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Publishing & Creative News Twenty-one scholars make their case for the most significant book of the last twenty years (The Chronicle of Higher Education). An excerpt from Michelle Obama’s memoir (The Guardian). ‘If eating as a woman is fraught, doing so as a woman on TV is even more so’ (Eater). Lucy, Penny, Chip, Poppy, Trouble, and more Haiku for pets (The Rumpus). Architect Dy Proeung: ‘Rather than destroy his life’s work, he hid every piece of evidence of his past in the ground’ (Roads & Kingdoms). Poetry-reading has grown substantially and other great data-derived art trends from a new NEA report (National Endowment for the Arts). Eight great literary podcasts (The Washington Post). ‘Baldwin’s glimmer of faith in the world he volcanically condemned was even more extraordinary because, though the deck was stacked against him, he resisted succumbing to despair’ (The Paris Review). Explore the Art Institute of Chicago's collection online (AIC). On letting go, on finishing, and a new film opportunities list (Submittable). Some Opportunities For its inaugural contest, Panoplyzine seeks poetry, short fiction, and prose. The theme is ‘Untamed.’ The CLMP Firecracker Awards for Independently Published and Self-Published Literature aim to celebrate and promote great literary works. The LES Studio Program from Artists Alliance Inc provides three and six-month residencies to under-represented, emerging, and mid-career artists. Muse/A seeks poetry and lyrics essays. Sweet is holding its annual Flash Nonfiction Contest for essays between 500-1,000 words. Grand Prize is $500 and 20 handmade chapbooks. For its Spring Solstice issue, Leaping Clear seeks fiction, art, audio/video poems and music by artists with intentional meditation or contemplation practice. Fearsome Critters is looking for written, visual, and hybrid works by Millennial and Millennial-adjacent creators for Volume Two of its annual full-color print journal. Atmosphere Press is a collaborative press seeking books in all genres, from business to self-help to novels to poetry to YA and everything in between. Emily Geminder and Genevieve Kaplan will judge Prism Review’s annual contests in short fiction (literary) and poetry. Antenna’s Paper Machine Residency will host local and national/international artists to develop creative projects and public programs that explore and expand the possibilities of print-based artistic inquiry. For its annual print issue, The McNeese Review is currently accepting poetry and fiction. Tahoma Literary Review seeks fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Feedback option available for prose submissions. The Scintillating Starts Contest from Writer Advice is open to 1250 words from a first chapter in fiction, memoir, or creative nonfiction. Film Fund will provide up to $10,000 to support short films. Independent filmmakers should send a single sentence that presents their compelling premise and also conveys why they need funding to achieve their vision. Gold Wake Press is reading for full-length manuscripts in all genres during its Fall Open Reading period. The Passed Note is an online journal for a YA audience. For the first time, it's hosting a contest for poetry, nonfiction, and fiction by teens aged 12-19. Utah’s Route 7 seeks fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art/photography, and reviews/critiques from adventurers and desert dwellers nationwide. Lighthouse Writers Workshop's Fort Lyon Fellowship offers professional writers the opportunity to pursue their artistic discipline in a scenic environment while providing creative writing instruction to homeless veterans in Colorado. Up North Lit’s Poetry Prize, judged by poet Kai Carlson-Wee, is open to anyone with ties to or writing about the Midwest. Submittable seeks a full-time Product Designer. What We're Listening To The Submishmash Weekly playlist is new each week. Maisha ride the cosmic wave on the backs of Sun Ra and the Coltranes, Rosalía with an unparalleled brand of flamenco pop, Earl Sweatshirt's lo-fi depressant, and more. Be sure to follow Submittable on Spotify for more great music. What We're Reading Office Manager Karin Schalm recommends MAID: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive, by Stephanie Land. I know Stephanie Land from Missoula; she’s a recent star from the University of Montana’s undergraduate creative writing program. Land handed me an advance reading copy of her memoir Maid (which will be released by Hachette in January) and once I started reading, I couldn’t put it down. She details her exhausting and stressful life of being poor, single, and uneducated with a small child to raise, and how missing work cleaning other people’s houses due to a broken car or unforgiving winter weather means going hungry or cold, or both. The glue throughout this story is Land’s young daughter, Mia, who learns to walk in a homeless shelter. Mia is a smart, spunky, and loving child who thrives in spite of the many difficulties her small family faces. By the end of the book we can’t help but feel she and her extraordinary mom are the lucky ones because they have what it takes to survive and—more importantly—each other.   