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Now in its 7th year, the Catamaran Poetry Prize is open to previously unpublished poetry manuscripts across a range of styles, themes, and forms. The prize is only open to West Coast poets living in California, Washington, Oregon, Alaska, and Hawaii. See our website and flyer for full details.
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Gival Press is now accepting entries for the Best stand-alone Short Story (prize: $1,000.00) and for the Best Poem about LGBTQ+ life (prize: $500.00). Details about reading fee, etc.: at our Submittable portal. Winners will be published in the online journal, ArLiJo, which will have an Open Reading Period from March 25 to April 25, 2024. View flyer for more information.
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december seeks submissions for the 2024 Curt Johnson Prose Awards in fiction and creative nonfiction. Prizes each genre: $1,500 & publication (winner); $500 & publication (honorable mention). All finalists will be listed in the 2024 Fall/Winter awards issue. $20 entry fee includes copy of awards issue. All submissions considered for publication. Submit one story or essay up to 8,000 words March 1 to May 1. For complete guidelines and judge information view our flyer and visit our website.
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Deadline: April 10, 2024 (April 24 extended) First Pages Prize invites you to enter your first 5 pages of a longer work of fiction or creative nonfiction. Prizes in both fiction & creative nonfiction. 2024 Judge is Edwidge Dandicat! Open to un-agented writers worldwide, the prize supports emerging writers with cash awards, developmental mentoring, & agent consultation. View our flyer and visit our website for full information.
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Deadline: May 25, 2024 Livingston Press is accepting submissions of unpublished manuscripts for its annual Changing Light Prize for a Novel-in-Verse. There is no entry fee. Winner receives $500, publication, twenty copies, and a standard royalty contract. View our flyer and visit our website for guidelines.
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Deadline: May 31, 2024 From March 1 to May 31, Flying South 2024 will be accepting entries for this year’s contest. There will be three categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry. In each of the three categories the awards will be $400 for First Place, $200 for Second Place, and $100 for Third Place. Finalists will be awarded publication in Flying South. View our flyer and visit our website to learn more.
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Deadline: April 1 Submit one humor poem to Winning Writers’ 2024 contest to win $2,000 and online publication. Accepts published and unpublished work. Co-sponsored by Duotrope. Recommended by Reedsy. Judged by Jendi Reiter and Lauren Singer. Winners announced on August 15. Visit our website and view our flyer for more information.
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Deadline: March 31, 2024 The 18th annual National Indie Excellence® Awards (NIEA) are open to all English language printed books available for sale, including small presses, mid-sized independent publishers, university presses, and self-published authors. NIEA is proud to be a champion of self-publishing and independent presses. Monetary awards, sponsorships, and entry rules are described in detail on our website.
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March is officially half over with today. We hope your writing and submission goals are still going strong this month. We are here once again to help you with our weekly roundup of submission opportunities. Don’t forget there are always a lot of deadlines on the 15 of each month, so don’t miss out!
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Submit your fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction to Black Fox Literary Magazine’s Fairy Tale Remix Writing Prize! Deadline: March 31, 2024! We are also accepting free submissions for our summer 2024 print issue. Free subs close on May 31, 2024! View flyer and visit website to learn more.
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Deadline: March 15, 2024 Win $1,500 and publication by The Word Works. The contest is open to unpublished English language volumes of original poetry by a living Canadian or American writer at any stage of their career. Winner announced August 1 by series editor Andrea Carter Brown. View flyer to learn more and submit.
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And like that the first full week of March is behind us and NewPages is back bringing you our where to submit roundup for the second Friday in March 204. Don’t forget paid newsletter subscribers can get early access to the majority of submission opportunities and upcoming events before they go live on our site, so do consider subscribing or upgrading your subscription today. You also receive our monthly eLitPak Newsletter which features even more opportunities and other literary goodness. Our next eLitPak is set to be released on Wednesday, March 13.
