HEADMISTRESS PRESS, a lesbian-identified poetry press, is excited to announce our seventh annual Charlotte Mew Chapbook Contest. Judge will be Julie Marie Wade.
Winner receives $300. All entries are considered for publication.
Submissions accepted May 4 to July 4, through Submittable. Sliding scale fee.
Full details here.
Great Midwest Writing Contest
Deadline: March 15, 2021
Entry Fee: $15.00
The Great Midwest Writing Contest awards $500 and publication in Midwest Review in 3 categories. We’re looking for thoughtful and thought-provoking writing that examines, interprets, and redefines the wide spectrum of life, past and present, in the Midwest.
The Midwest is the region of the north central United States that includes the Great Lakes area and the upper Mississippi River valley (Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Kansas, and Missouri). Of course, the Midwest is also a state of mind.
This year’s judges: Kim Chinquee, fiction. Kimberly Blaeser, poetry. Ander Monson, creative nonfiction.
MudRoom Open for Submissions
Deadline: May 1, 2021
MudRoom is open for submissions until May 1st for our Spring Issue! We are seeking poetry and prose in all their forms.
Submissions are free, and we pay $15 per accepted piece.
MudRoom is somewhere between where you’ve come from and where you’re going. We believe in the liminal, the dirty, the messy, and the mundane. We publish four issues of prose and poetry a year, and we also work to put out content devoted to developing a practice—we feature short essays on craft, and interviews with writers. Send us your work, we’d love to read it!
Deadline: April 1, 2021
ANGLES seeks poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and visual art by college-aged people with diverse voices and distinct perspectives. As a literary magazine edited by students at St. John Fisher College, ANGLES takes pride in being among a writer's first publications. Send us urgent writing and art that cares about language, people, and the world and pays close attention to them. We value traditions but are keen on challenging them. We make space for underrepresented communities.
Our current reading period ends on 4/1.
Submit your work here.
The Experiment Will Not Be Bound: Experimental Anthology, Peter Campion, ed.
Deadline: March 14, 2021
This project reflects current times: it is a political act, and bold voices in new forms will ignite it. We are most interested in: What does America mean now — and what forms can our voices take today? Show us experimental writing that confronts the hard truths of America across identities, generations, communities, cultures, borders. Literary experiments from BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and other underrepresented communities hold particular power in making this anthology relevant. We will challenge the traditional anthology form too, experimenting with how the book can be (un)bound, (re)ordered, (re)read, and (co)shared.
Authors selected will be paid for their work.
Jokes Review: Call for Manifestos
Deadline: May 31, 2021
Jokes Review is currently accepting submissions exclusively of manifestos, broadly defined. We want your manifesto (serious or otherwise) about life, art, philosophy, economics, poetry, rocketry, absinthe, interpretive dance, etc. etc. If you have a manifesto—whether it’s nonfiction, fiction, poetry, or art—to bring to the world, send it our way!
For submission info, go here.
We are currently accepting submissions of short fiction, nonfiction, poetry, one-act plays, cartoons/comics, graphic stories, and art for Issue 6.
The (postmark) deadline to submit is June 06, 2021.
Email submissions to:
submissionsATironcitymagazineDOTorg (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )
Or mail submissions to:
Who Can Submit: We welcome submissions from current/former prisoners, current/former prison volunteers, family and friends of prisoners, and current/former prison staff. Current/former prisoners may submit work on any topic. Prison volunteers, family, friends, and staff should submit only work on memories, perspectives, or insights related to mass incarceration.
How to Submit: To accommodate prisoners who do not have computer and/or internet access, we accept both electronic and mail-in submissions. Additionally, we accept both typed and handwritten work.
There is no submission fee.
In order to be considered for publication, cover letter/consent form must be completed in its entirety. If you do not have access to a copy of the cover sheet, please include a handwritten/typed letter with title, genre, consent to proofreading and/or structureedits, and incarceration status.
Payment/Gift for Accepted WorkTwo contributor copies, prison policy permitting.Arizona State Prison policy prohibits gifting or paying prisoners with copies. Families and friends may order copies via the website. Prison magazine policies vary by state.
