11/19: News and Opportunities Round-Up

A monthly listing of news, writing resources, and submission opportunities you can’t afford to miss. Compiled by Digital Editor Dylan Brethour from Associate Director Paul McVeigh’s blog.

News & Resources

• Short Story Masterclass: Putting the Life on the Page with Tessa Hadley: 16 November
• On the Many Different Engines That Power a Short Story by Lincoln Michel
• Submitting to Literary Journals by Claire Hennessy
• Ben Lerner & Sally Rooney In Conversation
• Motherhood Makes You Obscene by Marguerite Duras
• It’s Time Nancy Hale Got Her Due by Lauren Goff
• Demystifying the Writer’s Fear of Failure by Sarah LaBrie
• Why the Novel Matters by Eimear McBride
• Deborah Levy Beats Writers’ Block
• 7 Common Mistakes in First-Time Memoir by Jane Friedman
• The 10 Best Short Story Collections of the Decade
• Free Resources for Writers
• Jeanette Winterson and Mark O’Connell on the Future of Humanity in a Tech-Dominated World

Short Story Deadlines

• The Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Deadline 1 November
• The Stinging Fly seeks submissions. Deadline 28 November
• Nobrow Short Story Competition. Deadline 9 December
• £30,000 Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award. Deadline 13 December
• Structo seeks fiction and poetry. Deadline 31 December
• The Lascaux Review Prize for Short Fiction is open to Submissions until 31 December
• Ploughshares is open to Submissions until 15 January, 2020
• Have your short story performed live. Deadline 14 February, 2020
• The Irish Times New Irish Writing seeks Fiction
• The Los Angeles Review of Books seeks Fiction & Poetry
• Short Fiction Journal is open to Submissions
• 44 US Publishers looking for short story collections
• Skein Press seeks short stories & novels esp minority ethnic backgrounds
• Storymart seeks short stories
• For Books’ Sake seeks short stories from self-identifying women
• Enter The Hennessy New Irish Writing Award. Open Submissions
• Joyland Magazine seeks short fiction, novel excerpts, and literary non-fiction. Open Deadline

Flash Fiction

• Ad Hoc Fiction. Weekly Flash Fiction Competition
• Top 20 Places to Submit Flash Fiction | BookFox
• River Teeth weekly column, Beautiful Things: 250 words
• Narrative Magazine. Open for submissions all year round
• Narrative Magazine seeks your Six-Word Story

Books

• RSL Literature Matters Awards. Deadline 9 December
• FourCats Press seeks LGBTQ & working-class literary fiction & nonfiction
• Skein Press seeks Short Stories & Novels esp minority ethnic backgrounds
• Avon (Harper Collins Imprint) Seeks Submissions
• Mercier Press seeks Non-Fiction Submissions

Poetry, Non-Fiction, Illustration and More…

• Free Creative Writing and Performing Workshops. Dates: 9 November 2019 & 24 February 2020
• The Stinging Fly seeks poetry submissions. Deadline 28 November
• RSL Literature Matters Awards. Deadline 9 December 
• Panorama Travel Anthology seeks Submissions. Deadline: 28 December
• The Irish Times New Irish Writing seeks Poetry
• The Los Angeles Review of Books seeks Fiction & Poetry
• National Centre for Writing Residency Opportunities 
• The Imison Award for New Writing in Audio Drama
• The Free with Words Scholarship 2019
• PAID: True Story seeks Creative Nonfiction
• The Sea Letter seeks Short Fiction & Poetry
• The Los Angeles Review seeks Submissions
• The Tenniswood Award for Best Original Audio Drama
• Panorama: The Journal of Intelligent Travel. Deadline: Various
• Neon seeks Short Stories, Flash, Poetry, Images, Comics & Graphic Poems
• PAID: Craft seeks Flash & Short Fiction, Reviews & Interviews
• The Laurel Review seeks poetry, fiction & more
• Wanderlust – travel journal seeks submissions
• Storgy seeks Short Stories & Nonfiction – Open Submission
• McNeese Review Print & Online Submissions
• Wildness seeks Short Stories, Poetry & Non-Fiction
• Pendora Magazine seeks Fiction & Nonfiction
• The Stupendous Tramp Press Submissions Open
• Dublin Review of Books seeks Essays & Reviews
• The Southeast Review seeks Nonfiction, Poetry & Fiction
• Pank seeks Chap Books in Poetry, Nonfiction & Fiction

Short Stories & Podcasts

• Podcast: Toni Morrison explains why beauty is absolutely necessary
• What You Usually Find in Novels by Anton Chekhov
• The Lottery by Shirley Jackson 
• Podcast: Joanne Harris, Fiona Mozley, Irenosen Okojie and Janina Ramirez fable and folklore
• Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God by Joyce Carol Oates
• A Dark and Winding Road by Ottessa Moshfegh
• Shape Ups at Delilah’s by Rion Amilcar Scott
• The Color of Shadows by Colm Tóibín
• Audiobook Excerpt: The Topeka School by Ben Lerner