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Publishing & Journalism Books by women to gift on Father’s day (Electric Lit) ‘A bird of paradise can seem like a great starting point for a typeface’ (AIGA). New Mexico’s Lee Francis, of Native Realities and Red Planet Comics (Good). ‘Was Kidd, one of Joyce’s prophesied professors, made so busy by the puzzles and enigmas that he was driven to literal madness’ (New York Times)? The history behind an unlovable grammar rule (Atlas Obscura). A man about whom much can be said: Anthony Bourdain’s feast, authenticity, and aversions (New Yorker, The Atlantic, Inside Hook). From old musical instruments to a new renaissance (Core 77). ‘The novel’s 100 pages had been printed and bound out of order’ (Futility Closet). On the blog: Eliza So Fellowship winners, land-inspired prompts, and survival tips for artists (Submittable). Some Opportunities CutBank seeks poetry and prose for All Accounts and Mixture: A Celebration of LGBTQ Writers and Artists. The North Street Book Prize for Self-Published Books from Winning Writers will award a grand prize of $3,000, plus $1,000 for each category winner, plus benefits from co-sponsors. The Rocky Mountain Women’s Film Institute seeks films directed, produced and/or edited by women for its 2018 festival. For its third-annual Shadow Award, The Molotov Cocktail seeks poetry that is dark and offbeat, strange and surreal. The A3 Review's June contest theme is Wheels. From roulette to bicycles, spinning wheels to trolley wheels, send art, or prose and poetry up to 150 words. The winner of Nowhere’s Travel Writing Contest receive $1,000 and publication. Up to ten finalists also will be published. Weekly Writes, from The Common, is a ten-week program designed to help writers create original place-based fiction and nonfiction. Two Sisters Writing and Publishing holds monthly short story contests (1,000-1,200 words) with different themes. Winners earn $75 and publication both online and in an annual anthology. Proverse Hong Kong’s Poetry Prize for poems in English is open to writers aged 18 & above, irrespective of residence, citizenship, nationality, or place of birth. The annual Royal Nonesuch Humor Writing Contest from The Mark Twain House and Museum seeks to honor short comedic pieces from both adult and young writers. Michigan Quarterly Review seeks poetry and prose focused on Iran—its literature, culture, and history, particularly perspectives on the 1979 revolution written in Iran or in the Diaspora. For its 2018 Poetry Prize, The Hopper is calling for full-length manuscripts. Open to poets with an identified interest in the natural world, whose work explores issues tied to our ever-changing environment. Gestalt Project Space, through bG Gallery in Santa Monica, has several current visual arts opportunities. The Cagibi Fall 2018 Hudson Valley Writing Retreat is open to writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Wordrunner eChapbooks will publish two single-author, mini-fiction collections online and as epubs in summer/fall 2018. For its annual anniversary contest, Under the Gum Tree seeks creative nonfiction for the theme ‘(without)pretending.’ Broken Pencil Magazine’s Zine Awards are open to independently published zines, comics and micro-journals from around the world. For its first annual Full-length Poetry Manuscript Contest, Sheila-Na-Gig online will award a $1,000, publication, and 25 copies. The Southeast Review seeks poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Big Lucks is seeking an LGBT-QIA Person of Color to help the press design cover art for Joshua Jennifer Espinoza's forthcoming chapbook. Barrelhouse seeks a Book Reviews Editor. What We're Listening To On this week's Submishmash Weekly playlist: Post-apocalyptic lounge vibes from Dali Vision, glistening 70's rock from Zuider Zee via Light in the Attic, the multifarious pleasures of Rex Garvin, and more. Don't miss summer-soaked sound either, and follow our Spotify for more new music. What We're Reading Office Manager Karin Schalm is reading When I Grow Up I Want to Be A List Of Further Possibilities, by Chen Chen. Chen writes beautifully and painfully about coming out and his experiences of being an immigrant in America, but he steadfastly refuses to be defined by these identity labels. His images are expansive, sad and humorous, covering territory from Antarctica to 'Anti-Sisyphus,' from Schenectady to the 'centipede in the cellar.' Check out this excerpt from 'West of Schenectady': 'I'm making my loneliness small. So small it fits on a postcard/a baby rabbit could eat.' This stunning debut collection was selected by Jericho Brown for the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize.  