It’s the first full week of June, so don’t forget these journals and presses all have upcoming deadlines this month: Lynx House Press’ Blue Lynx Prize for Poetry, Club Plum’s July 2022 issue, Philadelphia Stories’ Marguerite McGlinn Fiction Contest, Sky Island Journal’s Summer 2022 issue, The MacGuffin’s Poet Hunt 27, Interim’s literary nonfiction section, Winning Writers’ North Street Book Prize, Swan Scythe Press’ 2022 Poetry Chapbook Contest, and Willow Springs Books’ 2022 Spokane Prize for Short Fiction. See more opportunities below!
Stop by the Book Stand on the NewPages Blog to discover the full list of new and forthcoming books for June 2022. Featured this month so far in fiction: Ascension by Steve Tomasula and Glorious Fiends by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam. Love poetry? You’re in for a treat! Check out But Still, Music by Anne Pitkin; Gold Hill Family Audio by Corrie Lynn White; Sheltered in Place by CJ Giroux; Living in a Red State Blues by M. Scott Douglass; Love Poems in the Apocalypse by Dani Jeremiah Gabriel; and Call Me Fool by William Trowbridge. If nonfiction is more your cup of tea, learn about An Ernest Blackness by Eugen Bacon due out from Anti-Oedipus Press in August.
Willawaw Journal’s Spring 2022 issue features “Sweat” as the mentor poem from Montana Poet Laureate Sandra Alcosser; meanwhile, check out One’s April 2022 issue which offers a “Second Look” in which writers are asked to take another look at a poem they admire. This issue sees Deborah Bogen reconsidering “September 1963” by Jean Valentine. If you love flash, read Scribble’s May 2022 issue and when you’re done there, head on over to Watershed Review’s Spring 2022 issue. Plus, you can now enjoy a special double issue from Cimarron Review (Issues 214 & 215) and enjoy Glass Mountain’s Spring 2022 issue featuring writing competition winners, and more.
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Calls for Submissions
CHESTNUT REVIEW Invites Submissions Year Round
Chestnut Review (“for stubborn artists”) invites submissions year-round of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, art, and photography. We offer free submissions for poetry (3 poems), flash fiction (<1000 words), and art/photography (20 images); $5 submissions for fiction/nonfiction (<5k words), or 4-6 poems. Published artists receive $120. Notification in <30 days or submission fee refunded. We appreciate stories in every genre we publish. All issues free online which illustrates what we have liked, but we are always ready to be surprised by the new!
Call for Literary Nonfiction submissions
Deadline: June 30, 2022
Interim invites submissions of literary nonfiction, including essays that reflect literary movements in America and around the world. We invite writers from all parts of the globe—the Americas, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Western and Eastern Europe, New Zealand, Australia, etc.—especially women writers, to submit to this special issue. If you have perspective on the evolution of the Gurlesque (the vibrant movement of women reclaiming their bodies) or any other newly established literary movement, we are especially eager to hear from you. We will consider original essays 1,500 to 5,000 words. $4 submission fee. Upload to Interim’s Submittable.
CARRYING OVER: A Special Issue of Interim Dedicated to Translation
Deadline: July 1, 2022
When Buddhism was first introduced to China, the monks who translated the Sanskrit texts made a choice that would affect the history of translation for two millennia. Their carrying over of Daoist terms made the completely “alien” ideas of the “Sutra of Forty-two Chapters understandable to Chinese readers, which sped-up the spread and acceptance of Buddhism in China by creating something new—the Zen school. Two thousand years later, when Ezra Pound was translating poems of Li Bai, he effectively rewrote those poems which became a crucial spark to jumpstart Modernism. Both the monks and Pound made decisions that some argue showed great disrespect to the original texts. The argument for literal and creative translation has raged since. To what does the translator owe her duty—to the presentation of the original, or to the transfer of the original into a local intelligibility, or, to both? Interim is looking for translations that are mindful of this intricate balance, for translations that are not afraid of music, or clever transfers of puns, translations that strive to reenact the original in universal language, as we believe that translation is in itself a fusion of cultures, and as such, always innovative. Submit through Interim’s Submittable. Guest edited by Xiaoqui Qui.
