Submission Sunday 3.9.14
Sunday, March 9, 2014 at 12:57PM 
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Amtrak Residency for Writers Call for Applications (Deadline March 31)
#AmtrakResidency is happening! What began as a line in Alexander Chee's interview in PEN Ten and was fueled by Twitter is now an official Amtrak program.
As many of you may know by now, our test-run for Amtrak Residency was done by Manhattan-based writer Jessica Gross, whose piece "Writing The Lakeshore Limited" was published in February by The Paris Review. What followed was overwhelming support on Twitter and in the media with #AmtrakResidency being featured in The Wire, The New Yorker, and Huffington Post among others.
Today we are happy to announce that #AmtrakResidency will allow for up to 24 writers to take long-distance trains to work on their projects. Each writer's round-trip journey will include accommodations on board a sleeper car equipped with a bed, a desk and outlets. We hope this experience will inspire creativity and most importantly fuel your sense of adventure!
McSweeney's Quarterly Concern Call for Submissions
McSweeney’s began in 1998 as a literary journal that published only works rejected by other magazines. That rule was soon abandoned, and since then McSweeney’s has attracted work from some of the finest writers in the country, including Denis Johnson, Jonathan Franzen, William T. Vollmann, Rick Moody, Joyce Carol Oates, Heidi Julavits, Jonathan Lethem, Michael Chabon, Ben Marcus, Susan Straight, Roddy Doyle, T.C. Boyle, Steven Millhauser, Gabe Hudson, Robert Coover, Ann Beattie, and many others. At the same time, the journal continues to be a major home for new and unpublished writers; we’re committed to publishing exciting fiction regardless of pedigree.
A great deal of the material published in Timothy McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern is written by strangers whose work comes to us via the Internet or in manila envelopes. Our system for reading submissions is intricate and steadily improving, but we’re still a very small organization—McSweeney’s has just a few editors—and some things move slowly. On the other hand, every single submission to our magazine gets read by a staff member. We are pleased to reopen submissions this month, and we look forward to receiving your work. We want very badly to discover and nurture new and developing writers.
Fiction Attic Press 2014 Contests (Deadline March 31–April 15 – $150)
We are now accepting submissions for our third flash fiction contest and fiction anthology, and we are now accepting submissions for our first ever short memoir and personal essay contest. What we are looking for: first-person creative nonfiction that tells a good story or inhabits an idea from a very personal perspective. Whether you present your story as a narrative (you, the writer, looking back on a significant moment in your life), or in a more associative essay form (you, the writer, parsing some idea/problem/contemporary issue through the lens of personal experience), is completely up to you.
We chose not to define the contest as one or the other because the lines between personal essay and memoir tend to be so blurry. We seek great writing from a unique perspective, writing that makes us step back and look at something from a surprising angle, writing that makes us feel and think.
Robinson Jeffers Tor House Foundation Poetry Prize (Deadline March 15 – $1000)
The annual Tor House Prize for Poetry is a living memorial to American poet Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962). The winner will receive $1,000 for an original, unpublished poem not to exceed three pages in length. $200 will be awarded for Honorable Mention. The final Judge this year is Wesley McNair. This competition is open to well-crafted poetry in all styles, ranging from experimental work to traditional forms, including short narrative poems.
The Robinson Jeffers Tor House Foundation, affiliated with the National Trust for Historic Preservation, is a nonprofit organization of volunteer members established in 1978 to acquire, maintain and provide for public access to Tor House, Hawk Tower and the surrounding gardens. The Foundation sponsors events and publishes material designed to preserve and extend the cultural and literary legacy of Robinson Jeffers, poet of California.
New South 2014 Writing Contest (Deadline March 15 – $1000)
New South seeks to publish high quality work, regardless of genre, form, or regional ties. We are looking for what’s new, what’s fresh, and what’s different — whether it comes from the Southern United States, the South of India, or the North, East or West of Anywhere. The New South Writing Contest, awarding $1,000 to a winner in poetry and a winner in prose, and $250 to the runners up in each category, is now open.
NANO Fiction Call for Submissions
Founded in 2006 by Kirby Johnson, NANO Fiction is a semi-annual publication with issues appearing in the spring and fall that seeks to cultivate the genre of flash fiction by creating opportunities for emerging fiction writers to achieve national recognition through our website, print publication, and educational events.
NANO Fiction is currently accepting previously unpublished works of fiction 300 words or fewer. We are looking for work that experiments with form while still balancing narrative. We are interested in stories we haven’t read before, stories we think we are tired of reading–but are told in such in a new way that we gain fresh insights, writing remain attentive to language and lyricism without abandoning story, and work that surprise us–but not by using a trick ending. We also are looking for writing that takes unexpected perspectives on commonly-seen stories.
