January Deadlines: 8 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: Palette Poetry’s Spotlight Award
Palette Poetry is offering a unique opportunity for emerging poets: the chance to have their grinning face, work sample, and bio profiled in a quarter page spread inside Poets & Writers. The winner will also win $2000 and publication. Submit here.
Entry Fee: $20
Deadline: January 15
Disquiet’s Literary Prize
The winner of this year’s prize in each genre will get an all-expenses-paid trip to Disquiet’s international two week workshop and residency. Send them up to six poems—other scholarships are up for grabs as well. Submit here.
Entry Fee: $14
Deadline: January 10
Button Poetry Chapbook Contest
Button Poetry has found a lovely home for itself in our community, with their stellar videos and well wrought chapbooks. They’re looking for your manuscript “that lives in the world”—send them your work for the opportunity to win publication, author copies and $500. Submit here.
Entry Fee: $15
Deadline: January 15
Rattle’s Instapoetry Issue
This is one we’re going to be watching closely—Instapoetry is such a lightning rod in our community. If you’ve got an IG account with some original work, send them the link. You can also nominate a poet you follow as well, if you know someone who has stellar work. All accepted pieces will earn $100. Submit here.
Entry Fee: $0
Deadline: January 15
AAWW’s TRANS:ACT
The Asian American Writers Workshop’s ambitious Transpacific Literary Project has come up with a unique prompt for their latest portfolio on markets and language: “1- Go to your local market and listen/ record/ take notes on what is said (and unsaid). 2- Make a piece of writing inspired by this language. 3- In your writing, be sure to include one item you purchase from the market and the price you pay for it.” All published writers will be paid. Submit here.
Entry Fee: $0
Deadline: January 20
Cave Canem’s: Writing Across Cultures with Jenny Xie
This tuition free workshop for 2019 is an amazing opportunity: “In this workshop, participants will consider how studying literary translations can enliven, recharge, and deepen their work, and ask what they can glean from approaching all poetry as a fundamental act of translation.” Lead by Jenny Xie, the program is seeking poets of color in NY. 15 applicants will be accepted. Submit here.
Entry Fee: $0
Deadline: January 27
The Rumpus
Cortney Lamar Charleston is leading the way over at The Rumpus Poetry—your work will be in his safe hands. Send them up to 12 pages of poetry. Submit here.
Entry Fee: $0
Deadline: January 31
2019 Undocupoets Fellowship
Sibling Rivalry Press and Amazon Literary have partnered up to offer two undocumented poets (currently or formerly) $500 grants to help with the costs of submission fees. One of the grants will be given to an LGBTQ poet, so make sure to mention if you identify as such in your submission. Submit here.
Entry Fee: $0
Deadline: January 31
