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  Full details  WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU – SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW OPEN Script submission is free. We welcome scripts from writers of all ages, all levels of experience, regardless of background, disability, ethnicity, gender identity, race, religion, or sexual orientation .      _______________________________________________________________________   IMPORTANT DATES: 30 May 2024:    Submissions categories announced – see below ****THE SUBMISSION PORTAL IS OPEN NOW**** – SEE BELOW 1 September 2024:   General Submissions deadline  at 23:59 31 October 2024:   Submission deadline for Students  at 23:59 Spring 2025:   Play choices selected – all writers notified 24-28 April 2025:   INK Festival in Halesworth, Suffolk You will hear back from us – please resist the urge to contact us…   _______________________________________________________________________   ABOUT INK INK is the UK’s leading short new play company, producing every year over 70 new script

 Full details  Applications for the 2025 New Writers Awards are now open. The deadline for applications is 31 July 2024 at noon. The awards are free to apply to, all travel expenses are covered and awardees are chosen by a panel of judges. We have an Access Fund to help support our awardees with any barriers they may face. The programme is flexible and we work closely with awardees to help them participate as fully as possible. Apply for the New Writers Awards 2025 How it works The Awards will run from January 2025–January 2026. During the programme, awardees receive: A £2,500 cash award, allowing them to focus on their work (the bursary will be paid in two instalments) Tailored personal development opportunities, which can include mentoring from writers and industry professionals PR, performance, social media and presentation training The opportunity to showcase work to publishers and agents A week-long retreat offering time, space and the freedom to create new work in idyllic

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 Full details  entry requirements At Serendipity, we're looking for all types of romance stories from sweet to spicy! If you would like to submit a manuscript please send us the following information to info@serendipityfiction.com : ​ A detailed synopsis, please include if it has a happy ending. The first three chapters of the manuscript. A list of any romance tropes that are included in the novel. A few comparison titles or authors in the genre. ​ Please note that we do not currently publish Romantasy.   We look forward to reading your submissions! © 2024 by Serendipity CONTACT US SUBMISSION  

  Full details  KENSINGTON: Established in 1974, Kensington, America's independent publisher, located in New York City, is the foremost independent publishing house in the United States publishing in hardcover, trade paperback, and mass market. We publish over 600 books annually in both fiction and non-fiction. Kensington has sweeping and diverse imprints, including Kensington, Zebra Books, Pinnacle Books, Lyrical Press, Dafina Books, and Citadel Press. These imprints are well-known for popular commercial fiction, mysteries and thrillers, African-American titles, multicultural fiction, nonfiction, as well as true crime and Westerns. Kensington continues to be the foremost American publisher of romance novels. Read Submission Guidelines   LYRICAL PRESS:   Lyrical Press offers authors an opportunity to break out fresh content to a wide audience with the personalized publishing experience of an independent house. With bestselling titles in multiple genres and the addit

  Full details  What we are looking for We are looking for horror of any sub-genre and are not squeamish. We’ve read it all before and will read it all again, so send us something that will really set us back on our heels. Terrify us. Make us squirm. Send us the best of your worst. We welcome art accompaniment for your stories, as these may be used in our compiled issues. Please, no AI art. We wish to feature art created by human artists. If you are the artist, let us know. However, if you are not the artist, please let us know that as well. Credit will be given where it is due. Be sure you have permission to use the art that you send to us. What we are not looking for We are not seeking any works that glorify prejudice of any sort. This does not mean prejudice can not exist in the space of your story, but be certain it is cast in its proper light. This includes work that is homophobia, transphobic, racist, sexist, ageist, ablist , and any other ‑ists you c

  Full details  reading period: Jan 30 through Nov 20 of each calendar year format:  Double-space your ms. Include your name, email address, and mailing address on the first page. bio:  Please don't tell us where you've been published; please instead wow us with extraordinary storytelling. word min/max: 3,500 to 10,000 -- exceptions made for stories w/ extraordinary promise to appeal to readers from all walks of life. payment: $100 policy re previous publication:  Both unpublished and previously published short stories considered, unpublished novel excerpts okay. note: Unlike many venues that publish short fiction, we edit with the goal of engaging readers from all walks of life. click here to submit

