Call for Submissions: Oyster River Pages

 

ORP will accept submissions in the genres below for publication in its seventh annual issue from January 23 through May 31, 2024.

In general, simultaneous submissions are fine, but please contact us immediately if your work is picked up elsewhere. We request first serial rights, after which all rights revert to the author or artist. We do not reprint previously published work unless otherwise explicitly stated in the specific guidelines. Please include a 60-word bio with your submission and feel free to upload a photo with your submission.

We are especially eager to publish pieces that engage with the work of marginalized and decentered people—Black and Brown creators, LGBTQ+ creators, and creators of all levels of dis/ability, and to that end, we invite creators to self-identify in their submissions.

• Fiction: Please submit one story up to 6,000 words in .docx format. All work should be double-spaced.

• Emerging Voices Fiction: Please submit one short story up to 6,000 words in .docx format. Only one short story per submitter will be read and reviewed. All work should be double-spaced. Please include your full name, pseudonym or pen name, should you wish to use it for publication, and preferred email on the first page of the document. Please also include the title of your short story on the first page. Emerging Voices Fiction also accepts translated work. Please mention in your cover letter if you are submitting translated work and include the name of the translator.

• Creative Non-Fiction: Please submit creative non-fiction pieces that are no longer than 5,000 words in .docx format. All work should be double-spaced. Your name should not appear anywhere in the document.

• Poetry: Please submit up to three poems in .docx format. Each poem should start on its own page. Please note if a page break is also a stanza break. We do our best to respond to submissions in a timely manner. Sometimes, taking our time means your poem has made it through multiple rounds and is being seriously considered for publication. For this reason, please wait at least 6 months before inquiring about a submission. Duplicate poetry submissions within the same submission window will be automatically declined.

• Emerging Voices Poetry: Please submit up to 3 poems in one document of no longer than 10 pages total in .doc or .docx format. If your poem(s) require specific formatting, you may use .pdf to preserve the spacing. Each poem should start on its own page. Please note if a page break is also a stanza break. Please include your full name, pseudonym or pen name, should you wish to use it for publication, and preferred email on the first page of the document. Please also include the title(s) of your poem(s) with each poem. Emerging Voices Poetry does not accept translations at this time. Only one submission of poetry per submitter will be read and reviewed.

• Visual Art: Please submit photography or other visual arts that are saved at 300 dpi or greater. We reserve the right to crop or edit submissions in order to fit in print or on our webpage.

Additionally, ORP Soundings will publish reviews, interviews, profiles, commentary, or other innovative forms (including multimedia) that seek to highlight or critically engage with issues or works of literary, artistic, or cultural significance. Submissions should align with ORP's mission to amplify stories that speak to what it means to be alive in this world, works that move of out of ourselves and into other spaces, and voices who bring balance and diversity to historical institutions of power. For these reasons, we prioritize works that are published or produced independently, without the clout of corporate promotion.

Please note that Oyster River Pages will not publish any work that has been created, in part or in full, or in collaboration with generative artificial intelligence. Should we find that work published on our site has been created with the support of generative artificial intelligence, we reserve the right to remove such work from our site and rescind publication.

Submit your work here.

Writing Competition: The Bath Novel Award

The Bath Novel Award 2024 £5,000 international writing prize

The Bath Novel Award 2024 is a £5,000 international writing prize for unagented writers who are unpublished, self-published or independently published.

We are looking for adult and YA novels in every genre. Initial submissions are your opening 5,000 words and one-page synopsis of a manuscript which is complete at over 50,000 words.

The author of 2024’s winning manuscript, as judged by Catherine Cho, founder of the Paper Literary agency, will receive a £5,000 cash prize. The winner will also receive our beautiful Minerva trophy, based on the world famous sculpture in Bath’s Roman Baths.

Shortlisted writers win a compilation of award readers’ comments on their full manuscript. All listees win feedback on their opening pages from Cornerstones Literary Consultancy‘s editorial director. One longlistee will also win a place worth £1,980 on the 18 week virtual course Edit Your Novel the Professional Way from Cornerstones Literary Consultancy and the Professional Writing Academy.

Entries are open worldwide until 31 May 2024.

The entrance fee is £29.99 per novel with sponsored places available for writers on a low income. 

More information here.

