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Publishing & Creative News Xwi7xwa library in British Columbia deconstructs hierarchy (YES! Magazine). Drawing ‘forces students to grapple with what they’re learning and reconstruct it in a way that makes sense to them’ (Edutopia). The dangers of Kindle Unlimited, plagiarism, and scams (The Guardian). ‘Moments of unlearning’ with Haegue Yang’s eye mask (Frieze). Reaching Kirk through poetry and the topside underworld (Please Kill Me). The Tournament of Books continues (TMN). ‘Behind the wall a single painting, dark with age, ran from end to end’ (New York Times). Women filmmakers in praise Agnès Varda (IndieWire). ‘The social value of the humanities will surely grow as Big Tech confronts its proliferating problems’ (The New York Review of Books). Tips for marketing a film and opportunities for photographers (Submittable). Last call for Eliza So Fellowship applications coming Friday (Submittable). Some Opportunities The Whiting Foundation’s Creative Nonfiction Grant of $40,000 will be awarded to as many as eight writers in the process of completing a book-length work. Pigeon Pages seeks previously unpublished fiction pieces of 3,000 words or less for a contest judged by Laura Sims. For its 2019 poetry prize, Palette will award a single poem $4000 and publication. New York’s Museum of Arts and Design is accepting applications for its residency and fellowship programs. So to Speak Journal seeks poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and visual art with an intersectional feminist focus for its annual 2019 summer online issue. Permafrost is calling for new and innovative approaches to the creative process for its fourth annual New Alchemy contest. That means anything goes. For its nonfiction prize, JuxtaProse Literary Magazine is seeking previously unpublished creative nonfiction. The grand prize is $1,000. The Columbia Journalism Awards seeks entries for its John Chancellor and John B. Oakes Awards. Omnidawn is accepting applicants for its first annual Poetry Writing Conference. Pangyrus seeks well-crafted, thought-provoking writing and multimedia storytelling in every genre. For its July Writers Week, Idyllwild Arts will offer six fellowships. Gallery Route One is accepting applications from Bay Area artists, age 21 to 40, for two fellowships with stipends. Catamaran's Poetry Prize for book-length manuscripts is open to poets living in California, Washington, Oregon, Alaska, and Hawaii. The Pen Parentis Writing Fellowship for New Parents will celebrate one fiction writer who is the parent of at least one child under 10 years old. For the Knight Arts Challenges in Akron and Detroit, Knight Foundation will fund ideas that connect people to place and to each other through the arts. Passages North seeks entries for its biennial nonfiction and poetry contests, judged by Tyrese L. Coleman and Tarfia Faizullah. New American Press releases a new volume of recently published work from the Midwest each year. Devin G. Kelly will judge Thirty West Publishing House’s chapbook contest. The Climate Museum in NYC is seeking an Arts Marketing Coordinator, as well as interns and volunteers. Submittable is hiring for eight positions, including summer technical and product management fellowships. What We're Interested In Submittable is seeking to improve the submitter experience and would love your input. We've teamed up with a group of graduate students in Business Analytics from the University of Montana to create and analyze this survey. Thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts. If you have any questions, please be in touch.  Take Submitter Survey What We're Listening To The Submishmash Weekly playlist is updated every week: Wu-Lu trying to save his loved ones over jagged electronics, inhabiting cramped crawlspaces and Iraqi spider holes with billy woods and Kenny Segal, existential delight from Salami Rose Joe Louis, and more. Follow us for more great tunes at all times. What We're Reading Kirstyn O’Connor from the Sales Team is reading A House in the Sky: A Memoir, by Amanda Lindhout: I’m on a quest to fill my mind with stories of women triumphing over adversity. Amanda’s memoir takes you from the start of her unstable childhood home where she escaped in her National Geographic collection to her solo travels all over the world. With hopes of showing that the public, especially women, shouldn't be scared of the countries we are told to fear. Until Amanda ends up being kidnapped for ransom in the Somalian desert. Amanda leads you through her thoughts while being held captivate for 15 months. She teaches the reader how to dive deep in your mind and survive mentally and physically in the most troubling circumstances. 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 © 2019 Submittable, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Submittable PO Box 8255 Missoula, MT 59807

Publishing & Creative News Looking back at color theory (AIGA Eye on Design). ‘Dreams may be the most populist art there is and the wellspring of our most visionary masterpieces’ (Brain Pickings). Immersive fiction funded, with a focus on female players (Venture Beat). ‘We find that a substantial increase in arts educational experiences has remarkable impacts on students’ academic, social, and emotional outcomes’ (Brookings). Troll-hunting and the Shrill script (Fast Company). Jaime Black ‘created the REDress Project as an expression of her grief and her feeling of connectedness to fellow indigenous women’ (Smithsonian). A podcast roundup with something for every taste (Vulture). Lauren Groff praises scrapped drafts and failure (The Harvard Gazette). ‘Merwin published over two hundred works of poetry and prose in The New Yorker that speak to the breadth and singularity of his monumental career’ (The New Yorker). Tips for poetry performance and hot prompts (Submittable). Some Opportunities Chaleur Press is seeking essays from writers of diverse backgrounds for its inaugural anthology, ‘Bespoke Bones.’ The Arts Lab Fellowship from Halcyon is nine-month residential program for emerging artists working on projects which address issues of social justice, civic engagement, and community building. The AT&T Film Awards seeks futuristic films, short films highlighting social good, and films demonstrating innovative forms of storytelling. F(r)iction is seeking previously unpublished flash fiction, short fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry for its spring literary contests. The Oxford American Jeff Baskin Writers Fellowship is designed to support the writing of a debut book of creative nonfiction with a $10,000 stipend, housing, and an editorial apprenticeship. Poetry, prose, and artwork sought by Wisconsin Review. UPPERCASE Magazine seeks work for two Vintage Life features: Artists/Makers and Object Obsessions. Zone 3 is accepting work for its literary journal and book award in creative nonfiction. The 2019 Classical Commissioning Program from Chamber Music America is accepting grant applications. Brevity publishes flash nonfiction: crisp, concise essays of 750 words or fewer. GroundTruth is offering seven, two-month reporting fellowships for emerging journalists. BOOTH seeks poetry, fiction, nonfiction, comics, and lists (especially the last three) for print and online publication. For Issue 5: Passing, Anastamos seeks fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, visual art, and academic writing. Fusion Art is seeking entries for several international 2D and 3D art competitions. Book reviews and essays on poetry culture or poetics sought by Poetry Northwest. Redivider welcomes work from emerging and established writers year-round. For its 2019 Hemingway Shorts Contest, the Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park seeks stories no longer than 1,500 words. Maryland’s VisArts has a number of open opportunities for visual and performing artists. GASHER seeks poetry and prose readers. The 3rd annual Eliza So Fellowship from Submittable, judged by Joan Naviyuk Kane and Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, will honor books-in-progress by Native American and Immigrant writers. Come work with us in Missoula. Find job opportunities at Submittable here. What We're Watching Join Skillshare and Submittable for a free class: 'How to Get Published: A Step-by-Step Guide to Submitting Your Writing.'  In just under an hour, you'll learn about picking the right piece, where to submit, writing your cover letter, managing the process, and more! What We're Listening To The Submishmash Weekly playlist is updated every week: Warm analog blankets from Ana Roxanne, Rian Treanor with a big daft grin, Lord Byron serving Rudy's Chicken, and more. Follow Submittable on Spotify for great music all the time. What We're Reading The most recent Submittable Book Club selection was Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah, discussed here by Marketing Coordinator Grace Hulderman: Americanah is, in part, a love story about two Nigerians who migrate to the U.S and the U.K respectively before eventually making their way back home. Along the way, Adichie offers compelling and honest insight on identity, race, culture, and what it’s like to start a new life away from home. Through the eyes of the book’s protagonist, Ifemelu, readers learn about life as a “Non-American Black” in America and the culture-shock involved in moving from Nigeria to America. If Adichie’s strong and elegant voice isn't enough to sell you, she does it all while delivering social critiques that are nothing short of transformative. This book is one of few that I finished feeling utterly changed for the better. 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 © 2019 Submittable, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Submittable PO Box 8255 Missoula, MT 59807

Before we jump into our usual newsletter content, we have an exciting announcement: Submittable partnered with Skillshare, the online learning community for creators, to develop a free class for writers. In just under an hour, our very own Rachel Mindell walks you through a step-by-step guide to getting your writing published. Watch it free at https://skl.sh/submittable. Happy submitting!   Watch the free class Publishing & Creative News Arts and culture have a big impact on the national economy (Artsy). An interview with Shane McCrae (The Millions). ‘The installation’s delineations starkly demonstrate the ticking clock’ (Colossal). Tools, engravings, and the early brain science of reading and writing (Cosmos). ‘Getting it right...means striving to cover Indigenous stories with the same investigation, rigour, sensitivity, depth and accuracy as any other story’ (Magazines Canada). Stage machines and a (sometimes) dangerous stairway (Futility Closet). ‘The warm lighting made my skin glow and the mirror bore a millennial-pink #doingthings decal’ (The New Yorker). Analytics + Birding = ‘Wingspan’ (New York Times). Across the chasm: Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem in letters (Los Angeles Review of Books). ‘When I was at Everest base camp, I think it was more notable that I was female than that I was African American because there are so few women there’ (ABC 7 Chicago). Send us smart takes on writing for the creator's blog (Submittable). Some Opportunities Trestle Gallery is accepting artist residency applications as well as proposals for Small Works 2019. The Waterston Desert Writing Prize annually honors literary nonfiction that illustrates artistic excellence, sensitivity to place, and desert