Writing Competition on Theme of "The Human Animal": Peter White Public Library International Chapbook Competition

  

Registration opens on Tuesday, August 1st, 2023

 September 1, 2023, at 6PM EST — September 4, 2023, at 6PM EST

 No later than Tuesday, September 5, 2023, 6PM EST for submission

 No fee to enter, however, you must register by Monday, August 24, 2023, at 6PM. EST

Theme for 2023: “The Human Animal”

The Prizes:

1st Prize: $500, soft-cover publication (perfect bound), 50 free copies

 2nd Prize: Gift Card, soft-cover publication (perfect bound) 25 free copies

 3rd Prize: Gift Card, soft-cover publication (perfect bound) 25 free copies

 Contest Details:

The 2023 International 3-Day Poetry Chapbook Contest is an opportunity for writers to engage for one weekend in the collective spirit of creating new work. The contest is designed to push participants to try new writing methods, ideas, and forms. Following all contest guidelines will help generate poetry that is raw, original, fresh, and exciting.

The theme for this year’s contest is “The Human Animal.” Participants are encouraged to interpret the theme in their own way. To aid participants in this process, 45 poetry prompts have been provided to spark new work. The 45 “The Human Animal” Prompts will be available on Friday, September 1, 2023, at 6PM EST.

Every participant in the 2023 International 3-Day Poetry Chapbook Contest is on the honor system. No previously published work accepted. All poems must be created between September 1, 2023, at 6PM EST and September 4, 2023, at 6PM EST. However, in preparation for the contest, participants are allowed to gather notes and kernels of ideas for poems. Additionally, participants are given an extra day to type and format their manuscripts.

Previous winners are ineligible.

The contest is limited to the first 100 registered poets.

Winners will be announced in January 2024. Reading by winners and open mic celebration to follow in April 2024 at Peter White Public Library’s 3rd Annual Great Lakes Poetry Festival.

Submission Guidelines:

All manuscript entries must be in English, 15-45 pages, typed in 12pt. Times New Roman font, and submitted on one document (WORD or PDF) no later than Tuesday, September 6, at 6PM EST Please include a Title Page and Table of Contents. Each poem should begin on a new page.

The contest judging is blind. Your name should not be anywhere on the manuscript.

Submit in one document : A cover page with the title of the manuscript and your name and contact information.

A cover page with JUST THE TITLE of the manuscript containing NO NAME OR CONTACT INFORMATION.

The manuscript, containing NO NAME OR CONTACT INFORMATION anywhere within the body of the manuscript.

Email properly formatted manuscripts here:

3daychapbookcontest@gmail.com 

For questions and inquiries about the 2023 International 3-Day Poetry Chapbook Contest, email:

3daychapbookcontest@gmail.com 

*All Rights Retained by Author

Register Here!

Writing Competition: The Missouri Review 33rd Annual Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prizes

 

Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize
33rd Annual Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize

$5,000 Fiction | $5,000 Nonfiction | $5,000 Poetry

NOW OPEN!

Winners receive publication, promotion, and a cash prize.  

Guidelines 

• Submit one piece of fiction or nonfiction up to 8,500 words or any number of poems up to 10 pages. Please double-space fiction and nonfiction entries.

• Multiple submissions and simultaneous submissions are welcome, but you must pay a separate fee for each entry and withdraw the piece immediately if accepted elsewhere.

• Entries must be previously unpublished.

• Standard Entry fee: $25. Each entrant receives a one-year subscription to the Missouri Review in digital format (normal price $24) and a digital copy of the latest title in our imprint, TMR Books, a short story anthology by former contributors (normal price $7.95).

• “All Access” Entry fee: $30. In addition to the one-year digital subscription to the Missouri Review and TMR Books e-book, the “All Access” entry fee grants access to the last 10 years of digital issues and the audio recordings of each digital issue.

• Eligibility Previous winners of the Editors’ Prize and current University of Missouri students and faculty are ineligible.

• Previous Editors’ Prize finalists are welcome to enter again.

• Submit Online

• By Mail

DEADLINE: October 1, 2023

Winners will be announced in early 2024.

Questions? E-mail:

contest_question@moreview.com

Call for Submissions: The Yard: Crime Blog

Submissions are the meat and potatoes of The Yard: Crime Blog (C.B). We want to hear your short stories and non-fiction. We will read your submission and get back to you about whether we can use it or not. Sometimes we will offer advice to improve the writing, such as typos, or other issues, but sometimes we just can’t use it right now. Please read the Submission Guidelines and follow them. We look forward to hearing from you.

Each category we publish in, has an “About” post that is the very first post in the category, at the bottom, or click on the various links below. It will give you insight as to what we are looking for in writing for that category, please do the best you can to follow the guidelines, it will streamline the process. We are also accepting submissions for videos, podcasts, guest blogging. and photo journals. Send us what you got, or query us, and we will look at them

Poetry, Crime Fiction, Flash Fiction, True Crime, Historical Crime, Victim Accounts, Interviews, True Stories, Rumors, True Prison Stories, Book/Movie Reviews, Recovery, Victim Recovery, Crime Travel, Serial Killers, Biographies, Civil Rights Crime, Prison Church. Some of these categories will have sub-categories under them, such as Crime Fiction, which has Caper, Hard boiled, Police, Detective, Criminal, Superhero/Villain, Spy, Legal, Mystery and Forensic. We also accept Horror, and Dark Literature. But, they all follow the same rules. If You have written or created something that you feel falls within our field, send a query message to:

The.Yard@mail.com

We do not bite. At least not without a little salt.

Call for Submissions: Open: Journal of Arts & Letters

Open: Journal of Arts & Letters will consider submissions of previously unpublished original work in flash fiction, creative nonfiction as essay or memoir, poetry in all styles and genres, as well as submissions of prose, poetry, and drama as audio or video files. Academic articles, craft essays, book reviews, art/gallery reviews, music reviews, arts collaborations, and interviews with artists, musicians, photographers, poets, videographers, writers, and others will also be considered. Open: Journal of Arts & Letters will also consider queries for long fiction suitable for serial publication.

Buttonhook Press considers submissions for publication as broadsides, pamphlets, chapbooks, and works suitable for KDP release based on its published calls for submissions or by direct solicitation.

HOT BUTTON PRESS (Contemporary Issues) will issue specialized or themed calls for submissions.

How to Submit:

Open: Journal of Arts & Letters and Buttonhook Press, and now HOT BUTTON PRESS (Contemporary Issues) will accept submissions only through an electronic Submissions Manager. Send submissions for the categories listed or send an entry to any specific Contest. Submissions must be in one of the following file formats: .doc, .docx, .rtf, .pdf, .mp3, .mp4, .mov, and .flv.

Reading Periods:

Unsolicited submissions may be sent at any time, year-round.

Simultaneous Submissions:

Open: Journal of Arts & Letters Buttonhook Press, and now HOT BUTTON PRESS (Contemporary Issues) accept simultaneous submissions. Submitters should immediately notify Open: Journal of Arts & Letters through the messaging feature of the submission system if work under consideration by Open: Journal of Arts & Letters is accepted elsewhere.

Response Times:

Response times vary from one to twelve OR MORE weeks.

Submissions Fees:

Open: Journal of Arts & Letters considers 100 unsolicited fee-free submissions per month distributed across all fee-free categories. After 100 unsolicited fee-free submissions have been received, submissions close in all categories until the first day of the following month.

Open: Journal of Arts & Letters occasionally conducts contests for writers and artists. There are always fees associated with O:JA&L contests.

Open: Journal of Arts & Letters is a magazine with the ambition of popularizing good literary and artistic work. Open: Journal of Arts & Letters desires to connect our audience members to our artists. Open: Journal of Arts & Letters is committed to publishing debut and emerging writers and artists as well as those already established.

