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.

 
TRP | VersoFrontera submitted by TRP: The University Press of SHSU

VersoFrontera About Series Editor: Octavio Quintanilla In collaboration with the VersoFrontera Literature and Arts Festival, TRP’s VersoFrontera series seeks to publish one debut full-length collection per year by an emerging poet.…

Expires:September 30, 2026
Submit Your Forbidden Love Stories and Poems submitted by Our Bold Voices

Our Bold Voices celebrates the many different ways people experience life. We love to publish exciting and thoughtful fictionnonfiction. We especially want to hear from new writers. Synopsis: Forbidden Love…

Expires:September 30, 2026
Call for Literary Fiction Manuscripts: Novels, Novellas, and Short Story Collections 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:September 30, 2026
DILIM Dark Fiction from the Philippine Diaspora: Anthology Vol. 2, Sirena's Song submitted by DILIM Press

Thank you for your interest in submitting to DILIM: Anthology of Dark Fiction from the Philippine Diaspora. We would love to offer you a home for your work and we’re seeking…

Expires:September 30, 2026
Submissions of Collaborative Fiction & Poetry for Monthly Theme: “Rug” (Sep 2026) 🧶 submitted by Switch-Lit

  Switch-Lit is a literary platform-publisher of collaborative fiction, poetry, and prose that enables two writers — already familiar or total strangers — to take alternating turns and craft the…

Expires:September 30, 2026
TRP | The 2026 X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize submitted by TRP: The University Press of SHSU

The X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize About $10,000 + Publication + Residency at Vermont Studio Center 2026 Judge: Phillip B. Williams Established in 1998, The X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize highlights…

Expires:September 30, 2026
ART SICK Issue 2: Call for Poetry Submissions submitted by Art Sick Magazine

ART SICK is an online poetry publication from The Poetry Lab, made for voices that refuse to go silent. We are living in a time that resists clarity, where the…

Expires:September 30, 2026
Submissions for our 6th regular issue are now open! submitted by Double Dutch magazine

Just to let you know we at Double Dutch magazine have started taking submissions for our 6th regular issue! Due to go live in November 2026. We want your poetry/music/art!…

Expires:September 30, 2026
The first Double Dutch Biannual Poetry Prize! submitted by Double Dutch magazine

The Double Dutch Biannual Poetry Prize! First winners in 2026, autumn edition. Next ones lauded in the spring of 2027, etc, etc. Rules: 1 poem per person. No length requirements.…

Expires:September 30, 2026
Passionfruit Poetry Prize 2026 submitted by The Passionfruit Review

Our annual poetry contest is now open for submissions! The theme is love – and it’s yours to interpret as broadly, as interestingly, and as tenuously as you wish. Judge:…

Expires:September 30, 2026
Beyond the Romance: Paid Call for Submissions on the Evolution of Queer Relationships submitted by The Queer Love Project

There’s a specific friction in the moment love changes shape. Whether it is opening up a marriage, navigating a partner’s transition, or watching a romance soften into a lifelong platonic…

Expires:September 30, 2026
Joyland Editions Novella Submissions submitted by Joyland Publishing

Joyland Editions is a nonprofit independent press committed to publishing books that do not fit into the traditional publishing landscape. We publish two novellas every year, and are distributed by…

Expires:September 30, 2026
The Best Small Fictions submitted by Black Lawrence Press

Open Call for Best Small Fictions 2027 The 2027 issue of Best Small Fictions will be a 1.5-year issue representing the best flash fiction published in 2025 and the first…

Expires:September 30, 2026
Fall 2026 Reading Period open through September submitted by Tar River Poetry

The Fall 2026 reading period for the Spring 2027 issue opens September 1 and closes September 30. Tar River Poetry acquires first electronic and non-exclusive electronic archival rights. Print rights revert…

Expires:September 30, 2026
Sun Thief Journal Submissions submitted by Sun Thief Press

Sun Thief Journal is open to both emerging and established writers to publish poetry, short stories, and critical essays that interrogate the act of writing itself and reflect the urgency…

Expires:October 1, 2026
Rawhead & Bloody Bones: Halloween 2026 submitted by Rawhead

Rawhead & Bloody Bones: Halloween 2026 is OPEN to Visual Art, Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, & Hybrid work. We are not a horror journal, but we believe in monsters… And…

Expires:October 1, 2026
Quartet 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:October 1, 2026
seedfall: LORE submitted by Tulipwood Books

seedfall is Tulipwood’s annual journal of poetry and prose by women and nonbinary and trans writers. We invite you to submit work on this year’s theme: Lore. Lore is story—both true…

Expires:October 1, 2026
Call for Submissions for VŨV: Noon Art Magazine submitted by VŨV: Noon Magazine

VŨV: NOON Art Magazine is inviting student and emerging artists to submit their work for publication in its first edition. VŨV is an Ancient Greek word for ‘now ‘, and…

Expires:October 1, 2026
Harvest's Bounty submitted by Little Fruits Magazine

Harvest summer’s excess and transform it into a bounty of prose. Send us your roasted squash, sweet corn, overripe fruits, and memories of long summer days transitioning to cool autumnal…

Expires:October 7, 2026
POETRY / PROSE / ART - "HUMBLE" - Vol. IX (Quibble Lit) submitted by Quibble Lit

Quibble Lit is a literary magazine and collective publishing contemporary writers and artists across print, online, and community programming. We like work with imagination and tension in it. Volume IX:…

Expires:October 9, 2026
Issue V: Noise submitted by Navy Pen Literary Magazine

Noise is what we hide behind when silence is too honest. It takes shape as sound, internal chatter, distraction, interruption, and the volume people create before something difficult can be…

Expires:October 10, 2026
Consequence Reading Period submitted by Consequence

The reading period for our Spring ’27 issue, Volume 19.1, is open from July 15 through Oct. 15. As always, we’re after the strongest fiction, nonfiction, poetry, visual art, and…

Expires:October 15, 2026
Winnow Literary open for poetry submissions to Issue #3 between Aug. 15th - Oct. 15th, 2026 submitted by Winnow Literary

Winnow Literary, a digital journal of poetry & occupation housed in the occupational therapy program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will be open for poetry submissions to Issue Three between August…

Expires:October 15, 2026