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Where to Submit Roundup: June 13, 2025

Happy Friday! Whether you’re superstitious or skeptical, NewPages has your creative fuel—offering inspiration to jumpstart your writing along with submission opportunities to keep you busy. If Friday the 13th sends a shiver down your spine, maybe hold off on submitting until tomorrow. But today? Perfect for setting your plans in motion.

Writing Prompt: Demystifying 13

Where to Submit Roundup: June 13, 2025 with the writing prompt Demystifying 13

In honor of Friday the 13, why not embrace this as our prompt? Is thirteen a symbol of fortune or misfortune?

Throughout history, cultures have clashed over the meaning of this number. In Western traditions, it’s often associated with bad luck—especially on a Friday. Some link this superstition to the Last Supper, where Judas became the infamous 13th guest before the crucifixion. Others cite Norse mythology, where Loki disrupted a feast of twelve gods, leading to chaos. The thirteenth card in a Tarot deck is death.

But in many cultures, thirteen marks a positive transformation. Jewish tradition celebrates thirteen as the age of maturity with a bar mitzvah. In Mesoamerican civilizations, thirteen symbolized an important cycle in the sacred calendar, tied to cosmic order and spiritual growth. Even the ancient Egyptians viewed thirteen as a number of ascension in the afterlife.

Are these beliefs simply passed down without question, or do they reflect something deeper? For this prompt, explore how the number thirteen shapes luck, culture, or personal experience. Write about a character who defies superstition, a society built on the sacred power of thirteen, or a twist of fate where thirteen holds unexpected meaning. Write a poem reflecting on the ways thirteen has shaped your fortune—or misfortune. Craft a lyric essay unraveling superstition, questioning beliefs that may crumble under close scrutiny. Or…how about a tongue-in-cheek experiment where you test all things related to 13 and luck that you can and record the results?

Whether thirteen is a blessing or a curse is up to you—so grab your pen and explore! And don’t wait too long—June 15 is right around the corner, and plenty of submission opportunities are ending soon.

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Where to Submit Roundup: June 6, 2025

Where to Submit Roundup: June 6, 2025

Welcome, June! After weeks of Mother Nature flip-flopping between chilly mornings and surprise heatwaves, it seems she’s finally made up her mind. Summer is here in full force. A gentle, much-needed rain gave the gardens a break—thankfully, no wild weather this time.

But this week brought a personal challenge: on Sunday, my grandfather took a fall and fractured his left shoulder. Fortunately, it happened after his birthday—and after our big Memorial Day celebration, when we were all together.

It’s a strange kind of gratitude, but it made me pause and think—sometimes, finding a silver lining in a tough situation is the only way to stay grounded. It reminded me of a line from A Smoky Mountain Christmas, where Dolly Parton’s character comforts a wary orphan, “It could’ve been better, but it could’ve been a whole lot worse.” That line stuck with me.

Writing Prompt: Finding A Ray of Silver Lining

Write about a time you had to find the bright side of a bad situation—what helped you shift your perspective, and what did you learn?

Whether it’s a small inconvenience or a major life event, we all have moments where optimism feels like a stretch—but those are often the stories that stick with us the most.

Not ready to get too personal? That’s totally fine. Try reflecting on a recent news story—can you find a silver lining? Or write about a time when optimism felt impossible. What helped you cope?

Ready to keep writing? Scroll down to explore different submission opportunities where your voice and story might find a home.

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Where to Submit Roundup: May 30, 2025

Where to Submit Roundup for May 30, 2025

May is winding down, and the garden is in full swing—along with the critters who think your hard work is their personal salad bar. While NewPages can’t help you fend off deer, rabbits, or rogue field mice, we can supply a fresh dose of writing inspiration and a bounty of submission opportunities to keep your creative goals thriving.

✨ Heads up! June is just around the corner, and that means new deadlines are blooming. Be sure to check out our freshly updated Big List of Writing Contests—to help you plan your next round of submissions.

Writing Prompt: Deerstruction!

It never fails, does it? You sweat and toil—planting, fertilizing, watering, pruning—only to have your efforts thwarted by a gang of majestic, yet maddening, garden invaders: DEER. Or maybe it’s rabbits. Or field mice. Any adorable pest that turns your hard work into a buffet, razing carefully tended flowers, herbs, shrubs, and veggies to the ground… or yanking up plants with what feels like spite, only to spit them out.