Submittable Stats Submittable Stats, take 2. We appreciate you sharing your May data, plus such great stories. Kudos to the following submitters who had acceptances in May:  Shannon Barber, Toni La Ree Bennett, Kevin Brown, Delia Corrigan, Laine Cunningham, Susan Duncan, MFC Feeley, R.D. Girvan, Dave Gregory, Janki Hemani, Faylita Hicks, Kimi Kaa, Andrew Lafleche, Paulie Lipman, Anne Mikusinski, Bryan Nguyen, Jeni De La O, Lyn Patterson, Bella Pori, Emad Qweitin, Luisa Kay Reyes, M. Russek, Anca Segall, Kris Tamer. A few of your observations (among many other gems): Goodness, every submission is a poem or a story folded into a paper airplane and sent into the crater of a volcano--the likelihood is the paper will burn to a crisp. Rarely, the airplane gets blown clear of the lava and survives. ** Like the little boy, shoveling a massive amount of horse crap said, ‘with all this crap, there HAS to be a pony under here somewhere!’ ** I am just getting back into submitting my work places and I am starved for rejections. The more I get, the more work I'm putting in and it makes me feel great. In honor of volcanos, horses, hunger: congrats to our top five in May for number of rejections. 1. Dave Gregory 2. Bella Pori 3. Anne Mikusinski 4. Kris Tamer 5. William Kofoed Join us with your June numbers beginning July 1, when our submission form will open on this page. Until then, happy submitting! 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 ‘Red is the color, for her, of life:’ Etel Adnan inspires (Artsy). Donna Talarico and the Hippocampus publishing journey (Lancaster Online). ‘Two molecules commenced the psychedelic revolution of the 1950s and 1960s, frothing the stream of consciousness’ (Brain Pickings). An interview with Stacy Brown-Philpot on community, accounting, Silicon Valley, and TaskRabbit (New York Times). Catching up with Heid E. Erdrich (Lit Hub). ‘Start as close to the end as possible,’ and other short story wisdom from Kurt Vonnegut (Open Culture). Prose and drawings from Terrance Hayes: ‘In the dream, I’d already decided a biography of  Etheridge Knight needed to be written’ (Poetry Foundation). Escaping the ‘green closet’ in the name of creative practice (Submittable). Some Opportunities Hysterical, a literary magazine striving to highlight the diversity of writers who are women, femmes or non-binary people, is seeking fiction, poetry, nonfiction and hybrid work for its first issue. Small Works, an independent artist fair from stARTup in San Francisco, is calling for professional artists working in any media. The Pigeon Pages Flash Contest for prose will be judged by Alexander Chee. Typishly seeks poems, short stories, and responses to three creative challenges. Emerging writers welcome. For its Unclassifiables Contest, Arts & Letters will celebrate work that defies categorization, that blurs genres and labels. Prize is $500 and publication. Critical Read seeks pitches for stories about the origins of the fine, literary and performing arts. Black Heart Magazine is seeking short fiction for an upcoming themed issue: Sugar High. Prizes for Gigantic Sequins’ 7th annual contests in poetry (judged by celeste doaks) and flash fiction (judged by Rachel B. Glaser) include $100, publication, and swag from Small Fires Press. Virginia Glass Guild seeks artist for its 31st annual Juried Exhibition. The Washington Award from S&R Foundation recognizes talented artists in the fields of, music, dance, and visual arts, especially those who contribute to international cultural collaboration. This year’s a cash prize will be $10,000. Tupelo Quarterly’s Open Prizes will be judged by Bhanu Kapil (prose) and Jennifer Chang (poetry). For an upcoming special issue, mojo will focus solely on comics. The 2018 Orison Anthology Awards offer $500 and publication for individual works in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Judges: Zeina Hashem Beck, Richard Yañez, and Gayle Brandeis. The Future of StoryTelling, a community exploring narrative in the digital age through marketing, technology, and media, seeks exhibitors. The Truro Center for the Arts at Edgewood Farm is a pilot residency program developed to encourage the development of creative, intellectual and personal growth of emerging and