Call for Submissions on Theme of "Freedom": Parabola

 

Deadline: Dec. 1, 2023

 Length 

• Articles: 1000-3000 words

• Book Reviews: 500 words

• Retellings of traditional stories: 500-1500 words

• Forum contributions: no longer than 500 words

Biographical Information

Please include a brief (2-3 sentence) biography with your subscription. Fit the description to the subject matter of the article, e.g., for an article on Tibetan Buddhism, “Smith spent three years travelling in Tibet.” Or, a publication credit: “Smith is the author of Pilgrimage in Tibet (W. W. Norton, 1987).” Always include your publisher.

Rights

Parabola purchases the right to use an article in all substantially complete versions (including non-print versions) of a single issue of our journal. We also request the right to use the piece in the promotion of Parabola, and to authorize single-copy reproductions for academic purposes. All other rights are retained by the author.

More information and submission link here.

Call for Reprints: Bulb Culture Collective

Our submission window is open!

We will publish one selected piece every Tuesday and Friday on this website and promote each post on our social media.

We are aiming to respond to all submissions within two weeks. If you haven't heard from us after that point, please reach out by replying to your original submission email

What you should send:

Send submissions as a .doc/.docx or pdf attachment to:

bulbculture@gmail.com 

with the subject "Submission - [Last Name] -[Genre]"

1 (one) piece of previously published poetry (regardless of form, theme, or length) OR 1 (one) prose piece up to 5,000 words (Fiction, Non-Fiction, CNF, Reviews, etc)

We do not have any style or thematic preference and will gladly read any work that falls within the guidelines. If you are unsure of the suitability of your piece, just send it!

 

Work that was previously published (regardless of when it was published) by a journal that has since gone dark or if circumstances have made your work unavailable online for any reason. You must retain the rights of this work.

 

Work that was previously published, regardless of journal status, as long as the work was published in 2021 or before.

 

Bulb Culture Collective will not tolerate any form of abuse or work that encourages or promotes hate or bigotry, including and not limited to racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, etc.

 

Please include a brief cover letter and third person bio in the body of your email. You must include the name of the original publication and publication date of the submitted piece in the email so we can respectfully credit the original publisher, even if they are no longer active.

 

Please only send one piece for us to consider at a time. Wait until you hear from us before sending more work our way. We want to read your work, but we want to give it the consideration and time it deserves. Once we have responded, feel free to submit again any time.

 

Please note any applicable content warnings. We REQUIRE content warnings for any work containing material related to sexual assault, sexual abuse, and domestic abuse

 

Your work remains yours. We will post it and archive it on your behalf on our website. It will remain archived unless you choose to remove it.

 

We will never charge submission fees and, unfortunately, we are unable to pay contributors at this time, though we would love to get to that point in the future.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out to us at:

 

bulbculture@gmail.com

Writing Competition and Call for Submissions: Slippery Elm

 

Thank you for your interest! Contest submissions as well as free General submissions are open below, until midnight on Feb. 1, 2024 EST.

As a purely nonprofit organization, if you like what we’re doing with Slippery Elm, we especially appreciate your support of our mission in the form of a contest submission.

 

Entry is only $15, and all entrants will receive a copy of our 2024 print issue. Thanks for considering!

 

Slippery Elm Prize Guidelines

• $1000 prizes in Poetry & Prose

• 2024 Judges: Michael Czyzniejewski and Paula J. Lambert

• Submissions open annually in the fall, and close at midnight EST on Feb. 1st.

• All contest entrants will receive a copy of the winning issue and be considered for publication.

• All entries should be original and previously unpublished; all rights to the submitted works must belong to the submitter.

• Simultaneous submissions are fine.

• $15 entry fee for up to 3 poems (no line/length limit) or one essay or story (5000 words maximum). Multiple entries are fine.

• All entries must be sent through our Submittable interface.

• All contest entries will be considered for publication in Slippery Elm’s print issue.

• We welcome General Submissions from all, but those currently or recently affiliated with the University of Findlay or Slippery Elm should refrain from entering the Contests. Although judging will be blind, we wish to avoid any potential appearance of conflict of interest.

Call for Submissions: River Styx

Guidelines for Writers

• Work submitted to River Styx must be previously unpublished in print or online. This includes social media posts.

• We accept poetry, prose, creative nonfiction, short play, and multimedia submissions electronically via Submittable.

• Prose pieces should be typed, double-spaced, and page-numbered. Send no more than one short story or essay per submission. Stories/essays of 500 words or fewer may be sent in groups of up to three.

• Send up to five poems per submission.

• Translations are welcome if permission has been granted from owner of copyright.

• We will read simultaneous submissions but ask that you inform us of such and notify us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere.

• Expect up to five months for a decision. Please do not query before five months have passed.

• No e-mail submissions of any kind will be considered. If you wish to submit electronically, please use Submittable.

• We no longer accept hard copy submissions.

• All submissions will be considered for our online magazine. We no longer publish a print edition.

Guidelines for Visual Artists

• Works may include paintings, photographs, animation, video, graphic short fiction, digital illustration, prints, and other media (including high-quality photos of 3-D or mixed-media work).

• Allow up to five months for a response.

• For cover art we seek a single, striking color image, with the possibility of printing a second, related image on the back cover. Cover images should be horizontal/landscape orientation (or able to be cropped).

• Graphic stories may run as long as they need to tell the story. Page length is limited only by how long they keep our interest.

• If your work is a part of a series of images, please submit up to 12 images. We like having choices.

• If submitting a multi-page artistic work, such as a graphic short story, please submit only one at a time.

• For larger files, please contact us using the form on the Contact page for further instructions.

Payment

 

All writers whose work we publish will receive compensation. This includes a one-year subscription, and payment of $50.

For multimedia, we pay $50.

 

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions: Aothen Magazine

What we are looking for:

ONLY pieces related to classics/ancient Egypt, including:
- Poetry (up to 5 poems per submission)
- Essays (opinion or otherwise) (max. 2500 words)
- Short fiction (max. 1000 words)
- Photography (eg. of artefacts or sites)
- Art (digital or traditional)
- Classical translation extracts (max. 1000 words)
- Hybrid works 

The magazine is looking for work that approaches classics in a new, fresh manner. We'd love to see more abstract, contemporary, and modern interpretations of classical history and myths.

All contributors will receive a 10 USD honorarium (Paypal only), and a high-resolution PDF of the magazine. All work will be published in print and on this website.

An interview by Aôthen discussing what we look for in submissions

Submission portal here.

Artist's and Writer's Residency: Foundation House Artist Residency

 Foundation House Artist Residency Program Application

Application is now open for our Winter 2024 session.

Winter Session Dates: January 26, 2024 - February 4, 2024

Foundation House, located in back country Greenwich, CT, will open its doors for 10 days to six residents, allowing residents the time and space for concentrated creation in beautiful and inspiring surroundings. Foundation House’s mission as a non profit center for learning is to focus on health, wellness, the environment, and social justice. To that end, we will host residencies, workshops, lectures and other meaningful gatherings on these topics. At Foundation House, we believe that conversations about these critical topics are not complete without the input of artists and designers, and it is our privilege to be able to offer the space for creative people of all disciplines to work and therefore be a part of those conversations.
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Each resident will be given a stipend, private bedroom and bathroom, all meals plus full kitchen access, and access to studio space, a wide variety of common areas, and 75 acres of land to explore and enjoy. Residents will eat dinner together every evening to ensure that they are building relationships and are familiarizing themselves with each other's work, facilitating feedback and collaboration. Our residency is a working residency.
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Foundation House is committed to diversity and inclusion, and we prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind.
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The January application will close on December 3, 2023 at 11:59PM EST.
Accepted applicants will hear back from us in around three weeks. 

