Calls for Submissions
Southeast Review Annual Fall Contests submitted by Southeast Review
Our 2024 contests are now open! The Southeast Review offers four annual contests with cash awards. We’re thrilled to have the following judges this year: World’s Best Short-Short Story Contest…
Superpresent Winter 2025 - Secrets & Mysteries
Superpresent is a magazine of the arts that puts equal emphasis on the written word and visual arts. We are seeking submissions on the theme Secrets & Mysteries. We publish…
100 Years of Surrealism Poetry Contest submitted by Violet Winding Stars Press
Submission Guideline: Please send your work via email: [email protected] Submit 1-3 poems. Your work must be previously unpublished in print or online. The theme of this contest is surrealism. We announce…
Issue #2: Collide-oscope submitted by Heart on Our Sleeves Press
Heart on Our Sleeves Press is opening up submissions again for our second-ever issue! This time, we’ll be accepting work for a three-month period: from September 30th to December 30th.…
Spectrum Literary Journal is accepting submissions through December 31! submitted by Spectrum Literary Journal
Greetings, Spectrum Literary Journal is currently open for submissions, and for Volume 68 we will be navigating the artistry in embracing failure. Read the full Call for Submissions here. Spectrum is…
Open Call for Submissions at The Redwood Review! submitted by The Redwood Review
The Redwood Review is a tri-annual international literary-arts journal publishing language and art that interrogates the anatomy of customary cogitations on class strata, racialized bodies, anthropogenic destruction, and queer identities.…
The globe is our home, and the experiences are our own at The Fool's World! submitted by The Fool's World
Thimble Literary Magazine 7.4 Open submitted by Thimble Literary Magazine
We are open for our 7.4 issue! Quarterly, online, print. No fee, no pay. Send up to three poems, 1 short prose (1,200ish words), or up to five works…
365 Collection submitted by Lucky Jefferson
Missed the submission deadline for an upcoming print issue? Lucky Jefferson happily accepts unsolicited submissions of poetry year-round into its 365 Collection, an all-digital collection of poetry and other writing forms. Writers looking…
Swamp Ape Review wants your submissions on RESISTANCE submitted by Swamp Ape Review
Swamp Ape Review, the literary journal of the MFA program at Florida Atlantic University, is putting together a zine in 2025 alongside our Vol 8 issue. This is a themed publication centered…
Interim Call for Submissions submitted by Interim
Interim is seeking palimpsestic work for a special issue of prose, poetry, translation, and visual art. Writers and artists are encouraged to consider the idea of the palimpsest in its…
The Test Site Poetry Series 2024 submitted by Interim
As our series title suggests, we’re looking for manuscripts that engage the perilous conditions of life in the 21st century, as they pertain to issues of social justice and the…
TOFU INK ARTS PRESS 2025 POETRY PRIZE In honor of Visionary Theatre Artist REZA ABDOH OPEN NOW submitted by Tofu Ink Arts Press
“Reza Abdoh (1963-1995) was an Iranian-born American theatre director and playwright known for his groundbreaking, experimental productions. Abdoh died of AIDS in 1995 at the age of 32, having created…
Shape Literature and Art in Illinois submitted by Lucky Jefferson
With support from Illinois Humanities, Lucky Jefferson is surveying Black, African, and African-American-identifying writers and artists residing in Chicago’s North Side, West Side, and South Side neighborhoods to better evaluate the needs…
TOFU INK ARTS PRESS POETRY CHAPBOOK PRIZE: 2025-2026 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…
TOFU INK ARTS PRESS ART PRIZE SUBMISSIONS OPEN NOW FOR 2025-26! submitted by Tofu Ink Arts Press
TOFU INK ARTS PRESS Art Competition Criteria Agreement to Official Rules SUBMIT ONLY ONE PIECE Participation in the Art Competition constitutes entrants full and unconditional agreement to and acceptance of…
Vulpecula Poetica submitted by Fortuna Major Press
Vulpecula Poetica (Little Fox Poetry) is an annual anthology emphasizing creative nonfiction poetry and poetry that plays with form. For its inaugural issue, Memory, Vulpecula Poetica seeks poetry that delves into…
Single Poem Contest submitted by Bicoastal Review
One winner of Bicoastal Review‘s single-poem contest will receive $200, a featured publication in Issue 10, a uniquely designed physical and digital broadside of their poem, publicity on our social media…
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…
We Pay Contributors: Driftwood Press Submissions Open submitted by Driftwood Press
John Updike once said, “Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.” At Driftwood Press,…
