Last Saturday of October😭
Authortunities #85 │October 26—November 23
It’s the most wonderful time of the year… for those of us that haunt the Halloween clearance section looking for skeletons on discount. As fall settles in for the Northern Hemisphere folks I can hear that sigh of relief as both heat and hurricane season wraps up. Down here in the Southern half of the world we are experiencing a Spring Halloween.
In the Authortunities Hub we have a Meet and Greet for the Horror Story Telling Workshop in cooperation with the Schimelpfenig Library in Plano, Texas, Bitter Suite Revenge Game Night, an open mic and the regular Wednesday Neighborhub meeting. Next Saturday will be the Authortunities Expo!
🌳What’s in this issue?
Speaking of the Authortunities Expo on November 2… Seeking Craft, Credibility, Fortune and Fame? You can have it all… just not all at the same time. This free, virtual conference maps out how to define and find your next publishing quest. Explore the Neighborhub while you wait at authortunitieshub.com.
As mentioned in my presentation for the Escape the Plot Forest summit, here is the link to the Publishing Motivations test I mentioned. Available in the Authortunities Hub here if you want to join the conversation.
Space and Time Fall/Winter #147 is now available! A massive double issue with over 50 human created poems, stories, fiction and non-fiction! Thank you to the incredible S&T Team for all your hard work! Get your copy here.
The HWA Poetry Showcase XI, edited by Maxwell I. Gold is also now available! Congratulations to everyone who made this year’s Showcase. Get your copy here.
Happy Halloween everyone! 🎃
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⭐ networking
💼 conference
🎤 open mics
🎓 education
♻️ reprints
🏆 awards
💰 grants
🟢 BookLife runs the Indie Spotlight feature, a thematic roundup of self-published books from a broad range of genres and topics, both online and in print in Publishers Weekly magazine. Each Indie Spotlight is open to all types of books as long as they match the month's topic. Submit your works of horror, mystery, and the supernatural until October 1.
https://booklife.com/about-us/booklife-s-indie-spotlight.html
🟢 OCT 19 · Reedsy Prompts is open 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 11.59 pm EST to enter. No fee to enter and have work posted. $5 fee to be eligible for the $250 cash prize. Don’t forget to use the hashtag #ReedsyOctober to share your creepy tales (and potentially be featured on on Reedsy social accounts)! This week’s prompt is: October Country with Peter Cameron 🕸️.
https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/
🔴 OCT 26 · Riddlebird opens 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
🔴 OCT 27 · Every Day Fiction closes for “suitable stories for November” up to 1000 words. Payment is $3 USD. “All fiction genres are acceptable, and stories that don’t fit neatly into any genre are welcome too.”
https://everydayfiction.submittable.com/submit
⭐🎤 OCT 27 · Rattlecast livestreams, is part interview and open mic with a prompt-based open mic. Hangout with Rattle editor Timothy Green and Katie Dozier. Each Rattlecast begins with an interview, a writing prompt, and poets reading from the last week’s prompt. | Rattlecast at 8 pm EST.
⭐ OCT 27 · 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. This week features Jessica Nettles, Sarah Tasz, Wayne Turmel, Kate Risse, and Alison McBain.
🔴 OCT 27 · Rough Cut Press closes to fiction limited to 650 words from members of the LGBTQ+ community on the theme of “splinter.” Payment is $25.
https://roughcutpress.com/submit/
⭐🎓 OCT 29 ·Author Platform Mastery: Website, Social Media, Newsletter Join Evan at StoryOrigin for an exclusive webinar featuring publishing industry expert Jane Friedman as she delves into the essential components of a robust author platform. In this illuminating Q&A session, Jane will share her wealth of knowledge on crafting an effective online presence that can significantly boost your writing career. Free registration.
