Special 2024 Authortunities Expo Edition
Authortunities #86 │November 2—November 30
The 2024 Authortunities Expo begins today, November 2 at non Eastern with 10 presentations, a book fair and a burning of the imposter syndrome. The entire event is free to the public, and will always remain free to our Authortunities Hub residents. Join the Neighborhub at authortunitieshub.com.
Here’s the schedule of events. All times are in Eastern:
Always open │NeighborHub Book Fair!
Noon │Opening Ceremonies with Angela Yuriko Smith
1 pm │ Managing Tasks for Success with Phill Bradley
2 pm │Building Your Book Fortune with Dale L. Roberts
3 pm │Creating Credibility for Good with Frances Lu-Pai Ippolito
4 pm │Best Practices for Rising Stars with Beth Hildenbrand
5 pm │Developing Your Author Business Plan with Jacki Renée
6 pm │Astro-writing: How Mercury Guides Your Literary Voice with Nikki DeKeuster
7 pm │Podcasting to Create Incredible Credibility with Ross Brand
8 pm │Crafting Immersive Worlds with Teresa Cage, Interviewed by Stephen Schwartz
9 pm │An Intro to Structural Editing with Linda O'Donnell
10 pm │Closing Ceremonies with Angela Yuriko Smith awarding the first Authortunities Grant to Nikki DeKeuster of
for elevating neurodiverse voices in publishing.
A huge thank you to everyone who shared their time and talents with me to put this event together. We have amazing speakers, interesting topics and a lot of laughing. The Authortunities Expo is now open! Forever free in the Neighborhub at authortunitieshub.com.
🌳What’s in this issue?
I’m officially president of the Horror Writers Association as of November 1. I’m excited to represent all the humans that make up our organization, many of whom I consider friends, if not family.
On a sad note, Siren’s Call has just closed their doors after 12 years of publishing. An advocate of publishing new and diverse voices, they’ve been an industry staple as long as I can remember. I owe them for a Stoker. Read more here.
Another ending, Amazon announced they will be ending the Kindle Vella program February 2025. “When Kindle Vella closes in February 2025, we will remove all remaining stories… If you would like to unpublish earlier, we will provide a self-service unpublishing option on December 4th, 2024 so that you’ll be able to unpublish your Kindle Vella content without Customer Service support.” For more information, review the Kindle Vella Update FAQ.
Memento Mori Ink will have new publishing opportunities in Morsus Vitae, to be edited by Pixie Bruner. “Morsus Vitae is an extension of our motto “Memento Mori, Crea Ut Vivas” meaning “Remember you shall die, create so you may live”. Morsus Vitae is a monthly intimate mini-publication, available only to Memento Mori Ink Newsletter subscribers.” I’m looking forward to reading!
LindaAnn LoSchiavo recieved a lovely review from Kyle Wendy Skultety for Always Haunted, LindaAnn’s collection of Halloween Poems. Read the entire review here.
It’s been an Authortunities blitz over on
‘s BrandStack | Books & Broadcasts with three features on me and the intellectual opportunities I’ve built over the past few years, but that’s just a taste of what he offers. Ross has recently migrated his huge podcast following over to Substack where he’s sharing his knowledge as well as being a speaker in the Expo. Check them it out and give him a follow here!
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🟢 opening subs
🔴 closing subs
⭐ 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
🟢 NOV 2 · 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: The Witching Hour 🕯️.
https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/
🎓 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. With 10 speakers, a book fair and plenty to explore, join the Neighborhub for permanent access.
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
⭐🎤 NOV 24 · 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 24 · 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 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/
🔴 NOV 26 · Every Day Fiction closes for winter and holiday stories 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
🔴 NOV 29 · 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 29 · 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 29 · 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 30 · The Other Stories Podcast closes 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 30 · Dread Mondays: A Whisper House Press Anthology of Workplace Horror from Whisper House Press closes their extended deadline for historically marginalized voices of 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
Always Open ♾️
🟢♾️ · Bad Day Book is currently accepting poetry and prose submissions with themes specified on their site. They offer payment ranging from $40 to $75, depending on length.
https://thebaddaybook.com/faq/
🟢♾️ · 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/
open what? I have clicked on opening subs two dozen times. I have hit control F. Nothing happens!
Hi Angela, What's the latest on Space & Time fiction submissions? My story's been held for quite a while now.