Call for Submissions from Undergraduate Students: Sink Hollow

Sink Hollow, the national undergraduate literary journal at Utah State University, is seeking provocative, resonant, polished pieces of undergraduate work to be published in Spring 2017. We accept all original fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and art. All students currently enrolled as undergraduates at two- and four-year colleges and universities are invited to submit!

Deadline: April 9, 2017 

Please visit our website and submit your work here.

Call for Submissions: Hunter/Gatherer

Hunter/Gatherer is an online magazine focused on wilderness-centered conservation.

We are currently taking submissions of wilderness-centered or anti-industrial nonfiction (essays and book reviews), fiction, and poetry for our second issue.

Go here for specific guidelines.

Call for Submissions: Golden Walkman Magazine

Deadline: Feb 28, 2017
Song: "Heavy Pi" by Michael Coolen
Direct Link to Song.

 

Guidelines.

 

Golden Walkman Magazine is accepting submissions of poetry, fiction, and hybrid in response to the song "Heavy Pi" by Michael Coolen until February 28th as part of our Dialogue Submissions. Listen to the song, feel inspired, and write something new. Coolen will choose his favorite(s) to be published in a future issue. We look forward to reading your interpretation!

 

All the best,
David Walker, editor
Golden Walkman Magazine

Call for Submissions to Anthology: On Writing in a Dark Time

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: “On Writing in a Dark Time”

 

Are these dark times? Are our politics and culture in some way uniquely or especially perverse, dangerous, anti-democratic? Or is this just the usual rub and hubbub of history?
How should we -- as citizens, as humans, as writers – respond to such times? What language, what beauty, what rage can help? What is the quality of light?

 

Wild Writers Seminars (Portland, Oregon) invites your submission of a nonfiction personal essay or poem.

 

Essays: 1200 word limit.

 

Poems: 50 line limit (counting the blanks between stanzas as "lines" also, but not counting title), up to three poems.

 

Submissions that exceed these limits will not be considered.

 

Essays and poems chosen by the editors will be included in a book-length collection to be published by Kelson Books later this year. We will contact you by the end of April if yours is chosen. Payment will be in the form of five copies of the published book.  

 

Deadline: midnight Saturday Feb. 25, 2017.

 

Submit to:

 

KelsonBooksWritingInADarkTimeATgmailDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )

 

Electronic submissions only. Please send by copying your essay or poem INTO THE BODY OF THE EMAIL, and ALSO as a BLIND ATTACHMENT in .doc or .docx format. “Blind” means that your name should not appear on the attached document at all, please. Use the title of your piece (or an abbreviated title) as your filename.

Writing Competition: Gemini Magazine Short Story Contest

Gemini Magazine Short Story Contest

First Prize for the eighth annual Gemini Magazine Short Story Contest is $1,000 while the entry fee is just $5. Second prize is $100 and there will also be three honorable mentions ($25 each).

We have no restrictions on subject, style or length, and all entries are read blind so everyone gets an equal chance. Previous winning stories have involved topics as diverse as: 

- a Siamese twin who fears her twin sister is plotting to kill her 

- a movie star sex goddess in an almost completely asexual society 

- a young Belfast boy who joins the IRA after his sister is killed by British soldiers 

- a prostitute traumatized by the suicide of a girl in her rooming house

Deadline: March 31, 2017. Enter by email or snail mail.

All five finalists will be published online in the June 2017 issue of Gemini.

Read all previous winners and finalists, and enter here.

Nonfiction and Fiction Competition: The Journal Non/Fiction Collection Prize

The Journal’s Non/Fiction Collection Prize is awarded annually to a book-length collection of short stories, essays, or mixed-genre prose. The prize (which in previous iterations was known as the Sandstone Prize and The Ohio State University Prize in Short Fiction) carries a cash award of $1,500 and publication with Mad River Books, the trade imprint The Ohio State University Press, under its standard contract. The 2017 Non/Fiction Collection Prize will be guest judged by Michael Kardos.

Submission Guidelines:

• The award is open to writers of fiction and creative nonfiction, whether or not they have previously published a book.

• Eligible submissions include an unpublished manuscript of short stories or essays; two or more novellas or novella-length essays; a combination of one or more novellas/novella-length essays and short stories/essays; a combination of stories and essays. Novellas or novella-length nonfiction must be part of a larger collection. Manuscripts may be no fewer than 150 and no more than 350 typed double-spaced pages, 12-point font. Prior publication of your manuscript as a whole in any format (including electronic or self-published) makes it ineligible. Individual stories or essays that have been previously published may be included in the manuscript. Each submission must include a list of acknowledgments of previously published work (title and magazine/journal/anthology) included in the manuscript.

• All submissions must be accompanied by a $25 entry fee.

• All manuscripts will be judged anonymously. The author’s name must not appear anywhere on the manuscript. All identifying information will be submitted through the online submission manager only.

• Manuscripts may also be under consideration by other publishers, but if a manuscript is accepted for publication elsewhere, the submission should be promptly withdrawn from consideration.

• Authors may submit more than one manuscript to the competition as long as one manuscript or a portion thereof does not duplicate material submitted in another manuscript and a separate entry fee is paid.

• Deadline to submit is February 20, 2016 via our online submission manager.

Please visit our website thejournalmag.org/prose-prize or contact:

prizeATthejournalmagDOTorg (Change AT to @ and DOT to .)

for any inquiries.

Call for Submissions on Theme of Margins: Ninth Letter

Ninth Letter will be accepting submissions of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry for a special online edition to be published in Summer 2017. Submissions will be open from January 20 to April 1. 

The theme for this issue is Margins. Physical spaces have margins, as does the social world. In fact, anything that can be contained or has limits might have margins of some kind. This issue will feature work that evokes margins or the marginal.

Submit your work for this special feature here.

Submissions sent via snail mail or submitted through our general submissions will not be considered for this issue.

You may submit up to three poems, or one piece of short prose (fiction or nonfiction) of up to 3500 words; please also include a cover letter that briefly explains how you see your work connecting to the theme. Note: work submitted without this information may be withdrawn. Acceptable file formats are .doc, .docx, .rtf, and .pdf.

Please do not send multiple submissions or previously published work.

Authors whose work is selected for this special feature will receive a complimentary 2-­year subscription to Ninth Letter.