Category: Invitation To Submit

Now taking member literary entries for 2024 Yearbook

8/3/2023

Due Between August 1 and October 31, electronic receipt or postmark

Every Member having paid current dues is invited to submit ONE literary contribution for the yearbook. That submission can be either prose or poetry. Prose is limited to one printed page (no more than 500 words). Poetry is limited to one printed page (no more than 40 lines including spaces between verses).

All literary contributions remain the property of the individual authors. Authors may continue to use or distribute their work without requesting permission from the Kansas Authors Club. No work printed in the KAC yearbook may be copied or distributed in any form without explicit permission from the author.
Yearbook Submissions are preferred via the online site, Submittable. There is NO CHARGE to submit a yearbook entry.

Submit via Submittable

Quiet Storm: Accepting Submissions

7/22/2023

Learn More

Early Bird Advertising - August 1 Deadline - gets you in the ZINE too!

7/14/2023

We are now accepting 2023 advertising sponsors for our fall event, our first state-wide Writing Retreat at Rock Springs Ranch. As with recent years, our event sponsors will enjoy the following:

Ads will be displayed on the Kansas Authors Club website throughout the year (home page and convention page with links through to the advertiser’s website).

Ads will be featured individually on Kansas Authors Club social media pages at least three times.

Ads will be printed in the 2023 Retreat Program.

Ads received by August 1 will be printed in the Writing from the Center Zine (new in 2023—first issue expected September 2023)

Ads will be printed in the 2023 Kansas Authors Club yearbook and remain a part of the 2022 convention online archives.

New in 2023: For $10 more, we will help you create your advertisement. Select "KAC Assistance" for your purchase option.

Final Deadline for 2023 Advertising = September 1

Learn More / Buy Today

Don't forget that we have an Early Bird deadline coming up for the retreat, as well. Register by August 1!

2023 Writing Retreat

How to Enter Kansas Authors Club Contests

5/27/2023

District 5 President, Sandee Taylor, has prepared a recording on how to submit books and writings to our contests, starting with where to find our guidelines and how to submit via submittable. This 26 minute video is very informative. Watch and enter! The deadline for entering our contests is June 15, 2023.

Thank you, Sandee!

Kansas Authors Club Awards of Merit Nominations are due July 1.

5/15/2023

Awards for achievement in writing, service to Kansas Authors Club, or a special accomplishment are presented to deserving Kansas Authors Club members at the Annual Conference. Nominations should be sent no later than July 1st of the year to be considered. Forms may be sent either by e-mail or by regular postal mail. Award winners will be selected by ballot by a committee of Kansas Authors Club members chosen by the Awards Chair. The Awards Chair will present the names of those members nominated to a selection committee before reporting final results to the KAC board as soon as possible after the deadline for nomination.

Please give careful consideration to your reasons why the nominee is worthy of an award. If this person is to be considered for the achievement in writing award, then please list publications of the person’s writing, either published and/or self-published. For the service award, list what services were done both on the district and state level, how long the person held an office, etc. For the special accomplishment award, list when, where, and what this was, and describe the accomplishment. Contact the Awards Chair, Anne Shiever, if you have questions. Nominations may be made by any individual member of the Kansas Authors Club, by a group or a district.

District 7 Invites Adult and Youth Writers to enter District Writing Contest

5/1/2023

Note: This is a district-sponsored contest, not to be confused with the state contest. Entering one contest does not preclude a member from entering the other.

ADULT CONTEST

District 7 of the Kansas Authors Club is sponsoring a writing contest for all writers, 18 and older, living in Kansas or members of KAC living in another state. The contest runs from May 1 to August 15, 2023. You do not need to be a member of District 7 to enter the contest.

Writers should follow the Literary Contest rules on the website www.kansasauthorsclub.org and click on contests. The theme of the contest is “A Moment to Write.” Writers of prose or poetry are encouraged to follow the theme but do not have to adhere to it. There are only 4 categories for this contest: Prose Theme and Non-Theme, Poetry Story-form and Non-Story-form. Writers may not enter more than two entries in any one category.

The fee for each entry is $5.00 and only typed copies will be accepted; do not send e-mail. Prizes in the amount of $25, $15 and $10 will be awarded to first, second, and third place winners in each of the 4 categories. Honorable Mention in each category will receive certificates.

Mail entries to:
Sheryl Brenn, 892 Country Road O, Levant, KS 67743.

YOUTH CONTEST

District 7 of the Kansas Authors Club is sponsoring a writing contest for all children from Grades 5 through high school. The age categories are grades 5-6, 7-8, 9-12. The contest runs from May 1st through August 15th. Writers should follow the requirements for the Youth Literary Contest on the website www.kansasauthorsclub.org and click on contests.

The theme of the contest is “A Moment to Write.” Entries should be separated into these categories in each age group: Poetry, Fiction and Non-Fiction. Any youth should have no more than 3 entries.