established artists. Swamp Ape Review seeks fiction, nonfiction, poetry, visual art, and hybrid work for digital and print publication. Press 53 is accepting work for its Flash Fiction Contest and 2019 Award for Poetry. For its Creative Nonfiction Contest judged by Kiese Laymon, Prairie Schooner will award $250 and publication. New Flash Fiction Review is accepting work for its fall issue. Milkweed Editions offers a four-month intensive introduction to independent book publishing through its nationally recognized internship program. Come work with us: Submittable seeks engineers, marketing specialists, and sales professionals. What We're Listening To On this week's Submishmash Weekly playlist: Nadine Byrne dazzles with proto-techno buzzes and grubby drone intonations, slowthai helps us avoid fake friends, Ty Segall and White Fence collide for a burst of cathartic beauty, and more. Follow Submittable's Spotify for all your new music needs.  What We're Reading Last week, Submittable's book club met for the fourth time. Here's Web Engineer and the club's coordinator Genevieve Crow discussing this month's selection: Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty by Vikram Chandra explores the connections between computer programming and the literary arts. Chandra, a novelist-turned-programmer, examines the history of each from a perspective based on personal experience in both fields. He traces early machine language instructions to today’s more human-friendly code, the women-led teams of the ENIAC era to Silicon Valley 'brogrammers,' and ancient Sanskrit poetics to the rules steering contemporary fiction writers. The diverse subject matter circles a core theme: the power of beautiful language and our common desire to define what makes it so 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

3 Photography Opportunities: Pursue Pictures, Magnum Foundation & London Photo Festival Pursue Pictures seeks photos for their People and Places category. Over $2500 in prizes awarded. Submissions can be any interpretation on the subject, but judges are looking for photography that has people or places at its center. Submission Deadline: July 31 There is no fee to enter. Click to Submit The Magnum Foundation is accepting proposals from photographers looking at the intersection of migration and religion. Selected projects receive development support and production grants of up to $25,000. BBC World Service will produce up to three audio documentaries in collaboration with selected photographers.   Submission Deadline: July 18 There is no fee to enter. Click to Submit London Photo Festival seeks images epitomizing where you live for The World Around Us. Open to photographers worldwide, the top 30 images will be exhibited in a central London location for 3 months and 3 finalists will win £100 in prizes.    Deadline: November 30 There is a £5 fee to enter. Click to Submit Why am I getting this email?  You subscribed to our Submishmash newsletter and told us you were interested in opportunities related to art or visual art. Occasionally we like to highlight organizations doing exciting work or offering unique contests.  Where can I find more opportunites? Search thousands of creative opportunities in our Discover marketplace. Or check out the Submittable blog for articles and interviews about the creative life. How do I unsubscribe? We send these email sparingly and never sell your data, but you can unsubscribe or update your preferences anytime here.  Copyright © 2018 Submittable, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Submittable PO Box 8255 Missoula, MT 59807-8255

Publishing & Journalism Canal-buried treasure (Hyperallergic). On making the most of a writing conference (Brevity). ‘Even when very accomplished writers write about climate change, their books become completely marginalized’ (Los Angeles Review of Books). The (discovered) photography of Masha Ivashintsova (Mother Jones). A look at beautiful, beautiful libraries (BBC). Stanley Kubrick on closing out 2001: A Space Odyssey: ‘The idea was supposed to be that he is taken in by godlike entities creatures of pure energy and intelligence’ (Laughing Squid). The reading list for reclaiming time (The Rumpus). ‘It was Gala’s job to maintain Dalí’s morale’ (The Paris Review). When you write for the money and when you write to explore (Submittable). Some Opportunities Lunch Ticket’s Amuse-Bouche: Spotlight series is now accepting fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, young