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Up to 2500 (fiction or non-fiction) words referencing an Australasian rural experience. 2018 Theme: 'Reach for the Stars - Strive for Excellence'
CLOSING 23/08/2018
2018 theme: new collectives, old struggles
What does unionism mean to people today? What should be its objectives? How can we come together to make real change, now and into the future?
This prize encourages artists and writers of fiction, poetry and essays to be part of setting a new agenda for our future – to imagine a just, common future, and how we might get there together.
The Fair Australia Prize is made up of 5 x $3000 prizes and 3 x $1000 union member prizes.
There are prizes for:
fiction (up to 3000 words)
essay (up to 3000 words)
poetry (up to 88 lines)
cartoon or graphic (180 mm wide by 255 mm high)
best overall entry by a migrant writer, artist or worker
three best member entries (for NUW, MEAA and NTEU members only); these $1000 prizes are awarded to member entries in any of the above categories
CLOSING 27/08/2018
We are very excited to open entries to the Feminartsy Memoir Prize for women writers. Following a successful prize in 2017, we have decided to narrow our focus to memoir, to further support the sharing of women’s lived experiences through storytelling.
CLOSING 31/08/2018
WOW! Women on Writing invites entries to its Summer 2018 Flash Fiction Contest. The honorable guest judge this season is Literary Agent Jennifer Thompson with Nordlyset Literary Agency. Seeking short fiction of any genre between 250 - 750 words. The mission of this contest is to inspire creativity and provide well-rewarded recognition to contestants.
CLOSING 31/08/2018
Theme: 'Life Changing', word count between 1200 - 1500 words. First place receives $200, second place receives $50.
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Category A: Poetry (free or traditional to 50 lines) – open theme.
Category B: Short Story (to 2,500 words) – open theme.
Prizes in each category: $100 + certificate for first[1]; $50 + certificate for second; certificates for any commended entries.
Eligibility: Open to all writers.
Limit: Maximum two (2) stories and/or two (2) poems per entrant.
Entry fee: $10 for each entry in each category.
CLOSING 31/08/2018
The Swinburne University Award: 1st Prize: $1500
The Simon & Schuster Award: 2nd prize: $1000
The Sun Bookshop Award: 3rd Prize: $500
The Fleurieu Consult Award for Best Young Writer (18 and under): $500
The Athenaeum Library ‘Body in the Library’ Award: $1000 ($500 runner-up)
International Association of Forensic Linguists Award: $1000 for Best Forensic Linguistics Story
The Every Cloud Award for Best Mystery with History Story: $750
Kerry Greenwood Award for Best Malice Domestic Story: $750
Writers Victoria Crime and Punishment Award: $660 (studio residency, Old Melbourne Gaol) for the Story with the Most Satisfying Retribution HarperCollins Publishers Award for Best Romantic Suspense Story: $500
Scarlet Stiletto Award for Best Financial Crime Story: $500
Clan Destine Press Award for Best Cross-genre Story: $500
Liz Navratil Award for Best Story with a Disabled Protagonist Award: $400
ScriptWorks Award for a Great Film Idea: $200
Closing date for the awards is 31 August 2018. Entry fee is $20 (Sisters in Crime members) or $25 (others). Maximum length is 5000 words. The awards will be presented at a ceremony in Melbourne in late November.
CLOSING 31/08/2018
The 2018 joanne burns Microlit Award is jointly sponsored by the Newcastle Writers Festival and publisher Spineless Wonders. We are looking for writing (up to 200 words) that responds imaginatively to the theme of ‘sound’. Judged by Cassandra Atherton. National and Hunter Region categories. First prize in each category will be $300. All finalist entries will be considered for publication in the Spineless Wonders microlit anthology, Shuffle, and selected entries will be included in Spineless Wonders’ multi-platform storytelling activities at the 2019 Newcastle Writers Festival.
