Call for Submissions from Healthcare Providers and Patients on Theme of "What If?": Please See Me

 

General Guidelines

We seek previously unpublished, creative, and high-quality work in the form of poetry, creative nonfiction/essays, fiction/short stories/flash fiction, scripts and digital media (photography, drawings, podcasts, and short films). Patients, students, family members, caregivers, nurses, physicians, healthcare consumers, artists, mental health providers, physical therapists, writers, clergy—all of us will be patients one day and all are welcome to submit work. We are especially looking for content from vulnerable populations and those who care for them; content that connects us with every community, makes us feel something, helps us see illness, wellness, health, or the healthcare environment differently, and inspires equality in healthcare and the world.

Theme Guidelines: What if?

In September of 2024, I attended the Patients for Patient Safety World Patient Safety Day in Washington DC. This dedicated group of patient advocates and activists are working hard to push policy and change forward that protects patients and providers in our US healthcare system. The organization created a short video entitled What if? capturing personal stories highlighting how their health outcomes and lives were affected by healthcare systems that failed to deliver the appropriate care, and which inspires the theme for 2025 Issue #16.

What is your “What if?” or “If only…” related to your health-related stories. What if you had asked the next question of your provider even as their back was turned and walking out the door?
What if you had taken the extra moment with a patient and not missed that diagnosis?
What if you had asked for help in your third year of medical school? In residency?
What if you had spoken up when you witnessed bullying or inappropriate leadership?
What if you had told your partner you loved them before they left for work?
What if you shared the joy you experienced when care did go as planned?

The canvas here is wide and deep and the theme is a jumping off point. Paint with the words and images that ring true to you! We look forward to seeing what our audience of writers, patients, physicians, psychologists, patient advocates, artists, and healthcare consumers have to say! Every one of your stories matter to us. We are listening!

Deadline: Jan. 13, 2025 

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions on Theme of "Gravity": Notch: a literary and arts magazine

Notch: A Literary and Arts Magazine call for submissions on theme of "Gravity."

Gravity wears many faces. We feel it in moments, see it in the tides, remember it when pulled into people’s orbit. The ebbs and flows of creative inspiration are well known to artists—muses appear as though in response to mysterious cosmic forces entirely out of our control.

The transition from Newtonian gravity to Einstein's theory of General Relativity marked a profound shift in our understanding of the universe. Gravity was no longer seen as a force exerted by masses on the background of unchanging space and time. Rather, it became an emergent property of the curvature of spacetime, challenging notions of constancy and objectivity.

Gravity is the language of the relational: any two beings in the universe are connected through the fabric of spacetime. Its abstract power looms large in the interpersonal. We each have experiences that feel denser than others; moments whose weight eclipses their duration on a clock or calendar. In some cases, we find ourselves orbiting a past experience, our lives resisting the inevitable march from past to future as life’s timeline metamorphoses into a parabola. As with any planet, the gravitational force of these moments gets weaker with distance, but distance is not easily achieved. Once we are in orbit, a third presence with mass and energy is needed to break free and achieve escape velocity.

While Einstein’s theory explained macroscopic movements, quantum mechanics developed to describe the behavior of particles at subatomic scales. To this day, these two theories exist on parallel planes and have resisted all attempts for unification.

In this issue, Notch is interested in exploring this space of the ununifiable. Please share works that honor the strange and mysterious, exploring themes of weight, time distortion, singularity, wormholes, and light.

We are looking for new and strange, excellent and mystifying, sharp. Send us work that sparks imaginative discourse, ideas to take our breath away and mull over for days to come.

Literary
Previously unpublished fiction exploring asymmetrical orbits, poetry playing with density, essays rescuing excellent works from obscurity, comparative criticism stitching together unexpected forms…

A thoughtful connection to the theme is much appreciated.

First serial considerations are welcome. Works in translation are encouraged.

Pieces up to 1500 words are preferred. Longer work is considered on occasion.

Visual
Photographs that distort their centers, brushstrokes with unexpected velocity, sculptures that call upon the sediment from which they came, textiles that mirror spacetime, collages that clash the micro and macroscopic, film that warps the curvature of light...

Or something completely different.

Please send a high resolution image of your art along with its specs. Artist statement optional.

Other
Dance that anchors in air, floral arrangements morphing through time and space, tattoo flash sheets that spark momentum, mathematical equations illustrating how black holes scramble causality, set lists that nail the drop, a puppet show whose pacing defies the insistent pull of gravity...

