Fatal Flaw accepts previously unpublished work. We encourage simultaneous submissions, but please do let us know if your work is accepted elsewhere. We especially welcome submissions from emerging and unpublished writers.
FICTION & ESSAYS:
Please submit as a word document, double spaced, Times New Roman font. 1,000-8,000 words is preferable, but for exceptional work we'll make exceptions. Please put the word count in your cover letter.
PHOTOGRAPHY:
Please limit your submission to 5 photos.
REVIEWS:
All reviews should be 500-1,000 words in length. If there is a book you would like to review for us, please write us at:
fatalflawlitATgmailDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )
with "Reviews" in the subject line.
Deadline: May 10, 2020
Submit your work here.
Saturday, April 25, 2020
Call for Submissions: Invisible City
- We only consider previously unpublished works. No exceptions. Thank you.
- We do not accept submissions via email or postal service. You can submit your work to us through Submittable. If you run into any technical difficulties in uploading your submission, please contact us at:
- We do accept simultaneous submissions. However, we ask that you notify us as soon as possible if your work is accepted elsewhere.
- If you’re submitting prose, please limit your submission to one story or essay at a time. We will not consider any prose pieces over 4,000 words.
- If you’re submitting poetry, please submit to us no more than three poems. The best things come in threes: Olympic medals, wishes, Cerberus heads.
Submit your work here.
Call for Submissions from Undergraduate and Graduate Students: The Roadrunner Review
The Roadrunner Review Invites Student Writers to Submit
Deadline: May 11, 2020
The Roadrunner Review's mission is to provide student writers with a beautiful publishing venue. We publish flash fiction, flash nonfiction, poetry, and cover art. We have an international focus. We also have a particular need for more creative nonfiction and essays.
Submissions FREE via Submittable.
Deadline: May 11, 2020
The Roadrunner Review's mission is to provide student writers with a beautiful publishing venue. We publish flash fiction, flash nonfiction, poetry, and cover art. We have an international focus. We also have a particular need for more creative nonfiction and essays.
Submissions FREE via Submittable.
Writing Competition: Shooter Literary Magazine's 2020 Short Story Competition
Submit to Shooter Literary Magazine's 2020 Short Story Competition
Deadline: May 31, 2020
UK-based Shooter Literary Magazine's 2020 Short Story Competition is currently open to short fiction of any theme/genre, from anywhere in the world, up to a maximum length of 5,000 words. All entrants will receive an e-copy of Shooter's Winter 2021 issue, in which the winning story will appear.
Winner receives £400 and publication both in print and online; runner-up wins £100 and online publication. The winners will be announced online in July.
Entry fee of £7 per story or £10 for two.
Guidelines and entry details can be found here.
Deadline: May 31, 2020
UK-based Shooter Literary Magazine's 2020 Short Story Competition is currently open to short fiction of any theme/genre, from anywhere in the world, up to a maximum length of 5,000 words. All entrants will receive an e-copy of Shooter's Winter 2021 issue, in which the winning story will appear.
Winner receives £400 and publication both in print and online; runner-up wins £100 and online publication. The winners will be announced online in July.
Entry fee of £7 per story or £10 for two.
Guidelines and entry details can be found here.
Writing Competition: Cow Creek Poetry Chapbook Prize
Cow Creek Poetry Chapbook Prize
Deadline: May 15, 2020
The Cow Creek Chapbook Prize is a poetry chapbook contest brought to you by Pittsburg State University. We're open to all styles and subjects. As long as the poems challenge and capture the imagination, we want to see them. This year's judge is Marcus Wicker.
The winning poet will receive $1,000 and 25 author copies. The chapbook will be published as a perfect bound book and sold both online and in limited bookstores.
Entry Fee: $15.00
Guidelines and the submission portal can be found here.
Deadline: May 15, 2020
The Cow Creek Chapbook Prize is a poetry chapbook contest brought to you by Pittsburg State University. We're open to all styles and subjects. As long as the poems challenge and capture the imagination, we want to see them. This year's judge is Marcus Wicker.
The winning poet will receive $1,000 and 25 author copies. The chapbook will be published as a perfect bound book and sold both online and in limited bookstores.
