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Deadline: April 12, 2021 | No entry fee

Imagine calls for short stories (3,000–5,000 words) that envision the next 180 years of climate progress. Judges include renowned authors Adrienne Maree Brown, Kiese Laymon, and Morgan Jerkins.

The top three contest winners will be awarded $3000, $2000, and $1000 respectively, and nine finalists will receive a $300 honorarium. Winners and finalists will be published in an immersive digital collection. 

Imagine draws inspiration from Afrofuturism, as well as Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, disabled, feminist, and queer futures, and the genres of hopepunk and solarpunk. We want to see — and share — stories that center climate solutions from the most impacted communities, and bring into focus what a truly regenerative future could look like.

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A DIFFERENT REASON TO ENTER CONTESTS

When I started writing seriously, I had a novel in mind. This was way before FundsforWriters. I spent two years working on that novel concept, after work, on weekends, and between hockey practices with my sons. But I was afraid of sending it to publishers and agents, for fear of rejection.

My mother, of all people, suggested I send it to Fern Michaels' literary agent. Little did I know that my mother knew Fern Michaels . . . just didn't realize she was as big an author as she was. Mom commenced to getting me invited to one of Fern/Mary's renowned parties (she flew in a band from Louisiana) at which time Mom introduced me to this bestselling author as a fellow author. 

Of course I was mortified, but I sucked it up and said I'd written a novel. Fern gave me an agent's name and I submitted my novel. I was promptly rejected, probably with a nicer rejection letter than the average person got since I was considered at Fern's request, but regardless, no means no.

That scared me away from submitting to literary agents for a long while. We are talking five years. 

Ultimately, I rewrote that same story, but my fear of agents was still poignant. Instead, I submitted to contests. After all, those judges were faceless, I didn't know them, and with submissions being considered blind, nobody would identify me unless I won or placed. I found it way less painful to submit under those conditions.

I wound up winning first place in one, third place in a couple, and honorable mention in a few. My pieces were published in a few places, and I put some money in my pocket, but the best result of that experience was that my confidence grew enough to enable me to submit to agents. At least when I wrote a query letter, I could show I was award-winning. 

Later, after having acquired an agent, I interviewed her for a magazine piece. One of the questions I asked was "Do contests matter?" when you read a query. She replied with an emphatic yes.

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How to Use Your Writing Skills at a "Traditional" Job 

By Roy A. Barnes

Not all of us in freelance writing do so exclusively. Yet those traditional jobs can also be golden opportunity to utilize the skills you've learned while freelance writing.    

One of my past employers had a long-running newsletter put together by the same person for years. After she left the position, I offered my services to edit it, citing my writing experience from crafting articles to covering various events and travel destinations. I didn't get the opportunity at first, but it wasn't long until the job of organizing the newsletter bounced around from one person to another among people who had no real interest in writing, researching, and formatting.

Finally, they gave me the job. I was given a certain number of hours each quarter at my regular hourly wage to get the newsletter published. Because of my skills and insights gained from freelancing, I was able to add spin to the publication like employee profiles, a column by the director, plus a new look by using publishing software so the newsletters could be archived and put on social media. The newsletter became more available than ever before. 

In the process, I connected with co-workers and supervisors from other shifts besides my own, who gave very positive comments about the work I've done as an editor. One coworker told me that the newsletters look like they were created by "a professional," which is as nice a compliment a non-writer can give. By the time I left that job in 2020, I had presided over the creation of 22 quarterly newsletters! 

Don't check your freelance writing skills at the door of a place where you punch the time clock, because you never know when the need for someone with writing or editing skills will appear.  Ask your supervisor if you can complete the writing tasks on company time, and thus, get paid regular wages for your expertise. 

Things to keep in mind at your traditional job: 

1)      Does your company have employee-based committees where writing is necessary? Offer to join a committee or two to do this task. 

2)      If there is no current company newsletter, suggest starting one. 

