Call for Submissions on Theme of "Aliens & Cryptids": Manuscrypt Magazine

 

Cult Publishing is looking for art and stories to feature within our Manuscrypt magazine. Applications are currently open for our next issue, with the theme: Aliens & Cryptids.

Story Submissions are open from June 22nd, 2026 and close August 14th, 2026 at 5pm EST. Art Submissions are open from June 22nd, 2026 and close September 4th, 2026 at 5pm EST.

We are looking for horror stories meant to entice the reader and leave lasting impressions. Submissions can be poetry, short stories, etc., but there must be an element of horror. Art submitted to the magazine can be photography, digital art, and drawings, but we are not limited to these mediums.

Each issue will revolve around a certain binding theme. Though it is not mandatory that entries fit this theme, stories and art that connect to the theme will be favoured for submissions.

Submissions should be written in English and up to 3,500 words. Work toward the upper limit will be held to a higher standard of craft. All submissions of written work must be formatted to Shunn Manuscript standard and sent as a DOCX attachment.

Accepted original submissions (stories and art) will receive $50.00 USD, and there is no fee to submit.

We are not able to offer payment for reprints.

Submit your work here. 

Call for Submissions on Theme of "City/Country": South 85

 

South 85 Journal is open for submissions June 18 ~ August 1, 2026. Our theme is city | country. To get a sense of our journal, please check out our most recent issue, surprise us | unthemed.

ISSUE: CITY | COUNTRY 

• Cars careening, horns blaring, the blur of conversations caught snippet by tantalizing snippet on the sidewalk? Crickets, cicadas, butterflies, birds, a cheerful creek? Silver skyscrapers or silvery moon? Walking fast, walking slow, sitting at the bus stop, sitting on the front porch? Dirty or dirt? Space measured in square feet or acres or sky or stories?

• The wealth of every nation’s most excellent cuisine on a menu or a ripe tomato you grew yourself?

• Where are you most alive? Where were you born to be? Where is your heart? Where is your family? But where are you right now?

• Surrounded by nature, terrified of nature, finding nature in unexpected places, nurturing nature? Is a cockroach nature? Is a mosquito?

• Where is the rain gentle? The snow pretty? The storms shattering? Which season is the show-off? Where are the celebrations you remember? Who are the people you understand, who you understand all too well, who you’ll never possibly understand? Who are your people?

• What happened that one time that you’ll never, ever forget? Where is that place and time you can’t go back to? Where will you stay forever? Where is home?

• With each of our themes, the possibilities are endless, and we want this theme to feel open to countless interpretation, introspection, and examination. As always, we’re eager to read what you come up with.

Fiction submissions should be between 800 and 4000ish words. Please include word count. Flash fiction should be under 750ish words, submitted to the flash category. One story per submission.

Nonfiction submissions should be between 800 and 4000ish words. Please include word count. Flash nonfiction should be under 750ish words, submitted to the flash category. One piece per submission.

Poetry submissions should contain no more than 3 poems, up to 6 total pages, one poem per page. 

Please send only one submission per category (Poetry, Fiction, Flash, and Non-Fiction) during each reading period. You are welcome to submit to multiple categories. We suggest including the title of your work in your file name.

Submission fee = $3

We will publish novel excerpts, provided they can stand on their own. We do not publish genre fiction or children’s stories. We encourage you to read archives of South 85 Journal and acquaint yourself with the material we publish before submitting your work. We encourage the use of a content warning if necessary, in consideration of our manuscript readers.

Type should be no smaller than 12-pt. font. Please use a standard font such as Times New Roman or Arial, and refrain from script or “flowery” lettering.

We do not solicit work; each published piece comes to us through Submittable.

We accept simultaneous submissions. If your work is accepted elsewhere, please promptly withdraw your piece via Submittable or email to withdraw individual poems: 

south85journal AT gmail DOT com (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )

Please include a professional bio of 50ish words written in the third person with your cover letter.

We are NOT interested in reading work composed or edited or reviewed with the use of AI. Please–help us keep our journal human!

South 85 Journal does not publish work which has been previously published, either in print or online.

Our reply time is typically eight weeks or so.

We acquire exclusive first-time Internet rights only. All other rights revert to the author at publication, but we offer formal, written reassignments upon request. Works are also archived online.

We are unable to pay for submissions, however thanks to an anonymous donor, ONE piece in the issue will be awarded the Editor’s Choice Award of $100. We ask that whenever an author reprints the work that first appeared in our pages, South 85 Journal be given acknowledgment for the specific work(s) involved.

Interviews: If you would like to conduct an interview with a literary writer with whose book has been published or is forthcoming within the last year or so, please send a query via email:

south85journal AT gmail DOT com (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )

Submit your work here. 

Call for Submissions: trampset

 

Thank you for your interest in trampset. We are looking for short fiction (short stories, flash fiction, and excerpts from longer works), nonfiction (personal essays, literary journalism, flash cnf), and poetry. Prose should be no longer than 3,000 words. Up to three flash or micro pieces may be submitted in a single document. Poetry submissions should contain no more than three poems in a single document. We are not a good home for shape poetry. We also welcome translation submissions if the translator has obtained appropriate permission from the author. We are open to all styles of work though shorter pieces tend to get more love. We welcome diverse voices, including writers working outside academia. We welcome simultaneous submissions but not multiple submissions at once. 

We welcome all tramps but will NOT consider AI or AI-assisted submissions.

Submissions should be uploaded in a single Word document at our Submittable page here.

We have a permanent free submission category we expect most writers to use. We also have a “Tip Jar” option for each genre and a “Quick Response” option for writers wanting to hear back sooner. What we make from tips and the expedited response option goes to our writers and editors and site costs.

Regular response times vary, but we try to respond within 1–3 months, if not sooner. We publish accepted pieces throughout the year and inform the writer when their piece will run. If your work is accepted for publication, you retain all rights. We don’t use contracts. We just ask you give us the honor to publish it first on our website (we consider previously published material from time to time) and the ability to keep it in our archives. Also, as a courtesy, please credit trampset if the work is republished elsewhere. We ask that submitters wait a month after a response before submitting again and contributors wait six months after publication before submitting again.

