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Content of this newsletter:
- PAID CONTENT
- WRITERS RESIDENCIES, FELLOWSHIPS, & GRANTS
- WRITING CONTESTS
- PUBLISHING NEWS & TIPS
Welcome to our July Newsletter!
To our readers from North America: Enjoy the great events of this month: Canada Day (July 1st) and Independence Day (July 4th), and a relaxing summer month!
- PAID CONTENT
Chicken Soup for the Soul
Nonfiction: Grandmothers What makes this topic so much fun is that the moment a grandchild is born, a grandmother is born too! And what an amazing experience it is. Everyone has a great story about the unconditional love between grandmothers and their grandchildren. Write a heartwarming, insightful, and humorous stories celebrating grandmothers. Payment: $200. Deadline: July 15
https://www.chickensoup.com/story-submissions/possible-book-topics/
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What Divorced Women Aren’t Telling You.
Personal essays about the author's experience with divorce as well as shorter form stories. Payment: $125. Deadline: July 31
https://redacted.moksha.io/publication/redacted
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The Media Co-Op
They are publishing articles that are between 600 and 1500 words in length. Payment is $100 to $250, with the higher end of that range reserved for articles that involve more research and more reporting. They are based in Canada, and interested in stories that are about or have some connection to the Canadian context, like Indigenous land and water defence; climate justice; housing, homelessness, and tenant rights; struggles related to policing, state violence, and white supremacy; labour struggles and worker organizing; resisting the far right; grassroots work that is feminist, trans, queer, and/or anti-racist; disability struggles; community organizing; impacts of the Canadian state and Canadian corporations in other countries; and lots more.
https://mediacoop.ca/contributors2021
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- WRITERS RESIDENCIES, FELLOWSHIPS, & GRANTS
Grand Canyon Conservancy
The Artist in Residence program serves the priorities of the National Park Service’s Department of Interpretation and Resource Education including inclusive storytelling and climate change and aims to highlight differing perspectives on this precious natural resource. Deadline July 15
https://www.grandcanyon.org/experience-grand-canyon/residency-program/artist-in-residence
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Kyoto Retreat
The Kyoto Retreat is a new program created by Japan-based, independent curator Dexter Wimberly. The Kyoto Retreat offers artists, curators, and writers, based anywhere in the world, an opportunity to spend four weeks in Kyoto, Japan, for research, exploration, and inspiration. Individuals selected for the retreat will receive a round-trip flight, a private bedroom, and $800 USD to supplement meals and local transportation. The Kyoto Retreat selects artists, curators, and writers at all career stages, working in drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, film, video, new media, installation, fiction and nonfiction writing, poetry, interdisciplinary, and social practice. Individuals must be over 21 years old to apply. The inaugural Kyoto Retreat will take place from October 16 to November 13, 2025.
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- WRITING CONTESTS
Burlington Contemporary Art Writing Prize
Entrants must have published no more than six pieces of writing in print or online prior to their submission. Topic: Review of a contemporary art exhibition. Prize: £1,000. Deadline: July 14
https://contemporary.burlington.org.uk/writing_prize
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Books Like Us
First novel. "The Simon & Schuster adult trade imprint is pleased to announce the fourth BOOKS LIKE US First Novel Contest to facilitate accessibility to underrepresented writers and celebrate the diversity of readers across the United States. As the nation continues to strive for progress, Simon & Schuster aims to help catalyze that change by amplifying voices that represent us, by publishing books like us. A two-week entry period will begin on June 30. At that time, writers are invited and encouraged to submit 25 pages of an original adult novel via the form on this page. Prize: In November 2025, the author of the selected novel will be awarded the opportunity to enter into a $50,000 book deal with Avid Reader Press." Deadline: July 14
https://www.simonandschuster.com/p/avid-first-novel
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Iron Horse Prize
First book of collected prose. Prize: $1000, and the collection will be published in the summer of 2025 by Texas Tech University Press. Deadline: July 15, 2025. Free submissions on July 15 only. https://www.ironhorsereview.com/ihlrbookprize
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The Governor General’s Literary Award
Books must have been written, translated or illustrated by Canadian citizens or permanent residents of Canada. Best English-language and the best French-language book will be chosen in each of the seven categories of Fiction, Literary Non-fiction, Poetry, Drama, Children’s Literature (text), Children’s Literature (illustrated books) and Translation (from French to English). Prize: $25,000. Deadline: July 15
https://canadacouncil.ca/funding/prizes/governor-generals-literary-awards
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- PUBLISHING NEWS & TIPS
Writing tips have aided every writer out there—from Ernest Hemingway to Stephen King. What you didn’t know is that you’ll learn a whole lot more than that…
How I’m Now Building My Self-Publishing Business
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7 Simple Tips to Keep Readers Engaged on Your Articles
https://medium.com/write-a-catalyst/no-more-boring-reads-61c5706e6425
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Ernest Hemingway’s brutal letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald on how to write better: 6 crucial lessons for any writer
https://medium.com/@mentalgarden/ernest-hemingways-brutal-letter-to-f-scott-fitzgerald-on-how-to-write-better-16f5870be3b2
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Magazines can be a fantastic way for freelance writers to build their careers and make money by writing. Here are 50 magazines that pay for articles:
https://makealivingwriting.com/write-for-magazines/
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Fascinating how so many common review phrases like “propulsive” or “emotional roller coaster” have become clichés that say little about a book’s unique qualities. Makes me rethink how we judge reviews!
The Secret Codes Of Book Critics: The hidden meanings of 25 clichés overused by reviewers that may not help you as a writer
https://medium.com/lit-life/the-secret-codes-of-book-critics-fc6c3830ddd0
And: https://medium.com/lit-life/the-secret-language-of-book-editors-and-critics-b366c3bf3e84
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Take it easy this month and read a lot. Every good writer is also an avid reader… Enjoy this time of the year. Live is good... Have a wonderful July!
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