Welcome 200+ New Subscribers!
Authortunities #72 │July 27—August 24
🌳What’s in this issue?
Over 100 author opportunities organized by date and emoji, plus…
A big welcome to 200+ new subscribers!
Submit your open mic and reading event to the new calendar!
How to get your book reviewed by A Look Inside: A Book Review Blog
Share your author news in the comments!
🍃Bullet Points
Big welcome to all the new subscribers on the Extra podcast! Listen here.
Space and Time magazine update: We have cover art from Alan F. Beck and Linda D. Addison is wrapping up poetry selections. I’ll be sharing both in this space very soon.
Get a copy of Adeena Mignogna’s “Exchange Policy” here in exchange for signing up to her mailing list. I loved this short story and I’ve been enjoying her Crazy Foolish Robots: A Humorous Science Fiction Book.
Here’s a clip from MEET THE AUTHOR Podcast LIVE - Episode 159 - where I read from Soft Deadlines, my paranormal romance comedy available on Kindle Vella. Rob and Joan are fabulous show hosts! Watch here.
Looking for reviews?
shared this resource: A Look Inside: A Book Review Blog publishes professional reviews to Goodreads, Amazon, their blog and more, won’t publish bad reviews (less than 3 stars) but offer constructive criticism instead and it’s free. Seems like a wholesome group of folks. I plan to send them a book or two for review. Here’s how to submit your book.Did you notice the new tabs at the top of the Authortunities page on Substack? You can now go to Authortunities Press submissions, Space and Time and a new, interactive Google events calendar. Send me your events at authortunities.substack.com. The direct link is here.
Speaking of Authortunities Press, submissions close August 4 (or when we reach 100 subs) for the 12 Spooky Campfire Stories for the Bravest of Boys MG anthology. Payment is .01 per word. Details here.
This week I’m working on getting the complete Space and Time digital archives online and available to authortunists. The magazine began in 1966, so there are a lot of back issues to upload.
While I find author opportunities everywhere, I want to give special credit to some of my favorite sources here. 🔗https://angelaysmith.com/subscribe/
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🦝This calendar is organized by emoji! Use [ctrl F] to find what you want fast.
🟢 opening subs
🔴 closing subs
⭐ networking
💼 conference
🎤 open mics
🎓 education
♻️ reprints
🏆 awards
💰 grants
🟢 The SFPA Speculative Poetry Contest is open until August 31 to all poets, including non-SFPA-members for speculative poetry in any form. Prizes will be awarded for best unpublished poem in 3 categories. Winning poets will be awarded $150 First Prize, $75 Second Prize, $25 Third Prize and publication on the SFPA website for first through third places in all categories. $3 entry fee, the contest is chaired by Angela Yuriko Smith and judged by Stephanie M. Wytovich.
🔗https://www.sfpoetry.com/contests.html
🟢 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 11.59pm EST to enter. No fee to enter and have work posted. $5 fee to be eligible for the $250 cash prize. New prompt every Friday. This week’s prompt is: Gratitude 🙏.
🔗https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/
🔴 Baubles From Bones is open until July 31 for speculative fiction and poetry. They are “an inclusive and open-minded publication that encourages submissions from all walks of life, around the globe, and especially from under-represented groups.” Payment is $.01/word for prose, $10 per poem.
🔗https://www.baublesfrombones.com/submission-guidelines.html
⭐🎤 JUL 28 · 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.
⭐ JUL 28 · 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.
⭐🎓 JUL 29 · One-on-One with Jane Friedman Pipeline exec Jeanne Veillette Bowerman will conduct a 1-on-1 conversation with Jane for a deep dive into publishing, her recent, chaotic A.I. adventures, and answer our audience's burning questions during this live event. Free, registration required. 4-5 p.m. PT | 7-8 p.m. ET
🔗https://symposium.pipelineartists.com/one-on-one-with-jane-friedman/
🔴 JUL 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
⭐🎓 JUL 30 · Selling Audiobooks: Production, Marketing, and Distribution Lindsay Senior from Author’s Republic will cover self-narrating titles, finding narrators, production
Audiobook distribution, marketing strategies for audiobooks and more plus answer questions live. 1 pm ET, free.
