CREATIVE NONFICTION MAGAZINE is seeking new work for an upcoming issue dedicated to “Sex.” 4,000 words max.
Deadline: July 16.
$1,000 for best essay; $500 for runner-up.
Entry Fee: $20.00
Guidelines here.
Saturday, April 28, 2018
Writing Competition: Emerging Writer's Contest
Emerging writer's contest in f/nf/p: Ploughshares
The Emerging Writer's Contest is open to writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry who have yet to publish or self-publish a book. The winner in each genre will be awarded $2,000. Read past winners of the contest here. Submit to the Emerging Writer's Contest through our submission manager.
The 2018 contest judges are Carmen Maria Machado (Fiction), Roxane Gay (Nonfiction), and Roger Reeves (Poetry).
Publication
The winning story, essay, and poems from the 2018 contest will be published in the Winter 2018-19 issue of Ploughshares, and each writer will receive $2,000 and two copies of the issue in which their work appears. The winners will also receive a conversation with our partnering literary agency, Aragi, Inc. regarding their work and writing careers.
Eligibility
You are eligible if you:
The contest opens March 1, 2018 at noon EST and will close May 15, 2018 at noon EST. We will announce the winners in mid-September.
Fiction and Nonfiction: Under 6,000 words
Poetry: 3-5 pages
Submit one entry per year via our online submission manager.
No entries via email or mail will be considered for the contest.
Submitted work must be original and previously unpublished in any form.
For poetry, we will be reading both for the strongest individual poem and the general level of work, and may choose to publish one, some, or all of the winner's submitted poems.
International submissions welcome.
Cover letters are not necessary. All identifying information will be removed from submissions.
Entry Fee
Entry to the contest requires a $24 fee, which is waived if the submitter is a current subscriber through our Winter 2018-2019 issue. The fee is payable by Visa or MasterCard through the online submission system.
Includes a 1-year subscription to Ploughshares (beginning with the Spring 2018 issue and ending with the Winter 2018-19 issue).
Includes free submissions to the 2018 reading period
The Emerging Writer's Contest is open to writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry who have yet to publish or self-publish a book. The winner in each genre will be awarded $2,000. Read past winners of the contest here. Submit to the Emerging Writer's Contest through our submission manager.
The 2018 contest judges are Carmen Maria Machado (Fiction), Roxane Gay (Nonfiction), and Roger Reeves (Poetry).
Publication
The winning story, essay, and poems from the 2018 contest will be published in the Winter 2018-19 issue of Ploughshares, and each writer will receive $2,000 and two copies of the issue in which their work appears. The winners will also receive a conversation with our partnering literary agency, Aragi, Inc. regarding their work and writing careers.
Eligibility
You are eligible if you:
- Have yet to publish a book (including eBooks, translations, books in other languages/countries, self-published works, and poetry chapbooks with a print run of 300 or more).
- Have no book forthcoming before April 15, 2019.
- Are not affiliated with Emerson College or with Ploughshares as a contributing author, volunteer screener, intern, student, staff member, or faculty member.
- Will not have a relationship with Emerson before April 15, 2019 (example: if there is a chance you will attend the Emerson MFA program in the coming year or if your work has been accepted for publication for an upcoming issue).
The contest opens March 1, 2018 at noon EST and will close May 15, 2018 at noon EST. We will announce the winners in mid-September.
Fiction and Nonfiction: Under 6,000 words
Poetry: 3-5 pages
Submit one entry per year via our online submission manager.
No entries via email or mail will be considered for the contest.
Submitted work must be original and previously unpublished in any form.
For poetry, we will be reading both for the strongest individual poem and the general level of work, and may choose to publish one, some, or all of the winner's submitted poems.
International submissions welcome.
Cover letters are not necessary. All identifying information will be removed from submissions.
Entry Fee
Entry to the contest requires a $24 fee, which is waived if the submitter is a current subscriber through our Winter 2018-2019 issue. The fee is payable by Visa or MasterCard through the online submission system.
Includes a 1-year subscription to Ploughshares (beginning with the Spring 2018 issue and ending with the Winter 2018-19 issue).
Includes free submissions to the 2018 reading period
Book Awards: 2018 Housatonic Book Awards
The MFA in Creative and Professional Writing at Western Connecticut State University and its alumni organization, the MFA Alumni Writers Collaborative, are now accepting submissions for the 2018 Housatonic Book Awards.
The Award will be given book-length works in 4 genres: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and YA/Middle-Grade. Books must have been published in 2017.
The Award carries a $1,000 honorarium in exchange for appearing at the winter or summer residency of the MFA in Creative and Professional Writing at Western Connecticut State University to give a public reading and a one-day, three-hour workshop with MFA students. The Award also includes a $500 travel stipend and hotel stay during the residency.
Visit website for complete guidelines.
Questions? Contact Anthony D'Aries, MFA Coordinator at:
dariesaATwcsuDOTedu (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )
The Award will be given book-length works in 4 genres: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and YA/Middle-Grade. Books must have been published in 2017.
The Award carries a $1,000 honorarium in exchange for appearing at the winter or summer residency of the MFA in Creative and Professional Writing at Western Connecticut State University to give a public reading and a one-day, three-hour workshop with MFA students. The Award also includes a $500 travel stipend and hotel stay during the residency.
