Monday, April 28, 2025

Call for Submissions on Theme of "Breaking the Cycle": Thorn & Bloom

Thorn & Bloom is our quarterly publication dedicated to exploring the transformative power of self-care as a pathway to personal and collective liberation. At its core, this publication challenges how societal norms and socialisation suppress individuality, autonomy, and self-worth. By embracing self-care as an act of resistance and a tool for healing, Thorn & Bloom seeks to inspire readers to break free from expectations and redefine their lives on their own terms. We invite you to share your voice and creativity in this space dedicated to balancing struggle and growth. Whether through personal essays, poetry, fiction, memoirs, academic or expert insights, we want to hear how you navigate the journey toward mindfulness, balance, and authenticity.

The Details

Theme for Issue 02: Breaking the Cycle

Thorn & Bloom is seeking work that explores the journey of unlearning harmful societal conditioning and reclaiming autonomy over mind, body, and time.

We welcome submissions in any genre and style and are particularly interested in stories that:

  • Examine how societal structures shape identity, behaviours, and self-perception.
  • Share moments of resistance, boundary-setting, and learning to care for oneself without guilt.
  • Reflect on the internal conflict between who we are and who we were taught to be.
  • Explore childhood lessons on obedience, politeness, or compliance and their lasting effects.

We invite you to share your experiences of breaking free from expectations, rewriting narratives, and embracing self-care as an act of defiance and renewal. With a focus on inclusivity, empowerment, and meaningful reflection, this issue will create space for readers to connect, question, and grow.

DEADLINE: 15 May 2025

PUBLICATION: June 2025

Please read the guidelines before submitting your work. Any work that does not meet our guidelines will automatically be disqualified.

Guidelines

redrosethorns publishes original short stories, creative non-fiction, fiction, poems, prose, academia and more.

Please submit your work through our secure online forms. You may submit your work either by uploading documents in PDF or Word format, or by posting directly into the message section of the forms portal. (If you experience any issues with uploading your document, please reach out to us at:

contact@redrosethorns.com)

Please do not email your manuscript to our email address. All submissions must be uploaded to the forms portal on the right side of this page.

Only submit work that has not previously been published, in print or online.

You retain all copyrights of your work, and full license to use your work after Thorn & Bloom publication.

All written work needs to be 3000 words max.

You can submit as many pieces as you wish, though only submit one piece at a time. Please note that not all pieces submitted may be selected.

We do not charge for submissions, however, donations are always appreciated.

Please note that we do not offer compensation for pieces published in our publications. Nor do we offer complimentary print publications.

DEADLINE for all submissions: 15 May 2025

We encourage folks of marginalised communities, including but not limited to women - both cisgender and transgender women, transgender men, non-binary, gender neutral, and Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour to contribute their work.​

Please get in touch with us with any questions, concerns, or compliments at:

contact@redrosethorns.com

Submit your work here.

Monday, April 21, 2025

Call for Submissions on Theme of "Nature & Eco-Writing": Inkfish Magazine

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Call for Submissions: Inkfish Magazine

Nature & Eco-writing

Deadline: May 15 2025

Our fourth edition will focus on nature, the environment, and climate change. We would love to read your short fiction, flash, non-fiction, and poetry circling this theme. You might want to submit nature poetry, whether traditional or innovative, or you may want to send us your folk retellings and fractured fairytales that make the natural world their setting. We would be excited to see eco-fiction that intersects with the dystopian and the speculative, as well as ‘new nature writing’ style essays and creative nonfiction pieces that reflect on personal connections with nature. This call includes a wide range of forms, from flash to prose poetry, to concrete and erasure poetry, to micro-fiction, and we are always happy to see the bold, the experimental, and the unexpected.

We are a literary journal who publish flash fiction, short stories & non-fiction that prioritise voice, character and emotional engagement. We love great short fiction, poetry and art, especially those pieces that take us somewhere new, and we welcome a range of poetry, from tried and true free verse to bold experiments with form, as well as visual art for our illustrations. We would love to hear from you, whether you are established or just getting started with publishing!

Prose
We publish short fiction, flash, and non-fiction. We are especially keen on reading flash (200 to 1000 words) and prose poetry pieces. Please send unpublished work no longer than 6,000 words in a double spaced 12-point font. All works should be attached in a single .DOC/.DOCX file

Poetry
We publish poetry of all types, but we especially love to see poetry that takes risks, including prose, erasure, vispo, concrete poetry, experimental and hybrid work. Please send 5 maximum unpublished poems in a single .DOC/.DOCX file with one poem per page (five pages max).

Simultaneous Submissions
Simultaneous submissions are encouraged. If your work is accepted elsewhere, we just ask that you let us know immediately through email.

Rights
We require First UK Serial Rights. Following publication, all rights revert to the author, but we ask that Inkfish is credited in subsequent reprints. In addition, we reserve the right to edit submissions in accordance with the rules of our style guide.

Payment
Whilst we would love to be able to pay our writers and artists, as an indie mag volunteering our time, we are not currently in position to do so, though we hope to be able to in the near future!

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions: The Ana

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The Ana

FICTION · NON-FICTION · ESSAY · CROSS-GENRE LITERATURE
Submit up to 3 works of prose.

Each prose work must be up to 7,500 words max.

Submit each piece individually

We only accept docx.

POETRY · POETRY IN TRANSLATION
Submit up to 3 poems.

We only accept docx.

Submit each piece individually

If you submit Poetry in Translation, please include context for the translation and the original poem.

VISUAL ART
Submit up to 5 works of visual art.

We do not accept work created with Artificial Intelligence (AI).

We only accept jpegs.

  • We retain the right to rescind or refuse the publication of any work we please.
  • We refuses to engage work that promotes hate speech.
  • We mean it. 
Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions: Samjoko Magazine

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Samjoko Magazine is devoted to publishing exemplary work from content creators around the world. Focusing mainly upon the written word, we hope to create an immersive digital and print platform that stands out for its honesty and desire to take risks for the sake of artistic expression. We have no set aesthetic, though different themes will be focused upon periodically. Response times vary between 3 to 6 months. Apologies in advance for form rejections. Our goal is to publish 6-10 pieces per issue.Summer
 
Reading Period: 2025/04/10 - 2025/06/10
 
$20 Contributor’s Payment if Accepted
 
Reprints Accepted
 
No multiple submissions
 
Submit once per reading cycle
 
No AI assisted or AI generated work
 
If accepted, please wait 24 months before submitting again
 
Read a profile on Samjoko Magazine in The Korea Times
 
Submission Guidelines

Samjoko purchases first worldwide English-language serial and electronic rights from the date the contract is signed and paid for up until 6 months after publication date.

After initial publication date, Samjoko Magazine will maintain non-exclusive rights to publication. Paid submissions must not use the intellectual property of any other author or company.

Each piece we acquire will be published on samjokomagazine.com in an electronic seasonal issue. We may also excerpt pieces for promotional purposes. The author retains all other rights.

