Happy New Year!

 

Writing Competition: Bill Hickok Humor Award

I-70 Review offers the Bill Hickok Humor Award for a single unpublished poem. Alice Friman will judge. Winner will receive $1,000. Winning poem will appear in the 2024 issue of I-70 Review. Submit one to three unpublished poems with a $15 entry fee to:

i70review@gmail.com

Please follow our regular submissions guidelines when putting together your entry.

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.

Please follow these guidelines:

Type your name, last name first followed by first name (Doe_John), in the subject area of the email and as the title of the attachment.

Submit all poems or prose in a single Microsoft Word document as one attachment with one poem per page in Georgia font (10 pt.) please.

Please do not capitalize all the letters in your titles.

Include a bio of fewer than 100 words in Georgia font (10 pt.) at the end of your document.

Please single space all submissions.

Please include with your submission your home address, phone number, and email address on each page.

You do not need a cover letter. We let the work stand for itself. To be considered, all submissions must adhere to the guidelines.

Although we prefer that you don't simultaneous submit, we do accept simultaneous submissions. We inform writers of acceptance or rejection of work within six weeks or sooner. If your work is accepted for publication elsewhere, please inform us as soon as possible. We do not accept any previously published work to include work in blogs or any other online publications.

We ask for First North American Serial Rights as we will be the first to publish your work.

Once we publish your work, your rights are reassigned to you. We only ask that you give credit to I-70 Review upon any re-publication. 

More information here.

Call for Submissions: Writers Resist

Writers Resist is an intersectional feminist literary journal born of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election. We publish creative expressions of resistance by diverse writers and artists from around the globe.

Submission Guidelines for Amplified Voices, Writers Resist’s Special March 2024 Issue 

Please read ALL of this before submitting!

We are eager to consider original poetry, fiction, narrative nonfiction, and digital images from writers and artists living in conflict regions outside of the United States who are impacted by war, genocide, and political oppression.

U.S. residents who have ancestral heritage or ethnicities affiliated with these regions may also submit.

We do not accept previously published works. This includes publication on social media platforms, blogs, etc.

We publish with the intent that the works will be shared far and wide, so please submit only if you are comfortable making your published submissions available to the world via a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs license.

Published works in the Amplified Voices issue will receive an honorarium of $30 for each accepted submission, transferred via PayPal or WorldRemit after publication.

To prepare your submission:

• Simultaneous submissions are fine, but if your submission is accepted elsewhere, please withdraw it from our submission manager.

• Please send a short bio with your submission, including a statement identifying your personal connection to a conflict region.

• Include your website URL and any social media presence you’d like to share with our readers.

• Poetry submissions: You may include a maximum of three poems in one submission. Please submit them in a single MSWord document with your name, contact information, and a short bio in the document with a statement identifying your personal connection to a conflict region. Once in our submission system (see below), be sure to select Amplified Voices for your genre.

• Fiction and narrative nonfiction submissions: You may submit one piece of fiction or narrative nonfiction with a maximum of 2,500 words. Please submit it in an MSWord document with your name, contact information, and a short bio in the document with a statement identifying your personal connection to a conflict region. Once in our submission system (see below), be sure to select Amplified Voices for your genre.

• Digital image submissions: SUBMIT IMAGES ONLY VIA EMAIL (do not submit images via our submission system). You may submit a maximum of three images, in JPEG format, with your last name and first name as the file name. EX: cubbins.barth.jpeg. Please include with your submission an MSWord document with your name, contact information, a short bio with a statement identifying your personal connection to a conflict region, and the image’s title. Digital images must be submitted via email to WritersResist@gmail.com, and be sure to indicate you are submitting them for the Amplified Voices issue.

• Please submit writings via our automated submission system, which you can access here. And be sure to select Amplified Voices for your genre!

• Again, please submit digital images to our email:

WritersResist@gmail.com

and indicate that they are for consideration for the Amplified Voices issue.

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Submission Guidelines for Writers Resist Regular Quarterly Issues

Please read ALL of this before submitting!

• We are eager to see original writings and artwork that can reasonably be described as expressions of resistance, whether poetry, fiction, narrative nonfiction, or digital images. We are also eager to see submissions that celebrate a step toward social justice anywhere around the globe.

• We do not accept previously published works. This includes publication on social media platforms, blogs, etc.

• If your submission is accepted, please wait three months from your publication date before submitting again.

• We publish with the intent that the works will be shared far and wide, so please submit only if you are comfortable making your published submissions available to the world via a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs license.

We know how lovely it is to be paid for our art. Consequently, we offer a heartfelt pittance—an honorarium of $10—per accepted submission.

Folks who are able decline their honoraria are embraced in virtual gratitude.

Honoraria are sent via PayPal only. Consequently, for you to receive an honorarium for a piece we publish, you must have a PayPal account.

Our editors are all volunteer, so, if you’d like to submit your writing, please help keep their work to a minimum. You can accomplish this by thoughtfully doing the following: Prepare your submission as described below. Really. Do this, please.

• Send only one submission at a time, and wait to hear back about a submission before submitting again.

• Simultaneous submissions are fine, but if your submission is accepted elsewhere, please withdraw it from our submission manager.

• Make sure your work is indeed an expression or celebration of resistance—or both.

• Read your written submission out loud often, revise it, and read it aloud again. Give it to a friend or two to read and revise it again. Read it out loud one more time, revise it, proof it, and then submit it. You get the idea.

• Please include your short bio with your submission, including your website URL and any social media presence you’d like to share with our readers.

Poetry submissions:

You may include a maximum of three poems in one submission. Please submit them in a single MSWord document with your name, contact information, and a short bio.

Fiction and narrative nonfiction submissions:

You may submit one piece of fiction or narrative nonfiction with a maximum of 2,500 words. Please submit it in an MSWord document with your name, contact information, and a short bio.

Digital images:

SUBMIT IMAGES ONLY VIA EMAIL (do not submit images via our submission system). You may submit a maximum of three images, in JPEG format, with your last name and first name as the file name. EX: cubbins.barth.jpeg. Please include with your submission an MSWord document with your name, contact information, a short bio, and the image’s title. NOTE: Images must be submitted via email to:

WritersResist@gmail.com.

Please submit writings via our automated submission system, which you can access here.

Again, please submit digital images to our email, WritersResist@gmail.com.

Call for Submissions: The Ampersand Review

 

The Ampersand Review is a literary magazine published by Sheridan College’s Honours Bachelor of Creative Writing & Publishing program.

The Ampersand Review accepts submissions of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, essays, and reviews. We seek to publish literary works of the highest quality. To us, this means work that engages thoughtfully with its subject matter and displays formal excellence and innovation.

We welcome literary works in any genre or form, and from writers of all backgrounds and identities. We’d love to hear from voices who haven’t been heard before and we are committed to providing a platform that meaningfully publishes stories, ideas, and opinions yet to be shared.

In keeping with our mandate to foster literary culture in communities within Canada, priority may be given to submissions written by those who reside in Canada.

 GENERAL GUIDELINES

Our reading period for Issue #6 runs from December 1st 2023-January 31st, 2024. If your work is still under consideration, please do not submit again until you’ve received a response. We will not be able to consider multiple submissions from one author; please only submit one submission in a single genre per reading period.

The following submissions will not be read:

· Submissions sent while a previous submission is still being considered.

· Mail submissions.

· Submissions sent outside of our reading period.

· Submissions that blatantly disregard our guidelines.

· Submissions generated (wholly, or in part) by AI.

We accept only previously unpublished work. Simultaneous submissions are accepted but we kindly ask that you notify us immediately if any part of your submission has been accepted elsewhere.

Please note that we do not consider or publish work written by current students, staff, and faculty at Sheridan College.

PREPARING YOUR SUBMISSION

Please submit one file containing your work to:

ampersandreview@sheridancollege.ca

that includes your name and the genre of your work in its title (i.e., JohnDoe_Poetry.doc). Acceptable file formats include .doc, .docx, and .pdf.

We also ask that you provide a cover letter in a separate document that includes the following information:

· A brief introduction including publishing history and preferred pronouns.

· The genre, title, and word count of your submission.

· All relevant contact information: full mailing address, email address, and phone number.

· A brief, third-person bio.

