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Publishing & Journalism: Dark, twisted, funny: grammar (The Oatmeal). Fashion in the The Philippines (BBC). A mind-blowing, must-read on the human brain (Wait But Why). #MeToo amongst the stacks: ‘Responding to big cultural shifts is baked into librarians’ mission statements’ (Quartz). Ta-Nehisi Coates on Kanye West (The Atlantic). Sarah Schulman’s acceptance speech (The New School). Bookstore recommendations from Tayari Jones, Terese Mailho, Christie Ridgway, and eight other authors (Lonely Planet). Footage of art icons making art (Open Culture). A bounty of film and video opportunities, and new prompts for that productive moment (Submittable). Some Opportunities: Over $1,000 in prizes, publication, and a public reading for finalists in the Owl Canyon Press short story hackathon. Sky Island Journal, an independent, international literary journal, is seeking poetry, flash fiction, and creative nonfiction for Issue 5. For its Raymond Carver Short Story Contest judged by Susan Perabo, Carve seeks short fiction of up to 10K words. Winners will be published in Fall 2018 issue and read by three literary agents. Washington Printmakers Gallery is hosting a National Small Works Competition and Exhibition. Petrichor Audio Magazine is seeking previously published fiction stories (reprints) to produce into audio and publish on its newly launched platform. Editors also accept audio submissions but encourage authors to take advantage of their free Audible-approved professional narration and studio-quality production. The Canadian Women Artists’ Award, facilitated by NYFA, is a $5,000 grant designed to provide financial support to an emerging or early career woman artist working in any discipline. Michigan Medicine is calling for solo and group exhibitions to include in its Gifts of Art Program. The Writers’ Press is seeking exceptional unpublished novels for The Writers' Press Prize. Preference goes to published older writers, but all are welcome. Editors: nominate one story under 500 words published by your magazine in print or online in 2017 for the Vestal Review’s VERA award. Arts Intern provides opportunities for college undergraduates to learn about nonprofit arts professions through internships in museums and cultural institutions. The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting is seeking applications for data-driven journalism projects related to land rights and property rights. The Jeff Sharlet Memorial Award for Veterans hosted by The Iowa Review will be judged by Brian Turner. Poetry will release a magazine issue dedicated to the work of transgender, gender non-conforming, and other non-cis poets, guest-edited by Christopher Soto, in fall 2018. New Rivers Press seeks manuscripts of creative nonfiction, essays, and mixed-genre work between 70 and 120 pages in length. Submissions to the American Fiction Short Story Award are also being accepted. Map Literary seeks poetry, fiction, nonfiction, artwork, and chapbooks for the Rachel Wetzsteon Chapbook Award. Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival & Lecture Series, the first Academy Qualifying Film Festival devoted to women of color, is seeking films and web series. New Jersey’s PROTO Gallery is hosting an Open Call for emerging and mid-career artists. New England Review welcomes submissions in fiction, poetry, nonfiction, drama, translation in any genre, creative writing for the website (NER Digital), cover art, and art. The Short Fiction Prize from BOA Editions, Ltd. will award a $1,000 honorarium and publication in spring 2020. Buddy (a lit zine) is calling for team members (volunteers, interns, etc.). What We're Listening To: Have you heard? The Submishmash Weekly playlist on Spotify gets updated each and every Tuesday. Check out this week's selections: powerful new music from Childish Gambino, the song of the summer by Valee ft. Jeremih, moody folk from Gwenifer Raymond, and more. Submittable Stats: Welcome to Submittable Stats, take 1. Thanks to everyone who helped us start the party with April numbers. Congrats to you all—we loved reading about your journey! The following submitters had acceptances in April: Kevin Brown, Parisa Cheraghi, Laine Cunningham, Susan G. Duncan, MFC Feeley, Karen Foster, Elizabeth Gauffreau, Warren Paul Glover, Fajer Alexander Khansa, Linda Laino, Egon H.E. Lass, Diane G. Martin, qp Murphy, Thomas O'Dell, T.J. Rafferty, Garrett Mallory Scott, and Annie Q. Syed.   