Call for Submissions on Theme of "re-homing": apo-press

collective.aporia's press, *apo-press, is currently collecting work from artists around the world for our blog. Our goal is to amplify diverse voices, experiences, cultures, and languages on our digital platform year-round, and culminate the year into our second issue, re-homing.

This means that any submission to our blog will be considered first for Issue 2, coming November 2021.

* We welcome these styles and genres:

poetry / fiction / creative nonfiction / critical theory / articles / rituals / spells / essays / reviews / visual art / music / video / photography / translations / collaborations / performances / novellas / hybrid work

* Send up to 5 poems or images and up to 10 pages of prose. Please keep videos under 20 minutes.

Submit your work here.

Writing Competition: Narrative's 2021 Fall Story Contest

Our fall contest is open to all fiction and nonfiction writers. We’re looking for short shorts, short stories, essays, memoirs, photo essays, graphic stories, all forms of literary nonfiction, and excerpts from longer works of both fiction and nonfiction. Entries must be previously unpublished, no longer than 15,000 words, and must not have been previously chosen as a winner, finalist, or honorable mention in another contest.

Narrative winners and finalists have gone on to win Whiting Awards, the Pulitzer Prize, the PushcartPrize, and the Atlantic prize, and have appeared in collections such as The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, and many others. View the recent awards won by Narrative authors.

As always, we are looking for works with a strong narrative drive, with characters we can respond to, and with effects of language, situation, and insight that are intense and total. We look for works that have the ambition of enlarging our view of ourselves and the world.

We welcome and look forward to reading your pages.

Awards: First Prize is $2,500, Second Prize is $1,000, Third Prize is $500, and up to ten finalists will receive $100 each. All entries will be considered for publication.

Submission Fee: There is a $27 fee for each entry. With your entry, you’ll receive three months of complimentary access to Narrative Backstage.

All contest entries are eligible for the $4,000 Narrative Prize and for acceptance as a Story of the Week.

Timing: The contest deadline is November 30, 2021, at midnight, Pacific standard time.

Judging: The contest will be judged by the editors of the magazine. Winners and finalists will be announced to the public by December 31, 2021. All writers who enter will be notified by email of the judges’ decisions, which will be final. The judges reserve the option to declare ties and to designate and award only as many winners and/or finalists as are appropriate to the quality of contest entries and of work represented in the magazine.

Visit our website for more information and to submit.

Call for Submissions: Planisphere Q

 Planisphere Q Seeks Flash Fiction, Vignettes, Character Sketches, and Poetry

Deadline: November 15, 2021

Planisphere Q is seeking submissions for its third issue. "Dark Forest" is the theme. Any interpretation of the word is acceptable. All genres are accepted. The 500-word limit is firm. Flash fiction, vignettes, character sketches, and poetry accepted.

See submission guidelines. 

Call for Submissions on Theme of "Seasons": The Garfield Lake Review

The Garfield Lake Review

Deadline: October 15, 2021

The Garfield Lake Review is an annual literary and visual arts journal started in 1971 by Olivet College students. We produce a print journal and post an online edition on our website. The Garfield Lake Review prides itself in accepting a wide selection of fiction, poetry, and visual arts. Our theme this year is seasons. Send us anything that involves movement, change, growth, and progression. All submissions are reviewed anonymously, regardless of form, which assures that no author will be judged by race, creed, sexual orientation, or political ideology. No submission fee.

Visit our website for more information.

Call for Submissions on Theme of "What Now? The Future We Make": Nimrod International Journal

Call for Submissions: What Now?: The Future We Make

Deadline: November 1, 2021

Nimrod International Journal invites submissions of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction for our spring 2022 thematic issue, What Now?: The Future We Make. In this time of change, the question that keeps arising is: “What now?” We now have a rare opportunity to pause and question our often unexamined assumptions about the world as it is and as it could be. We would love to read your work about what comes next in our futures on an individual, relationship, or family level and our social, national, and worldwide future. For complete guidelines and to submit, please visit our website.

Call for Submissions from Community College Students: Kings River Review

Kings River Review Call for 2-Year College Student Submissions

Deadline: November 1, 2021

Beginning fall 2021, the Kings River Review will be publishing artwork, creative nonfiction, short fiction, and poetry of community college students.

Submission Deadlines: November 1 for the fall issue and April 15 for the spring issue.

Submission Requirements: up to 5 pieces of artwork and photography sent as .JPEG files; Creative Nonfiction and Fiction of up to 3,000 words; and up to 5 poems.

Go to our website for full submission guidelines.

Questions? E-mail us:

kingsriverreview@reedleycollege.edu

Writing Competition: New Letters Editor's Choice Award

 

New Letters Editor's Choice Award—$1,000 + Publication

Deadline: October 18, 2021

New Letters invites you to submit work that experiments and that crosses the traditional boundaries of genre and form to our Editor's Choice Award. Enter your hybrid work—your lyric essays, prose poems, short-shorts, collages, micro-memoirs . . . whatever you’re doing that’s experimental, we want to see it.

The winner will receive $1,000 plus publication in an issue of New Letters.

Entry Fee: $20.00