We pay up to 6 months after publication through PayPal only. Payment projected to happen sooner. Current payment is $20 per accepted submission, though we hope to increase this with greater support from readers.

Cover letter should have contact information, PayPal email, and author’s bio less than 100 words.

Email subject should read: [SUBMISSION: Title of Story (genre & word count) by Author’s Name]

Example - SUBMISSION: The Grey Wolf (FICTION - 3200) by Lauren Hill

REPRINTS must be marked clearly in the Subject Field and Cover Letter. Ex: SUBMISSION: The Grey Wolf (FICTION - 3200) by Lauren Hill - REPRINT

Notification of receipt and rejections will be form letters to save time.

There will be no personal responses except in the case of general queries and acceptances.

Cover Letter must be added in the email of each submission. Keep it brief, but let us know that you’re human. List only your must recent publications.

Submissions that do not follow guidelines will be deleted unread.

Samjoko Magazine does not accept AI assisted or AI generated works. 

Submit at:

samjokomagazine@outlook.com

More information and submission link here

Call for Submissions: Tableware Magazine

Tableware Magazine

Open-genre submissions begin April 1st – May 15th

We accept original, unpublished art, poetry, fiction, essays, photography, reviews. Most anything you can print on paper.

$50 flat rate awarded upon acceptance for publication. As well as a complimentary copy (obvs). 

Send your packet to:

tablewaremag@gmail.com

This is where we take submissions. No submittable atm. But we are on chillsubs. Up to 15 pages of writing (poetry single-spaced; fiction, etc double-spaced). Up to 5 pieces of art.

Call for Submissions: Pictura Journal


Pictura Journal will appear online in April, August, and December. Submissions are always open, and we’ll do our best to respond within three weeks. If you don’t hear back from us within that period, please feel free to follow up.

We offer a token payment of $5 (USD) per contributor, paid to the Paypal (preferred), Cash App, or Venmo account you provide on the submission form. We’ll do our best to find alternate means of payment if necessary, but we can’t make any guarantees. The small payment amount isn’t reflective of the quality of contributor work—it’s just what we can afford with our current funding.

We’re currently reading for our August issue, beginning with work submitted on February 10.

guidelines

The Basics

We encourage simultaneous submissions, but please withdraw any pieces that are accepted elsewhere. Submissions in multiple genres are also accepted.

Do not send us any of the following: work that could reasonably be deemed offensive, including work containing graphic violence, abusive behavior, themes and language expressing hatred for any marginalized identity. We will never knowingly publish AI-generated work.

If you’re uncomfortable with your work appearing in an inclusive publication, we’re not the place for you.

We accept international submissions, but written work must be in English.

Include a brief third-person bio with each submission. Cover letters are welcome but optional. Do not put your name or identifying information anywhere within the file name or the document itself. If we accept your work, please skip an issue before submitting again. If we decline your submission, you may submit different pieces after six months.

We currently accept previously published work with a few conditions: you must have the rights and let us know where it was originally published, and the work can’t have appeared online or in print within the past 24 months. We don’t consider work posted only on personal blogs or social media accounts “previously published.”

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

All accepted work may be nominated for prizes when possible unless the contributor directs us otherwise.

the specifics

We currently accept submissions through Duosuma. We no longer consider email submissions without prior arrangement.

Poetry

Send up to five poems in one document, with each poem starting on a new page. We prefer free verse, each poem no more than two pages long, and can’t guarantee that we’ll be able to replicate any special visual structure.

Prose

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

Artwork

Send up to three pieces of visual art, in the highest resolution possible. Artwork currently appears online only.

Expedited Responses

General submissions are always free, but a donation of at least $3 will guarantee a response within three days. You’ll see an option to provide payment on the submission form.

Writing Competition: 2025 Tusculum Review Fiction Chapbook Prize

Three-Part Award | A prize of $1,500, publication of the story in The Tusculum Review’s 21st volume (2025), and creation of a limited edition stand-alone chapbook with original art is awarded for the winning story.

To Enter | The entry fee is $20 per manuscript. Entry fees include a one-year subscription to The Tusculum Review (an annual publication) and consideration for publication in our 21st volume (2025). We encourage international submissions but must charge an additional $15 fee to mail the journal to locations outside the U.S.

Deadline | The deadline for submitting is June 15, 2025. All entries should be sent through Submittable: tusculumreview.submittable.com. We do not accept mailed or emailed submissions, but if Submittable is a hardship, let us know at:

review@tusculum.edu

Single Story Length | Each manuscript should consist of a single story in a standard 12-point font, double-spaced. Stories may be between 2,000 words (about 7 manuscript pages) and 7,000 words (22 pages).

Unpublished Entries | Stories may not have been previously published nor be forthcoming. You are welcome to submit your story to other publications or contests while we consider it for the prize, but please alert us if your story is going to be published or honored elsewhere, so we can take it out of the running. If you have more than one story to submit, create a new entry for each.

Anonymous Manuscripts | Please do NOT include your name or any other identifying information on any page of the story manuscript.

Contest Judge | Contest judge Jaime Cortez and editors of the The Tusculum Review will determine the winner of the 2025 prize. Family, friends, and previous students of the contest judge and the The Tusculum Review editors are disqualified from the competition, as are those with reciprocal professional relationships. Previous winners of Tusculum Review contests are also disqualified. Previous finalists and honorable mentions may enter.

Blind Judging | Names and identifying information will not be visible to the judges. The Tusculum Review reserves the right to extend the call for manuscripts or cancel the award. We have only canceled one of the 30+ contests we’ve hosted, due to single-digit entries. We look forward to reading your work.

Publication Rights | Except for second printings of the journal due to demand, all rights to material in The Tusculum Review and chapbooks revert to the individual authors and artists after publication (first serial rights). We request that you acknowledge us if you reprint work we published first. The chapbook design belongs to The Tusculum Review. Tusculum University does not discriminate on the basis of gender, race, age, sexual orientation, identity, religion, veteran or military status, citizenship status, ethnic origin, or disability.

Chapbook Launch and Marketing | The debut of the prizewinning chapbook is our most important annual event. When possible, we bring the prizewinner to campus for the live launch, where they read for, and take questions from, an audience of community members and students, many of whom have already read and discussed the writer’s work: the prizewinner is greeted by fans. The visiting writer may be asked to lead a workshop of student fiction earlier in the day. A student editor will interview and write a profile of the winning author for publication on our website in advance of the launch event. We will use photographs of the author, quotes from their story, and blurbs from the contest judge to market the prizewinning chapbook and the event. After filming the live launch, we’ll include portions of the recording on our website. We will submit the prizewinning story for consideration for the Pushcart Prizes, the O. Henry Prize Stories, Best American Short Stories, and other relevant recognition.

