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Call For Submissions From Girls Worldwide

Deadline: December 31, 2024

Girls Right the World is a literary journal inviting girls and young, gender-expansive writers and artists, ages 14–21, to submit work for consideration for the …
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L’Esprit Literary Review 2025 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration

Deadline: December 2, 2024

In a short story or novel excerpt of up to 5,000 words, we’re searching for risk-adept narration that challenges the conventions of prose and composition. …

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Magazine Stand :: New Letters – Summer/Fall 2024

From the University of Missouri-Kansas, this newest issue continues promoting the best and most exciting literary writing.
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Magazine Stand :: The Baltimore Review – 2024

The annual print version of poems, stories, and creative nonfiction published online from Summer 2023 through Spring 2024.

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