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Posted February 5
Alimentum: The Literature of Food is accepting submissions of poems for their 4th annual menupoems broadside (looks like a menu but has poems on it!) to celebrate April National Poetry Month. Visit their website for more details and samples of previous menupoems. Deadline: March 1
Opium Magazine accepting poems for print, online, and iPhone app.
The Redheaded Stepchild accepts rejected poems.
Sakura Review poetry, fiction, nonfiction for next print issue.
Switched-on Gutenberg online poetry: “Assemblage.” March 31
Symbolon poetry, flash fiction contemporary Michigan writers.
Sleet Magazine poetry, fiction, flash, irregulars.
Nashville Review (Vanderbilt U) online fiction, poetry, nonfiction, music, comics for inaugural issue. March 1
Super Arrow online experiments in writing and art. March 31
The Oleander Review fiction, nf, poetry, art, cover designs. April 15
Great Handwritten Journal Snapshot Social Experiment
The Umbrella Factory fiction, poetry, nonfiction for inaugural issue.
Cottonwood (UKansas) fiction, poetry, cnf. Prose <8,000 words or 3-5 poems Poetry or Prose Editor c/o: Cottonwood, Room 400 Kansas Union, 1301 Jayhawk Blvd, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045.
Shelf Life Magazine non-fiction (on writing, books, literature, etc.), art, shorts and poems. March 15
Sweet: A Literary Confection poetry and cnf year round.
Umbrella online poetry re-opened for submissions Jan 10.
Interrobang?! Magazine poetry stories, pictures, music, oddball esoterica. March 15
Cultures of Digital Economy Research Institute at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, England. Anthology: The Digital Age - poems, fiction, non-fiction, critical essays, commentaries, photographs, artwork. Email by Feb 15: lucie.riches-at-student.anglia.ac.uk
Anthology: The Christmas Spirit (St. Martin's Press) stories. May 1
Prism Review smart, complex fiction and poetry for the next issue.
NōD Magazine poetry, prosem, visual art: “Magnified.” March 20
Posted January
Dark Sky Magazine is reading for poetry and prose. Dark Sky will consider up to 3,000 words of prose, or three to five poems at a time. They are currently reading for an upcoming Noir series, in addition to regular submissions. See their submissions page for complete guidelines.
Tin House seeks fiction, essays, and poetry that address the often taboo subject of Class in America. Please submit only one story or essay (10,000-word limit), or up to five poems at a time. Deadline: May 1, 2010
Crab Creek Review ekphrastic poems, <30-lines. May 31
Limestone unpub poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, art. March 12
Milk Money literary & experimental fiction & poetry: "Vile Pile." Feb 15
shaking like a mountain lit about music fiction, non-fiction, & poetry.
The List Anthology Use six assigned words in your poem. March 8
Bottom Dog Press anthology From Hill to Holler: Stories of Contemporary Appalachia. July 1
Journal of Dracula Studies accepting scholarly articles.
Wide Screen – Cinemas of the Arab Word. March 15
Academic writing & narrative essays Demeter Press anthology: Caribbean Mother. Aug 1
The Other Journal critical essays, reviews, creative writing, visual/performance on theology & culture.
Mandala Journal (student-run, Institute for African American Studies at The University of Georgia) accepting poetry, nonfiction, fiction, and art for inaugural online issue. Theme: Cosmopolitanism. Feb. 15. To: mandala.journal-AT-gmail.com
Jellyroll Magazine online quarterly of new American poetry seeks submissions for inaugural issue.
Merpoint Publishing seeks submissions from new and established authors.
St. Somewhere seeks fiction, poetry and visual art for inaugural online issue.
Able Muse poetry, fiction, essays, book reviews and art for Summer 2010 issue.
LEVELER, a poetry journal, is currently seeking submissions.
damselfly press online journal seeks fiction, poetry, and nonfiction by female writers. Mar 15
The Lettered Olive accepts submissions from undergraduate students.
Anthology of Memories of Hispanic Grandmothers as Remembered by their Grandchildren. Mar 9
Barely South Review - MFA Creative Writing Program at Old Dominion University – seeks fiction, poetry and nonfiction for inaugural issue. Feb 15. Guideilnes: odu.creative.writing-at-gmail.com
Waccamaw online poems, stories, essays Jan 15-Feb 28 and July 15-Aug 31.
Beginning in February Bananafish will feature a new writer and his/her work each week.
Previously Posted
Vulcan seeks amazing artwork that is “incongruent with the norm” in any printable form for its next issue. Please see their back issues available in-full online (Issu) at their website to get idea of what they’ve printed and then: “don't send us that. “
Narrative Magazine is always on the lookout for photography portfolios and photo essays of exceptional quality. Narrative accept previously unpublished photo essays and photography portfolios of at least five images.
