Inclusive Future Magazine, Issue 1: Visions from a Gender-Inclusive Future is open to submissions from trans, non-binary, & genderqueer writers, poets, artists, and graphic designers until July 15, 2021.
No fee to submit.
8¢/word for prose, $1 line for poetry, $100/full page for art & graphic design.
Submit your work here.
Humana Obscura is now accepting submissions of poetry, prose/short fiction, and art for its next issue!
Submissions will remain open until the end of July 2021.
While we are open to style, we’re looking for work that is nuanced, raw, and imagistic with strong elements of the natural world or the human-nature relationship. We tend to favor work that is unexpected, real, evocative, yet subtle, with a strong sense of place and strong imagery. We like contemporary, but we’re a bit old school in that we shy away from publishing work that references technology—like your iPhone or Tinder or TikTok… We will not publish political pieces, poetry that rhymes or is longer than 75 lines, or work that is fantastical in nature or of the horror genre. We steer away from work that is entirely anthropocentric.
We prefer free-verse poetry and prose that is accessible to readers, is straightforward, and avoids fancy language and doesn’t try too hard to be clever, to rhyme, or to be confined by syllabic or structural constraints—unless haiku, tanka, micropoetry, or similar.
When it comes to art, we like the subtle, and both the realistic and abstract—think out-of-focus photography and impressionistic smears of colors on a canvas. We love photographs of nature, be it landscapes, animals, or otherwise.
Surprise us. Delight us. Haunt us. Make us keep thinking about your piece long after we’ve read it or viewed it.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Poetry – 3 to 5 poems (or up to 10 haiku, tanka, or other forms of micro poetry, 5 lines or less), no longer than two pages each. Please include all poems in one document.
Short Prose/Flash Fiction – no more than 2 pieces, 1,000 words maximum (per piece).
Artwork & Photos – 5 to 8 works at a time, high resolution (300dpi).
Carmina Magazine accepts submissions year-round and is released twice a year in March and September.
We are looking for creative pieces inspired by mythology: epic-style poems, your modern versions of ancient tales, stories and poems that re-imagine mythological people and places, retellings, reworkings, and rewritings of old fairy tales, folk tales, fables, and anything and everything in-between. The mythology of all backgrounds, cultures, and time periods is welcome here, as are all genres and creative forms. We accept original poetry, prose, art, and photography of all kinds: you can send us horror, fantasy, lyric poetry, haiku, historical fiction, watercolor, oil paintings, experimental photography, whatever you love best. Our only main "requirement" is that the work owes some seed of inspiration to a mythological tradition.
Submission Guidelines
We prefer stories under 3,000 words. For longer works, please query first. As for poems, we prefer them under 100 lines. Again, please query if yours is longer. For photography and art, we accept original pieces that involve mythological themes. We especially love nice images that we can use to add visual appeal to our issues.
Multiple submissions are encouraged! You can send up to 3 short stories and up to 5 poems per submission. Simultaneous submissions are fine, just tell us in your email that you are submitting to elsewhere and inform us immediately if the work is accepted. Reprints are also fine, provided that you have permission to republish your work. If you submit reprints to us, we are going to assume in good faith that this is the case. We will immediately remove your work from our website if we find out this is not the case.
Please submit your work in either a .doc or .docx file. Do not include your name anywhere on the document or in the file name, and do not mention the titles of your submissions either in the body or subject line of the email. This is because all submissions are read blind in batches, and submissions with the author's name anywhere on them will be automatically rejected. Responses times vary between 8-10 weeks. If you haven't heard back after that, please query!
Gibson House Press seeks fiction manuscripts for our 2022 list.
A traditional press based in the Chicago area, Gibson House Press publishes literary fiction. Writers are invited to submit complete full-length-novel manuscripts (in the range of 60,000 to 80,000 words). Please provide a brief bio and include a synopsis of your novel in your cover letter. We’d love to hear how you heard about us. We especially love writers who are also musicians and music fans.
Please submit your complete manuscript, bio, and cover letter using the form on our submission page.
SUBMISSION PROCESS and TIMELINE: We have year-round open submissions. If we are interested in acquiring your novel to publish, you will hear from us in six to nine months.
