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Saturday, October 31, 2026
Call for Art Submissions: Art Calendars: Syracuse Cultural Workers
Call for Art-Calendars
We seek art that instigates activism... art that challenges the powerful...
that sustains and educates... celebrating our efforts for justice and peace.
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Begun in 1972. An inspiring celebration of peace, justice, resistance and hope. Wall calendar, horizontal format, top art size 12x12”.
Submission Deadline for next year March 21, 2027 - early submissions are strongly encouraged and very helpful for our process!
As always, the calendar will celebrate peace, justice, resistance and hope. Check out artwork from the last four calendars organized by month.
FORMAT - Image Size - 12 x 12" full bleed
Limit - 8 images may be submitted, up to 5 MB each, in any media or subject matter
Include - artist name and title in file name - example: janedoe_circleoflife.jpg
File Types - PDF, JPEG, PNG and TIFF
Cover/inside artwork: $400 plus 6 free calendars.
Inside artwork: $250 plus 3 calendars.
Commissioned artwork: $300 plus 5 calendars. Artwork selected for grids: $50 plus 2 calendars.
Calendar artists may purchase additional calendars at a 40% discount; 15 or more at 50%.
THEMES: Defend Immigrants, Resist ICE, Preserve DEI – Celebrate Multiculturalism,
Don't whitewash history, Queer, LGBT+, Protect Trans Lives, Intersectionality, Anti-War, Anti-Imperialist, Protecting Voting Rights, Creative Resistance, Compassion & Community Building, Feminism, Reproductive Rights/Justice, Resist Patriarchy, Defend democracy, Turn Back Fascism, Intellectual freedom, Critical Thinking, Artificial “Intelligence”, Indigenous Rights, Climate/Environmental Justice, Disability Rights, Racial Justice, Food Sovereignty, Housing As a Human Right, Peoples History, Education...
Submit art as pdfs, jpegs, or tiffs, photos (limit 8) via this online form
Please label EACH item with your name, address, title, medium and year.
Call for Submissions of Solarpunk Fiction: Burnline
Please submit work you would specifically describe as solarpunk (or something close to it). No cover letter is needed for submissions, but feel free to include any information about your relationship to the story if you feel that it's relevant.
Submissions are open to creators ages 18 and older.
Word limit 500–10,000 words.
Pay rate
Because Burnline is currently a free magazine without advertising, we cannot offer payment at this time. Our goal is to eventually pay a competitive per-word rate, but we are not there yet. We understand if that makes submission a non-starter for you.
How to submit
Use the Burnline submission form to send your story. Select Fiction, fill in the required details, and upload your manuscript as a .doc, .docx, or .pdf. Please submit one piece per form.
Human-created work only
No AI-generated or AI-assisted work will be accepted. Burnline is interested in fiction created by people.
Simultaneous submissions are welcome. Please submit elsewhere while you wait! Just let us know promptly if another publication accepts the story.
Submit your work here.
Writing Grant: The Gulliver's Travel Grant for Speculative Literature
The Gulliver's Travel Grant
OPEN NOVEMBER 1 – NOVEMBER 30, ANNUALLY
Award: $1,000 USD.
Winner announced within three months.
Since 2004, the Gulliver Travel Grant has been awarded annually to assist writers of speculative literature in their non-academic research. These funds are used to cover airfare, lodging, and other travel expenses. Travel may be domestic or international. You may apply for travel to take place at any point in the following year.
This grant, as with all SLF grants, is intended to help writers working with speculative literature. Speculative literature spans the breadth of fantastic writing, encompassing literature ranging from hard science fiction to epic fantasy, including ghost stories, horror, folk and fairy tales, slipstream, magical realism, and more. Any piece of literature containing a fabulist or speculative element would fall under our aegis.
This grant is awarded on the basis of interest and merit. If awarded the grant, the recipient agrees to provide a brief report of their research experience (500-1,000 words) and an autobiographical statement describing themselves and their writing (500-1,000 words) for our files and for public dissemination on our website and mailing list.
Please note that the goal of these grants is to help as many writers as possible, so recent winners can reapply but will be considered low-priority within a 2-year window of winning.
Grant Application Process
The application form for the Gulliver Travel Grant is only active during the open submission period: 12:00AM November 1 – 11:59PM November 30, Annually (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, as defined above.
Writing Competition: The Gregory O'Donoghue International Poetry Competition
Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Competition
Open for entries
1 September – 30 November
Results posted in February
Most recent results here
Line limit: 40
Closing date: 30th November (midnight)
Entry fee: €7 per poem
The competition is open to original, unpublished and unbroadcast poems in the English language of 40 lines or fewer. The poem can be on any subject, in any style, by a writer of any nationality, living anywhere in the world. Translated work is not in the scope of this competition. Once entered, no alterations can be made to the submission. Simultaneous submissions are accepted but please notify us immediately should your work be accepted elsewhere.
Prizes
1st Prize €2,000
Featured reading at the Cork International Poetry Festival with four-night hotel stay (if living outside Cork) and full board
Featured on the Southword Poetry Podcast
Publication in Southword
Previous first prize winners may not enter again
2nd Prize €500
Publication in Southword
3rd prize €250
Publication in Southword
ten Runners-Up €50
Publication in Southword
2026 Judge: Shangyang Fang
Email entry
Send to:
godcomp@munsterlit.ie
Subject: GOD entry
Attach the poem(s) for submission, with each poem attached separately (Word / RTF/ ODT – we cannot accept PDFs or weblinks such as Google Drive). Please use the title of the poem (or the first few words of the title) as the title of each document. As the competition is judged anonymously, we request that you do not write your name or personal details anywhere on this document.
