Call for Submissions: Scrawl Place

 

Current Guidelines (as of May 5, 2025)

Scrawl Place is a literary journal disguised as a visitor’s guide.

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 aspiration is that readers will visit the places you write about and be inspired to write about those places themselves.

Checklist for submissions

• Does the place exist? The place should be a real, tangible place.

• Does the place have a name? If the place does not have a name, it is probably not specific enough for Scrawl Place.

• Can you pin the place on a map? This isn’t an absolute requirement, but the more specific the place, the more likely it’s a fit for the journal.

• Can you take a photo of the place? This is not an absolute requirement, but if the place cannot be captured in a photo (i.e. impossible to take a photo of “America”), it is probably not specific enough for the journal.

• Is the place your home or the moon? The place should not be your personal home, the bottom of the ocean, the moon, or any other place that is generally impossible for readers to visit.

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 in the same document.

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

Call for Submissions from Writers and Artists from Pennsylvania, Delaware, or New Jersey: Philadelphia Stories

 

Submission Guidelines

Philadelphia Stories is a free print magazine that strives to publish the finest fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art written by authors living in, or originally from, Pennsylvania, Delaware, or New Jersey. Philadelphia Stories seeks submissions from diverse perspectives: all ethnicities, races, abilities, and gender identification. We wish to demonstrate the vitality and vibrancy of the Philadelphia-area residents in every issue.

Philadelphia Stories is an all-volunteer non-profit supported by the donations of its members. You can help support other local writers and artists by making a donation here.

Thanks to the support of the Conrad Weiser Contribution Fund, we are a paying market paying an honorarium of $50 to our authors published in the print magazine.

Below are the guidelines for submitting material. There is no reading fee.
Deadlines

SUBMISSION PERIODS:

Art: Rolling submissions

CNF/Fiction/Poetry —

Summer/Fall 2025: June 1 – September 1, 2025

PLEASE NOTE: You will be notified of the status of your submission within six months AFTER the issue deadline. If you have not heard from us within six months after your submission was sent, please feel free to contact us and we’ll check the status for you. Please note, our emails do sometimes get caught in spam filters. Thanks for submitting to Philadelphia Stories!

General Guidelines

• Only work submitted through our Online Submission Form will be considered.

• We do not accept previously published work. This includes work published online, on personal blogs or websites.

• Any work received after the closing date for a particular issue will be considered for the next issue.

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

• Please attach a SHORT bio (about 75 words, written in third person) including your connection to Pennsylvania, Delaware, or New Jersey.

• We will send notice by email regarding the acceptance or rejection of your material within six months after the issue’s deadline.

Fiction

• Please send all submissions to the Fiction Editor through our Online Submission Form.

• We accept short stories or novel excerpts in varying lengths up to 5,000 words. (Hint: Shorter works are more likely to find a spot in print.)

• We look for fiction written by Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey writers (either currently residing in, originally from, or lived here at some point) that features sharp writing, carefully crafted plots, and, above all, compelling characters. Novel excerpts should be able to stand alone as a complete work.

Poetry

• Up to three poems may be submitted in one submission period. Due to themed issues and contests, there may be a delay between winter, spring, and summer. Thank you for your patience.

• Each submitted poem is not to exceed 36 lines. Poems may be single spaced (unlike prose submissions which should be double spaced). Poems that exceed 36 lines/one page may be excluded from consideration.

• Submit each poem in its own single document/attachment. This will allow the submitter to WITHDRAW work that is accepted elsewhere as we DO expect some poets to make simultaneous submissions to multiple journals. Submitted documents that include multiple poems may be excluded from consideration.

• If your simultaneously submitted poem is accepted elsewhere, please WITHDRAW your poem as soon as possible. And congratulations!

• Your cover letter should include a SHORT bio (about 50-75 words, written in third person) including your connection to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, or Delaware. Feel free to copy and paste the same text in each of your three submissions. Upon acceptance, we will also ask for a photo and an updated bio.

