Call for Submissions: Gold Man Review

GOLD MAN REVIEW ONLY ACCEPTS SUBMISSIONS FROM RESIDENTS OF CALIFORNIA, OREGON, WASHINGTON, ALASKA, AND HAWAII. ALL OTHERS WILL BE REJECTED. 

We accept simultaneous submissions, but please let us know immediately if your work has been accepted elsewhere. All submissions to Gold Man Review must be original, unpublished work from writers, and artists residing in the states of California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, and Hawaii.

All submissions need to have a cover letter, detailing the submission (including word count), along with your first and last name, pen name (if you have one), physical address, email address, phone number, and a brief biography. Submissions without an accompanying cover letter per our guidelines will not be considered.

Deadline: June 16, 2026 

Although we are open to all types of writing and art forms, we are not interested in material with gratuitous language, sex, or violence or material that seeks to harm, endanger, or threaten any person or persons. We are generally not interested in genre heavy work.

Only electronic submissions via our submission manager will be accepted at this time. All submitters will receive a response by email regarding the status of his or her submission. We usually respond within 60 days, but if you have not heard back in six months, send us an email requesting the status of your submission.

Gold Man Review will request first-time North American Serial Rights for publication of accepted work. We ask for exclusive rights to use the work for a period of 60 days from when the work is published. After that time, rights revert back to the author and the work may be reprinted as long as appropriate acknowledgement to Gold Man Review is made.

POETS: Although we do accept up to three poems per poet, each poem must be submitted separately. Cover letter can be copied and pasted.

Submit your work here. 

Call for Submissions: PRISM International

 

PRISM international publishes exciting, original, literary material from established and emerging writers in Canada and around the world.

Submissions are currently OPEN for issue 65.1 REVELRY. They will be open until June 14th.

Reply times range between six to twelve months, and we may not be able to respond to emails regarding the status of a submission. Some of our content is generated from our annual fiction, poetry, short forms, and creative non-fiction contests. Please visit our contest page for more details.

Please note: PRISM does not accept submissions from current and incoming students and faculty of the University of British Columbia’s School of Creative Writing (this includes the UBC Optional-Residency MFA Program). Work submitted by incoming students prior to their acceptance to the UBC School of Creative Writing, if still under consideration, must be withdrawn. In order to submit, UBC alumni cannot have taken a UBC School of Creative Writing course during the previous two years.

PRISM does not publish the same writer twice in a publication year.

GENERAL SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

Submissions must be made through Submittable. We do not accept submissions via email or mail, except from incarcerated writers. For all other submitters, we charge a $3.00 CAD reading fee per submission. Writers for whom the $3.00 CAD fee is prohibitive are welcome to submit using the Inclusive Access option on Submittable.

Submissions should be typed, double-spaced, and paginated. Please specify the genre of your submission in your cover letter. All submissions should be set in Times New Roman, 12-point font.

Include in your cover letter your full contact information (including your email address) and a bio of 50 words or fewer that makes reference to where you live.

We accept simultaneous submissions, and we ask that you let us know if your piece is accepted elsewhere, OR withdraw it from our Submittable. We purchase first North American serial rights and pay $40 CAD per printed page for prose and $45 CAD per printed page for poetry. Contributors also receive two copies of the issue in which their work appears.

We encourage submissions from Indigenous writers, writers of colour, writers with disabilities, 2SLGBTQIA+ writers, and writers from other intersectional and marginalized groups, including low-income earners. If you identify as one or more of the above and would like to let us know, please mention it in your cover letter.

PROSE GUIDELINES
We accept fiction, creative non-fiction, comics, hybrid works, and literary essays. We do not publish rhetorical, academic, or strictly journalistic non-fiction.

Our preferred length for submissions is 4,000 words or less. We have a limited page count and aim to feature a variety of voices.

Submit only one piece at a time, unless you are submitting flash fiction or non-fiction (under 1,000 words), in which case you may submit up to three pieces in a single document. Please wait to hear back before submitting again.

Click here to submit prose.

If you have any questions about these guidelines or a piece you’ve already submitted, please email Zahra Mayeesha at:

prism.prose@ubc.ca

POETRY GUIDELINES
Submit up to four poems, to a maximum of six pages. Do NOT submit six one-page poems.

We welcome cross-genre and interdisciplinary poetry and poetics.

