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Join the Northern California Book Reviewers and support writing and publishing in Northern California! The NCBR, a volunteer association, is seeking prospective members based in Northern California to help select the nominees and winners of the Northern California Book Awards, now in its 42nd year. Nominating committees in Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction (General and Creative), Children's Literature (Younger Readers, Middle Grade, Young Adult), and Translation (Poetry and Prose) read the books under consideration. Eligible reviewers are always welcome as either committee members who select the finalists, or final voters. NCBR members must have published three reviews in an established online or print publication. Editors at newspapers and other publications that publish book reviews, children's librarians, book media hosts, and other book professionals who recommend and write about books are also eligible for membership. Please contact Joyce Jenkins, editor@poetryflash.org, (510) 612-3958 or (510) 525-5476.

The Dancing Poetry Festival is seeking submissions for a poetry contest in honor of Richard Angilly (1941-2022). Send two, typed copies of an entry of one to ten poems, thirty-eight lines or less. Show your name, address, telephone number, e-mail (and how you heard about the contest) on one copy only of each poem. Send all entries postmarked by April 15, 2023, to AEI Contest Chair, Judy Cheung, 704 Brigham Avenue, Santa Rosa, CA 95404. Donations are greatly appreciated. Over $1,000 of prize money will be awarded. Deadline to submit: April 15, 2023. Winners will be announced by August 1, 2023. For more guideline information, visit:http://www.dancingpoetry.com/dpfpoetrycontestrules.html.

Alaska Quarterly is accepting submissions of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Send up to six poems during their poetry reading period: March 25-April 8, 2023. Creative nonfiction can be up to 18,000 words and can be sent during their fiction reading period: April 29-May 14, 2023. Fiction can be up to 18,000 words and sent during their fiction reading period: June 10-June 24, 2023. Reading fee: $3. For more guidelines and to submit, please visit: https://www.aqreview.org/submissions.

Omnidawn is seeking submissions for the Single Poem Broadside Contest. Submit a poem of eight to twenty-four lines including blank lines used as stanza breaks via Submittable. The winner receives $1,000, publication, twenty free copies of the broadside, and publication in the Omnidawn newsletter. Previously published work is not accepted. Natalie Khankan will be the judge. Submission fee: $35 (for up to five poems). Deadline to submit: April 17, 2023. Please see the complete submission guidelines at www.omnidawn.com.

The Orchard Street Press conducts its sixth annual Poetry Contest this March and April. Winners will receive a $500, $300, and $200 prize for first, second, and third place. Winning poems will appear in Quiet Diamonds, The Orchard Street Press's annual poetry journal. Select entrants will be invited to submit chapbooks for possible publication. Entrants should submit poems and the $15 fee to: The Orchard Street Press; P.O. Box 280, Gates, Mills, Ohio 44040. Entries can also be submitted via their website. Deadline to submit: April 30, 2023 (postmark). For more guidelines and to submit online, please visit: www.orchpress.com/index.php/en.

CRAFT is accepting submissions for the Short Fiction Prize. Submit a short fiction piece of 1,000 to 5,000 words in length. Winner receives $2,000 and a free four-issue subscription from Journal of the Month. Runners-up receive $500-$300, and the top three stories will be published in Craft. Nana Nkweti will be the judge. Simultaneous and multiple submissions are accepted. Submission fee: $20 Deadline to submit: April 30,2023. For more guidelines and to submit, visit:craftliterary.com.

Marsh Hawk Press seeks submissions for the Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize. A prize of $1,000 and publication by Marsh Hawk Press is given annually for a poetry collection. Submit a manuscript of forty-eight to eighty-four pages via Submittable only. Mary Jo Bang will be the judge. Submission fee: $25. Deadline to submit: April 30, 2023. For more guidelines and to submit, please visit: marshhawkpress.org.

