Call for Submissions: The Tiger Moth Review

 

Thank you for your interest in submitting to The Tiger Moth Review. We publish twice a year in January and July.

Send us your work during our reading periods. Anything sent outside of our reading window will not be considered:

July issue: Submit between February and April. 

January issue: Submit between August and October.

We are looking for work that emphasises the connections between “human activity and the environment that produces it”, work that displays an “awareness of ecology and concerns over environmental disaster” (“Ecopoetics”, Poetry Foundation). We also want work that is hopeful, in spite of the ecological horrors that exist today. Send us work that is eco-conscious and critical, work that celebrates the beauty/ bounty of nature, work that is cognisant, curious and contemplative of the relationships between humanity, modernity, cultures and the environments in which we live in or imagine ourselves to inhabit.

Submission Guidelines

Submit all work to:

thetigermothreview [at] gmail [dot] com (Change [at] to @ and [dot] to . )

Title your email subject as follows: Full name_Genre_Title of work. Anything labelled otherwise will not be read.

Depending on your genre, please limit each submission to:

• Up to 3 unpublished poems (a non-English work & its English translation count as one poem submission)

• 1 unpublished short fiction piece (up to 5,000 words) or

• 3-5 unpublished photographs/ art in web format (72 ppi) + a short write-up contextualising the work [high res formats should be available on request]

All work submitted should be accompanied by a short author bio between 50 and 100 words, and a recent author photo in jpg.

Any work submitted outside of the reading period will unfortunately not be read.

Do not re-submit until you hear from us. We aim to respond within 8 weeks, usually sooner.

Please wait a period of at least twelve months (two issues) to submit again if your work is rejected by us. Repeat submissions that do not adhere to this guideline will no longer be read.

While we accept simultaneous submissions, do indicate in your email that this is a simultaneous submission, and write in to us immediately to withdraw your work once it has been accepted elsewhere.

Works submitted should engage with the themes of nature, culture, the environment and/ or ecology.

While the journal was founded to encourage the publication of and provide a platform for eco-conscious work from Singapore and the region, we will respond to the reality of the submissions we receive. We are proud to say that our contributors hail from all over the world, contributing to the diversity of voices about our earth.

The Tiger Moth Review is committed to create a space for minority, marginalised, underrepresented voices in society.

Call for Submissions on Theme of "Witnessing": Unearthed: Online Literary Journal

 

Call for Submissions for Spring 2026 | Witnessing

“The poetry of witness reclaims the social from the political and in so doing defends the individual against illegitimate forms of coercion.”- Carolyn Forché

“But is it enough that a poem “remembers” when we are now entrenched in an era of total recall?”– Cathy Park Hong, “Against Witness“

Unearthed invites submissions for an upcoming issue devoted to witnessing in a time of social and ecological rupture. We welcome work that refuses to look away from injustice and chronicles radical resilience.

In our age of “fake news,” AI-generated content, and media manipulation, what does it mean to bear witness now? And what does it mean to do so ethically, without falling into voyeurism? What can poetry of witness do, and what are its limits? What might fiction, photography, and art preserve, reveal, or refuse to let disappear? Submissions might reckon with grief, complicity, responsibility, care, and/ or survival. We are especially interested in: 

• Poetry of witness that confronts environmental and social injustice, climate catastrophe, extraction, extinction, and/or resilience — and documentary poetry that resists witness;

• Photography and visual work that records social and environmental change, labor, land use, and human and more-than-human relationships

• Hybrid, experimental, and cross-genre work that troubles the boundaries between art, testimony, and reportage

• Essays, lyric nonfiction, and field notes rooted in observation, direct encounters

• Art that listens to place, to history, to silenced or marginalized voices of both human and more-than-human entities

Submission Guidelines

Genre Guidelines

• Poetry: up to five poems (one poem on a page), submitted as .doc, .docx, or .pdf.

• Fiction: up to 4,000 words (double-spaced), submitted as .doc, .docx, or .pdf. Include a title and page numbers.

• Creative and critical non-fiction: between 500-4,000 words (double-spaced), submitted as .doc, .docx, or .pdf. Include a title and page numbers.

• Visual Art: up to ten items, formatted as .jpg, .tiff , .png, or .pdf with a minimum resolution of 300 dpi and at least five inches wide. Include titles for each piece.

• Video: up to two video products submitted in .wav, .wmv, .avi, or .mov. or a link to a previously unpublished vimeo, etc.

