Call for Submissions: Ginosko

 

Accepting short fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, social justice, literary insights.

Length flexible, accept excerpts.

Publishing as semiannual litzine. Check downloadable issues on website for tone & style, http://GinoskoLiteraryJournal.com/

Submit by Submittable: http://ginosko.submittable.com/submit/ 

Ginosko

A Greek word meaning to perceive, understand, realize, come to know; knowledge that has an inception, a progress, an attainment. The recognition of truth from experience. 

Payment: $40-70.

Open year round.

Publishing as a semiannual litzine. Check downloadable issues on website for tone & style.

Call for Submissions: The Prairie Schooner

The Prairie Schooner 

Submission Periods

Poetry, Fiction, and Essays: We accept unsolicited submissions two times per year:

September 1 – September 15 (or until submission caps are reached). The 2026 fall submission period will include a call for general submissions as well as a special issue on Cafes & Cocktails.

February 1 – February 15 (or until submission caps are reached)

Submissions of book reviews and interviews are open year-round.

General Guidelines

The Schooner’s intention is to publish the best and most interesting writing available, both from beginning and established writers. We publish short stories, poems, imaginative essays of general interest, reviews of current books of poetry and fiction, and interviews. Scholarly articles requiring footnote references should be submitted to journals of literary scholarship. We particularly welcome work by writers of color and writers who come from disenfranchised or previously disenfranchised backgrounds.

We do not consider work that has been previously published, including work that has appeared online or on any social media platform. While we do consider work that has been simultaneously submitted to other journals, we request that you withdraw the piece immediately upon acceptance elsewhere. We do consider translations of work that have not been published prior in English. We do not consider work that has been produced using generative AI at any stage in the writing process.

Length: For poetry, send a selection of up to seven poems contained within a single document. For fiction, essays, and reviews/interviews, send only one selection at a time. Please send only one submission per genre per submission window.

Withdrawing: To withdraw an individual poem from consideration, please send us a message through Submittable. To withdraw an essay, short story, or review/interview, please withdraw the full manuscript through Submittable.

We encourage you to read the Schooner before you submit. Sample copies are available below for just $9.00. There's never a fee to submit to our general reading period, and we're grateful for the support we receive through donations and orders.

Submit your work here. 

Calll for Submissions on Theme of "How has an educator shaped you?": Epistle Literary Magazine

Epistle Literary Magazine 

Submit Your Work

We accept any form of writing, so long as it responds to the theme: "How has an educator or mentor shaped you?" Consider poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction, and letters to honor your educators. We are also newly accepting visual art submissions specifically for our issue's cover! Cover art entries follow the same deadline and submission protocol as written works. All forms of visual art are welcomed, but art created with artificial intelligence will not be accepted. Up to 3 poems (max 5 pages total)

• Short stories up to 3,000 words

• Essays, memoirs, or letters up to 2,000 words

• Cover art: Up to 3 high-resolution visual art pieces of any format. Selected art will feature as the primary cover image for both digital and print formats.

We accept and encourage simultaneous submissions, but please let us know if your work is accepted elsewhere so that we can congratulate you and withdraw the submission on our end! We do not consider previously published submissions.

Along with your submission, please include a brief, third-person bio.

By submitting your work, you certify that it is your original creation, in no way plagiarized, and that you have obtained any necessary permissions from individuals named or identifiable in your piece. We reserve the right to remove your work from our site if we are made aware of plagiarism or unauthorized use of personal details.

Additionally, by submitting, you grant us the right to publish your submission in both digital and print formats if it is accepted, including on our website and social media platforms, and in any promotional materials related to the issue. Authors retain full rights to their work and may republish it elsewhere after it appears in Epistle, with credit to the magazine as the original place of publication.

Please send your submission to:

submissions@epistleliterary.org 

as a PDF. Submissions not attached as PDFs will not be opened for consideration.

Thanks to the help of generous friends and family on our end, every accepted author with a mailing address in the United States will receive a printed copy of the issue once it is released. You will have the opportunity to choose to mail this copy to the educator by whom your piece is inspired as a way to show your appreciation. Additional print and digital copies will be available for purchase by authors and readers.

Submissions close September 15, 2026.

Decisions regarding the status of your submission will be shared after the submission period ends. All submissions are read and curated by Rory Baskin, Editor-in-Chief.

Call for Submissions: Ley Lines Literary Review

Ley Lines Literary Review 

Submit all work through email:

leylinesliteraryreview@gmail.com

There is no fee to submit your work.

Include in your email:

A cover letter with the name of the file you’re attaching

Your phone number and email address in the body of your letter

The titles of the pieces you’re submitting

Your name as you would like it to appear if we publish your work

A third-person brief bio (75 or fewer words)

An attachment with your work in a single docx Word file (no pdf submissions accepted)

Submission Format Info

For prose, include a word-count; for poetry, include a line-count

Use Times Roman 12-pt type for all submissions

Include your contact info (phone number and email address) on the first page of your submission

Submit four or fewer poems per submission (single-spaced with each poem appearing on a separate page) or one piece of prose per submission (double-spaced with numbered pages)

Important Additional Information—Please read!

While we have no word or line limit on the work that we publish, due to space limitations, we prefer shorter rather than longer work. Prose should be no longer than 5,000 words; poetry should be no longer than 80 lines.

Simultaneous submissions are welcomed, though we do ask that you let us know immediately if a poem you’ve submitted has been accepted elsewhere. All submissions must be original—and all writers own their copyright upon publication.

We do not publish AI-generated work or AI-partially generated work, and we rely on our writers to be ethical about this issue.

We do not publish previously published work.

We try to respond to submissions within a three-month period. Feel free to email us if you have not heard back from us within that time period.

