Call for Submissions from Midwestern Writers: Midwest Weird

Midwest Weird is an audio literary magazine featuring weird fiction and nonfiction by Midwestern writers.

What is Weird?

It could be the style. The content. The genre. It could be you.

Check out our past episodes to get a sense of the weird we like.

And read our "New Lit on the Block" profile on New Pages.

If you think it’s weird, your work may fit with us.

​Who are we looking for? We’re looking for weird work from writers based in the Midwest.

We’re especially looking for work from writers who are women or nonbinary, part of the LGBTQ, BIPOC, and disabled communities, and/or other underrepresented writers.

 

We’re also looking for writers who are excited about creating audio versions of their work. Midwest Weird is expanding the notion of a literary magazine, and what creators of today can do.

​How will this work?

If your work becomes part of Midwest Weird, your story can be read and produced by our team, or you can take the lead. We may also interview you for a special bonus episode.

Your work can be original, or it can be previously published.

Work should be between 1,000 to 4,000 words. A little more or less is fine.

You will retain all rights to your story.

In the future, we'll also offer honorariums for accepted work.

​ Long story short

If you think we might like your work, send it our way. And stay weird.

 

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions: The Glass Post

The Glass Post is Currently Accepting Submissions!

We are a brand new online literary magazine, and we would love some talented writer's work! We want to see writing that is true to your creative self. Authentic, real, imaginative, and contemplative are all things we look for in new pieces, so once you’ve crafted something that makes you proud, submit! Let us help you put it out into the world to be seen, read, heard, and—just maybe—understood.

Please read the following guidelines before submitting

Poetry – Up to 3 poems, no more than 5 pages total.

Prose – Up to 3 prose pieces, 50-2,000 words each.

Creative Letters – Up to 3 poetic or expressive letters with a max of 1,500 words each.

All submissions must be compiled into a single document (.doc, .docx, .pdf).

You may submit one document per category, but please fill out a new submission form for each.

Simultaneous submissions are allowed, but we only consider unpublished work.

If your piece is accepted elsewhere, please withdraw your submission from our magazine.

We strive to respond to all submissions within 2-6 weeks. If you do not receive a response within that time, please consider it a decline. We encourage you to submit again after 60 days.

By submitting your work to The Glass Post, you agree to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.

We look forward to reading your work!

Submission form here.

Call for Submissions: Birdcoat Quarterly

Here's What You Need To Know 

Birdcoat Quarterly pays its writers and artists. We are currently able to pay $20 per poem and $25 per essay, and we hope to be able to raise that amount in the near future. If you'd like to help us reach that goal, you can donate here. 

We welcome submissions that blur genre and play with form, experiment with compression or expansion, use language in surprising ways, and bring attention to subject matter of contemporary urgency or uncommon interest. We especially love work that is tender, weird, and wild, hard-hitting and incisive, clear-sighted and daring. Stun us, wound us, share your gifts, or keep us warm—send us work that is unapologetically yours. We will be open for submissions to our Editors' Choice Prize in Essays from March 1, 2025 - June 1, 2025 our Editors' Choice Prize in Poetry from September 1, 2025 - December 1, 2025.

We only accept submissions through Submittable, and you can access our submissions manager here. We are open for expedited submissions for a short period each quarter and art submissions on a rolling basis.  

We will be open for standard poetry and essay submissions this quarter from January 15, 2025 to March 31, 2025. 

Our submission fee is a standard $3, approximately the cost of postage from the old-school days, and is used completely to run the journal and pay contributors.

We take submissions of up to five poems (or a maximum of ten pages) in a single document and lyric essays of up to 5,000 words. We only considered previously unpublished work and request First North American Serial Rights. All rights revert back to the author/artist upon publication.

We also accept submissions of visual art, in galleries of twelve, to be paired with the written work for each issue.

