Call for Submissions on Theme of "Environment": The Unmooring

Faith Journal The Unmooring Seeks Nonfiction & Art on "Environment"

Deadline: May 7, 2022

The Unmooring Journal is open for submissions of writing (essays, articles, liturgies), art and photography from women and female-identifying contributors for Issue 4. Theme: environment (broad interpretations accepted).

All published pieces receive $25 stipend.

Submission fee of $3 waived if financial need.

Submit here through May 7, 2022.

For more on The Unmooring’s (a 501c3 organization) mission of amplifying the voices of women of faith, go to our website. International contributors welcome.

Call for Submissions on Theme of "Motherhood": MER (Mom Egg Review)

MER Open for Literary Submissions on Motherhood

Deadline: July 15, 2022

MER (formerly Mom Egg Review) is open April 15 – July 15 for submissions of literary work (poetry, fiction, nonfiction) and art on motherhood.

You need not be a mother to submit. ($3 fee; scholarship submissions available).

Guidelines here.

Writing Competition: Gateway Press Inaugural Fabulist/Surrealist Novella Contest

Gateway Literary Press Inaugural Fabulist/Surrealist Novella Contest

Deadline: June 30, 2022

Gateway Literary Press and The Gateway Review are proud to announce our inaugural novella contest. We seek 40-80 page fabulist and surrealist novellas.

Winning novella receives $200 and 20 copies; up to four other finalists will be considered for publication as well.

$5 entry fee.

See our submission page for more information.

Call for Submissions to Anthology on Dolly Parton: Madville Publishing

Last year, many of you helped celebrate Dolly’s Parton’s 75th birthday with Limp Wrist’s tribute issue, co-edited by Limp Wrist editor Dustin Brookshire and poet Julie E. Bloemeke.

We had over 18 poems selected from hundreds of submissions. Both Collin Kelly and Caridad Moro-Gronlier were nominated for Pushcart Prizes. We Zoom-debuted the issue with a reading, complete with musical numbers and a fashion homage to our favorite Saint of Tennessee.

But Julie and Dustin decided one celebration was not enough, and fortunately the folks at Madville Publishing agreed.

So, what better way to begin 2022 than by topping off our cup of ambition? Help us celebrate Dolly Rebecca Parton by submitting your work for the Dolly Parton Anthology, which will debut on January 19, 2023. Submission window will open on Dolly’s birthday and close at midnight (CST) on June 30, 2022.

What we are looking for:

Dazzle us with your Dolly expertise. Pay tribute to her music, movies, TV appearances, philanthropy, Dollywood, Dollyisms, interviews, fashion influence, religious connection, family history. We want to see how you envision Dolly as a cultural phenomenon, and how your work helps amplify Dolly as a national treasure. And, while we love rhinestones and sequins, we want to see poems that move beyond Dolly as queen of glitz and sparkle.

Poems don’t have to be “fully Dolly”—we invite work with cameos, Dolly impersonators/look-a-likes, or Dolly-adjacent portraits. We want to read poems that include a well-placed Dolly appearance that strengthens the intention of the poem.

Do’s to consider: Show us you’ve read some Dolly history, are up on Dolly lore, or give us some anecdotes that will surprise us. Reveal some Sevierville or Nashville or share some insight into Dolly’s costume designers or tour bus driver. Know where or on what Dolly first penned the lyrics to “I Will Always Love You?” Run with that.

However, tread carefully when considering messing with perfection: there is a reason “Jolene” moves us all; trying to improve on Dolly’s writing might just make you a bit too mighty for your britches.

Previously published poems will be considered; please provide information on where the poem first appeared and be certain that you retain rights to your work.

Submission Guidelines:

• All submissions must be uploaded to Submittable. Poems submitted via email will not be considered.

• Submit no more than 5 poems in one Microsoft Word document.

• Poems should not exceed 3 pages each; submissions should not exceed 15 pages total.

• Poems should be single spaced and in Times New Roman font.

• The Microsoft Word document should not contain any author identifying information.

• All submissions must be received by midnight (CST) on June 30, 2022.

Payment:

Contributors will receive one copy of the anthology as payment for the acceptance of their work.

More information here.

Writing Competition: Granum Foundation Prize

We are excited to announce that applications for the Granum Foundation Prize will open on May 1.

