Call for Submissions: Wild Roof Journal

Wild Roof Journal is an online art & literary publication that features work from a wide range of creative people—painters, drawers, photographers, digital artists, writers, poets, and anyone else who is passionate about the creative process and self-expression.

 

Our primary goal is to provide a welcoming environment for artists to share their work. The people behind the scenes of Wild Roof are fellow artists—we know the amount of time and energy it takes to produce a finished piece, and the challenges of getting it out into the world for people to see. We want to offer opportunities for artists to connect with other artists as well as to promote their work to a larger audience.

 

We would like to keep our themes broad enough to offer a lot of room for interpretation. Our emphasis is on presenting the most engaging and thoughtful artwork possible, not on adhering to strict rules for subject matter or style. 

 

As a guideline for what we find interesting, here are a few points to consider: Our aesthetic preferences are varied, but we tend to favor unique perspectives and experimentation. More traditional forms are appreciated as well; however, with wildness comes some level of the unpredictable and the weird… If you feel like you do things a bit differently than “the norm” (whatever that means to you), then you’re probably in the right place!

 

We tend to like work that is inquisitive and curious, at times mysterious, at times playful. So, if you find questions more interesting than answers, you’re on the right track for us!

 

Although we have categories for our submissions, we are absolutely interested in hybrid forms or work that defies easy categorization. If this describes your work, we encourage you to submit; if necessary, you may pick the category that’s most fitting and add a note to explain your work in more detail.

 

Note for all submissions: Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but please withdraw pieces from consideration if they are accepted elsewhere. If you have a previously published piece that you feel deserves our attention (and you have retained the rights), please acknowledge the previous publication.
If your work is accepted, you agree to give Wild Roof Journal online publishing and archival rights; following publication, all rights revert back to the author/artist. We ask that you credit Wild Roof Journal if the work is published elsewhere in the future.

 

Submit your work here. 

Deadline for most submissions: Feb. 16, 2025

Call for Submissions on Theme of "Survival": Panorama: The Journal

 

We are open for submissions during the following periods: 

March 2025 issue: 17th January – 28th February 2025
July 2025 issue: 1st May – 14th June 2025
November 2025 issue: 1st September – 14th October 2025

​For our March 2025 issue, we have chosen the theme of SURVIVAL. After SURVIVAL, we’ll have the PARIS issue in July. Then ENCOUNTERS in November.

 

Guidance

We require a cover letter for all submissions, with certain information provided [introduction, background, publication history, social handles]. We also ask that all submitted work be sent as a Word Doc attachment, double-spaced, with page numbers. We are unable to accept work within emails, or sent as PDFs. We regret that due to the number of submissions we receive, submissions that do not meet our guidelines are declined. For more on our guidelines, read our FAQs and Submissions page. All emails should be sent to the section editor as indicated, and titled as requested. By following our guidelines, you can help us accept your work more quickly. Thank you.

Due to the number of submissions we receive, and our goal of publishing as many writers as possible, writers may only submit or query one work per issue. If your submission or query is declined for an issue, and the submission call is still open, you can submit another work or query again to that issue. Please submit all work via Submittable.

 

Payment and rights

Do you pay for contributions?

For our online editions, we regret we do not pay for works at this time, although someday we would like to.

Do I receive a copy if my submission is accepted?

Panorama‘s publications are available for free online, so you can access and share them whenever you like.

What rights do you require?

For online works, world rights in English only, online only, all rights return to the creator at the point of publication. We do not accept previously published work.

 

Literary submissions

What kinds of work do you accept via open submissions?

We accept literary travel works: nonfiction short stories and essays, travel fiction, travel flash, pyschogeography, cartography, experimental prose, and travel poetry. We also accept original translations of works not previously published in English. We rarely accept previously published work, but for some calls and some sections, we do. Our issues are each different, and each call is also different. Our current needs are listed on our Current Calls page.

What kinds of work do you not accept via open submissions?

We do not accept work which doesn’t follow our submission guidelines. We do not accept work which is more about opinion and telling the reader what to think, rather than showing the reader an experience through fine experiential prose.

We do not accept reportage or commercial travel writing. We do not accept works which promote the author, their books, or their professional expertise as an instructor. We do not accept work with exoticism, and choose pieces which we feel are mindful of the Panorama mission.

Outside of poetry, which has a lower word limit, we do not accept works under 800 words nor over 8,000 words. The average piece we publish is between 1500 and 6000 words. Your work is most likely to be chosen if it fits into that range,

For poetry, we limit poems to two pages, except for the print editions. For print poetry limits, we accept two to five pages per poem.

Call for Submissions: Tahoma Literary Review

We Are Reading!
We are open to submissions now through April 7. General guidelines are below.
And we are now accepting poems in translations. See below and our website for more information
Critiques for fiction and nonfiction are always available.
And check out our latest issue on the TLR website. Great stuff there.

We pay $55 for poetry (including translations), $55 for flash, and $0.05/word for prose over 1100 words.

To get a sense of what we are looking for, you can read any and all issues on our website. Or listen to contributors reading their work on our Soundcloud channel. We publish online, without a paywall. Print copies of back issues are available on our website.

Here are our guidelines:

One submission per writer per reading period, across genres.

Payment: $55 for flash prose, $55 for poetry; $0.05/word for longer prose and poems. For us flash is up to 1100 words, longer prose is 1,101 to 6,000 words. We pay on publication.

Complimentary Submissions: We offer free submissions to authors and poets from historically marginalized groups. We have a set number of these submissions available each reading period so plan to submit early. If the category does not appear below, we have reached our cap.

Submission fees: Standard submission fees for poetry and flash prose are $4; for longer prose the fee is $5.

A Transparency Index for each issue shows how submission fees help us pay our contributors and support team.

Submission expectations:

• Our standard response time is up to twelve weeks from submission. Previous contributors to Tahoma Literary Review should wait one full reading period before submitting again.Word or PDF files only. If we accept a file in PDF, we will need a Word (or compatible) version.

• Prose submissions should be in standard manuscript format (Double-spaced, Times New Roman font, 12-point type, one-inch margins, author name and contact information on the first page).

• Poetry submissions may include up to six poems in one manuscript.

• Submit via Submittable. If this presents an accessibility issue, please contact the editors for alternatives.

• We do not accept previously published material. This includes publication in any public venue, including print, web, and personal blogs.

• We are not currently reading plays, screenplays, reviews, novel excerpts, or children’s/young adult literature.

Rights: We ask for first North American serial rights and will post accepted work online as part of a complete issue. We intend to leave accepted works online indefinitely; otherwise all rights revert to the author upon publication.

Please do not resubmit revised work unless we have requested it specifically.

