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Submission Deadline: Buckman Journal: The Marie Equi Prize For Poetry

Buckman Publishing PO Box 14247, Portland, OR, United States

Buckman Journal is proud to announce The Marie Equi Prize For Poetry. One poet will receive $200.00 and appear in Buckman Journal 004. There is no entry fee. Firebrand Marie Equi (1872-1952) was a Portland physician, suffragette, birth control advocate, labor activist, and perhaps the first publicly known lesbian on the west coast. The prize is open to Oregon and SW Washington residents only. Please send 4 to 6 poems, or 4 to 6 pages of unpublished poetry (no more than 6 pages). Do not print your name or any self-identifying annotation on your submission. Please include a cover letter with a contact email address AND phone number. Only winning or honorably mentioned submissions will be notified. Simultaneous submissions are fine. Email submissions are NOT…

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Submission Deadline: Portland Review: Borders

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Portland Review welcomes submissions of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translation, and mixed-genre works for online publication. We are specifically looking for works that creatively interrogate the theme of borders. We’d hope to find work that explores borders, not as structures that operate as visible barriers, but those less seen: the lines between parent, child, and self; appetites and offerings; gender, bodies, and expectation; the subconscious, reality and its digitally augmented proxies. We’re particularly excited to read works that engage with the theme in ways beyond the topical. The unexpected is encouraged and appreciated. Submission Window: January 1st-15th Work must be original, unpublished, and follow our submission guidelines. For over sixty years, Portland Review has published the works of emerging writers and artists alongside the works of…

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Submission Deadline: HOCUS Reading: Familiars

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

HOCUS accepts submissions for their quarterly readings. Their upcoming deadline is January 25th, and they're accepting prose and poetry of up to two thousand words on the theme "Familiars." Submissions can be sent through their online form here. HOCUS (Hermetic Order of Clandestine Urban Scribes) is a literary reading masquerading as a secret society, with quarterly readings held at Rose City Coffee Co. in the South East Brooklyn Park area.

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Submission Deadline: Submission Reading Series: BIPOC Writers

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Presenting “Submission by and for BIPOC": Submission Reading Series is run by blind online submission based out of Portland, OR. We will be open to poetry/prose submissions from BIPOC writers from January 1st - January 29th. As always, submissions are free, and writers may submit once in each genre. For this upcoming reading, BIPOC-identifying authors Janice Lee (prose) and Skyler Reed (poetry) will serve as guest editors and choose the winning readers. Thanks to a generous grant by Regional Arts & Culture Council, the winning submitters in each genre will receive $100 and an opportunity to read their work alongside the guest editors on Saturday, Feb. 22nd in Portland, OR. Extended submission guidelines: https://submissionpdx.submittable.com/submit Please don’t hesitate to reach out with any questions — our…

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Submission Deadline: Frontera Magazine, Vol. 3 “Natural States”

The Internet 001 SE Cyberspace Lane, Portland, OR, United States

Frontera está abierta para recibir entregas hasta el 1 de febrero (tendremos una semana extra si nos avisas por email.) Frontera es una revista bilingüe, escrita en Inglés y Español, y queremos recordarte que esos son los únicos idiomas que se aceptan. El tema del Vol. 3 es ESTADOS SILVESTRES, deja que la esencia del tema, en cualquiera manera, te inspire.  Frontera Magazine is currently open for submissions until February 1st (we observe a one week grace period if sent to our email). Frontera is an English-Spanish bilingual literary magazine, and we happily remind you that those are the only two languages we accept. The theme of Vol. 3 is NATURAL STATES, so let the nature of the theme and whatever it means to you, inspire you. Guías básicas //…

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Submission Deadline: The Marie Equi Prize For Poetry

Buckman Publishing PO Box 14247, Portland, OR, United States

Buckman Journal is proud to announce The Marie Equi Prize For Poetry. One poet will receive $200.00 and appear in Buckman Journal 004. There is no entry fee. Firebrand Marie Equi (1872-1952) was a Portland physician, suffragette, birth control advocate, labor activist, and perhaps the first publicly known lesbian on the west coast. The prize is open to Oregon and SW Washington residents only. Please send 4 to 6 poems, or 4 to 6 pages of unpublished poetry (no more than 6 pages). Do not print your name or any self-identifying annotation on your pages of poetry. Please include a cover letter with your name, contact email address, AND phone number. Only winning or honorably mentioned submissions will be notified. Simultaneous submissions are fine. Email…

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Submission Deadline: McMenamins & Theatre 33’s Playwriting Competition

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Enter a UFO-themed 10 minute play writing competition hosted by McMenamins and Theatre 33. Deadline for Submission is 3/1/2020. No more than 10 pages/minutes. Top three will be staged-read at the UFO festival in McMinnville in May. Winner receives $200 value gift card from McMenamins.

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Submission Deadline: Submission Reading Series: Call to Submit Poetry/Prose

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

[From Submission's email: Hi friends, We're sure you have many other anxieties and preoccupations right now (we definitely do), but we wanted to let you know that we've extended the submission deadline for our upcoming reading to April 1st. As more information about the Coronavirus becomes available, we may push the submission deadline (and reading date) out even further — we're playing things by ear. Submissions are still open for writers who want to send in their work. In the event that we receive a huge number of submissions, we may have to cap them/the guest editors may select winners at a later date. Regardless of what happens, we'll keep you informed. Stay healthy, stay safe, and be good to each other — we're sending…

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Submission Deadline: HOCUS Reading: The Tarot–Submissions Now Open

Rose City Coffee Co. - Brooklyn Park 3370 SE Milwaukie Ave, Portland, OR, United States

HOCUS is a quarterly reading event in the guise of a secret society. Our reading events are simultaneously silly and serious. "Hilarious," "profound," "close to the bone," and "goofy" are all words which were bandied about by attendees of our last event. Submissions are now open for our May 20th event. The theme is The Tarot. Works of prose or poetry which deal with this theme, either directly or obliquely, are welcome. We are looking for work which falls within the "literary" genre. No fantasy, sci-fi, horror, or romance please.

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Submission Deadline: The Gravity of the Thing: Spring 2020

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Our Spring 2020 reading period is open until April 30th. The Gravity of the Thing accepts defamiliarized works in the following general categories: Short: tell us a story in 3,000 words or less; we are interested in fiction, creative nonfiction, self-contained excerpts, and genre-bending forms. Flash: a fiction, creative nonfiction, or genre-bending story under 500 words. Poetry: share up to three poems, prose poems, or multimedia works for a combined count of 500 words or less. Six Words: a story in six words; you may share up to five stories per submission, but only one will be chosen. Baring the Device: brief essays for our Baring the Device column; click here to learn more.

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