Call for Submissions: Guernica

 

Guernica is Open for Submissions!

We are excited to consider your work for publication. Please carefully review our submission guidelines before submitting.

 

General Guidelines

• Submission Platform: All submissions must be sent via Submittable. We do not accept submissions via email or postal mail.

• Familiarize Yourself: The best way to understand our editorial approach is by reading recent issues of Guernica. We encourage you to explore the magazine before submitting.

Accepted Genres: We welcome submissions in the following genres:

• Fiction

• Nonfiction (personal essays, reportage, etc.)

• Poetry

• Visual art (illustrations, photography, etc.)

• Interviews

Please note: we do not accept pitches. Only completed pieces will be considered.

 

Original Work: We consider only previously unpublished work. (Note: We do consider previously unpublished translations of work that has been published in another language.)

 

Length: While we have no strict word limit, most pieces we publish fall within the 2,000–7,000-word range, with the majority around 4,000–5,000 words.

 

Cover Letter: Please include a brief cover letter with your submission that contains:

• Your name

• A short bio

• Contact information

• The title of your submission

Simultaneous Submissions: Simultaneous submissions are accepted. However, please notify us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere.

 

Response Time: We aim to respond to submissions within 6 or so months.

Thank you for considering Guernica for your work. We look forward to reading your submissions!

Submit your work here.

 

Payment: $100 

Call for Submissions on Theme of "Thresholds": Multiplicity

 

We invite submissions for our Spring/Summer 2026 issue:

THRESHOLDS

We halt at thresholds; we step over them. We edge back from thresholds; we move past them. We can reach our thresholds; pain and hurt can exceed them. Thresholds become a marker—in space, time, and metaphor—sometimes a pause point, sometimes a pressure point, sometimes a passing point. Some thresholds are doors. Others are platforms. Some are arched gates, strung with colorful beads or lights, promising magic on the other side. Others are darkened hallows that fill us with dread.

For this issue of Multiplicity, we want to hear about all manner of thresholds. We want to learn about the moments of standing in-between or on the verge, the moments of choosing not to enter or turning back, and the moments of pressing forward to reveal what's on the other side. Take us to the threshold. We accept essays, profiles, and narrative nonfiction up to 2,999 words, poetry (up to three poems per submitter), and original photography (up to five photographs) inspired or connected to our theme.

For accepted work, we pay $45 for prose, $15 per poem, and $15 per photograph. 

Submission Dates: November 20, 2025–January 31, 2026
Acceptances Sent: March-April 2026
Anticipated publication: June 2026

Our $3 submission fee is our way of protecting human writers and editors. It is waived without question for any writer experiencing financial difficulty. Please contact us through our website if you require a waiver.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

Our literary magazine first-round review process is blind. Please do not include your name or other personally identifying information on any of the pages of your submission or in the file name of the document you submit. Your cover letter and bio will be reviewed if your work enters our final round of review.

Be aware that curation of the magazine happens inside Multiplicity Studio, where Bay Path MFA faculty and students work together during the spring semester to review submissions. Notification of accepted work typically occurs in late March or early April. For this reason, we don't expect exclusive submissions, but do let us know if your work is accepted elsewhere, so we can remove it from our cue. (And congratulations!) 

• Prose submissions should be double-spaced, formatted in Times New Roman or a similar serif font, 12 pt., with one-inch margins all around. Please paginate and include the title of the work on each page. All work should be carefully proofread before it is submitted. 

• Poetry submissions may include up to three poems per issue; stanzas should be single spaced and there should be no more than one poem per page. 

• Photographs (up to five) should be original, royalty-free, and thematically relevant. Please submit in a format that can be displayed on a Web page and opened in Photoshop. JPG and PNG are preferred. Submitted images should not include vectors or layers. You may include captions, or a brief narrative to illuminate the thematic content. 

• We will not knowingly publish submissions that are slanderous, libelous, racist, sexist, ageist, or otherwise intentionally discriminatory or offensive.

• All works must be original and must not be subject to copyright restrictions. For each issue, the journal publishes one submission per selected author/artist. Once our final review is complete, our Editorial Board will notify each submitter of the status of their work. Please see our Usage Rights page for information about the rights we request upon publication.

Submit your work here. 

Thank you for submitting.

Call for Submissions: The Ranger's Almanac

Submission Guidelines

Share your stories, poems, artwork, photographs, or music inspired by any national or state forest or park. No limit on genre, so long as the location serves a prominent role.

Selected works will appear in our annual Forest & Park Service literary journal.

