Call for Submissions on Theme of "Secrets and Mysteries": Superpresent

Superpresent is a quarterly magazine of the arts. Superpresent is available free online and a limited run of print copies for each issue. Superpresent publishes poems, short stories, essays, visual art pieces, experimental art, video art, and sound art.

We accept submissions from anywhere in the world.

No fees for submission.

The theme for the Winter 2025 issue is Secrets and Mysteries

We are are seeking poetry, short stories, essays, experimental art, video, sound art, all forms of visual art as well as asemic writing and textual arts of all kinds.

Submissions Due December 1st

Visual Art Guidelines: 

• We will accept art in JPEG format.

• Artwork must be 300 dpi or higher.

• All artwork must be at least 8.5’’ x 11’’ to fit in the magazine.

• Up to three images may be submitted

• Please include titles for images

Written Guidelines :

• We accept submissions in DOC, DOCX, and RTF formats.

• For poetry, up to three poems, one per page

• Essays and short stories should be 500-2000 words.

Video and Sound Guidelines:

• Send a link to the video or sound file posting (Youtube, etc)

• Provide a short description of the piece (up to 100 words)

• For videos provide up to three still images

Include a 50-100 word bio written in the third person with your submission.

Please send your submissions to:

editor@superpresent.org 

Copyright and publication specifications: First Serial Rights

Call for Submissions: Just Keep Up Magazine

Just Keep Up Magazine

Submissions should be sent to:

JustKeepUpMagazine@gmail.com

Submissions will be responded to within two to three months, if not sooner.

There are no reading fees.

Accepted pieces will be compensated as follows:

$10 a story

$10 a poem

Payment will be made upon publication and processed through PayPal, CashApp, or Venmo, whichever is preferred. Please include which method of payment you prefer in your submission. If you live in a country that does not accept these as forms of payment, we will attempt to mail you cash or a check.

Submissions are open to humans and other life forms of any nationality or planet of residence.

Stories should be science fiction and/or horror (preferably both) and 100-10,000 words long. Please send one story at a time. Please include the genre of your story in your submission.

Poems can be any length but the pieces you submit have to incorporate some element of science fiction and/or horror. Interpret this as you will. Send up to ten poems at a time.

Simultaneous submissions are allowed and encouraged. Poetry and fiction can be submitted simultaneously.

Please attach your writing to your email as a docx or PDF file. If this is not possible for you, include the text in the body of your email.

If you used AI in any way for your submission, please let us know in your submission.

We are possibly open to non-fiction pieces such as reviews of science fiction/horror pieces of art (movies, books, et cetera). Please query us before submitting anything non-fiction.

Call for Poetry Submissions on Themes of Art, Collecting, or Antiques: The Magazine Antiques

THE MAGAZINE ANTIQUES, America’s premier publication on antiques and visual arts, is accepting poetry submissions for a creative new feature which pairs a poem with a crossword puzzle on the same theme. The poem must consider antiques, art, or collecting and, ideally, reflect subject knowledge.

No submission fee.

$50 paid for accepted poems. Send 1-3 unpublished poems, 30-50 lines each. It may take six months to hear back. Notify us if a submission is accepted elsewhere.

Send submissions in a single document with your name as the title to:

evegrubinantiques@gmail.com 

with a brief cover letter. Use this address for questions.

Call for Submissions: The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts

The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts is looking for, as you might guess, "compressed creative arts." We accept fiction and creative nonfiction, as long if they are compressed in some way. Work is published weekly, without labels, and the labels here only exist to help us determine its best readers.

Our response time is generally 1-5 days. Also, our acceptance rate is currently about 2% of submissions. We pay writers $50 per accepted piece and signed contract.

The reading period is March 15 to June 15 & September 15 to December 15. If you've been previously published by the press, please wait a year until submitting again. Thanks.

The reader for your submission is, during this round of submissions, the managing editor.

Please be sure to submit in the correct category; we've been receiving several fiction submissions in the creative nonfiction category.

We do not publish poetry that has line breaks, but we are thrilled to consider prose poetry without line breaks.

For all submitters, we aren't as concerned with labels—hint fiction, prose poetry, micro fiction, flash fiction, and so on—as we are with what compression means to you. In other words, what form "compression" takes in each artist's work will be up to each individual. However, we don't publish erotica or work with strong, graphic sexual content.

In short, we want to fall in love with your work. That might happen in the way we've fallen in love with work we've previously published, or it might happen in a way we have yet to experience. Maybe reading that other work will help in knowing whether you should send your work to us, but in truth, such a thing might not be discoverable.

Here are things that matter:

• Please do not include a cover letter as part of the manuscript document.