Poetry

• Poetry submissions should not exceed five poems.

• Please submit a PDF in addition to your word document if your poem makes use of atypical formatting. Use the space bar, not Word tabs, to space your poems.

Fiction

• For short fiction, submit only one piece to a recommended maximum of 4000 words.

• For flash fiction, submit no more than three pieces to a maximum of 3000 words.

Non-Fiction

• We accept polished drafts of essays and memoir as well as standalone excerpts.

• Submit only one piece at a time to a recommended maximum of 4000 words.

Reviews

• We accept pitches for creative book reviews. These pitches should include the book title, author, and publisher. It should also be noted that we prioritize titles that have been published within six months of the submission period, and that all titles must be released within the calendar year of said period.

• If your pitch is selected, you will be asked to write a review that should not exceed 2000 words.

Please address your pitch reviews to:

Owen Percy, our Reviews Editor,

that states the title, genre, and publisher of the book you wish to review.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

We aim to respond to all submissions within four months. If you haven’t heard from us by then, please query via email.

The Ampersand Review buys first North American serial and limited, non-exclusive digital rights for all accepted submissions. All rights revert to the author at the time of publication.

Payment rates are as follows:

• Poetry: $50 per poem/page to a maximum of $100.
•  Fiction: $100 per story.
• Non-fiction: $100 per piece.
•  Reviews: $100 per piece.

 Thank you for reading our guidelines. Please query at:

ampersandreview@sheridancollege.ca

Call for Submissions: The/temz/Review

Submissions for Issue 26 will close January 31, 2024. 

*New* AI Policy

There are legitimate artistic reasons to use AI. If you submit work to us that uses AI, be sure to clearly state in your cover message/letter the following:

a) The extent of AI use
b) The reason(s) for AI use

Submitting work containing AI-generated material without accurately disclosing the nature and extent of this content will result in a permanent ban on submitting to us.

Prose (for the journal)

We publish prose (fiction and creative non-fiction) up to 10,000 words long. We will consider pieces longer than 10,000 words, but they need to earn their length.

We pay $20 per piece. 

If your piece is longer than 1000 words, please submit only one piece. If your pieces are fewer than 1000 words each, feel free to submit several pieces at once.

We are looking for innovative short fiction from diverse voices. Our preference is for the strange, the experimental and the boundary-pushing, but we are open to a wide range of styles and voices.

Poetry (for the journal)

We accept submissions of 1-8 poems, depending on the length of the poems.

We prefer poetry submissions to be 10 pages or fewer. You can certainly send us longer submissions, particularly if you are submitting a long poem, but longer submissions need to earn their length.

We pay $20 per batch of poems we publish.

Our preference is for innovative verse that pushes the boundaries of poetry, but we are open to a wide range of styles and voices.

Please submit only once per reading period.

Reviews and Interviews (for the journal)

If you are interested in writing a review for us or placing an interview with us, please query us first at:

thetemzreview[at]gmail[dot]com

We are interested in reviews of Canadian small press titles and of works in translation, and in interviews with the authors of this kind of work.

Simultaneous Submissions Welcome!

We welcome simultaneous submissions, provided you notify us and/or withdraw a piece that is accepted for publication elsewhere. 

Submission link here.

Call for Submissions: Black Warrior Review

General Submissions: Print Issues

The editors of BWR read regular Poetry, Prose, and Nonfiction submissions from December 1-March 1 and June 1-September 1.

Submissions are only accepted through our online submission manager which may be found at bwr.submittable.com/submit

General Submissions Rules and Guidelines

The average response time for submissions is between 1 and 6 months. If you have not received a response after 6 months, please check on the status of your submission in Submittable; if you encounter any problems, email us at:

blackwarriorreview@gmail.com

We ask that writers wait one month after receiving a response to submit again.

We do not consider previously published work. Simultaneous submissions are welcome, if noted, and please notify us immediately if the work is accepted somewhere else. Please do not mix genres in the same submission.

We encourage you to read Black Warrior Review before submitting. Sample issues are available for $15; one-year subscriptions for $25. 

Past contributors, please wait three years from the date of your publication to resubmit work. Contest submissions are included in this policy.

We offer a limited number of fee waivers for writers whom the submission fee would present financial hardship, and we offer free submissions for incarcerated writers. Please email:

feewaiver.bwr@gmail.com

to request a fee waiver.

Prose

For BWR fiction, we are looking for stories that are very aware of the worlds outside of here. Here could mean the physical space of a country or this physical plane of existence. We just want to get out of these small, contained spaces for a bit. There are many excuses to become insulated, but stories should never be a space for the insular.

So we want stories of the spirits and the magic, the international and the extraterrestrial; really we just want writers to think about other worlds and other lives and other realities and other belief systems that would be considered atypical of the traditional Western literary imagination.

We welcome stories from all sources, from writers of all races, all cultures and nationalities, all sexual orientations and gender identities, and themes that navigate these complexities.

Send a single piece of fiction up to 7000 words, or up to 3 pieces of flash each less than 1000 words.

Poetry

BWR seeks to publish poems that make us sit back and think, Wait, what even is a poem? We want poems that make the strange feel natural, and the natural feel strange. Poems that showcase underrepresented voices and contemporary issues; that dismantle conventional ways of understanding the world. We want your pop culture-obsessed poems and your folktale-inspired poems and your so-silly-it’s-serious poems. We want your poems that revel in kitsch and in play and in wonder; that recognize the subversive power of joy.

Submit up to 3 poems with a maximum of 10 pages in one document.

Please include a short cover letter and a 3rd-person bio.

Nonfiction

In today’s economy, writing creative nonfiction is risky, frisky business. At the BWR nonfiction desk this year, we’re seeking experimental work with high stakes, on and off the page. Out: neat/tidy braids; linear thinking; making concessions; colonial structures and forms. In: hot takes & flyaways; literary messiness; RAGE; the erotics of doom. Rip a page out of your diary. Screenshot your texts. Reconstruct receipts. Tell the truth—just tell it slant 😉

A note: we are very open to submissions of all kinds, from writers of all races, nationalities, cultures, sexual orientations, and classes; that said, we are especially welcoming of work with themes of BIPOC, queer, disabled, non-Western, and/or class struggle & liberation.

Submit 1 work of “creative nonfiction” up to [6000 words]; [or, up to 3 flash pieces < 1000 words].

Graphic Prose

While our standard practice involves soliciting a single artist to be featured in each issue, we encourage submissions of innovative works that blend the visual power of graphic art with the narrative depth of prose. Feel free to submit one or two graphic prose essays for our upcoming issue, and we’ll review them for potential inclusion. When submitting for this category, please kindly use .jpg, .tiff, or .pdf formats. We publish all graphic writing in grayscale.

Payment

BWR pays a nominal lump-sum fee for all works published, and contributors receive the issue in which they appear.

Publication rights notice: All rights reserved. Rights revert to author upon publication.

Writing Competition: The Chautauqua Janus Prize

The Chautauqua Janus Prize

The Chautauqua Janus Prize will be awarded for the seventh time this summer, celebrating an emerging writer’s single work of short fiction or nonfiction for daring formal and aesthetic innovations that upset and reorder readers’ imaginations. In addition to receiving a $5,000 award plus a travel expense of $2000, the winner gives a lecture on the grounds during the summer season and appears in a forthcoming issue of the literary journal Chautauqua. Eligibility and submission information can be found below under “Guidelines.”

Named for Janus, the Roman god who looks to both the past and the future, the prize will honor writing with a command of craft that renovates our understandings of both. The prize is funded by a generous donation from Barbara and Twig Branch.

We are now accepting submissions for the 2024 prize. Deadline for submissions is January 31, 2024.

Entry Fee: $20.00 

Eligible entries:

• May be up to 15,000 words in length but no more than 100 pages. The Chautauqua Janus Prize encourages writing that challenges conventional presentation and publication of fiction/nonfiction in the English language.

• Must be either unpublished or published no earlier than April of 2023.

• Must be authored by emerging writers of fiction/nonfiction. Emerging writers are defined as writers who have yet to publish their first book (exceeding 15,000 words and/or 100 pages) in any prose genre. (Poets: This prize was created to support emerging writers. Reconsider your eligibility if you have published one or more poetry collections, even if our word count parameters technically qualify you.) There is no age or citizenship status restriction for eligibility.

