Griffin Poetry Prize

Manchester Poetry Prize
2023-09-01 17:00 (Europe/London) | Online
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 of three to five poems with an overall combined length of up to 120 lines. Titles, blank lines and page numbers are not included in the line count. Quotations, dedications and epigraphs should be included. Poems submitted should be new work, not previously published elsewhere. The Prize is open internationally to those aged 16 or over.
100 reduced price (£10) entries are available to entrants who might not otherwise be able to take part in the Competition. If you would like to apply for one of these, please contact the Manchester Writing School on writingschool@mmu.ac.uk by 30th June 2023 to register your interest. Please see the terms and conditions of entry for further details/eligibility criteria.

Chair of Judges
Malika Booker is an award-winning poet, theatre-maker and multi-disciplinary artist, and an experienced writing competition judge. She is the founder of the Malika’s Poetry Kitchen writers’ community initiative. In 2019 she was commissioned to write and perform a poem about Mars for a BBC Science series about the solar system and was awarded a prestigious Society of Authors Cholmondley Award for her contribution to poetry. She joined Manchester Metropolitan University as Lecturer in Creative Writing in January 2019.

Judges

Momtaza Mehri is a poet and independent researcher working across criticism, translation, anti-disciplinary research practices, education, and radio. She is a former Young People’s Poet Laureate for London and Frontier-Antioch Fellow at Antioch University (Los Angeles). A former Columnist-in-Residence at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s Open Space, she has also completed residencies at St. Paul’s Cathedral and the British Library. She won Manchester Metropolitan University’s Manchester Poetry Prize in 2019.

Clare Shaw (they/them) has four poetry collections with Bloodaxe. Their latest collection Towards a General Theory of Love (2022) is a poetic interrogation of love, absence and bereavement: it attracted a Northern Writer’s Award, and was a Poetry Society Book of the Year. Clare lectures at the University of Huddersfield, and is a regular tutor for Wordsworth Grasmere, the Royal Literary Fund and the Arvon Foundation. With a background in mental health and education, Clare is a keen advocate for writing as a tool of social and personal change.

Aesthetica Creative Writing Award (Poetry) Deadline
2023-08-31 23:59 (Europe/London) | Online
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 publishers, and has included representatives from the Guardian, the Independent, Wasafiri, Hodder & Stoughton, Litro, The Rialto, The Poetry Exchange and Jacaranda Books. Our authors and poets who have won, or been longlisted for, the Desmond Elliott Prize, the Not the Booker Prize and the Northern Writers’ Awards, amongst others. Representatives have also appeared on BBC Radio 3’s The Verb, and been featured in the Observer, VICE and HQ.

Alumni
Our alumni include winners and shortlistees for the Costa Book Award, National Poetry Competition, TS Eliot Prize and Forward Prize. We receive submissions from both established and emerging writers, including editors and board members of Magma, Poetry London, Verve Poetry Press and more.

Winners
Each year, we select two winners – one for poetry and one for fiction – who are each awarded £2,500 prize money as well as publication with the Aesthetica Creative Writing Anthology.
Further prizes from our esteemed partner organisations, including consultations, subscriptions and courses with The Poetry School, The Poetry Society, Redhammer Management, Mslexia, Granta, and more.
We offer continued support throughout the year, including further exposure through our channels, as well as opportunities for talent development, such as tailored offers to courses, residencies, subscriptions and more.

Prizes Include
£2,500 Prize Money
Publication in the Aesthetica Creative Writing Anthology
A five-day course from Arvon
One-year print subscription to Granta
Full membership to The Poetry Society
A course from the Poetry School
One-year print subscription to Poetry London
One-year digital subscription to Mslexia

How To Enter
Register using the Add to Cart Button above.
Your Entry Form will be emailed to you upon registration.
The deadline for submitting your work is 31 August 2023.
Discover more at: https://aestheticamagazine.com/creative-writing-award

2023 Gloucestershire Poetry Society Open Poetry Competition
2023-08-31 23:59 (Europe/London) | Online
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 Prize: £25 & Featured in the Steel Jackdaw Magazine
Friendship Prize: £25 & Featured in the Steel Jackdaw Magazine
We are pleased to announce that Jessica Mookherjee is the main judge for the Competition.

Jessica Mookherjee is a poet of Bengali heritage. She was brought up in Mumbles, Wales. She lived most of her adult life in London. She lives in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. She has worked in Public Health for over 20 years and has a background in psychology and biological anthropology, and socio-ecology. Her book Tigress (Nine Arches Press) was shortlisted as best second collection in the Ledbury Munthe Prize in 2021. Her book Notes from a Shipwreck is published by Nine Arches Press in 2022. In January 2023, Broken Sleep Books published her long poetic London poem: Desire Lines. Jessica is a board member of the Poetry Society and a Co-Editor of Against the Grain Poetry Press.
A long-list will be compiled by Josephine Lay (Editor for Black Eyes Publishing UK) and Jason Conway (Director of the Gloucestershire Poetry Society).
Josephine will also choose the winner of the Friendship Prize.
All longlisted poems will be eligible for the 2023 Competition Anthology. Poets will be contacted to confirm their wish to be included, if longlisted.

Submission Criteria
The Open Poetry Competition is run by Black Eyes Publishing UK on behalf of the GPS
Entries can be on any subject
Entries must be submitted online.
Entries will be shortlisted and judged anonymously
You can enter any number of poems.
Entries can be withdrawn by notification in writing.
Entry fees will not be refunded.
Entries may be submitted from anywhere in the world, provided they are in English and the correct fee is paid.

Format
Submission dates are from 1st June 2023 to 31st August 2023 (midnight UK time).
All poems must have a title and must not exceed 40 lines in length (excluding title).
Lines between text or stanzas are not counted.
Entries can be on any subject.
Poems must be the entrant’s original work and not have been published, in any form, elsewhere.
Do not send illustrated poems.
The font should be 11pt, black.
Each poem should be on a separate Microsoft Word Document (.doc or .docx). Do not send PDFs.
The file name should be the title of the poem only, exactly the same as in the document.
Do not include your name in the document or on the file title, or it will be disqualified.
No corrections can be made after receipt, nor fees be refunded.
Ideally, we would ask that you avoid dual submissions. However, we do recognise having poems tied up awaiting a decision can be difficult for poets. So, should a poem you have submitted to us be subsequently placed or published elsewhere, we should be notified immediately and the poem withdrawn. No fees will be refunded.
Please email Poems (as an attachment) to the email address provided below after payment with the subject line, 2023 Open Poetry Competition. Include your name in the email.

Judging
The judges’ decision is final, and no individual correspondence can be entered into. Judges are unable to comment on individual entries. Judging is fair and unbiased. Black Eyes Publishing UK reserves the right to change the panel of judges without notice if necessary.
Poems will be shortlisted & judged anonymously. All correspondence regarding entries must be sent via email.
Due to the high volume of submissions, we are unable to provide feedback on work that is unsuccessful. However, all entrants will receive an email notification of results, via the email used for the submission.
Entry implies acceptance of all the rules. Failure to comply with the entry requirements will result in disqualification.