Writing Competition: The New Michigan Press / DIAGRAM Chapbook Contest

The New Michigan Press / DIAGRAM chapbook contest announces our guidelines for 2024! We select the majority of our chapbook list each year from the ranks of the chapbook contest finalists, so this is the best way to get your work read. And what's more, it's all read blind. Plus you get a free chapbook just for entering and you get to know that your entry helps us do what we do.

The Prize $1000 plus 25 author copies AND of course publication; finalist chapbooks also considered for publication (we typically publish 3-6).

 The Entry Fee $25

 The Mailing Deadline May 15, 2024

What we want:

Interesting, lovely unpublished work (unpublished as a whole; individual pieces may be published already of course), prose or poetry or some combination or something between genres, 18-44 manuscript pages (no more than one poem per page if you're sending poems unless they are very, very short).

Images okay?

Yes, as long as you can obtain reprint rights for any images you include, unless they're in the public domain or qualify under the exemption for fair use. We do prefer images be in low-res for the manuscript to keep file size down (the submissions manager maxes out at around 9 megabytes), but we'll need high-res versions if your manuscript is selected for publication. ALSO: please don't send originals of anything, since we cannot return manuscripts.

Other questions?

It's fine with us if individual works have been published elsewhere, but the manuscript can't have been published as a whole before. Please include specific acknowledgments if any of the works have appeared elsewhere: tell us where individual pieces appeared, as we do sometimes consider submitted and unpublished individual pieces for possible publication in DIAGRAM.

We recommend that your manuscript be as coherent--as much a project--as possible. Not to say everything needs to be thematic or narratively related, but most of our winning chapbooks have a feeling of aesthetic unity or connection or resonance: we think chapbooks should make sense as chapbooks, and be more than the sums of their parts. Chapbook manuscripts do not necessarily have to be diagrammatic (though the diagrammers among us do enjoy those).

Co-authored manuscripts are fine.

Manuscripts that engage algorithmic writing tactics (cut-ups, collage, erasure, large language models, AI chatbots, autotranslation softwares, etc) are fine as long as you're up front about their use.

Submitting multiple manuscripts is fine with entry fees for each.

Simultaneous submissions are fine as long as you let us know ASAP if a manuscript needs to be withdrawn.

Please don't put your name/identifying info on the piece itself. If you send electronically, it'll be in the submitter info only, and that doesn't get forward to our readers. If you send via the mail, include a detachable cover page.

Email contest--at--thediagram.com with further questions if you have them.

More information and submission link here.

Call for Submissions on Theme of "Trash": subTerrain Magazine

 

Deadline: may 16, 2024

Hello, and thank you for sending your work to subTerrain magazine.

subTerrain publishes original fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, essays, and commentary three times a year. Submissions must be previously unpublished material. (Note maximum number of submissions per issue below.)

Feel free to interpret our themes in unique and unusual ways.

All other regular submission guidelines still apply, as below.

The following are some general guidelines (as always, we suggest READING an issue of the magazine to see what we're all about).

Submissions must be previously unpublished and be:

1. typed, double-spaced on 8 1/2 x 11 paper.

2. Fiction: a maximum of 3,000 words. (Max. 3 stories per issue)

3. Poetry: we no longer accept unsolicited poetry submissions (unless specifically related to one of our theme issues). Poetry should be single-spaced with stanza breaks. (Max. 5 poems per issue)

4. Creative Non-Fiction: a maximum of 4,000 words. (Max. 2 articles per issue)

5. Commentary (social or otherwise): a maximum of 4000 words. (Max. 2 articles per issue)

6. Photography & Illustration: we only accept solicited art and photography. Please forward us a link to your work;

7. Please do not send submissions via email; online submissions accepted through Submittable only (mailed submissions are still accepted as well.)

8. Please allow 6 months for a response, though we shall strive as always to respond sooner.

Payment rates for published submissions:

Poetry: $50 per poem

Prose: $.10 per word (to a maximum of $500.)

Submission fees:

Electronic submissions come with a $3.00 submission fee to help cover our Submittable account and thereby allow us to continue accepting online submissions.

Submit electronically here.

If you choose to submit by traditional mail, you will not be charged the submission fee. Mailed submissions can be sent to the address below.

