Call for Submissions: Anti-Heroin Chic

 ​Anti-Heroin Chic is a collective journal of poetry, photography, art work, stories, essays, interviews and more.

 

'Anti-Heroin Chic' meaning that what is beautiful is what is broken, that our imperfections, our exiles, our exclusions, are what define our humanity most, not the polished surface or the Instagram culture which encourages us to dissociate from who and how we truly are. There is a seat for everyone here at the table. The idea of the commune very much animates this project. This journal strives for inclusion and a diversity of voices, not to disparage others but to lift them up. We also strive to publish those who are being neglected or under-served in the literary or art communities.

 

This is a space for those who have been left out in the cold in all sorts of ways, this is open to diverse interpretation. 'Chic' was also an aesthetic fashion-style associated with heroin, but in addition to that it was also a clique, a closed circle, so the journal is also a commentary on forms of inclusion and exclusion. Since we come down on the side of the former we try to be as egalitarian as possible in putting people's voices & their struggles/poems/artwork out there.

 

As in life, there will always be some rejection, but we seek to minimize, as much as possible, what we see as unexamined forms of privilege and bias, editorial, institutional and otherwise. If Jack Micheline were alive today we like to think you would have found him here. We are the boarded up cafe downwind from the Warhol factory where all of the downtrodden and rejected find that they have a seat waiting for them.

 

Anti-Heroin Chic is also an Anti-Drug-addiction safe space. We believe that drugs are what come easiest to pain but are also what magnifies that pain. We strive to publish those who have either crawled out of that hell or have known or lost those who succumbed to that dark cloud that is addiction.

 

Part of addiction is an inability to express pain that has become trapped. We want poems that find ways to express that pain. "Not why the addiction, but why the pain" as Dr. Gabor Mate writes. Why the pain. Tell us. Why.

 

You are not alone. There will be better tomorrow's if you can make it beyond this pain.

 

If the work is honest and from your heart we will most likely publish it. We may also choose not to, but we are nonetheless floored by the resiliency it takes to create and share that creation with us, and our rejections are heavy hearted. We take it very seriously whenever anyone decides to entrust us with their work.

 

In conclusion, show the world what you see when you are on the outside, looking in.

Editor-in-chief,
​James Diaz

Submissions are open.

Submissions can be sent in a word doc attachment or pasted into the body of the email.

We do like cover letters, as we are a very warm and personable publication. Don't be afraid to say hello (there's no right or wrong way to say hello.) We are all about authenticity, kindness and vulnerability here. We strive to make this space a welcoming, safe and friendly environment.

Poetry: Send 3 to 6 poems, along with a bio and your author photo, to our poetry editors Jenny Robbins and James Diaz:

 

ahcpoetrysubsATgmailDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )

Fiction: Send up to 2 pieces, maximum of 20 pages, double spaced, to Dylan Brie Ducey at:

 

antichicfictionATgmailDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )(Please make sure to double space your fiction submissions.)

CNF/Essay: Send up to 2 pieces, maximum of 20 pages to our Non-Fiction Editor Jenny Robbins: 

 

ahcnonfictionATgmailDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )

Art/Photography: 4 to 6 images in jpeg attachment to James Diaz:

 

jamesjdiaz68ATgmailDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )

Please include an author photo and a third person bio with all submissions. All work should be in a word document (please no PDF's) or pasted into the body of the email.

Response time within two months, often much sooner. Feel free to inquire after two months.

Call for Submissions: HeartWood

We accept submissions through Submittable and welcome previously unpublished poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, from both established and emerging writers.

We publish issues bi-annually, and our reading periods are May 1 - July 31 and November 1 - January 31.

General Submissions

What We Want:

We are interested in writing that pushes into, dares to reveal, its own truth, that takes emotional risks, that gets to the heart of the matter.

Simultaneous submissions are fine, provided you notify us if the work is accepted elsewhere. If you only need to withdraw a portion of your submission, we invite you to add a Note to your submission instead of withdrawing the entire submission.

We also welcome queries from Appalachian artists (writers, visual artists, musicians, performers, folk artists, etc) interested in being included in our Appalachian Arts section.

