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bioStories Open Call for Submissions—Creative Nonfiction

Deadline: Year-round

bioStories is an online magazine of creative nonfiction focused on literary quality biography and autobiography. We publish weekly “feature essays,” annual digital issues, and digital and print thematic anthologies. We read submissions year-around for essays keeping with our tradition of “sharing the extraordinary in ordinary lives,” and run occasional thematic contests. Writers are encouraged to visit the website to gain a full sense of our reading tastes and literary mission of presenting exceptional writers exploring the subtleties of the lives we might otherwise overlook. Full submission guidelines are available by visiting: www.biostories.com.

Call for Submissions: Voyage of Verse, A Poetry Anthology for High School Students

Deadline: April 14, 2024

Voyage of Verse is a poetry collective for high-school students, to be published in print and online semi-annually. Submissions are welcome from all poets in 9th to 12th grades. Voyage of Verse seeks to be a platform for young poets from all backgrounds and beliefs, a community where poets champion each other’s ardent, unique and empathetic voices. A curated selection of poems will be reviewed by three celebrated guest poets. For this inaugural issue, Yrsa Daley-Ward, Paisley Rekdal, and Malia Chung will be our honored reviewers, and will pen commendations on the winning poems. There is no fee to submit to Voyage of Verse, and submissions are open until April 14. Submission details can be found here: voyageofverse.com/submissions/.

Syncopation Wants Your Work About Paris

Deadline: April 16, 2024

Syncopation Literary Journal is an online publication dedicated to music. We are currently accepting submissions for Volume 3, Issue 2: Paris. Send us your music-themed poetry, flash fiction, nonfiction and short stories related to Paris. See link for full submission details: syncopationliteraryjournal.wordpress.com.

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

Deadline: July 15, 2024

Able Muse is now accepting submissions for our forthcoming issue, winter 2024/2025. 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/submit/.

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Adanna Literary Journal Seeks Submissions for their “New” News Feed

Deadline: Year Round

Adanna has recently moved online and has added a feature that includes the idea of “Women in the News” or “Women on the News.” We seek timely interviews, book reviews, or opinion that addresses current issues impacting women in addition to our annual issue which is moving to an online platform. See Adanna‘s new website and for more information on submissions go to:  www.adannajournal.com/submissions. Send all original, unpublished, AI free work please to [email protected], Subject Line “News Feed.” 

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Magazine1 is Looking for Submissions for its Second Issue!

Deadline: May 15, 2024

Magazine1 is searching for submissions of all kinds for its second issue. We want work that pushes the boundaries of our traditional understandings. This can mean pieces that push the limits of form, or pieces that push the limits of feeling. We want work that might have had a hard time finding a home elsewhere. We also want to feature writers who we share a home with on the Gulf Coast of Florida (Sarasota/St. Pete/Tampa). We have a specific call for those that find themselves to be our neighbors. Send us your forgotten, your lonely, your marginalized, and your strange. www.magazine-1.com/submit

Driftwood Press Contest Deadlines Incoming

Deadline: July 15, 2024 (Adrift contests); Year-round (general submissions)

Driftwood Press is happy to share a plethora of submission opportunities for writers and artists! Our Adrift Short Fiction & Poetry Chapbook Contests, in which every work submitted is considered for publication as winner or runner-up, is ending soon! 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, so if you have a novella, poetry collection, comic collection, or graphic novel manuscript, we would love to read it! Visit us here for our Submittable page, and we encourage you to follow us on social media (@driftwoodpress) to learn about even more submission opportunities!

Make Us Forget We are Reading a Poem

Submission opportunity with Yearling, a poetry journal with Workhorse Writers. Yearling is in its third year, based out of Lexington and Louisville, 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—send what you enjoy writing. Kindly visit our Submittable at workhorsewriters.submittable.com.

Club Plum Seeks Works for April Issue

Deadline: April 1, 2024

Club Plum publishes works from award-winning writers and artists from around the world as well as works from never-before published creators. We look for beautiful and surprising writing, strange writing from small, tortured spaces, and writing that bridges the personal and political. Send us your prose poems, your flash fiction, your flash nonfiction, your lyric essays and your dreamy art. No AI assisted work. Deadline 4/1. See our guidelines at clubplumliteraryjournal.com/submit/.

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Mistake House Magazine Call for Submissions

Deadline: March 20, 2024

Mistake House Magazine invites submissions of fiction, poetry, and photography by students currently enrolled in graduate or undergraduate colleges and universities worldwide. We seek thoughtful work that speaks to the heart in a complex global context. Submission window: October 15, 2023 to March 20, 2024. Submission fee: $5. Guidelines at www.mistakehouse.org/submit.