*If submitting by mail, please identify on the front of the envelope the theme issue to which you're submitting.

subTerrain Magazine

P.O. Box 3008, MPO

Vancouver, BC V6B 3X5

Canada

Call for Submissions: The Maine Review

Note: Submissions open May 1, 2024

 

The Maine Review seeks outstanding contemporary fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, including works in translation and hybrid forms. We are pleased to publish new, emerging, and established writers, and are committed to supporting representation, innovation, and literary artistry.
We encourage submitters to read what we’ve published, and whatever you send our way, please carefully read our guidelines. Submissions that do not adhere to them may be unread.

 

We will not publish work that normalizes hatred of any marginalized group or individual, though submitted work may thoughtfully consider subjects of discrimination.

We do not publish academic papers or news writing.

General Guidelines:

• We accept submissions only through Submittable. Submissions must be previously unpublished in print and online.

• We encourage simultaneous submissions, but please withdraw your submission immediately if it is accepted elsewhere. If only part of a submission must be withdrawn, please notify us using Submittable's "message" function.

• We encourage submissions from writers of all backgrounds, including but not limited to LGBTQIA+ writers, BIPOC writers, female-identifying writers, unpublished writers, writers with disabilities, and economically marginalized writers.

• Please address cover letters to the appropriate genre editor. In prose submissions, please include your word count in your cover letter.

• We ask that contributors whose work we've published wait at least one year before submitting again.

• Please send only one submission at a time. We do not accept and cannot refund multiple submissions.

• Please allow us six months before querying.

Fiction and Nonfiction Formatting:

• 12-point Times New Roman font

• Double-spaced

• 1” margins

• Pages numbered

• Please include the word count in your cover letter

• One piece of 3,000 words or fewer (though we will consider longer works of exceptional merit) or three flash pieces no more than 1,000 words each

Poetry Formatting:

• 12-point Times New Roman font

• Single-spaced (or as you would like the poem to appear online)

• Pages numbered

• Maximum three poems, no more than five pages total

Submission Schedule:
We are open for nonfiction, fiction, and poetry submissions from January 1–March 31, May 1–June 30, and September 1–November 30. We frequently open week-long free submission periods, during which general submission periods are paused.

We publish issues biannually in the spring and fall, and nominate for Best American Short Stories, the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and other awards.

 

Submission Fees:

We are a nonprofit organization and ask writers to pay a $3 fee per submission, of which we receive $1.86. This fee directly supports our authors, editors, and programs, and helps cover Submittable costs. If this submission fee is a barrier, please email info@mainereview.com for a link to a fee-waived submission. No explanation is needed. *Please do not email us your submission.*

All donations are tax-deductible and direct donations of any amount are also welcome at mainereview.com/donate. No matter what you give, we are grateful for your contribution and support of our publication!

 

Writer Payment:

Fiction and Nonfiction writers receive a $25 honorarium per published flash (1,000 words or fewer) and a $50 honorarium for work 1,001 words or more.

Poets receive a $25 honorarium per published poem.

 

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions on Theme of "Rural Living": The Gilded Weathervane

The Gilded Weathervane is looking for poems, stories, essays, artwork, and photography that is grounded in the beauty and experience of rural living in its variety of expressions.

General Guidelines

The Gilded Weathervane considers only previously unpublished work. We are published in the fall and spring and accept submissions year round. We do accept simultaneous submissions, but please let us know immediately if your work has been accepted elsewhere. Submission is free, and manuscripts must be submitted electronically via this link: https://forms.gle/aKVMnvSHA3zpT5vd8

 Manuscript Preparation

Each submission should include a cover letter and a short bio, no longer than 150 words. If citations are needed in any of the submissions, please follow MLA Guidelines. We prefer PDF or Word doc submissions.

Fiction

Short stories should be double spaced and no longer than 6,000 words. We also accept flash fiction (no genre fiction, please). Please submit only one longer story at a time. You may submit 3-4 pieces of flash-length prose.

Essays

Essays should be double spaced and no longer than 6,000 words. We also accept flash-length essays. We are particularly interested in creative nonfiction (memoir and personal essays). Please submit only one longer essay at a time. You may submit 3-4 pieces of flash-length prose.

Poetry

Submit 4-6 poems for us to consider in your poetry submissions. Please do not submit entire poetry manuscripts/collections.

Artwork/Photography

Please send only high resolution images as a PNG or JPEG. Art may not be an AI image.

Call for Submissions on Themes of "Environmental Justice": Reckoning 9

Reckoning 9 is open for general submissions! There is no specific theme for this issue; if your work concerns any aspect of environmental justice, from food sovereignty to ocean plastics to industrial cleanup to Indigenous rights, we want to see it. In fact, we look forward most eagerly to perspectives none of us has thought of. Please help us learn and understand.

