Call for Submissions: Cypress Review

Lyrical, contemplative, and contemporary works compel us. While poetry is our focus, we enjoy anything strange, surreal, and/or experimental (magical realism, speculative fiction, flash fiction, etc.). But we’re open to anything with heart.

Submissions for Issue II are currently open and will close on December 9. And before you submit, please check out Issue I!

For Issue II, we’re accepting up to up to 5 pieces of fiction, poetry, photography, and art. Please note we'll always accept poetry but will cycle through other genres in each issue.

There's a max of 5 pages total per submission, not per piece. Send us unpublished work and only submit in one category per submission period.

Writers, send a .doc/.docx/.pdf Word attachment. Photographers and artists, ensure your file type is readable on PC. A brief cover letter is optional, but please include a brief bio (50 words or less) with your full name that we can include if your work is published.

We’ll get back to you in 3-4 months. Please feel free to query us after 4 months if you haven’t heard back. In some cases, you might hear back from us sooner. Simultaneous submissions are permitted, but let us know asap if your work is accepted elsewhere.

Please review the home page of our site before sending an inquiry. Email us at:

editor@cypressreview.com

if you have remaining questions or need assistance with Duotrope after reading these guidelines.

Submission link here.

Call for Submissions: IHRAM Publishes

IHRAM Publishes has moved to a quarterly, themed literary edition!

AND: we are now accepting visual artwork for inclusion in the journal!

We will be focusing on the following concerns:

First Quarter: Resilience Amidst Displacement — PUBLISHED

Second Quarter: Reflections of Feminine Empowerment — PUBLISHED

Third Quarter: Childhood Reflections and Youth Empowerment. — PUBLISHED

Fourth Quarter: Indigenous Voices: Heart, Hope and Land: SUBMIT YOUR WORK TODAY!

Desirous of hearing the voices of original thinkers and land stewards, our fourth quarterof the IHRAM literary magazine is dedicated to indigenous culture and experience in light of Indigenous history in Canada, highlighting Indigenous authors and artists.

Themes: Land stewardship, spirituality, mythology and dreams, aspirations, value of the native voice, challenges faced in this modern world, indigenous experiences which shaped the writer's adulthood, indigenous culture, etc.

Of course, we will continue to look, to listen and to learn about issues of concern for creators from Algeria to Zimbabwe, and everywhere in between! Up to 50% of each issue will be reserved for pieces that expand our understanding of human rights and social justice concerns not covered by the quarterly theme.

Submission Guidelines:

Please submit your poem, short story, essay (2500 words or less), or artwork to:

submit@humanrightsartmovement.org 

along with the following information:

• Your full name and/or pen name.
• Your country of residence.
• A photograph of you (high-resolution with no filters) should you wish to provide one.*
• A brief third-person bio (2-5 sentences). If your bio includes references of your past work, feel free to provide links!
• A brief foreword to your piece, explaining your inspiration for creating it, background information, explanation of key characters, and any other key insight for the reader.

*If your piece is accepted, we will request a high-resolution author photograph. However, auhors are not required to provide photographs of themselves and are always welcome to decline, should they wish to remain anonymous.

IHRAM Publishes pays $50 per accepted written piece.

IHRAM Publishes pays $25 per accepted artist. 

SUBMISSIONS ARE LIMITED TO ONE WRITTEN PIECE PER WRITER.

SUBMISSIONS OF ARTWORK ARE UNLIMITED.

We publish an ever-expanding collection of original works from lesser known and up-and-coming writers who seek to bring attention to urgent social justice issues around the world. We base our work on the values of beauty, sincerity, vulnerability, engagement and celebration of diversity.

IHRAM Publishes has presented work from 73 countries and 30 U.S. States.

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Call for Submissions: Dulcet Literary Magazine

Dulcet Literary Magazine is excited to announce its next call for submissions, November 1 – 30th. We will be curating works of fiction, poetry and visual art for our second issue, set to be released in February 2025.

2025 Issues
FEBRUARY: Dusk & Dawn (submission window open November 1 - 30, 2024)

*Our themes are meant to be a source of inspiration not a barrier for submitting quality work, so feel free to explore your own creative take on these. If a piece wanders off the path, but is in tune with what we’re looking for overall (see below), we will follow.

Guidelines:

• Submit up to 5,000 words in prose.

• Submit up to 5 poems.

• Submit up to 10 pieces of art.

• Include brief bio (1-3 sentences) written in third person.

• Attach one word document with one short story or up to five poems in one document.

• 12 pt. font and double spaced formatting is appreciated for prose.

• If submitting artwork, please include one PDF of all artwork you wish to submit or upload each piece (up to 10) individually.

• All artwork submitted must be high-res quality suitable for print (300 dpi).

• Simultaneous submissions are fine, but please let us know promptly if work is no longer available.

• Previously published work will not be accepted.

We do not charge a reading fee

We are unable to offer monetary compensation for our contributors at this time, but each contributor’s work and bio will be promoted on our website and socials. Each contributor will also be considered for our Creatives Interview Series.

Selected works may be requested for future anthologies.

We do nominate for The Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net.

Please allow up to 8 weeks for a response.

We do not accept work created by AI. Any submissions not created by a human author will be automatically rejected. 

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions: Third Street Review

Third Street Review
Literally On the Edge

Located on the Pacific Ocean in the artists’ colony of Laguna Beach, California, Third Street Review lives on the edge, both literally and figuratively. California has always been synonymous with exploration and innovation and, in creative expression, with boundary expansion and the dynamic re-invention of artistic forms. Third Street Review is no different. Share your best writing and visual art. We welcome traditional formats as well as pieces that push boundaries, embrace experimentation, and reflect artistic excellence.