Submission Details

Prose submissions, fiction or nonfiction, should be 3000 words or less.

Fiction: Fiction submissions may include short stories, flash fiction, or novel excerpts if the excerpt can stand alone. You may submit more than one piece of flash fiction, as long as the total word count does not exceed 3000 words.

Creative Nonfiction: We're open to a wide range of nonfiction, with the exception of academic articles, or that which would be considered more traditionally journalistic. Personal essay, memoir, lyric, literary journalism, or some blurring in between, are all acceptable.

Poetry: Poets should submit no more than 3-5 single-spaced poems at a time. Include all poems in a single document for upload. Lyric, narrative, experimental, prose poems--we're open to all variations of the poetic voice.

Surprise us. Make us think. Make us feel. Make our hearts race.

Appalachian Arts Interviews

We also welcome queries from Appalachian artists (writers, visual artists, musicians, performers, folk artists, etc) interested in being included in our Appalachian Arts section. We define Appalachian artists as an artist who is heavily influenced by the Appalachian region and its traditions, history, and people. At HeartWood, we are looking for artists who take these traditions and speak to them in a new and unexpected way.

To query about possible inclusion in the Appalachian Arts section: Submit the following in one document (doc, docx) through the Appalachian Arts link on our Submittable page:

• Artist bio

• Artist statement addressing what being an “Appalachian artist" means to you, how you uniquely define yourself as an Appalachian artist, and how your connection to Appalachia as you see/define it connects (or doesn't) to your work.

• At least one link to where artwork or samples can be seen/heard (artist website, other publications, YouTube, etc).

If we're interested, based on the query, editors will email requesting additional information and work sample.

Submit here.

Call for Submissions: Small Print Magazine

Small Print Magazine Publishes:

FICTION & CREATIVE NONFICTION

From flash pieces to 8,000 words, literary and genre. Serialized and longer pieces will be considered. We do not publish political commentary or editorials.

POETRY

Up to 6 poems submitted in one computer file

BOOK REVIEWS

Up to 1,000 words. Reviews are limited to books covering the art, craft, and business of writing.

Articles on the CRAFT of WRITING

Up to 1,500 words

FEATURES & INTERVIEWS

Subjects include writers, editors, publishers, booksellers, librarians, cartoonists, et cetera.

WRITING TOOLS Review

Software & hardware reviews relevant to writers

CARTOONS

Single-Panel and strips, humorous or not, dealing with the writing life or the creative process in general. Other subjects will be considered. Sophisticated to simple. Our readers are educated, creative adults. The majority of our readers are located in North America and Europe, but our market is worldwide.

Read our full guidelines and submit your work here.

Call for Submissions: The Ghastling

We invite submissions of stories for our NUMBER 13 issue…!

There is no official theme for this one, however, stories that embrace the Unlucky Number or any aspect of Lucky/Unlucky will find themselves repelled of the jinx. For now…

Please submit your unpublished story (no longer than 3,500 words, no minimum – we do enjoy a very short, sharp scare!) as a WORD document with your NAME and the TITLE OF THE STORY at the top of the document to Rebecca Parfitt:

editorATtheghastlingDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )

Please also include a short bio and covering letter, and let us know if you are a subscriber or Patreon supporter too. Writers may submit ONE story per submission window.

Deadline for Book 13 is Midnight 10th January 2021.

For a fuller rundown of what we are looking for please visit our submissions page.

Thanks in advance and happy writing!

(and yes, we know it’s not actually Friday 13th!)

Writing Competition: Great River Review's 2021 Pink Poetry Prize

2021 PINK POETRY PRIZE submissions are open until january 15, 2021 

Each year, we accept free submissions for the Pink Poetry Prize, a $1,000 USD award that’s given for a single poem. For the 2021 Pink Poetry Prize, please submit up to three poems (10 page limit) in .doc,.docx, or .pdf format. We accept all styles of poetry, including visual poetry. 

Submit here. 

No entry fee.