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Heron Tree Call for Submissions

Deadline: May 1, 2024

Until 1 May we are accepting found poetry submissions for Heron Tree Volume 11. There is no fee to submit. Please see our submission guidelines at herontree.com/how/.

UReCA Seeks Undergraduate Literary Works

Deadline: June 1, 2024

UReCA, the NCHC journal of undergraduate research and creativity activity, seeks submissions of prose, poetry, and art from currently enrolled undergraduate students. Send us your work through Submittable. Our first deadline to submit is June 1. Send us your best work. Do not include your name or other identifying information on the submitted document. Visit nchcureca.com to view the journal.

Blink-Ink Issue #56 “Addicted to Love”

Deadline: April 15, 2024

Not platonic, familial, or devotional, this is the rascal love where your heart sweats and you lose your mind. The world well lost for lust. Dreaming days followed by sleepless nights. A special someone, or just playing with the idea, the feeling.  Please send us your best stories of approximately 50 words, about being addicted to love…. Submissions are open March 1st, 2024 through April 15th, 2024. No attachments, poetry, bios, or AI generated content please. Send submissions in the body of an email to [email protected]. Prompt respond to all submissions and inquiries. www.blink-ink.org

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Plant-Human Quarterly Seeks Poems and Essays for Upcoming Issues

Deadline: Year-round

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 across boundaries and approach a plant’s-eye-view of the world. Send no more than 5 poems or an essay of no more than 1500 words (flash essay or essay excerpt) in a single word document. Past contributors include Ellen Bass, Forrest Gander, Kimiko Hahn, Brenda Hillman, Jane Hirshfield, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Pattiann Rogers, Scott Russell Sanders, Arthur Sze. Submission guidelines: otherwisecollective.com/phq-submissions.

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Sky Island Journal: Issue 28 Call for Submissions

Deadline: March 31, 2024

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 150,000 readers in 150 countries with a powerful, focused, advertising-free literary experience that transports them: one that challenges them intellectually and moves them emotionally. Our average response time is 9 days, and we have a family of over 900 contributors. Every submission receives a prompt, respectful response detailing what we appreciated. Enjoy our previous issues, and submit to our stunning Issue 28 before March 31st at www.skyislandjournal.com.

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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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

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Black Lawrence Press Manuscript Consultation Services

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 receive the kind of thorough feedback and in-depth analysis that is difficult to find outside of MFA programs. We offer consultations in multiple genres for manuscripts of varying lengths. Pricing starts at just $25 and scholarships are available. blacklawrencepress.com/manuscriptconsultations/

Gold Man Review Open for Submissions

Deadline: June 23, 2024

Gold Man Review, a West Coast Journal, is currently looking for submissions in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction for Issue 14. We are open to all topics and themes and love writing that pushes boundaries. If your work is on the unusual side, then we’re probably the journal for you. If you’re interested in submitting to Gold Man Review, please see our website for full submission guidelines. Please also note that we only accept submissions from writers in Oregon, Alaska, Hawaii, California, and Washington. www.goldmanpublishing.com

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Oyster River Pages Call for Submissions

Deadline: May 31, 2024

Oyster River Pages is a literary and artistic collective seeking submissions for our annual issue that stretch creative and social boundaries. In addition to submissions of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and visual arts, we also seek to promote new voices in our Emerging Voices Poetry and Emerging Voices Fiction sections. We believe in the power of art to connect people to their own and others’ humanity, something we see as especially important during these tumultuous times. Because of this, we seek to feature artists whose voices have been historically decentered or marginalized. Please see www.oysterriverpages.com for submission details.

Lit Fox Books Seeks Poetry Collections

At Lit Fox Books, our mission is to create a literary haven where authors find not just a publisher, but a genuine partner in their creative journey. Founded by writer and editor Lisa Mottolo, Lit Fox Books recycles books’ proceeds into promoting its authors and is determined to stand out as a press that values responsiveness, high royalty percentages for authors, and intriguing book covers. We are currently open to submissions of book-length poetry collections. Please visit litfoxbooks.com to submit.

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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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Deadline: Year-round

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Rockvale Review Issue Twelve Seeks Poetry, Fiction, CNF, and Art

Deadline: March 31, 2024

Rockvale Review is an online literary journal publishing poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction, and art since 2017. We seek writing that is bold as well as vulnerable, that makes us think and moves us emotionally. We are also seeking a visual artist to be the Featured Artist for Issue Twelve. This issue will be published in May 2024. Writers, please read all the submission guidelines carefully. We read blind. Submissions are accepted only through Submittable and there is a small reading fee. Artists, email [email protected] to be considered for the feature. We look forward to hearing from you. rockvalereview.com