Simultaneous submissions Please inform us if a work is accepted elsewhere. You can use Submittable’s Withdraw feature to withdraw a submission fully. For flash prose or poetry use Submittable's Message feature to withdraw one of the selections and leave any others for our consideration. 

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions: The Good Life Review

We are currently open for multiple publication opportunities for fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and art. We nominate for Pushcart, Best of the Net, Best New Poets, Best Small Fictions AND pay $60 per piece of writing for our seasonal issues, $25 for Micro Monday features, and $50 for cover art. Details on all opportunities and the forms to submit are on Submittable.

Work must be original and previously uncurated. We gladly accept pieces that have previously only appeared on personal blogs and/or social media. Please reference this thoughtful article by Tim Green on curation versus publication.

We pay $60 per piece for writing published in seasonal issues ($75 for two pieces). We pay $25 for pieces appearing in our “Micro Monday” segment and $50 for artwork used on the cover of our seasonal issues. For international submissions, we are only able to send money via PayPal.

There is a $3 fee for submissions for our Spring and Autumn issues which allows us to use Submittable and our web platform. The fee for entry to our annual Honeybee Prize is $18 which is used to support payment to contributors. Details about the contest can be found here. Info and results from last year are here.

There is currently no fee for submitting art or pieces to be considered for The Buzz ~ Micro Monday feature or for artwork.

We will respond to all submitted work. It may take from one to six months depending on when in the reading period the work is submitted. Artwork may remain open for the duration of a calendar year. Thank you in advance for your patience.

We accept submissions via Submittable. Any received via email or post will not make it into the queue of our editorial teams.

We no longer accept pieces from our University Nebraska Omaha MFA friends via Submittable. If interested, please send correspondence directly to managing editor, Tacheny, at:

tacheny.perry@thegoodlifereview.com

If you have an issue with the fee because of financial hardship, or difficulties with the submission platform, please send a message to:

editors@thegoodlifereview.com.

General Guidelines:

Simultaneous submissions are accepted as long as we are promptly made aware of acceptance elsewhere. Simply withdraw in Submittable – or – for individual flash pieces or poems, initiate a message in Submittable indicating which title(s) are being withdrawn.

The Good Life Review acquires First North American Serial Rights and the right to maintain an archive copy of work online. All other rights revert to author upon publication with a request that if the work is reprinted, appropriate acknowledgment to The Good Life Review is made.

We do not publish offensive work or pieces which exhibit hatred directed toward a particular gender, race, ethnicity, ability, sexual identity, socioeconomic class, or other status, regardless of protected by law. In other words – if you are an asshole, we don’t want your writing or your money.

If there are content warnings, please include those in the submitted document(s) preceding the piece(s).

We prefer to read blind so please remove your name from the submitted document.

Your submission will not be disqualified if it was submitted incorrectly. If we have a question or concern about your submission, we will contact you. Please know that we are on your side. Thank you for trusting us with your work.

Again, work must be original and previously uncurated. Give us your very best!

More information and submission portal here.

Call for Submissions: Steam Ticket

Call for Submissions: Steam Ticket

Submissions for Vol. 28 open Dec. 1, 2024 and close March 1, 2025. The issue will be released late April/early May, 2025.

We accept only email submissions. Please send your work as a single attachment (MS Word, PDF, or RTF) to:

steamticketjournal@gmail.com 

Please indicate in the subject line whether your submission is poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, or artwork. Please submit only once per submission period until you hear from us.

Poetry: Send three to five poems (as one attachment). 50 line maximum per poem.

Fiction and Creative Nonfiction: 5,000 words max. Flash-fictions encouraged. Generic genre pieces (sci-fi/fantasy/romance) might find better audiences elsewhere. Manuscripts should be double-spaced and include author’s contact information.

Artwork: We welcome photographs, drawings (lead, pen and ink, charcoal etc) on any subject. Please send as JPEGs or TIFFs and include titles for each piece. NOTE: Accepted artwork will be reproduced in black and white.

Include a brief bio and your mailing address.

Payment is in contributor’s copies.

Simultaneous submissions are accepted. Please inform us immediately if submitted work is accepted elsewhere. We do not consider submissions of previously published work in any form (including prior internet publication).

Steam Ticket acquires only first serial publication rights of accepted work. Copyright is asserted on behalf of the author, and all reprint rights revert to the author upon publication.

Call for Submissions: Gulf Coast

Gulf Coast's Regular Print Submissions Period is Open from September 1 through March 1

Gulf Coast is committed to supporting the authors who publish in our journal. This support takes many forms, including offering editorial guidance, exposing new work to the widest possible audience, and providing competitive honorariums for that work. We believe this financial support is vital to maintaining a vibrant literary culture. To this end, Gulf Coast has instituted a small reading fee ($3) for regular submissions, 100% of which will go toward increasing the honorariums for the authors whose work we publish in the journal and on the website. 

Gulf Coast is now able to pay $50 per .doc or PDF page for poetry, fiction, and nonfiction in our print issues. In our Online Exclusives we guarantee $50 for poetry and $100 for prose. We also offer $50 for blog posts. We thank you for your support of the authors who make Gulf Coast possible.

Gulf Coast welcomes and appreciates submissions from writers and artists of all backgrounds and aesthetic affiliations.

We do not accept general submissions via e-mail or post. If your work is accepted, please wait two years from date of publication before submitting again. Please visit our contest page for contest submission guidelines.

If you are already familiar with Gulf Coast's general submission guidelines, feel free to proceed to Submittable. Otherwise, please read the details below.

Submission Guidelines

For the Print Edition:

General Guidelines: 

• Submit only previously unpublished works.

• Simultaneous submissions are allowed, but please inform us promptly if your piece is accepted elsewhere.

• Multiple submissions in the same genre are not accepted and will not be read or responded to.

• Please wait until you receive a response from us before submitting again.

Prose: 

• Typed, double-spaced, paginated.

• Your name, address, phone number, and e-mail address should be on the first page, title on subsequent pages.

• We are unable to read submissions of more than 7,000 words.

Poems:

• Up to five poems per submission are allowed.

• Should be typed with your name, address, phone number, and e-mail address in the header on each page.

Translations:

• Poetry: Up to five poems per submission.

• Include the original untranslated text with your submission.

• Include brief bio of the author and indicate whether the translator has been given permissions.

Prose:

• Up to twenty double-spaced pages per submission.

• Include brief bio of the author and indicate whether the translator has been given permissions.

Interviews and Reviews:

• Gulf Coast typically commissions book reviews, but unsolicited reviews are accepted and occasionally published. Typed, double-spaced, and paginated.

• Include your name, address, phone number, and email on the first page, title on subsequent pages.

• Interviews should not exceed twelve pages.