We pay $30 per accepted piece (must have PayPal). Each year we nominate select pieces for anthologies like Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction, and the Pushcart Prize. Nominees are notified and listed on our site.

Call for Submissions on Theme of "Suspension" : Apus

There are moments in life when we find ourselves suspended: between places, identities, relationships, languages, futures, or versions of ourselves. We drift. We hesitate. We remain unfinished.

Suspension can feel like weightlessness, disorientation, or stillness. It may emerge in the silence before collapse, in the pause before transformation, in the strange calm of no longer belonging entirely to what once held us.To be suspended is not always to be lost. It can be a refusal to settle too quickly into certainty — an unsettling space where desire, memory, and selfhood take shape.

For our third issue, we invite works that dwell in states of suspension — emotional, bodily, political, spatial, linguistic, or otherwise. We welcome work that lingers in ambiguity, experiments with form, and resists easy resolution.

Submission Guidelines

Genres: Fiction, poetry, interviews, nonfiction, and visual art.

Word Limit: Up to 15,000 words (Chinese) or 10,000 words (English). Poetry should not exceed 200 lines.

Pay:
- Prose: Starting from $10 USD per 1,000 words
- Poetry and Visual art: Payment will be determined based on the format and quantity of the submitted work. 

Submission Limit: Each author may submit up to two works for this call.

Submit: Email to:

submit@apuslit.com or via Duotrope 

Deadline: Aug 31, 2026 

Terms and Conditions

Authors takes full responsibility for the content of the submission. It must not involve plagiarism.

We don’t accept previous published work unless it was published on a personal account.

Please refrain from simultaneous submissions.

Please include a brief bio and contact information with your submission.

If you do not receive a response within 30 business days after the deadline, you are free to submit elsewhere.

Apus reserves the right to make editorial revisions to submitted works.

Upon acceptance, Apus reserves first serial, reprint and electronic rights.

Authors should notify Apus immediately if work is no longer avaliable for publication.

Let us know if you have any questions，期待在文字中相会！

Call for Submissions: Feed the Holy

SUBMISSION CALL

These are fraught times. Share positive energy and help people achieve peace of mind and heart. What brings you joy? How do you feed the holy or sacred in your life or community? How do you nurture love and kindness? What is it like to be human in this world? How and why do we suffer? How and why do we grieve? How do we heal? How do we honor nature? Others? Ourselves? The topic is broad and nuanced. However, please read these guidelines and the post with other details about submitting.

Submissions are free and open year round.

1. Submit up to 3 poems, 1 personal essay/memoir, or 1 flash fiction piece at a time. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable, but once we have scheduled the submissions, we will not pull them. Word lengths for prose and fiction are negotiable.

2. Poetry: Left or center-aligned, minimal indenting. Prose: left-aligned

3. I prefer to select the images. However, original art can be submitted to illustrate your post. NO AI-generated images will be accepted.

4. Include a photo of you and a short third-person bio (50 words or less).

5. Reprints are acceptable. Please state where the work was first published.

6. Please proofread and edit before submitting (This includes the bio).

7. Email submissions to:

meelosmom@gmail.com 

In the Subject line, state "FEED THE HOLY SUBMISSION. Attach the submission as a Word document. Use Times New Roman 12.

8. Please pace submissions. Do not resubmit until your piece is published.

9. After publication, all rights revert to the author. If your work is republished in the future, please credit FEED THE HOLY as the previous publisher.

What we DON’T want:

1. NO ranting, racism, antisemitism, sexism, xenophobia, homophobia, or sexually explicit subject matter. No blaming or shaming. No profanity. We aspire to be a diverse community built on mutual respect.

2. This is NOT a forum to promote a religion, a political party, or a product. No horror themes or battles with Satan, please.

3. NO AI-composed writing, only human writing.

Before you submit, please read this post: Why Do We Feed the Holy?

I look forward to your submissions!

Barbara Leonhard, Editor

Writing Competition: StoryBottle Fiction Chapbook Prize

We’re excited to open up our first fiction chapbook contest in 2026. At StoryBottle, we’ve always been interested in immersive storytelling regardless of genre—we want the high-brow literary, the pulpy, the strange, and the stories that don’t fit neatly anywhere at all. Now we’re interested in seeing what happens when story gets cracked open just a little wider. Maybe that thing you’ve been carrying around isn’t a story so much as a fiction object: a handful of linked stories, a collection of flash, one strange novelette, or something harder to classify altogether. We’re looking for the same great, weird work we love publishing at StoryBottle, just with more room to breathe. 

The winner will receive $1,000 and 25 author copies of the perfect-bound chapbook. All entrants will also be considered for publication both as individual stories in StoryBottle online and in print, as well as for future chapbook projects. Send us the thing that doesn’t quite fit anywhere else—we want to see what story can do when the bottle gets a little bigger.

Guidelines:

Deadline: August 15, 2026

Entry Fee: $17

Length: up to 60 pages of fiction

Manuscripts may include any combination of flash fiction, short stories, linked stories, story cycles, or novelettes.

Multiple and simultaneous submissions are fine, but each chapbook must be submitted separately and withdrawn if accepted elsewhere.

Entries must be unpublished in their current manuscript form. Individual stories previously appearing elsewhere are welcome; please include an acknowledgements page listing prior publications.

Don't include your name in the manuscript.

Writers with close personal or professional relationships with the editors are not eligible.

Submit your entry here. 

Poetry Competition: Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize

Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize

Final Judge: Lee Herrick!

Three prizes: $1,000, $500, $250.

Five finalists published in 2026 red Wheelbarrow Literary Magazine.

Letterpress broadside of winning poem printed by Gary Young, Greenhouse Review Press!

The Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize 2026 will be open for submissions on April 1, 2026. Thank you for the opportunity to read your work!

Submit up to three unpublished poems in a single manuscript. Each poem must fit onto one 8.5 x 11 inch page;

Do not include any personal identifiers in the manuscript, manuscript file name, and the title line when submitting;

Short bio acceptable, not required;

Deadline to submit: 31 July 2026;

Fee per manuscript is $15.00;

Simultaneous submission OK but please notify immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere.