Marsh Hawk Press is seeking submissions for the Marsh Hawk Press Robert Creeley and Rochelle Ratner Memorial Awards. The winner receives a cash prize of $250 and publication by Marsh Hawk Press. Submission fee: $25. Deadline to submit: April 30, 2023. For more guidelines and to submit, please visit: marshhawkpress.org.

Tupelo Press is seeking submissions for the Berkshire Prize. The winner receives $3,000, publication by Tupelo, and twenty author copies. Submit a full-length manuscript of forty-eight to eighty-eight pages via Submittable or by mail to: Tupelo Press Berkshire Prize, PO Box 1767, North Adams, MA 01247. International submissions should be sent to: Tupelo Press Berkshire Prize, 60 Roberts Drive, Ste. 308, North Adams, MA 01247. Diana Khoi Nguyen will be the judge. Submission fee: $30. Deadline to submit: April 30, 2023. See the complete submission guidelines at: www.tupelopress.org.

Brevity is accepting submissions for brief nonfiction (750 words or fewer) submissions that consider aspects of transgender, gender-nonconforming, and gender-expansive experience: what it is, what it means, and how our understanding of trans identity and culture has changed and continues to change over time. Submissions should be single-spaced, no indentation, no space between paragraphs unless alternate formatting is a specific design element of the essay. Contributors receive a $45 honorarium. Simultaneous submissions are accepted, as are multiple submissions. Reading fee: $3. Deadline to submit: April 30, 2023. For more guidelines and to submit, visit:brevitymag.com.

The Massachusetts Review is accepting submissions of poetry, fiction, essays, and translation. Send up to six poems with your name and contact information. Fiction can be up to 7,500 words or thirty pages, and should include your name and contact information on the first page. Work should be paginated. Reading period: October 1-May 1. For more guidelines and to submit, please visit: www.massreview.org.

Prairie Schooner is seeking submissions for poetry, prose, interviews, and reviews of current books of poetry and fiction. Simultaneous submissions are not accepted. Previously published work is also not accepted. Reading period: September to May. For more guidelines, and to submit, please visit: prairieschooner.unl.edu/submit.

Heartwood is seeking submissions for the Heartwood: Still Lines in the Wild youth arts competition, celebrating installation art that focuses on our compassion for nature. Artworks will be an ongoing dialogue, a celebration, and a sense of mourning for the loss of trees due to over-extraction. Winners receive a $750, $500, and $300 prize for first, second, and third place. Students and professionals between the ages of seventeen to twenty-five are invited to submit one to three high quality digital photographs of the art sent with the artist's name and affiliation (school or workplace), location name, and a one-sentence description. An independent panel of judges, including Bay-Area Artist Mila Moldenhawer and Visual Arts Director Catherine Devriese, will be the judges. All prints will be eligible for display at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts in July 2023. For more information and to submit, contact: Heartwood@sebarts.org (cc creekshade@gmail.com). Deadline to submit: May 15, 2023. Winners will be announced at the end of June 2023.

Ploughshares is conducting its Emerging Writer's Contest. The Emerging Writer's Contest is open to writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry who have yet to publish or self-publish a book. Winners receive publication, $2,000, a review from Aevitas Creative Management, and a one-year subscription. Gish Jen (Fiction), Sandra Cisneros (Poetry), and Meghan O'Rourke (Nonfiction) will be the judges. The winners will also be published in the Winter 2023-24 issue of Ploughshares. Reading fee: $24. Deadline to submit: May 15, 2023 at noon EST. For more guidelines and to submit online, please visit: www.pshares.org.

Baltimore Review is accepting submissions of poetry, fiction, flash fiction, and creative nonfiction. Send three poems, single-spaced, or prose up to 5,000 words, double-spaced and with pages numbered. Submissions in more than one category are permitted, but do not submit work more than once per reading period in any category. Include a brief third person bio when you submit. Reading period: February 1-May 31. For more guidelines and to submit, please visit: www.baltimorereview.org.

