Browsing Archive: November, 2021
Posted by Sally Clark on Tuesday, November 30, 2021,
Boulevard Magazine Short Fiction Contest for Emerging Writers
$1,500 and publication in Boulevard awarded to the winning story by a writer who has not yet published a book of fiction, poetry, or creative non-fiction with a nationally distributed press.
All entries must be postmarked by December 31, 2021 or submitted online by midnight CT. We accept works up to 8,000 words.
Entry fee is $16 for each individual story, with no limit per author, and...
Posted by Sally Clark on Monday, November 29, 2021,
National Federation of State Poetry Societies Chapbook Contest
Awarding $1000 + Publication + 50 Books
Include title page (title only), table of contents, and 48 to 70 pages of poetry, counting any section, title pages but not counting front matter. Notes on Poems, if any, should be included in the count. May include previously published poems.
DEADLINE: Submissions will be accepted from August 1 through midnight PT, December 31, 2021. The Submit...
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Posted by Sally Clark on Sunday, November 28, 2021,
The Bitter Southerner
The Bitter Southerner covers the U.S. South from a modern perspective. Our goal is to tell surprising untold stories about people and places in the Southern United States. The Bitter Southerner is committed to amplifying a multitude of voices that make up the past, present, and future of the South. Our features typically range from 2,500 to 5,000 words. We also consider personal essays, reviews, profiles, or opinion pieces...
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Posted by Sally Clark on Saturday, November 27, 2021,
WyoPoets Eugene V. Shea Annual Contest
WHAT – Poems must be original and unpublished. One poem per page; may be about any subject. No pornographic or discriminatory language.
DEADLINE – December 31, 2021.
PRIZES – First -- $100.00. Second - $50.00. Third - $30.00. Up to five H...
Posted by Sally Clark on Friday, November 26, 2021,
Focus on the Family Magazine: Historical Thanksgiving Fiction Based on Family Stories
Topic: We are looking for historical fiction about Thanksgiving that is based on true family stories. (Remember that “historical fiction” means stories that are from a time period that is at least 50 years ago. Each story should be a short story, of course (protagonist has a problem, the protagonist solves the problem through his/her actions) a...
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Posted by Sally Clark on Wednesday, November 24, 2021,
Focus on the Family Magazine: Gift-Giving
https://www.focusonthefamily.com/magazine/call-for-submissions
Topic: What presents have you helped your children make for their teachers, Sunday school teachers, and grandparents? These should not be drawn pictures or handprints. Instead, they should be a means for teaching kids to really look at another person, see what that person might want, and then spend precious time to make a present for that person. We are looking for hands-on, practical. ideas...
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Posted by Sally Clark on Tuesday, November 23, 2021,
Saturday Evening Post Limerick Laughs Contest
Wanna join the fun? Submit your limerick!
The Saturday Evening Post will award $25 to the author of the winning limerick about this J.C. Leyendecker cover illustration from the November 12, 1910, issue of The Saturday Evening Post.
To enter, fill out the entry form on their web site. Entries must be submitted by December 26, 2021. Limericks must contain five lines, and you may enter as many ti...
Posted by Sally Clark on Sunday, November 21, 2021,
Cast of Wonders
Deadline December 20, 2021. Cast of Wonders is a young adult short fiction market, open to stories up to 6,000 words in length. We aim for a 12-17 age range: that means sophisticated, non-condescending stories with wide appeal, and without gratuitous or explicit sex, violence or pervasive obscene language. Think Harry Potter or The Hunger Games. Pays eight cents per word for original fiction of any length. For reprints, they offer a $100...
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Posted by Sally Clark on Saturday, November 20, 2021,
Chicken Soup for the Soul: New Teen and Preteen Books
Deadline December 20, 2021. We are collecting stories for TWO books — one for preteens (ages 9-12) and one for teenagers (ages 13-19). Please choose the right one when you submit your story. Both books are slated to come out in late spring 2022. We're looking for your uplifting true stories and poems about how you used the power of gratitude to change your own life while you navigated the preteen and teenage year...