Can you channel that frustration into a poem, story, essay, or hybrid piece? Or maybe it’s a metaphor for the writing process itself: you labor over your words, only to have readers or editors tear through your work in unexpected—and sometimes painful—ways, deconstructing your carefully crafted creation.

Use this prompt to spark something new—and then scroll down to explore this week’s submission opportunities.

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Where to Submit Roundup: May 23, 2025

It’s that time of the week again—Fri-yay! 🎉

NewPages is back with our weekly roundup of submission opportunities, plus a dose of creative inspiration to help get your ideas flowing. Kick off the long weekend with fresh prompts and venues to help you hit your writing and publishing goals.

Inspiration: Just Like ABC

Abecedarian poems can be tricky—finding the right rhythm and words for those tough letters like Q, X, and Z is no small feat. But what if you turned that challenge into a song?

Back in elementary school, we learned songs that celebrated Michigan’s history—from voyageurs and logging camps to sailing the Great Lakes. One song stood out: it listed reasons why Michigan was a great place to live, from A to Z.

That got me thinking: what if you created your own alphabetical ode to where you live? Try listing reasons—serious or silly—why your state, city, township, or province is wonderful. Or flip the script and list reasons you don’t love it. Maybe even do both for a fun contrast.

You don’t have to stick to song lyrics or poetry. This could become a children’s story, a young adult piece, a lyric essay, or even an adult picture book. Explore how the quirks and flaws of a place might actually be what makes it feel like home.

Stretch those creative muscles. And if you have kids, get them involved! It’s a great long weekend activity that might just spark something worth submitting.

Speaking of the long weekend—NewPages wishes you a wonderful and safe Memorial Day.

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The Catamaran Poetry Prize open for Submissions until June 15th

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Deadline: June 15, 2025
The Catamaran Poetry Prize is open to West Coast poets living in California, Washington, Oregon, Alaska, and Hawaii. A prize of $1,000 and publication in book form will be awarded. Submit here. The 2025 Catamaran poetry prize judge is Mary Szybist. Mary Szybist is most recently the author of Incarnadine, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Poetry. View flyer for more information.

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Boudin Flash Fiction Chapbook Contest judged by Roxane Gay

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Deadline: June 15, 2025
Submit your 25–40-page flash fiction chapbook to Boudin (the spicy online cousin of The McNeese Review)! Winner will receive $1,000, 25 author copies, an author-signing at AWP 2026, inclusion in The McNeese Review 2026, etc. Final Judge: Roxane Gay. Distributed by TRP: The University Press of SHSU. See our flyer and submit here!

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2025 Tusculum Review Fiction Chapbook Prize

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Deadline: June 15, 2025
For the 2025 Tusculum Review Fiction Chapbook Prize, Gordo author Jaime Cortez will select one story for this three-part award: a prize of $1,500, publication of the story in The Tusculum Review’s 21st volume (2025), and creation of a stand-alone chapbook with original art. The winning author will be celebrated at our live chapbook launch. See our flyer and website for guidelines and past contest winners, publications, and events.

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North Coast Voices

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What is it that makes a region unique? That’s the question we want to answer. America’s North Coast, defined for this anthology as adjacent to Lake Erie from Toledo to Buffalo and even Michigan. In their voices, we want to hear the poetic stories of those who have lived, worked, vacationed or just passed through this region. See flyer for more info and link to website.

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Where to Submit Roundup: May 16, 2025

Inspiration: Your Personal Memorial Day

Stuck in a writing rut? Want some inspiration?

Those living in the U.S. know Memorial Day, which is approaching soon, is meant to honor and mourn military personnel who died in service. It’s an important day of remembrance—but like many important days, it’s become commercialized as the unofficial start of summer and long weekends. That alone is good fodder for writing, isn’t it? A social loss of something sacred reduced to a day off and a barbecue.

But what is your own personal Memorial Day?

Not the holiday itself, but a day in your year—or a weekend, or a week—that holds deep meaning. Was it the day you finally took the leap and left the place you hated to do what you loved? What era did that mark in your personal history? Was it the best thing to happen to you? Or not quite what you imagined it to be?

Or perhaps it was a profound loss. How do you celebrate what was lost while mourning the fact that it’s gone? How do you honor its place in your life?

Grab your pen and start writing. Let it be sloppy, messy, riddled with mistakes—because all that matters is you are writing. And maybe, just maybe, you can find the strength to talk of things that always felt out of reach.

Time Marches On

Somehow May is half over with—didn’t it just begin? I know, I know, enough with the flying-time jokes, but they never seem to get old. Time always seems to speed up when we want it to slow down and drag when we wish it would fly. It’s Einstein’s Theory of Relativity in action—or at least, that’s how it feels.

