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Psychopomp describes itself as a small press publishing otherworldly fiction
and captivating essays. They’re currently looking for speculative fiction and
literary novellas, 20,000–40,000 words that fall under one or more of these
themes:
stories where grief or
loss play a leading role
stories that feature the
afterlife or the underworld
stories that involve the
journey through death/the journey of the dead
stories that involve death
personified (Death!)
stories that take place
in, or utilize a multiverse
stories that involve time
travel (esp. those that involve time travel + a previously mentioned theme)
origin stories (especially
as they relate to previously mentioned themes)
stories where the
characters slowly lose their sense of reality
goth
space, but make it goth
a story within a story
within a (within a story that’s [within a story] within a story) story….
stories where things that
are not usually personified ARE personified (planets? galaxies? time? …bones?
creepy meta-horror
amazingly original ghost
stories
Pays $750 U.S advance against
royalties, plus 25% of net receipts.
Deadline: April 30, 2023. Full guidelines here.
Psychopomp is also seeking
nonfiction essays, 1,000–2,000 words, on
an ongoing basis. Essays should fall under the general umrella of: goth, death,
funerary, grief, loss, alternative, or otherworldly.
Pays $50. See full guidelines here.
The League of Canadian Poets is calling for
entries for the Jessamy Stursberg Poetry Prize for
Canadian Youth. The prize is supported through a
generous donation from the Stursberg family and other donors in honour of
Jessamy Stursberg.
The prize accepts submissions from young poets all
across Canada, with three prizes awarded in both the Junior (grades 7 to
9) and Senior (grades 10 to 12) categories:
Winner: $400
Second Place: $350
Third Place: $300
Selected winning poems and runners-up
will be published in a special edition of the League of Canadian Poets chapbook
series!
Full guidelines and entry
link here.
The League’s next contests
for adults are in the summer – two contests, both open June 1 with deadlines of
August 10:
Lesley Strutt Poetry Contest $5 entry fee. Open to all poets. No limit on number of submissions.
Unpublished work only. Winner receives a $500 prize and publication on Poets.ca
and Poetry Pause.
Toronto Arts &
Letters Club Foundation Annual Poetry Award $5 entry fee.
Open to poets in the early stage of their career. No limit on number of
submissions. Unpublished work only. Winner receives a $500 prize, publication
on Poets.ca, and a year of membership with the Toronto Arts & Letters
Club.
Royal Canadian Legion District E invites
you to enter the fifth annual seniors 55+ literary competition. Poems, essays,
short stories and short memoir pieces accepted. Prizes will be awarded to
winners in each category:
POETRY — maximum 32 lines
SHORT STORY - word count maximum 4,000
ESSAY — word count maximum 1,000
MEMOIR — includes biographies, autobiographies,
and travel writing — word count max. 5000
Do not include your name on the entry; use the
application to identify yourself.
Open to all Ontario
resident seniors aged 55+
Must complete and attach
official registration form
Must be original,
written by the contestant and be unpublished
Must be submitted in
English or French
Must not exceed the line
or word limits specified
Must be electronic
submission. Name on application/entry form and title page only
Contestants may submit
only one entry in any / each category
Submission must include
a cover page stating the title, author's name and entry line/word count
Biographies that are
submitted must include written consent from the subject, if living.
Entry forms are available upon request at: DistrictEseniorsliterary@gmail.com
Submissions must be
received at: DistrictEseniorsliterary@gmail.com
and
clearly marked SENIORS LITERARY COMPETITION
Deadline: April 30, 2023
Arc Poetry is a Canadian magazine the looks to “find the brave new voices. We feature poetry that
is woozy, cunning, shearing and wildlike; and prose that offers new
perspectives on the verse you thought you knew.”
Arc accepts submission from poets at all
stages of their career during their two submission periods: Spring April 1 –
July 31 and during fall September 1 – December 31. You may submit only once per
year with up to three poems, not to exceed 360 lines of poetry. Pays $50
per page.
Arc also
publishes and pays for essays about poetry, in-depth interviews with poets, and
short (500-word) appreciations of a single poem by a Canadian poet.
Full guidelines for all submissions here.
Special call for submissions: Arc invites “artists who live with disability/chronic illness/mental
illness and other forms of existence that are impacted by ableism to send us
poems, prose, essays, and reviews exploring what it means to be in the world,
or your topic of choice. We hope that your art challenges the able-bodied gaze
and doctrine by changing the narrative of the dominant body and extending the
meaning of wholeness.”
These poems will be part of Arc‘s Fall 2023 issue. Deadline May 15, 2023. Full guidelines here.
long
con is a Canadian digital art and literature quarterly that publishes
art about art.
“long con
was founded on the idea that all artworks exist in conversation with all other
artworks, and the magazine’s purpose is to publish artworks that bring this
long conversation to the surface.
“For us, 'art about art' means artworks created in direct response to other
objects, performances, artifacts, etc., that can be considered ‘art’
– including all forms of writing, gallery & theatre arts, and pop
culture (fashion, sports, comics); infrastructure (monuments, architecture,
tools); ephemera (ads, memes, user manuals); propaganda (parades, political
speeches); and non-human creations (elephant paintings, bird nests, insect
dances).”
long con publishes literary works including fiction, poetry, prose poetry
(but non nonfiction), plus visual, video, audio, and interactive works. Pays
$50 for most pieces, 425 for short works.
Guidelines here.
Deadline May 31, 2023, for inclusion in Issue 15.
Quick
Brown Fox welcomes your
short stories, poems, and essays about reading, writing, favourite books, and
libraries. Read a few essays on the blog to get a taste of what other writers
have done (see here and scroll down).
Quick Brown Fox also welcomes reviews of
any kind and of anything, anywhere or anybody. If you want to review your
favourite coffee shops or libraries, babysitters or lovers (no real names
please), go for it. See examples of book reviews here (and scroll
down); other reviews here (and
scroll down).
Submit to: brianhenry@sympatico.ca
Include a short bio at the end of your
piece and attach a photo of yourself.
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