The editors for the issue will be C.G. Aubrey, Priya Chand, and Catherine Rockwood, with help and support from the rest of the wonderful and brilliant Reckoning staff.

As always, we are seeking art, poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction up to 20,000 words in length, in particular from Indigenous, Black, Brown, queer, trans, disabled, neurodivergent and/or otherwise marginalized writers and artists from everywhere, and we pay $50/page for poetry and art, 10c/word for prose.  

Deadline for this issue is the solar equinox, September 22, 2024.

Full guidelines are here. Please submit?

Call for Submissions: Sybil Journal

Sybil Journal

Submissions for fiction, essays, poetry, comics, and visual/hybrid art are OPEN.

Please send your work as an attachment to:

sybiljournal@gmail.com

—if you would like to leave a bio, please do so in the third person in the body of the email.

We do not require bios, but try to point our readers towards our authors’ websites/social media, when desired. Unfortunately, we cannot offer payment for accepted pieces.

Simultaneous submissions are fine. Previously published works are fine (as long as you own the rights). If we have published you in the past, do not hesitate to submit again. We enjoy building relationships with our contributors. Feel free to look through the site for a sense of the kind of work we publish.

*All submissions are reviewed by our small team of editors. Response times will vary, but we will get back to you as quickly as we can. If you haven’t heard anything after six months, don’t hesitate to shoot us an email. For previously accepted authors, we politely ask that you send any new work in a separate email thread.

Call for Submissions: Eucalyptus Lit

Thank you so much for considering Eucalyptus Lit as a home for your words!

We're open year-round, and accept submissions of poetry, prose, hybrid and/or experimental genres, and artwork. No work created utilizing artificial intelligence aids will be considered for submission.

Simultaneous submissions are welcome, but please indicate this in your email, as well as let us know immediately if your work is accepted somewhere else. We reserve First North American Rights, and all rights revert to the author upon publication, although we ask that you credit Eucalyptus Lit as the first publisher of your work. We will nominate for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net.

We will get back to you in under four to six weeks and provide feedback upon request. However, our editors are all busy students juggling schoolwork and our own artistic careers—if we have not made a decision after four weeks have passed, do query and let us know!

Unfortunately, Eucalyptus Lit is currently not a paying market. However, we'll shout out all our contributors on our social media, as well as try to promote their work any way we can.

Please note that we have zero tolerance for hateful or discriminatory language. Submissions that have been deemed to contain such views will be rejected without further consideration, and we reserve the right to ban future submissions.

Submit all work through our submission form: https://forms.gle/KwDtc55ASTZu7JNr7​

Submitting through our submission form is preferred, but if you cannot access it for any reason, you may email your submission to us at:

eucalyptus.lit@gmail.com 

Include the word "SUBMISSION" in your email title, a cover letter, and a personal bio with less than 75 words.

For poetry, please send up to five poems single-spaced, in a pdf or word document, starting each poem on a new page.

For prose, send up to three pieces double-spaced, with a total word count of less than 5,000 words.

For hybrid/experimental genres, please limit video/audio to under three minutes, and number of pictures to five or under.

For artwork, please send up to five high quality JPEG or PNG files.

We will get back to you in under two to four weeks and provide feedback upon request. However, our editors are all busy students juggling schoolwork and our own artistic careers—if we have not made a decision after four weeks have passed, do query and let us know!

Writing Residency: Anne LaBastille Memorial Writers Residency

Anne LaBastille Memorial Writers Residency

Two weeks, indoor and outdoor writing spaces, fireside hangouts, paddling, hiking, forest bathing, and family-style meals at a spacious lakeside lodge in the heart of the Adirondack forest.

Application Period: April 15 – May 19, 2024

Residency Dates: September 22 – October 6, 2024
Notification: July 2024

Applications can be submitted through our Submittable Page.

The Adirondack Center for Writing offers a free, two-week residency annually in autumn to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at a lodge on Twitchell Lake in the heart of the Adirondack Mountains. Six residents will be chosen: three from the Adirondack region (aka “The North Country” and three from anywhere in the world. Quality of written submissions is the primary consideration when accepting applications.

The residency is generously provided by the estate of Anne LaBastille, who wrote books capturing challenges of the region, including Woodswoman and Beyond Black Bear Lake from her cabin on Twitchell Lake. During the residency, writers will paddle to the site of her property and explore the lake with locals.