Call for Queries and Pitches on Theme of "Mental Health": The Markaz Review

TMR 51 • OUT OF OUR MINDS (the mental health issue) June 2025

Copy deadline May 23, 25th, 2025

Maintaining our mental well-being often seems like an uphill battle in a world that increasingly feels chaotic and unpredictable. With a mix of political upheaval, global crises (climate disasters, the horrors of genocide and starvation in Gaza, wars in Ukraine, Sudan, Syria…) and personal challenges, it’s no wonder that many of us are searching for ways to sta grounded amid the chaos, isolation, anduncertainty. Moreover, while the digital age has opened up avenues for connection and information sharing, it has given rise to additional obstacles. Social media can set unrealistic expectations, heighten feelings of inadequacy, and create a sense of disconnection, even though it remains a support system and community resource for so many of us. There are also the issues of unequal access to therapy and the hit-or-miss aim of different medical treatments possible. And, in a world so fraught with chaos and inequality, is mental illness something anomalous, or just somehow the “healthiest” reaction to the surrounding world? What is the baseline mode of happiness or health or ability to function that we should be aiming for; how much of our mental health is due to biology and personal circumstance, and how much to the larger social and political environment?

Mental health is more than a personal matter; it’s a collective responsibility that isn’t restricted to the sufferer alone but family members and colleagues as well. Whether through personal accounts, imaginative fiction or thought-provoking artwork, OUT OF OUR MINDS aims to cultivate a safe space to embrace vulnerability, celebrate resilience, and deepen our understanding of one another in this mad world. Issue 51 of The Markaz Review seeks to take into account the following:The stigma surrounding mental health issues;
  • The impact of social media on mental health;
  • The beauty of chaos and disorder;
  • Embracing the unconventional;
  • The intersection of dreams and reality.

Query the editors:

editor@themarkaz.org 

no later than May 9; final copy deadline is May 23, 2025. 

What are we looking for?

The Markaz Review aka TMR seeks essays, feature articles and reviews of books, film, music, theatre and art, as well as profiles/interviews of artists, filmmakers, musicians and writers (1,000-3,000 words). We’re interested in covering a worldwide array of visual, literary and performing arts events, as well as current affairs. We also publish opinion columns (750-1,500 words). Our style is serious without being academic. Our writers care and are even passionate on the subjects they cover.

Critical and comparative thinking in TMR writing is key. It is essential for all Markaz Review stories that the writer have a strong point of view, a clear voice, a sense of authority about the subject, with a commanding lead paragraph and a strong conclusion. Merely relating biographical details and sharing quotes doesn’t do the trick. Readers want to know from the get-go, why should they be interested in this subject or this person? what’s so special about it/them? The writer has to get at the essence of the subject, and not be satisfied with appearances — just quoting someone, for example, is being satisfied with the surface details, with appearances, but what lies beneath, what is the psychology and/or philosophy of the subject, the experience and its meaning or significance? We want to think more about essences than appearances. We also encourage writers not to only get information from the subject (the “horse’s mouth” as it were) but other sources, including critical assessment. This goes without saying.
Query the Editors (How to Query)

Pitch your story idea to one of the editors with a jab, a roundhouse and an uppercut punch:

1. Tell us in a sentence or two what the story or subject is, and why it’s relevant and needed;

2. Explain why you think it’s a great fit for The Markaz Review;

3. And why you’re the one to write it.

If you haven’t previously written for The Markaz Review, include a sample clip/link or two so we can get a sense of your flare.

That’s all there is to it. A good query will get a faster response! Come on, knock us out! (Editors can be reached via their first name-at-themarkaz.org or query editor@themarkaz.org.)

Book publicists, authors and publishers should address a press release and an electronic ARC of your book to our Deputy Editor, who handles assignments: Rayyan Al-Shawaf, rayyan-at-themarkaz.org. To potentially have your film, art exhibition or other event reviewed, drop us a line at info-at-themarkaz.org and your query will be forwarded to the appropriate editor.

Reviewers: While we are very open to comparative review essays (typically 1,000-3,000 words), we discourage writers from pitching reviews in which they would be writing about books or films by friends. A little objectivity goes a long way, and we prefer critical writing that holds work to high standards.
What do we care about?

TMR is an international platform for creative inquiry, criticism, performance and dialogue that explores the arts, humanities and current affairs. Recognizing that we live in a world fragmented by racism, gender discrimination, settler-colonialism, class and caste systems, xenophobia and orientalism, we raise our voices for social justice and human rights.
No AI Policy

• The Markaz Review has a NO AI POLICY: The Markaz Review is devoted to creative work from human writers and artists only. Text and image generation by AI systems have achieved remarkable verisimilitude to actual writing and art created by human beings. However, we are not open to works that include Artificial Intelligence in the creation of art or texts, whether the generation of whole articles or prompts, titles, names, outlines, dialogue, plot elements, descriptive passages, etc.

• If caught, violators of this policy will be permanently banned from our pages.

• No, running a spellchecker or grammar tool on your finished text is not AI.
When does TMR publish?

Written or audiovisual contributions appear either in TMR Weekly, publishing every Friday, or in our monthly online magazine, a themed issue every first Friday of the month. Submissions range from 750 to 3,000 words.

FILES

All work must be turned in as either a Word file or a Google doc using the Word formatting. Track changes (not email exchanges) remain the gold standard with respect to editing, corrections and final drafts. No exceptions.

Please do not send stories or corrections in the body of your email. After publication, minor corrections are acceptable via email.

If you are sending images, upload all of them to one Google drive folder and share the link to that folder with TMR. Upload a Word doc with captions for your images into that same folder. Please do not send multiple images with multiple emails.

TMR WEEKLY

All op-eds, columns or reviews must be turned in not less than one week prior to the agreed-upon publication date. We publish every Friday, thus your work must be turned in no later than the previous Friday.

TMR MONTHLY

Queries will be accepted up to the 20th of the month preceding the month of publication (always the 15th of each month).

The final polished draft of approved stories will be accepted up to the 20th of the month of publication, unless translation is required, in which case you must add an additional week to 10 days ahead of the deadline on the 5th of the month. Any stories turned in after the 5th of the month of publication will be considered late and may not make it into publication. To avoid confusion, please turn in your work early or on time.

Editing, layout, design and publication prep for each monthly issue must be completed no later than the 20th of the month. This allows TMR time to prepare PR and marketing of the issue, prepping social media posts and other outreach.

Contributor Honoraria

The Markaz Review (TMR) is a non-profit publication. TMR pays all contributors an honorarium within 30 days of publication.

Call for Submissions: Sweet Mammalian: A New Zealand Literary Journal

Submissions are open for issue 12 from 15 April - 15 June 2025.

What we ask:

Share your poetry - be it a roar, purr, or pip-squeak.

Broadly, we seek poems in which we feel a warm-blooded liveliness - beating hearts, teeth and claws or rough-tongued tenderness. To get a sense of the range of work we’ve adored before, browse our previous issues online.

