Calls for artists! Wendy's Subway, Brooklyn
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Seeking early-stage manuscripts of 20 pages in length to be considered for the Carolyn Bush Award. Applications also consist of a 500-word written reflection about your work, how you see it developing, and how you think you will benefit from this opportunity with Wendy’s Subway to do so.
**About the award
This award honors the life and work of Wendy’s Subway co-founder Carolyn Bush and provides in-depth editorial and professional support to a New York City-based emerging writer in her name.
The author will receive a year of editorial support from Wendy’s Subway’s editorial team, two manuscript consultations with established writers, professional development opportunities, a key-holding membership to the library space, and free enrollment in WS workshops, as well as an honorarium of $1,250 and 25 author copies of their forthcoming book with Wendy’s Subway.
Titles selected for the Carolyn Bush Award are published as part of the Passage Series, which features books by emerging writers and artists whose work manifests in innovative, hybrid, and cross-genre forms that imagine new possibilities and expressions of the poetic, the political, and the social. These have included Rachel James’s An Eros Encyclopedia, Kamelya Omayma Youssef’s A book with a hole in it, and the forthcoming A Catalogue of Risk by Alisha Mascarenhas and Cursive Paradise by Kaur Alia Ahmed, out this fall.
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Submissions for the fifth reading period for full-length manuscripts are welcome through July 15.
Please submit a manuscript of 40 pages or more of original work. While excerpts from the manuscript may have been previously published (as chapbooks, online, or in journals and anthologies, for instance), the manuscript as a whole should reflect a new and unpublished work.
The author will publish a book with Wendy’s Subway and receive an honorarium of $1,250 and 25 author copies.
Bhanu Kapil is the guest judge this year. Kapil is the author of six books of poetry and hybrid work, including two new editions of Incubation: a space for monsters, published by Prototype (UK) and Kelsey Street Press in 2023. Currently, she is based in Cambridge, England, where she is an Extraordinary Fellow of Churchill College.
Titles selected through the Open Reading Period are published as part of the Passage Series, which features books by emerging writers and artists whose work manifests in innovative, hybrid, and cross-genre forms that imagine new possibilities and expressions of the poetic, the political, and the social. Past titles selected for the Open Reading Period Book Prize include Glaring by Benjamin Krusling, Americón by Nico Vela Page, Discipline Park by Toby Altman, Nowhere Near by Miko Revereza, and the forthcoming Language Arts by Justin Allen, and Repose by Amelia Zhou.
Application Instructions
Please submit online using the Submittable page. No hard copies accepted. There is an entry fee of $20.
The $20 submission fee assists with small press support publishing costs and writer honoraria. We recognize that not everyone can afford this expense at this time, and are committed to making this call as accessible as possible. We are offering a fee waiver if this expense presents a hardship for you. Please email publishing@wendyssubway.com with any questions or to make a request, using the subject line “Open Reading Period Waiver.”
You can write us at publishing@wendyssubway.com with any questions about your eligibility or the application process.