A monthly listing of news, writing resources, and submission opportunities you can’t afford to miss. Compiled by Digital Editor Dylan Brethour from Associate Director Paul McVeigh’s blog.
News & Resources
- What 2020 Booker Nominee Should You Read, Based on Your Quarantine Habits?
- Kazuo Ishiguro, The Paris Review Interview
- How to Write an Email Well Enough to Land a Book Deal
- ‘A Writer’s Life’ by Anne Enright
Short Story Deadlines
- Stonewall Chapbook Competition for Short Fiction & Poetry from LBGTQIA+ perspective. Deadline: August 15
- Red Line Book Festival TU Dublin Short Story Competition. Deadline: August 19
- Costa Short Story Award. Deadline: August 28
- Big Book Contest seeks Poetry & Short Story Collections and Novels. Deadline: Sept 9
- The Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize. Deadline: Sept 30
- Gertrude Press Seeks LGBTQA Short Fiction
- The Sea Letter seeks Poetry, Short Fiction & Photography/Illustrations
- Channel seeks prose that fosters a connection with the natural world
- The Irish Times New Irish Writing seeks Fiction
- The Los Angeles Review of Books seeks Fiction & Poetry
- Short Fiction Journal is open to Submissions
- 44 US Publishers looking for short story collections
- Skein Press seeks short stories & novels esp minority ethnic backgrounds
- Enter The Hennessy New Irish Writing Award. Open Submissions
- Joyland Magazine seeks short fiction, novel excerpts, and literary non-fiction. Open Deadline
Flash Fiction
- Flash Odyssey Contest. Deadline: 10 August
- Bray Literary Festival Seeks Flash Fiction & Poetry. Deadline: 15 August
- Top 20 Places to Submit Flash Fiction | BookFox
- Narrative Magazine. Open for submissions all year round
- Narrative Magazine seeks your Six-Word Story
Books
- The An Post Irish Book Awards: August 31
- The MUPress Novella Prize. Deadline: Sept 1
- Big Book Contest seeks Poetry & Short Story Collections and Novels. Deadline: Sept 9
- Avon Publishers Seeks Submissions
- FourCats Press seeks LGBTQ & working-class literary fiction & nonfiction
- Skein Press seeks Short Stories & Novels esp minority ethnic backgrounds
- Avon (Harper Collins Imprint) Seeks Submissions
Poetry, Non-Fiction, Illustration and More…
- Prairie Schooner Creative Nonfiction Essay Contest. Deadline: Aug 2
- Bray Literary Festival Seeks Flash Fiction & Poetry. Deadline: 15 August
- Stonewall Chapbook Competition for Short Fiction & Poetry from LBGTQIA+ perspective. Deadline: August 15
- Big Book Contest seeks Poetry & Short Story Collections and Novels. Deadline: Sept 9
- The Sea Letter seeks Poetry, Short Fiction & Photography/Illustrations
- Channel seeks Poetry and Prose that fosters a connection with the natural world
- The Irish Times New Irish Writing seeks Poetry
- The Los Angeles Review of Books seeks Fiction & Poetry
- National Centre for Writing Residency Opportunities
- PAID: True Story seeks Creative Nonfiction
- The Sea Letter seeks Short Fiction & Poetry
- Panorama: The Journal of Intelligent Travel. Deadline: Various
- Neon seeks Short Stories, Flash, Poetry, Images, Comics & Graphic Poems
- PAID: Craft seeks Flash & Short Fiction, Reviews & Interviews
- Wanderlust – travel journal seeks submissions
- Storgy seeks Short Stories & Nonfiction – Open Submission
- McNeese Review Print & Online Submissions
- Wildness seeks Short Stories, Poetry & Non-Fiction
- Pendora Magazine seeks Fiction & Nonfiction
- The Stupendous Tramp Press Submissions Open
- Dublin Review of Books seeks Essays & Reviews
- Pank seeks Chap Books in Poetry, Nonfiction & Fiction
Short Stories & Podcasts
- ‘Miss Adele Amidst the Corsets’ by Zadie Smith
- Podcast: Kevin Barry discusses creativity, energy, influence and collaboration, with musician David Kitt
- Podcast: Martin Amis and Julian Barnes on Christopher Hitchens
- ‘Many a Little Makes’ a new novella by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
- ‘Bullet in the Brain’ by Tobias Wolff – the classic short story
- Podcast: Lauren Groff Reads Her Short Story ‘Flower Hunters’
- ‘Good Boys’ by Honor Levy
- ‘Fleur’ by Louise Erdrich
- ‘I Hold a Wolf by the Ears’ by Laura van den Berg
- ‘Jack and Della’ by Marilynne Robinson