Rec's Open for 2023 Linzner Awards
Authortunities #57│April 13—May 11
I’ve had a satisfying week. Remember my challenge last week for anyone to find an error in that newsletter?
caught that Tundra Swan Press’ Don’t Ask, Ghosts Tell, edited by Bram Stoker Award® Winner Vince A. Liaguno and TSP Editor-in-Chief, Sirrah Medeiros is open for fiction, but poetry is invite only.LindaAnn got a six months pro-level subscription added to her account, and here is my apology poem, as promised. Is a haiku okay?
To Vince and Tundra Swan
There, in the fine print
it says “by invitation.”
Please! VIP me!
I hope that satisfies, LindaAnn. 😂🥰
Civil Writes
🟠Recommendations for the 2023 Linzner Awards are officially open and the recs are stacking up. This is only for work published in Space and Time magazine in 2023. In August, there will be a special fundraiser award for anything published in Space and Time ever… for now, please go select all your favorite poems, prose, art and nonfiction that delighted you last year. Here are the details.
🟠The 2024 SFPA Poetry Contest is coming up, and I have the pleasure of being this year’s Chair.
will be judging. The contest will open June 1. I’ll share more details when I have them. You can read about last year’s contest here.🟠HWA Poetry Showcase XI closes May 1 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/
My Writes
🟠 I have yet to win the $250 ReedsyPrompts prize. I’m 0 for 3, but I think I have a better idea of what can get me closer for next week and the odds are still good. Listen to my latest ReedsyPrompts "Signs of Intelligence" for Contest #243 on the Submissions Support Group here, or read-along here. Better yet, enter your own short story. Read this week’s prompts here.
Your Writes
🟠 A big welcome to
whose come over to Substack recently. He’s a good friend and a good writer. Check him out at Cyber Talks.🟠 I have a six-pack of reviews up yesterday to share some of the recent books I’ve read by Lindy Ryan, Carina Bissett, Lee Murray, sho yamagushiku, Pixie Bruner, and Travis Baldree. You can read that here.
🟠 That incoming issue #146 of Space and Time is in the final stages of coming into the world, and I have a soft date of April 20. Of course, life happens so that can be adjusted but all the art, prose and poetry is in and going on the page now. Anthony R. Rhodes builds a masterpiece every time.
And of course, there's free Space and Time! This week’s free issue is #143 from Spring/Summer 2023. It will be free from now until Tuesday, April 16, 2024, 11:59 PM PDT. Get your free issue here.
A big thank you to everyone who reads for free. This boosts our Kindle Edition Normalized Page Count (KENPC). As much as we all want to support each other, who can afford to buy every book? Reviews, shares, likes and KENPC are all easy ways to support your favorite authors.
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 12 · 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 theme for #395: All Fun and Games 🎲.
🔗https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/
🔴 APR 14 · Solar Punk Magazine closes for submissions of speculative works around Solarpunk, envisioning a future where humanity has addressed challenges like climate change and established sustainable societies. Payments are fiction at $.08 per word, $100 minimum, poetry at $40 per poem), nonfiction $75 per essay or article, cover art $100 for reprints, $200 for original unpublished, and interior art $50 for reprints, $100 for original unpublished.
🔗https://solarpunkmagazine.com/submissions/
🔴 APR 14 · GriffithReview85 closes submissions for nonfiction and fiction up to 4,000 words with a theme of “Status Anxiety.” Payment is AUD$0.75 per word for fiction and non-fiction, AUD$200 per poem and AUD $500 for “work commissioned for GR Online.” A separate poetry call-out will open on April 22.
🔗https://www.griffithreview.com/for-writers/
🔴💲 APR 15 · The Poetry Foundation closes to applications for five fellowships of $27,000 each annually to U.S. poets between the ages of 21 and 31. Applicants can submit 10 pages of poetry and an application from March 2 to April 14 using the online submission system. There is no entry fee. Visit the website for complete guidelines and to register in the foundation’s new online grants and awards portal, which must be done before accessing the fellowship application.
🔗https://www.poetryfoundation.org/foundation/prizes-fellowship
🔴 APR 15 · Hungry Shadow Press closes to short horror, weird, dark fiction suitable for adaptation into a comic book script of 12 pages or less for Vault of Shadows Issue 1. Payment is $35 per page of the adapted script, up to 12 pages, along with a print copy of the issue. A special submission for “LGBTQIA+, BIPOC, neurodivergent, and other marginalized writers” opens April 16 - May 1.
🔗https://www.hungryshadowpress.com/submissions-vault-of-shadows
🟢 APR 15 · khōréō is open until May 15 for stories of 1,500 words or fewer, essays, and art in the fantasy, sci-fi, horror, and related genres, from writers who identify as immigrants or members of a diaspora in the broadest sense of the word. Payment is $0.10/word.