One $5,000 prize will be awarded to help a U.S.-based writer complete or launch a substantive literary work—such as a poetry book, short story collection, essay collection, novel, or memoir. Additionally, up to three finalists will receive $500 or more.

This year, The Granum Foundation also will support translation projects with a special award of $500 or more.

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, or editing services. They also may be used for necessities such as rent or writing equipment.

Learn more here.

Read about the 2021 Granum Foundation Prize winners and finalists here.

Call for Submissions to Anthology: Dark Mirrors: An Anthology of Horror

DARK MIRRORS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF HORROR

DEADLINE: JUNE 1, 2022

ARCHER PUBLISHING is seeking short stories and novellas for its horror anthology, Dark Mirrors (2022). We want stories to be well-written, fast paced, topical, progressive, thematic, and very entertaining. Can include straight-up horror, dark thrillers, noir or neo-noir, or speculative fiction. Can include werewolves, vampires, monsters, creepy castles, dark passageways, devil possession, serial killers, etc., so long as the story is dark and scary. Imagine the tale on the big screen. Imagine the story is going to be read for Halloween. Push boundaries of imagination. Horrify, gall, astonish, provoke.

We are not looking for science fiction, fantasy, westerns, or romance, unless these genres also contain strong elements of frightful horror. A hybrid story is acceptable.

Stories can be written by LGBTQ and non-LGBTQ authors, and should include diversity. Characters may include LGBTQ and/or non-LGBTQ characters, and should be a mixture of any race, nationality, sexuality, ethnicity, class, etc. An inclusive story is an accessible story. Originality earns extra points. Word count for short stories should be less than 9,000 words; novellas should be less than 13,000 words. The deadline for submission is June 1, 2022.

Compensation includes 2 hard copy books and 1 digital copy of your story. Books will be available for sale AT COST for resale.

All submissions should be in Word format, justified, line spaced at 1.5, in Times New Roman at 10pt. The title of the work should be on the first page. Centered beneath the title should be the author’s name, email address, phone number, and word count.

We have 11 slots. Make your work stand out. We look forward to being scared.

Deadline for submissions is June 1, 2022.

Submit all work to:  

amncentral@gmail.com 

with a subject line to read in caps DARK MIRROR PROJECT: (author name and title of work).

All queries should be made to Louis Lyles II at:

amncentral@gmail.com.

Writing Competition: Diode Editions Chapbook Contest

The Diode Editions Chapbook Contest is now open from February 1 through September 30, 2022 to all poets who write in English. We consider translations, welcome collaborations, and accept simultaneous submissions. If your manuscript is accepted for publication elsewhere, please notify us.

Winners will be announced by November 15, 2022. The winning chapbooks will be published within a year.

Chapbook contest winners will receive $750.00, publication by Diode Editions, and 20 author copies. Winners will also have select poems from their chapbooks published in Diode Poetry Journal.

Submission Details

Please include a title page with the title of your manuscript, your name, pronouns (optional), address, phone number, email, and brief contributor’s bio. Your name should not appear anywhere else in the manuscript beyond the title page.

Please include an acknowledgments page.

Chapbook length: 25-46 pages (front matter is not included in page count).

There is a reading fee of $18.00. For alternative payment options and payment waivers, please email us at diodeeditions@gmail.com

Enter here.

Call for Submissions: Waterwheel Review

We hope authors will take advantage of our refusal to define what we publish, and send us un-name-able bits and pieces. A fiction that has no shape but feels complete and leaves a hole in your stomach; a nonfiction layered in obvious lies; a recipe that works like a poem. But if you’re looking for a home for a sonnet or a realist short story, or any piece that happens to wear a traditional outfit, we want to see it. If the writing is fresh, artful, and engaging, if we’re moved (to cry, to clench a fist, to laugh), we want it.

We publish three short pieces of original written work on the first of the month (September through May), each presented with two companions to the publication. The companion pieces are items chosen by the editors (possibilities include visual art, photo, video, or quotation) or solicited (a piece of art created by a colleague in reaction to the publication, or the answer to an author question posed by the editors). Once an agreement to publish is in place, authors should feel free to suggest or offer companion pieces, although final selection remains at the discretion of the editors. Please review our current issue to get a sense of what we like to publish and how companion pieces support the work.