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 on social media? Let us know! Got high-quality writing related to publishing or digital media? Consider submitting it here. 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 & Creative News Curated by US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith, 'an invitation to think about our own capacities for empathy' (PBS). Color palette, compliance, and other ballot-design necessities (AIGA Eye on Design). Sterling HolyWhiteMountain: ‘Some of us went to college to escape our treaty-established, semi-sovereign homeland’ (The Atlantic). A definitive list of distinguished foreign films (Open Culture). Hue Nguyen is a seamstress for astronauts (New York Times). A book of Norwegian fairy tales, 'perhaps one of the finest creations to emerge from this golden age of illustration' (Public Domain Review). History lessons with John Leguizamo (Smithsonian). 'Sales for e-books—the digital versions that we were told just a few years ago would change the publishing industry forever—are stagnant' (Observer). When rejection is horror, residencies rock, and quilting prompts writing (Submittable). Some Opportunities The Mighty Line is seeking short stories for its debut issue. Visual artists sought by stARTup Art Fair, a contemporary art fair for independent artists held in Los Angeles. Santa Ana River Review seeks fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, and visual art for online publication. Star 82 Review is interested in imaginative flash fiction (between 50-250 words), as well as other art and writing. For its annual Trifecta, Iron Horse Literary Review welcomes longer work: poems that are 10-20 pages long, prose pieces between 25 and 40 pages. Target Gallery invites artist proposals for solo exhibition in the summer of 2019. The Kellogg-Hubbard Library is seeking proposals from Vermont poets, writers, and artists for PoemCity 2019. Creative Nonfiction seeks new work about the role of games and play in our everyday lives. Julie Kane will judge IthacaLit’s Lauren K. Alleyne Difficult Fruit Poetry Prize. Hidden River Arts is accepting written work for a number of award categories. In 2019, The Puritan will publish a special supplementary issue edited by guest editor Rahat Kurd, to ask the question: 'What does it mean to be a Muslim writer?' The Walter Feldman Fellowship for Emerging Artists is open to New England-based artists working in non-photographic two-dimensional media. Metafore accepts poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction year-round. The Write Launch is an online literary magazine publishing short stories, poetry, creative nonfiction, novellas, and novel chapters. During its fall reading period, The Penn Review is seeking poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and artwork. London Photo Festival is accepting photographic work for its free monthly competition and for 'The World Around Us.' The Quebec Writers' Federation Mentorship Program is accepting applications, both from those seeking a mentor, and from those who wish to be a mentor. The Future Founders Fellowship is open to all young founders, aged 18-30. New Zealand’s Bread & Circus Festival is calling for volunteers. Submittable seeks a full-time Product Designer. What We're Listening To The Submishmash Weekly playlist is new each week. Vince Staples on the dead homies, a captivating take on life and death by Kasper Bjørke, Ian William Craig paints the back of your eyelids with mud, and more. Be sure to follow Submittable on Spotify for more great music. What We're Reading Senior Software Engineer Nick Kircos is reading American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon, by Steven Rinella. Once numbering in the tens of millions, with a range from New York to Oregon and Mexico to Alaska, American Buffalo tells the tragic history of America’s most iconic animal. Steven Rinella begins the story in Montana, on an elk hunt with his brothers, where they unearth a bison skull on a steep mountainside. This discovery spawns an interest in the animal that leads the author to New York City in search of Black Diamond’s head (the buffalo that was used as the model for the famous Buffalo Nickel, sought after by coin collectors and fetching thousands of dollars). It also leads him to Alaska on a rare hunt for some of the last free-roaming bison on the planet. The book is filled with wonderful American history tidbits and trivia and will change the way you think of buffalo forever. 