Call for Submissions: Stonecoast Review

We accept Fiction, Pop Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Poetry, Dramatic Works, Experimental, and Visual Art. We can’t wait to see your best pieces! Stonecoast Review offers feedback on 10% of declined submissions. Contributors will receive a complimentary copy of the issue in which their work appears. Stonecoast Review acquires First Serial Rights and First Electronic Rights for all work published in the journal. Rights revert to the author upon publication.

Our staff is a group of volunteers, all either current Stonecoast MFA Program students or alumni of the program.

Fiction: Limit submissions to 5,000 words or fewer.

Creative Nonfiction: Limit submissions to 5,000 words or fewer.

Poetry: Limit submissions to 3 poems, with no more than 50 lines each.

Dramatic Works: Limit submissions to 12 or fewer pages.

Visual Art: We seek visual images for the cover and interior of our issues. We welcome experimental and unusual art forms. We accept 2D digital images of all forms of fine art—photography, sculpture, painting, and mixed media. Please send high-res digital images (no lower than 300 dpi) in JPG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, or RAW file format. 

Deadline: Oct. 10, 2021

Complete guidelines and submission portal here.

Writing Competition: Goldline Press Chapbook Competition

Gold Line Press is accepting manuscripts for its 2021 contest until August 15, 2021. We invite nonfiction, fiction, and poetry that are chapbook-length as a key element of their concept. Our judges this year are Matthew Salesses in fiction, Taneum Bambrick in poetry, and Daisy Hernandez in Nonfiction. Here is a look at what we’ve published in the past, but we are open to all work that uses the chapbook length and form in innovative, emotionally resonant, and subversive ways.

Length: 20-30 pages of poetry, 7500-15000 words of prose.

Deadline: August 15, 2021

Entry Fee: $15.00

Gold Line Press is affiliated with the Literature and Creative Writing Department at the University of Southern California.

GENERAL GUIDELINES

• Multiple submissions are acceptable as long as they are submitted separately with separate entry fees.
  

• Simultaneous submissions are fine, but please be sure to withdraw your submission via Submittable if your work is accepted elsewhere.

• Please update any changes in contact information via your profile on Submittable.

• No revisions to submitted manuscripts will be considered. The author of the winning manuscript will work with Gold Line's editorial staff to make revisions prior to publication.

• Colleagues and current or former students of the judges — as well as current students of English or Creative Writing at the University of Southern California and recent alumni (graduating years 2018 to present) — are not eligible to submit. This year’s chapbook judges are Matthew Salesses (fiction), Taneum Bambrick (poetry), and Daisy Hernandez (Nonfiction).

• In December 2021 we will announce contest results by email, as well as on the Gold Line Press site. The winning chapbooks will be published in the fall of the following year.

• Each winner receives $500, publication of her/his/their perfect-bound chapbook with ISBN, and 50 contributor copies. Gold Line Press sends out 30 copies on behalf of winners to respected literary venues for review. Winners can purchase additional copies of their chapbooks at cost. The chapbook is cataloged in the Library of Congress and distributed through Small Press Distribution.

We seek works of prose that are purposefully planned as chapbooks: novellettes, carefully curated collections of vignettes, short stories, essays, or other projects that take the chapbook format as an instrumental element of their design. Excerpts of novels or short story/essay collections will not be considered unless they form a sustained and individual project in their foreshortened form. For poets, we also recommend that manuscripts be cohesive and self-contained in the chapbook length.

Submittable link.

Call for Submissions: Woodcrest Magazine

Open for Submissions: Woodcrest Magazine is Reading

Deadline: December 1, 2021

Woodcrest is pleased to announce an open submission period beginning July 2021. We welcome submissions from everyone. The literary journal of Cabrini University, Woodcrest aims to publish work that is surprising, challenging, and grounded in the human experience. We want to read your submissions of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, hybrid genres, and graphic arts.

Please use our Submittable page for more information about submissions.

Writing Competition: Diode Editions Chapbook Contest

The annual Diode Editions Chapbook Contest is now open through August 15th, 2021. The contest is open to all poets over the age of 18 who write in English. Additionally, we welcome translations,* collaborations, hybrid works, and prose poetry.

Submission Guidelines

Please include:

• A title page with the title of your manuscript, your name, pronouns, address, telephone number and email.

• Your name should not appear anywhere else in the manuscript.

• An acknowledgments page: poems included in your manuscript may be previously published as long as there is an acknowledgements page.

Additional Notes

• Length: 25-50 pages (front matter is not included in page count).

• Entries will be accepted between February 15th and August 15, 2021.

