Call for Submissions from Canadian Writers on Theme of "Colour": The Fieldstone Review

 

The Fieldstone Review is now open for submissions for our 2025 Issue!

This year, we invite writers and artists to explore the theme of COLOUR in all its complexity. Colour is everywhere, and we want to see how you interpret and express it in your work. We welcome submissions from Canadian writers in various genres, including poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction/reviews, and visual art. We are also excited to share that this year, we will offer a $100 cash prize for the best submission. So don’t be shy – send us your best work!

Submission Deadline: April 30th, 2025

Reading Period: May 1st – June 30th 2025

We can’t wait to see what colour means to you. 🌈✨

Sincerely,

Jenna Miller

Editor-in-Chief

The Fieldsone Review

General Guidelines

The Fieldstone Review accepts electronic submissions only. Please send all submissions as attachments. Documents should be attached in .doc/.docx format. However, .pdf is suitable for poems with unique formatting. Please submit visual art in .JPG format.

The Fieldstone Review practices blind reviewing. Please do not indicate your name or identifying information anywhere on the attachment containing your submission. Instead, please include the following in the body of your e-mail:

full name
contact information
a biography of 50 to 100 words
the title(s) of the work(s) submitted
notification if the work is a simultaneous submission

Submissions should be formatted in 12pt Times New Roman font, and all submissions except for poetry should be double-spaced.

An e-mail acknowledging the receipt of the work will be sent within seven business days during the reading period.

Submissions received after the reading period has ended and works that exceed the word and/or page limits listed in the appropriate categories will not be considered.

Genre Guidelines

FICTION: One submission per author to a max of 5,000 words.

POETRY: One submission per author to a max of six pages, sent as a single attachment.

NONFICTION: One submission per author to a max of 2,500 words, OR two submissions to a max of 1,000 words each.

REVIEWS: Responses to works published in the last two years (fiction, poetry, film, etc.) to a max of 2000 words. Submit a pitch first of one short paragraph, including what content your review will explore, why, and estimated word count.

VISUAL ART: One submission per artist.

Authors may submit to more than one category if they adhere to the above guidelines. Submissions that violate the above guidelines may not be considered for publication. 

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions: Cape Cod Review

 

Please use our Submittable Portal to submit work during our Submission window. Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but please let us know immediately if the piece has been accepted elsewhere.

Please do not send multiple submissions.

At this time, we can’t pay for material published in the journal, although we will certainly provide payment in the form of two contributor copies. For the sake of transparency, we charge a submission fee of $3.00, of which less than half goes to CCR (yes, Submittable takes the rest), but which still nominally helps cover the cost of using this platform. If the fee presents hardship, feel free to email us, and we'll waive it.

Poetry
We ask that you send up to five pages of your best poems, or a single long poem of up to six pages. Formatting should be in a standard font, single spaced, with a new poem on each page. Because we view poetry as a literary art, we're looking for work that does something new with language. We like risk, experimentation, explosive energy, and eternal quiet. We love Mary Oliver too, and while we realize she lived in Provincetown, we're not exactly looking for your best Mary Oliver imitations. Purchasing previous issues helps keep us going, and will also give you a sense of our aesthetic. We strongly encourage work from the LGBTQ+ community, those who identify as BIPOC, those who are differently abled, as well as those whose identities intersect within these communities. Feel free to mention this in your cover letter or bio.

Art and Photography
We are always looking for new artwork to include in the journal, and would love to showcase Cape Cod artists. Recognize that much of the work represented can only be rendered in black and white. Submit up to two pieces of artwork as a high resolution jpeg, and address your submission to the Arts Editor.

Essays, Creative Nonfiction, and Interviews
Generally, our preferred word count is 4,000 words or less. We love book reviews and would like to publish more reviews of authors affiliated with Cape Cod. Before submitting, please query us, with the subject Query in the heading, along with a synopsis of your interview subject and/or the exploration of your essay:

capecodpoetryreview@gmail.com

Fiction Length: 250 - 4,000 words. This isn’t set in stone, but between these lengths will be your best bet.

• Formatting: Times New Roman. 12 Point Font. Double Spaced. Page numbers in the header. Word count and email address on the first page.

• What Not To Submit: Anything racist, sexist, homophobic, abelist, or just generally hateful. We are not a market for Erotica, Extreme Horror, Space Opera, or Sword and Sorcery. We also aren’t a market for brooding barroom stories with lots of cigarette smoke beneath moonlit lampposts. Gratuitous violence and sex aren’t our jam. We love literary fiction. We love genre fiction. We particularly love the spaces where those two meet. Do you have something that sits between Kelly Link, Karren Russel, Carmen Maria Machado, Ted Chiang, Cailtin Kiernan, George Saunders, Laird Barron, Victor LaValle, Claire Vaye Watkins, Samantha Hunt, Brian Evenson, and Joy Williams on a literary sliding scale? If so, we want to see it. We love flash fiction and micro fiction. We love series of flash fiction and microfiction. We like it weird. We like it quirky. We like you...so send us something cool :)

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions: Oyster River Pages

ORP will accept submissions in the genres below for publication in its seventh annual issue from January 15 through May 1, 2025.

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. Please include word count on the first page of your document. All work should be double-spaced.

• Emerging Voices Fiction: Please submit one story of not more than 5,000 words in .docx format. Please include word count, your full name, pseudonym or pen name, should you wish to use it for publication, and preferred email on the top of the first page. In your cover letter, please let us know how many times you have been previously published. All work should be double-spaced. Please read the submission guidelines carefully before submitting.

• Creative Nonfiction: Please submit one essay no longer than 6,000 words in a Word Doc or PDF format. Include your first and last name and contact information at the top of your piece. All work should be double-spaced.

• Poetry: Please submit up to three poems, with each poem starting on its own page. We do our best to respond to submissions in a timely manner. Sometimes taking our time means your poem is being seriously considered for publication. For this reason, please wait at least 6 months before inquiring about a submission. Generally, we are not interested in traditional rhyming poetry. We recommend reading through our previous issues to gain a sense of our preferences. Duplicate 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. 

Submission Guidelines

 

ORP will accept submissions in the genres below for publication in its seventh annual issue from January 15 through May 1, 2025. 

 

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. Please include word count on the first page of your document. All work should be double-spaced.

 

Emerging Voices Fiction: Please submit one story of not more than 5,000 words in .docx format. Please include word count, your full name, pseudonym or pen name, should you wish to use it for publication, and preferred email on the top of the first page. In your cover letter, please let us know how many times you have been previously published. All work should be double-spaced. Please read the submission guidelines carefully before submitting.


Creative Nonfiction: Please submit one essay no longer than 6,000 words in a Word Doc or PDF format. Include your first and last name and contact information at the top of your piece. All work should be double-spaced.


Poetry: Please submit up to three poems, with each poem starting on its own page. We do our best to respond to submissions in a timely manner. Sometimes taking our time means your poem is being seriously considered for publication. For this reason, please wait at least 6 months before inquiring about a submission. Generally, we are not interested in traditional rhyming poetry. We recommend reading through our previous issues to gain a sense of our preferences. Duplicate 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.

Call for Nonfiction: Roxanne Gay's The Audacity

THE AUDACITY, my newsletter, features an emerging writer twice a month. I define emerging writer as someone with fewer than three article/essay/short story publications and no published books or book contracts.

Please submit your best nonfiction and nonfiction only. I am interested in literary essays and memoir. Please submit only one essay at a time. Essays should be between 1500 and 3000 words. We may take up to eight weeks to respond but we will respond to all submissions.

All essays are paid a flat fee of $1,500.

