Call for Submissions: Reckoning

We’re currently reading for Reckoning 6, the deadline for which is September 22, 2021. Read the issue-specific submission call from editors Aïcha Martine Thiam and Gabriela Santiago. 

To understand what we’re looking for, try Reckoning 4, Reckoning 3, Reckoning 2, Reckoning 1, the interviews, the Reckoning twitter, or LCRW 33.

The short version: creative writing and art about environmental justice. The fiction we publish is mostly, but not exclusively, speculative; the nonfiction is more creative than journalistic, the poetry tends towards the narrative, preferably with some thematic heft, the visual art leans away from the pulpy towards the surreal, subversive, political. But the heart of what we want is your searingly personal, visceral, idiosyncratic understanding of the world and the people in it as it has been, as it is, as it will be, as it could be, as a consequence of humanity’s relationship with the earth.

We are actively seeking work from Indigenous writers and artists, writers and artists of color, queer and transgender writers and artists, and anyone who has suffered the consequences, intended or otherwise, of dominant society’s systemic disconnect with and mistreatment of the natural world. And we’re actively seeking new ways to reach all of the above. Seriously, if you know of a way we can do that, please share.

We’d love to publish work in translation! We’re currently open to considering writing in Spanish, French or Swedish for potential translation, and work already translated into English, for which we pay the same rate to both author and translator.

We don’t publish work we perceive to be prejudiced in any form, including sexism, racism, ableism, ageism. We reserve the right to point it out—respectfully—when we see it, though we’re as prone to mistakes and misunderstanding as anyone else.

We’re no longer accepting submissions by email; queries are ok.

Simultaneous submissions are ok. Multiple poetry submissions is preferred, 3-5 poems, <10 pages; with longer submissions (including long poems), please send one at a time. Feel free to submit again after you hear back.

Query for reprints. Length: 0 – 20,000 words (query for longer). Response time has ranged from one to four months and is slowest October – January as we’re putting together the new issue.

Payment is eight cents a word for prose, thirty dollars a page for poetry, art negotiable, minimum twenty-five dollars per piece. 

Deadline: Sep. 22, 2021

Full guidelines and submission portal here. 

 Sample contract is here.

Call for Submissions: Freshwater Literary Journal

 

Freshwater Literary Journal is a student-coordinated professional literary journal produced at Asnuntuck Community College since 2000, seeking submissions from the public. We consider poetry, short stories, personal essays, and creative nonfiction, and we publish a wide variety of literary work from students and professional writers across the globe.

Dates and Deadlines

Submission Period: August 15, 2021, to February 15, 2022. Acceptances and rejections will be sent on a rolling basis, no later than the end of March 2022. The new edition will be published in May 2022.

Submission Guidelines

Freshwater accepts submissions of poetry, short stories, personal essays, and creative nonfiction. We seek to publish a wide variety of literary work from people of all backgrounds. We look for new experimental takes on old mediums, as well as more traditional approaches.

To submit, email your entire submission in one attachment. Make sure to include your name in the attachment.

No cover letter needed, but send a brief, one-paragraph, third-person bio with mailing address in the body of the e-mail.

Poetry: Three poems maximum, up to 40 lines each.

Prose: (fiction or nonfiction): One or multiple pieces up to 1,500 words total.

Send to:

Freshwater@acc.commnet.edu. (No snail-mail submissions, please.)

No previously published material. Simultaneous submissions permissible if you notify us immediately of acceptance elsewhere. Payment is one contributor copy.

Read the 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021 editions of Freshwater online here.

Call for Submissions: AGNI

We look for writing that catches experience before the crusts of habit form—poetry and prose that resist ideas about what a certain kind of writing “should do.” We seek out writers who tell their truths in their own words and convince us as we read that we’ve found something no one else could have written.

When to submit

Our online Submission Manager is open from September 1st to midnight December 15th, and again from February 15th to midnight May 31st. We welcome manuscripts by mail between September 1st and May 31st. (Submissions mailed in June, July, or August will be returned unread, provided sufficient return postage is included.)

Things to know when submitting

• Nearly everything we publish is unsolicited.

• We encourage submissions from writers of all identities, living anywhere, published and unpublished.

• We will not consider writing that has already been published in English, whether in a book, magazine, newspaper, or on an app, a website, a social media feed, or a publicly accessible online community.

We consider only work written in English or translated into English.

• We have no word limits, though space is at a premium and length sometimes affects our decisions.

• We do not publish genre romance, horror, mystery, or science fiction; however, we are open to writing that borrows elements from any of these.

• We will consider excerpts if they read as if they were meant to stand alone.

• We are interested in personal essays, think-pieces, memoir, prose poems, formal poems, blank verse, free verse, short stories, and short shorts; we do not publish academic essays or purely journalistic writing.

• Though we rely on student interns for many things, they are not involved in considering submissions. All manuscripts are read by masthead editors.

• Our blog features posts by writers who have appeared previously in AGNI or AGNI Online.

• You can familiarize yourself with the magazine by ordering a recent print issue or by perusing the writing that appears here. This site includes selected pieces from our decades of print issues and everything we’ve published at AGNI Online since its inauguration in 2002.

• Sending through our online portal costs $3 per submission. (Submission Manager will briefly redirect you to Boston University’s secure payment page.) If this is a concern or causes a burden, please feel free to submit by regular mail to avoid the fee.

Some requests

• Please send only one story, one essay, or up to five poems, and please wait for our reply before sending more. As soon as we respond, you can feel free to submit again during a reading period.

• Please use page numbers and, if you are submitting prose, double-space your document.

• Please do not submit revisions of work we’ve already considered.

• If you submit on paper and want us to reply by mail, please enclose a stamped, addressed envelope (SAE). If the envelope is large enough and you include sufficient postage, we will return the manuscript; otherwise, it will be recycled. If you’d like to be notified by email only, please include your email address and skip the SAE.

• Do not email your work; we do not read or consider emailed submissions.

• Feel free to submit the same work to other magazines simultaneously. If your entire submission is accepted elsewhere, please log in to your online account and withdraw using the link there—or, if you’ve submitted by mail, or if only a portion of your submission has been taken elsewhere, please contact us with a quick withdrawal note.

• Do not mail your work to us in the months of June, July, or August. The online portal is closed during those months also, and closes at midnight December 15th until midnight February 14th.

• Do not send us your only copy; we cannot accept responsibility for your manuscript.

• Please do not contact us about your submission until four months have passed. We work hard to respond within two, but we’re not always able. If you submit online, you can log in to your account anytime to check status. “Received” means we have the submission and are considering your work.