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 on social media? Let us know! Got high-quality writing related to publishing or digital media? Consider submitting it here. 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 & Creative News Who are founders in tech accountable to (WIRED)? 'It’s no fun if you don’t piss off and embarrass your ancestors' (AAWW). Eleven books towards a trans cannon (The Paris Review). 'You are more than the work you make, inherently worthy if you never draft another piece before you die' (Little Patuxent Review). Unraveling the history behind the Bayeux Tapestry (History Extra). 'We always talk about disguise as though it’s an onion, whether you’re building it or whether you’re peeling it off' (Laughing Squid). Painting Matthew Shepard, twenty years later (High Country News). Outcome paths from 'Choose Your Own Adventure' (Atlas Obscura). Analyzing literary markets and prompts on the body (Submittable). Some Opportunities Meridian seeks poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and art for print publication. Poet’s House is accepting master class applications. For its fourth Microtext anthology, Medusa’s Laugh is seeking concise, creative pieces. The Science Fiction + Fantasy Short Film Festival is still considering short films for the 2019 festival. Diane Seuss will judge The Penny-Farthing Prize for Lyric Poetry from Guesthouse. Black Mountain Institute and The Believer invites applications for residential fellowships from emerging and distinguished writers. Through The Boston Foundation, Live Arts Boston will provide up to $15,000 in project-specific funds to performing artists, small performing arts organizations, bands, groups of artists, producers, and presenters. Hospitalfield is accepting residency applications for interdisciplinary work and printmaking. The UCLA Center for the Study of Women invites papers, roundtable presentations, and poster proposals for its 29th Annual Thinking Gender Graduate Student Research Conference. Writers in Paradise conference is accepting workshop applications. For its Spring/Summer 2019 issue, Nimrod will feature poems, short stories, creative nonfiction pieces, and translations by writers from the Middle East and North Africa. Quiddity seeks prose and poetry from emerging and established writers around the world. Artlink Inc. is seeking an Arizona artist for its Park Central Mural EAST project. Philadelphia’s Moonstone Arts Center has an open call for chapbook and poetry contest submissions. Fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and art/comics sought by mojo for its online journal. International Print Center New York seeks applicants for the New Prints Program. Thorntree Press is seeking work for ‘A Whore’s Manifesto,’ a forthcoming collection of art and writing by current and former sex workers For 'small & mighty,' a juried exhibition, The Clay Studio of Missoula is calling for entries from artists in the United States, Mexico, and Canada. Studio Institute seeks students who want to spend 6 weeks in Venice, Italy this summer working at the US Venice Biennial Pavilion interpreting the work of sculptor Martin Puryear. Come work with us in Missoula. Find Submittable job opportunities here. What We're Listening To The latest Submishmash Weekly playlist: A heroic dose of 90’s Hip-Hop, Nu Guinea serves up coastal grooves and Italo-boogie, Neneh Cherry with broken politics, and more. We also recommend Soul Glo playlist, featuring choice soul selections—follow Submittable on Spotify for all the good stuff. What We're Reading Submittable illustrator extraordinaire Josh Quick is reading Marbles by Ellen Forney. I was introduced to Ellen Forney through I Love Led Zepplin, her graphic novel with curious kinetic brushstrokes about butt-kicking female friends and her edgy adventures in Seattle. She published Marbles years later and it is an honest depiction of her struggle with bipolar disorder and her work to become stable. Marbles describes coping strategies that help her in her struggle through a visual journal format 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 on social media? Let us know! Got high-quality writing related to publishing or digital media? Consider submitting it here. 