Call for Submissions: Class Collective Magazine

At Class Collective Magazine, we’re proud to publish writing that has a class based perspective on politics and culture. However, we encourage writers to interpret this prompt as creatively as they’d like—the sky’s the limit! We have multiple categories, including poetry, short fiction, essays, and commentary. Please read our full guidelines down below.

(1) Submissions are accepted on a rolling basis for online publication. To send us a pitch or to submit your work for review, email:

classcollectivemag@gmail.com

(2) As Class Collective’s team is comprised entirely of volunteers, we currently pay a modest honorarium of CA$10 for poetry, and CA$20 for fiction, essays, and commentary (processed via PayPal). To help us increase this amount, please consider donating to our contributor’s pool.

(3) We accept unpublished writing from across the world and will respond within 2-4 months.

(4) We don’t believe in submission fees.

Poetry

Fiction

Essays 

Commentary

With your submission, please include your name, the title of your work, and a 1-2 sentence author’s bio.

Note to publishers:
Class Collective Magazine gladly receives books for review. Book reviews are published to our website.

For any inquiries, please contact us.

Call for Submissions: Swamp Ape Review

Submission guidelines are also available on our Submittable page.

Deadline: August 31, 2022

We encourage pieces that echo the hybrid nature of the Swamp Ape—works that subvert our expectations of both content and form, and unsettle our assumptions of what is possible. We are especially interested in publishing the work of writers from under-represented backgrounds and identities.

In 2022, we will publish a print as well as an online issue, both of which will include a special section featuring South Florida writers and artists.

All work will be considered for both the print and online issues. If your work is meant to function in both formats (i.e. collaboratively in print and online), please indicate this in your application. (We would love to see submissions of this nature.)

See individual genres for descriptions, size recommendations, and formatting requirements.

If you are a writer or artist with ties to the South Florida area, please consider submitting to our South Florida Feature category, as your work could be featured in both the print and online issues of SAR Quarterly.

Across genres:

• You may submit to multiple categories, but not using the same piece (e.g. a Fiction submission must differ from a Swamp submission by the same author).

• Do not submit work that has already been published elsewhere. This includes self-published work.

• Wait to hear back from us before submitting new work.

• Only submit one file per submission (e.g. all five poems in one file, all 4 pieces of art in one file)

• Only follow up if you haven't heard back from us within the standard 6-month window. We read your pieces thoughtfully and will be in touch when we do.

• Let us know promptly if your submission is accepted for publication elsewhere. Please do so by withdrawing your submission from the Submittable queue and adding a note to it, specifying that you've withdrawn. For poetry, specify if certain poems are still available.

• FAU graduates must wait at least 3 years after their graduation term before submitting work for consideration.

Within genres, while we accept submissions of any length, our preferences are:

• Up to 5 poems. Please submit only one file.

• ≤ 6,000 words for fiction and nonfiction

• Visual art that fits our aesthetic, happens to mesh thematically with one of the poems, stories, or essays we plan to publish, or that expands our aesthetic. Please submit only one file. 

More information and submittal portal here.

For questions regarding submissions, please contact:

editor@swampapereview.com.

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Call for Submissions: The Threepenny Review

Deadline: April 30, 2022

At present The Threepenny Review is paying $400 per story or article, $200 per poem or Table Talk piece. This payment buys first serial rights in our print and digital editions, and the copyright then reverts to the author immediately upon publication.

2. All mailed manuscripts must include a stamped, self-addressed envelope for our reply. Submissions should be mailed to:

The Editors
The Threepenny Review
PO Box 9131
Berkeley, CA 94709

3. All online submissions must consist of a single document in Word format (.doc or .docx). If you are submitting prose, the document should consist of a single article or a single story. If you are submitting poetry, please group your poems into one document containing no more than five poems, because the online system will not accept more than a single document from each person. Please include your name and address somewhere on the document as well as in our submission form.

