Submission Sunday 4.7.24
New Ohio Review, Story, Pen Parentis, Slag Glass City, The Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park, Image, New Orleans Review, and Bethany Arts Community
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Note: The April newsletter schedule will be a little different than usual. The next eight opportunities will go out on April 28, and on April 14 and April 21, I’ll reshare a couple early posts on submitting for newer subscribers. Please also use those weeks to catch up on any submission calls you may have missed!
This edition of Submission Sunday has calls and contests from New Ohio Review, Story, Pen Parentis, Slag Glass City, The Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park, Image, New Orleans Review, and Bethany Arts Community. More details below.
New Ohio Review Literary Prizes (Deadline April 15)
New Ohio Review is a national literary journal produced by Ohio University’s Creative Writing Program. Now in its seventeenth year, NOR has been the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant and support from the Ohio Arts Council. Work from its pages consistently appears in the Best American series and the annual Pushcart anthology.
Three prizes of $1,500 each and publication in New Ohio Review are given annually for a poem or group of poems (judged in 2024 by Naomi Shihab Nye), a short story (judged by Kate Bernheimer), and an essay (judged by Lily Hoàng).
Story is a tri-annual print publication devoted to the complex and diverse world of short fiction. Since 1931, work that originally appeared in Story has been reprinted dozens of times in editions of The Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize, and The O. Henry Prize Stories.
Story does not have any formal guidelines with regard to style, content, or length. We consider all "short" narrative fiction under 25,000 words in length. If you are submitting Flash Fiction, you are welcome to include up to five pieces as one submission. Please select one of the three categories that best fits the length of your story.
Pen Parentis Writing Fellowship for New Parents (Deadline April 17)
One talented writer who is the parent of at least one child under 10 years old will receive $2000 to further their writing career, a year of mentorship, and will be offered the opportunity to read their winning story online at a Pen Parentis Literary Salon in Fall 2024. Their winning story will also be published in Dreamers Creative Writing Magazine (both online and in print) as well as included in the annual Dreamers Writing Anthology. The second prize and third prize will likewise be welcomed into our Cycle of support and receive $500 and $250, respectively.
Slag Glass City Call for Submissions (“The Archival City” – Deadline April 15)
How and when does the city remember? Where are the cities beneath the cities? Who haunts the city? Why does the city that used to be influence what the city could someday become? THE ARCHIVAL CITY is imprinted with old telephone booths, neon signs, fruit and vegetable stands, commuter crowds, and yellow taxis at every corner, livelihoods of lost professions, recipe lists from backyard parties, queer friendships, messy drag shows, sunbathing naked on the lakefront rocks, bars no wider than hallways, and safe spaces with no numbers on the door.
Slag Glass City, a journal of the urban essay arts, wants to see your stories, speculations, lyrics, and reports of the ephemera of personal and public city histories. Slag Glass City publishes nonfiction prose, graphic memoir, video, photography, mixed media, hybrid, and other forms of the essay arts. (We don’t publish poetry or fiction.)
Make Them Feel It: Writing Irresistible, Publishable Fiction with Caeli Widger (April 17–May 22, 2024, 11 am–1 pm PST)
The mission of the online class is twofold: first, to help students transform their work-in-progress into short stories or novel excerpts that readers cannot put down. We’ll do that through deep, craft-based analyses of students’ submissions that will empower the author to revise with confidence and ultimately submit for publication. Secondly, we’ll talk candidly about the current landscape of publishing fiction, both in general and as it pertains to each student’s work. Deadline to apply is April 12.
I Wrote a Poem For You (April 22–May 13, 2024)
Ready for a NaPoMo jumpstart? Receive weekly feedback from published poet Elline Lipkin during this four-week course, “I Wrote A Poem for You.” Prompts and packets go out on Monday; your poem is sent back by Sunday. Write a poem for an ancestor you’ve never met, a former lover, an object lost, or your past self. Our theme will be addressing what’s missing, and through poetry, we still hope to find. Celebratory final Zoom.
