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.

 
Winter Issue: A Gift You've Never Gotten submitted by Grey Hands Literary Magazine

The theme for this issue is “A Gift You’ve Never Gotten.” Send us your best poetry, fiction, or nonfiction that captures this theme. We want to know what this theme…

Expires:December 8, 2023
SWING submitted by Swing

SWING wants the poetry (5 poems max), fiction (auto-, hybrid, very short, or regular but extraordinary; 8000 words max), nonfiction (creative, travel, personal, hybrid, surely there are other variations; 8000 words max), and comics (black and white) that…

Expires:December 10, 2023
EastOver Anthology of Rural Stories: Writers of Color, Vol 2 submitted by EastOver Press

EastOver Press is accepting previously published short stories for a forthcoming anthology. The stories should have been published in 2021 or 2022. The anthology will focus on BIPOC writers who…

Expires:December 15, 2023
CLOCKHOUSE Journal, Volume 11 submitted by CLOCKHOUSE

CLOCKHOUSE, published in partnership with Goddard College, seeks submissions from emerging and established writers for its 2024 volume. Open for fiction, poetry, drama, creative nonfiction and more. Past volumes include…

Expires:December 15, 2023
Submit to AGNI's Portfolio of Central American and Mexican Diaspora Writing submitted by AGNI

AGNI has a history of assembling portfolios that bring attention to rich and often underappreciated categories of writing. Associate poetry editor Esteban Rodriguez, guest editor Jennifer De Leon, and assistant…

Expires:December 15, 2023
West Trade Review Submissions Open submitted by West Trade Review

Submissions are open. We want fiction, poetry, and nonfiction pieces that make the reader think and feel, work that humbles us with its joy, humor, embarrassment, anger, hope, grief, or…

Expires:December 15, 2023
21st Gival Press Poetry Award submitted by Gival Press, LLC

The 21st Gival Press Poetry Award-2023 Deadline: December 15, 2023 (postmarked). This award is now given in odd years with publication in even years. Our dates never change, if the…

Expires:December 15, 2023
2024 Unleash Press Book Prize submitted by Unleash Press

$1,000 advance and an optional/standard contract from Unleash Press for one winning manuscript. Finalists will be considered for publication. Novels, poetry collections, short story collections, and creative nonfiction manuscripts are…

Expires:December 15, 2023
Long River Review is open for submissions submitted by Long River Review

The Long River Review, an annual literary journal of art and literature staffed by undergraduates at the University of Connecticut, is currently accepting submissions for the 2024 issue. We publish…

Expires:December 15, 2023
Fahmidan Journal is open for Poetry, Fiction & Non-Fiction Submissions- We Pay! submitted by Fahmidan Journal/ Publishing & Co.

Fahmidan Journal has been around since July 2020 and we’ve recently reopened and are hungry for Poetry, Fiction & Non-Fiction Submissions. We pay $25 per acceptance and guarantee a response…

Expires:December 15, 2023
Submissions are OPEN until December 18th for Spring/Summer 2024 at Epiphany Magazine submitted by Epiphany

Submissions are currently OPEN for the Spring/Summer 2024 issue of Epiphany in the categories of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art. Submissions will close on December 18th. We are offering $175…

Expires:December 18, 2023
Open Call: the theme — Finding Harmony submitted by Written Tales

Theme to Use: Finding Harmony Form to use: short story or poem Dec. 01, 2023 ~ Dec. 22, 2023 Directions Welcome to ‘Finding Harmony,’ our theme for Chapbook vol. XII.…

Expires:December 22, 2023
Call for Submissions: Speculative Fiction by Black women writers submitted by midnight & indigo

midnight & indigo is a literary organization founded in 2018 to provide a space for Black women writers to share their work with the world. With an emphasis on celebrating…

Expires:December 29, 2023
TOFU INK ARTS PRESS POETRY CHAPBOOK PRIZE: 2023-2024 submitted by Tofu Ink Arts Press

We are excited to announce we are running the Tofu Ink Arts Press Chapbook Competition 2023-2024 for an unpublished chapbook of 20 pages of poems. The contest is open to…

Expires:December 31, 2023
The Keepthings seeks micro-memoirs submitted by The Keepthings

A literary magazine that lives on Instagram, The Keepthings (@TheKeepthings) publishes micro-memoirs of the dead occasioned by the objects they left behind. Contributors include Alice Elliott Dark and Hannah Tinti.…

Expires:December 31, 2023
Anacapa Review submitted by Gunpowder Press

ROLLING SUBMISSION PERIOD: Launched in 2023 by the co-editors of Gunpowder Press, David Starkey and Chryss Yost, Anacapa Review is a new monthly online journal. The premiere issue will be online…

Expires:December 31, 2023
A Plate of Pandemic submitted by A Plate of Pandemic: Creativity in a Time of Crisis

A Plate of Pandemic has enlarged its scope. We’re interested in work that says something about life in a pandemic-inflected world. We define the term “pandemic” as a large-scale affliction,…

Expires:December 31, 2023
Submit Your Travel Story - Intrepid Times submitted by Intrepid Times

At Intrepid Times, we publish narrative travel writing with heart. Since 2014, our mission has been to share authentic stories that capture the essence of an experience, a place, or…

Expires:December 31, 2023
Reclaiming Mni Sota Indigenous Writers Grant submitted by History Through Fiction

Are you an Indigenous writer? Are you an enrolled member of a tribal community within Minnesota? Then you’re eligible for the Reclaiming Mni Sota Indigenous Writers Grant. In conjunction with…

Expires:December 31, 2023
TOFU INK ARTS PRESS 2023 VOLUME 7; OPEN NOW UNTIL Dec 31! submitted by Tofu Ink Arts Press

Submission Guidelines: All 2023 submissions must be made via our Submittable page. We are seeking 1-3 polished poems and/or art of any style of less than 5 pages (12 font…

Expires:December 31, 2023
Kenneth Johnston Nonfiction Book Award submitted by Choeofpleirn Press

Choeofpleirn Press seeks submissions of nonfiction book manuscripts to our annual Kenneth Johnston Nonfiction Book Award. This year’s judge is Jacquelyn Shah, whose book, Limited Engagement: A Way of Living,…

Expires:December 31, 2023
Reclaiming Mni Sota Indigenous Writers Grant submitted by History Through Fiction

If you’re a write who’s an enrolled member of a tribal community within Minnesota, then you’re eligible for the Reclaiming Mni Sota Indigenous Writers Grant. In conjunction with his forthcoming…

Expires:December 31, 2023
Exposition Review Vol. IX: "POP!" submitted by Exposition Review

Exposition Review is an independent, multi-genre literary journal that publishes narratives by new, emerging, and established writers in the genres of fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry, scripts for stage &…

Expires:December 31, 2023
Tampa Review submitted by Tampa Review

Tampa Review is the faculty-edited literary journal of The University of Tampa. We publish two print issues a year and also publish complementary work online throughout the year at TampaReview.org. Tampa…

Expires:December 31, 2023