🔗https://www.khoreomag.com/submissions-fiction/
🟢 APR 15 · Cursed Cooking: A Horror Community Cookbook and Food Horror Anthology is open for flash, short stories, drabble and recipes until April 30 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
🟢 APR 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
🟢 APR 15 · 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
🟢 APR 15 · Havok is open until May 3 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/
🟢 APR 15 · Chicken Soup for the Soul is open until April 30 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 15 · Hungry Shadow Press is open 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 only 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
🔴 APR 15 · Electric Spec closes to speculative fiction stories of “science fiction, fantasy, and the macabre” between 250 and 7000 words for their May issue. Payment is $20 per piece.
🔗http://www.electricspec.com/Submissions.html
🔴 APR 15 · The Threepenny Review closes for submissions of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction until January. This closing date is a change from their usual April 30 date. Payment is $400 per story or article, and $200 per poem or Table Talk piece.
🔗https://www.threepennyreview.com/submissions.html
🔴 APR 15 · Radon closes to short stories and poetry containing elements of anarchism, transhumanism, dystopia, and/or science fiction for their May issue. Payment is 1 cent per word for original work, half a cent per word for reprints.
🔗https://www.radonjournal.com/submit
⭐📚 APR 15 · 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. Kim Stafford | Rattlecast 241 at 8 pm EST.
🔗https://www.youtube.com/playlistlist=PLD_fMFokoxAEbUzqLMIldRifEYrWK7w9-
🔴 APR 15 · Consequence Magazine, print and online, closes to short fiction, poetry, nonfiction, interviews, reviews, and visual art.. “All submissions need to address in some manner the experiences, the realities, or the consequences of war or geopolitical violence.” Payment is $20 to $50 for prose and poetry, $150 for art.
🔗https://www.consequenceforum.org/submissions
🟢 APR 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
🟢 APR 15 · Cast of Wonders opens until April 30 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 15 · Plenitude Magazine is open for literary fiction, nonfiction, poetry, graphic narrative, book reviews, and short films by 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
🟢📚 APR 15 · The Unicorn: Symbolism and Paths to Healing in the Modern Psyche, a 7-week online class taught by Alicia King Anderson, Ph.D. via Zoom will be held Monday and Wednesdays from April 15 – May 6, 2024 from 7-8 pm EST. $175 Paid Patreon Members / $195 General Admission. All classes will be recorded for those who cannot attend live.
🟢 APR 16 · Radon opens to short stories and poetry containing elements of anarchism, transhumanism, dystopia, and/or science fiction until August 15 for their September issue. Payment: 1 cent per word for original work, half a cent per word for reprints.
🔗https://www.radonjournal.com/submit
🔴 APR 16 · Rattle Magazine closes their Tribute to Musicians call. The Fall 2024 issue will be dedicated to poems written in response to prompts. The poems may be any style or subject, but must be written who have been professional musicians at some point in their lives. Contributors to the print magazine receive $200 and a complimentary one-year subscription. Poems for "Online" categories receive $100.
🔗https://rattle.submittable.com/submit/282385/tribute-to-musicians
⭐ APR 16 · Random House Publishing Group and PEN America are proud to present internationally renowned writer, free speech advocate, and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie in conversation with Suleika Jaouad, the New York Times bestselling author of Between Two Kingdoms, founder of The Isolation Journals, and subject of the Netflix documentary American Symphony. Rushdie’s new memoir, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder, is a gripping account of surviving an attempt on his life 30 years after the fatwa was ordered against him. In unforgettable detail, Rushdie is speaking out for the first time about the traumatic events of August 12, 2022.
📚 APR 17 · Creating an Author Website in 2024 taught by Stuart Grant will cover topics such as selling direct with Wix and Bookvault, new design elements that help your site, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and promoting your site and getting more traffic. Free to attend, begins at 3 pm EST. Pre-register.
🔗https://blog.reedsy.com/live/author-website-design-2024/
⭐ APR 18 · 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.
⭐📚 APR 18 · How Cognitive Biases Make Us Vulnerable to Disinformation – and What We Can Do about It In this free webinar Kurt Sampsel of PEN America will provide an overview of some of the most common cognitive biases that shape how we consume information, followed by a conversation with Thomas Martinez of the Fort Worth Report and Kristy Roschke of Arizona State University about how we all can reduce the influence of cognitive biases and become more resilient consumers of news and information. Beginning at 2 pm EST.
🔗https://pen.org/event/cognitive-biases-disinformation/
📚 APR 18 · Introducing Fable: D2D's newest retail partner D2D just announced a new retail partnership with Fable, the popular online bookstore and social reading app that powers 25,000+ online book clubs. Joining us today is Kim Marsh Allee, Head of Operations & Community at Fable, as we discuss what this partnership means to you, your books, and your readers! 1pm EST, register for free.
