Hey screenwriters! Apply to the CAPE New Writers Fellowship.

Submissions open through January 7, 2019.



Hey, screenwriters! This is an awesome opportunity. The Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment (CAPE) is now accepting submissions for one of its signature initiatives, the 2019 CAPE New Writers Fellowship, a talent and professional development program that trains emerging writers to succeed in Hollywood.

The New Writers Fellowship, led by top industry leaders, is comprised of a multi-week intensive with workshops and panels and a writing lab component. CAPE writers have been staffed on every major network, streaming platform and premium cable channel, as well as cable channels such as FX, Freeform, USA and more.

Here's some more information:

Apply to AAWW's Open City Fellowships

Now accepting applications for the Neighborhoods Fellowship and the Muslim Communities Fellowship



Hey, writers! They Asian American Writers' Workshop is accepting applications for the Open City Fellowships.

Specifically: the Neighborhoods Fellowship, a unique opportunity for emerging Asian American writers to publish narrative nonfiction over the span of six months on the vibrant Asian American communities of New York City; and the Muslim Communities Fellowship, a six-month opportunity for NYC-based writers from Middle Eastern and North and East African communities and Muslim writers of color to write about the Muslim American communities in the city.

Both fellowships offer a $2,500 grant, skill-building workshops, and publishing opportunities to write about the Asian immigrant and Muslim communities of New York City. The fellowship is six months long, beginning in September 2018 and ending in March 2019.

Here are some more details:

Submit your picture book to Lee & Low's New Voices Award

Award-winning children's book publisher is accepting manuscripts for picture books.



Hey authors! Do you have a story to share with young readers? Want a chance to get published? Lee & Low Books, award-winning publisher of children's books, is now accepting submissions for the eighteenth annual New Voices Award. The Award will given for a children's picture book manuscript by a writer of color.

Established in 2000, the New Voices Award encourages writers of color to submit their work to a publisher that takes pride in nurturing new talent. Past New Voices Award submissions published by Lee & Low include The Blue Roses, winner of the Paterson Prize for Books for Young People; Sixteen Years in Sixteen Seconds: The Sammy Lee Story, a Texas Bluebonnet Masterlist selection; and It Jes' Happened: When Bill Traylor Started to Draw, winner of the Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award Honor.

Hey writers! Apply to the 2017 CAPE New Writers Fellowship

Submissions open until Monday, January 9



Hey, screenwriters! This is a heads up that the submission deadline for the 2017 CAPE New Writers Fellowship is quickly approaching. Presented by the Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment, this is an opportunity to take part in an intensive 12-session scriptwriting program led by top industry professionals.

The Fellows are selected by entertainment industry professionals through a rigorous process that includes three rounds of blind script judging and an interview. Each writer or writing team will participate in the 12-session program in Los Angeles and receive a cash stipend and certificate upon successful completion of the program. All entries must be submitted electronically by Monday, January 9 at 11:59PM PST.

Writer and artist needed for graphic novel project

The Wing Luke Museum seeks professional artist and writer for story of Japanese American resisters.



Calling all writers and artists! The Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience is launching a graphic novel project, and they're looking for a professional artist and writer to help make it happen. The project, entitled Inspiring Future Generations: Challenging the Forced Incarceration through Acts of Resistance, shares the history and significance of the Japanese American Resisters story.

The Wing is working with community stakeholders to develop content for a graphic novel, stand-alone chapter and curriculum guide, which will be distributed to schools and libraries and through the museum. An animated short produced by the Seattle Channel will also be made based on the stand-alone chapter.

This project is the second in a series of graphic novels. The first book Fighting for America: Nisei Soldiers by Lawrence Matsuda and Matt Sasaki, told the story of six World War II Japanese American military veterans.

Required materials for the submission deadline must be received no later than 4:30pm on Tuesday, January 3, 2017. For further information about the project, including the submission process, selection criteria and scope of work, view the two requests for qualifications below.

AAWW Publishing Conference '16

Presented by the Asian American Writers' Workshop, Saturday, June 25



Hey writers! The Asian American Writers' Workshop invites you to the AAWW Publishing Conference, a special one-day boot camp for any writer who's ever felt left out and wants to invest in their career. Meet with publishing professionals from Penguin Random House, Catapult, Buzzfeed and more.