4. We do not print material that has previously been published elsewhere, and we emphatically do not consider simultaneous submissions. We do our best to offer a quick turnaround time, so please allow us the privilege of sole consideration during that relatively brief period; writers who do not honor this request will not be published in the magazine.

5. Response time for submissions can range from two days to two months. Please do not submit more than a single story or article, or more than five poems, until you have heard back from us about your previous submission. If you have not heard from us within a couple of months, you should assume that either your communication or ours has gone astray.

6. We strongly recommend that you stay within our length limits. As a rule, critical articles should be about 1200 to 2500 words, Table Talk items 1000 words or less, stories and memoirs 4000 words or less, and poetry 100 lines or less. (Exceptions are occasionally possible, but longer pieces will have a much harder time getting accepted.) We prefer to read prose submissions that are double-spaced; poetry can be single-spaced or double-spaced.

7. Critical articles that deal with books, films, theater performances, art exhibits, etc. should cite these occasions at the front of the article, using the following format:

Theater Piece
by Playwright's Name,
directed by Director's Name.
Theater, City,
Season 20__.

Art Exhibition Title,
Gallery or Museum, City,
Start Date–End Date.

Book Title
by Author's Name.
Publisher, Year Published,
Price (cloth) (paper).

Remember that The Threepenny Review is quarterly and national (and in some respects international); therefore each "review" should actually be an essay, broader than the specific event it covers and of interest to people who cannot see the event. 

More information and online submission link here.

Call for Submissions: Split Lip

We pay (via PayPal) $50 per author for poems, memoirs, flash, fiction, and art, and $25 for interviews/reviews for our web issues. Payment for print is $5 per page, minimum of $20, plus 2 contributor copies.

As long as we’ve got money, we’re committed to paying people for their work.

Free Submissions:

January, March, May, August, September, November

We recommend submitting early in free subs months! Sometimes we have to shut free subs early due to a rad but also overwhelming response. (A peek behind the curtain: our free sub cap with Submittable maxes out.

Tip Jar Submissions only:

February, April, June, October, and the first half of December

We don’t accept submissions in July or from December 15–31.

If the fees are a burden, please reach out to us! We can’t always help out, but we like to try when we can. 

More information here.

 

Writing Competition: Midway Journal's -1000 Below: Flash Prose and Poetry Contest

Enter Midway Journal’s -1000 Below: Flash Prose and Poetry Contest for a chance to win the $500 grand prize! See contest guidelines below.

Opens: March 1st

Closes: June 1st

Fee: $10 per entry (unlimited entries)

Prizes:

First Prize: $500 + publication in Midway Journal

Second Prize:$250 + publication in Midway Journal

Third Prize: $50 + publication in Midway Journal

Judge: Kim Chinquee
Contest Guidelines:

Entries and payments must be received through Midway Journal‘s online submission manager under “-1000 Below: Flash Prose and Poetry Contest.” You may submit an unlimited number of entries, but a new entry fee must be paid for each new submission. You may also submit to each genre. However, there is only one grand prize winner, one second prize winner and one third prize winner and not a winner in each genre.

Paste the title of your submission and your contact information (name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address) in the cover letter box. Your name and contact information must not appear anywhere on the manuscript you upload.

Previously published work will not be accepted. Simultaneous submissions are permitted, but must be withdrawn from the contest if accepted elsewhere.

Poetry: up to 2 poems per entry, up to 40 words per poem. No more than one poem per page.

Prose (Fiction and Nonfiction): 1 piece per entry, up to 1,000 words per piece.

All submissions will be considered for publication.
Judge: Kim Chinquee

Call for Submissions: The MacGuffin

The MacGuffin seeks Work that Experiments with Form

Deadline: Rolling

The MacGuffin is seeking new work that innovates, inspires, and experiments: Prose that takes risks with and evolves the form of the short story; Poetry that speaks volumes in small spaces; submissions that reflect our now post-post-post-modern times. Send up to five poems and up to two stories (in separate files and no longer than 5000 words each, fiction and/or creative nonfiction) to our Submittable link or see our website for full submission guidelines.