3)      If you hear about some unmet need for a writing/editing-related task at your job, seize the moment to take that function on, even if it's just temporary. Completing such tasks effectively will resonate with your supervisors and co-workers, who would rather just pass the buck on writing if they have no interest in this craft. 

4)      Many companies, including nonprofits, use social media to publicize their goods and services, upcoming events, etc. Offer to write those posts on Facebook, Twitter, etc. Additionally, when applicable, offer to write Public Service Announcements (PSAs) to local print, TV, and radio outlets.  

Let your co-workers and supervisors know that you like writing. Someone I know was an aspiring poet doing part-time clerical work and errands for a real estate agent. Overwhelmed with work, the agent remembered he liked to write creatively. She assigned him to write real estate ads for her listed properties. He learned how to write tighter copy as well as gain additional photography and house measuring skills. 

But there’s an even greater advantage to tackling writing duties at your traditional job. Soon the company and its employees will begin recognizing you as a writer, and before you know it, they’ll ask what you have published. That’s excellent advertising you’d never get otherwise. Who knows . . . you might be able to slip that fact in the byline of that company newsletter.

BIO: Roy A. Barnes is a past contributor to FundsforWriters. His writing-themed articles have also been featured at WritersWeekly.com, The Willamette Writer, The Writer, FellowScript, and others.  He lives and writes in southeastern Wyoming. 

 

COmpetitions

THE GUTTER AND EDWIN MORGAN TRUST POETRY COMPETITION
https://www.guttermag.co.uk/edwinmorgan100
Deadline March 31, 2021. Poets must be over 40 years of age on the competition closing date. Poets must not previously have published a full collection greater than 40 pages in length. Poems must be previously unpublished in print or online. Poems may be in English, Scots or Gaelic. Poems should somehow relate to Edwin Morgan's life and work. For example, thematically, formally or in their use of language and register. Poems must be no longer than 42 lines. Maximum of three poems per entrant.



CURT JOHNSON PROSE AWARDS
https://decembermag.org/2021-curt-johnson-prose-awards/
$20 ENTRY FEE. Deadline May 1, 2021. Prizes are $1,500 and publication in our Fall/Winter 2021 issue for First Place (fiction and nonfiction); $500 and publication in our Fall/Winter 2020 issue for honorable mention (fiction and nonfiction). All finalists will be listed in the awards issue. Maximum of 8,000 words for fiction and nonfiction. 



BLUE LYNX PRIZE FOR POETRY
https://lynxhousepress.submittable.com/submit/184069/2021-blue-lynx-prize-for-poetry 
$28 ENTRY FEE. Deadline June 16, 2021. The annual Blue Lynx Prize for Poetry awards $2000 plus publication for a full-length poetry collection. The Prize is awarded for an unpublished, full-length volume of poems by a US author, which includes foreign nationals living and writing in the US and US citizens living abroad.



MACGUFFIN ANNUAL POET HUNT CONTEST
https://schoolcraft.edu/macguffin/contest-rules
$15 ENTRY FEE. Deadline June 15, 2021. First place $500 and publication. Two honorable mentions will be published. Each entrant will receive one free issue of The MacGuffin that includes the winners of the 26th Annual Poet Hunt contest. An entry may consist of up to five poems. Each poem can be up to 400 lines long. 



THE GREAT AMERICAN THINK-OFF
https://www.kulcher.org/think-off/the-great-american-think-off/
NO ENTRY FEE. Deadline April 1, 2021. The Great American Think-Off is an exhibition of civil disagreement between powerful ideas that connect to your life at the gut level. The Cultural Center, located in the rural farm and manufacturing town of New York Mills, MN, sponsors this annual philosophy contest. People of all ages and backgrounds are encouraged to submit an essay of no more than 750 words for a chance to win one of four $500 cash prizes and participate in the live debate to ultimately answer the question, determined by audience vote. Writers are encouraged to ground their essays in personal experience rather than philosophical abstraction. Each year, four writers will be selected as finalists and invited to debate the question on the second Saturday in June in New York Mills, MN. Costs for winners’ travel, food, and lodging will be covered by the Cultural Center. 2021 question: Which is more important: to win or to play by the rules?

