Happy New Year!
Wishing you health, happiness, and lots of glorious writing in 2022.
Friday, December 31, 2021
Call for Submissions on Theme of "Earth": The Ilanot Review
Submission period for the spring 2022 issue of The Ilanot Review: December 1, 2021 – January 31, 2022
Theme: Earth
Only one submission per reading period, please! Multiple submissions (including submissions to multiple genres) will be automatically disqualified.
Submission fees:
- The first 500 submissions are free. (Submission caps may vary across specific genres.)
- After that, we charge a submission fee of $3.
- Translations are free throughout the submission period.
- We will consider simultaneous submissions but ask that you retract your work immediately if it is accepted for publication elsewhere.
- If your work appears in our current or previous issue, we kindly ask that you refrain from submitting to our upcoming issue.
- Please include a short bio (50 -75 words) with your submission.
- We welcome unpublished translations of original work, provided the translator has obtained permission from the author. Please include a copy of the original work with your submission.
- We welcome work that challenges conventions of form, style, and content.
Categories:
- Poetry: Up to 5 poems, not to exceed 7 pages. Please submit all work + bio in a single Word file, with each poem beginning on a separate page. Please include your name and contact information on each page.
- Microfiction: Up to 3 pieces of microfiction, no longer than 400 words each.
- Short Fiction: One piece of short fiction, between 401 and 1500 words long.
- Creative Nonfiction: One essay of up to 3000 words, or up to 3 flash pieces, no longer than 1500 words total.
- Comics, Photo Essays, Visual Narratives: Please submit a single document or up to 6 image files (all files must be included in a single submission).
- Art and Photography: Artwork submitted to this category will be considered for inclusion within the journal’s pages and as cover art.
- Translations: We welcome unpublished translations into English from any language, provided the translator has obtained permission from the author. See above for word limits for each genre. Please include a copy of the original work with your submission.
Submit your work here.
Call for Submissions and Writing Competitions: Writer's Foundry Review
General Submission Guidelines
Submissions are open now and close on February 1st, 2022!
We seek literary submissions in fiction, memoir/personal essay and poetry as well as visual art with an emphasis on emerging voices and unique perspectives. We do not accept previously published work, literary criticism or translations.
We accept prose pieces of no more than 4,500 words or up to 3 pieces of flash fiction totaling no more than 4,500 words. Please submit no more than 3 poems or pieces of visual art. Simultaneous submissions are permitted, but please tell us in your cover letter and inform us promptly if your submission is accepted elsewhere. We prefer Microsoft Word documents with a 12-point font. Prose pieces should be double-spaced.
Please submit only once during this period. Expect a response in 2 to 3 months.
The Writer’s Foundry Prize in Short Fiction, Judged by Lee Clay Johnson, Author of Nitro Mountain
The Writer’s Foundry at St. Joseph’s College is pleased to announce the inaugural Writer’s Foundry Prize in Short Fiction, judged by Lee Clay Johnson, author of Nitro Mountain. The winner receives a $500 award and will be published in the upcoming issue of the Writer’s Foundry Review. Runners-up will also be published in the same issue.
Entry Fee: $3.00
Please submit only 1 story. Entries must not exceed 4,500 words. We do not accept previously published works or translations. Simultaneous submissions are permitted, but please tell us in your cover letter and inform us promptly if your submission is accepted elsewhere. We prefer Microsoft Word documents with a 12 point font. Submissions should be double-spaced. Please include a one paragraph biography about yourself in your cover letter. We are looking for your best literary work.
The submission period is December 24th, 2021 to February 1st, 2022. Please submit only once during this period. Expect a response in 2 to 3 months.
The Writer’s Foundry Prize in Poetry, Judged by Alicia Mountain, Author of High Ground Coward
The Writer’s Foundry at St. Joseph’s College is pleased to announce the inaugural Writer’s Foundry Prize in Poetry, judged by Alicia Mountain, author of High Ground Coward. The winner receives a $500 award and will be published in the upcoming issue of the Writer’s Foundry Review. Runners-up will also be published in the same issue.
Entry Fee: $3.00
Please submit no more than 3 poems. We do not accept previously published works. Simultaneous submissions are permitted, but please tell us in your cover letter and inform us promptly if your submission is accepted elsewhere. We prefer Microsoft Word documents with a 12 point font. Please include a one paragraph biography about yourself in your cover letter. We are looking for your best work.
The submission period is December 24th, 2021 to February 1st, 2022. Please submit only once during this period. Expect a response in 2 to 3 months.
Submit or enter here.
Call for Submissions on Theme of "Life": Sea to Sky Review
SPRING ISSUE
APRIL 2022
Deadline: MARCH 15, 2022
Theme: LIFE
No matter the hardships of winter, spring will return and bring life back to the northern hemisphere. This issue of Sea to Sky Review is wide open - send us your images, your poems, and your stories about life.
Submit to:
Type “LIFE ISSUE” in the subject line if possible, and do include a short bio.
Sea to Sky Review is a quarterly electronic journal devoted to showcasing great writing from British Columbia, Canada, as well as the world. We are a literary journal featuring poetry and prose, but we also welcome interviews and reviews, artwork and photography. Send us your pitch!
NOTE: Although we hope to showcase the works of BC Canada residents, we accept and publish submissions by all English language writers everywhere.
Sea to Sky Review does not currently pay contributors. We do guarantee that your work will remain on our domain permanently, and it will be in good company; all of the work in Sea to Sky Review will undergo a rigorous submission process. Our hope is that we can eventually offer a print journal anthology once a year.
