Call for Submissions: Sleet Magazine

Sleet seeks the unexpected. Make us think. Our crew possesses a wide variety of tastes and styles, from classic to center to edge, but it is craft and passion that drive us.

Sleet Magazine is currently open for submissions for our Spring 2022 edition. The submission window will close on January 15, 2022, at midnight.

Our Submission Policies

We will accept up to 5 poems, 3 flash, 1 short story or CNF piece, or a small handful of irregulars*.
We aim for quick turn around time; we do our best!

• Please include page numbers in works of fiction.
• We do not accept novel excerpts.
• Send work as a single Microsoft Word (.doc,.docx) or Open Document Text (.odt) attachment.
• Please, no .pdf's or Google docs..
• We try but cannot guarantee your formatting will translate perfectly on all devices.
• Include a short bio written in 3rd person, and please provide a short cover letter.
• Please send us work only once per submission period.
• Sleet does not pay. We are all volunteers. 

Simultaneous Submissions and Previously Published Works

Sleet, wholeheartedly and without reservation, encourages simultaneous submissions. If a piece appears with us first, we do ask that Sleet be credited as its primary place of publication. In addition, we will consider showing previously published work as long as it is identified as such. We do not regard work on a blog or personal website as previously published.

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An irregular is a genre-crossing bit of writing — something that overflows borders or maybe never had any. It could be an impression, a vignette, a 1-line flash. A general rule of thumb: If you don't know where to send it, send it here. An irregular should not stray over 500 words. It may be comprised of a single piece or a constellation of work.

Our Address:

Please send submissions to:

editor@sleetmagazine.com

All work is the property of the artist.

Writing Competition: Gemini Magazine 12th Annual Poetry Open Prize

Win $1,000: 12th Annual Gemini Magazine Poetry Open

Deadline: January 4, 2022

Winner receives $1,000 and publication for a poem of any length, subject or style. Rhyming or non-rhyming. Traditional or non-traditional. Second prize: $100. Four honorable mentions: $25 each.

Entry fee: $8 for three poems.

All six winners will be published online in our March/April 2022 issue. Read previous winners and enter here.

Call for Micro-Fiction on Theme of "Bad Habits": Blink-Ink

Blink-Ink Call for Submissions on Bad Habits

Deadline: January 15, 2022

Bad Habits. . . We know you don't have any but others might, what then? Surrender to them, flaunt them, solicit a gentle gypsy to coax them away, hire a dominatrix to beat them out? Horrid clowns to scare them away? Please DO NOT send us heartbreaking tales of baleful addictions. Just bad habits—those things one ought not to do but. . . . Please send us your best stories of approximately 50 words regarding Bad Habits in the body of an email to:

blinkinkinfo@gmail.com

No poetry, bios, or attachments please.

Submissions open December 1st, 2021 through January 15th, 2022.

Call for Short Fiction Submissions: Ahoy Comics

If you write quality short fiction, it's time to send us your stuff.

But first, please consider our Official Ahoy Short Fiction Submission Guidelines

At Ahoy, we believe our sacred duty is to find new voices and let them scream at the world. Thus, each Ahoy Comics magazine will include at least one piece of short fiction or social commentary. We seek smart, weird, funny articles or stories, which run between 500 and 1,500 words.

Mostly, we want short fiction for mature readers, pieces that uphold the story-telling legacy of comics. It could be a delirious rant, a personal anecdote, a tale of horror or even poetry. It can be about anything, but we have a soft spot for submissions with a dash of humor.

These stories can be political, but they must not be based on events that might be outdated by the time we publish. Whatever the subject, it must still be relevant a year from now. Also, the 1,500-word maximum is pretty much carved into stone. We don’t plan to go above that limit. Our ideal length is about 654.53 words, give or take.

We will pay $200 per story. Writers will retain full rights to their works. We will maintain the right to publish on this site and to reprint the story in a trade compilation or anthology. If we decide to reprint it, we will pay another 25 percent of the original fee.

We believe this is an opportunity for serious writers to reach the most voracious readers of fiction on this planet: the clear-eyed souls who buy comics. We will do our best to promote our writers and their works.

For short story submissions, we don’t suggest pitches. Good grief, these are short stories. We ask writers to upload their work through our submission porthole. It will take probably six weeks for us to reply - at times, we've been buried by submissions - but we will get back to you.

We want to build a reputation for quality writing, and for treating our contributors respectfully, the way we’d want to be treated. If you don’t hear from us in, say, seven weeks, something may have slipped between the cracks. Please feel free to send us a reminder. We won't secretly hold it against you (as other publishers do.)

At times, to stay afloat, we must close this submissions porthole. Check back regularly.

Now is a great time to connect with AHOY and send us your short fiction. We want to hear from you. This could be the start of a beautiful friendship, the kind worthy of a moose and his flying squirrel.

