GFT Press Call for Submissions
Submissions accepted year-round.
GFT Press and GFT Presents: One in Four are seeking poetry, fiction, nonfiction, flash fiction, visual art, and interviews for print and online publication. No submission fees!
We're working to benefit charity through our publication and hope that you will submit your best work! Whether it's a journey through our priceless existence, a struggle to achieve personal contentment, a heart-wrenching brush with defeat, an intelligent observation on humanity, a deep desire for your voice to be heard, stirring inspiration, or just pure entertainment, we want it and will strive to share it.
Sunday, March 27, 2016
Call for Submissions: The Drowning Gull
People can submit by using our online submissions manager.
However, video submissions must be e-mailed to:
thedrowninggullAToutlookDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )
The Drowning Gull is a literary platform dedicated to publishing what other popular literary magazines often won’t… including screenplays, book reviews, novel excerpts, comic strips, and pretty much anything else out of the ordinary that you can think of. Maybe you have some fiction or narrative nonfiction that in some way strays from the norm, and you are struggling to place it.
The Drowning Gull will be open for submissions until the end of April, and will publish what they receive in May.
Get your submissions in!
However, video submissions must be e-mailed to:
thedrowninggullAToutlookDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )
The Drowning Gull is a literary platform dedicated to publishing what other popular literary magazines often won’t… including screenplays, book reviews, novel excerpts, comic strips, and pretty much anything else out of the ordinary that you can think of. Maybe you have some fiction or narrative nonfiction that in some way strays from the norm, and you are struggling to place it.
The Drowning Gull will be open for submissions until the end of April, and will publish what they receive in May.
Get your submissions in!
Call for Submissions: Panoply
Panoply, an e-zine dedicated to poetry and short prose, announces its Call for Submissions for Issue 3.
Through April 13, editors are accepting submissions through Submittable.
Contributors are encouraged to visit the site to familiarize themselves with Panoply's prior issues.
Issue 3 is planned for publication in mid-May. Issues 1 and 2 have included writers from 26 US states (including 5 from Florida) and 5 foreign countries and have been read in 60 nations. Contributors range in age from teenagers to septuagenarians. The editors are proud to have included a range of talent from emerging new voices to highly accomplished writers who have been nominated for multiple Pushcart Prizes.
Through April 13, editors are accepting submissions through Submittable.
Contributors are encouraged to visit the site to familiarize themselves with Panoply's prior issues.
Issue 3 is planned for publication in mid-May. Issues 1 and 2 have included writers from 26 US states (including 5 from Florida) and 5 foreign countries and have been read in 60 nations. Contributors range in age from teenagers to septuagenarians. The editors are proud to have included a range of talent from emerging new voices to highly accomplished writers who have been nominated for multiple Pushcart Prizes.
Fiction Competitions: Passages North
Passages North Fiction contests
Submit to our 2016 fiction contests, the Waasnode Fiction Prize and Neutrino Short-Short Prize, judged by Tiphanie Yanique and Lindsey Hunter, respectively.
Entries are $15 each and winners receive a $1,000 prize plus publication in Issue 38.
Both contests close April 15, so please submit soon!
For more information about the contests and to submit, go here.
Submit to our 2016 fiction contests, the Waasnode Fiction Prize and Neutrino Short-Short Prize, judged by Tiphanie Yanique and Lindsey Hunter, respectively.
Entries are $15 each and winners receive a $1,000 prize plus publication in Issue 38.
Both contests close April 15, so please submit soon!
For more information about the contests and to submit, go here.
Writing Competition: Dead Bison Editors' Prize in Fiction, Poetry, and Nonfiction
Arcadia Press is offering the Dead Bison Editors’ Prize in Fiction, Poetry, and Nonfiction
Submit a single story, poem (or small grouping of poems), or work of nonfiction with a $15 entry fee by April 30.
Submit your work here.
The winner in each category will receive $1,000 and publication in the fall issue of Arcadia. The runner-up in each category will also be published in the fall issue.
Submit a single story, poem (or small grouping of poems), or work of nonfiction with a $15 entry fee by April 30.
Submit your work here.
The winner in each category will receive $1,000 and publication in the fall issue of Arcadia. The runner-up in each category will also be published in the fall issue.
Call for Twitter Submissions: Tiny Text
Tiny Text is back from our holiday hiatus! We are a Twitter journal (@Tiny_Text) in search of high-quality #LittleLit: Twitter-length fiction and memoir as well as Twitter-serials. We want you to show us the beauty of small things through thoughtful, compelling concision: like a puddle as deep as the ocean, place us neck-deep in something we thought would only reach our ankles.
Please follow us on Twitter and email all submissions/inquiries to:
teeny.tiny.textATgmailDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )
Send up to three stories or memoirs and include your name and contact information (you may send a title, but we won't have room to include it). We only publish prose of 140 characters or less (and spaces count!). Submissions will be read year-round. Please allow us 4 weeks to get back to you before sending more work or inquiring.
We look forward to your submissions!
Poetry Book Award Competitions: Trio House Press
TRIO HOUSE PRESS SUBMISSION PERIOD FOR POETRY BOOK AWARDS CLOSES APRIL 30!
Trio House Press gives two awards annually: the Trio Award for First or Second Book for emerging poets, and the Louise Bogan Award for Artistic Merit and Excellence for a book of poems contributing in an innovative and distinct way to American poetry. The Louise Bogan Award for Artistic Merit and Excellence is open to all poets, regardless of publication history.