 

GRANTS / FELLOWSHIPS / CROWDFUNDING

VERMONT ARTIST DEVELOPMENT GRANTS
https://www.vermontartscouncil.org/grants/artists/artist-development
Deadline May 10, 2021. Artist Development Grants support artists at all stages of their careers. Grants can fund activities that enhance mastery of an artist’s craft or skills and activities that increase the viability of an artist's business. New this year: Grants can also support teaching artists in developing the skills necessary to provide instruction in K-12 schools remotely during the COVID-19 crisis. Funding may also support aspects of the creation of new work when the activity allows the grantee to accept a rare and important opportunity. Artists who have been residents of Vermont for a minimum of one year prior to the application deadline and are residents at the time the award is granted and are 18 years of age or older at the time of application.



BETHANY ARTS COMMUNITY FELLOWSHIPS
https://bethanyarts.org/residencies/#call-for-entries
Deadline April 15, 2021. The Bethany Arts Community in Ossining, New York, seeks to create a space and environment where many forms of art can be learned, produced, and flourish. To advance its mission, BAC welcomes applications for its residency program from artists working across most disciplines, including visual artists in any medium, writers, playwrights, choreographers, musicians, composers, performance artists, filmmakers, and lighting, projection, costume and sound designers. During their time on-site, artists will develop new works while engaging with local artists and the public. BAC offers a weekly subsidy to resident artists. Artists may apply for residencies of 12 days between September 21 and October 23. Individuals and small teams of up to three artists may apply.



MACDOWELL RESIDENCIES
https://www.macdowell.org/apply/application-guidelines
Deadline April 15, 2021. Operating on the property of the late Edward MacDowell, arguably America's first great composer, MacDowell in Peterborough, New Hampshire, offers creative individuals of the highest talent an inspiring environment in which they can produce enduring works of the imagination. To advance its mission, MacDowell welcomes applications from emerging and established artists for its fall fellowship program in the following disciplines: architecture, film/video arts, interdisciplinary arts, literature, music composition, theater, and visual arts. The fellowship includes exclusive use of a private studio, accommodations, and three prepared meals a day for a period of two weeks to two months. Residencies are available from October 1, 2021, to May 31, 2022. There are no residency fees, and travel grants as well as need-based stipends are available (though artists are generally responsible for the cost of travel to and from the colony).



ARTIST RELIEF
https://www.artistrelief.org/faq
Artist Relief will distribute $5,000 grants to artists facing dire financial emergencies due to COVID-19. Must be a practicing artist able to demonstrate a sustained commitment to work, career, and a public audience; must be experiencing dire financial emergencies due to the COVID-19 pandemic; must be 18 years of age or older; must provide a Social Security Number (SSN) or Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN); must have been living and working in the US for the last two years. While all dates are subject to change, the application will be open in cycles:

Cycle X: March 8 - March 31 (closes 11:59pm ET)
Cycle XI: April 1 - April 30 (closes 11:59pm ET)
Cycle XII: May 1 - May 31 (closes 11:59pm ET)
Cycle XIII: June 1 - June 23 (closes 11: 59pm ET) 



DRAMATISTS GUILD FUND
https://dramatistsguildfoundation.submittable.com/submit/165779/covid-19-emergency-grant-2021
https://dgf.org/programs/grants/grants-for-writers/
This form is for dramatists (playwrights, composers, lyricists, librettists) to apply for emergency financial assistance from the Dramatists Guild Foundation due to Covid-19 related circumstances. 



