Submissions wanted from writers based in the Midwest | $150 per essay

COMPANY/PUBLICATION: SIXTY INCHES FROM CENTER

Deadline: 31 May 2024

Deadline to submit: 11:59pm CST on May 31st, 2024

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Sixty Inches From Center is inviting writers based in the Midwest to submit their creative non-fiction or poetry to Sixty Literary.

Sixty Literary is an editorial body and process specifically designed for writers submitting literary works, including memoir, poetry, autotheory, and experimental or lyric essays—and probably other forms of writing we can’t even comprehend right now! We welcome submissions from writers and artists of all experience levels and backgrounds based in the Midwest. Sixty defines the Midwest as the interconnected Native lands and diverse communities overlapping the arbitrary colonial boundaries of North Dakota, South Dakota, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, and Wisconsin.

We’re looking for politically, spiritually, or aesthetically transformative writing that:

• is relevant to the cultural landscape of the Midwest

• regards archives, noncanonical and countercanonical narratives and research

• challenges settler-colonial narratives

• articulates and shares a personal experience intimately with a critical audience

• addresses any of the following topics (but we are open to other topics as well): ecology, queer and liberatory politics; future-making/world-building, place-making; inhabited spiritualities; trans & queer sensuality, humiliation; debt, commodities; writing by and for sex workers; material histories

We accept creative non-fiction and poetry at any stage of development with the understanding that it might be subjected to minimal or deep editorial process. We only accept poetry in batches of 3 to 5 poems.

Priority will be given to writing by, about, and for BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ artists, artists with disabilities, and the long list of writing, art-making, and cultural practices that have been neglected in mainstream conversations and canons.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

Submissions will be open from May 1st to May 31st.

We accept creative non-fiction essays either as pitches or completed drafts, with a limit of 2,500 words. If submitting a complete draft, please attach it in the submission form as a PDF file named [your last name_title of essay]. We accept poetry in clusters of 3-5 pieces. Please email all poems as a single PDF file named [your last name_poems].

After receiving your pitch, there will be a period of reading and review. You should expect to receive a response from us by June 30th. All contributors will be paid $150 upon publication.

We do not accept creative non-fiction writing or poetry submissions outside of this period of time, or through our standard pitch submission form. At this time, we do not accept fiction, plays, or scripts.

If you’re pitching a piece of arts writing that is primarily a critical review or reflection on a piece of art, please submit through our standard pitch page.

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Original job posting: Click here

Website: https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/

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