Saturday, March 29, 2025

Call for Submissions from Canadian Writers on Theme of "Colour": The Fieldstone Review

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The Fieldstone Review is now open for submissions for our 2025 Issue!

This year, we invite writers and artists to explore the theme of COLOUR in all its complexity. Colour is everywhere, and we want to see how you interpret and express it in your work. We welcome submissions from Canadian writers in various genres, including poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction/reviews, and visual art. We are also excited to share that this year, we will offer a $100 cash prize for the best submission. So don’t be shy – send us your best work!

Submission Deadline: April 30th, 2025

Reading Period: May 1st – June 30th 2025

We can’t wait to see what colour means to you. 🌈✨

Sincerely,

Jenna Miller

Editor-in-Chief

The Fieldsone Review

General Guidelines

The Fieldstone Review accepts electronic submissions only. Please send all submissions as attachments. Documents should be attached in .doc/.docx format. However, .pdf is suitable for poems with unique formatting. Please submit visual art in .JPG format.

The Fieldstone Review practices blind reviewing. Please do not indicate your name or identifying information anywhere on the attachment containing your submission. Instead, please include the following in the body of your e-mail:

full name
contact information
a biography of 50 to 100 words
the title(s) of the work(s) submitted
notification if the work is a simultaneous submission

Submissions should be formatted in 12pt Times New Roman font, and all submissions except for poetry should be double-spaced.

An e-mail acknowledging the receipt of the work will be sent within seven business days during the reading period.

Submissions received after the reading period has ended and works that exceed the word and/or page limits listed in the appropriate categories will not be considered.

Genre Guidelines

FICTION: One submission per author to a max of 5,000 words.

POETRY: One submission per author to a max of six pages, sent as a single attachment.

NONFICTION: One submission per author to a max of 2,500 words, OR two submissions to a max of 1,000 words each.

REVIEWS: Responses to works published in the last two years (fiction, poetry, film, etc.) to a max of 2000 words. Submit a pitch first of one short paragraph, including what content your review will explore, why, and estimated word count.

VISUAL ART: One submission per artist.

Authors may submit to more than one category if they adhere to the above guidelines. Submissions that violate the above guidelines may not be considered for publication. 

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions: Cape Cod Review

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Please use our Submittable Portal to submit work during our Submission window. Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but please let us know immediately if the piece has been accepted elsewhere.

Please do not send multiple submissions.

At this time, we can’t pay for material published in the journal, although we will certainly provide payment in the form of two contributor copies. For the sake of transparency, we charge a submission fee of $3.00, of which less than half goes to CCR (yes, Submittable takes the rest), but which still nominally helps cover the cost of using this platform. If the fee presents hardship, feel free to email us, and we'll waive it.

Poetry
We ask that you send up to five pages of your best poems, or a single long poem of up to six pages. Formatting should be in a standard font, single spaced, with a new poem on each page. Because we view poetry as a literary art, we're looking for work that does something new with language. We like risk, experimentation, explosive energy, and eternal quiet. We love Mary Oliver too, and while we realize she lived in Provincetown, we're not exactly looking for your best Mary Oliver imitations. Purchasing previous issues helps keep us going, and will also give you a sense of our aesthetic. We strongly encourage work from the LGBTQ+ community, those who identify as BIPOC, those who are differently abled, as well as those whose identities intersect within these communities. Feel free to mention this in your cover letter or bio.

Art and Photography
We are always looking for new artwork to include in the journal, and would love to showcase Cape Cod artists. Recognize that much of the work represented can only be rendered in black and white. Submit up to two pieces of artwork as a high resolution jpeg, and address your submission to the Arts Editor.

Essays, Creative Nonfiction, and Interviews
Generally, our preferred word count is 4,000 words or less. We love book reviews and would like to publish more reviews of authors affiliated with Cape Cod. Before submitting, please query us, with the subject Query in the heading, along with a synopsis of your interview subject and/or the exploration of your essay:

capecodpoetryreview@gmail.com

Fiction Length: 250 - 4,000 words. This isn’t set in stone, but between these lengths will be your best bet.