• A winner will be announced by August 30, 2021. We may publish more than one chapbook.

• The winning chapbook(s) will be published by March 1, and will be launched at the 2022 AWP Conference in Philadelphia.

• We accept simultaneous submissions, but if your manuscript is accepted for publication elsewhere, please notify us as soon as possible.

*For manuscript submissions in languages other than English, please include an English translation for consideration.

There is an $18.00 reading fee. For those with financial constraints, please reach out to us at:

diodeeditions@gmail.com

Winners will receive $500.00, 25 author copies, and select poems from the book will appear in Diode Poetry Journal. If the winner(s) can attend AWP, they will have an opportunity to participate in an off-site reading, and in signing sessions at the Diode Editions booth. 

More information here.

Call for Poetry Submissions by Women Over 50: Quartet Journal

Please send up to 3 unpublished poems in one Microsoft Word document, Times New Roman, 12-point font preferred, to:

quartetjournal@gmail.com 

Unpublished means poems have not appeared in print or online. This includes blogs, web pages, and social media sites.

Include your name in the subject line of your submission email.

Include your name and contact information on each of your submitted poems.

Submission Deadline: Aug. 8, 2021

Formal cover letters are not necessary but it would be helpful to include the titles of your poems in the body of your email.

If your work is accepted we will request an artist's statement. Bios are not necessary. Rights revert to the author upon publication.

We encourage simultaneous submissions, but please let us know immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere.

Should your work published in ൪uartet later be published elsewhere, we ask that credit be given to ൪uartet as the initial publisher.

Full guidelines here.

Call for Submissions: Library Love Letter

Submissions open for Letters 1.1 – Due August 31, 2021

We want to hear, see, learn anything that has to do with knowledge, information, and learning from the perspectives of libraries, librarians, library staff, archives, archivists, museums, communities, the public, and others. All your thoughts, your writing, and your experiences are welcome.

Content we look for: Anything that has to do with libraries, archives, museums, knowledge in general, reading, writing, literature, information (its use, access, and understanding), and many other tangential topics. Feel free to submit if you think it is a good fit. If we don’t publish, we will give you feedback.

Formats accepted for Letters publication: fiction, non-fiction, essay, poetry, visual art, or surprise us.

Complete guidelines and submission form here.

Call for Submissions: Blue Mountain Review

 

Our Doors are Open

Deadline: 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 all life through its stories. Stories are vital to our survival. What we sing saves the soul.

Our goal is to preserve and promote lives told well through prose, poetry, music, and the visual arts. We’ve published work from and interviews with Jericho Brown, Kelli Russell Agodon, Robert Pinsky, Rising Appalachia, Turkuaz, Michel Stone, Michael Flohr, Lee Herrick, Chen Chen, Michael Cudlitz, Pat Metheny, Melissa Studdard, Lyrics Born, Terry Kay, and Christopher Moore.  

Note: No simultaneous submissions

Submit your work here.

Writing Competition: Fiction Southeast Editor's Prize

Fiction Southeast Editor’s Prize

Deadline: August 31, 2021

Entries should be approximately 1,500 words or less. Simultaneous submissions ARE welcome.

Entry fee is $10. All entries will be considered for publication in Fiction Southeast.

Winner receives $200 and publication in Fiction Southeast; Runners-up receive publication in Fiction Southeast. 

Call for Submissions: K'in

We publish two issues a year, May 1; November 1, reading during the following periods: November 1-March 31; June 1-September 30.

Deadline: Sep. 30, 2021

Submissions are accepted only through Submittable. Please include a brief cover letter and bio of not more than 50 words.

For all submissions, please include name and contact information on the document as well as in the online form. All submissions should be formatted with 1 inch margins and numbered pages. Prose manuscripts should be double-spaced.

Do not send previously published work (either online or print). Upon submission to K'in, you agree that your work is original, unpublished, and that you are the author.

If accepted, K'in acquires First North American Serial Rights and First Electronic Rights. All rights revert to the writer after publication. Contributors agree to credit K'in if the work is subsequently reproduced online or in print.

Submissions will be responded to within three months. If you haven't heard from us after three months, feel free to inquire by sending us a note through Submittable.

As much as we would love to be able to pay our contributors, unfortunately we are not able to do so. This is a labor of love for all of us, and we will do our best to honor and promote your work.

Submit your work here.

