Call for Submissions: NewMyths

 

NewMyths.com

We like to balance each quarterly issue between science fiction and fantasy, dark and light, serious and humorous, hard and soft science fiction, and longer and shorter works.
Our readers are not fixated on a single style or tone or genre, but prefer a quality sample of the field. Think tapas or dim sum. Maximum length is 10,000 words. Please keep submissions PG or cleaner. New Myths considers submissions between January 1-February 28 and June 1- July 31. Artwork, requests for book reviews, and other correspondence can be submitted at any time.

Book Reviews

NewMyths publishes original book reviews. No reprints, please.

Reviews should be between 500-1,000 words. We prefer reviews of novels published within the past year but also consider reviews of older works, and reviews of poetry collections, anthologies, and nonfiction works related to fantasy and science fiction. Pay is $50.

Send inquiries to Candy at:

editor@newmyths.com

NewMyths publishes several book reviews per year, and we’d like to publish more. Unfortunately, with several thousand submissions per year, our hardworking editors don’t have a lot of time to review novels. If you are an author, agent or publisher, and have a novel or other work related to fantasy and science fiction that you would like to have reviewed, send an inquiry to Scott at:

admin@newmyths.com

If you don’t receive an answer, please assume that we simply don’t have the staff to review it. A solution might be to find someone who can write a review and submit it to us for consideration.

Payment is upon publication. NewMyths.com currently pays 3 cents/word with a minimum payment of $50 for all submissions, fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction and poetry. We purchase book reviews for $50. We purchase art for $80.

Contact: Please send submissions as Word or pdf attachments to:

editor (at) newmyths.com (use @)

Submissions received outside of the submission period (above) will be deleted, unread.

Please direct all queries to this email address:

editor (at) newmyths.com (use @).

More information here.

Writing Competition: The Iowa Review Awards

The Iowa Review Awards

We accept submissions to the Iowa Review Awards during the month of January. Judges for the 2025 Awards are Amy Hempel (fiction), Julietta Singh (nonfiction), and Brandon Shimoda (poetry).
About the Contest

Each January since 2003, The Iowa Review has invited submissions to The Iowa Review Awards, a writing contest in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Winners receive $1,500; first runners-up receive $750. Winners and runners-up are published in each December issue.

 Contest Rules

Submit up to 25 pages of prose (double-spaced) or 10 pages of poetry (one poem or several, but no more than one poem per page). Work must be previously unpublished. Simultaneous submissions are fine assuming you inform us of acceptance elsewhere.

To submit, visit iowareview.submittable.com during the month of January and follow these instructions:

• Select the appropriate genre category. If you'd like to purchase a discounted yearlong subscription to The Iowa Review for $10, please choose a genre marked "(subscription)." Otherwise, choose "(no subscription)."

• A cover letter may be pasted into the appropriate field in Submittable.

• Do not include your name in the uploaded manuscript itself or in its filename.

• Multiple poems or prose pieces can comprise a single entry if the total number of pages does not exceed 25 for prose or 10 for poetry. For instance, you may submit two short stories of ten pages each as a single entry; the stories will be read and judged separately. But please do not mix genres: a ten-page story and a two-page poem constitute separate entries.

• Pay the $20 entry fee using Paypal, Visa, MasterCard, American Express, or Discover.

• If you submit more than one entry, even within the same genre, you must submit the $20 entry fee with each entry.

Submit between January 1 and January 31.

Judges will select winners from a group of finalists chosen by Iowa Review editors. All manuscripts, whether selected as finalists or not, are considered for publication.

Notice: We no longer accept paper contest submissions. If you need help with our online submission system, cannot access it, or would like to request a fee waiver due to financial need, please email iowa-review@uiowa.edu.

Call for Submissions: Five Points: A Journal of Literature and Art

Five Points welcomes unsolicited submissions of fiction, poetry, flash fiction, literary non-fiction, and translations in these genres. We encourage you to send us your work. The best way to learn about what we are looking for is to order sample copies of the magazine through our website.

