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Hot Metal Bridge Social Justice Writing Contest

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Country of Publication

United States

Publication Medium & Contest Frequency

Electronic Publication Electronic PublicationOne-time contest.

Fiction Closed

We’re looking for works of fiction that push beyond words on a page—we want to read pieces that makes our blood cold, ones that serve a greater experience: whether that be police riots, poverty or a modern-day trail of tears. We’re looking for your dystopian fantasies and utopian terrors. Give us realism, surrealism, and everything in between, but give us something vital. What story has yet to be written? What voices need to be heard?

Audience:
Open to a broad Audience, including: All ethnic groups/populations, All sexual identities.
Genres:
General General
Styles:
Open to all/most Styles, including: Literary.
Topics:
Unknown
Types/Lengths:
TypeLength Details
Flash Fiction Flash FictionUp to 1,000 words.
Short Story Short Story1,000 - 4,000 words.
Winner's Prize:
We list broad pay categories rather than prize specifics. Check with the publisher for details.
Semi-pro payment (1-4.9 US cents per word) to Professional payment (5 or more US cents per word) Pay ranges from Semi-pro payment (1-4.9 US cents per word) to Professional payment (5 or more US cents per word).
Submissions:
ElectronicPostalReprintsSimultaneousMulti-EntriesMedia
OK No Unknown OK UnknownText format submissions
Always check guidelines for details and restrictions. If you aren't familiar with these terms, see our glossary.

Nonfiction Closed

Send us your best work fitting the theme of social justice, broadly defined as issues of justice and fairness between the individual and society. We’re seeking a wide-ranging representation of compelling nonfiction, anything from lyric pieces to cultural criticism to journalism. As always, we’re looking for works that are real and vital. Take risks. Surprise us.

Audience:
Open to a broad Audience, including: All ethnic groups/populations, All sexual identities.
Styles:
Open to all/most Styles, including: Literary.
Topics:
Unknown
Types/Lengths:
TypeLength Details
Essay EssayUp to 3,000 words.
Winner's Prize:
We list broad pay categories rather than prize specifics. Check with the publisher for details.
Semi-pro payment (1-4.9 US cents per word) to Professional payment (5 or more US cents per word) Pay ranges from Semi-pro payment (1-4.9 US cents per word) to Professional payment (5 or more US cents per word).
Submissions:
ElectronicPostalReprintsSimultaneousMulti-EntriesMedia
OK No Unknown OK UnknownText format submissions
Always check guidelines for details and restrictions. If you aren't familiar with these terms, see our glossary.

Poetry Closed

We’re putting out a call for your poems that are political acts. See Erica Hunt’s “Notes for an Oppositional Poetics” or, in the wake of the loss of poet C.D. Wright, One with Others or One Big Self; tell us what’s wrong in these works, or tell us what’s still right. Witness and testify to us; let us know how oppression and structural inequality persist; take up the banner of women, of black lives matter, of all people of color, of universal healthcare, of queer and trans lives. If all poems are political acts, we want your poems that take poem as platform, that believe the poem can change the world—or wish it could.

Audience:
Open to a broad Audience, including: All ethnic groups/populations, All sexual identities.
Genres:
General General
Poetry Forms:
Open to all/most Forms.
Styles:
Open to all/most Styles, including: Literary.
Topics:
Unknown
Types/Lengths:
TypeLength Details
Poem PoemNo line limits known.
Winner's Prize:
We list broad pay categories rather than prize specifics. Check with the publisher for details.
Professional payment (US$50 or more per poem) Professional payment (US$50 or more per poem).
Submissions:
ElectronicPostalReprintsSimultaneousMulti-EntriesMedia
OK No Unknown OK UnknownText format submissions
Always check guidelines for details and restrictions. If you aren't familiar with these terms, see our glossary.

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Dates

Last Updated: 23 Apr 2020
Date Added: 27 Jan 2016

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