Submishmash: Weekend Edition – May 20, 2016

May 19th, 2016 by

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Sadie Stein on the literary garden.

Every meal Lucy Snowe nearly eats in Villette.

‘…it was like cold oysters being opened outside a bistro.’ Bee Wilson reviews a new Edith Piaf biography.

Graduates, be careful what you swallow. Ruth Graham questions Oh, the Places You’ll Go! and its dubious advice.

A review of Darjeeling by Jeff Koehler– a history of the world’s best tea.

A deliciously uninhibited interview with Emily Carr, whose favorite animals are the mermaid, the minotaur, & the pterodactyl, in that order.

 

Opportunities:

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The Lifted Brow’s Experimental Non-Fiction Prize is looking to unearth new, audacious, authentic, and/or inauthentic voices from around the world.

Gemini Ink seeks panel proposals from creative writers, editors, and publishers for an inaugural conference on The State of the Book.

All Things Jesbian, a magazine dedicated to publishing work by, for, and about LGBTQA+ Jewish women, accepts fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, plays, visual art/photography, music, and interviews.

London’s Litro Magazine is calling for short fiction, flash/micro fiction, nonfiction, and original artwork for their Cuba issue.

The Ottawa Object seeks short stories that look deeply in to human yearning, especially at the extremes. What fills us when we float through emptiness?

The 2016 Overland Writers Residency will focus on supporting women writers in Australia and New Zealand who are also the sole primary caretakers for one or more children.

 

Bibliostyle:

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Twenty-two stunning home libraries.

The Zhongsuhge-Hangzhou Bookstore in Eastern China will take your reading beyond this galaxy.

The orderly desk of poet Lynn Melnick.

How to upcycle your awful bookcase.

 

 


 

This newsletter was put together by Asta, Michael, Laurie, JR, Caitlin, Rachel, and your team at Submittable. If you have news that you think we missed, please send it to [email protected]. Got high-quality writing or artwork related to publishing or digital media? Consider submitting it to our blog. If you enjoy what you read here, please forward it to help spread the word. New readers can subscribe here. Thanks!

Submishmash Weekly: May 16 – May 23

May 17th, 2016 by

Submishmash Weekly is a weekly human-curated newsletter bringing news and opportunities in publishing and other creative industries to artists, filmmakers, and writers. If you enjoy what you read here, please consider forwarding it. New readers can subscribe here. Thanks!


 

Publishing & Journalism:

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Han Kang wins the Man Booker International Prize for Fiction with The Vegetarian.

‘You’re somehow overlooked in plain sight.’ Are you living in a Robert Frost poem?

Gayatri Devi on incessant upgrading.

Chris Kraus reveals how her bestselling book began as a series of letters she did not plan to send.

Virginia Woolf in Vogue Magazine, 1924, discussing how our affection for an author is based on more than their stories.

 

Some opportunities:

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Fairy Tale Review seeks work along the spectrum of mainstream to experimental, fabulist to realist, for The Translucent Issue.

Each workshop season, Brooklyn Poets awards fellowships to promising students in need.

Barrelhouse is calling for prose book manuscripts, including novels, memoirs, essay collections, story collections, and hybrid prose forms.

The Talking Writing Prize, an annual contest that celebrates original, personally driven writing, is seeking essays on mental illness.

The Little Bird Writing Contest opens each spring when the birds come back, and showcases stories of up to 2,500 words.

VoiceCatcher accepts submissions of poetry, prose, and visual art from women who consider themselves greater Portland, Oregon/Vancouver, and Washington writers and artists.

 

Art:

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The Queens Museum, in partnership with NYC Parks and ArtBuilt, is accepting proposals for ‘Studio in the Park – Residency #3.’

The London Photo Festival & Gallery is calling for international street photography.

Spokane Arts and the Spokane Parks Department are seeking artists to paint ping-pong tables for the Riverfront Park renovation ground breaking event.

Fusion Art invites submissions for its upcoming online exhibition, Light & Shadow, in ‘Traditional’ 2-D mediums and ‘Photography & Digital’ categories.

Celebrity Series of Boston seeks artists to decorate street pianos.

 

Sound:

The Pennsylvania Music Educators Association is accepting applications from musical performance groups for the 2017 PMEA Conference.

 

Creative Job Openings:

Pearson Students is seeking bloggers to inspire, ignite, and engage other students.

 


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Guest Post: Camp Real Pants Was Really Real

May 16th, 2016 by

Alt-AWP: How two indie publishers created a summer camp at America’s biggest writing conference

 

It was only day two of AWPbut my head was spinning. I had held a hundred 30-second conversations, listened to ten 75-minute panels, and walked a quarter of the bookfair before needing to join the cafeteria’s long line for weak coffee. So much was happening, yet something was missing. We fled the conference at noon on Friday and walked fifteen blocks to a non-descript concrete building, rode a creaking elevator to the top floor, and stepped into an open studio where a green camping tent sat in the middle. Writer Amelia Gray set a heaping pan of pasta on a folding table. A breeze blew in through the six open windows.

I had arrived at Camp Real Pants.

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Spencer Printing talk printing books at Camp Real Pants.

Each year, during the behemoth that is AWP, Amy McDaniel and Adam Robinson do something different. The pair edit the literary culture site Real Pants and publish books under separate presses (421 Atlanta and Publishing Genius, respectively). Whether it’s a reading on a Chicago subway or a dance party to raise funds for Seattle literacy groups, these two work tirelessly to create unique, communal, away-from-it-all experiences.

And this year, it was a camp. An all-day getaway a mile from the LA Convention Center, Camp Real Pants took place at Astroetic Studios, a historic loft in the heart of LA’s Fashion District. Complete with meals, tents, official highlighter-yellow camper T-shirts, blankets, and beer, the event was unlike anything happening on- or off-site at AWP.

The schedule of camp activities consisted of readings, panels, Q&As, campfire sing-alongs, and plenty of time to chat while breaking bread. “The idea was to create an alternative to spending the whole day under bad lighting at the conference center and shuttling around to all kinds of different panels and readings,” Amy said. “We wanted a more relaxed, convivial atmosphere that cohered around indie publishing in all its dimensions, from representation to printing to distribution to editing to submissions to actual journals and presses…And plenty to eat and drink.”

With the help of sponsors, donors, volunteers, and their own pockets, the two were able to offer free, open admission to their lit summer camp—t-shirts, food, and beer included. “We’re not real event coordinators,” said Adam. “We just want to come up with a cool idea and see if we can make it work.”

It did. Across the ten-hour event, nearly two hundred people found their way to camp. Melissa Broder, Timothy Willis Sanders, Natalie Eilbert, Ginger Ko, and about twenty other readers performed short, energetic sets. Representatives from over a dozen literary organizations stopped by to talk shop. This all added up to the biggest and most structured event Amy and Adam have ever put on, and that was intentional. “We did a lot of whiteboard lists of our dream participants, [and discussed] how to balance and represent different voices. Then we just asked. Mostly everyone said yes, which made for a beautifully hectic schedule,” said Amy.

The day began with lunch made by Amy (mac and cheese, arugula salad, blueberry cobbler), followed by a series of casual, non-traditional readings. Sarah Green stood before the six-sleeper tent and read science poems. Jarod Roselló projected his comic Robot Camp on the studio wall and sat crisscross-applesauce to narrate. Gabe Durham performed hilarious micro-fictions from his book FUN CAMP.

The afternoon’s boot camp was a crash course on each element of the contemporary writing ecosystem. Sessions were brief and interactive. VIDA talked about representation and the results of their newly released 2015 count. Staff from Submittable spoke about the submission side of being a writer. Small Press Distribution answered questions about selling books from independent labels, while Calvert Morgan offered insight into the “Big 5” side of the publishing world. Even Amazon was represented at Camp. “To hear Morgan Parker talk about her work with Little A and Amazon Publishing inspired me and directed my thoughts on what Amazon means for the literary world,” said Adam.

