UNAPOLOGETIC is a magazine made by and for the DePaul community and they want to publish your work! The magazine is focused around how creative outlets help to form identity and is meant to show the expansive amount of creativity within the DePaul community. Work can be published under your name, a pen name, or anonymous; it’s up to you! Submit art, photography, essays, short stories, poetry, and/or really anything creative to unapologeticdepaul@gmail.com by May 4th.
Twice each year Black Lawrence Press will run the Black River Chapbook Competition for an unpublished chapbook of poems or short fiction between 16-36 pages in length. The contest is open to new, emerging, and established writers. The winner will receive book publication, a $500 cash award, and ten copies of the book. Prizes are awarded on publication. Spring Entry Period: April 1 – May 31 Fall Entry Period: September 1 – October 31 Visit the chapbook competition website for more information.
This anthology seeks to bring together the magic of the Tarot, photography and poetry. They are looking for 78 poets to create original poems in response to a Tarot card they are assigned. If you decide to participate in the project, you will be assigned a Tarot card, and you will craft a poem in response to this card: however you’d like to interpret it, or your relationship with it. The only restriction on your poem is that it must be no longer than 20 lines. After all poems are submitted, our collaborating photographer, Katrin Albert … Read Article →
In each biannual issue, SER publishes poetry, literary fiction, creative nonfiction, book reviews, interviews, and art. They aim to present emerging writers on the same stage as established authors—they seek quality work for their quality publication. The best way to determine what they looking for is to read what they’ve been publishing.General submission guidelines follow; further instructions pertinent to each genre can be found by following the links below. SER is currently accepting fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and book review submissions. They try to respond to submissions within 2-4 months, but due to our production schedule a response may take up to 6… Read Article →
2018 Contest: The Future Each year, three prizes of $1,000 each and publication in Sonora Review are awarded to a short story, an essay, and a poem or group of poems. Submit to the contest/Issue 74: The Future. You may submit up to 6,000 words of fiction, an essay of up to 5,000 words, or four to eight pages of poetry, with a $15 entry fee through Submittable. Multiple submissions are allowed. The contest will be open for submission from January 16th to March 15th. All entries are considered for publication in our themed issue, The… Read Article →
Founded in late 2017, Before After/Godwink is very young, and burgeoning. The journal accepts all literary genres, hybrid, experimental, and think pieces. They accept art and photography; film and other forms of multimedia are of interest as well. BA/G can be found at bagliterary.com and on most social media sites: @bagliterary
The 2018 Hudson Prize is now open for submissions! Each year Black Lawrence Press will award The Hudson Prize for an unpublished collection of poems or short stories. The prize is open to new, emerging, and established writers. The winner of this contest will receive book publication, a $1,000 cash award, and ten copies of the book. Prizes are awarded on publication. The annual deadline is March 31. For more information and to submit, click here.
Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers Deadline: February 28, 2018 1st place wins $2,500 color, publication in Glimmer Train and 10 copies. 2nd place wins $500, or if chosen for publication, $700. 3rd place wins $300, or if chosen for publication, $700. (All submissions are considered for publication.) Open only to emerging writers who haven’t had fiction appear in any print publication with a circulation over 5,000. (Previous online publication is fine.) Reading fee: $18. Most entries run from 1,000 to 4,000 words, but any lengths up to 12,000 are welcome For more… Read Article →
Manzano Mountain Review seeks submissions Manzano Mountain Review is an online literary journal based in New Mexico seeking submissions for its second issue. We like writing that is honest, gritty, vulnerable. Give us plot, but not too much. We want characters like us—complicated, flawed, human. Discomfort us. Provoke awe. Melt our brains. The theme for Issue No. 2 is “Summer Haunts/ Hauntings.” Aesthetically, the two editors, Justin Bendell and Kristian Macaron, value writing that crosses boundaries, treads unfamiliar ground, but also work that is rooted in place. Readers will find examples of this in our issues. Justin… Read Article →
Announcing the 2018 Hillary Gravendyk Prize, Sponsored by the Inlandia Institute One National and one Regional Winner will each be awarded $1000 and book publication, and additional books may be chosen for publication by the editors. The Hillary Gravendyk Prize is an open poetry book competition for all writers regardless of the number of previously published poetry collections. The manuscript page limit is 48 – 100 pages, and the press invites all styles and forms of poetry. Only electronic submissions accepted via Inlandia’s Submittable portal. Entries must be received online by April 30, 2018 at… Read Article →
Established in 2011 with the aim of supporting outstanding poets from the upper Midwest and bringing their work to a national stage, the Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry awards $10,000 and publication by Milkweed Editions to a poet residing in Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, or Wisconsin. Selected from a small number of finalists by an independent judge, the prizewinning poet will also receive a standard royalty contract, national distribution, and a comprehensive marketing and publicity campaign. In addition, finalists will be invited to read at their annual National Poetry Month Party on April 26,… Read Article →