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Posted by Sally Clark on Friday, November 19, 2021,
Focus on the Family Magazine: Gratitude
Topic: What is one thing you have done to help your children learn to show gratitude to others, even when you’re not around? We are not looking for lectures or object lessons. Instead, we want hands-on, practical ideas that you or someone you know have done and that other parents can try to do. This is not the place for you to refine your voice as an author. At this time, this call for subm...
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Posted by Sally Clark on Thursday, November 18, 2021,
2022 Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America Best First Novel Competition
To be considered for the 2022 competition, all submissions must be received by 11:59pm EST on December 17, 2021.
All Manuscripts submitted: a) must be original works of book length (no less than 220 typewritten pages or approximately 60,000 words) written in the English language; b) must be written solely by the entrant, who may not be the author of any previously Published...
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Posted by Sally Clark on Wednesday, November 17, 2021,
Sequestrum Reprints Issue
Every issue of Sequestrum features the best creative writing of today. Once a year, Sequestrum features the best creative writing of yesterday. The way we see it, the start of every publication cycle sends scores of outstanding writing from yesteryear to the literary wayside. (Not everyone so thoughtfully offers up their complete archives at pay-what-you-can rates.) An ever-expanding swamp of forgotten literature is the nature ...
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Posted by Sally Clark on Tuesday, November 16, 2021,
Focus on the Family Magazine: Restaurant Toddlers
Topic: What is one way you helped your toddler behave in a restaurant? We are not looking for lectures or object lessons. Instead, we want hands-on, practical. ideas that you or someone you know have done and that other parents can try to do. This is not the place for you to refine your voice as an author. At this time, this call for submissions is only for North American authors.
Wor...
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Posted by Sally Clark on Monday, November 15, 2021,
Poetry Society of Oklahoma Annual Spring Contests
Deadline: December 15, 2021
Entry fee: $3 per contest entry for nonmembers.
Prizes range from $5 to $40. Seven categories to enter.
Posted by Sally Clark on Sunday, November 14, 2021,
Nowhere Magazine Fall Travel Writing Prize
Award-winning literary travel magazine Nowhere is accepting submissions for our annual Fall Travel Writing Prize. We are looking for novice and veteran writers of any stripe to send us stories that possess a powerful sense of people, place and time.
One hundred percent of the content in Nowhere comes from submissions. Thirty percent of the stories we publish are by first-time writers. We don’t take jus...
Posted by Sally Clark on Saturday, November 13, 2021,
Better Than Starbucks Sonnet Contest
NO ENTRY FEE. Deadline November 30, 2021. Prizes $500, $100, and $50. This contest is for a metrical sonnet. Your sonnet can be shakespearean, petrarchan, spenserian, rhymed, or slant-rhymed. Blank verse is eligible, as long as the sonnet form is clearly identifiable. We’ll consider tetrameter, hexameter, etc. as well as pentameter. Some metrical variation is fine, but don’t forget the volta! (Thanks to ...
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Posted by Sally Clark on Friday, November 12, 2021,
San Antonio Writers' Guild 28th Annual Writing Contest
The San Antonio Writers’ Guild 28th Annual Writing Contest features categories in fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. The contest is open to all writers, both SAWG members and non-members.
The deadline for entry is December 15, 2021.
Cash prizes are given in each category. Authors retain all rights to their works.
Entry fee for poetry: $7 per poem. All other categories, $26 per entry.
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Posted by Sally Clark on Thursday, November 11, 2021,
Massachusetts State Poetry Society Contests
ARTHUR (SKIP) POTTER MEMORIAL CONTEST
Deadline: December 15
Subject: Poet’s Choice
Form: Poet's Choice
Line Limit: 40 Lines
Prizes: $50 $30 $20
Entry fee: $3
Poems entered must be original (written by entrant) and MAY have been previously published.
Posted by Sally Clark on Wednesday, November 10, 2021,
The Writer Magazine Fall Short Story Contest
Submit your best fictional work in less than 2,000 words for your chance to win $1,000.
Deadline: December 15, 2021
Grand prize: $1,000 and publication in our magazine
Other prizes: Second prize: $500 and publication on writermag.com; third prize: $250 and publication on writermag.com
Entry fee: $25
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Posted by Sally Clark on Tuesday, November 9, 2021,
Institute for Writers: Science Fiction First Pages Contest
Bring on the Science Fiction! Are you grabbing your readers? If you can't get your reader past the first pages, they won't ever get to the rest of your story. The first page or two needs to be dynamic, grab our attention, and make us want to know more.
