Call for Submissions: Eucalyptus Lit

Thank you so much for considering Eucalyptus Lit as a home for your words!

We're open year-round, and accept submissions of poetry, prose, hybrid and/or experimental genres, and artwork. No work created utilizing artificial intelligence aids will be considered for submission.

Simultaneous submissions are welcome, but please indicate this in your email, as well as let us know immediately if your work is accepted somewhere else. We reserve First North American Rights, and all rights revert to the author upon publication, although we ask that you credit Eucalyptus Lit as the first publisher of your work. We will nominate for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net.

We will get back to you in under four to six weeks and provide feedback upon request. However, our editors are all busy students juggling schoolwork and our own artistic careers—if we have not made a decision after four weeks have passed, do query and let us know!

Unfortunately, Eucalyptus Lit is currently not a paying market. However, we'll shout out all our contributors on our social media, as well as try to promote their work any way we can.

Please note that we have zero tolerance for hateful or discriminatory language. Submissions that have been deemed to contain such views will be rejected without further consideration, and we reserve the right to ban future submissions.

Submit all work through our submission form: https://forms.gle/KwDtc55ASTZu7JNr7​

Submitting through our submission form is preferred, but if you cannot access it for any reason, you may email your submission to us at:

eucalyptus.lit@gmail.com 

Include the word "SUBMISSION" in your email title, a cover letter, and a personal bio with less than 75 words.

For poetry, please send up to five poems single-spaced, in a pdf or word document, starting each poem on a new page.

For prose, send up to three pieces double-spaced, with a total word count of less than 5,000 words.

For hybrid/experimental genres, please limit video/audio to under three minutes, and number of pictures to five or under.

For artwork, please send up to five high quality JPEG or PNG files.

We will get back to you in under two to four weeks and provide feedback upon request. However, our editors are all busy students juggling schoolwork and our own artistic careers—if we have not made a decision after four weeks have passed, do query and let us know!

Writing Residency: Anne LaBastille Memorial Writers Residency

Anne LaBastille Memorial Writers Residency

Two weeks, indoor and outdoor writing spaces, fireside hangouts, paddling, hiking, forest bathing, and family-style meals at a spacious lakeside lodge in the heart of the Adirondack forest.

Application Period: April 15 – May 19, 2024

Residency Dates: September 22 – October 6, 2024
Notification: July 2024

Applications can be submitted through our Submittable Page.

The Adirondack Center for Writing offers a free, two-week residency annually in autumn to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at a lodge on Twitchell Lake in the heart of the Adirondack Mountains. Six residents will be chosen: three from the Adirondack region (aka “The North Country” and three from anywhere in the world. Quality of written submissions is the primary consideration when accepting applications.

The residency is generously provided by the estate of Anne LaBastille, who wrote books capturing challenges of the region, including Woodswoman and Beyond Black Bear Lake from her cabin on Twitchell Lake. During the residency, writers will paddle to the site of her property and explore the lake with locals.

The Lodge at Twitchell Lake provides an abundance of physical space, and each resident has their own bedroom and bathroom. There are plenty of writing spaces in and around the property. Internet access is available, but limited (email ; Zoom ). Most cell phones will not work (a landline is available).

Covid-19 Requirements: Proof of vaccination is required. Residents who are unable to be vaccinated for medical reasons will be required to provide proof of negative test upon arrival and can contact ACW with any COVID-19-related questions: 

info@adirondackcenterforwriting.org

Fee: There is a $30 application fee. There is no cost to attend the residency. 

Application Requirements

• Cover Letter: In the space provided in Submittable (no attachments), include a brief, third-person bio and a work plan detailing your goals for this residency.

• Writing Sample: Please send up to 10 pages of your best writing in the genre you will working in at the residency.
  

• Prose: 10 pages max. 
• Poetry: 10 poems max. 
• NOTE: Make sure your name does not show up anywhere in your writing sample. Writing samples that include your name will not be considered. Quality of written submissions will be our primary consideration when accepting applications.

• Application Fee: $30. Your application fee ensures that the residency can remain free to selected residents.

 We do not accept printed applications. Contact:

 info@adirondackcenterforwriting.org

or 518-354-1261 with any questions. 

More information here.

Writing Competition and Residency: The James Laughlin Award

Offered since 1954, the James Laughlin Award is given to recognize and support a second book of poetry forthcoming in the next calendar year. The award was endowed in 1995 by a gift to the Academy from the Drue Heinz Trust. It is named for the poet and publisher James Laughlin (1914–1997), who founded New Directions in 1936.

