Glenville State University is calling for submissions for its chapbook contest. We are accepting 15-25 pages of poetry or prose that explores Appalachian culture in any of its diverse forms. We welcome poetry, fiction, nonfiction, or hybrid works. The winning entry…
The Kings River Review publishes artwork, creative nonfiction, short fiction, and poetry of current 2-year community college students. Submission Deadlines: March 15 for the spring issue and October 15 for the fall issue. Submission requirements: up to 5 pieces of…
Each issue of About Place Journal, the arts publication of the Black Earth Institute, focuses on a specific theme. From January 1st to March 10th we’ll be accepting submissions for our Spring 2025 issue Careful/Care-full Collaboration. Our mission: to have…
Discover Thorn & Bloom, the quarterly publication reimagining self-care as a powerful tool for personal and collective liberation. Share your stories, reflections, and insights that challenge societal norms and inspire autonomy, individuality, and self-worth. From personal essays to expert perspectives,…
Driftwood Press is happy to share a plethora of submission opportunities for writers and artists! Our In-House Short Fiction & Poetry Contests, in which every work submitted is considered for publication as winner or runner-up, is ending soon! For our…
The Beautiful Pause Prize is a yearly prize of $1,000 and the print publication of a full-length manuscript awarded to a writer of exceptional talent and heart. One runner-up will receive $500 and publication of a series of poems in…
The 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 nineteenth year, NIEA is a proud champion of self…
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 grade in your email and on your attached Word document.…
Superpresent is seeking submission on the theme Movement. We are looking for poetry, short stories, essays, visual art, videos, performance art, etc. based on any aspect of the word Movement. superpresent.org
A $200 prize is given for one poem or flash fiction in each issue of Cloudbank. Submissions for the Cloudbank 19 Contest are due by February 28. For full guidelines—and more—visit cloudbankbooks.com. Revive us with your fire!
Blue Mesa Review‘s annual spring contest is open for submissions now until February 28th! We publish writing that dreams, hopes, despairs, renews, dissents, disturbs, and does everything else that exceptional writing dares to do. Our guest judges are Sara Daniele Rivera…
We are a Substack publishing short fiction about anything bigger than yourself: stories about astronauts, ICU nurses, politics, protests, alternate histories, big-world calamities, juicy personal dramas and the people who experience them. Fiction with dynamic characters who do interesting things.…
People believe humans can’t move a big rock without a big machine or supernatural powers. People believe “to evolve” always means, “to get better.” And those are just some harmless ones. Science works to correct itself; technology has overrun us,…
“Hey, you got peanut butter in my chocolate!” Two things become immediately better as one. Arkana is putting together a special Hybrid issue and actively seeking submissions! We want your prose poems, your cross-genre work, and your all around experimental…
Sand Hills Literary Magazine, in print since 1973, is now open for Issue 49. We are a national publication out of Augusta, Georgia accepting works from the United States. Both emerging and established writers and artists are encouraged to submit.…
In a world that too often tests our limits, it’s hope that keeps us moving forward to find light in even the darkest moments. The Geneva Writers’ Group Literary Prize 2025 invites you to share your stories/poems about hope and…
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.…
Submit your Avant Garde/experimental poetry, art, music and film to #Ranger magazine! We accept everything. Text-based. Visual. Text-visual. Please check out the mag to see what our aesthetic is like before submitting. www.rangermagazine.net
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 ninth annual issue. We believe girls’ voices transform the world for the better. We accept…
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…
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 2025 Orison Prizes in Poetry & Fiction offer $1,500 and publication by Orison Books for a full-length manuscript in each genre. Judges: Phillip B. Williams (poetry) & Tessa Fontaine (fiction). Entry fee: $25. Entry period: December 1, 2024–April 1, 2025.…
Etchings Press, a student-run publisher at University of Indianapolis, welcomes submissions for its annual contests for a novella and chapbooks in poetry and in prose. Students are interested in editing and publishing authors in our region within 370 miles of…
Third Street Review, a quarterly online literary journal, is open for submissions from February 1 through 28. We publish fiction and creative nonfiction of up to 1000 words, poetry, and we are also looking for art and photography. Please check…
Split Rock Review is an online journal that publishes poetry, short creative nonfiction and fiction, comics, graphic narratives, cross-genre, book reviews, interviews, photography, and art that explore place, environment, and the relationship between humans and the natural world. We seek…
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…
Palooka is an international literary magazine. For over a decade we’ve featured new, up-and-coming, and established writers, artists, and photographers from around the world. We’re open to diverse forms and styles and are always seeking unique chapbooks, fiction, poetry, nonfiction,…
Plant-Human Quarterly reads year-round. We seek unpublished or published poetry and essays that explore the myriad ways writers manifest their relationship to the botanical world—whether through heavily researched pieces, keen observation, or more intuitive ways of knowing—that attempt to communicate…