Third Thursday

TONIGHT. Join us for an exciting FREE event: the launch of Corpus Christi Writers 2023 at The Art Museum of South Texas. That's right, TONIGHT, September 21  at 7:00 PM.  A FREE video screening of many local writers will begin at 5:00. The FREE live readings begin at 7:00.  Many of the 65 writers in the book will be present. There are other simultaneous activities in the museum that evening. These include a pop-up market, a DJ, a cash bar, and FREE access to all museum exhibits. If you are a contributor, you can pick up your complimentary paperback copy between 5 - 9 PM. Copies of the book will be on sale starting at 5:00 for $10, a price much lower than the Amazon price. The FREE readings start at 7:00. If you are a contributor and you can't make it to the launch, we'll send you a complimentary Kindle version. The contributors are listed below. Names are not necessarily in alphabetical order. See you SEPTEMBER 21 at The Art Museum of South Texas.

Alamgir Hashmi

Alan Berecka

Alice Marks

Alisa Hope Wagner

Alyanna Mena 

Alyson Greene

Alyssa Outhwaite

Carol Mays

Claire Taylor

Clara Isabel Tamez 

Cynthia Breeding

Charles Etheridge

Christian Garduno

Dennis Denman

Devorah Fox

Donna Huddleston

Dragon Bodhing

Dylan Lopez

D. Weiss

Ellissa Brewster

Elizabeth N. Flores

Esther Bonilla Read

F.E.I.

Gerald Beckman

Jacob R. Benavides 

Jacqueline Gonzalez

J. L. Wright

JoAnn Sanderson

Joel Ortiz

Joseph Wilson

John Meza

John Morris

Michelle Zudrell

John Pettigrove

Juan Manuel Perez

Judy Bloomquist

Judy Mastenbrook

Julieta Corpus

Karen Cline-Tardiff

Sister Lou Ella Hickman

Lizbette Ocasio-Russe

Louise Knolle Pettigrove

Lucas Jasso

Mason Graves

Matthew Rosas

Michael Quintana

Michelle Eccellente Stevenson

Mike Mercer

Mona Schroeder

Neina Chapa

Neesy Tompkins

Octavio Quintanilla

Pete Adler

Pete Lutz

Roberta Dohse

Robin Carstensen 

Roy Gomez

Sarah K. Lenz

Scott Wayland Griffin

Sophia Chapa

Stephen Gambill

Susan Daubenspeck

Tito Perez

Tom Murphy

Tonāntzin Rodríguez

Wayne Hankins 

William Mays

William Walton

Albert Morales

Cynthia Giery

Jeff Janko

Jen Deselms

Jill Scott

Kerstin Berger

Kimberly Ward

LuAnn Kingsbury

Mandy Ashcraft

Margaret Cleaves

Nicole Serrao

Ricardo Ruiz

Corpus Christi Writers 2023 WAS open for submissions until MARCH 31, 2023. The deadline has passed. Join us for the launch on September 21.

Priority will be given to writers from the Corpus Christi metropolitan area, including outlying areas such as Beeville and Kingsville. We want submissions from established writers and from new writers. All styles, genres, and topics are welcome. Poetry and prose are welcome. Fiction and non-fiction are welcome.

In an attempt to build a wider audience, we will consider writing from anyone, anywhere. We are particularly interested in what generally might be referred to as "post-modern" with a focus on unreliable narrators, self-reflexivity, irony, and other themes, or as "experimental" with a seemingly off-handed nature and an interest in form over content. We'd love to see visual poetry, erasure poetry, or writing using the cut-up method. Visual panels like graphic novels are welcome.

We want to include visual content, which can be drawings or photographs. Visuals related to writing or reading are welcome. Examples are a photo of someone curled up a couch reading a book, a  close-up of someone writing with a pen, a close-up of fingers on a keyboard. 

We'd like to see submissions from 1 - 3 pages in length, but will consider longer pieces.

We have shifted the date of the launch. The launch will be at The Art Museum of South Texas on September 21 at 6:30 PM.

We have brisk traffic on our website, MaysPublishing.com. We link from our site to yours, so a potential buyer who reads your work on our site is only a click away from your site. We may run anthology submissions on the website in advance of the print publication. We will promote your work through our social media accounts, which will in turn link to our website. If you allow tagging on your social media accounts, it can facilitate the promotion process. 

The anthology will be available on September 21, 2023. It will be available in hardback, paperback, and Kindle format. The Kindle may include bonus content and color visuals.

We won't publish anything that is overtly political. No racist, sexist, or homophobic submissions will be published.

Submit to williammays21@gmail.com.  

Excerpts from your submission, along with your bio, will appear on MaysPublishing.com and on our social media accounts. These excerpts will be used to promote the anthology. You may submit more than 1 work. Please include all your submissions in one Word document.  Send your submission in an attached Word document to books@MaysPublishing.com with YOUR NAME and CCW2023 SUBMISSION in the subject line. Alternately, you can send it to williammays21@gmail.com.

The first page of your submission must include a cover page with title of  your work, the author’s name as you wish it to appear in publication,  and contact information  (email address and city where you live)

There is no submission fee. You will retain all rights to your works. You may be asked to revise sections of your work. Communication is via email. Make sure you provide an email address that will be valid throughout 2023. If you have to change email addresses, please let us know. If we can't reach you, we may have to drop your selection from the anthology.

Please include a short biography. Also include a photo if possible. 

 
As compensation, you will receive a free copy of the anthology. You must pick up your print copy at the launch party on September 21, 2023 at the Art Museum of South Texas. If you can't attend, we will email you a Kindle version of the anthology. Kindle books can be viewed on any computer, tablet, or phone.

As additional compensation, you also receive free promotion of your work via our website and social media accounts. In addition, you have an allotted time to read at the launch  party. You must read material only from the current anthology.

Your promotion on MaysPublishing.com includes a section on the website, which can accommodate links to your website. This section functions like a website.

During the launch party, you can buy additional anthology copies at a discounted rate while supplies last. This rate is only available at the launch party. Notifications of acceptance will start to go out in April and May. However, you should receive notification that your submission has been received within a few days of you sending it. If you haven't received notification of receipt of submission, please let me know.