Writing Retreat: Barrelhouse

Our application is geared toward finding out whether you’re a good fit for what we’re doing. “Good fit” means a few things: Do we like your writing in general? Do we think one of us will really be able to help you make it better? Does it seem like spending four days in close quarters in the middle of the Pennsylvania countryside might be cool for you? For us? Our application is fast and will ask for a quick bio, a writing sample, and a few questions about sharing close quarters with a bunch of writers.

If you’re selected, then we’ll ask you to pay within two weeks of acceptance, so we can be sure you’re serious about coming, and we can work to fill your spot if it turns out you can’t join us.

If you’re interested in a shared room: Please use the shared room application. Remember, you can share your cabin with a non-writer who would like a mini-vacation! If you have a friend or significant other who would enjoy a few quiet days near a stream, doing non-writing things, please use the shared room application. Standard shared cabin fees will apply. 

Application fee: There is no application fee.

Camp fees range from $300-$595, depending upon accommodations. Lodging and meals are included.

Application Deadline: Applications for both camps will be open until March 14. We’ll send our first round of acceptances by early April, and then re-assess. If we still need to fill spots, we’ll announce another opening.

Apply here.

Call for Submissions: Redivider

Redivider seeks previously unpublished works from emerging and established writers. We welcome general submissions year-round. We are proud to offer free submission, with the exception of the summer months, when much of our campus and staff are away; these submission fees go toward maintaining the journal.

 

All submissions must go through Submittable. No mailed or emailed submissions, please! We welcome simultaneous submissions as long as you withdraw your piece via Submittable as soon as it gets accepted elsewhere (for poetry, leave a note). For policies regarding our contest submissions, please visit our contest page. Please submit no more than once per six-month period and only submit to one genre at a time. Emerson College students, faculty, and staff—current or within the previous three years—may not submit.

 

We will not consider submissions that include prejudice, racism, xenophobia, classism, sexism, ableism, fat-shaming, homophobia, gratuitous violence, etc. We reserve the right to reject such submissions outright and no longer read submissions from that author. We also reserve the right to remove content from our journal if an author is known to be harassing or abusive.

Call for Submissions to Anthology: 22 Under 22

22 Under 22

Deadline: April 30, 2020

This anthology seeks to offer a channel for people under 22 to talk to older people about their experiences and concerns. We are looking for Minnesota-connected short stories, poetry, essay, memoir, from people under 22 discussing what worries you? What angers you, or delights you? In other words: what’s on your mind?

Submit up to three poems, or one short story, essay, or memoir up to 5000-words. Art and graphic stories are more than welcome, but the book will in black and white. Everyone under 22 is welcome. We are especially interested in voices from undeserved communities too often left out of the discussion.

Writing Competitions and Call for Submissions: Bellingham Review

 

Bellingham Review Literary Awards

Bellingham Review’s Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction, 49th Parallel Award for Poetry, and Annie Dillard Award for Nonfiction are awarded to a short story, a poem, and an essay each year.

Contest submissions are open December 1 to March 15.

$20 entry fee, $30 for international entries.

First Prize: $1000

Final judges are Aimee Parkison for fiction, Philip Metres for poetry, and Sue William Silverman for nonfiction. All entries considered for publication!

General submissions are open September 15 to December 1.

Bellingham Review is dedicated to offering continual support to our authors. See complete submission guidelines.

Writing Competition: Fourth Genre Steinberg Essay Contest

Fourth Genre Steinberg Essay Contest Now Open

Deadline: March 15, 2020

The Fourth Genre Steinberg Essay Contest is accepting submissions from January 1 to March 15 at our submission site online. The 2020 contest judge is former editor Laura Julier.

Winning author receives $1,000 and publication in the issue that’s featured at AWP.

$20 per entry, up to 6,000 words. Detailed submission guidelines.

