Submissions to the Prairie Schooner Book Prize Contest are open annually, from January 15 through March 15. Winners receive $3,000, with their work published through the University of Nebraska Press. The Prairie Schooner Book Prize Series welcomes manuscripts from all living writers, including non-US citizens, writing in English. Both unpublished and published writers are welcome to submit manuscripts. However, does not consider [ … ]
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An open call for children’s fiction submissions from debut BAME writers
Nosy Crow recently announced an open call for children’s fiction submissions from debut BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic) writers. Nosy Crow is a small, multi-award-winning, independent company. It began publishing child-focused, parent-friendly children’s books and apps in January 2011 with the aim of creating books and apps that encourage children to read for pleasure. It’s one of the country’s fastest growing [ … ]
Influx Press’ Call for Novels Submissions
Influx Press seeks to publish two novels. Now accepting completed manuscripts or proposals from emerging writers and established authors. Wants work that investigates, interrogates culture and life under-represented in mainstream literary output. Seeks exciting, original stories of characters and places that make us see things in a new light, see things from a different perspective, encourage us to think in [ … ]
Cove Park Literature Residencies
Cove Park is a Scottish’ retreat open to writers around the world. It’s offering a minimum of three literature residencies. Founded in 1999 by Peter and Eileen Jacobs, Cove Park offers time, space and freedom to make new work and to find new ways of working. Its distinguished alumni include Margaret Atwood, Chika Unigwe, Brian Chikwava, Helen Cross, Nicola White, and many more. The 2016 literature [ … ]
New Orleans Review’s Shakespeare-inspired special issue
New Orleans Review, a journal of contemporary literature and culture based at the Department of English at Loyola University New Orleans, currently is accepting work for a Shakespeare-inspired special issue. Submissions can “riff on, respond to, reimagine, or recast any of Shakespeare’s works.” Accepting wide variety of interpretations of the theme in poetry, fiction, radio plays and experimental texts. Prose maximum limit is 7500 words [ … ]
Neoverse Short Story Writing Contest
It offers $3500 in prize total! 1st prize: $2,000, 2nd prize: $,600, 3rd prize: $200, 4th-10th prizes:$100, and 11th-20th receive honorable mentions. To submit, you must live in the US or Canada (excluding Quebec). Submit short stories between 1,000 and 5,000 words. All winners will be published in winners compilation – digital e-book and printed versions. The Neoverse Short Story Writing Competition aims to [ … ]
The Journal of African Cultural Studies Calls for Papers on ‘Boredom
Boredom has had many historians, and a number of book-length studies are available on the topic. Most of these are focused on the white male canon of western literature. In the edited collection by Paul Tyambe Zeleze and Cassandra Rachel Veney, Leisure in Urban Africa, leisure is theorised in ways that can usefully be placed alongside a new theory of boredom, and to [ … ]