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- Award-winning storyteller, Sage Tyrtle, takes you through a quick exercise using constraints to distract your inner critic and free your creativity
- TODAY: special flash fiction live critique event with Apex Magazine Managing Editor, Rebecca E Treasure — priced at just $15—registration still open
- Markets and contests with submissions open or opening soon
- June live workshops and discount codes: Writing Within Constraints To Unlock Your Creativity with Moth GrandSLAM Champion, Sage Tyrtle on June 20, and Creating Weird West Stories That Sizzle And Sell with award-winning author, KC Grifant on June 27.
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Sage Tyrtle is an award-winning storyteller, writer, and internationally sought-after workshop facilitator. A Moth GrandSLAM Champion and Pushcart Prize-nominated author, their work has been featured on NPR’s Snap Judgment, CBC’s Definitely Not the Opera, and PBS’s Stories from the Stage, as well as in Apex Magazine, The Offing Anthology, and other literary venues. Since 2010, Sage has taught 150+ transformative workshops for organizations like Clarion West, Second City, the Afghan Women’s Association, and Improv Comedy Bangalore—blending craft, play, and a dash of rule-breaking magic.
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Today's the day for this special live event! There's still time to register to attend live and have unlimited access to the video recording.
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Markets and Contests
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Many thanks to Scribophile for sponsoring this week's open submissions. Scribophile is a free welcoming community of writers where you're guaranteed to get solid critiques on your work. You can also get 20% off your first purchase using coupon code APEX20.
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- ❤️🔥 STELLAR PARALLAX: Hope in a Grimdark World is a forthcoming sci-fi anthology about hope in times of darkness. They’re looking for short stories between 2,000 and 7,000 words until June 30th. No submissions fee! 💰Paying market!💰
- 😌 Bed Head Poetry is open to submissions of poetry that explore mental health. Send them up to three poems in any style. No submissions fee!
- 📷 Long Exposure Magazine is open to submissions of flash fiction of up to 700 words or up to six poems. They’re particularly interested in ekphrastic poetry. No submissions fee!
- ✏️ Writer’s Block Magazine is open to submissions of short stories, essays, and poems. Send them up to 2,000 words of prose writing or three poems in any style. No submissions fee!
- 🔫 Shooter Literary Magazine is open to submissions of stories, essays, and poems on the theme of “Sweet Hereafter”. Send them between 2,000 and 6,000 words of prose writing, or up to three poems, before June 22nd. No submissions fee! 💰Paying market!💰
- 👩🏼🤝👨🏽 Literature Today is open to submissions of stories, poems, memoirs, and mini plays on the theme of “Echoes of the Human Experience”. Send them stories of up to 500 words, memoirs of up to 1,000 words, drama of up to two pages, or short poems under one page by June 18th. No submissions fee!
- 🖋️ The Crank is open to submissions of traditionally-informed poetry. Send them up to five poems. No submissions fee!
- 🦷 Extra Teeth is open to submissions of short stories and essays between 800 and 4,000 words. They’re also open to applications for writing mentorships. Submit to either call before June 14th. No submissions fee! 💰Paying market!💰
- 📖 One Story is open to submissions of short stories between 3,000 and 8,000 words. They publish one feature story per issue and have high pay rates. They’ll close once they receive a maximum number of submissions, so don’t delay. No submissions fee! 💰Paying market!💰
- ⚓️ Skull X Bones is a forthcoming anthology of pirate stories. Submit stories of up to 7,500 words before June 30th. No submissions fee! 💰Paying market!💰
- 📝 Guernica is open to submissions of short fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Send them prose writing of up to 7,000 words, or up to five poems. Ordinary submissions are unpaid, but they also have a paid opportunity for underrepresented writers whose work falls “outside the Western corridors of literary taste-making and prestige” — that is, non-Western cultures and voices. No submissions fee! 💰Paying market!💰
- 🌅 Dawn Woven Books is compiling their first anthology on the theme of “Triumph, Love, and Becoming”. Send them stories of personal essays between 1,000 and 3,500 words before June 22nd. No submissions fee! 💰Paying market!💰
- 🐟 Guppy Books is open to submissions of full-length middle grade novels. Send them a synopsis and the first ~2,000 words before June 20th. Longlisted writers will then be asked to submit the full manuscript. Note that they only accept work from previously unpublished authors. No submissions fee! 💰Paying market!💰
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June Live Workshops and Discount Codes
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Moth GrandSLAM Champion and contributor to NPR, CBC, and PBS, Sage Tyrtle, is back with another powerful workshop, Writing Within Constraints To Unlock Your Creativity. Sage will guide you through playful, structured exercises that will push your writing in unexpected directions. You'll leave with bold new approaches, fresh confidence, and the freedom to write without hesitation.
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Use coupon code CAGEDNL07 at checkout to take $10 off
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The “weird west” genre is riding into the limelight with readers eager for fresh stories reimaging the American Old West through a speculative lens. Beyond cowboys and creatures, the genre offers fertile grounds for genre blending, social commentary and fresh takes on the mythos of the western.
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Use coupon code WWNL07 at checkout for $10 off registration.
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