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| Calling young poets! This February, poets ages 13-19 are invited to apply to be the 2024 New York State Youth Poet Laureate. Please help us spread the word! There are just 2 weeks left to apply! Deadline: Feb. 29th.APPLY NOW! The application is easy: young poets submit 3 poems and complete a simple online form. The New York State (NYS) Youth Poet Laureate Program aims to identify young writers and leaders committed to creating change through civic engagement and poetic excellence. T&W is partnering with Urban Word on the Youth Poet Laureate program in New York State. Along with the official title and a cash prize of $500, the NYS Youth Poet Laureate gets both high-level performance and learning opportunities and the chance to apply to be the National Youth Poet Laureate. They will join a community of other talented young poets, including Amanda Gorman, the first National Youth Poet Laureate (2017), who read her poetry at the 2021 Presidential inauguration! APPLY FEBRUARY 1 – 29, 2024 Read Rules & EligibilityAPPLY NOW |
Contracted Obligation’s
By: Jesus L. Diaz
When you find me scattered across the field of lilies
Call for me.
You have a contractual obligation to do so
You’ve hurt me.
Deeply I could feel a knife in my chest,
The more I cried the deeper it went.
My love killed me,
And you never knew.
Continue reading “Contracted Obligation’s”2023 UNCHARTED THRILLING STORY AWARD
JANUARY 1 TO FEBRUARY 28, 2023
JUDGED BY GABINO IGLESIAS
We invite writers to submit to the Uncharted MagazineThrilling Story Award from January 1 to February 28, 2023. This Award is for all three genres: SF/F, Thriller/Horror, and Mystery/Crime. Guest judge Gabino Iglesias will choose three winning stories from a shortlist. We’re excited to offer the winner of this prize $1000 and publication, while the 2nd and 3rd place winners will receive publication and $300 and $200, respectively.
Continue reading “2023 UNCHARTED THRILLING STORY AWARD”Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Prize 2023
Submissions Open: Feb 1, 2023 – May 31, 2023
Continue reading “Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Prize 2023”Do you want to know how to get published?
ONLINE: Writing Day Workshops plans both in-person and virtual/online conferences. The 2023 CWW is an Online Conference, on March 3-4. Online events are easy and awesome, and the virtual events we’ve done thus far have received wonderful feedback. You do not have to be tech-savvy to do this, and understand we are keeping all aspects of a traditional in-person event, including one-on-one agent & editor pitching, which will now be done by Zoom or phone. Learn all details about what it means to have a writers conference online.)
WHAT IS IT?
This is a special two-day “How to Get Published” writing workshop on March 3-4, 2023. In other words, it’s two days full of classes and advice designed to give you the best instruction concerning how to get your writing & books published. We’ll discuss your publishing opportunities today, how to write queries & pitches, how to market yourself and your books, what makes an agent/editor stop reading your manuscript, and more. No matter what you’re writing — fiction or nonfiction — the day’s classes will help point you in the right direction. Writers of all genres are welcome. And even though this is the “Chesapeake” Writing Workshop, make no mistake — writers from everywhere are welcome to attend virtually. Our WDW writers conferences have helped dozens of writers find literary agent representation — see our growing list of success stories here.
My Literally Me Perspective
My Literally Me Perspective
Anon is currently speaking inside his own head squabbling in depression with what he would consider inner poetic justice. However he cannot rhyme due to his obscene anger at the world and more specifically his crush and her new boyfriend. (V.O)
Damn
Damn I say!
A god damn if you will
My ear is piercing
Nothing is truly clear.
Now, across from here
She is with him
How can they love each other so dearly?
His love for her can’t be real
It can never be
It must be fake
It could be a lie
There is no truth in his love
It could never be like mine.
Read more: My Literally Me PerspectiveThey could never love like I do
Not many could
I am a special case
I am surreal deal
I can laugh but not cry
I like to think I am an extra bit real.
No I would never have to
I’m not a man who needs to think
I actually just always know
Truly all the time
I am literally me.
I am literally just like all my favorites
I am literally Bateman
I am literally the Batman
Actually I am just like Ed Norton in fight club
My personality is raw and different.
So why in the hell
Could she not be with me?
What were the rules against it?
That guy will only ever be him
But I was always literally me.
A shitposter if you will
I have no depression
No need to see a therapist
I am a special type of person
Brimmed with justice and no consolation.
So why the hell
Am I only the ¨he¨ and never ¨him¨
I can never be the main character
Always an outsider
Always afraid.
I live in the background
Deep within my own dread
Just reading the books
Watching my movies
Lovingly eating my sushi.
A girl like her
She could never like someone.
Someone so literally me
She is a pretty doll
While I am a goblin.
All I can do his watch and stare
As they drink their tea
And listen as my friend gags with laughter
As he watches me gleefully
As I hit all the stages of my despair.
His laughter and happiness begin to move onto me
I am actually feeling quite funny
It may never be so bad to let out a little laugh
It is all just highschool after all
All here will never really matter.
That’s what I like to think
I always have them anyways
The moments of despair.
I’ll just go ahead and move on from her
Like I always do.
My friend assures me to not care
I suppose I guess I won’t
For now I wont know if it will matter
I am only 16 after all
Just for now I will continue to be just me.
Contest – Win up to $1,500 for your Quantum Steampunk Short Story!
The Maryland Quantum-Thermodynamics Hub is hosting a Quantum Steampunk Short-Story Contest! You have until January 15, 2023 to write and submit a short story in a steampunk style—including, but not limited to, taking place during the 1800s (and, if desired, some time in the future); and involving at least one real or imagined quantum technology.
The story will be judged by a panel of physicists and writers, and YQI members will recognize familiar faces: Ms. Quantum Steampunk herself Nicole Yunger Halpern, and YQI member Jack Harris.
All info, deadlines, and submission details are on the MQT hub website.
Maryland Voices
Submissions for Volume XIII are now being accepted through January 1, 2023.
All current high school students in the state of Maryland are eligible to submit.
Please follow this link to submit your writing. Details on submission guidelines are included in this link:
Vol XIII Submission Form: https://forms.gle/82zJBkgLyhwivHgv5
We look forward to reviewing the submissions! If you have any questions, feel free to contact us here.
Remember: the deadline is January 1, 2023!
Profiles in Courage Essay Contest
Contest Topic
Describe and analyze an act of political courage by a US elected official who served during or after 1917.
To learn more about political courage, visit Contest Information and FAQs.
All submissions must adhere to contest requirements.
Contest Deadline
The Profile in Courage Essay Contest opens for submissions on September 1, 2022. The contest deadline is January 13, 2023.
Recognition and Awards
First-place: $10,000 Second-place: $3,000 Five Finalists: $1,000 each Eight Semi-finalists: $100 each
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