Each award winner receives $1000 and twenty copies of his or her book. Additionally, each winner must serve as a Collective Member of Trio House Press for twenty-four months after publication in order to assist with the press and bringing more Trio books into print.
Our reading period for both awards ends April 30th. Manuscripts received after this date will not be considered.
Our submissions fee is $25 per manuscript for all award reading periods.
We are an environmentally conscious press and only accept manuscripts through our online submissions manager on our web page.
Chard deNiord, the new Poet Laureate of Vermont, is the 2016 judge for the Louise Bogan Award for Artistic Merit and Excellence and Bhisham Bherwani is the 2016 judge for the Trio Award for First of Second Book of poems. For their bio information and to submit, visit our website.
Guidelines for Trio House Submissions:
- The Trio Award for First or Second Book is only open to poets with less than two books published.
- The Louise Bogan Award for Artistic Merit and Excellence is open to ALL poets, regardless of publication history.
- Manuscripts must be between 48-70 pages of poetry, written in English by a poet residing within the U.S.
- Translations are not eligible for publication.
- Manuscripts must be sent in a single word doc. or docx. file.
- Include a cover letter with your bio as the first page of your file.
- Include an acknowledgement page of individual poems published. The manuscript as a whole must not be previously published.
- Include two cover pages, one with the title of your manuscript and your name and contact information, and one with only the title of your manuscript. Your name or other identifying materials must not appear anywhere else upon your manuscript.
- Payment of $25 is required for all submissions during our award submissions period.
- Multiple award submissions are accepted as long as a $25 fee accompanies each award submission.
- Simultaneous submissions are accepted as long as we are notified immediately if your manuscript is chosen elsewhere.
- Relatives and current or former students of the judge are not eligible for awards or publication during our contest submissions period.
- No edits can be made to manuscripts after you submit your manuscript. However, if chosen for award or publication, edits can be made prior to final proofs.
- All award winners and poets published must serve as a Collective Member of Trio House Press for twenty-four months after publication. They must assist with the press and bringing more Trio books into print. They must work on the Production and Design Committee, the Distribution and Sales Committee, the Educational Development Committee, or the Fundraising and Marketing Committee.
For more information about our press visit our website.
Fiction Competition for Undergrads in NC, VA, TN, and SC: Second Annual Bill Hallberg Award
East Carolina University Department of English announces their Second Annual Bill Hallberg Award in Creative Writing. The award goes to undergraduates at colleges in NC, VA, TN, and SC.
The award of $500 given for excellence in short fiction. A reading of the winning fiction will be scheduled at ECU in October, 2016.
Submission deadline is April 30th, 2016 and notification will be made July, 2016.
Send entries electronically to Christy Hallberg:
hallbergcATecuDOTedu (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )
The award of $500 given for excellence in short fiction. A reading of the winning fiction will be scheduled at ECU in October, 2016.
Submission deadline is April 30th, 2016 and notification will be made July, 2016.
Send entries electronically to Christy Hallberg:
hallbergcATecuDOTedu (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )
Monday, March 21, 2016
Writing Competitions: Solstice: A Magazine of Diverse Voices
Solstice Annual Literary Contest in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction
Solstice: A Magazine of Diverse Voices is current reading fiction, poetry, and nonfiction for our Annual Literary Contest, through April 20.
Our judges this year are Richard Blanco (Stephen Dunn Prize in Poetry), Celeste Ng (Fiction Prize), and Michael Steinberg (Non-Fiction Prize).
The entry fee is $18 and winners are awarded $500-$1000 each. Winners as well as finalists will be published in our Summer Awards Issue due out in early August 2016. All entries will be considered for publication.
All writers are eligible to enter, except those who have won in the past, and we strongly encourage writers of color, LGBT writers, and underrepresented writers to submit.
You can submit work via our Submittable page.
More details and official guidelines can be found on our Annual Literary Contest page.
Solstice: A Magazine of Diverse Voices is current reading fiction, poetry, and nonfiction for our Annual Literary Contest, through April 20.
Our judges this year are Richard Blanco (Stephen Dunn Prize in Poetry), Celeste Ng (Fiction Prize), and Michael Steinberg (Non-Fiction Prize).
The entry fee is $18 and winners are awarded $500-$1000 each. Winners as well as finalists will be published in our Summer Awards Issue due out in early August 2016. All entries will be considered for publication.
All writers are eligible to enter, except those who have won in the past, and we strongly encourage writers of color, LGBT writers, and underrepresented writers to submit.
You can submit work via our Submittable page.
More details and official guidelines can be found on our Annual Literary Contest page.
Scholarships: Elk River Writer's Workshop Scholarships
Subject: Elk River Writer's Workshop: Scholarships
We are very excited to offer the following scholarships, with application deadlines due on May 1:
General scholarship, open internationally
Native American scholarship
High School scholarship (part of the Park County artist in residence program)
Elk River Arts & Lectures is offering three scholarships for its 2016 summer workshop at Chico Hot Springs in Montana’s Paradise Valley. This second annual event runs August 8-11, bringing prominent writers together with advanced writing students for four days of seminars, workshops, lectures and readings in a small group environment.
There is one general scholarship available, as well as one each for a Native American participant and a Park County high school student. The high school scholarship is part of Elk River Arts & Lectures’ new Writer in Residence program. The high school scholarship recipient will be partnered with a professional writer for a mentorship during the 2016-2017 school year.