Call for Long-form Submissions: Sequestrum

Themed Submissions: Long-form

Narratives sometimes run long. Like, ten-or-twenty-thousand-words, long. And for the next two months, that’s just fine by us. In a world of shortening attention spans, we want to sit down and take our time with a perfect story or poem, regardless of length. We want your most ambitious long-form writing in its most imaginative form. Long short stories. Epic poetry. Deep-dive essays. Novelettes. Novellas. If other publishers think it’s too long, we want to read it. As always, wow us. Thrill us. Never bore us. We’re eager to read your best.

Deadline 8/15/21.

When ready to submit, please use our online submission system.

What We Publish:

Fiction: Submissions should generally not exceed forty thousand* (40,000) words.

Creative Nonfiction: Submissions should generally not exceed forty thousand* (40,000) words. All genres of nonfiction (articles, reviews, memoirs, personal essay, cross-genre, etc.) are acceptable, though we rarely publish scholarly essays or literary criticism.

Poetry: Maximum three (3) poems per submission.

*Length guidelines are just that: guidelines. More than ever, if your work is outstanding, we’ll make room for it.

Submit your work here.

Author Reading and Talk

Coming in September. I will be giving a talk and reading a short excerpt from my novel-in-progress, The Double Sun. If you're in New Mexico, hope you can join me!

Writing Competition for Black Authors: Ann Petry Award

Founded in 2020 in partnership with Red Hen Press and the Peauxdunque Writers Alliance, the Ann Petry Award seeks to publish prose literature by Black authors.

The Ann Petry Award is for a work of previously unpublished prose, either a novel or a collection of short stories or novellas, with a minimum of 150 pages, by a Black writer.

The awarded manuscript is selected through an annual submission process, with primary review by the Peauxdunque Writers Alliance, who will winnow the submissions to a list of finalists for the final judge.

The final judge for 2021 will be Maurice Carlos Ruffin.

The Ann Petry Award will consist of $3000, publication of the awarded manuscript by Red Hen Press, and an opportunity to be in residence for up to four weeks at The Community Library's Ernest and Mary Hemingway House in Ketchum, Idaho. In addition, the opening chapter or story of the awarded manuscript will be published in the Peauxdunque Review. 

There is no submission fee.

Please use double-spaced, 12-pt. Times New Roman font. Title only on the cover sheet, with no other identifying information on the manuscript itself. The entry should be a minimum of 150 pages. 

More information here.

Call for Submissions on Theme of "Love Needs No Translation": Constelacion Magazine

Love Needs No Translation

Tell us a story about love. Any type of love will do: love between friends, love within a family, romantic love, or any kind of love that makes you smile. What's important is the connection, the emotion. Whether your protagonist is being swept up on a romantic journey of space adventure or your main characters are just two buddies trying to survive an apocalypse, we want to read it! Show us what love means to you and why it's important to all of us, regardless of where we are on this planet or what language we speak.

Guidelines for Submitting Stories

• Stories can be submitted in English or Spanish. Please remember that each language has its own punctuation rules.

—Presta atención al uso correcto de las rayas o guiones largos —dijo la editora. “I will,” said the writer. 

• If you submit your story in Spanish, it will be translated and also published in English.

• If you submit your story in English, it will be translated and also published in Spanish.

• All stories in the magazine will be published in both languages.

• Simultaneous submissions and multiple submissions are not allowed.

• We pay 8 cents per word, up to 6400 words. We ask for six month world first exclusive rights and translation rights for all original stories accepted.

• If your story is accepted, you are agreeing to be contacted by the person doing the translation for your work in case they have any questions. Translating is a collaborative process, and we want to make sure we get all the nuances correct. 

 Deadline: Aug. 1, 2021

Full submission guidelines here. Click on the "open" link to submit.

Writing Competition: The Masters Review Short Story Awards

Welcome to our 2021 Summer Short Story Award for New Writers, an annual contest that recognizes the best fiction from today’s emerging writers. Judging this year’s contest is author of With Teeth and Mostly Dead Things Kristen Arnett!

The winning story will be awarded $3000 and publication online. Second and third place stories will be awarded publication and $300 and $200 respectively. All winning stories and any notable Honorable Mentions will receive agency review by the following: Nat Sobel from Sobel Weber, Victoria Cappello from The Bent Agency, Andrea Morrison from Writers House, Sarah Fuentes from Fletcher & Company, Heather Schroder from Compass Talent, and Siohban McBride from Carnicelli Literary Management. We want you to succeed, and we want your writing to be read. It’s been our mission to support emerging writers since day one.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

• Winner receives $3000, publication, and agency review

• Second and third place prizes ($300 / $200, publication, and agency review)

• Stories under 6000 words

• Previously unpublished stories only

• Simultaneous and multiple submissions allowed

• Emerging writers only (We are interested in offering a larger platform to new writers. Self-published writers and writers with story collections are welcome to submit. Writers with novels published with small circulations (around 5000 copies) can also submit.)