WHERE to send:

• Go here to set up your online portal after September 1st. If you’d rather not submit through our online portal, please address your envelope to the Fiction Editor, Poetry Editor, or Nonfiction Editor and mail to:

AGNI Magazine
Boston University
236 Bay State Road
Boston, MA 02215

Regular post is fine. There is no advantage to sending a more expensive way.

Purchasing rights

All submissions are considered for both print and online publication.

We buy first worldwide serial rights and pay $20 per printed (or printed-out) page for accepted prose, and $40 per page for accepted poetry, up to a maximum of $300. We also give a year’s subscription to AGNI. In the case of print publication, each contributor receives two copies of the issue their work appears in, and we send up to four additional copies to friends or family.

Blog publication, which is limited to writers who have previously appeared in AGNI or AGNI Online, is unpaid.

Call for Submissions: Quirk Books

If you are an author who would like to submit directly to Quirk, please submit your query letter and proposal or manuscript to:

submissions@quirkbooks.com

We don't have requirements on the amount of material you submit, but you must include a query letter. This inbox is monitored by our editorial assistant, Jessica Yang. If you think your project is a good match for a specific editor, feel free to note that in your query.

Please note: we only review digital queries and sample material. No physical submissions, please.

Thank you for thinking of us!

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Are you interested in becoming the author of a Quirk-generated idea?

We have a creative tradition of coming up with offbeat, high-concept ideas and finding the right authors to execute them, which has led to some of the most successful books in our company's history and long-term partnerships with our authors. If you're interested in becoming the author of a Quirk-generated idea, you can send samples following the guidelines below. If an editor likes your sample, they'll reach out to you with details on how to audition for their specific book idea.

Idea #1: Quirk Books is seeking writers to audition for an adult mystery/thriller novel centered around multi-level marketing schemes. Writers with keen observation, biting humor, and a grittier sensibility are desired. We are especially enthusiastic to see pitches from women of color.

Please email:

rebeccasubs@quirkbooks.com 

with the subject line "MLM novel audition". In the body, include a brief cover letter telling us a little bit about yourself, previous writing experience or publications (if applicable), and your interest in the project. Attach approximately 25 pages of previously written sample material in the genre.


Idea #2: Quirk Books is seeking writers to audition for a YA mystery/thriller set in the world of social media influencer culture. Writers who tend towards dark humor and social commentary, and who are fascinated by social media and the influencer industry, are encouraged to apply. We are especially enthusiastic to see submissions from women of color.

Please email:

alexsubs@quirkbooks.com 

with the subject line "YA influencer novel audition". In the body, include a brief cover letter telling us a little bit about yourself, previous writing experience or publications (if applicable), and your interest in the project. Attach approximately 25 pages of sample material in the genre.


Idea #3: Quirk Books is seeking writers to audition for a YA science fiction/mystery novel that takes place on a royal space station. Writers with an affinity for character-driven writing, vivid worldbuilding, complex plotting, and compelling queer romance are encouraged to apply. We are especially enthusiastic to see submissions from queer writers of color. (Note: We do not expect or require writers to disclose their identities.)

Please email:

jessicasubs@quirkbooks.com 

with the subject line "YA science fiction novel audition". In the body, include a brief cover letter telling us a little bit about yourself, previous writing experience or publications (if applicable), and your interest in the project. Attach approximately 25 pages of sample material in the genre.

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Jhanteigh Kupihea (SVP, Publisher) acquires a select number of titles for the list each year. She is interested in exceptionally written, high-concept adult fiction. She loves horror and speculative fiction that asks a big "what if?" question with high emotional stakes. She's especially attracted to social justice themes in these genres. She also loves fun, voice-y novels for women, especially ones that focus on female friendships or subvert romantic comedy tropes. Regardless of the genre, she gravitates toward distinctive voices and anything that plays with unusual structures.

In gifty non-fiction, she's looking for books about the highly visible aspects of popular culture, including TV, movies, celebrities, and self-care trends. In narrative nonfiction, she's looking for books about the less visible people and forces that have shaped our culture in unusual and/or meaningful ways.

Alex Arnold (Senior Editor) is looking for high-concept stories for the young and young at heart. In YA, she'd especially like to see genre-bending, high-stakes fiction that grapples with social justice in surprising ways; psychological thrillers; queer rom-coms; and nonfiction at the intersection of pop culture and social issues. In middle grade, she's drawn to dark and strange magic a la Coraline, clever twists, and nonfiction that uses fun, humor, and inspiration to bring readers to new topics. In picture books and board books, she's looking for concept-driven, funny, and joyful read-alouds.

In all categories, she is on the lookout for diverse, underrepresented voices, stories that play with structure and format, characters that could step off the page, and atmospheric settings that make her feel transported.

Jess Zimmerman (Editor) is looking for adult narrative nonfiction, humor, and gift books, particularly from underrepresented authors. (Though if you have a great nonlinear or formally peculiar piece of fiction, send it over.) She's especially interested in the internet, science and science fiction, fresh or funny takes on the literary canon, the occult, myths and legends, and anything offbeat, dark, mysterious, or weird. Her ideal book has an oddball candy coating and a chewy social justice center.

Rebecca Gyllenhaal (Assistant Editor) is on the lookout for high-concept commercial nonfiction and fiction for adults and welcomes diverse authors and pitches.

In adult nonfiction, her bread and butter is pop history, but she is also interested in pop culture-driven projects and gift books with an off-the-wall sensibility. She is open to humor and is seeking any project that can capture that particular darkly absurd millennial sensibility. Any project driven by cultural obsession and/or affection is likely to catch her eye. Some of her personal obsessions include cults, conspiracy theories, bizarre subcultures, weird history, folklore, hauntings, and all things strange, macabre, and obscure.

In adult fiction, she is looking for concept-driven novels, especially in the realms of mystery, psychological or domestic thriller, and horror. (Bonus points if it features an unusual setting and/or loads of atmosphere.) Her greatest love is Gothic fiction, especially when it deliberately plays with the tropes. She is also open to genre-adjacent fiction with a literary bent. Loose retellings interest her: if you have a haunted house story with a twist or a modern update on Northanger Abbey or The Picture of Dorian Gray, send it! She also loves novels that meditate on new technologies, the gig economy, and late capitalism. All fiction must have a beating heart, a strong voice, a tight plot, and a fresh, grabby hook.

Rebecca also writes and edits the licensed Pop Classics series, which adapts cult classics films and TV shows into picture books.

Jessica Yang (Editorial Assistant) supports Alex Arnold and develops select projects for the YA and kid's list at Quirk. She's drawn to middle grade with a pinch of magic and plenty of heart, YA romance that plays with beloved tropes, and science fiction and fantasy that steps away from or critically engages with Western canon. She has a soft spot for lighthearted queer romance and anything that reminds her of a Studio Ghibli movie.