Single-book reviews:

• No longer than four pages.

• We are particularly interested in reviews of first or second books.

Art and Critical Art Writing:

• Gulf Coast is now accepting submissions of critical art writing.

Other Writing:

For all other work, including proposals for commissioned work (reportage, travel writing, etc) and graphic storytelling and visual narratives that are too large for upload in the online submissions manager, please contact the Editor.

For Online Exclusives:

Prose: 

• Typed, double-spaced, and paginated.

• Include your name, address, phone number, and email address on the first page, title on subsequent pages.

• We are less likely to accept submissions of more than 3,000 words.

Poems: 

• Up to five poems per submission.

• Should be typed with your name, address, phone number, and email address in the header on each page.

Translations: 

• Poetry:Up to five poems per submission.

• Include original untranslated text in the submission.

• Include a brief bio of the author and indicate whether the translator has been given permissions.

Prose:

• Up to twenty pages double-spaced.

• Include a brief bio of the author and indicate whether the translator has been given permissions.

Blog:

Please contact the Digital Editor. Include online publication or blogging credits and a brief proposal indicating how your blogging will contribute to the literary and nonprofit community.

Call for Submissions: (s)crawl magazine

general guidelines

genres

› (s)crawl magazine publishes thought-provoking horror writing that lingers long after it is read. we seek stories and poems that are psychologically and/or emotionally complex and do not rely on extreme or gratuitous violence. (read more on this in our “what we’re looking for” and “what we don’t accept” sections)

› we seek work that explores social, cultural, and personal horror—think of narratives that unsettle on a deeply emotional or intellectual level.

› some examples of our favorite subgenres are psychological horror, supernatural horror, gothic horror, folk horror, existential horror, surreal horror, and body horror.

› non-fiction submissions must be related to horror literature, writing, or genre theory. 

word count:

› short stories: approx. 1,000-5,000 words

› poetry: up to three (3) poems per submission

› essays or articles: approx. 1,000-3,000 words 

exclusivity:

› we accept simultaneous submissions, but kindly inform us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere.

› we do not accept previously published work (including self-published or blog posts). 

fees and payment:

› there is no fee to submit your work to (s)crawl

› authors will be paid $20 per accepted piece upon publication

what we're looking for

» (s)crawl’s mission is to amplify and uplift voices that are typically marginalized within the horror genre. therefore, we exclusively seek out and publish LGBTQIA+ voices, neurodiverse voices, female voices, BIPOC voices, disabled voices, and any other identities who don’t feel adequately represented within the horror genre.

» (s)crawl seeks nuanced and thought-provoking horror stories and poems that evoke a deep emotional response and linger with the reader long after they are read. our favorite kind of horror is psychologically and/or emotionally complex with engaging narratives that explore deep-seated fears through theme and metaphor.

what we don't accept

» while (s)crawl endeavors to embrace a wide range of horror genres and themes, we do not accept works that involve extreme violence or “hardcore horror” elements, including but not limited to sexual violence, torture porn (stories focused primarily on graphic depictions of gore or physical harm), and animal cruelty.

» we do not accept works that have been partially or fully generated by A.I. (artificial intelligence).

payment & rights

» writers will be compensated $20 per piece upon publication

» upon acknowledgment of acceptance, (s)crawl is granted first publication rights for the piece. after publication, all rights revert to the author. we ask that you credit (s)crawl magazine as the original publisher if your work is reprinted elsewhere.

deadline for fall 2025 submissions: may 29

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions: Flash Phantoms

Flash Phantoms is dedicated to bringing you the best HORROR stories of 1,000 words or less. Make them edgy right from the get-go and end with a bang. We don't like to be bored with a lot of exposition.

​We also accept Micro Fiction Horror of 100 words.

​We don't care who you are; we don't discriminate. Send us your best, your worst, your weirdness, and your horror.

​​Submissions Are Open

*We accept UNPUBLISHED horror stories of up to 1,000 words in English from writers worldwide.

​ *We accept UNPUBLISHED micros of 100 words, not including the title, in English from writers worldwide.

​ *We do not pay writers but plan to pay in the new year.

​ *We DO NOT accept any written work created by AI. *DON'T CHEAT!*

​ *Submit your story through ​​Submittable. We offer a 24-hour response for $5.

​ *Please include a cover letter with a BRIEF bio, including some of your proudest publication achievements. If you've never been published before, no big deal. We welcome newbies as well as seasoned writers.

*Stories must be double-spaced, 12pt.

*We accept simultaneous submissions but immediately withdraw your story if accepted elsewhere.

*Send one story at a time, please.

 *Make sure your story is free of grammatical errors. ​

*Story of the Month will be posted in its own special area on the site and feature an interview with the winning writer. How cool is that?

Call for Submissions: Copper Nickel

What We’re Looking For Copper Nickel accepts submissions of poetry, fiction, essays, and translation folios from August 15 to December 15, January 15 to March 1.

We DO accept simultaneous submissions, though we ask you to contact us if submitted work is accepted elsewhere.

Poetry & Prose

Submit four to six poems, one story, three flash pieces, or one essay at a time.
After receiving a response from us, please wait at least six months to submit again.

For prose we do not have any length restrictions—but longer-than-normal pieces have to earn their space.

Translation Folios Submit five to ten poems or a piece of prose (fiction or nonfiction).
If we accept, we’ll ask for a contextualizing introductory essay of 800-1200 words.

Payments

• Poetry & Prose: $30 per printed page.

• Poetry payments have a minimum of $50 and a maximum of $150.

• Prose payments have minimum of $50 and a maximum of $250.

• Translation Folios: $150 flat rate.

• All published authors also receive two copies of the issue in which their work appears + a one-year subscription.

International writers please note: all payments sent overseas are subject to a 30% tax, which is withheld on the front end. This is beyond our control.

Submission Withdrawal

Withdraw full submissions through submittable.
Withdraw individual poems or flash pieces by messaging us through submittable indicating which pieces should be removed from consideration.

Awards

The Editors’ Prizes in Poetry and Prose:

We award two $500 prizes for the most exciting work in each issue, as determined by a vote of our in-house editorial staff.

Call for Submissions on Theme of "Borders, Boundaries, and Lines": South 85 Journal

South 85 Journal will be open for submissions from 1/15/25 through 3/10/25. We look forward to reading your work addressing our new theme:

borders | boundaries | lines

South 85 Journal is accepting general submissions from January 15, 2025, to March 10, 2025, for its Spring/Summer issue through Submittable: South 85 Submissions Page. Additional reading periods will be announced for 2025.

