Submittable Weekly newsletters

Here are the latest Submittable Weekly newsletters:

Publishing & Journalism: Ursula K. Le Guin’s ‘utopias-as-process,’ through the lens of Always Coming Home (The Millions). On hiring: ‘Ranking people by common criteria produces homogeneity’ (Aeon). The nighttime photography of Khalik Allah in Harlem (Huck). Octavia Butler, Anthony Burgess, Jeanette Winterson, and other authors who aren’t crazy about the books they wrote (Lit Hub). New covers for Claudia Kishi (PRI). Important legal info for protest artists, free (Hyperallergic). An exhibit that ‘points toward a generational change in thinking, not just about designing for difference’ (New York Times). If you've got the time, we've got the prompts (Submittable). Some Opportunities: National Geographic seeks short films for their 5th annual Wild to Inspire contest. Applications are open: Submittable’s second annual Eliza So Fellowship for books-in-progress by immigrant & Montana Indigenous writers. Parlour is an open-access journal dedicated to furthering the scope and conversation of literary criticism and analysis. Issue 4 will focus on Toni Morrison, Violence, and Domestic Space. ‘Room for Thought’ is an open call for sculptors living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area, from Pacific Rim Sculptors. The Shanghai Literary Review, which features creative work from or about Asia, seeks fiction, poetry, nonfiction, flash, visual art, translation, and book reviews for Issue 3. During summer 2018, Mineral School will offer three two-week residencies to 8 writers of poetry and prose, and 4 visual artists. The Spectacle is open for poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, as well as submissions to THE REVUE. Barzakh seeks fiction, poetry, criticism, personal essays, translations, drawings, and photography that pushes against complacent taxonomies and finds itself forging new paths. For Issue #10: The Stellar Edition, The Suburban Review is seeking writing and art by Australian women, femmes and gender non-conforming folx. The first annual Atticus Review Poetry Contest will be judged by Aimee Nezhukumatathil. Register for this year’s Sun Valley Film Festival and enter the High Scribe Award to attend the Screenwriters Lab, hosted by Lynn Shelton. The Ambroggio Prize from the Academy of American Poets is a $1,000 publication prize given for a book-length poetry manuscript originally written in Spanish and with an English translation. The 2018 judge is Alberto Ríos. Sycamore Review is hosting a flash prose contest. Emory’s Rose Library offers short-term research fellowships in specific subject areas within its collection, including Black Print Culture, African American art and art history, LGBT, and more. For its Spring/Summer issue, Wraparound South seeks poems, fiction, creative nonfiction, mixed genre works, and interviews. The XL Catlin Art Prize is a new juried art contest and traveling exhibition of 40 two-dimensional figurative works (paintings, drawings, and original prints.) Luna Station Quarterly publishes speculative fiction written by women-identified authors. Mistake House welcomes fiction and poetry by graduate and undergraduate writers from around the world, including work by previously unpublished writers. Journalism opportunities from PEN Center USA and the International Women’s Media Foundation. Ruminate is seeking two new editors to join their team. What We're Reading: Marketing Fellow Grace Hulderman is reading Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman. An imaginative retelling of the classic Norse myths. Neil Gaiman does a wonderful job revitalizing the myths that inform so much of modern fantasy in a way that is fresh, humorous, and faithful to the original mythical form. Whether you’re a fan of classic myths or a hesitant newcomer, Gaiman makes a convincing case for why these stories continue to captivate us. Fantastical, engaging, and easy to follow, this book is a testament to the magic of storytelling. Submishmash Weekly is a weekly human-curated newsletter bringing news and opportunities in publishing and other creative industries to artists, filmmakers, and writers. Does your organization want to be promoted in our newsletter and social media? Let us know! Got high-quality writing related to publishing or digital media? Consider submitting it to our blog. New readers can subscribe here. Thanks!