Those interested in applying for any of the scholarships can find details by clicking on the “admissions” tab at the workshop’s website.
We are very excited to offer the following scholarships, with application deadlines due on May 1:
General scholarship, open internationally
Native American scholarship
High School scholarship (part of the Park County artist in residence program)
Elk River Arts & Lectures is offering three scholarships for its 2016 summer workshop at Chico Hot Springs in Montana’s Paradise Valley. This second annual event runs August 8-11, bringing prominent writers together with advanced writing students for four days of seminars, workshops, lectures and readings in a small group environment.
There is one general scholarship available, as well as one each for a Native American participant and a Park County high school student. The high school scholarship is part of Elk River Arts & Lectures’ new Writer in Residence program. The high school scholarship recipient will be partnered with a professional writer for a mentorship during the 2016-2017 school year.
Those interested in applying for any of the scholarships can find details by clicking on the “admissions” tab at the workshop’s website.
Call for Fiction Submissions to Horror/Suspense Anthology: MacKenzie Publishing
MacKenzie Publishing is accepting fiction submissions for its first anthology, a horror/suspense anthology for teens, tentatively titled OUT OF THE CAVE. Please ensure stories are suitable for that age group. Stories should have a teen protagonist.
Submission deadline: April 30, 2016 (or when anthology is full)
Payment: $10 Canadian per story, paid via Paypal upon publication
Word count: 2,000 to 5,000 words
Publication date (print and e-books): on or before September 1, 2016
MacKenzie Publishing does not accept material which has been published previously, either online or in print. By submitting to MacKenzie Publishing, you are assuring that you hold the rights to the work and are granting MacKenzie Publishing the rights to edit and publish the submitted work. MacKenzie Publishing requires exclusive rights for 12 months from date of publication.
To Submit:
Paste info and document in the body of an email (no attachments) in this order:
-Title of story, your name, email, word count
-Story
-Bio (up to 150 words)
Email stories to MacKenzie Publishing at:
Paste info and document in the body of an email (no attachments) in this order:
-Title of story, your name, email, word count
-Story
-Bio (up to 150 words)
Email stories to MacKenzie Publishing at:
MacKenzieSubsATgmailDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )
Put the title of your submission in the subject line.
Put the title of your submission in the subject line.
For more information, visit our website.
Call for Submissions: Microfiction Monday Magazine
Deadline: Rolling
Microfiction Monday Magazine seeks to publish exceptional stories told in 100 words or less on the first Monday of every month. Submissions should tell a complete story, avoiding summary and packing the biggest punch possible. There are no restrictions on genre or content, but we are seeking prose, not poetry.
Multiple and simultaneous submissions are welcome. We also encourage artwork submissions as well to add visual dimension to the reading experience.
For more information, go here.
Microfiction Monday Magazine seeks to publish exceptional stories told in 100 words or less on the first Monday of every month. Submissions should tell a complete story, avoiding summary and packing the biggest punch possible. There are no restrictions on genre or content, but we are seeking prose, not poetry.
Multiple and simultaneous submissions are welcome. We also encourage artwork submissions as well to add visual dimension to the reading experience.
For more information, go here.
Call for Submissions: South 85 Journal
Deadline: April 30, 2016
South 85 Journal, the official literary journal of Converse College's Low Residency MFA program, is seeking fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and visual art for its Spring/Summer 2016 issue. In addition, we are always looking for essays for our blog about writing.
Visit our website for sample issues and complete submission guidelines.
Submit here.
South 85 Journal, the official literary journal of Converse College's Low Residency MFA program, is seeking fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and visual art for its Spring/Summer 2016 issue. In addition, we are always looking for essays for our blog about writing.
Visit our website for sample issues and complete submission guidelines.
Submit here.
Call for Book-length Submissions: Urban Farmhouse Press
Urban Farmhouse Press Seeks Book-length Manuscripts
Deadline: December 1, 2016
Urban Farmhouse Press currently seeks book-length manuscripts of poetry, fiction, and science fiction. We are an independent small press located in the Windsor, Ontario-Detroit, Michigan area. We are looking for writing that crosses borders and talks about the people and places it comes from. Series include Crossroads Poetry Series, Kilgore Trout Science Fiction Series, and Contemporary short fiction and novels. Submissions welcome from US, Canada, UK, and Australia.
More details here.
Deadline: December 1, 2016
Urban Farmhouse Press currently seeks book-length manuscripts of poetry, fiction, and science fiction. We are an independent small press located in the Windsor, Ontario-Detroit, Michigan area. We are looking for writing that crosses borders and talks about the people and places it comes from. Series include Crossroads Poetry Series, Kilgore Trout Science Fiction Series, and Contemporary short fiction and novels. Submissions welcome from US, Canada, UK, and Australia.
More details here.
Call for Submissions: Iron Horse Literary Review
Iron Horse Literary Review is now accepting submissions for our next Open Issue, 18.6. We’re seeking poetry that transforms the ordinary into amazing insight, stories that reveal the writer’s control over language and narrative, and essays that honor personal experiences by conveying them in such detail that the personal blossoms into the universal.
Learn more about our guidelines and preferences here, then send 3-5 poems or up to 5,500 words of prose. Generally, we pay $50 per poem, $100 per long prose piece, and $40 per flash prose.
The gates open for this one on March 9, 2016, and close on April 10th. Please send us your best!
Learn more about our guidelines and preferences here, then send 3-5 poems or up to 5,500 words of prose. Generally, we pay $50 per poem, $100 per long prose piece, and $40 per flash prose.