After a dinner break, Camp Real Pants reconvened with readings around a glowing, crackling campfire sculpture (built by artist Jenny Morgan) in order to remind campers what all this publishing, marketing, printing, and writing is really about: community.

It’s important to note: Camp Real Pants was not an anti-AWP endeavor, but rather an alt-AWP adventure. Amy and Adam have attended and enjoyed AWP for years. But CRP provided something a little more personal, more relaxed, a little more real.

While it hasn’t been confirmed, you can expect Camp Real Pants (or something similarly refreshing) to take place in DC at AWP 2017. “I want to push [Camp Real Pants] even more into ‘publishing think tank’ territory,” Amy said. “So many interesting connections emerged in the afternoon, and I want to think about other ways to promote and facilitate that.”

When I try to recall my first AWP even one month later, what I feel is the atmosphere of that studio. Camp Real Pants opened my eyes to the fact that all the people at AWP, the best-selling presenters, the beautiful presses, the swarms of badged crowds moving from room to room—they’re all Real People. People who eat, and sweat, and laugh, and write and publish, and also sit on floors and sing.

 

Note: The opinions expressed by guest bloggers at the Submittable blog are theirs alone and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Submittable. 

 

BIO: Tyler Barton is a fiction editor at the Blue Earth Review, an MFA candidate at Minnesota State University, Mankato, and a writer of short stories. Find his published work at tsbarton.com. Find his jokes at @goftyler.

 

 

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Submishmash: Weekend Edition – May 13, 2016

May 13th, 2016 by

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Food in books: the tomato sandwiches in Harriet the Spy.

‘…A moral quandary as delicious as any in James.’ Edith Wharton in the Novella Challenge.

Writers to the kitchen?

Weekend tunes with DJ Junot Diaz.

The case for non-IKEA writing.

‘We have no choice but to experience joy in that moment.’ Jericho Brown on making poems.

 

Opportunities:

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The National Parks Arts Foundation offers classic and new media artist residencies in New Mexico’s Pecos National Historic Park.

Meat for Tea seeks recipes, poetry, art, short and flash fiction, and essays for their ‘Ceylon’ issue.

The Grief Diaries, a magazine of art and writing about loss, is holding a design contest for their tote bags.

Banango Street is reading for an all-creative nonfiction issue, edited by Katie Jean Shinkle and Muriel Leung.

Rose Red Review is calling for submissions of art, photography, fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry.

Literary Death Match is sponsoring a 250-Word Bookmark Contest judged by Daniel Handler.

 

Bibliostyle:

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A Japanese hostel where you can sleep in a bookcase.

Your future car will include a bookshelf.

The thriving legacy of a 94-year-old typewriter repair man.

 
 
 
 


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May Submission Opportunities

May 12th, 2016 by

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05/13/2016  Athens Popfest – Bands

05/13/2016  Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts – ARTSCAPE 2016, Baltimore Book Festival F&B

05/13/2016  Center For Book Arts – Scholars for Advanced Studies in Book Arts, Artist Members Exhibition

05/13/2016  Del Sol Press – Fiction: Del Sol Press First Novel Competition

05/13/2016  Downtown Akron Partnership – Market on Cascade

05/13/2016  NEW INC – NEW INC Internship Application

05/13/2016  Norman Arts Council – Arts Education Scholarships

05/13/2016  Pathos Literary Magazine – Poetry, Prose, Visual Art

05/13/2016  SELFISH – issue four – HOT & BOTHERED

05/13/2016  Spotlight Education – Spotlight Showcase Orchestra

05/13/2016  The Saltire Society – Arts in Public Places

05/14/2016  40th Street Artist-in-Residence Program – Application for 2016-2017 Residency

05/14/2016  Breed – Weekly Showcase #107

05/14/2016  Griffith Review – Griffith Review The Novella Project IV – Submissions

05/14/2016  Hawaiʻi Review – Reviews, UHM Student(s) of the Month

05/14/2016  Hurston Wright Foundation – Hurston/Wright Writers Week 2016

05/14/2016  Kennedy Center – VSA Playwright Discovery Competition, Youth Fellowship Program, Etc

05/15/2016  American Literary Translators Association – 2016 ALTA Mentorship

05/15/2016  Arcadia – Prize in Fiction, Prize in Nonfiction, Prize in Poetry

05/15/2016  Atlantic Center for the Arts – Residency #163

05/15/2016  Balkan Press – Balkan Press Manuscript Submission

05/15/2016  BlogU Conference – Be You, Humor, Heart, Hot Topic

05/15/2016  Boldface Writer’s Conference – Manuscript Consultation, AWP attendee registration

05/15/2016  Breakwater Review – Fiction Contest, The Peseroff Prize Poetry Contest

05/15/2016  Carve Magazine – Raymond Carver Short Story Contest

05/15/2016  Chowan University – Poetry, Fiction, & Creative Nonfiction/Essay Submission

05/15/2016  Coffee House Press – Coffee Sleeve Conversations

05/15/2016  Cordite Poetry Review – Poetry Submissions to Cordite 55: FUTURE MACHINES

05/15/2016  Crab Creek Review – 2016 Crab Creek Review Poetry Prize

05/15/2016  Digging Through The Fat – Community

05/15/2016  Entangled Publishing – Lovestruck call for submissions: HOLIDAY STORIES

05/15/2016  Essay Press – ESSAY PRESS 2016 OPEN BOOK CONTEST **EXTENDED DEADLINE!**

05/15/2016  Ex Ophidia Press – Ex Ophidia Press Poetry Book Contest

05/15/2016  Flyway: Journal of Writing and Environment – Poetry, Fiction, Non-fiction

05/15/2016  Franklin Learning Showcase – 2016 Franklin Learning Showcase Abstract Submissions

05/15/2016  Gazing Grain Press – Prose/Hybrid Chapbook Contest, Poetry/Hybrid Chapbook Contest

05/15/2016  GoggleWorks Center for the Arts – 2016 Cup Show

05/15/2016  Gorge Literary Journal – Flash Fiction, Essay/Memoir, Poetry/Verse

05/15/2016  Guttenberg Arts – Braddock Park Art Festival Artist Application $100 Full / $50 Half Table

05/15/2016  H&R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute – Flatfile & Digitalfile Reservation Request

05/15/2016  JMWW – The Claudia Emerson Poetry Chapbook Award

05/15/2016  Journalism and Women Symposium – Emerging Journalist Fellowship, JAWS Fellowship

05/15/2016  Lost Horse Press – The Idaho Prize for Poetry 2016

05/15/2016  Luna Station Quarterly – Issue 027

05/15/2016  Lynx House Press – Blue Lynx Prize for Poetry 2016

05/15/2016  Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute – Open Call PrattMWP School of Art Gallery

05/15/2016  Noemi Press – Noemi Press Book Award for Poetry, Noemi Press Book Award for Fiction

05/15/2016  paper nautilus – Debut Series Chapbook Contest

05/15/2016  Playwrights Local 4181 – 2016 Open Submissions

05/15/2016  Point of Convergence – Book Cover

05/15/2016  Psychopomp Magazine – Open Fiction Submission – Flash

05/15/2016  Ragdale – Alice Hayes Writers Fellowship, High School Arts Week, Ragdale Residency

05/15/2016  Ruminate Magazine – Janet B. McCabe Poetry Prize

05/15/2016  Salt Hill Journal – Dead Lake Chapbook Competition

05/15/2016  Slideluck – Slideluck Roma III, SLIDELUCK Bogota V

05/15/2016  Southern Exposure – Southern Exposure Open Submissions April 2016

05/15/2016  Spider Road Press – 2016 Spider’s Web Flash Fiction Prize

05/15/2016  Spread the Word – Flight Journal – Issue 2 [Spring 2016]

05/15/2016  Spring Creek Project – Shotpouch Collaborative Retreat, Andrews Forest Writers’ Residencies