Call for Submissions: Thuya Poetry Review

 

Thuya Poetry Review Calls for Submission

Deadline: May 15, 2022

No submission fee.

Thuya Poetry Review is open for submission until May 15.

View our website for full submission guidelines.

Call for Submissions: WhimsicalPoet

WhimsicalPoet Seeks Poetry/Art/Flash Fiction for the Website and Spring Issue

Deadline: Rolling

WhimsicalPoet seeks all forms of poetry, art, and flash fiction that surprises, challenges, chills, endears, and evokes 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:

WhimsicalPoet.Com@gmail.com

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.

Call for Submissions: Air / Light

While Air/Light is based in Los Angeles and approaches the literary arts from a Southern California perspective, we want to read and publish work by everyone from everywhere.

And we pay! Baseline rates are as follows:

Poetry: $50
Responses and department pieces: $100
Fiction and essays/nonfiction: $200
Visual art, music, and multimedia: $200


WHAT WE READ

Nonfiction: Personal essays, critical essays, memoir, reviews, reportage, travel, interviews. Anything up to 4000 words.

Fiction: All genres and styles, up to 4000 words.

Poetry: No more than 10 pages per submission. We are interested in poems of all shapes and sizes, traditional or those that play with genre and form.

Cross-genre: Original work that blurs the lines of genre and form, whether text only or incorporating images and other multimedia elements.

Collaborations: Collaborative essays by two or more writers, or by a writer and an artist, up to 4000 words.

Visual Art: Original work in any style or genre, from comics to fine art and collage.

Music: Original recordings, compositions, and mixes.

Video: Short films, video essays, experimental collage, or anything in this territory.

Digital, multimedia, and interactive: Digital, multimedia, and interactive: Video games, twine narratives, choose-your-own-adventure web stories, interactive experiences, VR/AR/XR art.

GUIDELINES

We only consider previously unpublished work.

Our taste is wide-ranging, but please familiarize yourself with the journal prior to submitting to get a sense of what we publish.

Simultaneous submissions are fine, but if you decide to publish elsewhere, please notify us immediately via your Submittable account that you are withdrawing your work from consideration.

We have a small staff, so please wait one month before inquiring about the status of your submission. We’ll get to it, and we are doing our best to be as prompt as we can. 

For complete guidelines and submission forms, please go here.

Writing Competition: The Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing

The Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing was created in 2016 to honor outstanding debut literary works by first-generation immigrants, awarded for fiction and nonfiction in alternating years. The winner receives $10,000 and publication by Restless Books. 

Submissions for the 2022 Prize in Fiction are open from December 15, 2021 to March 31, 2022. 

The Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing [hereafter referred to as “the Prize”] alternates yearly between accepting unpublished fiction and nonfiction submissions. Fiction submissions can take the form of a novel or a book-length collection of short stories. Nonfiction submissions can take the form of a memoir, a collection of essays, or a book-length work of narrative nonfiction. The submission should address some combination of identity, the meeting of cultures and communities, immigration and migration, and today’s globalized society.

• Fiction manuscripts must be complete. Nonfiction submissions must consist of either a complete manuscript, or a sample of at least 25,000 words and a detailed proposal that includes a synopsis and an annotated table of contents. All submissions must be in English (translations welcome).

• Candidates must be first-generation residents of their country. “First-generation” can refer either to people born in another country who relocated, or to residents of a country whose parents were born elsewhere.

• Fiction candidates must not have previously published a book of fiction in English. Nonfiction candidates must not have previously published a book of nonfiction in English. We encourage applicants to look at the other titles Restless has published and previous contest winners to get a sense of our aesthetic.
  

• We will accept only one submission per candidate per submission period, and submissions must be under the author’s real name, not under a pseudonym. Agented submissions are welcome.