More information and submission links here.

Call for Submissions: Verdant

We are currently open for submissions to our Fall Issue until November 30th, 2023.

Please ensure your submission follows the below guidelines for consideration. Before submitting, we encourage you to view past issues to get a feel for what we like. See more. 

Poetry: Submit three to five unpublished poems with a maximum of 10 pages in a PDF or Word file.

Prose: Submit up to three pieces of prose with a maximum of 3,000 words each in a PDF or Word file.

Creative Non-Fiction: Submit up to two pieces of CNF with a maximum of 3,000 words each in a PDF of Word file.

Art: We accept visual art including paintings, drawings, mixed media, sculptures and ceramics. Submit up to five pieces of artwork as high resolution JPG images. Each piece may optionally be accompanied with an artist's statement of no more than 500 words.

Please included content warnings (CW) when necessary.

Submit via:

verdantjournal1@gmail.com 

Title the subject line [GENRE] - [NAME]. For example, [POETRY] - [JANE DOE]. In the body of the email, please write a cover letter and a short third-person biography. We want to learn about you! Your hobbies, where you're submitting from, anything that piques interest.

Simultaneous submission is accepted; though please do let us know if your piece is accepted elsewhere before publication.

Call for Submissions on Travel: Off Assignment

Off Assignment is a non-profit literary magazine with a penchant for journeys and a fascination with strangers. Born out of a desire to tell “the story behind the story," we’ve evolved from a journalists’ after-hour parlor to a home for literary essays about journeys, broadly defined. 

OA began when co-founder Colleen Kinder invited legendary journalist Pico Iyer to her Yale writing class. She expected Pico to analyze the essay she’d assigned to her students: a classic portrait of Reykjavik he had authored two decades earlier. But he digressed into a tale he had never put to the page, about a magnetic local with whom he’d wandered Iceland’s unfading summer streets. This stranger dominated Pico’s memories of his reporting trip. Struck by this, Colleen asked fellow writers: Have you ever had a story you wanted to write, behind an assignment? They answered: Always. 

Colleen then joined forces with digital media strategist Vince Errico to co-found Off Assignment as a space for the raw, personal stories not found in mainstream publications—tales that honor the digressions inherent to every journey. Our flagship column, “Letter to a Stranger,” launched in 2016. It now spans over 80 countries, features award-winning missives, and is immortalized in a print anthology. 

We’ve since expanded to include more columns, weaving interviews and illustrations into our story-telling: “No Equivalent” plumbs the depths of words that resist translation into English; “Under the Influence” explores the interplay between art and place; “Witching Hour” features brief, ambient portraits of places at a specific time of day; and “What I Didn’t Say” taps authors to release the untold stories behind their published work.

Off Assignment aims to put forth a new kind of travel writing: one that not only transports readers across geographical borders, but plunges them deeper into the human experience.

We accept simultaneous submissions, as long as you immediately notify us that your piece has been accepted elsewhere. We are interested only in original essays; your work must not have been published elsewhere prior to submitting.

SUBMISSION CATEGORIES

"Letter to a Stranger"
"No Equivalent"
"Under the Influence"
"What I Didn’t Say"
"Witching Hour"

Payment

We consider full drafts only, and pay $300 for “Letter to a Stranger,” “No Equivalent,” and “Under the Influence” essays. We pay $100 for “Witching Hour” essays.

More information and submission portals here.

Call for Submissions on Theme of "Taking Liberties: Writers Respond to Recent Supreme Court Decisions: Cutthroat 29

Deadline: Nov. 15, 2023

Seeking fiction and poetry.

The reading period for Cutthroat 29, TAKING LIBERTIES: WRITERS RESPOND TO RECENT SUPREME COURT DECISIONS, is now OPEN. Send original works and only publish reprints at our discretion. We adhere to North American Serial Rights for all work published in Cutthroat. All rights to any author's work reverts back to the author upon publication. We reserve the right to reprint any work of poetry and prose in an anthology in the future.

Guidelines: Submit by clicking on the Submittable link 3 poems of no more than 100 lines each or one short story 5000 word limit or one book review 150 word limit. We must charge a nominal $3 reading fee for regular submission.

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions on Crime: Tough

Tough is a crime fiction journal publishing short stories and self-contained novel excerpts of between 1500 words and 7500 words, and occasional book reviews and essays of 1500 words or fewer. We are particularly interested in stories with rural settings. We are a crime journal. We ask for first world and electronic rights.

We do consider reprints on a case-by-case basis with the following caveats: first, the story must not appear anywhere else online; second, we pay a flat fee of $25 for reprints.

Tough publishes three times per month on Mondays, for which we pay a flat rate per story, book review or essay (as of contract date January 23rd, 2021, that rate is $50) --we don't take poems--in exchange for first world serial rights to publish the submission on the website and one-time anthology rights.

Query:

toughcrime@gmail.com

for details or to pitch reviews, essays and reprints. Fiction need not be queried.

Note: They accept .rtf format only.

Submit your work here. 

Call for Submissions: Blue Earth Review

Blue Earth Review is looking for ambitious and exuberant works of short fiction, essay, memoir, poetry, and visual art that offer insight, complicate existing conversations, and that enrich our understanding of what it means to be human in this increasingly diverse world.

Though we consider magazine-length writing, generally, we publish in a small, square, focused format, so we gravitate towards shorter works in which every word matters

We read general submissions, for all genres, year-round.

We read contest submissions, for all genres, during the summer months.

Simultaneous submissions are accepted. We ask that writers notify us immediately if the work is accepted elsewhere.

We consider only previously unpublished work. If we accept yours for publication, we assume First North American Serial Rights. All other rights remain with the writer. Payment is two contributor's copies.

Submit here.

Call for Submissions from LGBTQ+ Writers: Foglifter

Foglifter welcomes daring and thoughtful work by queer and trans writers in all forms, and we are especially interested in cross-genre, intersectional, marginal, and transgressive work. We want the pieces that challenged you as a writer, what you poured yourself into and risked the most to make. But we also want your tenderest, gentlest work, what you hold closest to your heart. Whatever you're working on now that's keeping you alive and writing, Foglifter wants to read it.

Editorial Statement

We provide a path to representation for a broad selection of LGBTQ+ voices, centering queer and trans literary artists of color, youth, elders, and those beyond traditional LGBTQ+ cultural centers so that our readers and audiences can see their own experiences authentically represented through queer and trans literary arts.

We believe that queer and trans people must curate our own artistic discourses and we curate with a commitment to not perpetuate harm in our communities and recognize our responsibilities as editors to uplift the voices of queer and trans people while not punching down on those of us who live at the intersection of multiple oppressed identities.

Guidelines

• Title your submission with the title of the work(s) you are submitting (separated by commas).

• Include a 50-word or less bio (with pronouns after your name, please!) in your cover letter. (If accepted, we will request an author photo; JPG or PNG files are best.)

• We accept the following unpublished unsolicited submissions:3 to 5 poems (max 5 pages) up to 7500 words of fiction or nonfiction (up to three flash fiction pieces) up to 20 pages of cross-genre work, text-image hybrids, or drama

• All submissions must be uploaded as one DOC or DOCX file using the following titling convention: First_Last_Foglifter (i.e., Audre_Lorde_Foglifter)We accept simultaneous submissions; however, please withdraw your piece immediately if it is accepted elsewhere (or, if you only need to withdraw part of a submission, send us a message in Submittable).