The Lodge at Twitchell Lake provides an abundance of physical space, and each resident has their own bedroom and bathroom. There are plenty of writing spaces in and around the property. Internet access is available, but limited (email ; Zoom ). Most cell phones will not work (a landline is available).

Covid-19 Requirements: Proof of vaccination is required. Residents who are unable to be vaccinated for medical reasons will be required to provide proof of negative test upon arrival and can contact ACW with any COVID-19-related questions: 

info@adirondackcenterforwriting.org

Fee: There is a $30 application fee. There is no cost to attend the residency. 

Application Requirements

• Cover Letter: In the space provided in Submittable (no attachments), include a brief, third-person bio and a work plan detailing your goals for this residency.

• Writing Sample: Please send up to 10 pages of your best writing in the genre you will working in at the residency.
  

• Prose: 10 pages max. 
• Poetry: 10 poems max. 
• NOTE: Make sure your name does not show up anywhere in your writing sample. Writing samples that include your name will not be considered. Quality of written submissions will be our primary consideration when accepting applications.

• Application Fee: $30. Your application fee ensures that the residency can remain free to selected residents.

 We do not accept printed applications. Contact:

 info@adirondackcenterforwriting.org

or 518-354-1261 with any questions. 

More information here.

Writing Competition and Residency: The James Laughlin Award

Offered since 1954, the James Laughlin Award is given to recognize and support a second book of poetry forthcoming in the next calendar year. The award was endowed in 1995 by a gift to the Academy from the Drue Heinz Trust. It is named for the poet and publisher James Laughlin (1914–1997), who founded New Directions in 1936.

The winning poet receives a prize of $5,000, an all-expenses-paid weeklong residency at The Betsy Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida, and distribution of the winning book to approximately one thousand Academy of American Poets members.

Submissions for the 2024 James Laughlin Award are accepted from January 1, 2024 to May 15, 2024.

The judges are Tarfia Faizullah, Keetje Kuipers, and Barbara Jane Reyes.

Complete guidelines and entry link here.

Call for Susmissions on Theme of "border / lands": Tint Journal

Share your short stories, creative nonfiction essays, flash and poetry, as well as your artworks from April 8 to May 31, 2024 (midnight CEST) with us to be considered for our 12th issue, Tint Fall ‘24!

Theme: border/lands

To survive the Borderlands
you must live sin fronteras
be a crossroads.
– Gloria Anzaldúa

What does it mean to live at the border, with a border, on the very borderline, or in the lands that touch a border or a multitude of them? Is a border always a contested zone, drawing conflict and violence, or can it be a realm of peace, understanding and justice, a space of innovation, becoming and creativity? And what is a border – to begin with?

For Tint Journal’s first themed issue, Tint Fall ‘24, we invite writers to submit poems, stories and personal essays as well as artists to submit artworks that explore the theme of border/lands. We’d like you to imagine this topic as broad as possible: national borders, geographical borders small and large, borders drafted by society and societal norms, current borders and historical ones, mental borders, imagined borders, language borders, the borders of the self and of communities, the human and the nonhuman, the mind and the body – as well as movements across and interactions between all these kinds of border zones.

We’re not looking for keywords in your texts, and we’re open to finding this theme as an undercurrent or a central idea in your submissions. What we’re excited for are the different approaches towards border/lands from the many regions and voices of our planet Earth, from the borders within one individual being to the borders between us and outer space – where do we meet, where do we part, and what is happening in-between?

Please carefully review our submission guidelines to meet Tint Journal’s formal criteria. Submissions are received until May 31, 2024 (midnight CEST) via email at:

submissions@tintjournal.com 

or via Submittable. Feel free to approach us at:

info@tintjournal.com 

if questions arise.

The Tint Journal editorial can’t wait to arrange the first themed issue of the literary magazine for non-native English writing!

Call for Submissions: Pictura Journal

Pictura Journal will appear online in two formats: full pdf issues published in April, August, and December, and monthly smaller features as submission volume allows. Our goal is to release a print anthology every other year with content pulled from all published work.

Submissions are always open, but the soft deadline for submissions for each issue is the 15th of the month preceding publication. For example: if you send in a submission on July 16th, your work might not be accepted for the August issue but will instead be considered for December.

* Note: For 2024 only, there will be no April issue.