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Happy Friday! I don’t know about March, but February didn’t want to be left out of the equation and decided after giving us some unseasonably warm days, we were in need of storms to be sent off like a lion. Let’s hope March decides to come in nice and soft like a newborn lamb. If you’re neck of the woods is giving you crazy weather, it’s a perfect time to work on writing, editing, and hitting your submission goals this year. How am I doing on mine? I haven’t started them yet, so do better than what I am doing with our first weekly roundup of March 2024.
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Happy Friday! I hope you are ending your week better than I am. We are back with 49 submission opportunities including calls from literary magazines, anthologies, and presses. You will also find writing contests, book prizes, and post-publication awards. Hopefully you can find a new home for your work.
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Changing Skies Creative Nonfiction Journal is accepting submissions for online and print publication. We accept creative nonfiction writing on living through the climate crisis. We also accept forms of art including paint, drawing, photography, and more! Read our latest issues and submission details at our website.
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Deadline: March 10, 2024 About Place Journal‘s next issue invites you to consider and reimagine all things West. Send us your prose, poetry, and visual art that conceives of the West beyond its conventional and colonialized framework to help us decenter traditional subjects and propagandized histories of this region. Learn more and submit here.
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Deadline: February 29, 2024 We want to see your work! Fiction, creative nonfiction up to 1000 words, three poems, and art and photography. Our mission is to explore the edges of things, to find the hidden cracks that let the light shine through. We publish quarterly and are a paying market. Have you got something for us? We can’t wait to see it! Submissions open until the end of the month. View our flyer for more information.
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Another week, another roundup of submission opportunities to enjoy! Our unseasonably warm weather took a nosedive, and we had a mini snowstorm yesterday with some nice strong winds following behind it. So, if your neck of the woods is just as bad or worse, grab a cup of cocoa and hit the ground running with the opportunities below to help hit those submission goals.
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If you are out at AWP, we hope you are having a fun and informative time and getting lots of swag. If you weren’t able to attend, we have plenty of submission opportunities to keep you busy in our second weekly roundup for February 2024. Let’s all try to keep our submission goals going strong this year.
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Happy Friday and happy February. The temperature yo-yo is back in full swing. There comes a time when you just want Mother Nature to make up her mind and stick with one…hopefully NOT the arctic cold, but she is a very fickle woman. Grab a cup of something warm like coffee, unless you are like me and have to forgo all acidic foods and beverages for the foreseeable future, and get ready to dive into our first weekly roundup of submission opportunities for February 2024…perhaps after a walk if your weather isn’t awful.
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From some negative temperatures to balmy 30s, from snow to sleet to rain. January has been quite the month for weather whiplash in the Midwest…and all over the US according to weather reports on the news. But January is almost behind us, isn’t it? In fact, this will be our last roundup of submission opportunities for the month of January 2024. Next week will be our first roundup in February. Here’s hoping for less chaos! If your neck of the woods is still having awful weather, time to stay indoors writing, editing, and submitting.
Since next week does end January, don’t forget there are several January 31 deadlines that you don’t want to miss out on. And with February upon us, it’s always a good idea to check out our Big List of Writing Contests for the upcoming month, too. We have started the new year by doing a huge update to our entire contest list, so please enjoy.
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Deadline: March 10, 2024 The American West invokes a fraught mythology of whiteness, masculinity, and uninhabited terrain. Our next issue invites you to consider and reimagine all things West. Send us your prose, poetry, and visual art that conceives of the West beyond its conventional and colonialized framework to help us decenter traditional subjects and propagandized histories of this region. View flyer and visit website to learn more.
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Deadline: March 15, 2024 Every year since 2012, Trio House Press has published the winners of the Trio Award for a First or Second Book of Poetry and the Louise Bogan Open Award in Poetry. Send us your manuscript and you could join our long list of talented and award-winning poets. Prize includes $1,000, publication, author copies, and marketing/publicity. Join us at Trio House! View our flyer or visit www.triohousepress.org to learn more.
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HINDSIGHT Creative Nonfiction Journal is accepting submissions for online and print publication. We accept all forms of creative nonfiction writing, and forms of art including paint, drawing, photography, and more! Find more submission details and read our latest issues at our website.