Content
Sea to Sky Review is interested in poetry and prose (fiction, non-fiction). We also welcome interviews and reviews, artwork and photography. Our goal is to create a magazine of interest to all kinds of readers. BC is one of the most beautiful and richly diverse places in the world – we hope to celebrate this.
Because we are an online journal, there are no restrictions as to length however please be aware we favour short prose (under 2000 words) over longer pieces.
Each issue will have a theme. Feel to submit off-theme however.
We have discontinued our Submittable interface and are now barrier-free! Please submit your writings, artwork, reviews, and photography directly to us BY EMAIL:
Call for Submissions: The Maine Review
What we’re looking for: Send us writing that you’re excited about. Send us work that took courage to begin and tenacity to complete. Send us your personal essay, your classic short story, your reboot of the villanelle, or your weirdest experimental text. Send us your flash fiction or nonfiction. Send your epistle, erasure, hybrid, prose poem, or micro memoir.
Whatever you send our way, please be sure you’ve read our guidelines with care. Submissions that do not adhere to our guidelines may be returned unread.
What we’re NOT looking for: We will not publish work that glorifies xenophobia, racism, homophobia, ageism, classism, sexism, religious prejudice, ableism, or that normalizes hatred of any marginalized group or individual, though submitted work may thoughtfully consider subjects of discrimination.
We do not publish academic papers or news writing.
General Guidelines:
We accept submissions only through Submittable. Submissions must be previously unpublished in print and on the Internet. We encourage simultaneous submissions but ask that you withdraw your submission immediately if it is accepted elsewhere. If part of a submission must be withdrawn, please notify the genre editor by using Submittable's "message" function on your submission.
We encourage submissions from writers of all backgrounds, including but not limited to LGBTQIA++ writers, writers of color, women writers, unpublished writers, writers with disabilities, and international writers.
We nominate for Pushcart, Best of the Net, and other awards.
Our Staff Readers review all submissions anonymously. No personal information (such as name, email, social media handles, etc.) should appear in your submission file, in the title field, or file name. Submissions with identifying personal information will be returned unread. We understand that nonfiction submissions sometimes contain the writer’s name and ask that you use your best judgment in these circumstances.
Staff Readers cannot view cover letters. However, our Editors enjoy cover letters and we ask that you submit yours addressed to the appropriate genre editor. In prose submissions, please include your word count in your cover letter.
Please send only one submission at a time. We do not accept multiple submissions and we cannot refund multiple submissions.
Submission Schedule:
We are open for nonfiction, fiction, and poetry submissions during three periods annually unless otherwise noted in Submittable: January 1-March 31; May 1-July 31; September 1-November 30.
We publish issues triannually in January, May, and September.
Writer Payment:
Fiction and Nonfiction writers will receive a $25 honorarium per published flash (1,000 words or fewer) and a $50 honorarium for work 1,001 words or more.
Poets will receive a $25 honorarium per published poem.
Writing Competition: 2022 Prime Number Magazine Award for Poetry and Short Fiction
Entry period: January 1 to March 31, 2022 (midnight EASTERN time)
Judge for Poetry: Faith Shearin, author of Lost Language and other collections
Judge for Short Fiction: Jubal Tiner, author of The Waterhouse and founding editor of Pisgah Review.
First Prize in Each Category: $1,000, Pushcart Prize nomination, and publication in Prime Number Magazine, Issue 229, Oct-Dec 2022 (a Press 53 publication) . The winner and two Runners-Up will be published
Announcement: Winner, runners-up, and finalists will be announced no later than July 1, 2022 (probably sooner)
Reading Fee: $15
Poetry: Submit one (and only one) unpublished poem, no more than three pages in length in standard 12-pt. type. (Times, Garamond, etc). Make sure your name does not appear on the page with your poem.
Short Fiction: Submit one (and only one) unpublished short story of up to 5,300 words, with title and word count, double spaced with numbered pages in standard 12-pt. type. (Times, Garamond, etc). Make sure your name does not appear on the manuscript.
Multiple entries: Multiple entries are accepted, but you must enter each poem and/or story individually and pay the reading fee for each entry.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but please withdraw your entry via Submittable if it is accepted elsewhere.You may not replace the withdrawn poem or story with another poem or story. Entry fee is non-refundable.
Editing entry: If you discover an error before the deadline and wish to replace your entry with a newly edited version, request "Open Editing" via Submittable. Requests made after the deadline will not be honored.
Judging: All entries are read blind. Judge is asked to disqualify any entry that is recognized, so please use your best judgment.
Eligibility: Contest is open to writers anywhere in the world who write in English.
Note: Press 53 and Prime Number Magazine editors and family members are not eligible. Authors who have published a book-length collection with Press 53 are not eligible. Writers whose work appears in anthologies published by Press 53 or have previously published in Prime Number Magazine are eligible.
Disclaimer: Prime Number Magazine reserves the right to extend the deadline if deemed necessary. Only unpublished works are eligible. Reading fees are non-refundable. Entries with author's name appearing anywhere on the manuscript will not be considered. No refunds will be made. Entries withdrawn from the contest will not receive a refund. All entries must be original to the author.
Questions/Comments should be directed to Kevin Morgan Watson, Publish & Editor in Chief of Press 53 and Prime Number Magazine at:
More information and submission portal here.
