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Authortunities #56│April 6—May 4
Remember about a month ago when I said I was noticing some errors slipping into this calendar? No more. I have personally audited every single listing in this calendar (there are 128 this issue, if you’re curious) and they are all perfect. I’m the only one touching these listings now so if there is a mistake, it’s mine. I’m so positive everything is perfect, I challenge you. If you can find a mistake, I’ll gift you six months of the pro-level subscription and write an apology poem. 😂
Civil Writes
🟠PEN America, Penguin Random House, and a diverse group of authors have joined with parents and students from Escambia County, Florida, to file a federal lawsuit challenging removals and restrictions of books from school libraries that violate their rights to free speech and equal protection under the law.
🔗https://pen.org/pen-america-v-escambia-county/
🟠Big Step for Aaliyah’s Future is a GoFundMe from Timothy Flynn from our HWA community. He has organized this event to raise funds “ to pay for a very important evaluation for Aaliyah to get her into an out of district school.” Read more about this fundraiser here.
🟠Defending Creative Voices: Artists in Emergencies, an event that aims to raise awareness among UN Member States and civil society actors about the impact of emergency situations on writers and artists will be livestreamed from the United Nations Headquarters on April 9 beginning at 4:30 pm EST.
🔗https://pen.org/event/defending-creative-voices-protection-of-artists-in-times-of-emergencies/
My Writes
🟠 Now you can listen to "Off Duty Shipping" (submitted to ReedsyPrompt Contest #243) in the Submissions Support Group podcast here. No prize money yet, but I swear I will bring home that $250 one day.
🟠 Thank you to
who did a very nice interview with me this week over at Gingernuts of Horror. You can read “In conversation with Angela Yuriko Smith” here.Your Writes
🟠 I’ve missed sleep all week because I couldn’t put down Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree. It was cozy, sweet, and the perfect thing to take my mind off dentists and dog surgery this week.
🟠Congratulations to Lindy Ryan who is releasing her first novel, Bless Your Heart, on April 9 but you can pre-order your slice of Southern charm (emphasis on slice) now.
🟠 I also enjoyed Carina Bissett’s Dead Girl, Driving and Other Devastations. It’s a beautiful, fierce and brave collection, like the author herself.
🟠 I was moved by shima: Poems by sho yamagushiku, “a mosaic of the emotional, psychic, and generational toll that exile from a pillaged culture impresses on a poet and his community.” sho is Ryukyuan, and his poetry captures that experience. I’ll be reviewing next week.
🟠Lee Murray is excited to reveal the cover of her narrative prose-poetry collection Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud, releasing in April from the folks at The Cuba Press.
And of course, there's always free Space and Time! This week’s free issue is #24 from May 1974. It will be free from now until Wednesday, April 10, 2024, 11:59 PM PDT. Get your free issue here.
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While I find author opportunities everywhere, you can find a list of my favorite resources and sources here. 🔗https://angelaysmith.com/subscribe/
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🟢 opening subs
🔴 closing subs
⭐ networking
♻️ reprints
📚 education
🏆 awards
💲 grants
🟢 APR 5 · 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 is: Heavenly Bodies 🌖.
🔗https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/
🟢 APR 6 · Chestnut Review is open until April 30 for poetry, prose, or hybrid chapbooks of 15-25 pages of poetry, or 15-35 pages of prose: Submission fee is on a sliding scale between $6-$12. Payment is $150 USD, 50 copies of their chapbook plus 30% royalties on all Amazon sales of the chapbook, paid annually.”
🔗https://chestnutreview.com/chapbooks/
🟢 APR 6 · Consequence Magazine, print and online, is open until April 15 for 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 6 · Last Girls Club is open until May 1 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
🟢 APR 6 · Eggplant Emoji Volume 4 is open until May 6 for 1,000-7,000 word character-driven, culturally striking, and hilarious short stories. Payment is $25.
🔗https://eggplantemojilit.com/submit/
🟢 APR 6 · Solar Punk Magazine is open for submissions until April 14 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 6 · Foglifter is open until May 1 for “daring and thoughtful” fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, hybrid works, and drama. A journal for LGBTQ+ contributors, they are especially interested in cross-genre, intersectional, marginal, and transgressive work.
🔗https://foglifterjournal.com/submit/
🟢 APR 6 · Psychopomp is open until April 30 for speculative fiction or literary novellas between 20,000 to 40,000 words on the theme "Novella Mori." Payment is an advance against royalties of $750, as well as 25% of net net receipts.
🔗https://psychopomp.com/novella-guidelines/
🟢 APR 6 · The Temz Review is open until April 30 for prose (fiction and creative non-fiction) up to 10,000 words long. Payment is $20 for prose and “$20 per batch of poems.”
🔗https://www.thetemzreview.com/submissions.html
🟢 APR 6 · Boulevard is open until May 1 for poems up to 200 lines, fiction and nonfiction. Payment is $50-$250 for poetry and $100-300 for prose. A $3 submission fee for online subs, no submission fee for snail-mailed submissions.
🔗https://www.boulevardmagazine.org/guidelines
🟢 APR 6 · Massachusetts Review is open until May 1 for fiction, poetry, hybrid, and translations. Payment is $100. Fee for online submissions. No fee for USPS.
🔗https://www.massreview.org/submission-guidelines/general-guidelines
🔴♻️ APR 7 · Flame Tree: Sun Rising Short Stories seeks speculative fiction on the theme of "The Sun." This anthology explores modern fiction, folklore, mythology, and ancient tales related to the sun. Payment is “8 cents/6 pence” per word for original stories, “6 cents/4 pence” for reprints.
