SUNDAY ANNOUNCEMENTS: Calls for Submissions, Contests, Events and Other News and Information
CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS
Opportunity Knocks
THE LASCAUX REVIEW features literary stories, poems and essays. Submissions are read year round and published on a rolling basis. This is a paying publication : $100 for published stories, poetry and essay. The Lascaux Review hosts contests yearly (not currently open for submissions) with awards of $1,000. Submission details HERE.
ALABAMA WRITERS’ FORUM, Cultivating the Literary Arts in partnership with the Alabama State Council on the Arts, is currently accepting submission for the fall 2017 issue of Matador Review. Submissions of unpublished poetry, fiction, flash fiction, and creative non-fiction are welcome in English language as are translations into English that include the original text. Submissions of visual art are also welcome for consideration. Deadline August 31. Details HERE along with the guidelines for the UNO Press Publishing Lab Prize, deadline August 15.
3ELEMENTS REVIEW is now accepting submissions for Issue 16. “The elements are SCALE, PEPPERMINT, and BREACH. All three words must be used in any poetry, fiction, or creative nonfiction submissions. Art and photography submissions must represent at least one of those elements. We have published new and well-known writers and artists from all over the world.” July 31 deadline. Details HERE. Scroll down.
“ABSTRACT”INTERNATIONAL Call For Artists and Writers by ArtAscent Deadline: June 30, 2017 “Abstractions are all around us. Ideas can be abstract; existing as an idea, feeling or quality but not having a tangible existence. Some conversations can be abstract, vague and theoretical and not based on particular examples or facts. And of course, there is abstract art which evokes feelings without trying to realistically represent the appearance of people or things. Abstract art, like poetry, offers a fragment of a mysteriously familiar narrative without directly revealing it in a realistic way. Reveal your most ABSTRACT thoughts.” Details HERE. Scroll down.
CONTESTS/COMPETITIONS
Opportunity Knocks
KILLER NASHVILLE’S BROKEN RIBBON CONTESTS are open through November 15. Submit up to four poems of any form at one time “that present images of noir, mystery, suspense, and the feeling of wanting …” Details on both fiction and poetry contests HERE.
WRITERS’ DIGEST SELF-PUBLISHED eBOOK AWARDS is open for submissions. Deadline is August 1, 2017. Details HERE.
WRITERS’ DIGEST POPULAR FICTION AWARDS is open for submissions. Deadline is October 16. Details HERE.
WRITERS’ DIGEST POETRY AWARDS is open for submissions. Deadline is October 2. Details HERE.
EVENTS
SUN VALLEY, IDAHO,WRITERS’ CONFERENCE WITH BILLY COLLINS, June 30 — July 3, Details HERE.
FIRST FRIDAY IN THE GREEN ROOM AT METRONYMY MEDIA Metonymy Media, 1052 Virginia Avenue, Indianapolis, Indiana, July 7, 6-9 p.m. EDT “featuring art by Indy Near West artists in collaboration with Indy Convergence, an acoustic performance by Robin Goodfellow, and a First Friday confessional booth, a la reality TV. Free admission.
INDY WORD LAB, THE GREEN ROOM, 1052 Virginia Avenue, Indianapolis, Indiana, Monday, July 10, 7- 8:30 PM EDT ” … one of the most unique reading and writing events in the city. Unlike other creative writing workshops, the premise behind Word Lab is creating something new. This Word Lab event will feature Ball State professor, Patrick Collier, who’ll be sharing some of his fabulous Martini Haikus and giving a brief lesson on crafting haikus, concluding with a prompt to guide the writing portion of the evening. The night will also include martinis to drink! Shaken or stirred.”Attendees can listen, write to the prompt, kick back, and share their work if they so desire.”
SPLIT THIS ROCK POETRY FESTIVAL: POEMS OF PROVOCATION & WITNESS 2018. Sponsorships and internships are now being accepted. Calls or proposals due by June 30, 2017 latest. Event scheduled for April 19-21, 2018 in Washington D.C. Details HERE.
FROM THE BeZINE AND THE BARDO GROUP BEQUINES
UPDATE: Well, here we are with half this whirlwind year almost gone. Thanks to all who have shared info and/or opinion on our FB discussion page and those who read, offer feedback and help to promote each issue of the Zine and who submitted work to the Zine for consideration. It takes a village to wage the peace. Special thanks to the core team for their many insights and varied contributions and ongoing support of one another and this effort.- July – Prison Culture/Restorative Justice, Terri Stewart host
- August – Theatre, a theatre person will be a guest host. I’ll announce the name shortly.
- September – 100,000 Poets (and other artists) for Change, Michael Dickel host
- October – Music, John Anstie host
KUDOS
Sylva Merjanian (Celebrating American She-Poets #19), Aprilia Zank, Hélène Cardona (Celebrating American She-Poets #27) and many others we know featured recently in Levure littéraire. More kudos: to Hélène for translation work, coaching, and the promotion of poetry worldwide and to Aprilia for a phenomenal number of awards and cover publications of her photographs and the publication of The Word in the Word.
.days. – artwork by Sonja Benskin Mesher, RCA, has been selected for the Visa feed. It will be displayed from Thursday 22 June 2017 at 11:09 am (Paris, France time). You can view the piece HERE.
Nigerian-American Uche Nduka (b.1963), poet, writer, lecturer and songwriter who was awarded the Association of Nigerian Authors Prize for Poetry in 1997, for his first book to be published in Nigeria in twenty-years. Featured in Poetry magazine, he was once quoted as saying ““So far I just like doing my own thing and not buying into the hype of either formal or informal English; traditional or avant-garde usages. I enact a language style that suits my mood and the subjects I am interested in. Linguistically it seems there are a lot of trenches that have not been explored in poems/poetry. I keep attempting to investigate them. I don’t want to feel like people expect me to write in English timidly.” His Amazon page is HERE.
NEWS and INFORMATION
- Poetry, History of the Magazine, Averill Curday, Poetry Foundation
- A free #1 Ladies’ Detective Story (Alexandre McCall Smith) free from Penguin Random House HERE.
- Tracy K. Smith [new U.S. Poet Laureate], Like a Woman Journeying for Water, Celebrating American She-Poets (#31), The Poet by Day
- Roxane Gay: New Memoir Is ‘About My Body and the Things That Happened to My Body’, Britt Julius, Rolling Stone
This is the organization from from which I adopted my Baxter. If you are in the San Francisco Bay Area and are planning to adopt, I recommend elder dogs and Muttville. 
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Often information is just that – information – and not necessarily recommendation. I haven’t worked with all the publications featured in Sunday Announcements or elsewhere on this site. Awards and contests are often a means to generate income and publicity for the host organize, some of which are more reputable than others. I am homebound due to disabiliity and no longer attend events. Please be sure to verify information for yourself before submitting work, paying fees or attending events et al.
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