Writing Competition: The 2020 Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction

The 2020 Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction

Deadline: March 14, 2020

$2,000 & publication in the fall 2020 issue of Colorado Review will be awarded for the best short story. All stories will be considered for publication. The final judge is Lori Ostlund.

Entry fee is $15 per story, payable to Colorado Review. For an additional $2, you may submit online.

Stories must be previously unpublished and between 10 and 50 pages. Full guidelines can be found on our website.

Call for Submissions: Raleigh Review

Raleigh Review Submissions for Fall 2020 Issue Open through March 31st

Deadline: March 31, 2020

Raleigh Review is reading submissions for the Fall 2020 issue. To allow for a less subjective selection criteria, each submitted poem and story gets read by at least two experienced team members. We encourage all to view our free archives on our website before deciding to submit. Go to our website to learn more about us, including our submission guidelines.

Payment is $15.00 per work used.

Writing Competition: Lost in the Library

Lost in the Library

Deadline: May 30, 2020

Library Lovers: We need your entries at Brilliant Flash Fiction. Writing contest prompt: Lost in the Library.

First prize $100, no entry fee. 300-750 words. C'mon, writers. Send us your best! Submit your work here.

Questions? Ask Dawn at:

brilliantflashfictionATgmailDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )

Writing Competitions for Full-length Poetry Collections and Chapbooks: Jacar Press

Submissions Open - Jacar Press A Community Active Press

 

Jacar Press, A Community Active Press, publishes poetry chapbooks, full-length collections, anthologies, and an award-winning online magazine, One, which features Pulitzer Prize winners and new poets from 6 continents. Book sales support progressive organizations, including groups that address racism, gender discrimination, immigration issues, women's initiatives, violence and abuse, prisoner reintegration programs, and others. Jacar Press offers low-cost workshops featuring writers like Lynn Emanuel, Patricia Spears Jones, Dorianne Laux, Li-Young Lee, Marilyn Nelson, Ilya Kaminsky, etc.

Chapbook and full-length contests open through April 30. 

Entry Fees: $10-15
 
Past judges have included Chana Bloch, Toi Derricotte, Hélène Cardona, Lola Haskins, Rickey Laurentiis, Dorianne Laux, Jamaal May, and others.

For more information, please visit our website.

Call for Submissions: Burningword Literary Journal

 

Burningword Literary Journal accepts poetry, flash fiction, flash nonfiction, photography, and digital art submissions for publication. Please read through the brief guidelines and publishing schedule before you submit.

Genres and Details

• Poetry in any form or style. Your poetry submission may contain up to five (5) poems, may be submitted as one file, run fewer than 10 pages in length, and must be unpublished. Simultaneous submissions are welcomed so long as you withdraw them when accepted elsewhere.

• Flash fiction (a.k.a. microfiction, short-short story, sudden fiction, etc.) submissions should aim for a word-count of 300-500 words or less per piece. You may submit up to two (2) pieces per issue, may be submitted as one file, should run fewer than 5 pages in length, and must be unpublished. Simultaneous submissions are welcomed so long as you withdraw them when accepted elsewhere.

• Flash nonfiction submissions should aim for a word-count of 300-500 words or less per piece. You may submit up to two (2) pieces per issue, may be submitted as one file, should run fewer than 5 pages in length, and must be unpublished. Simultaneous submissions are welcomed so long as you withdraw them when accepted elsewhere.

• Photography & digital art (open call). We seek original photography or 2D digital art to include in our quarterly publication. Your submission may include up to five (5) image files each in JPG format at a resolution of 1,850 pixels on the longest side and no larger than 7MB. Due to the special nature of visual arts, you may submit previously published work and may further disseminate that work as you wish.

Please keep your email address updated in Submittable because that’s how we notify you of our editorial decisions, awards notifications, and related requests and calls. We now charge a modest submission fee to help offset the cost of maintaining the manuscript system and web-hosting. Because of this change, we now encourage multiple pieces per submission, as outlined above.

Additional guidelines and submission link here.

