Calling all storytellers! Got a funny story or touching personal essay? The Erma Bombeck Writing Competition is accepting 450-word, previously unpublished submissions through Jan. 6. First-place winners will receive $1,000, free registration to the sold-out Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop (March…
Palooka is a global literary magazine of daring prose, art, photography, comics, and chapbooks drawn exclusively from unsolicited submissions. We champion underdog voices, read anonymously, and only publish what we love. Bold voices. Brave stories. palookamag.com
Based in Baltimore, Feels Blind Literary is amped for AWP 2026! To show off our hospitality, we’re planning an offsite bash to launch FBL’s lucky Issue #13, but we need your plays, cnf, fiction, and art to fill this issue…
The swamp pink Prizes award $2,000 and publication to a story, essay, and poem. From January 1 to 31, submit a story or essay of up to 25 pages or a set of 1–3 poems via Submittable. Judges for each…
The National Baseball Poetry Festival invites submissions of poems that deal with any aspect of the gamesmanship, nature, and atmosphere of Baseball and/or Softball, for example: opening day, ballpark food, childhood memories, first pitch, athletic heroes, uniforms, ball parks, Little…
Girls Right the World is a literary journal inviting girls and young, gender-expansive writers and artists, ages 14–21, to submit work for consideration for the tenth annual issue. We believe girls’ voices transform the world for the better. We accept…
Submissions are now being accepted for the 12th Saroyan Prize. The awards, co-sponsored by Stanford University Libraries and the William Saroyan Foundation, are intended to encourage new or emerging writers and honor the Saroyan legacy of originality, vitality, and stylistic innovation.…
Write Hook is a weekly, fight-night style writing contest where anyone can take a swing.
Glenville State University is calling for submissions for its annual chapbook contest. We are accepting 15-25 pages of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, or hybrid works that explore Appalachian culture in any of its diverse forms. The winning entry will receive a…
The 2026 National Indie Excellence© Awards (NIEA) are open to all English language printed books currently for sale including self-published authors, small to midsize independent publishers, and university presses. Now in our twentieth year, NIEA is a proud champion of…
Driftwood Press’ In-House Short Fiction & Poetry Contests, in which every work submitted is considered for publication as winner or runner-up, is here! For our yearly print anthology, we are looking for poems, short stories, comics, and visual art that…
Extreme geological forces of nature make our Earth something like a gigantic trash compactor. Physical evidence of anything at all doesn’t last long. This and the great age of the planet might imply that civilizations as advanced or even more…
The Santa Clara Review publishes a wide variety of work from all over the world. Our magazine is open to all and is especially interested in writing and art from Black writers, Indigenous writers, LGBT+ writers, and writers of color.…
JackLeg Press seeks bold, vibrant, authentic writers. Is that you? We’d love to find out. We focus on poetry, short fiction collections, select novels & creative nonfiction. Query us today! jacklegpress.submittable.com/submit
The 2026 Orison Prizes in Poetry & Fiction offer $1,500 and publication by Orison Books for a full-length manuscript in each genre. Judges: Leila Chatti (poetry) and Margot Livesey (fiction). Entry fee: $25. Entry period: December 1, 2025–April 1, 2026.…
The Letter Review Prize for Short Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, & Books. Prizes: 12-16 winners share $4000 USD prize pool and are published. 80 writers shortlisted. All entries considered for publication and submission to further anthologies such as The Pushcart Prize.…
ISSUED, a journal of veteran and military-affiliated creative writing at Arizona State University, is looking for poetry and flash prose by active-duty military, veterans, and family members that expresses the spectrum of experiences within military life—e.g. gender and sexuality, BIPOC…
Awarded to an outstanding, unpublished collection of stories. Reading Fee: $30. Award: publication, $1,000 advance, 53 copies. If runner-up is named, publication, $500 advance, 25 copies. Submit online via Submittable until December 31. Press 53 publisher Kevin Morgan Watson will…
Magazine1 is proud to host the Poetry Contest for Sarasota’s PoetryLife 2026. This contest hopes to find the poems that represent what we think of as the best of the poetic form – bold language, bravery in form and content,…
Manuscripts of 50-100 pages of poetry will be accepted until December 31, 2025 for the Burnside Review Press Book Contest. Rick Barot will judge. The winning book will be published by Burnside Review Press in 2027. The author will receive…
For the Roanoke College High School Fiction and Poetry Contest, send one story up to 5,000 words, and/or up to three poems. First Place: $100, Second Place: $50, Third Place: $25. Include your name, address, phone number, high school, and…
Calling indie authors of mystery, thriller, and suspense: The Indie Gold Awards is now open for entries. Win a $500 prize, exposure across media platforms, and promotion opportunities. Multiple categories for novels and short fiction. Open to all independently published…
For this year’s contest, we want to see stories, essays, and poems that center work and/or labor. We’re interested in pieces from any and all genres, from real workplace experiences to those of space station crews or laborers in high-fantasy…
RCC MUSE is now accepting general submissions for the Spring 2026 edition and poetry submissions for the Spangler Award. For the Spangler Award—Submit up to 3 poems about a child or childhood for a chance to win $200 and publication in the Spring…
The Blue Mountain Review launched from Athens, Georgia in 2015 with the mantra, “We’re all south of somewhere.” As a journal of culture, the BMR strives to represent all life through its stories. Stories are vital to our survival. What…
Since 2005, The New Verse News has covered the news of the day with poems on issues, large and small, international and local. It relies on the submission of poems (especially those of a politically progressive bent) by writers from…