Writing Competition: 2022 New American Poetry Prize
2022 NEW AMERICAN POETRY PRIZE
Submissions are now open for the 2022 New American Poetry Prize. The winning manuscript will be published and its author will receive $1500, 25 copies, and promotional support. Manuscripts should be at least 48 pages, but there is no maximum length. All forms and styles of poetry are welcome.
Extended deadline: February 14, 2022.
Entry Fee: $20.00
We read manuscripts blind, so please exclude identifying information from the manuscript itself. All necessary contact information is included in your Submittable record. We do not accept submission by email or post. Please use Submittable to send your work.
Final judge this year is EDUARDO C. CORRAL, whose debut poetry collection, Slow Lightning (2012), won the Yale Younger Poets Prize, making him the first Latino recipient of the award. His second collection, Guillotine (2020), was praised for his seamless blending of English and Spanish, tender treatment of history, and careful exploration of sexuality, Corral has received numerous honors and awards, including the Discovery/The Nation Award, the J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood Prize, a Whiting Writers’ Award, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. A CantoMundo Fellow, he has held the Olive B. O’Connor Fellowship in Creative Writing at Colgate University and was the Philip Roth Resident in Creative Writing at Bucknell University. In 2016, he won the Holmes National Poetry Prize from Princeton University. Corral teaches in the MFA program at North Carolina State University in Raleigh and is currently a Hodder Fellow at Princeton University.
More information is available at our Frequently Asked Questions.
Further questions may be directed to:
david@newamericanpress.com.
Call for Submissions: Minnow Literary Magazine
Thank you for your interest in Minnow Literary Magazine!
We are a quarterly digital literary magazine.
Submissions for our digital Winter 2021/2022 issue are OPEN.
Deadline to Submit: January 9, 2022 at 11: 59 PM CST
WRITING GUIDELINES
We are interested in literary works inspired by nature, but other genres will also be considered. All writing submitted MUST BE UNPUBLISHED anywhere else with the exception of personal social media. Simultaneous submissions are accepted. Please let us know immediately if your work was accepted elsewhere. Writers will retain all rights to their work. If literary work is accepted, you agree that we can curate the artwork with the literary works as we see appropriate for the upcoming issue.
All submissions will be emailed to:
minnowliterarymagazine@gmail.com
Genres we accept include micro-poetry, flash fiction, personal essays, and art.
More information here.
Sunday, December 26, 2021
Call for Submissions: Ninth Letter
Ninth Letter is accepting submissions of fiction, poetry, and essays for our print edition from September 1 to February 28 (postmark dates). Please note our fee schedule as follows:
September and October: $3.00 per submission
November and December: no submission fee required
January and February: $3.00 per submission
Ninth Letter is published semi-annually in print at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. We are interested in prose and poetry that experiment with form, narrative, and nontraditional subject matter, as well as more traditional literary work. To make life easier for everyone, including yourself, please adhere to the following guidelines when submitting your work to Ninth Letter:
For poetry, submit 3-6 poems (max. 10 pages) at a time. For fiction and nonfiction, please send only one story or one essay at a time, or up to three pieces of flash prose, up to 8,000 words.
Please do not send a second submission until you have received a response to the first. We do not accept previously published work. Simultaneous submissions are okay as long as they are identified as such in a cover letter. Please withdraw your submission immediately upon acceptance elsewhere.
We do not accept submissions by email attachment—email submissions will not be read.
USPS submissions should be addressed to Fiction Editor, Poetry Editor, or Nonfiction Editor:
Ninth Letter
University of Illinois Department of English
608 South Wright St.
Urbana, IL 61801
Please include your name and contact information on the first page of your manuscript; cover letters are optional. All mailed submissions must include an SASE for reply; we recommend a stamped business-sized envelope. If you wish to have your manuscript returned, you must include adequate postage and a properly sized envelope, and indicate such in your cover letter. We will recycle all unreturned manuscripts.
You should hear from us regarding your submission within 16 weeks; if you haven't heard from us in that time you are welcome to query about the status of your manuscript at:
info@ninthletter.com
We can only review two submissions per author per reading period; if you have submitted twice before the end of the reading period, please do not submit again unless solicited to do so by an editor.
For material accepted to our print edition, Ninth Letter pays $25 per printed page, with a maximum payment of $150, as well as two complimentary copies of the issue in which the work appears. Writers will be sent contracts upon acceptance of their work, and will receive page proofs prior to publication; payment will be issued upon publication of the work. Ninth Letter publishes one print issue in the spring and one in the fall.
Submit online here.
Call for Submissions: RIPE
RIPE is currently open for submissions. Compensation for published work is a flat rate of $40.
What We’re Craving
Work that directly speaks to, interrogates, complicates, and/or sheds light on a news story, article, essay and/or media “current” at the time of submission.
We’re hungry for the present and prescient. We especially relish stories that challenge the power structures of the world around us.
General Guidelines
We publish fresh flash fiction of all genres inspired by recent events.
Wordcount: 500 words or fewer.
Publication Status: Original, previously unpublished work.
Language: English. Work from non-native speakers is welcome.
Subject Matter: Work must pull inspiration from a news story, article, essay, and/or other form of media “current” at the time of submission. We are not interested in fiction that promotes fascism, racism, transphobia, sexism, ableism, homophobia, fatphobia, etc.
Submission Format: Docx file in a comfortably sized, legible font. If the reader’s experience of your fiction is affected by visual/stylistic elements of formatting, please include a PDF copy as well.
Multiple Submissions: Please submit only once piece of work to us at a time. We’re happy to accept a new submission when you’ve heard back from our editors on your last submission.