The contest is open to all styles of poetry from national and international participants writing in English except individuals who are employees and/or board members for Red Wheelbarrow Literary Magazine and Poetry Center San José.

Submit your entry here.

Call for Submissions: Cleaver Magazine

 

Cleaver Magazine accepts submissions year-round. View our general guidelines below. We are an all-volunteer organization staffed by artists and writers who work together as promoters and stewards of literary and visual arts.

We receive over 3000 submissions a year with an acceptance rate of slightly 7.25%. Submissions are read by our editorial team in chronological order as we make our way through the queue. The wait time for an answer will vary from a few days to several months, but be assured that we read every submission. We try to pass on editorial comments to submitters whenever possible.

From 2013 through 2019 we offered free submissions to all writers. As of January 1, 2020, to help defray the steeply rising costs of the Submittable platform (which now costs us over $1000 per year) and our web hosting platform, we are instituting a $5 submission fee. (Submittable takes a portion of each submission fee, so we receive only $3.76 from every $5.) If the $5 fee presents a hardship, please do not hesitate to email us at:

editor@cleavermagazine.com

and we will send you a no-fee submission link.

If you have a submission still in the queue and have not heard back from us, assume it has been held over for consideration for another issue. For inquiries, thwack us an email: 

editor@cleavermagazine.com.

A few general notes:

• We are currently not accepting art submissions.

• For visual narrative submissions, contact editor Emily Steinberg:

steinberg.emily@gmail.com

• Please don’t email submissions of poetry, fiction, flash, or creative nonfiction unless you have been specifically requested to do so by an editor. Unsolicited emailed submissions are deleted unread. Submissions mailed to our US Post Office box are recycled, unopened.

• We have a separate category for solicited submissions. Please use this category only when requested by an editor.

• Cleaver welcomes diverse human voices, but we do not consider AI-generated or AI-assisted work.

GENERAL LITERARY MAGAZINE SUBMISSIONS GUIDELINES

• Cleaver accepts simultaneous submissions, with immediate notification if work is accepted elsewhere. Previously published work is generally not accepted but we will occasionally consider work shared on personal blogs/websites or work previously published in a limited print-only edition.

• Include your name and full contact information with each submission.

• We'd like to get to know you, so include a brief bio.

• Prose submissions should be single-spaced. We'll still read double-spaced mss, but it's harder for us to read double-spaced mss. through the Submittable interface, so please be nice to our eyes!

• Please include the word count for your submission at the top of the document. Fiction submissions word limit: 4000. Nonfiction word limit: 3000.

• Please wait to hear back from us before submitting a new unsolicited manuscript.

• We operate on a butterknife budget and are unable to pay authors for work at this time. In return for your literary labors, we offer respectful and thwackingly stylish curation.

• If you forget to single-space your submission or include the word count, no worries, we won't hold that against you. We're pretty nice.

• If you would like editorial feedback, check the box and we'll include comments if they are available.

• Our response time is generally 2-4 months for fiction, flash, and essays and 2-12 months for poetry. Occasionally we will respond much faster. We have an all-volunteer staff and many submissions, so please be patient. But if you feel that your piece has been languishing in the cue too long, just email us. Sometimes a submission gets lost in the filters.

• All rights revert to the author upon publication. If you republish your work in a print or other journal, please credit Cleaver for the first publication.

Submit your work here. 

Call for Submissions on Theme of "Winter": subTerrain Magazine

 

subTerrain publishes original fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, essays, and commentary three times a year. Submissions must be previously unpublished material.

subTerrain welcomes submissions from both emerging and established authors. We are happy to consider work from all corners of the identity spectrum, including works by underrepresented writers, including but not limited to writers who are Indigenous, of colour, immigrants, women, LGBTQI+, low-income, no-income, and writers with disabilities. Submitters are welcome to state demographics such as race, age, gender, etc. in their cover letter if they so choose.

WINTER, #105 {GENERAL ISSUE}

This issue will be a general issue featuring fiction, poetry, commentary, and creative nonfiction, plus the winning entries in our 2026 Lush Triumphant Literary Awards, as well as excerpts from forthcoming releases from Canadian indie presses.

SUBMISSIONS OPEN JUNE 12 :: CLOSE: AUGUST 7

Submit via Submittable at the "Submit online" link below. If submitting via snail mail, please identify on the envelope the theme issue for which you are submitting.

Feel free to interpret these themes in unique and unusual ways.

The following are some general guidelines (as always, we suggest READING an issue of the magazine to see what we're all about).

Submissions must be previously unpublished and be:

• typed, double-spaced on 8 1/2 x 11 paper (no disks or e-mail submissions please)

• Fiction: a maximum of 3,000 words. (max. 3 submissions per issue

• Poetry: Poetry should be single-spaced with stanza breaks.

• Creative Non-Fiction: a maximum of 4,000 words. (max. 2 submissions per issue)

• Commentary (social or otherwise): a maximum of 4000 words. (max. 2 submissions per issue)

• Photography & Illustration: we only accept solicited art and photography. Please forward us a link to your work;

Hard copy submissions not accompanied by a SASE (self-addressed, stamped envelope) will not be considered or returned. Submissions from outside Canada: It has come to our attention that IRCs are no longer available in the U.S. Submitters from outside Canada: please DO NOT SEND RETURN ENVELOPES WITH U.S. STAMPS -- WE CANNOT USE U.S. POSTAGE TO MAIL FROM CANADA! Please include your email address with your submission and we will respond via email.

Mail hard copy submissions to:

subTerrain Magazine 
P.O. Box 3008, Station Terminal 
Vancouver, BC V6B 3X5 
CANADA 
TEL: (604) 876-8009
EMAIL: subter@portal.ca

Please do not send submissions via email.

Payment rates for published submissions:

Poetry: $50 per poem
Prose: $.10 per word (to a maximum of $500.)

