Writing Competition: Bill Hickok Humor Award for Poetry: I-70 Review

I-70 Review offers the Bill Hickok Humor Award for a single unpublished poem. Christopher Buckley will judge.

Winner will receive $1,000. Winning poem will appear in the 2023 issue of I-70 Review.

Submit one to three unpublished poems with a $15 entry fee to:

i70review@gmail.com

Reading period is January 1 to Feb 28. Do not submit before January 1. All submissions will be eligible for publication in I-70 Review.

The Humor Award was created and funded by the N.W. Dible Foundation in honor of Bill Hickok, past president of the Foundation.

More information here.

Call for Submissions on Theme of "Reversals": The Fieldstone Review

WE ARE OPEN TO SUBMISSIONS!

The University of Saskatchewan's online literary journal, The Fieldstone Review, is now accepting submissions of creative nonfiction/literature & book reviews, fiction, poetry, and reviews for its 2023 issue. The Fieldstone Review welcomes original, previously unpublished work of quality in various styles and genres.

The theme of this year’s edition is REVERSALS. Turning points. Twists. Changing fortunes and shifting gears. We want your clever, surprising and dizzying reversals––be it through character, plot or formal elements! We are proud to announce that this year we are able to offer a literary prize of $100 CAD for the best submission as chosen by our editorial team!

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

We accept electronic submissions only.

 

The deadline for submissions is March 1st, 2023.

 

Be sure to include the following information in the body of your email: Your full name and contact information

• A 50-100 word biography

• The title(s) of the work(s) submitted

• Notification if the work is a simultaneous submission.

• Please include a *content warning* if the work contains triggering content.

FORMAT

The Fieldstone Review practices blind reviewing.

 

Please do not indicate your name or identifying information anywhere in the attachment containing your submission.

 

Submissions should be in Times New Roman, 12-point font, double-spaced, with 1-inch margins.

 

Poetry submissions may vary as necessary.

 

Documents should be attached in .doc/.docx format. However, .pdf is suitable for poems with unique formatting.

GENRE

POETRY: One submission per author to a max of six pages, sent as a single attachment.
FICTION: One submission per author to a max of 5,000 words.
NONFICTION: One submission per author to a max of 2,500 words, OR two submissions to a max of 1,000 words each.
REVIEWS: Responses to Canadian or Indigenous works published in the last two years (fiction, poetry, film, etc.) to a max of 2000 words. Submit a pitch first of one short paragraph, including: what content your review will explore, why, and estimated word count.

 

Authors may submit to more than one category if they adhere to the above guidelines. Submissions that violate the above guidelines may not be considered for publication. 

 

Please visit our website for more information.

Call for Submissions from Latinx Writers The Ascentos Review

PUBLICATION SCHEDULE

The Acentos Review is published online four times each year.  We publish the work of Latinx artists and writers. 

READING PERIOD

The official reading period is year long. 

Deadlines for submission consideration:

October 15 Publication Date August 1 Deadline

January 15 Publication Date November 1 Deadline

April 15 Publication Date February 1 Deadline

July 15 Publication Date May 1 Deadline

Submissions sent outside of that window will be read but not acted on until the next scheduled reading period.

All submissions are read by The Acentos Review staff before decisions are made. We do not consider previously published material. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable with immediate notification of publication.
Interview submissions: Please query first at:

acentosreview@gmail.com.

The first North American serial rights shall be considered exclusive until the last day of the month in which accepted work is published in The Acentos Review. Upon publication in manuscript, book, anthology or journal, The Acentos Review requests acknowledgement of first publication. All published works are archived online. Translations under copyright domain require approval of the original author. 

For more information and to submit, visit our website.

Call for Submissions from Writers Who Have Worked in the Hospitality Industry: 86 Logic

At 86 Logic, we only have one real requirement for submissions—you must have worked in the hospitality industry at some point in your life.

Reading Period: Year-round

We pride ourselves in having an easy submission process. Unlike most publications, printed or otherwise, we have no restrictions on file type, size of submission (though our ‘zine is only so big), or on the type of work submitted. We feel this keeps us open to all printable genres.

What we’ve published so far: poetry, prose, fiction, art, comics, photography, and non-fiction/journalism. 

Visit our website for submission link and more information.

Call for Submissions from Writers in the Northern Great Plains Region: Oakwood

Our annual submission period runs from November 15 through February 15 of the following year. (We will begin accepting submissions again November 15, 2022 for our spring 2023 issue.)

Oakwood is the literary and arts annual of South Dakota State University, publishing the work of writers and artists of the Northern Great Plains region.

We define the Northern Great Plains region as those states that adjoin South Dakota (Minnesota, North Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska, Montana, Wyoming). By “writers and artists of,” we mean people who (a) live in this region now, or (b) had a significant, long-term relationship with this region but now live elsewhere.

We only accept work that has not been published before (with the exception of occasional solicited work, especially from our archives).

Submissions to Oakwood must adhere to the following requirements:

• Title and genre (poetry, art, fiction, etc.) of submission must appear in subject line.

• Indicate your relationship with the Northern Great Plains region in your submission email.

• Literary attachments must be in .doc or .docx format.

• Maximum length for literary submissions is 15 pages.

• Visual art attachments must be in .jpeg or .jpg format and at least 1MB in size.

• Submission limits: five poems or artworks, 3000 words for prose. If you were published in both the two most recent issues of Oakwood (2020 and 2022), please sit out this submission period and consider us again for the 2024 issue. If you were in only one of those, feel free to submit.

Please send all submission materials to:

sdsu.oakwood@sdstate.edu

This address may also be used for queries.

Visit our website for more information.

Call for Submissions: Action Spectacle

Action, Spectacle and the Baltic Writing Residency Chapbook Contest welcome 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. 

Visit our website for more information and to submit.

Call for Submissions: Quarter After Eight

Quarter After Eight is an annual literary journal devoted to the exploration of innovative writing. We celebrate work that directly challenges the conventions of language, style, voice, or idea in literary forms.

General Guidelines:

Our reading period runs from October 15 until April 15. Please submit only one story or essay, or up to three flash prose pieces, or up to four poems at a time. Multiple submissions will not be considered.



We do accept simultaneous submissions. In the event that a piece is accepted for publication elsewhere, please either withdraw the entire submission via Submittable or leave a note on your submission indicating which piece(s) you want to withdraw.



Only previously unpublished work will be considered for inclusion in the journal.

 Response time varies, but we will do our best to respond to submissions within 6 months. If you have not heard from us after 6 months, you may send inquiries to our email address.

Should your piece be selected for publication, Quarter After Eight hereby claims first North American serial publication rights (for the print edition) and first electronic media publication rights (for publication on the journal’s website). All rights revert to you, the author, upon publication. You will receive two copies of our print edition.

