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.

 
Sea Crow Press Open Submissions

Sea Crow Press is a woman-owned independent publisher based on Cape Cod. We publish eco-literature, historical fiction, poetry, and nonfiction with strong voice and enduring heart. Our books are rooted…

Expires:November 24, 2025
Bridge Journal - Poetry and Literary Fiction V26 N1

Submissions Thank you for your interest in Bridge, Chicago’s independent, intersectional hard bound journal of art and public scholarship. We welcome submissions in poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction, visual art, cultural criticism,…

Expires:November 30, 2025
Cozy Contest - Prose and Poetry submitted by Four Tulips

Grab your big comfy blankets and curl up by the fire, because it’s time to get cozy! For this contest, Four Tulips is looking for short prose and poetry with…

Expires:November 30, 2025
Nimblewitlit Issue 2: Trustworthy

Theme: Trustworthy Whether old or young, one of the most important qualities we look for in friends is being trustworthy. But what does that mean exactly? Three words come to…

Expires:November 30, 2025
Hudson Review Short Fiction Contest

We’re happy to announce The Hudson Review’s biennial Short Fiction Contest will be open for submissions from September 1 to November 30, 2025. Online submissions will close at 11:59 p.m.…

Expires:November 30, 2025
Prudence Dispatch - Issue No. 2 - Submissions Open!

Prudence Dispatch welcomes submissions for Issue No. 2, to be published in print and online in Winter 2026. Poets may submit up to 3 poems that address Islands: Real, Imagined…

Expires:November 30, 2025
Music, poetry, and visual art submissions now open for issue nr. 1

Just to let you know we at Double Dutch magazine have started taking submissions for our first regular issue! We want your poetry/music/art! But, to be blunt, we can be…

Expires:November 30, 2025
NonBinary Review Issue #43: Carnival

What does the word “carnival” bring to mind? Outlandishly-dressed people throwing candy and cheap jewelry to waiting crowds from atop parade floats to mark the beginning of Lent? The smell…

Expires:November 30, 2025
The Wishing Jewel Prize for Poetic Innovation submitted by Green Linden Press

The submission window for the annual Wishing Jewel Prize is open. The Prize awards $1000 and publication for an innovative, book-length manuscript that challenges expectations of what a book of…

Expires:November 30, 2025
The Stephen Mitchell Prize for Excellence in Translation submitted by Green Linden Press

The submission window for the Stephen Mitchell Prize for excellence in translation is open. Green Linden Press will award $1000 and publication for a book-length manuscript in any genre translated…

Expires:November 30, 2025
DISCO KITCHEN MAG VOL. 3 SUBMISSIONS

Disco Kitchen is a literary magazine that is dedicated to creating a space that welcomes all writers. We love entertaining, thoughtful (and sometimes sad), character-driven narratives and invite you to…

Expires:November 30, 2025
Susurrus, A Literary Arts Magazine of the American South open for submissions from October 15th - November 30th!

Susurrus accepts previously unpublished poetry, flash, fiction, creative nonfiction, and photography from artists across the American South. We publish three times a year, during April, August, and December. We value…

Expires:November 30, 2025
Tint Journal is open for prose and poetry in English as the writer's second language, and art

Tint Journal is an award-winning online literary journal with an explicit focus on writers who write creatively in English as their second or non-native language (ESL). The magazine is now…

Expires:November 30, 2025
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Voices of 21st-Century Activism - IHRAM Press Anthology

IHRAM Press is seeking submissions for their upcoming anthology, highlighting: Voices of 21st-Century Activism.   We are eager to publish: Poetry, Short stories (2500 words or less), and/or Personal essays…

Expires:November 30, 2025
Trauma and the Environment, Call for submissions: Tendrils, an art & literary journal

Visual art and short-form literature exploring Trauma and the Environment Tendrils Journal is seeking submissions of visual art and short-form literature for its edition “Trauma and the Environment.” As an…

Expires:November 30, 2025
Rooted Literary Magazine is Accepting Submissions for our Fall Monthly Features, the Home Issue

Rooted Literary Magazine is looking for work that makes us question our convictions, provides us with a fresh perspective, or pushes the boundaries of genre and narrative. We are accepting…

Expires:November 30, 2025
November Open Reading Period

During our June and November Open Reading Periods, we accept submissions in the following categories: novel, novella, short story collection (full-length and chapbook), poetry (full-length and chapbook), biography & cultural…

Expires:November 30, 2025
November 2025 - Tadpole Press 100-Word Writing Contest submitted by Tadpole Press

We look for clever, uplifting pieces. 100 words or less (including any title) according to Microsoft Word. Current theme: truth-telling. Deadline: Nov 30, 2025.  

Expires:November 30, 2025
Open Submissions for Cripple Punk Mag: Disability in Punk and DIY Music

Cripple Punk Mag is an online magazine with an annual print anthology. We are seeking: essays, criticism, news and reviews, literary nonfiction, fiction, rants and raves, comics, and hybrid works…

Expires:December 1, 2025
The Juice Blog

Always free to submit. The Juice Blog accepts a variety of craft-oriented writing, including but not limited to craft essays, literacy narratives, book reviews, interviews, scholarly essays on literature, and…

Expires:December 1, 2025
Superpresent Winter Issue - ECHOES

Superpresent is seeking submissions for its Winter Issue (V. 6, N 1) on the theme Echoes. Superpresent is a magazine of the arts that puts equal emphasis on the written…

Expires:December 1, 2025
Calling submissions: Voices of the Unhoused - IHRAM Press Quarterly Literary Magazine

IHRAM Press is seeking submissions for their upcoming literary magazine, highlighting: Voices of the Unhoused. We are eager to publish: Poetry, Short stories (2500 words or less), Personal essays (2500…

Expires:December 1, 2025
Winter Poetry Contest '25

Send us your single most stirring and surprising poem. PRIZE: One winner will receive a $250 honorarium, publication in our annual PHIL LIT Poetry anthology, a contributor copy, and promoted…

Expires:December 1, 2025
Engaged Literature Call for Submissions: Identity in the 21st Century

Encyclopedia Prismatica is now accepting submissions for its second issue, publishing in both print and digital formats in Winter of 2026. For this second issue, we are specifically seeking submissions…

Expires:December 1, 2025