🟢 APR 19 · 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/
🔴 APR 19 · 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
🔴♻️ APR 19 · Grimm Retold closes for horror and dark fantasy submissions retelling Dark Grimm Fairy Tales “retold in new and horrific ways.” Payments are $25 for stories 2000-5000 words, $35 for stories 5000-8000 words, $15 for poems, and $10 for reprints.
🔗 https://www.speculationpub.com/submissions
⭐📚 APR 19 · 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
⭐📚 APR 20 · PARSEC, Pittsburgh’s premier Science Fiction & Fantasy Organization, welcomes the public to their monthly meetings held the third Saturday of each month beginning at 12:30 pm EST. Virtual Zoom meetings are available for those who can’t attend in person.
🔗https://parsec-sff.org/monthly-meetings/
🔴 APR 20 · Astrolabe closes to fiction, creative nonfiction, and photography/art for a $50 USD honorarium.
🔗https://www.astrolabe.ooo/submissions
♻️🔴 APR 21 · Flash Fiction Online closes for subs of speculative (science fiction, fantasy, slipstream, and horror) and literary flash fiction between 500- to 1000-words for their Special Call: Weird Horror. Payment: $100.
🔗https://ffo.submittable.com/submit
🟢 APR 21 · Ofic is open until June 30 for short fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, and art up to 12,000 words in any genre. Payment is “a small honorarium.”
🔗https://www.oficmag.com/submit
🟢 APR 21 · Nonbinary Review is open until May 1 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
🟢 APR 21 · Strange Aeon: 2024 (Mythic Art) is open until May 31 or “until filled” stories in a cosmic horror/Lovecraftian vein. Payment is $”$20 and a compensatory copy for the author, or $35 for authors outside the USA.”
🔗https://mkeatonauthor.blogspot.com/2024/
🟢 APR 21 · Honeyguide Magazine is open until May 15 for fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art about animals and their human neighbors. “Thanks to the generosity of donors and supporters, we are able to pay cartoonists, the featured writer and featured artist prizes, and the contest winner” $25 for the story, $50 for art.
🔗https://www.honeyguidemag.com/submit
🟢 APR 22 · GriffithReview85 opens submissions for poetry with a theme of “Status Anxiety.” Payment is AUD $200 per poem and AUD $500 for “work commissioned for GR Online.”
🔗https://www.griffithreview.com/for-writers/
⭐📚 APR 22 · 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. Tribute to Gerald Locklin | Rattlecast 242 at 8 pm EST.
🔗https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD_fMFokoxAEbUzqLMIldRifEYrWK7w9-
🔴💲 APR 23 · The Whiting Foundation Creative Nonfiction Grants closes applications for creative nonfiction writers under contract with a publisher as of April 23. Grants of $40,000 each will be awarded annually to up to 10 writers to support them in completing their books. No entry fee.
🔗http://whiting.org/writers/creative-nonfiction-grant
🟢 APR 23 · Mythaxis opens for submissions until April 30th for fiction from 1,000-5,000 words for €0.01 per word, with a €20 minimum.
🔗https://mythaxis.co.uk/submissions.html
⭐📚 APR 24 · An online Harvard Diversity Discussion on “Race and Gender: Expressions and Experience” will be open to the public via Zoom from 6-7 pm EST.
⭐APR 24 · The Muse’s Mic: A Conversation with Rick Christiansen begins at 6 pm CST with hosts James Bryant and Ohio Beat Poet Laureate Sandra Feen to talk poetry and writing with Rick Christiansen, play the Fill in the Blank and answer audience Q&A.
🔗https://www.facebook.com/spofest/live/
🔴 APR 25 · Mudroom closes to poetry of all types, fiction, essays, and essays in translation. Payment is $15. “MudRoom is a place for you to kick your shoes off. It’s somewhere between where you’ve come from and where you’re going… we believe in the liminal, the dirty, the messy, and the mundane.”
🔗https://www.mudroommag.com/submissions
🔴 APR 25 · Off Topic Publishing’s Poetry Box closes to submissions of poetry to be sent out as a physical card with tea and chocolate to subscribers. Payment is for $30 CAD.
🔗https://offtopicpublishing.com/opencalls/
⭐📚 APR 25-27 · IBPA Publishing University 2024 will take place at the Hilton Denver City Center, “the #1 conference for independent book publishers in the United States.” Registration costs $549 for IBPA Members, $645 for Non-Members. Includes a complimentary 1-year IBPA membership.
🔗https://www.publishinguniversity.org/
🔴 APR 26 · 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
⭐📚 APR 26 · 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
🟢 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.
🔗https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/
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