The Missouri Review's 24th Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction is now open for submissions. First-place winners in each category receive a prize of $5,000, plus a feature in our spring issue and paid travel to our gala reading and reception in Columbia, Missouri. Contest finalists will receive cash prizes and have their work considered for publication as well. This opportunity is open to both emerging and established writers!
We accept submissions online or by mail. The postmark deadline is October 1st, and winners will be announced in January of 2015.
You can find more information about the contest through our website: http://www.missourireview.com/tmrsubmissions/editors-prize-contest/.
The 2015 Great Northwest Book Festival
Call For Entries Portland
The 2015 Great Northwest Book Festival has issued a call for entries to its annual competition honoring the best books of the late winter/spring season. The Great Northwest Book Festival will consider published and unpublished works in fiction, non-fiction, biography/autobiography, how-to, compilations/anthologies, photography/art, children's, cookbooks, poetry, spiritual, young adult, business/technology, unpublished manuscripts, wild card (anything goes!) and nature/animals. There is no date of publication restriction, but all entries must be in English. Our grand prize for the 2015 Great Northwest Book Festival winner includes a $500 appearance fee and a flight to our awards ceremony, to be held in March, 2015.
Submitted works will be judged by a panel using the following criteria:
1) General excellence and the author's passion for telling a good story.
2) The potential of the work to reach a wider audience.
For more information,visit www.greatnorthwestbookfestival.com or email bruce@greatnorthwestbookfestival.com.
Nimrod Journal
Call for Submissions:
Circulatory Systems: Current and Connection
Movement. Connection. Current. The dictionary defines circulation as "the movement of blood through the body" or "a passage or transmission from person to person or place to place." But there are circulatory systems all around us: connections to each other, to the external world, and to our internal worlds. What keeps us connected? What do we do when those connections break? What makes the movement of a circulatory system vital? How do we enter, leave, or take part in a circulatory system, when they often have no clear beginning or end?
For our Spring/Summer 2015 issue, CirculatorySystems:
Current and Connection, Nimrod International Journal
is looking for poems, short stories, and creative nonfiction pieces that play with the idea of circulatory systems. Ideas of what to send might include work about
· Rivers, roads, and other pathways that connect us and take us on expected or unexpected journeys
· Movement, passages, and transitions of all kinds
· The human body or medicine
· The connections of family and relationships, both those that renew us and those in which the circuit must be severed
· Cycles of history, rituals, etc.
· Technology-the circuits of computers or the connecting webs of social media -- and how they can bring us together or pull us apart
· The myriad connections and currents of nature, including the ways that we fit in as humans and/or writers
· Surprise us! Send something that plays with the theme in a way that we haven't even thought of!
Stories and creative nonfiction may be up to 7,500 words; poetry may be up to 8 pages. All work must be previously unpublished. Please mark both your cover letter and the outer envelope with "Spring 2015 Theme." Send a SASE for response. Writers living outside the U.S. may email their submissions to
nimrod@utulsa.edu with the work pasted into the body of an email, but writers living inside the U.S. must mail their submissions. Fiction should be typed, double-spaced with 1" margins on all sides, one side of plain white paper only. Poetry should be typed, one side of plain white paper only. You may submit poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, but we ask that they be sent as separate submissions.
Postmark Deadline: November 30th, 2014. Manuscripts accepted beginning September 1st, 2014.
Publication Date: April 2015
Send manuscripts to:
Nimrod Journal
The University of Tulsa
800 S. Tucker Dr.
Tulsa, OK 74104
Questions? Email nimrod@utulsa.edu; call (918) 631-3080; website: www.utulsa.edu/nimrod