adult, flash prose, translation, and visual art. Airlie Press is considering full-length poetry manuscripts. The press is a nonprofit, collective publisher, and poets must be available to attend monthly meetings in Salem, Oregon. Winners of the Key West Literary Seminar Emerging Writer Awards receive full tuition, round-trip airfare, lodging, honorarium, and more. Scholarships are available for the 2018 Facing Race Conference in Detroit. The Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts is currently accepting class and lot proposals, Sound Off! applications, and more. The 2018 Nonfiction Prize from Cosmonauts Avenue will be judged by Ocean Vuong. Primers is an annual mentoring and publication scheme for UK writers organized by the Poetry School and Nine Arches Press. Twyckenham Notes publishes poetry and art. Tiger Strikes Asteroid New York (Brooklyn, NY) is calling for artists to participate in the sixth year of its annual Flat File Program. Cash prizes and publication available for winners of 2 Elizabeths poetry contest. The Textile Society of America offers fee waiver scholarships for many workshops and tours. These pills don't come in my skin tone is a spoken word poetry collection about mental health by black, indigenous, and people of color. The John Montague International Poetry Fellowship in Cork will be awarded by The Munster Literature Centre to a poet from outside Ireland of international standing. The Collagist is published once every two months. Each issue features original fiction, poetry, and essays. Reunion: The Dallas Review seeks visual art. Robert Olen Butler will judge Gris-Gris’ first flash fiction contest. Winner receives $500 and publication. Nightboat Books is considering prose manuscripts. The NYSCA/NYFA Artist as Entrepreneur Boot Camp is a series of professional development programs for the arts communities in New York State conducted over a three year period. River Styx is a multicultural magazine of poetry, short fiction, essays, interviews, and art. The Boston Review offers full- and part-time paid internships. What We're Listening To On this week's Submishmash Weekly playlist: The infinite world of music with Waaju, a futuristic veneer by Arca, physical synesthesia from Kari Faux, and more. Follow Submittable's Spotify for new music and hot summer playlists.  What We're Reading From Submittable's Head of People, Asta So: I read The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society for my book club. It's about the German occupation of Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands, during WWII—I hadn't known the Germans occupied this area so close to the British mainland. It was a quick, charming read, with a very funny and witty protagonist (it's written in epistolary style); kind of reminded me of Jane Austen in terms of humor. Submitter Stats Thanks to 33 people that wrote to the newsletter about their June submissions. Solid work this month! You reported a total of 481 submissions, 346 rejections, and 38 acceptances. (Please note that your Submittable data is private—we’ll never share it unless you fill out our promotion form to join in the fun). A big congratulations on your acceptances Lara Arikan, Mary Bone, Cristina Bresser de Campos, Susan G. Duncan, E. W. Farnsworth, Keith Mark Gaboury, Sharon Frame Gay, J.W. Heacock, Duane L Herrmann, Michael Hill, Tyrel Kessinger, William A. Kofoed, Sheree La Puma, Andrew Lafleche, Alonso Llerena, Robert Lupton, Gargi Mehra, Erica Murdoch, Eric Rampson, Stephanie Roberts, Jim Ross, Annie Sheppard, Travis Stephens, Ramona Thompson, Devyn Wray, and J. L. Wright. You can’t win if you don’t play. High five to our June top five for most rejections received: Joely Acosta, William A. Kofoed, Jim Ross, Gargi Mehra, and Keith Mark Gabourdy.  We also appreciated the inspiration: One of my acceptances was for a story I wrote two years ago. I reworked it after each rejection—nine times. Never give up.   Great Month! 1 of every 17 accepted! And yes they all surprised me. There's nothing like the occasional acceptance to buoy up my confidence and get me writing more. It's just hugely inspiring when someone shows faith in your work.   I am happy to report that after years of submitting, I was finally accepted somewhere!   Join us next month when Submitter Stats submissions open on 7/31 here. 