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Publishing & Journalism: One, two, three adieus to The Awl and The Hairpin, icons of an era (New Yorker, Electric Lit, NPR). An Uong: ‘Vietnamese cuisine’s rise to mainstream popularity has forced me to redefine a relationship I thought would remain secret’ (Catapult). Book list: joy, meaning, grit, awakening, and other approaches to an examined life (Book Riot). Appreciating the quilts of Ken Burns (New York Times). Be like McPhee and write your book (Poynter). ‘A dizzying blizzard of pop cultural artifacts with nothing at all in common—save for their reliance on Native American imagery' (Smithsonian Institution). HP Lovecraft + Billy Joel = Yay, internet (Birth. Movies. Death)! The blockchain and Digital AF (The Paris Review). George Orwell takes a middle ground on moral degradation, aesthetic rightness, and Salvador Dali (Open Culture). ‘Found photos, colourfully embroidered’ (Booooooom). Will you be at AWP? Come have fun with us off-site (The Rumpus).   Some Opportunities: The Creative Writing Fellowship awards five $5,000 Luminarts Fellowships for excellence in creative writing in the categories of prose and poetry. CENTER seeks photographic entries for $5,000 Project Grants, The Choice Awards, and a juried portfolio event, Review Santa Fe. The Shandaken Storm King residency program is accepting applications from international cultural producers. New Flash Fiction Review is seeking work for its spring issue and a 7 Banned Words Microfeature. Named in honor of the Chicago literary great Nelson Algren, the Chicago Tribune’s Nelson Algren Literary Awards is a nationally recognized contest for original short fiction. The Sheffield Doc/Fest 2018 Film and Alternate Realities programs are seeking the best new works in documentary and non-fiction storytelling globally. The Ear publishes poetry, fiction, and art from both its Orange County campus community, as well as national and international writers and artists. The Pamet River Prize and the Vinyl 45 Chapbook Contest are open for submissions from YesYes Books. The $10,000 Writers’ Trust / McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize is awarded annually to an emerging Canadian writer for a short story or excerpt from a fiction work-in-progress. Necessary Fiction seeks stories for Valentine’s Day, as well as general submissions. Winners in each genre of Crazyhorse annual prizes will receive $2,000 and publication. Spread the Word seeks brilliant life writing for the second annual Life Writing Prize. Open to all emerging writers in the UK, there's £1500, an Arvon course, and writer development opportunities up for grabs. Full length poetry manuscripts sought by White Stag Publishing. NILVX is a quarterly anthology of magic(k), mysticism, and the occult, currently seeking work themed on The Tarot. AFRICA’SOUT! seeks visual artists from the African continent and those in its diaspora for a 6-week Residency. Print and digital quarterly issues of Carve feature poetry, nonfiction, interviews, illustrations, and more. Founded in 1977, Pittsburgh’s Mattress Factory seeks installation artists for its 2019 exhibition programmatic year. Woman Made Gallery invites female identified artists to be part of an upcoming exhibition: Is There a Mother in the House? The Short Fiction Contest from Kenyon Review is open to writers who have not yet published a book of fiction. Open Signal's New Media Fellowship provides time, space, and resources for Portland based artists and media-makers to create new works of socially engaged, innovative digital media. What We're Reading: Senior UX Designer Art Klepchukov is reading Pep Talks for Writers: 52 Insights and Actions to Boost Your Creative Mojo, by Grant Faulkner. Each chapter of this book is essentially a short essay about some aspect of the writing life, with encouragement and tips on putting Faulkner’s advice into practice. Although the author and I write different styles of fiction, his suggestions are both broad and familiar enough that I recognize patches of my own creative journey. I’m only a few chapters in but thoroughly enjoying reading and reflecting on each pep talk. Plus, although the content holds up in any edition, I love the formatting and engraving on the print cover. Submishmash Weekly is a weekly human-curated newsletter bringing news and opportunities in publishing and other creative industries to artists, filmmakers, and writers. Does your organization want to be promoted in our newsletter and social media? Let us know! Got high-quality writing related to publishing or digital media? Consider submitting it to our blog. New readers can subscribe here. Thanks! Twitter Facebook Discover Copyright © 2018 Submittable, All rights reserved.               Our mailing address is: Submittable PO Box 8255 Missoula, MT 59807 Add us to your address book