Spilt Milk online accepts submissions of 500-5k words.
The Puritan seeks fiction and creative non-fiction.
NOÖ Journal is open for submissions again as of Jan 1.
Tidal Basin Review seeks poetry, fiction, nonfiction for inaugural online issue.
Basilica Review is accepting poetry for its second issue.
War, Literature & the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities invites poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction/essay.
Brown Wing Press accepting submissions of book-length, unpublished works by new and experienced authors.
491 poetry and art magazine accepting submissions.
Real Light: A Festival of Home Movies submissions until April 24.
PALABRA invites short stories, flash fiction, poetry, standalone novel excerpts, short plays. May 31
Naugatuck River Review seeks narrative poetry. Mar 1
Diverse Voices Quarterly seeks poetry, short stories, personal essays, artwork. Feb 15
Lucky Creature zine anthology accepting comics, fiction, nonfiction, poetry. Aug 1
Moria accepting poetry, video, image, sound pieces, reviews and articles.
The Backwaters Press anthology Letters From Grass Country: Essays on the Contemporary Poets and Poetry of the Great Plains. June 30
The editors of New Madrid Journal of Contemporary Literature invite well-crafted, compelling submissions of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction for the Summer 2010 issue. Quality is the determining factor for acceptance in New Madrid. There is no special theme for the Summer issue—the subject matter is open. We will consider work submitted between January 15 and March 15, 2010. For detailed guidelines and to access our Submission Manager, visit New Madrid.
South Loop Review Online, the online literary magazine of the Creative Nonfiction Program of Columbia College Chicago, seeks experimental forms of nonfiction such as hybrid forms, segmented essays, short-form creative nonfiction, montage memoir and graphic memoir. They look for diverse voices. Send essays of no more than eight pages to southlooponline-at-colum-dot-edu by March 1, 2010 for their Spring issue.
Basalt seeks poetry, prose poetry, poetry in translation; esp work re: Asian American experience. Mar 1
The fiction editor (Metta Sama) at ragazine invites short stories for their upcoming issues. Feb 28
Misfit: A Journal of Long and Short Poems seeks submissions for inaugural issue.
Six Little Things (Six Bricks Press) themed "Quarter of” seeks “short prose things.” Feb 28
Sonnet Anthology by Exot Books chapbook press. June 1. Mary Meriam: sonnetexot-at-gmail-dot-com.
Connecticut Review seeks academic papers on Travel Writings and their Social Impact. Info: Meredith Clermont-Ferrand, Senior Editor. May 31
Women’s Studies Quarterly special issue on SAFE: poetry, fiction, essay, memoir, art. Mar 15
DRT Press seeks personal essays by parents of children with ADD, ADHD and/or other mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders for a book about the experience of parenting children with such conditions. Mar 1
CFP-Writing the Jefferson: Creative Nonfiction Essays on Northern California and Southern Oregon. Mar 1. Guidelines - Steven Hall: orcaessays-at-gmail-dot-com
CFS critical essays on Race and Identity in Barack Obama's Dreams from my Father . Proposals Word attachments by Mar 15 to Dr. Michael Zeitler, Associate Professor of English, Texas Southern University: zeitlerma-at-tsu-dot-edu
Clapboard House is celebrating the Centennial year of the birth of Eudora Welty in 2010. Specific guidelines for fiction, nonfiction and poetry as it relates to Eudora Welty can be found on the publication’s home page. The deadline for all submissions is March 1, 2010. The goal is for this issue of Clapboard House to appear by 10 April 2010, Miss Welty’s birthday being on the 13th of April.
Litterbox Magazine seeks fiction, poetry, nonfiction, art and recipes.
Arroyo Literary Review accepting poetry and fiction. May 30
Suss: Another Literary Journal is accpepting poetry, fiction, non-fiction.
Anthology: Fantasy and Science Fiction stories on the theme of music. Apr 30
Autopsia - Vox Redux: Ventriloquy. Feb 25
Little Red Leaves open reading for poetry and multimedia Jan 1 – Sept 1.
Academic Exchange Quarterly Teaching Literature and Culture. May 2010
The Presence of Absence: Literary Missing Persons to examine texts in which an absent character (or characters) has a real influence upon plot or theme (Waiting for Godot, for example). Feb 1. Darby Lewes, Professor of English and Gender Studies: lewes-at-lycoming-dot-edu
Anthology of Personal Essays on Reactions to 9/11. June 30. Brian Prestwood: Prestwoodbk-at-gmail-dot-com
Apple Valley Review is accepting submissions for the Spring 2010 issue. Submissions for this issue will close on February 15, 2010. AVR publishes short fiction, personal essays, and poetry. All work must be submitted via e-mail (no attachments). Please visit the website for complete submission guidelines.
textsound experimental .mp3s: sound art, poetry, sound poetry, radio collage, electroacoustic music, works that employ serialism, minimalism, fluxus, conceptual art approaches, etc.