We look forward to reading your work.

Writing Competition: Vern Rutsala Book Prize

Vern Rutsala Book Prize

Submissions accepted through October 31, 2026

A prize of $1,000 is awarded, plus publication of the manuscript and 50 books. A prize of $500 is awarded for the Editor’s Choice, along with publication of the manuscript and 50 free books.

Submit 70 to 90 pages of poetry and/or flash fiction, including a Table of Contents and Acknowledgments page.

Reading fee is $25.

This year’s contest judge is Leslie Ullman.

The first 50 writers submitting to the contest receive a Cloudbank book or journal.
To submit electronically through our submissions manager click here.
Individual poems or flash fictions (up to 1000 words each) may have been previously published.
Submissions should include two title pages, one with title only, one with title and author name.
Cloudbank editors appreciate a wide range of styles, approaches, forms, and aesthetics; we welcome prose poems and flash fiction.
Submissions are accepted from around the world with no citizenship limitations.

Leslie Ullman has published seven full-length collections, most recently Unruly Tree from University of New Mexico Press, and a chapbook titled Self Portrait as Vanishing Act from Lily Review Press. She lives in Arroyo Seco, New Mexico.

Cloudbank’s Rutsala Book Prize is named after Vern Rutsala, an Oregon poet who taught at Lewis & Clark University for over 40 years. He was the author of over a dozen books of poetry, including How We Spent Our Time (2006), A Handbook for Writers: New & Selected Prose Poems (2004), and The Moment’s Equation (2003), a finalist for the National Book Award.

Call for Submissions: Jabberwock Review

 

Jabberwock Review 

General Submissions: 

• Submissions will be accepted from August 15 to October 1 and January 15 to March 15. We do not accept previously published material.

• We do not accept emailed submissions. Please use our Submission Manager to submit work using Submittable.

• Please submit no more than 1 story or essay or no more than 5 poems at a time.

• We do not have a word limit, but please keep in mind that the entire journal is only about 100 pages, so longer work must be truly exceptional.

• We ask that contributors please wait at least a year before resubmitting.

• Please double-space prose submissions.

• Poems of multiple pages should indicate whether or not stanza breaks accompany page breaks.

• Please do not send another submission until you have received a response on the first.

• We will try to respond in 3 months. If you have not heard from us in 5 months, feel free to contact us about the status of your submission.

• Rights revert to the author upon publication, but please acknowledge the Jabberwock Review in any future publications.

• Jabberwock Review welcomes all forms and styles of writing, from traditional to experimental.

• Students, faculty, staff, and administrators currently or formerly (within four years) affiliated with Mississippi State University are ineligible for consideration or publication.

• Please submit electronically using Submittable. Due to publication costs, we do charge a small $3.00 submission fee.

If you need to withdraw a submission, please do that using Submittable as well.
**We do not accept paper or emailed submissions.**

Submit your work here. 

Call for Submissions: phoebe

 

The editors of phoebe are pleased to announce that for Issue 55.1, phoebe will be a paying market! See our guidelines below for pay rates and more details on how to send us your work!

phoebe is a journal of literature and art which publishes twice each year: one print issue each winter, and a contest issue each spring, made up of the winners, runners up, and honorable mentions from submissions to our annual contests in poetry, fiction and nonfiction.

Winter Print Issue:

Open for submissions from August 15th to October 7th. 

Submission Guidelines

• We only accept submissions via our online submission portal, Submittable.

• We do not consider previously published work.

• We welcome multiple submissions, but each should follow the guidelines below:We do not have a strict word limit for prose; however, work over 4,000 words will need to be extraordinary.

• Regarding flash prose, we are happy to accept up to three pieces of less than 1,000 words each. Please paste these together in a single document and submit them via the standard fiction or nonfiction portal.

• Poetry submissions should contain 3-5 poems, totaling no more than ten pages. Please include all poems in one document.

• Writers, we prefer that you submit your work as a Word Document. Visual Artists may use PDFs to submit multiple works of art, but should be prepared with a high-resolution version of their files upon their work’s acceptance to the journal.

Submit your work here. 

• We allow and encourage simultaneous submissions. If your submission is no longer available for publication, please use our online submission portal to withdraw it as soon as possible. If you need to withdraw a single poem or piece of flash prose, please add a note to your submission and email us at:

phoebeliterature@gmail.com.

• We strive to respond to submissions 30 days after the submissions period closes. If you have not heard from us 60 days after the submissions period closes, feel free to inquire about the status of your submission.

• If you’ve submitted to phoebe in the past, or if you’ve been published in our journal before, you are welcome to submit your work again.

• phoebe does not accept submissions from current or former students of George Mason University’s creative writing program or any other affiliates of George Mason University. If you have a question regarding your eligibility, please send us an email at:

 phoebeliterature@gmail.com.

Payment

phoebe is overjoyed to be able to pay its writers and artists $30 per accepted poem, essay, story or piece of visual art. All contributors to the print issue also receive one copy of the journal upon publication.

Publication Rights

phoebe retains First North American serial rights for all work that we publish. All other rights are the authors, and they revert immediately upon the work’s publication. The work may be republished along with an acknowledgement of its original publication in phoebe.

Due to the risk of copyright infringement (and a plethora of other ethical reasons) phoebe does not accept AI-generated writing or visual art at this time. Digital manipulations and digital art are welcome.

Upon publication of your work in phoebe, we ask for the following:

1) First American rights for print publication of the Work in a future issue of Phoebe.

2) Indefinite non-exclusive rights for electronic publication of the Work at www.phoebejournal.com, as well as through Phoebe’s social media websites and newsletters.

3) Possible inclusion of the Work in a future anthology published by Phoebe Press.

All other rights remain the author’s.