• International English submissions allowed

• $20 entry fee

• International submissions allowed

• Please no identifying information on your story

• All stories are considered for publication

Deadline: Aug. 30, 2021

Submit your work here. 

Writing Competition: Kallisto Gaia Press

$1,200 Prizes in Fiction & Poetry

Deadline: August 20, 2021

Submissions OPEN at Kallisto Gaia Press! Julia Darling Poetry Prize pays $1,200 and publication in The Ocotillo Review. Submit 3 poems of up to 65 lines each.

Entry Fee: $20 to play

Edward Vidaurre judges. Revenue supports Breast cancer research through the MD Anderson Foundation. Chester B. Himes

Fiction Prize pays $1,200 and publication in The Ocotillo Review. Submit one story up to 4200 words.

Entry Fee: $20 to play

May Cobb judges. Revenue supports Parkinson’s Disease research through the Michael J. Fox Foundation. 

More info here.

Call for Submissions to Anthology: Hindsight: The Untold Stories of 2020

Deadline: August 31, 2021

Hindsight: The Untold Stories of 2020 is the only book about 2020 written by people just like you. We’re seeking personal essays that get up close with the desperation, division, and devotion of 2020. Not the headlines in the papers, but the headlines of our lives. Add your chapter to the story of last year—whether that means navigating emergencies as a first responder, marching for justice, or tying the knot over Zoom.

Stories selected for publication will be compiled into a print anthology, which will be published in 2021.

Free to submit. Length: Maximum 2,000 words. Previously unpublished work only. View full guidelines here.

Call for Submissions to Anthology: Interim

Interim's Fourth All Women's Print Anthology Open to Submissions

Deadline: Sep. 1, 2021

Interim is looking for women’s writing that explores the meaning and ethics of place in the broadest sense of the word, writing that seeks location as dwelling and indwelling simultaneously so as better to know what it means to belong somewhere. Speaking of the house, in The Poetics of Space Bachelard claims “all really inhabited space bears the essence of the notion of home.”

Send poems, essays, flash fiction, and/or hybrid forms that play with notions of place for our fourth all women’s print anthology, forthcoming in December, 2021. Because we believe the truth is experimental, we’ll especially appreciate work with innovative approaches.

Writing Competition: Naugatuck River Review's 13th Annual Narrative Poetry Contest

Announcing Naugatuck River Review’s 13th Annual Narrative Poetry Contest! Submissions will be open from July 1st through September 1st, 2021. Our contest judge this year is Destiny O. Birdsong.

First prize is $1000 for one poem, second prize is $250 and third prize is $100. The submission fee of $20 goes towards the publication of the journal, contributor mailings, publicity, and the prizes. All winners, finalists and semi-finalists published in the winter/spring 2022 issue of NRR. A list of winners and all finalists/semi-finalists will be posted here and on our Facebook group.

We accept ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS ONLY through Submittable during the summer contest submission period, July 1 – Sept. 1, and open (no fee) submissions Jan. 1 – March 1.

During the summer contest, a fee of $20 (per 3 poem submission) will be accepted. Unpaid submissions will be disqualified. Emailed submissions and mailed submissions will not be considered.

Please submit no more than 3 unpublished NARRATIVE poems of no more than 50 lines per poem (not including stanza breaks) in ONE MSWord file (.doc or .docx or .rtf only, no pdf please). Please remove your name from your word file, as the poetry is read blind by our editorial staff and contest judge. We know it is yours by your Submittable profile.

Questions ONLY: Feel free to email us at:

naugatuckriver@aol.com

All poems will be considered for publication. Winners (3) will receive prize money and all finalists and semi-finalists will be rewarded with publication and a copy of the journal.

Multiple submissions are discouraged, but simultaneous submissions are fine as long as you inform us in a timely manner if your work is published elsewhere. We claim first North American publication rights, so rights revert to the author after the initial publication period, just please give us credit. We will only consider work that has not been previously published. All poems will be blind-read. Member CLMP.

Writing Competition: Raleigh Review's 2022 Geri Digiorno Prize

2022 GERI DIGIORNO PRIZE GUIDELINES

JUDGES of the FINALISTS: Dorianne Laux & Joseph Millar

NOTE ON SUBMITTING MULTI-GENRE

The contents of each submission can be either:

2 poems and a work of visual art (Possible Cover Inclusion) created by one person.

2 poems and a work of flash nonfiction (1000 word max on the flash nonfiction) created by one person.