Cover Letter: In your cover letter, please include a short biographical statement of 100 words or less

How & When to Submit

Submission Deadline: March 27, 2026

Email your submission to:

esflitmag@gmail.com

with the subject line: “Witnessing 2026 Submission – [Your Name].”

We welcome simultaneous submissions but please notify us if your work is accepted elsewhere.

Call for Submissions: Farewell Transmission

 

ISSUE 6 SUBMISSIONS OPEN 3/1 THROUGH 4/1

For each issue, we typically have 6 spots in both fiction and poetry, and maybe 4 cnf. We’re down for anything, but it’s been a long winter so help us emerge. Let’s crawl out of the cold together. If you have some art, a review, hybrid, interview, anything that doesn’t fit the genres: send it to Rob.

We expect to publish first week of May.

Often there are a few pieces we don’t have room for, but can’t deny, so we offer a spot in across the wire. Please don’t expect a reply until a few weeks after the window is closed.

General Guidelines

Make yourself familiar with our work before submitting please. Yeah, we’re named after the song, but there’s more to it.
We welcome simultaneous submissions but ask that you let us know if the piece is accepted elsewhere. No previously published submissions, please.

Please do not submit PDFs; we only accept Doc or Docx files.

For images, please submit a .png or .jpg.

Creative Non-Fiction
Emily Costa:

cnfsubs.ft@gmail.com

Looking for creative non-fiction/autobiographical writing/maybe even autofiction (???) between 1500-2500 words. Make me feel something. Give me details. Your job, regional sandwiches, strange hobbies, shame, your hometown, toys, abandoned spaces, close encounters. I wanna learn, so tell me.

Fiction
Alan ten-Hoeve:

atwsubs.ft@gmail.com

Farewell Transmission welcomes fiction submissions under 3000 words. Please take a look at our archive for a sense of what we publish. We are interested in work that has a beating heart.

Poetry
Brandi Spering:

poetry.ft@gmail.com

There aren’t any limits to what can be considered poetry. It doesn’t have to look or sound like anything traditional— it might even be something you can’t condition into a specific category.

We’re flexible on length, but generally, please keep your submission to 1-3 pages. You can submit multiple poems within those three pages but we are looking for singular works, not collections. (It can be an excerpt but should be able to stand on its own.)


SATURDAY MORNING CARTOONS/ SPECIAL PROJECTS (OPEN)
Rob Kaniuk:

farewelltransmissionlit@gmail.com

Send 1-4 panel comic strip, video <3min, ekphrastic art/poetry or prose (up to two pieces of art per poem/prose <1K), real or fake reviews, hometown police reports, <800 column to Rob at the email above. have an idea? pitch.

Call for Submissions: Invisible City

 

Submissions

Submit writing and visual art that encourages us to see the world from a new perspective or angle. Urge us to consider something we may not have previously imagined. We’re eager to read your work.

Submissions are open!

Please familiarize yourself with our guidelines below. We compensate our contributors with a $20 honorarium per published piece.

General Guidelines

• We only consider previously unpublished works. No exceptions. Thank you.

• We do not accept submissions via email or postal service. You can submit your work to us through our submission manager. If you run into any technical difficulties while uploading your submission, please contact us at:

invisiblecity@usfca.edu

• We do accept simultaneous submissions. However, we ask that you notify us as soon as possible if your work is accepted elsewhere.

• We have a 5,000 word limit for all prose. Flash is welcome; for regular-issue submissions you may submit up to three flash pieces (less than 1,000 words each) in a single document.

• If you’re submitting poetry, please submit no more than three poems. The best things come in threes: Olympic medals, wishes, Cerberus heads.

• At this time, we do not accept novel excerpts, unless they can function as stand-alone stories.

• If we publish your writing, we ask you to please wait three reading cycles before submitting again. For example, if your work is accepted in the Spring 2025 cycle, you will be eligible for Spring 2028 submissions. This waiting period allows us to best honor our mission of giving space to new voices.

• We accept visual art submissions on a rolling basis. We do not mandate a waiting period following art publications.

• Please submit your art in either .PDF or .PNG format. If you would like to submit multiple pieces for consideration, you may upload a .ZIP file, or include a link to a portfolio.

• We will not accept photos of artwork taken by a smartphone— please scan any physical copies.

• We do not accept written submissions from current students at the University of San Francisco. Alumni may submit.

• All honorariums associated with an international address will be made by wire transfer. If you are an international resident, in order to be paid the honorarium you must have a bank account in your own name. The bank account cannot be in a family member’s, friend’s, or in any other person’s or entity’s name. Otherwise, the honorarium will not be processed. Also include the SWIFT or IBAN code associated with your country on the paperwork we require to complete the honorarium request.