Guidelines for All Genres
Gival Press Poetry Award
Deadline: December 15, 2021
Victor Howes Prize in Poetry
Victor Howes was a poet, English professor, and longtime Board Member of the New England Poetry Club. He passed away in January 2018. He was a beloved teacher and advocate of poets and poetry. This prize, funded with a generous donation from his estate, honors and builds on his legacy.
Eligibility: Undergraduate English major currently enrolled at a New England college (2-year or 4-year)
Prize: $1000 and an invitation to read at the Student Awards Reading at the Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site in June
Submission period: January 1 to February 28
To enter, please send the following:
Cambridge, MA 02140
Call for submissions for Issue Five!
Heart of Flesh Literary Journal is looking for fiction, poetry, flash fiction, nonfiction, and artwork/photography.
We are looking for creative, literary work with Christian themes.
We like hopeful. We also like bleak. We like desperation and grit. But only if there is a light at the end of the tunnel. We want to see that golden pinprick of light guiding us out of the darkness.
GUIDELINES
Deadline: Mar 31st.
To submit, please read our submission guidelines.
A prize of $10,000 is given annually for a novel-in-progress by a U.S. writer who has not published a novel. Two runners-up will each receive $1,000.
Using only the online submission system, submit the first 50 pages of a novel-in-progress and a two-page outline with a $33 application fee by March 15.
Visit the website for complete guidelines.
Hemingway Short Fiction Prize
Deadline: March 31, 2021
Entries for the Ernest Hemingway Flash Fiction Prize should be approximately 1,500 words or less. Simultaneous submissions ARE welcome.
Deadline: March 31st.
Entry fee: $10.
Winner will receive $200 and publication in Fiction Southeast. All entries will be considered for publication in Fiction Southeast. Finalists will receive publication in Fiction Southeast.
Gold Man Review Open for Submissions
Deadline: June 2, 2021
Gold Man Review, a West Coast Journal, is currently looking for submissions in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction for Issue 11. We are open to all topics and themes and love writing that pushes boundaries. If your work is on the unusual side, then we’re probably the journal for you. If you’re interested in submitting to Gold Man Review, please see our website for full submission guidelines.
Please also note that we only accept submissions from writers in Oregon, Alaska, Hawaii, California, and Washington.
New American Voices: Post-Publication Book Prize for Immigrant Writers
Deadline: March 31, 2021
Fall for the Book and the Institute for Immigration Research’s New American Voices Award recognizes recently published books that illuminate the complexity of the human experience as told by immigrants, whose work is historically underrepresented in writing and publishing. The prize will be juried by Irina Reyn, Justin Torres, and 2019 New American Voices winner Melissa Rivero. All three finalists and the judges will appear at the Fall for the Book festival in October 2021 for the fourth annual award presentation.
The winning writer will receive $5,000 and the two finalists each will receive $1,000.
Full guidelines here.
Oyster River Pages Seeks Submissions for Annual Issue
Deadline: May 31, 2021
Oyster River Pages is a literary and artistic collective seeking submissions of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and visual arts that stretch creative and social boundaries. We believe in the power of art to connect people to their own and others’ humanity, something we see as especially important during these tumultuous times. Because of this, we seek to feature artists whose voices have been historically decentered or marginalized.
Please see our website for submission details.
Fix the Future with Fiction and Win $8,700 in Prizes and Publication
Deadline: April 12, 2021
Fix, Grist’s solutions lab, is launching a new climate-fiction contest, Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors. Imagine calls for short stories envisioning the next 180 years of climate progress, judged by renowned authors Adrienne Maree Brown, Morgan Jerkins, and Kiese Laymon.
The top contest winners will be awarded $3000, $2000, and $1000 respectively, and nine finalists will receive a $300 honorarium. Winners and finalists will be published in an immersive digital collection. We want to see—and share—stories that bring into focus what a truly just and regenerative future could look like.