NANO Fiction accepts fiction, prose poems, micro essays, comics <300. Rolling submissions.
SKASE Journal of Literary Studies peer-reviewed journal; forum for the analysis of literary texts written in English, within any genre, from different nations and periods.
nthWORD satires and allegories, articles on politics and pop-culture, fiction, poetry, visual art.
Editions Bibliotekos seeks creative work on themes: Immigration or International Adoption. Mar 30
Poetry of all genres for online anthology of "Science Poetry." June 30
New Delta Review seeks fiction (incl FF), poetry, creative nonfiction for upcoming issues.
Revisitations seeks to reprint short fiction, flash pieces, essays and poems.
Jura Gentium Cinema reviews (5-10k words): Amreeka by Cherien Dabis; Gamer by Mark Neveldine; Darbareye Elly by Asghar Farhadi; The Road by John Hillcoat; London River by Rachid Bouchareb; Surrogates by Jonathan Mostow. Contact Prof. Filippo Del Lucchese (f.dellucchese-at-gmail-dot-com) for submissions.
Essays: Quilters in the Digital Age. May 1
Creative Nonfiction seeks new essays about the bonds—emotional, ethical, biological, physical, or otherwise—between humans and animals; stories that illustrate ways animals (wild and/or domestic) affect, enrich, or otherwise have an impact on our daily lives. CNF editors will award one $1000 prize for Best Essay and one $500 prize for runner-up. Reading fee includes subscription. Deadline Extended: April 2, 2010
The Survivor’s Review seeks stories, essays, poems by those intimately familiar with the cancer journey.
Switched-on Gutenberg accepting art and poetry on theme “Assemblage.” Dec 1 – Mar 1
New Verse News online journal seeks current events poetry.
Poemeleon: A Journal of Poetry seeks collaborative works.
The Tulane Review accepting poetry, prose, art and photography. Feb 19
Previously Posted
Silk Road Review, a Literary Crossroads, invites submissions of poetry, fiction, nonfiction and translations for upcoming issues. The magazine will celebrate its fifth year of production and expand to two print issues per year in 2010. We are interested in publishing compelling and finely crafted writing from locations around the world. We are also producing a special issue on “secret places” and welcome writing that would fit the topic.
Descant (CA) fiction, poetry, essays and artwork, themed issue: Ghosts / The Uncanny. Mar 1
Descant (CA) fiction, poetry, essays and artwork, themed issue: Sicily. June 1
Religion and the Arts Journal focus on Jerusalem. Reviewers also wanted. May 1
Arcadia (MFA U of Central Oklahoma) seeks poetry, short fiction, and drama for inaugural issue. Mar 1 (extd)
Puerto del Sol poetry, prose, shorts, reviews, criticism, drama, etc. esp on theme Film & Pop Culture. Mar 31.
Florida English critical essays, poetry, fiction, non-fiction on theme Italian-Americana. April 15
Subtropics 9, a special all-translation issue, will be published in January 2010. This autumn they will be considering prose works (fiction and non-fiction) in translation only. Beginning January 1, 2010, they will resume reading prose works written in English.
American Literature (Duke University Press)special issue on science fiction, fantasy, and myth. May 31
Witness is published annually in December and accept stories, essays, memoir, and poems, and favor work with an international focus. Submissions for Volume XXIV (2011): Witness seeks manuscripts for a special portfolio titled "Blurring Borders." In addition to general submissions, they invite work that addresses border crossing (both literal and figurative), immigration, and diaspora communities. Witness has an on-line submission system. Deadline: April 1, 2010
Sou’wester accepting poetry May 15. Fiction submissions after Jan 1
UPSTREET: award-winning literary annual’s sixth issue seeks quality submissions with an edge—fiction, poetry, CNF. First five issues feature interviews with Jim Shepard, Lydia Davis, Wally Lamb, Michael Martone, Robin Hemley. Distributed nationally by Ingram, Source Interlink, and by Disticor in Canada. Payment in author copies. Deadline: March 1, 2010
Voices Through the Wall: Prisoners Write About Prisons. Non-fiction essays and prose fiction by men and women currently incarcerated in American prisons. All submitted essays/prose must draw on first-hand experience. Program supervisors are encouraged to solicit high-quality work and submit essays together in a single mailing. Send work to: Voices Through the Wall, College Hill Road, Clinton, NY 13323. March 1, 2010
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