Entry Fee: $15.00
Guidelines and the submission portal can be found here.
Call for Submissions to Anthology: This Is What America Looks Like
This Is What America Looks Like—Submissions Open
Deadline: June 1, 2020
Calling poets & fiction writers from D.C., Maryland, and Virginia (and all those who have links to these areas), The Washington Writers' Publishing House's first anthology in 25 years is open for submissions—This is What America Looks Like—and we want your poetry and short fiction. We are a 47-year old nonprofit, cooperative, all-volunteer press. We are looking for new and established writers, a cross-section of diverse voices, to write on America today. Be provocative, be personal or political (or both), we are looking for writing that helps us see and reflect on this moment we are living in.
More information here.
Submit here.
Deadline: June 1.
Call for Submissions: The Blue Mountain Review
We Want the Best Stories in All Genres
Submissions accepted year-round.
The Blue Mountain Review launched from Athens, Georgia in 2015 with the mantra, “We’re all south of somewhere.” As a journal of culture the BMR strives to represent life through its stories. Stories are vital to our survival. Songs save the soul. Our goal is to preserve and promote lives told well through prose, poetry, music, and the visual arts.
Our editors read year-round with an eye out for work with homespun and international appeal. We’ve published work with Jericho Brown, Kelli Russell Agodon, Robert Pinsky, Rising Appalachia, Nahko, Michel Stone, Genesis Greykid, Cassandra King, Melissa Studdard, and A.E. Stallings.
Call for Submissions: Club Plum Literary Journal
Club Plum Literary Journal Seeks Flash Fiction, Prose Poems & Art
Deadline: Rolling
Submissions open for flash fiction of no more than 800 words and prose poems. Send unusual or lyrical pieces. Club Plum also seeks art: Please send one image only of pen-and-ink line art, pencil drawings, watercolor, experimental, impressionistic or abstract pieces, black-and-white or color. The editor will pass on photography.
See our website for details.
Deadline: Rolling
Submissions open for flash fiction of no more than 800 words and prose poems. Send unusual or lyrical pieces. Club Plum also seeks art: Please send one image only of pen-and-ink line art, pencil drawings, watercolor, experimental, impressionistic or abstract pieces, black-and-white or color. The editor will pass on photography.
See our website for details.
Saturday, April 18, 2020
Writing Competition: The 2020 Petrichor Prize
Accepting submissions for the 2020 Petrichor Prize
April 15, 2020 – July 15, 2020
2020 Winner Receives:
$1000 and book publication by Regal House Publishing
The Petrichor Prize will be issued to a work of finely crafted literary fiction.
The editors at Regal House Publishing will announce their longlist on August 31, 2020, and the winner on September 15, 2020.
Electronic Submissions
Submissions are invited only through Submittable or by post mail. We do not have the staff capacity to read or respond to manuscripts that are submitted by fax or email.
*Submission fee: $25
*Please note that, without the submission fee, we would not be able to accept contest submissions, or to offer a $1000 prize to the winner. As Regal House Publishing is a small press with limited staff capacity, contest submission fees allow us to maintain sufficient editorial resources for careful review of each and every manuscript. We understand that submission fees can be difficult to accommodate, but rest assured that because of them, your submission will be carefully read, reviewed, and considered for this prize. Thank you for your understanding.
April 15, 2020 – July 15, 2020
2020 Winner Receives:
$1000 and book publication by Regal House Publishing
The Petrichor Prize will be issued to a work of finely crafted literary fiction.
The editors at Regal House Publishing will announce their longlist on August 31, 2020, and the winner on September 15, 2020.
Electronic Submissions
Submissions are invited only through Submittable or by post mail. We do not have the staff capacity to read or respond to manuscripts that are submitted by fax or email.
*Submission fee: $25
*Please note that, without the submission fee, we would not be able to accept contest submissions, or to offer a $1000 prize to the winner. As Regal House Publishing is a small press with limited staff capacity, contest submission fees allow us to maintain sufficient editorial resources for careful review of each and every manuscript. We understand that submission fees can be difficult to accommodate, but rest assured that because of them, your submission will be carefully read, reviewed, and considered for this prize. Thank you for your understanding.