This said, we believe that you should pursue the writing that most energises you, rather than tailoring your voice to journals. We are always pleasantly surprised by new modes of enchantment arriving in our inbox. Send us the work you’d be most chuffed to see in the world.

Email us up to five unpublished poems to:

sweetmammalian at gmail.com 

We prefer to read submissions as attachments in a Word document (or else a Google Doc or PDF). Please include an author bio in your cover note (if you’re new to sharing work you can see the bios of our authors beneath their poems on the website).

We appreciate knowing we’re you’re from, within Aotearoa or abroad. We are centered in Aotearoa New Zealand, but do welcome work from overseas. It’s important for us to be in conversation across oceans as well as within these antipodean islands.

Simultaneous submissions are permitted. Do let us know as soon as you can if you need to withdraw work due to acceptance elsewhere.

As a rule the use of AI is not permitted. We wish to see words summoned from real human hearts, and bear a fundamental distrust of the environmental destructiveness and spiritual atrophy of the plagiarism machines. If you have work that explicitly and cleverly subverts the affordances of AI tools, and discloses the use of these, we may consider it - but it’ll need to be exceptionally exquisite and thoughtfully conceived work.

Sweet Mammalian loves to hear from new writers and old hands - we welcome the emerging, the submerging, the splurging. Send us your thrilling work and spread the word far and wide.

Payment: Small honorarium.

Saturday, April 12, 2025

Writing Competition: Solstice Annual Literary Contest

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ANNUAL LITERARY CONTEST

Ends on Sun, Jun 1, 2025 10:00 PM

$1,000 Fiction Prize, judge: Helen Elaine Lee
$500 Michael Steinberg Nonfiction Prize, judge: J. D. Scrimgeour
$500 Graphic Lit Prize, judge: Bhanu Pratap
$500 Stephen Dunn Poetry Prize, judge: Sandra Lim
 

Winners, finalists, and Editors' Choice in each genre will be published in our Summer Awards Issue due out in August. All winners, finalists, and editors' choice will be cited in future advertisements and announcements.

FEE: $18.00/entry

GUIDELINES

  • Cover sheet required with name, address, telephone number and email. Email and/or phone MUST be included to be considered. Please include cover sheet in the same file as the actual submission. Do not put your name on the manuscript itself. Final judges will be choosing on the basis of the quality of your work. Please indicate the genre of your piece next to the title.
  • 12-point font, double-spaced, .DOC or .DOCX attachment. We accept online submissions only through Submittable. No emails please.
  • Each entry: Fiction or Nonfiction: 21-page maximum, double-spaced; free-standing excerpts from books also accepted. Poetry: 3-poem maximum. Graphic Lit: Original artwork, multiple panels (no single image pieces), 1-6 pages preferred, maximum 8-10 pages, in JPG/PDF format.
  • You may submit more than once but must pay a separate fee for each entry.
  • You may submit simultaneously elsewhere, but please email us immediately if accepted at another journal.
  • We will not accept previously published work. Solstice has first publication rights, but copyright reverts to you upon publication. We will publish the piece after the Summer Awards Issue in our Archives.
  • If you won last year’s contest, you must skip a year before resubmitting to the contest, but we encourage you to submit work to Solstice for general publication.
  • We will announce the winners, finalists, and editors' choice approximately 6-8 weeks after the contest deadline.
  • After announcing the winners, finalists, and editors' choice, all contest submissions will be automatically considered for standard publication unless you indicate otherwise.
  • The $18.00 entry fee must be paid online at the time of entry.
Submit your entry here.

Call for Submissions: The Prism Review

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We are open--send us great work!

All accepted authors are paid, and all non-contest submissions will be considered for our $200 Staff Choice Award: an accepted submission chosen by our staff as best embodying two things we love and respect about writing: stylistic ambition and social engagement. One author each issue will receive this award, announced with the issue's release (usually in May).

As always: we hope to read your very best, we're excited to read it, and we want more, we hope for more, we quietly plead for/demand more. Simply: we love great literature, especially literature that is urgent and/or strange, and we love all voices, be they new, emerging, or established - certainly those from underrepresented groups. We always put samples from past issues on our homepage if you'd like to get a sense of our sensibilities.

Note: Submissions are being read for our spring 2026 issue. They must be previously unpublished, and simultaneous submissions are totally fine (but please withdraw accepted pieces immediately; the lack of this practice has increased far too much for us lately).

Note 2.0: We generally charge a two dollar fee so that we can do something we hope all agree is a good thing: pay all our authors, at least $40 per writer; usually we have free submissions in early Dec and May ... and during most of June and July, we're happy to provide free submissions to any authors who self-identify as being from underrepresented or minoritized communities or simply can't afford the $2 fee. Just email our editor at:

sbernard (at) laverne (dot) edu (Change (at) to @ and (dot) to . )

for more information.

-->Excepting the student contest, current students and employees of the University of La Verne are not eligible to submit. Sorry!

Note 3.0: We are not Prism International, a fantastic journal in Canada.

Happy submitting, and feel free to visit/like our Facebook page!

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions: thelunchhour

thelunchhour

we are currently open for submissions.

through may 1st or until we reach contributor cap.

what to submit

send up to five pieces of poetry, prose, nonfiction, fiction, & anything else. if you wrote it, submit it! we welcome both unpublished & published work, but please give credit in your document to where the work appeared first. please include all work in one document (pdf or doc). i don't have a preference over font & font size, nor line spacing.

what not to submit

we are not considering work made or inspired by ai, nor plagiarized, unoriginal, or stolen pieces. please do not include photos in your work, unless the specific format calls for that. i have a hard time getting through super lengthy work, so i will generally pass on those. also, do not send me any work that encourages racism, bigotry, sexism, etc.

what happens after i submit?

you'll have a decision in your inbox hopefully in a week or two. worse case scenario, it will be no longer than a month. you'll be notified even if it's rejected, i won't leave you hanging! please note: i sometimes don't read emails or submissions on weekends, so any inquiries over those days will be promptly answered on monday! if you are declined during this reading period, please wait until the following period to submit again!

what happens to contributors?

my contributors will receive payment of $10 per piece within a month of publication. payments can only be dispersed through cashapp, paypal, or chime, & i do not have any alternative methods i can work out. i am not offering contributor copies at this time, but your issue will always be available for purchase.

how to submit

please click here to submit your work to thelunchhour.

Call for Submissions: Justice Reads

 Justice Reads is an online feminist journal of literature, voice, and justice. We invite literary submissions of written work that connects to themes of social justice, feminism, and women's rights. Our platform is dedicated to sparking thoughtful conversations about these topics while creating a space where individuals can express their voices, ideas, and art. Whether your work highlights art, personal stories, or social commentary/critical analysis, we welcome all voices and look forward to reading your work. Thank you for submitting to Justice Reads!

Payment: $50 for poetry, short fiction, or nonfiction 

More details and submission portal here.

