Call for Submissions: Cutbank

Electronic submissions open from September 15 to February 1.

For the print editions of CutBank, we accept poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and visual art submissions. Please only submit online; paper submissions will be recycled. We now charge a $5 reading fee, which goes toward paying our contributors for their work. Rates will be decided at the close of the submission period.

We encourage you to read CutBank before submitting. Sample issues are available here for $10, one-year subscriptions for $17.

Submit unpublished, original work, and include a cover letter (in the designated space) with a brief biography and contact information. Please do not include your contact information or biography in the document.

Simultaneous submissions are welcome, but ask that you withdraw your work immediately via Submittable if it is accepted elsewhere. Poets please email us if an individual poem in your submission becomes unavailable, and add a note in Submittable detailing the change.

Response time is typically 3 to 5 months. We appreciate the opportunity to read your work, however please do not submit again until you hear back from us, and please submit no more than twice per reading period.

Call for Submissions from Active-Duty Military, Veterans, and Family Members: ISSUED

ISSUED: stories by active-duty military, veterans, and family members

Deadline: November 11, 2022

ISSUED is looking for stories by active-duty military, veterans, and family members—specifically, poetry and flash prose (fiction or memoir) that expresses the spectrum of experiences within military life—e.g. gender and sexuality, BIPOC experiences, physical and mental health, combat, enlisting and separating, family and relationships, and reintegration into society. We’re also accepting visual art in any genre (up to 5 pieces). 

Submit up to 5 poems or 2 pieces of flash prose (1000 words or fewer) in a single word doc to:

issuedjournal@gmail.com

by November 11, 2022. Please include a bio (100 words or less) that includes your military affiliation.

Call for Submissions: Barzakh

 

Barzakh Open for Poetry, Prose, and Visual Art Submissions

Deadline: October 31, 2022

Barzakh Literary Magazine is an online, multi-genre journal with an internationalist stance, and we are currently accepting art, poetry, and prose submissions for our Winter 2023 issue! The work we publish transcends borders and boundaries of all kinds, and we are especially interested in anything that is innovative, uncategorizable, and socially engaged.

We will be open for submissions until Oct. 31st, 2022.

Please see our Submission Guidelines for more information.

Call for Submissions: Vilas Avenue

 

Vilas Avenue Open for Poetry Submissions to Issue Three

Deadline: Rolling

Vilas Avenue publishes well-crafted poetry at the intersection of language & movement. We are currently open for poetry submissions to Issue Three. Submit 1-3 poems pasted into the body of an e-mail to:

VilaAvenue@gmail.com

with the subject line “Poetry submission”. Please include a brief bio. You’ll hear back within 2-4 months, if not much sooner.

Full submission guidelines here. Thank you for considering Vilas Avenue as a potential outlet for your work!

Writing Competition: Conduit Books & Ephemera

Fifth Annual Open Book Prize—$1,500 and Publication

Deadline: November 1, 2022

Entry Fee: $25.00

Our fifth annual open book prize is accepting manuscripts. If you have a manuscript or know someone who does, please give us a shot. Open to any poet writing in English regardless of previous publication record, the prize seeks to represent the best contemporary writing in high-quality editions of enduring value. Prospective entrants are encouraged to familiarize themselves with Conduit, which champions originality, intelligence, irreverence, and humanity. Previously unpublished manuscripts of 48-90 pages should be submitted through our Submittable page or via the USPS.

Please visit our website for details.

Call for Submissions: The Sepia Journal

Sepia is committed to showcasing the work of both emerging and established artists. All artists are eligible to submit, irrespective of age, experience, or location.

We are open to submissions all year, and we aim to reply to all submissions within three months. We hope to publish a blend of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and visual art; we are also open to plays and cross-genre or interdisciplinary work.

All submissions should be emailed to:

thesepiajournal@gmail.com 

Please title the subject line of your email with the genre of submission, i.e., ‘SUBMISSION: [Genre]’.

Submissions open year round.

We would also appreciate the inclusion of a short third-person artist biography in the body of your email. Please do not include any identifying information within the document(s) containing your work, as we aim to read all submissions blindly.

We will consider only previously unpublished work. We are open to multiple submissions. Although we are also open to simultaneous submissions, we ask that you classify them as such, and contact us immediately should your work be accepted for publication elsewhere.

If your work is accepted, we ask for first publishing rights and archival rights. Upon publication, all rights revert back to the author. Should the piece be reprinted in the future, we would be grateful if you could credit Sepia as the place where your work first appeared.We are currently unable to offer our contributors financial compensation for their work, but we very much hope to do so for future issues.

Please go to our website for more information.