• Please title your submission with the TITLE of the attached poem.

• Please send all poetry to the Poetry Editor through our Online Submission Form.

Nonfiction

• Creative nonfiction essays should not exceed 2,500 words. We’re looking for pieces that focus on positive Philadelphia experiences, but will consider any well-written essay on any subject. In particular, essays should convey real emotional honesty and or humor.

• Please send all essays to the Nonfiction Editor through our Online Submission Form.

Artwork

• All artwork must be submitted electronically.

• Please submit no more than five previously unpublished images for consideration.

• Preliminary images do not need to be print resolution and may be attached as a JPEG or GIF. Final, approved artwork should be of professional quality, at least 300 dpi saved as a TIFF, PDF, JPEG or EPS.

• Do not send us links to your website. We’ll leave it to you to find your best work.

Please upload all artwork to through our Online Submission Form or email to:

art@philadelphiastories.org

PS Junior (writers/artists aged 18 and younger)

Philadelphia Stories, Junior, a division of Philadelphia Stories, is a literary magazine published each Spring for writers age 18 and under who currently live in Pennsylvania, Delaware, or Southern New Jersey. Please follow these guidelines for submitting material. There is no reading fee.

Deadline: February 1.

General Guidelines
1. Philadelphia Stories, Jr. accepts work submitted to our online submission form.
2. On the first page, please include your name, school, grade, and information on how we can contact you.
3. Any work received after the closing date for a particular issue will be considered for the next issue.
4. Tell us about yourself and where you live. For example: George Smith is in sixth grade and likes to write poetry. He also likes basketball and lives with his cat and little sister in Cherry Hill, NJ. He has read all seven Harry Potters twice.

If you would prefer to email your submission, email to:

PSJR912@gmail.com

Call for Submissions: The tEmz Review

 

We are currently OPEN for journal submissions for Issue 32. We will remain open from June 1, 2025 to July 31, 2025.

AI Policy
There are legitimate artistic reasons to use AI. If you submit work to us that uses AI, be sure to clearly state in your cover message/letter the following:

a) The extent of AI use
b) The reason(s) for AI use

Submitting work containing AI-generated material without accurately disclosing the nature and extent of this content will result in a permanent ban on submitting to us.

Prose
We publish prose (fiction and creative non-fiction) up to 10,000 words long. We will consider pieces longer than 10,000 words, but they need to earn their length.

We pay $20 per piece.

If your piece is longer than 1000 words, please submit only one piece. If your pieces are fewer than 1000 words each, feel free to submit several pieces at once.

We are looking for innovative short fiction from diverse voices. Our preference is for the strange, the experimental and the boundary-pushing, but we are open to a wide range of styles and voices.

Poetry
We accept submissions of 1-8 poems, depending on the length of the poems.

We prefer poetry submissions to be 10 pages or fewer. You can certainly send us longer submissions, particularly if you are submitting a long poem, but longer submissions need to earn their length.

We pay $20 per batch of poems we publish.

Our preference is for innovative verse that pushes the boundaries of poetry, but we are open to a wide range of styles and voices.

Please submit only once per reading period.

Reviews and Interviews
We do not accept reviews or interviews submitted through Moksha. If you are interested in writing a review for us or placing an interview with us, please query us first at:

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

We are particularly interested in reviews of Canadian small press titles and of works in translation, and in interviews with the authors of this kind of work.

Simultaneous Submissions Welcome!
We welcome simultaneous submissions, provided you notify us and/or withdraw a piece that is accepted for publication elsewhere.

More information and submission portal here. 

Call for Submissions: Mudroom Magazine

 

Submissions are open! Send us your work through July 25.

General Guidelines

All issue contributors are paid 15 dollars! Our submission fee policy is as follows:

Standard Submissions are free! We try to respond to all free submissions within each submission period. Feel free to query after three months. 

Expedited Submissions are $3. We guarantee a response within one week for these submissions.