The gates open for this one on March 9, 2016, and close on April 10th. Please send us your best!
Fellowship for Science & Religion Writing: Think Write Publish
SCIENCE & RELIGION NARRATIVE WRITING FELLOWSHIP
$10,000 Honorarium
We will award twelve $10,000 two-year Think Write Publish Science & Religion Fellowships. Fellows will participate in three intensive workshops focusing on developing, writing, marketing, and publishing their creative nonfiction stories about harmonies between science and religion.
Anyone may apply to be a Fellow. Because we are searching for unfamiliar narratives and voices that can invigorate science-religion dialogue, we want to cast a wide net; we are not preferentially seeking to recruit well-established writers. Fellows’ work will be mentored throughout by experienced writers, editors and teachers and will be featured in a series of regional and national events.
DEADLINE: May 15.
For more details and to apply, visit our website.
$10,000 Honorarium
We will award twelve $10,000 two-year Think Write Publish Science & Religion Fellowships. Fellows will participate in three intensive workshops focusing on developing, writing, marketing, and publishing their creative nonfiction stories about harmonies between science and religion.
Anyone may apply to be a Fellow. Because we are searching for unfamiliar narratives and voices that can invigorate science-religion dialogue, we want to cast a wide net; we are not preferentially seeking to recruit well-established writers. Fellows’ work will be mentored throughout by experienced writers, editors and teachers and will be featured in a series of regional and national events.
DEADLINE: May 15.
For more details and to apply, visit our website.
Call for Submissions: Star 82 Review
Star 82 Review seeks stories
that are compact and crystalized, with imagination and empathy, at just
fifty words each for a special flash issue. Titles are encouraged and
not part of the word count. Send up to five stories at one time. Please
no simultaneous submissions for this category; response time is
generally within a week. Editor’s choice award of a complimentary copy
will go to each of five contributors.
Stories longer than fifty words may be submitted in the regular “Shorts” category and are welcome year round. Shorts are no more than 1000 words.
Deadline: April 4, 2016
Guidelines here.
Alisa Golden
editorATstar82reviewDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )
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Stories longer than fifty words may be submitted in the regular “Shorts” category and are welcome year round. Shorts are no more than 1000 words.
Deadline: April 4, 2016
Guidelines here.
Alisa Golden
editorATstar82reviewDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )
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Call for Submissions: GARO
GARO, the new online journal of the Rocky Mountain Land Library, is currently accepting submissions of fiction, poetry, art, nonfiction, and interviews. GARO publishes work that connects people with the land and each other.
For more information on GARO and how to submit, visit our website.
For more information on the Land Library, go here.
Thank you!
Chris Rurik
Fiction Editor, GARO
For more information on GARO and how to submit, visit our website.
For more information on the Land Library, go here.
Thank you!
Chris Rurik
Fiction Editor, GARO
Sunday, March 13, 2016
Writing Competition: the 38th Nimrod Literary Awards
The 38th Annual Nimrod Literary Awards
Deadline: April 30, 2016
Submissions are now open for the The Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry and The Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction, with first prizes of $2,000 and publication, second prizes of $1,000 and publication, as well as readings at our Awards Ceremony. All finalists will be considered for publication.
For poetry, submit 3-10 pages (one long poem or several short poems); for fiction, one short story, 7,500 words maximum. Manuscripts may be mailed or submitted online.
Each entry must be accompanied by a $20 entry fee, which includes a one-year subscription.
Email or visit our website for complete rules.
Deadline: April 30, 2016
Submissions are now open for the The Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry and The Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction, with first prizes of $2,000 and publication, second prizes of $1,000 and publication, as well as readings at our Awards Ceremony. All finalists will be considered for publication.
For poetry, submit 3-10 pages (one long poem or several short poems); for fiction, one short story, 7,500 words maximum. Manuscripts may be mailed or submitted online.
Each entry must be accompanied by a $20 entry fee, which includes a one-year subscription.
Email or visit our website for complete rules.
Call for Fiction Submissions: The Conium Review
Deadline: April 1, 2016
The Conium Review is open for fiction submissions from January 1st through April 1st, 2016. We publish innovative writing. Send us stories that take risks. Experiment with character, structure, or theme. Get weird with it.
Submit up to three flashes, two stories, or one novella.
Full guidelines here.
The Conium Review is open for fiction submissions from January 1st through April 1st, 2016. We publish innovative writing. Send us stories that take risks. Experiment with character, structure, or theme. Get weird with it.
Submit up to three flashes, two stories, or one novella.
Full guidelines here.
Call for Booklength Manuscripts and Chapbooks: Astrophil Press
Deadline: April 5, 2016
Astrophil Press will be open for submissions for book length manuscripts and chapbooks from January 29th—April 5th, 2016.
There is no reading fee and all submissions must go through our submittable page.
Please visit our submission page for more details.
Astrophil Press will be open for submissions for book length manuscripts and chapbooks from January 29th—April 5th, 2016.
There is no reading fee and all submissions must go through our submittable page.
Please visit our submission page for more details.
Call for Submissions: Arroyo Literary Review
Deadline: May 31, 2016
Arroyo Literary Review is an award-winning national magazine with a West Coast orientation. We are seeking fiction, flash fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and translations for our ninth issue. Open reading period from December 1 to May 31.
No email submissions.
Please see our website for submission guidelines.
Arroyo Literary Review is an award-winning national magazine with a West Coast orientation. We are seeking fiction, flash fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and translations for our ninth issue. Open reading period from December 1 to May 31.
No email submissions.
Please see our website for submission guidelines.
Poetry Competition: Fish Publishing International Poetry Contest
Fish Publishing International Poetry Contest
FISH is an open door inviting writers to walk through.
—Roddy Doyle
Deadline: March 31.
Top prize: 1,000 euros. Second prize: a week at the Anam Cara Writer's & Artist's Retreat.
Poems should be 300 words or less.
Submission fee: 14 euros.
The Fish Poetry Prize was established in 2006. Previous judges include Billy Collins, Brian Turner, Leanne O'Sullivan, Michael McCarthy, Peter Fallon, Matthew Sweeney, Paul Durcan, Ruth Padel and Nick Laird. This year's judge, poet Dave Lordan, will be selecting the 10 poems to be published in the 2016 Fish Anthology.
Details on entering the contest here.
FISH is an open door inviting writers to walk through.
—Roddy Doyle
Deadline: March 31.
Top prize: 1,000 euros. Second prize: a week at the Anam Cara Writer's & Artist's Retreat.
Poems should be 300 words or less.
Submission fee: 14 euros.
The Fish Poetry Prize was established in 2006. Previous judges include Billy Collins, Brian Turner, Leanne O'Sullivan, Michael McCarthy, Peter Fallon, Matthew Sweeney, Paul Durcan, Ruth Padel and Nick Laird. This year's judge, poet Dave Lordan, will be selecting the 10 poems to be published in the 2016 Fish Anthology.
Details on entering the contest here.
Call for Poetry Chapbook Submissions: Backbone Press
Backbone Press: Call for Chapbook Submissions
Deadline: April 30, 2016
Submission Fee: $5.00
Join this stellar list of emerging and established poets: Dariel Suarez, Allison Joseph, Tyree Daye, Tara Betts! We focus on publishing poets of color and poets writing about culture. Now accepting chapbook manuscripts through April 30th.
Visit our website for full guidelines.
“Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.” -Lucille Clifton
Deadline: April 30, 2016
Submission Fee: $5.00
Join this stellar list of emerging and established poets: Dariel Suarez, Allison Joseph, Tyree Daye, Tara Betts! We focus on publishing poets of color and poets writing about culture. Now accepting chapbook manuscripts through April 30th.
Visit our website for full guidelines.
“Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.” -Lucille Clifton
Chapbook Competitions: Paper Nautilus
Paper Nautilus is holding their annual chapbook contests. The Vella contest seeks the following:
– Manuscripts between 16 – 24 pages.
– Manuscripts between 16 – 24 pages.
– Open to poetry, fiction, and mixed- or hybrid-genre works (prose poems, flash fiction, lyrical essays, short-shorts, a short story sandwiched between a dozen poems, one long-ish short story, 24 pages of poems, and any other combination that might be missing in this list).
– Please include a title page, a table of contents, and an acknowledgements page (not included in page count).
– Thematically-linked works are encouraged, but not required. Quality is the only criteria.
– Collection as a whole must be unpublished, but individual publications are fine.
– Simultaneous submissions are fine, but please withdraw it immediately if someone else snatches up your amazing work before we do.
– Please include a title page, a table of contents, and an acknowledgements page (not included in page count).
– Thematically-linked works are encouraged, but not required. Quality is the only criteria.
– Collection as a whole must be unpublished, but individual publications are fine.
– Simultaneous submissions are fine, but please withdraw it immediately if someone else snatches up your amazing work before we do.
– Prize: 100 perfect-bound copies of your winning chapbook, ISBN included, to use however you’d like (sell them, give them away, make a modern art installation in your living room, etc.) Paper Nautilus will be selling an additional limited number of copies through our website or at literary events - for which the winner will receive 10% royalties - but the rest are yours.
– No pre-sale or purchase requirements; no sales pressure on the author to promote.
– Entry fee: $11, payable through Submittable.
– Entry period: February 15th – May 15th, 2016.
– Expected announcement of winner: (approximately) August 1st, 2016.
– Expected date of publication: (approximately) January 2017.
– Recent winners include Jason McCall, Allie Marini, Stephanie McCarley Dugger, Charles Rafferty, and others.
– Entry period: February 15th – May 15th, 2016.
– Expected announcement of winner: (approximately) August 1st, 2016.
– Expected date of publication: (approximately) January 2017.
– Recent winners include Jason McCall, Allie Marini, Stephanie McCarley Dugger, Charles Rafferty, and others.
– Contest entries will be judged by Lisa Mangini, Paper Nautilus Editor in Chief.
Paper Nautilus is holding their annual chapbook contests. The Debut Series contest seeks the following:
– Manuscripts between 16 – 24 pages from writers who have not yet published a full-length manuscript or chapbook in any genre.
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Paper Nautilus is holding their annual chapbook contests. The Debut Series contest seeks the following:
– Manuscripts between 16 – 24 pages from writers who have not yet published a full-length manuscript or chapbook in any genre.
– Open to poetry, fiction, and mixed- or hybrid-genre works (prose poems, flash fiction, lyrical essays, short-shorts, a short story sandwiched between a dozen poems, one long-ish short story, 24 pages of poems, and any other combination that might be missing in this list).
– Please include a title page, a table of contents, and an acknowledgements page (not included in page count).
– Thematically-linked works are encouraged, but not required. Quality is the only criteria.
– Collection as a whole must be unpublished, but individual publications are fine.
– Simultaneous submissions are fine, but please withdraw it immediately if someone else snatches up your amazing work before we do.
– Thematically-linked works are encouraged, but not required. Quality is the only criteria.
– Collection as a whole must be unpublished, but individual publications are fine.
– Simultaneous submissions are fine, but please withdraw it immediately if someone else snatches up your amazing work before we do.
– Prize: 50 hand-bound copies of your winning chapbook, to use however you’d like (sell them, give them away, make a modern art installation in your living room, etc.) Paper Nautilus will be selling an additional limited number of copies through our website or at literary events - for which the winner will receive 10% royalties - but the rest are yours.
– No pre-sale or purchase requirements; no sales pressure on the author to promote.
– Entry fee: $5, payable through Submittable (http://bit.ly/1VKiaB4).
– Entry period: February 15th – May 15th, 2016.
– Expected announcement of winner: (approximately) August 1st, 2016.
– Expected date of publication: (approximately) January 2017.
– Recent winners include Bernard Grant, Emily Moore, and Emily Webber.
– Entry period: February 15th – May 15th, 2016.
– Expected announcement of winner: (approximately) August 1st, 2016.
– Expected date of publication: (approximately) January 2017.
– Recent winners include Bernard Grant, Emily Moore, and Emily Webber.
– Contest entries will be judged by Lisa Mangini, Paper Nautilus Editor inChief
Call for Submissions to Anthology: Precipice: Writing at the Edge
Fiction, CNF, poetry, & critical essay call for submissions: Precipice
Today, the Precipice Collective invites you, dear reader, to personally submit a previously-unpublished critical or creative word-work to our debut anthology Precipice: Writing at the Edge. Your submission should fit the theme and specifications outlined below, and may include prose (both fiction and creative non-fiction), poems, experimental forms, and/or anything in between. Compensation will be two author copies of the anthology in which your work appears [estimated publication 2017].
THEMES: ZONES, LEDGES, BORDERS, MEDIUMS (includes ghosts), BOUNDARIES, EXCHANGES, PLACE, HOME, BODY/SOMATICS, ECOLOGY/SYSTEMS (see website for more specific prompts)
SPECS:
1-10 pages (prose should be 12-pt, Times New Roman, 1” margins, double-spaced)
Editable Word document (along with a PDF if special formatting is pertinent to your work)
Include author name and contact information in document
Submit through the Precipice website.
Deadline: April 1, 2016
This is a transmission from the Precipice Collective, formerly the Inukshuk Collective. Precipice is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to the creation and proliferation of eco-somatic critical and creative writing, with an emphasis on the voices of self-identified women and minorities. Offering alternative models of investigative, sustainable research; collaborative, integrative publishing; and engaged, embodied outreach, Precipice is helmed by four graduates of Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School, now stationed variously in Andover, MA, Austin, TX, Boulder, CO, and Wickford, RI, but meeting in the shared spaces of body, earth, and word. Collectively, we are professors, printers, editors, ghostwriters, mothers, and professional researchers.
Today, the Precipice Collective invites you, dear reader, to personally submit a previously-unpublished critical or creative word-work to our debut anthology Precipice: Writing at the Edge. Your submission should fit the theme and specifications outlined below, and may include prose (both fiction and creative non-fiction), poems, experimental forms, and/or anything in between. Compensation will be two author copies of the anthology in which your work appears [estimated publication 2017].
THEMES: ZONES, LEDGES, BORDERS, MEDIUMS (includes ghosts), BOUNDARIES, EXCHANGES, PLACE, HOME, BODY/SOMATICS, ECOLOGY/SYSTEMS (see website for more specific prompts)
SPECS:
1-10 pages (prose should be 12-pt, Times New Roman, 1” margins, double-spaced)
Editable Word document (along with a PDF if special formatting is pertinent to your work)
Include author name and contact information in document
Submit through the Precipice website.
Deadline: April 1, 2016
This is a transmission from the Precipice Collective, formerly the Inukshuk Collective. Precipice is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to the creation and proliferation of eco-somatic critical and creative writing, with an emphasis on the voices of self-identified women and minorities. Offering alternative models of investigative, sustainable research; collaborative, integrative publishing; and engaged, embodied outreach, Precipice is helmed by four graduates of Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School, now stationed variously in Andover, MA, Austin, TX, Boulder, CO, and Wickford, RI, but meeting in the shared spaces of body, earth, and word. Collectively, we are professors, printers, editors, ghostwriters, mothers, and professional researchers.
Call for Poetry Submissions: The Joaquin Miller Summer Poetry Series
The Joaquin Miller Summer Poetry Series seeks submissions for the 2016 program. Readings in June and July in Rock Creek Park in Washington, DC. Send five poems, a one-paragraph bio, and an SASE for reply only to:
Rosemary Winslow, Dept. of English
Catholic University of America
Washington, DC 20064
U.S. Post only, postmarked by March 31, 2016.
No email submissions, please.
Thanks very much!
Rosemary Winslow
Rosemary Winslow, Dept. of English
Catholic University of America
Washington, DC 20064
U.S. Post only, postmarked by March 31, 2016.
No email submissions, please.
Thanks very much!
Rosemary Winslow
Wednesday, March 9, 2016
9 Historical Fiction Research Tips: Guest Blog Post on Writer Wednesdays
Want to know more about researching historical fiction? Check out my guest blog post on Writer Wednesdays: "9 Historical Fiction Research Tips."
Many thanks to Heidi Oran for inviting me to post!
Many thanks to Heidi Oran for inviting me to post!
Tuesday, March 8, 2016
Call for Submissions: Belmont Story Review
Belmont Story Review invites submissions for its premiere issue. We’re looking for submissions of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction from emerging and established writers. Also, we’re open to submissions of narrative journalism in the areas of music, publishing, creativity and collaboration, as well as faith and culture.
--Deadline for Issue 2: April 1
--Cash honorarium awarded to authors who have accepted submissions
Located in Nashville, Tenn., Belmont University is renowned for its College of Entertainment and Music Business and Social Entrepreneurship programs grounded in faith and values. It’s the only university with an undergraduate major in Publishing. Belmont Story Review is produced through the Publishing Program under the auspices of assistant professor Richard Sowienski, a 30-year publishing veteran, which included a five-year stint as managing editor of The Missouri Review.
To submit, reply to:
BSRsubmissionsATgmailDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )
with the genre of your work in the subject line and attach a Word document. In the body, please include a brief bio.
For more information, visit our website.
Matt Hollingsworth
Editorial Staff
--Deadline for Issue 2: April 1
--Cash honorarium awarded to authors who have accepted submissions
Located in Nashville, Tenn., Belmont University is renowned for its College of Entertainment and Music Business and Social Entrepreneurship programs grounded in faith and values. It’s the only university with an undergraduate major in Publishing. Belmont Story Review is produced through the Publishing Program under the auspices of assistant professor Richard Sowienski, a 30-year publishing veteran, which included a five-year stint as managing editor of The Missouri Review.
To submit, reply to:
BSRsubmissionsATgmailDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )
with the genre of your work in the subject line and attach a Word document. In the body, please include a brief bio.
For more information, visit our website.
Matt Hollingsworth
Editorial Staff
Writing Competition: Arcadia
A prize of $1,000 and publication in Arcadia is given annually for a short story, a work of nonfiction, and a group of poems.
Using the online submission system, submit up to 25 pages of fiction or nonfiction and 10 pages of poetry with a $15 entry fee by April 30. The runner-up in each category will also be published. More details on the specific genres can be found on our submission page.
Using the online submission system, submit up to 25 pages of fiction or nonfiction and 10 pages of poetry with a $15 entry fee by April 30. The runner-up in each category will also be published. More details on the specific genres can be found on our submission page.
Writing Competitions: Passages North
Passages North is accepting submissions for the Waasnode Fiction Prize, judged by Tiphanie Yanique, and the Neutrino Short-Short Prize, judged by Lindsay Hunter, through April 15, 2016.
One winner in each contest will receive $1000 and publication in Passages North Issue 38.
Entry fee is $15 and all entrants will receive a copy of the issue in which contest winners appear.
Contest details here.
One winner in each contest will receive $1000 and publication in Passages North Issue 38.
Entry fee is $15 and all entrants will receive a copy of the issue in which contest winners appear.
Contest details here.
Fiction Competition for Writers over 40: bosque Fiction Prize
The literary journal bosque will be accepting entires for its 6th annual bosque Fiction Prize for writers 40 and over during the month of March only.
The first prize is $1000.; runner-up is $250.
The judge is Lynn Stegner. Stories or self-contained novel excerpts must be 5000 words or less and submitted via Submittable. Sponsored by bosque press (formerly ABQ Writers Coop)
For information and submissions, go here.
Poetry Chapbook and Video Literature Competitions: Iron Horse Literary Review
Iron Horse Literary Review is accepting submissions for its annual chapbook competition. This year, the competition is in poetry and the final judge is award-winning poet Rebecca Gayle Howell.
Enter by Mar 31.
Manuscripts should be stripped of any identifying information and should run between 28-36 pages, with each poem starting on a new page.
Entry is $18 and includes a subscription.
Besides publication, the winner will receive a $1000 honorarium and 15 author copies.
For further information, visit our website.
Previous winners listed here.
Submit here.
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Iron Horse Literary Review is accepting submissions for its innovative video literature competition. We're looking for digital essays, stories, and poems—videos that combine visual art and sound with original written texts in artistically beautiful ways.
Enter by Mar 15.
Entry is $10 and includes a subscription.
Winner of the Editor's Prize will receive $300; winner of the Audience Award will win $200. We will publish the winning videos in an upcoming DVD issue, and we will screen these videos, as well as several finalists, at the Spring 2016 Iron Horse Film Fest in May.
For further information on the video literature competition, go here.
Previous winners found here.
Submit your entry here.
Enter by Mar 31.
Manuscripts should be stripped of any identifying information and should run between 28-36 pages, with each poem starting on a new page.
Entry is $18 and includes a subscription.
Besides publication, the winner will receive a $1000 honorarium and 15 author copies.
For further information, visit our website.
Previous winners listed here.
Submit here.
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Iron Horse Literary Review is accepting submissions for its innovative video literature competition. We're looking for digital essays, stories, and poems—videos that combine visual art and sound with original written texts in artistically beautiful ways.
Enter by Mar 15.
Entry is $10 and includes a subscription.
Winner of the Editor's Prize will receive $300; winner of the Audience Award will win $200. We will publish the winning videos in an upcoming DVD issue, and we will screen these videos, as well as several finalists, at the Spring 2016 Iron Horse Film Fest in May.
For further information on the video literature competition, go here.
Previous winners found here.
Submit your entry here.
Poetry Competition: Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize
Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize
Entry fee: $15.00 USD
Ends on 5/16/2016
The Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize honors the late Stanley Kunitz’s dedication to mentoring poets. The winning poem will appear on the feature page of the September/October issue of The American Poetry Review, and the poet will receive a prize of $1,000. All entrants will receive a copy of the magazine.
Poets may submit one to three poems per entry (totaling no more than three pages) with a $15 entry fee by May 15, 2016. No limit on number of entries per poet. The editors of The American Poetry Review will judge submissions anonymously, in compliance with the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses’ Code of Ethics.
Guidelines
1. Poets must be under 40 years of age.
2. All entries must be previously unpublished poems.
3. Multiple entries are acceptable; however each entry must be accompanied by a reading fee.
4. Entry fee covers up to three poems, totaling no more than three pages.
5. Contest entries must be received before May 15, 2015.
6. Contest results will be announced by July 1, 2015.
Enter here.
Entry fee: $15.00 USD
Ends on 5/16/2016
The Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize honors the late Stanley Kunitz’s dedication to mentoring poets. The winning poem will appear on the feature page of the September/October issue of The American Poetry Review, and the poet will receive a prize of $1,000. All entrants will receive a copy of the magazine.
Poets may submit one to three poems per entry (totaling no more than three pages) with a $15 entry fee by May 15, 2016. No limit on number of entries per poet. The editors of The American Poetry Review will judge submissions anonymously, in compliance with the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses’ Code of Ethics.
Guidelines
1. Poets must be under 40 years of age.
2. All entries must be previously unpublished poems.
3. Multiple entries are acceptable; however each entry must be accompanied by a reading fee.
4. Entry fee covers up to three poems, totaling no more than three pages.
5. Contest entries must be received before May 15, 2015.
6. Contest results will be announced by July 1, 2015.
Enter here.
Call for Anthology Submissions: TallGrass Writers and Outrider Press
TallGrass Writers Guild in affiliation with Outrider Press seeks poetry, short fiction and essays for our 21st year of acclaimed annual anthologies. Prizes: $500 each for poetry and prose.
Updated Deadline: March 27, 3016.
Theme is: 'Home’
We are especially interested in poetry.
Previously published and simultaneous submissions OK (please indicate on entry form). Planned publication date: October 2016.
Entry fee for each group or partial group of 1-4 poems or each prose entry is $16, reduced to $12 each for TWG members.
No limit on number of submissions in either category. We nominate for the Pushcart Prize and Best New Poets.
Our judge: Award winning author Diane Williams.
For complete guidelines email:
outriderpressATsbcglobalDOTnet (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )
or
tallgrassguildATsbcglobalDOTnet (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )
You can also download the guidelines here. An entry form for the 2015 Anthology/Contest must be completed and accompany each entry category. This is available on the website.
Updated Deadline: March 27, 3016.
Theme is: 'Home’
We are especially interested in poetry.
Previously published and simultaneous submissions OK (please indicate on entry form). Planned publication date: October 2016.
Entry fee for each group or partial group of 1-4 poems or each prose entry is $16, reduced to $12 each for TWG members.
No limit on number of submissions in either category. We nominate for the Pushcart Prize and Best New Poets.
Our judge: Award winning author Diane Williams.
For complete guidelines email:
outriderpressATsbcglobalDOTnet (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )
or
tallgrassguildATsbcglobalDOTnet (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )
You can also download the guidelines here. An entry form for the 2015 Anthology/Contest must be completed and accompany each entry category. This is available on the website.
Call for Submissions on '90s Pop Culture: Up the Staircase Quarterly
Up the Staircase Quarterly is seeking submissions of poetry and art on theme of 90s pop culture.
Deadline: July 1st 2016
Full submission guidelines.
Weekly 90s prompts.
We are also seeking submissions of reviews of poetry books, chapbooks, art, and online or print literary journals. For complete submission guidelines, go here.
Deadline: July 1st 2016
Full submission guidelines.
Weekly 90s prompts.
We are also seeking submissions of reviews of poetry books, chapbooks, art, and online or print literary journals. For complete submission guidelines, go here.
Poetry Chapbook Competition: Mid-Atlantic Chapbook Series
Submissions open for the Mid-Atlantic Chapbook Series. Open to poets in DC, MD, VA, WV, DE and PA who have not published a book. Send ms. of 20 to 30 pages.
Winner published in Summer 2016.
$6 reading fee.
Deadline: May 16, 2016
Entry portal.
Winner published in Summer 2016.
$6 reading fee.
Deadline: May 16, 2016
Entry portal.
Call for Submissions to Anthology: Travellin' Mama: Mothers, Mothering and Travel
Anthology on Mothers, Mothering and Travel seeks submissions
Submissions of poetry, fiction, and creative prose (as well as abstracts for scholarly papers) are sought for a new Demeter Press collection: Travellin’ Mama: Mothers, Mothering and Travel
Editors: Charlotte Beyer, Janet MacLennan, DorsÃa Smith Silva, and Marjorie Tesser
Deadline for Creative Submissions: April 30, 2016.
Please see Call for Papers for full guidelines.
Submissions of poetry, fiction, and creative prose (as well as abstracts for scholarly papers) are sought for a new Demeter Press collection: Travellin’ Mama: Mothers, Mothering and Travel
Editors: Charlotte Beyer, Janet MacLennan, DorsÃa Smith Silva, and Marjorie Tesser
Deadline for Creative Submissions: April 30, 2016.
Please see Call for Papers for full guidelines.
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