To submit and for more information, go here.

Call for Submissions: Apocalypse Party

We are currently open to submissions.

Apocalypse Party is seeking novels, novellas, short story collections, and hybrid works.

We are seeking imaginative and challenging books that push boundaries. We are as interested in mood, sensation, and altered states of perception as we are in the story. We like stories with the ethereal quality of memory filtered through a psychedelic kaleidoscope. We want darkly peculiar narratives that are compelling and have a range of emotion. We want daring work that keeps us on edge, waiting for the next ghost to materialize. Surprise us. Most of all, we want books that take risks. Show us something we've never seen before.

Email us at:

apocalypsepartypress@gmail.com​

Editor Ben DeVos handles all correspondence. ​

In the body of your email, please include a cover letter with a short summary of your manuscript.

Please attach your manuscript as a word document .doc or .docx.

Please do not send multiple manuscripts at once. Simultaneous submissions are cool.

​What we pay:

Our royalty agreement for both print and ebook is 50% of net revenue.

​By publishing with Apocalypse Party, you grant us the right to publish and distribute your work worldwide in paperback and ebook.

​​All other rights are retained by the author.

Visit our website for more information.

Call for Submissions: Two Hawks Quarterly

TWO HAWKS QUARTERLY is a digital journal affiliated with Antioch University Los Angeles’ BA Program in Creative Writing and is setting the bar for contemporary literature with bold and illuminating poetry, fiction, cnf, art, and quality experimental work.

Submissions accepted November 1, 2021 through July 31, 2022. 

Two Hawks Quarterly is looking for exquisitely crafted work that will astonish, surprise, challenge, and delight us. THQ accepts simultaneous submissions, but please inform us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere. All work received is reviewed by at least three editors and often read aloud in a group setting. We strive to respond to every submission within four months or less.

Please send no more than one piece of fiction or creative nonfiction of 5,000 words maximum length at a time, or three pieces of flash fiction or very short CNF. We discourage novel excerpts unless they stand alone and work as satisfying short stories.

We’re interested in all forms of creative nonfiction: memoir, personal essays, and hybrid forms, but not straight reportage, travel writing, or editorializing rants.

Poetry: Our tastes in poetry are eclectic; we like narrative, we like lyrical, we can get excited farmacia aperta over edgy too, but please send no more than five poems at a time. And no first drafts or 2:00 a.m. at the bar compositions -- you'll hate yourself in the morning.

Include a brief cover note with your submission that includes a mini-bio, list of prior publications, and contact information. We tend to read cover notes after we’ve read your work so as not to be swayed by them.

We also feature a few drawings, paintings, photographs, and/or mixed media works in each issue. If you are interested in having us consider your art, please submit it under the Submittable category of Genre X.

All correspondence with THQ goes through our online submissions system Submittable.com. Once we accept your work, we will ask you to send a more detailed biography and photo. You can send that through the same system, simply by designating the submission as photo/bio.

Submit your work here.

Submissions are ongoing.

Writing Competition: Nowhere To Travel Fall Writing Prize

Award-winning literary travel magazine Nowhere is accepting submissions for our annual Fall Travel Writing Prize.

We are looking for novice and veteran writers of any stripe to send us stories that possess a powerful sense of people, place and time. Every submission will be read blind, so anyone can win!

Requirements (read our general guidelines here):
+ Entries may be fiction, nonfiction, poetry or essay, but please indicate which genre at the top of your manuscript.
+ Stories should run between eight hundred and five thousand words. Poetry may be any length, and several poems, themed together, may be submitted as one entry.
+ Entries must be submitted in English, though authors may be located anywhere in the universe.
+ Previously published work is eligible. Please indicate this, with proper attribution details, in your cover letter.
+ Entries must not previously have been chosen the winner of any contest.
+ Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but please indicate this in your cover letter. If your submission is awarded another prize during this contest period, please withdraw your entry.
+ Multiple entries from a single author, submitted individually, are welcome.
+ Please leave off any identifying information from your attachment—no names, contact information, etc. We intend to read every submission totally blind.
+ Please do not insert graphics, images or video into your attachment. Please use a widely available 12-point font (e.g., Arial, Times New Roman, Helvetica, etc.), with spacing set to double and with 1-inch margins.

The winner will receive US$1,000, with publication in Nowhere granted under First North American Serial Rights (FNASR). Up to ten finalists also will be published.

Brush off your manuscripts or write something new and send it to the only literary travel magazine going!

The contest deadline is 11:59 p.m. EST on December 15, 2021.

Entry Fee: $20.00

More information here.

Please allow at least six months for judging to be completed once the competition period closes. All entrants will be notified of our decision via Submittable. We look forward to reading your work!