🔗https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0kc--rrzguEtRiC-4Y-QCg6d1xiqLhcXFV#/registration
⭐🎓 JUL 30 · Authors Guild Launchpad: Marketing and Promoting Self-Published Books Michael La Ronn and Matty Dalrymple from the Alliance of Independent Authors join us for a talk with Jane Friedman about options for indie book marketing and how to get started in each, such as: Paid ads on Amazon, Google, and social media, free ebooks and featured deals, influencer outreach and ARCs, swag, merchandise, and promotional book boxes. Free, 1 pm EST, via Zoom.
🔗https://authorsguild.org/event/ag-launchpad-marketing-and-promoting-self-published-books/
⭐🎓 JUL 31-AUG 4 · 2024 Willamette Writers Conference Over 50 industry professionals will be joining to share their expertise and knowledge of the changing industry. Online and in person with evening events and so many opportunities for networking, critique, and conversation. Limited Online Track Registration $279 for members, $349 non-,members.
🔗https://web.cvent.com/event/4e68a5ce-dd39-47ad-bf6d-f998c113590b/summary
🔴 JUL 31 · New Myths closes to speculative fiction up to 10k words “centering around portals, thresholds, transformations–the future and past worlds of our dreams and myths” for their anthology titled The Janus Gates. Payment is 3 cents/word with a minimum payment of $50 for all submissions, fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction and poetry, book reviews for $50 and art for $80.
🔴 JUL 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/
🔴♻️ JUL 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/
🔴 JUL 31 · Variant Lit closes for fiction and nonfiction up to 15 pages. Payment is $10.
🔗https://variantlit.com/submit/
🔴 JUL 31 · Arc Poetry Magazine closes for poetry, essays, interviews and columns on “How Poems Work.” Payment is $50 per page, $50 per column or $50 split between interviewer and interviewee.
🔗https://arcpoetry.ca/resources/general-submissions/
🔴 JUL 31 · Quarter Press: Quarter(ly) is closed for fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and art to the theme of “W3IRD.” Payment is $5.
🔗https://quarterpress.com/the-quarterly-journal
🔴 JUL 31 · New Myths closes for fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, book reviews and poetry. Payment is 3 cents/word with a minimum payment of $50, $50 flat rate for reviews and art for $80.
🔗https://sites.google.com/newmyths.com/newmyths-com-home/submissions?authuser=0
🔴 JUL 31 · THREE COUSINS PUBLISHING, an imprint of WEST MESA PRESS, closes to submissions for their next anthology, The Trouble with Time. Stories submitted before or after the submission period will not be considered. Payment is $10 USD Amazon gift card.
🔴 JUL 31 · Flash Fiction Online closes submissions until for speculative fiction flash with emphasis on “emotions” from 500-1k words “with crisp prose, well-developed characters, compelling plots, and satisfying resolutions. We want stories that engage our minds and emotions.” Payment is $100 USD flat rate.
🔗https://ffo.submittable.com/submit
🔴💰 JUL 31 · The Diverse Worlds and the Diverse Writers Grants both close for unpublished book-length works of speculative fiction. The Diverse Writers grant is intended to support speculative fiction writers from underrepresented and underprivileged groups — such as writers of color, women, queer writers, disabled writers, etc. The Diverse World Grant is for work that best presents a diverse world, regardless of the writer’s background. Writers are welcome to apply for one or both. Each grant awards $500.
🔗https://speculativeliterature.org/grants-3/slf-diverse-writers-and-diverse-worlds-grants/
🔴 JUL 31 · MO Humanities Magazine closes for work affecting Missouri and Missourians. Submissions may be in the genre of a perspectives piece, personal narrative, poetry, historical or nonfiction essay, short story, personal reflection, book or film review or findings from original research, geared towards a public humanities audience between 350 to 1,000 words in length. Honorariums are $50 per poem, up to $150. $50 per page for short stories and essays, up to $150. $50 per page of graphic design, photography, and illustrative images, up to $150. $100 per cover image, up to $200.
