The Missouri Review invites entries for the 34th annual Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize. Winners receive $5000 in cash, publication in the Spring 2025 issue of TMR, and promotion across our social media channels. Entry fee: $25. Each entrant receives…
Kitchen Table Quarterly is seeking previously unpublished poetry, creative nonfiction, and artwork. We are a journal preoccupied with history—cultural, political, geographical, personal. We are looking for work that spills secrets and wipes the dust off of old memories. We want…
Ploughshares is dedicated to finding and promoting the best contemporary voices in literature. Send us your poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and longform works by January 15, 2025, for the chance to appear in a future issue of the journal! Read our…
Baltimore Review Winter 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…
Age is a strange place—filled with abundance and scarcity, more fixed and fluid than imagined. Our bodies teach us it is now or never. But our hearts won’t stop growing, revisioning. Was all that angst really necessary? Did all that…
We welcome poetry submissions for our Fall 2024 volume from all writers who are currently in high school, regardless of where you are in your current journey in poetry. Please submit a maximum of three poems. There is no fee to…
The Hamilton Stone Review is open for poetry and prose submissions for the Fall 2024 Issue #51 from October 1, 2024 through October 31, 2024. Please send your work early; submissions close as soon as the issue fills. Poetry submissions…
October 31, 2024 is the deadline for the Vern Rutsala Book Prize, sponsored by Cloudbank Books. Contest winner receives $1,000, publication of the manuscript, and 50 books. Submission can include poetry or flash fiction or a combination of both. Submit…
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…
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,…
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…
For over a decade, the Black Lawrence Press manuscript consultation program has offered writers access to award-winning authors who are also experienced educators. Through our program, these authors provide the kind of thorough feedback and in-depth analysis that is difficult…
We’re looking for manuscripts of at least 48 pages that engage the perilous conditions of life in the 21st century, as they pertain to issues of social justice and the earth. Because we believe the truth is always experimental, we’ll especially…
The National Indie Excellence© Awards (NIEA) are open to all English language printed books currently for sale including self-published authors, small to midsize independent publishers, and university presses. Now in our nineteenth year, NIEA is a proud champion of self…
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…
Magazine1 seeks new and exciting writing and art for its third issue. If you have work that you feel doesn’t fit into the traditional categories (be they formal or political) we would love to see it. If you are located…
December 6, 2023, a shooter entered the University of Nevada, Las Vegas campus, killing three faculty members and wounding three others. This special edition of Interim seeks to celebrate the art and life of Las Vegas and to meditate on…
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 ninth annual issue. We believe girls’ voices transform the world for the better. We accept…
The Awakenings Review is an award-winning literary magazine committed to publishing poetry, short stories, nonfiction, art, and photography by writers and poets who write from experience with mental illness in themselves, family members, or friends. Located in the Chicago area…
Submission opportunity with Yearling, a poetry journal with Workhorse Writers. Yearling is in its fourth year, based out of Lexington, Kentucky. We especially pride ourselves on providing contributors supportive and constructive feedback for every poem sent that does not adorn…
Qua Literary and Fine Arts Magazine is a student-run publication of the University of Michigan-Flint. Founded over 50 years ago, we invite submissions of Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Poetry, Visual Arts, Photography, etc. from anyone living in the state of Michigan.…
Prizes of $100 will be awarded in each of four categories: poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and visual art. We are looking for excellent work that also engages thoughtfully with faith and spirituality. All winners and runners-up will be published in…