Call for Submissions: Storm Cellar

Call for Submissions: Storm Cellar

Deadline: Rolling

Storm Cellar seeks new and amazing writing and art for its spring issue! We are a journal of safety and danger, in many senses, in print and ebook formats since 2011. Send secrets, codes, adventures, mad experiments, and wild things. Black, Indigenous, POC, LGBTQIA+, disabled, neurodivergent, fat, border-straddling, poor, and other marginalized authors encouraged; bonus points for a Midwest connection.

Now paying; limited no-fee submissions available each month.

Full guidelines and f.a.q. at stormcellar.org/submit and submit at Submittable.

Writing Competition on Theme of "Brains and Beauty": MCC 10-minute Play Competition

10-minute Play Competition

Deadline: February 4, 2022

Entry Fee: $10.00

Event Date: March 26, 2022

Event Location: Muskegon Community College

MCC now accepting submissions for its 2022 10-Minute Play Festival Competition. We are accepting comedic or dramatic plays fitting this year’s theme: “Brains and Beauty.” Six winning plays will be selected for live staged reading.

One play, as voted by the audience in attendance at the festival, will be selected as the Audience Favorite and will receive a $100 cash prize. To get more information, click on the submissions guidelines.

Writing Competition on Topics of Chewing Gum, Horror Movies, Skyscrapers, or Tubas: Ethos Literacy

3rd Annual Short Short Story Contest to Support Literacy

Deadline: January 31, 2022 

Ethos Literacy—a nonprofit literacy program—announces its 3rd Annual Short Short Story Contest. 100 word limit on one of these topics: chewing gum, horror movies, skyscrapers, or tubas.

Cash prizes: Best in Contest: $250; Best Youth Prize (14 years or younger): $100; 4 Best of Category: $100; People's Choice $100. Publication in a digital magazine + webcast of winners reading their stories.

Submission fee: $10. Proceeds support literacy programs for teens and adults.

Writing Competition: 2022 Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction

 

2022 Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction

Deadline: March 14, 2022

$2,500 honorarium and publication in the Fall/Winter issue of Colorado Review.

Submit an unpublished story between 2,500 and 12,500 words by March 14, 2022 (we will observe a 5-day grace period). 

Entry fee: $15 (add $2 to submit online)

Final judge is Ramona Ausubel; friends and students (current or former) of the judge are not eligible to compete, nor are Colorado State University employees, students, or alumni.

Complete guidelines at: nelliganprize.colostate.edu 

or Nelligan Prize, Colorado Review, 9105 Campus Delivery, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-9105.

Writing Competition: The Crazyhorse Prizes in Fiction, Nonfiction, & Poetry

The Crazyhorse Prizes in Fiction, Nonfiction, & Poetry

Deadline: January 31, 2022

From January 1st to January 31st, Crazyhorse will accept entries for prizes in fiction, nonfiction, & poetry. Winners receive $2,000 and publication; all manuscripts entered will be considered for publication.

The $20 entry fee includes a one-year subscription.

For more information and to see our judges, visit: crazyhorse.cofc.edu/prizes/.

Call for Submissions to Anthology: letters i'll never send

Deadline: December 31, 2021

I am seeking writers for an experimental anthology titled “letters i’ll never send”. This anthology will be a compilation of first-person accounts including letters, prosaic poems, diary entries, postcard letters, short personal essays, and other genre-bending experimental pieces. ”letters i’ll never send” is meant to serve as a sentimental linkage between the writer and the reader. It should lure the reader in emotionally, so that they can resonate in some meaningful way.

Payment: $50.00

Please visit jackiebluu.com/news for more information and other guidelines.

Please send your pieces via email (in the body or attached) to:

bluubooks@gmail.com

Call for Submissions: Whimsical Poet

WhimsicalPoet Seeks Poetry/Art/Flash Fiction for the Website and Winter Issue

Deadline: Rolling

WhimsicalPoet seeks all forms of poetry, art, and flash fiction that surprise, challenge, chill, endear, and evoke a strong emotional response from readers. We love word mavericks, independent thinkers, and creators who strive toward mastery and truth to expose threads of the human experience. Send up to 5 pieces in a Word or Google Doc to:

WhimsicalPoet.com@gmail.com  

or submit through Google Forms via the link on our submission page Art will be considered for the cover of our print journal and our website. Published poetry and fiction will appear in our journal, and a smaller selection will also appear on our website. Please include a short bio.

Full details here.