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  Full details  Enter for your chance to have your fiction featured in a folk horror anthology Hollie Starling and Chatto & Windus are launching a competition for unpublished working-class writers to have their fiction featured in a folk horror anthology. Bog People: A Working-Class Anthology of Folk Horror will be published in autumn 2025 by Chatto. The book is the vision of Hollie Starling, author of The Bleeding Tree who runs @ FolkHorrorMagpie online, and who will edit and introduce the anthology as well as writing one of the stories. Eight spaces will be taken up by established working-class authors. It’s important the publication reflects folk horror’s messages of community and protest, so one slot is open for an unpublished writer from a working-class background. They will be paid the same fee as all the other writers. Folk horror is many things. It’s protest. Vengeful spirits. It’s a bit of Wicker Man , Midsommar or Jerusalem but it’s also the Peasant

  Full details  The Morrab Library has partnered with the Dennis Myner Trust for the second Patricia Eschen Prize for Poetry.  The children’s competition is open to entries from young writers all over the world and has two age categories –  aged 4 to 11 and 12 to 17. It is free to enter and does not have a theme, to allow you to express your creativity freely and let your imagination run wild! We hope you will enjoy writing poetry this summer!  The competition closes on Friday 19th July 2024 (23:59 BST). Competition Judges Your poem will be judged anonymously by this fantastic trio of judges. Competition judge Dicky Souray says: “ I am particularly looking forward to the privilege of a window into the next generation of

 Full details  How to Apply Apply via our Submittable link below.  We are asking for 5 sample chapters and a  pitch letter, which should include a synopsis and a full outline of all chapters. Longlisted authors will then be given a week to submit full manuscripts.  Applications close at 23:59GMT on June 30th 2024.  Eligibility The manuscript prize is open to Black women writers aged 18 and over living anywhere in the world. SUBMIT YOUR MANUSCRIPT  

  Full details  Job Summary outside it is beautiful is seeking a writing facilitator to work with our writing producer in the Bentham, Settle/Giggleswick area in Yorkshire Dales for a community audio stories project set on the Bentham Train Line. This job is for the research & development phase of the project. Job Description outside it is beautiful is seeking a co-facilitator and editor to work with our writing producer from Oct 1st 2024 in the Bentham, Wennington, Settle/Giggleswick area in Yorkshire Dales/Trough of Bowland area for a community audio stories project set on the Bentham Train Line. outside it is beautiful aims to connect invisible communities and unknown landscapes with invisible train passengers on the Bentham Line via the power of stories written by the communities who live there. Stories will pinged onto passengers phones as they travel the li

  Full details  The National Trust in partnership with Word Up North is seeking a Writer-in-Residence for Brimham Rocks, near Pateley Bridge in North Yorkshire. The site’s mysterious and awe-inspiring rock formations are a magnet for geologists, naturalists, climbers, walkers and young families. The writer will research and develop original work inspired by Brimham Rocks’ natural environment and its people; create and run workshops for aspiring nature writers; and work with local primary school children to help them create their own written responses to site. The residency will take place over 5 months from June – October 2024 and will culminate in a public event to share the work created through the programme. To find out more including how to apply, download the recruitment pack. Download Recruitment Pack Deadline for applications: 11.59pm on Friday 24 May 2024. We will invite shortlisted candidates for interview on Tuesday 4 June 2024.  

  Full details  Spark Young Writers needs a Lead Writer in Oswestry, Shropshire Work with the Spark Young Writers team and be part of delivering 240 children’s writing workshops across the region. We are now recruiting for a Lead Writer for our new Oswestry Junior group due to beginning in September 2024. The deadline for the first round of applications is Monday 3rd June 2024, with informal interviews in person or online taking place w/c 10th June 2024. What does it meant to be a Lead Writer? Working with a volunteer Assistant Writer, you will deliver a two hour workshop once a month to a group of young writers aged 7 – 11 years old (junior school age).  Energetic and enthusiastic, we want our team of Spark Lead writers to be ready to share their love of creativity, explore im

 Full details  The Poetry Translation Centre is seeking a freelance Editor to join our small and dynamic team. This is an excellent opportunity for someone with experience of editing poetry and/or literature in translation, an international outlook and an entrepreneurial spirit. We particularly welcome applications from candidates from diaspora heritage backgrounds. About the PTC The Poetry Translation Centre was established by the poet Sarah Maguire in 2004, to introduce new audiences to leading poets from around the world. We see translating poetry as an act of welcome. Central to our mission is celebrating the diverse communities who live in the UK by working with them to champion poetries from their home-cultures. We publish award-winning books, organise poetry tours and deliver hands-on translation workshops that are open and inclusive to all. We offer free online resources including a popular dual-language poetry podcast and an extensive web archive of poems in tran