THEME ISSUE: BORDERS | BOUNDARIES | LINES

• First in line?
• Follow the line?
• Toe the line?
• Line up?
• Do a line?
• Speak your lines?
• Telephone lines?
• Cross a boundary?
• Respect a boundary?
• Set a boundary?
• The boundary waters?
• Look at a paper map and see…?
• Slip through the border?
• Protect the border?
• Skirt the border?
• Behave in a borderline fashion?
• Put that decorative border around your photo of…?

The possibilities are endless, and we’re eager to see what you come up with!

• Fiction submissions should be between 1000 and 4000ish words. Please include word count in upper corner of first page. For fiction that is fewer than 1000 words, please submit to the flash category.

• Nonfiction submissions should be no longer than 4000ish words. Please include the word count on your submission.

• Poetry submissions should contain no more than 3 poems, up to 6 total pages, one poem per page.

• Please send only one submission per category (Poetry, Fiction, Flash, and Non-Fiction) during each reading period. You are welcome to submit to multiple categories. We suggest including the title of your work in your file name.

• Submission fee = $3

 • We will publish novel excerpts, provided they can stand on their own. We do not publish genre fiction or children’s stories. We encourage you to read archives of South 85 Journal and acquaint yourself with the material we publish before submitting your work. We encourage the use of a content warning if necessary, in consideration of our manuscript readers.

• Type should be no smaller than 12-pt. font. Please use a standard font such as Times New Roman or Arial, and refrain from script or “flowery” lettering.

• All work will be considered for our Editor’s Choice Award of $100. which be given to ONE piece in the issue.

• Submissions should be saved in Word or Rich Text format.

• Number pages consecutively, double space, and use margins of at least one inch

• Place your name, email address, and word count in an upper corner of the first page.

• We do not solict work; each published piece comes to us through Submittable.

• Converse MFA students, grads, and faculty are not permitted to submit work to South 85 Journal.

• We accept simultaneous submissions. If it is accepted elsewhere, please promptly withdraw your work via Submittable.

• Please include a professional bio of 50ish words written in the third person with your cover letter.
South 85 Journal does not publish work which has been previously published, either in print or online.

Our reply time is typically six to eight weeks. If AI has been used in the creation of the work, please indicate so.

We acquire exclusive first-time Internet rights only. All other rights revert to the author at publication, but we offer formal, written reassignments upon request. Works are also archived online. We are unable to pay for submissions, however thanks to an anonymous donor, ONE piece in the issue will be awarded the Editor’s Choice Award of $100. We ask that whenever an author reprints the work that first appeared in our pages, South 85 Journal be given acknowledgment for the specific work(s) involved.

Interviews: If you would like to conduct an interview with a literary writer with whose book has been published or is forthcoming within the last year or so, please send a query via email:

south85journal AT gmail DOT com

Call for Submissions: Folly Journal

 

Folly Journal

We open for submissions on 13 January 2025, closing 1 June, via Submittable.

We look for works with blunt, provocative humour, satirical takes on the social scene, and starkly honest accounts of ordinary life. We are particularly seeking content that is provocative, a bit sexy and is starkly honest.

We are looking for:

Poetry

Short stories

Flash fiction

Creative nonfiction and essays

Nonfiction

Interviews

Comics and quotes

We accept flash fiction, short stories and poetry. Individual entries mustn’t exceed 2500 words. Don’t take this as a target, we love short and snappy prose of around 500 words too and even better if you can wow us on just one page.

Submitted work must be in English, with 1.5 spacing and in a standard font.

For consideration and inclusion in our 2025 print publication, submissions must be received prior to 1 May 2025.

We will endeavour to respond to all submissions within two weeks, and all shortlisted submitters within four weeks.

Any queries can be directed to:

editor@follyjournal.com 

Submissions open in mid January each year, closing around the end of May. Please keep an eye on our socials and our submission dates in Submittable - which are always up to date.

For 2025, the Folly Prize will be set to $500, to enable us to make contributor payments to everyone published in Folly. The amount paid will depend on the total number of submissions accepted but will be between $25 - $50 per entry. 

Submit your work here. (Note: This is a market with mature content.)

Call for Submissions on Theme of "Cities": Kitchen Work

Kitchen Work Issue #10 will be devoted to stories about Cities!

Please send us writing about markets, cafes, urban picnics, tiny kitchens, and big dinner tables in your favorite city. The deadline to submit for kitchen work Issue #10 ‘Cities’ is March 15.

We accept submissions of up to 3,000 words about…
∙ foods and wines themselves
∙ cooking
∙ markets
∙ cookbooks
∙ restaurants
∙ personal gastronomic histories
∙ lunch breaks
∙ picnics
∙ culinary educations
∙ politics of food
∙ food and physiology
∙ personal profiles
∙ hospitality
∙ family traditions
∙ the best meals ever

 

Submissions to kitchen work are gauged for literary quality, focus and intrigue, and not for gastronomic sophistication. We are eager to print stories about fine dining, and also about your mother’s corned beef, or a 14-year-old’s impressions of her school lunches. Of course, all submissions about the work of the kitchen are especially welcome.

 

Recipes and bottle notes: in addition to general submissions, kitchen work™ also seeks submissions for recipes and bottle notes—a section of the journal devoted to favorite recipes or bottles of wine. These should include the recipe itself, or the name of the wine, and 500 words or fewer about its significance or some experience with it.

 

How to Submit

1. Send all inquires to:

 

submissions@kitchenwork.com

2. Write a brief (100 words or fewer) cover letter in the email body, including word count, and characterization of the submission as non-fiction, fiction or poetry, or of the illustration.

3. Please submit writing as attachments formatted in Microsoft Word or with Google Docs. Illustrations may be submitted as PDFs.

 

Terms

Only previously unpublished works will be considered for publication. Accepted submissions will receive responses within 30 days of submission.
Current Rates

Authors of accepted submissions are paid $0.20 per word. Illustrators are paid $100 per accepted illustration. This payment buys first serial rights in our print and digital editions; the copyright reverts to the author immediately upon publication.

Call for Submissions: River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative

We accept submissions September 1 to December 1 and January 1 to April 1.

River Teeth invites submissions of creative nonfiction, including narrative reportage, essays, and memoirs, as well as critical essays that explore the impact of nonfiction narrative on the lives of its writers, subjects, and readers. We do not have a page length or word count limit (or minimum). Please wait to submit another essay for consideration until a decision has been made on your first submission.

River Teeth uses Submittable to read and track your submissions; in order to submit, you will need to set up an account. There is a $3 submission fee. We no longer accept submissions via mail. We will consider simultaneous submissions as long as writers follow the normal etiquette of such submissions by indicating so in a cover letter or the notes section of the submission, and notifying us immediately if the essay is picked up by another journal. We try to respond to submissions within three to six months, though we always work hard to return submissions as quickly as possible while giving each submission a fair read. River Teeth requests first North American serial rights. 

