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Where to Submit Roundup: October 4, 2024

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

It’s officially October! Now is truly the month of spooky season! Spookiest thing of all…? I still have made no headway on my goals of submitting. I hope you are doing better on this end of things. Need help? As always NewPages has your back with our weekly roundup of submission opportunities.

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Where to Submit Roundup: September 27, 2024

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

Happy Friday! Welcome to the last roundup of submission opportunities for September 2024. It’s been a long, crazy week hasn’t it? Hopefully you are all staying safe and sound this week. If you have plans to stay indoors and write, edit, and submit, we are here to help! There are many opportunities with September 30 and October 1 deadlines.

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The 2024 Haiku Search is On Now!

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Deadline: November 30, 2024
Haiku Crush’s 4th annual international search for the best haiku is underway now! Entries for the 2024 search are now being accepted. $350 USD of honorariums will be awarded. Haiku Crush’s panel of judges will give a top award of $150 to the best of the best! Up to 50 winners will be published in this year’s anthology. Submit your four best haiku! View flyer for more info and a link to our website.

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2024 Permafrost Book Prize in Fiction

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Deadline: October 1, 2024
Permafrost is very happy to announce Pulitzer Finalist and Alaskan author Eowyn Ivey as the final judge for this annual contest. Submissions in fiction may include novels, short story collections, or novella collections. More info can be found at our website and on our flyer.

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22nd Annual Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest – Last Call!

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Submit published or unpublished poems to the 22nd annual Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest sponsored by Winning Writers and co-sponsored by Duotrope. We will award $3,500 for the best poem in any style and $3,500 for the best poem that rhymes or has a traditional style. The top 12 poems will be published online. Final judge: Michal ‘MJ’ Jones. Fee: $22 for 1-3 poems. View flyer for more information and a link to submit.

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Where to Submit Roundup: September 20, 2024

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

Happy Friday! After what feels like a super long and busy week, another weekend looms before us. If you have the time and energy, NewPages is here to help you along with your submissions and publication goals with our weekly submissions roundup.

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Where to Submit Roundup: September 13, 2024

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

If you are superstitious and don’t want to tempt fate by going out on Friday the 13th, NewPages has plenty of reasons to keep you safe at home with our weekly submission opportunities roundup for the week of September 13, 2024.

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Where to Submit Roundup: September 6, 2024

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

It is September. Time for color changes, spooky season, and pumpkin spice. It also means that submissions are opening for autumn and winter issues of literary magazines. NewPages is here to help you find a home for your work with our weekly roundup.

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Where to Submit Roundup: August 30, 2024

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

Severe thunderstorms, power outages, oh my! It’s been a week. Strong storms blew in and took out power lines, trees, lawn furniture, signs, flags, and who knows what else? When you have nothing to do, what better way to while away the hours than writing and editing? With September and Labor Day around the corner don’t miss out on the end-of-August opportunities!

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Where to Submit Roundup: August 23, 2024

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

It’s been an exhausting week, hasn’t it? Let NewPages help you take away some of the work in finding a place to submit to with our weekly roundup of submission opportunities for the week of August 23, 2024.

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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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Alternating Current Press Submissions Open for August—Closing Soon!

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Submissions now open for the Futurist Debut Book Award for debut books in any genre ($1,000 prize), the Spark Translation Prize for translated books ($1,000 prize), several anthologies, book-length nonfiction manuscripts, and more! See what’s closing at the end of August, and plan ahead for what’s opening in September. View our flyer and learn more at our website.

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Contest and Submission Opportunity from Black Fox Literary Magazine

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Submit your fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction to Black Fox Literary Magazine’s Portraits of Failure Writing Contest! Deadline: August 31, 2024! We are also accepting free submissions for our Winter 2025 print issue. Free subs close on November 30, 2024! See flyer for more information and link to our website.

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Raven Chronicles’ Inaugural Annual Awards for Innovative Fiction & Nonfiction

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Deadline: October 1, 2024
We seek nonfiction & fiction work for publication in Spring 2025 on the theme Habitat: Planet Earth. Chosen authors will receive $1,000 and 50% of net sales. Each year we will publish two books, one fiction (speculative, utopian, historical, etc.) and one nonfiction (creative nonfiction, memoir, scientific, historical, etc.). A new theme will be chosen each year. Submissions now open. View our flyer for more information.

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Where to Submit Roundup: August 16, 2024

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

August is officially half over with. This means that our monthly eLitPak newsletter was officially released this week! There you can enjoy even more submission opportunities along with the ones below.

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Where to Submit Roundup: August 9, 2024

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

The first full week of August is behind us. The back-to-school panic and flurry will soon be in full swing. Take a moment to sit back, relax, write, edit, and submit! NewPages is here to help with our weekly roundup of submission opportunities.

