"This work is unlike any other, in its range of rich, conjuring imagery and its dexterity, its smart voice. Carroll-Hackett doesn’t spare us—but doesn’t save us—she draws a blueprint of power and class with her unflinching pivot: matter-of-fact and tender." —Jan Beatty

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Friday Call for Submissions Love! Dare. Clockhouse: Risk. Dream. Share.

 

Friday Call for Submissions Love! 

Clockhouse

About

Dare. Risk. Dream. Share. Ruminate.
How do we understand our place in the world, our responsibility to it, and our responsibility to each other? Clockhouse is an eclectic conversation about the work-in-progress of life—a soul arousal, a testing ground, a new community, a call for change. Join in.

Guidelines
Clockhouse accepts works of poetry, fiction, memoir, creative nonfiction, and dramatic works for stage or screen. We encourage submissions from both established and emerging writers.

All submissions must:
  • Be original, unpublished work written by the author
  • Follow the industry-standard formatting guidelines appropriate for the genre as well as the applicable guidelines below:
    • Fiction: Short stories and self-contained novel excerpts in a literary style. Genre fiction will be considered only if it sustains literary merit (Up to 5,000 words)
    • Poetry: All poetry in traditional and experimental styles including prose poetry (Up to 250 lines)
    • Memoir and Creative Nonfiction: All memoir and creative nonfiction in traditional and experimental literary styles. No academic or scientific essays (Up to 5,000 words)
    • Dramatic Work for Stage or Screen: Short dramatic works in traditional and experimental styles, either a standalone piece or an excerpt from a one-act or full length play or screenplay (Up to 15 pages)
  • Include a short bio of approximately 100 words or less
  • Include a brief artist statement: a few sentences about your work as an artist (i.e., not a “pitch” for this submission, but rather a statement about what you’re interested in writing about now, what drives your writing, or how your writing is reflecting or influencing the world at large, etc.)
  • Be submitted only through our online submission manager (see link at bottom of page). No email submissions will be accepted

Submissions that do not follow these guidelines will be discarded unread.

Submission period for the Summer 2016 issue opens on August 15, 2015 and closes at 11:59 p.m. on December 1, 2015.

See more at Clockhouse website: http://clockhouse.net/main/

 

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New Writing Workshop! Writing the Forgotten Feminine

So excited! 🙂 Along with the fabulous MeLaina Elise Ramos​, I’m thrilled to be offering a brand new writing workshop! At the beach!

Writing the Forgotten Feminine:
Giving Voice to the Disregarded, Unsung, or Silenced Woman

A One-Day Writing Workshop in beautiful Grandview Beach, Hampton, VA 23664
September 19, 2015, 9am-5pm

Whether you’re drawn to the women left out of history books or that aunt in the family no one speaks of, or even your own woman-self, subverted, forgotten, or neglected in the demands of work, parenting, or relationships, the feminine voice is one of complexity, knowing, and power that spans all of human history.

And we want to hear it ring!

Join us for a gathering in which the mystery, the humor, the wisdom, and especially the strength of the feminine voice is celebrated and empowered.

Led by two women writers at different stages in their own work and lives, but who share a deep respect and interest in reclaiming the voices of forgotten or silenced women, this workshop will include readings on and by women who’ve been left out, as well as tons of prompts and exercises specifically designed to help you tap into and strengthen the feminine voice in your writing.

and….we cook for you! Lunch is included 🙂

$75 includes one-day workshop, tons of prompts and exercises, a take-away packet of reading and resource materials, and gifts created just for you.

If interested, email at vaprlover@gmail.com & carrollhackettma@gmail.com for details.

Please share!

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Friday Call for Submissions Love! Oyez Review

Friday Call for Submissions Love!

Oyez Review

Submissions Now live!