• May be nominated by the authors themselves or on an author’s behalf by editors or creative writing program directors. Self-nominating authors may submit no more than two entries per submission period. Editors and program directors must have the consent of authors to nominate their work and may nominate no more than three entries per submission period. Nomination by an editor program or press/magazine does not preclude an author from submitting additional self-nominated entries.

SUBMISSIONS

• Complete the Submittable form, including fee payment*, by the advertised deadline EST. Please use PDF format. Contact Emily Carpenter at:

 ecarpenter@chq.org

if PDF format is not ideal for your submission.

• Meet formatting specifications where possible. If your submission’s prior publication or experimental form simply aren’t conducive to Times New Roman, 12 pt. font, and double-spacing, know that we will give full consideration to all legible PDF submissions.

The deadline for submissions is January 31, 2024. 

*The fee is waived for submissions nominated by editors or program directors. We invite authors to encourage their editors and/or program directors to contact Emily Carpenter at:

 ecarpenter@chq.org

to learn more!

Call for Submissions: River Teeth Journal

Guidelines for Submitting to River Teeth

We accept submissions September 1 to December 1 and January 1 to May 1.

River Teeth invites submissions of creative nonfiction, including narrative reportage, essays, and memoirs, as well as critical essays that explore the impact of nonfiction narrative on the lives of its writers, subjects, and readers. We do not have a page length or word count limit (or minimum). Please wait to submit another essay for consideration until a decision has been made on your first submission.

River Teeth encourages underrepresented writers to submit work for consideration, including but not limited to: BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and disabled writers.

River Teeth uses Submittable to read and track your submissions; in order to submit, you will need to set up an account. There is a $3 submission fee, but watch for free submission periods. We no longer accept submissions via mail. We will consider simultaneous submissions as long as writers follow the normal etiquette of such submissions by indicating so in a cover letter or the notes section of the submission, and notifying us immediately if the essay is picked up by another journal. We try to respond to submissions within three to six months, though we always work hard to return submissions as quickly as possible while giving each submission a fair read. River Teeth requests first North American serial rights. If published, the writer will receive two complimentary issues of the journal, a one-year subscription, and the option to purchase additional copies at a discounted contributor's rate.

Submission Guidelines for Beautiful Things

Micro nonfiction submissions to River Teeth's weekly online magazine, Beautiful Things, must be 250 words or fewer. Please submit one beautiful thing at a time, via Submittable; there is a $3 submission fee, but watch for free submission periods.

Book Reviews

River Teeth accepts queries for book reviews to be published on the website only. Please contact us via email at:

riverteeth@bsu.edu

Review copies of books may be sent to River Teeth for potential review. Please send to the address below.

Questions about River Teeth should be directed to:

River Teeth
Dept. of English
Ball State University
2000 W. University Avenue
Muncie, IN 47306

riverteeth@bsu.edu

Call for Submissions: Lowestoft Chronicle

We consider a variety of genres. Preference will be given to humorous submissions with an emphasis on travel. All submissions must be original work in English. We do not consider previously published work, which includes work publicly displayed on message boards, social networking websites, and your personal website. Simultaneous submissions are okay, provided you let us know immediately if your piece is accepted elsewhere. Once published in Lowestoft Chronicle, any subsequent publication of your piece should include the credit “first published in Lowestoft Chronicle."

Reading Schedule:

Issue #57: December 1st, 2023 — February 15th, 2024

Fiction: Submit manuscripts of any genre up to 3,000 words for consideration. Avoid sending stories with a word count in excess of 3,000 words. In contrast to my Humanities schoolteacher, who would place exam papers on a grocery scale and grade according to weight, at Lowestoft Chronicle we always give priority to shorter manuscripts. However, unless it is poetry, bite size submissions under 100 words will probably be considered too slight for our scales and will likely be rejected.

Poetry: We accept all forms of poetry, but please only submit one or two of your very best poems per reading period.

Non-Fiction: Narrative non-fiction, commentary, slice of life and memoirs are welcome. Humorous pieces are especially welcome. Please keep submissions under 3,000 words.

Submitting

Send work as plain text in the body of an email, or as an attachment, and please include your name, pseudonym (if used), the title of your work, and a brief bio. Please state whether it is fiction, non-fiction, or poetry, as it is not always obvious. All submissions should be directed to:

submit@lowestoftchronicle.com

We will try to respond to submissions in a timely manner, but please allow 30 days for a reply. If you haven’t heard back from us after this time, please email us with your query and include the title of your work in the subject line. Due to recent arm wrestling defeats our bank manager, Devron, has claimed “dibs” on all our profits, and so at present Lowestoft Chronicle cannot provide payment to contributors. If circumstances change (i.e. one of our staff actually beats him) we will let you know.
Rights

Upon acceptance, Lowestoft Chronicle assumes first publication rights for 30 days from publication, after which all rights revert back to the author. However, we reserve the non-exclusive right to include your work in our archives and anthologies, electronic or print.

Writing Competition for High School Students: Roanoke College Fiction and Poetry Contest

Enter for the chance to win cash prizes and scholarships to Roanoke College, plus publication in a special online issue of Roanoke Review!

First place: $100

Second place: $50

Third place: $25

Winning pieces and honorable mentions will be published. Contestants will also be eligible for Roanoke College scholarships.  

Send us one story (up to 5000 words) and/or three poems. Please put your entire submission in a single document.

Include your name, address, phone, high school, and grade level in the upper left corner of your attached Word document.

The deadline is January 31, 2024. If submissions have closed, that means we have reached our maximum Submittable submissions for the month. Instead, please email your entry to:

roanokecreativewriting@gmail.com.

The contest is limited to current high school students in the United States. 

There is no fee for the contest.

Call for Submissions: Mukoli: The Magazine for Peace

At Mukoli, peacebuilding is central to our exploration of the relationship that humans share with other humans; with social, political, and cultural structures; as well as with nature and the environment. We believe that wherever there is a conflict, or a rupture in these relationships, the arts in their multitude of forms – visual, written, spoken, etc. – have the power to heal.

We offer a platform for fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and multimedia art creations that engage with our vision. We are especially keen to publish marginalized, conflict-affected artists and writers. We aim to amplify multiple perspectives and aesthetics from globally diverse writing and artistic traditions.

Read on to explore the genres we accept and to familiarize yourself with our submission guidelines and editorial policy.

Our current submission window for the Summer ’24 & Winter ’24 issues is open up to 1 March ’24. Submissions received after 5 February ’24 will be considered only for the Winter ’24 issue.

Poetry

Submit a single document with no less than 3 – and no more than 5 – poems at a time.

No length limit, but we will probably not publish a novel in verse.
Send .doc, .docx, and .pdf files only.

Fiction
Send us your short fiction, including flash.
Submit up to 3 pieces of fiction under a total of 10,000 words in one document.
Only .doc, .docx, and .pdf files are accepted.

Non-fiction
Send us up to 5000 words of your creative non-fiction.
Only one essay at a time.
Submit .doc, .docx, and .pdf files only.

Translations
Currently, we accept translations of written texts from other languages into English only. Send us poems, fiction, and essays in translation.

To submit your translations, follow the guidelines for the specific genre in which you are submitting. For example, for both original and translated poetry, we will accept only 3-5 poems and no more.
Send .doc, .docx, and .pdf files only.

Art & New Media
We are interested in artwork that transgresses across genres, pushes conceptual boundaries, and uses different mediums (textual and/or non-textual) to highlight a relevant issue or tell an engaging story. If you have ideas for submission beyond the ones listed below, write to us at editor@mukoli.net.

We accept independently produced short films, video essays, and cinepoetry that have a run time of 10 mins or less. Submit .avi, mp4, and .mov files.

We also welcome illustrations, photographs, paintings, drawings, and other non-textual creations. Send us a single file of no more than 10 individual artworks that are tied together by a story or a narrative arc. Only .jpg, .jpeg, and .png files are accepted.

Submit your comics and graphic narratives (fiction and non-fiction) of up to 10 pages in a single .jpeg, .jpg, or .png file. We prefer 850-900px wide landscapes.