Writing and Arts Residency: Gettysburg National Military Park

NATIONAL PARKS ARTS FOUNDATION 2020 Residencies at Gettysburg National Military Park

A PREMIER ARTS AND POETRY VENUE AT AMERICA'S MOST ICONIC BATTLEGROUND

$1000 STIPEND FOR THIS RESIDENCY

Location: Gettysburg National Military Park, Pennsylvania, USA

Free to Apply Due to Sponsorship

Dates of Residency: September 17 to October 12, 2020

Deadline: March 6, 2020

Notification: March 26, 2020

Residency Type: All Media

Stipend: $1000

Couples or family--Yes

Vehicle required--Yes

Artist presentation--Yes  

Call for Submissions: DASH

Our regular reading period is October 17 -- March 1.

Please note that submissions not adhering to guidelines will be immediately discarded.

Please do not submit PDF files or paste submissions into our "contact" page.

Only use the Submittable site.

Poems:
30 lines or fewer per poem. Submit up to 5.

Fiction, Nonfiction, Criticism:
2000 words or fewer, double-spaced, include word count. Submit 1.

Art:
Digital images, 300 dpi. as TIFF or JPEG attachment.
Do not send original artwork.

Hybrid:
Surprise us.

Call for Submissions: Lunch Ticket

Our Projects

• Main Issues are published in June and December, with reading periods from March 1 to March 31 and September 1 to September 30.

We cap submissions at 500 for both poetry and fiction. Once we hit that number the submission window for those two genres will close immediately. 

We are proud to host two prizes in each of our main issues: the Diana Woods Memorial Award in Creative Nonfiction and The Gabo Prize for Literature in Translation & Multilingual Texts. Both prizes are open for submissions in February and August.

• Our Amuse-Bouche: Spotlight series is published every other Monday throughout the year, showcasing an individual writer or artist. We review literary submissions in all genres during January and July; the submission period for art is now open year-round and is selected from submissions to the Visual Art category.

Learn more about our curated occasional Amuse-Bouche series, including Writers Read, À La Carte, and Litdish on our “About” page.

• School Lunch: a curated bi-weekly feature offering fiction, poetry, flash prose, personal essay, YA, and creative nonfiction, from writers ranging from ages 13-17.

• Twitter Poetry Contest: a monthly feature of poems collected through our Twitter page @LunchTicket1

Call for Submissions: Haunted Waters Press

HWP Submissions: Tin Can Literary Review & From the Depths

Deadline: August 31, 2020

Haunted Waters Press now seeking submissions for consideration in Tin Can Literary Review—our upcoming fiction anthology celebrating the works of new, emerging, and seasoned authors. We seek stories told in as little as 500 words and as many as 12,000.

Contributors to be paid $250 per published story. Also seeking works of fiction, poetry, and flash for paid print publication in the 18th issue of From the Depths and for 2020 HWP Awards.

Details on our website. Visit the HWP Contributor Showcase to learn more about our published authors and poets.

Call for Submissions: Fictional Cafe

Fictional Café Seeks Exhilarating, Adventurous New Short Stories

Fictional Café is a highly regarded online ‘zine, seven years old with 800 Coffee Club members in 47 countries. Fiction only, please, that titillates the readers’ senses and provokes their minds. Your short story or novel excerpt should be extremely well written with engaging characters and a unique, avant-garde, or unconventional plot. Visit our site and read some recent works on the pictorial slider. Join our Coffee Club, then review our submissions guidelines. If you’re exploring fiction’s boundaries, we’re interested in reading your work. 

Call for Submissions: Rockvale Review

Rockvale Review Seeks Poems for Issue Six

Rockvale Review is eager to read your poetry submissions for Issue Six. Send us poems that are hard-edged and finely crafted; that have solid language, the rock of this human experience; and fluid images, the vale of this human existence. Do both in the same poem. We pair every accepted poem with a piece of art chosen by our featured artist. Our featured musician will pick 3-5 poems to respond to with an original composition.

