Prize: $50,000
Deadline: 5/15/19
Sponsor: St. Francis College
Description: For mid-career authors who have just published their 3rd, 4th, or 5th fiction book. Self-published books and English translations are also considered.
More information here.
Monday, February 25, 2019
Post-publication Book Award in Fiction: St. Francis College Literary Prize
St. Francis College Literary Prize
Prize: $50,000
Deadline: 5/15/19
Sponsor: St. Francis College
Description: For mid-career authors who have just published their 3rd, 4th, or 5th fiction book. Self-published books and English translations are also considered.
Prize: $50,000
Deadline: 5/15/19
Sponsor: St. Francis College
Description: For mid-career authors who have just published their 3rd, 4th, or 5th fiction book. Self-published books and English translations are also considered.
Call for Submissions: Arkana
Submit to Arkana's Micro Issue (No Fee, Cash Prizes!)
For our Micro Issue, Arkana invites you to magnify the microscopic.
Once called “little magazines,” literary journals have long been interested in cultivating small-scale communities and promoting the work of authors and editors toiling on their art outside of national markets. For Arkana’s Micro Issue, we’re commemorating this heritage while seeking work that packs a punch in pint-sized form.
From nanotechnology, the singularity at the center of a black hole, microbiology, microbursts, and microbreweries, to “The Itsy Bitsy Spider” and Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, we want work that celebrates its smallness, amplifies the tiniest voices with the most to say, and challenges society’s perceptions of the marginal, modest, and miniscule.
Send us up to 500 words of fiction or creative nonfiction, 10 lines of poetry, 4 panels of illustrated narrative, or 5 minute scripts for the stage or screen.
In addition to publication in the Micro Issue, each piece will be considered for $50.00 Editor’s Choice Awards in each genre.
The deadline for Issue 6 is March 31st. For more information, visit our website.
And if you still have questions, send us an email at:
arkanamagATgmailDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )
For our Micro Issue, Arkana invites you to magnify the microscopic.
Once called “little magazines,” literary journals have long been interested in cultivating small-scale communities and promoting the work of authors and editors toiling on their art outside of national markets. For Arkana’s Micro Issue, we’re commemorating this heritage while seeking work that packs a punch in pint-sized form.
From nanotechnology, the singularity at the center of a black hole, microbiology, microbursts, and microbreweries, to “The Itsy Bitsy Spider” and Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, we want work that celebrates its smallness, amplifies the tiniest voices with the most to say, and challenges society’s perceptions of the marginal, modest, and miniscule.
Send us up to 500 words of fiction or creative nonfiction, 10 lines of poetry, 4 panels of illustrated narrative, or 5 minute scripts for the stage or screen.
In addition to publication in the Micro Issue, each piece will be considered for $50.00 Editor’s Choice Awards in each genre.
The deadline for Issue 6 is March 31st. For more information, visit our website.
And if you still have questions, send us an email at:
arkanamagATgmailDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )
Writing Competition: Bellingham Review
Bellingham Review’s 2019 Contests: $1,000 First-Place Prizes
Deadline: March 31, 2019
These contests include the Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction, judged by Robin Hemley, the 49th Parallel Award for Poetry, judged by Nickole Brown, and the Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction, judged by Ira Sukrungruang.
Each contest offers a $1,000 first-place prize.
$20 entry fee.
We accept online submissions via Submittable only. Dedicated to forming a community of writers, the Bellingham Review offers continual support to our authors through interviews, book reviews, social media promotion, and endless words of encouragement.
Deadline: March 31, 2019
These contests include the Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction, judged by Robin Hemley, the 49th Parallel Award for Poetry, judged by Nickole Brown, and the Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction, judged by Ira Sukrungruang.
Each contest offers a $1,000 first-place prize.
$20 entry fee.
We accept online submissions via Submittable only. Dedicated to forming a community of writers, the Bellingham Review offers continual support to our authors through interviews, book reviews, social media promotion, and endless words of encouragement.
Call for Submissions: Transference Literary Journal
Transference Literary Journal Invites Submissions of Poetry in Translation
Deadline: April 30 for best consideration
Transference invites submissions of poetry translated into English from Arabic, Chinese, French, Old French, German, Classical Greek, Latin, or Japanese. Along with your translation, please submit a commentary on the translation process, addressing particular challenges posed by the text or specific translation choices. New voices are especially welcome. Transference is published both online and in print.
Read previous issues and submit up to four poems at:
scholarworksDOTwmichDOTedu/transference/ (Change DOT to . )
Contact:
lang_transATwmichDOTedu (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )
Published by faculty of the Department of World Languages and Literatures at Western Michigan University. Submissions are read using a double-blind review process.
Deadline: April 30 for best consideration
Transference invites submissions of poetry translated into English from Arabic, Chinese, French, Old French, German, Classical Greek, Latin, or Japanese. Along with your translation, please submit a commentary on the translation process, addressing particular challenges posed by the text or specific translation choices. New voices are especially welcome. Transference is published both online and in print.