Visit website for complete guidelines.
Questions? Contact Anthony D'Aries, MFA Coordinator at:
dariesaATwcsuDOTedu (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )
Call for Submissions: Conclave
The literary journal Conclave is accepting submissions for its forthcoming issue with the theme, "Justifying the Margins.."
We live in a world filled with change, a world only beginning to understand the need to respect others, all others. Equality and respect should come hand-in-hand. In the literary world, we embrace work that doesn't conform to expectations, conventions, or old-school definitions--that justifies the margins, until all sense of marginalization has disappeared.
In this issue, we hope to publish a wide range of voices, genre-bending work that challenges expectations, focused on originality and emphasizing the need for universal respect. The common thread should be innovation and an embrace of the full spectrum of human experience. Whatever your sex, race, orientation, religion, country of origin—send us your work. We want to read it. Help us see what has not been seen before.
Format and Length.
Poetry: Submit 1-3 original, unpublished poems, in a single document, each poem on a separate page, no longer than 10 pages total.
Short Fiction: Submit 1 story, no longer than 5000 words.
Creative Nonfiction: Submit one essay, no longer than 5000 words.
Photography: Submit 1-3 photographs, black and white only
Unclassifiable: No longer than 2000 words.
Send your submissions through Submittable.
We live in a world filled with change, a world only beginning to understand the need to respect others, all others. Equality and respect should come hand-in-hand. In the literary world, we embrace work that doesn't conform to expectations, conventions, or old-school definitions--that justifies the margins, until all sense of marginalization has disappeared.
In this issue, we hope to publish a wide range of voices, genre-bending work that challenges expectations, focused on originality and emphasizing the need for universal respect. The common thread should be innovation and an embrace of the full spectrum of human experience. Whatever your sex, race, orientation, religion, country of origin—send us your work. We want to read it. Help us see what has not been seen before.
Format and Length.
Poetry: Submit 1-3 original, unpublished poems, in a single document, each poem on a separate page, no longer than 10 pages total.
Short Fiction: Submit 1 story, no longer than 5000 words.
Creative Nonfiction: Submit one essay, no longer than 5000 words.
Photography: Submit 1-3 photographs, black and white only
Unclassifiable: No longer than 2000 words.
Send your submissions through Submittable.
Poetry Competition: Louisville Literary Arts 2018 Writer's Block Prize
Louisville Literary Arts is pleased to announce that the 2018 Writer's Block Prize will be awarded in POETRY. Award-winning poet Maggie Smith will judge.
OPENING DATE: May 1, 2018
DEADLINE: August 1, 2018
AWARD:
One first place winner will receive $500, an invitation to read at the 2018 Writer’s Block Festival in Louisville, KY on November 10, and publication in The Louisville Review, the literary magazine of Spalding University’s nationally distinguished low residency MFA in Writing program.
GUIDELINES:
Your name and contact information must NOT appear on the document or in the poem/s. Documents in which the poet’s name appears will be disqualified.
All manuscripts must be submitted electronically via Submittable.
Submitted poems may not have been published previously in any form, whether in print or online.
Submit up to 3 poems in a single word document, with a total page number not to exceed 6 pages.
Submission fee: $12 (Up to 3 poems; no more than 6 pages.)
Submitting multiple batches is fine with entry and fee for each.
Simultaneous submissions are permitted; please withdraw your work through Submittable if it is accepted for publication elsewhere.
OPENING DATE: May 1, 2018
DEADLINE: August 1, 2018
AWARD:
One first place winner will receive $500, an invitation to read at the 2018 Writer’s Block Festival in Louisville, KY on November 10, and publication in The Louisville Review, the literary magazine of Spalding University’s nationally distinguished low residency MFA in Writing program.
GUIDELINES:
Your name and contact information must NOT appear on the document or in the poem/s. Documents in which the poet’s name appears will be disqualified.
All manuscripts must be submitted electronically via Submittable.
Submitted poems may not have been published previously in any form, whether in print or online.
Submit up to 3 poems in a single word document, with a total page number not to exceed 6 pages.
Submission fee: $12 (Up to 3 poems; no more than 6 pages.)
Submitting multiple batches is fine with entry and fee for each.
Simultaneous submissions are permitted; please withdraw your work through Submittable if it is accepted for publication elsewhere.
Call for Submissions: Perspectives Magazine
Perspectives Magazine is calling for submissions with first person viewpoints of inanimate objects or animals. The theme is open--you can submit anything.
Deadline: May 10, 2018
Reprints acceptable.
See guidelines for more information.
Examples:
Deadline: May 10, 2018
Reprints acceptable.
See guidelines for more information.
Examples:
- a bridge - what happened on the bridge, how did it feel, what are its innermost thoughts about a conversation it heard while someone was crossing over it, what is its favorite season or time of day, what does it feel like to be walked on
- a postcard - how does it feel to be written on by a pen, what was written on its back, does it know a secret
- a bottle with a message - what does it feel like to bob on the water, was it found by someone
- an escalator - how does it feel to perpetually loop, did it hear a conversation between children/parents/lovers, what was a memorable event
- a purse - is it claustrophobic or does it like the company of other objects
- a cloud - what is its perspective as a sunrise or sunset or northern lights
- a Ferris wheel, a printer, a shoe, a tree . . . the list never ends!