Artists' Residency: The Studios of Key West

Applications are now being accepted for residencies falling between October 2025 and August 2026.

DEADLINE TO APPLY: May 15, 2025

All applicants will be notified of their status by July 18, 2025.

The Studios of Key West, the premier arts organization at the Southernmost Point of the United States, offers a residency program for emerging and established artists and writers from around the world. We provide residencies to visual artists, writers, composers, musicians, media artists, performers, and interdisciplinary artists.

The program grants nearly 40 artists each year the time and space to imagine new artistic work, engage in valuable dialogue and explore island connections.

The Studios’ residency program is community-based and built upon the hope that visiting artists will take inspiration from Key West’s rich artistic past and present, and will engage with — and be inspired by — the remarkable people and culture that surrounds them.

Key West’s official motto, “One Human Family” reflects our commitment to living together as caring, sharing neighbors dedicated to making our home as close to paradise as we can. To that end, we encourage artists of all races, nationalities, gender identities, sexual orientations, and abilities to apply.

The History

The Studios of Key West was founded in 2006 with the initial inspiration of simply providing space for artists to live and work, thereby drawing creative people to our island and enriching the lives of all who live here. In those earliest days, our founder Peyton Evans gathered fourteen of Key West’s most successful artists and writers and arranged for them to participate in artist residency programs throughout the country, then return to help us craft our own program combining the best of what they’d seen and learned.

Hundreds of writers and artists have since come to Key West through the Peyton Evans Artist Residency (PEAR) Program, many returning and several relocating permanently. Each has benefited from the island’s unique character, and left something of themselves behind. The PEAR Program celebrates the spirit of exploration with which it was founded, the artists it was established to serve, and the vision, wisdom and generosity of the woman for whom it’s named. 

More information and application portal here.

Call for Submissions: Folklore Review

We are looking for poetry, flash fiction, short stories, and art inspired by folklore. We love unique, weird works that leave an imprint on us. Send us stories from a haunted wood, woven in greenery and bark. Tell us of the creatures that live in your mind. Gods, ghosts, ghouls—or something completely different.

Short stories and creative nonfiction submissions should be up to 7500 words.

Flash fiction submissions should be 1000 words or less.

Poetry submissions should include up to five poems in a single document.

Art submissions should include up to five pieces.

Please limit your submissions to previously unpublished works. Stories, poems, and artworks that are published elsewhere will not be accepted. Simultaneous submissions are allowed and encouraged, but make sure to formally withdraw your submission if it is accepted elsewhere prior to publication/acceptance in Folklore Review. To do so, visit the contact page and inform the editors of your wish to withdraw, including your name and the title of the piece(s) in question. 

Submit your work here.

Call for Poetry Submissions: Poet Lore

Poet Lore is a biannual print journal of poetry and translations. Published with the conviction that poetry provides a record of human experience as valuable as history, Poet Lore’s intended audience is broadly inclusive.

Established by Charlotte Porter and Helen Clarke in 1889, Poet Lore is the nation’s oldest poetry journal. Poet Lore publishes a range of established and award winning poets such as Erika Meitner, Jose Hernandez Diaz, Sharon Olds, Kim Addonizio, Terrance Hayes, Linda Pastan, Mary Oliver & Carl Philips, who share the space with emerging poets. Someone’s first published poem may stand alongside another author’s 100th.

We are committed to diversity and inclusivity and highly encourage submissions from marginalized voices. We do not tolerate racism, bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, Islamophobia, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, ableism, or any work that promotes harmful stereotypes and viewpoints.

In support of all of our contributors, we nominate select works each year for both The Pushcart Prize and Best New Poets.

Poet Lore pays contributors $50 per published poem. Due to the volume of poems we receive, our current response time is roughly 6-8 months. 

We accept general submissions twice a year: April 1 - May 31 and October 1 - November 30.

We are open to translation submissions from January 1 - June 30 and from August 1 - November 30.

Guest editor calls for submissions will be announced on our website and via social media prior to opening.

Submit here.

Call for Submissions: Adi Magazine

Adi is seeking new short fiction. Send us your unpublished work!

Adi is thinking about alternative political visions for a world in desperate need of them. We want examples from outside of the mainstream, stories about practices, ideas, and movements that were/are suppressed by economic, socio-cultural, religious, or imperial (colonial) powers. We privilege perspectives from the Global South, always interested in how we might reorient our political universe towards those organic alliances, intertwined liberation theologies, grassroots movements, and revolutionary philosophers. But we are also interested in the experiences of all marginalized peoples everywhere as they have explored alternative economies, subversive strategies, and surprising solidarities. Pieces could be based on historical events, or could focus on imagined futures that subvert current empires.

In the words of James Baldwin, "Try to imagine how you would feel if you woke up one morning to find the sun shining and all the stars aflame. You would be frightened because it is out of the order of nature. Any upheaval in the universe is terrifying because it so profoundly attacks one's sense of one's own reality. Well, the black man has functioned in the white man's world as a fixed star, as an immovable pillar: and as he moves out of his place, heaven and earth are shaken to their foundation."

What realignments, restorations, revisions and resurrections might we uncover and foster with the stars aflame?

Please interpret this call expansively and imaginatively. Familiarize yourself with the range and spirit of our archives; Adi tends toward creative, experimental approaches to political writing, measuring the effects of policy through the intimate lives and experiences of people with a particular focus on those on the margins and in the Global South. We’ve previously published fiction on ghosts in a post-fossil fuel world;intervention through the eyes of a fugitive lion; healthcare bureaucracy and restrictions on reproductive rights; the reimagination of the myth of the faceless woman; and a family's decision on citizenship while facing an American apocalypse. 

We do not want dreary political agitprop. We love work that bends genres, that embraces the absurd, that excavates interior lives alongside external conflicts. Send us work that analyzes, satirizes, fabulizes, and fantasizes, that disturbs, beguiles, moves, challenges, surprises, and ignites.

SUBMISSION LIMIT: 5,000 words. One unpublished submission per author, please.

For short fiction, up to 5,000 words, payment is $500.

For flash fiction, under 1,000 words, payment is $200.

The deadline for submissions is MAY 4th.

Translators: we’d love to hear from you, too! If you have unpublished work from writers who fit the bill, please get in touch. (If the story’s already been translated, just go ahead and submit, but if not, feel free to email us with a blurb about the potential story and we’ll take it from there).

Adi does not accept submissions generated with AI.

***
Adi is a feminist literary journal of global politics. Founded in 2019, we’ve published new work from such writers as Tracy K. Smith, Nadifa Mohamed, Meena Kandasamy, Evie Shockley, Terese Mailhot, K-Ming Chang, and Rafia Zakaria. Named after a Tamil word with three meanings—protest, intervention, and violence—Adi’s aim is to platform political writing rooted in lived experience and a commitment to inventiveness, both formally and conceptually.
 
Submit your work here.