More information and submission link here.

Call for Submissions on Theme of "Worlds Collide": Planisphere Q

PQ is currently open for submissions.

Fiction

Original work of fiction of 2,500 to 4,000 words.
Submit work related to the theme.

Fiction Guidelines

No multiple submissions (firm).
Simultaneous submissions are okay. Please inform us if your work is accepted elsewhere.
Mild language is okay.
Absolutely no explicit content or gore.

Include an up to 50-word bio in third person. Please adhere to the style of PQ.
Journal, magazines, and books should be italicized. Short story titles in quotation marks.
Page dimensions are 4.5" w x 7.13" h with a .63 margin. You do not need to use Standard Manuscript Format. However, please use a readable font size and font type. Do not double-space your lines. Do not double-space between sentences.

Not following the guidelines will result in automatic rejection.
Submissions received outside submission period will be deleted unread.

Planisphere Quarterly (Planisphere Q, PQ) acquires first web and print publication rights.

Payment for an accepted story is $25.

2023 Themes & Submission Dates
Winter Feb 2023
Submissions January 1 - January 31
Free "No Fee" Submission Dates: January 15-18
Worlds Collide - theme is alien invasion, where an inhabited planet is being invaded by an extraterrestrial species. Science Fiction stories only.

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions: Ponder Review

Ponder Review welcomes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, short plays, flash-fiction, new media, and visual art. 

Deadline: March 15, 2023

Fiction

One story of up to 3,000 words (1,500 – 3,000 words preferred).

Flash-Fiction

One submission of up to three stories that combine to total no more than 1,000 words. No story may exceed 750 words.

Nonfiction

One nonfiction piece of up to 3,000 words (1,500 – 3,000 words preferred).

Poetry

One submission of up to five poems that combine to total no more than nine pages.

Short Plays

One script excerpt or one act play of 10-15 pages. Please see plays published in our most recent issue for guidance on formatting.

Please note: These are the guidelines for a regular publication. Please check the contest page for the guidelines to our 10:4 TENN 10-Minute Play Contest.

Art

Photography, photo essay, graphic literature, painting, collage. Photography, paintings, and collages: one submission of up to five images. Please submit a high resolution image.
Photo essay: one submission of up to 3,000 words and with up to five images.
Graphic literature: one submission of up to eight pages.

New Media

• Podcast, spoken word, interview, short film, animation, and hypertext or kinetic literature are considered for our website Podcast, spoken word, and interview

• Short film and animation

• Hypertext literature

• Kinetic poetry or prose

• Other: surprise us

Submit your work here.
 

Call for Submissions: Hippocampus Magazine

What do we publish in our magazine?

During our regular submissions periods we accept previously unpublished work in the following categories:

Personal Essays & Memoir Excerpts, max 4,000 words. Submit here.

Flash Creative Nonfiction, max 800 words. Submit here.

When can I submit to Hippocampus Magazine?

We have two regular submission periods per year; please note the change in dates for our fall 2022 reading period; we’ve pushed back our start date in order to reorganize our reading teams and get caught up.

We’ll still be open for three months, extending into January of 2023. March 1 through May 31
October 15 through January 15.

Additionally, our 2022 submission-fee free period is the last 10 days of December: the 21st through 31st.

What are we looking for in submissions?

True tales from your life. Honesty that possesses both the situation AND the story. Intensely personal experiences that reflect universal truths about what it means to be human. Firsthand accounts from the full spectrum of humanity – folx from the LGBTQIA+ community, Black writers, Indigenous writers, and writers of Color, disabled writers, writers of all genders, backgrounds, experiences, lifestyles, and identities.

We offer a $40 honorarium to authors who publish Memoir Excerpts, Personal Essays, and Flash Nonfiction with us. Honoraria are paid via PayPal within about 90 days of publication.

Writers who contribute to our Book Reviews, Interviews, Craft Column, and Writing Life Column are considered volunteer contributors and are not currently compensated.

Complete guidelines and submission link here.

Writing Competition: New Millennium Awards

POETRY • FICTION • FLASH FICTION • NONFICTION

$4,000 IN AWARDS + PUBLICATION (in print and online)

Deadline: January 31, 2023

PRIZES

First Place in each category receives a $1000 cash prize, a certificate to document the success, publication online and in print, in New Millennium Writings, and two complimentary copies.

Select Finalists, and all Poetry Finalists, will be published in New Millennium Writings (online and in print) and receive two complimentary copies.

GUIDELINES

• No restrictions on style or subject matter.

• Entrant retains copyright ownership of work.

• Multiple and simultaneous submissions welcome.

• Previously published works accepted if: Print circulation was under 5,000, or the work was published online only.

• Fiction (all types welcome) - 7,499 words or less

• Nonfiction (all types welcome) - 7,499 words or less

• Flash Fiction (aka: Short-Short Fiction) - 1,000 words or less

• Poetry - each entry may include three poems, up to five pages total.

Anonymous Judging: Submission file should contain only the title and text of the story, essay, or poem(s). Cover letters are optional and may be uploaded separately.
 

For mail/postal submissions click here for instructions.

 

Submit your work (or postmark) by January 31, 2023.

ENTRY FEES AND MULTIPLE ENTRY SUPPORT

For any category or combination of categories:

1 Entry - $20
2 Entries - $35 (reg $40)
3 Entries - $45 (reg $60)
4 Entries - $60 (reg $80)
5 Entries - $80 (reg $100)

Note: Poetry may include up to three poems per Entry.

 

Submit your entry here.

Call for Poetry Submissions to Anthology on Theme of "America-Being America": Under a Warm Green Linden Press

Submissions of poetry are now being accepted for Issue 15: America // Being America, scheduled for publication on Summer Solstice 2023. For this special issue of Under a Warm Green Linden, guest editor Arden Levine is seeking poems that address topics in contemporary American public policy and political discourse. Themes may include housing instability and generational wealth complexity; state-imposed guidelines for educational achievement and material; the U.S.'s role in climate change; the American way of family debt and labor practices; the enshrinement and erosion of civil rights in federal law; and more. We are interested in a range of perspectives: those that critique, those that champion, those that clarify.

We take an expansive view of the definition of "American public policy," welcoming international citizens' and immigrant perspectives on, for example, government interventionism, asylum-seeking, and production offshoring.

We invite and encourage expressions from marginalized voices and bodies, including those who are incarcerated or justice-informed, and who have experienced war from a military or civilian vantage.

For examples of authors who have written on several of these topics, see Levine's book reviews: Jennifer Martelli’s The Queen of Queens, Indran Amirthanayagam’s The Migrant States & Ten Thousand Steps Against the Tyrant, Caroline M. Mar’s Special Education, and Cait O’Kane’s A Brief History of Burning.

Deadline: April 30.

