Writing Competition on Theme of "Lawyers in Modern Society": American Bar Association Ross Writing Contest

The ABA Journal, the flagship magazine of the American Bar Association ("ABA"), sponsors the annual ABA Journal / Ross Writing Contest for Legal Short Fiction (the "Contest"). The Official Rules of the Contest follow.

CONTEST DETAILS and ENTRY INFORMATION:

The ABA Journal will accept entries for the Contest through May 15, 2023. Entries must be original works of fiction of no more than 5,000 words that illuminate the role of the law and/or lawyers in modern society. 

The winner will receive a prize of $3,000. Entrants must be U.S. citizens or legal permanent residents and 21 years or older by May 15, 2023. Winner is responsible for all taxes associated with receipt of the prize. As a condition of receiving the prize, winner must submit a completed IRS Form W-9.

Deadline for entries is 5 p.m. CDT May 15, 2023. The ABA Journal will accept only one entry by any individual author. Joint entries are not permitted. Entries must be submitted via email to:

webmaster@abajournal.com 

Please attach your story as a .doc or .pdf file to your email with the subject line Ross Writing Contest Submission, and include your full name, mailing address, daytime phone number, and whether you are an ABA member. ABA membership is not necessary to win. ABA is not responsible for errors in transmission, computer errors, or similar problems.

Entries may be unpublished, or published no earlier than December 1, 2022. Entries posted publicly on the internet, regardless of the forum or venue, will be considered published for the purposes of the Contest, as would be any entry published in a print publication or literary journal of any kind. The ABA Journal will be the sole judge of an entry's eligibility.

The author of any work submitted will retain copyright to his or her entry. However, by submitting a work for consideration in the contest, the winning author grants the American Bar Association and/or the ABA Journal a non-exclusive, perpetual, worldwide license to publish the work in its periodicals, books, anthologies, e-books, audiobooks or any other publication platform, whether print or digital or hereafter developed, without further compensation.

Contest entries will be judged by a panel selected by the editor and publisher of the ABA Journal and the winner confirmed by the ABA Journal Board of Editors. All decisions are final. Entries will be judged on creativity, plot exposition, legal insight and character development. The winner will be notified on or before July 5, 2023. Winner will be notified by email prior to any public announcement. If winner does not respond within five business days, or email is returned as undeliverable, winner forfeits all right to prize and an alternate winner will be chosen.

ABA officers, directors, staff members, members of the ABA Journal Board of Editors and their immediate household or family members, and freelance writers for the ABA Journal who have been paid for articles published after January 1, 2022, are not eligible to enter or win.

More information here.

Call for Submissions: Heimat Review

Genre Guidelines

• Poetry: 1-5 poems

• Fiction: 1-3 pieces of fiction of no more than 3000 words each

• Creative Nonfiction: 1-3 pieces of creative nonfiction of no more than 3000 words each

• ​Drama: 1-3 ten-minute plays and/or 1 one-act play. These should be stage or radio plays, not teleplays or screenplays.

• Visual Art: 1-5 high-res photos or images of originally-created artwork

Submission Guidelines

We publish poetry, prose (flash fiction, short stories, and creative nonfiction), drama, photography and art quarterly. Please read through the general and specific genre submission guidelines before you submit. We also recommend that you read through Issue 1 to get a sense of what we like and have recently published. Contact us via Twitter or email with any questions.

Submissions are currently open for Issue 2: Winter through Dec 15.

Email your submissions to:

heimatreview@gmail.com 

with the subject line: [Your Name] – Genre.
Genres include “Poetry,” “Fiction,” “Creative Nonfiction,” “Visual Art,” and “Drama.” 

Example: Amanda Gorman - Poetry

Visit our website for more information.

Writing Competition: Interim Poetics: The Test Site Poetry Prize

Interim Poetics: The Test Site Poetry Prize 

Deadline: December 15, 2022

Please submit manuscripts through Submittable with a $25 reading fee. 

Interim will choose two winning books for the series—one title publicized as the winner of The Test Site Poetry Series and the other as the Betsy Joiner Flanagan Award in Poetry. Both winners will receive $1,000 and their books will be published by the University of Nevada Press. 

Call for Submissions: Sand Hills Literary Magazine

 

Sand Hills Literary Magazine Open for General Submissions

Deadline: March 20, 2023

Sand Hills Literary Magazine, in print since 1973, is now open for general submissions. We are a national publication, only accepting works from the United States. Emerging and established writers and artists are encouraged to submit. We are accepting art, poetry, and prose for our 47th issue.

The deadline for submissions is March 20, 2023.

We look forward to reviewing your work. Visit our website for more information.

Call for Submissions: The Meadow

We are also a 100% free journal. Issues are free on campus and distributed freely around the Reno area. If we accept your work for publication, payment is two free copies.

Between Aug. 15 and Jan. 15 of each year, we accept poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and cover artwork.

All submissions must be uploaded through our submission manager system.

Submission Guidelines

We welcome submissions of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and cover artwork. Your name may not appear anywhere on the pieces submitted, as we review all submissions without names,

All submissions must be accompanied by contact information (name, address, telephone and email) and a brief (less than 50 words) biography; include the title(s) of each piece submitted.

We do not accept previously published work, but we will consider simultaneous submissions and expect to be notified immediately of acceptance elsewhere.

We will accept up to five poems, photos or art pieces, or one work of prose (fiction or nonfiction) from each author or artist. Prose may not exceed 5,000 words.

More information here.

Call for Poetry Submissions: Sho Poetry Journal

Deadline: Dec. 31, 2022

Shō welcomes submissions of previously unpublished poetry. Please review our guidelines below before submitting.