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions: The Adroit Journal

WE ARE NOW A PAYING PUBLICATION!! THANKS TO THE GENEROUS SUPPORT OF OUR DONORS, THE ADROIT JOURNAL PAYS $100.00 TO ALL FICTION & CREATIVE NON-FICTION CONTRIBUTORS AND $50.00 TO ALL POETRY AND ENLIGHTENMENT CONTRIBUTORS, AS WELL AS OUR ISSUE COVER ARTIST. 

Deadline: April 1, 2025

Please submit up to three prose pieces in one document via our Submittable page (adroit.submittable.com). We invite you to submit poetry, CNF, art, and/or photography in addition to fiction.

Prose/Fiction

Prose submissions may be up to 9,000 words per entry of between 1-3 pieces. Please submit no more than two (2) times per genre per reading period. Additional submissions will be returned unread.

No AI-generated or AI-assisted work will be considered or even tolerated. This means you can use AI to research or make notes on a piece, but every sentence must come from you or if it is inspired by another author or resource, you must provide attribution or sourcing.

Please include a word count at the top of each submission.

N.B. PLEASE SUBMIT MULTIPLE PROSE PIECES IN ONE DOCUMENT.

Happy submitting, and thanks in advance!

Prose/Creative Nonfiction

Please submit up to three CNF prose pieces in one document via our Submittable page (adroit.submittable.com). We invite you to submit poetry, art, and/or photography in addition to prose.

Prose submissions may be up to 9,000 words per entry of between 1-3 pieces. Please submit no more than two (2) times per genre per reading period. Additional submissions will be returned unread.

No AI-generated or AI-assisted work will be considered or even tolerated. This means you can use AI to research or make notes on a piece, but every sentence must come from you or if it is inspired by another author or resource, you must provide attribution or sourcing.

Please include a word count at the top of each submission.

N.B. PLEASE SUBMIT MULTIPLE PROSE PIECES IN ONE DOCUMENT.

Happy submitting, and thanks in advance!

Art/Photography

Please submit UP TO SIX full-color images (unless intentionally greyscale in the first place) via our submission manager (adroit.submittable.com). Please make all image submissions .jpg or .png, and as high-quality as possible. Image scans or screenshots are alright for submission (for the purpose of considerably lowering the file size), but please have access to higher-quality versions the art/photos prior to submission.

Submitted art may have previously been recognized for an award, but should not be previously published. Also, we DO accept simultaneous art submissions, but expect you to withdraw your submission(s) if accepted elsewhere promptly after the acceptance elsewhere.

Please submit no more than two (2) times per genre per reading period. Additional submissions will be returned unread.

No AI-generated or AI-assisted work will be considered or even tolerated. 

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions from Canadian Writers: The Fieldstone Review

The Fieldstone Review is now open for submissions for our 2025 Issue!

This year, we invite writers and artists to explore the theme of COLOUR in all its complexity. Colour is everywhere, and we want to see how you interpret and express it in your work. We welcome submissions from Canadian writers in various genres, including poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction/reviews, and visual art. We are also excited to share that this year, we will offer a $100 cash prize for the best submission. So don’t be shy – send us your best work!

Submission Deadline: April 30th, 2025

Reading Period: May 1st – June 30th 2025

We can’t wait to see what colour means to you.

General Guidelines

The Fieldstone Review accepts electronic submissions only. Please send all submissions as attachments. Documents should be attached in .doc/.docx format. However, .pdf is suitable for poems with unique formatting. Please submit visual art in .JPG format.

The Fieldstone Review practices blind reviewing. Please do not indicate your name or identifying information anywhere on the attachment containing your submission. Instead, please include the following in the body of your e-mail:

full name
contact information
a biography of 50 to 100 words
the title(s) of the work(s) submitted
notification if the work is a simultaneous submission

• Submissions should be formatted in 12pt Times New Roman font, and all submissions except for poetry should be double-spaced.

• An e-mail acknowledging the receipt of the work will be sent within seven business days during the reading period.
  