Read previous issues and submit up to four poems at:
scholarworksDOTwmichDOTedu/transference/ (Change DOT to . )
Contact:
lang_transATwmichDOTedu (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )
Published by faculty of the Department of World Languages and Literatures at Western Michigan University. Submissions are read using a double-blind review process.
Call for Poetry Chapbook Submissions: Green Linden Press
Poetry Chapbook Manuscript Open-reading Period
Deadline: March 20, 2019
Green Linden Press is delighted to welcome submissions of poetry chapbook manuscripts to be considered for publication. Our mission is simple: to foster excellent poetry.
Poets are encouraged to read from our online journal, Under a Warm Green Linden, to become familiar with work that excites us.
Manuscripts of 12–40 pages are accepted, as well as simultaneous submissions, works in translation, and co-authored manuscripts.
There is a $12 reading fee, which helps support our green mission, to give a portion of our proceeds to reforestation efforts. For more information please visit our website.
Deadline: March 20, 2019
Green Linden Press is delighted to welcome submissions of poetry chapbook manuscripts to be considered for publication. Our mission is simple: to foster excellent poetry.
Poets are encouraged to read from our online journal, Under a Warm Green Linden, to become familiar with work that excites us.
Manuscripts of 12–40 pages are accepted, as well as simultaneous submissions, works in translation, and co-authored manuscripts.
There is a $12 reading fee, which helps support our green mission, to give a portion of our proceeds to reforestation efforts. For more information please visit our website.
Call for Submissions: Palaver
Palaver is UNCW’s online interdisciplinary journal housed in the Graduate Liberal Studies program. Palaver seeks creative and academic submissions that defy the confines of a single discipline.
We also accept art submissions in any medium, including video, still image, and multimedia.
Visit our website to peruse our past issues and to submit your work! Please make sure you follow us on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
We look forward to reading your work!
We also accept art submissions in any medium, including video, still image, and multimedia.
Visit our website to peruse our past issues and to submit your work! Please make sure you follow us on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
We look forward to reading your work!
Artists' and Writing Residency: Adaptation Residencies at A Studio in the Woods
Adaptations Residencies at A Studio in the Woods
New Orleans, LA
Deadline: April 22, 2019
Adaptations: Living with Change Residencies invite artists to examine how climate driven adaptations - large and small, historic and contemporary, cultural and scientific - are shaping our future. These six-week residencies provide artists with time, space, stipend, scholarship and staff support to foster critical thinking and creation of new works.
Go here for more information and to apply.
Application Fee: $15.00
A Studio in the Woods
(919) 818-9688
New Orleans, LA
Deadline: April 22, 2019
Adaptations: Living with Change Residencies invite artists to examine how climate driven adaptations - large and small, historic and contemporary, cultural and scientific - are shaping our future. These six-week residencies provide artists with time, space, stipend, scholarship and staff support to foster critical thinking and creation of new works.
Go here for more information and to apply.
Application Fee: $15.00
A Studio in the Woods
(919) 818-9688
Call for Submissions: Sky Island Journal
Sky Island Journal is an independent, international, free-access literary journal; we are dedicated to discovering the finest poetry, flash fiction, and creative nonfiction.
We publish accomplished, well-established authors—side by side—with fresh, emerging voices. We provide over 35,000 readers in 137 countries with a powerful, focused, advertising-free literary experience that transports them: one that challenges them intellectually and moves them emotionally.
We publish quarterly, and our average response time is 9 days. Every submission receives a prompt, respectful, and individualized response detailing what we appreciated.
Enjoy our previous issues, and submit for Issue 8 before March 31st at our website.
We publish accomplished, well-established authors—side by side—with fresh, emerging voices. We provide over 35,000 readers in 137 countries with a powerful, focused, advertising-free literary experience that transports them: one that challenges them intellectually and moves them emotionally.
We publish quarterly, and our average response time is 9 days. Every submission receives a prompt, respectful, and individualized response detailing what we appreciated.
Enjoy our previous issues, and submit for Issue 8 before March 31st at our website.
Post-Publication Book Award: New American Voices Award
Institute for Immigration Research New American Voices Award
The 2019 contest is now open for submissions.
Postmark Deadline: March 30, 2019
Fall for the Book and the Institute for Immigration Research have created an award to recognize recently published works that illuminate the complexity of human experience as told by immigrants, whose work is historically underrepresented in writing and publishing.
The Contest
The prize will be juried by Reyna Grande, Alia Malek, and E.C. Osondu, who will choose three finalists and then award the prize to one. Finalists will be announced in summer 2019 and all three finalists and the judges will appear at the 2019 Fall for the Book festival, October 10-12 for the second annual presentation and to read from and discuss their work. The winning writer will receive $5,000 and the two finalists each will receive $1,000.