Simultaneous Submissions: Please inform us promptly if you’ve decided to publish your work elsewhere by emailing editor@ripefiction.com.
Submissions which fail to follow our guidelines will receive no response.
Submit your work here.
Call for Submissions: upstreet
We welcome your fiction and creative nonfiction submissions for the next issue of upstreet. Please read these guidelines carefully. If they are not followed, your submission will not be considered.
upstreet does not consider unsolicited poetry submissions. Only poems submitted by invitation will be read. Queries about poetry may be made to:
poetry1@upstreet-mag.org.
- Work whose theme or topic is political, or which contains partisan political references, will not be considered.
- We take submissions only through the upstreet Submission Manager, an online system that will be found here.
- The submission period for upstreet is from September 1 to March 1. The Submission Manager will take work only within that time period.
- The Submission Manager provides a form to enter the author’s name, address, phone number, and email. A brief bio and other information may be entered in the Comments field.
- Please do not submit previously published works, or more than two fiction and two nonfiction pieces per issue.
- Fiction and nonfiction pieces must be 5,000 words or less. Each item should be submitted separately. If more than one piece is included in a file, the submission will be withdrawn, unread.
- Please tell us if your submission is being considered elsewhere, and tell us immediately if it is accepted by another publication.
- Notification will be made via email by mid-May.
The next issue of upstreet will appear in early July.
Payment, upon publication, will be between $50 and $250 for short stories or essays. Each author will also receive one complimentary copy, and may purchase more copies at a reduced rate.
Call for Submissions: Allium, A Journal of Poetry & Prose
ALLIUM, A JOURNAL OF POETRY & PROSE accepts simultaneous submissions, requests a maximum page length of 5 pages for poetry; 15 pages for craft essays, fiction, hybrid, and nonfiction. No previously published work.
Our submission period closes April 1.
Visit Submittable for complete guidelines.
Call for Submissions: AJN, The American Journal of Nursing
AJN, THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF NURSING, seeks personal essays (850-word limit) describing experiences related to health and health care for its monthly Reflections department. Authors do not have to be health care professionals.
We prefer clear writing with strong details and vivid characterization; $150 honorarium paid upon publication.
For author guidelines and examples of articles published in this column, please go to www.editorialmanager.com/ajn/default.aspx and click on “Reflections” under “Author Guidelines,” or query the Reflections coordinator Madeleine Mysko:
The Reflections
essay (850-word limit), which appears each month inside the back cover of AJN, is a forum for previously
unpublished personal stories exploring any aspect of nursing, health, or health
care. While many are accounts of memorable nursing experiences, we also welcome
the patient perspective, as well as that of other health care professionals.
Good writing is the main requirement. Authors should be willing to work with an
editor to revise the essay as needed for clarity, structure, and focus. Avoid
generalizations and clichés in favor of specific details and real immersion in
a place, an event, a moment, a character. Anecdotes meant to illustrate cozy
lessons usually aren’t what we’re looking for; we prefer the messiness and
ambivalence of real life, the nuance and uncertainty of many of our hardest
decisions, the ways we change our minds about things. Reflections offers you a chance to share your story.
Writing Competition: The Disquiet Literary Prize
Submissions are Now Open for the DISQUIET Literary Prize!
Deadline: January 24, 2022
This contest is for writing in fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer who has not yet published more than one book with a major press.
The first prize winners in each genre will be published; one grand prize winner will receive a full scholarship including tuition, lodging, and a $1,000 travel stipend to Lisbon in 2022 (June 26-July 8). Genre winners will receive a $500 cash prize in addition to publication.
Reading fee: $15
Full guidelines here.
Writing Competition: The Crazyhorse Prizes in Fiction, Nonfiction, & Poetry
The Crazyhorse Prizes in Fiction, Nonfiction, & Poetry
Deadline: January 31, 2022
From January 1st to January 31st, Crazyhorse will accept entries for prizes in fiction, nonfiction, & poetry.
Winners receive $2,000 and publication; all manuscripts entered will be considered for publication.
The $20 entry fee includes a one-year subscription. For more information and to see our judges, go here.
Call for Submissions: Wood Cat Review
Wood Cat Review | Emerging Voices from the Wild
Deadline: Year-round
We are a new literary journal looking for emerging writers and poets who capture the spirit and experience of life out-of-doors. Artists whose lives and work thrive in the mountains, forests, and along the open road. From Cascadia to Acadia, Voyageurs to Big Bend, and all the life in between, yours are the voices which speak to travel & adventure, triumph & disaster, challenge & hope, love & loss.
Open submissions are accepted year-round for flash fiction, short fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
Visit our website for more information.
Saturday, December 18, 2021
Call for Submissions to Anthology on The Power of the Pause: Wising Up Press
WISING UP PRESS: Wising Up Anthologies. Submissions: The Power of the Pause. Sometimes the wisest step is just to stop—to pause, listen in.
Sometimes it is better not to over-ride, overcome, forge on. Sometimes the wisest step is just to stop—to pause, listen in, not just to doubts but perhaps to something more resilient, constructive, slower, but stronger. Wiser. Something you may not have thought of—or experienced—yet. Are our actions, in their performance and their consequences qualitatively different if we make space for that pause, trust it with our full weight for as long as it takes? Build it into our way of being in the world?