Please do not send work that has previously appeared in a print journal, online journal, or on social media or a personal website.

We are working on getting on Submittable. Until then, please send poems the old-fashioned way, via the US Postal Service. We attempt to respond to submissions within three months or less.

Send submissions to:

Shō Poetry Journal
P.O. Box 4410
Chino Valley, AZ 86323

Note: You must enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope (SASE) for a reply. Manuscripts will be returned only if specified and if sufficient postage is included. Submissions that do not contain an SASE will not be considered.

Guidelines

• Submit up to five poems at a time. Please do not submit additional work until you’ve heard back from us regarding a previous submission.

• Your cover letter should provide your contact information (including an email address), the titles you are submitting, and a short bio (written in third person), for our contributors’ notes. No cutesy bios, please.

• Simultaneous submissions are fine as long as you specify this in your cover letter and notify us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere.

More information here.

Call for Submissions: Armstrong Literary

Armstrong Literary is currently open for submissions! We accept fiction, creative non-fiction, translation, poetry, hybrid, and visual art submissions.

Armstrong Literary‘s submission period for the Spring 2023 issue will run from October 15th, 2022, until December 15th, 2022. We are interested in work that push boundaries –– on an emotional level as well as a linguistic one –– poems, stories, translations, and fragments that scatter, ground, croon, and devastate.

In keeping with the cross-genre nature of our journal, Armstrong Literary is now accepting submissions in a new genre for our Spring 2023 issue: Visual Art!

For prose submissions, submit one (1) short story or one (1) self-contained novel excerpt or creative non-fiction piece of no more than 5,000 words in one single file in doc., rtf, or .pdf format.

For poetry submissions, submit up to three (3) poems totaling no more than six (6) pages in one single file in doc., rtf, or .pdf format. We may choose to publish one or all of the poems.

For hybrid submissions, submit work that redefine the meaning of literature, pieces that transcend genres and mediums, texts that aren’t afraid to experiment and break the rules. Think: a creative non-fiction piece where each word is separated by a hyphen, videopoetry, visual poetry, spoken word, interpretative dance performance of a short story, the melding of literature and music, etc. For video or audio recordings, submit work totaling no more than 5 minutes. For everything else, submit work totaling no more than 6 pages.

In the submission email subject line please include: Title, genre (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, hybrid, art, or translation), and word count. In the body include an author bio.

We do accept simultaneous submissions, but please let us know if your piece is accepted elsewhere. We’re seeking first-time rights, but all of the rights revert back to the author upon publication. Should your piece be picked up again we ask that you acknowledge that we published it first.

We do not accept previously published material (this includes personal blogs, social media accounts, and websites).

With the exception of Art, current Queens College MFA students are not allowed to submit Armstrong Literary in any category. We will automatically pass on your submission.

We also like to note that we welcome work in all languages. However, if a majority of your piece is not written in English, please include a translation of the non-English portion(s) of the piece. This is an accessibility consideration for the editors, and not an attempt to privilege the English language.

More information here.

Submit your work and inquiries to:

armstrongliterary@gmail.com

Thank you for your interest in Armstrong Literary. We’re excited to read your work!

 

Call for Submissions: Action, Spectacle

Action, Spectacle welcomes submissions year-round, in English and previously unpublished. Simultaneous and unsolicited submissions are encouraged.

We employ the broadest possible aesthetic when we read. We encourage submissions of work that is more traditional or explicitly experimental, linear or non-linear, concrete or abstract, narrative or gestural, concerned with the natural world, the self, urban spaces, history, &c.

We will publish 2 issues online each year. Each issue will feature work chosen by Action, Spectacle's editors, and a rotation of several guest editors per issue, including Vu Tran, Dana Levin, Kimiko Hahn, Rick Moody, Rae Armantrout, Emily Fridlund, Hilary Plum, Kyle McCord, Simone Muench, Cindy Arrieu-King, Amy Lawless, Ryan Ridge, Julia Story, Bianca Stone, Philliip Lopate, Carl Phillips, Juliana Spahr, CA Conrad, D.A. Powell, and others.

We read general submissions year round. We publish poetry, flash fiction, short fiction, comics, interviews, essays, reviews, as well as some static graphic images. Hybrid and collaborative work, as well as translations are welcome and should be accompanied by a copy of the original text, whenever possible.

All text submissions should be sent as ONE Word document, and all comics and images should be sent as JPEG 300 dpi. We cannot publish TIF or PDF files. 

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions: Channel Magazine

Submissions for Channel Issue 8 are open from 1 November to 15 December 2022. We look forward to reading your work!

Essay submissions, which will be considered for online publication as well as for our next print issue, are open year-round. We also welcome submissions of visual art, to be featured on the covers of future issues, at any time.

We ask that, if your work was featured in our most recent print issue, you wait one issue before submitting again. Due to the volume of work received, we also ask that writers submit in only one prose category per issue (i.e. please feel free to send us poetry and a short story, or poetry and an essay, but not a short story and an essay together).

What We Publish

We publish new, previously unpublished work that engages with the natural world. We have a particular interest in work which encourages reflection on human interaction with plant and animal life, landscape and the self. Each issue includes a mix of poetry and fiction, alongside a selection of essays which may include creative non-fiction, criticism, and the occasional review of new creative work or of community-based environmental projects. Although based in Ireland, Channel welcomes international submissions. We also welcome submissions in translation. For a deeper look into what we publish, we encourage you to order a copy of our current issue.