WINTER STORM URI EMERGENCY GRANT
https://dramatistsguildfoundation.submittable.com/submit/a971450c-9b4a-4f1d-8b02-04ef970055ad/winter-storm-uri-emergency-grant
This form is for dramatists (playwrights, composers, lyricists, librettists) to apply for emergency financial assistance from the Dramatists Guild Foundation due to circumstances caused by Winter Storm Uri in Texas. These grants will not be taxable in states where an Emergency Declaration has been approved. 



AUTHORS LEAGUE COVID FUND
https://authorsleaguefund.org/apply/
The Authors League Fund helps career writers with a substantial body of work in one or more of the following categories. Book authors with at least one title published by an established traditional publisher. Authors with multiple titles are given priority. Journalists, critics, essayists, short story writers, and poets with a substantial body of work in periodicals with a national or broad circulation. This includes regional/local news outlets. Whether print or online, these periodicals must have editorial oversight and a sizable readership. (This category does not include copywriting, blogging, public relations, technical writing, and writing for non-periodical websites and corporate clients.) The Fund cannot assist writers whose sole credits are self-published or released by a press that charges for publication. However, if you are a self-published writer with a record of financial or critical success, we will review your request. The Authors League Fund helps writers living in the United States, regardless of citizenship status or nationality, and American writers living abroad.



MARBLE HOUSE RESIDENCIES
https://www.marblehouseproject.org/applications
Deadline April 1, 2021. Marble House Project accepts approximately 60 residents and is open to artists living in the United States and abroad. You must be at least 21 years old. Residencies run from April through October, scheduled into six three-week sessions and one two-week family-friendly residency session for artists with children. Applications are accepted in all creative fields including but not limited to writing, dance and choreography, performance, music composition and sound, film and video, visual arts, and culinary arts. 



FIRE ISLAND ARTIST RESIDENCY
https://fiar.slideroom.com/#/Login
Deadline April 2, 2021. Fire Island Artist Residency (FIAR) is an organization founded in 2011 that seeks to bring the best gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered emerging contemporary artists to Fire Island, a place long-steeped in GLBT history, to create, commune, and contribute to the location's rich artistic history. FIAR will offer live/workspaces for selected artists who will participate in a summer residency while immersed in the Fire Island community.



BETHANY ARTS COMMUNITY RESIDENCIES
https://bethanyarts.submittable.com/submit
Deadline April 15, 2021. Bethany Arts Community offers residencies to emerging and established artists for the development of both new works and works in progress. BAC welcomes artists working across most disciplines, including visual artists in any medium, writers, playwrights, choreographers, musicians, composers, performance artists, filmmakers, and lighting, projection, costume and sound designers. Enjoy an environment where artists from different disciplines can work near each other, creating opportunities for cross-pollination. Location New York state, in Westchester County. 



ARKANSAS ARTIST GRANTS
https://www.arkansasheritage.com/blog/dah/2021/01/29/individual-artist-grants-open-for-2021
Deadline April 16, 2021. The fellowships recognize individual artistic ability and creative excellence in literary, performing and visual arts. These fellowships of $4,000 each are awarded annually in three categories and enable up to nine artists to set aside time for creating their art and improving their skills. Three artistic disciplines are selected each year as categories for the awards. The categories for 2021 are: Literary Arts: Poetry, Cinematic Arts: Director of Documentary or Narrative Films, Visual Arts: Contemporary Crafts.



PHOENIX SEEKING PANELISTS
https://www.phoenix.gov/arts/panelist

Grants Panelist
​The Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture seeks knowledgeable, fair-minded, and ​​​​​responsible individuals to serve as grant review panel members. Panelists are critical to the integrity of the grants process, and include laypersons as well as artists, arts professionals, and educators, each representing different points of view and various cultural orientations.

Public Art Panelist
The Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture is looking for people with expertise in the arts, architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design who would like to be considered to serve on an artist selection panel. Selection panels are essential to the process of hiring artists for public art projects. Project sites range from airports, parks, streetscapes, and pedestrian bridges to libraries, community water facilities and more.