Call for Submissions: Mermaids Monthly

The first submission period for Mermaids Monthly will open on the 20th of December 2020 and close on the 9th of January, 2021.

What kinds of things can I submit?

• Fiction up to 5,000 words. There is no minimum word count, and we love flash! (we pay $0.10/word for fiction)

• Poetry of any length (we pay $50 – $100 for poems)

• Comics up to 5 pages (we pay $75-$100 per page)

• Each to Each micro art and word submissions (see our website—we pay $25 for these)

• Mermaid and undersea themed spot art (we pay $50 for spot illustrations)

• Previously published mermaid and undersea illustrations and comics for us to reprint (we pay $25 – $50 licensing fee for interior and $100 – $150 for cover art licensing)

• Non-fiction essay or article pitches for works up to 2,000 words (we pay $0.10 per word for non-fiction)

• Reprints (we pay $0.01 per word for these with a minimum of $20 if the piece is shorter than 2,000 words)

 To submit your work, go here.

 

Call for Submissions: The Woven Tale Press

We are happy to consider submissions to our magazine and for features on our site.

For our magazine, we welcome fiction and creative nonfiction prose writing, poetry, and all mediums in the visual arts, including installation works. Galleries, you are welcome to submit the work of artists you represent.

For our site, we seek posts by both visual artists and writers, on any aspect of your creative process. If you are an artist interested in submitting your website for review by WTP, you may submit your URL. We also welcome book reviews. (Reviews of books that arrive unsolicited from publishers are subject to editorial discussion. Our WTP editor for “Eye on the Indies” contacts indie publishers directly to request review copies of noteworthy books.) If you are interested in becoming an art correspondent for WTP— to report back to WTP on your local art scene—please contact us at wtp@thewoventalepress. We would love to hear from you!

*Please note: We cannot accept emailed submissions.

For more information and to submit, visit our website.

Call for Submissions to Anthology on Theme of Femmes Fatales: Mango Publishing

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Mango Publishing in the USA (who were recently highlighted in Publishers Weekly as the fastest growing publisher in America) have commissioned a sixth volume in my series of thematic crime anthologies. Previous ones have been Historical, Private Eyes, Impossible Crimes and two new Holmes stories collections.

I am now seeking brand new stories on the theme of Femmes Fatales/Dangerous Women; stories to range between 4,500 and 7.500 words.

 

Deadline: 15 May 2021 for February 2022 publication.

 

Rights sought: non-exclusive World English language anthology rights only.

 

Payment £100/$125 on publication, plus a copy of the book.

 

Please send your submissions to:

 

maxim.jakubowskiATgmailDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )

Call for Submissions: Smoky Quartz

Smoky Quartz is now accepting submissions for the Spring 2021 Issue. We publish poetry, short fiction, short nonfiction, creative nonfiction (including, personal essay, short memoir, and hybrid prose, which can integrate poetry, dialogue, and images), art, and photography. Work received after January 24th will be considered for an upcoming issue. 

Deadline: Jan. 24, 2021.

 

No reading fee.

We welcome submissions from new, emerging, and established writers and artists with ties to New Hampshire.

Please send us your best work! Note: we now accept prose pieces up to 3000 words. Visit our website for complete guidelines and to submit your work.

Call for Submissions to Anthology: Full Metal Horror IV: Possessed

Call for submissions!

Deadline: March 30, 2021

Our flagship horror series returns with FULL METAL HORROR IV: Possessed! Ghosts, demons, and all horrifying forms of possession by otherworldly entities welcome!

Full submissions guidelines can be found here.

Call for Submissions: CHOEOFPLEIRN PRESS

CHOEOFPLEIRN PRESS SEEKS SUBMISSIONS of poetry, fiction, non-fiction (both creative and scholarly), 1-act plays, short screenplays, art, and photography for publication in 1 of our annual journals (Coneflower Cafe, Glacial Hills Review, Rushing Thru the Dark) for 2021.

First deadline is February 28.

For details, visit our website.

