Writing Competition: Green Linden Press' Wishing Jewel Prize

Green Linden Press' Wishing Jewel Prize

Deadline: November 30, 2021

The Wishing Jewel Prize honors an innovative manuscript that challenges expectations of what a book of poems can be. Named for an essay in Anne Carson's innovative Plainwater, we seek work that questions the boundaries of genre, form, or mode while engaging the rich possibilities of lyrical expression.

Winner receives $1,000 and publication by Green Linden Press. All finalists are considered for publication.

Deadline: November 30

$25 fee (discounts available)

Call for Submissions on Theme of "Water": Puerto del Sol

Puerto del Sol Seeks Writing on Water

Deadline: December 1, 2021

Puerto del Sol seeks work which engages with water in all its forms. Life and growth and blood and poison and drought and commodity. Snow and steam and tsunami. We want to read work as sharp and brittle as ice. We want stories, essays, and poems which drip from dew-soaked branches or crash like waterfalls. Show us something as vast as the sea or as small as a single droplet of acid rain. Send us your explorations of fluidity, of the ways things shift and change, and of things which cannot be held, no matter how hard we try.

Seeking Volunteer Editors: Mayday

Open Editorial Positions at MAYDAY

Deadline: Friday, October 15, 2021

MAYDAY seeks to expand its all-volunteer editorial staff to include new interests, backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We invite applications to be submitted by October 15, 2021 for the following positions: Culture Editors, Translation Editors, Visual Art Editors, Production Editors, and Social Media Editors. For details, please visit

Call for Submissions: Club Plum Literary Journal

Club Plum Seeks Literary Horror for October 2021 Issue

Deadline: October 8, 2021

Please send your dark, surreal, horrific, and strange flash fiction, prose poetry, hybrid forms, and art to Club Plum for the October 2021 issue. Send your unsettling. Send your beautifully morbid. See our website for guidelines.

Call for Submissions: Santa Clara Review

Santa Clara Review—Call for Submissions in All Genres

Deadline: October 15, 2021

We are now accepting fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and art submissions for our Fall 2021 issue. The deadline for submission is October 15th at 11:59pm PT. The Santa Clara Review publishes a wide variety of work from creatives all over the world. Our magazine is especially interested in writing and art from Black writers, Indigenous writers, LGBT+ writers, and writers of color. Writers—send us your flash pieces, your humorous work and satire, your short screenplays and plays! Visual artists—send us art to fill the 12 pages of full-color art and photography we publish each issue!

For further submission guidelines and details, please visit our website.

Call for Submissions: Paper Dragon

Paper Dragon Call for Submissions

Deadline: October 15, 2021

Paper Dragon is committed to showcasing exciting and inclusive work across genres, publishing poetry, short stories, short screenplays, creative nonfiction, and artwork that resonates with contemporary readers. Paper Dragon seeks work that challenges us to see the human experience in new and honest ways through both established and emerging voices.

We are currently accepting no-fee submissions for our Fall/Winter issue. To see the kind of work we publish and to read more of our submission guidelines, visit our website.

Chapbook Competition: The Black River Chapbook Competition

The Black River Chapbook Competition is a semi-annual prize from Black Lawrence Press for a chapbook of poems or prose (including fiction, creative non-fiction, lyric essay, and prose hybrid manuscripts). Entries should be between 16 and 36 pages in length. The winner will receive $500 and publication.

Recent winners include: Ruth Baumann, Jacqueline Doyle, Nancy Reddy, Amy Sayre Baptista, Ashley Morrow Hermsmeier, Alan Chazaro, Christopher Locke, Veronica Montes, Danielle Rose, Ashanti Anderson, and SJ Sindu.

Entry deadline for the Fall Competition: October 31, 2021

Black Lawrence Press accepts submissions and payment of the entry fee ($17) exclusively through our online submission manager, Submittable. All entries are read without identifying information by our panel of judges and editors.

Visit us online for complete submission guidelines. Submissions are accepted via Submittable now through October 31. We look forward to reading your work!