While time marches on to the beat of its drum (which never seems steady enough for us), we march on too. Let’s keep submission goals going strong, shall we?

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Where to Submit Roundup: May 9, 2025

61 Submission Opportunities including calls for submissions, writing contests, and book prizes.

The first full week of May is nearly over. The weather still can’t make up its mind if it wants to be warm or cold, but they we have warmer weather on the way for the weekend. If you have lovely weather forecast, pack up your laptop, head outdoors, and let NewPages help you with your submission goals while you soak up the sunshine (make sure to wear sunscreen!).

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Where to Submit Roundup: May 2, 2025

55 Submission Opportunities including calls for submissions, writing contests, and book prizes.

Welcome to the first submissions roundup for May 2025. The year keeps inching…or rocketing closer to being half over with and NewPages is still here to help you keep your submission goals going strong!

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Where to Submit Roundup: April 25, 2025

65 Submission Opportunities including calls for submissions, writing contests, and book prizes.

Welcome to the final submissions roundup for the month of April! Time keeps marching on and NewPages is here to help you march on with your submission goals. Weather seems to be taking a turn for the better, so if you are finally able to enjoy sunshine and warmer temperatures, take your laptop outside and soak up the sun while working on your writing, editing, and submitting.

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Pictura Journal: Online Submissions

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Deadline: Rolling
Pictura Journal is open for submissions of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and visual art. General submissions are always free, and expedited responses are available for a small fee. We pay $5 per contributor; issues are available online and in print. See our website and our flyer for guidelines and more info.

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Be Sure to Consider Stone Circle Review for Your Poetry

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Deadline: Rolling
Stone Circle Review publishes a new poem every Saturday and Sunday on a website designed to foreground each poem on the page. We will respond within 28 days, and we make it as easy as possible to submit. We prefer poems containing striking imagery and language that are unexpected without being indecipherable. You will find more information at our website.

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Last Syllable Book Awards in Poetry and Prose

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Deadline: September 1, 2025
Open now until September 1, 2025! Last Syllable wants submissions of books of poetry or prose published in 2023-2025. Prize includes $1,000, travel expenses to San Diego (up to an additional $1,000), and a headlining feature in the PLNU M.A. in Writing program’s Visiting Writer Series. $25 entry fee. View flyer for more information. Full submission details at our website.

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Livingston Press 2025 Changing Light Prize for a Novel-in-Verse

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Deadline: May 25, 2025
Livingston Press announces it is seeking unpublished manuscripts preferably between 90 to 160 pages for its annual Changing Light Prize for a Novel-in-Verse. Past winners include Nicelle Davis and Michael George. No fee to submit. See flyer for more information and a link to the Livingston Press website.

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Where to Submit Roundup: April 17, 2025

64 Submission Opportunities including calls for submissions, writing contests, and book prizes.

Happy Friday! April is already half over with. Hard to believe, isn’t it? If you have the day off or an extended weekend this week, NewPages has tons of submission opportunities in our weekly roundup to keep you busy so you can keep your submission goals going strong.

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Where to Submit Roundup: April 4, 2025

59 Submission Opportunities including calls for submissions, writing contests, and book prizes.

March is over and done and here we are in April. A month which should be bursting with warming weather, rain, and the start of seeing flowers starting to blossom. What we are getting is a blustery start to the month complete with an entire year’s worth of seasons in a single day. If you are also living through this depressing whiplash of wacky weather, what a great excuse to throw on your favorite comfy sweater and stay home writing and submitting. NewPages is here, as always, to help you meet submission goals with our weekly roundup of submission opportunities.

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Where to Submit Roundup: March 28, 2025

64 Submission Opportunities including calls for submissions, writing contests, and book prizes.

March is almost at its end already! This means that there are a host of submission opportunities ending soon with March 31 and April 1 deadlines. As always, NewPages is here to help you keep chugging away at your submission goals so you don’t miss out on the opportunities with our weekly roundup. Check out calls for submissions from literary magazines, anthologies, and even a poetry calendar! And if you enjoy writing contests, we have a wide range to choose from, including opportunities from literary magazines, indie and university presses, and more.