Agni seeks submissions for personal essays, think-pieces, memoir, poetry, short stories, and short shorts. Please send only one story, one essay, or up to five poems per submission. Use page numbers and, if you are submitting prose, double-space your document. Reading period via Submittable: September 1-December 15 and from February 15-May 31. Manuscripts are accepted by mail September 1-May 31. For more guidelines and to submit, please visit: agnionline.bu.edu.

Calyx Press is seeking submissions for the Lois Cranston Memorial Poetry Prize. Send up to three unpublished poems (six pages maximum). The winner will receive a $300 cash prize. The winner and all finalists will receive a one-volume subscription to CALYX Journal and publication on CALYX's website. Do not include your name in poems. Simultaneous submissions are discouraged. The CALYX editorial collective reads all manuscripts first, then selects fifteen to twenty finalists to send to the final judge, Rooja Mohassessey. Reading fee: $15. Deadline to submit: June 30, 2023. See the complete submission guidelines at: www.calyxpress.org.

Calyx Press is seeking submissions for the Margarita Donnelly Prize for Prose Writing. Submit up to 10,000 words of unpublished fiction or creative nonfiction. The winner will receive a $500 cash prize and publication in CALYX Journal Vol. 34:2, Summer/Fall 2023. The winner and finalists will receive a one-volume subscription to CALYX Journal and publication on CALYX's website. One piece of prose per submission. Simultaneous submissions are discouraged. The CALYX editorial collective reads all manuscripts first, then selects fifteen to twenty finalists to send to the final judge, TBA. Reading fee: $20. Opens: July 1, 2023. See the complete submission guidelines at: www.calyxpress.org.

Black Lawrence Press is accepting submissions for The St. Lawrence Book Award for an unpublished first collection of poetry or prose. The award is open to any writer who has not yet published a full-length manuscript in any genre. The winner receives a $1,000 cash award, book publication and ten copies of the published work. Please follow the length requirements for the category to which you are submitting, and include a brief bio or something about yourself in your cover note on Submittable. Reading Period: July 1-August 31. For more guidelines and to submit online, visit: blacklawrencepress.com.

Tofu Ink Arts Press is accepting submissions for the Tofu Ink Arts Press: In Honor of Reza Abdoh Visionary Arts Poetry Prize. Send one to three polished poems and/or art of any style of less than five pages. The winner receives $300, publication, and nomination for a Pushcart Prize by Tofu Ink. Up to three additional visionary poems may be awarded "Honorable Mention" status. Your name must appear on the work, along with a title page, and short bio in the third person. Entry fee: $10. Deadline to submit: October 31, 2023. For more guidelines and to submit online, visit: www.tofuink.com.

Sixteen Rivers Press is accepting submissions for book-length poetry manuscripts. Authors must live in Northern California and become members of the collective with a three-year commitment, devoting an average of eight hours per month. The manuscript should be single-spaced, between sixty and eighty pages, and previously unpublished. Send an email to sixteenriverssubmissions@gmail.com with your name, address, phone number, and the name of your manuscript. Attach a PDF of your manuscript in the email, and in the body include a personal statement of 350 to 500 words, and why you want to work in a publishing collective, including any special experience or skills you might contribute. Since all manuscripts are read anonymously, please do not include your name anywhere in your manuscript. Reading period: November 1, 2023-February 1, 2024. visit: www.sixteenrivers.org.

Red Hen Press is seeking submissions for poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Send either a full manuscript or a sample between twenty and thirty pages, and a cover letter that includes the author's name, contact information, and a brief synopsis of the work. All manuscripts should include page numbers on all pages. Reading fee: $20. Reading period: Year-round. For more guidelines and to submit, visit: redhen.org.

Tupelo Press now reads submissions for full-length, hybrid, memoir, and creative nonfiction year-round. Bear in mind that Tupelo Press accepts very few works of prose, one or two per year. Prose manuscripts are not read anonymously. Submission fee: $45. See the complete submission guidelines at: www.tupelopress.org.