Submit your story by April 12 here and contact us at:
imaginefictionATgristDOTorg (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )
2021 Nimrod Literary Awards: $6,000 in Prizes
Deadline: April 1, 2021
Submissions are open for The Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry and The Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction, with prizes of $2,000 and $1,000 and publication, as well as readings at our Awards Ceremony. Finalists and selected semi-finalists will be published and paid at a rate of $10/page.
For poetry, submit 3-10 pages (one long poem or several short poems); for fiction, one story, 7,500 words maximum. Manuscripts may be mailed or submitted online.
Each entry must be accompanied by a $20 entry fee, which includes a one-year subscription.
Grand Little Things is Open for Submissions!
GLT is seeking formal poetry or free verse poetry that uses traditional poetic techniques.
Poems are published on a rolling basis. Decisions are usually made between 1-2 weeks.
More information can be found here. Looking forward to reading your words!
Backbone Press Chapbook Contest
Deadline: March 5, 2021
Entry Fee: $15.00
We are accepting submissions to our 3rd annual chapbook contest. A prize of $250 and publication by Backbone Press along with 25 author copies is given to the winner. Iain Haley Pollock will judge.
See our website for full guidelines.
Chapter One Prize for Novelists
Deadline: March 1, 2021
$20 ENTRY FEE. Deadline March 1, 2021. The Gutsy Great Novelist Chapter One Prize is awarded for an outstanding first chapter of an unpublished novel.
First prize is $1,000; 2nd is $500; and 3rd is $250. The prize is open to anyone over 18 writing a novel in English in any genre for adult or YA readers.
Calling All Women! Open Submission Call for OyeDrum Magazine!
Deadline: February 23, 2021
OyeDrum Magazine publishes explorative, creative, and intellectual work, exclusively by women, for all audiences. We feature performance and visual art, creative writing, media, music, and we love publishing hybrid/experimental work. This issue's theme is Secrets & Lies!
Submission deadline: February 23rd.
We are open to individual interpretations of our Secrets & Lies theme in all genres including comedy, drama, horror, science fiction, romance, political, personal, experimental and hybrid. We are also open to fiction, nonfiction, documentary (in any form), and so forth.
Please send all submissions to:
SubmitATOyeDrumDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )
Check out our website for our submission guidelines.
Auroras & Blossoms International Submissions Call - Inspirational Art, Flash Fiction, Photography, Short Stories
Deadline: year-round
Launched in 2019, Auroras & Blossoms is dedicated to promoting positive and inspirational art; and giving artists (ages 13 and over) of all levels a platform where they can showcase their work and build their publishing credits. We publish photography, poetry, short stories, six-word stories, paintings, drawings, essays, and flash fiction in two magazines. We are also looking for testimonies and art on social justice for our new No Longer Ignored Anthology. We are particularly interested in entries from women, minorities, POC, and disabled artists. International submissions welcome.
Submission Guidelines and apply here.
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We invite writers to submit to the Fractured Lit Ghost, Fable, and
Fractured Fairy Tales Prize through February 15, 2021. Guest judge Kevin
Brockmeier will choose three prize winners from a shortlist. We're
excited to offer the winner of this prize $3000 and publication, while
the 2nd and 3rd place winners will receive publication and $300 and
$200, respectively. All entries will be considered for publication. Fractured Lit is looking for stories of ghosts, fables, allegory,
and fractured fairy tales in 1,000 words or less. Using these genre
themes please remember that we're searching for flash that investigates
the mysteries of being human, the sorrow, and the joy of connecting to
the diverse population around us. We want something new. Something that
scares as much as it resonates; stories that help us discover the roots
of desire and conflict, that shimmer on the page, that keep us reading,
and wondering long after the last period on the page. Transport us from
the here and now to a new land of discovery, a new way of being
terrified, a new way of embracing all of the ways we show our humanness.
Fractured Lit is a flash fiction–centered place for all writers of any
background and experience. DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 15 $20 Reading Fee* *Your $20 reading fee allows up to two stories of 1,000 words or fewer each per entry. Submit your work here.
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