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Where to Submit Roundup: March 21, 2025

60 Submission Opportunities including calls for submissions, writing contests, and book prizes.

The whiplash is real. Along with dealing with the ever-fickle weather and the seasonal crud, it makes this time of year very difficult. You want to be able to celebrate spring, longer days returning, and more, but instead you feel rundown and are finding time changes definitely difficult for your body to deal with the more time marches on. Don’t let your writing and submission goals stumble along with the weather. NewPages is here to help with our weekly roundup of submission opportunities.

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HINDSIGHT Creative Nonfiction is Now Accepting Submissions

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HINDSIGHT Creative Nonfiction accepts submissions year-round. We are reading primarily for our themed journal, CHANGING SKIES: WRITING THROUGH THE CLIMATE CRISIS. We want to hear your stories from living through our ever-evolving climate crisis. The publication aims to educate and inspire our readers on this existential reality through creative nonfiction and artwork. We accept prose, poetry, and visual art from any corner of the world and encourage unique perspectives. Note that all submissions can also be considered for online publication or featured in the next issue of HINDSIGHT. In other news, we’re going to AWP at the end of March. View flyer for more information and links to submit.

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Submit Poetry Manuscripts for the Richard Snyder Prize!

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Deadline: May 1, 2025
Ashland Poetry Press is currently reading manuscripts for the 2025 Richard Snyder Memorial Book Prize. $1000 and publication to the winner. Multiple submissions accepted. Any style or subject okay; we only want to be wowed by the poems. 2025 judge: Kim Addonizio. Submit by May 1. View flyer for a link to our website with full guidelines and link to submit.

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2025 National Indie Excellence Awards

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Deadline: March 31, 2025
The National Indie Excellence© Awards (NIEA) are open to all English language printed books currently for sale including self-published authors, small to midsize independent publishers, and university presses. Now in our nineteenth year, NIEA is a proud champion of self and independent publishing and authors of all genres who produce books of excellence and distinction. View our flyer for more information and a link to submit.

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Where to Submit Roundup: March 14, 2025

Where to Submit 2025

63 Submission Opportunities including calls for submissions, writing contests, and book prizes.

Mother Nature continues her fickleness and unwillingness to decide which season it is. If you are getting to enjoy warmer weather without the storms, take your laptop and head outside to enjoy fresh air and sunshine while you work on your writing, editing, and submission goals. If you are unfortunately dealing with the whiplash of storms and dropping temperatures, stay indoors and let NewPages help you as well with our weekly roundup of submission opportunities. There are many opportunities with March 15 deadlines, don’t miss out on these!

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Where to Submit Roundup: March 7, 2025

Where to Submit 2025

61 Submission Opportunities including calls for submissions, writing contests, and book prizes.

Happy March! This month is as temperamental as ever with Mother Nature still at war with herself on if spring should at last be here or if winter still needs to enjoy its last hurrah. If the weather whiplash is giving you the blues, why not spend some time indoors writing, editing, and submitting? NewPages, as always, is here to help with our weekly roundup of submission opportunities.

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Encourage Young Writers and Readers

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NewPages curates Publications for Young Writers and Writing Contests for Young Writers, two guides where young readers and writers can find print and online literary magazines to read, places to publish their own works, and legitimate contests. These are ad-free resources regularly updated with carefully vetted content, wonderful resources for teachers to use in the classroom as well as for anyone mentoring young readers or writers in their lives.

Pictured is Fleeting Daze Magazine, a youth-run literary online quarterly magazine publishing all forms of literary arts and writing from contributors ages 13-24. Their most recent issue is themed “Aurora.”

If you know publications or contests for young readers and writers not listed, please contact us.

Where to Submit Roundup: February 28, 2025

Where to Submit 2025

65 Submission Opportunities including calls for submissions, writing contests, and book prizes.

It’s the last day of February which means there are submission opportunities ending today and more ending tomorrow, March 1. NewPages has your back with our weekly roundup of submission opportunities so you don’t miss out on these deadlines. Plus, find opportunities with March 2025 deadlines and beyond. This is a perfect weekend activity when the weather has decided to move back towards winter after a brief taste of spring.

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Where to Submit Roundup: February 21, 2025

Where to Submit 2025

58 Submission Opportunities including calls for submissions, writing contests, and book prizes.

Welcome to our weekly roundup of submission opportunities for February 21! This edition is packed with a variety of chances for writers, creatives, and professionals to showcase their work and break into new markets. Whether you’re looking to share your latest article, artwork, or innovative ideas, you’ll find opportunities here that cater to a wide range of styles and themes.