Submit online 

Writing Competition: The Masters Review Reprint Prize

 

For two weeks this June, The Masters Review is open for submissions of your previously published work! The 2026 Reprint Prize—now in its fourth year—will be open for submissions of previously published prose (under 6,000 words) from June 15 to June 30, 2026. Any fiction or creative nonfiction published prior to June 1, 2025, is eligible. We want to celebrate (or re-celebrate) stories and essays that are no longer available online or in print, or that are looking for an opportunity to find a new audience. As always, we set no limitations on style or topic, but our primary interest is in literary prose.

The winner of this prize, selected by The Masters Review’s editorial staff, will receive a $500 prize and online publication. 

 Guidelines:

• The winner will receive $500 and online publication.

• Submissions of fiction or nonfiction must be under 6,000 words.

• Submitted work must be previously published. Unpublished work will be disqualified. In your cover letter, please indicate when and where your submission has been published.

• Work must be published prior to June 1, 2025.

• Work published in a single-author collection is not eligible for this prize, but work collected in a multiauthor anthology may be submitted. (Note: If the work is included in a collection under contract for 2027 or later with an indie press, it is eligible, provided it meets our other requirements.)

• The submission fee is $10.

• Simultaneous and multiple submissions are allowed, though each submission requires a $10 submission fee.

• This contest is for emerging writers only. Writers with single-author book-length work published or under contract with a major press are ineligible. We are interested in providing a platform to new writers; authors with books published by indie presses are welcome to submit previously published work, as are self-published authors.

• Former TMR contributors are welcome to submit work published elsewhere. Work previously published by TMR, including in New Voices, the Anthology, or for one of our other contests, is not eligible for this prize.

• International submissions are allowed, provided the work is written primarily in English.

• No translations, please.

• All submissions must be double-spaced with one-inch page margins and use 12pt Times New Roman or Garamond font.

The contest’s deadline is 11:59pm PDT on June 30, 2026.

• All entries are considered for general publication.

• We do not require blind submissions for this contest. The winner will be selected by The Masters Review’s editorial staff.

All submissions will receive a response by the end of September, and the winner will be announced by the end of October. If we are unable to meet this timeline, we will notify all submitters of the extension.
AI-generated or -assisted submissions will be automatically disqualified. This includes using LLMs (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or similar) to translate your work.
Friends, family, and associates of The Masters Review’s editorial staff are not eligible to submit.

Editorial Letter Option

If you’re interested in getting feedback on your writing, utilize our editorial letter add-on option. Our response to your submission will be accompanied by a one- to two-page letter from an experienced guest editor, who will offer observations on the strengths of the piece as well as opportunities for revision. Your editor may also offer further submission and reading suggestions, or other comments on craft. A significant portion of the additional fee is paid directly to your feedback editor. See a sample editorial letter.

Submit your entry here. 

Call for Submissions: Bamboo Ridge Press

Bamboo Ridge Press 

Submissions must be hard copy and mailed to:

BAMBOO RIDGE PRESS
PO BOX 61781
HONOLULU HI 96839-1781

Please note that online submissions will not be accepted and that unsolicited full-length manuscripts will not be considered for publication. 

Deadline: July 15, 2026

Submissions must be:

• Typewritten, double-spaced (with the exception of poetry), in at least 12-point font, with 1-inch margins on one side of 8.5″ x 11″ white paper

• No more than 5,000 words, approximately 20 pages, of prose

• No more than 10 pages of poetry, up to 5 poems per author

• Include a cover letter (see cover letter section)

Simultaneous submissions are allowed. If accepted by another publication, please notify us ASAP via email to:

read@bambooridge.org 

to withdraw your work.

**Previously published work will not be accepted. Please do not submit AI generated writing.

If you are quoting material such as song lyrics, it must be in the public domain or you must provide permission(s) from the copyright holder(s) to reprint the
quoted material.

If you would like your manuscript to be returned, please include a self-addressed stamped envelope with sufficient postage. Please do not send your only copy of your writing; we will not be responsible for lost or damaged manuscripts.

Notification of acceptance (only) will be made by email and will include instructions for sending the digital file needed for production. Please be sure the digital file is the exact version submitted to the editors or note any edits you have made. Significant changes might affect the editors’ decision.

Rejection letters will be mailed only if an SASE is included with the submission.

What we’re looking for:
Thought-provoking and unforgettable pieces that sustain us. Work that inspires and connects us. While we invite submissions from all writers, we’re especially interested in seeing works that align with the Bamboo Ridge Press mission statement to publish literature by, for, or about the people of Hawai‘i.

What we’re NOT looking for:
We are not looking for work that promotes hate speech, presents stereotypes, and/or romanticizes or exoticizes a culture, place, or people. Work that is clearly racist, homophobic, ableist, sexist, classist, or anti-trans will not be considered.

By submitting, the author certifies that all work is the author’s own original writing.

Again, if the work includes anything not written by the author, then the author must clearly indicate in the work what is quoted material and include an attribution assigning proper credit. If the quoted material (including song lyrics) is copyrighted and not in the public domain, the author must also provide the press with permission(s) to reprint any such quoted material.

If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to email <read@bambooridge.org> or call 808-626-1481.

Please include a cover letter
We’d love to get to know the person behind the pages! When you send your work, please use your cover letter to introduce yourself. To make sure we have your correct information on file, let us know:
Your Work: The title or titles (in the case of poetry) of your submission.

Your Details: Your full name and your byline (the name you’d like to see in print), as well as your mailing address, email, and phone number.

Your Story: A short bio about who you are and what you do.

Your Ties: We’re always interested in the different ways our writers are tied to Hawaiʻi and its community. Share something with us (e.g., what moku you from, what school you wen grad, how you stay connected).

Your Link to Us: How did you and Bamboo Ridge first cross paths?

Selected contributors will retain rights to their work and receive an honorarium, two complimentary copies of the issue, and a 50% discount when purchasing additional copies directly from BRP. 

Writing Competition: The Bridport Prize Memoir Award

Your own story
In your own words

We all have a story to tell about ourselves, the good, the bad and the how did I end up there? Celebrate a snapshot of your life, a fragment in time or rear view mirror look at what was and now is.