EXPEDITED EVALUATION OPTION: Expedited evaluation of unsolicited submissions is available for a fee of $5 USD. Expedited evaluation encourages a 72-hour response by the O:JA&L editors. CAVEAT: O:JA&L publishes 1% of unsolicited submissions. NOTE: EXPEDITED EVALUATION IS NOT AVAILABLE FOR THE FOLLOWING CATEGORIES: PROSE SUBMISSIONS OF 1001-10,000 WORDS, DRAMA SUBMISSIONS, AND SCREEN PLAYS.

Payments to submitters:

Open: Journal of Arts & Letters is strongly committed to promoting our artists’ works and maintains a varied, sustained, and powerful social media program to serve that end. At present, Open: Journal of Arts & Letters offers no payment to contributors.

For more information and to submit, visit our website.

Call for Submissions: Exist Otherwise

Submission Guidelines

We publish poetry, personal essays, fiction, creative non-fiction, scripts, and photography (B&W only). We prefer work that is odd, experimental, genre-bending, and unconventional. All submissions must be original work. We accept previously published work.

Current Theme & Prompt

Payment: We pay $10 per published work. We know it’s not much, but as a brand-new journal funded out of pocket, it’s what we can afford. As we grow, we hope to be able to pay more.

Before you submit, make sure you have read About Us, which includes critical information about the kind of content we are looking for.
Theme & Prompt

Each issue of Exist Otherwise will have a theme and a prompt. The theme will be a quote from Claude Cahun, and the prompt will be a photograph, maybe from them, maybe not. Submissions that respond to a theme or prompt will be given some priority, but we will consider all submissions.

Sensitivity & Trigger Warnings

We don’t have an explicit formulation for the marking of sensitive content, or the use of trigger warnings. However, we seek to be receptive to potentially sensitive content, while at the same time being responsible to our contributors and readers. In the event that submitted work is deemed by us to be potentially triggering, we will enter into conversation with the contributor to determine if the use of a “sensitive content,” or “trigger warning” label is warranted for the work in question. We reserve the right to reject any work that we deem to be potentially harmful in the absence of such warning. 

Poetry

Any style. Maximum length is 500 words. Due to the limitations of html, poetry that requires special formatting may be submitted as docx, pdf, jpg, or png. Assistance with formatting is available after work has been accepted.

You may submit up to three (4) individual poems.

Personal Essays, Fiction & CNF

Maximum length is 1300 words. Emphasis on personal stories, whether autobiographical or not. Make sure you have read About Us.

You may submit only one (1) item in any of these three categories or if your work is a hybrid or defies categorization.

Theatre & Performance

Written works only. Stage plays, monologues, dialogues, or short films. We do not publish videos or animation (at this time). Maximum length is 1300 words. No special formatting is required.

You may submit only one (1) script.

B&W Photography

We’re looking for art that tells a story. Here are some hints about the kind of work we are looking for: personal, cultural, mythological
experimental, hybrid, surreal
casual, informal, home-made
defiant, confrontational, genre-busting
sensual, theatrical, performance-related
masking & identity
gender-non-conforming & non-binary
no porn, horror, or violence

We want work rooted in the self, in your self, your dreams, your challenges, your desires, your struggles. Erotica is fine, but nothing explicit. For inspiration, we have a page showing some of the artwork of our muses, Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore.

All images should be 72 dpi and JPG or PNG. (Artwork will be published as JPG.) Please submit art with a MINIMUM long side of 1024 pixels. File size should not exceed 2 MB for art and 5 MB for video. Assistance with sizing and formatting is available after work has been accepted.

About video: keep them short! Maximum length is one (1) minute. Standard format 480p-720p, any aspect ratio.

You may submit up to two (4) individual artworks (including animated GIFs) or one (1) video.
Caveats

Political content is fine as long as it’s part of a personal story. We are not seeking works that are purely political or ideological. See About Us.

No hate, racism, sexism, misogyny, transphobia, torture, gratuitous violence, or anything that aspires to cause harm. Let us know if you think we missed something on that list.

We appreciate horror as a genre, but it’s not what we’re looking for.

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions: MUTHA Magazine

We’re interested in reading nonfiction about all aspects of the journey to becoming a parent (or determining a different path). Trying to conceive, LGBTQ parenting, birth stories of all variety, experiencing loss, early days and later struggles, joy and tough times and hope and forgiveness, funny stuff and sexy stuff and stuff you didn’t think you could say out loud but just wrote it down. Politics and rants and sob stories and what you wish you had heard before you thought of it. Send it to us.

Write for MUTHA: 

muthamagazine@gmail.com 

We’re looking for essays and memoir/stories around 1,500 words, comics / graphic narratives / photo essays, and select interviews. Very occasionally we publish poetry and select reprint. Share your voice and story.

Note: we are volunteer-run, and the site is a labor-of-love for all concerned, so unfortunately no fees are available. Please ensure you have rights to reprint any art/photos submitted. Include an author bio and photo with your submission.

Read an interview with on the submissions process at MUTHA at Duotrope.

Ask questions at the email above if you want, we’re here! Or tweet @muthamagazine or @meglemke.

Call for Submissions: New York Quarterly Magazine

General Poetry Submissions

• We only publish poetry.

• We are open to submissions on a rolling basis year-round.

• Submit between 3 and 5 poems of any style or form in one document (.doc, .docx).

• Make sure that your poems have been proof-edited and appear exactly as you want. If accepted, poems are presented as is -- no revisions, no exceptions.

• We do not require a cover letter, but if you wish you may enter a brief bio of 75 words or less.

• Please note that should your work be accepted you will be asked to load and maintain your own profile photo and bio through our website: https://nyq.org/poets/

• Simultaneous submissions are encouraged, but please inform us of any acceptance elsewhere immediately. In order to withdraw only select poems from your packet, please send us a note on the message function of Submittable.

• Previously published poems will not be considered. We consider poems to have been previously published if they have been selected for publication by an edited venue. This includes new versions of a previously published poem.

• Please wait 6 months between submissions.

• We ask for first world serial rights, after which we retain the right to include it in an anthology, and the right to maintain it indefinitely on our website. All other rights return to the author upon publication.

• We only accept submissions through Duosuma. Unsolicited email submissions or submissions sent via the postal service will not be read.

• If you feel that you absolutely cannot afford the submission fee, please click here.

• Feel free to inquire about any submission response taking longer than 6 months; write to submissions@nyq.org

• Poems will appear online in one of our online issues of our choice. It will also appear in a printed annual issue, collecting all 4 issues for that year.

• There is a $3 submission fee.

• If you have poems previously accepted by NYQ, but not published or you may think they have not been published, please click HERE

To submit your work, go here.

Call for Submissions: Milk Candy Review

Please send us your beautifully weird, lyrical flash fiction pieces of up to 750 words.

Sorry, we don’t accept previously published pieces or poetry. We are happy about all the alliteration in that last sentence, though.

Submissions may be sent to:

milkcandyreview@gmail.com

Please attach submissions as a Word doc. or docx. file or paste into the body of the e-mail. Please do not send PDF files or Google docs. Feel free to include a short bio in the body of your e-mail. Submit only one story at a time.

You should receive a response within a week. If you do not, please query. 

If your story is accepted, please do not ask us to wait until you hear back from another journal. If you ask us to do that, we will rescind your acceptance.

If we have declined your submission, please wait three months before resubmitting.

Do not resubmit a previously declined piece unless we request you do so.

We ask for first-time publication rights. All other rights belong to the contributor.

Learn more about Milk Candy Review at our website.

Call for Submissions to Anthology: Queens in Wonderland

We’re opening the call for our newest anthology, Queens in Wonderland.

This is an LGBTQ+ Alice in Wonderland themed anthology, and we want want to see it all. Throw some of those iconic characters into space. Put them in an urban fantasy. We’d love to see a cyberpunk or decopunk (or any punk!) version. A classic Lewis Carroll version would be good too. Feel free to take any of the characters (don’t forget about the White Queen or the Dormouse) or use any of the world-building from the classic Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland or Through the Looking Glass and what Alice Found There you wish.