Eligibility
Fall for the Book,
George Mason University,
4400 University Drive MS 3E4,
Fairfax, VA 22030
along with a $20 entry fee. Checks can be made out to Fall for the Book, Inc.
The 2019 contest is now open for submissions.
Postmark Deadline: March 30, 2019
Fall for the Book and the Institute for Immigration Research have created an award to recognize recently published works that illuminate the complexity of human experience as told by immigrants, whose work is historically underrepresented in writing and publishing.
The Contest
The prize will be juried by Reyna Grande, Alia Malek, and E.C. Osondu, who will choose three finalists and then award the prize to one. Finalists will be announced in summer 2019 and all three finalists and the judges will appear at the 2019 Fall for the Book festival, October 10-12 for the second annual presentation and to read from and discuss their work. The winning writer will receive $5,000 and the two finalists each will receive $1,000.
Eligibility
- Starting November 1, 2018, publishers can enter immigrant writers* who have published no more than three books.
- Entries must be prose: literary fiction or creative non-fiction. Please no journalism, plays, anthologies, or poetry.
- Eligible books must have been (or will be) published between October 1, 2018 and September 30, 2019.
Fall for the Book,
George Mason University,
4400 University Drive MS 3E4,
Fairfax, VA 22030
along with a $20 entry fee. Checks can be made out to Fall for the Book, Inc.
Monday, February 18, 2019
Call for Submissions: South 85 Journal
Deadline: May 1, 2019
South 85 Journal is currently reading for our Spring/Summer 2019 issue, which will come out June 15, 2019. Through May 1, we are seeking fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and visual art. We are especially interested in work that conveys a sense of place, presents a strong voice, or provides a unique point of view.
For examples of what we love, check out our past issues. For more information and to submit, visit our Submittable site. We look forward to hearing from you!
South 85 Journal is currently reading for our Spring/Summer 2019 issue, which will come out June 15, 2019. Through May 1, we are seeking fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and visual art. We are especially interested in work that conveys a sense of place, presents a strong voice, or provides a unique point of view.
For examples of what we love, check out our past issues. For more information and to submit, visit our Submittable site. We look forward to hearing from you!
Call for Submissions on Theme of World Music/Ethnomusicology: The Ocotillo Review
Deadline: March 31, 2019
The Ocotillo Review seeks submissions of fiction, poetry, flash fiction, and creative nonfiction through Submittable only. Theme this edition: World Music/Ethnomusicology (widely interpreted).
$3 submission fee.
We pay upon publication.
Particularly interested in subs from underserved and international literary artists. More info and guidelines here. All styles and genres accepted except pornography and hate speech. Send us your best! Please query first for interviews and reviews.
The Ocotillo Review seeks submissions of fiction, poetry, flash fiction, and creative nonfiction through Submittable only. Theme this edition: World Music/Ethnomusicology (widely interpreted).
$3 submission fee.
We pay upon publication.
Particularly interested in subs from underserved and international literary artists. More info and guidelines here. All styles and genres accepted except pornography and hate speech. Send us your best! Please query first for interviews and reviews.
Call for Submissions: Gyroscope Review
We are now reading for the Spring issue of Gyroscope Review.
Gyroscope Review is open to all genres of contemporary poetry including sci-fi, fantasy and horror. Emerging and established poets welcome. If you write seasonal poetry, please keep it spring themed.
Our submission guidelines.
We do not charge a submission fee.
To get an idea of what we like to publish, read our previous issues online, or order the print format from Amazon.
This month, add a line to our collaborative Quatrain Project and have the line published in the Spring edition. See details on the home page.
Gyroscope Review is open to all genres of contemporary poetry including sci-fi, fantasy and horror. Emerging and established poets welcome. If you write seasonal poetry, please keep it spring themed.
Our submission guidelines.
We do not charge a submission fee.
To get an idea of what we like to publish, read our previous issues online, or order the print format from Amazon.
This month, add a line to our collaborative Quatrain Project and have the line published in the Spring edition. See details on the home page.
Call for Submissions: Hot Metal Bridge
Hot Metal Bridge, the literary journal run out of the MFA program at the University of Pittsburgh, is currently accepting submissions through March 15th. We are looking for innovative fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and visual art for our 25th issue. Hot Metal Bridge is committed to publishing writers and artists from diverse perspectives and experiences, and we especially encourage writers from marginalized communities to submit their work.
Full submission guidelines can be found here.
Hot Metal Bridge has published work by established writers including Maxine Hong Kingston, Sherrie Flick, Dan Chaon, Ewa Chrusciel, and Rodrigo Toscano, but we also maintain an emphasis on finding new material from emerging and previously unpublished writers. In a previous life, MFA students at the University of Pittsburgh published the literary magazine Nidus (2001-2005).
We look forward to reading your work!
Full submission guidelines can be found here.
