Call for Submissions: Little Fruits Magazine

Send us the fruits of your labor.

We want your ripest writing. Tart, rotten, or dripping with sweetness. Please keep within word counts and genres.

Currently accepting:

flash fiction (max 1,000 words)

short fiction (max 2,500 words)

nonfiction (max 2,500 words)

We’re honored to consider your little fruits.

 

where to submit

 

Please submit via Google Form here.

Oxford commas required.

Follow manuscript format (see here), with author’s name and word count on the first page, double-spaced, Times New Roman (or similar), and page numbers.

 

the fine print

We don’t accept work that has been published or made with AI (ask your friend to edit instead). Simultaneous submissions are allowed, but please email us if you’re accepted elsewhere. We do not accept work that is violent, derogatory, or graphic without purpose.

By submitting to Little Fruits Magazine, authors agree to grant us first serial rights upon acceptance. This means we ask for the right to be the first to publish your work, whether online or in print. After publication, all rights revert to the author. We request acknowledgment if the work is republished elsewhere (e.g., "Originally published in Little Fruits Magazine").

Since we are still little fruits, we do not pay. We also do not charge reading fees. 

 

Deadline: Jan. 31, 2026

Call for Submissions: Mizna

 

Submissions now open until December 1, 2025 11:59pm CT

Upcoming Issue

The upcoming issue is not responding to a theme and we will accept writing on any subject. Nonetheless, we also recognize a need to center work that is modulated to the realities of our current moment.

We seek writing which explores the realities and identities related to the SWANA (Southwest Asian and North African) sphere both in the region and in diaspora. We especially welcome writing in relationship to SWANA people and places which are currently targeted by empire and tyranny, from Armenia, to Palestine, to Sudan, and beyond.

Contributors

Contributors do not need to be SWANA- or Arab-identified and can be based anywhere in the world, but work submitted should be considerate of Mizna’s ethos and the social realities of our audiences, as well as aim to contribute to ongoing conversations in and beyond our communities. While we welcome submissions from former contributors seeking a space for their work in this urgent moment, we also especially encourage submissions from writers who have never been published by us before. We encourage submitters to become familiar with work that has been published in Mizna before submitting work.

Forms of Writing

Mizna has long been a home for literature with innovative, experimental forms and is published with high quality print production practices. We welcome visual poetry submissions or hybrid works that cross the arbitrary boundaries of genre. In general, literary works of poetry, visual poetry, fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, creative nonfiction, comics, collage, invented forms, and any forms of mixed print or hybrid work will be accepted, with consideration to the physical parameters of our print journal, technical staff, and budget. We do not consider visual art submissions.

Submission Details

> There are no submission fees.

> Selected contributors will receive a $200 honorarium, a one-year subscription to Mizna, and five copies of the issue.

> Please include a short cover letter (max. 200 words) with the following: Titles of all submitted pieces
Indication of any simultaneous submissions
For prose over two pages, a 1–2 sentence overview of the piece
Author bio (max. 50 words)
Any additional information you would like the editorial team to know (max. 1 paragraph)

> File types must be .doc or .docx or PDF for pieces with more complex layouts. We do not accept other file types (e.g. Pages, Notepad, JPEG).

> Prose submissions should be double spaced and limited to 3000 words.

> Pitches for essays will not be accepted, please submit only complete and finalized drafts.

> Poetry submissions should be limited to four poems of any length (verses exceeding our page width will be treated with a runover indent).

> Please only submit once per submission period.

> Please do not send visual art submissions.

> Submissions that do not adhere to these guidelines are subject to being discarded unread. Submissions outside the open call window will likely not be considered or receive response.

> Pieces are chosen by Mizna editorial staff and a regularly changing selection committee. Accepted pieces will be contracted to be published in print after an editorial process involving authors. Mizna will hold rights to publish online or in future publications, but authors will hold copyright. Emails will be sent out for rejected pieces but regrettably we do not have capacity to provide feedback or editorial support.

About Mizna

For over 25 years, Mizna has promoted experimental approaches to art, literature, and film; work that questions and expands the forms and conceptual frameworks of Arab and SWANA culture. We publish a biannual print literary and art journal, Mizna, and Mizna Online, a digital platform for literary and multidisciplinary work reflecting critically on the current realities of the SWANA region and beyond. We produce the Twin Cities Arab Film Festival, the largest and longest-running SWANA-centered film festival in the Midwest. Mizna also offers readings, film series, performances, public art commissions, and community events that have featured 1000+ local and transnational writers, filmmakers, and artists.

Submit here.

