Call for Submissions: Bracken

Bracken magazine is open to submissions for Issue V. We are a literary magazine with leaning toward magic realism and old-world storytelling, and yes we love the woods. We are looking for short fiction (under 2500 words), poetry, and art. We pay $.02/word for fiction, $15/poem, and negotiated rate for covers.

Writing Fellowships: The Fine Arts Work Center

Program:

Each year, the Fine Arts Work Center awards ten Fellowships to emerging* writers in fiction and poetry. Each Fellow stays for seven months, and is provided with living space and a modest stipend. Fellows do not pay or work in exchange for their Fellowships in any way. The term of the upcoming Fellowship is October 1, 2018 to May 1, 2019.  

About the Fine Arts Work Center:

Located at the tip of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, the Work Center offers a unique residency for emerging writers and visual artists. Former writing Fellows--nearly all of whom came here before the publication of their first books--have won every major national award in writing, including eight Pulitzer Prizes, the National Book Award, and dozens of Guggenheim Fellowships. Former writing Fellows include Michael Cunningham, Louise Glück, Denis Johnson, Jhumpa Lahiri, Marie Howe, and Yusef Komunyakaa.

To Apply:

Submit 15 pages of poetry or 35 pages of fiction, along with a CV, optional personal statement, and $50 application fee. Application available here.

For more information, see our website or contact Sophia Starmack, Fellowship Writing Coordinator, at:

sstarmackATfawcDOTorg (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )

 

*FAWC defines "emerging writers" as those who have not yet published a full-length creative work in any  genre. See website for complete guidelines.

Call for Submissions: Nebo: A Literary Journal

Calling all poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, graphic novelists, and visual artists!

 

Please consider submitting your work to Nebo: A Literary Journal, Arkansas Tech University’s literary journal. Nebo has been publishing quality work for 45 years and has published writers from all over the world.

 

Nebo accepts submissions year round. We’re interested in all kinds of creative work—fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, drama, comics, art, etc.

 

Send your submissions as an attachment to:

 

neboATatuDOTedu (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )
Please include a brief, 3rd person author bio of no more than 100 words.
Simultaneous submissions and multiple submissions are fine. Please let us know if your work gets accepted for publication elsewhere.
We are also happy to consider reprints from print journals. Please let us know where the piece was published previously.
Submissions should include no more than 5,000 words of prose, five poems, or 20 pages of comics.

Call for Submissions: Red Earth Review

Red Earth Review, a literary magazine published by the Red Earth MFA program at Oklahoma City University, is now accepting submissions for our sixth edition. Much like the program that shares its name, Red Earth Review seeks writers who are genuine, grounded, and fearless. Send us poetry or prose that is firm in the foundation of its craft and steadfast in its soul. Our submission guidelines are below. We look forward to reading your work.

We accept fiction, both literary and genre, creative nonfiction, poetry, and encourage new and emerging writers to submit.

The deadline for submissions is November 1, 2017 or 300 submissions, whichever comes first. The target release date is July 2018.

Submit one to five previously unpublished poems or one short story (fewer than 7,500 words) or one essay (fewer than 7,500 words). Poets: Please submit each work separately--in other words, please do not put more than one poem in a file. You'll need to make new submissions for each poem. Submissions should be in a word document file (.doc or .docx).

If our Submittable page says "No Active Categories," before November 1, then we have reached 300 submissions. Red Earth Review has chosen to limit the number of submissions in order to assure that we can give submissions the readings they deserve. Please include a bio in the bio section of the submission form; bios must be 150 words or less. Submissions that do not follow guidelines on the Submittable page will not be read.

Simultaneous submissions are allowed, but if your submitted work is accepted elsewhere, please withdraw your submission using your Submittable account.

Payment is a contributor’s copy of Red Earth Review. After first publication, all rights revert to the author/artist.

We reserve the right to determine whether material submitted should be published or not.

For more information and to read free PDFs of Issues 1 through 5, check out our website.

Call for Submissions: Glassworks

Glassworks, the literary magazine of Rowan University’s Master of Arts in Writing graduate program, seeks work to be considered for publication.

Glassworks publishes nonfiction, fiction, poetry, hybrid pieces, craft essays, new media, and art both digitally and in print. We are currently reading until December 15, 2017 for our spring and fall 2018 print issues.

We also publish flash fiction, prose poetry, and micro essays monthly in our online edition Flash Glass. Submissions for Flash Glass are accepted on a year-round, rolling basis.

More information about our magazine, sample issues, and our submission manager can be found at our website.

Call for Submissions: The Hitchlit Review

The Hitchlit Review Seeks Fiction, Poetry, and Creative Nonfiction on the Theme of Women and Secularism

 

Deadline: November 17, 2017

 

The Hitchlit Review is seeking high-quality submissions that explore secularism(s) and feminism(s) for our “Women’s Issue.” Some themes we’d love to see explored:

-Education & Secularism
-Romantic Partnerships & Secularism
-Workplace Secularism
-Domestic Secularism
-Race & Secularism
-Indigenous Feminism & Secularism
-Islamic Feminism & Secularism
-International Secularism

 

Of course, we don’t always know what we want until we see it, so if your writing approaches feminism and secularism, we’d love to see it. It’s also worth noting, we the editors believe the best submissions explore these issues obliquely, with subtlety, and push beyond easy stereotypes.

 

We’re looking for short fiction up to 3500 words, flash fiction up to 1000 words, poetry (no poems longer than two pages), and creative nonfiction up to 3500 words. You are welcome to submit in one category for this issue only. We are open to experimental styles as well as writing with more traditional narrative focuses. Above all we want your literary approaches to secularism and feminism. International writers who write in English are welcome—and translations are welcome on a case-by-case basis. Please query us with your translation project.

 

Submissions can be sent in an attachment (word documents and pdfs only) to

 

hitchlitreviewATgmailDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )

 

with the subject line “Women’s Issue.”

For more detailed submission guidelines, see our website.

Writing Competition: The Frost Place Chapbook Competition

The Frost Place Chapbook Competition 

Submissions open October 1 for the Frost Place Chapbook Competition, open to all poets writing in English.

Deadline: Jan. 5, 2018

In summer 2018, the winner’s chapbook will be published by Bull City Press, and the winner will receive 10 complimentary copies (from a print run of 300), and a $250.00 stipend. The winner will also receive a full fellowship to attend the five-and-a-half-day Poetry Seminar at The Frost Place in August 2018, including room and board (a cash value of approximately $1,500.00), and will give a featured reading from the chapbook at the Seminar. In addition, the chapbook fellow will have the option to spend one week living and writing in The Frost Place House-Museum in September 2018 (peak leaf season in the White Mountains), at a time agreed upon by the fellow and The Frost Place.

The 2018 judge is Sandra Lim.