Please send a link or a high resolution image or audio file. Artist statement optional.

Submissions close January 6, 2025

Contributors will be compensated

To submit, email your work and a
brief bio to:

submissions@notch.ink

Writing Competition: Furious Flower Poetry Prize

Submissions for the 2025 Furious Flower Poetry Prize will be accepted December 15, 2024 - February 15, 2025.

Furious Flower invites submissions from emerging writers for its annual poetry prize. Poets with no more than one published book are invited to submit up to three poems (no more than a total of 6 pages) for consideration. The winner and honorable mention receive $1500 and $750 respectively and will be invited to read James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Va in September 2025. The winner, honorable mention, and finalists will also be published in Obsidian. Winners are announced in April.

Submission fee: $15.

2025 Judge: aracelis girmay

aracelis girmay is the author of three books of poems for which she was a finalist for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. Her most recent work is the chapbook and was a flower, made in collaboration with book artist Valentina Améstica. Her newest full-length collection will be out with BOA Editions in the fall. Other recent work has been published in Astra, The Paris Review online, and e-flux. girmay curated How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton and served as the editor of So We Can Know: Writers of Color on Pregnancy, Loss, Abortion, and Birth (Haymarket, 2023). She is currently completing her last year in her editor-at-large role for the Blessing the Boats Selections. girmay is on the editorial board of the African Poetry Book Fund.

Submit your entry here.

Call for Submissions: Beaver Magazine

General submissions are OPEN.

Please read the submission guidelines before heading over to submit.

You can send us your work here:

https://beavermag.submittable.com/submit 

Please only submit through submittable! No email submissions will be accepted.

We take poetry, flash fiction and nonfiction, hybrid works, art and anything else you have to offer during our open reading periods. We celebrate and yearn for work from LGBTQIA2S+ and BIPOC.

Any questions or concerns can be directed to our email:

thebeaversubmissions@gmail.com

Our response time is usually around a month or two. Feel free to inquire about the status of your submission after three months have passed!

We want work that’s fluid and funky, connected and coiling. We love work on how we shape the land and how the land shapes us. We want an intimate distance that pulls you in and doesn‘t let go. We want a beaver dam of a piece that keeps the perfect amount of water in, art we can build with and live in for years to come. Help us form this creative landscape with your lovely work. Be sure to check out our recent issue for an idea of what we like to publish!

Beaver Magazine now publishes three regular issues a year:

The Winter Issue: November 30th, Open for submissions July 15th-September 30th

The Spring Issue: March 20th, Open for submissions November 15th-February 15th

The Fall Issue: August 30th, Open for submissions April 30th-July 30th

We are completely open to simultaneous submissions, please just notify us either by withdrawing the submission or sending us a message to withdraw individual pieces from a submission.

If you submit and it just isn’t the right fit for us, feel free to send work again as soon as you’d like. Only one submission per genre is permitted at a time. No previously published work will be considered.

Beaver Magazine retains First North American Serial Rights for all work that we publish. Upon publication, all rights are reverted back to the author. The work may be republished with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in Beaver Magazine.

When submitting your work, please include a title and cover letter with a brief, updated third-person biography. Manuscripts should be in a .doc or .docx format.

Poetry: 3-5 poems of any format, each beginning on a new page. We love work that plays with traditional forms and modes. We want the lyric, the narrative, and everything in between.

Prose: Up to 3 flash pieces of no more than 1,000 words each (though we do prefer brevity). Creative nonfiction can include personal, research, or lyric essays as well as memoirs. Fiction can be of any genre or style. Hybrid work can be whatever you want it to be! Please clearly state in which of the three prose genres you are submitting in your cover letter and include page numbers and a word count on the document.

Art: Up to 10 pieces of visual art of any media or style, submitted either in pdf format or as individual jpegs. Please try to submit work with high resolution so if it is published, we can take in all its glory.

Previous contributors are welcome to send work as early as the next submission period after their work appears on the website. No preference will be given to former contributors.

Call for Submissions: Loft Books

Loft Books call for submissions:

We are open for submissions for our next issue (Issue VII) on any theme. All work must be completely free of violence in order to be accepted. Please format work in a Word doc and email us at:

loftbooksltd@gmail.com 

• Poetry (42 lines or less) £20

• Flash Fiction (500 words or less) £30

• Short Stories (3000 words or less) £50

Call for Submissions: SPOOKY Magazine

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

Cozy horror. Fun horror. Classy horror. Dare we say, wholesome horror?