What We’re Looking For

We’re looking for work that offers a vivid snapshot of the writer’s world — we want to see cracks in the plaster, last night’s empties on the coffee table, the shivering birch just outside the kitchen window. We want to see the mundane rendered with clarity & quiet moments given room to breathe.

We love concrete images and work grounded in a strong sense of place. “Night Walk” by Franz Wright, “Michiko Dead” by Jack Gilbert, “The Orange” by Wendy Cope, and “What the Living Do” by Marie Howe are some of our favorite poems. Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl”, and “Olga” by Lidia Yuknavitch are good examples of the kinds of prose we enjoy.

The Basics

All submissions are considered for all issues unless the writer specifies otherwise. We offer a token payment of at least $5 for each piece accepted for our April, August, and December issues only, paid through Paypal (preferred) or Venmo upon publication. Payments will be made in USD.

The small amount isn’t reflective of the quality of contributor work — it’s just what we can afford with our current funding.

We know it takes a lot of trust to submit work to a new journal, so we’re currently accepting previously published work, as long as you let us know where it originally appeared. We’ll always encourage simultaneous submissions, but please email:

 hello@picturajournal.com

to withdraw any pieces that are accepted elsewhere.

We will never publish anything that could reasonably be deemed offensive, including work containing graphic violence or abusive behavior, or themes and language expressing hatred for any marginalized identity. If you’re uncomfortable with your work appearing in an inclusive publication, we’re not the place for you.

Written work must be in English.

Please don’t submit if you’re under 18 years of age.

Do not send us anything generated by AI.

Include a cover letter and brief third-person bio with each submission. Do not put your name or identifying information anywhere within the document itself. If we publish your work, please wait four months to submit again. If we decline your submission, you may submit different pieces after four months.

Upon acceptance, creators of unpublished work grant Pictura Journal exclusive first serial rights and the right to archive that work online. If your submission has been published elsewhere, you agree to grant us reprint and archival rights.

Submissions are always free, but a donation of at least $2.55 will guarantee a response within three days or feedback on your submission. For at least $3.65 we’ll give you both. Feedback is not currently available for art submissions. Use this link to pay, and note that you did so on the submission form.

We’ll do our best to respond to regular submissions within three weeks.

Extras

Contributors to the April, August, and December issues will be given the opportunity to complete a feature interview on our blog, to be posted during the week before publication.

The Specifics

Upload all submissions using our online form. If for some reason you can’t use the form, send your work as an attachment to:

submit@picturajournal.com

and include a bio and cover letter in the body of the email.

Poetry

Send up to five poems in one document. We prefer free verse and can’t guarantee that we’ll be able to replicate any special visual structure.

Prose

Send one or two pieces of fiction or creative nonfiction, each no longer than 1,500 words. Excerpts of longer works are fine, but they must make sense on their own.

Artwork

We’re also looking for artwork to accompany accepted writing. Submit up to three pieces of visual art, in the highest resolution possible. Please don’t send any artwork depicting graphic nudity or violence.

Submission link here.

Call for Submissions: Toronto Journal

What do we publish?

We publish short stories from anywhere in the world.

We will also consider non-fiction pieces that are either set locally or explore some local history (Toronto, GTA, and surrounding). See the Stories from the City category, and the Toronto Feature category, respectively, for some examples.

Who do we publish?

We are firm believers in the idea that the writing should speak for itself. It’s irrelevant to us whether you’re a new writer or an established writer. All submissions to Toronto Journal are anonymous.

Compensation: We pay $50 per piece. All published writers will also receive a printed copy of the issue in which they appear.

Submission Guidelines

• Do not include your name or email on the pdf or word document with your content.

• Do not include a cover letter with your work.

• Word limit is 7,500 words.

• No strict formatting requirements besides legibility.

• Simultaneous submissions are ok. Please let us know if your work is accepted elsewhere.

• If your work is selected for publication, Toronto Journal has first serial rights only, and the author retains all other rights to the work.

• We cannot accept any work that has been published previously in English, either in print, online, in audio format, or otherwise.

• Should we happen to accept multiple pieces from the same author for a given issue, the accepted pieces may be postponed to subsequent issues.

• If you are submitting for the Summer issue, expect to hear back from us by April 30th each year. If you are submitting for the Winter issue, expect to hear back from us by October 31st each year. If you don’t hear back from us, please get in touch:  

 submissions@torontojournal.com.