The cost of submission is £4 per poem or £12 for up to 4 poems.
Submission Steps
1. Pay for your entry
2. EMAIL YOUR WORK to gpsopen2020@yahoo.com
GPS Friendship members can enter up to 3 poems without charge as part of their membership. Please state in your email that you are a friendship member.

Copyright
The worldwide copyright of each entry remains with the author. But Black Eyes Publishing UK and the GPS have unrestricted rights to publish the winning and runner-up poems in Steel Jackdaw magazine, Website and Social Media pages and any relevant promotional material.

Results
Winners and runners-up will be notified in October 2023, and cash prizes will be awarded accordingly.

2023 Oxford Poetry Prize Deadline
2023-08-31 23:59 (Europe/London) | Online
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 year’s competition closes at midnight UTC on Thursday, 31 August 2023.
About the 2023 guest judge
Will Harris is a London-based writer. His debut poetry book Rendang (2020) was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. He co-edited the Spring 2020 issue of The Poetry Review with Mary Jean Chan. He has collaborated with the artist Aisha Farr, and helps facilitate the Southbank New Poets Collective with Vanessa Kisuule. He co-translated Habib Tengour’s Consolatio with Delaina Haslam in 2022. He is currently a Visiting Poetry Fellow at UEA working towards a community-led archive of four poets’ work. His second book of poems, Brother Poem (2023), is published by Granta in the UK and by Wesleyan University Press in the US.
how to submit
Entries should consist of one poem per uploaded file. The only acceptable file format is pdf.
Entries are accepted through Submittable only.
Entrants have the option of submitting more than one poem as part of their submission (in separate files, as above). Each poem costs £10.
There is no limit on the number of poems an individual can submit.
Each poem must comprise no more than 50 lines. Blank lines, titles, subtitles, dedications, and epigraphs are not counted as lines.
All submissions are read blind. Therefore, please do not include your name or any identifying information in the documents you upload. You should include this information only in the Title or Cover Letter field of the Submittable form.
The Competition is open to writers living anywhere in the world.
The poems submitted must be the entrant’s own original work and not have been previously published elsewhere, in print or online.
A limited number of free entries are available to low-income writers. Email to enquire about free entry.

terms and conditions
The 2022 Oxford Poetry Prize is organised by Partus Press Ltd on behalf of the magazine Oxford Poetry.
The competition is open to anyone age eighteen or over on the date of their submission. Submission of a poem to the Oxford Poetry Prize also constitutes the entrant’s acceptance of these terms and conditions. Entries that do not comply with these terms and conditions will be disqualified from the competition.
Entries are welcome from utc 15 May 2023. The deadline for submitting entries is midnight utc on 31 August 2023. Work received after that date will not be considered.
Poems submitted to the Oxford Poetry Prize must not have been previously published elsewhere, whether in print or online (including but not limited to blogs, websites, and social media).
Winners and shortlisted entrants will be notified by email.
No correspondence will be entered into regarding the judging process.
The winning entry will be published in a print issue of Oxford Poetry and on the Oxford Poetry website. Oxford Poetry will have the exclusive right to publish the winning poem for four months from its first publication in the printed magazine. After four months, the rights will revert to the author, who may publish the poem elsewhere with appropriate credit to Oxford Poetry, but Oxford Poetry will retain the non-exclusive right to publish the poem online or in print.
The second- and third-prize winners will be offered publication in a print issue of Oxford Poetry and on the Oxford Poetry website.
The winning poet will receive a cash prize of £1,000. The runner-up will receive a cash prize of £200. The third-prize winner will receive a cash prize of £100. All cash prizes will be paid out in full no later than 90 days after the public announcement of the judge’s decision. No individual poet may receive more than one cash prize.
Partus Press reserves the right not to award the prizes, or to reduce or split the prize money if, in its opinion, such an action is justified for any reason.
All poems submitted must be written primarily in the English language. Unfortunately we cannot accept translations, unless you have translated your own work and the work in the original language has not previously been published in print or online as per the terms previously outlined.
Entrants will be contacted with a response to their submission by the end of November 2023. All submissions will be responded to, though we cannot provide editorial feedback on unsuccessful entries.
Each poem submitted costs £10. The fee is not refundable.
There is no limit to the number of poems a single entrant can enter to the Oxford Poetry Prize.
No changes or alterations can be made to poems once they have been entered into the competition.
Partus Press Ltd cannot accept responsibility for any damage, loss, injury, or distress suffered by any person who has entered the competition.
Partus Press Ltd reserves the right to cancel the competition, or to amend the terms and conditions of entry, if the press deems it necessary or to account for circumstances beyond its control (in which case a notice will be posted on the Oxford Poetry website). If the competition is cancelled, paid entry fees will be refunded.
The entry must be the entrant’s own original work and must not infringe upon the copyright of any person or entity.
These terms and conditions apply equally to paid-for entries and to free entries entered under the low-income scheme.
In the event of a dispute regarding these terms and conditions, or any matter relating to the Oxford Poetry Prize, the decision of the organiser, Partus Press Ltd, shall be final.
The competition rules will be governed by English law and any dispute will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

Hayden's Ferry Review: Translations
2023-08-31 23:59 (America/Edmonton) | Online
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.
Translators should secure rights to translate the work they are submitting.
Submit up to 6 poems/micro-fictions, or one essay/story.
Prose should be double-spaced. We do not have a strict word count, though we favor pieces under 17 pages, and rarely accept work that is over 20. Please do not submit pieces that are over 25 pages.
Please include your entire submission in one file, and be sure your name and contact information are included on the first page of the file.
All work should be uploaded through our submissions manager. Acceptable file formats include .doc, .docx, and .pdf.
Please send one submission per genre at a time, and wait for a response before you submit additional work.
Simultaneous submissions are welcome. If your work is accepted elsewhere, please notify the editors immediately by adding a message to your submission in Submittable.
Withdraw your submission using Submittable. If you are only withdrawing a section of your work (for example: 2/5 poems), add a message to your submission in Submittable.
We do not accept previously published material.
We do not consider book-length works. Submitters are strongly encouraged to read the journal before submitting. Sample work from current and past issues is available on our website.
Upon acceptance, we will request a translator’s note on your translation process (similar to an artist statement).

Spark Translation Prize
2023-08-31 23:59 (America/Toronto) | Online
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 want to hear from marginalized and underrepresented people and languages, and we are an LGBTQUIA+ safe-space.

Reading Period
Submissions open: MAY 1, 2023
Submissions close: AUG 31, 2023
Winner announced: OCT 2023
Publication: 2024/2025

The Prize
The winner receives $1,000 (upon publication), our gold Spark Translation Prize digital medallion, a certificate, and book publication on Alternating Current Press, which includes distribution through Ingram and all major online retailers. Publication is in hardcover, paperback, and ePub formats, with possible audiobook publication, as well, and includes 5 complimentary hardcover copies, 20 complimentary paperback copies, a complimentary digital copy in all formats, and 50% net royalties. Publication also includes our standard publicity package, including a press kit, a book club reading guide, a press release, multiple mailing-list email blasts, social media, review and contest copies, and more. Runners-up may also be offered book publication and receive our silver and bronze digital medallions.