Submission Notes—Please Carefully Review

• Our word limit is 1,602 (not including title). Please note the word count underneath your title.

• We consider only one piece at a time, whether 162 words or 1,602.

• We will not consider any submission that includes identifying information anywhere in the piece, including in the name of your file or any headers or footers.*

• Please do not indicate the genre of your piece anywhere in your submission (again, including the name of your file or any headers and footers).

• We take submissions at Submittable and are open year-round.

• We do NOT accept previously published work.

• We welcome simultaneous submissions and ask only that you withdraw your piece immediately, through Submittable, if it is accepted elsewhere.

*Your cover letter, of course, will include your name and contact information, but editors will read your cover letter only after we have read and made a decision about the work.

If you haven’t heard from us in three months, please query us at wwreditors@gmail.com.

Publication Rights

Authors retain all rights and copyright to their work. We request first-time worldwide online publication rights and nonexclusive reprint/anthology rights should we choose to produce a print issue or anthology. We also request the right to digitally archive your published piece at our site indefinitely, and the right to use excerpts of your published piece in our promotional materials. If the work is republished, we ask that Waterwheel Review is noted as the first place of publication. Note that we do not provide contracts; by submitting to us you are agreeing to the above terms.

Submit your work here.

McBride Fire

 

As my subscribers may have noticed, I am very late this week with my blog updates. I wanted to let you know why.

On April 12, 2022 we were evacuated from our home due to the McBride fire in Ruidoso, NM, and remained under a mandatory evacuation for four days, finally returning home on Saturday, April 16. During that time, we were juggling lodging, pets, meals, etc., and I had limited access to the Internet.

The fire began on McBride Drive where we live and was devastating to our small community. We were very fortunate to return safely to our home, which was undamaged. However, others were not so lucky. Over 6000 acres burned, 207 homes were destroyed, and 2 people died. 

We're fine, but if you would like to help those in need, here are some resources: 

The Red Cross and the Salvation Army are accepting donations at the Ruidoso Community Center, 501 Suddereth Drive, Ruidoso, NM 88345

Red Cross: 1-800-842-7349

Salvation Army: 1-575-257-4565

Ruidoso Valley Chamber of Commerce: 1-575-257-7395 (On weekends: 1-575-973-1281)

Community Foundation of Lincoln County: www.CFOLC.org (for donations for financial assistance to those who have lost their homes to a natural disaster)

Thank you for your patience and happy writing!

Call for Submissions: The Cincinnati Review

We accept submissions for the print journal generally during three time periods: September, December, and May. Those reading periods will open on the first day of the month and close once we hit the submissions cap for that period. It’s possible that we might have additional short reading periods if needed, which would open on the first of the month as well. Visit this site and our social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram) to stay informed.

miCRo submissions are open nearly year-round, except while we’re accepting entries for the Robert and Adele Schiff Awards during the early summer, or if we experience a backlog in that category.

We cannot consider previously published works, including those posted online, but we do accept simultaneous submissions (please contact us if individual poems are accepted elsewhere; please withdraw any prose pieces taken by another journal).

Our typical response time is six months, though we may take longer on occasion. Please don’t query until after a year: our submission manager system keeps the process reliable, so if your piece is listed as “received,” it’s still under consideration.

The Cincinnati Review acquires first North American serial rights, including electronic rights; all rights revert to author upon publication. We pay $25/page for prose and $30/page for poetry in the print journal and give a free digital issue to all miCRo authors.

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions: A-Minor

We are currently accepting Flash Fiction and Poetry submissions for our 12th anniversary issue, slated for late May 2022. Short fiction submissions are closed as we are looking for a new Associate Editor (Prose).

Flash Fiction: 100-1,000 words; Up to three pieces.

Poetry: 3-5 previously unpublished poems. Prose poetry and found poetry welcome.

Please submit your work in the body of the email, to:

aminormagazine@gmail.com

If your poems require special formatting, you may send an attachment.

Include a 50-word, third person bio. Longer bio will be subject to editing. Simultaneous submissions are fine.

At present, artwork submissions are by invitation only.

Please check out the list of selected back issues and features to get a sense of our editorial drift.

If your work has been featured in A-Minor, please wait at least six months before submitting again.

If your submission has been declined, please wait at least one month before submitting again.

