Writing Competition: Slate Roof Press Poetry Chapbook Contest

We are accepting manuscripts from May 15 through June 30.

Slate Roof Press announces its Annual Poetry Chapbook Contest.

The winner will be granted the 2026 Elyse Wolf Prize of $500 and will become an active member of the press. Runner up receives $100. Slate Roof’s award-winning bookmaker produces beautiful books with letterpress covers and high-quality papers. Based in Greenfield, MA, Slate Roof is a member-run, not-for- profit collaborative, which has published the best new voices in poetry in art-quality chapbooks since 2004.

This year's contest is open to all poets in the United States writing in English, regardless of citizenship. Note that prior members of Slate Roof Press are not eligible to apply. Elyse Wolf Prize winners become active members of the press, making a three-year commitment, gaining valuable experience in publishing, and participating in monthly meetings and the tasks of running the press. To review membership requirements, please see our website.

Prepare your submission:

• A title page with title of the manuscript only; a table of contents; no more than 28 pages of poems; 12 pt. Times (or equivalent), 8.5 x 11 paper, 1” margins, pages numbered. No identifying information on any pages.

• A separate cover sheet with title of manuscript, your name, address, telephone number, email address, and a short bio. Please also tell us what attracts you about joining a collaborative press.

• Note that while individual poems may have been published, the collection as a whole must be unpublished, including self-publication.

Determine your method of submission:

If submitting online (preferred method), go here . Paste cover sheet into text box. Upload title page, table of contents, and manuscript (all three as a single document, no identifying information); pdf format strongly preferred; doc, docx, txt, or rtf acceptable; other formats will not be accepted. See full instructions online.

If submitting hard copies, mail two copies of all materials to the Slate Roof address below by June 30, 2026 (postmark).  

• No staples. 

• Confirmation and contest notification will be by email unless you include SASE postcard and envelope.

Submit $10 reading fee.

If submitting online, make payment via credit card. If submitting by post, make check out to Slate Roof Press and send with submission to:

Slate Roof Press

15 Warwick Avenue

Northfield, MA 01360-9638

Sliding scale: If the reading fee presents a hardship, please 1) email us your manuscript at:

info@slateroofpress.com; and 2) go to:

http://slateroofpress.com/about.html 

to make a donation in an amount that feels accessible. If you feel you are in a position to make a donation exceeding the $10 reading fee in support of a fellow poet, we welcome your generosity. Your manuscript submission will be considered complete once both the text and the donation have been received. 

All entries will be considered complete once payment is received.

A winning manuscript will be chosen by the press via a blind review. In addition, we may offer publication and membership to finalists. For additional information on Slate Roof Press, contact us here, or email us at:

info@slateroofpress.com 

We reserve the right not to select a winner, in which case entry fees will be refunded. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable, but please notify us immediately if your manuscript is accepted elsewhere.

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Call for Submissions on Theme of "Resistance and Hope": The Ex-Puritan

We're so thrilled to open submissions for a special issue of The Ex-Puritan, "Resistance and Hope," guest-edited by Bahar Orang!

The Ex-Puritan seeks submissions all year round, from anywhere in the world.

Our current publication rates (as of Fall 2022) stand as:$100 PER INTERVIEW
$200 PER ESSAY
$100 PER REVIEW
$150 PER WORK OF FICTION
$50 PER POEM, OR $100 PER POET IF MULTIPLE POEMS ACCEPTED
$50+ PER EXPERIMENTAL OR HYBRID WORK, AT AN INCREASING SCALE DEPENDING ON THE NATURE OF THE PIECE 

Check back with the magazine regularly; The Ex-Puritan is working ever assiduously to increase these figures.

Please note that we can ONLY issue payments using etransfer, PayPal or a cheque in the mail. We also pay in CAD. If you cannot accept payment via etransfer, PayPal or cheque from a Canadian bank, we cannot accept your submission.

Regular submissions to the magazine are free of charge and should fall under one of six categories: fiction, essays, poetry, interviews, reviews, and experimental/hybrid work.

To submit to the experimental/hybrid section of the magazine, please email our section editors at:

hybrid.experimental@ex-puritan.ca 

All other submissions must go through our Submittable. Unless we are soliciting your work, all submissions must be previously unpublished (this includes self-publishing, publishing on blogs, and in chapbook format).

Please note that in order to diversify the voices we publish, we have a limit on how frequently we will publish the same writer: you may publish with us once per year in up to two sections of the magazine.