• Please include, as part of your cover letter on Submittable, a brief bio. Also, in the cover letter, let us know why you feel this piece works for a journal obsessed with "compression."

• Please no more than one submission of a single piece in each genre at a time. Please feel free to submit again after receiving a response, but please no more than 3 submissions per genre per reading period.

• Please do not submit work that has been previously published anywhere: blogs, personal websites, print and online journals, and so on. Simultaneous submissions are fine with us, but please let us know if the submission has been accepted elsewhere. Failure to do will result in some facsimile of your face being put on the Matter dart board. And no one wants that.

• Please format prose to be singled-spaced, 12-point Times New Roman font, in a Microsoft Word document, with an extra space between each paragraph. We do not consider poetry with line breaks.

• If you've been previously published by The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, please wait a year before submitting again.

• Word count: Maximum 600 words 

Submit your work here.

Call for Nonfiction Submissions: Cutleaf Journal

Cutleaf welcomes writers at all levels of experience to submit original literary nonfiction in English for consideration.

Whatever the topic, we are looking for well-written, imaginative work that invites a reader to join the writer in thinking through what it means to be alive in the modern world.

Cutleaf is a journal run by writers. We try to treat writers as we want to be treated: We charge no fee to submit.

We pay from $100 to $300 per published nonfiction piece.

We reply to submissions in a timely manner, usually not later than three months and generally much sooner.

For the 2025 journal year, we will be open for nonfiction submissions for three months (Sept 1 to Nov 30, 2024.)

• We get many hundreds of submissions in nonfiction each year. So we ask those who submit to adhere to our guidelines. Those who do not follow the guidelines may be moved to the end of the reading queue. Only one nonfiction submission per writer per calendar year.

• Name and email on the first page of the submission. Text double-spaced, with page numbers, and in a standard 12 point font with a 1 inch margin. A brief bio written in the third person included with submission.

• We take a narrative, literary, and imaginative approach to nonfiction. We welcome traditional essay formats but we also welcome variations such as speculative essays, essays in verse, "hermit crab" essays, or essays that explore the use of language in imaginative ways.

• We are open to any topic that moves a writer, but particularly invite work that addresses the ethics and practice of distinctive occupations. The nonfiction editor, a physician, takes special interest in reading work from physicians, dentists, nurses, social workers, scientists, technicians, and other clinicians and caregivers involved in health care and public health.

• We do not limit our point of view to the simply factual, but we expect nonfiction writers to hew closely to the truth. We do not fact-check the pieces published in the journal, but we do engage in a back-and-forth editing process for many of the pieces we accept for publication. Authors are responsible for securing permissions for quotes of copyrighted material, if needed.

• We are not interested in and will not publish fantasy, erotica, romance (paranormal or otherwise), polemics, position statements, editorials, purely academic papers, or screeds. We are not interested in pitches for work yet to be completed. We do not publish previously published work.

• We consider simultaneous submissions with the understanding that you will quickly inform us if a piece is accepted by another publication.

Submit your work here.

Nonfiction Fellowship: The Ann Friedman Weekly Fellowship

The Ann Friedman Weekly Fellowship is an annual program for nonfiction writers who are not yet established in their careers. It includes mentorship and editing; a $5,000 stipend; regular check-ins to provide structure and accountability; and space in my newsletter where fellows can publish and promote their work. This program is funded by paying members of the Ann Friedman Weekly.

For the 2025 fellowship, I will provide support and accountability to two writers, who will each write and publish a newsletter of their own. Each fellow will come up with an editorial focus (or hone an existing one), create a workflow, and integrate feedback as they build a body of self-published work. I will, of course, welcome conversation about other writing projects and offer broader advice throughout the year. But the newsletter will be their main fellowship focus.

APPLICATION PROCESS

Who I’m looking for: Nonfiction writers who don’t have (m)any published clips, who aren’t well-connected to editors, who don’t have a substantial social media following. I’m looking for people who are already writing and developing their skills. I invite people from populations that are underrepresented in media to apply. (I know most job listings have a line like this, but I really and truly mean it. Please apply!) For reasons related to scheduling calls and time zones, I am limiting this to writers who live in the United States.

Compensation: A stipend of $5,000. This fellowship is not a full-time job and will not provide any health insurance benefits. Think of it more like a year-long, highly personalized workshop with steady mentorship. 

Commitment: We’ll do a monthly Zoom check-in, and you will have space in my newsletter at least once a month, too. Your time commitment will be variable, but I think it’s safe to say a few hours per week. I expect you to engage with your fellow fellow (lol) and with me, and to meet the deadlines we set together.

Why I’m doing this: I’m eager to share what I know about the craft and profession of writing, and I love having colleagues. For more context, read this. 