🔗https://mohumanities.org/magazine-submission
🔴 JUL 31 · MudRoom closes to poetry, fiction, essays, and essays in translation. “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. Here at MudRoom, we believe in the liminal, the dirty, the messy, and the mundane. Everyone is welcome, because MudRoom is a magazine devoted to the transition.” Payment is $15 USD.
🔗https://www.mudroommag.com/submissions
🔴 JUL 31 · The Other Stories Podcast closes for 2,000 word speculative fiction on the theme of HEAVY METAL. “Take inspiration from a favourite song, band, or heavy metal legend. Bring us stories from the road. Take us to hell and back, baby!” Payment is $15 GBP.
🔗https://theotherstories.net/submissions/
🔴♻️ JUL 31· Podcastle closes for fantasy stories up to 6k, originals or reprints. Payment is $0.08 per word USD for original fiction, $100 flat rate for reprints over 1,500 words, and $20 flat rate for flash fiction reprints (stories below 1,500 words).
🔗https://escapeartists.moksha.io/publication/podcastle/guidelines
🔴 JUL 31 · FIYAH closes for submissions of poetry and prose “by and about Black people of the African Diaspora” up to 15k words for $0.08 USD per word for fiction, $50 for poetry and $0.10 USD for nonfiction.
🔗https://fiyahlitmag.com/submissions/
🔴 JUL 31 · Spoon Knife 9 from Autonomous Press closes for short fiction, short literary memoir, and poetry submissions up to 10k words for $20 “plus 1 cent per word.”
🔗http://autpress.com/2023/08/call-for-submissions-spoon-knife-9/
🔴 JUL 31 · Silver Blade Magazine closes for Flash (250 to 1,000 words), Short Stories (1,000 to 7,500 words), Novellas (7,500 to 20,000 words), and poetry submissions. Payment is a flat fee of $15 for novellas, $3 for flash fiction, $8 for short stories, and $8 for single poems.
🔗https://www.silverblade.net/submissions-2/
🔴🏆 JUL 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 June. 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/
🔴 JUL 31 · Arc Poetry closes submissions of unpublished poetry in English or previously unpublished translations of poetry into English, on any subject and in any form. They are also closing for submissions of essays of about 1500-2000 words and interviews with poets of around 1500-2000 words. Payment is $50 per poem or printed page.
🔗https://arcpoetry.submittable.com/submit
🔴 JUL 31 · Rattle Magazine’s Ekphrastic Poetry challenge calls for poems inspired by a visual art prompt posted on their site. Poets have until the end of the month to write. Two winners will receive online publication and $100 each.
🔗https://www.rattle.com/ekphrastic/
🔴 JUL 31 · Apex Flash Fiction Contest closes to flash submissions written to the theme “Abandoned Castle.” The winner will be paid $0.08/word or $10, whichever is more. The winning story will appear on their Patreon as an exclusive and will be included in a forthcoming issue of Apex Magazine. Patrons choose themes at the end of the month and announced on the 1st of each month. Submissions open to all on the 7th of each month.
🔗https://apexbookcompany.moksha.io/publication/apex-magazine-flash-fiction
🔴 JUL 31 · Baubles From Bones is closes for speculative fiction and poetry. They are “an inclusive and open-minded publication that encourages submissions from all walks of life, around the globe, and especially from under-represented groups.” Payment is $.01/word for prose, $10 per poem.
🔗https://www.baublesfrombones.com/submission-guidelines.html
⭐🎓 AUG 1 · The Forever Workshop, a project by
, hosts the workshop “The Surrealist's Toolkit: Creating Beautiful Prose Poems from Everyday Madness.” The Editor-In-Chief at ONLY POEMS and award winning poet will teach this workshop from August 5 - August 29. Half of the curriculum will be free to all subscribers, with the option to upgrade and access this and all courses in full for $10/mo.🔗https://www.theforeverworkshop.com/p/humor-writers-get-in-here-how-to-569
🟢 AUG 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/
🟢 AUG 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/
🟢 AUG 1 · Stone’s Throw opens until August 4 for submissions of “the same dark fiction, crime and noir as our usual submissions” from 1-2,000 words, with the prompt: “sex, desire, or lust lead to the undressing and undoing of those involved.” Payment is $25 USD.