Poetry Competition: Ruminate Magazine's 2018 Janet B. McCabe Poetry Prize
Ruminate Magazine's 2018 Janet B. McCabe Poetry Prize
Deadline: May 18, 2018
Ruminate Magazine announces the 2018 Janet B. McCabe Poetry Prize, judged by Ilya Kaminsky. First place winner will receive a $1500 cash prize with publication. Runner-up will receive $200 cash prize and publication. The prize is open to all forms of poetry.
$20 entry fee also includes a complimentary digital copy of Ruminate. You may submit up to two poems per entry, no longer than 40 lines each. There is no limit on the number of entries per person.
For more information please visit Ruminate Magazine.
*Ruminate is a nonprofit, reader-supported magazine that celebrates slowing down, encountering honest art and storytelling, and living awake.
Deadline: May 18, 2018
Ruminate Magazine announces the 2018 Janet B. McCabe Poetry Prize, judged by Ilya Kaminsky. First place winner will receive a $1500 cash prize with publication. Runner-up will receive $200 cash prize and publication. The prize is open to all forms of poetry.
$20 entry fee also includes a complimentary digital copy of Ruminate. You may submit up to two poems per entry, no longer than 40 lines each. There is no limit on the number of entries per person.
For more information please visit Ruminate Magazine.
*Ruminate is a nonprofit, reader-supported magazine that celebrates slowing down, encountering honest art and storytelling, and living awake.
Call for Submissions on "Mad Science": MAKE Magazine
Mad Science—MAKE #18
Deadline: May 31, 2018
MAKE magazine is now accepting submissions for its eighteenth issue, “Mad Science.” For this issue, we seek fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or ephemera that reflects on all the sciences: physical, biological, social, or even science fiction.
Embedded in the natural world or a mechanical fantasy, this work can take on subjects of systemic scrutiny or scrutinize the systemic. Logic, reasoning, processes, syntax, sequences, circuits, hypotheses, predictions—or not. As long as there is a method to the madness, we’ll consider it.
Deadline: May 31, 2018
MAKE magazine is now accepting submissions for its eighteenth issue, “Mad Science.” For this issue, we seek fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or ephemera that reflects on all the sciences: physical, biological, social, or even science fiction.
Embedded in the natural world or a mechanical fantasy, this work can take on subjects of systemic scrutiny or scrutinize the systemic. Logic, reasoning, processes, syntax, sequences, circuits, hypotheses, predictions—or not. As long as there is a method to the madness, we’ll consider it.
Call for Slush Readers: Aji Magazine
Aji magazine Calling for Guest Reviewers
Deadline: May 20, 2018
Aji is calling for volunteer guest reviewers! Send us a brief bio that includes your education and/or experience with poetry, short fiction, nonfiction, graphic art, or photography. The upcoming reviewing period will be around six weeks from mid-May to July 1 or thereabouts. Tell us how many pages you’d be willing to read/review each week. All participating reviewers will be listed in the Fall 2018 issue with the magazine’s sincerest thanks.
Support Aji, a commercial-free space as we mull over the exceptional submissions we anticipate!
Email queries to:
ajimagazine@gmail.com
We look forward to hearing from you. www.ajimagazine.com
Deadline: May 20, 2018
Aji is calling for volunteer guest reviewers! Send us a brief bio that includes your education and/or experience with poetry, short fiction, nonfiction, graphic art, or photography. The upcoming reviewing period will be around six weeks from mid-May to July 1 or thereabouts. Tell us how many pages you’d be willing to read/review each week. All participating reviewers will be listed in the Fall 2018 issue with the magazine’s sincerest thanks.
Support Aji, a commercial-free space as we mull over the exceptional submissions we anticipate!
Email queries to:
ajimagazine@gmail.com
We look forward to hearing from you. www.ajimagazine.com
Friday, April 20, 2018
Writing Competition: Glimmer Train Short Story Award for New Writers
Short Story Award for New Writers (1st place - $2,500):
Welcome in January/February, May/June, and September/October. Current Deadline: June 30, 2018
Entry Fee: $18.00
Open only to emerging writers who haven’t had fiction appear in any print publication with a circulation over 5,000. (Previous online publication is fine.) Most entries run from 800 to 4,000 words, but any lengths up to 12,000 are welcome.
Welcome in January/February, May/June, and September/October. Current Deadline: June 30, 2018
Entry Fee: $18.00
Open only to emerging writers who haven’t had fiction appear in any print publication with a circulation over 5,000. (Previous online publication is fine.) Most entries run from 800 to 4,000 words, but any lengths up to 12,000 are welcome.
Call for Submissions: Trampset
Submissions accepted year-round.
Trampset, an online literary journal of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, is seeking and accepting new submissions on a rolling basis. We want your best brain, your beating heart, your fears and reconciliations. Send that good human stuff our way. We nominate for Best of the Net. Nonfiction submissions are free.
We charge a $3 submission fee for fiction and poetry.
Visit our submissions page.