Submission Guidelines
Translations can be from any language but must be translated into English. Dual-language and side-by-side language translations are considered, as long as one of the languages is English.
Manuscripts must be geared toward an adult readership. We are not interested in translations for children.
The translation must be carefully and professionally done by someone with a grasp of both presented languages. Please provide any credentials or background that you may have in translating between the languages in question. All work must be the authors’ own. Single work by multiple authors considered. If the translated author is still living or if the original work is not in the public domain both in the United States (first publication in or before 1927, or if copyright has expired) and in the country of origin, then permission to publish the translation must be given by the original author, family of the author, press, or copyright holder. We do not consider AI-generated works.
Translations may be of any length in any genre, including poetry, fiction, nonfiction, plays, or hybrid styles.
Manuscripts are read incognito. DO NOT PUT YOUR NAME OR ANY IDENTIFYING MARKS INSIDE THE FILE, including headers, footers, cover pages, acknowledgments, and file names. If you do leave your identifying marks inside the file, the submission will be read as-is, but the reader may disqualify the submission if he knows you on any personal level.
If you need to adjust a submission, please use the Request to Edit option through Submittable. Please don’t request to edit for minor flaws, however—all accepted work will go through an editing process and will have the chance to be updated before publication, and your work will not be disqualified for a missing comma.
All authors (including translated authors, unless their work is in the public domain) must be at least 18 to submit.
Simultaneous submissions allowed. Please withdraw your manuscript through Submittable if it is accepted elsewhere.
ACP and The Coil staff may submit work for publication consideration, but they are ineligible to win prizes while on our staff (including volunteers).
Collections that contain previously published pieces are considered. Don’t include acknowledgments in the file.
Submit via Submittable only. We do not accept email submissions.
Straight or scholarly nonfiction should have citations.
There is an $18 fee for each manuscript submitted. You may submit as many manuscripts as you’d like, but each one must be submitted separately with a separate fee. The fee helps us with needed administration and book production costs, but it’s not meant to be too inhibitive. If you are unable to pay, please email us for an alternative submission method.
Each paid submission comes with a digital copy of our latest published anthology, And If That Mockingbird Don’t Sing: Parenting Stories Gone Speculative ($9.99 value). There is an additional option to purchase the winning Spark Translation Prize print book as an add-on for a deep discount ($7.99 off the final cover price, shipped free worldwide).
We will send a response and notification of the winner to every submission by the end of October. Form response only, unless we are interested in publishing your book. We are regretfully unable to provide feedback.
If you’re ready to submit, head on over to Submittable.

Selection & Judging Process
We subscribe to the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) Contest Code of Ethics: “CLMP’s community of independent literary publishers believes that ethical contests serve our shared goal: to connect writers and readers by publishing exceptional writing. We believe that intent to act ethically, clarity of guidelines, and transparency of process form the foundation of an ethical contest. To that end, we agree to 1.) conduct our contests as ethically as possible and to address any unethical behavior on the part of our readers, judges, or editors; 2.) to provide clear and specific contest guidelines—defining conflict of interest for all parties involved; and 3.) to make the mechanics of our selection process available to the public. This Code recognizes that different contest models produce different results, but that each model can be run ethically. We have adopted this Code to reinforce our integrity and dedication as a publishing community and to ensure that our contests contribute to a vibrant literary heritage.”
We take submissions through Submittable and use its tools and our own to accept incognito submissions. The editor-in-chief has access to the information, but she does not read or accept submissions. While the editor-in-chief determines what is published on our press, she does not make judging decisions for awards.
We ask submitters not to include their names, contact information, or any identifying marks within the documents, titles, and file names of submissions.
Staff members of Alternating Current may have pieces published on The Coil or submit pieces for incognito submission consideration, but staff members are not eligible to win award prizes while serving on our staff. This includes volunteers while they are volunteering for our staff.
For all awards, the editor-in-chief compiles a spreadsheet of all the eligible pieces, makes sure everything is stripped of any contact information, and sends that spreadsheet to the translation editor. The translation editor ranks the selections to choose the top finalists. The incognito judging decisions are final.
While the manuscripts are read incognito, the editors are asked to recuse themselves from judging if there are any submissions that they may recognize as posing a personal conflict of interest. Once selected, we will reveal the winner’s name privately to the readers before announcement to clarify that there is no conflict of interest. Should there be a conflict, the next finalist in line without conflict shall become the winner, or judges shall recuse themselves from the ranking tallies. Conflicts of interest are defined as: close friends, relatives, students, and former students of the judges. We do not consider workshops to be disqualifying factors, unless the judge personally feels there is a conflict there. We leave the discretion of conflict identification up to the judges. Submissions that pose a conflict of interest may still be eligible for publication, even if they are ineligible for prizes.
The winner is notified prior to announcement. The results are publicly posted online at The Coil and on the press website.

Days of Poetry and Wine Festival
2023-08-21 08:00 - 2023-08-26 17:00 (America/Toronto)
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.
In addition to Ptuj, which represents the heart of the festival, many other places, such as Ljubljana, Krško, Ormož, Ljutomer, Petanjci and, Dorava, as well as Potrna in Austria and Varaždin in Croatia, will host 18 poets from 10 countries.
This year, among the participants are our 2012 Griffin Poetry Prize International winner David Harsent and 2019 finalist Luljeta Lleshanaku!
Check out the programme here.
Once again the Days of Poetry and Wine Festival remains an innovative platform that enables a valuable fusion of artistic practices, while putting both poetry and wine culture at the top. The central event space of Ptuj turns into a melting pot of diverse cultures, poetics and ideas, which enriches the entire Slovenian space.
—Kristina Kočan, program manager of the festival, briefly and succinctly summarized the significance of the festival

The 2023 Palette Chapbook Prize
2023-08-20 23:59 (America/Toronto) | Online
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, which includes a free, downloadable digital chapbook on our website, fifty physical author copies to share and sell, and the option to enable drop-shipping sales at Amazon, Bookshop.org, and Barnes & Noble, earning 50% royalties on your chapbook. Additionally, thousands of readers, editors, and journals will receive chapbook access through our newsletter. The winner will have creative agency over cover art/design, and also be offered the opportunity to work with Palette editors to revise the manuscript.Submissions are open from June 23 to August 20, 2023. The Chapbook Prize is open to all poets writing in English. We have an extended editorial process for any book that we believe in, so please feel welcome to submit promising work that may not be fully polished yet. We’re excited to help the winning book become the best book it can be.Please do not submit if you have a close or personal relationship with the judge, as this connection would call into question the integrity of the contest.

about our judge
Danez Smith is the author of three collections including Homie and Don’t Call Us Dead. They have won the Forward Prize for Best Collection, the Minnesota Book Award in Poetry, the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and have been a finalist for the NAACP Image Award in Poetry, the National Book Critic Circle Award, and the National Book Award. Danez’s poetry and prose have been featured in Vanity Fair, The New York Times, The New Yorker, GQ, Best American Poetry, and on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Danez is a member of the Dark Noise Collective. Former co-host of the Webby-nominated podcast VS (Versus), they are the recipient of fellowships from the Poetry Foundation, Princeton, United States Artists, the McKnight Foundation, the Montalvo Arts Center, Cave Canem, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Danez has been featured as part of Forbes’ annual 30 Under 30 list and is the winner of a Pushcart Prize. They live in Minneapolis near their people.Buy a copy of Homie today!