Publishing & Journalism: ‘M.L. could see that now was an excellent moment in history to move a nation beyond itself' (Lit Hub). A NY gallery for artists sixty and older (NPR). Close-reading the Statue of Liberty’s poetry (The Atlantic). Writing advice from Jessamyn Ward (PBS). Thirteen designers welcome the (year of the) dog, insect-sniffing protector of the arts. (Spoon & Tamago, artnet). Diverse comics: ‘A bold and largely unprecedented experiment for a notoriously innovation-averse industry’ (Vulture). Garlic, lemon, roses, root beer, leather, and more, from a scented catalogue (Boing Boing). Examining sonnet ala box (Kenyon Review). ‘Final gift from a master:’ Posthumous Denis Johnson (BOMB). Alternative response templates for editors and 15 film-related opportunities (Submittable) Some Opportunities: Typishly seeks poems, short stories, and responses to three creative challenges for its online journal. The Studio Grant is a residency for artists to create new work in any Women’s Studio Workshop discipline: intaglio, letterpress, papermaking, screenprinting, photography, or ceramics. The Poetry Box seeks work for ‘In the News,’ a forthcoming issue of The Poeming Pigeon. Arts & Letters seeks both formal and experimental fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and flash. Fiction, memoir, and poetry are being considered by Wordrunner eChapbooks for a spring 2018 echapbook anthology. Disquiet International Literary Program has several current opportunities: The Disquiet Prize, the Luso-American Fellowships, and a Creative Writing Residency in the Azores. New England artists are sought for 'Rebirth' Worcester Windows Spring 2018 exhibit, put on by the Worcester Cultural Coalition. 2Elizabeths is hosting a Special Writing Contest for short fiction and poetry. The 2nd Annual WaterSedge Poetry Chapbook Contest sponsored by Writer’s Relief awards $500 and publication. Sinister Wisdom seeks fiction, essays, poetry, and visual art for its upcoming theme issue, 'Lesbian Learning.' The Passed Note, a journal comprised of literature for teens by adults, is seeking poetry, creative nonfiction, and fiction for its 8th issue. Judges for So To Speak’s Spring Contest are Eileen Myles (poetry), Sandy Lowe (fiction), Jessica Kallista (visual art), and Anna March (nonfiction). For an upcoming edition, The Brushfire Literature & Arts Journal is seeking poetry, prose, fiction, screenplays, creative nonfiction, video, visual art, and more. Barrelhouse is currently accepting nonfiction books, reviews, comics, and applications from emerging literary organizations for the 2018 Barrelhouse Amplifier. CRAFT is an online publication celebrating both emerging and established writers of fiction. An affiliate of The Blueshift Journal, The Speakeasy Project seeks applicants for an all-ages Spring Poetry Workshop. CutBank is open for general submissions of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, as well as annual prizes and a chapbook contest. Chamber Music America’s New Jazz Works program provides grants to U.S. jazz ensembles to create, perform, and if desired, record new works. New York’s Blue Mountain Center seeks enthusiastic and self-motivated individuals for internships. Literary leads: Directorship opportunities with the Montana Book Festival and the University of Arizona Poetry Center. What We're Reading: Cory Davis, of Enterprise Sales, is reading Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman. A fascinating exploration of how intuitive thought and rational thought work together (and sometimes against each other) when humans make decisions. Through a series of experiments, Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman demonstrates why self-knowledge might be overrated, and educates about what we can do to arrive at more accurate conclusions. Submishmash Weekly is a weekly human-curated newsletter bringing news and opportunities in publishing and other creative industries to artists, filmmakers, and writers. Does your organization want to be promoted in our newsletter and social media? Let us know! Got high-quality writing related to publishing or digital media? Consider submitting it to our blog. New readers can subscribe here. Thanks! Twitter Facebook Discover Copyright © 2018 Submittable, All rights reserved.               Our mailing address is: Submittable PO Box 8255 Missoula, MT 59807