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 Can shared artist studios enhance creativity? (Artsy) Roxane Gay: ‘The World, Wide Open’ (The Undefeated). Attention as writing craft (Granta). Popular culture, Alice Bolin, and the alluring occult (Bustle). ‘Over and over you are parachuting into an unfamiliar country and culture. You have to make connections, get the sense of a place and gather enough material to write something’ (New York Times). No excuses, or making your manuscript in the moments between (The Millions). Catching up with Sharon LaForge years after Larry Colton’s basketball book (The Missoulian). A typeface for Pride 2018 (AIGA Eye on Design). Blog bonanza: Inspiration fishing with Andrea Johnston, filmmaking after film school from Kristal Sotomayor, what to expect at film festivals by Tyler Dunning, and film opportunities (Submittable). Some Opportunities SAND, Berlin’s English Literary Journal, seeks poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and visual art. Lost & Found from Tin House features short essays examining under-read, overlooked, or otherwise 'lost' books which—for reasons personal, political, artistic, or otherwise—deserve to be found again. For Solo: A Festival of Dance, On the Boards seeks performance proposals of approximately 20 minutes in length. Paper Darts seeks flash prose. Twice a year four Maine artists are awarded a studio and stipend for six months through the Ellis-Beauregard Foundation's Studio Resident Program. The Peter K. Hixson Memorial Award sponsored by Writer’s Relief will be presented to one poet and one short story writer. Winners will receive $1,800 in Writer’s Relief submission services free of charge. Chaleur seeks essays, stories, poetry, and art for its August issue. Target Gallery invites artists working in all visual media to send artwork for the Art of Armistice, a group exhibition that explores the after-effects of war. Storgy seeks short stories for its Shallow Creek Competition. Now in its 26th year, The Living Room Series is a new play development program from The Blank Theatre in Los Angeles. Carve accepts short stories, poetry, and nonfiction year-round from anywhere in the world. Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis welcomes visual artists, performers, musicians, designers, architects, filmmakers, and other creatives to participate in Open Studios STL. The Piltdown Review seeks short fiction that balances elegant writing with actual story. Festival author, panel/event proposal, and exhibitor applications open for Montana Book Festival. Visible Ink is an annual anthology promoting emerging Australian writers and artists. The Black Doctoral Network's Conference Committee invites workshop proposals for its 2018 conference from academics and professionals in the social sciences, STEM, and humanities. Redivider seeks previously unpublished works from new, emerging, and established artists and writers. For its fall issue, Nunum is calling for art and flash fiction. Gold Wake Live, the online extension and soul-expansion of Gold Wake Press, in interested in all genres. The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra seeks a stage manager and ticket services assistant. Come work with Submittable in Missoula, MT.  Submitter Stats Share your hits and misses to be part of next week's newsletter. Please note: Submittable will never publicize your submission data unless you fill out our promotions form to express interest. That would be very uncool. What We're Listening To On this week's Submishmash Weekly playlist: Radiohead x 2, Paul White, James Brown, Kelly Lee Owens, King Krule, Grizzly Bear, Haley Heynderickx, A$AP Rocky + Frank Ocean, and more. Follow Submittable's Spotify for new music and hot summer playlists.  What We're Reading Customer Experience Representative Hannah Bollig recently read Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall.  This book describes one man’s journey into the world of ultra-marathon running—it explores the role of running in other cultures and addresses our relationship to running, as a species, from a biological perspective. Mixing story and science, Born to Run takes you off the couch and out on a true adventure. 