This is a radical suggestion in a world that keeps going faster and faster, a click here, a click there, a world that measures value by the passing likes of others rather than that still inner voice. What happens when we invite others into that stillness, that pause? With the pandemic, we are in a time, as a world, of involuntary pause—our life's momentum slammed to a stop, redirected. Are there hidden gifts in that experience, ones that have helped you recalibrate, find new and richer ways of being with yourself and with the world?
We invite short stories, poetry, memoir, and creative non-fiction to help us explore this theme.
Deadline: April 15, 2022
Guidelines here.
Call for Submissions: PRISM International
PRISM international publishes exciting, original, literary material from established and emerging writers in Canada and around the world. A good deal of our content is generated from our annual fiction, poetry, short forms and creative non-fiction contests. Please visit our contest page for more details.
We accept submissions year-round. Due to the high volume of submissions we receive each month, reply times range between two to six months, depending on the time of year.
Please note: PRISM does not accept submissions from current and incoming students and faculty of the University of British Columbia’s Creative Writing Program (this includes the UBC Optional-Residency MFA Program). Work submitted by incoming students prior to their acceptance to the UBC Creative Writing Program, if still under consideration, must be withdrawn. In order to submit, UBC alumni cannot have taken a UBC Creative Writing Program course during the previous two years.
PRISM does not publish the same writer twice in a publication year.
GENERAL SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
We strongly prefer online submissions, as we do not accept email submissions. We charge a $3.00 reading fee per submission. Writers for whom the $3.00 fee is prohibitive are welcome to contact us directly about alternative methods of submission.
Please submit to only one genre at a time, and await a reply before submitting again. See the particular guidelines for each genre below.
Submissions should be typed, double-spaced, and paginated. Please specify the genre of your submission in your cover letter. All submissions should be set in Times New Roman, 12-point font.
Include in your cover letter your full contact information (including email address) and a short bio.
We accept simultaneous submissions. If your piece is accepted elsewhere, please let us know immediately.
We purchase first North American serial rights, and pay $30/printed page for prose and $40/printed page for poetry. Contributors will receive two copies of the issue in which their work appears.
We encourage submissions from Indigenous writers, writers of colour, writers with disabilities, LGBTQIA2S+ writers, and writers from other intersectional and marginalized groups, including low-income earners. If you identify as one or more of the above and would like to let us know, please mention it in your cover letter
Call for Submissions on Theme of Bridezillas: They Call Us
Feminist Literary Zine About "Bridezillas" Submissions Open
Deadline: January 10, 2022
They Call Us, a feminist magazine devoted to discussing everyday gender discrimination, is currently accepting free submissions of poetry, prose, art, and photography for our new edition, They Call Us Bridezillas. This edition will unpack the patriarchal history, the heteronormative traditions, and the societal pressure of weddings. We also ask the question of what torment made monsters of the bride to be.
You can read submission guidelines and other information on our website.
All rights belong to the writers/artists and the word count is 800 words. Our words are our weapon!
Call for Submissions on Theme of Navigations--A Place for Peace: About Place Journal
Call for Submissions: Navigations - A Place for Peace
Deadline: March 10, 2022
Each issue of About Place Journal, the arts publication of the Black Earth Institute, focuses on a specific theme.
From January 1st to March 10th we'll be accepting submissions for our Spring 2022 issue Navigations: A Place for Peace. 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 here.
Call for Submissions: Heron Tree
Heron Tree: Call for Submissions
Deadline: January 15, 2022
Heron Tree is open for submissions through January 15, 2022. We will read submissions and make decisions on a rolling basis. Accepted poems will be published individually online (one poem a week beginning in February 2022) and then collected in Heron Tree volume 9, which will be available as a free downloadable ebook.
This special issue will be devoted to found poetry. See our detailed submission guidelines here.
Writing Competition: Yeats Poetry Prize
Yeats Poetry Prize
Ann Kjellberg judge
Deadline: February 1, 2022
First prize $1,000, Second $500. Poems in English up to 60 lines, any subject, unpublished at submission.
Enter via Submittable or mail:
c/o WB Yeats Society of NY
National Arts Club
15 Gramercy Park South
NYC 10003
Enter name, contact information separately in Submittable entry form or separate card.
Entry $15 for first, $12 each additional poem.
Call for Submissions: Meat for Tea
Submit Your Art and Writing to Meat for Tea!
This fully independent journal is committed to featuring the work of emerging writers and artists alongside that of more established people, such as Jane Yolen, Marge Piercy, John Lurie, David Yow, and many other luminaries.
This is a physical print publication designed to showcase contributor's work beautifully. Let your writing and art shine in Meat for Tea.
Deadline: February 26, 2022.
Free Writing Workshops for Teachers and Adjunct Faculty: Kenyon Review
Saturday, January 22nd
2:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m. EST
If you’re a writer who is working as a school teacher or adjunct faculty member, we’d like to invite you to apply for our free two-hour workshops with award-winning writers Ross Gay, T Kira Madden, and Tracy K. Smith.
To acknowledge the stress you’ve endured throughout the past two years of the pandemic, and to thank you for your grace under pressure, we’d like to offer you two hours of inspiration.
All writers who are adjuncts, primary or secondary school teachers are welcome to apply. Please visit our website to learn more.
Those accepted will be notified via email by January 5th. Each workshop is limited to 15 participants.
Sunday, December 12, 2021
Call for Submissions: Ginosko
Accepting short fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, social justice, literary insights for Ginosko Literary Journal.
Publishing as semiannual litzine. Check downloadable issues on website for tone & style.