Able Muse (Poetry, Prose, & Art) - Submission Now Open
Deadline: July 15, 2022
Able Muse is now accepting submissions for our forthcoming issue, Winter 2022/2023. Submit poetry, fiction, essays, book reviews, art, and photography. Submission opens yearly January 1 and closes July 15. Read our guidelines and submit at our website.
Fictional Café Opens Submissions for Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, and Poetry
Deadline: Rolling
The Fictional Café, entering its tenth year, welcomes new boundary-breaking short stories, flash fiction, novel excerpts, poetry, creative nonfiction, and works in the visual and audio arts. A thousand Coffee Club members in 70 countries read our highly original ‘zine. We welcome all genres. Your work must be tasteful, original, and well written. We look for engaging characters and the thought-provoking, avant-garde, or unconventional approach. Bold, sophisticated poetry collections and artist exhibits are welcome. Please join our Coffee Club and review what we publish and our submission guidelines before you submit. We reply in 30 days. Visit our website.
Sky Island Journal: Issue 21 (Summer 2022) Call for Submissions
Deadline: June 30, 2022
Sky Island Journal is an independent, international, free-access literary journal dedicated to publishing the finest poetry, flash fiction, and creative nonfiction. We publish accomplished, well-established authors—side by side—with fresh, emerging voices. We provide over 100,000 readers in 145 countries with a powerful, free-access, advertising-free literary experience that transports them: one that challenges them intellectually and moves them emotionally. We publish quarterly, and our average response time is 9 days. Every submission receives a prompt, respectful response detailing what we appreciated. Enjoy our previous issues and submit to our stunning Issue 21 before midnight on June 30th, at our website.
Calling All Creators, All Genres
Deadline: Rolling
NOMADartx Review would love to see your fresh creative work! Our journal currently publishes one piece of visual art and one piece of writing monthly. We are cross-disciplinary, so any creative topic is fair game: work about cooking, sculpting, painting, gardening, textiles, architecture, fashion, film, music, drama, performance art, writing etc. We like personal essays, poetry, stories, creative industry-specific articles (including the artistic process, project logistics, getting your work to the world, mentorship, critiques/interviews/reviews). We especially welcome work from under-represented creators. View complete guidelines at our website.
Our Doors are Open
Deadline: Year-round
The Blue Mountain Review launched from Athens, Georgia in 2015 with the mantra, “We’re all south of somewhere.” As a journal of culture, the BMR strives to represent all life through its stories. Stories are vital to our survival. What we sing saves the soul. Our goal is to preserve and promote lives told well through prose, poetry, music, and the visual arts. We’ve published work from and interviews with Jericho Brown, Kelli Russell Agodon, Robert Pinsky, Rising Appalachia, Turkuaz, Michel Stone, Michael Flohr, Lee Herrick, Chen Chen, Michael Cudlitz, Pat Metheny, Melissa Studdard, Lyrics Born, Terry Kay, and Christopher Moore. View full information and submit here.
Call for Submissions - Molecule: a tiny lit mag
Deadline: July 15, 2022
Submissions open from 6/1/22 to 7/15/22. Replies by: 8/15/22. Send your work for the Fall 2022 issue of Molecule - a tiny lit mag. Poetry, prose, nonfiction, plays, reviews, and interviews in 50 words or less (including titles). Visual artwork of tiny things like tea bags and toothpicks, or tiny paintings also wanted. Strict word count. Don’t try and trick us we have small minds. Send submissions (preferably in the body) via email, along with a 3rd person bio no more than 24 words (including name). Visit our site to learn more.