Saturday, April 5, 2025

Call for Submissions: The Pink Hydra

Recent cover image or website screenshot for The Pink Hydra

For this year, The Pink Hydra is publishing on a quarterly schedule. We aim to release issues in June, September, and December 2025. Therefore, our open submission periods will be as follows:

The whole of April — for the June issue. Because our fundraiser was slightly delayed, April submissions are being extended until 10 May 2025.
The whole of July — for the September issue
The whole of October — for the December issue

If your story is rejected for the Magazine, please don’t submit it to our Ko-fi or Novella calls.

Submission guidelines for the magazine

Genre: The Pink Hydra publishes tales of unreality. That includes—but is not limited to—all stripes of speculative fiction. It also includes tales where no magic happens. It’s more of a vibe than a genre. Stories need to have a fantasy-feel, to transport the reader to some different world. This can include literary, romance, or even nonfiction memoir.

You can check out our past issues (all free!) or browse our list of authors to see what we’ve accepted in the past, but don’t use these as a form of self-rejection. One of the main things we’re looking for is diversity. We’ve already published a range of tones and styles, from the whimsical to the grimdark, the philosophical to the unapologetically pulp. We’ve published urban romance, sexy smut, space horror, sword-and-sorcery, backpack fantasy, queer fairytales, drug-addled whimsy, an absolute mess of poetry, and more. We try to publish what the higher-profile zines don’t, so if you’ve got something that doesn’t seem to fit, give us a try! Our Head Editor’s favourite stories and poems so far are listed on her website here. (Some of these might be NSFW, depending on where you work.)

Because of our online format, we are not the best venue for unusually formatted poetry (poems that rely on spacing and margins to reproduce a certain shape). We also generally prefer not to publish these types of poems. Other than that, any form of poetry is fine.

Content: We welcome extreme content and do not require content warnings. Sex and bad language are fine. We do publish erotica, and especially queer smut.

Length: Up to 30,000 words for short stories. No line limit for poetry. Flash fiction and microfiction welcome.

Simultaneous submissions: Allowed and welcome. Let us know at the submissions email if you need to withdraw a story.

Multiple submissions: For stories over 5,000 words, only submit one at a time. If you have a bunch of stories below 5,000 words, send any number as long as the total word count is no more than 5,000. For poetry, send up to 10 poems at a time. You may mix poetry and prose as long as the total submission is under 5,000 words or 10 standard letter pages. If you have an epic poem that’s over 10 pages long, we’d love to see it, but again, only one at a time. Send all you want us to consider in a single document attached to a single email.

For this year, we will only consider one submission per writer per open period, so please make sure that you have sent us everything in one email! Whether accepted or rejected, you’re welcome to send us another submission when we reopen.

Reprints: All rights we ask for are non-exclusive, so we accept reprints as well as works that are still available elsewhere. In your submission email, please indicate the publication history of your piece: where it was first published, whether it’s still in print or online, etc. We welcome stories that have been self-pubbed someplace like Tumblr or Medium, but we are a bit less likely to accept work that is available at another free webzine.

Formatting: Send your submission as a document that can be opened and edited in MS Word (.doc, .docx, .rtf, .txt, .odt). Do not mark it read-only. No PDFs, no links to your Google Drive, and please do NOT paste the text of your submission into the body of the email. Email all submissions to:

submissions@thepinkhydra.com 

Put ‘Submission’ in the subject line of your email. Use whatever font or line spacing appeals to you, and please indicate your byline (the name you want to publish under).

Cover letter: A formal cover letter is not required, but we’d love to hear who you are and where you’re from. Please treat the editorial team like people, because we are. You should know that a completely blank email comes off as rather rude, and on top of that blank emails are more likely to be dumped into spam folders.

As mentioned above, please tell us if you are sending a reprint. This isn’t so that we can secretly discriminate against your story, but because we look rather silly announcing that something is ‘first published at The Pink Hydra’ when it isn’t.

Submission Confirmation: You should receive an auto-reply from us within 72 hours confirming that we have received and queued your submission. If you haven’t received it, send your submission again. If it’s still not arriving, please urgently contact our Chief Editor at her personal email: emmyktz (at) gmail.com. Do not use this address for submissions; offenders will be demolished, hung, drawn and quartered, sent in pieces to each of the twelve tribes, and ignored.

Response time: We aim to reply to all submissions within a month of receipt. Because of our new quarterly publication schedule, we have to finalize our seclections for the next issue at the latest two weeks after the submission period closes. If you don’t hear from us by then, please get in touch.

Feedback: At The Pink Hydra, we generally don’t send form rejections. Often we will provide detailed critique on a rejected story, but even if we don’t, we always give a reason for rejection. If you’d rather not know the reason why, or if you’re not interested in feedback on your writing, please tell us.

Editing: All the material we publish at The Pink Hydra is rigorously edited with attention to errors, inconsistencies, language use, and style. We always require the writer’s approval of any changes before publication. Sometimes these edits go beyond simple grammar: we might ask to restructure sentences, change passive conversation to active, or fact-check your terminology. We consider editing to be a dialogue between editor and author, and welcome your input during this process.

Rights and payment: The Pink Hydra asks for worldwide, non-exclusive electronic distribution rights. We pay on acceptance, preferably via Paypal, but alternative arrangements can be made if necessary, especially if you are living in Africa. Our template contract is here.

For 2025, we are compensating writers with a base pay rate of 1 ZAR cent – about 1/18th of a U.S. cent – per word, with a minimum payment per contributor of R50. Payments made by Paypal are rounded up to the nearest dollar, to help cushion fees.

Effectively, this means that all stories and poetry contributions under 5,500 words will receive $3, with longer stories receiving more, up to a maximum of $17.


Re-Submissions: Sometimes, we will ask for rewrites of a story we liked but didn’t think was ready for publication. There are also stories that we would be open to considering at a later date, if substantial revisions are made. If you sent us a story last year and we asked you to re-submit, you are more than welcome to send the revised story again this year.

Illustrations

The Pink Hydra is looking for black-and-white cover art and illustrations, reprint or original. We’re open to any artistic style or genre, including photography, as long as it suits the vibe of the magazine. As with writing, erotic art and taboo subjects are welcome.

Guidelines: Email 1 to 10 art samples to:

submissions@thepinkhydra.com 

In your email, please indicate whether the pieces have been published by another market, and if so, when and where. (We don’t mind if you’ve posted the pieces on your own site or social media.) We are unlikely to purchase a piece which has been used as cover art for another online magazine. We offer R180 per piece for cover art, and R80 for interior art, rounded to the nearest dollar if paid by Paypal (effectively, $10 and $5). 

Simultaneous submissions are allowed.

Response: Your art submission will receive an auto-reply, to confirm that we have received it. We’ll get back to you within 60 days. You may submit illustrations and writing at the same time.

Novel excerpts

The Pink Hydra has the space to run a short novel excerpt in every issue. We often use these for self-promotion, but we’d like to feature any book our readers might be interested in. Because this excerpt is intended to function as a free advertisement, there is no payment.

