Writer Opps Wednesday aims to bring you six new opportunities for writers every week. This week we have: a most intriguing call for entries of microfiction; developmental funding for artists who self identify as sharing one or more of the protected characteristics defined by the Equality Act 2010; a survey about arts funding in Scotland which could lead to you directly influencing policy; a call for submissions from an Australian publisher who accepts international submissions; a free e-book on how to get your work published; and a call for submissions on the theme of Detritus. Read on.
Micro Fiction Macchiato
Micro Fiction Macchiato
Deadline: 17 April 2019 at 23:55
Creative project of MLitt Creative Writing University of Glasgow. Call for micro fiction submission.
The project is to get people involved in special reading experience, which participants would be asked to read in dark. As participants re-write one of Edgar Allan Poe’s pieces based on either the original texts, or the already re-written micro fictions (under 30 words/ under 300 words) I created on the website, they have the chance to be included in the online anthology. As part of the submission rules, participants would also be asked to write their micro fictions on used coffee filter papers, photo or scan them while keeping a record in doc./pdf. file.
The online anthology features adaptations of Poe at the current stage and aims to collect more micro fictions in the future.Location: All Scotland ,England, Northern Ireland, International
For further information, please contact ewintermacchiato@gmail.com (Franz ), or visit https://www.microfictionmacchiato.com
The deadline is Wednesday 17 April 2019 at 23:55.
I can’t for the life of me work out what Franz is asking for, but I’m going to give it a good go at some point.
Create:Inclusion
Creative Scotland
Deadline: 04 April 2019 at 23:59
This new fund seeks to increase the diversity of people in the arts, screen and creative industries. Developmental funding available for individuals and organisations.
Creative Scotland’s reports ‘Understanding Diversity in the Arts’ and ‘Equality Matters’ highlighted numerous and complex barriers to access, progression and representation in the arts, screen and creative industries.
These reports indicated that career progression is far from a level playing field. Challenges are more acutely felt by women, people with parental responsibilities, disabled people and those from Black and minority ethnic backgrounds. Lack of connections, social structures and networks also featured highly as a barrier, with many mentioning the importance of informal networks in securing work or getting noticed.
The Equality Analysis of our 2018-21 Regularly Funded Organisations (RFO) programme also highlighted a reduction in the number of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion-led organisations supported through the RFO programme and a reduction in a focus on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion programming. Additionally, there were no new applications from Equality, Diversity and Inclusion led organisations.
This fund aims to start addressing some of these well documented concerns and increase the diversity of people in the arts, screen and creative industries in Scotland.
This fund will seek to prioritise applications from individuals who self–identify as sharing one or more protected characteristics defined by the Equality Act 2010; or from groups/organisations which are either minority-led or which focus on working with and for those who share one or more protected characteristics.
There are no minimum and maximum limits on how much you can apply for, and our intention is to award funding at the levels requested by applicants. We expect to support between 12 and 20 applications, depending on the level of demand, and the Fund has a total budget of £285,000 for 2019/20.
This fund is supported by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland. If you have any objections to receiving funding from this source – for example some applicants do not wish to receive money from sources of gambling – then please tell us and if successful we can arrange for the funding to come from other sources.Location: All Scotland
For further information, please contact enquiries@creativescotland.com (enquiries@creativescotland.com), or visit https://www.creativescotland.com/funding/funding-programmes/targeted-funding/createinclusion
The deadline is Thursday 04 April 2019 at 23:59.
Literature Alliance Scotland: Survey for Arts Funding Inquiry
Deadline: Thursday 4 April.
Please share your views on the inquiry into the future of funding for the arts in Scotland issued by MSPs on the Culture, Tourism, Europe and External Affairs Committee. The inquiry follows scrutiny undertaken by the Committee last year into Creative Scotland’s handling of the Regular Funding round for 2018-2021.
Your opinions will be collated to help inform the LAS collective response to this consultation and will be anonymised. All questions are open-ended comments. Please also share this survey with your membership and amongst your networks.
Please see our privacy policy for more information on how we use your data. Thank you!
https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/MQGVQB3
Gypsum Sound Tales is a publishing house based in Sydney, Australia who accepts international submissions, and pays!
Colp is our ‘anything goes’ anthology collection.
Expect to see a little bit of this and a little bit of that within each issue, so feel free to submit stories from any genre.
Current theme: Big
Think big. For this Colp collection we are seeking stories that feature at least one significantly-sized character or component. Your story must include at least one of the following:
a character (main or otherwise) that is physically enormous (tall, wide, both) – think the size of a skyscraper as your starting point
an environmental feature or man-made structure that is equally enormous
giant objects
Go as big as you can, and think outside the box. Please avoid any stories that are retakes on Jack and the Beanstalk, Pacific Rim, Godzilla, King Kong or any other classical/modern story or film.
Colp is for everyone and therefore we are willing to read stories that fall into any genre. So, no matter whether your story is a horror, adventure, romance, sci-fi or historical fiction piece, please send it on through (we’d really love someone to send through a romance, just once…) Be original. We also encourage new and unpublished writers to take the leap and get in touch.
Read more https://www.gypsumsoundtales.com/Submissions.phphttps://www.gypsumsoundtales.com/Submissions.phhttps://www.gypsumsoundtales.com/Submissions.phpp
A free e-book on how to get your work published in lit mags
Submit, Publish, Repeat: 5th Edition
About the Book: This book is the definitive guide to publishing your creative writing in literary journals. This year, we’ve added a section about what to expect after you’ve submitted your work to literary journals.
The book also includes updated lists of publishers, including publishers for new authors, publishers of genre writing, and literary journals that pay their writers.
There is quite a bit more in this book, including a discussion of reading fees, contests, and anthologies.
The book is available, completely free.
from here: http://www.authorspublish.com/submit-publish-repeat/
The Suburban Review
#14 — DETRITUS
Waste and decay surrounds and absorbs you. It’s warm, thick, fertile. Breathe in the fetid excess and expose all the crawling, seething life forces. Write into the dark warmth and send us the best of your scum and grot. We want work like a smell so bad you can’t help but want to know what it is. Let your imagination go there, and then submit the spoils to us. We want to read it all.
We allow simultaneous submissions, just email us once
SUBMISSIONS CLOSE 18 APRIL 2019
Here’s what we pay:
FICTION2000-2500 words—no more than that! (payment $150)
1000-2000 words (payment $100)
500-1000 words (payment $75)
CREATIVE NON-FICTION2000-2500 words—no more than that! (payment $150)
1000-2000 words (payment $100)
500-1000 words (payment $75)
POETRYSuite of three poems (payment $150)
1 poem over 30 lines (payment $100)
1 poem under 30 lines (payment $75)
COMICS4 pages B&W or Colour (payment $200)
2 pages B&W or Colour (payment $100)
That’s Writer Opps Wednesday for this week, now I’m off to see what I can find for next week.