Hot Metal Bridge has published work by established writers including Maxine Hong Kingston, Sherrie Flick, Dan Chaon, Ewa Chrusciel, and Rodrigo Toscano, but we also maintain an emphasis on finding new material from emerging and previously unpublished writers. In a previous life, MFA students at the University of Pittsburgh published the literary magazine Nidus (2001-2005).
We look forward to reading your work!
Call for Submissions: Raleigh Review
Raleigh Review is now accepting poetry, flash, and short fiction submissions through March 31 for the Fall 2019 issue. After, only the Laux/Millar Poetry Prize will be open for submissions.
We're looking for work that is emotionally and intellectually complex without sacrificing accessibility (the definition of "accessibility" is up to you).
Past contributors include Kwame Dawes, Paula Martinac, Vievee Francis, Randall Brown, Chen Chen, Carrie Knowles, Chelsea Dingman, Traci Brimhall, and many others.
All published authors receive a $15 cash honorarium and one free contributor’s copy and are considered for major anthology and award nominations.
To see full guidelines and browse the archives to see what we've been publishing lately, visit our website.
The entire Fall 2018 issue is now available online in the Archives.
Call for Poetry Submissions on Theme of "Bidges, not Walls": Pirene's Fountain
"Bridges, not Walls" (Pirene's Fountain-Volume 13, Issue 21) will open May 1st for poems that tackle racism, ANY kind of discrimination, the politics of division, etc.
Please send 2-6 poems to the PF editors at:
pirenesfountainATgmailDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )
with brief bio.
This issue will be published in 2020.
DEADLINE: June 1st, 2019
Please send 2-6 poems to the PF editors at:
pirenesfountainATgmailDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )
with brief bio.
This issue will be published in 2020.
DEADLINE: June 1st, 2019
Poetry Retreat and Scholarships: The Sundress Academy for the Arts
The Sundress Academy for the Arts is thrilled to announce its Summer Poetry Writing Retreat, which runs from Friday, May 24th to Sunday, May 26th, 2019. The three-day, two-night camping retreat will be held at SAFTA’s own Firefly Farms in Knoxville, Tennessee. All SAFTA retreats focus on generative poetry writing, and this year's poetry retreat will also include break-out sessions on: writing about issues of identity, race, and heritage; accessing memories; kicking writer's block; publishing; and more.
A weekend pass includes one-on-one and group instruction, writing supplies, food, drinks, transportation to and from the airport, and all on-site amenities for $250. Tents, sleeping bags, and other camping equipment are available to rent for $25. Payment plans are available if you reserve by March 31, 2019.
The event will be open to writers of all backgrounds and provide an opportunity to work with many talented, published poets from around the country, including workshop leaders Emari Digiorgio and Karen Craigo.
Emari DiGiorgio is the author of Girl Torpedo, winner of the Numinous Orison, Luminous Origin Literary Award, and The Things a Body Might Become. She's the recipient of the Auburn Witness Poetry Prize, the Ellen La Forge Memorial Poetry Prize, the Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize, RHINO’s Founder’s Prize, and a poetry fllowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. She teaches at Stockton University, is a Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Poet and the Senior Reviews Editor for Tupelo Quarterly, and hosts World Above, a monthly reading series in Atlantic City, NJ.
Karen Craigo is the author of two Sundress collections: Passing Through Humansville (2018) and No More Milk (2016), as well as three chapbooks, and her poetry, fiction and nonfiction have appeared in numerous publications. She is the editor of The Marshfield Mail newspaper in Marshfield, Missouri.
We have one full scholarship available for the retreat as well as limited 20% scholarships for those with financial need. To apply for a scholarship, send a packet of no more than (8) pages of poetry along with a brief statement on why you would like to attend this workshop to Erin Elizabeth Smith at:
no later than March 5, 2019. Winners will be announced in April.
Space at this workshop is limited to 15 writers, so reserve your place today at our website.
Writing Competition: Winning Writers and Duotrope's Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest
It's the 18th year of the Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry contest sponsored by Winning Writers and Duotrope. Submit one humor poem online.
No fee to enter. We welcome both published and unpublished work.
Top prize of $1,000, second prize of $250. Ten Honorable Mentions will receive $100 each. The top 12 poems will be published online.
Deadline April 1.
No restriction on country or age of author. Judge: Jendi Reiter, assisted by Lauren Singer Ledoux. Winning Writers is one of the "101 Best Websites for Writers" (Writer's Digest).
Submit your work here.
Prefer to Enter by Email?
Send your humor poem to:
adamATwinningwritersDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )
Include your full name, mailing address, and phone number.
Questions?
See past winners and more contest information on our website.
No fee to enter. We welcome both published and unpublished work.
Top prize of $1,000, second prize of $250. Ten Honorable Mentions will receive $100 each. The top 12 poems will be published online.
Deadline April 1.
No restriction on country or age of author. Judge: Jendi Reiter, assisted by Lauren Singer Ledoux. Winning Writers is one of the "101 Best Websites for Writers" (Writer's Digest).