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Are you an illustrator or represent illustrators? Please send all illustration samples to:

artsubmissions@quirkbooks.com 

This account is monitored directly by our design team. Thanks!

For more information about what we publish, please visit our website.

Writing Competition: The Story Foundation Prize

The Story Foundation Prize

Our third annual Story Foundation Prize is now open for submissions.

Please submit your finest short story (under 10,000 words) between today and December 15th.

Entry fee is $25 and all entrants receive a one-year subscription to Story.

The winner receives $1,500 and publication in our summer 2022 issue.

The prize-winning story will be announced in March 2022.

Everyone is eligible to enter with the exception of our two previous winners (sorry, Anne and Karl!) For inspiration, you can read our interview with Anne Elliott, who was awarded the inaugural Story Foundation Prize for her short story "Night Watch". Karl Taro Greenfeld's prize-winning story "Womanly Words" will be featured in our summer 2021 issue.

Call for Submissions on Theme of "What Now? The Future We Make": Nimrod International Journal

WHAT NOW?: THE FUTURE WE MAKE

For our Spring/Summer 2022 issue, What Now?: The Future We Make, Nimrod International Journal invites poems, short stories, creative nonfiction pieces, and translations on the subject of the future we make.

We’ve heard it so often over the last year: We live in unprecedented times. As we write this call for submissions, the world is grappling with the worst pandemic in modern history, urgent calls for racial justice, and challenges to all aspects of the ways that we have lived. In this time of deep change, the question that arises over and over again is: “What now?”

What is also unprecedented is that we have a rare opportunity to pause and question the often unexamined assumptions about the world as it is and as it could be. What do we keep from the past that worked? What do we jettison? What do we enlarge and embrace? The drastic changes to our individual and collective lives call on us to reimagine the future we want. That future is in our hands—our future is the future we make.

We won’t find all the answers here—in fact, we will probably find more questions than answers—but as marine biologist and conservation strategistAyana Elizabeth Johnson writes, “The more we can envision a world we want to live in, the more we will be inspired to move toward it.” In this issue, we wish to move toward that world and explore its possibilities together.

What We Are Seeking:

• We’re looking for work that examines both micro- and macro-versions of the future: both our futures on an individual, relationship, or family level and our social, national, and worldwide future. Here are a few examples of what submissions for this issue might look like.

• Work about changing expectations, from our relationships to our home lives to our occupations to our larger communities

• Work that deals with personal and community trauma—not only how we survive it, but how we surface after disaster, how we find the will and courage to continue

• Work about the environment, climate change, and sustainability

• Work in speculative genres (such as Afrofuturism) actively engaging with future possibilities, both bleak and hopeful

• Work that creates new myths, that reimagines old stories in ways that lead to new and different outcomes

• Work that explores the range and variety of the “we” in the “the future we make”

• Work that projects inclusion, equity, openness, and joy

• Work that explores, meditates on, or engages with any aspect of making the future we want, in unexpected and unique ways.
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This list is just to get your ideas flowing; we hope that you will surprise us with additional ideas that we have not thought of about making the future we want.

 

We are excited about this issue, so please send your work and share this announcement with writing groups, students, and friends. We hope to receive a variety of material for this issue, with interpretations of this theme from writers of all backgrounds and publication histories; we especially welcome work from writers who are Black, Indigenous, and people of color, writers of all sexual orientations and gender identities, writers of varying socio-economic status, and writers with physical or mental differences.

The Specifics:

• Fiction and creative nonfiction may be up to 7,500 words; poetry may be up to 7 pages.

• All work must be previously unpublished.

• Poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction should be sent as separate submissions.

• Work not originally in English must be translated into English. For work in translation, authors are responsible for obtaining permission to reprint any material under copyright that exceeds the guidelines of fair use or does not have a Creative Commons license.

• Prose should be typed, double-spaced, one side of plain white paper only. Poetry should be typed, one side of plain white paper only, no more than one poem per page.

• For those submitting by mail: Please mark both your cover letter and the outer envelope with “Spring 2022 Theme.” Send a SASE for response. Postal submissions are free.

• For those submitting online: Please submit work online under the theme category here. A $3 fee is charged for online submissions to cover the administrative costs associated with those submissions.

If the online submission fee or the postage to send work by mail will pose a substantial economic burden, writers may seek a waiver of the fee. To seek a waiver, please email us at nimrod@utulsa.edu with your request and reasons for seeking a waiver.

 

Manuscripts will be accepted beginning June 1, 2021.

 

Postmark deadline: November 1, 2021 

 

Publication date: Spring 2022

 

Payment: $10/printed page with a $200 maximum.

Nimrod is a nonprofit literary magazine published by The University of Tulsa, with issues appearing twice a year. All contributors to the magazine also receive two copies of the issue in which their work appears.

Send postal manuscripts to:

 

Nimrod Journal

The University of Tulsa

800 S. Tucker Dr.

Tulsa, OK 74104

 

Submit online.

Questions: Email:

 

nimrod@utulsa.edu or visit our website.

Call for Submissions on Themes of "Sluts and Prudes": They Call Us

Seeking Feminist Writing Submissions About Sex

Deadline: September 17, 2021

Our feminist zine is looking for writing and art submissions for our newest edition "They Call Us Sluts and Prudes." We are exploring sex and reputation in relation to gender oppression. If you have ever been catcalled or looked down upon based on your sexual interactions, or lack thereof, please consider sharing your experience. We want stories and art surrounding both the polar opposites of being called a "slut" or "prude" and show that these are possibly the same thing.  

To submit, do not use the contact form, but send your work in an email:

theycalluszineATgmailDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )

More information here.

Writing Competition: Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize

Awards: $5,000 Fiction | $5,000 Nonfiction | $5,000 Poetry

 

• Submit one piece of fiction or nonfiction up to 8,500 words or any number of poems up to 10 pages. Please double-space fiction and nonfiction entries.

• Multiple submissions and simultaneous submissions are welcome, but you must pay a separate fee for each entry and withdraw the piece immediately if accepted elsewhere.

• Entries must be previously unpublished.

• Standard Entry fee: $25. Each entrant receives a one-year subscription to the Missouri Review in digital format (normal price $24) and a digital copy of the fourth title in our imprint, TMR Books, Strange Encounters, a short story anthology by former Editors’ Prize-winners and contributors (normal price $7.95).

• “All Access” Entry fee: $30. In addition to the one-year digital subscription to the Missouri Review and Strange Encounters, the “All Access” entry fee grants access to the last 10 years of digital issues and the audio recordings of each digital issue.