• Please include content warnings when and where applicable.

Submit your work here. 

Call for Submissions: Sundog Lit

 

Schedule

We publish two issues a year, September 1 and March 1. We accept general submissions for poetry, nonfiction, and fiction between two reading periods, and the first 300 submissions to each are free. We also accept visual art all year.

General Submissions: March 1 – May 1
General Submissions: October 1 – December 1

Payment

We are thrilled to finally be able to say that, starting with issue 17, we will be able to offer our contributors a small payment of $50 upon publication.

A Note on Our Aesthetic

We believe there is beauty in scars on smooth skin, in the small fissures where things begin to break apart. Sundogs are not the sun itself but phantom stars appearing on the horizon, illusions produced by the play of the sun’s heat with crystals of ice. They shed their light all the same. Many are tinged with color.

We look for this same quality in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. We want writing that attempts to salvage something pure from the collision of warmth and cold, that says what it can about the world it finds itself in. We seek a diversity of voices speaking from visceral, lived experience. We like truth we can stare at until our eyes water, words so carefully chosen we want to reread them as soon as we have finished.

Practical Matters

We are grateful to be a part of a literary community that is taking action against systemic racism. We will also be donating submission fees from our current reading period towards Black-led organizations and anti-racist collectives. In the next year, 25% of our submission fees will be donated, as well. Thank you in advance for helping us work together for change.

The best way to know the preferences of our individual editors is to read the journal. Our genre editors also take over our Twitter from time to time to discuss work we’ve published and why. Check it out at #editortalk.

Sundog Lit is serious about representing the literary scene and supporting diverse and underrepresented voices. We want to hear from women, people of color, queer and trans writers, and every community who pushes our world away from the oppressive status quo. This is our commitment to literature; hold us to that standard.

One submission at a time, please. We happily accept simultaneous submissions, though please withdraw immediately if accepted elsewhere. If part of a packet submission, note the withdrawal in a note on Submittable. We do not consider previously published material nor do we accept email submissions. Please address your submission to the appropriate genre editor, and be mindful of correct pronoun usage in your cover letter.

Submit your work here. 

Writing Competition for Black Writers: Screen Door Press

Dedicated to discovering unique, exceptional, and varied voices within Black literary traditions, the Screen Door Press imprint will celebrate the very best in fiction across a broad range of categories. Its goal is to publish thought-provoking books that use relatable characters, strong narratives, and beautiful language to champion diverse views from throughout the Black diaspora. Submissions are open to writers of all backgrounds.

Authors will each receive a publishing contract and a $5,000 prize.

Submission and publication timeline

March 9, 2026 – Imprint submissions open
April 20, 2026 – Imprint submissions close
Fall 2026 – Finalists selected and announced
2027 – Publication of imprint titles

All manuscripts must be submitted between March 9 and April 20.

Submission materials must include:

Full manuscript
Cover letter
Author bio OR resume/CV
Contact information

No entry fee. 

More information and submission link here.

Call for Submissions: Cider Press Review

CPR Journal Submission Guidelines

Cider Press Review, a journal of contemporary poetry, seeks to discover and publish the best of new poetry written in English—writing that showcases craft and substance, poetry that has something to say and says it beautifully. CPR actively seeks new original work and translations into English from both established and emerging poets. We especially encourage submissions from writers who are female, BIPOC, LGBTQIA+ identifying, and/or otherwise from communities traditionally underrepresented in U.S. literary magazines and journals. Our only criterion is excellence.

The editors read submissions of individual poems from February 15 to May 31 each year, and full manuscripts (in conjunction with the CPR Annual Book Award and Editors Prize) between September 1 and November 30 and again between April 1 and June 30 each calendar year. Short reviews of full-length poetry collections are considered year-round. Please Click here for CPR Book Award Guidelines. Short reviews are considered year-round.

Download/View Quick Submission Guidelines.

Journal Submission Guidelines

Cider Press Review publishes online issues six times per year—April, June, August, October, December, and February. Issues may be periodically compiled into ebook volumes.

CPR considers only poetry or translations of poetry in English, and reviews of poetry books of approx. 600-750 words. CPR accepts simultaneous submissions so long as we are notified. CPR does not accept emailed submissions.

Submit up to 5 poems at a time during the open submission period (between February 15 and May 31). 

Writers can submit using submittable. We no longer accept postal mail submissions. There is no reading fee for individual poem submission for the CPR journal.