If you need more inspiration, consider these prompts:

It’s time for tea, but your main character’s running late

 

The Queen of Hearts has invited your character to a garden ball

The Mad Hatter is nowhere to be found

The White Knight is talking backwards and you need them to solve a mystery

Cheshire has appeared in an urban downtown, and is directing you down an alley

Requirements:

• 1,500-5,000 word count

• LGBTQ+

• Nothing with gratuitous violence, rape, or abuse of animals/children

• Cursing is fine, within reason

• Romance and sex is fine within reason, but no erotica

Submissions close on Aug 31st

Payment: We will be paying $20 USD dollars upon signing of the contract and you’ll receive an e-book once publication is complete. Paperback contributor copies at cost plus $2.00 will be available too.

How to submit:

Please format according to these standards

Double spaced, readable font, aligned to the left 

 

12 Font Times New Roman

Please don’t hit “tab”

Please don’t put two spaces between sentences

This article goes into other details that make a huge difference in the presentation of your story

lease edit your story closely and consider running it through an editing software like Grammerly or ProWritingAid

Please include a brief bio, including any writing credits

Please use this form to submit

If you’re truly struggling with the form above, let us know at:

 

nobbpress@gmail.com

Writing Competition for K-12 Teachers: Stories Out of School Flash Fiction Contest

We hold periodic contests that help us highlight the rich, challenging, and underappreciated world of the teachers. Judged by accomplished experts, these contests are open to everyone. Enter for a chance to win a cash prize!

“Stories Out of School” Flash Fiction Contest

Teachers have the most fascinating, difficult, and important job on the planet, and their workdays are filled with stories. Yet teachers seldom appear in fiction. This annual contest was created to inspire great stories about teachers and the rich and crazy world of schools.

2024 Contest

The judge for this year's contest is Pulitzer Prize finalist and MacArthur "genius" Karen Russell. The winning story will be published in A Public Space's print edition and the author will receive $1,000.

The submission deadline is September 1, 2023

Submission Criteria

• The story’s protagonist, or its narrator, must be a K-12 teacher.

• Stories must be between 6 and 749 words and previously unpublished.

• Sentimentality is discouraged and education jargon is forbidden.

• Only one submission per writer. No exceptions.

• You must be over 18.

• Any adult, whether a teacher or not, is eligible to submit.

The deadline to submit is: September 1, 2023

Enter here.

Call for Submissions: Pocket Guide

We actively seek diverse material for our themed issues. Maps, poems, prose of all kinds, photographs, sketches, and diagrams are welcome. Surprise us!

Upcoming theme: Pocket Guide to the End

We’re back after a lengthy hiatus, and looking for pieces about the end. End of a meal, end of a journey, end of life, end of ——? We’re excited to see graphics of any kind and read your thoughts, stories, advice, lists.

Submission deadline: August 30, 2023

General submission info

Writing should be less than 1500 words (we’re pocket-sized). Art can be of any format that shows up well in print. Send all material to:

thefoldy@gmail.com 

with Submission in the subject line. Attach text as .doc files and images as JPGs, GIFs, or PNGs (300 dpi or higher, please).

We accept previously published pieces if they are awesome, as well as simultaneous submissions. If your piece is accepted for another publication, please let us know immediately.

By submitting, you agree that — if we accept your work and you accept our acceptance — Pocket Guide can publish your work, with non-exclusive reprint rights. You also grant Pocket Guide the right to archive and showcase this work on our website. All other rights remain yours as the sole owner of the work. Pocket Guide is an almost exclusively hard-copy publication. Text or artwork may be published occasionally on this website for promotional purposes, with full credit to the authors/creators.

We are not able to pay contributors. You will, however, become small-time famous by getting your name in print. You will also receive five (5) free copies of Pocket Guide to distribute to admiring friends and family.

Call for Submissions: Culinary Origami

We publish works of all themes, however Culinary Origami will favor pieces that encompass 1) food and 2) the edition's theme. Submit all of your pieces as one document. Separate pieces should start on new pages with titles apparent. We accept .pdf .doc and .docx word documents. Make sure there is no identifying information in your work or else we will not consider your piece for publication. This will be strictly enforced. Plagiarism is not tolerated.

There is a limit of one submission per genre each cycle. If submitting to multiple genres, submit an individual form for each.

We accept previously published work, AND simultaneous submissions. Please notify us if a simultaneous submission is accepted elsewhere, and if you would still like your piece(s) to be considered. All submissions must be submitted through the submission form; we do not accept submissions via email.

Work that is not submitted according to our guidelines will be ineligible for publication. Add content warnings when applicable. Bigoted, racist, homophobic, ableist, etc. works will be rejected immediately.

If published in Culinary Origami first, you grant us First North American serial and electronic rights. All publication rights of a work revert back to the contributor. Any subsequent publications must acknowledge us, i.e. "First published in Culinary Origami Journal." We reserve the right to remove the work of any contributor from print or digital circulation without warning or notification if presented with sufficient cause.

Contact us at:

culinaryorigami@gmail.com 

or @culinaryorigami on Instagram with questions and inquiries.​

Happy writing :)

More information and submission link here.

Call for Submissions: The Gateway Review

The Gateway Review publishes surrealist, fabulist, and magic realist fiction and poetry, as well as nonfiction about the art of writing the same. We are particularly interested in work by LGBTQ+ writers, Black writers, other writers of color, and any writer from a historically marginalized, minoritized group.

The Gateway Review: A Journal of Magical Realism is currently OPEN for submissions in all categories!

The Gateway Review is published annually in December/January. We have two options for submissions, both of which will be open from July 15 through September 15.

Regular Submissions: For no fee, writers may submit one piece of fiction between 1,000 and 4,000 words; one poem of no more than 40 lines; or one piece of nonfiction of up to 1000 words. We usually respond to these submissions in November or December, after the close of our reading period.

Expedited Submissions: For a $3.00 fee, writers can submit any of the materials outlined in the Regular Submissions category and receive a response in thirty days or less.

We accept submissions through our Submittable site only; we do not accept email submissions, and any such submissions will be deleted unread.

Currently, we wish to feature writers new to our journal, so if your work has been published with us in the past, please refrain from the time being from submitting to us. This does not include writers whose work we have unfortunately had to pass on.

Contributors from the United States will receive one contributor copy of the issue in which their work appears. At this time, we will also offer one writer per issue an “Editor’s Choice” award of $15 (USD).

Due to funding restrictions, we can no longer offer contributor copies to international contributors (though we still happily consider work from around the world).

COVER ART

When submitting cover art, please submit only one piece per reading period.

More information and submission link here.

Call for Flash Nonfiction Submissions: The Palisades Review

Founded in the summer of 2022, The Palisades Review is an online literary magazine that celebrates short form nonfiction. Published quarterly, we feature compressed stories that reverberate and deepen our collective sense of self, stories that are charged within by the extraordinary capacity of language to create community from individuals. We believe that literature is vital to sustaining a vibrant culture and are dedicated to offering quality writing that enriches the lives of our readers. Tell us anything, so long as it’s true, in 1,000 words or less.

The Palisades Review is a literary magazine dedicated to sharing the lived experience of writers of all backgrounds. We encourage and actively solicit submissions from diverse voices, bodies, and identities. We believe that it is our responsibility as allies to publish and uplift writers and artists of all races, religions, statuses, ethnicities, cultures, sexualities, identities, and genders. To accomplish this, we solicit submissions from both established and emerging writers through diverse methods, thereby seeking the broadest array of experiences to offer our community. We aim to inspire writers and readers to discover how short form nonfiction can resonate today.

TPR is published quarterly in March, June, September, and December. OF THE MOMENT is an online feature of our magazine in which we publish writing about a timely matter. Be that matter the war in Ukraine, Multiple Sclerosis awareness week, or anything else you can think of as fitting, send us your writing. We want to read it.

To submit your work, visit our Submittable.

