NewPages Guide to Calls for Submissions
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Voyage of Verse: A Poetry Anthology for High School Students, Fall 2024 Call for Submissions
Deadline: November 11, 2024
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 submit. We only accept original work that has not been previously published either in print or online. We aim to publish 25-30 poems, with special mentions cited by our celebrated reviewers/poets Jee Leong Koh, Natasha Rao, and Alexis Sears. All published poets will receive a copy of Voyage of Verse, as well as prize-winning poetry anthologies by our three reviewers. voyageofverse.com/submissions/
Kitchen Table Quarterly Open for Poetry, Nonfiction, Art
Deadline: November 1, 2024
Kitchen Table Quarterly is seeking previously unpublished poetry, creative nonfiction, and artwork.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 honesty. We want an education. Submit up to five poems, five artworks, or a standalone nonfiction piece of up to 3000 words. For full guidelines, please visit our website (www.kitchentablequarterly.org).
Submit to Ploughshares! Our Reading Period Is Open Until January
Deadline: January 15, 2025 at 12PM EST
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 guidelines and submit here: pshares.org/submit/.
LIVING OUR BLESSINGS: Aging, Mortality & Gratitude, Wising Up Anthology
Deadline: November 30, 2024
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 will and drive narrow our focus unnecessarily? Savoring can become a call, a necessary rebalancing. LIVING OUR BLESSINGS: Aging, Mortality & Gratitude, A Wising Up Anthology Guidelines: Electronic submissions, Word or RTF. Stories, poetry, memoir, nonfiction. Prose ≤ 5,000 words. Poetry ≤ 5 poems. No A.I. Payment in copies. Submit electronically. Submissions: 10/1/24 to 12/31/24. Submit to: [email protected]. Full Guidelines: universaltable.org/wisingup.html
Hamilton Stone Review Open for Submissions During October 2024
Deadline: October 31, 2024 (Will close early if issue fills.)
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 should be e-mailed only to Kevin Stein at [email protected] with “HSR” in the subject line. Fiction and nonfiction submissions should be e-mailed as an attachment only to Dorian Gossy at [email protected]. For more information, please see www.hamiltonstone.org/hsr.html#submissions.
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.
Palooka Seeks Chapbooks, Prose, Poetry, Artwork, Photography
Deadline: Year-round
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, artwork, photography, and graphic narratives. Submissions open year-round. palookamag.com
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.
Black Lawrence Press Manuscript Consultations
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 to find outside of MFA programs. Within a matter of a few weeks, our consultants respond with full critiques including a cover letter addressing global issues within the manuscripts and an updated manuscript files including detailed suggestions. Participants who submit chapbooks or full-length manuscripts may also schedule phone or Zoom conferences with their consultant at no additional charge. blacklawrencepress.com/manuscriptconsultations/
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
Magazine1 Wants Your Writing for Its Third Issue!
Deadline: November 15, 2024
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 on the Gulf Coast of Florida, please submit to our Gulf Coast of Florida Feature. Submissions are free! Published authors receive a $40 gift card that can be used either in person at Bookstore1 in Sarasota, FL or in our online store. www.magazine-1.com
A Commemoration and Celebration of Las Vegas
Deadline: November 5, 2024
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 violence in America. Interim seeks poetry and essays based on two themes: Life in Las Vegas beyond the Strip and responses to the crisis of violence in America. Writers who have made a life in Las Vegas are especially encouraged to submit in celebration of the city’s connection with the arts. Submit at: interimmagazine.submittable.com.
Call For Submissions From Girls Worldwide
Deadline: December 31, 2024
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 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, 2024. Please include a note mentioning your age, where you’re from, and a bit about your submission. girlsrighttheworld.com
Exploration and Recovery: Mental Illness and The Awakenings Review
Deadline: Year-round
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 but international in scope, our print publication is one of the nation’s leading journals of this genre. We like to see work demonstrating that the writer or poet has found direction in life or can write about the experience of mental illness without being demoralizing. We are currently accepting submissions for our Spring 2025 issue. To learn how to submit, please read our guidelines at www.AwakeningsProject.org.
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Deadline: Year-round
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Eclectic Journal Seeking Poems—Make Our Readers Forget Themselves
Deadline: Year-round
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 our pages. We do ask that what you send be finished work, work with which you are happy, and overall, that it has the capacity to make us forget we are reading a poem. We accept all forms of poetry—barring photographic hybrids. Please send what you enjoy writing. Kindly visit our Submittable at workhorsewriters.submittable.com.
Qua Seeks Submissions for Fall 2024 Semester
Deadline: October 9, 2024
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 2024 issue, all submissions must be made by October 9th here: go.umflint.edu/quamagazinesubmission.
Blink-Ink Issue #58: UFO
Deadline: October 15, 2024
Jimmy Carter saw one. So did Ronald Reagan. Harry Truman never saw one but worried about them. Bill Clinton never saw one but always wanted to. Gerald Ford wasn’t sure if he’d seen one or not. Former Israeli security chief, Haim Eshed, says they are here and world leaders know it. How about you? What do you know that we don’t? Send us your best UFO stories of approximately 50 words. Submissions are open September 1st, 2024 through October 15th, 2024. Please send submissions in the body of an email to: [email protected]. No attachments, poetry, bios or AI generated content please. Artwork welcome for this issue. www.blink-ink.org