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Idaho Prize for Poetry 2023 (Lost Horse Press): Deadline to Submit

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LOST HORSE PRESS is now accepting submissions for the Idaho Prize for Poetry 2023. All US poets are eligible! Entries must be submitted by 15 May 2023, winners will be announced by 15 August 2023. The contest carries a $1000 cash prize, publication by Lost Horse Press, plus 20 comp …

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Brick Books Submissions Close

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Brick Books publishes full-length poetry collections of the highest quality by both new and established writers. While our definition of poetry is expansive and encompasses many aesthetic modes, we do not publish chapbooks (i.e., books fewer than 48 pages), fiction, or conventional prose nonfiction. Our editors are interested in seeing …

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2023 Griffin Poetry Prize Readings

Koerner Hall Koerner Hall, 273 Bloor St. West, Toronto, Ontario

A celebration of poetry not to be missed! The evening will include a selection of readings by some of the world’s best poets, including the finalists for the $130,000 Griffin Poetry Prize—Robyn Creswell and Iman Mersal, Ada Limón, Susan Musgrave, Roger Reeves, and Ocean Vuong—this year’s Lifetime Recognition Award recipient, …

$25 – $30

Ilya Kaminsky: Lecture & Fundraiser

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Join former Griffin Poetry Prize judge Ilya Kaminsky for a Zoom lecture and fundraiser. All proceeds from the fundraiser will go towards organizations supporting the people of Odessa. Event description: We will look at poets from Ukraine and from around the world and ask: what and how can we learn …

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Overheard Across Canada for Geist

Our new obsession is eavesdropping. Send us the best one-liners you've overheard—on the street, in the park, in line at the grocery store—and you might see them in our next issue! Feel free to email us at geist@geist.com.

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The Capilano Review: Deadline to Submit

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The Capilano Review is pleased to invite submissions of new and previously unpublished work for consideration in its forthcoming 2023–2024 publication year. We welcome submissions of boundary-pushing, innovative writing across a variety of genres and forms, including but not limited to: poetry, experimental fiction, personal/poetic essay, creative nonfiction, and hybrid forms. …

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Vallum Poetry Award 2023 Deadline

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We are pleased and honoured to have Erín Moure as our poetry judge this year. Erín Moure is a poet and poetry translator based in Montreal. She has published 18 books of poetry, a coauthored book of poetry, essays, articles on translation, a biopoetics, two memoirs, and is translator or co-translator of …

$25 – $30

Sheila-Na-Gig Editions First Chap Contest

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Sheila-Na-Gig Editions invites entries for a special First Chap contest. Please follow the guidelines below to be eligible for the contest.   IMPORTANT: This contest is meant to support early-career poets. Only poets who have NOT previously published a chapbook or full-length collection of poetry are eligible to submit. –Submit a chapbook-length poetry …

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128 LIT International Chapbook Contest

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Submissions are OPEN from May 15th through July 31st. A winner and finalists will be announced in November 2023. Award: $1,200, plus publication in print. There will be a panel of judges that includes Mona Kareem, Saddiq Dzukogi, and Jacques Fux. The 128 LIT International Chapbook Contest (between 20 & 40 …

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Charles Simic Memorial Prize 2023

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Hole In The Head Review has established the Charles Simic Poetry Prize to honor our late friend and mentor. First prize will receive $1,000 and publication in our November 1 issue. Winner will be announced at our October 26 poetry reading, on social media, and in our November 1 issue. …

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The Ruth and David Lampe Poetry Competition and Award

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All forms and styles of poetry considered.  Open only to Canadian writers. Closes Monday, July 31, 2023. General guidelines: • Up to 16 pages of poetry may be submitted as a suite (we advise the poems be a related grouping, not a hodgepodge of random selections; you may also submit …

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The 2023 Adrift Chapbook Contest

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Timeline –Submissions are open from March 1st 2023 until July 31st 2023. –Finalists and winner will be announced by Driftwood editors in November 2023. –The winning chapbook(s) will be published in 2024. ​ Guidelines​​ –Poetry only. Prose poetry, experimental poetry, and poetry with a visual component (color images accepted) are all welcome. …

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The Half and One Poetry Video Contest

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Based in the state of Meghalaya, India, Half and One is an online publisher of poetry, fiction, narrative nonfiction, and comics in written, audio, and video form. We welcome submissions of previously unpublished poetry. –Poetry submissions are poems between 20 and 70 lines. –One poem per entry. –The winner of …

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In Conversation: Terrance Hayes and Roger Reeves

