Hello Creatives
Here is a reading call from LitCamp for the Bay Area Book Festival, and a publishing call from Ephemera with a 200.00 Honorarium. Neither have a submission cost. So, if either of this opportunities call to you. Read on.
Reading Call
Will you be in the Bay Area during the first week of May? If you’re interested in reading at the Bay Area Book Festival, LitCamp invites you to read.
Apply by midnight, March 31
LitCamp has once again, been asked to be part of the Bay Area Book Festival (yay!).
Our event will take place on Sunday, May 7, at 4 pm, and will once again be emceed by writer and comedian, Keli Dailey (pictured above).
If you’d like to be one of our readers, please submit a no-more-than-3-minute piece on our theme…Unreliable Narrator: Stories about con artists, liars, and people we generally don’t trust…no later than midnight, March 31.
LitCamp willlet you know if you’ll be reading by April 7.
Please note that this event is in-person in Berkeley, CA.
Poetry Call
Do you have a short collection of poetry ready to go out?
If so, consider submitting your work to Ephemera.
Poetry needed for May, $200.00 Honorarium given. Submission is free.
Ephemera states their goal: to support every literary endeavor universally and will continue to develop new ideas and bring opportunities to the community. A book prize is in the works, in order to help bring new life and attention to overlooked books, their authors, and their publishers. For now, though, their current call is on a curated list of lyrical work.
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Ephemera, who is publishing poetry weekly, has put out the call. If you’re interested, send 5–10 poems through their Submittable site. Their goal is to bring original poetry to their 30,000 wide readership in conjunction with our content offerings and mini essays, to enliven the read and build a variegated creative experience.
If an author is selected, they will receive a $200 honorarium, and have one poem published in each weekly edition of Ephemera for the month (4 or 5 issues). The selected author and poems also receive a dedicated substack entry on Ephemera’s substack page, where all of the month’s poems will appear, along with an artist’s statement, biographical note, and book/publication items.
Ephemera Details:
At Ephemera, the first issue of each month is free and our other issues are for paid subscribers. The selected poet’s first work will go to all subscribers free, and the other issues are for paid subscribers. The dedicated post is partially free and complete for paid subscribers.
TERMS
A selected author will receive a $200 honorarium, publication in each weekly issue of the month’s newsletter, a year-long paid subscription to Ephemera, and a dedicated post sent out to all subscribers. Payments are sent only by PayPal after the final poems and author statement are received by Ephemera, and after publication of the first issue in which the author’s work appears.
We accept previously published work as long as the author currently retains the rights AND the poems were not published within the previous 12 months. Also, the poems cannot have won an award with pay equal to or greater than $200. We want to be fare and create new opportunities and recognize work that has not previously been awarded significantly. All previously published work must be identified as such.
FORMAT
- 12 size font
- Doc or DocX files only
- Single spaced
- Remove all identifiers
- Send 5–10 poems for consideration
- 100 word author bio
*We cannot permit edits to work once it is submitted. We cannot offer refunds, so please take care to submit correctly and follow the instructions. By submitting you agree to receive contact from Ephemera and related properties. We will not sell or transfer emails outside of the organization. Submitters emails are added to the free addition of Ephemera and you can opt out at any time thereafter.
Thank you for your understanding and participation. Thank you, also, for your hard work and contribution to the arts and creative writing. We appreciate your presence and interest and wish you happy writing and creative success.
Ephemera reviews artists, musicians, magazines, writing opportunities, and job postings on a weekly basis. They also deliver book recommendations, and interesting & apropos literary and creative miscellany, alongside weekly craft mini-essays to get people thinking and motivated.