We read blind, so no names.

No fees either. Read all our guidelines here.

Writers Workshop: Elk River Writers Workshop

Elk River Writers Workshop - Paradise Valley, Montana

Deadline: Rolling (July 1 final deadline)

Elk River Arts and Lectures is now accepting applications to our summer writers workshop, August 16–21, at historic Chico Hot Springs Resort, 30 miles from Yellowstone National Park. We host some of the most celebrated nature writers in the United States to work with students in an area of Montana that has inspired the work of conservationists and writers for decades. Workshop classes are limited to 10 students in each genre. This year, Rick Bass, Linda Hogan, and J. Drew Lanham, William Pitt Root, and Pamela Uschuk will serve as our core faculty.

Apply via Submittable link at our website.

Writing Competitions: Killer Nashville Writing Competitions for Published and Unpublished Works

Killer Nashville Writing Competitions for Published & Unpublished Works

Deadline: April 1, 2020

Killer Nashville is the premier forum for all literature incorporating mystery, thriller, suspense, or true crime. We host two annual writing competitions: The Killer Nashville Claymore Award and the Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award.

The Claymore competition is for unpublished works. Prizes include the Claymore Award, possible publication, publicity, and more. Written critiques are also available.

The Silver Falchion competition is for works published in 2019. Prizes for this award include a $250 cash prize, a medal, publicity, and more. 

Winners will be announced at the Killer Nashville International Writers’ Conference August 22, 2020.

Writing Competition: Everything Climate Change Fiction Contest 2020

Everything Change Climate Fiction Contest 2020

Deadline: April 15, 2020

We are seeking climate fiction stories of 5,000 words or less, across all genres and styles.

First prize is $1000, and nine finalists will receive $100 prizes. The winning story and finalists will be published in a digital anthology that will be available for free in a variety of formats. 

There is no entry fee to submit.

Our lead judge is Claire Vaye Watkins, author of the acclaimed climate fiction novel Gold Fame Citrus. Claire will join an interdisciplinary group of judges with expertise in climate science, sustainability, creative writing, and environmental literature. For full details, visit our Submittable page.

Call for Submissions: The Helix

Call for Submissions: The Helix

Deadline: May 1, 2020

The Helix Literary and Art Magazine, an undergraduate publication based in Central Connecticut, seeks compelling poetry, prose, and art for its Spring 2020 issue (online and in print). Any and all subject matters considered, but bonus points for topics that might be of interest to a college audience. Submit here.

Call for Submissions: Chestnut Review

Chestnut Review Seeks Stubborn Artists of All Types

Submissions accepted year-round. 

Chestnut Review (“for stubborn artists”) invites submissions of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, art, and photography for our Summer issue (2.1). We offer free submissions for poetry (3 poems), flash fiction (less than 1000 words), and art/photography (5 images); $5 submissions for fiction/nonfiction (less than 4k words), 4-6 poems, or 10 images.

Published artists receive $100 and a copy of the annual anthology of four issues (released each summer). Notification in less than 30 days or submission fee refunded. We appreciate stories in every genre we publish. All issues free online which illustrates what we have liked, but we are always ready to be surprised by the new!

Call for Fiction Submissions: JewishFiction.net

Call for Submissions: Jewish Fiction .net

Submissions accepted year-round.

Jewish Fiction.net, a prestigious literary journal, invites submissions for its Fall 2020 issue. We are the only English-language journal devoted exclusively to publishing Jewish fiction, and we showcase the finest contemporary Jewish-themed writing (either written in, or translated into, English) from around the world.

In 9 years we have published 400 stories or novel excerpts, originally written in fifteen languages and on five continents, and we have readers in 140 countries. We’ve published such eminent authors as Elie Wiesel, Savyon Liebrecht, and Aharon Appelfeld, alongside many fine lesser-known writers.

For submission details, please visit our Submissions page.