Submissions will only be accepted at:

https://gay.submittable.com/

I am interested in thoughtful essays, beautiful, intelligent writing, deep explorations, timelessness, and challenging conventional thinking without being cheap and lazy. I am interested in provocative work but we are not interested in senseless provocation. You don't have to cannibalize yourself to tell a compelling story. The essays in Unruly Bodies or that I have preciously published in The Audacity might give you a sense of what I like but I am always open to being surprised. I am not looking to publish anew what I've already published.

Again, I am only interested in nonfiction, which is to say no poetry, fiction, or anything else that is not nonfiction. I cannot stress this enough. I am only interested in nonfiction for the Emerging Writer Series.

Call for Pitches for Readers Age 50+: Next Avenue

Writing for Next Avenue

We welcome talented writers to share insights and advice with our readers. Many Next Avenue writers are professional journalists; some are not. The key is that they know how to write for readers in their 50s and beyond, with the purpose of helping our audience navigate and enjoy their lives.

Our editorial team meets weekly to discuss pitches; however, we are a small team and often receive a large number of submissions. Writers can expect a response within three to six weeks — earlier when possible. Time-sensitive queries will be addressed accordingly.

Next Avenue is a public media website that adheres to the PBS Editorial Standards and Practices to ensure editorial independence, accuracy, inclusiveness and accountability. All content, including reported stories and personal essays, must be based on factual information from credible sources. Reported stories should have at least two to three sources. Personal essays generally offer actionable advice that our audience can easily put into use.

Be sure your story idea is a Next Avenue story, for our audience. Please note in your pitch why the piece is right for us, and how it will benefit our readers. Before submitting your story idea, please thoroughly search our site to be sure we haven't published something similar in the past year.

Our contributors represent a spectrum of race and ethnicity, cultural identity, income level, geographic location, gender identity, sexuality and points of view. And we value stories that shed light on the issues facing an equally diverse audience.

Submission Guidelines

• Articles are typically between 800 and 1,200 words and written in AP-style.

• Articles should be clear, concise, conversational and without the use of jargon. If a technical term is required, it should be followed by an explanation.

• Writers are responsible for the accuracy of their stories, and must fact-check them prior to submission.

• With rare exceptions, we do not permit unnamed sources. First and last names, as well as city/state where the source resides, must be included.

• Next Avenue is a national publication. Please refrain from localized pitches unless they have national interest or connection.

• Next Avenue is apolitical; however, we will publish opinion pieces that are clearly denoted.

• Articles should avoid ageist language and stereotypes. We reject words like "senior,” “elderly” and "silver tsunami."

Search engine optimization, or SEO, is an important part of our process. Contributors will be assigned a keyphrase for their story upon pitch approval.

Click here to be directed to our pitch form. Please do not directly email Next Avenue editors.

If your idea is accepted, one of our editors will contact you with more information. If we decide not to proceed with your pitch, you will receive an automated response from Next Avenue.

Call for Submissions: The Brussels Review

Genres: We publish poetry, fiction, nonfiction, reviews and art & photography. All works should be submitted in 1 file per piece, so they can be accepted or rejected individually.

Poetry: submit at least 5 poems.

Fiction and nonfiction: any length of no more than 7.000 words.

Reviews: no more than 2.000 words, for any art or literary genres.

Art & Photography: submit at least 10 works, the resume and links to portfolio.

Response Time: We answer all submission and all submission will get a response, be that a negative one. We appreciate your patience and understanding.

Original Work: We accept only original, unpublished works for the print issue. By submitting, you confirm that your work is your own and has not been previously published. Works previously published in books or shared on social media can be submitted for publication on our website only.

Submission Periods: We accept submissions year-round, but there are peak periods. Check our website for updates on submission windows and themes.

Multiple & Simultaneous Submissions: We accept multiple submissions, as long as they are in different genres, and simultaneous submissions, as long as we are informed immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere.

Submission Fees: There are no fees for submitting your work, but we appreciate tips, which go toward the submissions’ expenses. To show our appreciation, all tipped submissions will receive a response and feedback within two weeks. Every little bit helps, and we thank you in advance for your support.

Publication Rights: By submitting, you grant The Brussels Review first serial rights to your work. After publication, all rights revert to the author, and we request acknowledgment if the work is republished elsewhere.

Payment: We understand the challenges that writers, especially those from economically disadvantaged backgrounds, face. So, to support these authors, we offer sometimes compensation, considered case-by-case, the details of which are decided by the Editorial Team. With the expansion of our reach, we will extend the compensations to all authors.

Editorial Process: Our editorial team conducts a rigorous review process to maintain the highest standards. Feedback may be provided for accepted works.

Thank you for your interest in The Brussels Review. We are excited to read your submissions and potentially share your work with our readers. Don’t forget to check out our Contributors page; who knows, you may be our next team member.

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions on Theme of "Bully": The Woolf

Submissions for Issue 8 | BULLY are open from 13 March to 9 April 2025. For updates, please follow us on BlueSky as well as Instagram, Twitter and/or Facebook – and be sure to check out Duotrope for the details. In the meantime, you can have a look at our basic submission guidelines below.

The important stuff  

• We only accept original, unpublished work. If your work has already appeared in The Woolf, please wait two issues before submitting again.

• Only work sent through the official submission platform will be considered.

• No name or identifying information should appear on the piece you’re submitting (we review the work blind).

• Simultaneous submissions are encouraged, but please withdraw your work pronto if it has been accepted elsewhere (and if so, congrats!).

• Submissions are and will remain free. While submitting, you’re welcome to toss something into our tip jar to help us offset expenses – it’s always appreciated.

• While we can’t pay contributors at this time, we promise to promote your pieces once the issue goes live and nominate the best work for international awards where we can. (In fact, this micro from Issue 1 was selected for the Best Microfiction 2022 anthology.)

• Despite our name, any reference to wolves or Virginia Woolf could raise our hackles – so proceed with caution.

• Finally, please don’t send us work that makes us question our faith in this already fragile world – stuff that’s gratuitously sexual, overly violent, discriminatory, vile or just kind of morally repugnant. And since we apparently have to spell this out: no animal cruelty.

Rights and terms

• By submitting your work, you grant us first electronic rights and non-exclusive archival rights. After first publication, you retain ownership rights. If your work later appears elsewhere, we’d love a credit for the first publication.

• Small editorial adjustments to accepted submissions may be made in the name of clarity and flow. For more significant changes, the author will be contacted. All other editorial decisions, including art direction, are the domain of The Woolf and final.

• We reserve the right to remove contributions from the website without notice.

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions: Pulp Asylum

Pulp Asylum is currently open to fiction submissions. It is not currently a market for artwork , poetry, or non-fiction. Please note the following fiction guidelines:

Previously unpublished work only. No reprints. For our purposes, any story appearing in print or in any public space online, including your personal website, has already been published.

Original short fiction up to a maximum of 3000 words (firm).

Nothing created using AI.

No multiple submissions. Simultaneous submissions are fine, just inform me as soon as possible if a story is accepted elsewhere.

Payment is flat rate, $15 (US) upon acceptance. I pay via PayPal only. I am buying first rights, first electronic rights, and exclusive use of the story for six months from the publication date.

Submit your work in standard MS format via email as a .doc or .pdf attachment to:

PulpAsylum@outlook.com

Your subject line should be ASYLUM STORIES [your name, your story title]. Treat the body of your email as your cover letter: keep it informal and brief, just a bit about yourself, your publishing history, and the URL of your author site if you have one.

Response time: 30 days. Please feel free to query after that if you have not had a response.

I publish a variety of traditional pulp genres: horror, mystery, crime, science fiction, fantasy, adventure, western, and just plain weird stories are all welcome. I am not interested in experimental fiction. Regardless of genre, I am looking for straight-ahead, fully-formed stories with an inventive plot, lively action, and memorable endings. I don't mind violence or gore, and there are no taboos, but any of the strong stuff should be meaningful in the context of plot. Overall, you'll have a much better chance of getting under my skin than you will of grossing me out. If you really want to know what grills my burger, here you go: strongly-drawn, believable, dynamic characters.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at PulpAsylum@outlook.com.  
 