submission guidelines: please read carefully!
Manuscripts must be submitted via Submittable, our online submissions manager, between June 20, 2023, and August 25, 2023.
BIPOC writers are welcome to submit for a reduced fee of $15 until we reach our cap of one hundred submissions (see here).
Individual poems may be previously published. However, the manuscript as a whole cannot have been published.
Multiple submissions are permitted, but each manuscript must be submitted separately with the $25 reading fee.
Revisions to the manuscript are not permitted after the contest has closed. If selected for publication, you will have the opportunity to revise.
Submissions are open internationally to any poet writing in English. Inclusion of other languages is welcome, as long as the chapbook is substantively written in English.
Simultaneous submissions are welcome, but please notify us immediately if the chapbook is accepted elsewhere.
Please include a brief cover letter and any applicable content warnings.
Do not submit if you have a close or personal relationship with the guest judge.
Review our FAQ page for frequently asked questions.
The winner and finalists will be announced in late Fall 2023.
If you haven’t already, please verify your email address with Submittable for more consistent communication.
Contest closes on August 20th, 2023.

formatting your manuscript
Manuscripts must be between twenty to thirty pages, not including front or back matter (e.g., a title page, epigraph, table of contents).
Each poem should begin on a new page.
The manuscript should be in a standard 12-point font such as Times New Roman, Arial, or Garamond.
Manuscripts must be submitted as a PDF or Word doc. We highly recommend a PDF, as it will maintain your line breaks, special formatting, etc.
Do not include your name on any of the pages of the manuscript file. The first page of the manuscript should include the title of the collection only. Contact information goes in your cover letter.
Please put any acknowledgments in the cover letter field of Submittable and not in the manuscript itself.

included unique opportunities and discounts
As a thank you for your support for Palette, we’d like to offer these unique opportunities:The Poetry School is offering every submitter a 20% off discount code (average $28 value) for one of their online courses. Head to their platform, find a course you’re interested in, and use the code included in the confirmation message at checkout.The Writing Salon is also offering every submitter a 10% off discount code on a writing class. Find a class and use the code included in the confirmation message at checkout.

editorial feedback option
This option costs $59 and will provide you with two pages of detailed and actionable feedback on a poem of your choice from the submission, including suggestions for future submissions. The three-letter option costs $149 and will provide you with six pages of detailed and actionable feedback on a poem of your choice from the submission, including suggestions for future submissions, from three separate guest editors. Our guest editors are paid a significant portion of the fee and are all incredibly astute poets.

Pilgrimage: Translation Folio
2023-08-15 23:59 (America/Denver) | Online
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 theme of the issue for which they are being submitted. If your translations are accepted for publication, we may ask you for an introductory essay of up to 1500 words, to contextualize the original(s) and highlight the importance of translating these texts.
Our next theme will be determined by the work we accept. Our response time is approximately 8-12 weeks after the closing of an issue’s theme.

Carte Blanche: Issue 46 Deadline
2023-08-15 23:59 (America/Toronto) | Online
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 of individuals’ lived experiences and aims to provide a welcoming and safe space for racialized and marginalized voices. We encourage and welcome submissions by individuals who identify as LGBTQ2S+, BIPOC, disabled, and those who live with mental health challenges or neurodivergence.
Please note that while Canadian and international creators are welcome to submit their work to us for consideration, as a result of our affiliation with the Quebec Writers’ Federation and Canada Council grant requirements, we may emphasize a focus on Quebec-based creators in a given issue. Submissions for comics and photography are welcome until August 15th. Please make sure to read a recent issue and our guidelines before sending in your work.

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GENERAL GUIDELINES
Simultaneous submissions: We accept simultaneous submissions. Please indicate in your cover letter if you are sending your piece elsewhere and withdraw your submission via Submittable if it is accepted somewhere else.
Unpublished submissions: We do not accept submissions that have been previously published, including on personal websites and social media.
Rights: We ask for first world serial rights and the right to archive your work on the website. Copyright reverts to the author upon publication. In the case of translated pieces, you must already have received permission from the original French publisher to translate the piece prior to submitting your translation to us.
Payment: carte blanche pays a modest honorarium per submission. We hope to increase the amount in the future.
SECTION-SPECIFIC GUIDELINES
Comics – We’re looking for comics that have a story to tell, that explore the boundaries of narrative within the comics form. We’re open to all styles, subjects, shapes, and sizes, but keep in mind that your comic will be displayed on the web using our image gallery. Please submit your files at web resolution (72dpi) in one file (PDF or ZIP) with an artist’s biography of 75 words or less, and any relevant links. All files should be named with their proper titles as you would like them to be displayed on the site. Note: If your piece is selected, you may be asked to submit print-ready files for a print-on-demand copy of your issue.Fiction – We welcome fiction in any form. Word limit: 3500 words.Photography – Tell a story in 12 photos or fewer. Together, your photos should create a narrative – whether abstract or concrete. Send a ZIP or PDF file with your work pasted in and include a statement, captions, and any other relevant text. If your work is selected for publication, we will contact you for a high-res version of the photo essay. A low-res version is adequate for submitting.Translations – We accept English translations of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction written originally in French. If possible, please include the original work on which the translation is based. If we like your piece and choose to publish it, you will be required to provide proof of permission from the copyright holder of the original work to translate and publish the translation. Obtaining permission can take time, so please do so before you submit!We are currently closed for blog submissions, poetry, and creative nonfiction.

The Polyglot & LTAC: Issue 12 Deadline
2023-08-15 23:59 (America/Edmonton) | Online
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 upon publication
Open to: All Canadian & international translators*
*As this is a joint issue with LTAC, preference will be given to LTAC Members. New members are entitled to a 50% discount (Student member $12.50; Associate member $35; Full member $70, with the discount). Find out more about how to become a member and the benefits of being part of this literary translator community here.
We will also reserve a few special slots for international translations.
Submit: Up to 5 pages of work (including the original text). Please see below for examples of the type of texts you can submit. Check out The Polyglot’s past multimodal translation issue, Unfaithful, to get a feel for what we have published. We also require your bio and the bio of the original author.
Translator Statement (250-300 words). Describe your translation process, your relationship to the languages or author, what was gained/lost in your process or chosen artistic media, your collaboration process (if applicable), and/or what it means to be a part of this issue. Please see past issues for examples of translator statements.

Submission Fee: Your work deserves to be read, so we do not charge a submission or reading fee. We offer the option of receiving feedback on your work from an editor of The Polyglot for $10 CAD. You can access this opportunity using the button below.