Special shout-out to Danae Barnes, for telling us about the Finishing School Writer’s Group—they've collected 22 rejections with five team members so far this year. Booya. Speaking of rejections, these folks made our top five in April—no guts, no glory. They amassed 69 no-thank-yous as a group. Big bravos go to: Warren Paul Glover Diane G. Martin MFC Feeley Thomas O'Dell Paulie Lipman Join us with your May numbers beginning June 1, when our submission form will open on this page. We'll also send reminders. Until then, Submittable salutes you. 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 social media? Let us know! Got high-quality writing related to publishing or digital media? Consider submitting it to our blog. New readers can subscribe here. Thanks! Twitter Facebook Discover Copyright © 2018 Submittable, All rights reserved. . Our mailing address is: Submittable PO Box 8255 Missoula, MT 59807

Publishing & Journalism: Expert advice on artist grant applications (CBC). On Sheila Heti’s latest: 'You could argue... that Motherhood is not really about the decision to have a child at all' (The Baffler). AI enters the Vatican with In Codice Ratio (The Atlantic). An Excerpt from Barracoon, by Zora Neale Hurston (Vulture). 'In 1922, the Newberry Library acquired this collection of 160 drawings, attributed to 'Sioux Indians' living in Fort Yates, which serves as headquarters of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe' (Hyperallergic). A roundtable on Marvel-fatigue, All-Stars, meta-narrative, post-narrative, and layering (The New Republic). 'I am not sure why designers always want to mess with people’s books' (StarTribune). Join the Rooster Nonfiction Pop-up (TMN). Play dead and other post-workshop ideas on the blog. Plus: you can still send us your April stats (Submittable). Some Opportunities: Meat For Tea seeks recipes, flash, art, poetry, short fiction, essays and more. The theme for its next issue is ‘Lotus Blossom.’ Artists from all backgrounds and styles sought for Jonathan LeVine Projects’ second-annual international Delusional Art Competition. Star 82 Review is looking for gentle flash fiction and narrative nonfiction that feature humanity, humility, and humor for its summer issue, 6.2. For its second Untold Story Award, Narratively seeks big, award-winning feature stories, ones that require more time and a bigger budget than most, and illuminate people and communities that would otherwise go unnoticed or uncelebrated. MTA Arts & Design seeks artists for a new permanent Percent for Art project, in conjunction with renovation of White Plains Station in Westchester, to be fabricated in durable materials such as mosaic and glass. Creative Nonfiction seeks work in several categories, including ‘Home’ and ‘True Story.’ NXTHVN artist fellowships in New Haven provide dedicated work space, a stipend, a professional development curriculum, and mentorship opportunities. The winner of SmokeLong Quarterly’s inaugural Award for Flash Fiction will receive $1500, publication, automatic nomination for The Best Small Fictions series, the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and more. Upstream Gallery seeks works on paper for 'The Inventive Eye: Observation, Transformation, and the Art of Seeing.' Best New Poets is an annual anthology of fifty poems from emerging writers. The Knight Foundation Arts Challenge funds ideas for engaging and enriching communities through the arts. In 2018, the organization will give away a total of $3 million to ideas in Detroit. The 2018 Janet B. McCabe Poetry Prize from Ruminate Magazine will be judged by Ilya Kaminsky. General submissions of fiction, nonfiction, and art are also open. The Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning invites New York City-based dance companies to apply to an open call for the ninth annual Making Moves Dance Festival. The Institute for Journalism & Natural Resources awards fellowships to working reporters, photojournalists, writers, editors and producers, including independent and freelance journalists. Durango Arts Center is seeking concept proposals from artists and curators of all career stages, local and national, and in all mediums and themes for group and solo shows. The University Press of Kentucky