Call for Poetry Submissions: Gyroscope Review

All submissions to Gyroscope Review must be made via our submissions manager, Submittable. We do not accept submissions via post or email.

Our response time is between 1 – 3 months. Please submit no more than four (4) poems, all in the same document with page breaks between poems. If there are more than 4 poems, we will not read past the 4th onemaking the next poems feel bad. Once you have submitted, please do not submit again within the same reading period. Multiple submissions will be rejected after the first one.

Fall Crone Power issue: July 1 – September 1

NOTE: All reading periods are subject to closing early if we receive enough outstanding work to fill the upcoming issue. Please follow the instructions on the submissions form in Submittable.
Submit no more than 4 poems. There are no length restrictions on individual poems. Make sure each poem is on its own page. Use page breaks in between poems.
Formats we accept: .doc, .docx, .rtf.

No title underlines, lines separating poems, weird formatting, or non-standard fonts and settings. Please. We beg of you.

Headers and footers are not necessary.

Please use 12 pt Times New Roman, Garamond, or Arial type and 1″ margins.
No pictures or artwork in submissions. All artwork is arranged through the editors.

Note: If all your poem lines start with capital letters and you don’t want them to, here’s how to correct that in Microsoft Word. Word Tips.)

WE DO NOT ACCEPT PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED MATERIAL. This includes publications in print, on the Internet including on Facebook, poetry sites, and personal blogs. Poetry workshopped behind password protected sites is okay.

We do not accept translations at this time unless the translation is the poet’s own work and both English and translation are sent.

Please do not submit if you are not open to being edited. We will work with you on edits.

No racist, or any other -ist, derogatory, anti-LGBTQIA+, or pornographic material. This is determined by the judgment of the editors. By all means, push the envelope, but do so in a tasteful manner.

By submitting you attest that the work is your own. Anonymous submissions are not allowed; pen names are acceptable.

Simultaneous submissions are allowed, but we ask that you consider our acceptance of your poem(s) as a commitment to be published by Gyroscope Review, and the poem(s) will not be withdrawn after acceptance to go to another publication. That would make us sad. And irritated. If a submission is accepted elsewhere please notify us immediately through Submittable. We’ll be happy for you, we promise! See our FAQ on how to withdraw single poems or the whole submission.

Gyroscope Review submits poems to the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net as well as other awards.

Gyroscope Review is open to poetry in all genres, including science-fiction, fantasy, and horror. Rhyming poetry is a hard sell unless extremely well done. We are open to traditional forms, but again, they must be well done. Poems about writing poems are generally a pass unless it brings something new to the table. We publish quarterly. Note – Gyroscope Review is not a paying market. We don’t offer contributor’s copies at this time, but we do offer a free PDF of the issue to read online. Print editions are available on Amazon and through Book Depository and Biblio.

Writing Competition: Prairie Schooner

 Deadline: Aug. 1, 2023

 Our annual summer nonfiction contest opens May 15th to all types of creative nonfiction essays up to 5,000 words.

The winner will receive $1,000 and publication in our Spring 2024 issue.

This year's guest judge is Siddhartha Deb.

Born in Shillong, north-eastern India, Siddhartha Deb lives in Harlem, New York. His fiction and nonfiction have been longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award, shortlisted for the Orwell Prize, and been awarded the Pen Open prize. His journalism and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, The New Republic, Dissent, The Baffler, N+1, and Caravan.

Entries will consist of three parts: a cover letter, the essay manuscript, and the entry fee.

Cover Letter: In the cover letter, include the submission's title and your contact information, including e-mail address, phone number, and mailing address. Your name and contact info must not appear anywhere within the manuscript itself (double-check headers and footers!).

Essay Manuscript: The contest is open to all types of creative nonfiction essays up to 5,000 words. We're interested in reading imaginative essays of general interest. (Scholarly articles requiring footnote references should be submitted to journals of literary scholarship.) Manuscripts should be double-spaced and use a standard font, and, again, the submitter's name and contact info should not appear within the manuscript itself.

Entry Fee: Each submission must be accompanied by the $20.00 fee, which includes a copy of the Spring 2024 issue of the Schooner, in which the winning essay will appear.

Multiple submissions are welcome and encouraged, but a separate entry fee must accompany each submission.

This contest is administered anonymously. Editorial Assistants, Assistant Nonfiction Editors, the Guest Judge, and the Editor in Chief of the Schooner are not privy to submitters' identifying information.

If you have a problem with your submission, please write to Managing Editor Siwar Masannat at:

prairieschooner@unl.edu

Submit your entry here.

Call for Submissions: After Happy Hour Review

GENERAL GUIDELINES

To limit editor and reader bias, we read all submissions blind. To this end, we ask submitters to remove their name and contact information from the document itself.

We are not opposed to sex, violence, or profanity when they are necessary to the story—we’re fans of all three, in fact. Having said that, we will not accept any work that contains hateful or discriminatory content, including racism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia. Gratuitous sex and violence will probably get you rejected, too.

Use standard manuscript format (12-point Serif font, standard margins and spacing). It’s not like we’ll reject you for a bad font (probably) but it makes it easier to read, and that makes us happy. The exception is poetry that uses non-standard formatting for stylistic reasons. Prose writers have no excuse.

We accept submissions only through Submittable. Submissions sent to our e-mail will be deleted unread.

We accept and encourage simultaneous submissions. All we ask is that you be a good literary citizen and withdraw your submission through Submittable if it’s accepted elsewhere (if you’re withdrawing part of a submission, you can send us an e-mail). It is also expected that you’ll withdraw your submission from consideration by other journals if After Happy Hour accepts it.

Please send only one submission per category at a time. We’ll happily consider submissions in multiple categories from the same author (e.g. a poem and a story).

If you work in mixed genres (hybrid poetry/fiction, illustrated stories, etc.) submit the work in the category that seems to fit the best, and we'll figure it out.

We do not accept translations, or scholarly essays.

Our response time is generally less than 6 weeks, but we are humans (mostly) and have been known to fall behind. If you haven’t heard from us in 3 months or more, you can send an e-mail and give us a nudge. You can also check on the status of your submission at any time by logging into your Submittable account.

Accepted submissions may be edited for grammar. All changes are sent to the author for approval before publication.

We acquire first publishing rights and electronic archive rights. All rights revert to the author following the work's publication in After Happy Hour you can re-publish and anthologize your work at will. 

Content can be removed from the website on request, but cannot be removed from the the issue in which it was published. 

Payment: Small honorarium

More information and submission link here.

Call for Submissions to Anthology: African Literary Arts: One Contemporaneous Anthology Celebrating the Global Diaspora

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.

Deadline: Aug. 15, 2023

Payment: Minimum of $50 plus contributor's copies

More information and submission link here. 

Call for Submissions: The Commuter

The Commuter Prose, Poetry, and Graphic Narrative Submissions — OPEN July 17 to July 23, or until the submission of 375 is met for prose and poetry (no cap for graphic narrative)

Members of Electric Literature can submit year-round. Join today!

The Commuter is our home for poetry, flash, graphic, and experimental narratives. It publishes weekly on Monday morning, and has showcased the likes of Caroline Hadilaksono, Aleksandar Hemon, Jonathan Lethem, Lindsay Hunter, Tahirah Alexander Green, and Julia Wertz.

Please keep the following guidelines in mind:

• For Prose, submit one or more pieces, either standalone or connected, in a single document. The total word count should not exceed 1500 words. We encourage writers to push the boundaries of what is considered fiction.

• For Poetry, submit 4–6 poems in a single document, and please limit the page count to 8. Keep in mind that due to our digital platform, not all poems may render exactly as they appear in a PDF.

• For Graphic Narrative, we are interested in both traditional and non-traditional forms of visual storytelling. Submit up to 3 pieces of narrative illustration, comics, mixed media narrative, or genre-negative oddments. For comics, each piece should contain a minimum of 3 panels. The total page count of your submission should not exceed 20 pages.

• Please submit all genres in .doc, .docx, or PDF.

