Call for Submissions on Theme of "Jack of All Trades": Bethlehem Writers Roundtable

We will be open for submissions from November 1, 2022, to January 31, 2023, with works accepted to run in our Summer 2023 issue.

The theme is: Jack of All Trades: Everyman’s Tales

Our rates for published stories:

• $50 for published featured-author stories
• $20 for stories published on our &More page
• $10 for poems we publish

• We only accept work from authors 18 years of age or older.
• We only accept work that has not been previously published. This requirement excludes from eligibility any work that has appeared anywhere in print, electronic formats, or online, including on personal or crowd editing blogs or websites.
• We accept work in most genres of fiction, as well as memoir and poetry. 
• We are a secular literary journal and seek non-sectarian work.
• We do not accept essays or other nonfiction genres. 
• We do not accept horror or erotica. This means no graphic violence, no overt sexuality, and no hard expletives. We are looking for G, PG, or PG-13 rated material according to the MPAA.
• We welcome excellent writing from diverse voices and experiences regardless of race, gender or gender identity, sexual orientation, nationality, ethnicity, religion, disability, or age (except that authors must be 18 years of age or older).
• We only accept work written in the English language.
• Please submit only one story or one poem for consideration at a time. Do not submit more than one story or poem until after you receive a final
• response to any prior submission. Once you receive either an acceptance or rejection, you are  welcome to submit a different work to us.
• Your manuscript length must be 2,000 words or fewer (not including the title, author name, or contact information).
• Submissions must be sent using the form provided on this page.
• Please include your full name and email address, preferred pronouns, title, and word count in the appropriate boxes.
• You must check the box at the bottom of the Submission/Contact form indicating that you have read and accept our conditions for publication (see below) before your submission will be reviewed by our editors.
• No fee is required to submit your work to Bethlehem Writers Roundtable.

More information here.

Writing Competition: 6th Annual Jane Underwood Poetry Prize

 6th Annual Jane Underwood Poetry Prize

 Deadline: December 1, 2022

The 6th annual Jane Underwood Poetry Prize is accepting submissions! Open to all poets, the prize is awarded for a single poem.

For a fee of $15, submit one entry of up to three poems.

The prizewinner will receive an award of $500, online publication of the winning poem, and an invitation to do a featured reading. This year's final judge is Sharan Strange.

Full guidelines and submission information can be found here.

Call for Submissions: Driftwood Press

 

Driftwood Press - Anthology & Book Manuscript Submissions Open Now

Deadline: Year-round

Driftwood Press is happy to share a plethora of submission opportunities for writers and artists! For our yearly print anthology, we are looking for poems, short stories, comics, and visual art that will wow our readers, accepted as both contest and normal submissions. We are a paying market, and our published writers also get to take part in bespoke interviews about their work!

Driftwood is also on the hunt for amazing book-length titles to grow our catalogue. If you have a novella, poetry collection, comic collection, or graphic novel manuscript, we would love to read it! If you have any writing or art that fits the above call, Driftwood Press would be honored to read it.

Visit us here for our Submittable page, and we encourage you to follow us on social media (@driftwoodpress) to learn about even more submission opportunities!

Call for Submissions from ESL Writers: Tint Journal

 

Tint Journal seeks Prose and Poetry by Non-native English Writers

Deadline: November 30, 2022

Tint Journal, the literary magazine for non-native English creative writing, publishes fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry by writers who compose their work in English as their second or foreign language.

Share your short stories, essays, flash, and poetry, as well as your artworks from October 10 to November 30, 2022 (CET midnight) with us to be considered for our Spring '23 issue (#9)!

Carefully review our submission guidelines at our website and send your work to:

submissions@tintjournal.com

 (no fee). #showyourtint

Writing Competition: Birdy Poetry Prize

Accepting Entries: September 1 - December 1, 2022


Entry Fee: $25

Prize: $1,000 cash, publication by Meadowlark Press, including 50 copies of the completed book 

All entries will be considered for standard Meadowlark Press publishing contract offers, as well.  

Full-length poetry manuscripts (55 page minimum, 90+ pages preferred) will be considered. Poems may be previously published in journals and/or anthologies, but not in full-length, single-author volumes. Poets are eligible to enter, regardless of publishing history. 

More information and submission link here.

Writing Competition: LitMag's Anton Chekhov Award for Flash Fiction

LitMag‘s Anton Chekhov Award for Flash Fiction

Deadline: Nov. 30, 2022

Entry Fee: $16.00 

First Prize: $1,250 + publication + agency review by Nat Sobel of Sobel Weber Associates, Erin Harris and Sonali Chanchani of Folio Literary Management, Jenny Bent of The Bent Agency, David Forrer of Inwell Management, Monika Woods of Triangle House, and Emily Forland of Brand & Hochman.

Three Finalists will win $100 each. Results of this year’s contest will be announced by the end of May 2022.

Click here for the results of last year’s contest.

Full contest guidelines are available on Submittable.

The contest is open. Enter now.

Writing Competition: California Book Awards

Five prizes of $5,000 each are given annually for a poetry collection, a book of fiction, a first book of fiction, a book of creative nonfiction, and a book of fiction or nonfiction that relates to California. Three additional prizes of $2,500 are also given in the fiction, first fiction, and nonfiction categories. Books written by authors residing in California are eligible. Publishers may submit six copies of books published in 2022 by November 15. There is no entry fee. Visit the website for the required entry form and complete guidelines. 

Books authored by residents of California and published during the 2022 calendar year may be submitted between August 15, 2022 and November 15, 2022 for consideration for the California Book Awards.

WE ACCEPT

Books in the categories of Fiction, First Work of Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Juvenile (to age 12), Young Adult, Californiana, and Contribution to Publishing

Work must have been written by authors living in California at the time their work was published or submitted for publication.

To be eligible for Californiana, the work must deal with a California-based issue, topic, or historical period.

To be eligible for Contribution to Publishing, the publisher must be a California resident.

To be eligible for Juvenile, the writer or illustrator (if applicable) must be California residents.

To be eligible for First Work of Fiction, the work must be the author’s first fictional effort. Previously published short story collections will disqualify an author from the First Work of Fiction category; however, the author can still submit for the Fiction category.

Short story collections and essays by the same author will be accepted for consideration under the Fiction category.

If certain stories in the short story or essay collection have been published previously, the work may still be submitted for consideration. Eligibility is at the discretion of the jury.

WE DO NOT ACCEPT

Self-published works

Works from a publishing house that does not have some sort of vetting process

E-books

Guidebooks or manuals

“As told to” books

Anthologies from multiple authors

Works by dual authors, unless both authors are California residents

Translations of deceased authors or older works

Reprints of books published in previous years