Compensation 

$10 — stories (1,000+ words), artwork, or music 

$5 — stories under 1,000 words, poems, reprints, or photographs

Requirements 

• Short stories: 500–10,000 words

• PG-13 or below

• Text: Times New Roman, 12pt, double-spaced

• Work must relate to a forest or park

Additional Notes

• Multiple & simultaneous submissions welcome

• Priority given to current/former park & forest staff

• Music shared via QR code in final journal

Submissions may also be emailed:

rangers.almanac@gmail.com

Deadline: **February 28, 2026**

Publication: Memorial Day, 2026

Submit your work here. 

Writing Competition: The Amity Literary Prize

The Amity Literary Prize is an award honoring authors of unpublished non-fiction, fiction including novels, YA, collections of short fiction, and poetry collections. Authors writing in English—regardless of nationality, residence, or publication history—may enter the competition.

The Award winner is offered publication and a $1000 cash prize. Though only one winner will be chosen, we may offer to publish other manuscripts submitted to the competition in addition to the prize winner.

Entry Fee: $25.00 

 AMITY: Friendship. 15th Century; Middle English amyte, amiste, borrowed from Anglo-French amité, amisté (earlier and continental Old French amistet, amistiet), going back to Vulgar Latin *amīcitāt-, *amīcitās, … of Latin amīcitia, from amīcus “friendly, well-disposed” — more at AMIABLE merriam-webster.com

SCHEDULE

Accepting Submissions: October 1 through December 31, 2025.
Winner will be announced April 2026.

ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS

• Authors writing in English, regardless of nationality, residence, or publication history may submit to the competition.

• Only previously unpublished novels, YA novels, collections of short fiction, and poetry collections are eligible. Poetry manuscripts may be a collection or a single long poem but must include at minimum 60 – 120 pages of poetry.

• Fiction manuscripts, including collections of novellas, must be 70,000 words minimum.

• YA must be 50,000 words minimum.

All submissions must be submitted online through the Anamcara Press website. Manuscripts should be formatted 12-point type, double-spaced, and with a decent margin all around (1” is nice).

If your manuscript is accepted by another publisher while under consideration for the Amity Literary Prize , please withdraw it from the competition by notifying Anamcara Press. Entry fees cannot be refunded.

Our books are produced as print-on-demand trade paperbacks and distributed to the trade by Ingram Book Group and its distribution partners at the standard discount. For more information, click here. They are made available to bookstores, libraries, and online retailers everywhere. Additionally, Anamcara Press distributes directly to Amazon, and has wide distribution of both eBooks and Audio books through Draft2Digital, and Dreamscape Distribution.

Fees are used as prize money for the winners, to pay for publication of the winning manuscripts and any other manuscripts chosen for publication, and to pay for promotion. No one establishes a literary press to make money. It’s a labor of love.

We practice Good Karma and look forward to receiving your submissions. Thank you for your contribution to Anamcara Press!

Submit your entry here. 

Writing Competition: Longleaf Press Poetry Book Prize

The prize will be administered by the editors of Longleaf Press. The winning manuscript is to be selected by Roger Weingarten, and will be published by Longleaf Press in January of 2027.

Along with publication, the winning author will receive a $1000 prize, 25 author copies, and a virtual reading.

The submission deadline is Jan. 15, 2026 through Submittable. A decision will be announced by March 15, 2026.

Submission Guidelines

• Please submit an original manuscript in English of at least 50 pages.

• Intimate friends, relatives, or current and former students of judges are not eligible to submit.

• Multiple submissions are acceptable as long as they are submitted separately with separate entry fees.

• Simultaneous submissions are fine, but please be sure to withdraw your submission via Submittable if your work is accepted elsewhere.

• Please update any changes in contact information via your profile on Submittable.

• No revisions to submitted manuscripts will be considered. The author of the winning manuscript will have the opportunity to edit mistakes and suggest revisions prior to publication.

• Be sure that your document is complete and formatted correctly before uploading.

• Individual poems in a manuscript may have been previously published in magazines, journals, anthologies, or chapbooks, but the work as a whole must be unpublished. If applicable, include with your manuscript an acknowledgments page for prior publications.

• There is a non-refundable submission fee of $27 payable through Submittable.

Process and Ethics

Longleaf Press endorses and abides by the Ethical Guidelines of the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP): “CLMP’s community of independent literary publishers believes that ethical contests serve our shared goal: to connect writers and readers by publishing exceptional writing. We believe that intent to act ethically, clarity of guidelines, and transparency of process form the foundation of an ethical contest. To that end, we agree to 1) conduct our contests as ethically as possible and to address any unethical behavior on the part of our readers, judges, or editors; 2) to provide clear and specific contest guidelines–defining conflict of interest for all parties involved; and 3) to make the mechanics of our selection process available to the public. This Code recognizes that different contest models produce different results, but that each model can be run ethically. We have adopted this Code to reinforce our integrity and dedication as a publishing community and to ensure that our contests contribute to a vibrant literary heritage.”

