Call for Submissions: The Woodward Review

Open for submissions September 1 — December 1

Include a short cover letter & bio in the "cover letter" form of Submittable; we’d like to know who you are, not just who’s published you. While students, faculty, and staff, currently or formerly (within reason) affiliated with Wayne State University are ineligible for consideration or publication of original work, anyone is welcome to submit reviews & responses.

Most submissions get a response in 1– 3 months, but if it seems like there’s gum in the works or you have any other problems or questions, send an email with the subject line Query.

We believe in the importance of compensating all workers for work, and we will always pay our contributors. 

For Issue #2, we're paying $50 per regular contributor. The Woodward Review purchases first North American print publication rights only; all other rights are retained by the author. We will also offer the option of publishing under a Creative Commons license.

Prose

Whether it’s pure fiction, nothing but the truth, or somewhere in between, we welcome anything you might call prose. In addition to traditional shorts stories and flash, creative nonfiction submissions can be lyric essay, memoir, researched narrative, personal obsession you discovered on Wikipedia but can’t stop thinking about, a discarded draft of your master's thesis... we mean it, send us your scholarly work! We’d really like to see prose writing that makes us wonder what it should be called.

Up to 5,000 words or up to three pieces ~500 words or less.

Poetry

We're looking for work that explodes or implodes the potentiality of language. We accept all types of poetry and encourage submissions that play around with the “page.” From confessional to conceptual, send poetry that crosses boundaries, upends expectations, and reimagines what the form can do. Bonus points for poems that make us think about something we’ve never thought of before. We’d like you to say something, emotional, or political, or natural, something that you think makes a difference merely by being spoken.

You can submit up to five poems. The length of each poem is at the poet’s discretion, but if we go on any further, this description will start to sound like a McSweeney’s piece.

Art, Hybrid, & Digital Media

We want any art in any modality, and digital media for anything that can't be understood in a static frame. Send us sculptures or installations, paintings or sketches, designs or deconstructions, photography or videos; we’re also interested in forms that combine the written word with any of the above. We’d especially love to see some digital or hybrid essays.

You can submit up to ten pages or images. Along with your submission, please include a single doc or docx file with an artist statement, a name for the collection, and a list of the works submitted.

Reviews & Responses:

Our central goal is to curate conversation, which we hope to achieve by rejecting the traditional trajectory from the artistic to the critical work it inspires; we believe there's so much more to say when the creative and the critical can respond in any direction, to themselves and each other. To that end, everything we publish, even more "academic" writing, should be treated like an ekphrastic object, inviting creative or critical study.

Every reader and contributor is encouraged to submit a review or response in any medium or genre, from poem to memoir, from doodle to researched essay. Regardless of the form of the original piece, we are seeking writing, art, hybrid and digital media that reflects your review of or response to something you found in The Woodward Review. Did you discover a short story hidden in the pixels of a photography series? Pick up a paintbrush to make sense of a poem? Find yourself writing an essay about something you read here and figured no one would care? Well, we do.

We’re especially interested in seeing work from writers whose obsessions are unfamiliar, scholars or artists whose areas of expertise we don’t (yet) understand. We also welcome book reviews of poetry and prose titles written in Detroit or by Detroiters, and published in the last two years.

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions: Cumberland River Review

The Cumberland River Review accepts submissions during the traditional academic year, September through April, and aims to maintain a regular response time of three months.

Please note that only previously unpublished material will be considered. We read and encourage simultaneous submissions but ask that you withdraw your work (or email us to effect a partial withdrawal) if your submission is accepted elsewhere.

We encourage electronic submissions via our online system:

https://cumberlandriverreview.submittable.com/submit

At this time, we cannot consider submissions made by email. Writers who wish to submit work by regular post should send their manuscripts to:

Cumberland River Review

Trevecca Nazarene University

Department of English

333 Murfreesboro Road

Nashville, Tennessee 37210

Postal submissions should include a self-addressed, stamped envelope to facilitate our reply. Unless their return is specifically requested and sufficient postage is attached, all submissions will be recycled. Please do not send us the only copy of your work.

The Cumberland River Review acquires First North American Serial Rights and the right to maintain an archive copy of accepted work online. All other rights revert to our authors upon publication. We nominate work for the Pushcart Prize, Best New Poets, Best of the Net, and other anthologies and prizes.

Finally, why not follow us on Twitter (@crrlitmag) as long as you're here? We'd love to share occasional reading recommendations and work from our archives.

Poetry
Please submit three, four, or five poems in a single document (.doc, .docx, .rtf). Remember to include your name, physical and email addresses, and telephone number on each poem.

Fiction and Essays
Please submit one short story or one essay of up to 5,000 words (.doc, .docx, .rtf). Remember to include your name, physical and email addresses, and telephone number on the first page of your submission.

Art
The editorial staff of the Cumberland River Review is interested in considering art in any form, provided images can be digitally captured. Please send up to ten pieces at a time to:

crr@trevecca.edu.

Call for Submissions: Fictive Dream

 

Fictive Dream is an online magazine for short stories (500-2500 words) that give an insight into the human condition. The publication features stories “with a distinctive voice, clarity of thought, and precision of language. They may be on any subject. They may be challenging, unsettling, uplifting, cryptic but, above all, they must be well-crafted and compelling.” 

The publication accepts submissions on a rolling basis and publishes one story every Friday and Sunday. 

Recent contributors include Gary Duncan, D.P. Snyder, Mike Fox, Len Kuntz, Douglas A. Wright, Sandra Arnold, A. J. Ashworth, and Jo-Anne Cappeluti. Fictive Dream also hosts the annual Flash Fiction February, featuring new flash throughout the month. 

Submissions are open to works 200-850 words until December 31, 2022.