05/15/2016  Storyknife Writers Retreat – 2016 Storyknife Residency Fellow

05/15/2016  subTerrain Magazine – LUSH 2016 Creative Non-Fiction, Fiction, & Poetry

05/15/2016  Switchback – Your History Contest

05/15/2016  Tampa Bay Theatre Festival – Full Length Play Submissions, Short Play Submissions

05/15/2016  The Blueshift Journal – The Blueshift Prizes: Brutal Nation Poetry & Prose

05/15/2016  The Boiler Journal – Poetry, Fiction, Creative Non-Fiction

05/15/2016  The Cedric Literary Awards – Creative Non-fiction, Fiction, Poetry

05/15/2016  The Poet’s Haven – The Poet’s Haven Author Series

05/15/2016  The Supplement – Non-Fiction, Fiction

05/15/2016  Urban Land Magazine – Urban Land 40 under 40 Nominations 2016

05/15/2016  VoiceCatcher: A journal of women’s voices & visions – Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry

05/15/2016  Wills Court Press – The Maker Files

05/15/2016  Writing for Children and Teens – RLGL: Round 7 – LONGER WORKS

05/15/2016  Written Image – Alumni Feature 2016, Student Feature 2016, Student Short 2016

05/15/2016  Yale ISM Congregations Project – 2016 Conference Registration

05/15/2016  Yellow Chair Review – Prince Tribute Anthology

05/15/2016  YesYes Books – 2016 Open Reading Period: Poetry Full-length

05/15/2016  Zimbell House Publishing, LLC – Anthology: Tournament Games

05/15/2016  Zoetic Press – NonBinary Review #9: A Study in Scarlet, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

05/16/2016  American Poetry Review – Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize

05/16/2016  Artspace – 2016 City of Peterborough—Downtown Mural Project

05/16/2016  Ayn Rand Institute – Campus Activism Contest

05/16/2016  Be Inspired PR – How To Make Your Dad Feel Special on Your Wedding Day

05/16/2016  Center For Book Arts – Scholars for Advanced Studies in Book Arts, Artist Members Exhibition

05/16/2016  Creative Nonfiction – Joy, Joy: Reading Fee + Subscription

05/16/2016  DEPS – C33 Gallery & Curatorial Proposals- Student Exhibition Proposals

05/16/2016  Drawing Futures – Drawing Futures Call for Works

05/16/2016  En Foco – En Foco Photography Fellowship

05/16/2016  Friends Journal – Aug 2016: Quaker Spaces

05/16/2016  Gold Line | Ricochet – Ricochet Graphic Novella/Short Story Collection

05/16/2016  Homebound Publications – Homebound Publications Poetry Prize

05/16/2016  Houston Arts Alliance – Indoor Murals Commission for The Kroger Company

05/16/2016  IWMF – Adelante Reporting Initiative Fellowship – Colombia & El Salvador

05/16/2016  LampLight Magazine – Fiction Submissions, Volume 5

05/16/2016  Lines + Stars – L+S PRESS 2016 Mid-Atlantic Chapbook Series

05/16/2016  Summit Artspace Gallery – Window Installation: Call for Entry

05/16/2016  WonderRoot – Walthall Artist Fellowship 2016-2017

05/16/2016  Wysing Arts Centre – Invitation to Apply: Study Week devised by Jesse Darling

05/17/2016  Banango Street – Issue 12: Creative Nonfiction

05/17/2016  Crab Orchard Review – Poetry Prize, Fiction Prize, Nonfiction Prize

05/17/2016  Idea Exchange – Idea Exchange: The Brush Off

05/17/2016  MTSU Todd Art Gallery – BORO ART CRAWL Application Deadline: May 15th

05/17/2016  WUD Publications – Publications Committee Leadership Application

05/18/2016  Antenna – Blights Out Artist Fellowship: Request for Proposals

05/18/2016  Carnegie Mellon University English Department – Excellence in First Year Writing Awards

05/18/2016  Forward Arts Foundation – Forward Prizes Manager

05/18/2016  Literary Death Match – Literary Death Match’s 250-Word Bookmark Contest

05/18/2016  SCAD Painting – B.F.A. Senior Exhibition: Spring 2016

05/18/2016  SpaceX FIRST Internship – SpaceX FIRST Internship

05/18/2016  Suffragette City – Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry

05/20/2016  Adirondack Center for Writing – Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry

05/20/2016  Cleveland Bazaar – Center & Main Market Seville

05/20/2016  Falcon Ridge Folk Festival – Emerging Artist Showcase

05/20/2016  Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning – Making Moves Dance Festival

05/20/2016  National Parks Arts Foundation – NPAF Pecos National Historic Park

05/20/2016  New Hampshire State Council on the Arts – FY2017 Arts in Health Artist Directory

05/20/2016  Rose Red Review – Art, Photography, Fiction, Creative Non-Fiction, Poetry

05/20/2016  Slideluck – Slideluck Roma III, SLIDELUCK Bogota V

05/20/2016  St. Lawrence County Arts Council – 2017 Fine Art Up North calendar

05/20/2016  The Grief Diaries – CONTEST: Design our new tote bags!

05/20/2016  UNC-TV – Submit to Reel South Season 2

05/20/2016  Writers’ Trust of Canada – 2016 Writers’ Trust Fellowship

05/21/2016  Goliath Magazine – Art

05/21/2016  Meat for Tea: The Valley Review – Recipes, Flash , Art, Poetry, Short Fiction, Essays

05/21/2016  The NOCCA Institute 5 Press Gallery – Summer Break Open Call – Deadline Extended

05/22/2016  ArtsWorcester – Terra Firma: Open Members Exhibition

05/22/2016  ASEEES – ASEEES Davis Graduate Student Travel Grant

05/22/2016  Brooklyn Poets – Brooklyn Poets Fellowships

05/22/2016  Fort Worth Community Arts Center – pARTy On Crockett: Call for Artists 2016

05/22/2016  Icarus Down Review – Ongoing & Series, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Memoir & Personal Essay

05/22/2016  National Association of Writers in Education – Conference Proposals, Writing in Education

05/22/2016  Scholarship Programs – 2016 Civil Society Professionals Program

05/23/2016  Artist Trust – 2016 Literary EDGE Application, 2016 Visual EDGE Application

05/23/2016  Bright Wall/Dark Room – Steven Spielberg (pitches)

05/23/2016  Crain’s Detroit Business – 2016 40 Under 40 Candidate Form

05/23/2016  Interlochen Arts Academy Creative Writing – Festival Chapbook, Review Revisions

05/23/2016  London Photo Festival – Street Photography 2016

05/23/2016  Talking Writing – Contest 2016: TW Prize for Personal Essay on Mental Illness

05/25/2016  Endever Publishing Studios – “Happily Ever After…”

05/25/2016  Fairy Tale Review – Poetry, Prose, Artwork

05/25/2016  Fusion Art – Light & Shadow (June 2016)

05/25/2016  Gemini Ink – Gemini Ink 2016 Writers Conference—Call for Panelists

05/25/2016  Hospitalfield – Creative Scotland Screenwriters Workshops 2016

05/25/2016  Litro Magazine – Cuba: July 2016 (Print Magazine)

05/25/2016  Queens Museum – Studio in the Park – Residency #3

05/25/2016  Spokane Arts – Riverfront Park Mobile Murals

05/25/2016  Writer’s Relief – WaterSedge Poetry Chapbook Contest

05/25/2016  ZO Magazine – High School PHOTOGRAPHY, ART, & POETRY

05/26/2016  Tucson Pima Arts Council – Call to Artists: Nakoma Sky – A Posada Life Community

05/27/2016  Barrelhouse – Book Manuscripts (Prose)

05/27/2016  Celebrity Series of Boston – Decorate a Piano!

05/27/2016  Dialectic – Theoretical speculations, Long-form case study reports, Etc.