Submission Guidelines

Oyez Review accepts previously unpublished submissions of fiction, creative nonfiction,poetry, and art. There are no restrictions on style, theme, or subject matter. Oyez Reviewis open for submissions from August 1st to October 1st each year, but please check each genre category, as certain genres may close earlier than others. The journal seeks First North American Serial Rights on all submissions, in addition to the requisite digital rights to distribute each issue of the journal as an e-book. Simultaneous submissions in any category are not accepted.

Format

All Manuscripts:

  • Standard font and font size.

  • 8.5″ x 11″ white paper is preferred.


Fiction and Creative Nonfiction:

  • Typed and double-spaced.

  • No strict length restrictions, but because of space limitations, we are unlikely to publish manuscripts longer than 15-20 pages (4,500-5,500 words).

Poetry:

  • Up to five poems, not to exceed ten pages total.

Art:

We feature one visual artist per issue, whose work appears on the front and back covers of the magazine and in an eight-page spread at the magazine’s center. We feature both color and black-and-white work. Please send us a thoughtful sampling of about thirty high-resolution images. We cannot consider work less than 300 dpi. We prefer to receive your work via Submittable, but if you are submitting by mail, please send your art on a CD or a flash drive, and be sure to include a self-addressed, stamped envelope. Do not send original artworks.


How To Submit

The annual reading period is August 1 through October 1. Submissions received before or after this period will be returned unread. Simultaneous submissions and previously published work will not be considered.

  • Or you can send your work via snail mail:

Oyez Review
Attn: Janet Wondra
Department of Literature & Languages
Roosevelt University
430 S. Michigan Ave
Chicago, IL 60605

If submitting via postal mail, please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope with sufficient postage for reply.


Need to get in touch?
If you have any additional questions, e-mail at: oyezreview@roosevelt.edu

Oyez Review Website: https://oyezreview.wordpress.com/

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Special Thursday Call for Submissions :-) Shapeshifting

Little Patuxent Review

Seeking Works that Witness Shape Shifting

Submissions

Little Patuxent Review will accept submissions of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and artwork for the Winter 2016 Myth issue.

Mythology both shapes and reflects culture—forming a bridge between individual and universal experience. How do you cross the bridge from past to present—or from individual to universal? How do you travel the mythic quality of life? LPR seeks works that witness shape shifting in micro and macro ways. Orhan Pamuk, winner of the 2006 Nobel prize in literature suggests: “The writer who shuts himself up in a room and goes on a journey inside will, over the years, discover literature’s eternal rule; he/she must have the artistry to tell their own stories as if they were other people’s stories, and to tell other people’s stories as their own…”

Submissions are open from August 1, 2015 to October 24, 2015.

Little Patuxent Review is a community-based publication focused on writers and artists from the Mid-Atlantic region, but all excellent work originating in the United States will be considered.

Although our issues are organized around themes, we allow considerable leeway in how contributors interpret them in order to ensure access to the broadest range of high-quality work.

Submissions details here: http://littlepatuxentreview.org/

 

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Special Tuesday Call for Submissions: A-Minor Magazine

Special Tuesday Call for Submissions

from the fabulous editors who brought out my book If We Could Know Our Bones

A-MINOR Magazine: Stories in the Chord of Am

Reading submissions for the September issue of A-Minor Magazine! Send your prose, poetry or artwork. Spread the word!

Editor Nicolette Wong says, “p.s. we have more room in the prose/fiction house at the moment.”

GUIDELINES/SUBMISSIONS

We’re now reading submissions for our next September 2015 issue.

Please submit in ONE category only. Prose and poetry should be pasted in the body of the email. If your poems require special formatting, you may send an attachment.

Simultaneous submissions are fine. Include a 50-word, third person bio. Longer bio will be subject to editing. Send your work to aminormagazine@gmail.com

Short Fiction/Prose: 1000 to 4000 words. One story/prose piece only.

Flash Fiction/Prose: 100 to 1000 words apiece. One to three pieces.

Poetry: Three to Five poems. Prose poetry and hybrid form welcome.