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 & Creative News A monster symposium in four parts (The Believer). ‘Even witches have to have pockets’ (Fred Rogers Productions). Paul Blaisdell and his B-movie beasts (Dangerous Minds). Makers of art try to make ends meet on Patreon (Format Magazine). Honoring playwright Ntozake Shange and Todd Bol of the little libraries (New York Times). ‘Luis Felipe Fabre combines his expertise on Sor Juana with his passion for horror film to resurrect Mexico’s most famous nun’ (3:AM Magazine). Dress like the cover of a gorgeous book (ELLE). A close look at librarians and diversity (School Library Journal). ‘Where does creativity come from (and why do schools kill it off)?’, a radio interview with Ai Weiwei (Freakonomics). Accessibility news, a conversation with Tom Strelich, and alternatives to the sample issue (Submittable). Some Opportunities The Carve Magazine Prose & Poetry Contest seeks to recognize short fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from writers all over the world. $1000 prize for each genre with judges Belle Boggs, Alex Lemon, and Carmen Giménez Smith. 580 Split Journal of Arts + Letters is seeking prose, poetry, and art for Issue 21: Breach. The inaugural Harbor Mountain Press MURA Book Award is open to manuscripts containing 48-120 pages of original poetry. PRX is accepting applications for its Google Podcasts creator program, an accelerator developed to lower barriers to podcasting and increase the diversity of voices in the industry globally. Lit Up seeks fiction and creative nonfiction for its Crossroads Contest. Writing Between the Vines is accepting applications for 2019 retreats. Rebecca Brown and Mary-Kim Arnold will judge a collaborative book contest from Essay Press and the University of Washington Bothell’s MFA Program.  The Helix seeks vivid prose, poetry, and art. Facilitated by Abrams Arts Center, the Jerome Foundation AIRspace Residency for Performing Artists will support four early career NYC movement-based performing artists. For its Edna St. Vincent Millay Poetry Prize, The Tishman Review will award $500 and publication in the April 2019 issue. Renaissance Theaterworks is seeking experienced or aspiring womxn-identified playwrights from the Midwest for its Br!NK residency and Br!NK Br!efs. The Rush seeks poetry, fiction, nonfiction, visual art, and photography for online publication. The Historical Novel Society North America is accepting proposals for its 2019 conference. For its new chapbook press, The A3 Review seeks work that's lyrical and intense, a bit weird, hybrid, experimental. Judges for 2018 Wabash Prize for Fiction and Poetry from Sycamore Review are Rachel Khong and Hanif Abdurraqib. Through The Human Family, the North Dakota Human Rights Arts Festival festival is accepting submissions for all mediums of 2D, 3D and live performance artistic works. The Loft administers the McKnight Artists Fellowships for Writers. Five $25,000 awards are presented annually to accomplished Minnesota writers and spoken word artists. Disjecta seeks Oregon artists for its 2019 Portland Biennial. Southeast Missouri State University Press is accepting entries for the Mighty River Short Story Contest and the Wilda Hearne Flash Fiction Contest. The winner of Cosmographia Prize for Spiritual Nonfiction will receive publication and $500.  What We're Listening To The Submishmash Weekly playlist is new each week. Mr. Mitch with the sleek talkbox riffs, scorched earth policy by the incomparable Finn, Julia Holter unleashes her imagination in technicolor, and more. Don't miss the Soul Glo playlist, and follow Submittable on Spotify. What We're Reading VP of Engineering Lance Fisher is reading Blood, Sweat, and Pixels, by Jason Schreier. Jason Schreier from Kotaku has compiled a collection about the process of creating video games by thoroughly interviewing those involved and sharing their stories. Stardew Valley just launched on iOS, and my kids have been loving it. My 11-year-old and I read through the chapter about how Eric Barone built every aspect of the game himself over five years while scraping by on the support of his girlfriend. Then, how he went from rags to riches as it launched to be one of the most popular games of 2016. Reading the stories of the creators is giving us a new depth of appreciation for the games. 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 on social media? Let us know! Got high-quality writing related to publishing or digital media? Consider submitting it here. 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

Hi there, Several exciting writing deadlines are approaching this fall. We thought you might enjoy these creative opportunities. Write on, Anna P.S. If you no longer wish to receive these notifications, you can unsubscribe here. The Owl Canyon Press Hackathon #2 provides the opening paragraph and two options for paragraph 25, and you craft the rest of your 50 paragraph story. Prizes include cash awards for the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place stories, plus publication in a short story anthology.  Click to Submit No fee to submit. Submission Deadline: December 1 Superstition Review seeks submissions of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and art for their upcoming issue. Submit prose of up to 4000 words or up to 5 poems or digital images. Click to Submit No fee to submit. Submission Deadline: November 5 The Madison Review seeks submissions to the Chris O'Malley Prize in Fiction and the Phyllis Smart-Young Prize in Poetry. Both awards carry a cash prize and publication in The Madison Review. Click to Submit $10 fee to submit. Submission Deadline: December 1 What kind of writing opportunities are you looking for? We’d love to hear your thoughts.  Our mailing address is: Submittable PO Box 8255 Missoula, MT 59807-8255

