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The Marguerite and Lamar Smith Fellowship for Writers/ How to Apply (Value:$5,000)

The Marguerite and Lamar Smith Fellowship for Writers is now open! The fellowship aims to afford writers uninterrupted time to focus on their work at an apartment in Carson McCuller’s childhood home in Columbus, Georgia, free from the distractions of daily life and other responsibilities. The Marguerite and Lamar Fellowship for Writers is offered during...

Orion’s Belt Submissions / How to Submit (Payment:  $.08 per word)

Orion’s Belt Submissions are currently open for speculative poetry, prose and art. Orion’s Belt is a literary speculative-fiction online magazine. They specialize in the strange and poignant and awe-inspiring, stories that have a cosmic scale and intimate personal stakes. Currently, they publish fiction and poetry, one story and one poem per month. All submissions must...

Platform Presents Playwright Prize 2023 (Prize: £10,000)

Platform Presents Playwright Prize for 2023 is currently open to playwriters from all over the world.  Platform Presents is a platform for rising start talent: actors, writers and directors, with a particular interest in female voices. They produce theatre, film and television that gives rising star talent the opportunity to meet, learn, network and perform...

The Racket Journal Call for Submissions (Payment: Publication)

The Racket Journal is open for submissions of Prose, Poetry and Art from writers around the world.  The Racket Journal is a weekly online literary journal. The editors want to promote the work of up-and-coming, emerging, established, and never-before-seen writers. According to the pw.org website, the editors say;  “We like a little grit in our...

Imagine 2200 Climate Fiction Writing Contest(Prizes: $8700 + Publication)

Imagine 2200 Climate Fiction Writing Contest is calling for short stories that envision the next 180 years of equitable climate progress.    Imagine 2200 celebrates stories that envision the next 180 years of equitable climate progress, imagining intersectional worlds of abundance, adaptation, reform, and hope. Stories must be set between today and the year 2200,...

Huck Magazine / Calls for Writers (Pay: £130 – £200)

Huck Magazine is Accepting Pitches Huck Magazine seeks independent culture, people and movements that paddle against the current. Their commissioning editor is looking for political, activism, and culture pitches. At Huck Magazine, they seek pitches or tips on politics and activism – “They accept pitches on culture, press releases, tips, plus invites for music, film,...

Africa Risen Journal is calling for Submission of Speculative Fiction Stories(Payment :8¢/Word)

Africa Risen: A New Decade of Speculative Exploration will take readers on a fantastical Pan-African journey through time and space, evoking wondrous worlds and wormholes, virtual realities and extraordinary new visions. From stories inspired by indigenous African lore to the richness found in immigrant and Diasporan narratives, Africa Risen will gather new tales of earth and...