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions on Theme of "Technology": NOMADartx Review

 

Our NOMADartx Review considers and curates fresh voices in arts and literature that address creativity and the creative process. We review all media of visual art and submissions of original written work in fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction/personal essay, interviews, and reviews.

Categories:

1. Fiction, Personal Essay & Poetry: For general prose and poetry submissions, please note that while we welcome writing of any length, we are more likely to publish pieces under 5,000 words. Please limit your submissions to one per reading cycle.

2. Industry Specials: For our "Industry Specials" column, we seek innovative voices to discuss or demonstrate tools to help creatives grow their personal goals and careers. Emerging and working creatives regularly face challenges in time, funding, work value, work-life balance, and more. We're looking to publish articles that address these concerns from personal experience or collective wisdom. NOMADartx Review is seeking these subtopics, especially:

• Promotion, connections, and effective ways to sell work and services;

• Pricing time and/or physical works;

• Artistic processes and tools;

• Guides to style and/or program-building;

• Access assistance for useful programs (physical and digital);

• Resume and portfolio builders;

• Confidence and self-worth;

• Grant-writing and residency advice.

3. Critiques, Interviews, & Reviews: for works of an analytical nature, we’re looking for observers to share reviews and inclusive opinions about bodies of work, galleries, art houses, communities, creatively-geared sites, and more. While the focus is not limited to emerging creatives, projects, and businesses, NOMADartx Review is seeking new and exciting approaches that are lesser-known, such as articles addressing:Explorative considerations of shows and exhibits, educational centers or projects;

Interviews with emerging creative people;
Creative reviews on singular or collective pieces by one person or collaborations;
Philosophical or social considerations of oeuvres and styles not specific to one artist.

4. Visual Art: please limit submissions to 5 pieces per reading cycle, prepared in .jpg or .png format. The resolution for images should be greater than 70 dpi. Please include your artist statement in the cover letter area, linking your submission to themes of the magazine.

Please email submissions directly to:  

info@nomadartx.com

Complete guidelines here. 

Call for Submissions: Third Street Review

THIRD STREET REVIEW

Literally On the Edge

Located on the Pacific Ocean in the artists’ colony of Laguna Beach, California, Third Street Review lives on the edge, both literally and figuratively. California has always been synonymous with exploration and innovation and, in creative expression, with boundary expansion and the dynamic re-invention of artistic forms. Third Street Review is no different. Share your best writing and visual art. We welcome traditional formats as well as pieces that push boundaries, embrace experimentation, and reflect artistic excellence.

We pay $25.00 for work we publish.

Full guidelines and submission link here.

Writing Grants: de Groot Foundation

 

The de Groot foundation will award ten $7,000 grants to writers in 2023. In addition to seven COURAGE TO WRITE grants, we’re thrilled to partner with Barry Lando, award-winning, former 60 Minutes investigative journalist, to award three LANDO grants to writers exploring migration, immigration and refugee issues, challenges and solutions.

As we’ve done in our inaugural year, the Grant Selection Committee has may choose up to 10 additional writers for Writer of Note grants of $1,500 each.

Need a motivational boost to further a writing project? The de Groot Foundation COURAGE to WRITE grants are designed to do just that! Writing takes focus, courage, commitment, and time. These grants provide a monetary respite to inspire you to move towards completing a work in progress.

Who Should Apply

We welcome applications from adult writers actively engaged in a writing project and for whom a monetary boost could help further or complete their project. Applicants may be writing in any genre.

Awards

In 2023, The de Groot Foundation will award seven COURAGE to WRITE grants of $7,000 each to writers writing in any genre and three $7,000 LANDO grants to writers exploring immigrant/refugee issues and experiences.

In addition, the selection committee has the option to select up to 10 additional writers for Writer of Note grants of $1,500 each.

• Eligibility Applications are open to individual adult writers regardless of race, ethnicity, gender orientation, education, economic situation, geographic origin or location.

• Applicants must be individuals. Companies or organization are not eligible.

• Applicants must be over 18 years of age at the time of the application deadline.

• Applicants must use their legal name, not a pen name.

• Applications are not open to family, members of the board or employees of the The de Groot Foundation, Lando family members or the selection committee.

• Applications must be submitted in English.

• If you received a Courage to Write grant in 2022, you must wait until 2024 to apply again.

• If you received a Writer of Note grant in 2022, you are eligible apply for a grant in 2023

Deadline: Feb. 15, 2023

Application Fee: $22.00

More information and application link here. 

Call for Submissions from Undergraduate Students on Theme of "The (In)Evitable Ending": Applause

Applause is an annual, full-online journal with a strong web platform allowing us to offer an immersive reading experience as we showcase in each issue the writing that moves us most during our reading period from undergraduate writers across the country and world.

We acquire First North American Serial Rights. We pay $25 per contributor. Work selected for publication will receive both publication and national exposure through our social media support systems. Our response time is approximately one to three months.

Each annual issue is a (loosely) themed issue. Our current call for submissions is as follows:

Applause 2022-2023 Issue 33 Theme: The (In)Evitable Ending

Evitable; adj. That admits of being avoided; avoidable.

Applause is looking for the most interesting angles you can give us as your piece approaches its “evitable ending.” We're reading submissions from 9/29/2022 until 2/14/2023.

Every poem, story, and essay begins with knowing there’s an end, but the ending doesn’t have to be inevitable to satisfy the reader. The narrative’s end isn’t always the best ending to choose. Sometimes the end of “what actually happened” is really the poem, story, or essay’s beginning. We’re looking for original poems, stories, essays, and visual art pieces that showcase what happens when we avoid the avoidable.

Imagine the ending. Avoid it. Then send it to us.

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions: The Sun Magazine

Essays, Fiction, & Poetry
Writing that can turn heads, open hearts, and change minds.

We publish personal essays, short stories, and poems by established and emerging writers from all over the world.

We encourage submissions from writers whose perspectives are underrepresented in or missing from The Sun. We are particularly looking for work by writers of color, queer and trans writers, writers with disabilities, incarcerated writers, and others who are marginalized on the basis of their circumstances or identity.

Writing from The Sun has won the Pushcart Prize and the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers.

Our contributors’ work has also been selected for many of the Best American anthology series, including Best American Essays, Poetry, Short Stories, Spiritual Writing, Science Fiction & Fantasy, and Sports Writing.

Personal Essays

$300 and up

Send us your essay that’s too personal for any other journal — the one where you’re so unguarded you need editors you can trust and compassionate readers who will honor your vulnerability.

Share a clear-eyed reflection on your big mistakes, a joyful celebration of your hard-won victories, or a testament that makes a newsworthy event feel intimate instead of faceless.

We’re looking for essays that seek to understand the world from a fresh perspective and that wrestle with questions that don’t have easy answers.