Essay – essay@channelmag.org
We accept both completed essay submissions and proposals. Completed essays (including creative non-fiction, reportage, commentary, and criticism) should generally not exceed 6000 words. We ask that you send your essay as a Word document attachment to the above-listed email. If you have a proposal for an essay or an interview, please contact us directly with a brief description of same.

Essay submissions exclusively will be accepted on a rolling basis, regardless of the dates of submissions windows.  

As well as accepting essay submissions for print, we welcome submissions for online publication on the Channel blog. Pieces of 1500 words or fewer which explore a particular issue in current events or explicate upon a community-based environmental project are particularly encouraged for blog publication. If we feel that a piece submitted for the magazine would do well online, we may also offer blog publication as well as, or as an alternative to, a place in the upcoming print issue.

Short Stories – fiction@channelmag.org
We believe that stories should be free to occupy the space their development requires, and so do not place a strict limit on word count. However, taking into account economy of space within the magazine, as a general rule we encourage stories to not exceed 6000 words. Please send no more than one story per submission window as a Word document attachment.

Poetry – poetry@channelmag.org
You may submit up to 4 poems, regardless of length, per submission window. Please include all poems in one Word document, with each new poem starting on a new page. Channel has no limitations on form or style.

Please email all submissions directly to the relevant address, clearly stating your name within the body of your email. Please do not include any identifying information within the attached Word document submission.

We believe in paying writers, and can offer a fee at this time of €50 per poem and €50 per page of prose up to a total maximum fee of €150. Contributors will also receive a copy of whichever issue their work appears within.

Artwork
We are also seeking visual art (in any medium) to feature on the covers of our upcoming issues. As we wish to provide a showcase for local artists, we are currently accepting visual art submissions only from artists based on the island of Ireland. Please tell us a little about your practice, and submit a sample or samples of your work that you believe could become engaging cover art, at:

info@channelmag.org.

The artist whose work is featured on each cover will receive a fee of €150 along with a copy of the issue.

Rights
When a piece is accepted for publication, Channel buys first publication rights. All other rights remain with you and you are welcome to republish your work following the launch of the issue in which it appears. We would be grateful if you mention Channel as the place of first publication.

To learn more about us, please visit our website.

Writing Competition: Plentitudes Prizes for Fiction, Nonfiction, & Poetry

The Inaugural Plentitudes Prizes for Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry is open to all writers.

From November 1 to December 31, 2022, submit short stories and essays between 1,000 to 5,000 words, or a set of 1-3 poems of no more than 65 lines each.

Winners in each genre will receive $1,000; second-place winners will receive $300; and third-place winners will receive $200. All winners and runner-ups will be considered for publication.

More than one submission may be entered. You may retain your name on the submission but you may not submit if you are personally connected to any of the guest judges and/or the editors. Simultaneous submissions are fine, as long as you contact us if the work is accepted elsewhere.

Awards: First Prize in each genre is $1,000, Second Prize is $300, Third Prize is $200. All entries will be considered for publication.

​Submission Fee: There is a $20 fee (non-refundable) for each entry.

Timing: The submission deadline is December 31, 2022, at 11:59 p.m., Eastern Time.

More information and submission portal here.

Writing Competition: Disquiet International Literary Prize

The 2023 DISQUIET Prize is now open for submissions!

 

Entries are accepted in ficton, nonfiction, and poetry. One winner in each category will be published in Granta.com (fiction), NinthLetter.com (non-fiction) or The Common (poetry).

 

One grand prize winner will receive a full scholarship, accommodations, and travel stipend to attend the tenth annual DISQUIET International Literary Program in Lisbon (June 25-July 7, 2023).

 

Genre winners will receive a tuition waiver for DISQUIET 2023 in addition to publication.

 

Winners who are unable to attend the progam in Lisbon may elect to receive a $1000 cash prize in lieu of the tuition waiver.

 

The complete guidelines for the 2023 contest are as follows:

• Deadline: January 2, 2023 
  

• Eligibility: Only previously unpublished work in English can be submitted. We accept entries from all ages 18 and over and all countries, by authors who have not yet published more than one book with a major publisher.

• Entries should be the work of a single author.

• All entries should be in a standard typeface and 12pt font and in .pdf, .doc or .odt format.

• For fiction: ONE short story or novel excerpt, maximum 25 (double-spaced) pages per entry.

• For non-fiction: ONE nonfiction piece or book excerpt, maximum 25 (double-spaced) pages per entry.

• For poetry: No more than SIX poems per entry, up to 10 pages total.

• Entrants may submit to any or all categories more than once; however, each entry must be accompanied by its own entry fee.

• Simultaneous submissions are welcome, but please notify us immediately if your submission is accepted elsewhere.

• Please indicate the type of submission (short story, novel excerpt, poetry, non- fiction, etc.) in the submission form Include your complete contact information (name, address, telephone, email address) in the Submittable form.

• Winners will be notified in March 2023. Previous first place winners may not re-enter in the same genre.

Visit our Submittable page to enter.

 

A $15 US reading fee must accompany each entry.

Questions? Contact info@disquietinternational.org

Call for Submissions: Literary Mama

General Submission Guidelines

Literary Mama seeks: Submissions by anyone who identifies as a mother, including those hoping to conceive and those who have lost a child. We also occasionally publish work by fathers.

Writing rooted in and inspired by the experience of motherhood in all its variations.
Fresh perspectives, superior craft, and vivid imagery.
Revelation so stark that it hurts. Pathos can reveal, but so can humor and joy.

• Please note: We are open for submission year round.

• Standard response time is three months.

• Please indicate in your cover letter if this is a simultaneous submission. If your submission is accepted elsewhere, please let us know immediately.