Call for Submissions of Poetry: Pedestal Magazine
THE COMPLEMENTARY THEMES for Pedestal Magazine’s June 2020 issue will be “a lament for the earth” and/or “a song of resilience.”
Open for submissions May 11–31. Please visit the site to read current and archived content, see relevant details, and submit work.
Open for submissions May 11–31. Please visit the site to read current and archived content, see relevant details, and submit work.
Call for Submissions from Women Writers: HerStry
CALLING WOMEN WRITERS! HerStry is seeking CNF submissions for our monthly theme essays. We accept submissions year-round from women of all ages, races, and sexual orientations. LGBTQ+ and women of color are especially encouraged to submit.
All accepted stories receive payment.
Deadlines are rolling and can be found here.
All accepted stories receive payment.
Deadlines are rolling and can be found here.
Call for Submissions: Sequestrum
THE 2020 MAY & JUNE SEQUESTRUM THEMES are 1) “Family” &
2) “Place!” That’s 2 separate themes that will both close June 15!
Fiction, nonfiction, poetry.
Payment + publication. Submit via our online submission system.
E-mail:
sequr.infoATgmailDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )
Full guidelines on our website.
Payment + publication. Submit via our online submission system.
E-mail:
sequr.infoATgmailDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )
Full guidelines on our website.
Call for Submissions to Anthology on Theme of Caregiving for Any Form of Dementia: The Chrysalis Project
THE CHRYSALIS PROJECT seeks poems for an anthology about caregiving for any form of dementia. Simultaneous submissions and previously published works accepted as long as the writer holds rights.
Submit up to 3 poems/5 pages of poetry.
Deadline: September 30. For complete guidelines, visit our website.
Submit up to 3 poems/5 pages of poetry.
Deadline: September 30. For complete guidelines, visit our website.
Call for Submissions to Anthology: This Side of the Divide: New Myths of the American West
BAOBAB PRESS WANTS MYTHS for the This Side of the Divide: New Myths of the American West anthology. Please send prose under 7,500 words, set west of the Continental Divide, that deepens our understanding of the West and its peoples while utilizing the possibilities inherent in the myth form.
Deadline: Oct. 31, 2020
Submit your work here.
Deadline: Oct. 31, 2020
Submit your work here.
Writing Grants: The Arts Writers Grant Program by Creative Capital
The Arts Writers Grant Program was founded in 2006 to recognize the precarious situation of arts writers and their indispensable contribution to a vital artistic culture. As the COVID-19 outbreak further threatens the cultural and arts writing landscape, the Arts Writers Grant Program is grateful for the Andy Warhol Foundation's continued support to once again offer an open application.
The Arts Writers Grant supports emerging and established writers who are writing about contemporary visual art. Ranging from $15,000 to $50,000, these grants support projects addressing both general and specialized art audiences, from short reviews for magazines and newspapers to in-depth scholarly studies.
Writers are invited to apply in one of the following categories—article, book, or short-form writing. The deadline is May 20 at 11:59 pm ET.
Read more and apply here.
The Arts Writers Grant supports emerging and established writers who are writing about contemporary visual art. Ranging from $15,000 to $50,000, these grants support projects addressing both general and specialized art audiences, from short reviews for magazines and newspapers to in-depth scholarly studies.
Writers are invited to apply in one of the following categories—article, book, or short-form writing. The deadline is May 20 at 11:59 pm ET.
Read more and apply here.
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Writing Grant: The Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant
The Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant of $40,000 will be awarded to as many as eight writers in the process of completing a book-length work of deeply researched and imaginatively composed nonfiction for a general readership. It is intended for multiyear book projects requiring large amounts of deep and focused research, thinking, and writing at a crucial point mid-process, after significant work has been accomplished but when an extra infusion of support can make a difference in the ultimate shape and quality of the work.
Whiting welcomes applications for works of history, cultural or political reportage, biography, memoir, the sciences, philosophy, criticism, food or travel writing, graphic nonfiction, and personal essays, among other categories. Again, the work should be intended for a general, not academic, adult reader. Self-help titles and textbooks are not eligible. Examples of the wide range of previous grantees can be found here.
