September 2023 Deadlines: 11 Contests and Magazines with Deadlines This Month
New month, new courage: submit your work 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. This list is powered by the deadline service Literistic!
Not only are root systems vital for a tree to channel sustenance from the soil, but they are also communicators, connecting the plant to its environment and to other plants. Roads, too, are connectors, telling a story of movement and distances. This year, for our inaugural Roots & Roads Prize, Frontier Poetry invites you to imagine your poems as roots and roads, reaching both inward and outward.
We are in search of work that explores the tensions between these ideas, the relationships we have between origin and becoming, between our foundations and the possibilities that are sustained and/or troubled by them. We encourage you to interpret these words loosely and expansively, to let the poem take you where it wants. Bring us your ghosts, your maps, your homes, your alienations, your dreams of the future—lead us somewhere unexpected!
We’re thrilled to be able to award $3000 to our first place prize winner, $300 to second place, and $200 to third place.
Our Judge: Craig Santos Perez is an indigenous Chamoru poet from Guam. He is the author of six books of poetry and the co-editor of seven anthologies. He is a professor in the English department at the University of Hawai’i, Manoa, where he teaches Pacific literature, eco-poetry, and food writing.
Deadline: September 17 // Fee
The Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts awards up to seventy juried residencies per year to established and emerging visual artists, writers, composers, and interdisciplinary artists from across the country and around the world. Residencies are available for 2 to 8 weeks stays. Each resident receives a $100 stipend per week, free housing, and a private studio. Open to writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, screenplays, and combinations of genres/nontraditional.
Deadline: September 1 // Fee
The American-Scandinavian Foundation annually awards three translation prizes for outstanding translations of poetry, fiction, drama, or literary prose written by a Nordic author born after 1900. The Nadia Christensen Prize includes a $2,500 award. The Leif and Inger Sjöberg Prize, given to an individual whose literature translations from a Nordic language have not previously been published. The Wigeland Prize, given to the best translation by a Norwegian, includes a $2,000 award.
Deadline: September 1 // No Fee
Salt Hill is now accepting fiction, nonfiction and poetry submissions. We are interested in work that shines, work that represents a broad spectrum of experience, and work that makes us feel in new and exciting ways. Please submit no more than five poems at a time, and no more than thirty pages of prose. Send us your most honest work. We will consider all nonfiction, but are most interested in creative nonfiction, including personal essays, lyric essays, memoir, literary journalism, and other literary forms.
Deadline: September 1// No Fee
Are you ready to submit your full-length poetry manuscript to the Morse Code Poetry Contest via High Frequency Press? We’re excited to read your work! Dazzle us, astonish us. Try something new. Skywave Fiction Contest winners receive $2000 and more. There will be one winner per contest cycle. The winner’s book will be published in Spring/Summer 2024. Morse Code winners will be published by HF and receive 25 copies and will get 15 poems published in Light Speed E-Zine. Morse Code Poetry Contest manuscripts must be 90 pages of poetry or less. We accept .doc and .docx files. International entries are welcome. Simultaneous submissions are accepted, provided we’re notified upon publication elsewhere. Entrants have no submission entry limit. Each submission is carefully considered for publication. Please submit previously unpublished work only. Any size print run or online publication (including self-publishing, blogs and/or social networking or video readings) disqualify an entry. We no longer accept entries via postal mail. All entries must come to us via this Submittable portal. High Frequency retains standard first publication rights; all rights revert to the writer six months after publication. Writers must be at least eighteen years of age to enter. This contest will be judged by Shanna McNair and Scott Wolven. Please submit writing that the judges have not read. Writers who have directly worked with either judge (via The Writer’s Hotel, The New Guard or other venue) may not enter that same poetry manuscript for the contest, and will be disqualified. High Frequency holds a membership with Community of Literary Magazines and Presses. We follow standard contest rule ethics.
Deadline: September 8 // Fee
Princeton Arts Fellowship
Awarded to artists whose achievements have been recognized as demonstrating extraordinary promise in any area of artistic practice and teaching. Fellows spend two consecutive academic years (September 1-July 1) at Princeton University and formal teaching is expected. The normal work assignment will be to teach one course each semester subject to approval by the Dean of the Faculty, but fellows may be asked to take on an artistic assignment in lieu of a class. An $84,000 a year stipend is provided. Fellowships are not intended to fund work leading to an advanced degree. One need not be a U.S. citizen to apply. Holders of Ph.D. degrees from Princeton are not eligible to apply. All applicants must submit a resume or curriculum vitae, a personal statement of 500 words about how you would hope to use the two years of the fellowship at this moment in your career, and contact information for three references. In addition, work samples are requested to be submitted online.