Call for Poetry Submissions to Anthology About Sexual Trauma: I Don't Cry Anymore

Call for Poetry Submissions: I Don't Cry Anymore Poetry Anthology

Deadline: March 31, 2020

“Write a healing poem about your sexual trauma,” her therapist said. “Then read it aloud until you don’t cry anymore.” Artist/poet/educator/co-editor Flo Oy Wong did more than that: she conceptualized I Don’t Cry Anymore, our debut poetry anthology to bring healing to other survivors. Liminal Publishing invites emerging and established poets who are sexual-trauma survivors to use their creative voices to illuminate the emotional depth and nuanced complexity of sexual trauma and the twisted path of the journey toward healing.

No submission fee. I Don’t Cry Anymore will be published in Fall 2020.

For submission guidelines, visit our website.

Call for Submissions: High Desert Journal

High Desert Journal Now Accepting Submissions

High Desert Journal is now accepting submissions of essays, stories, poems, and artwork for its Spring 2020 issue.

Deadline to submit is March 15.

We’re especially interested in work that expands and challenges the usual notions of the interior West. Since 2004, HDJ has uniquely combined the elements of the West: elegance and grit, urban and rural, arid and wet. HDJ is a publication that elicits a sense of place, honors the myths and evokes the emergent West, and portrays the joys and challenges of life in the high desert. Please submit using our submission manager.

Call for Submissions: upstreet

upstreet, based in the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts, is an award-winning literary annual containing the best new fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction available. Founded in 2005, it is a nationally distributed magazine, independently owned and published.

upstreetnumber four was awarded a Bronze Medal in the 2008 Independent Publisher Book Awards.

Submission Guidelines:

We invite you to submit your fiction and creative nonfiction to upstreet.

• upstreet does not consider unsolicited poetry submissions. Only poems submitted by invitation will be read. Queries about poetry may be made to poetry1ATupstreet-magDOTorg (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )

• Work whose theme or topic is political, or which contains partisan political references, will not be considered.

• We take submissions only through our website. To submit, please go to our website and follow the instructions for the upstreet Submission Manager. 

• The submission period for the next issue of upstreet is from September 1 to March 1. The Submission Manager will take work only within that time period.• The Submission Manager provides a form to enter the author’s name, address, phone number, and email. A brief bio and other information may be entered in the comments field.• Please do not submit previously published works, or more than two fiction and two nonfiction pieces per issue.

• Fiction and nonfiction pieces must be 5,000 words or less. Each item should be submitted separately. If more than one piece is included in a file, the submission will be withdrawn, unread.• 

• Please tell us if your submission is being considered elsewhere, and tell us immediately if it is accepted by another publication.• Notification will be made by email by mid-May. The next issue of upstreet will appear in early July. 

• Payment, upon publication, will be between $50 and $250 for short stories or essays. Each author will also receive one complimentary copy, and may purchase more copies at a reduced rate.

Call for Submissions: Granta

We will be open for non-fiction and fiction submissions during the following periods:

19 January until 19 February 2020

26 April until 26 May 2020

We will be open for poetry submissions during the following periods:

20 January until 20 February 2020
We are not currently open for art and photography submissions.

If you are waiting to hear back about a previous submission, please rest assured that we are still reading and you will receive a response as soon as possible.

Submissions can be made from 10 a.m. GMT on the opening day until midnight GMT on the closing day.

Please submit only one complete story or essay at a time. Multiple submissions will not be read. Fiction, non-fiction, poetry and art will be considered for both our print and online editions, unless you specifically state otherwise in your cover letter.

We only publish original material, i.e. first-ever publication. We cannot run a piece that has already appeared on the web or elsewhere in print. We can, however, publish an original translation if the work has previously appeared in another language. We have no set maximum length or minimum length, though most of our submissions are between 3,000-6,000 words.

Please include a cover letter stating where your work has been published before, if relevant. Please do not submit book manuscripts, academic essays or reviews. Please only submit work written in English. Please use double-spacing.