Examples of what you can submit:Linguistic translation: Texts translated to/from any language other than English or French (e.g., A Ukrainian poem translated into Cree; An Arabic short story translated into Hindi; A photo essay translated from Spanish to Tagalog)
Visual translation: (e.g., A Michif poem translated into a painting; A series of Igbo proverbs translated into drawings; An art installation translated into Mi’kmaq).
Collaborations: We highly encourage collaborations! If you are a translator who currently only works in/out of English or French, why not collaborate with a translator or writer of another language, or a visual artist?
Aim
The aim of this issue is two-fold: to offer a space for translation that does not always prioritize English or French (the two colonial/colonizing languages of Canada) as source/target languages, and to build relationships and collaborations between translators, artists, poets, and writers. English will be the “carrier” language of this issue (including translator statements in English), but the texts themselves can flow freely between different languages and media.
Note on Copyright
Unless the work you are translating has already entered public domain, we ask that you obtain a statement from the holder of the copyright for the work under translation verifying that the rights are available before you submit to this issue. We will ask you to furnish this statement if your work is selected. (Works enter the public domain generally 50 to 75 years after the author’s death, depending on the country where the work was published. The onus is on you to verify if the work in question has indeed entered the public domain, if it comes to that. We will not answer any queries with regard to the copyright status of a work.
Underrepresented languages
We especially welcome translations of writers/poets/artists who may have yet to appear widely in Canada and elsewhere, and encourage translations to/from underrepresented languages. We will give preference to voices previously unpublished in The Polyglot.
Launch
Translators based in Edmonton, Alberta will be invited to read at an in-person launch event in the city; translators based elsewhere in Canada and outside of the country will be invited to read at an online launch in Fall 2023.
Partners
This issue is in partnership with LTAC, and is also supported by the Edmonton Arts Council.Questions? Please email Leilei Chen 莫译 at lchen@ualberta.ca and CC The Polyglot at (thepolyglotmagazine@gmail.com) if you have questions about this issue.
Who are we?
The Polyglot’s mission is to be the hub for multilingual creativity. We advocate for multilingual voices to be heard through projects that harness the power of art, words, and technology:

The Polyglot magazine
Chapbook series
Online monthly art lab
Educational programming
Artist retreats, and more!

The Other Futures Award 2023
2023-08-15 23:59 (America/Toronto) | Online
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 royalty contract, and 25 author copies. We will announce our decision in late 2023. The winning book will be published in 2025.
PROCESS: All submissions are read by at least two Futurepoem staff readers, who then recommend a limited group of manuscripts to the permanent editors. The winning manuscript is selected by Futurepoem’s permanent editorial staff. Our process is identity-hidden, so please be sure that the author’s name does not appear anywhere in the manuscript.
ELIGIBILITY: We welcome submissions by writers at any stage of their career. Manuscripts must be unpublished book-length works of prose, poetry, or multi-genre work. And though we are open to books with visuals, we have a limited capacity to support image-based projects. We publish poetry, first and foremost, and heavily image-based projects will be better served by a different publisher. Previously published poems or chapbooks may be included, but the manuscript as a whole must be unpublished. Writers who are not U.S. citizens are welcome to send work. Past or present students, colleagues, or close friends of Futurepoem editors are not eligible to submit.
TRANSLATIONS: We do not publish translations of works originally written in languages other than English. However, previously unpublished texts that engage bilingual or multilingual practices are welcome.
SIMULTANEOUS SUBMISSIONS: We accept simultaneous submissions. Please notify Futurepoem as soon as possible if your book is accepted elsewhere.
MULTIPLE SUBMISSIONS: We accept multiple submissions from the same author. Each manuscript should be submitted separately including a separate entry fee.
FORMAT: Suggested length is 50 to 150 pages, though manuscripts may be slightly shorter or longer. The Other Futures Award is an anonymized contest. Please include a title page with title only, and a table of contents. The author’s name should NOT appear anywhere in the manuscript.
REVISIONS: While we are not able to accept revisions during the reading period, the winner will be able to revise their manuscript before publication.
HOW TO SUBMIT: Please submit online using our Submittable page (futurepoem.submittable.com/submit). We cannot accept hardcopy or emailed submissions. We encourage you to familiarize yourself with our catalog before you submit.
ENTRY FEE: $28. We also offer need-based reduced fees of $18 and $9; please select the fee that is most appropriate for you. You can also choose to partially sponsor someone else’s submission for $35. A fee waiver is available for anyone who may need it — if the lowest fee represents a hardship for you, please email ahana@futurepoem.com with subject line: 2023 OFA Fee Waiver.
DEADLINE: August 15, 2023 at 11:59pm EST. The submission period begins on July 15, 2022.

The Arkansas International: Issue 15 Deadline
2023-08-15 23:00 (America/New_York) | Online
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 focused on women in literary publishing since 2009. In its most recent study (2019), VIDA estimated that women writers made up only 35% of the total writers published when compared to men. This includes publications such as Harper’s (36.68% women published or employed), The Atlantic (36.55% women published or employed), and the New York Review of Books (33.37% women published/reviewed). VIDA reported only three major publishers––Tin House, New York Times Book Review, and Poetry––reached the benchmark of women representing 50% or more of their total writers published.
The Arkansas International defines women’s literature authored by women-identified writers, including transgendered and cisgendered women, as well as non-binary writers who also identify with the traditionally female pronouns, she/her/hers. We are especially interested in work that tells untold stories from experiences and identities often marginalized by the larger publishing industry. We’ll consider previously unpublished fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and translation between May 15 and August 15.
If you are submitting multiple pieces, please put them together in one submission. Since the number we can receive every month is capped, subsequent submissions will have to be returned unread.
Submissions of translated works must include a copy of the original text. If there are extenuating circumstances that prevent you from including a copy of the original text at the time of your submission, please note that in the cover letter. Before submitting translations of works that are not in the public domain, translators should identify the rights holder and obtain a statement that the rights to publish an English translation are available.
The Arkansas International cannot consider work from anyone currently or recently affiliated with the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, which includes those who have studied or worked there within the past 4 years.
While we are no longer open to free submissions, we are happy to offer waivers to those identifying as BIPOC or in need of financial assistance. For more information on how to apply, please email editor@arkint.org.
Contributors will be paid $20 a printed page (capped at $250) and receive two complementary copies of the journal.
We accept electronic submissions only, via Submittable.

2023 Fertile Festival of New & Inventive Works
2023-08-11 - 2023-08-20 | Remote Gallery, 568 Richmond Street West, Toronto, Alberta, M5V 1Y9, Canada
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[s]
DIANA KHOI NGUYEN
HOA NGUYEN
DEAN GARLICK
OANA AVASILICHIOAEI
KLARA DU PLESSIS
MARGARET CHRISTAKOS
SUBHANYA SIVAJOTHY
LANNII LAYKE
KIRBY
WILL MANNING
KATE SUTHERLAND
JENNIFER LOVEGROVE
ERÍN MOURE
T. LIEM
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CURRENT FESTIVAL SCHEDULE & UPDATES HERE
FESTIVAL PASS CHOOSE YOUR OWN PRICE POINT!
Passholders get early access to all festival events and receive 10% off designated merch during the festival. These passes go directly to assist festival costs. They’re priced geared to income/accessibility and number of events you plan on attending. [Limited number of passes at $25.] Basically, it’s an honour system. Thank you for your generous support.
Remote Gallery is a fully accessible space.

