Opportunities for Artists and Writers | May 2023

Game Over Books is open for full-length poetry, chapbook, and hybrid submissions. Manuscripts should be in Times New Roman, size 12 font, include a title page and a table of contents, your name, genre, and page count on the title page, and an acknowledgments page, if applicable. Individual poems/stories may be previously published, but the manuscript as a whole should not be previously published. Simultaneous submissions accepted. Deadline: May 31st.

Hayden’s Ferry Reviews Indigenous Poets Prize is open for poetry submissions. Submit one original, unpublished poem shorter than three pages long, written in English or with an English translation provided, and with no name or identifying information in it. (There is a category exclusively for Arizona submitters and one for National submitters on Submittable). Deadline: June 10th.

Unsolicited Press is open for essay collections, nonfiction, novels, novellas, poetry collections, and short story collections. Send a query letter along with an entire manuscript with an email address on the first page (for fiction and poetry) or several chapters if not the entire manuscript with an email address on the first page (for nonfiction), short bio and photo (optional) to submissions@unsolicitedpress.com as a Word Doc.

YesYes Books is looking for two interns: one remote social media intern and one in-person intern to work in their office in Portland. Both positions come with books and an honorarium of $600 a year. Those interested should send a letter of interest to kmasullivan@yesyesbooks.com.

Vagabond City Literary Journal

Founded in 2013, we are a literary journal dedicated to publishing outsider literature. We publish art, prose, reviews, and interviews from marginalized creators.