Writing Opportunities

Calls for Submissions

Perhappened Mag Issue: Lights Out. we want what you saw out of the corner of your eye. how the branches scrape your siding at night. a power outage without a flashlight. the owls. the howls. Deadline is October 9, 2020. Find out more

Room Magazine invites unpublished writing on any theme for our open issue 44.2, edited by Isabella Wang, alongside Assistant Editor, Lue Boileau and Shadow Editor, Micah Killjoy. Issue 44.2 will feature new work by Yabome Gilpin-Jackson, author of Ancestries and Identities: A Short Story Collection, an interview with Alannah Johnson, as well as this year’s contest winners. Deadline is October 31, 2020. Find out more

Freefall Magazine Poetry: Submit 2-5 poems, any style. Length of any individual poem cannot exceed 6 pages. Payment is $25.00 per poem and one copy of issue that your piece is published in. Deadline is November 30, 2020. Find out more

Poetry in Place Anthology Deborah Bowen is putting together a curated anthology of local poetry on the subject of “Poetry in Place.” She hopes to include a wide range of contemporary poets whose writing is ecologically-concerned and comes out of/refers to the area of southern Ontario bounded by the Grand River to the west and the tip of Lake Ontario to the east, and the land stretching from Guelph to St Catharines, including Hamilton, Kitchener/Waterloo, Brantford, and the Six Nations territories. She is keen to ensure a wide representation of poets, including but not limited to BIPOC poets and émigré-settlers whose experience of place in southern Ontario is informed by their varied backgrounds. The anthology will be arranged thematically around such topics as Land/Earth, Water, Trees, Birds, Wild Creatures, Plants and Flowers, Insects, Cultivation/Gardening, and Food. Each poet whose work is chosen for the collection will be invited to interview on their relationship to place, their spirituality or worldview, and their motivation in writing poetry; they will have some of their comments included in the final volume. If you are interested in being considered for this anthology, please send two or three relevant poems

to Deborah, at dcbowen@redeemer.ca, by December 1, 2020. Include your name, a brief bio, and an email address where you can be contacted. The selection process will be competitive, but all poems will be given careful consideration.

Sad Girl Review is now accepting poetry and other writing submissions for ISSUE 6: MUSE, HEROINE, & FANGIRL This is a volume of tributes, odes, dedications, and fanart because every great work is influenced by the work that came before it. We are inspired by the spirit of the fangirl because she enchants and disturbs us with her obsessive study of a single topic. She compels us to praise and elevate the people and topics that were initially snubbed or overlooked. She is the harbinger of popular culture and she charts the stars to show us new constellations. Together we will construct our own canon of all figures and things deemed heroic, influential, and girly. So who has inspired you and what did you do about it? Deadline is December 5, 2020. Find out more

Bone & Ink Press is accepting chapbook-length submissions until December 31, 2020. Find out more

Arc is open to submissions for their annual reading period for the Summer 2021 issue. Deadline is December 31, 2020. Find out more.

Cloud Lake Literary is accepting submissions for publication in our digital magazine from Canadian writers. Current submissions are for the Spring volume (2021). Deadline is December 31, 2020. Find out more

Existere is open to submissions for upcoming Spring/summer 2021 issue. Deadline is December 31, 2020. Find out more

The New Quarterly reading period for poetry is now open. Deadline is February 28, 2021. Find out more

Grain Magazine annual 8 month reading period is now open. Deadline is May 15, 2021. Find out more

CV2 annual submission period is now open. Deadline is May 31, 2021. Find out more

Another New Calligraphy seeks work exploring the human experience, our internal worlds, and life among others; these complex systems are often clearest in our slightest moments. No set deadline. Find out more

Antigonish Review is now open to general submissions. The quality of the writing is the chief criterion. We also consider it our mandate to encourage Atlantic Canadians and Canadian writers - although excellent writing can come from anywhere. We also welcome new and young writers. No set deadline. Find out more

Damaged Goods Press is accepting chapbook length and fulllength manuscripts on a rolling

basis, and is currently reading for publication in late 2020 and beyond. a small press specializing in books by queer and trans people. No set deadline. Find out more

Eudaimonia Press is accepting submissions for their online journal. No set deadline. Find out more

F(r)icton accepts year-round submissions of poetry and other writing Experimental, nontraditional, and boundary-pushing literature is strongly encouraged. No set deadline. Find out more

Gap Riot Press is accepting chapbook length submissions. No set deadline. Find out more

Half a Grapefruit is accepting poetry submissions. No set deadline. Find out more

Harper Collins Open Inbox BIPOC Writers in Canada can now submit their unagented, unpublished middle-grade manuscripts to HarperCollins Canada. No set deadline. Find out more