Columbia Journal: Issue 62 Deadline
2023-08-10 23:59 (America/Toronto) | Online
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 up to six months to respond. To get a sense of the work we have published recently, we recommend reading the Spring 2021 issue of the Journal, which you can order here. Manuscripts should be typed and double-spaced, with numbered pages. Poetry may be single-spaced, but each poem should start on a new page.
Please submit up to 5 pages of poetry or up to 5,000 words of prose at a time.

We accept simultaneous submissions, but we ask that you please inform us as soon as your work is accepted somewhere else. You can withdraw a submission within the Submittable platform. If you only want to withdraw one piece (or poem) from your overall submission, please email info@columbiajournal.org with the details of your request. Print and Online: Submissions in multiple genres are okay.

Eligibility: If you have studied at or taught in the Columbia University School of the Arts Writing Program at any time in the past five years, you are ineligible to submit your original work.

Previously published materials: For the website, we do not publish previously published work. Please note that we require writers to submit letters of consent from the original author or their estate to our email, publisher.columbia@gmail.com, alongside submissions. We will be independently contacting writers if a translated piece is accepted by our staff. You may re-publish your work that appears on the site after 60 days, and we ask that you credit us in future publications. The best way to get a sense for what kind of work we are interested in is to read recent fiction, poetry and nonfiction on columbiajournal.org and to read the most recent print issues of Columbia Journal, copies of which you can order online.

Translations
We accept all forms of work in translation. Submissions should be kept at less than 5,000 words. Your submission should be in a DOC, DOCX, PDF, TXT, or RTF file format. Your name, a short (300 words or less) bio should be included in the cover letter. Please also include your preferred social media handles (Twitter, Instagram, etc.) if you would like to be tagged on our profiles should we publish your work. Bios over 300 words will be truncated at the reviewing editor’s discretion. Submissions will be considered for both the print and online editions.
Our editors do our best to be timely in their responses to submissions, but due to the number of submissions we receive, we cannot guarantee a specific time period in which a decision will have been made. We generally try to respond to submissions in six months or less. If your work is accepted elsewhere, please let us know as soon as possible, and we will withdraw it from our consideration.

Lesley Strutt Poetry Contest
2023-08-10 23:59 (America/Toronto) | Online
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.

Submissions Guidelines
This contest accepts poems in English, French and Innu-Aimun
Open to all poets (professional, emerging, first-time, etc.)
Submit one (1) poem per submission.
Please submit poetry that is unpublished. Simultaneous submissions are fine, but please let us know if your work is accepted elsewhere.
This annual contest has an entry fee of $5 per submission. If you are unable to pay the contest fee, please send email to admin@poets.ca
Multiple submissions are accepted, but the entry fee of $5 applies to each individual submission.
Eligible to Canadian poets, poets living and working in Canada, as well as Indigenous, Inuit and Métis poets who may not identify as Canadian but live in the region known colonially as Canada.

Book Launch: Erín Moure
2023-08-03 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Toronto) | Parc Drolet, 4274 Drolet St, Montreal, Quebec, H2W 2L6, Canada
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 of essays, I’mpossible Collab, upcoming this fall from Gaspereau Press.

Earlier this year, Moure took part in our Translation Talks alongside Valzhyna Mort.

In Conversation: Terrance Hayes and Roger Reeves
2023-08-02 19:00 - 20:00 (America/North_Dakota/Center) | Austin Central Library, 710 West Cesar Chavez Street, Austin, TX, 78701, United States
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 star in Hayes’ Watch Your Language, a fascinating collection of graphic reviews and illustrated micro-essays addressing the last century of American poetry. And in his debut work of nonfiction, Dark Days: Fugitive Essays, the Austin-based Reeves finds new meaning in silence, protest, freedom, and ecstasy.
The authors will sign books following the program.

The Half and One Poetry Video Contest
2023-07-31 23:59 (Asia/Kolkata) | Online
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 The Half and One Poetry Video Contest receives a cash prize of $1000.
–Poems have to be creative enough for us to create a video out of.
–12 poems will be shortlisted for the final round.
–All 12 poems will be made into a poetry video.
–Award: $1000 USD / ₹80,000 & video made
Final deadline is July 31, 2023.
Please Note:
–We accept simultaneous submissions but please inform us at info@halfandone.com if your work has been accepted elsewhere.
–Please do not include your name or any identifying information on your submission.
By submitting to Half and One, you verify that you are the Author of the submitted work, and that the Author grants Rights to Half and One for publication. Rights revert to the Author upon publication.
–Please credit Half and One as place of first publication, Half and One reserves the right to make minor copy-editing changes to the manuscript.
–The Author grants the right to Half and One for creating a poetry video for their submitted piece.
–We reserve the right to extend the contest deadline as necessary.

The 2023 Adrift Chapbook Contest
2023-07-31 23:59 (America/Toronto) | Online
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.
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Guidelines​​
–Poetry only. Prose poetry, experimental poetry, and poetry with a visual component (color images accepted) are all welcome.
–15-40 pages of poetry (this does not include title, section break, or acknowledgement pages). We won’t turn you away if you are a few pages over or under, but please stay close to that limit.
–A standard, 12-point font is preferred.
–Poems may have been published individually, but not as a collection.
–Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but please let us know immediately if the collection has been accepted elsewhere.
–Submit works written in English only, no translations.
–Please submit your manuscript in a .doc, .docx, or PDF format.
–We read submissions blindly, so please do not include your name, email, or any identifying characteristics on the manuscript itself.
–Base submission cost is $13 USD.

Awards
–The winner will receive $750 dollars and 20 copies of their chapbook.
–A print run of the winning chapbook will be sold on our website, through affiliate bookstores, and will be nationally and internationally distributed by Ingram.
–The winner will also have the opportunity to be interviewed about their work; the interview will be published in the chapbook following the poems.
–The managing poetry editor may offer a runner-up full publication. If a runner-up is chosen, they will be awarded $350, 20 contributor copies, and the same level of marketing and distribution. ​

​Guest Judge
Carolyn Hembree’s third collection, For Today, will be published by LSU Press in 2024 as part of their Barataria Series. She is also the author of Rigging a Chevy into a Time Machine and Other Ways to Escape a Plague (Trio House Press, 2016), winner of the 2015 Trio Award and the 2015 Rochelle Ratner Memorial Award, and Skinny (Kore Press, 2012). She received a 2016-2017 ATLAS grant from the Louisiana Board of Regents and has also received grants and fellowships from PEN, the Louisiana Division of the Arts, and the Southern Arts Federation. A professor in the MFA program at the University of New Orleans, she was awarded the 2017 International Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching Award. Carolyn serves as poetry editor of Bayou Magazine.