Call for Submissions: Clockhouse

Guidelines

All submissions must:

Be original, unpublished work written by the author or, if you are submitting artwork for cover consideration, original artwork created by the artist.

Please follow the industry-standard formatting guidelines appropriate for the genre as well as the applicable guidelines below:

• Fiction: Flash Fiction, 750 words or less.

• Short stories and self-contained novel excerpts, 751 - 3,500 words. (Genre fiction will be considered only if it sustains literary merit.)

• Poetry: All poetry in traditional and experimental styles including prose poetry (Up to 250 lines of poetry, total. Only one poem per submission. Poets may submit up to three times per reading period.)

• Memoir and Creative Nonfiction: All memoir and creative nonfiction in traditional and experimental literary styles. No academic or scientific essays (Up to 5,000 words)

• Dramatic Work for Stage or Screen: Short dramatic works in traditional and experimental styles, either a standalone piece or an excerpt from a one-act or full-length play or screenplay (Up to 15 pages)

• Artwork for Cover Consideration: Images should be uploaded in either a jpg or jpeg file format.
  

ADDITIONAL SUBMISSION INFORMATION
Please also:Include a short bio of approximately 100 words or less

Include a brief artist statement: a few sentences about your work as an artist (i.e., not a “pitch” for this submission, but rather a statement about what you’re interested in writing about now, what drives your writing, or how your writing is reflecting or influencing the world at large, etc.)

SUBMISSION DUE DATE:
The submission period for the Summer 2023 volume will be open through December 15, 2022.

More information and submission link here.

Writing Competition: The Rattle Chapbook Prize

Deadline: Jan. 16, 2023

The Rattle Chapbook Prize is an entirely separate category from the others listed at Submittable, and because of the nature of the contest, some of the rules are different. Please read the following rules very carefully.

1) The $25 entry fee is a one-year subscription to Rattle (or a one-year extension for subscribers) at our regular rate. New subscriptions will start with the next season's issue. Current subscribers will receive a one-year extension. Due to shipping costs, international entries will receive a 3/4 subscription (three mailings) instead of the full year.

2) Three winners, judged by the editors of Rattle in an anonymous review, will receive $5,000 and 500 author copies of their chapbook, which will also be distributed to all of Rattle's 7,000+ subscribers along with issues of the magazine. At least one of the winners will be a poet who has not yet published a full-length book of poetry (more than 48 pages).

3) Open to writers, worldwide; poems must be written primarily in English (no translations unless your own). Individual poems may be previously published in any medium, but the manuscript as a whole must be unpublished as a collection. Do not include any poems that have been published in Rattle—if the chapbook includes poems that we have published, they may be added back before publication, but we cannot consider them during the anonymized review of this contest. If you have an open submission at Rattle that includes poems from the chapbook, you can add a note on that submission letting us know not to read it until after the judging of the chapbook contest is complete. Manuscripts may include visual art. Simultaneous submissions are allowed, but please withdraw the submission immediately should the manuscript be accepted elsewhere.

4) Manuscripts may be 15 - 30 pages in length, not including front/back-matter, with any reasonable fonts or font sizes (12 pt, etc.). Don't worry about the formatting. Do not include any identifying information within the manuscript itself, or within the file-name. If any of the poems have been previously published, include an acknowledgments page. A table of contents and page numbering are nice, but optional.

5) Submit your manuscript in a SINGLE file containing all 15 - 30 pages of poetry. (File types: doc, docx, txt, rtf, odt, pdf.) Multiple entries by a single poet are accepted, however each manuscript must be treated as a separate entry, each with an additional $25 fee. Each additional entry will add an extra year to your subscription. Contest entry fees are non-refundable and manuscripts cannot be edited after submission, so please be sure to upload your final versions of the poems.

6) The winners will be announced on April 15, 2023. Unpublished individual poems from the manuscripts may also be offered standard publication in Rattle. Please remember to include an acknowledgments page so that we know which poems have already been published individually.

In addition to entries through Submittable, we accept them through the post (domestic only). If you'd prefer to enter with a physical copy, see the Rattle Chapbook Prize webpage for full guidelines.

 

Submit your work here.

 

Call for Submissions: Creosote

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS. CREOSOTE: A Journal Of Poetry and Prose. Please submit hard copies of 3–5 poems or prose up to 5,000 words. 

Submission deadline: March 1, 2023. Simultaneous submissions OK with notice. 

 

Mail to: 

 

Creosote, Ken Raines, editor

Eastern Arizona College

615 N. Stadium Ave.

Thatcher, AZ 85552.

Call for Submissions: Boulevard

Boulevard strives to publish only the finest in fiction, poetry, and non-fiction. While we frequently publish writers with previous credits, we are very interested in less experienced or unpublished writers with exceptional promise. If you have practiced your craft and your work is the best it can be, send it to Boulevard.

Accepting submissions from November 1 to May 1

• Submit online through Submittable. No email submissions will be read. Complete guidelines and submission link here.

• Include author's name and contact information on all submissions.

• We allow simultaneous submissions, but please immediately withdraw work that has been accepted elsewhere.

• We accept multiple submissions but wait at least a month between entries.

• Work submitted must be previously unpublished, print and online.

• Authors retain rights to their work from the time of publication in Boulevard.

• Please no handwritten submissions.

• Cover letters with previous credits are not required.

• We accept international subscriptions, for both the general submissions and the contests.

• Submissions must be in English.

• Our average response time is four months. Please do not query before then.

• Send only complete, fully proofread work. We will not consider revisions--this is too difficult administratively for our small staff.

• For response include a SASE.

• There is a $3 fee to submit online. There is no fee to submit by post.

  Payment

• Prose minimum is $100, maximum is $300

• Poetry minimum is $50, maximum is $250

• Natural Bridge Online publication is a flat rate of $50