Publishing & Creative News Welcome to seven special dollhouses (Artsy). Kim Sagwa: ‘The attempt to represent reality by language only results in the monstrous distortion of reality’ (BOMB). Maybe your hot streak just hasn’t happened yet (New York Times). The doodled duck, the dog, and chicken pants (The Guardian). ‘Type ornaments make a perfect complement to the rest of the typesetting in your book is because they are vector art’ (The Book Designer). A personal, handheld library (The Outline). ‘Maps of American tribes never include Puerto Rico’ (McSweeney’s). How to improve science in fiction (Writer's Digest). Easily embed civic engagement—and register, of course (Vote.org). In praise of short pieces, in appreciation of art, and in love with splitting up (Submittable). Some Opportunities Submittable seeks rejection horror stories to fill the coffin, er coffer. Editors at Sheepshead Review are especially interested in creative nonfiction and visual art during this open reading period. Puerto del Sol is seeking poetry, prose, and visual art for The Absence Issue. The Transpacific Literary Project from AAWW seeks literary work from writers in East and Southeast Asia that engages with ‘the pronoun.’ Editors welcome writing from Asian languages in translation, as well as writing in English. Rathalla Review is currently seeking poetry, fiction, flash fiction, and creative nonfiction for its online journal. For its Special Anniversary Edition 10, ArtMaze Magazine welcomes works in any visual art medium. The Koubek Center’s En Residencia program supports emerging Latino artists from a variety of disciplines for six-month residencies culminating in arts projects celebrating life in Little Havana. Rockvale Writers' Colony in Tennessee is open for residency applications from writers of any genre. Send up to 3 poems, or one short story, for Halcyone’s bi-annual publication featuring the 64 best poets of 2018 published by the Black Mountain Press. Arch Street Press is hosting a fiction contest for first chapters to celebrate the publication of its new literary journal, Meet Me @ 19th Street. Tin House is accepting scholarship, single-parent scholarship, and general applications for its Winter 2019 Workshops. The Queens Arts Fund, through the Queens Council on the Arts, offers grants to Queens-based individual artists and nonprofit organizations. NonBinary Review seeks fiction, creative nonfiction, flash, hybrid, poetry, and visual art on the theme of Dante’s Inferno. Boldface, a conference in Houston dedicated to emerging writers, is open for registration. Mary Miller will judge Atticus Review’s second annual flash fiction contest. Brevity publishes flash nonfiction: crisp, concise essays of 750 words or fewer. The Creative Entrepreneur Fellowship from Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston focuses on entrepreneurs and artists living and/or working in Roxbury and surrounding neighborhoods. Little Patuxent Review focuses on writers and artists from the Mid-Atlantic region, but all excellent work originating in the United States will be considered. Half of the next issue will be dedicated to LGBTQI+ writers in Maryland. Applications are open to join The Common’s team of readers, who evaluate and provide feedback on submissions. Creative Nonfiction is accepting internship applications. What We're Listening To On this week’s Submishmash Weekly playlist: Low paints the outer limits of haze with anxiety, the UK delivers yet another incredible jazz act with newcomers 1000 Kings, Sleaford Mods smear mundane walls with zero flair, and more. Follow Submittable’s Spotify for more great music selections. What We're Reading Software Engineer Luiz Lopes recently finished Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, by Yuval Noah Harari. Sapiens looks at how our species went from 'insignificant animals, whose ecological impact was less than that of fireflies or jellyfish' to ruling the planet. It builds the argument that Homo sapiens achieved this by large-scale cooperation. This level of cooperation is only achievable due to our ability to believe in stories and myths that only exist in our collective imagination. This is a book filled with provocative arguments, and will make you think about where we've been but also where we are going as a species. 