Call for Submissions to Anthology on Theme of Immigration Experiences

MONTPELIER ARTS CENTER, LAUREL, MD, SEEKING SUBMISSIONS FOR All Our Various Voices, an anthology of personal or family accounts of immigration experiences from writers in Maryland, DC, and Virginia. Tell us your stories. Submit up to 3 poems (up to 75 lines each) or personal essays (up to 1,200 words, double spaced); include a 75-word bio in a Word document.

 

No reading fee.

 

Submit here.

 

Deadline: May 7, 2021.

 

Notification by mid-August and public reading, fall 2021. Cash prizes. Contributors will receive a copy.

Call for Submissions to Anthology on Theme of Children of Mentally Ill Parents

ANTHOLOGY: CHILDREN OF MENTALLY ILL PARENTS. Seeking autobiographically inspired poems written about the experience of having a troubled parent, or being one. The anthology focuses on mental illness (treated or untreated): depression, manic depression, schizophrenia, personality disorders, eating disorders, etc.

 

Paste the following into an email to:

 

mentallyillparents@gmail.com 

 

1 to 3 poems (10 pages total, max); a brief bio; and your name and contact info. For any previously published poem, include publication info. No attachments, please. (If your poem is accepted, we will contact you to verify formatting.)

 

Deadline: January 31, 2021, 11:59 PM Eastern.

Writing Competition: DISQUIET Literary Prize

DISQUIET Literary Prize

Deadline: January 15, 2021

Entry Fee: $15.00

Submissions are now open for the DISQUIET Literary Prize! Fiction, nonfiction, and poetry winners will be published; one grand prize winner will receive tuition, lodging, and stipend to attend Disquiet in Lisbon. Cash prize alternative in case of program cancellation.

Call for Submissions: The Hole in the Head Review

 

You Need This Like a Hole In The Head

Deadline: January 8, 2021

Now accepting submissions of poetry and art is The Hole in the Head Review, a vibrant new online journal of poetry and art that is already attracting an international audience and submissions from new and established poets and authors, including Richard Blanco, Kimberly Cloutier Green, Marie Harris, Michael Hettich, Marilyn A. Johnson, Maurya Kerr, Kenneth Rosen, Betsy Sholl, Charles Simic, David Weiss, and Baron Wormser, plus a host of photographers, videographers, painters, collagists, textile and tattoo artists…even lure makers.

Visit our website for more information.

Writing Competition: Lilith Magazine Fiction Contest

Calling all gifted fiction writers! Lilith Magazine—Independent, Jewish & frankly feminist—seeks quality short fiction, 3,000 words or under, for our Annual Fiction Contest.

First prize $250 + publication. We especially like work with both feminist and Jewish content, and are eager to read submissions from BIJOC writers. Please submit to: 

info@Lilith.org

with “Fiction Contest” and your name in subject line and full contact info on manuscript.

Deadline: December 31, 2020.

Writing Competition: River Styx Microfiction Contest

 

River Styx Microfiction Contest: $1000 Prize and Publication

Deadline: December 31, 2020

River Styx offers a prize of $1,000 for a single microfiction story of 500 words or fewer. The top three stories will be published, and all stories will be considered for publication.

Your choice of entry fee: $20 to receive a one-year (two issue) subscription or $15 to receive just the issue with the winning stories. Submit up to three stories per entry, maximum 500 words per story. Additional stories may be submitted with additional fees. Submissions may not be previously published either in print or online. Submit via mail or Submittable. Complete guidelines are posted here.

Writing Competition: Gemini Magazine 11th Annual Poetry Open

Gemini Magazine 11th Annual Poetry Open

Deadline: January 2, 2021

Gemini Magazine pays $1,000 for a single poem of any length. We have no rules. We are open to any type of poetry, any subject, any style. Rhyming or non-rhyming. Traditional or non-traditional. Anyone writing in English is eligible. All entries are read blind so everyone gets an equal chance. All entries are also considered for publication in future issues. Second prize: $100. Four honorable mentions: $25 each.

Entry fee: $8 for three poems. All six winners will be published online in our March 2020 issue.

Read previous winners and enter here.

