Brooklyn Poets Poetry Festival Fellowships is currently accepting registration fellowship applications from people who are not enrolled in a degree program with access to creative writing instruction or have had a book of poems published or accepted for publication by a United States press for their second annual poetry festival.

To apply, submit 4–5 poems (published or unpublished, eight pages max) and a cover letter (250–350 words) detailing your writing background, why you’re interested in attending the festival, and why you need financial aid—and if full aid is needed or if partial aid will suffice.

Deadline: April 21st

After Happy Hour is currently accepting poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, visual art, and hybrid submissions for their summer issue.

Poetry submissions: Send up to three poems and remove all identifying information from your file.

Prose submissions: Use standard manuscript formatting (12 point font, 1″ margins, etc.) and remove all identifying information from your file. Send one piece up to 6,000 words, double-spaced. For pieces under 1,000 words, you can send up to 3 in a single document, which can be single- or double-spaced; if over 1,000 words, double-space submission.

Visual submissions: For visual art (including paintings, drawings, photographs, and digital images), attach up to 5 works in a single submission. For short graphic/comic works (3 pages or under) you can send up to 5 as separate files. For works longer than 3 pages, send one at a time and wait until you get a response to send another. Remove all identifying information from your file(s).

Deadline: April 30th

Foglifter is currently accepting previously unpublished CNF, Drama/Hybrid, Fiction, and Poetry submissions for their fall issue. Send 3 to 5 poems (max 5 pages), up to 7500 words of fiction or nonfiction (up to three flash fiction pieces), or up to 20 pages of cross-genre work, text-image hybrids, or drama with the title of the work(s) you are submitting separated by commas.

All submissions must be uploaded as one DOC or DOCX file using the following titling convention: First_Last_Foglifter (i.e., Audre_Lorde_Foglifter) and include a 50-word or less bio with pronouns after your name in your cover letter. Simultaneous submissions and translated submissions allowed (the latter with permissions included).

Deadline: May 1st