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 on social media? Let us know! Got high-quality writing related to publishing or digital media? Consider submitting it here. 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 & Creative News Who was Rick Stein and where is he now? The ultimate obit-mystery (Delaware Online). Creative instruction and working the construction scar at Rock Creek (Brevity). ‘From 1908 to 1940, the Sears Modern Homes Program offered complete mail-order houses to the would-be homeowner’ (99% Invisible). How Hila, a graphic novel about an Afghan maternity ward, was brought to life (Doctors Without Borders). Some book smarts (literally) for professionals (Inc.). ‘Hobbies, let me remind you, are supposed to be something different from work’ (New York Times). John Vailant on fire: the people, places, and future (The Guardian). A transcendent audio poetry compilation (On Being). ‘Five odds-defying female artists who travelled from Ninth Street to the Museum of Modern Art and beyond’ (The New Yorker). Writing airborne, more animation, and a roundup of spooky submission calls (Submittable). Some Opportunities The Sea Letter is currently accepting short fiction and poetry for its Winter 2019 issue. Hawaiʻi Review seeks writing in all genres, as well as audio/visual and performance art in all media, from Black and/or Indigenous writers and artists on the theme of Indigenous & Black Connected Resistance. Now in its fifth year, the Gomma Photography Grant is tailored to fund photographers, both emerging and established, from around the world. Metonym is calling for poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, photography, and art about the human experience. Sonora Review seeks nonfiction and flash prose contest submissions for its Issue 75, with the theme of ‘Desire.’ The 2018 WaterSedge Poetry Chapbook Contest, from Writer’s Relief, awards a $500 cash prize, publication in both print and e-book formats, Amazon distribution, and 25 free print copies. Awakened Voices seeks to make visible the artistic expression of survivors of sexual violence. Editors are now seeking blog posts. Lunch Ticket, Antioch University's Literary Journal, welcomes creative work in every genre. For its inaugural Fiction Prize, Into the Void seeks short stories of up to 5000 words. First prize is $1,000. The Drum seeks audio poetry, short fiction, and essays, as well as place-based work for its Dispatches category. Bread & Beauty is currently accepting flash fiction, short fiction, poetry, nonfiction, memoir, and art for online publication. Cut Poems from Air, from Atrocious Poets, offers a $500 prize and publication for poems inspired by the work of Gwendolyn Brooks. Common Field invites proposals from arts organizers and organizations for its 2019 Philadelphia Convening. Brooklyn’s Smack Mellon has a number of open visual art calls. The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Archives Research Residency provides partial support for costs scholars may incur in order to do research at the Rauschenberg Foundation and its Archives located in Manhattan, New York. The Half and One Prize, from Ka Ktien Media, seeks to promote the best in Indian and international writing. Open to short stories, short short-stories, narrative nonfiction, and written songs. Northern California Writers’ Retreat is accepting applications for 2019 retreats. TINGE Magazine is looking for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that is honest, affecting, and revelatory. Submittable seeks pitches for content focused on photography. What We're Listening To A new Submishmash Weekly playlist: Little Dragon squeeze the last drop out of summer… not your parent’s Swedish disco, The Other Years spill the muddled earth through your stereo, AAR with Milan’s latest lamb to the rave slaughter, and more. Plus check out our new playlist Soul Glo, featuring choice soul selections! What We're Reading Data Science Intern Anna Marbut is reading Dataclysm, by Christian Rudder. Christian Rudder, co-founder of OkCupid and Harvard graduate in Mathematics, provides insight into human behavior based on statistical analysis of data from OkCupid and other dating/social media sites. While the results of his analyses are interesting and often quite poignant, I've especially been impressed by how clearly he explains the analyses themselves, easily taking the reader through the methods one step at a time. As a data-professional, this level of clarity is something I will aspire to from hereon. 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 on social media? Let us know! Got high-quality writing related to publishing or digital media? Consider submitting it here. 