Call for Submissions: word west revue

hi, we're looking for writing and art and whatever else you've got that engages with and reimagines the 'west.’ ideally you or your work will have some connection to the western usa, but this theme is wide open to your interpretation (though our print issues will be more focused and western-y than online, which will be more free-wheeling). we like intersections and echoes, mythos and symbolism, and perspectives not as often seen. we like road stories and weird americana. most of all, tell us a great story. show us something cool. something we can't help falling in love with. our goal is to remain open to the unexpected—to what surprises us, to what moves us, to what makes us see ‘the west’ in ways we haven't before. still unsure? tune into word west radio, or catch a flick at the westword cinemas. maybe you'll find some inspiration? yeehaw 🤠

• no submission fees.

• 1 submission per submission window.

• submissions will be open twice / year: september 15 - november 15 & march 15 - june 15

• pitches for online content (reviews, interviews, etc.) will always be accepted

• sim-subs totally fine. just please let us know if a piece is accepted elsewhere

• 5k words or less for prose. up to 5 poems for poetry.

• pieces are read for both online and print.

• we aim to respond in 9-12 wks for print. online subs will likely be responded to sooner.

• $100 for each accepted print piece.

• $25 for each accepted online piece.

thank you for trusting us with your work.

Submit your work here.

Call for Creative Nonfiction Submissions to Anthology: Toxic Workplaces

WOMEN’S THEMED CREATIVE NONFICTION anthology series now accepting submissions. First theme: “Toxic Workplaces,” due December 12. 

Submit your 1,000- to 5,000-word essay pasted in body of e-mail to:  

women.write.about@gmail.com 

Compensation: $0.02/word + copy for previously unpublished. Previously published considered but no cash payment. E-mail to be notified of future themes and deadlines.

Call for Submissions from Undergraduate Students: Albion Review

SUBMISSIONS FOR THE 2022 ISSUE ARE OPEN UNTIL OCTOBER 31, 2021, MIDNIGHT (EST).

All contributors will be considered for the Albion Review Art, Poetry, and/or Prose prize. The winner in each category will receive $200.

If chosen for publication, all contributors will appear in the print and online edition; contributors from the United States will receive two print copies of the journal. Unfortunately, due to mailing costs, international contributors will not receive print copies; however, they can order copies online.

The Albion Review uses Submittable to process all our submissions.

Here are some quick guidelines to follow when submitting:

Art Submissions Submit up to 3 pieces (black & white and/or color).

• Do not include your name, address, or any identifying information on any piece.

• All submissions must be unpublished.

• Please include a list of materials used to produce each piece.

• To submit via Submittable, the images must be an Adobe Photoshop file (psd) or a jpeg file.

• Image resolution should be set at a 300 DPI (or max. possible). Anything less will not be considered.

• All artists must be undergraduates who are enrolled in a college or university, and who have not yet earned an undergraduate degree.

Poetry Submissions Submit 1-5 poems.

• Do not put your name, address, or other identifying information on the poem(s).

• Use Time New Roman, 12-point font.

• Single space the poem(s).

• If a poem is more than one page, place the poem’s title on the top of subsequent pages.

• Poem(s) should be previously unpublished.

• Document should be in a .DOC, .DOCX, or .RTF format.

• All artists must be undergraduates who are enrolled in a college or university, and who have not yet earned an undergraduate degree.

Fiction Submissions Submit up to 15 pages.

• Do not put your name, address, or other identifying information on the stories.

• Use Time New Roman, 12-point font.

• Double space the story.

• Number the pages.

• Stories should be previously unpublished.

• Document should be in a .DOC, .DOCX, or .RTF format.

• All writers must be undergraduates who are enrolled in a college or university, and who have not yet earned an undergraduate degree.

Creative Nonfiction Submissions Submit up to 15 pages.

• Do not put your name, address, or other identifying information on the essay(s).

• Use Time New Roman, 12-point font.

• Double space the essay(s).

• Number the pages.

• Essay(s) should be previously unpublished.

• Document should be in a .DOC, .DOCX, or .RTF format.

• All writers must be undergraduates who are enrolled in a college or university, and who have not yet earned an undergraduate degree.

If you have any questions, please email:

review@albion.edu.

Call for Submissions: REVOLUTE

REVOLUTE is a literary magazine of the Randolph College MFA. Submissions are accepted each year from September 15th through December 8th.

General Guidelines

Revolute reads poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and microreview submissions during one submission period each fall.

 

For prose, send 1 story (or flash fiction) or 1 essay per submission, up to 7,000 words. For poetry, send up to 3 poems. We also welcome poetry comics, photo poems, video poems, erasures, etc. For micro book reviews, please send a review of 300 words or less. We welcome reviews of new and underappreciated work.