  • Formatting: Times New Roman. 12 Point Font. Double Spaced. Page numbers in the header. Word count and email address on the first page.
  • What Not To Submit: Anything racist, sexist, homophobic, abelist, or just generally hateful. We are not a market for Erotica, Extreme Horror, Space Opera, or Sword and Sorcery. We also aren’t a market for brooding barroom stories with lots of cigarette smoke beneath moonlit lampposts. Gratuitous violence and sex aren’t our jam. We love literary fiction. We love genre fiction. We particularly love the spaces where those two meet. Do you have something that sits between Kelly Link, Karren Russel, Carmen Maria Machado, Ted Chiang, Cailtin Kiernan, George Saunders, Laird Barron, Victor LaValle, Claire Vaye Watkins, Samantha Hunt, Brian Evenson, and Joy Williams on a literary sliding scale? If so, we want to see it. We love flash fiction and micro fiction. We love series of flash fiction and microfiction. We like it weird. We like it quirky. We like you...so send us something cool :)

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions: Oyster River Pages

ORP will accept submissions in the genres below for publication in its seventh annual issue from January 15 through May 1, 2025.

In general, simultaneous submissions are fine, but please contact us immediately if your work is picked up elsewhere. We request first serial rights, after which all rights revert to the author or artist. We do not reprint previously published work unless otherwise explicitly stated in the specific guidelines. Please include a 60-word bio with your submission and feel free to upload a photo with your submission.

We are especially eager to publish pieces that engage with the work of marginalized and decentered people—Black and Brown creators, LGBTQ+ creators, and creators of all levels of dis/ability, and to that end, we invite creators to self-identify in their submissions.

  • Fiction: Please submit one story up to 6,000 words in .docx format. Please include word count on the first page of your document. All work should be double-spaced.

  • Emerging Voices Fiction: Please submit one story of not more than 5,000 words in .docx format. Please include word count, your full name, pseudonym or pen name, should you wish to use it for publication, and preferred email on the top of the first page. In your cover letter, please let us know how many times you have been previously published. All work should be double-spaced. Please read the submission guidelines carefully before submitting.

  • Creative Nonfiction: Please submit one essay no longer than 6,000 words in a Word Doc or PDF format. Include your first and last name and contact information at the top of your piece. All work should be double-spaced.

  • Poetry: Please submit up to three poems, with each poem starting on its own page. We do our best to respond to submissions in a timely manner. Sometimes taking our time means your poem is being seriously considered for publication. For this reason, please wait at least 6 months before inquiring about a submission. Generally, we are not interested in traditional rhyming poetry. We recommend reading through our previous issues to gain a sense of our preferences. Duplicate submissions within the same submission window will be automatically declined.

  • Emerging Voices Poetry: Please submit up to 3 poems in one document of no longer than 10 pages total in .doc or .docx format. If your poem(s) require specific formatting, you may use .pdf to preserve the spacing. Each poem should start on its own page. Please note if a page break is also a stanza break. Please include your full name, pseudonym or pen name, should you wish to use it for publication, and preferred email on the first page of the document. Please also include the title(s) of your poem(s) with each poem. Emerging Voices Poetry does not accept translations at this time. Only one submission of poetry per submitter will be read and reviewed.

  • Visual Art: Please submit photography or other visual arts that are saved at 300 dpi or greater. We reserve the right to crop or edit submissions in order to fit in print or on our webpage.

Additionally, ORP Soundings will publish reviews, interviews, profiles, commentary, or other innovative forms (including multimedia) that seek to highlight or critically engage with issues or works of literary, artistic, or cultural significance. Submissions should align with ORP's mission to amplify stories that speak to what it means to be alive in this world, works that move of out of ourselves and into other spaces, and voices who bring balance and diversity to historical institutions of power. For these reasons, we prioritize works that are published or produced independently, without the clout of corporate promotion.

Please note that Oyster River Pages will not publish any work that has been created, in part or in full, or in collaboration with generative artificial intelligence. Should we find that work published on our site has been created with the support of generative artificial intelligence, we reserve the right to remove such work from our site and rescind publication.

Submit your work here. 


Submission Guidelines
 
ORP will accept submissions in the genres below for publication in its seventh annual issue from January 15 through May 1, 2025. 
 
In general, simultaneous submissions are fine, but please contact us immediately if your work is picked up elsewhere. We request first serial rights, after which all rights revert to the author or artist. We do not reprint previously published work unless otherwise explicitly stated in the specific guidelines. Please include a 60-word bio with your submission and feel free to upload a photo with your submission.
 
We are especially eager to publish pieces that engage with the work of marginalized and decentered people—Black and Brown creators, LGBTQ+ creators, and creators of all levels of dis/ability, and to that end, we invite creators to self-identify in their submissions.
 
Fiction: Please submit one story up to 6,000 words in .docx format. Please include word count on the first page of your document. All work should be double-spaced.
 
Emerging Voices Fiction: Please submit one story of not more than 5,000 words in .docx format. Please include word count, your full name, pseudonym or pen name, should you wish to use it for publication, and preferred email on the top of the first page. In your cover letter, please let us know how many times you have been previously published. All work should be double-spaced. Please read the submission guidelines carefully before submitting.