Austin Central Library 710 West Cesar Chavez Street, Austin, TX

The Library Foundation and Texas Book Festival continue the author series In Conversation with MacArthur Foundation Fellow Terrance Hayes and 2023 Griffin Poetry Prize winner Roger Reeves. In Conversation pairs writers for intimate, unmoderated discussions of their work. Both Hayes and Reeves have new essay collections. Canonized, overlooked, and forgotten African American poets …

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Book Launch: Erín Moure

Parc Drolet 4274 Drolet St, Montreal, Quebec

Poet, translator, and three-time Griffin finalist and judge Erín Moure launches her new collection, Theophylline: A Poetic Migration via the modernisms of Rukeyser, Bishop, Grimké, (House of Anansi Press) on August 3rd at 7:00pm ET in Montreal at Parc Drolet. Klara du Plessis joins her, reading from her new book …

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Lesley Strutt Poetry Contest

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The Lesley Strutt Poetry Contest is an annual LCP Summer Lovin’ Contest that awards $500 for the single best poem submitted to our judges. This contest is open to all poets (professional, emerging, and first-time) in Canada, and is run each summer in memory of poet and friend Lesley Strutt. …

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Columbia Journal: Issue 62 Deadline

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Columbia Journal seeks submissions of poetry, nonfiction, fiction, art, and translation, for both print and online. We welcome  you to submit with us. We’re in search of innovative, outward-looking voices, stories that break boundaries and language that lingers.   Guidelines Submissions should be sent through our Submittable. Please allow us …

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2023 Fertile Festival of New & Inventive Works

Remote Gallery 568 Richmond Street West, Toronto, Alberta

Ten immersive days featuring a feast of new & inventive works in poetry: installations, readings, launches, and gatherings. Curated by HOA NGUYEN | KLARA DU PLESSIS with SHE WHO HAS NO MASTER DIANA KHOI NGUYEN HOA NGUYEN DEAN GARLICK OANA AVASILICHIOAEI KLARA DU PLESSIS MARGARET CHRISTAKOS SUBHANYA SIVAJOTHY LANNII LAYKE KIRBY WILL …

$25 – $100

The Arkansas International: Issue 15 Deadline

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The Arkansas International announces Issue 15: The Women's Issue. Since our founding in 2016, the Arkansas International has been dedicated to publishing diverse, transnational voices. In 2024, we will advance this work by publishing our first issue dedicated entirely to women-identifying writers, translators, and artists. VIDA: Women in Literary Arts has conducted a study …

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The Other Futures Award 2023

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The Other Futures Award is given annually to an innovative, adventurous full-length work that challenges conventions of genre and language, content and form. Send us writing that imagines new lived or literary possibilities, and questions established paradigms. The winner will receive publication with Futurepoem, an honorarium of $1000, a standard …

$9 – $28

The Polyglot & LTAC: Issue 12 Deadline

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Extended deadline! The Polyglot and the Literary Translators Association of Canada (LTAC) are seeking translations that move between languages other than English or French for a joint Fall 2023 issue. Guest Editor: Leilei Chen 莫译, Western vice-president of LTAC NEW Deadline: August 15, 2023 Honorarium: Translators will receive $100 CAD …

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Carte Blanche: Issue 46 Deadline

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carte blanche’s next issue (46) will be open themed. We invite creators to submit previously unpublished pieces in the following genres: fiction, translation, photography, and comics.For this specific submission period, our creative nonfiction and poetry sections will be closed. Thank you for your patience and understanding.carte blanche acknowledges the intersectionality …

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Pilgrimage: Translation Folio

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To be considered for publication in our Translation Folio, please submit the following, with the original versions and the translations: · Up to six poems · Prose pieces of up to 4000 words · OR, a combination of prose and poetry totaling 4000 words. We encourage translations connect to the …

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The 2023 Palette Chapbook Prize

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We warmly invite you to submit your manuscript to the 2023 Palette Chapbook Prize! Poetry chapbook manuscripts of all styles are welcome—we have no theme or aesthetic preference. The guest judge this year is Danez Smith, who will select the winning manuscript from ten finalists chosen by Palette editors. The winner will receive $2,000 and Summer 2024 publication, …

$15 – $25

Days of Poetry and Wine Festival

Days of Poetry and Wine, one of the largest and most recognizable international poetry festival in Europe, has successfully united poetry with enology for the past twenty-seven years. Every year in the last warm August days, the festival hosts poets from all over the world along with selected domestic winemakers. …