🔗https://blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-gothic/sun-rising-open-submissions-0
🔴♻️ APR 7 · Flame Tree: Moon Falling Short Stories seeks speculative fiction on the theme of "The Moon." This collection delves into superstition and belief surrounding the moon, drawing from ancient cultures and mythologies. Payment is “8 cents/6 pence” per word for original stories, “6 cents/4 pence” for reprints.
🔗https://blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-gothic/moon-falling-open-submissions-0
🔴 APR 7 · Haven Speculative closes for speculative fiction and poetry. Payment is 8 cent/word for fiction and $20 for poetry.
🔗https://www.havenspec.com/submit/
✅🔴 APR 7 · Only Poems seeks poetry of various forms including prose poems, traditional forms like ghazals and sestinas, love poems, sex poems, and experimental questionnaires. They welcome diverse styles and genres. Payment is $55 per poem.
🔗https://www.onlypoems.net/submit
🔴 APR 7 · Laughs in Space closes to humorous science fiction stories ranging from 2000 to 9000 words. Payment is £10 per 500 words, up to £55.
🔗https://theslab.press/calls-for-submission/
🔴 APR 7 · Consilience closes to submissions of poetry or artwork. All submissions must have a link to science, fit the theme of the upcoming issue, and also be in line with their inclusivity statement [https://www.consilience-journal.com/inclusivity-statement]. The theme for Issue 17 is ‘Language.’
🔗https://www.consilience-journal.com/submit
🔴 APR 7 · Daikaijuzine closes for speculative fiction, poetry from 1,000 to 6,000 words. Payment is $10 USD per short story, and $5 USD per poem or flash fiction piece.
🔗https://daikaijuzine.org/guidelines
🔴 APR 7 · Stone’s Throw, the monthly online companion to Rock and a Hard Place Magazine, closes to noir stories about family from between 1- 2,000 words with a payment of $25.
🔗https://www.rockandahardplacemag.com/stones-throw-submissions
🔴 APR 8 · Terrain.org is closing subs for their “limited-run Climate Stories in Action multi-genre series” for poetry, nonfiction, fiction, artwork, videos, and other contributions on place, climate, and justice. Payment is $200.
🔗https://www.terrain.org/submit/climate-stories-in-action/
🔴 APR 8 · GriffithReview Emerging Voices submissions are open for submissions of original submissions of fiction and creative non-fiction from 3,500 words up to 5,000 words. Up to four winning entries will be selected by our judges Jane Novak (Jane Novak Literary Agency), Harriet McInerney (NewSouth Publishing) and Maxine Beneba Clarke (author) as well as Griffith Review’s editorial staff. The winners will share a prize pool of $20,000 and have their work published in Griffith Review. Entry fees are $25 for non-subscribers and $15 for current subscribers. The entry fee entitles you to a complimentary digital subscription to Griffith Review valid for six months.
🔗https://www.griffithreview.com/for-writers/
🔴 APR 8 · Mslexia closes for submissions for Issue 102. Mslexia has 17 ways to submit, including four-line poems, 3,000-word lead articles, 300-word bedtime stories to 700-word memoir performance pieces. Payment varies but begins at £30.
🔗https://mslexia.co.uk/submit-your-work/
⭐📚 APR 8 · The Horror Writer Association’s Horror University Online presents “Marketing 101: Selling and Extending The Life of Your Work: Learn ways to market your work--and yourself--to better extend the life of your publications and more.” Instructor is Robert P. Ottone. On the Teachable platform at 8 pm EST, workshop costs $65.
🔗https://horror-university.teachable.com/p/marketing-101-selling-and-extending-the-life-of-your-work
⭐📚 APR 9 · 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. George Bilgere | Rattlecast 240 at 8 pm EST. Note: This show is Tuesday instead of the usual Monday.
🔗https://www.youtube.com/playlistlist=PLD_fMFokoxAEbUzqLMIldRifEYrWK7w9-
⭐📚 APR 9 · Defending Creative Voices: Artists in Emergencies, an event that aims to raise awareness among UN Member States and civil society actors about the impact of emergency situations on writers and artists will be livestreamed from the United Nations Headquarters beginning at 4:30 pm EST.
🔗https://pen.org/event/defending-creative-voices-protection-of-artists-in-times-of-emergencies/
🔴 APR 10 · berlin lit, a journal for new poetry, closes for submissions of up to “5 previously unpublished poems.” Payment is “20 euro per poem.”
🔗https://www.berlinlit.com/submissions
🟢 APR 10 · Mslexia has 17 ways to submit, including four-line poems, 3,000-word lead articles, 300-word bedtime stories to 700-word memoir performance pieces. Payment varies but begins at £30.
🔗https://mslexia.co.uk/submit-your-work/
⭐📚 APR 11 · An online Harvard Diversity Discussion on “Race and U.S. History: Redefining the American Historical Narrative” will be open to the public via Zoom on from 5-6 pm EST.
🟢 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.
🔗https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/
🔴 APR 12 · 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 12 · 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 | April 12, 2024 at 4 pm EST.
🔗https://www.youtube.com/@RattlePoetry/featured
🔴 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 · 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 opens for short horror, weird, dark fiction suitable for adaptation into a comic book script of 12 pages or less for Vault of Shadows Issue 1 from LGBTQIA+, BIPOC, neurodivergent, and other marginalized writers until May 1. Payment is $35 per page of the adapted script, up to 12 pages, along with a print copy of the issue.
🔗 https://www.hungryshadowpress.com/submissions-vault-of-shadows
🔴 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: 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 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
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