Simultaneous submissions are encouraged. If your work is accepted elsewhere, we just ask that you let us know immediately through email. We will not consider work with sexist, racist, homophobic, xenophobic, or ableist content. Your name should appear on your cover letter but not in the submission. Please only submit once per submission period.

All contributors are paid through Paypal. Please alert us in your submission if you require another method of payment.

POETRY GUIDELINES

MudRoom publishes poetry of all types. You can email poetry submissions to:

mud.room.submissions@gmail.com

To submit, please send 3-5 original, previously unpublished poems in a single .DOC/.DOCX .ODT or PDF file with one poem per page (eight pages maximum).

Indicate POETRY SUBMISSION in your subject line. Submissions without "Poetry Submission" in the subject line will be deleted. You may also include a brief cover letter/third-person bio in the body of your email.

PROSE GUIDELINES

Mudroom publishes fiction, essays, and essays in translation. You can email prose submissions to:

mud.room.submissions@gmail.com

To submit, please send a previously unpublished work no longer than 6,000 words in double spaced 12-point Times New Roman font. All works should be attached in a single .DOC/.DOCX .ODT or PDF file

Please indicate PROSE SUBMISSION in your subject line. Submissions without "Prose Submission" in the subject line will be deleted. You may also include a brief cover letter/third-person bio in the body of your email.

Cover Art GUIDELINES

Some issues of MudRoom are accompanied by cover artwork. You can email submissions to:

mud.room.submissions@gmail.com 

At this time, we are unable to offer expedited submissions for art.

For consideration of cover art, MudRoom accepts all mediums of artwork with the exception of AI-generated art, visual poetry, or reproductions of already licensed work. We are looking for art that reflects the energy of MudRoom. Feel free to look through our previous issues, reviews, and interviews to get a sense of MudRoom’s character before submitting.

Please submit up to 3 individual art pieces, including a high-resolution image of your artwork with your submission. If you are submitting photographs of your artwork (ex: ceramics, fiber arts, paintings), please consider lighting, angles, and framing of your art to best reflect the formatting of the magazine's digital publication. If you are submitting in multiple genres, please send your submissions in separate emails.

Whenever possible, art files should be titled with your last name and the name of the work to avoid confusion. (example: instead of: last_name_527.jpeg” manually name the file LastName_Title.jpeg). All art submissions should be JPGs, JPEGs, or PNGs.

In your submission, please include the following:

Your/Artist Name

Title of work

Medium

If you wish, you may also include a brief statement about your work.

Please note that accepted submissions may be modified to suit the cover layout and design.

Expedited Submissions

For expedited submissions, please support us on kofi, and then in the subject line of your submission, add the word EXPEDITED. For poetry submissions, this would look like POETRY SUBMISSION EXPEDITED, and for prose submissions would appear as PROSE SUBMISSION EXPEDITED. All donations go toward paying our contributors.

We do not currently offer expedited submissions for art.

Please feel free to email us at:

mud.room.mag@gmail.com

if you have any questions.

Rights

We require First North American Serial Rights. Following publication, all rights revert to the author, but we ask that MudRoom is credited in subsequent reprints. In addition, we reserve the right to edit submissions in accordance with the rules of our style guide.

Call for Submissions to Anthology from Trans/GenderQueer Writers: Off the Topic Publishing

DEADLINE: June 30, 2025, at midnight Pacific Time.

Submit poems, flash fiction, short stories, creative nonfiction, essays, and unclassified other writing of any style and theme.

The work must be written by a trans/genderqueer person. Collaborative work is okay, as long as all authors are aware of the submission. If accepted, all authors will need to sign a contract. At least one of the authors must be trans/genderqueer.

Poems: Submit up to 3 poems in a single file submission. No more than 30 lines per poem, not including the title or blank lines between stanzas.

Flash Fiction: Submit up to 3 pieces in a single file submission. No longer than 500 words, not including the title. Different word processors and websites count words differently. If your piece is slightly over in the counter we use, it may still be accepted.