Call for Submissions: Months to Years

WE ACCEPT NONFICTION, POETRY, PHOTOGRAPHY, AND ART

Spring 2026 Issue: October 15 to December 1

We also periodically issue themed calls for submissions between our regular calls. Check Submittable for current themed calls.

We welcome previously unpublished nonfiction (including essay, memoir, and creative nonfiction) of up to 2,500 words that explore grief, loss, mortality, death, and dying-related topics. (Please note, WE DO NOT PUBLISH FICTION.) We also accept poetry as well as art and photography submissions. Your submission must be your own original work and not created in part or whole by artificial intelligence (AI) or any similar tool. 

Months To Years accepts submissions only via Submittable.

We seek personal stories with universal appeal. Tell us your story but make it fresh, compelling, unusual. We receive numerous submissions. The stories that stand out are the ones that tell us a story we think we know but then surprise us or delight us. Or make us laugh. Despite the seriousness of topic. Please read past issues before submitting your work to us.

Here are ideas for questions to explore when considering submitting to us:

• How do you live well after receiving a terminal prognosis?

• How do you face death when it likely will be sooner than you expected?

• How do you find joy when facing intensive medical treatments and the prospect of dying?

• As a caregiver to a terminally ill patient, how have you managed and survived the experience?

• How does the culture and your community treat you when you are likely to die?

• How does cultural silence surrounding death and dying impact you?

• If you have lived through loss due to COVID-19, as either a family member or a medical provider, we are interested in your story.

• If you are a doctor, nurse, or hospice volunteer, how do you help the dying live their best life?

• If you are a doctor or nurse, how have you reconciled medicine’s role of perpetuating life with the reality that this is sometimes not possible? Write about your experiences interacting with patients and their families.

• Are you part of a culture whose practices differ and conflict (or coincide) with predominant culture surrounding death?

• Have you found humor in death and dying, dark comedy amidst the horror? Sick humor to keep you sane? We are interested in the quirky and unexpected angles on death.

• How do you continue and find peace after a devastating illness or loss?

• What does the world need to know about the experience of dying or being labeled as someone who is dying?

This is not an exhaustive list but is meant to give you an idea of the kinds of topics in which we are interested. We may not be able to immediately respond to your submission, please have patience. We may accept your submission, suggest edits/rewrites, or let you know that we cannot publish it at this time.

The Fine Print of the Submission Guidelines

Please read these guidelines carefully and adhere to them when you submit to us. Submissions that are not in conformity with these guidelines will be automatically rejected. 

• We accept previously unpublished nonfiction works of up to 2,500 words as well as previously unpublished poetry, art, and photography. Please note that we consider work posted to a website or a personal or other blog as “published” and therefore, it does not qualify as previously unpublished. If your work is pending publication elsewhere, it would also not qualify as unpublished.

• We accept simultaneous submissions but please let us know right away if your submission is selected for publication elsewhere.

• Please limit your submission whether it be nonfiction, poetry, or art/photography to one per call for submissions.

• Writers and artists must own the rights to their work. By submitting to us, you are agreeing to have your work published on our site and maintained in our archives. You further agree to have your work compiled into a digital edition. The writer retains ownership of the copyright to his or her work.

• By submitting to us, you are agreeing to allow us to make minor copyedit and technical corrections to your work. Any substantive edits will be made only with your consent.

• Please DO NOT include your name or identifying information in the file name or the file itself. Please DO include a word count (for nonfiction and poetry submissions) at the start of the file.

• When submitting a photograph or artwork, please ensure its resolution is at least 300 ppi.

• Please include a bio written in the third person of no more than 100 words. It should tell us the official stuff about you as well as something interesting or quirky. Please use complete sentences in a format ready for publication. (If you have published books that are included in your bio, please include the publisher and year published in parentheses after the title.) Bios that exceed 100 words will be edited.

• While we will consider stories about the death of pets and animals, we are primarily interested in human stories

We receive a large volume of submissions. As a tiny nonprofit with a mostly volunteer staff, please understand that someone has to read each submission. Our mission is to participate in the literary arts community and offer what we create to as many people as possible. For that reason. we do not charge reading fees and we do not charge subscription fees. Our website and the digital issue are entirely free. And we don’t want to clutter them up with advertising. But all of this requires us working on a shoestring budget which then means we are slow to respond. Since we started using Submittable, we now respond to each submission within a reasonable time.

Submit your work here. 

Call for Submissions: The Journal of Compressed 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 as 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 are open from March 15 to June 15 and September 15 to December 15.

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

Here are a baker’s dozen of things Matter Press definitely doesn’t want:

• conversations in bars, cafes, restaurants, cars, hikes, or in some unexplained space where disembodied voices think they are way more interesting and clever than they are

• anything written “after.” Nothing in conversation with, inspired by, or an homage to a preceding poem, artwork, or other text. Before is okay.