Thanks!

Billy Ramone

Call for Submissions to MicroChapbooks: Inch

Inch celebrates concision, brevity, and the remarkable work such constraints can inspire. When choosing to submit, writers are asked to consider the size and shape of Inch as it imposes constraints not only the length of pieces, but also the actual length of individual lines (for poets).

Up to 75% of the pieces in your collection may be previously published, but we do require that at least 25% of the pieces be unpublished at the time of acceptance.

Deadline: April 15, 2025

Include a title page with your contact information, a table of contents, an acknowledgements page (if needed), and an “about the author” page, none of which will count toward your 10-16 pages of creative work.

Each year, we choose one manuscript from each of our three genres:

Fiction: Flash fiction. Microfiction. Sudden fiction. Call it what you will; Inch loves to see cohesive groupings of short-short fiction. Submit your collection of a minimum of three stories in double-spaced format, 10-16 double-spaced pages in length.

Nonfiction: Our theory is, if life is too short, as most agree it is, you shouldn’t need our full sixteen pages for a single essay. Submit your collection of a minimum of three essays in double-spaced format, 10-16 double-spaced pages in length.

Poetry: We’ve always loved the brevity of poetry. Though we no longer have a line limit, we’re still looking for poems that celebrate compression. Submit your collection with each single-spaced poem beginning on a new page, 10-16 single-spaced pages in length.

To lift up our local literary community, we publish a fourth collection by a North Carolina writer each year:

In the genre tab of our submissions portal, select “Inch submission: NC author microchap (all genres)”

Include the genre of your submission in the title field (i.e. “nonfiction: Solving for X”).

In the comments feature, briefly explain your connection to North Carolina.

You do not need to re-submit your work in one of the three genres above.

We accept electronic submissions through our online submissions manager. (Please note: this is a new submissions manager, established in 2025.) Submit your work online, and you will be able to log in and check the status of your submission at any time. Because we are an all-volunteer operation, reading times for submissions vary based on the number of manuscripts each volunteer can carefully read while still attending to their day-to-day responsibilities. A minimum of 90 days will pass before we’ve assembled a long list of potential manuscripts to consider. Typically, final results are announced after August 1st.

Simultaneous submissions are just fine, but of course, you gotta promise to withdraw your manuscript if it’s accepted elsewhere.

Call for Submissions from Trans Writers: Trans Survivors: Healing in Action

It’s more important than ever to highlight trans and nonbinary art, to uplift trans joy, and to share stories of healing and connection. Help us share hope through art and writing! We invite you to contribute to a new Trans Survivors Zine titled “Trans Survivors: Healing in Action.”

We welcome content that focuses on trans voices, survivorship and healing from harm/trauma/violence, creative expressions of all kinds. We welcome your full range of emotions and expressions. We encourage content focused on race and anti-racism; bodies and disabilities; class, housing, survival realities; and content that focuses or encompasses our complex, intersectional lives.

We welcome a variety of art forms, including visual art, poetry, short fiction, and nonfiction (fiction/nonfiction under 1000 words).

You may submit multiple poems or fiction/nonfiction under 1000 words, but please include them in the same document (Word document or PDF preferred).

We welcome your expressions of rage and grief, humor and silliness, beauty and curiosity. We reserve the right to refuse submissions that include racism, anti-trans attitudes, or other oppressive language. We are accepting original art/writing (not generated by AI).

Submissions will be open until April 15th, 2025.

Once the zine is released in early May, it will be available digitally on our website for anyone to download or print. We will be spotlighting individual pieces and contributors on social media throughout May 2025 for Mental Health Awareness Month.

We hope this zine will be a valuable resource for solidarity and healing for trans community members, and highlight the amazing work of trans and nonbinary survivors.

Contributors will receive $25 if their art or writing is accepted. We aim to include as many voices and experiences as possible.

FORGE requests non-exclusive rights to publish your work in the Trans Survivors zine and promote it on our social media. Your work still belongs to you. If you have any questions about submissions, please reach out to:

caleb@forge-forward.org

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions: The Tiger Moth Review

SUBMISSIONS

Thank you for your interest in submitting to The Tiger Moth Review. We publish twice a year in January and July.

Send us your work during our reading periods. Anything sent outside of our reading window will not be considered:

July issue: Submit between February and April.

January issue: Submit between August and October.

We are looking for work that emphasises the connections between “human activity and the environment that produces it”, work that displays an “awareness of ecology and concerns over environmental disaster” (“Ecopoetics”, Poetry Foundation). We also want work that is hopeful, in spite of the ecological horrors that exist today. Send us work that is eco-conscious and critical, work that celebrates the beauty/ bounty of nature, work that is cognisant, curious and contemplative of the relationships between humanity, modernity, cultures and the environments in which we live in or imagine ourselves to inhabit.

Submission Guidelines

Submit all work to:

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

Title your email subject as follows: Full name_Genre_Title of work. Anything labelled otherwise will not be read.

Depending on your genre, please limit each submission to:

Up to 3 unpublished poems (a non-English work & its English translation count as one poem submission)

1 unpublished short fiction piece (up to 5,000 words) or

3-5 unpublished photographs/ art in web format (72 ppi) + a short write-up contextualising the work [high res formats should be available on request]

All work submitted should be accompanied by a short author bio between 50 and 100 words, and a recent author photo in jpg.

Any work submitted outside of the reading period will unfortunately not be read.

Do not re-submit until you hear from us. We aim to respond within 8 weeks, usually sooner.

Please wait a period of at least twelve months (one issue) to submit again if your work is rejected by us. Repeat submissions that do not adhere to this guideline will no longer be read.

While we accept simultaneous submissions, do indicate in your email that this is a simultaneous submission, and write in to us immediately to withdraw your work once it has been accepted elsewhere.

Works submitted should engage with the themes of nature, culture, the environment and/ or ecology.

While the journal was founded to encourage the publication of and provide a platform for eco-conscious work from Singapore and the region, we will respond to the reality of the submissions we receive. We are proud to say that our contributors hail from all over the world, contributing to the diversity of voices about our earth.

The Tiger Moth Review is committed to create a space for minority, marginalised, underrepresented voices in society.

Publication Rights

The Tiger Moth Review publishes only unpublished work, unless we ourselves request for them.

By submitting your work, you affirm that you are the sole author and maintain all rights for your work.

By submitting your work, you authorise The Tiger Moth Review to publish your work in both its e-journal and online platforms.

For republishing, please first acknowledge The Tiger Moth Review.

Reading Fee and Payment

We currently do not charge a reading fee, and our plan is to keep it this way as we believe in making art and literature submissions accessible to all. Issues will also be free for all to download and read in the spirit of community and accessibility.

At present, we are unable to pay for published work as this is a self-funded project. That said, we are committed to continue exploring ways in which contributors may receive an honorarium in future.

Call for Submissions: Kinpaurak

We accept all genres—fiction, nonfiction, poetry, philosophical monologues, etc. However, nothing over 2,000 words.

• Fiction/Nonfiction: Up to 2000 words (flash, short stories, experimental prose welcome).

• Poetry: Up to one quadrillion poems per submission (not exceeding 2000 words). Any form or style.

• Essays: Up to 2000 words.

• Hybrid Work: No rules, I guess. If it doesn’t fit anywhere else, send it here.

• Visual Art: We accept a range of 2D and 3D artworks. PNG, JPG, or TIFF. Dimensions wise, preferably 8.5×11 inches (portrait) or 11×8.5 inches (landscape).

• Auditory Art: Noise, ambient, and electronic manipulations are most wanted. WAV or MP3 (320 kbps preferred). Up to 10 minutes (shorter pieces encouraged). Accompany a description, 150–300 words, explaining the concept, technique, and relevance to Kinpaurak’s themes. Please refer to our FAQ for more information.