 

Revolute pays $25 per accepted work of fiction, nonfiction, micro book review and per acceptance of up to three poems.

 

Simultaneous submissions are welcome. Please notify on Submittable immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere. If a genre button is missing from the submit list during our submission window, it's because we've filled our monthly quota in that genre.

 

Previously published work will not be considered. Contributors retain all rights but are asked to acknowledge Revolute as first publisher if the work appears in books, anthologies, or elsewhere. Please submit once per reading period. Response times will vary between 1-3 months.

 

Feel free to email revolute (at) randolphcollege (dot) edu with any questions.

 

Thank you for sharing your work with us!

 

- The Revolute Team

 

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions: Nashville Review

Nashville Review seeks to publish the best work we can get our hands on, period. From expansive to minimalist, narrative to lyric, epiphanic to subtle: if it’s a moving work of art, we want it. We hope to provide a venue for both distinguished and emerging artists. Most importantly, thank you for giving us a chance to read your work. We appreciate it.

Reading Periods

Deadline: September 30, 2022

We consider submissions in Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, and Translation three times a year—January, May and September—and typically respond within 4-5 months. We welcome submissions in Art and Comics year-round. Currently, we are not accepting unsolicited reviews or interviews.

General Guidelines

There is no fee to submit and we are proud to pay our contributors: $25 per poem and $100 for prose and art pieces.

Please do not include any personal or contact information on your manuscript. Prose pieces must be double-spaced and paginated. If your poems use white space in a nontraditional way, we recommend submitting in .pdf format. Include a brief cover letter with the title(s) of your piece(s) and a short third-person bio.

All submissions must be previously unpublished.

We encourage simultaneous submissions: if your work is accepted elsewhere, wonderful! Just leave a note via Submittable as soon as possible so we know the piece has been taken. Please submit only once per genre, per reading period, and note that we cap the number of submissions to be considered at 750 per section to ensure a reasonable response time. If we reach our submission cap before the end of the month-long reading period, submissions will close early.

Current and former (within 5 years) students and employees of Vanderbilt University are ineligible to submit.

Please visit our online submissions manager to send us your work. Submissions received via email will not be read.

More information here.

Fellowships: The American Antiquarian Society

Fellowships for Creative and Performing Artists and Writers

The American Antiquarian Society offers visiting fellowships for historical research by creative and performing artists, writers, film makers, journalists, and other persons whose goals are to produce imaginative works dealing with pre-twentieth-century American history, literature, and culture. Successful applicants are those whose work is for the general public rather than for academic or educational audiences.

The fellowships will provide the recipients with the opportunity for a period of uninterrupted research, reading, and collegial discussion at the Society, located in Worcester, Massachusetts. At least three fellowships will be awarded for residence of four weeks at the Society at any time during the period January 1 through December 31.

For fellows who reside on campus in the Society’s scholars' housing, located next to the main library building, the stipend will have the room fee deducted from the $2,000 stipend. (Room fees range from $700 to $500 per month.)

The stipend will be $2,000 for fellows residing off campus. Fellows will not be paid a travel allowance.

Funding for this program began with a grant to AAS from the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund in 1995. Additional funding for the awards is derived from income from endowments established by the Robert and Charlotte Baron Fellowship, William Randolph Hearst Foundation, and Jay and Deborah Last. Artists in the Archive: 25 Years of Creative and Performing Artists and Writers Fellowships is online showcase of the 1995-2020 fellows and their work.

Fellowship projects may include (but are not limited to):

historical novels
performance of historical music or drama
poetry
documentary films
television programs
radio broadcasts
plays and libretti
screenplays
magazine or newspaper articles
costume designs
set designs
illustrations and other graphic arts
book designs
sculpture
paintings
other works of fine and applied art
non-fiction works of history designed for general audiences of adults or children 

The application deadline is October 5, 2022. Application instructions are included in the online application.

More information here.

Call for Submissions on Theme of "Silence and Sound": Crescendo: A Community of Writers

 

Silence by Odilon Redon
 

Writing about Silence and Sound

 

Crescendo: A Community of Writers is a collective–a magazine that amplifies unique voices. We publish up-and-coming writers, particularly writers who find themselves on the margins of traditional publication opportunities. We seek excellent writing in the genres of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and inter-genre work. Visual art is also welcome. Join your voice with ours!

 

Our magazine is newly relaunched and will be publishing its second issue in Fall/Winter 2022. This issue will explore the theme of silence and sound. The COVID-19 pandemic put communities in flux and changed our definition of what it means to be a collective. Many people felt the silence of being without community while others felt the abundance of constant noise and community. We want to reflect on and memorialize this. We welcome submissions that explore silence and sound.