Projects must be under contract with a US publisher to be eligible. Contracts with self-publishing companies are not eligible. Applicants must be US citizens or residents. (In previous cycles, projects had to be under contract for two years at time of application; recognizing that many projects do not secure publishing contracts until they are nearly complete, we have removed that restriction.)
Writers must submit the following materials through the online application form by Monday, May 4th, 2020:
Whiting welcomes applications for works of history, cultural or political reportage, biography, memoir, the sciences, philosophy, criticism, food or travel writing, graphic nonfiction, and personal essays, among other categories. Again, the work should be intended for a general, not academic, adult reader. Self-help titles and textbooks are not eligible. Examples of the wide range of previous grantees can be found here.
Projects must be under contract with a US publisher to be eligible. Contracts with self-publishing companies are not eligible. Applicants must be US citizens or residents. (In previous cycles, projects had to be under contract for two years at time of application; recognizing that many projects do not secure publishing contracts until they are nearly complete, we have removed that restriction.)
Writers must submit the following materials through the online application form by Monday, May 4th, 2020:
- The original proposal that led to the contract with a publisher
- Three sample chapters, totaling no more than 50 pages (or 25,000 words total if your chapters are short)
- A statement of progress and the requirements for completion of the book (including a projected budget)
- A signed and dated contract (please note that to be eligible, books must be under contract with a US publisher – unfortunately, we can make no exceptions to this requirement)
- A current resume
- A list of grants, fellowships, or other funding received for the book
- A letter of support from the book’s publisher or editor (due no later than May 18, 2020)
- One additional letter of support (not to come from your agent, and due no later than May 18, 2020)
Call for Submissions: Bayou Magazine
- We do not accept e-mail submissions.
- We do not accept previously published work. This includes material that has appeared online in any form, including personal blogs.
- We accept simultaneous submissions provided you promptly withdraw your work if it is accepted elsewhere.
- All work should be in a 12 point standard font. Please include a cover page with title, author, and complete contact information.
- We will only consider one submission per author at a time.
- We review submissions from September 1- May 1, with a response time of 1 to 5 months.
bayoumagazineATgmailDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )
and we will be happy to check on the status of your submission.
- We do not accept submissions from those who are current or former students or faculty of the University of New Orleans.
Payment for art: $50
Submit your work here.
Writing Competition: Sandeen Prize in Poetry, University of Notre Dame
Sandeen Prize in Poetry, University of Notre Dame
Deadline: April 30, 2020
The Sandeen Prize in Poetry is open to any author, with the exception of ND graduates, who has published at least one collection of poetry. We pay special attention to second volumes.
A $15 administrative fee should accompany submissions. Make checks payable to University of Notre Dame. The volumes of the Sandeen Prize will be published in trade paperback format.
The author will be offered a standard contract with the University of Notre Dame Press.
There will be a $1,000 prize, a $500 award, and a $500 advance against royalties from the Notre Dame Press. Submission information on program website.
Deadline: April 30, 2020
The Sandeen Prize in Poetry is open to any author, with the exception of ND graduates, who has published at least one collection of poetry. We pay special attention to second volumes.
A $15 administrative fee should accompany submissions. Make checks payable to University of Notre Dame. The volumes of the Sandeen Prize will be published in trade paperback format.
The author will be offered a standard contract with the University of Notre Dame Press.
There will be a $1,000 prize, a $500 award, and a $500 advance against royalties from the Notre Dame Press. Submission information on program website.
Call for Submissions: Parhelion
Parhelion Accepting Summer Submissions
Deadline: April 30, 2020
Parhelion is accepting short story, flash, creative nonfiction, and poetry submissions for the Summer 2020 issue. Please check out our previous issues to get an idea of what we accept, and the submission guidelines to submit. We look forward to reading your work, and thanks for considering us! Stay safe and write on.
Deadline: April 30, 2020
Parhelion is accepting short story, flash, creative nonfiction, and poetry submissions for the Summer 2020 issue. Please check out our previous issues to get an idea of what we accept, and the submission guidelines to submit. We look forward to reading your work, and thanks for considering us! Stay safe and write on.
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 next issue.
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!
Submissions accepted year-round.
Chestnut Review (“for stubborn artists”) invites submissions of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, art, and photography for our next issue.