For fiction/prose, we are partial to surrealist, experimental and quirky writing. For poetry, we lean toward the lyrical, eccentric, ambivalent and wildly imaginative.

Art/Text: One to three flash prose pieces or poems, based on or paired with artwork by the writer or a visual artist.

Artwork: Two to five pieces of visual poetry, asemic writing or other post-literate variety. Preferences will be given to images that work as a series. Collaborations are welcome.

Prose and poetry must be entirely unpublished. Artwork may be previously posted on the artist’s web site or blog.

Please check out the list of selected back issues and features to get a sense of our editorial drift.

If your work has been featured in A-Minor, please wait at least six months before submitting again.

If your submission has been declined, please wait at least one month before submitting again.

A-Minor requires First North American Serial Rights and all archival rights. All rights revert back to the author upon publication. If your work appears elsewhere in print or online, please give due credit to A-Minor.

Send all questions to aminormagazine@gmail.com

Check out A-Minor Magazine’s Fifth Anniversary Issue here:

http://aminormagazine.com/2015/05/28/a-minor-magazines-fifth-anniversary-issue-4/

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I Forgot to Remember :-) Writing Prompt

7/27/2015

I forgot to post a prompt yesterday 🙂
So make art about forgetting.

 

forgot-remember

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Friday Call for Submissions: carbonate: Satisfy Your Read

Friday Call for Submissions: carbonate: Satisfy Your Read

carbonate

Deadline for Fall issue: August 31, 2015

About

carbonate is a quarterly literary magazine published online in January, April, July, and October. We accept submissions of poetry, essays, short fiction, novel excerpts, art, and photography year-round.

Originating in the heart of the Colorado Rocky Mountains, carbonate® is produced by The Foundry/Rocky Mountain Centre for Writing, a non-profit organization increasing access and visibility of the literary arts in the mountain regions.

We are seeking deeply human, fully realized work from far and wide, and always hope to include voices new to us and new to publication. We publish online: one story, one portfolio of poems, one essay or piece of narrative nonfiction, and visual art. Subscribers and selected contributors get the full edition electronically in a beautifully formatted, full color e-book.

We’re exceptionally partial to works that are well-written and engaging.

Please send us work that truly resonates and brings the reader to a new place. The online journal also publishes interviews with accepted authors and artists. Please inquire before submitting interviews.

We’ll take a look at everything, but boring work will probably not find a home here. Send us your best. Try something new. We might love it.

Deadline for Fall issue: August 31, 2015

Send your submission as an attachment to: carbonatemagazine@gmail.com

Put your contact information and a short bio in the body of the email.

Submission Guidelines

Short Fiction: 5,000 words or less.

Short fiction submitted to the magazine must be original and previously unpublished. carbonate considers work that has appeared online (including on blogs and Facebook) to be previously published.

All manuscripts must be typed and double-spaced, with the author’s name, address, phone number, and approximate word count at the top of the first page, and numbered throughout and sent as a WORD attachment to the email address listed herein.

Send only your best work. Submit only one story at a time.

We are not accepting paper submissions at this time. All paper submissions will be recycled upon receipt.

All manuscripts must be written in English. Translations are acceptable, but must be accompanied by a copy of the original text.

Poetry: 3-5 poems (no more than 8 pages)

Novel Excerpts: 5,000 words or less.  You must indicate that your submission is part of an unpublished novel.  The ideal excerpt will be self contained in terms of characterization and storyline.  We will not print setups or explanations of what is taking place.  Your writing should embody a smaller version of the overall story arc.

Creative Non-Fiction: We draw heavily from unsolicited submissions. Our editors believe that providing a platform for emerging writers and helping them find readers is an essential role of literary magazines, and it’s been our privilege to work with many fine writers early in their careers. A typical issue of carbonate contains at least one essay by a previously unpublished writer.