No submission fee.
Not ready to submit a manuscript?
Thuya Poetry Review is Now Accepting Submissions for Inaugural Issue
Deadline: July 15, 2021
Thuya Poetry Review is a non-profit unincorporated association dedicated to publishing the highest quality craft of both emerging and established poets. We are proud to say that we do not charge reading fees and actually pay our contributors, albeit nominally and symbolically—we are after all a non-profit. As part of our educational commitment, we take on a youth poet from the community to serve as our associate editor, and through our partnership with the Book Club of California, the associate editor receives a complimentary membership to their organization.
Submit your poems here.
Palooka Seeks Chapbooks, Prose, Poetry, Artwork, Photography
Palooka is an international literary magazine. For a decade we've featured up-and-coming, established, and brand-new writers, artists, and photographers from all around the world. We're open to diverse forms and styles and are always seeking unique chapbooks, fiction, poetry, nonfiction, artwork, photography, graphic narratives, and comic strips.
Give us your best shot!
Submissions open year-round.
Club Plum Seeks Works for July 2021 Issue
Deadline: July 1, 2021
Send wondrous flash fiction, prose poetry, hybrid works, & art to Club Plum for Volume 2, Issue 3, dropping July 16, 2021. Club Plum nominates for Best of the Net and publishes diverse and exceptional works from around the world. See striking pieces in previous issues by Cathy Ulrich, Glen Armstrong, Sean Rys and many others. Enter the club and meet your new favorite contemporaries. See our website for guidelines.
The American Journal of Poetry Volume 11 Call for Submissions
Deadline: Rolling
Now reading for Volume Eleven, our Summer/Fall 2021 issue. Please visit us to read our previous volumes filled with poems from poets the world over, from the first-published to the most acclaimed in literature. A unique voice is highly prized. Be bold, uncensored, take risks. Our hallmark is "STRONG Rx MEDICINE." We are the home of the long poem! No restrictions as to subject matter, style, or length. Published biannually online.
Submissions accepted through our online submission manager, Submittable; a submission fee is charged.
Mom Egg Review - Submit for Theme Issue on "Mother Figures"
Deadline: July 15, 2021
Mom Egg Review opens May 1, 2021 for submissions of poetry, fiction, creative prose, hybrid works, and art for an issue themed “Mother Figures”—from history, religion, pop culture, TV shows/movies, mythology, fairy tales, ecology (Mother Earth), and real life. Early Bird Submissions May 1 to May 7 (free, up to the Submittable limit).
Regular Submissions May 1 to July 15 ($3 fee, or free with subscription purchase). More information and guidelines here.
The 11th Annual BOA Short Fiction Prize
April 1 - May 31, 2021
Judge: BOA Publisher Peter Conners
Winner Receives:
Book publication by BOA Editions, Ltd. in spring 2023
$1,000 honorarium
Since its founding in 2010, the BOA Short Fiction prize has been awarded to ten of the most exciting and unique voices in American fiction. As with all BOA fiction titles, our prize-winning short story collections are more concerned with the artfulness of writing than the twists and turns of plot. It is our belief that short story writing is a valuable and underserved literary form that we are proud to support, nurture, and celebrate.
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
Complete guidelines and submission portal here.
*Please note that submission fees allow us to offer a $1,000 honorarium and also offset the cost of publishing and promoting the winning collection. As a non-profit literary publishing house, we understand that submission fees can be difficult to accommodate. Please know that 100% of your fee will go toward supporting the publication of an excellent short story collection and to supporting BOA’s mission to bring the highest quality literature into the world. All submissions will be personally read, reviewed, and considered by BOA Publisher Peter Conners, founder and sole editor of BOA’s short fiction series. Manuscripts that do not win the contest are still eligible for publication by BOA.
Etched Onyx Magazine is open for submissions.
We are accepting works for our Summer 2021 edition which will go live in July.
The deadline for submissions is May 28, 2021. There is a limit of 200 submissions so get yours in early and don't procrastinate!