It's happening Saturday, June 25 at ISSUE Project Room in Brooklyn. Here are some more details:

Apply to the 2016 Kundiman Asian American Writing Retreat

June 15-19 at Fordham University



Hey writers! Kundiman is now accepting applications for the 2016 Kundiman Asian American Writing Retreat, an annual retreat to help mentor the next generation of Asian American writers. During the Retreat, nationally renowned Asian American poets and writers conduct workshops with fellows. This year's faculty includes Kimiko Hahn, Lee Herrick, R. Zamora Linmark, and Bich Minh Nguyen.

It's happening June 15-19 at Fordham University in New York. Here's a video about the retreat:

Apply to The Margins Fellowship & Open City Project Grants

The Asian American Writers' Workshop invites emerging writers to apply by November 9.



Are you an Asian American creative writer in search of a home to help cultivate your work? Do you want to write the stories of Asian immigrant communities in New York City you wish you saw in the mainstream media? Here's a great opportunity. The Asian American Writers' Workshop is now accepting applications for The Margins Fellowship and Open City Project Grant.

The year-long Margins Fellowship combines publication opportunities, a writers' retreat, mentorship, work space, and a $5,000 grant. With a six-month Open City Project Grant you'll join our journalism workshops series, have a chance to publish with AAWW, and get a $2,500 grant, plus more.

Here's some more information about both opportunities:

Call for Submissions: New Voices Award 2015

Lee & Low Books is accepting children's picture book manuscripts by writers of color.



Lee & Low Books, award-winning publisher of children's books, is accepting submissions for the sixteenth annual New Voices Award, to be given for a children's picture book manuscript by a writer of color. The contest encourages writers of color to submit their work to a publisher that takes pride in nurturing new talent.

The Award winner receives a cash prize of $1000 and Lee & Low's standard publication contract, including our basic advance and royalties for a first time author. An Honor Award winner will receive a cash prize of $500. Past winners include Juna's Jar by Jane Bahk and It Jes' Happened by Don Tate.

Here are some more details about eligibility and submission guidelines:

AAWW presents Undocupoets Petition Reading

Friday, March 27 at The Asian American Writers' Workshop



Did you know that many writing contests require you to be a US citizen? This requirement ends up discriminating against millions of undocumented writers of color a year. If you also think no poet should be excluded just because of where they were born, the Asian American Writers Workshop invites you to their Undocupoets Petition Reading, requesting that writing contests change their guidelines and get out of the business of checking passports. Featuring Wo Chan, Sonia Guiñansaca, Jennifer Tamayo, Javier Zamora and Christopher Soto, it's happening Friday, March 27 at the Asian American Writers' Workshop in New York.

Here are some more details about the reading:

Call for Submissions: Time Traveling is Not for Everyone

Let's face it: time travel is for white people.



I love time travel stories. Whether it's Back to the Future or The Terminator, The Time Traveler's Wife or friggin' Hot Tub Time Machine, I'm a sucker for narratives about what happens when you travel through time.

But let's face it: time travel is for white people.

For people from underrepresented and minority communities, time travel could be more of a disaster than an adventure. Imagine, as an Asian American person in 2015, going back in time and landing in pretty much any era of our nation's brief history. I have to imagine it would be less than awesome. Just imagine it.

This is the founding idea behind Time Traveling is Not for Everyone, an anthology conceived by writers Heidi Durrow and Koji Steven Sakai who are accepting proposals for short stories featuring a character from an underrepresented community traveling to some time period before this one.

Here are some more details:

Hey writers! Apply to the Dat Winning Fellowship.

Seeking aspiring Asian American writers with an interest in sports journalism.



Are you an Asian American writer who is passionate about sports? Dat Winning, an online sports blog written from an Asian American perspective, is looking for writers to apply for the Dat Winning Fellowship, a space for emerging Asian American writers to "cut their teeth" in the field of sports journalism. You'll receive guidance, workshops and editorial feedback from a team of established Asian American professionals in the field.