A-Minor requires First North American Serial Rights and all archival rights. All rights revert back to the author upon publication. If your work appears elsewhere in print or online, please give due credit to A-Minor.

Send all questions to:

aminormagazine@gmail.com

Call for Submissions from Writers in the UK to Anthology: For a Friend

We are looking for prose and poetry to publish in our For a Friend anthology, a giftable collection of writing for oneself or a friend. We are open to a wide range of genres and styles that fit the theme. As a guide, we think we are looking for pieces that range from words of encouragement to life advice-styled poetry and prose, to love letters you might send to a friend, i.e. writing that is a source of comfort, inspiration, learning and escape. We are looking especially for work from writers of colour and working class writers living in the UK.

The submission window for the anthology is open until May 15th. We encourage you to read our previous publications to get a feel for the style of writing we enjoy and give you the best chance. If you do not have access to a copy of Lucent Dreaming via your library, and have no or very low income, please email:

dreaminglucent@gmail.com to receive a free copy.

Word Limit: 400-3,999 words for prose

Line Limit: 72 lines for poetry

Pay Rate: Fixed £100 and a free contributor copy

Language: English

We enjoy beautifully written prose and poetry, especially writing that embraces and explores inner-lives.

More information and submittal portal here.

We do not publish the following:

• Fan fiction based on copyright texts

• Gratuitous gore/torture and other violence for the sake of violence

• Erotica

Call for Submissions: Bennington Review

Bennington Review is published twice a year in print form, Spring/Summer and Fall/Winter. We aim to stake out a distinctive space for innovative, intelligent, and moving fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, film writing, and cross-genre work. In the spirit of poet Dean Young’s dictum that poets should be “making birds, not birdcages,” we are particularly taken with writing that is simultaneously graceful and reckless.

Unsolicited submissions will only be accepted from November 15th, 2021 to May 8th, 2022. Submissions response times vary, though we aim to respond to most submissions within five to eight months.

We pay contributors $100 for prose of six typeset pages and under, $200 for prose of over six typeset pages, and $20 per poem, in addition to two copies of the issue in which the piece is published and one copy of the subsequent issue.

Work must be previously unpublished in print or online, including on personal blogs. Prose submissions must be double-spaced and paginated. Please include a cover letter with your submission. We welcome simultaneous submissions, as long as you notify us immediately when work has been accepted elsewhere.

We do not accept unsolicited submissions from current or recent students, faculty, or staff of Bennington College. Undergraduate and graduate alumni, as well as past employees of Bennington, are asked to wait a minimum of two years before submitting work to the magazine.

We welcome submissions from established and emerging writers alike. We ask that writers who submit to the journal possess a familiarity with contemporary literature in the genre of their work. Individual genre guidelines are listed below.

Note that we are additionally interested in publishing translations: translators should have permission from the copyright holder and should include a copy of the original work with their submission, regardless of language.

We acquire first North American serial rights for all accepted work. If you have any questions about these guidelines, please email us at benningtonreview@bennington.edu.

Submit your work here.

Writing Competition: 2022 Cow Creek Chapbook Prize

 

Cow Creek Chapbook Prize

Deadline: May 15, 2022

Prize: $1000 plus 25 copies

Entry Fee: $15.00

The Cow Creek Chapbook Prize is a poetry chapbook contest brought to you by Pittsburg State University. We're open to all styles and subjects. As long as the poems challenge and capture the imagination, we want to see them.

Submit a manuscript of 15-30 pages by May 15 here.

This year's guest judge is Chen Chen.

Call for Submissions on Theme of "Signs & Symbols": Superpresent

 

Signs & Symbols

Deadline: June 1, 2022

The theme for the Summer 2022 issue of Superpresent is Signs & Symbols. We are are seeking poetry, short stories, essays, experimental art, video, sound art, all forms of visual art as well as asemic writing and textual arts of all kinds.

Writing Competition: Rockvale Writers' Colony Fellowship Contest for Poets

Rockvale Writers' Colony Announces a Fellowship Contest for Poets

Deadline: August 31, 2022

We’ve created a new fellowship opportunity for poets to share their important landscapes and environmental heritage. We’re interested in the natural spaces that have made meaningful marks upon lives, those places from which we cannot be separated no matter how far away we are. We want to know how that land speaks, and most of all, why it matters.