GENERAL GUIDELINES: Include a cover letter with your submission. Simultaneously submitted works are permitted. Prose pieces should be typed double-spaced on one side and be no longer than 7500 words total. Submit one prose work per submission. Submit up to three poems per poetry submission. Each poem should be no longer than fifty lines. Poems should be individually typed either single- or double-spaced on one side of the page. Please make sure your name appears on all of the pages of your manuscript. See Submittable for further guidelines.

SPECIAL ISSUES: Please check back for future calls for special issues.

DEADLINES: Our reading periods for general submissions are: September 1 to December 31 and January 1 to April 30. We accept submissions for the James Dickey Prize for Poetry from Sept. 1 through Dec. 1. **Note: Fiction submissions close 12/1/24 and will re-open on 1/1/25.**

NOTIFICATIONS AND QUERIES: Our response time varies and may range from four weeks to four months or more. We receive a high volume of submissions and appreciate your patience. Please do not query us until five months have elapsed; we are unable to respond to email inquiries concerning the status of a manuscript any sooner than this. We thank you for your patience.

Our submission process for general submissions and our poetry contest is handled exclusively online via Submittable. We are unable to consider manuscripts or queries sent via the post office and cannot return mail that has been sent to us.

Note: Duotrope lists this as a paying market, but there is no indication of how much they pay.

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions: Epoch Magazine

Submission Guidelines

We consider submissions via mail and Submittable; see below for details. For poetry, submit no more than five poems in one batch. For short fiction or essay, submit a single piece or a suite of smaller pieces, i.e., flash fiction. We also accept visual art, for use on the cover, and comics; please submit these via Submittable in the form of a PDF. We do not publish literary criticism or book reviews, or writing intended for children and young adults.

 

Electronic Submissions

We are open for electronic submissions only during the months of August and January. Each submission costs $3, and a portion of each fee, after processing costs, is donated to the Cornell Prison Education Program, which provides courses leading to college degrees for people incarcerated in upstate New York prisons. There will also be a free-submission weekend during each submission period; follow us on Bluesky for the dates.

Click here to Submit via Submittable 

 

Mail Submissions

Mail submissions are accepted anytime, but be aware that we only read them in September, October, February, and March. You’ll get a quick turnaround if you submit at those times, a slower one if you submit outside them. Your mail submission MUST INCLUDE A SELF-ADDRESSED, STAMPED ENVELOPE OR POSTCARD for a response. Please address your submission to the appropriate editor: e.g. Fiction Editor, Poetry Editor, Essay Editor. There is no fee for mail submissions.

Please include your street address and e-mail address on your mail submission. Send to:

EPOCH
251 Goldwin Smith Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853-3201

 

Payment

Our payments vary from year to year depending on our funding. We presently pay between $100 and $500 for poetry, prose, and comics, depending on length, and $350 for cover art.

Writing Competition: CutBank Chapbook Contest

 

Submissions Open: January 1 - May 31

Award: The winning author receives a $1000 honorarium plus 25 copies of the published book. Two runners-up will be chosen for publication as well and also receive a cash prize ($250 each) along with 25 copies of their published book.

Eligibility:

The CutBank Chapbook Contest honors a book of original poetry, fiction or creative nonfiction by a single author; translations are not eligible for this award. While previously published stand-alone pieces or excerpts may be included in a manuscript, the manuscript as a whole must be an unpublished work. Translations and previously self-published collections are ineligible.

Simultaneous submissions are acceptable. Please note that reading fees are non-refundable, and you must withdraw the manuscript immediately via Submittable if it is accepted elsewhere.

Please do not include cover artwork with your submission; black and white illustrations are acceptable so long as you’ve obtained the rights.

Reading Fee: $20. Includes consideration and a copy of the summer print issue of CutBank upon its release. (International applicants must send a SASE to receive a copy of the issue, or email editor.cutbank@gmail.com to coordinate shipping as we are no longer able to ship internationally.)