• Please submit only once per category.

• Work previously published in any form cannot be considered.

• Please include your email address.

• If your work is selected, we offer a total payment of $100.

• Writers with a submission pending with Recommended Reading may still submit to The Commuter.

All submissions will be accepted through our Submittable page. For a sense of the kind of work we publish, check out recent issues of The Commuter, our 280-character contest winners, and Recommended Reading’s 300th issue.

For candid advice from our editors on how to make your poems, flash, graphic, and experimental narratives stand out, watch our video "How to Get Published in The Commuter."

Call for Submissions: Paterson Literary Review

Submissions are accepted from June 1 to September for the next issue to be published in late spring of the following year.

We do not accept online submissions.

The following types of work will be considered:

Poems: each under 2 pages, high quality, any style;

Art: black & white, line drawings, woodcuts, lithographs 8 ½" x 11" or smaller;

Photographs: 8 ½ x 11", black & white glossies;

Short stories: under 1,500 words, high quality, no formula stories.

Memoir: no more than two pieces; two pages maximum.

Book Reviews: up to 1000 words

If your work is accepted for publication, you will be notified by e-mail (please provide) and asked for a biographical statement under 50 words. (If you do not have an e-mail, send a SASE, so that we can notify you.)

A copy of PLR is sent to each contributor to that issue.

PLR is printed and distributed annually in the spring. You may purchase the latest issue and select back issues.

Please do not send more than five poems, one story, or a memoir.

We do not return poems or stories.

Include a cover page, contact information, and your email on each poem in the upper right-hand corner.

Simultaneous submissions are considered, but please notify us immediately if another publication accepts your poem.

SEND SUBMISSIONS TO:

Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Editor
The Paterson Literary Review
Passaic County Community College
One College Blvd.
Paterson, NJ 07505-1179

Call for Submissions: The Writing Disorder

We are currently accepting submissions for our FALL & WINTER 2023 issues — and beyond.

CURRENT NEEDS:

Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Art, Reviews, Interviews, Comic Art and Experimental work.
We would like to see more poetry, long fiction, nonfiction, artwork, and interviews.

The Writing Disorder Staff:
Editors: C.E. Lukather and Paul Garson
Poetry Editor: Juliana Woodhead
Contributing Editor: Pamela Ramos Langley
Contributing Editor: Sarah Sarai

FICTION & NONFICTION:
We have no specific guidelines regarding subject matter. Please send us your best work, whether it’s traditional, experimental or something else altogether. We enjoy reading all kinds of work. And, as always, there is No Limit on word count. —C.E. Lukather, Editor

POETRY:
A new season, a new issue, a new crop of poetry. As your poetry editor it is my pleasure to offer this harvest. This harvest which is impossible without you. Impossible without your careful crafting, grafting, sowing of words. Without your words nestled like seeds on the paper, peas on a page. So send us your free verse, your experimental, your form. Send us the flowers, the fruit, and the hay. —Juliana Woodhead, Poetry Editor

ARTWORK:
We showcase artists and photographers as well. Features typically include 10-15 images (minimum 1200 pixels wide, 100 ppi, RGB, jpeg files) Include artist statement, bio, links to work, list of shows, and titles of art. We can also include video or audio clips.

MANUSCRIPTS:
We are currently accepting complete manuscripts of fiction, poetry and nonfiction for publication. For more information, please contact us at:  

info@thewritingdisorder.com 

The Writing Disorder accepts Microsoft Word document (storytitle.doc or .docx) submissions by email. However, we can’t promise that it’s going to look exactly the way you had it (we are Mac users). Please attach it to your email.

NOTE: Please include your last name in the title of your Word document.
Send your fiction, nonfiction and artwork to: 

submit@thewritingdisorder.com

 Send your poetry to:  

poetry@thewritingdisorder.com

Deadline:

Our reading period is all year long. Submit your work at any time during this period; if a manuscript is not timely for one issue, it may be considered for another.

More information here.

Call for Submissions: Consequence

 

All submissions are welcome during the spring (January 15 - April 15) and fall (July 15 - October 15) reading periods, and will be considered for either our print publication (Consequence journal) or our website (Consequence online).

All submissions need to address in some manner the human consequences and realities of war or geopolitical violence.

Print Poetry: $20 per piece
Print Prose: (1-4 pps) $30 | (5-10 pps) $40 | (11+ pps) $50
Print Art: $150 for an eight-page spread (# of pieces in spread can vary)
Online Prose: $60
Online Poetry: $40
Online Art: $40
*(NOTE: We will be on hiatus with reviews until early 2024) 

Fiction: Short story (up to 5,000 words), Flash (up to 3 pieces or 1,000 words), and Excerpts (up to 5,000 words)
Nonfiction: Interviews, Essays, and Narrative Nonfiction (all up to 4,000 words)
Poetry: Up to three poems of any form
Visual Art: Artwork, Graphic Narratives, Video Essays, and Photo Essays
Translations: All of the forms listed on our website

We believe firmly in championing the work of our contributors, so we submit to the Pushcart Prizes, the Best of the Net anthology, the Firecracker awards, and Deep Vellum’s The Best Literary Translations anthology, among others.

More information and submission link here. 

Writing Competition: 1729 Book Prize in Poetry

The 1729 Book Prize in Poetry

The 1729 Book Prize in Poetry is a new award offered by Mason Jar Press with support from The Ivy Bookshop. Mason Jar is a Baltimore-based, nationally- and internationally-focused independent press of accessible, experimental fiction. The Prize seeks challenging, engaging works of fiction and nonfiction, utilizing a patron-based economic model—funded by the Ivy Bookshopt—that is free to all. The Ivy is always eager to celebrate and support Baltimore's vibrant book culture, and is excited to collaborate with a press that is local in its base, national in its reach, and expansive in its sensibility.

Submission Guidelines:

CALL
We open for prize submissions in April! Send us your book-length works of poetry from April 15, 2023 until midnight July 31, 2023. We tend to lean toward semi-experimental works with a strong literary bent. Hybrid works are welcome. 50–75 pages/poems is probably the sweet spot, but a little under or over is fine!

Again, we tend to prefer work that pushes the bounds of literary norms, but that isn’t to say we only like that. We welcome surprise. Try us (but only try us with book-length poetry). We’ll read it, and if we love it, we’ll publish it. One chosen manuscript will be published in 2024.

Submission cap: 500

WHAT WE WANT
Collections of poetry

Hybrid collections that are primarily poetry

Translations of poetry (with written permission from original author)

Poetry collections

Experimental book-length works of poetry

WHAT WE DON'T WANT
Novels

Novellas

Story collections

Chapbooks

Memoirs

Auto/Biographies

Essay collections

If you have something that you are unsure of, ask us before submitting.

More information and submission link here.

Residency: Grand Canyon Conservancy's Artist-in-Residence

Breathtaking from the moment you first cast eyes on it, Grand Canyon is just that–Grand. The natural and cultural significance of Grand Canyon makes it one of the Natural Wonders of the World and a UNESCO World Heritage site. It is a sacred place of serenity and reflection that invites exploration and adventure, instilling both gratitude and humility. Grand Canyon is a cultural touchstone for those who came before and those who have yet to come. 

Grand Canyon Conservancy's Artist-in-Residence program supports contemporary solo artists who wish to contribute to the cultural and aesthetic legacy of Grand Canyon. The Artist-in-Residence program is directly tied to the National Park Service's priority of expanding equity and inclusion through storytelling and the Grand Canyon Conservancy's mission "to inspire generations of park champions and to cherish and support the natural and cultural wonder of Grand Canyon." We define "storytelling" as the aesthetic or conceptual interpretation of a site through any artistic medium.

Solo contemporary artists exploring concepts of conservation, cultural identity, or community through any discipline are encouraged to apply. We prioritize artists whose work and outreach programs best fit the park's Interpretation and Education goals of telling stories that have been excluded, hidden, unknown, untold, or under-emphasized. Applications should show continuity between your previous practice and proposed work on-site.

