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…
Gold Man Review, a West Coast Journal, is currently looking for submissions in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction for Issue 14. We are open to all topics and themes and love writing that pushes boundaries. If your work is on the…
Oyster River Pages is a literary and artistic collective seeking submissions for our annual issue that stretch creative and social boundaries. In addition to submissions of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and visual arts, we also seek to promote new voices…
Launched in 2022, Bass Clef Books is a small, independent press based in the heartland of Kentucky, USA. BCB’s mission is to promote contemporary works of writing that would be essential to the growth of creative language crafts from a…
New Letters invites you to submit a short story, essay, or poems to the New Letters Literary Awards. Winners in each genre receive $2,500 and publication in New Letters. All entries are considered for publication and must be unpublished. Winners…
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…
Passager, a nonprofit literary press for writers over 50, is accepting submissions for its annual poetry contest. The winning poet receives $1000, publication of several poems and a featured interview in the upcoming issue of Passager journal. Honorable mentions are…
Superpresent is seeking submissions on the theme Zing! We are seeking poetry, short stories, essays, asemic writing, experimental art, video, sound art, and all other forms of visual art. superpresent.org
Swan Scythe Press announces its 2024 poetry chapbook contest. Entry fee: $18. We are accepting submissions from March 1 to June 15 (postmark deadline). Winner receives $200 and 25 perfect-bound chapbooks. The 2023 winner is Gail Wronsky for Some Disenfranchised…
The Loraine Williams Poetry Prize, judged this year by Cole Swensen, is an award for a single poem to be published in The Georgia Review. The winner will receive an honorarium of $1,500. Submissions to be considered must be sent…
The Cow Creek Chapbook Prize is a poetry chapbook contest brought to you by Pittsburg State University. We’re open to all styles and subjects. As long as the poems challenge and capture the imagination, we want to see them. The…
The Creative Writing NZ Short Story Prize is open for international entries until 30th April 2024. Entries can be any theme or genre but must not exceed 3,000 words. They should also be written in English. 1st prize is $1,000,…
Small presses have potential for significant impact, and at Vine Leaves Press, we take this responsibility quite seriously. It is our responsibility to give marginalized groups the opportunity to establish literary legacies that feel rich and vast. Why? To sustain…
Able Muse is now accepting submissions for our forthcoming issue, winter 2024 Submit poetry, fiction, essays, book reviews, art, and photography. Submission opens yearly January 1 and closes July 15. Read our guidelines and submit at www.ablemuse.com
Magazine1 is searching for submissions of all kinds for its second issue. We want work that pushes the boundaries of our traditional understandings. This can mean pieces that push the limits of form, or pieces that push the limits of…
Driftwood Press is happy to share a plethora of submission opportunities for writers and artists! Our Adrift Short Fiction & Poetry Chapbook Contests, in which every work submitted is considered for publication as winner or runner-up, is ending soon! For our…
We are new SF-based poetry journal and small press currently seeking submissions of poetry, reviews, and interviews. We are also looking for submissions for our “Audio Library”. Submissions are open year-round and are always free. Chapbook series to launch in…
The Ghost Peach Press Prize in Poetry seeks a full-length poetry collection of 48-90 pages and offers a cash prize of $1,000 as well as ten copies of the published book. All entries will first be read by Ghost Peach…
The Hamilton Stone Review is open for poetry and prose submissions for the Spring 2024 Issue #50 from April 9, 2024 through April 30, 2024. Submissions will, however, close early if the issue fills. Poetry submissions should be e-mailed only…
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Leapfrog Press invites you to submit your manuscript to the Leapfrog Global Fiction Prize. Winning titles will be published with Leapfrog Press; finalists receive $150 prize; semi-finalists and honourable mentions receive acknowledgement and listing on our website. The prize accepts…
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,…
$1,000 advance, publication by Press 53 as a Tom Lombardo Poetry Selection, and 53 copies awarded to an outstanding, unpublished poetry manuscript of approximately 50-120 pages. If a Runner-Up is also selected: $500 advance, publication by Press 53 as a…
Authors and artists eligible. Sunspot Lit is looking for the perfect combination of craft and appeal. The contest is open to stories, CNF, novel or novella excerpts, artwork, graphic novels, and poems. Literary and genre works accepted. Runners-up and finalists…
Baltimore Review Summer Contest – No theme! Flash fiction and CNF. Prose poems. One, two, or three works in a single submission, but no more than 1,000 words total. We want to wonder at how you abracadabra so few words…
The MacGuffin’s Poet Hunt 29 awards a $500 grand prize and publication! Up to two Honorable Mentions also published. Guest Judge Michael Meyerhofer will make the final selections. Entrants receive one copy of the issue containing the selected poems. Send…
Force Majeure: a great and unexpected power. We’re seeking the best small things in any genre, any form. Flash is: under 1000 words & 5 pages, contains any combination of letters, marks, or images, and is inventive affectively, linguistically, formally.…
Until 1 May we are accepting found poetry submissions for Heron Tree Volume 11. There is no fee to submit. Please see our submission guidelines at herontree.com
32nd year, sponsored by Winning Writers, co-sponsored by Duotrope, and recommended by Reedsy. Submit published or unpublished work online to win $3,500 for the best story and $3,500 for the best essay. Ten Honorable Mentions will receive $300 each. Length…
Jewish Fiction .net, a prestigious literary journal, invites submissions for its Fall and Winter issues. We are the only English-language journal devoted exclusively to publishing Jewish fiction, and we showcase the finest contemporary Jewish-themed writing (either written in, or translated…
The Pensieve is seeking fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry from emerging writers. We believe that when an author has artfully constructed a literary work, the readers can become immersed—almost unconsciously—in the world and life the author has conjured through mere…
$2,100 in prizes. From March 1 to May 31, Flying South 2024, a publication of Winston Salem Writers, will be accepting entries for this year’s contest. There will be three categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry. In each of the three…
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…
Bloodletter is a feminist horror magazine showcasing personal and analytical perspectives on the horrific by women, trans, and non-binary writers. At Bloodletter, the definition of horror is expansive, cooperative, and inclusive. Bloodletter offers an exploratory space for writers to share their…
New monthly digital magazine, Creative Cosmos, seeking submissions of short fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and original artwork. Creative Cosmos challenges mainstream narratives and champions the power of intuition, creativity, and high sensitivity as essential forces for self-understanding and positive change.…