Call for Submissions: Volney Road

Volney Road Review Paying for Prose, Poetry, Art, and Comics

Deadline: February 1, 2021

Volney Road Review is a literary magazine based in Youngstown, Ohio. We are currently open to submissions of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction up to 3,500 words, art/photography, and comics for VRR volume 3, Issue 2.

We publish digitally and pay $10 per accepted piece. 

Call for Submissions: Tribes Magazine Online

Poetry

Tribes Magazine Online publishes poetry from new, emerging, and established poets alike, elevating traditionally underrepresented and revolutionary voices. We look to present a diversity of perspectives, topics and styles.

Our editors are especially interested in poetry that showcases distinct perspectives and aesthetics; poetry that captures a truth, unleashes the wild, or gives voice to the previously unspoken. We mostly favor poetry that exhibits deep passion for its subject matter.

Guidelines:

• Send a single Word doc, including your name at the top of the first page, as an email attachment (if you do not have word, you may send the poetry in the body of the email), with your full name in the email subject heading to:

poetry@tribes.org 

• Send a maximum of 5 poems or 10 pages.

• Please include a bio of 200 words or less

• All poetry must be previously unpublished
  

Please do not send us more work until you have heard from us regarding your initial submission. We try to make decisions quickly and look forward to hearing from you.

Fiction

Tribes Magazine Online publishes fiction from debut, emerging, and established writers alike, elevating traditionally underrepresented and revolutionary voices. We are interested in contemporary literary fiction. (No genre fiction, unless it is also literary.)

Guidelines:

• Send a single Word doc, including your name at the top of the first page, as an email attachment (if you do not have word, you may send as a google doc), with your full name in the email subject heading to:

 fiction@tribes.org

• Please include a bio of 200 words or less and/or a C.V.

• All fiction must be previously unpublished

• Please submit no more than two stories at a time

• Simultaneous submission are accepted, but please notify us if your work is accepted elsewhere
  

• Please do not submit again until you have received a response. Authors may submit twice a year.

Nonfiction

• Tribes seeks topical articles, interviews and essays related to current political, social and cultural events, as well as creative nonfiction, including but not limited to impressions and memoir.

• To submit, please send a query letter, including a brief description (200 words or less) of the proposed article, as well as a brief bio and/or CV and an excerpt (if available) of up to five pages to:

 features@tribes.org

2020 Reading period ends Dec. 31, 2020.

Call for Submissions: the museum of americana

We are open for general submissions from December 1st to 30th. 

During this unprecedented and uncertain period, our response time for submissions may be delayed. If you have an outstanding submission or general question, please know we will do our best to follow up as soon as possible. Thank you so much for your patience, and please stay safe and be well. 

Note: We seek work that engages with or repurposes the complex cultural history of America. Please read our General Guidelines below for more information on how and what to submit. 

General Guidelines: the museum of americana accepts submissions of original fiction, nonfiction, poetry, book/chapbook reviews, writer interviews, music, photography, and art. We seek work that showcases and/or repurposes historical American culture. This is, of course, an enormous and diverse tub of spare parts, and we want to see if you can turn them into a hot rod. Give us fiction that dramatizes weird old folk songs or steals their characters. Give us love poetry that mixes language cribbed from The Federalist Papers with language cribbed from WWII propaganda posters. We want medicine shows and riverboats, Doo-Wop and Duke Snider. We want aspects of Americana we may not have even heard of yet.

To submit to the museum of americana, please include your last name, first name, and genre of submission in the subject of your email and send to the appropriate address. 

Fiction/nonfiction: 

proseamericana (at) gmail.com 

Poetry: 

poetryamericana (at) gmail.com 

Humor: 

humoramericana (at) gmail.com 

American Songbook: 

themuseumofamericana (at) gmail.com 

Art: 

themuseumofamericana (at) gmail.com

For interviews or reviews, query editor first: 

reviewsamericana (at) gmail.com

All submissions should contain a brief cover letter in the email. Poetry, prose, and humor submissions should be pasted into the text of the email. No attachments, please. We will read one longer prose piece (up to 3,000 words), one humor piece (up to 1,500 words), or three to five poems or flashes per submission. For photographs or art, please send a link to where work can be viewed online. For American Songbook, send up to five mp3s and a short bio. Songs must be public domain American traditionals or else originals in the folk/Americana vein. Only one submission per genre per reading period, please.

