Latest Posts Under: Call for Submissions

The 2020 New Issues Poetry Prize is now open for submissions! See details below.   New Issues Poetry & Prose of Western Michigan University: the 2020 New Issues Poetry Prize Prize: $2,000 + publication –  Judge: Traci Brimhall   Guidelines: Eligibility: Poets writing in English who have not previously published or self-published a full-length collection (40+ pages) of poems. Please include a $25 reading fee. Checks should be made payable to New Issues Press. Postmark Deadline: December 31, 2019. The winning manuscript will be named in June 2020 and published in 2021. Submit a manuscript… Read Article →

Sonora Review is still open to contest and non-contest submissions for Issue 77 until November 15th! Sonora Review is run entirely by graduate students in the MFA program at the University of Arizona. They are among the oldest student-run literary journals in the country, and SR has been devoted since its founding in 1980 to offering a venue for exciting new and emerging authors, as well as prominent writers and artists. Guidelines: The call for submissions is two-fold (see their call page for more info). 1. Nonfiction and flash contest submissions on the theme of ENCOUNTER ($15 entry fee)… Read Article →

Boulevard is now open for general submissions and their fiction contest!   The deadline for the fiction contest, which includes a $1500 + publication, is December 31 at 11:59 p.m. CST, but don’t wait until Christmas to start writing. General submissions are open through May 1, 2020.      View Boulevard’s website for information on submission guidelines and more.

Nowhere Magazine, a literary travel-writing publication, is now open for submissions to their Fall contests! Founded in 2008, Nowhere awards two authors per year $1,000 each for their winning entry into their spring and fall writing contests. They publish long-form, resonant non-fiction, fiction, essays and poetry—no lists, no guides, no fluff—penned by a diverse cohort of writers. For some, Nowhere has introduced their first published piece; for others, they are a home for an outstanding reprint or an excerpt from a forthcoming book, or a way to share something traditional travel media simply doesn’t notice…. Read Article →

The Eggtooth Editions Chapbook Contest is accepting submissions from now until December 15. Please see the attached flyer for details. Feel free to contact eggtootheditions@gmail.com with questions; see http://eggtootheditions.org/ for complete guidelines.

Ready your pens and keyboards—it’s submission season!   Subito Press, a small non-profit publishing company established by the University of Colorado Boulder’s creative writing department, is currently holding a contest for book-length works of poetry or prose and are in their last push for submissions. They hope to encourage MFA students to submit their work.   The contest is taking submissions until October 1st for a reading fee of $25 per submission.   Works can be submitted through this link: https://subitopress.submittable.com/submit   This year’s judges are two faculty members from the creative writing department at CU—Marcia… Read Article →

The 29th Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize competition is now open for submissions in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. First-place winners in each category receive $5000, feature publication in the spring issue, and are honored at a gala reading and reception in Columbia, Missouri. Contest finalists are often published in the magazine also, or, in the case of poetry, as part of Missouri Review‘s Poem of the Week online feature. All entrants are considered for publication.   This opportunity is open to writers at all levels. Missouri Review prides themselves on focusing on the quality of the… Read Article →

Glassworks is accepting submissions through December 15, 2019!   Glassworks, the literary magazine of Rowan University’s Master of Arts in Writing graduate program, publishes nonfiction, fiction, poetry, hybrid pieces, and artwork both digitally and in print. They are currently reading for spring and fall 2020 print issues. They also publish flash fiction, prose poetry, and micro essays monthly in their online edition Flash Glass. Submissions for Flash Glass are accepted on a year-round, rolling basis.   More information about the magazine, sample issues, and the submission manager can be found at www.rowanglassworks.org.