has launched the New Poetry and Prose Series in conjunction with Centre College to showcase the very best of contemporary poetry and fiction. Treehouse is an online magazine for short, good writing. The Montana Book Festival seeks festival author and panel/event proposals for its fall 2018 event. Pen & Publish is seeking social media interns for the summer and fall semesters. The UK’s Wysing Arts Centre is hiring both a Head of Operations and an Education Manager. What We're Listening To: Tune in: the Submishmash Weekly playlist on Spotify gets updated every Tuesday. Enjoy 50 specially-selected tracks, from artists like Matty, Natia, Jacob Yates, Orchestre Tout Pusissant Marcel Duchamp, and Mazzy Star. What We're Reading: James Riach of Submittable's Inbound Sales Team and the band No Fancy is reading Fourth of July Creek, by Smith Henderson. The book is a bit like Cormac McCarthy's Suttree, but it takes place 30 years later in Western Montana. It's a really good read so far. Henderson's descriptions of small-town poverty in 1980 Montana aren't that far off from what you might encounter in poor Montana towns today. The characters and their relationships feel so familiar. 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 social media? Let us know! Got high-quality writing related to publishing or digital media? Consider submitting it to our blog. New readers can subscribe here. Thanks! Twitter Facebook Discover Copyright © 2018 Submittable, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Submittable PO Box 8255 Missoula, MT 59807

Publishing & Journalism: Multi-sensory graphic design for maximum impact (AIGA Eye on Design). Alexander Chee: 'I think fiction is the thing you invent to fit the shape of what you learned and nonfiction is the thing you invent to fit the shape of what you found' (Poets & Writers). The latest edition of ‘The Internet Apologizes’ with VR trailblazer Jaron Lanier (select/all). ‘Hampl wonders about what we miss when we no longer allow ourselves to simply get lost in thought’ (NPR). Read the words, the lines, aloud, again: reading poems like a professor (The Guardian). Word-worth, literally (Medium). ‘You can tell the need for art, for beauty, is central to all communities, no matter how makeshift, just by looking around the camp’ (Lenny). From ABBA onward: music impacts memory (PRI). Let Submittable trumpet your glory: send us your stats for a new newsletter feature. You can also help select this year’s NaPoMo Contest winner (Submittable).    Some Opportunities: For its Chapbook Contest, Palooka Press seeks (roughly) 35-50 pages of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, plays, graphic narrative, or a mix of genres. The Passed Note is hosting its first art contest. The winner will receive $200 and featured publication. The Blue Lynx Prize from Lynx House Press will award $2,000 and publication for a full-length collection of poems. Ragdale annually hosts nearly 200 visual artists, writers, composers, and interdisciplinary artists at all stages of their careers for 18-25 day residencies. Dayton Society of Artists is pleased to announce its first Open Call.Three artists will be selected, each artist will be assigned one of the DSA three gallery rooms for their own solo exhibition. The fifth annual VQR Writers’ Conference for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry will take place July 30-August 4, 2018, at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. The Writer seeks 2,000-word fictional short stories using any nuance, definition, or understanding of the word ‘change.’ The ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program is designed to facilitate and establish a close working relationship between an experienced translator and an emerging translator. Spider Road Press seeks flash fiction featuring a complex, female-identifying protagonist by writers of all genders for its annual contest. For its Summer 2018 issue, Free State Review is seeking fresh strange music, affluent language, and brave new thought in poetry, prose, and video projects. The Georgia Review is accepting fiction, poetry, and essays, as well as submissions for the 2018 Loraine Williams Poetry Prize. Quarterly West seeks applications for the position of Fiction Reader. Dance Film Lab from Dance Films Association is an informal work-in-progress screening centered on