• We accept only previously unpublished work.

• Electronic submissions only. Please send submissions to the appropriate departmental editors after reading department-specific guidelines. Include a brief cover letter and bio.

• Authors and photographers retain rights. Please credit us if your work is republished, and please be sure to let us know so we can celebrate your achievements!

• Literary Mama is not currently a paying market. We are all volunteers: editors, writers, visual artists, and editorial assistants. With the publication of each issue, we make a concerted effort to promote the work of our contributors via Facebook, Twitter, and our newsletter. 

Complete guidelines and submission portal here.

Call for Submissions: Hayden's Ferry Review

Hayden's Ferry Review is the international literary journal out of Arizona State University.

• General Notes on Submission (or withdrawal)Please send one submission per genre at a time, and wait for a response before you submit additional work.

• Simultaneous submissions are welcome. If your work is accepted elsewhere, please notify the editors immediately by adding a message to your submission in Submittable.

• Withdraw your submission using Submittable. if you are only withdrawing a section of your work (for example: 1/3 poems), add a message to your submission in Submittable.

• Please limit your poetry submissions to a maximum of 3 poems totaling up to 8 pages.

• Please limit your prose submissions to under 20 pages.

• All prose should be double-spaced.

• We are always open to submissions of visual art and translations.

• Contributors receive one copy of the issue in which they appear. Additional copies may be purchased for $6 each up to 5 copies.

• We do not accept previously published material.

• We do not consider book-length works.

Submitters are strongly encouraged to read the journal before submitting: to subscribe, visit our store.

Anyone affiliated with ASU (staff, faculty, and graduate/undergraduate students) should refrain from submitting to HFR until they have been unaffiliated for three years.

If you have previously been published in HFR's print journal or a web issue, please wait 2 years from your publication date before submitting again.

By submitting, you are agreeing to receive occasional newsletter emails from us. You are welcome to opt out at any time and a link to do so will be included in each newsletter.

PLEASE NOTE: We no longer accept submissions by mail. We will only review work that has been received through Submittable.

Deadline: Nov. 30, 2022

Call for Submissions from Women and Female-Identifying Contributors on Themes of Faith: The Unmooring Journal

Faith Journal The Unmooring Seeks Nonfiction & Art

Deadline: December 1, 2022 

The Unmooring Journal is open for submissions of writing (essays, articles, liturgies), art, and photography from women and female-identifying contributors for Issue 5—which is not a themed issue—and we will accept pieces covering a broad range of faith topics. 

All published pieces receive $50 stipend. 

Submission fee of $3 waived if financial need. 

Submit your work here through December 1, 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: The Awakenings Review

 

Exploration and Catharsis: Mental Illness and The Awakenings Review

Deadline: Year-round

The Awakenings Review is an award-winning literary magazine committed to publishing poetry, short stories, nonfiction, and photography by writers, poets, and artists who have a relationship with mental illness, either self, family member, or friend. Located in the Chicago area but international in scope, our hardcopy publication, soon to be published biannually (beginning in Spring 2023), is one of the nation’s leading journals of this genre. At The Awakenings Review, our aim is to provide a forum and liberating experience for our contributors and a vehicle of insight for our readers.

Refer to our submission guidelines at our website. 

Call for Editors and Readers: Dark Onus Lit

 

Dark Onus Lit - New Zine Seeking Editors|Readers (unpaid) for Inaugural Issue

Deadline: December 15, 2022

Dark Onus Lit is an experimental, secular online literary magazine and we will be open for submissions on 1.1.23. I am seeking editors in the following areas: Poetry, Spoken Word, Flash Fiction/Short Stories, Digital Art, and Interviews. We are a lit mag focused on publishing dark-themed works and visual aesthetics. We will be publishing things like horror and sci fi short stories, speculative poetry, experimental, surrealist pieces, conflagrations of genres, etc. We publish micro-issue zines.

The position is unpaid, you’re welcome to read as much or little as you’d like. Experience required—please send a brief bio to:

 info@darkonuslit.com

Call for Submissions: Space Westerns

Space Westerns

First and foremost, we’re looking for Space Westerns: works with themes from the Western genre set in Outer-space, or having some element of extra-terrestrial travel (i.e. Space Opera with Western-genre themes). This is the majority of the fiction that we publish. Our preference is to publish works that contain, in part, some form of off-earth travel. We recommend that you read The Emancipation of Bat Durston by our editor, N.E. Lilly.

For our purposes we consider the following to be examples of works with strong Space Western themes (inter-planetary fiction containing Western genre themes): Flash Gordon (comic, movie serial, and 1978 animated serial), Buck Rogers, Star Wars, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica (both series), Firefly, Serenity, Mike Resnick’s Santiago, Ande Norton’s Beastmaster series, Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles, The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers, Bravestarr, Silverhawks, Cowboy Bebop, Outlaw Star, Coyote Ragtime Show, and Trigun.

Steampunk

We’d like to see Steampunk (after all, the era is right) with some Western elements (themes, setting, characters, etc.). Space travel is a plus, in fact getting off of terra firma is highly recommended, but not strictly necessary.

Weird West

We’re using the term Weird Western here to denote Western/Fantasy/Horror genre blending. We are least likely to publish a Weird Western unless it also includes Space Western elements.

Feminist & Minority Themes

Send us stories from a non-WASP point-of-view: fiction about Chinese, Native American, Mexican/Spanish, African/African-American and/or even the “New Immigrants” — (German, Irish/Gaelic, Italian, Russian) peoples influences on the Western themes. Send us stories with strong women, weak women, but most of all stories with real women.

