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 Full details  Music / Art / Film / Poetry/ Literature / Comedy/Theatre **** Our programme will soon be issued as a pull-out in the Excelle magazine. Keep an eye open for it. Copies will also be made available in the Library, Town Hall, Cinema and other spots about Wetherby. If you can’t wait here is a digital copy . More detail for each event is posted on the ‘What’s On’ and ‘Tickets’ pages. Click on the menu at the top of the page. ****  

  Full details  The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award recognizes outstanding works that contribute to our understanding of racism and our appreciation of cultural diversity. Awards are given for fiction, poetry, memoir and autobiography, and general nonfiction. For books published and copyrighted in 2025, the submission period begins April 10, 2025, and the deadline is December 31, 2025. The winners are traditionally announced in the spring. Eligibility The book must contribute to our understanding of racism and foster an appreciation of cultural diversity.  Books must be written in English and published and copyrighted in 2025 to be eligible for the 2026 prize. Awards are given in fiction, poetry, memoir and autobiography, and general nonfiction. All submitted materials become the property of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards and will not be returned. The deadline for submission is December 31, 2025. The following are NOT eligible for consideration: Plays Scree...

  Full details  The Jerwood Fellowships at New Writing North will be awarded to three early career published writers, currently living in the North of England. Each writer will receive a bursary of £10,000 and a bespoke package of support, including mentoring, over the course of a year, beginning in 2026. The fellowship will be open to writers of fiction, poetry or narrative non-fiction who have had work professionally published. With a focus on artistic excellence, this opportunity aims to support writers at a pivotal point in their careers, as they develop new work towards publication. The three writers will be invited to participate in at least one event scheduled towards the completion of the programme in late 2026. These Fellowships are generously supported by the Jerwood Foundation and managed by New Writing North.  

Full details  Good news from What Books Press: We now set aside certain times of the year as open submission periods. The first thing to do is to visit  our Submittable page  to see if we are currently accepting submissions.  If we are, send us a query letter, along with a sample of 10 to 20 pages. We are especially intrigued by works that challenge and hybridize genres, that play with convention, that make the reader sit up at vivid passages. Additionally, the majority of our authors are, like What Books Press, Californian, and we always take a keen interest in work that originates in, mirrors, fantasizes on, disassembles, et cetera, our special left coast circumstances. Please consider submitting if this geographical and cultural dimension of the press resonates with your own circumstances. Whether our submission period is open right now or not, be sure to click the catalogue button on the left and go through our list in order to fine-tune your underst...

 Full details  Submissions will be responded to within three to four months, if not sooner. There are no reading fees. Accepted pieces will be compensated as follows: $10 a story $10 a poem Payment will be made upon publication and processed through PayPal, CashApp, or Venmo, whichever is preferred. Please include which method of payment you prefer in your submission. If you live in a country that does not accept these as forms of payment, we will attempt to mail you cash or a check. Submissions are open to humans and other life forms of any nationality or planet of residence. Stories should be science fiction and/or horror (preferably both) and can be of any length, although we tend to accept shorter pieces. We also are looking for pieces that are more on the experimental and weirder side of the horror/science fiction spectrum. Please send one story at a time. Please include the genre of your story in your submission. Poems can be any length but the pieces you submit hav...

  Full details I am open to a variety of genres and subject matter. The submission does NOT have to be about teaching or learning to be accepted in Teach. Write. I also welcome student writing. It is in your best interest to be familiar with the type of work that I publish. Please see the current issue or read past editions in the archives section of the website. No previous publication experience is necessary. I am looking for work in the following categories: Flash Fiction, any theme or genre except erotica, extremely violent pieces or those laden with profanity. Under 1,000 words Short Fiction, any theme or genre, 1,000-5,000 words, ditto on the exceptions Poetry, any theme or genre (note exceptions above)–up to 100 lines (limit submissions to three poems, please) Creative non-fiction–up to 2,000 words (same exceptions as those above) Short dramas or screenplays–10 pages of dialogue or less (same exceptions) Write Your Own–writing or poetry inspired by your own wri...

 Full details  About submissions We accept submissions from individuals who belong to the queer, trans, and/or gender variant communities. All info about our current calls for entry, including submission guidelines, can be found on the linked page for each call. Please only send submissions via Duosuma unless you have been specifically given instructions to do otherwise. If you have accessibility concerns, please reach out and we’ll make every effort to accommodate your submission. For written work, we offer a handful of optional add-ons related to feedback and expedited response times. Due to the volume of submissions we receive, we are unable to provide feedback on submissions unless it has been selected and paid for at the time of submission. We always accept reprints if you have the rights to give them, including work published on personal blogs, websites, and social media. Also, in the case of web portfolios, Patreon & similar services, and social media, we don’t...