The residency embraces an artist-focused, open-ended model that prioritizes on-site research and exploration to create exciting new work and deepen relationships between the public and Grand Canyon. The residency is highly immersive, and while community outreach is important, artists are free to work independently and spend time on-site as they wish. Working on-site requires a resourceful, adventurous, and flexible attitude and can bring many first-time challenges. We wish to provide a life-changing opportunity for our artists and look forward to the artistic output that is generated as a result.

Selected artists live and work at the Grand Canyon South Rim in Arizona for up to eight weeks in a private one-bedroom apartment above the historic Verkamp's Visitor Center overlooking the Canyon. In addition to free live/work space, a weekly stipend of approximately $400 is offered to offset the costs of travel, food, and supplies. Residents will have first-hand access to the natural beauty of Grand Canyon National Park, park leadership, staff expertise, on-site resources, archives, and visitors from around the world. Each artist is asked to provide at least two public programs lasting a minimum of 45 minutes each during their stay. These can be experiential workshops, presentations, or interactive art projects that connect people with the Grand Canyon, its land, skies, and/or community.

 Please note that the live/workspace has quiet hours from approximately 8 am to 7 pm daily. Sound and movement are limited as a result. Other spaces may be provided for rehearsals when available.

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS: 

• Brief Bio (up to 200 words)

• Cover Letter (optional)

• Artist Statement

• Work Samples: up to 10 images, pages, and/or minutes of media that show the depth and breadth of your current creative practice with titles, dates, medium, and descriptions.

• Press / Media Coverage (optional)

• Responses to the following questions:Why Grand Canyon National Park? (up to 100 words)

• How do you anticipate spending your time while on-site? (up to 200 words)

• How might your work connect people emotionally and intellectually to Grand Canyon? (up to 500 words)

• Briefly describe two different public programs you'd like to facilitate, including a title and a short 1-2 sentence marketing description for each. Please specify what audience you have in mind (visitors, staff, residents, youth) and what kind of location would be ideal. Limited staff assistance and equipment are available for public programs.

APPLICATION FEE

The application fee is $45.

Five no-fee hardship grants will be awarded to those who exhibit the need on a first-come-first-served basis. Please send an email briefly explaining why you require a hardship grant to the Residency Program Manager, Clover Morell, at cmorell@grandcanyon.org.

American Indigenous artists with recognized tribal affiliations may apply for free. Please send your name and tribal affiliation to:

cmorell@grandcanyon.org 

in advance of completing an application to receive a coupon.

DECISIONS

• Artists are reviewed by a panel of peer professionals. They rate each application based on the following criteria: Gives visibility and voice to the environment and/or communities of the Grand Canyon

• Focuses on narrative or conceptual perspectives that have otherwise been excluded, hidden, unknown, untold, or under-emphasized

• Exhibits concepts beyond realistic visual representations of the land and/or sky

• Shows technical skill and knowledge of the chosen medium

• Shows demonstrated commitment to creative practice. (i.e., strong body of work, exhibition history, education, gallery representation, professional affiliations, and/or 5+ years of practice)

• Strong, clear public program ideas

• Inclusive, accessible, family-friendly, and environmentally conscious work

• Resonates emotionally and intellectually with the viewer and/or participant

• Proposed on-site work is clearly aligned with previous work

We are especially interested in artists from under-represented backgrounds with recent work samples and experience working with the public. Final decisions are made with an effort to represent a diversity of artists from varying backgrounds and disciplines.

Three residencies are available in 2024. Applicants will be notified of decisions by September 15, 2023.

PLEASE NOTE: Artists offered a residency in 2024 may not defer to another year.

For any questions, please contact Clover Morell, Residency Program Manager, at:

cmorell@grandcanyon.org 

or 928-638-7154 (calls only, no texts).

Eligibility Criteria

Any artist over 18 is welcome to apply.

Deadline: July 31, 2023

Apply here. 

Writing Competition: Philip Levine Prize for Poetry

Guidelines: 2023 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry

Submission Period July 1, 2023 – September 30, 2023

 Final Judge Douglas Kearney

Award $2,000 cash award; publication by Anhinga Press; 25 author copies of the published book; and a public reading at California State University, Fresno

 Please read the complete guidelines before submitting your manuscript.

Eligibility

• The Philip Levine Prize for Poetry seeks previously unpublished, full-length poetry manuscripts and is open to any poet writing in English. Individual poems in a contest manuscript may have been previously published in magazines, journals, anthologies, or chapbooks, but the work as a whole must be unpublished.

• Translations are ineligible for this prize, as well as previously self-published books.

• Current and former faculty and students of California State University, Fresno are ineligible.

• Close friends and family members of the final judge are also ineligible.

Manuscript Requirements

• Before submitting, please carefully review the guidelines below to ensure that your manuscript is correctly formatted. Double-check your work. Address any errors or mistakes before you submit your manuscript. We will not be able to assist in addressing or fixing errors that occur as a result of failure to review the guidelines. If you make a mistake, you are welcome to make a new submission and withdraw your old submission through Submittable, though you will be charged another $25 entry fee. At this time, we are unable to provide refunds. Please carefully review your manuscript before you submit it. Include a table of contents and number your pages.

• Manuscript should be 48-80 pages in length (not including title page, table of contents, etc.). Each poem should start on a new page.

• If needed, you may attach a ‘Notes’ page.

• Please do NOT include the following in your manuscript document: a cover letter; a dedication or thank-you page; an acknowledgements page; any biographical notes; your name or any identifying information.

• Within the document, please include a single title page with only the title of the manuscript so that your entry remains anonymous.

• Do NOT include your name or personal information in the file name or in the title of the manuscript.

• Simultaneous submissions to other publishers or contests are permitted as long as you notify Levine Prize staff promptly if your manuscript is accepted elsewhere

Deadline

All entries must be certified by Submittable (online) by September 30, 2023.

• We are no longer accepting hardcopy manuscripts.

• Entry Fee: An entry fee of $25 (U.S.) must accompany each online submission.

• Multiple submissions are accepted so long as a separate entry fee accompanies each submission.

• A limited number of fee waivers to cover the $25 submission fee may be made available on a case-by-case basis. For more information, please email the contest coordinator, Mai Der Vang: 

maidervang@mail.fresnostate.edu

(please wait until July 1, 2023 to send your fee waiver email inquiry).

Submit Your Manuscript

• Be sure that your document is complete and formatted correctly before uploading.

• Reminder: Do NOT include contact information in the body of your manuscript, in the file name, or in the title of the manuscript.

• Include a title page with manuscript title only and enter your contact information separately into Submittable so that the manuscript remains anonymous.

Submit your manuscript here.

Writing Competition: Indiana Review 2023 1/2K Prize

2023 1/2 K Prize

We are excited to announce this year’s final judge is Jasmine Sawers. We will announce one $1000 winner. All finalists will be considered for publication. Submissions will open on July 1.

Deadline: August 15, 2023

To Submit

Remember to send up to three pieces. Any genre for this contest! Each piece should be 500 words or fewer and in a single document (.doc, .docx. or .pdf).

Entrant’s name must not appear on the submission.

A cover letter is not required but can be included if you so choose.

Each $20 fee gets you a year-long subscription of the journal. International addressees, please add $6 for postage ($3 for addresses in Canada).

We're offering free entries for Black or Indigenous writers.

Keep in Mind:

IR doesn't accept mailed or emailed submissions.

All entries are considered anonymously.

Previously published works and works forthcoming elsewhere cannot be considered.

Simultaneous submissions are okay, but the entry fee is non-refundable if the submitted work is accepted elsewhere or withdrawn for another reason.

Multiple entries are okay, as long as a separate reading fee is included with each entry.

Finally, IR cannot consider work from anyone currently or recently affiliated with Indiana University or the prize judges. This includes people who have studied or taught at IU in the past four years.

Thank you. We look forward to reading your work!