What we aren’t looking for:

Unfortunately, because we’re lowly cowards, we aren’t considering publishing fan-fiction at this time, so unless you’ve received express written permission from the original rights-holders, please don’t submit it here.

We have no problem with thinly-veiled, dressed-up, used-furniture — the Space Western genre capitalizes on it — let’s just say we’d like to avoid any imperial entanglements.

Rights & Rates

Reprints

We’d like “Nonexclusive Internet Reprint Rights”. If you’ve written a previously published work, either in print or for an online market that’s now closed, we’d like to see it. When you submit please include the publication history of the story. Current rates for unsolicited manuscripts are 2¢/word, paid upon publication.

Fiction

We’d like to reserve “First Internet Publication Rights”. We are looking for short stories of about 5,000 words in length, but no more than 7,500 words and no less than 2,500 words. Serials are welcome (in which case the maximum word count and payment is per installment), but single stand-alone stories are preferred. Current rates for unsolicited manuscripts are 2¢/word to a maximum of $100, paid upon publication.

Non-fiction

We are looking for original critical and academic essays on topics related to Space Westerns, history of the genre, and/or of Western themes of specific works in the Space Western genre of no more than 7,500 words in length and no less than 2,500 words. Current rates for unsolicited manuscripts are 2¢/word to a maximum of $100, paid upon publication.

Reviews

500-750 words reviews of books, graphic novels, art exhibitions, music, movies, DVDs, games, websites, and software. Reviews by actual creators of given works are welcome. Reviews are unpaid. If you have a product you’d like to see featured, we’d be happy to review it for inclusion.

Artwork & Illustrations

To be considered for an assignment provide a link to your online portfolio. Payment is $50 for interior (article) illustrations on publication. We prefer to assign artwork if possible, so please let us know if you are willing to do illustration on-demand.

Illustrated Adventures & Comics

We are seeking web comics to feature on the site. Serials welcome. 

Single panel comics: $20
Three panel strips: $50
Three page episodes: $50

For serial works your total submission package should include: A brief outline of the overall nature of your comic; A character sheet that shows your major characters (if any) along with their names and a paragraph description of each; 1 sample strip.

Ballads, Radio-plays, & Readers Theater

We are currently seeking ½-5½ minute recordings (longer recordings are considered). Serials welcome. Payment is $50/episode

For incomplete serial works your total submission package should include: A brief outline of the overall nature of your recording; A character sheet that describes your major characters (if any) along with their names and a paragraph description of each; 1 sample recording.

Moving Pictures

We are currently seeking ½-5½ minute pictures (longer recordings are considered). Live-action and animation considered. Serials welcome.

For serial works your total submission package should include: A brief outline of the overall nature of your video; A character sheet that shows your major characters (if any) along with their names and a paragraph description of each; 1 sample video.

More information and submission link here.

Call for Submissions on the Theme of "Intersections": Saltbush Review

The Saltbush Review publishes literary fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction.

*** Submissions are currently OPEN ***

For our third issue we are seeking submissions of short fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction (including personal essays and life writing) of up to 3,000 words on the theme of ‘Intersections.’ Shorter works such as flash fiction are also welcome, as are works that challenge genre boundaries.

Submissions are limited to one piece of fiction or non-fiction, or three poems or three flash fiction pieces per writer. Creative interpretations of the theme are welcome. For a sense of what we publish, have a look at our previous issues here.

Submissions are open to all, but we particularly welcome work from South Australian and regional writers, emerging writers, First Nations and POC writers, the LGBTQI+ community, and writers with a disability.

Please send submissions in a Word document using Times New Roman size 12 font and 1.5 line spacing to:

saltbushreview@gmail.com 

by the 20th of January 2023. Please also send a 50 word biographical statement. If you have a connection to South Australia, please specify this in your bio. Simultaneous submissions are allowed, but please notify us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere.

The Saltbush Review is proud to announce that we have received funding from Arts SA and that we are able to pay authors for publication of their work in our next issue. We pay AUD$150 per piece of fiction and non-fiction and AUD$100 per poem or piece of flash fiction. We look forward to reading your writing!

Call for Submissions: The Woodward Review

Open for submissions September 1 — December 1

Include a short cover letter & bio in the "cover letter" form of Submittable; we’d like to know who you are, not just who’s published you. While students, faculty, and staff, currently or formerly (within reason) affiliated with Wayne State University are ineligible for consideration or publication of original work, anyone is welcome to submit reviews & responses.

Most submissions get a response in 1– 3 months, but if it seems like there’s gum in the works or you have any other problems or questions, send an email with the subject line Query.

We believe in the importance of compensating all workers for work, and we will always pay our contributors. 

For Issue #2, we're paying $50 per regular contributor. The Woodward Review purchases first North American print publication rights only; all other rights are retained by the author. We will also offer the option of publishing under a Creative Commons license.

Prose

Whether it’s pure fiction, nothing but the truth, or somewhere in between, we welcome anything you might call prose. In addition to traditional shorts stories and flash, creative nonfiction submissions can be lyric essay, memoir, researched narrative, personal obsession you discovered on Wikipedia but can’t stop thinking about, a discarded draft of your master's thesis... we mean it, send us your scholarly work! We’d really like to see prose writing that makes us wonder what it should be called.

Up to 5,000 words or up to three pieces ~500 words or less.

Poetry

We're looking for work that explodes or implodes the potentiality of language. We accept all types of poetry and encourage submissions that play around with the “page.” From confessional to conceptual, send poetry that crosses boundaries, upends expectations, and reimagines what the form can do. Bonus points for poems that make us think about something we’ve never thought of before. We’d like you to say something, emotional, or political, or natural, something that you think makes a difference merely by being spoken.