Editorial lead time 1-2 months; accept simultaneous submissions & reprints; length flexible, accept excerpts. Receives postal and email submissions—prefer email submissions as attachments in .wps, .doc, .rtf. —or by Submittable.
Authors retain copyrights.
Read year-round.
Ginosko (ghin-océ-koe)
A word meaning to perceive, understand, realize, come to know; knowledge that has an inception, a progress, an attainment. The recognition of truth from experience.
Est 2002.
Editors
Robert Paul Cesaretti
Fellowship: Folger Institute Artist Research Fellowship
Artist Research Fellowship
About the Artist Research Fellowship
The Folger Institute Artist Research Fellowship is open to artists working in all media whose work would benefit from significant primary research. This includes, but is not limited to, visual artists, writers, dramaturgs, playwrights, performers, filmmakers, and composers.
While a terminal degree is not required for the Artist Research Fellowship, applicants should describe their training and level of industry-specific experience in their CV. All applicants must apply as individuals, including artists working as collaborators. See additional Rules and Requirements and Application Instructions.
Please note that in 2022–2023, all Artist Research Fellowships will be non-residential.
Awards are $3,500 for four weeks of work away from the Folger.
All applications are due by 11:59pm ET on 18 January 2022. All applications must be submitted through the Folger’s online portal. Fellowships may be undertaken between July 2022 and June 2023.
More information here.
Call for Submissions: The Puritan
The Puritan seeks submissions all year round, from anywhere in the world.
Our current publication rates (as of Summer 2019) stand as:
$100 PER INTERVIEW,
$200 PER ESSAY,
$100 PER REVIEW,
$150 PER WORK OF FICTION, AND
$25 PER POEM (OR PAGE, CAPPED AT $80 FOR POEMS RUNNING FOUR PAGES OR MORE).
Check back with the magazine regularly; The Puritan is working ever assiduously to increase these figures.
Please note that we can ONLY issue payments using PayPal or a cheque in the mail. We also pay in CAD. If you cannot accept payment via PayPal or cheque from a Canadian bank, we cannot accept your submission.
Regular submissions to the magazine should fall under one of four categories: fiction, essays, poetry, and reviews. Unless we are soliciting your work, all submissions must be previously unpublished (this includes self-publishing, publishing on blogs, and in chapbook format).
All submissions received by December 25 are considered for the winter issue, out in February.
Send all questions and messages to:
puritanmagazine [at] gmail [dot] com
Please note that we CANNOT accept email submissions. They will be discarded.
We are open to simultaneous submissions. If your work is accepted elsewhere, please leave a comment via Submittable. Email notifications of withdrawals will be ignored as we simply cannot keep up with the volume of them.
Call for Submissions: Sleet Magazine
Sleet seeks the unexpected. Make us think. Our crew possesses a wide variety of tastes and styles, from classic to center to edge, but it is craft and passion that drive us.
Sleet Magazine is currently open for submissions for our Spring 2022 edition. The submission window will close on January 15, 2022, at midnight.
Our Submission Policies
We will accept up to 5 poems, 3 flash, 1 short story or CNF piece, or a small handful of irregulars*.
We aim for quick turn around time; we do our best!
• Please include page numbers in works of fiction.
• We do not accept novel excerpts.
• Send work as a single Microsoft Word (.doc,.docx) or Open Document Text (.odt) attachment.
• Please, no .pdf's or Google docs..
• We try but cannot guarantee your formatting will translate perfectly on all devices.
• Include a short bio written in 3rd person, and please provide a short cover letter.
• Please send us work only once per submission period.
• Sleet does not pay. We are all volunteers.
Simultaneous Submissions and Previously Published Works
Sleet, wholeheartedly and without reservation, encourages simultaneous submissions. If a piece appears with us first, we do ask that Sleet be credited as its primary place of publication. In addition, we will consider showing previously published work as long as it is identified as such. We do not regard work on a blog or personal website as previously published.
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An irregular is a genre-crossing bit of writing — something that overflows borders or maybe never had any. It could be an impression, a vignette, a 1-line flash. A general rule of thumb: If you don't know where to send it, send it here. An irregular should not stray over 500 words. It may be comprised of a single piece or a constellation of work.
Our Address:
Please send submissions to:
editor@sleetmagazine.com
All work is the property of the artist.
Writing Competition: Gemini Magazine 12th Annual Poetry Open Prize
Win $1,000: 12th Annual Gemini Magazine Poetry Open
Deadline: January 4, 2022
Winner receives $1,000 and publication for a poem of any length, subject or style. Rhyming or non-rhyming. Traditional or non-traditional. Second prize: $100. Four honorable mentions: $25 each.
Entry fee: $8 for three poems.
All six winners will be published online in our March/April 2022 issue. Read previous winners and enter here.
Call for Micro-Fiction on Theme of "Bad Habits": Blink-Ink
Blink-Ink Call for Submissions on Bad Habits
Deadline: January 15, 2022
Bad Habits. . . We know you don't have any but others might, what then? Surrender to them, flaunt them, solicit a gentle gypsy to coax them away, hire a dominatrix to beat them out? Horrid clowns to scare them away? Please DO NOT send us heartbreaking tales of baleful addictions. Just bad habits—those things one ought not to do but. . . . Please send us your best stories of approximately 50 words regarding Bad Habits in the body of an email to:
blinkinkinfo@gmail.com
No poetry, bios, or attachments please.
Submissions open December 1st, 2021 through January 15th, 2022.
Call for Short Fiction Submissions: Ahoy Comics
If you write quality short fiction, it's time to send us your stuff.
