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About Place Journal Call for Submissions: On Freedom

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Deadline: August 1, 2025
About Place Journal, the arts publication of Black Earth Institute, seeks submissions for its Fall 2025 issue On Freedom from June 1–August 1. We publish poetry, prose, visual art, music, and more that explore spirit, earth, and society. Join us in building a just, interconnected world. View flyer to see theme details and guidelines or visit our website.

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

Third Street Review Submissions

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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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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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.

Third Street Review is Open for Submissions!

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Deadline: November 30, 2024
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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Apple in the Dark Winter 2024 Submissions

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Deadline: December 15, 2024
Apple in the Dark is reading for the Winter 2024 issue. Free submissions; tip jar donations accepted. We publish works of short fiction and creative nonfiction up to 1,500 words per piece. Multiple and simultaneous submissions are OK. Up to 3 pieces per submission. See flyer for more information and link to submit.

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The Bluebird Word Online Literary Journal Seeks New Flash Writing!

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Deadline: Year-round
The Bluebird Word, an online literary journal for poetry, flash nonfiction and fiction, seeks new writing for our upcoming 2024 publishing calendar. We publish new issues each month and are looking for emerging and established writers. We are a non-paying market. Please send your crisp flash and poignant poetry for consideration in a future issue. View our flyer and visit our website for more information.

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Shaping Destiny, Elections Call

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Deadline: August 1, 2024
The election is looming, and all those thoughts and emotions are getting sharper and at time produce fear and depression. Now is the time to have art be your voice and presence. Visit our website for full information and to submit your work.

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Issue 89 of Kaleidoscope Available Now! Accepting Submissions Year-Round

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The summer issue of Kaleidoscope takes a closer look at the ebbs and flows of life, and we hope you will find some treasures in the work we’ve selected. 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! Visit our website and see our flyer for more information.

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Literary Agent Feedback Opportunity from Black Fox Literary Magazine

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Application Deadline: June 30, 2024
Apply to receive feedback on the first 50 pages of your novel or query letter from a literary agent. Limited spots available. Deadline to apply is June 30, 2024! View flyer for more details and a link to our website.

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The Word Works May-June 2024 Open Reading Period!

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We are now accepting poetry manuscripts of 48-80 pages for our May-June Reading Period at The Word Works! Four to six books are selected for publication in the next two years. Single-author collections, collaborations, prose poetry, hybrid works, etc. are welcome. View our flyer for more information and a link to our submissions manager.

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Weber—The Contemporary West Call for Submissions

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Weber invites submissions in the genres of personal narrative, critical commentary, fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry that offer insight into the environment and culture of the contemporary western United States. Poems and essays published in Weber are considered for our annual awards (O. Marvin Lewis Essay Award $500, Sherwin W. Howard Poetry Award $500). View flyer to learn more and submit via email.

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February 2024 eLitPak :: Changing Skies Now Accepting Submissions for Fall Issue!

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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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February 2024 eLitPak :: Strange Wests Call for Submissions

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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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February 2024 eLitPak :: Third Street Review Open for Submissions February 1

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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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January 2024 eLitPak :: About Place Journal Call for Submissions: Strange Wests

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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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January 2024 eLitPak :: Hindsight Journal Accepting Submissions Now!

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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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January 2024 eLitPak :: Issue 88 of Kaleidoscope Available Now! Accepting Submissions Year-round.

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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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December 2023 eLitPak :: Sixteen Rivers Press Annual Call for Submissions for Book-Length Poetry Manuscripts

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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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November 2023 eLitPak :: Third Street Review – Open for Submissions

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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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October 2023 eLitPak :: NOMADartx Review Seeks Works on the Theme of “Clarity”

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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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October 2023 eLitPak :: Stone Circle Review Open to Poetry

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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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October 2023 eLitPak :: The RavensPerch: Adding Breath to Words

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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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September 2023 eLitpak :: A New Anthology from Madville about Robert Earl Keen

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Deadline: December 1, 2023
After 40 years of singing, songwriting, and touring, Alt-Country/Americana artist Robert Earl Keen is retiring from the road. Long-time fans Sandra Johnson Cooper and Ron Cooper believe the time is right for a book that illustrates how Keen has inspired not only a generation of younger songwriters but also has influenced writers of poetry and fiction. Keen is as much a storyteller as he is a songwriter, and this anthology will be a monument of sorts to his literary talents. View our flyer and visit our website for more information.