Atmosphere Press Reading Book Manuscripts in All Genres
Deadline: Rolling
Atmosphere Press currently seeks book manuscripts from diverse voices. There's no submission fee, and if your manuscript is selected, we’ll be the publisher you’ve always wanted: attentive, organized, on schedule, and professional. We use a model in which the author funds the publication of the book, but retains 100% rights, royalties, and artistic autonomy. This year Atmosphere authors have received featured reviews with Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, and Booklist, and have even appeared on a giant billboard in Times Square. Submit your book manuscript at our website.
Plus more calls for submissions at our website:
Divot is Reading for Summer Issues 5 and 6 Currently!
Awakenings Review Seeks Poetry, Fiction, & Nonfiction
The New Verse News Seeks Current Events Poetry
MudRoom Open for Submissions
Submit to Clinch—A Martial Arts Literary Magazine
Club Plum Seeks Art, Human/Women's Rights Pieces & More
Literary Events & Writing Programs
The Daphne Review Mentorship Program (Rising Seniors Only)
Deadline: Rolling; Event Dates: Session I: June 27 – July 18, Session II + III: TBA; Location: Virtual. Mentorship Program (Rising Seniors Only)! Both mentee and mentorship are now open! Apply to the 2022 Daphne Online Mentorship Program! We will be selecting 5-7 students to work with professional writers on a 1on1 basis. Our students have benefited greatly over the years. They’ve used the time to work on their existing body of work to get them published by literary magazines, win awards at Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, PYAA and gain acceptance to top colleges! Recent Daphne mentees have been accepted to Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Stanford, Columbia, and top creative writing programs, e.g., Iowa, Kenyon, Juniper, and Emerson!
Writing & Book Contests
Submit to the 2022 Spokane Prize for Short Fiction
Deadline: June 24, 2022
Willow Springs Books is accepting submissions for the 2022 Spokane Prize for Short Fiction. All authors are eligible regardless of publication history. Manuscripts must have a minimum of three (3) stories of fiction totaling at least 98 pages. The collection as a whole must be previously unpublished. Deadline: June 24, 20222. Prize: $2,000 plus publication. More information at our website.
Swan Scythe Press Announces its 2022 Poetry Chapbook Contest!
Deadline: June 15, 2022
Swan Scythe Press announces its 2022 poetry chapbook contest. Entry fee: $18. We are accepting submissions from March 1 to June 15 (postmark deadline). Winner receives $200 and 25 perfect-bound chapbooks. The 2021 winner is Rae Gouirand for Little Hour. For full submission guidelines, visit the Swan Scythe Press website.
2022 Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize now Open for Submissions
Deadline: July 31, 2022
Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize 2022: Judged by Juan Felipe Herrera! $1,000 for first place and a letterpress broadside printed by Felicia Rice of Moving Parts Press, $500 for second, $250 for third. Top five published in Red Wheelbarrow Literary Magazine. Submit up to 3 original, unpublished poems. $15 entry fee. Deadline: July 31, 2022. For complete guidelines, see our submissions manager.
$1000 Poetry Micro Chapbook Contest
Deadline: July 31, 2022
MAYDAY Magazine invites you to send 8-12 pages of poems to be considered for the Editors' Choice Award, including $1000, publication at MAYDAY, and an author interview. Deadline: July 31. Early bird entry fee: $10 (May 1-June 15). Regular fee: $15 (June 16-July 31). Submit a unified manuscript filled with poems that have achieved a balance of both craft and story so seamlessly that we cannot look away. We welcome a diverse range of content and authors, including LGBTQ+, BIPOC, and international voices. For more details, visit our website.
North Street Book Prize for Self-Published Books
Deadline: June 30, 2022
Now in its eighth year, the North Street Book Prize is sponsored by Winning Writers. Self-published books in seven categories can win up to $8,000 plus additional benefits. Submit online or by mail. Winning Writers is a partner member of the Alliance of Independent Authors, and this contest is recommended by Reedsy. Entry fee: $70 per book. Free gifts from our co-sponsors for everyone who enters. Deadline: June 30. View guidelines here.