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 On the custom of italicizing non-English words (Quartzy). ‘The big letters say: this is an important literary book. The exuberant backgrounds say: and it’s totally hot right now’ (Lit Hub). R.I.P., Donald Hall (PBS). Art history analysis: Carters at the Louvre (Time). Taking Laura Ingalls Wilder to task, taking her name away (Melville House Books). ‘Whatever you think it’s like after you publish a book, it’s actually harder than that’ (The Millions). A video essay traces how 'the Coen brothers use vehicles and roads in their films to tell a story’ (Laughing Squid). In Turkey: writing and publishing from prison (The Guardian). In conversation with St. Vincent’s stylist, Emily Batson (Design Observer via AIGA). The time is ripe for time-themed prompts (Submittable). Some Opportunities The theme for Exposition Review's Flash 405 Contest is ‘Nature.’ Editors seek flash works in the following categories: fiction, nonfiction, experimental, poetry, stage, and screen. Pursue Pictures seeks photographs for its ‘People and Places’ category. Winner receives $2500 prize and gallery feature. The Huntington Arts Council invites artists to participate in Wearable Art. Work should be representative of the creative inspiration found in garments, accessories, and representational work (design boards, performance images, etc.). The Adrift Short Story Competition from Driftwood Press will award short stories that keep the editors up at night. David Jauss will serve as this year’s final judge. Mothers Always Write is holding its next online literary writers boot camp, focused on perfecting the literary essay through extensive one-on-one coaching. NBC’s Alternative Directors Program will give five female and ethnically diverse entrants with at least one directing credit the opportunity to shadow NBC and Universal Television Alternative Studios unscripted series. For its Nonfiction Prize, Booth seeks any and all creative nonfiction: essay, memoir, criticism, documentary, graphic/comics nonfiction, testimony, field notes, hermit crab, braided, experimental, and so on. Sequestrum is accepting fiction, nonfiction, and poetry for Issue 17. Woman Made Gallery seeks artists for ‘Language of the Voiceless,’ art inspired by, and in memoriam to Nancy Hild. The winner of the of the Comstock Review Muriel Craft Bailey Poetry Contest judged by Maggie Smith will receive $1,000. The Growlery is a privately run artist residency located in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood open to visual artists and performance artists. The 2018 Poetry Competition from the UK’s Ambit Magazine, judged by Malika Booker, is open to writers of any nationality, aged 16 or over. The theme for this year is ‘Home’. Magnum Foundation is accepting proposals for Photography in Collaboration: Migration and Religion, an initiative for photographers to expand upon their practice by working with creative partners from other disciplines. Selected projects will receive project development support and production grants of up to $25,000. The Staunch Book Prize will award £2000 to a thriller that does not involve violence to women. From the University of Iowa's Carver School of Medicine, The Examined Life seeks fiction and nonfiction related to health and the human condition. Prism International seeks poetry, prose, and nonfiction prize entries. Nimrod’s Francine Ringold Awards for New Writers of fiction and poetry honor writers at the beginning of their careers. A new international web magazine and literary journal, I Come From The World, seeks visual art, multimedia, photography, and creative nonfiction. Uncomfortable Revolution is offering 4 paid media fellowships to support up-and-coming talent, and give fellows a launchpad for their future careers. Creative Nonfiction’s internships offers undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate individuals the opportunity to learn new skills in the realm of literary publishing.  What We're Listening To On this week's Submishmash Weekly playlist: Post-Tropicalia 70's Chilean folk courtesy of Manduka, incredible experimental jazz from Australian quintet Tangents, the inability to breathe by Standing on the Corner, and more. Submittable's Spotify = Your New Music What We're Reading Sales Representative Bryce Kilker recently finished Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World. In this book, Cal Newport discusses the challenges of finding focus as increased digital and spatial accessibility take up more and more of our limited mental bandwidth. He puts together a strong case for knowledge workers to intentionally craft an environment that cuts out distraction and promotes focus. What I liked best about this book were the practical techniques Newport offers, including an implementable system for any reader’s daily schedule.   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