NewPages Guide to Calls for Submissions
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Kings River Review Call for 2-Year College Student Submissions
Deadline: Rolling
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 artwork and photography sent as .JPEG files; creative nonfiction and fiction of up to 3,000 words; and up to 5 poems. Go to kingsriverreview.com for full submission guidelines.
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Our Doors are Open
Deadline: Year-round
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 we sing saves the soul. Our goal is to preserve and promote lives told well through prose, poetry, music, and the visual arts. We’ve published work from and interviews with Jericho Brown, Kelli Russell Agodon, Robert Pinsky, Rising Appalachia, Turkuaz, Michel Stone, Michael Flohr, Lee Herrick, Chen Chen, Michael Cudlitz, Pat Metheny, Melissa Studdard, Lyrics Born, Terry Kay, and Christopher Moore. bluemountainreview.submittable.com/submit
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The Santa Clara Review: The California Edition
Deadline: October 15, 2025
The Santa Clara Review is thrilled to announce that Volume 113.1 will feature writing and art focused on California. As one of the oldest literary magazines in California, we invite you to consider the vast geographic, cultural, political, and technological landscapes of the world’s fourth largest economic region. From Hollywood to the Mojave, from the redwoods to Silicon Valley, migrant workers to tech bros, California offers dreams and illusions for everyone. We prompt you with this: What are your perceptions, your dreams, your experiences of California? All works about The Golden State—past, present, and future—will be considered. Submissions open for our Winter 2026 issue via Submittable on September 1st. santaclarareview.com
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Impermanence of Home
Deadline: October 16, 2025
Global City Review is now accepting submissions for our 26th issue, titled Impermanence of Home. This issue invites contributors to consider the emotional, political, and physical dimensions of home in flux. We’re interested in work that explores how sanctuary—whether a person, place, memory, language, or idea—can be lost, reshaped, reimagined, or even fabricated. Possible areas of focus: Environmental collapse and ecological change; Forced migration, exile, and statelessness; Censorship, surveillance, and the erosion of free expression; Housing insecurity, gentrification, and urban dislocation; Cultural memory, ancestral loss, and intergenerational rupture; Digital disorientation, AI fatigue, and virtual estrangement; and Imagined or speculative forms of refuge. Visit globalcitypress.com for more information.
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Doubly Mad’s Reading Period Is Open!
Deadline: December 31, 2025
Doubly Mad is open for submissions of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction through December 31, 2025! We are especially interested in nonfiction that engages with important timely themes. Guest poetry editor Thomas Townsley is looking for poems that use surrealist techniques, with interesting word play and images. Send us your finest work. We report back in three months, often sooner. DoublyMad.org.
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Short and Flash Fiction Submissions
Deadline: September 30, 2025
We are seeking clear, concise character driven fiction and flash fiction. Show us something new or present something in an innovative way. We want to see beauty in the grey areas and moments which show of the complexity of the human condition. Paint us a picture, show us an event, give us characters a reader will love or hate and must ask themselves why. Explore who or what a character can be and illustrate the unseen and unsaid. See our submission guidelines: www.dufranklit.com/submit.html.
