50 Submission Opportunities including calls for submissions, writing contests, and book prizes.
It is Friday and crazy weather has run rampant this week with bad rainstorms, ice storms, and snowstorms sweeping across the country. Now is a perfect time to stay indoors and write, write, write. . . and submit! NewPages is here to help you reach your submission goals with our weekly roundup of submission opportunities. As today is the fourteenth, there are a lot of calls and contests with February 15 deadlines. Don’t miss out!
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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.
Arkana. Special Issue. Hybrid works. No fee. Deadline: February 15, 2025 for fullest consideration.
Santa Clara Review. Spring 2025 Issue. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, cross-genre, drama/playwriting, screenplays/screenwriting, translations, art, photography. $2 fee. Deadline: February 15, 2025.
Thorn & Bloom. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, cross-genre, graphic narratives. No fee. Deadline: February 15, 2025.
Applause Literary Journal. Unnatural States themed work. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, photography. No fee. Deadline: February 28, 2025.
KUDU. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, cross-genre, drama, graphic narratives, screenplays, interviews, reviews, translations, art, photography. No fee. Deadline: February 28, 2025. *Open to South African poets, writers, & artists at home & abroad.*
Third Street Review. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, photography. $3 fee. Payment: $25. Deadline: February 28, 2025.
Wordrunner eChapbooks. 2025 Anthology. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry. $3 fee. Payment: $10 – $25. Deadline: February 28, 2025.
Sand Hills Literary Magazine. Issue 49. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, cross-genre, graphic narratives, art, photography. $3 fee. Deadline: March 1, 2025.
About Place Journal. Careful/Care-full Collaboration. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, cross-genre, drama, graphic narratives, screenplays, interviews, reviews, translations, art, photography, audio, video. No fee. Deadline: March 10, 2025.
South 85. Themed Issue: Borders-Boundaries-Lines. Fiction, flash, creative nonfiction, poetry. $3 fee. Deadline: March 10, 2025.
#Ranger. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry cross-genre, art, audio, video. No fee. Deadline: March 15, 2025.
The Branches Journal. Growth-themed issue. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, cross-genre, drama, graphic narratives, screenplays, reviews, art, photography. No fee. Deadline: March 15, 2025.
Kings River Review. Fall 2024 Issue. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, screenplays, translations, art. No fee. Deadline: March 15, 2025. *Must be a 2-year college student.*
National Baseball Poetry Festival. Poetry. No fee. Youth Prize: Certificate, t-shirt, invite to read poem at the festival. Adult Prize: 2 complimentary game tickets, certificate, & t-shirt. Deadline: March 28, 2025.
DuFrank Lit. Fiction. No fee. Deadline: March 31, 2025.
Rockvale Review. Issue 14. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art. $3 fee. Deadline: March 31, 2025.
Sky Island Journal. Issue 31. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, cross-genre, translations. $4.99 fee (waivers available). Deadline: March 31, 2025.
Superpresent. Movement-themed Issue. fiction, nonfiction, poetry, graphic narratives, translations, art, photography, audio, video. No fee. Deadline: March 31, 2025.
Oyster River Pages. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, interviews, reviews, translations, art, photography. No fee. Deadline: May 1, 2025.
Blue Mountain Review. Prose, poetry, music, visual art. $5 fee. Deadline: Year-round.
The Capra Review. Fiction, nonfiction, cross-genre, art, photography, video. No fee. Deadline: Year-round.
Driftwood Press. Fiction, poetry, comics, visual art, novellas, poetry collections, comic collections, graphic novels. Fees vary. Paying market. Deadline: Year-round.
Feels Blind Literary. Fiction, nonfiction, comics, cross-genre, graphic narratives, translations, art, photography. $3 fee (free submissions on Monday). Deadline: Rolling.
Jewish Fiction (formerly Jewish Fiction .net). Spring & Fall Issues. Fiction, translation. No fee. Deadline: Rolling.