discussion; and on May 21st, it will be moderated by actor and filmmaker Erin Roy. Paper Nautilus is hosting two chapbook contests. Lanternfish press is seeking book-length fiction (novels, novellas and short hybrid works) and creative nonfiction titles that focus on cross-cultural perspectives. The Relentless Award from The American Playwriting Foundation is the largest annual cash prize in American theater awarded to a playwright in recognition of a new play. Don Share, Nicole Sealey, and Matthew Zapruder will collaborate to choose one winning poem, and two runner-ups for Frontier Poetry’s Industry Prize. The Jerome Foundation is hosting a new Artist Fellowship program that offers flexible, two-year grants to support the creative development of early-career generative artists in the state of Minnesota and the five boroughs of New York City. The Kennedy Center Internship Program is a holistic and rigorous professional development program designed to elevate the next generation of leaders in the arts, cultural, and non-profit fields. Find Submittable professional opportunities here. What We're Listening To: This week's Submishmash Weekly Spotify playlist contains a new song from The Essex Green, ‘Sloane Ranger,’ off of their upcoming album, ‘Hardly Electronic.’ The album will be released June 29th on Merge Records, and is their first album since 2006’s ‘Cannibal Sea.’ Customer Experience Team member Sasha Bell is one of the band's cofounders.  What We're Reading: Marketing Coordinator Grace Hulderman is reading Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed. I’m a bit late to the party on this one, but so grateful I finally got around to reading 'Wild.' Reeling from the death of her mother, a broken marriage, and a heap of other heartaches, Cheryl Strayed sets out to hike the PCT (Pacific Crest Trail) on her own. This is an honest and insightful story about love, loss, and how we wrestle with pain. Strayed shares her story with humor, sincerity, and courage — a great read and an even more inspiring journey. 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 social media? Let us know! Got high-quality writing related to publishing or digital media? Consider submitting it to our blog. New readers can subscribe here. Thanks! Twitter Facebook Discover Copyright © 2018 Submittable, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Submittable PO Box 8255 Missoula, MT 59807

Publishing & Journalism: ‘When she was first able to program a mainframe computer to make drawings, Molnar imagined herself to be a drawing machine' (Hyperallergic). Congratulations to Eiko Kadono, creator of Kiki (BBC). Commit to the truth, embrace your tricks, don’t write drunk, and other advice from Gabriel García Márquez (Literary Hub). ‘Kānaka Maoli distributed petitions; founded newspapers; shared letters; wrote pamphlets, stories, essays, poems, songs, and books…’ (The Walrus). Brain data in motion (Colossal). ‘My life and work continuously function to break apart the typical views of disability. This is partly not my fault nor first choice.' A conversation with Jennifer Bartlett (PEN America). Next in the Female Fighters Series: Women and Weapons (Guernica). An uplifting take on breakdowns (Laughing Squid). ‘None of my assumptions about having endless, expansive time to accomplish my writing goals felt true anymore’ (Submittable).   Some Opportunities: The Chautauqua Writers’ Festival is partnering with VIDA to offer tuition fellowships for two women or nonbinary poets of color. For its April contest on the theme of 'Circles,' The A3 Review Magazine seeks short prose, poetry, or artwork. Glimmer Train is accepting standard submissions, as well as entries for its March/April Fiction Open and Very Short Fiction Contest. Dawn Lundy Martin will judge BOMB’s Biennial Poetry Contest. This year’s winner will receive a $1,000 prize and publication in BOMB’s literary supplement, 'First Proof.' Two Sisters Writing & Publishing is holding two short story contests this month. Their themes are 'Magical Realism' and 'Pure Passive Aggression.' Redline in Denver is accepting proposals for 48 Hours, a Socially Engaged Art & Conversation Summit. Cultivated by Black Table Arts with support from Button Poetry and In Black Ink, ‘A Garden Of Black Joy’ will be an anthology of poetry from black writers. Flash 405 is Exposition Review’s short-form