Finally, we want your sound poetry and spoken word poetry. We also invite you to take our readers on an exploration of traditional oral storytelling art forms from across the globe, or tell them your own. Send us your .mp3, .wav, or .mp4 audio recordings with not more than 10 minutes of content.

Editorial Policy 

• We consider original, previously unpublished work only.

• Any AI generated/assisted content must be acknowledged and declared as such.

• Simultaneous submissions are welcome, but please let us know if – and as soon as – your work is accepted elsewhere.

• Please do not submit to more than one category/genre in one reading cycle.

• If your current submission is not a good fit for our magazine, we welcome you to send us your other work in a subsequent reading cycle. Please do not send us the same submission twice. We also do not accept unsolicited rewrites.

• We do not charge a submission fee.

• We aim to revert with a publication decision in less than three months.

• We pay $75 for each accepted contribution.

• Upon publication, we acquire First World Serial Rights and First World Electronic Rights. Following publication, all rights revert to the writer/translator/artist; we only ask that you credit our magazine as the place your work first appeared in.

We accept submissions only through our Submissions Manager. Contact us through the website if a disability or impairment prevents you from using the manager and you need our assistance in the submission process.

Submission link here.

Call for Submissions: Concord Ridge

How to Submit

Concord Ridge accepts poetry, photography, and artwork for consideration. We are always open and do not charge a fee. Please use our submissions manager, created by Devin Emke for the magazine One Story and graciously released to the public for free use.

Guidelines

Poetry: Poems submitted to Concord Ridge should be a maximum of 40 lines, including stanza breaks, and each line should not exceed more than 60 characters. These guidelines are hard limits and are due to our unique formatting, but they are also friendly reminders that brevity is the soul of wit. Please start each poem on a new page, include a title, and write in single spaced Times New Roman. Submit your portfolio of six poems or fewer in .doc(x) or .pdf format.

Art and Photography: For our front and back covers, we publish two pieces of black and white photography/visual art per issue. The content of these pieces is unrestricted, but we prefer the front cover to be in portrait format, and require the back cover to be landscape format. Art and photography should be at least 300 DPI. Back cover art will be presented on a space measuring 350mm by 500mm, so please make sure your work will still shine at that large of a format. Submit your portfolio of 10 images or less in .jpg, .png, .doc(x), or .pdf format.

All submissions must be previously unpublished. Simultaneous submissions are allowed, but please notify us at:

submissions@concordridge.net

if you must withdraw a submission. We do not accept submissions through this email; it is only for information and queries.

Biography

Please submit a biography of you and your work in the "comments" section of your submission. If you are accepted for publication in Concord Ridge, this biography will be printed with your poem.

Rights and Payment

We pay a small honorarium (the best we can offer, as this magazine loses money) of $10 for published poetry and $20 for published photography and artwork. In addition, published contributors will receive two print copies of the issue in which their work appears, free of charge. In exchange, we require first North American Serial rights, and ask that, if the work first published with us is ever again published, you acknowledge Concord Ridge. Contracts will be extended upon acceptance for publication.

Call for Submissions from Singaporean Writers: Kopi Break

Thank you for considering Kopi Break as a home for your poetry! Please take note of the following guidelines when submitting:

Kopi Break publishes work written by those affiliated with Singapore and the Singaporean diaspora. We are especially excited to platform voices that are traditionally underrepresented in Singaporean publishing.

Please send us one to three poems in a .doc or .docx file attached to an email. We read submissions on a rolling basis. Accepted pieces are published on our website and promoted to our email newsletter and Instagram following.

We do not accept poems that have been previously published in other journals, but we do consider poems that you have posted on your personal social media. Upon acceptance, we request that you delete the poem from public domain.

We accept and encourage simultaneous submissions. Please notify us immediately if your work has been placed elsewhere—and congratulations!

In your cover letter, please include your name, a sentence explaining your affiliation with Singapore, a short biography, and a note on whether the work is a simultaneous submission.

We endeavour to respond to all submissions within two weeks. We don’t accept revisions to accepted poems, so please ensure that the draft you submit is final.

We ask for worldwide non-exclusive first publishing rights, with a credit to Kopi Break in subsequent publications. We pay $10 SGD per poem.

SEND US YOUR BEST:

 

kopibreakpoetry@gmail.com

Call for Submissions: The Arkansas International

We welcome previously unpublished, unsolicited general submissions of fiction, poetry, essays, comics, and works in translation between December 15 and March 15. In the summer, we accept submissions for our themed issue between June 15 and August 15. While we are no longer open to free submissions, we are happy to offer waivers to those identifying as BIPOC or in need of financial assistance. For more information on how to apply, please email editor@arkint.org.

Prose submissions should be no more than 8,000 words, poem packets no more than five poems, and we ask that excerpts from longer works be self-contained. Simultaneous submissions are welcome, provided we are notified in the event that a piece is accepted elsewhere. Please do not submit more than a single story, essay, or poem packet until you have heard back from us about your previous submission.

If you are submitting multiple pieces, please put them together in one submission. Since the number we can receive every month is capped, subsequent submissions will have to be returned unread.

Submissions of translated works must include a copy of the original text. If there are extenuating circumstances that prevent you from including a copy of the original text at the time of your submission, please note that in the cover letter.

Before submitting translations of works that are not in the public domain, translators should identify the rights holder and obtain a statement that the rights to publish an English translation are available.

The Arkansas International cannot consider work from anyone currently or recently affiliated with the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, which includes those who have studied or worked there within the past 4 years.

At this time we are not accepting unsolicited book reviews or interviews for the Arkansas International website or print journal.

Contributors will be paid $20 a printed page (capped at $250) and receive two complementary copies of the journal.

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions on Theme of "Cosmos": Antithesis Journal

VOLUME 33: COSMOS

Wrapped in the darkness of the night for centuries, the stars above shone brightly. What was this blanket covering the horizon? It was everything, from the first millisecond of existence. It was cosmos. It instils wonder, curiosity, reverence and terror.

How could it be so many things to so many people? What does it mean to you? Do you embrace the idea of the cosmos, wanting to seek out the unknown? Or does it spark reflection within yourself as you are faced with its endless expanse? Can the cosmos be discovered through rigorous scientific methodology or careful spiritual reflection? How do the cultures that define us see the cosmos? Or will you reject this idea entirely as the human instinct to defy even in the face of the encompassing unknown?

At Antithesis this year, it is our mission to feature authentic, diverse voices that showcase what Cosmos evokes in 2023 and beyond. What can we learn from the past, and what can we change for the future? The team at Antithesis would love to know your thoughts.

What we're looking for:

Creative writing (short fiction, creative non-fiction, personal essays) up to 3,000 words

Scholarly research articles up to 7,500 words

Poetry up to 100 lines

Artwork (paintings, drawings, photography, digital art, comic art, graphic narratives, etc.)

We encourage submissions from writers and creatives who are queer and/or trans and/or of any colour, religion, age, ability or gender. You do not need to be a student to be published in the journal . We welcome submissions from writers and artists both established and emerging.

Written submissions for the print journal are open until 11:59pm, June 11th 2023. Artwork submissions for the print journal are open until 11:59pm, June 25th 2023. 

All writers/artists whose work is accepted for the print journal will be paid AU$50. 

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions: Allium, A Journal of Poetry & Prose

Allium are flowering plants that include hundreds of species. Alliums vary dramatically in size, shape, and color, and are cultivated as both vegetable and ornament. They naturally resist taxonomy.

Our Allium aspires to create a similar resistance by publishing diverse creative voices, recognized and emerging writers, and a variety of forms and genres from the traditional to the experimental. Allium, A Journal of Poetry & Prose publishes three issues each year: two online issues (Fall and Summer) and one print issue (Spring).

Allium accepts simultaneous submissions, requests a maximum page length of five pages for poetry, fifteen pages (3,750 words, double-spaced, using a 12 pt. Times Roman font) for craft essays, fiction, hybrid, nonfiction, and creative nonfiction, and does not seek previously published work.

Our submission period begins November 15 and ends January 31. Submissions are read February through May. Please do not submit more than once per reading cycle.