1 poem and 1 work of visual art and 1 work of flash nonfiction created by one person.

Visual Artists should be prepared with a high-resolution version of their files upon
their work's acceptance to the magazine (large dimension png set at 300 dpi).

OPEN: July 1st - October 31st

CONTEST ENTRY FEE: $5

GRAND PRIZE: $300

FURTHER GUIDANCE on SUBMISSIONS to the DIGIORNO PRIZE

• Opens on July 1, 2021
  

• Deadline is October 31, 2021.
  

• We are looking for the multi-talented ones and each entry must be completely created by one person.

• Submissions are only accepted via Submittable.

• Attached files should be free of personal identifiers such as name, address, phone and email, social media handles, etc.

• Simultaneous submissions are acceptable. If one or more work is selected for publication by another magazine, please leave a note on your submission via Submittable.
  

• Multiple entries are acceptable.
  

• Failure to meet guidelines may result in disqualification.

• Current affiliates of Raleigh Review editorial staff and Raleigh Review board members are not eligible to enter.

• This contest is open to poets, writers & artists who reside in the USA (regardless of immigration status).

• Those based outside the USA are most welcome to submit to this prize though the payment for any winners who happen to be based outside the USA will be in copies of Raleigh Review since we are not permitted to mail checks outside our own country.

Call for Essay Submissions to Anthology on Theme of Parenthood: Keep It Under Wraps

Submissions open until September 1, 2021

As humans we are met with a string of information about what parenthood is, what it’s supposed to be and how it could be. The general consensus is that parenthood is for everyone, and to be enjoyed by everyone. If you don’t want to, or cannot, be a parent there may be something wrong with you.

Some of us spend years reading books, going to therapy, counselling, or not feeling comfortable that our own ideas and experiences of parenthood may not fit what is deemed to be ‘NORMAL’.

But what is normal? Surely our own experiences and ideas, however different they are from the status quo, are normal. There’s more than one path to take and experience when it comes down to parenthood....

​Popular wisdom states that when you reach a certain age, you should become a parent, and be happy about it. You should have close, loving and healthy relationships with your parents. And there is a very specific image of what a family should look like.

But we know that this is a pile of shit.

Some people dream of nothing but to be a parent, others would prefer to be set on fire and be BBQ’d in the town square. Some have generational trauma to heal, others find that they get lost in the process. Some enter parenthood blindly, others have their eyes wide open, and yet face innumerable difficulties.

Parenthood is so much more than the 2.5 kids and the white picket fence. What the books tell us and what the media presents is a series of false aspirations that do not match what people are actually living through, experiences had.

It includes so many things, such as:

Anxiety/Mental Health

LGBTQ Relationships

Single Parenting

Miscarriages/Loss of Children

Generational Trauma

Abuse

Love it/Hate it

Neurodiverse experiences

Disabilities

Choices

Fostering/Adoption

Religious/Cultural Differences/Ideas


Here’s where you come in...

We are looking for 20-25 writers who would like to write personal stories or essays for an anthology together about their experiences, views and ideas of parenthood, the choice to be, or not to be parents. It is absolutely ok to use a pen name for this project. We appreciate that the nature of these essays may call for a bit of anonymity; you may not need the folks at work, the local playgroup or coffee house knowing the intimate details of your lived experiences.

If you are from a marginalised group or background, we encourage you to let us know, even if it isn’t specifically stated in your submission. We want to work to ensure that we represent a diverse and inclusive group of voices in our anthology.

Submissions are welcomed internationally.

No judgement will be made on any of the pieces submitted and of course, confidentiality will be respected. Anyone who wishes to work on this project, must respect the views and ideas of others also on this project.

Submissions are for real, personal experiences: your own journey and choices around parenthood, your history or your current attitude towards this topic. We want to hear your voice, as does the reader. These are real experiences with real people behind them, so style is important.

We will not be accepting any poetry, fiction, or other forms of writing except personal essays for this anthology.

Submissions are open from June, 16th 2021 and will close September, 1st 2021. Authors will be notified whether their piece has been chosen within 30 days from the deadline. As authors, we expect the submissions to be edited for content, style and grammar before submission. We will not accept pieces that require lengthy developmental editing. However, chosen pieces will be subject to a second round of copy-editing for length and clarity for publication.

Please send your submissions to:

keepingitunderwrapsbook@gmail.com 

• Your name and submission title should be in the subject line of the email.

• A one-paragraph summary in the body of your email will help us ensure we cover a wide range of topics and themes.

• If using, please state your pen name.