If published, the writer will receive two complimentary issues of the journal, a one-year subscription, and the option to purchase additional copies at a discounted contributor’s rate.

River Teeth encourages underrepresented writers to submit work for consideration, including but not limited to: BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and disabled writers. We also invite incarcerated writers without regular internet access to submit your essays to us via postal mail. Please send your manuscript and SASE to:

River Teeth: A Journal of Narrative Nonfiction
Department of English
Ball State University
2000 W. University Ave.
Muncie, IN 47306

Submission Guidelines for Beautiful Things

Micro nonfiction submissions to River Teeth‘s weekly online magazine, Beautiful Things, must be 250 words or fewer. Please submit one beautiful thing at a time, via Submittable; there is a $3 submission fee. 

Book Reviews

River Teeth accepts queries for book reviews to be published on the website only. Please contact us via email at riverteeth@bsu.edu.

Review copies of books may be sent to River Teeth for potential review. Please send to the address below.

Questions about River Teeth should be directed to:

River Teeth
Dept. of English
Ball State University
2000 W. University Avenue
Muncie, IN 47306

riverteeth@bsu.edu

Log in to Submittable to submit your essay or Beautiful Thing.

Call for Submissions: Steam Ticket

Submissions for Vol. 28 open Dec. 1, 2024 and close March 1, 2025. The issue will be released late April/early May, 2025.

We accept only email submissions. Please send your work as a single attachment (MS Word, PDF, or RTF) to:

steamticketjournal@gmail.com 

Please indicate in the subject line whether your submission is poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, or artwork. Please submit only once per submission period until you hear from us.

Poetry: Send three to five poems (as one attachment). 50 line maximum per poem.

Fiction and Creative Nonfiction: 5,000 words max. Flash-fictions encouraged. Generic genre pieces (sci-fi/fantasy/romance) might find better audiences elsewhere. Manuscripts should be double-spaced and include author’s contact information.

Artwork: We welcome photographs, drawings (lead, pen and ink, charcoal etc) on any subject. Please send as JPEGs or TIFFs and include titles for each piece. NOTE: Accepted artwork will be reproduced in black and white.

Include a brief bio and your mailing address.

Payment is in contributor’s copies.

Simultaneous submissions are accepted. Please inform us immediately if submitted work is accepted elsewhere. We do not consider submissions of previously published work in any form (including prior internet publication).

Steam Ticket acquires only first serial publication rights of accepted work. Copyright is asserted on behalf of the author, and all reprint rights revert to the author upon publication.

Writing Fellowship: National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Creative Writing Fellowship

CREATIVE WRITING FELLOWSHIPS

Grant Program Summary

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Creative Writing Fellowships program offers $50,000 grants in prose (fiction and creative nonfiction) and poetry to published creative writers that enable recipients to set aside time for writing, research, travel, and general career advancement. Applications are reviewed through an anonymous process in which the primary criteria for review are the artistic excellence and artistic merit of the submitted writing sample. Through this program, the NEA seeks to strengthen the literary arts ecosystem by sustaining and nurturing a wide range of creative writers at various stages of their careers, and to continue to expand the portfolio of American art available to people from all backgrounds.

The program operates on a two-year cycle with fellowships in prose and poetry available in alternating years.For FY 2026, which is covered by these guidelines, fellowships in prose are available.
Fellowships in poetry will be offered in FY 2027 and guidelines will be available in January 2026.

Applying for a federal grant can be time consuming. We estimate that after registering, the process to draft and submit an application takes approximately 12 hours. Competition for fellowships is rigorous. We typically receive approximately 2,000 applications each year and award fellowships to fewer than 2% of applicants. Potential applicants should consider carefully whether their work will be competitive at the national level.

A full grant program description can be found in the Grant Program Details below. For instructions on how to apply, see Application Instructions below.

Learn more about past recipients of our literature fellowships in the Literary Arts Impact section.
Eligibility

Individual U.S. citizens or permanent residents of the U.S. who meet specific publication requirements are eligible to apply. To determine eligibility, review the complete list of requirements in the Grant Program Details document linked below.

An individual may submit only one application for FY 2026 Literature Fellowships funding. You may not apply for both a Creative Writing Fellowship and a Translation Project in the same calendar year. See more information about the Translation Project Fellowships program to determine which opportunity is the right fit for your literary work.

Funding is not available in this category for organizations.
Funding level

Fellowships are for $50,000.

Deadline: March 12, 2025

 Grant Program Details & Instructions

Grant Program Details: PDF | Word This document contains essential information that will help you plan your application materials, including a grant program description; eligibility; review criteria; award amount; post-award requirements and administration; and frequently asked questions, among others. Review this information before you decide to apply.

Application Instructions: PDF | Word This document contains step-by-step instructions for assembling and submitting a complete application, including filling out the required Application for Federal Domestic Assistance—Individual form (SF-424), and creating the additional required application materials. Review this information while preparing your application.
How to Apply

Submitting an application is a multi-step process. Detailed instructions on how to complete and submit the required application materials can be found in the Application Instructions PDF above.REGISTER with Login.gov and Grants.gov, or renew/verify these registrations. See the Grant Program Details document linked above for more information about how to register.

Submit your application

Clicking the link below will take you directly to the pre-populated application package in Grants.gov. See the Application Instructions document linked above with detailed instructions for preparing and submitting your application materials.

Funding Opportunity Number 2025NEA03LFCW
Manage Your Award

Review reporting requirements and other information related to managing a federal award, including the General Terms and Conditions on our Manage Your Award page.

More information here.

Writing Competition: 2025 Furious Flower Poetry Prize

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

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

Submission fee: $15.

2025 Judge: aracelis girmay

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

How to submit your work

• Go to Submittable Make a free Submittable account

• Read eligibility requirements

• Fill out the form and pay the non-refundable $15 submission fee

• Attach a pdf of your poems (no more than 6 pages) and ensure no identifying information is in the manuscript or the filename

Call for Submissions on Theme of "Baseball": The Twin Bill

Deadline: February 22, 2025

Fiction

We are interested in short stories up to roughly 5,000 words. Anything we deem significantly over the word count will not be read out of respect for the number of submissions our editors receive.

We are looking for writing that displays a strong personal style and a connection to the game of baseball. Most of all, we are excited by stories that situate baseball in a broader context, beyond the action of an individual game or at-bat. The more surprising connection to baseball, the better. There is a $25 honorarium per accepted story.

Creative Nonfiction

Creative Nonfiction at The Twin Bill is a place for true stories, boldly told. We have no formal requirements or word count, and we encourage experimentation in the name of contemporary storytelling.

That said, we urge writers to consider their story carefully and to use not a word more than strictly necessary.