05/27/2016  Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery – 6th Annual “Animals” Online Art Competition

05/27/2016  PMEA – Annual Conference Session Proposal Form, Performing Group Application

05/27/2016  Sarah Selecky – Little Bird Writing Contest 2016

05/27/2016  ThrewLine Books – The Ottawa Object: Short Fiction

Submishmash Weekly May 9 – May 16

May 10th, 2016 by

Submishmash Weekly is a weekly human-curated newsletter bringing news and opportunities in publishing and other creative industries to artists, filmmakers, and writers. If you enjoy what you read here, please consider forwarding it. New readers can subscribe here. Thanks!


 

Publishing & Journalism:

An interview with Jessa Crispin prompted a swift response (and discount) from The Paris Review.

Amanda Hess examines what our online avatars reveal about us.

“Originally, I think, her motivation was shyness mixed with a nascent idea that books had to have a life of their own.” Michael Reynolds on Elena Ferrante and class consciousness.

According to author Bronwen Dickey, the idea of pit bulls as predators is based on myth and misinformation.

“Most things worth learning are difficult,” writes Rebecca Hazelton in an essay on the value of poetic forms.

 

Some opportunities:

Essay Press seeks book-length manuscripts that extend or challenge the formal range of nonfiction. Collaborative manuscripts, digital, and hybridized text/art manuscripts all are encouraged.

Yellow Chair Review will pay tribute to the late Prince in an upcoming online issue featuring poetry, art, and stories.

The Cedric Literary Awards seeks fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry, by unpublished authors over the age of 50.

OSU’s Spring Creek Project Collaborative Retreat is a two-week opportunity for a pair of participants pursuing a joint project. At least one of the applicants must be a writer who takes inspiration from the natural world.

Lines + Stars Mid-Atlantic Chapbook Series seeks up to 30 pages of poetry and short prose from writers residing in the District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Delaware, or Pennsylvania.

 

Film & Performance:

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The Jamaica Center for Arts & Learninginvites New York City-based dance companies to apply for their seventh annual “Making Moves,” a dance celebration to be held on Saturday, September 24, 2016.

Reel South seeks films about the American South, highlighting the best non-fiction storytelling from the region. Films must be primarily shot in the South, and preferably made by filmmakers living and working there.

Art:

Blights Out, a New-Orleans based initiative, seeks multidisciplinary artists, ideally with organizing experience, for their Artist/Activist Fellowship Program.

Sideluck, a Brooklyn-based arts non-profit organization, is currently accepting slideshows of up to 40 images from artists wishing to show in Rome, Bogota, and Mid River Valley, Vermont.

Drawing Futures, a new international peer-reviewed conference on speculative drawing for art and architecture, is accepting submissions.

Atlanta’s Wonderroot arts organization seeks applicants for its signature professional development program, the Walthall Artist Fellowship.

 

Sound:

New York’s Falcon Ridge Folk Festival is open to musical performance applicants for their Grassy Hill Emerging Artist Showcase.

 

Creative Job Openings:

SpaceX FIRST seeks high school seniors for their internship program, designed to support the next generation of amazing engineers and innovators.

 


This email was put together by Asta, Michael, Laurie, JR, Caitlin, Rachel, and your team at Submittable. If you have news that you think we missed, please send it to [email protected]. Got high-quality writing or artwork related to publishing or digital media? Consider submitting it to our blog. If you enjoy what you read here, please forward it to help spread the word. New readers can subscribe here. Thanks!

Submishmash Weekly May 2 – May 9

May 3rd, 2016 by

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Publishing & Journalism:

“By the power of Beyoncé, I will overcome my fear” – Roxane Gay on feminism and Lemonade.

Ryan Harrington discusses Walt Whitman’s Manly Health and Training, a 47,000-word treatise on self-care.

Tin House’s Pamela Erens highlights the 5 best childbirth scenes in contemporary lit.

Molly Worthen believes we shouldn’t say “I feel like.”

Robert P. Baird on the writerly life and death of Jenny Diski.

 

Some opportunities:

Del Sol Press seeks original, unique, and accessible work with an edge for their First Novel Competition. Winner receives $1500 and publication.

Gazing Grain Press is calling for feminist writing from all genders and sexualities for their Poetry/Hybrid and Prose/Hybrid Texts Chapbook Contests.

Laguna Beach’s Third Street Writers is seeking short stories, personal essays, and poems for their inaugural literary review Beach Reads, Volume 1, themed “Here Comes the Sun.”

The Hurston/Wright Foundation, dedicated to discovering and honoring Black writers, is accepting applications for their Summer Writers Week.

THEM, a literary journal of trans writers, accepts poetry, short fiction, nonfiction, experimental writing, and art for their annual publication.

 

Film & Performance:

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Hillyer Art Space seeks performance artists, dancers, choreographers, and live art makers in Washington, D.C., for Intimately Public, a one-night event.

Art:

NEW INC, NYC’s first museum-led incubator, is accepting applications for their upcoming term from experimental artists in all genres, including design and technology.

Virginia’s Torpedo Factory Art Center seeks artists from North America working in all visual media for their Target Gallery Open Exhibition Call.

Ox-Bow of Chicago is seeking applicants for their Fall Artists’ and Writers’ Residency Program.

Santa Monica’s bG Gallery is calling for multimedia artistic work (predominantly in a single color) for inclusion in Spectrum-Gestalt 3.

 

Sound:

Athens Popfest, a multi-day musical event in Georgia, is accepting applications from musicians.

 

 

Creative Job Openings:

The Ayn Rand Institute seeks seasonal student interns for their offices in Southern California and Washington, D.C.

Persephone’s Daughters, a lit mag dedicated to empowering abused women, is calling for new staff members in poetry, prose, art, and technology.

 


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04/30/2016  3Elements Review – Art, Fiction, Photography, Poetry, Nonfiction

04/30/2016  A Bad Penny Review – Prose, Poetry

04/30/2016  Alternating Current – Full Manuscript, YA Manuscrip, Historical Writing, Poetry, etc.

04/30/2016  Amethyst Arsenic – Poetry

04/30/2016  Arcadia – Dead Bison Editors’ Prize in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry

04/30/2016  Artsmith – Hack Your Muse! Call for Creative Prompts!

04/30/2016  Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts – Creative Baltimore Fund, Artscape 2016, etc.

04/30/2016  Bambaz Press – I’ll Have Wednesday Volume 3

04/30/2016  Barely South Review – 2016 Norton Girault Literary Prize in Fiction

04/30/2016  Barrelhouse – Poetry

04/30/2016  Big Wonderful Press – Purchase Our Chapbook and Submit Yours

04/30/2016  Black Lawrence Press – National Poetry Month Consultations

04/30/2016  BLF Press – Solace: Writing, Refuge, and LGBTQ Women of Color

04/30/2016  BlogNostics – Erotica

04/30/2016  Blood Orange Review – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction

04/30/2016  Blotterature Literary Magazine – Steel Pen Writers Conference Contest

04/30/2016  Blue Mesa Review – Fiction Review, Nonfiction Review, Poetry Review

04/30/2016  Blue Monday Review – Tip Jar, Fiction & Creative Nonfiction, Poetry, ETC., Artwork

04/30/2016  Boldface Writer’s Conference – Registration

04/30/2016  Border Crossing – 2016 LSSU HSSSP: Alternate History Short Stories

04/30/2016  California College of the Arts – Baccalaureate Exhibition, Senior Solo Exhibition

04/30/2016  Caravel Literary Arts Journal – Fiction , Creative Nonfiction, Poetry, Visual Art

04/30/2016  Carbon 2016 – Carbon 2016 Extended Abstracts

04/30/2016  Catapult – Catapult Books

04/30/2016  Cleaver Magazine – Poetry, Fiction, Flash, Creative Nonfiction

04/30/2016  Cloudbank Books – Cloudbank 10 Contest

04/30/2016  Colorado Review – FICTION, POETRY

04/30/2016  Crafty Mart – Pop Up Crafty Mart @ the Akron Artwalk Vendor Application

