NewPages Guide to Calls for Submissions
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SUBMIT NOW TO ABLE MUSE (Poetry, Fiction, Essays, Art & More)
Deadline: July 15, 2026
Able Muse is now accepting submissions for our forthcoming issue, winter 2026/2027. 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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Blink-Ink Issue #65: Home
Deadline: July 15, 2026
Once upon a time, Home was a place with a fixed address. Today, some folks have too many homes to track, too many people have nowhere to go, and everyone is in motion. Home is an incorporeal package of expectations, yearning, hopes and fears that we take with us when we go. Tell us what you know about Home in stories of approximately 50 words. Send your stories in the body of an email to: [email protected]. Submissions are open June 1, 2026 through July 15, 2026. No attachments, poetry, bios, or AI generated content please. No Fees and fairly quick response. www.blink-ink.org
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Split Rock Review Invites Submissions for Issue 23
Deadline: August 1, 2026
Split Rock Review seeks poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction, comics, graphic narratives, hybrids, photography, and visual art that explore place, environment, and the complex relationship between humans and the natural world. We’re particularly drawn to emotionally resonant work—work that lingers, questions, disrupts, and reveals. We offer 100 FREE submissions during this reading period. General, Tip Jar, and Expedited submission options are also available for a nominal fee. Simultaneous submissions are welcome. Whether your work explores wilderness or urban landscapes, climate grief or ecological wonder, we want to read it! For more information, visit: www.splitrockreview.org/submit.
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Fifth Stanza Press is Accepting Full-length Poetry Manuscripts
Deadline: July 31, 2026
Fifth Stanza Press is dedicated to publishing debut and second collections of poetry by writers in midlife or later. The open reading period for our first publication will run from May 1 through July 31, 2026. All poets will receive a response by the end of October. The selected manuscript will be announced in the fall and published in early 2027. The poet chosen for publication will receive author copies and an honorarium. Find more info about our submissions guidelines and a link to our Duosoma submissions page at www.fifthstanzapress.com/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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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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Mountain Jay Books: Call for Submissions for Online Journal
Deadline: Year-round
Steller’s Weekly is the online literary journal of Mountain Jay Books—a Colorado-based publishing and bookbinding company. Our mission is simple: to elevate literature by championing new voices and hand-binding works of literary art. If you are an emerging fiction writer, we’d love to help build your writing resume! Please submit your short story (between 1,000 and 6,000 words) via mountainjaybooks.com/submit. At the end of each year, twelve stories will have the opportunity to be published in our annual paperback anthology, so send your best work!
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS to SPANK the CARP
SPANK the CARP. Funny name, serious literature. We’re looking for flash fiction, short stories, CNF, and poetry, including shape poetry. If your work is thought-provoking, sophisticated, yet not pretentious or obscure, we’re interested. We’re also accepting images and photos that depict Carp and Koi in artistic and natural settings and have a strong artistic element. For submission guidelines and more information visit www.spankthecarp.com.
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Magazine1 Seeks Submissions for Issue Six!
Deadline: July 1, 2026
Magazine1 seeks submission for our summer issue. Send us the prose hiding under your bed. The poems you left out to cool on the windowsill for too long. Whatever you can’t place, whatever you have that you don’t understand, whatever it you’ve made that bothers you, we want to read that. In addition to our summer issue, we’re also running a flash prose contest. Both fiction and nonfiction are welcome. 500 word limit. The theme is “heat.” Judge is Aimee Nezukumatathil. Send us the good stuff. www.magazine-1.com/submit
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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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Palooka Seeks Chapbooks, Prose, Poetry, Artwork, Photography
Deadline: Year-round
Palooka is a global literary magazine of daring prose, art, photography, comics, and chapbooks drawn exclusively from unsolicited submissions. We champion underdog voices, read anonymously, and only publish what we love. Bold voices. Brave stories. palookamag.com