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 Submissions: the tiny journal
the tiny journal seeks submissions
Deadline: June 1, 2020
Feeling quarantined and alone? Come connect with us! We are an annual online lit mag looking to publish beautiful works of micro-fiction, short poems, and flash nonfiction for issue iii. We are especially interested in works grappling with the challenges of our current times. Navigate to our website for submission details.
Deadline: June 1, 2020
Feeling quarantined and alone? Come connect with us! We are an annual online lit mag looking to publish beautiful works of micro-fiction, short poems, and flash nonfiction for issue iii. We are especially interested in works grappling with the challenges of our current times. Navigate to our website for submission details.
Call for Submissions: Jay Lit Review
Jay Lit Review Call for Submissions
Deadline: Rolling
Jay Lit Review call for critiques, commentary, research, essays, and translations. Fields of interest: African (youth) literature and literacy; African (youth) culture and language studies; African language education; feminist/gender, post/decolonial, reader-response, linguistic, comparative, etc. analysis; translation into/from African languages; related areas of study. Topics: African youths, youth culture and literature; reflections on teaching African languages; multilingualism in Africa, linguistics, related subjects. Educators, academics and translators invited to showcase knowledge and skills in their professional field. Postgrad essays on a variety of African youth concerns will be considered. Double-blind peer review.
Visit our website for more info.
Email:
africanyouthliteratureATgmailDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to .)
Deadline: Rolling
Jay Lit Review call for critiques, commentary, research, essays, and translations. Fields of interest: African (youth) literature and literacy; African (youth) culture and language studies; African language education; feminist/gender, post/decolonial, reader-response, linguistic, comparative, etc. analysis; translation into/from African languages; related areas of study. Topics: African youths, youth culture and literature; reflections on teaching African languages; multilingualism in Africa, linguistics, related subjects. Educators, academics and translators invited to showcase knowledge and skills in their professional field. Postgrad essays on a variety of African youth concerns will be considered. Double-blind peer review.
Visit our website for more info.
Email:
africanyouthliteratureATgmailDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to .)
Call for Submissions: Chicken Soup for the Soul: Age is Just A Number
Chicken Soup for the Soul Wants Your Story!
Deadline: May 31, 2020
Age is just a number, but that doesn’t mean we don’t have some opinions about it. If you’re over 60, we want your stories about how you’re spending the next third or more of your life. Are you enjoying an empty nest, or starting a second career, or maybe winding down a first one? Perhaps you are on the adventure of a lifetime (when not “sheltering at home”) or even exploring the world of Internet dating. Whatever it may be, share your post-age 60 stories with our readers!
If we publish your piece, you will be paid $200 plus 10 free copies of the book.
Writing guidelines and more info here.
Deadline: May 31, 2020
Age is just a number, but that doesn’t mean we don’t have some opinions about it. If you’re over 60, we want your stories about how you’re spending the next third or more of your life. Are you enjoying an empty nest, or starting a second career, or maybe winding down a first one? Perhaps you are on the adventure of a lifetime (when not “sheltering at home”) or even exploring the world of Internet dating. Whatever it may be, share your post-age 60 stories with our readers!
If we publish your piece, you will be paid $200 plus 10 free copies of the book.
Writing guidelines and more info here.
Wednesday, April 8, 2020
Poetry Publication: "Covert COVID-19 Banking"
Many thanks to Eleventh Transmission editor Kirk Ramdath for publishing my poem, "Covert COVID-19 Banking," in 45 Poems of Protest: The Pandemic!
You can read it here.
You can read it here.
Saturday, April 4, 2020
Call for Submissions: Bending Genres
Year-round Open Submissions for Large Readership
Deadline: Rolling
No simultaneous submissions.
Send us your zany, innovative best fiction, poetry, and CNF. We publish bi-monthly and year-round. We at Bending Genres also host monthly weekend workshops and retreats.
Deadline: Rolling
No simultaneous submissions.
Send us your zany, innovative best fiction, poetry, and CNF. We publish bi-monthly and year-round. We at Bending Genres also host monthly weekend workshops and retreats.
