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Happy Friday and happy February. It’s time to discover new and ongoing submission opportunities with our Weekly Roundup for the week of February 3, 2023.
It’s our first official roundup for February so that means there are quite a few new opportunities to explore.
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Continue reading “”Happy Friday. It’s that time of the week again. Check out new and ongoing submission opportunities with our Weekly Roundup for the week of January 27, 2023.
It’s our last roundup of January. Hard to believe February is here next week already. Don’t forget to take a gander at our Big List of Writing Contests so you don’t miss an early February deadline.
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Unexpected truths are discovered throughout this issue, in all genres. Sometimes the truth can be hard to swallow and in other cases, revelations are surprisingly sweet. Kaleidoscope magazine publishes literature and artwork that creatively explore the experience of disability. Submit your best work to us today! Visit our website and view our flyer for more information.
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Deadline: March 31, 2023
The 17th 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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Deadline: March 15, 2023
The 10th Annual Permafrost Book Prize offers publication of a book length work of poetry, $1,000, and distribution through University of Alaska Press. Final judge: Aimee Nezhukumatathil. Deadline: March 15. Entry fee: $20. For complete guidelines, please visit our website. View full flyer.
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Happy Friday. It’s that time of the week again. Check out new and ongoing submission opportunities with our Weekly Roundup for the week of January 20, 2023.
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Our January eLitPak was emailed to current newsletter subscribers on Wednesday, so stay tuned to our blog today for more upcoming events and submission opportunities from that.
Continue reading “Where to Submit Roundup: January 20, 2023”It’s only the second week of 2023 and we’ve already hit our first Friday the 13th. Are you superstitious? If you are too afraid to go out, spend some time indoors writing and editing; we have plenty of submission opportunities to keep you busy through March. Oh, and don’t forget that we do have our Big List of Writing Contests to help you plan your submission calendar throughout the year.
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Continue reading “Where to Submit Roundup: January 13, 2023”We’re back fresh in 2023 with our Where to Submit Roundup! The first officially week of January is over and we have added several new submission opportunities for you to enjoy.
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Continue reading “Where to Submit Roundup: January 6, 2023”
It’s the final Where to Submit Round-up for December 2022! We’ll see you all in the New Year. How will your submission goals change in 2023?
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Continue reading “Where to Submit Round-up: December 30, 2022”The weather outside is truly frightful across the country as winter storms sweep the nation. We hope everyone has a safe and happy holiday season. Hopefully you can stay inside safe and sound and work on ending 2022 by hitting the submission goals you set for yourself in January. NewPages is here to help with our Where to Submit Round-up for the week of December 23, 2022.
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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, 2022 to February 1, 2023. View flyer and see complete guidelines on our website.
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Deadline: March 31, 2023
The 17th 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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Deadline: March 15, 2023
The 10th Annual Permafrost Book Prize offers publication of a book length work of poetry, $1,000, and distribution through University of Alaska Press. Final judge: Aimee Nezhukumatathil. Deadline: March 15. Entry fee: $20. For complete guidelines, please visit our website. View full flyer.
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Sorry for the long delay in getting back to doing our Weekly Where to Submit Roundups! I am including all opportunities from the end of November until now. We were working hard on getting our site ready for its updated launch. We hope you are enjoying the new look and feel of NewPages. Enjoy the round-up of submission opportunities below for the week of December 16, 2023, and earlier.
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Continue reading “Where to Submit Round-up :: December 16, 2023”
New independent publisher Dark Onus Press and fledgling literary magazine Dark Onus Lit will open to submissions on January 1, 2023! They will be open to submissions of dark-themed works year-round and do not charge a reading fee.
Learn more about Dark Onus Press and Dark Onus Lit.