There is a $15 honorarium per accepted piece.

Poetry

Please send up to five poems per issue. We love baseball from all eras, but we would particularly like to see poems of a more contemporary style or subject matter.

There is a $10 honorarium per accepted poem.

Guidelines

We are on Submittable. Please submit here. There is a $3 submission fee. Writers retain all rights to their work. We are only interested in previously unpublished work. Simultaneous submissions are fine, but please let us know if it’s accepted elsewhere. Send any submissions, questions, or ideas to:

scott@thetwinbill.com

We would love to hear from you.

For more about what we’re interested in, you can read this interview our founder did with Six Questions For…

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions: Paper Brigade

Paper Brigade, the annu­al print jour­nal of Jew­ish Book Coun­cil, pro­vides a snap­shot of the pre­vi­ous year’s Jew­ish lit­er­ary land­scape while also explor­ing the his­to­ry of Jew­ish lit­er­a­ture in Amer­i­ca and abroad. The pub­li­ca­tion is com­prised of arti­cles, inter­views, per­son­al essays, fic­tion, poet­ry, pho­tog­ra­phy, and illus­tra­tions that, togeth­er, high­light the breadth and diver­si­ty of Jew­ish books today.

We are com­mit­ted to giv­ing voice to Jew­ish-inter­est authors of all back­grounds, includ­ing those from mar­gin­al­ized com­mu­ni­ties and writ­ers in trans­la­tion whose work may not oth­er­wise be avail­able in Eng­lish. Paper Brigade also seeks to expand the com­mon­ly held idea of what con­sti­tutes the ​“Jew­ish expe­ri­ence.” We are com­mit­ted to help­ing authors con­nect with as broad a read­er­ship as pos­si­ble by strik­ing a bal­ance between schol­ar­ship and con­tent that will be acces­si­ble to read­ers, Jew­ish and non-Jew­ish, lay and academic.

The 2026 issue will be pub­lished in the fall of 2025, and will pri­mar­i­ly be focused on 2025 books. Paper Brigade authors are paid for orig­i­nal work.

Fic­tion

Paper Brigade con­sid­ers orig­i­nal, unpub­lished short fiction.

Sto­ries should be between 1,500 and 7,000 words, and we encour­age authors to famil­iar­ize them­selves with Paper Brigade before sub­mit­ting. Sub­mis­sions must be pre­vi­ous­ly unpub­lished, online or in print. Please send only one sto­ry, along with a $3 read­ing fee. Sto­ries will be con­sid­ered for both print and online pub­li­ca­tion on Paper Brigade​’s dig­i­tal arm, PB Dai­ly.

The sub­mis­sion peri­od clos­es on Feb­ru­ary 12, 2025. Sub­mit through Sub­mit­table here.

Poet­ry

Paper Brigade con­sid­ers orig­i­nal, unpub­lished poet­ry. Please sub­mit a max­i­mum of two poems, along with a $3 read­ing fee. Poems will be con­sid­ered for both Paper Brigade and JBC’s online poet­ry series, Berru.

The sub­mis­sion peri­od clos­es on Feb­ru­ary 12, 2025. Sub­mit through Sub­mit­table here.

Wit­ness­ing

If you’re inter­est­ed in sub­mit­ting to our Wit­ness­ing series, send your piece or query to:

simona@​jewishbooks.​org

Our online Wit­ness­ing series shares pieces from Israeli authors and authors in Israel, as well as the expe­ri­ences of Jew­ish writ­ers around the globe, in the after­math of Octo­ber 7th. Read the series here.

Call for Submissions from Oregon and Washington Writers to Anthology: Demagogue Press

Demagogue Press is thrilled to announce an all-new playable reading experience— let’s call it an anthology+— that will take readers on a journey through Oregon and Washington. Inspired by the Royal Game of the Goose, we are now open to submissions for original works from Oregon and Washington based writers that include a quest or chase element and prominently feature iconic (or soon to be iconic!) locations throughout the urban, wild, and lost places in our backyards. We have an editorial preference for works in a “spooky speculative” vein including fantasy and light horror. See below for more details!

OKAY- BUT WHAT DOES “PLAYABLE READING EXPERIENCE MEAN???”

This is a book that plays like a game and a game that reads like a book! Like Demagogue Press’s previous publication, Winding Paths, we’ll be offering multiple ways for readers to experience stories and interact with our locations. The cover, for example, will be a functional game board for our custom-made Pacific Northwest-flavored interpretation of the Royal Game of the Goose with spaces correlating to YOUR work and there will be short activities and mini-games inspired by the anthology theme and stories interspersed throughout. Contributors are responsible for writing great stories that can stand-alone. We’ll do the rest!

WHAT IS AN “ICONIC” OREGON OR WASHINGTON LOCATION?

You tell us! We have some ideas but we’re open to seeing what you pitch. Some particularly iconic locations will have a lot of competition so we encourage thinking beyond the most obvious. We would like a healthy variety (there will be a couple dozen or so pieces selected), and in particular want to see locations that demonstrate a connection to you as the author. Please also note that for logistical reasons, we will not be able to select works that feature private businesses as locations.

WHAT OTHER HINTS HAVE YOU GOT?

Do’s

• Write us a story where a character is motivated to get somewhere - a quest! You can define the why of this quest but it is an element of the project’s theme.

• Be inspired by somewhere you have visited (and readers will be able to visit too).

• Think about ways to interact with and contribute to local mythology.

Don’t’s

• No Real Life Businesses.

• No copyrighted or trademarked material (like quotes from movies, books, or game rules).

• No overboard splatter or gore—there's a place for Saw, etc., but that isn't the audience we’re going for. Keep it Ages 10+

• No erotica. Don’t make us use the safe word (“Penguins”). Erotica is awesome, but not for this particular collection.

• No political manifestos, racism, sexism, homophobia, ageism, transphobia, ableism, and Nazism.

• No generative AI. Any works created with the assistance of generative AI will be rejected.

• No submissions from writers OUTSIDE of Oregon or Washington. We mean it. If you live outside of the area, wait for the next one.

WHO’S MAKING UP ALL THESE QUESTIONS?

Anthology editor Erik Grove! See the About page for more information on the Demagogue Press team

HOW DO I SEND YOU MY STORY???

Submissions accepted by email at:

DEMAGOGUESUBMISSIONS@GMAIL.COM

Stories should be attached in .docx or .rtf file formats. Please don’t send .pdfs or other file types. Please use Shunn manuscript formatting.

Format your email subject like so: “SUBMISSION: My Amazing Story - 3000 words.”

In your cover letter (body of your email) include the following:

— Your name

— The location you are using. If it’s obscure - give us a link to more information.