 

Some questions that might guide you in exploring this theme:

What does silence create or destroy?

Why do people, groups, institutions go silent?

Who is affected by silence and how? What are possible responses to silence?

What is sound-based writing? Silence-based writing?

 

We encourage anyone who would like to apply. Because we are a community-based writers group, we have a soft spot for writers who live, work, or feel affinity towards communities in and around New York City.

Submissions

Email submissions of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and inter-genre work to:

 

CrescMag@gmail.com 

 

by November 15, 2022. Submissions should be no more than 6000 words for prose and up to five poems.

We do allow simultaneous submissions. In your cover letter, please indicate where else you are sending this work. And if this work is accepted elsewhere after you send it to us, please let us know. There is no fee to apply.

Guidelines for Submissions:

• Typed, double-spaced (poetry may be single-spaced) pages.

• Numbered pages.

• Fiction, nonfiction, and other prose: Less than 6000 words. Excerpts of longer works are welcome if self-contained.

• Poetry: Submit 1-3 pages with each poem being on a new page.

• Translations are welcome if permission has been granted.

Note that because we support up-and-coming writers and are a community-based writers collective, we may want to work with you in revising your submission for publication. This means we are enthusiastic about your work and want to refine it towards realizing your project even more strongly.

Bios

Please include an author bio of no more than 100 words.

Cover Letters

We encourage you to include a short (no more than 2 pages) cover letter with your submission. It should reference: 

• Major publications, awards, or relevant accomplishments.

• Any association or past correspondence with an editor or with our writers’ group.

• Any additional details or context that might be helpful in understanding your submission (Optional).

Include your submission, bio, and cover letter in one email with your last name and “Submission” in the subject line. For example: Smith Submission. Your submission, bio, and cover letter should be in distinct email attachments as doc, docx, or PDF files. To make it easier on our editors, please label the attachments as: your last name SUB, last name CL, and last name BIO, respectively. For example: SmithCL

All submissions will be due by November 15, 2022.

Writing Competition: Leiby Chapbook Contest

Leiby Chapbook Contest

Each year The Florida Review Publications honors past editor Jeanne Leiby with the publication of a prose or graphic narrative chapbook. To purchase one of our previous winners’ chapbooks, please see our Store, and for more information about Jeanne Leiby, the award in her honor, and the chapbook winners and runners-up, please see our Jeanne Leiby Memorial Chapbook Series page. Reading a copy of one or more of our chapbooks and/or reading about the award’s history and winners will give you a good idea of the type of work we are looking for.

The contest runs from September 1 through December each year.

Winners receive publication and $1,000 (upon publication). All entries are considered for potential excerpt publication in The Florida Review or Aquifer: The Florida Review Online.

• All submissions are considered for publication in the journal, and all entrants receive a complimentary one-year subscription to The Florida Review. Submit up to 45 pages (double spaced and in MS Word for fiction or essay, pdf or jpeg if graphic narrative).

• This is a blind-read contest. The manuscript should not have your name or other identifying information on any page. Please note that if your name is drawn into a panel of a graphic narrative, it should be blocked out. Submit a cover letter with your name and the title (or titles) of the submitted work.

• Any combination of long or short stories, essays, or flash fiction or nonfiction–as well as graphic narrative–will be considered. Please note that if submitting a collection of flash pieces, it is fine if some have been previously published (with credits given in your cover letter), but we prefer that some of the work be unpublished so that we may offer journal publication in the case of finalists and, sometimes, semi-finalists.

• Graphic narrative must be black and white and in jpeg or pdf format.

• Entry fee is $25.

• All submissions will be considered for publication in The Florida Review or Aquifer: The Florida Review Online.

• Simultaneous submissions are OK as long as they are withdrawn immediately upon acceptance elsewhere

• Winner and finalist announcements will be posted on The Florida Review website, and publication will be scheduled for the following spring.

• Make sure to select the chapbook category in Submittable.

Call for Submissions to Anthology on Theme of "Urban and Rural Poverty": Sticks & Bricks: Stories from the Wrong Side of Town

CALL FOR STORIES: Submission Deadline November 30, 2022

We seldom see stories dealing with working class and poverty class characters from both rural and urban settings brought together. What are the similarities and differences with the struggles in both locations? What does a look at them together tell us about our lives? Class can simply be the backdrop of the story, though; place, rural or urban, simply the setting. The story can focus on any conflict.