Science fiction first pages need to set up why the story is different than our everyday world. Send us your first pag...
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Posted by Sally Clark on Tuesday, November 9, 2021,
God’s Time
http://christwriters.info/index/god-s-time
You may recall James Stuart Bell’s role as editor for story collection series such as: A Cup of Comfort, Extraordinary Answers to Prayer, and a number of books related to Angels, Miracles, and Heavenly Encounters. Recently I collaborated on a story collection for Guideposts entitled, Miracles Do Happen: 101 Glimpses of the Hidden Hand of God and later, Angels All around Us and God’s Constant Presence. I am now compiling a new volume w...
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Posted by Sally Clark on Sunday, November 7, 2021,
$1000.00 Prize, no entry fee
Pattern poems break the linearity of traditionally structured poems. They explore new visual forms of language to embody their subject in surprising and arresting ways. George Herbert’s “The Altar” and “Easter Wings” are two of the most beloved sacred pattern poems in English. This contest awards the top Christian pattern poem of 2021. Sometimes called “figur...
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Posted by Sally Clark on Saturday, November 6, 2021,
Focus on the Family Magazine: Parent-Kid Time https://www.focusonthefamily.com/magazine/call-for-submissions
Topic: You can tell someone to spend time or play with their kids, but what might that look like? We are looking for hands-on, practical. ideas that you or someone you know have done and that other parents can try to do to spend time with your kids, without spending money. For example, one Sunday afternoon, you and your children may sit outside on a blanket and make paper dolls together...
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Posted by Sally Clark on Friday, November 5, 2021,
Focus on the Family Magazine: Biblical Worldview
Topic: What is one thing you have done to help your children better understand their biblical worldview? We are not looking for individual stories but ongoing elements that you add to your day that have really helped your kids take hold of their faith and seek Jesus. We are not looking for lectures or object lessons. Instead, we want hands-on, practical ideas that you or someone you ...
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Posted by Sally Clark on Thursday, November 4, 2021,
St. Louis Writers Guild Annual Short Story Contest
St. Louis Writers Guild Annual Short Story Contest opens for submissions every October, the deadline is in December, and prizes are awarded in January. Historically, entries have come from all across the nation and Canada. Stories are blind-judged by an expert in the fields of writing and literature.
Writers do not need to be members of the Guild in order to participate in this contest.
Must be origina...
Posted by Sally Clark on Wednesday, November 3, 2021,
Geez: Holy Fool
Geez, a “quarterly, non-profit, ad-free, print magazine about social justice, art, and activism for people at the fringes of faith in both Canada and the US,” is taking pitches/submissions until November 10 for an issue themed “Holy Fool.” Pays: “Depending on the length, we usually offer between $30 and $100.”
From: https://www.erikadreyfus.com/newsletter
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Posted by Sally Clark on Tuesday, November 2, 2021,
Redrock Writers Chaparral Poetry Forum
Deadline: December 1, 2021
CHOLLA Division: any subject, any form, 42 lines or fewer
First Prize $200, Second Prize $100, Third Prize $50
CHAQUETA Division: Southwest theme--nature, people, history--any form, 42 lines or fewer
First Prize $100, Second Prize $50, Third Prize $25
CHAPAREJOS Division: Rhymed and metered poem, any subject, 42 lines or fewer
First Prize $100, Second Prize $50, Third Prize...
Posted by Sally Clark on Monday, November 1, 2021,
The Sun Magazine Readers Write Column: Bikes
Readers Write column asks readers to address subjects on which they're the only authorities. Topics are intentionally broad in order to give room for expression. Writing style isn't as important as thoughtfulness and sincerity.
We publish only nonfiction in Readers Write. Feel free to submit your work under "Name Withheld" if it allows you to be more honest, but be sure to include your mailing add...
Like finding shells on the beach, I love doing market research! And what I find, I love to share! I write in a variety of genres including children's, Christian, poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, so these post follow along those lines. Check out my web site: www.sallyclark.info, for more about me.