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.

 
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
Submit your avant-garde/experimental work to #Ranger magazine submitted by #Ranger Magazine

Submit your avant-garde/experimental poetry, art and music to #Ranger magazine. We accept anything usual and/or non-mainstream. Please check out the mag to see what our aesthetic is about before submitting. …

Expires:March 15, 2025
A Call for Poems: Amplifying Disabled Voices submitted by Day Eight

Day Eight is pleased to invite poets to submit their work for a special section of the Mid-Atlantic Review celebrating the diverse experiences and perspectives of disabled individuals. The editors…

Expires:March 30, 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
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
Making Waves | Fall 2025: Submissions Open Jan - Apr submitted by Making Waves: A West Michigan Review

Art, “Escape from Captivity,” by Kathy Bruce, published in the 2024 issue of Making Waves. Making Waves is published each fall by Ludington Writers, a small, independent, not-for-profit press run…

Expires:April 30, 2025
Prudence Dispatch, a new poetry journal, is open for submissions! submitted by Prudence Dispatch

PRUDENCE DISPATCH is a new journal of poetry published from Prudence Island — Chippaquasett — in the center of Narragansett Bay. We welcome submissions of poems for our first issue,…

Expires:May 31, 2025
Raleigh Review Digiorno Multi-Genre Prize Open to June 1st on Submittable & Duosuma submitted by Raleigh Review

Attention multi-talented ones. Check out our innovative Geri Digiorno Multi-Genre Prize. In addition to the prize, some of our previous winners from our multi-genre prize have been invited and welcomed…

Expires:June 1, 2025
Poetry, Nonfiction, Art submitted by Bicoastal Review

Bicoastal Review (www.bicoastalreview.com) is a quarterly journal of poetry, nonfiction, interviews, photography, and art that fosters cross-genre conversations, often about—but not limited to—topics of the U.S. East Coast and West…

Expires:December 31, 2025
Submit Your Experimental/Avant Garde Poetry and Art to #Ranger Magazine submitted by #Ranger Magazine

Submit your avant garde/experimental poetry, art, music and film to #Ranger magazine! We accept everything. Text-based. Visual. Text-visual. Please check out the mag to see what our aesthetic is like…

Expires:December 31, 2025