CLOSING 31/08/2018
The Aesthetica Creative Writing Award is an international literary prize that celebrates excellence in Poetry and Short Fiction. With the aim to support and nurture new writing talent, it awards publication within an inspiring anthology to a shortlist of 60 writers, including a winner from each category. The winners are also presented with further opportunities to expand their literary careers: £1,000 cash prize each, a consultation with literary agency Redhammer Management, a Full Membership to The Poetry Society, a subscription to Granta and books courtesy of Bloodaxe Books and Vintage Books.
CLOSING 31/08/2018
For a poem of no more than 60 lines. First prize $150.
CLOSING 31/08/2018
Poems must be in traditional Australian bush verse with an Australian theme. Winner receives the Bette Olle Poetry Award and $500.
CLOSING 31/08/2018
Our mission is to discover new exciting screenwriting talent and help kickstart careers! We put each year’s best scripts into the hands our industry roster – all of whom have the experience and means to get your script made. There are three categories for scripts: Feature, with over $10,000 in prizes TV Pilot, with over $7000 in prizes and Short, with over $3000 in prizes We’ve amassed a roster of the most respected industry Judges of any screenwriting contest in the world. They include 40 Oscar, Golden Globe, Emmy & Bafta winners, and 80 Prod Comps, Agents and Managers.
CLOSING 31/08/2018
The Award is for a poem or group of poems up to 60 lines. The competition is open to all residents of Australia 18 years and over. First place prize is $500.
CLOSING 31/08/2018
The Award is for a Life Writing, defined as a work of biography, autobiography, memoir, monograph, bibliography. Biography and autobiography may be an extract to meet the word count requirements which is a minimum of 10,000 and a maximum of 25,000. The competition is open to all residents of Australia 18 years and over.
CLOSING 31/08/2018
The Short Story competition is a great opportunity for all budding writers of all ages to showcase their talent and have their work read by popular authors. Entries can be submitted in any medium: print, illustration, video, verse, voice or combinations of any of the above. Entries should be no more than 1500 words or, for other story formats, something that takes no more than 5 minutes to experience. The competition will award the first, second and third prize entries in Junior, Teenage and Adult sections.
CLOSING 31/08/2018
The 2018 OutStanding LGBTQIA+ Short Story Competition is now open! The theme is ‘Next Big Thing’! The OutStanding Short Story Competition is Australia’s premier creative writing event for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex and Queer community of Australia and New Zealand.
CLOSING 1/09/2018
The Hobart Bookshop and Island magazine proudly present the 2018 Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize. Now in its 23rd year, the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize remembers Tasmania’s most acclaimed poet. The 2018 judges for the prize are Sarah Holland-Batt, Lachlan Brown and Maria Takolander. First Prize: $2000 + publication in Island 155 + annual subscription to Island, Griffith Review, Overland, Southerly, The Lifted Brow, Meanjin and Westerly.
CLOSING 2/09/2018
The Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award encourages the development of new Australian plays or performing arts projects emphasizing positive values. The Award is offered each year for the development of a play or other approved performing arts project. The Award provides financial assistance for playwrights during the writing or development of a play or a project. It is not intended as a prize for a finished work. The Award may also assist with production costs, workshops, restaging, publishing or touring. A recipient may be working alone or jointly with others including writers, composers, designers, directors, producers.
CLOSING 6/09/2018
Short fiction competition with an open theme. Winner receives $300 and a weekend residency at the centre.
CLOSING 7/09/2018
Warner Bros. Pictures, The Black List and Veerhuis Pictures have launched the inaugural Australian Script Writing Opportunity. Finalists for this opportunity will be considered for a two-step blind feature film writing deal as a part of this partnership with Warner Bros. and Veerhuis Pictures. To be considered for this opportunity, Australian screenwriters must host their script on blcklst.com for at least one week during the submission period, which opens on June 14, 2018. The evaluations deadline for this opportunity will be August 13, 2018, and the final deadline is September 13, 2018. After the close of the submission period on September 13, 2018, The Black List will determine a short list of writers and present them to Warner Bros. Pictures and Veerhuis Pictures. Warner Bros. Pictures will then announce the recipient(s), if any, of a blind script deal. If a writer is selected for a blind script deal, such writer will be engaged by Warner Bros. Pictures (or an affiliated entity) to write a new feature film script.