Creative Nonfiction: Please submit one essay no longer than 6,000 words in a Word Doc or PDF format. Include your first and last name and contact information at the top of your piece. All work should be double-spaced.


Poetry: Please submit up to three poems, with each poem starting on its own page. We do our best to respond to submissions in a timely manner. Sometimes taking our time means your poem is being seriously considered for publication. For this reason, please wait at least 6 months before inquiring about a submission. Generally, we are not interested in traditional rhyming poetry. We recommend reading through our previous issues to gain a sense of our preferences. Duplicate submissions within the same submission window will be automatically declined.
 
Emerging Voices Poetry: Please submit up to 3 poems in one document of no longer than 10 pages total in .doc or .docx format. If your poem(s) require specific formatting, you may use .pdf to preserve the spacing. Each poem should start on its own page. Please note if a page break is also a stanza break. Please include your full name, pseudonym or pen name, should you wish to use it for publication, and preferred email on the first page of the document. Please also include the title(s) of your poem(s) with each poem. Emerging Voices Poetry does not accept translations at this time. Only one submission of poetry per submitter will be read and reviewed.
 
Visual Art: Please submit photography or other visual arts that are saved at 300 dpi or greater. We reserve the right to crop or edit submissions in order to fit in print or on our webpage.
 
Additionally, ORP Soundings will publish reviews, interviews, profiles, commentary, or other innovative forms (including multimedia) that seek to highlight or critically engage with issues or works of literary, artistic, or cultural significance. Submissions should align with ORP's mission to amplify stories that speak to what it means to be alive in this world, works that move of out of ourselves and into other spaces, and voices who bring balance and diversity to historical institutions of power. For these reasons, we prioritize works that are published or produced independently, without the clout of corporate promotion.
 
Please note that Oyster River Pages will not publish any work that has been created, in part or in full, or in collaboration with generative artificial intelligence. Should we find that work published on our site has been created with the support of generative artificial intelligence, we reserve the right to remove such work from our site and rescind publication.

Call for Nonfiction: Roxanne Gay's The Audacity

THE AUDACITY, my newsletter, features an emerging writer twice a month. I define emerging writer as someone with fewer than three article/essay/short story publications and no published books or book contracts.

Please submit your best nonfiction and nonfiction only. I am interested in literary essays and memoir. Please submit only one essay at a time. Essays should be between 1500 and 3000 words. We may take up to eight weeks to respond but we will respond to all submissions.

All essays are paid a flat fee of $1,500.

Submissions will only be accepted at:

https://gay.submittable.com/

I am interested in thoughtful essays, beautiful, intelligent writing, deep explorations, timelessness, and challenging conventional thinking without being cheap and lazy. I am interested in provocative work but we are not interested in senseless provocation. You don't have to cannibalize yourself to tell a compelling story. The essays in Unruly Bodies or that I have preciously published in The Audacity might give you a sense of what I like but I am always open to being surprised. I am not looking to publish anew what I've already published.

Again, I am only interested in nonfiction, which is to say no poetry, fiction, or anything else that is not nonfiction. I cannot stress this enough. I am only interested in nonfiction for the Emerging Writer Series.

Call for Pitches for Readers Age 50+: Next Avenue

Writing for Next Avenue

We welcome talented writers to share insights and advice with our readers. Many Next Avenue writers are professional journalists; some are not. The key is that they know how to write for readers in their 50s and beyond, with the purpose of helping our audience navigate and enjoy their lives.

Our editorial team meets weekly to discuss pitches; however, we are a small team and often receive a large number of submissions. Writers can expect a response within three to six weeks — earlier when possible. Time-sensitive queries will be addressed accordingly.

Next Avenue is a public media website that adheres to the PBS Editorial Standards and Practices to ensure editorial independence, accuracy, inclusiveness and accountability. All content, including reported stories and personal essays, must be based on factual information from credible sources. Reported stories should have at least two to three sources. Personal essays generally offer actionable advice that our audience can easily put into use.

Be sure your story idea is a Next Avenue story, for our audience. Please note in your pitch why the piece is right for us, and how it will benefit our readers. Before submitting your story idea, please thoroughly search our site to be sure we haven't published something similar in the past year.

Our contributors represent a spectrum of race and ethnicity, cultural identity, income level, geographic location, gender identity, sexuality and points of view. And we value stories that shed light on the issues facing an equally diverse audience.