Writing Competition: Winston Salem Writers Flying South 2020 Contest
Flying South 2020 - Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction Contest
Deadline: May 31, 2020
$2,000 in prizes. From March 1 to May 31, Flying South 2020, a publication of Winston Salem Writers, will be accepting entries for prizes in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry.
Best in Category winners will be published and receive $500 each. One of the three winners will receive The WSW President's Favorite award and win an additional $500.
Entry Fee: $25.00
All entries will be considered for publication. For full details, please visit our website.
Deadline: May 31, 2020
$2,000 in prizes. From March 1 to May 31, Flying South 2020, a publication of Winston Salem Writers, will be accepting entries for prizes in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry.
Best in Category winners will be published and receive $500 each. One of the three winners will receive The WSW President's Favorite award and win an additional $500.
Entry Fee: $25.00
All entries will be considered for publication. For full details, please visit our website.
Call for Submissions: Fleas On The Dog
Fleas On The Dog is Open for Submissions!
Deadline: April 30, 2020
Reaching out takes many forms. We seek short fiction, poetry, plays, screenplays, and nonfiction for our upcoming Issue 6. You might be isolated but the world is at your keyboard—let’s connect. No, this isn’t a cheeky call like our previous ones. We don’t think that’s appropriate given the pandemic. But our enthusiasm and love of GOOD WRITING is unchanged and yes, we are still the crazy Dude Sextet.
We want your junk and we want it now. See our website for guidelines. Runs April 2-30.
Deadline: April 30, 2020
Reaching out takes many forms. We seek short fiction, poetry, plays, screenplays, and nonfiction for our upcoming Issue 6. You might be isolated but the world is at your keyboard—let’s connect. No, this isn’t a cheeky call like our previous ones. We don’t think that’s appropriate given the pandemic. But our enthusiasm and love of GOOD WRITING is unchanged and yes, we are still the crazy Dude Sextet.
We want your junk and we want it now. See our website for guidelines. Runs April 2-30.
Call for Submissions on Theme of Food: The Ocotillo Review
We are extending the deadline to submit your work to The Ocotillo Review Volume 4.2 until April 20th at midnight. This is our annual themed issue and this year’s theme is “FOOD”, loosely interpreted , as always.
However if you have an amazing piece of word art that has nothing to do with food feel free to send it as we have never been known to stay completely on point. It’s just who we are. Go ahead, write something for us. It can be short. You still have three weeks. We understand how hard it is to focus with all the disturbing news and confusing information we are receiving from our leaders but we would love to hear from you.
As always, we are paying everyone we publish.
Submit your work here.
Writing Competition: Pigeon Pages Fiction Contest
PIGEON PAGES
Fiction CONTEST
Judged by Julia Phillips, author of Disappearing Earth
The winner will receive $250 and publication in Pigeon Pages
Honorable mentions will receive $50 and publication.
Submission Guidelines
The contest is open to submissions via Submittable between March 1 - April 15.
Previously unpublished fiction pieces of 3,000 words or less are eligible for this contest.
There is a $10 fee to submit.
We do accept simultaneous submissions, but please let us know if the submitted piece is accepted elsewhere.
Please do not include personal information on your piece, as submissions will be read blind.
All submissions will be considered for publication in the general journal.
Fiction CONTEST
Judged by Julia Phillips, author of Disappearing Earth
The winner will receive $250 and publication in Pigeon Pages
Honorable mentions will receive $50 and publication.
Submission Guidelines
The contest is open to submissions via Submittable between March 1 - April 15.
Previously unpublished fiction pieces of 3,000 words or less are eligible for this contest.
There is a $10 fee to submit.
We do accept simultaneous submissions, but please let us know if the submitted piece is accepted elsewhere.
Please do not include personal information on your piece, as submissions will be read blind.
All submissions will be considered for publication in the general journal.
Call for Submissions: Another Chicago Magazine
We love work that is personal and political and shows that you can write beautifully and incisively about important subjects.
In the second half of 2019 we published pieces on the theme of race/riot/rebellion/revolution in order to commemorate the 1919 Chicago race riot, the 1919 Red Summer, and the 400th anniversary of the introduction of slavery in what became the U.S. Though we no longer have specific submission portals on that theme, we always welcome work that deals with the general subjects of race/riot/rebellion/revolution.