  Full details  hy You Should Be a HellBound Books Author... Always championing new and upcoming, independent authors, HellBound Books' dedicated, impeccably professional, fun editors and promotional staff are here to make your transition into a HellBound Books published author a smooth and incredibly pleasant one... Run by seasoned, professional, published writers with over 25 years of business, sales and marketing experience, HBB is eager to embrace fresh, new talent across the whole spectrum of the dark genres. Read More Completed Novel to Submit?   HellBound Books are currently on the lookout for that certain je ne sais quoi in a novel (60K words and up), something that commands our attention from the very first word. If your work is finished, polished and up to our exacting standards, we'd love to read it! (PLEASE NOTE: WE ARE NOT ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS FOR NOVELLAS, POETRY, OR SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS

  Full details  Please read below prior to submitting stories to Does It Have Pockets. We are looking for fiction, creative non-fiction, and poetry. We also welcome pitches for columns (monthly or quarterly), interviews, book reviews, and other literary adjacent projects. Of particular interest are digital art, hybrid, and cross-genre works that straddle the lines of classification. Some specifics: Simultaneous submissions are fine, but please let us know in your cover letter. We appreciate timely notification if a piece under consideration has been accepted elsewhere. We will be glad to look at previously published work (reprints) as long as: You have the rights, It has been at least 24 months since published online or three months if published in a small print-only run, and; You provide the prior publication credit at submission. Poetry: 3-5 poems Fiction: up to 5K words Creative Nonfiction: up to 5K words Please limit submissions to two per category until we’ve replied. Flash fict

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 Full details  Interested in seeing your work on our website? We are currently accepting submissions in the following categories: Poetry (max. 3 poems) Prose (max. 500 words) Flash Fiction (max. 700 words) Creative Nonfiction (max. 5,000 words) Short Stories (max. 5,000 words) We prefer writing to be single-spaced and in a standard 11pt font. Send us an email to chismosalit@gmail.com. Please attach your work as a PDF or Word document, and do not include any identifying information. Writing can be in English, Spanish, or both. Feel free to include a short bio (<50 words) in the body of your email. The subject line should begin with the genre of your work followed by the title. Example: Subject: Prose, “Pasquali the Dreamer” Our debut issue is themed “ CHISMOSA .” To celebrate the beginning of our magazine, we will be awarding $100 to the piece that best captures the spirit of chismosa that lives in all writers. We want work that explores the idea that to

 Full details  General Submission Guidelines Please submit your work through the Submittable page only. Redivider will not accept work through email or USPS. We welcome simultaneous submissions. We are looking for new and under-published voices. Submit what you’re worried to send elsewhere. We want pieces that are nonobvious and circumvent the familiar, that breakthrough abstraction to examine a moment or concept from the side, rather than straight on. All submissions must be standalone pieces (no excerpts), although we accept single poems from a larger series of works. Things we wish we saw more: • Endings that stick with the reader • Characters with complex motives • Narratives with high stakes • Consistent voice throughout the piece • Pieces that reflect wider views and deal with current cultural and political discourses • Revealing core truths in an unexpected way • Making the familiar unfamiliar Things we already see a lot of: • Stories about illness • Priv

  Full details  Well Projects 2024 Open Call for New Writing: Resurrection Charms Well Projects produces a yearly anthology book that explores ecology through a broad range of contributions including (but not limited to) academic or visual essays, fiction, poetry and interviews. This year, Well Projects are opening up the anthology to submissions. Selected applicants will receive a fee of £300.00 and support whilst writing their texts which will be published later this year. Well Projects invites proposals for texts that engage with ecology in relation to – resurrection, time travel, rewilding, restoration, science fiction, intersectionality, ghosts, hauntings and histories.   How to Apply Anthology Introductory Text  

 Full details  Share your words with us and the World. Welcome to… THE BEDFORD COMPETITION a nonprofit group runs annual international short story and poetry competitions for anyone in the world over 17 years of age. There are prizes totalling £4,600 and all winning and shortlisted stories and poems are published as an anthology. SHORT STORY & POETRY COMPETITION MAIN PRIZES – £1500 2nd PRIZES – £300 3rd PRIZES – £200   CYGNATURE SHORT STORY & POETRY PRIZES  – £200 The University of Bedfordshire is sponsoring the  Cygnature Prizes for young writers aged 17-25 yrs   BEDFORD SHORT STORY & POETRY PRIZES – £100 All submissions are entered in the Main Prize. ENTER NOW FOR STORY ENTER NOW FOR POEM La