For this round of submissions we are waiving the $5 fee! It is 100% free to submit. We are offering various levels of paid feedback and critique (details via Submittable link below), but these are purely optional. Submit away!
Submission Guidelines
All applications must come through our Submittable portal. If you'd like to send us an email to provide kudos for the stories or the podcast, wonderful! However, any surreptitious attempts at submitting stories through email will be fed to our Auctor Dragon.
Submitted works must be previously unpublished fiction, nonfiction, poetry or flash fiction. We do not require that you put the story's life on hold while applying to us, therefore simultaneous submissions are fine, but please do let us know immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere.
You are welcome to include a cover letter, though, it is mostly certainly not required as it gives us more to read. If your submission gains consideration, we will contact you for more information.
We know waiting for responses can be a nail-biting experience (and may even include some cuticles) so we try to respond to all entries about two weeks out from the magazine publish date.
We are open to all styles and types of writing as long as the story is engaging. While we are not opposed to experimental or speculative types of fiction, it has to be interesting and understandable.
You may submit up to five (5) poems in one document/submission.
All works must be under 7,000 words.
Fatal Flaw is a quarterly online magazine publishing unexpected, topical writing and photography that considers the world through a cracked lens. Show us the fatal flaw and the beauty inherent within it.
PENSIVE: A Global Journal of Spirituality and the Arts, online publication from Northeastern University’s Center for Spirituality, Dialogue, and Service. Contributors include Baca, Bruchac, M. Collins, Chess, Cording, Espada, Finch, Glancy, Gundy, Hoffman, Lea, Lindsay, Maitland, Marchant, Metres, Piercy, Samaras, Sanders, Starnes, and more.
Submit work that deepens the inward life; envisions a more just, peaceful, and sustainable world; and advances dialogue across difference.
February 1–May 15 and August 1–November 15 reading periods for unpublished poetry, prose, visual art, translations. International and underrepresented community submissions especially encouraged.
Guidelines on website; submit 3–5 pieces and 3–5 sentence bio via Submittable. Questions?
E-mail Alexander Levering Kern, editor, at:
iStory Guidelines
An iStory is a short, dramatic narrative, fiction or nonfiction, up to 150 words long. We are particularly interested in works that give readers a strong sense of having read a full and complete story in a brief space.
Payment: We will pay $100 for each iStory accepted for publication.
Submission Fee: There is a $22 fee for each submission. And with your submission, you’ll receive three months of complimentary access to Narrative Backstage.
Formatting Your Manuscript: Your manuscripts should be in 12-point type, with at least one-inch margins, and double-spaced. Your name, address, telephone number, and email address should be typed at the top of the first page. You may also include a brief biographical note with your submission.
Click here to submit your iStory.
$1,000 Fiction Prize, judge Whitney Scharer. $500 Stephen Dunn Poetry Prize, judge: Tim Seibles. $500 Michael Steinberg Nonfiction Prize, judge: David Mura. Submit: April 5–May 25!
Winners as well as finalists will be published in our Summer Awards Issue due out in August. All winners and finalists will be cited in future advertisements and announcements.
Previous judges have included Afaa Weaver, Robert Lopez, Meredith Hall, Celeste Ng, Richard Blanco, Michael Steinberg, Martha Collins, Kim McLarin, Randall Kenan, Jennifer Haigh, Jerald Walker, David Huddle, A. Van Jordan, Andres Dubus III, and Terrance Hayes.
WRITING CONTEST FEE FOR FICTION, NONFICTION, GRAPHIC LIT, OR POETRY
Entry Fee: $18.00
GUIDELINES
The $18.00 entry fee must be paid online.
Submit your work here.
**Winners of past Solstice Magazine contests must wait three years to submit again.
Call for Submissions: Storm Cellar
Deadline: Rolling
Storm Cellar is a journal of safety and danger in every sense, in print and ebook formats since 2011. Seeking formally, linguistically, aesthetically, emotionally ambitious writing and art. Rooted in the midwest, we actively prioritize work by Indigenous, Black, POC, LGBTQIA+, enby, and women, disabled, neuroatypical, poor, border-straddling, and other under-represented authors.
We pay a flat honorarium; limited no-fee submissions each month; expedited response available.
