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
Read MoreThe 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
Read MoreRoseanne 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
Read MoreThe 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
Read MoreThe 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
Read MoreSunspot 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.
Read MoreTim Saunders Publications is inviting submissions of poetry up to 30 lines and short stories up to 1,000 words for The America Collection, to be published in ebook and paperback in 2023. The submission deadline is December 28, 2022. For details, visit the site.
Read MoreTwo 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,
Read MoreRetired 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
Read MoreThe Chamber, a free monthly magazine of contemporary dark fiction and poetry published by Phil Slattery, is open to submissions. In addition to fiction and poetry, the magazine publishes interviews and reviews. Submission guidelines.
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