Calls for Submissions: Radical Compassion Zine
Lefty artists, writers, creators! How do we advocate for the poor and marginalized, leverage privilege, and learn to listen? Radical Compassion zine wants to ask about how we can responsibly and respectfully organize in Trump’s world. Email your submissions to [email protected]! Here’s the tumblr posting.
Calls for Submissions: Crap Orgasm
Short and flash fiction, as well as poems are being solicited for CRAP ORGASM!! Following the Walrus’ bogus obscenity concerns about publishing these two words, the editors behind this new literary journal want to push back at censorship and the general dumbing down of Canadian writers’ work. Submit here.
Calls for Entries: The BOAAT Book Prize & the BOAAT Chapbook Prize
BOAAT is one of the best platforms for poetry out there today, and they’re not shy about bucking literary norms at the same time as nurturing the trends and communities making poetry happen, like, happen. These contest could win you publication and either $1000 (chapbook prize) $2000 (book prize)— what are you waiting for? Submissions are open from April 15 until May 31.
Calls for Submissions: Last 3 pictures
Send the last 3 pictures you took on your camera phone and why you took them and what you were thinking, plus your name to this person’s tumblr.
Calls for Submissions: Unsent Letters Zine
Got something you need to say? Write a letter to a family member, a stranger, a celebrity, a character, an illness, an idea — whatever. Get it off your chest. Artists welcome too. Deadline is June 6th — check out the post here.
Calls for Submissions: Feel Good Weird
A fairly generic zine with a very 2017 name taking submissions of any kind. Submit by April 30th.
Calls for Submissions: New Jewish Youth #3
New Jewish Youth is a leftist zine for young Jewish folks to move beyond the typical modes of Zionism, consumerism, and religious orthodoxy. The next issue is about anti-fascism. Submissions due April 30th — email [email protected] with any questions or submissions.
Calls for Submissions: EYESORE Issue 3
EYESORE is a print magazine about buildings, streets, places and spaces. How is a place shaped? Personal stories, political tracts, and visual interpretations are welcome, though they suggest you “ go easy on the jargon” if you can. More info here.
Call for Entries: Metatron Prize for Rising Authors
Metatron is probably the coolest, most cutting edge and political publisher in Montreal right now and this contest is your chance to get a deal with them, win a fat $500 and a bunch of their books. In previous iterations, the contest always included feedback, but due to an overload of entries, you can pay to receive feedback or just submit your manuscript for consideration. Lots of details here.
Call for Submissions: El Balazo Press
El Balazo Press’ Submissions page is too good not to just excerpt here. Submit your book manuscript if you like their attitude:
What We Think
1) We’ll meet you in the here and now.
Literature, art, and music are undergoing massive changes — not only how people make money off their stuff, but how people conceive of creative projects. New forms and far-out ideas are encouraged!2) No writerlyness.
Writerly writing is smarmy and toxic. It exists to cue the reader how educated, clever, thoughtful, and big-hearted you are. Please send it elsewhere.3) We’re not dazzled by your MFA.
Don’t have an MFA? That probably just means you haven’t been taught to write Raymond Carver rip-offs. We don’t discriminate. What do you have that’s new?4) No forced outcomes.
Anything can happen. Don’t moralize or shove in a happy ending. And, if you’re writing a short story, it doesn’t have to culminate in violence.5) Genres are for marketers.
We don’t discriminate on genre, length, audience, or other superficial categories that speak to how to market the book, not to the worth of the book itself. If a book of any kind strikes our fancy, we’ll publish it.