Classified Genre Fiction

Home » Fiction
The Blue Mountain Review call for submissions flyer

Our Doors are Open

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…

2025 Housatonic Book Awards flyer

Submissions Open for 2025 Housatonic Book Awards

The Housatonic Book Awards are now accepting submissions of all books published in 2024. Authors or agents are welcome to submit poetry, fiction, and nonfiction manuscripts for consideration in the HBAs. All manuscripts will be reviewed by a committee and…

Orison Books updated logo

The Best Spiritual Literature Awards 2025

The 2025 Best Spiritual Literature Awards in Poetry, Fiction, & Nonfiction will award $500 and publication in Orison Books’ annual Best Spiritual Literature anthology for a single work in each genre. Judges: Yehoshua November (poetry), Athena Dixon (nonfiction), TBD (fiction).…

Sunspot Literary Magazine logo

Solar Flare contest for fiction, CNF, poem, or art

Sunspot Lit is looking for the single short story, novel or novella excerpt, artwork, graphic novel, or poem that provides a noteworthy flare of creative energy. Literary and genre works accepted. No restrictions on theme or category. Maximum of 500…

The Baltimore Review - 2024 literary magazine cover image

Baltimore Review Summer 2025 Contest

Baltimore Review Summer 2025 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…

Orison Books updated logo

The 2025 Orison Chapbook Prize

The 2025 Orison Chapbook Prize will award $300 and publication by Orison Books for a manuscript of 20–45 pages in any literary genre (poetry, fiction, nonfiction, drama, or hybrid). Orison Books founder and editor Luke Hankins will judge. Submission period:…

Palooka poster, artwork of girl diving into a lake

Palooka Seeks Chapbooks, Prose, Poetry, Artwork, Photography

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,…

cover of Gold Man Review Issue 14

Gold Man Review Open for Submissions

Gold Man Review, a West Coast Journal, is currently looking for submissions in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction for Issue 15. We are open to all topics and themes and love writing that pushes boundaries. If your work is on the…

Magazine1 logo on a gray background

Magazine1 is Open for Submissions!

Magazine1 is open for submissions for its fourth issue! We want the strange and unexpected. If you have a piece that you’re having trouble placing somewhere else, or one that doesn’t feel like the rest of what you make, send…

crop faceless woman dipping pen in inkwell

Gronk Nicandro First Book Prize

Awarded in alternate years in poetry and prose for first books by California writers. The 2025 competition invites works of prose 30,000 – 50,000 words. All forms of narrative prose are welcome: fiction, creative nonfiction, memoir, speculative, hybrid, and more.…