Fiction

$300 and up

Send us your emotionally honest story — the one that helps us learn what it feels like to be someone else.

Share satire that hits close to home, tragedy that's cathartic without being manipulative, or a parable that lingers long after we finish reading.

We’re looking for stories in any genre of fiction that take risks to tell us something true about ourselves.

Poetry

$150 and up

Send us your poem that basks in the mysteries of the universe — the one where the smallest detail tells us about our place in the world.

Share reflections on your relationships, questions for God, or an elegy for something you’ve lost.

We’re looking for poems — usually narrative but always accessible — that invite us into your confidence and lead us to revelation.

More information and submission link here.

Call for Submissions on Jewish Themes: Paper Brigade

Paper Brigade, the annu­al print jour­nal of Jew­ish Book Coun­cil, pro­vides a snap­shot of the pre­vi­ous year’s Jew­ish lit­er­ary land­scape while also explor­ing the his­to­ry of Jew­ish lit­er­a­ture in Amer­i­ca and abroad. The pub­li­ca­tion is com­prised of arti­cles, inter­views, per­son­al essays, fic­tion, poet­ry, pho­tog­ra­phy, and illus­tra­tions that, togeth­er, high­light the breadth and diver­si­ty of Jew­ish books today.

We are com­mit­ted to giv­ing voice to Jew­ish-inter­est authors of all back­grounds, includ­ing those from mar­gin­al­ized com­mu­ni­ties and writ­ers in trans­la­tion whose work may not oth­er­wise be avail­able in Eng­lish. Paper Brigade also seeks to expand the com­mon­ly held idea of what con­sti­tutes the ​“Jew­ish expe­ri­ence.” We are com­mit­ted to help­ing authors con­nect with as broad a read­er­ship as pos­si­ble by strik­ing a bal­ance between schol­ar­ship and con­tent that will be acces­si­ble to read­ers, Jew­ish and non-Jew­ish, lay and academic.

The 2024 issue will be pub­lished in the fall of 2023, and will pri­mar­i­ly be focused on 2023 books. All authors are paid for orig­i­nal work.

 Non­fic­tion

Paper Brigade con­sid­ers orig­i­nal, unpub­lished non­fic­tion between 1,500 and 2,500 words.

Please sub­mit a com­plete man­u­script, not a pitch.

Pieces should involve a 2023 book, and we encour­age authors to be cre­ative about the ways in which they accom­plish this. (We’re not look­ing for straight­for­ward book reviews.) The major­i­ty of our arti­cles fea­ture more than one book, and they often dis­cuss trends in cur­rent lit­er­a­ture or explore books in the con­text of old­er traditions.

Authors are also remind­ed that their pieces will be pub­lished sev­er­al months after they are sub­mit­ted, so ref­er­ences to spe­cif­ic cur­rent events may not be appropriate.

In terms of style, please note that Paper Brigade is a lit­er­ary, not aca­d­e­m­ic, publication.

The sub­mis­sion peri­od clos­es on Feb­ru­ary 1, 2023. Sub­mit through Sub­mit­table here.

Fic­tion

Paper Brigade con­sid­ers orig­i­nal, unpub­lished short fiction.

Sto­ries should be between 1,500 and 7,000 words, and we encour­age authors to famil­iar­ize them­selves with Paper Brigade before sub­mit­ting. Sub­mis­sions must be pre­vi­ous­ly unpub­lished, online or in print. Please send only one sto­ry, along with a $3 read­ing fee. Sto­ries will be con­sid­ered for both print and online pub­li­ca­tion on Paper Brigade​’s dig­i­tal arm, PB Dai­ly.

The sub­mis­sion peri­od clos­es on Feb­ru­ary 1, 2023. Sub­mit through Sub­mit­table here.

Trans­la­tion

Paper Brigade con­sid­ers Eng­lish trans­la­tions of fic­tion (up to 2,500 words) and poet­ry. Please sub­mit the orig­i­nal ver­sion along with the trans­la­tion. The Eng­lish trans­la­tion must be pre­vi­ous­ly unpub­lished. The trans­la­tor is respon­si­ble for secur­ing permission.

The sub­mis­sion peri­od clos­es on Feb­ru­ary 1, 2023. Sub­mit through Sub­mit­table here.

Poet­ry

Paper Brigade con­sid­ers orig­i­nal, unpub­lished poet­ry. Please sub­mit a max­i­mum of two poems, along with a $3 sub­mis­sion fee. Poems will be con­sid­ered for both Paper Brigade and JBC’s online poet­ry series, Berru.

The sub­mis­sion peri­od clos­es on Feb­ru­ary 1, 2023. Sub­mit through Sub­mit­table here.

Call for Submissions on Theme of "The Moon": Aji Magazine

Submissions now open.

She pulls the tides of our lives.. she has a dark side... Queen of lovers' dreams, accused of inspiring crime, lunacy, always aloof. Hunters wait for her, the mysterious mistress of our nights. Aji's spring 2023 issue will be devoted to the moon. Graphic art, photography, poetry, short fiction, and essays on this and any other topic will be considered for publication. Once the spring 2023 issue is filled, submissions will close until May 1, 2023.
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SUBMIT VIA SUBMITTABLE 

General Guidelines & Information

In 2016, Aji published the work of about 15% of the writers and artists who submitted to us. Editorial decisions involve not only quality (please edit and finely tune your work before submitting for serious review) but also diversity in terms of published works and contributors. On average, about half of the work in any issue relates to the advertised theme.

Follow our guidelines for poems, stories, essays, bios and photos in good faith, and in turn we promise each submission will receive an attentive review and a response within ten weeks, often much sooner.

We are a small staff. As our submissions increase (that’s good—thank you!) our ability to make exceptions diminishes.

We consider only previously unpublished work. Work that has appeared for general reading online has been published already, and so should not be submitted for publication in Aji.

If your submission is selected for publication, you will be notified via email. Aji requires a brief bio (40-60 words) and a photo of you to accompany your published work. We will publish one link submitted with the bio. Once we accept your piece, you must withdraw it from consideration elsewhere immediately.

Simultaneous submissions are accepted. Please notify us as soon as possible in the happy event (too bad for us!) that your piece has been accepted elsewhere.

Aji will retain first North American serial rights to all material we publish. However, we will gladly allow republishing—just ask!

Submit via our Submittable page.

Call for Submissions: Greensboro Review

 

General Submissions

Unsolicited manuscripts must be received between December 15 and February 15 to be considered for our Fall issue (acceptances in May). Looking to submit your work between July 15 and September 15? Please see contest guidelines for the Robert Watson Literary Prizes.

Submission Guidelines:

• Entries must be previously unpublished. We do accept simultaneous submissions, but please let us know immediately via Submittable if your work is accepted elsewhere.

• Please submit only once per genre during each submission period.