Oxymoron? We don’t think so. One place you can start your exploration of this idea is an article from Nightmare Magazine penned by one of our co-founders.

But perhaps the easiest way to understand what we mean is to read stories by some of the old masters we love: Ray Bradbury, Charles Beaumont, Richard Matheson, Robert Bloch, Roald Dahl. Watch classic episodes of Thriller, The Twilight Zone, and Night Gallery. Read old horror comics. Listen to radio dramas like Suspense, Quiet, Please, and Inner Sanctum Mysteries. Consume enough vintage horror, and you’ll probably begin to get an idea of the type of thing that’s likely to appeal to us.

In short, we’re looking to provide a space for a type of storytelling that has largely gone out of style – dark and scary, but playful and approachable with an emphasis on plot. For a concrete example of the kind of thing we’re likely to love, grab a copy of one of our issues.

To clarify further, here’s a list of things we want and things we don’t, which may help you hit the sweet spot.

THINGS WE LOVE:

• Stories with a moral core. It need not happen in every tale, but we like to see good prevail (or at least evil punished). Ironic justice, in which cleverly nasty things happen to bad people, as in old EC comics, makes us chuckle with ghoulish delight.

• Well-earned twist endings. There’s nothing we love more than a really good surprise or a clever way to subvert our expectations. Pull the rug out from under us and leave us gasping.

• High concept settings and situations reminiscent of the pulps. Androids, ghosts, aliens, old castles, vampires, dinosaurs, deals with the devil, mad scientists, Wild West gunslingers, and so on. All are welcome. Give us thrilling adventures dipped in the macabre. Remember – old tropes are great, so long as your story is doing something new with them.

• Tales of the fantastic invading ordinary settings. Bring terrible and unpredictable horrors into the suburbs, into our workplaces, into our homes.

• Magical realism. Don’t worry too much about explaining how or why strange things happen. We are perfectly willing to accept that they do and move on to the good stuff in the story.

• Playfulness and dark humor. We’re not looking for blatant comedy, but a certain level of mischief and glee will go a long way in making your story a fit for SPOOKY.

• Classic Americana. Halloweeny hijinks. Campfire stories. Stuff that makes us feel like kids.

NO THANK YOU:

• Grimdark nihilism that leaves us feeling hopeless.

• Trope rehashes that fail to add an imaginative twist.

• Floaty, dream-like milieus without a clear plot. We are fine with surreal occurrences, but things need to actually happen in your story.

• Hard science fiction.

• Sword and Sorcery or second-world fantasy.

• Poetry (With the exception of horror haiku, see instructions near the bottom of our submission guidelines).

• Excessive gore. A certain level of violence is to be expected, but we’re not a market for extreme horror. Less is pretty much always more when it comes to violent content here – we’re big fans of stories that imply rather than describe gruesome situations.

• Excessive obscenities. We won’t lose our minds over an occasional “hell” or “damn,” but that’s about our limit. Keep it pretty much PG.

• Graphic sex. Again, keep it PG. Any sexual acts important to your story should be implied, rather than described.

• Kidlit. Even though we like fiction that is relatively family friendly in terms of content, children aren’t our primary audience. We aren’t Goosebumps, Scooby Doo, or Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. Don’t send us stories about eleven year olds investigating werewolf sightings at their school playground.

• Absolutely no abuse, violence, or sexual situations involving children.

• Absolutely no racism, misogyny, or homophobia. Although we are going for a retro vibe with this magazine, we can keep what we love about old fiction while rejecting its pitfalls. SPOOKY is committed to treating all people with respect.

We shouldn’t need to say this, but…

ALL STORIES MUST BE WRITTEN BY A HUMAN BEING. IF WE SUSPECT A STORY OR ANY PART OF A STORY WAS WRITTEN USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, IT WILL BE AUTOMATICALLY REJECTED.

RIGHTS AND PAYMENT

SPOOKY Magazine seeks First Publication Rights in English, with six-months exclusivity from date of publication, nonexclusive thereafter, with the option to reprint stories in a possible “best of” anthology sometime in the future. We pay 1 cent per word, via PayPal, for original fiction. All accepted fiction authors will also receive a print contributor’s copy of the issue in which their story appears.