We’re open to all types of creative nonfiction, from immersion reportage to personal essay to memoir. Our editors tend to gravitate toward submissions structured around narratives, but we’re always happy to be pleasantly surprised by work that breaks outside this general mold. Above all, we’re most interested in writing that blends style with substance, and reaches beyond the personal to tell us something new about the world. We firmly believe that great writing can make any subject interesting to a general audience.

Art: Please submit only 4-6 pieces per email. However, you may submit more than one email. We prefer to receive submissions digitally as JPEGs or PNGs sent via email to salidafoundry@gmail.com. Please make sure that your name and contact information appears in the body of the email. Each piece should be accompanied by the work’s title (if any), medium, and contact information should one of our readers want to purchase your work.

We are unable to provide critiques or feedback regarding art submissions or the selection process. If your artwork is selected for publication, you will be notified by telephone or email with further information.  If you do not hear from us in 4-8 week’s time, you should assume that your submission was not a fit for our publication at this time, but we will place them in our files for potential use in future publications. We do accept professionally presented pencil or pen/ink images.

Photography: The photography published in ‘carbonate’ is very high level, professional-quality imagery suitable for commercial purposes. If you are a recreational photographer/hobbyist, unfortunately your work will likely not be a fit for our product lines.

Submission Deadlines

The following publishing deadlines are set for the forthcoming publications.  If we receive a submission between deadlines, we will assume it is meant for the next issue.

October 2015   deadline August 31, 2015

January 2016  deadline October 31, 2016

April 2016  deadline February 1, 2016

July 2016 deadline May 1, 2016

October 2016 deadline August 31, 2016

Publication Rights

Simultaneous submissions must be marked as such, and you should notify us immediately in the event your work is accepted elsewhere.

We do not pay contributors for any work published in carbonate. However, accepted contributors will receive a 1-year digital subscription beginning with the edition your work appears in.

Upon acceptance, we acquire first rights for publication in our online magazine and one-time rights for pieces selected for re-publication. Following publication, all rights revert to the author. Should we desire to use your work in any other context (primarily, this might occur in an advertisement-type context), we will contact you via email requesting the appropriate permission.

Visit carbonate: http://carbonatemagazine.org/

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Special Thursday Call for Submissions: That, Brand New Litmag Wants Your Work

Brand New Litmag Seeking Submissions

That Literary Review

About THAT

THAT Literary Review is affiliated with the Creative Writing Program, the Department of English and Philosophy, and the College of Arts and Sciences at Auburn University at Montgomery. Published annually, THAT will be available online with print copies available at additional cost.

Submission Guidelines

All manuscripts should be in 12-point type, preferably Times Roman. All poems should be submitted in a single document. Fiction must be double-spaced, poetry single-spaced. Please send us your work as a .doc, .docx, .pdf, or .rtf file via the Submittable portal below. We do not accept submissions by post.

Our reporting time is three months; if you have not heard from us by then, feel free to query us at editor@thatliteraryreview.com.

The author’s name, address, telephone number, email address, and approximate word count should be typed at the top of the first page; all other pages should include the page number and the author’s last name in the header.

Fiction

We’re looking for excellently written fiction between 100 and 5,000 words in length.
It should be surprising, relentlessly engaging, fun, and humming with vibrancy. Include compelling characters, lively but minimal dialogue, and plots charting the unexpected.

Poetry

The poetry that we prefer is alive and idiosyncratic and that opens new vistas to the reader. We stay away from rhyming poetry, conventional forms, and love poetry unless brilliantly revisited. Three poems may be submitted (as a single document) at a time, with a total maximum of twenty pages.

General Guidelines

– We are interested only in work that has not appeared previously in either electronic or print format.

– Submit only one story or three poems at one time. If you have material under consideration with THAT, please do not submit additional work until you have heard back from us.

– Simultaneous submissions are permissible, but notify us if the work you’ve sent to us has been accepted elsewhere.