Submit your work here.
Prefer to Enter by Email?
Send your humor poem to:
adamATwinningwritersDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )
Include your full name, mailing address, and phone number.
Questions?
See past winners and more contest information on our website.
Writing competition: Psychopomp Magazine Innovative Short Fiction Award 2019
Psychopomp Magazine Innovative Short Fiction Award 2019
$500 and publication
Final Judge: Editors
*Accepting submissions until April 1st
Final Judge: Editors
*Accepting submissions until April 1st
The Psychopomp Magazine Short Fiction Award recognizes outstanding pieces of fiction that push the boundaries of genre and/or form. Surprise us! Show us something we’ve never seen before.
Guidelines: Up to 6,000 words of previously unpublished work. Simultaneous submissions are permitted. Please do not include any identifying information on your manuscript or include a cover letter.
Entry fee is $10. Results will be posted by April.
*Those closely affiliated with the editors are ineligible to submit.
More Info and Submission Portal here.
Saturday, February 9, 2019
Writing Residency: Sundress Academy for the Arts
The Sundress Academy for the Academy for the Arts (SAFTA) is now accepting applications for short-term writers residencies during the summer residency period for our Writers Coop. These residencies are designed to give writers and artists time and space to complete their creative projects in a quiet and productive environment.
Open weeks for the spring dates include May 27 - August 11. Residency weeks run from Monday-Sunday.
SAFTA is located on a working farm on a 45-acre wooded plot in a Tennessee "holler" perfect for hiking, camping, and nature walks. Located less than a half-hour from downtown Knoxville, an exciting and creative city of 200,00 in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains, SAFTA is an ideal location for those looking for a rural get-away with access to urban amenities.
The SAFTA Writers Coop is a 10x10' dry cabin approximately one-fourth of a mile from the SAFTA farmhouse. This tiny house is furnished with a twin bed, a desk, a wood-burning stove, a deck that looks over the pasture and pond, as well as a personal detached outhouse. While the cabin has neither electricity nor running water, residents will have full access to the amenities at farmhouse—which also has Wifi, printing capabilities, and a fully stocked kitchen—as well as solitude from other residents to write in the rolling hills of East Tennessee.
Each residency costs $150/week and includes your own private dry cabin as well as 24-hour access to the farmhouse amenities.
All other applications for this residency opportunity are free and rolling. Apply today to get preferred dates.
Find out more here.
Writing Competition: 2019 Orison Books Prizes in Poetry & Fiction
Orison Books is now accepting submissions for The 2019 Orison Prizes in Poetry & Fiction, judged by Eric Pankey & Victor LaValle! The winner in each category receives $1,500 and publication by Orison Books.
Entry fee: $30
Deadline: April 1, 2019
For complete guidelines, go here.
PAST WINNERS & JUDGES
Poetry
AS ONE FIRE CONSUMES ANOTHER by John Sibley Williams, selected by Vandana Khanna
CEREMONIAL by Carly Joy Miller, selected by Carl Phillips
GHOST CHILD OF THE ATALANTA BLOOM by Rebecca Aronson, selected by Hadara Bar-Nadav
REQUIEM FOR USED IGNITION CAP by J. Scott Brownlee, selected by C. Dale Young
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Fiction
OCEANOGRAPHY by Jeremy Griffin, selected by Lan Samantha Chang
YOU OR A LOVED ONE by Gabriel Houck, selected by David Haynes
MISS PORTLAND by David Ebenbach, selected by Peter Orner
Entry fee: $30
Deadline: April 1, 2019
For complete guidelines, go here.
PAST WINNERS & JUDGES
Poetry
AS ONE FIRE CONSUMES ANOTHER by John Sibley Williams, selected by Vandana Khanna
CEREMONIAL by Carly Joy Miller, selected by Carl Phillips
GHOST CHILD OF THE ATALANTA BLOOM by Rebecca Aronson, selected by Hadara Bar-Nadav
REQUIEM FOR USED IGNITION CAP by J. Scott Brownlee, selected by C. Dale Young
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Fiction
OCEANOGRAPHY by Jeremy Griffin, selected by Lan Samantha Chang
YOU OR A LOVED ONE by Gabriel Houck, selected by David Haynes
MISS PORTLAND by David Ebenbach, selected by Peter Orner
Call for Submissions: Apple Valley Review
Submissions for the Spring 2019 issue (Vol. 14, No. 1) of the Apple Valley Review are open through March 15, 2019.
We accept personal essays and short fiction (preferably between 100 and 3,000 words, though the word count is flexible) and poetry. Prose poetry, translations, flash fiction, and writing with genre elements (such as fabulism/magical realism) are welcome. Please send work that is original, previously unpublished, and in English.
