Call for Submissions: Gloom Cupboard

Gloom Cupboard seeks new and intriguing work on the topic of "contradictions" for its upcoming issue. We are interested in art, poetry, short fiction, nonfiction, and hybrid-genre work; we are willing to work with authors on pieces that intrigue us but may yet be fully polished.

Submissions are considered on a rolling basis but must be received before September 15th to be considered for the autumn issue. 

See guidelines here and submit your work here.

Call for Essays: Longridge Review

Our mission is to present the finest essays on the mysteries of childhood experience, the wonder of adult reflection, and how the two connect over a lifespan.

We discourage simple excerpts from memoir, as such fragments rarely work well as stand-alone, coherent, effective essays. We do not publish writing that is overtly sentimental.

We are committed to publishing narratives steeped in reverence for childhood perceptions, but we seek essays that stretch beyond the clichés of childhood as simple, angelic, or easy. We feature writing that layers the events of the writer’s early years with learning or wisdom accumulated in adult life.

We welcome diverse creative nonfiction pieces that depict revealing moments about the human condition.

We will consider one creative nonfiction piece (up to 6,500 words) per submission period. Please do not submit more than once during the reading period. Individual authors will not be published more than once per calendar year.

Please visit our website for more detailed guidance.

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Longridge Review
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Call for Submissions: Rascal

A new, paying journal is looking for submissions of poetry, poetic prose, photography, visual art and essays. Rascal publishes on a rolling basis and is open to a broad range of topics, but is looking for ecological-related works in particular.

No fee to submit, pays $20 per acceptance for poetry, photography and visual art, and $0.02 per word for essays.

All accepted submissions are considered for annual editor's choice prizes of at least $100.

See full submission guidelines here.

Call for YA Fiction Submissions to Anthology: What Doesn't Kill You

The editors of What Doesn’t Kill You: An Anthology of YA Short Fiction are seeking YA short stories for their forthcoming collection. When submitting work, please interpret the title-as-theme “What Doesn’t Kill You” broadly.

Email submissions with the subject line “YA Submission” no later than 31 October 2017 to:

pjoshualaskeyAThotmailDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )

&

mallaryaldermanATgmailDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )  

Submission guidelines:
 
· under 5000 words
· YA style, content, & voice (no adults reflecting on childhood)
· no chapters of larger works, though independent stories about characters from longer works are acceptable
· protagonist(s) must be between 13-18 (inclusive)
· previously published or unpublished work accepted
· for previously published work, author must have retained the rights for reprint or must request and obtain those rights from the proper publisher and obtain exact wording as to how the previous publisher wishes to be credited and acknowledged in the anthology

Cover letter, please include:
 
· author’s name
· story title
· word count
· age of protagonist(s)
· whether story has been previously published
· if previously published, where, when, and confirmation of rights to reprint including exact wording to credit previous publisher

Call for Fiction Submissions: StoryQuarterly

StoryQuarterly will be accepting short fiction submissions from September 15 through November 18, 2017.  

Accepted work will be published in StoryQuarterly 51.

Limit: Up to 6250 words. Electronic submissions only.

Please visit our website for more information and a link to our submission upload form.

Call for Submissions: Parentheses Journal

Parentheses Journal, a new collaborative venture in the quest for sharing art, operates on the quintessence of art for the sake of art.

We are an online journal. Give us your dailies, the mundane still life, tales spurned out of your clay, restless thoughts, unanswered plurals – we welcome poetry, fiction, and art (illustrations, photography, et cetera) from across coasts and climes. Send up to 5 pieces in any one genre. Simultaneous submissions welcome. We are a non-paying venture. We do not accept translations at this point.

Please read the guidelines for submissions here,

Deadline: September 1, 2017

We look forward to reading your material.

Warm Wishes,
Sneha/Harshal Editors, Parentheses Journal

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Call for Submissions and Writing Competition: Split Lip Magazine

• Submissions are currently open for our Summer Mixtape Flash Fiction Contest! Judged by Juan Martinez of Best Worst American fame, the winner will receive $250, publication in Split Lip's first-ever print issue, and an invitation to read at our AWP18 reading/issue launch. Deadline 9/15.

• Speaking of our first-ever print issue, regular submissions are open now. We offer free submissions every other month (free in August!), and our tip jar submissions are always open. We also have a $5 expedited option, which will get you a response in 2 weeks.

• During the month of August, our poetry editor Marianne Chan is offering critiques of individual poems as well as poetry manuscripts for a small fee. Current MFA students are already getting feedback in their workshops, but this could be a great opportunity for alums! All the money we raise will go to web hosting and our eventual goal of paying our contributors. (For the editors and other staff, Split Lip will remain a labor of love.)

We'd love to put some new voices out into the world! For more info, check out our website and/or follow us on Twitter. And don't miss our new issue on August 15th!