writing competition, in the genres of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, stage & screen, and experimental. This month's theme is ‘Magnetism’ with guest judge Edwin Bodney. Short of the Week seeks films of 40 minutes or less—the average featured film is 10 minutes. For The 2nd Half, an open-themed show, Las Laguna Gallery seeks original artwork from artists 50 and older. There's still time to send Submittable your Submittable-themed poems—check out some early entries here. The Whiting Foundation welcomes works of history, cultural or political reportage, biography, memoir, the sciences, philosophy, criticism, food or travel writing, and personal essays, among other categories, for its Creative Nonfiction Grant. Colorado Review is currently seeking fiction, nonfiction, and book reviews. For its themed issue, ‘Roots,’ WraparoundSouth has extended submission calls for fiction and creative nonfiction. Editors seek work about traditions, culture, history, family, and interpretations of roots as they pertain to the American South. Brooklyn Arts Council is consdering visual, literary, media, performance art, and more for Nou La - We Reach!, an interactive exhibition narrating the story of the Caribbean presence in Brooklyn. Cloudbank is accepting poetry, flash fiction, and entries for its Poetry Prize Contest. The Adrienne Rich Award for Poetry from Beloit Poetry Journal will be judged by Naomi Shihab Nye—a $1,500 prize will be awarded for a single poem. Mad Creek Books is reviewing full-length manuscripts for a number of series including 21st Century Essays, The Gournay Prize, Latinographix, and more. CLMP’s Pitch Central will take place in Manhattan’s East Village on May 15. The Chapbook Contest from Thirty West Publishing House is open to poetry, flash, short story, and creative nonfiction manuscripts of 15-30 pages. San Diego Grantmakers is seeking an Administrative Coordinator. Nightboat Books is pleased to announce its inaugural independent publishing internship program. Graywolf Press seeks to increase access to publishing by offering a paid, ten-month Citizen Literary Fellowship. What We're Reading: Sales Development Representative Emily Dubrawski came across America The Great Cookbook by Joe Yonan in a kitchen supply shop during a recent trip: This cookbook is collection of recipes from some of America's greatest living chefs. It’s along the lines of Chef’s Table on Netflix, but with a patriotic twist! Each chef is featured with a short quote about their recipe or what they think 'American cuisine' truly is. The recipes range from traditional comfort food to out-of-the-box creative endeavors and are documented with beautiful photography. I have cooked up a few of the recipes and am looking forward to exploring even more! What We're Listening To: Can't stop, won't stop: Submittable on Spotify. Enjoy 50 specially-selected tracks that make up each week's Submishmash Weekly Playlist, plus check out recent themed-lists, with more to come.  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 social media? Let us know! Got high-quality writing related to publishing or digital media? Consider submitting it to our blog. New readers can subscribe here. Thanks! Twitter Facebook Discover Copyright © 2018 Submittable, All rights reserved Our mailing address is: Submittable PO Box 8255 Missoula, MT 59807

Publishing & Journalism: Calming beats from the blue whale’s heart (Every Second). The ‘Unruly Body’ Series curated by Roxane Gay is essential reading (Medium). Looking glass, water glass, doorways, leaves: Artist self-portraits (Format Magazine). ‘Love is love is love is love…no matter who writes it’ (NPR). The basketball warriors of Arlee, Montana (New York Times). More data (how much more do we need?) indicates the economic value of the arts (Artsy). 'New Jersey residents can be so blinded by our hometown pride that we don’t actually listen to what the Boss is saying' (Newfound). News from the land of public domain, 95 years in the making (The Atlantic). ‘Elon Musk has a message for both degree-obsessed young people and companies desperate to hire them: chill out already’ (Inc.). Where to find submission markets and where to send your Submittable-themed poetry (Submittable).   