As writers, we know how hard it is to wait for a response, so we accept simultaneous submissions.
General Fiction
Short, long, medium; realistic, surrealistic; traditional, fragmented. Surprise us.
General Nonfiction
Memoir
Reported essays, braided essays, collages, vignettes, extremely literary journalism, experiments, oral history, meditations. Short, long, medium.
Drama
Short theater pieces, monologues, excerpts of longer work.
The Loop
The Loop (Art/Power) features nonfiction of most kinds, accompanied by art of most kinds. We welcome reportage, oral histories, review-essays, meditations, collage essays, political ruminations, travel pieces, your weird experimentalisms, interviews, critiques, and forms we haven’t thought of. The combination of art and text is important for The Loop.
Reviews and review-essays
Unlike many other literary magazines, ACM welcomes book reviews and review-essays about history and social issues. We’re most interested in books that provide new ways of looking at subjects. We also publish reviews and review-essays of works of literature. We encourage creativity in form. We occasionally publish reviews of other art forms.
Interviews
We are open to queries about interviews with writers and with people who might be called “public intellectuals.”
Art
Dispatches from a Pandemic We will be publishing dispatches intermittently while the pandemic lasts. We are looking for nonfiction contributions roughly two to eight paragraphs long. We seek most of all interesting observations, reports on conversations and conditions, descriptions on the effects of the pandemic and other bits and pieces that add to everyone’s understanding of the way the pandemic is affecting individuals around the world. We are not interested in generalities or information that can be found in journalistic or scientific publications. However, if you have historical (1918 flu, the plague) reflections we will be happy to read them. We will be happy to include drawings, paintings and photographs, as long as the rights are free. We’re also open to receiving audio and video. We are hoping that this small effort will help unite writers and others in this trying and dangerous time.
Submit your work here.
In the second half of 2019 we published pieces on the theme of race/riot/rebellion/revolution in order to commemorate the 1919 Chicago race riot, the 1919 Red Summer, and the 400th anniversary of the introduction of slavery in what became the U.S. Though we no longer have specific submission portals on that theme, we always welcome work that deals with the general subjects of race/riot/rebellion/revolution.
As writers, we know how hard it is to wait for a response, so we accept simultaneous submissions.
General Fiction
Short, long, medium; realistic, surrealistic; traditional, fragmented. Surprise us.
General Nonfiction
Memoir
Reported essays, braided essays, collages, vignettes, extremely literary journalism, experiments, oral history, meditations. Short, long, medium.
Drama
Short theater pieces, monologues, excerpts of longer work.
The Loop
The Loop (Art/Power) features nonfiction of most kinds, accompanied by art of most kinds. We welcome reportage, oral histories, review-essays, meditations, collage essays, political ruminations, travel pieces, your weird experimentalisms, interviews, critiques, and forms we haven’t thought of. The combination of art and text is important for The Loop.
Reviews and review-essays
Unlike many other literary magazines, ACM welcomes book reviews and review-essays about history and social issues. We’re most interested in books that provide new ways of looking at subjects. We also publish reviews and review-essays of works of literature. We encourage creativity in form. We occasionally publish reviews of other art forms.
Interviews
We are open to queries about interviews with writers and with people who might be called “public intellectuals.”
Art
Dispatches from a Pandemic We will be publishing dispatches intermittently while the pandemic lasts. We are looking for nonfiction contributions roughly two to eight paragraphs long. We seek most of all interesting observations, reports on conversations and conditions, descriptions on the effects of the pandemic and other bits and pieces that add to everyone’s understanding of the way the pandemic is affecting individuals around the world. We are not interested in generalities or information that can be found in journalistic or scientific publications. However, if you have historical (1918 flu, the plague) reflections we will be happy to read them. We will be happy to include drawings, paintings and photographs, as long as the rights are free. We’re also open to receiving audio and video. We are hoping that this small effort will help unite writers and others in this trying and dangerous time.
Submit your work here.
COVID-19 Help
During this stressful period, there are several arts organizations that are rising up to help artists in various ways. As I come across these resources, I will share them here. Creative Capital is one group worth checking out.
Some resources for help.
Some resources for help.
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