We don’t particularly care about formatting. Times New Roman? Sure. Comic Sans? Bold choice, but go for it.

To submit, fill out the form and upload your work as a PDF or DOCX. If you send us a .txt file or carve your piece into stone tablets, we might admire the commitment, but we probably won’t publish it.

We don’t charge submission fees because we’re not monsters, and and we do pay—$5 per accepted piece. We know it’s a small amount, but as our magazine grows, we hope to offer more.

Check out our FAQ page for more about how we publish. Send all questions to kinpaurak@gmail.com.

 

rights

If accepted, we will send you an agreement granting us the right to publish your submitted work on this site and in a downloadable PDF version of the issue. You may request removal of your work at any time for any reason. Unless such a request is made, your work will remain available on the website and in the PDF for as long as this journal continues to exist.

Our right to publish your work is non-exclusive, meaning you are free to publish it elsewhere while it appears in our journal. We claim no additional rights to your work beyond publication.

 

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions on Theme of "Buyer's Remorse": San Fidele Press

SAN FEDELE PRESS ANNOUNCES:

AMERICAN WRITERS REVIEW: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS AND CONTEST ENTRIES FOR 2025 THEMED ISSUE: "Buyers' Remorse It seemed like such a good idea.... But now?"

For our new issue, we are seeking written work and imagery that springs from the moment when the best-laid schemes have turned to dust. The crash can be obvious, subtle, even not yet realized. The piece's point of view could be disappointed or triumphant or oblivious. The moment of remorse could be immediate, in the future, or long in the past. Please read the submission guidelines carefully before submitting.

We welcome submissions of previously unpublished poems, short stories, creative non-fiction, art, short plays/monologues and photography, and seek contributions from anywhere in the world. Our recent issues have featured contributions from England, Scotland, Australia, China, Israel, the Philippines, as well as the United States. If your piece has appeared in an online or print journal, it is not "unpublished."

Submissions can be sent to us through our Online Submission Manager. We will not accept emailed or snail mailed submissions. We particularly welcome submissions that include both written pieces and images that spring from a shared experience or inspiration. Follow the instructions on the submission page carefully.

Regular submissions will be accepted from March 1, 2015 to September 1, 2025.  

We charge a small reading fee of $5 to defray our costs. 

Payment is in contributors' copies.

The Contest

• Entries must be in English, (prose must be double-spaced) in Word or RTF format. Art and photography must be in JPEG format, 200-300 dpi, suitable for black and white reproduction.
  

• The contest is open all writers, of any experience level. Written entries must be in English, (prose must be double-spaced) in Word or RTF format, Art and photography must be in JPEG format, 200-300 dpi, suitable for black and white reproduction. While we expect to produce an e-book format in color, our print journal is black and white only.
  

• Contest submissions will be accepted from March 1, 2025 to August 1, 2025 There is a single cash prize of $250, based on the judges' scores, plus publication of the winner and finalists. There is a $15 fee to defray our costs. 
  

• For contest entries only: Please do not include identifying information on your contest submissions, except in the section of the submission manager marked “cover letter.” If we see identifying information anywhere else, we will disqualify your submission and not refund your fee. 
  

•  For both contest and regular submissions, we are looking for previously unpublished work, well-written with a human sensibility. Excerpts are acceptable, but they must work as stand-alone pieces. We reserve the right to edit for punctuation, sense, and length. Few things are complete turn-offs, but porn, excessive gore, and gratuitous violence are a few. Work aimed at a children's audience is likewise not a good fit for us. 
  

•  We also welcome submissions that include both written work and images. If an image evokes a written response, we want to see it. If a written work cries out for an image, feel free to send one along. Needless to say (but we will say it), if you submit written pieces and images, you must be the owner of both. We reserve the right to accept/reject/separate both pieces. All authors grant first rights. Again, submissions must be in English, double-spaced, in Word or RTF format.

• Simultaneous submissions: Of course, you do it. Everyone does it. Just let us know as soon as you can if you have been accepted elsewhere. If you want to enter a piece in the contest and as a regular submission, you are, of course, free to do so. 

Any questions, please email us at:

info@sanfedelepress.com 

FICTION GUIDELINES: 

• Submit no more than two pieces at a time. American Writers Review seeks distinctive, character-driven stories. 

• Aim for 2500 words or fewer, although we will not necessarily reject pieces that are slightly over that length. If you are submitting a written work with an image, that will be considered two pieces. While we are not dogmatic about genre, we do not want porn, children’s fiction, or things that will make us retch without a really good reason. 

• Put “Fiction” and the title of your piece in the “Title” field of the entry form. 

POETRY GUIDELINES: 

• Submit no more than two poems at a time. We are seeking pieces that make their point in a tight, concise fashion. While we do not have a strict word limit for poetry, we do not encourage you to submit epics (think “The Illiad”) or multi part structures (“Spoon River Anthology” is many poems, not one). 

• Also, please note that we publish in 6"x9" format. If your poems do not fit that format, consider how they can be accommodated. 

• If you are submitting a written work with an image, that will be considered two pieces. 

• Put “Poetry” and the title of your piece in the “Title” field of the entry form 

NONFICTION GUIDELINES: 

• Submit no more than two works at a time. American Writers Review seeks distinctive, concise, tight pieces. 

• Aim for 2500 words or fewer, although we will not necessarily reject pieces that are slightly over that length. 

•  If you are submitting a written work with an image, that will be considered two pieces. 

• Put “NonFiction” and the title of your piece in the “Title” field of the entry form 

DRAMA/MONOLOGUES: 

This is a new area for us. Please submit only one work, concise and short. Aim for 5 minutes for monologues, 7-9 minutes for dramatic works, although we will not necessarily reject pieces that are slightly over those lengths. 

PHOTOGRAPHY AND OTHER ART GUIDELINES: 

You are welcome to submit color and black and white photographs and digital copies of drawings and paintings. Art and photography must be in JPEG format, 200-300 dpi, suitable for black and white reproduction, if choose that format.

Put “Photography” or “Art” and the title of your piece in the “Title” field of the entry form. You must be the creator/owner of any work submitted. By this, we mean, we are uninterested in AI created, plagiarized, or otherwise "not your work." If we discover that it is not your work, we will reject it. We are aiming for publication in winter 2025, so you will find out fairly quickly if your work has been accepted.

Call for Submissions: Pink Apple Press

Pink Apple Press

Submissions

Whether we find seeds to a new pink apple tree or half of a worm, we want to be surprised after the first bite. We want something so delicious we can't resist a second bite.

Make us salivate.

Poetry Submissions

Send up to five poems to:

pinkapplepress@gmail.com 

We ask that each poem is attached in a separate Word Document.

Please include a brief cover letter in the body of your email. Each file name should appear in the following format: lastname_title.docx

Flash Fiction Submissions

Send up to 2,000 words to:

pinkapplepress@gmail.com 

in an attached Word Document. Please include a brief cover letter in the body of your email. Each file name should appear in the following format: lastname_title.docx

Microfiction Submissions

Each month we will choose one piece of microfiction to feature on our website.​

Send up to 300 words to:

pinkapplepress@gmail.com 

in an attached Word Document. Please specify that you are submitting a Monthly Micro in the subject line and include a brief cover letter in the body of your email. Each file name should appear in the following format: lastname_title.docx

Writing Grant: The Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant

Creative Nonfiction Grant

Intensely researched nonfiction books, written with an artful sensitivity to depth and nuance, have always been important in shaping the way we understand the world; today they are essential.