DEADLINE: October 1, 2021 

 

Full information and entry portal here.

Writing Fellowships: 2022-2023 Cullman Center Fellowship

The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers offers Fellowships to people whose work will benefit directly from access to the research collections at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. Renowned for the extraordinary comprehensiveness of its collections, the Library is one of the world’s preeminent resources for study in anthropology, art, geography, history, languages and literature, philosophy, politics, popular culture, psychology, religion, sociology, sports, and urban studies.
Criteria and Terms

The Cullman Center’s Selection Committee awards fifteen Fellowships a year to outstanding scholars and writers—academics, independent scholars, journalists, creative writers (novelists, playwrights, poets), translators, and visual artists. Foreign nationals conversant in English are welcome to apply. Candidates for the Fellowship will need to work primarily at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building rather than at other divisions of the Library. People seeking funding for research leading directly to a degree are not eligible.

The Cullman Center looks for top-quality writing. It aims to promote dynamic communication about literature and scholarship at the very highest level—within the Center, in public forums throughout the Library, and in the Fellows’ published work.

A Cullman Center Fellow receives a stipend of up to $75,000, the use of an office with a computer, and full access to the Library’s physical and electronic resources. Fellows work at the Center for the duration of the Fellowship term, which runs from September through May. Each Fellow gives a talk over lunch on his or her current work-in-progress to the other Fellows and to a wide range of invited guests, and may be asked to take part in other programs at The New York Public Library. 

The deadline to apply is 5PM EST Friday, September 24, 2021.

For more information, please visit the website.

 

 

Writing Competition: Dzanc Books Short Story Collection Prize

The Dzanc Books Short Story Collection Prize celebrates imaginative and inventive writing in book-length collections. Past winners include Nino Cipri, (Homesick), Anne Valente (By Light We Knew Our Names), Chaya Bhuvaneswar (White Dancing Elephants), Jen Grow (My Life as a Mermaid), Julie Stewart (Water and Blood, coming 2022), and Ethel Rohan (In the Event of Contact).

The winning submission will be awarded a $2,500 advance and publication in by Dzanc Books.

The contest is open to new, upcoming, and established writers alike. Agented submissions are also eligible, and we ask that you include all agency contact information with the application. All submitted works must be previously unpublished collections and should include a brief synopsis, author bio, and contact information. (Individual stories are allowed to have been previously published.)

We will accept submissions from March 1 through midnight on September 30, 2021.

There is a $25 submission fee. (Note: we will not accept physical entries.) The winning submission and a short list of finalists will be announced on the Dzanc web page in November.

Submit your entry here.

Dzanc Books is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. All contest fees will go toward funding the prize as well as supporting Dzanc’s commitment to producing quality literary works, providing creative writing instruction in public schools through the Dzanc Writers-in-Residence program, and offering low-cost workshops for aspiring authors. Active and former Dzanc authors and employees are not eligible for the prize.  

Call for Submissions: Front Range Review

FRONT RANGE REVIEW is now accepting online submissions of literary short fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction for its 22nd annual issue.

 

Our reading period is August 15–December 1.

 

To see guidelines and submit, visit our website.

Call for Submissions to Anthology: Take the Fruit, Flood the Desert: A Religious Trauma Anthology

Take The Fruit Religion Abuse Anthology Seeks Subs

Deadline: August 31, 2021

Take The Fruit, Flood The Desert: A Religious Trauma Anthology is accepting submissions. Did you question church doctrine and the way leaders/family members used it to lead you? How did the threat of eternal damnation affect you? Did you experience self-loathing or an inability to make decisions? What messages did the church give you about your relationship to your body, sex, and boundaries? How have you healed and reclaimed your identity?

Send up to 3 pieces of any genre (Google or Word docs) up to 2,500 words total to

takethefruitanthologyATgmailDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )

with the subject “submission, Take The Fruit.”

Call for Submissions on Theme of Baseball: The Twin Bill

Deadline: October 1, 2021

Submissions are open until October 1 for the Fall Issue of The Twin Bill, an online baseball literary journal. We are looking for essays between 600-1000 words, fiction up to 3,000 words, up to five poems, and visual art. Please send submissions to

thetwinbillATgmailDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )

If you are interested in illustrating our pieces, please let us know. All submissions will receive a personal response and there is no submission fee.

We will publish on October 26 for the start of the World Series. For more details, visit our website. 

Call for Submissions: Angel Rust

Angel Rust Seeking Submissions for Issue 3 and 4

Deadline: Rolling

Angel Rust is a new, queer-led online magazine looking to publish exciting, challenging, and edgy work in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, with a particular interest in transgressive or experimental short stories, strong-hearted essays or critiques, and radical poems in any form from writers with unique perspectives and an unshakable fearlessness.

No submission fees.

New issues go up every month. 

Call for Submissions: BLUELINE

BLUELINE Seeks Exceptional Nature Writing

Deadline: November 30, 2021

BLUELINE: A Literary Magazine Dedicated to the Spirit of the Adirondacks seeks poems, stories, and essays about the Adirondacks and regions similar in geography and spirit, focusing on nature’s shaping influence.

Submissions window open until November 30. Decisions mid-February. 

Payment in copies. Simultaneous submissions accepted if identified as such. Please notify if your submission is placed elsewhere.

Electronic submissions encouraged, as Word files, to:

bluelineATpotsdamDOTedu (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )

Please identify the genre in the subject line.

Further information here.

Call for Storytellers: TMI Project

Stories For Choice: National Call For Storytellers

Deadline: September 15, 2021

TMI Project announces a national call for storytellers for Stories for Choice. Stories for Choice uses radically true stories—stories that include the TMI parts we usually keep to ourselves because of fear, shame, stigma, or cultural expectation—to ignite human connection, challenge the status quo, and inspire storytellers and listeners alike to take action for true reproductive justice.

Applications for storytellers are due by September 15.

Chosen applicants will be contacted by October 1 and upon completion of the program will receive a $500 stipend.

Call for Poetry Submissions: The Hamilton Stone Review

Deadline: September 23, 2021

The Hamilton Stone Review opens for poetry submissions for the Fall 2021 Issue #45 on August 23, 2021 and closes September 23, 2021. Submissions may close early if the issue fills.

Poetry submissions should be emailed only to Kevin Stein at:

hsrpoetrykevinATgmailDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )

 with "HSR" in the subject line. Fiction and nonfiction submissions are not open for this issue. For more information, please go here.

Call for Submissions: Shenandoah

We will be open for CREATIVE NONFICTION and NOVEL EXCERPTS starting on August 15 through August 31, 2021. 