Here are some more details about the fellowship:

Call for Submissions: APAture 2014

Kearny Street Workshop seeks works for its 13th annual multidisciplinary arts festival



Bay Area artists! Kearny Street Workshop, the nation's oldest Asian Pacific American multidisciplinary arts organization, is now seeking submissions for the 13th annual APAture, a multidisciplinary arts festival presenting and examining the work of emerging APA artists living or working in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Here are some more details about the call for submissions:

Submit to Lee & Low Books' 2014 New Voices Award

Seeking children's picture book manuscripts by a writers of color



Hey writers! We need diverse books. We really do. So... Lee & Low Books, award-winning publisher of children's books, is now accepting submissions for the fifteenth annual New Voices Award writing contest. Each year, the award is given to a children's picture book manuscript by a writer of color.

The New Voices Award winner receives a cash prize of $1000 and Lee & Low's standard publication contract, including a basic advance and royalties for a first time author. An Honor Award winner will receive a cash prize of $500. Manuscripts will be accepted through September 30, 2014.

Here are some more details about eligibility and submissions:

The 2014 AAWW Publishing Conference

Sunday, June 8 at the Asian American Writers' Workshop


Hey writers! Are you trying to get your work published? Want to get your manuscript in front of the right people? Where the heck do you even begin? The Asian American Writers' Workshop invites you to The 2014 AAWW Publishing Conference. You'll hear trade secrets from agents, editors and publishers, as well as writers who have landed book deals. It's happening Sunday afternoon, June 8 in Brooklyn.

Here are some more details about the conference:

Apply to the Asian American Writers' Workshop Fellowships

Two different fellowships for emerging writers in New York City



Hey, writers! The Asian American Writers' Workshop is now accepting applications for two different year-long fellowships for emerging writers in New York City, associated with AAWW's online magazines, Open City and The Margins. Whether you're a hard-nosed reporter, a prose stylist, or a poet, they've got something for you. Read on for more information about the fellowships:

14th Annual CAPE New Writers Fellowship

Submit your scripts by January 31



Hey, screenwriters! Got that awesome feature or television script you want to share with the world? Do you have material, but need some guidance on how to successfully pitch your project? Then CAPE, the Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment, invites you to submit your work to the 14th annual CAPE New Writers Fellowship. Up to ten fellows will be selected to attend an intensive writing fellowship with exclusive opportunities to meet top industry professionals. Here are some more details:

Page Turner: The AAWW Food & Books Festival, October 5

Twelve reasons to get your literature lovin' self to Page Turner.



New York City, this looks legit. On Saturday, October 5, the Asian American Writers' Workshop presents the Page Turner Food and Books Festival. Readings, performances, dumpling-making sessions, a DIY poetry booth, and much more. And it's all free to the public and fun for everyone. Here's AAWW's list of all the reasons you should go:

Call For Entries: "Marvels & Monsters: Unbound" Short Works Showcase

Submit an original monologue or short performance piece for JANM's showcase on October 10.

Next month, the Japanese American National Museum presents the West Coast premiere of MARVELS & MONSTERS: Unmasking Asian Images in U.S. Comics, 1942-1986, a groundbreaking exhibition showcasing images of Asian characters in comics, drawn from the extensive collection of William F. Wu.

To commemorate the exhibition, JANM is putting out the call for original monologues or short performance works to be presented at the museum's "Marvels & Monsters: Unbound" Short Works Showcase on October 10. Submissions should rethink, subvert, deconstruct, or satirize the eight pop-culture archetypes depicted in the exhibition:

Apply to CultureStrike's UndocuWriting Retreat

Calling undocumented writers! Apologies for the short notice, but I want to make sure you know about UndocuWriting Retreat, an intensive writing workshop for undocumented writers, powered by the pro-migrant arts organization CultureStr/ke. The Retreat, happening August 13-17 in Oakland, is intended to help young undocumented writers of all levels, backgrounds, and interests tell their stories.

Ten writers will be selected to participate in the retreat. Travel and lodging will be provided for all workshop participants, and there is no fee to apply. But you'll have to act fast -- the applications are due on July 12. That's this Friday. Here are some more details about what you'll learn and experience at the retreat: