SPONSERED BY BOOK PIPELINE

Opens August 31st

Closes September 30th at midnight

Results will be announced in December

We accept submissions in any genre, including fantasy, sci-fi, romance, and more! Please do no submit work with any explicit sexual content, any racist, sexist, homophobic, ableist or any other offensive work. Thank you!

Rules

Please submit in manuscripts and chapbooks in proper manuscript format.
Fiction: Please submit both first chapter or first five pages separate from the full manuscript (Manuscript must be complete)
Poetry: Please submit a completed chapbook

Judges

Poetry

Taylor Byas (Taylor Byas is a Black Chicago native currently living in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she is now a third year PhD student and Yates scholar at the University of Cincinnati, and an Assistant Features Editor for The Rumpus. She was the 1st place winner of both the 2020 Poetry Super Highway and the 2020 Frontier Poetry Award for New Poets Contests, and a finalist for the 2020 Frontier OPEN Prize. She is the author of the chapbook Bloodwarm from Variant Lit, and her debut full-length, I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times, forthcoming from Soft Skull Press in Spring of 2023. She is represented by Rena Rossner of the Deborah Harris Agency.

Fiction

Emily Forney (Emily Forney is a literary agent for BookEnds Literary, a digital media and rhetoric teacher, cultural critic, and a writer for what feels like an eternity.
She currently lives in Phoenix, Arizona at the mercy of two cats and a dream of owning a goat farm one day.
After earning her MFA in Creative Writing from Northern Arizona University, Emily worked in editorial roles for literary magazines, journals, and digital prints before finding her home at BookEnds. She was a 2020 Publishing Fellow with the LA Review of Books and is currently on the Young Feminist Leaders Council for Feminist Press. She actively writes about identity, Blackness, and pop culture. She has writing with Bitch Media discussing YA romances, "Sex Re-Education: Netflix Offers a New Spin on Teen Virginity," and a bunch of other places that really are only brought up as ice breakers in query letters Emily cringes at. But, you know, it's fine. She likes to laugh at herself. When she isn't reading submissions, working with her authors, or procrastinating her own writing, she's usually binge watching an unhealthy amount of television and stress baking when deadlines are near.

Prizes

One winner in each category $225 each
Fiction: Submitted to Bookpipeline if over 18
Poetry: Published through Juven in 2022

​Submissions will be through Duosuma (The same submission process as Juven)

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