December Deadlines: 11 Contests and Magazines With Deadlines This Month
New month, new courage: submit yourself to these fellowships, magazines, awards and internships. Remember, too, acceptances and rejections are by-products of this journey—crafting your authentic art is the goal. And as always, submit poetry for free to our New Voices.
Featured: Frontier New Voices Fellowship
This opportunity is for the second 2018 spot in our Fellowship program. We’re looking to uplift and support an emerging indigenous poet—editorial mentorship, joining our team of readers, publication in Frontier, and a $500 grant for submission fees. Submit here.
Entry Fee: $0
Deadline: November 30
BOA Editions’ A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize
BOA Editions puts out some of the sharpest debuts out there—submit your first manuscript, 48-100 pages of poetry. The winner will receive publication in 2020 and a $1000 honorarium. Patricia Smith will judge this year. Submit here.
Entry Fee: $25
Deadline: November 30
Hollis Summers Poetry Prize from Ohio University
Ohio University Press is looking for a fresh manuscript of 60-95 pages of poetry. Winner will receive 2019 publication, plus the $1000 prize. Submit here.
Entry Fee: $30
Deadline: December 1
Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets
This prize is offering publication through the University of Nebraska Press and Amalion Press in Senegal. The Editorial Board of the African Book Fund—Kwame Dawes, Chris Abani, Matthew Shenoda, John Keene, Gabeba Baderoon, Phillippaa yaa de Villiers, Aracelis Girmay, and Bernardine Evaristo— will judge. Winner also receives $1000. Must be an African poet to apply. Submit here.
Entry Fee: $0
Deadline: December 1
Crab Orchard Review’s Manuscript Contest
Crab Orchard wants your manuscripts! Check out there previous publications. Submit here.
Entry Fee: $20
Deadline: December 3
Nightboat Books Spring Internship
Nightboat is looking for an intern to mentor in Spring of 2019. Applicants must be able to commit 16-24 hours a week for three months—in retunr they’ll get a dynamic education on all things publishing. Submit here to this exciting press.
Entry Fee: $0
Deadline: December 10
Up the Staircase Quarterly
USQ is a great home for your work. Send them 3-6 poems. Submit here.
Entry Fee: $0
Deadline: December 15
Crazyhorse
This is a great explanation of Crazyhorse’s exceptional taste: “We seek poems that exhibit how content works symbiotically with form, evidenced in an intentional art of the poetic line or in poems that employ or stretch lyric modes. Along with this, poems that capture our attention enact the lyric utterance through musical textures, tone of voice, vivid language, reticence, and skillful syntax. For us, overall, the best poems do not idly tell the reader how to feel or think, they engender feeling and thought in the reader.” Submit here.
Entry Fee: $3
Deadline: December 31
Driftwood Press Poem Contest
Driftwood is looking for one “devastating” poem to publish for this year’s contest. The winner will receive $500 and the issue they’ll be published in. Finalists also will get paid. Send up to 5 poems. Submit here.
Entry Fee: $10
Deadline: December 31
Split Lip’s Turnbuckle Chapbook Competition
Split Lip has its fingers on the pulse of some exciting new authors—become one of them by sending a chapbook full of “writing that haunts, has a heartbeat, does something wild or strange (and nails the landing); work that engages with pop culture, work that engages with itself; work with a voice we could pick out of a crowd the next time we read it because it could only belong to you.” Submit here.
Entry Fee: $10
Deadline: December 31
River Styx
River Styx will be an exceptional home for your new work—get their name in your bio. Send 2-4 poems. Submit here.
Entry Fee: $2.50
Deadline: December 31