• Only one submission per genre is permitted each reading period.

• We do not accept previously published material.

• We welcome translated work in all genres, provided rights have been secured before submission. (Both author and translator will receive an honorarium.)

• If we've recently accepted your work, please wait two reading periods (1 year) to submit again.

• Contributors receive two copies of the issue in which they appear and a $50 honorarium (via PayPal).

Submission periods are:

March 1 to May 1 (Fall Edition)
September 1 to November 1 (Spring Edition)
We are always open for cover art! Reach our production manager Alice Lee at:

 production@foglifterpress.com

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions: Water-Stone Review

The open submission period for Water~Stone Review is October 1 — November 1. Water~Stone Review is waiving submissions fees for BIPOC writers from October 20-22. The reading/selection period is November — April. All submissions should be original, unpublished work. We welcome and encourage diversity in voice and form.

The following guidelines apply to the general submissions only.

• All submissions should be original, previously unpublished work. (This also excludes work published on any website, including author’s own site, from being submitted for consideration.)
  

• Fiction and creative nonfiction submissions must be limited to 8,000 words. Novel and memoir excerpts are acceptable as long as they stand on their own.

• Short and flash forms are welcome in both CNF and fiction and up to three pieces in these forms, with the total number of words for all pieces combined not exceeding 8,000 is acceptable.

• Poetry submissions must be limited to three poems or fewer. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable, but the writer must withdraw the manuscript immediately if it has been accepted elsewhere.

• Entrants may submit only one submission per genre/category. It is preferred that entrants submit in only one genre per issue, creative nonfiction, fiction, or poetry. If submitting in more than one genre/category please communicate this in the cover letter to avoid clerical confusion.

• All submissions are now online only.*
  

• Payment is in two copies of the issue in which the author’s work appears.

• Note: Students currently enrolled in Hamline’s MFA or BFA programs cannot submit to Water~Stone Review. Work from graduates of these programs is welcome.

*Mailed manuscripts are accepted by special permission only and must be typed or printed in proper format on white paper, in English or translations provided, one side only, double-spaced (prose). Specify genre (fiction, creative nonfiction, or poetry) on the outside of your envelope and in the cover letter. Please send submissions addressed to Fiction Editor, Nonfiction Editor, or Poetry Editor. Cover letters should be brief and should indicate the genre of the submitted work. Author’s name should not appear on the manuscript. Please include a SASE for result. Manuscripts will be recycled not returned.

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions on Theme of "Funeral": The Magpie Messenger

The Magpie Messenger by Curious Corvid Publishing is the ultimate literary magazine made for, made by, and made with the works of indie writers. You'll find original poetry and prose from indie authors in your community, informative articles that help you navigate the world of publishing, and exclusive sneak peeks of upcoming content.

Are you interested in seeing your work published in a literary magazine? Visit our Submissions Page to learn how you can submit your poetry, prose, articles, artwork, and more to the Messenger. If accepted, you'll be compensated for our pleasure of using your work—we never ask you to pay us.

Winter Solstice 2023: Funeral — deadline November 30th

Works that reflect the theme will be given priority.

For organizational purposes, please include all requested information in your first email. All submissions should include the author's name, social media links and/or QR code, as well as an author photo no smaller than 8.5"x11" and 200 dpi. Written submissions should be included in the body of the email or a .doc or .docx file, not a .PDF. Failure to follow these guidelines may lead to the dismissal of your submission. Submitting content is free.

In the event of acceptance, you will receive a contract with an offer of a one-time compensation of either $10 or a print edition of the journal.

We will not consider any submissions written, developed, or assisted by AI tools and applications. Submissions of AI generated content may result in a ban from any future publication including novels and poetry collections.

​We accept the following types of submissions for the Magpie Messenger: (please specify the issue you are submitting to)

Poetry​

You may submit up to five poems with a maximum of 2,500 words total. Poetry should not include explicit, offensive, or triggering themes, such as child abuse or sexual assault.

Email CuriousCorvidPublishing@gmail.com with "Poetry Submission" in the subject line.

​ Prose​

Short stories should be no longer than 2,500 words. Content should not include explicit, offensive, or triggering themes, such as child abuse or sexual assault.

Email CuriousCorvidPublishing@gmail.com with "Short Story Submission" in the subject line.

​ Articles​

Articles should be no longer than 2,500 words and should include citation of any sources used. Articles containing unfounded or unsupported claims will be dismissed. Topics related to personal experience/growth as an artist, the publishing industry (mainstream or indie), literary analysis, writing advice, and book reviews will be given priority.

Email CuriousCorvidPublishing@gmail.com with "Article Submission" in the subject line.

​ Artwork​

Artwork must be related to the theme of the issue. All mediums are accepted. File submission should be a PDF, JPG, or PNG format at no less than 300 dpi/ppi. ​

Email CuriousCorvidPublishing@gmail.com with "Art Submission" in the subject line.

​ Photography​

Photography must be related to the theme of the issue. Photography will be used as background images for spreads; credit to photographer will be given in footnote and index. File submission should be a PDF, JPG, or PNG format at no less than 300 dpi/ppi but no more than 25MB in size. ​

Email CuriousCorvidPublishing@gmail.com with "Art Submission" in the subject line.

​ Recipes​

Recipes should be related to the theme of the issue or the season. Recipes with incomplete or difficult to follow instructions will not be accepted.

Email CuriousCorvidPublishing@gmail.com with "Recipe Submission" in the subject line.

Call for Submissions to Anthology: Thriving

 Deadline: Nov. 16, 2023

Thriving: An Anthology

From global events to microscopic movements, change happens around us, to us and within us. We are challenged to adapt, plan, grow, rethink, relax, endeavor, risk, feel and act. How do we live robustly when plans are disrupted and wellbeing is threatened? How do we find purpose? Feel joy? Be creative? Achieve? Connect?

How do we thrive?

Camels thrive differently than orcas, who thrive differently than ladybugs who thrive differently than villages. We can’t reduce thriving to one uniform condition, we sure do know it when we see it and when we feel it. We can wonder about thriving, explore and share it, exult in and be changed by it. We can communicate it so others can enter our experiences.

Thriving is an anthology of original, creative writing and illustration that revels in the state we call thriving. Each piece will uniquely delve into its myriad facets, pathways, circumstances, manifestations, inputs and outcomes.

Project Guidelines

Focus: “Thriving” is the focus, in all its glory and forms , often in the aftermath of grave challenges. Your piece can be narrative, impressionistic, humorous or evocative. The words thrive and thriving do not need to be present in your submission or its title: “Show, don’t tell” is a wise guide here.

Readers: Somewhat literary-minded, self-reflective adults; older adults and others with some difficult life experiences of their own; adults seeking hopeful inspiration.

Purpose: Pleasure reading of an uplifting nature. Readers should feel inspired and able to find universal truths within the specific works.

Not the Purpose: This is not a self-improvement manual or a step-by-step guide to any—certainly not to any particular—spiritual path, religion, action or belief system; it does not proselytize, prescribe or chastise.

Genres: Poetry and short prose: fiction and creative non-fiction such as memoir and history. Black and white illustrations and photographs. (Honoraria of $10 per accepted work.) One full-color photograph or painting/illustration for use on the cover (Cover artist(s) will receive an honorarium of $100 upon publication with a cover design incorporating their piece).