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions to Anthology on Theme of "Celebrating the Global Diaspora": Pan Writers Caravan

ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION

Pan Writers Caravan is an African-based literary arts (all genre) caravan advancing word-culture integration/civilization/diversity/beauty among young & established talents through personal essays, fiction, hybrid, poetry, reportage & more.

ABOUT THE ANTHOLOGY

Our themes for our literary arts anthology, titled African Literary Arts: One Contemporaneous Anthology Celebrating the Global Diaspora (including African culture & society but not limited from circumAtlantic transpositions of United States Africa & African America/African Haiti & Dominica, African England & Eastern Europe as well as African Asia, etc.) are celebratory, variegated, ubiquitous, and unifying of Africa: spanning the beauty of African sex & sexualities, food & cuisine, rivers & mountains, rituals & dialects, tribes & politics, spirituality & morality. This multi-genre collection, numbering tentatively 350-450 pages in length, will include prosodies of hybrid narratives & short story, memoirs & personal essays, poetry, artwork and several other literary keepsakes, nuggets and gemstones.

Lived experience, readership and scholarship in the plethora of Africa & African Diaspora Literature & Literary Arts are held in utmost esteem and highest regard; established, the Editors remain open to all shared experiences of African Diaspora globally deemed of creative possibility to this subjective readership, seeking works beyond the “canonical” or even expected measures taken literarily in equal focus (African National canons considered and surveyed) upon the newly established “anthological.” Moreover, the Editors will be equally intrigued, in balanced coexistence with more traditionally informed instances of writing & other creative endeavors, with these implied instances of the experimental in submissions, and perhaps relatedly & especially ones creating new traditions &/or experimental divergences from the “norms,” identities inclusive albeit never limited to Disabled, Queer, Femme, Low Income &/or other voices speaking from marginalization for this particular anthology of Africa Diasporic Literary Arts, as it were.

Such as balancing singing & drum parts in tribal celebration circles in African communities globally, we hope to join together with our future Contributors, gleefully taking heart and educated by our Submitters as a whole, to create one, quite powerful musical number of which to bear witness as one. These writings, for which notions of “quality” surfacing from the readers here & there, however apparent, seek actively and perseveringly to complement the distinguished & acclaimed beauty of the quite musical writing established by Contributors of this African Diasporic anthology in & of itself, compelled to blossom whilst preserving itself: onward & upward, globally & thus humanly, harmoniously. Together.

Submission Requirements:

Times New Roman font in 12 point size; double space for prose when possible; must be original works of literary art; must be previously unpublished or anthologized work

Length & Number for Each Genre

A) Poetry—40 lines or fewer, maximum of three poems each submission
B) Short stories—maximum of 2,500 words, one story per submission
C) Essays—maximum of 2,000 words, one essay per submission
D) Hybrid Narratives—maximum of 2,000 words, one narrative per submission
E) Flash Fiction—200-500 words; maximum of three flashes per submission
F) Artwork & Visual Poetry: maximum of one page formatted per submission; PDF format accepted & preferred; must constitute original artwork without copyright

Entries will be submitted under the appropriate section of creative work in Submittable with the payment of a small, standard fee of $5 per submission (solely to help finance operating costs, fees & advertising for anthology). Please only send your submission as an attachment in the form of Microsoft Word Document (or: potentially PDF, in the case of Artwork & Visual Poetry) under the appropriate genre form. Although not a strict requirement: it is generally common practice for the subject line of the submission in the Submittable interface to include: Title of Submission by Contributor’s Publication Name (for example: Africa by Mbizo Chirasha). The Submitter will be prompted to include a short biographical summary as a requirement in the Submittable interface.
Please note: while the Editors will honor withdrawals of submissions by email & pressing inquiries related to the anthology’s requirements for entrants, anthology submissions by email & paper mail are unacceptable for the purposes of this anthology & will not be received, read or returned back by the editors in any manner.

Multiple genres &/or multiple submissions per Submitter are welcomed, encouraged & thus totally acceptable protocol; however, one will then be required to submit another submission insofar each submission must not exceed the maximum allotment of entries; only one genre entry per Anthology Contributor will generally be accepted for publication, should more than one entry exist & fortunately qualify for inclusion. Finally, there is no guarantee of the Editors’ readership of entries beyond the maximum amount of words or especially number of creative works submitted in an entry which exceeds our maximum requirements, & the Editors reserve the explicit right to leave further word counts of submission entries as unread or otherwise politely inquire for another sufficient payment of $5 per subsequent entry unaccounted for.

We are looking for gut-turning, nerve-nudging and heart-tilting writing & creative endeavors. Please send us the most thoughtful & thought provoking versions of your work and only your very best creatively written &/or artistic response to the African Diaspora globally. Please also submit only grammatically polished work that has been carefully proofread & edited for readability, succinctness, and clarity.

Deadline for Submissions: extended to April 15, 2024, at 11:59pm, Eastern Daylight Time, United States; No Late Submissions Will Be Accepted.

Upon Possible Acceptance:

Published authors agree to the publisher obtaining first serial rights to their work. You as accepted Contributor will be prompted to include a professional cover letter by the Anthology Editors with your 10line tightened Writers Profile or Author Bio, with welcome accompaniment of your professional headshot photo, potentially for the anthology however surely for inclusion in established and extensive creative media online; minimally, $50 in payment for each printed entry and contributor copies of anthology in print & digital form will be provided upon securement of press publication of the anthology by Pan-Writers Caravan.

For pressing inquiries to submission status, including withdrawals of entries, as well as publication offers, publicity & promotion possibilities from official & professional avenues: please direct your needs directly with the Anthology Coeditors:

Mbizo Chirasha (Africa): mbizotheblackpoet@gmail.com

Anthony Ramstetter, Jr. (United States): anthonyramstetterjr@gmail.com

More information and submission link here.

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 From our house to yours--

May you have the very best of holidays!

Writing Competition: 2024 New American Poetry Prize

2024 NEW AMERICAN POETRY PRIZE: FINAL JUDGE NIKKI WALLSCHLAEGER

Submissions for the 2024 New American Poetry Prize will open September 1, 2023. The winning manuscript will be published and its author will receive $1500, promotional support, and 25 author copies.

Manuscripts should be at least 48 pages, but there is no maximum length. All forms and styles of poetry are welcome.

DEADLINE: January 15, 2024.

Entry Fee: $25.00

We read manuscripts blind, so please exclude identifying information from the manuscript itself. All necessary contact information is included in your Submittable record. We do not accept submissions by email or post. Please use Submittable to send your work.

Call for Submissions to Anthology on Theme of: "Halfs, Steps, In-Laws & Belonging": Wising Up Press

 Out of Line—Who Defines? Halfs, Steps, In-Laws & Belonging

A Wising Up Anthology

Families! We all have them. But which is the "real' one if there are—and there always are—several definitions of family to choose from? Obviously, it's the one that assures us of our full inclusion. But it's not that straightforward. We choose a partner, become core to an origin story, and, at the same time immediately became in-laws, fringe players in someone else's story. This is even more true with half and step attributions, for both parents and children. What is the impact of being defined as "half" or "step" to your own sense of loyalty, responsibility, affection, belonging? To your understanding of family? What is the effect of defining someone else that way in terms of their sense of sense of centrality, stability? Are these attributions useful, accurate, or even relevant when 50% of American families are remarried or recoupled? Is there any way to avoid them?

We invite stories, creative non-fiction, memoir and poetry that explore the intricacies of the in-law, half, and step-conditions from every position—parents, children, grandchildren, grandparents, uncles, aunts—and what it means for those many of us who oscillate between these conditions, often in more than one family constellation.

Deadline: 3/15/24

SUBMIT TO: 

 

outofline@universaltable.org

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES FOR ALL WISING UP ANTHOLOGIES
 

Print and Web

We make final editorial submissions on all submitted manuscripts only after the submission deadline.
Electronic submissions only, either Word or RTF.
Prose ≤ 5,000 words. Poetry ≤ 5 poems.
Payment in copies
Submit manuscripts electronically

• We consider dual submissions and previously published work only if informed of this at time of submission.

• Previously published work must be accompanied with a list of where and when it has been previously published, including on the internet.

• We do not pay reprint fees. It is the author's responsibility to get needed permissions.

More information about Wising Up Press here.
 