What We’re Looking For:

Startling, compelling, and beautiful original work. We’re interested in both prose and poetry – and particularly work that straddles the lines between genres, in a fresh, powerful manuscript. Perhaps yours will overtake us quietly, gracefully defy genres, or satisfyingly subvert our expectations. Maybe it will punch us in the mouth page in and page out.

Manuscripts should be cohesive and coherent; in other words, your manuscript should resonate and make sense as a book.

Guidelines for Electronic Submissions:

We only accept submissions electronically.

The submission period runs January 1 through May 31. Entries must be received no later than midnight MST on May 31 via Submittable.

Manuscripts should be 25-40 typed pages in length of poetry (a cohesive poetry manuscript), fiction (either a short fiction collection or novella), or creative nonfiction (one long essay or a collection of short essays).

.DOC/.DOCX/PDF formats are acceptable.

For poetry and short prose, please include no more than one piece per page.

Include page numbers, table of contents, and, if applicable, an acknowledgments page addressing where sections have been previously published. The manuscript as a whole must be an unpublished work.

Submissions should include two cover pages as the first two pages of the document: one with the manuscript’s title, the other with the title, author’s name, address, and e-mail address. The author’s name should not appear anywhere else in the manuscript.

Additional Notes:

The winner and runners-up will be announced by CutBank and featured on the CutBank website, and we’ll do our best to distribute to regional independent bookstores.

More information and entry link here.

Call for Submissions of Hybrid Writing on Theme of "Renewal": Brink Literary Journal

Brink is an in-print literary journal dedicated to publishing hybrid, cross-genre work of both emerging and established creatives who often reside outside traditional artistic disciplines. By providing space primed to instigate new ideas, Brink fosters dialogue and collaborative community across disciplines and cultural divides.

Hybrid writing often includes multiple mediums such as visual and written elements that together accomplish a result impossible to achieve alone. Text-based hybrid writing harnesses form and content in singular ways to create dynamic work primed to offer new perspectives, voices, and ideas that prioritize the combination of multiple literary and artistic elements to produce a readable, engaging piece of work.

We accept a variety of creative work from every genre as well as work that resists any genre. We are most interested in work that presses creative boundaries, uses more than one medium to tell a story, and both looks and feels different on the page. Additionally, we look for submissions that engage the theme of each issue as well as the idea of being on the brink.

Please familiarize yourself with Brink prior to submitting your work. Single issues and subscriptions can be purchased from our website. We read every submission and respectfully request you wait one full submission period to resubmit if your work has been declined.

 January 1 - 31 we will open for submissions engaging the theme of Renewal. 

Through Submittable, we accept a variety of creative work from Nonfiction to Fiction, from Poetry to Translation. But our hearts beat strongest for hybrid work.

We are interested in work that presses boundaries by using more than one medium to tell a story; work that looks and feels different on the page. Additionally, we look for submissions that engage the issue's theme and the notion of being on the brink.

Please submit only unpublished pieces and notify us if your simultaneous submission is accepted elsewhere. Payment for each contributor is one copy of the issue in which their work appears as well as:

$25 || Poem (per poem)
$50 || Work (less than 1500 words)
$50 || Art (1-3 Images)
$100 || Art (4+ Images)
$100 || Work (more than 1501 words)

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions: Spellbinder Magazine

Once you have read the guidelines below, you can submit your work through our submission form. We pay a £3 honorarium to each accepted contributor after print publication. 

Deadline: Feb. 1, 2025

An Affirmation of Welcome to All Writers and Artists

We affirm our desire to welcome writers and artists of all countries, backgrounds, traditions and religions to our pages, and our willingness to fairly consider their work.

As creatives, we believe that our ability to confront complex issues with curiosity, nuance, and care binds us together. We are unequivocal in our support of the fact that bigotry against any group – be it Islamophobia or antisemitism – harms our literary and artistic community as a whole. Likewise, we do not condone discrimination and/or bigotry of any kind, including, but not limited to, racism, sexism, transphobia, and homophobia.