In recent decades many extraordinary writers have contributed crucial works extending the form. Since this grant was established in 2016, the Foundation is proud to have supported dozens of books that have joined their ranks: Sarah M. Broom's The Yellow House, George Packer's Our Man, Kristen Radtke's Seek You, Andrea Elliot's Invisible Child, Meghan O'Rourke's The Invisible Kingdom, Chloé Cooper Jones's Easy Beauty, Rachel Aviv's Strangers to Ourselves, Ilyon Woo's Master Slave Husband Wife, and Patricia Evangelista's Some People Need Killing, to name just a few examples.

Such projects require a wealth of time and resources. The path to a groundbreaking book is long and intensive, and the research process is unpredictable—even a generous advance from a supportive publisher may run out just as a writer unearths an essential piece of the story they are trying to tell, something transformative that leads to new questions.

Recognizing this challenge to the creation of such exemplary works of literature, the Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant’s chief objective is to foster original, ambitious projects brought to the highest possible standard.

Knowing that writers of color often face additional structural hurdles to securing institutional resources to support such projects, we particularly encourage applications from them.

The application window for the 2025 Creative Nonfiction Grant is open. Applications are due by April 23, 2025.

 Click here to view the online application form. Application guidelines are below.

The 2025 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant of $40,000 will be awarded to as many as ten writers in the process of completing a book-length work of deeply researched and imaginatively composed nonfiction for a general adult readership. It is intended for multiyear book projects requiring large amounts of deep and focused research, thinking, and writing at a crucial point mid-process, after significant work has been accomplished but when an extra infusion of support can make a difference in the ultimate shape and quality of the work.

Whiting welcomes applications for works of history, cultural or political reportage, biography, memoir, science, philosophy, criticism, graphic nonfiction, and personal essays, among other categories. Again, the work should be intended for a general, not academic, adult reader. Self-help titles, historical fiction, textbooks, books primarily for a scholarly audience, and books for young readers are not eligible. Examples of the wide range of previous grantees can be found here.

Projects must be under contract with a publisher in Canada, the UK, or the US by April 23 to be eligible. Contracts with self-publishing companies are not eligible.

Writers must submit the materials listed below via the online application form by 11:59pm ET on Wednesday, April 23. The application form includes detailed instructions for each requested item.

• The original proposal that led to the contract with your publisher

• Up to 25,000 words from your draft. Please submit full-length draft chapters, rather than short excerpts from across your book, to the extent the word count allows

• A statement of work yet to be completed

• A plan for use of funds

• A signed and dated contract (please note that to be eligible, books must be under contract with a Canadian, UK, or US publisher – unfortunately, we can make no exceptions to this requirement)

• A current resume

• A list of grants, fellowships, or other funding received for the book

• A letter of support from your publisher or editor

Each project under submission will have two first-round readers who will evaluate for substance and execution (while understanding that they are reading a work in progress). Finalists will be considered by a separate panel of judges who will evaluate for need in addition to substance and execution. Readers and judges will consist of experts in the field from Canada, the UK, and the US, and they will serve anonymously to shield them from any external pressures. The grantees will be announced in December.

The Foundation hosted two online information sessions to answer questions and offer guidance on applying for the grant. You can watch a recording of an info session here.

If you have any questions about the eligibility of your project or the application process, please contact us at:

nonfiction@whiting.org

Fellowship: The American Library in Paris Visiting Fellowship

The American Library in Paris Visiting Fellowship
Enriching cross-cultural intellectual discourse since 2013

What is the Visiting Fellowship?

The American Library in Paris Visiting Fellowship was created in 2013 to nurture and sustain a heritage as old as the Library itself: deepening French-American understanding. The Visiting Fellowship is made possible by the generous support of The de Groot Foundation.

The Fellowship offers writers, researchers, and creators the unique opportunity to spend a month in Paris working independently on their own creative project while contributing to the cultural life of the Library.

In addition to working on their own project, Fellows present a public program during their residency that engages our audience and members around a central theme. The theme for 2025-2026 is Ways of Seeing.

What is Ways of Seeing? 

Ways of Seeing is a theme that invites exploration of how we perceive and interpret the world through art, literature, media, and culture. Inspired by John Berger’s influential work and the broader concept of understanding perspectives, this theme encourages Fellows to delve into new ways of thinking, creating, and connecting. Programs could explore topics such as visual storytelling, cultural perception, cross-cultural exchange, or innovative approaches to creativity and representation. Learn more about Ways of Seeing →.

Fellowship Details:

• Residency Period: One month, between September 2025 and June 2026. Fellowships are not available in July or August due to the Library’s programming hiatus.

• Stipend: $5,000 USD paid prior to the Fellowship period to cover travel, accommodation, and expenses in Paris.

• Eligibility: Open to writers, researchers, journalists, poets, screenwriters, playwrights, directors, and documentary filmmakers. International applicants are welcome.

The Fellowship Includes:

• An orientation day that includes meeting Library staff, a guided tour of the collections and archives, and lunch.

• A Library membership with full access to the Library’s collections, archives, and e-resources.

• A commitment to spend at least three half-days per week in the Library during the residency working on your personal creative project.

• Dedicated time and space to work independently on a self-guided creative project.

• The opportunity to develop and deliver a one-hour public program tied to the theme of Ways of Seeing. This program could be a talk, workshop, panel, performance, or other creative format.

• Opportunities to attend fundraising dinners, cocktail gatherings, or exclusive events as a representative of the Fellowship.

• Participation in filming promotional material for the Library and your Fellowship experience.

• A final exit interview to share feedback and insights about the Fellowship experience.

• An expectation to acknowledge the Library and Fellowship in any publications or media resulting from the project.

How to apply

• Applications for the Visiting Fellowship require: A single PDF file (maximum 5 pages) containing: A one-page cover letter and a two-page CV.

• A one-page narrative description of your personal creative project, including its timeline, current stage, and how the Fellowship at the Library will contribute to its success.

• Three brief (max. 50 words each) proposals for a public program tied to Ways of Seeing. Two professional references (names and contact information).

• A €30 non-refundable application fee. 

More information and application link here.

Call for Submissions: Heron Tree

Heron Tree volume 12 will be dedicated to found poems composed from sources published in or before 1929.

Between 15 January and 15 May 2025 we will be accepting submissions in the following categories:

• Found poems created from any source material(s) published in or before 1929.

• In honor of our 12th regular volume, we’re inviting found poems (still created from sources published in or before 1929) that incorporate 12 in some way. For instance, a poem could have 12 syllables, 12 words, or 12 lines; it could use the word “twelve” or “dozen;” it could be an erasure of page 12 or Chapter 12 of a particular book; it could be created from a word-pool you generated by gathering every twelfth word of a source; it could be a cento combining 12 different sources. These are just suggestions!

• We encourage you to download and read some collections of found poetry that we have published in the past: Found in the Public Domain, Songs, From the Blue Fairy, Of Climates & Continents, and all the poems in volume 8, volume 9, volume 10, and volume 11.

More information:

– We are interested in all approaches to found poetry construction and erased or remixed texts.

– Poems that are not in one of the categories listed above will not be considered.

– If you are working with a text that was translated into English, the English translation must also be published in or before 1929.

– Send up to 5 poems with a cover letter to:

submit.herontree@gmail.com.

– In your email cover letter, please include a list of your poems’ titles.

– The poems should be attached in a single doc, docx, or pdf file. If your pieces are better viewed as digital images, insert them as jpegs within a single doc, docx, or pdf file.

– All submissions will be read blind, so do not include your name in the file with the poems.

– In the same file as the poems, provide a different process paragraph for each poem. It should identify the source(s) for the poem and clearly explain your method of composition. If a poem combines found material and your own words, that’s fine, but your process statement must make that clear. You can find examples of process paragraphs in our previous collections of found poetry. If a poem is accepted for publication, the process paragraph will be published with it.

– Simultaneous submissions are welcome with timely notification of acceptance elsewhere.

– Poems that have previously appeared online (temporarily or permanently, on your own or a third-party site) should not be submitted, nor should work that has already been published electronically or in print.