• Length restrictions: Please include no more than 7,500 words or 25 typed, double-spaced pages for fiction. Flash fiction entries may be up to 500 words. Please submit only one story per submission. Poetry entries can include up to 10 pages, but we recommend 5 to 7 poems per submission. (Please note that we rarely publish individual poems that exceed 2 pages.)

• Please include your name, mailing address, email, and phone number in your cover letter and on the first page of your manuscript. Fiction submissions should also include word count and page numbers.

• Reading fee: $3.00. Fees are waived for current subscribers. If you are unsure of your subscription status, please contact DUP Journal Services: subscriptions@dukeupress.edu or toll-free at (888) 651-0122.

• Manuscripts accepted for publication will appear in print in the Fall issue of The Greensboro Review and may also be featured on greensbororeview.org. All manuscripts not accepted for publication by The Greensboro Review will be released to the authors by May 31.

• Entries must be submitted via Submittable; no email submissions are accepted.

Call for Submissions on Theme of "Fires and Floods": Still Points Arts Quarterly

 

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Fires and Floods | Journal Submission | Summer 2023

“Will the fires and floods finally awaken us, turn our attention back to the living Earth? Or have we lost that connection, that place of belonging?” —Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Still Point Arts Quarterly is accepting writing submissions (fiction, creative non-fiction, essays, poetry; 5000 words maximum) on the theme Fires and Floods. The deadline for writing submissions is April 1, 2023. Accepted work will be published in the summer 2023 issue of Still Point Arts Quarterly. Writers will be notified no later than May 15, 2023.

DATES AND DEADLINES

April 1, 2023 - Submissions Close (Deadline)

May 15, 2023 (or earlier) - Notification of Writers

June 1, 2023 - Still Point Arts Quarterly Summer Issue Released

GENERAL GUIDELINES AND POLICIES

• Please do not email or call us to ask about the review process or results. We will email you when we have made a decision regarding your submission.

• If we decide to publish your work, we will send a writing agreement for your review and signature. Typically we ask for one-time print and digital rights. You may republish your work at any time.

• If we decide to publish your work, we will request a short biography.

• Please know that we typically receive well over 100 poetry submissions, and we accept between 5 and 8. To keep things somewhat orderly, we limit all writing submissions to one piece per person.

• We do accept reprints.

• If we have published your work previously, we have no waiting period for submitting work again. We'll gladly accept good writing whenever we receive it.

Fires and Floods—Art Submission Free
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Shanti Arts invite submissions for the upcoming summer 2023 Still Point Arts Quarterly digital and print journal issue:

FIRES AND FLOODS

“Will the fires and floods finally awaken us, turn our attention back to the living Earth? Or have we lost that connection, that place of belonging?”

—Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

DATES AND DEADLINES

April 1, 2023 Submissions Close (Deadline) 

May 15, 2023 (or before) - Notification of Artists 

June 1, 2023 - Still Point Arts Quarterly Summer Issue Released

IMAGES

Most importantly, please be sure your images in some way fit the issue's theme. Send images in .jpg format. The file name of your image should follow this convention: last name of the artist, title of work (perhaps abbreviated), and number (1, 2, or 3). EXAMPLE: SMITH_SUNNYDAY_3.jpg Since images will be printed in our journal, we prefer images that are 300 ppi and at least 1500 pixels on the shortest dimension. Larger is better. No need to reduce images; large images will upload with no problems. Also, you may submit up to five images, but please no more.

SELECTION

Selection of images will be made by the editorial staff of Still Point Arts Quarterly for publication in the summer 2023 issue.Chosen images will be used in several possible ways: to accompany featured writing; to be featured on individual pages; to appear on the issue's cover.

USE OF IMAGES 

By submitting work to be considered for publication, artists grant Shanti Arts the right to use their image(s) for the purpose of marketing. Images may appear on our websites, on social network sites used by Shanti Arts, and to advertise future journal issues and publications.

Call for Submissions: Hole In The Head Review

Hole In The Head Review is committed to publishing the best contemporary poetry and visual art. We publish emerging and established artists, photographers, and writers. We are committed to responding to submissions within 45 days of submission.

 

Hole In The Head Review reserves first North American serial rights. All rights revert to the author upon publication. If you republish your work in a print or other journal, please credit Hole In The Head Review for the first publication.

We welcome your work.

 

All submissions should include:

A title for your submission
A brief 3rd person bio
A cover letter and/or submission description (optional)

 

We accept simultaneous submissions; please inform us immediately If you need to withdraw part of your submission.

 

Poetry submissions: Please submit no more than five poems at once, and upload them as a single file - preferably a Word file using a 12 point font; no more than one poem per page.

 

Visual submissions:
Photographs - Please submit no more than five images in jpg format, no smaller than 5"x7". Keep the file sizes below 2 meg. If you can set the resolution, use 72 pixels per inch.
Video/other - we accept .jpg, .png, .tif, .mov, .mp4, .mpg, .wmv files.

More information here.

If you have questions, please contact us directly: editor@holeintheheadreview.com

Writing Competition for Northern California Poets: Sixteen Rivers Press

Annual Call for Submissions for Book-Length Poetry Manuscripts

Sixteen Rivers Press invites Northern California authors to submit book-length poetry manuscripts between November 1, 2022 and February 1, 2023. All manuscripts will be read blind, and typically one or two manuscripts are selected for publication. The winner/s will be announced on the press’s website during Summer 2023. Selected manuscripts will be scheduled for publication in Spring 2025.

Sixteen Rivers values diversity. We encourage poets of color, young poets, and LGBTQ poets to submit.

Online Submissions: Send an e-mail to:

sixteenriverssubmissions@gmail.com

with your name, address, phone number, and the name of your manuscript. Attach a PDF of your manuscript to the e-mail (name the PDF with the title of your manuscript). In the body of the e-mail, please include a personal statement (350 to 500 words) about why you want to work in a publishing collective, including any special experience or skills you might contribute, and tell us where you heard about our press and our call for submissions. The manuscript must be e-mailed no later than February 1, 2023.

Please note: We do not accept hard-copy manuscripts sent by US mail. 

Please do not include your name anywhere in your manuscript, as it is important that your manuscript be a blind submission.

The manuscript must be single-spaced and between 60 and 80 pages. Manuscripts must be previously unpublished, although individual poems may have been published online or in print. The manuscript should include a title page without the author’s name and address, a table of contents, and an acknowledgments page listing previous publications of the poems.

More information here.

Writing Competition: 2023 Permafrost Book Prize in Poetry

The 2023 Permafrost Book Prize in poetry is now accepting submissions!

We are very excited to announce that Aimee Nezhukumatathil will judge our 2023 Book Prize in poetry!

Contest Information

Prizes: Winner will receive $1000 and publication through the University of Alaska Press.