Surprise us! Full guidelines. Submission portal.
The 2021 Santa Clara Review Flash Creative Nonfiction Contest
Deadline: April 30, 2021
Entry Fee: $10.00
Submit to the 2021 Santa Clara Review Flash Creative Nonfiction Contest! The first prize winner will be awarded $200. There will be two runner up prizes for $100. The contest winner will be published in our 2021 Fall Issue. All other work will be considered for publication.
See our Submittable for further guidelines.
Visit our website for more information about the Santa Clara Review.
CHESTNUT REVIEW (“for stubborn artists”) Invites Submissions Year Round
CHESTNUT REVIEW (“for stubborn artists”) invites submissions year round of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, art, and photography. We offer free submissions for poetry (3 poems), flash fiction (<1000 words), and art/photography (20 images); $5 submissions for fiction/nonfiction (<5k words), or 4-6 poems.
Published artists receive $100 and a copy of the annual anthology of four issues (released each summer).
Notification in <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!
Warp 10 Lit Seeks Sci-fi and Sci-fi Inspired Work
Deadline: Year-round
Have a poem or story about Star Trek, trekkies, or anything related to science fiction? Send it to Warp 10 Lit! We take submissions year-round and accept essays about sci-fi or sci-fi franchises as well.
Learn more about our guidelines here.
december announces the 2021 Curt Johnson Prose Awards
Submissions are OPEN from March 1 to May 1. Thank you for your submissions. We look forward to reading your work!
We are pleased to announce our 2021 Curt Johnson Prose Awards are open and will be judged by our editorial team. Prizes are $1,500 and publication in our Fall/Winter 2021 issue for First Place (fiction and nonfiction); $500 and publication in our Fall/Winter 2020 issue for honorable mention (fiction and nonfiction). All finalists will be listed in the awards issue.
Entry Fee: $20.00
Guidelines:
Maximum of 8,000 words for fiction and non-fiction. Name and address on cover letter only. $20 entry fee includes copy of Awards issue.
AUTHOR NAME OR OTHER IDENTIFYING INFORMATION SHOULD NOT APPEAR IN YOUR TITLE OR ANYWHERE ON YOUR UPLOADED OR HARD COPY DOCUMENT.
december accepts submissions online through Submittable. General submissions guidelines and contest guidelines posted on Submittable page.
We do not accept simultaneous submissions, but we generally provide a response within six to eight weeks.
Superpresent is a quarterly magazine of the arts. Superpresent is available free online and a limited run of hard copies is printed for each issue. Superpresent publishes poems, short stories, essays, visual art pieces, experimental art, video art, and sound art.
We accepts submissions from anywhere in the world.
No fees for submission.
The theme for the Summer Issue is “The Mind at Play.”
There are four deadlines for submission each year.
Superpresent is available free online and a limited run of hard copies is printed for each issue. Superpresent publishes poems, short stories, essays, visual art pieces, experimental art, video art, and sound art.
Visual Art Guidelines:
Submission Guidelines
J Journal seeks new writing – fiction, creative nonfiction (1st person narrative, personal essay, memoir) and poetry – that takes on justice. Our most powerful pieces relate tangentially to the justice theme, though we do occasionally publish work that speaks directly of crime, criminal justice, law, and law enforcement. As a literary project, however, J Journal is less likely to publish straightforward genre fiction. We look for writing brave enough to find the justice question in the ordinary.
Email up to three poems or up to 6000 words of fiction/nonfiction to:
Or send your submission to:
Submission Guidelines
Assisi currently accepts submissions on a rolling basis. All submissions must be done through our Submittable site.
PLEASE NOTE: Accepted work WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED IMMEDIATELY. We publish either two issues a year – Fall, which appears in December, and Spring, which appears in June – or a Fall/Spring Double issue in June.
There is a limit of 1 submission in each genre per person within any 6-month time period. Please see our Submittable site for further details.
We generally do not reprint previously published work, although occasional exceptions may be made to this policy for editorial purposes. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable as long as they are indicated as such and Assisi is notified immediately if the work is accepted elsewhere.
