Submission Requests

Thematic Submissions Sought (February 2023 Deadlines)

Thanks to neighbor Mary-Lane Kamberg (Kansas City Writers Group) for this list of submission opportunities. Some are paid, some not. The themed manuscripts sought are certainly varied and some are more than a little strange. Here are some examples: itch ghoulish takes automation phantoms miracles belonging the first five minutes of the Apocolypse symmetry Halloween the

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Contests

Free Digital Download of Reedsy Fiction Magazine

The Reedsy Blog is now publishing a magazine called Prompted. The content will be winners of Reedsy’s weekly short story contest that requires writers to work against the clock to create new works of fiction based on weekly prompts. Examples from the first issue: A cardiac surgeon examining his own heart late in life A girl

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Author Talks

Montillo Zoom Talk 8 February 2023

Roseanne Montillo will give an author talk via Zoom on Wednesday night about her latest book, Deliberate Cruelty: Truman Capote, the Millionaire’s Wife, and the Murder of the Century. You can register on the FayLib website. www.faylib.org, Click on Events, then Calendar. Click on February 8, scroll down to the bottom of the list of

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Contests

Opportunity for Southern LGBTQ Playwrights and Screenwriters

The Del Shores Foundation has announced its second Writers Search. Named for the author of Sordid Lives, the foundation supports efforts to connect Southern LGBTQ+ writers with opportunities to participate in the world of film, television, and theater. Materials sought are plays, feature films, short films, and web series scripts. Prizes will include  cash awards, grants

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Author Talks

Poplar Bluff Author Fair—March 4, 2023

The Poplar Bluff (Missouri) Library will hold their Eighth Annual Author Fair on Saturday, March 4, 2023, from 10 am to 2 pm. The purpose of the event is to connect authors with new readers and for library patrons to discover new books they would like to read. Individual authors and literary organizations can apply

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Contests

Deadline Looming for Sunspot Contest

Sunspot Lit seeks fiction and nonfiction, including scripts and screenplays, from 29,001 to 49,000 words. Graphic novels should run between 51 and 100 pages.  This call closes Jan 31, 2023. Entry fees are charged. Submit online with Submittable or Duotrope. More about ongoing Sunspot literary contests here.

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Author Talks

Poetry Reading Thursday, October 13, 2022

Two Friends Bookstore in Bentonville, Arkansas, is hosting a poetry reading on Thursday, October 13, at 6 pm. The event will feature local poets Gerald Sloan, Melissa M. Frye, Dewayne Keirn, and Gloria Williams Tran. They will read selections from Mid/South Anthology, published by Belle Point Press. The anthology features forty writers from Arkansas, Oklahoma,

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Meetings

Arkansas Writer Adele Holmes publishes Southern Gothic Novel

Retired pediatrician from Central Arkansas Adele Holmes has published Winter’s Reckoning, a Southern gothic novel set in 1917 southern Appalachia. The book, published by SheWritesPress, won two pre-publication awards: Honorable mention in the William Faulkner Literary Competition, and First Place in the Chanticleer International Book Awards (Goethe Award). The novel’s protagonist, Madeline Fairbanks, a herbalist

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