Eligibility: The Permafrost Book Prize welcomes manuscripts from all writers, including non-US citizens, writing in English. We do not consider manuscripts that have been previously published, including chapbooks and self-published works.

No past or present UAF English Department faculty or UAF student, previous winners of the book prize, or anyone otherwise affiliated with Permafrost, or the University of Alaska Press is eligible for the prize.

You may submit more than one manuscript, but each manuscript must be sent separately.

When to Send: Manuscripts will be accepted between November 15, 2022, and March 15, 2023.

 Manuscript: Poetry manuscripts should be between 50-80 pages. Collected works of previously published poems, including chapbooks and self-published collections are not eligible.

Submissions: Manuscripts should be submitted through Submittable. The author’s name should not appear anywhere on the manuscript. All entries will be read anonymously. An acknowledgements page listing the publication history of individual poems may be included, if desired.

Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but we ask that you notify us immediately if your manuscript is accepted for publication somewhere else.

Entry Fee: Each submission requires a $20 fee.  

Notification: Winners will be announced on this website around July 15, 2023.

Writing Competition: The Ghost Story Screw Turn Flash Fiction Competition

Twice each year TGS will award $1,000 and both print and online publication to the first-place winner of our Screw Turn Flash Fiction Competition. In addition, two honorable mention winners will receive $200 each, as well as publication online, and in our paperbound anthology, 21st Century Ghost Stories—Volume III. 

Our deadline is January 31. Winners and honorable mentions to be announced and published on February 14.

Entry fee is $15. We’re interested in flash fiction pieces of 1,000 words or fewer sent to us via our online submission system (available above).

GUIDELINES: As with The Ghost Story Supernatural Fiction Award, in our flash fiction competition we’re seeking the finest work we can find that incorporates an uncanny element. Ghost stories are welcome, of course—but your submission may involve any paranormal or supernatural theme, as well as magic realism. What we’re looking for is superb writing, fresh perspectives, and maybe a few surprises. Please be assured that we will read and carefully evaluate ALL submissions to The Screw Turn Flash Fiction Competition.

Formatting: We prefer double-spaced Word documents. We don’t require that you remove your name and contact information from your story. Please include a phone number somewhere in your submission.

More information and submission link here.

Call for Submissions on Theme of "Superstitions About Number 11: Book XI: A Journal of Literary Philosophy

Issue 11 of Book XI will feature stories, essays, or poems about superstitions or about the number 11.

We are looking for philosophically informed stories, essays, or poetry that address this theme.

Deadline for submissions: December 31, 2022.

WHAT WE WANT TO PUBLISH/SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

We will consider only previously unpublished and philosophically informed creative work (though our understanding of “philosophically informed” is capacious). Please submit only one prose manuscript for each issue (you may submit up to 5 poems for each issue; please submit them as one document). All submissions should be made through Submittable. There is no submission fee.

We will pay $200 for each piece that we publish (or $50 for each poem we publish).

We are generally looking for pieces that are between 2,000 and 7,000 words, though we will happily consider submissions that are shorter or longer than this. However, please do not submit any work that is more than 10,000 words.

We realize that you might also want to submit the same manuscript to other literary journals. If you do, please notify us immediately if the piece(s) you sent to us is accepted for publication by another magazine or journal.

Book XI is a journal dedicated to publishing personal essays, memoir, fiction, science fiction, humor, and poetry with philosophical themes. The journal is on-line, and will appear twice a year. Book XI is housed at Hamilton College’s Arthur Levitt Center for Public Affairs.

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions on Theme of "Tales from the Club": Workers Write!

Issue nineteen of Workers Write! will be Tales from the Club and will contain stories and poems from nightclubs, discotheques, cabarets, pubs, or any nightlife spot.

We're looking for fiction and poetry about club/bar owners, managers, bartenders and barbacks, servers, bouncers, promoters, and entertainers (comedians, DJs, strippers), anyone who makes money in a club or bar.

One more thing: We'd like to see submissions about nightlife jobs from different eras.

Drop us a line if you have questions.

The deadline for submissions is

Dec. 31, 2022 (or until the issue is full).

Submit your stories via e-mail to: 

submission@workerswritejournal.com

or send a hard copy to:

Blue Cubicle Press
P.O. Box 250382
Plano, TX 75025-0382

Word count: 500 to 5,000 words

Payment: Between $5 and $50 (depending on length and rights requested). We do consider previously published material.

Call for Submissions: Black Warrior Review

Black Warrior Review reads general fiction and poetry submissions from December 1 – March 1 and June 1 – September 1. Nonfiction general submissions are always open. 

Submissions are accepted through Submittable. There is a $3 submission fee for our general categories. We use these fees to pay contributors.

If Submittable is not accessible to you, please email:

 

blackwarriorreview@gmail.com

 

for further instructions. Unfortunately, we no longer accept physical submissions, with the exception of those from incarcerated writers, who may send their work by mail.

Black and Indigenous submitters may email their submissions, for no fee, to the editor corresponding to the submission’s genre:

 

Fiction Editor (fiction.bwr@gmail.com)

 

Poetry Editor (poetry.bwr@gmail.com)

 

Nonfiction Editor (nonfiction.bwr@gmail.com).

 

Please include a brief cover letter and bio. We do not limit our definition of Indigenous to those from the U.S./Turtle Island. Otherwise, email and mailed submissions will not be considered. BWR pays a one-year subscription and a lump-sum fee for all works published. Rights revert to author upon publication; please credit Black Warrior Review with first publication if the work is republished elsewhere. We encourage you to read Black Warrior Review before submitting. Sample issues are available for $12; one-year subscriptions for $25.

Black Warrior Review is a paying market. Currently, we offer royalty payments to regular-submission print contributors between $100 and $220, depending on the length of pieces. These numbers are subject to change per issue and differ for contributors to Boyfriend Village (our online edition) and for chapbook and featured-art contributors.

By submitting, you agree to let us send you the occasional email newsletter with relevant announcements. You may opt out at any time, and an easy option to do so will remain available in every email.

 

Full submission guidelines and links here.

Writing Competitions: Bellingham Review

We offer three $1,000-dollar first-place prizes for fiction, poetry and nonfiction.

Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction

49th Parallel Award for Poetry

Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction

Dedicated to forming a community of writers, the Bellingham Review also offers continual support to our authors through interviews, book reviews, social media promotion, and endless words of encouragement.

The cost to enter is $20. International entries are $30 to cover increased shipping costs.  

Deadline: March 15, 2023

An entry consists of one essay, one story, up to three pieces of flash, or up to three poems. 

Please limit prose to 4,000 words. For prose that is 1,500 words or fewer, submit up to three in one entry. (These flash prose pieces will be considered individually, unless they are connected.) 

Everyone who enters the competition will receive a copy of Issue 80. 

