Call for Submissions: Fecund Magazine

Fecund welcomes submissions of writing and visual art across media. We recommend reading past issues of Fecund for insight into what we’re excited to publish. Although we don’t conform to one aesthetic, we tend to respond to work that challenges traditional forms or embraces liminality. That said, we purposefully keep criteria broad to allow contributors to submit their best work.

Fecund currently pays each contributor a flat rate of $50.

Deadline: Sep. 26, 2021

Submissions are now open for Issue 5, to be published in October 2021. To submit, please send an email to: 

fecund.mag@gmail.com 

with the subject line “Submission — [NAME]”

Submission guidelines:

- Fiction, essays, criticism, screenplay excerpts, fashion writing: up to 7,000 words of previously unpublished work
- Poetry: up to 10 poems of previously unpublished work
- Visual art, video: up to 10 images/videos
- Fashion photography, photo essays: up to 30 images

Call for Submissions on Themes of Second Chances and Rebirth: Little Somethings Press

Little Somethings Press Seeks Poetry, Flash Fiction/Memoir, and Art

Deadline: August 1, 2021

Little Somethings Press: A Collection of Small Writings is open to submissions for Issue 4. We are looking for poetry (up to 12 lines), flash fiction and memoir (up to 300 words), and visual art. The theme of this issue is second chances and rebirth. Send us your best!

Call for Submissions: Angel Rust

Angel Rust Seeking Submissions for Issue 2

Deadline: Rolling

Angel Rust is a new, queer-led online magazine looking to publish exciting, challenging, and edgy work in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, with a particular interest in transgressive or experimental short stories, strong-hearted essays or critiques, and radical poems in any form from writers with unique perspectives and an unshakable fearlessness. No submission fees. New issues go up every other month. 

Call for Submissions: Superpresent

 

Superpresent is Seeking Submissions for its Fall Issue

Deadline: September 1, 2021

Webster’s defines an “archive” as no more than “a repository or collection.” Humans have tried to collect. And lost. What was on scrolls in a jar not to be found, or floppy disk in an attic with no machine to read it? Writers like Borges, Sebald, and O’Brien have created and explored various archives. There can be no archive of all information, how do we parse what we have, knowing that it will be incomplete? What are the systems that writers and artists have devised in their own work? We want you to tell us, to show us “an archive.”

Writing Fellowship: The Granum Foundation Fellowship Prize

“Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.”

—Erica Jong

The Granum Foundation Fellowship Prize will be awarded annually to help U.S.-based writers complete substantive literary works—such as poetry books, essay or short story collections, novels, memoirs, and translations—or to help launch these works.

Funding can be used to provide a writer with the tools, time, and freedom to help ensure their success. For example, resources may be used to cover fees for a writing residency, mentorship, editing services, or a book tour. They also may be used for necessities such as rent or writing equipment.

Competitive applicants will be able to present a compelling project with a reasonable timeline for completion. They also should be able to demonstrate a record of commitment to the literary arts.

The Granum Foundation is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds.

Prize: $5,000 awarded annually.

Up to three finalists may be awarded $500.

Applications will close on August 3, 2021, 11:59 pm Pacific Time.

A winner and finalists will be announced on November 9, 2021.

At this time, only U.S. residents 18+ are eligible for funding.

Apply here.

Writing Competition: Ann Petry Award of Red Hen Press

Founded in 2020 in partnership with Red Hen Press and the Peauxdunque Writers Alliance, the Ann Petry Award seeks to publish prose literature by Black authors.

The Ann Petry Award is for a work of previously unpublished prose, either a novel or a collection of short stories or novellas, with a minimum of 150 pages, by a Black writer.

The awarded manuscript is selected through an annual submission process, with primary review by the Peauxdunque Writers Alliance, who will winnow the submissions to a list of finalists for the final judge.

The final judge for 2021 will be Maurice Carlos Ruffin.

The Ann Petry Award will consist of $3000, publication of the awarded manuscript by Red Hen Press, and an opportunity to be in residence for up to four weeks at The Community Library's Ernest and Mary Hemingway House in Ketchum, Idaho. In addition, the opening chapter or story of the awarded manuscript will be published in the Peauxdunque Review.

There is no submission fee.

Deadline: July 31, 2021

Please use double-spaced, 12-pt. Times New Roman font. Title only on the cover sheet, with no other identifying information on the manuscript itself. The entry should be a minimum of 150 pages.

Eligibility Guidelines:

The Ann Petry Award is open to all Black writers, with the following exceptions:

A) Authors who have had a full-length work published by Red Hen Press, or a full-length work currently under consideration by Red Hen Press;

B) Current employees, interns, or contractors of Red Hen Press;

C) Relatives of employees or members of the Red Hen Press executive board of directors;

D) Members or former members of the Peauxdunque Writers Alliance;

E) Relatives or individuals having a personal or professional relationship with any of the final judges or with members of the Peauxdunque Writers Alliance where they have taken any part whatsoever in shaping the manuscript, or where, for whatever reason, selecting a particular manuscript might have the appearance of impropriety.

For more information and to submit, go here.

Call for Submissions to Anthology on Theme of Arthropods: Arthropoda

Do you have a story or poem featuring insects, crustaceans, arachnids, or myriapods? We want to publish it!

We are looking for speculative poetry with monstrous, mythical, or mechanical arthropods for our upcoming Arthropoda anthology!

The call is open to original poetry, fiction and reprints up to 45 lines and 7,500 words respectively.

Please submit no more than six poems and/or two short stories. Simultaneous submissions permitted.

Deadline August 7, 2021.

Arthropoda will be edited by JW Stebner (of Hexagon Magazine) and published by Perennial Press in mid-to-late 2022!

All selected authors will be paid a $20 flat rate.

We will not accept submissions that contain any excessive profanity or explicit content. We will not tolerate submissions that support or suggest any form of racism, sexism, or any other kind of discrimination.

Full guidelines and submission link here.