• Candidates may not submit the same manuscript for the Prize in subsequent years unless specifically invited by Restless.

• Restless reserves the right to invite writers to submit for the Prize.

• Restless reserves the right to consider any Prize submission for publication.

• Submitted manuscripts may be simultaneously under consideration for publication by other publishing houses. Once a manuscript has been selected as the winner of the Prize, Restless will contact the author and ask that the manuscript be withdrawn from consideration elsewhere. A publishing contract between the winning author and Restless Books must be signed before the winner is announced.
  

* Please note that while Restless Books welcomes all submissions for the Prize, we do not accept unsolicited manuscripts for our publishing program.

Deadline: March 31, 2022

No entry fee.

For more information and to submit your work, go here.

Call for Submissions: Phantom Kangaroo

Deadline: April 13, 2022

Phantom Kangaroo is published three times a year and features 13 poems by 13 poets. Poetry and art submissions are accepted on a periodic basis.

Phantom Kangaroo accepts poetry in all forms and styles, as long as the subject matter is esoteric, paranormal, surreal, mystical, or supernatural.

Each published poet will receive two complimentary copies of the print magazine. 

More information and submission portal here.

Writing Competition: CRAFT Short Fiction Prize

GUIDELINES:

• CRAFT Short Fiction Prize submissions are open to all fiction writers.

• International submissions are welcome.

• Short fiction only.

• Please submit work in English only. We are not currently accepting translations.

• This contest is for short stories 1,000 to 5,000 words in length.

• We review literary fiction, but are open to a variety of genres and styles—our only requirement is that you show excellence in your craft.

• Previously unpublished work only—we do NOT review reprints for contests (previously published includes blogs, personal websites, social media, etc.).

• We allow simultaneous submissions—writers, please notify us and withdraw your piece if your work is picked up elsewhere.

• We allow multiple submissions—please submit each piece as a separate submission accompanied by an entry fee.

• $20 entry fee per submission.

• All entries will also be considered for publication in CRAFT.

• Please, please, double-space your submission and use Times New Roman 12 pt font.

• Please include a brief cover letter with your publication history (if applicable).

• We do not require anonymous submissions.

• We do not discriminate on the basis of age, ancestry, disability, family status, gender identity or expression, national origin, race, religion, sex or sexual orientation, or for any other reason.

• Additionally, we do not tolerate discrimination in the writing we consider for publication: work we find discriminatory on any of the bases stated here will be declined without complete review (you will be refunded, less fees).

AWARDS:

• Winner receives $2,000 award.

• Runners-up receive $500 award and $300 award respectively for the second and third place finalists.

• Publication of the top three stories in CRAFT, each with an introduction by the guest judge.

• Publication of an author’s note (craft essay) to accompany the story by each of the writers of the top three entries. 

Deadline: May 1, 2022 

Submit your entry here.

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Writing Competition: The Orchard Street Press 2022 Poetry Contest

The Orchard Street Press 2022 Poetry Contest

The Orchard Street Press announces its fifth annual Poetry Contest: $500 first prize, $300 second, $200 third. Prize-winning and other submitted poems will appear in Quiet Diamonds, our annual poetry journal, and select entrants will be invited to submit chapbooks for possible publication. This year, we are publishing 10 chapbooks from entrants to the 2021 Contest.

We expect to publish 12-15 chapbooks from the 2022 Contest.

Submit poems and the $14 fee to: 

The Orchard Street Press

P.O. Box 280

Gates Mills, Ohio 44040

Entries can also be submitted via our website, orchpress.com.

Submission details: Submit up to four original, unpublished poems (no translations and no single poem longer than two pages). Poems should be typed and should not include the poet’s name on the page. The poet should also send a cover letter (listing the poems and the poet’s contact information--including phone and email) and a SASE for results.

Deadline for submissions is April 30.

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions on Theme of "Wacky Families": Chicken Soup for the Soul

Chicken Soup for the Soul Wants Your Story for My Wonderful, Wacky Family!