Some Opportunities: The Sea Letter is a literary journal currently accepting short fiction & poetry for its summer 2018 issue. For its Editor's Reprint Award, Sequestrum is accepting previously published fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Colorado’s Vintage Theatre is calling for new, full-length comedic plays. Six selected scripts will be presented as staged readings and one will be chosen to premiere in VT's 2019 season. Wanderlust Journal wants your short, pithy, witty postcards from places visited (aka. short nonfiction travel essays). Two prizes of $1,000 each and publication by Noemi Press are given annually for one book-length poetry collection and one book-length work of prose. New York’s Sag Harbor Creative Nonfiction Writers Conference is now accepting applications for a small and focused nonfiction writing conference for 16 writers in November. Burning Man Project seeks proposals from artists, designers, architects, or teams for the creation of an Anchor Artwork for the Charleston East plaza in Mountain View, CA, where Google’s new campus will be located. The budget for this Anchor Artwork is $750,000. For its Guns and People Essay Contest, Memoir Magazine seeks prose submissions of 3,000 words or less. Under a Warm Green Linden is an online journal with a twofold mission: to publish and foster excellent poetry, and to give a portion of its proceeds to reforestation efforts. The Artists’ Community Administrator Residency from the Rauschenberg Foundation is designed to provide creative time and space for practicing artists of all disciplines who are also staff members of an artists’ community. Storm Cellar literay journal seeks small things in any form and any content for its Force Majeure Flash Contest. CA fest opportunities: Litquake is accepting festival, crawl, and contest submissions; Lambda Literary seeks programming proposals for LitFest. The Normal School has several creative opportunities, including its Nonfiction Series as well as online and print publication. Mud Season Review seeks deeply human work that will teach the editors something about life, but also about the craft of writing or visual art. Feedback services are also offered. Indolent Books is currently seeking poems for its ‘What Rough Beast’ series as well as ‘NaPrWriMo on HIV Here & Now.’ Dennis Norris II will judge the Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest from Winning Writers for published and unpublished work. Two $2,000 prizes will be awarded along with publication. The Carolina Quarterly seeks short stories for its ‘Wake, and Dream Again’ contest, as well as general submissions of art, nonfiction, poetry, and fiction. The winner of Boston Review’s Poetry Contest, judged by Mary Jo Bang, will receive $1,500 and publication. Philadelphia’s Fleischer Art Memorial has a number of open professional positions. San Francisco State’s School of Cinema has open Assistant Professorships and opportunities for Adjunct Lecturers in Film. What We're Reading: As part of Submittable's first-ever book club, five Submittable team members read Reset, Ellen Pao's account of suing a Silicon Valley powerhouse for gender discrimination. Here are some thoughts from the group's coordinator (and Customer Experience superstar), Genevieve Crow: My favorite thing about this selection was how Pao's story opened up dialogues on very relevant themes. Teammates (including our CEO) shared reactions to the trial's outcome, experiences around workplace discrimination, and ideas for creating spaces where underrepresented groups aren't just present but able to thrive. We talked about initiatives Submittable is working on and brainstormed ways we could do more, as a company and as individuals. I left feeling grateful to be a part of an organization where these kinds of conversations happen. For next month, ten team members are planning to read West With The Night by Beryl Markham, the first person to fly across the Atlantic east to west in a non-stop, solo flight. What We're Listening To: Back to our regularly scheduled program: a new Submishmash Weekly playlist on Spotify! Enjoy 50 specially-selected tracks each Tuesday. Highlights from this week include Herbie Hancock, Drake, Ibeyi, Paul & Linda McCartney, Centavrvs, and more. 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 social media? Let us know! Got high-quality writing related to publishing or digital media? Consider submitting it to our blog. New readers can subscribe here. Thanks!

