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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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Submit to Clinch — A Martial Arts Literary Magazine!

Clinch — A Martial Arts Literary Magazine, is now OPEN for Issue IV submissions through October 1st! We are a paying publication that seeks to showcase surprising works, and submissions do not have to mention the martial arts—though we prefer…

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The 2023 Orison Chapbook Prize

The 2023 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:…

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Submit to the 2024 BLR Literary Prizes

Bellevue Literary Review’s annual prizes recognize exceptional writing about health, healing, illness, the body, and the mind. Winners will be published in the spring 2024 issue of BLR. For each genre, first prize is $1,000 and honorable mention is $300.…

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#Ranger Magazine Seeks Experimental Writing, Art, and Poetry

#Ranger Magazine is seeking all forms of experimental writing, art and poetry (i.e. anything completely undefinable and/or uncategorizable). We publish work no mainstream outfit will touch, and give voice to the weird, whacky and self-indulgent. At #Ranger, we are happily…

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Feedback for Prose, Poetry, Graphic Novel

Need feedback? Sunspot Lit provides concrete, actionable comments for your poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Literary and mainstream prose and graphic novel writers join forces with Laine Cunningham, an award-winning author and Sunspot’s senior editor. Authors of fantasy, romance, YA, and…

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Sky Island Journal: Issue 25 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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Main Street Rag Announces Open Season!!!

Main Street Rag will be open for submission of book length manuscripts in the prose genres of novels, novellas, short story collections, and creative nonfiction from May 1 through June 15. There is a reading fee. View our full submission…

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Wordrunner eChapbooks Seeks Prose Mini-Collections

Wordrunner eChapbooks will select one fiction and one nonfiction mini-collection for our 2023 e-Chapbook series, to be published in August and December, online and as epubs. We are looking for emotional complexity and nuanced characters in our collections. Prose pieces…

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Call for Writers: Tell Us a Fire Story.

The Confluence Lab seeks submissions for a forthcoming book, Stories of Fire: An Atlas of Pacific Northwest Climate Justice. How are you orienting to the impacts of wildfire? How are you “mapping” your experiences of fire? We welcome essays, textual…

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Submit Now to Able Muse (Poetry, Fiction, Essays & More)

Able Muse is now accepting submissions for our forthcoming issue, Winter 2023 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

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Plant-Human Quarterly Seeks Poems and Essays for Upcoming Issues

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…

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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 13. We are open to all topics and themes and love writing that pushes boundaries. If your work is on the…

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Call for Submissions: Jokes Literary Review

Jokes Review is a literary journal based in Northern California. Submit your most fun fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and art for our next issue. We want writing that overflows with personality and doesn’t skimp on the entertainment value. Things we…

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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, poets, and artists who have had experience with mental illness: either in themselves, family members, or friends. Located in the Chicago…

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Engaging Passion Projects of Excellence and/or Intellect Wanted!

The Mad Duck Coalition publishing house is a haven for the intellectually curious. We are interested in unique ideas, excellent observations, and engaging prose. Buzz words we love: experimental, innovative, literary, genre, speculative, new, and original—hell, even weird. For now,…

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borrowed solace is open for submissions! We accept nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and art. Though we are mostly looking for nonfiction, we will still be excited to receive fiction and poetry! We are open for general submissions and will close June…