Call for Submissions from Canadian Writers: Geist

Geist is a magazine of ideas and culture with a strong literary focus and a sense of humour. The Geist tone is intelligent, plain-talking, inclusive and offbeat. Each issue represents a convergence of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, photography, comics, reviews, little-known facts of interest, cartography and the legendary Geist crossword puzzle.

Our mandate is to publish emerging and established writers and artists from across Canada, bringing them to a wide audience.

We encourage submissions from writers of colour, writers with disabilities, LGBTQIA2S+ writers, and writers from other intersectional and marginalized groups.

What to Submit

Before submitting work, read several issues of Geist, or dig into the archives at geist.com, to get a sense of the kind of the work we publish.

Geist is always seeking short non-fiction (around 800-1500 words, flexible), typically personal narrative, for the Notes & Dispatches section. We are especially interested in writing grounded in a sense of place, historical narrative, personal essays on art, music and culture, profiles of ordinary people with extraordinary stories, fascinating fields of work, practices or hobbies, and everyday occurrences that show the humour and strangeness of life. Read examples here. Pay is commensurate with length, usually $300-500.

Longer non-fiction pieces (up to 5000 words) are published as Features. We pay up to $1000.

We are especially reading for non-fiction at this time.

Comics: We’re interested in comics that are weird, funny, unexpected or experimental. We pay $100 per page. We publish shorter comics in the Notes & Dispatches section (examples here and here) and publish longer comics as features (example here), max. 8 pages. Please send up to three strips or one longer comic at a time.

We are keen to read more comics submissions at this time.

Fiction: We publish short stories (up to 5000 words) in the Features section. We usually publish one story per issue, so please send only your best work. We pay up to $1000. Check out our recent short fiction.

Poetry: Send a maximum of 5 poems. We pay $100 per page.

Hybrid forms: We like work that crosses genres or that surprises us in other ways. Send us your photo essays, maps and poetry comics! Your interdisciplinary forms and your visual-textual mashups!

Findings: We reprint excerpts from published work and works-in-progress in the Findings section, along with documents and interesting items found online, or anywhere in the real world. We appreciate suggestions from writers, artists and publishers. Please email:

geist@geist.com

Due to the volume of suggestions we receive, you may not hear back from us. Thanks for your understanding.

With the exception of Findings, all submissions should be original and previously unpublished. 

How to Submit

We accept submissions via Submittable and by mail, though Submittable is preferred. Please send only one submission at a time, and wait to hear back from us before submitting again. Please note: our mandate is to publish writers and artists from across Canada.

Geist offers no-fee general submissions for Black writers, Indigenous writers, and writers of colour. Please submit through the “General Submissions for BIPOC writers” form.

We also offer a limited number of no-fee general submissions to low-income writers per submission period. Please contact editor@geist.com to access these spots, which are allocated on a first-come basis. Use the subject line “No-fee Submissions.” We welcome these requests and will make them available whenever possible.

Click here to submit your work through Submittable.

Call for Submissions: Dark Dead Things

Send all submissions to:

submissions@darkdeadthings.com

but please read the guidelines. 

Dark Dead Things is on the look out for short stories, poetry, and nonfiction.

• We want your weird, sci-fi, and horror fiction (or nonfiction). As long as it’s strange, scary, or subversive, we’ll consider it.

• No multiple submissions except for poetry. Please submit up to three poems.

• If accepted, it might be for both the magazine and podcast or just one.

• 1,000-4,000 words for stories. This is a hard limit. Anything over or under won’t be considered.

• $40 per short story or nonfiction piece; flat rate of $15 per poem

• Previously published work will not be accepted. Unpublished only, please.

• Please use a standard manuscript format. There are a lot of great resources out there if you’re not sure what this entails.

• Format email subject line as: SUBMISSION - [Your Story] by [Your Name]

Call for Submissions on Theme of "Family": Synkroniciti Magazine

Submissions should be emailed to:

magazine@synkroniciti.com 

Please place your name and the category of submission in the subject field of your e-mail.

The submission fee is $3. You may submit more than one entry in one or more categories. We currently pay only artists winning the top prizes in our contests. We are working toward being able to pay sustainable honorariums to everyone. 

General submissions are always open. If you have something we should see, send it in. You might even decide a future theme. Each issue has three contests: one for the cover, one in poetry and one which rotates across genres. An artist is not eligible to win in the same category until a year has passed (4 issues) but may win in another category.

Pending payment, all submissions will receive a response shortly after our submission deadline. If your work is selected you will be asked for biographical information and we will work with you to make sure that your work is displayed in a way that makes you happy. If you are not already a subscriber, you will receive the issue of Synkroniciti Magazine that features it for free. 

If your work is selected we request the right to publish it in both the e-book and the website archive of Synkroniciti Magazine. We accept simultaneous submissions and pre-published work (contingent upon the other parties involved allowing publication). 

Deadline: Jan. 15, 2024

Categories we accept:

Photography and Digital Art 

Illustration

Visual Art (non-digital)

Poetry Submission

Short Story Submission

Flash Fiction Submission

Short Play Submission

Essay

Video Submission

For more information, please visit our website. 

Upcoming Call For Submissions on Theme of "Strange Wests": About Place Journal

 

Strange Wests
Call for Submissions

Editors: Jasmine Elizabeth Smith and Matty Layne Glasgow
Assistant Editors: Jake Skeets and Ashanti Anderson

Open for submissions on January 1, 2024*
All submissions are due by March 10, 2024 

*Note the opening date: Jan. 1, 2024

Strange Wests

West has always been more than mere direction, a setting sun, evening. In lands now known by many as the United States of America, West invokes a fraught mythology of wilderness and conquest, of destiny and riches, of jackrabbit homesteads and romantic distances, of cowboys and bears. For so long these symbols have dominated our histories of these lands, centering whiteness and masculinity in a rugged, difficult terrain. But the West and its frontier have always been strange, full of contradictions, queer even. As Josh Garrett-Davis, a curator, scholar at the Gene Autry Museum of the American West, posits of the regional West, “[It is] a borderland—or two-or-more-sided frontier—where old and new coexist, collaborate, fight, innovate, [holding] ample grounds for new stories.”

The West as we understand it has never been uninhabited. People have thrived in communion with these lands for thousands of years. Flora and fauna, too. Where some see vacant desert, or land to be occupied for the next housing development, we cast our eyes upon resilient life, those who understand the importance of water and resource conservation. In South Dakota, Indigenous water advocates protest pipeline routes, while Chicano artists muralize the scar of a border wall with the painting of roses.

We call contributors to conceive of the West beyond its conventional and colonialized framework. What happens when the dam breaks, when waters flow along their pre-colonial course and stewardship is returned to the original caretakers of the land? There are many ways to deconstruct a dam, an archetype, to unearth histories long-buried in sand or alpine forest. The West is multiple and many.

In the next issue of About Place Journal, we invite you to consider and reimagine all things West. Send us your visual poems and performances, your experimental stories and essays, your art classified by no other name than art. As we decenter traditional subjects and propagandized histories of this ambiguous region, share with us your witness and protests, your lineages who have lived here longer than the word itself and this country. We are particularly interested in work from young, emerging artists (17 and younger), as well as work by BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ artists, especially those whose stories have been excluded by a mythology of the west centered on whiteness, masculinity, and extraction.

Writing Competition: Universe of Threats--Natural Disaster Threat Contest

Universe of Threats – Natural Disaster Threat Contest

(open Dec. 1, 2023 – Jan. 31, 2024)

The Center for Advanced Preparedness and Threat Response Simulation (CAPTRS) is building a catalog of threats, called the “Universe of Threats,” which will be used to prepare decision makers for future threats. Our third essay contest to add to the Universe of Threats will focus on natural disaster threats.

We invite you to submit your story and a one page ground truth document (see examples below) describing a threat scenario related to natural disasters, including floods, wildfires, hurricanes or another natural disaster of your choosing. Judges will be looking for unique but plausible threat scenarios, as well as clearly defined and complex cascading impacts of the threat.

Submission Details

Your ground truth should include details and origin of the threat, other impacting factors, and considerations for the unfolding response which may not be explicitly stated in your essay. Your ground truth should provide stated facts and details of the threat, whereas your story should be a narrative building off of the information outlined in your ground truth. 