CREATIVE NONFICTION (essays, memoir, etc.) should be under 8,000 words. Editor Beth Staples loves writing that stretches her imagination and way of thinking, surprises, makes her laugh, moves her, is formally interesting or challenging, defies genre, explores the confusing or uncomfortable, introduces her to new writers, thinks globally, has a distinctive voice, cares about the world, and does not assume white people are literature’s default characters.

NOVEL EXCERPTS under 8,000 words will be considered with great enthusiasm. Beth plans to publish an excerpt from a novel-in-progress during each issue of Shenandoah, with a note from the author about their process and what it’s like to be in the middle of a big project. She knows writers at this stage need support, and would like Shenandoah to be a place where they can get some. These excerpts need not function like a short story. We’ve found the best novel excerpts give some sense of the overall scope of the book and whet the reader’s appetite without leaving us dangling too far off of a cliff.

We believe your work has incredible value. We pay our contributors at the rate of $100 per poem, $100 per 1000 words of prose up to $500, and $50 per page of comics up to $500. 

We buy first North American Serial Rights, and rights to the work revert to the author after publication. As a courtesy, we ask writers to note Shenandoah as the first place of publication when the work is anthologized, reprinted, or otherwise made public through another format.

Complete information and submission portal here.

 

Call for Submissions on the Theme of "The City": Black Coffee & Vinyl Presents

Submissions are open for the second issue of Black Coffee & Vinyl Presents. The theme will be “The City.”

Submissions will be accepted through September 30, 2021. Submissions decisions will be announced on December 1, 2021.

We are seeking art, words, and sounds that explore, critique, celebrate and interrogate the urban landscape, culture and environment. The city, a place, should play a central role in the work and should be a central character or focus. We are seeking a diverse range of city representation from large cities to small, from real to imagined.

Submit your work here. 

Submission guidelines will include the following:

• Nonfiction -- Not to exceed 2,000 words

• Poetry -- Not to exceed three poems

• Fiction -- Not to exceed 2,000 words

• Visual Art -- Up to 3 works (note: 1 or more works may be selected for publication)

• Music/Sound art -- Up to 3 works (note: 1 or more works may be selected for publication) 

  Contributors with selected work will be provided with a $50 (U.S.) honorarium. All payments will be made by PayPal. Recipient must be able to receive payments via PayPal.  

   

Call for Submissions: Rushing Through the Dark by Choeofpleirn Press

We are looking for poetry, 1-act plays, short screenplays, art, and photography.

For poetry, submit 3 poems. We are looking for lyrics and narratives in nontraditional or traditional forms. No translations please.

1-act plays should be 9-12 pages, with four characters or less.

Screenplays can be up to 30 pages.

Photography can be black and white or color.

Submission Period: July 1, 2021 -August 29, 2021

Full guidelines and submission portal here.

Call for Submissions: Pangyrus Literary Magazine

SUBMISSION PERIOD: July 15 - October 15, 2021

We encourage you to read us at pangyrus.com to get a sense of what we're looking for.

We publish well-crafted, thought-provoking writing, comics and visual art in every genre online and in one or two print editions per year.

Some of the work we will accept will appear in our 10th print issue! As we discussed possible themes to mark this milestone, we kept gravitating to the environment, and the need (and opportunity) to restructure more sustainable systems for both democracy and the planet.

We'll be keeping an extra sharp eye out for your pieces that reimagine our relationship to place and history and ecosystem, that challenge our ideas, that offer both warnings--and solutions.

These could be essays, stories, poems, artwork, and comics that touch upon themes of environmental justice, climate change, environmental impact on communities, pollution, food, garbage, everyday life, energy -- its value and cost, biodiversity, extinction, the future and the fate of our planet. We leave it up to your interpretation.

Along with general submissions -- environmentally themed or not -- we are interested in a few specific categories: Zest!; In Sickness and In Health; Field Notes; and Schooled – themed pieces in every genre.

Submittable link.

Call for Submissions: Hobo Camp Review

Submissions for our Autumn 2021 issue will open on August 1 and will run through August 31. There is no fee to submit, and no particular theme for this issue, our fortieth since 2009!

Hobo Camp Review is a quiet, tucked-away place where any writer, poet, artist, or storyteller can rest their weary feet and share their story over a crackling fire. Travelers and transients of all backgrounds and styles are welcomed, but your story doesn't have to be about the road, travel, or hobo life (although we enjoy those themes from time to time). It can be about anything at all, so long as it has a sense of vagrancy, a little sparkle and a little dust, something that shows your mileage, your shadows and angles, and offers a hint of nostalgia, a desire for something more, anything that sounds great by a campfire with a train calling in the distance. Be original. Be honest. Be from anywhere. Be going somewhere. Remember what happens in between and tell us all about it. 

How to Submit

1) Please submit once per issue and place work in the body of the email. 

2) Send up to four poems, and/or one story/essay/travelogue in your bindle. Regarding prose: the shorter the better. We love flash and we typically don't publish anything over 1,500-ish words.

3) No simultaneous submissions, please. We keep our window open for a very short time and try to respond quickly. We promise to respond to every single submission, regardless of acceptance or rejection, so if we miss you in the night, our apologies. Remind us and we'll take a look.

4) We are open to previously published work, but we prefer if you give us a new adventure.

5) If you appeared in the last issue, let's wander a bit longer before taking a spot by the fire.

6) We're delighted to accept offers to review your book, but we can't guarantee a review will appear in HCR even if we accept, for a multitude of reasons. Time, taste, and temperament are all factors at play here.

7) While there's no payment, we try to give out cash awards and prizes when we're able to do so. This happens at irregular intervals.

8) Please send subs to:

hobocampreview [at] gmail [dot] com 

in the body of the email. (We no longer check the old Hotmail address.) Please include a bio less than 75 words and any links to your website/blog you'd like us to post. Help us promote your work!

For more information, visit our website.

 

Writing Competition: The St. Lawrence Book Award

Each year Black Lawrence Press will award The St. Lawrence Book Award for an unpublished first collection of poems or short stories. The St. Lawrence Book Award is open to any writer who has not yet published a full-length collection of short stories or poems. 

The winner of this contest will receive book publication, a $1,000 cash award, and ten copies of the book. Prizes are awarded on publication.

The annual deadline is August 31.

Entry Fee: $27.00

Go here to submit. 

Call for Submissions: Cathedral Canyon Review

 

Cathedral Canyon Press: We Pay Contributors, We Don’t Charge Them.