Please note that we are not in a position to comment on your work. We receive a significant number of submissions every day, many of which may be unsuitable for Granta, however well written.

We encourage to all who submit that they read recent issues of Granta to familiarise themselves with material the magazine has published. Subscriptions are available here.

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions: Atlas and Alice

GENERAL SUBMISSIONS ARE CURRENTLY OPEN.
Fiction: We want to see your self-contained stories (novel excerpts only if they can stand alone) up to 4,000 words. Got something shorter? We like flash. For fiction, send us up to three pieces, each less than 750 words (in the same document). Include the total word count at the beginning of your submission, please.

Creative Nonfiction: We want your nonfiction pieces, up to 4,500 words. Again, if you’ve got something shorter, great. For nonfiction, submit two pieces less than 750 words each (in the same document). Include the total word count at the beginning of your submission, please.

Hint (We also love meditative and lyric essays — so, pieces that read a lot like poetry, but are technically nonfiction.)

Poetry: We want your original, unpublished work, 3-5 poems (and no more than 10 pages per submission). Try to submit poems in different styles, so we can have an idea of the kind of writer you are. Please include all poems in a single document. When submissions are closed, please email any partial withdrawal info to atlasandalice@gmail.com. 

Multimedia: if you have a submission that does not fit in the traditional genres, you have our immediate attention. Send us a short and sweet query at:

atlasandaliceATgmailDOTcom

explaining the nature of your submission (what kind of media, purpose of work, why it fits in A&A) and brief bio (no more than 200 words). You must be the sole author/creator of the work; no collaborations will be accepted unless all involved parties consent for the submission (and in that case, which is very rare, only ONE submission per project will be read).

Submit your work here.

Writing Competition: RBC Browen Wallace Awards for Emerging Writers

Writing Competition for Emerging Canadian Writers! Categories include short fiction and poetry.

Winners $10,000
Finalists $2,500

Eligibility

• Canadian citizen or permanent resident
• Published in a literary magazine or anthology
• Unpublished in book form

Important Dates:

Submission deadline Feb. 25, 2020
Shortlists revealed April 28, 2020
Winners announced May 27, 2020 

More information here.

Call for Submissions: Little Curlew Press

We’re picky and particular, and we choose a limited number of manuscripts so we can dote on each work we publish — from the first round of edits to the book launch.

The range of literature we admire is varied. But what we seek most is something we haven’t seen before. We want beautiful. We want poetic. We want subtle. We want your fearless longshot of words on the page. We want works with a strong ecological undercurrent. Of course, there’s no way to tell what exactly we will fall in love with, except by sending it to us, and we encourage submissions of unpublished fiction and nonfiction manuscripts that meet our mission.

Little Curlew Press is looking for finely tuned, completed fiction manuscripts for publication. Our bend is literary rather than genre. We are currently looking for novels, collections of stories, and nonfiction.

Please send query letter, along with the first 10 pages of the manuscript. Queries can be emailed to:

submissionsATlittlecurlewpressDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )

If we are interested in reading the manuscript, we will get back to you within 30 days.

A few of the writers we admire include (in no particular order): Peter Matthiessen, Craig Childs, Marilynne Robinson, Larry Brown, David Vann, Rick Bass, John Updike, Rachel Carson, Ron Rash, Jack Kerouac, Thomas McGuane, Gary Snyder, John Muir, Jon Krakauer, Lorine Niedecker, William Least Heat-Moon.


Submission deadline: Rolling
Promotion: While we do everything we can to promote an author, we expect an author to chip in. In fact, we feel it is necessary for the writer and publisher to enter into a partnership. We will provide each of our authors with a detailed, several-page outline with suggested promotional steps you can take to augment our promotional campaign. Our authors should be available to hold at least three readings during the year after book release, and should be prepared to maintain their own Facebook book page.

Book sales: Prospective authors should keep in mind we are a small independent press. The realistic hope is a small, but fiercely loyal and — most importantly, satisfied — customer base.