• Word (.doc or .docx) or Google Docs format; New Times Roman, Arial or Helvetica. 12-point font.

• Work must be previously unpublished, in print or online.

• All submissions must be in English.

• Published and unpublished authors will be considered.

• Submission Word Count: 1000 - 5000 words

• Keeping It Under Wraps: Parenthood will be published in early 2022.

If your piece is accepted into the anthology, you will be notified in writing and a contract will need to be signed allowing us the right to print and distribute your work.

The authors published in this anthology will each receive 50chf* for their work and a copy of the book once it is in print.

* If you are sending a submission from overseas and are successful in being included in the anthology, the fee will be paid in your local currency. The total amount paid will be dependent on the exchange rate at the time.

Call for Submissions: Inverted Syntax

Inverted Syntax is published twice a year, once online in Fissured Tongue Volume and once in print. Starting in 2020, Inverted Syntax moved to a new schedule for print issue releases. To accommodate this new schedule, we published a second issue printed in November 2020. Commencing in 2021, print issues will be released every November. Our Sublingua Prize for Poetry runs March through June every year but we will be opening in April this year.

 

Our general reading window is typically from February to July however, we have postponed opening until March. Please forgive us, we need a moment to regain our composure after 2020 so we have postponed both the general submission window and Sublingua Prize.

 

Submission deadline: July 29, 2021

 

Although we strongly resist the categorization of genre, for the purpose of assigning work to appropriate readers, our submission forms will be categorized by genre. We seek to publish unorthodox approaches to form and aesthetics. We love work that is non genre, those that straddle multiple categories, however you may submit previously unpublished work to the following categories: fiction, flash fiction (new starting 2020), nonfiction, and poetry. We also publish photographs, illustrations, and other visual art. 

To submit, go here.

Call for Submissions: Fecund Magazine

Fecund welcomes submissions of writing and visual art across media. We recommend reading past issues of Fecund for insight into what we’re excited to publish. Although we don’t conform to one aesthetic, we tend to respond to work that challenges traditional forms or embraces liminality. That said, we purposefully keep criteria broad to allow contributors to submit their best work.

Fecund currently pays each contributor a flat rate of $50.

Deadline: Sep. 26, 2021

Submissions are now open for Issue 5, to be published in October 2021. To submit, please send an email to: 

fecund.mag@gmail.com 

with the subject line “Submission — [NAME]”

Submission guidelines:

- Fiction, essays, criticism, screenplay excerpts, fashion writing: up to 7,000 words of previously unpublished work
- Poetry: up to 10 poems of previously unpublished work
- Visual art, video: up to 10 images/videos
- Fashion photography, photo essays: up to 30 images

Call for Submissions on Themes of Second Chances and Rebirth: Little Somethings Press

Little Somethings Press Seeks Poetry, Flash Fiction/Memoir, and Art

Deadline: August 1, 2021

Little Somethings Press: A Collection of Small Writings is open to submissions for Issue 4. We are looking for poetry (up to 12 lines), flash fiction and memoir (up to 300 words), and visual art. The theme of this issue is second chances and rebirth. Send us your best!

Call for Submissions: Angel Rust

Angel Rust Seeking Submissions for Issue 2

Deadline: Rolling

Angel Rust is a new, queer-led online magazine looking to publish exciting, challenging, and edgy work in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, with a particular interest in transgressive or experimental short stories, strong-hearted essays or critiques, and radical poems in any form from writers with unique perspectives and an unshakable fearlessness. No submission fees. New issues go up every other month. 

Call for Submissions: Superpresent

 

Superpresent is Seeking Submissions for its Fall Issue

Deadline: September 1, 2021

Webster’s defines an “archive” as no more than “a repository or collection.” Humans have tried to collect. And lost. What was on scrolls in a jar not to be found, or floppy disk in an attic with no machine to read it? Writers like Borges, Sebald, and O’Brien have created and explored various archives. There can be no archive of all information, how do we parse what we have, knowing that it will be incomplete? What are the systems that writers and artists have devised in their own work? We want you to tell us, to show us “an archive.”

Writing Fellowship: The Granum Foundation Fellowship Prize

“Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.”

—Erica Jong

The Granum Foundation Fellowship Prize will be awarded annually to help U.S.-based writers complete substantive literary works—such as poetry books, essay or short story collections, novels, memoirs, and translations—or to help launch these works.

Funding can be used to provide a writer with the tools, time, and freedom to help ensure their success. For example, resources may be used to cover fees for a writing residency, mentorship, editing services, or a book tour. They also may be used for necessities such as rent or writing equipment.