Deadline: Rolling

The Cathedral Canyon Review was founded to showcase and amplify the voices of BIPOC and LGBTQ+ writers, poets, photographers, and artists who center themselves in the American Southwest. We welcome contributions that are, simply put, your best work. We want our contributor's work to tell us who they are and what they believe.

We currently pay $20/poem for poetry, $25/image for visual art pieces, and the current SFWA rate of .08 cents per word for prose. Payment is at the time of publication via PayPal.

Full guidelines here.

Call for Submissions: Hole in the Head Review

Feed Your Head: Hole In The Head Review Now Open

Deadline: September 17, 2021

The Hole in the Head Review is a vibrant online journal of poetry and art that is attracting an international audience and submissions from new and established poets, including Richard Blanco, Cyrus Cassells, Denise Duhamel, Richard Foerster, Kimberly Cloutier Green, Larkin Warren, Marie Harris, Michael Hettich, Marilyn A. Johnson, Maurya Kerr, Stuart Kestenbaum, Kenneth Rosen, Ralph Savarese, Betsy Sholl, Charles Simic, David Weiss, J.D. Whitney. Plus a host of photographers, painters, collagists, textile and tattoo artists...even fishing lure makers. Submit today!

Call for Submissions: the museum of americana

Issue 25: My Americana
During August 2021 we will accept submissions for Issue 25, a milestone achievement. With our theme “My Americana,” we seek to highlight work from writers and artists who are traditionally marginalized in publishing. We will prioritize work from writers and artists of color; specifically, we are interested in intersectionality. By modifying Americana, we hope writers and artists will expand the definition of the concept.

Note: We seek work that engages with or repurposes the complex cultural history of America. We are particularly interested in work from writers, artists, and musicians who are traditionally marginalized from publishing. Please read our General Guidelines below for more information on how and what to submit.

General Guidelines: the museum of americana accepts submissions of original fiction, nonfiction, poetry, book/chapbook reviews, writer interviews, music, photography, and art. We seek work that showcases, examines, or repurposes historical American culture. This is, of course, an enormous and diverse tub of spare parts, and we want to see what you can create. Give us fiction that dramatizes weird old folk songs or steals their characters. Give us love poetry that mixes language cribbed from The Federalist Papers with language from WWII propaganda posters. We want aspects of Americana we may not have even heard of yet.

Submissions of fiction, nonfiction, humor writing, poetry, and art will be read in the months of April, August, and December. Submissions sent at any other time will be deleted unread. Reviews, interviews, and music for American Songbook will be considered all year round.

Issues are scheduled to appear in February, June, and October.

To submit to the museum of americana, please include your last name, first name, and genre of submission in the subject of your email and send to the appropriate address:

Editorial Inquiries: exec.ed.americana (at) gmail.com
Fiction and Nonfiction: proseamericana (at) gmail.com
Poetry: poetryamericana (at) gmail.com
Humor: humoramericana (at) gmail.com
American Songbook: music.themuseum (at) gmail.com
Art: art.themuseum (at) gmail.com
Interviews and Reviews: reviewsamericana (at) gmail.com

All submissions should contain a brief cover letter in the email and include a short bio. Poetry, prose, and humor submissions should be pasted into the text of the email. No attachments, please.

We will read one longer prose piece (up to 3,000 words), one humor piece (up to 1,500 words), or three to five poems or flashes per submission. For photographs or art, please send a link to where work can be viewed online. For American Songbook, send up to five mp3s. Songs must be public domain American traditionals or else originals in the folk/Americana vein. Only one submission per genre per reading period, please.

Simultaneous submissions are welcome, but please be courteous enough to inform us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere. Upon acceptance, we ask for first electronic rights and the right to archive a piece for as long as we exist. We also ask that a writer not reprint a piece online for at least six months after we publish it and that we receive credit if it should be reprinted at any point, in print or electronically, in the future.

If a writer has been published with the museum of americana, we ask that they wait until two new issues appear before submitting work again.

Unfortunately, there is no payment for publication, but we will publicize our contributors to the best of our ability and spread the news of their successes all across the interwebs.

For more information, please visit our website.

 

Call for Submissions: Free Radicals

Free Radicals is looking for speculative fictions (with literary twists). We are also looking for speculative nonfictions. At the heart of speculative writing is often a “What if?” question. The numerous sub-genres that meet this need include, but aren’t limited to horror, science fantasy, fantasy, science-fiction, hard science-fiction, social science-fiction, space opera, grimdark fantasy, urban fantasy, cyberpunk/post-cyberpunk, solar/hope punk, etc. For speculative nonfiction, it can be extrapolating current trends to understand the murky future. It could also be counterfactual speculation as to what might have happened if (say) Napoleon died in battle, and exploring the consequences of such an event within the context of historical research, etc.

Free Radicals is open to submissions from all artists and authors. Submissions are published on the basis of talent, content, and editorial needs for Free Radicals.

Guidelines. We are always looking for speculative writings (short-form) that are between 500 and 20,000 words in length. We are also looking for speculative fiction-themed artwork/photography for each issue.

Deadline: September 10, 2021

Complete guidelines and submission link here.

Writing Competition: Radar Poetry's Coniston Prize

$2,000 Coniston Prize from Radar Poetry

Deadline: September 1, 2021

Radar Poetry's Coniston Prize is an annual award that recognizes an exceptional group of poems by a woman writing in English. This year's esteemed judge is Yona Harvey.

The winner will receive $2,000 and will be published in the contest issue, alongside an introduction by Yona Harvey.

All finalists will also be published in the contest issue.

Submit 3-5 poems by September 1, 2021

Entry fee: $20

Read the guidelines, submit your work, and view past winners at our website. 

Writing Competition: "Stories Out of School" Flash Fiction Contest

 

“Stories Out of School” Flash Fiction Contest

Deadline: September 1, 2021

The Academy for Teachers “Stories Out of School” Flash Fiction Contest, hosted in partnership with A Public Space, was created to inspire great stories about teachers and the rich and crazy world of schools. Submit a story between 6 and 749 words whose protagonist or narrator is a K-12 teacher.

First prize is $1000 and publication in the print edition of A Public Space. The brilliant Julia Álvarez, author of many novels, including How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents and In the Time of the Butterflies, is our judge.

The deadline for submissions is September 1, 2021.

Submit your story here.

Writing Competitions: Black Warrior Review

• Fiction and Nonfiction: Submit up to 7,000 words.

• Poetry: Submit a packet of up to 3 poems.

• Flash: Submit a packet of up to 3 flash pieces. This can be in any genre, as long as the author considers it “flash.” We encourage experimental, hybrid, and lyrical submissions in this category. Image + text work is also welcomed. Surprise us.

Cover letters are welcome.