Acceptance rates: Little Curlew plans to publish only two quality books a year, and thus there will be far more manuscripts that we cannot accept. Chances for acceptance, however, increase for certain literary undercurrents and subjects — please see submissions information above.

Call for Submissions: Anomaly

Anomaly Open For Work, New Issue Coming April 11th!

Anomaly is thrilled to announce our latest issue will launch April 11, 2020. Featuring transformative translations, innovative writing, and work from around the world. Featured folios will include a CantoMundo tribute and a folio of Performance Poetry.

Call for submissions: Anomaly seeks translations, comics, poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and folio proposals. Modest honorarium provided, no theme required. Anomaly is an international and intersecting journal of arts and literature. We are particularly interested in writers based outside of the US, and historically underrepresented creators. No-question fee waivers provided.

More information here. Also, join us at AWP with Waxwing and Newfound!

Writing Competition: The Center for Women Writers 2020 International Literary Awards

 

The Center for Women Writers 2020 International Literary Awards

Deadline: February 29, 2020

The Center for Women Writers of Salem College is excited to open its annual International Literary Awards. We are seeking submissions in Fiction, Poetry, and Creative Nonfiction.

The winner of each category earns $1000 and honorable mentions earn $150. This year's judges are Dorothy Allison (Fiction), Alison Stine (Poetry), and Ely Shipley (Creative Nonfiction).

The entry fee is $15.

Visit our website for complete guidelines.

Publishing Workshop: Los Angeles Review of Books Publishing Workshop

Applications Open—Los Angeles Review of Books Publishing Workshop

Event Dates: July 5–24, 2020; Los Angeles

Applications are open for the Summer 2020 Los Angeles Review of Books Publishing Workshop: July 5–24, 2020 at Emerson College's L.A. campus.

Scholarship deadline is March 16; all applications due March 30.

For more information and to apply, visit our website.

Call for Submissions: Apple Valley Review

Call for Submissions: Apple Valley Review

Deadline: March 15, 2020

Apple Valley Review is reading submissions of short fiction, personal essays, and poetry for the Spring 2020 issue (Vol. 15, No. 1). Flash fiction, prose poetry, fabulism, and translations are welcome. Pieces from the journal have later appeared as selections, finalists, and/or notable/distinguished stories in Best American Short Stories, Best American Essays, Best Microfiction, Best of the Net, Best of the Web, storySouth Million Writers Award, New Poetry from the Midwest, and Wigleaf’s Top 50 (Very) Short Fictions.

Published work is automatically considered for our annual editor's prize. The current issue, previous issues, and complete submission guidelines are available online. 

Call for Submissions: Court Green

Call for Poetry Submissions: Court Green

Deadline: June 1, 2020

Court Green is a biannual online magazine currently seeking poetry submissions for issues 18 and 19. Court Green is a space where all kinds of poems are welcome, especially those you can't always find elsewhere. Visit our website to read current and past issues, and for further submission information.

Writing Competitions: AWP Award Series

AWP Award Series

AWP sponsors the Award Series, an annual competition for the publication of excellent new book-length works. The competition is open to all authors writing in English regardless of nationality or residence, and is available to published and unpublished authors alike.

Entries for the 2020 competition may be submitted from January 1 to February 29, 2020. We no longer accept submissions by post.

 AWP Prize for Creative Nonfiction

The AWP Prize for Creative Nonfiction offers an award of $2,500 and publication by the University of Georgia Press.
2020 Judge: Alexander Chee
AWP Prize for the Novel

The AWP Prize for the Novel offers an award of $2,500 and publication by New Issues Press.
2020 Judge: Salvatore Scibona
The Donald Hall Prize for Poetry

The Donald Hall Prize for Poetry offers an award of $5,500, supported by Amazon.com, and publication by the University of Pittsburgh Press.
2020 Judge: Claudia Rankine

The Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction The Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction offers an award of $5,500, supported by Amazon.com, and publication by the University of Massachusetts Press.
Entry Fee: $20.00-$30.00

Submit your work here. 