CLOSING 13/09/2018
Aesop and The Saturday Paper have been cultural partners since 2014, promoting the written word through an annual calendar of events. Together, they nurture writers of longform non-fiction through The Horne Prize, an essay award valued at $15,000. This year’s prize will be presented in early December for an essay of up to 3000 words, addressing some part of the theme ‘Australian life’ – shining light on a particular aspect of who we are, from a contemporary perspective.
CLOSING 17/09/2018
Poetry competition with an open theme. Winner receives $300 and a weekend residency at the centre.
CLOSING 21/09/2018
The Margaret River Short Story Competition is now open for submissions. The final judge and editor for the 2019 collection is Michelle Cahill. The competition is open to authors of any age and nationality. Winning and shortlisted stories will be published in both print and eBook format.
CLOSING 28/09/2018
Entries are now open for the 2018 New England Thunderbolt Prize for Crime Writing. In this, the sixth year of the Prize, there are six awards on offer for crime writers. All genres of crime writing are eligible, from hard-boiled to comic, paranormal to rural, historical to contemporary, noir to cosy. Entries welcome from anywhere in Australia, from published or unpublished writers.
CLOSING 30/09/2018
What’s Your Story? is a short story and poetry writing competition run by Stonnington Libraries. Winners are announced on Thursday 15 November, at the launch of Stonnington Libraries’ annual literary festival [untitled]: our writers, readers and stories.
CLOSING 30/09/2018
This competition has two categories, short story and memoir. There is no theme and there is a maximum word count of 1000 words. First place prize is $200, second place prize is $100.
CLOSING 30/09/2018
Early career writers of migrant background are invited to apply for the 2018 Deborah Cass prize. The winner will receive a cash prize of $3,000 plus a three-month mentorship with an established writer. There is also the opportunity for publication of the winning excerpt in Mascara Literary Review. On completion, the winning manuscript will be presented to Black Inc.
CLOSING 2/10/2018
Non-fiction competition with a theme of 'desire to escape'. Winner receives $300 and a weekend residency at the centre.
CLOSING 5/10/2018
Ballarat Writers is now accepting entries into the Martha Richardson Memorial Poetry Prize, to be judged this year by Nathan Curnow. Winner receives $1000.
CLOSING 13/10/2018
The Wollongong Writers Festival Short Story Prize will be awarded for a previously unpublished story of up to 2500 words on the theme ‘Feeding Time’. The winning entry will receive $1000 and publication in Mascara Literary Review.
CLOSING 15/10/2018
For this year's ELLE Writing Competition, in association with Hachette Australia, we're looking for modern, contemporary voices telling stories that are engaging and subversive. We want: fresh, modern, topical tales that may or may not riff on pop culture. Humour is encouraged but not essential. We don't want: stories that make us sad. The world is dark enough. While there's no specific theme, we want unpublished stories that capture the mood of the moment. Write a 4,000 word short story on the topic of your choice. The deadline for entries is October 26, so if you've got a tale to tell, what are you waiting for? The winning fiction will be published in the January/February issue of ELLE, and the author awarded a $5,000 prize. Two runners-up will receive a prize pack of recent releases from Hachette Australia worth $200.
CLOSING 26/10/2018
Joyce Parkes Women’s Writers’ Prize honours Joyce Parkes who is a well known poet living in WA. She is the patron of the prize, which aims at promoting and encouraging women writers in Australia. Limit of 1,000 to 2,000 words in prose, fact or fiction. Prize Money: $500. Topic: 'Freedom'.
CLOSING 31/10/2018
Open theme, short stories up to 500 words; poems up to 32 lines. Entry fee is $4.00. First prize is $100, second prize a twelve-month subscription to Positive Words Magazine.