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcudyorjwqHdTr8ul3iIhuxJksCLYe4T8w#/registration
🔴 OCT 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
🔴♻️ OCT 31 · 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/
🔴 OCT 31 · MetaStellar closes for science fiction, fantasy, or horror stories up to 1,200 words. “Please submit only one story per cycle. Simultaneous submissions to other publications are allowed, as is the use of AI to help write the story.” Payment is $0.08/word.
https://www.metastellar.com/write-for-us/flash-fiction-story-submission/
🔴 OCT 31 · Brick closes for polished literary nonfiction submissions from 1,000 to 5,000 words. Payment is $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/
🔴🏆 OCT 31 · 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 September. 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/
🔴 OCT 31 · Diet Milk Magazine, a “biannual literary magazine devoted to Gothic” closes for submissions of “ micro and flash fiction for its December series, IN THE BLEAK MIDWINTER” for $3 per micro fiction and $2 per flash fiction. “Twenty-five works will be chosen to be posted from December 1st through Christmas to our website and boosted on twitter.”
https://duotrope.com/duosuma/submit/diet-milk-magazine-rv29z
🔴 OCT 31 · Nonbinary Review seeks poetry, fiction, essays, and art on the theme "Rituals." Payment: 1 cent per word for prose, and a flat fee of $10 for poetry. Deadline: October 31, 2023. Closes when cap is reached, so submit early.
https://nonbinaryreview.submittable.com/submit/202881/nbr-27-shared-worlds
🔴 OCT 31 · 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/
🔴 OCT 31 · Dread Mondays: A Whisper House Press Anthology of Workplace Horror from Whisper House Press closes submissions of short stories up to 4k on the theme of workplace horror. Payment is 6 cents per word. Special extended deadline of November 30 for historically marginalized voices
🔴 OCT 31 · Flash Fiction Online closes, unless submission cap has already been reached, for speculative (science fiction, fantasy, slipstream, and horror) and literary fiction submissions. Payment is $100.
https://ffo.submittable.com/submit
🔴♻️ OCT 31 · Worldstone Publishing closes for science fiction and fantasy stories for their Summer of Sci-Fi & Fantasy anthology. Payment is “is currently $0.005/word up to 7500 words. Minimum of $15.” Reprints paid at full rate.
https://www.worldstonepublishing.com/submissions
🔴 OCT 31 · Black Beacon Books closes to Steampunk mystery novelettes for their Steampunk Sleuths Anthology. Payment is $50.
https://blackbeaconbooks.blogspot.com/2024/01/a-mysterious-year-anthology-submissions.html
🔴 OCT 31 · Whisper House Press closes to workplace horror fiction for their Dread Mondays Anthology. Payment is $15 per story.
🔴 NOV 1 · Rebellion Lit closes to flash and short stories (any genre) for their Three x The Fun series. Payment is 1.5 c/word.
https://rebellionlit.com/anthology-three-x-the-fun/
🔴 NOV 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); Payment for poems $10 USD.
https://duotrope.com/duosuma/submit/last-girls-club-lImp7
🔴♻️ NOV 1 · NonBinary Review, Zoetic Press closes for poetry and visual art. Payment is $0.01 USD per word for prose up to 3k words, $10 for poetry and visual art $25 USD flat rate. Theme is “rituals.”
https://nonbinaryreview.submittable.com/submit
🔴 NOV 1 · 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 free print magazine subscription. Each week's deadline is Friday midnight PST.
https://rattle.submittable.com/submit/30232/poets-respond-online
🟢 NOV 1 · Apparition Lit’s 2024 Flash Fiction Contest opens until November 14 for submissions of speculative flash fiction (under 1k words) prompted by “Stews, Soups and Curries.” The writer of the selected story will be notified and their story published the following month. The prize is $30 USD.
https://apparitionlit.com/submissions/
🟢 NOV 1 · The Other Stories Podcast opens until November 30 for 2,000 word speculative fiction on the theme of BLEEDING HEARTS. “Profound love, romance, sacrifice, and the most cutting of heartbreaks.” Payment is $15 GBP.
https://theotherstories.net/submissions/
✅🟢 NOV 1 · After Happy Hour opens until January 31 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
🟢 NOV 1 · New Orleans Review opens for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Payment is $300 for prose and $100 for poetry. In celebration of Native American Heritage Month, there are no submission fees during the month of November for all Indigenous writers, not limited to those living in/born the US. $3 submission fee otherwise.
https://www.neworleansreview.org/submit/
🟢 NOV 1 · Electric Spec opens for speculative fiction stories of “science fiction, fantasy, and the macabre” between 250 and 7000 words for their February issue until January 15. Payment is $20 per piece.
http://www.electricspec.com/Submissions.html
⭐🎓 NOV 1 · 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
🟢NOV 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/
🟢 NOV 1 · Off Topic Publishing’s Poetry Box opens to submissions of poetry until the 25th of the month. Selected poems to be sent as a physical card with tea and chocolate to subscribers. Payment is for $30 CAD.