You can submit up to five poems. The length of each poem is at the poet’s discretion, but if we go on any further, this description will start to sound like a McSweeney’s piece.

Art, Hybrid, & Digital Media

We want any art in any modality, and digital media for anything that can't be understood in a static frame. Send us sculptures or installations, paintings or sketches, designs or deconstructions, photography or videos; we’re also interested in forms that combine the written word with any of the above. We’d especially love to see some digital or hybrid essays.

You can submit up to ten pages or images. Along with your submission, please include a single doc or docx file with an artist statement, a name for the collection, and a list of the works submitted.

Reviews & Responses:

Our central goal is to curate conversation, which we hope to achieve by rejecting the traditional trajectory from the artistic to the critical work it inspires; we believe there's so much more to say when the creative and the critical can respond in any direction, to themselves and each other. To that end, everything we publish, even more "academic" writing, should be treated like an ekphrastic object, inviting creative or critical study.

Every reader and contributor is encouraged to submit a review or response in any medium or genre, from poem to memoir, from doodle to researched essay. Regardless of the form of the original piece, we are seeking writing, art, hybrid and digital media that reflects your review of or response to something you found in The Woodward Review. Did you discover a short story hidden in the pixels of a photography series? Pick up a paintbrush to make sense of a poem? Find yourself writing an essay about something you read here and figured no one would care? Well, we do.

We’re especially interested in seeing work from writers whose obsessions are unfamiliar, scholars or artists whose areas of expertise we don’t (yet) understand. We also welcome book reviews of poetry and prose titles written in Detroit or by Detroiters, and published in the last two years.

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions: Cumberland River Review

The Cumberland River Review accepts submissions during the traditional academic year, September through April, and aims to maintain a regular response time of three months.

Please note that only previously unpublished material will be considered. We read and encourage simultaneous submissions but ask that you withdraw your work (or email us to effect a partial withdrawal) if your submission is accepted elsewhere.

We encourage electronic submissions via our online system:

https://cumberlandriverreview.submittable.com/submit

At this time, we cannot consider submissions made by email. Writers who wish to submit work by regular post should send their manuscripts to:

Cumberland River Review

Trevecca Nazarene University

Department of English

333 Murfreesboro Road

Nashville, Tennessee 37210

Postal submissions should include a self-addressed, stamped envelope to facilitate our reply. Unless their return is specifically requested and sufficient postage is attached, all submissions will be recycled. Please do not send us the only copy of your work.

The Cumberland River Review acquires First North American Serial Rights and the right to maintain an archive copy of accepted work online. All other rights revert to our authors upon publication. We nominate work for the Pushcart Prize, Best New Poets, Best of the Net, and other anthologies and prizes.

Finally, why not follow us on Twitter (@crrlitmag) as long as you're here? We'd love to share occasional reading recommendations and work from our archives.

Poetry
Please submit three, four, or five poems in a single document (.doc, .docx, .rtf). Remember to include your name, physical and email addresses, and telephone number on each poem.

Fiction and Essays
Please submit one short story or one essay of up to 5,000 words (.doc, .docx, .rtf). Remember to include your name, physical and email addresses, and telephone number on the first page of your submission.

Art
The editorial staff of the Cumberland River Review is interested in considering art in any form, provided images can be digitally captured. Please send up to ten pieces at a time to:

crr@trevecca.edu.

Call for Submissions: Fictive Dream

 

Fictive Dream is an online magazine for short stories (500-2500 words) that give an insight into the human condition. The publication features stories “with a distinctive voice, clarity of thought, and precision of language. They may be on any subject. They may be challenging, unsettling, uplifting, cryptic but, above all, they must be well-crafted and compelling.” 

The publication accepts submissions on a rolling basis and publishes one story every Friday and Sunday. 

Recent contributors include Gary Duncan, D.P. Snyder, Mike Fox, Len Kuntz, Douglas A. Wright, Sandra Arnold, A. J. Ashworth, and Jo-Anne Cappeluti. Fictive Dream also hosts the annual Flash Fiction February, featuring new flash throughout the month. 

Submissions are open to works 200-850 words until December 31, 2022.

Call for Submissions: Clockhouse

Guidelines

All submissions must:

Be original, unpublished work written by the author or, if you are submitting artwork for cover consideration, original artwork created by the artist.

Please follow the industry-standard formatting guidelines appropriate for the genre as well as the applicable guidelines below:

• Fiction: Flash Fiction, 750 words or less.

• Short stories and self-contained novel excerpts, 751 - 3,500 words. (Genre fiction will be considered only if it sustains literary merit.)

• Poetry: All poetry in traditional and experimental styles including prose poetry (Up to 250 lines of poetry, total. Only one poem per submission. Poets may submit up to three times per reading period.)

• Memoir and Creative Nonfiction: All memoir and creative nonfiction in traditional and experimental literary styles. No academic or scientific essays (Up to 5,000 words)

• Dramatic Work for Stage or Screen: Short dramatic works in traditional and experimental styles, either a standalone piece or an excerpt from a one-act or full-length play or screenplay (Up to 15 pages)

• Artwork for Cover Consideration: Images should be uploaded in either a jpg or jpeg file format.
  

ADDITIONAL SUBMISSION INFORMATION
Please also:Include a short bio of approximately 100 words or less

Include a brief artist statement: a few sentences about your work as an artist (i.e., not a “pitch” for this submission, but rather a statement about what you’re interested in writing about now, what drives your writing, or how your writing is reflecting or influencing the world at large, etc.)