• Submissions received after the reading period has ended and works that exceed the word and/or page limits listed in the appropriate categories will not be considered.
  

Genre Guidelines

FICTION: One submission per author to a max of 5,000 words.

POETRY: One submission per author to a max of six pages, sent as a single attachment.

NONFICTION: One submission per author to a max of 2,500 words, OR two submissions to a max of 1,000 words each.

REVIEWS: Responses to works published in the last two years (fiction, poetry, film, etc.) to a max of 2000 words. Submit a pitch first of one short paragraph, including what content your review will explore, why, and estimated word count.

VISUAL ART: One submission per artist.

Authors may submit to more than one category if they adhere to the above guidelines. Submissions that violate the above guidelines may not be considered for publication.

WHERE TO SUBMIT

Fiction Submissions:

fsr.fictioneditor@usask.ca

2025 Editor: Lydie Hau (they/them)

Poetry Submissions:

fsr.poetryeditor@usask.ca

2025 Editor: Lydie Hua (they/them)

Reviews & Non-Fiction Submissions:

fsr.reviewseditor@usask.ca

2025 Editor: Amara Ujumadu (she/her)

Visual Art:

fsr.editorinchief@usask.ca

2025 Editor: Jenna Miller (she/her)

Call for Submissions: Amaryllis Literary Magazine

Amaryllis Literary Magazine

We believe writing is a form of art, and should never be gatekept, elitist, or afraid to try new things. We want the things that shock us, the things that shake us to the core just a little bit, the things that look for deep emotional truths and leave us with a new understanding of the world. We welcome new and aspiring authors, and we respect any vision that is well thought out.

We do not and will never charge a submission fee, so feel free to submit! We also try our best to offer feedback for your work. Current categories are: poetry, fiction, nonfiction, art or other.

Submit here at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeuNyCZ6F6fdZGrCRkyQ2DCEzlbZro8JGIqE05g2s-mlqRlNg/viewform?usp=sharing

Writing Competition: Loraine Williams Poetry Prize

We are pleased to announce that Brandon Som will serve as the final judge for the 2025 Loraine Williams Poetry Prize. Each year one winner gets $1,500 and publication. We also publish three finalists, each of whom receives $200.

Brandon Som’s Tripas (Georgia Review Books, 2023) won a Pulitzer Prize in poetry and was a finalist for a National Book Award. He is also the author of The Tribute Horse, winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and the chapbook Babel’s Moon. He lives on the unceded land of the Kumeyaay Nation and is an associate professor of literature and creative writing at the University of California San Diego.

Submissions to be considered for the Loraine Williams Poetry Prize must be sent either through Submittable from March 1 through May 15 or by regular mail postmarked within the same span of time.

Submissions cost $25. The winning poem will appear in The Georgia Review. All submitted poems will be considered for publication; any selected will be paid our regular poetry honorarium of $4 per line.

Entry requirements: Only one entry per submitter. An entry may include one, two, or three poems, but no more than a total of ten standard pages in 12-point or larger type. Work previously published in any form will not be considered. Simultaneous submissions are accepted, however please let us know if the work has been accepted elsewhere.

Translations are not allowed, as we do not have the capacity to effectively judge translations for this prize. We do accept translations for general submissions.

Postal submissions: Include (1) a cover letter that provides your phone number and email address, (2) a self-addressed and stamped envelope for notice of whether your work has been selected for publication, and (3) a check for $25 for your entry fee. Checks should be made payable to The Georgia Review, and envelopes should be addressed to:

The Georgia Review Prose Prize

The Georgia Review, Room 706A Main Library

University of Georgia

Athens, GA 30602-9009

Please note that students, faculty, staff, and administrators currently affiliated with the University of Georgia are ineligible for the LWPP. Intimate friends, relatives, colleagues, and former or current students of a judge are also ineligible to enter. Previous winners of our contest should wait three years before entering again.

Submit your entry here.