Publishing & Journalism: Hermione Hoby considers acoustics, music, and writing practice (Catapult). Making the definitive drug book: ‘For a designer, organizing such a vast and dizzying array... must be both a treat and a total nightmare’ (Eye on Design). Meet Hobart: 500 residents divided by five bookstores equals book village (Atlas Obscura). Digitizing quilts and the histories that accompany them (Hyperallergic). ‘A Hilarious Book by a Comedian Which Is Notable Because Most Comedian Books Are Neither Good Nor Funny,’ and other Roxane Gay reads from 2017 (Roxane Gay’s tumblr). Dressing in seven minutes (with two helpers) during the 18th century (tmn). Hala Alyan: An interview with excerpts ([PANK]). ‘For Henry Holt and its parent company Macmillan, these screw-ups are small beer’: fiery jabs at the publisher of Fire and Fury (New Republic). The International Women's Media Foundation is hard at work (Submittable). Some Opportunities: For Laurel Review’s upcoming spring issue, editors are especially interested in writing that focuses on refugees, immigration, and the Hispanic and Latinx experience. The UK’s Retreat West is hosting a First Chapter Contest. Lumina seeks speculative pieces of 3,000 words or less for its Speculative Fiction Contest. Artist Sarah E. Brook is hosting a call for self-identified queer poets to display work on a Public Art sculpture in Riverside Park, Manhattan, NY. Passporte Salon seeks photographs that incorporate food-themes. For over 30 years, Arc has been pub­lish­ing con­tem­po­rary poetry by emerg­ing and estab­lished poets. Ortega y Gasset Projects is hosting an Open Call for two solo exhibitions. Visual artists of all disciplines (and geographical locations) are encouraged to apply. For its residency program on a remote island in Lake Superior, Rabbit Island seeks ambitious artists from any discipline. Lake Forest College invites fiction writers under forty years old with no major book publication to apply for the Madeleine P. Plonsker Prize. New Geographies is an Arts Council England funded project to create a new map of the East of England based on personal thoughts, reflections, and stories of unexplored or over-looked places—open to international artists. Meridian is awarding Editors Prizes for poetry and fiction. Dialectic invites submissions from designers or teams of designers that are comprised primarily or solely of imagery, typographic structures, “type-as-image,” or some combination of these. Published annually in Lawrence, Kansas, Beecher’s magazine seeks the best in fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry from both emerging and established authors. NYFA awards artist fellowships in the following categories: Folk/Traditional Arts, Video/Film, Interdisciplinary Work, Painting, and Fiction. 5×5 is an online literary journal seeking nonfiction of 500 words or less. UPPERCASE seeks creative projects inspired by the printing process and/or CMYK. Booth seeks poetry, fiction, nonfiction, comics, lists. Especially the last three. Editors want more of those for their bi-annual print magazine. The Atlantic Center for the Arts is accepting applications for its next residency with Tracie Morris, Matt Madden, and Laura Schwendinger. Philadelphia’s Fleisher Art Memorial, the nation’s oldest tuition-free community art school, seeks an Exhibition Assistant. Come work with us in Missoula. Find professional opportunities from Submittable here. What We're Reading: Submittable CEO and co-founder Michael Fitzgerald recently read After Kathy Acker: A Biography, by Chris Kraus. This book was super engaging. In addition to exploring Acker's life (she lived as if writing, reading, sex, going to the gym, and fame were all that mattered), it also serves as a profile of the New York '70s art and literature scene. Acker wrote, maybe compulsively, about her real-life relationships. Repurposing correspondences and naming names. Kraus, by extension, does the same. She also points out that Acker’s process would not fly within the mores of today's literary culture (see HTMLGIANT discussion of Janey Smith/Steven Trull's attempts at art). Submishmash Weekly is a weekly human-curated newsletter bringing news and opportunities in publishing and other creative industries to artists, filmmakers, and writers. Does your organization want to be promoted in our newsletter and social media? Let us know! Got high-quality writing related to publishing or digital media? Consider submitting it to our blog. New readers can subscribe here. Thanks! Twitter Facebook Discover Copyright © 2018 Submittable, All rights reserved.               Our mailing address is: Submittable PO Box 8255 Missoula, MT 59807