Money. Is it the root of all evil or a reward for solving problems? If you build a better mousetrap will money beat a path to your door? Joan Rivers said, “Money isn’t the key to happiness but I always…
The 2024 Press 53 Award for Short Fiction will be awarded to an outstanding, unpublished collection of short stories. Reading Fee: $30. Award: $1,000 cash advance, publication, and 53 copies. To Enter: Submit online with Submittable or by mail from…
Send your best flash fiction, flash nonfiction, lyric essays, art, and prose poetry to Club Plum as we bring in the new year and the fifth volume of our beloved little treasure of a journal that always surprises. Send us…
For this year’s contest, we want submitters to go wild—or domesticated, or sentient, or whatever other form of beastly you’re feeling. Submissions should feature some kind of animal that is integral to the story. Note that this doesn’t need to…
Formerly known as the Crazyhorse Prizes, 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…
Ploughshares‘ regular reading period is open until January 15, 2024. We accept fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, including translations. See our guidelines and how to submit here. Current subscribers submit for free!
The 2024 Orison Prizes in Poetry & Fiction offer $1,500 and publication by Orison Books for a full-length manuscript in each genre. Judges: Ellen Bass (poetry), Kaveh Akbar (fiction). Entry fee: $25. Entry period: December 1, 2023–April 1, 2024. For…
Sky Island Journal is an independent, international, free-access, quarterly literary journal publishing the finest poetry, flash fiction, and creative nonfiction. Accomplished, well-established authors appear side-by-side with fresh, emerging voices. We provide over 125,000 readers in 145 countries with a powerful,…
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,…
Submissions are now being accepted for the 11th Saroyan Prize. The awards, co-sponsored by Stanford 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.…
#Ranger Magazine is seeking all forms of experimental writing, art, photography, and poetry (i.e. anything completely undefinable and/or uncategorizable). We publish work no mainstream outfit will touch, and give voice to the weird, wacky, and self-indulgent. Please submit your work…
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…
We need work that explores or attempts to define or takes a unique perspective on a piece of culture. A slice of culture. A piece of us—of the human condition—of the world we live in—of the people around us—the person…
Jokes Review is a literary journal based in Northern California. We’re currently seeking surprising, eclectic works of fiction, poetry, and visual art, particularly works that have elements of collage, works that could be considered “found art,” or works that use…
Driftwood Press is happy to share a plethora of submission opportunities for writers and artists! Our In-House Short Fiction & Poem Contests, in which every work submitted is considered for publication as winner or runner-up, is ending soon! For our yearly…
table//FEAST Literary Magazine is seeking the following types of work for publication in issue three (which will be a limited print run): poetry, translations in poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and visual art. We are a paying lit mag. We seek…
The Sucarnochee Review at the University of West Alabama is open for submissions of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. NO fee to submit and we are open to any style. Send no more than 5 poems or 25 pages of prose…
great weather for MEDIA seeks poetry, flash fiction, short stories, dramatic monologues, creative nonfiction, and cross-genre for our annual print anthology. Our focus is on the unpredictable and experimental. Please visit our website for guidelines. We look forward to reading…
The Awakenings Review is an award-winning literary magazine committed to publishing poetry, short stories, nonfiction, and photography by writers and poets who write from experience with mental illness: either in themselves, family members, or friends. Located in the Chicago area…
Allium, A Journal of Poetry & Prose publishes three issues each year: two online issues (Fall and Summer) and one print issue (Spring). Allium accepts simultaneous submissions, requests a maximum page length of five pages for poetry, fifteen pages (3,750…
This special issue of Rejoinder addresses the power and politics of the archive as an object of fascination for feminist/queer scholars and activists. We invite interdisciplinary submissions that address the “archival turn” in feminist and queer studies. Submissions may include essays,…
MUSE is especially looking to publish work from under- or misrepresented groups, such as people of color, disabled people, LGBTQ+, present/formerly incarcerated people, and others from a culturally and linguistically diverse background. Through DEC. 15: submit one short story or…
We are OPEN TO SUBMISSIONS! Send us your best poetry, fiction, and nonfiction! Check our website doublymad.org for submission details. Please send all work to our email address: [email protected]. We do not charge reading fees and try to respond within three months.…
Decolonial Passage seeks prose for our literary magazine. We publish on a rolling basis, and currently, we are interested in publishing short stories, flash fiction, creative nonfiction—personal essays, memoir, flash nonfiction, braided essays, lyrical essays, etc. We publish writing from…
Dark Onus Lit is an experimental micro-zine. We host two submission periods each year. The first is January 1 through June 15. The second is July 1 through December 15. We publish micro-issues of poetry, flash fiction, short stories, artwork,…
Emerald City seeks fiction for our upcoming issues. We are a quarterly online fiction magazine that publishes traditional short stories, flash fiction, and hybrid works. We believe fiction is a necessary part of life; captivating storytelling transports us to other…
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 eighth 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 Twin Bill, a baseball literary journal, is open for submissions for their annual contest for best baseball fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. The winner in each category will receive $100 and an engraved baseball trophy. The runners-up will receive…