Submit your entry here.

Call for Submissions: Taco Bell Quarterly

Is this a joke?
No! This a real literary magazine for you to submit your literary Taco Bell writing. Like The Paris Review. Granta. Ploughshares. Taco Bell Quarterly.

It still sounds like you’re joking, but okay. What are the guidelines?
Taco Bell Quarterly seeks literary/creative essays, short stories, fiction/prose, poems, comics, art, one act plays, fever dreams, multimedia, stupid status updates, criticisms, manifestos, recipes and anything else that explore any and all elements of Taco Bell. Or not. Shoehorn a chalupa in your short story. Maybe we’ll love it. An elegy for the discontinued menu items? Fine. An experimental essay about marine biology and the XXL Grilled Stuft Burrito? Awesome. Review the new Beefy Fritos Burrito and how it reminds you of the time your grandma died? We want it. Something that introduces us to inventive form, dynamic language, and strong voice. Or perhaps it does none of the above. We’re not judgey and pretentious. We’re the Taco Bell fucking Quarterly. We lean towards pieces that are queer and center their pain/joy in a Taco Bell.

Are you affiliated, sponsored by, connected to, or BFF with Taco Bell?
No. But like all corporations, they are very aware of things that steal their intellectual branding. One time I asked them for a million dollars for literature in a zoom. They laughed politely and continue not to sue me.

Is this going to be quarterly?
It comes out when we feel like it.

What’s the word count guideline?
Write what it takes to tell your story. But seriously, people’s attention spans are like 500-1500 words.

Where do I submit?
Submit Here

Can I sim sub? Are there rules? Where will this be published?
Sim sub you beautiful Literary Writer. Beautiful Literary Writers retain all rights to their piece with the one time rights to publish the piece on the website.

Are you a paying market?
Yes, we can offer a $100 honorarium per acceptance. 

Average length: 500-1500 words

Deadline: July 31, 2023

Can I win prizes and prestige?
Probably. One of our pieces was a finalist for the 2020 Best of the Net Anthology by Sundress Publications. Johns Hopkins University won a Golden Circle of Excellence Award for writing an article about us and they were really freaking pumped about it.

Is this an astroturfed literary psy-op or what? Where are you getting money?
TBQ is funded by social media hustling, side gigs, merch sales, donations, and a personal gamble that it might be worth it one day. 100% of donations are paid to writers for their work. TBQ was built on the labor of writers, poets, artists, and strangers who just wanted to help because they thought it was cool.

Can I volunteer? Yes, we would love readers for TBQ6. Don’t be scared, hit me up. Introduce yourself. I like meeting new writers. Email:

tacobellquarterly@gmail.com.

Can I donate? Please! Until a lonely billionaire who used to dream of being a poet leaves me an inheritance, we are funded by donations, merch sales, and my day job. 100% of donations are paid to writers for their work. Skip the form and contact me directly if you’re a lonely billionaire. Venmo is @ParisReview.

Call for Submissions to Anthology: Artisans of the Soul: An Anthology of Teacher Appreciation

Everyone talks about how courageous it is to be a teacher and how they touch lives, and yet we can never seem to adequately capture the heart of a teacher through short conversations in passing. For that reason, Energy Threads would like to present the heart of teachers around the world through this collection of talented voices. We are looking for pieces that specifically highlight the strength, courage, and commitment of teachers to their students. Pieces must be from the perspective of the teacher so that you can fully highlight the heart and soul of the teacher or mentor you are writing about.

Genres are limited to general fiction, realism, magical realism, creative nonfiction, fantasy, and literary. 

Stories should be submitted via Energy Threads online portal as a Word document in 12-point font, Times New Roman, double spaced. Stories of fiction or creative nonfiction must be at least 2,500 words minimum and no more than 7,500 words in length. A small select amount of poetry, drabbles, and flash pieces will be considered if it meets the theme and is strong enough to stand with the rest of the selected pieces.  

Submissions can be sent starting the 9th of May of 2023 with a deadline of 31st of July of 2023. If we find all the pieces we are looking for before the end date, we will close submissions early. Authors are allowed to include a one to two sentence dedication to a favorite teacher at the start of their stories which will be included with their piece if accepted. The dedications will not be considered as part of your word count.

Please include a short author bio of no more than 100 words.

Reprints considered. 

Accepted authors will be compensated $25 for their short stories, $10 for flash fiction, and $5 for poems or drabbles. 

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions: Good River Review

Questions? Email us at:

goodriverreview@spalding.edu 

Prose writers should submit one story, one longer-form essay, memoir, or immersive journalism (no more than 5000 words typically), or two shorter stories or essays (less than 2000 words).

Lyric writers should submit up to five poems or micro pieces, no more than ten pages.

Dramatic writers may submit scripts for 10-minute stage plays or short films, including TV. We will also consider publishing video of produced scripts.

Those writing for children and young adults may submit work in any of our categories: prose, lyric, drama. See guidelines in each area for specifics on length and content.

We welcome queries to review new books (no more than 2 years since publication) of fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, hybrid and cross-genre forms, and writing for children and young adults. For queries, formatting requirements and a list of titles available for review, contact Book Reviews Editor Lynnell Edwards:  

ledwards02@spalding.edu 

We are particularly interested in reviews of work that speaks to the current urgencies of race, class, gender, and the environment, as well as titles from independent and university presses. Reviewers should disclose (and preferably not have) conflicts of interests with the author or publisher, including reviewing works released by one’s own press or reviewing the work of a former or current student, mentor, friend, or colleague. Review essays of single (or occasionally multiple) titles should be 1000-1200 words. Capsule review essays of books of the same genre sharing a common element or theme feature three capsule reviews of 200-300 words each, preceded by a brief introduction.

Call for Submissions: The Barcelona Review

The Barcelona Review is presently accepting submissions for previously unpublished short fiction, articles and essays. We do not accept poetry submissions. If you have any further questions after reading the following, please let us know.

Short Fiction: Word length: 5,500 words max.
Only previously unpublished work (print or online) accepted for reading.
Submit one story at a time for consideration to the editor. Do not send a second piece until you have received a response to the first.
Simultaneous submissions are fine but please let us know immediately if accepted elsewhere.

To submit by e-mail:
Send as a Word document and as an attached file. Please convert other formats to .doc or .docx
Use New Times Roman font, if available. Single space.
Do not send a ‘reader’ document, i.e .pdf or HTML.
Do not send the story in the body of the e-mail.
Please write "Submission" in the Subject Box and your name - or the name the story will be published under. For example: "Submission / Jane Doe." Do not put the title in the subject box as a word may unwittingly be a keyword that triggers the spam filter to automatically discard the file.

To submit by post: Hard copies are accepted but cannot be returned (see address below). For those living outside Spain, include an international stamp coupon with a self-addressed envelope or an e-mail address to which we can respond. Double space ms.

TBR is open to all genres and to a variety of styles and techniques. We’re after original, potent and powerful writing with a contemporary feel that is literarily sound; writing marked by a strong sense of imaginative distinction. (We do not publish tales, fables or re-worked fairy tales; nor are we after vignettes.) A familiarity with some of the review's fiction (see TBR archives) should provide a good indication of the type of literature we are looking for. We expect writers to have read a minimum of 2-3 stories before submitting work (see TBR Archives). Novel extracts will not be considered unless they are entirely self-contained pieces.

All submissions are read by the editor or a staff reader. Reply time takes eight weeks.

Articles/Essays:

Material should be related in some way to the world of books and writing; creative non-fiction (e.g., personal essays) that fits with the review is welcome. Literary criticism and academic pieces are not what we're after. Word length: preferably under 3,000 words. Submit following the ‘short fiction’ criteria above.

Please Note: We cannot offer money to contributors, but in lieu of pay we can sometimes offer an excellent Spanish translation (worth quite a bit of money in itself). Work is showcased along with two or more known authors in a high quality literary review with an international readership. Author retains all rights although for the Internet only we ask for exclusive rights for the time period agreed upon.