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Authors and artists in issue 88 share ways they’re mastering the art of living with disability as an essential element of a creatively crafted life. Each issue of Kaleidoscope magazine focuses on the experience of disability through literature and fine art. Submit your best work to us today! View our flyer and visit our website for more information.
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With the arrival of Friday comes the news that temperature warmups are on the way! Of course, in Michigan, warmer weather means it will be warm enough to snow again…or rain…or both…or worse…freezing rain. Yes, winter has arrived. If you’re like us or dealing with other types of foul weather, we are back with our weekly roundup of submission opportunities to help give you the perfect excuse to stay indoors with a nice hot drink to write, edit, and submit.
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Happy Friday! Hopefully if you are unfortunate to be in the throes of a winter storm you are able to stay safe, sound, warm, and dry indoors. Weather reports are saying that our neck of the woods can have anywhere from 6″ to 18″ of snow expected. It feels like it’s been a long time since we’ve seen so much.
If you do not have work or school today, NewPages is here to help you while away your free time and keep your submission goals going strong with our weekly roundup of submission opportunities for the second week of January 2024.
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Welcome to our first weekly roundup of submission opportunities for 2024! Hopefully your new year is off to a great start. If you have made a resolution to submit more in 2024, NewPages is here to help you out!
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Welcome to our final weekly roundup of submission opportunities for December 2023. There are quite a few December 30, December 31, and January 1 deadlines, so don’t miss out. NewPages looks forward to meeting you again in the new year with more submission opportunities!
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Next week begins our annual winter break, but don’t worry, we will still keep you up to date on currently open submission opportunities. With the year winding down, don’t forget to end your submission goals on a high note for 2023. NewPages is here to help, as always, with our weekly roundup.
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Deadline: February 1, 2024 We invite Northern California authors to submit book-length poetry manuscripts. All manuscripts will be read blind. Sixteen Rivers values diversity. We encourage poets of color, young poets, and LGBTQ writers to submit. Sixteen Rivers Press is a shared-work collective, with a three-year commitment. PDF email submissions from November 1, 2023 to February 1, 2024. View our flyer and see complete guidelines on our website.
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Deadline: January 15, 2024 This year’s final judge is Nikki Wallschlaeger, author of the full-length collections Waterbaby, Crawlspace, and Houses. Manuscripts should be at least 48 pages, but there is no maximum length. All forms and styles of poetry are welcome. The winning manuscript will be published, and its author will receive $1500, promotional support, and 25 author copies. View flyer and visit website to learn more.
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Time sure flies. Here we are with December half over with already. If you’re still trying to hit your submission goals before the end of the year, NewPages is here to help with our weekly roundup of submission opportunities including open calls and writing and book contests. There are several with deadlines today, so don’t miss out!
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As always, Mother Nature likes to keep us guessing. If you’re also experiencing odd weather in your neck of the woods, NewPages has the perfect excuse to keep you indoors with our weekly roundup of submission opportunities for the first full week of December 2023.
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And time keeps marching on. Happy December! Mother Nature is having fun with us deciding to mix rain and snow together to create a big slushy mess for us in Michigan today. If you’re weather is just as messy, NewPages is here with our first weekly roundup of submission opportunities for December 2023. A perfect excuse to stay indoors and keep those submission goals you set for yourself going as strong as possible. As it is the first of the month, there are a host of new opportunities to enjoy.
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I hope that you all had a happy and safe Thanksgiving filled with good food and good company. If you’re ready to tackle some more submission goals while munching on all the Thanksgiving leftovers, NewPages has you covered with our weekly roundup of submission opportunities for the week of November 24, 2023. As November will officially be over with next week, don’t forget to get submissions in for November 30 deadlines!
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Deadline: November 30, 2023 Submit your fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction to Black Fox Literary Magazine’s Rhapsody of Regret Writing Prize! Deadline: November 30, 2023! We are also accepting free submissions for our winter 2024 print issue. Free subs close on November 30, 2023! Visit our website and view our flyer for more information.