In your cover letter, please specify the number of poems you are submitting and list the titles of the poems.

Poetry submissions should be typed and single-spaced. If you would like to submit poems with alternate spacing, please mention it in your cover letter and submit a PDF instead of a Word document.

Click here to submit poetry.

If you have any questions about these guidelines or a piece you’ve already submitted, please email Ayda Niknami at:

prism.poetry@ubc.ca.

Translation PRISM welcomes the best of translation into English from all over the world and offers compensation and contributor copies to original authors as well as the translators. Let us know if you’d like to see sample translator and original author contracts to get an idea of the information that we require.

We only accept translations that have been undertaken with the permission of the original author or rights holder, and we will ask to see confirmation of this permission before we publish.

Please include a copy of the original work with your submission.

Poetry Translations We pay $45 CAD/printed page plus two mailed contributor copies, and $30 CAD/printed page to the original author plus two mailed contributor copies. PRISM may choose to publish original poems alongside translations, and this will be up to the editor to decide on a case-by-case basis.

Prose Translations We pay $40 CAD/printed page for prose translations plus two mailed contributor copies, and $25 CAD/printed page to the original author up to $200 CAD, plus two mailed contributor copies.

Visual Art We accept visual art submitted through submittable in high-resolution JPEG, TIF or PNG files. We pay $300 CAD for the cover of one issue, along with two copies of that issue. An image of the cover will also appear on our website, the British Columbia Association of Magazine Publishers website, and the affiliated websites of Magazines Canada. 

We accept visual art for interior pages in PRISM in high-resolution JPEG, TIF or PNG files. We pay $50 CAD per interior page, up to $250 CAD, and we can print a limited number of pages per issue in colour. We provide two contributor copies.

We are happy to pay additional licensing and copyright fees if necessary, or to provide additional contributor copies to the artist’s studio or gallery.

Reasonable exceptions to our guidelines will be made for submissions from incarcerated writers.

Call for Submissions: Mud Season Review

 

Submissions are open between April 1 – April 30, 2026.

NOTE: We may close the reading period early by genre if volume demands. We want to be sure to give your work the attention it deserves! Please keep this in mind as you consider submitting your work.

General guidelines:

We seek deeply human work that will teach us something about life, but also about the craft of writing or visual art, and work that is original in its approach and that in some way moves us. Publishing and celebrating a diverse range of voices is important to us, so please include in your cover letter a brief biographical statement (50 words or less) as you would like it to appear with your published work. For more on what we look for in submissions, read an interview with our founding editor.

At Mud Season Review, we celebrate the unique voice and creativity of human authors. While we acknowledge the potential of AI as a tool for artistic exploration, we believe in preserving the essence of human expression in writing. Therefore, we do not accept submissions that are predominantly generated by artificial intelligence. If AI is used as a supplementary tool in the creative process, we encourage authors to disclose and explain its role in their submission notes.

We accept simultaneous submissions. However, please withdraw your work immediately should a piece you’ve submitted be accepted elsewhere. If you are withdrawing your entire submission, please log in to your Submittable account and click “withdraw.” If you are withdrawing only a part of your poetry or art submission, please add a note to your submission advising which piece(s) you are withdrawing. We strive to respond to all submissions within 2 months. You can track your submission with Duotrope.

We also offer a feedback request service, which features written feedback from our highly qualified reviewer team. Please submit under the appropriate category. Work submitted to this service is not considered for publication. Writers and artists are welcome to submit to Mud Season Review for publication during reading periods.

We do not accept mailed submissions, emailed submissions, multiple submissions (submitting again to the same or another category before getting a response), or anything that has previously appeared in print or online (including on your personal blog or website, artwork excepted). We accept flash fiction; please include two to three pieces in your submission. We do not accept translations at this time. If you have already been published in Mud Season Review, please refrain from submitting for one year after the date of the issue in which you were published. Please send submissions through Submittable only; submissions sent via email will not be considered. Please use a standard 12-point font. For fiction and nonfiction, please double space.

We acquire First North American Serial Rights (FNASR) upon acceptance and retain exclusive rights to your accepted piece for 90 days after publication. After that, we will archive your piece online and may include it in one of our print editions. Should you choose to reprint the piece in the future, please mention that your piece was originally published in Mud Season Review.