Guidelines: Send an excerpt between 1,500 and 5,000 words to:

submissions@thepinkhydra.com 

In your cover letter, please include your penname and bio, a link for readers to find your novel, and a short blurb describing the overall plot. Excerpts do not have to stand alone – ideally, they should make the reader want to head on over to your book to read the rest! The novel must be available to buy or pre-order – no works-in-progress! Free novels, of course, are welcome too. You’ll receive a response from us within 30 days.

Don’t: send us AI work (ugh) or stuff that you otherwise don’t hold the copyright to, like fanfiction (characters who are in the public domain, like Dracula, Odin, or Alice in Wonderland, don’t count as fanfic). Don’t send us things if you’re under 18.

The Pink Hydra is a proudly nerdy, female-led, sex-positive, queer-friendly, international, young publication. We hate fascism and oppression in all their various forms, and we won’t accept work that we view as imperialist, discriminatory, or anti-sex. Take your Nazi fanfic, MRA manifestos, and rants about the evil Chinese elsewhere. You may also be tempted to send us ‘stories’ that make fun of bullied kids, rape victims, refugees, the mentally ill, or other vulnerable classes of people. Don’t.

The Pink Hydra accepts submissions from all crevices of the globe, from New York to Nairobi, Berlin to Bombay, Mississippi to Maseru. We will consider all submissions on their own merits, but we are particularly interested in stories by and about women (including trans women), stories that take place somewhere that isn’t Everyman City, and all things LGBTQ+ and (gender)queer.

Send us your stuff, your art! Don’t self-reject!

Call for Submissions: The Los Angeles Review

Los Angeles Review

Submission Information

Reading Period Status: With the new online format, the Los Angeles Review will be open for submissions year-round!

Submissions are open to all and are not limited to residents of Los Angeles

Submission Methods:
 
We only accept unsolicited submissions online via Submittable. Online submissions are subject to a $3.00 reading fee.

Current subscribers and former contributors may submit online free of charge by emailing their pieces directly to the appropriate editor. However, it is ultimately up to the genre editor’s discretion whether to accept submissions through email. Submit Online: Submittable Simultaneous submissions are accepted if noted in the cover letter. Please do not send multiple submissions unless an editor has invited you to do so. Response time is two to four months.

Compensation: Writers published in the print edition of the Los Angeles Review will receive one contributor copy in exchange for first North American rights. No reprints, please.

Subscription: We encourage submitters to read our journal, and if you order a copy of LAR, your submission is free. You can find ordering information here. Contact the Managing Editor for international shipping rates, information about classroom subscriptions, course adoption, and bulk discounts.

Online: Accepted submissions are eligible to be published in the new online format and will be considered for the yearly best-of print edition.
Submission Guidelines

**Please note that all submissions under all submission categories must be previously unpublished. Any already published work will not be considered for publication with the Los Angeles Review.

Fiction: We’re looking for hard-to-put-down sequences of shorts or stand-alone lengthier stories in the 1,000 – 4,000 words range. Regardless of length, we always hope to see lively, vivid, excellent literary fiction.

Flash Fiction: We’re looking for shorts under 1,000 words that we want to read again and again. We’re looking for work that is lively, vivid, and leaves us wanting more. Additionally, please note our one-story limit per submission. While authors are more than welcome to submit multiple stories to LAR, we ask that they please submit them individually.
 
Nonfiction: Please submit an essay, memoir, or commentary told as compelling, focused, sustained narrative in a distinctive voice, rich with detail. Send 1,000-4,000 words or delight us with flash nonfiction that cat-burgles our expectations.

Poetry: Please submit 3-5 poems that will surprise us, wow us, and make us wish we’d written them ourselves. We are open to form, free verse, prose poems, and experimental styles. Our only criterion is quality.

Translation: Please submit no more than 5 poems (single-spaced) or 5 pages of prose (double-spaced). Include biographical notes for both the author and the translator. Your submission must be accompanied by 1) the original text and 2) a letter from the rights holder stating that you have permission to translate and publish the work in the United States. If you cannot provide #2, we will not be able to print your work. We look forward to reading your submission.

Book Reviews: We welcome reviews of new and recent books of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and hybrid work, particularly those titles that have not received the critical attention they deserve. Please send completed drafts, no more than 1,200 words, to:
 
review@losangelesreview.org

Before submitting, please review our book review guidelines here.

Call for Submissions: Four Way Review

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Four Way Review accepts poetry and fiction from both established and emerging authors. We look for work that demonstrates fine attention to craft while retaining a powerful and compelling voice. We want writing that showcases the imagination's unique ability to refine the raw materials of human experience.

We encourage submissions from diverse voices.

Unsolicited submissions are considered year-round. Before submitting, please see our latest issue and ensure your work is a good fit. Please wait to hear back from us before submitting again.

We accept .pdf (preferred), .doc, and .docx. You may also include a cover letter with your contact information and a brief bio in the "comments" box. Simultaneous submissions are welcome, but please note this in your cover letter and let us know immediately if a piece is accepted somewhere else. Due to a high volume of submissions, we cannot respond individually to withdrawal requests.

In order to offer our writers a small honorarium, we now charge a small submission fee of $3 for part of the year. In January, April, August and November, all submissions are fee-free. During these months, we might close submissions for one or more genres, should the submission maximum be reached. This is done to ensure that our readers are able to read and respond to each submission in a timely manner.

Poetry

— We are interested in all styles and forms of poetry.

— We ask that writers submit poetry no more than three times per year, with three to five poems in a single submission.

— Please email us to withdraw individual poems.

Fiction

— We're looking for finished stories that are both whole and surprising.

— Keep longer submissions below 6,000 words. Submit only one piece at a time and no more than three pieces a year.

— Short shorts should be under 1,000 words. You may submit up to three flash pieces in one submission.

Translation

— We are interested in all styles and forms of writing in translation.

— We ask that writers submit work no more than three times a year, adhering to our guidelines for poetry, fiction and nonfiction (i.e., no more than three to five poems in a single submission and keeping prose below 6,000 words).
— If possible, please include the original piece with your translated submission.

— Please confirm that you have obtained permission, either from author or rights holder, to publish the translation.

Creative Nonfiction

— We're looking for pieces that surprise us, pieces that push at the corners of the form.

— Keep longer submissions below 6,000 words. Submit only one piece at a time and no more than three pieces a year.

— We do accept flash nonfiction. These should be under 1,000 words. You may submit up to three flash pieces in one submission.

All submissions must be previously unpublished. We request first North America serial rights for any work that we accept. All rights revert to the author upon publication, though we ask that you acknowledge Four Way Review if the work is published elsewhere.

You can withdraw your work using our submissions manager. To withdraw part of a submission, email us at:

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

We try to respond within 90 days. Please note that our submissions manager is separate from the manager for Four Way Books. We will not respond to manuscript submissions.