Project-Specific Submission Guidelines:

Visual Art (B & W for interior; color for cover): Submit up to five (5) black and white and/or color images, each uploaded as a separate jpeg file. Use the title of the work as the file name (ex: three_llamas.jpeg).

Poetry: Submit up to five (5) single-spaced poems in one .doc, .docx, or .rtf document. Begin each poem on a new page, number the pages, and use a clear serif font in size 12.

Fiction: Submit up to five (5) nano-, micro- or flash-fiction pieces (up to 750 words) or one short story (up to 2500 words) in one .doc, .docx, or .rtf document, single spaced, using a clear serif font in size 12. Begin each piece on a new page and number the pages.

Creative Nonfiction: Follow the fiction guidelines. For historical writing, include adequate references. For memoir, your submission serves to attest that the writing reflects the truth as you know, remember and understand it, and that the events related in your piece happened to you -- it's your story to tell, not someone else's.

Saratoga Arts made this program possible through the Community Arts Regrant Program, funded by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions from Neurodivergent Writers: Jelly Bucket

Jelly Bucket is published annually by Bluegrass Writers Studio, the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Eastern Kentucky University. Founded in 2009, Jelly Bucket features established and new writers. We accept works of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction, as well as visual art. Preference is given to visual art that incorporates text and/or features an aspect of the book arts, but all genres are welcome. 

Issue #14's special section will be Neurodivergent Voices and our guest editor is Nathan Spoon.

Guidelines For Submitting Your Work 

Only one submission per genre per reading period. Simultaneous submissions are considered, but if your work is accepted elsewhere please withdraw your submission via Submittable. If you need to withdraw just a portion of a submission, leave a comment on your submission via Submittable. 

Previously published work will not be accepted. We define previously published work as a piece published in another journal (paper or electronic), in a book or chapbook (traditionally or self-published), or one that is currently online in a public blog or within a public forum.

With all submissions, please include a short biography (about 50-100 words) in your cover letter.

Deadline: Dec. 14, 2023

Submit your work here.

Writing Competition: John Steinbeck Award for Fiction

Deadline: Nov. 1, 2023 

Sponsored by Reed Magazine

Awarding one of the richest purses among literary magazines—$1,000 for the winning story—the John Steinbeck Award for Fiction recognizes exceptional works of fiction. Aesthetically, we are open to most styles and approaches, including experimental and literary. All works should be stand-alone short stories, not chapters of a longer work. Please limit prose submissions to 5,000 words.

Please be sure to:

include your name, address, phone number, and email address within cover letter (exclude from works themselves)

format stories in double-spaced 12-point font

include word count (5,000-word limit)

number pages

provide a brief 50-word bio

make sure your Submittable profile is up-to-date

The contest reading fee is $20, which includes a free copy of the latest edition of Reed. (Please note that submitters with US addresses on file will receive print copies of the journal, whereas those with international addresses may receive digital copies.) Multiple submissions are accepted as separate entries. Contest submissions not selected for final judging may still be considered for publication in the journal and/or online.

Submission link here.

Writing Fellowship: The Steinbeck Fellows Program

Application Information

Program Description

The Steinbeck Fellows Program, endowed through the generosity of Martha Heasley Cox, offers emerging writers of any age and background the opportunity to pursue a significant writing project during their fellowship tenure. The emphasis of the program is on helping writers who have had some success but have not published extensively, and whose promising work would be aided by the financial support and sponsorship of the Center and the University's creative writing program.

The Steinbeck Fellowship Program is named in honor of author John Steinbeck and is guided by his lifetime of work in literature, the media, and environmental activism. The program offers the opportunity to interact with other writers, faculty, and graduate students, and to share your work in progress by giving a public reading during the fellowship. Fellowships include a stipend of $15,000. Due to the impacts of COVID-19, the residency requirement of living in the San Francisco Bay Area has been temporarily waived. The fellowship period is for one academic year (approximately September - May).

 Fellowships Offered

Currently, SJSU offers one-year fellowships in Steinbeck scholarship and in creative writing, including fiction, drama, creative nonfiction, and biography. Applications in poetry will not be accepted. In awarding fellowships, the selection committee considers the quality of the candidate's proposal and writing sample, as well as any factors that would lead to expectations of future publication and further achievement. The creative writing fellowship does not require that there be any direct connection between your work and Steinbeck's.

Application Requirements

• Proposal or prospectus for work to be written (one to three pages including basic timeline)

• Resumé

• Three letters of recommendation (sent directly from recommender—the online system will prompt you for their email addresses)

• Writing sample of no more than twenty-five pages Applications are accepted beginning in September.

Deadline: January 5
Announcement of Awards: April

More information and entry portal here.

Call for Submissions and Writing Competitions: The Baltimore Review

General Submission Guidelines

Please review the editors' preferences and tips to writers. We may not be able to completely pin down what we want—and we do want to be taken pleasantly by surprise—but you may find the quotes helpful. And please take a little time to read some of the work in our current and past issues.

When you submit your work, please include a brief bio to introduce yourself.

If your work is accepted for publication, we ask only for the right to publish it for the first time, online and in print. Please do not submit work that has been published elsewhere. All rights revert to the author after publication by The Baltimore Review. All accepted work will be archived on the website.

Submissions in more than one category are permitted, but please do not submit work more than once per reading period in any category.

The Baltimore Review considers submissions from writers who are 18 years of age or older.

Simultaneous submissions are absolutely fine. If you need to withdraw your work, or part of your work, from consideration, let us know. Use the Withdraw option if withdrawing the entire submission; send us a message through Submittable if withdrawing part of your submission, .e.g., one poem from a group of three.

Once your work has been accepted by a publication, always withdraw it from any other publications right away.

Our next submission period is August 1 through November 30, 2023. Please do not withdraw and re-submit your work if making revisions. Simply note the minor edit or, if the changes are more extensive, attach the new version in the Submittable message. But it’s always best, of course, to take some time to thoroughly proofread your work before submitting. Thanks!

Response time: You will be notified of our decision within four months. We're aiming for a response time well within that time frame, usually one to three months, but we do receive thousands of submissions in each submission period, and we read each one of them. Thank you for your patience.

Payment for non-contest submissions is $50 via Amazon gift certificate or $50 through PayPal, if preferred. We hope to continue this as long as funding is available. We also nominate our contributors' work for every possible prize.

Submissions that do not follow the guidelines (e.g., prose that exceeds 5,000 words, a submission of more than three poems, a book review or other work that is clearly not creative nonfiction, multiple submissions during a submission period) will be withdrawn.

Contests are announced on our blog, on Facebook and Twitter, and on the Submit page for the Contest category during the Contest submission period. Our next contest submission period is September 1 through November 30, 2023.

Submit your work or entry here.

Call for Submissions: The Writing Disorder

We are currently accepting submissions for our WINTER & SPRING 2023/24 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.

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 

The Writing Disorder is published four times a year: new issues are posted at the beginning of Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter.

Needs:
We seek work of the highest quality, but do not have specific guidelines for style or subject matter. Check our website before submitting for any announcements. Although we look for short stories and poetry, we also publish personal essays and memoirs. Novel excerpts are acceptable, if self-contained. Reviews, nonfiction pieces, humor, comic art, and criticism are also welcome. And we love experimental work. For poetry, please submit THREE to EIGHT poems. Also, let us know what type of work you are submitting. Sometimes it’s difficult to tell whether a piece is fiction or nonfiction.

Format:
Submit one prose piece or three to eight poems. A notation of publications and awards, if any, is helpful. Poems should be individually typed either single- or double-spaced on one side of the page. Prose should be typed double-spaced on one side and can be as many pages as you need.