Competitive applicants will be able to present a compelling project with a reasonable timeline for completion. They also should be able to demonstrate a record of commitment to the literary arts.

The Granum Foundation is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds.

Prize: $5,000 awarded annually.

Up to three finalists may be awarded $500.

Applications will close on August 3, 2021, 11:59 pm Pacific Time.

A winner and finalists will be announced on November 9, 2021.

At this time, only U.S. residents 18+ are eligible for funding.

Apply here.

Writing Competition: Ann Petry Award of Red Hen Press

Founded in 2020 in partnership with Red Hen Press and the Peauxdunque Writers Alliance, the Ann Petry Award seeks to publish prose literature by Black authors.

The Ann Petry Award is for a work of previously unpublished prose, either a novel or a collection of short stories or novellas, with a minimum of 150 pages, by a Black writer.

The awarded manuscript is selected through an annual submission process, with primary review by the Peauxdunque Writers Alliance, who will winnow the submissions to a list of finalists for the final judge.

The final judge for 2021 will be Maurice Carlos Ruffin.

The Ann Petry Award will consist of $3000, publication of the awarded manuscript by Red Hen Press, and an opportunity to be in residence for up to four weeks at The Community Library's Ernest and Mary Hemingway House in Ketchum, Idaho. In addition, the opening chapter or story of the awarded manuscript will be published in the Peauxdunque Review.

There is no submission fee.

Deadline: July 31, 2021

Please use double-spaced, 12-pt. Times New Roman font. Title only on the cover sheet, with no other identifying information on the manuscript itself. The entry should be a minimum of 150 pages.

Eligibility Guidelines:

The Ann Petry Award is open to all Black writers, with the following exceptions:

A) Authors who have had a full-length work published by Red Hen Press, or a full-length work currently under consideration by Red Hen Press;

B) Current employees, interns, or contractors of Red Hen Press;

C) Relatives of employees or members of the Red Hen Press executive board of directors;

D) Members or former members of the Peauxdunque Writers Alliance;

E) Relatives or individuals having a personal or professional relationship with any of the final judges or with members of the Peauxdunque Writers Alliance where they have taken any part whatsoever in shaping the manuscript, or where, for whatever reason, selecting a particular manuscript might have the appearance of impropriety.

For more information and to submit, go here.

Call for Submissions to Anthology on Theme of Arthropods: Arthropoda

Do you have a story or poem featuring insects, crustaceans, arachnids, or myriapods? We want to publish it!

We are looking for speculative poetry with monstrous, mythical, or mechanical arthropods for our upcoming Arthropoda anthology!

The call is open to original poetry, fiction and reprints up to 45 lines and 7,500 words respectively.

Please submit no more than six poems and/or two short stories. Simultaneous submissions permitted.

Deadline August 7, 2021.

Arthropoda will be edited by JW Stebner (of Hexagon Magazine) and published by Perennial Press in mid-to-late 2022!

All selected authors will be paid a $20 flat rate.

We will not accept submissions that contain any excessive profanity or explicit content. We will not tolerate submissions that support or suggest any form of racism, sexism, or any other kind of discrimination.

Full guidelines and submission link here.

Call for Submissions on Theme of Prohibition: NonBinary Review

NonBinary Review is a quarterly digital literary journal that joins poetry, fiction, essays, and art around each issue's theme. We invite  authors to explore each theme in any way that speaks to them: re-write a  familiar story from a new point of view, mash genres together, give us a personal essay about some aspect of our theme that has haunted you all  your life. We also invite art that will accompany the literature. All submissions must have a clear and obvious relationship to our theme. Submissions with no clear relationship to the theme will be rejected. Although you may submit more than once, we can only accept ONE piece per author/artist per issue.

We are open to submissions which relate to the idea of PROHIBITION.  

We know — the United States during Prohibition, which lasted from January 17, 1920 through December 5, 1933, was tough. We've heard all the stories about the bootleggers and the rum runners and the speakeasies. We've read all about Carrie Nation, the American Temperance Union, and Eliot Ness. We'd like to see what else you've got. Have you got a story about what life would look like if orange juice had been prohibited, rather than alcohol? How about a story of someone from another country coming to the US during Prohibition? How about a story about things that were invented during Prohibition specifically because alcohol wasn't available? We'd LOVE to see those! 

Deadline: Aug 1, 2021 

To submit your work and read the guidelines, go here.

Call for Submissions to Anthology on Theme of Dark Fae and the Fairy World: Eerie River

LGBTQIA+ Dark Fantasy anthology

Theme: Dark Fae and the fairy world

Eerie River is, and forever will be, inclusive in every way. We are looking for LGBTQIA+ characters to be featured within the story itself.

