Opportunity type: Open call
For: Writers
Deadline: Ongoing
Rewards: $150 per article + Award nomination
Location Eligibility: Worldwide
About this opportunity
Torch Literary Arts welcomes submissions of original creative work by Black women writers. We are interested in work that challenges and disrupts preconceived notions of what contemporary writing by Black women should be. Your stories and poems are valuable and necessary. Write freely and submit work you are excited to share with the world. here is no fee to subit and all accepted features are paid for publication.
Reading Period
- General submissions are accepted for Friday Features only.
- We accept submissions on a rolling basis.
- There is no submission fee.
Rewards
- Authors with work selected for a Friday Feature will receive $150 (US) payment.
- All work accepted for publication will be considered for nomination for internal and external awards such as The Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, the O Henry Prize, and the AKO Caine Prize for African Writing.
Eligibility
- We do not reprint previously published work for Friday Features.
- Writers must be eighteen (18) years of age or older to be published in Torch Magazine.
- AI must not be used in the creation of submitted work.
Entry Fee
Free.
How to Apply
Apply using the link: Submit to Torch Magazine
All questions regarding this award should be sent to contact@torchliteraryarts.org