After the submission deadline, manuscripts will be divided among the Longleaf Press editors, who will select approximately 20 semi-finalist manuscripts. Roger Weingarten will then select the winning manuscript. We will announce the winner by March 15, 2026. The winner will be notified by e-mail or telephone.

Submit your entry here. 

Call for Submissions: The Orange Rose

The Orange Rose 

SUBMISSIONS OPEN UNTIL December 15, 2025

Send all work to:

 

theorangeroselitmag@gmail.com

We are currently accepting Fiction, CNF, Flash Fiction, Micro Fiction, Poetry, Art, and Photography.

We ask that you submit to only ONE of the listed genres at a time, and that you wait for a response before submitting again.

You may submit from one of the following:

• One fiction or CNF piece (1,001 to 3,000 words)

• One flash fiction piece (401-1,000 words)

• Up to three micro fiction pieces (maximum 400 words)

• Up to three poems (each poem should start on its own page)

• Up to three pieces of art and/or photography All work must be previously unpublished

We are open to any genres, but will automatically reject any work that includes graphic imagery or hateful content.

 

We ask that any photography submitted not include people due to our inability to verify their consent.

 

Simultaneous submissions are allowed, but please notify us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere. We want to congratulate you!

 

Please attach submissions as a .doc or .docx file only

 

Include a short third-person bio in the cover letter of your submission, along with any social media handles or personal website links.

 

Please refrain from telling us about your story in the cover letter – let your stories speak for themselves. The cover letter is for us to learn about you.

 

In the email subject line, use the format “SUBMISSION: [Genre]”

 

We ask for First North American Serial Rights. All rights revert back to the author after publication. If your work is reprinted elsewhere, we ask that The Orange Rose be acknowledged as the site of first publication

Call for Submissions: Blanket Gravity Magazine

What We're Looking For

Deadline: Jan. 10, 2026 

Blanket Gravity Magazine is a journal for fiction, creative nonfiction, and visual art. We are interested in moments of emotional intensity, and how their effects ring out in the bigger picture of our identities. We are looking for writing and art that explore mental health or emotional life. By "mental health," we mean art that tries to make sense of emotional struggle or uncertainty, as well as our thoughts about who we are, what other people mean to us, and the nature of the world.

For nonfiction, we hope to receive personal essays by people with lived experience of mental illness or emotional struggle.

We curate submissions for writing and art that will offer readers experiences outside their emotional pain, or a moment of interest or connection. We're not trying to erase or replace negative moods—we’re trying to show an expression of care.

How to Submit

You can read our first issue to get a sense of writing and art we are interested in.

Complete the form below for fiction and nonfiction works. We are open to simultaneous submissions, but please let us know immediately if your work has been accepted elsewhere. We accept previously unpublished writing only. Writers retain copyright after granting non-exclusive First World Electronic Rights to Blanket Gravity Magazine. The maximum length we consider is 5,000 words. Writers may indicate if they want to publish under a pseudonym or anonymously.

Payment upon publication is $40 USD per accepted submission. Unfortunately, we are not considering poetry. Works must be developed and written without use of AI.

For visual art, please email 3-7 high-quality attachments to:

blanketgravitymag@gmail.com

as well as a link in the body of the email to the artist's portfolio if available. Blanket Gravity Magazine asks for non-exclusive license to reproduce the artwork in the online and digital magazines and social media. Artists may indicate if they want to publish their artwork under a pseudonym or anonymously. Payment upon publication is $40 USD per accepted piece. Works must be developed and created without use of AI.

Optional Theme

For the second issue, we welcome fiction and nonfiction works that explore the optional theme of "Technology and Love." Selected pieces will be featured in a special collection within the issue.

Prompt: A snippet of old text history kicks off memories of an extinguished friendship. The nightly video call between a long-distance parent and their kids. A college student confides details about romancing their crush into ChatGPT. Technology has become the site of intense shared moments, in some cases fully an additional participant in a relationship. We are looking for fiction and creative nonfiction pieces that explore the role of technology in intimate relationships today, whether by facilitating connection or misunderstanding, capturing a moment in time, or other imaginative forms of engagement. How are we molded by the people we choose, and how has technology shaped the ways we love them?

Complete the submission form for fiction and nonfiction here. For visual art submissions, please email directly to:

blanketgravitymag@gmail.com