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Where to Submit Roundup: August 2, 2024

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

Welcome to the first roundup of submission opportunities for August 2024. Here in the Midwest at least it is supposed to be one hot weekend. This is a perfect opportunity to stay indoors and stay cool writing, editing, and submitting. But don’t forget to take a break for a nice cold drink and to step into the out for at least a little while.

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Submit to Sport Literate’s “1970s Contest” before July Ends

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Deadline: July 31, 2024
We won’t be prescriptive beyond the decade in question, except to say that poets and writers should reflect on a subject through a sporting lens. Our guest judges, both SL veterans and contest winners, are also former state Poet Laureates. SL editors read through submissions and send anonymous finalists to Jack Bedell and Sydney Lea, who will pick their favorites. View our flyer for more information and a link to our website.

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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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Inverted Syntax Poetry Book Contests

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Deadline: August 15
Inverted Syntax will be publishing and debuting between 3-5 full-length poetry books in the fall of 2026. Starting in 2024, we seek to identify up to five exceptional manuscripts for publication. We look for work that risks everything. We favor the hybrid but welcome all writing. If it’s well-crafted, uses language in daring ways, we want it. View guidelines and submission details on our flyer and at our website.

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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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Submit to The Greensboro Review’s Literary Awards – $1000 prizes!

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Deadline: August 1, 2024
The Greensboro Review invites submissions for our annual Robert Watson Literary Prizes in Poetry and Fiction. Winners in each genre receive a $1,000 award and publication in the spring issue of the journal. Send us your previously unpublished poems and short stories, now through August 1! To learn more, read past prizewinners, and submit your work, visit our website and view our flyer.

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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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Where to Submit Roundup: July 19, 2024

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

Sorry for missing out on our weekly submissions roundup last week. A family emergency took place at the end of the week that through everything into a chaotic tailspin. But we are back this week to help you with your submission goals! It’s hard to believe August will be upon us in two short weeks and then Labor Day will be here before you know it.

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Where to Submit Roundup: July 5, 2024

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

We hope you had a wonderful Fourth. Hopefully you have a few extra days to rest and relax before diving back into work. Read a good book, get some writing done, and maybe some submitting. NewPages has your back with our weekly roundup of submission opportunities.

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Where to Submit Roundup: June 28, 2024

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

June is officially over with Sunday and July kicks off on Monday. Don’t miss out on all the submission opportunities with June 30 or July 1 deadlines! NewPages has you covered with our weekly Where to Submit Roundup, so you don’t miss a thing. Also, with a new month gearing up, don’t forget to check out our monthly calendar of writing contests!

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Where to Submit Roundup: June 21, 2024

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

Hopefully you have been surviving in this super-hot week. A great time to stay indoors or haunt your local library for writing, submitting, or editing. NewPages has you covered with our weekly roundup of submission opportunities to help in your submission goals. With June ending soon and July starting up, don’t miss out on the opportunities below.

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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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Where to Submit Roundup: June 14, 2024

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

And just like that, June will be half over with tomorrow. That means there’s a lot of deadlines coming up, so don’t miss out! NewPages has you covered with our weekly roundup of submission opportunities.

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Time to Submit Your Manuscript to The Tenth Gate Prize

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Deadline: July 15, 2024
The Tenth Gate Prize honors mid-career poets writing in English. Entry is open to authors of at least two previously published full-length poetry collections. A prize of $1000 and publication of the collection is awarded annually. See our flyer for more information and a link to submit.

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Final Month! North Street Book Prize for Self-Published and Hybrid-Published Books

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Winning Writers will award a grand prize of $10,000 in its tenth annual North Street competition, and $20,400 in all. The top nine winners will enjoy additional benefits from co-sponsors BookBaby, Carolyn Howard-Johnson, Book Award Pro, Self-Publishing Made Simple, and Laura Duffy Design. New this year: Everyone who enters online will receive a brief commentary from one of the judges. Submit books published in any year and on any self-publishing or hybrid-publishing platform. $79 entry fee. Enter online or by mail by July 1. Learn more at our website and share our flyer.

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Where to Submit Roundup: June 7, 2024

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

Happy first week of June! We got some lovely weather in before the rains came and decided to flatten the corn in the garden down. If you have some rainy weather, we have plenty of submission opportunities to brighten your day. If you are able to go out and enjoy the beautiful weather in your neck of the woods, take your laptop or tablet and you can work on the submission opportunities below as well.

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Where to Submit Roundup: May 31, 2024

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

How is May over with already? It just does not seem possible that the year is about to be half over with. We hope your submission goals have been going well. Afraid of a summer lull? NewPages has your back with the final weekly roundup of submission opportunities for the final week of May. There are lots of deadlines for May 31 and June 1, so don’t miss out!