Deadline: November 30, 2022
The Tower magazine is open for submissions from undergraduate students currently enrolled in colleges and universities within the U.S. Send us your poems, short stories, creative nonfiction, and visual art! Our open-ended theme for the 2023 edition is Patchwork, which for us connotes crafting, patience, attention, salvage, repair, diversity, togetherness, endurance—and more! Show us what Patchwork means to you! View flyer and visit website for more information.
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Deadline: February 1, 2023
Judge: Alan Feldman. 1st Prize $1,000, 2nd $500. Poems in English up to 60 lines, any subject, unpublished at submission. Enter at Yeats.Submittable.com/Submit or mail to WB Yeats Society of NY, National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South, NYC 10003. Entrant’s name only on separate Submittable entry form or file card. Entry $15 for first, $12 each additional. View flyer and visit website to learn more.
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Deadline: December 31, 2022
The Tartt First Fiction Award from Livingston Press at the University of West Alabama is given annually to a collection of short stories written in English by an American citizen. Writers cannot have already published or be under contract to publish a fiction collection. Winner will receive $1000, plus standard royalty contract, which includes 60 copies of the book. Visit the Livingston Press website or view flyer to learn more.
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Deadline: March 31, 2023
The 17th 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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Thanksgiving is just around the corner in the US. If you get a long weekend to write, edit, and submit, NewPages is here to help with our Where to Submit Round-up for the week of November 18, 2022.
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Continue reading “Where to Submit Round-up: November 18, 2022”Happy Veteran’s Day. Don’t forget to take some time today to support your veterans – maybe write a piece about them or pull out a piece in progress you’ve been meaning to finish. Looking for a home for your work? Dive into our Where to Submit Round-up for November 11, 2022. And speaking of Veterans, don’t forget today is the deadline to submit to the first edition of literary magazine ISSUED.
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Continue reading “Where to Submit Round-up: November 11, 2022”
Faith journal The Unmooring is currently accepting submissions of writing, art, and photography from women and female-identifying persons. All issues chosen for publication in Issue 5 will receive a $50 stipend.
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Celebrations of Healing is an anthology currently seeking autobiographical stories of meaningful, uplifting, sensual and/or erotic moments of intimacy and discovery by those who have previously experienced sexual abuse.
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Allium, A Journal of Poetry & Prose publishes three issues a year, two online and one print. They are currently open to submissions of poetry, craft essays, fiction, hybrid work, nonfiction, and creative nonfiction for their 2023 issues.
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Happy November! Time to keep your submission goals going strong with our Where to Submit Round-up for the first week of November. And while we’re at it, don’t forget Sunday, November 6 is daylight savings time, so if you’re part of the country participates in this…you get to fall back an hour!
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Continue reading “Where to Submit Round-up: November 4, 2022”Happy Friday! Sorry for the unintended break last week. But our Where to Submit Round-up is back again this week to help you discover new and ongoing submission opportunities to help keep your submission goals going strong.
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Continue reading “Where to Submit Round-up: October 28, 2022”
The newest issue of the online quarterly Radar Poetry is a celebration of the winner and finalists of their annual Coniston Prize, an annual award that recognizes an exceptional group of poems by any poet who identifies as a woman writing in English. This year’s judge was Dorianne Laux, and she selected the following:
Winner: Amy Miller
Finalists: Kenzie Allen, Jessamyn Duckwall, Jenny Grassl, Abi Pollokoff
Radar Poetry 34 features several works from each poet, rounding out the entire issue. Submissions for the next Coniston Prize are open from June 1 – August 1, 2023. The 2022 winner received $1000 and each finalist received $175. In 2022, during the first seven days of contest submissions, Radar Poetry waived fees for BIPOC poets. For more information about the upcoming contest as well as general submissions, visit the Radar Poetry website.
Artwork by Angus McEwan.
RCC MUSE Literary Journal is open to submissions of poems about a child or childhood for their 2023 Holden Vaughn Spangler Award. Winner receives $200 and publication in the Spring 2023 issue.