Deadline: September 12 // No Fee
Submit your work here to be featured in Beaver Magazine! We take poetry, flash fiction and nonfiction, hybrid, art and anything else you have to offer. We want work that’s fluid and funky, connected and coiling. We love pieces about how we shape the land and how the land shapes us. We want to be pulled in and stuck with your words. We want a beaver dam of a piece that keeps the perfect amount of water in, art we can build and live in for years to come. Help us form this creative landscape with your lovely work! Only send unpublished work. Simultaneous submissions are allowed. Please let us know if your work has been accepted elsewhere. We ask that you please wait six months between submissions. Header Art: Content, Nazrene Alsiro.
Deadline: September 15 // No Fee
The Anzaldúa Poetry Prize
Our annual poetry prize proudly honors poet, writer, and cultural theorist, Gloria E. Anzaldúa. Anzaldúa’s work highlights how one’s place in the world is at once geographical, geopolitical, psychological, mythological, spiritual, and linguistic. The 2023 judge is Natalie Diaz. First place is publication, $1,500 prize, and 25 contributor copies. Three finalists will be announced, and all previously unpublished work will be considered for publication as a general submission to the journal.
Deadline: September 15 // Fee
A prize of $1,500, royalty contract, and publication by Finishing Line Press is given annually for a poetry chapbook by a writer who identifies as a woman and has not yet published a full-length collection. Submit a manuscript of 16 to 30 pages of poetry plus bio, title page, and acknowledgments with a $20 entry fee by September 15, 2023. We do allow hybrid manuscripts in addition to traditional poetry manuscripts: prose poetry or formal verse. We do allow art to be included with the manuscript. Please follow page count guidelines. One page of art is equal to one page of poetry. All entries are considered for publication. Christen Kincaid, Editor.
Deadline: September 15// Fee
The Wisconsin Prize for Poetry in Translation
Please upload an original poetry manuscript in pdf format, no fewer than 50 and no more than 90 pages in length. Your manuscript should be formatted as specified below. Please be sure your name and contact information DO NOT APPEAR anywhere in the manuscript. You will be asked to pay a $28 entry fee, by credit card. All submissions will be considered for both the Brittingham Prize in Poetry and the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry. Winners will be announced no later than February 15, 2024, and will receive $1,500 each shortly thereafter. Winning manuscripts will be published in the late winter or early spring of 2025. Four additional manuscripts will also be selected for publication by UW Press, as part of the Wisconsin Poetry Series. Your manuscript should include the following: A simple title page, which should not include the name of the author. A table of contents, with accurate page numbers indicated. 50 to 90 pages of poetry, with numbered pages. An acknowledgments page (optional, if any of the poems have appeared previously in journals or magazines).
Deadline: September 15 // Fee
The Brittingham and Felix Pollack Prizes in Poetry
Please upload an original poetry manuscript in pdf format, no fewer than 50 and no more than 90 pages in length. Your manuscript should be formatted as specified below. Please be sure your name and contact information DO NOT APPEAR anywhere in the manuscript. You will be asked to pay a $28 entry fee, by credit card. All submissions will be considered for both the Brittingham Prize in Poetry and the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry. Winners will be announced no later than February 15, 2024, and will receive $1,500 each shortly thereafter. Winning manuscripts will be published in the late winter or early spring of 2025. Four additional manuscripts will also be selected for publication by UW Press, as part of the Wisconsin Poetry Series. Your manuscript should include the following: A simple title page, which should not include the name of the author. A table of contents, with accurate page numbers indicated. 50 to 90 pages of poetry, with numbered pages. An acknowledgments page (optional, if any of the poems have appeared previously in journals or magazines).
Deadline: September 15 // Fee
Kenyon Review
We consider: short fiction and essays (up to 7,500 words); flash fiction and essays (up to 3 pieces, up to 1,000 words each; please format and submit as a single document); poetry (up to 6 poems; please format and submit as a single document); plays (up to 30 pages)excerpts (up to 30 pages) from larger works; translations of poetry and short prose; book reviews.
Deadline: September 30 // No Fee