 

Please be specific as to what the threat is. For instance, a category 4 hurricane should be expanded upon to mention specific threatening aspects of the storm, or why where it is hitting is going to create bigger problems. The impact of the threat and what needs to be considered in addressing it is critically important. A doomsday scenario without any possible solutions is not what we are looking for. If you choose to focus on a threat related to climate change, please make sure you are thoroughly explaining the actual events taking place due to climate change, and the impacts of those events, versus focusing on the root cause of the threat. These situations will be used in threat preparedness exercises, so our focus is on how we can better prepare for threats.

Scenarios must be plausible and may explore interdependent social, economic, political, environmental or technological forces that shape the unfolding threat. We face a number of natural disaster threats every year. Please do not write about a scenario which has already happened.

 

We are looking for unique scenarios. The scenario may focus on evacuation and safety, or on unfolding and/or long-lasting impacts from the threat.

 

You may optionally submit one of the following documents to support the plausibility of the scenario: 

 

a one-page description of background research, 

a one-page list of references, 

or a one-page letter of support from an expert in the field.

 
First place – $5,000
Second place – $2,500 (up to 2 winners)
Third place – $1,000 (up to 5 winners)
**All winning submissions will be published on the CAPTRS website.

Judging:

Contributions will be judged anonymously by a panel of CAPTRS team members and guest judges, composed of experts in relevant disciplinary fields. All decisions made by the panel will be final.

Submissions will be evaluated holistically, with particular attending to the following dimensions: 

• Overall creativity – we are looking for scenarios that challenge our preparedness paradigm

• Plausibility and specificity of the threat

• Complexity and plausibility of the cascading societal factors

• Level of difficulty posed for current response capabilities

• Consistency with the submitted ground truth characteristics

• Quality of writing

 More information, link to apply, and examples here.

Call for Submissions from Undergraduate and Graduate Students: Mistake House

 

Submissions for Issue 10 are open through March 20, 2024. 

Mistake House Magazine welcomes submissions of fiction and poetry by student writers actively enrolled in graduate and undergraduate programs around the world.

We juxtapose the works of student writers with those of established professionals, whose profiles appear by invitation in our Soap Bubble Set section.

Editorial Mission and Calls for Fiction and Poetry

In our May 2020 issue, Mistake House Magazine rolled out a new tag line: a space between ordinary and odd.

The times we live in ask writers and readers, as Audre Lorde said, to “learn to work and speak when we are afraid in the same way we have learned to work and speak when we are tired.” Since its inaugural 2015 issue, Mistake House Magazine has been committed to publishing inventive, compassionate, and insightful creative writing and art. Simply, we offer an open invitation to send us work with heart and work that tells us something fresh about the ordinary and odd world we think we know.

We welcome variety in subject, form, and perspective, including all modes of literary writing from domestic realism to speculative fiction to experimental poetry and beyond.

Submitting writers should want their work to contribute to a larger dialogue in the world. Mistake House Magazine seeks to participate in the literary community’s urgent efforts to draw on moral courage to write about pressing issues in the world today. We believe that writing honestly about current human issues is a way to be involved and make a positive impact.

Works in Translation

While we publish all works in English, we welcome the opportunity to publish global submissions and will accept work in any language. However, since we do not have an editorial staff to handle translation into English, we ask that submissions in languages other than English be accompanied by an English translation. If accepted, Mistake House will publish both versions, the original and the author’s English translation, side by side.

A Call for Photography

Mistake House Magazine also considers submissions of original photography by students enrolled in graduate and undergraduate programs. In photographic submissions, too, we are particularly interested work expressive of documentary poetics. Submitted photographs should speak to our editorial mission and to the “space between ordinary and odd” in which we currently find ourselves.

Three Editor’s Prizes of $100 are offered annually: one for fiction, one for poetry, and one for photography. Prizes will be announced upon publication on May 1, 2024.

We look forward to reading and seeing your work.

More information and submission portal on our website.

Call for Creative Nonfiction Pitches on Theme of "Flow": A Dance Mag

Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is known for his theory of Flow. According to Csikszentmihalyi: “Flow is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz.”

In psychology, "Flow" refers to a state of complete absorption and engagement in an activity. It is a state where one becomes fully immersed in the task at hand, losing self-awareness and the sense of time while maintaining control of their performance. By entering this state, individuals unlock their full potential and derive a deep sense of fulfillment and satisfaction from their endeavors. Evidence suggests that experiencing "Flow" increases motivation, enhances performance and creativity, and reduces anxiety and stress.

Interestingly, the notion of "Flow" has its roots in ancient philosophies, namely in Daoism. The Daoist concept of "Wu Wei, which can translate as "non-doing" or "effortless action," involves acting spontaneously and harmoniously with the flow of nature. It entails letting go of striving, control, and ego-driven motivations, allowing action to unfold without resistance. It invites us to surrender to life rather than grappling against it, to align ourselves with the innate rhythm of the universe.

"Flow," then, is characterized by effortlessness and immersion in the present moment. It is a moment of harmony, during which the self and its environment become one, free of self-imposed or external judgment. In this state, anxiety and fear dissipate, even pain dissolves, allowing us to experience a profound sense of joy and contentment.

Dance, in all its forms, frequently serves (to various degrees) as a direct pathway to accessing the state of "Flow." When we dance, we let go of mental distractions as our movements bring us fully into the present moment. When the movement is effortless, the state of "Flow" can easily be attained.

This issue of A Dance Mag is an invitation to explore states of Flow. How often do we find ourselves in a state of "Flow" when we dance? What obstacles hinder our access to this state? Do states of "Flow" experienced in dance extend to other areas and aspects of life? How does the regular experience of "Flow" impact our personalities, routines, relationships with others, and overall outlook on life?

Note: The fact that the Structure and the Flow themes are published simultaneously does not suggest an opposition. They can be complementary and interconnected.

Submissions Material

Please send an Expression of Interest with a synopsis of your story to:

editorial@adancemag.com 

with the subject line: Submission to “Flow” by December 25, 2023.

A full draft of your story will be expected by January 25, 2024.
Along with a 30 to 40 words biography line.

If available, please include two to three accompanying images that you hold the rights to, in any resolution.

Guidelines:

• A Dance Mag welcomes short and long (600 to 4000 words) of creative nonfiction relevant to the theme, this may include research, personal, ekphrastic or lyrical essays, feature articles, reportage, experiential reviews, conversations, interviews, and travel writings.

• A Dance Mag privileges storytelling and experiential writing.

• The language of the publication is English (American style).

• A Dance Mag publishes original work. However, it may republish writings originally published in a language other than English.

• A Dance Mag retains exclusive publication rights for six months following the issue release. If republished elsewhere we appreciate mentioning that the piece was originally published in a Dance Mag.

• Submissions are free of charge, and given the independent nature of the magazine, contributions cannot be compensated. All sales revenue goes to the production of the next issue of the magazine. Selected contributors will receive a copy of the magazine upon publication.

• Selected submissions will receive notification within 45 days. The editorial board operates on a volunteer basis, so we apologize for not being able to answer all emails.

• Selected submissions may undergo a lengthy editing process that requires contributors’ engagement and timely responses.

• This call is not open for artwork and photography.

Call for Submissions: Meetinghouse Magazine

general submissions will be open until december 22nd!

the basics:

We accept up to two pieces of prose and five poems per submission.

Please submit prose pieces as separate documents and poems in a single document.

Please keep each submission under 7,500 words.

Include a brief bio with your work.

Please attach your submissions as a .doc, .docx, or .pdf.

On very rare occasions do we accept previously published work. Please let us know if that is the case with your piece.

We accept simultaneous submissions, but please inform us if your work is accepted elsewhere.

We publish work in translation. Translators are responsible for acquiring author and publisher permissions.

Authors retain the copyright to their work.

We accept work by both published and previously unpublished authors.

We can offer you some money: $40 for digital content and $100 for work published in print. 

likes:

We appreciate genre-bending & genre-blending.

We believe trying and failing to work through difficult ideas and feelings is more worthwhile than staying comfortable in what you know. Asking questions is better than answering them.

We very badly want to be kind.

dislikes:

We’re put off by snark or fashion in lieu of rigorous thinking.