The winning poet receives a prize of $5,000, an all-expenses-paid weeklong residency at The Betsy Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida, and distribution of the winning book to approximately one thousand Academy of American Poets members.

Submissions for the 2024 James Laughlin Award are accepted from January 1, 2024 to May 15, 2024.

The judges are Tarfia Faizullah, Keetje Kuipers, and Barbara Jane Reyes.

Complete guidelines and entry link here.

Call for Susmissions on Theme of "border / lands": Tint Journal

Share your short stories, creative nonfiction essays, flash and poetry, as well as your artworks from April 8 to May 31, 2024 (midnight CEST) with us to be considered for our 12th issue, Tint Fall ‘24!

Theme: border/lands

To survive the Borderlands
you must live sin fronteras
be a crossroads.
– Gloria Anzaldúa

What does it mean to live at the border, with a border, on the very borderline, or in the lands that touch a border or a multitude of them? Is a border always a contested zone, drawing conflict and violence, or can it be a realm of peace, understanding and justice, a space of innovation, becoming and creativity? And what is a border – to begin with?

For Tint Journal’s first themed issue, Tint Fall ‘24, we invite writers to submit poems, stories and personal essays as well as artists to submit artworks that explore the theme of border/lands. We’d like you to imagine this topic as broad as possible: national borders, geographical borders small and large, borders drafted by society and societal norms, current borders and historical ones, mental borders, imagined borders, language borders, the borders of the self and of communities, the human and the nonhuman, the mind and the body – as well as movements across and interactions between all these kinds of border zones.

We’re not looking for keywords in your texts, and we’re open to finding this theme as an undercurrent or a central idea in your submissions. What we’re excited for are the different approaches towards border/lands from the many regions and voices of our planet Earth, from the borders within one individual being to the borders between us and outer space – where do we meet, where do we part, and what is happening in-between?

Please carefully review our submission guidelines to meet Tint Journal’s formal criteria. Submissions are received until May 31, 2024 (midnight CEST) via email at:

submissions@tintjournal.com 

or via Submittable. Feel free to approach us at:

info@tintjournal.com 

if questions arise.

The Tint Journal editorial can’t wait to arrange the first themed issue of the literary magazine for non-native English writing!

Call for Submissions: Pictura Journal

Pictura Journal will appear online in two formats: full pdf issues published in April, August, and December, and monthly smaller features as submission volume allows. Our goal is to release a print anthology every other year with content pulled from all published work.

Submissions are always open, but the soft deadline for submissions for each issue is the 15th of the month preceding publication. For example: if you send in a submission on July 16th, your work might not be accepted for the August issue but will instead be considered for December.

* Note: For 2024 only, there will be no April issue.

What We’re Looking For

We’re looking for work that offers a vivid snapshot of the writer’s world — we want to see cracks in the plaster, last night’s empties on the coffee table, the shivering birch just outside the kitchen window. We want to see the mundane rendered with clarity & quiet moments given room to breathe.

We love concrete images and work grounded in a strong sense of place. “Night Walk” by Franz Wright, “Michiko Dead” by Jack Gilbert, “The Orange” by Wendy Cope, and “What the Living Do” by Marie Howe are some of our favorite poems. Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl”, and “Olga” by Lidia Yuknavitch are good examples of the kinds of prose we enjoy.

The Basics

All submissions are considered for all issues unless the writer specifies otherwise. We offer a token payment of at least $5 for each piece accepted for our April, August, and December issues only, paid through Paypal (preferred) or Venmo upon publication. Payments will be made in USD.

The small amount isn’t reflective of the quality of contributor work — it’s just what we can afford with our current funding.

We know it takes a lot of trust to submit work to a new journal, so we’re currently accepting previously published work, as long as you let us know where it originally appeared. We’ll always encourage simultaneous submissions, but please email:

 hello@picturajournal.com

to withdraw any pieces that are accepted elsewhere.

We will never publish anything that could reasonably be deemed offensive, including work containing graphic violence or abusive behavior, or themes and language expressing hatred for any marginalized identity. If you’re uncomfortable with your work appearing in an inclusive publication, we’re not the place for you.

Written work must be in English.

Please don’t submit if you’re under 18 years of age.

Do not send us anything generated by AI.

Include a cover letter and brief third-person bio with each submission. Do not put your name or identifying information anywhere within the document itself. If we publish your work, please wait four months to submit again. If we decline your submission, you may submit different pieces after four months.