https://offtopicpublishing.com/opencalls/
🟢 NOV 1 · Strange Horizons opens for speculative poetry submissions year-round, including at times when they are 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. This month AJ Odasso (they/them/theirs) is the editor. Payment is $50 USD per poem, regardless of length or complexity.
http://strangehorizons.com/submit/poetry-submission-guidelines/
🟢 NOV 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
⭐ NOV 1 · 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 Carina Bissett, Megan Bontrager, Kerrie Faye, MaryAnn Johanson, Libby Schultz, and Jean Marie Ward. Pre-register.
https://strongwomenstrangeworlds.weebly.com/
🟢🏆💰 NOV 1 · The Paul Engle Prize opens for nominations today. Sponsored by Iowa City, UNESCO City of Literature, the winner receives a cash prize of $20,000 USD. The prize is awarded annually to a writer who represents a pioneering spirit in the literary arts through writing, editing, publishing, or teaching, and whose participation in larger issues of the day has contributed to the betterment of the world. Poets, fiction and nonfiction writers are eligible. Submit a nomination, including a list of the writer's works and a statement about how the writer embodies the spirit of the prize by March 31. Self-nominations are not allowed.
http://iowacityofliterature.org/paul-engle-day
🔴 NOV 1 · The First Line closes for fiction, poetry, and nonfiction using the first line “The parking lot was empty.” Payment: $25–$50 for fiction, $5–$10 for poetry, and $25 for nonfiction. There is a related submission call in their sister publication The Last Line.
http://www.thefirstline.com/submission.htm
🟢 NOV 1 · 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/
🔴 NOV 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
🟢 NOV 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/
🟢 NOV 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/
🟢♻️ NOV 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/
🎓 NOV 2 · Authortunities Expo Seeking Craft, Credibility, Fortune and Fame? You can have it all… just not all at the same time. This free, virtual conference maps out how to define and find your next publishing quest. The event ends with the first ever Linzner Awards from Space and Time Magazine. Explore the Neighborhub while you wait.
https://authortunitieshub.com/
🟢♻️ NOV 2 · NonBinary Review, Zoetic Press opens until February 1 for prose, poetry and visual art. Payment is $0.01 USD per word for prose up to 3k words, $10 for poetry and visual art $25 USD flat rate. Theme is “MISTAKEN IDENTITY.”
https://nonbinaryreview.submittable.com/submit
🎓 NOV 2 · Celebrating Authors Summit: Book Publishing Options Do You Know Your Publishing Options? Basically an author can self-publish, work with a traditional publisher, or work with a hybrid publisher. What does this mean, what are the nuances, and what can you learn from publishers to help you choose the best path for you? Free to attend live.
https://copy-of-celebrating-summit-2411.eventraptor.com/
⭐🎤 NOV 3 · Rattlecast livestreams, is part interview and open mic with a prompt-based open mic. Hangout with Rattle editor Timothy Green and Katie Dozier. Each Rattlecast begins with an interview, a writing prompt, and poets reading from the last week’s prompt. | Rattlecast at 8 pm EST.
⭐ NOV 3 · 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.
⭐🎓 NOV 5 · Facebook Ads for Authors: A Roadmap to Book Sales Join Evan at StoryOrigin for a Q&A session with Nicholas Erik, an author and expert in book marketing. Learn how to leverage Facebook ads to boost your book sales, grow your author platform, and reach your target readers. Free registration.
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEufumgpjgtHNaV28DWqfNb9fu-8pp4HULW#/registration
🔴 NOV 6 · Cave Canem closes for chapbook-length manuscripts by Black poets for the Derricotte/Eady Prize. The winner receives a $1,000 award, publication, 10 chapbook copies, a residency at The Writer’s Room, and a featured reading at the O, Miami Poetry Festival in April.
https://cavecanempoets.org/prizes/derricotte-eady-prize/
🎓 NOV 6 · Plotting the Commercial Thriller--Jeffrey Deaver is the latest offering from the Outliers Online Ongoing Writers Conference where all classes are taught by working, best-selling authors with two classes per month, every month on the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays at 4 pm PST. “Whether you write thrillers or want a thrilling plot for your story, learn the process from a master storyteller.“ Costs $45. *This Class is on Wednesday Due To Election Day
https://www.outlierswritinguniversity.com/ongoingconference
🔴 NOV 8 · 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 free print magazine subscription. Each week's deadline is Friday midnight PST.