All submissions must be previously unpublished in North America. All manuscripts will be read blindly; readers and editors will not see a contestant’s name or cover letter. The author’s name must not appear anywhere on the manuscript (or in the filename).

Submission link and details here.

Call for Submissions to Anthology: A Flight of Dragons

Submissions are open for A Flight of Dragons!

We are now accepting submissions for our anthology, A Flight of Dragons. Here is a quick overview of what we're looking for.

* Short stories of up to 5,000 words

*Poetry of any length

*Dragons must form a significant element of the submission piece

*Each individual is allowed to submit up to three pieces for consideration

*The closing date for submissions is 31/12/2022 at 11.59PM GMT

Submissions should be emailed to:

westavenuepublishing@outlook.com

before the deadline. You will need to include your name, your address, and any links to published works.

Submissions should be sent as Word documents, Times New Roman font, 14pt and 1.5 line spacing.

Successful writers will receive a one off payment of £10 and an author copy of the anthology (paperback).  

Writers will retain all copyrights for their submission/s.

More information here.

Call for Submissions: Colorado Review

 

• Fiction & poetry manuscripts are read from August 1 to April 30

• Nonfiction manuscripts are read year-round

• Simultaneous submissions are accepted; writers must notify us immediately if the work is accepted elsewhere. If Colorado Review has published your work in the last two years, please refrain from submitting so that we may continue to feature new voices.
  

• With the exception of book reviews, Colorado Review does not publish the work of CSU faculty (current or emeritus), staff, or students; CSU alumni may submit three years after their graduation
  

• We consider only previously unpublished work.

• We accept translations of previously published or unpublished work. Upon submitting a translation, writers must provide proof of permission to translate.

• Colorado Review purchases First North American Serial Rights; all rights revert to the author upon publication in CR. We pay $10 per page ($30 minimum) for poetry and $200 for short stories and essays. Authors also receive two copies of the issue in which they are published and a one-year subscription to CR.

• We strongly encourage writers to be familiar with our magazine before submitting to it. Examples of work published in Colorado Review are posted on our website; sample copies of issues before Spring 2020 are also available for $10 each, including postage; issues beginning with Spring 2020 are $12 each, including postage.

• Authors do NOT need to be residents of Colorado or the United States. If you are, however, a foreign national working in the United States, please check the conditions of your visa status with regard to receiving payment from entities other than your sponsor. Colorado State University cannot issue honoraria to foreign nationals with B1/WB, B2/WT, H-1B, or F-1 visas. A J-1 visa holder with a sponsor other than CSU must have written authorization from the Responsible Officer (RO) at their sponsoring institution prior to the activity.

• Cover letters should provide the author’s name, mailing address, phone number, and e-mail address (if available). Please indicate whether the manuscript should be returned (if so, include appropriate postage on the SASE).

• Manuscripts should be double-spaced, printed on one or both sides of the paper. We appreciate one-inch margins, 12-point type, and standard typefaces (e.g., Times New Roman). Please don’t send your only copy; we are not responsible for loss of or damage to your manuscript.

• Every single submission received at Colorado Review is read at least once. We have a large and talented editorial staff, and generally we respond within four months (and sometimes quicker)

• Please do not assume that we did not read your work just because you receive a response within a few days of having submitted to us. At the beginning of our reading period, for example, we are very quick, as we have fewer submissions to read. If, however, you submit during winter break, much of the staff is on vacation and response time may be longer. Similarly, if you submit close to the end of our reading period, we may not get to your submission until the fall. If you have not received a response from us after three months, you are welcome to call or e-mail about your submission. 

 Submit your work here.

 

Call for Submissions on Theme of "Yard Sale": Blink-Ink

The theme for Blink-Ink Issue #51 is "Yard Sale." Be it the multi-family neighborhood tag sale, some pretentious “Estate Sale,” some jumbled pre-dumpster offerings in the driveway, or two pair of socks and half a bottle of strawberry shampoo for sale on your dorm’s front steps. All this could be yours. Bargains, treasures and oddities to be perused. Speaking of oddities, check out your fellow browsers.

Tell us your best unpublished stories of approximately 50 words about yard sales and their kin.

Submissions open December 1st, 2022 through January 15th, 2023.

No attachments, poetry, or bios please.

Send submissions in the body of an email to:

blinkinkinfo@gmail.com

Writing Competition: Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Awards

Deadline: Dec. 31, 2022

No Entry Fee

Cash Awards: $1000 for each category 

The Literary Awards Committee of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association, Inc. (BCALA) is now accepting submissions for the annual BCALA Literary Awards. The Committee will present four prizes of $1,000.00 each for adult books written by African American citizen authors: a First Novelist Award, a Fiction Award, a Nonfiction Award, and a Poetry Award.  

The First Novelist Award is given to recognize outstanding writing and storytelling by a debut author. Honor Book citations are also given in fiction and nonfiction without any accompanying monetary remuneration. Additionally, an Outstanding Contribution to Publishing citation is provided to an author and/or publishing company for unique books that offer a positive depiction of African Americans.

First presented at the Second National Conference of African American Librarians in 1994, the BCALA Literary Awards acknowledge outstanding works of fiction and nonfiction for adult audiences by African American authors. Recipients of these awards offer outstanding depictions of the cultural, historical or sociopolitical aspects of the Black Diaspora and embody the highest quality of writing style and research methodology, if applicable.

Books from small, large and specialty publishers are welcome for review consideration. Titles forwarded for review must be published in 2022. Sets or multi-volume works are eligible. New editions of previously published works are eligible only if more than 30% of the total content is new or revised material. Inspirational, self-help, and graphic novels are ineligible. Only finished, published books should be submitted; galleys (bound or unbound) and chapbooks are NOT eligible.

Please send one copy of each title submitted to each member of the Literary Awards Committee. A Committee roster with their addresses can be found at http://bcala.org/literary-award-committee/

Supply all available information regarding the submission, including promotional material, author biography and available news articles and reviews via email or with published book.

More information here.

Writing Competition: VCU Cabell First Novelist Award

Deadline: December 30, 2022

Cash Prize: $3,000 

Entry Fee: $0

The VCU Cabell First Novelist Award honors an outstanding debut novel published in the preceding calendar year. Symbolized by a three-dimensional compass, the award is a tribute to writers who have navigated their way through the maze of imagination and delivered a great read, taking the reader someplace new.

Winning novelists have written books that may be funny or sad, sarcastic or heartrending, but each is powerful enough in its own way to have moved initial readers and final judges toward the conclusion that, among a field of roughly a hundred submissions annually, its writer has achieved something notable and enduring.

How the Award Works

The VCU Cabell First Novelist Award is organized annually by the VCU Department of English and VCU Libraries.