All submissions received by March 25 will be considered for the spring issue, published in May. Those received by June 25 are considered for the summer issue in August. Those received by September 25 are considered for the fall issue, published in November. Those received by December 25 are considered for the winter issue, out in February. All submissions will receive a decision within four months of the submission date.

If you haven’t heard back from us in four months or for any other query not answered here, get in touch with us at:

expuritaneditors@gmail.com 

Please note that we CANNOT accept email submissions. They will be discarded.

We are open to simultaneous submissions for all regular submission categories, but no simultaneous submissions are permitted for the Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence. If your work is accepted elsewhere, please withdraw your submission via Submittable.

Submit your work here. 

Call for Submissions: The Texas Review

The Texas Review accepts submissions of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, short plays, and comics/art. We accept unsolicited submissions via Ola. Unsolicited submissions sent via email or regular mail will be deleted/recycled unread.

FLASH READING PERIOD!!!! JUNE 1-15 ONLY!!!!

Vol. 46 will be a special Innovative Prose issue edited by our CNF/Essays Editor, Katie Jean Shinkle.

We're looking for adventurous, experimental, cutting edge prose that maxes out its form and hybridity and intensity. Do you have a piece that is audacious and/or questionable and/or mystifying and/or astonishing to others and even yourself? As long as it's fit to print--even barely--we want to read it! Send us your innovative prose!

General Guidelines

Send a single short story in a fiction submission, a single essay in a nonfiction submission, or up to 5 poems in a poetry submission. Please only submit once, and only in a single genre.

Prose (fiction and nonfiction) should be double-spaced and page numbered. Poetry should be single-spaced. All work should be submitted in a single file (Word or PDF only).

We cannot publish work that has already appeared on the web or elsewhere in print, or on an app, website, social media feed, or public online community. We can publish original translations if the work has previously appeared in another language, but never before in English.
Poetry

Submissions that most excite us take risks and conduct experiments on meaning and making. We are open to all forms and hybridity.

Fiction

There is no length requirement, though we prefer to publish pieces that are between 3,000-6,000 words. We will consider excerpts if they can be read as standalone works.

Nonfiction

We consider memoir, lyric essays, literary journalism, and experimental/hybrid forms. We do not consider unsolicited scholarly essays, literary/cultural criticism, or reviews. We are especially interested in topics, perspectives, and forms that are underrepresented in publishing.

For partial withdrawals and general inquiries, please email us at:

thetexasreview@shsu.edu

Call for Submissions: Pleiades

 

General Submissions

Pleiades is open for regular submissions of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and translations during the months of June and December. Please note that submissions sent outside the submission period will not be considered. Unsolicited poetry, fiction, translations, and nonfiction should be submitted via our online submissions manager, Duosuma.

Reviews and Interviews

We accept reviews of poetry and prose, fiction and nonfiction, as well as pitches for author interviews, via email only, at:

pleiadesreviews@gmail.com 

Deadline: June 30, 2026 

Please do not submit more than once in a given genre during each reading period.

Unfortunately, we cannot consider paper submissions and emailed submissions, and mailed manuscripts will be recycled. An exception to this policy is made for incarcerated writers, who should mail submissions to

Pleiades Magazine, Editor-in-Chief
Martin 220 B, Department of English
University of Central Missouri
Warrensburg, Missouri, 64093

including an email address or self-addressed envelope for response.

Note that we are especially invested in reading manuscripts from writers from historically marginalized communities as part of our commitment to a deep representation of dynamic work.

Simultaneous submissions are accepted, please withdraw via our submission manager. For all queries, contact:

pleiades@ucmo.edu 

and your email will be forwarded to the appropriate editor. Our current response time is 6-9 months, please wait to inquire about the status of your submission until 9 months have passed.

Call for Submissions: MudRoom Magazine

 

MudRoom Magazine

Submissions are open for Issue 22! Send us your poetry, prose, and visual art through July 25.

 

General Guidelines

All issue contributors are paid 15 dollars! Submissions are free, and we try to respond to everyone within each reading period. If you don’t hear from us, feel free to query after three months.

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

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.

 

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: The Bokeh Review

The Bokeh Review 

WE ARE CURRENTLY OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS TO ISSUE 1.

We respond to all submissions within 72 hours.

Each issue, one piece will be selected to receive a $20 monetary award, regardless of genre.

Deadline: June 15, 2026 

Simultaneous submissions and previously published pieces are welcome. If your piece was previously published, please let us know where so we can credit the original publication.