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.

Submitting Your Work:
Send only one manuscript at a time online. Do not send duplicate or multiple submissions. There is a limit of four total submissions per writer per reading period (season), regardless of genre, whether it is by mail or online. Do not send a second submission until you’ve heard about the first. We cross-reference our database periodically, and if we find more than one active submission, or a fifth submission (or more) during the reading period, all submissions will be immediately rejected unread. Simultaneous submissions to other journals are amenable as long as they are indicated as such and we are notified immediately upon acceptance elsewhere. We occasionally reprint previously published work.

Submissions by Email:
Email one file to: 

submit@thewritingdisorder.com — containing one prose piece or five to eight poems. 

If you have a legitimate association with a staff editor you may address that editor by name in your email. You should also include a brief citation of publications and awards (less than 50 words), if any. A longer citation of credits or a cover letter may be included as the first page of your submission document. Submissions must be sent as a Word (.doc or .docx) file. Any files that don’t adhere to our guidelines will be withdrawn from consideration. In general, you will receive a faster response by email versus by regular mail.

More information here.

Call for Submissions on Theme of "Burning Up / Burning Down": Prairie Fire

Prairie Fire

Call for Submissions: Burning Up/ Burning Down

This coming spring, we’re talking about fire.

This past summer, especially in Canada, we saw A LOT of fire. So much so that this year’s fire season saw the largest area burned in Canada’s history. Globally, the planet continues to heat up, and we saw a record number of heat related deaths, mostly in Europe. And, as temperatures rise, we’re seeing an increase in violence, war, crime and hate speech.

In one way or another, we were all affected by fires. Some of us lived through evacuations, devastating losses, or knew and worried for those who had/have. There’s almost no one that wasn’t in some way affected by the smoke and air pollution. Our bodies, like the planet, can’t exist with too much heat, or too much cold.

The underbelly of fire, is positive. For thousands of years, wherever humans have gone in the world, they have carried with them two things—language and fire. Fire brings, and holds us together. Fire helps us to cook and digest food, kills viruses and infection, forges metals, and heats our homes. And, as a final act of kindness, transforms our earthly bodies into ashes (for many who choose cremation). We could not live without it. Yet, this year, seeing the fire element so out of balance, is disconcerting, frightening, and we wanted to do something in response.

So, we are asking you to share your stories of fire, whether literal fires, metaphorical ones (lighting a fire under you, fanning the flames, acting in the heat of the moment), and spiritual ones (trial by fire, hearts aflame). We invite you to stoke your creative fires on this topic and to share what you’ve forged with us. The issue is bound to be a scorcher!

Burning Up/ Burning Down will be out in spring of 2024.

Submission Deadline: Nov. 10, 2023, 11:59:59pm.

Submission Guidelines:

Submissions for this issue may be emailed or mailed. Emailed submissions still need to follow the submission guidelines.

Emailed submissions should be sent to:

prfire@prairiefire.ca, Subject: Burning

THE COVER LETTER

The cover letter should be typed. Be sure to include the following:

***Please state in your cover letter that you are submitting to “Burning”; *** your pronouns; a two- or three-sentence biographical statement (in third person, if possible); your full mailing address, e-mail address and phone number; the title(s) of the piece(s) you are submitting; the genre of the piece(s) you are submitting (poetry, fiction, non-fiction). Let us know if you are just starting to send out your work.

THE MANUSCRIPT

• Send a maximum of three poems OR one story per submission and send only one submission at a time. Please do not send more than one of each type of submission.

• Please do not send updated versions of pieces once you have submitted. The piece you submit is the piece we review.

• Maximum length for fiction and creative non-fiction: 5000 words.

• Prairie Fire does not accept previously published work OR AI generated work.

• We ask that you let us know if your work is also submitted elsewhere, and, if it is accepted, to notify us right away.

• Your submission should be typed (double-spaced) on one side of the page only (for print submissions). Poetry may be single-spaced.

• Margins of at least 1.5 inches should surround all copy.

• Each page of poetry must contain your name and address at the top left.

• For fiction and creative non-fiction, center the title halfway down on the first page, with your name below it. Include a word count at the top right corner of the first page and your address at the top left corner. Make sure your pages are numbered.

***Please Note: Due to the high volume of submissions we receive for special calls, we are only able to notify successful applicants. We will post a message on our social media when all successful applicants have been contacted. All successful applicants will be contacted by the middle of December 2023 or sooner.

***As well, please make sure prfire@prairiefire.ca and lindsey@prairiefire.ca are added as ‘safe senders’ in your email. We would hate to end up in your spam folder!

Prairie Fire encourages submissions from LGBTQI2S writers, BIPOC writers, disabled writers, and all who are otherwise affected by structural inequality.

Call for Submissions on Theme of "Tenacity": The Suburban Review

We here at The Suburban Review are celebrating our tenth birthday (as a journal—we are not all ten years old). So, to commemorate this tender age, the persistence it’s taken to get here, and our intent to continue long into the future, we’ve chosen a determinedly decadal theme for issue #32: TENACITY!

We want stories that hold us tightly and don’t let go (tenere, ‘to hold’); poems that make of a fleeting moment something firm, steadfast, resilient; essays with the rigor required to follow a thought however far it may lead. And don’t forget tenacity’s etymological cousin, ‘tend’ (tendere, ‘to stretch’)—we want comics that swerve off in strange ways, photos that stretch style and form, and artworks whose attention to a single image is so close and tenacious as to become a kind of prayer. Or just, like, send us things featuring the number ten.

Submissions are open until 11:59 p.m. (AEDT) Wednesday 1 November 2023!

 The Suburban Review accepts previously unpublished work. We allow simultaneous submissions. If it’s been accepted elsewhere just email us at thesuburbanreview@gmail.com with “Withdrawing submission” as your subject line. We only allow one submission per person (that means you need to choose if you want to submit fiction, non-fiction, poetry, comics, or art). To submit poetry (that’s a maximum of 3 poems), make sure all the poems are in a single document.

FICTION

2000-2500 words—no more than that! (payment $275)
1000-2000 words (payment $200) 500-1000 words (payment $150)

CREATIVE NON-FICTION

2000-2500 words—no more than that! (payment $275)
1000-2000 words (payment $200)
500-1000 words (payment $150)

POETRY

Suite of three poems—no more than that! (payment $275)
Over 30 lines (payment $175)
Under 30 lines (payment $125)

COMICS + ART

2 page comic B&W or Colour (payment $200)
1 page illustration B&W or Colour (payment $100)
1 page cover art (payment $300) 

More information and submission portal here.

Call for Submissions: Porter House Review

Porter House Review is an online literary journal produced in conjunction with Texas State University’s MFA program in Creative Writing.

Inspired by the legacy of Katherine Anne Porter, the journal seeks to publish bold and incisive writing that interrogates not only the complexities of the human experience, but also the prevailing social challenges of our time. In support of this mission, we seek unique perspectives from both established, award-winning authors, as well as emerging and underrepresented voices from around the world. We celebrate a wide range of literary forms and styles. We are committed to paying a competitive rate for all published work.

 Note: We do not accept unsolicited submissions from current Texas State University students, faculty, or staff. Alumni are welcome to submit if and only if three or more years have passed since their graduation.

Our Advisory Board includes: Jamel Brinkley, Charles D'Ambrosio, Erica Dawson, Ben Fountain, Cristina García, Carmen Maria Machado, Tomás Q. Morín, Naomi Shihab Nye, Tim O'Brien, Luis Javier Rodriguez, Karen Russell, and Evie Shockley.

