Call for Submissions and Writing Competition: Baltimore Review

 

Deadline: November 30, 2022

Baltimore Review Winter Contest – No theme! Flash fiction and CNF. Prose poems. One, two, or three works in a single submission, but no more than 1,000 words total. We want to wonder at how you abracadabra so few words into magic. We want to be amazed and maybe a little jealous of how you do that. 

$300 awarded in each category. All entries considered for publication, with payment for accepted work at our regular rate. 

$8 contest fee. Final judge: Destiny O. Birdsong.

General Submission Guidelines

Please review the editors' preferences and tips to writers. We may not be able to completely pin down what we want—and we do want to be taken pleasantly by surprise—but you may find the quotes helpful. And please take a little time to read some of the work in our current and past issues.

When you submit your work, please include a brief bio to introduce yourself.

If your work is accepted for publication, we ask only for the right to publish it for the first time, online and in print. Please do not submit work that has been published elsewhere. All rights revert to the author after publication by The Baltimore Review. All accepted work will be archived on the website. 

Submissions in more than one category are permitted, but please do not submit work more than once per reading period in any category.

Among other resources for writers, NewPages.com has a Publications for Young Writers page. We encourage teen (and younger) writers to review this list before submitting work to literary journals.

Simultaneous submissions are permitted. If you need to withdraw your work, or part of your work, from consideration, sending us a message through Submittable. You may withdraw one or two poems from consideration by adding a note in Submittable.

Once your work has been accepted by a publication, always withdraw it from any other publications right away.

Our current submission period is August 1 through November 30, 2022. Please do not withdraw and re-submit your work if making revisions. Simply note the minor edit or, if the changes are more extensive, attach the new version in the Submittable message. But it’s always best, of course, to take some time to thoroughly proofread your work before submitting. Thanks!

Response time: You will be notified of our decision within four months. We're aiming for a response time well within that time frame, usually one to three months, but we do receive thousands of submissions in each submission period, and we read each one of them. Thank you for your patience.

Payment for non-contest submissions is $40 via Amazon gift certificate or $40 through PayPal, if preferred. We hope to continue this as long as funding is available. We also nominate our contributors' work for every possible prize.

Deadline: November 30. Visit our site, read some of the fine work there, then submit.

Writing Competition: Cloudbank Books

 

Cloudbank Book Contest

Deadline: November 30, 2022

$1,000 prize and publication by Cloudbank Books is given annually for a collection of poetry, flash fiction, or a combination of the two. Robert Morgan will be the final judge. The contest is open to any poet writing in English, regardless of previous publication record. Flash fiction pieces can be up to 500 words.

Please submit a 60-to-90 page manuscript with $25 entry fee by November 30 via Submittable or by mail. 

Visit our website for complete guidelines. This year’s contest winner is The Scarecrow Alibis by Denver Butson.

Writing Competition: Megacity Review

Up to $1000 for Fiction or Nonfiction Story

Deadline: November 15, 2022

Entry Fee: $8.00

Megacity Review (MCR) is currently holding its inaugural writing contest in both fiction and nonfiction. Underrepresented voices, new and existing authors, as well as people of color and their allies are encouraged to apply. MCR is a non-profit literary arts journal with a focus on the impact and influence of major cities on culture and community. The journal is distributed online and through NFT beginning in January 2023. 

Please visit our for details.

Call for Submissions: Matter Press: The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts

The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts is looking for, as you might guess, “compressed creative arts.” We accept fiction and creative nonfiction, as long if they are compressed in some way. Work is published weekly, without labels, and the labels here only exist to help us determine its best readers. Our response time is generally 1-5 days. Also, our acceptance rate is currently about 2% of submissions.

We pay writers $50 per accepted piece and signed contract.

Submissions close on December 15, 2022.

If you’ve been previously published by the press, please wait a year until submitting again. Thanks. 

More information and submission link here.

Call for Submissions: Brick

Brick prides itself on publishing the best literary non-fiction in the world, and we are eager to read fresh, impeccable, and compelling non-fiction submissions. We crave pieces with formal integrity that take creative approaches to rich ideas. Underrepresented writers—including but not limited to writers who are Black, Indigenous, people of colour, queer, non-binary, Deaf, and/or disabled—are especially encouraged to submit their literary non-fiction.

Deadline: Oct. 31, 2022

Submit your work here.

An average issue of Brick will contain essays, reviews, interviews, belle lettres, memoir, translations, and all manner of incidental literary ephemera. In curating our issues, we are guided by the following tenet, which appears on the masthead of every issue of Brick:

Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and with nothing to be so little reached as with criticism. Only love can grasp and hold and fairly judge them.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Call for Submissions: A Public Space

A Public Space welcomes submissions of fiction, essays, poetry, as well as graphic and hybrid work. The next period for general submissions will be September 15, 2022 – October 31, 2022. For additional information, please see an interview with the editors on our Duotrope page; an overview of A Public Space by the Whiting Literary Magazine Prize; and an archive of the magazine's previous issues. 

Guidelines for Submitting Work

Please submit only one (1) story or essay at a time; or up to five (5) poems. Additional submissions will be returned unread. Only previously unpublished work will be considered. Simultaneous submissions are allowed, but if your piece is accepted elsewhere we ask that you please withdraw it from our system. Novellas and novel excerpts are always welcome. Translations are welcome, but it is the translator's responsibility to secure rights to the work before it is submitted. Reading an issue or two of the magazine before submitting is strongly recommended.

Please note we cannot accept revisions to pieces once they've been submitted.

We will make every effort to respond to your submissions within four months, though at times it may be longer. If it has been more than four months and you have not yet received a response, we will be happy to reply to a query regarding the status of your submission.

Writers whose work is published in the magazine will receive an honorarium.

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions on Theme of "Refugee": Fiction International

Fiction International will accept submissions in response to the theme of Refugee from October 1, 2022 to February 15, 2023.

Fiction, non-fiction, and indeterminate prose texts of up to 5,500 words, and visuals that address the theme of “Refugee” are welcome. Please submit online through Submittable or by mail from 10/1/22 to 2/15/2023. We will consider submissions of narrative, anti-narrative and indeterminate texts but only accept submissions reflecting the theme.

Please read sample texts from our catalog to familiarize yourself with our thematic focus and uniquely global perspective. Recent themes have been: Dream, Compassion, Algorithm, Body, World in Pain, Fool, Real Time/Virtual, About Seeing, DV8, Walls, The Artist in Wartime, Freak, Animals, and Abject/Outcast.

Important note: We are more inclined to publish shorter texts. If your longer text is outstanding, we are happy to publish it. However, the closer we get to the end of the submission period (and the more texts we accept), the less likely we will accept longer texts.

Please submit only one text (or collection of up to 5 flash texts) at a time. Please allow three months for a reply. Please also wait until you hear from us before submitting again. PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED MATERIAL WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.

More information here.