Submit only once per category per quarterly submissions cycle. You may submit in more than one category.

❋ Poetry (including prose poems)—

Up to 3 poems on a single document, with titles in bold. The document should be no more than 6 pages long.

Preferably submitted as a Google Document, but a PDF is allowed if necessary to preserve the form of a piece.

12-pt Times New Roman 1.5 spacing is our standard, preferred font, but we understand that variations may be used to best reflect the author’s intent.

❋ Prose—

Up to 2 prose pieces (short story, micro fiction, creative nonfiction, plays, essay, excerpt, etc) on a single Google Document. 12-pt Times New Roman 1.5 or 2.0 spacing is required.

There is a word-count limit of 3,000 words per piece.

❋ Visual Art—

Up to 5 pictures, attached separately. Submit a PNG, PDF, or JPEG.

Paintings, drawings, digital art, collages, photography, and other static, uploadable images.

❋ Animation—

One short animated film under two minutes.

Upload the video to Google Drive and submit the link to us through the Google Form. Please ensure sharing permissions are set to “anyone with the link can view.”

❋ Performance—

One video under three minutes of spoken word, storytelling, choreographed dance, comedy, theater, monologue, or any other type of performing arts.

Upload the video to Google Drive and submit the link through the Google Form provided. Please ensure sharing permissions are set to “anyone with the link can view.”

(If the piece is hybrid, any option may be chosen depending on which best reflects the author’s intent.) 

More information and submission forms here.

Call for Submissions: The Good Life Review

 

The Good Life Review

June 2026 Update: Submissions for the Autumn issue are open for all genres (poetry, short cnf, & short fiction fees are $4; flash is $2.50.) Micro Monday subs are open for prose only (fee of $ 2.50). Currently closed to Art submissions.

Deadline: June 30, 2026 

Work must be original, previously uncurated, and not generated by AI or with AI assistance. We gladly accept pieces that have previously only appeared on personal blogs and/or social media. Please reference this thoughtful article by Tim Green on the term curation.

We pay $60 per piece for writing published in seasonal issues and $25 for pieces appearing in our “Micro Monday” segment. We also pay $25 for artwork that is used on the cover of a seasonal issue. For international submissions, we are only able to send money via PayPal.

There is a $4 fee for submissions for our short prose and $2.50 for flash & micro prose (both one piece per submission).

We will respond to all submitted work. It may take from one to three months, depending on when in the reading period the work is submitted. Artwork may remain open for the duration of a calendar year. Thank you in advance for your patience.

We do not publish offensive work or pieces that exhibit hatred directed toward a particular gender, race, ethnicity, ability, sexual identity, socioeconomic class, or disability. In other words, if you are an asshole, we don’t want your writing or your money.

The Good Life Review acquires First North American Serial Rights and the right to maintain an archive copy of the work online. All other rights revert to the author upon publication, with a request that if the work is reprinted, appropriate acknowledgment to The Good Life Review is made.

If you have an issue with the fee because of financial hardship or difficulties with the submission platform, please send a message to:

editors@thegoodlifereview.com

Note: Current UNO MFA students and recent (within the last 3 years) UNO MFA graduates/affiliates are not eligible.

General Guidelines:

We accept submissions via Submittable. Any received via email or post will not make it into the queue of our editorial teams.

Simultaneous submissions are cool, cool. If accepted elsewhere, please withdraw in Submittable.

If there are content warnings, please include those in the submitted document(s) preceding the piece(s).

Except for poetry and art, each submission should contain only one story or essay. If you want to send more than one piece, multiple submissions are acceptable.

We prefer to read blind, so please remove your name from the submitted document.

Your submission will not be disqualified if it was submitted incorrectly. If we have a question or concern about your submission, we will contact you. Please know that we are on your side. Thank you for trusting us with your work.

Again, work must be original and absolutely fabulous! We want your very best!!

More information here.

Call for Submissions: Navigations Journal

NAVIGATIONS is interested in:

Poetry

Experimental essay and non-fiction

Epistolary writing

Collaborations

Responses

Road poems 

Writing about place

Please submit no more than 6 pages of previously unpublished writing as a .pages / .docx file (or PDF if formatting necessitates) to:

navigations.journal@gmail.com

Include a brief bio. Please specify if submitting work by multiple writers.

Simultaneous submissions are welcome. If your work is accepted elsewhere, please contact to withdraw via your initial submission email right away.