Submission Guidelines

  • Articles are typically between 800 and 1,200 words and written in AP-style.
  • Articles should be clear, concise, conversational and without the use of jargon. If a technical term is required, it should be followed by an explanation.
  • Writers are responsible for the accuracy of their stories, and must fact-check them prior to submission.
  • With rare exceptions, we do not permit unnamed sources. First and last names, as well as city/state where the source resides, must be included.
  • Next Avenue is a national publication. Please refrain from localized pitches unless they have national interest or connection.
  • Next Avenue is apolitical; however, we will publish opinion pieces that are clearly denoted.
  • Articles should avoid ageist language and stereotypes. We reject words like "senior,” “elderly” and "silver tsunami."

Search engine optimization, or SEO, is an important part of our process. Contributors will be assigned a keyphrase for their story upon pitch approval.

Click here to be directed to our pitch form. Please do not directly email Next Avenue editors.

If your idea is accepted, one of our editors will contact you with more information. If we decide not to proceed with your pitch, you will receive an automated response from Next Avenue.

Call for Submissions: The Brussels Review

Genres: We publish poetry, fiction, nonfiction, reviews and art & photography. All works should be submitted in 1 file per piece, so they can be accepted or rejected individually.

Poetry: submit at least 5 poems.

Fiction and nonfiction: any length of no more than 7.000 words.

Reviews: no more than 2.000 words, for any art or literary genres.

Art & Photography: submit at least 10 works, the resume and links to portfolio.

Response Time: We answer all submission and all submission will get a response, be that a negative one. We appreciate your patience and understanding.

Original Work: We accept only original, unpublished works for the print issue. By submitting, you confirm that your work is your own and has not been previously published. Works previously published in books or shared on social media can be submitted for publication on our website only.

Submission Periods: We accept submissions year-round, but there are peak periods. Check our website for updates on submission windows and themes.

Multiple & Simultaneous Submissions: We accept multiple submissions, as long as they are in different genres, and simultaneous submissions, as long as we are informed immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere.

Submission Fees: There are no fees for submitting your work, but we appreciate tips, which go toward the submissions’ expenses. To show our appreciation, all tipped submissions will receive a response and feedback within two weeks. Every little bit helps, and we thank you in advance for your support.

Publication Rights: By submitting, you grant The Brussels Review first serial rights to your work. After publication, all rights revert to the author, and we request acknowledgment if the work is republished elsewhere.

Payment: We understand the challenges that writers, especially those from economically disadvantaged backgrounds, face. So, to support these authors, we offer sometimes compensation, considered case-by-case, the details of which are decided by the Editorial Team. With the expansion of our reach, we will extend the compensations to all authors.

Editorial Process: Our editorial team conducts a rigorous review process to maintain the highest standards. Feedback may be provided for accepted works.

Thank you for your interest in The Brussels Review. We are excited to read your submissions and potentially share your work with our readers. Don’t forget to check out our Contributors page; who knows, you may be our next team member.

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions on Theme of "Bully": The Woolf

Submissions for Issue 8 | BULLY are open from 13 March to 9 April 2025. For updates, please follow us on BlueSky as well as Instagram, Twitter and/or Facebook – and be sure to check out Duotrope for the details. In the meantime, you can have a look at our basic submission guidelines below.

The important stuff  

  • We only accept original, unpublished work. If your work has already appeared in The Woolf, please wait two issues before submitting again.
  • No name or identifying information should appear on the piece you’re submitting (we review the work blind).
  • Simultaneous submissions are encouraged, but please withdraw your work pronto if it has been accepted elsewhere (and if so, congrats!).
  • Submissions are and will remain free. While submitting, you’re welcome to toss something into our tip jar to help us offset expenses – it’s always appreciated.
  • While we can’t pay contributors at this time, we promise to promote your pieces once the issue goes live and nominate the best work for international awards where we can. (In fact, this micro from Issue 1 was selected for the Best Microfiction 2022 anthology.)
  • Despite our name, any reference to wolves or Virginia Woolf could raise our hackles – so proceed with caution.
  • Finally, please don’t send us work that makes us question our faith in this already fragile world – stuff that’s gratuitously sexual, overly violent, discriminatory, vile or just kind of morally repugnant. And since we apparently have to spell this out: no animal cruelty.

Rights and terms

  • By submitting your work, you grant us first electronic rights and non-exclusive archival rights. After first publication, you retain ownership rights. If your work later appears elsewhere, we’d love a credit for the first publication.
  • Small editorial adjustments to accepted submissions may be made in the name of clarity and flow. For more significant changes, the author will be contacted. All other editorial decisions, including art direction, are the domain of The Woolf and final.
  • We reserve the right to remove contributions from the website without notice.
Submit your work here.