All work published in the journal is automatically considered for our annual editor's prize. The recipients from 2018 and 2017 were Robert Radin for his essay "Noche Triste" and P. Ivan Young for "Sunken Town" and two additional poems. Several pieces from the journal have later appeared as selections, finalists, and/or notable stories in Best American Short Stories, Best American Essays, Best of the Net, Best of the Web, New Poetry from the Midwest, storySouth Million Writers Award, and The Wigleaf Top 50 (Very) Short Fictions.
To submit, please send 1-6 poems or 1-3 essays/short stories, all pasted into the body of a single e-mail message, to our editor:
editorATleahbrowningDOTnet (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )
Simultaneous submissions are accepted.
The current issue, previous issues, subscription information, and complete submission guidelines are available online. There are no fees.
We accept personal essays and short fiction (preferably between 100 and 3,000 words, though the word count is flexible) and poetry. Prose poetry, translations, flash fiction, and writing with genre elements (such as fabulism/magical realism) are welcome. Please send work that is original, previously unpublished, and in English.
All work published in the journal is automatically considered for our annual editor's prize. The recipients from 2018 and 2017 were Robert Radin for his essay "Noche Triste" and P. Ivan Young for "Sunken Town" and two additional poems. Several pieces from the journal have later appeared as selections, finalists, and/or notable stories in Best American Short Stories, Best American Essays, Best of the Net, Best of the Web, New Poetry from the Midwest, storySouth Million Writers Award, and The Wigleaf Top 50 (Very) Short Fictions.
To submit, please send 1-6 poems or 1-3 essays/short stories, all pasted into the body of a single e-mail message, to our editor:
editorATleahbrowningDOTnet (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )
Simultaneous submissions are accepted.
The current issue, previous issues, subscription information, and complete submission guidelines are available online. There are no fees.
Call for Submissions: Rat's Ass Review
Rat's Ass Review is open for submissions for its Summer Issue from now through March 31, 2019.
We like the old notion from theology that the purpose is to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable.
However, we confess a personal bias toward afflicting the comfortable.
For a broader view of what we want, check out previous issues here.
Submissions guidelines here.
We like the old notion from theology that the purpose is to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable.
However, we confess a personal bias toward afflicting the comfortable.
For a broader view of what we want, check out previous issues here.
Submissions guidelines here.
Call for Rejected Poems: Redheaded Stepchild
Redheaded Stepchild is open for submissions for the month of February. We do not accept previously published work. We do, however, accept simultaneous submissions, but please inform us immediately if your work is accepted somewhere else.. For more information, visit our website.
Submit 3-5 poems that have been rejected elsewhere with the names of the magazines that rejected the poems.
We do not accept email attachments; therefore, in the body of your email, please include the following:
Send your submission to:
redheadedstepchildmagATgmailDOTcom (Replace AT with @) and DOT with . )
Submit 3-5 poems that have been rejected elsewhere with the names of the magazines that rejected the poems.
We do not accept email attachments; therefore, in the body of your email, please include the following:
- a brief bio
- 3-5 poems
- the publication(s) that rejected the poems
Send your submission to:
redheadedstepchildmagATgmailDOTcom (Replace AT with @) and DOT with . )
Writing Competition: International Literary Awards
International Literary Awards annual competition in CNF, Fiction & Poetry
$1000 to first place winner in each category
$150 to Honorable Mention in each category
$15 entry fee
Deadline: February 28, 2019
Submit 3 poems or 5k words in fiction or 5k words in cnf.
Announcements made on Center for Women Writer's FB page & the contest's page after 15 May 2019.
Judges:
Melissa Febos (CNF)
Jennine Crucet (Fiction)
Marilyn Nelson (Poetry)
For guidelines and more info, visit the contest's webpage.
$1000 to first place winner in each category
$150 to Honorable Mention in each category
$15 entry fee
Deadline: February 28, 2019
Submit 3 poems or 5k words in fiction or 5k words in cnf.
Announcements made on Center for Women Writer's FB page & the contest's page after 15 May 2019.
Judges:
Melissa Febos (CNF)
Jennine Crucet (Fiction)
Marilyn Nelson (Poetry)
For guidelines and more info, visit the contest's webpage.
Writing Competition: Arts & Letters
Submissions open February 1 for ARTS & LETTERS’ annual $1000 prizes in Fiction, Poetry, and Creative Nonfiction, and One-Act Drama.
Deadline: March 31, 2019
Entry Fee: $20.00 ($10.00 or one-act drama)
This year’s judges are Peter Nichols, Gennarose Nethercott, and Pam Houston. Details and guidelines are on our website.
Deadline: March 31, 2019
Entry Fee: $20.00 ($10.00 or one-act drama)
This year’s judges are Peter Nichols, Gennarose Nethercott, and Pam Houston. Details and guidelines are on our website.
Call for Submissions: Oyster River Pages
Oyster River Pages is thrilled to accept submissions of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and visual art for its third annual issue (August 2019) AND for our special issue (May 2019) on the theme of "Delta."