SPOOKY does not accept reprints at this time. Authors retain copyright to their work.

SPOOKY is not purchasing artwork at this time.

OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION

All stories for SPOOKY should shoot to be 5000 words or fewer. If you’re over by a hundred or so, we won’t mind, but please don’t send us anything much longer. Shorter fiction usually serves our purposes better (and allows us to pack more stories into each issue), with a sweet spot of about 2500 or 3000 words.

SPOOKY publishes two issues each year, in print – a spring/summer issue in April and a fall/winter issue in October. Our submission periods are November-December for stories to be considered for our spring/summer issue and May-June for stories to be considered for our fall/winter issue. Any fiction sent outside these windows will be rejected unread.

Simultaneous submissions are fine, but please let us know if your story is accepted elsewhere. We ask that authors only send us 1 story per submission window.

We aren’t super picky about this, but we prefer stories to be presented in some approximation of the Shunn Manuscript Format.

Please send all submissions to:

spookymagazineinfo [at] gmail [dot] com (Change [at] to @ and [dot] to . )

with the subject heading SUBMISSION: Story Title / Author Name.

HORROR HAIKU!

SPOOKY also considers horror-themed haiku poems. Because of haiku’s brief format, which lends itself to snappy punchlines, these can (but don’t need to) be a bit jokier than the fiction we’re generally after, leaning even into horror comedy territory.

We do not pay for haiku (sorry), but any authors who have haiku accepted and published in the magazine will receive a free digital pdf of the issue and their name included as a credit.

Please don’t send more than 3 haiku for us to consider at a time.

Please send all haiku submissions to:

spookymagazineinfo [at] gmail [dot] com (Change [at] to @ amd [dot] to . )

with the subject heading HAIKU / Author Name.

Call for Submissions: Short Story, Long

Short stories, 2k-8k words long (with the 3,000-5,500 range being our real sweet spot).

What are we looking for? Honestly, best indicator is to read a story or two we've already published. Second best indicator is to generally be familiar with Aaron's taste and what he's published on HAD, and Hobart before that.

Every published story will be paired with original art, and I am paying both writer and artist $100. (Becoming a paid subscriber helps pay contributors!)
https://ashortstorylong.substack.com/ 

Submissions will be open until the end of December. 

Please only submit once per submission period.

Thanks!
  —Aaron Burch

Submit your work here.

Call for Proposals on Theme of "Celebrating Historical FIction in Its Many Forms": Historical Novel Society

Call for Proposals for In-person Sessions: June 26-28, Las Vegas, NV
Submissions Open December 15, 2024 thru January 15, 2025

Thank you for your interest in submitting a proposal to present at #HNS2025. Our eleventh conference will be an in-person conference with all four mainstage session rooms also being livestreamed for virtual attendees and recorded for subsequent viewing by all attendees for a limited time.

Please review our new guidelines and FAQs carefully.
The Theme for #HNS2025: Celebrating Historical Fiction in Its Many Forms

At this year’s conference, HNS will celebrate the many subgenres of historical fiction. Each distinct form views history through its own lens with unique literary conventions to amplify stories, themes, and emotions. Join us as we explore the ways authors, agents, and editors craft, publish, and market these various subgenres, and let’s revel in the wide array of historical novels we all love to read! These are only some of the historical fiction subgenres we hope to explore at this year’s conference: 

Adventure Fiction
Alternate (Alternative) History
Biographical Fiction
Family Saga
Gothic Fiction
Historical Erotica
Historical Fantasy
Historical Horror
Historical Mystery/Police Procedural
Historical Romance
Historical Thriller/Suspense
Military Fiction
Narrative Nonfiction
Nautical Fiction
Steampunk
Time Travel/Time Slip

More information and submission form here.

Call for Submissions on Theme of "Eclipsed Ecologies": Sage Magazine

Sage Magazine

We are excited to announce our 2025 Print Edition theme:

Eclipsed Ecologies

Tree roots, deep sea, dreams, nighttime pollinators – worlds are happening without light, hidden to us by darkness. In this darkness, there is also the self-generation of light – how bioluminescence creates its own sparkle, and how our own personal meditations come to us in the dark of reflection then provide us wisdom to light our way forward. Innumerable vibrant ecologies exist, and many are eclipsed – deliberately, passively, or simply through the gift that darkness can offer. We invite pieces that pertain to artists’ interpretation of this line of thinking, feeling, expressing, and being.