Please do not include identifying information in your submission document. We will use your Submittable information to contact you, so please make sure your contact information is accurate and up-to-date.

Multiple submissions are welcome, as are simultaneous submissions. Please notify us immediately if your submission is accepted elsewhere.

We accept only previously unpublished work for publication.

Winners in Nonfiction, Fiction, and Poetry genre receive $1000 and publication in BWR 48.2, our Spring 2022 issue. The first runner-up in each genre receive monetary compensation, acknowledgment in the print issue, and online publication (if desired). We may consider any submission for general publication.

The winner in Flash receives $500 and publication in BWR 48.2, our Spring 2022 issue. The first runner-up receives monetary compensation, acknowledgment in the print issue, and online publication (if desired). We may consider any submission for general publication.

The contest is open April 1 – September 1st. Winners will be announced in October.

Contest submissions are free for up to 600 Black and Indigenous writers. We do not limit our definition of Indigenous to those from the U.S./Turtle Island. Submit here. 

Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry: There is a $15 entry fee for each submission ($25 for international submissions). All domestic entrants receive a one-year subscription to BWR as a thank-you for your interest and support.

Flash: There is an $6 entry fee.

Complete guidelines and submission link here.

 

Writing Competition: The St. Lawrence Book Award

Each year Black Lawrence Press will award The St. Lawrence Book Award for an unpublished first collection of poems or short stories. The St. Lawrence Book Award is open to any writer who has not yet published a full-length collection of short stories or poems.

The winner of this contest will receive book publication, a $1,000 cash award, and ten copies of the book. Prizes are awarded on publication.

Deadline: August 31

Entry Fee: $27.00

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions Previously Published In Defunct Journals: Doubleback Review

Doubleback Review is a home for your retired darlings—pieces of any genre that were published by a journal that subsequently became defunct. We only publish previously-published work from journals that no longer exist; we do not publish previously unpublished work nor previously published work that is still available online or in active print circulation.

Let us resurrect your dead art; let us love your beautiful zombies.

We publish two issues per year, on the fifteenth of the month in April and October. We accept submissions on a rolling basis. Submissions received between August 16 and February 15 will receive responses on or around March 15; those received between February 16 and August 15 will receive responses on or around September 15.

Poets should send up to five poems, and prose writers should send up to 4,000 words total — one story or essay, or up to three shorter flash pieces — in one document (Word preferred), each piece beginning on a separate page. Include your name and email address at the top of each page. Below each piece, specify where it was previously published. Your pieces must no longer be available online or in active print circulation.

Artists interested in being featured on our cover may send one piece in .jpg, .jpeg, .png, or .pdf format. Please specify where the piece previously appeared in your cover letter, and include an artist statement.

We’d love to hear about you, so feel free to include a cover letter in the body of your email. Please also include a third-person biography, 75 words or fewer, and the address of your blog or website, if applicable.

Please only submit one packet at a time and wait until you’ve received a determination before sending again.

Doubleback Review does not charge for submissions, and is not a paying market.

Complete guidelines and submission link here.

Call for Submissions: Rat's Ass Review

The winter 2021 submission period will open August 1, 2021 and will extend through September 30th.

 

Rat’s Ass Review accepts simultaneous submissions; however, we do ask that you notify us promptly if your work is accepted elsewhere. Submit no more than 5 poems. Include a brief (no more than 75 word) third-person bio. I will do my best to make my decisions within a week of receipt of your work. Poems will appear in print shortly after the end of the submission period.

 

Rat’s Ass Review does not accept material which has been published previously, either online or in print, with the exception of material which you have posted only to your own blog or Facebook page. By submitting to Rat’s Ass Review you are assuring that you hold the rights to the work, and you are granting Rat’s Ass Review the rights to publish the submitted work. After publication, rights revert to the author.

 

To submit your material to Rat’s Ass Review, send your work as a doc or docx file to:

 

ratsassreview@gmail.com

 

Please include your name in the title of the document, for example Frost, Robert Three Poems RAR July 2020.docx. We only accept electronic submissions. If you really want to make me happy, include your brief (no more than 75 word) third-person bio and the titles of the individual poems in the email, type your poems using Times font, size 12, left justified, and don’t capitalize the first word of every line as though you were writing with a quill pen.

Call for Submissions: High Desert Journal

High Desert Journal is a forum for literary, visual, and journalistic artists to contribute a deeper understanding of the landscape and people of the interior West. We pay $25/poem, $50/essay or story, and $150 to our featured artist.

We accept work ONLY from residents of the interior West (they can be working with ANY theme”) or from anyone living OUTSIDE of this region CREATING WITH an element or theme of the interior West.

What exactly does this mean?

And where is the high desert and interior West?

Simply put, we consider the high desert and interior West to cover eastern Washington, eastern Oregon, all of Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, west Texas, and the eastern parts of California (those east of the Sierras). Sorry, but the Pacific coast, San Diego, L.A., San Francisco, up to Portland and Seattle are not part of our region.

We accept poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, memoirs, books reviews, essays, interviews and visual arts. You may submit up to three poems; a maximum of 5,000 words of fiction or nonfiction; up to 3,000 words of interview, memoir, and essays, and up to 10 slides or digital images of artwork.

Deadline: September 1, 2021

We use Submittable and charge a $3.00 submission fee to defray the costs.

However, in the spirit of inclusion and fairness, and a knowledge of the widening technological gap for many low-income and minority populations, HDJ will also happily accept fee-free submissions through the postal service so that people who are incarcerated, suffering economic hardship, or those without easy access to the Internet are still able to send work.

All manuscripts and all correspondence regarding submission should be sent to our physical address and accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope (SASE) for a response. As with emailed submissions, we will adhere strictly to posted dates and any mailed submission postmarked outside the listed submission periods will be recycled unread. Submissions sent within the United States may be posted to the editor of the appropriate genre, at the following address:

High Desert Journal

110 65th Ave. NW

Havre, MT 59501

Call for Submissions: carte blanche

Our theme for Issue 42 is an open theme and we invite writers and artists living with visible or invisible disabilities to submit their work for this issue.

We would like to celebrate the wide spectrum of work created by individuals who live with disabilities, however they may identify or define disability.

carte blanche acknowledges the intersectionality of individuals’ lived experiences and aims to provide a welcoming and safe space for racialized and marginalized voices in Quebec, Canada, and beyond.

We encourages submissions by individuals who identity as LGBTQA2S, BIPOC, disabled (visible and invisible), and those who live with mental health challenges and neodivergence. Please send us your best works of Fiction, Poetry, Comics, Translations, and Photography.

