The Gertrude Conference - a cross-pollinating wonderland for literary and screenwriters - is open for submissions for the Gertie Award.
Poetry: Max of 3 poems in one pdf file
Fiction: Max of 5,000 words, double-spaced
Nonfiction: Max of 5,000 words, double-spaced
We are excited to receive your proposal for the Fall 2024 Gertrude Conference!
We encourage both traditional panel formats (60 or 75 minutes) and workshops. The workshops should be designed to engage smaller audiences with educational activities, including deep examinations of a particular writer (their work, their life, how they affected the people on your panel personally and / or professionally, etc) or a piece of work (breakdown a script), interactive programming like developing pitch decks or creating a website - and any unique ideas you might have!
Submission Requirements
- Panel Title: Provide a clear and engaging title that reflects the panel's focus.
- Panel Description: Submit a detailed description (200-300 words) that outlines the panel's objectives, key discussion points, and why your panel is best situated to speak on the topic.
- Format: Specify whether the proposed panel is for videotaping (Zoom) or engagement (live Zoom).
- Bios: Include names, ~100-word bios, and social media links for the moderator and all panelists. Please highlight their qualifications, publications, awards, and / or industry experience. Ideally, panelists represent a mix of genders, backgrounds, cultures, ages, and / or life experiences. Please be sure to identify who is the moderator (if there is one) and who are the 1-3 panelists.
Additional Notes
Our non-profit mission and heart is with the LGBTQA community, so we strongly encourage submissions from and about queer folx, while welcoming proposals from everyone!
Multiple proposals from the same individual or group are accepted, noting that people are limited to participating on two panels.
Typically the moderator is the person who submits the proposal, although not always. We will interact with whoever attaches their email to the panel proposal/s in Submittable ONLY.
The submitter will be notified through Submittable and can reach out through Submittable for any questions you may have. Please do not follow up on whether you have been accepted. We will let you know - promise!
January 1, 2024 Submittable portal for Panel Proposals opens
March 31, 2024 Panel submissions are closed
Thank you for submitting!
The JUDGE is KaToya Ellis Fleming is the editor of Lookout Books and teaches creative writing at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington.
Please keep entries for the Gertie Award under 5,000 words and remove your name from the manuscript. Use double-spacing in 12 pt. font as a PDF (no other formats will be accepted).
The winner will be invited to attend the Gertrude Conference workshop in the Pacific Northwest this Fall 2024, and their work be hosted as a 2024 Selection in our on-line "journal".
Thank you and good luck!
GUEST JUDGE
Author of the novel These Ghosts Are Family, which won an American Book Award, the 2021 OCM Bocas Prize in fiction, and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel, The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and the LA Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction.
Please keep entries for The Gertie Award under 5,000 words and remove your name from the manuscript. Use double-spacing in 12 pt. font as a PDF (no other formats will be accepted).
The winner will be invited to attend the Gertrude Conference workshop in the Pacific Northwest this Fall 2024, and their work be hosted as a 2024 Selection in our on-line "journal".
Thank you and good luck!
Thank you for submitting!
Your judge is Eduardo C. Corral, the son of Mexican immigrants. He’s the author of Guillotine, published by Graywolf Press, and Slow Lightning, which won the 2011 Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition. He's the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship, a Whiting Writers' Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University. He teaches in the MFA program at North Carolina State University.
Please bundle up to three poems in ONE pdf when submitting for The Gertie Award (no other formats, please) and remove your name from the pdf.
The winner will be invited to attend the Gertrude Conference workshop in the Pacific Northwest this Fall 2024, and their work be hosted as a 2024 Selection in our on-line "journal".
Thank you and good luck!