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The Common, the award-winning literary journal based at Amherst College, is announcing an open call for writing submissions from the farmworker and farm laborer community—the migrant, seasonal, and often immigrant laborers who make up much of the US agricultural workforce—to be published as a special portfolio in the fall of 2023.
The Common invites work from current and former farmworkers of all ages, as well as those raised in farmworker families who experienced the stories and effects of this work through their parents or other relations. This portfolio offers space to work that voices the diversity of farmwork and farmworkers and their wide range of experiences: the physical, emotional, and financial struggles, the dangers and injustices, but also the rituals and celebrations, and the profound strength, skill, ingenuity, and resilience that are essential to this life.
This portfolio will be edited in collaboration with guest co-editor Miguel M. Morales, a Lambda Literary Fellow and an alum of VONA/Voices and of the Macondo Writers Workshop who grew up in Texas working as a migrant and seasonal farmworker.
Submissions close February 1, 2023. Payment for accepted work is $200 for prose pieces and $40 per poem.
For more information, click here.
The literary magazine from Riverside Community College MUSE Literary Journal is currently accepting submissions for its 2022 open reading period. They especially looking to publish work from under- or misrepresented groups. Submissions open through December 15.
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Nonprofit Third Street Writers has announced they are launching their very own literary magazine – Third Street Review. They are currently accepting submissions for the inaugural issue. They are a paying market and welcome work from writers and artists from all cultural backgrounds and experience levels.
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Applause is an international undergraduate literary journal. They are currently seeking submissions of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, and cross-genre work for Issue 33: (In)Evitable Ending. $3 fee. They are a paying market.
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Carve Magazine has announced they are accepting submissions of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry for their 2022 Prose & Poetry Contest. Online submissions only ($17 fee). This year’s guest judges are Maurice Ruffin, Thirii My Kyaw Myint, and David J. Daniels.
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The newly launched ISSUED: Stories of Services is accepting submissions of stories by active-duty military, veterans, and family members in the form of poetry and flash prose. Appropriately, the deadline is Veteran’s Day, November 11, 2022. Editors hope for works that express the “spectrum of experiences within military life, including gender and sexuality, BIPOC voices, physical and mental health combat, enlisting and separating, family and relationships, and reintegration into society.” The publication also welcomes visual art in any genre. ISSUED is supported by the Office for Veteran and Military Academic Engagement at Arizona State University. For more information and submission guidelines, visit the publication’s website.
Cleaver online literary magazine has announced the winners of their 2022 Flash Contest. Winners, honorable mentions, and finalists will be published in Cleaver Issue No. 40, their 10th-anniversary issue.
Judge: Meg Pokrass
First Place: Sabrina Hicks
“When We Knew How to Get Lost”
Second Place: Janet Burroway
“The Tale of Molly Grimm”
Third Place: Dawn Miller
“The Egg”
HONORABLE MENTION
Laura Tanenbaum
Fannie H. Gray
Andrea Marcusa
Lisa Lanser-Rose
Andrew Stancek
Luke Tennis
Emily Hoover
James LaRowe
Paul Enea
Kris Willcox
Christina Simon
FINALISTS
Theo Greenblatt
Meredith McCarroll
Amanda Hadlock
Madeleine Barowsky
K Moore
Ron Tobey
Sarah Freligh
Nicholas Claro
Joe Artz
Lyn Chamberlin
Deadline: December 10, 2022
Pangyrus announces its first Fiction Contest. Calling all writers of short stories! The contest is an open theme and the judge is novelist Jennifer Haigh. Cash prizes and publication for the top three winners! Please see Pangyrus‘s Fiction Contest 2022 Submittable page or view flyer for more details.
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Deadline: December 31, 2022
The Tartt First Fiction Award from Livingston Press at the University of West Alabama is given annually to a collection of short stories written in English by an American citizen. Writers cannot have already published or be under contract to publish a fiction collection. Winner will receive $1000, plus standard royalty contract, which includes 60 copies of the book. Visit the Livingston Press website or view flyer to learn more.