We pay authors and featured artists $50 for work that appears in our issues. For artists whose images are paired with writing, and for poets whose work appears in The Take: Mud Season Review, we offer payment of $15.

Submit your work here. 

Call for Submissions: MEMEZINE

 

Deadline: May 31, 2026 

Send any traditional or hybrid pieces that directly or indirectly engage with the intersections of humanity and technology. This includes (but is not limited to) memes, political/current events, viral content, trends, social media, pop/internet culture, technology, and any other work that blurs the lines between art, literature, and content. Gift us your best and your worst because we want to explore all facets of participation in this digital landscape.

If you’re not sure whether your work fits, check out some of our features (linked above!) and our issues.

We also highly encourage you to read our ABOUT page if this is your first time submitting, thank you.

✱ LENGTH

For poetry, send 1-3 pieces in one document, at a maximum of five (5) pages total

For prose, send 1-3 pieces in one document, at a maximum of five (5) pages total

For art, send 1-5 pieces

✱ PAYMENT

MEMEZINE now pays $10.00 to each curated issue contributor (must have Venmo or PayPal).

✱ RESPONSE TIME

Submissions typically receive a response in 1-2 months. If you have not received a response two months after your submission date, please query at:

memezinelit@gmail.com

If we pass on your piece, you are welcome to submit different work in the next open reading period (Fall 2026).

Submissions are always free, but we also offer a $3 expedited response (<1 week) for folks who wish to support MEMEZINE contributor payments and running costs.

✱ ARE SIMULTANEOUS SUMBISSIONS OKAY?

Fine and dandy! Just withdraw in Duosuma or email us if it’s picked up somewhere else (we’ll tell you congrats!).

✱ IS PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED WORK OKAY?

Previously published work is cool with us—work that has only appeared on your social media or personal blog may be submitted any time. If we accept your work, we ask that you grant us first serial rights until publication, and then all rights revert back to you.

NOTE: If the work has appeared in a curated publication, we ask that you wait one year since its original publication date. Please share the original publisher in your cover letter so we can give credit.

✱ WE DO NOT ACCEPT….

…work that is offensive to historically marginalized groups.

…work that is assisted by AI or generated by AI.

✱ HARD SELLS

ABAB rhyme scheme

Excerpts from genre manuscripts

Writing that grossly exceeds our length requirements

✱ QUESTIONS?

If you have any questions or are unable to use Duosuma, please email us at:

memezinelit@gmail.com 

Submit you work here.

Call for Submissions: Dog Named Dog Press

 

Our submission period is
Open. April 6, 2026 - April 25, 2026.

If your work lives in the space between genre and literary, if it moves, carries weight, and has a plot—we want to read it.

Dog Named Dog Press is seeking short fiction and other media for our quarterly publication.

What We’re Looking For

PRINT CONTENT

Short Stories
Word count: 3,000–5,500 words

Any genre is welcome, but we’re sniffing out work with forward motion, earned endings, with flawed and complicated people—and we like when the writing sits with them rather than looking down on them. Our tastes lean more hard-boiled literary than anything overly flowery or purely atmospheric. We’re generally not a home for twist endings, slow meditations, or prose that draws attention away from the story.

We tend to favor crime and crime-adjacent fiction, but we’re open to sci-fi, westerns, and horror. Keep in mind:

Sci-fi — More Blade Runner, Robocop; less Ender’s Game.

Westerns — Elmore Leonard energy; also Unforgiven, True Grit.

Horror — The Frighteners, Midnight Mass; not Art the Clown.

Fantasy — If you can make fantasy hard-boiled, please send it.

Payment: $35 + contributor’s copy

What We’re Not Looking For:

• Novel excerpts (unless requested)

• Children’s fiction

• Young Adult

• Memoir or personal essays

• Erotica

• Full-length manuscripts

• Translations

We are not interested in stories in which violence toward women, children, animals, or marginalized groups is the point of the story or is glorified. These elements can exist, but they shouldn’t be the focus.

Essays, Reviews, Interviews

By request only. If you have an idea, feel free to pitch it, but we do not accept unsolicited submissions in these categories.

Other Media

Comics
Growing up, my grandmother clipped newspaper comics for me every morning, and that left a soft spot for them. DNDP is interested in standalone comics and 4-part serials—funny or serious. I can’t fully define what we’re looking for, but a 4-part Columbo-style mystery sounds amazing, as would a Zits/Ziggy/Cathy-style one-panel strip about the struggles of being a writer/artist, or something that pokes fun at genre tropes while embracing them. We’re suckers for meta writing and humor. We are not interested in political cartoons.