Spark Translation Prize

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About the Spark Translation Prize The Spark Translation Prize is Alternating Current Press’ annual book award to recognize an unpublished manuscript of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, play script, or hybrid work in translation, with an emphasis on important social justice topics and themes that impact the world around us. We especially …

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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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2023 Oxford Poetry Prize Deadline

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Oxford Poetry hosts the annual Oxford Poetry Prize, awarded for a single poem in the English language. The guest judge for 2023 is Will Harris. The winner of the Oxford Poetry Prize receives £1,000, the runner-up £200, and third place £100. The winning poets are also offered publication in Oxford Poetry. This …

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2023 Gloucestershire Poetry Society Open Poetry Competition

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Black Eyes Publishing UK, in conjunction with the Gloucestershire Poetry Society, presents the GPS Open Poetry Competition, open for entries until 31st August 2023 (midnight UK time).   Competition Prizes Winner: £150 & Featured in the Steel Jackdaw magazine Runner Up:  £75 & Featured in the Steel Jackdaw Magazine Third …

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Aesthetica Creative Writing Award (Poetry) Deadline

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About the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award The Aesthetica Creative Writing Award is a celebration of innovative new writing from across the world. Each year, the competition invites submissions of poetry that redefine the parameters of form, concept and technique. Jury Our jury comprises some of the UK's most renowned editors and …

£12

Manchester Poetry Prize

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Manchester Poetry Prize: £10,000* For: a portfolio of 3 to 5 poems with a combined maximum length of 120 lines Entry fee: £18 (reduced price entry available) Deadline for Entries: 5pm (UK time) on 1st September 2023 Chair of Judges: Malika Booker *Terms and Conditions apply The Manchester Poetry Prize asks for a portfolio …

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Academy of American Poets First Book Award Deadline

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The 2024 Academy of American Poets First Book Award is a $5,000 first-book publication prize. The winning manuscript, chosen by Victoria Chang, will be published by Graywolf Press, a leading independent publisher committed to the discovery and energetic publication of contemporary American and international literature. The winner also receives an all-expenses-paid six-week residency at …

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Lunch Ticket: The Gabo Prize in Translation & Multilingual Texts

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Please read these guidelines thoroughly before submitting. Submissions that do not adhere to our guidelines will not be considered.   Literary Translation for Lunch Ticket Issue 24   Translation Submission Guidelines: Please submit to only one genre once per submission reading period. If your Translation has been published in Lunch Ticket, please wait six months …

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Interim: A Journal of Poetry and Poetics

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Submit your translations (poetry and essays)! If submitting poetry, include three to six poems in a single document. If any work in a given submission is accepted elsewhere, please either add a note to your submission or withdraw that submission in Submittable. There is no need to notify us of …

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Tab Journal – Special Call Deadline

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Special Call: Poems in Pairs, Translations, Collaborative or Conversation Poems, Poems in Couplets, Poems about Halves or Binaries, etc. Tab Journal is seeking poetry related to the general idea of “two” for its next print issue, to be published in January 2024. There is no fee to submit. While Tab Journal currently doesn’t have …

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Juniper: Deadline for Submissions

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Juniper is open for submissions from Sept. 1 to Sept. 14, 2023. Guidelines 1. Please send a maximum of three unpublished poems. 2. Attach your cover letter and poems as a Word document. 3. Paste your cover letter and poems into the body of your email. 4. In your cover letter, …

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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 …

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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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The Moth Nature Writing Prize 2023


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Kathleen Jamie, multi-award-winning author of numerous poetry collections, as well as three works of non-fiction, an acclaimed travel narrative and the groundbreaking nature books, Findings and Sightlines, will judge The Moth Nature Writing Prize 2023.  The Prize will be awarded to unpublished pieces of prose or poetry which best combine exceptional literary …

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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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CV2: The Addiction Issue

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Announcing a call for submissions of poetry to CV2’s Winter 2024 issue, Versus Narrative: The Addiction Issue, co-edited by poets Conyer Clayton and Hannah Green. As the editors for this very special issue, we feel it’s important, as we request poems that explore this theme, to share a bit 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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Translation Talks: Manolis Aligizakis & Sharon Dolin

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Join us on Saturday, November 18th at 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm GMT on Zoom for our fifth Translation Talks, featuring Manolis Aligizakis in conversation with Sharon Dolin. Manolis Aligizakis is a Cretan poet and author. He has published more than 20 books of poetry, three novels, and eleven major translation works. His translation Tasos Livaditis – Poems, Volume II was longlisted for the …

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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 …

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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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