SUBMISSION DUE DATE:
The submission period for the Summer 2023 volume will be open through December 15, 2022.

More information and submission link here.

Writing Competition: The Rattle Chapbook Prize

Deadline: Jan. 16, 2023

The Rattle Chapbook Prize is an entirely separate category from the others listed at Submittable, and because of the nature of the contest, some of the rules are different. Please read the following rules very carefully.

1) The $25 entry fee is a one-year subscription to Rattle (or a one-year extension for subscribers) at our regular rate. New subscriptions will start with the next season's issue. Current subscribers will receive a one-year extension. Due to shipping costs, international entries will receive a 3/4 subscription (three mailings) instead of the full year.

2) Three winners, judged by the editors of Rattle in an anonymous review, will receive $5,000 and 500 author copies of their chapbook, which will also be distributed to all of Rattle's 7,000+ subscribers along with issues of the magazine. At least one of the winners will be a poet who has not yet published a full-length book of poetry (more than 48 pages).

3) Open to writers, worldwide; poems must be written primarily in English (no translations unless your own). Individual poems may be previously published in any medium, but the manuscript as a whole must be unpublished as a collection. Do not include any poems that have been published in Rattle—if the chapbook includes poems that we have published, they may be added back before publication, but we cannot consider them during the anonymized review of this contest. If you have an open submission at Rattle that includes poems from the chapbook, you can add a note on that submission letting us know not to read it until after the judging of the chapbook contest is complete. Manuscripts may include visual art. Simultaneous submissions are allowed, but please withdraw the submission immediately should the manuscript be accepted elsewhere.

4) Manuscripts may be 15 - 30 pages in length, not including front/back-matter, with any reasonable fonts or font sizes (12 pt, etc.). Don't worry about the formatting. Do not include any identifying information within the manuscript itself, or within the file-name. If any of the poems have been previously published, include an acknowledgments page. A table of contents and page numbering are nice, but optional.

5) Submit your manuscript in a SINGLE file containing all 15 - 30 pages of poetry. (File types: doc, docx, txt, rtf, odt, pdf.) Multiple entries by a single poet are accepted, however each manuscript must be treated as a separate entry, each with an additional $25 fee. Each additional entry will add an extra year to your subscription. Contest entry fees are non-refundable and manuscripts cannot be edited after submission, so please be sure to upload your final versions of the poems.

6) The winners will be announced on April 15, 2023. Unpublished individual poems from the manuscripts may also be offered standard publication in Rattle. Please remember to include an acknowledgments page so that we know which poems have already been published individually.

In addition to entries through Submittable, we accept them through the post (domestic only). If you'd prefer to enter with a physical copy, see the Rattle Chapbook Prize webpage for full guidelines.

 

Submit your work here.

 

Call for Submissions: Creosote

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS. CREOSOTE: A Journal Of Poetry and Prose. Please submit hard copies of 3–5 poems or prose up to 5,000 words. 

Submission deadline: March 1, 2023. Simultaneous submissions OK with notice. 

 

Mail to: 

 

Creosote, Ken Raines, editor

Eastern Arizona College

615 N. Stadium Ave.

Thatcher, AZ 85552.

Call for Submissions: Boulevard

Boulevard strives to publish only the finest in fiction, poetry, and non-fiction. While we frequently publish writers with previous credits, we are very interested in less experienced or unpublished writers with exceptional promise. If you have practiced your craft and your work is the best it can be, send it to Boulevard.

Accepting submissions from November 1 to May 1

• Submit online through Submittable. No email submissions will be read. Complete guidelines and submission link here.

• Include author's name and contact information on all submissions.

• We allow simultaneous submissions, but please immediately withdraw work that has been accepted elsewhere.

• We accept multiple submissions but wait at least a month between entries.

• Work submitted must be previously unpublished, print and online.

• Authors retain rights to their work from the time of publication in Boulevard.

• Please no handwritten submissions.

• Cover letters with previous credits are not required.

• We accept international subscriptions, for both the general submissions and the contests.

• Submissions must be in English.

• Our average response time is four months. Please do not query before then.

• Send only complete, fully proofread work. We will not consider revisions--this is too difficult administratively for our small staff.

• For response include a SASE.

• There is a $3 fee to submit online. There is no fee to submit by post.

  Payment

• Prose minimum is $100, maximum is $300

• Poetry minimum is $50, maximum is $250

• Natural Bridge Online publication is a flat rate of $50

   

Call for Submissions on Theme of "Jack of All Trades": Bethlehem Writers Roundtable

We will be open for submissions from November 1, 2022, to January 31, 2023, with works accepted to run in our Summer 2023 issue.

The theme is: Jack of All Trades: Everyman’s Tales

Our rates for published stories:

• $50 for published featured-author stories
• $20 for stories published on our &More page
• $10 for poems we publish

• We only accept work from authors 18 years of age or older.
• We only accept work that has not been previously published. This requirement excludes from eligibility any work that has appeared anywhere in print, electronic formats, or online, including on personal or crowd editing blogs or websites.
• We accept work in most genres of fiction, as well as memoir and poetry. 
• We are a secular literary journal and seek non-sectarian work.
• We do not accept essays or other nonfiction genres. 
• We do not accept horror or erotica. This means no graphic violence, no overt sexuality, and no hard expletives. We are looking for G, PG, or PG-13 rated material according to the MPAA.
• We welcome excellent writing from diverse voices and experiences regardless of race, gender or gender identity, sexual orientation, nationality, ethnicity, religion, disability, or age (except that authors must be 18 years of age or older).
• We only accept work written in the English language.
• Please submit only one story or one poem for consideration at a time. Do not submit more than one story or poem until after you receive a final
• response to any prior submission. Once you receive either an acceptance or rejection, you are  welcome to submit a different work to us.
• Your manuscript length must be 2,000 words or fewer (not including the title, author name, or contact information).
• Submissions must be sent using the form provided on this page.
• Please include your full name and email address, preferred pronouns, title, and word count in the appropriate boxes.
• You must check the box at the bottom of the Submission/Contact form indicating that you have read and accept our conditions for publication (see below) before your submission will be reviewed by our editors.
• No fee is required to submit your work to Bethlehem Writers Roundtable.