2023 Press 53 Award for Poetry
Deadline: July 31, 2022
$1,000 and 50 copies awarded to an outstanding, unpublished collection of poems of approximately 50 to 120 pages. Open to poets 18 years of age and older who live in the US or one of its territories. Tom Lombardo, Press 53 Poetry Series Editor, will serve as judge. Press 53 will publish the winning manuscript as a Tom Lombardo Poetry Selection; all prizes will be awarded upon publication. Deadline: Midnight Eastern, July 31, 2022. Winner and finalists announced on or before November 1. Reading fee: $30. Complete information at our website.
Poet Hunt 27 awards $500 and Publication
Deadline: June 15, 2022
Lynne Thompson judges the MacGuffin’s Poet Hunt 27, running April 1 through June 15! $500 first prize plus publication; up to two Honorable Mentions will also be published. All entrants receive one copy of this issue. Send up to five poems per $15 entry fee. Include a cover page that lists your contact info and poem titles. On the following page(s), include your poem(s), beginning each poem on a new page devoid of personally identifiable information to preserve the blind review process. Enter via Submittable or to enter by email or post, see full rules at our website.
First Book Prize—$1,500 and Publication
Deadline: July 7, 2022
Our fifth annual Marystina Santiestevan First Book Prize is open and accepting manuscripts. If you have a manuscript, give us a shot. Awarded annually to a poet writing in English who has not yet published a full-length poetry book, the Marystina Santiestevan First Book Prize champions poets who dance to their own tune not to be different but to be true. Previously unpublished manuscripts of 48-90 pages should be submitted through our Submittable page or via the USPS. Please visit our website for details.
The Francine Ringold Awards for New Writers: $500 Prizes
Deadline: July 15, 2022
Submissions are open for Nimrod’s Francine Ringold Awards for New Writers. The Ringold Awards offer prizes of $500 and publication for fiction and poetry. They are open only to writers with no more than two previous publication credits in their genre. For poetry, submit up to five pages; for fiction, one short story, 5,000 words maximum. The contest is open internationally. All honorable mentions will also be published and paid at our normal rates. Manuscripts may be mailed or submitted online via Submittable. Each entry must be accompanied by a $12 entry fee. Email us or visit Nimrod's website for complete rules.
2022 Marguerite McGlinn Fiction Contest, First Place: $2,500!
Deadline: June 15, 2022
Our contest this year will be judged by author and critic, Camille Acker. We’re looking for previously unpublished fiction of up to 8,000 words. The deadline is June 15, 2022. First place is $2,500 with an invitation to an awards dinner. Second place $750. Third place $500. The winning stories will be published in the Fall print issue of Philadelphia Stories, with all entrants receiving a complimentary copy. All authors currently residing in the United States are eligible, a Philadelphia connection is not necessary. We especially encourage submissions by writers from underrepresented groups and backgrounds. There is a $15 reading fee for each story submitted. We can’t wait to read your stories! You may submit your work on our website.
2022 New American Fiction Prize
Deadline: June 15, 2022
Winner receives publication contract including $1,500, 25 copies, and promotional support. Final judge is WEIKE WANG, author of Joan Is Okay (Random House 2022) and Chemistry (Knopf 2017). All full-length fiction manuscripts are welcome, including novels, novellas, collections of stories, flash fiction, short-shorts, and linked collections. Full-length fiction manuscripts tend to be at least 30,000 words. There is no maximum length. To submit, please access our convenient online submission manager. Entry fee: $25.
Submit to the 2022 Blue Lynx Prize for Poetry
Deadline: June 15, 2022
Lynx House Press seeks submissions of full-length poetry manuscripts for the annual Blue Lynx Prize for Poetry. The winner will receive $2,000 and publication. Entries must be at least 48 pages in length. The fee for submitting is $28. Previous judges include James Tate, Yusef Komunyakaa, Dorianne Laux, Dara Wier, Melissa Kwasny, and Robert Wrigley.