Short Stories (Fiction): Submit 1 piece. 501-2500 words, not including the title.

Creative Nonfiction: Submit 1 piece. Maximum 2500 words, not including the title.

Essays: Submit 1 piece. Maximum 2500 words, not including the title.

Other Formats: Submit 1 piece. Please provide a short paragraph at the top of your file briefly explaining your vision for this piece.

Payment: $20 CAD + an equal share of sales. You’ll need to create a Draft2Digital account for this, if you don’t already have one. You can choose to waive your share and donate it. You will also receive a digital copy of the anthology. 50% of profits will go to supporting organizations that fight for trans and LGBTQIA+ rights. The other 50% will be divided equally among contributors and the publisher.

Simultaneous Submissions: Yes. Please immediately inform us if your piece is accepted elsewhere. If we really like it, we may still wish to publish it. If so, we will discuss which rights you are giving the other publication and see if we can make it work.

Multiple Submissions: Yes, sort of. You can submit once per category (see above). That means you can submit a maximum of 6 separate times. Please follow the guidelines for each category.

Format: We aren’t too hung up on formatting. Just make it easy for us to read. 

No PAGES files.

DOC or DOCX preferred.

PDF accepted for poetry or any text requiring special formatting.

Please title your file as follows: Title – Author Name (My Beautiful Story – Wry Ter).This title must match the title in the document and in your submission form. No exceptions (minor typos are fine).

All submitters will be contacted. It might take a while, since a single reader will be going through all the submissions. If you haven’t heard from us by the end of 2025, feel free to (politely) query.

Submit your work here. 

Call for Submissions: Flash the Court

Hi. It’s me. I’m the Court. Flash me.

Five hundred words or fewer, please. Fiction or nonfiction, I don’t care, and I don’t dissemble. No need to define genre, truly truly. We’re all rebel writers here.

I also dngaf about arc. Your evil main character persists in her evil ways? More power to her. Your plot thickens but never coalesces? Whatever. That’s life. I’m great with fragmentation. I’m happy with hybridity. I’m all about an unresolved ending.

So give me your misguided but earnest conversations, your steamy scenes, your personal polemics. Give me your queer, your diverse, your dream. Come one, come all—just keep it short and snappy and sassy. Lyricism and lingering language welcome. Prose poetry is perfect. Transgression is even better.

Unfortunately, at present, in order to keep the lights on, I must charge a $5 reading fee per submission. Publications, however, will always be paid $50 apiece. Find breathtaking work here on Flash the Court every Saturday until forever.

Want to try something new? Try it here. With me.

More information and submission link here. 

Writing Competition: The Coniston Prize from Radar Poetry

The Coniston Prize 

Ends on Fri, Aug 1, 2025 10:00 PM

Entry Fee: $20.00

*This year's judge is acclaimed poet Diane Seuss*

The winner of the Coniston Prize will receive $1,000 and publication. Up to 10 finalists will also be awarded $175 and publication. The winner and finalists’ work will be featured in the Coniston Prize Issue, published annually in October.

Submissions are open June 1 - August 1. We notify all entrants before October 1. The entry fee is $20.

Submit 3-5 previously unpublished poems in a single document through our submissions manager, totaling no more than 10 pages. You may include a cover letter and brief bio in the comments box. Multiple submissions are acceptable with additional reading fee.

This award recognizes an exceptional group of poems. We therefore suggest that you submit poems that are intentionally cohesive in some way, whether connected by subject matter, theme, voice, style, or imagery.

Please remove all identifying information from your document. All contest submissions will be read anonymously.

Simultaneous submissions are acceptable, but we cannot refund contest fees if you have to withdraw all or part of your submission. Multiple entries are acceptable with an additional fee.

Eligibility

The Coniston Prize is awarded to women poets. Any poet who identifies as a woman is eligible. This includes trans, non-binary, and other gender expansive womxn.

If you know the editors or our judge personally, you should not submit your work. This includes current or former students of the editors or the judge.

Submit your entry here.