Payment:

$25 — one-panel comic

 $100 — four-part serial (submit all four parts together)

 Contributor’s copy (one per accepted piece/part)

Poetry
If your poetry feels like it would be a good fit with DNDP, send 3–5 poems. I’m not even sure how to describe what we want—give me the David Lynch version of Robert Penn Warren, Hafiz, and John Berryman. Give me poetry that sounds like Nick Cave and Tom Waits.

Payment: $10 per accepted poem + contributor’s copy

Online Content

DNDP Quarterly will also have an online component featuring recurring segments. Selected online pieces may appear in the print edition of the current issue.

Flash Fiction
Word count: 800–1,000 words
Prompt for this Open Call:
We want complete stories told quickly about the eternal Sisyphus—ordinary people keeping their heads down in a broken world. No, really, break reality, but have the characters living mundanely inside it.

Examples:

A mechanic still opens their shop every morning, even though aliens landed six months ago in the next state and no one cares anymore.

A medical breakthrough conquered death, and now rent never stops coming due—so you still have three back-to-back meetings.

Robots walk among us for so long now that we’re over it, but your boss is an android and schedules mandatory trust-building exercises.

Your town suffers a ritualized murder spree every Thursday the 12th, but you can’t miss a paycheck and have to work the midnight shift at the gas station, as if it’s any other day.

Frogs have rained from the sky every April for six years, and no one knows why, and tonight you’re helping a friend look for their runaway kid.

Break reality however you want—but let it be our reality with characters still pushing their boulders, having to go through their lives as if everything is normal. It’s not on them to solve the broken world, they just exist in it.

Payment: $20 per story (+ contributor’s copy if selected for print)

The Haunting of DNDP

Word count: 500–1,000 words
As writers, a lot of us are haunted by things we encountered once in a movie, TV, song, or writing that stuck with us, and we couldn’t ever shake. And if put under a microscope, our writing would show hints of this haunting. If you have a scene from a movie or show, a specific camera shot, an encounter with a song, a needle drop, anything that grabbed you and never let go, we’d love to hear it. Note: This isn’t a review or a retelling of the scene—we want to know why it haunts you so it can haunt us too.

Payment: $15 per essay (+ contributor’s copy if selected for print)

I’d Watch That for a Dollar
Word count: 500–900 words
We all know that moment:

“You’ve never seen [Insert the same movie everyone has this reaction with]?!”

Maybe we add it to our list of Things We’ll Try to Get Around To. A list that only grows, never shrinks. But half the time, that moment makes us want to watch it less.

Most days we don’t have the bandwidth for something new, heavy, or culturally urgent. We want to sink into the couch, turn our brains off, and throw on the fast-food of streaming. Comfort junk.

We’re looking for hidden gems and guilty pleasures — the movies or shows you’d never pay full price for, but you’d happily watch if it’s on Tubi or buried in the clearance bin at Blockbuster. Not ironic love but real affection. The stuff you reach for when you’re hungover, or couch-locked, or needing something that asks absolutely nothing of you.

We don’t want the latest hit or anything trending.

We want the bones buried in your backyard that you dig up when needed and think, damn, this still rules.

Guidelines:

One movie/show per entry

One entry per person per submission period

Maximum 900 words

Must be available on a streaming service (not rental-only)

Write with love, not snark

Payment: $15 per essay (+ contributor’s copy if selected for print)

Columbo Corner
Word count: 1,000–3,000 words
Dog Named Dog got its namesake from Columbo, so talking about our love for the show is something we always want to talk about—but we don’t want standard reviews of an episode, we want a breakdown of your favorite episode through your eyes, through your writing, through your experience. We’re not interested in beat-for-beat retelling.

Payment: $15 per essay (+ contributor’s copy if selected for print)

More info and submission addresses here. 

Call for Submissions on Theme of "New Beginnings": Northern Spy: A Journal of Literature and the Arts

Northern Spy Journal 

Call for Submissions

Deadline: April 23, 2026 

Our journal, formerly Bare Hill Review, has been renewed as Northern Spy, and so our Spring 2026 issue seeks works that celebrate new life and new beginnings.