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Deadline: November 30, 2023 We want to see your work! Fiction, creative nonfiction up to 1000 words, three poems, and art and photography. Our mission is to explore the edges of things, to find the hidden cracks that let the light shine through. We publish quarterly and are a paying market. Have you got something for us? We can’t wait to see it! Submissions open November 1.
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Deadline: December 1, 2023 Dorianne Laux will judge. Prizes: $1,500 & publication (winner); $500 & publication (honorable mention). All finalists will be published in the 2024 Spring/Summer Awards issue. Submit up to 3 poems per entry. $20 entry fee includes a copy of the awards issue. Submit October 1 to December 1, 2023. For complete guidelines please visit our website and view our flyer.
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Deadline: December 31 The Tartt First Fiction Award is in its nineteenth year. The award is open to any American writer who has not yet had a book of stories published. Publication and one thousand dollars awarded. View flyer or visit our website for more information.
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Happy Friday! NewPages is back with our weekly roundup of submission opportunities just in time for some bad weather rolling in, so the perfect excuse to keep you indoors and accomplishing those submission goals. Plus, you’ll find even more opportunities and goodies in our November 2023 eLitPak Newsletter!
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Does your state practice Daylight Savings Time? It can definitely throw off your routines and schedules, can’t it? Speaking of schedules, NewPages is back again this Friday with our weekly roundup of submission opportunities to help you out.
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It’s officially November which means, for my grandfather at least, that deer season will be upon us shortly. If you have a hunter in the family and will finally get some unadulterated time off from your responsibilities to write, NewPages has you covered with a host of new submission opportunities.
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Welcome to the last official Friday in October for 2023. November kicks off next week and that means there will be several new opportunities you can enjoy! For now, don’t forget about these submission opportunities below. Plus, since it will be November next week, don’t forget to check out our list of Writing Contests with November deadlines.
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Deadline: Rolling NOMADartx Review would love to see your interpretations on the theme of “clarity,” open to broad interpretation. Our cross-disciplinary online journal publishes one piece of visual art and one piece of writing (under 3500 words) monthly, and we like personal essays, paintings, poetry, photography, sketches, stories, and creative industry-specific articles. We especially welcome under-represented voices. Complete guidelines at our website.
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Deadline: Year-round When deciding where to send your work, be sure to consider Stone Circle. Our response time is less than four weeks and it’s easy to submit. We publish a new poem each Saturday and Sunday on a website designed to foreground the poem on the page. We prefer poems containing beautifully strange imagery and language that avoid becoming impenetrable. Learn more at our website.
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Deadline: November 30, 2023 Under the Madness Magazine is sponsoring two no-fee writing contests for teens this fall: a Street Poetry Contest (with a judge from Spain) and a Fiction Contest (with a judge from the United States). We’re also open for general submissions in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. View flyer or visit website to learn more.
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Deadline: December 31 Our Action/Words Poetry Contest seeks submissions that call for, enact, reflect upon connections between poetry and praxis. Each fall, our team will select a verb to serve as the “action word”/theme for that year’s contest. This year, we have selected the verb “to gather.” We welcome writers to submit poems that respond directly or indirectly to this term. View flyer or visit our website for more information.
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Deadline: November 1, 2023 The MAYDAY Prizes for Poetry, Fiction, and Creative Nonfiction offer publication and cash awards in each category: first place $500, second place $250, third place $100. Submit a story, essay, or poetry micro-chapbook by November 1. Fiction judge: Alissa Hattman. Poetry judge: Sophia Terazawa. Editors will judge Creative Nonfiction. Entry fee: $20. All submissions considered for publication. More info at our website or view our full flyer.
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The RavensPerch is an online international literary and visual arts magazine. TRP is unique in that the platform brings the literary world together across generations: a home for adults, young adults and children. We publish poetry, fiction, nonfiction and visual art. We are interested in writing that makes us react. We even give you permission to break our hearts and make us ask for more. Visit website.
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