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Contest opens April 1, 2024, and closes June 15, 2024
Submit online at kansasauthorsclub.submittable.com TLAN is hosting our first in person conference since 2019 and we would love to your feature your creativity, wisdom and experience in a conference workshop or performance.
From now until April 1st, we invite you to submit a proposal for a workshop and/or a small performance that focuses on writing, storytelling, spoken word, theater, songwriting and composing, etc. as well as bringing in other arts such as visual arts, music, dance and movement. (Don't ponder too long—our call for proposals really does close April 1, 2024). Here are 10 reasons to send us your proposal: 1. You're a writer, storyteller, musician, performer, educator, leader, or healer who knows firsthand how words save and change lives. 2. You have (or are ready to develop) a joyful, meaningful, life-enhancing workshop or performance you're ready to share with a deeply appreciative group of humans. 3. Presenting is a great way to build the kind of meaningful relationships that grow your reach. 4. You love witnessing others finding and sharing their truest words in writing or out loud. 6. Your work resonates with our conference tracks: Narrative Medicine/ Healing Stories, Social Transformation, Engaged Spirituality, Eco-TLA, and/or Right Livelihood. 7. There's no other conference quite like the Power of Words, and you want to be part of building and sustaining the community of transformative language artists. 8. You're ready to be part of a vibrant group of presenters, including writers, storytellers, performers, musicians, educators, activists, healers, health professionals, community leaders, and more from throughout (and perhaps beyond) the U.S. 8. You've been presenting workshops or performances for a while and you're ready to bring one to the Power of Words. 9. Your body and soul tell you this is the time. 10. We are your people, and you are ours. Click the text links here or the buttons below to find out more about our Sept. 26-29, 2024 Power of Words conference at beautiful Unity Village in Kansas City, MO and more about submitting a conference proposal. We look forward to reading your proposals! Kitra Cooper and Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg Power of Words Conference Co-Chairs You have almost one more month (till March 1) to enter your best writing on love to Blue Cedar Press's contest for inclusion in The Love Book, publication date June 15. Entries may be memoir, short story, or poetry and guidelines are at bluecedarpress.com.
BCP has six books coming out between now and mid-June 2024. In case you've missed the news, we are hosting our 2024 Writing Convention (the full thing this year) at Rock Springs Ranch near Junction City.
Save the dates: October 4-6, 2024. For those who attended the 2023 Writing Retreat, we will be utilizing the same housing as last year and we will have an additional cottage which will allow private room space for couples and individuals. Attendees will also have the option of day campus attendance only and a portion of the workshops will be available to virtual ticket holders. Many details to come, but we wanted to start early sharing news and information. Right now, we are looking for Workshop Proposals. Visit this page to review the guidelines and fill out the proposal submission form. Deadline for proposals: April 15, 2024. The Amity Literary Prize is an award honoring authors of unpublished non-fiction, fiction including novels, YA, collections of short fiction, and poetry collections. Authors writing in English—regardless of nationality, residence, or publication history—may enter the competition.
Winning manuscripts will be published by Anamcara Press. In addition to publication, the author will receive a $200 cash prize and a three day writing retreat in Lawrence, Kansas valued at $800. Though only one winner will be chosen, we may offer to publish other manuscripts submitted to the competition in addition to the prize winner. Blue Cedar Press announces a contest for memoir pieces or short stories or poems about LOVE in all its forms. Details at bluecedarpress.com and in the flyer posted here.
A book with winning submissions will be published May 1st 2024 and the best entry in each category, selected by our independent judges, will be awarded a cash prize. The Volland Foundation is committed to providing time and space for creative practitioners of a wide range of disciplines to gather in a community setting for work, thought and exchange of ideas, and to experience immersion in a unique ecosystem and rural culture. In 2024, Volland will offer 14 residencies across the spring, summer, and fall seasons.
Member Literary Entries for 2024 Yearbook, Deadline October 31
Every Member having paid current dues is invited to submit ONE literary contribution for the yearbook. That submission can be either prose or poetry. Prose is limited to one printed page (no more than 500 words). Poetry is limited to one printed page (no more than 40 lines including spaces between verses). Learn More by clicking here, or view the submission guidelines in the back of your 2023 Yearbook (appendix G) Due Between August 1 and October 31, electronic receipt or postmark
Every Member having paid current dues is invited to submit ONE literary contribution for the yearbook. That submission can be either prose or poetry. Prose is limited to one printed page (no more than 500 words). Poetry is limited to one printed page (no more than 40 lines including spaces between verses).
We are now accepting 2023 advertising sponsors for our fall event, our first state-wide Writing Retreat at Rock Springs Ranch. As with recent years, our event sponsors will enjoy the following:
New in 2023: For $10 more, we will help you create your advertisement. Select "KAC Assistance" for your purchase option. Final Deadline for 2023 Advertising = September 1 Don't forget that we have an Early Bird deadline coming up for the retreat, as well. Register by August 1!