In the Greek alphabet, the letter Delta is represented by Δ. River deltas get their name based on their resemblance to this character. Δ is also the mathematical symbol for change. At Oyster River Pages, we know the value of deltas—those liminal spaces where land stops water and water eats land, where rivers find their journey’s end and new beginnings, where life as we know it ceases and is ever reborn in countless limitless, shapeless forms. We invite you to dig deep into the silt of the deltas you know. Send us your narratives and art of change and transformation, of expansion and unification, of re-formation and re-creation.
Submissions for “Delta” will be accepted through March 31, and submissions for the unthemed annual issue will be accepted through May 31.
We are also excited to launch our Emerging Voices initiative, a program for fiction writers who have fewer than two publications. For our third annual issue, ORP aims to publish up to five emerging fiction writers (and two in our special issue) who submit in the Emerging Voices category. Writers will work closely with ORP to polish their pieces for publication. Everyone who submits to Emerging Voices will receive at least one or two lines of constructive feedback with the intent of strengthening your pieces.
For more information about these opportunities, please visit our website.
In the Greek alphabet, the letter Delta is represented by Δ. River deltas get their name based on their resemblance to this character. Δ is also the mathematical symbol for change. At Oyster River Pages, we know the value of deltas—those liminal spaces where land stops water and water eats land, where rivers find their journey’s end and new beginnings, where life as we know it ceases and is ever reborn in countless limitless, shapeless forms. We invite you to dig deep into the silt of the deltas you know. Send us your narratives and art of change and transformation, of expansion and unification, of re-formation and re-creation.
Submissions for “Delta” will be accepted through March 31, and submissions for the unthemed annual issue will be accepted through May 31.
We are also excited to launch our Emerging Voices initiative, a program for fiction writers who have fewer than two publications. For our third annual issue, ORP aims to publish up to five emerging fiction writers (and two in our special issue) who submit in the Emerging Voices category. Writers will work closely with ORP to polish their pieces for publication. Everyone who submits to Emerging Voices will receive at least one or two lines of constructive feedback with the intent of strengthening your pieces.
For more information about these opportunities, please visit our website.
Call for Submissions: THE SHORE
THE SHORE is an online poetry publication seeking cutting, strange, and daring work from new and established poets alike. We want poems that explore the worlds of things and ideas, that recognize the liminality, the shifting of everything around us and our ability to name a thing whole. We want poems that press and push and ache and recede. Send us your best. We publish 4 times a year, once each season.
Submissions: To submit, email 3-5 poems in a docx. format to:
theshorepoetryATgmailDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )
with the subject line: “Last Name_First Name THE SHORE submission” with a cover letter included in the body of the email.
Submissions for ISSUE ONE: SPRING 2019 will close on March 1st.
We accept simultaneous submissions as long as you notify us if the piece is accepted elsewhere, but we do not accept reprints. We ask that you please wait for a response before submitting again.
Saturday, February 2, 2019
Writing Competition: The Clay Reynolds Novella Prize
The Clay Reynolds Novella Prize
Texas Review Press
2019 Judge: Rita Bullwinkel
Established in 2001, The Clay Reynolds Novella Prize seeks to highlight one book a year that excels in the novella format. The Prize comes with a $500 advance, a standard royalty contract, and 20 copies of the book, published by Texas Review Press.
Submissions open each year on January 1 and close on March 31.
Entry Fee: $20.00
To submit please visit our online submission manager.
Texas Review Press
2019 Judge: Rita Bullwinkel
Established in 2001, The Clay Reynolds Novella Prize seeks to highlight one book a year that excels in the novella format. The Prize comes with a $500 advance, a standard royalty contract, and 20 copies of the book, published by Texas Review Press.
Submissions open each year on January 1 and close on March 31.
Entry Fee: $20.00
To submit please visit our online submission manager.
Call for Submissions: Santa Clara Review
Santa Clara Review Open to Submissions for Spring 2019 Issue
Deadline: March 8, 2019
Send us your fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and art by March 8 for our Spring 2019 issue. We are open to all styles and themes and seek to publish voices from diverse perspectives that challenge the conventions of mainstream culture. We are also looking for multilingual poems and translations, flash nonfiction and fiction, creative nonfiction essays, and satirical/humorous work. We publish 12 pages of full-color art and photography, so send us your best!
For submission guidelines and details, please visit our website.
Deadline: March 8, 2019
Send us your fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and art by March 8 for our Spring 2019 issue. We are open to all styles and themes and seek to publish voices from diverse perspectives that challenge the conventions of mainstream culture. We are also looking for multilingual poems and translations, flash nonfiction and fiction, creative nonfiction essays, and satirical/humorous work. We publish 12 pages of full-color art and photography, so send us your best!
For submission guidelines and details, please visit our website.