Trampset, an online literary journal of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, is seeking and accepting new submissions on a rolling basis. We want your best brain, your beating heart, your fears and reconciliations. Send that good human stuff our way. We nominate for Best of the Net. Nonfiction submissions are free.
We charge a $3 submission fee for fiction and poetry.
Visit our submissions page.
Writing Competition: The Bath Novel Award 2018
The Bath Novel Award 2018
Deadline: April 30, 2018
The Bath Novel Award is an annual international prize for unpublished or self-published novelists writing in any genre. The winning writer, as judged by Felicity Blunt of Curtis Brown Literary Agency, receives £2,500.
Entry Fee: £25
Writers should submit the first 5,000 words plus one page synopsis by Monday 30th April 2018.
Full entry details here.
Deadline: April 30, 2018
The Bath Novel Award is an annual international prize for unpublished or self-published novelists writing in any genre. The winning writer, as judged by Felicity Blunt of Curtis Brown Literary Agency, receives £2,500.
Entry Fee: £25
Writers should submit the first 5,000 words plus one page synopsis by Monday 30th April 2018.
Full entry details here.
Call for Submissions on Theme of Place: Terrain.org
Deadline: May 31, 2018
Terrain.org, the web's longest-publishing online literary magazine, is accepting submissions of poetry, nonfiction, fiction, videos, and hybrid forms through May 31.
Submit online here.
Call for Submissions: Poor Yorick: A Journal of Rediscovered Objects
Poor Yorick: A Journal of Rediscovered Objects welcomes year-round submissions of writing and other creative productions about lost and found objects and images of material culture: sculptures and paintings in the back rooms of museums or in hidden corners of public spaces; murals forgotten in plain view; lost photographic archives and restored films; newly discovered letters or manuscripts; knickknacks in attics; oddities and curiosities in misbegotten sideshows; shipwrecks; unearthed treasures; forgotten stories that remind us of pasts that we cannot afford to forget.
We invite submissions in any and every literary genre and any electronically reproducible visual or audio medium. In addition to open submissions, the journal’s editorial staff will occasionally identify a particular historical object, collection, exhibit, etc., and call for submissions inspired by the selected artifact or collection.
There is a $3 reading fee that goes toward costs associated with the journal, as well as toward our new monetary award for the year's best piece!
Check us out here.
Submissions are accepted via Submittable.
We invite submissions in any and every literary genre and any electronically reproducible visual or audio medium. In addition to open submissions, the journal’s editorial staff will occasionally identify a particular historical object, collection, exhibit, etc., and call for submissions inspired by the selected artifact or collection.
There is a $3 reading fee that goes toward costs associated with the journal, as well as toward our new monetary award for the year's best piece!
Check us out here.
Submissions are accepted via Submittable.
Call for Submissions from Undergraduate Students and Faculty: Bifrost Review
Calling Faculty Advisors and Undergraduate Students:
Bifrost Review, a bridge between undergraduate literary publications, is seeking reprints from multicultural and LGBTQ students, as well as original essays (craft, creative) addressing diversity from both undergraduate faculty and students for our MANY VOICES ISSUE.
Please see our website for more information.
Deadline August 1st.
Email:
bifrostreviewATgmailDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )
with any questions
Writing Competition: Kentucky Women Writers Conference Gabehart Prizes in Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction
KENTUCKY WOMEN WRITERS Conference:
Gabehart Prizes in poetry, fiction, nonfiction.
Winners receive free admission to September 13–16 conference and 1 workshop, a reading, and $300
Fee: $10 for up to 5 pages of poetry or 6,000 words of fiction or nonfiction.
Postmarked by June 1.
Guidelines.
Email questions to:
kentuckywomenwritersATgmailDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )
Gabehart Prizes in poetry, fiction, nonfiction.
Winners receive free admission to September 13–16 conference and 1 workshop, a reading, and $300
Fee: $10 for up to 5 pages of poetry or 6,000 words of fiction or nonfiction.
Postmarked by June 1.
Guidelines.
Email questions to:
kentuckywomenwritersATgmailDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )
Writing Competition: 4th Annual Publishing Lab Prize
The University of New Orleans Press is looking for full-length fiction manuscripts, either novels or short story collections, for the fourth annual Publishing Lab Prize. The selected author will receive a thousand dollar ($1,000) advance on royalties and a contract to publish their winning manuscript with UNO Press.
The work does not have to be regionally focused. There is no word limit. There is no limit on subjects covered.
Submissions are open until August 15. More information, including the Submittable link, can be found here.
The work does not have to be regionally focused. There is no word limit. There is no limit on subjects covered.
Submissions are open until August 15. More information, including the Submittable link, can be found here.
Call for Submissions: The Chapbook Interview
Call for submissions: The Chapbook Interview
The Chapbook Interview is accepting interview queries for Spring and Fall 2018. The Chapbook Interview publishes interviews from chapbook authors, editors, and teachers throughout the year. The Chapbook Interview accepts interview queries year-round.
To be featured in The Chapbook Interview, please include your contact information (name, address, email), a 50-100 word biographical statement, and a 50-75 word statement about your chapbook interests. You may also include in the message a few sample poems from your recent chapbook collection.