CLOSING 31/10/2018
Entries are open to writers of all ages that are resident in Australia. The prizes will be $500 for the overall winner and $250 for the runner up.
CLOSING 31/10/2018
Odyssey House Victoria invites all writers to enter in our annual Short Story Competition. This years theme is “Reflection”, an essential process for transforming experiences into genuine learning . This competition is open to writers of all ages and experience and submissions are due by the 2nd of November. Happy writing!
CLOSING 2/11/2018
Entries to be relevant to Australia or Australians and to be written with accurate rhyme and metre. First Prize: $400, Blackened Billy Trophy and certificate.
CLOSING 23/11/2018
The competition is open to original, unpublished poems in the English language of less than 40 lines. The poem can be on any subject, in any style, by a writer of any nationality, living anywhere in the world. First place prize is €1000, a week's residency at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, paid travel expenses (up to €600) and 4 nights accomodation in Cork city during the Cork International Poetry Festival (March 27-30) and publication in Southword Journal.
CLOSING 30/11/2018
There are six prizes which will be awarded by the InkTears judging panel: Winner: £1,000, Runner-up: £100, 6x Highly Commended: £25. All prize winners will get their story published to the InkTears Readership and their bio published on the InkTears site.
CLOSING 30/11/2018
Australian Book Review welcomes entries in the fifteenth Peter Porter Poetry Prize. The Porter Prize, which is worth a total of AU$8,500, is open until 3 December 2018. The Porter Prize is one of Australia’s most lucrative and respected awards for poetry. It honours the life and work of the great Australian poet Peter Porter (1929–2010), an honoured contributor to ABR for many years. All poets writing in English are eligible to enter. First Prize: AU$5,000 and Arthur Boyd’s etching and aquatint The lady and the unicorn, 1975.
CLOSING 3/12/2018
Fantastica invites Australian and New Zealand writers to submit science fiction manuscripts for consideration. Winners will have their manuscript carefully shepherded to publication by an editor and the Fantastica team. The winning novel will be professionally designed with our usual flair and unleashed in digital and printed form in bookshops, on our website and ebook retailers.
CLOSING 31/01/2019
The Createability Internship Program includes customised training for up to eight participants with disability, facilitated by the leading arts + disability organisation, Accessible Arts, followed by paid internships in major organisations across the arts, screen and cultural sectors.
CLOSING 24/08/2018
The KSP Writers' Centre is proud to support the development of literary work by hosting a number of annual residencies for writers. Each year, we offer placements in the categories of NextGen; Emerging; and Established.
Next Gen applications closing 26/08/2018
The Writer & Scientist Grant is awarded by Writing NSW to foster connections between writing and the STEM sector (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). The grant supports a NSW-based writer and scientist or technologist wishing to work together on a joint writing-related project that helps to foster a vibrant, diverse and innovative writing culture in NSW.
CLOSING 26/08/2018
Early Career Writer Grants are awarded by Writing NSW to assist early career creative writers in any genre who are resident in NSW. The aim of the grants is to foster a vibrant, diverse and innovative writing culture in the state. Applicants must be early career writers who have had no more than two full-length works professionally published or performed and must not have previously received a grant of $5000 or more for their writing from either State, Territory or Federal governments or their agencies. At least one grant will be awarded to a writer from regional NSW, provided an application is received that meets all of the grant criteria.
CLOSING 26/08/2018
Emerging Writing Organisation Grants are awarded by Writing NSW to support emerging writing organisations, groups and collectives across the state. The aim of the grants is to foster a vibrant, diverse and innovative writing culture in NSW.
CLOSING 26/08/2018
Tartu City of Literature Office announces the second 2018 call for applications of Tartu City of Literature International Residency Program for writers and translators. The residency period in autumn 2018 is two months, the period of stay offering some flexibility between October and December. One applicant will be selected.
