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Club Plum Seeks Works for January 2024 Issue

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…

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After Happy Hour Contest (Theme: Animals)

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…

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Sky Island Journal: Issue 27 Call for Submissions

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,…

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2024 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing

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.…

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Midnight Mind Magazine is Back after a 20-year Break

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…

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table//FEAST Literary magazine seeks work for issue three!

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…

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The Sucarnochee Review Open for Submissions

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…

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Call for Submissions – great weather for MEDIA

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…

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Exploration and Recovery: Mental Illness and The Awakenings Review

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…

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Open Call for Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, & Craft Essays

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…

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Rejoinder Call for Submissions – The Archival is Political

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,…

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Doubly Mad Reading Period Open Now!

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.…

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Decolonial Passage Seeks Prose

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…

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Girls Right the World Issue Eight Call for Submissions

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…

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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…

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The Twin Bill’s Second Annual Baseball Lit Contest

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…