04/30/2016  Cumberland River Review – Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction

04/30/2016  Detour – Detour Chicago: Call for Pitches , Detour New York: Call For Pitches

04/30/2016  Dirty Chai – P O E T R Y , Art/Photography- COLOR, Art/Photography- GRAYSCALE

04/30/2016  District Lit – “Summer in the City” issue: August 2016

04/30/2016  Dogwood: A Journal of Poetry and Prose – Fiction for Causeway, Craft Essays for Causeway

04/30/2016  drafthorse literary journal – Creative Non-Fiction, Fiction, Poetry, Visual Arts and Media

04/30/2016  Eastern Iowa Review – Eastern Iowa Review Poetry Prize

04/30/2016  Encircle Publications – Bi-Annual Chapbook Manuscript Submissions

04/30/2016  Fiction Fix – Poetry

04/30/2016  Five Points – Essay, Fiction, Poetry

04/30/2016  Flights – Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction

04/30/2016  Four Chambers Press – Poetry, Prose / Flash, Prose / Fiction, Prose / Creative Non-Fiction

04/30/2016  Glassworks Magazine – Fiction Submissions, Poetry Submissions, Nonfiction Submissions

04/30/2016  Glimmer Train Press – March/April Fiction Open, March/April Very Short Fiction contest

04/30/2016  Gold Wake Press – April Open Reading

04/30/2016  Grist Journal – Pro Forma Contest

04/30/2016  Gunpowder Press – 2016 Barry Spacks Poetry Prize

04/30/2016  Hayden’s Ferry Review – Hayden’s Ferry Review Contest: Flash Fiction & Poetry

04/30/2016  Hotel Amerika – Transgenre, Prose Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction

04/30/2016  Hub City Press – Queries for publication by Hub City Press

04/30/2016  Hugo House – Made at Hugo House Fellowship App, Writer-in-Residence Application

04/30/2016  Individual Artists OK – IAO Open Call for Visual Artists – 2016-2017 exhibition year

04/30/2016  Island Magazine – Poetry

04/30/2016  Kennedy Center – VSA Arts Connect All Workshop/Residency Program, Etc.

04/30/2016  Kristell Ink – Novel Submission

04/30/2016  Late Night Library – 2016 Debut-litzer Prizes

04/30/2016  Lawndale Art Center – 2016-2017 Lawndale Artist Studio Program

04/30/2016  London Journal of Fiction – Poetry Submissions, Short Stories / Essays

04/30/2016  London Photo Festival – Retro Wall – Free Entry , Street Photography 2016

04/30/2016  Long Dumb Voices – July Issue Submissions (February 1st-April 30th)

04/30/2016  Longleaf Press – Longleaf Press Chapbook Contest 2016

04/30/2016  Lunch Ticket – Creative Nonfiction, Poetry, Fiction, Flash Prose, YA, Translation, Etc.

04/30/2016  Madcap Review – Art, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry

04/30/2016  Marathon Literary Review – Nonfiction, Fiction & Flash Fiction, Photos, Artwork, Poetry

04/30/2016  Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing – MVICW Parent-Writer Fellowship

04/30/2016  Mighty Media Press – Mighty Media Junior Readers, Mighty Media Kids

04/30/2016  minor literature[s] – Fiction

04/30/2016  Montana Dept. of Commerce – Indian Equity Fund (IEF) Small Business Grant

04/30/2016  New South – Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry

04/30/2016  Nine Arches Press – Poetry, Short Fiction

04/30/2016  Noemi Press – Noemi Press Book Award for Poetry & Fiction

04/30/2016  Octopus – 2016 April Open Reading Period

04/30/2016  Orange Island Arts Foundation – Poetry and Art Author Release Form

04/30/2016  Orison Books – Fiction Submissions (Donation Option), Fiction Submissions

04/30/2016  Peepal Tree Press – ‘Filigree’ – a new anthology of contemporary Black British Poetry

04/30/2016  Pilgrimage Press – Spring/Summer 2016 (40.1)-Injustice & Protest

04/30/2016  Pittsburgh Poetry Review – Open Reading Period — POETRY

04/30/2016  POETRY – 2016 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships

04/30/2016  Poetry City, USA – Poetry City, USA: Open reading period

04/30/2016  Puerto del Sol – 2016 Poetry Contest, 2016 Fiction Contest

04/30/2016  Quarterly West – Poetry, Fiction, New Media/Art, Nonfiction

04/30/2016  Raleigh Review – Poetry, Flash Fiction, Short Fiction

04/30/2016  Rattle – Ekphrastic Challenge (online only)

04/30/2016  Red Ants Pants Music Festival – 2016 Red Ants Pants Foundation Grant Application

04/30/2016  Redivider – 2016 Beacon Street Prize – Fiction, Nonfiction, & Poetry

04/30/2016  Richmond Anthology of Poetry – RAP: the Richmond Anthology of Poetry call for poems

04/30/2016  Roger Ballen Foundation – Submission Rules

04/30/2016  Ruminate Magazine – Janet B. McCabe Poetry Prize, Nonfiction General Submissions

04/30/2016  Sarabande Books – Prize in Short Fiction, Prize in Poetry

04/30/2016  Sequestrum – Editor’s Reprint Award – 2016

04/30/2016  SI Leeds Literary Prize – SI Leeds Literary Prize 2016

04/30/2016  Silhouette Press / Here Comes Everyone – Short Fiction, Poetry, & Artwork

04/30/2016  smoking glue gun magazine – smoking glue gun magazine – text

04/30/2016  Snapdragon: A Journal of Art & Healing – Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, Photography

04/30/2016  So Say We All – Black Candies 2016: Gross and Unlikeable

04/30/2016  South 85 Journal – 2015-2016 Poetry, 2015-2016 Non-Fiction, 2015-2016 Fiction

04/30/2016  Strangelet Press – Submissions for Issue 2.5

04/30/2016  Sukwtemsqilxw West Kelowna Arts Council (SWAC) – 2016 SWAC-Skyway Art Kiosk

04/30/2016  Sycamore Review – Send us $5, get a random back issue

04/30/2016  Tahoma Literary Review – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Fiction, Flash Nonfiction

04/30/2016  TCR – October Prize for Poetry, October Prize for Fiction

04/30/2016  Teenage Wasteland Review – Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry

04/30/2016  Terrain – Bazaar 2016 Call for Submission

04/30/2016  The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature – Essay, Nonfiction, Creative Nonfiction, Etc.

04/30/2016  The Ghost Story – The Ghost Story Supernatural Fiction Award

04/30/2016  The Inge Morath Foundation – Inge Morath Award 2016

04/30/2016  The Molotov Cocktail – Flash Felon contest

04/30/2016  The Philly Pigeon – The Philly Pigeon Artists Retreat 2016

04/30/2016  The Playwrights Center of San Francisco – PCSF Reading Series (2016 Fall)

04/30/2016  The Rusty Toque – 2016 Fiction Chapbook Contest

04/30/2016  The Tishman Review – Tillie Olsen Short Story Award

04/30/2016  Third Point Press – Art, Fiction, Poetry, Everything Else

04/30/2016  Thrice Publishing – Thrice Fiction Magazine – April Submissions

04/30/2016  TIME ALONE PRESS – LET US IN: Horror anthology

04/30/2016  Trio House Press – Louise Bogan Award, Trio Award for First or Second Book

04/30/2016  Tule Review – Poetry Submission, Art Submission for Cover or Interior Pages

04/30/2016  Tupelo Press – The Berkshire Prize for a First or Second Book of Poetry 2016

04/30/2016  Urban Land Magazine – Urban Land 40 under 40 Nominations 2016

04/30/2016  Washington Square – Fiction, Poetry

04/30/2016  Wigleaf – Fiction

04/30/2016  Wilderness Collective – Wilderness Issue 03 Photo Submissions

04/30/2016  Willamette Writers – Writing Contest Fiction, Non-Fiction, YA, Poetry, & Screenplay