CLOSING 1/09/2018
The Emerging Producers Bursary Program offers up-and-coming producers working in science, history, and non-fiction media a range of financial support for accreditation, travel and accommodation for the World Congress of Science and Factual Producers (WCSFP). Recipients will have access to the event's industry intelligence and professional development opportunities, including guaranteed meetings and networking opportunities with the top producers and commissioning editors in the industry. The goal of the program is to welcome and represent diverse talent at all career stages, and encourage a new generation of Congress members. Producers and content creators working in all science and non-fiction media are encouraged to apply including those working in digital media, social media and gaming.
CLOSING 7/09/2018
The annual Heywire cycle begins with a storytelling competition - open to people aged 16-22, living in regional or rural Australia. Heywire encourages young people to tell stories about their life outside the major cities in text, photo, video or audio format. Over the past 17 years more than 9,000 young Australians have taken part.
Tell a story about an aspect of your life, where you live. When your story is ready, submit it by filling in our simple online entry form by September 16, 2018 to be in the running to win.
CLOSING 16/09/2018
Granada UNESCO City of Literature and the University of Granada are setting up this programme to foster contacts and forge bonds between writers from Granada and those from other cities and countries all over the world, to extend the international reach of Granada-based writers, to build international awareness of the cultural fabric of the city of Granada, and to promote Granada as a city of the arts that welcomes talent from abroad with open arms.
The Granada Writers in Residence Programme is targeted at emerging writers, residing in any country in whichever language they write.
CLOSING 20/09/2018
The Knight Visiting Nieman Fellowships at Harvard offer short-term research opportunities to individuals interested in working on special projects designed to advance journalism. Since this initiative’s inception in 2012, the Nieman Foundation has awarded 42 visiting fellowships ranging between two and twelve weeks. Candidates need not be practicing journalists, but must demonstrate the ways in which their work at Harvard and the Nieman Foundation may improve the prospects for journalism’s future.
CLOSING 28/09/2018
The Ian Wilson Memorial Fellowship will give an emerging author or illustrator creative time away from home in Adelaide for 21 nights in March 2019. This aims to be a gift of time and support, enabling you to concentrate intensively on the development of new work, as well as offering networking opportunities and professional development.
CLOSING 30/09/2018
The KSP Writers’ Centre is proud to host this annual Fellowship program for Australian adult authors providing two-week placements for dedicated aspiring and emerging writers looking to advance their career and develop a project at a professional level. Successful applicants are gifted with the time and space to work in an inspirational environment with special access to Katharine’s Cottage, where celebrated novelist Katharine Susannah Prichard wrote most of her life works.
CLOSING 28/10/2018
Westerly publishes short stories, poetry, memoir and creative non-fiction, essays and literary criticism.
CLOSING 31/08/2018
Lost Balloon publishes flash fiction, flash nonfiction, and prose poetry (all 1,000 words or less). We publish one new piece every Wednesday. There are no theme or genre restrictions, but we want your best. Give us work that entertains and challenges, that pushes boundaries and breaks hearts. Lost Balloon will be open for submissions during the first week (seven days) of each month. That means August 1-7, September 1-7, October 1-7, and so on. We’ll be taking submission breaks in July and December in 2018.
SUBMISSIONS OPEN 1/09/2018
A new anthology is open for submissions from all LGBTIQ writers in Australia. The collection will be edited by Benjamin Law, author of Gaysia, The Family Law and Quarterly Essay Moral Panic 101.
We are looking for first-person pieces about growing up as a member of the queer (LGBTIQ) community, however you identify. These can be in any tone, style or format but we are not looking for scholarly works. What we hope to receive is honest, original and personal nonfiction from people of all ages and backgrounds. We are particularly interested in pieces that defy, question or shed light on the many stereotypes that currently exist about our vibrant extended community. Editor Benjamin Law says: ‘If in doubt, write the story you wish you’d read growing up.’
Submissions should be between 1000 and 4000 words, and must be received by Friday 1 September 2018. Late entries will not be accepted.