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Collaboration is a Fact of Life, Tell Your Story

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Deadline: March 10, 2025
Collaboration is upon us for joy, productivity, and sometimes heartache. Please show us your art that involved collaboration and how that collaboration gave rise to your poetry, prose and images and hybrid forms. Here is a chance to tell us how you work and produce. Sponsored by Black Earth Institute valuing earth, spirit, and social justice. View flyer for more info and a link to our website.

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Subnivean Awards: Win an Author Blurb, Publication, Prize, Event Appearance

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Deadline: February 21, 2025
The Subnivean Awards are open: winners receive publication and blurbs from final judges, as well as $150 each. Finalists and winners are featured at a popular virtual event. Subnivean’s received submissions from 63 countries and every U.S. state, publishing U.S. Poet Laureate Emeritus Juan Felipe Herrera, Jane Wong, Molly Giles, Amit Majmudar and others. We await your poems and stories! View flyer for more info and a link to submit.

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Contest and Submission Opportunity from Black Fox Literary Magazine

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Contest Deadline: March 30, 2025
Submit your fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction to Black Fox Literary Magazine’s Winter Prize with theme Rise or Ruin! Deadline: March 30, 2025! We are also accepting free general submissions for our summer 2025 print issue. Free subs close on May 31, 2025! View flyer for links to submit.

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Hindsight Online Library Open for Submissions

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Deadline: Rolling
We at Hindsight are looking to expand our online library! We accept artwork, photography, creative nonfiction prose, and poetry. All submissions are considered for both print and online publication. We accept internationally as well!

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Submit to Epiphany’s 2025 Breakout Writers Contest, $1000 prize!

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Deadline: April 15, 2025
Epiphany‘s 2025 Breakout! Writers prize will be judged by Victoria Chang in poetry and Hilary Leichter in prose. The contest is open to college and graduate students, and first prize winner in each genre will be awarded $1000 and publication. Submissions open March 1 and close April 15. View our flyer for more info and see more details on our website.

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Third Street Review February 2025 Submission Period Open!

Third Street Review Submissions

Deadline: February 28, 2025
During the month of February, Third Street Review, a quarterly literary journal, welcomes submissions of Flash Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Poetry, Art, and Photography. If you have something wild, wooly, and wonderful, we want to see it. We value the work of individual creators—show us who you are and what you can do. In addition to being a paying publication, we promote across social media platforms and nominate for awards. Jump in—we can’t wait to meet you! View our website to learn more.

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Where to Submit Roundup: February 14, 2025

Where to Submit 2025

50 Submission Opportunities including calls for submissions, writing contests, and book prizes.

It is Friday and crazy weather has run rampant this week with bad rainstorms, ice storms, and snowstorms sweeping across the country. Now is a perfect time to stay indoors and write, write, write. . . and submit! NewPages is here to help you reach your submission goals with our weekly roundup of submission opportunities. As today is the fourteenth, there are a lot of calls and contests with February 15 deadlines. Don’t miss out!

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Where to Submit Roundup: February 7, 2025

Where to Submit 2025

49 Submission Opportunities including calls for submissions, writing contests, and book prizes.

Happy February! The groundhog miraculously saw his shadow on a day it did not seem like he would. But regardless of this old wives’ tradition that boasts a 30% accuracy rate…no matter what it is technically still 6 more weeks until Spring…right? It seems very appropriate that this weekend we have a winter storm locked in on us. So, if you will also be battling cold, windy, and snowy or icy weather, stay safe and, if you can, stay indoors and keep working on those submission goals.

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Where to Submit Roundup: January 31, 2025

Where to Submit 2025

53 Submission Opportunities including calls for submissions, writing contests, and book prizes.

The Midwest got a small reprieve from winter weather only to have an awful wintry mix to come back today. If you are also experiencing some crazy seesawing weather, now is a good time to stay inside with a cup of chai and work on writing, editing, and submitting. Today is the final day of January 2025! This means there are submission opportunities ending today and tomorrow. Don’t miss out on these calls and contests from literary magazines, indie & university presses, and much more!

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Where to Submit Roundup: January 24, 2025

Where to Submit 2025

46 Submission Opportunities including calls for submissions, writing contests, and book prizes.

There is only one week remaining in January which means there are plenty of deadlines for January 31 and February 1 on the horizon! NewPages is here to help you out so you do not miss out on these opportunities and can keep your submission goals going in the right direction in 2025.

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Contest and Online Class Opportunity from Black Fox Literary

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Submission Deadline: March 30, 2025
Submit your fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction to Black Fox Literary Magazine’s Winter Prize with theme Rise or Ruin! Deadline: March 30, 2025! Registration is also open for our online January class: Goals, Routines, and Mindset for Writers on January 18, 2025 at 1-3 PM EST. View flyer for more information and a link to our website.