– Once you send your submission, you’ll receive an automatic email reply. If you don’t receive the reply, please check your spam folder and add Heron Tree to your contacts to ensure that you receive future communications about your submission.

– If your work is accepted by Heron Tree, you agree to grant us exclusive first publication rights and the non-exclusive right to include your work in the volume 12 collection and our online archives. You agree that if your poem subsequently appears elsewhere you will credit Heron Tree as the original publisher.

– Accepted poems will be published weekly on the Heron Tree website beginning in summer 2025 and will be included in a free downloadable PDF volume available later.

Heron Tree does not charge a fee for submitting nor provide payment for publication.

These guidelines are subject to change.

Call for Submissions: Rockvale Review

The reading period runs from January 1 to March 31, 2025.

Issue Fourteen will be published in May 2025.

We publish poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction. Please read the following guidelines carefully and in their entirety. Disregarding our guidelines may result in the disqualification of your submission.

The reading period for Issue Fourteen is January 1 to March 31, 2025 Work submitted outside this window will not be read. We invite you to submit your best work that is both bold and vulnerable. This issue is unthemed.

Guidelines applicable to all genres:

• We read blind, so don’t put your name anywhere on your work or in the title of the file you attach. If we see a name, the submission will be disqualified and we won’t read it. You can add a cover letter and a 100-word, 3rd-person bio in the appropriate section on the form if you wish, but we are more interested in the quality of the work you send now than in your past achievements. If your work is accepted, we will contact you for your author’s bio.

• Please use 12-point, Times New Roman font. We only accept .doc, .docx or PDF files.

• Once a piece is submitted, and especially if it is accepted, revisions by the writer will not be allowed. However, we may ask to lightly edit a piece of writing we really believe in.

• While we’d love to compensate you for your beautiful words, we can’t do that.

• We only accept work via Submittable.

• Simultaneous submissions are perfectly OK, but please notify us immediately if your work is accepted somewhere else by making a note in Submittable. Previously published work is not accepted.

• We acquire first North American serial rights for work we publish. All rights revert to the author upon publication. Should your work be subsequently published in a chapbook, full collection, another journal, or anthology, please mention that it appeared first in Rockvale Review.

• Submission Fee: We charge a $3.00 submission fee for all submissions. All fees go towards supporting our Submittable platform. None of the editors receive any compensation.

Specific guidelines for each writing genre.

Poetry: 

• Send 1-3 poems. Start each poem on a new page. Please don’t send poems longer than 50 lines. Poems may be single-spaced.

• Please don’t send song lyrics or greeting card verse, poems with explicit language, or poems that are overtly political, sexual, or discriminatory.

• It is unlikely that we will publish rhyming verse. It is unlikely that we will publish translations.

• While we will consider all types and forms of poetry, we lean toward image-driven work that is clearly grounded in craft. We pay attention to line breaks, enjambment, use of punctuation, musicality, rhythm of language, etc.

Short Fiction:

• Send 1 piece of writing, double-spaced, with a word limit of 2500.

• In the header of each page, please include the story title. Please include page numbers.

• Story must be a complete work on its own and not an excerpt of a greater work. There must be a clear narrative arc that peaks with crisis/action. We are looking for stories that move us.

• Please carefully check your work for misspellings, punctuation, language issues, etc.

Creative Nonfiction:

• Send 1 piece of writing, double-spaced, no longer than 2500 words.

• In the header of each page, please include the CNF title. Please include page numbers.

• We consider CNF to include memoir, essay, and reported material written in a narrative style using storytelling techniques.

• Please carefully check your work for misspellings, punctuation, language issues, etc.

Submit your work here.

Writing Competition on Theme of "Redemption": Megacity Review

Megacity Review is now accepting submissions for both art and prose for an opportunity to have your work featured in our publication and win up to $1,000. We welcome submissions from professional and amateur creators alike, reflecting a wide range of voices and perspectives.

Submission Period:
Dec 1, 2024 to Apr 1, 2025

Prose Guidelines

Theme: Redemption

Word Count: Up to 3,000 words

Format: Submissions must be in a standard manuscript format (double-spaced, 12-point Times New Roman, 1-inch margins) and submitted as a PDF or Word document.

Genres: We accept literary fiction, creative nonfiction, and personal essays.

Additional Requirement: Please include a short bio (50–100 words) with your submission.

Art Guidelines

Theme: Open

What We’re Looking For: Street-inspired art, fine art, photography, and other visual media that enchant and captivate.

Number of Pieces: Up to four (4) images per submission.

Format: Digital files (JPEG or PNG) at 300 DPI resolution. Files should not exceed 10 MB each.

Additional Requirement: Please include a short bio (50–100 words) with your submission.

Review Submission Fee

Prose: $10 per submission.

Art: $10 per submission (up to four pieces). 

The submission fee helps cover the cost of reviewing and administrating the selection process. Due to staff constraints, we do not provide feedback on entries.

Awards

Selected submissions will be featured in an upcoming issue of Megacity Review. Contributors whose work is chosen will receive an honorarium of up to $1,000.

Eligibility

Open to creators 18 years or older.

Submissions must be original, unpublished work. Simultaneous submissions are allowed, but please notify us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere.

Multiple submissions are permitted. Each submission requires a separate fee.

How to Submit

Prepare your submission following the guidelines above.

Submit the $10 submission fee via our Submission Portal.

Upload your work through the portal, and make sure that your submission includes a short bio.

Rights

By submitting your work, you grant Megacity Review first publishing rights and the non-exclusive right to include your work in digital and print formats. After publication, all rights revert to the author or artist.

Terms and Conditions

Submissions that do not adhere to the guidelines will not be considered.

Submission fees are non-refundable.

Winners will be notified by Oct 1, 2025.

Megacity Review reserves the right to make editorial changes to accepted pieces with the contributor's approval.

For questions, please contact us at:

submissions@megacityreview.org

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions on Theme of "Flaw and Favor": The Ilanot Review

Reading period for our summer 2025 issue: February 1 to March 31, 2025

Theme: Flaw and Favor

Submission Guidelines:

• Only one submission per reading period, please! Multiple submissions (including submissions to multiple genres) will be automatically disqualified. Submission fees: Submissions are free for two weeks or until Submittable’s submission caps are reached, whichever comes first.

• After that, we charge a submission fee of $3.

• Translations are free throughout the submission period.

• The Ilanot Review is a volunteer operation. Funds go towards web hosting fees and Submittable service fees.

• We will consider simultaneous submissions but ask that you retract your work immediately if it is accepted for publication elsewhere.

• If your work appears in our current or previous issue, we kindly ask that you refrain from submitting to our upcoming issue.

• Please include a short bio (50-100 words) with your submission.

• We welcome unpublished translations of original work, provided the translator has obtained permission from the author. Please include a copy of the original work with your submission.

• We welcome work that challenges conventions of form, style, and content.

• We retain first serial rights to work published in The Ilanot Review. At the time of publication, all rights revert back to the author. However, The Ilanot Review retains the right to publish the piece(s) in any subsequent issue or anthology, whether in print or online. Should you decide to republish the piece elsewhere, we kindly ask that you cite The Ilanot Review as a place of previous publication.

Categories:

Poetry:

Up to 5 poems, not to exceed 7 pages. Please submit all work + bio in a single Word file, with each poem beginning on a separate page. Please include your name and contact information on each page.

Fiction:

One story up to 3,000 words long or 1-3 works of flash/microfiction, up to 500 words each.

Creative Nonfiction:

One essay up to 4,000 words long or 1-3 works of flash/micro-CNF, up to 500 words each

Art, Photography, Comics:

Please submit a single document or up to 6 image files (all files must be included in a single submission). Stand-alone images submitted to this category will be considered for inclusion within the journal’s pages and as cover art.