CLOSING 1/09/2018
FORESHADOW: A Serial YA Anthology will be published monthly for a single year starting in January 2019 and ending December 2019, and will feature stellar YA stories from established and emerging authors. Each issue will feature three stories, one of which will be from a new voice specially selected by a beloved author. Our debut issue, Issue Zero, will be published in summer 2018 to coincide with our fundraising campaign. We are seeking original YA short stories.
CLOSING 1/09/2018
Here we huddle with the mangrove roots. We grasp their hands and gasp as one, breathing together through the pores of craterous black sand. Little crabs and snails and creatures and half-crushed shells, we all stay low and watch the pink sky fold inwards like a fortune cookie. The sand tucks itself into folds of denim jean ankles. A beacon to remember behind closed lids, later. We blink and blink and blink and watch neon ions dance with our pinpoint pupils. The soot grows and grows and colours the dome. The flicker turns, rocketing towards spinning eruption. We watch the curve of the earth closing in above our bodies. We hold hands holding hands hands holding hands and listen to the sounds of our hearts and wet eyelids wet sand gripping onto mangrove roots.
Deadlines: Fiction, poetry, and completed nonfiction submissions: Sunday 2 September, 11:59pm; Art, comic pitches and finished comics: Sunday 30 September, 11:59pm
Overland is seeking poetry submissions for a special online edition – ‘Tribulations of the digital frontier’ – to be guest edited by long-time Overland volunteer, Mitchell Welch.
CLOSING 10/09/2018
We’re looking for fantastic, previously unpublished prose—non-fiction especially, but we will consider fiction and poetry—on nature by writers of colour worldwide. If you're unsure if your piece fits the bill, let's just say we believe nature writing can tackle all sorts of issues: from stories of farming to stories of long treks, tales of migration, racism, community, and beauty. You might be writing about remote places, cities, lost landscapes, or old homes. We're looking forward to seeing what matters most to emerging nature writers. Above all, your submission should have a great sense of place and attention to the natural world. Submissions must be finished work. TWR accepts English-language submissions by BAME writers, writers of colour, and Indigenous writers. You can be located anywhere in the world, but the main language of the submission should be English.
CLOSING 26/09/2018
Our final project for 2018 will be the publication of a series of up to five chapbooks of new poetry. These will be issued in a uniform edition and published in the last quarter of 2018. Collections may include some previously published poems, but should emphasize new, unpublished work. We are happy to consider collections of individual poems, but would also like to see any cycles of poems, or series of connected poems. We will also consider longer poems.
CLOSING 30/09/2018
RABBIT is currently accepting submissions of nonfiction poetry for Issue 26: The BELONGING Issue, to be guest edited by Sydney-based poet Eileen Chong.
CLOSING 1/10/2018
The ABC is looking for radio and podcast drama series from experienced writers who are new to the audio medium. Submissions are for audio series of between four to eight episodes, of up to a maximum of 25 minutes duration for each episode. The call-out is open to writers of fiction, memoir, theatre or screen with little or no experience writing for the audio medium. You must be a published writer to submit a work. This includes works that have been professionally performed, but not self-published works. Please provide a bio and links to your previously published work.
CLOSING 4/11/2018
SWEATY CITY is a youth journal of creative non-fiction, environmental journalism and science writing that aims to engage young people living in Sydney about environmental issues. We are currently seeking long-form journalism about urban ecologies, city-dwelling native species, stories of climate change and the intersection of cityscapes and nature for our first print edition.
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Salt Hill publishes poetry, prose, translations, reviews, essays, interviews, and artwork. We read submissions for the magazine between August 1 and April 1 of each year and for the Philip Booth Poetry Award between May 15 and August 1.
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Baby Teeth Journal is a literary and multi-media arts publication based in Wollongong NSW. We have a focus on local, queer creators but accept submissions from across the globe. We welcome submissions from almost every artistic medium. Flat rate of $50.
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The Threepenny Review is one of the most well renowned and respected literary journals in America. They publish authors from all over the world, and many famous writers, both poets and fiction writers have been published in The Threepenny Review. The Threepenny review also pays very well. They pay $400 per short story and $200 per poem. This is a good amount of money for even a print journal to offer its contributors. It is far more than most literary publications offer.