Deadline: April 30, 2022

We all have them! Those eccentric, goofy, wacky, lovable, and oh-so-fun family members—the ones we tell all the stories about. They could be a parent or grandparent, an in-law, a brother or sister, an aunt, uncle or cousin. Share your true stories and poems about those family members. With love and appreciation, please. No mean-spirited stories wanted.

If we publish your piece, you will be paid $200 plus 10 free copies of the book. 

Writing guidelines and more info here.

Call for Submissions: Book of Matches

Book of Matches seeks Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation

Deadline: April 15, 2022

In an age dominated by our worst tendencies for tribalism, it's more important than ever to celebrate the best in humanity through the very real magic of words. Book of Matches is always interested in protest—interested in protest against the unknowing alive in human existence, in protest against the knowing, too. 

In essence, Book of Matches celebrates what burns in the dark, and too the assurance of how little this illuminates before going out. Send your most meaningful lies, real lives, and poetry of both that we may see a bit more clearly the stormy seas around us all.

Call for Submissions: Plant-Human Quarterly

Plant-Human Quarterly seeks Poems and Essays for Upcoming Issues

Deadline: Year-round

Plant-Human Quarterly reads year-round. We seek unpublished or published poetry and essays that explore the myriad ways writers manifest their relationship to the botanical world—whether through heavily researched pieces, keen observation, or more intuitive ways of knowing and interacting—that attempt to communicate across boundaries and approach a plant’s-eye-view of the world.

Send no more than 5 poems or an essay of no more than 1,500 words (flash essay or essay excerpt). Past contributors include Ellen Bass, Forrest Gander, Kimiko Hahn, Brenda Hillman, Jane Hirshfield, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Pattiann Rogers, Scott Russell Sanders, Arthur Sze.

Read our complete submission guidelines here.

Writing Competition: SWFP Literary Awards

Details and Guidelines

The 2022 Literary Awards Program will run from December 15th, 2021-July 18th, 2022. Submissions are received via Submittable. We publish in English, but the contest is open to writers from anywhere in the world.

The grand prize will be $1500. Two runner ups will be selected, each receiving $500.

The entry fee is $30.

We are seeking fiction and creative nonfiction of every genre. We have global distribution and publish authors from all around the world.

Simultaneous submissions are accepted. Unpublished work, self-published work, and work from small or micro-presses that has not received marketing support will be eligible.

Due to COVID restrictions and shipping concerns, we are asking that all entries be submitted electronically. If you are unable to use Submittable, then please contact us for assistance.

Full guidelines are available on our Submittable page.

We are offering an optional “pay it forward” program on the entry form. 100% of these funds will be used for authors who demonstrate that they cannot afford the entry fee and will be raffled off monthly in the form of refunds and free entries to randomly selected applicants.

Call for Sumissions to Anthology: Coolest American Stories

reading period: Jan 15 through Sept 15 of each calendar year

format: please type and double-space your ms and include your name and contact information on the first page

word min/max: 3,500 to 10,000--exceptions made for stories w/ extraordinary promise to appeal to readers from all walks of life

payment: $100

policy re previous publication: both unpublished and previously published short stories considered, unpublished novel excerpts okay

submit here.

Call for Submissions: riddlebird

Call for Short Stories and Personal Essays

Deadline: May 9, 2022

Inaugural issue of riddlebird: celebrating the joy of reading and writing across different reading preferences. The marketplace can divide our reading tastes, but riddlebird strives to make a space for more diversity (of interest, of authorship, of meaning).

Our interests: Literary Fiction—style favorites include authors like George Saunders, Souvankham Thammavongsa, E.C. Osondu.

Personal Essays—memoirist’s essay that has achieved some distance with a newfound insight. Think of Vivian Gornick’s idea of “the situation and the story.”

Literary Genre Fiction—well-written genre-writing, especially mysteries, sci-fi, and westerns. Think of Charles Portis.