There is no charge for entering but prizes in these amounts will be awarded $25, $15 and $10 will be awarded to the first, second and third place and Honorable Mention winners in each category. Only typed copies will be accepted. Do not send entries by e-mail.

Mail entries to:
Sheryl Brenn, 892 Country Road O, Levant, KS 67743.

Enter the Kansas Authors Club Poetry Chapbook Contest!

4/18/2023

With categories for "Craft Chapbooks" and "Published Chapbooks," you may have questions about what is involved to enter this contest.

Kansas Authors Club Manager, Tracy Million Simmons, and Emporia State University student, Emilie Moll, answer your questions about chapbooks.

It's fun and it can be as easy or as complicated as you desire!

Click here to download a PDF file that you can use to create a handmade chapbook.

The following tutorials are free to view on YouTube and may help you if you wish to create a chapbook on your computer using the "booklet" setting for layout and printing.

Booklet Tutorial for Microsoft Publisher

Booklet Tutorial for Microsoft Word

Booklet Tutorial for Adobe Indesign

One final tip: ALWAYS read the guidelines before entering a contest. This page will take you to all the Kansas Authors Club contests and guidelines links.

Kansas Poetry Chapbook Contest Guidelines

Introducing WRITING FROM THE CENTER

4/10/2023

purple graphic: The winner of the Name our Zine contest is Sandee Taylor.

WRITING FROM THE CENTER

Accepting Zine Submissions

April 10 - May 31

Kansas Authors Club has a new zine! Writing from the Center, an opportunity for members and non-members of Kansas Authors Club to share their creativity with the world. The first issue is set to be published this fall, 2023.

From the Arikaree Breaks to Little Jerusalem to the Flint Hills to the Kansas and Arkansas River valleys, Kansas is a diverse state full of interesting people and communities. We want our first issue to scream Kansas! Please send us your words and pictures that are unabashedly about the great state of Kansas.
We are accepting

Poetry (up to 6 poems)
Fiction (1 entry, up to 3500 words)
Creative Nonfiction (1 entry, up to 3500 words)
Visual Art (up to 3 pieces)

Eligible Writers/Artists: Any current member of Kansas Authors Club may submit at no cost. Non-members must pay a $5 reading fee for their work to be considered.

By entering, you grant Writing from the Center permission to print in the next edition. You attest that your entry is your original work.

Submit to the Zine

Thank You to our Members who have volunteered their time to make this project possible.

Editor: Curtis Becker
Assistant Editor: Lindsey Bartlett

Editorial Board:
Barbara Waterman-Peters
Brenda White
Toni Cummings
Nancy Kopp
Janice Northerns
Marilyn Bolton
Linda Brower
Miriam Iwashige

Writing Contests Open April 1

3/29/2023

Kansas Authors Club holds annual contests for writers of all ages. All residents of the state of Kansas are invited to enter. Members of Kansas Authors Club may reside anywhere (and get a reduced entry fee). ALWAYS read the guidelines before entering writing contests. Our guidelines can be found at https://www.kansasauthorsclub.org/writing-contests---all-ages.html

We accept entries April 1 – June 15.

Yes, we do charge fees for our adult writing contests. We are a 501(c)3 organization and our fees go to cover awards, honorariums for judges, and youth contests (there are no fees for our young writers to enter our contests).

Seeking Entries for Anthology of Personal Experiences with Invisible Disabilities

3/17/2023

Duane L Herrmann is looking for submissions of prose or poetry for a proposed anthology of personal experiences with invisible disabilities. No more than six poems or 5,000 words.

Please send, with bio, by the end of March to: duanelherrmann@yahoo.com

New Territory Seeking Fiction, Poetry, and Creative Nonfiction

2/8/2023

The New Territory is looking for essays, creative writing, and photos. Please share!Independent, full-color print magazine of the Lower Midwest, edited by and for curious Midwesterners. The New Territory is known for our longform journalism, personal essay, Midwestern-forward literature, lush photography and strong, simple design. We are always open for pitches and submissions.

We have these particular needs for Issue 14 (out in May 2023):

Will you help spread the word?We publish voices of the Great Plains and Ozarks, from the Shawnee National Forest to the edge of the High Plains, the Ogallala aquifer to the White River watershed. It's going to take people in a lot of places to spread the word.

Call for Submissions

1/5/2023

The Heartland Review Press, a small nonprofit in Kentucky, has an Open Call for submissions for poetry, nonfiction, and fiction until May 1. We accept 5000 words for the fiction and nonfiction, but writer can submit up to 3 poems for this call.

More info: https://www.theheartlandreview.com/the-heartland-review

We also have a Poetry Chapbook contest for writers who wish to send us 30 pages of their best work. More information can be found here: https://www.theheartlandreview.com/chapbooks

All submissions are electronic and the details on our website.

Writing Goals for a New Year

1/2/2023

Have you made any writing-related resolutions for 2023?

Here's a challenge for our members. Share your writing goals with us in the comments section. (Now open for the first time!)

“Dip your pen into your arteries and write.”