– It is recommended that all interested writers take a look at a sample issue of THAT. It really helps.

-THAT acquires first serial rights, including both print and electronic rights. Copyright remains with the author.

Payment

Authors published in THAT will receive a print copy of the issue in which they appear.

Website for That: http://www.thatliteraryreview.com/home.html

 

 

 

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Writing Prompts Updated Daily!

Good Morning!

I’ve been on the road, home only three days in the last three weeks–whew! But now, I’m home and it’s time to get a little writing done!

Join me!

Check out my page of writing prompts, updated daily!

Get that beautiful write on, y’all!

https://marycarrollhackett.com/writing-prompts/

Happy writing!

xo

Mary

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Special Thursday Call for Submissions Love! Longridge Review: The Mysteries of Childhood

Special Thursday Call for Submissions Love!

Nonfiction writers, check out this call from a brand new publication!

Longridge Review

“Our emphasis is on literature that explores the mysteries of childhood experience, the wonder of adult reflection, and how the two connect over a lifespan.”

Reading Opens Sept 1-Sept 30

ABOUT

Longridge Review is an evolution of the Essays on Childhood project.

Our mission is to present the finest essays on the mysteries of childhood experience, the wonder of adult reflection, and how the two connect over a lifespan.

We are committed to publishing narratives steeped in reverence for childhood perceptions, but we seek essays that stretch beyond the clichés of childhood as simple, angelic, or easy. We feature writing that layers the events of the writer’s early years with learning or wisdom accumulated in adult life.

We welcome diverse creative nonfiction pieces that depict revealing moments about the human condition.

We look forward to reading your work!

Founder and Editor: Elizabeth Gaucher, Middlebury, edg@longridgeeditors.com

Contributing Editors: Laurel Gladden, Sante Fe, and Beth Newman, Asheville

Creative Advisor and Muse: Suzanne Farrell Smith, NYC

SUBMIT

Longridge Review has one annual reading period each calendar year: September 1-30. Please read the submission guidelines before submitting. We recommend that you also read work on this site to see what we publish.

Our emphasis is on literature that explores the mysteries of childhood experience, the wonder of adult reflection, and how the two connect over a lifespan.

We are committed to publishing narratives steeped in reverence for childhood experience and perceptions, but we seek essays that stretch beyond the clichés of childhood as simple, angelic, or easy. We want to feature writing that layers the events of the writer’s early years with a sense of wisdom or learning accumulated in adult life.

We welcome diverse creative nonfiction pieces that demonstrate perceptive and revealing moments about the human condition.

We will not consider trite, light narratives; genre nonfiction; critical analyses; inspirational or motivational advice; erotica or pornography; or any writing that purposefully exploits or demeans.

We encourage established, unpublished, or emerging writers to submit their best work to Longridge Review.

We will consider one creative nonfiction piece (up to 6,500 words) during the reading period. Please do not submit more than once during the reading period.

We accept only electronic submissions through e-mail. Submit only one double-spaced creative nonfiction piece pasted into the body of the e-mail to edg@longridgeeditors.com.

The title of your submission should be included with your name (e.g., Jane Doe “My Essay Title”). Include a short biography (five to seven sentences) with your submission.

We will consider simultaneous submissions as long as you let us know if your work is accepted elsewhere. We will not consider previously published materials, including online publications, personal blogs, social media sites, etc.

Longridge Review acquires first electronic and indefinite archive rights. Upon publication, all other rights revert to the author. Please credit Longridge Review as first publisher if you reprint elsewhere. Longridge Review reserves the right to reprint work at a later date if we have the opportunity to occasionally make a print anthology and want to include your work.

Longridge Review is published three times a year: November, March, and July.

The submission period is September 1 through September 30 of each year. We try our best to respond to submissions within four weeks. If you haven’t heard from us within six weeks you may inquire about your submission via edg@longridgeeditors.com, but please not before.

Longridge Review website: http://longridgereview.com/

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