Simultaneous submissions are welcome, but please be courteous enough to inform us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere. No previously published work. Upon acceptance, we ask for first electronic rights and the right to archive a piece for as long as we exist. We also ask that a writer not reprint a piece online for at least six months after we publish it and that we receive credit if it should be reprinted at any point, in print or electronically, in the future.

If a writer has been published with the museum of americana, we ask that she/he wait until two new issues appear before submitting work again.

Unfortunately, there is no payment for publication, but we will publicize our contributors to the best of our ability and spread the news of their successes all across the interwebs.

 

Call for Submissions: Lowestoft Chronicle

We consider a variety of genres. Preference will be given to humorous submissions with an emphasis on travel. All submissions must be original work in English. We do not consider previously published work, which includes work publicly displayed on message boards, social networking websites, and your personal website. Simultaneous submissions are okay, provided you let us know immediately if your piece is accepted elsewhere. Once published in Lowestoft Chronicle, any subsequent publication of your piece should include the credit "first published in Lowestoft Chronicle." 

Reading Schedule: 

Issue #45: December 1, 2020 — February 15th, 2021 

Fiction: Submit manuscripts of any genre up to 3,000 words for consideration. Avoid sending stories with a word count in excess of 3,000 words. In contrast to my Humanities schoolteacher, who would place exam papers on a grocery scale and grade according to weight, at Lowestoft Chronicle we always give priority to shorter manuscripts. However, unless it is poetry, bite size submissions under 100 words will probably be considered too slight for our scales and will likely be rejected. 

Poetry: We accept all forms of poetry, but please only submit one or two of your very best poems per reading period. 

Non-Fiction: Narrative non-fiction, commentary, slice of life and memoirs are welcome. Humorous pieces are especially welcome. Please keep submissions under 3,000 words.

All submissions should be directed to:

submit@lowestoftchronicle.com

We will try to respond to submissions in a timely manner, but please allow 30 days for a reply. If you haven't heard back from us after this time, please email us with your query and include the title of your work in the subject line. Due to recent arm wrestling defeats our bank manager, Devron, has claimed “dibs” on all our profits, and so at present Lowestoft Chronicle cannot provide payment to contributors. If circumstances change (i.e. one of our staff actually beats him) we will let you know.

Call for Submissions: About Place Journal: Geographies of Justice

About Place Journal Call for Submissions: Geographies of Justice

Deadline: March 1, 2021

Each issue of About Place Journal, the arts publication of the Black Earth Institute, focuses on a specific theme. From 12/15/20 to 3/1/21 we'll be accepting submissions for our Spring 2021 issue Geographies of Justice. Our mission: to have art address the causes of spirit, earth, and society; to protect the earth; and to build a more just and interconnected world.

We publish prose, poetry, visual art, photography, video, and music which fit the current theme. More about this issue's theme and our submission guidelines.

Call for Submissions: Sky Island Journal

Sky Island Journal: Issue 15 (Winter 2021) Call for Submissions

Deadline: December 31, 2020 (Midnight CST)

Sky Island Journal is an independent, international, free-access literary journal dedicated to publishing the finest poetry, flash fiction, and creative nonfiction. We publish accomplished, well-established authors—side by side—with fresh, emerging voices. We provide over 75,000 readers in 145 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 15 before midnight (CST) on December 31st.

Call for Submissions: Nzuri Journal of Coastline College

Call For Submissions: Fiction, Essays, Photography, Art, Poetry, Digital Storytelling

The objective of Nzuri (meaning Beautiful/Fine in Swahili) is to promote the artistic, aesthetic, creative, and scholarly work consistent with the values and ideals of Umoja community. African American and Other Writers and Artists are urged to submit their best written or artistic work for consideration.

Check out open submission opportunities for Nzuri Journal of Coastline College at our Submittable link.

We are now accepting submissions in all categories for the Spring 2021 issue. Essays and fictional pieces should be a maximum of 4,000 words. Visit our website to learn more.