Assisi holds first rights for publication; we also reserve the right to use your name and the title of your work in press releases and on our social media pages. Beyond this use, and following publication in Assisi, rights revert to the author/artist providing Assisi is acknowledged in any subsequent publication of the work.
NOW OPEN: Flash Fiction Contest!
Guest Judge: Stuart Dybek
$3,500 Awarded
Our love of flash fiction runs deep. We are proud to offer a contest dedicated solely to flash. The winning writer will be awarded $3000 and publication in The Masters Review. Second and third place will be awarded $300 and $200, respectively, as well as publication. So here it is: a home for your very best small fiction.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
To view a list of our most commonly asked questions regarding submitting to The Masters Review, please see our FAQ page
We don’t have any preferences topically or in terms of style. We’re simply looking for the best. We don’t define, nor are we interested in, stories identified by their genre. We do, however, consider ourselves a publication that focuses on literary fiction. Dazzle us, take chances, and be bold.
DEADLINE: May 30th, 2021 @ Midnight PST
Submit your work here.
The PoArtMo Anthology: Volume 2 (deadline: December 31, 2021)
The PoArtMo Anthology is back! Thanks to their successful debut launch in 2020, Auroras & Blossoms are now running another new anthology project for 2021!
PoArtMo stands for Positive Art Month and Positive Art Moves. It was created as an invitation to artists in many disciplines to create positive art every June (Positive Art Month) and throughout the year (Positive Art Moves).
Type of art accepted for the anthology: photography, poetry, poetry-graphy, drawings, paintings, short stories, six word stories, essays, and flash fiction.
We will accept any art created in 2020-2021
The PoArtMo Anthology: Volume 2 accepts submissions from 13-16 year-old and adult creatives. However, selected submissions from young artists will be featured in a dedicated 13-16 Year-Old Artists Edition.
Only family-friendly art allowed.
The Black River Chapbook Competition is a semi-annual prize from Black Lawrence Press for a chapbook of poems or prose (including fiction, creative non-fiction, lyric essay, and prose hybrid manuscripts). Entries should be between 16 and 36 pages in length. The winner will receive $500 and publication.
Recent winners include: Ruth Baumann, Jacqueline Doyle, Nancy Reddy, Amy Sayre Baptista, Ashley Morrow Hermsmeier, Alan Chazaro, Christopher Locke, Veronica Montes, Danielle Rose, and Ashanti Anderson.
Entry deadline for the Spring Competition: May 31, 2021
Black Lawrence Press accepts submissions and payment of the entry fee ($17) exclusively through our online submission manager, Submittable. All entries are read without identifying information by our panel of judges and editors.
Visit us online for complete submission guidelines. Submissions are accepted via Submittable now through May 31. We look forward to reading your work!
The Constellation: A Place for Writers
🌠Online Creative Writing Workshops
🌠Collaborate with Great Writers Who Are Also Great Teachers
🌠When you step into The Constellation, you become a member of a global writing community that understands an oft forgotten truth: Though we create in isolation, our artistic visions grow ever brighter when we're in fellowship with each other.
🌠The Constellation provides safe, creative online spaces that inspire, instruct, nurture, and challenge.
🌠The brainchild of award-winning, bestselling author Connie May Fowler, founder and director of the Yucatan Writing Conference and the legendary Saturday and Sunday Writers’ Groups, The Constellation offers workshops in short fiction, novel writing, essays, memoir writing, poetry, literary translation, publishing, and hybrid forms.
🌠The Constellation hosts workshops for writers at all levels. We encourage artistic development as a lifelong pursuit.
🌠All classes are remote, so you can join our community no matter where you shine--Brooklyn to Alpha Centauri.
Workshops Begin this May!
🌠Constellation workshops begin the first week of May. We update with new classes frequently, so our calendar, like the universe, is in a perpetual state of expansion. Scroll down to see our current roster with links to full details. For a quick calendar view, click here (be sure to thumb your way over to May!). For a text-based list, click here.
