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Harold Morton Landon Translation Award Deadline

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Valzhyna Mort, our 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize winner, is judging the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award this year. This $1,000 award recognizes the work of a U.S.-based translator for a poetry collection translated from any language into English and published in the previous calendar year. Established in 1976, it is …

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Canthius: Submission Deadline

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Submissions are open from August 15-September 15. Canthius is an intersectional feminist magazine that publishes poetry and prose by writers of marginalized gender identities, including trans, Two Spirit, non-binary, agender, cis women, genderqueer, GNC, and intersex writers. We are committed to publishing diverse perspectives and experiences and strongly encourage Indigenous …

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2024 Wisconsin Prize for Poetry in Translation Deadline

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Please upload a book-length collection of poetry translated into English, in pdf format. The translations submitted must be previously unpublished in book form. The manuscript must include each poem in its original language, as well as in translation, and should be no fewer than 75 and no more than 250 …

$28

Room Magazine’s 2023 Poetry Contest

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Our 2023 Poetry Contest is now open! FIRST PRIZE: $1,000 + possibility of publication in Room SECOND PRIZE: $250 + possibility publication in Room HONOURABLE MENTION: $100 + publication on Room’s website DEADLINE: September 15th, 2023 2023 Judge: John Elizabeth Stintzi John Elizabeth Stintzi is a writer, cartoonist, and editor who grew up on a …

$35 – $55

The Anzaldúa Poetry Prize

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Deadline: 15 September 2023 Guest Judge: Natalie Diaz Award: First place is publication, $1,500 prize, 25 contributor copies, and royalties contract. Three finalists will be announced. Reading Fee: $15 Enter: Open—share your writing with us today! History Our annual poetry prize proudly honors poet, writer, and cultural theorist, Gloria E. Anzaldúa. Anzaldúa’s …

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Frontier Poetry’s Roots & Roads Prize

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Welcome to our inaugural Roots & Roads Prize! We look forward to reading your poems! About the Prize Not only are root systems vital for a tree to channel sustenance from the soil, but they are also communicators, connecting the plant to its environment and to other plants. Roads, too, …

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Acta Victoriana: Deadline for Submissions

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Submission guidelines: - All submissions must be anonymized. Please do not include any identifying information in the name or body of your submission file.  Submit through this Google form. - Font: Times New Roman; font size 12. Exceptions will be made if font style/size is integral to the work. - …

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The Ex-Puritan: Deadline for Submissions

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General Submission Guidelines The Ex-Puritan seeks submissions all year round, from anywhere in the world. Click here to submit We’re looking for poems of any length (including sequences and long poems). Please familiarize yourself with our last two issues. Send up to four poems at a time. We are especially interested …

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World Literature Today Student Translation Prize

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A Contest for Translation Studies Students The 2024 prizewinners will be selected and announced in May 2024. Who can enter? The contest is open to all students, worldwide, enrolled in translation studies programs. What can they submit? An entry is a prose piece of up to 1,000 words or up to three poems, translated …

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Trio Uganda’s International Poetry Competition

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Judge: Mike Jenkins £1,000 First Prize, 2nd £300, 3rd £100, 4 commended poems £25 each All poems - winning or otherwise - will be considered for publication in the next edition of Red Poets Entry fee  £5 for the first poem £8 for two poems £10 for three poems All …

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filling Station: Deadline for Submissions

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Call for Submissions Issue 82 – LANGUAGE Submit your work by September 30th, 2023 Language informs our everyday. Language is rich, complex, & always changing/evolving. Whatever way you use language, whether you code switch at a doctor’s appointment, or you’re bi/tri/poly-lingual and weave languages together when speaking to relatives, or …

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Freefall: Deadline for Submissions

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SUBMISSIONS – OPEN  Open Submissions June 1st to September 30th SUBMISSION GUIDELINES AND INFORMATION: FreeFall pays for all published work: $10/page prose up to $100 and $25 per poem plus a copy of the issue the work is published in A submission consists of 1 prose piece up to 4000 …

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Room: Deadline for Submissions

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Room Magazine invites unpublished poetry on any theme for our issue 47.2, edited by Ruchika Gothoskar, Jane Shi, Aris Keshav, and Ivy Sarkar. 47.2 is our contest issue: selected pieces from this reading period will be published alongside our 2023 contest winners, so send us your absolute best work. Before submitting, please read about …

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Humber Literary Review: Deadline for Submissions

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The Humber Literary Review, a literary and arts magazine, is currently seeking submissions of original, unpublished writing: please send us your best fiction, creative nonfiction, comics and poetry for our upcoming spring/summer print issue, scheduled for release in December 2023. If your work contains sensitive content, please be sure to include a content warning at the top …

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Hayden’s Ferry Review: Translations