We are offering awards of $250 for the winner of each category: poetry, prose, visual arts, and photography. We will have a grand prize award of $500.

Within these art forms, we welcome any type of creativity you as an artist are compelled to submit – sci-fi, creative mapping, etc. This year’s editorial team is particularly intrigued by how nature helps us understand one another, and creates deep meaning to our time on this earth – themes of queer ecology, environmental flourishing amidst resistance, symbolism, and the sheer beauty and deep meaning of nature are very welcome, but are not exclusively sought.

Deadline for submissions is January 5. Email submissions to:

sagemagazine@gmail.com

with the subject line including “2025 Print Edition Submission” & your name & the type of piece you are submitting (prose, poetry, photography, visual art, something else we haven’t thought of, etc.). Word count limits for each piece are a maximum of 3,000 words. We will select one or two longer-form pieces, with hope of receiving shorter prose pieces as well.

See our instagram @magazine.sage to follow along, get more information, and DM us questions.

Call for Submissions: Pleiades

REGULAR SUBMISSIONS

•Pleiades is open for regular submissions of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and translations during the months of June and December. We are currently closed for book reviews submissions. Please note that submissions sent outside the submission period will not be considered. Unsolicited poetry, fiction, translations (submit under “poetry), and nonfiction should be submitted via our online submissions manager. Unfortunately, we cannot consider paper submissions and emailed submissions, and mailed manuscripts will be recycled. Please do not submit more than once in a given genre during each reading period. Due to staffing changes and an unprecedented volume of submissions, our response time is longer than usual. Thank you in advance for your patience and understanding.

• Please remember to select the appropriate genre of your submission, as submissions sent with no genre marked will not be read. Translations can be submitted under “poetry”.

• Please read the below genre-specific guidelines carefully before submitting.

• Though we attend to submissions as quickly as possible, please allow up to six months before querying.

• We are especially interested in reading submissions from writers from historically marginalized communities as part of our commitment to a broad representation of dynamic work.

• Writers should review past issues of Pleiades to get a sense of our aesthetic and preferences. Order Pleiades here.

GENRE SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

POETRY

Please send a PDF of 3-5 poems. We are particularly interested in work that embraces risk and is lyrically inventive. We value work that gives voice to a range of lived experiences and employs a mastery of expression. Work of any length will be considered, and we look forward to reading your most polished poems. Please do not submit multiple packets during one submissions period. Direct questions regarding poetry to Jenny Molberg and Caitlin Cowan at:

pleiadespoetryeditor@gmail.com 

FICTION

Pleiades is looking for exceptional fiction, with a focus on well-developed characters, memorable language, provocatively-wrought subject matter, and immersive settings. While there are no length requirements, our journal has limited space, and manuscripts over 12,000 words will especially need to impress. Some stories may be considered for our “online exclusives” category. Please direct questions regarding fiction to Jennifer Maritza McCauley at:

pleiadesfictioninquiries@gmail.com

CREATIVE NONFICTION

While we enjoy essays and nonfiction in all forms, here at Pleiades we are particularly interested in creative nonfiction that gazes out at the world rather than into the self. This is to say nothing against memoir, only that our publishing aesthetic leans towards the exterior in order to balance what we often see as a focus on memoir and interiority in many literary journals. Essays that perform a weave of the personal with an outward gaze are very welcome. We do not only consider externally-focused creative nonfiction, but this is our taste preference. Limit creative nonfiction submissions to 6,000 words. Please direct questions regarding nonfiction to:

pleiades@ucmo.edu 

This is a paying market.

Call for Submissions: manywor(l)ds

We welcome submissions by those who identify with and as any of the following descriptors: trans, two-spirit, disabled, neurodivergent, Mad, queer, crip, nonbinary, genderqueer, intersex. This is a space for the words, works, and worlds of and by those whose bodyminds defy social expectations and invite new ways of thinking and knowing.

We do not need to know the specifics of your identity/diagnosis/experience unless you want us to. We invite closeted and questioning people to share their work, as well as those whose experiences fall outside the confines of the language we used above.

We welcome submissions from creators of all ages. We particularly encourage unpublished/emerging/young creators to submit. If you know an incarcerated/institutionalized creator who would like to submit, email us for information as to where to mail the submission, or clearly indicate in your message that you are submitting on their behalf.

