Calls for Submissions
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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!…
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.…
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:…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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:…
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…
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…
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…
