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Call For Submissions From Girls Worldwide

Deadline: December 31, 2025

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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Palooka Seeks Chapbooks, Prose, Poetry, Artwork, Photography

Deadline: Year-round

Palooka is an international literary magazine. For fifteen years we’ve featured new, up-and-coming, and established writers, artists, and photographers from around the world. We’re open …
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Magazine Stand :: Southern Humanities Review – 58.3

Poetry contest winners and new nonfiction fill this issue for readers to enjoy as fall sets in.
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Written in the Stars: Mapping Creative Possibilities

One great thing about living in the country is we don’t get the light pollution that can blot out the night sky. There’s something magical about looking up at that velvety blanket full of lights, of patterns, of history—and maybe even a little magic. With the full moon lighting up …
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