We will not consider discriminatorily offensive or hateful content for publication.

Please do not use Courier.

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions on Theme of "Health and FLINTA": Anodyne Magazine

We are a magazine focused on personal health experiences, including (but not limited to) physical health, doctor visits, mental health, chronic illness, and more. We accept submissions from anyone identifying as part of the FLINTA* community worldwide. Submissions are accepted on a trimesterly basis in December, April, and August, with a free period the first week of open submissions. Editorial services are available for an additional fee. We only accept work in English at this time.

FLINTA* stands for Frauen/Female, Lesbian, Intersex, Non-binary, Trans, and Agender. We are generally disenfranchised by dominant culture and the health care industry in general, and as such are giving a platform to amply our experiences.

Please follow the below submission requirements. If you are a first-time writer, you can find excellent formatting instructions and examples on the Shunn website. We publish in digital, print, and audiobook formats for the widest distribution and inclusivity. Please submit only one genre per reading period. If selected, contributors are also invited to submit a recorded reading of their work for the audiobook. Label your submission “Name-Genre-Submission”

• Please include a short bio

• Please include an artist statement with visual/audio submissions

• Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but please email us to remove your submission ASAP if your work is accepted elsewhere (we’ll respond with a virtual high-five)

• We prefer no reprints, however will make exceptions if it’s a perfect fit + very high-quality writing

All rights revert to authors and artists upon publication. We do request first publication acknowledgment if works are published elsewhere in the future. We also ask permission to post brief excerpts to social media for promotion. Anodyne Magazine will retain sole and exclusive ownership over the content for the entire time of drafting, editing, illustrating, and publication. 

• Poetry: submit up to three (3) poems in a single .docx document

• Flash fiction: up to 1,000 words accepted + three (3) pieces in .docx format

• Longform fiction and nonfiction: submit up to 5,000 words in .docx format

• Artwork: submit .jpg / .jpeg format

• Photography: up to three (3) photos per period in .jpg / .jpeg format

• Video: please submit a single video per period — send an unlisted YouTube or Vimeo link (physical copies of the magazine will feature a QR code to your beautiful video)

• Music/audio: submit one link to the audio file on SoundCloud or Spotify

We pay our contributors! Each contributor will receive a dividend of sales from the issue they are included in for as long as sales come in. Payouts occur quarterly via bank transfer.

Contributors will also be invited to a pre-launch Zoom session with the editors to network and strategize the promotion of their work for greater visibility. We believe every creator should receive the greatest support for their work, and that FLINTA* health experiences must be read about. We look forward to working with you!

 

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions: The Good Life Review

TGLR is currently open for multiple publication opportunities plus artwork. We nominate for Pushcart and Best of the Net and pay $75 per piece of writing for our seasonal issues ($25 for Micro Monday Features). Details on all opportunities and the forms to submit are on Submittable.

Work must be original and previously uncurated. Please reference this thoughtful article by Tim Green on curation versus publication.

We pay $75 per piece for writing published in seasonal issues ($100 for two pieces). We pay $25 for pieces appearing in our “Micro Monday” segment and for artwork used on the cover of our seasonal issues. For international submissions, we are only able to send money via PayPal.

There is a $3 fee for submissions for our Spring and Autumn issues which allows us to use Submittable and our web platform. The fee for entry to our annual Honeybee Prize is $15 which is used to support the prize payout and payment to contributors. Details about the contest can be found here. Info and results from last year are here.

There is currently no fee for submitting art or pieces to be considered for The Buzz ~ Micro Monday feature.

We will respond to all submitted work. It may take from one to six months depending on when in the reading period the work is submitted. Artwork may remain open for the duration of a calendar year. Thank you in advance for your patience.

We accept submissions via Submittable only. Any received via email or post will not make it into the queue of our editorial teams.

If you have an issue with the fee because of financial hardship, or difficulties with the submission platform, please send a message via email to:

editors <@> thegoodlifereview.com (Change <@> to @)

Simultaneous submissions are accepted as long as we are promptly made aware of acceptance elsewhere. Simply withdraw in Submittable – or – for individual flash pieces or poems, initiate a message in Submittable indicating which title(s) are being withdrawn.

The Good Life Review acquires First North American Serial Rights and the right to maintain an archive copy of work online. All other rights revert to author upon publication with a request that if the work is reprinted, appropriate acknowledgment to The Good Life Review is made.

We do not publish offensive work or pieces which exhibit hatred directed toward a particular gender, race, ethnicity, ability, sexual identity, socioeconomic class, or other status, regardless of protected by law. In other words—if you are an asshole, we don’t want your writing or your money.

Each submissions should include work from only one genre/category (for example do not create a submission with both fiction and poetry unless it is to be considered as a hybrid piece). Please only one submission per category at a time and wait to hear back before submitting again.

Again, work must be original and previously uncurated. Give us your very best!

Call for Submissions: The Greensboro Review

Unsolicited manuscripts must be received between November 1 and January 1 to be considered for our Fall issue (acceptances in May).

Submission Guidelines:

1. Entries must be previously unpublished. We do accept simultaneous submissions, but please let us know immediately via Submittable if your work is accepted elsewhere.
2. Please submit only once per genre during each submission period.
3. 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.)
4. 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: Menagerie

Menagerie publishes fictions, essays, and poems. We believe in sentences so sharp they draw blood, the strange and inexplicable, the wild and weird and uncanny, words in thickets, clusters, and flocks, pieces that move us beyond caring what others think about said pieces.

Things we like: fictions ala Borges, Link, Calvino, & Sparks; weird lyric essay; engagements with the environment and natural world; poems that explode form; bricolage, masala, & sagul sagul; forays into the omnipresent information-saturated online architecture we live in.

Things we don’t: lukewarm prose, sentences bereft of emotion, formulaic attempts at being on trend, conformity, pat endings, sentiment-drenched rhyming poems, neat and orderly stories.

We care about writers and artists. That means if you’ve entrusted your work to us, you’ll get a response. And we pay $50 per acceptance (e.g. one piece of prose or 1-3 poems). Because it’s important we value what you’ve made.

Menagerie is open year round; subs are free till we hit our monthly cap, so get in early. Tip Jar subs are always open.

We’ll do our level best to promote your work, pairing each piece with original artwork, and providing social posts you can use on your own channels. It’s our hope that Menagerie will serve as an accelerator for bringing your work into the world and getting it noticed.

We observe the following guidelines:

• Simultaneous submissions are allowed.

• Please submit to only one category at a time.

• Poetry submissions may include 3-5 poems at once.

• Stories and essays should be no more than 5K.

• Please expect a response time of 30-60 days.

In short: if you’ve written something and don’t know what to call it, we want to see it. Our menagerie is vast and unending, and contains all size and shape of curios.

Perhaps yours will soon be one of them. 

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions: The Ex-Puritan

The Ex-Puritan seeks submissions all year round, from anywhere in the world.

• $100 per interview

• $200 per essay

• $100 per review

• $150 per work of fiction

• $50 per poem, or $100 per poet if multiple poems are accepted

• $50+ per experimental or hybrid work, at an increasing scale depending on the nature of the piece.

Regular submissions to the magazine are free of charge and should fall under one of six categories: fiction, essays, poetry, interviews, reviews, and experimental/hybrid work. To submit to the experimental/hybrid section of the magazine, please email our section editors at:

hybrid.experimental@ex-puritan.ca 

All other submissions must go through our Submittable. Unless we are soliciting your work, all submissions must be previously unpublished (this includes self-publishing, publishing on blogs, and in chapbook format).

All submissions received by March 25 will be considered for the spring issue, published in May. Those received by June 25 are considered for the summer issue in August. Those received by September 25 are considered for the fall issue, published in November. Those received by December 25 are considered for the winter issue, out in February. All submissions will receive a decision within four months of the submission date.

If you haven’t heard back from us in four months or for any other query not answered here, get in touch with us at:

editors@ex-puritan.ca 

Please note that we CANNOT accept email submissions. They will be discarded. We are open to simultaneous submissions for all regular submission categories, but no simultaneous submissions are permitted for the Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence. If your work is accepted elsewhere, please contact us immediately at:

editors@ex-puritan.ca 

to withdraw the piece. 

Additional guidelines and submission link here.