NEW ORLEANS WRITERS' RESIDENCY
https://forms.gle/hCty3QyLFzm6e4J38
In August of last year, we repurposed our residency space to offer low-cost, short-term housing for writers and artists experiencing financial stress or housing instability. We are continuing this program for the foreseeable future. Cost: $300 per month. No deposit, no utilities, no application fee. Dates: Available beginning April 1, 2021. 
 
 

FREELANCE MARKETS / JOBS

HERMINE ANNUAL
https://hermineannual.com/submit/
Hermine is looking for short stories of less than 4,000 words for Issue 2. lease include a short cover letter letting us know where you’re located. Include your publication history if you have one, but don’t let a lack of credits stop you from submitting. Submit one story per year. Payment is $50 to $200. 



ORIONS BELT
https://www.orions-belt.net/submissions
Stories should be submitted to [email protected]. All stories must be under 1,200 words (not including the title and byline). All stories must contain significant speculative elements. We at Orion’s Belt try to answer the majority of queries within a week. We pay a flat eight cents USD per word. This is the industry-standard, SFWA-approved professional rate. 



ANALOG
https://www.analogsf.com/contact-us/writers-guidelines/
Analog’s Science Fiction and Fact magazine is an established market for science fiction stories. Analog pays eight to ten cents per word for short fiction (up to approximately 20,000 words), six cents per word for serials (40,000-80,000 words), nine cents per word for fact articles, and one dollar per line for poetry. We buy First English Language serial rights plus certain non-exclusive rights explained in our contract. 



BENEATH CEASELESS SKIES
http://www.beaneath-ceaseless-skies.com
Beneath Ceaseless Skies publishes “literary adventure fantasy”: stories with a secondary-world setting and some fantasy feel, but written with a literary approach. Payment is eight cents per word. We are NOT interested in urban fantasy or other types of stories set in our modern, contemporary “real world,” even if they contain fantasy elements, or in stories that move between the real world and a fantasy world. Limit 15,000 words.



FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION
https://www.sfsite.com/fsf/glines.htm
Fantasy & Science Fiction has no formula for fiction, but we like to be surprised by stories, either by the character insights, ideas, plots, or prose. The speculative element may be slight, but it should be present. We prefer character-oriented stories, whether it's fantasy, science fiction, horror, humor, or another genre. F&SF encourages submissions from diverse voices and perspectives, and has published writers from all over the world. Do not query for fiction; submit the entire manuscript. We publish fiction up to 25,000 words in length. Payment is 8-12 cents per word on acceptance. We buy first North American and foreign serial rights and an option on anthology rights.



PLOUGHSHARES
https://www.pshares.org/submit/solos/guidelines
Submissions to the Solo series will reopen on June 1, at noon EST. Pays $450 upon publication. Ploughshares has published quality literature since 1971. Our award-winning literary journal is published four times a year; our lively literary blog publishes new writing daily. Since 1989, we have been based at Emerson College in downtown Boston.



SHENANDOAH 
https://shenandoahliterary.org/submissions/
SHORT STORIES and CREATIVE NONFICTION (essays, memoir, etc.) should be under 8,000 words. NOVEL EXCERPTS under 8,000 words will be considered with great enthusiasm. POETRY submissions should contain up to five pieces and not more than ten pages total. We pay our contributors at the rate of $100 per poem, $100 per 1000 words of prose up to $500, and $50 per page of comics up to $500. 



DAME
https://www.damemagazine.com/about/
For women who know better. Smart, fast-paced news and opinions on what matters most in our lives. DAME is smart, quick-witted, opinionated and unapologetic. DAME provides critical context around the political, cultural, and societal issues of our time. Independent, women-owned and women-edited, DAME breaks through conventional narratives to deliver the insight readers need to understand today’s complex cultural landscape. Authoritative, seasoned writers breaking stories; crafting eloquent, moving essays; offering expert advice; and weighing in on the conversations of the moment with their unique takes on politics, policy, gender, race, pop culture, the arts, business, economy, climate, Internet culture, health, and everything in-between. Rates range based on type of feature, but typically we pay $150 for essays and between $300-$400 for reported features.