We publish on a quarterly schedule, with issues coming out on: 

February 15
May 15
August 15
November 15

We are open for all submissions EXCEPT during publication months. That is to say, we are open for submissions January, March, April, June, July, September, October, and December.

Things to note

This is a leftist magazine. We hate capitalism, “america,” cops, prisons, borders, neoliberalism, and all the rest. We don’t tolerate white supremacy, zionism, cisheterosexism, ableism, transmisogyny, xenophobia, fatphobia, intersexism, and anti-sex worker sentiment here. We reserve the right to reject and/or remove content from creators whose work does not align with our values.

We do not tolerate AI-generated or -assisted submissions. Anyone found to be using AI will have their content immediately rejected/removed and will no longer be eligible to submit to manywor(l)ds.

Simultaneous submissions are expected and encouraged. Please let us know if any part of your submission is accepted elsewhere before we can get to it.

Please submit to us only once per reading period, and hold off on submitting if you were published in the last issue.

We are proud to be a paying market. All contributors of unpublished works will receive $10 USD upon publication. Reprints (including pieces previously shared on public social media profiles) are accepted, provided you have the rights, but will not receive payment.

We prefer Paypal for payment; however, Venmo, Interac e-transfer, and Wise are also possible. If we can’t settle on a suitable fee-free alternative (excepting currency conversion fees), the money will be donated to a mutual aid fund or similar cause.

More information and submission link here.

Call for Submissions: The/temz/Review

 

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

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

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

Chapbooks
We publish chapbooks on an ongoing basis through 845 Press. We are looking for innovative prose and poetry, and work that is both, or maybe neither. That thing you have tucked away in a drawer because you aren't sure what it is or where to send it: try us!

We publish authors from around the world, but our primary focus will be on Canadian writers.

We publish chapbooks with page ranges of approximately 10 to 45 pages.

Please submit only once for this year.

We are currently open for chapbook submissions.

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

We pay $20 per piece.

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

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

Poetry (for the journal)

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

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

We pay $20 per batch of poems we publish.

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

Please submit only once per reading period.

Reviews and Interviews (for the journal)
We do not accept reviews or interviews submitted through Moksha. If you are interested in writing a review for us or placing an interview with us, please query us first at:

 

thetemzreview[at]gmail[dot]com (Change [at] to @ and [dot] to . )

 

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

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

Submissions Manager: Moksha
Unlike with Submittable, you do not need to create an account in order to submit through Moksha. The submissions process is very easy: simply click on the link below and follow the instructions.

Submit through Moksha

Writing Competition: The Gina Berriault Award for a Work-In-Progress

The Gina Berriault Award (GBA) is a national award given to an emerging prose writer for an exemplary work-in-progress. The winner will have an excerpt of their winning submission published in the Fourteen Hills journal.

The Gina Berriault Award was inaugurated by Peter Orner in conjunction with Fourteen Hills Press to pay homage to the eponymous writer, a former SFSU professor who with every story embodied a certain selflessness and unflinching compassion. The award is given annually to a writer with a similar spirit who has shown a love for storytelling and a commitment to helping young writers.

• Submission deadline: January 15th, 2025

• Submission fee: $10.00

• Submissions only accepted via Submittable

• Students currently enrolled at San Francisco State University are ineligible

• Work must be previously unpublished

• The submission file must be in .doc or .docx format (Microsoft Word or Open Office)

• Monetary award of $1,000.00 for the selected work

If your work-in-progress is accepted for the Gina Berriault Award, you will receive two free copies of Fourteen Hills #31.

GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION:

• The cover letter field must include your name, the title of your Work In Progress, your phone number, mailing address, and email.

• Your submission must be at least 50 pages in length, and no more than 150 pages in length.

• Your submission document must include a table of contents if there are multiple works within your Work In Progress.

• No revisions to the Works In Progress will be accepted after submission.

• The Work In Progress must be unpublished. Works In Progress that have been previously self-published are ineligible.

• Works In Progress will be judged anonymously. Therefore, the author's name, other identifying information, and publication information must not appear within the Work In Progress. Only your uploaded work is visible to the judge.