📚 Every other week, I’ll be making space for up to three online writing classes or programs (and the occasional retreat or conference) to advertise their upcoming offerings here. Learn more about getting your own classified ad. 📚
The Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park (EHFOP) Hemingway Shorts Call for Submissions (Deadline April 15)
The Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park (EHFOP) publishes an annual literary journal through a short story contest. This journal is designed to capture new voices engaged in the creative writing process, in fiction. First published in 2016, the series of journals titled Hemingway Shorts recognizes an overall winner who will receive a $1,000 award plus an additional ten finalists of the short story contest, giving established and emerging writers the opportunity to see their work published. All entries are reviewed by a panel consisting of our current and past Writers-in-Residence, who provide the authors of the chosen entries assistance, if necessary, in shaping their work for entry into this annual publication. In order to make space for more historically mis- and underrepresented writers, submissions will not be blind.
Image is a quarterly journal publishing poetry, fiction, longer essays, interviews, work in translation, and artist profiles. All the work we publish reflects what we see as a sustained engagement with Judaism, Christianity, or Islam. That engagement can include unease, grappling, or ambivalence as well as orthodoxy; the approach can be indirect or allusive, but for a piece to be a fit for us, some connection to faith must be there.
Image fosters contemporary art and writing that grapple with the mystery of being human by curating, cultivating, convening, and celebrating work that explores religious faith and spiritual questions. Image is animated by our vision to be a vibrant thread in the fabric of culture, contributing to mainstream literary and artistic communities by demonstrating the vitality of contemporary art and literature invigorated by religious faith.
New Orleans Review Call for Submissions
A journal of contemporary literature and culture, New Orleans Review is a publication of the Department of English at Loyola University New Orleans, and is partially funded by the Kendall Michelle Daigle Memorial Endowment for English. We accept submissions in fiction, nonfiction and poetry year round from writers around the world. Since its founding in 1968, the journal has published an eclectic variety of work by established and emerging writers. Work published in NOR has been reprinted in the Pushcart Prize, Best American Nonrequired Reading, New Stories From the South, Utne Reader, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, O. Henry Prize Stories, and other anthologies.
Bethany Arts Community Fall Residency Program (Ossining, New York – Deadline April 10)
Bethany Arts Community (BAC) offers residencies to emerging and established artists for the development of both new works and works-in-progress. BAC welcomes artists working across any discipline and medium, including visual artists, sculptors, writers, playwrights, choreographers, musicians, composers, performance artists, filmmakers, and more to our Fall Multidisciplinary Residency. Any and all artistic mediums are encouraged to apply. Enjoy an environment where artists from different disciplines and walks of life can work in community and near each other, creating opportunities for generative collaboration and cross-pollination.
The Fall Multidisciplinary Residency runs for two sessions, September 23 to October 7 and October 18 to November 4, each with its own cohort. Artists are provided room & board, a private studio conducive to artists’ medium and/or project, three basic meals a day, and a $225 stipend per week upon completion of the residency. Artist is responsible for transportation to and from BAC and any supplies or materials needed for their practice.
Here’s a reminder of the deadlines coming up from previous posts. Please note that archived posts might also include calls that are open year-round. If you sign up for Substack Notes, I also post deadline reminders there. If you submit to any of the Submission Sunday calls and publish or win, let me know and I’ll broadcast your success in a future post.
Fiction Call for Submissions (Deadline April 15)
Colorado Review Call for Submissions (Deadline April 30)
Amsterdam Quarterly Call for Submissions (Vibration(s) – Deadline April 30)
Necessary Fiction Call for Summer Flash Fiction (Deadline May 1)
december Call for Submissions & 2024 Curt Johnson Prose Awards (Deadline May 1)
The Georgia Review Call for Submissions (Deadline May 15)
Kweli Journal Call for Submissions (Deadline May 30)
Postcard Call for Submissions (Deadline May 31)
The MacGuffin Call for Submissions (Deadline June 30)
Bellevue Literary Review Call for General Submissions, 2025 Goldenberg Prize for Fiction, 2025 Felice Buckvar Prize for Nonfiction, and 2025 John & Eileen Allman Prize for Poetry (Deadline July 1)
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