Writing Competitions: The Kurt Brown Prizes

The Kurt Brown Prizes

Formally known as the WC&C Scholarship Competition, the Kurt Brown Prizes award $500 each year to emerging writers in fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction who wish to attend a writers’ conference, center, retreat, festival, or residency. The prizes are applied to fees for winners to attend one of the member programs in AWP’s Directory of Conferences & Centers. Winners and six finalists also receive a one-year individual membership in AWP.

Deadline: March 30, 2020

Entry Fee: $10.00

Full guidelines and entry form here.

This contest aims to spread the word about the incredible work being done at local writing centers, conferences, festivals, retreats, and residencies.

Call for Submissions from Graduate and Undergraduate Students: The Mistake House Magazine

MISTAKE HOUSE MAGAZINE seeks remarkable fiction and poetry by students currently enrolled in graduate or undergraduate programs worldwide. Share your world and your voice.

Submission window: October 15, 2019, to March 15, 2020.

Submission fee: $3.

See guidelines here.

Call for Submissions: Steam Ticket

STEAM TICKET, the nationally circulated journal published by the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Department of English, invites submissions of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction for the 2020 issue, Volume 23.

Deadline: March 15. For guidelines, see our website.

Call for Submissions: Coffee House Anthology on Theme of Class and Caste Systems that Divide Us

Coffee House Anthology: Call for Submissions

Deadline: April 3, 2020

We invite submissions for an essay anthology that takes a contemporary look at silences around class and caste systems that divide us, to be co-edited by a collective of award-winning incarcerated writers and published by Coffee House Press. The pieces should tell the stories of the unseen and the unspoken, and articulate lines of our division. We encourage submissions from all walks of life and across the gender spectrum.

Submit to:

wheredoibelonganthologyATgmailDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )

We are accepting essays, 2,500 - 7,500 words.

Submissions open until April 3, 2020. All accepted contributions will be paid.

Writing Competition: Fourth Genre Steinberg Essay Contest

Fourth Genre Steinberg Essay Contest Now Open

Deadline: March 15, 2020

The Fourth Genre Steinberg Essay Contest is accepting submissions from January 1 to March 15 at our submittable link. The 2020 contest judge is former editor Laura Julier.

Winning author receives $1,000 and publication in the issue that’s featured at AWP.

$20 per entry, up to 6,000 words.

Detailed submission guidelines here.

Call for Submissions to eChapbook Anthology: Wordrunner eChapbooks

Wordrunner eChapbooks Seeks Fiction, Memoir/CNF, Poetry

Poetry, fiction, and memoir/CNF on any theme will be considered for our tenth anniversary, spring 2020 anthology. We want emotionally complex and compelling writing about whatever strikes your fancy, be it serious or humorous or both. Submit your best work—a short story, personal narrative, novel or memoir excerpt (up to 5,000 words) or three flash fictions (750-1000 words each) or three poems (up to one page each).

Deadline: February 29, 2020. Work should not be previously published.

Submission fee: $3.

Authors are paid ($5 to $25). Complete guidelines and submittable link.

Writing Competition: Florida Loquat Festival

Florida Loquat Festival: One-page (300 Words) Submissions on Loquats

Event dates: March 21, 2020; Frances Ave Park, New Port Richey, FL

Contest Deadline: March 6, 2020

Florida Loquat Festival seeks one-page (300 word) poetry or prose submissions on loquats for reading at festival, March 21, 2020. Prize packages are first ($200), second ($100), third place ($50), and publication. Other small favors for presenters.

All styles and forms as long as loquats are the subject or central image. Submissions open to all writers—not restricted to professionals. Writers can submit two texts. If making two submissions, send both in a single document. Include brief bio with writing experience/publications, if any, to:

dechantATusfDOTedu (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )

Deadline March 6, 2020. Winning submissions notified upon selection.