Where to Submit Roundup: April 5, 2024

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

Welcome to the first where to submit roundup for April 2024! The beginning of the month always brings in fresh, new opportunities, doesn’t it? Hard to believe we are a quarter way through the year already. I hope your submission goals are still going strong…I still haven’t started any of mine yet. I have been reading a lot of helpful articles of late and it makes me even more scared to attempt the submission process. But fortune favors the bold…or the brave…or is it both?

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Calls for Submissions

Don’t forget to check out our Guide to Submission Opportunities where you can get more information about these calls for submissions. And if you have young writers from elementary to high school age, don’t forget to check out the Young Writers Guide.

Voyage of Verse. Inaugural Issue. Poetry. No fee. Deadline: April 14, 2024. *Open to students in grades 9-12.*

Blink-Ink. Issue #56 “Addicted to Love.” Fiction. No fee. Deadline: April 15, 2024.

Consequence. Spring 2024 Reading Period. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, graphic narratives, interviews, translations, art, photography. No fee. Paying market. Deadline: April 15, 2024.

Syncopation Literary Journal. Volume 3, Issue 2: Paris. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry. No fee. Deadline: April 16, 2024.

Cloudbank. Issue 18. Flash fiction, poetry. $3 fee (free for postal submissions). Deadline: April 30, 2024.

Creative Cosmos. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art. No fee. Deadline: April 30, 2024.

The Pensieve. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry. No fee. Deadline: April 30, 2024

Heron Tree. Volume 11. Poetry. No fee. Deadline: May 1, 2024.

Bloodletter. Issue Three: Hysteria. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, cross-genre, interviews, reviews, translations, art. No fee. Deadline: May 7, 2024.

Magazine1. Issue 2. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, cross-genre, drama, graphic narratives, screenplays, translations, art, photography, audio, video. $5 fee. Deadline: May 31, 2024.

Oyster River Pages. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, interviews, reviews, translations, art, photography. No fee. Deadline: May 31, 2024.

Red Shoe Press. 2024 Oregon Poetry Calendar. Poetry. No fee. Deadline: May 31, 2024. * Must be a resident of Oregon to submit.*

UReCA. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art. No fee. Deadline: June 1, 2024. *Undergraduate students only*

Gold Man Review. Issue 14. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry. No fee. Deadline: June 23, 2024.
*Open to writers residing in OR, AK, HI, CA, WA.*

Able Muse. Winter 2024/2025 Issue. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, interviews, reviews, translations, art, photography. No fee. Deadline: July 15, 2024.

Adanna Literary Journal. Women in the News/Women on the News Feature. Nonfiction, comics, interviews, reviews. No fee. Deadline: Year-round.

bioStories. Creative nonfiction. No fee. Deadline: Year-round.

Blue Mountain Review. Prose, poetry, music, visual art. $5 fee. Deadline: Year-round.

Driftwood Press. Fiction, novellas, poetry collections, comics, graphic novels, art, photography, short comics, poetry. Fees vary. Paying market. Deadline: Year-round.

Jewish Fiction .net. Fiction, translations. No fee. Deadline: Year-round.

New Verse News. Current events poetry. No fee. Deadline: Year-round.

Palooka. Chapbook manuscripts, fiction, poetry, nonfiction, art, photography, graphic narratives, comic strips. $3 fee (magazine submissions); $8 fee (chapbook submissions). Payment: Copies. Deadline: Year-round.

Yearling. Poetry. No fee for 1 poem. Deadline: Year-round.

Writing Contests

If you’d like a little more information on several of the contests below, don’t forget to follow our Guide to Submission Opportunities throughout the week. Find even more contests in our vetted Big List of Writing Contests. NewPages also vets and curates a list of contests for elementary through high school aged writers in our Young Writers Guide.

Orison Books. Orison Prizes. Fiction, poetry. $25 fee. Prize/genre: $1,500 and book publication. Judges: Ellen Bass, Kaveh Akbar. Deadline: April 4, 2024.