Guidelines and Submissions
To learn more, please visit The Chapbook Interview here.
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The Chapbook Interview is accepting interview queries for Spring and Fall 2018. The Chapbook Interview publishes interviews from chapbook authors, editors, and teachers throughout the year. The Chapbook Interview accepts interview queries year-round.
To be featured in The Chapbook Interview, please include your contact information (name, address, email), a 50-100 word biographical statement, and a 50-75 word statement about your chapbook interests. You may also include in the message a few sample poems from your recent chapbook collection.
Guidelines and Submissions
To learn more, please visit The Chapbook Interview here.
Thursday, April 12, 2018
Writing Competition: The Ghost Story Supernatural Fiction Award
The Ghost Story Supernatural Fiction Award
Deadline: April 30, 2018
Our biannual competition for stories incorporating a supernatural element is open for spring submissions. Winner receives $1,000 and online publication. Honorable mention and second honorable mention receive $250 and $100 respectively, plus online publication. A custom illustration by British folk-horror artist Andy Paciorek accompanies all publications.
Ghost stories are welcome, of course—but your submission may involve any paranormal or supernatural theme or element, and/or magic realism. We highly value fine writing and fresh perspectives. Past winners have included both seasoned and previously unpublished writers.
$20 entry fee. Please visit our contest page for complete information.
Deadline: April 30, 2018
Our biannual competition for stories incorporating a supernatural element is open for spring submissions. Winner receives $1,000 and online publication. Honorable mention and second honorable mention receive $250 and $100 respectively, plus online publication. A custom illustration by British folk-horror artist Andy Paciorek accompanies all publications.
Ghost stories are welcome, of course—but your submission may involve any paranormal or supernatural theme or element, and/or magic realism. We highly value fine writing and fresh perspectives. Past winners have included both seasoned and previously unpublished writers.
$20 entry fee. Please visit our contest page for complete information.
Call for Submissions: West Texas Literary Review
West Texas Literary Review is a print and online literary magazine that seeks poetry, flash fiction (up to 1,000 words), essays (up to 2,000 words), and photographs. We love work that is thoughtful, deliberate, and authentic.
To read the guidelines and submit, please visit our website. While you're on the website, check out our amazing latest issue!
To read the guidelines and submit, please visit our website. While you're on the website, check out our amazing latest issue!
Call for Book-Length Manuscripts: Urban Farmhouse Press
UFP Seeks Book-length Manuscripts
Deadline: December 1, 2018
Urban Farmhouse Press currently seeks book-length manuscripts of poetry, fiction, novellas, 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.
Submissions welcome from US, Canada, UK, and Australia.
More details here.
Deadline: December 1, 2018
Urban Farmhouse Press currently seeks book-length manuscripts of poetry, fiction, novellas, 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.
Submissions welcome from US, Canada, UK, and Australia.
More details here.
Call for Submissions: Glassworks
Glassworks Seeks Flash Fiction, Prose Poetry, and Micro Essays
Deadline: Rolling
Glassworks Magazine seeks flash fiction, prose poetry, and micro essays for publication in Flash Glass, our online feature. In glassworking, "flashed glass" is a specific technique by which color is not simply added, but is created by layering, opening almost unlimited possibilities of variation. The glass allows light to shine through but prevents inquisitive eyes from invading people's privacy. Send us your written work that does the same!
All work published online in Flash Glass is included in a print anthology at the end of the year.
Submit up to three shorts under 500 words.
Guidelines and submit here.
Deadline: Rolling
Glassworks Magazine seeks flash fiction, prose poetry, and micro essays for publication in Flash Glass, our online feature. In glassworking, "flashed glass" is a specific technique by which color is not simply added, but is created by layering, opening almost unlimited possibilities of variation. The glass allows light to shine through but prevents inquisitive eyes from invading people's privacy. Send us your written work that does the same!
All work published online in Flash Glass is included in a print anthology at the end of the year.
Submit up to three shorts under 500 words.
Guidelines and submit here.
Call for Poetry Submissions from Graduate Students: Foothill
Call for Poetry Submissions
Foothill: a journal of poetry is accepting submissions for its 2018 annual issue. Submissions of up to six unpublished, English-language-based poems composed in any poetic genre or form are welcome from poets actively enrolled in a graduate program anywhere in the world.
More information here.
Foothill: a journal of poetry is accepting submissions for its 2018 annual issue. Submissions of up to six unpublished, English-language-based poems composed in any poetic genre or form are welcome from poets actively enrolled in a graduate program anywhere in the world.
More information here.
Call for Submissions on the Theme of Iran: Michigan Quarterly Review
Call for Submissions: MQR's Special Issue on IRAN
For our Spring 2019 issue, Michigan Quarterly Review seeks submissions on the theme of Iran — its literature, culture, and history, particularly perspectives on the 1979 revolution written in Iran or in the Diaspora. The issue, guest edited by Kathryn Babyan, seeks to present a collective of voices and reflections by a generation born in the shadow of revolution. We especially encourage translations from Persian, Kurdish, Armenian, and Azeri languages spoken in Iran.
Submit work for this issue through June 30, 2018.