— Where in Oregon or Washington you live - a city and state is just fine.

— An attestation that no generative AI was used in crafting your story.

PUBLICATION TERMS AND DATES

PAYMENT: Flat $50 and a copy of anthology.

RIGHTS: First rights worldwide (English) to include your story in the anthology (print & e-book). Nonexclusive license. 6-months exclusivity post-publication requested.

SUBMISSION: Previously unpublished short story 2000-4500 words in length. One submission per author. Simultaneous submissions are okay.

DEADLINE: Open submissions are OPEN now and CLOSE MARCH 16, 2025

Rejections may be sent any time after submission. Acceptances should be anticipated by the end of April.

Call for Submissions: Wildscape Literary Journal

Wildscape Literary Journal

PUBLICATION & SUBMISSIONS TIMELINE

Spring Issue / April (short issue): Subs open 12/1-2/15
Summer Issue / July (long issue): Subs open 3/1-5/15
Fall Issue / October (short issue): Subs open 6/1-8/15

HOW TO SUBMIT WORK:
-Send all submissions through Duosuma here. If Duosuma is not accessible to you for any reason, or if you’re simply not vibing with it, feel free to follow the guidelines below to submit to us via email instead, at:

wildscapelit@gmail.com

poetry guidelines

-Up to 5 poems
-Each poem must be two pages or shorter (therefore 10 pages or less total for the entire submission). We tend to prefer shorter pieces (1 page or less) that pack a punch. There are exceptions of course, so don’t let this deter you from submitting pieces that are a little longer if you feel strongly enough about your work!
-Please start each poem on a new page
-12pt, times new roman font
-upload ONLY as a .doc/.docx (NOT a PDF)
-Please leave all identifying information off of the document itself, as well as the document title. We prefer to read blind.
-Prose poetry is welcome
-Please do not double space your poems unless it is how they were intended to be. Only fiction/nonfiction pieces need to be double spaced.
-Please do not capitalize the first word of each line UNLESS it’s the start of a new sentence or if the word is a proper noun.
–We tend to lean away from rhyming poetry, and we tend to prefer the experimental & contemporary

flash fiction/cnf guidelines

-Up to 2 pieces
-Each piece must be 5 pages or shorter (though we tend to lean towards shorter flash pieces), preferably less than 1,500 words per piece (2,000 at the very most)
-Double spaced highly preferred
-12pt, times new roman font
-upload ONLY as a .doc/.docx (NOT a PDF)
-Please leave all identifying information off of the document itself, as well as the document title. We prefer to read blind.

art guidelines

Please send up to five pieces of art via Duosuma, or up to 10 pieces of art via email. We prefer the whimsical and the beautiful, the ethereal and the wild. We love abstract as well as any and all mediums. Genre does not matter, but we tend to lean away from horror, and we do not accept erotica/nude art at this time. PNG and JPG are preferred, but please reach out to us if another format is desired to preserve your art, and we will figure something out. We do not accept AI-generated art.

GENERAL INFO:

-We welcome and encourage work from all historically marginalized creators

-We do NOT accept AI-generated work, and we ask that you do not submit any work, written or visual art, that has been created using AI in any way

-Please submit a bio (<70 words, though <50 words is preferred) with your submission. A cover letter is not necessary and will not affect our decision, but we do enjoy getting to know the person behind the words/art, so feel free to let us know a little about yourself, if you’d like

-We ask that previous contributors wait one issue before submitting work again. This does NOT apply to art contributors. Our issues are done by season (winter, spring, summer, fall), so just skip one season before submitting work again (for example, if you have work being published in the winter issue, please skip spring submissions and then feel free to submit again in Summer)

-Multiple submissions are fine if it’s in different genre categories (i.e. you may submit work in the art category and the poetry category at the same time). Within the same genre, you may submit work again after receiving a response. We ask that you do not submit work more than two times in any submission period (this goes for across genres as well)

-Simultaneous submissions are more than welcome. In fact, we encourage them! Please notify us immediately of acceptance for publication elsewhere by withdrawing your piece from Duosuma (or by emailing us)

-We do not accept previously published work (no, your social media accounts don’t count as previously published, so send those in!)

-If you would like an expedited response (<48 hours guaranteed), you may leave a $5 tip when you get to the “tip jar” page on Duosuma. If you’ve emailed your submission, you may leave a tip via:

Venmo @wildscapelit 

and put *EXPEDITED* in your email subject line. A tip does NOT affect our decision regarding any submission. We read submissions blind (i.e. not knowing who the author is) so that we may make our decisions without bias. Tips will not be refunded for any reason.

-We do nominate for both the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, and we’re currently researching & considering other awards to nominate our contributors for as well. We also promote our contributors on social media as best we can!

Call for Submissions: Southword--Munster Literature Centre

Southword--Munster Literature Centre

Unsolicited submissions of poetry and short fiction (for our winter issue) are open annually as follows:

POETRY: 1st ‒ 31st January

FICTION: 1st ‒ 28th February

Our Submittable account limit means that we can only receive 1000 submissions per month, so if we reach this limit before the end of January (for poetry) or February (for fiction), the submission link will automatically close and we will be unable to accept any further submissions.

Southword pays contributors €50 per poem and €300 per short story. We welcome submissions of up to four poems or one short story (of up to 5000 words) per submission period. If your work has been published in Southword before, we ask that you please don’t submit again for at least one year after publication. 

The poetry editor is Patrick Cotter. The fiction editor is Billy O’Callaghan. Subscriber competitions are judged by James O’Leary.

Further Guidelines are available on our submission manager during the our open submission periods.

Call for Submissions: Splinter Journal

Submissions for issue two are open from December 17, 2024 until January 25, 2025.

Splinter is published by Writers SA with support from Arts SA, Flinders University, UniSA and the University of Adelaide.

We are really enthusiastic about publishing diverse and intersectional voices and welcome submissions from writers based anywhere in the world. At this early stage, we can only accept submissions in English.

What we are looking for

Splinter does not publish themed issues. We are always looking for writing that picks apart all the ways reality has been shattered, illuminates the shining threads of it that remain unbroken, and hints at the ways we’ll start putting it all back together.

Our long-term goal is to mill around in the endless circles of these questions: How did we get here, into the middle of this chaos?
Where are we? What does this place and time mean?
And where do we go from here?

While we don't want writers to feel limited by the below list, there are some topics and formats we are particularly interested in for issue two: 

• High-quality genre fiction

• Nuanced and sensitive explorations of intimate partner and/or domestic violence

• Profile pitches (see description of this format below)

• De-colonisation narratives

• Literary criticism pitches

For style and tone, the best way to understand what we're after is to read the first issue. But in short, please don't give us the directive, the didactic, or the overly earnest - give us the feeling of things breaking and the weight of the destructive forces. Give us the absurdity of existing. Every now and again, maybe some pieces should give us reason to resuscitate our hope.