04/30/2016  Willow Springs – Fiction

04/30/2016  Winning Writers – Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest

04/30/2016  WonderRoot – Solo Exhibition Proposal

04/30/2016  Word Riot Inc. – 2016 Travel Grant Applications – Round 1

04/30/2016  Writing About Art in Barcelona – Writing About Art in Barcelona

04/30/2016  Zoetic Press – NonBinary Review #10: A Study in Scarlet, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

05/01/2016  American Literary Review – Photography/Illustrations, Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction

05/01/2016  Art League Houston – 2016 Summer High School Studio Art Intensive

05/01/2016  Ashland Poetry Press – Richard Snyder Publication Prize

05/01/2016  Asian American Writers’ Workshop – Go Home! – An Asian American Anthology

05/01/2016  Bayou Magazine – 0 Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction

05/01/2016  Black Sun Lit – Vestiges_02: Ennui

05/01/2016  Boulevard – Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction

05/01/2016  Breakwater Review – Fiction Contest, The Peseroff Prize Poetry Contest, Fiction, Poetry

05/01/2016  C&R Press – The New Order – Submissions Close May 1 2016

05/01/2016  carte blanche – poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, translation, comics, audio

05/01/2016  Center For Book Arts – Letterpress Printing & Fine Press Publishing Seminar

05/01/2016  Change Seven Magazine – Flash Fiction, Short Stories, Creative Nonfiction, Poetry

05/01/2016  Chicago Literati – The Persistence of Memory: The Consciousness & Perception Issue

05/01/2016  Christkindl Markt – Christkindl Markt Application 2016 – 45th Annual Event

05/01/2016  CUE Art Foundation – Call for Curatorial Proposals, Call for Solo Exhibition Proposals

05/01/2016  Damaged Goods Publications – Crab Fat Magazine – READER APPLICATION

05/01/2016  Ecotone – Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction

05/01/2016  Elohi Gadugi – Elohi Gadugi Journal Spring 2016 | Pawn Shop

05/01/2016  Eyewear Publishing LTD – The 2016 Melita Hume Poetry Prize

05/01/2016  Fact-Simile Editions – Poetry, Prose, Visual

05/01/2016  Fidea Design GmbH – Bewerbung Label für DesignSchenken 2016

05/01/2016  Fugue – General Hybrid, General Poetry, General Fiction , General Nonfiction

05/01/2016  Gold Man Review – Nonfiction, Poetry, Fiction

05/01/2016  Grey Wolfe Publishing, LLC – Summer 2016 Book Festival For Grey Wolfe Authors

05/01/2016  Horror Writers Association – _2016 Poetry Showcase Submission Form

05/01/2016  Inlandia – Poetry Book Prize, Inlandia Literary Laureate Nominations Form

05/01/2016  Iron Twine Press – Home Is…Short Fiction Contest

05/01/2016  Juniper Institute – Juniper Young Writers Application 2016

05/01/2016  Kudzu House – Art, Expedited Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Kudzu Scholar

05/01/2016  Litquake – 2016 Festival Submissions, 2016 Lit Crawl SF Submissions

05/01/2016  London Photo Festival – Retro Wall – Free Entry , Street Photography 2016

05/01/2016  MCLA Berkshire Cultural Resource Center – Waiting- Gallery 51 Submission

05/01/2016  Moon City Press – The 2016 Moon City Poetry Award

05/01/2016  National Association of Writers in Education – Conference Proposals, Writing in Education

05/01/2016  New American Press – POETRY FROM THE MIDWEST

05/01/2016  New Flash Fiction – 2016 Prose Poetry Issue

05/01/2016  Nimrod International Journal – Contest Entry: Fiction, Contest Entry: Poetry

05/01/2016  North Carolina Literary Review – James Applewhite Poetry Prize

05/01/2016  North Coast Squid – WORD & IMAGE: Art or Photography, Prose or Poetry

05/01/2016  NYFA Learning/Professional Development – Artist As Entrepreneur Boot Camp

05/01/2016  O+ Festivals – Chicago – Art, Chicago – Music

05/01/2016  Open Call – Lazy Susan: Open Call

05/01/2016  Partus Press – Sumarlærlingar Partusar

05/01/2016  Peninsula Pulse Presents The Hal Prize – Photography, Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry

05/01/2016  Philadelphia Writers’ Conference -Fiction, Non-Fiction, & Poetry Contest

05/01/2016  Please Hold Magazine – PH7 Writing – Maps, PH7 2-D – Maps

05/01/2016  Poets House – Master Class with Ada Limón

05/01/2016  Prairie Schooner – Poetry, Fiction, Essays

05/01/2016  Proximity Magazine – Proximity is looking to expand its editorial team.

05/01/2016  r.kv.r.y. – Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry, Shorts On Survival

05/01/2016  Ragdale – Alice Judson Hayes Writers Fellowship, Ragdale Residency 2017 Application

05/01/2016  River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative – River Teeth Journal Submissions

05/01/2016  Seneca Review – Beyond Category: a call for multiple media / genre work, Poetry, Essays

05/01/2016  SHARKPACK Poetry Review – VALUS’ SIGIL: SUPERNATURE

05/01/2016  Sonora Review – Fiction, Essay, and Poetry Contest

05/01/2016  Southern Indiana Review – Drama, Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction

05/01/2016  Spineless Wonders – Little Fictions Call Out

05/01/2016  Split This Rock – Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here DC: Arabic Poetry Translation Contest

05/01/2016  Story – PRINT: Identity

05/01/2016  Storyscape Journal – Poetry

05/01/2016  Strange California – Strange California

05/01/2016  submission reading series – Fiction, Poetry, Creative Non-Fiction

05/01/2016  subTerrain Magazine – Creative Non-Fiction, Fiction, Poetry

05/01/2016  Suffolk Radiation Science – Medical Dosimetry Recommendation Letter 2016

05/01/2016  Sugared Water – Creative Nonfiction, Poetry, Fiction, Comics, Art, & Sequential Art

05/01/2016  Switchback – Your History Contest

05/01/2016  The Borfski Press – Issue #1: Poetry, Issue #1: Short Stories, Issue #1: Art

05/01/2016  The Conium Review – 2016 Innovative Short Fiction Contest ($500 Prize)

05/01/2016  The Healing Muse – Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Visual Art

05/01/2016  The Hopper | Green Writers Press – 2016 Poetry Contest

05/01/2016  The Los Angeles Review – Creative Nonfiction, Flash Fiction, Poetry, & Short Fiction Award

05/01/2016  The Newton-Blanchard Prize – Prize in Creative Nonfiction, Prize in Short Fiction

05/01/2016  The Poetry Society – Poetry News Members’ Poems competition

05/01/2016  The Sun Magazine – Readers Write: First Impressions

05/01/2016  Twelve Winters Press – Larry D. Underwood Award in Children’s Literature

05/01/2016  Waxwing – Prose, Poetry

05/01/2016  Wick Poetry Center – 2016 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize

05/01/2016  Writing By Writers – Hiking in Capitol Reef National Park 2016

05/01/2016  WUD Publications – Publications Committee Leadership Application

05/01/2016  Yellow Flag Press – Open Reading Period – Chapbooks, Open Reading Period – Broadsides

05/02/2016  40th Street Artist-in-Residence Program – Application for 2016-2017 Residency

05/02/2016  Arts Mid-Hudson – 2016 Dutchess County Executive’s Arts Award Nominations

05/02/2016  Black Elephant – Spring/Summer 2016 Chapbook Contest

05/02/2016  Crab Orchard Review – Poetry Prize, Fiction Prize, Nonfiction Prize

05/02/2016  Express Media – The 2016 Scribe Nonfiction Prize

05/02/2016  Interlochen Arts Academy Creative Writing – Visual Arts Portfolio Submissions