For more information and to submit your work, go here.

Call for Submissions: Cult.Magazine

Simply put, we’re tired of so many barriers to entry. Whether it’s word count, subject matter limitations, political or religious implications, we’re tired of seeing so many great works being cast aside for one arbitrary reason or another. So, we created a space where that kind of work can thrive. We are in the business of publishing stories, poems, essays, and art that make us feel something and stretch our brains to new realizations of form and possibility.

 Cult, as the name suggests, wants the weird, the risk-taking: the stuff that gets tucked away because someone thinks no one would ever publish that. We want art that challenges and confronts; not coddles and reaffirms.

We will never subscribe to a particular style, theme, or artistic movement. We want all voices from all backgrounds and experience who feel they have something worthy to say to submit. Of course, we want all kinds of folks to submit and grace the pages of our little rag, but what ultimately matters is what shows up on the page. In summation, the work takes priority. 

Email all submissions (Word Document for text submissions and PDFs for visual submissions) to:

SUBMISSIONS@CULTMAG.NET.

All artists who are published will be paid for their work. $25 for online publication and $40 for inclusion in our biannual print edition.

In hopes of building a community and making real connections with our artists, we plan to call each person we choose to publish so, please, alongside your name, genre (poetry, fiction, photography, etc.), the title of your work, as well as a brief description of yourself, please include your phone number. Submissions must be previously unpublished.

For bios, please keep them short. By all means, tell us where you’re from, what college you attended (if applicable), and where people can find your work (if applicable). But please don’t tell us about your dogs, cats, wonderful spouses or partners, or your job. With all due respect, we don’t care. As our mission statement says: The work takes priority.

Statement on AI: If AI tools were used to make your submission, please inform us how you used the tool and why.

Thank you for your work. 

Have an idea for an interview or a review or something that falls outside the bounds of standard submission guidelines? Send us a pitch detailing the idea to:

SUBMISSIONS@CULTMAG.NET

Please include “Pitch:” at the beginning of the subject line of your email and a brief outline of what you're thinking. Payment will be at the same rate as standard publications unless discussed otherwise.

Call for Submissions to Anthology: A Shape Produced by a Curve

Submissions for our next print anthology are open from October 15, 2023 (midnight EST) to January 15, 2024 (midnight PST). We welcome work from writers worldwide. Our focus is on the innovative and unexpected.

We highly recommend reading one of our previous collections to see the type of work we are interested in and the design of our books. Our latest anthology is A Shape Produced by a Curve. (Online store available in United States only. International orders are easily available through Amazon, etc..)

We would love to send you our monthly email newsletter. You are welcome to unsubscribe at anytime – no hard feelings!

Anthology submissions are only reviewed through Submittable. Email submissions will not be read.

We accept poetry, short fiction (under 2,500 words), flash fiction, creative non-fiction, hybrid…Surprise us with your fearless best!

We do not consider previously published work, whether print or online. This includes limited edition chapbooks and personal blogs.

If your work appears in our most recent anthology, please wait a year before submitting again in any genre.

Please submit only once in each genre (poetry / prose) and do not submit again until you have received a response.

One to four poems of any length. If you are submitting more than one poem, include them all in a single document. Do not submit multiple poems in separate files. Single-spaced please, or how it should appear on the printed page. Start each poem on a new page.

One prose / creative nonfiction piece, two if both under 500 words. Maximum word count: 2,500. Please include the word count on the first page.

Simultaneous submissions are fine - just notify us with your good news immediately. If you wish to withdraw individual pieces from consideration, click on the title of your submission, click on Active, and add a note listing the title(s) to be withdrawn. If you need to withdraw your entire submission, please use the Withdraw button.

Please don't send revisions. You can always add a note to your submissions if there is something you need to let us know about.

Payment: One contributor copy, plus $10 for writers based in USA. International writers receive one copy.

 We aim to respond in 1-4 months. If you have not heard from us after five months, please email editors@greatweatherformedia.com

Copyright: great weather for MEDIA holds first serial rights for material that we publish. The copyright automatically reverts to the author upon publication. All work may be permanently archived online. We ask that great weather for MEDIA be acknowledged in any subsequent publication of the work.

Writing Competition: The Masters Review Novel Excerpt Contest

Each fall, The Masters Review hosts a call for novel excerpts! Writing a novel can be an arduous and lonely process, but we’re here to champion the great work being produced. Whether your book is not quite finished or ready to pitch, we want to read your words. For this contest, we’re looking for self-contained excerpts that display a strong voice, compelling characters, and carefully constructed narrative arcs. You may submit an excerpt from any section of your completed or in-progress novel, but choose wisely: a synopsis should not be required for understanding the excerpt. As always, we have no limitations on genre, though we are primarily interested in literary fiction.

This year, our guest judge is Matthew Salesses, author of The Sense of Wonder, Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear, and The Hundred-Year Flood. Salesses will select the finalists from a shortlist provided by The Masters Review’s editorial team.

The winning excerpt will be awarded $3,000; online publication; and an hour-long consultation with Halley Dunne Perry, a literary agent with The Hamilburg Agency. Second- and third-place excerpts will be awarded online publication and $300 and $200 respectively, in addition to written feedback from Dunne Perry.

Submission Guidelines:

• Submitted excerpts must be under 6,000 words.

• Submitted work must be previously unpublished. This includes personal blogs, social media accounts, and other websites. Previously published excerpts will be immediately disqualified.

• The entry fee is $20.

• Simultaneous and multiple submissions are allowed, though each submission requires a $20 entry fee.

• The winner receives $3,000; online publication; and a consultation with Halley Dunne Perry, a literary agent with The Hamilburg Agency.

• The second- and third-place finalists receive cash prizes ($300/$200), online publication, and agent feedback.

• If your submission is accepted or contracted elsewhere, please withdraw your submission on Submittable, or contact us otherwise to let us know the piece is no longer available.

• We do not require anonymous submissions for this contest, but the judge will review the shortlist anonymously.

• This contest is for emerging writers only. Writers with single-author book-length work published or under contract with a major press are ineligible. We are interested in providing a platform to new writers; authors with books published by indie presses and self-published authors are welcome to submit unpublished work.

• International submissions are allowed, provided the work is written primarily in English.

• All submissions must be double-spaced with one-inch page margins and use Times New Roman or Garamond 12 (or larger, if necessary).

• Excerpts from novels under contract for 2023 or 2024 are ineligible, but novels under contract from 2025 and beyond are eligible.

• The contest’s deadline is 11:59 p.m. PST on Sunday, November 12, 2023.

• All entries will be considered for publication in New Voices.

• Every submission will receive a response by the end of March 2024. The winners will be announced by the end of April 2024.

• Friends, family, and associates of the guest judge are not eligible for this award, nor are past winners of the Novel Excerpt Contest.

• A significant portion of the editorial letter fees go to our feedback editor.

Enter here.

Call for Support: The Gettysburg Review

As many of you may be aware, The Gettysburg Review, a crown jewel among literary magazines, was recently informed that they will have to shut down after the next issue. This decision was made by the administration without any prior consultation with the editors and editorial staff. You can read more about that here.

On the magazine's website, Editor Mark Drew posted this:

After thirty-five years of editorial and publishing excellence, the president of Gettysburg College has decided to end the Gettysburg Review. Lauren [Hohle] and I are understandably devastated. We have been offered a rationale for this decision, but it’s frankly one that neither Lauren nor I understand or accept. It was made clear to us that they know little about who we are, what we do, and what our value is, and could be, to the Gettysburg College campus.