literacy. Sky Island Journal is seeking poetry, flash fiction, and creative nonfiction for Issue 8. Fitzroy Books, an imprint of Regal House Publishing, is accepting submissions for The Kraken Book Prize, recognizing excellence in the middle-grade fiction genre. Now in its 18th year, the Winning Writers Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest will award $2,250 in total prizes. For its online publication, daCunha seeks well-crafted, compelling fiction and creative non-fiction written with a strong voice. Jack Jones Literary Arts is hosting its third annual writing retreat, open exclusively to women of color writers and nonbinary writers of color. For Issue Four, Rockvale Review is seeking poetry. Each accepted poem will be paired with a piece of art and a few poems will be paired with a newly created musical composition. The Helix seeks fresh prose, poetry and art for their Spring 2019 issue. The Ocotillo Review from Kallisto Gaia Press seeks poetry, fiction, narrative nonfiction, and flash fiction. Spaceworks Tacoma is accepting applications from Pacific Northwest artists and curators to host an exhibition in the 950 Gallery. For its Immigrant Writing Book Prize, Restless Books will award $10,000 and publication for a work of nonfiction. The first ever Epiphany Awards from Motionpoems will acknowledge and celebrate inter/national poetry filmmaking. Oyster River Pages is seeking fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and visual art for its third annual issue and a special issue on the theme of ‘Delta.’ For its current reading period, Tahoma Literary Review is seeking stories, essays, and poetry. The winner of Lascaux Review’s annual poetry contest will receive $1000 and a bronze medallion for a single poem. For its Micro Issue, Arkana seeks prose, poetry, illustrated narrative, and writing for stage and screen that magnifies the microscopic. Orison Books is accepting entries for the 2019 Orison Prizes in Poetry & Fiction, judged by Eric Pankey and Victor LaValle. John Michael Kohler Arts Center is accepting applications for its 2020 Arts/Industry residency program. Find professional opportunities at Submittable here. What We're Listening To The Submishmash Weekly playlist is updated every week: Vampire Weekend has returned, sun-kissed and all, the cosmic background radiation of Helado Negro, Holly Herndon going for panspermic, melanphoria aesthetic, and more. Follow Submittable on Spotify great music all the time. 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! Copyright © 2019 Submittable, All rights reserved.

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Publishing & Creative News The poetry of Bonnie and Clyde (The Guardian). ‘When an imagined community like the nation fulfills the need for belonging that the neighborhood can no longer meet’ (New York Times). Exactly how much writing is math (Orca)? Apologies: to socks, dust, personification, and more (Brevity). The ins and outs of showing art in alternative venues (RedDotBlog). Scientists 'get to decipher humankind’s greatest mysteries, and pursue our own unique, creative visions’ (Journal of Experimental Medicine). Seven contributors from a range of fields on journalism’s contemporary failure (Columbia Journalism Review). The Grand Canyon revered via typewriter (NPR). 'Butte is on the verge of a final Superfund deal that the EPA promises will clean up the mining city once and for all’ (Montana Public Radio). Smart advice on research, for writers (Submittable). Some Opportunities The Jabberwock Review is accepting entries for the Nancy D. Hargrove Editors' Prizes in Fiction and Poetry. For Music Under New York, MTA Arts & Design is seeking audition applications. Green Linden Press seeks to publish one or more poetry chapbooks from its annual open-reading period. A portion of proceeds will support reforestation efforts. For its current theme, ‘cadence,’ Camas seeks fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and art. Kasini House’s Kolaj Fest New Orleans, a multi-day festival & symposium about contemporary collage, is calling for papers and artists. For its 12th print edition, DASH Literary Journal is accepting art, poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and hybrid work. The Writer's Hotel NYC writers conference is a 'mini MFA' immersion program that includes a pre-conference full manuscript reading. For its annual baseball issue, Hobart is calling for written work. The Asian American Journalists Association seeks entries and nominations for its National Journalism and Lifetime Achievement Awards. For Strictly Painting 12, McLean Project for the Arts is seeking entries from Mid-Atlantic artists. The editors of the North American Review invite visual artists and designers to submit posters responding to the theme ‘The Open Space of Democracy,’ inspired by Terry Tempest Williams' book of the same name. Mothers Always Write is offering an early spring Literary Writers Boot Camp focused on the literary essay that includes extensive one-on-one coaching. $2,000 and publication will be awarded to the winner of Colorado Review’s 2019 Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction. The Roswell Artist-in-Residence Foundation will offer six visual arts residencies staggered throughout the year. Send Submittable your pitches focused on film and photography. The Missouri Review will award $1,000 per category (audio documentary, poetry, prose, and humor) for its Miller Audio Prize. Contributor, scholarship, and fellowship applications are being accepted for the 2019 Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Ripples in Space seeks flash fiction for its upcoming weekly podcast series. First place for Newfound’s Prose Prize is publication, a $500 prize, and 25 contributor copies of