• line break poetry or poetry written as prose with / between the lines where the line break would be

• Pieces “after” the action, so that the protagonist does nothing except moments of glancing, thinking, reflecting, noticing, sitting, wondering, brushing, dreaming…

• odd names of characters like Friglep or Zueron or Noir or anything that isn’t a name

• a strange writing pseudonym that is a bunch of senseless letters strung together

• the heading on a piece that still has the name of the writing teacher, English teacher, professor—along with the name of the class

• yeah, the world is awful, the president is awful, the climate is awful, ICE is awful. It’s all awful. We know. No need to tell us. We 100% get it.

• second-person stories. You can send such a story to your other favorite literary magazines; you do not need to send it here.

• pieces that assume we will automatically care about your piece because you wrote it. We won’t. The piece needs to make us care. And pretty quickly. There are 100s of pieces in the slush pile. We aren’t a writing workshop that has no choice but to read each piece carefully and closely and lovingly because everyone knows everyone. We have choices. Hundreds of them.

• the appearance of Jesus, God, or any holy being

• writing about writing

• any questions about the above

The reader for your submission is, during this round of submissions, the managing editor.

Please be sure to submit in the correct category; we’ve been receiving several fiction submissions in the creative nonfiction category. For all submitters, we aren’t as concerned with labels—hint fiction, prose poetry, micro fiction, flash fiction, and so on—as we are with what compression means to you. In other words, what form “compression” takes in each artist’s work will be up to each individual. However, we don’t publish erotica or work with strong, graphic sexual content. In short, we want to fall in love with your work. That might happen in the way we’ve fallen in love with work we’ve previously published, or it might happen in a way we have yet to experience. Maybe reading that other work will help in knowing whether you should send your work to us, but in truth, such a thing might not be discoverable.

Here are things that matter: 

• Please do not include a cover letter as part of the manuscript document.

• Please include, as part of your cover letter on Submittable, a brief bio. Also, in the cover letter, let us know why you feel this piece works for a journal obsessed with “compression.”

• Please no more than one submission of a single piece in each genre at a time. Please feel free to submit again after receiving a response, but please no more than 3 submissions per genre per reading period.

• Simultaneous submissions are fine with us, but please let us know if the submission has been accepted elsewhere. Failure to do will result in some facsimile of your face being put on the Matter dart board. And no one wants that.

• Please format prose to be singled-spaced, 12-point Times New Roman font, in a Microsoft Word document, with an extra space between each paragraph.

• If you’ve been previously published by The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, please wait a year before submitting again.

Submit your work here. 

Call for Submissions: Claudine Literary Magazine

Claudine Literary Magazine 

What we’re looking for. Pieces that move; pieces that surprise. Stunning prose. Thoughtful punctuation over strict grammar. Innovative form over arbitrary paragraphing. Intentional language over wordsmithing. Specificity and context over vague emotion. Interrogation and transcendence over bald trauma. We crave discovery and wonder and awe. Bittersweet is our favorite emotion. We love myths, fairy tales, fabulism, slipstream, and haunting vibes, but horror is not the best fit, neither is fantasy nor sci fi that leans more genre (plot-forward) than literary. We love personal essays that bend and twist and braid, but op-eds, rants, and heavy-handed issue pieces aren't the best fit. More than any genre, we love prose that makes us ache and images that linger. (Sea creatures always a plus.)

Word Count. Up to 400 words. All categories. Firm count. (Read: don’t get cute with hyphens.)

​Categories.

Microfiction (mostly made up) Pay is $25 upon publication.

Micro Creative Nonfiction (true to an experience or topic) Pay is $25 upon publication.

New Writer Micros (your piece can be fiction or CNF, but you, the writer, can only have published three or fewer literary pieces) The definition of "New Writer" has some grace built into it. Read more here. Pay is $25 upon publication.

Prose Chapbook Review: Please send an email to:

EIC@claudineliterary.com

with the heading "Chapbook Alert--[Name of Chapbook]" to request a review. More details about reviews here.​​​

Submission period. Submissions are open January through November. There is a December issue, but we do not take submissions that month.

Cover letter. Keep it brief, please. Tell us: the name of your piece, the word count, and the category (fiction or creative nonfiction). Include a 50-word bio about your writing life and any relevant social media handles (instagram, facebook, twitter, or bluesky). If you have published three or fewer pieces, please mention that you are a new writer, so your piece can be considered for that category as well. 

