Calls for Submissions
The Idaho Prize for Poetry 2025 submitted by Lost Horse Press
Contest Deadline: Entries must be postmarked by midnight on 15 May 2025 Winners Announced: 15 August 2025 Entry fee: $28 The 2025 Final Judge will be announced at a later…
Ploughshares Emerging Writer's Contest submitted by Ploughshares literary journal
Emerging Writer’s Contest In the spirit of the journal’s founding mission, the Ploughshares Emerging Writer’s Contest recognizes work by an emerging writer in each of three genres: fiction, nonfiction, and…
2025 Boudin Flash Fiction Chapbook Contest - final judge Roxane Gay submitted by Boudin
2025 Boudin Flash Fiction Chapbook Contest Final judge: Roxane Gay Deadline: May 15th, 2025 Prizes: The winner will receive $1,000, 25 author copies, an author-signing at AWP 2026, inclusion of one or…
Flash Takes Flight at the Santa Clara Review — Flash Fiction and Creative Nonfiction Contest submitted by Santa Clara Review
The Santa Clara Review is thrilled to announce our new contest, “Flash Takes Flight”! Please send in your best flash fiction and nonfiction for a chance to win cash prizes and…
Text Power Telling Special Pride Issue submitted by Text Power Telling
Text Power Telling Magazine is accepting submissions for a special Pride Issue to be released June 2025. TPT Magazine’s mission is to create a supportive and healing community for survivors to use their…
WayWords Literary Journal submitted by WayWords
Issue 19 is open to themes of “mountain” in poetry or fiction. Editors’ advice: a mountain could be desolate or teaming with life; it could be a struggle, an idea,…
Fiction Potluck submitted by WayWords
The April Fiction Potluck Challenge is: Ocean Send your best story in under 5,000 words. This is a fiction-only challenge. A tip from our guest judge, Alyson Tait: Stories for this theme…
New Beginnings submitted by Four Tulips Publishing, LLC
Following the theme of “New Beginnings,” Four Tulips is accepting submissions of short fiction, creative non-fiction, and poetry following the submission guidelines below. The New Beginnings writing contest is open…
Lit Fox Books is open for poetry submissions submitted by Lit Fox Books
Lit Fox Books, a nonprofit press based in Austin, TX, is seeking book-length poetry submissions. Our goals as a press are to offer reasonable response times, friendly communication, intriguing book…
2025 MFA Award for Broken Tribe Press submitted by Lawrence Landing Company [Serving House Books & Broken Tribe Press imprints]
Congratulations, recent MFA graduate! The MFA Award is for anyone in the world who has completed an MFA in Creative Writing in the past five years (January 2020 and later).…
Prudence Dispatch, a new poetry journal, is open for submissions! submitted by Prudence Dispatch
PRUDENCE DISPATCH is a new journal of poetry published from Prudence Island — Chippaquasett — in the center of Narragansett Bay. We welcome submissions of poems for our first issue,…
submitted by Red Shoe Press
Red Shoe Press accepts submissions March 1, 2025 through May 31, 2025 for the 2025 Oregon Poetry Calendar. The glossy wall calendar pairs expressive poems with compelling photographs. This year’s…
Nothing Exists Alone (short story series) submitted by 11:11 Press
In 2022, we introduced a new book series, Nothing Exists Alone. It challenged writers to explore themes of climate change freshly. The inaugural title, “What Happened Was,” by Katherine Haake…
Poetry Anthology | The World We See: Women Poets on Neurodivergence submitted by TRP: The University Press of SHSU
The World We See: Women Poets on Neurodivergence is an anthology that focuses on women and non-binary poets that engage with the multitude of perspectives and topics connected to ADHD, Autism,…
Baltimore Review submitted by The Baltimore Review
The Baltimore Review is currently open for poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction submissions through May 31, 2025. Three poems. 5,000-word limit (shorter is better) for prose submissions. No fee. Pays…
Exposed Bone Vol. III submitted by Exposed Bone Publishing, LLC
Exposed Bone seeks uncanny fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction that destroys expectations and shoves at barriers. We encourage the sly, weird, and charming. There is no hard ban on content, but…
SHORT STORY CONTEST $50 prize submitted by READ Magazine
First Prize: $50 Second Prize: $25 Third Prize: $10 NO reading fee. Submissions must follow our Submission Guidelines. Submissions that do not follow submission guidelines will be disqualified without being…
SHORT STORY CONTEST $200 Prize submitted by READ Magazine
First Prize: $200 Second Prize: $100 Third Prize: $50 $5 reading fee includes basic feedback (strengths & weaknesses plus 2-3 lines of critique). Submissions must follow our Submission Guidelines. Submissions that…
Cool Beans Lit - Subs open now thru May 31. Poetry | Prose | Visual Art | Photography submitted by Cool Beans Lit
Send us your latest short fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, visual art and photography for our Summer 2025 issue. We seek fresh content that stokes the senses and resonates with our…
Harriet's House Magazine submitted by Harriet's House Magazine
Harriet’s House invites submissions from horror writers of the African diaspora for its 2025/2026 issue. Harriet’s House is an online magazine that publishes one literary horror story a month by a…
TOFU INK ARTS PRESS ART PRIZE SUBMISSIONS OPEN NOW FOR 2025-26! submitted by Tofu Ink Arts Press
TOFU INK ARTS PRESS Art Competition Criteria Agreement to Official Rules SUBMIT ONLY ONE PIECE Participation in the Art Competition constitutes entrants full and unconditional agreement to and acceptance of…
Divinity in the Margins: Transgender & GNC Writers on the Divine submitted by Orison Books
Orison Books invites submissions of essays and poetry for Divinity in the Margins: Transgender & Gender-Nonconforming Writers on the Divine, an anthology edited by Remi Recchia. Submission deadline: June 1,…
Serving House Books International Series (A, D, T-Z) submitted by Lawrence Landing Company [Serving House Books & Broken Tribe Press imprints]
Enter the Serving House Books International Series Contest 2025: Countries that begin with A, D, T-Z This is your chance to represent your birth nation! General Guidelines Open to writers who…
Raleigh Review Digiorno Multi-Genre Prize Open to June 1st on Submittable & Duosuma submitted by Raleigh Review
Attention multi-talented ones. Check out our innovative Geri Digiorno Multi-Genre Prize. In addition to the prize, some of our previous winners from our multi-genre prize have been invited and welcomed…