CASA: Coolest American Stories Anthology
reading period: Jan 1 through Oct 15 of each calendar year
format: please type and double-space your ms and include your name and contact information on the first page
word min/max: 3,500 to 10,000--exceptions made for stories w/ extraordinary promise to appeal to readers from all walks of life
payment: $100
Submission Fee: $1.50
policy re previous publication: both unpublished and previously published short stories considered, unpublished novel excerpts okay
submit here.
Deadline: April 29, 2021
Entry Fee: $10.00-$15.00
Results: Announced September 8, 2021
Prizes: Win $1,600 in Prizes!
Guest Judges: Stephen Graham Jones, Damhnait Monaghan, Emma Bolden, and Hannah Grieco
Categories: Short Story, Flash Fiction, Poetry, Creative Nonfiction
For full Submission Guidelines, please read the information on our Submittable page carefully. And please visit our formatting guidelines page to properly format your work for submission.
An insider tip for you all: We seek work that actively pushes boundaries, that forces us to question traditions and tastes. If your work takes risks, we want to read it. We like strong narratives that make us feel something and stories we haven’t seen before. To get an idea of the kind of work we look for, please check out this page from our editors detailing what we look for in our submissions.
We also strongly recommend checking out a past issue of F(r)iction before submitting to our contests to get an idea of our general publishing aesthetic. We have several pieces available online, but there’s nothing like holding a glossy, full-color issue in your hands. You can check out all of our issues in our shop.
Submit to ABLE MUSE: A Review of Poetry, Prose & Art
Deadline: July 15, 2021
Able Muse is now accepting submissions for our forthcoming issue, Winter 2021/2022. Submit poetry, fiction, essays, book reviews, art, and photography.
Submission opens yearly January 1 and closes July 15. Read our guidelines and submit here.
Cow Creek Chapbook Prize
Deadline: May 15, 2021
The Cow Creek Chapbook Prize is brought to you by Emerald City and 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 Kayleb Rae Candrilli.
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.
Guidelines and the submission portal can be found here.
There is a $15 fee to enter.
Deadline: May 15.
Baltimore Review Summer Contests
Deadline: May 31, 2021
No theme for our summer contest. Subject matter is entirely up to you. Surprise us! But keep it short. Three categories: flash fiction, flash creative nonfiction, and prose poem. We want to be amazed at how you abracadabra 1,000 words or less into magic. And maybe be a little jealous of how you do that.
One writer in each category will be awarded a $300 prize and published in the summer issue. All entries considered for publication and payment. See www.baltimorereview.org for complete details and to read sample issues.
Deadline: May 31, 2021.
Fee: $5.
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General Submissions:
Please review the editors' preferences and tips to writers. We may not be able to completely pin down what we want—and we do want to be taken pleasantly by surprise—but you may find the quotes helpful. And please take a little time to read some of the work in our current and past issues.
When you submit your work, please include a brief bio to introduce yourself.
If your work is accepted for publication, we ask only for the right to publish it for the first time, online and in print. Please do not submit work that has been published elsewhere. All rights revert to the author after publication by The Baltimore Review. All accepted work will be archived on the website.
We accept submissions only through the link at the bottom of this page.
Submissions in more than one category are permitted, but please do not submit work more than once per reading period in any category.
Simultaneous submissions are permitted. If you need to withdraw your work, or part of your work, from consideration, please do so through Submittable. You may withdraw one or two poems from consideration by adding a note in Submittable.
Once your work has been accepted by a publication, always withdraw it from any other publications right away.
Current submission period is February 1 through May 31 (or until caps are reached). Since we will be capping the number of submissions, please do not withdraw and re-submit your work if making revisions. This counts as two submissions. Simply attach the new version in a Submittable message. But it’s always best, of course, to take some time to thoroughly proofread your work before submitting. Thanks!
Response time: You will be notified of our decision within four months. We're aiming for a response time well within that time frame, usually one to three months, but we do receive thousands of submissions in each submission period, and we read each one of them. Thank you for your patience.
Payment for non-contest submissions is $40 via Amazon gift certificate or $40 through PayPal, if preferred. We hope to continue this as long as funding is available. We also nominate our contributors' work for every possible prize.
