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Saundra Mitchell is holding open submissions for the third and final OUT anthology, OUT THERE: Into the Queer New Yonder! Coming May 2022 from Inkyard Press.

OUT THERE will feature stories written by queer YA authors, about queer teen protagonists, and there are two slots to be filled through open submissions by any queer YA author.

If selected, your story will join stories by Leah Johnson, Kalynn Bayron, Alex London, Nita Tyndall, Abdi Nazemian, Alechia Dow, Kayla Ancrum, Naomi Kanakia, Adam Sass, Mason Deaver, Claire Kann, Zabé Ellor, Emma K. Ohland, Jim McCarthy and Z Brewer in this fantastic, futuristic collection!

Authors may be published or unpublished, agented or unagented.

Submissions will be considered by the review panel, featuring Saundra Mitchell, and and award-winning authors Tehlor Kay Mejia and Julian Winters. Mejia appeared in ALL OUT, and Winters appeared in OUT NOW. The two authors whose stories are selected will be paid $900 US, and a prorated share of any royalties.

Only a couple of weeks left to submit stories for OUT THERE! Writers have until March 1, 2021 to submit.

(Source: saundramitchell.com)

Saundra Mitchell is holding open submissions for the third and final OUT anthology, OUT THERE: Into the Queer New Yonder! Coming May 2022 from Inkyard Press.

OUT THERE will feature stories written by queer YA authors, about queer teen protagonists, and there are two slots to be filled through open submissions by any queer YA author.

If selected, your story will join stories by Leah Johnson, Kalynn Bayron, Alex London, Nita Tyndall, Abdi Nazemian, Alechia Dow, Kayla Ancrum, Naomi Kanakia, Adam Sass, Mason Deaver, Claire Kann, Zabé Ellor, Emma K. Ohland, Jim McCarthy and Z Brewer in this fantastic, futuristic collection!

Authors may be published or unpublished, agented or unagented.

Submissions will be considered by the review panel, featuring Saundra Mitchell, and and award-winning authors Tehlor Kay Mejia and Julian Winters. Mejia appeared in ALL OUT, and Winters appeared in OUT NOW. The two authors whose stories are selected will be paid $900 US, and a prorated share of any royalties.

(Source: saundramitchell.com)

BLACK MALE & BLACK NONBINARY WRITERS — Kwame Mbalia is putting together a Middle Grade anthology that centers the joy of Black boyhood! He is launching a call for submissions with the hope of finding two up-and-coming writers to be published in this anthology.

Submissions for short stories are open through November 1, 2020, at 11:59 pm ET. Eligibility & further info.

(Source: kwamembalia.com)

We Need Diverse Books is excited to announce an online Native Children’s and YA Writing Intensive that will take place from August 13, 2020, through August 16, 2020, with faculty including Cynthia Leitich-Smith, Traci Sorell, Rosemary Brosnan, and Linda Camacho.

(Source: diversebooks.org)

Calling Afro-Latinx writers: the RECLAIM THE STARS Short Story submission call is open! One story by an Afro-Latinx author will be selected for publication in the Latinx Sci-fi/Fantasy anthology. Info/Entry & FAQ.

RECLAIM THE STARS is a YA science fiction and fantasy anthology that will be published by Wednesday Books an imprint of St. Martin’s Press and be edited by Zoraida Córdova (Labyrinth Lost). The collection features YA speculative fiction exploring the Latinx diaspora through the lens of SFF, with stories likely included by Elizabeth Acevedo, Vita Ayala, David Bowles, Zoraida Córdova, Sara Faring, Romina Garber, Isabel Ibañez, Anna-Marie McLemore, Yamile Saied Méndez, Nina Moreno, Maya Motayne, Daniel José Older, Claribel Ortega, Mark Oshiro, and Lilliam Rivera. Publication is expected for winter 2022. 

(Source: bit.ly)

You could be a “new voice” introduced & selected by a superstar author in a future issue of Foreshadow! Support their Indiegogo campaign here.

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