Upon acceptance, creators of unpublished work grant Pictura Journal exclusive first serial rights and the right to archive that work online. If your submission has been published elsewhere, you agree to grant us reprint and archival rights.

Submissions are always free, but a donation of at least $2.55 will guarantee a response within three days or feedback on your submission. For at least $3.65 we’ll give you both. Feedback is not currently available for art submissions. Use this link to pay, and note that you did so on the submission form.

We’ll do our best to respond to regular submissions within three weeks.

Extras

Contributors to the April, August, and December issues will be given the opportunity to complete a feature interview on our blog, to be posted during the week before publication.

The Specifics

Upload all submissions using our online form. If for some reason you can’t use the form, send your work as an attachment to:

submit@picturajournal.com

and include a bio and cover letter in the body of the email.

Poetry

Send up to five poems in one document. We prefer free verse and can’t guarantee that we’ll be able to replicate any special visual structure.

Prose

Send one or two pieces of fiction or creative nonfiction, each no longer than 1,500 words. Excerpts of longer works are fine, but they must make sense on their own.

Artwork

We’re also looking for artwork to accompany accepted writing. Submit up to three pieces of visual art, in the highest resolution possible. Please don’t send any artwork depicting graphic nudity or violence.

Submission link here.

Call for Submissions: Toronto Journal

What do we publish?

We publish short stories from anywhere in the world.

We will also consider non-fiction pieces that are either set locally or explore some local history (Toronto, GTA, and surrounding). See the Stories from the City category, and the Toronto Feature category, respectively, for some examples.

Who do we publish?

We are firm believers in the idea that the writing should speak for itself. It’s irrelevant to us whether you’re a new writer or an established writer. All submissions to Toronto Journal are anonymous.

Compensation: We pay $50 per piece. All published writers will also receive a printed copy of the issue in which they appear.

Submission Guidelines

• Do not include your name or email on the pdf or word document with your content.

• Do not include a cover letter with your work.

• Word limit is 7,500 words.

• No strict formatting requirements besides legibility.

• Simultaneous submissions are ok. Please let us know if your work is accepted elsewhere.

• If your work is selected for publication, Toronto Journal has first serial rights only, and the author retains all other rights to the work.

• We cannot accept any work that has been published previously in English, either in print, online, in audio format, or otherwise.

• Should we happen to accept multiple pieces from the same author for a given issue, the accepted pieces may be postponed to subsequent issues.

• If you are submitting for the Summer issue, expect to hear back from us by April 30th each year. If you are submitting for the Winter issue, expect to hear back from us by October 31st each year. If you don’t hear back from us, please get in touch:  

 submissions@torontojournal.com.

Remember to not include any identifying information in your attachment. Submissions to Toronto Journal are anonymous.

We are currently accepting submissions for our Winter 2025 issue. Deadline: 1 October 2024.

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions on Theme of "Place": Scrawl Place

Scrawl Place is part visitor’s guide, part literary journal.

The audience for this online publication is the guest, the visitor, the traveler, the day-tripper, the out-of-towner, and the in-towners eager to wander. I’m looking for submissions about “places in the places” where you live or where you’ve visited.

My only fixed criteria is that your submission be about or connected to or associated with a specific, physical place that someone could visit. The more specific the place, the better. How that manifests in terms of content, style and form is up to you.

The place you write about could be a Wonder of the World, a random street corner that means something to you, or anything in between.

My aspirational hope is that readers will think of you and your words if they ever happen to visit the places you write about, then maybe write some words of their own and start a dialogue across time and space.

What to Submit CNF, Fiction, Poetry, Hybrids

Length There are no length requirements (a/o August 11, 2022)

Submit one to three pieces at a time

Payment $35 per piece
Paid within 30 days of acceptance (PayPal, Venmo, CashApp, ApplePay or Zelle)

Where to Submit + Response Times

Send your submission through Submittable.

The average response time is four weeks.

Cover Letters + Bio

Cover letters are optional, but please provide a third-person bio.

Rights

Writers retain all rights to their work. Scrawl Place requests a nonexclusive license to 1) Publish your work in an e-newsletter; 2) Archive your work on the website so long as the site exists; 3) Excerpt your work for use in promotion.

Simultaneous Subs + Previously Published Work

Scrawl Place encourages simultaneous submissions.

Scrawl Place accepts previously published work.

Any questions? Email:

andy@scrawlplace.com