We initially need 5,000 to 8,000 words plus a 300 word overview. If you’re long listed we’ll ask for a total of 15,000 words, including your original word count. Shortlisted? Then we need a total 30,000 words, again including your original entry and long listed word count.

It’s your moment of truth.

Fees: £26 per memoir.

Entries must be submitted online or by post. No email submissions.

Deadline: September 30, 2026

First prize: £1,500

You will receive a year’s mentoring from The Literary Consultancy through their Chapter & Verse scheme. You’ll also have the chance to consult with A.M. Heath, a leading London literary agency, plus get valuable advice from an editor at John Murray, part of Hachette publishers. You have the option of a discussion with the University of Exeter’s Creative Writing Department. In addition, the opening chapter/s of your memoir will be published on our website. Finally, we will always champion you as part of our Bridport Prize family.

Runner up
£750

Your full manuscript will be assessed by The Literary Consultancy with invaluable editorial feedback. You’ll be offered the option of a discussion with the University of Exeter’s Creative Writing Department. Your memoir’s opening chapter/s will also be published on our website. And, you’ll always be part of the Bridport Prize family.

Highly Commended
£150 x 3 awards

You’ll receive a 15,000 word manuscript appraisal from The Literary Consultancy, plus an invitation to an industry day with agents and publishers. You’ll also have the option of a discussion with the University of Exeter’s Creative Writing Department. Finally, you’ll always be part of the Bridport Prize family.

The Memoir competition is open internationally to writers aged 16+ writing in English.

The memoir submission / results timetable can be seen here.

• Your memoir does not need to be completed to submit. We accept work in progress.
• Entries must be entirely your own work and submission is confirmation of this. Any evidence to the contrary will result in disqualification.
• Co-authored work is not eligible.
• Work must not have won or been placed – 1st, 2nd, 3rd – in another competition. Long and short listed work is eligible as long as a cash prize was not awarded and no more than 8,000 words of the commended memoir has been previously published in print or online.
• Writers must not be represented by a literary agent or under contract with a traditional publisher, at the point of submission or at the long listing or shortlisting stages. We will ask you to re-confirm eligibility if selected.
• If you receive an offer of representation while your memoir is under consideration, you must inform us and withdraw.
• Entrants must not have previously published a memoir although previously self-published memoirs, both in print and e-book form are accepted.
• Entrants who have had other types of books traditionally published e.g.) poetry or a novel, are eligible.

For clarity, ‘published’ means where a publisher has selected a work on editorial grounds for their list and that list publishes different writers, as opposed to it being comprised of one author’s works, and where the author has not paid that publisher to do so.

• Simultaneous submissions are allowed but will become ineligible should they win a prize elsewhere, be published or receive notification of future publication while the competition is still being judged. Entry fees will not be refunded. You must inform us immediately should your entry be published or win a prize elsewhere.
• Translations into English are eligible provided the source text and translation are both the entrant’s own original work and it has not been previously published in the UK.
• Entries submitted posthumously are not eligible.

If you have a query about eligibility, please contact:

support@bridportprize.org.uk

More information and entry portal here. 

Call for Submissions that Celebrate the Spirit of the Midwest: The Dolomite Review

Submissions for The Dolomite Review are now open for the Fall 2026 issue.

We seek writing that tells a story—whether driven by plot or character, it should pull readers in through vivid voices and authentic moments. The Dolomite Review celebrates the spirit of the Midwest and the art of storytelling in all its forms. We welcome submissions from both emerging and established writers.

We welcome fiction, poetry, and first-person essays that resonate with clarity, curiosity, and depth. Beginning with the Fall 2026 issue, The Dolomite Review will award $50 each to one featured poem, one featured short story, and one featured essay per issue. Featured selections are chosen at the sole discretion of the editorial staff based on editorial vision and are not determined by submission order, theme, or author status. Our submission fee for all manuscripts is still $3.50.

The Dolomite Review also welcomes art by Midwest photographers. We’re seeking compelling images that capture the landscapes, communities, and atmosphere of the Midwest. Submission is free, though we are unable to offer payment for published photography at this time. Please send submissions directly to:\

info (at) thedolomitereview (dot) com (Change (at) to @ and (dot) to . )

Note that work may be used throughout the magazine and may be lightly edited for size or layout. Credit will be given, though it may not appear directly beneath the image.

The Dolomite Review is an online-only publication.​

If your work is accepted, we request first electronic rights, as well as the right to archive your piece on our website. After publication, all rights revert to you, with the understanding that The Dolomite Review will be credited as the original publisher should your work appear elsewhere.

We look forward to reviewing your work and discovering the voices and art that will shape our next issue.

More information and submission portal here. 

Call for Submissions: East Jasmine Review

 

Established in 2013, East Jasmine Review is an electronic literary magazine that publishes quality fiction, nonfiction, poetry, articles and reviews. 

 

Our first goal is to publish diverse voices that may not have mainstream access or traditional access to publishing. This includes but is not limited to LGBTQIA, ethnic minorities, women, lower socio-economic status, those who are older or younger, religious minorities, and non-American persons. We are looking to build an inclusive online community and audience for our voices.

 

Our second goal is to earn enough revenue to pay for 1) web hosting fees, 2) promotional material, and 3) small publication payments to authors. Our third goal is move into online and print publication in addition to electronic.

We are primarily looking for unpublished works, though we may consider previously published works (please have the rights to re-publish this, if you are not sure, contact the publisher). By submitting, you agree to give us the First Electronic Rights to print this as an online serial magazine. All rights revert to the author upon publication.

As a contributor to the East Jasmine Review, you will be given the electronic publication in .epub, .mobi, and .pdf to view your work. We ask that you refrain from distributing your work to others.

Find us on twitter @EJReview and like our page on Facebook. Visit our website at:

 

www.eastjasminereview.com
 

Submit online here:

 

eastjasminereview.submittable.com/submit

Fiction

• We do not accept multiple submissions in fiction.

• We are looking for original, unpublished fiction. Any genre is acceptable. We are looking for flash fiction and longer works of fiction. Work should be under 5000 words. We tend to like work that is a little shorter—the longer it is, the better it should be!

• We love the feeling, the “sigh,” after we read a great story that lingers for a moment to several hours.

