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Below you’ll find a list of some of the publications, awards and fellowships that we’ve covered in the past. This list below does not cover our full range and is subject to change depending upon what our subscribers value. It should only be considered a snap shot of what we do cover.

Publications

Tin House Prairie Schooner The Puritan The Offing The Moth The White Review
Cosmonaut’s Avenue Ploughshares PANK Glimmer Train AGNI Kenyon Review
Narrative Poetry Zyzzyva The Walrus The Believer Mslexia
Geist A Public Space Crossed Genres On Spec Brevity Boulevard
Witness BOMB Jubilat One Story The Fiddlehead Rattle
American Poetry Review Zoetrope The Atlantic Threepenny review Boston Review The Master’s Review
Arc The New Quarterly McSweeney’s Creative NonFiction The Southern Review American Short Fiction
Virginia Quarterly Review Asimov’s Science Fiction Guernica Chicago Review Malahat Review SubTerrain
Room Magazine Granta Missouri Review Octopus Magazine Washington Square The New Inquiry

Contests

CBC Writing Prizes Ploughshares Emerging Writer’s Contest Arc Poem of the Year Malahat Review Open Seasons Awards Pleiades Press Editors Prize Bridport Prize
Alice James Book Award National Poetry Series Arc Poem of the Year Contest Matrix Litpop Prize AWP Award Series RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers
Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Contest Mslexia Short Story Competition Lamda Literary Awards The Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize The Bath Short Story Award Moth Magazine Short Story Prize
Montreal International Poetry Prize Zoetrope: All Story Short Fiction Contest American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize in Poetry Dzanc Short Story Collection Competition SLS-Disquiet Literary Contest The Walrus Poetry Prize
Glimmer Train Short Story Prize for New Writers Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction Rattle Poetry Prize Playboy College Fiction Contest Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction PEN Translation Prize

Fellowships & Residencies

Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships Yaddo Hedgebrook Retreats & Residency The Kenyon Review Fellowships National Endowment for the Arts Grants Canada Council Grants
The Banff Center Residencies Sewanee Writer’s Conference Scholarship Ontario Arts Council Writer’s Reserve Hambridge Creative Residency Program VONA Voices Writing Workshops Tin House Writer’s Workshop Scholarship
Vermont Studio Centre Fellowships Vassar W.K. Rose Fellowship in the Creative Arts Alice Maxine Bowie Fellowship Middlebury Bread Loaf Writer’s Conferences The American Prospect Journalism Writing Fellowship Fine Arts Work Centre in Provincetown Writing Fellowship
Sustainable Arts Foundation Award Wallace Stegner Fellowship The Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing HEAF Fellowship Ragdale Residency Black Earth Institute Fellowship A Public Space Emerging Writers Fellowship
Creative Captial Awards Bard Fiction Prize The Arctic Circle Expeditionary Residency Voices of the Wilderness Residency A Room of Her Own Organization Gift of Freedom Award Bristol Short Story Prize
McKnight Aritst Fellowships New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Iceland Writers Retreat Macdowell Colony Residencies The Richard J. Margolis Award & Residency Millay Colony for the Arts Residency
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Introducing Literistic

Every month, we collect an exhaustive list of deadlines for submissions to literary publications, contests and fellowships and send out an email. We're calling our service Literistic, and so far, a few thousand people have signed up. If you're interested,

Literistic was born of a frustration: as a writer, managing deadlines is a headache. Finding out about upcoming deadlines is a matter of spending hours trawling large, advertisement-supported databases. These databases are often convoluted, hard-to-navigate and full of irrelevant listings. The search for pay for poems, or for a fellowship at a swanky (but small and conveniently located) college is too often unsuccessful. It’s a search that inspires aimlessness and procrastination, making the maxim of “submit widely and submit often” difficult to realize. You should be submitting more! But you aren't (and we weren't). And that stinks.

Every month, Literistic sends you a list of deadlines for the following month. The list is elegant, simple and immaculately organized. Its listings are diverse but thoughtful, comprehensive but not overwhelming. Best of all, the listings that you’ll receive are based on your subscriber preferences. If it’s fiction deadlines for publications that pay and are located in the United States that you’re looking for, well, we'll keep you on top of those. And if it's poetry deadlines for publications that pay and don't have reading fees, that's no problem, we can keep you on top of those too. Imagine Literistic is your new robotic literary agent (less tweed, more whitespace). You'll never have to cruise another crappy database again.

Literistic caters to people who write poetry, fiction and nonfiction in Canada, the United States and Britain. We cover publications, contests, fellowships and residencies. Organizations can't pay to have themselves listed in Literistic and we aren't selling advertisements. This is just the straight goods: the most relevant deadlines presented to you simply and beautifully each and every month.

Right now, Literistic costs $8.50/month or $58.00/year. If, after a month or two, you're not satisfied, you can have your money back. But, if you've been keeping track of the amount of time you spend managing deadlines every month and you consider that time to be worth roughly the price of a cup of coffee, it's an easy to decision to make.

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Liam Sarsfield (@LiamSarsfield) & Jessie Jones (@OhHiJessieJones)
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