One poet will win a 1-week residency at Rockvale Writers' Colony in College Grove, TN, plus a small stipend for food and travel.

Read the guidelines here: Language of the Land Fellowship.

Application fee is $30.

Writing Competition: The Heartland Review 2022 Chapbook Contest

The Heartland Review Press Announces 2022 Chapbook Contest

Deadline: August 1, 2022

$500 Grand Prize + 15 copies awarded

Entry Fee: $20.00

Submit no more than 30 pages of the best work. THRP is not concerned with the poet who has the most publications; rather, we wish to award the best writing that contributes to the craft of poetry. ​Each submitter will receive a copy of the winning manuscript. All entrants will be invited to record a reading of their work that will be published on THRP’s Facebook page. To meet the judge and review submission guidelines, visit our website.

Writing Competition: 2022 Raymond Carver Short Story Contest

2022 Raymond Carver Short Story Contest

Deadline: May 16, 2022

Carve Magazine’s Raymond Carver Short Story Contest is open April 1 – May 16. Accepting submissions from all over the world. Max 10,000 words.

Prizes: $2,000, $500, $250, + 2 Editor’s Choice $125 each. All 5 winners published in Fall 2022 issue and reviewed by lit agencies.

Entry fee $17 online. Guest judge Dariel Suarez. Guidelines and instructions here.

Call for Submissions: Speckled Trout Review

Speckled Trout Review: Call for Submissions

Deadline: May 15, 2022 (or until filled)

Speckled Trout Review is an independent literary magazine publishing an online issue every spring and a special print issue in the fall. In our short time, we have published former poet laureates, Pushcart Prize nominees, Best of the Net recipients, contributors whose work has landed in Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, POETRY, Tar River Poetry, ThreePenny Review, and numerous anthologies.

Please read specific submissions guidelines, which can be found at our website. 

The submission window for Spring 2022 (4.1) issue closes May 15 or until filled.

Writing Competition: 2022 Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize

2022 Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize now Open for Submissions

Deadline: July 31, 2022

RED WHEELBARROW POETRY PRIZE 2022: Judged by Juan Felipe Herrera!

$1,000 for first place and a letterpress broadside printed by Felicia Rice of Moving Parts Press, $500 for second, $250 for third. Top five published in Red Wheelbarrow Literary Magazine.

Submit up to 3 original, unpublished poems.

$15 entry fee.

Deadline: July 31, 2022. For complete guidelines and to submit, go here.

Writing Competition: New Letters Literary Awards

 

$2,500 Prize + Publication

Deadline: May 22, 2022

New Letters invites you to submit a short story, essay, or poems to the New Letters Literary Awards. Winners in each genre receive $2,500 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. Multiple entries are welcome.

For complete guidelines, visit our website.

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

Call for Literary Nonfiction submissions

Deadline: June 30,2022

Interim invites submissions of literary nonfiction, including essays that reflect literary movements in America and around the world. We invite writers from all parts of the globe—the Americas, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Western and Eastern Europe, New Zealand, Australia, etc.—especially women writers, to submit to this special issue. If you have perspective on the evolution of the Gurlesque (the vibrant movement of women reclaiming their bodies) or any other newly established literary movement, we are especially eager to hear from you. We will consider original essays 1,500 to 5,000 words. 

$4 submission fee.

Interim also accepts poetry and art. See our Submittable link for guidelines.

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

 

The Roadrunner Review: Reading for Issue 11

Deadline: April 30, 2022

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.

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 Poetry Submissions: Divot Lit: A Journal of Poetry

Divot is Reading for Summer Issues 2 and 3 Currently!

Deadline: Rolling

Divotlit seeking submissions for Issues 2 and 3, coming Summer 2022. Please send us your best poems. We value fresh imagery, organic emotion, and the unexpected.

Read our submission guidelines here.

We look forward to reading your work.

Call for Submissions: Club Plum

Club Plum Seeks Works for July 2022 Issue

Deadline: June 30, 2022

Club Plum publishes award-winning and daring authors from around the world. Send your lyric essays, your experimental flash fiction, your prose poetry, your hybrid works, and your art for Volume 3, Issue 3. We like strange. We like tender. We like fierce.

Read our guidelines.

