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.

 
Weekly Writing Contest: “Query Letter” submitted by Writers' Hour Magazine (by London Writers' Salon)

Each week at Writers’ Hour Magazine, we challenge writers with a fresh prompt, inviting them to craft a 500-word entry. The winning entries are published in the Magazine and awarded a…

Expires:February 7, 2025
Submit to the Santa Clara Review! submitted by Santa Clara Review

The Santa Clara Review publishes a wide variety of work from all over the world. Our magazine is open to all and is especially interested in writing and art from…

Expires:February 15, 2025
Brink Literary Journal Award for Hybrid Writing submitted by Brink

Brink Literary Journal Award for Hybrid Writing: 2025 Judge Kristen Radtke The judge for the 2025 Brink Literary Journal Award for Hybrid Writing is Kristen Radtke. Radtke is the author…

Expires:February 28, 2025
Fuente Fountain Books, Query letter for book-length feminist progressive manuscripts submitted by Fuente Fountain Books

Fuente Fountain Books is a new small independent press based in Portland, Oregon. We are thrilled that our first title was a finalist for the prestigious 2023 PEN Award for…

Expires:February 28, 2025
Yellow Arrow Journal open for submissions on the theme UNFURL submitted by Yellow Arrow Publishing Co.

Yellow Arrow Journal is excited to announce that submissions are open for the spring 2025 (Vol. X, No. 1) issue: UNFURL : to release from a furled, coiled, or wrapped…

Expires:February 28, 2025
Special Edition of Teach. Write. Dedicated to Those Affected by Helene submitted by Teach. Write.: A Literary Journal for Writing Teachers

The next edition of Teach. Write.: A Literary Journal for Writing Teachers is dedicated to those in western North Carolina impacted by Hurricane Helene. The editor is particularly interested in stories, poems,…

Expires:March 1, 2025
Call for Submissions on the theme Movement

Superpresent is seeking submissions on the theme Movement. We are seeking short stories, essays, poetry, asemic writing, videos, films, performance art, sound art, and all forms of visual art. Submission…

Expires:March 1, 2025
HerStry - General Submission submitted by HerStry

HerStry welcomes women identifying writers of all levels and talents to tell their stories. We are proud to have published stories from women all around the world. We accept all types…

Expires:March 4, 2025
South 85, the Converse MFA Program's Official Journal, Is Eager to Read Your Work! submitted by South 85 Journal

South 85 Journal is accepting general submissions from January 15, 2025, to March 10, 2025, for its Spring/Summer issue through Submittable: South 85 Submissions Page. Additional reading periods will be announced for 2025. THEME…

Expires:March 10, 2025
Be Published in The Southern Quill submitted by The Southern Quill

The Southern Quill, first printed in 1951 and published by Utah Tech University, has been in circulation for more than half a century. Each year, between January and March, the…

Expires:March 14, 2025
Arkana: Special Call for our Hybrid Issue! submitted by Arkana Online Literary Journal

“Hey, you got peanut butter in my chocolate!” Two things become immediately better as one. Arkana is putting together a Hybrid issue and looking for submissions! We want your prose…

Expires:March 15, 2025
Ponder Review seeks Volume 9, Issue 1 (June 2025) submitted by Ponder Review / Poetry South

We seek your best Fiction, Flash, Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, Short Plays, Visual Art, or New Media. Published by students and faculty in the low-residency MFA in Creative Writing at Mississippi…

Expires:March 15, 2025
Barely South Review Call For Submissions submitted by Barely South Review

BSR seeks original, unpublished works of nonfiction, poetry, short fiction, and art. We have two reading periods: September 1 – November 1st & 15 January – 15 March Along with your submission,…

Expires:March 15, 2025
Eleventh Hour Literary Now Accepting Poetry, Prose, and Visual Art. Prize for Top Submission submitted by Eleventh Hour Literary

PROSE: Creative nonfiction, essays, or fiction submissions should be no longer than 7,000 words. Diverse voices and hybrid or experimental forms are encouraged. Accepted stories will be well-worn and well-loved. We’re looking for…

Expires:March 15, 2025
Susurrus, A Literary Arts Magazine of the American South is open for submissions through March 15th! submitted by Susurrus, A Literary Arts Magazine of the American South

*Submissions are open through March 15th! Susurrus accepts previously unpublished poetry, flash, fiction, creative nonfiction, and photography from artists across the American South. We publish three times a year, during…

Expires:March 15, 2025
Issue 3: “The Sensualist...” in Wellspringwords® Literary Anthology for women of color writers and artists submitted by Wellspringwords®

Literary Anthology Issue 3: “The Sensualist…” The 2025 theme for the Wellspringwords® platform is “Living our freedom…”. Using our Literary Anthology, we will explore, as a collective, some of the more nuanced and…

Expires:March 26, 2025
Call for nonfiction submissions

Submit your essays to The Hudson Review! Our reading period is open from January 1 to March 31. NO ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS! Please mail your manuscript to us at 33 W. 67th…

Expires:March 31, 2025
Submissions Now Open at Raleigh Review! submitted by Raleigh Review

Submission pathways are now open at Raleigh Review for all genres. As we approach our fifteenth year, we look forward to reading your work! Geri Digiorno Multi-Genre Prize – Poetry…

Expires:March 31, 2025
The Hudson Prize submitted by Black Lawrence Press

Each year Black Lawrence Press will award The Hudson Prize for an unpublished collection of poems or prose. The prize is open to new, emerging, and established writers. The winner…

Expires:March 31, 2025
The Core Review Issue 2 submitted by Fork Apple Press

At Fork Apple Press, we look for work that expands beyond a core, essentialized “truth” to challenge a monolithic point of view. We encourage our submitters to bite into themes…

Expires:March 31, 2025
Thimble Literary Magazine Now Open submitted by Thimble Literary Magazine

Thimble Literary Magazine is primarily a poetry journal, but we happily publish plenty of short prose and art. We are not looking for anything in particular in terms of form or…

Expires:March 31, 2025
Chestnut Review Reading for Summer Issue! (deadline March 31st) submitted by Chestnut Review

Chestnut Review welcomes submissions for our Summer 2025 issue! We publish poetry, flash, short fiction (up to 5k words), and art. We pay $120 per piece All our past issues…

Expires:March 31, 2025
Libre’s Issue Three: Cinema submitted by Libre

There’s a scene in Dallas Buyers Club when McConaughey grips his pistol. There’s birdsong in the distance and every rivet on his ruined face is exposed by light and the…

Expires:April 1, 2025
Seems, a print magazine since 1971! submitted by Seems Literary Magazine

Seems is an irregularly published literary magazine that accepts poetry, short stories, flash fiction, and short creative nonfiction pieces. The magazine seeks pieces that exhibit sensory imagery and inventive diction. Common…

Expires:April 27, 2025