District 5 President, Sandee Taylor, has prepared a recording on how to submit books and writings to our contests, starting with where to find our guidelines and how to submit via submittable. This 26 minute video is very informative. Watch and enter! The deadline for entering our contests is June 15, 2023. Thank you, Sandee! Awards for achievement in writing, service to Kansas Authors Club, or a special accomplishment are presented to deserving Kansas Authors Club members at the Annual Conference. Nominations should be sent no later than July 1st of the year to be considered. Forms may be sent either by e-mail or by regular postal mail. Award winners will be selected by ballot by a committee of Kansas Authors Club members chosen by the Awards Chair. The Awards Chair will present the names of those members nominated to a selection committee before reporting final results to the KAC board as soon as possible after the deadline for nomination. Please give careful consideration to your reasons why the nominee is worthy of an award. If this person is to be considered for the achievement in writing award, then please list publications of the person’s writing, either published and/or self-published. For the service award, list what services were done both on the district and state level, how long the person held an office, etc. For the special accomplishment award, list when, where, and what this was, and describe the accomplishment. Contact the Awards Chair, Anne Shiever, if you have questions. Nominations may be made by any individual member of the Kansas Authors Club, by a group or a district. Note: This is a district-sponsored contest, not to be confused with the state contest. Entering one contest does not preclude a member from entering the other. ADULT CONTESTDistrict 7 of the Kansas Authors Club is sponsoring a writing contest for all writers, 18 and older, living in Kansas or members of KAC living in another state. The contest runs from May 1 to August 15, 2023. You do not need to be a member of District 7 to enter the contest. Writers should follow the Literary Contest rules on the website www.kansasauthorsclub.org and click on contests. The theme of the contest is “A Moment to Write.” Writers of prose or poetry are encouraged to follow the theme but do not have to adhere to it. There are only 4 categories for this contest: Prose Theme and Non-Theme, Poetry Story-form and Non-Story-form. Writers may not enter more than two entries in any one category. The fee for each entry is $5.00 and only typed copies will be accepted; do not send e-mail. Prizes in the amount of $25, $15 and $10 will be awarded to first, second, and third place winners in each of the 4 categories. Honorable Mention in each category will receive certificates. Mail entries to: Sheryl Brenn, 892 Country Road O, Levant, KS 67743. YOUTH CONTESTDistrict 7 of the Kansas Authors Club is sponsoring a writing contest for all children from Grades 5 through high school. The age categories are grades 5-6, 7-8, 9-12. The contest runs from May 1st through August 15th. Writers should follow the requirements for the Youth Literary Contest on the website www.kansasauthorsclub.org and click on contests.
The theme of the contest is “A Moment to Write.” Entries should be separated into these categories in each age group: Poetry, Fiction and Non-Fiction. Any youth should have no more than 3 entries. There is no charge for entering but prizes in these amounts will be awarded $25, $15 and $10 will be awarded to the first, second and third place and Honorable Mention winners in each category. Only typed copies will be accepted. Do not send entries by e-mail. Mail entries to: Sheryl Brenn, 892 Country Road O, Levant, KS 67743. With categories for "Craft Chapbooks" and "Published Chapbooks," you may have questions about what is involved to enter this contest. Kansas Authors Club Manager, Tracy Million Simmons, and Emporia State University student, Emilie Moll, answer your questions about chapbooks. It's fun and it can be as easy or as complicated as you desire! Click here to download a PDF file that you can use to create a handmade chapbook. The following tutorials are free to view on YouTube and may help you if you wish to create a chapbook on your computer using the "booklet" setting for layout and printing. One final tip: ALWAYS read the guidelines before entering a contest. This page will take you to all the Kansas Authors Club contests and guidelines links. WRITING FROM THE CENTER Accepting Zine Submissions April 10 - May 31 Kansas Authors Club has a new zine! Writing from the Center, an opportunity for members and non-members of Kansas Authors Club to share their creativity with the world. The first issue is set to be published this fall, 2023. From the Arikaree Breaks to Little Jerusalem to the Flint Hills to the Kansas and Arkansas River valleys, Kansas is a diverse state full of interesting people and communities. We want our first issue to scream Kansas! Please send us your words and pictures that are unabashedly about the great state of Kansas. We are accepting
Eligible Writers/Artists: Any current member of Kansas Authors Club may submit at no cost. Non-members must pay a $5 reading fee for their work to be considered. By entering, you grant Writing from the Center permission to print in the next edition. You attest that your entry is your original work. Thank You to our Members who have volunteered their time to make this project possible.
Editor: Curtis Becker Assistant Editor: Lindsey Bartlett Editorial Board: Barbara Waterman-Peters Brenda White Toni Cummings Nancy Kopp Janice Northerns Marilyn Bolton Linda Brower Miriam Iwashige Kansas Authors Club holds annual contests for writers of all ages. All residents of the state of Kansas are invited to enter. Members of Kansas Authors Club may reside anywhere (and get a reduced entry fee). ALWAYS read the guidelines before entering writing contests. Our guidelines can be found at https://www.kansasauthorsclub.org/writing-contests---all-ages.html
We accept entries April 1 – June 15. Yes, we do charge fees for our adult writing contests. We are a 501(c)3 organization and our fees go to cover awards, honorariums for judges, and youth contests (there are no fees for our young writers to enter our contests). Duane L Herrmann is looking for submissions of prose or poetry for a proposed anthology of personal experiences with invisible disabilities. No more than six poems or 5,000 words.
Please send, with bio, by the end of March to: duanelherrmann@yahoo.com The New Territory is looking for essays, creative writing, and photos. Please share!Independent, full-color print magazine of the Lower Midwest, edited by and for curious Midwesterners. The New Territory is known for our longform journalism, personal essay, Midwestern-forward literature, lush photography and strong, simple design. We are always open for pitches and submissions.
We have these particular needs for Issue 14 (out in May 2023): Will you help spread the word?We publish voices of the Great Plains and Ozarks, from the Shawnee National Forest to the edge of the High Plains, the Ogallala aquifer to the White River watershed. It's going to take people in a lot of places to spread the word. The Heartland Review Press, a small nonprofit in Kentucky, has an Open Call for submissions for poetry, nonfiction, and fiction until May 1. We accept 5000 words for the fiction and nonfiction, but writer can submit up to 3 poems for this call.
More info: https://www.theheartlandreview.com/the-heartland-review We also have a Poetry Chapbook contest for writers who wish to send us 30 pages of their best work. More information can be found here: https://www.theheartlandreview.com/chapbooks All submissions are electronic and the details on our website. |
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