The editors will curate the stories to contrast the urban and rural settings. Your story need not include both. Your job as a writer is to simply send us good writing.

• Previously published work is acceptable if permissions have reverted to you. 

• Stories should be under 7,500 words.
  

• $8.00 submission fee.

Important points to consider:We are interested in believable dialogue. We love dialect and regionalisms, but there is an art to writing them well, and we will judge poorly written dialect and slang harshly.

We’re looking for a sense of time and place, so be careful of anachronisms.

While we want to see character development, we still want a story. Give us a beginning, a middle, and especially, an end.

Grammar and mechanics count. Please proofread.

Submission Deadline: November 30, 2022

Submission Guidelines:

• Submissions are open August 15--November 30, 2022.

• A reading fee of $8 must be paid at the time of submission.

• All submissions must be in English.

• We accept previously published fiction as long as the author discloses the publication history of the work in the cover letter accompanying the submission, and owns the right to republish that work.

• We accept simultaneous submissions, but please notify Madville immediately if the story is accepted elsewhere and you wish to withdraw it from consideration. There will be no refunds of the reading fees.

• Writers may submit more than one story, but each must be submitted separately.

• We hope to announce the stories we've selected by January 23, 2023 and publish the anthology in Summer 2023.

Formatting:

• Short stories, whether fiction or nonfiction, should have a total word count of no more than 7,500 words.

• Please include page numbers.

• Please double-space and use a 12pt. font.

• Do not include an acknowledgments page.

• Submissions will be judged blind. Please remove any identifying information from the submission.

• Submit as a .doc, .docx, .rtf, or .txt file format.

• No revisions will be accepted once the submission is uploaded.

All authors chosen for the anthology will receive two free copies of the book.

There is an $8 reading fee.

Submission Deadline: November 30, 2022.

Submission link here.

 

Writing Competition: Permafrost 2022 Nonfiction Book Prize

We are now accepting submissions for the Permafrost 2022 Nonfiction Book Prize.

Since 2014, Permafrost Magazine has held an Annual Book Prize contest for the best manuscript (genre alternating each year). The winner of the contest receives $1000.00 and publication through the University of Alaska Press. Each year, the book prize genre alternates through poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.

Prizes:

The winner will receive $1,000 and publication of their manuscript through the University of Alaska Press.

Eligibility:

We welcome manuscripts from all writers writing in English. We will not consider manuscripts that have already been published elsewhere including self-published works. We do accept simultaneous submissions, but please notify us immediately if your manuscript is accepted elsewhere. No past or present student or paid employee of the University of Alaska Fairbanks is eligible to enter. Affiliates of UAF and their spouses are not eligible for entry.

When to Submit:

We will begin accepting submissions on August 1, 2022 with a deadline of 11:59 p.m., Alaska Standard Time, October 1, 2022.

Manuscript:

Manuscripts must be a minimum of 150 pages long. All entries will be read anonymously. Please ensure that the author’s name does not appear on the manuscript. We will accept manuscripts of essays or full-length memoir, nature and travel writing, literary journalism, or anything else that falls into the category of creative nonfiction.

We accept only electronic submissions through our Submittable page.

Entry Fee: There is a $20 entry fee to submit your manuscript to the contest.

Notifications:

A winner will be selected around March 1, 2023. Results will be emailed shortly thereafter.

Judge:

We are very excited to announce that Joy Castro will judge our 2022 Book Prize in Nonfiction.

Joy Castro is the author of seven books: the memoir The Truth Book (2005); the literary thrillers Hell or High Water (2012), Nearer Home (2013), and Flight Risk (2021); the essay collection Island of Bones (2013); the short story collection How Winter Began (2015); and the forthcoming historical novel One Brilliant Flame (2023). She edited Family Trouble: Memoirists on the Hazards and Rewards of Revealing Family (2013), co-edited special issues of Brevity on gender and race, and serves as the founding series editor of Machete, a nonfiction series at The Ohio State University Press. A former Writer in Residence at Vanderbilt University, she is the Willa Cather Professor of English and Ethnic Studies at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, where she directs the Institute for Ethnic Studies and teaches creative writing, literature, and Latinx studies.

Call for Submissions to Anthology: Playing Authors

Old Iron Press currently seeks submissions for our inaugural print anthology titled “Playing Authors.”

Inspired by the classic game of Authors, originally published in 1861, we would like you to play with what it means to be an author—and an Author. The original game consisted of sets of playing cards pictured with the works and visage of a well-known author of the time. We are excited to read how you experiment with the concept of Author.

At Old Iron Press, we are fascinated by process. We are interested in creations that are less about a corrective or a return, but rather about an act of becoming.