🔗https://www.rockandahardplacemag.com/stones-throw-submissions
🟢AUG 1 · Flash Fiction Online opens their “reprints” call until August 21 for speculative fiction flash from 500-1k words “with crisp prose, well-developed characters, compelling plots, and satisfying resolutions. We want stories that engage our minds and emotions.” Payment is $100 USD flat rate.
🔗https://ffo.submittable.com/submit
🟢 AUG 1 · Electric Spec opens for speculative fiction stories of “science fiction, fantasy, and the macabre” between 250 and 7000 words for their November issue until October 15. Payment is $20 per piece.
🔗http://www.electricspec.com/Submissions.html
🟢 AUG 1 · Event Magazine opens for poetry until September 30 or “when our allowable unpaid submission limit is reached (whichever comes first).” Payment is $40 (CAD) per page.
🔗https://eventmagazine.submittable.com/submit
🟢 AUG 1 · Variant Lit opens until August 31 for “5 poems totaling no more than 10 pages.” Payment is $10.
🔗https://variantlit.com/submit/
🟢 AUG 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/
🟢 AUG 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 Romie Stott (she/he) is the editor. Payment is $50 USD per poem, regardless of length or complexity.
🔗 http://strangehorizons.com/submit/poetry-submission-guidelines/
🟢 AUG 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
🔴 AUG 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
🔴 AUG 1 · 2024 Sydney Hammond Memorial Short Story Competition is open until August 1 for “stories with powerful beginnings, rising tension, and a climax that resonates, to the theme of The look that said it all.” Up to 1k words, prizes include “ticket to the Children and Young Adult (CYA) Conference for 2024 (valued at $410), year-long membership to the Queensland Writers Centre (QWC) valued at $79 and Anthology cover based on the winner’s story.” Open worldwide, entry fee $17.50AU.
🔗https://hawkeyebooks.com.au/pages/sydney-hammond-memorial-short-story-writing-competition
🔴♻️ AUG 1 · NonBinary Review, Zoetic Press closes until August 1 or until submissions reach the acceptance cap for each issue.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 “false memories.”
🔗https://nonbinaryreview.submittable.com/submit
🔴AUG 1 · The First Line closes for fiction, poetry, and nonfiction using the first line “When she was eight, Alice Henderson briefly held the world record for filling her mouth with marbles.” 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
🔴💲 AUG 1 · The Granum Foundation Prize for applications to award U.S.-based writers funds to help complete substantive literary works—such as 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
🟢💰🟢 AUG 1 · Horror Writers Association Scholarships open until October 1 for applications for their variety of scholarships to assist writers looking to pursue a career as a writer of horror fiction, nonfiction, or poetry. They also offer one endowment to libraries to expand their young adult reading programs. HWA membership is not a requirement.
The available scholarships are:
💰The Horror Writers Association Scholarship, $2500
http://horrorscholarships.com/hwa-scholarship/
💰The Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Scholarship, $2500
http://horrorscholarships.com/mary-shelley-scholarship/
💰Up to 4 Diversity Grants, $500
http://horrorscholarships.com/diversity-grants/
💰The Dark Poetry Scholarship, $1,250
http://horrorscholarships.com/dark-poetry-scholarship/
💰The Dennis Etchison Young Writers Scholarship, $500
http://horrorscholarships.com/dennis-etchison-young-writers-scholarship/
💰Up to 5 Young Adults Write Now endowment program, $250
http://horrorscholarships.com/young-adults-write-now-endowment-program/
🟢 AUG 1 · The Other Stories Podcast opens until August 31 for 2,000 word speculative fiction on the theme of THE TAROT. “Pull a card; tell a story.” Payment is $15 GBP.