  Full details  SILK & SINEW: A COLLECTION OF FOLK HORROR FROM THE ASIAN DIASPORA   SILK & SINEW seeks to tease forth folk horror rooted in the experience of the Asian Diaspora. From lengths of muscle and vein, ground bones, endless ropes of sinew it is with our bodies folk horror is woven.   The history of Asian immigrants and their descendants in regions of the former colonial powers has often been obscured. Our presences and experiences, either go unrecognized, are deemed unimportant, or are regarded with derision. In still other cases, we are akin to an interesting collectable obtained during vacation, discovered, owned, and assigned a shelf for display. For many, immigration has been propelled by war, poverty, and political upheaval either directly produced or coalesced as a by-product of Western Colonialism.   Old sins, dark magic, twisted rituals, and beliefs seep forth again refusing to be ignored. The expansive continent of Asia contains myriads of such stories from im

Full details   The Letterkenny Cathedral Quarter Literary Festival is the flagship event in our Cultural Programme and is held on the third weekend in October. Established in 2016, this innovative dynamic festival celebrates our area's unique links with Jane Austen and Brendan Behan whilst promoting the best in local talent.

 Full details  Thrilling Science Fiction and Fantasy We’re looking for science fiction and fantasy stories that genre readers will love: gripping, commercial storytelling that keep us up all night, effortlessly transporting us to another world with characters we’ll root for all the way. A Distinctive Voice What makes your style of storytelling unique? What will readers remember about your writing? We’re looking for fresh, distinctive voices that stand out from the crowd. A Reader Promise Why do you keep reading your favourite authors? We call it a reader promise. One of the most important questions we’ll ask is what will make your readers come back for the next book? Our Commitment We aim to publish a diverse list of voices that represent the very best in modern SFF storytelling and to break down barriers between publishers, writers and readers. We welcome submissions from everyone – agented or otherwise – regardle

  Full details  Novels Welcome to our Novel Opening & Synopsis Competition! Have you started, or completed, a novel with strong, credible characters and a page turning plot? Have you honed the first chapters? Can you put together a compelling synopsis? Yes? Then why not enter our Novel Opening competition and have your work judged by Headline Publishing ? We welcome published, self-published and unpublished novelists. The only stipulation is that the  entry must be unpublished . We are looking for a novel opening up to 3,000 words, plus a synopsis  of the story (max 750 words) to be submitted together in a single file. If your first chapter is longer than 3,000 words, DO NOT SUBMIT A LONGER MANUSCRIPT. Simply close the entry within the 3,000 word limit and make a note at the end (which will not be included in the word count) stating the chapter continues beyond this point. This

  Full details  general guidelines Formerly known as  Crazyhorse ,  swamp pink  publishes fiction, poetry, and nonfiction semi-monthly online. Our aim is to continue publishing exceptional work from writers at all stages of their careers. We are particularly interested in submissions from writers of color and writers from marginalized and underrepresented communities. And yes, we pay our contributors. Poems receive $40 each, and we pay $0.05 a word for prose. Maximum payout for accepted work is $200. Submissions of fiction and nonfiction can be up to 7,500 words in length. We have published exceptional work that falls outside this range, but it is an unusual occurrence. For poetry, please submit a set of 3-6 poems. We accept general submissions of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from September 1st to December 31st and February 1st to May 31st. During the month of January, we only accept entries for the swamp pink Prizes in Fiction, Nonfiction, & Poetr

  Full details   Editorial Philosophy VQR strives to publish the best writing we can find. While we have a long history of publishing accomplished and award-winning authors, we also seek and support emerging writers. A look at one of our latest issues will show you the diversity of voices we publish. Genres Poetry: All types and length. Short Fiction: Length is from 2,500–8,000 words. We are generally not interested in genre fiction (such as romance, science fiction, or fantasy). Nonfiction: Length is 3,000–7,000 words. We publish essays, memoir, and other types of literary journalism, as well as investigative reporting.  General Guidelines We only consider unpublished work. Please do not submit previously published material, including work published in anthologies, chapbooks, or online. We only accept submissions online via Submittable. We do not accept submissions via e-mail or post. Please read past issues of VQR before submitting your work so you have a clear sense o

  Full details  Banipal welcomes inquiries from both authors or translators about submitting work. Before making any submission, do check out the contents of Banipal’s issues, and the selections that are on the website, in order to get a feel of the magazine. Banipal magazine is a magazine of translation, exclusively featuring authors from the Arab world, apart from our Guest Literature section. The vast majority of works translated are commissioned by the editor from original works that already published, either in books, magazines, newspapers or in on-line media. A minority of works published are written originally in English. If you are an author and feel your work is suitable for translation and publication in Banipal, please write, in the first instance, to the editor at editor@banipal.co.uk in Arabic, or your mother tongue language, with details about yourself and the work's original publication. It is not necessary to send a translation. If you are a transl