The Ruth and David Lampe Poetry Competition and Award
2023-07-31 23:59 (America/Toronto) | Online
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 a long/single poem).
• Formatting: single line spacing, on 8.5×11 pages, in a serif (eg Times, Garamond, etc.) 11 or 12 point font.
• There is no restriction on the number of submissions, subject matter, or style.
• If submitting more than one suite, please complete a separate submission form for each entry.
• Each suite submitted requires a $35.00 submission fee.
• Each suite submitted will receive a one-year/4-issue subscription to our Exile Quarterly ($39.00 value).
• Do NOT have your name appear anywhere on the pages of the poetry. Make sure to paginate (1/30, 2/30, 3/30…) and put the suite title on each page.
• Important: All (or any single) poems must not have been previously published. All work submitted for this competition must not be scheduled for publication in a book or anthology during the adjudication of our competition and/or and must not have been submitted elsewhere during the adjudication of our competition (approximately November 15, 2022 and/or until the shortlist is announced).
• Completing the Submission Form: Please include the following information:
a) Full Address (for your subscription).
b) Email and Telephone Number (in case we need to contact you).
c) Brief biography (five to seven lines) that includes previous periodical/online publications and/or book-length releases – publishing related information only, please.
d) Indicate if you are an Emerging Writer – or a Writer at Any Career Point (i.e. three or more published poetry books under your name). If there is a determination to be made, the judges will assess/confirm your category, based on your biography, books publication, awards, national media recognition, etc.
e) If you prefer we do not add your email to our mailing list, please indicate this on the submission form. (Each year we send some 15 notifications on our literary events, updates on Exile Editions books and Exile Quarterly new releases, follow up on our competitions, etc.). Or, you can indicate you prefer only to receive email updates for this particular contest.
• For full contest details: www.ExileQuarterly.com/poetry-and-fiction-competitionsIf you have any submission questions, email: admin@exilequarterly.com
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We still do old school…
POSTAL MAIL – SUBMIT TO:
EXILE Quarterly (please indicated: Attn: fiction / poetry / non-fiction / drama / visual arts editor)
170 Wellington Street West
PO Box 308 Mount Forest ON N0G 2L0
Important: include a cover letter with your contact details, and any other relevant information.
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$35 Fee for submitting: this goes to the editors who read and consider the submissions.
Payment methods:
1) Pay with your Submittable submission.
2) If submitting by Canada Post, include a cheque payable to THE EXCELSIS GROUP.
3) If submitting by Canada Post, make an e-transfer to competitions@exilequarterly.com (important: indicate what the fee relates to).
Recycle: We do not return submissions. All materials are recycled, or properly disposed of.

Charles Simic Memorial Prize 2023
2023-07-31 23:59 (America/Toronto) | Online
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.
David Rivard, who taught with Charlie in The University of New Hampshire MFA program, will judge. Please contact me if you have any questions, editor@holeintheheadreview.com
All submissions should include:
–A title for your submission
–A brief 3rd person bio
–A cover letter and/or submission description
–We accept simultaneous submissions; please inform us immediately If you need to withdraw part of your submission
–Please submit no more than three poems at once, and upload them as a single file – preferably a Word file using a 12 point font; no more than one poem per page
–Please do not include your name or other identifying information on your submission
–We will accept multiple submissions with a submission fee for each
Please note that we kept the submission fee low to encourage all poets to submit regardless of financial status. If you are unable to submit because of financial hardship, please contact us at editor@holeintheheadreview.com
We appreciate any extra financial support for our work. Hole In The Head is always free of charge and staffed by tireless, poetry-loving volunteers! The Tip Jar is always open!

128 LIT International Chapbook Contest
2023-07-31 23:59 (America/Toronto) | Online
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 pages) is for both poetry and prose. If individual pieces have been published elsewhere, that’s ok but the manuscript may not have been published as a whole before.
Prose will include fiction, essayistic pieces, and hybrid/cross-genre works. It’s fine if there is a combination of artwork/images and text as long as you’re aware that chapbooks will all be printed in black and white.
Translated manuscripts must be accompanied by the piece(s) in the original language(s). If translators are submitting, they also must have sufficient permissions from the author & publisher to translate and to have the entire manuscript published by 128 LIT.
We ask that all text, where possible, is in Times New Roman size 12 font. Prose pieces should also be double-spaced.
There will be a $18 reading fee that helps contribute to covering some administrative costs of running the platform.
Submit here.

Sheila-Na-Gig Editions First Chap Contest
2023-07-30 20:00 (America/Vancouver) | Online
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 manuscript (20-40 pgs — not including front and back matter) via Submittable. Manuscripts will not be considered via email or snail mail.
–Poems may be previously published in print journals or online, if you own the rights for reprints.
Simultaneous submissions accepted. Please notify us immediately if your manuscript is accepted elsewhere. Reading fees are not refundable.

Work will be judged on the merits of the manuscripts alone. Please help us judge the work anonymously by following these next guidelines carefully:
–DO NOT include a bio or formal cover letter.
–DO NOT include an acknowledgments page for previously published work. If your manuscript is selected for publication, you may send along this information later.
–DO NOT include your name ANYWHERE on your manuscript or in the Submittable title of your submission. Submissions that reveal authors’ identities will be disqualified, and fees will not be refunded.
–DO NOT include any poems that we have published in our journal Sheila-Na-Gig online (or in any of our anthologies published by Sheila-Na-Gig Editions). If we have published your work and you win the contest, you will have an opportunity to add these poems later.
THE PRIZE:

The selected manuscript will be published by Sheila-Na-Gig Editions. For a sample volumes, check out https://sheilanagigblog.com/sheila-na-gig-editions-quick-shopping/
–$500 honorarium + 50% royalties
–25 copies of the published manuscript (and 55% discounts on future orders)
–All participants will receive a copy of the winning volume upon publication. International participants will receive pdf copies.

THE READING FEE: $20.00
THE SUBMISSION PERIOD: July 1-30, 2023 by 8:00pm (Pacific)
THE JUDGE: Hayley Mitchell Haugen, Founder & Editor, Sheila-Na-Gig online & Sheila-Na-Gig Editions: https://sheilanagigblog.com/about/
RESPONSE TIME: The winner will be announced on or before December 31, 2023
THE FINE PRINT: Sheila-Na-Gig Editions reserves the right to not select a winning manuscript. In the case of this unlikely event, reading fees will be refunded. We really want to publish manuscripts, however! Familiarize yourself with the works in Sheila-Na-Gig online to get a sense of our aesthetic. We publish well-crafted free verse poetry and especially seek poems with excellent imagery and a strong sense of voice. Chapbooks should also include a consistent theme.
Sheila-Na-Gig Editions seeks to support the work of marginalized voices. BIPOC and members of the LGBTQ+ community are encouraged to submit their work.

SUBMIT through Submittable

Vallum Poetry Award 2023 Deadline
2023-07-15 | Online
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 26 books from French, Galician, Portunhol, Portuguese, Spanish, and Ukrainian (with Roman Ivashkiv) into English and of one from Galician into French. Most recent: Chus Pato’s The Face of the Quartzes (Veliz Books, 2021), plus the chapbooks Retooling for a Figurative Life (Vallum, 2021) and Arborescence (Columba, 2022). Moure’s translation of Chantal Neveu’s This Radiant Life (Book*hug, 2020) won the 2021 GG for translation into English and the Nelson Ball Prize. Her Theophylline: an a-poretic migration via the modernisms of Rukeyser, Bishop, Grimké, will be out in August 2023 from House of Anansi Press, and her translation into French of Chus Pato’s Chair de Léviathan is forthcoming from Éditions Apic in Algiers, in the collection Poèmes du monde directed by Habib Tengour.
POETRY CONTEST RULES:

– Submit 1-3 poems, up to 6 pages of poetry. The entry fee covers 3 poems.
– Poems may be on any theme or subject, but must be original and not previously published. Begin each poem on a new page, use 12-point font, and single spacing. Experimental formatting is welcome, but please respect poem and page limits.