The award contest, including screening and final judging, is overseen by the yearly appointed Cabell First Novelist Fellow, a third-year student in the MFA in Creative Writing Program. This is a rigorous process. During the fall semester, a nationwide call for submissions goes out, soliciting debut novels from publishers, editors, agents, and writers themselves. Because of the high volume of submissions, the first round of screening is a collaborative effort. MFA students and community readers read, review, and then rank all incoming novels. These rankings result in a long list of 20.

During the spring semester, the Cabell Fellow guides the MFA students through a second round of reading and discussion to reduce the long list to a short list of 10, which is then further reduced to three semifinalists. The last step in the process is the judging, which involves a two-pronged ballot. The MFA students and the First Novelist Committee each have a single vote to determine the recipient of the award. In the case of a tie, the final decision is provided by the award winner from the previous year. In the case of a three-way tie, the vote defaults to the MFA students' selection.

VCU Libraries then organizes the annual event, generally held at James Branch Cabell Library, in which the winning author and others involved in the writing and publishing worlds, typically the author's agent and editor, appear at a public reading and Q&A session focusing on the creation, publication, and promotion of a first novel. Travel to and lodging in Richmond for the author and the additional speakers are provided, and the author receives a cash prize.

To submit your novel, go here.

Writing Fellowship: Jack Hazard Fellowship

Jack Hazard Fellowship

 

Jack Hazard Fellows are fiction, creative nonfiction, and memoir writers who teach full-time in an accredited high school in the United States. We provide a $5,000 award that enables these creative writers who teach to focus on their writing for a summer. 

 

A year ago, New Literary Project launched an innovative program to inspire and equip a certain underserved and deserving community of creative writers. These are writers with a life-changing vocation and day job, teaching high school students. Invaluable and fulfilling and demanding as their teaching is, what’s also crucially important for some teachers is their own life-changing writing vocation. As anyone who remembers being a teenager can attest, it is hard if not impossible for a dedicated educator to find the time during the hectic school year for writers who teach.

 

Well, that may be what summer is for. And that’s where New Literary Project comes in.

 

Last spring, NewLit awarded eight Jack Hazard Summer 2022 Fellowships of $5,000 apiece to an inaugural cohort of promising writers who taught high school in California. The results were gratifying–you can read below their testimonials. The Fellows were invigorated and liberated by their Jack Hazard, and by the time August rolled around all had made something new and consequential they were proud of. And so were we.

So this year, we are going national, eagerly opening up applications for ten to twelve $5,000 Jack Hazard Summer 2023 Fellowships for writers teaching high school in the United States.

If you have been teaching and waking up early or staying up late to write, and savoring the prospect of weekends and breaks for your own work, perhaps this Jack Hazard Fellowship was created just for you. 

 

More information and application link here.

Call for Submissions: swamp pink

Formerly known as Crazyhorse, swamp pink publishes fiction, poetry, and nonfiction on a semi-monthly basis.

 

Our aim is to continue publishing exceptional work from writers at all stages of their careers. We are particularly interested in submissions from writers of color and writers from marginalized and underrepresented communities. And yes, we pay our contributors.

 

Poems receive $40 each, and we pay $0.05 a word for prose. Maximum payout for accepted work is $200.

 

Submissions of fiction and nonfiction can be up to 7,500 words in length. We have published exceptional work that falls outside this range, but it is an unusual occurrence.

 

For poetry, please submit a set of 3-6 poems.

 

We accept simultaneous submissions for all genres. More specific guidelines for each genre can be found on our submission page.

Deadline: Jan. 1, 2023

Call for Submissions on Theme of "The Moon": Aji Magazine

Aji Magazine is Accepting Submissions for the Spring 2023 Issue

Deadline: Rolling

She pulls the tides of our lives . . . she has a dark side. . . . Queen of lovers’ dreams, accused of inspiring crime, lunacy, always aloof. Hunters wait for her, the mysterious mistress of our nights.

Aji’s spring 2023 issue will be devoted to the moon. Graphic art, photography, poetry, short fiction, and essays on this and any other topic will be considered for publication. Once the spring 2023 issue is filled, submissions will close until May 1, 2023. 

More information and submission link here.

Call for Submissions: The MacGuffin

 

 

Submission Guidelines

• Our reading period is September 1 through June 30

• Please allow up to 16 weeks for a response

• All submissions must be sent through Submittable

General Guidelines

• We do not accept previously published work (either in print or online).

• No cover letters are required. The information you include in the Submittable form will suffice.

• We accept simultaneous submissions if informed. We expect prompt notification if the work is accepted elsewhere. Manuscripts may be withdrawn until we send an acceptance notification to you.

• We do not consider translations.

• Do not send revisions unless our editors have requested them.

• All files must be sent as .doc, .docx, or .rtf. We will not make any edits to your submission without informing you first. Authors whose work is accepted will receive galley proofs before publication.

• Please use Times New Roman 12pt. For work that requires specific spacing/formatting, use Palatino or Book Antiqua.

The MacGuffin is published by Schoolcraft College. Upon publication, all publishing rights revert back to the author. Contributors receive two copies. 

More information and submission link here.

Call for Submissions: Cutleaf

 

Cutleaf seeks work that responds to our common experience and reflects our differences. We are interested in work by all writers, especially those historically underrepresented in literary publishing.

Cutleaf publishes a new issue every other week. We welcome unsolicited original prose (both creative nonfiction and fiction) and poetry from established and emerging writers during our open submission windows.

We consider simultaneous submissions with the understanding that you will quickly inform us if a piece is accepted by another publication. We ask writers to submit only once per reading period.

We read and respond to manuscripts on a rolling basis and strive to respond to every submission in a timely manner. If you have not heard from us within three months, send us a query via email. Please do not send additional submissions until you’ve heard back from us.

Work published online in Cutleaf may be chosen for inclusion in The Cutleaf Reader, our annual print anthology.

Subscribe to our bi-monthly newsletter to receive an alert in your inbox when we open to submissions.

More information and submission link here.

Call for Submissions: Woven Tale Press

We are happy to consider submissions to our magazine and for features on our site.

For our magazine, we welcome fiction and creative nonfiction prose writing, poetry, and all mediums in the visual arts, including installation works. Galleries, you are welcome to submit the work of artists you represent.

For our site, we seek posts by both visual artists and writers, on any aspect of your creative process. If you are an artist interested in submitting your website for review by WTP, you may submit your URL.

We also welcome book reviews. (Reviews of books that arrive unsolicited from publishers are subject to editorial discussion. Our WTP editor for “Eye on the Indies” contacts indie publishers directly to request review copies of noteworthy books.) 

If you are interested in becoming an art correspondent for WTP— to report back to WTP on your local art scene—please contact us at:

wtp@thewoventalepress 

We would love to hear from you!

*Please note: We cannot accept emailed submissions.

Submission link here.