Remember to not include any identifying information in your attachment. Submissions to Toronto Journal are anonymous.

We are currently accepting submissions for our Winter 2025 issue. Deadline: 1 October 2024.

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions on Theme of "Place": Scrawl Place

Scrawl Place is part visitor’s guide, part literary journal.

The audience for this online publication is the guest, the visitor, the traveler, the day-tripper, the out-of-towner, and the in-towners eager to wander. I’m looking for submissions about “places in the places” where you live or where you’ve visited.

My only fixed criteria is that your submission be about or connected to or associated with a specific, physical place that someone could visit. The more specific the place, the better. How that manifests in terms of content, style and form is up to you.

The place you write about could be a Wonder of the World, a random street corner that means something to you, or anything in between.

My aspirational hope is that readers will think of you and your words if they ever happen to visit the places you write about, then maybe write some words of their own and start a dialogue across time and space.

What to Submit CNF, Fiction, Poetry, Hybrids

Length There are no length requirements (a/o August 11, 2022)

Submit one to three pieces at a time

Payment $35 per piece
Paid within 30 days of acceptance (PayPal, Venmo, CashApp, ApplePay or Zelle)

Where to Submit + Response Times

Send your submission through Submittable.

The average response time is four weeks.

Cover Letters + Bio

Cover letters are optional, but please provide a third-person bio.

Rights

Writers retain all rights to their work. Scrawl Place requests a nonexclusive license to 1) Publish your work in an e-newsletter; 2) Archive your work on the website so long as the site exists; 3) Excerpt your work for use in promotion.

Simultaneous Subs + Previously Published Work

Scrawl Place encourages simultaneous submissions.

Scrawl Place accepts previously published work.

Any questions? Email:

andy@scrawlplace.com

Call for Submissions: New Critique

Submissions are open

New Critique is an independent, non-profit journal of critical and creative writing.

Please send previously unpublished submissions in word document format (not PDF), with any images attached separately, along with an author bio in the third person, and any social media handles to:

 editors@newcritique.co.uk

We aim to reply promptly but please allow 6–8 weeks for a response.

Every submission is subject to a rigorous review by three editors. We work closely with writers to refine and revise work for publication.

We receive many submissions and read each one carefully, but we regret that we cannot offer individual feedback on all submissions. If we do not proceed with your submission, please wait three months before submitting new work. We accept simultaneous submissions—just let us know if your work is accepted elsewhere.

Unfortunately, we cannot pay contributors. We do not charge submission or subscription fees, and we do not run adverts; the editors are unpaid, and the journal’s running costs are covered by the editorial team.

Essays

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Zoom Presentation: Who Are the Downwinders and Why Do They Matter?

I will be giving a Zoom presentation on the history of the downwinders and their quest for justice for the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History on Friday, April 26, 2024 at 6:00 p.m. MDT. Downwinders are people who developed cancer from the atomic bomb tests during the Cold War. This talk is based on my research for my novel, WHEN THE SKY FELL, currently on submission to publishers. The details and registration link are posted below. Hope you can join me!

New Mexico has a long history with the atomic bomb. Join us virtually for an exclusive event featuring author Jeanne Lyet Gassman, as she addresses the long-term consequences of nuclear testing after Trinity. 

Don't miss this opportunity to hear the story of the downwinders (people who contracted cancer from exposure to radioactive fallout and radiation) and their ongoing struggle for justice and compensation. Reserve your virtual seat now and be a part of this thought-provoking event that promises to deepen your understanding of one of history's most pivotal moments.

This event is $10 to attend virtually for non-members, and Museum members can attend for $5. Advance registration is required to attend. Members can receive a $5.00 discount by contacting the membership associate. 

Please email us if you have any questions. 

This event is virtual only. It will be held via Zoom, not at the Nuclear Museum.

Jeanne Lyet Gassman's first novel, Blood of a Stone (Tuscany Press) received an Independent Publishers Book Award in 2015. Additional honors for Ms. Gassman include grants and fellowships from the New Mexico Writers' Foundation, Ragdale, and the Arizona Commission for the Arts, as well as nominations for a Pushcart Prize and Best Small Fictions. Ms. Gassman's work has appeared in numerous literary magazines and her current novel about a family of downwinders is on submission to publishers.

https://www.nuclearmuseum.org/cart/virtual-event-who-are-the-downwinders-and-why-do-they-matter