But first, please consider our Official Ahoy Short Fiction Submission Guidelines
At Ahoy, we believe our sacred duty is to find new voices and let them scream at the world. Thus, each Ahoy Comics magazine will include at least one piece of short fiction or social commentary. We seek smart, weird, funny articles or stories, which run between 500 and 1,500 words.
Mostly, we want short fiction for mature readers, pieces that uphold the story-telling legacy of comics. It could be a delirious rant, a personal anecdote, a tale of horror or even poetry. It can be about anything, but we have a soft spot for submissions with a dash of humor.
These stories can be political, but they must not be based on events that might be outdated by the time we publish. Whatever the subject, it must still be relevant a year from now. Also, the 1,500-word maximum is pretty much carved into stone. We don’t plan to go above that limit. Our ideal length is about 654.53 words, give or take.
We will pay $200 per story. Writers will retain full rights to their works. We will maintain the right to publish on this site and to reprint the story in a trade compilation or anthology. If we decide to reprint it, we will pay another 25 percent of the original fee.
We believe this is an opportunity for serious writers to reach the most voracious readers of fiction on this planet: the clear-eyed souls who buy comics. We will do our best to promote our writers and their works.
For short story submissions, we don’t suggest pitches. Good grief, these are short stories. We ask writers to upload their work through our submission porthole. It will take probably six weeks for us to reply - at times, we've been buried by submissions - but we will get back to you.
We want to build a reputation for quality writing, and for treating our contributors respectfully, the way we’d want to be treated. If you don’t hear from us in, say, seven weeks, something may have slipped between the cracks. Please feel free to send us a reminder. We won't secretly hold it against you (as other publishers do.)
At times, to stay afloat, we must close this submissions porthole. Check back regularly.
Now is a great time to connect with AHOY and send us your short fiction. We want to hear from you. This could be the start of a beautiful friendship, the kind worthy of a moose and his flying squirrel.
To submit and for more information, go here.
Call for Submissions: Apocalypse Party
We are currently open to submissions.
Apocalypse Party is seeking novels, novellas, short story collections, and hybrid works.
We are seeking imaginative and challenging books that push boundaries. We are as interested in mood, sensation, and altered states of perception as we are in the story. We like stories with the ethereal quality of memory filtered through a psychedelic kaleidoscope. We want darkly peculiar narratives that are compelling and have a range of emotion. We want daring work that keeps us on edge, waiting for the next ghost to materialize. Surprise us. Most of all, we want books that take risks. Show us something we've never seen before.
Email us at:
apocalypsepartypress@gmail.com
Editor Ben DeVos handles all correspondence.
In the body of your email, please include a cover letter with a short summary of your manuscript.
Please attach your manuscript as a word document .doc or .docx.
Please do not send multiple manuscripts at once. Simultaneous submissions are cool.
What we pay:
Our royalty agreement for both print and ebook is 50% of net revenue.
By publishing with Apocalypse Party, you grant us the right to publish and distribute your work worldwide in paperback and ebook.
All other rights are retained by the author.
Visit our website for more information.
Saturday, December 4, 2021
Call for Submissions: Two Hawks Quarterly
TWO HAWKS QUARTERLY is a digital journal affiliated with Antioch University Los Angeles’ BA Program in Creative Writing and is setting the bar for contemporary literature with bold and illuminating poetry, fiction, cnf, art, and quality experimental work.
Submissions accepted November 1, 2021 through July 31, 2022.
Two Hawks Quarterly is looking for exquisitely crafted work that will astonish, surprise, challenge, and delight us. THQ accepts simultaneous submissions, but please inform us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere. All work received is reviewed by at least three editors and often read aloud in a group setting. We strive to respond to every submission within four months or less.
Please send no more than one piece of fiction or creative nonfiction of 5,000 words maximum length at a time, or three pieces of flash fiction or very short CNF. We discourage novel excerpts unless they stand alone and work as satisfying short stories.
We’re interested in all forms of creative nonfiction: memoir, personal essays, and hybrid forms, but not straight reportage, travel writing, or editorializing rants.
Poetry: Our tastes in poetry are eclectic; we like narrative, we like lyrical, we can get excited farmacia aperta over edgy too, but please send no more than five poems at a time. And no first drafts or 2:00 a.m. at the bar compositions -- you'll hate yourself in the morning.
Include a brief cover note with your submission that includes a mini-bio, list of prior publications, and contact information. We tend to read cover notes after we’ve read your work so as not to be swayed by them.
We also feature a few drawings, paintings, photographs, and/or mixed media works in each issue. If you are interested in having us consider your art, please submit it under the Submittable category of Genre X.
All correspondence with THQ goes through our online submissions system Submittable.com. Once we accept your work, we will ask you to send a more detailed biography and photo. You can send that through the same system, simply by designating the submission as photo/bio.
Submit your work here.
Submissions are ongoing.
Writing Competition: Nowhere To Travel Fall Writing Prize
Award-winning literary travel magazine Nowhere is accepting submissions for our annual Fall Travel Writing Prize.
We are looking for novice and veteran writers of any stripe to send us stories that possess a powerful sense of people, place and time. Every submission will be read blind, so anyone can win!
Requirements (read our general guidelines here):
+ Entries may be fiction, nonfiction, poetry or essay, but please indicate which genre at the top of your manuscript.
+ Stories should run between eight hundred and five thousand words. Poetry may be any length, and several poems, themed together, may be submitted as one entry.
