Calls for Submissions

Take a look at the latest publishing opportunities currently available to writers from the many literary magazines and presses that are members of CLMP. Before submitting your work, be sure to check the publisher’s website for any updates.

 
The Louisville Review Number 99 - Fiction / Hybrid Prose submitted by The Louisville Review Corporation

This 99th issue of The Louisville Review will be released in spring 2026, marking 50 years of uninterrupted publication of The Louisville Review, founded in 1976. No Submission fee! Submissions…

Expires:January 29, 2026
The Henry Morgenthau III First Book Poetry Prize submitted by Passager

Passager (passage + passenger) is a small, independent literary press whose mission is to publish the work of older writers, encourage the imagination in the later stages of life, and…

Expires:January 30, 2026
Litmosphere: Journal of Charlotte Lit — Spring 2026 Issue submitted by Charlotte Lit Press

Litmosphere is an open submission, paying online literary and art journal, published twice a year. We accept submissions of art, poetry, flash (fiction and nonfiction), and short prose (fiction and…

Expires:January 31, 2026
The Louisville Review's Frederick Smock Poetry Prize - Deadline Extended to January 31, 2026! submitted by The Louisville Review Corporation

The Louisville Review Announces Inaugural Frederick Smock Poetry Prize Judged by Richard Taylor NOW accepting submissions through January 31, 2026! We are thrilled to announce that Kentucky Poet Laureate Emeritus Richard Taylor will…

Expires:January 31, 2026
🔥 Campfire Stories: Abjection ($50 Prize) submitted by Cosmographia Books

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Expires:January 31, 2026
General ART Submissions submitted by Page Turner Magazine

Page Turner Magazine at Emerson College is now accepting General Art Submissions! General Art Submissions are open to ANY CURRENT COLLEGE STUDENT, and the pieces submitted can be any medium…

Expires:January 31, 2026
Music, poetry, and visual art submissions now open for issue nr. 2 submitted by Double Dutch magazine

Just to let you know we at Double Dutch magazine have started taking submissions for our second regular issue! Due to go live in March 2026. We want your poetry/music/art!…

Expires:January 31, 2026
ALOCASIA Seeks Queer Planty Writing submitted by ALOCASIA

ALOCASIA, a journal of queer plant-based writing is accepting creative writing of all genres from queer writers on a rolling basis with no reading fee. Please send no more than…

Expires:January 31, 2026
Ares Press Seeks Literary Fiction submitted by Ares Press LLC

Ares Press, a new publisher of literary fiction, seeks writers who wish to break free of the orthodox strictures of the contemporary publishing scene. Ares Press hearkens to an older…

Expires:January 31, 2026
General Prose Submissions submitted by Page Turner Magazine

Page Turner Magazine is now accepting GENERAL PROSE SUBMISSIONS! This submissions call is open to any current American college student with a valid institutional email. Please see the details below: General…

Expires:January 31, 2026
The Big Moose Prize (novels) submitted by Black Lawrence Press

Each year Black Lawrence Press will award The Big Moose Prize for an unpublished novel. The prize is open to new, emerging, and established writers. The winner of this contest…

Expires:January 31, 2026
Quibble Lit - Volume 7: PEOPLE - Prose, Poetry, & Visual Art submitted by Quibble Lit

Quibble, an online & print literary magazine for prose, poetry, and art, is thrilled to open submissions for PEOPLE: Volume VII of Quibble Lit. Work selected for this volume will…

Expires:January 31, 2026
Being in Bodies submitted by The Passionfruit Review

Judge: John L. Stanizzi 1st prize £600 2nd prize £75 3rd prize £25 9 × COMMENDED POEMS £10 EACH All prizewinning poems will also be published in a special issue…

Expires:January 31, 2026
SIXTEEN RIVERS PRESS Annual Call for Submissions

Sixteen Rivers Press Poetry Collective invites Northern California authors to submit book-length poetry manuscripts between November 1, 2025, and February 1, 2026. We encourage poets of color, young poets, and LGBTQ…

Expires:January 31, 2026
Featured Ekphrastics — Responses to Cover Art for Quibble Vol. 7: PEOPLE submitted by Quibble Lit

Quibble Lit invites writers to respond to two original collage artworks by Devon Balwit, which will serve as the front and back cover images for our upcoming issue, Volume 7:…

Expires:January 31, 2026
THRESHOLDS: Multiplicity Issue 7 submitted by Multiplicity

THRESHOLDS We halt at thresholds; we step over them. We edge back from thresholds; we move past them. We can reach our thresholds; pain and hurt can exceed them. Thresholds…

Expires:January 31, 2026
The Faoileánach Journal is Open for Submissions! submitted by The Faoileánach Journal

The Faoileánach Journal is looking for submissions for Issue Four: Migration. The geese have been flying overhead by the hundreds, signaling a cold and early winter. Migration can mean life…

Expires:January 31, 2026
CAPITAL LOVE: A WWPH LOVE Celebration submitted by Washington Writers' Publishing House

CAPITAL LOVE: A Love Celebration from WWPH CAPITAL LOVE builds on the success of our 2025 pocket mini-anthology, Capital Queer: A WWPH PRIDE celebration, and we would love to see…

Expires:January 31, 2026
Rawhead: Point Blank submitted by Rawhead

Rawhead: Point Blank is a new digital series featuring the work of a single writer or artist, released semi-monthly, in response to what is happening now. For this series, we…

Expires:January 31, 2026
Wandering Aengus & Trail to Table Book Awards submitted by Wandering Aengus Press

Wandering Aengus Press and its imprint, Trail to Table Press, each publish up to two winners for the Wandering Aengus Book Award and the Trail to Table Book Award–up to…

Expires:January 31, 2026
Short Story Submission-Spring Issue submitted by Violet Winding Stars Press

Submit one short story up to 8500 words.

Expires:January 31, 2026
Auto Draft submitted by Quartet

൪uartet is an online poetry journal, published three times a year, designed by women over fifty to highlight the creativity of women fifty and over. We believe that at this time…

Expires:February 1, 2026
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Voices on Gender, Queerness, & Becoming - IHRAM Press Quarterly Literary Magazine submitted by International Human Rights Art Movement (IHRAM)

Submission window: December 11, 2025 – February 1, 2026 This edition will celebrate the uniqueness of every individual, whether gender queer, non-binary, agender, gender-fluid, transgender, or anyone within the LGBTQ+…

Expires:February 1, 2026
Mini Moon Writing Contest submitted by Tadpole Press

We look for clever, uplifting pieces. 10 words or less (including any title) according to Microsoft Word. Any genre or theme. Deadline: Feb 3, 2026.

Expires:February 3, 2026