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We are waiving our submission fee for Black and Indigenous writers. Please submit your translation pieces here. If you have questions concerning this policy, please email us. Translations submissions should be works translated into English from any other non-English language, and must include the original text along with the translated text. …

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Fence Translation Submissions #42

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Cole Swensen is Translation Editor of Fence issue #42. Text in originating language is optional (though helpful/preferred). New translations of previously translated work are welcome. Poetry: please submit up to three poems and no more than 10 translated pages of poetry. Fiction and Prose: please limit your submission to no more than …

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The Stephen Mitchell Prize for Translation: Submission Deadline

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Stephen Mitchell has written or translated over twenty books. He has brought into English lucid, beautiful translations of Yehuda Amichai, Homer, Pablo Neruda, Rainer Maria Rilke, and such foundational texts as the Tao Te Ching, Gilgamesh, and Genesis, among others. In honor of Mitchell’s linguistic and poetic acumen, Green Linden Press will award the …

$15 – $35

Black Lawrence Press: Translations from German & French

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Black Lawrence Press publishes translations from German and French. Submit translations to our open reading period here. All manuscripts should include a title page (including your name and contact info), table of contents, and when appropriate, an acknowledgments page. Manuscripts should be paginated and formatted in an easy-to-read font such …

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Hayden’s Ferry Review: Issue 74

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Hayden’s Ferry Review is open for translation and art for our print journal year-round. Submissions in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction for issue 74 are open from November 1-30 or until submissions caps are met. We’ll also open 50 free submissions for underrepresented writers in each genre - see further guidelines below! …

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Prolit: Special Issue on Empire

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At some scale, times are always bad, but given the atrocities being committed in this moment, particularly in Palestine, they feel increasingly desperate. While this project has always been explicitly political, I want the next issue of Prolit to address things even more sharply. As an editor from the United …

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The Ampersand Review: Issue 6 Deadline

The Ampersand Review is a literary magazine published by Sheridan College’s Honours Bachelor of Creative Writing & Publishing program. The Ampersand Review accepts submissions of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, essays, and reviews. We seek to publish literary works of the highest quality. To us, this means work that engages thoughtfully …

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The Common: Submission Deadline

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Inspired by the mission and role of the town common, an egalitarian gathering place, The Common aims to foster the global exchange of diverse ideas and experiences. As such, we welcome and encourage submissions from writers who are Black, Indigenous, people of color, disabled, LGBTQIA+-identifying, immigrant, international, and/or otherwise from communities underrepresented …

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Graywolf Lab: Time

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Graywolf Lab is now open for submissions to the first issue, "Time," until December 22nd! ⁠ We’re looking for short fiction, essays, and poems originally in English or in translation, as well as short visual, graphic, multimedia, multidisciplinary, and interactive pieces that engage with the work already posted under the …

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Funicular Magazine: Submission Deadline

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Funicular Magazine publishes quality fiction and poetry that shocks, surprises, moves, and tickles us. Maybe all of those things in a single piece. We are a Canadian magazine and we want to publish Canadian voices, but don't be shy if you aren't Canadian. We love sharing international writers with our …

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Mizna: Summer 2024 Issue Deadline

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As Mizna’s twenty-fifth anniversary approaches, we are opening submissions for our Summer 2024 Issue, Mizna 25.1. Although this issue will be unthemed, the editorial team wishes to center and uplift our community in a time of rage and mourning, especially those Palestinian, Armenian, Afghan, Sudanese, Moroccan, and Libyan folks who are living …

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Faultline: Submission Deadline

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Submit up to 5 poems or 20 pages of prose (one story).  If submitting poems, please start each new poem on a new page. Format for story: double-spaced, 12pt font. Please provide a translator's note to contextualize your translations for readers (300 words max) along with a cover letter. *Please …

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The Ex-Puritan: Winter Issue

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The Ex-Puritan seeks submissions all year round, from anywhere in the world. Our current publication rates (as of Fall 2022) stand as: $100 PER INTERVIEW $200 PER ESSAY $100 PER REVIEW $150 PER WORK OF FICTION  $50 PER POEM, OR $100 PER POET IF MULTIPLE POEMS ACCEPTED  $50+ PER EXPERIMENTAL OR …

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2024 Griffin Poetry Prize Deadline

The submissions deadline for the 2024 Griffin Poetry Prize, for books published between July 1 and December 31, is Friday, December 29, 2023. Submitted books must be postmarked no later than this date, and delivered no later than Friday, January 5, 2024. Please remember to complete all necessary customs/duties paperwork …

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Hayden’s Ferry Review: Translations

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We are waiving our submission fee for Black and Indigenous writers. Please submit your translation pieces here. If you have questions concerning this policy, please email us. Translations submissions should be works translated into English from any other non-English language, and must include the original text along with the translated text. …

