COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS
Do you have an announcement to share with the ARTWIFE community? As we continue to seek, create, and cultivate ways to stay connected outside of social media, we invite you to promote your literary & arts events and news in the Community Announcements section of our monthly newsletter.
Use the form below to share details about your exhibits, openings, festivals, classes, readings, job postings, etc. Both digital and in-person news is welcome. If your event is time-bound, keep in mind that the newsletter goes out one time around the middle of each month.
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Fruitslice: A Queer Quarterly is open for submissions. Seeking queer artists, writers, and creators.
Gallery Lumina invites passionate and dedicated women artists to submit their works for our upcoming Women Artists Group Exhibition in May 2025. This exhibition aims to showcase diverse female artistic voices and creative expressions. We encourage local women artists to participate, showcase their artwork, and connect with a broader audience through digital media promotion. Additionally, one outstanding artist from the group will receive a Woman Artist of the Month award.
Join the Writer's Games competition; public registration starts May 1! This free competition includes six surprise challenges over six weeks and feedback for every entry. There's no elimination and they publish the top five pieces in each challenge. Open worldwide.
Submit to the 15th year of the Arlington International Film Festival. It’s Jaina Cipriano's first full year running the festival and there are lots of wonderful new things in store!
Folly is an independent print-only publication of art and short prose. They are open for submissions from 13 January to 1 June 2025, via Submittable. They look for works with blunt, provocative humour, satirical takes on the social scene, and starkly honest accounts of ordinary life.
IHRAM Press is seeking submissions for their upcoming anthology, "Today's Pressured Youth". They wish to honor the value of youth perspectives and their vital role in shaping a more compassionate society. Young people often face a frustrating contradiction: that they have the power to create change, but are frequently dismissed. This collection will also look at the impact of how youth are perceived and treated. Full submission guidelines & themes can be found on our website. Deadline to submit is June 1st, 2025 (early submissions are encouraged).
Submit to IHRAM Press’s Second Quarterly Literary Magazine for 2025, including poetry, short stories, essays, and visual art. The concern for this edition is reflecting on contemporary slavery and forced migration, and delving into exploitive labour and the loss of human rights. Full submission guidelines & themes on the website. Submit by June 1st, 2025.
L’Esprit Literary Review invites submissions to the 2025 Clarissa Dalloway Prize for Short Prose, awarded to the best work of prose—fiction, nonfiction, or hybrid work—under 5,000 words.
$500 and publication to the Grand Prize winner; $100 and publication to Second Place. All entries receive a digital copy of Issue Six and are considered for publication.
Fahmidan Journal has just begun reading for their 23rd issue. They pay and are always open for free submissions. Fahmidan Education has also just launched offering affordable workshops from talented facilitators.
Discover Dominique, a new literary magazine focusing on truth and beauty.