For fiction and nonfiction/creative nonfiction, we are looking for work under 1000 words. If you wish to submit micros, please do so in one document, with each piece of writing on a separate page, and make sure the total word count does not exceed 1000 words.

For poetry, you may send up to 3 poems in one document; make sure each one is on a separate page.

For art and photography, please send 1 image in one document. Please upload the highest resolution that you have available.

FOR ALL SUBMISSIONS: Please make sure that neither your name nor any other identification is on the document you submit or in the title of your submission. All work must be original and previously unpublished. This includes personal blogs or other social media platforms. Simultaneous submissions are fine – just let us know if your work gets accepted elsewhere.

If the category you are looking for is not on the list, it means we have met our submission cap.

We pay $25 (via PayPal) if your work is accepted.

Online Rights: If we publish your work, we require exclusive electronic rights to it for 3 months and non-exclusive rights indefinitely so we can include it in our online archives.

Print Rights: We require non-exclusive print rights for potential annual anthologies and promotional materials.

All other rights remain yours.

Deadline: Dec. 1, 2024

Submission Fee: $3.00 

Submit your work here.

Writing Grant: The Gulliver Travel Grant for Speculative Writing

The Gulliver Travel Grant for Speculative Writing

OPEN NOVEMBER 1, 2024 – NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Award: $1,000 USD.

Winner announced January 15, 2025.

Grant Application Process

The application form for the Gulliver Travel Grant is only active during the open submission period: 12:00AM November 1, 2024 – 11:59PM November 30, 2024 (All times UTC -4). Required materials include:

• A cover letter: Include a one-page written description of the project, including details on the travel location and an estimated completion date (no more than 500 words), and a bibliography of previously published work, if applicable. Applicants need not have prior publishing credits to apply.
• A writing sample: Up to 10 pages of poetry, 10 pages of drama, or 5,000 words of fiction or creative nonfiction. If you are sending a segment of a novel, novella, or novelette, please include a one-page synopsis as the first page of the document. The submitted work must be speculative.

Jurors will deliberate with the goal of announcing winners by January 15th, 2025

More information and application form here.

Note: The site also offers an alternative application method for those with accessibility needs.

Call for Submissions: The Ex-Puritan

The Ex-Puritan seeks submissions all year round, from anywhere in the world.

Review our submission guidelines here to send us your work!

If you’re interested in supporting the magazine, check out our Patreon and learn about the perks you can get as a supporter, including feedback on your work and free entry to the Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence.

Payment:

$100 per interview
$200 per essay
$100 per review
$150 per work of fiction
$50 per poem, or $100 per poet if multiple poems are accepted
$50+ per experimental or hybrid work, at an increasing scale depending on the nature of the piece 

Check back with the magazine regularly; The Ex-Puritan is working ever assiduously to increase these figures.

Please note that we can ONLY issue payments using e-transfer, PayPal or a cheque in the mail. We also pay in CAD. If you cannot accept payment via e-transfer, PayPal or cheque from a Canadian bank, we cannot accept your submission.

The Ex-Puritan accepts submissions via Submittable: check out our general submission guidelines here!

Regular submissions to the magazine are free of charge and should fall under one of six categories: fiction, essays, poetry, interviews, reviews, and experimental/hybrid work. To submit to the experimental/hybrid section of the magazine, please email our section editors at:

hybrid.experimental@ex-puritan.ca

Unless we are soliciting your work, all submissions must be previously unpublished (this includes self-publishing, publishing on blogs, and in chapbook format).

Please note that in order to diversify the voices we publish, we have a limit on how frequently we will publish the same writer: you may publish with us once per year in up to two sections of the magazine.

All submissions received by March 25 will be considered for the spring issue, published in May. Those received by June 25 are considered for the summer issue in August. Those received by September 25 are considered for the fall issue, published in November. Those received by December 25 are considered for the winter issue, out in February. All submissions will receive a decision within four months of the submission date.

If you haven’t heard back from us in four months or for any other query not answered here, get in touch with us at:

editors@ex-puritan.ca 

Please note that we CANNOT accept email submissions. They will be discarded. We are open to simultaneous submissions for all regular submission categories, but no simultaneous submissions are permitted for the Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence. If your work is accepted elsewhere, please contact us immediately at:

editors@ex-puritan.ca 

to withdraw the piece.

Writing Competition for Queer Writers: Quill Prose Awad

Queer literature is often found in the side stacks, in the back of the bookstore, under “Gay and Lesbian.” These authors are put into a genre that barely fits them, excluded from mainstream funding, and alienated by submission questionnaires and prying questions about identity and the underlying, “What are you?” The contradiction is that though labels can be alienating, they can also be empowering and community building. Red Hen Press seeks to work against the negative politics of labeling while honoring and empowering authors who identify as queer.

Award details

$1000
Book publication by Red Hen Press
Final Judge: Raymond Luczak
Deadline: November 30, 2024

Note: Entry Fee is $10. Name on cover sheet only; 25,000-word minimum (approximately 150 pages, double-spaced, Times New Roman 12pt font); prose (fiction or nonfiction) by a queer writer only.

Submissions are currently open for this award.

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.

For questions or to withdraw a submitted entry, please contact Tobi Harper. 

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 refusal, a manuscript score previously assigned by the managing editor of the press will be substituted.

Submit your entry here.