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Renaissance Magazine accepts the following unsolicited content related to the Renaissance and Middle Ages for consideration: Articles related to history, travel, Renaissance Faires, the SCA and related reenactment groups; Interviews with artists, artisans, performers, reenactors, and scholars; Book reviews (historical fiction and nonfiction are acceptable); and Music CDs and CD reviews. The average feature article is approximately 1,500 words. Features pay 10 cents/word. Columns of 500 to 1,000 words pay $50. Columns of 200 to 400 words pay $25.
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The Vault is an online periodical that adheres to the limitation of Twitter publishing. We consider all types of fiction with one condition – your story must be based on science.
OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS FROM THE 10TH - 24TH OF EVERY MONTH
We’re always on the lookout for short, engaging essays. We tend to favor work about the life, work, and process of writing, publishing, visual art, or any other creative pursuit. We’re also interested in the interplay of the arts and tech, whether drawn from your personal experience, or from observations of the world at large. Often, though, we don’t know what we’re looking for until we see it, so feel free to send something our way that we might find to be unexpectedly perfect for our blog and readership.
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We commission writing about film, television, video games, moving image art and the internet, including critical analyses and fresh perspectives about specific works and makers, “How to do it” guides by experts to inspire other makers, historical explainers of movements and phenomena, personal responses to moving image works, and interviews with moving image makers. We don’t commission evaluative reviews (like a film or game review with a star rating, etc). The writing should illuminate the work and help the reader to connect with it more deeply.
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Overland accepts pitches on any subject on an ongoing basis, but they are currently looking for articles on: universal basic income, bitcoin, university management, Netflix algorithms, and Goodreads.
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TLB publishes work on its website that fits into two categories: TLB Review of Books or Commentary, and we welcome pitches for both.
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Submissions for our New Voices category are open year round. New Voices is open to any new and emerging author who has not published a work of fiction or narrative nonfiction of novel length. You must not have a novel forthcoming at the time of submission. Published short-story collections do not count as a novel-length work and those authors are free to submit. New Voices are published online only and will feature a number of stories from new authors each month.
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Archer publishes articles and images about sexuality, gender and identity from a diverse range of writers/artists, from all levels of experience.Archer is aimed at all individuals interested in sexuality, gender and equality. Archer promotes inclusivity, regardless of gender identity, geographical location, ethnic identity, sexual orientation or level of education.
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We accept unsolicited material, if it is polished and fits the tone and style of the magazine, is clearly targeted at a particular section of the magazine and falls within the word counts relevant to a particular section. (For example 750 words for 'My Word' submissions or 1800 for a four-page feature; see the attached 'Word Counts' information box.)
Alternatively, writers can pitch story ideas by email first. To be considered, your pitch should explain which section of the magazine the story is intended for, be one paragraph long, contain a topic sentence, a sample introductory sentence and explain the story angle, writing tone, suggested word length, a list of possible interviewees (if appropriate) and whether or not photographs and/or illustrative material is available.
If your story is linked to a particular event (or date, or anniversary) you must pitch it at least two months before the event takes place. Important note: as a national publication, we are unlikely to accept stories that have a specifically local focus. If we like your idea, we will call or email you to discuss it further.
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Earth Island Journal is always looking for compelling and distinctive stories that anticipate environmental concerns before they become pressing problems, stories that scan the horizon for the next big issue. We want stories that will surprise, provoke, and entertain our readers and that explore new territory overlooked by other publications.
Our readership is international, so please don’t pitch stories on local issues unless they have broader (read: national or international) interest or implications. Please read through our magazine’s current and back issues (archives are available online) to get a better idea of the kind of stories we publish before you send a query.
We pay writers 25¢/word print stories. You can expect to earn about $750-$1000 for an in-depth feature story (about 4,000 words).