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September eLitPak :: Home of Poet in Residence, Anders Carlson-Wee, Novus Journal Seeks Submissions

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Deadline: October 1, 2023
Housed amidst Tennessee’s rich literary landscape at Cumberland University, Novus is an international journal seeking vibrant writing and art. Our name means “new and novel”; we value a fresh approach and work that moves us through unique language. We also love a timeless story well told. No genre. Submit via Submittable for our Fall 2023 Print Edition, December publication. Visit website and view flyer for more information.

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August 2023 eLitPak :: Consequence’s Fall Reading Period Open

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Deadline: October 15, 2023
The reading period for Consequence Volume 16.1 is open from July 15 through October 15. As always, we’re after the strongest work that deals with the consequences of war or geopolitical violence. We publish in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translations, and Visual Art, though we are especially interested in increasing our Translations submissions.

BIPOC and people from other under-represented communities are strongly encouraged to apply.

View submission guidelines here.

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July 2023 eLitPak :: Issue 87 of Kaleidoscope Available! Accepting Submissions Year-Round

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We experience many connections in life and in this issue we take a closer look at the ties that bind. Each thread woven into loops, knots, and swirls, revealing an intricate tapestry. 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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April 2023 eLitPak :: Signed, Sealed, Delivered: The Motown Poetry Revue, Call for Submissions

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Deadline: June 1, 2023
We’re dancing in the street, celebrating our new poetry anthology! Help us celebrate the Motown legacy, both past and present. The crossover label made rhythm and blues the soul of American popular culture. Honor the artists connected to Hitsville, USA, and 30 years’ worth of “The Sound of Young America.” View full guidelines.

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The 2023 First Lines Announced

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If you don’t know about literary magazine The First Line, it is a quarterly print publication in which all pieces start with the same opening line. They also have The Last Line in which all pieces must end with the same line. You can learn more about them here.

They have announced their line-up of first and last lines for 2023. There is no fee to submit. Fiction and nonfiction only. You are not allowed to alter the first or last lines in any way.

Summer 2023 First Line

All the lawns on Mentone Avenue are mowed on Wednesdays.

Due date: May 1, 2023

Fall 2023 First Line

As soon as Harriet entered the building, she headed to the seventh floor.

Due date: August 1, 2023

Winter 2023 First Line

It was the farthest north they had ever been.

Due date: November 1, 2023

The Last Line for 2023

Samir was never one to back down from a challenge.

Due date: October 1, 2023.

View full submission information at their website.

March 2023 eLitPak :: Open Call – Passageway Anthology

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Deadline: March 27, 2023
Until March 27, Sans. PRESS is looking for stories for our fifth anthology! Passageway is for stories that dare to experiment, that cross further than they have ever been before, and that encounter whatever may come with hope and open arms. All genres welcome, as long as they explore a story of crossing over to the unknown. Visit website and view flyer for more information.

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March 2023 eLitPak :: South 85 General Submissions Open

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Deadline: April 15, 2023
South 85 Journal is open for submissions of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction until April 15, 2023, for our summer issue. As the literary journal for the Converse University Low-Residency MFA program, we are entering our 11th year of publication. Our editorial staff is comprised of experienced readers, writers, and editors who carefully consider every work of writing they receive. Visit website and view flyer for more information.

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February 2023 eLitPak :: Gival Press Open Submission Period

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Visit the Gival Press website & Gival Press Submittable account for information about the Gival Press open reading period and contests. View full flyer.

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January 2023 eLitPak :: Issue 86 of Kaleidoscope Available Now! Accepting Submissions Year-round

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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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December 2022 eLitPak :: Sixteen Rivers Press 2023 Call for Book-Length Poetry Manuscripts

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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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November 2022 eLitPak :: Undergraduate Students, Submit Your Creative Work to The Tower

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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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Call :: The Common Seeks Writing from Farmworkers

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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.

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Call :: Third Street Review Inaugural Issue

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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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