Black Lawrence Press is accepting submissions for the Immigrant Writing Series. Submission is open to any individual living in the U.S. who identifies as an immigrant and who was either born in another country, or has at least one parent who was born in another country, is a refugee, or lives in the United States under Asylum or a Protection Program, such as TPS or DACA. An author whose book manuscript has previously been selected for a Writing Series and/or published through Black Lawrence Press will not be considered a second time for the series. No more than two manuscripts may be submitted per year, per author. Reading period: Year-round. For more guidelines and to submit online, visit: blacklawrencepress.com.

The Blue Mountain Review seeks submissions for poetry, fiction, essays, and visual artwork. In addition to your manuscript, include a cover letter and a short, third-person bio. No simultaneous submissions. Previously unpublished work only. Reading fee: $5. Reading period: Year-round. For more guidelines and to submit online, visit: www.southerncollectiveexperience.com/the-blue-mountain-review.

Rattle is accepting submissions for poetry, translations, and book reviews. Contributors in print receive $200. Online contributors receive $100. Rattle does not accept work that has been previously published, in print, or online. Simultaneous submissions are encouraged. Reading period: Year-round. For more guideline information, visit:www.rattle.com.

Epiphany is accepting submissions for fiction and nonfiction for online publication only. Please include your name, title, and word count on the first page of the submitted file. Epiphany pays $25 for flash fiction and "What We're Reading Now" essays. Contributors will also receive a free digital subscription to the journal. Only previously unpublished work is considered. Simultaneous submissions are accepted. Reading fee: $5. Reading period: Year-round. For more guidelines and to submit online, visit: epiphanyzine.com.

CRAFT is accepting submissions for flash (very brief) fiction, short fiction, flash (very brief) creative nonfiction, creative nonfiction, critical writing, and interviews. CRAFTpays $50-$100 for original craft content, $100 for original flash and $200 for original short fiction and creative nonfiction. Each published creative piece will include an editor's introduction as well as a craft essay (author's note) by the writer. Reading period: Year-round. Please review the guidelines in the submission form you choose for specifics about the genre. For more guideline information, please visit: www.craftliterary.com/submit.

Add to Cart Magazine is seeking submissions for experimental, avant-garde, and challenging writing and art that pushes beyond comfortable boundaries. Add to Cart Magazineshowcases the voices and styles on the fringe of fringe communities. Reading period: Year-round. For more guidelines and to submit, please visit: addtocartmag.com.

Apple Valley Review is accepting submissions of poetry, fiction, flash fiction, essays, creative nonfiction, and translation. Send your work via email to Leah Browning, Editor, at editor@leahbrowning.net. Type or paste your work into the body of a single email message. (Please disregard any difficulties with font or formatting that arise after pasting the text.) Type the genre that you are submitting under in the subject line. In the same message, include a cover letter with your name, mailing address, email address, and a short, third-person biography. Reading period: Year-round. For more guidelines, visit: www.applevalleyreview.org/submit.

Blue Earth Review is accepting submissions of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Send up to five poems, no more than ten pages, placed in a single document. Fiction can be up to 4,000 words. Creative nonfiction can be any length, although they prefer it to be under 3,000 words. All submissions should be sent as a doc or docx file. Reading period: Year-round. For more guidelines and to submit, please visit: blueearthreview.submittable.com/submit.

The Summerset Review is accepting submissions of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Prose writing can be up to eight thousand words. Poets may submit up to five poems. Email submissions to editor@summersetreview.org as an attachment in MS Word, or as plain text. Do not send in PDF format. For poetry, please include all poems in the same document. If you are submitting both poetry and prose, please send in separate emails. Reading period: Year-round. For more guidelines, please visit: www.summersetreview.org.

—POSTED APRIL 2023

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