Call for Submissions: upstreet
upstreet seeks fiction & creative nonfiction
Deadline: March 1, 2019
We invite you to submit your fiction and creative nonfiction to upstreet, an award-winning literary journal based in the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts. We do not consider unsolicted poetry submissions at this time. Fiction and nonfiction pieces must be 5,000 words or less.
Payment upon publication. Decision notifications will be made via email by mid-May.
Deadline: March 1, 2019
We invite you to submit your fiction and creative nonfiction to upstreet, an award-winning literary journal based in the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts. We do not consider unsolicted poetry submissions at this time. Fiction and nonfiction pieces must be 5,000 words or less.
Payment upon publication. Decision notifications will be made via email by mid-May.
Call for Submissions: Sky Island Journal
Sky Island Journal, Issue 8: Call for Submissions
Deadline: March 31, 2019
Sky Island Journal is an independent, international, free-access literary journal; we are dedicated to discovering the finest poetry, flash fiction, and creative nonfiction. We publish accomplished, well-established authors—side by side—with fresh, emerging voices. We provide over 33,000 readers in 137 countries with a powerful, focused, advertising-free literary experience that transports them: one that challenges them intellectually and moves them emotionally. We publish quarterly, and our average response time is 9 days. Every submission receives a prompt, respectful, and individualized response detailing what we appreciated.
Enjoy our previous issues, and submit for Issue 8 before March 31st at our website.
Deadline: March 31, 2019
Sky Island Journal is an independent, international, free-access literary journal; we are dedicated to discovering the finest poetry, flash fiction, and creative nonfiction. We publish accomplished, well-established authors—side by side—with fresh, emerging voices. We provide over 33,000 readers in 137 countries with a powerful, focused, advertising-free literary experience that transports them: one that challenges them intellectually and moves them emotionally. We publish quarterly, and our average response time is 9 days. Every submission receives a prompt, respectful, and individualized response detailing what we appreciated.
Enjoy our previous issues, and submit for Issue 8 before March 31st at our website.
Call for Submissions: Phantom Drift
Phantom Drift is Now Accepting Strange and Fantastic Submissions!
Deadline: April 30, 2019
Phantom Drift strives to feature writing and art that shatters boundaries and is unafraid to shift shape. Please do peruse our guidelines, visit our submittable page, and submit work that takes us to a milieu where anything can happen. We're accepting work right now through the close of April.
Deadline: April 30, 2019
Phantom Drift strives to feature writing and art that shatters boundaries and is unafraid to shift shape. Please do peruse our guidelines, visit our submittable page, and submit work that takes us to a milieu where anything can happen. We're accepting work right now through the close of April.
Call for Submissions: Postcard Poems and Prose
Postcard Poems and Prose Magazine will be back to our regular publication schedule in February.
We seek short prose and poetry. We use Submittable and all submissions need to come through that system so our first-reader staff can evaluate them as a team. We nominate for Pushcart, Best of the Net, and other awards. We never charge a reading fee for regular submissions.
Read more here.
Writing Competition: NDSU Press POPP Chapbook Award
NDSU Press POPP Chapbook Award
North Dakota State University Press seeks poetry submissions of any style for our Poetry of the Plains and Prairies chapbook publication. While the authors may call any place home, their submissions must deftly capture the feeling of, as well as the reality of, living on the plains and prairies.
Authors may submit any number of poems equaling twenty-five to thirty pages in length, with no more than one poem per page. (Single poems may extend more than one page.) The selected poetry collection will be published as a limited edition chapbook, hand-printed with antique letterpress equipment.
See our Submissions link for more details. We hope to see YOUR work in the queue.
:-)
No entry fee.
North Dakota State University Press seeks poetry submissions of any style for our Poetry of the Plains and Prairies chapbook publication. While the authors may call any place home, their submissions must deftly capture the feeling of, as well as the reality of, living on the plains and prairies.
Authors may submit any number of poems equaling twenty-five to thirty pages in length, with no more than one poem per page. (Single poems may extend more than one page.) The selected poetry collection will be published as a limited edition chapbook, hand-printed with antique letterpress equipment.
See our Submissions link for more details. We hope to see YOUR work in the queue.
:-) No entry fee.
Writing Competition: 2019 Gulf Coast Prizes in Fiction, Poetry, and Nonfiction
The 2019 Gulf Coast Prizes in Fiction, Poetry and Nonfiction will open on January 27! This year's judges are Garth Greenwell (Fiction), Aimee Nezhukumatathil (Poetry) and Leslie Jamison (Nonfiction).
The prizes will be open for submissions through April 15.
First Prize: $1500 in each category. Two Hon Mentions of $250
Entry Fee: $23.00
To learn more and view last year's prize winners, go here.
Check our Submittable page for details about submitting to this year's prizes.
The prizes will be open for submissions through April 15.
First Prize: $1500 in each category. Two Hon Mentions of $250
Entry Fee: $23.00
To learn more and view last year's prize winners, go here.
Check our Submittable page for details about submitting to this year's prizes.
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