Poetry

• Submit 1-5 poems in a single document. We do not accept multiple submissions in poetry (only one document with 1-5 poems).

• We are looking for fresh poetry of any type. We have no set aesthetic. Poetry should be previously unpublished elsewhere.

Creative Nonfiction

• Please upload only one creative nonfiction story of less than 5000 words at a time. We do not accept multiple submissions for creative nonfiction.

• We are looking for fresh, insightful creative nonfiction that tells a story—whether it is your story or a story you know well. We are also looking for beautifully told stories or events of everyday life.

Articles

• Articles should be under 4000 words. We do not accept multiple submissions for articles.

• We primarily looking for articles on the craft and art of writing in any of the three major genres. Articles can cover any sort of topic as long as it pertains to writing or the writing lifestyle. If you have a topic in mind that doesn’t fit these guidelines please query us at:

 editor@eastjasminereview.com

 

with “Article Query” as the subject.

Reviews

• Please upload a review of no more than 1200 words.

• We are looking for insightful reviews of creative works that give us the heart of piece. Please keep your reviews professional.

Call for Submissions: The Rome Review

We accept submissions for previously unpublished fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry and hybrid texts. If your work is accepted, we will ask you for a high quality photo portrait and/or an original artwork to attach to your work. Do not send this to us upon submission.

Deadline: June 30, 2026 

Send your most polished work to:

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

with a 80-words-long, third-person bio. We will only accept submissions in a .docx file, titled as “GENRE_TITLE_LAST NAME”. Please also write “GENRE_TITLE_LAST NAME“ in the subject of your email. Also, include your social media links, handles and whatnot. This prevents us from searching for you online and possibly tagging the wrong person on Instagram.

We do accept translations, in English, in all categories. Be sure to secure the rights before submitting to us. Include the original work in the submission.

Writers from underrepresented backgrounds are strongly encouraged to submit.

AI-generated works are strictly forbidden.

We are not (yet) a paying market.

We will not publish the same author twice.

FICTION/CREATIVE NONFICTION: one to three thousand words. We are above genre, so feel free to amaze. Novel excerpts are accepted. Please include “TITLE_WORD COUNT_GENRE” in the header of your .docx file. Times new roman, 12 point font size, double spaced is preferable.

POETRY: up to 6 poems of whatever length and style.

HYBRID: Anything that dares to err so far from the boundaries of narrative that even the term experimental becomes meaningless. Please include “TITLE_WORD COUNT_GENRE” in the header of your .docx file.

Call for Submissions: The New Times "Modern Love"

Although Modern Love has evolved over the years into a podcast, a book, a TV show and Tiny Love Stories, the column’s central mission remains the same: to publish honest personal essays about contemporary relationships.

We seek true stories on finding love, losing love and trying to keep love alive. We welcome essays that explore subjects such as adoption, polyamory, technology, race and friendship — anything that could reasonably fit under the heading “Modern Love.” Ideally, essays should spring from some central dilemma you have faced. It is helpful, but not essential, for the situation to reflect what is happening in the world now.

The best way to see the range of styles and subjects we publish is to read the column and listen to the podcast. There’s a Google doc of tips from the editor that someone culled from the Modern Love Facebook page (some details are out of date, but nearly all of the advice is still generally applicable).

Love may be universal, but individual experiences can differ immensely and be informed by factors including race, socio-economic status, gender, disability status, nationality, sexuality, age, religion and culture. We especially encourage Black and Indigenous people and other people of color to submit, as well as writers outside of the United States and those who identify as members of L.G.B.T.Q communities.

How do I submit?

Send submissions to:

modernlove@nytimes.com 

Please put the subject of your essay or a possible title in the email subject line.

Limit your essay to 1,500-1,700 words.

Attach your essay as a Microsoft Word-compatible doc and paste the text into the body of the email. If your first submission is incomplete, please resubmit one complete entry; do not submit just the missing pieces in additional emails.

Essays must be entirely true. Do not use pseudonyms (including for yourself), composite characters or invented situations or scenes. There are no exceptions to this rule.

Essays must be previously unpublished. Work that has appeared online — on another news website, a personal blog, Medium or elsewhere — is considered previously published.

Do not submit any material for publication that has been input into or contains content generated, modified or enhanced by generative-A.I. tools.

\Essays will be edited in consultation with writers, and writers will be compensated for work that is published.

We attempt to respond to every submission within three or four months, though response times may vary because of the high.

PLEASE NOTE: Modern Love has two submission periods, September through December and March through June. We do not accept submissions in July, August, January or February. Submissions made during those months will be deleted unread. Please submit again when the inbox reopens.

Payment unspecified. 

Call for Submissions: Phylum Press Journal

 

We pay $10 to all authors accepted in our journals.

Deadline: June 30, 2026 

About the Journal

Phylum Press’ quarterly journal accepts submissions of poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, and visual art of any subject. While we love to receive works that relate to each ISSUE’s theme, we do not preference those submissions over others.

NOTE – We only accept visual art which relates to the ISSUE’s theme. This relation can be as loose as you’d like, but it has to exist.

Each year, Phylum will choose 4 different species from a phylum within the natural world. These four species will be the names and inspiration for each ISSUE we publish during that year.

Current Phylum: Magnoliophyta

Magnoliophyta includes all forms (flowering plants without a woody stem), grasses and grass-like plants, a vast majority of broad-leaved trees, shrubs and vines, and most aquatic plants.

Current ISSUE: Red Twig Dogwood

We’re looking for pieces that reflect the red twig dogwood; a plant that grows through winter, showing that even in the harshest of times, it can still beat the odds. We want pieces that reflect perseverance and strength!

Submissions are due June 30th.

Submission Rules 

Fiction/Creative Non-Fiction: up to 5,000 words
Poetry: up to five pages
Visual Art: up to five pieces

Simultaneous submissions are allowed. Phylum Press is made up of writers just like you, and we know how hard submitting can be. That being said, please only submit your original, unpublished work, without ANY AI involvement.