Everyone has been a part of the cycle of new beginnings. We want to hear all about these fresh starts. We desire works that celebrate transformation, but also works that reflect on what was left behind, for every sapling is the culmination of another tree’s efforts.

Submit literature that embraces change. Someone leaving behind their old life. A married couple giving romance another chance. Kittens found in the woods. An unexpected opportunity. Tell us all about the move from your parent’s house, and let us help carry boxes to the U-Haul. Tell us about the ending that spurred a new chapter of your life—the new growth can’t come until the harvest ends.

Is there danger to your new beginning? The start of something can be intimidating; is the risk worth the reward? Give us the joy and fear of it, the unrelenting restlessness of a cycle at its culmination.

General Guidelines

• Please clearly indicate your name; the title of the piece as you would like it to appear; and a brief author bio of less than 100 words.

• We accept simultaneous submissions. We ask that if any of the pieces you submit are accepted for publication elsewhere, you kindly withdraw it from our submissions list.

• To support our student editors, ensure that the work you submit is fully accessible. Word documents should have heading structures; PDFs should be screen-reader friendly; text should be high-contrast. We ask that visual artists submit alt-text along with their images. Any work that is not accessible and WCAG 2.2 compliant may not be read.

• We reserve a special place in each issue for college students from the Rochester and Finger Lakes regions. If this is you, please indicate your status in your submission.

Poetry

Please submit three poems maximum per submission. You may submit once per submission cycle.

Fiction

Please submit one piece per submission, with a maximum of 5,000 words. You may submit once per submission cycle.

Creative Nonfiction

Please submit one piece per submission, with a maximum of 5,000 words. You may submit once per submission cycle.

Art

Please submit in JPEG format. Include one photograph or piece of art per submission, with three submissions maximum per person. Submit your work in as high of a resolution as possible. If your artwork is a piece which cannot be submitted electronically (i.e. an oil painting or sculpture), we ask that you provide a high-quality print or photo. We do not accept "snap shots," "selfies," or scans of your work. To support our student editors. include alt-text with your submission.

If you would like your work to be considered as an issue cover, please indicate this in your cover letter. Issue covers must be 4x6.

Submit your work here. 

Call for Submissions: The Baltimore Review

The Baltimore Review

If your work is accepted for publication, we ask only for the right to publish it for the first time, online and in print. Please do not submit work that has been accepted for publication elsewhere. All rights revert to the author after publication by The Baltimore Review. All accepted work will be archived on the website.

We accept submissions only through Submittable. We do not consider emailed submissions or submissions sent through the postal service. Every poem, short story, and work of creative nonfiction we accept is selected from the Submittable queue based on merit and the needs of the journal.

Submissions in more than one category are permitted, but please do not submit work more than once per reading period in any category.

Among other resources for writers, NewPages.com has a Publications for Young Writers page. We encourage teen (and younger) writers to review this list before submitting work to literary journals. The Baltimore Review considers submissions from writers who are 18 years of age or older.

Simultaneous submissions are absolutely fine. If you need to withdraw your work, or part of your work, from consideration, let us know. Use the Withdraw option if withdrawing the entire submission; send us a message through Submittable if withdrawing part of your submission, e.g., one poem from a group of three.

Once your work has been accepted by a publication, always withdraw it from any other publications right away.

About AI: Do we really have to say it? OK. No. We want to read work created entirely by humans.

Our current submission period: February 1 through May 31, 2026.

 Please do not withdraw and re-submit your work if making revisions. Simply note the minor edit or, if the changes are more extensive, attach the new version in the Submittable message. But it’s always best, of course, to take some time to thoroughly proofread your work before submitting. Thanks!

Response time: You will be notified of our decision within four months. We're aiming for a response time well within that time frame, usually one to three months, but we do receive thousands of submissions in each submission period, and we read each one of them. Thank you for your patience.

Fees: We do not charge fees for non-contest submissions and have no plans to do so in the future. We charge a modest $8 fee for contest submissions.

Payment for non-contest submissions is $50 via Amazon gift certificate or $50 through PayPal, if preferred, as well as a copy of the annual print compilation in which the author's work appears. We hope to continue this as long as funding is available. We also nominate our contributors' work for every possible prize. Contest prize amounts are announced with each contest.

Submit your work here.