NewPages Guide to Calls for Submissions
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bioStories call for creative nonfiction
Year-round
bioStories is eager to read your CNF. We publish a new essay every week online. We publish only nonfiction and value presenting an eclectic variety of work by writers of exceptional talent. bioStories offers portraits of the people surrounding us, including the strangers we pass on the street unnoticed and those intimate to us who have been most influential and most familiar. We look for work that offers slices of a life that help the reader imagine the whole of that life; work that demonstrates that ordinary people’s experiences often contain extraordinary moments, visionary ideas, and inspirational acts. Please follow guidelines on the submissions tab of our webpage: www.biostories.com.
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The Pensieve Is Open for Submissions from Emerging Writers
Deadline: May 31, 2025
The Pensieve is seeking fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry from emerging writers, such as students, amateurs, and professionals who are at the beginning of their careers in the publishing industry. We are looking for previously unpublished pieces that are compelling, beautifully written, and immersive—transporting readers into a world of the author’s creation. No reading fee is required. For full guidelines and instructions, visit www.thepensieve.site/p/submit.html.
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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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Gold Man Review Open for Submissions
Deadline: June 15, 2025
Gold Man Review, a West Coast Journal, is currently looking for submissions in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction for Issue 15. 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.
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Magazine1 is Open for Submissions!
Deadline: May 24, 2025
Magazine1 is open for submissions for its fourth issue! We want the strange and unexpected. If you have a piece that you’re having trouble placing somewhere else, or one that doesn’t feel like the rest of what you make, send it to us. We also want to feature writers and artists from the Gulf Coast of Florida in our “Gulf Coast of Florida Feature.” www.magazine-1.com
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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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Superpresent Summer Issue – Discomfort
Deadline: June 1, 2025
Superpresent is seeking submissions on the theme Discomfort. Superpresent is a magazine of the arts that puts equal emphasis on the written word and visual arts. Learn more and get a taste of what we publish here: superpresent.org.
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Share Your Story of Liberation & Healing with Thorn & Bloom
Deadline: May 15, 2025
Discover Thorn & Bloom, a quarterly publication reimagining self-care as a radical path to personal and collective liberation. For Issue 02: Breaking the Cycle, we’re seeking work that explores the journey of unlearning harmful conditioning and reclaiming autonomy over mind, body, and time. Share stories of resistance, boundary-setting, and self-reclamation that challenge the narratives we’ve inherited, through poetry, essays, fiction, memoir, or expert perspectives. This inclusive space invites your creativity and truth as we reflect on the power of self-care to disrupt, transform, and renew. Submissions open until 15 May 2025. Learn more or submit: www.redrosethorns.com/thornandbloom.
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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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Konsume Magazine’s “State of the Media 2025”
Deadline: April 30, 2025
Do you have a talent for breaking down complex media issues into viral, meme-worthy insights? Can your words challenge authority without being tedious? Do you believe journalism should be as transparent as the power it scrutinizes? If so, we want to hear from you. What We’re Looking For: investigative deep dives on who really shapes news narratives, data-driven stories that visualize the state of journalism, punchy op-eds that call out corporate malfeasance in social media and news media landscapes, art-meets-analysis takes on propaganda, bias, and censorship, and pieces that make readers say, “Whoa. I never thought about it like that.” www.konsume.com/call-for-submissions/