Send submissions and queries to:

Jill Adams

E-mail editor @ barcelonareview.com  

We often have spam problems with above email. To communicate, but NOT SEND content, please use our FORM Email

Address: C/ Correu Vell 12 - 2°
08002 Barcelona,
Spain

Call for Poetry Submissions: The Shore

The Shore is an online poetry publication seeking cutting, strange, and daring work from new and established poets alike. We want poems that explore the worlds of things and ideas, that recognize the liminality, the shifting of everything around us and our ability to name a thing whole. We want poems that press and push and ache and recede. Send us your best. We publish 4 times a year, once each season.

Our reading period is currently: OPEN

Submissions for ISSUE NINETEEN: AUTUMN 2023 will close September 1.

Submission Guidelines:

To submit, email 3-5 poems in a single document in .doc or .docx format to:

theshorepoetry@gmail.com

with the subject line: “Last Name_First Name THE SHORE submission” with a cover letter and third-person bio included in the body of the email. Any submissions that do not follow these guidelines will be discarded.

We accept simultaneous submissions as long as you notify us if the piece is accepted elsewhere, but we do not accept reprints. Upon acceptance, please withdraw your poems from other consideration. We ask that you please only submit once per reading period. We also ask that former contributors please wait a year from their date of publication to submit again.

Our Submission Periods are:
January 1 through March 1
April 1 through June 1
July 1 through September 1
October 1 through December 1

Call for Submissions: The Palisades Review

The Palisades Review publishes short form narrative non-fiction capped at 1,000 words.

Only one piece of previously unpublished work may be submitted at a time.

Simultaneous submissions are acceptable, but please notify us immediately if the work is accepted for publication elsewhere.

TPR is published quarterly in March, June, September, and December

If TPR publishes your work, we ask for 1st serial rights and acknowledgement if the work later appears elsewhere. We also ask to retain the option to include the work in a future print anthology. Authors retain copyright.

Please include a bio of 75 words or less with your submission.

We strive to respond to all submissions within three months. Please wait for a response before submitting again.

More information and submission link here.

Call for Submissions: Fairy Tale Review

Founding Editor Kate Bernheimer will edit the twentieth annual issue of Fairy Tale Review. Vol. 20 will not have a theme. We are looking for your best new work. Please familiarize yourself with the contents of our print issues. Submissions will be accepted March 8, 2023 – July 15, 2023.

We ask that all submissions adhere to the following general guidelines:

All work must be submitted using our Submittable portal. We do not accept submissions via email or postal service.

Submissions must be previously unpublished, both in print and online. Submissions must be previously unpublished, both in print and online; work submitted that is part of a forthcoming book such as a story collection is eligible for consideration as long as the book in which it will appear has a publication date later than March 1, 2024.

Writers should submit only once in a given genre per submission period, unless encouraged to submit again by our editorial staff. Multiple submissions will go unread.

Simultaneous submissions are welcome. Please note as such in your cover letter and withdraw the submission immediately if accepted elsewhere. Withdrawals can be done through Submittable. If you’ve submitted a packet of poems and must withdraw one but would like the rest to remain under consideration, please add a note to your submission in Submittable.

We welcome submissions directly from authors, agents, and book publishers; and we welcome book manuscripts under contract and with publication dates after March 1, 2024 from which we might select contents for first serial rights publication (whether poems, stories, essays, graphic novel, etc). Please email us with information and details if you are representing a forthcoming book you would like to offer us first serial rights that you hold or represent for that book.

We welcome multi-lingual work. For works that are not primarily in English, please include a translation of the non-English portion(s) if that will, in your view, support its accessibility for our editorial staff.

Specific genre guidelines can be found below:

For prose: Writers may submit a single prose piece up to 6,000 words or up to three prose pieces under 1,000 words each (combined in a single Word Doc). We welcome short fiction, essays, lyric nonfiction, and creative scholarship. Scholarship will go through a standard peer review process.

For poetry: Writers may submit up to four poems totaling no more than ten pages.

For graphic novels, comics, and drama: Writers may submit up to ten pages.

For original artwork: Artists may submit up to five high-resolution images.

For translations (to English): Writers may submit translations of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Submissions in translation should follow the above guidelines corresponding to the genre of the original work. Submissions in translation should include the translated work in its source language, along with documentation of any permissions necessary to publish the work in both languages (original and English) combined in a single document.

For dialogues: If you wish to propose a dialogue between yourself and another scholar or author (or someone working in another discipline whose work centers fairy tales), please submit a short letter of inquiry contextualizing the proposed dialogue, including current bios for both participants, and email us directly at:

ftreditorial@gmail.com

Volume 20 of Fairy Tale Review will be published in February 2024. Contributors will receive two (2) copies of the issue and a $50 honorarium upon publication. A standard contract between the contributor and Fairy Tale Review will be executed upon acceptance.

Our editorial staff is small and entirely volunteer-based. We hope to respond to all submissions within 4 months.

Fairy Tale Review is published by the Journals Division of Wayne State University Press, Detroit, MI, and is proud to be part of their Series in Fairy Tale Studies.

Since its inception, Fairy Tale Review has been committed to contributor diversity and inclusive engagement. As always, we are especially interested in submissions by women and nonbinary writers, LGBTQIA+ writers, BIPOC writers, Indigenous writers, writers with disabilities, and writers from other marginalized and underrepresented groups in mainstream publishing. Fairy tales have long represented marginalized communities. We celebrate the power of fairy tales to represent, resist, and reflect on abuses of power.

Payment: Two copies of the issue and a $50 honorarium.

Call for Submissions: Brink

Brink has two reading periods per year: January and July.

Between July 1 - 31, we will open for submissions engaging the theme of Relief.

Through Submittable, we accept a variety of creative work from Nonfiction to Fiction, from Poetry to Translation. But our hearts beat strongest for hybrid work that falls into the cross-genre category we call Evocations. We are interested in work that presses boundaries, uses more than one medium to tell a story, and both looks and feels different on the page. Additionally, we look for submissions that engage the theme of each issue as well as the idea of being on the brink.

Please submit only unpublished work and notify us if your simultaneous submission is accepted elsewhere. Payment for each contributor is one copy of the issue in which their work appears as well as: 

$25 || Poem (per poem)

$50 || Work (less than 1500 words)

$50 || Art (1-3 Images)

$100 || Art (4+ Images)

$100 || Work (more than 1501 words)

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions: Lammergeier Magazine

Thank you for deciding to submit to Lammergeier! All work should be sent via email with the author’s last name and the title and genre of the submission as the subject of the email (Example: “Smith, Awesome Story, Fiction" or "Lopez, Five Poems, Poetry"). Your work should appear both in the body of the email and as an attached .doc, .docx, or .rtf file. PDF files may only be used for work that requires special formatting.

Simultaneous submissions are encouraged, but please send a follow-up email with your name and the title of your submission in the subject if your work has been accepted elsewhere. We do not accept unsolicited reprints. Allow 8 weeks for us to get back to you, then feel free to send a follow-up email.

Please wait one month after hearing back from us before submitting again unless we asked to see more of your work. If you have been published with us, please wait at least a year from your publication date to submit again.

Our open reading periods are as follows: January-March, May-July, and September-November. Issues are published triannually in April, August, and December. Submissions received during closed months may not be read until we open again.

We love creepy lit; we don't love creepy people. Please avoid sending rude responses to rejections.

Our address is:

lammergeiermag [at] gmail [dot] com. Take a look at the genre guidelines and payment info below before submitting.

We regret that we cannot pay all contributors at this time. However, our editors select one work of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction/hybrid each issue to receive a $25 honorarium via PayPal. Winners will also be interviewed for the Lammergeier blog.

 Selecting just one fantastic piece in each of our genres isn’t easy, and we look forward to the day when we don’t have to make that decision. Until then, however, we hope this award shows our commitment to our authors and our appreciation for all the fantastic work sent our way.