Authors paid for contributions. Full guidelines here.

Call for Submissions: Divotlit

Divotlit Submissions Open for May 2022 Issue

Deadline: Rolling

Divotlit seeking submissions for Inaugural Issue 1, coming soon in May 2022. Please send us your best poems. We value fresh imagery, organic emotion, and the unexpected.

 Full submission guidelines here. We look forward to reading your work.

Call for Submissions on Theme of Rumors: Blink Ink

Blink Ink Call for Submissions: Rumors

Deadline: April 15, 2022

Rumors, scandal, gossip, innuendo, hints and allegations, whispers and suspicions, slander, spillin' the tea—tell us your best stories of approximately 50 words, about Rumors. Please send us your best stories regarding Rumors in the body of an email.

No poetry, bios, or attachments please.

Submissions open March 1st, 2022 through April 15th, 2022. 

Call for Poetry Submissions on Current Events: New Verse News

The New Verse News Seeks Current Events Poetry

Deadline: Year-round

Since 2005, The New Verse News has covered the news of the day with poems on issues, large and small, international and local. It relies on the submission of poems (especially those of a politically progressive bent) by writers from all over the world. The editors update the website every day with a poetic take on a current and specific headline. See the website for guidelines and examples.

Then paste your non-simultaneous submission and a brief bio in the text of an email (no attachments, please) to:

nvneditor(at)gmail.com

Write "Verse News Submission" in the subject line of your email.

Call for Submissions from Undergraduate and Graduate Students: The Roadrunner Review

 

The Roadrunner Review: Reading for Issue 11

The Roadrunner Review provides a beautiful publishing venue for student writers and artists. We invite students to submit flash fiction, flash nonfiction, poetry, and cover art for issue 11.

Submissions are always free.

Deadline: April 30, 2022.

Writing Competition: The Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize

 

The Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize

Deadline: March 31, 2022

Entry Fee: $20.00

Texas Review Press is accepting submissions for their annual Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize. Established in 2001, The Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize highlights one book a year that excels in the chapbook format.

Since 2019 the Prize comes with a $500 advance, a standard royalty contract, and 20 copies of the published book.

2022 Judge is Taylor Johnson. Submissions accepted through Submittable only. 

Call for Submissions: Able Muse

Able Muse (Poetry, Prose, & Art) - Submission Now Open

Deadline: July 15, 2022

Able Muse is now accepting submissions for our forthcoming issue, Winter 2022/2023. Submit poetry, fiction, essays, book reviews, art, and photography.

Submission opens yearly January 1 and closes July 15. Read our guidelines and submit your work here.

Call for Submissions: Caesura 2022: Reset

Cæsura 2022: Reset

The Call: Blinded by fractured light through the broken view of a kaleidoscope that has twisted our senses into a cloud of fever dreams; we reach, strive for a pattern of hope, a tessellation that integrates all our broken parts into a creation of beauty. Together we replant the seeds. We reset our gaze on the intricate and fertile patterns of empathy and love.

The editors will judge from blind lists to create the two unique versions of Cæsura Reset, the print version and the online version.

NEW and UNPUBLISHED poets and artists, every year we recruit, appreciate, and publish your work. Please add the comment “Not yet published” to your cover page.

Everyone may submit up to 3 literary works.

Everyone may submit up to 3 visual works.

We reserve first-print publication rights and the right to post work for publication on our website. Previously published work, in print or online, will not be considered.

CALL OPENS: March 1st, 2022.

CALL CLOSES: June 1st, 2022 for General Public, June 15th, 2022 for PCSJ Members

Full guidelines and submission info here.

Call for Submissions to Anthology: Queer Pagan Fiction

Queer Pagan Fiction

Deadline: June 30, 2022

Anthology of queer pagan fiction accepting pieces of 2,500-7,500 words, that are previously unpublished.

Pays contributors $25-$75 per accepted piece.