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 & Creative News Google tries to make up with photographers (VentureBeat). An interview with Cedar Sigo, writing ‘these times when the Earth is circling the drain’ (Guernica). Anticipatory October book lists: fantasy and sci-fi, young adult (Io9, Book Riot). Sound design: ‘the proposal inserts billowing openings into a floating canopy roof, continuing these sonic volumes deep into the hall’s interiors’ (Web Urbanist). Ten tomes for storytellers (Signature). What if you don’t have to choose? ‘For writers, there is continuity of perception across multiple forms of labor, multiple choices of career, multiple explorations of identity’ (The Millions). Examining gender inequity in Nobel Prizes for science (Nature h/t TMN). ‘In Western culture, we’re taught at an early age that the key tenets of good behavior fall somewhere between saying thank you and sorry’ (Catapult). A clinical take on poetry as good medicine (Nautilus). There's nice light inside a cello (Twisted Sifter). Legality and publishing regarding sex work; first steps in a playful life and death animation (Submittable).  Some Opportunities The online journal Inlandia: A Literary Journey is seeking poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and images for its late fall/early winter issue. O, Miami, a Knight-funded poetry festival, is accepting programming proposals for 2019. The Owl Canyon Press Hackathon #2, with a $3000 grand prize, provides the 1st and 25th paragraphs for a 50-paragraph short story. Wraparound South seeks fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, interviews, reviews, and digital audio for its Winter Issue 2019. Free teaching resources for youth filmmaking from Submittable and AT&T Film Awards. The Molotov Cocktail seeks monster-themed flash fiction for its annual Flash Monster contest. Entries can be literary or genre-oriented, art-house or grindhouse. Diverse Discourse brings national curators, artistic directors, and critics to Houston to present a free public lecture and conduct studio visits with Houston-area artists, performers, and writers. The “Made in NY” Women’s Film, TV and Theatre Fund from NYFA provides grants to encourage and support the creation of film, television, digital, and live theatre content that reflects the voices and perspectives of all who identify as women. Jabberwock Review seeks fiction, poetry, and essays. The Writing By Writers Workshop at Tomales Bay brings aspiring writers into close community with nationally known poets and writers. The winner of Yalobusha Review’s Barry Hannah Prize in Fiction will receive $500 and publication. The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review accepts original poetry and poetry in translation year round. Printed Matter is calling for artist book proposals from individuals who reside in the five boroughs of New York City as part of its ongoing Emerging Artists Publication Series. Capture Photography Festival is accepting exhibition and event proposals for its April 2019 event. The Assets for Artists program from MASS MoCA is accepting applications from MA artists for its matched savings grant program and fall workshops. CONDER/dance is reviewing applications for Breaking Ground 2019 Contemporary Dance and Film Festival. West Texas Literary Review seeks poems, essays, flash fiction, and photographs for print publication. Adam Johnson will judge The Arkansas International’s Emerging Writer's Prize in Fiction. Clackamas County Arts Alliance is seeking an Executive Director. Vestal Review seeks a Social Media Coordinator. What We're Listening To On this week’s Submishmash Weekly playlist: Little Simz is an undisputed boss in a dress, Ouri delivers rolling Italo laced with vaporous modern blues, Kelela's sultry sonics get swagged-out by Kaytranada, and more Follow Submittable’s Spotify for more great music selections. What We're Reading Web Engineer Genevieve Crow facilitates Submittable's Book Club. This month the group is reading a nonfiction title: The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit, by Michael Finkel. The story of Christopher Knight, a man who wandered into the woods of Maine and stayed there for twenty-seven years, is an easy one to become absorbed in. The book alternates between a close portrait of Knight and a wide-lensed examination of our attitudes about being alone. A fast, often funny read, but not necessarily a light one. Knight's story asks us to consider what it means to reside in or outside of society—and essentially what constitutes meaning in life. 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 on social media? Let us know! Got high-quality writing related to publishing or digital media? Consider submitting it here. 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