Translations:

We welcome unpublished translations into English from any language, provided the translator has obtained permission from the author. See above for word limits for each genre. Please include a copy of the original work with your submission.

Submit your work here.

Writing Competition: 2025 Rising Poet Chapbook Prize

Description: Sponsored by our publishing partner, Shadow Dog Press, the 2025 Rising Poet Chapbook Prize seeks to elevate and reward exceptional emerging literary talent.

Submission Window: March 10th, 2025 at 12:01 am EST through August 10th, 2025 at 11:59 pm.

Prize:
Publication by Shadow Dog Press with a transparent and competitive royalties contract, including:
-A $500 advance (payable upon signing)
-25 author copies
-Chapbook marketing & promotions
-A multi-page feature in SDL Review
-A 5-year digital subscription to SDL Review
-2 print copies of the issue(s) in which you are featured.

Up to three prize packages will be awarded. All submissions will be considered for offers of publication.

Eligibility: The 2025 Rising Poet Chapbook Prize is open to previously unpublished chapbook-length poetry manuscripts from all US-based poets who have not yet published a full-length collection. Here, for the purposes of The 2025 Rising Poet Chapbook Prize eligibility, we consider “published” to mean any full-length collection that has been traditionally or self-published in any print and/or digital format. Individual pieces that have been previously published may be included, provided you hold the rights and proper acknowledgments are made. We ask that no more than 1/3 of your manuscript be made up of previously published work. Employees and board members of Shadow Dog Press Literary Group entities and their immediate family members are ineligible. We do not accept any submissions created, in whole or in part, with or assisted by generative AI. We require a personal statement certifying that generative AI was not used at any stage in the creation process of your manuscript. This does not include simple spellcheck applications. Learn more about our AI policy.

Reading fee: $18
Every submitter receives personalized manuscript feedback.

A limited amount of sponsored free submission slots will open to submitters August 1st, 2025 at Noon EST and remain open until exhausted or the submission window closes.

Submission Guidelines: When building your submission packet, please be sure to adhere to the following guidelines. Submissions that do not follow the guidelines below will be rejected.

Assembling your submission packet: We require you to submit the following separate documents.

Document #1- Your Manuscript

—An eligible chapbook manuscript saved as a .docx file of no less than 15, but no more than 30 pages.

—Start each piece on a new page.

—Please be sure to strip identifying information from your manuscript document.

—Include your manuscript title in the header of each page.

—Number your pages.

—Page size 8.5×11, with all margins set to 1 inch.

—Use 12pt Times New Roman.

—Images- Please do not include art or images in your submission. You’ll have ample opportunity to discuss art and imagery with your publishing team should your manuscript be accepted.

Document #2- Your Cover Letter

Your cover letter should be a single-page document consisting of a few paragraphs that introduce both you as the author of the work and the work itself. Beneath that information, please provide a brief 3rd-person bio. Next, list your website and any social media handles you have. After that, include a brief statement certifying no generative AI was used at any point during the creation of your manuscript.

Finally, include your contact information as follows:

—Pen Name under which you wish to publish, if applicable

—Pronouns

—Legal Name (for internal uses such as accounting and contracts)

—Email address

—Mailing address

—Phone number

Document #3- Acknowledgements Page

Please provide a list of the individual previously published works included in this manuscript, including their original publishers and respective issue, volume, or online domain as applicable.

Please note that the inclusion of this document is only required if any of the individual pieces that make up your chapbook manuscript have been previously published elsewhere as defined in the eligibility section above.

Rules, Restrictions, Terms, and Conditions

The 2025 Rising Poet Chapbook Prize adheres to the Shadow Dog Literary Inc. Mission Statement and the CLMP Contest Code of Ethics and operates on a yearly cycle. The contest is organized and administered in a three-phase format.

Phase I— Submissions period. The 2025 submissions period runs from 12:01 am EST March 10th, 2025 through 11:59 pm EST August 10th, 2025.

Phase II— The Selection Process. Blind reading of manuscripts may commence no earlier than August 12th, 2025, however, in adherence with the Shadow Dog Literary Inc.’s nonprofit mission statement of commitment to Publishing Excellence and maintaining high editorial standards, a minimum threshold of submissions must be met to commence the selection process. In the event that the threshold is not met by the end of the submission window, the window will be extended in 30-day increments until the threshold is met. At least one submission will be selected. The number of additional selections is based on the overall quality of the submissions received and the total volume of submissions received within the current prize cycle submission window.

Phase III- Notification Period— Decision notifications are to be sent out no later than the 21st of November 2025 provided the submission window runs as scheduled. Should the submission window need to be extended in accordance with the rules above, this date will also be adjusted. All submissions will be answered. Decisions are delivered via email. If you would also like to receive a physical decision letter, please send a S.A.S.E. to
Shadow Dog Press
P.O. Box 39
North Adams, MA 01247

before the 1st of August 2025. Selections will be announced on Shadow Dog Group’s social media channels. The Shadow’s Call newsletter, and in The SDL review. Selected manuscripts will be slated for release dates throughout 2026.

The Reading Fee—All fees collected go to paying and elevating writers, as well as transaction, platform, and administration fees associated with doing so. Shadow Dog Literary Inc. is a small nonprofit in its infancy, started with seed money scraped together by working-class writers. We’re run by volunteers still seeking sponsors at this time, but we hope to lower or eliminate submission fees as we grow and our funding increases.

The Prize Packages— Each selected manuscript’s author will be awarded a transparent and competitive publishing contract with our partner publisher, Shadow Dog Press Independent Publishing House that includes a $500 cash advance, (payable upon signing,) royalties, and 25 author copies; chapbook marketing & promotions, a multi-page feature in The SDL Review, a 5-year (25 issues) digital subscription to The SDL Review and 2 print copies of the issue in which you are featured. Up to three prize packages will be awarded. Should a selected manuscript’s author decline our offer to publish, the prize package will default to the runner-up.

If you have any questions not answered here, please send an email to ChapbookPrize@ShadowDogPress.com

NOTICE: Abuse, threats, harassment, and mistreatment directed toward any member of our staff or our contributors on or off our platforms will result in being permanently banned by Shadow Dog Literary Group, all its holdings, and partner programs, including but not limited to its current and future holdings, publications, platforms, events, social media pages, outreach and support programs, grants, scholarships, contracts, prizes, awards, etc. and reported to the authorities as necessary.
 

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Call for Submissions on Theme of "Memories of the Future": Usawa Literary review

Usawa: Call for Submissions - June 2025 Issue

MEMORIES OF THE FUTURE

Isn’t premonition memory of the future? Did Proust say writers have a blurred memory of things they do not know?

Memory by Priya Sarukkai Chabria,

Calling Over Water

Time flows linearly. We move forward and then memories sneak up and take us back or rather, bring to the present what once was. And in dreams instead of falling downwards, the sand in our hourglass may start moving up.

All memory is imagination. All dreams are…well dreams.

Imagining, dreaming, and remembering by their very nature resist censor. Are they acts of resistance then? Then writing in their language must be too.

When we mine your dreams tomorrow what would we find?

For its Summer 2025 Issue, Usawa Literary Review invites contributions in genres of poetry, short fiction, reviews, interviews, essays, and creative non-fiction, based around the theme, ‘Memories of the Future ’.

There is no submission fee.

Deadline: 25th April 2025

We pay 1000 INR/12 $ for an accepted piece.

Section Guidelines

Poetry:

Please submit 4-6 poems.

Usawa will be publishing unpublished poems only. However, poems that have been shared on the author’s social media are acceptable.

If you have previously published work that strongly resonates with our theme kindly share the same with our Poetry Editor, Babitha Marina Justin, at:

babitha@usawa.in 

stating why you would like the piece to be considered. The body of editors will review it collectively and take a decision accordingly.

Short Fiction:

Submit short fiction of length between 2000-5000 words.