HEALTHYISH
https://www.bonappetit.com/story/how-to-pitch-healthyish
Healthyish wants to redefine what a site about healthy food and wellness can be. In addition to our recipes and quarterly editorial packages (like The Feel Good Food Plan and The Healthyish Guide to Being Alone), we aim to publish conversational, passionate articles that cover the many intersections of food, wellness, and culture today. Healthyish Loves It pieces run around 250 words, service pieces run around 500-800 words, and personal essays can be longer. Payment starts at $300 ($100 for Healthyish Loves It) and increases based on experience, complexity, and amount of reporting in the piece.



NEW WRITING SCOTLAND
https://asls.arts.gla.ac.uk/NWSsubs.html
New Writing Scotland publishes works by writers residing in Scotland or Scots by birth, upbringing or inclination. All forms of writing are acceptable: autobiography and memoirs; creative responses to events and experiences; drama; graphic artwork (monochrome only); poetry; political and cultural commentary and satire; screenplays; short fiction; travel writing; or any other creative prose may be submitted. We have a maximum recommended length of 3,500 words in total. Per Worldwide Freelance Writer, pay is 30 cents per word. 

 

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CLARET PRESS - LONDON
https://www.claretpress.com/about
Claret Press books are entertaining, intelligent and distinctive, introducing readers to new ideas, unexplored places and pivotal events. Our fiction and creative nonfiction explore the human spirit and our shared world through deeply interesting and engaging narratives, often with a political edge. If you're interested in submitting to Claret Press, send us a cover letter and a 25-page writing sample. Seeks 20th century historical: untold moments and stories from pivotal points in modern history; biographies and turbulent memoirs set in fraught locations; issue-led romances and narratives. Also action: political thrillers, suspense, mysteries and adventures. And comedy: escapist fun with a political edge. We don't publish the following: poetry, self-help or spiritual, erotica, kiddie books, picture books, art books, cookbooks, academic, educational, textbooks or screeds. We also don't republish self-published books. 



ACRE BOOKS
http://www.acre-books.com/about-us/submissions/
For fiction, nonfiction, and hybrid works, open to anything in terms of subject and form and driving force (whether that force be character, plot, structure, humor, concept, or some combination of these). Looking for books that exude energy and command—that persuade and even transport me with the world or worlds, the characters and consciousnesses, they present. Seeking innovation and am usually more drawn to imperfect work that takes risks. We do not consider chapbooks, novellas, or children’s books, and currently we are not accepting poetry submissions. 



JOFFE BOOKS
https://www.joffebooks.com/submissions/
JOFFE BOOKS is one of the UK’s leading independent publishers of excellent commercial fiction, especially crime and mystery fiction. We are renowned for working closely with authors from across the world to create fantastic books and turning them into best-sellers.



NCM PUBLISHING
http://www.ncmpublishing.com/submissions.html
All titles under NCM Publishing will be listed in Books in Print, and will be available through Ingram Book Group and Baker & Taylor distributors. All titles are available in the United States, as well as in the United Kingdom. Unlike most publishing companies, we do not require you to be affiliated with a literary agent. Our editors are seeking tasteful provocative, intelligent fiction manuscripts in the areas of sexuality and erotica, romance, urban and street, science fiction, Christian fiction, and general interest, as well as nonfiction, and lively stories of all genres of fiction for the general population between the ages of 18 and older (as well as Young Adult fiction).  A novel must be well written and professionally edited, in order to find a place on the list. The editors prefer to see completed manuscripts. Query letters are accepted. 

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