Writing Competition: The Hazel Rowley Prize for a First-Time Biographer

$5,000 Prize for Best Proposal from a First-time Biographer

The Hazel Rowley Prize rewards a first-time biographer with: funding (the $5,000 award); a careful reading from an established agent; a year’s membership in BIO (along with registration to the annual Biographers International [BIO] conference); and publicity for the author and project through the BIO website, The Biographer’s Craft newsletter, etc. The prize is a way for BIO—an organization of biographers, agents, editors, and biography devotees—to advance its mission and extend its reach to talented new practitioners.

Eligibility

The prize is open to all first-time biographers anywhere in the world who are writing in English, who are working on a biography that has not been commissioned, contracted, or self-published, and who have never published a book-length biography, autobiography, history, or work of narrative nonfiction. Biography as defined for this prize is a narrative of an individual’s life or the story of a group of lives. Innovative ways of treating a life (or lives) will be considered at the committee’s discretion. Memoirs, however, are not eligible.

Applicants should:

Complete the on-line entry form. (Please note that the form can be tricky. When filling out one’s address, for example, “city” and “state” go in the boxes above the words, not below.)

Upload a proposal, writing sample, and resume in one document totaling no more than 20 pages. The proposal and writing sample should be double-spaced, with 12-point type and standard margins. The proposal should include a synopsis, a proposed table of contents, and notes on the market and competing literature. The document must be a PDF. Please include your name as part of the file name of the PDF that you submit.

Sign the online entry form by checking the box affirming your understanding of the rules and procedures.

Submit $25 for the application fee using a major credit card or by check. Payment instructions are on the entry form.

You will receive an acknowledgment of your entry within several days. If you do not, please contact Michael Gately.
Terms and Conditions

The deadline for entries is March 1. Application forms will be available after September 1. Receipt of all applications will be acknowledged by email. Thereafter, only applicants on the final shortlist for the prize will be contacted. Formal announcement of the winner will be made at the annual conference.

In submitting this prize entry form, you agree to all the terms and conditions of the BIO Hazel Rowley Prize. You affirm that the proposal you are submitting is not (and will not be) under consideration by any publisher until after the winner has been announced in May 2024. Only one entry per applicant. In submitting this entry form, you affirm that you are the sole author (or, if co-authored, authors) of the proposal. You also affirm that in the event of winning the prize, you will make your best effort to market your proposal for publication as a book and that you will acknowledge BIO’s support in any publications that result from the Rowley Prize. BIO also requires that you submit a brief paragraph reporting on your progress within a year after receiving the Prize. All decisions by the judges are final.

More information here.

Call for Submissions: Reverie Magazine

General Guidelines 

Deadline: Jan. 1, 2025

All are welcome to submit.

We accept writing/artwork that has been previously published, but ask that you state the previous place of publication.

​Simultaneous submissions are encouraged but please let us know if your piece has found a home elsewhere.

​If your work is accepted, we ask for first publishing rights and archival rights. Upon publication, all rights revert back to the author. We would be grateful if you could credit Reverie as the place where your work first appeared, should the piece be reprinted in the future​.

Reverie does not publish any work that is offensive in nature. We do not endorse any form of racism, sexism, homophobia, and other narratives that may be harmful and derogatory.

All submissions should be sent by email to:

reverie.litjournal@gmail.com 

and should be attached as a pdf, Word document, or Google Docs file. If submitting multiple works, please send them in separate files.

Please title the subject line with your name and the submission type(s). For example, "Emily Dickinson, Poetry + Fiction Submission".

In the body of your email, please provide the following information:

Name(s) of submission(s)

A brief 50-word bio of yourself​

More information here.

Writing Competitions: The Rumpus Prize for Poetry, Fiction, and Creative Nonfiction

Announcing the inaugural Rumpus Prize for Poetry, Fiction, and Creative Nonfiction! Submissions are open December 5, 2024, to March 2, 2025. The Rumpus has a long history of championing emerging and established poets, fiction writers, and essayists, and we’re pleased to announce a new way the magazine will bring attention to great writing.

All submissions will be read by The Rumpus's editorial team, and our final judges will be Kaveh Akbar (Poetry), Rachel Khong (Fiction), and Megan Stielstra (Creative Nonfiction).

$3,600 in prizes $1,000 first-place prize and publication in three genres: poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction

Honorable mentions receive $200 and publication in each of the three genres

All submitters can opt in if they’d like to be considered for publication by The Rumpus, regardless of whether they’re named a winner or finalist. The submission fee is $20 per entry.

Finalists will be contacted in May 2025. Winners will be announced publicly and published by June 2025.