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Where to Submit Roundup: May 24, 2024

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

Memorial Day weekend is upon us. We at NewPages hope that you have a fun and safe holiday weekend. If you do not have any traveling and gathering plans, but are utilizing time off for writing, editing, and submitting, NewPages is here for you with our weekly roundup of submission opportunities. Since next week does end May, don’t forget to check out all the May 31 and June 1 deadlines before it is too late.

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Contest and Submission Opportunity from Black Fox Literary Magazine!

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Deadlines: May 31, 2024; June 2, 2024
Submit your fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction to Black Fox Literary Magazine’s Montage of Misfortunes Fox Tales Prize! Deadline: June 2, 2024! We are also accepting free submissions for our summer 2024 print issue. Free subs close on May 31, 2024! View our flyer for more information and links to our submission guidelines.

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$1000 prize & publication with Vine Leaves Press

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Deadline: July 1, 2024
It is our responsibility to give marginalized groups the opportunity to establish literary legacies that feel rich and vast. Why? To sustain hope for the world to become a more loving, tolerable, and open space. It always begins with art. That is why we invite you to enter the 2025 International Voices in Creative Nonfiction Competition. Visit our website and view our flyer for more information.

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2024 Charles Simic Prize for Poetry

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Deadline: July 31, 2024
We are pleased to announce that Dana Levin will judge the second annual Charles Simic Prize for Poetry. Dana is the author of five books of poetry and teaches for the Bennington Writing Seminars, the MFA program at Bennington College, and serves as Distinguished Writer in Residence at Maryville University in St. Louis. Dana recently published a recollection of Charlie as friend, teacher, and mentor in The Yale Review.
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2024 Catamaran Poetry Prize for West Coast Poets

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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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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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2nd Annual Changing Light Prize for a Novel-in-Verse

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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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Tenth Annual North Street Book Prize for Self-Published & Hybrid-Published Books

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Winning Writers will award a grand prize of $10,000 in its tenth annual North Street competition, and $20,400 in all. The top nine winners will enjoy additional benefits from co-sponsors BookBaby, Carolyn Howard-Johnson, Book Award Pro, Self-Publishing Made Simple, and Laura Duffy Design. New this year: Everyone who enters online will receive a brief commentary from one of the judges. Submit books published in any year and on any self-publishing or hybrid-publishing platform. $79 entry fee. Enter online or by mail by July 1. Learn more at our website and share our flyer.

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Where to Submit Roundup: May 17, 2024

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

Well, May is half over with and we are starting to see more stable, warmer weather in the Midwest. And rain. I think the April showers carried over into May. It’s been a bit gloomy and chilly. Something to brighten your day? Enjoy more new books, upcoming events, and submission opportunities with the NewPages May 2024 eLitPak Newsletter. As always, we are here for you with our weekly roundup of submission opportunities.

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Where to Submit Roundup: May 10, 2024

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

Happy May! It’s a month for gardens to be planted and flowers to bloom. It’s also a great month to try to find a home for your work. We’re back again with our weekly roundup of submission opportunities for the first week of May 2024.

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Where to Submit Roundup: May 3, 2024

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

Happy May! It’s a month for gardens to be planted and flowers to bloom. It’s also a great month to try to find a home for your work. We’re back again with our weekly roundup of submission opportunities for the first week of May 2024.

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Where to Submit Roundup: April 26, 2024

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

Welcome to the last weekly roundup of submission opportunities for April 2024. How is it May already next week? The weather has been crazy going back between hot and cold, so it makes it feel even less like it should be spring. I have been obsessed with “Deja Vu” by Tomorrow x Together and have been listening to it nonstop. Seems fitting that the weather is giving us fits of deja vu with winter. Of course, this happens just as my dwarf fruit cocktail trees finally got their very first blossoms in who knows how many years its been since we planted them.

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Open for Submissions: The Akron Poetry Prize

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Deadline: June 15, 2024
Entry fee: $25
The annual Akron Poetry Prize is now open. The winner receives $1,500 and publication of their book as part of the Akron Series in Poetry. Matthew Olzmann will judge. Other manuscripts may be considered for publication in the series. Submit manuscripts via Submittable from April 15 – June 15, 2024. View flyer and visit our website for complete guidelines.

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Announcing the 2024 RockPaperPoem Poetry Prize

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Deadline: May 31, 2024
The contest is un-themed so any subject is eligible, and all submissions will be considered for publication in the next issue of RockPaperPoem. We’re looking for your three best poems! View our flyer for more information and see complete contest guidelines at our website.

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Extended deadline for Richard Snyder Prize: May 15

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Deadline: May 15, 2024
$1000 and publication with Ashland Poetry Press for an unpublished manuscript of original poetry. No aesthetic preference or requirements; we’re happy to publish someone’s first book or their tenth. We just want books we love. 2024 Judge: Matthew Rohrer. View our flyer. Full guidelines and submission details at our website.

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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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december seeks submissions for the 2024 Curt Johnson Prose Awards

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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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