Driftwood Press is a literary magazine dedicated to curating from a broad field of work including fiction, poetry, photography, graphic narrative, literary criticism, and interviews. Driftwood is currently open year-round for submissions. There next publication will be released April, 4th. Find out submissions details here.
Mark your calendars! The 7th Annual the Spring English Conference will be held on Friday, April 29th. Submissions, open for both creative and academic writing, are due April 1st. Stay tuned for further details on guidelines, requirements, and the announcement of the keynote speaker!
A new online literary journal, NoiseMedium, is hosting their first creative writing contest. Their first contest is free to enter, and includes a $500 grand prize and publication for the top 100 submissions. It is open to all genres and formats. The deadline to submit is March 14. Send submissions to contests@noisemedium.com. Find out more online.
Submissions are open until March 31 for the Florida Keys Flash Fiction Contest. The contest winner will receive $1,500 air travel card and accommodations in a residency cottage at The Studios of Key West between July 5 and July 31. A $500 stipend as well as passes and admission to various events during the Hemingway Days festival set for July 19-25. Ten of the residency days include an opportunity to write in the colonial estate that Hemingway lived and worked in throughout most of the 1930’s. Full details, rules, and submission forms can be found on the contest website.
Santa Ana River Review (formerly Crate) is looking for pieces of fiction, poetry, non-fiction, dramatic work and visual art for the Spring 2016 issue. The submission deadline is March 15. Juan Felipe Herrera, U.S. Poet Laureate, will be judging the poetry contest. $7 early bird submission fee and $100 minimum cash prize. Find details and submit here. Santa Ana River Review is the official literary journal of University of California Riverside’s MFA program in Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts. Santa Ana River Review aims to publish provocative, imaginative work to fuel their readers own inquisitive minds.
CURA: A Literature Magazine of Art and Action is currently accepting submissions for their 2015-2016 issue dedicated to the Black Lives Matter movement and the voices, art, and action of racial justice. CURA is open to poetry submissions and prose submissions at a maximum of 6,000 words. Their reading period closes on March 15. Further details can be found here, and submissions can be sent here. From CURA: “We seek to promote a movement of creative response guided by meaningful action– to celebrate active citizenship where a republic of writers, filmmakers, visual and digital artists converge. What… Read Article →
indicia is a new online biannual literature journal seeking submissions for their first publication. Currently indicia is seeking unpublished works of poetry, flash fiction, and visual art. Submissions include up to 6 poems of not more than 10 pages total, up to 3 flash fiction stories of not more than 750 words each, or up to 5 high-quality image files. Find further details here, and send submissions to editors.indicia@gmail.com. From indicia: “indicia seeks to showcase a dynamic collage of passionate and profound voices hungry to produce art and write primarily in the English language. indicia enjoys feeling out the lengths to which language… Read Article →
The Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing (MVICW) will be hosting their annual workshop and residency program on July 10-16 & 17. The program costs $1,500 to attend including cost of room and board. MVICW does offer multiple need and merit based scholarships for the program; find details here. MVICW is also holding a writing contest this year. Two first prize winners receive $,1500 covering the full retreat package (including tuition and lodging) and two second prize winners receive $500 toward tuition. Contest details can be found here. Find full details on the MVICW website, including instructors, judges, a schedule of events, and… Read Article →
riverSedge art and literature journal is now open for 2016 submissions. Submissions are due March 1, and can be submitted here. Guidelines are as follows: $5 submission fee 3 prizes of $300 for poetry, prose, and art Multiple submissions welcome Previously unpublished work only Simultaneous submissions welcome Submissions in English or Spanish welcome From the editors: “riverSedge is a literary journal of culture and literature with an understanding of its place in the nation. Its name reflects our specific river edge of the Rio Grande Valley, with an openness to publish writers who use English, Tex Mex,… Read Article →
Glimmer Train is currently accepting submissions for this season’s Short Story Award for New Writers! The contest is held three times a year, winter submissions close on February 29 (stay tuned for Spring and Fall dates). The reading fee is $18 per submission, and the grand prize includes $2,500 and publication in Glimmer Train Stories. Find out more information and submit here.
DePaul’s annual art and literature magazine is now open for submissions. Visit Crook & Folly online, or see the guidelines below to submit. All submissions due March 1st.
The Minverva Rising Literary Journal, a journal dedicated to publishing creative works by women, is now open for submissions for their journal publication. The theme for this years submission cycle is ‘sisterhood,’ and submissions close on February 1. Visit them online to submit and find out more.