We accept submissions through our online submissions manager. Unsolicited email submissions will be discarded unread.

THE BASICS

Submit through our Submissions Manager

Up to 5 poems or 6,000 words

We'll respond within 90 days

Call for Submissions from Writers Age 13-22: Blue Marble Review

Blue Marble Review 

Submissions open from April 1st to May 1st.

Thanks for your interest in Blue Marble Review. We welcome submissions from students ages 13-22. Please take a look at our submission guidelines, and fill out the form below. Please use a personal, or parent email (or gmail) but not a school email. School email filters will often block our responses. We look forward to reading your work.

What to Send:

Blue Marble Review is published four times a year and accepts submissions of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, essays, opinion pieces, travel writing, photography and art on a rolling basis. We are looking for new work that hasn’t been published anywhere else either online or in print.

Fiction:

Send us your stories! Flash, short stories, hybrid forms—all in 1500 words or less. A maximum of three pieces per submission.

Non-Fiction:

We accept memoir, personal essays, travel adventures, and have been known to publish the occasional research paper and book review. One to two pieces per submission please.(1500 word limit)

Poetry:

Up to three poems per submission.

Art:

Four pieces of artwork (scanned, jpeg format) or four photographs per submission.

Payment:

Contributors published online in Blue Marble Review will receive $30 per published piece, $75 for cover art. 

When you submit to Blue Marble Review you are allowing us First Serial Rights as well as the right to archive your work on our site. Copyrights of all work published in Blue Marble Review remain with the author.

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions: Apus


Apus

Genres: Fiction, poetry, interviews, nonfiction, and visual art.

Word Count: Prose submissions are recommended to be no longer than 15,000 words. Poetry should not exceed 200 lines.

Pay:
- Prose: $10 USD per 1,000 words
- Poetry: $1 USD per line
- Visual art: Payment will be determined based on the format and quantity of the submitted work.
 

Submit: via Email:

submit@apuslit.com or Duotrope 

Deadline: June 30, 2025

Writing Competition: The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant

The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant

The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant supports emerging and established writers who write about contemporary visual art. Ranging from $15,000 to $50,000 in three categories—articles, books, and short-form writing—the grants support projects addressing both general and specialized art audiences, from short reviews for magazines and newspapers to in-depth scholarly studies. We also support art writing that engages criticism through interdisciplinary methods and experiments with literary styles. As long as a writer meets the eligibility and publishing requirements, they can apply.

Writers are invited to apply in one of the following categories:

  • Article
  • Books
  • Short-Form Writing

The program is excited to announce the launch of the Arts Writers Translation Grant for book projects about contemporary visual art from other languages into English. For guidelines and eligibility criteria for this grant, click here.

Due to legal constraints we can only fund U.S. citizens, permanent residents of the United States, and holders of O-1 visas. For guidelines and additional eligibility requirements, click here.

The 2025 application is now open.

The application deadline is May 7 at 11:59pm ET.

We have an open application process; all writers who meet the eligibility requirements can apply. The general eligibility requirements are listed below. For eligibility requirements and writing sample instructions for each project type, click here.

We recommend that you read through the Application Guide, available for download on the right-hand sidebar, before filling out the online application. To view the application questions click here.

To access the SlideRoom application, click here.

The program now offers a translation grant for book projects about contemporary visual art from other languages into English. For guidelines and eligibility criteria for this grant, click here.

To be eligible for this grant, an arts writer must be an individual;
  • applying for a project about contemporary visual art;
  • an art historian, artist, critic, curator, journalist, or a writer in an outside field who is strongly engaged with the contemporary visual arts;
  • a U.S. citizen, permanent resident of the United States, or holder of an O-1 visa (if your application advances to the final round, you will need to submit current documentation);
  • at least twenty-five years old by Oct 1 in the application year;
  • a published author (specific publication requirements vary depending on grant category; see the project-specific eligibility requirements).
By “contemporary visual art,” we mean visual art made since World War II. Projects on post-WWII work in adjacent fields—architecture, dance, film, media, music, performance, sound, etc.—will only be considered if they directly and significantly engage the discourses and concerns of contemporary visual art.
  • An arts writer is NOT eligible for this grant if they are applying on behalf of an organization;
  • applying for a project in which their primary involvement will be as an editor;
  • a full-time student in a degree-granting program (with the exception of those students who are simultaneously maintaining professional careers as arts writers);
  • an artist, writer, or curator writing an interpretive essay on their own practice;
  • applying for a project that is primarily fiction, poetry (including ekphrasis), or memoir;
  • applying for a project based on a PhD dissertation or MA thesis;
  • applying to conduct a Q&A interview (or series of Q&A interviews);
  • applying to assemble an archive or database;
  • applying for a project on Andy Warhol;
  • applying for a project that will be published by a commercial gallery;
  • applying for a Creative Capital Award for any project in the same grant year (including as a collaborator);
  • applying with the same project for which they have received a Creative Capital Award (including as a collaborator);
  • applying with the same project for which they have received a curatorial research fellowship from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (including as a collaborator);
  • a grantee of The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant;
  • a recent juror of the program (evaluators are eligible to apply after one grant cycle; panelists are eligible after two grant cycles);
  • a current employee, consultant, board member, or funder of Creative Capital or The Andy Warhol Foundation, or an immediate family member of such a person.

Call for Submissions: Merganser Magazine

Merganser Magazine is a free online literary magazine, featuring a variety of prose and poetry.

Debuting in winter 2024, we aim to publish many writers and artists whose work transcends disciplines and genres.

We are now accepting submissions - we encourage you to submit!

Submissions

Please submit prose (fiction or creative non-fiction) and poetry by email to Jake Ott at:

editor@mergansermagazine.com

Include submission files as attachments.

Include as many stories and/or poems as you like. We'll consider every piece you submit, although we prefer not to publish more than one piece from the same author within a 6 month period.

Standard formats (e.g. standard manuscript format) are preferred, but not strictly required.

No hard editorial guidelines. We're eager to find strong, well-written pieces across a wide range of material. That said, our business model prioritizes shorter works, as well as those which are suitable for online reading (avoid long paragraphs). Anything longer than 2,000 words is likely a hard sell.

We allow simultaneous submissions. Email:

editor@mergansermagazine

if your submission is accepted elsewhere.

No reprints.

For prose, we pay the SFWA pro rate of $0.08 USD per word. For poetry, we pay $1 USD per line.

We aim to respond to all submissions within 1 month of submission. If you have not heard from us after 1 month, please reach out for an update.

Works translated, written, or developed by AI tools are strictly not allowed.

If your submission has been accepted, please wait 6 months before submitting again. This will ensure your next submission receives full consideration.

To increase chances of acceptance, read the magazine! You will see what has been accepted before. Typically, we publish what we feel were the most tightly written and creative pieces we received.

Writing Competition: Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant

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

Saturday, March 29, 2025

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

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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

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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.