the winning chapbook. Brooklyn’s Smack Mellon seeks a full-time Programs Manager. Milkweed Editions is accepting summer internship applications. Find professional opportunities at Submittable here. What We're Celebrating Happy anniversary to the Submishmash Weekly playlist! Read an INTERVIEW with our DJ here. About this week's selections: The Staches and their self-recorded punk, stripped down and plaintive desert blues from Northern Mali's Ahmed Ag Kaedy, Solange returns, intent on making your trunk rattle, and more. What We're Reading Web Engineer Genevieve Crow recently read Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, by Susan Cain: I just finished this book on introversion in a very extroverted country (México), and read it when I needed to check out. Quiet is a sort of manifesto for quiet types. Cain thoughtfully summarizes her research dealing with extro/introversion here. She tells us that introverts are not unsuited for sales roles, we’re good listeners, and that solitude is a catalyst for innovation. Her overarching message: be you. I'd recommend this book as thought fodder for anyone who considers themselves, partner, or child "introverted." Among other things, the book covers how workplaces can optimize introvert talents through culture and policy, such as allowing employees to work from home and express themselves in writing. Submittable already does most of the recommendations! 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 © 2019 Submittable, All rights reserved. . Our mailing address is: Submittable PO Box 8255 Missoula, MT 59807

Publishing & Creative News It's not liberal arts and literature majors who are most underemployed (Forbes). How did it get up there? A photo-forward book of charming homemade cat ladders in Switzerland (Colossal). The calming effects of sewing: How absorbing your concentration in needlework relieves inner turmoil (The Guardian). The art of buying books and never reading them—there's a word for that (BBC). The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America (The Verge). A monthly column focused on fairy tales and raising boys (The Paris Review). The unique burden black police officers carry in a striking photo essay (The Bitter Southerner). Film opportunities for March and April and Oscar-themed writing prompts (Submittable). Send us your blogs, interviews, and book reviews focused on film and photography (Submittable). Some Opportunities The Southeast Review's annual contests—The World's Best Short-Short Story Contest and The Gearhart Poetry Contest—are open for entries. In addition, editors are now accepting interviews submissions. Lit Fest at Lighthouse Writers Workshop features weeklong and weekend advanced workshops in novel, poetry, short story, memoir, narrative nonfiction, hybrid genres, and young adult. Participation is by application only. Ageless Authors is hosting a writing contest for seniors age 65 and older in memoir, humor, adventure, romance, poetry. Ponder Review is accepting submissions of fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, drama, art, and new media for print and online publication. The winner of Verse’s Tomaž Šalamun Prize for chapbooks receives $500, a free one-month residency at the Tomaž Šalamun Centre for Poetry in downtown Ljubljana, Slovenia, and chapbook publication. The Sonora Review seeks fiction and poetry contest submissions for Issue 76, under the theme: DOUBT. Anomaly is an international and intersectional journal of arts & literature seeking translations, creative nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and comics. Brushfire is a student-run organization from the University of Nevada looking to publish visual art, short fiction, and poetry in its biannual journal. Burningword Literary Journal seeks short fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and photography/digital art submissions for publication in their April 2019 Issue. For their second writing contest, Writer’s Atelier is looking for submissions of fiction or creative nonfiction on the theme, "interruptions." The Halycone is accepting submission to their Winter Issue. The Spectacle is open for submissions of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction and submissions to their blog The Revue. The 3rd annual Eliza So Fellowship from Submittable, judged by Joan Naviyuk Kane and Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, will honor books-in-progress by Native American and Immigrant writers. Come work with us in Missoula. Find job opportunities at Submittable here.  What We're Listening To The Submishmash Weekly playlist is updated every week: Palomo Wendel with your ultimate morning pick-me-up, the illusion of order during declines from Eli Keszler, Ezra Collective "gimme the loot," and more. Follow Submittable on Spotify great music all the time. What We're Reading Cory Davis, a member of our sales team and your Submittable playlist DJ, read The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus: Camus starts off on a light note, asking us to recognize that the decision to live or kill oneself is the only philosophical question worth pondering. Since there is nowhere to go from there but up, he argues that we continue to live because we fail to answer the question. The best we can hope for is a balance between the absurd meaninglessness of life, and finding happiness in rebelling against it. I found the book extremely interesting, moderately depressing, and wondered how I would've felt if my perspective on life and death wasn't heavily influenced by Western society. What are you reading? Tell us on Twitter or Facebook.  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 © 2019 Submittable, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Submittable PO Box 8255 Missoula, MT 59807