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Issue 90 of Kaleidoscope Available Now! Accepting Submissions Year-Round

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Kaleidoscope takes a closer look at relationships, aging, neurodiversity, chronic illness, ableism and resilience in its first issue of 2025. Each issue of the magazine explores the experience of disability through the lens of literature and fine art. Submit your best work to us today! View our flyer for more information and a link to our website.

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Bardsy’s 2025 Winter Anthology Contest – First Chapters

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Deadline: March 3, 2025
Winning is great, but our contests are about more: they boost you toward ultimate writing success. Every entrant receives concrete feedback as well as the opportunity to revise before final judging. In addition, finalists receive a professional editorial experience that ends with publication. Contest runs until March 3. View our flyer for more information and a link to our website.

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Third Street Review is re-opening for submissions in February!

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Deadline: February 1-28, 2025
Third Street Review, a quarterly literary journal, welcomes submissions of Flash Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Poetry, Art, and Photography. If you have something wild, wooly, and wonderful, we want to see it. We value the work of individual creators—show us who you are and what you can do. In addition to being a paying publication, we promote across social media platforms and nominate for awards. Jump in—we can’t wait to meet you! View our website to learn more.

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Where to Submit Roundup: January 17, 2025

Where to Submit 2025

47 Submission Opportunities including calls for submissions, writing contests, and book prizes.

The month is half over with and that means deadlines have may have passed you by. But never fear, NewPages is back with new writing opportunities and those that have extended their submission deadlines as well. Let’s help keep those writing and submission goals going strong together!

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Where to Submit Roundup: January 10, 2025

Where to Submit 2025

43 Submission Opportunities including calls for submissions, writing contests, and book prizes.

The first full week of January 2025 has come to an end. If you are looking to meet your submission goals for this week, NewPages has your back with forty-three submission opportunities from literary magazines, presses, and more.

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Where to Submit Roundup: January 3, 2025

Where to Submit 2025

37 Submission Opportunities including calls for submissions, writing contests, and book prizes.

Happy January! Welcome to our first submissions roundup of 2025. If you need some help to find journals, presses, and more to submit your work to in the new year, NewPages has your back. Enjoy 37 opportunities including calls for submissions from literary magazines and writing and book contests.

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Hindsight Creative Nonfiction Call for Submissions

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Deadline: February 3, 2025
Hindsight Creative Nonfiction publishes all forms of the “fourth genre”: memoir and lyric essays, but also portraiture, narrative journalism, creative scholarly writing, and humor—anything creative we can fact-check.

Get your true stories published in our Spring print edition! See our flyer to scan the QR code for more information.

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2025 Colorado Prize for Poetry Closing Soon!

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Deadline: January 14, 2025
$2,500 honorarium & book publication. Book-length poetry manuscripts accepted until January 14, 2025 (we observe a 5-day grace period). Final judge: Craig Morgan Teicher. $28 entry fee includes one-year subscription to Colorado Review. View our flyer for more information and a link to our complete guidelines. Questions? Please email us.

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Where to Submit Roundup: December 20, 2024

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43 Submission Opportunities including calls for submissions, writing contests, and book prizes.

Happy Friday! With the holidays literally around the corner, NewPages has you covered with our weekly roundup of submission opportunities to save you time in pre-holiday chaos.

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Where to Submit Roundup: December 13, 2024

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36 Submission Opportunities including calls for submissions, writing contests, and book prizes.

Happy Friday! December will be half over with already this weekend. This means there is only a few weeks remaining in 2024. How goes your submission goals? Hopefully you have been managing to stay on top of them. Grab a cup of cocoa and pull up a chair as NewPages has your back with our weekly roundup of submission opportunities.

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Jelly Bucket Issue 15 Special Section

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Bluegrass Writers Studio’s annual graduate-student-produced literary journal Jelly Bucket has announced that they are accepting submissions for Issue 15’s special section, Incarcerated Voices, which will be guest edited by Keeonna Harris.

This special section will focus on the voices of those impacted by incarceration. They are looking for creative nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and art from writers and artists who have been incarcerated, worked with incarcerated people, or who have been affected by loved ones who have been incarcerated. Submissions must be received by January 20, 2025. There is no fee to submit to this special section.

Don’t forget to check out past issues which feature special sections Neurodivergent Voices and Nonbinary/Trans Voices.