https://rattle.submittable.com/submit/30232/poets-respond-online
⭐🎓 NOV 8 · 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
🟢 NOV 8 · 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/
🎓 NOV 9 · Celebrating Authors Summit: Speaking to Amplify Your Message Would Speaking Enhance Your Career & Book? Have you written your book to introduce yourself and your expertise to a particular audience? Would speaking to that audience about your book concepts help move your career forward? Learn tips and advice from speaking professionals to help you. Free to attend live.
https://go.eventraptor.com/summit/copy-of-celebrating-summit-2411-1/angelayurikosmith
⭐🎤 NOV 10 · Rattlecast livestreams, is part interview and open mic with a prompt-based open mic. Hangout with Rattle editor Timothy Green and Katie Dozier. Each Rattlecast begins with an interview, a writing prompt, and poets reading from the last week’s prompt. | Rattlecast at 8 pm EST.
⭐ NOV 10 · 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.
⭐🎓💼 NOV 11-15 · Author Nation Join fellow writers and authors at Author Nation 2024, an annual event designed to empower and connect independent authors worldwide. This year's event will feature industry-leading speakers, hands-on workshops, networking opportunities, and much more to help authors navigate the publishing world and grow their careers. Perfect for both emerging and seasoned writers looking to take their authorpreneurship to the next level. Digital Visas start at $249.99.
https://www.authornation.live/
⭐🎓 NOV 12 · Black Lawrence Press presents Alyse Bensel – Imagined Futures, Remembered Pasts: Poems that Face Climate Crises at 8 pm EST. Attendance is free. Zoom registration required.
https://blacklawrencepress.com/events/
🔴 NOV 14 · Apparition Lit’s 2024 Flash Fiction Contest closes for submissions of speculative flash fiction (under 1k words) prompted by “Stews, Soups and Curries.” The writer of the selected story will be notified and their story published the following month. The prize is $30 USD.
https://apparitionlit.com/submissions/
🔴♻️ NOV 15 · Luna Station Quarterly closes for “speculative fiction written by women-identified authors” from 500 to 7000 words. Reprints considered at least 3 years past their initial publication date. No poetry. $10 USD plus a lifetime digital subscription to the magazine.
https://submissions.lunastationpress.com/
🔴 NOV 15 · 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 free print magazine subscription. Each week's deadline is Friday midnight PST.
https://rattle.submittable.com/submit/30232/poets-respond-online
🟢 NOV 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. The site 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
⭐🎓 NOV 15 · 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
🟢 NOV 15 · 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/
🎓 NOV 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.
🎓 NOV 16 · Celebrating Authors Summit: Getting Your Book To Your Audience How Do You Sell Your Books? Our speakers share their tips and strategies to help you find ways to get your book into your audience's hands. Whether your target audience is massive or small, building your distribution strategy either before or during your writing process will help you be ready when your book is published. Free to attend live.
https://go.eventraptor.com/summit/copy-of-celebrating-summit-2411-2/angelayurikosmith
⭐🎤 NOV 17 · Rattlecast livestreams, is part interview and open mic with a prompt-based open mic. Hangout with Rattle editor Timothy Green and Katie Dozier. Each Rattlecast begins with an interview, a writing prompt, and poets reading from the last week’s prompt. | Rattlecast at 8 pm EST.
⭐ NOV 17 · 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.
🎓 NOV 19 · Getting Your Book Published—John/Shannon Raab is the latest offering from the Outliers Online Ongoing Writers Conference where all classes are taught by working, best-selling authors with two classes per month, every month on the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays at 4 pm PST. “You've written a book, now you need an agent or a publisher and don't know where to go or what to do. We will teach you how to avoid common mistakes and give you a road map to follow and help navigate around the publishing business.“ Costs $45.
https://www.outlierswritinguniversity.com/ongoingconference
🔴 NOV 22 · 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 free print magazine subscription. Each week's deadline is Friday midnight PST.
https://rattle.submittable.com/submit/30232/poets-respond-online
⭐🎓 NOV 22 · 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
🟢 NOV 22 · 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/
🎓 NOV 23 · Celebrating Authors Summit: Creative Ways to Monetize Your Book You've worked hard to organize the concepts in your book into a logical order. You've massaged the language, and you've created a visual representation of your book. Now what?! If you want to serve your audience in expanded ways beyond just reading your book, what are your options? Check out our speakers as they share their experience, positive and negative, of options they've explored. Free to attend live.