How to Submit

Please email submissions to:

phylumpress@gmail.com

with: Your work attached as a PDF file.
“SUBMISSION – [Last name, Title]” as the subject line.
The category/genre of your piece.
A 100 word author bio.
Confirmation that the piece is your own work, and you will inform us if it is published elsewhere.

NOTE – If we think your work is not quite there, we may offer you a conditional acceptance and request some edits. It is your right as an author to determine whether or not you want to take our suggestions, but refusing may impact whether the piece is accepted for publication.

Call for Submissions on Theme of "Rights of Passage": Conjunctions

 

The submission window for our Fall 2026 print issue, Conjunctions:86, Rights of Passage and Conjunctions Online will open on Friday, June 5th, and close a full month later at midnight on Friday, July 5th. All submissions will also be considered for our weekly online magazine, which is not subject to thematic restrictions.

How to Submit

Submissions will be accepted electronically via Submittable twice a year, during our fall and winter reading periods. Please check back here or follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Bluesky or subscribe to our newsletter for the earliest information about our reading periods for each issue.

What to Submit

Conjunctions publishes short- and long-form fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and hybrid texts. We do not publish academic essays or book reviews.

All submissions must be in English and previously unpublished. We will consider works in translation for which the translator has secured the rights.

All work submitted to Conjunctions must be written entirely by a human author. Generative AI tools may not be used to write, draft or outline submitted content, with rare exception made for pieces that engage with the tool in an intentional, artistic, and transparent manner. While basic spell-checking and grammar tools are acceptable, any submission found to be partially or wholly generated by artificial intelligence will be rejected. Any use of AI in the creation of a piece must be disclosed in your submission.

Although we have no official restrictions regarding word count, most of the manuscripts we select for publication are under eight thousand words long. For poetry submissions, we suggest sending half a dozen poems, depending on length.

We strongly suggest that writers new to Conjunctions read our recent issues to acquaint themselves with our publications.

ACCESSING CONJUNCTIONS

Are you familiar with our work? Sign up for our newsletter to read new writing in our online magazine every week or order a print issue.

If a disability prevents you from using Submittable, please email info@conjunctions.com.

Fee

For writers with disabilities or other medical problems that are causing serious financial hardships, or similar hardships due to unemployment or other exigencies, Conjunctions is pleased to waive our $4 fee for work submitted through Submittable. Please note that this modest fee helps us pay for processing and operating costs.

Submit your work here. 

Call for Submissions: Hayduke Irish Lives!

 Hayduke Irish Lives! 

To submit to Hayduke Irish Lives!, send your work to:

haydukeirish@gmail.com

Submission guidelines:

Fiction:

12 pt font, double-spaced, up to 6500 words. No naming politicians.

The work should be satirical.

Do not name any politicians.

Poetry:

Will also accept poetry, but… like for real… It’s got to be funny.

Humorous Non-Fiction:

These are dangerous waters. I will not accept any non-fiction about any living political person. If you got something that doesn’t break that rule and is funny, I’d love to hear about it. 6500 words maximum.

Illustration:

I am specifically looking for fake advertisements that mock other real advertisements. Political cartoons are acceptable. However, name no politicians.

The idea is that this magazine will be clever. Please try to follow that particular instruction.

I’m aiming to have a one-month turnaround time. I will be offering $.01-.03 / word , $10 per illustration or poem. I will pay more for the feature and try to run a contest. The current contest pays $200 for the feature article, which will be chosen from fiction and non-fiction submissions.

I am targeting printing every other month starting in August, 2026.

I reserve the right to extend the deadline if not enough submissions are received.

If you want feedback, let me know in the submission email, and I’ll try.

You can pay me for dedicated feedback. This is entirely optional and not at all expected. It will not help or hurt your chances of publication.

WHAT THE EDITOR WANTS:

Satire (n.):

The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.

This administration can’t take a joke. So I want to tell jokes that they won’t get. It won’t be that hard.

Satire is sneaky funny, so be sneaky funny. You may notice a particular trend above:

Name no politician.

We all know who you’re talking about. This is a clever magazine for clever people… so please be clever.

SUBMIT AT:

haydukeirish@gmail.com

We can’t wait to read your work.

–HD

Writing Competition: The Richard J. Margolis Award

Richard J. Margolis Award
For nonfiction writers of social-justice journalism

The Richard J. Margolis Award is given annually to a promising new journalist or essayist whose nonfiction work combines warmth, humor and wisdom and sheds light on issues of social justice.

​The award honors the life of Richard J. Margolis (1929-1991), a renowned journalist, essayist and poet who gave eloquent voice to the rural poor, migrant farmworkers, Native Americans, aging adults and others whose voices are seldom heard. He also wrote several books for children.

The award combines a one-month residency at Blue Mountain Center, an acclaimed writers' and artists' colony in New York’s Adirondack Mountains, with a $10,000 prize (effective with the 2025 award). Finalists receive $1,000.

How to Apply for the Richard J. Margolis Award

The winner of the annual Richard J. Margolis Award is announced in November, with the Blue Mountain Lake residency taking place in the following summer or fall.

Applications are accepted year round but must be received by July 1 for consideration for the current-year award. Applications received after this date will be considered for the award in the following year.

 Application Guidelines

Submit the following materials either as separate documents or combined into one or more documents as specified below:

A cover letter stating your interest in and qualifications for the award;

A project description of your current and anticipated work and what you will work on during your Blue Mountain residency;

A brief biographical note; and

Two to three samples of your work, published or unpublished, meeting the following criteria:

Nonfiction samples only (no fiction or poetry);

30 pages maximum; and

At least one sample being non-memoir material.

When submitting samples, please bear in mind the selection criteria for the Margolis Award. The award is designed to help developing journalists make progress on non-fiction writing projects that reflect important social values. The Selection Committee judges applications on the quality of the writing samples and the relevance and potential impact of the proposed project. Submitted samples should all be non-fiction pieces that give a clear indication of the applicant's ability to write well and apply journalistic skills effectively.

All materials may be emailed as PDF files (preferred!) to:

award@margolis.com 

Please name all files starting with your last name (e.g., Smith-cover letter+description.pdf, Smith-writing sample.pdf, etc.).