We would like you to ask questions about what stories belong to us and why. What stories should we—or shouldn’t we—be telling? Must a story match an authorial voice? What role does an author’s biography play? And, what about the infamous author photo?

Perhaps you get your heteronym on and create an author—complete with physical description and bio—and write something in their distinctive voice. Or maybe you dive into the history of your own authorial voice.

You may send any variation of form (ex. three poems, graphic novel excerpt, recipe, instructions, chapter, criticism, scene). We would particularly love to read experimental essays, alternate biography, slipstream, hybrid works, and collaborative projects. At OIP, genre is our favorite five-letter word. Let this be an invitation to explore something new to you.

We do ask that you keep your document under 3,000 words. Please use standard formatting and be thoughtful regarding public domain. We do not consider previously published work, whether print or online. Selected contributors will receive one free contributor copy and an honorarium.

We look forward to reading your work and your Authors!

Deadline: Dec. 1, 2022 

Guidelines and submission link here.

Call for Submissions: Glassworks

​Open Reading Period: August 15 - December 15

Glassworks accepts submissions in artwork, fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, flash, and hybrid forms.

There is no fee to submit through November 30 OR for the first 1,000 submissions, whatever comes first. After that, a $2 submission fee will be required.

**NOTE**​ Our Submittable account will only allow each submitter one submission per genre. Please take your time when preparing your submission. If you submit and withdraw, you will not be able to submit in the same genre again until our next Open Reading Period.

General Guidelines 

• Make all submissions through Submittable. We do not accept submissions via email.

• We do not accept previously published work, including work self-published or work published online via blog or social media.

• We do not accept submissions from current Rowan University students, staff, or faculty.

• Simultaneous submissions are accepted if noted and withdrawn upon acceptance elsewhere.

• Please submit just once per genre, per reading period.

• Include all works of the same genre (i.e. all five poems or all three flash) as one file and send as one submission.

• You may submit in more than one genre with no penalty. Please do not submit the same work in multiple categories.

• We are currently able to provide one print copy as payment to authors and are pleased to provide a print on demand option for additional copies of each issue.​ 

 More information and submission link here.

 

Call for Submissions: A Plate of Pandemic

A Plate of Pandemic accepts submissions, via Submittable, of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and art throughout the year for online publication. We believe that creativity responds to crisis in interesting and unusual ways, and we look for writing and art that convey this. While submissions need not directly address the Covid-19 pandemic, we are interested in work that says something about this moment, about life in a pandemic-inflected world, whether metaphorically or actually.

All submissions must be in English and previously unpublished. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable as long as we are notified immediately if the manuscript is accepted for publication elsewhere. We do not accept children’s literature, science fiction, religious material, erotica, pornography, or grammatically-challenged writing. Prose writers may submit one work of no more than 3,500 words; poets, no more than three poems; artists (any medium) no more than three .jpegs of one work. Please include your name and contact information on the document you submit.

Deadline: September 30, 2022

Writing Competitions: The Lascaux Prizes in Short Fiction and Creative Nonfiction

The Lascaux Prize in Short Fiction

Stories may be previously published or unpublished, and simultaneous submissions are accepted. Winner receives $1,000 and a bronze medallion. Finalists receive $100. Winner and finalists are published in both the online and annual print editions of The Lascaux Review.

Two copies of the journal will be supplied to every writer appearing in it. 

Entry fee is $15. Writers may enter more than once. 

Length should not exceed 10,000 words. All genres and styles are welcome. Judges are the journal’s editors. Writers retain all rights to their work at all times.

Contest participants receive free downloads of the Lascaux volumes to date. Because editors are dispersed geographically the review is unable to accept submissions via postal mail. Make sure Submittable is on your safe list. 

Please submit your work by 31 December 2022.

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The Lascaux Prize in Creative Nonfiction

Creative nonfiction may include memoirs, chronicles, personal essays, humorous perspectives, literary journalism—anything the author has witnessed, experienced, learned, or discovered. Pieces may be previously published or unpublished, and simultaneous submissions are accepted. 

Winner receives $1,000 and a bronze medallion. Finalists receive $100. Winner and finalists are published in both the online and annual print editions of The Lascaux Review.

Two copies of the journal will be supplied to every writer appearing in it. 

Entry fee is $15. Writers may enter more than once. Length should not exceed 10,000 words. All topics are welcome; pieces should be written in a nonacademic style. Judges are the journal’s editors. Writers retain all rights to their work at all times. 

Contest participants receive free downloads of the Lascaux volumes to date. Because editors are dispersed geographically the review is unable to accept submissions via postal mail. Make sure Submittable is on your safe list.  