https://go.eventraptor.com/summit/copy-of-celebrating-summit-2411-3/angelayurikosmith
Always Open ♾️
🟢♾️ · New Orleans Review is always open for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry submissions. Payment is $300 for nonfiction and fiction prose and $100 for poetry regardless of word counts.
https://www.neworleansreview.org/submit/
🟢♾️ · Griffith Review is always open for nonfiction and fiction submissions on the theme "No Place Like Home," what it means to us, why it matters and how it shapes our sense of self. Payment is $0.75 AUD per word for fiction and nonfiction, $200 AUD per poem and $500 per piece AUD per work commissioned for GR Online.
https://www.griffithreview.com/submit-to-griffith-review/
🟢♾️ · Breath & Shadow is always open for submissions from people with disabilities, broadly defined, encompassing physical, mental, emotional, cognitive, or sensory impairments that significantly affect major life functions. They welcome poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and drama on any topic, with a focus on disability-related academic or article-type nonfiction. Payment is $20 for poetry and $30 for prose.
https://www.abilitymaine.org/submission-guidelines
🟢♾️ · Craft is always open for “fiction and creative nonfiction, as well as craft essays and interviews.” They offer free submissions with fast response times for BIPOC and other mis- and underrepresented writers. Craft pays $100 for flash and $200 for short fiction and creative nonfiction.
https://craft.submittable.com/submit
🟢 ♾️ · Every Day Fiction is always open for flash fiction up to 1000 words. Payment $3 USD. “All fiction genres are acceptable, and stories that don’t fit neatly into any genre are welcome too.”
https://everydayfiction.submittable.com/submit
🟢♾️ · The Gay & Lesbian Review is always open for “unsolicited manuscripts and proposals on all LGBT-related topics.” Payment is $250 for features.
https://glreview.org/writers-guidelines-for-submission/
🟢♾️ · Reappropriate, an Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) race advocacy and feminism blog is always open for pitches on topics such as race, gender, identity, Asian American history, and current events. They pay $75-150 for 800 to 2,500 words.
http://reappropriate.co/submit-writing/
🟢♾️ · Tagg Magazine, a US-based queer women's publication, is always open for pitches on various themes, including personal essays, listicles, dating advice, and fashion-related content. Articles are 350-1,000 words long and pay $75-175. They also welcome pitches for article ideas.
https://taggmagazine.com/contribute/
🟢♾️ · Torch Literary Arts is always open for creative writing by Black women for their Friday Features. “We are interested in work that challenges and disrupts preconceived notions of what contemporary writing by Black women should be” in fiction, hybrid works, poetry, and drama, including pieces accompanied by video or dramatic audio. Payment is $150.
https://torchliteraryarts.submittable.com/submit
🟢♾️ · Solarpunk Magazine is always open for nonfiction that will “stir readers with themes of defiance, change, and achievement.” Payment is $75 for nonfiction.
https://solarpunkmagazine.com/submissions/
🟢♾️ · Bourbon Penn seeks “highly imaginative stories with a healthy dose of the odd” from 2000 - 7500 words for 4¢ / word.
https://www.bourbonpenn.com/submissions
🟢♾️ · Orion's Beau is open until September 10 for LGBTQ science fiction, fantasy, paranormal, and dark fantasy in fiction, poetry, and art. Payment is $3.
https://www.orionsbeau.com/arts-and-literary-submissions
🟢♾️ · Electric Spec closes to speculative fiction stories of “science fiction, fantasy, and the macabre” between 250 and 7000 words for their next issue. Payment is $20 per piece.
http://www.electricspec.com/Submissions.html
🟢♾️ · Timothy McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern is open to unpublished fiction up to 10k words. Snail mail submissions. Payment is $400.
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/pages/guidelines-for-quarterly-submissions
🟢♾️ · 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
🟢♻️♾️ · Samovar, published by Strange Horizons, seeks 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 is $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/
🟢♾️ · 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/
🟢♾️ The SFWA Blog is open to pitches for original nonfiction articles on topics that might be of interest to new and/or established creators of science fiction and fantasy. SFWA welcomes pitches from both members and nonmembers. Black, Indigenous, and other writers of color, and writers of other under-represented identities, are encouraged to submit article pitches. Payment: 10 cents/word.
https://www.sfwa.org/sfwa-publications/sfwa-blog-guidelines/