If submitting paper materials, mail them to the address below. Please note that we cannot return samples.

Richard J. Margolis Award

c/o Margolis & Bloom
20 William Street
Suite 320
Wellesley, MA 02481

More information here. 

Writing Competition: Barbara Mandigo Kelly Peace Poetry Awards

The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, a non-profit, non-partisan 501(c)3 organization based in Santa Barbara, California, hosts an annual poetry contest called the Barbara Mandigo Kelly Peace Poetry Awards.

The awards contest is an annual series of awards to encourage poets to explore and illuminate positive visions of peace and the human spirit. The Poetry Awards include three age categories: Adult, Youth 13-18, and Youth 12 & Under.

The 2026 Barbara Mandigo Kelly Peace Poetry Awards

Poetry has a way of moving us past facts and immersing us into an experience. The Barbara Mandigo Kelly Peace Poetry Awards encourages poets to do just that. There are three age categories: Adult, Youth 13-18, and Youth 12 & Under.

The deadline for entries is July 1, 2026.

The annual contest is open to people worldwide. Poems must be original, unpublished, and in English.

Deadline

Email your poem(s) in a Microsoft Word attachment (.doc or .docx) to:

cwarner@napf.org

Mail entries to:

Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
David Krieger House
1622 Anacapa Street
Santa Barbara, CA 93101

All entries must be postmarked (or emailed) by July 1, 2026.

 Awards

Adult Winner – $1,000
Youth (13 to 18) Winner – $200
Youth (12 and under) Winner – $200

We may award Honorable Mentions in each category.

Entry Fee

Adults – $15 for up to three poems
Youth (13 to 18) – $5
Youth (12 and under) – no fee 

If submitting on paper, please make checks payable to Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.
Cash and money order are also accepted.

Judging

Judging will be done by a committee of poets selected by the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. Copies of the winning poems from previous years are available here.
Winners

Winners and Honorable Mentions will be announced by October 15th, 2026 on the NAPF website. Winners will be notified by email and/or mail. Past years’ winning poems can be found here. 

More information and payment portals here.

Call for Submissions: Thin Places

Thin Places invites submissions of new, unpublished writing which explores the intersection of place, space and the sacred. While this might usually involve geographical places, other interpretations of the theme are also welcome. Please check back for occasional themed calls.

Please submit up to three poems of any length, or one piece of fiction or creative nonfiction of up to 2000 words. Simultaneous submissions are welcome – please inform us if a piece is accepted elsewhere and you wish to withdraw it.

Submissions should be accompanied by a short biographical note. If you would like to submit an original image or photograph with your submission you are welcome to do so, in the body of the Word document.

All rights remain with the original poets and authors. In the future we may produce print anthologies and will contact you if we wish to include your pieces published here. Currently, the journal will publish an edition bi-monthly available online here at Thin Places. The second issue will be published in July 2026.

We are sorry not to offer payment currently. We hope to revisit this in the future, funds permitting.

All submissions should be via DUOSOMA – submissions for Issue Two will close on June 25th. We’ll generally do our best to respond within a month, after which you are welcome to raise a query with the editors.

If you would like to read more. you might like to look at the poetry anthology THIN PLACES & SACRED SPACES, published by Amethyst Press, our sister-publication.

Call for Submissions: Prairie Fire

For General Submissions: Prairie Fire accepts ONE submission per category (Poetry, Fiction, Creative Non-Fiction) every twelve months. Once you have submitted, please wait twelve months before submitting to General Submissions again.

Deadline: June 30, 2026 

Poems: A maximum of 5 poems per submission.

Maximum word count for Fiction and Non-Fiction: 10,000 words.

Prairie Fire only accepts original, previously unpublished work.

We do not accept work that utilizes AI (artificial intelligence), algorithmic, machine-learning, or computer-generated text of any sort.

We ask that you let us know if your work is also submitted elsewhere, and, if it is accepted, to notify us right away.

Your submission should be typed (double-spaced) on one side of the page only (snail mail). Poetry may be single-spaced.

Left and right margins of at least 1 inch, and top and bottom margins of at least 1 inch.

Each page of poetry must contain your name and address at the top left.

For fiction and creative non-fiction, centre the title halfway down on the first page, with your name below it. Include a word count at the top right corner of the first page and your address at the top left corner. Make sure your pages are numbered.

A maximum of 5 poems per submission.

Maximum word count for Fiction and Non-Fiction: 10,000 words.

Please do not send multiple submissions simultaneously.

PRINT RATES

Prose: $0.10 per word
Poetry: $40 per poem

FICTION:
Short fiction, excerpts from longer works: maximum fee $250 

ARTICLES, CREATIVE NON-FICTION, EDITORIALS, ESSAYS, MEMOIRS:
Maximum fee $250

INTERVIEWS, PROFILES:
Maximum fee subject: $75; interviewer: $125

OTHER PROSE:
Correspondence, notes, plays, scripts, etc.: maximum fee $50

VISUAL ART RATES
FRONT COVER: $100 for reprint rights
ILLUSTRATIONS, PORTFOLIOS: $25 per page for reprint rights

ONLINE RATES
INTERVIEWS: $0.10 per word: maximum fee subject $75; interviewer $100

Submit your work here. 

Call for Fiction Submissions: Short Story Long

Short Story Long is a Substack publication.

NOTE: Submissions will be open June 2026. 

Deadline: June 30, 2026

We're generally open for one month at a time, 2-4 times per year. Would love to have a bit more of an organized schedule for these open windows, but still kinda figuring out what would make the most sense. Right now, we're been opening for submissions when we need them + have the time + have gotten through the last batch.

When submissions are open, guidelines usually look like this:

• Short stories, 2k-8k words long (with the 3,000-5,500 range being our real sweet spot).

• What are we looking for? Honestly, best indicator is to read a story or two we've already published. Second best indicator is to generally be familiar with Aaron's taste and what he's published on HAD, and Hobart before that.

• Every published story will be paired with original art, and both writer and artist are each paid $150. (Becoming a paid subscriber helps pay contributors!)

Thank you for all the great reading! 

Submit your work here. 

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.