― William Allen White

"Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.

Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window."

― William Faulkner

"The first lesson to be learned by a writer is to be able to say, 'Thanks so much. I’d love to, but I can’t. I’m working.'"

― Edna Ferber

Call for Entries: Transportation Theme

11/9/2022

Contact Sandy Carlson if you might be interested in writing a story for the 2023 Symphony in the Flint Hills Field Journal. This year’s theme is transportation and stories are needed on a variety of subjects. Deadline is December 1 and word count is 1200 words. Contact Sandy for more information.

Update:
Fiction and Nonfiction entries are allowed.

Contact Sandy by Email

Contact Sandy by Phone

Members, Submit Your 2023 Yearbook Entries!

10/14/2022

Deadline: October 31

All literary contributions remain the property of the individual authors. Authors may continue to use or distribute their work without requesting permission from the Kansas Authors Club. No work printed in the KAC yearbook may be copied or distributed in any form without explicit permission from the author.
Yearbook Submissions are preferred via the online site, Submittable. There is NO CHARGE to submit a yearbook entry.

Birdy Poetry Prize, by Meadowlark Press, Now Taking Entries

10/10/2022

BirdyPoetryPrize.com

Accepting Entries: September 1 - December 1, 2022

Entry Fee: $25

Prize: $1,000 cash, publication by Meadowlark Press, including 50 copies of the completed book

All entries will be considered for standard Meadowlark Press publishing contract offers, as well.

Full-length poetry manuscripts (55 page minimum, 90+ pages preferred) will be considered. Poems may be previously published in journals and/or anthologies, but not in full-length, single-author volumes. Poets are eligible to enter, regardless of publishing history.

The Heartland Review Press Accepting Poems for Joy Bale Boone Poetry Prize

9/29/2022

The Heartland Review Press is currently accepting poems for its annual Joy Bale Boone Poetry Prize. This year the grand prize is $750. Entrants can submit 1-3 poems of any form or style for $10 in a Word document through Submittable. No pdfs. Include a cover letter in the same file. The cover letter should be the first page in the file and contain mailing address, email, and 30-40 word bio. Simultaneous submissions accepted, but poems placed elsewhere will not be included in contest. Finalists (there are usually about 20) will receive a free copy of the Spring 2023 issue of The Heartland Review wherein winners and finalists will be published. All entrants, regardless of publication, can receive a discount on the publication cost. Personal information on the manuscripts results in immediate disqualification.

More Information

Now Taking Submissions for the 2023 Yearbook

8/16/2022

Note from the President

It has come to my attention that some submissions to the 2022 yearbook were not printed. Those authors will be contacted in the coming weeks and their entries will be added to the electronic version of the 2022 yearbook. Though I understand that this does not make up for the fact of an entry missing from the printed yearbook, it is the best option I can offer. Please know that we are instituting and double-check procedure in the coming year so that this problem will not be replicated.

I look forward to having all member entries printed in the yearbook and we hope to hear from you.

Let's make 2023 the biggest yearbook yet!

Tracy Million Simmons
2022 Kansas Authors Club President

Yearbook entries due between August 1 and October 31, 2022, electronic receipt or postmark.

Every Member having paid current dues is invited to submit ONE literary contribution for the yearbook. That submission can be either prose or poetry. Prose entries are limited to one printed page (this is generally no more than 500 words, if you have a lot of paragraph breaks, it will be fewer). Poetry entries are limited to one printed page (no more than 40 lines including spaces between verses). Images are allowed only if the copyright belongs to the submitter. Including an image means less space available for words. Excerpts from published works are welcome, and authors are invited to include website and social media page links if space permits.

We ask that authors keep in mind that our yearbook is available to members of all ages, so entries need to be reader-friendly for youth as well as adults.

Fellowship Opportunity from The Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow

7/13/2022

The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow is a non-profit organization in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, that offers writing residencies and hosts literary workshops, retreats, and events. We currently have a new fellowship opportunity that you or other writers you know may be interested in.

The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow is offering a fellowship called “Real People, Real Struggles, Real Stories: Writing About Mental Illness.” Writers wishing to apply should be working on a personal story that offers insight, awareness, hope, and literary merit. The fellowship winner receives a two-week residency in a private writing suite, a European-style gourmet dinner served in the community dining room on weeknights, the camaraderie of other professional writers, and a community kitchen stocked with the basics for other meals. Fellowship applications are due by Monday, September 26, 2022. Learn more or apply at writerscolony.org/fellowships.

La Viness Short Story Writing Contest

7/12/2022

The La Viness Short Story Writing Contest is putting out its annual call for submissions! Entry is only $10, and you get two for the price of one! First Place=$100; Second=$75; Third=$50. Deadline August 31st. Please follow the guidelines for your best chance to win. The judges do not know each other and they do not know whose stories they are reading, so everyone gets an equal chance. Good luck!

Click here to visit the website for more info: https://www.jespiddlin.com/writingcontest

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