Attach the cover letter (separate text document (Word / RTF / ODT – we cannot accept PDFs or weblinks such as Google Drive) attached to the same email, not in the body of the email). The cover letter should include:
Your name
Poem title(s)
Email address
Email associated with your PayPal account (if different from your contact email address)
Phone number
Postal address
Image of PayPal receipt or the PayPal transaction ID number
How your heard about the competition
A brief bio (optional)
Make your entry fee payment here.
Wednesday, October 28, 2026
Writing Competitions: The Baltimore Review Prizes for Flash Fiction, Flash Creative Nonfiction, and Prose Poetry
The Baltimore Review Contests for Flash Fiction, Flash Creative Nonfiction, and Prose Poetry
No theme! Subject matter is entirely up to you. Surprise us.
But keep it short. See how much you can accomplish, how much of an impact you can have, with a small number of words. We want to wonder how you abracadabra words into magic. We want to be amazed and maybe a little jealous of how you do that.
One writer in each category will be awarded a $400 prize and published in the winter issue. All entries are considered for publication with payment at our regular rate ($75).
Total word limit for this category is 1,000. The guidelines are the same for flash creative nonfiction and prose poetry No more than 1,000 words for a combination of stories or prose poems. Seriously. And shorter is often better. We love shorts.
Deadline is November 30, 2026.
Fee is $8.
Please do not include your name on your work.
Submit your entry here.
Call for Submissions and Writing Competition: The Georgia Review
The Georgia Review welcomes submissions both online and by post from August 15 to May 15. We do not accept unsolicited manuscripts outside this period.
All manuscripts receive serious, careful attention; each submission is read by a published writer in a salaried position at The Georgia Review. We aim to respond to submissions within ten months. Committed to supporting authors at all stages in their careers, The Georgia Review pays contributors. Journal subscribers can submit for free during our general submissions period (excluding contests); general paper submissions by mail are free (aside from the cost of postage) to subscribers and non-subscribers.
Work previously published in any form will not be considered. Please tell us in your cover letter if your submission is simultaneously being considered elsewhere, and please let us know immediately, via Submittable, if your work is accepted by another publication. Likewise, please notify us if any part of your submission is known to be included in a book already accepted by a publisher (include the anticipated date of book publication).
At The Georgia Review, we view literature as a rich and ever-unfolding human conversation—as demonstrated by our commitment to editorial exchange and our focus on fostering literary community. In keeping with this ethos, we are interested in literature written by humans. Please do not send us work written or assisted by generative AI.
We do not publish work by current University of Georgia students.
To find out more about what we publish, browse the work featured on our website, or consider purchasing a recent issue from our shop.
Online submissions should be sent through Submittable. Each general submission requires a $3 processing fee, with an exception for current print subscribers to The Georgia Review, who may submit online at no cost. Subscribers: Please email:
to receive a link to submit for free, providing the genre of the work to be submitted and your full name and address (including zip code).
Paper Submissions
General paper submissions do not require a submission fee. All paper manuscripts must include a cover letter with your name, mailing address, email address, and phone number. If you’d like to receive our decision by mail, your submission must be accompanied by a postage-paid and self-addressed return envelope. If you would prefer to receive notice of our decision via email (and forgo a return of your manuscript), please indicate this preference in your cover letter. Submissions should be addressed to:
The Editors
The Georgia Review
706A Main Library
320 S. Jackson St.
The University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602-9009
Payment and Copyright
The Georgia Review’s current standard pay rates for our print issues are $50 per printed page for prose and $4 per line for poetry, up to $800. In addition, all contributors receive two copies of the issue their work appears in and a 50% discount on additional copies of that issue.
The Georgia Review buys first North American serial rights and non-exclusive digital rights only. All other rights revert to the author at publication, but we offer formal, written reassignments upon request. We ask that whenever an author reprints work that first appeared in our pages, The Georgia Review be given acknowledgment for the specific work(s) involved.
The Georgia Review is pleased to announce that our 2027 Prose Prize opens on Sunday, November 1, and will be judged by Vauhini Vara. The best short story and essay will both be published in The Georgia Review. The overall winner, chosen between the two, will receive $1,500. The runner-up will receive $600. All entries will be considered for publication.
The winner and runner-up of last year’s prose prize will be featured in our forthcoming Winter 2026 issue.
- Submissions must be sent either through Submittable between November 1 and January 15 or by regular mail postmarked within the same span of time.
- An entry should include either one short story or one essay. Only one entry per writer.
- No translations.
- Submissions cost $25. Simultaneous submissions are permitted; however, writers must notify us immediately if the work is accepted elsewhere.
At The Georgia Review, we view literature as a rich and ever-unfolding human conversation—as demonstrated by our commitment to editorial exchange and our focus on fostering literary community. In keeping with this ethos, we are interested in literature written by humans. Please do not send us work written or assisted by generative AI.
Postal submissions: Include (1) a cover letter that provides your phone number and email address and (2) a check for $25 for your entry fee. Checks should be made payable to The Georgia Review, and envelopes should be addressed to The Georgia Review Prose Prize, The Georgia Review, Room 706A Main Library, the University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602-9009. If you’d prefer to be notified by post, please also include a self-addressed, stamped envelope; otherwise, we will notify you by email.
Please note that students, faculty, staff, and administrators currently affiliated with the University of Georgia are ineligible for the contest. Intimate friends, relatives, colleagues, and former or current semester-length students of a judge are also ineligible to enter. Previous winners of our contest should wait three years before entering again.
We can’t wait to read your work!
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