Number of submissions. Please send one submission with up to two micros per calendar month. (You can mix and match categories, sending one fiction and one CNF in a single submission.) Wait until your work is accepted or declined before submitting again. If you publish in Claudine, please wait 6 months from your publication date before submitting again.

Simultaneous submissions. We accept simultaneous submissions; please withdraw your piece promptly if it’s accepted elsewhere.

Reprints. Original, unpublished work only, please.

Response time. Within 15 days. Please do not inquire about your submission until 1 month has passed.  

Rights. We acquire first serial rights worldwide in English and non-exclusive anthology rights. We ask for the right to display the work for the duration of the journal. Copyright remains with the writer in all cases. If your work is subsequently reprinted elsewhere, please acknowledge Claudine as the site of first publication.

​AI. The ethical issues AI presents to literary spaces and humans are legion. Do not submit AI generated or AI assisted work. We want to read what your human brain has created.

Fee. Submissions are always free. If you feel inclined to leave a $2 tip to support our work, we will appreciate you forever, but please know, tip or no tip, all submissions are read the same.

How to submit.

For Fiction, CNF: please email your submission to:

submissions@claudineliterary.com 

Please state the genre and title of your submission in the subject line. Example: CNF submission--"The Sky Is Blue." Your cover letter and bio can be typed into the body of your email. Please attach your piece as a word document.

For New Writer Micros: same as Fiction/CNF submissions, but please put "New Writer" in your heading before the other info. Example: New Writer Fiction--"The Sky Has Never Been Blue."

Writing Competition: New Millennium Writing Awards

POETRY • FICTION • FLASH FICTION • NONFICTION

$4,000 IN AWARDS + PUBLICATION (in print and online)

Deadline: November 30, 2025

PRIZES First Place in each category receives a $1000 cash prize, a certificate to document the success, publication online and in print, in New Millennium Writings, and two complimentary copies.

Select Finalists, and all Poetry Finalists, will be published in New Millennium Writings (online and in print) and receive two complimentary copies.

GUIDELINES

• No restrictions on style or subject matter.

• Entrant retains copyright ownership of work.

• Multiple and simultaneous submissions welcome.

• Previously published works accepted if: Print circulation was under 5,000, or the work was published online only.

• Fiction (all types welcome) - 7,499 words or less

• Nonfiction (all types welcome) - 7,499 words or less

• Flash Fiction (aka: Short-Short Fiction) - 1,000 words or less

• Poetry - each entry may include three poems, up to five pages total.

Anonymous Judging: Submission file should contain only the title and text of the story, essay, or poem(s). Cover letters are optional and may be uploaded separately.

For mail/postal submissions click here for instructions.
Submit your work (or postmark) by November 30, 2025

ENTRY FEES AND MULTIPLE ENTRY SUPPORT

For any category or combination of categories:
1 Entry - $20
2 Entries - $35 (reg $40)
3 Entries - $45 (reg $60)
4 Entries - $60 (reg $80)
5 Entries - $80 (reg $100)

Note: Poetry may include up to three poems per Entry. 

Submit your entry here. 

Call for Submissions: The Timberline Review

The Timberline Review is an all-volunteer literary journal operated by Willamette Writers. Whether you’ve been previously published or not, we look for writing that is clear, well-crafted, and written in your original voice. There is NO THEME for 2025; send us your best work for consideration this year.

We seek work from these genres:

• Poetry

• Fiction (flash, short story, novella, and novel excerpt)

• Creative nonfiction (including essay and memoir) and critical commentary (Writing about writing including literary analysis, and craft instruction)

• Visual art: we seek black and white for inside the journal and color images for cover art.

Limit: one submission per person.

We seek submissions from writers 18 and up.

If you are not a member of Willamette Writers, please use the guest submission form on our website. Even better, sign up as a member today!

Submission Period November 1, 2025, to December 15, 2025, at 11:59PM Pacific Time.

Submit your work here.

Guidelines

• All submissions are considered anonymously. (Be sure your name DOES NOT appear anywhere in the submission (including headers and footers, please).

• Submissions that include identifying information will automatically be disqualified.

• One submission per person.

• We welcome human efforts, creative ideas, and formulations that do not rely on large language learning models or generative A.I.

Text Formatting:

• Submissions are anonymous: Do not include name or contact information on your attachment (including headers and footers). Any identifying information in a submission results in immediate disqualification.

• Font: Times New Roman.

• Size: 12 pt.

• Spacing: 1.5 line spacing for prose; single spacing for poetry.

• Margins: 1 inch left/right and top/bottom.

• Headers/Footers: Not necessary. Please check that your name is not in the header or footer.

• Title of Work: Only at the top of the first page.

Authors receive $25 + one print contributor copy. First North American Serial Rights. 

 

More information on the website.