For full info and guidelines visit our Submission page.

Writing Competition: The Nimrod Literary Awards

 

The Nimrod Literary Awards: $6,000 in Prizes

Deadline: April 1, 2022

Submissions are open for the Nimrod Literary Awards, the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry and the Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction, with prizes of $2,000 and $1,000 and publication, as well as readings at our Awards Ceremony. Finalists and selected semi-finalists will be published and paid at a rate of $10/page.

For poetry, submit 3-10 pages; for fiction, one story, 7,500 words maximum.

Manuscripts may be mailed or submitted online.

Each entry must be accompanied by a $20 entry fee, which includes a one-year subscription.

Open internationally.

Email or visit our website for complete rules.

Call for Submissions: Allium: A Journal of Poetry and Prose

 

Allium: Call for Submissions

Deadline: April 1, 2022

Submission fee: $3.00

Allium are flowering plants that include hundreds of species. Alliums vary dramatically in size, shape, and color, and are cultivated as both vegetable and ornament. They naturally resist taxonomy. Our Allium aspires to create a similar resistance by publishing diverse creative voices, BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and neurodiverse communities that have been underrepresented in literature, recognized and emerging writers, and a variety of forms and genres from the traditional to the experimental.

Allium accepts simultaneous submissions, requests a maximum page length of five pages for poetry; fifteen pages for fiction and nonfiction. No previously published work.

Visit our Submittable page for more information.

Writing Competition: First Pages Prize

First Pages Prize Now Open for Submissions!

Deadline: April 10 (April 24 extended)

Entry fee: $20.00 (After April 10: $35.00)

The 2022 Prize supports five emerging writers with cash awards totaling $6000, a tailored edit, and an agent consultation. 

Open to un-agented writers worldwide, the First Pages Prize invites you to enter your first five pages (1250 words) of a longer work of fiction or creative nonfiction.

Writing Competitions: New Letters Literary Awards

$2,500 Prize + Publication

Deadline: May 22, 2022

Entry fee: $24.00

New Letters invites you to submit fiction, essays, or poetry to the New Letters Literary Awards.

Winners receive $2,500 for best essay, $2,500 for best poetry, and $2,500 for best fiction, and publication in New Letters. All entries are considered for publication and must be unpublished.

Winners will be announced mid-September 2022. Essay and fiction entries may not exceed 8,000 words; poetry entries may contain one to six poems.

For complete guidelines, visit our website.

Writing Competition: Prime Number

2022 Prime Number Magazine Awards for Poetry and Short Fiction

Deadline: March 31, 2022

$1,000 first prize in each category plus a Pushcart Prize nomination. Winners and two Runners-up in each category published in Prime Number Magazine.

Reading fee $15.

Poetry judged by Faith Shearin, author of Lost Language and others. Short Fiction judged by Jubal Tiner, author of The Waterhouse and founding editor of Pisgah Review.

Open January 1 to March 31. Submit online through Submittable. Details here.

Call for Submissions: Palooka

 

Palooka Seeks Chapbooks, Prose, Poetry, Artwork, Photography

Palooka is an international literary magazine. For over a decade we've featured new, up-and-coming, and established writers, artists, and photographers from around the world. We're open to diverse forms and styles and are always seeking unique chapbooks, fiction, poetry, nonfiction, artwork, photography, graphic narratives, and comic strips.

Submissions open year-round.

Call for Submissions to Anthology: The Polaris Trilogy 3

 

Call for Poems to be Sent to the Moon

Deadline: March 30, 2022

New, unpublished poems wanted for The Polaris Trilogy 3 which will be published on Earth by Brick Street Poetry Inc. and sent to the Moon on a SpaceX flight in 2023 as part of the Lunar Codex.

This call is currently open only to poets living in South America and Australia/Oceania. Submission is free. Don't delay. The deadline is March 30, 2022. 

Learn more about the project and read the guidelines on our webpage.