– First prize is $750 and one finalist will be awarded $250. Poems will be published in Vallum magazine and on Vallum’s website. Honourable mentions may be selected and published, but are not eligible for cash prizes.

– You may submit more than once.

– The document with your poems must not include your name. Please include a separate cover letter with your name, a short biographical statement, the titles of your poems, and how you heard about the award.

– Vallum staff will select a longlist of 20-30 poems for consideration by our guest judge.
– Simultaneous submissions are eligible, but please let us know immediately if your poem becomes unavailable. Email: submission@vallummag.com

WINNER: $750 + PUBLICATION
FINALISTS: $250 + PUBLICATION
ENTRY FEE: $25 for Canadian entrants, $30 for U.S. and international entrants. Payments are processed through our Submittable account. Each entry fee includes a free one-year subscription to Vallum!
If you are in a financial position where paying the entry fee poses a difficulty, please email us at submission@vallummag.com for details about how to submit. If you have any questions about the submission process, please email submission@vallummag.com.

The Capilano Review: Deadline to Submit
2023-06-30 | Online
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.
Writers are also welcome to pitch ideas for long-form critical essays (1500-2500 words) on contemporary art or artists, ideas for our online see to see section—reviews of recent or forthcoming literary/art books (500 words)—and ideas for feature interviews with Canadian authors and artists that may be of interest to our readership.
TCR seeks to redress historical inequity in the literary and visual art publishing spheres by prioritizing creative work from individuals from historically marginalized communities, including Black, Indigenous, and people of colour; queer and trans people; working-class and underemployed people; women, femme, and non-binary people; disabled people; and emerging artists. Writers are encouraged to self-identify in the body of their email to be prioritized in our editorial process.

Submission Guidelines:
– Submission period: June 1–30, 2023.
– Please take time to familiarize yourself with the magazine and the kind of work we publish before submitting.
– For writing submissions: Please submit a maximum of 6 pages in a Word doc file. If you have a specific vision in terms of layout, please include a PDF as a layout guide.
– For pitches: Please describe your proposed interview/review/critical text in a single paragraph within the body of your email, with links to any contextual images/information as necessary. Please also include 1-2 writing samples of relevant work.
– All submissions: Include a one-paragraph description of your project and a 50-word biography copied directly into the body of your email. Optional: Writers from historically marginalized groups may choose to self-identify in their email.
Questions? Contact us at contact@thecapilanoreview.com in advance of the submission deadline.
Submission to our open reading period is free, but please consider supporting TCR by reading and sharing the journal with your networks, purchasing a subscription for yourself or a friend, or making a one-time or monthly donation to allow us to continue to publish innovative work such as yours.
Accepted submissions of poetry and prose will be compensated at a rate of $50 CAD per page upon publication. Flat rate fees for commissioned interviews and critical texts range from $200–$500 CAD depending on length and scope and will be discussed upon acceptance of a pitch.

Ready to submit?
Email your submission to submissions@thecapilanoreview.com.
Our editorial team will aim to respond to selected submissions by the end of August.
We look forward to reading your work!

Overheard Across Canada for Geist
2023-06-30
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.

Ilya Kaminsky: Lecture & Fundraiser
2023-06-10 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Toronto) | Zoom
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 from them? In this time of crisis, what can poetry do? How can we learn from other poets to make craft that sustains, that stands up for us, that probes deeper into what is possible.
How do poets learn?
We will look at poets from numerous traditions, languages and cultures, and further ask: what is our place in this international conversation? How can we write the kind of poetry that in a time of crisis allows us to address our world?
This will be a three hour conversation on Zoom about various different poets and poetics. I will bring various examples, mini-lectures, and prompts, and answer your questions.
When: Saturday, June 10, 2023 1pm Eastern Time (10am Pacific time)
Attendance fee: $100
All proceeds from your attendance fee will be donated to the following organizations: 1) War Refugee Center and food bank in Odesa, Ukraine, 2) Evening Odesa newspaper that continues to fight corruption and cover culture even during bombardments and electricity outages and 3) Odesa UNESCO City of Literature Program that benefits Odesa poets.

2023 Griffin Poetry Prize Readings
2023-06-07 19:00 - 21:30 (America/Toronto) | Koerner Hall, Koerner Hall, 273 Bloor St. West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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, and the Canadian First Book Prize winner.
Tickets are now on sale and can be purchased at the box office of Koerner Hall, 273 Bloor Street West, or online.
General Admission, with 2023 Anthology – $30.00
Senior/Student, with 2023 Anthology – $25.00
Click here to explore the 2023 Shortlist.

Brick Books Submissions Close
2023-05-31 23:59 (America/Toronto) | Online
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 work from as broad a range of aesthetics and experiences as possible. We encourage submissions from Indigenous poets, racialized poets, poets from LGBTQ+ communities, and poets with disabilities. We recognize that many Indigenous writers do not identify as citizens and that the concept is problematic as well for refugees and others living in diaspora; please note, however, that although we are investigating alternatives, our current funding model limits us to publishing writers who are deemed by the government to be Canadian citizens or landed immigrants.
We receive two to three hundred manuscripts for consideration every year. We publish seven or eight books a year. Our publishing schedule is filled two years in advance to allow time for rigorous editing. Please note that we only accept submissions between February 1 and May 31. Submissions received outside of this period will go unread. No more than one manuscript per author will be considered in a given reading period.
How to Submit
We are no longer accepting submissions by post. Please send your publication queries and manuscript as a Word or PDF attachment to our acquisitions email account: acquisitions@brickbooks.ca. Please do not send publication queries, art/design queries, or manuscripts to any other Brick Books email address. These emails will not be responded to.
Please send your full manuscript (about 48 to 120 pages of poetry).
In the body of your email, make sure to include your current mailing address.
You may also include a brief note outlining any relevant information about yourself and your writing. If you have an interest in working with a particular editor on our collective (should your manuscript be accepted for publication), please note this.
We strongly prefer that you refrain from submitting your manuscript to other presses while it is under consideration at Brick Books. However, if you do decide to do this, it is very important to us that you say so in your initial email and keep us updated on the status of your manuscript throughout our process.
We will acknowledge receipt of your manuscript within 2-3 weeks. Please allow 3-4 months from the time of submitting your work for further updates on the progress of your manuscript in our selection process.
The Selection Process at Brick Books
The present procedure of selecting the final manuscripts for publication, evolved over a number of years, involves a 3-phase sorting:
—first reading by an acquisitions editor, occasionally in consultation with another acquisitions editor or editors
—compiling a list of about 15 finalists to be read in depth by a committee of 3-5 editors and an in-person meeting by the committee to compare and discuss shortlists and to choose the year’s publications.
The majority of our titles are selected through this yearly contest process, though we do reserve occasional spots for solicited manuscripts.