05/02/2016  International Downtown Association – IDA Dan Sweat Award Nominations

05/02/2016  Letter & Line Literary Magazine – Artwork, Poetry, Fiction, Photography, Nonfiction

05/02/2016  Locust Projects – LAB (Locust Art Builders) High School 2016

05/02/2016  LUC Department of Fine and Performing Arts – Auditions for Music Major (2016-17)

05/02/2016  New Hampshire State Council on the Arts – FY2017 Arts in Education Artist Roster

05/02/2016  Office of Public Art – PLACEMAKING + TEMPORARY PUBLIC ART PROGRAM

05/02/2016  Target Gallery – 2016 Open Exhibition Call for Entries

05/02/2016  United States Artists – Phase 1 Application for the USA Residency at the Bellagio Center

05/02/2016  Western Masters – 2016 Heart of the West Auction Artwork Submissions

05/02/2016  wherewithal – SUBMISSIONS OPEN

05/03/2016  YBCA 100 – YBCA 100 Nomination

05/04/2016  Children’s Literacy Foundation – Summer Readers application, Rural Library Grant

05/04/2016  Lansing Art Gallery – Pop Up Art: Special Edition

05/04/2016  Slideluck – Slideluck Roma III

05/04/2016  The San Francisco Foundation – 2016 Murphy Award and Cadogan Scholarships

05/04/2016  Wyong Shire Council – Exposure 2016: Wyong Shire Photographic Prize

05/05/2016  Exposition Review – FLASH 405 SUBMISSION

05/05/2016  Inklette – Poetry Editor, Prose Reader

05/05/2016  Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery – Solo Art Exhibition – “An Opportunity to Shine”

05/05/2016  Nude Bruce Review – FICTION SUMMER 2016, POETRY SUMMER 2016

05/05/2016  Pacifica Literary Review – Contest Without Form

05/05/2016  The Saltire Society – Awards – FICTION, FIRST BOOK, HISTORY, NON-FICTION, ETC

05/05/2016  UCLA CAPPP – Winter 2017 Quarter in Washington Application

05/06/2016  ABC RN Creative Audio – Radiotonic submission form – closes May 6, 2016

05/06/2016  American Society for Microbiology – Agar Art Contest 2016

05/06/2016  AMPLIFYHER – Extended Deadline

05/06/2016  Commercial Property Executive – 2016 CPE Distinguished Achievement Awards initial entry

05/06/2016  Creative Currents – Creative Currents Summer Artist Residency

05/06/2016  Lemonade Day Indianapolis – Seed Fund 2016 Video Pitch Submissions

05/06/2016  Michigan Interscholastic Press Association – 2-Week Film Challenge

05/06/2016  On The Premises – OTP Mini-Contest #29: Music

05/06/2016  Pathos Literary Magazine – Poetry, Prose, Visual Art

05/06/2016  Semcon Sweden AB – Design Days – Student Challenge – Pathway : Design for new users

05/06/2016  Spotlight Education – Spotlight Showcase Orchestra , The Triple Threat Honor

05/06/2016  TechTown Detroit – DTX Launch Detroit 2016

05/06/2016  The Art League – Tabletop Exhibit

05/06/2016  The Drawing Room Project – Call For Submission DRP Writers’ Retreat 2016

05/06/2016  UNC-TV – Submit to Reel South Season 2

05/07/2016  Emmet O’Neal Library – MBJHS Literary Contest

05/07/2016  Fort Worth Community Arts Center – pARTy On Crockett: Call for Artists

05/07/2016  Sand City Art Committee – Art Within Reach

05/07/2016  SI of Rittenhouse Square, PA – The Brittany Noakes Poetry Award

05/07/2016  Solstice Literary Magazine – ANNUAL LITERARY CONTEST

05/07/2016  Yellow Chair Review – Poetry, Flash Fiction/Non-Fiction, Photography/Art

05/08/2016  Cordite Poetry Review – Poetry Submissions to Cordite 55: FUTURE MACHINES

05/08/2016  Gazing Grain Press – Prose/Hybrid Chapbook, Poetry/Hybrid Chapbook Contest

05/08/2016  Méxtasis – Méxtasis primer capítulo

05/08/2016  Point of Convergence – Letters, Book Cover, Non-Fiction Essay, Poetry, Short Fiction

05/08/2016  The Society of Arts and Crafts – Radius: the Society of Arts and Crafts Inaugural Exhibition

05/08/2016  Third Street Writers – BEACH READS Vol 1: Here Comes The Sun

05/09/2016  American Literary Translators Association – ALTA Mentorship, ALTA Travel Fellowship

05/09/2016  Friends Journal – Aug 2016: Quaker Spaces

05/09/2016  Ox-Bow – Fall Artist Residency, Fall Writer Residency

05/09/2016  Spring Creek Project – Collaborative Retreat, Andrews Forest Writers’ Residencies, Etc.

05/09/2016  Twitch – TwitchCon 2016 Panel/Workshop Submissions

05/10/2016  Hugo House – Made at Hugo House Fellowship Application, Blog Submissions, Etc.

05/10/2016  pamplemousse – Fiction, Poetry, Non-Fiction

05/10/2016  Persephone’s Daughters – Persephone’s Daughters New Staff Member Application

05/10/2016  Ping-Pong Free Press – Ping-Pong Free Press

05/11/2016  Mid-Cape Cultural Council – Request for Qualifications: Hyannis HyArts Discovery Walk

05/12/2016  THEM – THEM Issue III

05/13/2016  Athens Popfest – Bands

05/13/2016  Ayn Rand Institute – ARI Seasonal Internships

05/13/2016  Center For Book Arts – Letterpress Printing & Fine Press Publishing Seminar

05/13/2016  Del Sol Press – Fiction: Del Sol Press First Novel Competition

05/13/2016  Downtown Akron Partnership – Market on Cascade

05/13/2016  NEW INC – NEW INC Membership Application

05/13/2016  Norman Arts Council – Arts Education Scholarships

05/13/2016  SELFISH – issue four – HOT & BOTHERED

05/13/2016  Spotlight Education – Spotlight Showcase Orchestra , The Triple Threat Honor

05/14/2016  Griffith Review – Griffith Review The Novella Project IV – Submissions

05/14/2016  Hawaiʻi Review – Reviews, UHM Student(s) of the Month

05/15/2016  American Literary Translators Association – ALTA Mentorship, ALTA Travel Fellowship

05/15/2016  Atlantic Center for the Arts – Sanford Biggers, Residency #163

05/15/2016  Balkan Press – Balkan Press Manuscript Submission

05/15/2016  BlogU Conference – Humor, Heart

05/15/2016  Bomb Magazine – BOMB’s 2016 Poetry Contest

05/15/2016  Breakwater Review – Fiction Contest, The Peseroff Prize Poetry Contest, Fiction, Poetry

05/15/2016  Carve Magazine – Raymond Carver Short Story Contest

05/15/2016  Chowan University – The Brown Lady–Poetry Submission

05/15/2016  Coffee House Press – Coffee Sleeve Conversations

05/15/2016  Crab Creek Review – 2016 Crab Creek Review Poetry Prize

05/15/2016  Crime Syndicate Magazine – “Fast Women and Neon Lights: Eighties-Inspired Neon Noir

05/15/2016  Digging Through The Fat – Community

05/15/2016  Entangled Publishing – Lovestruck call for submissions: HOLIDAY STORIES

05/15/2016  Essay Press – ESSAY PRESS 2016 OPEN BOOK CONTEST

05/15/2016  Ex Ophidia Press – Ex Ophidia Press Poetry Book Contest

05/15/2016  Flyway: Journal of Writing and Environment – Poetry, Fiction, Non-fiction

05/15/2016  Franklin Learning Showcase – 2016 Franklin Learning Showcase Abstract Submissions

