call for submissions Archives

The Submissions window for Hidden Timber Books’ anthology on Family Narratives has closed, and boy-oh-boy are you in for some excellent reading when this book hits the shelves. But while one door closes, several remain open. This month’s roundup lists three places where Literary folk, near and far, are waiting to read your work. Get clicking!

A Picture and a Thousand Words: Ten Writers on Ten Photos

This is a call for a local (Milwaukee) event where chosen writers will read their pieces at The Sugar Maple in Bay View, WI.

Writers are often inspired by other arts, including photos. From the photo album on this page, choose the photo (or photos) that inspire you, for any reason at all, and write a thousand words. Your piece can be fiction, non-fiction, poetry, in other words any style, any genre. You are invited to write inside, outside, or all around the box!

You don’t have to be from Milwaukee in order to enter your submission, but you must be available to read in town on November 10th. And we’re a pretty great place to visit. Check out the Picture and a Thousand Words Facebook Page for guidelines and photos. Deadline to submit is October 1, 2016!

* photo above taken from the Picture and a Thousand Words FB page.

“We’d Like to Make a Request….”

Hippocampus Magazine Press is now seeking essays inspired by radio for a forthcoming anthology entitled Air.

We’re looking for behind-the-scene stories about small town radio stations. We’re seeking personal stories about die-hard radio fans. We want to hear from (current/former) jocks, from program directors, from engineers, from the sales team, from ancillary characters like record reps and concert promoters—tales from every corner of the radio station and from everyone radio ever reached.

Hippocampus regularly publishes essays in their online magazine, but this is a new and exciting venture, the first of many publications in print! Deadline to submit is February 15, 2017!

* photo above taken from Hippocampus website with credit to Editor, Donna Talarico.

Tin House

The window for this one is short, but as they are accepting unsolicited submissions and reading work from emerging as well as established writers, it may be worth the effort.

Tin House is currently accepting unsolicited submissions for our next THREE issues: Spring 2017 Rehab, Summer 2017 Open, non-themed, Fall 2017 True Crime. We consider each submission for all upcoming issues regardless of theme. If you wish to be considered for a particular theme, please make a note in your cover letter.

Deadline to submit is September 30, 2016!

* photo above taken from the Tin House FB page.

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Summer has been a whirlwind of activity at home and beyond, but in the mix of vacations, retreats, and cleaning out closets to get ready for fall, here is a cluster of literary links to pull you back into the field of reading, writing, & submitting.

#Read

There’s a new literary journal on scene that incorporates both print and audio, and not just for dual sensory enjoyment. The Deaf Poet’s Society, “an online journal of disability literature & art,” publishes poetry, prose, art and more by writers with disabilities and makes the work accessible for anyone and everyone.

…the word “disabled” can encompass a wide variety of experiences. . . . If we’re not writing our lives, then someone else controls our narrative,” [Deaf Poets Society poetry editor Cyree Jarelle Johnson] said.

The first issue is out with beautiful art and prose. Take a look (&/or listen); spread the word.

*Above artwork, “Untitled (hands with gold pigment),” by Stephen Lapthisophon, featured in Issue 1 of The Deaf Poet’s Society.

#Write

For the last several weeks, I’ve been working on a new studio space: painting, hanging art, setting the scene. At times I’ve felt self-indulgent and worried about the fact that I’d spent more hours cultivating the space than using it. But making space for your writing is an important psychological aspect in the journey to create, as Maria Popova says on Brain Pickings:

The room, time of day, or ritual selected for working may enable or even induce intense concentration or a favorable motivational or emotional state.

Set the mood, but don’t stop there:

…despite all these fruitful strategies for optimizing creative flow, the bigger truth — something I wholeheartedly believe — remains: There is no ideal rotation of the chair or perfect position of the desk clock that guarantees a Pulitzer. What counts, ultimately, is putting your backside in the chair….

#Submit

Speaking of putting your backside in the the chair and Johnson’s quote about “writing our lives,” the call for submissions for Hidden Timber Books’ Family Narratives Anthology is still open until September 1st! We’re looking for:

“creative nonfiction, found poetry and other poetry, and essays inspired by diaries and letters, genealogical records…the telling of historical family narratives for present and future generations, both for our own families and for other readers.”

Dig up those old letters from your best friend, dust off that high school journal, put every card you received from your mother in order and uncover the puzzle of your world as seen through her eyes. You have a story; we want to read it.

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