While our primary focus is on literary fiction that explores the depth and complexity of the human experience, we are also open to exceptional works of genre fiction that push boundaries and offer fresh perspectives. Bring us stories with emotional depth, vivid characterization, and inventive storytelling.

Our Editor-in-Chief, Smita Sahay, can be reached at:

smita@usawa.in 

for queries.

Translations:

Include at least 4 poems or a text ranging from 2000-5000 words for consideration. The translation should be alongside the source text.

Please ensure that you have the original author’s consent and mention the same in your submission. Include the original author’s short bio and photograph if possible.

Our Translations Editor, Sonakshi Srivastava, can be reached at:

sonakshi@usawa.in 

for queries.

Book Reviews:

Submit 1000-1500 word book reviews. Reviews can be of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction books.

Submission Guidelines for Book Reviews

Our Reviews Editor, Ankush Banerjee, can be reached at:

ankush@usawa.in 

for queries.

Nonfiction:

Submit nonfiction of length up to 5000 words.

We are looking for pieces that reflect honesty of the experience, personal or from the point of witness. What are you subverting? Why? Send us well-crafted writings, especially essays, or even hybrid pieces, in a way that we look at the world anew even though the facts remain the same. We’re most excited by not only reading about things little known or talked about, but also by pieces that subvert and surprise.

Our Nonfiction Editor, Smita Sahay, can be reached at:

smita@usawa.in 

for queries.

Visual Narrative submissions:

Please send up to six-eight stand-alone photographs or photo essays in .jpeg format at 300dpi along with an artist statement or a paragraph about the inspiration behind your piece to our Visual Narratives Editor, Priyanka Sacheti at:

priyanka@usawa.in

We are looking for images which see the world anew, the camera revealing what our gaze sometimes overlooks. There are so many ways of looking and we are particularly interested in those images moving away from and challenging the patriarchal/male gaze. We would also like to see images where the framing of a subject is as much a story as the subject itself.

We welcome both landscape and portrait-oriented images as well as colour and black and white images. 

Visual Narratives FAQ

Interview Submissions:

The interview piece should have at least 5-8 questions. Kindly mention whether you have taken the interview in person, by any virtual tool, or through questionnaires. Kindly include a short description of 100 words, highlighting what made you choose the individual.

We are looking for interviews of people from every sphere of the society. Since our world is built with dreams, hard work, kindness, and compassion, our objective is to understand people who embody these traits in their work. Our idea is to acknowledge and celebrate an individual’s contributions towards shaping the society.

Our Interviews Editor, Kabir Deb, can be reached at:

kabir@usawa.in 

for queries.

More information and submission form here.

Call for Submissions: Feminist Spaces

Feminist Spaces is an international journal of women's, gender, and sexuality studies that invites students, faculty, artists, activists, and independent scholars from institutions worldwide to submit formal essays, creative writing, and multimodal artistic pieces per our annual Call for Works. The online journal is published and designed independently by our editorial board.​

Originally established in March 2014, Feminist Spaces emerged as the brainchild of the Women's Studies Collective at the University of West Florida. The student-run organization successfully published six issues of Feminist Spaces and hosted 17 annual Women’s Studies Conferences with notable keynote speakers such as Angela Davis, Dr. Anne Fausto-Sterling, and Andrea Gibson.

Following a four-year publishing hiatus, Feminist Spaces relaunched and rebranded in January 2021 by a team of graduate students at a university in Florida. After a year of hacking passwords, meeting via Zoom, and digging through ancient editorial files, the editorial team was proud to present a revamped installment and digital facelift of Feminist Spaces.

However, in 2024, Feminist Spaces made the decision to cut ties with our original institution after conservative laws were passed in Florida. Florida regulation 9.016, nicknamed "the anti-DEI regulation," prevents "Social and Political Activism," which is defined in this regulation as "any activity organized with a purpose of effecting or preventing change to a governmental policy, action, or function." The state accused Feminist Spaces, as an openly activist journal, of violating this regulation, thus "threaten[ing] the integrity" of our prior institution. Our options, then, were two-fold: be silenced or break away. The choice was clear.

While Feminist Spaces does not fault the university with which we were previously affiliated for this censorship, we acknowledge that becoming an independent journal is in the best interest of the journal’s mission and our goals as a group of intersectional feminist activists. Independent publication not only allows our editorial board to speak, post, and publish freely, but it also allows us to advocate openly for women's rights by amplifying a larger number of voices of members of marginalized communities globally and exploring a wider range of "polarizing" topics.

We refuse to be silenced, and we refuse to silence you.

Feminist Spaces accepts submissions each year between the months of January and May during our annual Call for Works. New issues are published each summer.

To submit work to Feminist Spaces, please send us an email with your submission to:

feministspacesjournal@gmail.com 

with "Submission [Year]" in the subject line.

All submissions must be sent using an editable file such as .doc, .docx, or .rtf. Please ensure that all written submissions adhere to the guidelines and conventions set forth by the Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition). Standard essays should be single-spaced at a 12 pt. font. Additionally, all writers and artists should include a third-person biography of less than 150 words with their submission.

For artistic submissions, please send us high-resolution photos as a JPEG, PNG, or link to an online photo sharing platform like Google Drive. All artistic submissions must include a first-person artist statement of less than 600 words which contextualizes the artwork. All art submissions will be considered for cover art for the journal.

Call for Submissions from Maryland Writers: Artists from Maryland

 

Issue 2 Timeline: 

March 9th to April 26th: Submissions open for all genres
April 26th to May 4th: Final round of judging
May 5th: Responses to all submitters
May 7th: Announcement of honorees and payment

All responses will be sent out by May 5th. If accepted, you MUST respond by May 7th to be paid. We will only pay through PAYPAL and ZELLE. 

For clarity: the editor-in-chief will not be deciding the winner or the runner-ups. The EIC (Aldrin Badiola) will be anonymizing each of the submissions, and sending them to the judges for Issue 2: Diamond Abrams and nat raum. The EIC, however, will be deciding the finalists that will be included for publication alongside the winner and the runner-ups.

Payment goes as follows (all honorees will be published alongside payment):

Winner: $40 USD
Runner-ups: $20 USD
Finalists: $10 USD

GUIDELINES:

The following are necessary for your submission to be considered:

• A cover letter. Nothing too fancy! Just explain whether what you’re submitting is a simultaneous submission, if it has been previously published, and tell us about who you are and where in Maryland you are from!

• A short artist bio (around 50 words, but we're flexible), since we want to get to know you and promote anywhere you may have been published before.

Genre specific guidelines (maximum of four pages/documents, depending on genre):

• 1 to 3 poems, each on a new page, as a .pdf or .doc/.docx file

• 1 to 2 prose pieces (fiction or nonfiction, max. of 2000 words) each on a new page, as a .pdf or .doc/.docx file

• 1 to 4 pieces of art as separate .jpeg or .png files (Attaching alt-text is appreciated, however we are also willing to work with you to create alt-text.)

• You are allowed to submit multi-genre, it just must fit in the five document upload limit and follow the genre restrictions.

• No AI-created works. No discriminatory, gory, or excessively sexual content (when in doubt, submit with content warnings).

• We do accept previously published pieces, but only if you have permission from the previous publisher. We also allow pieces from Artists from Maryland to be published elsewhere after the fact, just credit us!

• We do accept simultaneous submissions, just notify us immediately if part of your submission is accepted elsewhere so we can congratulate you.

• If you submit when we are closed, your submission will be deleted and left unread.

• If you are rejected, please wait three months before submitting again, unless otherwise requested. If you submit before that period is over, your submission will be deleted and left unread, and all future submissions will be given the same treatment.

We request the nonexclusive rights to publish your works with us. Artists maintain the right to republish the work they publish with us, elsewhere, after our publication.

Submit your work here.