Publishing & Journalism: Tools to take for a spin: Rachel Lyon’s Plot Roulette and Electric Literature’s Auto-Publicist (Rachel Lyon, Electric Literature). Celebrating the brightness and beauty of Baya (The Cut). Humility and other benefits your unread book collection affords (Inc.). ‘Black history was instinctively being preserved in everyday home movies.’ (Smithsonian NMAAHC). Liz Phair is a bedroom writer (Medium). From Max Richter, ‘an eight-hour personal lullaby for a frenetic world and a manifesto for a slower pace of existence’ (Vogue) Poetry ala Astoria (Crosscut). Embrace the urban and inflate your dome, worker of the future (the enlightened office). ‘More money, more problems?’ Getting an arts grants is complicated (New York Times). Both can be revelatory: shed the journals, fill spring pages (Submittable). Some Opportunities: Mothers Always Write is offering a spring Literary Writers Boot Camp focused on the literary essay that includes extensive one-on-one coaching. For its Romance & Women's Fiction Writing Contest, 2 Elizabeths will award $1000 and print anthology publication. C&R Press hosts an annual Soup Bowl Winter Chapbook Competition. The press is also open for full-length manuscripts in all categories: novels, poetry, short story collections, creative non-fiction, memoir, experimental and hybrid work. Time to get morbid. For its Killer Flash contest, The Molotov Cocktail seeks stories that involve some form of death. Woman Made Gallery’s Wordplay exhibit serves to highlight the voice of all female-identified artists who use text and image or text as image as a means of creative expression. The Offbeat seeks intriguing, eccentric, and “offbeat” writing for its annual contests. Regular submissions are also open. Editors at Cagibi seek poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and translation with rolling deadlines, reading year-round for all issues. The July issue theme is 'Recovery.' The Detroit Heritage Play Festival, presented by Casa Blanca Consultants, is open to playwrights of all ages, living in Detroit now, or in the past, or elsewhere with a connection to, or interest in, Detroit. Stories can be historical, fictional, or visionary. WusGood?, a POC magazine, is accepting applications for The Black Hogwarts Online Workshop, an intensive poetry workshop with a magical theme. The Office of Public Art at the Pittsburgh Arts Council seeks visual, performing, and literary artists for Sift 2, curated by José Carlos Diaz. yəhaw̓ is an open call exhibition celebrating the depth and diversity of Indigenous art made in the Pacific Northwest. Photographers: the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center is accepting applications for its 2018-2019 Artist Residency program, and the Open Society Documentary Photography Project is offering a new joint exhibition and fellowship opportunity focused on the topic of migration. Gemini Ink, San Antonio’s independent literary arts center, seeks panel proposals for its 2018 Writers Conference on the theme ‘Writing the New Century.’ Chapbooks and photography sought by Desert Willow Press. The National Arts Strategies Creative Community Fellows Program is open to individuals with arts and culture projects in New England dedicated to creating positive community change. Chaleur Magazine seeks essays, critiques, poetry, art, and film. Judges for the New Ohio Review 2018 Contest are Mary Gaitskill (fiction), Roxane Gay (nonfiction), and Kevin Prufer (poet). One winner in each genre will receive $1000 and publication. Dark Ink Press is a publisher of fiction, nonfiction, art, and photography. Its subsidiary magazine thrives on original work with an edge. Hub City Press's Summer Publishing Internship program, based in downtown Spartanburg, S.C., includes lodging and a stipen. Loft Literary seeks applicants for its paid Summer Marketing and Communications Internship Program. Want to build a Facebook-alternative? Check out the LAUNCH Open Book Challenge.  What We're Listening To: Submittable's main muse Sasha Bell from the Customer Experience Team created this week's Spotify playlist, 'Sasha's Brain.' Here's how she described it: These are a few songs to get some of us through the late doldrums of Winter. It includes some new discoveries and some favorite oldies. Enjoy tracks by Destroyer, Sonny and the Sunsets, Anne Murray, and more.   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 social media? Let us know! Got high-quality writing related to publishing or digital media? Consider submitting it to our blog. New readers can subscribe here. Thanks! Twitter Facebook Discover Copyright © 2018 Submittable, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Submittable PO Box 8255 Missoula, MT 59807

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