Happy Friday — or as happy as a Friday the thirteenth can be.
If you’re feeling superstitious and would rather avoid today’s bad‑luck vibes by staying home with a mug of something warm, we’ve got you covered. NewPages is back with our weekly roundup of submission opportunities, plus a little spark of inspiration to get those creative juices flowing.
Inspiration Prompt: It Just Takes Time…or A Jug of Moonshine
While reading the inaugural issue of Poetry Midwest, Paul Hostovsky’s poem “Flents” stopped me in my tracks. Perhaps it’s because my own grandfather passed away this past December, but the poem’s shift in perspective felt especially resonant.
In the poem, Paul Hostovsky recalls being fascinated as a boy by his father’s “Flents”—waxy, bite-sized lumps molded to the shape of his father’s ear canals. At thirteen and a half, they were novelties, curious mementos of the man himself. It wasn’t until Hostovsky reached the age his father was when he passed away that Hostovsky’s perspective changed. He realized those Flents weren’t just objects, but shields his father used to endure the very rock music Hostovsky once blasted through the house while his father lay in bed dying.
Perspective is a living thing—rarely objective, and always subject to change.
The Challenge:
Think back on a memory or an object that has been completely redefined by time. Or, if time hasn’t done the trick, lean into the jug of moonshine approach. Write about a realization that only clicked through “thinking drinking”—a moment when everything stayed blurry, but a single truth came into sharp focus, helped along by the bottle.
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2026 Issue
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Future Archives-themed Print Issue
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Issue 24
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Payment: $60 for writing, $25 for cover art
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Fee:
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Note: Open internationally to high schoolers in grades 9-12
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Fee:
FREE
Issue 14
Genres: poetry
Fee:
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Issue 30.3
Genres: poetry
Fee:
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Issue 50
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Fee:
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Note: All submissions must use these three elements: stowaway, microphone, and wonderland
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99 Cornerstone: Poetry by Young Writers in grades K-12
Genres: poetry
Fee:
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2026 Issue
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Issue 283
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Fee:
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Fee:
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Fee:
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Spring 2026 Isse
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Fee:
FREE
“Origins” Issue
Genres: poetry, art
Fee:
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Genres: fiction, poetry, nonfiction, plays, screenplays, art
Fee:
FREE
Homegrown Issue
Genres: fiction, poetry, art
Fee:
FREE
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Chrysalis Issue
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FREE
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, book reviews
Fee:
FREE
Spring 2026 Issue
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, videos, music, sound art
Fee:
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Issue 29
Genres: poetry
Fee:
FREE
2026 Issue
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art
Fee:
FREE
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, short plays, screenplays
Fee:
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Payment: $10-$15
Issue 24
Genres: essays, interviews, translations, art
Fee:
FREE
Spring 2026 Issue
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art
Fee:
FREE
intranslatable/untranslatable
Genres: poetry
Fee:
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Note: May close early if issue fills
Visual Edition
Genres: visual poetry
Fee:
$3
Note: May close early if issue fills
April 2026 Issue
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, photography
Fee:
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Micro Issue
Genres: fiction, poetry, nonfiction, scripts, illustrated narratives, hybrid works
Fee:
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Guest Edited by Sarah Sadie
Genres: poetry
Fee:
FREE
Note: Open to Wisconsin poets only
Issue 25.1
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry
Fee:
FREE
Note: May close early if submissions cap met
Issue 10
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art
Fee:
FREE
Issue 33
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry
Fee:
FREE
Genres: poetry, fiction
Fee:
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No. 9
Genres: poetry
Fee:
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Payment: contributor copy
May 2026
Genres: poetry, essays, flash
Fee:
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Genres: prose poetry
Fee:
FREE
Chapbook Series
Genres: poetry
Fee:
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Under a Warm Green Linden
Genres: poetry
Fee:
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Issue 25
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art
Fee:
FREE
Genres: short fiction, nonfiction, graphic novel
Fee:
$5
Genres: fiction, poetry, reviews, translations, audio, video
Fee:
FREE
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry
Fee:
FREE
Payment: $25
Issue 4.3
Genres: poetry
Fee:
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Genres: lit comics
Fee:
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Summer 2026 Issue
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry
Fee:
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Genres: fiction, poetry
Fee:
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Payment: $300 for short stories and nonfiction; $100 for poetry and cover art
Winter 2026: Collaborations
Genres: iction, nonfiction, poetry, art, photography, comics, translations
Fee:
Free for first two weeks, then $3 fee
Genres: flash, micros, short-shorts
Fee:
FREE
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry
Fee:
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Fee:
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Spring 2026 Issue
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2026 Issue
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Fee:
$3
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Genres: nonfiction, hybrid work
Fee:
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Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry
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Fee:
$3
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Vol. 26
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, visual art
Fee:
FREE
General Submissions
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry
Fee:
$3.50
Genres: poetry, short-shorts, visual essays
Fee:
FREE
Tribute to the Future
Genres: poetry
Fee:
FREE
Payment: $200 and 1-year subscription
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry
Fee:
FREE
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry
Fee:
$3
Payment: contributor copies
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, hybrid, cross-genre, art
Fee:
FREE
Genres: fiction, nonfiction
Fee:
FREE
Payment: $50
Genres: experimental/avant-garde poetry, art, music, film
Fee:
FREE
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Genres: fiction, poetry, book reviews, art
Fee:
$3
Issue 32: Love the World Anyway
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, photography
Fee:
$5 (Free for high school students)
Genres: poetry
Fee:
FREE
Payment: one copy
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, book reviews
Fee:
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Payment: $50 per printed page for prose and $4 per line for poetry, up to $800, two copies
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Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, photography
Fee:
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Payment: One Copy
Note: Writers must have a connection to the Midwest
Proximity: A Portfolio of Writing and Art by Women of Color
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, visual art
Fee:
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General Submissions
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry
Fee:
FREE
Payment: $50
Immigrant Writing Series
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, hybrid texts
Fee:
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2026 Issue
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, photography
Fee:
FREE
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Spring 2026
Genres: fiction, poetry
Fee:
$3
Payment: $100 (long-form prose), $40 (short prose), $20 per poem
2026 All-Star Issue
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry
Fee:
$3
Payment: $15-$25 honorarium
Open Reading Period
Genres: poetry, reviews, essays
Fee:
FREE
Fast-Track
Genres: poetry
Fee:
$3.75
Payment: Two copies
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, cross-genre, comics, graphic narratives, translations
Fee:
FREE
Note: Open to queer writers
Genres: prose, poetry, music, visual art
Fee:
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Genres: nonfiction
Fee:
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Payment: $45
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, photography, art
Fee:
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Fee:
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Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry
Fee:
$3
Genres: fiction, poetry, comics, graphic novel, short story collections, art, photography
Fee:
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Fee:
FREE
Genres: fiction
Fee:
FREE
Genres: horror fiction
Fee:
FREE
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, cross-genre
Fee:
FREE
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, scripts, writing for children and young adults
Fee:
FREE
Genres: poetry, flash fiction
Fee:
FREE
Genres: creative nonfiction, poetry, art
Fee:
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Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry
Fee:
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Genres: fiction, translations
Fee:
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Fee:
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Payment: None specified
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Fee:
FREE
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry
Fee:
$4
Payment: $25/printed page
Genres: current-events poetry
Fee:
FREE
Magazine & chapbook submissions
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, photography, graphic narratives, comics
Fee:
$3 (magazine) $8 (chapbooks)
Payment: copies (magazine) | $200 honorarium and 20 copies of chapbook
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry
Fee:
FREE
Note: Submissions may close if quota is reached
Genres: poetry, essays
Fee:
FREE
Genres: poetry, art
Fee:
FREE
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