Kaleidoscope. Articles, fiction, poetry, nonfiction, book reviews, visual art. No fee. Payment: $10-$100. Deadline: Year-round.
Mande: A Journal of Bipolar Talent. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, interviews, reviews, translations, art, photography. No fee. Payment: $50 – $250. 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.
Plant-Human Quarterly. Nonfiction, poetry. No fee. Deadline: Year-round.
The Shade Chronicles Podcast. Horror fiction, science fiction. No fee. Deadline: Unspecified.
Works Progress. Fiction. No fee. 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.
Blue Mesa Review. Spring Contest. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, photography. $15 fee. First Prize: $500/genre and publication. Judges: Sara Daniele Rivera, Fernando Flores, Jenn Shapland. Deadline: February 28, 2025.
Sunspot Lit. Rigel Contest. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, cross-genre, drama, graphic narratives, screenplays, interviews, reviews, art, photography. $5 fee. Prize: $100 and publication. Deadline: February 28, 2025.
Cloudbank 19 Contest. Fiction, poetry. $15 fee. Prize: $200 and publication. Extended Deadline: March 15, 2025.
table//FEAST Literary Magazine. Nano & Micro Contest for Women Writers. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry. $3 fee (fee waiver available). Prize: $50/genre and publication. Deadline: March 1, 2025.
table//FEAST Literary Magazine. Translations Prizes in Poetry & Prose. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translation. $10 fee (fee waiver available). Prize/category: $250. Deadline: March 1, 2025
Bardsy. 2025 Winter Anthology Contest. First chapters. $20 fee. Grand Prize: $1,000 and anthology publication. Deadline: March 3, 2025.
Tennessee Williams Key West Festival. Tennessee Williams Poetry & Short Story Contests. Fiction, poetry. $10 fee. First Prize: $300. Deadline: March 9, 2025.
Black Fox Literary Magazine. Black Fox Prize: Rise or Ruin. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry. $12 fee. Prize: $325 and print publication. Deadline: March 30, 2025.
Glenville State University. Chapbook Contest. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, cross-genre. $10 fee. Prize: $200, publication, author copies, digital ebook file, invite to be a featured reader at the Little Kanawha Reading Series. Deadline: March 31, 2025.
National Indie Excellence Awards. Published Books. Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Art, Photography, Comics, Graphic Novels. $75 fee. Prize: Cash awards & sponsorship prizes. Deadline: March 31, 2025. *Books must be independently or self-published to enter.*
Prime Number Magazine. Prime Number Magazine Awards. Fiction, poetry. $15 fee. Prize/genre: $1,000 and publication. Judges: Molly Rice, Dennis McFadden. Deadline: March 31, 2025.
Orison Books. 2025 Orison Prizes. Fiction, poetry. $25 fee. Prize/genre: $1,500 and book publication. Judges: Phillip B. Williams, Tessa Fontaine. Deadline: April 1, 2025.
Fall for the Book. New American Voices Award. Fiction, nonfiction. $20 fee. Prize: $5,000 (winner), $1,000 (2 finalists). Deadline: April 7, 2025.
Press Pause Press. 2025 Beautiful Pause Prize. Poetry collections. $25 fee. Prize: $1,000 and print publication. Deadline: May 1, 2025.
Santa Clara Review. Flash Takes Flight. Fiction, nonfiction. $10 fee. Prize: $200 and publication. Deadline: May 2, 2025.
New Letters. Conger Beasley Jr. Award. Nonfiction. $24 fee. Prize: $2,500 and publication. Deadline: May 20, 2025.
New Letters. Patricia Cleary Miller Award. Poetry. $24 fee. Prize: $2,500 and publication. Deadline: May 20, 2025.
New Letters. Robert Day Award. Fiction. $24 fee. Prize: $2,500 and publication. Deadline: May 20, 2025.
Livingston Press. Changing Light Prize for a Novel-in-Verse. Fiction. No fee. Prize: $500, book publication, and copies. Deadline: May 25, 2025.
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