The Malahat Review is accepting submissions on a rolling basis. Find out more

Plenitude is currently accepting poetry submissions with no set deadline. Find out more

Prism is accepting general submissions on a rolling basis. Find out more Q/A Poetry Journal exists to amplify the voices of womxn and nonbinary poets, and to expand the subjects deemed “appropriate” for womxn to be writing about. Send us your poems on your postpartum body, spider veins, lip hair, your favorite liquid eyeliner, your anguish over glass ceilings, your sex work, your ode to stay-at-home tedium, your list of your most beautiful and unlikeable qualities. No set deadline. Find out more

Queen’s Quarterly seeks submissions on any topic that presents a novel perspective and point of departure for thinking about our contemporary world. Whether fiction or non-fiction, a premium will be placed on singularity of voice, accessibility of ideas and relevance to issues of common concern. Honoraria are paid, editorial services are provided and the chance to kick-start a national conversation is on offer. No set deadline. Find out more

Rejection Letters is open to poetry submissions. No set deadline. Find out more

Terse is accepting poetry submissions on a rolling basis. No set deadline. Find out more

Train: a poetry journal is accepting submissions on a rolling basis. Find out more.

The Walrus is currently poetry submissions and other writing. No set

Awards and Contests

Malahat Review Open Season Con-

test. This year’s poetry judge is Rebecca Salazar. Poetry prize is $2,000 CAD. Deadline is November 1, 2020. Find out more.

Anthology Magazine Poetry Prize Entries are now invited for the Anthology Magazine Poetry Prize. Established to recognise and encourage excellence in the craft of poetry writing and to provide a platform for publication, it is open to original and previously unpublished poems in the English language. Entries are invited from poets of all nationalities, living anywhere in the world. Poems submitted must be on the theme of ‘Expectations’ and should not exceed 40 lines. There is no limit to entries per person. Deadline is November 30, 2020. Find out more

Banff Centre Bliss Carman Poetry

Award. By entering the Banff Centre Bliss Carman Poetry Award Contest you not only have a chance to win: $1,250 in cash, a one-week residency in the Leighton Artists’s Studios, which includes a private studio in the woods, a bedroom and a meal plan, a jeweller-cast replica of poet Bliss Carman’s ring, an invitation to THIN AIR (produced by the Winnipeg International Writers Festival), dinner with the staff of Prairie Fire, publication in Prairie Fire magazine,and with your contest submission you’ll also receive a one-year subscription to Prairie Fire. Deadline is November 30, 2020. Find out more.

Raven Chapbooks First Annual Po-

etry Chapbook Contest. Focused on new and emerging poets living in the CRD – Greater Victoria and the Southern Gulf Islands. The winning manuscript will be published Spring 2021. Judges for this year’s contest are Yvonne Blomer and Robert Hilles. Deadline is November 30, 2020. Find out more

The Fiddlehead $2000 Ralph Gus-

tafson Prize for Best Poem! Judges are Jenna Lyn Albert, Canisia Lubrin and Adèle Barclay. Deadline is December 1, 2020. Find out more

Job and Volunteer Opportunities

Executive Director: Association of English-language Publishers of

Quebec The AELAQ is seeking an organized, dynamic Executive Director (ED) to carry out our mandate of supporting English-language book publishers in Quebec. Reporting to AELAQ’s board of directors, the ED establishes the organization’s priorities, and is the primary coordinator of its activities. This is a permanent part-time salaried position at 25 hours/week, located in Montreal, Quebec. Deadline is October 19, 2020. Find out more

Anomaly: Call for Blog and Feature

Writers We’re looking for writers who are interested in contributing in an ongoing manner to the Anomaly Blog, either by proposing a column or series, or by joining a team of staff writers who both pitch and take on assigned pieces for the blog. We are particularly interested in writers to focus on reviews, interviews, and profiles of artists and writers; and in getting pitches for columns or series that focus specifically on a particular artistic or writing community within the purview of our expanded mission. If you are interested, please send an email to Features & Reviews Editor Sarah Clark with a paragraph about what you’re interested in writing about and your CV attached. No set deadline. Find out more

Residency & Fellowship Opportunities

Ontario Arts Council — Arts Re-

sponse Initiative: The $1.6M Arts Response Initiative is an investment in the diversity and vitality of the arts across Ontario. The one-time initiative supports individual artists, ad hoc groups and collectives, and arts organizations to carry out their activities in an environment of change. This initiative encourages exploration, adaptation, and the development of new ways of working that will increase the inclusiveness and resilience of Ontario’s arts sector, both now and into the future. Deadline for individual applications is October 20, 2020 and deadline for groups, organizations, and collectives is November 3, 2020. Find out more and apply