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Happy Friday! The leaves in Michigan are venturing towards their peak colors while the temperatures keep dropping and the long-awaited rain finally shows up in time for the harvest. Time to air out your sweaters, grab a warm drink, and get to writing and editing, isn’t it? Our Where to Submit Round-up covers new and ongoing submission opportunities to help you out.
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Continue reading “Where to Submit Round-up: October 14, 2022”
Actual Left Publications (formerly Xi Draconis Books) is open to submissions of fiction and nonfiction on a year-round basis. All submissions can be made through their online submissions manager. There is no fee.
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New American Press is officially open to its 2023 New American Poetry Prize through January 15, 2023. This year’s final judge is Jamaica Baldwin, author of Bone Language which is forthcoming in 2023. The winner receives $1,500 and book publication.
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Happy October! Leaves are turning color and the weather is making up its mind that it does want to be more like fall. The dog days of summer are now long gone. With cooler weather, it’s a perfect time to work hard on writing, editing, and submitting. Our weekly Where to Submit Round-up is here to help you out.
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Continue reading “Where to Submit Round-up: October 6, 2022”
New online and NFT-based literary magazine Megacity Review has announced its inaugural writing contest offering up to $1,000 prize for a fiction or nonfiction story. Deadline to enter work is November 15.
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LIGHT has announced that it is accepting submissions for Issue 2 of LIGHT Journal, a biannual literary journal in public health. There is no fee to submit. Prize money will be give to the top three writers in each category. Enter by November 1, 2022.
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It’s the final day of September already. The year keeps marching forward leaving us no time to take a break it seems. Don’t miss out on all the September 30 and October 1 deadlines below in our Where to Submit Round-up! And with October literally around the corner, do check out our Big List of Writing Contests for those with October deadlines and beyond.
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Continue reading “Where to Submit Round-up: September 30, 2022”
Interlochen Arts Academy’s creative writing program is accepting applications for its Virginia B. Ball Creative Writing Competition. This is open to students in grades 8-11 during the 2022-23 school year and awards a full-tuition scholarship.
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The weather has decidedly taken a more fall-like turn with lows in the 30s and high in the 60s. A perfect time to start staying indoors to write, edit, and submit. Enjoy the Where to Submit Round-up for the week of September 23, 2022 for help keeping your submission goals going strong.
Since next week ends September, don’t forget about all the end of September and beginning of October deadlines!
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Continue reading “Where to Submit Round-up: September 23, 2022”
Conduit Books and Ephemera is open to submissions for their fifth annual Open Book Prize. The winner receives $1,500 and book publication. Any poet writing in English can enter regardless of previous publication record. Do check out their literary magazine Conduit for an idea of what they like. They do charge an entry fee. View their full ad in the NewPages Classifieds to learn more.
Madville Publishing currently has two open calls for submissions, The Second Annual Arthur Smith Poetry Prize for a full length poetry collection closes September 30, and the Sticks & Bricks: Stories from the Wrong Side of Town Anthology closes November 30, 2022. Visit our site and view our flyer for more information.
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Deadline: October 1
The annual Permafrost Book Prize is open for submissions. Sponsored by Permafrost, the northernmost literary magazine in the U.S., the prize is awarded in alternate years in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. In 2022, the prize will be awarded for nonfiction. Judge: Joy Castro. The winner of the contest will receive $1,000 and publication by the University of Alaska Press. Visit our website or view our flyer to learn more.
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Submit published or unpublished poems to the 20th annual Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest sponsored by Winning Writers and co-sponsored by Duotrope. We will award $3,000 for the best poem in any style and $3,000 for the best poem that rhymes or has a traditional style. The top 12 poems will be published online. Final judge: S. Mei Sheng Frazier. Deadline: September 30. Fee: $20 for 1-3 poems. View flyer to learn more.
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