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Call For Submissions From Girls Worldwide
Deadline: December 31, 2025
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 tenth annual issue. We believe girls’ voices transform the world for the better. We accept poetry, prose, and visual art of any style or theme. We ask to be the first to publish your work in North America; after publication, the rights return to you. Send your best art and/or writing, in English or English translation, to [email protected] by December 31, 2025. Please include a note mentioning your age, where you’re from, and a bit about your submission. girlsrighttheworld.com
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Palooka Seeks Chapbooks, Prose, Poetry, Artwork, Photography
Deadline: Year-round
Palooka is an international literary magazine. For fifteen years we’ve featured new, up-and-coming, and established writers, artists, and photographers from around the world. We’re open to all forms and styles and are always seeking unique chapbooks, poetry, fiction, nonfiction, artwork, photography, and graphic narratives. Submissions open year-round. palookamag.com
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The Big Book of Quantum Fiction
Deadline: September 30, 2025
We want to re-establish and define quantum fiction as a recognized genre—just as Harlan Ellison did with “new wave” through Dangerous Visions. Come be a part of history! We’re seeking quantum fiction submissions for 2025: surreal and twisted short stories in any genre, poetry that explores quantum perception (as you define it), and black-and-white artwork in abstract expressionist or surrealist styles. (We especially welcome cartoons in the spirit of Gahan Wilson.) No AI-generated work, please. A mood board is available for artists. Reprints are welcome. Contributors retain full rights. New and established authors all welcome. www.tracyshew.com/blog/the-big-book-of-quantum-fiction
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Blink-Ink “Museum” Call
Deadline: October 15, 2025
In the beginning, a museum was a temple of the muses, whose songs inspire the arts and sciences. Today, a museum collects, preserves, studies and displays wonders and marvels. Do you like museums? What kind, and what if you ran it? Who might visit there, or is that not encouraged? Visit a museum—can you hear the muses singing? Send us your best stories of approximately fifty words about museums in the body of an email to: [email protected]. Submissions are open September 1st, 2025 through October 15th, 2025. No attachments, poetry, bios, or AI generated content please. www.blink-ink.org
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The Branches Fall 2025 Call for Submissions – VOICE
Deadline: September 13, 2025
The Branches is seeking submissions of previously unpublished written and visual work for our fall 2025 theme VOICE. We are especially interested in cultural criticism, personal essays, and book/movie discussions and also publish poetry, short fiction, art, and photography on the theme of VOICE. We recommend reading some of our previous issues (click issues on our website) to get a feel for what we publish. Give us your big ideas and small thoughts, the ways you’re interacting with and understanding the world. We love Joan Didion, C. S. Lewis, Ada Limón, Susan Sontag, Flannery O’Connor, Patti Smith, and (hopefully) you! Off-theme submissions welcome. www.thebranchesjournal.com
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Blueline Magazine Seeks Quality Nature Writing
Deadline: November 30, 2025
BLUELINE: A Literary Magazine Dedicated to the Spirit of the Adirondacks seeks poems, stories, and essays about the Adirondacks and regions similar in geography and spirit, focusing on nature’s shaping influence. Submissions window July 1 to November 30. Decisions mid-February. Payment in copies. Simultaneous submissions accepted if identified as such. Please notify if your submission is placed elsewhere. Electronic submissions encouraged, as Word files, via email. Please identify the genre in the subject line. Further information at bluelineadkmagazine.org.
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Qua Magazine Seeks Submissions for Fall Semester 2025 Issue
Deadline: November 2, 2025
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. No submission fees. For the Fall Semester 2025 issue, all submissions must be made by deadline here: go.umflint.edu/quamagazinesubmission.
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August Only: One Week Responses on Fiction & Poetry!
Deadline August 31 2025
Although our Premium Poetry category is open year-round, our fiction category is only open for August and February each year. Submit now to have your work considered for an upcoming annual anthology! For our yearly print anthology, we are looking for poems, short stories, comics, and visual art that will wow our readers, accepted as both contest and normal submissions. We are a paying market, and our published writers also get to take part in bespoke interviews about their work! Driftwood is also on the hunt for amazing book-length titles to grow our catalogue. We encourage you to follow us on social media (@driftwoodpress) to learn about even more submission opportunities! driftwoodpress.submittable.com/submit
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The New Verse News Seeks Current Events Poetry
Deadline: Year-round
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 all over the world. The editors update the website every day with a poetic take on a current and specific headline. See the website for guidelines and examples. Then paste your non-simultaneous submission and a brief bio in the text of an email (no attachments, please) to nvneditor(at)gmail.com. Write “Verse News Submission” in the subject line of your email.
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About Place Journal Call for Submissions: On Freedom
Deadline: August 1, 2025
Each issue of About Place Journal, the arts publication of the Black Earth Institute, focuses on a specific theme. From June 1st to August 1st we’ll be accepting submissions for our Fall 2025 issue On Freedom. Our mission: to have art address the causes of spirit, earth, and society; to protect the earth; and to build a more just and interconnected world. We publish prose, poetry, visual art, photography, video, and music which fit the current theme. More about this issue’s theme and our submission guidelines: aboutplacejournal.org/submissions/.