Please make sure to read a recent issue and our guidelines before sending in your work (via Submittable only).

Deadline: Aug. 21, 2021

Payment: carte blanche pays a modest honorarium per submission. We hope to increase the amount in the future. 

Writing Competition: Deanna Tulley Multimedia Prize: Slippery Elm

Our Multimedia Contest is open, for its third year! Send us your hypertexts, your nonlinear narratives, your videopoems, your illustrated stories! Surprise us with genres and media we hadn’t even imagined!

• First, second, and third place prizes will be awarded of $300, $200, and $100. The First Place Prize is dedicated to Deanna Tulley, for her support and encouragement of educators and everyone working with words.

• See recent multimedia work we’ve published, including last year’s contest finalists, here.

• Final Judge for 2021 will be Rich Ferguson.

• All submitted work will be considered for online publication.

• All entries should be original and previously unpublished in an online multimedia literary context. More specifically, if a piece has been shared around a bit or seen moderate traffic on your own personal social media or webpage, we’re OK with that, but we want work that we publish to be generally new to the world and to our readers. Contact us if you have questions! Substantially altered multimedia works that have previously appeared in print or conventional text-only formats are welcome.

• All rights to the submitted works must belong to the submitter.

• We are a literary magazine, so we’re interested in the words: narrative or poetic elements should be prominent, in either text or spoken word.

• All entries must be sent through our Submittable interface, either as uploaded file or external link.

• Works must be viewable in a commonly available format, that we can post and share from the Slippery Elm website or link out to on your own site. Submittable will accept a pretty impressive array of formats, but if you don’t see yours on the Upload list, Ask us! A direct link is fine, too, included in your Cover Letter, in which case, no upload is necessary.

• Simultaneous submissions are fine.

• $10 per entry. Multiple entries are fine.

• Submissions will close annually at midnight Eastern time on September 30.

Those currently or recently affiliated with the University of Findlay or Slippery Elm should refrain from entering this Contest. Although judging will be blind, we wish to avoid any potential appearance of conflict of interest.

Writing Competition: Seventeenth Annual Calvino Prize

Seventeenth Annual Calvino Prize sponsored by the University of Louisville. For a short story or novel in the fabulist, experimental vein of Italo Calvino. The final judge for 2021 is Matt Bell, acclaimed writer of speculative fiction and other literary works.

 

The first prize is $2,000 plus publication in Miracle Monocle, a journal celebrating over a decade of select works. The second prize is $300. Our first place winner is invited, expenses paid, to read the winning entry at the University of Louisville in the spring of 2022.

 

Entry fee: $25.

 

Deadline: October 15.

 

Complete guidelines and submission portal here.

Call for Submissions to Anthology: Madness Heart Press

Madness Heart Press is an indie publisher and their tagline says, “Where Southern Hospitality Meets Mind Shredding Insanity”.

 

This is a call for an anthology chapbook. “The conceit is that the chapbook is a course catalog for a strange and horrible university in North Texas, (think Miskatonic of the south). Submissions should follow the example (see guidelines), with a department heading followed by course descriptions. Each description can be anywhere from 1-200 words long. They may be written to be funny, bizarre, or horrifying.” 

 

The catalog is for the fictional Nafallen University, located outside beautiful and destitute Crisp Texas, where they “offer an advanced education in butchery, beating CSI forensics, the blackest of rituals, swamp husbandry, torture, non-Euclidian mathematics, law, religious studies, sacrificial rites, and of course, business.” Contributors will be listed as Faculty.

 

Located near a Highway and a small Texas town, Nafallen is the perfect place to find an abundance of test subjects and sacrifices to aid in students’ academic studies. The isolated nature of North Texas also allows for those studies to remain undiscovered by those that would stand in the way of progress.

Complete guidelines and submission portal here. 

Deadline: 31 August 2021, or until filled

Length: 1-200 words

Pay: $0.01/word

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Call for Submissions: Woodcrest

 Woodcrest is pleased to announce an open submission period beginning July 2021. We welcome submissions from everyone. The literary journal of Cabrini University, Woodcrest aims to publish work that is surprising, challenging, and grounded in the human experience.

We want to read your submissions of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, hybrid genres, and graphic arts. Please use our Submittable page for more information about submissions.

Deadline: December 1, 2021.

Call for Submissions From Women to Anthology: Interim

Interim is looking for women’s writing that explores the meaning and ethics of place in the broadest sense of the word, writing that seeks location as dwelling and indwelling simultaneously so as better to know what it means to belong somewhere. Speaking of the house, in The Poetics of Space Bachelard claims “all really inhabited space bears the essence of the notion of home.”

 

Send poems, essays, flash fiction, and/or hybrid forms that play with notions of place for our fourth all women’s print anthology, forthcoming in December, 2021. Because we believe the truth is experimental, we’ll especially appreciate work with innovative approaches.

 

Deadline: Sep. 2, 2021

 

Submit your work here. 

Call for Submissions: Split Rock Review

Split Rock Review Seeks Submissions for Issue 17

Deadline: August 31, 2021

Split Rock Review is an independent, online journal that publishes poetry, short creative nonfiction and fiction, comics, hybrids, book reviews, interviews, photography, and art that explore place, environment, and the relationship between humans and the natural world. We seek submissions for Issue 17 (Fall 2021).

First 300 submissions are FREE during the months of July and August. Expedited and Tip Jar submission options are also available each month. Simultaneous submissions are OK. We encourage you to read past issues to see if we’re a good home for your work.

For submission guidelines, visit our website.

Writing Competition: 2021 Fractured Lit Micro Prize

We invite you to submit your micro fiction to the 2021 Fractured Lit Micro prize.

Submissions are open through September 19, 2021 for your stories 400 words, or fewer!

Entry Fee: $20.00 for up to five stories

Guest judge Matthew Salesess will choose three winning stories from a shortlist. All entries will be considered for publication.

We're excited to offer the winner of this prize $2500 and publication, while the 2nd and 3rd place winners will receive publication and $600 and $400, respectively.

MATTHEW SALESSES is the author of the bestsellers The Hundred-Year Flood, an Adoptive Families Best Book of 2015 and a Best Book of the season at Buzzfeed, Refinery29, and Gawker, among others, and Craft in the Real World, an Esquire Best Book of the 2021, which explores alternative models of craft and the writing workshop, especially for marginalized writers. His latest novel is the PEN/Faulkner Finalist Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear, a Thrillist.com Best Book of 2020. Previous books include I’m Not Saying, I’m Just Saying; Different Racisms: On Stereotypes, the Individual, and Asian American Masculinity; and The Last Repatriate.

We can't wait to read your work!

Submit your work here.