What can we do to save this vital publication? Write letters and emails to those who made the decision and make them aware of The Gettysburg Review's importance in the literary and publishing community. If you would like to lend your support to The Gettysburg Review, you can send your letters and emails to:

College president, Bob Iuliano

riuliano@gettysburg.edu

(717) 337-6010

 

Provost, Jamila Bookwalla

 

jbookwal@gettsyburg.edu

(717) 337-6820

 

If your email is blocked, you can also try:

 

officeoftheprovost@gettysburg.edu

 

Please make your voice heard via emails, letters, phone calls, social media, friends, reporters, etc.--for the sake of writers everywhere. Thank you.

Call for Chapbook Submissions: Chestnut Review

Chestnut Review is thrilled to announce that in place of our past contests, we will now hold an open chapbook reading period twice per year with a goal of selecting four manuscripts from the queue regardless of genre, to be published and promoted in tandem with our quarterly issues. We reserve the right to publish more or fewer chapbooks based on the quality of the submissions received.

Manuscripts will pass through a multi-stage reading process involving the readers and editors of Chestnut Review, who will select the chapbooks for publication.

To read our FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) about Chapbooks, see here.

Timeline

• Submissions open from 1 March until 30 April (Spring Reading) and 1 October until 30 November (Autumn Reading) each year via our regular Submittable page.

• Authors will be notified of our decisions approximately two months after each reading period closes.

• The selected chapbooks will be published at the same time our quarterly issues appear. Spring Reading chaps will appear on the following 15 October and 15 January; Autumn Reading chaps on the following 15 April and 15 July.

Guidelines

• Chapbooks may be poetry, prose, or hybrid. When submitting, please select the genre that aligns the most closely with your chapbook.

• No images or other media.

• Length: 15-25 pages of poetry, or 15-35 pages of prose.

• Times New Roman, 12-point font is preferred, single-spaced for poetry and double-spaced for prose. Please start all pieces on a new page.

• Pieces may have been published individually, but never as a collection. At least 50% of the pieces (NOT pages) must be unpublished at time of manuscript submission.

• Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but please let us know immediately if the collection has been accepted elsewhere via Submittable.

• Multiple submissions: you may submit once for free if you match the identifying categories. If you wish to submit an additional manuscript, please submit under the relevant paid category.

• Submit works written in English only. Translations are not accepted.

• Please submit your manuscript in a .doc or .docx format.

• We do not read anonymously. You may include your name and other identifying information.

• Include a title page, a table of contents, and any acknowledgements. If you have previously published any pieces, please indicate that clearly along with the venue. These do not count towards the page total.

• Submission fee is on a sliding scale between $6-$12. Please pay what you can afford by selecting the appropriate option from the list. If you need a full fee waiver, please contact:
  

 maria@chestnutreview.com.

• Payment and Promotion Selected authors will receive $150 USD and 50 copies of their chapbook in hard copy.

• Authors earn 30% royalties on all Amazon sales of the chapbook, paid annually.

• Chapbooks will be advertised in Chestnut Review and featured for sale on Amazon.com and via our website.

• Authors will be interviewed in a quarterly issue of Chestnut Review.

• Authors will be promoted at in-person events such as AWP and virtual events which authors are welcome to design and plan in tandem with staff.

Feedback

Submitters may choose to receive paid feedback from a Chestnut Review reader that includes our standard summary of your piece plus 2-4 strengths and 2-4 suggestions on the chapbook as a whole. While the feedback may highlight individual pieces, it will focus more on general suggestions for the entire work.

Submitters may choose (in addition to, or instead of paid feedback) editorial feedback from a chapbook editor, which includes comments and in-line suggestions on each piece and a 1-2 paragraph letter with overall thoughts.

Miscellaneous 

• We reserve the right to feature poems from chapbooks, at our discretion, in future issues of Chestnut Review without further compensation, and submission of a manuscript indicates your acceptance of these terms.

• Chapbooks undergo an editing process in which both the editor and the author may propose changes, in order to produce a finished print-on-demand chapbook by an agreed-upon target date. In the unlikely event this deadline is not met or either side feels the need to withdraw, all rights return to the author. We also reserve the right to pull chapbooks from production or publication in extraordinary circumstances, including misrepresentation of identity, plagiarism, AI-generated material, or abuse.

• Chestnut Review does not provide e-book versions of the text. We will deliver the Adobe InDesign file for your book on request if you wish to use it as the basis of an e-publication. We cannot provide any technical assistance in preparing such publication.

Call for Submissions to Folio on "Forough": Kenyon Review

Between October 1 and October 31, we will receive submissions to a special folio guest edited by Kenyon Review Fellow Cindy Juyoung Ok.

Poet, translator, and filmmaker Forough (or Forugh) Farrokhzad, often referred to as Forough, is a household Iranian name. Her inimitable work, known and loved intimately all over the world, has brought about many translations and transmutations.

In celebration of her ninetieth birthday in December 2024, this winter issue folio will newly gather translations by multiple translators of her original Farsi poems (whose rights are in the public domain), alongside writing across genres about, for, and after Forough: essays, stories, poems, and hybrid writing engaging with her through various modes. The folio seeks to complicate rather than complete, to share unusual permutations and under-acknowledged histories. From criticism to personal history, imagined interactions to visual bursts, the prompt is as open as the poet’s distinctive force. 

We pay $0.08 per published word of prose (minimum $80, maximum $450) and $0.16 per published word of poetry (minimum $40, maximum $200).

Learn more and submit here!

Writing Competitions: New Millennium Awards

POETRY • FICTION • FLASH FICTION • NONFICTION

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

Deadline: November 30, 2023

 

PRIZES

 

First Place in each category receives a $1000 cash prize, a certificate to document the success, publication online and in print, in New Millennium Writings, and two complimentary copies.
Select Finalists, and all Poetry Finalists, will be published in New Millennium Writings (online and in print) and receive two complimentary copies.

GUIDELINES

• No restrictions on style or subject matter.

• Entrant retains copyright ownership of work.

• Multiple and simultaneous submissions welcome.

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

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

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

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

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

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

• For mail/postal submissions click here for instructions.

Submit your work (or postmark) by November 30, 2023.

 

ENTRY FEES AND MULTIPLE ENTRY SUPPORT

 

For any category or combination of categories:

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

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

 

Enter here.

Writing Competition: Novel Slices

Our Fall Contest is now open through October 31! The following are the guidelines.

Five equal, first-place winners will each receive $1,000 ($5,000 total) and publication in the latest issue. Winners will be announced by December 31, 2023.

Entry fee: $12 — includes a digital copy of the contest issue.

Judge Juliette Wade never outgrew the habit of asking "why" about everything. This path led her to study foreign languages and to complete degrees in both anthropology and linguistics. Combining these with a fascination for worldbuilding and psychology, she creates multifaceted speculative fiction that holds a mirror to our own society. Check out the Broken Trust trilogy: Mazes of Power, Transgressions of Power, and Inheritors of Power.