Call for Submissions: Split Rock Review

Split Rock Review Seeks Submissions for Issue 16

Deadline: December 31, 2020

Split Rock Review is an independent, online journal that publishes poetry, creative nonfiction, eco-fiction, comics, hybrids, photography, and art that explore place, environment, and the relationship between humans and the natural world. We're currently seeking submissions for Issue 16 (Spring 2021). First 300 submissions are FREE during the months of November and December. Expedited and Tip Jar submission options are also available. Simultaneous submissions are OK. We encourage you to read past issues to see if we’re a good home for your work.

For more information, visit us at our website.

Submit via Submittable.

Writing Competition: River Styx Microfiction Contest

River Styx Microfiction Contest: $1000 Prize and Publication

Deadline: December 31, 2020

River Styx offers a prize of $1,000 for a single microfiction story of 500 words or fewer. The top three stories will be published, and all stories will be considered for publication.

Your choice of entry fee: $20 to receive a one-year (two issue) subscription or $15 to receive just the issue with the winning stories.

Submit up to three stories per entry, maximum 500 words per story. Additional stories may be submitted with additional fees. Submissions may not be previously published either in print or online. Submit via mail or Submittable.

Complete guidelines and submission links are posted here.

Writing Competition: Acacia Fiction Prize

Deadline: December 31, 2020

 

Entry Fee: $25

 

Cash Prize: $1,200

A prize of $1,200 and publication by Kallisto Gaia Press is given annually for a collection of short works of fiction. Richard Z. Santos will judge. Submit any combination of short stories, flash fiction, or novellas with a total manuscript length of 40,000 to 75,000 words with a $25 entry fee between September 15 and December 31. 

 

All submitting writers will receive a copy of the winning collection. Visit the website for complete guidelines.

Writing Competition: Boulevard's Short Fiction Contest for Emerging Writers

Deadline: December 31, 2020 

Entry Fee: $16 

Cash Prize: $1,500

A prize of $1,500 and publication in Boulevard is given annually for a short story by a writer who has not published a nationally distributed book. The editors will judge.

Submit a story of up to 8,000 words with a $16 entry fee, which includes a subscription to Boulevard, by December 31. All entries are considered for publication.

Visit the website for complete guidelines.

Writing Competition: The Big Moose Prize

Each year Black Lawrence Press will award The Big Moose Prize for an unpublished novel. The prize is open to new, emerging, and established writers. The winner of this contest will receive book publication, a $1,000 cash award, and ten copies of the book. Prizes will be awarded on publication.

The Big Moose Prize is open to traditional novels as well as novels-in-stories, novels-in-poems, and other hybrid forms that contain within them the spirit of a novel.

All entries are read blind by our panel of editors. All manuscripts should include a title page (listing only the title of the work), and when appropriate, an acknowledgments page and table of contents. Manuscripts should be paginated and formatted in an easy-to-read font such as Garamond or Times New Roman. Manuscripts should be 90-1,000 pages in length, not including front and back matter (table of contents, title page, etc.). Identifying information for the author should not be included anywhere on the manuscript itself, including in the name of your file or in the "title" field in Submittable. You are welcome to include a brief bio or something about yourself in your cover note on Submittable, which will only be made accessible to the editorial panel after the group of Semi-Finalist and Finalist manuscripts has been chosen.

Simultaneous submissions are acceptable and encouraged, but please notify us by withdrawing your manuscript on Submittable immediately if it is accepted for publication elsewhere.

The annual deadline is January 31.

Entry Fee: $25.00

Submit your work here.

The previous winners of The Big Moose Prize are Tracy DeBrincat, Jen Michalski, Betsy Robinson, Genanne Walsh, Megan McNamer, Robley Wilson, Shena McAuliffe, Colin Hamilton, Ron Nyren, and Caroline Patterson. Below, you will have the option to purchase their novels for a discounted fee, which includes the cost of shipping. While authors from around the globe may submit to the Big Moose Prize, these discounted book prices are only available to those with U.S. mailing addresses.