Please submit your work by 30 September 2022.

More information and submission links here.

Call for Submissions to Anthology on Theme of "Trees": Outpost 19

Rooted Two: Best New Arboreal Nonfiction

Ends on February 1, 2023

It’s been a while. Six years to be precise.

That’s when we last compiled Rooted, a colorful little family of tree-tethered nonfiction, created a single home for it in the pages of an anthology, and invited Bill McKibben to write an introduction. A lot’s happened since then. Tree stuff has continued to enjoy the literary limelight, and a thicket of excellent arboreal essays have emerged in the last few years.

Some of those published pieces will make their way to our next edition, but Outpost19 is mainly seeking original nonfiction—from lyric essays to reportage and everything in between—not to exceed 7000 words.

• Flash is welcome.

• Segments of memoirs that stand alone are welcome.

• Comics and graphic essays are welcome.

• Tree-related literary surprises are especially welcome.

• 2017 to present is the target for previously published work.

One of the things we discovered as we published and promoted the original Rooted is that everyone we met (in bookstores, at conferences, online and in person) indeed had a tree story, some connection, some memory or anecdote or obscure bit of scientific research.

That’s what we’re hoping to capture, in their most eloquent and provocative forms, in the pages of our second volume. Thanks for considering Rooted Two as a home for your work. We’re honored to consider it.

Sincerely,

Josh MacIvor-Andersen, Editor

Josh MacIvor-Andersen is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir On Heights & Hunger and editor of Rooted, The Best New Arboreal Nonfiction. His essays, reviews and reportage have won numerous national awards and nominations for the Pushcart Prize, and can be found in journals and magazines such as The Guardian, Normal School, Gulf Coast, Paris Review Daily, Fourth Genre, Arts and Letters, Sycamore Review, Sojourners, Geez, Ruminate, Rock and Sling, National Geographic/Glimpse, Diagram, The Drum, The Collagist, Garden and Gun, Memoir (and), New Millennium Writings, Our State, Prism and The Northwest Review. He is the “Readers’ Ruminate” and “Last Notes” editor for Ruminate Magazine, as well as the Book Review and Interview editor for The Waking. He lives in Terre Haute, Indiana and directs the writing major at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College where he is an Associate Professor of English.

Submit your work here.

Writing Competition: MAYDAY Creative Nonfiction Contest

Submissions are open for the 2022 MAYDAY Creative Nonfiction Prize.

Winner receives $1,000 and publication.

Deadline: Oct. 1, 2022.  

• (2000-7500 words) exploring the theme of Disappearance (of people, places, things, etc).
  

• Entries must be previously unpublished. All entries will be considered for publication at MAYDAY.

• Manuscripts must be in English. All styles, forms, and genres of creative nonfiction are welcome.

• Multiple and simultaneous submissions are welcome. Each submission must be accompanied by a separate fee. Please notify MAYDAY immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere.

We read manuscripts blind, so please exclude identifying information from the manuscript itself. All relevant contact information is included in your Submittable file.

 

Reading fee: $20

 

The final judge this year is DARIN STRAUSS, bestselling author of several books, including the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning memoir Half a Life (Random House, 2011) and most recently the acclaimed novel The Queen of Tuesday: A Lucille Ball Story (Random House, 2020). Strauss is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Library Association Award, and numerous other prizes. His books have been named New York Times Notable Books and Best Books of the Year by Entertainment Weekly, Newsweek, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Amazon, Chicago Tribune, NPR, and others. Strauss is a clinical associate professor of writing at New York University and lives with his wife and children in Brooklyn.

 

More information and Submittable link here.

Call for Submissions: Rockvale Review

Rockvale Review Open for Poetry, Short Fiction, and CNF Submissions

Deadline: September 30, 2022

Rockvale Review is an online literary journal associated with Rockvale Writers' Colony, a retreat center in middle Tennessee. We're seeking bold (like a rock) and vulnerable (like a vale) writing for Issue Nine in the genres of poetry, short fiction, and CNF. The unthemed issue will be published in November 2022.

We read blind, so no names on the work please.

Submission fee - $2.50.

Please follow all the guidelines listed on our website. We look forward to reading your work. 

Call for Submissions: The Hamilton Stone Review

The Hamilton Stone Review Is Open for Submissions 9-8-22 through 10-8-22

Deadline: October 8, 2022

The Hamilton Stone Review opens for poetry and prose submissions for the Fall 2022 Issue #47 on September 8, 2022 and closes Saturday, October 8, 2022. Submissions may close early if the issue fills. Poetry submissions should be e-mailed only to Kevin Stein at:

hasrpoetrykevin@gmail.com

with "HSR" in the subject line.