Ready to submit? You will see additional details for each category, such as word limits and other guidelines, when you click the "Submit" button below and then "More." Please do click "More" and read the guidelines. They're brief and will only take a few seconds of your time. Honest. Submissions that do not follow the guidelines (e.g., prose that exceeds 5,000 words, a submission of more than three poems, a book review or other work that is clearly not creative nonfiction, multiple submissions during a submission period) will be withdrawn.
Contests are announced on our blog, on Facebook and Twitter, and on the Submit page for the Contest category during the Contest submission period.
The Roadrunner Review is Reading for Issue 8
Deadline: May 2, 2021
The Roadrunner Review invites students—both graduate and undergraduates—to submit flash fiction, flash nonfiction, poetry, and cover art for ISSUE 8. Each piece should be a window into a particular place or perspective. We don't publish work longer than 1,000 words.
We publish writers and artists from around the world.
Our submissions are free via Submittable.
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
*Applications for residencies in Virginia are now open. However, applications for VCCA's international programs, including the Moulin à Nef in Auvillar, are temporarily closed due to the pandemic. Please follow us on our social media platforms for the most up to date information. *
The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) provides time and space for national and international writers, visual artists, and composers of talent and promise to bring forth their finest works, because the arts are vital, diversity is a strength, and creativity is essential.
Selected artists come to VCCA’s Mt. San Angelo in Amherst, Virginia or the Moulin à Nef in Auvillar, France for intense periods of creative work, free from the distractions of day-to-day life. During residencies lasting anywhere from two weeks to two months, VCCA Fellows enjoy private studios, private bedrooms, and meals. Whether sequestered in the rolling foothills of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains or on the banks of the Garonne River in Southwest France, VCCA Fellows can work in concentrated solitude, then re-energize in the company of other artists.
VCCA Fellows are selected by peer review on the basis of professional achievement or promise of achievement in their respective fields. Panelists for each discipline and genre undergo periodic review and rotate regularly to ensure that selection to VCCA is being made by high caliber artists who represent a diversity of styles and tastes.
For technical assistance, email support@slideroom.com. For additional information or questions, email vcca@vcca.com or check out our FAQs.
HOW TO APPLY To apply, artists submit an application form, resume, third-person paragraph, work samples, 2 recommendation letters (new applicants only), and $50 application fee. This form is to be used for new applicants and reapplicants. Notification will go out by July 31, 2021.
Begin your application here.
Launched in 1999 with Rita Dove’s selection of Natasha Trethewey’s Domestic Work, this first-book award is dedicated to the discovery of exceptional manuscripts by black poets of African descent. View previous winning books here.
2021 Cave Canem Poetry Prize
Award: Winner receives $1,000, publication by Graywolf Press in fall 2022, 15 copies of the book, and a feature reading. Both the winner and runner-up will be invited to individual critique sessions with the final judge.
Deadline: Manuscripts must be submitted via Submittable no later than Friday, April 30, 2021 at 11:59 pm EST. Winner announced via email by or before October 2021.
Entry Fee: Free
Final Judge: Rachel Eliza Griffiths (Judge reserves the right not to select a winner and/or honorable mentions.)
First Readers: Abdul Ali and TBD
Manuscripts are read without the reviewers and judge’s knowledge of contestants’ identities.
Eligibility: All unpublished, original collections of poems written in English by Black writers of African descent who have not had a full-length book of poetry published by a professional press. Authors of chapbooks and self-published books with a maximum print run of 500 may apply. Simultaneous submission to other book awards should be noted: immediate notice upon winning such an award is required. Winner agrees to be present in the continental United States at her or his own expense shortly after the book is published in order to participate in promotional reading(s).
Exclusions: Current or former students, colleagues, employees, family members and close friends of the judge; current or former employees and members of the board of Cave Canem Foundation or Graywolf Press; and authors who have published a book or have a book under contract with Graywolf Press are ineligible.
If any of the selected authors fall under the above exclusions, they will be disqualified and a replacement chosen from among the finalists. As the poetry community is small and the contest is judged without knowledge of the submitter’s identity, acquaintance with the judge or participation in a workshop taught by the judge are not disqualifying criteria.
Guidelines:
