SmokeLong Quarterly Emerging Writer Fellowship 2025 [The information below has been copied from the SmokeLong submissions portal.] Deadline: December 15, 10:59 PM CST About: Submission Page: https://smokelong.submittable.com/Submit
[Updated 10/4:] Upcoming Calls for Submissions (includes a musical submission opportunity!)
Several literary journals are interested in your work! Below are a few publications with upcoming submission deadlines between mid-October and the end of the year. Entries closest to the top of the list are the most time-sensitive. (The information below has been copied from each journal’s website.) Deadline: October 16, 2AM CST About: Submission Page/Guidelines:…Continue reading [Updated 10/4:] Upcoming Calls for Submissions (includes a musical submission opportunity!)
Workshop Opportunity for Writers: PEN America Emerging Voices Workshop
(The information below has been copied from Pen America’s website.) Deadline: October 5, 2024, 10:59 PM CST The Emerging Voices Workshop in Los Angeles serves early-career writers from communities underrepresented in the publishing world. An outgrowth of the long-running Emerging Voices Fellowship, this in-person craft intensive shares the goal of demystifying publishing, cultivating literary community, and diversifying…Continue reading Workshop Opportunity for Writers: PEN America Emerging Voices Workshop
Upcoming Prizes and Contests for Writers!
From literary magazines to opportunities for publishing and industry recognition, check out these upcoming contests for writers! (Entries closest to the top of the list are the most time-sensitive.) Information below is copied from each competition’s webpage. 2. Cinematic Prose Writing Competition 3. Narrative Magazine Fall 2024 Story Contest 4. Black Fox Literary Magazine 5.…Continue reading Upcoming Prizes and Contests for Writers!
Call for Submissions to Catamaran Literary Reader!
Catamaran accepts fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and visual art. Themes they are especially interested in are science and nature writing, creativity and the artistic process, personal journey and travel, and innovation; any setting is fine, but the West Coast is of particular interest. There is an $8 reading fee for general submissions. You can submit to…Continue reading Call for Submissions to Catamaran Literary Reader!
Call for Submissions to the Missouri Review’s 34th Annual Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize!
The Missouri Review‘s 34th Annual Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize is accepting submissions through Tuesday, October 1! One winner from each genre (fiction, nonfiction, and poetry) will receive a $5,000 cash prize, as well as publication and promotion. Winners will be announced in early 2025. There is a $4 reading fee for each genre. Click…Continue reading Call for Submissions to the Missouri Review’s 34th Annual Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize!
Upcoming Discussion on Place and Displacement in the Craft of Fiction
Join us Wednesday, October 2nd, at 6PM (in Levan 100) as the English Department and Department of Modern Languages cohost “Place and Displacement in the Craft of Fiction,” with authors and professors Miles Harvey and Gazmend Kapllani!
Visiting Author Series: Amina Gautier
Join us Tuesday, October 29, at 7PM (in ALH 103) to welcome award-winning author Amina Gautier! Gautier’s publications include four short story collections: At-Risk, Now We Will Be Happy, The Loss of All Lost Things, and most recently, The Best That You Can Do. Gautier is currently a professor in the MFA program at the University of Miami. For any…Continue reading Visiting Author Series: Amina Gautier
Autumn 2024 Course Descriptions Available!
Course descriptions for Autumn Quarter 2024 are now available! Click here to view the list. (You can also view course descriptions for AQ2024, and any quarter, by mousing over the “Classes” tab at the top of the Ex Libris homepage.)
Call for Submissions to Glassworks Magazine!
Glassworks publishes nonfiction, fiction, poetry, hybrid pieces, and artwork, both digitally and in print. They are currently reading until December 15, 2024 for their 2025 print issue. Glassworks also publishes flash fiction, prose poetry, and micro essays (under 750 words each) every month in their online edition, Flash Glass. Submissions for Flash Glass are also accepted…Continue reading Call for Submissions to Glassworks Magazine!
Call for Submissions to Thin Air Magazine!
Submit your fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and writing that defies genre classification to Thin Air Magazine by October 20th to be considered for Issue 31 (print issue). This year’s theme is Metamorphosis!: art that ponders the metamorphoses we see in creation, in destruction, in reflection, in meditation, in stagnation, in art itself. Submit your pieces that…Continue reading Call for Submissions to Thin Air Magazine!
2024 Bill and Irene Beck Award for Community Engagement
The English Department seeks nominations for the Bill and Irene Beck Award for Community Engagement. This award is named for a family whose support of our own Big Shoulders Books makes possible the publication of socially conscious literature by and about Chicagoans. In the spirit of this generosity, we would like to honor the great work our students…Continue reading 2024 Bill and Irene Beck Award for Community Engagement