+ Entries must be submitted in English, though authors may be located anywhere in the universe.
+ Previously published work is eligible. Please indicate this, with proper attribution details, in your cover letter.
+ Entries must not previously have been chosen the winner of any contest.
+ Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but please indicate this in your cover letter. If your submission is awarded another prize during this contest period, please withdraw your entry.
+ Multiple entries from a single author, submitted individually, are welcome.
+ Please leave off any identifying information from your attachment—no names, contact information, etc. We intend to read every submission totally blind.
+ Please do not insert graphics, images or video into your attachment. Please use a widely available 12-point font (e.g., Arial, Times New Roman, Helvetica, etc.), with spacing set to double and with 1-inch margins.
The winner will receive US$1,000, with publication in Nowhere granted under First North American Serial Rights (FNASR). Up to ten finalists also will be published.
Brush off your manuscripts or write something new and send it to the only literary travel magazine going!
The contest deadline is 11:59 p.m. EST on December 15, 2021.
Entry Fee: $20.00
More information here.
Please allow at least six months for judging to be completed once the competition period closes. All entrants will be notified of our decision via Submittable. We look forward to reading your work!
Call for Submissions: Storm Cellar
Call for Submissions: Storm Cellar
Deadline: Rolling
Storm Cellar seeks new and amazing writing and art for its spring issue! We are a journal of safety and danger, in many senses, in print and ebook formats since 2011. Send secrets, codes, adventures, mad experiments, and wild things. Black, Indigenous, POC, LGBTQIA+, disabled, neurodivergent, fat, border-straddling, poor, and other marginalized authors encouraged; bonus points for a Midwest connection.
Now paying; limited no-fee submissions available each month.
Full guidelines and f.a.q. at stormcellar.org/submit and submit at Submittable.
Writing Competition on Theme of "Brains and Beauty": MCC 10-minute Play Competition
10-minute Play Competition
Deadline: February 4, 2022
Entry Fee: $10.00
Event Date: March 26, 2022
Event Location: Muskegon Community College
MCC now accepting submissions for its 2022 10-Minute Play Festival Competition. We are accepting comedic or dramatic plays fitting this year’s theme: “Brains and Beauty.” Six winning plays will be selected for live staged reading.
One play, as voted by the audience in attendance at the festival, will be selected as the Audience Favorite and will receive a $100 cash prize. To get more information, click on the submissions guidelines.
Writing Competition on Topics of Chewing Gum, Horror Movies, Skyscrapers, or Tubas: Ethos Literacy
3rd Annual Short Short Story Contest to Support Literacy
Deadline: January 31, 2022
Ethos Literacy—a nonprofit literacy program—announces its 3rd Annual Short Short Story Contest. 100 word limit on one of these topics: chewing gum, horror movies, skyscrapers, or tubas.
Cash prizes: Best in Contest: $250; Best Youth Prize (14 years or younger): $100; 4 Best of Category: $100; People's Choice $100. Publication in a digital magazine + webcast of winners reading their stories.
Submission fee: $10. Proceeds support literacy programs for teens and adults.
Writing Competition: 2022 Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction
2022 Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction
Deadline: March 14, 2022
$2,500 honorarium and publication in the Fall/Winter issue of Colorado Review.
Submit an unpublished story between 2,500 and 12,500 words by March 14, 2022 (we will observe a 5-day grace period).
Entry fee: $15 (add $2 to submit online)
Final judge is Ramona Ausubel; friends and students (current or former) of the judge are not eligible to compete, nor are Colorado State University employees, students, or alumni.
Complete guidelines at: nelliganprize.colostate.edu
or Nelligan Prize, Colorado Review, 9105 Campus Delivery, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-9105.
Writing Competition: The Crazyhorse Prizes in Fiction, Nonfiction, & Poetry
The Crazyhorse Prizes in Fiction, Nonfiction, & Poetry
Deadline: January 31, 2022
From January 1st to January 31st, Crazyhorse will accept entries for prizes in fiction, nonfiction, & poetry. Winners receive $2,000 and publication; all manuscripts entered will be considered for publication.
The $20 entry fee includes a one-year subscription.
For more information and to see our judges, visit: crazyhorse.cofc.edu/prizes/.
Call for Submissions to Anthology: letters i'll never send
Deadline: December 31, 2021
I am seeking writers for an experimental anthology titled “letters i’ll never send”. This anthology will be a compilation of first-person accounts including letters, prosaic poems, diary entries, postcard letters, short personal essays, and other genre-bending experimental pieces. ”letters i’ll never send” is meant to serve as a sentimental linkage between the writer and the reader. It should lure the reader in emotionally, so that they can resonate in some meaningful way.
Payment: $50.00
Please visit jackiebluu.com/news for more information and other guidelines.
Please send your pieces via email (in the body or attached) to:
Call for Submissions: Whimsical Poet
WhimsicalPoet Seeks Poetry/Art/Flash Fiction for the Website and Winter Issue
Deadline: Rolling
WhimsicalPoet seeks all forms of poetry, art, and flash fiction that surprise, challenge, chill, endear, and evoke a strong emotional response from readers. We love word mavericks, independent thinkers, and creators who strive toward mastery and truth to expose threads of the human experience. Send up to 5 pieces in a Word or Google Doc to:
or submit through Google Forms via the link on our submission page Art will be considered for the cover of our print journal and our website. Published poetry and fiction will appear in our journal, and a smaller selection will also appear on our website. Please include a short bio.
Full details here.
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