Compulsory Submission Guidelines:

Your submission will be considered invalid if you do not adhere to the following guidelines. One submission is permitted per quarterly. This means that you may only enter your work into one category. Your submission will be considered for the upcoming issue only.

Within each category, you may only submit one piece of work, unless you are submitting poetry or artwork. Please note that we are unlikely to accept more than one work per poet or artist.

We do not consider previously published or self-published submissions. This includes work that is and/or has been on sale and/or displayed on websites, social media channels, and personal blogs. The one exception to this is if you have previously been published by a magazine which has now ceased to exist. Importantly, your published work must not be available to see or purchase in print on online.

We do consider simultaneous submissions. However, you must inform us immediately if your work gets published anywhere else so that we can withdraw your submission.

We do not accept work containing offensive language (anything containing racist, sexist or otherwise derogatory language), graphic erotic detail, and/or radical religious or political commentary.

We do not accept work which is AI-generated or AI-assisted.

Written Work Guidelines:

We are unable to read more than the permitted number of works per category. 

• Poetry: Maximum of 40 lines per poem. Maximum of 2 poems, all submitted in the same document. Note: Free verse, formal verse and anything in between is welcome. Note: Be aware that our magazine is published in A5 size and therefore is not the best place for poetry with very long lines.
  

• Fiction: Short Stories--Maximum of 3000 words.

• Flash Fiction: Minimum of 100 words. Maximum of 1000 words.

• Nonfiction: Creative Nonfiction Maximum of 3000 words.

• Flash Creative Nonfiction: Minimum of 100 words. Maximum of 1000 words. Note: Creative nonfiction is based on or touches on true events that happened to the author. It is usually written in a narrative style, e.g., may have a plot structure similar to a fictional story, with a crescendo before a resolution.

• Drama: Stage plays--Maximum of 5 A4 pages. Screen plays Maximum of 5 A4 pages. Formatting should be as close to Final Draft as possible. Note: Play extracts and monologues are welcome.

• Visual Art: Visual art submissions are THEMED. We are looking for visual artworks in any style/medium that loosely adhere to the theme of ‘Estrangement’. We are looking for a wide range of subjects, including but not limited to: pieces that convey feelings of distance or separation, or a sense of missing someone or being without or apart from someone. Feel free to submit any works that you perceive to fit the theme. Maximum of 3 works. Submit works in .png/.jpg/.jpeg format. For your artwork/photo to be considered for the cover art please submit in A4 format or aspect ratio 1:√2. Our form may have problems if your files as a whole exceed 7MB. Feel free to use our contact form to let us know in case you are interested in submitting larger works and are having problems with either our regular or emergency forms. Note: Paintings, Drawings, Digital Art, Collages and Photographs are welcome. 

More information here.

Call for Submissions: Waxwing Literary Journal

Waxwing is published three times a year in February, July, and October. Each issue features poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and works in translation. We strive to promote the tremendous cultural diversity of contemporary American literature, alongside international voices both in English and in translation. Our mission is to include writers from all cultural identities, in terms of race, ethnicity, indigenous tribe, gender, class, sexuality, age, education, ability, language, religion, and region.

GENERAL SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

We currently only accept work through our submissions portal on Submittable. We will not read unsolicited materials via email or postal mail. Because of Submittable’s costs and policies, we currently cap our submissions at 300 per month across all genres, at which point we close until our queue resets the following month. If there are no open calls for submissions during an open reading period, it's safe to assume that we hit the cap and will reopen the first day of the next month. See below for individual submission periods for each genre.

Simultaneous submissions are acceptable and encouraged—but please let us know that your work is being submitted simultaneously, and let us know right away if your work is picked up elsewhere by withdrawing it.

If you have to withdraw your work for any reason, please do so on Submittable. If you are making a partial withdrawal (in the case of flash or poetry, for example), please leave a short message on your submission using “Waxwing Withdrawal” as your subject line so we can find your note easily, and we will happily keep the rest of your submission under consideration for publication.