More information here.

Writing Competition: 6th Annual Jane Underwood Poetry Prize

 6th Annual Jane Underwood Poetry Prize

 Deadline: December 1, 2022

The 6th annual Jane Underwood Poetry Prize is accepting submissions! Open to all poets, the prize is awarded for a single poem.

For a fee of $15, submit one entry of up to three poems.

The prizewinner will receive an award of $500, online publication of the winning poem, and an invitation to do a featured reading. This year's final judge is Sharan Strange.

Full guidelines and submission information can be found here.

Call for Submissions: Driftwood Press

 

Driftwood Press - Anthology & Book Manuscript Submissions Open Now

Deadline: Year-round

Driftwood Press is happy to share a plethora of submission opportunities for writers and artists! For our yearly print anthology, we are looking for poems, short stories, comics, and visual art that will wow our readers, accepted as both contest and normal submissions. We are a paying market, and our published writers also get to take part in bespoke interviews about their work!

Driftwood is also on the hunt for amazing book-length titles to grow our catalogue. If you have a novella, poetry collection, comic collection, or graphic novel manuscript, we would love to read it! If you have any writing or art that fits the above call, Driftwood Press would be honored to read it.

Visit us here for our Submittable page, and we encourage you to follow us on social media (@driftwoodpress) to learn about even more submission opportunities!

Call for Submissions from ESL Writers: Tint Journal

 

Tint Journal seeks Prose and Poetry by Non-native English Writers

Deadline: November 30, 2022

Tint Journal, the literary magazine for non-native English creative writing, publishes fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry by writers who compose their work in English as their second or foreign language.

Share your short stories, essays, flash, and poetry, as well as your artworks from October 10 to November 30, 2022 (CET midnight) with us to be considered for our Spring '23 issue (#9)!

Carefully review our submission guidelines at our website and send your work to:

submissions@tintjournal.com

 (no fee). #showyourtint

Writing Competition: Birdy Poetry Prize

Accepting Entries: September 1 - December 1, 2022


Entry Fee: $25

Prize: $1,000 cash, publication by Meadowlark Press, including 50 copies of the completed book 

All entries will be considered for standard Meadowlark Press publishing contract offers, as well.  

Full-length poetry manuscripts (55 page minimum, 90+ pages preferred) will be considered. Poems may be previously published in journals and/or anthologies, but not in full-length, single-author volumes. Poets are eligible to enter, regardless of publishing history. 

More information and submission link here.

Writing Competition: LitMag's Anton Chekhov Award for Flash Fiction

LitMag‘s Anton Chekhov Award for Flash Fiction

Deadline: Nov. 30, 2022

Entry Fee: $16.00 

First Prize: $1,250 + publication + agency review by Nat Sobel of Sobel Weber Associates, Erin Harris and Sonali Chanchani of Folio Literary Management, Jenny Bent of The Bent Agency, David Forrer of Inwell Management, Monika Woods of Triangle House, and Emily Forland of Brand & Hochman.

Three Finalists will win $100 each. Results of this year’s contest will be announced by the end of May 2022.

Click here for the results of last year’s contest.

Full contest guidelines are available on Submittable.

The contest is open. Enter now.

Writing Competition: California Book Awards

Five prizes of $5,000 each are given annually for a poetry collection, a book of fiction, a first book of fiction, a book of creative nonfiction, and a book of fiction or nonfiction that relates to California. Three additional prizes of $2,500 are also given in the fiction, first fiction, and nonfiction categories. Books written by authors residing in California are eligible. Publishers may submit six copies of books published in 2022 by November 15. There is no entry fee. Visit the website for the required entry form and complete guidelines. 

Books authored by residents of California and published during the 2022 calendar year may be submitted between August 15, 2022 and November 15, 2022 for consideration for the California Book Awards.

WE ACCEPT

Books in the categories of Fiction, First Work of Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Juvenile (to age 12), Young Adult, Californiana, and Contribution to Publishing

Work must have been written by authors living in California at the time their work was published or submitted for publication.

To be eligible for Californiana, the work must deal with a California-based issue, topic, or historical period.

To be eligible for Contribution to Publishing, the publisher must be a California resident.

To be eligible for Juvenile, the writer or illustrator (if applicable) must be California residents.

To be eligible for First Work of Fiction, the work must be the author’s first fictional effort. Previously published short story collections will disqualify an author from the First Work of Fiction category; however, the author can still submit for the Fiction category.

Short story collections and essays by the same author will be accepted for consideration under the Fiction category.

If certain stories in the short story or essay collection have been published previously, the work may still be submitted for consideration. Eligibility is at the discretion of the jury.

WE DO NOT ACCEPT

Self-published works

Works from a publishing house that does not have some sort of vetting process

E-books

Guidebooks or manuals

“As told to” books

Anthologies from multiple authors

Works by dual authors, unless both authors are California residents

Translations of deceased authors or older works

Reprints of books published in previous years