TheNewerYork Call for Submissions (Deadline April 1)
Literature has been confined to poetry and short-stories for thousands of years, and novels have been around for less than 400 years. We want narratives that challenge this triumvirate. There are literary gems everywhere, from the disclaimer on a box of crackers to the instructions on your algebra test. In one high-school girl’s blog, buried in thousands of pages of gossip and conjecture, are those three lines that could move you. . . . so theNewerYork is an experiment. How else can we write? In what other forms can we convey universal truths and human emotion? We aim to be experimental, without being obtuse. We want your literary absurdities, your artifacts of stories.
We enjoy short but challenging pieces (FIVE PAGES OR LESS); subjects ranging from deeply philosophical to romantic to completely dufus. Short-forms do not offer enough room to bore the reader, this allows the writer to be ridiculous or overly intense. This is ! We hope to build a community of writers and artists while amassing an encyclopedia of work that will encourage and promote experimentation with our lovely language.
Our submissions are blind. This helps temper nepotism and cult-of-personality from intervening in the review process. We don’t care about good names, we care about good writing. (Please don’t include identifying information in your submissions). Always submit more. Do not be discouraged if we do not accept you the 1st, 2nd, nth time. We will tell you if you should give up.
Creative Nonfiction Call for Submissions (The Memoir Issue – Deadline May 31 – $1000)
Creative Nonfiction is seeking new work for an upcoming issue dedicated to memoir. We’re looking for stories that are honest, accurate, informative, intimate, and—most important—true. Whether your story is revelatory or painful, hilarious or tragic, if it’s about you and your life, we want to read it.
Submissions must be vivid and dramatic; they should combine a strong and compelling narrative with an informative or reflective element, and reach beyond a strictly personal experience for some universal or deeper meaning. We’re looking for well-written prose, rich with detail and a distinctive voice; all essays must tell true stories and be factually accurate.
Creative Nonfiction is the voice of the genre. Every issue is packed with new, long-form essays that blend style with substance; writing that pushes the traditional boundaries of the genre; notes on craft; micro-essays; conversations with writers and editors; insights and commentary from CNF editor Lee Gutkind; and more. Simply put, CNF demonstrates the depth and versatility of the genre it has helped define for almost 20 years.
Upcoming Deadlines
Gulf Stream Literary Magazine Call for Submissions (Extended Deadline March 9)
NEA Poetry Fellowships (Deadline March 12 – $25,000)
Passages North Prose Contests (Deadline March 15 – $1000)
Fourth Genre Steinberg Essay Prize (Deadline March 15 – $1000)
Kore Press Open Call for Submissions (Deadline March 15)
Big Fiction Magazine 2014 Knickerbocker Prize (Deadline March 15 – $500)
Puerto del Sol Poetry and Fiction Contests (Deadline March 15 – $400)
Prairie Schooner Fiction and Poetry Book Prizes (Deadline March 15 – $3000)
Gulf Coast 2014 Prizes in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry (Deadline March 15 – $1500)
Bellingham Review Literary Awards (Deadline March 15 – $1000)
New South 2014 Writing Contest (Deadline March 15 – $1000)
Robinson Jeffers Tor House Foundation Poetry Prize (Deadline March 15 – $1000)
Tin House Summer Writers Workshop (Deadline March 24)
Booth: A Journal Call for Submissions (Deadline March 31)
Vela Nonfiction Contest for Women (Deadline March 31 – $500)
Prime Number Magazine Awards (Deadline March 31 – $251 per category)
Amtrak Residency for Writers Call for Applications (Deadline March 31)
Fiction Attic Press 2014 Contests (Deadline March 31–April 15 – $150)
cream city review Call for Submissions (Deadline April 1)
Fugue Annual Poetry and Prose Contest (Deadline April 1 – $1000)
Salt Cay (Bahamas) Writers Retreat Merit Scholarship Contest (Deadline April 1 – Program tuition and fees)
EPOCH Call for Submissions (Deadline April 15)
Sewanee Writers' Conference (Deadline April 15)
Lunch Ticket Call for Submissions (Deadline April 30)
Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry Literary Awards: Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction & Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry (Deadline April 30 – $2000)
cream city review Call for Submissions (Deadline April 1)
TheNewerYork Call for Submissions (Deadline April 1)
Fugue Annual Poetry and Prose Contest (Deadline April 1 – $1000)
Salt Cay (Bahamas) Writers Retreat Merit Scholarship Contest (Deadline April 1 – Program tuition & fees)
EPOCH Call for Submissions (Deadline April 15)
Sewanee Writers' Conference (Deadline April 15)
Lunch Ticket Call for Submissions (Deadline April 30)
Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry Literary Awards: Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction & Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry (Deadline April 30 – $2000)
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