Tell us what you actually think. Tell us with the confidence of the dominant narrator (even if you’ve never been allowed to be one before). Give us big, complex ideas and the intimate and funny things in between.

Ground us in the urgent and the immediate, and then connect us to the bigger story. And do it with both a sense of humour and a respect for our readers.

We do not put a word count limit on our submissions, but please don't send us your whole book. As a guide, the longest piece we published in issue one was 8,000 words, but we are willing to consider longer works.

Formats and pay rates
Please pitch ideas for these formats:

Profiles - $900/piece

Writing that examines our communal and one-sided relationship with complex public figures.

Essays - $900/piece

Creative non-fiction and reportage that explores ideas about the world beyond the self (although the ideas might intersect with the self). We are particularly interested in pieces that bend form in interesting ways, and also those that are simultaneously informative and emotionally-affecting.

Writing about writing - $500/piece

Essays on writing as the weird and idiosyncratic pursuit that it is.

Each edition, we will also publish one column from a writer analysing the worst piece of writing they’ve ever published. Send us an idea for an essay deconstructing your lowest writing moment.

Criticism - $700/piece

That deconstructs a relatively new-ish work of any medium within a bigger context - whether that be of your own life, within history, or within a larger conversation. We only publish twice a year, so our criticism needs to feel new because of the lens it puts on the work it is critiquing, not because the work being critiqued has just come out.

Please submit completed work for these formats:

Poetry - $250/poem or $450/collection of up to four poems

The absolute best medium for exploring the cracks in reality we all fall into.

Fiction - $900/piece

Don’t worry about length or genre (although we’re not going to publish a book). Long or short, we want hugely compelling pieces of fiction that make us feel and think about the stuff pointed at in the meandering paragraph above.

Memoir - $600/piece

Let us peer into your life so we can understand something more about ourselves.

Nuts and bolts

For profiles, reportage, writing about writing, and criticism, we are looking for pitches of ideas (not full length works).

For memoir, poetry and fiction we are looking for submission of completed works.

We only accept a total of one submission per writer, with the exception of poetry. We will accept three poems per writer, or one poetry collection of up to four poems.

Unfortunately, because of the volume of submissions we receive, we are unable to accept re-submission of works we have previously declined.

We are looking for work that has not been previously published.

Due to demands on our time, we aren’t able to provide feedback on every submission.

Copyright of each work will remain with the author, although we may negotiate a period of exclusivity (of three months maximum) where appropriate. Each writer will be sent a contributor’s agreement outlining all terms and conditions prior to commissioning.

We do accept simultaneous submissions, but please contact us on:

hello@splinterjournal.com

to withdraw your work if it is picked up elsewhere.

Submissions close at 11:59pm (Australian Central Daylight Time) on January 25, 2025. The best place to track the progress of your submission is here on Submittable.

Writing Grants: The Fund for Investigative Journalism

The Fund for Investigative Journalism provides grants and other support for reporters to produce high-quality, unbiased, nonpartisan investigative stories that have an impact.

Freelance journalists, staff reporters and media outlets are eligible for grants, and their investigations can be for print, online or broadcast stories, books, documentaries or podcasts.

We provide several types of grants:

• Regular grants: We review proposals three to four times a year for grants up to $10,000. The next deadline is Monday, January 27, 2025. 
• Seed funding: We provide small grants, up to $2,500, for preliminary reporting that can lead to full investigations. These grants cover costs like open-records requests and initial reporting trips. The next deadline is Friday, January 31, 2025.
• Follow-up grants: We accept proposals for timely follow-up coverage to original investigations that were produced with grants from the Fund. Grantees can apply for expedited review for follow-up grants up to $2,500.
• Regular grants for those who have previously received Seed funding: We review proposals for individuals who received Seed funding from FIJ for grants up to $10,000 on a rolling basis. Applicants receive a decision within about two to four weeks.
• Diversity Fellowship: In our commitment to increasing diversity in the field of investigative journalism, the Fund for Investigative Journalism offers diversity fellowships. Information about these fellowships will be posted to our website when applications are open.

The maximum grant is $10,000. Grants cover out-of-pocket expenses such as travel, document collection and equipment rental. The Fund also considers requests for small stipends, as part of the budget.

Reporters who have already published an investigation with a grant from the Fund can request up to $2,500 for timely follow-up coverage to the original story. 

Reporters who do not yet have a full investigative proposal, but need support to do initial reporting to develop a story, an apply for seed funding to help cover the expenses of preliminary reporting. These grants range from $1,000 to $2,500.

More information and application link here.

Writing Competitions: Cai Emmons Fiction Award

To honor the life and enduring legacy of beloved novelist Cai Emmons, who published three novels through Red Hen Press (Weather Woman, Sinking Islands, and Livid) and who passed away with dignity on January 2, 2023 after a hard-fought battle with ALS, Red Hen Press is proud to announce the Cai Emmons Fiction Award.

We are so grateful to Cai and her family for choosing to endow this award to keep Cai’s spirit and love of life-changing fiction alive.

We are looking for a fresh and original story of fiction with a minimum of 150 pages. The awarded fiction manuscript is selected through an annual submission process which is open to all authors.

Award details

$5000
Book publication by Red Hen Press
Judge: E.P. Tuazon

Deadline: January 15, 2025

Notes:

Entry fee is $25.00. 

Name on cover sheet only, with a 25,000-word minimum (approximately 150 pages, double-spaced, Times New Roman 12pt font). 

Entries will be accepted via Submittable only.

Guidelines

• The award is open to all writers with the following exceptions: Authors who have had a full-length work published by Red Hen Press, or a full-length work currently under consideration by Red Hen Press;

• Employees, interns, or contractors of Red Hen Press;

• Relatives of employees or members of the executive board of directors;

• Relatives or individuals having a personal or professional relationship with any of the final judges where they have taken any part whatsoever in shaping the manuscript, or where, for whatever reason, selecting a particular manuscript might have the appearance of impropriety.

Procedures and Ethical Considerations

To be certain that every manuscript finalist receives the fairest evaluation, all manuscripts shall be submitted to the judges without any identifying material.

Bios, acknowledgments, and other identifying material shall be removed from judged manuscripts until the conclusion of the competition.

Red Hen Press is committed to maintaining the utmost integrity of our awards. Judges shall recuse themselves from considering any manuscript where they recognize the work. In the event of recusal, a manuscript score previously assigned by the managing editor of the press will be substituted.

For questions or to withdraw a submitted entry, please contact:

editorial@redhen.org

Submit your entry here.

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.