Fiction and nonfiction submissions should be e-mailed as an attachment only to Dorian Gossy at:

HSRproseDEG@gmail.com

For more information, please see our website.

Writing Competition: Atlantis Award

 

Atlantis Award

Deadline: October 1, 2022

Entry Fee: $10.00

The Atlantis Award is given for the best poem.

The winning poet receives $300, publication, and will be featured in an interview on The Poet’s Billow web site. Finalists may be published. We nominate for Pushcart Prize, Best of the Web, and Best New Poets.

Call for Submissions: Cherry Tree: A National Literary Journal

Deadline: October 1, 2022

Cherry Tree: A National Literary Journal would like to read your fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction through October 1, 2022. All accepted work is also considered for our distinctive Literary Shade section.

Contributors receive $20 and 2 copies of the issue in which their work appears.

Our $3 reading fee helps us to pay contributors and 10% of those fees will be donated to Minary's Dream Alliance, a community nonprofit organization with strong mentorship programs for at-risk youth. (The editors make a matching donation.) For more about what we're looking for and to read our guidelines, please visit our website.

Writing Competition: New Letters Editor's Choice Award

 

$1,000 + Publication: New Letters Editor's Choice Award

Deadline: October 17, 2022

Entry Fee: $20.00

The New Letters’ Editor’s Choice Award is now accepting entries for experimental work that crosses the traditional boundaries of genre and form. Enter your hybrid work—your lyric essays, prose poems, short-shorts, collages, micro-memoirs. . . whatever you’re doing that’s experimental, that defies easy categorization. The maximum word count is 8,000 and entries must be previously unpublished.

The winner will receive $1,000 plus publication in New Letters. Visit our website for guidelines and to enter online via Submittable.

Writing Competition on Theme of "Inception": Sunspot Literary

Inception: $250 for Best Opening

Deadline: September 30, 2022

Beginnings weight one moment with a particular power. A poem handles this differently than flash fiction, a novel, a graphic novel or an art series. Send your best opening. No restrictions on theme, category, or the length of the piece or collection from which the excerpt comes.

$250 plus publication for winner; publication offered to runners-up and finalists.

Entry Fee: $8.50

Word limit: 250 for fiction/CNF, 25 for poetry, first page for graphic novel/comic book, one image for art.

Closes September 30, 2022. Guidelines and entry portal here.

Writing Competition: 2022 X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize

 

2022 X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize

Deadline: September 30, 2022

Established in 1998, The X. J. Kennedy Prize highlights one full-length collection of poetry per year.

Since 2019 the Prize comes with a $10,000 advance and publication.

2022 Judge is Kimiko Hahn. This contest is open to any poet in any stage of their career. Submissions are accepted through Submittable only.

Deadline to submit is September 30th.

Entry fee is $28. Full rules and guidelines can be found on TRP’s Submittable or at our website.

Writing Competition: 2022 George Garrett Fiction Prize

2022 George Garrett Fiction Prize

Deadline: September 30, 2022

Established in 1998, The George Garrett Fiction Prize highlights one full-length novel or collection of short stories.

Since 2019 the Prize comes with a $1,000 advance and publication. 2022 Judge is Vi Khi Nao. This contest is open to any writer in any stage of their career. Submissions are accepted through Submittable only.

Deadline to submit is September 30th.

Entry fee is $28.

Full rules and guidelines can be found on TRP's Submittable or at our website.

Call for Submissions: MudRoom

MudRoom Open for Submissions

Deadline: October 25, 2022

MudRoom is open for submissions until October 25! We are seeking poetry and prose in all their forms. 

Submissions are free, and we pay $15 per accepted piece.

MudRoom is somewhere between where you’ve come from and where you’re going. We believe in the liminal, the messy, and the mundane. We publish four issues of prose and poetry a year, and we also work to put out content devoted to developing a practice—book reviews with each issue, and a newsletter to update our readers. 

See our guidelines here.

Call for Submissions on Theme of "Country Roads": Blink-Ink

Blink-Ink Call for Submissions: Country Roads

Deadline: October 15, 2022

Those old songs come to mind. Almost heaven…Ancient native trackways, pioneer trails, leafy lanes, or way out there on a backstreet, way down deep in the backseat. Blow off some steam, or find some peace. Take time to think things through. Country Roads––what might you find? What might you lose? Send us your best stories of approximately 50 words about Country Roads in the body of an email to:

blinkinkinfo@gmail.com

No attachments, poetry, or bios please.

Submissions are open from September 1st, 2022 through October 15th, 2022. 

We are requesting artwork submissions as well.