Who can submit? This anthology is open to everyone.

Bring us your foolish humans, your dark flesh-eating fae. Entice us with your magic and let us feast on the carnage you create. We are looking for unique character-driven stories with a strong fantasy storyline. Happy endings not required. Rated R stories welcome.

Although some romance is welcome, please note we are not looking for a romance story. Dark fantasy tends to delve heavily into the grim, with dark themes throughout.

We are not looking for erotica, but will not shy away from a sex scene or two if it is necessary to the plot.

We are not looking for a retelling of a classic tale or fan fiction.

Word count: 2000 - 8000 Some wiggle room allowed above the limit.

Deadline: July 30, 2021

Compensation: Flat rate per story (after approved edits)

- Up to 3000 words $10.00

- Up to 5000 words $15.00

- Above 5001 words $20.00

Plus: The author can choose between a paperback copy of the book when published or receiving a bonus royalty payment after six months of sales. Details will be outlined in the contract.

Guidelines and submission portal here.

Writing Competition: Blair's Lee Smith Novel Prize

Blair’s Lee Smith Novel Prize is Open, Judge: Deesha Philyaw

Deadline: September 1, 2021

The Lee Smith Novel Prize is open for submissions, closing September 1. Final judge is Deesha Philyaw (The Secret Lives of Church Ladies).

Winner receives $1,000 and publication.

No submission fee; suggested donation is optional. Submissions should be full-length, literary fiction novel manuscripts of at least 25,000 words.

Identifying information and author name SHOULD NOT appear in the manuscript. Manuscript files should be named with the novel’s title only. Author's biography and list of published works may be included in the cover letter of Submittable.

Simultaneous submissions accepted. Blair does not publish genre fiction.

Finalists announced early 2022. Submit here.

 

Call for Poetry Submissions by Women over 50: Gyroscope Review

Gyroscope Review seeks contemporary poetry by women-identifying poets over 50 for the Fall 2021 Crone Power Issue. An annual celebration of older women poets. No-fee submissions accepted through Submittable.

 

Deadline: Sep. 1, 2021

 

Back issues available online to see what we like. For guidelines and to submit, visit our website.

Writing Competition: The Deborah Tall Lyric Essay Book Prize

 The Deborah Tall Lyric Essay Book Prize

Seneca Review Books, in conjunction with the TRIAS writer-in-residence program at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, is continuing its a biennial book series to encourage and support innovative work in the essay.

Cross-genre and hybrid work, verse forms, text and image, connected or related pieces, and "beyond category" projects are all within the ambit of the contest.

Please submit an original manuscript of 48-120 pages.

The prize will be administered by the editors of Seneca Review. The winning manuscript to be selected by this year's judge, Kazim Ali, and will be published by Seneca Review Books in the fall of 2022.

Along with publication the author will receive a $2000 prize and a reading with HWS Colleges. The submission period is June 1 - August 1, 2021 through Submittable.

A decision will be announced by mid-December, 2021.

Submission Guidelines:

• Please submit an original manuscript in English of 48-120 pages.

• Cross-genre and hybrid work, verse forms, text and image, connected or related pieces, and "beyond category" projects are all within the ambit of the contest.

• Multiple submissions are acceptable as long as they are submitted separately with separate entry fees.

• Simultaneous submissions are fine, but please be sure to withdraw your submission via Submittable if your work is accepted elsewhere.

• The competition is open to writers who have previously published book-length collections, as well as to unpublished writers.

• Please update any changes in contact information via your profile on Submittable.

• No revisions to submitted manuscripts will be considered. The author of the winning manuscript will have the opportunity to edit mistakes and suggest revisions prior to publication.

• There is a non-refundable submission fee of $27 payable through Submittable.

• Your manuscript should include a single cover page with the title of the manuscript only, so that your manuscript document remains anonymous. Be sure that your document is complete and formatted correctly before uploading.

• Individual essays/pieces in a manuscript may have been previously published in magazines, journals, anthologies, or chapbooks, but the work as a whole must be unpublished. If applicable, include with your manuscript an acknowledgments page for prior publications.

• Intimate friends, relatives, or current and former students of Kazim Ali are not eligible to submit.

Essay Published in Clerestory Magazine plus Submission Info

 Many thanks to editor Sarah James for publishing my essay, "A Path to Healing," in Clerestory Magazine. You can read it here.

 

And if you want to check out their guidelines for their next themed issue, go here.

4th of July

 Happy 4th of July!