For our Spring 2019 issue, Michigan Quarterly Review seeks submissions on the theme of Iran — its literature, culture, and history, particularly perspectives on the 1979 revolution written in Iran or in the Diaspora. The issue, guest edited by Kathryn Babyan, seeks to present a collective of voices and reflections by a generation born in the shadow of revolution. We especially encourage translations from Persian, Kurdish, Armenian, and Azeri languages spoken in Iran.
Submit work for this issue through June 30, 2018.
Poetry Book Awards: The Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award
Claremont Graduate University is pleased to announce a call for the 2019 Kingsley & Kate Tufts Poetry Awards. The Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award offers $100,000 for a book of poetry published between July 1, 2017 and June 30, 2018. The Kate Tufts Discovery Award offers $10,000 for a first book of poetry published between July 1, 2017 and June 30, 2018.
Entries must be postmarked on or before July 1, 2018, and may be submitted by poets, publishers, agents, or friends.
There is no entry fee. For complete eligibility and submission requirements, please visit our website.
Entries must be postmarked on or before July 1, 2018, and may be submitted by poets, publishers, agents, or friends.
There is no entry fee. For complete eligibility and submission requirements, please visit our website.
Open Reading Period for Books About Kansas or by Kansas Writers: Woodley Press
Open reading period for Kansas writers
Mark your calendars: Woodley Press will be open for submissions from April 1-30!
If you are a Kansas author with a book-length manuscript of poetry or prose, or have a manuscript that deals with Kansas themes, we would love to see your work!
Woodley is a labor of love, run entirely by volunteers, including the current Kansas Poet Laureate, Kevin Rabas.
Many past Kansas Poet Laureates have also been on the board.
You can find full details here.
Mark your calendars: Woodley Press will be open for submissions from April 1-30!
If you are a Kansas author with a book-length manuscript of poetry or prose, or have a manuscript that deals with Kansas themes, we would love to see your work!
Woodley is a labor of love, run entirely by volunteers, including the current Kansas Poet Laureate, Kevin Rabas.
Many past Kansas Poet Laureates have also been on the board.
You can find full details here.
Fiction Competition: Howling Bird Press
Fiction Contest: Howling Bird Press
From April 1 to July 31, 2018, Howling Bird Press is open for submissions of book-length fiction manuscripts. The press welcomes innovative, original work from established and emerging authors. The competition is open to all writers in English living in the U.S., whether published or unpublished. Manuscripts may be short stories, novels, novellas, etc. Word counts should be in the 40,000 to 60,000 range. File formats should be either Word .doc or .docx or PDF. Pages should be numbered, and the author's name and address should appear on the first page.
Include a cover letter in the form provided online, and list contact information and a short (100 to 200 word) bio.
There is a $25 entry fee. Current and former students of Augsburg's MFA in Creative Writing are ineligible, as are current faculty and staff of Augsburg University. The winner is announced in January 2019.
The winner receives $1,000 and book publication in fall 2019. Howling Bird Press books are distributed by Small Press Distribution, and are available at online retailers and in bookstores nationwide. Please read full guidelines and submit here.
From April 1 to July 31, 2018, Howling Bird Press is open for submissions of book-length fiction manuscripts. The press welcomes innovative, original work from established and emerging authors. The competition is open to all writers in English living in the U.S., whether published or unpublished. Manuscripts may be short stories, novels, novellas, etc. Word counts should be in the 40,000 to 60,000 range. File formats should be either Word .doc or .docx or PDF. Pages should be numbered, and the author's name and address should appear on the first page.
Include a cover letter in the form provided online, and list contact information and a short (100 to 200 word) bio.
There is a $25 entry fee. Current and former students of Augsburg's MFA in Creative Writing are ineligible, as are current faculty and staff of Augsburg University. The winner is announced in January 2019.
The winner receives $1,000 and book publication in fall 2019. Howling Bird Press books are distributed by Small Press Distribution, and are available at online retailers and in bookstores nationwide. Please read full guidelines and submit here.
Wednesday, April 4, 2018
Call for Submissions: Typehouse Literary Magazine
Typehouse Literary Magazine is currently accepting submissions for our 14th issue, to be published in May 2018. You can find us here.
We are looking for submissions of poetry, short fiction, creative non-fiction and visual art. Writing that grabs us conveys a unique perspective and honest insight into our world. We are especially interested in underrepresented voices of all kinds, and we want to see submissions from writers and artists of all races, ethnicities, sexualities, nationalities, religions, and genders, as well as differently-abled and neurodivergent creators. Genre fiction submissions are welcome, particularly speculative fiction.
We are all writers and artists, so simultaneous submission are encouraged, but please let us know immediately if it has been accepted elsewhere. Previously published work will not be considered, and this includes work published on social media and personal websites. Submitting is free, but please consider tossing a couple of dollars in the tip jar – you’ll receive personalized feedback on your submission! We are closed to regular submissions during the months of January, May, and September as we put together the new issue, although tip jar and visual arts submissions will remain open.
Prose Submissions: There is no minimum number of words but we will most likely publish fiction and non-fiction between 500-5,000 words. We accept up to three prose submissions per author as long as the total number of words is less than 7,500. All genres and subjects are welcomed and encouraged.
Poetry Submissions: Up to six poems are accepted per submission, and all forms and subjects are encouraged
Visual Arts Submissions: We would like to see artwork and photography in all media and of subjects. Up to six visual arts submissions are accepted at once.
Etc:
Typehouse is published in both PDF and print form. Contributors are not compensated, although a modest honorarium will be awarded to the winner of our Editor’s Choice award each issue. We take first publication rights and non-exclusive archival rights. All other rights revert to the author upon publication. Typehouse is published tri-annually in January, May, and September.
We are looking for submissions of poetry, short fiction, creative non-fiction and visual art. Writing that grabs us conveys a unique perspective and honest insight into our world. We are especially interested in underrepresented voices of all kinds, and we want to see submissions from writers and artists of all races, ethnicities, sexualities, nationalities, religions, and genders, as well as differently-abled and neurodivergent creators. Genre fiction submissions are welcome, particularly speculative fiction.
We are all writers and artists, so simultaneous submission are encouraged, but please let us know immediately if it has been accepted elsewhere. Previously published work will not be considered, and this includes work published on social media and personal websites. Submitting is free, but please consider tossing a couple of dollars in the tip jar – you’ll receive personalized feedback on your submission! We are closed to regular submissions during the months of January, May, and September as we put together the new issue, although tip jar and visual arts submissions will remain open.
Prose Submissions: There is no minimum number of words but we will most likely publish fiction and non-fiction between 500-5,000 words. We accept up to three prose submissions per author as long as the total number of words is less than 7,500. All genres and subjects are welcomed and encouraged.
Poetry Submissions: Up to six poems are accepted per submission, and all forms and subjects are encouraged
Visual Arts Submissions: We would like to see artwork and photography in all media and of subjects. Up to six visual arts submissions are accepted at once.
Etc:
Typehouse is published in both PDF and print form. Contributors are not compensated, although a modest honorarium will be awarded to the winner of our Editor’s Choice award each issue. We take first publication rights and non-exclusive archival rights. All other rights revert to the author upon publication. Typehouse is published tri-annually in January, May, and September.
Writing Competitions: Autumn House Press
Deadline: June 30, 2018
The annual Autumn House Press Contests award publication of full-length manuscripts in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.
Each winner also receives $2,500 ($1,000 advance against royalties and a $1,500 travel/publicity grant to promote the book).
The submission period opens January 1, 2018, and closes June 30, 2018 (Eastern Time).
To submit, please visit our online submission manager. The judges for the 2018 full-length contests are Kimiko Hahn (poetry), Dana Johnson (fiction), and Daisy Hernández (nonfiction).
The annual Autumn House Press Contests award publication of full-length manuscripts in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.
Each winner also receives $2,500 ($1,000 advance against royalties and a $1,500 travel/publicity grant to promote the book).
The submission period opens January 1, 2018, and closes June 30, 2018 (Eastern Time).
To submit, please visit our online submission manager. The judges for the 2018 full-length contests are Kimiko Hahn (poetry), Dana Johnson (fiction), and Daisy Hernández (nonfiction).
Call for Submissions: Phantom Drift: A Journal of New Fabulism
Deadline: April 30, 2018
Phantom Drift: A Journal of New Fabulism is seeking submissions for issue #8, January 1 – April 30, to be published October 1, 2018. We’re looking for flash fiction, short stories, poetry, and prose poems readers might label as new weird, slipstream and/or fabulist/fantastic.
We pay on publication ($5 per page, minimum $10).
Short fiction up to 6500 words, poems up to120 lines. Also seeking critical essays and interviews up to 5000 words on emerging and neglected fabulist/fantastic writers.
$3 submission fee.
Submissions can be made through our website.
Phantom Drift: A Journal of New Fabulism is seeking submissions for issue #8, January 1 – April 30, to be published October 1, 2018. We’re looking for flash fiction, short stories, poetry, and prose poems readers might label as new weird, slipstream and/or fabulist/fantastic.
We pay on publication ($5 per page, minimum $10).
Short fiction up to 6500 words, poems up to120 lines. Also seeking critical essays and interviews up to 5000 words on emerging and neglected fabulist/fantastic writers.
$3 submission fee.
Submissions can be made through our website.
Call for Submissions: Leaping Clear
Deadline: May 31, 2018
Leaping Clear, an online magazine, features accomplished art, writing, music, and video by artists who have a dedicated meditative or contemplative practice. We present both emerging and established writers and artists from diverse backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives. We value art that asks, "What is this?" and invites readers/viewers/listeners to deeply explore the wonders, difficulties, joys, perplexities, and mysteries of being alive now.
Our Fall 2018 issue submission period is open until May 31, and we're particularly looking for essays, fiction, hybrid writing, music and video.
Please visit our website for more information and to enjoy our latest issue.
Leaping Clear, an online magazine, features accomplished art, writing, music, and video by artists who have a dedicated meditative or contemplative practice. We present both emerging and established writers and artists from diverse backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives. We value art that asks, "What is this?" and invites readers/viewers/listeners to deeply explore the wonders, difficulties, joys, perplexities, and mysteries of being alive now.
Our Fall 2018 issue submission period is open until May 31, and we're particularly looking for essays, fiction, hybrid writing, music and video.
Please visit our website for more information and to enjoy our latest issue.
Call for Submissions on Theme of Vanishing Point: Flock
Deadline: June 30, 2018
Flock literary
journal opens space for boundary-pushing literature by publishing
emotionally resonant work that is strange yet familiar, surprising but
grounded, and softly experimental in form, language, or content. For our
Fall 2018 issue, we seek creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry that
respond to, open up, and explore the theme "Vanishing Point." According to Merriam-Webster,
a vanishing point is (2) a point at which something disappears or
ceases to exist and (1) a point at which receding parallel lines seem to
meet when represented in linear perspective.
Full guidelines are
available via our website.
Essay Competition: Memoir Magazine
Memoir Magazine reads and publishes fine Memoir all year. We are now accepting submissions of 3,000 words or less to our special #Gun Memoir Award--Deadline: April 30th, 2018.
Were you shot or did you witness a shooting? Did a gun wielding person save your life? Whether you or someone you know has had a positive or negative experience with guns we want to hear your story about how a gun (or guns) impacted your life.
$350 in prizes and all submissions considered for publication. $12 reading fee.
Complete guidelines here.
Were you shot or did you witness a shooting? Did a gun wielding person save your life? Whether you or someone you know has had a positive or negative experience with guns we want to hear your story about how a gun (or guns) impacted your life.
$350 in prizes and all submissions considered for publication. $12 reading fee.
Complete guidelines here.
Call for Poetry Submissions: Soul-Lit
Soul-Lit, an online journal for spiritual poetry, is accepting submissions for its spring edition.
Please see guidelines here.
(Please note: We construe the term “spiritual” quite broadly!)
Please see guidelines here.
(Please note: We construe the term “spiritual” quite broadly!)
Call for Submissions to Anthology: Nature's Healing Spirit
Submissions sought: Nature’s Healing Spirit–a second book
Deadline: June 1, 2018.
Following the successful publication of the first title, Nature’s Healing Spirit: Real Life Stories to Nurture the Soul, Sowing Creek Press again seeks nature submissions included but not limited to the following subjects:
Estrangement
Starting over (after divorce, death, a move, career change, etc)
Grief and loss
Physical illness
Disability
Mental health challenges
Caregiving
Letting go
Forgiveness
Relationships
Recovering from “burnout”
Life transitions
Self-renewal
Relationships
If your theme doesn’t fit one of these categories, consider submitting anyway. If it fits the general theme that nature heals, and it’s a true story from your life, we want to see your work! “Of the essays received for Nature’s Healing Spirit: Real Life Stories to Nurture the Soul, the best writings took the reader’s hand through vivid descriptions of natural settings as well as the writer’s thoughts and emotions. We’re not looking for travelogues. We’re seeking the writer’s experience of nature as it connects to their inner and outer life, and how the natural world plays a part in healing (whether that’s physical, spiritual, or a combination of both).
Guidelines:
If you’ve found comfort, solved a relationship dilemma, uncovered truths, or experienced an epiphany relating to the natural world, share your eye-opener or conclusion reached while in nature by writing an essay for this anthology. Your experiences can help others gain insight too. Readers of Nature’s Healing Spirit books will enjoy escape and healing through others’ experiences. Readers can enter the serenity of nature even on a lunch break and feel a kinship with fellow nature lovers who also do their best thinking in the great outdoors.
One-time payment for published essays: $50.00
One-time payment for poems: $25.00
Find out more about submitting here.
Sheri McGregor
sherimcgregorATyahooDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )
Deadline: June 1, 2018.
Following the successful publication of the first title, Nature’s Healing Spirit: Real Life Stories to Nurture the Soul, Sowing Creek Press again seeks nature submissions included but not limited to the following subjects:
Estrangement
Starting over (after divorce, death, a move, career change, etc)
Grief and loss
Physical illness
Disability
Mental health challenges
Caregiving
Letting go
Forgiveness
Relationships
Recovering from “burnout”
Life transitions
Self-renewal
Relationships
If your theme doesn’t fit one of these categories, consider submitting anyway. If it fits the general theme that nature heals, and it’s a true story from your life, we want to see your work! “Of the essays received for Nature’s Healing Spirit: Real Life Stories to Nurture the Soul, the best writings took the reader’s hand through vivid descriptions of natural settings as well as the writer’s thoughts and emotions. We’re not looking for travelogues. We’re seeking the writer’s experience of nature as it connects to their inner and outer life, and how the natural world plays a part in healing (whether that’s physical, spiritual, or a combination of both).
Guidelines:
If you’ve found comfort, solved a relationship dilemma, uncovered truths, or experienced an epiphany relating to the natural world, share your eye-opener or conclusion reached while in nature by writing an essay for this anthology. Your experiences can help others gain insight too. Readers of Nature’s Healing Spirit books will enjoy escape and healing through others’ experiences. Readers can enter the serenity of nature even on a lunch break and feel a kinship with fellow nature lovers who also do their best thinking in the great outdoors.
One-time payment for published essays: $50.00
One-time payment for poems: $25.00
Find out more about submitting here.
Sheri McGregor
sherimcgregorATyahooDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )
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