If you are not withdrawing and just need to correct a small mistake in your submission (typos, minor changes), you can request that we open your submission on Submittable. This is preferable to withdrawing and resubmitting because resubmitting counts against our monthly submissions cap, but please know that we generally won’t decline work solely because of typos or grammar weirdness.

Please send one submission per genre at a time, and wait until we have had a chance to respond to your submission before submitting again. Please do not mix genres in the same submission. Multiple submissions to the same genre will not be read.

Please do not submit more than once per year to any one genre unless the editors have specifically asked to see more of your work. This will help us manage our submissions cap and create more room for more people to submit.

We try to respond to submissions within four months. We will work to respond to your submission sooner than that, but if you have not heard from us after six months, feel free to query the editors at the email address below. You can also check your email spam filters to make sure our response wasn’t filtered, and check the status of your submission on your Submittable account (use the "All Submissions" tab) to verify that your submission is still active.

While they are optional, we prefer that you include a cover letter with your submission that tells us what you are submitting (titles and genre are helpful) and a short third person author bio. We like cover letters because we would like to know who you are, if we don’t already. But the information in your cover letter will have no bearing on whether or not your work is accepted for publication — that decision is driven solely by the writing you submit.

Upon acceptance, Waxwing requests first serial rights. All rights revert back to the author upon publication, although we will preserve your work online in our archives for the lifespan of the magazine. If the work is later republished, we request you note its initial publication in Waxwing. We also request the right to republish your work in future print anthologies and/or as promotional broadsides with author permission. Unfortunately, Waxwing is not a paying market at this time.

We welcome the opportunity to reconnect with former contributor but ask that contributors wait one year from the date of publication to submit more work.

Some things we will not consider:

• Unsolicited previously published material—this includes but is not limited to materials included in books, periodicals, websites, social media, or other publicly accessible online venues

• Unsolicited revisions of work we have previously declined

• Book-length works

GENERAL SUBMISSION SCHEDULE

Please note that we currently cap our submissions at 300 per month. Please check back soon for the submission schedule for the rest of the year.

January: Flash Fiction (up to three pieces per submission of 1,000 words or less)
February: Creative Nonfiction
March: Translations
April: Poetry
May: Poetry
June: Fiction greater than 1,000 words
July: Flash Fiction (up to three pieces per submission of 1,000 words or less)
August: Poetry
September: Translations
October: Creative Nonfiction
November: Poetry
December: Fiction greater than 1,000 words

FICTION

For flash fiction submissions, under 1000 words, please send up to to three stories in one document. For long-form fiction, please send one story at a time, from 1000 to 10,000 words. Double-space your manuscript and include page numbers.

NONFICTION

For flash nonfiction submissions, under 1000 words, please send up to three micro-essays in one document. For long-form nonfiction, please send one essay at a time, from 1000 to 10,000 words. Double-space your manuscript and include page numbers.

POETRY

Please send one to five poems and place them all in one document. Use spacing and formats appropriate for your poems—that is, submit them the way you wish them to look.

TRANSLATIONS

Submitters should follow the above guidelines that correspond to the genre they are translating. If your submission contains multiple pieces, please put all of them in one document for submission. Translation submissions should include the translated work in its source language, along with any permissions necessary to publish the work in both languages. Waxwing will ask translators for a “Translator’s Note” that contextualizes the work upon publication — please see previous issues for examples of what these notes look like.

VISUAL ART

Each issue of Waxwing includes one piece of visual art as its cover image. We are open to unsolicited art submissions year round until we hit our monthly 300 submission cap. Artists should send one to three images at one time (and no more than twice per year). Files should be JPGs or similar file type. Screen resolution at a size that displays the image well enough is fine — if an image is accepted for publication, we will ask for a higher resolution file. Please note that because we publish three pieces of art every year, it could take over a year for us to respond to your submission.

FOR QUERIES

All queries and correspondences should be directed to the editors at editors@waxwingmag.org.

Thank you for being interested in publishing with Waxwing.— The Editors

Submit your flash fiction and art here.