Writing Competition: River Styx Microfiction Contest

 

River Styx Microfiction Contest: $1000 Prize and Publication

Deadline: December 31, 2020

River Styx offers a prize of $1,000 for a single microfiction story of 500 words or fewer. The top three stories will be published, and all stories will be considered for publication.

Your choice of entry fee: $20 to receive a one-year (two issue) subscription or $15 to receive just the issue with the winning stories. Submit up to three stories per entry, maximum 500 words per story. Additional stories may be submitted with additional fees. Submissions may not be previously published either in print or online. Submit via mail or Submittable. Complete guidelines are posted here.

Writing Competition: Gemini Magazine 11th Annual Poetry Open

Gemini Magazine 11th Annual Poetry Open

Deadline: January 2, 2021

Gemini Magazine pays $1,000 for a single poem of any length. We have no rules. We are open to any type of poetry, any subject, any style. Rhyming or non-rhyming. Traditional or non-traditional. Anyone writing in English is eligible. All entries are read blind so everyone gets an equal chance. All entries are also considered for publication in future issues. Second prize: $100. Four honorable mentions: $25 each.

Entry fee: $8 for three poems. All six winners will be published online in our March 2020 issue.

Read previous winners and enter here.

Call for Submissions: Volney Road

Volney Road Review Paying for Prose, Poetry, Art, and Comics

Deadline: February 1, 2021

Volney Road Review is a literary magazine based in Youngstown, Ohio. We are currently open to submissions of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction up to 3,500 words, art/photography, and comics for VRR volume 3, Issue 2.

We publish digitally and pay $10 per accepted piece. 

Call for Submissions: Tribes Magazine Online

Poetry

Tribes Magazine Online publishes poetry from new, emerging, and established poets alike, elevating traditionally underrepresented and revolutionary voices. We look to present a diversity of perspectives, topics and styles.

Our editors are especially interested in poetry that showcases distinct perspectives and aesthetics; poetry that captures a truth, unleashes the wild, or gives voice to the previously unspoken. We mostly favor poetry that exhibits deep passion for its subject matter.

Guidelines:

• Send a single Word doc, including your name at the top of the first page, as an email attachment (if you do not have word, you may send the poetry in the body of the email), with your full name in the email subject heading to:

poetry@tribes.org 

• Send a maximum of 5 poems or 10 pages.

• Please include a bio of 200 words or less

• All poetry must be previously unpublished
  

Please do not send us more work until you have heard from us regarding your initial submission. We try to make decisions quickly and look forward to hearing from you.

Fiction

Tribes Magazine Online publishes fiction from debut, emerging, and established writers alike, elevating traditionally underrepresented and revolutionary voices. We are interested in contemporary literary fiction. (No genre fiction, unless it is also literary.)

Guidelines:

• Send a single Word doc, including your name at the top of the first page, as an email attachment (if you do not have word, you may send as a google doc), with your full name in the email subject heading to:

 fiction@tribes.org

• Please include a bio of 200 words or less and/or a C.V.

• All fiction must be previously unpublished

• Please submit no more than two stories at a time

• Simultaneous submission are accepted, but please notify us if your work is accepted elsewhere
  

• Please do not submit again until you have received a response. Authors may submit twice a year.

Nonfiction

• Tribes seeks topical articles, interviews and essays related to current political, social and cultural events, as well as creative nonfiction, including but not limited to impressions and memoir.

• To submit, please send a query letter, including a brief description (200 words or less) of the proposed article, as well as a brief bio and/or CV and an excerpt (if available) of up to five pages to:

 features@tribes.org

2020 Reading period ends Dec. 31, 2020.

Call for Submissions: the museum of americana

We are open for general submissions from December 1st to 30th. 

During this unprecedented and uncertain period, our response time for submissions may be delayed. If you have an outstanding submission or general question, please know we will do our best to follow up as soon as possible. Thank you so much for your patience, and please stay safe and be well. 

Note: We seek work that engages with or repurposes the complex cultural history of America. Please read our General Guidelines below for more information on how and what to submit. 

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

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

Fiction/nonfiction: 

proseamericana (at) gmail.com 

Poetry: 

poetryamericana (at) gmail.com 

Humor: 

humoramericana (at) gmail.com 

American Songbook: 

themuseumofamericana (at) gmail.com 

Art: 

themuseumofamericana (at) gmail.com

For interviews or reviews, query editor first: 

reviewsamericana (at) gmail.com

All submissions should contain a brief cover letter in the email. Poetry, prose, and humor submissions should be pasted into the text of the email. No attachments, please. We will read one longer prose piece (up to 3,000 words), one humor piece (up to 1,500 words), or three to five poems or flashes per submission. For photographs or art, please send a link to where work can be viewed online. For American Songbook, send up to five mp3s and a short bio. Songs must be public domain American traditionals or else originals in the folk/Americana vein. Only one submission per genre per reading period, please.

Simultaneous submissions are welcome, but please be courteous enough to inform us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere. No previously published work. Upon acceptance, we ask for first electronic rights and the right to archive a piece for as long as we exist. We also ask that a writer not reprint a piece online for at least six months after we publish it and that we receive credit if it should be reprinted at any point, in print or electronically, in the future.

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

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

 

Call for Submissions: Lowestoft Chronicle

We consider a variety of genres. Preference will be given to humorous submissions with an emphasis on travel. All submissions must be original work in English. We do not consider previously published work, which includes work publicly displayed on message boards, social networking websites, and your personal website. Simultaneous submissions are okay, provided you let us know immediately if your piece is accepted elsewhere. Once published in Lowestoft Chronicle, any subsequent publication of your piece should include the credit "first published in Lowestoft Chronicle." 

Reading Schedule: 

Issue #45: December 1, 2020 — February 15th, 2021 

Fiction: Submit manuscripts of any genre up to 3,000 words for consideration. Avoid sending stories with a word count in excess of 3,000 words. In contrast to my Humanities schoolteacher, who would place exam papers on a grocery scale and grade according to weight, at Lowestoft Chronicle we always give priority to shorter manuscripts. However, unless it is poetry, bite size submissions under 100 words will probably be considered too slight for our scales and will likely be rejected. 

Poetry: We accept all forms of poetry, but please only submit one or two of your very best poems per reading period. 

Non-Fiction: Narrative non-fiction, commentary, slice of life and memoirs are welcome. Humorous pieces are especially welcome. Please keep submissions under 3,000 words.

All submissions should be directed to:

submit@lowestoftchronicle.com

We will try to respond to submissions in a timely manner, but please allow 30 days for a reply. If you haven't heard back from us after this time, please email us with your query and include the title of your work in the subject line. Due to recent arm wrestling defeats our bank manager, Devron, has claimed “dibs” on all our profits, and so at present Lowestoft Chronicle cannot provide payment to contributors. If circumstances change (i.e. one of our staff actually beats him) we will let you know.

Call for Submissions: About Place Journal: Geographies of Justice

About Place Journal Call for Submissions: Geographies of Justice

Deadline: March 1, 2021

Each issue of About Place Journal, the arts publication of the Black Earth Institute, focuses on a specific theme. From 12/15/20 to 3/1/21 we'll be accepting submissions for our Spring 2021 issue Geographies of Justice. Our mission: to have art address the causes of spirit, earth, and society; to protect the earth; and to build a more just and interconnected world.

We publish prose, poetry, visual art, photography, video, and music which fit the current theme. More about this issue's theme and our submission guidelines.