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Arc Poetry: Submission Deadline

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Arc accepts pre­vi­ously unpub­lished poetry in English or pre­vi­ously unpub­lished translations of poetry into English, on any sub­ject and in any form. Poets may only submit once per calendar year. Poetry submissions must not exceed three poems or 360 lines of poetry. Submissions of more than one poem must be …

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Prism International

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PRISM international publishes exciting, original material from established and emerging writers in Canada and around the world. Due to the high volume of submissions, we receive each month, reply times range from 6 - 12 months, depending on the time of year. Please note: PRISM does not accept submissions from current and incoming students and faculty of …

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2024 Sarah Maguire Prize for Poetry in Translation

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The Poetry Translation Centre invites publishers internationally to submit their books for the third biennial Sarah Maguire Prize, to be awarded in the PTC’s 20th birthday year in 2024.  The prize was established with a generous gift from the Estate of Sarah Maguire and donations from her friends and colleagues, …

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The Greensboro Review: Submission Deadline

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Manuscripts must be received by January 1 to be considered for the Fall issue (acceptances in May). GUIDELINES: Entries must be previously unpublished. We do accept simultaneous submissions, but please let us know immediately via Submittable if your work is accepted elsewhere. Please submit only once per genre during each submission period. Length restrictions: …

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Claire Harris Poetry Prize

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The Claire Harris Poetry Prize, a new initiative of Goose Lane’s icehouse poetry imprint, is designed to enhance the visibility of debut poetry collections by previously unpublished poets from Black, Indigenous, and other racialized communities. This prize will be presented for the first time in 2024 and thereafter will be …

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ROOM Magazine: Submission Deadline

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Wade through the pleasures and pains of the flesh with us in the BODIES issue!   We're seeking poetry about touch and isolation, trans and queer embodiment, fat liberation, chronic illness and disability, brutality, sensuality, and other meditations on the bones and muscles you inhabit every day. What words live in the …

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de Groot Foundation: Courage to Write Grants Applications Open

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Applications for 2024 COURAGE to WRITE grants open January 7, 2024 The de Groot Foundation will award thirty COURAGE to WRITE unrestricted grants to writers in 2024. Ten COURAGE to WRITE grants of $7000 each and twenty Writer of Note grants of $1500 each. These grants are meant to encourage and …

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The Polyglot: Issue 13

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The Polyglot is thrilled to partner with the Philippine Edmonton Events and Arts Society (PHIDEAS) for a joint issue dedicated to featuring the many languages and diverse arts in the Philippines. Deadline: January 15, 2024. Please use this form to submit. Honorarium: $100 CAD Guest Editor: Mila Bongco-Philipzig Open to: …

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Hayden’s Ferry Review: Translations

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We are waiving our submission fee for Black and Indigenous writers. Please submit your translation pieces here. If you have questions concerning this policy, please email us. Translations submissions should be works translated into English from any other non-English language, and must include the original text along with the translated text. …

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Two Languages Prize: Submission Deadline

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The Two Languages Series celebrates the fullness in the language practices, identities, and voices we engage in/with in order to speak. We are looking to publish collections of poetry, hybrid, or essays by writers writing in both Korean and English over any theme or topic. The winner of the 2024 series will receive $500 …

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Cordite Poetry Review: Submission Deadilne

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Submission to Issue 112: TREAT with poetry guest-edited by Tricia Dearborn will close at 11.59pm Melbourne time on Sunday, 4 February 2024. Cordite celebrates 27 years of publishing. Please consider making a donation. Please do NOT print your name or contact details on your submission document. Cordite only accepts unpublished work. Simultaneous submissions? …

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Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry – Deadline

Arrowsmith Press, in partnership with The Derek Walcott Festival in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, and the Boston Playwrights' Theatre, presents the annual Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry to be awarded to a full-length book of poems by a living poet who is not a US citizen (green card holders welcome) published in …

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Prairie Fire Call for Submissions: 50 Over 50

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Call for Submissions: 50 Over 50 Prairie Fire is giving centre stage to women writers over fifty! This special issue is a celebration that honours and recognizes the enormous contribution of living Canadian women writers, who have helped shape CanLit and continue to do so. If you are a woman, aged …

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Hayden’s Ferry Review: Translations

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We are waiving our submission fee for Black and Indigenous writers. Please submit your translation pieces here. If you have questions concerning this policy, please email us. Translations submissions should be works translated into English from any other non-English language, and must include the original text along with the translated text. …

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Hayden’s Ferry Review: Translations

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We are waiving our submission fee for Black and Indigenous writers. Please submit your translation pieces here. If you have questions concerning this policy, please email us. Translations submissions should be works translated into English from any other non-English language, and must include the original text along with the translated text. …

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