Fall for the Book/Institute for Immigration Research. New American Voices Award for Immigrant Writers. Fiction, nonfiction. $20 fee. Grand Prize: $5,000. Extended Deadline: April 5, 2024.

Able Muse. Book Award. Poetry. $25 fee. Prize: $1,000 and book publication. Final Judge: Timothy Steele. Extended Deadline: April 8, 2024.

Switchback Books. 2024 Gatewood Prize. Full-length Poetry Collection. $20 fee ($25 includes a book from their catalog). Prize: Publication, marketing, promotion, 30 author copies. Judge: Emilia Phillips. Extended Deadline: April 15, 2024.

The Headlight Review. Anthony Grooms Prize in Short Fiction. Fiction. $10 fee. Prize: $250, publication, 25 copies of the story. Final judge: Gray Stewart. Deadline: April 15, 2024.

Lily Poetry Review Books. Paul Nemser Book Prize. Poetry. $25 fee. Prize: $500 and book publication. Deadline: April 15, 2024.

Passager. Writers Over 50 Poetry Contest. Poetry. $20 fee. Prize: $1,000 and publication. Deadline: April 15, 2024.

Creative Writing NZ. The Creative Writing NZ Short Story Prize 2024. Fiction. $9 fee. Prize: $1,000, online publication, free online course. Deadline: April 30, 2024.

Friends of Falun Gong. 2024 Poetry Competition. Poetry. No fee. Prize: $500 and publication. Deadline: April 30, 2024.

Storm Cellar. Force Majeure Flash Contest. Fiction, nonfiction, comics, cross-genre, drama, graphic narratives. $6 fee (no-fee options available). $500 in prizes and publication. Deadline: April 30, 2024.

Sunspot Lit. Goldilocks Zone. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, graphic novels, drama, screenplay. $10 fee. Prize: $500 and publication. Deadline: April 30, 2024.

LIGHT. Issue 4. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, graphic narratives, art, photography. $10 fee. Prize/category: $500 and publication. Deadline: May 1, 2024.

Winning Writers. Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest. Fiction, nonfiction. $22 fee. Prize: $3,500/genre and online publication. Final judge: Mina Manchester. Deadline: May 1, 2024.

Leapfrog Press. Leapfrog Global Fiction Prize. Fiction. $35 fee. Prize: Cash advance and book publication. Deadline: May 5, 2024.

New Letters. Literary Awards. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, graphic narratives. $24 fee (includes 1-year subscription). Prize/genre: $2,500 and publication. Deadline: May 20, 2024

Baltimore Review. Summer Contest. Flash fiction, flash creative nonfiction, prose poetry. $8 fee. Prize/category: $400 and publication. Final judge: Kathy Flann. Deadline: May 31, 2024.

Flying South. 2024 Writing Contest. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry. $25 fee ($15 for members of Winston Salem Writers). First Prize/category: $400 and publication. Deadline: May 31, 2024.

The MacGuffin. Poet Hunt 29. Poetry. $15 fee. Prize: $500 and publication. Guest judge: Michael Meyerhofer. Deadline: June 15, 2024.

Vine Leaves Press. International Voices in Creative Nonfiction Competition. Nonfiction. $25 fee. Prize: $1,000 and book publication in 2026. Deadline: July 1, 2024.

Driftwood Press. The Adrift Chapbook Competition. Poetry. $25 fee. Prize: $750, publication, 20 author copies. Guest judge: Diane Seuss. Deadline: July 15, 2024.

Driftwood Press. The Adrift Short Story Competition. Fiction. $30 fee. Prize: $500, publication, 10 author copies. Guest judge: Dean Bakopoulos. Deadline: July 15, 2024.

Press 53. Award for Poetry. Poetry. $30 fee. Prize: $1,000 cash advance, publication, and 53 author copies. Judge: Tom Lombardo. Deadline: July 31, 2024.