How to apply: Write me a letter, no longer than one page. In it,

Tell me a little bit about who you are and the writing you’re currently doing.

Then tell me about the newsletter you’d like to publish in 2025. It could be a limited series, or an ongoing project you hope to keep up after the fellowship ends. It could be just the germ of an idea, or something you’ve been working on for awhile that needs a refresh. Be as specific as you can.

Tell me about the nonfiction writing skills you’re most eager to develop in the coming year. (Examples: Conducting great interviews, writing compelling titles/headlines, making the personal resonate more universally.) Put another way: How do you hope to improve over the course of the fellowship year?

If you have a little space left, briefly tell me about the last thing you read and loved. What was so good about it?

Title the document “[Your Name] AF WKLY 2025”

Fill out this form and upload the letter. I will only consider applications submitted through the form.

Timeline: Applications are due by 11:59pm PST on January 3, 2025. This deadline is strict. I will be in touch with all applicants by February 15. Fellowships begin March 3, 2025 and run through the end of the calendar year.

Writing Competition: The Gregory Djanikian and Veasna So Scholarships

The Gregory Djanikian & Anthony Veasna So Scholarships

Gregory Djanikian Scholars in Poetry

Gregory Djanikian was born in Alexandria, Egypt, and came to the United States when he was eight years old. He has published seven poetry collections, the latest of which is Sojourners of the In-Between (CMU Press). His work appears in American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry, Boulevard, Poetry, Southern Review, and TriQuarterly, among others. Until retiring, he was the longstanding Director of Creative Writing at the University of Pennsylvania, where he greatly enriched both the Adroit Journal as well as its staff of emerging writers.

We recognize and encourage the gift of such support by offering it ourselves; in honor of Greg’s contribution to emerging student and non-student writers at Penn and around the world, we recognize six emerging poets as Gregory Djanikian Scholars in Poetry each year.

All emerging writers who have not published full-length collections are eligible (regardless of age, geographic location, or educational status), and are encouraged to submit. Writers with forthcoming debut full-length collections are eligible so long as collections won’t appear earlier than April 2024.

Gregory Djanikian Scholars receive $200 and publication of their portfolios of poems in a future issue of the Adroit Journal. Finalists will be awarded copies of Greg’s latest collection, Sojourners of the In-Between, and a list of semifinalists determined by the editors will be released with results.

Anthony Veasna So Scholars in Fiction

Anthony Veasna So (1992-2020) was an American writer of short stories that often drew from his upbringing as a child of Cambodian immigrants and were described by the New York Times as “crackling, kinetic and darkly comedic.” His debut short story collection, Afterparties, was published posthumously by HarperCollins in 2021 and was named a New York Times Bestseller and a winner of the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize for Best First Book.

Anthony was not just one of the most talented new writers to grace this decade—he was also a member of the Adroit family, having served as a prose editor for four years. Anthony was as an inspiration to all of us, and to so many writers around the world. In honor of Anthony’s contribution to both the Adroit Journal‘s staff community and the world’s fiction readers, we will recognize six emerging fiction writers each year as Anthony Veasna So Scholars in Fiction.

All emerging writers who have not published full-length collections or novels are eligible (regardless of age, geographic location, or educational status), and are encouraged to submit. Writers with forthcoming debut full-length collections are eligible so long as collections won’t appear earlier than April 2024.

Anthony Veasna So Scholars receive $200 and publication of one piece from their portfolio in a future issue of the Adroit Journal. Finalists will be awarded copies of Anthony’s collection, Afterparties, and a list of semifinalists determined by the editors will be released with results. 

Djankian Scholars:
Submissions may include up to six poems (max of ten single-spaced pages). Simultaneous submissions, previously published submissions, and submissions recognized by outside organizations are accepted, provided that a) a full catalogue of publication history for enclosed poems is included in the submission and b) at least one poem in the submission remains unpublished.

Submitters should reach out promptly via email (editors@theadroitjournal.org) if work disclosed as unpublished is accepted elsewhere.

Veasna So Scholars:
Submissions may include up to three stories (max of 9,000 words total). Simultaneous submissions, previously published submissions, and submissions recognized by outside organizations are accepted, provided that a) a full catalogue of publication history for enclosed work is included in the submission and b) at least one piece in the submission remains unpublished.

Submitters should promptly add a note to their entry on Submittable if work disclosed as unpublished is accepted elsewhere.

A note on fees:
To accommodate this while offering free online issues, we have set a non-refundable submission fee of $15. If you require financial assistance, you may submit a fee waiver with this form (Djanikian) and this form (Veasna So). Due to fee waivers' processing time, fee waivers will only be accepted until December 10th, 2024 at 11:59 pm EST.

Deadline for both applications is Dec. 31, 2024.

Submit here.