Call for Submissions: Waxing & Waning Presents: The Blackout Edition

Waxing & Waning Presents: The Blackout Edition

Deadline: May 25, 2022

As 2021 draws to a close, George Floyd’s killer behind bars, Breonna Taylor’s still enjoying their time of freedom, and countless other BIPOC people’s deaths still without justice, we are seeking writing and art that exemplifies the BIPOC experience. In a time of racial unrest, we are looking for creative work that both includes this aspect, but we are also looking for any and all work about the modern BIPOC experience, even outside of race. Give us your poems about sunsets, stories that strike a chord in the human experience, art that screams to be heard. Be deep, true, honest.

Call for Submissions from Writers in Oregon, Alaska, Hawaii, California, and Washington: Gold Man Review

Gold Man Review Open for Submissions

Deadline: June 2, 2022

Gold Man Review, a West Coast Journal, is currently looking for submissions in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction for Issue 12. We are open to all topics and themes and love writing that pushes boundaries. If your work is on the unusual side, then we're probably the journal for you. If you're interested in submitting to Gold Man Review, please see our website for full submission guidelines. Please also note that we only accept submissions from writers in Oregon, Alaska, Hawaii, California, and Washington.

Call for Submissions and Writing Competition: LIGHT

 

LIGHT Calls for Submissions: Art, Letters, Stories, Poetry, & More

Deadline: May 1, 2022

No entry fee.

Leaders Igniting Generational Healing and Transformation (LIGHT) is calling for submissions of art, letters, stories, poetry, and other creative works for the first issue of our biannual literary journal in public health.

We invite everyone to share their lived experiences of healing and health as a way to connect with each other using the dialogue, expressions, and language that you resonate with best.

The deadline to submit is by May 1, 2022.

Prize money (1st: $500, 2nd: $375, 3rd: $125) will be given to the top three contestants of each category.

To learn more, please visit our website.

Writing Competition: Baltimore Review Summer Contest--Micro Lit

Baltimore Review Summer Contest - Micro Lit

Deadline: May 31, 2022

Baltimore Review Summer Contest – Micro Lit. Miniature. Mighty. Magical. What can you do with 400 words or less? We want to read your micro-length work. How you define your micro is up to you. Fiction, creative nonfiction, prose poem—no need to categorize your work. We're reading them all in one category—Micro Lit.

First place: $500. Second place: $300. Third place: $200. All entries considered for publication, with payment for accepted work at our regular rate.

$8 contest fee. 

Final judge: Beth Ann Fennelly.

Deadline: May 31. Visit our site, enjoy, and submit your work.

Call for Submissions: Sunspot Lit

Open Call for Authors, Poets, and Artists

Deadline: May 31, 2022

Sunspot Lit welcomes fiction, poetry, stories, essays, scripts, and screenplays from flash up to 49,000 words. Seeking genre categories, literary works, artwork, and translations.

The journal offers an Editor’s Prize of $15 for each digital edition and $50 for the annual print edition. Artwork selected for a digital or print cover will be paid $20.

Visit our website to download free quarterly editions. The Fast Flux options offer a one-week turnaround for short prose and art, two weeks for poems and longform prose. Poetry feedback is available as a separate option.

Be sure also to check out our contests.

Simultaneous and multiple submissions welcome through Submittable.

Call For Submissions: Fourteen Hills

Fourteen Hills will accept submissions from February 15th, 2022 through June 15th 2022 for publication in Fourteen Hills Issue 29, due to be published in Spring 2023.

We accept the following genres for unpublished unsolicited submissions*

POETRY: Up to 3 poems (maximum 7 pages)
FICTION: 1 short story or novel excerpt (maximum 20 pages or 6000 words) OR 3 pieces of flash fiction (1000 words per piece)
CREATIVE NONFICTION: 1 piece of literary creative nonfiction (maximum 20 pages or 6000 words)
VISUAL ART: Up to 10 pieces of visual art

*For experimental or cross-genre work, please choose the closest category available

Submission Guidelines:

• All written submissions must be in .doc or .docx file format (Microsoft Word or Open Office files)

• Cover letter should include, at minimum, contact information and third-person bio (max 3-5 sentences)

• If you have questions about the status of your subscription, please contact us at:

 hills@sfsu.edu

• Writers and artists may submit only once, in a single genre, per submission period

 As we are now an annual journal, please expect a wait time of 4-8 months depending on when you submit, as much of the review occurs during the fall.

