor the work of writers at the beginning of their careers. Open only to writers whose work has not appeared or is not scheduled to appear in more than 2 publications. (Self-published works, works with a distribution of less than 100 copies, and journalistic articles are not considered toward the count of 2 publications.). $500 prizes will be awarded in both the fiction and poetry categories, and the winning manuscripts will appear in the spring issue of Nimrod. Winners will have the chance to work with the Nimrod board of editors to refine and edit their manuscripts before publication. Open internationally.
🔗https://nimrodjournal.submittable.com/submit
🟢 MAY 1 · Horror Story Magazine is open for horror poetry and short stories featuring monsters. Length: 2,000-10,000 words. Payment is 2 cents/word.
🔗https://horrorstorymagazine.com/submissions/
🟢 MAY 1 · Weird Little Worlds opens until May 31 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 1 · Short Story on Substack is open until May 31 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 1 · 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.
🔗https://indiebooksource.com/podcast/
🟢♻️ MAY 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/
🔴 MAY 2 · Bright Wall/Dark Room closed for “interviews, profiles, formal analysis, cultural criticism, personal essays, and humor pieces” on filmmaking with a theme of “Spike Lee.” Payment is $100 USD.
🔗https://brightwalldarkroom.submittable.com/submit
⭐ MAY 3 · 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. Pre-register.
🔴 MAY 3 · 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 3 · Havok closes for flash fiction to the theme of Remember July 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 3 · 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 5 · 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. Timothy Liu | Rattlecast 244 at 8 pm EST.
🔗https://www.youtube.com/playlistlist=PLD_fMFokoxAEbUzqLMIldRifEYrWK7w9-
🔴 MAY 6 · Unnerving Books closes for “two stories to fill out THE MIDNIGHT EXHIBIT VOL. 4… 6,000-11,000 words of third person POV horror fiction.” Payment is $0.01/word USD + a paperback copy.
🔗https://www.unnervingbooks.com/submissions
🔴 MAY 6 · Eggplant Emoji Volume 4 closes for 1,000-7,000 word character-driven, culturally striking, and hilarious short stories. Payment is $25.
🔗https://eggplantemojilit.com/submit/
🟢♻️ MAY 6 · Samovar, published by Strange Horizons, is open for speculative fiction, review-essays, poetry, interview/conversations, and reprints in translation. Payment for fiction is 8 US cents per word to the author, and 8 US cents per word to the translator. Payment for reprints is a flat $100 USD to the author and $100 USD to the translator. Payments for poetry are $40 USD to the author and $40 USD to the translator. Payment for interview/conversations is $40 USD to each participant. Payment for review-essays is $40 USD.
🔗http://samovar.strangehorizons.com/submit/
🔴 MAY 7 · Stone’s Throw, the monthly online companion to Rock and a Hard Place Magazine, closes to noir stories “set at home, wherever that is. Apartments. The suburbs. A townhouse. An RV. Under an overpass. We all need to lay our head somewhere, and while we imagine it to always be safe, sometimes that’s just wishful thinking” from between 1- 2,000 words with a payment of $25.
🔗https://www.rockandahardplacemag.com/stones-throw-submissions
⭐ MAY 8 · 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.
🔗https://indiebooksource.com/podcast/
⭐📚 MAY 8-10 · Nonfiction Writers Conference (NFWC) Reserve your virtual seat to be among the first to receive conference updates. 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. Save 20% with code: NFWC20 Discount expires 4/21/24.
🔗https://nonfictionwritersconference.com/#pricing®istration
⭐📚 MAY 9 · An online Harvard Diversity Discussion on “Race and Rural America: Contrasts to Urban America” will be open to the public via Zoom on Wednesday, May 9, 5-6 pm EST.
🔴 MAY 10 · 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 10 · Cursed Cooking: A Horror Community Cookbook and Food Horror Anthology closes an extended submission window exclusively for writers of color, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and other underrepresented groups for flash, short stories, drabble and recipes. Payment is .05 per word.
🔗https://www.cateyepress.com/submissions
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