For online reports, the fee ranges from $50 to $100. Online reports are a great way to get into the Journal, especially if you are new to reporting and writing. We publish online five days a week and are always looking for fresh ideas.
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Electric Athenaeum is a Science Fiction and Fantasy magazine publishing short fiction, articles, poetry, and interviews. Each issue features an accompanying theme, and is available for free to readers. They are open to submissions for this issue’s theme, Future Generations, and consider any genre of speculative fiction. They pay £50 per story.
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Forever is the romance imprint of Grand Central Publishing. Grand Central Publishing is an imprint of the Hachette Book Group, one of the big five publishers. Forever Yours is the digital sister of Forever, they focus on publishing unagented authors, and often publish authors without a publication history. They publish eBooks, but they an option to print on demand any book over 50,000 words in length.
Fairlight Books is currently open for literary submissions of short stories, novellas and novels. We are happy to accept submissions of longer fiction direct from authors.Fairlight Books is currently open for literary submissions of short stories, novellas and novels. We are happy to accept submissions of longer fiction direct from authors.
Walker Wednesday allows budding authors to submit their manuscripts to Walker Books’ award-winning editorial team on the first Wednesday of each month. Walker Books is currently accepting submissions of middle grade and young adult fiction from Australian and New Zealand authors.
Do you have a manuscript you would like Penguin to consider? Penguin Group have what’s known as the ‘Monthly Catch’. During the first week of every month, you can submit unsolicited manuscripts for their consideration.
On the first Monday of every month only, between 10am and 4pm Australian Eastern Standard Time, we accept electronic submissions that comply with the guidelines set out below.
Manuscript submissions sent on any other Mondays or day of the month will not be read so we advise you to wait until the next month if you miss the deadline.
We are looking for:
Commercial fiction – women’s fiction, romance, thriller, crime, historical, humour, paranormal, fantasy
Literary fiction and non-fiction – novels, short stories, and narrative non-fiction only
Children’s books and young adult – junior and middle grade fiction, young adult/crossover fiction; we are not accepting picture book submissions
Commercial non-fiction – history, memoir, mind body spirit, travel, health, diet, biography
Please familiarise yourself with what we publish. We do not publish scripts, plays or poetry in Australia and will not assess them.
Academic submissions are not accepted during Manuscript Monday.
Right Now is committed to covering human rights issues in Australia through free, accessible, creative and engaging online, print and radio media.
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Scum is interested in publishing feminist-friendly work of any variety, but as a general rule your piece should be under 1000 words (50 lines for poetry) and able to be classified as “fiction”, “culture”, “memoir”, “column”, “poetry”, and/or “review”. They tend not to publish traditional reviews of books and films—to get a feel for the reviews they do publish, check the review tag. Feel free to pitch to them if you’re not sure if your piece is a good fit. (Please note that they don’t accept pitches for fiction or poetry.)
Submissions to Scum are open the first week (from the 1st to the 7th) of every month. The rest of the month, submissions are closed. They pay $60 per piece of writing.
At Seizure, short-form work is living large. Flashers is the online home of Australian flash fiction.
Each week we publish work between 50 and 500 words that could be written in an hour and read in a minute. We are looking for short, sharp snippets of prose. But flash fiction is so much more than a quick-fix for the time-hungry wordaholic. Flash fiction attracts writers and readers for its peculiar challenges – and authors have to make every word count.
Accepted pieces will have an accompanying illustration by a volunteer artist that matches and complements the writing. Thanks to the Australia Council, we are able to pay our Flasher contributors $50 for each published piece.
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SLICE magazine welcomes submissions for short fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. We’re looking for anyone with a fresh voice and a compelling story to share—basically any work that really knocks our socks off. At the core, Slice aims to bridge the gap between emerging and established authors by offering a space where both are published side-by-side. In each issue, a specific cultural theme becomes the catalyst for articles, interviews, stories, and poetry from renowned writers and lesser known voices alike. We offer all contributors to Slice a monetary award for their work ($250 for stories and essays and $75 for poems).
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