Contest Guidelines:

• All novel genres welcome except for Children's and Middle Grade

• Excerpts should be approximately 4,000 to 6,000 words in length (do not send us your entire manuscript)

• We recommend you buy a copy of the current issue for a sense of the types of excerpts published (although this will obviously change with different judges)

• Your name should not appear on the submission

• Excerpts do not have to be from the beginning of a manuscript

• Standard formatting: Title on first page, double-spaced, 12 point font

• Acceptable file types are PDF or Word documents (.pdf, .docx, .doc, .rtf)

• If needed, an introductory paragraph can be added giving any necessary background information (for excerpts not taken from the beginning)

• Excerpts need not feel complete, stand alone, or read like a short story

• Previously unpublished work only

• Simultaneous submissions accepted as long as you contact us to withdraw your submission if it is accepted elsewhere

• Multiple submissions allowed; each excerpt must be submitted with a separate entry fee

• ​Excerpts must be in English but can come from anywhere in the world; translations are allowed if the original has not been previously published

• All rights revert to the author on publication

• Novel Slices staff, their families, and associates cannot enter​

• We follow the contest code of ethics published by the Council of Literary Magazines & Presses

Why enter this contest?

First of all, your chances of winning are much higher, because there are five winners. Moreover, we do not expect you to carve your novel excerpt into the format of a short story, and so you are not starting out on uneven footing. Last but certainly not least, our publication is marketed directly to literary agents as well as both small and large publishers, in order to give winning entries the greatest possible exposure. 

Enter here.

Call for Submissions on Theme of "Coffee, Tea, Cocoa": Still Point Arts Quarterly

 

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The focus of our spring 2024 journal will be:

COFFEE, TEA, COCOA

All over the globe, well-established traditions have developed around the personal and social enjoyment of drinking these soothing, satisfying, and borderline addictive beverages.

Call for Writers
Submission Deadline: January 1, 2024
Selected writers will have their work published in the spring 20234issue of Still Point Arts Quarterly
INFORMATION AND SUBMISSION FORM 

Call for Artists
Submission Deadline: January 1, 2024
Selected artists will have their work published in the spring 2024 issue of Still Point Arts Quarterly
INFORMATION AND SUBMISSION FORM

Call for Poetry Submissions: The Paris Review

The Paris Review accepts unsolicited submissions of prose in March and September and unsolicited submissions of poetry in January, April, July, and October.

All submissions must be in English and must be previously unpublished. Translations are welcome and should be accompanied by a copy of the original. Simultaneous submissions are allowed, as long as we are notified immediately if the manuscript is accepted for publication elsewhere.

Please submit no more than six poems or one piece of prose at a time and please do not submit more than twice in a calendar year.

We suggest to all who plan to submit that they read the most recent issues of The Paris Review to acquaint themselves with material the magazine has published. Subscriptions are available here.

While we strongly encourage you to use Submittable, we will also be accepting hard-copy prose submissions during the months of March and September and hard-copy poetry submissions during the months of January, April, July, and October. Submissions postmarked after the last day of the month in question will not be processed. Please send any hard-copy submissions to the following address, including a brief cover letter and a self-addressed and stamped envelope (SASE):

Prose Editor/Poetry Editor

The Paris Review

544 West 27th Street, Floor 3

New York, NY 10001

 

Submit your work here.

Call for Nonfiction Submissions: Cutleaf

Cutleaf is an online literary journal with an annual print anthology. We welcome unsolicited and unpublished original poetry, short stories, essays, and other nonfiction in English from established and emerging writers.

Cutleaf is open for submissions once per year in each genre. To be informed about reading periods, please subscribe to our newsletter on the Cutleaf website.

For the issues in 2024, Cutleaf will open to submissions on the following dates:

Nonfiction: October 1 to October 31, 2023

We often limit the number of submissions in order to be able to respond quickly to authors, so please plan accordingly.

We consider simultaneous submissions with the understanding that you will quickly inform us if a piece is accepted by another publication.

Cutleaf will pay from $100 to $400 for prose. Cutleaf acquires non-exclusive first serial rights throughout North America to publish work in all editions of Cutleaf, wherever published and distributed, including hard copy and electronic formats. We reserve the right to make any work that we’ve published available in the Cutleaf archives on our website. Should a piece first published in Cutleaf be reprinted in another work, we request the later publication include an acknowledgment of Cutleaf.

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

******************Manuscript Guidelines for submissions to Cutleaf****************

1. Manuscripts must be submitted as a MS Word file set in a standard 12-point font (such as Times New Roman). Prose should be double-spaced with numbered pages. Poems should be spaced as the author expects them to appear in the journal.

2. The author's name, mailing address and email should appear on the first page of the manuscript. 

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions: Brick, A Literary Journal

As Emerson wrote in his journal between 1832 and 1834: “A true method…tells its own story, makes its own feet, creates its own form. It is its own apology.” That’s what we’re after at Brick. Something that’s not just smart but thoughtful, that’s surprising, a little strange, and usually moving. There’s no making of cases or closings of deals. We’re looking for things we can’t help but believe, that we’ve never quite seen before, said in a way we’ve never heard before. 

Michael Helm, Brick editor

Brick prides itself on publishing the best literary non-fiction in the world, and we are eager to read your impeccable and compelling non-fiction submissions. We crave pieces with formal integrity that take creative approaches to rich ideas. Underrepresented writers—including but not limited to writers who are Black, Indigenous, people of colour, queer, non-binary, Deaf, and/or disabled—are especially encouraged to submit their literary non-fiction.

An average issue of Brick will contain essays, reviews, interviews, belle lettres, memoir, translations, and all manner of incidental literary ephemera. In curating our issues, we are guided by the following tenet, which appears on the masthead of every issue of Brick:

 

Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and with nothing to be so little reached as with criticism. Only love can grasp and hold and fairly judge them. 

Rainer Maria Rilke

Love has led Brick to publish essays of every description. Some recent examples include a memoir of loss and art, a book review that defies reviewership, a poetic essay on Blackness and breath, favourite films reframed, a travelogue rich with politically charged history, a slant view of motherhood, writers in conversation, a gem in literary history, and a consideration of comfort food. Still, we are always looking for new terrain. We want to read about the singular obsessions that compel you to write. We welcome playfulness and beauty, depth and difficulty, the unclassifiable, and your explorations of the non-fiction form.

 

If a piece contains beautiful, surprising prose, I find it impossible to turn away. I am carried by the cadence, and by listening for how cadence supports subject, the vitality it lends. 

Laurie D. Graham, Brick editor and publisher

Do take the time to familiarize yourself with a recent issue of the magazine by subscribing, ordering a back issue, signing up for our newsletter Bricolage, or reading pieces on our website before you submit to Brick. Reading our magazine is the best way to situate yourself with what we publish. You may also take advantage of the opportunity to order a discounted issue or subscribe at a discount when you submit through Submittable.

Brick pays its contributors upon publication and offers $65–720, depending on the length of accepted work, plus two copies of the issue the work appears in and a one-year subscription to the magazine.
 

Submission Guidelines: 

• We can only accept submissions through Submittable. Mailed or emailed submissions will not be read, returned, or responded to.

• Brick is open for submissions twice a year: from October 1 to October 31, and from April 1 to April 30.

• We consider only finished, polished literary non-fiction submissions.

• Submissions must be previously unpublished.

• We will read simultaneous submissions, but please let us know and withdraw your piece if your manuscript is accepted for publication elsewhere.

• Please only submit one piece at a time. Please wait for a response before sending us other work to consider. Multiple submissions will be automatically rejected.

• While Brick does not set a word limit, we tend toward a range of 1,000–5,000 words. Whatever the length, the piece must be exemplary.

• Please allow up to nine months for us to respond to your submission.

If you’ve read our guidelines above and are ready to submit your best literary non-fiction to Brick, please send it through Submittable during our submission periods. We look forward to reading your work.