05/15/2016  Gorge Literary Journal – Flash Fiction, Essay/Memoir, Poetry/Verse

05/15/2016  Homebound Publications – Homebound Publications Poetry Prize

05/15/2016  Hudson Valley Writers’ Center – SHP Sanger-Stewart Chapbook Competition 2016

05/15/2016  JMWW – The Claudia Emerson Poetry Chapbook Award

05/15/2016  Lost Horse Press – The Idaho Prize for Poetry 2016

05/15/2016  Luna Station Quarterly – Issue 027

05/15/2016  Lynx House Press – Blue Lynx Prize for Poetry 2016

05/15/2016  Montana Book Festival – Regional Emerging Writer’s Contest

05/15/2016  paper nautilus – Debut Series Chapbook Contest

05/15/2016  Playwrights Local 4181 – 2016 Open Submissions

05/15/2016  Psychopomp Magazine – Open Fiction Submission – Flash

05/15/2016  Ruminate Magazine – Janet B. McCabe Poetry Prize, Nonfiction General Submissions

05/15/2016  Salt Hill Journal – Dead Lake Chapbook Competition

05/15/2016  Slate Roof Press – Slate Roof Press 2016 Poetry Chapbook Contest and Elyse Wolf Prize

05/15/2016  Southern Exposure – Southern Exposure Open Submissions April 2016

05/15/2016  Spider Road Press – 2016 Spider’s Web Flash Fiction Prize

05/15/2016  Spread the Word – Flight Journal – Issue 2 [Spring 2016]

05/15/2016  Storyknife Writers Retreat – 2016 Storyknife Residency Fellow

05/15/2016  Tampa Bay Theatre Festival – Full Length Play Submissions, Short Play Submissions

05/15/2016  The Blueshift Journal – Brutal Nation (POETRY), Brutal Nation (PROSE)

05/15/2016  The Boiler Journal – Poetry, Fiction, Creative Non-Fiction

05/15/2016  The Cedric Literary Awards – Creative Non-fiction, Fiction, Poetry

05/15/2016  The Poet’s Haven – The Poet’s Haven Author Series

05/15/2016  The Supplement – Non-Fiction, Fiction

05/15/2016  VoiceCatcher: A journal of women’s voices & visions – Poetry, Summer 2016 issue

05/15/2016  Written Image – Alumni Feature 2016, Student Feature 2016, Student Short 2016

05/15/2016  Xpace – Call for submissions: Residency for Graduating OCAD U students

05/15/2016  Yale ISM Congregations Project – 2016 Conference Registration

05/15/2016  YesYes Books – 2016 Open Reading Period: Poetry Full-length

05/15/2016  Zimbell House Publishing, LLC – Anthology: Tournament Games

Submishmash Weekly April 25 – May 2

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Publishing & Journalism:

In Electric Literature, Catherine LaSota asks authors including Alexander Chee and Laura van den Berg to reflect on Prince.

Nathan Smith unpacks Sylvia Plath’s honors dissertation on Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Be Bold with Bananas, and other worst library books, as exposed by Daniel A. Gross.

Poet Ocean Vuong tells NPR’s Michel Martin how he got his name.

 

Some opportunities:

AMPLIFY(HER) is currently seeking prose, poetry, short stories, and art from formerly and currently undocumented Asian women for their zine.

Iron Twine Press seeks short fiction for their Home Is… Competition.

The Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant will award $35,000 to as many as three writers in the process of completing a book-length work of creative nonfiction.

Pacifica Literary Review seeks writing of “all and every style and form, written and visual, and any combination thereof” for their Contest Without Form.

Cordite Poetry Review, an Australian journal publishing international writers, is accepting work for their Future Machines issue.

 

Film & Performance:

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The Kennedy Center is calling for international young writers with and without disabilities to explore the disability experience through script writing for stage or screen during their VSA Playwright Discovery Competition.

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The Michigan Interscholastic Press Association seeks five-minute films that include a Frisbee and the words “keep your eye on the prize” for their 2-Week Film Challenge.

Art:

The Center for Book Arts invites applications for their Letterpress Printing & Fine Press Publishing Seminar.

CUE seeks under-recognized artists for their Solo Exhibition Open Call, providing mentorship, a stipend, and more.

The American Society for Microbiology is calling for microbe masterpieces during their Agar Art Contest.

The Art League is seeking ceramic and other functional art forms for an international juried exhibit focused on food, drink & the table.

 

Sound:

The Australian Broadcast Radio Network’s Radiotonic seeks proposals for fiction, non-fiction, essays, and drama from writers, artists and radio makers.

Quebec’s carte-blanche accepts sound-based stories including spoken word, author readings, comedy, and experimental work. Audio pieces do not need to contain words but should have a narrative progression.

 

Creative Job Openings:

Inklette is currently accepting applications for a Prose Reader, Poetry Reader, and Poetry Editor.

 


This email was put together by Asta, Michael, Laurie, JR, Caitlin, Rachel, and your team at Submittable. If you have news that you think we missed, please send it to [email protected]. Got high-quality writing or artwork related to publishing or digital media? Consider submitting it to our blog. If you enjoy what you read here, please forward it to help spread the word. New readers can subscribe here. Thanks!

Submishmash Weekly: April 20 – 27

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Submishmash Weekly is a weekly human-curated newsletter bringing news and opportunities in publishing and other creative industries to artists, filmmakers, and writers. If you enjoy what you read here, please consider forwarding it. New readers can subscribe here. Thanks!


 

Publishing & Journalism:

“The book is confession from one Vietnamese person to another.” Carolyn Kellogg speaks with Viet Thanh Nguyen, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

Adam Liptak and Alexandra Alter on Google Books and “fair use.”

Writers, please stop thinking: an interview with Kathryn Harrison by Joe Fassler.

Shelley Salamensky on Don Wilen, Allen Ginsberg’s accountant, who claims the poet was a “sophisticated businessperson. His buddies, not so much.”

 

Some opportunities:

Paper Darts seeks entries of 1,200 words or less for their Short Fiction Award, judged by Roxanne Gay. Winner receives $500.

The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine, will award five Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships of $25,800 to young poets, aged 21-31.

BLF Press is calling for creative nonfiction, short fiction, and poetry
fiction to include in the project Solace: Writing, Refuge, and LGBTQ Women of Color.

Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, seeks fiction, poetry, nonfiction, academic writing, field notes, multimedia work and studio art to include in the Spring 2016 issue.

Sequestrum seeks previously-published fiction and creative nonfiction for the Editor’s Reprint Award. Winners receive $200 and publication.

 

Film & Performance:

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The Players Theatre Short Play and Musical Festival, a tri-annual NYC festival, is calling for short works based on the theme NYC – Only in New York.

The Dance Films Association seeks short films for Long Legs Short Films.


Art:

ArtsWorcester of Massachusetts is seeking applicants for the Present Tense Prize, awarded to an artist whose work exemplifies new practices, artistic risk-taking, and excellence in execution

Photoworks, an agency from the UK, seeks work by international artists for the next issue of their photography and visual culture journal, themed on the politics of fashion and style photography.

Houston’s Lawndale Artist Center is calling for applicants to their Studio Program Residency.

Individual Artists of Oklahoma (IAO) is seeking proposals for presentation at IAO gallery from artists of all disciplines, including visual arts, film & video, new media, installation, interdisciplinary media, poetry and performance.

 

Sound:

The O+ Festival seeks music applicants for their July 8-10 celebration in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood.

 

Creative Job Openings:

Proximity, a nonfiction literary magazine, is accepting applicants for the Editorial Team, Art & Production, and Social Media & Press.

 


This email was put together by Asta, Michael, Laurie, JR, Caitlin, Rachel, and your team at Submittable. If you have news that you think we missed, please send it to [email protected]. Got high-quality writing or artwork related to publishing or digital media? Consider submitting it to our blog. If you enjoy what you read here, please forward it to help spread the word. New readers can subscribe here. Thanks!