🔗https://theotherstories.net/submissions/
🟢 AUG 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/
⭐ AUG 1 · Snap Judgement from Apex Magazine is excited to present SNAP JUDGMENT Episode 11 for their rapid-fire, live-streaming critique series at 1 pm EST. Every quarter, industry professionals Lesley Conner, Rebecca E Treasure, and a special guest offer live feedback on the first pages of anonymous submissions, which are read aloud by the host and narrator. The special guest editor for this event is author and editor Vajra Chandrasekera.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/live/I4giTOWeUtU
⭐ AUG 1 · How to Fund a Book Launch Jamie Davis shows us how nontraditional funding and outreach tools can lead to a successful book launch without breaking the bank. Sponsored by Draft2Digital, free.
🔗https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-fund-a-book-launch-tickets-958220933607?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
🟢♻️ AUG 1-2 · Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores opens 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/
⭐ AUG 2 · 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 Dianna Gunn, Jenny Hannaford, M V Melcer, Kelli Owen, Jessica Turnbull, and Liza Wemakor. Pre-register.
🔗https://strongwomenstrangeworlds.weebly.com/
🔴 AUG 2 · 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
🔴 AUG 2 · Havok is closed for flash fiction to the theme of “Remember October” in “all five genres: mystery, science fiction, humor, thriller, and fantasy.” Payment is $50 via PayPal for each story selected for an Anthology; no payment for online publication.
🔗https://gohavok.com/submission-guidelines/upcoming-themes/
⭐🎓 AUG 2 · 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
🟢 AUG 2 · 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/
🔴 AUG 4 · Stone’s Throw closes for submissions of “the same dark fiction, crime and noir as our usual submissions” from 1-2,000 words, with the prompt: “sex, desire, or lust lead to the undressing and undoing of those involved.” Payment is $25 USD.
🔗https://www.rockandahardplacemag.com/stones-throw-submissions
🔴 AUG 4 · 12 Spooky Campfire Stories for the Bravest of Boys from Authortunities Press closes for middle grade stories that could have appeared in one of Alfred Hitchcock’s anthologies for young readers if they were still being published today, up to 2k words. Submissions capped at 100 and limited to one submission per author. Payment is .01 per word. Weekly updates on this call every Saturday in Authortunities.
🔗https://duotrope.com/duosuma/submit/authortunities-press-LRs7l
🔴 AUG 4 · Griffith Review 86 opens submissions until August 4 for poetry with a theme of “Leaps of Faith” to explore “the things we believe in – from science and superstition to politics and preppers – and why.” Payment is AUD $200 per poem and AUD $500 for “work commissioned for GR Online.”
🔗https://www.griffithreview.com/for-writers/
⭐🎤 AUG 4 · 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.
⭐ AUG 4 · 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.
🎓 AUG 6 · Infusing Your Story With Humor—DP Lyle and Tim Maleeny 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. “In this class, Tim Maleeny and DP Lyle will delve into examples of humor that work and establish the principles you need to sprinkle humor into your stories. Attendees can then offer situations and we will interactively toss around ideas to make that scene funny, yet still move the story forward. Armed with this knowledge, you can then kick your storytelling up a notch.“ Costs $45.
🔗https://www.outlierswritinguniversity.com/ongoingconference
⭐🎓 AUG 8 · Author Marketing with StoryOrigin Indie authors have to worry about their websites, newsletter subscriptions, beta readers, book reviews, and more. Wouldn't it be cool if there was one site to help ease the marketing burden? That's the idea behind StoryOrigin, and Evan Gow, who created StoryOrigin, is here to tell us all about it. Starts at 1 pm ET, free.
🔴 APR 9 · 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
⭐🎓 AUG 9 · 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
🟢 AUG 9 · 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/
🔴 AUG 10 · Get Authored’s Rising Talent Competition opens for a query letter, synopsis, and the first ten pages of their unpublished manuscript up to 3k words of any genre for entry into their contest. “Our focus is on securing representation for authors, supporting diverse voices, and championing ambitious storytelling. All reviewers are literary agents or published authors.” Up to 12 finalists will be named with one grand-prize winner with a minimum prize pool of $1,000. Last chance entry fee $75 until August 10.
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