If your submission is accepted for publication in the journal, you will receive two free copies of Issue 29.

We are now charging a small service fee ($2) for submissions*. This administrative fee helps fund our online submission system and ensures that Fourteen Hills will continue as an outlet for exciting and diverse new work. (*Submission fees are waived for current subscribers to Fourteen Hills. To support us as a subscriber, please visit our Subscriptions page.

If this fee poses a financial hardship, please email us at:

hills@sfsu.edu

Submit your work here.

Wriitng Competition: Panther Creek Book Award in Nonfiction

Hidden River Arts offers an award of $1,000 and publication on Hidden River Press, an imprint of Hidden River Publishing, for an original, unpublished book-length work of non-fiction.  (This includes creative non-fiction, memoir, biography -- all forms of non-fiction are welcome.)  Important to note: We consider ALL forms of publication of your book as disqualification.  Self-publishing is publication; if your manuscript has an isbn number, or if it is available for sale online and/or in brick and mortar stores, your book is "published".  Please note that this refers to the entire book-length work.  If you have published excerpts of the work in literary magazines, that is acceptable as long as you provide full details of where the excerpt was published, the date of publication, and confirmation that full rights and ownership  have reverted to you exclusively.

The manuscript submissions deadline is April 15, 2022. 

Entry fee: $20 US.

This competition is open to international submissions for all writers in English. We accept simultaneous submissions, and ask only that you notify us immediately if your book has been accepted for publication elsewhere.  We also accept multiple submissions; however, each submission must be entered separately.

All submissions must include name, address, telephone number, email, website (if you have one), a brief biography, a synopsis, outline, and full manuscript -- IN THAT ORDER. Please note that, when submitting online, all materials must be combined into ONE document before uploading.

All awards are decided by Hidden River staff, and decisions are final.  The semi-finalists, finalists and winner will be announced on our blog, so please be sure to bookmark us to keep up-to-date on our progress. 

Submit your work here. 

Writing Competition: The New Michigan Press / DIAGRAM Chapbook Contest

2022 Chapbook Contest Guidelines (Deadline April 29, 2022)

The New Michigan Press / DIAGRAM chapbook contest announces our guidelines for 2022! We select the majority of our chapbook list each year from the ranks of the chapbook contest finalists, so this is the best way to get your work read. And what's more, it's all read blind. Plus you get a free chapbook just for entering and you get to know that your entry helps us do what we do.

The Prize $1000 plus publication; finalist chapbooks also considered for publication (in 2021 we published six chapbooks in our series)

The Entry Fee $24

The Mailing Deadline April 29, 2022

What we want: Interesting, lovely unpublished work (unpublished as a whole; individual pieces may be published already of course), prose or poetry or some combination or something between genres, 18-44 manuscript pages (no more than one poem per page if you're sending poems unless they are very, very short).

Images okay? Yes, as long as you can obtain reprint rights you include, unless they're in the public domain or qualify under the exemption for fair use. We do prefer images be in low-res for the manuscript to keep file size down (the submissions manager maxes out at around 9 megabytes), but we'll need high-res versions if your manuscript is selected for publication. ALSO: please don't send originals of anything, since we cannot return manuscripts.

Other questions?

It's fine with us if individual works have been published elsewhere, but the manuscript can't have been published as a whole before. Please include specific acknowledgments if any of the works have appeared elsewhere: tell us where individual pieces appeared, as we do sometimes consider submitted and unpublished individual pieces for possible publication in DIAGRAM.

We recommend that your manuscript be as coherent--as much a project--as possible. Not to say everything needs to be thematic or narratively related, but most of our winning chapbooks have a feeling of aesthetic unity or connection or resonance: we think chapbooks should make sense as chapbooks, and be more than the sums of their parts. Chapbook manuscripts do not necessarily have to be diagrammatic (though the diagrammers among us do enjoy those).

Co-authored manuscripts are fine.

Submitting multiple manuscripts is fine with entry fees for each.

Simultaneous submissions are fine as long as you let us know ASAP if a manuscript needs to be withdrawn.

Please don't put your name/identifying info on the piece itself. If you send electronically, it'll be in the submitter info only, and that doesn't get forward to our readers. If you send via the mail, include a detachable cover page.

More information and submission links here.